The Monmouth herald., May 18, 1923, Image 2

LIVES LÖS!
IN CHILE QUAKE
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1 “ ! ' PIERCE IS ELECTED
Supreme Court
utes
be
naturalized
in
the
and Homeless.
the United States decided Monday, in
its first construction of federal stat-
. bearing on the subject.
TIDAL WAVE WRECKS
The de­
cision was the first delivered by Jus­
tice Sutherland as a member of the
court and was handed down in a case
Seaports Are Flooded and Dock» Are
Wrecked Ily
Water
Huge W all» o f
Houses Topple.
brought by Taka Ozawa, who In 1914
applied for citizenship in Hawaii.
The ruling is expected to attract
wide attention not only in the United
States
but
abroad,
notwithstanding
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S C H O O L DAIJS
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I «mipany has been awarded a contract
States and cannot become citizens of I _
this country, the supreme court of
: STATE N E W S !
IN BRIEF
| St. Helens. — The St. Helens Ship
United
Many Thousands Left Hungry
Of f ?
BÏ SAFE MAJORin * -
Two Old Cases Settled.
Washington, D. C.—Japanese can­
not
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¡ by the United States engineering de-
roindexter, Wssnington, Loses panment to bund two puedriver
•cows.
for U. S. Senate.
Redmond. — Central Oregon was
visited by its first snow of the season
Friday.
W hile the snow fell to a
-depth of four inches, it is disappear-
- ing rapidly because of a rise in tem-
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j perature. No damage to crops result­
ed as all perishable crops have been
Kxposition Measure Is Turned Down — I harvested.
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SCHOOL BILL CARRIES
Hawley, Sinnott Both Win,
While McArthur Lowes.
A lb a n y .-A saving of »14.777.48 will
j be made by Linn county in 1923, as
' a result of decisions reached by the
county budget committee.
This is
With returns lacking from imJv 83 j
amount which the 1923 tentative
is below the 6
of the 1725 precincts in the s ta te .lU x
below the 6 Per cent Umlt
Final action on the budget will be
W alter M. Pierce, democrat, had a
taken December 1.
lead of 34,348 over Ben W. Olcott
Salem.— There were a total of 958
for governor. The vote as far as
a-tests for traffic violations in Ore-
compiled Thursday night gave Olcott ■ gon during the month of October, ac-
98,219, Pierce 132,567.
cording to reports filed with the sec-
The figures represented the. com- i retary of state by T. A. Raffety, chief
plete unofficial returns in 22 coun inspector for the state motor vehicle
department.
Fines collected during
ties and incomplete returns from the
the month aggregated »8489.70.
other 14. The 83 precincts yet to
Sheridan.— The Sheridan Boosters’
report are distributed over the state.
club is negotiating wth the C. K.
Returns from 1609 of 1726 precincts, Spaulding Lumber company for the
including complete unofficial returns location of a sawmill here. It has
from 20 out of 36 counties, gave the been understood that Mr. Spaulding
compulsory school bill an affirmative expressed a proposal to locate here
if a suitable site could be found. The
majority of 14,646. The vote stood:
boosters are prepared to offer a site.
For the bill 112,760, against 98,114.
Klamath Falls.— Malin, the newest
The same precincts gave a majority
incorporated city in Oregon, held its
of 10,117 against the proposed 1927 first election Tuesday. It now has
exposition tax measure.
The vote a mayor, aldermen and other city of­
ficers, and is the only town in the
stood: For 80,745, against 90,862.
N. J. Sinnott, incumbent, continued county, aside from Klamath Falls to
have that distinction.
One of the
slightly to increase his lead over
newly elected aldermen Is a woman.
James Harvey Graham for representa­
Salem.— There were three fatalities
tive in congress from the second con­
in Oregon due to industrial accidents
gressional district. The vote from 443 during the week ending November 9,
out of 497 precincts gave Sinnott 21,- according to a report prepared by the
state industrial accident commission.
38, Graham 15,662.
