Dayton tribune., May 14, 1925, Image 6

WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items;
COMPILED FOR YOU
Events of Noted People, Governments
and Pacific Northwest, and Other
Things Worth Knowing.
Marshall H. Coolidge. 64. a kinsman
of President Coolidge and a manu­
facturer and lumberman identified
with the business affairs of Minnea­
polis for 30 years, died Sunday, follow­
ing a long illness.
While crowds choked a downtown
business street in San Francisco, a
man held up Henry Holland, pay­
master of the Williams & Berg Tailor
ing company, in the elevator of the
building and escaped with the week's
payroll, consisting of $2600 in silver
and currency.
Radio messages received at Edmon­
ton, Alta., Sunday, reported Mayo, the
second largest town in the Yukon
territory and the most important point
on the Stewart river, practically de­
stroyed by fire. The blaze started
Saturday night and continued unabat­
ed all day Sunday.
Advices received at Calgary. Alta.,
Saturday, by the Canadian Pacific
railway showed a heavy fall of snow-
at Coronation, northeastern Alberta,
and at Kerrobert, in northwestern
Saskatchewan. A light snow was re­
ported from Kardisty and other north­
ern Saskatchewan points.
The baby death toll of Mrs. Helen
Auguste Geisen-Volk’s East Eighty­
sixth street “baby farm” has reached
23. it was announced by the New York
authorities Saturday. The woman, an
ex-German Red Cross nurse and
widow of a Prussian army officer, was
held for investigation by the grand
jury.
The committee which has been in
charge of the world flight of the Ar­
gentine aviator, Major Pedro Zanni,
announces that the resumption of his
flight from Japan across the Pacific
may be delayed owing to failure to
obtain permission from the soviet gov­
ernment for him to land at Petropav­
lovsk, Kamchatka.
A squad of Mexican soldiers from
the 64th regiment stationed at No­
gales, Sonora, Mexico, and a detach­
ment of Nogales, Sonora, police left
Saturday morning to Join cowboys
and ranchers in a search for George
Jarri. American rancher, who has been
missing from his home near Quijano,
Sonora, since last Thursday.
The coast guard is ready to settle
down to a summer’s work in its cam­
paign to break up the rum fleet off
New York. Its efforts may bear fruit
sooner, but it was said Sunday that
Rear-Admiral Billard, coast guard
commandant, would be satisfied if ap­
preciable disintegration of the fleet
should begin within a month.
Ninety per cent of the liquor traffic
that formerly came into New York
city through “rum row”—the ocean
refilling stations off New York bay—
has been stopped by the blockade in­
stituted by the federal government.
But the remaining 10 per cent is
finding a way to fool the coast guard
and the fast boats at its command.
A Claron Nelson, ex-superintendent
of the western division of the air
mail services, piloting a commercial
plane, and two passengers, Grant
Christensen and Russell De Loge,
both 15 years old, were killed at Wood­
ward flying field at Salt Lake City
Sunday, when the plane went into a
tail-spin and fell from an altitude of
100 feet.
Captain T. J. J. See, professor of
mathematics in the United States
navy and government astronomer at
Mare Island, California, announced be­
fore the California Academy of
Sciences here Sunday the final re­
sults of a series of discoveries which,
in hfs opinion, reaffirms the geometry
of Euclid and routs the Einstein
theory of relativity. Captain See told
the academy.
Important archaeological discover­
ies have just been made at the Hara-
eum in Argos. Greece, according to
word received by Professor Edward
Capps of Princeton university. Pro­
fessor Capps is chairman of the man­
aging committee of the American
school of classical studies at Athens,
under whose auspices the excavations
are being made. Twelve chamber
tombs of various periods have been
found containing a vast amount of
material, as none had ever been plund­
ered.
HINDENBURG GETS WELCOME
President-Elert Greeted by Throng« of
Jubilant German*.
PRESSES 10 SPEEO
ON 0. S. CURRENCY
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Berlin. — Field Marshal Paul von
Salem - The KUilsnor racking com­
Hinfienburg. president-elect of Ger
pany. with headquarters in Portland,
has filed notice of dissolution In the
many, speeding through a straight-
state corporation department.
aw^y five mile lane flanked by dense
rows of surging, jubilant humanity,
Harrisburg. Bridge work here Is
late Monday reached the chancellor’s
progressing rapidly with full crews
palace, where he was a guest of a
busy on both bank*. False work Is1
single night, pending his formal in
almost completed across tho river.
