WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Government! and Pacific NorthweHt, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Greeeo has added an artlclo to her constitution granting civic rights to women. The American government has ac cepted the invitation of Great Britain to be represented on the commission which Is to investigate alleged Turkish atrocities in Anatolia. Richard A. Dalllnger, who was sec rotary of the interior during Presi dent Taft's administration, died In Se attle Tuesday night at his homo after an Illness of two days. Private advices received In soviet circles In Berlin Saturday stated that Premier Lenlne suffered a stroke lust Thursday. Muxlm Litvlnoff, Karl Itadek and other soviet leaders here left immediately for Moscow. The republicans of King county, Washington in their convention last week went on record in favor of re peal of the poll tax law. Not a voice was raised to resist this action. The charge of bigamy against Kodolph Valentino, film actor, was dls missed Tuesday in the township court In Los Angeles. Whether It will be taken before the Lob Angeles county grand jury was still under consider atlon, District Attorney Woolwlne said. Over the strong protest of the three labor representatives on the United States llullroad Labor board, a new wage cut of 7 cents an hour for rail way shop mechanics and 9 cents for freight car men, cutting 400,000 shop men approximately $60,000,000 a year, was ordered by tho board Tuesday. Fifty members of tho class of 1922 at George Peabody college in NaBh vllle, Tenn., have taken out life in surance policies for $1000 each with the college as beneficiary. They have specified that tho income from the fund sought to be created shall be used for student loans, scholarships and fellowships as rapidly as it be comes available. Dr. Gustav P. Hoffman of South Orange, N. J., took a pair of worn shoes - and $4000 worth of his wife's diamonds to a repair sliop In Newark Monday. The police aro looking for the gems. Not until tho doctor return ed from his errand did his wlfu dis cover that the shoes, In which sho had slowed tho diamonds, were missing from the customary place. British infantry, cavalry, artillery and whippet tunks took part in tho first offensive nctlon of the British troops on the Ulster borderland early Monday afternoon when Pettlgoe, which straddles the line, though a largo part of tho town Is in Free State territory, was stormed and re taken from troops of the Irish repub lican army who entered on May 30. John Lewis Phillips, republican state chairman for Georgia, for whose arrest a warrant was Issued late Sat urday on complaint of the department of justice, alleging conspiracy to de fraud the United States in connection with a war contract for the disposal of surplus lumber, surrendered to a deputy United States marshal on his arrival here Monday from Philadel phia. Prank W. Anderson, floor manager In n department store In Kansas City, was found shot to death In a hotel room early Sunday and Miss Peggy Mario Beal of Springfield, 111, waB found unconscious on the floor, a re volver In her hand and a bullet in her breast. Her condition was critical. The two mot during tho war, when Andorson was n captain In the avia tion service and Miss Heal was an army nurse. Arrangements were being complet ed In Seattle Tuesday for the funeral of George W. Carmack, whose discov ery of ."pay dirt'' on Bonania creek, August 17, 1896, sent 60,000 prospect ors scurrying into the Klondike gold fields and opened a vast territory visit ed up to that time only by trappers, traders and missionaries. Carmaok died In Vancouver, B. C, Monday night after a brief Illness. The body was brought to Seattle. $40,000,000 CUT EXPECTED New Reductions in Kail Pay Effective July I Clerks Hit Hardest. Chicago. Wage reductions cstlmut eil at not exceeding $40,000,000 for 350,000 additional railway employes whoso wages the- carriers seek to lower through the railroad labor board, are expected to IsBiie from tho bourd with In a fow days to be effective July 1 The new decision will make a total of approximately $150,000,000 to bo cut from tlie annual pay rolls of the roads. About 5000 train dispatchers, gen orally considered ns subordinate of (totals, while coming under the pond lug decision, will not suffer uny reduc tion, according to authoritative Inform ation. Supervisory officials in the shop crafts, whose pay was recently slushed $60,000,000, likewise receive no cuts. Coal passers, oilers and water tend ers, Including in the general cluBslflca tion of stationary engineers and fire men and freight handlers, and other common labor Included In the station employes' group, aro expected to re ceive a reduction of approximately five cents un hour, the same cut applied to common lubor in tho maintenance of way department. There are about 125,000 unskilled laborers in these two classes. The Blgnul men and marine employ es, numbering 15,000 and 800, respec tively, are expected to come under the reduction but no figures were avail able to Indicate the amount of their cut. Anticipating a reduction, however, D. W. Helt, president of the signal men, declared the board would "prob ably hamstring us," adding that he could find no justification for the cut and that he expected them to vote to strike as soon as the decision was Is sued. STARTS MOVE FOR CLEANER FILMS New York. Moving picture reforms of a sweeping nature, both as regards the morality of tho screen and the economic structure of the motion pic ture business, were predicted as a re sult of a conference held behind clos ed doors Monday between representa tives of the producing field, headed by Will H. Hayes, and tho exhibitprs headed by Sidney S. Cohen. The conference represented the first real test of the leadership of the ex cabinet members In his new position, according to motion picture men. Rela tions between producers and exhibit ors have been discordant, and Mr. Hayes hopes to bring about greater harmony in all branches of the busi ness. Theater owners sought to obtain re ductions in film rentals, saying that they have felt the general business slump and asking that, the producers help them meet it by cutting rentals. FEDERAL EXPENSES GET ANOTHER CUT Washington, I). C Expenditures for currying on the ordinary business of the government for tho current fiscal year will be nearly $1,700,000,000 less than last year, or about $100,000,000 moro than tho latest estimate by Director of the Budget Dawes, treasury officials predicted Monday. Expendi tures of the government, chargeable against ordinary receipts exclusive of the principal of tho public debt for the fiscal year to date, have amounted to $3,523,136,768 compared with $5, 138,806,037 for the corresponding per iod last year, according to the latest daily treasury statement. Pressure by the budget bureau, of ficials declared, would prevent undue last minute expenditures before July 30 so that General Dawes' estimate would be more than borne out by the results for the vear. English Is Compulsory. Berlin. It is now compulsory to teach English, instead of French, In the Bavarian high schools. The bud get committee of the Bavarian relch stag. In accepting the proposal to sub stitute English for French In the schools, explained that French cul ture has passed its zenith, while Eng lish lias an entirely different value because it is the most widely spoken language in world commerce. Starek Is Confirmed. Washington, D. C The nomination of Fred Starek of Ohio to be a director of the war finance corporation was confirmed by the senate late Monday. Mr. Starek, a former Washington newspaper correspondent and widely known in political circles, will fill the vacancy caused by the recent resig nation of Angus McLean. 50 PERSONS DIE IN SEVERE STORM Cloudburst and Wild Winds Rake New York. FORTY ARE DROWNED Ferris Wheel is Wrecked When Six Lose Lives as Big Machine Collapses In Storm. New York. A violent storm accom panied by shifting winds that reached a velocity of 88 miles an hour took the lives of more than 50 persons, Injured more than 100 and caused enormous property loss In tho metropolitan sec tion late Sunday. Forty persons were reported to have lost their lives while boating in Long Island sound and many others were killed by falling trees and lightning and accidents caused by the wind. Ten bodies of the drowned have been recovered and the watera about New York were being searched for 30 mis sing. The storm came at the close of one of the most torrid dayB of the season. The wind, coming gently from the south ajjid southwest, shifted sud denly Into the northwest apd increas ed In velocity to 88 miles, and sweep ing through New Jersey, West Chester county, across City Island, the Bronx and Manhattan, left death and destruc tion in its wake. Torrential rains, then lightning, fol lowed the wind. Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers were on the beaches and at various outlying resorts, seeking re lief from the heat, when the storm broke and it was from theso that the storm took its death toll. Six persons were killed and more than 40 hurt when the wind caught a hugo ferris wheel at an amusement park and crushed it to the ground. A woman and her 7-year-old daugh ter were crushed through the roof of the crowded dining room of the Red Lion inn, on Boston post road. The bodies of seven canoeists caught in Long island sound off City island at the height of the storm, were washed ashore after nightfall. Miss Edda Smith, 17, walking with a companion along the reservoir road at Ossining, was blown into the water and drowned. A tree fell across a party of mo torists seeking shelter on the Brook vllle road, Long island, killing Harry Hulleran of Oyster Bay and seriously injuring his three male companions. It was estimated by the police that more than 200 small boats were