The Herald Keeps Close to the H eart and M ind of the U m atilla P ro je c t.
(The Hermwhnt Wralh
HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1928
VOL. XXH
GO. TENNIS TOURNEY
TO BE HELD MAY 11 -1 2
NINE
COUNTY
SCHOOLS
H. LESLIE QUIGG
MUSKRAT FARM IS
UMATILLA WINS
CONDUCTED HERE
SECOND GAME
MISS MILDRED JOHNSON
NOVEL FARM IS OWNED BY DR. GAME AT CONDON FEATURED
BY HEAVY HITTING
GILLILAND
WILL
Silver Cup to be Given School Win­
ning Most Points. Hermiston
High School to be Host.
The county tennis tournament will
be held on the Hermiston courts Fri­
day and Saturday, May 11 and 12.
Nine schools have accepted the invi­
tation to play here and a 12-inch
silver cup will h« given to the
school winning most events in the
tournament. This cup will become
the permanent property of any school
winning it three times in succession.
1'he Hermiston high school will be
host for the teams of the county and
they would appreciate it if any per­
son who is willing to provide bed
and breakfast for a visitor would
H. Leslie Quifla, suspended chief of
notify Mr. Cherry.
police of Miami, Fla., who was indicted
on charges of murder.
POTATO GROWERS INTERESTED
IN SPOKANE SPUD SHOW
Potato club members will be in­
terested in knowing that the advis­
ory board of the Pacific Northwest
Potato Show has provided substan­
tial premiums for potato club ex­
hibits.
Thig show 1 b held in Spo­
kane, Wash., in the fall and is open
to entries from all over the north­
west.
The management of the show has
provided that prizes in the club
classes for oertified potatoes to be
divided as follows: *10.00, *7.50,
*5.00, *2.50, *1.50 and *1.50.
In the commercial class for club
members five prizes will be given as
follows: »7.50, »5.00, »2.50, *1.50
and *1.00.
It lg very probable that special
rates will be given club members
who care to personally exhibit their
potatoes at the Spokane show, and
it is also very probable that free
transportation might be given to
winners in various clubs. It would
appear that Umatilla County potato
club members could well afford to
compete at the show, and with that
end in view, start very soon toward
producing some high class potatoes.
ANNUAL JUNIOR PROM IN
HONOR OF SENIOR CLASS
—
To Be Held in Corlis Hotel Saturday
N ig h t Large Attendanoe
Is Expected. .
The annual Junior Prom given in
honor of the Senior class will be held
at the Corlisg Hotel instead of the
auditorium as stated. The patrons
and patronesses will be Mr. ana Mrs.
Ed. Bensel, Mr. and Mrs. Cherry, Mr.
and Mrs. Gaither, Mr. and Mrs. W.
Felthouse, Mr. and Mrs. Goff, Mr.
and Mrs. A. Paulsen, Mr. and Mrs
Oft and Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Jackson.
The Juniors are using every effort
to make th« dance a success and pro­
vide a good time for all their gueets.
The Methodist Ladies’ Aid society
w ill have an all day sewing meeting
at th« home of Mrs. Nedeau on Wed­
nesday, May 2. Members and their
friends who have no conveyance
pleas« be at the church at 10 A. M.
prompt.. Bring plate, cup and sil­
ver. The bringing of 10 cent offer­
ing will be optional with those at­
tending the meeting.
COOLIDGE FLOOD
PROPOSALS REFUSED
Washington, D. C.—House republi­
can leaders failed in an effort to get
supporters of the senate Jones flood
control bill to approve specific revi­
sions desired in the measure by Pres­
ident Coolidge.
The failure of these negotiations to
remove the differences will bring the
fight between the two camps into the
open on the house floor.
The break between the two camps
came when the house committee re­
fused to go with the president on
three of several revisions which Mr.
Coolidge outlined to republican house
leaders at a White House conference.
The rejected changes were:
Provision that the states in the Mis­
sissippi river basin area meet the
cost, instead of the federal govern­
ment, of the rights of way for levees
on the proposed floodways and spill­
ways to be constructed.
