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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1924)
LI OF D HAPPENINGS CURRENT WEEK ' Brief Resurre Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU ETenti of Noted People, GoTernmenU and Pacific Northwest, and Other , Things Worth Knowing. Purchase by the government of the Cape Cod canal for $11,500,000 would be authorized under a bill passed Tuesday by the house, 149 to 132. The measure now goes to the senate. One death resulted Monday night frora'the most general flood Virginia has experienced in many years, when William Lucas was drowned at Fred ericksburg while trying to rescue a small boat. A slight earthquake shock was folt In Munich, Bavaria, Tuesday. The center of the disturbance Is believed to have been in the middle Alps. The tremors were noted only In the upper stories of bouses. ' A. Stuart MacLaren, the British avi ator attempting the eastward 'round the world flight, arrived in Bombay, India, Tuesday at Naslrabaad, in Ben gal. British India, about 200 miles northeast of Calcutta. Five miners, entombed since Satur day afternoon in the Black Iron mine of the Empire Zinc Mining company near Oilman, Colo., were rescued Tuesday night. A drift was driven through virgin granite to the stope In which the men were confined. Sale of vessols by the shipping board under its interpretation of the "privnto competitive bid" provisions of the shipping act, was assailed Mon day by Representative Davis, demo crat, Tennessee, prosecutor for the house commlttoe investigating the board. Raw sugar In the New York markot sold Tuesday at 3 7-8 centB a pound for Cuban, cost and freight, a new record for the year. It was the low est price since February, 1923, when sugar sold at 3 cents. The present weakness Is due to a poor demand tor refined sugar. The resignation of Premier Poln- care's cabinet, announced Tuesday for June 1, effective June 4, pauses the application of the exports' repara tlons plan, so far as France Is con cerned, to the succeeding government, nlong with all othor problems involv ing questions of policy, Congressional investigation of tele phone rutes and sorvice throughout the United States and of the organi sation of the Amorlcan Telephone & Telegraph company and Us relations with othor corporations was proposed Tuesday by Representative O'Connor, democrat, New York. A motion to enter into.cloBe rela- tlonshlp with Enclflc university, one of the oldest educational institutions in the United States, was unanimous ly adopted by the board of education of the United Presbyterian church which 1b holding Its annual meeting in Chicago. The unlvorsity Is located at Forest Grove, Or. F. E. Cnhllt, admitted embezzler of botwoon $7000 and $15,000 from the Ilroughton Nutlonal bank of Dayton Wash., was sontonccd to serve nine months In the Yakima county jail when he pleaded guilty to charges of embezzling $125 from the bank April 1 and $331 February 7, before Judge Webster in federal court Tuesday. Aflor eight years of alcoholic dry ness, the province of Alborta woke up ' wot Monday. Last November the vot ers of the province decided to substl tute government sale of liquor for pro hibition, which was decreed by the people In 1915, and boenmo effective the following year. The act adopted in November was proclaimed to be ef fective Monday, The colonnade of tho hall ct fume, overlooking the Harlem river from the Now York university campus, was the aeone of impressive ceremonies lute Tuesday at the unveiling of the busts of ten Americans nine men and a woman who achieved tame I fields ranging from literature t statesmanship. The ten are: Joh Adams, Phillips Brooks, Samuel I Clemens (Mark Twain), rotor Cooper, James Buchanan Eads, Josoph Henry, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William Thomas Oreen Morton and Alice Freeman Palmer. Falsehoods Blacken House. In Turkey, when ny man is the author of notorious falsehoods, they blacken tbo whole front of his house GLOBE FLIERS REACH JAPAN Elaborate Preparations Made by Villa gers for Entertainment. Minato, Japan. The three United States army airplanes arrived here Tuesday from Yetorofu island on their flight around the world. This little village of Minato has been in a state of tense expectancy awaiting the arrival of the American army filers. For the last three weeks the villagers have been preparing for the reception of the airmen. They even assisted in placing buoys in the bay to aid the aviators in landing. Monday night the mayor and city elders, many of whom are grizzled fishermen, met for a final discussion of their plans to receive the visitors. When it was reported today that the fliers were ready to hop off for this place, everything was In readiness for their reception. In honor of the Americans the school children learned to sing "Amer ica" and "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean." The English words to these songs were received