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E 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. Word was received In Montreal Tuesday that the tenth fire to sweep a Catholic edifice in Canada this year had destroyed the parish church of Saint Thomas D'Alfred at Fassett Monday night. The Italian government has extend ed to June 30, 1923, the temporary exemption from duty of imports of wheat, oats, yellow corn and rye, ac cording to advices to the department of commerce from Commercial At tache MacLaren at Rome. Miss Vera Jeffers, 23, of Horace, Neb., and her cousin, Arthur Clark, 25, of Randolph, Iowa, were drowned Tuesday night when the automobile Clark was driving to a Christmas dance at Glenwood, Iowa, plunged in to a river near Randolph. An order for GO fast freight loco motives of the latest type has been placed for early Bprlng delivery by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, Vice-President Bracken an nounced Tuesday in Chicago, saying the order approximates 3,180,000. A small gray kitten playfully sprang at a rubber hose that connected up the gas stove in the Brooklyn home of Mrs. Catherine Carey Tuesday. A few hours later Mrs. Carey and the kitten wore found asphyxiated. Three neigh bors were saved by the use of pul- inotors, More than 50 persons were in hos pltals In Boston Tuesday, suffering from alcohol poisoning as a result of drinking liquors obtained during the holidays. Two deaths due to this cause occurred. Eighteen of the pa' tlents were listed as in a critical con dition. Eight Now York deaths are attri buted to drinking poisonous Christmas liquor. A score or more of victims were confined to hospitals. Of those who died two were women. A woman was arrested as the seller of whisky which caused the death of one of the women. A conference of representatives of steamship lines in the gulf, south At lantic and north Atlantic districts will be held January 15 to discuss traffic matters with a view to revising any discrepances and continuing tholr harmonious rotations, the shipping board announced Tuesday. The municipal voters' league of Chi cago In a statement made public Tues day, charged Mayor Thompson and his supporters in the city council with responsibility for alleged waste of city funds in whut It declured excessive payments to five reul estate and build ing experts employed by the city. France gained an Important victory In the allied reparations commission 'luesuay wnon tne commission by a vote of 3 to 1 declared Germany In vuluutary default in her wood deliv eries for 1922. France, Belgium and Italy voted In favor of the declaration while Great Britain cast its ballot agnlnat It. Wolfe Llndonfold, brought to this country recently by a department of justice agent In connection with the Wall street bomb explosion, will be barred from entering under a ruling affirmed Tuesday by the bureau of Immigration. The bureau upheld the action of the Immigration authorities at Kills Island, where Llndentold now Is held. With tho successful opening last week of a modern co-operative cane syrup blending and standardtitng plant at Lutkln, Tex., officials of the department of agriculture feel that the Industry has made an Important step toward extending tho market for rune syrup, which wilt permit grow ers to greatly Increase their acreage of sugar cane. John B. Hammond, chief of police of Des Moines, hits announced that every drunken tnnn who la brought Into police headquarters wilt hare his picture taken. When the offender has become sober again he will be present ed with a picture of himself so that he may know how be looked when taken to Jail. Hammond hopes this "picture cure" will be a potent weapon against drunkenness. WORLD HAPP WORLD IN ECONOMIC GAIN Prospect for 1923 Good,' Says Hoover Great Progress Expected. Washington, D. C. The story of 1922 is one of world economic progress and the prospects are favorable for 1923, Secretary of Commerce Hoover declared in a statement Sunday night, in which he reviewed the past and hazarded a forecast of the future year. His statement, compiled from reports of special Investigators in all parts of the earth, expressed complete con fidence concerning the remolding of the delicate economic machine, so badly wrecked by the world war. "An economic forecast cannot amount to more than a hazard In the future," Mr. Hoover said. "The world begins the year with greater economic strength than a year ago; production and trade are upon a larger and more substantial basis, with the single ex ception of the sore spot in central Europe. , The healing force of busi ness and commerce has gained sub stantial ascendency over destructive political and social forces. "There is ample reason why there should be continued progress during the next 12 months." The secretary