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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1923)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other B filings Worth Knowing. Request for a return to wages In effect prior to July 1, 1921, was made of the railroad labor board Wednesday by the United Brotherhood of Mainten ance of Way employes and railway shop laborers. Abraham L. Erlanger of New York, testifying Tuesday In a 1270,000 ac counting suit he had brought against Marc Klaw, declared that the famous theatrical partnership had been dis solved because Klaw had played hook ey In Europe. Announcement was made In the house of commons Tuesday evening by Ronald McNeill, under-secretary of the foreign office, that Great Britain did not intend to raise a discussion of the Chester concession at the Lau sanne peace conference, An earthquake of moderate Inten sity was recorded on the seismograph at Gonzales observatory In Victoria, B. C., Wednesday morning, the record continuing for an hour. The shock was contered about 1000 miles from Victoria, It was estimated. Cardinal Schulte, archbiBhop of Cologne, has arrived In Rome to out line to the pope the situation In Ger many, especially conditions In the Ruhr, and urge that the pontiff use his Influence to alleviate the suffer ings of the German people. A cloudburst near Needmore, Texas, flooded the valley of. Bonita creek Wednesday and sent a wall of-water crashing through Needmore, through which the creek makes Its tortuous course. It left a scene of desolation and filled many homes with debris. The British government proposes to address a communication to the Rus sian government in regard to the series of acts committed by the latter in which British subjects have been the victims, the house of commons was informed Wednesday by Ronald Mc Neill, under secretary of foreign af fairs. Advances of 25 cents a hundred pounds in the price of refined cane and beet sugar, effective Wednesday, in- stead of 20 cents as announced Tues day, were announced by the Western Sugar Refinery and the Spreclqels Sugar company In San Francisco. The new price for cane sugar Is $10.05 and for beet sugar $9.85. The hearing on the government's ap plication for a temporary injunction restraining the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange from further trading in raw sugar futures unless backed by actuul ownership or control of the commodity will be heard in New York before the four judges of the United States circuit court of appeals Monday. Coney Island and Far Rockaway, two of New York's best known sea shore resorts, were visited Tuesday afternoon by fires that caused dam age estimatod at $500,000. A tiny spark, flying from an electric mortar- mixing machine, Bet the blaze in Far Rockaway that destroyed the 350-room Hotel Tack-a-Pou-Sha and 3000 bath houses on Ostond beach. Tremendous earth and sea disturb ances have taken place recently in the Arctic and may still be continuing, ac cording to Chita dispatches Tuesday, giving details of the earthquake re cently reported at 1'etropavlovsk, Kam chatka, which carried several buildings into the Bea. The total casualties are not known but the loss of 21 lives Is already definitely established. Glndwoll G. Richardson, 19, confess ed Tuesday morning to the slaying ot Rabbi Alfred O. Lafee in a San Fran cisco hotel on April 4 In a statement made to Assistant County Attorney Hart. The confession was taken down by the district attorney's stenographer and follows out In detail the diary found on his person when arrested early Monday morning. F. A. Davis, forest ranger,, had a thrilling adventure last week when he was out on a survey ot the Bnow in the Seven-Mile hill district near Albany. He attempted to kill a big bear with two shots from a ."8-caliber revolver and after wounding the bear viftth one, missed his target entirely with the other. Returning to his cabin he secured an ax and after stunning the bear he killed It with his pocket knife. CURRENT WEEK SHIPS WIN LIQUOR RIGHTS U. S. Supreme Court Holds Ban Void Past 3-Mile Limit. Washington, D. C. Intoxicating liquors, even under seal, cannot law fully be brought In American or foreign ships within three miles of the shores of the United States, the supreme court held Monday in a decision which declared, however, that outside the three-mile limit American vessels can legally sell intoxicants to passengers. The right of foreign ships to do so had not been questioned. The opinion, rendered in ten cases brought by foreign and two by Amer ican Bteamship companies, was deliver ed by Justice Vandevander. Without expressing his views, Justice McRey- nolds dissented. Justice Sutherland in a dissenting opinion agreed with the majority of the court in reference to American ships, but declared that foreign ves sels had the right to bring liquors into American ports under restrictions ade quately guarding against leakage ashore. The effect of the decision was to affirm that of Federal Judge Hand in New York insofar as it sustained the opinion of Attorney-General Daugh erty that