over turned and it was also reported that an entire boatload of persons went down before the storm's fury. Police boats were rushed to tho scene and all night threw powerful searchlights over the water, aiding the work of those who sought the dead. Searching parties were working along the shores of the Island Pelham bay park to locate bodies that may have been washed ashore. Many of the searchers armed themselves with Improvised torches. The searchers returned to the po lice station Jaden with wearing ap parel which they heaped into piles where anxious onlookers sought to identify garments belonging to miss ing relatives. The'work of tabulating the articles was handicapped, as the police had to work by the light of candles, oil lamps and lanterns, the storm having wrecked the island light ing plant. Eight Thought Lost in Bay. Washington, D. C. Virtually all hope has been abandoned by the com manding officer of the gunboat New Orleans, mow at a Siberian station, of finding alive the eight men believed to have been caught in a sudden squall In Amur bay in a motor sailor June 4, it was said Saturday at the navy department. A telegram from the commanding officer of the New Orleans stated Chinese and Corean fishermen had taker up the search, together with the ship's boat and a chartered tug. A searching party also has been land ed on the north shore of Amur bav. Bloody Battle Begun. Buenos Aires. Government troops and Paraguayan revolutionists are locked in a sanguinary battle in the outskirts of Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay. A dispatch to the La Na tion of this city from the city of Formosa said machine guns and artil lery were being used by the contend ing forces. The people of Asuncion have fled from the streets, telegraph and wireless stations are silent and the city is In darkness. Mary Marie ELEANOR H. PORTER. Copyright by Eleinor H. Porter SOME GIRL! "Father calls me Mary. Mother calls me Murle. Everybody else culls me Mary Marie. The rent of my name Is Anderson. I'm thir teen years old, and I'm a cross current and a contradiction." Mary Marie Is telling the truth, but not all the truth she Isn't do ing herself Justice. Fur she's also adorable; that's Just what she Is. And the story she tells proves it. You see, her austere father and her sunshiny mother are divorced and Mary lives flfty-fifty with them. So with her father she's Mary and with her mother she's Marie. And alto gether she's a delicious blend of demureness and liveliness, of sense of duty and love of mischief. While you're reading Mary Ma rie's story you're absorbed In its romance and love. After you get through you reulize that you've read a powerful preachment on marriage and divorce and real love. The author? Oh, yes Eleanor H, Porter, the moat popular American Woman writer, author of Polly annu," "Dawn" and a dozen other novels that have sold by the million. PREFACE Which Explains Things. Father calls me Mary. Mother calls ine SInrle. Everybody else calls me Mary Marie. The rest of my name Is Anderson. I'm thirteen years old, and I'm a cross-current and a contradiction. That Is, Sarah says I'm that. (Sarah Is my old nurse.) She says she read It once that the children of unllkes were al wuys a cross-current and a contradic tion. And my father and mother are unllkes, and I'm the children. That Is, I'm the child. I'm all there is. And now I'm going to be a bigger cross current and contradiction than ever, for I'm going to live half the time with Mother and the other half with Father. Mother will go to Boston to live, and Father will stay here a divorce, you know. I'm terribly excited over it. None of the other girls have got a divorce in their families, and I always did like to be different. Besides, It ought to be awfully interesting, more so than Just living along, common, with your father and mother in the same house all the time especially If It's been anything like my house with my father and mother In it ! That's why I've decided to make a book of it that is, it really will be a book, only I shall have to call it a diary, on account of Father, you know. Won't It be funny when I don't have to do tilings on account of Father? And I won't, of course, the six months I'm living with Mother in Boston. But, oh, my! the six months I'm living here with him whew! But, then, I can stand it. I may even like it some. Anyhow, It'll be different. And that's something. Well, about making this into n book. As I started to say, he wouldn't let me. I know he wouldn't. He says novels are a silly waste of time. If not absolutely wicked. But, a diary oh, he loves diaries. He keeps one him self, and he told me it would he nn ex cellent and instructive discipline for me to do it, too set down the weather and what I did every day. The weather and what I did every day, Indeed! Lovely reading that would make, wouldn't it? Like tills: "The sun shines this morning. I got up, ate my breakfast, went