WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important - Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Event of Noted People, Government! and Pacific North went, and Other Thine Worth Knowing. Receipts of the Oregon state motor vehicle department for the period Jan uary 1 to June 30, 1922, aggregated 12,973,378.84, according to a report pre pared by the secretary ot state. Divorce proceedings In Chicago Tuesday revealed the abBence for two years of Harry, son of dustav FlolBch mann, the yeast manufacturer, after leaving his bride of a day to seek a "love nest." Two hundred and twenty-five camp fire girls were forced to flee for their lives late Tuesday afternoon before a forest fire that swept down on their summer camp on Vashon island, in Puget sound. Peace negotiations, halted over the week end, were resumed by members of the United States rail labor board Monday In an effort to bring about an early settlement ot the railway shop men's strike. Final examinations for appointment as second lieutenant In the regular army will be held at all army posts beginning September 4 and open to all eligible citizens between the ages of 21 and 30 years. Grasshoppers are destroying wheat in many sections of Idaho, according to reports received by agricultural of ficials in Boise. In Power county One 2000-acre field was declared to have been wholly devastated by the pests. Private Harry Qulgg, headquarters company, Fifth brigade, at Camp Lewis, was shot and seriously wound ed Sunday night while attempting to escape from military policemen, it was revealed by Colonel J. D. Leitch, chief of staff. Public offering of an Issue of $8,702, 300 refunding and improvement mort gage 5 per cent bonds of the Northern Pacific railroad was made Wednesday by J. P. Morgan & Co., the First Na tional bank and the National City company In New York. W. W. Culp, ex-Spring Valiey, O. minister, who eloped with Miss Esther Hughes, 18, a boarder at the Culp home, pleaded guilty to deserting his family in probate court and was sen tenced to one year in the workhouse and to pay a fine ot $500. Heglnald Dunn and Joseph O'Sull Ivaix were sentenced to death Tues day for the murder ot Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, who was Bhot In front of his home at Eaton place in London last month. The men were convicted after trial In the Old Bailey. Exploding steam pipes on the battle ship New York, division flag ship of the Pacific fleet, scalded one man, rendered 18 others unconscious and nearly caused a collision between the flagship and the destroyer McDermut as the fleet was returning to Port Angeles, Wash., port from maneuvers Tuesday afternoon. Dates will be Bet within a short time for hearings on the question ot what to do with the Central Faclflc rail road, which the supreme court recent ly held should be separated from the Southern Pacific, Commissioner I111I of the interstate commerce commis sion said Tuesday. One ot these hear ings, he said, will be held at Portland. Miss Miriam Dcfald, pretty school teacher of San Jose, Cal., and an In nocent victim of one of the most sen sational automobile chases in this county, filed suit here for $105,000 damages against Philip Valentlue, said to be the son ot the late presi dent of the Wells Fargo company, the one responsible for the Injuries which have made Miss Defald a cripple for life. The text ot the foreign office state ment in Toklo Monday announcing Japan's purpose to withdraw her troops from the mainland portion of the province of Saghalien, Siberia, shows that, coupled with previous an nouncements on the Intended with drawal by October from the Vladivo stok region, it Is Japan's purpose to hold only the northern or Russian end ot the island ot Saghallen pending ad justment with some Russian govern ment ot Japanese claims arising out of the massacre of Japanese troops at Nlkolievsk. AGENTS' STRIKE IS AVERTED 10,000 Station Men Refute to Perform Extra Duties. Chicago. The averting of a strike of approximately 10,000 station agents, preparation for the formation of new union of shop workers on 40 eastern roads and negotiations for a separate peace on the Baltimore & Ohio, mark ed the progress Monday of the railway shopmen's strike. The move for new unions to take the place of the striking shop crafts was Initiated by L. F. Loreo, eastern regional chulrman ot the Association of Railway Executives, and was taken as an Indication of the intention ot the roadB to hold out agulnst the strikers' domand for a return of seniority rights as a preliminary to any settlement. The eastern roads, according to Mr. Lorce, plan to take, advantage of rul ings by the labor board by organizing new shop men in such a way that each system will have Its own union and will be able to negotiate separately with its men. Parleys for a separate peace at Baltimore between representatives of the striking shop men and the Balti more & Ohio railroad, attracted con siderable attention in union circles, but strike