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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items.' COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted. People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Four robbers Tuesday held up two messengers of the Municipal bank and escaped with $50,000. The robbery oc curred In the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, Authority would be given states to tax national banks under a bill passed Tuesday by the senate as a substitute (or a similar bouse bill. The measure now goes to conference. The Iowa house has adopted unani mously the joint resolution calling for an amendment to the Iowa constitu tion which would permit women to be come members of the state legislature. Upward of 450 men of the American forces In Germany have been married with permission since January, 1922. At that time there was about 10,000 American troops In the occupation zone. 1 An order received In Essen from the central government In Berlin for bids the canal employes In the occu pied territory to tow any coal barges seized by the French or to open sluices for their passage. Captain Harry C. Drayton of Mltchel v field, flew Monday from Pine Valley field, near Camden, N. J., to Mltchel field, 110 miles, in 42 minutes. Of ficers at Mltchel field claim this to be a record service flight. In a vain effort to save H. I. TIbbets, aged 41, a miner at the Morning mine at Mullan, Idaho, Walter Lee Lynch, 28, and Edward Zlch, 25, miners, lost their lives Tuesday in a fire that raged through the Morning mine. The miniature department store in the house office building in Washing ton, D. C, through which members heretofore were able to buy poker chips and almost anything they wanted out of the allotment for stationery, went on the rocks Monday. PartB ot the eyeball of a 6-montbS' old pig recently were grafted on a human eye by Dr. Edward B. Morgan of Patterson, N. J., and three assist ants In an effort to restore sight to Albert Lemanowlcz, 18, of Lyndhurst, blinded In a Fourth of July fireworks explosion. A fund of $5000, the gift ot William Wrigley Jr., a Chicago business man, was made Tuesday to finance an ex pedition from Yerkes observatory, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, to Santa Catallna island, California, to observe the total eclipse of the sun, visible Septenibor 10. Sun Yat-Sen, ex-president of the southern republic of China, has an nounced thut he would leave next Sat urday for Canton, his former capital, Both foreign and Chinese iutorests have been urging him to go there to restore order. His adherents took the city from Pekln nationalists last Wed nesday. Premier Kato, replying to an Inter pellation by Viscount Kato, leader of the Kenselkal, or opposition, party, de clared that while no formal negotia tions had occurred "there is an under j standing between America, Great Brit ain and Japan regarding steps to be taken" if the other powers fail to ratify the Washington conference agreements. The total apportioned benevolences of the Methodist Episcopal church In creased from $2,282,625 in 1912 to 13, 907,715 in 1922, or 609 per cent, accord ing to the report ot Dr. R. J. Wade, corresponding secretary of the com mittee on conservation and advance, road before 200 leading Methodists of the country in conference in Chicago . Monday. "The per capita giving ot our membership laBt year for all church purposes," the report Bald, "was $22.40." Botween 60 and 70 drug addicts con fined in the county jail in San Jose, Cal., early Sunday night gave vent to their dissatisfaction with jail fare In a noisy outburst audible for several blocks. Cell doors and bars were shaken and every article at their dis posal was used to swell the din, which attracted a crowd of almost 1000 to the jail doors. The fire department was finally called out and the prison- erg threatened with having their cells flooded before the uproar ceased, CURRENT WEEK SLAV TO AID TURK IS REPORT Secret Military Alliance Declared Made Lausanne Faces Split. Belgrade. The government news paper Trlbuna said Monday that Fpr elgn Minister Tcbltcherln of Russia and Ismet Pasha have made a secret agreement at Lausanne, by which Rus sia and Turkey will give each other military support in the near east In case hostilities are resumed. The agreement, which Is said to have been accepted by both the soviet and Turk ish governments, stipulates that Russia will send several divisions Into Meso potamia should the British and the Turks take up arms. The newspaper also asserted that under the terms ot a special arrange ment made at Lausanne between Rus sia and Bulgaria,' Russian troops may be sent into western Thrace across Bulgarian territory. Turkey agrees not to