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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1924)
W ORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Brents of Noted People, Government! and Pacific Northwest, and Other Tbingf Worth Knowing. Six persons were dead and ten otberi wore suffering serious Injuries Monday as a result of automobile ac cidents and shootings In and noar Se attle. The Hudson river Tuosday had rlson 9'4 (eet above normal at Albany, cov ering piers, streets and sections of the Delaware & Hudson and New York Central yards. Favorable reports ot a bill which would authorize the construction of a $1,500,000 hospital at the national soldiers' home at Santa Monica, Cal., was ordered Tuesday by the house public buildings committee. About 200,000 bushols of wheat has boon sold by farmors during the last few days In Umatilla county, Oregon, according to a statement mado by H. W. Collins, grain buyer and miller. The price paid rangod from 81 to 83 cents. Officials ot the state department of agriculture of California announced Monday that two new outbreaks In the Merced district were the princi pal developments In the foot and mouth epidemic situation since Sat urday. Jeremiah Smith Jr. ot Boston has been appointed league ot nations high commissioner for Hungary. He takes the position which W. P. O. Harding, governor of the Boston federal re serve bank, was unable to accept owing to 111 health. The Interstate commorce commis sion has authorized the North & South Railway company to build a $11,000, 000 line from Miles City, Mont, to Illco, Wyo., and from Mills to Casper, Wyo. The road will reach in to the Teapot Dome oil section. A movement within the ranks of senate republican regulars for a com promise on the Mellon Income tax plan developed Tuesday as the rev enue bill, carrying the rates In this plan, was ordered sent to Ihe senate by the finance committee. George L. Borry, Inmate of the Pressmen's home In Tennessee, baa filed with the secretary of state of Oregon a request that his name be printed on the ballots of the demo cratic party for nomination for the office ot vice-president ot the United States. , President Coolldge has commuted to one month the prison sentences of one year Imposed upon Edward A. Rumley, former publisher of the New York Evening Mall, and Walter Kauf man and Norvln H. Llndheim, convict ed for violating the trading with the enemy act. Determination of a permanent im migration policy transcends in Import ance every problem now before con gress, Senator Shortridgo, republican, California, told the senate in urging adoption of his amendments to the pending Immigration measure which would have the effect of excluding Asiatics. As a result of experiments conduct ed by the General Motors Research corporation, builders of automobile en gines will be able to construct mo tors capable of withstanding very high compression, and the car owners can get double the present amount of mileage out of gasoline, the Ameri can Chemical society announced Tues day. Postoftlce authorities In San Fran cisco are Investigating the story ot Earl Hannan, driver ot a mall truck, and Wlnflold J. Brown, guard, that two pedestrians accosted them on a well-traveled down-town street today, forced them to drive many blocks along business thoroughfares and then loaded eight pouches ot registered mall into a waiting automobile. An executive order has been Issued by President Coolldge providing for establishment In the nation's foreign service ot a means tor a coordination ot efforts in advancing American econ om'.o and commerce interests and eliminating duplication. The order af fects all department ot the govern ment having agents in foreign coun tries and provide! that such agents shall meet in conference at least once very two weeks to exchange Informa tion bearing upon tha promotion and protection ot American interests. VOTES JAPANESE EXCLUSION Gentlemen's Agreement Defeated In Senate, 76 to 2. Washington, D. C The senate au swared Ambassador Hanihara's pro test against Japanese exclusion legis lation Monday by voting, TO to 2, against recognition of th "gentle men's agreement" with Japan on tho Immigration question. This action Is preliminary to adop tion by the senate by an overwhelm ing majority ot the bouse Japanese exclusion provision. Whatever, the result would have been without tho Incident ot the am bassador's letter, that communication served to change tho votes ot a num ber of administration leaders, includ ing Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, chairman of the foreign relations com mittee. The republican leader Informed the senate In open session that he regard ed the Hanlhara lotter as a "veiled throat" and doclared that In the face ot that threat he could not support the Immigration committee's proposal to recognize by low the "gentlemen's agreement." A number of other senators took the same view and only one voice, that of Senator Sterling, republican, South Dakota, was raised In defense of tho ambassador's