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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1923)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Event of Noted People, Governments nd Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. The federal government has thrown up Us handB In the case of Major Alex ander P. Cronkhlte, who was killed under mysterious circumstances at Camp Lewis, Washington, in 1918, and will prosecute the matter no further. One man died and six were report ed to he in a serious condition from heat prostration suffered in cantaloupe fields near Calexlco, Cal., last week, when the apex of a heat wave was reached with a temperature of 116 de grees. "Two million children were prevent ed by American women from entering the world last year," Bishop Siglsnvund Waltz, the former spiritual teacher of Emperor Charles, told a hig clerical and monarchists gathering in Vienna recently. There was widespread property dam age but no loss of life in the recent typhoon that swept the Philippine is lands, according to reports coming in from different provinces. Roads, bridges and lines of communication suffered most. The 700 Russian refugees who re cently arrived at Shanghai from Vladi vostok, via Genaan, Korea, will not be permitted to come to the Philippines, as were their compatriots, who recent ly left Manila for the United States, according to a statement by Governor General Wood. Robert Crozier Scott, playwright and scenario writer, was found dead in his room in, Los Angeles Wednesday, his throat having been cut. The police pronounced It a case of suicide and said they found papers in the room showing that Scott's wife had filed a suit for divorce. The Italian cabinet has decided to abolish the ministries of industry, pub llo works and commerce, replacing them with a single portfolio of national economy, says a Rome dispatch. The correspondent says It is hoped the con solidation will effect a saving of sev eral million lire yearly. Ferdinand Kutz of Chicago had never seen a parrot and when a large green bird spoke to him from a tree, be thought evil spirits were about, so hastened In the house for his gun ami shot the green "dovil." Mrs. Bertha Flugge, owner of the escaped parrot, had him fined $5 and coBts. Juck Dempscy, the mnn killer from Muuassa, is a man killer no lunger. He retained his world's chuinpionship against Tommy Gibbons, the St. Paul challenger at Shelby, Mont., Wednes day afternoon, but it was by the un satisfactory margin of a referee's de cision at the end of the 15th round. Notwithstanding the unexpected im provement in tho financial condition of the treasury, Senator Smoot, re publican, Utah, who will he the new chairman of tho senate finance com mittee, said Tuesday that he does not believe that any general downward revision of taxes 1b justified in the next session of congress. When a pressing machine In a tailor hop blazed up suddenly an employe picked up a bucket of gasolino, believ ing it to be water, poured the oil on the machine and started a tire which virtually wiped out Orangufleld, Texas, a village in the Orange oil field. Thir teen buildings were consumed. The loss Is estimated at ?50,000. Testimony tending to show that the whipping given Martin Tabert, North Dakota youth was "within the law," was Introduced by the defense Tues day in the trial of Thomas Walter Hlg glnbotham, former convict whipping boss at Lake City, Fla., charged with the murder of Tabert. The state is contending Tabert died after being struck 75 to 119 times by Iltggln botham. Babies In New York city have a better chance than those lu a larger number of smaller cities, the American Child Health association declares. Cities In the 250,000 class with the lowest rates of infant mortality ac cording to the report are: Seattle, Portland, Or., and Minneapolis. The cities In the same class with the high est rates are Buffalo, Pittsburg, and Boston. FRANCE APPROVES TREATIES Two Pacts to Date Passed on by Cham berOthers Delayed. Washington, D. C. Action of the French chamber of deputies in voting ratification of the four-power pact treaty, coupled with the favorable vote last week on the naval pact, caused gratification in official circles here Monday, although some regret was evi denced at the forecast that the three other Washington treaties would not be put through at once. The five treaties negotiated at the arms conference are independent docu ments, but to a certain degree they vere designed to supplement each other and to extend the effectiveness of the general plan contemplated by the conference for removing probable causes of war. Although there will be no barrier to putting into effect the naval treaty and the Pacific pact, even though French ratification of the other treaties is delayed, the result of