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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1921)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Eventi of Noted People, Government! and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing, Major-Genoral Leonard Wood Mon day was elected head of the University of Pennsylvania by the board of trus tees. He was nominated by the board laBt month. William Jennings Bryan called Mon day on President Harding. He said he did not discuss policies or politics, but merely assured him of his person al regard and good wishes. Attorney-General Daugherty has de clared he would make a personal In vestigation Into the shooting of Major Alexander P. Cronkhlte at Camp Lewis, Wash., three years ago. Sixteen children were Injured, four of them seriously, In a panlo after the explosion of a firecracker during a motion picture performance In Valencia, Spain, Monday night A quantity of morphine and 415 cans of opium valued at $45,000 were seiz ed by San Francisco customs Inspect ors Tuesday In the baggage of the trans-Pacific steamer Siberia Maru. The American shipping board vessel Huron, managed by the Munson line, which will sail from Montevideo Wed nesday for New York, will be a "wet" ship, It was announced by the line. A general Investigation of the rail road situation was ordered Tuesday by the senate. A resolution offered by Chairman Cummins of the Interstate commerce committee was adopted without debate or division. Rigid restriction of immigration was recommended Tuesday by Secretary Hughes in official documents to con gress. They were interpreted by con gressional leaders as reflecting need for Immediate passage of the Immigra tion bill. Seattle bankers and business men welcome the prospect of consortium loans to China of 13,000,000,000 now being arranged in Washington, D. C, as they believe this will open up com merce between China and all Pacific coast ports. Women employed by the railroads in 1920 numbered 87,457, or 151 less than In 1919, and nearly 10,000 more than In 1918, said a report Issued recently by the Interstate commerce commis sion. Of these 13G3 were doing Bhop work last year. . With the death toll of the tornadoes and storms which swept six southern states Friday and Saturday remaining at approximately 100, relief work in the storm areas Is being pushed, with reports Wednesday Indicating imme diate needs of sufferers have been met. With a majority vote for "bone dry" prohibition in Ontario Monday estimat ed at 200,000, Rev. A, S. Grant, secre tary of the Ontario referendum com mittee, announced immediate steps to ward procuring measures against the manufacture of Intoxicating liquors In the entire domain. Twenty-nine new cases of pneu monia, six of Influenza and 13 deaths from the two diseases were shown In Tuesday's official report of the Chi cago city health department Health Commissioner Robertson as a result issued new warnings to beware of a new influenza epidemic Alberto Torrazas, son of Luis Ter razas, governor of the state of Chihua hua when Huerta was president was reported to have been taken prisoner and a sum of money estimated at be tween $20,000 and $25,000 taken when 12 men held up a Mexican Central train Tuesday afternoon north of Chi huahua City. The loague of nations committee of Inquiry into the deportations of wo men and children In Turkey has been organized. It ! composed of Mrs. Emma Cushman, nominated by the president of Robert college of Constan tinople, Dr. Kennedy, nominated by the British and Madame Cavils, nam ed by the French, Government expenditures for March Increased heavily as compared with February, according to the monthly statement by the treasury. Ordinary expenditures totaled $536,476,360, as against $351,102,035 for February, while publlo debt disbursements were $962,598,242, as compared with $79, 860,750 In February. WEEK $50,000,000,000 IS OFFERED Germany Agrees to Pay Six Billions Less Than Allies' Demand. Berlin. The ultimate total Indem nity which Germany agrees to pay the allies is 200,000,000,000 gold marks, ($50,000,000,000), as against 226,000, 000,000 ($56,000,000,000), demanded by the allies In their Paris terms. This has been positively Btated by those close to the government, al though the German counter proposals have not been made public here. Dr. Simons, the foreign secretary, did not present the new proposals to the relchstag Monday because of an understanding with the American em bassy and for the additional reason that the note to President Harding suggests that he feel free to query back for further Information or the elucidation of any point not clear, be fore submitting the note to the entente. The Germans suggested making the annuities in the payment of the re parations flexible, dependent upon the recovery of German industries. An in ternational loan was suggested, to be floated immediately for the purpose of placing ready cash at the disposal of the entente, but no sum is named. Germany expressed her willingness to pledge the customs revenues as