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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Event of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing, Five persons were killed and many Injured by a severe earthquake that Bhook the city of Cebu, Philippine Is lands, and vlcln'ty Tuesday. The prop erty damage was heavy. Results ot the government's Inves tigation Into the retail prices charged for necessities in various parts of the country will be made public next week, Attorney-General Daugherty said Tues-. aay. A gift of $6,000,000 to the Johns Hopkins university of Baltimore, for endowment and buildings for the school of hygiene and public health, Is announced by the Rockefeller foun dation. A dispatch to the Berlingske TIdende from Helslngfors, Finland, reported serious rioting accompanied by blood shed In Moscow. The trouble had Its origin In the railway strike, sayB the dispatch. George W. Perkins, financier, who died June 18, 1920, left a net estate of $5,307,072, according to an appraisal filed In surrogate court of New York late Tuesday. The bulk of his estate was left to his widow and two children. Financial troubles overtook five more brokerage houses in Wall Btreet Tuesday. Involuntary bankruptcy pe titions were filed against four, while a fifth, C. W. Starbuck & Co., made a voluntary assignment for the benefit of creditors. More than 9000 cases of Influenza in California last week have been re ported to the state board of health, It Is announced by Dr. Walter M. Dickie, secretary of the board, who, however, expressed the opinion that the epi demic was reaching Its "peak." More than 1100 candidates took their oaths of allegiance to the Invisi ble Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan at a big ceremonial held torium. This was the largost claBB ot Monday night In the municipal audl candidates ever passed Into any fra ternal order In the city ot Portland. House ways and means committee republicans spent three hours Tuesday trying to reconcile their differences over the soldiers' bonus, but without success, After they had adjourned, Chairman Fordney announced that he had been "authorized to say that the committee had arrived at no conclu sion." The league of nations is not a for eign corporation subject to the usual corporation tax, but a foreign organ ization having all the tax Immunities of a foreign government, according to the decision of the tax experts of the New York state government, which has been communicated to Geneva, the league headquarters. Anothor chapter in the sensational career of a gout which was rescued by Captain Spong laBt summor while the animal was being carried down the Willamette river astride a log was written at the Spong ranch, six miles south of Salem Tuesday. A telephone message from Mr. Spong said the goat had given birth to triplets. Despite the fact that the season of "minimum sun spots" Is now at hand, officials of the naval observatory an nounced Tuesday that "three very large groups of spots" are now visible near the sun's center. The triple cen ter grouping was estimated by observ ers to cover a belt extending more than 250,000 miles In length. An amount estimated as high as $70,000 in cash and checks was ob tained by robbers in a spectacular day light robbery of three employes of the Standard Oil Company in Los Ange les, Cal., Monday. Ten thousand dol lars was In cash and probably more than $60,000 In checks, according to a report to the police by company of ficials. Seven midgets, totaling less than 300 pounds In weight, Tuesday were ordered excluded by a board ot spe cial inquiry at Kills Island tor failure to pass the necessary immigration tests. They arrived on the steamer Homeric, last Friday, In charge ot Emll Ritter, a Berlin show manager, to perform In vaudeville. All are Ger mam, excepting the smallest two feet seven Inches tall who comes from Scotland. MILLIONS TO AID FARMERS $31,978,033 Asked Bill Reported by House Appnopriations Body. Washington, D. C.-An appropriation of $34,978,033 to meet expenses of the agriculture department during the coming year was recommended In a bill reported Monday by the house ap propriation committee. The total Is $3,710,026 less than the amount appro priated for the current fiscal year and $1,554,835 less than budget estimates. Discussing the elimination from the bills of $360,000 carried last year for distribution ot seeds by members of congress, the committee in its report said the budget bureau in submitting estimates did not Include provision for seed distribution. The Item of $2,000,000 carried in last year's bill for loans to farmers for the purpose of seed grain In drought stricken areas is not repeated in the bill reported, the committee reporting that no estimate was submitted for the purpose. The bill