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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU HARDING TO FIRE WASTERS Rigid Economy Is Demanded by Chief at "Business" Meeting. Everts of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. The Kansas law creating a state industrial relations court was declar ed unconstitutional by the supreme court Monday insofar as it attempted to fix wages in packing houses. Seven dead, many reported missing, thousands homeless and property loss exceeding $5,000,000 was tho known toll Tuesday night of floods which have sent virtually every stream in Kansas to the highest stage in years. The French budget deficit of 3,750, 000,000 francs is turned into a sur plus of nearly 900,000,000 francs, and Cited as comparing favorably with the American and British budgets, in tho final report of the senate's finance commission. After a controversy of 25 years' standing the general assembly of the Canadian Presbyterian church voted in favor of amalgamating with the Meth odist and Congregational churches of the dominion. The vote was 420 to 129. ' William A. Pinkerton, in an informal discussion of the causes of crime in Buffalo, N. Y., advocated the whipping post and the pillory for the houso bur glar and "stick-up" man and declared against systems of parole and inde terminate sentences. Two thousand relative and friends of cadets thronged about the battle monument on Trophy point, overlook ing tho Hudson river at West Point, N. Y., Tuesday and witnessed the graduation of tho 201 cadets who com posed the West Point class of 1923. Dispatches to Jugo-Slav news papers Wednesday report the ex istence of a Itat of civil war through out tho greater part of Bulgaria. Form er Cabinet Ministers Oboff and DOU pa ti noff are said to have been killed during an engagement with revolu tionary troops. Scott Stalker of Pocatello, Idaho, waB drowned and T. H. Moffett of Cleveland, ()., narrowly escaped drowning when a canoe in which they had started for Portland, Or., cap sized In the Howl and Pitcher rapids of the Spokane river near Spokane, Washington Tuesday. Tea sturdy German girls, who ad mitted that they had come to tills country looking for tall, strong hus bands with a little money, arrived In New York, Monday on tho ltoyal Mail line steamship Orca. They were bound for New Haven, tho seat of Yale uni versity. Their ages rango from 10 to 21. Drastic Mam legislation .for tho Control Of firearms as a means of checking tho steadily growing Homi cide rate was urged by the Spectator of New York, an Insurance periodical, Wednesday In making public Homicide statistics for 1922, which showed a slaying rate in 28 of tho largest cities of nine for each 100,000 of population. Department of justice officials in dicated Tuesday that the government will appeal to the supreme court from I lie decision of tho United States cir cuit court of appeals at St. Paul which permits consolidation of the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific railroads. That the decision has left confusion in its wake as it affects Interpretation of the Sherman auti trust act and the transportation act was manifest and If for no other reason than to clear the situation on vital points of that laws. It is onfldoutly expected that the department will note an appeal. Discovery of a simple but effective cure for infantile paralysis, that dread scourge which has baffled medical science, lias been made by a Chicago woman, who prefers to retain her an onymity. Her treatment has been tried out with marked success at the Northwestern university medical school and lias been adopted by the Visiting Nurse association. The do- lea consists of a large tank, partly filled with tepid water ami equipped with a circular bench around tho In side. The crippled children merely sit for Hours with their feet and legs Im mersed In the woter, while they prac tice wiggling (heir toes. Tho little patients take to tho treatment Heartily and the results have been highly sat isfuctory. Washington, D. C. Confident that the government will finish the 12 month period ending June 30 with a surplus of $200,000,000, President Hard ing told government officials at a "business" meeting Monday that he expected greater economies to be ef fected during the next fiscal year. The policy of "economy with ef ficiency," he asserted, must be pressed further for the benefit of the tax payers. The executive, taking official no tice of reported attempts by some of ficials to influence congress to grant larger appropriations than recommend ed by the budget bureau, warned Bgalnat repetition of such activities. Departing from his prepared address anil shaking his finger emphatically at his audience, lie announced lie was ready to give consideration to recom mendations for tho discharge of of ficials who urged congressional com mittees to go beyond the budget fig ures in appropriations. "I do not hestitate to say," Mr. Hard ing declared, "that a repetition of the acts of any government officer before congressional committees in urging ap propriations in excess of the budget's recommendations will be regarded as sufficient reason to cause the giving of consideration to the severance of such fflciall from the government service." The president's determination to enforce the program of keeping gov ernment expenditures within income was reflected in a speech by Brigadier- (;. in nil Lord, director of the budget, who, speaking also at the meeting, said lie had asked the president to discharge one official who had In- strut led his