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FINANCIAL NOTES.

New York Trust Company announces the
opening OF the uptown branch OF the in
sttutlon, az Firth avenue and Fifty-sev-
enth street. under the nagsment OF Vice
President Charles e Haydock.
X, O. Dun reports iSs commercial fail.
a. compared with lss. the previous week
and Eli for the corresponding week last
celved the following application Tor author
ny TO organize national banks: Citizens
Nauonal Bank. Tolca. Ill, capital S6o,eoo,
capitalized at $4,000,
The sun., 1918-11-24
Average and Actual Figures of Reserve Position

5: King DayIi. t225@4.s5; wagner 81 20
g23S S GSides or,iey. ,sS5oas Winesa aP
Newtown Plppin. Northwestern, box. 81 20
gle; Newtown p!ppin California. box.
gS SrItnenSeFS ;ar western Ia
3.25 PEARs-Kterer. barr-f 81 500 7.5J:
basket, 7Jc; a sl'o. CRANBERRIEs- Cape
Ear nSsR. NG Ds-re s. id ne. 8" 26R
crate I2g2So' JeF;sy, barrel. s7a,2'
,g@ = u, oPANu f;s-s aMferaia, b Z,
hcx, SOFA 40: Jamai \. box. s2,75n $50,
GRArEE RUIr-- Porto R!,o. box, 81 50Tl.
Ft.-a,li1 US. 81 -; J%ma!ca box, sl.,og
strap. s@alo LnMoNs"caiiforria,, box box,
crate, :3,ssa713. GAsiHA Melon
nsi package, crate. iL5on ia OSTRICH
age. crate. I.1n33 -. CGTRON Melons
Nea75", barre, 81 123.
OILS -s;and;rd whHc. petroleum, Nsyy'
York, ">2ott hbls si5,:5; DO. bulk So;
Ibis fise5, DO bulk, sS.:5: do. cases,
S.c..h motor sasolene, garages. c4t9c,;
consumers. 80. tsteel bbs) IAnsoed oil
, 81 -. hs, IN bbls, si.6s. Calcutta oil. So.
PoTNroES-Ma!ne. 100 lbs. '2mc. 30
nus Island. 100 lbs. s?iOd2 north5i.
Nv York, 100 lbs. s2d2.2i, western Nc
fN', w ,os' e. lop * "sstern a''
~. - Jersey, w los ::,Vrn- :. -
%1 S, Jets ;. bskp, &c. ,:Is55;; b..
Vnre ana MAJ nd: osk'' SEQ 2lS' VIZ
s'nin' ool'' s5'to q $50.
POI ITRN Observation-Disclosures Tr,r
EtVsEE"a.I - 80 ~, 49,,
GhoI,., 44T4ic: TAR i" orin,s s,ro w
| lois. iaaitc: acaidtd FoIr 30 rb,t,"
Ttic.. und ergr4des, SOC iOc.; Old ions
70 GOOD. +:H l'c;: old ho"s +3T 4+c.; 90
"'nI ~ - 'rFihln: Dry PirSed iair
choice, Is q iGc.; scaldcd, choice. asa sc.
fair I" good, tlraic,; OIL hens II q iSc.
1 OLD toms. tpT ~ >. So ne: n and S0u;h
Fresh, dry, paek.d, II 10 box Wiscor
| sir, mix f",' io-lI ~ 20 dozen, ID, Al
u t"C. ~. ms an 'aC,' $50 ms
The sun., 1918-11-24
GEN. MANN In TRUST COMPANY.
Veteran Joins Eauitsble's Overseas
... Department. -.

