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Advertising - The tAthena' Press circulates aa the hornet of readers who reside in the heart of the Great Umatilla Wheat Belt, and they have money to spend Notice! If this notice is marked RED, it Big nifies that your Subscription expires with this issue. We will greatly ap predate your renewal $2.00 per year Bntered at tne Post Office at Athena, Oregon, aa Second-Class Mail Matter VOLUME XLIII. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 24, 1922. NUMBER 46 SPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS CONVENES Consideration of Ship Subsidy Bill Is Main Business Be fore the House. Washington, D. C Congress met at noon Monday In special session call ed by President Harding primarily to consider the administration ship sub sidy bill. With only two-week re maining until the beginning of the reg ular. December session, it la expected to sit continually until adjournment Bine die March 3. Enactment of. the administration merchant marine bill was urged upon congress by President Harding as nee essary to relieve the government , of present "staggering losses'', in opera tions of the war-built merchant fleet and to establish a program, of assured shipping to serve the nation in war and . give a guaranty of commercial independence in time of peace. . Personally addressing - joint - ses sion of the house and senate, the ex ecutlve declared an actual monetary saving to the. government 'would re sult from the proposed law... He chal lenged every insinuation of favored Interests and the enriching of the spe cial few at the expense of the public treasury. The legislation, he assert ed, automatically guarded against en rlchment or perpetual bestowal--. "If success attend, as -we hope, it will,", he added, "'the government out lay Is returned,-the inspiration of op portunity to earn remains, and Amer ican transportation by sea is main tained." Mr. Harding declared it would be most discouraging it a measure of such transcending national .import ance must have its fate depend on geographical, occupational profession al or partisan objection. PACKER MERGER -. hp m HiRniim vi. iw iiniiwiiiw Washington, D. C President Hard ing will make the final decision for the government on the proposal that Armour & Co. purchase Morris ft Co., another of the "big five" - Chicago packers, it was indicated, in high ad ministration circles. : The . president already has discussed the matter with J. Ogden Armour and will go over it in detail with Secretary Wallace as soon as the experts of the department of agriculture have completed their study of the plan. The executive was represented as being of the opinion that the basis of the information now in his possession that there would be no objection at law to the proposed consolidation, in view of the stricter government regu lations of the packing industry pro vided for in the packers' and stock yards control act. It was emphasized, however, that he was keeping an open mind until all the facts bearing on the situation had been presented. NEWBERRY RESIGNS SEAT Says He Would Be "Hampered by Par tisan Political Persecution." Washington, , D. C Truman . H. Newberry of Michigan, whose . right to a place in the senate has been a subject of long and bitter controversy, has submitted his resignation with a request that it become effective im mediately. In a letter to Governor Groesbeck, made public here, Mr. Newberry said he bad been impelled to retire volun tarily because of the defeat of hie republican colleague, Senator Town send, in the election of November 7. The turns of events, he said, would make it "futile", for him to attempt to continue his public services, since he continually would be "hampered by partisan political persecution." The resignation brings to an end a fight which already has made po litical history and which, it appeared, would be resumed early in the session of congress which began Monday. White Case to Be Carried Up. Topeka, Kan. An agreement with William Allen White, that the case charging him with violation of pro visions of the industrial court act. in placing a strike sympathy, card in his office window,' shall be carried into the supreme court direct, under an agreed statement of facte - baa been reached, ..T-c?'; " PierceWilliHsive No Pie Counters Governor-Elect Pierce will not be embarrased by the Democratic party chieftains in dispensing political pie The Democratic party as an organization- j wants only to' , assist Mr. Pierce to make good every campaign pledge. ; Democratic leaders of Ore gon are not demanding anything for themselves. These facts became known at La Grande, after an all-afternoon con ference between - the"; governor-elect and