Elton Watkins, democrat, has de­ The victims were August Ulrick, chas­
er, Olney; Andrew Bredberg, quarry-
feated C. N. McArthur for representa­
man, Olene, and W . R. Wallace, head
tive in congress by 1083. Watkins will rigger, Portland.
be the first democrat to serve as a
Garibaldi.— Friday was payday at
congressional
representative
from the Whitney company sawmill, and
Oregon since 1879. The vote for the over »30,000 was distributed among
congressional candidates of the demo­ the employes. There are close to 300
cratic and republican parties remain­ men employed in the mill at the
present time, but this number will be
ed close throughout the count, but
doubled soon by the addition of a
Watkins took the lead and held it
night shift. It is the intention to work
toward the last of the tabulation.
the big sawmill to capacity, now that
there is no scarcity of logs to keep
Seattle, Wash.— With returns tabu- it active at all times.
luted from 2358 of the 2446 precincts
Sheridan.— A fire-fighting organiza­
the failure of the court to make any
re­ reference to its diplomatic signific­
establishment
of
communications, ance. The cawe has been long pend­
Chile's earthquake catastrophe has ing In the supreme court, and last
been revealed in even greater magni­ term when reached for argument dur­
ing the conference on limitation of
tude than first reports indicated.
armament and far eastern questions,
It is estimated that at least 1000 its consideration was postponed at
were killed and many thousands left the request o f the department of jus­
in distress, needing food and shelter. tice.
No reference is to be found in the
In addition to heavy casualties of
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dead and injured at Copiapo and Co- decision to the "gentlemen’s agree­
C o p y r i g h t i H (MNkTURM. ^ISTsft}}
quimbo, it was reported Sunday that ment’’ under which Japanese immi­
600 were killed at Vallenar and the gration into the country has been
surrounding district.
Vallenar was regulated.
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The government did not object to
virtually destroyed and the survivors
the argument of the case when it was
were left In a critical condition.
It seemed certain that there have reached at this term and the court
been casualties In other towns and advanced and heard at the same time
villages around Copiapo to the south, the case brought by Takujl Yamashita
Will M. Maupin ¡
concerning which no news is avail­ and Charles Illo Kono against the
JOHN BLAKE
secretary of state of Washington. In
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able.
Already 24 bodies have been re­ the latter case the two Japanese had
H ELLO , POP!
covered at Coquimbo, where there been naturalized by a superior court
R E A L COURAGE
were 100 or more dead. A t Chanaral of Washington prior to 1906, the date
O u r Joy and
IS photograph!
" T o be feared o f a th in g and y e t do It.
a number were killed by falling of the present federal naturalization
pride—
ts w h a t makes the p rettiest kind o f a
statute, and at a time when it was
m a n ."—R ob e rt L ou is Stevenson.
houses.
Tlie picture of our boy who died!
I seem to hear, 'qiiij^t tears that
T F YOU have read “ Kidnaped” you
It was earthquake and tidal wave conceded section 2169 of the revised
remember the quotation. It was
drop
combined that accounted for the vast statute«, which restricts naturaliza­
spoken by Alan Breck, after the boy, Upon its face, his loving call
destruction in the provinces of Anto­ tion to “ free white persons" and those
David, had stood for a minute terrified, Come ringing down the darkened hall
fagasta, Atacama and Coquimbo. The of African birth or descent, was in
on the brink of a roaring torrent, and
To give me greeting: “ Hello, P o p l"
movement of the ocean was described full force.
then, still sick with the fear of It,
In the Ozawa case the court stated
as phenomenal. It gave evidence of
leaped across.
It seems but yesterday be died—
a terrific disturbance In the bed of that "there is not Implied— either in
To Alan Breck, the leap meant little. But yesterday we stood beside
the Pacific itself. There must have the legislation or in our interpreta­
It required no courage for him to
His bed and watched his eyelids
make It, for he knew very little fear.
been such a tearing at the bottom tion of it—any suggestion of individ­
drop
But for the boy, who did the thing he To sleep and wake in endless day—
of the sea that Immense quantities ual unworthiness or racial inferiority.
feared as he feared death, it was a But yesterday I heard him say
of water were Bucked through, caus­ These considerations are in no man­
real act of heroism.
