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About Aurora observer. (Aurora, Marion County, Or.) 19??-1940 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1921)
Newest and Biggest o f the Atlantic Liners Day Is Saved by Golf Ball Amateur Champion Sees His Shot Go True by Remarka ble Roundabout Drive. MOUSE IS CAUSE OF IT ALL Champ Hurls Ball at Fleeing Rodent, Misses, Ball Rebounds, Hitting Waiter, Who Drops Tray and That Ends Mouse. With a full passenger list of persons and "personages,” the latest and biggest and most luxuriously-equipped ad dition to the fleet of the French line docked at New York recently. The photograph shows La Paris ending her maiden voyage at the pier. The vessel is of 33,700 tons, its four screws driven by oil-burning engines of 45,000 horse power. W here Vendetta Still Prevails son of Martin Pes, whom old Leporl was accused of killing. Salvatore is now some forty years of age. Then there were Mario and Arnold Stangoni, sons of the first victim, well able to remember the horror of their father’s murder, Arnold in the uniform of an ardito (storm troopers), with two sil ver medals earned by prowess in the war. A fter the bénédiction, old Paul Le- pori and Salvatore Pes solemnly em braced and wept on each other’s shoulders, amid the intense emotion and loud applause of the crowd. The kissing became general and there were solemn vows of mutual love and re spect The Last Combat. This is the story of the latest rec onciliation. Tw o families carried on a feud until they were both nearly de stroyed. They fought like wild beasts, concentrating every nerve, every emo tion, in the business of killing the tra ditional foe. Year after year, in am bush and open fight members of both families fell victims of the implacable rancor. Oddly enough, however, the < two heads of the respective clans, sturdy old men, remained Unmolested. Youths and even children were laid low, but the chiefs remained, like stal wart oaks, undisturbed by the raging tempest o f crime. At last they remained almost alone. A few more murders and they would have been the solitary representatives of their slaughtered lines. They took no special precautions tp guard Chkjgo.— Seated about a table at dinner in a loop restaurant recently, three Hammond residents carried on an animated conversation about golf. Earlier the talk had dealt with ani mals, aitiflcial ice and Admiral Sims’ speech, but had veered around due to a sincere effort on the part of two women present to please their male escort, Freddie Beckman, champion amateur golfer of Hammond. Since this story deals particularly with Freddy, It must be understood he has several laudable characteris tics and accomplishments. Beckman really is a good golfer. Back in civil ization he is at a disadvantage be cause of his acute bashfulness, but this affliction is remedied for him in circumstances demanding instant ac tion. Beckman was very polite and nod ded briskly whenever he was appealed to during the golf discussion, but sig nally failed to register enthusiasm. Golf Bali to Rescue. It was just after the conversation had swung back to animals that Beck man’s moment came. His companions, Mrs. Elene Meyn and “ L. M.,” had just finished their dessert when an uproar arose near the band. A woman shrieked and another and a third. As one person, patrons of that entire end of the restaurant rose to their feet and mounted chairs. “ It’s a mouse and coming this wajt,” cried Mrs. Meyn to Freddy. There was no question it was a sec ond just made for the amateur golf champ o f Hammond. His hand stole into his coat packet and brought out a golf ball. It was one he had made a hole in “ 1” with just the day before, and he was keeping it as a souvenir. Balancing the ball in his hand, he gazed earnestly at the fleeing rodent, headed straight for him. Then he swung his arm in a long underhand stroke and let the ball fly. It flew across the ten feet of space between Freddy and the mouse with a swlsli. Perhaps the mouse moved a striking the wall with a thump, bounded back and fitted snugly in the exact middle of a rotund waiter’s an atomy. The waiter had remained to all ap pearances petrified after the first shriek, following the discovery of the rodent, but at the advent of the golf ball he bounded up with a howl. A platter of food and drink in his hands fell to the floor and his moans rose louder as he saw the extent of the casualties. As the platter fell, Beckman watched it with pop eyes, and then, as the last echo of the crash died away, he murmured to his compan ions : “By gosh, I got that mouse after all.” Yes, you have guessed it— the plat ter killed the mouse. Freddy’s shot cost him $7.70 and a golf ball, how ever. WALES GETS FEUDAL GIFTS Ceremonies 600 Years Old Are Revived on Visit of Prince to Cornwall. Launceston, Cornwall, England.