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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1923)
E OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Event of Noted People, Government! and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. One million German paper marks could be purchased In the New York foreign exchange market Tuesday for 28 cents, or only 4.2 cents more than the price of a single murk before the war. Howard Flotow, negro, was taken from the county jail In Sardls, Miss,, Monday night by a mob and hanged to a tree just north of town. Officials say tho negro confessed to an at tack on a.whlte woman. A suggestion made by James Lino, secretary of the Aurora Automobile club, that the name of the Cannon Hull trail connecting Chicago and Los Angeles be changed to Harding high way has met with favor In Illinois. Heavy drafting of men to fight the forest fire raging Blnce Friday and now nearlng the divide at tho head of the Santa Ynez watershed, continued In Santa Barbara, Cal, and In towns of the Santa Ynez valley Tuesday. Woodmen of the World, a national fraternal organization numbering 800, 000 members, will erect a home for aged members and dependent and or phan children near San Antonio, Tex., according to W. A. Fraser, sovereign commander of the society. The result of a blood count taken Tuesday from Governor Davis, at To peka, Kan., who Is ill with influenza, "looks very suspicious of pneumonia," Dr. L. M. Powell, the governor's phy sician, said. "The governor is a very sick man," the doctor added. President de Alvear at Buenos Aires has promulgated a law voted by congress authorizing the floating of a foreign loan, of 150,000,000 gold pesos. The minister of finance has already culled for tenders from Brit ish and American bankers. Five persons were almost Instantly killed and another was seriously in jured when the automobile in which they were riding collided with a train between Ilayward and Mount Eden, Calif., Sunday. The deud and Injur ed all resided In Mount Eden. Nels Lindahl, a 10-year-old Caddy nt tho Westmoreland Golf club, Chi cago, was Btruck anil liiHtantly killed by lightning during a storm Tues day. Lightning also struck a street car, causing several women pas- seugers to faint, although no one was injured seriously. R. Amimdson, caretaker of an Oak Grove orchard near Hood River, Or., belonging to J, Nichols of Philadel phia, was given a 30-day jail sentence and fined $50 Tuesday by Justice of Hie Pence Onlhank on a charge of carelessly starling a grass fire on the neglected lawn around his cottage, American colleges In Constantinople, where Turks, Greeks and Armenians meet on equal terms in the classroom, offer a strong hope for the recon ciliation, of races in the near east, says Mrs. Alice Peloubet Norton, who has just returned to the United Stales after teaching two years in Constantinople Woman's college. Angered by tho arrest of one of their speakers on a charge of ob structing traffic whilo addressing a crowd on a downtown street, several hundred I. W. W. members invaded police headquarters In Seattle, Wash., Tuesday night to demand his release. They promptly dispersed when the police armed themselves with riot guns and fire hose. After binding and beating J. T. Loman, train messenger, Indianapolis, Ind., four men looted the safe of the American Express company aboard nn enstbouml nig Four pas senger train ntv the union station in Peoria, 111., nnd esenped Tuesday night. According to C. R. Stlckley, auditor for tho express company, the loss to his company was $139. Rumors or a rich gold strike In the mountains beyond the town of Sisters have excited old prospectors living in Bend, Or. A "grub staked" miner was said to have panned several hun dred dollars' worth of placer gold in n single day. This afternoon he was expected in town, but wns believed to be biding to prevent knowledge of the location of his find becoming general. WORLD HAPP IS CURRENT WEEK WHEAT FARMERS ASK AID Formation of Half Billion Buying Agency Urged. Spokane, Wash. Farmers of three northwest states joined hands Monday with 'wheat growers of the Minnesota prairies in asking President C'oolidgu for a special session of congress to fix wheat prices. Action taken was like that at Minneapolis Sunday and at Mos cow, Idaho, Saturday. If was tho avowed purpose of tho grain growers hero to align themselves closely with wheat producers elsowhcro in tho same, cause. They declared them selves ready to ride in anybody's wagon going their way. Tho resolution adopted followed closely tho outline of tho Gooding bill, which died in the Inst congress, but which it is hoped to resur rect under another name at tho hoped for special session. Interest nnd attendnnco at tho wheat conference wero striking. Wheat grow