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WORLD HAPPENINGS RUSSIA SEEKS RECOGNITION OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Soviet Appears Hopeful of Receiving Answer to Communication. Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. A bill carrying a general program of road building in national parks lias been placed in tho hands of Repre sentative Sinnott as chairman of the house public lands committee for in troduction. President Coolidge was asked Tues day by a delegation representing Min nesota, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, to order modification by the department of agriculturo of the exist ing wheat grades. It was learned unofficially In Manila Tuesday afternoon that six deatroyen from the American Asiatic fleet nave been ordered to proceed at once to Hongkong in connection with tho situation at Canton and vicinity L. S. Swonson, the American min ister at Chrlstiaula, has received a telegram from Captain Uoald Amund sen, In which the explorer congratu lates the American navy on its deci sion to exploro the north polar quad rant. Funeral services Thursday morning for Lord Shaughnessy, chairman of the board of directors of the Canadian Pacific railway, were in the nature ot a national event. The services were Meld at it, Patrick's church and in terment in Cote dos Neiges cemetery in Montreal. The Canadian minister of marine and fisheries bus been authorized to Issuo licenses to United States fishing vessels on the Pacific coast of Can ada, which will permit them, during 1924, to enter llritish Columbia ports with certain privileges they havo not had heretofore. Two largo crovlces are emitting 2, 000,000 cubic feet of molten lava every hour from (lie Kilauea volcano, said a wireless messago received by tho department of tho interior from Thomas Poles, superintendent of the Hawaii national park, in which the volcano is located. After two days of argument the hoard of arbitration of tho Na tional Association of Professional llaseball Leagues in Chicago Tticsdu) night voted to recognize Harry A. Wll Hams, formerly a Los Angeles spurts writer, as the legally elected president of tho Pacific Coast league. Formal presentation of the Nobel prize awards was made at Stockholm Monday in the presence of the king. tho cabinet, the foreign diplomat! and representatives ot scientific organiza tion Four recipients, including Wil liam llutlcr Yeats, winner of the liter aturo prize, received their awards in person. Five hundred dollars was set aside by Mrs. Clementine Helsner, who died at her home In Eugene a few days ngo, for the care of her poodle dog during Its lifetime, according to her will, admitted to probate yesterday. Tl vec utor of tho w ill Is directed to retain this amount and expend not more than $5 a month fur the dog's care. Washington, D. C. A note from the Russian foreign office making a new bid for recognition of the soviet gov ernment by the United States reached the White House Monday and was re ferred to the state department for consideration. The only comment made in official circles was that the communication, like all others filed with the Washington government. would bo studied carefully before a decision was announced. It was add ed that any decision would be made In the light of tho well-understood views of officials here as to the neces sity of complete guarantees of sta bility and orderly government in Russia. Moscow. Foreign Minister Tehit- cnenne note asking resumption ot friendly relations between Russia and America present the first instance of a member of the soviet government directly addressing the president of the United States. Once, in 11)21, the soviet central executive committee sent a communication to the American congress, but previous communica tions from M. Tcliitcherin, Litvinoff and other members of the government have been sent to the secretary of state. It appears that the Moscow govern ment is really hopeful of receiving an answer to the present offer. Presi dent Coolldge a reference to Russia in his messago to congress, while not altogether pleasing to the bolshevik! was considered in official circles here as a step forward. M. Tchitcherin's note is understood to mean exactly what it says, that "the soviet govern ment is ready to do all in its power so tar as the dignity and interests ol its country permit to bring about friendship with tho Unitod States.' now lar missia is reauy to go in this direction in the case of her claim against the United States for the American intervention in Siberia and tho Archangel region is not clear, hut from