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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
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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.
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Frank Sloan, 1st Vice-Pros.
M. B. Ling, 2nd Vice-Pros.
Ralph A. 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
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that room for twelve dollars a week I ' shovel.
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