that delay may be to develop a somewhat peculiar situation. The Chinese treaties, oife dealing with customs matters in China and the other with political questions there, were worked out as a very vital element in the project of assuring peace in the Pacific. It was through these pacts that the conference dele gates hoped to iron out causes of in ternational friction in China and to make less likely clashes of interest in tho far east that might lead to war. This aspect of the situation is re garded as of importance at this time In view of tho disturbed conditions in China, where the power of the central government has been greatly weakened and bandit outrages have become numerous. It is felt that pro clamation of the Washington' treaties Blight have some effect toward stabil izing the situation. ' For a somewhat different reason the delay over the submarine and gas warfare treaty Is a cause iot re gret to officials here. It had been hoped at tho time of the Washington conference that the doctrines laid down in that treaty as binding upon the signatories could be extended without delay to all other nations, adding a new chapter to international law. That world progress cannot go forward, however, until the treaty has been ratified. The submarine provisions of the treaty probably are of greater impor tance to Great Britain than to the other signatories because of her geo graphical situation. It Is to be recall ed that the British delegations at the conference sought to outlaw sub marines entirely. The Root resolu tions embodied in the submarine and gas warfare treaty wero written for the purpose of finding a compromise ground in which naval opinion of all the powers could combine. Hippopotamus Is Killed. Cincinnati. The person who threw tho tennis ball Into the cage of "Zee koe," gigantic hippopotamus at the zoo, caused tho death of. that animal, famous as the largest specimen of Its kind in captivity in America. This fact was revealed at a post mortem. The tennis ball was found wedged In the hugo boast's stomach, where it formed a fatal obstruction. Tho animal, which weighted about tons, was valued at $5000, but was considered as being worth many times that sum as an attraction nt the zoo. "Zeokoe's" life was Impaired on pre vious occasions by some thoughtless visitor permitting him to swallow a woman's mesh handbag. In addition to the tennis ball, a number of pennies also wero revealed in the stomach. Fight Promoter Closes His Bank. Great Falls, Mont. The Stanton Trust & Savings bank of Great Falls, of which George H. Stanton, one of the men who assisted In financing the Dempscy -Gibbons fight at Shelby July 4, is president, closed its doors Mon day morning nt 11 o'clock when It was unable to liquidate Its obligations at the local clearing house. The closing was voluntary, uud State Superintend ent of Banks Skelton arrived here to take charge. Mr. Stanton stated after the bank closed that tho hank was solvent, but that It was Impossible to procure money to meet the concern's obliga tions. The bank's statement, issued in re sponse to a former call on June 30, showed resources of $1,174,428, with deposits of approximately $000,000. 1300 Bottles Seized. Honolulu. Customs officers here an nounced Monday they hud seized ap proximately 1300 bottles of liquor from ships docked here Binco the United States supreme court's ruling apply ing to liquor on foreign ships becamo effective. Of the amounts seized, 900 bottles wero taken from the Bteamer Ma kura, 300 from the Korea Maru, 150 from the F.elyo Maru and 30 from the 'resident Fierce. MINUTE MEN FORM 10 ENFORCE LIS Patriotic Body Is Headed by General Dawes. . 20,000 NOW BELONG Non-Partisan Group of Public-Spirited Citizens to Weed Out All Regligious Prejudices. Chicago. Born of a patriotic idea a little more than two months ago, the Minute Men of the Constitution, a non partisan organization of public-spirited citizens, working in the interest of good government and the upholding of American principles and traditions, has grown with remarkable rapidity in Illinois and is spreading to adja cent states. Care is taken to examine the stand ing and records of all applicants for membership, but more than 20,000 per sons are now enrolled In northern Illinois. In the course of a year it is believed the membership in this state will exceed 100,000, a compact, brainy, driving force that must be taken into consideration in campaigns and at all times. Sponsors of the or ganization declare it will become a pow erful national body in the course of five years. The election of men to congress and other positions of trust who are In sympathy with American tradi tions, ethics and principles and who have the nerve to stand for these things. The right of men to engage in col lective bargaining and the equal