from Tokio last month. The governor of Aomori prefecture, in which Minato is situated, has plan ned a dinner for the aviators. The curious countryside was thrilled by the visit of the birdmen and great crowds flocked to Minato. The arrival at Minato from Yet orofu, about 354 miles by air, of the American army filers marked the com plete conquest of the earth's circum navigation by air. Americans, Britons and Portuguese have flown across the Atlantic, British aviators have flown from England to Singapore and Ital ians have left the flight across south ern Asia and up the China coast to Japan, while Japanese and Americans have crossed their own countries. PRESIDENT FAVORS WORLD COURT MOVE Washington, D. C. The question as to whether senate action on American world court membership should be attempted before adjournment of con gross will be considered at confer ences to be held within a tew days betweon President Coolidge and re publican leaders of the senate. Interest In tho whole question of American world court membership has bocn revived by the recent presenta tion of a new world court plan by Chairman Lodge of the senate foreign relations committee. Three distinct plans are before the foreign relations committee and Sen ator Popper, Pennsylvania, a repub lican member, Is understood to be pre paring a fourth, designed as a com promise. The proposal for conditional Amorlcan adherence to the existing permanont court of International jus tice as made by President Harding and indorsed by President Coolidge has been before the committee for more than a year and In addition to the plan for a wholly new court there Is pending a proposal by Senator Swanson of Virginia, ranking demo cratic member of the committee. The conference between the pros! dent and republican loaders may be held prior to Wednesday's meeting of the committee. Mr. Coolidge believes that the sen ate hns disposed of Its major legisln tion with the exception of farm relief and MuBde Shoals, and there have been Indications that he Is disposed to urge action on the world court question. Some of his advisors be lieve that a plan bo drafted as to re ceive bi partisan support could be put through easily before adjournment. Dolsy Nears Shanghai. Hongkong. Captain Pelletier Dolsy, French aviator who Is attempting a flight from Paris to Japan, hopped off at Canton at 7 A. M. Tuesday for Shanghai. Melbourne. Aviators Mclntyre and Coble Monday completed nn $500 mile flight around Australia, nceom pllshinir tho feat in 90 flying hours. Tho flight was undertaken to survey the coast for defense purposes. Plane Made Noiseless. Dayton, O. Noiseless airplanes long a dream of aviators, became reality when McCook field filers an nounced successful tests Monday of (f device that eliminates the drone of the engine. The Blloncer, an exhaust muffler attached to the engine, oc caslons a loss of ( per cent of the engine's power, englueers at tho field said. Miss Young Going Home. Fort Wayne, Ind. Miss Clara Kim ball Young, actress, who collapsed during a performance at a theater here four weeks ago, left Monday for her home in Los Angeles. She will spend a few days with her aunt In Chicago on her way west. She was operated on for an abdominal tumor, Since then her recovery has been rapid. 5E BONUS BILL VETO Measure Is Upheld by 313-to- 78 Vote. SENATE YET TO ACT Change in Attitude of Some Law makers Attributed to Message of President. Washington, D. C The senate Mon day overrode President Coolidge's veto of the soldier bonus bill. The measure now automatically be comes law, the house having taken similar action. The vote was 59 to 26 to overthrow the veto, or two more than the neces sary two-thirds. Several republican organization leaders Joined with a strong demo cratic lineup in upsetting the veto the last moment. Thirty republican, twenty-seven democrats and the two farmer-labor senators voted to override the veto. Seventeen republicans and nine demo crats voted to sustain the president. President Coolidge himself made an eleventh hour effort to stem the tide of support for the bill. He summoned seven republicans favoring it to the White House but was unable to swing over enough votes to accomplish its defeat. Washington, D. C. Soldiers' bonus legislation moved a step nearer enact ment Saturday when the house, by an overwhelming vote, passed the bill over the veto of President Coolidge. The vote was 313 to 78. There were more than 50 votes to spare over, the necessary two-thirds. The bill, providing 20-year endow ment Insurance certificate to war vet erans, has now advanced to the final ?e. Passage by a two-thirds vote In the senate will place the measure on the statute books, thus ending four years of agitation. Although on ordinary issues Repre sentatives Longworth and Madden could be counted upon almost to carry the house, their influence was negll gible. The bonus sentiment was so strong that It was impossible to check It. Those voting