ers left their harvesting outfits in tho fields, nt the height of the season, and c.amo to Spokane. Although tho day was hot tho hulls used wero crowded to capacity all day with many standing throughout tho sessions, In tho after noon a larger room was obtained, but it, too, was not big enough. Tho resolution asking for the presi dent to tido over the wheat grower was telegraphed to Vvasliington. It was adopted by a voto of several hundred, Bono took the trouble to count tho num ber stnnding, with only two voting no. It was doclarcd tho prico of wheat is holow tho cost of production and held it to bo proper that tho government should aid in a distressing situation, especially since tho government has bo foro managed wheat marketing and to the detriment of tho grower. Tho resolution asked that President Coolidge call an extra session of con gross, which nt once should tako Bteps to stabilize wheat prices, It was recom mended that congress enact legislation establishing a federal corporation with a capital stock of $500,000,000 with $50,000,000 paid in nnd tho rest avail able on call, with the power to purchase and sell wheat in any quantity at any tiino at a basic prico of $1.75 at the primary points. This price, it was pro vided, was to bo set as of a certain date, which would be tho prico tho whole year through, minus certain carrying charges. This was the gist of the Gooding bill, The resolution providod further that should there be a loss sustained in selling the surplus crop at export, the corporation might retain from its orig inal sales price not to exceed 10 cents per bushel in addition to tho amount estimated to be necessary to pay operat ing costs and interest at tho rato of 4 per cent on capital stock actually used. Storm Hits Chicago. Chicago. Three persons are dead, the current in the Chicago river was reversed, an airplane was brought down, a dam In tho Des Plalnes river was bursted, two houses were toppled over and telephone and electric light wires and elevated nnd street car traffic were crippled as a result of a terrific electrical storm which visited Chicago early Saturday. The rainfall was 2.68 inches and 1.25 inches of this amount fell in 20 minutes, a record in the history of the local weather bureau. A man was killed when an electric, wire was broken by the wind and struck him, a woman was killed when she touch ed a washing machine which bad been left running in the water-filled basement of her home and a 9-year-old child was drowned when he at tempted to cross a stream where a bridge had stood, the bridge having been washed away by the storm. Bergdoll Plot Denied Chicago. Emphatic denial was nindo Monday by Colonel Alvin M. Owsley, national commander of the American Legion, that the legion had any con nection with tho attempted kidnaping of G rover C. Bergdoll. In an interview Bergdoll said the legion was back of the attempt, nnd his mother rejoiced that he had killed one of the would-be kidnapers. "I am interested, like everyone else, in seeing Bergdoll brought back to the Cnitod States to conipleto his punish ment," said Colonel Owsley, "but to attempt to abduct him is wrong nnd un-American. No one connected with tho legion has been authorized to take such a step, and so long as I nm com mander no one will be." New League Proposed. Minot, N. I). Formation of a new organization to replnco the non partisan league into which all leaguers, laborers and so-called progressives may merge, was a plan evolved for consideration of precinct caucuses nnd county conven tions nt the Non-Partisan league con ference here Sunday night. The con ference also recommended that the state executive committee call a state con vention between October 15 nud 25. RESIGNS 15 Dr. Streseman to Form New Government. RIOTS ARE TO CEASE Late Combination to Consist of Peo ple's, Socialist, Clerical nnd Democratic Parties, Berlin. Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno and his entire cabinet resigned Sun day and the resignations were ac cepted by President Ebert. Dr. GuBtav Stresemaun, leader of the German peoplo's party, has been commissioned by President Ebert to form a new government. After accepting the task, Herr Stresemann had a conference with the representatives of the various parties. The greatest difficulty seems to be In connection with the foreign ministry and It is believed possible that he will take the post himself temporarily. It Is believed in polltfcal quarter that Herr Hilfording will be the new finance minister and Herr Sellman had been named minister of the in terior, while the name of Herr Rhein haben of the people's party is men tioned as the new secretary of state to the imperial chancellory. Thus the new cabinet would be of a strictly political character, includ ing representatives of the united