right of any and every man to work and support his family, free of interfer ence by other men. The rigid suppression of anarchy in any form or color, from the blood-red Russian bolshevik to the pale pink parlor socialist. Strict enforcement for all laws that make for the general good of the pub lic; the bringing about of a general respect for law and order, and the disciplining of foreign and native agi tators who teach disregard for every thing Americans stand for. The weeding out of all religious pre judice and persecutions because of religious beliefs. Brigadier-General Charles Dawes of "Hell an' Maria" fame, and who stood the loafing, wasteful departments at Washington on their heads, is the originator and head of the Minute Men. BOSS IS MURDEDER SAYS FLORIDA JURY Lake City, Fla. Thomas Walter Iliggtnbotham was late Saturday found guilty of the murder of Martin Tabert of North Dakota in the second degree by a jury here. The jury was out one hour and 20 minutes. Higglnbotham was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. He wus releas ed on $10,000 bond pending hearing of appeal. The former convict-whipping boss was accused of having caused the death of Tabert as the result of a beating administered while the North Dakotan was' serving a term in the Putnam Lumber company convict leased camp. The trial consumed 13 days. The death of Tabert finally resulted In an Investigation of the whole convict-leasing system and its abolish ment by the Florida legislature. That body also prohibited corporal punish ment. Before the Florida legislature convened the senate of North Dakota adopted a memorial asking the Flor ida lawmakers to investigate the death of Tabert. Aeronauts Yet Missing. Cleveland, O. The flying boat Nina of tho Aero Marine Airways Company, Inc., returned here Sunday after a six-hour search of the Canadian and American shores of Lake Erie in a fruitless effort to find some trace of Lieutenants L. J. Roth and T. B. Null, lost when the naval balloon A-6C98 fell into Lake Erie Friday after leaving Indianapolis Wednesday lu the na tional elimination air race. Portland Office Fifth. Washington, D. C Portland rank ed fifth among the leading postofflces of the country in the percentage of gain for postal business last month as compared with June, 1922. Its per centage of gain, the postofflce depart ment announced Saturday, was 14.88. Seattle ranked eighth, with a gain of 12.33 per cent. Miss V Continued. 11 Dwlght mulled this. Lulu might have told every one of these women that cock-and-bull story with which she had come home. It might be all over town. "Of course, in that case he could turn Lulu out should do so, In fact. Still the story would be all over town. "Dwight," said Lulu, "I want Nln lan's address." "Going to write to him I" Ina cried incredulously. "I want to ask him for the proofs that Dwlght wanted." "My dear Lulu," Dwlght said Impa tiently, "you are not the one to write, Have you no delicacy?" Lulu smiled a strange smile, orig inating and dying in one corner of her mouth. "Yes," she said. "So much delicacy that I want to be sure whether I'm married or not." Dwight cleared his throat with a movement which seemed to use his shoulders for the purpose. "I myself will take this up with my brother," he said. "I will write to him about it." Lulu sprang to her feet. "Write to him now I" she cried. "Really," said Dwlght, lifting his brows. "Now now I" Lulu said. She moved about, collecting writing materials from their casual lodgments on shelf and table. She set all before him nnd stood by him. "Write him now," she said again. "My dear Lulu, don't be absurd." She said: "Ina, help me. If It was Dwlght and they didn't know whether he had another wife, or not, nnd you wanted to ask him oh, don't you see? Help me." Inn was not yet the woman to cry for justice for its own sake, nor even to stand by another woman. She was primitive, and her instinct was to look to her own male merely. "Well," she said, "of course. But why not let Dwight do it in his own way? Wouldn't that be better?" She put it to her sister fairly: Now, no matter what Dwlght's way wns, wouldn't that be better? "Mother!" said Lulu. She looked Irresolutely toward her mother. But Mrs. Bett was eating earadmom seeds with exceeding gusto, and Lulu looked away. Caught by the gesture, Mrs. Bett voiced her grievance. "Lulle," she said, "Set down. Take oft your hat, why don't you?" Lulu turned upon Dwight a quiet face wldeh he had never seen before. "You write that letter to Ninlan," she said, "and you mnke him tell you so you'll understand. I know he spoke the truth. But I want you to know." "M m," said Dwlght. "And then I suppose you're going to tell It all over town as soon as you have the proofs." "I'm going to tell It all over town," said Lulu, "Just as It Is