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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1924)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Padflc Northwest, and Other Taiugt Worth Knowing. Recognition of the soviet govern ment by France is regarded in political circles as Imminent. General James Barry Hertzog, lead er of the victorious parties in the re cent elections, Tuesday accepted the premiership of South Africa, succeed ing General Jan Christian Smuts. Forty thousand wofkers on men and children's clothing In New York city and vicinity have voted to strike Wed nesday, it is announced by the Amal gamated Clothing Workers of America. Directors of the Washington Wheat Growers voted to suspend for one year the compulsory wheat pooling plan of the organization and release members from their contracts for that period. The officers will market the crops oi any members so desiring, It was stat ed. " Five men were believed to have been burned to death late Tuesday In a, fire that followed- the explosion of naphtha aboard the British freighter Egremont Castle . at her dock in Brooklyn. Seven other men were ser iously burned. Disorganization of railroad service, with three trains derailed or maroon ed In southern and western Iowa, heavy damage to communication lines and considerable crop loss, was the re sult of severe storms that swept across the state early Tuesday, Unselfish service for others, without hope of reward, Is the basis of true happiness and of true Llonlsm, Presi dent Noel, Grand RapIdB, Mich., de clared In Omaha Tuesday in Jits an nual address before the convention of the International Association of Lions' clubs. ' Seven, men were killed by an ex plosion at a rock quarry six miles south of Winston Salem, N. C, Tues day afternoon when lightning struck a shed in which the men had taken refuge, during a thunder storm and in which was stored a quantity of ex plosives. Brlgadlor-General Charles E. Saw yer has resigned as personal physi cian to the president. The action was taken, it was explained, so that he could return to Marlon, 0., and devote his attention to the Harding Memorial association. The resignation was ac cepted by President Coolidge. Fire which has burned over an area of 2000 acres of forest land in the vicinity of the Tulare and Freauo county lines in California was out of control late Tuesday, according to ad vices to the United States forest head quarters here. Seventy-five men wen employed in fighting the blaze. Uultod States Attorney Williams nt Sua Francisco has tendered his res tgnatlon, Attorney-General Stone an nouueed Tuesday. The resignation was recently called for by Mr. Stone bocause of "negligence and Inef ficiency." The attorney-goneral said It would be acted upon at an early date. A. M. Manson, attorney-goneral, de clured on his arrival in Victoria, B. C that on the face of the returns the province appears to have gone strong ly against sale of beer by the glass He said it has not been decided whether those places that voted for beer would bo granted the privilege of sale by the glass. A walkout of shipyard workers oc curred in Ban Pedro, Cal., Monday ul the Bethlehem shipyards as a result of an increase In working hours from 44 hours weekly to 48 hours. Accord ing to Bhlpyard officials, 50 men quit The unions claimed that approximate ly 200 men were out. All trades were affected. The plant employs 490 men The United States is not only will ing but anxious to assist Europe In pushing the settlement of her repara tions problem, but does not Intend to participate lu any political difficulties overseas, a spokesman tor President Coolidge said Tuesday In commenting on the proposed Interallied conference in London next month to consider means of putting the Dawes plan luto effect Something to Shudder At. It Is said that a dish served to per sons of distinction In Pharaoh's time was made of lentils, oil and garlic, CURRENT ctatp TvrmirQ IN BRIEF. Oregon City. A 50-year-old cherry tree at the home of Mrs. Charles Babcock in this city is doing its share toward furnishing a big crop this year. Cnlnn. Thorn nraMl ft'wo fntnlltiOQ in Ore'gon due to industrial accidents in the week ending June 26, according to a report issued Saturday by the state industrial accident commission. Salem. Completed petitions for the so-called naturopath initiative meas ures to be referred to the voters of Oregon at the November election were filed with the secrtary of state Satur day. Eugene. The Lane county grand Jury has been called to meet July 1 to take up a number of criminal cases. The jury was first impaneled at the February term of court and has been recalled twice previous to this time. Salem. There was a total of 4461 persons in Oregon's 11 institutions on June 1 of this year as against 4221 on the same date in 1923, according to a report prepared here Saturday for con sideration of Governor Pierce -and other officials. Hillsboro. Voters of IS