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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Two unmasked men held up the bank at Fall Klver Mills, Shasta county, Cal., late Tuesday, and procured $1038 In currency and Bilver, Recommendations relative to the Is suance of a peace proclamation prob ably will be submitted to President Harding within the next week, Attorney-General Daugherty has announced. Salaries of all employes of the city of Seattlo will be cut $10 a month and wages of day laborers employed by the city 25 cents a day, the city council, sitting as a committee of the whole, decided Teusday. Business conditions on the Pacific coast are more encouraging, with re newed lumber activity relieving the employment situation generally, ac cording to a report made public by the United States department of labor Tuesday. Construction work on the battleships South Dakota, Indiana, Montana, North Carolina, Iowa and Massachu setts and the battle cruisers Ranger, Constitution and United States would be stopped under a bill Introduced Tuesday by Senator King (democrat, Utah). Belief that the $50,000,000 bankers' pool for loans to the cattle industry would prove Inadequate to meet the needs of the stockmen was voiced by memberB of the executive committee of the Southwestern. Cattle RalBers' association, meeting at Fort Worth, Texas, Tuesday. Governor Small, from the office of one of his counsel in Chicago, was re ported Tuesday night, according to word received In Springfield, 111., to have offered to surrender himself with out resistance to Sangamon county au thorities on warrants charging embez zlement of Btate funds while treasurer of Illinois. The Commercial Cable company an nounced Monday in New York an ex tension of its cables from London to Antwerp, Belgium. This extension gives the company facilities for direct transmission of messages from New York to the Belgian city and brings the United States Into first-hand con tact with central Europe. Mrs. Annette Abbott Adams, the first womun to be an assistant attorney general, will sever her connection with the government and return to private practice In San Francisco August 1, It waB said Tuesday. Sho resigned some months ago, but remained to finish up pending cases in her office, under which fall all legal questions Involv ing prohibition. Reduction of the Uulted States army to a peace-time strength of 150,000 men will be accomplished by July 31, In accordance with the decision of con gress when it refused to appropriate funds for pay of a greater force after October 1. With the reduction, Secre tary Weeks announced there will be a general redistribution of troops, practical abandonment of Beven great war-time army cantonments, place ment of many organizations on the In active Hut and skeletonization of others. Dr. W. 13. Stone president of Perdue university, Lafayette, Ind., who, with his wife disappeared from Walking Tour camp at the foot of Mount Asslnl boln at Calgary, Alberta, July 15, was found dead lute Sunday at the bottom of a vory deep precipice, according to advices received Tuesday night. Mrs. Stone, for whom organized parties had also been searching for the last few days, was located alive on Sunday at the bottom of a 17-foot crevice, accord ing to word received shortly before the niesBago of Dr. Stone's death was received. Secretary Mellon has offered for sub scription two new. Borles of treasury certificates, the combined offering be ing for about $300,000,000. Both 1hbups are dated August 1, one maturing In six months with Interest at 5 1-4 per cent and the other maturing In one year with Interest at 6 1-2 per cent. With this lssuo the treasury, It was believed, would be in a position to meet any demands made on It by the war finance corporation in connection with settlements with the railroads Under the plan submitted to congre by President Harding. , SEES ERA OF WORLD PEACE President Harding Rededicates Ply mouth Rock to Justice. Plymouth, Mass. Plymouth Rock, for three centuries a landmark of American freedom, was re-dedicated by President Harding Monday aa a symbol of "real human brotherhood" for all the world. Speaking at the tercentenary cele bration of the landing of the pilgrims, the president declared his fervent hope that the principles of toleration and liberty for which our fathers crossed the Atlantic might soon awake a new world era In which peace and under standing would be assured among the nations. Ho referred in particular to the nation's effort toward disarm aments asserting his faith that the movement would succeed. With his tribute to the Pilgrims Mr. Harding linked an eulogy to the achievements of the English-speaking race everywhere and declared he was convinced that the mission of the race would encompass even greater things than it had yet accomplished. The leadership of the English-speaking peoples In the present world crisis, he said, could not be denied nor doubted by anyone. The president's address, delivered within a few hundred feet of the spot where Plymouth rock has been in closed In iron palings to preserve