Heppner herald. (Heppner, Or.) 1914-1924, April 08, 1924, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextMorrovr County 1-125 IF YOU WANT ALL THE NEWS OF MORROW COUNTY WHILE IT IS NEWS, READ THE HEPPNER HERALD. WE PRINT IT FIRST HEPPNER HERA: VOLUME X HEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1924 NUMBER 50 10 OTTO LEATHERS GETS $100.00 AND 60 DAYS HARDMAN MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO LIQUOR CHARGE Escaped Officers Here and Later Is Caught and Tried on Federal Charge ' In the federal court at Portland last Thursday Otto Leathers, of Hardman. entered a plea of guilty to a moonshining charge and was fined $100.00 and given a 60-day jail sentence. , Leathers was arrested at his camp in the mountains back of Parkers Mill more than a year ago by Tom Chldsey, former deputy sheriff, and two federal prohibition agents in an early morning raid. With him at the camp were his brother, Ivan Leathers, and William Wehrli and O. L. Hawk, both of Condon. When the arrests were made Otto Leath ers at once assumed all responsibil ity for the illicit operations being carried on and explained that the others just happened along the even ing before and were given accommo dations for the night. All were placed under arrest, however, and taken out to the road where the of ficers had left their car, the party riding to the main road in a hack belonging to Wehrli and Hawk, with a saddle horse led behind. Arriving at the car some difficul ty was had getting the engine start ed and while the officers were work ing with it Otto Leathers destroyed most of the "evidence" the officers had' secured, climbed out of the hack and onto the saddle horse and quiet ly stole away. The other men were brought to Heppner and given a trial and were promptly acquitted by a jury. Otto Leathers was arrested at Vancouver, Washington, some time ago and after being held for several weeks was placed on trial Thursday. Sheriff McDuffee, his 30n Paul and Prosecuting Attorney Notson were summoned to Portland a3 wit nesses in the case as were Ivan Leathers, Wehrli and Hawk. MOTION PICTURE FILM TO PROMOTE GOOD ROADS "The Road to Happiness," a mo tion picture designed to :promote in terest in better highways, nas just been completed at the Ford Motion Picture laboratory. . It was produced by the Ford Mo tion Picture laboratory in conjunc tion with the Bureau of Public Roads, U. S. department of agricul ture, the highway educational board and the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce and carries their endorsement. President Coolidge personally ap peared in one1 of the scenes, and has expressed his approval of the pic ture. He is shown presenting a scholarship certificate to "Bob Pres ton," the farm boy1 hero of the story who is winner of a prize essay con teat on better roads. - The scene was taken on the White House grounds and with the president. Others ap pearing in it include members of the lughway educational board, of which Rov D. Chanin is cnairman. Principal settings of the film were taken around Fairfax, Va., fifteen miles out of Washington, and the chief characters were portrayed by nennle residing in that vicinity. , CoDi8 of the film are being sent to branches of the Ford Motor com--pany in ihe Unite dStates and the pioture will be anown generally wiirhwav commissioners, county en gineers." -road officials, schools and all interested in the promotion of improved highways may obtain use lof the film free 01 cnarge. ninn PRODUCTION .... BREAKS ALL RECORDS Swinging into its big spring pro duction program, the Ford Motor Wednesday. March 12 reached the highest mark in its his tory when it3 domestic assembly plants produced a total -of 7,456 cars and trucks. This record-breaking figure does not include the daily output of 500 cars and trucks for export, nor the production of the Manchester, Eng land, and Ford of Canada plants which manufacture most of their own products. . The new production record is ot especial significance as it indicates the enormous demand being made throughout the .country for Ford cars and trucks and the company s endeavor to bring its output up to the point where it will attempt to fill all requirements as to avoid repetition of the shortage which ex isted last spring when thousands of persons were disappointed in not be ing able to secure delivery cars. FORD SALESMEN MAKE RECORD Latourell Auto Co. hung up a March record for the sale of Ford cars last month. Altogether their salesmen were responsible for plac ing 14 cars, one truck and 5 used cars during the month, which eclips es any March record In Ford his tory in the Heppner territory. The Heppner agency had on a friendb contest with Hood River during the month and while Hood River fc i a much larger territory than Heppner the local boys lost out by only one ,..ir A car load of new cars ar rived' last wee and another is ex OPERETTA "SYLVIA" GIVEN BY HI SCHOOL Star theater was filled to capacity last Wednesday evening, by parents and friends of Heppner high school pupils, a company of whom rendered