school dis tricts of Washington county, including the city of Hillsboro, Saturday voted by nearly three to one to organize a union high school district. The dis tricts acting have a combined valua tion of approximately f 5,000,000. Hillsboro. The Banks hog and dairy show will be held September 17, 18, 19, according to S. C. Inkloy, man ager. Combined with it will be the grange fair and the County Calf and Pig club fair. Electric lights havc been installed so the fair may be oper evenings. Salem. A deficiency appropriation aggregating approximately $21,000, with which to conduct affairs of the state income tax department during the last seven months of the present biennium, was requested at a meeting of the state emergency board held here Sunday. Haines. About 1000 persons wit nessed the closing races and exhibi tion riding on the program of the Haines Stampede here Saturday. This was tho record attendance for the three days. Call for work on the ranches during the haying season pre vented a larger attendance. Salem. Mrs. John L. Brady Sunday sent a telegram to Louise Shields, a writer, asking whether she will accept tho position of executive secretary to havo charge of social service work among the workers in the canneries and orchards of Marion and Polk counties during the present season. Astoria. Sunday night Astoria's street railway system, which has been In operation for more than 40 years, went luto discard. It was supplanted by a fleet of Mack motor busses operated by the Astoria Transit com pany. Each of these busses cost $8000 and will seat 25 passengers with stand ing room for others. Brownsville. After nn absence of 41 years, Hugh Duntap of Prescott, Wash., accompanied by his brother, Itobert, has returned to this city to visit survivors of 50 years ago. The boys visited the farm where they wero born, In the hills five miles southeast of here, but found few signs of the log cabin In which they were born. Salem. With more than $32,000 al lotted to the payment of premiums, the management of the Oregon state fair, which opens hero September 22, probably will bring together in the great annual exposition not only the largest but the best display of pro duces of the field and farm ever as sembled at a similar event in the west. Salem. Cherry growers here were more hopeful Sunday when It was an nounced that Foster Butner of Rose burg, had entered the local market and would pay above the ruling prices for fancy cherries packed In 20-pound boxes for his eastern clients. Mr. But ner has established headquarters at a locul hotel, and started advertising for a large quantity of the fancy pro duct. Sulom. Property damnge resulting from fires in Oregon during 1923 ag gregated approximately $10,000,000 or $11.25 per capita, according to the annual report of Will H. Mpore, which was completed Saturday. Mr. Moore, by virtue of his appointment as state Insurance commissioner, also is state fire marshal. The report show ed that eight persons lost their lives as a result of the tires, while 25 per sons suffered injuries from the same source. Deaths resulting from fires during the year were 11 less than dur Ing" the previous year. All the Difference. The very gnarllest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently In every one of us. Longfellow. STORM DAMAGE 6apn Death Toll 159; Many Home less in Ohio. LORAIN HIT HARDEST Thirty, five on Wrecked Launch Un- hurt; Thousands Out of Fac tories Miss Death. Cleveland, O. Loss of life in Sat urday's tornado which wrecked a large portion of Lorain and parts of San dusky and other Ohio cities was not as great as first reports indicated, but rechecking of casualties showed that more than 100 persons lost their lives in this storm and almost simultaneous disturbances at Pittsburg and in the upper Mississippi valley. The greatest loss of life was at Lorain where the latest count showed 59 dead and US Injured, a score of them suffering severe hurts. The property loss there was upward of $30,000,000, 125 city blocks having been demolished. At Sandusky it was found that only six persons were kill ed, although 100 were Injured and property valued at $2,000,000 was de stroyed. There were seven fatalities in Cleve land, although the property damage was Bmall. Pittsburg reported 16 per sons killed in western Pennsylvania, while Nantua, O., reported three dead and Akron one. The death toll in Iowa and Illinois was 12, making a death list of 109. The total property damage when reports from the rural regions are complete, will probably aggregate $50,000,000. Despite the devastation at Lorain, where the tornado tore down a quarter of the city, organized rescue work went forward smoothly and state troops kept order among the inhabi tants, hundreds of whom were thrown out of their homes and had to be shelt ered in tents and with friends. The great loss of life at Lorain took place in the State theater, a four story building, which partly collapsed and crushed