loaders refused to make any comment. The efforts of W. L. McMenlmen, labor member of the rail board, In a conference with W. J. Noons, head of the station agents' organization, prevented a further spread of the strike. Mr. Noons complained that the station agents were being forced to do the work of the strikers, but Mr. McMenlmen assured him that any grievances would be corrected. Mr. Noons then announced that the sta tion agents would remain at work pending a conference with the labor board. Comparatively few outbreaks due to the strike were reported during the day, but further cancellation of trains, said to be due mostly to the shortage of coal, were reported from a few sec tions. The Grand Trunk took off two trains between Chicago and Detroit and two between Detroit and Harvey. Of Benefit to Ex-Service Men. In order that every ex-service man or woman of Washington, Oregon and Idaho may have an opportunity to learn all governmental offers and regulations relative to war disability compensation, vocational training, hospitalization, war risk insurance, every town, village and hamlet Is to be thoroughly canvassed by contact representatives of the United States Veterans' Bureau, according to L. C. Jesseph of Seattle, northwest district manager. Additional field representatives are being sent out into the rural district to give personal attention to prospec tive compensation cases in the more sparsely settled sections' ot the Pa cKlc Northwest district. W. N. Ry dalch has boen "put on the Job" in southern Idaho and is now in the midst of an itinerary including 90 small towns. C. R. Christie has been assigned to cover small communities in Washington and Zach Taylor has started a country campaign in Oregon to disclose every ex-service person disabled because of World War serv ice. Announcement was made that an average of 600 claims are being made by war veterans in the district every month despite the fact that the war ended nearly four years ago. Mr. Jesseph urged that veterans secure certificates of injuries from the Vet erans' Bureau before August 9 to pro tect possible claims for compensation after the five years from discharge limit for compensation claim filing. The American Legion and other ex service men's organizations and the Red Cross are urged to co-operate with the bureau in a general campaign to Bee that the war veterans are advised of this ruling. Drug Not Legal Tender. Tacoma, Wash. Narcotics are not "legal tender for all debts, private and public," as Louis Burns of Hoqulam learned to his sorrow Monday from the lips of Judge Cushman, of the United States district court. Burns explained ' to the court that five bundles of opium on his person when he was arrested had been received In payment of a debt. He got a year and a day fu Leavenworth federal penitentiary. Strike Pinches Chicago, Chicago. Rail and coal strikes brought a touch of war-time privation to Chicago Monday, when one ot the city's largest chain grocery stores an nounced a strict limit on purchases of sugar. A temporary limitation ot ten pounds to each customer was blam ed on the slowness ot the railroads In gettlngj car through. The an nouncement followed increases of from $5.23 to $15.25 a ton in the price ot coal. PLANS FOR COAST GUARD PREPARED General Pershing Gives Data to Secretary Weeks. DEFENSE SOLE OBJECT Present Forces Declared Enough to Make Nation Safe Against Any Combination. Washington, D. C Steps to estab lish a "national position In readiness for the army as a development of the national military policy" are forecast in a memorandum recent ly submitted by General Pershing to Secretary Weeks and made public Sunday at the war department. ' Details of such plans as may have been already prepared by General Pershing were not disclosed. The general nature of the- project, how ever, contemplates assignment of na tional guard divisions to specific de fense positions on coasts and borders to which they would be rushed in the event of war. "Under this plan," General Per shing said, "with our territory pro tected against landings in force at the start, and with the machinery for further military expansion fully organized, our fleet will be free to deal with the hostile naval forces with out concern as to possible invasion." "With 18 divisions and appropriate auxiliaries of the national guard, sup plemented by the regular army pre pared for necessary expansion, and with certain special units formed in the organized reserve," he continued, "we shall be able to cover our coasts and land frontiers against serious In vasion at the start. "Such a military organization causes no menace to any other nation, but assures the impregnability of the con tinental United States in the event of Attack by any possible combination." ' "The character of our military re sources, as well as our attitude to ward other nations, imposes upon us an initial strategic defense," General Pershing said, "But this does not In volve renouncing a subsequent of fensive." The