unofficial sources it appears that the question of debts would not be considered greatly important in the event negotiations were brought about. II. is recalled that Karl Radek, in an article In the official Pravda last year, said Russia was ready to "buy" Amer ican recognition. The soviet government Is represent ed as believing that, now more than over, there is paramount necessity for some stability In Kusso-Amorlcun re lations. Russian co-operatives are said lo be operating in the United States, and it is further! reported that a syndicate recently was formed there lo finance the shipment of American COl l mi to this country. AMNESTY GIVEN WAR PRISONERS Thirty-one Remaining Violators Freed by Coolidge. COMMUTE ADVISES Move Declared Favored by Majority of Members -Report of Inves tigators Not Revealed. Clovers Brought Her Luck Dy JANE OSBCRN e President Coolidge formally opened (he way Tuesday to co-operation by American economic exports in the double inquiry proposed by the repar ations commission into (lerniany's fi nancial situation. A formal White House Btatement said tho Washing ton government would "view with favor the acceptance by American ex perls of an Invitation to sit upon the Inquiry committees." Ouo person was dead and several others were recovering from Injuries Monday as the result of accidents at tributed to the high winds which swept Los Angeles and vicinity, up rooting trees. unroofing houses, wrecking More fronts and demolish ing fences and signs. No accurate esti male of property damage was avail able, but the loss wus believed to have run luto thousands of dollars. Tho approximate location of the population center of Oregon Is 24.6 miles southeast ot Marqunui, Clack amas county, according to statistics made public Tuesday by tho federal census bureau. The movement of the center (rem 1910 to 1!20 was 4.2 miles In u direct lino from point to point, while tho direction of tho movement was 4 0 mile northward and 11 miles eastward, the bureau's figures showed. Singular People Found. New York. - Discovery of a tribe whose people he believed to have an ted. ited the ancient Kgyplians was re ported Monday to tho National For eign I rude council by John (lil'feii Culliertson, a manufacturer of Wichita Falls, Tex., on his roturn from a South American tour of a year and a half. These people, known as the Mai hi glna, speak a language very similar in construction lo Kngllsh, he report ed, and they worship trees in tho tradition that thoir ancestors escaped extinction in tho biblical flood by climbing trees. The tribes live near the headwaters of the Amazon, where Mr. Culhertson said he had invaded forests never before penetrated by white man. Washington, D. C The plea for amnesty which has been presented re peatedly to three national administra tions was granted finally Saturday by President Coolidgo in commuting the sentences of all remaining imprisoned violators of war laws. Tho action of the president will bring about tho release before Christ mas of 31 men now serving sentences in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., for violation of the espionage act. Two of these men were convicted at Kansas City in 1919, along with 24 other alleged members of tho I. W. W.; nine of them were convicted in Chicago, together with William D ("Big Hill") Haywood, general secretary-treasurer of the I. W. W., and the others were found guilty in Sacra mento in 1919. Mr. Coolidge acted upon receipt of a recommendation for amnesty from the special committee he appointed several weoks ago to make a disin terested study of the question of clemency for war-law violators. This committee was composed of Nowton D. Baker, secretary of war during the war period; Major-General James (!. Harbord, who served over seas as head of the service of supplies of the American army, and Bishop Charles II. Brent of the Episcopal church, who was chief of the army chaplain sorvice during the war. The report of the special committee was not made public, but the White House announcement of the presi dent's action said a majority of com mittee members favored amnesty. Tho announcement was made in the following statement: "It is announced today that the president and Attorney - General Daugherty, aftor conferring together' served in Sally's eager hands to dig and considering the joint report pre pared by Newton D. Baker, Bishop Charles H. Brent and General J. G. Harbord, upon war-time prisoners, have decided to adopt and follow the majority recommendation of the com mittee, and accordingly the president today, in conformity with the recom mendation of the attorney-general, has commuted the sentences of all the remaining wartime prisoners con victed at Chicago, Kansas City and Sacramento to the terms already served. 