Dr.' J. W. Morrow, national Dem ocratic committeeman,, and Dr. C. J Smith, chairman .of the . state v Dem ocratic central committee Confer ences were held in between- dinners and speeches delivered by the trio to the home-coming day of Blue Mount ain grange, which Is the home, of Mr, Pierce's grange affiliation. At the grange hall Mr Pierce re viewed the incidents of the campaign in considerable detail-... He . was - re- cieved with enthusiam. Dr.' Morrow and Dr. Smith also spoke, both dwell ing upon the thought that it is now up to the voters of Oregon wfio want tax. reductions and economic reforms to put their shoulders squarely behind Mr. Pierce. Later in the day the three men were closeted and immediately af terwarla Mr. Pierce went to Imbler for another jollification and banquet and Dr. Smith left for New York and .Wash-, ington. , At the close of the confer ence the Portland Journal represen tative was advised that policies of the' Pierce ' administration received first consideration and that the executive- elect had been assured there would be no embarrassment hurled at him over the pie counter. Mr. Pierce is assured by the party's spokesman that the party is anxious to see the Pierce administration make good and is not Dickering over petty patronage, - J Mi FARMERS, CATTLEMEN SMILING; RAIN DID IT The rains that fell during the last several days have brought smiles to the faces of the farmers and stock men of the Umatilla district They are greatly pleased. , The winter wheat has assumed its bright green color, and promises . a good stand. All through the county a fine showing of winter grain is in evitable. Until lately the condition of the wheat crop had the fanners guessing. ..-" The stockmen are also showing, a smiling countenance, and for good reasons, The open weather that has prevailed for the entire fall has meant that the cattle and sheep could graze, while at this time last year, they were on winter feed. With acontnuance of the present weather, feeding stock may not be come necessary for several weeks. Further precipitation that is ex pected, together with the warm weather will cause grain to germinate rapidly. HOLLOW HEART POTATOES Having had two carloads of po tatoes shipped as.U. S.. 1. rejected in California and sent back because of "hollow heart," potato growers in the Yakima district have asked for an immediate official inspection to find whether any of the crop this year will grade No 1. The shipper of the re jected carloads did not know that the spuds were defective, having judged by external appearances, and it is expected that other -shipments sent eastward may be turned for the same reason. Hollow heart is not a disease, and about the only way this defect can be discovered is by cutting the potato open. A small percentage of hollow hearted spuds disqualifies a shipment for the high grade. DUDLEY-FRIEDLY Mr. Max Dudley, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Dudley of Athena, and Miss Jaunita Friedly, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Fnedley of Pendle ton, were united in marriage Wed nesday afternoon at three o'clock, at the home of the bride's parents. Rev. Gressman being the officiating clergy man. The wedding ceremoney was per formed in the presence of relatives of the bride and groom, little Cathrine Friedly, sister of the bride, being the ring-bearer. Both bride and groom have a host of friends in Athena who wish them happiness. They will reside on Mr, Dudley's ranch near La Crosse, Washington. , THE. STORM SATURDAY YOU KNOW HOW TIS One of the biggest pictures in point of interest ever screened'' at the Standard Theatre, will be shown Sun day night, when "The Storm," Star ring House Peters, supported by n brilliant cast will be exhibited. The Storm, with the exception of "Foolish Wives" and ''Human Hearts" is per haps the greatest achievement of Universal in pictures. The Storm and Human Hearts, which comes to the Standard on Christmas night, are the two greatest pictures that will be shown here this year. In point of attendance and receipts, they are the leading pictures shown in Portland this year. On the evening of Thanksgiving Day, a special picture, "Jan of the Big Snows," will be shown at regular admission , prices. Tomorrow . (Sat urday ) night, Dorothy Dalton, Par mounts's gifted star, will be seen in "The - Woman Who Walked Alone." This picture is based on the widely read story of "The Cat Who Walked Alone.V. All pictures except The Storm and Human Hearts( will be exhibited at regular prices, so far as booked into January. Many of these pictures scheduled at regular prices include super specials, such as "The Prisoner of Zenda" "The Good Provider, "Be yond the Rocks" and others. Voter's