carries $2,578,800 for the eradication ot tuberculosis In animals, $1,728,800 for the payment of indemni ties for tubercular cattle slaughtered by the government, $600,000 for the prevention of the spread of moths, $547,840 for eradication of the pink boll worm, $200,000 to prevent the spread of the European corn borer, $50,000 for eradication of the foot and mouth disease, $13,000 for wiping out parlatoria date scale and $25,000 for prevention of the spread of the Mexi can bean beetle. The enforcement ot the packers and stockyards act, a $410,500 appropria tion Is recommended, while a total of $103,600 Is carried for enforcement of the grain futures trading act An appropriation ot $6,532,000 is recommended for the forest service, but no provision is made for mainten ance of an air patrol, for which $50,000 was appropriated for the current fiscal year. A total of $4,825,960 is provided for the state's relation service, of which $1,300,000 will be available for farm ers' Institutes and agriculture and $1,000,000 for co-operative agricultural extension work $500,000 less than the amount appropriated a year ago for the purpose. The bill carries $4,830,320 for the bureau of public roads and $3,503,583 for the bureau of agricultural econo mics. Grain Sales Body Forms. Chicago, 111 Officers of the United States Grain Growers, Inc., Sunday announced Incorporation of the United States Grain Growers' Sales company, a subsidiary organization, which will plan to operate at once In the Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, Indianapolis and Minneapolis markets. The subsidiary organization, according to officers of the United States Grain Growers, will be the largest grain selling firm in the world. More than 110,000,000 bushels of grain will be marketed each year by the selling company on pres ent membership basis, officials said. Mellon May Halt Plan. Washington, D. C. Arrangements for establishment of a "prohibition navy" of nine bmarlne chasers to hunt liquor runners off the Atlantlo coast, were made without the approval of Secretary Mellon and may be can celed by him, it was Intimated Monday at the treasury. Secretary Mellon was said to have taken the view that con gress had not authorized the use of prohibition enforcement appropria tions for upkeep of vessels for use as liquor chasers. Liberia Control Denied. Washington, D. C. There is nothing in the terms under which the United States will lend $5,000,000 to Liberia which would serve to extend Ameri can authority over that country, offi cials declared, when their attention was called to dispatches from Paris charging that Liberia would be virtu ally made an American colony. The proposed loan, it was pointed out, would be used to repay advances made by Franch and British financiers. Explosion Kills Seven Girls. Birmingham, England. Seven girls were killed and 30 severely injured Monday in an explosion of powder which they were removing from car tridges at Tipton, a Bhort distance northwest of Birmingham. The faces of the injured girls were blackened by the powder beyond recognition. The exposition blew off the roof of the building. Walla Walla. March weather hit Walla Walla with a vengeance Satur day, the vagaries including rain, snow, hall, sunshine and wind. Hail tell for 20 minutes. In the foothill district the heaviest snow storm of the winter was reported, several inches falling. E 15 USED AT SEA Steamship America Talks With New York Folk. DISTANCE 370 MILES Message Picked Up in New Jersey and Delayed Reporter on Ship Sends News Story. New York. The first news story ever sent by radio telephone from a passenger ship at sea came over or dinary telephones Sunday night from the United States line steamship America. The America was 370 miles at sea. The human voice was sent from the ship to a receiving station at Elberon, N. J., and there intensified and sent over the land lines to the experimental room of the American Telephone & Telegraph company at No. 24 Walker street, this city. In talking to the ship the voice was sent over the ocean's ether. About 25 engineers and newspaper men listened in on the experiment on the 24th floor of the Walker-street building. While there was considerable "in terference," the experiment was de clared by all to be a complete success, for when the air was free from other influences, the voice at sea could be heard as plainly as though talking over the ordinary telephone. At the Instrument on board ship was J. F. Harrington of the Westing house Electric company, and at the mouthpiece at this end R. W. King of the publicity department of the tele phone company. "This is Farrington talking," said a voice when connection had been estab lished. "This Is King. I get you; but weak ly." "The ether must have a fainting spell," replied Farrington. "I