it or posterity, was part of an anniver sary celebration In which Vice-President Coolidge and many other high officials of state and nation partici pated. Earlier In the day he had headed and reviewed a parade of civic, mil itary and naval organizations through the historic streets of Plymouth and Monday night he witnessed the ter centenary pageant reproducing the landing of the pilgrims. With Mrs. Harding and a party of friends, the president reached Ply mouth from Washington shortly before noon on his yacht Mayflower, named for the pilgrim ship which entered this harbor under Blightly different circumstances 300 years ago. ' Three battleships and six. destroy ers formed an escort for the May dower. She was welcomed by a boom ing of the presidential salute from a battery ashore, while a British cruiser, the Cambrian, tipped her flag at her anchorage just outside Plymouth har bor. Ashore a troop of cavalry formed a presidential guard of honor and many organizations, including a unit of British marines from the Cambrian, marched in the parade, which passed in review before Mr. Harding and his party. $35,000,000 Raised For Northwest Livestock Pool Washington, D. C More than $35,- 000,000 already has been subscribed to the pool intended to finance the live stock Industry of the west, Senator Stanfield of Oregon was' advised Mon day in a telegram received from M, L. McClure of Kansas City, president of the new organization. Local committees of three members each will bo appointed before the end of the week in Oregon, Washington Idaho and Montana, President Mc Clure said. These committees, it is understood, will pass on all loans made to livestock men. The pool has been functioning, however, for several days and considerable money already has gone Into the northwest states. A bill already enacted by the sen ate authorizing the leasing of state lands In Washington, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota for oil or other mineral purposes for a term greater than five years and not to exceed 20 years, was passed by the house Monday. By the terms of the enabling act under which those states were cre ated, lands ceded to them by the federal government could not be leased for mineral purposes for a longer term than five years. It wns held that no one would undertake oil development under such a term lease, and the Washington state legislature enacted a remedial law at its last session subject to approval by con gresa. Air Firs Patrol Ended. Washington, D. C. Uso of army air planes for fire protection in western forests will be discontinued next sum mer, Secretary Weeks announced Mon day, because "the large reduction now being made In appropriations" permits expenditures "for only the most neces sary strictly military needs." The war secretary said it would be Impossible to detail either aviators or planes to forest patrol work during the fire seu- sou of 1922. Pellagra Hits Oklahoma. Oklahoma City, Okla. Three huu dred and forty-two cases of pellagra were reported Monday to Dr. A. U. Lewis, state health commissioner, by county health authorities. The disease was shown to exist in 29 counties in the state. 5 Famine Aid From United States Readily Accepted. SEN. FRANCE IN RIGA Resumption of Trade Relations Advo cated; Both Lenine and Trotz ky Are Interviewed. Riga. Soviet Russia has agreed to release American prisoners and to ac cept famine aid from the American relief association just at the moment Joseph I. France, senator of Maryland, has returned here from Moscow deter mined to advocate renewal of trade relations and perhaps diplomatic rela tions between Russia and the United States, and bringing with him one of the prisoners, Mrs. Marguerite E. Har rison of Baltimore, who was freed by his efforts. Senator France, who entered Russia skeptical of the advantage of imme diate diplomatic relations with the so viet, but believing trade relations were advisable, has returned an enthusiast for both. Senator France declared that the Lenine government was starting a new line of development In Russia, which cannot backslide into radical com munism." Asked whether the Moscow bolshs- viki were trying to revolutionize the world, Senator France said: "I know nothing about the third In ternationale. But no man worthy of any attention ever believed propaganda could start revolutions. Conditions are not propaganda, history shows." The senator talked with both Lenine and Trotzky and was impressed by them. "I found that the Russian govern ment is handling ,the situation in a statesmanlike way," he said. "Lenine is much Interested In American rela tions. Russian factories have not all ceased operating; many are working well. They are short of raw material. Farms are prosperous where they are not in the famine and drought belt." The senator mentioned furs as a possible product of trade with the United States and asserted that there would be plenty of exports when fac tories were supplied and agricultural implements' were supplied from abroad. He thought a commission of American experts would be welcomed, but con tended that