Edict Is Newberry Doom THANKSGIVING DAY OBSERVANCE IN ATHENA Thanksgiving Day will be appro ipxiately observed in Athena. In the evening there will be union services at the Baptist church. The' services will be along the lines of significance of the spirit of the occasion as set down by our forefathers in observance of the day. In . the. afternoon, the football teams of Athena high school and Umatilla will meet on the local, field for .the first game ever played by teams representing these schools. A special picture program will be given at the Standard Theatre, start' ing at ?:45, and the Athena-Weston American Legion post will give a dance at Legion HalL. NEW BISHOP INSTALLED : William P. Remington, formerly bishop suffragan of Montana, Sunday was inducted into office as bishop of Eastern Oregon for the Episcopal church. Bishop Page , of Seattle, president of the province of the Pa cific, read the invocation service. He was assisted by the largest delegation of bishops of this church ever gather ed for such an installation, including the venerable Bishop Lemuel H. Wells, now active, who was one cf the pioneer missionaries . of this church in the Oregon country some 50 years ago, Bishop Walter T, Sumner of the Oregon diocese, Bishop F. W. Keator of the Olympia diocese, and Bishop H. Tourette of Idaho, present ing also the missionary council of the church. Resignation of Truman H. New berry as United Statel senater from Michigan is put down here as a direct election, in which most of the sen ators who voted for him and ran for reelection, were defeated. The incoming senate - contained a majority committee to vote for oust ing of Newberry in event his case should come up. In his own state he was the issue, and the veteran Sen ator Townsend who defended New. berry, was defeated. ; Woodbrige N. Ferris, the successful Democratic senatorial candidate, declared immed iately after the election that his vic tory was a repudiation of Newberry. Ke announced that the first thing he would do when he - was sworn in would be to reopen the . Newberry case. . The Newberry case was an issue in every state Nwhere a senator who had voted to seat him was . up ..for .re election. Most of these senators fell by the wayside. . Nine of these 13 senators were beaten either in the primaries or in the election. New of Indiana and McCumber of North Da kota went down in the primaries. Pro-Newberry senators ; defeated in the election were: Calder, New York; Freylinghuysen, New Jersey; Franc J, Maryland; Dupont, Delaware; Kel logg, Minnesota; Poindexter, Wash ington, and Townsend, Michigan. Newberry was the subject of the most cutting attacks by Democratic senators, both in the senate -or on the stump. They loudly demanded that Newberry resign. But the Michigan senator kept a screen of complete si lence over himself. ,. He" Refused to take the senate floor in His own de fense, except to read a brief prepared statement. After . his J vindication numerous Republican senators who were un for reelection anckfeared the-j Newberry issue would prove embar rassing to them, privately expressed the hope that he would resign. But he hung on and then came the casu alty lists after the election. It was apparent to him that he would be voted out of the senate should his case be reopened. T'The country has gone to hell", hia political manager said on reading the complete returns. Newberry still kept silent. Now his resignation ends the senational case and vacates one Michigan senatorial seat. ; Newberry was elected to the senate in November, 1918,- defeating Henry Ford the Democratic nominee. Short ly thereafter, indictments were hand ed down by the federal grand jury at Grand Rapids against Newberry and more than 100 of his political aides on charges of conspiracy to violate the election laws in . the primary cam pain preceding the general election. This grew out of the alleged use of large sums of money by Newberry workers in an effort to defeat Ford. TWO MORE FOOTBALL GAMES SCHEDULED HERE The two remaining football games of the season are scheduled for play on the home gridiron. This after noon the Umatilla team meets Athena high school. Umatilla is said to be a good team, and an interest ing game is anticipated.: Next Thursday, Thanksgiving Day the! Endicott Wash.,fast team will be here, and the fans are looking for the; hardest game of the season. Endicott has a splendid record, and Athena having been defeated but once during the present season, is going out: to win from the Washingtonians There will Is no return game with Endicott this j cr-. but Athena later in the season will go to theWashing ton town to play Basket ball in re turn for the Thanksgiving Day grid iron contest With football out