get you better now," said King. "Well, then, I'll talk for a minute or two," replied Farrington. "Our ship is making good progress and should reach New York tomorrow afternoon about 4 o'clock at Ambrose, and reaclj quarantine about 5 : 30 P. M. We have a full house on board (from outside broke in "what kind?"). This ship is 28,000 tons and is about 700 feet long and has a beam of 78 feet. She is a fine ship at sea and rides wonderfully well and Is very stable. The voyage has been very pleasant, with little seasickness. There is quite an Interested party watching this ex periment." H. B. Thayer, president of the American' Telephone & -Telegraph company, at his home in New Canaan, Conn., was put on the "wire" and talked with Captain William Rind on the America, VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION; BIG CONE COLLAPSES Naples. Mount Vesuvius again Is in eruption. The phenomenon began with two mild shocks of earthquake which were followed by the collapse of the eruptive cone, 200 feet high, which stood Inside the crater. The fall of the cone was accom panied by rumblings and explosions and the throwing out of ashes and incandescent stones. Liquid lava poured out from the crater in streams and in the 24 hours since the disturb ance began It covers an area ot 100,000 square feet. The temperature of this molten mass Is 2000 degrees Fahrenheit. Pro fessor Malladra, director of the ob servatory on Vesuvius, descended into the crater at the beginning of the eruption. The heat scorched his face. Heart Balm It Awarded. Lancaster, Wis. When Helmer Hel geson, a Monfort farmer owning a 200 acre farm, told a jury here that he had terminated his engagement to Lena Munson because he could not afford marriage, the jury awarded her $3000 damages Saturday for breach of promise. According to testimony, they were engaged in March, 1916. Helgeson terminated the troth in 1918 and in 1920 married Miss Mabel Manley. Four Limbt Born to Ewe. Yuba City, Cal. Four lambs were born to an ewe of the herd of Paul S. Morehead near Sutter last week, The quartet are doing well. As dining facilities are limited, half ot the fanv ily has to await its turn when dinner call sounds. TELEPHON The Shadow of the Sheltering Pines A New Romance of the Storm Country aiiiiiillliilliilliliiiiiiiiiiiliiillliitilllllliillilililiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiitliiituii iiiiiiiiiiiilllitiliiiiinilliiiiiliiilliliiiiitiiiiiiiitiiiiiiin ? TONY'S OATH. 8ynopsls. Lonely and friendless, Tonnlbel Devon, living on a canal boat with a brutal father and a worn-out, discouraged mother, wan ders into a Salvation army hall at Ithaca, N. T. There she meets a young Salvation army captain, Philip MacCauley. Uriah Devon, Tony's father, returns to the boat from a protracted spree and an nounces he has arranged for Tony to marry Reginald Brown, a worth less companion. Mrs, Devon ob jects, and Uriah beats her. Their quarrel reveals that there Is a se cret between them In which Tony is the central figure. Tony refuses to marry Reginald and escapes a beating by jumping Into th lake Tony finds a baby's picture with offer of reward for Its delivery to Doctor Pendlehaven. She delivers the picture and the doctor visits her mother, CHAPTER VI Continued. In another moment the girl had stripped off her wet clothes, had blown out the light and was In bed beside her mother. When Edith was assured the girl slept, she crawled out of the bed and lighted the lamp. She tried to collect her thoughts, to lay a plan for the fu ture for herself and husbnnd. John Pendlehaven had been there I Pendle haven, the one man In the world she dreaded the mention of I And Tony had said he would come back tomor row! She turned and looked at the sleep ing face, half-hidden In the blankets. She had atolen this child from her father, and now she had to escape the consequences of her wicked deed. She had to go away, and that quickly. If she had dared to face her husband's wrath, she would have, then and there, communicated with Paul Pen dlehaven. She reached out and touched Tonnl bel's face. "Baby, darlln', wake up," she said. "I want to ask you something I" Tony opened her slumber-laden eyes and smiled. . "Don't go to sleep again," exclaimed Mrs. Devon, hoarsely. "Tell me this. Do you honest believe what you said about that thing on the card? About It beln' holyr "Yep," asserted Tony, with droop ing eyelids. "You don't wnnt to hurt Uriah and me, do you, honey?" The girl shook her head slowly, and a doubtful shadow settling In her eyes, seemed to make her wider awake. "I wouldn't hurt you, darlln'," she replied at length, "but sometimes, when daddy's beatln' you, I feel like whackln' the life out of him. Why, today" Edith stopped her by a tug at her sleeve. "If you swore by that card you brought, I mean