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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1923)
S OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Grain exports from the United States last week amounted to 4,627,000 bushels compared with 3,668,000 the week before. William Jennings Dryan Tuesday ad dressed the Georgia house ot repre sentatives, making a plea for reten tion of the state prohibition law and for ' prohibiting the teaching ot Dar winism. Nine persons were known to have been killed and 23 injured In an ex plosion which occurred Wednesday afternoon In the metallic shell depart ment of the Western Cartridge com pany plant at East Alton, 111. Six of the dead arewomen. Helen Ring Robinson, Colorado's first woman state senator, writer, lect urer and politician, and widely known throughout tho west as a leader of suffrage work, died In Denver, Tues day after a protracted Illness. She was about 45 years old. Sympathetic with wheat, flour broke to a new low record for about eight years, when one of the largest mills In Minneapolis set the price of J6 a barrel for family patents when sold In carlots. The decline registered at the mills ranged from 15 to 25 cents a barrel. High officials at the state depart ment authorized late Tuesday the statement they knew of no basis In fact for rumors that American recogni tion of Mexico was immediately Im minent or that negotiations to that end in Mexico City had been successfully concluded. Billy Webb, 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Webb of Bend, Or., was stung four times by a scorpion Tues day before he could dislodge the veno mous insect which had crawled into his coveralls. The bites were cauter ized and the boy will suffer no perman ent ill-effects. England experienced one ot the worat thunder storms In many years early Tuesday. It lasted from mid night to 6 o'clock In the morning. Lon don appeared to get the full brunt of the storm, remarkahle thunder and lightning display keeping the majority ot people awake for hours. Injuries which physicians fear may prove fatal were sustained by Mary Kllzubnth Harris, 9-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Harris, at a Spokane park Tuesday afternoon when bears seized her right arm which she hud thrust through the bars ot their cage and tore It from the socket. Gulseppe Borgattl, the tenor, regard ed as one ot the best In Italy In Wag nerian roles, has become totally blind despite an operation which it bad been hoped would save his Bight. He has accepted tho inevitable bravely, even cheerfully, remarking: "Fortunately I can still hear music nnd teach it." For the first time In the history of Chicago, a jury Monday night meted out the death penalty to a white wo man when Mrs. Snhello Nlttl Crudelle anil her second husband, Peter Cru delle were found guilty of the murder ot Frank Nlttl, Mrs. Crudolle's first husbapd, and death was decided on for both. Twenty-seven alleged members of the Industrial Workers ot the World were convicted of criminal syndicalism by a Jury In the superior court In Los Angeles Wednesday and within an hour after the return of the verdict had been sentenced to serve from one to 14 years each In Sun Quenttn peni tentiary. In addressing the Boulder, Colo., Democratic club Monday night, Jose pltus Daniels, former secretary of the navy, declared: "Among many other signs pointing to a sweeping demo cratic presidential victory In 1D24 is the tact that there are halt a dozen ublu men contesting for the demo cratic nomiuntlon." David Cnplun, who was convicted of second degree murder In connec tion with the Los Angeles Times dyna miting case In October, 1910, and sen tenced to ten years' Imprisonment, was released from San Qucntln prison Tuesduy. He had served 64 years of his sentence. Three and one half years' reduction was obtained tor good behavior. WORLD HAPPENING JOHNSON WINS MINNESOTA Farmer-Laborite Candidate for U. S. Senate Has "Walkaway." St. Paul, Minn. Magnus Johnson, farmer-laborite, was elected United States senator from Minnesota Monday to succeed the late Senator Knute Nel son, according to returns-received from approximately half of the state's 3320 precincts. Johnson apparently has defeated the republican candidate, Governor J. A. O. Preus, who had announced his inten tion to support the Harding adminis tration, by more than 40,000 votes. The democratic candidate, James A. Carley, was running far behind both Johnson and Preus. Johnson had a lead of 26,388 votes when tabulations of returns had been completed from 1729 of the state 's 3320 precincts, the count then standing: Johnson, 169,521; Preus, 142,933; Car- ley, 13,620. This vote was believed to represent about three-fifths of the total cast. Tho farmer-labor candidate carried many counties which were counted as safely republican. He ran much better in Minneapolis (Preus' home city) than had been expected. Republican headquarters continued to "stand by the ship" and refused to concede that the unreported precincts would maintain the ratio of the first 1100. Farmer-laborite leaders insisted it was "a walkaway." Both Covernor Preus, republican can didate and supporter