memorandum pointed out that the defensive machinery planned is dependent upon "the large number of war trained officers available," and also upon the "more adequate source ol military equipment and material," as well as upon the specific sanction given the national defense act. General Pershing laid stress, how ever, on the assertion "that the sys stem of training young men" ultimate ly to replace the present war trained officers, perpetuating the supply of necessary officer personnel, was a vital factor in the whole project. Giant Log To Be Cut. Hoqulam, Wash. The Grays Har bor Lumber company expects to cut up what is believed to be the biggest log ever to be sent through a Grays Harbor mill. Under normal condi tions, a log with 119 inches at the butt, or just one inch less than 10 feet across, would be put aside as too large to handle in the rush of mill operation. But since the present log shortage struck the harbor time is given to handle even the biggest tim ber. The huge log, which is 28 feet long, will produce 12,000 feet ot lum ber, it was estimated. A special crew was put to work trimming the big log for use in the mill prior to sending it through on the carriage. It was found necessary to remove certain timbers to make room on the carriage. Hearst Entry Forecast. New York. W. J. Connors, Buffalo newspaper publisher, Sunday issued a statement in which he predicted that William Randolph Hearst would be the only candidate when the demo cratic convention meets in Syracuse next September to pick a nominee for governor of New York. Mr. Connors Indicated that the five-cent fare throughout the state and the milk question would be the chief issues of the campaign. Ship Deficit $2,783,216. Washington, D. C. Operation of shipping board vessels covering all trade routes during the month of June cost $2,783,216 in excess ot income, Chairman Lasker announced. Mary Marie By ELEANOR H. PORTER Copyright by Eleanor H. Porter ' AUNT JANE SYNOPSIS. In a preface Mary Marl explains her apparent "dou ble personality" and Juat why Is a "crone-current and a contradic tion" i she alao tulle her reaaone (or writing the diary later to be a novel. The diary la commenced at Anderaonvllle. Mary begins with Nurse Sarah's account ot her (Mary's) birth, which seemingly In terested her father, who la a. fa mous astronomer, less than a new atur which was dlacovered the aame night Her name la a compromise; her mother wanted to call her Viola and her father Instated on Abigail June. The child quickly learned that her home wai In aome way different from those of her small friends, and woe puzzled thereat Nurse Sarah telle her of her moth er's arrival at Andersonvllle as a bride and how astonished they all were at the sight of the dainty eighteen-year-old girl whom the sedate professor had chosen for a wife. Nurse Sarah makes It plain why the household seemed a strange one to the child and how her father and mother drifted apart through misunderstanding, each too proud to In any way attempt to smooth over the situation. Mary tells of the time spent "out West" where the "perfectly all right and genteel and respectable" divorce was being arranged for, and her mother's (to her) unaccountable behavior. By the court's decree the child la to spend alx months of the year with her mother and six months with her fa ther, Boston la Mother's home. Mary describes her life aa Marie with her mother In Boston and about her mother's "prospective suitors." CHAPTER IV Continued.' , Mother Is crying now quite a lot. You see, her six months are 'most up, and I've got to go back to Father. And I'm afraid Mother is awfully unhappy about It. She had a letter last week from Aunt Jane, Father's sister. I heard her read it out loud to Aunt Hattle and Grandpa in the library. It was very stiff and cold and dignified, and run something like this: "Dear Madam: Dr. Anderson de sires me to say that he trusts you are bearing In mind the fact that, accord ing to the decision of the court, his duughter Mary is to come to him on the first day of May. If you will kind ly Inform him as to the hour of her expected arrival, he will see that she is properly met at the station." Then she signed her nume, Abigail Jane Anderson. (She was named for her mother, Grandma Anderson, same as Father wanted them to name me. Mercy I I'm glad they didn't. "Mary" Is had enough, but "Abigail Jane" !) Well, Mother read the letter aloud, then she began to talk about it how site felt, and how awful It was to think of giving me up six whole months, and sending her bright little sunny-hearted Marie Into that tomb like place with only an Abigail June to flee to for refuge. And she said that she almost wished Nurse Sarah was back again that she, at least, was human. " 'And see that she's properly met,' Indeed 1" went on Mother, with an In dignant little choke In her voice. "Oh, yes, I know! Now, If it were a star or a comet that he expected, he'd go himself and sit for hours and hours watching for it. But when