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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1922)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CUM WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. F. S. Peabody, one ot the country's largest coal operators, died in Chi cago Monday after suffering a stroke while horseback riding on his farm near Hinsdale; Mr. Peabody was 63 years old. The will ot the late Field Marshal Sir Henry "Wilson, .who was murdered by Irish republicans, leaves his total estate of 10,078 to his widow for her life, Then the estate will go to his brothers. The citizens of Cork . listened throughout Tuesday night from mid night to early morning to intense ma chine gun and rifle fire, followed by several bomb explosions and counter rifle firing. Sharp reductions In liquor prices will be announced by the British Co lumbia government Thursday and wtil go into effect then, officials say. Even heavier cuts on beer and light wines have been decided on. Only six persons, including two pas sengers, out ot a total of 322 on board the Chilean steamship Itata, were saved when the vessel sank Tuesday oft the, Chilean coast near Coquimbo. A Vlsalia, Cal., baby had an exciting experience with lightning Monday dur ing a thunder storm, but was not in jured. Lightning struck the rail of an Iron crib In which the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hawkins was sleeping, ran around the rail and burned the bed covering. Discovery that an organized ring of rum runners Is using a fleet ot at least 11 powerful airplanes in smug gling liquor into the United States from Canada has led the prohibition authorities to Plan for the use ot air craft in trailing international boot- leggors, says a Now York dispatch. Twenty of Montreal's smartest and prettiest girls,' rebelling against the attempt of Btyle creators, to foist long Bkirts on womon, have formed a "no longer skirt league." Members are pledged to cling to the abbreviated variety and do all they can to induce -other young womon to keep their Bkirts Bhort. An Improved aerial troop transport with a hull ot tubular steel large enough to accommodate 25 soldiers nud their equipment has been ordered by the English government. The con tract was awarded by the air ministry under the receutly announced 2,000, 000 expansion scheme to provide 500 machines for home defense. -Thunder of a summer showor drown ed out the noise of an approaching train and seven of a party of 11 Fill iliu8 walking the tracks in the prov ince ot Nueva Eclja were struck by the train and klllod, according to word reaching Manila Tuesday. The four who lived Bald, that the headlight of the locomotive was not lighted. Valentine Radeckl, 20 years old, who pleaded guilty ot first degree murder In Los Angelos lust Thursday, was Kontenced to Imprisonment for life. Hadeckl was one of throe young men arrested for the murder here April 29 ot Mrs. Nancy M. Wheulock, an aged woman, who was strangled and whose apartment then was robbed. The oth er defendants have not yet pleaded. Charged with huvlng driven the au tomobile In which Mluhuul Collins rode to his death, Edward Isherwood, an Englishman, was taken from his residence in Cork Tuesday by an armed band and shot. His wounds were not mortal, however, and after feigning death fur several hours he escaped and made his way to a hospl- till. Pinned to his breast was a tag Inscribed: "Convicted spy. I. R. A Beware.",, The financial statement ot the Ford Motor company, as filed with the Mas sachusetts commissioner ot corpora tions and covering the year ended April 30, 1922, was published In the financial district Tuesday. The state ment, which ts In the form ot a gen rral balance sheet, shows a profit and loss surplus ot (240,478,736 on that date against I182.871.69S on April 30, 1921, and 1165,659,132 on the same date In 1920. Cash on hand and debts receivable totaled $148,615,334 against $$6,695,165 last year. AGENTS CHECK SPEECHES Labor Leaders Who Attack Injunction May Be Summoned. Washington, D. C Department of justice agents Monday were engaged In listening to' Labor day addresses of or ganized labor leaders throughout the country'for assertions which might be construed as violations of the federal Injunction against the railroad shop men's strike. So far as can be learned here, the Labor day expressions of speakers In many cities were confined to denunci ation of the Injunction as a method ot dealing with the strike, but could not be regarded as coming within the scope of the Injunction Itself. According to some government of ficials addresses by persons outside the specific organizations enjoined which were directed toward an encourage ment of the strike might lead to an extension of the injunction and the at torney-general, in a telegram from Co lumbus, O., to an eastern newspaper, intimated that labor leaders who are Indulging in defiant talk as