of the Harting ad ministration, and Magnus Johnson, farmer-laborite and La Foliette adher ent, voted early in , their respective home precincts, as did also James A. Carley, democratic nominee. Ideal weather helped attract many voters to the polls. While spokesmen for Gov ernor Preus said they would withhold any statement until a reasonable per centage of the 3520 precincts in the state had reported, leaders of the farmer-labor party renewed their claim of victory for Johnson "by a round 40,000 majority." That the volume of the voto yester day would exceed tho primary ballot ing was indicated in reports from nearly overy one of the 87 counties, which de clared that the vote would run from 50 to 90 per cent of normal. Thore are 800,000 eligible voters in the state. In almost every case the county ro ports showed a vote in excess of that in tho primary and in some instances it was double. This led to the prediction that the total vote would exceed 500, 000. Jn the general election last fall, when Prens and Johnson were oppon ents in the gubernatorial race, the vote totaled 715,000. WASCO WHEAT FIRE SWEEPS 425 ACRES Wasco. Or. Four hundred twenty five acres of Turkey Red wheat wore destroyed by fire Monday afternoon, eight miles northwest of Wasco, south of the Fulton Cnnyon county road, near the Deschutes river. Tho acreago burned included 125 acres owned by Emil Anderson; 150 arres owned by Howard Spencer and 150 acres belong ing to Ed Olson, nil three prominent farmers of the northern section of tho county. Tho fire was said to have started near tho railroad track on the Deschutes river, northwest of Wasco, and swept up over tho brakes, burning probably 200 acres of bunch grass before strik ing tho wheat field. High winds wore sweeping the county, placing thousands of acres of wheat in jeopardy. The firo was discovered in Olsen's whont field nt 5 o'clock. Telephones rnng over a section 15 miles around about nnd automobiles sped on every road carrying firo fighters. Farmers at work harvesting in tho field, left their tennis or mnchines with one or two men, taking the. remainder of their crews nnd racing to the fire. Business houses in Wnsco and Moro were closed nnd men sped to tho fire. Two hundred men were on the fire fighting lino within 40 minutes. All kinds of implements hoes, shovels, sacks, and everything that could be converted to fight tho firo was used. Lady Bugs Aid Orchards. Medford, Or. C. C. Gate, county agent, rode into Medford Monday from tho Button ranger station with about S00.000 lady bugs in the back seat of his automobllo which he declnrcd will be worth nt least 3000 to tho orchard ists of the lioguo river valley. Mr. Cato released several thousand of the insects in the orchard section east of Medford today. The lady bugs, snys Cat, mny eventually clear local or chards of scale and aphis. Davis Reaches Berlin. Berlin. James J. Davis, the Amer ican secretary of labor, arrived here Saturday. Mr. Davis Is beginning a tour ot Europe and the far east to study world emigration problems at first hand. STEEL INDUSimr I 10 Judge Gary Says 12-Hour Shifts Will End. REFORM IS SWEEPING Elimination of Present Rule Begins in Six Weeks, but Process Will . Be Gradual. New York. Elbert H. Gary Satur day made It plain that the United States Steel corporation, of which he is head, planned within six .weeks to begin eliminating the 12-hour day In Its plants. It was reported in Wall street that the remainder ot the industry would follow'suit'and that 'the pledge made to President Harding concerning the much-attacked shift gradually would be redeemed. It was under the date of June 27 that directors ot the American Iron & Steel institute wrote the president that they were "determined to exert every effort at our command to ob tain In the iron and steel industry of this country a total abolition of the 12-hour day at the earliest time practicable." Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation ot Labor, and other labor leaders hit on the phrase "at the earliest time practicable" and expressed their skepticism. A little later Mr, Gary, in an in: tervlew, said that Increasing labor supplies from the negroes of the south, Mexico, the Philippines and abroad led him to believe that the Initial steps would be taken soon: but still no time limit was mention ed. Today, however, Mr. Gary said that "we shall probably commence active ly taking steps to reduce the num ber of 12-hour workers within the next bIx weeks." Declining to state the number of workers who would be affected with in that period, Mr. Gary made it plain that a sudden and complete change Is not to be expected. "Plans are now being developed,' he said. "It will require considerable length of time to complete the change, Stage Set for Buyers Week. Plans for the eleventh annual Buy ers' Week to be held in Portland, August 6 to 11 under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce are prac tically complete. Preparations for this event are on a more elaborate scale than ever before attempted. In dlcatlons are that in excess of 2,000 retail merchants from Pacific Coast states, British Columbia and Alaska will be In