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WORLD HAPPENINGS IL OF CURRENT WEEK I CAPITAL'S ELITE IN RUM NET Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. The London Daily Mail's Tangier correspondent reports the death of the notorious Moorish chief, RalSUll. It was suspected, according to this dispatch, that Kaisuli was poisoned. Any foreigner who wants to get married in Germany these days is hit something of a staggering financial Mow right at the outset. When he goes to get his license it coats him lit. Ten men were killed Sunday in en gagements in tho vicinity of Guad alupe hetween insurrectionists and federal troops, according to uncon firmed report received in Juarez Monday. A 68-pOUnd heaver was caught re cently in the Umatilla river near Stanfleld, Or. hy Murk brothers of Woodland, Wash. Tho fur stretched 3S inches in diameter. This is an extra large beaver. A war referendum amendment to tho constitution was proposed by Senator Dill, democrat, Washington. Under it congress would declare war Without a sporial election ouly In case of invasion or rebellion. William Glbbs McAdoo, war time director-goneral of the American rail roads, has announced his candidacy for the democratic presidential nomi nation in a telegram lo W. W. Howes, democratic state chairman, Pierre, S. D. Preparations for attack on the transportation act at tho present Hus sion of congress aro being made by tho national association of railway and utilities commissioners, the or ganization of statu railway commis sioners. Deputy Bekanowski, reporter of the finance committee of the chamber of deputies, in a statement in Paris Monday on the country's financial situation, claimed that Franco has made savings all along the lino In pQbliC expenditure. drown tired of making homebrew, tho American peoplo are giving up their opposition to prohibition and will never permit the return of liquor. ex Representative Volstead told the Minnesota law enforcement conference at its closing session 'I'uesday. The four American army aviators who have been selected to attempt to circumnavigate tho globe will have a race on their hands if they hope to bent the American navy, reports received in San Diego from Wash InCtoa Monday indicated. Accord ing to the reports, six naval airmen, to be selected from the Atlantic and Pacific fleet air forces, will make the race for the navy. A large number of Americans are being detained in Mexico City by President Obregoa for fear that it they attempt to leave they muy come In contact with rebel forces, accord ing to advices received in San An tonio, Tex., Tuesday by Judge I.. II. Camp. The Americans, tho advices state, are In no danger. t The charred body of Prank ('romp ton, a patient nt tho Port Macken lo veterans' hospital nt Sheridan, Wyo , was found chained to two small cottonwood trees In a coulee it short distance west of this city Tuesday. The evidence Indicated Crompton burned himself to death, according to Dr. W. A. Steffen. coroner. The Kcuadorean government Tues day received a report from tho Chi)! of tho northern military section nd vlslng it that the city of Tulcan had been destroyed by the recent violent earthquake. The shock was felt as far south as Ibarra. The latest gasot teor gave Tulcan a population of about MM. Ibarra is nearly fit) miles south of Tulcan. Liaison between ocean, canal, rail road and highway transportation to bring tho benefits of cheap haulage to the midwest was tho subject Tues day of a conference of manufactur ers, agriculturalists and traffic ex perts from throughout the central I'nited States, who convened In Omaha under tho auspices of the mid din west trade committee for a two day session. Bootlegger's List Seized by Washing ton, D. C. Police. Washington, D. C. A bootleg liquor scandal that threatens to touch the most exclusive and highly-connected circles in the national capital was promised Saturday by officials of the district of Columbia. Apparently convinced that the time has como to apply desperate remedies to the situation which has developed on the doorstep of the federal govern ment, the district attorney's office an nounced it would ask a grand jury to take action against purchasers as well us against dispensers of intoxicants. Tho basis for the request will be an imposing list of customers which was seized when the police rounded up tho principals in what they believe to be a bootleg syndicate organized to supply tho most discriminating drink ers in Washington. No names have been made public, but police officials say the list includes many of those who might ordinarily depend on their wealth and position to give them im munity. All of these names, it was asserted by Assistant District Attorney Pres mont, will go before tho grand jury if confessions said to have been made hy those already under arrest are not overthrown. He added that the prose cutions would be brought under the conspiracy clause of tho Volstead act, Which makes purchasers of liquor guil ty along with those from whom they buy. Meantime, another ramification of the case caused much consternation in quite another quarter. It was dis covered that a part of