With dying accents:
"Good-by,
ing a tremendous recession of the ner involved.”
The only real courage consists In
Pop
I"
involved.”
wuters along the Chilean coast.
doing the thing we are afraid to do.
Several times the ocean swept out­
The hulking prize-fighter o f the John Last night I dreamed he stood again
ward and came back in the shape of a
Sullivan type, who has as much Imag­ With face pressed to the window pane
ination as a grizzly bear, ts not brave.
great wave, flooding the seaports and
And watched to see my motor stop;
He Is sure he is going to win. It takes That when be heard me at the door
in some instances sweeping away the
no courage to go into a winning fight. He quickly toddled 'cross the floor.
water front. The violent effects of the
The bully Is never brnve. In fact
And met me, shouting: "Hello, Popl"
tidal waves were felt from Antofagasta
be Is always a coward. Feeling sure
Santiago, Chile.— The latest advices
on Ilia north to Valdivia on the south,
that his superior size will carry him Sometimes, when daylight fades to
covering about 16 degrees of latitude, from Vallenar Monday night said the
through, he picks quarrels as a pleas­
gloom
entire town had been destroyed. Only
or more than 1200 miles.
ant method of passing his time.
And ghostly shadows fill the room
three
houses
were
left
standing.
Thus
All types of craft lying In tho var­
Put tills same bully into the ring
I feel again the swelling Joy;
with a large hungry tiger, face him For, from the shadows around about,
ious harbors were swept on shore, far 600 dead had been counted, but
with a man who looks as If he enjoys I hear once more his Joyful shout
wrecked, or left high and dry, and at many of the streets had not yet been
scores of small ports, wharves and cleared of debris, under which addi­ of the state the lead of Clarence C. tion composed of two hose companies, shooting bulltes as much as the bully
In boyish tones: “ I’m papa's boy I”
enjoys thrashing his physical Inferiors,
quays were destroyed. Chilean naval tional bodies were expected to be Dill, democrat, over Miles Poindexter, a hook and ladder company and a
and all the courage oozes out of the When, after death’s cold, chilly hands
vessels in the harbor at Talcahuano, found.
republican, for United States senator chemical company was organized here bully.
Have loosed the last o f earthly bands
last night. The brigade, which is to
The advices said that it was ex­
about 300 miles south of Valparaiso^
You will never know whether you
in Tuesday's election was 4727, Dill
And caused life's weary load to drop,
be
put
on
a
city
payroll,
marks
the
when they felt the force of the waters, pected the total deaths in Vallenar
are brave or not till you find yourself
I'll feel it Is supremest joy
,
having 128,947 votes and Poindexter advent of a paid fire department for
In u position where you are afraid to
slipped their cables and proceeded out would reach 1000.
To meet, at heaven's gate, my boy
124,220.
Sheridan
and
replaces
the
volunteer
do something that ought to be done.
There was no way in which the
to the open sea.
And bear his welcome : "Hello, Pop !”
I f you do it, you have courage. If
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I system of the past. Sheridan's ex-
President Aiessandrl has ordered number of dead at other devastated
(C op yrigh t by W ill M M aupin.)
you
quit
you
haw
not.
Senator Lodge has a lead of about perience with disastrous fires has
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the various government departments points could even be estimated.
Never mistake a physical willing­
taught the necessity for more adequate
Consternation was growing as the 3000 in Massachusetts.
to take all measures possible for the
ness to take a chance, to attempt some
[How to Read Your
relief of the sufferers in the stricken extent of the quake toll was beginning
W. C. Hawley re-elected for congress protection,
dangerous thing, for the kind of cour­
I Char act er i st i cs
districts, those most sorely afflicted to be revealed. The number of dead in first district without opposition.