If you took an oath, would you keep It?" she asked hoarse ly. "You bet I would." There was amazement, surprise and eagerness In the young voice. "Didn't you tell me the feller said Jesus was a holy bird?" Tony nodded. Mrs. Devon gripped her fingers about the girl's arm. "Mebbe he's In the Dirty Mary here, only you can't see him, baby dear?" The woman's voice was slyly toned, but she shivered In superstition. "He's right here," affirmed the girl, thinking of a boy's earnest uplifted face and vibrant assurances. "Then say after me what I'm thlnkln' of." said Edith. Tony lifted her eyes to her mother's, but drew back when she discovered how terrible she looked, white like a dead person. "I swear by the Ilvln' Jesus," began Edith, and then she paused. "Say It," Bhe hissed. "I swear by the llvln' Jesus," Tony repeated fearfully. "I swear to my mummy never to say nothln' mean against Uriah De von, my daddy," went on Mrs. Devon. Tony repeated this, too, almost frightened Into fits. She had never seen her mother look and act so mys teriously. "Now sny this, keepln' In your mind you'll be blasted to hell If you break your word, 'I won't never tell that my father beat my poor mummy, or that he's a thief and a liar"' A thick tearless sob burst from the woman's Hps and brought an ejaculation from the girl. "I swear to It all, honey mummy," she cried. "You believe me, Edle, darlln', don't you?" "Yes, I believe you," replied Edith, dully. "Crawl Into bed, and go to sleep, baby dear." Shlverlngly Tony Devon got back under the blanket Then for more than an hour there was silence on the canal boat silence that was broken only by the night noises outside. Then, extremely weal:, the woman prepared herself to go out It took her a long time to write a note she had to leave for Tony, and when that was finished, the divided the money By GRACE MILLER WHITE the doctor had left and stole softly from the boat It was In the full blaze of a morning sun that Tonnlbel opened her eyes and looked around the cabin. The other bunk was empty, and her mother was not In the cabin. In her night clothes, Tonnlbel went to the deck, shouting the name, "Edith," her strong young voice repeating Itself back from the woods In echoes. Then she went down stairs again and began to dress hastily, and every moment her fear was growing. She spied the note pinned to the lamp handle and stared at it mutely as If dreading to know Its contents, but she unpinned It with lin gers that seemed to be all thumbs. Her legs were shaking so she had to sit down to read it. 'Tony dear," it began. "I'm going to look up Uriah. I took part of the money. We might need some. You can go to work sorae wheres If I don't come back. Maybe some day you'll see me. Leave the boat where she Is so your daddy can find her. I love you, darling. Remem ber about your swearing not to tell on your Pop, and don't tell I'm gone to find him. MUMMY." Tonnlbel gave a gasping sob. They had all gone and left her stranded in a land of strangers. Because it was no longer her home, she began to love the silent old canal boat, and to wish with all her soul that Uriah and Edith would come walking down the cabin steps. For a long time she sat thinking, looking out over the water, sometimes with tears flooding her lids, sometimes dry-eyed with fright. After a while she got up, took Gussle to the lake, where, much to the little animal's disgust, she washed her with a scrubbing brush and sonp. Then she carefully washed herself, letting her feet and legs hang over the end of the dock until they, too, were as clean as her little friend. It was while she was sitting there with the pig In her arms that a canoe A Canoe Slipped Under the Overhang ing Tree. slipped under the overhanging trees and came toward the canal boat swift ly. She watched It coming with no show of Interest Directly In front of her the paddle remained suspended, and the boat came to a stop. Tonnl bel's heart thumped, then seemed to fall to the pit of her stomach. Here, right before her, was the Salvation man. "How do you do?" he said, smlllDg at her. "I see you're having a nice time." Tonnlbel shook her head. "No, I ain't, and Gussle ain't either," she replied almost sullenly. By a skillful twist of the paddle, Philip MacCauley drew the canoe close to the dock. "Is this the boat you told me you lived on?" he asked, climbing up be side her and holding the canoe fast by a rope. "Yes, the Dirty Mary," answered Tonnibcl, with a little catch In her voice. "Now I live on her, I mean to day." "What do you mean by "now you live tn her?"' he asked. "Isn't this your home? Didn't you tell me that?" The girl's dark head drooped, and the shower of curls almost covered Gussle to her Bhort hind legs. Tears dropped silently. Philip touched her gently. "Where's your mother?" he questioned. She