attendance. An extensive program for enter tainment of the city's guests has been arranged. There will be six main at tractions, and with one exception they will be held at night. On the evening of the opening day, there will be an Inaugural ball In the Multnomah hotel where accommoda tions will be made for 1,000 dancers, The following evening a spectacular event, "A Night in a Casino" will be staged in one ot the largest public buildings In the city. , Wednesday noon, the Portland Ad Club will give its annual luncheon in Lanrelhurst Park to visiting buyers, and In the evening the annual fashion show at which scores of pretty girls will appear In revue, will be held In one of the largest theatres of the city. A moonlight excursion on the Wil lamette Is scheduled for Tuesday evening, for which two large excur sion boats have been chartered. The concluding entertainment fen- ture will be a banquet to be held In the Chamber of Commerce on Friday evening where two full floors will be set aside for the accommodation of the guests. Throughout the week, executive! of participants In Buyers' Week will hold open house in their respective establishments. Visitors will be given opportunity to go through many of the large wholesale and manufactur ing establishments In the city. Fire Destroys Plan. Ashland, Or An airplane belong ing to Ort Irons, was destroyed by fire there Saturday. Irons' machine was on the ground with the motor running when the exhaust started a small grass fire under the rudder. Irons started to pull way from the blaze, but the breeze from the pro peller fanned the flames. Irons jump ed for his life and the machine plung ed through a fence, turning upside down and burned. MISS LULU BETT By ZONA GALE Copyright bj D. Apploton Company VI Continued. 12 'Ob, by the music houses. You go by the sales." For the first time It oc curred to Cornish that this was ridic ulous. "You know, I'm really study ing law," he said,-shyly and proudly. Law ! How very Interesting, from Ina. Oh, but won't he bring up some songs Borne evening, for them to- try over? Her and Dl? At this Di laughed and said that she was out of practice and lifted her glass of water. In the presence of adults Dl made one weep, she was so slender, so young, so with out defenses, so intolerably sensitive to every contact, bo In agony lest she be found wanting. It was amazing how unlike was this Dl to the Dl who had ensnared Bobby Larkln. What was one to think? Cornish paid very little attention to her. To Lulu he said kindly, "Don't you play. Miss ?" He had not caught her name no stranger ever did catch It But Dwight now supplied It : "Miss Lulu Bett," he explained, with loud emphasis, and Lulu burned her slow red. This question Lulu had usually answered by telling how a felon had Interrupted her lessons and she had stopped "taking" a participle sacred to'muslc, In Warbleton. This vignette had been a kind of epitome of Lulu's biography. But now Lulu was heard to say, serenely: "No, but I'm quite fond of it. I went to a lovely concert two weeks ago." They all listened. Strange, indeed, to think of Lulu as having had experi ences of which they did not know. "Yes," she said. "It was In Savan nah, Georgia." She flushed, and lifted her eyes in a manner of faint defiance. Of course," she said, i'l don't know the names of all the different Instru ments they played, but there were a good many." She laughed pleasantly as a part of her sentence. "They had some lovely tunes," she said. She knew that the subject was not exhausted and she hurried on. "The hall was real large," Bhe superadded, "and there were quite a good many people there. And it was too warm." "I see," said Cornish, and said what he had been waiting to say: That he, too, had been in Savannah, Georgia. Lulu lit with pleasure. "Well!" she Bald. And her mind worked and she caught at the moment before It had escaped. "Isn't it a jiretty city?" she asked. And Cornish assented with the Intense heartiness of the provincial. He, too, It seemed, had a conversa tional appearance to maintain by Its own effort. He said that he had en joyed being In that town aud that he was there for two hours. "I was there for a week." Lulu's superiority was really pretty. "Have good weather?". Cornish se lected next. "Oh, yes. And they saw all the dif ferent buildings but at her "we" she flushed and was silenced. She was Coloring and breathing quickly. This was the, first bit of conversation of this sort' In Lulu's life. After supper Ina Inevitably pro posed croquet, Dwight pretended to try to escape and, with his irrepressi ble mien, talked about Ina, elaborate in his Insistence on the third person "She loves It, we have to humor her, you know how It Is. Or no I You don't know I But you will" and more of the same sort, everybody laughing heartily, save Lulu, who looked un comfortable and wished that Dwight wouldn't, and Mrs. Bett, who paid no attention to anybody that night, not because she had not been Introduced, an omission which she had not even noticed, but merely as another form of "tantrlm" a self-indulgence. They emerged for croquet. And there on the porch sat Jenny Plow nnd Bobby, waiting for Dl to keep an old engagement, which Di pretended to have forgotten, and to be fright fully annoyed to have to keep. She met the objections of her parents with all the batteries of her coquetry, Bet for both Bobby and Cornish and, bold In the presence of "company," at last went laughing away. And in the mi nute areas of her consciousness she said to herself that Bobby would be more In love with her than ever be cause she had risked nil to go with htm; and that Cornish ought to be distinctly attracted to her because Bhe had not stayed. She was as primi tive as pollen. Ina was vexed. She said so, pout ing In a fashion which she should have outgrown with white muslin and blue ribbons, and she had outgrown none of these things. "That Just spoils croquet," she said. 