conclude any agreement at Lausanne without the previous consent of Russia, the Trlb una added. Lausanne. The spokesman of the Russian delegation at the conference here characterized as an invention a Belgrade report that Turkey and Rus sia would, give each other mutual military support in the event of resumption ot hostilities in the near east. M. Stanclcoff, the Bulgarian minis ter to Great Britain, also declared un true the report that Bulgaria and Russia had reached an agreement un der which Russian troops would be permitted to cross Bulgaria Into west ern Thrace as an aid to Turkey, should hostilities he resumed. GUARD OF 250,000 URGED FOR NATION Washington, D. C. A minimum peace time strength of 250,000 men for the national guard was, rceommend ed Saturday In a report of a commit tee of national guard and general staff officers who have been studying the problem for more than a year and which was approved by Secretary Weeks. The plan outlined by the com mittee was based on an efficient organ ization of 18 infantry and four cavalry divisions, and would mean a reduc tion from present authorized paper strength of the national guard, which Is 435,000 men. In addition to the infantry and cavalry divisions, the guard, under the plan submitted, would consist ot 130 companies of harbor defense troops 12 infantry regiments to be allotted, and other units necessary to a well balanced force, such as tanks, anti- air forces and artillery units. The committee recommended that the Btrength of the guard be appor tioned so far as practicable among the states in proportion to the number of members- of the house ot representa tives, and that provision should be made to maintain all organizations heretofore recognized and for the com pletion of organizations In process of formation. Tubercular Veterans to Benefit. Tubercular war veterans of this dis trict whose claims for compensation and hospitalization have been dis allowed by the government, will ben efit greatly by a new federal order calling for extension of proof period following separation from service and the formation of a district tuberculosis board to consider service connection of cases after observation in the hos pital, according to an announcement made by L. C. Jesseph, northwest dis trict manager of the United States voteruns' bureau. Hundreds of ex service men of the Pacific northwest will be directly affected by this meas ure and every tuberculosis case will be automatically reopened for con sideration. Development of tubercu losis from war service is increasing rapidly, it was stated. Convention Date Set. Vancouver, Wash. The 1923 con vention of the Spanish war veterans ot Washington and Alaska will be held in Vancouver July 19, 20 and 21, it was announced Monday by Fred Tempes of this city, state commander of the veterans. Vancouver was chos en as the 1923 convention city at the state meeting last year, but the dates were not selected. About 400 dele gates are expected at the convention. $30 Grows to $2,000,000. Muskogee, Okla. Harry Hill, an electrical engineer, learned Monday that he was the sole heir to the estate of his uncle, John M. Hill, merchant of Nashville, Tenn. Hill said the estate was valued at approximately $2,000,- 000. The estate grew, Hill asserted, from a Btock investment of $30 in 1874. Dividends had been reinvested and all proved successful. TURK AND ALLIES I Near East Conference Faces Failure at Lausanne. BRITISH STILL HOPE Leaders Lay Plans to Prevent Break down of Gathering; Kemal ists Demand Sovereignty. Lausanne. -The Turks and the allies have drifted bo far apart that Lau sanne Sunday was confronted with the probability that the near eastern conference would adjourn without reaching an agreement, according to practically all the delegations. The British were clinging to the hope that the Turks would sign, but they stood alone. Ambassador Child, by conferring with Ismet Pasha and Lord Curzon, was said to be contribu ting his bit to saving the conference from collapse. The French premier 'telegraphed to Mustapha Kemal Pasha at Angora, counseling moderation in the interest of Turkey and for the good of all Europe. The conference leaders laid plans to prevent what the world must call a rupture ot the conference. If France Is beset with the Ruhr problem, Italy is also deep in internal questions of great importance and Italy, like France, wants no more war in the near east. Marquis dl Garroni, head of the Italian delegation, spent most of the day frantically seeking to prevent new complications and to induce Turkey and England to come to an agreement, for this long struggle at Lausanne Is essentially a battle between Turkey and England. Ismet Pasha said that he wanted peace, but that his people demand an honorable