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About The Ione independent. (Ione, Or.) 1916-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 11, 1924)
j -i. WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resurre Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Tallica Worth Knowing. The cabinet lias resigned. This change lu the Chinese government be came known in Pekin Tuesday. Fetty Officer Flowers of tho Vnited State destroyer Syeard was killed Monday in an automobile accident in Calcutta, says a dispatch from that city. Jewelry estimated ot 125,000 in value was stolen Sunday night from the apartment ot B. Charted Ehrman, San Francisco Importer, while he and Mrs. Khrman were out driving. Dates fur formal notification of President Coolidge and Charles U. Dawes, republican vice-presidential candidate, ot their nomination by the Cleveland convention are fixed tor July 24 and 31, respectively. The lower part ot Main street in Jacksonville, Fla, Monday was en veloped by a fire which destroyed the large warehouse building occupied by the Quaker Oats company, the Booth Fisheries and the St. Johns river boat line. The appointment of Kenneth Dur ham ot Spokane as director of the de partment ot labor and industries was announced by Governor Hart Tuesday. Mr. Durham, who succeeds Edward Clifford, resigned, has been supervisor ot Industrial Insurance tor the past year. Blown into Bend, Or. by the storm which passed over the mountains Mon day evening, or coming In answer to a migratory Instinct, swarms ot large moths, believed to be ot the pandora variety, affixed themselves to the walls ot buildings and telephone poles In the city Monday night. Six persons, Including Dr. F. W. Mc- Kair, president ot the Michigan Col lege ot Mines, lost their lives and 17 others were Injured Monday when a solid mail train on the Chicago, Burl ington & Qulncy road crashed Into the rear end of the eastbound passenger train Vo. 2, from Denver, at Buda, III The Rev. George Dougias Byers, an American cltixen attached to the Presbyterian mission, was murdered June 24, presumably by bandits at Kuchek, Island ot Hainan, according to Information received by American Minister Scburman at Pekin and for warded to the state department Mon day. The derelict of the tramp steamer Bridgetown, which last cleared Bar badoes In February with a 12,000,000 liqu r cargo and since was reported on the Jersey coast rum row, was report ed Monday by Captain Lainson of the Royal Mail liner Ohio to have been sighted last Wednesday oft the Crund Banks. A lighted lantern, hung below, kept a cougar up a large Cottonwood tree Saturday night at the borne ot Gerland Robinson, who lives two miles north west of Goldendale. At daybreak Sun day morning the animal was shot by Robinson and Otis Morgan, a nearby neighbor. It measured 8 feet S inches from tip to tip and weighed 100 pounds. Proposed consolidation of the South ern Pacific and El Paso & Southwest ern railroad system was defended in a statement Issued Tuesday by Julius Kruttschnltt, chairman ot the South ern Pacific company. He said the union would insure preservation of existing routes and channels of trade and commerce in harmony with the policy of the transportation act. The same bandit who three weeks ago held up and robbed the North Sacramento branch of the California Trust & Savings bank of 12000 held up the bank again at 11 o'clock Tues day and took 1000. The bandit was identified by the bank officials as '.ho man who had been there before, ile was unmasked on both occasions. Ile operated In tho same manner and fled in an automobile as before. Further evidence of the crafty super mind of Nathan Leopold Jr., who with Richard Loeb, murdered little Robert Franks, came Tuesday when tho state learned ot what appears to have been an attempt to shift the blame for the murder to the 'shoulders of a fellow student, George Lewis, who was brought In tor questioning. Lewis Is an ornithologist and had taken one of Leopold's classes on a field trip about the time of the murder. PRESIDENT'3 SON IS DEAD Uluod Poisoning Proves Fatal to Calvin Coolidge, Jr. Washington 1). C Calvin Coolidge Jr., sou of tho president, died Monday night at Walter Reed hospital of blood poisoning. Tho end came after the boy had battled with the utmost bravery and fortitude for five days against a dis ease which had racked his body with pain and sapped tho reserve strength ot his frull constitution. President and Mrs. Coolldgo, who had malutatned constant vigil at the hospital, were at his bedside, hope ful and cheering and comforting their son to the Inst. A sinking spell, the fourth he had suffered in 24 hours, brought death, Notwithstanding the use of oxygen and other restoratives, the courage which had withstood crisis after crisis and had beaten death off repeatedly was uuable to meet the attack. The col lapse began at 6:30 o'clock and he died at 10:30 oclock. E. T. Clark, the president's per sonal secretary, emerged from the sickroom at 10 o'clock and told those waiting outside that tho patient was sinking, but that his stamina