guarantees and further offered to de liver manufactured articles to the allies with the understanding that Ger many will pay the producers and get credit on the Indemnities. Germany also offered immediate participation in the work of restoration in the devastat ed areas; labor and materials to be supplied by Germany and credited against the indemnities. No suggestion was made of Ger many's willingness to assume the In debtedness of the allied powers to the United States. MARINE STRIKE LOOMS FOR MAY 1 New York. Lines tending toward a nation-wide Btrike on May 1 of more than 175,000 unionized marine engi neers, firemen and seamen were close ly drawn here Monday when the unions refused to. consider a new con tract proposed by the owners carry ing wage cuts averaging 25 to 35 per cent. The engineers, through their na tional president, William R. Ryan, fol lowed their refusal by issuing a Btrike order effective that date If the cut is put into effect. The firemen and seamen, through Andrew Furuaeth, president of the International Sea men's union, said their men had voted on the matter and they, too, would quit work if the wage cut was made effective. Overseas and coast-wise American ships on the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Mexico will be Involved unless the differences are adjusted. At the close of the conferences it was anounced that Admiral Benson, chairman of the United States ship ping board has called a conference of representatives of the owners and unions at Washington. It was indicated-federal influence will be used to bring about an agreement and prevent a strike. Gas Kills One, Hurts 4. Boundbrook, N. J. One man was killed and four persons were overcome with phosgene gas which early Satur day began escaping through a leak in the tank of a large chomlcal company here and drove residents of the town to places of safety. Earl Fillraan, em ploye of the plant, died from conges tion of the lungs. Authorities sold that there was enough gas in the tank to kill the en tire population of Boundbrook. Robbers' Loot $20,000. Los Angeles, Cal. Jewelry and keep sakes valued by the owner at $20, 000 were obtained by four men Sat urday when they overpowered Edwin E. Pearce and his Chinese cook at the Pearce residence here, according to an estimate of his loss made by Mr. Pearce to the police. Mr. Pearce Is connected with oil and timber in dustries in Kentucky. Gasoline Cut 3 Cents. Chicago. A reduction of three cents a gallon In the price of both gasoline and kerosene was announced Monday by the Standard Oil company of In diana. The new prices become ef fective at once. The present price of gasoline Is 23 cents at the tank wagon and 25 cents at the filling station. The present price of kerosene Is 13 and 10ft cents. Retail Decline Is Slow, Washington, D. C Studies made by the department of commerce disclose that reductions in retail prices are not keeping pace with those in the wholesale trade, Secretary Hoover said Monday. The inquiry will be continu ed, but Mr. Hoover eald that so far as his department was concerned there was no apparent remedy for the situation. SUPREME IJ III U N G I L MEETING IS CALLED New German Proposals to Be Heard, If on Hand. AMERICA NOT INVITED Premiers Lloyd George and Briand, However, Declare U. S. Envoys Would Be Welcomed. Lympne, England. The allied gov ernments will be Invited to send repre sentatives to a meeting of supreme council next Saturday to consider the German proposals, if they are receiv ed in the meantime, and to determine upon Immediate collective action should the German proposals be un acceptable. This was decided upon by Premiers Lloyd George and Briand. If the British coal strike Is ended, the supreme council will meet In Paris; If the strike is not ended, It will meet in London. The United States government will not be Invited to attend, as It Is not a signatory to the treaty of Versail les, under which the supreme council meets, but both premiers would wel come the presence of American dele gates. They consider It unfortunate that the German government should not have sent a copy of Its latest pro posals to them, so that they might have begun an examination at this meeting. The conversations between the pre miers have turned upon the French project of occupation and economic control of more of the Rhenish West phallan region. Both premiers are quite agreed that the Ruhr coal fields must be occu pied if Germany continued to default in payments already due, or coming due May 1 and in case of failure to ac cept with satisfactory guarantees, the terms of the document signed at Paris January 29 by the allied governments. It was learned authoritatively that no advance on the Ruhr would be made until after definite decision and approval by the supreme council. Pre miers Lloyd George and Briand re garded Germany's note concerning her willingness to undertake reconstruc tion of the devastated regions as a dis tinct concession, satisfactory so far as It went. M. Briand recalled, however, that France has repeatedly applied to Ger many