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Newspaper Page TextWORLD HAPPE s OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Grtnti of Noted People, Governments nd Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Tie, Ancient Order of Hibernians til urged at Wednesday's session of its convention in Montreal to wage war on the Ku Klux Klan. It any situation growing out of re ported I. W. W. activities in North Dakota requires special action it will be taken and a tlrm policy will be adopted to suppress any Illegal ac tions tbat may be resorted to In strikes or other disturbances, Attorney-General Shafer announced Tuesday. Gasoline was being retailed at 12 cents a gallon Wednesday at a num ber ot Independent stations in and about Los Angeles. This is 1 cent under the price yesterday and 7 cents below that charged by the large oil company stations. All danger ot flood is believed to have passed at Pueblo Wednesday morning. Heavy rains between Pueblo and Colorado Springs caused an 11 foot rlae in the Fountain river and several small highway bridges were reported washed out. Although the general level of whole sale prices throughout the country decreased nearly 2 per cent from May to June, according to figures assembled by the bureau ot labor statistics, the retail food index show ed an increase of 1 per cent. Remas Hotter, one year old son of Jacob Hotter, wealthy vlneyardlst of Lodl, Cul., was drowned In a gold fish bowl at his home late Wednes day. The child's mother found him head first in the bowl, which con tained about four Inches ot water. John E. Ballalne of Seattle, form er chief engineer for the Alaska Northern railroad, charged at a hear ing at Seward, Alaska Wednesday be fore Secretary ot the Interior Work that steamship and railroad rates are throttling the development ot Alaska. A number of persons are reported to have been killed and others in jured and considerable damage caus ed to buildings through the explo- sien Tuesday of a large depot ot artil lery ammunition at Kraguvevatx, 60 miles southeast ot Belgrade. The accident is believed to have been due to spontaneous combustion. That a grieving mother may re cover the body ot her little crippled boy, Clyde Patnoe, drowned In the Yuba river near Cisco, Nev., Satur day, the Pacific Gas & Electric com pany is having the stream turned and li blasting out solid rock to do it The body was swept over the falls and could not be reached in any other way. Charges that Lem Smull, governor o( Illinois, was acquitted by a cor rupted Jury In his trial in the Lake couuty circuit court in Waukegan, III., last June were swept from the slate Tuesday when the Jury hear ing the trial ot John B. Fields, Ed ward Kaufman and Edward Courtney returned a verdict ot not guilty for all three defendants. Superior Judge Hewitt ot Los Angeles Wednesday awarded the cus tody of 5-year-old June Shosted to her aunt and foster mother, Mrs Elsie Shosted, denying the habeas corpus petition of the child's mother, Mrs. Lois Pollan. The latter sought to recover the baby Bhe "loaned" to her slater In Kansas five years ago At Grand Central station New York Wednesday morning a number of travelers from the west were wear ing "Henry Ford for president" but tons. The button Is a modest af fair, showing a wheel In black and white, with the legend across its face. Thousands of them are being distributed In western cities, but relatively few In Detroit, one of the visitors told an Interested spectator. Senator Robert M. La Follette, in a statement In connection with the election of Magnus Johnson as Vni- ted States senator from Minnesota, declared that "the old Lincoln spirit Is again sweeping the west. It will find Its echoes In the east, south and middle west Just as soon as courageous and able leaders of the type of Magnus Johnson arise to champion the cause ot the common people," be laid. QUAKE WRECKS HOSPITAL Southern California Towns Hard Hit by Tremblor Lightning Noted San Bernardino, Cal. Inventory of the damage of Sunday night's earth quake, showed three persons Injured and about (2000 damage In the city ot San Bernardino and $2500 in Red lands. Extensive damage, however, was done to the Southern California state hospital for the Insane at Patton, six miles northeast, and the General hos pital of San Bernardino county, two miles northeast. At the state hos pital the east and west walls of the institution were shattered to such an extent that 519 patients today were ordered removed. A portion of the north wall of the institution fell out. Large cracks were opened in the walls. The build ings are 30 years old and three stories in height. It would cost half a million dollars to construct new quarters