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WORLD HAPPENINGS El OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Eventii of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. RADICAL LEADER IS OUSTED William Dunne Expelled at Dramatic Session of A. F. of L. Chicago will get the republican na tional convention next June, It was learned definitely Tuesday. President Coolidgo issued a procla mation Sunday calling for observance of the week beginning November 18 as nationul education week. Two masked robbers shot and in stantly ttlldd Dan McDonald, 48 years old, Saturday night at Ewana, a lum ber camp near Chiloquin, Or., when McDonald attempted to frustrate a robbery. Tho White Star lino steamer Cedric and tho Cunard lino steamer Scythia have been in collision in a dense fog, according to a wireless dispatch from the Scythia, which is returning to Liverpool. Hope that womankind should never again bo called upon to bear tho sacrl tires of a great war was expressed by speaker! before the fourth annual con vention of American War Mothers at Kansas City, Tuesday. Captain Phillip Williams, now com manding the battleship Tennessee, has been detailed by Secretary Denby as governor of the Virgin islands to suc ceed Captain Henry 11. Hough, who will bo assigned to the naval intelli gence bureau. Cermany's food situation lias reach ed what wtis called tho "bagman" stage in tho Russian Collapse. City folks must now travel to tho country and get their food Stuffs, aniens they want to pay the extortionate prices asked by food speculators. Stale police aided by Berrien coun ty deputies invaded tho House of David colony at Benton Harbor, Mich., Sunday in a fruitless search for Hen jauiin l'urncll, missing head of tho ult, sought on a warrant charging him witli a statutory crime. Mrs. Florence Kling Harding, widow of the lute president, will return to Washington soon alter the memorial services at Marion, November ", the anniversary of the birth of Mr. Hard ing. She indicated that she might make Washington her home. BOOM 1100 pounds of wild rice Is to be planted in reservoirs and lakes in the vicinity of Poison, Mou!., this lull for the feeding and attraction of ducks. The l'olson lto.1 and Can club, with tho assistance of the state fish and game commission, Is back of the move. Willis Champion, deputy sheriff and assistant night Jailer, and 0. K. Calnes, prisoner, are dead and 1'ete WelU, another prisoner, may die as thi' result of a break for liberty which got no farther than a pitched gun battle on the sixth floor of the Dulles. Texas, county Jail. Possibility of development of the Seven Devils district of west central Idaho Into one of the richest copper hearing regions of the west Is seen by Dr. K. S. l.aney, geologist of the I'nlled States geological survey and head of the geology department of the I niorsity of Idaho. A metropolitan reconstruction bourd, under the control of the Japanese prime minister, has been constituted by the Imperial Japanese government for the purpose of tuklug charge of the work of rehabilitation In the devastat ed areas of Japan, according to an official telegram from the Japanese foreign office to the embassy. Treasury operations during Septem ber resulted In a net decrease In the public debt of 974,414,370. leaving the roMtninenl's total outstanding obli gations at $22,125,614,217. The figures, compiled Tuesday, revealed, also, that the general fund, which bad sunk to $262.46(1.238 at tho eud of August, had grown during September to $122,747, 612. K. S. Hurrage. editor and publisher of the Laramie. Wyo. Republican, an nounced Sunday tho purchase of the Laramie lkuunerang. Wyoming's old st newspaper, founded in ISM by Edgar William t"Blll") Nye. The paper will be merged, the name of the new publication being "The Lar amie Republican and the Laramie Boomerang." The Itoomerang issued tth Dual edition Sunday. Portland. Dramatic action was the order of the day at the American Fed oration of Labor convention Monday When tho 600 delegates, by almost unanimous vote, expelled from tho convention hall William F. Dunne of Butte, self avowed communist and first lieutenant of William Zane Fos ter in the "one big union" movement It was a day that will linger long in the minds of the delegates to the convention. It was the first time that the federation was forced to expoll from ils hall a duly accredited repre sentative from a minor body. There was much oratory an eloquently worded and masterful indictment of Dunne delivered by William Groen secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers an equally eloquent and Spirited reply from the accused man Alone In a hostile hull, Dunne of fered no apologies for his attacks on the federation chiefs or the trades union system; ho flung defiance, not only at Samuel (Jumpers and the of ficials, but at the delegates as a whole. He came well prepared, he expected such action and, in the words of Scott, he proceeded "To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall." There was drama aplenty. From the moment when Matthew Woll, vice president and member of the execu tive council of tho federation, first called the attention of the delegates to Dunne's activities, until the mo ment when Dunne walked from the hall witlx the delegates loudly applaud ing the convention's action, there was not a dull moment in tho day's pro ceedings. On the platform was Green, one of the most eloquent men in the federa tion. For an hour ho told the story of Dunne's activities in the coal fields, of Ins attempts to "bore from within" in the miners' union, of his baseless attacks on labor heads and of his at