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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1922)
WORLD 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. While Vancouver, B. C, police searched a house In Chinatown for hidden drugs, a carrier pigeon flew In bearing a tube of narcotics. Two men were arrested. Four masked outlaws held, up a jewelry store at Independence, Kan., early Tuesday night and escaped In a motor car with diamonds valued at $15,000, according to a report made by Wichita police. President Harding was re-elected a director o the Pendergast Lumber company at the annual mooting of ' stockholders In Muriou, 0., Monday. He has been a director of the com pany for a number of years. Reports received by the treasury Indicate that out of the $700,000,000 of victory notes called for redemption last Friday, which were outstanding at the beginning of the month, less than $300,000,000 has been presented for redemption to date. If the Christmas rum fleet reported to be bound for New York from the Bahamas succeeds In running the blockade of the dry navy, it should find New Yorkers amply supplied with receptacles for toting the for bidden liquor, says a dispatch. A memorial from the board of super visors of San Francisco petitioning tor light wines and beer was present ed to the senate Tuesday. It stated that at the last eloction the people, by referendum, voted two to one for such an amendment to the present prohibition act. Madam Bernhardt passed a comfort able night and her physician said Tuesday no serious consequences were expected to follow her fainting spell. She will be obliged to rest sev eral duys, but It Is considered certain that she will be able to resume her work on the Paris stage soon. While the first floor of a frame building on Spruce street in PRtsburg was being swept by fire Tuesday, a child was born to Mrs. Peter Kraterln Hkt on the Becond floor. Mrs. Krator lnskl and her baby were carried out by the firemen. The physician fol lowed. None suffered any serious injury. Declaring that United States prohi bition agents violated the fourth amondment of the constitution In making raids without proper search warrants, Judge Thompson In the Uni ted States district court of Phllndel phla Tuesday dismissed two liquor cuses Involving several hundred thou Biuid dollars. Twenty officers and'stock salesmon of the Waterloo Creamery company In Omaha, Nob., were indicted Monday by a federal grand jury for alleged use of the malls to defraud In connection with the promotion and financing of that company, now In receivership, llonds wore fixed at $5000 for each of the defendants. Announcement was made that the Pulestlne government has arranged for a loan of 2,500,000 to be floated in Loudon. Ponding conclusion of ar rangements for the loan, the crown agents In England advanced consider able sums at various times; thus 1 250,000, or half of the loan, already has been expended. May Walker OUio Homestead Ilulstoln cow, owned by the Minnesota Ilolsteln company at Austin, Minn., has brokeu the world's record for a year's production of butter. Hor fig' live for 305 days ending at midnight Monday night was 1217.27 pounds of butter fat, the equivalent of 1521.6 pounds of butter, according to L. E. Kberhardt, president of the company and munuger of an Omaha packing plant. Twenty men who were aboard tho tug ltellunee, wrecked on tho rocks of tho Lizard islands In Lake Superior lust Wednesday and who spent five days on the Islands with scant shelter from the sub-sere temperature and with scarcely any food, arrived In Sault Ste. Marie Tuesday night. Three others are aboard the tug Gray, now engaged In taking off Lake Superior light keepers, and will ho brought In later this week. INDUSTRY DRILLS FOR WAR Secretary Weeks Gives Out Plan for Organization of All Labor. Washington, D. C How the war department Is working toward a plan of industrial preparedness, capable of marshalling American material re sources In orderly support of Ameri can man power should a national emergency demand It, was revealed by Secretary Weeks In an article pre pared for the January Issue of the Nation's Business, official organ of the chamber of commerce of the Uni ted States. Already, the secretary wrote, 13 ordnance districts have been marked out as a part of the industrial mobilization plan, in each "a civilian leader, a man high in the business life of his community?' has volunteered to serve as a point of intimate contact between the government and business interests which could be of service in war time production. Progress also has been made toward establishing a similar contact with airplane produ cers and a uniform fixed price con tract has been drawn In tentative form for use In future war purchases. The logical development of this project, Mr. Weeks added, would be the creation of a civilian general staff to control war-time industrial mobiliza tion. He suggests that in furtherance of the plan it may be advisable to place