WORLD HAPPENINGS
BRITAIN, FRANCE IN ACCORD
OF CURRENT WEEK
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Events of Noted People, Governments
and Pacific Northwest, and Other
Things Worth Knowing.
Bids returnable Juno 30 will be ask
ed Immediately by the shipping board
for sale of 200 of Its Hhips for scrap
ping. Edward P. Judd, an attorney of Se
attle for 40 years and son of Norman
Judd, who nominated Abraham Lin
coln for president, died Saturday.
Gene Tunney of New York, Ameri
can light-heavyweight champion,
knocked out Tom Gibbons of St. Paul,
heavyweight pride of the middle west,
In Iho 12th round of a scheduled 15
round boat Friday nlglit at the Polo
groundt.
David Bitger, CO, was killed and two
of bil brothers, William, 0, and Win
slow Hi died later in a hospital in
Cedar Rapids, la., from Injuries sus
tained when a westbound Northwest
ern passenger train struck the truck
In whic h they wero riding.
Marking another advance In the
gradual elimination of the floating
debt Of the government, the treasury's
June financial operation will consu
me the smallest refunding sinco the
world war necessitated tho salo of
Vast bloi lis of federal securities.
William 1). Mltcholl of St. Paul is
appointed iis solicitor-general of the
(Jutted Slates. Mr. Mitchell, formerly
law partner of PlTCB Huller, asso
ciate justice of tho supremo court,
succeeds .lames M, Beck, whose resig
nation was announced several weeks
ago.
Ambassador Fletcher at Homo ad
vised tho state department Friday that
franklin ('. (lowen, vice-consul at Leg
horn, Italy, had been attacked by a
member of a fascist delegation May 24,
"without apparent reason," being
twice struck over tho head and stun
ned. Thirl hundred miners of the
Western Fuel company of Naualmo,
It. 0., on Vancouver island, have gone
on strike following a voto Saturday
against accepting a (10 cents a day wage
reduction, a d ispnl ch received in Se
al lie. Wash., from tho Canadian Press
staled.
Two Tucomans were killed and flvo
Injured lute Friday afternoon when a
runaway automoblls careened driver-
less down tho sldewulk on a steep bill
in tin1 downtown business district and
plowed through a crowd of persons at
a street Intersection before crashing
Into a bank building.
The Interstate commerce commis
sion, setting aside protests of Cali
fornia producers, Friday allowed tho
Denver RiO (Irando Western rail
road to reduce sharply rates on pota
toes and onions moving from points
on its line in Colorado, Utah and Wy
oming to California points.
Pearl Pnyfinger, 20. and Uraco I.a
mar. 2.1, both of Cobden, 111. wore
burned to death, and Jehu Hunter, St.
Louis, Mo., was Injured when an air
plane in which they were flying fell
to the ground and burst Into flames
at Cape (llrardeau. Mo., Sunday. Tho
machine fell 40 or DO feet.
International relations and tho need
for a new national viewpoint looking
toward the abolition of war were dls
i Used Friday before the second day's
session of the annual convention of
the Washington Hankers' association
by Davis Murphy, chief Justice of tho
supreme court of llrltlsh Columbia.
Four robbers held up tho Pot hell
Stale bank at llothell. Wash., eight
miles northwest of Scuttle, Wash..
l'Tiday and fled in an automobile with
$2.r00. In a pistol battle in tho street
with hank employes and cltlicns as
the outlaws sought to escape two of
the robbers were wounded fatally. A
third man was later apprehended and
the fourth wus being sought by com
bined forces of Snohomish and King
counties.
The wnr department desires and ex
pects "full and complete" participa
tion by women in the defense muster
July 4, Wright F. Davis, acting secre
tary, said Sunday In a letter to Mrs.
Anthouy Wuyno Cook, president gen
eral of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, who had complained that
In some Instances last year "women
were not permitted to participate ac
tively either on local committees or in
the parades."
Four-Power Pact on European Secur
ity Is Aim. Full Aid Promised.