intoxicants could not legally be brought into American ports and to reverse It with regard to the right of Amerfcan vessels to have liquor aboard on the high seas and In foreign ports. The court pointed out specifically that congres has the power, If it sees fit to exercise it, to forbid all ships flying the American flag to carry and serve liquors outside the three-mile limit, This view of the court resulted in predictions by many "dry" leaders, after the gist, of the decision had be come known, that an attempt would be made to obtain legislation on this point at the earliest opportunity.' Sweeping in its scope, the decision left administration officials somewhat at sea as to how they would proceed as a matter of permanent policy. Chair man Lasker, of the shipping board, an nounced that for the present at least the ban on liquor would be kept on all shipping board vessels. The treasury, it became known, intends to begin at once to redraft its prohibiting arrange ments to make them jibe with Mon day's decision. Federal Prohibition Commissioner Haynes, expressing gratification at the court's Interpretation ot the law, de clared it would greatly simplify pro hibition enforcement within American territorial waters, his view being that a benefit would be gained as a result of. foreign and American vessels being placed on the same basis within the three-mile limit. Sugar Boycott Planned. Salem, Or. Salem's women's clubs have decided to offer vigorous protest against the Increasing sugar prices The women propose to resort to the boycott and will urge that the sweet be eliminated from the fruit-canning process this season. This action Is in line with steps already taken by many ot the women's clubs In the eastern states, It was said. Mayor Giesy and several members of the council are urging a demon stration against the rising sugar prices. Robbers Take $80,000. Atlantic City, N. J. After binding and gagging Mrs. Florence Richard son, her daughter Mary and a maid, four armed men Monday ransacked the Richardson seashore home and es caped with $80,000 in Jewelry, silver ware and other valuables. Mrs. Rich ardson Is the wife of the president of a Philadelphia exporting firm and part owner of the Washington American league baseball club. Mr. Richardson is in England. Heel a to Pay $500,000. Spokane, Wash. A $500,000 divi dend 50 cents on each $1 share was announced here Monday night by the Ilecla Mining company. This will be twice the size of the distribution paid in March. The present dividend will be payable June 15 to stockholders of record May 15. This dividend will make the total for this year $750,000 and the grand total $10,705,000. Carnarvon It Burled. Newbury, England. In a grave dug in the chalk atop Beacon Hill, the scene ot his childhood's games and overlooking his old home, Highclere castle, the body of the earl of Carnar von was laid at rest Monday. A motor tractor conveyed the body up the hill side. Only members of the family were present. American Bill Filed. Washington, D. C The state depart ment has filed with the American-German claims commission a claim for $255,000,000, the cost to the United States of maintaining an army ot occu pation In Germany. I FOR PRICE-FIXING Bloc Leaders in Congress to Revive Measures. RADICALS GAIN AID Agricultural Coterie May Temper Clamor for Aid if 1923 Quo. tations Are High. Washington, D. C. Government ac tion to stabilize the price of agricul tural products will be pressed in the next congress by farm bloc and radical republican members who are seeking to control the balance of power In both houses. The farm bloc leaders who con trolled the agricultural committee In the last congress but did not have strength enough to swing their legis lation, succeeded In getting favorable committee action on several bills pro posing federal control of prices. Now with the radical strength greatly In creased in both houses, the bloc lead ers have high hopes of pushing some of these measures through. It is admitted by the bloc pilots ot both parties that the movement for federal price stabilization depends considerably upon prices which the farmers will receive for crops this year. If there should be a general high level of prices to the farmers and crops are abundant, the American agri culturalist may temper his clamoring for government aid, but if the present level of agricultural prices continue and at the same time the farmer is still called upon to pay the prevalent prices for his supplies, the agitation for price stabilization legislation will be greater than ever. During the last session of congress wheat growers of the northwest sent delegations to Washington to urge leg islation to insure a proper return to the farmer. Support for the legisla tion was centered chiefly In the north west, although growers of a few farm products other than wheat also join ed in the request for legislation. Most of the proposed bills create some sort of a corporation to buy a sufficient amount ot farm products to stabilize prices. Some of them specify minimum prices, while others do not. One of the bills which