subordinates lo spend all money available to their bureau before July 1. The official, General Lord de clared, sent telegrams to his field serv ice employes, urging them to let no appropriation lapse at the end of the fiscal year, when unexpended funds revert to tho treasury general fund. General Lord made a plea for a stop ping or wastage in government opera tions, the small as well as the large, for both kinds, he said, were equally important in any program of retrench ment of expenditures. The president characterized tho ef forts of the government "business" organization toward retrenchment as epochal. He said that the benefits accruing were not all directly shown and pointed to the adoption by many slates of federal standards and meth- ds as proof that the policy of econ iniy in government was being carried UTther'by the example of the federal overnment. ah of this, the executive asserted means government at less ex pense to those who pay the bills. ETNA SP0UNITG HOT LAVA Home. -Mount Etna, in violent erup tion Monday was laying waste the sur rounding countryside, said dispatches which reached the mainland. tireat rivers of molten rock, pour ing down the steep sides of the moun tain from numerous fissures, were overwhelming all before them and the militants of the surrounding settle ments were fleeing In despair while crops and homes were disappearing under the hissing flood. The main crater of Etna, after the fitful displays of the last week, sud denly opened up at midnight Sunday with a noise like the firing of a thous and cannon. There were subterranean rumblings, flames shot to the sky and the populations of the little towns about the base of the cone fled to the plains. Five great cracks opened in the northeastern side of the mountain and from these mouths, sc. oral kilometers from the old crater, came streams of lava. Thousands of tons of rocks and ashes were hurled to a Height of 30 to till feet from both the old and new craters and the lava streams, advanc ing on a frontage estimated at 500 yards, laid waste tho vineyards and forests in their paths and progressed at a speed of a mile and a quarter an hour. Pole Flight Given Up. Christiana. Captain Itoald Amund sen Has abandoned his proposed flight across the North Pole b) airplane, n was announced Monday afternoon by the Norwegian minister of defense. 'I he minister received n message from I. eon Amundsen, brother of Koald, reading: "Just received the following telegram, dated Norwich, Alaska: 'Trial flight held May 11. Result very unsatisfactory. Sorry forced abandon proposed flight. Have written.'" FRENCH MAY CLOSE If ri nTnnirn i n nmin ii4 AUIUhltb IN nUnn Germans Given Warning by Oc cupation Authorities. PURPOSE TO COLLECT Plan to Take Control of Coal, Coke and All Haw Material Sup plies Is Announced. Dusseldorf. Plans to take control of the coal and coke and raw material supplies of all the factories in the Ruhr were announced Saturday at French headquarters here. The oc cupation authorities decided to adopt this method to enforce payment of the coal tax which all except a few of the smallest plants have heretofore re fused to pay. General Degoutte, the allied commander-in-chief, issued a decree an nouncing the military's intention to take charge of all overhead Cunvey ors and all rail lines leading from the coal mines to the factories. The French and Belgians will post guards along all such lines, and whenever a plant director refuses to pay the coal tax to the occupational authorities his supplies of coal, coke and raw mater ials will be immediately cut off, thus causing the shutdown of the plant as soon as its stocks are exhausted. The Krupp works at Essen, employ ing 52,000 men, and the Stinnes works at Mueiheim, with 40,000 men, will be among tho establishments affected. indebtedness Issue Bought Up Washington, D. C. The treasury de partment announced Sunday night that it had accepted subscriptions totaling $189,833,500 to the latest issues of indebtedness. A total of $342,402,000 was subscribed but the treasury's requirements for the next few months permitted the amount of cash offers taken to be held close to the original estimate of $150,000,000. Secretary Mellon, however, decided to accept all subscriptions for which matured securities were offered in payment. These amounted to $38,344, 000. Closing of the issue of certificates which matures December 15 and bears 4 per cent interest, marks the con clusion of tho treasury fiscal opera tions for this finance year, and in ail probability nothing will be done In the way of new financing before the mid dle of September. Kite Flier, 76, Is "Hero." Jamaica, L. I. James A. Poulson of Jamaica, the 76-year-old kite en thusiast, who became famous over night and won the annual Jersey City kite flying contest by sending his llxll-foot rocket 2Ms miles into the air Saturday, was being congratulated for his extraordinary accomplishment. Poulson is the boys' hero now and the ease with which he sends his kite high above the rest is still an awe inspiring mystery to them. Out in Jersey City and in Jamaica the hoys consider Poulson the eighth wonder of tho world. Poulson, however, did not become famous by accident. He has been flying kites for CC years. Uig Kansas Bank Shut. Wichita, Kan.