Medford. — The United States de- age that counts.
and Tendencies — tho
It
is
not
a
brave
but
very
foolish
lying between Coquimbo and Copiapo. also was growing hourly as belated
N. J. Sinnott, Republican, decisive- partment of agriculture is co-operat-
Capabilities or Weak­
The navy department has sent ships reports came in from the stricken ly defeated J. H. Graham, Democrat, ing with the southern Oregon experi- mnn who walks a tight rope over
nesses Thst Make fo r Success or
Niagara
falls.
It
is
a
hrnve
mnn.
who
provinces
of
Coquimbo
and
Atacama.
along the coast to aid In the work.
for congress in the second district.
ment station in testing in the east
Failure as Shown in Your Palm
not wanting to die, and knowing that
Tho two provinces contained a to­
! many of the types of pears which F. an operation may send him out of the
tal population of 300,000, and what
New York.— Governor Miller, repub­ S. Relmer. head of the station, collect- world, cheerfully goes to the tattle, to
part of this number were left home­
lican conceded the election of Alfred ; *>d in China on his trip there three tnke the one chance that may mean his C A R R I A G E A N D M O T IO N S O F T H E
HANDS.
less It was useless to attempt to es­
E. Smith, democrat, in the state con­ years ago. The department also recent- continued support of his w ife or his
timate. Mhny towns and villages of
, ly summoned him to Washington, D. dependents.
Five New
Often the timid school boy, who O O M E TIM E 8 a palmist or n student
populations of around 100 had not test for governor here.
j 0., at Its expense, to confer regard­
Paris.— A telegram in code, indicat­ been heard from and their fate will York newspapers, three of them repub ing the department's apple and pear fears to quarrel, and tries his best to ^ of palmistry is called upon to read
keep his peace with his fellows, gets the hand o f a person who enters the
ing that British officials and civilians be known only when communication lican, conceded the election of Smith propagation work.
the
name of coward. But when this room with his fists tightly clenched,
have begun fleeing from Constanti­ is fully restored.
at 7:30, while it was estimated that
same
boy has to fight for what he the elbows bent and the arms carried
Cottage Grove.— A 17-year-old wal­
nople, was delivered Sunday at the
Only the more Important places had
thinks is his honor, or to save a little In what one authority calls “bow-
the
governor
would
carry
the
upstate
nut
orchard
which
two
years
ago
World office In Paris. The message been mentioned in the advices thus
legged” fashion.
This Is typical of
by a plurality of 100.000 while Smith S brought but »60 for the year's crop boy from a bully, he becomes a very
was signed by u fictitious name, but far received and the reports pictured
a person of pugnacious disposition,
dangerous fighter.
would carry the city by about 500,000. this year has netted for the owner.
It was obviously sent by a correspond­ them as scenes of ruin and desola-
Real courage is not daunted by pain. and one M a t be careful and dlplo-k
making
the democratic plurality in the George Laying. »600, this price being The boy or the man who fights when matic In reading the hand and telling
ent of the New York World in tho | tion, with the inhabitants wandering
entire state about 400,000.
based on a valuation of 20 cents a ' he Is afraid to, stops being at'rnld o f one's conclusions therefrom.
Turkish capital. In whom the World aimlessly In search of food and camp
pound, which is the price for the | anything, pain or a black eye. or pun­
Many of us have met the Uriah
has every confidence. The message ; ing in crude'shelters. Many persona,
ishment. He fights because be has lleep type, who seems to be continu­
Illin o is Bon us Ahead.
lowest
grade
of
the
nuts.
The
or-
j
read:
i helpless from injuries, were in need
courage, and he usually wins.
ally rubbing one hand on the other In
Chicago.—The first 82 down-state chard had been given little care I n 1
"Harding left today for Alexandria of medical attention. Numerous ref-
There Is more real courage In this a sort o f washing motion. Here, also,
late
years
until
last
spring,
when
Mr.
on a British destroyer with tho intern ugees. fearing a repetition of the phe- precincts reporting on the soldiers'
world than you fancy. It Is behind all one must be careful, for slyness,
tlon of opening his main office at nomenon, continued to stay in the bonus referendum gave nearly three Laying pruned the trees but did not great achievement. I f you have It, adroitness, and even hypocrisy and un­
you are fortunate. But don't be sure, truthfulness are seen.
