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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1922)
WOULD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Event of Noted People, Government! and Pacific Northwest, and Other Thinga Worth Knowing. May Wulnli, 7 feet 6 Inches tall, eulil to lio the tullout woman In the world, died Sunday at the municipal tuberculosis sanitarium In Chicago, Approximately 1000 acres of certi fied Jenkins club wheat on the big furm of the Perlnger Hunch company, eight miles oast ot Pendleton on the Umatilla Indian reservation, was burn ed Monday afternoon. Butwoen 45, 000 and 50,000 bushels of the finest grain In Umatilla county was destroy ed. President Harding has accepted the resignation of Elmer Dover, Tacoma, Wash., as assistant secretary of the treasury In charge of Internal revenue and customs, it is announced at the White House. Spociul delivery letters will not be ' sent out from any poBtofflce In the country after 11 o'clock at night, un '. dor new postal regulations issued ' Tuesday. Such letters not delivered prior to that hour will be "dollvered : as soon as possible" the next morn- ing. '': . 1 Approximately &000 Seattle resl dents subscribed a total of J3,000,000 In bonds to finance the erection of a ' new hotel, sponsored by the chamber ; of commerce as a community enter prise, it was announced at noon Tues day, when the subscription campaign concluded. Manuol Nunes, inventor of the ! ukulele, the musical instrument of I Hawaii, died at his home in Honolulu, T. H., of heart disease after a long I illness. Ills death brought to light that, contrary to general belief, the : ukulele was known to the Hawalluns only after the advent ot the white man. Burglars broke open 80 vaults on Six floors of the Paulsen building in Spokane Saturday night and stole in excess of $100,000, it was learned Mon day morning. This is the largest bur- glary fiver committed In Spokane, ac ' cording to local police. The police believe the robbery was the work of professionals. ' William GIthons, 40, of West Phila delphia, "stunt swimmer" who had ex- CURRENT WEEK , I hlbited all over the country for years. , Tuesday night performed for the last '.v-unre. jrjlls .body was dragged from ; Allegheny river, near the Sixth Btreet bridge, 15 minutes after he started to cross the stream with his hands and feet tied. The knots failed to slip, i ' . . ' Agreement upon a 'tohtntlve, plan for distribution of coal and for restric i tlon of unfair prices was announced Monday night by Secretary Hoover ' after a series of conferences during J the day with representatives of pro ducing operators, the railroads, the in- terstate commerce commission and ! oilier departments of the government. - Support ot the railroad labor board as the only agency created by law for handling the transportation tie-up, ac- , coloration of coal production and con trol of fuol distribution were given by administration spokesmen Tuesday as the three fundamentals of the govern ment's policy toward the Industrial crisis involved in the coal and Rail road strikes. Mujor Max Alser of the United States army quartermaster's corps and Cap tain Frank Tlngley, also ot the United States army, were indicted , Tuesday by the fedoral grand Jury ' in Los Angeles,, together with six dealers in army supplies, charged with conspiring to defraud the United ; Slates government by manipulating sales of supplies at Camp Kearney. Colonel A. A. Spraguo, chairman of the American Legion's national rehab- - illlatlon committee, in a letter to Brigadier-General Charles E. Sawyer, personal physlciun to President Hard- ' Ing, and chief co-ordlnator of the fed eral board ot hospitalization, made public Tuesday, charged General Saw : yer with Handing in the way of propor care for wounded and shell , shocked veterans, and with holding ' up hospital plana voted by congress. WOOL SCHEDULE IS PASSED Lodge Declares lb-publican Will Not Abandon Tariff Program. Washington, D. C Consideration of the wool schedule, which has develop ed the one big fight in the adiiilrilKtra- tlon tariff bill, wus completed Mon day by the senate utter the approval without change of imposts proposed by the finance committee majority on blankets, wearing apparel and floor coverings. The silk schedule then was taken up and leaders were hopeful that com mittee amendments to this could be disposed of tomorrow. After the silk schedulo will come those dealing with paper and books and sundries, including hides and luces; the free list and the admin istration provisions with the flexible tariff plun proposed by President Harding, When the senate winds up work on these, It must go back over the entire bill, paragraph by para graph, for action or individual amend ments. Thero still was divided opinion Mon day as to when a