for certain ma'terials for the work of restoration, without getting an answer. FINAL VICTORY IN BASIN CASE WON Washington, D. C The Interstate commerce commission Saturday de nied the application of the Puget sound cities for a reopening of the case on rates on grain from the Snake river basin. Schedules recently prescribed by the commission increased rates 5 per cent to the Puget sound cities and decreas ed them 5 per cent to Portland. The commission's order, after re viewing the title of the case, read In full as follows: "Upon further consideration of the records In the above entitled proceed ings and of petitions for rehearing fil ed on behalf of the public service com mission, state of Washington, on be half of the port of Astoria, Astoria chamber of commerce and the city of Astoria, and on behalf of certain Seattle, Tacoma and Everett Wash., Intervenors, it is ordered that the said petitions be,. and they are hereby de nied by the commission." Coal Cars in Demand. Washington, D. C An Increase In the demand for coal cars reduced the number of idle freight cars through out the country from 507,427 for tne week ending April 8 to 499,479 for the week ending April 15. the Association of Railway Executives announced. The number of cars remaining idle other than those used for coal remained about the same.' Idle cars of all kinds increased in the eastern and north western territories. Only Citizens Get Jobs. Hoqulam, Wash. Decision was made at a meeting of the Four L local In the Eureka mill with Manager Shaw of the plant to employ only American citizens hereatfer, first papers not be ing sufficient Old employes who have first papers and show the right spirit regarding second papers will not lose their Jobs, but no new men will be taken on who have not full citizen ship, It Is said. Copyright. All Eights Reserved "I'LL 8TOP HI Ml" Synopsis. Dissatisfied became of the seemingly barren outlook of his poaitlon aa a school teacher In a Canadian town, John Harris deter mines to leave It, take up land In Manitoba and become a "home steader." Mary, the girl whom he loves, declares she .will accompany him. They are married and aet out for the unknown country. They elect a homestead, build a home and begin their life work of mak ing the prairie fertile farm land. Returning from selling his first crop, Harris finds his wife despon dent almost to Insanity from lone liness, and with the Immediate ex pectation of becoming a mother. A son Is born to them, to whom they give the name of Allan. The story now Jumps forward twenty-five years. Harris Is prosperous and all for getting rich. Mary Is toll-worn and saddened over the change In her husband. Allan works with his father. Beulah, the pretty daugh ter, Is rebellious at the shut-In farm life. Jim Travers Is an un usual hired man. And he Is se cretly In love with Beulah. Harris and his son clash with Jim and he leaves. Beulah quarrels with her father and prepares to leave home secretly. CHAPTER VII Continued. 10 "Mother, this Is too much 1" the girl exclaimed. Her mother started and looked up. "You're leaving us, Beulah?" she asked. There was no reproach In her voice, nor even surprise, but a kind of quiet sorrow. "I couldn't let the poor brutes suffer," she explulned. "Yes, I'm leaving," said Beulah. "I can't stand It any longer." The mother sighed. "I've seen It coming for some time," she said, at length. "I suppose It can't be helped." "You're so passive," returned the girl, with a touch of Impatience. "You make me want to fight. Of course it can be helped, but It can't be helped by always giving In." "Your father has met one of his own mettle at last," said the mother, and the girl fancied she detected a note of pride, but whether of father, or daugh ter, or both, she could only guess. "Well, It's all very sad. Your father Is a good man, Beulah. ... I should send you back to your bed, but some how I can't I I don't blame you, Beulah." She had finished the last cow. Beu lah helped with the palls of milk, and the two women went back to the house together. When Mary had washed her hands she took her daughter's face be tween her palms and kissed her on the cheeks. Slowly Beulah's arms stole about her neck, and It took all the steel In her nature to prevent surren der. "Stay till morning, Beulah. Your father may be disposed to give and take a little then, and you'll do the same, won't you? ... Oh, my girl, don't break up our home like this I" "You can't break up what yon haven't got. Aside from you, why should I call this place home? I work here, and get my board and clothes. Well, I can work other places, and get my board and clothes. If I've got to be a cog In a money-making machine, I will at least choose the machine." "What plans have you made? Where are you going?" "Haven't made any plans, and don't know where I'm going. But I'm going. At present that's enough. The plans will come along as they're needed." "Have you any money?" asked the mother, with a brisk effort at cheer fulness. She was already planning for her daughter In the new world