from year to year "small educa tional orders" to fill peace-time needs and' to maintain a skeleton organiza tion readily convertible to war ar rangements. "There are being established be tween tho war department and Amer ican industrial life everywhere," said the article, "points of contact that shpuld bring the American people Into this business of making ready in peace for the task that the American people alone can accomplish in war. It Is in our ordnance problem we have been able to make the most head way thus far. The ordnance districts marked out in relation to the peace time industrial establishment avail able in each district for ordnance pro duction are 13 in number and are known, respectively, as the Baltimore, Boston, Bridgeport, Chicago, Cincin nati, Cleveland, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Rochester, San Francisco and 3t. Louis districts. 'The chief of the districts so far appointed are as follows (The military titles, where used, indicating reserve commission) : Colonel C. H. Tenney, at Boston; Colonel B. A. Franklin, at Bridgeport; E. A. Russell, Chicago; C. L. Harrison, at Cincinnati; Colonel BaBcom Little, at Cleveland; F. J. Robinson, at Detroit; Colonel John R. Delafield, at New York; J. C. Jones, at Philadelphia; R. M. Dravo, at Pitts burg, and M. E. Singleton, at St. Louis. 'These men will have the war-time Job of procuring 90 per cent of ord nance material, as government arsen als can produce at most but 10 per cent. It Is to bo noted that this entire project rests upon the patriotic will ingness of civilians, be they reserve officers or not, who have volunteered to undertake this work." Fall to Go, Says Rumor. Washington, D. C The dull days Immediately preceding the holidays in Watthiugjou ure always fruitful of ru mors of expected resignations of cab inet members. This time, according to a report broadcast Friday, Albort Bacon Fall, secretary of the interior, is to resign soon and is to be succeed ed by Canul Thompson of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Thompson was assistant secre tary of the interior during a part of the Tuft administration and luter sec retnry to President Taft. He also was tho unsuccessful candidate for governor ot Ohio la the November election. Soviet Claims Victory. Moscow. After six months of watchful waiting tho United States suddenly has urrlved at the conclusion that soviet Russia was a real factor in world economics and must be reck oned with, according to an assertion made by M. Kameneff, president of the Moscow soviet, at the opening of tho all-Russian congress Saturday. M. Kameneff spoke in the place ot M. Lenlne, the premier who, he an uounced, had prepared an extensive report, but deferring to the advice of his doctor would not leave his home for several days, owing to the fact that he was ill from overwork. Many Offenders Freed. Rome. The amnesty decree Just signed by King Victor Emmanuel covers-all civil and military crimes committed In connection with national movements or alms and also crimes caused by disturbances due to eco nomic or social causes, with tho ex ceptlon ot those for which Imprison ment for more than three years hud been imposed. It does not apply to offenses committed for exclusively personal motives. , 15 10 FIX INDEMNITY Plan Emerges From Effort to Find Solution.- . C0MNISSI0N WANTED Negotiations Kept Out of Government Channels; Action Carried on Behind Scenes. Washington, D. C. A plan under which an American commission would determine how much Germany should be required to pay the allies in repara tions has emerged from the effort to find a way for extending American aid toward solution of the economic troubles of Europe. . Although discussions of the proposal have been kept thus far outside the formal channels of diplomacy, the ex change of views has developed a thor ough understanding in authoritative circles that the United States, Great Britain and Germany are willing to consent to the creation of such a com mission. The plan now is . before Premier Poincare ot France and he is expected to make a decision after conferences with industrial heads of his own coun try and ot Germany. It is assumed that it will be communicated later to all the nations interested in repara tion payments. Officials of the Washington govern ment Thursday refused to discuss the plan for an American commission Secretary Hughes, however, issued a statement saying that the "govern ment had presented no "proposal" on the subject. The procedure by which all of those directly interested are sounded out before any definite "proposal" Is sub mitted with government authority be hind it is the usual method employed In negotiations of great delicacy! The secretary's statement recalled an as sertion made a few days ago by a White House spokesman, who said, in discussing the American attitude to ward Europe, that it would not be proper to display on the stage all that was taking place behind the scenes The plan for an American commis