action. Senator Colt, chairman of the Immigration committee, Joined Senator Sterling In the vote, but did not speak. Senators generally threw oft the usual restraints in dealing with In ternational questions. They were blunt and outspoken In their declaration that In view of the "grave consequences" warning In the ambassador's letter, there was nothing for them to do but to make it clear for once and for all that Immigration Is a domestic ques tion In the handling of which no inde pendent power could have its sover eignty questioned. While the debate proceeded, Secre tary Hughes, who transmitted Mr. Hanihara's letter to the house and senate immigration committees last week, twice conferred with President Coolldge. He declined to say what the nature of the conversations had been and no Information was forthcom ing from the White House. Soviet and Britain Open Trade London. The task of converting Great Britain's de jure recognition of Russia, which was accorded the union of Soviets February 1 in fulfillment of the labor party's campaign pledges, Infa practical working arrangement, which it is hoped will settle all past differences and re-establish normal trade and political relations between the two countries began Monday, when the Russian mission, under Christian Rakovsky, met with the British delegates, headed by Premier MacDonald at the big horseshoe con ference table in the ambassadors' room of the foreign office. In his welcoming address, Premier MacDonald summed up the whole pur pose of the conference in the sen tence: "You want political counten ance and financial assistance from us and we want nelghborliness and recognition of International obliga tions." The labor premier told the Russians that Great Britain, by according the soviet government full diplomatic sta tus, had taken the first step, and add ed that It was a pretty big one. "Let us together take the second step and justify the hopes of many millions who look upon this meeting with much expectation," he conclud ed. Neither rremler MacDonald's nor M. Rnkovsky's opening addresses be fore the delegates went beyond the brond generalities of the different prob lems to be settled. The British view is that the entire fate ot the meeting depends upon the amount of confi dence the soviet government repre sentatives are able to create in the British and world public by their con duct here and their attitude toward the Russian debts and other Interna tional obligations which the British will insist that the soviet government recognize. ' Daugherty To Aid Star. Ashfvllle, N. C Harry M. Daugher ty, the ex-attorney-general, announc ed here Monday in an interview with the Ashevllle Citizen that he will ap pear as one of the counsel for the Marlon Star in Its libel suit against Frank A. Yanderlip growing out of the senate investigation ot Teapot Dome. He declined to discuss the sub ject further than to say that he will confer with other attorneys in the case in a short while. $50,000 Given College. Chicago. Gifts of $50,000 from Ben Selling of Portland, Or., and $5000 from Joseph Schonthal ot Columbus, 0- for the library of the Hebrew Union college of Cincinnati produced special enthusiasm Monday at the meeting sf the special council of the Union of American Hebrew Congre gations at the Congress hotel. ON JAPANESE E Johnson Immigration Measure Is Passed. DISCUSSION IS BRIEF No Effort Made to Eliminate Opposed Clause Percentage Based on 1890 Census. Washington, D. C The Johnson Im migration bill, carrying a Japanese exclusion provision against which the Japanese government has protested vigorously, was passed Saturday by the house, 322 to 71. No effort was made to eliminate the Japanese section, which provoked only brlot and perfunctory discussion. There was nothing to indicate that any ot the opposition votes were directed at the Asiatic policy contain ed in the bill, but rather against the provision fixing the 1890 census as the basis of the 2 per cent quota, which was adopted. The existing law, which expires on next June 30, fixed the quota at 3 per cent on the 1910 census and had no provisions relating to Japanese immi gration which for years has been regu lated by the "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan. Secretary Hughes has urged that the American government continue to recognize this agreement and the Japanese placed on the same quota basis as the nationals of other countries. Representative Johnson of Washing ton, chairman ot the house immigra tion committee, announced that when the time comes for the house and sen ate to reconcile their differences on Immigration legislation the managers on the part of the house will insist to the end on the retention of the Jap anese exclusion provision. Ambassador Hanihara's letter to Secretary Hughes, which was trans mitted to congress, protesting aglnst any exclusion feature, was not men tioned in house debate on the bill. When this proposal is reached in the senate, however, Senator Johnson, re publican, California, and other sena tors from the Pacific coast