final vote on the measure could be had, but republican leaders were unanimous in declaring that the senate would pass the bill. Taking cognizance of a report pub lished in Washington that the senate would abandon the measure, Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the majority leader, made this statement: "This bill Is going to be passed by the senate and that at the first op portunity. We are going to Btlck to It and pass it as soon as we can get a vote, Beports that it might be laid aside or allowed to full are absolutely without foundation. The bill will be passed and put on the statute books as soon as possible." While the split In the republican ranks was noticeable, there was only one sizeable controversy over wool duties, some republicans and most of the domocrats voting against the duties on clothing. Senator Smoot, republican, Utah, in charge of the schedule, said, and Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, conducting the fight for the minority, agreed that only novelties were imported; that the American ready-made clothing In dustry could compete with the world. Senator WalBh argued, however, that the duties were an invitation to domes tic manufacturers to combine and In crease their prices to the level of the tariff. Deficit Period Passed. j Chicago. Montgomery Ward & Co. after operating at a dofieit for the last two years $9,887,000 loss in 1921 and $7,855,000 loss in 1920 again is earn ing a profit, according to a statement Issued to stockholders Monday by Theodore P. Merseles, president. The statement says the company made a net profit ot $1,241,117 in the first six months of 1922. The number of orders received increased 35.03 per cent. Hungarian Crown Drops. Budapest. The fall in the crown is continuing. The value of the dollar Is now Hearing 2000 crowns. Bread is at 250 crowns a loaf. Hungarian money has lost 00 per cent in value during the last fortnight. This is generally attributed to the collapse.of the German mark. Mine Afire; Two Trapped. Wlnnemucca, Nev. Superintendent Joseph Bolam and Peter Madison are trapped In the long tunnel of the burn ing National mine, 75 miles .north of here, according to a telephone message received Sunday night. The message asked that rescue parties be sent to the scene. Japan Will Negotiate. Moscow. The negotiations between Japan nnd Hie tar eastern republic, broken off after protracted discussion at Dnrlen, will be resumed soon as the result of an exchange of notes. Japan has agreed to evacuate all her troops from the Premosky district by Novem ber. City Prayi For Peace. Penison, Tex. Denlsoni prayed for settlement ot the railroad strike Tues day. The mayor, In a proclamation, asked business houses to close for one hour and urged citizens to assemble In churches and pray that the con ferences ot executives and shopmen result in peace. Northcliffe Still III. London. The physicians in attend ance upon Lord Northcliffe said Mon day night his condition is causing them anxiety. The endocarditis, they assert, is showing no noticeable signs of improvement. PEACE IN SIGHT IN RAIL WALKOUT Harding's Plan Is Reported . Already Accepted. ROADS MAY PROTEST Union Official Are Declared to Have Agreed to President' Settle ment Offers. Chicago. Peace terms already have boon agreed to in the country-wide railway strike and formal ratification has been assured through President Harding's efforts, It was asserted Sun day night by a man in close official touch with the situation. All that now remains before the strike, which has cost the workers upward of $40,000,000 in wages, passes Into history, it was asserted, was the formal Indorsement of the .terms of settlement by the railway executives, meeting in New York, and the strike leaders, who will convene in Chicago at the same hour. 'The acceptance of President Hard ing's proposal was a foregone conclu sion before T. De Wttt Cuyler issued the call for the meeting of the rail executives in New York and B. M. Jewell, head of the striking shopmen, summoned a similar meeting of union chiefs for the same date, this man who has been In closest touch with the entire situation declared. "Thie rail executives' Will finally decide to yield for the good of the country,-- sweeping aside the. seniori ty issue, he continued, but their ges ture will give little consolation to the men who walked out on July 1, for besides their loss in pay they will lose some of their seniority rights to the men who remained at work, see their original grievances returned to the United States railroad labor board for rehearing and the question of a national adjustment board and certain other points taken up by congress. Exact Terms Not Yet Known. "The exact terms probably will not be known until after Tuesday's meet ing, but whatever they are the ob jections of a minority