'Tm vexed. Now we can t have a real game." From the side door, where she must have been lingering among the water proofs. Lulu stepped forth. "I'll play a game," she said. When Cornish actually proposed to bring some music to the Deacons', Ina turned toward Dwight Herbert all the facets of her responsibility. And Inn's sense of responsibility toward Dl wis enormous, oppressive, primitive, amounting. In fact, toward this daugh ter of Dwight Herbert's late wife, to an ability to compress the offices of stepmotherhood Into the functions of the lecture platform. . Ina was a foun tain of admonition. Her Idea of a daughter, step or not, was that of a manufactured product, strictly, which you constantly pinched and molded. She thought that a moral preceptor hsd the right to secrete precepts. Dl got them all. But of course the crest of Ins' responsibility wss to marry DL This verb should be transitive only when lovers are speaking of each other, or the minister or magistrate is speaking of lovers. It should never be transitive when predicated of par ents or any other third party. But it Is. Ina was quite agitated by Its transltlveneBS as she took to her hus band her Incredible responsibility. "You know, Herbert," said Ina, "if this Mr. Cornish comes here very much, what we may expect." "What may we expect?" demanded Dwight Herbert, crisply. Ina always played his games, an swered what he expected her to an swer, pretended tc be Intuitive when she was not so, Bald "I know" when she didn't know at all. Dwight Her bert, on the other hand, did not even play her games when he knew per fectly what she meant, but pretended not to understand, made her repeat, made her explain. It was as If Ina had to please him for, say, a living; but as for that dentist, he had to please nobody. In the conversations of Dwight and Ina you saw the his torical home forming In clots In the fluid wash of the community. "He'll fall in love with Dl," said Ina. "And what of that? Little daughter will have many a man fall in love with her, I should Bay." 'Yes, but, Dwight, what do you think of him?" 'What do I think of him? My dear Ina, I have other things to think of." 'But we don't know anything about him, Dwight a stranger so." "On the other hand," said Dwight with dignity, "I know a good deal about him." With a great air of having done the fatherly and found out about this stranger before bringing him Into the home, Dwight now related a number of stray circumstances dropped by Cornish in their chance talks. "He has a little Inheritance coming to him shortly," Dwight wound up. "An Inheritance really? How much, Dwight?" "Now Isn't that like a woman. Isn't It?". 'I thought he was from a good family," said Ina. "My mercenary little pussy!" "Well," she said with a sigh, "'I shouldn't be surprised If Dl did really "Miss Lulu Bett, the Mocking Ba-lrdl" Dwight Insisted. accept him. A young girl Is awfully flattered when a good-looking older man pays her attention. Haven't you noticed lhat?" Dwight Informed her, with an air of Immense abstraction, that he left all such matters to her. Being mar ried to Dwight was like a perpetual rehearsal, with Dwlght's self-importance for audience. A few evenings later, Cornish brought up the music. There was something overpowering in this brown haired chap against the background of his negligible little shop, his hole cnpltal In his few pianos. For he looked hopefully ahead, woke with plans, regarded the children In the street as If, conceivably, children might come within the confines of his life as he Imagined It A preposter ous little man. And a preposterous store, empty, echoing, bare of wall, the three pianos near the front, the remainder of the floor stretching away like the corridors ot the lost He was going to get a dark curtain, he ex plained, and furnish the back part of the store as his own room. What dignity In phrasing, but how mean that little room would look cot bed, washbowl and pitcher, and little mir ror almost certainly a mirror with a wavy surface, almost certainly that "And then, you know," he always added, "I'm reading law." The Plows had been asked In that evening. Bobby was there. They were, Dwight Herbert said, going to have sing. Dl was to play. And Dl was now embarked on the most difficult teat of her emotional life, the feat of remain ing to Bobby Larkln the lure, the be loved lure, the while to Cornish she