Brlg.-G william A Mann, who or
ganized and led to France the famous
Rainbow Division, has Joined the over
seas department Of the Equitable Trust
Company. according TO an announcement
made yesterday at the offices OF the
company.
Gen, Mann retired from active service
last July. During his long military
career he saw fighting on the Western
frontier In his earlier days and later
took part in the Cuban and Philippine
campaigns
The sun., 1918-11-24

Q4o so; family. 1bS ass: short clear. s4s0
So. Beef nrm; mess. S35 n so: 10 mily, $40
aA: packet, ;3Gg3T extra India mess,
tcs 5cs hoss .!eady bteons 24l.c, la5
picked clear. 1912 lbs, 36U3Tc.; dry
salted clear. 1920 lSs:, slHc ureas.s
dull Yellow 1874 DlTAc.; choice house,
l1al7iFc, pickloI hams nrm. reEuisr.
io-l2 lbs, S2Sc; shin1c1i, 1870 lbs
S2hc. Talow dull city special loose.
lSc Lard steady: middle West $50 OSQr
27.o5; city lard dun 20t7 Il 28ac.; r, fInsS
lard barely steady; Continent. s29.2b;
compound steady, % 24hc steRrins
steady; city lard stSarlae. 2ss 920e.i
The sun., 1918-11-24
Automobile Maker. want Steel.

Such demand as exists for steel
products Is insietent In character, and
that In Itself shows quite clearly the
scoops of the market. Those who wish
to buy steel now desire II for an innme-
date turnover. the sooner the better.
The two classes Of buyers prominently
in the market are the 5obbers and the
automobile makers, who are desirous OF
buying more broadly Of such material as
they can dispose Of at once.
Iron and steel and industries allied
with them are in process of being recon-
verified, this time from war to peace con-
dItions. The change will probably be
effected much more quickly than was the
change to the war basis. and with less
dislocation. Every effort Is being made
60 avoid the slump in de?pand and prices
that was feared as a result OF the cessa-
ton of hostilities. The Government has
met industry more than half way and
intends TO cancel war orders only as this
can be done without causing idleness.
The result of this policy is that steel
mills are working on war orders much
the same as formerly. while the large
amount of commercial business that was
marked as essential in helping to win the
war is kept up. It is thought unlikely.
however, that the iron and steel Industry
can be placed squarely on a permanent
peace basis without some curtailment in
production. While there Is n pressing
peace demand for some commodities, it
IL doubtful whether demand for steel FOR
permanent construction work, such as
represents purely, investment operations,
will develop except after the lapse OF
several mouths, and particularly so as
This is the wrong eeason OF the year for
undertaking building operations.
The sun., 1918-11-24
Easier Tone to Coal Market.

There Is an easier tone In tho Pitts
purE coal market. Effects OF cessa-
t"n Of hostilltes. coupled with tho
termination OF the lake shipping sea
son ana indisposition on the part OF
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STEEL MEN IN DARK
ON FUTURE PRICES
Many Believe War Industries
Board will Continue to
Fix Rates.
FEW ORDERS COMING IN
Automobil eMakers and Job
beers Comprise Conner
cial Trade.
FEW ORDERS COMING IN
Snecinf D,spnfch 10 TIE suN,