tempts, by insinuation and false charges, to stir up discontent among the miners. "This man who speaks with the voice of Jacob but who gives us the hand of Esau," dramatically cried the speaker. There was unrest In the hall, both on tho part of tho delegates and the handful of communist supporters who occupied a small section of tho gal lery. An over-enthusiastic delegate cried, "Throw him out," when Green branded Dunne as a traitor to the cause of labor, but a warning hand raised by President Com purs forestall ed such action. Applause on the part of the spectators brought two re bukes from Mr. (lompers, who warn ed tho gnllory audience that it must remain quiet and show neither ap proval nor disapproval of uny action on the floor. U. S. PART! BEGINS E' MARKETING AID TRIP 1 Betty and Betsy, the 1 wins HUGHES PROPOSAL HELD ONLY HOPE Montreal. Secretary Hughes' pro posal, made nearly a year ago, for the appointment Of a commission of ex perls to determine Gorman's capacity to pay reparations, was declared by David Lloyd George Monday night to be 'absolutely tho best hope for the settlement of reparations." The former British premier made this assertion when shown press dis patches from Washington which stat ed that high American administration officials believed It was not too late for acceptance of the plan. His state ment came after he had delivered his first public address In Canada in which be expressed his gratitude for Hie resolute and unhesitating part which tho dominion played in tho world war. Commenting on Secretary Hughes' plan, Mr. Lloyd George said: "In my opinion this plan is not too late for consideration and it Is abso lutely tho best hope for the settlement of reparations. Of course since the plan was first broached the ability of Germany to pay has become much less. The greater the delay tho closer the situation approaches chaos. 1 hope that serious consideration of Mr. 1 Inches' plan may be taken up even at i Ins Lit i date and I repeat that it is I lie Lest hope for successful settle nient." The Washington press dispatches indicated that In official opinion that any acceptance of the plan would rest with Frauce. Special Commission to Go Into Wheat Country. By JANE OSBORN CHICAGO FIRST STOP Detailed Data of Methods Used by Cotton, Itice and Tobacco Grow ers Carried by Committee. Washington, D. C. The special com mission of government officials, head ed by Managing Director Meyer of the war finance corporation, left Wash ington Sunday to go among the wheat farmers of the central northwest to carry out President Coolidge's direc tion to aid in the promotion of co operative marketing associations. Mr. Meyer was accompanied by Frank W. Mondell, a director of the war finance corporation, and II. S. Yohe of the bureau of agricultural economics, de partment of agriculture, and other members of the commission and Floyd R. Harrison, the managing director's assistant. The delegation will stop in Chicago, where a series of conferences is plan ned by which the itinerary of the trip thereafter will be determined. The three officials carried with them de tailed data of methods in use by the cotton, rice and tobacco growers of the south and the fruit growers of California in co-operative marketing and are prepared also to explain to the producers how the government may aid them in a financial way either through direct loans from the war finance corporation and the new intermediate credit banks, or indirect ly, through loans from commercial banks in communities where the co operatives may be organized. Preparatory to the visit of the com mission to tho spring wheat states, .Managing Director Meyer conferred in New York last week with representa tives of leading grain interests, in cluding, it is understood, Julius H. I '.arnes, former head of the United States Grain corporation; Georgo E. Marcy of the Armour Grain company and I. Ogden Armour. The New York conferences were with respect to measures of relief that might be put into effect immediately and without legislation. The department of agriculture, through Dr. H. C. Taylor, chief of its bureau of agricultural economics, has been engaged in a study of the wheat situation in the central north west for the last two weeks. Mr. faylor has been in conference with i number of representatives of his bureau during a visit to Minnesota, North Dakota, Washington and sover- il ot her states. Simultaneously with the departure of the commission headed by Mr. Meyer the federal farm loan board made available figures on loans by I he credit banks which disclosed that more than $2,ooo,UOO had been ad vanced to co-operative wheat market ing associations since the banks began Functioning early in June. Approxi mately $1,500,000 of this money was put out by tho Wichita, Kan., bank, while most of the remainder was loan- d by the credit bank of St. Paul, ac ording to Charles E. Lobdell, the hoard's general counsel. rhe Wichita and St. Paul banks mil the bank at Seattle have made commitment! to the wheat coopera tives aggregating something like $S7, 000,000, including tho money already lid out. Mr. Lobdell said the hoard had given assurance to all co-operate SS of ample funds wherever needed. S5000 in Jewels Stolen. Seattle. Wash. Diamonds valued at $5000, which Emanuel Secord kept In a safe in his office while he took a motor trip, were stolen from him Monday night while attempting to take them from the safe to his home. When two blocks away from his home his automobile broke down und he started to walk. As he started a man appeared from behind a telephone pole and covered him with a revolver. The robber escaped. Large Caribou