Is certain to be revived In the next session of congress is that of Senator Gooding, republican, Idaho, creating a wheat stabilizing cor poration. This bill was Introduced in the senate Just a month before the ad journment of congress and was re ported favorably by the committee on agriculture during the closing weeks of the session. The Gooding bill provides that the quaranteed price of No. 1 northern spring wheat of the crop of 1923 should be $1.75 a bushel. Guaranteed prices for grades of wheat other than No. 1 northern spring wheat would be established upon a proportionate basis by the corporation. Under the Gooding measure the gov ernment would subscribe $300,000,000 as the capital stock of the corpora tion. The corporation would be auth orized to purchase wheat at the guar anteed price whenever the market price dropped below that figure. BOAT AND $100,000 LIQUOR LOAD TAKEN San Francisco. The trawler Heron, supposed rum-runner, loaded with 1000 cases ot liquor valued at $100,000, was captured in San Francisco bay Satur day after a chase by the coast guard boat Tulare. The crew of the Heron was overpowered by the Tulare's men after pistols had been drawn by both sides. No shots were fired. The Tulare sighted the Heron with her lights doused, while Bhe was steal ing Into the harbor. A chase ensued and the Tulare crew with drawn pistols boarded the other craft. Cap tain Gottfried Benson ot the trawler and his men, after some show of re sistance, surrendered to the coast guard force, which was commanded by Captain August Anderson. Explosion Rock City. Atlantic City. Explosion of a steam boiler in the plant of the Atlantic City Gas company Sunday wrecked the en gine room, shattered windows within a radius of a mile, and frightened hundreds of residents throughout the city. The detonation rocked buildings In the district and was followed by a fire. One man was Injured. The north wall of the building collapsed while firemen were Inside, but It fell outward. FARMERS TO FIGH MISS REAL HUMAN BEINGS To write that Zona Gale's "Mies Lulu Bett" Is good reading is like "carrying coala to Newcastle" only more bo. As almost every body knows, the story is so unmis takably real American stuff that there was an Immediate demand for Its dramatization With little change It was put on the stage. The play was as successful as the book. It took the Pulitzer prize for 1921. The Judges declared It the "best American play of the year, tending to Increase the educational value of the Btage and raise the standards of manners and morals." "Miss Lulu Bett" depicts small town life in the Middle West with stark realism. Her characters are everyday human people. The life is everyday life. The author has achieved a triumph In that she has given us Btark realism which Is free from the grossness with which It is popularly associated. And the story is good reading beside don't forget that! Miss Gale Uvea in Portage, Wis., where she has written a dozen nov els and scores of short stories. She's a college woman and got into literature via the best route work on a newspaper. - I April. The Deacons were at supper. In the middle of the tuble was a small, appealing tulip plant, looking as any thing would look whose sun was a gas Jet. This , i jet was high above the table and flared with 'a sound. "Better turn down the gas jest a little," Mr. Deacon said, and stretched up to do so. He made this joke almost every night. He seldom spoke as a man speaks who has something to say, but as a man who makes something to say. "Well, what have we on the festive board tonight?" he questioned, eyeing It. "Festive" was his favorite adjec tive. "Beautiful," too. In October he might be heard asking: "Where's my beautiful fall coat?" "We have creamed salmon," replied Mrs. Deacon gently. "On toast," she added, with a scrupulous regard for the whole truth. Why she should say this so gently no one can tell. She says everything gently. Her "Could you leave me another bottle of milk this morning?" would wring a milk man's heart. "Well, now, let us see," said Mr. Deacon, and attacked the principal dish benignly. "Let us see," he added, as he served. "I don't want any," said Monona. The child Monona was seated upon a book and a cushion, so that her little triangle of nose rose adultly above her plate. Her remark pro duced precisely the effect for which she had passionately hoped. "What's this?"' cried Mr. Deacon "No salmon?" "No," said Monona, inflected up, chin pertly pointed. She felt het power, discarded her "sir." "Oh now, Pet!" from Mrs. Deacon, on three notes. "You liked It before." "I don't want any," said Monona, Id precisely her original tone. "Just a little? A very little?" Mr. Deacon persuaded, spoon dripping. The child Monona made her lips thin and straight and shook her heud until her straight hair flapped In her eyes on either side. Mr. Deacon's eyes anx iously consulted his wife's eyes. What Is this? Their progeny will not eat? What can be supplied? "Some bread and milk!" cried Mrs. Deacon brightly, exploding on "bread." One wondered how she thought of It. "No," said