declared that outside of "three or four states In central Eu rope," the whole world had shaken itself free from the great after-the-war slump. Social stability has gain ed, he said, urging that the exceptions In Europe not be allowed to obscure the profound forces of progress else where over the whole world. In the main, he added, even in the areas re ferred to as "sore spots," the difficul ties are to a large extent fiscal and political rather than commercial and Industrial, In addition to the social betterment, Mr, Hoover mentioned as other net gains for the year 1922 and guide lines to 1923 the following: "Bolshevism has greatly diminished and even In Russia has been replaced by a mixture of socialism and individ ualism. "Active war, at least, has ceased for the first time since 1914. "Famine and distress have dimin ished to much less numbers this win ter than at any time since the great war began. "Production has Increased greatly. "Unemployment is less In world totals than at any time since the armistice. "International commerce is increas ing. "The world Is now pretty generally purchasing Its commodities by the normal exchange of goods and serv ices, a fact which in itself marks an enormouB step In recovery from the strained movoments of credit and gold which followed the war." Economic wounds of Asia, Africa, Latin-America and Australia, coming from the war, Mr. Hoover Bald, were more the sympathetic reaction from slump in the combatant states than from direct Injury and they thus are recovering quickly. Their commerce, his reports showed, bus reached levels above pre-war days and their produc tion has grown apace. The enforced Isolation, he believed, strengthened the economic growth of Latln-Amorlca and Asia by Increasing the variety of their production. This, he said, has contributed vitally to their effective recovery. 60 Lynched During 1922. New York. Sixty persons were lynched In Btates below the Mason and Dixon Hue in the year Just ending, tho nntlonnl association tor the ad vancement of colored people an nounced in a report made public Sun day night. Texus headed the list In numbers. Of thoBe lynched, tho re port stated, 62 were negroes, seven white Americans and one a Mexican. Seven of the victims were alleged to have been publicly burned to death. New Flying Mark Sat. Marseilles. Sadl Lecolnte, the avia tor, Monday made four circuits of a kilometer course at an average speed of about 218 miles an hour. Brigadier General Mitchell, assistant chief of the American air service, flew over a one-kilometer course at Seltrldge field, Mich., on October IS at an aver age speed of 224.05 miles an hour In four heats. The test was timed by representatives of the Federation Aeronautlque Internationale. Plane Dive Kills Pilot Mexla. Tex. Harry Stovall, a form er captain of the aviation corps at Miami, Fli., was killed Sunday after noon about seven miles southeast of here when a plane he was piloting nose dived to earth. Pr. C. P. Mo Kencle, a passenger In the plane was Injured. OUTLINES E Independent Commission Pro posed by Secretary. AGAINST ARBITRATION That German Reparations Lies at Root of Economic Trouble of Today Is Realized. New Haven. Conn. A suggestion that an independent commission of men competent in financial affairs could accomplish more than a general international conference toward solu tion of the European reparations tan gle was put forward -by Secretary Hughes here in the first public pro nouncement on the economic crisis to come from responsible officials of the administration at Washington. The secretary, who spoke before the American Historical association, added that he had "no doubt" that distin guished Americans would be willing to serve on such a commission, which, he said, might well be kept free from any responsibility to foreign offices or any duty to obey political instructions. Once advantage had been taken of the opportunities thus afforded, he said, the avenues of American helpfulness cannot fall to open hopefully." Referring to suggestions that the United States assume the role of arbi ter in the reparations dispute, Mr. Hughes said a sufficient answer to that was the fact "that we have not been asked." He went on to say he did not believe this government should take such a burden of responsibility. Throughout his discussion the sec retary recognized that the question ot German reparations lay at the root of any economic settlement. The prob lems abroad, he said, are world prob lems, and could not be disposed of "by calling them European." He declared the United States would "view with disfavor measures which instead ot producing reparations would threaten disaster," and said no one could fore see the "serious consequences" which might ensue if forcible means were adopted to obtain