sion first was disclosed early Friday In a dispatch from London, where the proposal has been actively under dis cussion. The dispatch credited the chamber of commerce of the United States with having first laid the sug gestion before Secretary Hughes and it was learned here that much of the actual discussion which has taken place since that time has been con ducted on behalf of the American In dustry by officials of the chamber, At the state department there was a disposition to draw a sharp line ot distinction between the activities of American and other business men in regard to the problem and the moves made by government officials them selves. It became clear, however, that the two groups had kept in close touch and that not only Secretary Hughes, but Secretary Hoover and others high In the administration were fully ad vised of efforts made by President Julius II. Barnes of the chamber of commerce and men In England, France and Germany who hold similar posts in the industrial world, to find a formula for solution of the repara tions problem. Klan Garb Prohibited. Harrison, N. J. Instructions to ar rest any one appearing in the city wearing the regalia of the Ku Klux Klan and orders to have the sanity ot all such persons determined by physicians, were posted Friday by Chief ot Police Walsh. The orders, adopted by the com mon council, also Include the unmask ing of hooded individuals and ten days' imprisonment. ' Ford Buys Big Tract. Chicago. The Ford Motor company has closed a deal for a 70-acre tract of land at Hegewlsch on the Calumet river and Nickel Plate railroad, where the company expects to build an auto mobile manufacturing and assembling plant employing 16,000 men and cost lug $C,000,000 when completed. Georgia Hit By Winter. Atlanta, Co. With one section cov ered with sleet and ice and forecasts for snow, and another section slush ing through rain with temperatures slightly above freezing, the south Friday was in the grip of its first blast ot winter. Miami and points on the Florida peninsula, however, stilt were bathed In sunshine, with average temperatures ot 70 degrees. AMERICA ASKED The Mardi Gras Mystery H. Copyright hf DOUBLSDAY, PACE AND COMPANY FELL AND LUCIE SYNOPSIS.-Durlng the height of the New Orleans carnival season Jachin Fell, wealthy though some what mysterious citizen, and Dr. Ansley, are discussing a series of robberies by an Individual known as the Midnight MaBquer, who, In variably attired as an aviator, has long defied the police. Joseph Mall lard, wealthy banker, Is giving a ball that night, at which the Mas quer has- threatened to appear and rob the guests. Fell and Ansley, on their way to the afTalr, meet a girl dressed as Columbine, seeming ly known to Fell, but masked, who accompanies them to the ball. Lucie Ledanols, recently the ward of her uncle, Joseph Maillard. is the Columbine. At the ball, Bob Maillard, son of the banker, again proposes to her and is refused. He offers to buy some of her property. A Franciscan monk interests her. He turns out to be Prince Gramont. In his library Joseph Maillard and a group of his friends are held up and robbed by the Midnight Mas quer. Lucie Ledanols, the last of an old family, Is In straitened cir cumstances. Joseph Malllard's han dling lof her funds has been unfor tunate. Fell is an old friend of her parents and deeply Interested In the girl. Henry Gramont, really the Prince de Qramont, Is enamored of Lucie. CHAPTER IV-r-Continued. 5 You saw him?" repeated the girl, quickly. "What was he like? Do you know who he is?" "Certainly I know," replied Fell, still smiling at her. "Oh 1 Then who is he?" "Softly, softly, young lady ! I know him, but even to you I dare not breathe his name until I obtain some direct evidence. Let us call him Mr. X., after the approved methods of ro mance, and I shall expound what I know. , "The bandit did not enter the house during the evening, nor did he leave, nor was he found In the house after ward," he went on, tonelessly. "So, Incredible as It may appear, be was one of the guests. This Mr. X. came to the dance wearing the aviator's cos tume, or most of It, underneath his masquerade costume. When he was ready to act, he doffed his outer cos tume, appeared as the Midnight Masquer, effected his purpose, then calmly donned his outer costume again and resumed his place among the guests. You understand? "Well, then 1 Maillard yesterday re ceived a note from the Masquer, bra zenly' stating that he Intended to call during the evening. I have that note, It was written with an extremely hard pencil, such as few men carry, because It does not easily make very legible writing. Last night I asked Mr. X. for a pencil, and he produced one with an extra hard lead men tioning that he had borrowed It from Bob Maillard, as Indeed he had." "What I Surely you don't mean ' "Of course I don't. Mr. X. Is very clever, that's all. Here Is what took place last night. Mr. X. brought us another note from the Masquer, say Ing that he had