- The American State bank, one of the strongest state banks In Kansas, closed its doors early Mon day morning Coney Island is Raided. Coney Island, N. Y. Determined to rid Coney Island of Its week-end pa jamu parties and gambling seances this summer, two score detectives and patrolmen in a series of raids Sunday arrested more than 150 men and wo men. Magistrates McCloskey and O'Nell spent most of the day in police court accepting pleas of guilty and im posing fines. Two hotels and dozens of seaside bungalows were raided. Eighty-one men and women were taken in rooms at hotels. $8 Increases to $55. New York. - An $S savings bank de posit, made in Boston during the 1S73 panic, by George G. Kelton, 67, a re tired manufacturer and politician, has grown, after several reassignnients to a fund of $55, which Kelton Saturday made over to his grandson, Gail Kelton, 6, of Brooklyn, to grow up with. If Gail leaves it intact for 90 years more he will have a sizeable bank roll. Soviet Envoy It Named. Tokio Adolph A. Joffe, represent ing the Russian soviet government, The bank was closed Has been appointed plenipotentiary for eft $75, Many 1 000 in Packages Demon Woman Shopper's Home Found to Be Warehouse of Strange Purchases. following discovery of the defalcation' of $1,500,000 by Phillip A. Drumm, cashier, the Wichita clearing house an-nounced. the preliminary "conversations" with the Japanese government for the pur pose of re-establishing relations be tween the two couutrles. Galion, O. Shopping of one kind or mother Is a habit shared by the fe nale of the species the world over, jven with the poorer sisters whose ob jessiou for the beautiful is gratified from the outside "window-shopping!" Witli Mrs. Emma Lee, however, It aas even more it was her very life. It was her great solace that had Its in ;eptlon many years ago, shortly after her honeymoon in the late '80s. It was the old, old tragedy of a young bride ihose love story ended prematurely, eld residents here say. After a divorce her husband, H. D. Lee, now said to be a multimillionaire of Kansas City, Mo., went westward to seek his for tune. When Mrs. Lee died last month her old home on Main street proved a veritable warehouse wherein were stored hundreds of unopened boxes of candy, baby carriages, a small piano, never unpacked; 90 washtubs, a thou sand pairs of mittens, unworn; hun dreds of plants long since wilted, ar tificial flowers, a large box full of $20 goldpieces, $10,000 in government bonds and thousands of dollars in cither securities secreted in mattresses, under the bed, under the stove, in cubbyholes, behind wallpaper, and other articles galore, including tine toilet waters nnd toothbrushes. Sold Houses to Shop. During Mrs. Lee's 30 years of grati fying her Intense passion for shopping she was wealthy disposition of her constant and enormous purchasings wus not known, nor the real total dreamed of until the day after she suc cumbed to burns sustained when she fell against the kitchen stove. Every room In her large home, sev eral outbuildings nnd two other build ings in a business block here are bulg ing with articles, Including gems, the accumulations of her shopping, indul gence In which having been her only diversion since her romance wus shut tered. Administrators of her estate roughly estimated at $75,000 the value of this queer store. The only clenr space in the score of rooms in her home or the storehouses Is a narrow strip five feet deep In her bedroom on nn upper floor and an equally small space on the lower floor occupied by the stove on which she prepared her meals. About ten years ago Mrs. Lee's shop ping mania became so acute that she disposed of much valuable property nnd used thousands of the proceeds to gratify her craze. She extended her shopping pilgrimages to nearby cities, including Sucyrus and Mansfield, where, of course, she was very popu lar among the merchants, some of whom frequently filled nn entire truck for delivery of her purchases In n sin gle day. She nlso loaded herself down personally with as much as she could struggle under. The very touch of Her purchases seemed to delight her. On one occasion Mrs. Lee was at tracted by cabbage plants tit a local store and purchased every one, about twenty dozen. Two days later she re turned nnd bought a similar number, all that were in the store. (In delivery of tills second order the first Diantl were seen on window sills, In corners and on steps, nil wilted. Candy Boxes Everywhere. Among her queerest buying fads was candy. More than 400 boxes, some evidently bought in the last cen tury nnd all unopened, were found In a total of a ton weight. Gloves and mittens by the gross und thousands of newspapers she w as never seen to read she stored, too, everywhere. Diamonds, especially earrings and fine old cameos tliat were all the rege on her bridal day, lay here and there in the queer collection. Rugs luy four und live deep on the floors, while scores were stacked in the attic and cellar among the ninety washtubs. She sometimes bought all the cut glass nnd china in a local store. Some times all the watches and spectacles in a window. Sirs. Lee, who died ict seventy-five, was the daughter of the late William Colborn, a pioneer merchant, from whom she inherited her wealth. She had frequently expressed tho desire to make a will, naming several friends, and had gone so far as to consult law yers, but always wound up by defer ring It, because, ns she said, "I'm not ready to die yet." She was a member of the Church of Christ and the Women's Relief corps here. Legal for Washington Women to Wear Trousers Olympla, Wash. Women In tills state may wear trousers when and where they please, according to n rul ing of the attorney general. The de cision came when the town marshal of Zniah became exasperated over the "carrying on" of some of the fem inine population