the pleasing operetta, "Sylvia" in a creditable manner. Between act periods were enlivened by solos, duets, choruses, etc., and the cur tain went down with "Harvest Moon" ghren by a chorus of 28 voic es. Leola Bennett took the title role very creditably and Paul Aiken took the leading male part as "Prince Tobbytum," proving himself to be "A Man of Consequence," as pic tured, in his excellent solo. Other prominent characters were Violet Hynd a3 Betty, Bruce Spauld ing as Sir Bertram and Earl Mer ritt as William. The chorus was composed of Kathleen Mahoney, Ce celia K,enny, Mary Farley, John Turner, Crockett Sprouls, Austin Smith, Duck Lee, Francis uonerty, Reid . Buseick. Fay Ritchie, Velma Hall, Lois Livingstone, Lucile Mc Duffee, Grace Buschke, Velma Hus ton, Reta Crawford, Audrey Beam er. Others taking part during the evening were Louise Thomson, Mar- jorie Clark, Marguerite Hisier ana Doris Flynn. UMATILLA NATIONAL FOREST.. (By S. B. Wood) The Umatilla National Forest em braces a eross area of almost l Ms million acres, being approximately the same area a3 the state of Dele ware. It lies in three divisions, ex tpndinc from in Wheeler county, Oregon, into Asotin county, Wash ington, a distance or one nunureu seventy miles. It contains land in six counties in Oregon ana . iour counties in Washington. The Umatilla has an estimated stand of 4y2 billion feet or mer chantable timber, enough, it sawed into . inch boards, to build a sidewalk 10 feet wide, three times around tne earth, To protect this timber from fire costs the government about l cent an acre a year. The crazing authorization is for 137, 704 head of sheep and 18,062 cattle and horses . Timber and grazing are not the onlv resources of the Umatilla na tional forest. It is estimated that there are about 8,000 head of deer and elk and over 1,300 bears oh the forest, besides smaller game and fish. Close to 10,000 visitors (hunters, fishers, recreationists, etc.) come in to the forest each season and the number is rapidly increasing. Four teen permits have been issued for summer homes and hunting lodges. In addition to forest affords wa tershed Drotection and enforcement of sanitation on scores of creeks and rivers an dassures a steady stream flow for water power, irrigation and city water supply. The administration of the Uma tilla national forest is in the hands of a supervisor and his two assis tants with headquarters in Pendle ton and nine district rangers who are in the field most of the timje. There are two office clerks. Dur ing the fire season this force is in creased by the addition of twenty five short term men for ranger as sistants, smokechasers and lookout men. About seventy-five laborers are employed on improvement work, mostly roads and trails, and kept in readiness as. the fir3t line of defense in case of fire. To properly administer a business of this size and to efficiently pro tect the timber from fire, an exten sive system of improvements has been constructed and is being main tained and extended. The total val ue of these improvements Is about $171,268. There are over eighty, cabins, barns, store houses and other build ings; and about forty miles of pas ture fences at ranger stations. There are fifty-eight miles of range fences which are largely maintained by the stockmen in co-operation. The for est now has slightly over rour hund red seventy miles of telephone lines enough to reach from the north ern boundary, of Nevada to the Can adian line and about twenty-nve miles more line is being built each season, mere are one nuuuieu twenty-eight miles of, roads. Forest service trails are equal 1n mileage to the distance from Portland, Ore gon, to Lewiston, Idaho, from which the logs and brush are removea eacn snrins. Through the high mountain sec tions where the forest lies the up keep of all improvements, especially telephone lines, roads, trails- ana fences, is auite heavy because of the extremelv heavy snows and fierce winter storms which breaK aown much brush and throw large num bers of tree3. The expense of administering the Umatilla national forest is about 133.000 a year. The money for roads and trails and for fighting big fires comes from other funds and varies according to the require ments; but averages about $47,000 hrineine the total annual disburse ments of the forest up to a total of about 180.000. The revenue annually derived from the sales of timber, grazins fees and special u?es amounts to ar averaze cf about $37,000. Of thl amount. 