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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1922)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily Newsltems. COMPILED FOR YOU Event of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Marshal Joffre, In the name of the French government, Tuesday decorat ed with the insignia of officer of the Legion of Honor, Samuel Hill of Se attle, who escorted the marshal across the United States on his recent trip. The season of aealion hunting is on, and William Hunter, who last year contracted with the state of Oregon to slaughter the animals along the Oregon coast, Btarted at the Cape Blanco reef, killing in his first raid 227. Legislation is being prepared, with President Harding's sanction, which will return to approximately 30,000 Germans and Austrians property taken over during the war by the alien prop erty custodian in amounts of $10, 000 or less, President Harding has given formal approval to plana of republican lead ers in the house to bring the admin istration ship subsidy bill to a vote at this session immediately after the tariff bill has been sent to conference by the house. Removal of Dr. C. Ellsworth of Pen dleton, Ore., said to be an acknowl edged member of the Ku Klux Klan, from the state board of chiropractic examiners for the "good of the sery Ice," was announced by Governor 01 cott Monday morning. To meet conditions which its friends declared have been emphasized by the women's suffrage amendment, the house Tuesday by a vote of 206 to 9, passed a bill which would open to alien married women substantially all naturalization and citizenship rights enjoyed by alien men. President Harding's tentatively pro jected Alaskan trip this summer has been abandoned, It was announced de finitely Tuesday at the White House. The president was Bald to regret great ly that he saw no possibility of leav ing Washington under prevailing con ditions of public buslnesa. Senor Marconi, wonder man of wire less, has announced the Invention of what might be termed a radio search light, by means of which radio waves, which can bo reflected like light waves, may bo sent in a given direc tion In a beam, instead of being scat tered to all points of the eompasB. PiaaBter for the striking railway unions and unfortunate results for their membership was predicted to fol low tho threatened walkout, on which a strike vote is now being taken by nine railroad organizations, in a letter from Hon V. Hooper, chairman of the railroad labor board, to the union loaders Tuesday. . The sheriff's ofl'lco at Los Angelea gets all Borta of jobs, but a writ of attachment that came In Tuesday caus ed it to pause for a moment. The writ directed the sheriff to take and safely keep one den of alligators and one tunk of performing senllonsr all the property of a show that had gotten Into financial Bhoals. A woman has been nominated for United States senator by n major political party for the first time in the history of the country. ThlB be came apparent Tuesday when returns from half the precincts participating in Monday's primary election showed Mrs. Anna Dickie Oleson had cnptur od the senatorial nomination of the democratic party In Minnesota from two mule opponents. l he administration Is considering the malter of decreasing second-class postal rates, It was Bald Tuesday at the White House. Considerable dis cussion was given to the subject at the cabinet nioetlng and President Harding and Postmaster-General Work are Inclined to believe that at least a part of the increase in the second class rates made during the war should now be removed. , Hev. Donald D, Stewart, well-known throughout California as a temperance worker, credited with having caused the elimination of segregated districts from a number of towns of the state, and author of the song "We'll Make California Dry," was arrested near Sierra Madro20 milea northeast of Los Angelea, Tuesday. It is charged that ho had committed bigamy in sev eral states and had swindled his wives out if thousands of dollars. RAIL MEN FAVOR WALKOUT 40,000 Union Ballots 'Indicate Over whelming' Sentiment. Detroit, Mich. Early returns on the strike vote taken by the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Railway Shop Laborers, following the recent wage cut ordered by the United States railroad labor board, indicate an "overwhelming ma jority" in favor of a walkout, condi tional, however, upon similar action by other craftB affected by board reductions, it was announced here Monday night at the general head quarters of the maintenance men. Tabulation of the ballots started Tuesday morning, and it was said about 40,000 had been checked. It was added the vote was considered "fair ly representative." Exact figures were withheld under instruction from E. F. Grable, grand president, now In Chicago conferring with the leaders of other unions whose membership has been affected by wage cuts and who, it was said, would con sider taking some joint action in pro test. Some of