Geneva. Great Britain and France
reached a complete accord Monday on
the problem of European security, and
if Germany, to whom the accord will
soon ho sent, agrees to tho conditions,
a four-power pact will come into being
based on the Inviolability of tho Rhino
frontiers as delimited in the Versailles
treaty. t ,
The pact will include Great Britain,
France, Belgium and Germany. Italy
is not included, although the text will
be communicated to her for reasons
of courtesy, and Poland and Czecho
Slovakia are not directly affected
though they will benefit by tho opera
tions of France's alliance with them
The next stop in the negotiations
will be the dispatch by Franco to Ger
many, also in behalf of Great Britain
and Belgium of a note in 'which Britain
and Belgium will reply to Germany's
oiler to negotiate a pact of guarantees
for the German frontiers bordering on
France and Belgium, There are somo
indications of disappointment in Po
lish and Csiecho-Slovakian circles that
their countries do not specifically en
ter the domain of the proposed pact.
It is understood that Great Britain
agrees to come to tho support of
France with her entire military, naval
and air forces In case France Is at
tacked or in case of any aggression
across tho Rhine district. This con
stitutes an elaboration of an obliga
tion already contained in the Vorsail
es treaty whereby the allies agree to
regard as a hostile act any infringe
ment of the demilitarized zone be
tween France and Germany.
Groat Britain gives re-birth to the
old Wilson tripartite pact on tho
ground that her national interests de
mand peace In western Europe. Sho
declines to commit herself to guaran
tees concerning Germany's eastern
frontiers, because hIio realizes that
the British dominions will not approve
of such a commitment.
Italy's exclusion from the pact is
due lo the fact that it has been based
OH Hie Rhlneland, and Italy is fret
In make a separate agreement with
Austria and Germany
The conclusion of tho Rhineland
pact is conditional on Germany's en
tering the league of nations, and this
agi ment, like tho others, will be
linked with tho league covenant and
operate under it.
Belgium to Act Soon
Washington. 1). C. The Belgian
government, moving with unexpected
speed. Informed the state department
that It would send a commission hero
tho latter part of July to negotiate a
funding settlement of its debt to the
United States.
The commission will bo headed by
Ex Premier Theunls, and will Include
the governor of tho Bank of Belgium
and Baron de Carter, the ambassador
at Washington. On tho basis of the
official advices, the belief prevailed
here that a funding agreement cou'd
be reached In time for presentation
to the next, congress for ratification.
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STATE NEWS
IN BRIEF
A fl SCHOOL DAljS A
Sizzling Wave Gripping Whole
Eastern Seaboard.
General Reported Dead.
Paris. The Paris edition of tho Chi
cago Tribune reports that un Ameri
can wearing the rosette of (ho legion
of honor and carrying papers indicat
ing that he was Brigadier General
William Chamlierlaine, was killed
Monday night when his taxlcab col
lided with a tram car.
The Tribune adds that he also car
ried papers bearing the name of Cap
tain William Carleton Watts, United
States army.
Bear Routs Fisherman.
Klamath Falls. Or. W. A. Graham,
with a parly of friends, was fishing at
Eagle rhlgo late Sunday afternoon,
when a big black hoar ambled up be
hind him and began pawing over his
fish basket, which lay at few feet to
tho rear.
Graham reported he look a nose
dive Into the water and let the bear
get away with his day's catch.
Tremblor Hits Colombia.
Bogota, Colombia. A violent earth
quake shock was felt both to the north
and to tho south of the capital city
Sunday, with considerable damage to
buildings, especially churches.
There was little loss of life In Bogo
ta, which appears to have been less
affected than lbague and Tollmtt.
Weeks' Condition Good.
Boston. The condition of Secretary
of War Weeks, operated upon here
recently for gallstones, was declared
to be entirely satisfactory by his phy
sicians Monday.
Vancouver. Dry weather will be
welcomed by farmers with fields of
red clover ready to cut. as rain has
a tendency to cause the clover to Tall
and It will rot on the ground unless
good weather permits harvesting. A
CITY DWELLERS FLEE
Twenty Injured at Wary, Col.; Scores
of Pro si rat ions Reported in
"Furnace Area."
Chicago, 111. The doath toll from
the nlno days of hot weather and
storms from the Rocky mountains to
the Atlantic seaboard Sunday neared
475, with new deaths reported hourly,
while clouds and winds did their best
to alleviate to some extent the blister
ing heat in which Old Sol has bathed
the "furnace area."
As the result of cloudiness, rains In
some sections and winds in others, the
mercury did not climb to the heights
Sunday that it had previously reach
od, but weather forecasts held out
little hope of any considerable imme
diate relief. The forecast for the sec
tion affected showed general continu
ed warm weather, hut with thunder
showers in some parts.