peace which will recognize and sanctify the sovereign rights of Turkey. Efforts will be made to Induce Turkey on Wednesday, when the al lied treaty is officially presented, to accept certain essential parts of that treaty in principle. The conference will then be temporarily adjourned and experts of each delegation will be left in LauBanne, thus never losing official touch with each other. In the meantime an endeavor will be made through regular diplomatic channels to attain an accord, and later the plenipotentiaries could return to Lausanne and sign It. In this diplomatic effort France is regarded as in an especially favorable position because of her accord with Angora, which practically removes her from a state of war with Turkey, Italy will not hear of a rupture, which threatens resumption of the war, and stands ready to urge alterations in the ultimatum program of the allies. The near eastern conference can be saved, Ismet Pasha and Riza Nur Bey the Turkish delegates informed the Associated Press if the allies are will lng to adopt a set of essential prin ciples recognizing the complete sover eignty of Turkey, with total abolition of the capitulations and an equitable distribution of the Ottoman debt. Mr. Daugherty Better. Washington, D. C. Considerable improvement in the condition of At torney-General Daugherty, who has been suffering from a severe cold, was reported Sunday by Brigadier-General C. E. Sawyer, the White House physi cian, who is attending him. Mr, Daugherty is confined to his room, high blood pressure which is not re garded as alarming, having disappear ed, and it probably will be some days before he returns to his duties. Poison Expert la Dead. Chicago. Dr Walter Stanley Haines, nationally-known chemist and toxicolo- gist and a lecturer at Rash Medical college, died here Saturday at the age of 72 years. Since 1876 Dr. Haines had occupied the chair of chemistry, toxi cology and materia medlca at the Rash school. Through his expert testimony in poison cases he gained a wide repu tation throughout the country as toxlcologist. Big Fraud Frustrated. Cleveland, O. What is believed by secret service agents to be an attempt to flood the country with counterfeit war savings stamps was frustrated here Saturday. A man who was the act ot cashing $600 ot these stamps in a bank was arrested. IF r., ddk mm Copyright by "UPON MY HONOR!" SYNOPSIS. During the height of the New Orleans carnival season Jachln Fell, wealthy though some what mysterious citizen, and Dr. Ansley, are discussing a series ot robberies by an individual known as the Midnight Masquer, who, In variably attired as an aviator, has long defied the police. Joseph Mail 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 Maillard, Is the Columbine. At the ball, Bob Maillard, 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 Maillard and a group of his friends are held up and robbed by the Midnight Mas quer. Lucie Ledanols, the last ot an old family, Is In straitened cir cumstances. Joseph Maillard'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. Gramont's chauffeur, Hammond, sergeant in tie A. E. F., lives with him. He was the original Midnight Masquer, and Gramont had assumed the role. Where Hammond had been a rob ber for financial gain, Gramont, of course, Is not. He arranges to re turn the "loot" to those whom he has robbed. Gramont and Ham mond put the jewels and money In Individual packages to be returned the next day. An explanation Is Inclosed in each. Ben Cacherre, an individual of unsavory character, appears to be associated with Jachln Fell. He has a peculiar In terview with one Memphis Izzy Gumberts, notorious Influential crook, in which there Is significant reference to a mysterious "boss." Lucie summons Gramont to her home. CHAPTER VII Continued. 10 For a moment Gramont found him self unable to speak. He was thun derstruck by the sight of those unmis takable boxes. A glance nt the calm features of the girl showed him that there was nothing to be concealed from her, even had he wished it. He was further stunned by this realiza tion. He could' not understand how the packages had come here. Recov ering his voice with an effort, he man aged to break the heavy silence. 