the membership, according to officials, favor striking irrespective of the action taken by other unions but the greater percentage, it was em phasized, favors a strike only in the event other workers participate. Mrs. Len Small Dies. Kankakee, 111. Mrs. Len Small, wife of Governor Small of Illinois, died Monday morning. Mrs. Small was stricken with ap oplexy Saturday night during the ex citement incident to the celebration by friends and fellow townsmen of the governor's acquittal that after noon at Waukegan, III. With her at the time of her death were the gover nor and their three children, Leslie and Budd Small and Mrs. A. E. Ing lesh, all of Kankakee. The long trial of nine weeks at Waukegan, where the governor was charged with conspiracy to defraud the state of interest on public funds during his term as state treasurer, several years ago, had been a heavy strain both on the governor and his wife. Mrs. Small, however, had borne up under the strain exceedingly well, it had appeared, until she was stricken and sank into the governor's arms as the nolae of the celebrators filled the neighborhood about their home at the joyous homecoming Saturday. Heat of Desert Kills Three. Brawley, Cal. "Death from heat prostration" was the verdict reached by a coroner's Jury here Monday at an inquest over the bodies of three men who died in the desert a few miles southeast of Nlland, near the Southern Pacific main line, laBt Saturday. The men were J. J. Everharty and Henry C. Brown of Lob Angeles and David Wilcox, an aged prospector, who had lived In many western mining districts. WHoox's body was found about ten miles from Nlland beside a small wagon drawn by two burros, which were standing patiently In the intense heat. Everharty's body was found in an automobile about six miles from Nihuul, and a short distance away was nrown, still nlive, but died soon after arrival. It was estimated the temperature where the deaths occurred was be tween 132 and 152 degrees.' Schooner Frozen Tight. . Nome, Alaska. The schooner Teddy Bear, missing nearly eight months and believed lost, Is frozen in at Poten river, 12 miles south of Emma, East Cape, Siberia. All on board are well and waiting for the ice to clear out of the river before returning to Nome. This Information was telegraphed to Captain Itoss of the local coast guard unit Monday by Captain Cochran of the United States const guard cutter Bear. Lion Beside Tot's Crib. Eureka,. Cal. Mrs. J. Crispo, wife of a homesteader at Blgbar, awoke Sunday morning to discover a large mountain lion crouched beside the crib where her year-old child was sleeping. The Hon had entered through the open door of the tent house. Mrs. Crispo screamed, awakening her hus band, who seized his rifle and fired two shots at the lion. The Hon ea capod, Quick Decision Urged. San Franclaco. A call to "every merchant and shipper in California" urging them to go on record Imme diately regarding the threatened separ ation of the Southern Pacific and Cen tral Pacific systems was Issued here by Wallace M. Alexander, prealdent of the chamber of commerce. SUM L German Minister is Victim of Assassins. SEVEN BULLETS HIT Hand Grenades Also Thrown by Mur derersYoung Republic Facing Serious Situation. Berlin. Dr. Walter Rathenau, Ger man foreign minister, and more close ly identified than any other German with the efforts for rehabilitation of his country since the war, was shot and killed by two or more unknown assassins while on his way from his residence Saturday morning to the foreign office. The minister was subjected to a veritable hall of bullets, one of them striking him in the throat and pass ing upward to the brain, while others struck him In various parts of the body. Hand grenades also were thrown, almost wrecking the car in which Dr. Rathenau was riding and inflicting further injuries on the min ister. Chancellor Wirth's government mar shaled the nation's elements to the de fense of the young German republic and organized labor, represented in both socialist parties, again was first to buckle on the armor, just as it did during the Kapp revolt. An nouncement was made that the gov ernment would establish extraordinary courts for the trial of nationalist plotters and that a state of emergency for Prussia would be proclaimed. All regimental reunions and mili taristlc demonstration are to be pro hibited. Yet, despite vociferous cries of "long live the republic," which re sounded through the relchstag cham ber at the close of a memorial ses sion to Rathenau Saturday, thought ful men of all ranks and parties were silently but gravely apprehensive for the nation. While the heat of resentment and partisan feeling has not yet suffi ciently cooled to warrant a sure ap praisal of the direction in which the political effect of Rathenau's assas sination will spread, yet this much 1b certain the government Is facing a far more precarious situation than it did when nationalist bullets struck down Erzberger In the Black forest 10 months ago. The emotion which