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duction into office at noon Tuesday.
Pendleton. The mercury hovered
An uneventful train ride of four
near the danger mark Friday night. I
hours carried the presidential party
but did not get down to freesing, ac-1
to the edge of Berlin shortly before
cording to government reports. The
6 o'clock this evening and in less than
10 minutes Germany's new soldier­ Life of Certificate* Expected to He In­ minimum In Pendleton was 34.
president, who craves seclusion and
creased by Seasoning Before
Hood River. Although the recent ,
balks at the adulation of the friend­
apple
bloom was declared the lightest
Issued to Public.
ly mob. found himself engulfed in a
that
had
ever prevailed here, grow-1
vortex of frenzied men. women and
or*
In
all
parts of the valley are j
children.
Even the enthusiasm of mobiliza­
Washington. D. C. — The treasury raising their estimates on the 1*35
tion days in August. 1914. did not ap­ has made plans for printing more apple tonnage.
proximate in volume the popular ac­
Salem.
Southern Pacific agents
paper money in the next fiscal year
claim which today poured into the
(from all parts of western Oregon held
path of the nation's new executive, than ever has been turned out by the | a conference hero "Saturday prepara-
and although the proverbial Hohen- American government in any other । tory to the opening of tho 1925 tourist
zollern weather was denied him. nu 12 months in history.
| season. J. A. Ormandy, general pas-
merous manifestations of pre-war
Orders have been prepared for the ! senger agent, and F. E. Taylor were
sentiments and yearnings greeted him
purchase of 200.000,000 sheets of dis­ the principal speakers.
all along the route.
tinctive silk fiber paper, from each
McMinnville. For the first time in
The old colors were there in pro­
sheet of which eight pieces of cur­ several years one-third of May has
fusion and the air was redolent of
rency aro made. and. beginning July passed without any marriage licenses
mothballs, for thousands of family
1, the government bureau of engrav­ having been Issued in Yamhill county.
chests and wardrobes had yielded up
ing and printing will be run at maxi­ There were 13 Issued by the county
an assortment of gaily bespangled
mum capacity to meet the nation's clerk during April, however, as com-1
uniforms and other gala apparel
paper money requirements.
pared with only nine during April
which went into seclusion with the
Never in any one year before have year ago.
revolution of 1918.
,
the orders for money paper exceeded
Salem.
Linn Chapman of The
Through it all Field Marshal von
150.000.000 sheets. Coincident with an i Dalles, who has been engaged In the
Hindenburg sat rigidly beside Chan­
nouncement of the printing program orchard business since 1S90, reported
cellor Luther, his face immobile and
Assistant Secretary Dewey made
this week that tho 1925 prune crop I
marked by pallor, while his right hand
known that the treasury would take
was hard hit and that the yield would
automatically touched the rim of his
its first step July 1 toward building
be the lightest for 30 years. This
top hat as he responded to the vocifer
up a reserve of currency. By this
applied specially to Italian prunes, Mr.
ous greetings to his right and left.
method, it is hoped, the life of the
Chapman said.
With more than military prompt­
paper money may be prolonged. An
ness the president’s train arrived at
Corvallis. A pig feeding contest for |
opportunity will be had for "curing"
the Heerstrasses station, where Dr.
the money before it goes into active club members of Oregon. Washington ’
Luther’s 10-year-old daughter, dress
conducted by tho ।
service, and this process is expected and Idaho will
ed in white, stepped forward, and as
ito keep it from fraying, cracking and ' I'ortland Union Stockyards company
the field marshal alighted spoke a
otherwise going to pieces so easily. i at the livestock exposition this fall.
verse of welcome, and. bowing cour­
The life of the fl bill is now only ' Premiums for the event will amount >
teously low, handed to him a bunch
about eight months, whereas treas­ to *1075. provided by George A. Pier-1
of yellow roses. With a faint smile
ury experts figure it should be about son, president of the stockyards com-.
the field marshal thanked her and
a year. In pre-war days the average I pany.