'Warrants of commutation are be ing prepared, and as soon as signed by tho presideut will be sent to the wardens with instructions to ridease the prisoners." ICS), 1923, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) ' Did you ever feel," said pretty Sally Hawkins at Mrs. Kline's boarding house breakfast table one Monday morning, "just as if something ex traordinarily nice were going to hap pen?" She addressed no one In par ticular. Miss Mapes, school teacher, smiled an unpleasant smile on one side of her face. .Mr. Hodge looked with a grin from between shovelfuls of breakfast and said: "There you go, always getting off some of that Pollyanna business." "I've often noticed," sighed the indo lent widow across from Sally, "that when I had that feeling of exhilaration something unusually atrocious hap pened." Hut Frank Lawrence Doctor Lawrence, as the widow always called him, or Professor Lawrence, us he was to Mrs. Kline, who kept the boarding house looked up the table at Sally with a rather long and searching glance so that the widow thought he was looking for the salt, or sugar, or some thing. "Can't I pass you something?" she asked. "No no, thank you," stammered Frank Lawrence, and then to Sally : "I hope that something as pleasant as you expect will happen." So Sally started out toward a better residence section, where she served as visiting governess In the home of Mr. Garfield, one of the town's millionaires. To cut off a block or so of her walk she always made a diagonal cut through a vacant lot a few houses from the boarding house. She was walking along thinking of nothing in particular when she let lief eyes drop and there by the path at her feet she spied a four-leaf clover not one, but many of them. And then as she stooped to see the plant from which they sprang she realized that she had found a clump of clover from which dozens of four-leaf clovers grew. Sally was no more su perstitious than most Intelligent per sons, but somehow this bunch of four leaf clovers that crossed her path that morning when she felt that good luck was imminent fired her imagination. She could not leave them. She would not pull them off the plant. If she left them now to return for them later some one else might find them or she herself might not be able to find the exact locality where they grew, She looked about In the vacant lot for something with which to dig. There was a piece of old tin which Throne Offered Yankee. Rome A member of tho Albanian mission in Rome said Monday that a certain American millionaire has just beet) offered the throne of Albania, in suc cession to PrinCl Wiliam of Wied, in the hope that he can put the coun try on a sound financial basis. It is understood thai Harry F. Sinclair, the American oil man, is the prospec tive king of Albania. Several of Mr. Sinclair's confidential agents passed through Home en roulo to Tirana last week. They are under the close sur veillance of I he political police of sev eral European countries. Negro Shoots Two Men. Pendleton, Dr. -Pete Quale ami Harry '.ogvanhus are in St. Anthonv's hospital with bullet holes in their ab domens, and officers were looking for a negro mimed K. Groupie, who Is suspected of having shot the two men in the railroad yard at Uleth early Monday morning. The wounded men declared that their Injuries were in Dieted us a result of an accident and that the negro did uot kuow his gun was loaded. City Has $800,000 Fire. Charlotte, N. C. Damage estimated at from ? 5 00,000 to JSO0.O00 was done hero Sunday night by B fire discovered it S o'clock in tho Fast Trade street mercantile section. i At least one man, a negro, whose name could not bo learned, was In jured in the blaze. Tho negro failed to heed a warning to leave tho ware house of the Smith-Wadsworth com pany on North College street and was si ruck by a falling wall. There were reports that u number of other per sons had been Injured or killed by falling walls but these could not bo verified. $150,000 Bribe Refused. Mobile, Ala. The charge that "fix ers" representing tho liquor traffic, gambling, slot machines and other forms of law violations in tho city ot Mobile had offered him $150,000 as bribe money to "slow up the work of his office" was made in a public state ment issued Sunday night by Federal Dislrict Attorney Aubrey Boyles. The statement was given out fol lowing closely upon tho adjournment of the federal grand jury late Satur day night, which returned IT indict ments as a result of the recent ex posures hero by agents of tho I'nited Slates government. Monroe Doctrine Is Hit. New York. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Borah Not Candidate. Catt told tho foreign polio v associa- Washlugton, D. C. Senator Borah lion that the political parties indorsed the Monroe doctrine because neither fathered it and both liked antiques. of Idaho "is not a candidate for the presidential nomination of any party," he .iid Sunday in discussing u pre diction of Frank L Johnesso at Hoise, Idaho, that he would soon announce his candidacy for president on the progressive ticket. Johnesso predict ed that Borah would be In tho race in 90 days. the clover plant from the ground. Sally's next steps were quick ones back to tho boarding house. In dig ging up the clovers Sally had cut her finger with the tin not seriously but enough so that she had to hold her handkerchief closely about It to stay the blood. Then as she was hurrying through the open field she caught her frock on a bit of brush and made an awkward tear In the front of her one and only suit skirt. She hurried back with the clover. She didn't want it to die and she couldn't take It to the Garflelds. Hurrying to her room she set the plant In h Jardiniere, sprinkled it with water, then changed her suit to the new frock she hadn't Intended to wear for every day. and bandaged her cut linger. Hurriedly she again Started out for work gleefully enough. She had found the lucky clover plant. Something now surely was going to happen. And some thing did hnppen. Mrs. Garfield, never a pleasant person to work for, met Sally in the hall with affectedly arched eyebrows, indic ating her amaze ment at Sally's tardiness. "It was especially imperative for you to be here on time this morning," said Mrs. Garfield. "I had wished to leave tome early, but I could not go leaving the children with servants the other servants " "But I wns delayed," protested Sally, topping short. She could never admit to Mrs. Garfield that she had gone to all that trouble lo dig up a little lucky clover plant. "I tore my skirt and cut my finger. I had to go buck to change." Sally was quite sure that Mrs Garfield really had no plans to leave early. She knew she had merely taken this occasion as an excuse to vent a naturally Ill-natured disposition. "So under the circumstances," said Mrs. Garfield. "I'm afraid we'll hardly need your services. I had expected to give you a week's notice, hut you have proved yourself so Indifferent, Miss Hawkins, that I really see n reason why I should be more considerate to you than you have been to me." "But the ChUdeea " protested Sally. "They expect mo. We get along so well. I m very fond of them and we've started so many things together." Hut Mrs. Garfield was obdurate and five minutes Inter Sally found herself making tracks for her bearding house home. She had lost her position with out notice and without n dollar for compensation for her abrupt dismissal The remainder of the morning Sally spent in mending her torn skirt and curing for her clover plant, which she put in a flowerpot from Mrs. Kline's back yard. Tho cut finger made prog ress rather slow In both these tusks. While she was busying herself In the did It only 1? that v it for more I'd have to do it. 1 am sure I must have said that Well, any way I've had an opportunity to let It go for fifteen. Of course if you feel you can pay that much otherwise I'm sure I'll be sorry to see you leave, but business is business, isn't it, Miss Haw kins?" Sally Hawkins said she supposed It was and asked for a day to think things over. Possibly she ought to tell Mrs. Kline, she retlected, that she had lost her position and that she wouldn't be able to stay. Still she'd have to live and she'd have to get another position. Iu the meantime she had about $-0 in the world to live on. That afternoon Sally went the round of the agencies where she hoped to find word of another position us gov erness, tutor or privute school teacher. Likewise she tried for positions In offices, but as she knew nothing of typewriting or shorthand she was un successful. When she boarded a car to go home after her weary searching she passed the conductor a quarter. He looked at her with scrutiny. "Sorry, miss, he said, "but this is plugged. I suppose you didn't know It?" Arrived at the boarding house Sully found two letters on the hall table ad dressed to her. One wus from the dye ing establishment where she hud taken her one und only evening frock to be dyed rose color from white. "We regret that the silk has