Russia should have the right to send one to America. "I am convinced Russia will carry out any guarantee or concessions made in return for credit," he declared. He said he was free to move about and see what he liked, and the offi cials admitted bad conditions where they existed. The senator secured Mrs. Harrison's release Independent of the Hoover and Hughes notes. Exports Get $63,471,700. Washington, D. C In summarizing the export financing handled since the resumption of activity last winter, the war finance corporation showed in a statement Saturday night a total vol ume of business of $63,471,700. Of this sum, the corporation said $32,696, 700 represented advances already ap proved, while the remaining $30,775, 000 represented business in process of negotiation, of which 93 per cent cov ers agricultural commodities. The corporation's largest transactions re lated to cotton, agreements having been reached to advance $16,560,000 to finance exports of the commodity. $500,000 Motel ! Burned. Ceneva. Firemen, helpless for lack of water because of recent drouth, watched the half-milllon-dollar Grand hotel in the Alpine town of Villars burn to the ground within an hour early Monday morning. Two hundred and fifty guests tossed their valuables out of the windows and escaped in pa jamas and nightgowns. Nearby pine trees, long unwatered became veritable torches, endanger ing the whole town. Women Off for Jungles. New York. Two women and a child were members of the party that em barked with Carl Akeley on the steam ship Baltic Saturday for a trip into the Jungles of Africa. Mr. Akeley is going in the hope of obtaining a gorilla family for tho American museum of natural history. 40,000 Employes Affected. Connellsvllle, Fa. Forty thousand employes of the II. C. Frlqk Coke com pany in the Connellsvllle coke regiou will be affected by a 10 per cent re duction in wages, according to an an nouncement Saturday. The new scale became operative August 1. RED RUSSIA AGREE TO FREE AMERICAN::! Copyright. All Rigfib ReseiVed CHAPTER XIII Continued. 24 "And then nt last It came, I didn't see anything, and I didn't hear any thing, but I knew It was there. 1 still remember how frightened and yet how cool I was in that lust moment. I held the gun to my shoulder and waited for It to thrust itself against the blanket. In another moment I am sure I should have fired. But before that moment I heard my name called, and I knew my husband's voice, and came out of the nightmare." "Most extraordinary," the coroner repeated, after a silence. "It seems to account for the shooting of Riles, but It leaves us as much as ever more than ever, I should say in the dark concerning the disappearance of the money, and the part which hns im plicated the young man Truvers in the affair." The banker gave his evidence. It wns not unusual, he said, for consid erable sums In bank notes to be han dled among speculators and land buy ers, but the amount withdrawn by Harris was so great that it hnd left him somewhat 111 at ease, and as Ser geant Grey had happened his way he had mentioned the matter to him. During the hearing of the various witnesses Gardiner had attempted an air of Impersonal Interest, but with no great success. His demeanor, studied though it was, betrayed a certain anxiety and Impatience. He was dressed just as he had dismounted from his horse, having removed only his hat. Hut he smiled confidently when asked for his evidence, and told his1 story calmly and collectedly. It Is quite true that he was asso ciated with Riles and Mr. Harris In the coal mine Investment. He was acting for the owner of the property, but had seen that a large profit was to be made from the turn-over, and had been glad to place the opportunity In the way of two old friends. "I feel a grave responsibility in this whole matter," Gardiner protested, with some emotion. "I feel that I am, at least indirectly, responsible for the serious loss that has befallen Mr. Har ris, and for the injury to his son. But when you tyive heard the whole circumstances you will agree that the situation was one I could not possibly have foreseen. Let me give them to you In some detail. "The day before yesterday, in com pany with Riles, I met Mr. Harris and his son, and found that their money had arrived. The remittance was not as large as they expected, but I be lieved that .1 could raise some money privately, and thut we would still be uble to put the denl through. I ad vised against losing any time, as I knew that If the owner should meet anyone else Interested in a proposition of a similar nature we would find It much harder to make a bargain with him. It was arranged thut the two Mr. Harrises were to drive uheud, tak ing the money with them, and that Riles and I would follow. We were to overtake them at the old building where this unfortunate tragedy oc curred. As it happened, I hnd a sick horse at the ranch, and, as I was de layed In getting some medicine for him, Riles suggested that he would ride out to the ranch thut Is, where I live and wait for me there. Up to that time I had no suspicions, aud I