his daugh ter comes, he'll send John with the horses, like enough, mid possibly that precious Abigail Jane of his. Or, may be that Is too much to expect. Oh, Hattle, I can't let her go I can't, I can't I". I was In the window-seat around the corner of the chimney, reading; and I don't know as she knew I was there. But I was, and I heard. And I've heard other things, too, all this week. I am excited. And I can't help won dering how It's all going to be at Fa ther's. Oh, of course, I know It won't be so much fun, and I'll have to be "Mary," and all that; but It'll be something different, and I always did like different things. Besides, there's Father's love story to watch. Maybe he's found somebody. Maybe he didn't wait a year. Anyhow, if he did find somebody I'm sure he wouldn't be so willing to watt as Mother would. You know Nurse Sarah said Father never wanted to wait for any thing. That's why he married Mother so quick, in the first place. But If there Is somebody, of course I'll find out when I'm there. So that'll be In teresting. And, anyway, there'll be the girls. I shali have them. I'll close now, and make this the end of the chapter. It'll be Anderson vllle next time. - CHAPTER V When I Am Mary. Andersonvllle. Well, here 1 am. I've been here two dnys now, and I guess I'd better write down what's happened so far, before I forget it. First, about my leaving Boston. Poor, dear Mother did take on dread fully, and I thought she just wouldn't let me go. She went with me to the junction where I had to change, and asked the conductor to look out for me. (As if I needed that a young lady like met I'm fourteen now. I had a birthday last week.) But I thought at the last she Just wouldn't let me go, she clung to me so. and begged me to forgive her for all she'd brought upon me; and said It was a cruel, cruel shame, when there were children, and people ought to stop and think and remember, und be willing to stund anything. And then, In the next breath, she'd beg me not to forget her, and not to love Father bet ter thun I did her. (As If there was any danger of that !) And to write to her every few minutes. Then the conductor cried, "All aboard 1" and the bell rang, and she had to go and leave me. But the last 1 saw of her she was waving her hand kerchief, and smiling the kind of a smile flint's worse than crying right out loud. Mother's always like that. No matter how bad she feels, at the last minute she comes up bright and smiling, and just as brave as can be. It was heaps of fun to be grown up and traveling alone 1 I sat back In my sent and wondered and wondered what the next six months were going to be like. And I wondered, too, if I'd forgotten how to be "Mary." "Dear met How shall I ever re member not to run and skip and laugh loud or sing, or ask questions, or do anything that Marie wants to do?" I thought to myself. And I wondered If Aunt Jane would meet me, and what she would be like. She come once when I was a little girl, Mother said ; but I didn't remember her. Well, at last we got to Anderson vllle. John was there with the horses, and Aunt Jane, too. Ot course I knew she must be Aunt Jane, because she was with John. The conductor was awfully nice and polite, and didn't leave me till he'd seen me safe in the hands of Aunt Jane and John. Then he went back to bis train, and the next minute It had whizzed out of the sta tion, and I was alone with the begin ning of my next six months. The first beginning was a nice smile, and a "Glad to see ye home, Miss," from John, as he touched his lii Then the Conductor Called "All Aboard!" and the Bell Rang, and She Had to Go and Leave Me. hat, and the next was a "How do you do, Mary?" from Aunt Jane. And I knew right off that first minute that I wasn't going to like Aunt Jane just the way she said that "Mary," and the way she looked me over from head to foot. Aunt Jane is tall and thin, and wears black not the pretty, stylish black, but the "I-don't-care" rusty black and a stiff white collar. Her eyes are the kind that says, "I'm sur prised at you!" all the time, and her mouth Is the kind that never shows any teeth when it smiles, and doesn't smile much, anyway. Her hair is some gray, and doesn't kink or curl any where; and I knew right off the first minute she looked at me that she didn't like mine, 'cause It did curl. I was pretty sure she didn't like my clothes, either. Pve since found out she didn't but more of that anon. (I just love that word "anon.") And I jdst knew Bhe disapproved of my hat But she didn't say anything not in words and after we'd attended to my trunk, we-went along to the car riage and got in. My stars I I didn't suppose horses could go so slow. Why, we were ages Just going a block. You see I'd forgotten; and without think ing I spoke right out. "Myl Horses are slow, aren't they?" I cried. "You see, Grandpa has an auto, and" "Mary!" just like that she inter rupted Aunt Jane did. (Funny how old folks can do what they won't let you do. Now if I'd Interrupted