Cairo.”
i hills to which they fled when the to one in favor of the »55,000.000 bond get time to cultivate the land.
Issue, the figures being 21,788 for and
"Harding” apparently meant Gen- earth shocks began,
Pendleton.— With farm work for the | either that you have nr that you
The proud, stately person carries
oral llarlngton, British high commis-
The government was devoting Its 7850 against.
fall practically over and construction haven't It till yon have done or refused the left hand hanging at the side
to do something you were afraid to do. with the fingers held together, but
sloner in Constantinople. The mes attention to relief measures, hut ow
The same precincts gave 17,567 for work rapidly closing down, prospects
(C o p y r t ff h t by J o h r B l a k e . )
loosely,
often the right Is bent at
sage indicated that the serious situs ing to distances to be covered over the beer and light wines referendum for employment of labor in this see-
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the elbow, with the palm held upward
tion in the capital had forced him to the single railroad communicating and 8637 against it. Both measures tion of eastern Oregon are diminish
and the fingers closing loosely oter i t
leave the city and that he planned to with the different provinces the ar- are expected to win in Cook county.
tng and many laborers are moving to
We have here a person who is Im­
escape and establish headquarters at rival there of adequate food and med-
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the coast to find work in the mills.
pressed with, and values, his or her
C o ngress Race Close.
Calro.
j leal supplies was considered likely to
Building operations largely are finish­
dignity.
For several days rumors have been be a matter of several days
Some
'(C o p y r ig h t b y (h o W h o . i . , S y a d ic e t o . t a g .)
New York.— The Associated Press' ed and although there wilt be em-
coming from Constantinople to the naval vessels had reached suffering tabulation of the vote for the house ploy ment in Umatilla county for union
effect that war between the Turks and roast towns and others were on their of representatives showed at 8:30 labor which ts here permanently, there
allied forces Is imminent.
way thither with supplies.
o'clock Wednesday morning: Demo­ will be f»^w Jobs left for common
crats 178. republicans 171, Socialists labor.
Explosion Kills Four.
R ail F ares Retained.
1. Only twenty states were then com
Imbler — Union county is forging to I
Corning. N. Y.— Four men were kill­
Chicago— Announcement was made plete.
Two hundred and eighteen the front in boys’ and girls' club work,
ed and three Injured late Saturday here by the Ch i age A Northwestern members are reqaired for a majority. j mlgtng by the honors won and the
night as the result o f the exploeion and Union Pacific railroads that the
number finishing up their projects for
Postoffice is Raided.
o f a locomotive boiler at Moreland, same low round trip tourist fares as
the year. The Cove high school furn-
13 miles from here. The dead are were in effect last summer would be
Dublln.— The Rotund Rink postoffice ished the only 100 per cent dairy herd I
Frank Fenner and »'rank Harding of maintained for the summer season of was seised by armed raiders and burn­ record-keeping club in this part of
Corning: W. C. Thompson of Penn Yan 1923 to the Pacific coast. The an­ ed to the ground Sunday morning. eastern Oregon. In addition the stock |
and C. W. Hostrander o f Dresden. The nouncement said that inasmuch as The raiders overpowered the military, judging team from that school won a
locomotive waa one of two attached to the farce had stimulated summer trav­ secured £2340 from the building. The free trip to the state fair and thef? j
A LL OFF NOW
He: But In your letter you asked
a southbound New York Central el and since hotel rates had been re­ maternity hoepital next door was for carried o ff second honors in stock
me to call on a m atter of great Im­
freight train. The boiler was thrown duced to pre-war levels the tourist a time in great danger of being de­ judging out o f 13 counties participat-l
portance to you.
«00 feet ahead of the train.
fares would be retained.
stroyed.
/
ing.
Bha: Wall, you sae, Tom called
Santiago, Chile.— With
partial
Q UAK E DEATH LIST
GROWING RAP IDLY
Uncommon
Sense
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