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Printer Ink Still Stick to Finger .
Gervais Priest Looks Back Upon
Reporter's Job With No Regrets
By LUUeL Bladsen
. , From police reporter to parish priest seems a long step. From
Chicago's Northside police reporter on the Tribune to parish
riest at Gervais, makes the step even wider. But "Butch Do
herty V is now the RevMa"HiI)ohert7t havinfc taken the
North American college in Rome
' in his stride. -
, Aftey laying down "The House
on Humility Street" which I had
began reading without even know
ing an Oregonian had written it,
I decided I must see this phenom
enal outgrowth of the world ' of
policehood . and newspaperdom
from one of Chicago's wilder wild
sections. ' " ' ' . " " ' '
" I' found Fr. Doherty seated at
lus. desk amidst mountains ot
books, papers, chairs, tables, what
nots, piled in the center of the
floor, serenely writing away while
decorators "Were ? papering and
painting about him. That, thought
I at once, is the Chicago newspa
per training.
"This is just business writing,",
he explained. MI really write most
and like to write best at night
Worked on a' morning paper, you
'"know : -'i
"But don't you miss It? Chi
cago, Rome,, then Gervais? Seems
sort of stretching the point a bit,"
I marveled. . .,
"No," he smiled, "I can say I
actually miss it or have missed it
I still write and I like to write."
' . Then I recalled brief paragraphs
from his first book. Perhaps al
most unconsciously they give in
dication of his reasons for "that
something about Gervais" -which
he liked best . '
- Of Chicago he wrote: I could
not kill, a rabbit The .sight of
blood sickens me. The squalor and
nastiness of Chicago dives, the
noise - of incessant carnival, the
forced gaiety and the glaring trum
peries, the bright lights and the
dim ones, all these things would
drive me straight to an asylum
if I had to endure them for any
great length of time."
During his time as police re
porter in Chicago he had the most
. amazing dreams of the beauty and
romance "of far distant Rome.
When he had actually seen Rome,
he wrote of it: J
Kama Disappointment
"But what had . happened to
. . Rome? . Surely this was not the
Eternal City. This street looked
quite like hideous Fullerton ave
nue back in Chicago Logan
Square. I had been looking at such
streets as this as long as I could
remember. Stores, theatres, hotels,
restaurants, a few modern church
es. Row. upon row of commercial
buildings and every one of them
painted yellow. So this was Rome!
The real. Rome, without a doubt
hut so different from the Rome of
our imaginations." !
. Then of Gervais he says:
. "The rain has - been . beating
against my window and pounding
on my roof for hours. I begin to
believe that the entire Pacific has
been lifted to the skies and spilled
upon my roof and doospteus I
am fortunate in having a great
fireplace in the living room of my
rectory. It is a very old-fashioned
. building connected with one of the
oldest churches in French Prairie
and it stands on the outskirts of
the little town of Gervais.".
-' . Tohse who may have missed
"The House on Humility Street'
which was published by Long'
mans, Green and Co., in 1942,
would do well to go back and pick
It up. Critics did not overdo at
all when they spoke of its "terse,
lively style."
"Second Book Dm .
This autumn, Doherty's second
! book,' a novel, "By Way of San
Francisco," will be published by
Bruce of MilwaukeeMt is a fam
j ily story with its beginning in San
i Francisco in 1898. The author took
ever a year in writing and in re-
! search to make sure of incidents
i and dates in the 80,000 word book.
. Father Doherty was born in Chi-
: cago where his father, "Butch
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now a private in the army, were
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REV. MARTIN DOHERTY
Doherty was a high police official.
Young Martin Doherty became
known as Butch V when he en
tered his work as police reporter.
The other "Butches" were the fa
ther, and three older brothers:
Edward, now feature writer on the
Chicago Sun and for Liberty;
Frank, police reporter with the
Sun; James, political writer on the
Tribune.
There are also William, Time's
reporter, and Tom, Herald, re
porter. -' , . . -I ..-...
The two sisters are Kathleen,
who is in the clerical department
of Chicago courts, and Ileene, a
teacher. While his father has been
dead for some years, his mother
still lives in Chicago and with her
two daughters spent the summer
at Gervais. 1
The idea of the priesthood first
entered young "Butch" Doherty's
head while he, to quote: "report
ed every squirm of the hapless an
imals caught in the police court
trap. Our public; demanded it so
all night long we gathered our
accounts of murders, rapes and
robberies, of holdups, shakedowns
and graft"
To Dr. Eugene Lawrence Hari-
gan, "a humanitarian who drop
ped in almost every night to talk
with us" he gives actual credit
for his decision: "He's dead now,
but hell live so long as I live be
cause so far as I know, my pre
sent life 'is entirely the result of
his kindly and generous sound ad-
visementv" a . j
It was the late Archbishop Al
exander Christie of Portland -who
finally accepted Doherty s: spon
sorship in Rome and paid his room
and school expenses there. In turn.