Killed. Wrangell, Alaska. A caribou killed by D. W. Hell of Williamsport, Pa., a member of a party from the eastern part of the States that had just ar- ived here after a big-game hunt in the assiar country, across tho Canadian boundary from Wrangell, was Satur day pronounced by experts the larg- st specimen ever seen. The party brought in more than 100 caribou slain by its members. Many of these caribou were of un usual size. R. N. Burns of Boston killed a moose whose antlers had a spread of 61 'i inches. Robbers Terrify Town. Lincoln, Neb. Four robbers, work ing for two hours, during which time they kept townspeople in a state ot fear by constant shooting, blew the vault in the Bank of Barneston, Neb., arly Sunday and escaped in an auto mobile. The amount of loot obtained has not been ascertained, but bank of ficials reported that not more than $1500 was In the vault. The robber cut all the telephone wires leading into the town. ( by McClur Newspaper Syndlcats. ) "We're as much twins as cousins could be," they used to say. "If we were real twins we wouldn't both have been christened Elizabeth. One of us would have been named Anne or j Patricia or Gwendolyn or something." The fact was that Betty Blair and ' Betsy Blair were cousins, born within I a day or so of each other, one In far away India and the other In the New England home of her ancestors. Betsy's missionary parents had sent her home when they found they could not hope to rear her In the Indian climate, but had both succumbed to that climate before they could revisit their home. So Betsy had been brought up by uncle and aunt, the parents of her cousin twin Betty, and there were many people in the old town who half suspected that they were twins anyhow, so closely did they resemble each other and so Identical was their size. Sometimes Betty and Betsy nearly forgot which was the orphan and which the real child of the good par ents who brought them up, and when Great Aunt Elizabeth Blair grew old and near-sighted she gave up trying to remember which was Tom's child ana which was John's. She called them both Bet. It didn't seem to make much difference to her which was which. Her small bank account of four thousand dollars she left equal ly divided, with this specification: "If you decide to marry, the money Is to be spent for a trousseau and household things plenty of linen, as well as pretty clothes to start In right I want you to spend it all for your wedding outlay. If one of you girls decides not to marry and it isn't nec essary nowadays then the two thou sand dollars is to go to help with special training in the career she chooses Instead of marriage." So the cousins had planned since old Aunt Elizabeth had died In their fifteenth year. 'One of us will have to be married Betty, or Betsy, would say, "just to see what fun It would be spending all that money on clothes and things, but for variety one must 'have a ca reer. If some very nice man comes along and wants one of us to marry him, why the one of us that likes him best will have him and the other can have a career." The nature of the career seemed at the time to be as vague as the Identity of the "nice man" who was one day to "come along." By the time the twin cousins were nineteen their tastes had developed until Betsy was definitely disposed to follow the career of an accompanist if anything and Betty had deter mined to study architecture. More over, Betty had discovered the "nice man" ; nnd as It was perfectly obvi ous that his preference lay with Betty and that Betsy took not the slightest Interest in him, It was definitely de cided that Betsy should go en with her musical career, at least as far as two thousand dollars would take her. And the Investment of the two thou sand dollnrs In wedding things began. It was as much Betsy's spending as Betty's. Betty made no selections without asking Betsy's advice and even the frocks that were bought ready made or ordered at the dress maker's were as often fitted to Betsy as Betty. In that way Betty had a better chance to look at them and suggest alterations or design. And Betty and Betsy seemed to be of pre cisely the same proportions. In the meantime Betsy was laying her scheme for the spending of her own two thousand dollars on her mu sical education, and she was begin ning to think that It was easier to stretch one's resources when it came to buying the pretty bride clothes and household linen than when it came to Investing In a musical education. At first she bad planned to spend a year In New York, but she soon discovered that this would make necessary the pending of most of her little legacy on boarding-house bills. So Instead she determined to adopt the com muter's plan. The New England coun try home lay an hour's ride from Bos ton and though it certainly was not nearly so picturesque to catch trains and live at home and practice on the family plant) as to practice on a rented piano In the solitude of one's own studio room In the city still there were advantages. But Betsy was waiting until all the excitement of buying Betty's trous seau should be over. A mid-October wedding had been planned the music lessons could wait until the begin ning of November. There had been no last-minute scur rying in this trousseau purchasing. By the last of September all selec tions had been made and from the shops In town had come all the Inter esting boxes save those to hold one or two frocks, a suit, and a coat that needed alterations. And the two thou sand dollars had all been spent save a hundred "for pin money on the honey moon." It did seem like a lot for one girl to spend on herself, but Annt Elizabeth