of the way for the year, basketball practice will be com menced at once in the local gym, with all lettermen of last year on the team, except one. , The aggregation that won for Athena last year touted to be stronger in the game this sea son with the result that a higher standard of proficiency may be expected. INDIAN GIRI AT U. OF O. Eleanor Houk of the Blackfoot tribe is the first Indian girl to attend the University of Oregon. Her home is in Browning, Mont, a small town sit uated a few miles from Glacier Nat ional Park. She- received her gram mar school education and a part of her: high -school education at Carlisle Pa. the largest Indian school in the United States, which was abolished by the goverment during . the war. Coming to Oregon in 1918, she enter ed Salem high school, and graduated in 1920 with high honors. The fol lowing year she taught in the lower grades at Chemawa, Oregon's Indian school. This fall she enrolled as a freshmen, the intention of completing four full years in the department of physical education.' ' - . ; Klan Planning Another Measure GAME IS PLENTIFUL - "We could have killed a carload of deer if we had wanted to violate the law." This was the remark of J. G White ofWalla Walla, who, with his brother T. A. White, also of that city and Dan Kinney of McMinnville, Or., returned Sunday from a hunting trip of several weeks in the Little Salmon river region of the Blue mountains. The nartv returned with the limit of deer, three Rocky mountain goats, two elk and a black bear. According to the hunters, the deer as well as manv other kinds of big game, are plentiful in the regions they trav ersed. WIND HITS COLUMBIA Wind of such intense velocity that it tore automobile tops to ribbons was encountered by eastbound tourists, on the Columbia river highway between Corbett and Crown Point, Tuesday, according to motorists. The wind was from the east. High wind has been prevailing in the Columbia river gorge for two weeks. D Legislative Mill Opens Up 0 A Officers 6f the Ku Klux Klan an nounce that efforts will be made to pass a compulsory public school act in the State, of Washington. Major L. I. Powell "king . ; kleagle of the Pacific domain of the K. K. K.". is now in Seattle preparing for the cam paign, says the Walla Walla Union. The act will be similar, to the one adopted in Oregon recently. . "The same law will be in effect within 12 months in Washington", Powell asserted, "and all parochial and private schools will be forced out of existence. Our first step will be to stage , a big membership drive in Seattle and other cities of the state and get enough followers to in sure adoption of the measure whan it comes up. . Aa a preliminary to the- campaign we plan to hold a bis open-air demonstration -somewhero just outside the city, with all the Klansmen in Western Washington and a Ku Klux . Klan . special from Portland , in attendance." Powell said that, there . are 42 "klans" in that state the largest in Seattle, the next in Spokane, third in Tacoma. . But, he declared Washing ton is far "behind" Oregon in this respect. ', "There are 22,000 klansmen in Port land alone", he asserted, "and I don't i knew how many more in the rest of I the state". ; j LIVES ON 6c A DAY; SANITY EXAMINED Because he declared that he bought all the food he needed for six cents a day Arthur Belour was detained by Spokane police as an insanity suspect. Belour had $672.85 in his pocket when apprenended which he said was his savings as a result of frugal living. "I save on food and you can too, if you try", he remarked to a policeman. "I live on two yeast cakes a day I get up in the morning and eat a yeast cake, drink two or three .cups of water. -. . In a short time the yeast begins to swell up and my appetite is satisfied I do the same thing at. night.,- It only cost me six cents a day for my meals.. I used to do it with dried apples, but yeast works better and is cheaper." . -Belour was released when pro nounced mentally sound by examining physicians. ; HEARD MRS. SALING SING Athena friends heard the beautiful voice of Lela Saling in song by radio, last night Through courtesy of Ray mond Geissel the Press family list ened to Mrs. Saling's concert num bers, broadcasted from the station nt Telegraph Hill, San Francisco. Her singing sounded remarkably, clear and the announcer said: "Mrs. Sal ing hones Mr. Jesse Gordon, at Pen dleton. Oregon. Miss Helen Worth- ington, at Portland, Oregon, and oth ers are enjoying her singing tonight." Mr. Geissel has a remarkably fine radio equipment established at his home in the north part of town. VETERANS REHABILITATED With 1154 injured World War vet erans, of this district rehabilitated, the Pacific Northwest of the United States