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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1922)
WOULD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Government and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. The strike of Berlin printers, which has kept the German capital without most ot Its dally newspapers for sev eral days, came to an end Tuesday. The transport Henderson, bearing Secretary of the Navy Denby and his party, left from Yokohama Tuesday morning for Nagasaki. The transport will pass through the Inland sea route. The London Evening News Tuesday says arrangements for repayment of the British loan to America In a lump sum in the near future are in an ad vanced stage. It declares repayment will he made by means of a loan to be raised jointly in England and America. Sun Yat Sen, deposed president ot South China, sailed into Canton har bor Monday aboard the gunboat Wlng fung, escorted by two cruisers and one destroyer, after bombarding the Macao forts two miles below the city. Sun declared he would not again bom bard the city proper. Appearance Tuesday of Francis P, Garvan, formerly alien property cus todian and now head of the Chemical Foundation, Inc., before the special war frauds grand Jury was said In of ficial circles' to have Inaugurated a sweeping inquiry into every act of the custodian's office from its incep tion. Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes, New York, won her fight to have her dower rights to property valued at more than $8,000,000 restored! when Supreme Court Justice Cohalan handed down a decision In the suit she had brought against her husband, W. E. D. Stokes, wealthy hotel man "and real estate operator. The American relief administration this week expects to reach the maxi mum of its famine relief programme in Russia, supplying meals to 10,000, 000 persons. Rationing will be gradu ally reduced as the harvest conies In, regardless of whether it Is decided def initely to abandon the work In Russia after September. The Tacoma city council Tuesday morning granted a franchise for the operation of 12 16-passenger busses in competition with two lines of the Ta copia Railway & Power company. The busses will operate on regular sched ules and charge 6-cont fares In com petition with the 10-cent single trolley fares or 12 tickets for f 1, Three armed men Jumped from an automobile and holding up W. A. Copeland, collector for a chain ot gro cery stores, in Los Angeles, Cal., robbed him of a satchel of receipts containing $7000 in cash. The rob bery occurred in front of the grocery company's offices, 012 East Third street, anil was witnessed by two wo men. Administrative officers of the execu tive establishments of the government who were assembled Tuesday for their third semi-annual business meeting were called upon by President Hard ing for the "utmost economy" of ex penditure during the current fiscal year and the use of their "pruning knives" upon the estimates for the succeeding 12 months. The reparations commission at Paris decided Tuesday to relieve the Cermnn crisis to the extent of reduc ing the monthly Installment of 60,000, 000 gold marks, due Saturday on the schedule of payment, to 32,000,000 gold marks, Germany had announced her willingness to pay the whole amount, but the commission ruled that in view ot the crisis the Bmaller figure was all that would be required. The state department announced Tuesday that a tentative programme for evacuation of Santo Domingo by American military forces had been agreed upon with a group of Domini can leaders who have been in Wash ington some months on their own initiative in conference with depart ment officials. The programme will be carried out, the statement said, "as soon as it can be ascertained whether it meets with the approval ot a ma jority of the Dominican people." ASK OPERATORS TO RESUME Harding Urges Mine Owners to Start Up Production. Washington, ' D. C. Bituminous coal-mine operators were "invited" by President Harding at the White House Monday "to return to your mine prop erties and resume operations" after they had replied to the president's tender of arbitration for settling the national coal strike with a collective offer to put their properties and their service at the disposal of the govern ment "in this crisis." Speaking as chairman of the group of operators after the White House conference, Alfred M. Ogle said the em ployers would make the attempt to re sume operations. Meanwhile the miners' union through an adjournment sine die of its controlling policy committee, made certain Its refusal to accept the arbi tration proposal and many of its of ficials immediately left Washington. The bituminous operators were like wise not a unit in accepting the gov ernment arbitration proposals, but the president said that a "large major ity of them by unqualified acceptance" had given him, occasion to "express my own and the public's