The eastern seaboard continued in
the grip of the sizzling heat and re
ported higher temperatures than the
middle west.
In Iowa a series of wind and rain
storms broke the back of the heat
wave, and at Omaha two girls were
drowned and considerable damage
done by a wind and rain storm that
struck there. Wray, Colo., reported
a heavy wind storm there, with
score of Injured, three possibly fa
tally, and heavy property loss.
Added to tho previous total of 324
deaths from heat and storm since
tho hot wave appared were the fol
lowing fatalities Sunday:
New York, 30; Chicago, 2; Reading,
Pa., 1; Hnckensack, N. J., 3: Omaha
Croton, N. Y., 1; Hobokon, N. J.,
1; Boston, 2; St. Louis, 3; Minneapolis
1; Washington, 3; Philadelphia, 71;
Newark, 4; Elizabeth, 5; Baltimore, 3
Bayonne, 2; scattering, 10.
In addition scores of prostrations
were reported throughout tho heated
area, lens of thousands of city dwel
lers fled tho scorching confines of
metropolitan areas to obtain a few
hours of relief from the heat.
Canton Is Center of Civil Warfare.
('anion, China. Fighting began at
I o'clock Sunday afternoon between
troops of the Yunnnnese generals Yang
Hsi-Min and Lau Chun-Wan and the
Cantonese troops.
A gunboat steamed up the rlvor past
shameen for Ilonun, firing on the
Bund there. There was machine gun
and rifle firing on both sides of the
river, hut it ceased at 5:30 P. M. All
the Hongkong steamers left during the
righting.
General Yang Halh-Min seized the
governor's Yamen and tho telephone
and telegraph offices as well as the
electric light plant. The- telegraph
Hue to Hongkong was cut near Ske-
lung.
The Yunnaneso erected barricades
along the entire length of the Bund,
facing tho Cantonese barricades at
1 Lilian across the river. Gunboats un
der the Canton authorities command
the river and the Yunnnnese control
whole of tho Canton side.
Ex-Governor Hart Freed of Bribery.
Tacoma, Wash. Judge Oovner
l'eats in superior court Saturduy sus
tained Iho demurrer of the defense to
the Information accusing Louis F.
Hart, ex governor, of soliciting a split
of tho fees In tho liquidation of the
defunct Sonndiiiavlan-Anierlonn bank.
Judge Teats gave James W. Selden,
prosecutor, ten days In which to file
an amended complaint or to appeal
his decision to the state supreme
ourt.
The demurrer" of the defense set
forth that no crime had been commit
ted under the Washington state laws.
von If the allegations set forth In the
omplalnt wore true. The Information
barged that tho ex-governor had at
tempted to Induce Forbes P. Haskell
Jr.. liquidator for the hank, and Guy
K. Kelly, his attorney, to split their
fees with him.
Buried Jewels Found.
New York. Diamonds and Jewelry
estimated to value 130.000 Saturdnv
were found buried In the sands of
Coney Island by investigators search
ing for missing assets of the bank
rupt jewelry firm of Morris Sieger
i. fields of c lover have been cut in Son. w hich failed for more than $200.
the county and tho hay will be of 0000. Morris Sieger, head of the firm,
poor quality because of the rain, farm-jumped to his death from the roof of
ers si iled Strawberries have been a 15 story building shortly before the
hold back and the season will extend bankrupt condition of tho concern be
ever two more weeks. came known.
Hood River. Mark Weygandt, vet
eran Mount Hood guide, who has made
531 registered trips to the top, has
discovered a new route for ascents to
the summit from the north side.
Salem. There were four fatalities
in Oregon due to industrial accidents
during the week ending June 4, ac
cording to a report prepared here Sat
urday by the state industrial accident
commission.
Forest Grove. John A. Dolph has
been re-elected as superintendent of
city schools by the Forest Grove
school board, which has announced the
selection of three new members for
the teaching staff.
McMinnville John Knight of this
city will speak next Friday before the
Hillsboro cabin, Native Sons and
Daughters, on the Wrangoll Island ex
pedition, in which his son, E. Lorno
Knight, lost his life.