to school, came home, ate my dinner, played one hour over to Currie Hey wood's, practiced on the piano one hour, studied another hour. Talked with Mother upstairs In her room about the sunset and the snow on the trees. Ate my supper. Was talked to by Father down In the library about im proving myself and taking care not to be light-minded and frivolous. (He meant like Mother, only he didn't say It right out loud. You don't have to say some things right out in plain words, you know.) Then 1 went to bed." Just as If I was going to write my novel like that ! Not much I am. But I shall call It a diary. Oh, yes, 1 shall call it a diary till I take it to be printed. Then I shall give it Its true name a novel. And I'm going to tell the prluter that I've left It to him to make the spelling right, and put In all those tiresome little commus and periods and question marks that every body seems to make such a fuss about. If 1 write the story part, I cun t be ex pected to be bothered with looking up how words are spelt, every five min utes, nor fussing over putting in a whole lot of foolish little dots and dashes. As If anybody who was rending the story cared for that part ! The story's the thing. I love stories. I've written lots of tkMn for the girls, too 'idle short ones. I mean ; not a long one like this Is going to be, of course. And It'll be so exciting to he living s story In stead of rending It only when you're living a story you enn't peek over to the back to see how it's nil coming ont. I shun't like that pnrt. Still, It may be all the more exciting, after all, not to know what's coming. I like love stories the best. 'Father's got -oh, lots of books In the library, and I've read stacks of them, even some of the stupid old histories and biographies. I had to rend them when there wasn't anything else to read. But there weren't ninny love stories. Mother's got a few, though -lovely ones and some books of poetry, on the little shelf In her room. But I read all those ages ago. That's why I'm so thrilled ever this new one the one I'm living, I mean. For of course this will be a love story. There'll be my love story In two or three years, when I grow up, and while I'm waiting there's Father's and Mother's, Nurse Sarah says that when you're divorced you're free Just like you were before you were married, and that Sometimes they marry again. That mads me think right away : what if Father or Mother, or both of them, married again? And I should be there to see It, and the courting, and ull I Wouldn't that he some love story? Well, I Just guess! And only think how nil the girls would envy me and they Just living along their humdrum, everyday exist ence with fathers and mothers already married and living together, and noth ing exciting to look forward to. For really, you know, when you come right down to It, there aren't many girls tlmt have got the chance I've got. And so that's why I've decided to write it Into a book. Oh, yes, 1 know I'm young only thirteen. But I feel really awfully old; and you know a woman Is as old as she feels. Besides, Nurse Surah says I am old for my age, and that it's no wonder, the kind of a life I've lived. And maybe that Is so. For of course it has been different, living with a father and mother that are getting And So That's Why I've Decided to Write It Into a Book. ready to be divorced, from what it would have been living with tlie loving, happy-ever-after kind. Nurse Sarah says it's a shame and a pity, and that it's tlie children that always suffer. But I'm not suffering not a mite. I'm Just enjoying it. It's so exciting. Of course if I was going to lose either one, It would be different. But I'm not, for I am to live with Mother six months, then with Father. So I still have them both. And. really, when you come right down to it, I'd rather take them separate that way. Why, separate they're Just per fectly all right, like Hint that what-do-you-call-it powder? sedlitzer, or Something like that. Anyhow, it's that white powder that you mix in two glasses, and that looks Just like water till you put them together. And then, oh, my ! such a fuss and fizz and splut ter! Well, It's that way with Father and Mother. It'll be lots easier to take them separate, I know. For now I can be Mary six months, then Marie six months, and not try to be them both all at once, with maybe only five minutes between them. And I think 1 shall love both Father and Mother better separate, too. Of course I love Mother, and I know I'd Just adore Father if he'd let me he's so tall and line and splendid, when he's out among folks. All the girls are simply crazy over him. And 1 am, too. Only, at home well, It's hard to be Mary always. And you see, he named me Mary But I mustn't tell that here. That's part of the story, and this ts only the Preface. I'm going to begin it to-morrow the real stjry Chapter One. But, there I mustn't call it a "chapter" out loud. Dlt.ries don't