gratitude." There were intimations in official circles that all the Implications of the decision to ask that the mines be opened had been fully considered by the government and there was a pos sibility that the protection of troops and the American flag, would be furn ished In districts where men were will ing to work. Employers generally held the view that some coal pro duction would result in union fields in Pennsylvania and Ohio, if nowhere else, even though executives of the nonunion mines Bouth of the Ohio river reported that output was being cut off sharply through lack of trans portation, due to the railroad strike. A day and a night of almoBt con tinuous sessions did not suffice to make the bituminous employers a unit for acceptance of the detailed arbitration proposals of the govern ment, even though anthracite operators last week had given quick acceptance. On a final vote, a general letter, ac cepting the principle of arbitration and making the tender of mines and services, was agreed upon and pre sented to the president. WAR VETERANS HAVE 5 YEARS TO CLAIM PENSION War veterans of the Pacific North west have five years after discharge from service to file claim for govern ment compensation because ot war dis abilities, according to Instruction given officials of the Seattle district office of the United States Veterans' Bureau by Director Charles R. Forbes during his visit to this district last week. This displaces the Interpretation of the federal law which indicated that a certificate of injury showing war in jury had to be secured by the veteran before August 9 of this year to qualify as an applicant for compensation after that date. Colonel Forbes, however, urged all veterans of the northwest district who believe that they are in capacitated in any degree because of their war service to secure a certifi cate of injury from the Veterans' Bureau before August 9, stating that such proceedure will aid the veteran materially in case claim for govern ment compensation is filed at a later dute. Flyer Derailed; Two Hurt. Battle Creek, Mich. The westbound Wolverine flyer, the Michigan Cen tral's finest train, went over loosened tracks two miles east of Battle Creek at noon Saturday and five rear coaches were derailed, while the main line track was torn up for about a quarter of a mile. Two persons were slightly Injured. All cars remained connected and upright. Engineer Black of the flyer expressed the be lief that the rail spread was due to unfinished repair work. Local of ficials, however, said that repair gangs had not been working in the vicinity of the accident. Kllauea Vomiting Again. Honolulu, T. H. Kllauea volcano, whose lake of molten lava some weeks ago dropped hundreds of feet and led to speculations as to whether the frater ever again would be active, broke forth again Monday with its old-time vigor. Lave spurted 10ft feet from the bot tom, making a livid pool 300 feet in diameter with brilliant molten foun tains spraying more than 40 feet into the air. Afluinaldo Can't Come. Manila. Einlllo Agulnaldo, former ly leader of the Filipino revolution ists, who had planned to attend the Spanish War Veterans' convention in Los Angeles, likely will be unable to make the trip. Public funds to fi nance the trip are lacking. IN STRIKE CLASH Disorder in Texas Is Quickly Quelled. INJUNCTION ISSUED Protection of San Bernardino, Cal., Railroad Property Is Request ed by Sheriff and Mayor. Ennis, Texas. First disorders here in connection with the shopmen's strike occurred early Saturday morn ing when more than 100 shots were exchanged between alleged strikers and sympathizers and 30 guards in the Houston & Texas Central (South ern Pacific) yards. No casualties were reported and the disorder was quelled in 15 minutes, The trouble started when a car in spector went Into the yards to inspect a southbound passenger train. Strike leaders claim the first shots were fired by railroad guards. The vicinity was quiet Sunday. Houston, Tex. A temporary injunc tion was Blgned by Federal Judge Hutcheson Saturday "straitly en joining" the striking railway shop crafts and their members "from in timidating workers, from interfering with the handling of the malls and Interstate commerce, from congregat ing on the streets or in front ot homes of employes, from trespassing on rail road premises and from conspiring to do any ot these things." "Straitly enjoining" is "narrowly to restrict," it was explained. Sacramento, Cal. An appeal for state troops to protect railroad prop erty at San Bernardino against the at tacks of striking shopmen Saturday, was received by Governor Stephens from Sheriff Shay of San Bernardino county, and from the mayor of San Bernardino. Governor Stephens replied to the ap peal with a telegram asking the sheriff what steps he had taken to maintain order in the county. San Bernardino, Cal. The sheriff of San Bernardino county and the mayor of San Bernardino