Prr1sauRa, Nov. l2s.--ln the two
weeks that have elapsed since the sign
ing Of the armistice there have been a
great many changes in the price pros
poets for the steel market. and yet the
situation has not been cleared up to any
great extont. Iron and steel mon are
still guessing as to what II going to
occur and are particularly anxious to
know the average invoice price Of the
steel to be shipped during the FIRST six
months Of 1919. II was thought at first
that there would be q pronounced slump
IN the steel market at the beginning Of
the new period Of peace. II no control
the idea that the War Industries Board
would possibly set minimum prices, 30
a. to let the decline down easily and
without doing q great amount Of
damage. However. that idea has been
eliminated from the steel mans mind.
mainly because It IL now seen that It
cannot be done. Apart from the menace
Of the Sherman law there L. the fact
that the Government would not have the
power to enforce a decree that no one
should cell steel below prescribed
minimum.
With the maximum priceB violation
could be very well taken care Of by COM
Wandering plants and putting them on
orders of the United States Govern
ment The next thought was that the
Government would continue to fix prices,
whereupon the trade might informally
recognise them as minimum also. In
the past : = days predictions have be-
gun to appear that, after all. price fix
ing may be abandoned after the present
period has run out on December 81. II
the War Industries Board ceases to
exercise control over prices by formal
decree, as in the past. IL will still have
considerable power. Rs II will have a
voice in the settlements between the
Emergency Fleet Corporation and the
Railroad Administration, respectively.
and the sellers OF steel.
Large tonnages are involved In the
aggregate, as the Fleet Corporation. will
continue 10 be a heavy buyer, and the
Railroad Administration has already es-
tab,ished it's position that II will make
no more purchases until the whole sub
ject of steel prices has been considered
afresh 1t remains the common view In
tho eteel trade, however, that the War
Industries Board will continue to set
prices. Those who believe otherwise are
in the minority, but this ninority may
grow and become a majority In a few
days. so rapidly does the aspect Of things
change.
The sun., 1918-11-24
No Furnace. Blown out.

r there rs any curtaliment In the iron
ard steel industry, II Is expected to fall
upon steel works more than upon blast
furnaces, as the pig Iron demand from
fouudries which have been rather mac
tive Of late. will be n supporting factor.
Thus far no blast furnaces have been
blown out and there Is no hint that any
are planning TO do so. The pig iron market
has been very quiet, and consumers
show NJ disposition to take hold, as they
are known TO be playing waiting game
20 see Il prices are going any lower As
all the furnaces are we'll filled with busi-
iess there IL unlikely to be any price
cutting for some time. Hardly any war
business has been cancelled. but cancel
htlnns are bound to come in the near
future. The pig iron market remains
quotable at the set limits ns follows:
Bcssemer, $500; basic, S33; No. 2
foundry. $s4 malleable. $3.50; forge,
s35 These prices are T. o. b. furnace.
freight from the valleys to Pittsburg be-
Ing $40, and from half dozen de-
tached furnaces trifie less.
a loss OF $4,000 tons, or 23.4 per
cent, an average OF $4,000 tons per week.
or $500 tons per working day during
the past Ave weeks, represents the fuel
cost to the connellsvilie region because
OF tire influenza epidemic, peace ceiebra-
lions and other circumstances and Incl
dents which have interfered with regu-
larity Of operation. This is perhaps the
most pronounced shrinkage in produce
tl0a IN the history OF the region. That
due 70 zero weather last winter. which
extended for eight consecutive weeks was
longer. but the total drop IN production
wac much less than during the present
troubled nArioI Last yeaka a1pra1afa
production OF 575.1S5 tons. on a coal
basis showed falling on OF 3s.1o0 tons.
OF which 1870 tons was in coke and
$500 tons IN coal Car service and sup
ply have shown Improvement on both
The Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and
ofio railroads. The epidemic seems To
nave taken fresh hold IN the lower Con-
> Nashville region. and the prospects for a
worse record are In sight
The sun., 1918-11-24

FEDERAL RESERVE STATEMENT. !,
Statement of tho Federal Reserve Bank In
New York for the week ended November a.
1915, compared with the preceding week:
RESOURCES
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-02-01
WILL ERECT VAULT HERE
FOR BODY OF THEIR SON