many of the spectators at a matinee movie show. As soon as rescue work was organized a survey of the situation led to the deduction that many scores had been killed, for build ings had been whipped down over the heads of several fairly large assemb lages. At a bathing beach house the structure was torn to pieces and it was announced that dozens had lost their lives at this place, Investigation Sunday when light per mitted a search of the ruins showed that probably everyone at the beach had escaped with his life. The fact that the tornado struck both Sandusky snd Lorain while factories were emptied on account of Saturday after noon holiday probably reduced the death toll by hundreds, for a number of manufacturing plants were torn down only a few hours after several thousand employes had left their work. Four Killed In Wreck. Spokane, Wash Mrs. G. W. Gibson, her 6-year-old son Darel. and her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John Jordan, all of this city, were killed when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul passenger train in a rock cut two miles ' south of Cheney, In this county, Sunday. Mr. Gibson, who was driving the tar, escaped with minor Injuries. He la publicity manager for' the McClin tock-Trunkey company, wholesale grocers of this city and Seattle. Ac cording to information received here, the engine of the automobile went dead on the railroad track. No one except those in the automobile witnes sed the accident. Seattle Joints Raided. Seattle. Continuing a campaign of law enforcement inaugurated by Mrs Henry Landes, acting mayor, police raided seven alleged bootlogglug es tablishments Saturday night. The raids were conducted at the direction of Captain Claude G. Ban nick who was appoiuted acting chief by Mrs. Landes when Bhe dismissed W. B. Severyns, ex-chief, and took personal charge of the police department. Employment Talis Off, . Chicago. Employment reports for May from Industries In the seventh federal reserve district show a slacken Ing In industrial operations, according to the monthly business conditions re port of the federal reserve bank of Chicago, made public here. The Red Lock By DAVID ANDERSON Author of "The Blue Moon" Copyright by Hie Bobbs-MemD Co. "MISTOOK" SYNOPSIS. On tha banks of the Wabash stand Texie Colin and Jack Warhopa, young" and vary much In love. Taxis is tha only daughter of old Pap Simon, rich man and money-lander. Jack la tha orphan bound boy of Pap Simon who had foreclosed a mortgage on tha Warhopa estate. At first Texle and Jack talk sadly of Ken Colin, tha girl's missing brother. Then Jack says that in ten days his servitude will be over, that he will ride out Into tha big world to aeek tola fortune. Both know what that will mean to them. Texle and Jack talk of the red lock of "Hed Colin," In herited by Ken. And Jack says he's coming back as soon as he flndi gold In California. Then arrives the new preacher, Rev. Caleb Hopkins. Pap Simon Intro duces the villagers to the new preacher, who was a college mate of Ken. At supper at tha Colin home the preacher tells how tha boy killed a gambler and disap peared. His father attributes Ken's fall from grace to hia red lock of hair. Then Pap Simon has a sort of stroke, brought on by reading a letter from Ken, "somewhere In New York," who curses his father on his death bed. A postscript by another hand says he is dead. At tha vil lage store and post office Loge Belden, a newcomer Bays he saw the new parson with his arm around Texie. Jack licks him, shoots a pistol from his hand and makes him say he was mistaken, CHAPTER IV Continued. "Tes, them's mighty line senti ments," cut the thin edged voice of the postmaster across the silence and the dream dissolved in the fisherman's eye "an' I mostly agrees with 'em an' sayi amen to 'em, an' the new parson may be all 'e's cracked up to be, but still I ain't takln' back nothln'." Zeke's thin voice ceased, lost some where In the cavernous labyrinth of his sharp, Inquisitive nose. Uncle Nick prodded down the con tents of his pipe with his finger and smoked a while in silence. Taking the stem from between his Hps after a time, he blew the smoke away, slowly, as If to get the full taste of It, and waved the pipe across toward the postmaster1 a well understood prelimi nary to a renewal of the argument. At the moment Loge Belden took a gulp from his bottle of "squirrel," put the cork In, slapped it tight and slouched up along the counter. "Say, I'd just like t' put one f that. Thla evenln' aa I come up the River road past this hyur Warhope home stead an' SIme Colin's house, I stopped a little bit on the bridge acrost Eagle run an' happened f look over In the orch'ld b'twixt ol' SIme's an' the par sonage. Y'u know tlier's a spring along the crick thar under the edge o' the hill, an' ther's a bench t' set on under the maple tree by the spring. "Well, as I come a-past, thar set this hyur new parson an' that Texle gal on that