plan to take formal cognizance ot the letter and redouble their efforts to have an exclusion feature written into law. There was no formal vote in the house on the exclusion features, as the failure ot any member to offer an amendment resulted in automatic approval while the bill was being read for amendment. Only one address re garding this feature was delivered, that being by Representative Burton of Ohio, a republican member ot the foreign affairs committee. He dis cussed the provision for five minutes, emphasizing what he regarded as the inadvlsability of superceding the "gentlemen's agreement" by legisla tive enactment. Farm Relief Bills Put up to Senate. Washington, D. C The McNary Haugen and Norri-Sinclalr bills, designed for the relief of agricultural districts, were reported favorably Sat urday by the senate agriculture com mittee. Several minor amendments were attached to the McNary-Haugen bill, but the Norris-Slnclalr measure was reported without change. Action on the McNary-Haugen bill is expected to be taken by the house before Its consideration In the senate on account ot its tariff provisions, which are required to originate in the bouse. The house agricultural com mittee is now engaged in redrafting passages ot the bill. The tariff features of the McNary Haugen bill brought a communica tion from the tariff commission to the house ways and means committee, in which the committee contended if domestic prices of agricultural staples are raised substantially abevo world prices as a result of such legislation, the application by foreign nations of antl-dumplng laws might prevent the sale in those countries ot surplus American farm products. The commis sion further said that the foreign coun tries might also claim that the policy Is inconsistent with the tariff act of 1922. Boys Would be Sporty. Washington, D. C "Enormous num bers of young people in Washington are fascinated by the idea of drinking for the purpose of being a good sport," Sergeant Rhoda Mllllken ot the wo men's bureau ot the police department told the women's national committee for law enforcement here Sunday. She added that even in high schools boys had been found to be selling liquor not only to their boy friends, but to girl classmates. VOTED CAPTAIN SAZARAC CHAPTER XIV 17 A Flower for a Ragged Fellow. The longboat made a shallow pass between two curvlrtg reefs of dreary KHiid, rising to wlnd-twlsted mangrove clumps at the higher points, and was beached In a quiet lagoon. The red iindHe found them there marooned; Merit men wandering over the water less spaces and then coming back near to a shelter canvas which had been roped to the bushes for Mudemolselle Lestron. Then the Inst lieutenants of Lafltte sat apart to discuss the matter. The Seraphlne lay plainly visible west and north, her sails Idle and a (tut, smooth constat tide between. "She'll he beating off with the morn ing breeze," growled Bohon. "How much water did Craekley leave to us?' "Two casks; bread and the snlt horse for three days no more. We count six muskets and twelve pistols. When the Indians put off from the woods to spy us out we can hold 'em off a hit." "Ave, for what? Where's a river month to make?" "There Is none the Spaniards do not hold. There Is no cove either way where you would not find the king's men. The rest is jungle. . . . What does the captain sny to It?" Old Dominique puffed his long pipe tranquilly. ."What does Captain Jean make of It?" repeated Bohon 10 tl.em. "There Is nothing to nn. of It," re turned the alderman. "Eh. blenl A little while of waiting a day or two, old robbers, In the sun and without water. At that, something will be Tied. Leave It to Jean that some thing will be tried for ye all. The lady Is at breakfast with the captain," lie muttered irrelevantly. "He has toasted the bread he has made the coffee himself for tlie English lady. Name o' G d ! I have witnessed Hint!" "Captain Suzurac Is calling to you," observed the count. "Now, go, all I here Is a message." They went slowly, trudging through the sands with dry muttered Jests and hopeless prophecies. Men, for the most part, past the prime of life; some heavy, Indeed, with years, com ing before their captain with an en deavor to assume a sprightly seaman's hearing. Faithful, rugged, Implacable faces adventurers who had given their wild youth to him. "It Is In my mind to put the Eng lish lady and my friend, Monsieur de Alinoimster, in the way of safety," said the chief quietly. "There Is a chance for thein. The rest I, and you " He stopped and smiled at them. "There was a shout. "I and you!" .lean with them? Nez Coupe came loser, tying tight the bloody silken head scarf about his seal-brown skull. Mis wound-wrecked face took a ghust ly grin. They would then still be rid if the English woman by some mir acle! Jean would shake free of his iitinlen of the Kngllsh woman . . . mid he with them once again? "It can lie established that Monsieur i!e Alinnnaster Is of Spanish lineage; nd that Mademoiselle Lestron Is of a ;:ilsslon that was working In