on either side will not be sufficiently strong to ob struct or prevent their ratification by both Blues. The seniority Issue has been raised since the beginning ot the strike, it must be remembered, and is not as great a stumbling block as it has seemed at times. When the time conies it will bo disposed of with Justice to all and to the satisfaction of the great majority of the work ers." Fire-Bali Held Meteor. Santa Barbara, Cal. Concensus of opinion here ig that the great flaming object wheh fell from the sky into the ocean off Santa Barbara or on Santa Cruz island, 18 miles south Saturday night, was a meteor. ,iAs no report came from the islands that any one there had seen the object Btrike fh-e,. earth, the general belief was that it fell into the ocean. a burning aircraft were generally dis- Early reports that the object was believed. ' :. I, Coolldge Starts West. Washington, D. C Vice-President Coolldge left Washington Saturday night for Boston, starting a trip that will occupy two or three weeks and take him to the Pacific coast. The Vice-President plans to leave August 4 for San Francisco, where he will address the American Bar as sociation convention August 10. The present Itinerary of Mr. Coolldge calls for a visit to Portland, Or. Russia Saves Platinum. Faris. The Russian soviet govern ment is declared in 'a dispatch from Vienna to have been tor some time accumulating a platinum reserve with the purpose of establishing a coinage which will replace the gold standard. The message does not give the auth ority for this report. It says the preparations for the move are expected to be completed within three months. Gompers Here 59 Year. Washington, D. C Samuel Gomp ers, who has been called the grand old man of American labor, by virtue ot his long tenure ot office as presi dent ot the American Federation of Labor, -observed Saturday the fifty ninth anniversary of what he consid ers one ot the biggest event of his life hla landing in the United States as an English immigrant ELEANOR H. PORTER ILLUSTRATIONS BY RH.LMNGSTONE. COPYRIGHT BY ELEANOR H PORTER. FATHER SYNOPSIS. In a preface Mary Marie explain her apparent "dou ble personality" and Juet why ! a "cross-current and a contradic tion"; Blie also tells her reasons lor writing the diary later to be a novel. The diary Is commenced at Andersonville. Mary begins with Nurse Surah' account of her (Mary's) birth, which seemingly In terested her father, who is a fa mous astronomer, less than a new star 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 moth er's arrival at Andersonville as a bride and how astonished they all were at the Bight ot 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 father and mother drifted apart through misunderstanding, each too proud to In any way attempt to smooth over the situation. Mary tells of he time spent "out WeHt" where the "perfectly all right and genteel and respectable" divorce was being arranged for, and her mother' (to her) unaccountable behavior. By the court's decree the child Is to spend six months of the year with her mother and six months with her fa ther. Boston Is Mother's home. Mary describes her life as Marie with her mother In Boston and about her mother's "prospective sultorB." Then Mary goes to her other home, to visit her father. Aunt Jane's questions. CHAPTER V Continued. . ONE WEEK LATER. Father's come. He came yesterday. But I didn't know it, and I came run ning downstairs, ending with a little bounce for the last step. And there, right In front of me in the hall was Father. I guess he was as much surprised as I was. Anyhow, he acted so. He Just stood stock-still and stared, his face turning all kinds of colors. "You?" he gasped, just abeve his breath. Then suddenly he seemed to remember. "Why, yes, yes, to be sure. You are here, aren't you? How do you do, Mary?" He came up then and held out his hand, and. I thought that was all he was going to do. But, after a funny little hesitation, he stooped and kissed my forehend. Then lie turned and went into the library with very quick steps, and I didn't see him again till at the supper-table. At the supper-table he said again, "How do you do, Mary?" Then he seemed to forget all about me. At least he didn't say anything more to me; for three or four times, when I glanced up, I found him looking at me. But Just as soon as I looked -back at him he turned his eyes away and cleared his throat, and began to eat or to talk to Aunt Jane. After dinner I mean supper he went out to the observatory, just as he always used to. Aunt Jane said her head ached and she was going to bed. I said I guessed I would step over to Carrie Hey wood's; but Auut Jane said, certainly not; that I was much too young to be running around nights in the dark. Nights I And It was only seven o'clock, and not dark at