to override the presi dent's veto Included 166 democrats, 145 republicans and two Independents. Those voting to sustain the president Included 57 republicans and 21 demo crats. Twenty-four republicans and two democrats who voted for the bonus on March 18 voted to sustain the veto Saturday. PIONEERS' REUNION ATTENDED BY 400 Tho first white child born in British Columbia, Thomas Fraser York, was one of tho 400 pioneers, some of whom resided in the province as early as 1650, at a reunion held last week in Victoria, B. C, under the auspices of the British Columbia Historial asso ciation. Associations of the Native Sons and Native Daughters held their conventions at the same time. Mark Bate of Nanaimo, pioneer of 1S57, when he arrived in Victoria on the Trince Koyal after a five-months' voyage, was one of the speakers at tho banquot, replying to the toast of Mayor Hayward. Mr. Bate is 87 years of age and will loave for England In a few weeks, where he will attend the British Empire exhibition. Michael Finnery, 94 years of ago;. Mrs. P. T. Johuson, 81 years young, and James It. Apderson, S3 years and the oldest resident In Victoria, were among the old-timers who gathered to talk of the early mining days when a sack of flour packed on a man's back for 200 miles along the Cariboo trail sold at Williams Creek or Barkerville for $100. , , Those attending the unique celebra tion came from all parts of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California, and all had resided in British Columbia prior to 1871, when the separate colonies of Vancouver Is land and British Columbia united and, as a single province, became a unit of the Dominion of Canada. Dollar Exchange Bails. Athens. The minister of national economy Sunday hinted that the dollar bill will base value of exchange of the drachma on the Athens bourse, instead of the pound sterling hitherto used. "The dollar Is the world mone tary base now and has superseded the pound," said the minister. The Greek government hns contracted with the Schroeder works at Toulon for the construction of two submarines of 600 tons each. IS it .... vpa : 1 ..Im? opyriQhi CHAPTER XVI Continued. 22 "I heard you say the seas are wide, and far far the way to their secret places. It Is a chance, Jean." The count seized his arm, for the lieuten ant, whom Mademoiselle Lestron had now joined, was returning to them. "Cornel I reimburse the gentlemen of New Orleans who were with me in the Glrod venture. I give you the Sera phlne without condition." "Without condition?" Monsieur Sas- arac stared oddly at him. Then at Mademoiselle Lestron who had run to them brightly, vivaciously, as If all was arranged, as If the black-hulled schoon er and its mysteries would. In an hour, be vanished in the seas . . . and she gladdened at Its passing. 'Ah, yes I" Sazarac bowed : "without condition, Monsieur de Almonasterl" And he bowed again to her, and took her finger-tips and pressed them to his lips. She could not understand this fervor which had a touch of satire. Nor the smile in his somber eyes j bis turning away while Monsieur de Al monaster made hurried arrangements with the American lieutenant. Even now they had sent the boat away to apprise the Hornet, and to fetch the Improvised crew which would be glad for a berth back to the Indies. Monsieur Sazarac stood Idly apart, twirling his sword knot, as If nothing any longer was affair of his. When Alderman Dominique made some query as to the dead seaman forward he shrugged. That was all. He strolled forward to stare down at the nine dend buccaneers, and did not return until the Hornet's boats with a crew of strange half-breed men, and two obsequious, grateful, petty offi cers, were at the Seraphlne's side. 1 While the other party was descend ing to the small boat he still stood apart. Dominique supposed he was going, dumb hurt as the alderman was at thought of the chance that an Instant cry, "Lafltte I" would ring on the Hor net's quarter-deck. Mademoiselle Lestron thought he was going, for he stood close by the. ladder as Bhe was helped away. But he detained her suddenly at the rail. "A moment, Mademoiselle " He oxhlblted to her a small bracelet. Curi ously Inlaid, gold of three colors, and a number of pearls . . .the gift of a queen. Mademoiselle .Lestron cried out In Joyous wonder. She had never seen Marie Antoinette's bracelet since the night she saw the ragged fellow kiss It In the emperor's cabin, when the muti neers sent her away. "My bracelet i Monsieur" All a child's lovely eagerness to grasp a toy was in her face and the hand she reached for It. Monsieur Sazarac, however, drew it back gravely ! "Ah no I" "But my bracelet, Monsieur? I want It 1" "That Is the point It Is yours, and yon cannot have It" "Nom de Dteu I" She stared at him Incredulously. "Why?" "It must be stolen. It la essential as a matter of honor," De Almon aster and Dominique were In the small boat They looked up as tonished; and the girl sat