for the patients. Dr. Edwin Wayte, acting superin tendent, telegraphed to Sacramento asking that etate engineers be sent to Patton at once to make an in spection. He also asked permission to transfer the patients to the state hospital at Norwalk. Dr. Wayte said he expected many of the patients ordered removed to day would be obliged to sleep in the open tonight. There are 2250 patients enrolled at the Institution and there Is no room in other wards for those ordered taken out. Between $4000 and (8000 damage was done at the general hospital of the county. The Injured are George R. Fisher, hurt when a ton of brick and stone from the Hall ot Records fell through the Richardson building into his room; R. H. Lee, citrus fruit special ist of the California Fruitgrowers' ex change, who was driving an auto mobile on a bluff at East Highland near San Andreas, when the earth quake jarred the steering wheel from his hand and caused the car to go over a 50-foot cliff; William H. Jones, cut by falling glass. Damage in San Bernardino con sisted largely of cracked walls in various school buildings and out houses and business blocks. The Hall of Records, which lost an Immense chimney, was the building worst damaged. City officials announced that only one business structure, an old two- story building, would be condemned Musician Wins at Port, New York. Arthur Beckwlth, con cert master of the Cleveland orches- tra, who arrived Monday on the liner Orduna and refused to land when told that his wife and three children would be excluded because the British quota was filled, Is now at his hotel. So Is his family. Commissioner of Immigration Cur- ran learned of the musician's plight and started cutting red tape. It took three hours' cutting. Beckwlth had passed the immi gration tangle, but refused to leave the ship unless assured that his family would not have to put In a night at the island. Tribes Clash In India. Teshawar, British India. Fighting has broken out between the tribes men ruled by the nawab of Amb and Mlangul In the northwest fron tier province. As the result of a dispute the na wab of Amb occupied a part of his rival's territory by a surprise at tack In which 50 men were killed. The' nawab of Mlangul retullated ruthlessly. Refugees are streaming Into this city. Incompetent Dies Rich. New York, Ferdinand W. Suydam, the "oldest Incompetent known In New York courts," whose affairs for 50 years were handled by a commit tee, was a millionaire when he died last February, It Is disclosed in pro ceedings preliminary to distribution of the fortune. Suydam, related to many socially prominent persons, in herlted, In 1874, from his father, a $5fl,noo estate which grew to more thnn $1,000,000 In value In 1923. Temblor Is Registered. Washington, D. C An earthquake of severe Intensity and of two hour's duration, estimated to have occurred 4900 miles from Washington, was re corded Sunday on the Georgetown University seismograph. The disturb ance continued from 9:29 A. M. 11:30 A. M. with the greatest Inten sity between 10 o'clock and 10: 10 A. M. Anti-Soviet Plot Aired. London. Discovery of an exten sive anti-soviet plan, designed to pro mote general Insurrection against all soviet republics and leaders of the third Internationale, Is reported by the Copenhagen correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph company, who quotes the Stockholm Tlednlngen. HUGHES SPIRIT OF SOVIET Recognition by America Is Held Impossible. BAR INTERFERENCE Russia MUst First Live Up to Con ditions of Intercourse, Asserts Secretary of State. Washington, D. C. Recognition of the Russian soviet government by the United States cannot come while its leaders continue to evince "a spirit of destruction at home and abroad," according to a declaration by Secretary Hughes made public Saturday. In an exchange of cor respondence with Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, Mr. Hughes renewed a statement of principles which he Bald was guiding American government policies with regard to Russia, while Mr. Gompers made direct reference to the recent public demands, from senators and others who have vis ited Russia, for recognition. American tradition, Mr. Hughes said, founded on a desire to refrain from Interference with Internal af fairs of other nations, might require recognition of any government, even a government of a "tyrannical mi nority," when the people of the na tion concerned maintain manifested acquiescence or submission of it. Nevertheless, recognition being "an invitation of intercourse," ' the gov ernment seeking recognition should evince a disposition to "live up to the obligations of Intercourse," he declared, denying In detail assertions that the Russian