'Well? I suppose you know what Is in those parcels?" She nodded. "Yes. One of them was opened, and the note Inside was discovered. Of course, it gave a gen eral explanation. Will you sit down, please? I think that we had better talk It over quietly and calmly." Gramont obeyed, and dropped Into a chair. He was absurdly conscious of his own confusion. How had Lucie come Into the affair? This staggered him above all else. Was she behind the theft of the loot? It must be. How long had she suspected him, then? He had thought Jachln Fell the sole dan ger point he had never dreamed that this gray-eyed Athene could be tracing down the Masquer 1 He tried to vis ualize the situation more clearly and his brain whirled. He knew, of course, that she was fairly Intimate with Fell, but he was not aware of any particu lar connection He glanced up at her suddenly, and surprised a glint of laughter In her eyes as she watched him. "You seem to be rather astonished,' she observed. "I am." Gramont drew a deep breath. "You do you know that those boxes were taken from my car?" , She nodded again. "Certainly. They were brought to me." "Then yon had someone on my trail?" Gramont flushed a little as he put the question to her. "No. I have been chosen to settle affairs with you, that Is all. It has been learned from the note in the opened box that you were not criminal in what you did." She leaned forward, her deep eyes searching him with a steady scrutiny. "Tell me, Henry Gramont, what mad Impulse brought you to all this? Was it a silly, boyish effort to be roman ticwas It a mere outburst ot bra vado? It was not for the sake of rob bery, as the note explained very clear ly. But why, then? Why? There must have been a definite reason in your mind. You would not have taken such dangerous chances unless you had something to gain!" Gramont nodded slightly. A slight smile touched his lips. "You're not going to send me to prison, I trust?" "1 ought to!" The girl broke Into a laugh. "Why, I can hardly yet be llevo that it was really you who were The MAKDI GRAS MYSTERY b9 RBedford-Jones Illustrations btj Irwin Mijers DouHeday.fag and Company- guilty of those things! It mortified me, It stunned me until I realized the truth from the note. Even the fact that you did not do It for criminal ends does not relieve the sheer folly of the act. Why did you do It? Come, tell me the truth I" Gramont shrugged. "The truth? Well, my chauffeur, Hammond, was the original Masquer. I caught him In the act you remember I told you about him? After taking him into my employ, I became the Masquer." Why did you do It?" persisted the girl. "Call it bravado, my dear Lucie. Call it anything you like I can't lie to you I I had a motive, and I refuse to admit what it was; that's all." 'Aren't you ashamed of yourself?" 'Not particularly." He smiled. "I had a good end In view, and I accom plished it Now that I'm all through, now that Ive finished playing my little game, you happened to dis cover it." "I think you've been very silly," she said with a disconcerting calmness. He regarded her for a moment, stead ily. "And you have displayed a fear ful lack of judgment !" "Silly! Well perhaps. What are you going to do with those boxes?" "I'll put them In the mall. I'm go ing downtown for luncheon, and will do It then. They'll be delivered this afternoon." He nodded. "I had meant to have them delivered tomorrow; It makes no difference. You're the boss. It will give the good people a little more reason for jubilation tonight, eh?" A sudden laugh broke upon his Hps. "I'm beginning to see the humor of It, Lucie and I know who put you next to me. It was Jachln Fell, the old fox I I suspected that he was on my "No Oil Is No Woman's Game, Un less She Can Afford to Lose." trail, and I thought that he had man aged the theft of those boxes. In fact, I was preparing to give him a big sur prise this afternoon. But tell me, Lu cie are you angry?" She looked at him steadily for a space, then a swift smile leaped to her Hps and she extended a pardoning hand. Her gesture and words were impulsive, sincere. "Angry? No. I think you've some good reason behind It all, which you won't confide to me. I can read you pretty clearly, Henry Gramont; J think I can understand some things In you. You're no weakling, no ro mantic, filibustering crnckbrain. And I like you because you won't He to me. You've a motive and you refuse to tell It very well! I'll be just as frank and say that I'm not a bit angry, So, that's settled! "Now what was the big surprise that you just mentioned you were going to give poor Mr. Fell this afternoon?" Gramont's eyes twinkled. "You re member that I thought he suspected me of being the Masquer? Well, I was going to him to propose that we enter business together." "Oh! As bandits?" "No, as oil promoters. I'm out of Maillard's company, or shall be out of it soon. The minute I'm out, I'll be free to go into business for myself. It STREETS "LIT BY SMOKE." It was on January 23, 1807, that Pall Mall was lit by gas the first street in any city in the world to adopt the new Uluminant. The car toonists of the period drew pictures which represented people choked by the fumes of the new llluminant, and all manner of ridiculous stories were ceurred to m that If Jachln Feffliad brains enough