Instinctively played the role of wom anly little girl "Up by the festive lamp, every body P Dwight Herbert cried. As they gathered about the upright piano, that startled, Dwlgbtlsh Instru ment, standing In Its attitude of un rest, Lulu came In with another lamp. "Do you need this?" she asked. , They did not need it, there was. In fact, no place to set it, and this Lulu must have known. But Dwight found a place. He swept Mulsh's photo graph from the marble shelf of the mirror, and when Lulu had placed the lamp there, Dwight thrust the photo graph Into ber hands. "You take care of that," he said, with a droop of lid discernible only to those win) presumably loved him. His old attitude toward Lulu had shown a terrible sharpening In these ten days since her return. She stood uncertainly. In the thin black and white gown which Ninlan had bought for her, and held Nlnlan'e photograph and looked helplessly about. She was moving toward the door when Cornish called: "See here! Aren't you going te sing?" "What?" Dwight used the falsetto, "Lulu sing? Lulu?" She stood awkwardly. She had a piteous recrudescence of her old agony at being spoken to In the pres ence of others. But Dl had opened the "Album of Old Favorites," which Cornish had elected to bring, and now she struck the opening chords of "Bonny Elolse." Lulu stood still, looking rather plteously at Cornish. Dwight offered his arm, absurdly crooked. The Plows and Ina and Dl began to sing. Lulu moved forward, and stood a little away from them, and sang, too. She was still holding NInlan's picture. Dwight did not sing. He lifted his shoulders and his eye brows and watched Lulu. When they had finished, "Lulu the mocking bird I" Dwight cried. He said "ba-lrd." "Fine!" cried Cornish. "Why, Miss Lulu, you have a good voice!" "Miss Lulu Bett, the mocking ba-lrd!" Dwight Insisted. Lulu was excited, and In some ac cession ot faint power. She turned te him now, quietly, and with a look of appraisal. "Lulu the dove," she then .surpris ingly said, 'to put up with you." It was her' first bit ot conscious, repartee to her brother-in-law. CornlBh was bending over Di "What next do you say?" he asked. She lifted her eyes, met his own, held them. "There's such a lovely, lovely sacred song here," she suggest ed, and looked down. "You like sacred music?" She turned to him her pure profile, her eyelids fluttering up, and said: "I love it." "That's it. So do I. Nothing like a nice sacred piece," Cornish declared. Bobby Larkln, at the end of the piano, looked directly into Di's face. "Give me ragtime," he said now, with the effect of bursting out of somewhere. "Don't you like ragtime?" he put it to her directly. Dl's eyes danced into his, they sparkled for him, her smile was smile for him alone, all their store of common memories was in their look. "Let's try 'My Rock, My Refuge,1" Cornish suggested. "That's got up real attractive." Dl's profile again, and her pleased voice' saying that this was the very one she had been hoping to hear him Ing. They gathered for "My Rock, My Refuge." "Oh," cried Ina, at the conclusion ot this number, "I'm having such a perfectly beautiful time. Isn't every body?" everybody's hostess put It. "Lulu is," said Dwight, and added softly to Lulu: "She don't have to hear herself slog." It was Incredible. He was like a bad boy with a frog. About that photograph of Ninlan he found a dozen ways to torture her, called at tention to it, showed It to Cornish, set it on the piano facing them all. Everybody must have understood ex cepting the Plows. These two gentle souls sang placidly through the Al bum of Old Favorites, and at the melodies smiled happily upon each other with an air from another world. Always It was as If the Plows walked some fair, Interpenetrating plane, from which they looked out as do other things not quite of earth, say, flowers and fire and music. Strolling home that night, the Plows were overtaken by some one who ran badly, and as If she were un accustomed to running. "Mis' Plow, Mis' Plow!" thle one called, and Lulu stood beside them. "Say I" she said. "Do you know of any Job that I could get me? I mean that I'd know how to do? A job for money. ... I mean a Job. . . ." She burst Into passionate crying. They drew her home with them. Lying awake sometime after mid night. Lulu heard the telephone ring. She heard Dwlght's concerned "Ie that nor And hla cheerful "Be right there." Grandma Gate wss sick, she heart him tell Ina. In few moments he ran down the stain. Next day they told how Dwight hsd sat for hours that night, holding Grandma Gatee m that her back would rest easily and he could fight for her faint breath. The kind fellow had only about twe hours of sleep the whole night long. (TO Bl CONTINUED.) Vegetable Glow Werme. A scientist nsmed Ehrman speaks la enthusiastic terms of "vegetable glow worms," as he calls them, which he eb served gleemlng eo the walla and la the crevices ot Swedish mines. In B hemla, the caves are not On com mo il ly Illuminated by this Interesting' cryptogam ; and, according te Phi peon, sufficient light has been emitted la English coal mine from this source to enable miners te read ordlnarr I print.