all ! But of course I couldn't go. Aunt Jane went upstairs, and I was left alone. I didn't feel a bit like reading; besides, there wasn't a book or a magazine anywhere asking you to read. They just shrieked, "Touch me not I" behind the glass doors In the library. I hate sewing. I mean Marie hates It. Aunt Jane says Mary's got to learn. After a while I opened the parlor door and peeked in. They used to keep it open when Mother was -here; but Aunt Jane doesn't use It. I knew where the electric push button was, though, and I turned on the light. I wus just tingling to piny some thing, and I remembered that Father was In the observatory, and Aunt Jane upstairs in the other part of the house where she couldn't possibly hear. Bo I began to play, i played the very slowest piece I had, and I played softly at first; but I know I forgot, and I know I hadn't played two nlpn before I was having the best time ever, and making all the noise I want ed to. - Then all of a sudden I had a funny feeling as if somebody somewhere was watching me; but I just couldn't turn around. I stopped playing, though, at the end of that piece, and then I looked; but there wasn't anybody In Sight. But the wax cross was there, and the coffin plate, and thut awful hair wreath ; and suddenly I felt as If the room was just full of folks with great staring eyes. I fairly shook with shivers, but I managed to shut the piano and get over to the dour where the light was. Then, a minute later, out in the big silent hall, I crept on tiptoe towurd the stairs. I knew then, all of a sudden, why I'd felt somebody was listening. There was. Across the hall in the library In the big chair be fore the fire sut Father 1 And for 'most a whole half-hour I hud been banging away at that piano on marches and dance music I My I But I held my breath and stopped short, I can tell you. But he didn't move nor turn, und a minute later I was safely by the door and halfwny up the stairs'. I stayed In my room the rest of that evening ; and for the second time since I've been here I cried myself to sleep. ANOTHER WEEK LATER Well, f ve got ' them those brown and blue serge dresses and the calf skin boots. My, but I hope they're stiff and homely enough all of them I And hot, too. Aunt Jane did say to day that she didn't know but what she'd made a mistake not to get ging ham dresses. But, then, she'd huve to get the gingham later, anyway, she said; then I'd have both. Well, they can't be worse than the serge. That's sure. I hate the serge. They're awfully homely. Still, I don't know but It's just as well. Certainly It's lots easier to be Mary In a brown serge end clumpy boots than it is in the soft, fluffy things Murle used to wear. You couldn't be Marie in these things. Honestly,. I'm feeling real Marylsh these days. I wonder If that's why the girls seem so queer at school. They are queer. Three times lately I've come up to a crowd of girls and heard them I Was Having the Best Time Ever, and Making All the Noise I Wanted To. stop talking right off short. They col ored up, too ; and pretty quick they be gan to slip away, one by one, till there wasn't anybody left but just me, just as they used to do in Boston. But of course it can't be for the same reason here, for they're known all along about the divorce and haven't minded It at all. f. Aunt Jane doesn't care for music. Besides, It's noisy, she says, and would be likely to disturb Father. So I'm not to keep on with my music lessons here. She's going to teach me to sew in stead. She says sewing is much more sensible and useful. Sensible nnd useful ! I wonder how many times I've heard those words since Pve been here. And durable, too. And nourishing. That's another word. Honestly, Marie Is getting aw fully tired of Mary's sensible sewing and dusting, nnd her durable clumpy shoes and stuffy dresses, and her nour ishing oatmeal and whole-wheat bread. But there, what can you do? I'm trying to remember that it's differ ent, anyway, and that I said I liked something different. I don't see much of Father. Still, there's something kind of queer about it, after alL Ho only speaks to me about twice a day Just "Good-morning, Mary," and "Good-night." And so far as most of his actions nre con cerned you wouldn't think by them that heknew I was In the house. Yet, over and over again at the table, and at times when 1 didn't even know he was 'round, I've found him watching me, and with such a queer, funny look in his eyes. Then, very quickly al ways, he looks right away. "But last night he didn't And that's especially what I wanted to write about today. ' And this Is the way It happened : It was lifter supper, and 1 had gone into the library. Fiilher had gone out to the olmervutory a iikuiiI, and Aunt June lind gone tipstuli' to her room u usual, und ns usual I wus wunderlug round