have chapters, and this Is a diary. I mustn't forget that It's a diary. But I can write it down as a chapter, for It's going to be a novel, after It's got done being a diary. CHAPTER I I Am Born The sun was slowly setting In ve west, casting golden beams of light In to the somber old room. That's the way It ought to begin, I know, and I'd like to do It, but I can't. I'm beginning with my being born, of course, and Nurse Suruli suys the sun wasn't shining at all. It was night and the stars were out. She remembers particularly about the stars, for Father was In the observatory, and couldn't be disturbed. (We never disturb Father when he's there, you know.) And so he dldnt even know lie hud a daughter until the next morning When lie cume out to hreukfust. And he wus lute to that, for he stopped to write down something he hud found out about one of the consternations In the night. lie's always finding out something about those old stars Just when we want him to pay attention to some thing else. And, oh, I forgot to say that I know It Is "constellation," and not "consternation." But I used to call them that when I was a little girl, anil Mother said it was a good name for them, anyway, for they were a con sternation to her ull right. Oh, she said right off afterward that she didn't meun that, and that I must forget she said it. Mother's always saying that about tilings she says. Well, as I whs suylng, Father didn't know until ufter breakfast that he had a little daughter. (We never tell him disturbing, exciting tilings Just before meals.) And then Nurse told him. 1 asked whut he suld, and Nurse laughed and gave her funny little shrug to her shoulders. "Yes, what did he say, Indeed?" she retorted. "He frowned, looked kind of dnzod, then muttered: 'Well, well, up on my soull Yes, to be surel'" Then he came In to see me. I don't know, of course, what he thought of me, but I guess he didn't think much of me, from what Nurso said. Of course I was very, very small, and I never yet saw a little bit of a baby that was pretty, or looked as If it was much account. So maybe you couldn't really blame hlin. Nurse suld he looked at me, mut tered. "Well, well, upon my soul I" again, and seemed really quite Interest ed till they started to put me in his arms. Then he threw up both hands, backed off, and cried, "Oh, no, no, no I" He turned to Mother and hoped She was feeling pretty well, then he got out of the room lust as nnick ns he could. And Nurse said that was the end of It, so far as paying any more attention to me was concerned for quite a while. He was much more Interested In his new star than he was in his new daughter. We were both born the same night, you see, and that star was lots more consequence than I was. But, then, that's Father all over. And that's one of the things, I think, that bothers Mother. I heard her say once to Father that she didn't see why, when there were so many, many stars, a paltry one or two more need to be made such a fuss about. And I don't. either. But Father just groaned, and shook his head, and threw up bis hands, and looked so tired. And that's all he said That's all he says lots of times. But it's enough. It's enough to make you feel so small and mean and Insignifi cant as if you were Just a little green worm crawling on the trronnd. Did you ever feel like a green worm crawl ing on the ground? It s not a pleasant feeling at all. Well, now, about the name. Of course they had to begin to talk about naming" me pretty soon; and Nurse said they did talk a lot. But they couldn't settle it. Nurse said that that was about the first thing that showed how teetotally utterly they were going to disagree about things. Mother wanted to call me Vlnlo after her mother, and Father wnnfori to call me Abigail Jane after his mother; and they wouldn't either one give in to the other. Mother was Rick and nervous, and cried a lot those days, and she used to sob out that if tbey thought they were eolne to nnmo her darling little baby that awful Abi gail .jane, tliey were very much mis taken; that she would never elve hor consent to It never. Then Father would say In his cold, stern way: "Very well, then, you needn't. But neither shall I give my consent to my daughter's being named that absurd Viola. The child is a human being not a naoie in an orchestra !" And that's the wav it went n. said, until everybody was Just about crazy. Then someboriv Mary.' And Father said, verv well they might call me Mary ; and Mother said certainly, she would consent to Mary, only she should pronounce it Marie. And so it was settled p-ntho- called me Marv. nnd Mnthnr ,.ii.i . , . Hill 1, me Marie. And right nwav eve. body else began to cnll m r Marie. And that's the wav it's hpon ever since. "First I found out how they happened to marry Father and Mother." ' (TO BE CONTINUED.) The Cause. Judge Why does this prisoner's fnce look so pasty, officer? Policeman I pasted him there, your honor.