a result of the governments course may be brought in court. Replying to a message asking him to comment on the criticism of the government's action, the attorney-general said: "You may say that the government's answer to all these discussions will In due time be made In open court, It it Is necessary, and that the government, in the meantime, will pay no attention to loose and irresponsible conversation on the part ot people who may them selves yet be brought into court." Matthew Woll of Chicago, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, discussing the situation, said: "While the executive council of the federation has not the authority to call a general strike, In my opinion, the labor movement of America will stand shoulder to shoulder with the striking railroad workers. It will encourage, Bupport, furnish sustenance and pro vide Intelligent and fearless leadership If the government succeeds in silenc ing present leaders. "It Is no longer a question of protect ing vested interests, under the cloak of protecting public convenience and necessity. It is now a question of pro tecting the people's rights and liberties against encroachment from judicial proclamation and executive despotism." Japanese Park Opposed. Los Angeles, Cal. A proposed lease of 10 acres at White Point, near Fort MacArthur, on San Pedro harbor, to Japanese, for 33 years as a pleasure park, will be halted by Injunction, if possible, according to announcement by Thomas Lee Woolwlne, district at torney. Efforts to prevent completion of the lease through appeals to the war and state departments at Washington and to Senator Shortrldge have also been mado. Bomb Found on Train. Sau Bernardino, Cal. A bomb weighing 15 pounds was found Monday in a car of lubricating oil on a Union Pacific westbound freight train three hours after the train arrived here. The bomb was carried to the athletic field several hundred feet from the Santa Fe depot, by a deputy United States marshal, and exploded from concus sion as the marshal threw It over a bluff into the field. Fragments were hurled hundreds of feet. Boxer Strikes and Dies. EaBton, Pa. Five minutes after he knocked down Elmer Cross, his Bpar ring partner, In a training bout Mon- day, LouIb Barresc, a boxer, dropped dead. Over-exertion was given as the causo of his death, but Cross was held by the police pending a coroner's ver dict Legion Men Honor Dead. London. The delegation of Ameri can legion members now touring Eng laud held memorial services In Brook- wood cemetery near Loudon Monday. Wreaths were laid on the graves of 450 American victims ot the war bur ied here. Harvest to Commence Astoria, Or. The harvesting of the cranberry crop at the Clatsop plains bogs will commence this week. The berries are said to be In fine condi tion and the yield Is expected to be In the neighborhood ot 10,000 bushels, New Mexico Gets Jolt Las Vegas, N. M. Two distinct earth shocks were felt here Monday after noon. The first shock waa severe enough to rattle doors and windows. No damage was reported. IDS OFF 5 li Drastic Step Taken to Keep All Cars Moving. INJUNCTION ISSUED Sweeping Order Given in Federal Court Forbidding Any Inter ference With Traffic. Chicago. By one ot the most dras tic steps ever taken in a strike situa tion, the United States government Friday obtained a temporary federal order restraining striking railroad shopmen, their officers and affiliated bodies throughout the country from Interfering in any way whatever with the operation of the nation's railroads. The restraining order, hearing on which was set for September 11, was Issued by Federal Judge Wllkerson, upon the petition of Attorney-General Daugherty, who came here from Washington to argue the action. The order enjoins, until the hearing, all railway employes, attorneys, ser vants, agents, associates and all per sons acting In aid or In conjunction with them from in any manner inter, ferlng with, hindering or obstructing railway companies, their agents, ser vants or employes in the operation of their respective railroads and sys tems of transportation, or the per formance of their public duties and obligations in the transportation of passengers and property, in interstate commerce and the carriage of the mails, and from in any manner inter fering with employes engaged in in spection, repair, operation and use of trains, locomotives, cars and other equipment, and from attempting to prevent any person, from freely en tering Into or continuing in the em ploy of the companies for the purpose ot Inspection and repairing of loco motives and cars or otherwise. The underlying principle involved in the action, the attorney-general said in concluding his argument for the order, is "the survival and the supremacy of the government of the United States." Declaring that his request was not aimed at union labor, the attorney general said thai the step was neces sary to the