was re sisting every backward stop. Neltl President Coolidge nor Mrs Coolidge came out, and the physicians remained to minister to the suffering boy's last minutes. The White House, where a staff had been kept busy while the presi dential residence was temporarily re moved to Walter Reed hospital, coas ed to function for the time, and Secre tary Slemp and others rushed to the hospital. In other parts ot the city, where the illness ot the boy had grip ped public interest to the exclusion of almost everything else, there were anxious Inquiries as to his condition and- expressions ot sympathy for the parents. Announcement that death had final ly ended the sufferings of the frail boy was made by Mr. Clark. He walk ed slowly from the room and those who were gathered there knew from his demeanor that the end had come ine iniectton aevetopea from a broken blister on the right 'foot, sus tained during a tennis match with his brother John on the White House courts last Monday. At first paying no attention to it, the youth developed an alarming condition by Wednesday night and physicians were summoned. The poison, however, once started. had spread so rapidly that medical skill was without avail. A number of specialists were called to act with White House physicians on tho case and a desperate fight for life was made by J lie fooy, who struggled in great pain and with high fever. Church Asks Freedom. Decorah, Iowa. Resolutions call ing for freedom of religious worship and absolute separation ot church and state were adopted Monday at the closing session here of tho fifth an nual district convention of the Nor wegian Lutheran church of America. Another resolution adopted declar ed "at Is the duty of all citizens to obey laws enacted by the govern ment." The Lutherans in still another resolution deplored war and welcom ed its banishment, but declared they stood ready to "sacrifice even our lives whenever the government, in order to preserve tho common welfure summons us to the field ot battle." Tunnel Plan Abandoned. London. Prime Minister Mac Donald announced Monday In the house 'of commons that the British government had decided against tho construction of a tunnel under the English chan nel. Mr. MacDonald declared that the government had accepted the ail vim of the committee on Imperial defense that the advantages of tho tunnel were not commensurate with Its disadvan tages from a defe nse viewpoint. Cyclone Stops Air Mall. Omaha. Frank Yager, air mall pilot flying between Cheyenne and Omaha, was forced down at Chappell, Neb., about 25 miles north of Jules- burg, Colo., by what air mall offic ials termed a "young cyclone" at 8:15 Mon day night. A relief plane piloted by Jac k Knight was sent from the Omaha field to pick up Yager's cargo. Keno Forest In Flames. Klamath Falls, Or. Lightning caus ed a serious forest fire In the Keno section, 14 miles west of Klamath Fulls, Sunday and local flro-flghters have been unable) so fur to ge;t the flames unde-r control. Tho fire has spread over a front of three miles and threatens an Immense area ol Weyer hauser Timber company pine. Accused Cowboys Free. Hcndon, Englund. Court summons which hud been Issued ngulnst Tex Austin and other promoters of the rodeo in tho Wembley stadium and cowboys participating In It, charging cruelty to animals In the steer-roping contest, were dismissed Monduy. PARTY IN JANUA BI NEXT La Follettee Candidacy For mally Indorsed. CONFERENCE ENDED All Klentcnta at Cleveland Convention Reported In Full Accord at Conclusion. Cleveland, O. After Indorsing Robert .M. I.a Folletto as a presidential candidate and providing for the organ izution of a uow political party next January, the conference for progres sive political action w'otind up lis con vention early Saturday night. Tho couferemo empowered Its na tlomil committee to select a vice pretd dontlnl candidate after conference with the "La Folletto for president committee." ' La Follette was indorsed as a cundl date on his tiwn platform. The con vention then adopted tor itself a plut form embodying the Ideas contained in the Wisconsin document and In the statement ot principles issued at the St. Louis session ot tho confer ence last February. Tho final day of the gathering work ed out strictly according to plans ot the leaders and without appreciable opposition. But Just before adjourn ment some of the delegates, daied by the rapidity ot events, had to be as sured by tho chair that La Follette actually had been "nominated" ami that definite provision had been made for the new party. Tho confusion aroso from the fact that the report of the committee on organization recommended this action and that no separate motion of In dorsement was offered. The report Itself was adopted without a dissent ing vote, but tho significance ot tlil- action did not dawn on either dele gates or galleries and there was a total absence of demonstration. Repeatedly, 'Friday as Saturday. the name "La Follette" was the signal for an outburst of cheering and ap plause. Yet the culmination of the convention's work, coming in the torm of