Monona, Inflection up, chin the same. She was affecting In difference to this scene, In which her soul delighted. She twisted her head, bit her lips unconcernedly, and turned her eyes to the remote. There emerged from the fringe of things, where she perpetually hovered, Mrs. Deacon's older sister, Lulu Bett, who was "making her home with us." And that was precisely the case. They were not making her a home, good ness knows. Lulu was the family beast of burden. "Can't I make her a little milk toast?" she asked Mrs. Deacon. Mrs. Deacon hesitated, not with compunction nt accepting Lulu's offer, not diplomatically to lure Monona. But she hesitated habitually, by na ture, as another is by nature vivacious or brunette. "Yes!" shouted the child Monona. The tension relaxed. Mrs. Deacon assented. Lulu went to the kitchen. Mr. Deacon served on. Something of this scene was enacted every day. For Monona the drama never lost Its zest. It never occurred to the others to let her sit without eating, once, as a cure all. The Deacons were devoted par ents and the child Monona was - deli cate. She had a white, grave face, white hair, white eyebrows, white lushes. She was sullen, anemic. They let her wear rings. She "toed In." The poor child was the late birth of a late marriage and the principal joy which she hnd provided for them thus far was the pleased reflection that they had produced her at alt. "Where's your mother, Ina?" Mr. Deacon Inquired. "Isn't she coming to her supper?" "Tantrlm," said Mrs. Deacon softly. "Oil, ho," said he, nnd snld no more. The temper of Mrs. Bett, who also lived with them, had days of high vi bration when she absented herself from the table as a kind of self indulgence, and no one could persuade her to food. "Tnntrlms," they called these occasions. "Baked potatoes," said Mr. Deacon. "That's good that's good. The baked potato contains more nourishment than potatoes prepared 'In any other LULU By ZONA GALE Copyright by D. Appleton Company way. The nourishment is next to the skin. Boasting rttalns It" "That's what I always think," said his wife pleasantly. For fifteen years they had agreed about this. They ate, in the Indecent silence of first savoring food. A delicate crunch ing of crusts, an odor of baked-potato shells, the slip and touch of the silver. "Num, num, nummy-num r'sang the child Monona loudly, and was hushed by both parents In simultaneous excla mation which rivaled this lyric out burst. They were alone at table. Di, daughter of a wife early lost to Mr. Deacon, was not there. Dl was hardly ever there. She was at that age. That age, In Warbleton. A clock struck the half hour. "It's curious," Mr. Deacon observed, "how that clock loses. It must be fully quarter to." He consulted his watch. "It Is quarter to 1" he exclaimed with satisfaction. "I'm pretty good at guessing time." "I've noticed that!" cried his Ina. "Last night, it was only twenty three to, when the half hour struck," he reminded her. "Twenty-one, I thought." She was tentative, regarded him with arched eyebrows, mastication suspended. This point was never to be settled. The colloquy was Interrupted by the child Monona, whining for her toast. And the doorbell rang. "Dear me!" said Mr. Deacon. "What can anybody be thinking of to call Just at mealtime?" He trod the hall, flung open the street door. Mrs. Deacon listened. Lulu, coming In with the toast, was warned to silence by an uplifted fin ger. She deposited the toast, tiptoed to her chair. A withered baked po tato and cold creamed salmon were on her plate. The child Monona ate with shocking appreciation. Nothing could be made of the voices in the hall. But Mrs. Bett's door was heard softly to unlatch. She, too, was lis tening. A ripple of excitement was caused in the dining room when Mr. Deacon was divined to usher some one to the parlor. Mr. Deacon would speak with this visitor in a few moments and now returned to his table. It was notable how slight a thing would give him a sense of self-importance. Now he felt himself a man of affairs, could not even have a quiet supper with his family without the outside world de manding him. He waved his hand to Indicate it was nothing which they should know anything about, resumed his seat, seryed himself to a second spoon of salmon and remarked, "More "More Roast Duck, Anyoody?" In a Loud Voice. roast duck, anybody?" In a loud voice nnd with a slow wink at his wife. That lady at first looked blank, as she always did In the presence of any hu mor couched with the least indirec tion, and then drew back her chin and caught her lower lip In her gold-filled teeth. This was her conjugal rebuk ing. Swedenborg always uses "conju glal." And really this sounds more married. It should be used with ref erence to the Deacons. No one was ever more married than they at least Mr. Deacon. He made little con jugal jokes In the presence of Lulu who now, completely unnerved by the habit, suspected them where they did not exist, feared lurking entendre In the most Innocent comments, and be came more tense every hour of her life. And now the eye of the master of the house