The Berry Monument Works Of
Walla Walla. through its local repre-
sentative, N. A. Miller, has contract
ed to erect three room burial vault
in the Athena cemetery for Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Andrews of La Grande,
whose son, Bert, recently died some.
where in France, while serving with
the La Grande hospital corps. IT g
body of the dead soldier will be return
ed to its native land when the war is
over, and will rest in one of the rooms
of the vault.
The vault will be constructed of
marble and limestone, and will cost
when completed. $1,000. F. M. Berry
and N. A. Miller spent Monday at La
Grande and closed the contract for
construction of the vault while there.
The Pacific Semaphore of current
issue. bears a splendid photo of Bert
Andrews, who was the first of the Un-
ion Pacific employees enlisted. to die,
and whose star in the company's SER
vice flag was the first to "turn from
blue to gold" The young man died of
pneumonia on December 27. His pa
rents at La Grande received the fol-
lowing card, the last written by their
sen on December 21:
Dear Folks: Just received your
first letter yesterday and was sure glad
to hear from So1. Am in the Roose.
welt Base Hospital now with cold,
but expect to be out soon. Wishing
you all Merry Christmas and a Hap.
py New Year, am your son, BERT. "
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-02-01
BRITISH GOVERNMENT
HELPS PAY FOR BREAD

There has been much misunder-
standing about the bread program in
England. 1t is true that the English
man buys loaf of bread for less than
an American can, but 1t is poorer
bread, and the British government is
paying S20O,0OO,00O year toward the
cost of 1t.
All the grain grown in Great Brit
ain is taken over by the government
at an arbitrary price and the imported
wheat purchased on the markets at
the prevailing market price. This is
turned over to the mills by the govern
ment at price that allows the adul-
terated war bread loaf of four pounds
to sell at IS cents, the two pound loaf
at 8 cents and the one pound loaf at 5
cents.
In France, under conditions some
what similar, but with larger ex-
traction, the four pound loaf sells for
16 cents.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-02-01
MADE.IN .IN.GERMANY lies
CIRCULATED IN CANADA

Canada is also having trouble with
Made-in- Germany lies calculated to
hinder Canadian food conservation ac-
cording to an official statement re-
ceived from the Canadian food con-
troller by the United States food ad.
ministration.
The stories bothering Canada are
of the same general character as those
the United States food administra'
tor recently denounced in this coun'
try, such as the ridiculous salt and
blueing famine fakes and the report
that the government would seize
housewives stocks of home canned
goods.
The Canadian food controller esti-
mates that when the people listen to
and pass on such stories, each one
has the power Of destruction that lies
in a battalion of soldiers.
"Stories without even vestige Of
foundation have been scattered broad
cast" said the Canadian statement.
"Nor have they come to life casually.
They have started simultaneously in
different parts Of the country and In
each instance have been calculated to
arouse public indignation.
"They are insidious, subtle, persist
ent. Bit by bit they dissipate public
trust, the great essential in the work
of food control.
"It lies with every individual to for
bear from criticism; to refrain from
passing on the vagrant and harmful
story, and thus the more effectively
to cooperate in work which is going
to mean more than the majority OF
people yet realize"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-02-01
H0HBACH OF PENDLETON
TO Open BAKERY HERE

Otto Hohbach, the we'll known and
successful operator of bakery in PEN
dleton, has decided to engage in the
bakery business in Athena. After
looking over the situation here last
week, he leased the Worthington build
ing on Main street for that purpose.
Workmen have been engaged this
week in putting the store room in pro-
per condition and will have it COM
pleted tomorrow, and shortly Mr.. Hoh-
bach will open for business.
For many years the name Hohbach
has been identified prominently with
the bakery business in Pendleton and
at the present time he has one of the
largest and most sanitary bake shops
in Eastern Oregon, The work is all
done by special machinery and the
bread during its manufacture is un-
touched by human hands. 1t is sup
posed the baking will be done at the
Pendleton plant and the product deliv
cred here daily for distribution.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-02-01
NEED BIC HERDS