Assumption of damages of the city
of New Orleans for the proposed’ Bon­
net Carre spillway and a similar as­
sumption by local interests in south­
ern Illinois and southeastern Missouri
of the proposed New Madrid riverbank
floodway.
Instead of outright purchase or ac­
quirement of flowage rights by the
federal government In connection with
the land falling within the floodways
and spillways, a proposal that the
property owners of this land should
be required to seek redress in the fed­
eral courts.
BRIEF GENERAL NEWS
Thirty-two persons have been re­
ported dead in a series of earthquake
shocks which rocked Sofia and south­
ern Bulgaria.
An observation tower, 165 feet high,
will be an added attraction on Look­
out mountain, Colorado, near the
grave of Buffalo Bill.
A bequest of *1,000,000 is left to
Yale university under the terms of
the will of the late Chauncey M. De­
pew, railroad executive, statesman,
humorist and orator, who died April 5.
Thomas W. Cunningham, sheriff of
Philadelphia, was indicted for his re­
fusal to reveal to the senate campaign
funds committee the source of his
*50,000 contribution to the Vare
atorial campaign In Pennsv’.yan’a.
L. L. Boynton of Yakima Is visit­
Mrs. C. M. Jackson spent Tuesday
ing relatives here for a few days.
in Pendleton.
Former Portland Dentist Located Berry of Umatilla Pitches a Great
Game for Umatilla. Ione
In Colombia District. Good
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Loses to Wasco.
Market For Pelts.
Umatilla won the game from Con­
Dr. and Mrs. D. J. Gilliland came don Sunday 5 to 2.
to Hermiston nearly a year ago.
Umatilla 5 runs, 11 hits, lOerrors.
Dr. Gilliland was looking for a cer­
Condon 2 runs, 4 hits, five errors.
tain kind of a farm. He found what
Batteries— Umatilla, Berry and
he wanted In the ranch owned by Bernard; Condon, Rannow and Pat­
Frank Rack In the Columbia district terson.
bought the place and now has the
Strikeouts, Berry 8, Rannow 7.
only muskrat farm In the section. A
Berry pitched andother shutout
visit to the ranch Is worth while game but the second baseman bunch­
for Dr. Gilliland spares no effort to ed three errors and let them score
tell the visitors all he can of the two runs. Bferry only allowed four
habitg of this seldom seen but inter­
scattered hitg tor the nine Innings.
esting furbearer.
Umatilla got five two base hits by
Dr. Gilliland, who has practiced Woodward,
Mittlesdorf,
Blakely,
dentistry in Portland for nearly 30 Kendler and Maaske. Gam« was two
years, looked at farms in many sec­ to one In favor of Condon up to the
tions of the state before he settled eighth Inning when Blakely and
here.
"Everyone could tell me of
Woodward both got two base hits
places that were just ligh t for my
and the Condon pitcher hit one man
purpose,” said Dr. Gilliland, “but I
and walked another and one man
had studied the needs of the busi­ got on first through an error of the
ness prety thoroughly and I knew
shortstop.
Woodward’s hit scored
Just what I wanted.
This is the
one run and Blakely's two runs.
place.”
Heppner will play at Umatilla
One
requirement was
tule Sunday with the game called at 2:30.
swamp, for the rats have the en­
trances to their homes under the
Wasco Wins From Ione
water among the tules, and they
Wasco defeated Ione at Wasco
feed on the roots In the winter.
Sunday ln the Wheatland league
There are many tule swampg but
games. The score by innings:
they must have good drainage and Wasco ...............
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be free from alkali, for the fur of a
Ione ....................
000 010 100— 2
rat that has lived In alkali water
has hair that Is more stiff and brit­
tle, and the pelt Is graded down. The HERMISTON CAR DAMAGED’
COLUSION ON BUTTE ROAD
part of the ranc’’ ♦by. Is ’
, used
now for the rats lies In a natural
A. W. Turnblad of the Hermiston
basin with good drainage for the
Market,
and Ben Spinning of Uma­
constant flow of water that is ob­
tained and the level of the water in tilla have badly damaged cars as the
result of a collision Monday night.
the pond can be easily regulated.