marked the brief addresses of Chancellor Wirth and President Loebe before the relchstag reflected sentiments which were shar ed by many others, while the rioting of the radicals throughout what was to have been a decorous memorial to the dead foreign minister reflected the feeling of unrelenting vengeance vow ed In behalf of the German proletariat. Never did the relchstag witness such scenes of turbulence and execrations. Dr. Karl Helfferioh, the nationalist leader, who attacked Dr. Rathenau in a Bavage speech in the relchstag, sat curled up in his seat far to the right of the house. He appeared to be in a very depressed and somewhat fear ful state. Army of 137,000 Indorsed. Washington, D. C The house Fri day night concurred with the senate in fixing tho size of the army at 125, 000 enlisted men and 12,000 officers. The conference report on the army bill, which fixes its strength between .aenato and house figures, was adopted by the house 175 to 39, without dis cussion. While there were other items in the report to be accepted, including a senate appropriation of $7,500,000 towards completion of the Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals, the enlisted and of ficers' personnel totals now have paas ed the legislative stage and only wait the president's approval. Chinese City Stricken. Shanghai. An outbreak of pneu monia plague in Foochow 1b report ed by Rev. Dr. C. M. Lacy, arriving here from Foochow Saturday. The plague has not yet reached epi demic proportions, he said, but has al ready taken the Uvea of two medical missionaries. Dr. Edmond .Fellows Lawson and Dr. Marcus McKenzle contracted the disease while attend ing the sick and died. Five Suffocate In Mine. Hartford, Ark. At least five mem bers of a picnic party wre suffocated Sunday in an abandoned mine near here. Three others, who attempted to rescue the victims, were overcome and were reported to be in a serious condition. REPU8 SHAKEN Mary Marie Copyright by Eleanor H. Porter FATHER AND MOTHER SYNOPSIS. In a preface Mary Marie explains her apparent "double personality" and just why she is a cross-current and a contradiction;" she also tells her reasons for writ ing the diary later to be a novel. The diary Is commenced at Ander sonvllle. Mary begins with Nurse Sarah's account of her (Mary's) birth, which seemingly interested her father, who is a famous astron omer, less than a new star which was discovered the same night. Her name is a compromise, her father Insisting on Abigail Jane. The child quickly learned that her home was in some way different from those of her small friends, and was puzzled thereat. Nurse Sarah tells her of her mother's ar rival at Andersonville as a bride and how astonished they all were at the sight of the dainty eighteen-year-old girl whom the sedate pro fessor had chosen for a wife. CHAPTER II Continued. 3 "An your- ma poor little thing! I couldn't think of anything but a doll that was thrown in the corner because somebody'd got tired of her. She was lonesome, an' no mistake. Anybody'd be sorry for her, to see her mopin1 round the house, nothln' to do. Oh, she read, an' sewed with them bright colored silks an' worsteds ; but 'course there wasn't no real work for her to do. There was good help In the kitchen, an' I took what care of your grand ma was needed ; an' she always gave her orders through me, so I practical ly run the house, an' there wasn't anything there for her to do. "An' so your ma just had to mope it put lone. Oh, I don't mean your pa was unkind. He was always nice an' polite, when he was In the house, an' I'm sure he meant to treat her all right. He said yes, yes, to be sure, of course she was lonesome, an' he was sorry. 'Twas too bad he was so busy. An' he kissed her an' patted her. But he always began right away to talk of the comet; an' ten to one be didn't disappear into the observa tory within the next five minutes. Then your ma would look so grieved an' sor ry an' go off an' cry, an' maybe not come down to dinner, at all. "Well then, one day things got so bad your grandma took a hand. She was up an' around the house, though she kept mostly to her own rooms. But of course she saw how things was goln'. Besides, I told her some. 'Twas no more than my duty, as I looked at It. She Just worshiped your pn, an' naturally she'd want things right for him. So one day she told me to tell her son's wife to come to her in her room. "An' I did, an' she came. Poor lit tle thing! I couldn't help beln' sor ry for her. She didn't know a thing of what was wanted of her, an' she was so glad an' happy to come. You see, she was lonesome, I suppose. "'Me? Want me? Mother Ander son?' she cried. 