fell for the first time upon the yellow tulip In the center of his table. "Well, well 1" he said. "What's this?" Ina Deacon produced, fleetly, an unlooked-for dimple. "Have you been buying flowers?" the master Inquired. "Ask Lulu," said Mis. Deacon. He turned his attention full upon Lulu. "Suitors?" he Inquired, and his Hps left their places to form a sort ot ruff about the word. BETT - Lulu flushed, and her eyes and thell very brows appealed. "It was a quarter," she said. "There'll be five flowers." "You bought it?" "Yes. There'll be five that'i nickel apiece." His tone was as methodical as if he had been talking about the bread. "Yet we give you a home on the supposition that you have no money to spend, even for necessities." His voice, without resonance, cleft air, thought, spirit, and even flesh. Mrs. Deacon, Indeterminately feel ing her guilt in having let loose the dogs of her husband upon Lulu, In terposed: "Well, but, Herbert Lulu isn't strong enough to work. What's the use ..." She dwindled. For years the fiction had been sustnlned that Lulu, the family beast of burden, was not strong enough to work anywhere else. 'The Justice business " said Dwlght Herbert Deacon he was a Justice of the peace "and the dental profes sion " he was also-a dentist "do not warrant the purchase of spring flow ers In my home." "Well, but, Herbert" It was his wife again. "No more," he cried briefly, with a slight bend of his head. "Lulu meant no harm," he added, and smiled at Lulu. There was a moment's silence Into which Monona Injected a loud "Num, num, numrny-num," as If she were the burden of an Elizabethan lyric. She seemed to close the incident. But the burden was cut off untimely. There was, her father reminded her porten tously, company In the parlor. "When the bell rang, I was so afraid something had happened to Dl," said Ina, sighing. "Let's see," said Di's father. "Where Is little daughter tonight?" He must have known that she was at Jenny Plow's at a tea party, for at noon they had talked of nothing else; but this was his way. And Ina played his game, always. She Informed him, dutifully. "Oh, ho," said he, absently. How could he be expected to keep his mind on these domesllc trifles. "We told you that this noon," said Lulu. He frowned, disregarded her. Lulu had no delicacy. "How much is salmon the can now?" he Inquired abruptly this was one of his forms of speech, the can, the pound, the cord. His partner supplied this Informa tion with admirable promptness. Large size, small size, present price, former price .she hnd them all. "Dear me," said Mr. Deacon. "That Is very nearly salmoney, Isn't it?" "Herbert I" his Ina admonished, In gentle, gentle reproach. Mr. Deacon punned, organically. In talk he often fell silent and then asked some ques tion, schemed to permit his voice to flourish. Mrs. Deacon's return was always automutic: "Herbert 1" "Whose Bert?" he said to this. ,"1 thought I was your Bert." She shook her little head. "You are a case," she told him. He beamed upon her. It was his Intention to be a case. Lulu ventured In upon this pleas antry, and cleared her throat. She was not hoarse, but she was always clearing her throat. "The butter Is about all gone," she observed. "Shall I wait for the butter-, woman or get some creamery?" Mr. Deacon now felt his little Jocu larity lost before a wall of the matter of fact. He was not pleased. He saw himself as the light of his home, bringer of brightness, llghtener of dull hours. It was a pretty role. He In sisted upon it. To maintain it Intact, It was necessary to turn upon their sister with concentrated Irritation. "Kindly settle these matters with out bringing them to my attention at mealtime," he said icily. Lulu flushed and was silent. She was nn olive woman, once handsome, now with flat, bluish shadows under her wistful eyes. And if only she would look at her brother Herbert and lay something. But she looked at her plate. "I want some honey," shouted the child, Monona. "There isn't any, Pet," said Lulu. "I want some," said Monona, eyeing her stonily. But the found that her hair-ribbon could be pulled forward to meet her lips, and she embarked on : the biting of an end. Lulu departed for some sauce and cake. It wag apple sauce. Mr. Deacon remarked that the apples were almost as good as If he had stolen them. He was giving the Impression that he was an Irrepressible fellow. He was eating very slowly. It added pleasantly to his sense of Importance to feel that some one, there In the parlor, was waiting his motion. "She took the plant to the woodshed and tumbled It with force upon the chip-pile." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Exchanged Ideas. That the Hltiltes were In constant communication with other nations Is shown by the fact that Egyptian scarabs and maulets,' Phoenician pot tery and Greek terra cotta figures are found in the tombs of different pe riods. Bronze daggers and Jewelry are fairly common and a safety pin, 3,000 years old, that would still work, Is said to have been found. The barriers are not yet erected which shut out aspiring .talent