reparations from Germany. "The crux of the European situation lies in the settlement of reparations, said Mr. Hughes. "There will be no adjustment of other needs, however pressing, until a definite and accepted basis for the discharge ot reparations claims has been fixed. It is futile to attempt to erect any economic struc ture in Europe until the foundation Is laid. "How can the United States help In this matter? We are not seeking rep arations. We are Indeed asking for the reimbursement of the costs of our army of occupation; and, with good reason, for we have maintained our army in Europe at the request ot the allies and of Germany and under an agreement that its costs with like army cemts should be a first charge upon the amounts paid by Germany. Others have been paid and we have not been paid. But we are not seeking general reparations. We are bearing our own burden and through our loans a large part ot Europe's burden in addition, No demands of ours stand In the way ot a proper settlement ot the repara tions question. "Ot course, we hold the obligations of European governments and there has been much discussion abroad and here with respect to them. There has been a persistent attempt ever since the armistice to link up the debts ow ing to our government with repara tions or with projects ot cancellation. This attempt was resisted in a deter mined manner under the former ad ministration and under the present administration." 800 Film Extras Fight. Los Angolcs. A motion picture di rector at Vnlversat City, near here, hired 800 extras to be used as the "audience" In the filming ot a prize fight scene. In the excitement of the make believe pugilistic fiesta, two of the hired spectators forgot them selves and came to blows. The fight quickly spread to the other 798 mem bers ot tho "audience," and after the dust settled It was found that the arena was wrecked. Typist Sets New Mark. New York. Writing TOO words In two minutes with only three errors. Nathan Behrin, a state supreme court stenographer, has broken his own world's record for stenographic nota tion, It was announced Saturday at the New York state shorthand report ers' convention. Behren's previous record was JT7 words a minute tot five minutes with three errors. UROPE t I (V 1 ff 'PI Willi li UUr Copyright GRAMONT AND LUCIE SYNOPSIS.-Durlng the height ot the New Orleans carnival season Jachln Fell, wealthy though some what mysterious citizen, and Dr. Ansley, are discussing a Beries of robberies by an Individual known as the Midnight Masquer, who, In variably attired as an aviator, has long defied the police. Joseph Mall lard, wealthy banker, Is giving a ball that night, at which the Mas quer has threatened to appear and rob the guests. Fell and Ansley, on their way to the affair, meet a girl dressed as Columbine, seeming ly known to Fell, but masked, who accompanies them to the ball. Lucie Ledanols, recently the ward of her uncle, Joseph Malllard, Is the Columbine. At the ball, Bob Malllard, son of the banker, again proposes to her and Is refused. He offers to buy some of her property. A Franciscan monk Interests her. He turns out to be Prince Gramont. In his library Joseph Malllard and a group of his friends are held up and robbed by the Midnight Mas quer. Lucie Ledanols, the last of an old family, is in straitened cir cumstances. Joseph Malllard's han dling of her funds has been unfor tunate. Fell Is an old friend of her parents and deeply Interested In the girl. Henry Gramont, really the Prince de Gramont, is enamored of Lucie. Lucie talks with Fell about her affairs and the Masked Masquer. CHAPTER IV Continued. 6 "Some of them, yes and all that prince stuff with them." Smiling as he dropped into English, Gramont glanced about the room, and his eyes softened. "This Is a lovely and lovable home of yours, Lucie I" he exclaimed, grave ly. "So few homos are worthy the name; so few have In them the Inti mate air of use and friendliness why are so many furnished from bargain sales? This place Is touched with re pose and sweetness; to come and sit here is a privilege. It Is like being In another world, after all the money striving and the dollar madness of the city." "Oh!" The girl's gnze searched him curiously. "I hope you're not go ing to take the fine artistic pose that It Is a crime to make money?" Gramont laughed. "Not much I I want to mnke money myself ; that's one reason I'm In New Orleans. Still, you cannot deny that there Is a craze about the eternal clutching after dollars. I can't mnke the dollar sign the big thing In life, Lucie. You couldn't, either." She frowned a little. "You seem to have the European notion that all Americans are dollar chasers I" He shrugged his shoulders slightly. "In a sense, yes; why not?" he an swered, "f am an American. I am a dollar