found It pinned to the library door. As a matter of fact, he had written It on a leaf torn from Ills notebook. I took the note from him, observing at the time thnt the pnper had no pin holes. Probsbly Mr. X. saw that there was something amiss; lie presently went back down stairs, took the remainder of the torn lent from his notebook, and pinned It to the door. A little later I met him and mentioned the lack of pin holes; he calmly referred me to the piece on the door, saying that he had merely torn oft the note without removing the pins. You follow me?" "Of course," murmured the girl, her eyes wide In fascinated Interest. "And he knew that you guessed him to be the Masquer?" "He suspected me, I think," said Fell, mildly. "It is understood that you will not go about tracing these little clues?" "Don't be silly, Uncle Jachin !" she broke in. "Yon know I'll do nothing of the sort. Go on, please' Did you Dnd the airplane?" "Yes." Jachin Fell smiled dryly. was thinking of that as I left the house and came to the line of waiting automobiles. A word with one of the outside detectives showed me that one of the cars In the street had been test Ing lis engine about midnight. I found that the car belonged to Mr. X. "How simple, Lucie, and how very clever I The chauffeur worked a pow erful motor with a muffler cutout at about the time Mr. X., Inside the house, was making his appearance. It scarcely sounded like sn airplane mo tor, yet frightened and startled, people would Imagine that it did. Thus arose the legend that the Midnight Masquer came and departed by means of air plane a theory aided Ingeniously by his costume. Well, that Is all I know or suspect, my dear Lucie I And now" "New, I suppose," said the girl, thoughtfully, "you'll put thnt awful Creole of yours on the track of Mr. X.? Beu Chacherre Is good chauffeur, and he's smuslng enough but he's a bloritntud ! I don't wonder that he used to be criminal. Even If you have rescued Mm from a Xltfi of crime, you havie't Improved his looks." By BEDFORD-JONES "Exactly Ben is at work," asserted I Jachin Fell. "The gentleman under suspicion Is very prominent. To ac cuse him without proof would be utter folly. To catch him In flagrante delicto will be difficult. So I am in no haste. Besides, I can as yet dis cover no motive for his crimes, since he is quite well off flnanclully. Well, no matter! Now that I have fully unbosomed myself, my dear, it is your turn." All right, Uncle Jachin." Lucie took a large morocco case from the chair beside her, and extended it. You lent me these things to wear last night, and I" No, no," Intervened Fell. "I gave them to you, my dear in fact, I gave them to you two years ago, and kept them until now I You have worn them; they are yours, and you be come them better than even did poor Queen Hortensel So say no more." Lucie leaned forward and Imprint! kiss upon the cheek of the little gray man. "There! that Is all the thanks I can give you, dear uncle ; the gift makes me very happy, and I'll not pretend otherwise. Only, I feel as though I had no right to wear them they're so wonderful I" "Nonsense! But all this Isn't why you summoned me here, you bundle of mystery! What bothered you last night, or, rather, who?" Lucie laughed. "There was a Fran ciscan who tried to be very mysteri ous, and to read my mind. He talked about oil, about a grasping, hard man, and mentioned you as my friend. Then he warned me against a pro. posal that Bob might make; and sure enough, Bob did propose to buy what land Is left to me on Bayou Terre bonne, saying he'd persuade his oil company that there was oil on It, and that they'd buy or lease It. I told him no. The Franciscan, afterward, proved to be Henry Gramont ; I wondered if you had mentioned " "Heaven forbid!" exclaimed Mr. Fell, piously. "I never even met Gra mont until last night 1 Do you like him?" "Very much." The girl's eyes met his frankly. "Do you?" "Very much," said Jachin Fell., Lucie's gray eyes narrowed, searched his face. "I'm almost able to tell when you're lying," she observed "Poor Taste, Mademoiselle, to Grow Weary of Such Beauty!" calmly. "You said that a trifle too hastily. Uncle Jachin. Why don't you like him?" Fell laughed, amused. "Perhaps I have a prejudice against foreign nobles, Lucie. Our own aristocracy Is bad enough, but" "He's discarded all that. He was never French except In name." "You speak as though you'd known him for some time. Have you had secrets from me?" "I have!" laughter dimpled in the girl's face. "For years and years I When I was tn New York with father, before the war, we met him ; he was visiting in Newport with college friends. Then, you know that father and I were in France when the war broke out father was 111 and almost helpless at the time, you remember. Gramont came to Paris to serve with ids regiment, and met us there. He helped os get away, procured real money for us, got us passage to New York. He knows lots of our friends, and I've always been deeply grateful to him