preservation of the unions themselves. At the same time he as serted that the government expected to use its authority to prevent the "la bor union from destroying the open shop." "When the unions claim the right to dictate to the government and to dominate the American people and de prive the American people of the ne cessities of life," he warned, "then the government will destroy the unions, for the government ot the United States Is supreme and must endure." The railway employes' department ot the American Federation ot Labor, B. M. Jewell, Its president; J. F. Mc Grath, vice-president, and John Scott, secretary-treasurer, together with the six shopcrafts brotherhoods, the 120 system federations and their presi dents and secretaries, were made de fendants In the attorney-general's pe tition. Officials ot the shop crafts asserted that the order would have no effect on continuance of the strike. Injured Soldier Dies. Camp Lewis, Wash. Private Carl C. Lobo ot the 10th field artillery died at the camp hospital here Friday morning from Injuries suffered when his horse slipped and fell with him Lebo was doing guard duty at the time of the accident .and was so badly crushed that he did not' regain con sciousness. His futher, Joseph Lebo, lives In Seattle, and he has a brother, Howard, in the same battery. Valuable Fox at Large. Eugene, Or. Somewhere In the tim ber above McKenxie bridge, a silver gray tox, valued at $1500, to roaming the woods and the owners ot the ani mal, Greenup & Greiger, are making efforts to recover their property be fore it fulls victim to the many hunt era now In that vicinity. Murderer I Convicted. Los Angeles, Cal. A verdict ot guil ty ot first degree murder with a rec ommendation for a sentence ot lite Imprisonment was returned at 9:40 o'clock Friday night by the jury In the triul of Herbert Wilson. Wilson was tried tor the murder ot Herbert n. Cox. iMAraife ELEANOR H. PORTER ILLUSTRATIONS BY RJLLMNGSTONE. COPYRIGHT BY ELEANOR H.PORTER CHAPTER V Continued. 13 . But at the table that noon Aunt Jane read It to Father out loud. So that's how I came to know just what was in it. She started first to hand it over to him to read ; but as he put out his hand to take it I guess lie saw the handwriting, for he drew back quickly, looking red and queer. "From Mrs. Anderson to you?" he asked. And when Aunt Jane nodded her head he sat still farther back lu his chair and said, with a little wave of his hand, "I never care to read other people's letters." Aunt Jane sold, "Stuff and nonsense, Charles, don't be silly!" But she pulled back the letter and read it after giving a kind ot an uneasy glance in my direction. Then Aunt Jane cleared her throat and spoke. "You will not let her go, of course, Charles; but naturally I had to read the letter to you. I will write to Mrs-. Anderson tonight." Father looked up then. "Yes," he said quietly; "and you may tell her, please, that Mary will go." r "Charles I" Aunt Jane said that. But I I al most ran around the table and hugged him. (Oh, how I wish be was the kind ot a father you could do that to I) "Charles!" suld Aunt Jane again. "Surely you aren't going to give In so tamely as this to that child and her mother I" "I'm not giving In at all, Jane," said Father, very quietly again. "I am con sulting my own wishes In the mutter, I prefer, to have her go." I I 'most cried out then. Some way, It hurt to have him say It like that, right out that he wanted me to go. You see, I'd begun to think he was getting so he didn't mind so very much having me here. All the lust two weeks he'd been different, reully dif ferent But more ot thnt anon. I'll go on with what happened at the table. And, as I said, I did feel bad to have him speak like that. And I can re member now Just how the lump came right up In my throat Tli en Aunt June spoke, stiff and dig nified. "Oh, very well, of course, It you put It that way. I can quite well under stand that you would want her' to go for your sake. But I thought that, under the circumstances, you would manage somehow to put up with the noise and" "Jane I" Just like that he Interrupt ed, and he thundered, too, so that Aunt June actually Jumped. And I guess I did, too. He had sprung to his feet. "Jane, let us close this mat ter once for all. I am not letting the child go for my sake. I am letting her go for her own. So far as I am concerned, If I consulted no one's wishes but my own, I should keep her here always." With that he turned and strode from the room, leaving Aunt Jane and me Just staring after Mm. But only for a minute did I stare. It cume to me then what he hud said that he would like to keep me here always. For I had heard It, even If be had said the last word very low, and lu a queer, Indistinct, voice. I was sure I had heard it, and I suddenly realized wlfut It nieuut. So I ran after him; and that time, If I had found hliu, I think I would have hugged him. But I