Cascade Locks. Twenty-two sheep
in a band owned by T. E. Smith were
killed Friday when they strayed onto
the right of way of tho Spokane, Port
land & Seattle railroad, near here,
and were struck by a train.
Pendleton. Six persons were injur
ed Saturday at Weston when a section
of the grandstand collapsed in the tent
where sessions of the pioneers' picnic
were held. Mrs. Cass Cannon suffer
ed a fractured leg and several others
were injured in lesser degrees.
Forest Grove. Purchase of the
plant of the Oregon Growers' associa
tion was completed last week by the
Forest Grove Co-operative Prune
Growers' association, unit in the North
inline i-rune exenange. ine pur
chase price is reported at $11,000.
Eugene. John Salopk, who slashed
the throat of his rival, J. L. Brink, and
Stabbed Mrs. Flossie Hurd in the head
and hack while the three were in an
automobile late Saturday night was
yet at large Monday, hut Sheriff Tay
lor said that he expected to capture
him soon.
Newberg. At a meeting of local
business men Friday night it was de
cided to hold the annual berry festi
val here Saturday, June 27. The usual
program will be held, including the
street parade, crowning of the Berrian
queen, sports of all kinds and the
queen's ball at night.
Salem. Governor Pierce has sent
letteri to all mayors in the state of
Oregon urging that they co-operate
with the adjutant-general and the exe
cutive department in the national de
fense test day activities on July 4.
Similar requests will be sent out later
by the adjutant-general's department.
Portland. An unnamed steamer has
been chartered nt 33 shillings 6 pence
to carry wheat from a northern Pacific
port to the United Kingdom, accord
ing to advices received by the Mer
chants' Exchange. The name of the
Ohatering company was not given out.
This Is the lowest rate yet recorded
for wheat charters this season.
Hood River. Prices for blnck
cherries. Royal Anns and other small
I'rults bid fair to bring growers gratify-
ingly high prices this season. The
Mosler Fruit Growers' association, its
memberi joining In a pool with other
growers In The Dalles vicinity, sold its
black Cherry tonnage to the Earl Fruit
ompany for 14 cents a pound.
Cascade Locks - Mrs. W. II. Arring-
ton has the distinction of being tho
first woman to be appointed state fire
warden in this district or in this part
Of tho state. Sho is located at the
lookout cabin on the summit of Larch
mountain. She has with her her 10-
year-old son. Clayton, his dog and
pony. Mrs. Arrington is a splendid
shot.
Kugene - The Independence Cream
ery company, with headquarters at In-
lependence, Or., and owning 50 plants,
lias bought a site here and will start
construction of a creamery building
60 by 160 feet, according to an an
nouncement by B. F. Huceins. who
will manage the company's affairs
here. It is expected that the plant
will be in operation by next fall.
Salem. The state board, through
tho attorney-general. Saturday filed
mandamus proceedings in the state su
preme court to compel the county
court of Coos county to remit Interest,
penalties and costs In connection with
faxes due on properties on which the
:ate holds a mortgage. The suit was
filed under a new law enacted at the
P'25 session of the legislature. The
law carried an emergency clause.
Salem. Tourists from every state
in the union, with the exception of
Delaware. Georgia. New Hampshire
and Tennessee, and from the terri
tories of Alaska and Hawaii, register
ed in Oregon during May. according
to a report Issued by Sam A. Koxer. I
cecretary of state. There were 45 reg-j
Utratlous from Canada. 5 from Hawaii.
from Alaska, 10 from Florida. 3,
from Texas, 3 from Maine and .1 from
unecticut.
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MA ON SAVING
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
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X7ELL, Pa is talking saving, too
w i nke to hear him rave;
I hope when Pa is good and through
He'll really start to save.
This ain't no spender 1 have got ;
But, like a lot of men,
Whenever he has saved a lot
He blows it In again.
He saves It here, he saves it there,
He saves on this or that; '
And that is why I have to wear
A 1920 hat.
And then some fellah comes along
With some gigantic scheme,
And Father listens to his song
And spends it on a dream.
To save Is better than to spend
But saving ain't enough :
The thing that matters In the end
Is where you put the stuff.
Don't try for twenty-live per cent,
A fortune In a week ;
I wish I hud what Pa has spent
For rainbows, so to speak
Just put a little In the bank
Or else the building loan.