Saturday telegraphed Governor Stephens re questing him to send state troops to control the strike situation here. The telegram said: "Strike situation in this city and county very grave. We are unable to control mobs which gather on rail road property, stoning cars and com mitting acts of violence. "Strikers assaulting and beating up citizens and threatening to take charge of railroad shops in San Ber nardino, which if done will result in great loss of life and property. "Two shootings have already oc curred and parties wounded. If help not given us, fear loss of life and property will ensue. Railroad offi cials and citizens in this city and county asking for restoration of law and order. "Destruction of property will re sult in city and county being held tor damages. If laws are to be up held and citizens protected, must have your assistance immediately with troops, until crisis is past. "W. A. SHAY, Sheriff. "S. W. McNabb, Mayor." Pact Conclusion Near. Washington, D. C All legislation necessary to give effect to the treaties negotiated by the Washington confer ence has now been enacted by both houses of parliament. As soon as the assent of the self-governing dominions Australia, India and South Africa (Canada already having acted favor ably) Is received arrangements will be made for exchange ot ratifications of all of the treaties in Washington. Man Diet In Motor Car. Los Angeles, Cal. Charles E. Mc Klnley, mining man of Prescott, Ariz., said to have been a cousin of the late President McKlnley, died Sunday night at the wheel of his automobile on the highway between Pssadena and Eagle Rock, near here. He had been ill for some time and was accompanied by a nurse. He was 46 years ot age. Three Burned In Plane. Los Angeles, Cal. W. H. Robinson, aviator, and two men passengers were burned to death here Sunday night when the airplane In which they were riding caught fire. It plunged to earth. Mary Marie Copyright by Eleanor H.Porter "THAT'S ALU" SYNOPSIS. In a preface Mary Maria explains her apparent "dou ble personality" and Just why l a "cross-current and a contradic tion"; she also tells her reasons for writing- the diary later to be a novel. The diary Is commenced at Andersonvllle. Mary begins with Nurse Sarah's account of her (Mary's) birth, which seemingly In terested her father, who Is a fa mous astronomer, less than a new Btar which was discovered the same night. Her name Is a compromise; her mother wanted to call her Viola and her father insisted 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 arrival at Anderson vllle as a bride and how astonished they all were at the sight of the dainty eighteen-year-old girl whom the sedate professor had chosen for a wife. Nurse Sarah makes It plain why the household seemed a strange one to the child and how her fa ther and mother drifted apart through misunderstanding, each too proud to in any way attempt to smooth over the situation. Mary tells of the time spent "out west" where the "perfectly all right and genteel and respectable" divorce was being arranged for, and her mother's (to her) unaccountable be havior. By the court's decree the child Is to spend six months of the year with her mother and six months with her father. Boston Is Mother's home. Mary describes her life as Marie with her mother In Boston. CHAPTER IV Continued. Well, to resume and go on. There's the violinist. I mustn't forget him. But, then, nobody could forget him. He's lovely: so hnndsome and dlstln-gulshed-looklng with his perfectly beautiful dark eyes and white, teeth. And he plays well, I'm simply crazy over his playing. I only wish Carrie Heywood could hear him. She thinks her brother can play. He's a traveling, violinist with a show; and he came home once to Andersonvllle. And I heard him. But he's not the real thing at all. Not a bit. Why, he might be anybody, our grocer, or the butcher, up there playing that violin. His eyes are little and blue, and bis hair Is red and very Bhort. I wish she could hear our violinist play I And there's another man that comes to the parties and teaB ; oh, of course there are others, lots of them, married men with wives, and unmarried men with and without sisters. But I mean another man specially. His name Is Harlow. He's a little man with a brown pointed beard and big soft brown eyes. He's really awfully good looking, too. I don't know what he does do; but he's married. I know that. He never brings his wife, though ; but Mother's always asking for her, clear and distinct, and she always smiles, and her voice kind of tinkles like little sliver bells. But Just the same he never brings her. He never takes her anywhere. I heard Aunt Hattle tell Mother so at the very first, when he came. She sold they weren't a bit happy together, and that there'd probably be a divorce before long. But Mother asked for her Just the same the very next time. And she's done it ever since. I think I know now why she does. I