the pay of the Spanish king " went on Cap ;nln Sazarac evenly. "If, then they could reach a ship It Is probable they would dud refuge. The rest" And again the shout of grlra humor cut him off. The rest I Why, the rest could expect the reef, the tropic sun . . . and their captain! Still their sour, hopeless humor. Certainly there was nothing for the rest of them I But now the English woman came out of the hot little shelter. "Now, you will listen to me, also, men of the Seraphlne I" she cried suddenly. "To me as well as to your captain! Surely there Is a way for us after these treacherous . mutineers put off with the schooner! Surely, I know your faithfulness U him and to your ship! What Is there to fear for sea men who serve loyally their master and their ship?" " They listened curiously. Monsieur the captain pushed back the Iron-gray hair from his temple and listened. It was as if he had heard it all and had no more answer than they. "See, you!" The girl went on hotly. "Monsieur Saznrac, playing the part of a patriot to his adopted country! I an Kngllsh Tory can testify to that! The attack upon fhe Genaron surely I can swear to the admiralty of my country, that It was done for me 'U all honor. Monsieur Sazarac's honor " There was a stir among them then the silence agnln. Old Dominique sighed. The honor of Sazarac . . . the word of Captain Sazarac to the admiralties that his men were good and true! "For me In ill honor. By you all4 honorahle men " f Again she was puzzled by their itlr and murmur. The grim Raratartans rubbed their heads In doubt them selves. Beluche walked away and be gan to cut at the grass with his saber, Idly. Nes Coupe Joined hun, feeling of his wreck of a nose. ' , a- The English woman knew she was; filling with them. Monsieur Saxarac wis looking at her pityingly. Mon sieur de Almonaster, with folded armi By CHARLES TENNEY JACKSON quietly attentive, his calm face un readable. And suddenly this dull Impasse was cut through with a shout, Gorglo, on the highest dune, was pointing sea ward. "She Is coming In I She Is making the inlet wl' tide and tops'U alrl" The Seraphlne was moving. Then there was another shout. Above her, In the misty ofllng, another sail showed, dimly and slowly under way. "The Spanish frigate, air l" cried Bohon. "Standing in close as she dares, to look the schooner over! Craekley must ha' hammered her rud der on the bar last night I see a false rig over her end. She's fouled, and he's laying her up In the wooded river out o' the king's big guns!" De Almonaster shrugged; It meant the end of flight or hiding for those marooned on the open reef. "Ah, well I " he glanced about : "Mademoi selle, our honorable gentlemen may well look aghast!" He laughed, but to the chief he muttered: "Monsieur Sazarac, we might as well build a fort In the sands and sell our lives dearly. If not the Spaniards, It will be the Campeche savages coming out upon us. If not them, starvation and the sun In a few days. There Is no water on this reef. Monsieur !" Mademoiselle had listened. De Al monaster's tone was light, as If both the gentlemen were affecting a debo nair nonchalance for her sake, Mon sieur Sazarac's shrug was of delicate dissent to discuss their lives' end In her presence. Then he smiled dis tantly : "You will recall the Instruction I once gave? You were to be ray pris oner, Monsieur, In event the Seraphlne "For Me In All Honor. By You All Honorable Men " was taken on the seas? You were to be as one held to an unlawful affair against your will " De Almonaster flushed to his eyes: "Monsieur! Do you think that I" he stopped. Sazarac could not offer him life lightly In her presence! "Undoubtedly the Spaniard will ac cept you and Mademoiselle Lestron. Monsieur Dominique, also a munici pal officer of New Orleans . . . there Is no reason why the Spaniards should not receive and protect you." "And you?" The younger man could not help the whispered question. "I take It that the Spaniards will attack the Seraphlne In those woods and leave no soul living on her. I as sume that the mouth of every scoun drel on her will be closed by death. Then you with Mademoiselle Lestron to the frigate and say that you were marooned by the buccaneers, and claiming protection. Why, the Span ish governor at Merlda, or Vera Crux, must know of Carr's plot! Surely be would welcome Mademoiselle Lestron and her friends!" "Why, are you not, Monsieur, also my friend, and protected with me?" the girl cried wonderlngly. "It is. Indeed, a fair story an Intrigue to save us all ! Why did I not think the Spaniards would protect us when they will suppose that I am still in the plot of Carr's purpose to aid their schemes? Messieurs, I can safeguard you all to Vera Crux with that plea !" They all heard her. But a silence fell. The girt ., looked eagerly from one weathered face to another of Monsieur Sazarac's few followers. Suddenly Monsieur Sazarac laughed again. Aloud and ctesrly. He arose ind adjusted his neckerchief. There was a gasp, a grumbling bewilderment, snd then laughter from