unless you write to him now." "Lulu!" cried Ina. "Oh, you wouldn't." "I would," said Lulu. "I will." Dwlght wns sobered. This un Imagined Lulu looked capable of it But then he sneered, "And get turned out of this house, as you would be?" "Dwlght !" .cried his Ina. "Oh, you wouldn't !" "I would," said Dwight. "I will. Lulu knows it." "I shall tell what I know and then leave your house anyway," said Lulu, "unless you get Ninlan's word. And I want you should write him now." "Leave your mother? And Ina?" he asked. "Leave everything," said Lulu. "Oh, Dwight,", said Ina, "we can't get along without Lulu." She did not say in what particulars, but Dwight knew. Dwlght looked at Lulu, an upward, sldewise look, with a manner of peer ing out to see 'if she meant It. And he saw. He shrugged, pursed his lips crook edly, rolled his head to signify the in expressible. "Isn't thnt like a worn nn?" lie demanded. He rose. "Rather than let you In for a show of temper," he said grandly, "I'd do anything." He wrote the letter, addressed it, his hand elaborately curved in secrecy about the envelope, pocketed it. "Ina nnd I'll walk down with yeu to mall It," said Lulu. Dwlght hesitated, frowned, nis Ina wntched hlra with consulting brows. "I was going," said Dwlght, "to pro pose a little stroll before bedtime." He roved about the room. "Where's my beautiful straw hat? There's noth ing like a brisk walk to Induce sound, restful, sleep," he told them. He hummed a bar. "You'll be all right, mother?" Lulu asked. Mrs. Bett did not look up. "These enrdamon hev got a little mite too dry," she said. In their room, Ina and Dwlght dis cussed the Incredible actions of Lulu. "I saw," said Dwlght, "I saw she wasn't herself. I'd do anything to avoid having a scene you know that." Ills glance swept a little anx Lulu By ZONA GALE Copyright by D. Appleton A Company iously his Ina. "You know that, don't you?" he sharply Inquired. "But I really think you ought to have written to Ninian about It," she now dared to say. "It's not a nice po sition for Lulu." "Nice? Well, but whom has she got to blame for it?" "Why, Ninlan," said Ina. Dwlght threw out his hands. "Her self," he said. "To tell you the truth, I was perfectly amazed at the way she snapped him up there in that res taurant." "Why, but, Dwlght" "Brazen," he said. "Oh, it was brazen." "It was Just fun, in the first place." "But no really nice woman " he shook his head. "Dwlght I Lulu Is nice. The idea!" He regarded her. "Would you have done that?" he would know. Under his fond look, she softened, took his homage, accepted everything, was silent. "Certainly not," he said. "Lulu's tastes are not fine like yours. I should never think of you as sisters." "She's awfully good," Ina said, fee bly. Fifteen years of married life be hind her but this was sweet and she could not resist. "She has excellent qualities." lie admitted It. "But look ut the position she's in married to a man who tells her he has another wife in order to get free. Now, no really nice wom an " "No really nice man " Ina did say that much. "Ah," said Dwlght, "but you could never be In such a position. No, no. Lulu is sadly lacking somewhere." Ina sighed, threw back her head, caught her lower lip with her upper, as might be in a liem. "What If it was DI?" she supposed. "DI!" Dwlght's look rebuked his wife. "DI," he said, "was born with ladylike feelings." It was not yet ten o'clock. Bobby Larkln was permitted to stay until Later On, Cornish Confided More to Dwight: He Was to Come by a Little Inheritance Some Day. ten. From the veranda came the In distinguishable murmur of those young voices. "Bobby," DI was saying within that murmur, "Bobby, you don't kiss me as If you really wanted to kiss me, to night." VI September. The office of Dwight Herbert Dea con, Dentist, Gold Work a Specialty (sic) In black lettering, and Justice of the Peace In gold, was above a store which had been occupied by one unlucky tenant after another, and had suffered long periods of vacancy when ladles' aid societies served lunches there, under great white signs, badly lettered. Some months of disuse were now broken by the news that the store had been let to a music man. A music man, what on earth was that? Warbleton Inquired. The music man arrived, Installed three pianos, and filled his window with sheet music, as sung by many ladies who swung in hammocks or kissed their hands on the music cov ers. While he was still moving In, Dwight Herbert Deacon wandered downstairs and stood Informally In the door of the new store. The music man, a pleasant-faced chnp of thirty-odd, was rubbing at the face of a piano. "Hello, there!" he said. "Can I sell you an upright?" "If I can take It out In pulling your teeth, you can," Dwlght replied. "Or," said he, "I might marry you free, either one." On this