found out, and I was simply thrilled. It was so exciting! You see, they were lovers once themselves Mother and this Mr. Harlow, Then something happened and they quarreled. That was Just before Father came. Of course Mother didn't tell me this, nor Aunt Hattle. It was two ladles. I heard them talking at a tea one day. I was right behind them, and I couldn't get away, so I Just couldn't help hear ing what they said. I'm not sure, anyway, that Mother'll want to get married again. From lit tle things she says I rather guess she doesn't think much of marriage, any way. One day I heard her sny to Aunt Hattle that it was a very pretty theory that marriages were made in heaven, but that the real facts of the case were that they were made on earth. And another day I heard her say that one trouble 'with marriage was that the husband end wife didn't know how to play together and to rest together. And lots of times I've heard her say little things to Aunt Hattle that showed how unhappy her mar riage had been. But last night a funny thing hap pened. We were all in the library reading after dinner, and Grandpa looked up from bis paper and said something about a woman that was sentenced to be hanged and how a whole lot of men were writing letters protesting against having a woman hanged; but there were only one or two letters from women. And Grand pa said that only went to prove how much more lacking in a sense of fit ness of tilings women were than men. And he was just going to say more when Aunt Hattle bristled up and tossed her chin, and said, real indig nantly: "A sense of fitness of things, in deedl Oh, yes, that's all very well to say. There are plenty of men, no doubt, who are shocked beyond any thing at the Idea of hanging a woman ; but those same men will think noth ing of going straight home and mak By- ELEANOR H. PORTER ing life for some other woman so ab solutely miserable that she'd think hanging would be a lucky escape from something worse." "Harriet 1" exclulmed Grandpa In a shocked voice. "Well, I mean It!" declared Aunt Hattle emphatically. "Look at poor Madge here, and that wretch of a hus band of hers!" And Just here Is where the funny tiling happened. Mother bristled up Mother! and even more than Aunt Hattle had. She turned red and then white, and her eyes blazed. "That will do, Hattle, please, in my presence," she said, very cold, like lee. "Dr. Anderson is not a wretch at all. He is an honorable, scholarly gentle man. Without doubt he meant to be kind and considerate. He simply did not understand me. We weren't suited to each other. That's all." And she got up and swept out of the room. Now, wasn't that funny? But I Just loved it, all the same. I nlways love Mother when she's superb and haughty and disdainful. Well, after Bhe had gone Aunt Hat tlo looked at Grandpa and Grandpa looked at Aunt Hattle. Grundpa shrugged his shoulders, and gave his hands a funny little flourish ; and Aunt Hattle lifted her eyebrows' and said: "Well, what do you know about that?" (Aunt Hattle forgot I was In the room, I know, or she'd never in the "That Will Do, Hattle, Please, In My Presence," She Said, Very Cold, Like Ice. world have used slang like that!) "And after nil the things she's said about how unhappy she was !" finished Aunt Hattle. Grandpa didn't sny anything, but just gave his funny little shrug again. And it was kind of queer, when you come to think of it about Mother, I mean, wasn't It? ONE MONTH LATER Well, I've been here another whole month, and It's growing nicer all the time, I just love It here. - And Mother Is happy, I'm sure she is. Somebody Is doing something for her every moment seems so. They are so glad to get her back again. I know they are. I heard two ladies talking one day, and they said they were. They called her "Poor Madge," and "Dear Madge," and they said it was a shame that she should have had such a wretched experience, and that they for one should try to do ev erything they could to make her for get. And that's what they all seem to be trying to do to make her forget. There isn't a day goes by tut that somebody sends flowers or books or candy, or Invites her somewhere, or takes her to ride or to the theater, or comes to see her, . so that Mother Is in just one whirl of good times from morning till night Why, she'd just have to forget. .She doesn't have any time to remember. I think she Is for getting, too. Oh, of course she gets tired, and sometimes rainy days or twilights I find her on the sofa in her room not reading or anything, and her face looks. 