'Oh, I'm so glad!' Then she made it worse by runnln' up the stairs au' bouncin' Into the room like a rubber ball, an' cry in': 'Now, what shall I do, read to you, or sing to you, or shall we play games? I'd love to do any of them !' Just like that, she said it. I heard her. Then I went out, of course, an' left them. But I heard 'most everything that was said, just the same, for I was right in the next room duslln,' nnd the door wasn't quite shut. "First your grandmother said real polite she was always polite but in a cold little tolee that made even me shiver In the other room, that she did not desire to be read to or sung to, and that she did not wish to piny games. She had called her daughter-in-law In to have a serious talk with her. Then she told her, still very polite, that she was noisy un' child ish, an' undignified, an' that it was not only silly, but very wrong for her to expect to have her husband's entire attention ; that he had his own work, an' It was a very Important one. He was going to be president of the col lege some day, like his falher before him ; an' It was her place to help him In every way she could help blra to be popular an' well-liked by all the college people an' students; an' he couldn't be that If she Insisted all the time on keepln' him to herself, or look In' sour an' cross If she couldn't have him. "Of course that ain't all she said ; but I remember this part particular on account of what huppened after ward. You see your ma she felt awful bad. She cried a little, an' sighed a lot, an' said she'd try, she really would try to help her husband In every wjy she could;' an' she wouldn't ask him another once, not once, to stay with her. An' she wouldn't look sour an' cross, either. She'd promise she wouldn't. An' she'd try, she'd try, oh, so hard, to be proper an' dignified. "She got up then an' went out of the room so quiet an' still you wouldn't know she was movlif. But 1 heard her up In her room cryln' half un hour later, when I stopped a minute at her door to see If she was there. Ad' she was. "But she wasn't cryln' by night. Not much she was! She'd washed her (aee an' dressed herself up as pretty By- ELEANOR H. PORTER as could be, an' she never so muoh as looked as If she wanted her hus band to stay with her, when he said right after supper that he guessed he'd go out to the observatory. An' 'twas that way right along after that. I know, 'cause I watched. You see, I knew what she'd said she'd do. Well, she did it. "Then, pretty quick after that, she began to get acquainted In the town. Folks called, an' there was parties an' receptions where she met folks, an' they began to come here to the house, 'specially them students, an' two or three of them young, unmarried pro fessors. An' she began to go out a lot with them skatln' an' slelghridin' an' snowshoein'. "Like It? Of course she liked It! Who wouldn't? Why, child, you never saw such a fuss as .they made over your ma In them days. She was all the rage; an' of course she liked it. What woman wouldn't, that was gay an' lively an' young, an' had been so lonesome like your ma had? But some other folks didn't like it. An' your pa was one of them. This time 'twas him that made the trouble. I know, 'cause I heard what he said one day to her In the library. "Yes, I guess I was in the next room that day, too er dustin', probably. Anyway, I heard him tell your ma good an' plain what he thought of her gal livantln' 'round from mornln' till night with them young students an' profes sors, an' havln' them here, too, such a lot, till the house was fairly overrun with them. He. said he was shocked an' scandalized, an' didn't she have any regard for his honor an' decency, If she didn't for herself! An' oh, a whole lot more. "Cry? No, your ma didn't cry this time. I met her In the hall right after they got through talkin', an' she was "Yes, I Guess I Was in the Next Room That Day, Too er Dustin'." white as a sheet, an' her eyes was like two blazln' stars. So I know how she must have looked while she was in the library. An' I must say she give It to him good an' plain, straight from the shoulder. She told him she was shocked an' scandalized that he could talk to bis wife like that; an' didn't he have any more regard for her honor an' decency than to accuse her of run rin' after any man living much less a dozen of them! An' then she told him a lot of what his mother had said to her, an' she said she hud been mere ly tryln' to carry out those Instruc tions. She was tryln' to make her hUBband an' her husband's wife an' her husband's home popular with the college folks, so she could help htm Jo be president, If he wanted to be. But he answered back, cold an' chilly, that he thanked her, of course, but he didn't care for any more of that kind of assistance; an' If she would give a little more time to her home an' her housekeepln', as she ought to, he would be considerably better pleased. An' she said, very well, she would see that he had no further cause to complain. An' the next minute I met her In the hall, as I just said, her head high and her eyes blazln'. "An' things did change then, a lot, I'll own. Right away she began to re fuse to go out with the students an' young professors, an' she sent down word she wasn't to home when they called. And pretty quick, of course, they stopped comln'. "Housekeepln'? Attend to thnt? Well, y-yes, she