bench, an' as near as I could make out, beln' purty well along tow'rds dark, be had 'Is arm around 'er. You fellers 'r wastln a lot o' breath on that gal. I 'low the par son" The room suddenly was deadly still, with every eye turned toward the door. Belden felt the stillness; hesitated; turned ' 'In the open door, framed In sharp outline against the dark background of the nightfall, stood the tall form of Jack Warhope. Belden grinned oddly; muttered a word or two ; leaned against the coun ter and looked down at the floor. With the reach and spring that only the woods and hills can give, Warhope walked Into the room. "I 'low y'u must 'a' been mistook about that arm." "Not a d n bit." Like lightning came the sharp smack of an open hand that fanned Belden's head back. He leaped away from the counter and struck a good smashing swing, clean from the hip; but It didn't land. It was apparent that Belden had a high opinion of his ability as a rough and tumble fighter, for he stepped right In and mixed it fast and furi ousthe whirlwind give and take of the mountains. The man he faced ducked or sidestepped or dashed aside everything Belden had, and came back with an occasional jab that was mad dening. Belden lost his temper tha mistake of many a better man and lunged viciously. He ran Into an uppercut to the chin that doubled him back over a barrel of salt. He whirled up, and his right hand clawed the butt of a pistol out of his pocket. The pistol came out, but that was all A heavy six-gun leaped from the woodsman's side, a bullet crashed Into the pistol butt, gashed Belden'a hand slightly and tore on Into the salt barrel. The woodsman stuck the alx-gun back Into the bolster at his hip, hid den by his. hunting blouse, snatched Belden by the collar and jerked him out Into the middle of the floor. "I 'low y'n must 'a' be'n. mistook about that arm." Belden's small beady eyes burned like hot copper as he wrung his hand. He cursed the pain; swallowed hard; finally muttered. "The light werdn't none too dern' good. I 'low I must 'a'." The woodsman dropped the others collar, talked a moment or so with Cncle Nick and Counterman about the seining trip next day the matter that had brought him Into the store and passed out at the door. The crowd gathered around Belden. Uncle Nick picked np the broken pistol and stuck It back, muttering as he examined the gashed hand. "Y'u ort 'a' had more sense than t pull on him. He ain't no ways spry on talk, but he can pick hlck'ry nuts with a six-gun." CHAPTER V Arrows of the River Gods. The Eev. Caleb Hopkins was at the boat landing in good time next morn ing. The others were already there, sit ting in the long skiff, Cncle Nick In the stern, Jack Warhope and Al Coun terman at the oars, the latter still holding the boat to the wharf. In his nervous and mincing way the preacher scrambled In; Counterman shoved off ; the oars dropped Into the water; and, with the seine colled up on the stern locker under the experi enced care of Uncle Nick, the live box towing behind, the skiff slipped away up the river toward Alpine island. Alpine island divides the Wabash into two nearly equal channels. The skiff was guided Into the north chan nel, and had glanced along nearly to the head of the Island when Counter man rested his oars with the remark that just there would be a good place to make the first haul. The skiff was accordingly turned In to the Island, and the prow drawn up on the sandy margin. Each man, Uncle Nick excepted, hurriedly un dressed, stacked his clothes in the boat and drew on his rough fishing garments. In strict Justice to the truth It must be stated that only-Counterman and the woodsman hurriedly undressed. The preacher was far slower and quite noticeably embarrassed over the unusual experience. The ragged boots too large, the shabby trousers too tight, the faded straw hat ridiculously unbecoming, it was the queerest wad ing rig ever seen along the Wabash. The others eyed it askance and winked around at one another. Even Even the Preacher Himself Must Have Caught Something of the Humor of the Odd Make-up. the preacher himself must have caught something of the humor of the odd make-up, for his studiously cir cumspect face relaxed Into a sugges tion of a grin. After a mild bit of urging, a prodi gious deal of coaching, be was left near shore to hold the brail stick while Jack and Counterman rowed out around (is great nn expanse of water aa the length of the seine permitted. On nearing the shore at the comple tion of the circuit, the two rowers leaded Into Ue water the moment It was shallow enough, leaving the boat to Uncle Nick, and raced for the bank at top speed, holding the brail stick to the bottom as they ran. With the frantic river tribes thus forced to shore, the water began to be wildly agitated. Long ripples shot from side to side of the rapidly dimin ishing space Inclosed by the net, as some panic-stricken swimmer plowed his reckless way near the surface. Even