chaser, and not ashamed of It. I am going Into business here. Once It Is a success, I shall go on; I Khali see America, I Bhall come to know this whole country of mine, all of It 1 I have been a month In New Orleans do you know, a strange thing hap pened to me only s few days after I arrived here!" With her eyes she urged hlra on, and he continued gravely : "In France I met a man! an Ameri can sergeant named Hammond. It was just at the close of things. We had adjoining cots nt Nice " "Ah 1" she exclaimed, quickly. "1 remember, you wrote about him the man who had been wounded In both legs! Did he get well? You never said." "I never knew until I came here." answered Gramont. "One night, not long after I had got established In my pension on Burgundy street, a man tried to rob me. It was this same man, Hammond; we recognized each other almost nt once. "I took him home with me and learned his story. He had come back to America only to find Ills wife dead from Influenza, his home broken up. his future destroyed. He drifted to New Orleans, careless of what hap pened to him. He flung himself des perately Into a career ot burglary and pillage. Well, I gave Hammond a job ; he Is my chauffeur. You woul 1 never recognize him as the same man now! I am very proud of bis friend ship." "That was well said." Lucie nodded her head quickly. "I shan't call yon SI. Le prince sny more-uuless you offend again." lie smiled, reading her thought "I try not to be a snob, eh? Well, want I'm driving at Is this: I want to know this country of mine, to see It with clear, unprejudiced eyes. We hide our real shames and exalt our false ones. Why should we be ashamed of chas ing the dollar? So long as that Is a mean to the end of happiness. It's alt right But there are some men who see It as an end atone, who can set do Ike MARDI GRAS MYSTERY jfftBedford-Jones Illustrations by Irwin Myers bu DouMeday.Page and Company finis to their work except the dollar dropping Into their pouch. Such man Is your relative, Joseph Malllard, I do not wish to offend you, and I shall therefore refrain from saying all that Is In my mind. But you have not hesi tated to Intimate very frankly that you are not wealthy. Some time ago, If you recall, you wrote me how you had just missed wealth through having sold some lund. I have token the lib erty of looking up that deal to some extent, and I have suspected that your uncle had some Interest In putting the sale through " The gray eyes of the girl flushed suddenly. "Henry Gramont! Are my family affairs to be an open book to the world? Do you realize that you are Intruding most unwarrantably Into my private matters?" "Unwarrantably?" Grnmont's eyes held her gaze stendily. "Do you real ty mean to use that word?" "I do, most certainly 1" answered Lucie with spirit. "I don't think you realize Just what the whole thing tends toward " "Oh, yes I do I Quite clearly." Gra mont's cool, level tone conquered her Indignation. "I see that you are or phaned, and that your uncle was your guardian, and executed questionable deals which lost money for you. Come, that's brutally frank but It's true! I came here to New Orleans and be came Involved In some dealings with your cousin, Bob Malllard. I believed, and I believe now, that in your heart you have some suspicion of your uncle In regard to those transactions In land. Therefore, I took the trouble to look into the thing to a slight extent, Shall I tell you what I have discov ered?" Lucie Ledanols gazed at him, her lips compressed. She liked this new "Hml Memphis Izzy Gumberts, Eh? wnai Kind of a Crook Is Hs, Ser geant?" manner of his, this firm and resolute gravity, this harshness. It brought out his underlying character very well. "If you please, Henry." she mur mured very meekly. "Well, then, I have dlscovxred thnt your uncle appears to be honestly at fault In the matter " "Thanks for this approval of my family," she murmured. "And," continued Gramont, Imper turbably, "thnt your suspicions of him were groundless. But. on the other hand, something new has turned up shout which I wish to sneak but about which I must speak delicately uu uuu jiouiaru orrerctf to buy your remaining land on the Bnyou Terre bonne?" She started slightly. So it was to this that he had been leading up alt the while I "He broached the subject Inst night." she answered. "I dismissed It for the time." "Good!" he exclaimed with boyish vigor. "Good ! I wsrned you In time then I If you will permit me, I must advise you not to part with that land not even for a good offer. Tide week. Immediately Mardl Oras Is over I am going to Inspect that land for the company; It Is Hob Malllard's com pany, yon know. Is my unwarrantable Intrusion forgiven H She nodded brightly. "You are put on probation, sir. You're In Bobs company?" "Yes." Gramont