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WORLD HAPPENINGS nr nnnnriiT i ur Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. - COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Government and Pacific Northwest, and Other Thing! Worth Knowing. An advisory committee ot 15 build ers, architects and bankers met Tues day to devise a plan to relieve the acute building crisis in New York and check abnormally high wages and cost 01 material. - Charles E. Ruthenberg of Cleveland Wednesday was found guilty of violat ing the Michigan law agalnrt criminal syndicalism. Ruthenberg faces a prison sentence of 10 years or a fine ot 95000, or both. All the records pertaining to 18 months' activities ot the American vice-consulate at Chita were destroyed when the baggage car in which the documents were being shipped out of the soviet territory was burned. A general exodus of the rum fleet that has been off the New Jersey coast for several months began late Wed nesday when the British tanker Wars zawa and the yacht Istar got up steam and sailed out to sea. Both were out of sight by dark. . Miss Kosie Fultz of Newellton, La., admitted Tuesday, according to United States Commissioner Baas, that she recently mailed a newly-born infant from Scott, La., where she was teach ing school, to a fictitious person at Duncan, Okla. She is charged with murder. , Edgar I. Fuller of Omaha, ex-Ku Klux Klan kleagle of the realm of northern California, has announced that Mayor James C. Dahlman had been elected "grand lictor," or national head of the "Fascists of America," which Fuller recently said was being organized to combat the klan. Germany has placed her latesfc pro posals respecting reparations In the hands of the allied powers and the United States. Their chief feature is an offer of 30,000,000,000 gold marks in payment of her obligations under the treaty of Versailles. The payment of this amount, however, is dependent on the raising of a loan. Emilio riccarlllo the Tmeror Pic to the rum-running fraternity of Crows Nest pass and 22-year-old Mrs. Flor ence Lassandra, hlB confederate in crime, were hanged at sunrise In the Fort Saskatchewan Jail yard Wednes day for the murder at Coleman last September of Steve Lawson of the Al berta provincial police. President Harding will spend the Fourth of July in Portland and leave the following day on a battleship for Alaska, the Chamber of Commerce was informed Wednesday after the presi dent had had a conference with Sena tor McNary. Plans for the entertain ment of the president were started inv mediately. He will make one ot the set speeches of the trip here. Umatilla county's wool clip for 1923 of close to 1,300,000 pounds is report ed sold. Deals Involving the Fred W. Falconer and associate Interests and the Smyths brothers were made tills week. The price ranges between 40 and 44 cents, between five and seven cents bettor than that of Inst year, With the Quality ot the, wool better than last season, buyers have been eager to get the clips. The propoaala contained In tho Ger man note, which was delivered at the Paris foreign office at 4 o'clock Wed nesday afternoon In the German lan guage, were regarded in French of ficial circles as for Anglo-Saxon and noutral consumption only. The terms ot the note appeared "so preposterous" to the members of the French govern ment that it was assumed there was no hope or desire on the part ot Berlin that they be accepted. Nell M. Judd, director of the Tueblo BonKo expedition ot the National Geo graphic society, left Washington Wed nesday to resume exploration of the most Important pre historic ruin in the United States at Chaco canyon, New Mexico. By May 15 Indiana will be warming over the walls ot the ancient village, teams will drag wagon loads of earth and atone away and stoel dump cars will scurry back and forth over a miniature railroad. Almost over night a canyon, which hai been desert ed since years before Columbus came, will become a bee hive ot Industry. uunnuii FAKE ORDERS HURT STOCKS Widespread Plot to Upset Market Bared Some Effects Felt. New York. Postofflce inspectors, police and private detectives Joined hands Monday to run down the authors of a widespread plot to upset the stock market by dumping on it hundreds of orders to buy, backed by worthless checks, running lnlo the millions. Wall street generally attributed the scheme to unscrupulous traders, seeking to influence prices for their own ends, although the possibility was not lost sight of that a fanatic or some dls grunted person might have thrown the monkey wrench into the gears of the New York stock exchange. It was obvious, however, that those who worked out the plot had a wide knowledge at Wall street and its ways. Although not a single one of the checks was cashed, their dumping on brokers had a marked effect