25 goes to the road snr srhool funds of the counties in which collected: 10rr more is expended o reads and (rails in the state. Thf remaining 65 goes into the genera' treasury- of the government a3 mis jcelianeous receipts. France Honors Three noted clowns, the Fratellini brothers, have just been decorated by the French government, receiving the "Palme Academlques" from the minister of public Instruction. They are here seen betag interviewed by a Paris newspaper nun. . . What Heppner Needs: What's the matter with Heppner'a ball team? .' Does It need a "shot In the arm," in the head or in the feet and legs? Something is needed and that's no dream. For more than seven yeari thrj writer has attended practically irorv game played on the home grounrt.j as a reporter who wanted to be loyj al to the home team and who, righi or wrong, has usually been a ooi enough reporter ar l a good enough booster to give the heme team rath er, the best "of it in meting out prais. and- encouragement and for tha. priviledge he has, almost ir,var;abl oaid from 50 to 1 00 at Ihe cat: That should eWa him the- right vM for once, write what he thi.iks the ball team neert3. Thet there is something wrong was plainly shown last Sunday in the so-called game with Condon. We use the term "so-rsliel" advisedly. The Bifair-wa.stiuo.-8- like a -iTWeral than -i spnrt event atior the secir.d inning. Heppner started off in fine shape and played good ball, shutting their nnonents out tor two innings dui. ai soon as the visitors made a 3cor.5 we blew up as usual. What does Heppner need to put it in the same class with Condon and lone on the diamond? Here are some of the things it needs am' which the other teams mentioned have: Practice and more practice; team work developed to something like a fine art; head work on tlie part of manager and players; en thusiasm, pep, punch, vim and then more practice; better team work and an . entnusiastic gei-inere-anu.-wm spirit that goes out determined to win no matter what the odds. And, there are other things neea- ed Take our young players. Line most novices going out to play with and against veterans they are seir conscious, nervous scared stiff, if you please, and consumed with fear that they will make a fumhle or a W. B. Barratt for Representative After continued urging by politi cal friends and citizens generally in both counties, W. B. Barratt, form er state highway commissioner, has consented to 3tand for the nomina tion for representative from the dis trict comprising Morrow and Uma Umatilla counties. His formal an nouncement appeara In this issue of the Herald. Perhaos no man in the district is better qualified for the position of representative than is Mr. iiarratt because of his experience in highway matters and his close study of that subject. while on the commission. He is a careful business man with pro gressive ideas to fit modem condi tions. It ays f advertise ia the Herald. 00 1 1 MORE Iciqarettes 11 ONE ELEVEN " Three Clowns Ball Team to Win Games fan. With such a terriffic handicap they couldn't play prisoner's base with the credit to them3evles their natural ability deserves. Here is where the management, and the old er players have work to do. Train the young fellows, teach them the tricks of the trade, encourage them, show them how to get the best of fear and self-consctousne3s and nerves. Get them In a frame of mind that they will forget the grandstand or the prowess of the opposing pitcher and everything else in this world but the fact that they have got to swat that ball on the beezer and get to first base in a trifle les3 than nothing flat or, of fielding that all J-Jiey have to do is to grab that ball when it comes their way and shoot it to where it is most needed quick. Then they need a lot more enthusi asm and practice and pep and the spirit to win and the head and heart and body, working in unison with every mate on the team to put that spirit over. Then, again, the team needs more support from the audience, but that is something that works both ways. A wet-blanket crowd will destroy the spirit of any ball team and, by the same token, a team without practice, or team wortc or ,pep or spirit will throw a wet planket over any grand stand. In the good, old days when we went to ball games In a buck board or wheat wagon, we yelled ourselves hoarse for the home team. In these degenerate days we sit in our autos and lazily toot the horn when our side makes a good play. Avaunt, closed car and flivver, with your squeaking tooters, you are help ing murder a noble sport. That's about all except Heppner also needs an umpire who knows the game and who will not take root be hind the pitcher like a Charter Oak range on the kitchen floor. It al) needs A score book of its own and a few more water hoy. That spring water, scarce as it was, made a hit with Condon. - Shamway Files for Representative Today's dispatches from Salem announce that A. R. Shumway, of Milton, has filed for the Republican nomination for representative from this district. W. B. Barratt's filing for the same place went to Salem today. University of Oregon, Eugene, April 5. (Special) The Associated Students of the University of Ore gon will be the first contributors to the gift campaign, to raise o.uuu, OOOin five years. Sometime within a month the students- will begin a campaign among themselves to raise the first quota of a fund to be used in erecting a student union building on the Oregon campus. The exact sum to be expended for a student union building has not been determined. Nor has the uni- versity. in planning the new bulld ! Intra to be erected from the pro ceeds of the