American stock breeders are being
asked to conserve their flocks and
herds In order to meet Europe's tre-
mendous demands for meats during
the war and probably for many years
afterward.
The United States food admins
tration reports that American stock
raisers have shown disposition to
cooperate with the government in in
creaslng the nations supply of live
stock.
Germany today is probably better
supplied with live stock than any 9TH
er European nation. When the Ger
man armies made their big advance
into France and then retreated vir-
tually all the cattle in the invaded
territory - approximately 100000
head-were driven behind the German
lines.
But in England-where 100000
acres Of pasture lands have been turn
ed into, grain fields-the cattle herds
are decNedsing rapidly. One of the
reasons apparently is the declining
maximum price scale adopted by the
English as follows: For September,
$1776 per 100 pounds; October, $17.2S;
November and December, $160S; jan
larry, $14.40 The effect of these prices
was to drive beef animals on the mar
ket as soon rs possible.
In France the number of cattle as
well as the quality have shown an
enormous decline during the war.
Where France had 14,807, 900 head of
cattle In 1918, she now has only 12,-
341 900, decrease of 1853 per cent.
And France is today producing only
one gallon of milk compared to two
and one-half gallons before the war.
Denmark and Holland have been
forced to sacrifice dairy herds for beef
because of the lack of necessary feed.
Close study Of the European meat
situation has convinced the Food Ad-
ministration that the future problem
of America lies largely In the produc-
ton of meat producing animals and
dairy products rather than in the pro-
duction of cereals for export when
the war will have ceased.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-02-01
REPLY MADE BY
SECRETARY BAKER

Five hundred thousand American
troops in France early this year and a
million and half more ready to 60,
fully equipped and with the artillery
to support them-this was the answer
Secretary Baker gave the Senate mil
itary committee to the charge of ineffi-
cheney and breakdown in the military
establishment.
AS the climax of days explana-
tion of all that the military establish
ment had done freely confessing faults
and imperfections in so vast an under
taking, but maintaining tina. out of
each deficiency the remedy had been
found, the Secretary of War disclosed
what hitherto has been guarded as a
military secret and what the German
people little suspect.
Secretary Baker told the Senators
the United States would have half a
million fighting men on French soil
early this year and that one and a
half million American troops in all
would be available for foreign duty.
This great fighting force, probably
little expected by the German General
Staff itself. will be composed of the
men now with General Pershing, the
80 divisions of troops now in canton
ments and camps in the United States
and ready to move, Secretary Baker
said, and by the next increments to be
drawn and trained this Spring under
the selective service law.
Summed up Secretary Baker testi-
fed as follows:
Laxity of medical service at camps
is not to be tolerated.
Three men have been courtmartialed
and dismissed for negligence.
General Pershing endorsed adoption
of Enfield rifle.
At the request of General Wood,
the army was called before the guns
were ready, holding the men needed
the other training first.
All in France have guns and know
how to use them.
There are several times more men
in France than was planned for this
date.
Pershing is against the Lewis gun
for land work.
A hundred and forty machine guns
were sent each camp and cantonment
November goth.
Three hundred three inch anti-air-
craft guns will be produced here month
ly within year.
official reports say the camp hos
pitfalls are all in splendid shape now,
many being the equal of civilian hos
pitals.
The army abroad is using French ar
tillery to save tonnage for other need
ed supplies.
The allies urged troops before airy
thing else, saying that England ant
France could supply the artillery.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-02-01
CORN WILL WIN
DEM0CRACY'SW WAR