on today's market. Several brokers rushing into the ex change with what they though were bona fide buying orders "at the market" for New York Central, Corn Products' and Chile Copper Bhares, with a sprinkling of other stocks, sent prices sharply up. In the meantime, however, New York correspondents for banks on which the forged checks were drawn began to turn down the worthless paper. The brokers who had bought promptly began to unload and the market slumped. Already uneasy un der the recent attacks of bear traders, and further depressed by acute weak ness that developed in the grain and cotton markets, the entire list took the toboggan and most of the shares listed by '.the big board made new low records for the year before they quit sliding. The decline did not end until a few minutes before the closing, when a covering movement by bear traders checked the drop. Some shares re acted 1 to 2 points, but practically the entire list closed below Saturday's high, the losses ranging from 1 to 10A points. The operators of the swindle, if they took full advantage of their op portunity) made a killing both on the rise and fall, selling short on the brief peak reached before the forgeries were disclosed, and then cov ering and buying for the rise. The scheme, in which it was sought to involve brokers in Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago, as well as In New York, was worked out with meticulous detail, although the forged names at tached to the checks were crude. Ap parently all had been written by the same hand, but the conspirators evi dently figured on a quick turn, before the forgeries were discovered. Nearly 100 of the orders, neatly typ ed and accompanied in every Instance by a cashier's check, have been report ed received by brokers here and in other cities. Stock exchange officials, however, expressed the belief that many others had been suppressed by brokers who disliked to admit they had been victimized. Fascists Greet Rulers. Rome. King peorge and Queen Mary of England arrived In Rome at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon on their long-planned visit to Italy. Members ot the fascist national militia lined the Btatlon and an In fantry company, with its band, ren dered military honors. King George appeared In full dress uniform and was greeted with tremen dous cheering. From the station to the Qulrlnal palace the streets and public squares were crowded with applauding people. Ship Plant Price Leaps. Washington, D. C. Government counsel introduced additional docu mentary evidence at the Morse trial Monday to show the purchase by Charles W. Morse ot the wooden ship building plant of Robert Palmer Sons, at Noank, Conn., 1916, for $S5, 000 In cash and the assumption of a $20,000 mortgage. A year later the valuation of the plant was placed at more than It,- 000,000. 365-Day Dance Is Cited. Tarts. The present American dance records were broken 1000 years ago, according to manuscripts discovered in Mount St. Mihlel monastery. A iienedictme monk in the year 1023 received a German pilgrim named Rathbort, who recounted the history ot a miracle in which a sinner danced for 365 days without stopping as pen ance. Borah it Urged to Run. New York. A resolution calling up on Senator Borah of Idaho to be the progressiva candidate for president In 1924 was adopted Monday by the ex ecutive committee ot the committee of 48. J. A. It. Hopkins executive chair man, was named chairman ot the cam paign committee. BANDITS KIDNAP PASSENGERS One American is Killed Raid in China. - in CAPTIVES IN DANGER Outlaws Disarm About 1000 Soldiers ' and Tear Up Big Piece of Railroad Trackage. Shanghai. One American was kill ed by the bandits who held up' the Shanghai-Pekin express train near the Shantung border and carried off the 150 passengers early Sunday, accord ing to a message from Llnchen,. but all the women captives, including Miss Lucy Aldrlch, sister-in-law ot John D. Rockefeller, Jr., have been released. The men still held are said to be in grave danger. The message said the, bandits had notified the authorities that all the men among the foreign captives would be killed unless troops were with drawn. Miss McFadden and Miss Coralli were released with Miss Aldrlch, the report added. Pekln. One foreigner was killed and 150 passengers were carried off when bandits held up the Shanghai- Pekln express train on the Tlentsin- Pukom railway near the Shantung order at 3 o'clock Sunday morning, ac cording to word received here. Miss Lucy Aldrlch of New York city, daugh ter ot the late United States Senator Nelson W. Aldrlch of Rhode Island and sister-in-law of John D. Rocke feller Jr., was among the passengers. Her fate was unknown. The foreigner killed was believed to be a Russian. The minister of communications telegraphed General Tsao-Kun and the civil and military governors of Shantung asking that troops be sent to surround the bandits. The express train was northbound from Soochow when attacked by the bandits, who disarmed soldiers esti mated at 1000 strong and tore up a long stretch of railroad track. Fifty' first-class and 100 secpnd-class pas sengers were carried off, it was re ported here. Six foreigners escaped. 