had especially desired It. Betsy had gone to her own little room one night rather early, to write some letters of Inquiry to various music teachers In Boston, and Betty had supposedly gone to hers to write to Tom, her tianee. But before a half hour bad passed Betsy opened her , door to a slight rap and there stood Betty with a curious look of intent ness mingled with fright. "I've got to tell you something," she said, sinking down on her cousin's chintz-covered little bed. "Of course I'd tell you first. But I can't marry Tom I'm not enough in love with him. I'd feel worse about breaking with him if I thought he cared but he doesn't. But you see it was all on account of Aunt Elizabeth's queer gift. I may as well confess " Betsy had turned out the light on her desk, leaving only the soft glow of her little pink-shaded bed-side lamp, and she sat on a little chair be fore her cousin who was rocking her knees on Betsy's bed. "Please don't mind what you say to me," was all Betsy could say by way of encourage ment. "Well, right from the first," said Betty, "I've felt that one of us ought o have a career and the other ought to get married. Aunt Elizabeth as much as said she wanted us to spend the money differently, and in the back of my mind I've had a sort of terror lest you'd get engaged first, because you're prettier and everything " "Oh. you little fibber," said Betsy, very much in earnest, pointing the linger of shame at Betty. "You're so." insisted Betty. "Don't Interrupt. Anyway, 1 was so afraid I'd have to have a career that I made up my mind I'd just make Tom propose. I never could have encouraged him Bo if It hadn't been for that. And then when 1 saw the way George was rush ing you, I was afraid he'd persuade you and then you'd get engaged and begin getting the trousseau and I'd have to go ahead with the career. Now you know what a mean, deceit ful, designing creature I am "And now," went on Betty, "I've been getting more and more interested In architecture. Tom has talked to me so much about It, and I feel that If we are to be anything to each other It must be as workers together for our art rather than as just married people because truly I don't love him and I am not at all sure he loves me. I almost did the proposing " "Why, Betty," gasped Betsy. And then the two cousins, looking very young and helpless, sat facing each other, each trying to think of some happy solution of their difficulty. At last from Betty, "Maybe we could divide the clothes and things. They'll go out of style If we don't wear them now and divide the other two thou sand dollars and each have some clothes and some money for a career. There, that's what I've been trying to ask you and I've been so ashamed I couldn't." Betsy shook her head. "No," she said solenml-, "I'm Just glad to have this chance to pay back a little that I owe you, because Betsy, dear, you've shnred everything with me since I was sent over from India. I'll give up my career and you can have the trousseau. It fits me as well as It does you. I hadn't Intended to marry but one of us ought to and If I couldn't do that much to repay you for all you've done I" Betty pouted a little. "I didn't ex pect you to marry," she said. "I thought we could both have careers and start out with half of the clothes " "But you don't need clothes if you are going to have a career," insisted Betsy. "And you will need the whole two thousand dollars. One thousand dollnrs wouldn't do at all." Then there was another silence. "Have you any Idea" began Bet ty timidly, "who you will marry?" "I could marry George," said Betsy. "I didn't know he had proposed," said Betty, a little testily. "I thought we told each other everything." "We do, most everything," agreed Betsy. "But you were keeping something back from me Just now, weren't you? Well, If I didn't tell you that George had proposed It was be cause I thought you must have known it and because, not Intending to mar ry him, I didn't see any point lu think ing about it." After many protests, a tear or two and a half-hearted embrace, the two cousins agreed for the night that un less they changed their minds Betsy was to make the sacrifice, give up her career nnd marry George, while Betty was to become a successful architect. It was Betty who was having her way and Betsy who was tanking the sacri fice, yet Betty lay awake for hours and when she did sleep, closed her eyelids on tear-drenched eyes. And Betsy tore Into tiny bits all the musical prospectuses she had been collecting for months and slept the dreamless sleep of perfect content. She was awakened at dawn the next morning by Betty's familiar rap at the door. She perched on the foot of Betsy's bed and began In whispers lest she might be overheard by other members of the family. "Let's both get married." she said "We can divide the clothes and th linen and have a double wedding and then each have a thousand dollars left over to use for little Incidentals while we are getting used to having to take money from our husbands. Aunt Eliz abeth wouldn't mind" Because getting married Is ror.il. having a career," supplied Betsv. And she wouldn't want us to rt anything that was going to make us unnappy. 'Perhaps you'd better tell t have changed your mind." suggested Betsy. "Oh, I hadn't ever told him ihf i was thinking of breaking." said Betty "But hadn't you better tell George yon will accept him men often propose to other girls in the rebound." Oh. I never really refused him said Betty. PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. ALEXANDER REID Physician and Surgeon UMATILLA OREGON G. L. 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