then turned the flowers over to bis
dollar bill would wear about 14 or 15
Heppner. Much interest was mani­
daughter-in-law. to whom Chancellor
months. Mr. Dewey is convinced that fest In the local history contest held
Luther had presneted a cluster of
higher prices use of automobiles, the here. The high school and grades J
lilies of the valley.
necessity of commerce and industry
Von Hindenburg wore a black over­ and modern ideas and habits compel competed for honors In divisions. They ;
coat and carried a yellow cane. He the carrying of more money. Thus, were allowed to Include events hap- 1
shook hands with the other digni­ the silver dollar has fallen into dis­ pening up to the time of the flood .
taries. after which he bowed to the use and the dollar bill and bills ol in 1*03. Many pioneer settlers aided
the students by giving lectures at the
assembled reporters. At that mo­
larger denomination have come Into | school.
ment a mighty shout arose from the greater use with the result that they
top of the embankment where a great wear out more quickly.
i Salem.—Two wooden gavels made
crowd assembled. The shouts and
The treasury has not been able from a Washington elm for ornamen-
cheers were repeated with increased since the world war to print money ! tation of the desks of the presiding of-
volume as ho left the station to step fast enough to permit establishment I fleers of the senate and house of
into an automobile.
of a reserve. Mr. Dewey says the representatives of the Oregon legis-
bills no ware printed and placed in . lature were received Saturday by Sam
Bees Alight On Truck.
circulation within ten days, while ! A. Kozer. secretary of state. The 1
Oregon City. Or.—Winfred Knight tests have proved that they should : gavels were a gift from the board of t
of Portland, while on his way in a not pass through the printing stages 1 park commissioners of the city of
truck to a small settlement beyond it. less than a month and should be । Cambridge, Mass.
Corvallis, Saturday, was held up on “cured” or "seasoned” two or three i Eugene. A heavy rain that began ,
the main highway by hundreds of weeks longer. With the gigantic pro­ here early Sunday gladdened the
bees that were swarming. Seeing the gram outlined for the next fiscal year, ¡hearts of Lane county farmers. The
big truck coming the bees decided to it is his belief that current demands i rain continued for several hours ami,
alight on it. They first settled on the can be met and a return to the proper | again began to fall late In the after- j
windshield, and covered that so that process of handling the bills accom­ I noon. The ground had become very
Knight was unable to see the road plished.
*Jry and crops needed the moisture.
ahead of him. He was forced to stop
Th<- precipitation amounted to .40 of
Tax Appeal Hearings Set.
the truck. The bees then started to
an inch. All spring sown grain now'
settle on him. They first alighted on
I'ortland, Or.—The United States promises to yield well.
his hat. while others took position on board of tax appeals, created by the
Grants Pass The newest section of,
his shoulder, and within a few min­ revenue act of 1924, will hold hear­
utes his coat was completely covered ings in Portland from May 21 to June the Redwood highway to be opened to
travel was dedicated Sunday with a
with the insects.
4, according to word forwarded to the
Removing his coat Knight slowly Portland Chamber of Commerce, celebration at the mouth of Patrick's
brushed the bees from the windshield. which has been instrumental in ar­ creek on Smith river, 70 miles from
Grants Pass. A crowd of 600 from
The queen bee left the car at the ranging for the hearings here.
Grants Pass and Del Norte county
first “swipe” and the others followed.
Appeals from the government levies
were present for the exercises which
on incomes, excess profits, gifts and
marked the opening to travel of 14
New Death Ray Found.
estates will be heard at that time. It
miles of the highway paralleling Smith
Washington, D. C.—A new kind of is understood that a number of prom
river.
death ray, exceeding in its destructive inent taxpayers of this district are
capacity any previous device, rumor­ planning to make appeals to the board.
Albany. Delays In obtaining rights
Arrangements have been madi to of way for eliminating curves and low
ed or realized, was reported Saturday
to the commerce department as the hold some of the hearings in the old places In the Santiam highway be­
claimed accomplishment of a German postoffice building, while others will tween Albany and Lebanon are pre-!
inventor.