frowned. "I lu vested perhaps too hastily bat no matter now. I bare the car outside Lode; may I hare the pleasure of taking you driving?" "Did you bring that chauffeur?" "Yes," and he luughed at her eag erness. "Good I I accept because I must see that famous soldler-bandlt-chauf-feur. If you'll wait, I'll be ready In a minute." She hurried from the room, a snatch of song on her Hps. Gramont smiled as he waited. CHAPTER V The Masquer Unmasks. In New Orleans one may find pen sions in the old quarter the quarter which Is still instinct with the pulse of old-world life. These pensions do not advertise. The average tourist knows nothing of them. Even If he knew, Indeed, he might have some difficulty In obtaining accommodations, for It Is not nearly enough to have the money ; one must also have the In troductions, come well recommended, and be under the tongue of good re pute. Grnmont had obtained a small apart ment en pension a quiet and severely retired house In Burgundy street, maintained by a very proud old lady whose ancestors had come out of Canada with the Sleur d'Ibervllle. Uere Gramont lived with Hammond quite on a basis of equality, and they were very comfortable. The two men sat smoking their pipes before the fireplace, In which blazed n small fire more for good cheer than through necessity. It was Sunday evening. Gramont stared Into the flickering fire and sucked at his pipe. Suddenly he roused himself and shot a glance at Hammond. "Sergeant I You seem to have a pretty good recollection of that night at the Lavergne house, when I found you entering and jumped on you." "You bet I have!" Hammond chuckled. "When you'd knocked the goggles off me and we recognized each other h 1 1 I felt liko a booh." Gramont smiled. "How many places had you robbed up to then? Three, wasn't It?" "Three is right enp'n," was the un ashamed response. "We haven't referred to It very of ten, but now things have happened." Grnmont's face took on harsh lines of determination. "Do you know, it was a lucky thing that you had no chance' to dispose of the Jewels and money you obtained?" "No chance?" snorted the other. "No chance Is right, enp'n! And I win sore, too. Say, they got a ring of crooks around this town you couldn't bust Into with grenades I I.lstnn hu, a and I'll tell you something big." uanimond leaned forward, lowered his voice, and tnmped at his pipe. "When I was a young fellow I lived In a little town up north I nln't say In' where. My old mnn hnri a tivarv stable there, see? Well, one night a guy come along and eot tho nlrt mnn out of bed, and slips him fifteen hun- area ror a rig and a team. me? t drove the guy ten miles through the hills, and set him on a road he wanted to find. "Now, thnt guy was the hia-irest crook In the country In them days still Is, I guess. He was on the dead run that night, to keep out o' Leaven worth. He kep' out, all right, and he's settln' In the eame to this ml note n. body never pinched him yet, and never Will." "Why?" "Because his gana runs back to politicians and rich guys all over the country. You ask anybody en the In side If they ever heard of Memphis Izzy Gumberts 1 Well, cap'n, I seen that very Identical guy on the strei t the other day I never could forget h!s ugly mug I And where he Is. no out side crooks can get In, you believe me!" 'Urn! Memphis Izzv Gunihcrta. eh? What kind of a crook Is he, sergeant?" The big kind. You remember them Chicago lotteries? But you don't, o' course. Well, that's his game lot teries and such like." Grnmont's Hps clenched for a min ute, then he spoke with slow distinct ness : 'Sergeant. I'd have riven Ave hun dred dollars for that Information a week ago I" 'Why?" Gramont shook his head. 'Never mind. Foreet It I Now. this stunt of yours was clever. Yon allowed brains when you got yourself up as an vintor and pulled thnt stuff, ser geant. But you handled It brutally terribly brutally." "It wns a tittle raw. I sues." con ceded Hammond. "I wns tin mm I tut It, that's alt. When von took over the costume and began to get across with the Humes stuff win-. It was a ulna for you, enp'n I Look what we've done In a month. Six jobs, every one run ning off smooth as glass! Your no tion of going to parties ready dressed with some kind of loose robe over the flyln' duds was a scream I And then me running that motor with the cut out on all them birds that never heard an airplane think yon come and go by air. for certain 1 Nobody will ever find us out." Gramont nodded thoughtfully. "Yes? But. Sergeant, tint shout the quiet little mnn who came along lst night nt the Mnlllnrd house and asked about the car? Perhaps he had dis covered you had been running the engine." "Hlmr Hammond sniffed In scorn. "He wasn't no dick." "I dare not risk It Thst man Fell is toe smart" (TO BB CUNTl.Nl'tD)