to run down the Mid nlnht Mnnnuur hm wnnlll hfl A IllllfllfV good business partner; because I'm poor on business detail. Also, I think Fell Is to be trusted. He's very strong politically, I have found although few people know It." But he's not interested lu on, is he?" I don't know; I take for granted that he's Interested In mnklng money. Most men are. The only way to make money In oil Is to have money and he has some! I have a little. I can put In twenty-five thousand. With an equal amount from him, we can sink a couple of wells, perhaps three. If we go broke, all right. If we find oil, we're rich!" "But, my dear Henry, if he knew you to be the Midnight Musquer, do you think he'd want to go Into busi ness with you?" "Why not?" Gramont laughed. "If he knew that I had brains enough to pull off that stunt and keep all New Orleans up in the air wouldn't I make a good partner? Besides, I be lieve I have some notion where to go after oil; I'm going to examine your land first" "My good prince, you surely have no lack of audacity I" She broke into a peal of laughter. "Your argument about Inducing Mr. Fell to go Into business with you is naive" "But, as an argument, isn't Is quite sound?" "Possibly. Since it is Lucie Leda nols and not Jachln Fell who has brought you to a confession of your crimes against society aren't you going to propose that she go Into busi ness with you? Doesn't the argument hold good with her?" "No. Oil is no woman's game, un less she can well afford to lose. I imagine that you cannot, Lucie." "You're right, I can't put in any money. I'm land poor.. . Unless I were to sell that Bayou Terrebonne land It's an old farm, abandoned since be fore father died" "Don't sell It!" he exclaimed, quick ly. "Don't consider any dealings with It until I have looked it over, will you?" "Since you ask it, no. If there's gas near by, there must be oil." "Who knows?" he shrugged. "No one can predict oil." "Then you still mean to go to Jachln Fell with your scheme?" Gramont nodded. "Yes. See here, Lucie It's about noon! Suppose you come along and lunch with me at the Loulslane, if you've no engagement. We can put those boxes In the mall en route, and after luncheon I'll try and get hold of Fell." She put her head on one side and studied him reflectively. "You're sure you'll not kidnap me or anything like that? It's risky to be come a friend of hardened criminals, even If one is trying to uplift them." "Good! You'll come?" "If you .can give me ten minutes " "My dear Lucie, you are the most charming object in New Orleans at this minute I Why attempt to make yourself still more attractive? Gild ing the lily Is an Impossible task." "Well, wait for me. Is your car here? Good! I want to see Ham mond's face when he sees us carrying out those boxes." Laughing, the girl started toward the stairs. At the doorway she paused. "One thing, M. le prince! Do you solemnly promise, upon your honor, that the Midnight Masquer is dead forever?" "Upon my honor!" said Gramont, seriously. "The farce is ended, Lucie." "All right. I'll be right down. Smoke If you like" In her own room upstairs Lucie closed the door and sat down before her dressing table. She made no move toward the array of toilet ar ticles, however. Instead, she took a desk telephone from the table, and called a number. In a moment she received a response. "Uncle Jachln!" she exclaimed. "Yes It's just as we thought; It's all a joke. No, It was not a joke, either, because he had some motive behind It, but he won't tell me what It was. I'm terribly glad that you opened one of those boxes and found the letter If you had gone to the police It would have been perfectly dreadful " "I never go to the police," said Ja chln Fell with his dry chuckle. "You are quite satisfied that there Is noth ing serious In the affair, then?" "Absolutely! He told me that he had accomplished his purpose, what ever It was, and that It's all ended. He just gave me his word that the Masquer was dead forever. Now, aren't you glad that you confided In me?" "Very," said Jachln Fell. "Very glad, Indeed I" "Now you're laughing at me never mind! We're going to lunch down town, and we'll mail those boxes on the way, by parcels post. Is that all right?" "Quite all right, my dear. Did your gown come for tonight?" "It's to come this afternoon." - "I don't care to have you offer any reflection on my action, Maillard," said Gramont, evenly. (TO BE CONTINUED.) circulated about it. Sir Walter Scott wrote from London that "there was a madman proposing to light London with what do you think? why, with smoke." Sir Humphry Davy is also credited with giving the opinion that it would be as easy to brintf down a bit of the moon to light London as to succeed in doing so with gas. London Tit-Bits.