A publication describes be in the Oregon building.
saged, E. E. Humphlette’s statement
For the information of those In- of preliminary surveys shows. Mr. I
the invention, which is called “hello-
taeub,” with the claim that it waves Gristed, the firm of Leon Bullie;- and Humphlette has completed the survey'
are capable of paralyzing life for six Henry E. Reed has prepared a sum­ of the road but. said that because of
hours over a distance of 40 miles and mary of the opinions of the board af­ the low grade in many places land
to an altitude of more than 45,000 fecting interests in real estate from would have to be bought to build the
the date of organization of that body road up to grade.
feet.
I
to April 15.
Salem.
—
There
were
612
accidents
Life Policy Tax Exempt.
in Oregon due to Industrial activities
Botanical Feat Won.
Washington, I). C.—Proceeds from
during the week ending Thursday, ac­
Washington, D. C. — A full-blown cording to a report prepared by the
life Insurance policies totaling $474.-
000, left by Henry C. Frick for the flower of the vine aristolochla, bet­ state industrial accident commission.
benefit of his widow and daughter, ter known as the goose or pelican Of the 642 accidents reported 520 were
were not subject to the federal estate flower, has been produced at last in subject to the provisions of the work­
tax under the revenue act of 1918, the the conservatories of the botanic men’s compensation act, 120 were
supreme court held Monday. The garden. The vine is native to the West firms and corporations that have re­
court held that the section which im­ Indies and the feat of making it bloom jected the law, and two were from
posed a tax upon the proceeds of life here represents tpn years of effort by public utilities not subject to state
insurance policies as a part of the George W. Hess, director of the gar­ protection.
estate was effective only upon policies den. Thq head and back of a duck
Portland.—Softness of the lumber
written after the act went into force. appear outlined In white, In this pecu­
market continued during the last
liar flower, which is purple within.
week. The weekly report of tho West
Liquor Ads Prohibited.
Coast Lumbermen’s association, cov­
75,500,000 Marks Paid.
Balboa, Panama. — Mrs. Carter,
Berlin -Germany's payment to the ering returns from 123 mills, also re­
stenographer in the Canal governor's
office and Baptist churchman, ques­ reparation account made through the flected conditions none too satisfac­
tioned the right of the Canal post- agent-general for reparations during tory, with a marked reduction In sales
office to carry Panama newspapers April amounted to 75,500,000 marks. bookings. In the week ending May
with liquor advertisements, and the Of this amount Great Britain receiv­ 2 th* mills sold only 100,293,477 feet,
district attorney decided Sunday that ed 25,500,000 marks, ot which 16,500,- the lowest total reported in many
all papers getting second-class rates 000 marks were credited to payments weeks. In the previous week sales
aggregated 119,915,587 feet, and for
must from tomorrow delete such ad­ under the recovery act.
France’s share of the April pay­ some time they had not fallen below
vertisements, placing the Canal »one
ments was 33,000,000 marks.
110,000,000 feet.
under the 1922 prohibition law.
SCHOOL DAl]S
Mure Paper Money Than Ever
Before to Be Printed.
RESERVE IS WANTED
Something to
Think About
Your Last
Name
Bi F. A. WALKER
IS IT HERRICK?
THE LARKS ARE SINGING
O THOSE hopeful individual» who
keep their wiv on the tower» of
I'topin, glinting like gold in the far off
drenmy distance, give thought to the
golden rule nnd put It» fine precept»
Into actual practice, the lurk» are al­
ways singing.
These human» have their trials and
difficulties. "even as you and 1” but
with them all, they manage to wear a
smile of content.
They go about their duties, however
discouraging they may *«-vni. with a
cheerfulness Unit give» Inspiration to
the discontented nnd fault finding souls,
frequently losing their way and falling
In the mire of despair.
They know Intuitively when to apeak
and when to curb their tongues, for
they have learned tin most difficult
of nil arts, the art 'f »elf-control,
which the venerable
es will tell you
1» the tlr»t steppin -lone to worldly
«ucvu nnd an em - ing happlne»».
Hope never de rtw them even In
their darkest hours.
She holds her blitzing torch over
her head and blds them follow*.
So the gl<M>m of somber night 1«
transformed to day, nnd the trusting
disciples move ........ place to place,
confident of their ability to find their
way to the hills where the larks nre
Ringing mid the sky Is forever light
with glorious sunlight.