tho stock from Which the liquor was being supplied, according to police reports, was under the protection of one of tho foreign legations. When a seizure was at tempted a member of tho legation staff protested that the goods were Immune under the diplomatic privil eges accorded the representatives of foreign governments. The result was a protest by the metropolitan police department to tho state department, whose officials declined to say any thing for publication. Sky Wanderer Located. San Jose, Cal. The D'Arrest comet, reported hy astronomers at Leipsic university as considerably overdue, hns been located far in the south by Dr. Max Wolf, astronomer of lleidel hurg, (lermany, according lo a tele gram received by Dr. Robert O. Alt ken, associate director or Lick observ atory. In his mossago Dr. Wolf re ported the celestial visitor appeared so faintly that it was hardly discern ible. In this vicinity clouds have pre vented nny observation of tho comet, Dr. Allken reported. Cardinals Don Red Hats. Rome. -The public consistory for the formal elevation of Cardinals Bvarlstt Luoldl and Aurelio (ialli, who were created at the secret consistory last Thursday, took place Sunday morning in t ho Vatican. The ceremony was held in the Hall of Benediction where the new princes of the church, kneeling be fore 1'ope Pius XI. received the red hat, emblematic of a cardinal's high office. Poison Given Patients. Columbus, O. After several months' Investigation, two physicians. Dr. Jonathan Porman and Dr. B. J. Gor don. Saturday revealed that they had unknowingly administered poison to two women who died last September Within a period of a week and to a physician who recovered after having been dangerously ill for several days. All three were undergoing treatment for digestive disorders. $114,000 Fire Checked. Casper, Wyo Late Sunday night volunteer firemen had brought under control a fire that threatened to de stroy the entire town of Lavoye, in the oil fields, 47 miles north of here. Itcforo its course was checked by pulling down a frame building with a traction engino, ten of tho largest buildings in the town of 1200 Inhabi tants had been destroyed. Tin- loss is estimated at 1114,000. GOVERNOR-GENERAL OBJECT OF ATTACK Major-General Wood's Admin istration Scored. GREAT WA PHILIPPINE ACTS HIT Sweeping Investigation Demanded by Representative Frear by House Rules Committee. Washington, D. C. Demand for a sweeping investigation by the house rules committee of tho administration in tho Philippines of Governor-General Leonard Wood is made in a reso lution introduced by Representative Frear, republican, Wisconsin. The in quiry, he suggested, also should seek to establish whether the time is ripe to grant the islands independence. Referring to General Wood's cam paign in 1920 for the republican presi dential nomination, Mr. Prear's reso lution declared it has been repeated ly and publicly alleged Governor Wood's selection for tho post of governor-general would enable him to reciprocate favors extended to him in the political primary campaign of 1920 and that the alleged usurpation of authority and effort to extend exploit ation privileges would afford recogni tion of unprecedented obligations in curred in the campaign. "Individual subscriptions," the reso lution continued, "which went to make up the SI, 773,000 expended by the Wood campaign committee in the presidential campaign included con tributions from oil, tobacco, banking. ! railway and other interests that hayi an interest in the undeveloped re sources of tho Philippines. "Congress and the country," Mr. Frear contended, "should know all facts surrounding the acts of Governor Wood in calling the Philippine legis lature in special sossion; tho lcgisla tive polls insisted upon by him from tho legislature; the facts relating to tho attempted closing of the Philip plno national bank and the rival in terests thereby served, if any; the alleged attempt to lease the Manila Railroad company; the bond issue il manded by Governor Wood and de posits of money received therefrom; tho facts surrounding his courso in tho sugar centrals; the proposed oil and rubber concessions; the unwar ranted removal or appointment of offi cials, and other acts that have been tho subject of bitter controversy in the Philippines." At a considerable length tho reso lution quotes a series of dispatches sent to a group of American news papers last May from correspondents in Manila in which statements were made that Governor Wood had in his possession the names of "senators, representatives and others prominent in Washington social life," who, it was charged, had received money for advocating Philippine independence. 1 -r.';. -j, . . . . The Great Wall at Kou Pel K'ou. Troops Guard Trains. Havana, Cuba.