didn't find li i til. He must have gone quite away from the house. He wasn't even out to the observatory. I went out to see. The next day he was more as he has been since we had that talk In the parlor. And he has been different since then, you know. He reully hus. He has talked quite a lot with me, as I have suld, and I think he's been try Ing, part of the time, to find something I'll be Interested lu. Honestly, I think he's been trying to make up for Carrie Heywood and Stella Muyhew and Churlle Smith and Mr. Livingstone. I think thut'i why he took me to walk that duy In the woods, and why he took me out to the observatory to see the stars quite a number of times. Twice he's asked me io play to him and once he asked me If Mary wasn't about ready to dress up In Marie's clothes again. But he was Joking then, I knew, for Aunt Jane wss right there In the house. Besides, I saw the twinkle In his eyes that I've seen there once or twice before. I Just love that twinkle In Father's eyes I But thnt hasn't come any since Mother's letter to Aunt Jane arrived. He's been the same In one way, yet different In another. Honestly, If It didn't seem too wildly absurd for any thing, I should say he was actually orry to have me go. But, of course, that Isn't possible. Oh, yea, I know he suld that dny at the dinner table that he should like to keep me always. But 1 don't think he really meant It He hasn't acted a mite Ilk that since, and I guess he said It Just to hush up Aunt Jane, and make her stop arguing the matter. Anyway, I'm going tomorrow. And I'm so excited I can hardly breathe. CHAPTER VI. When I Am Both Together. BOSTON AGAIN. Well, I came last night. Mother and Grandfather and Aunt Hattle and Baby Lester all met me at the station. And, my I wasn't I glad to see them? Well, I just guess I was I I was speciully glad on account of having such a dreadful time with Fa ther that morning. I mean, I was feeling specially lonesome and home sick, and not-belonglng-anywhere like. He never even spoke at the break fast-table. (He wasn't there hardly long enough to speak, anyway, and he never ate a thing, only his coffee I mean he drank It.) Then he pushed his chair back from the tuble and stalked out of the room. He went to the station with me; but he didn't talk there much, only to ask If I was sure I hadn't forgotten anything, and was I warmly clad. Warmly dud, Indeed! And there It was still August, and hot as It could be! But that only goes to show how absent-minded lie was, and how little he was really thinking bf me I Oh, I did so hope he wouldn't go down to the Junction. It's so hard to be token care of "because It's my duty, you know 1" But he weut. I told him he needn't, when he was getting on the train with me. I told him I just knew I could, do It beautifully all by myself, almost-a-young lady like me. But he only put his lips together hard, There Was Company That Evening. The Violinist and said, coid, like Ice: "Are you then so eager to be rid of me?" Just as If I was the one that was eager to get rid of somebody I Well, as I said, he went. But he wasn't much better on the train than he had been In the station. He was as nervous and fidgety as a witch, and he acted as If he did so wish it would be over, and over quick. But at the Junction at the Junction a funny thing happened. He put me on the train, Just as Mother find done, and spoke to the conductor. (How I hated to have hliu do that I Why, I'm six whole months older, 'most than I was when I went up there!) And then, when he'd put me In my sent (Father, I mean ; not the conductor), all of a sud den he leaned over and kissed me; kissed me Father! Then, before 1 could speak, or even look at him, he was gone; and I didn't see him ngnln though it must have been five whole minutes before tlmt train went I had a nice trip down to Boston, though nothing much happened. This conductor was not near so nice and polite as the one I hud coining up; and there wasu t any lady with a baby to play with, nor any nice young gentleman to loan me magazines or buy candy for me. But It wasn't a very long ride from the Junction to Boston, auyway. So I didn't mind. Besides. I knew I had Mother waiting for me. And wasn't I glad to get there? Well, I Just guess I was! And they acted as If they w ere glad to see me Mother, Grandfather, Aunt Hattle, and even Baby Lester. He knew me, and remembered me. Hed grown a lot too. And they said I had, and that I looked very nice, (t forgot to say that ot course, I had put on the Marie clothes to come home In though I ill honestly think Aunt Jane wanted to send me borne In Mary's blue gingham and calfskin shoes. As if I'd have ap peared In Boston In that rig !) My, but it was good to -get into an automobile again and just go! And It was so good to have folks around you dressed in something besides don't-care black alpaca and still collars. And I said so. And Mother seemed so pleased. "You