down by them trytng to keep back hot pusxled tears. There was an adieu or so waved from the Hornet's officers In the small boats as they sheered off the schoon er's side. Monsieur Saaarac bowed. Bowed to them all with apparently the same debonair dismissal. Mudemolselle Lestron turned to De Almonnster with a wild whisper, "He ti not coming I , Us Is not coming with us!" For no sooner had Mademoiselle Lestron left the Seraphlne that day in 1S21, thnn Monsieur Busarac turned and ran down In the emperor's cabin, He burst Into the doorway of the em peror's stateroom and flung the golden trinket upon the lace and silken cov erlet of the emperor's bed, "There robber I" he shouted, some what impatiently, "Her bracelet stolen taken agulnst her will! Are you satisfied!" The man on the bed looked at It quietly with glittering eyes above his hollow cheeks, He still had his boots nn, and the imperial couch was rather the worse for the mud and dried blood upon It But now he sat up stralghter and gestured with suporb authority, "Well, then I You lost her you will never see her again 1" "I lost her. And neither you nor I will ever see her again I" He looked at the painter of tho rue Itnysle more composedly) "Eh, Jarvlst What should you and I ask of life! Youth turns to youth always and a fine fel low, this De A I mon a iter, You and I will never see her again." The devil take me If I saw her at all, very clearly, Whether her eyes are brown, or merely very dark blue and her hair, ., , , E!i, welll She never saw me very clearly either. Which Is most fortunate, She will re member longest the one who was the mm Charles Tenney Jacks on IHustraHcma by bu The BobbS-Merrill Compaiu greatest mystery. Sir another peg o' brandy." 'Here Bcum o' the seas! Tour drink plunderer o' the ports I" "Monsieur Lafltte" the Jester crushed back against the emperor's pil lows and touched a handkerchief of elegant linen to his Hps delicately "you say I shall die before morning?" "It Is certain as anything I know, Jarvls." 'Jarvls?" The Jester grew quite solemn: "Walt a moment Monsieur Lafltte." He straightened his body a bit: "Now bring me the cation of old Gorgior" "I brought It here," answered Mon sieur Lafltte obediently. The pistol of BohonT "By your aide, there cleaned and loaded " "The head scarf of Nez Coupe 1 "On the pillow by yon. And the earring of Johanness " "Where the dll Is the other oner roared the Bottle Emperor testily. "I could not get the other one un less I cut the bo'sun's left ear " "Name o' evil I why dont yon obey met" He thrust out a skinny finger snd shook It with a lordly wrath. Monsieur Lafltte shrugged exculpa- tlngly. "Eh, welll Can't you be satisfied? You have plundered th'em all t Yon have laid a solid shot through a good ship, killed your man on a red deete boasted, swaggered; robbed nine boc- caneers In a row and looted a Jewel from a woman! "Not so soon. A, pot o' gold, that also Is essential. Fetch It at once The master shrugged; then with s patient sigh, he scattered from his pockets an arc of Spanish doahloons across the silken coverlet. "There, corsair 1 That Is all I have to be robbed of. Now, rest. Mad John.' "Another thing. The name Saiarae It was the name she loved. "Perdition!" The other man turned to the bedside: "Well, then be Sat- arac. Monsieur Satanic was also ghost He never dared step from the shadows to her eye, more than did "Look, Dearest 8axarao, a Phantom Fading Into the Mlstl" you. Be comforted, old friend 1 Jean of the old days Is with you. The others haie gone a little time before," "Sazarac" murmured the other, and the old plaintive tone came again to him ! "I demand that also , , la the name she will remember "Well, then 1 Name o' G dl Take everything from me strip me to the hide I See I dub you Satanic," Monsieur Lafltte touched him upon hit bloody-bandaged shoulder with the rusty cutlass of Gorglo, the dead Catalan. "Now. boaster Saaarael' Monsieur Sazarac laid back npon the fmperor'i pillows. He motioned to the emperor's decanter. "A peg o' cognac, Monsieur Lafltte." s) He moistened his tongue with the drink fastidiously, and rubbed his un shaven chin. A square of blue hung above him through the open akyllght, and against It the snowy burst of sail. He could hear the creak of blocks and gear, the falut shout of sallormen aloft to Clark, the English lad at the wheel, as the new crew of the em peror's ship set the royals. "See here?" exclaimed Monsieur Bararac thoughtfully. "The flag once painted at my studio In the rue Oontl black with the white bones? Yon will hoist It tomorrow when they all go over." "Eh? Over? Well, I understand. Monsieur, the black flag shall be at the peak." "How many are there In the row by the fo'ees'le for me to command?" "Nine. You will make tea, Mon sleur Baiarac." "It must lie done by precedence' ordained the other loftily, "First I Monsieur Bniarao with my plunder, It Is all to be wrBDJ In but silk-lined cloak and tied very tightly