- -The government has dispatched 300 soldiers from Camp Columbia to guard the property of the Cuba railroad, on which a general strike is In progress. The road Is operating a passenger train daily each way preceded by detachments of the rural guard In motor cars. Soviet Denies Charges. Moscow. Foreign Minister Tchit cherln Issued a statement Friday deny ing that tho Russian soviet govern ment had ever sont any documents to tho American workers' party or had ever had any connection with It what soever. If such documents exist, the statement declared, they are forgeries, tho authenticity of which Russia would like to submit for arbitration. Woman Sold on Time. New York. Tho flourishing busi ness of Frank Converse, Yonkers deal er in women and children, was inter rupted by North Tarrytown police, they said, after they had arrested Con verse, Peter Cerruto, North Tarry town, and Mrs. Mary Lota, Williams port, Pa., and her two children. Last Thanksgiving day. It is charg ed, Converse sold Mrs. Leta and her two children to Cerruto on tho time payment plan. Cerruto paid $200 down and $200 more ten days later, police said. They also said they were investigating other alleged sales of women attributed to Converse. Tho woman and children were de livered immediately and lived with Cerruto for a month, It is charged. Mrs. Leta, however, did not like her purchaser and sought to have Con verse buy her back. She had an ap pointment with him to discuss the matter at the Yonkers railroad sta tion. Chief of Police Murphy, North Tar rytown, heard of the deal and ar rested tho trio. Mrs. Converse was held as a material witness. Danseuse Tells Secret. Chicago, 111. How to live forever Is the secret, the solution of which Car lot ta Prima, first premiere danseuse nt the Auditorium theater, where she 'appeared "5 years ago, thinks she . knows. The key to the famous riddle ho whisp- red Saturday to Anna Lud : mills. 20 year-ofd prima ballerina of the Chicago civic opera company. This is what she said: "Keep on dancing, my dear, and you will live forever and enjoy living always." (Prepared by the National Geographic So ciety, WashlnKton, D. C.) China's famous Great Wall Is the only man-made feature of the earth, so say astronomers, that could be seen from the moon. Western peoples have dug their Panama and Suez canals, in finitely more useful, and have built their great cities whose towers pierce the skies; but all would be non-existent to a moon-man, If this estimate be true, while the work pushed through by an almost forgotten Asiatic ruler, two thousand years ago alone would he capable of catching his attention. Today the Idea of the protection of a vast country by a wall seems fan tastic. Rut such an idea was not ridi culous in nn era when bows and arrows and twisted pikes were the weapons of Invaders. Then earth and stone were real deterrents (for artillery was unknown) against armies that were simply cavalry hordes. Now much of the Great Wall has fallen Into ruins. Yet, despite its de cay, the huge rampart remains a mag nificent monument, wldch leaves a powerful Impression on even the most frivolous minds. Once seen, it can never be forgotten. Rut imagination fails to grasp this remarkable struc ture as a whole, for the " Wan-1 1-Chang-cheng," or Myriad LI Wall, as the Chi nese cull it, Is about 1,250 ndles long in a straight line, while US turnings and windings increase it to almost 2, 000 miles. This means that it would stretch from Portugal to Naples or from Philadelphia to Topeka, on near ly the same latitude. One end of the wall rises out of the sea near Sbanhalkwnn. 'When it was built China had nothing to fear from enemies with powerful fleets, so It was obvleusly unnecessary to erect a bar rier along tho coast, where the ocean Itself formed a natural one. The Long Rampart, therefore, after rising from the water's edge, starts Inland in a westerly direction. The terminal sea end of the wall Is Immensely Impressive, where the blocks of granite, beaten upon by the waves und their ally, the wind, have broken loose and extend nil awry Into the water, toys for the rising tide. Following the curve of wall, one passes ho white lighthouse near by and Is struck with a contrast between East and West. The eye of the mod ern searchlight opens and winks with startling effect on the old Pavilion of Literature placed on the very spot where Chin's Rampart Joins onto the city wall of Shanhaikwan, two miles from the sea. Though Shanhaikwan Is neither a large or Important city. It was never theless once the key to north China. Here for .'10 years the Manchul were kept at bay and here, lu the fumous battle of May 26, 1044, Wu San Kuel managed to overcome LI Tzuchengs vastly superior forces after hours of bitter lighting In a furious sandstorm. Pierced for a Railway. Today the spot that once resounded with the blare of war trumpets Is dis turbed by the whistle of a train fol lowing a track that actually runs through the wall. Fopular sentiment in the days when the line was being built Would cer tainly have forbidden the piercing of the wall for such a purpose, hut the peasants say that an opetdng was there conveniently to hand, ready to allow the passage of the iron horse. Beyond Shanhaikwan the C.reat Wall starts off toward the mountains. Soon It begins to climb the steep slopes. Thereafter for the first 900 miles of Its course it is never on a plain, but rises steadily to the height of nearly a mile above sea level. U Is inSeed a wonderful and an amazing experience to stand on some