looking for something to do. I wunted to pluy on the pluno, but I didn't dure to not with all those deud-hulr und wax-tlower folks In the parlor watching me, and the chance of Father's coming In us he did before. I wus standing In the window star ing out at nothing It wasn't quite durk yet when again I had that queer feeling thut somebody wns looking ut me. I turned und thuce wus Father. He had euine In and wus sitting in the ( big chair by the table. But this time he didn't look right awuy us usual and give me a chance to slip quietly out of the room, us I always hud before. Instead he said: "Wliut are you doing there, Mury?" "Just l-looklng out the window." "Come here. I wunt to tulk to you." "Yes, Father." I went, of course, at once, and sat down In the chair neur hlui. He hitched uguln In his sent. "Why don't you do something rend, sew, knit?" he demanded. "Why do I always find you moping around, doing nothing?" Just like that he suld it; nnd when he had just told me ( "Why, Father I" I cried; and I know that I showed how surprised I wus. "I thought you just said I couldn't do nothing that nobody could I" "Eli? What! Tut, tut!" He seemed very angry ut first; then suddenly he looked sharply Into my face. Next, if you'll believe It, he laughed the queer little chuckle under his breath that I've heard him give two or three times when there was something he thought was funny. "Humph!" he grunted, Then he gave me another sharp look out of ids eyes, and said: "I don't think you meant thut to be quite so impertinent ns it sounded, Mury, so we'll let it puss this time. I'll put my question this wny: Don't you'ever knit or read or sew?" "I do sew every day In Aunt Jane's room, ten minutes hemming, ten min utes seaming, and ten minutes basting patchwork squares together. I don't know how to knit." "How about reading? Don't you core for reading?" "Why, of course I do. I love It !" I cried. "And I do read lots at home." "At-home?" I knew, then, of course, that I'd made another awful break. There wasn't any smile around Father's eyes now, and Ills Hps came together hurd and thin over thut last word. "At at my home," I stammered. 'I mean, my other home." "Humph I" grunted Father. Then, after a minute: "But why, pray, can't you read here? I'm sure there are books enough." He flourished his hands toward the bookcuses all around the room. "Oh, I do a little; but, you see, I'm so afraid I'll leave some of them out when I'm through," I explained. "Well, what of it? What If you do?" he demanded. "Why, Father!" I tried to show by the way I said it that he knew of course he knew. But he made me tell him right out that Aunt Jane wouldn't like It, and that the books always had to be kept exactly where they be longed. . - "Well, why not? Why shouldn't they? Aren't books down there In Boston kept where they belong, pray?" It was the first time' since I'd come that he'd ever mentioned Boston ; and I almost jumped out of my chair when I heard him. But I soon saw It wasn't going to be the last, for right then and there he began to question me, even worse than Aunt Jane had. He'd been up on ills feet, tramping up and down the room all the time I'd been talking; and now, all of a sudden, lie wheels around and stops short. "How is your mother, Mury?" he asks. And; It was just as If he'd opened the door to another room, he had such a whole lot of questions to ask after hat. An(j wnen ne'(j fln. Ished he knew everything: what time we got up and went to bed, and what we did all day, and the purties and dinners nnd auto rides, and the folks that came such a lot to see Mother. Then all of a sudden he stopped asking questions, I mean. He stopped just as suddenly as he'd begun. Why, I was right in the middle of telling about a concert for chnrity we got up just before I came away, and how Mother had practiced for days and days with the young mnn who ployed the violin, when all of a sudden Fa ther jerked his watch from his pocket and said: . . "There, there, Mary, it's getting late. You've tallied enough too much. Now go to bed. Good night." Talked too much, Indeed I And who'd been making me do all the talking, I should like to know? But, of course, I couldn't say anything. That's the unfair part of it. Old folks can say anything, anything they want to to you, but you can't say a thing back to them not a thing. "And there she told me. And It was the divorce." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Always the Same Dreams. What is called science has always pursued the elixir of life and the phi losopher's stone, and is just as busy after them today as ever It was In the day of Paracelsus. We call them by different names, Immunization or radi ology, or what not; but the dreams which lure us Into, the adventures from which we learn are always at bottom the same. Bernard Shaw.