she was about to enter. "Enough to start me. That's all I need. I can enrn more. It's not work I'm afraid of, although I suppose fa ther won't be able to see It that way. He'll put all this down to laziness and obstinacy. It's neither. It's Just a plain human craving to live." "I sometimes wonder whether Til be able to stand It through to the end," her mother whispered, somewhat fearfully, as though frightened by the admission. "I've I've seen It coming with you, and I can't help feeling that perhaps this Is only the beginning." "Oh, mother, If yon should!" cried the girl. "That would do It that would open his eyes. He'd see then that there Is something In the world besides wheat and cows, after all. If you would come If you would only come too, things would be different." "But I couldn't do that" said the mother, after a silence, and as though speaking with herself. "He's my hus band, Beulah. You don't understand." They talked then, In secret, sorrow ful confidence, of many things, things for their ears only, and the gray was returning In the northern sky when the girl again left the house, and this time swung resolutely down the road that led to Plalnville. Her heart was now at rest, even at peace. In the sacred communion of that last hour she had come to see something of her mother's problem and sacrifice; and although she was going out Into the world alone, she felt that somewhere, some time, was a solution that would reunite the broken family and tune tftelr varying chords In harmony. From an unhappy sleep In his room Author of -J THe Cowlinchen"lc. Illustration by Irwin fiyert upstairs John Harris was awakened by the whine of the cream separator. A quiet smile stole across his strong, still handsome face. "Beulah hus de cided to be sensible," he whispered to himself. In the morning the nnrrls house hold was astir early as usual. The farmer and his son gave their atten tion to the horses while Mary pre pared breakfast, and It was not until they were seated at the table that Harris noticed his daughter's absence. "Where's Beulah?" he demanded. "I don't know," his wife replied. "Ain't she up yet?" ' "I don't know." Harris rose from the table and went upstairs. He entered his (laugh ter's room without knocking. The bed had nq been slept In, aud a strange apprehension suddenly tightened about his chest." He returned quickly to the kitchen. : . "Mary, I want to know where Beu lah is." "I can't tell you where she Is, John. She left here last night." "Left here? Do you mean that she has run away?" "Not Just that, perhaps, but she has gone, and I'm not looking for her back for a while." The mother's voice was dry, and she talked In the restraint of subdued emotion. "And you knew she was going?" "I knew before she left. I didn't" "No. You didn't think It was worth mentioning to me. Just a matter we could talk about any time. I suppose you thought I wouldn't care." "Well, you didn't seem to care very much, John. You gave your orders and went to bed. Beulah could obey or get out. You might have known she had enough of your own spirit to soon settle that question. She settled It Just as you would have settled It If you had been in her place." "Oh, of course, I'm to blame for the whole thing," said Harris, and his throat was thick as he spoke. His daughter was very dear to him, and that she would leave home had never entered his head. Why should she? Wasn't he a good father? Didn't he give her a good home, with plenty to "Now, John," She Pleaded, "Don't Be Rash." eat and wear, and a little money to spend from time to time, and no ques tions asked? What more could a man do than that? Already his heart was crying out for his daughter the cry of broken strings which never knew their strength until they broke. And, lest gentleness should be mistaken for weakness, he clothed his real feelings In sharp words to his wife. "Of course, you must take her part I suppose you advised her to go. It was an awful thing for me to tell her she must do her work, but a small thing for her to run away. Well, I hope she likes It If she thinks I'm going to hitch up a buggy and go chasing around the neighborhood, beg ging her to come back, she's mistaken. She's gone of her own free will, and she can come back of the same, or not at all." "I wouldn't look for her back too soon," remarked Allan. "Looks to me as though this thing had all been fig ured out ahead. Jim went yesterday morning; Beulah goes last night Just a chance If they ain't married by this time." "So that's it, is It?" exclaimed Har ris, Jumping up from his untouched breakfast There was a fierce light In his eye and a determination in his face that boded 111 to any who op posed him. He seized his wife rough ly by- the shoulder. "And you were a party to this, were you? You you wouldn't even stop at that? Well, Til stop It I'll stop him, if I do it with a bullet. I'll show him whether any any hired man can cross me In a matter of my own family.' HU wife had risen, and was cling WJJUN& 111 ing to Ills wrists, half for protection, half In suppllnnce. "Now, John," she