agreed to that. "Well, when I reached the ranch, I could find nothing of lilies, and, on further search, I could find nothing of Travers, who was working for me. Their riding horses were gone, and so were their saddles and bridles. I found that Travers hnd taken his re volver out of the house. I confess my suspicions were then somewhat aroused, but I found myself with the sick horse on my hands, and I could not very well leave the place. Of course, I never thought of anything so bad as has happened, or I would not have considered the horse, but I ad mit I was at a loss to understand their conduct. But when I heard, early tliis morning, what hud happened, It was all clear to me." During the latter part of this evi dence Travers had fixed his eyes on Onrdlner, but the witness hnd steadi ly avoided him. Jim was now con vinced that he was the victim, not of n coincidence, but a plot. Of course, he could give his evidence, 'which would be directly contradictory to that of Gardiner, but he was alreudy under suspicion, and anything he might say would be unconsciously discounted by the jurors. But he began calmly, a quiet smile still playing about his thin lips and clean teeth. "I am sorry I cannot corroborate all the Inst witness has said," he com menced. "I did not leave the ranch with Riles; on the contrary, I was fish ing down by the river when I saw Riles and Gnrdiner ride by. Gardiner was talking and I heard him mention Mr. HarrU' name. I worked for Mr. Harris not long ago, but I did not know he was In this part of the coun try. I heard Gardiner say " Jim colored a little, and stopped. "Well, what did you hear him say?" said the coroner. "That U what we are anxious to know." Atiikor of 3 The Cowlkncherfltc Illutrcrtion by Irwin yert "I heard him say something about Mr. Harris losing all his money that night, In the old shanty up the river roud. 'Strange things have happened up there, Riles,' he said. That made me suspicious, and I hurried back to the ranch, determined to follow them. I found that my revolver had been taken. I armed myself as best I could, and set out. When I came near the building which Gardiner had men tioned I dismounted and approached It carefully. It was very dark. Sud denly I was attacked from behind. A sack was thrown over my head, and I was overpowered, and bound. I don't know how long I was kept In thut con dition, but when at last the suck was removed I was in the presence of Ser geunt Grey." With the progress of Travers' nar rative all eyes hud turned to Gardi ner, but, whatever his Inward emo tions, he outwardly showed no signs of discomfiture. "This seems to be a day of strange tales," he said to the coroner, "and the hist we have heard Is stranger than the first. Of course, it is quite absurd on the face of It. The suggestion that I would be a par ty to robbing Mr. Harris of $20,000, und so balk a transaction in which I stood to make a profit of more than twice that amount, Is too ridiculous for discussion. I didn't say so before, because it didn't seem to benr on the ense, but I huve ut home a telegram which 1 received a few days ago from the New York Investors, offering me a personal commission of 20 per cent on the transaction If I was able to get this property for them at the price they had offered. So, from a purely selfish point of view, you see where my interests lay. But there are oth er reasons for this fine tale which you have just heurd. To spare the feelings of some present, I intended "Have I Got to Die on End, Like a Murderer?" to sny nothing of them, but if I must tell what I know, why, I must tell what I know. This man Travers was a furm hand working for Harris on his farm back in Manitoba. Harris is or was well-to-do, and Travers ac cordingly mustered up an attachment for his daughter. This the young la dy, it seems, was foolish enough to re turn. They " "That'll do, Gardiner," Interrupted Travers, In a quiet, vibrant voice. "You are getting away from the sub Ject." "On the contrary, I'm getting close to the subject a little too close for your comfort, It seems." "I am not Investigating any family closets," said the coroner. "You will huve to show the connection between these matters and the inquiry we are making." "I will do that in a moment, sir,' Gardiner returned. "But I cannot show the connection until I have shown the events that are connected. Travers had trouble with Harris and had a fight with Allan. Then he and the young lady ran away. They have both been in this part of the country for some time. But Travers' plan to inherit the Harris property was up set on account of the girl quarreling with her parents, and his ardor seems to have cooled off noticeably. But he was as keen for the property as ever. Riles was a weakling in the hands of a man like Travers, and no doubt he betrayed the fact that Harris was taking his money with him Into the hills. Then the two of them framed up the plan which has resulted In the death of one and the arrest of the other." During these exchanges the sympa thies of the Jurors seemed to veer from side to side. The theories pro pounded were so contradictory that opinions wavered with each sentence of evidence. i5ut a new bolt was ready for the shooting. "Mr. Coroner," said Beulah, rising and pointing at Gardiner, "will you make that man take his gauntlets off?" There seemed an Instant recession of the blood from Gardiner's face. Cut It was for the Instant, only. "My hat Is off," he said, with a smile. "Is that sufficient?" "Make him take them offl" Beulah Insisted. 