Not hand It to some crazy crank,
Some man you've never known
Go buy a bond, or buy a lot,
Or something you can see,
Right spending after all Is what
Is real economy
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OlOUR
jLj Last Name
IS IT BASSETT?
TN ENGLAND the P.ussetts are a well
known Cornish family; that Is to
say they have been from time out of
mind associated with affairs In Corn
wall and have Intermarried for cen
turies with families of that county
until one could hardly imagine Corn
wall without the Bassetts.
But we must look beyond Cornwall
to find the origin of the Bassetts. In
fact they came from Normandy, as can
be well enough proved by the fact
that the name of Thurston Basset, a
companion of William the Conqueror,
Is found on the roll of Battle Abbey.
Since the days of the Plantagenets
the Bassetts have been seated at
Tehidy, the seat of the present repre
sentative of the family in England.
In a list of the prominent Cornish fam
ilies with whom tlie Bassetts have in
termarried you find such names as
Trenouth, Trengove, Trelawny, Marrys,
Enys, Carveth, GcMolphln, Prideaux,
Grenville and Rashlelgh. Some of
these once prominent families have
since become extinct, hut their blood
runs In the veins of the Bassetts.
The two most distinguished mem
bers of the family In England are said
to be Sir Francis Bassett, vice admiral
and sheriff of Cornwall In the time of
Charles 1 ; and another Sir Francis
Bassett, first baron of Dunstanvllle In
the time of King George HI, noted
chiefly for his opposition to the Ameri
can colonists Just before the breaking
out of our Revolution. He held out
persistently against peace with the
American colonies.
The first of the iwnie In this country
was William Bassett, who galled from
England on the "Fortune" In MB, Hi?
lived first at Duxbury, but settled
eventually at Bridgewater. He was
associated with the chief dignitaries
of the colony. His son William Bas
elt, second, was a close friend of Gov
ernors Wlnslow and Hinckley and ap
pointed them Joint guardians of his
children Just before his early death.
A prominent member of the Bassett
family here was Ric hard Basaett. gov
ernor of Delaware, about the time of
the Revolution.
( by McCIr Newepaper 3 nJlcata.)
The. Tower
Mystery
(i"TF ONE spot more than any other
should be haunted, that place is
assuredly the Tower of London," says
Charles Q. Harper in his new book,
"Haunted Houses." published this
spring by J. B. Lippinentt company.
"The very remarkable story told In
J SCO by Edward Lonthal Swifte, some
time keeper of the crown jewels, has
elements of the fantastic and the hor
rible which leave the ordinary ghost
story far behind.
" 'I have often purposed,' he says,
'to leave behind me a faithful record
of all I personally know of this strange
story.
" 'One Saturday night In October,
1817, about "the witching hour," I
wus at supper with my wife, her sister,
and our little boy In the sitting room
In the Jewel house. The doors were
all closed, heavy and dark cloth cur
tains were let down over the win
dows, and the only light In the room
was that of two candles on tho table.
I sat at the foot of the table, my
son on my right hand, his mother
fronting the ehlmneyplece, and her
sister on the opposite side. I had
offered a glass of wine and water to
my wife, when, on putting It to her
Hps, she paused, and exclaimed, "Good
G d ! what is that?" I looked up and
saw a cylindrical figure, like a plnss
tube, seemingly about the thickness of
my arm, nnd hovering between the
celling nnd the table; Its contents ap
peared to be a dense fluid, white and
pale azure, like the gathering of a
summer cloud, and Incessantly min
gling within the cylinder. This lasted
about two minutes, when It began
slowly to move before my slster-In-law;
then, following the oblong shape
of the table, before my son and my
self; passing behind my wife, It
paused for a moment over her right
shoulder (observe, there was no mir
ror opposite to her in which she
could there behold It). Instantly she
crouched down, nnd with both hands
covering her shoulder, she shrieked
out, "O Christ! It hus seized me!"
Even now, while writing, I feel the
fresh horror of that moment. I
caught up my chair, struck at the
wainscot behind her, rushed upstairs
to the children's room, and told the
terrified nurse what I had seen'. Mean
while, the other domestics hnd hur
ried into the parlor, where their mis
tress recounted to them the scene, even
us I was detailing It above stairs.'"
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he Younri Lady
Across the Way
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I he young lady across the way says
you can't expect Germanv to repudiate
everything right off the' reel but she
ought to pay southing
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