gone to pieces In the dyeing," Suliy read, "but, us you bud this work done ut your own risk, we assume no responsibility. Regretting that this has occurred and trusting that you will honor us with your patronage in the future," etc. The other was from her brother, away in college, asking her if he could bor row $".5. He'd return it fivefold us soon as be wus through and bad a chance to make his living. Sally dragged rather weary feet up to her small bedroom. The first thing she saw was the clover plant, which seemed to be thriving In its new sur roundings. Really, it was very re markable. Sally looked ut it und r'tllinrilil tl,c j 'Pli.wo MfAM t,,-un. ! ty-one four-leaved clovers on the plant, four three-leuved clovers and a few with five leaves. Sully wondered if any one ever found a clover plunt so extraordinary. At dinner that night Sally must have shown something of the weariness and discouragement she felt. "Weil, did something extraordinarily nice happen to you today?" asked the widow. "You look terribly tired. You know you said you thought something nice was going to happen. Did it?" "Why why, I found a luckv clover plunt," suid Sally, not able to recall anything else of a pleasant nature that had happened that whole day. "Have you hud good luck?" asked the widow sharply. "Not yet," said Sally. "There you go again," said Mr. Hodge. "Always cheerful, ain't you?" After dinner Sully looked ugaiu Wist fully at the four-leaf clover plant. It bed brought her the worst son of bad luck all day. She wanted to get rid of it. She wondered whether anyone would want It. Then she suddenly be thought herself of Frank Lawrence, whose room was on the floor below, and seizing her plant, she sped through the hall to knock at his dor. He opened the door and ushered her into the room he used as his study, where the table was strewn with books and papers. He was visibly embar rassed by her visit. "I know you teach botany," said Sally, "and so I thought maybe you'd like to have this plant. It Is extraordi nary to have so many four-leaved clo vers on one plant, isn't It?" "Most extraordinary," said Dr. Frank Lawrence, not paying the least attention to the clover plant, but look ing Intently at the pretty girl before him. "Most extraordinary that vnn should appear when I was thinking so intently of you. I was wondering Miss Hawkins, In fact, I've often won dered If you'd ever care to go to the theater with me." Sally said she would be delighted; in fact she wanted to go then that night. The next morning Sally appeared at the breukfnst table with a smile even more cheerful than usual. Did you have any good luck?" asked the widow with sarcusm In her tone. "The best luck lu the world," said Sally, looking straight at Frank Law rence. "And the interesting thing about it," she went on to explain, "Is that the good luck that came couldn't possibly have come If I had not found that clover." And two weeks later the boarders heard the amazing news from Mrs. Kline that both "Professor" Lawrence and Miss Hawkins hud left both laM because they were going to get mar- I Z Mt "To whom ?" eagerly. "Why. to each other, of course ' Mrs. Kline. , i said didn't I PROFESSIONAL CARDS a chance to rent DR. ALEXANDER REID Physician and Surgeon UMATILLA OREGON G. L. McLELLAN, M. D. 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Hollo, Cashier queried the widow said Bank of Stanfield "There are more entangling things iu tho Monroe doctrine," she declared, than llcorgc Washington ever dream- t garde Mrs Kline approached her. ed of. To say the doctrine is right and true because all Americans b Vou're Jnt the person I treated to fee." she began with a degree of good lleve in It is wrong, because South nature that boded ao unpleasant or- Americans do not believe in it.' Five-Pound Topaz From Brazil. A topaz weighing live pounds, re markable not only for Its size but for Its clearness, Is among the sepelmeiis brought back to Chicago by Dr. Oliver C. Karriugton. curator nf the depart ment of geology of Field museum, who recent!) returned from au expedition to Brazil. The big topaz Is one of a targe number of enormous semi-precious stones obtained by the scientists but In point of size is un Infant com pared to a 20-pound topaz which they saw at one of the mines. The semi precious stones are found In course granites of pegmatites so decomposed I ".V,... L ,,.., t .... I I.,, ...... V. . . . . num. " i "u ua,c mat me gems can be mined with that room for twelve dollars a week I ' shovel. Capital Stock and Surplus $37,500.00 Four Per Cent Interest Paid on Time Certifi cates of Deposit