of that orchard town. He said he objected to the parading of Zillah's streets by women attired in trousers, but as his author ity was derided he appealed to the state's attorney to stop the practice. "Women have their rights, let 'em wear 'em," was the judicial reply. In the fruit-growing sections of the Northwest women have generally been accustomed to donning trousers wlien assisting In the harvest. FOR TOBACCO COURTESY Frederick A. De Pilis of New York has just started a campaign for cour tesy among tobacco users, to "beat the tobacco Yolsteads to it." Mr. De Pills has adopted a courtesy creed of ten commandments as formulated by the League of American Smokers. II 's not whnt you smoke; but how, when and where you smoke, lie says. The creed calls for the smoker to refrain from smoking In all places where it is prohibited, in passenger elevators, In crowds where other people are unable to escnpe the fumes, in the presence of ladles or In other persons' homes or rooms when not granted specific permission and assurance that it is not offensive; and from giving tobacco to growing boys or girls. Dog Leads Child, Lost in Forest, to Friends Everett, Wash. Bernard Marsolals, nine-year-old son of Alex Marsolals of Sultan, became separated from com panions on a hike and, having hist the trail, directed his dog to go Home. The clog led the way nnd the boy followed all night through the timber. He had Just reached a trail when found. Urge MeseiuHras to ' Collect Buildings S Architecture, It Is Declared, Should Be Given Place in Big Galleries, Washington. Museums are now urged to collect doors, stairways, and even entire houses, to add to their collections. Architecture, so archi tects believe, should be given a place In the galleries of our museums as the mother of the arts and as the art which most vitally concerns our daily life. Such exhibits would enable the pub lic not only to become acquainted with examples of the best American design and construction, but also to absorb the fundamentals of good taste In architecture. Students of the build er's art would have a dependable source of Information nnd inspiration for their work. The tine things that have been done by American builders in the past would be remembered more substantially than by vague tradition. As it Is, the most beautiful old por tico or hand-carved mantelpiece serves Its purpose and then Is usual ly scrapped without any sentiment be- Shipping Board's Big Oyster Bed Tbre feundreu barrels of oysters were removed from ih.- bvttum at the Halted States shipping board steamer Durango when she- vt,s drjrincSwd at Mobile recently. She bad been !:ng Idle In the harder t 1'ensaCOla. Ft, The photograph shows the httgC proj oiler cohered with oysters. ing wasted over Its artistic signifi cance. Occasionally, a building with an in teresting past is rescued from a sal vage company. A historic house in the path of a city's building progress arouses some patriotic society to In dignation. The society dashes to the rescue, stirs up public sentiment, and raises funds to save another historic shrine for America. Famous Mansion Lost. But even a very famous house may not survive such a campaign. The Francis Scott Key mansion In this city, a place regularly sought out by tourists, was razed after an unsuc cessful attempt to save it for poster ity. And any house Without a highly significant background stands prac tically no chance whatever of arous ing popular Interest. All this seems unfortunate to archi tects, who believe that the public bus learned to associate historic impor tance with architectural merit. Here is a single Illustration of these points: Two houses stood side by side on Lafayette square, one brown stone with garish interior, and the other a line example of pure type. Both are gone to make room for the National Chamber of Commerce head quarters now being erected. The passing of the brownstone at tracted a preat deal of attention be cause Daniel Webster had lived there. The other house with its simple front and Its tumbling wistaria vines had a limited appeal nnd no publicity. There was a scramble for a cast-iron dog, an ornate lantern, and some over carved mantels in the brownstone. The colonial entrance of the neighbor ing bouse was dismantled, one man buying the column shafts without bot baring to acquire the capitals. To see a beautiful obi doorway like this torn to pieces a id sold as so much lumber is to the designer of! buildings as tragic as though a faded painting by n master should he scraped of its paint In order that the i canvas might be used to patch a Bail. All Cannot Be Saved. Of course It Is out of the question to preserve ull good work. It Is mere ty proposed that some carefully se-' lected exhibits should h acquired to i represent architecture in the art col-1 lections of the great museums and to ! focus attention on the good nnd bad In building art. There are exhibits of this sort In Salem, Mass., and la New York city, j and a national collection In Washing ton is now under roturi deration In con nection with the national gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. The nation) eupitn! hits In the past neon the scene of n large :;mnher of itchttectural tragedies. In each dec ade of the city's history striking resi dences have ben built by statesmen and society leaders. Now, each yeai ! seeing the destitution of more and more of these old homes. Even houses in sections supposed to be safely residential are being swept i way to make room for apartment houses and office buildings. I jpggg BMgw gjlgj D