gift campaign, allotted a campus site for1 the much-needed, and long-desired structure. Before these details have been determined a careful 3tudy of student union buildings on other campuses will be made by the university administra tion. Forces are being rapidly organ ized on the campus to get the stu dent campaign under way, and Claude Robinson, president of the Associated Students, expects to give the campaign his personal supervi sion. Chairmen of committees will be appointed Immediately, and sub sidiary officials will be enlisted to care for the divisional dutes. Officers of the student body have the utomost confidence that the stu dents will respond to the campaign call with enthusiasm. The necessi ty of a student-union building has been felt On the campus for so long, the officers in charge of the cam paign are suqe the drive will be sue- cessful from all standpoints, j MRS. ALEXANDER THOMPSON .. HERE IN MANSFIELD INTEREST Mrs. Alexander Thompson, cam paign manager for George A. Mans field, Democratic candidate for the nomination for United States sena tor, was in Heppner yesterday and has arranged for Mr. Mansfield to meet the democrats of this commun ity at Hotel H,epner on the evening of April 21 when Mr. Mansfield will discuss some of the issues of the coming campaign. Mrs. Thompson is one of the best known women in the state and is Recognized as a leader in Democrat ic circles. She is convinced that Mr. Mansfield i3 the strongest and most logical man her party can nominate and she believes the final contest will be between Mansfield and Geo. L. Baker. Speaking of Mr. Mansfipld's plat form, Mrs. Thompson pointed out a few of the high lights, viz: . Amendment of federal reserve sys tem to make It national in 'character and, in the language of Woodrow Wilson, to make the banks our serv ants rather than our masters and that the government must exercise its power not only to "coin money and regulate the value thereof, " but also to regulate the expansion and contraction of public credit, thus making the crime of deflation im possible. A national, unified system of transportation to equalize freight rates so as to make th,e country prosperous. A national marketing act to give to the producer the same aid long provided by law for commerce and business. Taxation according to benefits re ceived and ability to pay. Under just taxation justice can be done to world war veterans. Equality for women with special acts for the protection and safety demanded by their sex. Justice for organized labor and the farmer whose interests are Identical. Restricted and selected immigra tion and opposed to alien land own ershlp. IS NOT LEAVING HEPPNER Phill Cohn, one of Hepnner'.s real pioneer citizens, authorizes the state ment that, while it is true that he "as purchased a house in Portland i'or the convenience of Mrs. Colin anl their daughter Eleanor, who hi at tending school there, the tdoa that he is leaving Heppner himself is not correct. "I have bought a house in tho Ir- vington district, Portland," Mr. Cohn stated to a reporter Friday, "for the convenience of my wife and daugh ter who will be there until our daughter finishes her education, but as for myself I have too many inter ests in Heppner and Morrow coun ty to permit of any hurried change of residence on my part. I will be back and forth a good bit, naturally, but i will bo in Heppner most of my time. And," continued the speak er, "it is no easy matter to pick up and leave a town like Heppnep and a people like those of Morrow county without any regrets after living more than an average lifetime here." Mr. Cohn came to Heppner from Boise. Idaho, in 1880, 44 years ago, and has been closely Identified with the commercial lite or tne commun ity ever since. lone Wins From Roardman lone won the game from Board man last Sunday at the lone dia mond to the tune of 7-17. Walter Cochran, one of Ione's crack players, broke a leg while sliding to home plate and the fans just passed the hat after the game and chipped In $140.00 to help Walter pay doctor bills, etc., while the break is mend ing, lone fans certainly get behind their team. DOO DIDN'T SAY IT In the population increase Item published last wpek the type got a bit mixed and credited Dr. McMur- do with making the prediction of further Increase during the present month. As a matter of fact Doc didn't say anything of the "kind and the reporter, in writing the item, based the Idea on the natural course of human events and not on any personal knowledge or belief. Joe Rector Gets Mail By All-plane Joe Rector, well known pioneer resident on Hinton creek, received his copy of the Oregonlan last Sun day by airplane which was some thing of an event in the life of the old timer. For more than 20 years Guy Boy ert, who formerly lived a neighbor to Mr. Rector, carried his copy of the Oregonlan to him each day, first as a boy on a saddle pony, later oy buekboard or buggy and of later years by automobile. Last Sunday Aviator Langdon was here with his plane and Boyer char tered the "3hip" to deliver Rector's