pleaded, "don't be rash. You don't know that Heuluh's gone with Jim, and you haven't a word of proof of It." "Proof I What more proof do I want? When did ever Beuluh carry on like this before? Didn't she al ways do as she was told? And haven't they been thick as molasses this while back? Wasn't It over wasting time with her that Jim got fired, anl not a word of admission of the reul facta from him? What more do you want . than that? You thought I wouldn't be Interested in that, either." ' "I didn't know It," she protested,, "and I don't believe it. I don't be-, lleve either Beulah or Jim had any such thought In their head. But even If they did, Jim Tvers Is as decent a young man as there Is In I'lalnvllle district, and you've nothing to be ashamed of except your own temper, thut drove them away In the way they went." "I won't listen to thnt kind of tulk from you any longer," said Harris sternly. "I'll chase the young repro bates to earth, if it takes all summer. And unless you can clear yourself of being mixed up In this well, there'll ' be something to settle on thnt score, too. Hitch up the drivers, Allun, and be quick about It." "You're not going to leave your plowing, are you?" asked his wife. The words sprang to her Hps without any nilslntetit. It was such on unusual thing for her husband, on any account, to leave tne farm work unfinished. The' practice on the Harris homestead' was work first, all other considera tions second. "That's enough of your sarcasm," he snapped. "I would think when our name is threatened with a disgrace like this you would be as anxious to defend It as I am. How is it you go back on me In a moment like this? You're not the woman you once were, Mary." "And you're not the mnn you once were, John," she answered. "Oh, can't you see that we're Just reaping what has been sown the crop we've been raising through all these years? Beu lah's very life has been crying out for nctlon, for scope, for room, for some thing that would give her a reason for existence, that would put a purpose Into her life, and we've not tried to answer that cry. I blame myself as much as you, John, perhaps more, be cause I should have read her heart I should have seen the danger signals long ago. But I wns so busy, I didn't think. That's the trouble, John, wa've been so busy, both .of us, we haven't taken time to keep up with her. We've ; gathered some property together, and ' our cares have grown In proportion, but that which was more to us than all the property In the world we have lost because we valued It less." The . tears were slowly coursing down her ; cheeks, and her thin, work-worn arms were stealing about his neck. "Don't think, dear," she whispered, "that I'm indifferent, or that this hurts me less than you, or that I would shield my--self from one Iota of my Just blame, but let ns face the fact that It has been our mistake ralher than Beu lah's." He removed her arms, not ungently. "I never thought It would come to this," he said. "I thought I humored -her every way I could. As far our hard work well, work makes money, and I noticed Beulah could spend her share." "You don't understand,, John. It wasn't the work, it was the making a god of work, and giving It so much of our lives that there was none left for her. That's why she looked some where else If she has looked some where else." "Allan works as hard and harder than ever Beulah did, and Allan doesn't feel that way about It." "That's true," she admitted, "but Allan's ambition Is work. He works and Is satisfied, hut Beulah thinks, and Is not satisfied. It's the difference In their nature, and we didn't take it Into consideration." In every phrase she tried to link his blame with hers, that the burden might unite Instead of separate them. "If she'd thought a little more be fore this mad prank it would have been better for everybody," he said. "Well, she'll have plenty of time to think yet." He stepped to the kitchen door, and from the nail above took down the repeating rifle. .. "You're not going to take that I" she cried. "Don't take that, John. It can't possibly do any good, and it may do a lot of harm." "I won't do anything foolish," he answered, "but I'll take It along, Just the same." Allan, vith the drivers harnessed to the top buggy, was now at the door. Without saying good-by to his wife Harris Joined him, and the two set oft on their search. Almost at the gate they met George Grant who had : come over to haul water for another day's plowing. He Rtopped in some surprise at the turnout "I guess we won't be plowing to-( day," said Harris, ne hesitated be fore George's questioning look, and a certain sense of family shame came upon him. But It was evident that he could hardly search for Beulah with out mentioning her departure, and he might as well make a clean breast of the affair. "My Dear Mother. Her I am in the shadow- of the Rockies." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Literally. "Do yon think the wrestler we taw practicing will win the contest?" "Well, he has a fighting chance" ...