so cialist, clerical, people's and democra tic parties. The united socialists have made it known that 'they ex pect to have four seats in the min istry. Just before Chancellor Cuno called on President Ebert to submit the cabinet's resignation the reichstag leaders, representing the present co alition parties and the united social ists, had arrived at an understand ing with the bourgeoise parties with respect to their readiness to enter a cabinet which would accept as a platform the program of internal tax and financial measures and other pol itical and economic demands which the united socialists put forward in their campaign against Herr Cuno.1 ' War Declared on Mobs. Atlanta, Ga. The "full power of the executive department will be used to stop the "series of floggings in Macon, Bibb county, and other mob outrages in the state," Governor Walker said Saftirday in announc ing rewards for the arrest, with evi dence to convict, of the persons con nected with the recent whippings in Macon and an invasion of the state reformatory at Milledgevllle. The governor offered a reward of $500 for the leader of the Macon flog ging party and $100 for each member. He offered similar rewards for the leader and members of the mob that invaded the state reformatory. Negro Colony Planned. Chicago, 111. Members of the negro race for the first time will have an opportunity to establish themselves as farmers in the north. A negro city and a farming community com prising 60,000 acres in southwestern Wisconsin have been planned by a syndicate headed by ' Chicago negro business and professional men who have been working for several years to solve problems growing out of the movement of negroes from the south to northern cities. Coal Strike Taboo. Gloucester, , Mass. President Cool idge will not permit a coal strike, it was said here Sunday after a con ference between John Hays Ham mond, chairman of the coal fact-finding commission, and Dr. George Otis Smith, a member of that commis sion. Dr. Smith had hurried to Mr. Hammond's Gloucester home after a conference with the president in Washington Saturday. He returned to Washington Sunday. Harding Medal Ordered. Washington, D. C Director Scobey of the mint Saturday gave orders for the production by the Philadelphia mint of a bronze medallion of Presi dent Harding. The medallion will carry on one side the face of the late chief execu tive in base relief and on the reverse side will be the dates of his birth inauguration and death. They will be sold to the public at $1.52 each. CABINET , ' maw" VI Continued. 16 "Oh," she said, "we have a little secret. Can't we have a secret If we want one?" "Upon my word," Dwlglit comment ed, "she bus a beautiful secret. I don't know about your secrets, Lulu." Every time that he did this, that fleet, lifted look of Lulu's seemed to bleed. "I'm glad for my dinner," remarked iMonona nt Inst. "Please excuse me." On that they all rose. Lulu stayed In the kitchen and did her best to make her tasks Indefinitely last. She bad nearly finished when Dl burst in. "Aunt Lulu, Aunt Lulul" she cried. "Come In there come. I can't stand It. What am I going to do?" "Dl, dear," suld Lulu. "Tell your mother you must tell her." "She'll cry," Dl sobbed. "Then she'll tell papa and he'll never stop talking about it I know him every 'day he'll keep It going. After he scolds me It'll be a joke for months. I'll die I'll die, Aunt Lulu." Inn's voice sounded In the kitchen. "What are you two whispering about? ,1 declare, mamma's hurt, Dl, at the iway you're acting . . ." I "Let's go out on the porch," said jLulu, and when Dl would have escaped, Ina drew her with them, t It was a warm dusk, moonless, wlnd lless. The sounds of the village jstreet came In laughter, a touch at I a piano, a chiming clock. Lights jstarred and quickened In the blurred houses. Footsteps echoed on the jboard walks. The gate opened. The igloom yielded up Cornish. I Lulu wns Inordinately glad to see ,hlm. To have the strain of the time broken by him was like hearing, on a lonely winter wnkenlng, the 'clock Istrlke reassuring dawn. Cornish, in his gentle way, asked about the journey, about the sick woman and Dwight talked of her again, and this time bis voice broke. Dl was curiously silent. When cor nlsh addressed her, she replied simply and directly the rarest of Di's man ners In fact, not Di's manner at all. Lulu spoke not at all It was enough to have this respite. After a little the gate opened again. It was Bobby. In the besetting fear that he was leaving Dl to face some thing alone, Bobby had arrived. And now Di's spirits rose. To her his presence meant repentance, re capitulation. Her laugh rang out, her replies came archly. But Bobby was plainly not playing, up. Bobby was, in fact, hardly less than glum. It was Dwight, the