a committee recommendation, did not draw even a pattering of hand clapping. , All elements in the convention were Intent on showing they were back ot La Follette's candidacy. After losing a fight before tho organization com mittee fur Immediate formation of a new party, the socialists, led by Morris Hlilqult of New York, were the first to second the Indorsement report. The farmer-labor party elements who backed Parley Christiansen In the 1920 campaign, and who also hud urged tho "third party Idea." then rallied to the support of Iji Follette as an Inde pendent, Abraham Lefkow III, New York, being their spokesman. Wolves Cause Losses. Klamath Falls, Or. Driven down Lfrom the higher mountains by the un usual drought, timber wolves were re ported to be raising havoc with rnltlc ranchers on the west shore of Klamath lake. The wolves killed six calves and (mi grown steer at tho Doak ranc h during the past few days. Two of (lie wolves havo been killed by ranch hands, who report the ani mals more bold thai, Is the usual raw during a severe winter. Ace circling to tho ranchers. Invasions by wolves at this season have never been known before. Bodies of Five Boys Found. lialtlmore, Md The bodies of five boys, members of the lialtlmore Even ing Hun's newsboy band, and that of negro, were found on tho hulk of the buy steamer Three Rivers Sunday when tho remains of the vessel, which was burned to tho water line In Chesa peake hay early yesterday morning, was towed lntc lialtlmore. This brings the tolal number of victims of llio fire up to 10 aud accounts for all those known to bo missing. Two Jugo-Slavs Slain. Ilelgradi!. An Incident Is reported from the llaio-Jugo-SIav frontier In which two Jugo-Kluv customs officers were killed. The version of the In cident received he ro says tho customs men, while patrollng, met threo Italian frontier guards who summoned them to halt. When the customs men pointed out that they were on Jugo slav territory, according to this no count, the Italians opened flro. killing them and wounding a civlllun. FORM NEW c Hobart Bosworth Hobart Van Zandt Botworth, popular in the "movies," was born In Msrlstta, Ohio, In 1667. As a boy h wss of the Huck Finn typs. Bosworth served In the navy, Having gradustsd from Annapolis. He makts.hls horns In Los Angeles. He was long on the stage bofor entering motion pictures. He Is six fet, one inch tall, wtlghs 200 pounds, has blue tyts, whits hair and fair complsxion, , II...- V Tl 11-1 iiae iuu i ins iiauirr By Margaret Morison ROBERTA HOOD DOP.HRT.V I II mi) had lived all her A life up to eighteen on her father's old farm at Pleasant alley. So when It rame time fur her to begin to think of her on financial future, she nat urally turned to the city. And In two months she was one of tire girls work ing In Die pressing room of the big garment factory that supplied up town shops with children's fine dresses. From eight to live she Ironed dainty' ruffles ami tucks nnd plaits. The other workers rnrely spoke to her; all went about their business In a dull, determined way; at Intervals the man ager looked In; and once In two weeks she drew her pity envelope. Sli be came so used to the four mustard-colored walls that she wus no lunger con scious of nii)thlng beyond her Ironing board nnd the shelf nhove. Then one week she went home for Sunday. It was April anil the woods were full of violets. Roberta llocwl picked a big box of violets and moss to take to the city with her. When she left for her work on Monday morn ing the blossoms were so fragrant that she took a few with her In a gins and put them on the shelf above her Iron ing board. All that day ns she looked up at Intervals they seemed something living smld the mechanical routine of her motions. The bend of the room rame over to take a sniff mid said thst he rntne from the country, too. On her next visit home Roberts brought back some Ivy. nnd the five workers look turns watering It and wishing down the glossy leaves. Through this common Interest they be gan to eat lunch together. Then they started a window box, and finally they achieved curtains, and n table where they spread their sandwiches and bot tles of milk. The pressing room bail become a matter of Interest In the factory. Fi nally, one elsy, the president of the company strolled In. Ho was a pro gressive limn and be npprec-lated the business value of tho. esprit cle corps of this little group. The upshot wss a clubroom for the workers of Hie fac torya room of their own -freshly painted, with geraniums, nnd n dis reputable yellow cat that they had adopted as their mnscot. To open the new club they had a party. The lifiid man In Roberta's room snt next to her. "This Is jour doings!" Vald he. . "Aw, go on!" laughed Roberta. Hut the next spring, when they were married, Roberta put extra effort Into "fixing up" their rooms. She had learned the value of the habit of bring-, Ing beauty Into everyday life. HAVK YOU THIS IIAISIT? by Metropollten Newipaptr flervlae.) i) A LINE O' CHEER I IH By John Kendrlck Bangs. . 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