Doherty guaranteed that the rest
of his life would be given to priest'
ly labors in Archbishop Christie's
archdiocese.
After his studies in Rome, Do
herty returned to St. Faul sem
inary where he was ordained
priest of the Catholic church on
June 13, 1926. The following week
he was back in newspaper business
covering" the Euchamtic con
gress in Chicago for the Chicago
Evening Post
Finally, he came on to Oregon,
where his permanent work was to
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Saturday
PLUS CO-FEATUEE
: ALICE FAYE BETTY GRABLE
CARMEN MIRANDA GEORGE JESSEL
From The Statesman fs:Cbmmunity Correspondent
Amity Women
Visit Family
- Mrs. W. E. Yarns Takes
Son. to Station
After Leave , ' ;
AMITY Mr. and Mrs, ; Cliff
Munkers" of Cutler City ; were
guests att he home of his sister,
Bertha M tinkers and other rela
tives. j "
Mrs. W.- E. Yarns and daughter,
Mrs. Ethel Farmer and Mrs. W. E.
Yarns, Jr., took W, E. Yarns, jr,
torpedoman's mate second class
"US navy to Seattle after his leave.
Mrs. Yarns and daughter visited a
few days in Seattle . and 1 other
places in Washington with rela
tives.' Mr. and Mrs. Val Guilds of
Sheridan and . Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Colgan of Amity. Mrs. Guilds' par
ents, drove to Portland Tuesday.
Rev. and Mrs. G. E. Gillespie
and Paul, and Mrs. J. A. Breeding
and Mrs. A. W. Newby were
among those from Amity who at
tended the Central Willamette
Baptist association Tuesday in Sa
lem. .. j -; V.
Alfred Whitney who has been in
Anchorage, Alaska for ' the last
three years visited his aunt and
uncle, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Clark,
Monday.
Mill City Host
To Convention
MILL CITY The Mill City
Presbyterian church will be host
Sunday for the Santiam district
Sunday school convention. The
theme of the convention will be
Prayer" and the text Acts 1, 14.
Regular Sunday; school and
church services will be held with
Rev. Aaron Wolfe, local pastor in
charge. At 12:30 a basket dinner
will be served and the afternoon
program will start at 1:30 with a
song service. The devotional ser
vice will be led by Rev. Wolfe and
the business meeting will be in
charge of Leland Keitbly, district
president v
: .The convention address will be
by Rev. V. 1. Loucks of Scio and
the closing remarks by Rev Cook'
ingham. " Others taking part will
be Rev. Gene Robinson of Turner,
ReVWillard Buckner of Stayton,
Mr. ' and Mrs. George Clipf ell of
Lyons, and Alice Smith of Mill
City. ; Special numbers will be
presented by the Turner Metho
dist church.
be. Five years he was stationed at
Estacada, before, in 1939, he came
to Gervais.
t And while, says he, "no amount
of money could hire me to go back
to live in Chicago, once a news
paper man always a newspaper
man. I seem to get involved in
'covering many a Catholic event
ini Oregon and elsewhere.
Gervais itself is very proud of
its celebrity.
John Gcafiald. Paul Henrald
In "BETWEEN TWO WORLDS"
Jlu "BERMUDA MYSTERY"
A Great I
Double Bill.
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Charles . I.
BOYER
' Ingrid
' BERGMAN
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Valley Calendar
ntlDAY, OCTOBER
Sunnytiae community ciud. p.m.
SUverton PT A teachers reception.
Jefferson Missionary society of the
Christian church.
Salem Heights Women s club, Z pjn.
Community: halt ,
Macieay grange, a p.m. grange nau.
SATUKDAT,' OCTOBER t
. Quarterly' convention Marlon county
Farmers Union In Salem,
Silvertoia-Mt; Angel
To Hold Benefit
S1LVERTON Because the state
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does not; appropriate , sufficient
funds; the Mt" Angel cavalry, as
sisted by the .SUverton state guard
and the Legion posts from the two
towns will give a Thanksgiving
Eve dance at the SUverton ar
mory. Fred Prosser is-head of the
Mt Angel group and F. M. Pow
ell, captain of the guard at Sil
verton, is In charge of local ar
rangements.