Irrepressible fellow, who kept the talk going. "Mammal" Monona shouted from her room. . "Come and hear me say my prayers!" Monona entered this request with precision on Ina's nastiest moments, but; she always rose, unabashed, and went, motherly nnd dutiful, to hear devotions, as If that function nnd the process of living ran their two di ivided channels. She had dispatched this errand and ,was returning when Mrs. Bett crossed the lawn from Grandma Gates', where the old lady had taken comfort In Mrs. Bett's ministrations for nn hour. "Don't you help me," Mrs. Bett I warned them away sharply. "I guess I can help myself yet awhile." She gained her chair. And still in jher momentary rule of attention, she said c'Jearly: ' "I got a joke. Grandma .Gates says It's all over town Dl and Bobby Xarkln eloped off together today. He I" The last was a single note of laughter, high and brief. The silence fell. "What nonsense!" Dwight Herbert said angrily. But Inn said tensely: "Is It non sense? Haven't I been trying and trying to find out where the black satchel went? Dl!" ; Di's laughter rose, but it sounded .thin nnd false. , "Listen to that, Bobby," she said. "Listen !" "That won't do, Dl," said Inn. "You .can't deceive mamma and don't you try!" Her voice trembled, she was Ifrantic with loving and authentic anxiety, but she was without power, she overshadowed the renl gravity of the moment by her indignation. "Mrs. Deacon " began Bobby, and stood up, very straight and manly before them all. But Dwight intervened, Dwight, the father, the master of his house. Here was something requiring him to act. So the father set bis face like a mask and brought down his hand oji the rail of the porch. It was as If the sound shattered a thousand filnmpnts where? "Diana!" his voice was terrible, demanded a response, ravened among them. "Tes, papa," said Dl, very small. "Answer your mother. Answer me. Is there anything to this absurd tale?" "No, papa," said Dl, trembling. ' Copyright by O.APPLETON AND COMPANY "Nothing whatever?" "Nothing whatever." "Can you imagine bow such a ri diculous report started?" "No, papa." "Very well. Now we know where we nre. If anyone hears this report repented, send thorn to me." "Well, but tbut satchel", said Ina, to whom an idea manifested less as a function than as a leech. "One moment," said Dwlglit. "Lulu will of course verify what the child lias said." "If you cannot settle this with Dl," said Lulu, "you cannot settle It with me." "A shifty answer," said Dwlglit. "You have a genius at misrepresent ing facts, you know, Lulu." "Hobby wanted to say something," said Ina, still troubled. "No, Mrs. Deacon," suld Bobby, low. "I have nothing more to say." In a little while, when Bobby went nway, 1)1 walked with him to the gate. It was ns if, the worst having hap pened to her, she dared everything now. 'Bobby," she said, "you bate a He. But what else could I do?" He could not see her, could see only the little moon of her face, blur ring. "And anyhow," said Dl, "it wasn't a He. We didn't elope, did we?" "What do you think I came for to night?" asked Bobby. The day hud aged him ; be spoke like a man. His very voice came gruffly. But she saw nothing, sof tened to him, yielded, was ready to take his regret that they had not gone on. "Well, I came for one thing," said Bobby, "to tell you that I couldn't stand for your wanting me to lie to- dav. Whv. Dl I hute a lie. And now "You Opened the Letter7" He quired Incredulously. In- tonight " lie spoke his code al most beautifully. "I'd rather," he said, "they had never let us see each other than to lose you the way I've lost you now." "Robby !" "It's true. We mustn't talk about it." "Bobby! I'll go back and tell them all." "You can't go back," said Bobby. "Not out of a thing like that." She stood staring after him She heard some one coming nnd she turned toward the house, and met Cornish leaving. "Miss Dl," he cried, "if you're go ing to elope with anybody, remember It's with me!" Her defense was ready her laugh ter rang out so that the departing Bobby might hear. When Dl had gone upstairs, Ina said to Lulu in a manner of cajoling confi dence : "Sister," she rarely called her that "why did you and Dl have the black bag?" So that after all It was a relief to Lulu to hear Dwight ask casually: "By the way, Lulu, haven't I got some mail somewhere about?" "There nre two letters on the par lor table," Lulu nnswered. To Ina she added: "Let's go In the pnrlor." Dwight lighted the gas. "Better turn down the gas Jest a little," said he, tirelessly. Lulu handed hira the two letters. He saw Ninlan's writing nnd looked up, said "Aha!" and held It while he leisurely read the advertisement of dental furniture, his Ina reading over his shoulder. "A-ha!' he said again, nnd with designed deliberation