paper. The old man was notified by telephone In advance and was on his lawn walling when the plane ar rived flying low and tho paper was dropped almost at his feet. Mr. Rector is one of the old pio neers nt. this county and has lived here for about 40 years. He came hero from Salem, where he was a prominent citizen and an Intimate friend of John Minto, one of the best known residents of the capital city In the old days. It pays to advertise In The Herald. BY WOOL BUYERS FAILURE OF MARKET TO .... RISE CHECKS OPERATIONS Oregon Growers Are Not Disposed to Press Sales While Demand Is Backward The wool market is not following Its course of recent years, when it advanced more or less steadily from, the opening. Prices are not reced ing this year, but in the absence of any forward movement buy.ers seat ' no inducement to take hold and load up with early wool. At the same time the growers are not pressing; their clips on the market. It is a waiting game on both sides and there is not likely to be any consid erable activity before shearing time. A few bids have been put out by- buyers ot 38 cents in both the Prine- ville and Lakeview districts, but these prices are not satisfactory to growers and no business has result ed. Some small lots of valley wool have been sold at 40, 42 and 45 cent3, for choice light shrinking high. three-eights wool. No reqent trading has benn re ported in the Yakima country and ia other nearby states the market ia also quiet. ; - A press report received from Bos ton yesterday sr.id: "Notwithstanding some volume of domestic wool, both fleece and territory- haa moved in the last few days at prices slightly easier, the market is fundamentally strong. The quan- "Notwlthstanding some volume of domestic wool, both fleece and ter ritory has moved in the last few days at prices slightly easier, the market fundamentally strong. Tha quantity available at this time is limited. Larger houses seem to pre fer holding their stock to selling any big quantity at lower prices." The surnlus .stocks or crossDrea wool held by the British Australian Wool Realization association h&vft dwindled to a point at which they no longer influence the market, th supply remaining on hand on Feb ruary 1, 1924, amounting to only 130,290 bales as compared wmi 209,617 bales on January l, ia5. . n i a A l V, 1 .. a decrease or over o.uuu This balance of 130,000 bales is all that remains of nearly 3,000,009 bales held by the British ministry; of munitions in 1920. NOTICE OF SHERIFFS SALK ON EXECUTION .... Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of an attachment exe cution and order of sale duly issued out and under the seal of the Circuit Court of the State or Oregon for Morrow County by the Clerk of Bald Court on the 8th day of April, 1924. upon a judgment entered and ren dered in said Court on the 10th day of November, 1921, in favor ot P. T. Murphy, plaintiff, and against John J. Kelly, defendant, for the sum or $960.00, with interest tnereon rrom the 6th day of June, 1921, at tho rate of 3ix per cent per annum, and the further sum of $17.00, the cost and disbursements of the action, an to me directed, and delivered, l nave levied upon and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for c;uli on Thursday, the 8th day or May, 1924, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day at th front door of the Court House at Heppner. Morrow County, Oregon, all the right, titlfl and Interest of the defendant, John J. Kelly, In and to the following described real proper ty, situated in Morrow County, Ore gon, to-wit: The South half of the North half, and the Southwest quarter of Sec tion 14 In Township 2 North of Range 26 East of Willamette Merid ian, subject to the statutory right oC redemption. Dated this 8th day Of April, 1924. GEO. McDUFFEE, Sheriff of Morrow County, Oregon. 50-52 GRAHAM OUT FOR CONGRESS ON DEMOCRATIC TICKET In a 17-plank platform James? Harvey Graham, of Baker, nnuouii' es himself as a candidate lor con gressman from tho awonrt conyn'H slonal district. Mr. Graham declares for clean, honest, efficient economical govern ment, reduction of railroad freight rateR, excess profit tax, soldiers bon us, prohibition enforcement and re call of wet diplomats, restriction of immigration, registration of aliens. Irrigation, drainage and reclama tion where practical and feasable, secretary of education In president's cabinet, separation of church and Btate, government ownership mer chant marine. Opposes selling people's ships to private interests for a song, opposes selling Muscle Shoals to Henry Ford, demands Immediate settle ment of Franqe, Italy and Germany war debts, and relief of farmers by any and all means so far proposed. Wants International court of perma nent peace, wants veterans' medical and surgical hospital at not iane and favors coast fortifications and river and harbor Improvements. Closes with statement: "Am opposed to profite,er3 calling on the presi dents, who should have their wives and daughters calling on them' in tha federal prisons." pected within a tew oa.