12 GREATEST WOMEN OF AMERICA NAMED Boston. Here are the 12 greatest living American women, In the opinion of a special committee of the National League of Women Voters, which was appointed to select such a list: Jane Addams, philanthropist; Ce celia Beaux, painter; Carrie Chapman Catt, politics; Anna Botsford Corn- stock, natural history; Minnie Madden Fiske, stage; Louise Homer, music; Julia Lathrop, child welfare; Florence Rena Sabin, anatomy; M. Carey Thomas, education; Martha Van Rens selaer, home economics; Edith Whar ton, literature; Anna Jump Cannon, astronomy. In making public the names the committee declared it was "humanly impossible," to know who the really greatest women In the country were and that the selections had been made on the basis ot those who had con tributed most in their fields to the betterment ot the world. The selections were made, It was explained, at the request ot Senorlta Mandujano, a Chilean delegate to the Pan-American conference of women at Baltimore a year ago, who de sired to write about the American omen tor the South American women. Consulate to Close. .Vladivostok. Owing to the political situation here the American consulate will close its doors on May 10, and the consul and his chief will leave for the United States about May 16. No Amer ican representative will remain In any capacity, It waa stated. American citi zens have been given the option ot staying or leaving with the American consul, and the majority, it is said, have announced their intention ot re maining. Boat Bring Manager). San Francisco. The steamer Stock ton arrived here Saturday with a small too for shipment to New York. Among the animals were three lions, one ele phant, six tigers, six leopards, one black panther, 31 tnonke), one tapir, one crocodile, four civet cats, on gold tiger cat, tlx moosangs, one bantorang, 28 snakes, 4000 birds, 13 bleeding heart dove and four honey bear. 1 imtn 2 Copiah "LULU, ONE MOMENT! 6TN0P8IS. General factotum.ln the house of her Bister Ina, wife ot Herbert Deacon, In the email town of Warbleton, Lulu Bett leads a dull, cramped existence, with which aha Is constantly at enmity, though apparently satisfied with her lot. She has natural thoughts and aspi rations which neither her Bister nor her brother-in-law seemingly can comprehend. The other members of the family are Dl Deacon, eight een; Monona Deacon, a child, and Mrs. Bett, Mrs. Deacon's mother,' who has "tantrlms." I Continued. At length they rose. Monona flung herself upon her father. He put her aside firmly, every inch the father. No, no. Father was occupied now. Mrs. Deacon coaxed her away. Monona encircled her mother's waist, lifted her own feet from the floor and hung upon her. "She's such an active child," Lulu ventured brightly. 'Not unduly active, I think," her brother-in-law observed. He turned upon Lulu his bright smile, lifted his eyebrows, dropped his lids, stood for a moment contemplat ing the yellow tulip, and so left the room. Lulu cleared the table. Mrs. Dea con essayed to wind the clock. Well, now. Did Herbert say It was twenty three tonight when It struck the half hour and twenty-one Inst night, or twenty-one tonight and last night twenty-three? She talked of It as they cleared the table, but Lulu did not talk. 'Can't you remember?" Mrs. Dea con said at Inst. "I should think you might be useful." Lulu was lifting the yellow tulip to set It on the sill. She changed her mind. She took the plant to the wood shed and tumbled it .with force upon the chip-pile. The dining room table was laid for breakfast. The two women brought their work and sat there. The child Monona hung miserably about, watch ing the clock. Right or wrong, she was put to bed by it. She had eight minutes more seven six five- Lulu laid down her sewing and left the room. She went to the woodshed, groped about in the dark, found the etalk ot the one tulip flower In Its heap on the chip-pile. Tie tulip she fastened in her gown on her flat chest. Outside were to be seen the early rtars. It Is said that it our sun were as near to Arcturus as we are near to our sun, the great Arcturus would burn our sun to nothingness. In the Deacons' parlor sat Bobby Larkln, eighteen. He was in pain all over. He was come on an errand which civilization has contrived to make an ordeal. Before him on the table stood a pho tograph of Diana Deacon, also eighteen. He hated her with passion. At school she mocked him, nped him, whispered