turned lo Nlnlun's letter. "An epUtlo from my dear brother Nlnliin." The wordi fulled, us lie saw the unseuleil Hup. "You oiiened the letter?" he Inquired Incredulously. Fortunutely he hud no climaxes of furious calm for high occasions. All had been used ou smull occasions. "You opened the letter cume in a tone of no deeper horror thun "You picked the flower" once put to Lulu. She said nothing. As It Is Impossible to continue looking liullgnanliy ui some one who is not looking nt you, Dwight turned to Ina, who wns horror and sympathy, a nice half and half. "Your slHter bus been opening uiy mull," be suld. "But, Dwlglit, If it's from Mulun "It Is my mall," he reminded her. "She hud asked me If she might open , It. Of course I told her no." "Well," said Ina practically, "what does be suy?" "I shall open the letter In my own time. My present concern Is this dis regard of my wishes. Why did you do It?" Lulu smiled faintly and shook her head. "Dwlglit," said Ina, reasonably, "she knows what's In It und we don't. Hurry up." "She Is," said Dwight, after a pause, "an ungrateful woman." Ho opened the letter, saw the clip ping, the avowal, with Us facts. "A-ha!" said he. "So after having been nbsent with my brother for a month, you find that you were not married to hlin." Lulu spoke her exceeding triumph. "You see, Dwight," she said, "he told the truth. He had another wife. He didn't Just leave me." Dwight instantly cried: "But this seems to me to make you considerably worse off than If he had." "Oli, no," Lulu said serenely. "No. Why," she said, "you know bow It ull came about. He he was used to thinking of his wife as dead. If be hadn't hadn't liked me, he wouldn't have told me. You see that, don't you?" Dwight laughed. "That your apolo gy?" he asked. She said nothing. "Look here, Lulu," he went on, "this Is a bad business. The less you say about It the better, for all our sakes you see that, don't you?" "I wont the people to know the truth," Lulu said. "But It's nobody's business but our business! I take it you dou't intend to sue Nlnian?" "Sue him? Oh no!" "Then, for all our sakes, let's drop the matter. Tell you, Lulu, here are three of us. Our Interests are the same in this thing only Nlnian is our relative and he's nothing to you now. Is he? "Why, no," said Lulu In surprise. "Very well. Let's have a vote. Your snap judgment Is to tell this disgrace ful fact broadcast. Mine Is, least said, soonest mencftd. What do you say, Ina considering Dl and all?" "My poor, poor sister 1" Ina said. She struck together her little plump hands. "Oh, Dwight when I think of it: What have I done what have we done that I should have a good, kind, loving husband be so protected, so loved, when other women. . .. . Darling!" she sobbed, and drew near to Lulu. "You know how sorry I am we ail are. . . ." Lulu stooif up. Her white shawl slipped to the floor. Her hands were stiffly joined. "Then," she said, "give me the only thing I've got that's my pride. My pride that he didn't want to get rid of me." They stared at her. "What about my pride?" Dwight called to her, as across great distances. "Do you think I want everybody to know my brother did a thing like that?" "You can't help that," said Lulu. "But I want you to help it. I want you to promise me that you won't shame us like tlds before all our friends." "You want me to promise what?" "I want you I ask you," Dwight said with an effort, "to promise me that you will keep this, with us a family secret." "No!", Lulu cried. "No. I won't do it I I won't do It I I won't do It I" It was like some crude chant, know ing only two tones. She threw out her hands, her wrists long and dark on, her blue skirt. "Can't you understand anything?" she asked. "I've lived here all my life on your money. I've not been strong enough to work, they say well, but I've been strong enough to be a hired girl In your house and I've been glad to pay for my keep. . . . Well, then I got a little some thing, same as other folks. I thought I was married and I went off on the train and he bought me things and I saw the different towns. And then it was all a mistake. I didn't have any of it. I came back here and went In to your kitchen again I don't know why I came back. I s'pose because I'm most thirty-four and new things ain't so easy any more but what have I got or what'll I ever have? And now you want to put on to me having folks look at me and think he run off and left me, and having 'em all wonder. ... I can't stand It I can't stand It. I can't. . . ." "You'd rather they'd know he fooled you, when he had another wife?" Dwight sneered. "Y'es! Because he wanted me. How do I know maybe he wanted me only Just because he was lonesome, the way I was. I don't care why 1 And I won't have folks think he went and left me." (TO BE CONTINUED.)