The muskrat or musquash of this The accident occurred on a road run-
sectlon Is one of the same variety P 1’» through the Umatilla Butte.
as that found all over the United leaf Ford brothers' ranch and at a
States and Canada.
The type does sharp turn where vision was impair­
not change until ln Mexico the fur ed by undergrowth.
The Spinning car was able to be
becomes of an orangg hue and this
color marks all the muskrats on down driven back to Umatilla under its
Into South America., The animals own power, having a broken fender,
are 10 or 12 Inches long with a tall bumper and lights. Mr. Turnblad’s
almost aa long, and belong to the car was towed to Hermiston, the front
rodent family, though their habits springs, wheels and axle being dam­
are almost identical with those of aged. Neither driver was hurt.
the beaver family. A prime pelt
from a two year old rat brings more HATCHING EXPERIMENT IS
than two dollars, a yearling pelt
SUCCESSFUL AT FOWLER’S
somewhat less. One pair of rata will
Mrs. Frank Fowler says that the
have three litters a year, with an
average of five young to the litter, ! Fowler poultry farm Is a busy place
and the young from the first litter thig gprlng with 3200 baby chlckg
will reproduce once the first year, comlng on, 600 laying hens and a few
about three kittens as they are call­ ducklings.
Mrs. Fowler is pleased with the out
ed, being the size of the scond litter.
‘‘It Is very hard to get enough fem- com« of an experiment she made this
ales,” said Dr. Gilliland. "Either spring, when she set hens eggs and
they are not so numerous or they j duck eggs ln the same Incubator,
are more wary. One man trapped She had been told this would be un-
30 rats and found but one female in successful, but decided to try it any
way. The duck eggs were put into
the lot.”
The rats are
very
clannish. the incubator a week before the hen
There are six pairs now at the farm, eggs, and the result of the hatch was
and residents of the east end of the *2 chicks from 129 eggs and 42 duck­
pool do not, so far as can be ascer­ lings from 53 eggs, all healthy, live­
tained, go to the west end of the en­ ly babies.
closure, but befora this arrangement
Ina Lenhart, waitress at the Her-
is on a stable basis there must be a
settllng of differences. A short time miston hotel, was severely burned
ago Dr. Gilliland put some new rats Saturday evening when a swinging
in the pond.
All was not well, ap­ door struck a bowl of hot soup she
parently, for the next morning the was carrying, throwing the contents
bodies of fourteen very dead musk­ onto her face and cbest.
rats wer« found around the edge« of
Mrs. Rena Waterman went to
the tule swamp.
At present 6 pairs live ln the en­ Portland last week, remaining over
closure that is fenced. The pond Sunday.
will support about 400, and on the
Mrs. Enos Martin, Anna Ray and
ranch is a second pond that will be
the baby have returned from a visit
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of a few weeks ln Rupert, Idaho.
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HERMISTON SCOUTS
TO PUT ON RALLY
FREE ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE
BENEFIT OF TOWNSPEOPLE
COMPETE FOR HONORS
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Events W ill Be Held Saturday After­
noon at Baseball Park.. Coltun-
lumbia to Compete in Eevents
Miss Mildred Johnson of Philadel­
phia, aviation lecturer and writer, Is
the only person who has flown com­
pletely over the air-mall route! of the
country.
STRICT GOVERNMENT
AIR RULES DRAWN UP
Washington, D. C.—Air traffic has
increased to a point requiring the stif­
fening of federal regulations aimed at
its control. In 1926 the commerce de­
partment laid down the first set of
rules for the air, Intended to safeguard
and facilitate commercial aeronautics,
and It has now undertaken a revision
of its original code which will result
in a more stringent set of provisions.