did try to at first, a little; but of course your grandma had always given the orders through me, I mean ; an' there really wasn't anything your mu could do. An' I told her so. plain. Her ways were new an' different an' queer, an' we liked ours better, anyway. So she didn't bother us much that way very long. Besides, she wasn't feelin' very well, anyway, an' for the next few months she stayed In her room a lot, an' we didn't see much of her. Then by an' by you came, an' well, I guess that's all too much, you little chatter box I" CHAPTER 111 The Break Is Made. And that's the way Nurse Sarah finished her story, only she shrugged her shoulders again, and looked back, first one way, then another. As for her calling me "chatterbox" she al ways calls me that when she's been doing all the talking. As near as I can remember, I have told Nurse Sarah's story exactly as she told It to me, In her own words. But of course I know I didn't get It right all the time, and I know I've left out quite a lot. But, anyway, it's told a whole lot more than I could have told why they got married In the first place, and It brings my story right up to the point where I was born ; and I've al ready told about naming me, and what a time they had over that. Of course what's happened since, up to now, I don't know all about, for I was only a child for the first few years. Now I'm almost a young lady, "standing with reluctant feet where the brook and river meet." (I read that last night. I think it's perfectly beautiful. So kind of sad and sweet. It makes me want to cry every time I think of it.) But even if I don't know all of what's happened since I was born, I know a good deal, for I've seen quite a lot, and I've' made Nurse tell me a lot more. I know that ever since I can remem ber I've had to keep as still as a mouse the minute Father comes Into the house; and I know that I never could Imagine the kind of a mother that Nurse tells about, If It wasn't that sometimes when Father lias gone off on a trip, Mother and I have romped all over the house, and had the most beautiful time. I know that Father says that Mother is always trying to make me a "Marie," and nothing else ; and that Mother says she knows Father'll never be happy until he's made me into a stupid little "Mary," with never an atom of life of my own. And, do you know? It does seem sometimes, as If Mary and Marie were fighting Inside of me, and I wonder which is going to beat. Funny, Isn't It? Father Is president of the college now, and I don't know how many stars and comets and things he's discov ered since the night the star and I were born together. But I know he's very famous, and that he's written up In the papers and magazines, and Is In the big fat red "Who's Who" in the library, and has lots of noted men come to see him. Nurse says that Grandma Anderson died very soon after I was born, but that It didn't make any particular dif ference In the housekeeping ; for things went right on Just as they had done, with her giving the orders as before; that she'd given them all alone any way, mostly, the last year Grandma Anderson lived, and she knew just how Father liked things. She said Mother tried once or twice to take the reins herself, and once Nurse let her, just to see what would happen. But things got In an awful muddle right away, so that even Father noticed it and said things. After that Mother never tried again, I guess. Anyhow, she's never tried it since I can reinem her. She's always stayed most of the time up In her rooms In the east wing, except during meals, or when she went out with me, or' went to the things she and Father had to go to together. For they did go to lots of things, Nurse says. It seems that for a long time they didn't want folks to know there was going to be a divorce. So before folks they tried to be Just as usual. But Nurse Sarah said she knew there was going to be one long ago. The first I ever heard of it was Nurse telling Nora.'the girl we had in the kitchen then ; and the minute I got a chance I asked Nurse what it was a divorce. My, I can remember now how scared she looked, and how she clapped her hand over my mouth. She wouldn't tell me not a word. And that's the first time I ever saw her give that quick little look over each shoulder. She's done It lots of times since. As I said, she wouldn't tell me, so I had to ask some one else. I wasn't going to let It go by and not find out not when Nurse Sarah looked so scared, and when It was something my father and mother were going to have some day. I didn't like to ask Mother. Some way, I had fl feeling, from the way Nurse Sarah looked, that It was some thing Mother wasn't going to like. And I thought If maybe she didn't know yet she was going to have it, that certainly I didn't want to be the one to tell her. So I tlldn't ask Mother what a divorce was. "Oh, my baby, my baby to think J have subjected you to thisl- tTO BE CONTINUED.) Famous restaurants of Rome have been fined for keeping luxury taxes paid by Americans. ,