did want to come back to me, darling, didn't you?" she cried, giving me a little hug. And she looked so happy when I told her all over again how good it seemed to be Marie again, and have her and Boston, and automo biles, and pretty dresses and folks and noise again. She didn't say anything about Father then; but later, when we were up In my pretty room alone, and I was tak ing off my things, she made me tell her that Father hadn't won my love away from her, and thut I didn't love hlin better than I did her; and that I wouldn't rather stay with hiui than with her. And she asked was he lonesome; and I told her no, I didn't think so; and that, anyway, he could have all the ladles' company he wanted by just being around when they called. And when she asked what I meant, I told her about Mrs. Darling, and the rest, and how they came evenings and Sun days, and how Father didn't like them, but would flee to the observatory. And she laughed and looked funny, for a minute. But right away she changed and looked very sober, with the kind of expression she has when she stands up In church nnd says the Apostles' Creed on Sunday; only this time she said she was very sorry, she was sure ; that she hoped my father would find some estimable woman who would make a good home for him. Then the dlnner-gong sounded, and she didn't say any more. There was company that evening. The violinist. He brought his violin, and he and Mother pluyed a whole hour together. He's awfully handsome. I think he's lovely. Oh, I do so hope he's the one! Anyhow, I hope there's some one. I don't want this novel to all fizzle out without there being any one to make It a love story I Besides, as I said before, I'm particularly anx ious that Mother shall find somebody to marry her, so she'll stop being di vorced, anyway. A MONTH LATER Yes, I know It's been ages since I've written here In this book; but there Just hasn't been a minute's time. First, of course, school begun, and I had to attend to that. And, of course, I had to tell the girls all about Andersonville except the parts I didn't want to tell, about Stella May hew, and my coming out of school. I didn't tell that. And right here let me say how glad I wus to get back to this school a real school so different from that one up in Andersonville! For that matter, everything's different here from what It Is In Andersonville. I'd so much rather be Marie than Mary. I know I won't ever be Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde here. I'll be the good one all the time. Mother's a dear. And she's so hap py ! And, by the way, I think It Is the violinist. He's here a lot, and she's out with him to concerts and plays, and riding in his automobile. And she always puts on her prettiest dresses, and she's very particular about her shoes, and her huts, thnt they're becoming, and all that. Oh, I'm so excited! And I'm having such a good time watching them I Oh, I don't mean watching them In a disagreeable way, so that they see It; and, of course, I have to get all I can for the book, you know; and, ot course, If I Just happen to be In the window-seat corner In the library and hear things accidentally, why, that's all right. And I have heard things. He says her eyes are lovely. He likes her best in blue. He's very lone ly, and he never found a woman be fore who really understood him. He. thinks her soul and his are tuned to the same string. (Oh, dear! That sounds funny and horrid, and not at all the way it did when he said It It was beautiful then. But well, that is what It meant, anyway.) She told him she was lonely, too, and that she was very glad to have him for a friend ; nnd he said he prized her friendship above everything else in the world. And he looks nt her, and follows her around the room with his eyes; and she blushes up real pink and pretty lots ot times when he comes into the room. Now, If that Isn't making love to each other, I don't know what Is. I'm sure he's going to propose. Oh, I'm so excited! I haven't heard from Father. Now just my writing thut down that way shows that I expected to hear from him, though I don't really see why I should, either. Of course, he never has written to me; and, of course, I understand that I'm nothing but his daughter by order of the court But, some way, I did think maybe he'd write me Just a little bit of a note In answer to mine my bread and butter letter, I mean ; for, of course, Mother had me write that to him as soon as I got here. But he hasn't I wonder how he's getting along, and if he misses me any. But, ot course, he doesn't do that If I was a star, now I (TO BE CONTINUED.) Molasses en the Water. During a hurricane In the West In dies the tank steamship I'hlllp Pub lirker, carrying molasses In bulk, pumped overboard 2SO.OUO gallons of the liquid to smooth off the sens and break their force. Hie action of the molasses on the water seemed to have the same effect aa oil. Ship News.