the preacher's .tired and studi ous eyes waked with the excitement, and he tugged eagerly at the brail as the bast and pickerel began to leap, glittering In the morning sun like sil ver arrows shot up by the river gods. "Thar, boys, haul 'er easy," directed Counterman. "We got "em. They cayn't git away now. Man) hain't ther a wad uv 'em I I know'd tals wus a good bole," 3 oATale of the Flatwoods The good fish were dropped Into the live box, the others thrown back into the river precisely as war claims the best men and leaves the defective and the fisherman seined on. Several hauls had been made, none of them quite so profitable as the first, and the sun was fast mounting toward mid-sky when, as a wind-up, they pre pared to drag the famous Alpine hole that lay along the south edge of tne narrow sandbar Jutting far down stream from the lower end of the Is land. 1 This hyur's a hard hole t' fish," ob served Counterman, handing the near brail to the preacher and taking his place at the oars with Jack, "but they're thar, if we can git 'em." I "Bank's purty steep," called Cnc'e Nick from his place In the stern. "Bet ter not try t' wade but none.' The preacher nodded and the other stooped to his task at the seine. But when the usual circuit was com pleted and they began to haul in on the seine. It was noticed that it did not bow out in the wide curve a spread seine should. Instead, as the men pulled, the sides drew in toward each other until the floating corks stretched out into the river in nearly parallel lines. 'Hung up, by thunder," growled Counterman, scraping the sweat from his grimy forehead with a grimier fore finger. "Snng 'r somethln' about forty yards out thar right whar the bot tom's out, too, as the feller says. Jack walked up the bank a short distance to where the boat was beached. Stripped to the skin, a figure that might have been a model for those master sculptors who conferred Im mortality upon the gods of classic Greece, he was just slipping Into the water when Uncle Nick came up the bar. "You'll find the lead line fast on somethln' a snsg more'n likely," he directed. "Jlst h'ist It off. 'Taln't no trick but we've lost our fish." Warhope glanced bark over his shoulder and nodded. The next mo ment he was plowing through the stream with strokes so powerful It seemed his great shoulders fairly scorned the water and spurned It out of the way. But the task ahead proved harder than the light remark of his old friend had Indicated. It was only after he had three times dived to the bottom of Alpine hole that he was able to locate the snng and release the seine. When he swam ashore, following the seine s Uncle Nick and Counterman hauled It In, the preacher, who had come up the bar, was seated on the forward gunwale of the boat, feeling over his clothes stacked In the bow, as If eager to assure himself that they had not come to harm. The woodsman ws putting his wad ing clothes on again when a slight thud, as of some heavy object striking' the bottom of the boat, caught his quick ear. Without turning his head he happened to be Just then squeezing the water out of his hair before put ting his shirt on he was able to catch a glimpse of the Ivory butt of a six gun protruding from a pocket of the black frock coat as it was being tucked back In the pile with the tall hat and shiny boots. Nor was that all with a deftness that would hardly have been expected In one of his profession, the slim fin gers were feeling over the other two stacks of clothes as If making sure that the six-gun he had just tucked away was the only one In the crowd. Still, probably such sn Intention was farthest from his thought. Six-gun and all, it was likely merely another of the many eccentricities of a man who had the double drawback of being a profes sor as well as a tenderfoot In the eyes of the woodsman, a combination about as bad as could be made. Uncle Nick and Counterman had just finished hauling in the seine when Jack Warhope, followed by the preach er, came down the bar and rejoined them. But the old man's prediction about losing the fish proved correct. The haul produced not a thing except a very surprised, highly indignant snapping turtle. Counterman kicked the turtle back Into the water and stared ruefully at the empty seine. "Them fish has t' be made up" he glanced up the river "an' thar's Jlst one shore place t' do It" "Mud haul." Uncle Nick finished. "Egzac'ly. Hit's sich a nasty place t' fish that It ain't hardly ever fished, but they're thar." The preacher had turned a quick look up the river; an expression of po lite displeasure clouded his face an expression which the others, busy with the seine, failed to notice. As a matter of fact, his part In the morn ing's sport bad been next to negligible. After the mild and momentary excite ment over the first haul, his Interest had obviously waned. The houseboat and the foot print en Its dusty deck. (TO B CONTINUED. I Buiaor la always a poor reaaoner.