all the old buccaneers. They slapped each other on the shoulders, grinning knowingly at taelr chief. "My compliments to the lady!" shouted Johannes, "but the climate o Vera Crat my lungs are delicate!" . "And I mind that I might hive a humor o' the blood were I there!" mocked Bohon. ''My head complained the sour ypi Coupe, "the rest of it might go t-twlst at sight of the governor's castle!" Coprrifht by Tha Bobbs-Hnrlll Comptnj Mademoiselle turned to the captain hotlv : "What is this Jesting?" "They mean no disrespect." He mo tioned to the grinning crew with a serious affection: "Now, get you gone, fellows! See that our wine and little water Is stored from the sun. Work the longboat closer In on the tide." "Sazarac!" they shouted In hoarse laughter and went to obey him. He saw the hurt pride In her eyes, and the old wonder at his evasion. She turned to De Almonaster with a pathetic little gesture of despair at the moods of Monsieur Suzuruc. She could not understand. She sat draw ing figures In the sand, and when she raised ber dark eyes, trt watch the tall figure out by the sun-wash on the shoals, the young man saw the great tears In them which she. presently wiped away. She dried her eyes with a final, res olute little sob. "Monsieur, do you know well, once, he came for me . . . It was on the staircase of a court the Hotel Orleans, and very late. He was going from me, t.nd he had been all chivalry. He turned away, allow ing Colonel Carr to boast that Sazarac would not fight, because he wished to spare my name. He said ah, It was a silly thing for me to do! but I dropped a flower to him as he left . . . and another man stumbled from the shadows aud picked It up." "Another man?" echoed De Almon aster. "That was before you had come to me, Knout, on the Seraphlne, As to the other man, that was no matter. I suppose a beggar In the courtyard caught my camellia. I don't know it was silly to throw a, flower to Sazarac, the river gamester ... I Ws hot with shame afterward at doing so. But If he had caught It . . . Ah, well ! I thank Heaven he never knew It ! after I found myself in Ills hands upon the Seraphlne! The ragged fel low who caught It stared up once and then hurried after Monsieur Sazarac. At the area-arch he turned. It ap peared he tried to pose as a lover, and then he fell over his own foot, or something, very absurdly!" "A ragged fellow," muttered De Almonaster. "Like one of these old tattered fol lowers. A ghost of a man fading Into moonlight !" A shout arose from the exiles who were dragging the longboat nearer In the shoals. Monsieur Sazarac had paused half-way to them. He saw what had hitherto been hidden by low spit of sand. Five armed boats had drawn In shore, coming from the distant Span ish frigate, without doubt. They had" crept unnoticed by the refugees on the reef until they were fair In the break of forest wall where there had been the last glimpse of the Seraphlne's snowy sail. "Do you see, Monsieur de Almonas ter?" said the chief of the exiles qui etly. "It was ss I reasoned. The schooner will be taken this night. It Is what one would greatly desire. The dons will have no quarter for Crack ley's men there Is no escape for-them In the river Jungle. After the affair, sir you are to go with Mademoiselle and parley with the Spanish captain." "And you?" mademoiselle cried again breathlessly and sprang upon the sands. "Yon and your men cannot stay here to die!" Monsieur Sazarac smiled with a high serenity. - "The sea Is wide, Mademoi selle Lestron. Wide, and far Is the way to Its secret places. I have a mind I said this once to you. O little place In the sea a secret place, where a secret may be burled, Mademoiselle.' He turned to the younger man: "Yon will make ready to go. Monsieur, when the hour comes. There are two black men of our company who can pull the longboat for you under a flag of truce . . . two black serving men who will not find the air of Vera Cruz con ducive to a fatal malady. The rest of ns, I fear, must do without the min istrations of the Spanish viceroy's phy sician as long as we can possibly a day or so more, ere the doctor calls for us." His smile still lingered when De Almonaster came closer, torn by a wild bitterness which he, himself, could not fathom. "Jean," he whis pered : "I have not spoken. The choice ts hers between you aud me and she might save you from Muvlllo's men I She might plead with the viceroy that she loved you even Lafltte of the black flag!" "That Is a Jest," murmured Sazarac absently, "worthy of John Jarvis, who played the clown to betray me a plea for Lafltte's life to Murlllo!" (TO BE CONTINUED.) Proud Owner. An Augusta (Maine) man has a shiny new car. One day the radiator over flowed and left rust all over the front of the ci r. Whereupon thr proud own er drew a $5 bill from his pocket and wiped off the stains. Needless to say, he returned It to his pocket after the Job was finished and he had shakes the dust from the bill Love's 8tatut. Love la the business of the Idle, bat the Idleness ot the busy. Anonymous,