their friendship began. Thenceforth, when business was dull, the idle hours of both men were be guiled with Idle gossip. Bett "How the dickens did you think of pianos for a line?" Dwight asked hiirl once. "Now, my father was a dentist, so I came by it natural never entered my head to be anything else. But pi anos" The music man his name was Nell Cornish threw up his chin In a boy ish fashion, nnd said he'd be jiggered if he knew. All up and down the War bleton main street, the chunces nre that the answer would sound the same. "I'm studying law when I get the chance," said Cornish, as one who makes a bid to be thought of more highly. "I see," said Dwight, respectfully dwelling on the verb. Later on, Cornish confided more to Dwight: He was to come by a little Inheritance some day not much, but something. Yes, it made a man feel a certain confidence. . . . "Don't it?" said Dwight, heartily, as if he knew. Every one liked Cornish. He told funny stories, and lie never compared Warbleton save to its advantage. So at last Dwight said tentatively; at lunch : "What If I brought that Nell Cor nish up for supper one of these nights?" "Oh, Dwlghtie, do," said Ina. "If there's a man in town, let's know It." "What if I brought him up tonight?" Up went Ina's eyebrows. Tonight? "'Scalloped potatoes and meat loaf and sauce and bread and butter," Lulu contributed. Cornish came to supper. He was what Is known in Warbleton as dap per. This Ina saw as she emerged on the veranda In response to Dwlght's Informal halloo on his way upstairs. She herself was in white muslin, now much too snug, and a blue ribbon. To her greeting their guest replied In that engaging shyness which Is not awk wardness. He moved in some pleasant web of gentleness and friendliness. They asked him the usual questions, and he replied, rocking all the time with a faint 'undulating motion of head and shoulders: Warbleton was one of the prettiest little towns that he bad ever seen. He liked the people they seemed different. He was sure to like the place, already liked it. Lulu came to the door in Ninlan's thin black-and-white gown. She shook hands with the stranger, not looking at him, and said, "Come to supper, all." Monona was already in her place, singing under-breath. Mrs. Bett, after hovering In the kitchen door, entered ; but they forgot to introduce her. "Where's Di?" asked Ina. "I declare that daughter of mine is never any where." A brief silence ensued as they were seated. There being a guest, grace was to come, nnd Dwight said, unintelligi bly and like lightning, a generic ap peal to bless this food, forgive nil our Bins and finally save us. And there was something tremendous in this ancient form whereby all stages of men bow In some now unrecognized recognition of the ceremonial of tak ing food to nourish life and more. At "Anen" DI flashed in, her of fices at the mirror fresh upon her perfect hair, silk dress turned up at the hem. She met Cornish, crimsoned, fluttered to her seat, Joggled the cable and, "Oh, dear," Bhe said audibly to her mother, "I forgot my ring." The talk wns saved alive by a frank effort. Dwight served, making jests about everybody coming bnck for more. They went on with Warbleton happenings, improvements and open ings ; and the runaway. Cornish tried hard to make himself agreeable, not Ingratiatingly, but good-r.aturedly. He wished profoundly that before coming he had looked up some more stories In the back of the Musical Gazettes Lulu surreptitiously pinched oft an ant that was running at large upon the cloth and thereafter kept her eyes steadfastly on the sugar bowl to see if it could be from that.. Dwight pre tended that those whom he was help ing a second time were getting more than their share and facetiously land ed on DI about eating so much that she would grow up and be married, first thing' she knew. At the word "married" DI turned scarlet, luughed heartily nnd lifted her glass of water. "And what Instruments do yon play?" Ina asked Cornish, in an un related effort to lift the talk to mu sical levels.. "Well, do you know," said the mu sic man, "I can't play a thing. Don't know a black note from a white one." "You don't? Why Di plays very prettily," said Dl's mother. "But? then, how can you tell what songs to order?" Ina cried. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Japanese Paper. A government expert who has been investigating the wonderful papers of Japan reports that the Japanese make water bags or rice paper, which are held to be more durable as well as less expensive than similar articles made of rubber. Between the layer of paper, which is soft and flexible, resin Is used, and the outside Is cov. ered with lacquer. Guatemala, with about 2,000,000 In habitants, has the largest population' of any of the Ceutrul American republics.