for his assistance then, "We've corresponded quite frequent ly during the war," she pursued. "I mentioned blm several times after we got home from France, but you prob ably failed to notice the name. It's only since he came to New Orleans that I renlly kept any secrets from you; this time I wanted to find out it you liked him." Jachin nodded slowly. Ills face was quite innocent of expression. "Yes, yes," he said. "Yes of course He' geologist or engineer, I think?" "Both, and good one. Well, About last night he probably guessed at tome of my private affairs ; I've writ ten or spoken rather frankly, perhaps. Also, Bob may have blabbed to him. Bob still drinks prohibition has not hit him very hard !" No," agreed Fell, gravely. "Unfor tunately, no. Lucie, I've discovered a most Important fact. Joseph Maillard did not own any stock in the Bayou Oil company at the time your land was sold them by him, and he had no Interest at all In the real estate con- that bought your St. Landry swamp lands and made a fortune off them. We have really blamed him most unjustly. I do not believe that he has profited In the least from you. His investments In the compunles con cerned were made afterward, and I am certain he sold the lands inno cently " Lucie drew a deep breath. "I am glad you have said this," she returned simply. "It's been hard for me to think that Uncle Joseph had taken advantage of me; I think that he honestly likes me, as far as he permits himself to like anyone." "He'd not loan you money on It," said Fell. "Friendship isn't a tangible security with him." "Well, who really did profit by my loss? Anyone?" Fell's pale gray eyes twinkled, then cleared in their usually wide inno cence. "My dear Lucie, Is there one person in this world to whose faults Joseph Maillard Is deliberately blind one person to whom he would refuse noth ing, In whom he would pardon every thing, of whom he would never believe any evil report?" "You mean " Lucie drew a quick breath "Bob?" ' - "Yes, I mean Bob., That he hag profited by your loss I am not yet In a position to say; but I suspect It. When I have finished with the Masquer, I shall take up his trail." Jachin Fell rose. "Now I must be off, my dear. "Will you dine with us tomorrow evening, Lucie? My mother commanded me to bring you as soon as possible " "Oh, your mother!" exclaimed the girl, contritely. "I was so absorbed in the Masquer thet I forgot to ask after her. How Is she?" "Quite as usual, thank you." "I'll come tomorrow night gladly, Uncle Jachin." "And we'll take a look at the Pro teus ball afterward, if you like. I'll send Ben Chacherre for you with the car, If you're not afraid of him." "I'm not exactly afraid of him," Lucie responded, soberly, "but there Is something about him thnt I can't like. I'm sorry that you're trying to regenerate him, in a way." Fell shrugged lightly. "All life is an effort, little one ! Well, goodby." Jachin Fell left ihe house at three forty. Twenty minutes later the bell rang again. Lucie sent one of the servnnts to admit Henry Gramont; she kept him waiting a full fifteen minutes before she appeared, and then she made no apologies whatever for the delay. Not that Gramont minded waiting; he deemed it a privilege to linger In this house 1 He loved to study the place, so reflective of its owner. He loved the white Colonial mantel that surrounded the fireplace, perpetually alight, with its gleaming sheen of old brasses, and the glittering fire-set to one side. The very air of the place, the atmosphere that It breathed, was sweet to him. The Napoleon bed that filled the bow window, with Its pillows and soft coverings; the Inlaid walnut cabinet made by Sheraton, with its quaintly curved glasses that reflected the old-, time curios within; the tilt tables, the rosewood chairs, the rugs, bought be fore the oriental rug market, was flooded with machlne-mnde Senna knots about everything here had an air of comfort, of long use, of restful ness. . It was not the sort of place built up, raw item by raw item, by the color-frenzied hands of decorators. It was the sort of place that decora tors strive desperately to imitate, and cannot. When she made her appearance, Gramont bent over her band and ad dressed her In French. "You are charming as ever, Shining One! And in years to come you will be still more charming. That is the beauty of having a name taken direct from the classics and bestowed as a good fairy's gift" "Thank you, monsieur but you have translated my name at least twenty times, and I am weary of hear ing it," responded Lucie, laughingly. "Poor taste, mademoiselle, to grow weary of such beauty I" "Not of the name, but of your exe gesis upon it. Why should I not be displeased? Last night you were pos itively rude, and now you decry my taste I Did you leave all your man ners In France, M. le prince?" "You ilk anybody en the In side If they ever heard of Memphis luy GumberttI" CTO UK CONTINUED.) Dally Thought Virtue Is bold and goodness never fearful. Shakespeare.