Americas great corn crop, exceed
ing 5000, 100000 bushels, will save the
worlds food situation, officials Of the
United States food administration be-
lieve.
Corn is the nations best food cereal,
housewives are beginning to realize.
1t contains all the elements needed to
keep the body in state Of health and
when used according to the scores Of
tried recipes, especially when COM
bined with an added portion of oil or
fat, will sustain life indefinitely. In
dian warriors In colonial days lived on
parched corn alone for many days at a
time, and at Valley Forge parched
corn was at times the sole ration Of
the Continental soldiers.
Owing to transportation difficulties
caused by the war the corn crop moved
more, slowly to market this year than
ever before. Now, however, the cereal
is reaching the millers and consumers.
In the meantime the nations surplus
wheat has been sent to Europe.
Today there are approximately 80
bushels of corn for every American.
This quantity is greater by five BUSH
els than in former years.
Corn has become the nations MAN.
stay In the crisis of war.
Just as this cereal saved the first
American colonists from famine on
many occasions, just as it served as a
staple food during the War Of the Rev
olution and during the Civil War, King
Corn has again come to the front 10
the nations battle with autocracy.
Corn meal is finding greatly increas-
ed use in the making Of ordinary white
bread. Hundreds of housewives and
many Of the larger bakers are mixing
20 per cent. corn meal with wheat
flour to make leavened bread. This
kind of mixture is worked and baked
in the same recipes and with the same
methods that apply to straight wheat
bread.
Corn bread-using corn meal entire"
ly-is gaining greater popularity
EaHp ever before. Housewives are
ing to realize. that every pound of
eat saved in AIherica means pound
of wheat released for shipment to the
nations with which America Is associ-
ated in the war.
There are score Of corn products
that today possess unusual importance
for Americans. Corn syrup for sweet
ening corn cakes and buekwheat cakes
and for use in the kitchen instead Of
granulated sugar is one of the leading
products made from corn.
Corn oil, excellent for frying and for
every other purpose filled by salad oils,
is appearing on the market in large
quantities. 1t comes from the germ of
the corn.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-02-01
NOW SOMEWHERE
ELSE IN FRANCE

Henrv Rarrett last Tbnrsdo,, rooo;ro,,
the following INTERESTING letter ea fro,a
Dr plamondon dated "son,a,nho.n %
else in France. December af Ia17."
az haven't vet had tbe nlassr.a -
hearing from vou in fact have had ~ ~
mail at all for two weeks for I haye
been on the move but neverthelass T
want Won TO know that 7 am st;lI i
the land Of the living b,t not IN tho
Gland of the free " and am well and
will he able to eat NV share Of turLau
and mince ME on Christmas
eve are having q real +oucb of
Winter. not so very cold bnt.soma foo
tonight which reminds me of .home 70
"Mondav in coming bere drovo
about Ok miles or az k;lomotors as
the French saw in Frencb .con,;or
over the usuai maon;ficent 'roads
"Tbe French antos ard trnsLs how.
yerv small engines comnsred 70 arr
machines az the grades ora ali ,,roh
less and oct their nower hv snaad;ao
nm the motor and ns;no tbo aoars r,nra
than we do Thev do not eons;der
driver a oood one If be tr;es - taLa
everything 'on high
"Tbere are manv packards ond 1ae
rev Quad Trucks in service bere and
some q M q and Fords hu tha thn,,
sands The Quad certa;n,v !, m no,.rf,,I %
and bauls immense loads II dr;uas
as Won know bv all four wheels Thas,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-02-01
Beckham-Parker.

The wedding of Miss Bessie Parker
and Mr.. Robert Beckham occurred Sat-
urday, January 26th, in Walla Walla,
the ceremony being performed by Rev.
W. W. Burk in the Central Christian
church of that city, The bride. a
daughter of Mr., and Mrs. Jack Parker,
was born and reared in Athena, and
has many friends to wish her happi.
ness. and the groom, also has made a
host of friends since his residence here
where he has been in farming pursuits.
The young couple were attended by
Mr.. and Mrs. Evan Burning, and left
for Spokane to spend a couple Of weeks.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-02-01
Olcott for Governor.

Ben W. Olcott Secretary of State,
has just made announcement of his
candidacy for the Office of Governor,
subject to the decision of the repub-
lican primaries. The Secretary of
State will not neglect his official du-
ties to make an extensive campaign
prefering to let the people judge whe-
ther he is worthy their support. If
nominated. Mr.. Olcott will resign the
office of Secretary of State, permit
ting the present governor to appoint
some one to fill out the unexpired
term. The announcement that Mr.,
Olcott has decided to run for Governor
is received in Athena with pleasure by
democrats as well as republicans.