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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.
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Iciqarettes
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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.