'There Is no rule against wearing gauntlets in a coroner's court," said the coroner. "I do not see the point of your objection." "Make him take them off," said Beulah. "As the young lady Insists," said the coroner, turning to Gardiner, "1 suggest that you comply with her re quest." I should be glad to," said Gardi ner,- "but the fuct is I have a sore hand. When I was giving the horse medicine the night Travers left me alone the brute nipped me a little, and I have been keeping it covered up since." "Make him take them off," said Beulah. Why should you be so insistent?" said the coroner. "Surely It makes no difference " "Only this difference. You have heard my father's evidence of the fight in the old house. The man with whom he fought will huve tooth marks In his hand. Muke him take them off. Or If you won't look at these hands." She seized Jim's bunds in hers and held them up before the coroner and the jury. "Any tooth murks there? Now make this other man show his." For a moment all eyes were on Truvers' hands. In that moment Gar diner rushed for the open window, and In another Instant would huve been through It, hud not the quick arm of the policeman Intercepted. "Not so fast, my man," said Grey. "Now we will see this horse bite of yours." Gardiner made no further re sistance, and he drew the glove from his hand. There was a fresh scar on the right thumb. The coroner examined it carefully. When he spoke it was In the voice of a Judge delivering sentence. "That Is not a horse bite," he said. "Those are the marks of human teeth I" Gardiner smiled a faint smile, "Well, what are you going to do about it?" he said. "We are going to put you In Trav ers' place and tender him our apolo gies," said the coroner. But Travers had crowded Into the center of the circle. "Gardiner," he said, "If you weren't under arrest I'd thrash you here and now. But you can at least do something to square yourself. Where is that money?" "Thnt's right, Jim. Everyone thinks of what Is nearest his heart." "You scoundrel 1 You know why It Is near my heart. You have robbed Mr. Harris of all that he had spent his whole life for. You will have no chance to use that money yourself. You are sure of your living for the) next 20 years. Why not show that you are not all bad that you have some human sentiments In you? It seems as little as you can do." "There may be something In what you say," said Gardiner. "I have a slip of paper here with the key to the secret." He reached with his finger and thumb In his vest pocket and drew out a small folded paper. This he un folded very slowly and deliberately before the eyes of the onlookers. It contained a small quantity of white powder. Before any hand could reach him he had thrown his head buck and swallowed It. "Too late I" he cried, as Grey snatched the empty paper from his fingers. "Too late! Well, I guess I beat you all out, eh? And, as I said before, what are you going to do about It? Twenty years, eh, Jim? You'll be scrawny and rheumatic by that time, and the beautiful Beulah will be fat and figureless. Twenty years for you, Jim, but 20 minutes for me and I wouldu't trade with you, damn you I I beg the pardon of the ladies nresent. One should never for get to be a gentleman, even when when " But Gardiner's breath was begin ning to come fast, and he raised his bunds to his throat. A choking spell seized him, and he would have fallen had not the policeman and the coro ner held hlra on his feet, "Let me lie down," he said, when he got his breath. "Let me lie down, can't you? Have I got to file on end, like a mur derer?" They led him to the adjoining room, where he fell upon the bed. The mus cles of his great arms and neck were working in contortions, and his tongue seemed to fill his mouth. (TO BE CONTINUED.) , The Fast Age. "The world never moved so fast be. fore," mused Mr. Simmons. "We have winter Ice on the Fourth of July, spring vegetables on Christmas; we buy our straw hats In February and our felt hats In August; we get our Sunday paper on Saturday night, and our magazines a month ahead of time. If we telephone a man In San Fran cisco from New York, he heurs our voice about four hours before, we speak ; and If some one in Japan sends us a cablegram tomorrow, we get It today." Poverty and Splendor. I saw many poor, whom I supposed to live in affluence. Poverty has, in large cities, very different appear ances; It is often concealed In splen dor, and often In extravagnnce. It Is the care of a great part of mankind to conceal their Indigence from the rest ; they support themselves by tem porary expedients and every day is lost In contriving for the morrow. Dr. Samuel Johnson.