— Picturesque feudal ceremonies of 600 years ago were revived here when the prince of Wales, who is also duke of Cornwall, paid a visit to the old-time capital of his duchy. Launceston has been a royal borough since about 1086. The ceremonies Included the presen tation of rent and “ offerings of fealty” in kind, according to ancient custom. The mayor presented to the prince 100 shillings and one pound of pepper on a silver dish. To Sir Hugh Molesworth St. Aubyn fell the duty to offer a brace of grey hounds. According to ancient usage, they should be pure white, but the nearest obtainable approach was a well-matched piebald couple. Another ducal tenant tendered a pair of gilt spurs, and others present- ^w w w w w w vw w w vw w vw w w % Octopus Seizes Boy, Who Is Saved by Sister Eureka, Cal.—'Word reached here that a 16-foot octopus was killed at Samoa, Humboldt county, after it had seized in its tentacles eight-year-old George Peterson, son of a Eureka tug captain. The octopus lashed out with the other tentacles and wrenched an oar from the hands o f a sister, who was trying to rescue the lad. With another oar she stunned the animal, which loosened its hold on the boy and crawled to nearby rocks, where It was beaten to death. ed a pcrund o f cumin, a salmon spear, a faggot of wood, a pair o f white gloves and a rose. Strangest of all these curious terms of tenure is one requiring the repre sentatives of the manor of Swannacot and St. Mary Week to present them selves at the ducal court clad in man tles of goatskins. The present-day Incumbent, Bethuel Hutchings, stoical ly endured this attire over the ordi nary clothes on a broiling hot day. His appearance suggested a blend of a modern country tourist and Robin son Crusoe. The prince, much amused at the variety o f gifts, solemnly “ confirmed all the loyal tenants in their hold ings.” TWO SW EPT THROUGH TUBE the crimes, no one was ever punished by the law. Erie Workers Carried Nearly a Mile Agreed to Attend Mass Together. When Temporary Dam Lets Go. Then some one having authority in Storm. suddenly listened to reason. A ll the hostile families— the Leporis, the Pes, Erie, Pa.— Carl Henderson and Axel the Seazzus, the Spezzigas and the Macki, employed in the construction Vasas—far more hostile than the Mon of the Mill creek water tube, were tagues and Capulets, agreed to attend swept nearly a mile through the 18- a service of reconciliation together. foot concrete tube when a temporary Their famous feud has been respon Most Persistent Disciples Are Among dam let go during a terrific rainstorm. sible for no fewer than 75 homicides Both men were working inside the the Most Mild-Mannered and Most during the last 15 years. It all began big tube when the dam let go. They Hospitable People in the World with the murder of Prof. Pier Felice were carried to the lake and thrown -—Ceremony of Reconcili Stangoni, a widower who lectured at out upon the sand. Both will recover. ation. the technical institute of Sassari. Nearly an inch and a half of rain What he had done is not quite clear. fell in 20 minutes, flooding many , cel- New York.— Vendetta still flourishes ’ lars and interfering with traffic. Some say he had flirted with a Miss In many parts of the old world, but Pes and then refused to marry her. In no place is it more firmly estab Another story is that he was unin lished than in the Island o f Sardinia. tentionally killed by a mischievous Why it flourishes there is a mys boy from an unfriendly village. Any tery still unsolved, for the Sat dini- how, the professor was taking a coun ans themselves are probably among try walk with his three boys, Albert, the mildest mannered men in the Mario and Arnold, when some one world. Travel all over their island lurking in the thickets suddenly hit and you will be received with the him on the forehead with a bullet greatest hospitality. from a catapult and killed him in There are few inns, except in the stantly. Bolshevist Leaders See Final in Germany, to “convert your valu two or three chief towns, but inns are There was a sensational trial and ables into dollars as frequently as you not needed, for every door is open Haven of Refuge in Our the suspects were acquitted. A few can, or, better still, into South Amer to the stranger, the best of fare is of months la ter, how ever, on e o f them. ican currency.” attack. In fa c t, One Neighboring Continent. fered— nay, lavished with open hkpds Martin Pes, was killijS,- Thereupon a«a.iD8t one of them was rillin g bac» t r i f l e o r m a y b e , t l i e b a l l w a s n o t e x Says Lenin Is Weakening. —the fatted calf is instantly slain,Ithe the authorities^ to Saseari, accom panied by U servant. actly round— a t , any rate, the shot “ The Octobrists,” the letter adds, ¡lia rs g||g jjapsacked T o r- the t o J ^ t A few miles from home a shot re missed by a hair. meaning by them those communists a vigorous old man, and he was ac sounded from behind a hill and he bit Gets the RodenL a^enctetta by refusing