to my belt-" "Dleu de Dleuf" whispered the oth ;; and then to himself: "Is tills the feTer? ... the brandy? ... or the secret soul of my friend?" Monsieur Sazarac suddenly thun dered to recall his lieutenant's mind. "Silence! I was saying In prece dence I First Monsieur feazarac. Then, Belnche, the admiral; Johan ness, the bcson and then the others to the green water. I order you will obey." "I will obey, Monsieur sazarac. The last adventurer turned away as If he had a petition to offer. It was hard to conceal that he desired to keep one little thing for himself out of this ravishment See . here Corsair. The little bracelet which you ordered must be stolen? Is It needful that It go to the bottom of the sea with you tomor row?" Monsieur Sazarac fixed his bright restless eyes' upon the other's somber attentive face. The flicker of a wise ruthless smile came to him. Tt Is needful. It Is my plunder. It was- hers. Name o names! There can be no discussion I Pin It to my new waistcoat do you understand?" The last man turned away from the emperor's bedside. He took his snuff absently, and sat down with the air of one who had lost the last battle. Then he looked at the plunder of Mon slenr Sazarac upon the emperor's pil low. 'Even the bracelet" he sighed.. "What a buccaneer, thrs Sazarac . . . and tomorrow he will be less lonely than I r- Monsieur Sazarac, ' outstretched with some luxurious peace upon the silken. Imperial coverlet, appeared to bear this whisper. He turned to see' the other man startng oat the open port at the sloop rolling In the gentle sees. "They have reached the deck,1 murmured Lafltte absently. "She is in De Almonaster'9 arms . . . she Is crying, or laughing, I cannot say which, but she Is waving a tittle hand to us" "To Sajmrae I will have that, too," smiled the jester. "My ragged heart has always longed for a teHr or a smUe from a lady. What riches I have at the end! Here Monsieur La fltte" He lifted Mademoiselle Les tren's bracelet and tossed tt to the other. "Out of the weulth of my em pire and my love I give you this trinket as a keepsake from her and from myself. Sazarac must be gener ous to the lust, eh Jean?" "He must fall In nothing." The adventurer lifted the bracelet to his Up and smiled tn turn: "He must be as she dreamed from the first. Thank you. Monsieur Sazarac." And the two watched the distant figures on the Hornet. They could nut ' know what the girl was crying out from her lover's arms : "Raoul! The Seraphlne fs not fol lowing s! She Is suiting eastward after alL . . . Oh, Raoui, whut Is the mystery?" "The seas are wide there are many far, secret places for Monsieur Sax ante," he whispered. "Louise! Dear est and always longed for! . . . yon love me! , . . you love mer" "I love you." She smiled out of her tears, glad for his arm, his tenderness, hts understanding, when her eyes turned again to the black schooner with the gold line along the water. It had broken out to snowy sail; It was growing smaller, fainter, tn the east, like a lily floating In the sun-wash of the gulf. "In New Orleans you will know everything," Rnoul smiled, out of his Joy. "I wtn tell you everything and of my love again I Look, dearest , . . Sazarac, a phantom fading into the mlstr "Ah. but my tittle bracelet! In the end, perhaps I shall understand every thing except why he stole my brace let 1". Which was exactly the way things fell out Long years afterward Madame, the Countess de Almouaster's children and then the children of her children stood before a shabby little shop which was once Pierre Muspero's gam-mg-house, and looked across at the faded facade of the gray house which their forefather built for the exiled emperor. They went, also, of a Sun day afternoon, among the tourists, to the low tomb In the old St Louis cemetery where the city had carved a flattering Inscription from Voltaire's "Henrlade" to the memory of an hon est councilor: "The Victor of a Hundred Fights on Sea and Land." Ah, whut jests may Ue In stone I Madame, the countess, could relate everything to her children, except about the bracelet of Marie Antoinette. At times, from the ' gallery of her great house on the Esplanade In old New Orleans, Madame would look across the mighty Mississippi to the dark and flooded forests of liaratarla beyond which lay the blue gulf Into which Monsieur Sazarac vanished for ever from the world of men. Eh, blent The adventurer might come again some day with her bnre lat , . . but over Monsieur's shoul der would peer his lust ragged follow er whispering that a Jester, too, might love I THE END. Troops Under British Flag. Greet Britain supports a standing army of 237.W0 men and a reserve of 37.500, The untrained rmerve' Is 4,633,500, She also has 17.000 trops m Egypt snd 50,000 In Canada, with an available man power of 1.351,000, There are 20,000 In New Zealand and 1J30.000 In the South African pos sessions. Most of these troops Include trained veterans of the World wee.