government was so doing. Mr. Gompers, remarking on "mis- Information gathered by retiring travelers during closely supervised tours" in Russia, suggested In a let ter to the secretary of state that some purpose might be served if those standing for the American concept ot right and justice and democracy" Bhould be given clearly to understand that the backbone of the whole situation regarding Rus sia Is the denial to the people ot Russia of any opportunity to pass judgment on their own affairs, or to say by whom or In what manner they Bhould be governed. The state department's position, he said, had been understood by htm to be that of "energetic opposition to a tyrannical minority imposing themselves on a reluctant people." Expesslng the opinion of wage earn ers, he said he "thought that the United States might, under any cir cumstances, extend official recogni tion to such a villainous despotism is repugnant." Flyer Ordered to Post. Rock Springs, Wyo. Orders to re turn by rail to McCook field, Dayton, 0 and to express his disabled air plane In which he was forced to land here last Thursday, while attempt ing to fly across the continent be tween dawn and dusk, to the same place, were received here Saturday night by Lleutnant Russell L. Maughan. Asserting that the work of tear ing apart the plane and preparing It for shipping probably would be completed by Tuesday, Lieutenant Maughan Bald he expected to leave here by that day or Wednesday. Dudley Malona In Ring. London. Dudley Field Malone, democrat, ex-collector of the port of New York and now an International lawyer dividing his time between Paris and New York, shied his hat into the American political ring as "surprise presidential candidate" in 1924. Malone said he believed women would rule the world In the future Instead of men. He Is the husband of Doris Stevens, a leader ot the militant suffragists In the United States. 474-Pounder Is Landed. Avalon, Santa Catallna Island, Cal. -A. R. Martin of Beverly Hills, Cali fornia, landed a 474-pound broad-hilled swordflsh Saturday after a fight lasting two hours and 15 minutes while fishing from a imall power boat. This not only exceeds by 11 pounds the previous record catch, made In 1917, but la the first broad-hilled swordflsh brought In this season. MISS VI Continued. 13 Next day there came a message from that woman who had brought up Dwlght "made him what he was," he often complacently accused her. It was a note on a postal card she had often written a few lines on a postal card to say that she had sent the maple sugar, or could Ina get her some samples. Now she wrote a few lines on a postal card to say that she was going to die with cancer. Could Dwlght and Ina come to her while she was still able to visit 7 If he was not too busy. . . . Nobody saw the pity and the terror of that postal card. They stuck It up by the kitchen clock to read over from time to time, and before they left, Dwlght lifted the griddle of the cooking-stove and burned the postal card. And before they left Lulu said: "Dwlght you can't tell how long you'll be gone?" "Of course not. How should I tell?" "No. And that letter might come while you're away."' "Conceivably. Letters do come while a man's away I" "Dwlght I thought If you wouldn't mind If I opened It" "Opened It?"' "Yes. You see, It'll be about me mostly " "I should have Bald that It'll be about my brother mostly." "But you know what I mean. You wouldn't mind If I did open It?" "But you say you know what'll be in It." "So I did know till you I've got to see that letter, Dwlght." "And so you shall. But not till I show it to you. My dear Lulu, you know how I hate having my mall In terfered with." She might have said: "Small souls always make a point of that." She said nothing. She watched them set' off, and kept her mind on Ina's thou sand Injunctions. "Don't let DI see much of Bobfiy Larkln. And, Lulu If It occurs to her to have Mr. Cornish come up to sing, of course you ask him. You might ask him to supper. And don't let moth er overdo. And, Lulu, now do watch Monona's handkerchief the child will never take a clean one If I'm not here to tell her. . . ." She breathed Injunctions to the very step of the 'bus. In the 'bus Dwlght leaned forward : "See that you play post office squarely, Lulul" he called, and threw back his head and lifted his eyebrows. In the train he turned tragic eyes to his wfle. "Ina," he said. "It's ma. And she's going to die. It can't be. . . ." Ina said: "But you're going to help her, Dwlght, Just being there with her." It was true that the mere presence of the man would bring a kind of fresh life to that worn frame. Tact and wisdom and love would speak through him and minister. Toward