any body like that!) "You may as well understand at once," went on Aunt Jane, "that we are not interested in your grandfather's auto, or his house, or anything that Is his." (I felt as If I was hearing . the catechism In church 1) "And that the less reference you make to your life In Boston the better we shall be pleased. As I said before, we are not interested. Besides, while under your futher's roof, It would seem to me very poor taste, In deed, for you to make constant refer ence to things you may huve been do ing while not under his roof. The situation Is deplorable enough, how ever you tuke it, without muklng It positively unbearable. You will re member, Mary?" , Mary said, "Yes, Aunt Jane," very polite and proper; but I can tell you that Inside of Mury, Murle was Jusr boiling. Unbearable, indeed I We didn't say anything more pll the way home. Naturally, I was not going to, after that speech; und Aunt Jane suld nothing. So silence reigned su preme. Then we got home. Things looked quite natural, only there wus a new muld In the kitchen, and Nurse Sarah wasn't there. Futher wasn't there, either. And, Just as I suspected, 'twas a star that wag to blame, only this time the star was the moon an eclipse; and he'd gone somewhere out west so he could see It better. He Isn't coming buck till next week ; and when I think how he made me come on the first day, so as to get in the whole six months, when all the time he did not care enough about it to be here himself, I'm Just mad I mean, the righteously indignant kind of mad for I can't help thinking how poor Mother would have loved those extra days with her. Aunt Jane said I was -to have my old room, and so, as soon as I got here, I went right up end took off my hat and coat, and pretty quick they brought up my trunk, and I unpacked It ; and I didn't hurry about It, either. I wasn't a bit anxious to get down stairs aguln to Aunt Jane. Besides, I may as well own up, I was crying a little. Mother's room was right across the hall, and It looked so lone some, and I couldn't help remember ing how different this homecoming was from the one In Boston, six months ago. In the morning I went up to the schoolhouse. I planned it so as to get there at recess, and I saw all the girls except one that was sick, and one that was away. We had a perfectly lovely time, only everybody was tulklug all at once so that I don't know now what was said. But they seemed glad to see me. I know that. Maybe I'll go to school next week. Aunt Jane says she thinks I ought to, when It's only the first of May. She's going to speak to Father when he comes next week. She was going to speak to him about my clothes ; then she decided to attend to those herself, and not bother him. She doesn't like my dresses. She came Into my room and asked to see my things. My I But didn't I hate to show them to her? Marie said she wouldn't; but Mary obediently trotted to the closet and brought them out one by one. Aunt Jans turned them around with the tips of her fingers, all the tline sighing and shaking her head. When I'd brought them all out, she shook her head again and said they would not do at all not in Andersonvllle; that they were extravagant, and much too elaborate for a young girl; that she would see the dressmaker and ar range that I had some serviceable blue and brown serges at once. Blue and brown serge, Indeed! But, there, what's the use? I'm Mary now. I keep forgetting that ; though I don't see how I can forget it with Aunt Jane around. But, listen. A funny thing happened this morning. Something came up about Boston, and Aunt Jane asked me a question. Then she asked an other and another, and she kept me talking till I guess I talked 'most a whole half-hour about Grandpa Des mond, Aunt Hattle, Mother, and the house, and what we did, and, oh, a whole lot of things. And here, just two days ago, she was telling me that she wasn't Interested In Grandpa Des mond, his home, or his daughter, or anything that was Ills ! There's something funny about Aunt Jane. "He wheels around and stops short 'How Is your mother, Mary?' he asks." (TO BK CONTINUED.) Books That Fired Fancy of Dickens. Though the years (1821-23) which Dickens spent at the bouse on the brook, Chatham, now for sale, were a time of acute financial embarrass ment for his parents, they were not without pleasant memories for the lad himself, for it was there, in a lumber room adjoining his bedroom, that be discovered a number of books, in cluding "Robinson Crnsoe," the "Ara bian Nights," "Tales of the Genii" and the works of Smollett and Field ing, which first fired his fancy and turned the thoughts to authorship. There, too, he found a helpful friend In his schoolmaster, a Mr. Giles, son of the minister of a Baptist chapel next door to the house on the brook, who seems to have encouraged the boy In the exercise of his genius and who, when his famous pupil was pub lishing "Pickwick," sent him a sliver snuffbox with an admiring Inscription to the "Inimitable Boy."