hospitality or who participated In the October (191T) quitted for lack of evidence. Assas the dust. He shook himself and rose A gasp went up, and ended In a wanting to hurry away too soon I revolution, “ are frequently sending sinations followed with furious rapid to his elbows, but he knew that his shout of wild laughter, for the ball, So long as you do not smile at the their families abroad. Soon, it may ity. Nicholas Yasa was sèriously hour had struck. women folk you are an honored guest Intercepted Correspondence of Com be, I shall send my w ife across to you, wounded one day and killed the next. He called quietly to his servant. for a much longer time than you wish In which case try to put her up as Members of the various families “ Take off the saddle,” he said. munist Officials Shows That Many to remain. But the etiquette about best you can.” s were found dead in lonely places or Widow Gets Half Cent in | Octobrists Are Sending When this was done he took cover women is as strict as in any harem Referring to the political situation, disappeared and were never seen very stealthily behind It, pointed his Their Families Aboard. Breach of Promise Suit land in the East, and no intercourse this communist wrote: “ Ulitch (mean again. An Immense amount of prop gun in the direction from which death Is allowed with strangers. ing Lenin, that being, his middle namë erty was destroyed. Great numbers London.— One-half cent dam had been let loose upon him. Next to Sardinia in the vendetta Reval, Esthonia.—According to re by which he is popularly known in of innocent people went in daily'fear ages was awarded to Mrs. Wini Then he bade his servant riun to business comes Corsica, where the peo cently intercepted correspondence Russia) is weakening. ZInoviéff has of their lives. fred Coales, a widow with two ward the town, shouting as he ran: ple, after all, are not very different. from communist officials in Moscow grown ’ top fat. Trotzky alone re Ceremony of Reconciliation. children, of Blackborough road, “My master is dead !” There is plenty of. bloodshed in Sicily, to communist agents abroad, advising mains as of old the unrecognized Na Two hundred members came from Reigate, who sued William C. Deceived by Ruse. but it Is organized by a secret so them of the “ inside situation” in Rus poleon, but he is ‘evolutionizing’ also.” Cromwell, a motor engineer’s The man who had fired the shot ciety and has nothing to do with ven far and near to attend the ceremony sia, South America is looked on as a In connection with the sending of reconciliation. clerk, of Brighton road, Redhill, was completely taken in by this de detta. final haven of refuge by many o f the abroad of the families of the Oc The boys of Tempio seminary for alleged breach of promise o f vice. First, he peered out cautious Albania runs the blood-feud on very less hopeful Bolshevik leaders in event tobrists, this letter goes on : marriage, which she said was similar lines and Albania’s hereditary walked first in the procession. Then ly ; then his whole body appeared Russia becomes too hot for them. “ W ill you kindly keep a detailed made a few days after the death enemy, Montenegro, oddly enough, came Monsigor Sanna, bishop of Tem above the hill. It was the chieftain One of these letters, recently pub account of their arrivals and of their of her husband, who was serv pio and Castelsardo, followed by the of the other family. cherishes almost the same traditions, lished in a Reval newspaper, the Pos- means? Further, by a decision of thé ing with the Rhine army. The wounded man took a long, de whereas the Serbians, the cousins of parish priest, the mayor with an Ital lednie Novosti, advises one of the offi military department o f the party, I the Montenegrins, are bloodthirsty in ian flag and an enormous crowd from liberate aim, fired and saw^with sat m n u u u m u H m v n u u u tv cial’s friends, who now Is apparently want you to withdraw from the banks Penitential isfaction. that he had hit his mark. quite a different way. It is probably the whole countryside. all the deposits at your disposal and not an accident that feuds and feudal hymns were sung and mass was cele The servant came running back, re put them in safe hands. ism have the same derivation, and brated in the open air amid deep emo called by the shot, and to him the old Bring It to Switzerland. man said grimly : clannish traditions must have some tion. “ Bring to Switzerland a third of the Then Father Deligios, a famous “ Tell them to bring two biers, for thing to do with the custom, writes ‘iron fund’ and hand it to B----- . The Franciscan preacher, spoke of the we are two dead men.” And so it Herbert Vivian. rest can be left in Germany for any beauty of Sardinia, the hospitality of proved. Part of Their Code of Honor. eventualities.” They found the chieftain with his The great difficulty, that govern her people, always generous