By the new rules aviation instruc­
tors will be required to have 200
hours' solo flying instead of 50 before
training new pilots. Persons flying
private planes must have ten hours
alone in the air before obtaining'their
certificates. Pilots and mechanics
must pass their examinations for li­
cense with a grade of 70 per cent in
each subject included Instead of with
an average of 70 per cent for all sub­
jects.
SENATE CONFIRMS SINNOTT
The West Umatilla Scout Circus
announced last week has been chan­
ged a bit as to time and program.
An afternoon rally is now planned
for Saturday, April 28, at 2:30 at
the athletic field.
This is a fre« entertainment giv­
en for the benefit of the towns­
people and parents. The boys have
been working hard for some time.
If you want to know the real value
of the scouting program to a com­
munity, come out to the ball field at
2:30 and let the boys prove it to you.
The rally will be held like a track
meet. Hermiston
will
compete
against Columbia district, and where
there are no other entries, between
their own patrols.
Following is the program for the
afternoon:
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2 :00— Parade.
2:30— Grand Opening.
Event No. 1, "Are You Ready
Brother?”
Event No. 2, Knot tying relay.
Event No. 3, First aid.
Event No. 4, Skin the snake.
Event No. 5, A Scout good turn.
Event No. 6, Elephant roll.
Event No. 6, Dramatizing Scout
laws.
Event No. 7, Tower building.
Event No, 8, Indian sfsn lang­
uage.
Event No. 9, Elephant roll.
Event No. 10, Signaling contest.
Event No. 11, Compass Demon­
stration.
Event No. 12, Roman rider relay.
Event No. 13, Fire by friction con­
test.
Event No. 14, Life saving demon­
stration.
Event No. 15, The thrlltng escus.
Event No. 16, Shoe scramble.
Investure of tenderfoot Scouts.
New Offioers in Eastern Star
At the Eastern Star meeting Tues­
Oregon Congressman Now Member of
day evening Mrs. Baragar and Mrs.
Court of Claims.
Washington, D. C.—Confirmation of
Congressman Nicholas J. Stnnott aa
a member of the United States court
of claims came by ananlmous vote at
an executive session of the senate.
Congratulations, ln person and by
wire, have flowed ln upon Slnnott
since the news of his selection by the
president became known. Congress­
man Slnnott wired to Secretary of
State Kozer at Salem his withdrawal
as a candidate for renomination to
congress. Mr. Slnnott said this action
was taken after consultation with At­
torney General Van Winkle who is
here, and receipt of a message from
Mr. Kozer advising him that expense
to the state and Inconvenience to of­
ficials will be avoided if his withdraw­
al is received at once.
Estate Wins Inheritance Tax Fight.
St. Louis.—The federal district
court of appeals here has reversed the
St. Paul district court and held that
the estate of Mrs. Mary T. Hill, widow
of James J. Hill, railroad magnate,
need not pay an inheritance tax of
»1,000,000 on a bequest of *5,000,000
held in trust for nine children and 13
grandchildren.
George Wagner was in Portland
over Sunday on business.
Sloan Thompson wer« elected to
office, Mrs. Barager to fill the office
made vacant by the leaving of Mrs.
Stanley Campbell, that of conduct­
ress, and Mrs. Thompson as assist­
ant conductress. Mrs. M. W. Sims
was appointed Esther. A large at­
tendance was present at the meeting
and after th« business meting a soc­
ial hour was enjoyed.
REGISTERED HAMPSHIRES
BOUGHT FOR SHEEP CLUB
J. L. Jenkins, assistant county
agent, E. L. Jackson, club leader and
N. R, Mueller left Hermiston Sun­
day morning for Enterprise to look
for sheep for th« boys’ club.
They
were met at Enterprise by N. C.
Donaldson, county agent of Wallowa
county, and looked over th« Whit­
more, Eggleson and Davis flocks.
Eight registered Hampshire ewes
and lambs were finally selected from
the E. A. Davis flock and marked.
Upon the return to Hermiston Enos
Martin, leader of the sheep club, was
consulted, and the purchase closed.
A truck will be sent to Enterprise
this week for the sheep and then
they will be distributed among the
eight boys of the club.
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