'Hie world owes a debt of gratitude
to these optimistic people which it
never i nn pay. nnd you nnd I being a
part of the world, nre likewise delin­
quent nnd possibly thoughtless of our
constantly Imrviislng obligation.
We nre too Helf-centered, too greedy
for gain, too faithless.
We brush »aide the weak In our
pursuit of earthly drosa and trample
them under our bust) feet, never Stop­
ping to look buck to see whether we
have hurt ........ . We forget that we
all nre of one flesh, mid If we have
Injured them, we have Injured our­
selves.
Every day the wise K<-eper of the
Book of Life Is culling on some debtor
to blot out Ids or her delinquencies,
■Iwnya hanging over Ids or her head
until the account Is paid In full.
If you have canceled your obliga­
tion nnd kept the faith, the day of
reckoning will have no terrors, for you
will find you nre ns free mid happy ns
the lurks singing In glndne*» nil about
you when the dawning Is rosy nnd the
air Is fragrant with the scent of flowers.
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name has been traced to a
name used In Anglo Saxon
day»—Hererlc, which 1* connected
with Erle and also with Richard, both
coming from a word meaning king or
prime.
tine thing I* certain and that 1» that
Herrick I* thoroughly English nnd Unit
It I* a very old surname. In tills
country the Herricks were among the
early settlers. Henry Herrick, a na­
tive of la»lce«ter, Englnnd. «eiiled In
Salem In KL». He wa» the »mi of Sir
William Herrick of Benn Manor,
Leicester. The name seem* to lie moat
usual In Lc|ee*trrshlrv, England,
which wa* apparently the cradle of
tho Herricks, and the name Is spelled
In counties* different way* In the old
record» there. Herh-ke nnd Heyrick
were usually employed method* In old
days and nre »till u*ed by »»me of the
English fmnllle»
Among the distinguished descend­
ants of Henry Herrick, the colonist,
were Jolin Herrick, educator, who was
president of the 1 nlvernlty of South
Dakota and the Pacific university of
Oregon; I>. Cady Herrick, prominent
Jurist; Ebenezer, who was representa­
tive from Maine nt Washington before
the Civil war; Joshua 11., also Maine
representnth e. nnd Samuel Herrick,
representative from New York.
In Englund there was an Interesting
old family of goldsmiths of the mime.
Sometime* they spelled It Hericke,
»«met lines Herrick nnd sometime»
Heyrick.
Sir William Herrick or
Herl- ke, bom In 1.M52, was the fifth
sun of John Heyrick nr Eyrlcke of
Lehester, w ho undoubtedly belonged
to the snme eonnei-tlon to which the
colonist, Henry ller'lck. belonged.
Sir William Herrick was a money
lender who won favor with kings nnd
nobles. A son of his named Richard
Herrick, born In IfitX), was warden of
Mnnehestcr Collegiate church, nnd a
nephew was Sir Robert Herrick, born
In 17»IH, well known English poet. His
father whs Nicholas Herrick, brother
of Sir William Herrick, also a gold­
smith.
The poet, Herrick, n contemporary
of SlinkeMiieare, wrote some charming
songs. Among them nre;
T HIS
fir»t
Gntbsr ys rosebud» w-hils ye m»y.
Old time 1» »till a-flylng.
—nnd
Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe. I cry,
Full nnd f«lr one»—come nnd buy!
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ASTOLD BY
Irvin S. Cobb
FIXING BLAME AT ITS
SOURCE
little story Ims one merit, lit
T HIS
least. Ot my own personal knowl­
edge I can testify that It Is true.
A tired business man In New York,
coming home after a particularly
enervating day, had occasion, or
thought he had, to speak sharp
words of reproof to bls eight year-old
Hon. He wound up by Bending the
younrster to bed without liny supper.
That night, stealing Into the young­
ster’s room to see whether he had
fallen asleep. Ids mother found him
wide awake mid very scornful of her
advances.
"Why, Jackie." she »aid, “you
shouldn't be surly toward me just
because your father scolded you.
I'rn not to blame."
“Yes, you are too!" stilted Jackie.
"You married the big stiff, nnd now
I got to stand for him!”
The young Indy across the way says
If we have a gasoline tax the corn,
puny certainly ought to pay It as It
costs the motorists enough already.
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