out-Jutting parapet, which compares well with a box at the theater, and gaze down on an enchanted scene of fruitful plain and distant sparkling water, or upward to peaks tipped with towers that appear like the donjon keep of some old knight's castle. For several days the traveler who has sufficient patience and endurance to follow the line of the wall Is re warded by magnificent scenery. Even the least imaginative are humbled and Impressed by the panorama of moun tains with sharply silhouetted crests and deep gorges masses of contrast ing black shadow. But upon those with a reverence for and some knowl edge of the past, the effect of the Rampart in such surroundings is lm ply stupendous. . No description can convey an ade quate idea of the Immensity or gran deur of the Great Wall of China, as it writhes along the mountain peaks giving an Impression of Infinite power and at the same time of infinite calm and peace. It surpasses one's richest expectations. The more one gasei upon it the more he wonders and ad mires, and even a thousand miles of travel in its mighty shadow seems In sufficient to enable him lo grasp the proportions of this enormous barrier, which continues Its uninterrupted way for hundreds of leagues toward the wilderness. Long Uninhabited Stretches. For great stretches along the wall there are no villages nor any signs of human habitations, and silence reigns save for the occasional cry of a high hovering eagle. No conqueror's foot would lightly climb the slopes of these desolate regions, and It seems indeed a useless waste to have built a barrier where inaccessibility alone would have insured safety. In many places there is a sheer drop of several hundred feet from the base of the Rampart, and the terre-plein it self Is very steep sometimes so steep that It Is necessary to be hauled up for short distances by ropes. The approaches to the towers are often obstructed by huge boulders, making it difficult to Judge from a dis tance where the wall begins and the mountains end. They seem, Indeed, to have grown into one another. But the traveler Is well repaid f'r the hard climbing required to reach such lonely spots. Ills Is the reward of a discoverer, for few white men have set foot before him. It seems unlikely that even perma nent Chinese garrisons were stationed in such places. A solitary sentry would suffice to guard tons distances in these Inaccessible regions, especial ly since we know that an elaborate system of beacon fires was perfected to bring reinforcements against any threatened point. Now and then. In the lower levels a village is found leaning against the wall, where an occasional traveler takes shelter for the nijjht In the guest room of the local Buddhist temple. Happy Is the hamlet that lies near a river or a shnllow lagoon, and happy the passerby who halts there ! The greatest drawhack to the stages in the higher altitudes Is usually the lack of water for a much-desired bath. Wells in the heights are few and deep, so the peasants object to drawing mere water than Is required for the most elementary washing and tea making. In some places water must be car ried from a long distance In Wooden buckets on donkey back. Along the first few hundred miles of the wall the country folk are mis erably poor; they wrest a living from the stony soil with great difficulty. But wherever there are patches of flat land every Inch Is cultivated, and sometimes the crops extend up the rocky mountain slopes. Inland the Creat Wall passes near the Ming Tombs, one of the grandest royal sepulchers In the world. Here Yung Loh (1402 to 1424 A. D.), the splendid sovereign who laid out the city of Peking as a Chinese capital, has a tomb which even in its decay remains a marvel. Scarcely less well known than the Ming Mausolea is the tourist-rid len HankOW pass. This narrow detile used to be and still remains to some extent the caravan route to Mongolia, It was first opened up, according to legend, by the deities known BS the Five Tiger Ghosts, patrons of artillery, who blew a passage through the rocks with their cannon. A railway which is a tine feat of en gineering now runs through this gorge, and from the train window the lazy or the hurried traveler catches a glimpse of camel caravans tolling up by read, or shaggy Mongol poBiSa be ing driven down from the plains, or, if bis eyes be very sharp Indeed, of the famous archway at Clmyungkwaa (dating from A. P.), with inscrip tions carved in six different languages, which so long puzzled archeologlsts. A little beyond Boping the two loops of the Grent Wall unite near the Yellow river, which encircles the wild Ordos country. PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. ALEXANDER REID Physician and Surgeon UMATILLA OREGON G. L. McLELLAN, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Fraternal Building Stanfleld, Oregon DR. F. V. PRIME D E N T I S T R Y Dental X-ray and Diagnosis HER.MISTON, ORE. Bank Building 'Phones: Office 93. Residence 751. Newton Painless Dentists Dr. H. A. Newton, Mgr. Cor. Main and Wobb Sts. Pendleton BUSINESS CARDS Umatilla Pharmacy W. E. 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