'most as it used to some times after they'd been having one of their incompatibility times. But I don't find her that way very often, and it doesn't last long. So I really think she Is forgetting. About the prospective suitors I found that "prospective suitor" In a story a week ago, and I just Jove It. It means you probably will want to marry her, you know. I use It all the time now in my mind when I'm thinking about those gentlemen that come here (the unmarried ones). I forgot and used it out loud one day to Aunt Hattle; but I shan't again. She said, "Mercy!" and threw up her hands and looked over to Grandpa the way she does when I've said something she thinks is perfectly awful. There It is again 1 I'm not old SI i enough. When will I be allowed to tuke my proper place in life? Echo answers when. Well, to resume and go on. " What was I talking about? Oh, I know the prospective suitors. (Aunt Hattle can't hear me when I Just write It, anyway.) Well, they ull come Just as they used to, only there are more of them now two fat men, one slim one, and a man with a halo of hair round a bald spot. Oh, I don't mean that any of them ore really suitors yet. They Just come to cull and to tea, and send her flowers and cundy. And Mother Isn't a mite nicer to one than she Is to any of the others. Any body can see that. And she shows very plainly she's no notion of pick ing anybody out yet. But of course I can't help being interested and watching. As I sutd before, I don't believe Mother'll choose Mr. Harlow, anyway, even when the time conies. As for any of the others I can't tell. She treats them ull just exactly alike, as fur as I can see. Polite and pleasant, but not at all loverlike. I was talking to Pe ter one day about It, and I asked him. But he didn't seem to know, either, which one she will be likely to take, If any. Peter's about the only one I can ask. Of course I couldn't nsk Moth er, or Aunt Huttle And Grandfather well, I should never think of usklng Grandpa a question like that, But Peter Peter's a real comfort. I'm sure I don't know what I should do for somebody to talk to and ask questions about things down here, If It wasn't for him. He takes me to school and back again every day; so of course I see him quite a lot. Speaking of school, It's all right, and of course I like It, though not quite so well as I did. There are some of the girls well, they act queer. I don't know what is the matter with them. They stop talking some of them when I come up, and they make me feel, sometimes, as If I didn't belong. Maybe It's because I came from a little country town like Andersonvllle. But they've known that all along, from the very first. And they didn't act nt all like that at the beginning. Maybe It's just their way down here. If I think of it I'll nsk Peter tomorrow. Well, I guess that's all I can think of this time. MOST FOUR MONTHS LATER It's been ages since I've written here, I know. But there's nothing spe cial happened. Everything hns been going along just about as it did at the first. Oh, there Is one thing different Peter's gone He went two months ago. We've got an awfully old chauf feur now. One with gray hair and glasses, and homely, too. His name Is Charles. The very first day he came, Aunt Hattle told me never to talk to Charles, or bother him with ques tions; that It was better he should keep his mind entirely on his driving. She needn't hnve worried. I should never drenm of asking him the things I did Peter. He's too stupid. Now Peter and I got to be real good friends until all of a sudden Grandpa told him he might go. I don't know why. I don't see as I'm any nearer finding out who Mother's lover will be than I was four months ago. I suppose it's still too soon. Peter said one day he thought widows ought to wait at least a year, and he guessed grnss-wldows were just the same. My, how mad I was at him for using that name about my mother! Oh, I knew what he meant. I'd heard it at school. (I know now what It was that made those girls act so queer and horrid.) There was a girl I never liked her, and I suspect she didn't like me, either. Well, she found out Mother had a divorce. (You see, I hadn't told It. I remembered how those girls out West bragged.) And she told a lot of the others. But It didn't work at all as it had In the West. None of the girls In this school here had a di vorce in their families; and, If you'll believe It, they acted some of them es if it was a disgrace, even after I told them good and plain that our was a perfectly respectable and gen teel divorce. Nothing I could say made a mite of difference, with some of the girls, and then Is when I first heard that perfectly horrid word, "grass-widow." So I knew what Pe ter meant, though I was furious at blm for using It. And I let him see It good and plain. "There It Is again 1 I'm not old enough!" (TO BE CONTINUED.) Self-Penalized. One day in school I had been whis pering to the boy behind me. The principal looked over my way and said : "You two boys come up here in these two front seats." I picked up a book and walked up to the front and sat down. Two boys from the back of the room came up also. The princ1 pal looked at me rather curiously and then said: "I didn't catch you." Chicago Journal. One's artificial laugh at en old storj is sometimes suspiciously too loud.