about him, tortured him. For two years he had hated her. Nights he fell asleep planning to build a great house and engage her as Its servant, Yet, as he waited, he could not keep his eyes from this photograph. It was Dl at her curliest, at her fluffiest, Dl conscious of her bracelet, Dl smil ing. Bobby gazed, his basic aversion to her hard-pressed by a most reluc tant pleasure. He hoped that he would not see her, and lie listened for her voice. Mr. Deacon descended upon him with an air carried from his supper hour, bland, dispensing. Weill Let us have it. "What did you wish to see me about?" with a use of the past tense as connoting something of Indl rectlon and hence of delicacy a nicety customary, yet unconscious. Bobby had arrived in his best clothes and with an air of such formality that Mr. Deacon had instinctively suspect ed him of wanting to Join the church, and, to treat the time with due sol emnity, had put him In the parlor un til he could attend at leisure. Confronted thus by Dl's futher, the speech which Bobby bad planned de serted him. "I thought If you would give me Job," he said defenselessly. "So that's It 1" Mr. Deacon, who al ways awaited but a touch to be eltfler Irritable or facetious. Inclined now to be facetious. "Filling teethr he would know. "Marrying folks, then?" Assistant Justice or assistant dentist which? Bobby blushed. No, no, but In that big bulldtag of Mr. Deacon's where his office was, wasn't there something ... It faded from lilm, sounded ridiculous. Of course there was noth ing. II saw It now. There was nothing. Mr. Deacon confirmed him. But Mr. Deacon had an Idea. Hold on, he said hold on. Tli grass. Would Bobby consider taking charge of the grass? Though at I)Mmn -na nf th trnn whti-tl I cats Its own grass and glories in Its lit' DIIDBPioql bv D.APPLETON AN.DCOMfAN' vigor and its energy, yet in the time after that which he called "dental honrs" Mr. Deacon wished to work In his garden. His grass, growing In late April rains, would need attention early next month . . . he owned two lots "of course property is a. burden." If Bobby would care to keep the grass down and raked . . . Bobby would care, accepted tills business oppor tunity, figures and all, thanked Mr. Deacon with earnestness. Bobby's aversion to Dl, it seemed, should not stand In the way of his advancement. "Then that is checked off," said Mr. Deacon heartily. Bobby wavered toward the door, emerged on the porch, and ran almost upon Dl returning from her tea party at Jenny Plow's. "Oh, Bobby 1 You came to see me?" She was as fluffy, as curly, as smil ing as her picture. She was carrying pink, gauzy favors and, a spear of flowers. Undeniably In her voice there was pleasure. Her glance was startled but already complacent. She paused on the steps, a lovely figure. But one would say that nothing but the truth dwelt in Bobby. "Oh, hullo," said he. "No. I came to see your father." He marched by her. His hair stuck np at the back. His coat was hunched about his shoulders. His insufficient' nose, abundant, loose-lipped mouth and brown eyes were completely ex pressionless. He marched by her with out a glance. She flushed with vexation. Mr. Dea con, as one would expect, laughed loudly, took the situation in his ele phantine grasp and pawed at It. "Mammal Mammal What do you s'pose? Dl thought she had a beau" "Oh, papal" said Dl. "Why, I Just hate Bobby Larkln and the whole school knows It." Mr. Deacon returned to the dining room, humming In his throat. He en tered upon a pretty scene. His Ina was darning. Four minutes of grace remaining to the child Mo nona, she was spinning on one toe "Oh, Hullo," Said He. "No. I Cam to See Your Fathr." with some Bacchanalian idea of mak ing the most of the present. Dl domi nated, her ruffles, her blue hose, ber bracelet, her ring. "Oh, and mamma," she said, "the sweetest party and the dearest sup per and the darllngest decorations and the gorgeousest " "Grammar, grammar," spoke.Dwlgbt Herbert Deacon. He was not sure what he meant, but the good fellow felt some violence done somewhere or other. "Well," said Dl positively, "they were. Papa, see my favor." She showed him a sugur dove, and he clucked at It. Ina glnneed at them fondly, her face assuming Its loveliest light She was often ridiculous, but always she was the happy wife and mother, and her role reduced her Individual absurdities at least to Its own. The door to the bedroom now opened and Mrs. Bett appeared. "Well, mother!" cried Herbert, the "well" curving like an- arm, the "mother" descending like a brisk slap, "Hungry now?" Mrs. Bett was hungry now. She had emerged Intending to pass through the room without speaking and find food In the pantry. By obscure processes her son-in-law's tone Inhibited all this. "No," she said. "I'm not hungry. Now that she was there, she seemed