Veteran'sBureau leads all oth er districts of the country in the number of vocationally rebuilt former service people as compared with the number entering training. This an nouncement was made by L.CJesseph northwest district manager of the bureau, who stated that there are 2767 others in training at the ex pense of the government now. Only veterans who received disabilities in war service which prevented them from resuming their pre-war vocat ions were adwarded training. . KEEPING DRY IS JOB The biggest job of the prohibition workers is to hold on to prohibition, Miss Agnes E. Slack of England de clared in an address before the nat ional convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Miss Slack, honorary secretary of the world union and an English delegate to the convention urged the contin uation of hard work because she said the entire world movement hinged up on its success in the United States. Resolutions declaring unalterable op position to any modification of the Volstead act that will permit the re turn of light wines and beers were adopted. GREAT NORTHERN , OPPOSES DIVORCE Continuation of Present Rela tions With Burlington Is Desired. Washington, D.C.r- Ralph Budd, president of the Great Northern rail way, attacked the selection of . the Great Northern by the interstate com merce commission as the road to be divorced from the Burlington in the proposed consolidation of northwest roads. ' Budd argued In hearings before the commission that if it is felt that either the Great Northern or the Northern Pacific should be divorced, it should be the. latter. He testified that argu ments advanced for grouping the Great Northern with the Chicago, Mil-, waukee & St. Paul, opposing it to a union of Northern Pacific and .the Burlington ."for. competitive reasons, were erroneous." Contentions that the Northern Pa cific and the St. Paul were parallel and competitive In Montana are un founded, he declared, because the re gion where the roads parallel Is moun tainous and sparsely settled and little traffic originates there. , President Byram of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul was one of the most agreeable witnesses to be . im agined. He said he came to help the commission, not to hinder. He. said his company was favorable to the commission's plan, which would com bine the St. Paul and Great Northern and would just as readily accept a plan uniting his road with the North ern Pacific. . ' .He suggested, however, that if any further consolidations were contem plated his road would welcome a com bination, with the Union Pacific. CLEMEIICEAU GREETED WITHWHOHORS New York. Georges Clemenceau, war-time premier of France, came to America Saturday on a mission of peace. The fiery old tiger earnestly voiced the purpose of his tour in a brief re sponse at city ball to an address of welcome by Acting Maydr Hulbort "In the world at this time," he de clared, "is a crisis which hasn't been settled. . How it will end, nobody knows. If you take the wrong side well, the war counts for nothing and wo may have to go to war again. If it turns out right, and the right thing is done at the right time, then it will be the greatest step for the civilization of mankind." Although he came as a private citi zen, the famous French statesman was accorded the honors of a diplomat. A personal representative of . President Harding Assistant Secretary of State Bliss went down the bay to welcome him and , invite him to the White House. PERSHING TELLS WAR PLANS Government Control of All Resources In Event of Conflict Contemplated. New York. National defense plans of the . war department contemplate governmental control of the entire re sources of the country under "an ef ficiency council, or board of control," General Pershing announced here at Madison Square Garden before the Merchants' association of New York. "According to these plans," General Pershing said, "the industrial and manufacturing Institutions, agricul ture and transportation would be un der government control, while per sonnel pertaining to all of them would be mustered Into the service as ara those that are called to the colors. An efficiency council, or board ot control, conforming to our experience in til? war, would then be placed in charge of all resources with authority to make such disposition ot them ai would best promote the success ot the cation in war." Washington, D. C Prices ot pota toes have reached the bottom, accord Ing to the department of agriculture averaging only 20 to 30 cents a bushe! to growers In the West and rangluj from 40 to 50 cents a bushel at east ern shipping points. Some westeri farmers are giving potatoes away t anyone who will dig them and otheri will not dig them.