except The writer constantly refers to the when carried away by traditional ha head resting on the hard pillow af ments find in suppressing vendetta is ruling Councils of the Bolshevik! as that its disciples regard it as part of treds. He alluded to the 75 victims forded by his saddle, and in death he “ the Olympians,” and remarks that> their code of honor. Men who go to and invoked- the blessing and pardon still clung to his gun. After this last “ our. Olympus is going the pace too of heaven on thè survivors. tragedy the few survivors of the two church regularly and observe all the fast.” Then the members of the hostile families consented to make peace, for religious feasts— black-coated gentle “From January,” he says, “ the situ men o f infinite respectability, who families were divided into two long it seemed to them that they had car ation in the council of the party and files and went up side by side to re ried out the law of vendetta to its could be trusted anywhere with un in the central committee has come to told gold and frivolous females—nev ceive the episcopal benediction. There bitter end. a point to the last degree. The result But vendetta is in their blood— the ertheless consider it their sacred duty was Paul Lepori, “ Uncle Paul,” as. he of thesp conflicts was the expulsion of to slay the second cousin twice re is known to the whole countryside, the very children play at vendetta, just Comrades Krylenko, Bontch-Bouro^ moved of some one who has killed a lather-in-law and alleged avenger of as little Spaniards play at bull fights. vietch, Dubov, Blumenthal and many the first victim, now ninety years of A trifling accident or a petty quarrel member of their family in legitimate others. This was the last gesture of. self-defense. Indeed, there is a stigma age, and very hoary, but still erect may easily lead to another feud last the gay party gods. For a word said ing for centuries and spreading a reign on their whole clan i f blood has not and vigorous. against Ulitch, Krestinsky or Zinovieffj Beside him was Salvadore Pes, the of terror over whole provinces. been wiped out with blood, if many even not in public, ostracism is immi molars have not. repaid a single tooth. nent.” *. It ceases to be— It never is, in fact— a personal affair. It is just primitive, RACING FRAUD IN GERMANY savage Justice. In Sardinia church and state have Promoters Fix Things So No One been frantically at work for genera Else Gets Any of the Money. tions trying to suppress the vendetta, but it is very slow work. Berlin.— Horse races In Germaiiy From time to time, however, rec generally were honest affairs before onciliations do take place. Sixty-flve the war, but scandals are the rule years ago there was a solemn cere nowadays. Typical of the rest were mony of forgiveness between two fam the recent Carishost races, under the ilies that had been at war for two cen auspices o f the Strausberg Racing society; which so arranged matters ias turies, killing one another and de stroying one another’s cattle and to keep not only all the purses but farmsteads. It made an enormous also the amounts o f the totalization sensation, and marked an epoch in the and registration fees. Four horses ran in the so-called history of the Island. Only the other Fredersdorf race. When the jockeys day there was a similar event, for had galloped over more than three- which the parish priest and the mayor quarters of the distance they began of Tempio, amid the savage rockland trotting, so that the first horse ar of Angina, are jointly responsible. rived at the starting point seven arid Almost endless negotiations preced a half minutes after the agreed max ed the formal kiss of peace. No one wished to forego his vengeance; the imum time. According to the rules no purse was honor o f five hostile families was at Mrs. Mary J. Burton of Los Angeles is pointing, for the benefit of Miss A recent terrific wind and a torrential rain conspired to drive this Mis Barbara Babcock of Salt Lake City, to the wonderful view o f southern Utah’s paid and the money placed on the stake. Again and again, for a whole generation, men and boys have been sissippi steamer on the mud flats. The old vessel, one of the last of the stern- “ Dixie coton try” as they stand on a high plateau. The girls are members- of horses and the registration fees went stabbed, and though everybody knew driven variety for which the Mississippi was once famous, has been abandoned a party opening the new scenic road from Zion National park, Utah, to the to the treasury of the Strausberg Rac « a m rim nf the Grand canyon. the culprits and aU the reasons for by her owners. Her back is broken and her sides are all wrenched. ing society. Code of Honor as It Is Enforced in Sardinia, Corsica and Elsewhere OIFFICULT TO STAMP OUT REDS LOOK TO SOUTH AMERICA #1 SAY LENIN IS WEAKENING Scouting for a, New Scenic Road Old Steamship’s Back Is Broken m