All funds will be used to pur
chase wood for the armory.
State guard- members spent
Tuesday : night scrubbing , and
cleaning the local armory as it
has been turned over to their
care, Mr. Powell reports.
Red Cross Sewing Held
JEFFERSON Sewing for the
Red Cross Tuesday in the city hall
I was attended by ten women. This
was the first meeting, and quite
lot of work was done.
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Returns Home
From Nebraska
AUMSVILLE Mrs. Rose Led-
erer, who accompanied her grand
son, Tommy Skoglund, back to bis
home at Wasau, Nebr arrived
here at the home of her sister, Mrs.
O. I Brubaker, Tuesday. She will
make her home in Oregon.
C D. Boone has received word
of the death of his brother-in-law,
Thomas Smith of Portland. Mr.
and Mrs. Smith " visited 7 at the
Boone home here recently and his
death came as a shock to them
since they had considered him to
be in fairly good health. Mrs.
Boone has been ill and they were
unable to go to Portland for the
funeral. She is improving at this
date.
Mrs. J. E. Mountain of Albany
has written relatives here that her
daughter, Mrs. Mildred Strunk
has gone to Marshfield to work in
a photographer's studio. They are
former residents of this place.
Seattle Couple Visit
Bethel Relatives
BETHEL Mr. . and Mrs. A.
Sprang er have had as their guests
for a week his brother-in-law and
sister, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Sykes
and Mrs. A. E. Sykes, jr. all of
Seattle. A. E. Sykes is superin
tendent of the Associated Oil plant
there and this is his first vacation
in 4 three years. A. E. Sykes, jr.
is in the service and soon due to
come home on leave.
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Directs ky WALTER lJiG
. Sctms Ptey fcy El BaMiria anS ttZa BudtA22;t5a kj KSchstl Ftstter
V ani Ernest 1 PzM SvsstM tj a Visn ty Frtrkk Kazfitt Bmmas
New School Head
LtUANON James VV. King, sop-
erintendent of schools In Leba-
smb since last March. He sue
ceeded M. E. Cee, new with the
state . vocational edoeatlon de
partment at Salem. King Is
graduate of Pacific oniverstty
and took graduate work at the
University f Oregon. He eai
here from LaGrande and has
had IS years experience in Ore
gon.
Independence Woman's
Club Meets Tuesday
OAK POINT Independence
Rural Woman's club will hold its
first fall meeting Tuesday after
noon Oct. 10 at the home-of Mrs
C. C Comstock,' with Mrs. Orley
Brown as co-hostess.
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Falls Gty Has,
Many Guests 1
FALLS CITY Mr,' and Mrs.
Harry Stan of Valsetz were guests
of Dave Grant Sunday,
Otto Teal broke his arm in two
places the first of the week.
The members of .the WCTU
and three ; guests : met at a the
Christian church basement Tues
day for a covered dish dinner and
meeting. They tied a, quilt for the
Children's Farm Home and plan
to refurnish a room in one ot the
girls cottages for" a Thanksgiv
ing project. - '' " -vf i'-i:H:;':
Mrs. 'Burt Curtiss and children
of Dallas were guests of her sis
ter, Mr. and Mrs. John Calavan.
The young people of the Chris
tian church . met at the home of
the pastor, Rev. Dale Harter, Sat
urday, Mrs. Harter Is the Chris
tian Endeavor' advisor.
The Falls City mill, owned by
William Fern, has been sold. to
the Dallas milL . It provides a
right of way to the Dallas mill's
lumber. The Falls City mill is
dosed and several men are out of
work at present
Mrs. John Calavan surprised
her husband with a birthday din
ner at the Laura Horn home
Tuesday. Invited guests were Mr,
and Mrs. Richard PauV Mrs. B.
Y. Allen and Jimmie and Mrs
Horn.
Silverton Couple Home
From Canadian Visit
SILVERTON Mr. "and Mrs. L.
Kindblat returned Wednesday
from a 10-day trip to British Co
lumbia where they were guests of
his brother. j
" Mr. and Mrs. Lars Opedahl have
returned from a Vacation at Ocean
Park, Wash., where ) they were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Mc
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Signed Up
Kathleen CMauey (above). 21-year-old
red-headed daughter ef
the former silent film actor. Fat
0Malley, has been signed te a
sereesi contract by Universal
: stodie where her father wen his
first film role 2C years age. AF
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Bride (Althea Opedahl), their
granddaughter, and with Mr. and
Mrs. O. G. Larson (Martha Ope
dahl) at Portland.
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