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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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