lifted her head and looked at him through her tears. She wanted to confide In some one yes, she did want to tell him, but the oath she'd taken on the gentle Christ flashed Into her mind. "She ain't home Just at present,'' she replied In a low voice. Oh ,how she wanted to ask him if he knew of any work she could do I As If he had read her thoughts, he asked abruptly, "Can I do anything for you? I brought you this." She made a slight movement with her head but acecpted the card be ex tended. Then there drifted over the quiet summer day the tolling of the chimes Copyright by the H.K. Fly Company 3 from the university clock on tne campus of Cornell. She bent forward to listen. It struck one, and drawing her feet from the water, she got up. She had promised to be at Pendleha ven place at two o'clock. "I got to go now," she said apolo getically. "Much obliged for bringing me some more salvation, mister I Mebbe I'll see you again some time. Mebbe I will." "When?" demanded Philip, the blood running swiftly to his face. Ho felt a sudden renewed Interest In the sol emn girl, and he didn't want her to leave him at all. "I dunno," she answered, putting Gussle under one arm. "I mightn't be home when you come." "Can I come tomorrow?" the boy urged. "Yep, you can come," sold Tonnlbel, with filling throat, "but If there's any one around, don't stop." This was all the warning she dared give him. Then she paused long enough to see him Jump Into the canoe, and for a few minutes she stood watching the craft as It danced away on the water toward Ithaca. Then she started for the doctor's. CHAPTER VII. Tony Finds a New Home. Many a person turned in the street and looked at the bareheaded and bare footed girl as she made her way through the city with a little pig snug gled In her arms. Tonnlbel was hurry ing to Pendlehaven place, for she had promised Doctor John she'd come to hie office at two o'clock that after noon, and, If she didn't, he might take It Into his head to visit the Dirty Mary. When John Pendlehaven came In and saw her he noted how pale she was. "Your mother," he begnn "She's gone away vlsltln'," gasped Tony. "I don't know where she Is." "Didn't you see her this morning? If she was able to get up, then she's better. Isn't she? Is she?" Tonnlbel bobbed her head. "I guess so," she mumbled. "When I woke up, she was gone. I guess she went to find" She hesitated, then ran on, "to see some one we know. So me and Gussle come to tell you she's better." "Sit down," urged the doctor. Again the curly head shook nega tively. "I got to go," she told him, swallow ing hard. "I Just got to go." Then as her homelessness pressed down upon he, she began to tremble, convulsive sobs shaking her from head to foot. The doctor forced her Into a chair. "There," he said sympathetically. "Now tell me what has happened." "I can't," came In a gasping sigh. "But mummy's gone away, mebbe for ever, and I got to find work. And and I don't know how." Doctor Pendlehaven looked at hei"' thoughtfully. All through the night the wan face had haunted him. Suddenly Tonnlbel put her hand In to her blouse. "I brought back what's left pf the money," she said, holding it out. "Mummy took some. You don't care about that, do you? She needed It aw ful, mummy did 1 But I couldn't keep this because I dickered with you last night about the picture, and you done your share." "Keep it," exclaimed Doctor John, huskily. f "No," Bald Tonnlbel. "I couldn't ever sleep a wink if I did." And she thrust the roll of bills Into his hand, giving a long sigh as If she were glad to be rid of it. It might have been this action on her part that brought to quick fruition the resolve that had begun to live the night before when Doctor Pendleha-" ven had tramped along the boulevard to Ithaca. From what she had told him now, she had been left alone. Then there was no one to ask permission of to help her. "Where's your father?" he said, abruptly. "I dunno," answered Tonnlbel, a lit tle sulkily. She didn't Intend ever to speak of Uriah to anyone. "Then you are all alone, now that your mother's gone? Do I understand you haven't any relatives?" "Not anybody," she hesitated, "at least not now. Not anybody but Que-sle-Plglet here." She touched the little animal with exquisite tenderness. Doctor Pendle haven leaned over and, placing one finger under the girl's chin, raised her face to his. "Come with me," he said softly. Tonnlbel followed him through what seemed to her long miles of halls. When he ushered her Into a room and closed the door, she stood a moment taking In all Its magnificence. The at mosphere was leden with a heavy per fume of flowers, and then she saw something else. A man lay partly propped up In bed, his burning gray eyes staring at her. "There! New I'll tuck yea to bite me again." (TO B CGNT1WUWU