uncertain what to do. She looked from one to another a bit hopelessly, somehow foiled in her dignity. She C2s 4T brushed at her skirt, the veins of her long, wrinkled hands catching an in tenser blue from the dark cloth. , She put her hair behind her ears. "We put a potato in the oven for yon," said Ina. She had never learned quite how to treat these periodic re- fusals of ber mother to eat, but sha never had ceased to resent them. - "No, thank you," said Mrs. Bett Evidently she rather enjoyed the situ ation, creating for herself a spotlight much In the manner of Monona. "Mother," said Lulu, "let me make you some toast and tea." Mrs. Bett turned her gentle, blood less face toward her daughter, and her eyes warmed. "After a little, maybe," she said. "I think I'll run over to see Grandma Gates now," she added, and went toward the door. "Tell-her," cried Dwight, "tell her she's my best girl." Grandma Gates was a rheumatic cripple who lived next door, and when ever the Deacons or Mrs. Betts were angry or hurt or wished to escape the house for some reason, they stalked over to Grandma Gates in lieu of, say, slamming a door. These visits radiated an almost dally friendliness which lifted and tempered the old In valid's lot and life. Dl flashed out at the door again, on some trivial permission. "A good many of mamma's stitches in that dress to keep clean," Ina called after. "Early, darling, early!" her father reminded her. A faint regurgitation of his was somehow Invested with the paternal. "What's this?" cried Dwight Her bert Deacon abruptly. On the clock shelf lay a letter. "Oh, Dwight!" Ina, was all compunc tion. "It came this morning. I for got." "I forgot It too! And I laid It up there." Lulu was eager for her share of the blame. "Isn't It understood that my mail can't wait like this?" Dwlght's sense of Importance was now being fed In gulps. "I know. I'm awfully sorry," Lulu said, "but you hardly ever get a let- . ter " This might have made things worse, but It provided Dwight with a greater Importance. "Of course, pressing matter goes to my office," he admitted it. "Still, my mail should have more careful" He read, frowning. He replaced th letter, and they hung upon his mo tions as he tapped the envelope and regarded them. "Now!" said he. "What do you think I have to tell you?" "Something nice," Ina was sure. "Something surprising," Dwight said portentlously. "But, Dwight Is It nice?" from his Ina. "That depends. I like It. So'll Lulu." He leered at her. "It's com pany." "Oh, Dwight," said Ina. "Who?" "From Oregon," he said, toying with his suspense. "Your brother!" cried Ina. "Is he coming?" "Yes. NInlan's coming, so he says." "Nlnlan !" cried Ina again. She was excited, round-eyed, her moist Hps parted. Dwlght's brother Nlnlan. How long was It? Nineteen years. South America, Central America, Mexico, Panama "and all." When was h coming and what was he coming for? "To see me," said Dwight. "To meet you. Some day next week. He don't know what a charmer Lulu Is, or he'd come quicker." Lulu flushed terribly. Not from the Implication. But from the knowledge that she was not a charmer. The clock struck. The child Mo nona uttered a cutting shriek. Her bert's eyes flew not only to the child but to his wife. What was this, was their progeny hurt? "Bedtime," his wife elucidated, and added: "Lulu, will you take her to bed? I'm pretty tired." Lulu rose and took Monona by the hand, the child hanging back and shaking her straight hair in an un convincing negative. As they crossed the room, Dwight Herbert Deacon, strolling about and snapping his fingers, halted and cried out sharply: "Lulu. One moment!" He approached her. A finger was ex tended, his lips were parted, on his forehead was a frown. "You picked the flower on tha plant?" he asked, Incredulously. Lulu made no reply. But the child Monona felt herself lifted and borne to the stairway and th,loor was shut with violence. On the dark stairway Lulu's arms closed about her In an embrace which left her breathless and squeaking. And yet Lulu was not really fond of the child Monona, either. This was a discharge of emotion akin, sny, to slamming the door. "Well, I'm Bert' brother," said Nlnlan. "So I can com in, can't IT (TO BE CONTINUED.) Photographic Hint The ordinary photographic plate, which Is not color sensitive, is really blind to certain colors. These colors are reds, yellows and greens. The re sult Is that all are rendered black In the print Suppose one wanted to pho tograph a shawl with a design In black, red, yellow, and green. The or dinary plate would render these col ors almost all the same. In the pic ture It would he difficult to say wher the red ended and the yellow began. But by using a color-sensitive plat and a color Alter on tha lens, the dif ferences would be shown and th d sign would be clear.