the end of their week's ab sence the letter from .Ninian came. Lulu took it from the post office when she went for the moll that eve ning, dressed In her dark red gown. There was no other letter, and she car ried that one letter in her hand all through the streets. She passed those who were surmising what her story might be, who were telling one anoth er what they had heard. But she knew hardly more thnn they. She passed Cornish In the doorway of his little music shop, and spoke with him; and there was the letter. It was so that Dwlght's foster mother's postal card might have looked on Its way to be mailed. Cornish stepped down and overtook her. "Oh, Miss Lulu. I've got a new song or two" She Bald abstractedly: "Do. Any night. Tomorrow night could you " It was as If Lulu were too preoccupied to remember to be 111 at ease. Cornish flushed with pleasure, suld that he could Indeed. "Come for supper," Lulu said. Oh, could he? Wouldn't that be . . . Well, say! Such was his accept ance. , He came for supper. And Dl was not at home. She had gone off In the country with Jenny and Bobby, and they merely did not return. Mrs. Bett and Lulu and Cornish and Monona supped alone. All were at ease, now that they were alone. Es pecially Mrs. Bett was at ease. It be came one of her young nights, her alive and lucid nights. She was there. She sat In Dwlght's chair and Lulu ant In Ina's chair. Lulu had picked flowers for the table a task coveted by her but usually performed by Ina. Lulu had now picked Sweet William and had filled a vase of silver gilt taken from the parlor. Also, Lulu had made Ice cream. "I don't see what Dl can be think ing of," Lulu said. "It seems like ask ing you under false " She was afraid of "pretenses" and ended without It. Cornish savored his steaming beef pie, with sage. "Oh, well I" he said, contentedly. "Kind of a relief, I think, to have her gone," said Mrs. Bett, from the fullness of something or other. "Mother 1" Lulu said, twisting her smile. "Why, my land, I love her," Mrs. Bett explained, "but she wiggles and chltters." Cornish never made the slightest effort, at any time, to keep a straight face. The honest fellow now laughed loudly. "Weill- Lulu thought. 'He can't Ibe so very much In lore." And again .V. .1. A. . . HI! . . i. mum uiuugui i uv uuveu i auuw uy- LULU By ZONA GALE Copyright by D. Appleton a Company thing about the letter. He thinks Nin ian got tired of me." Deep down In her heart there abode her certainty that this was not so. By some etiquette ot consent, Mrs. Bett cleared the table and Lulu and Cornish went Into the parlor. There lay the letter on the drop-leaf side table, among the shells. Lulu had car ried It there, where she need not see It at her work. The letter looked no more than the advertisement of dental office furniture beneath it. Monona stood Indifferently fingering both. "Monona," Lulu said sharply, "leave them be I" Cornish was displaying his music. "Got up quite attractive," he said It was his formula of praise for his music. "But we can't try it over," Lulu said, "If Dl doesn't come." "Well, say," said Cornish shyly, "you know I left that Album of Old Favorites here. Some of them we know by heart." Lulu looked. "I'll tell you some thing," she said; "there's some of these I can play with one hand by ear. Maybe " "Why, sure!" said Cornish. Lulu sat at the piano. She had on the wool chally, long sacred to the nights when she must combine her servant's estate with the quality of be ing Ina's sister. She wore her coral beads and her cameo cross. In her absence she had caught the trick of dressing her hair so that It looked even more abundant but she had not dared to try It so until tonight, when Dwlght was gone. Her long wrist was curved high, her thin hand pressed and fingered awkwardly, and at her mistakes her head dipped and strove to make all right. Her foot con tinuously touched the loud pedal the blurred sound seemed to accomplish more. So she played "How Can I Leave Thee," ' and they managed to sing It. So she played "Long, Long "Oh, No," Lulu Disclaimed It. She Looked Up, Flushed, Smiling. Ago," and "Little Nell of Nnrragan sett Bay." Beyond open doors, Mrs. Bett listened, sang, It may be, with them; for when the singers ceased, her voice might be heard still hum ming a loud closing bar. "Well I" Cornish cried to Lulu ; and then, In the formal village phrase: "You're quite a musician." "Oh, no 1" Lulu disclaimed It. She looked up, flushed, smiling. "I've never done this In front of anybody," she owned. "I don't know what Dwlght and Ina'd say. . . ." She drooped. They rested and, miraculously, the air of the place had stirred and quick ened, as If the crippled, halting melody had some power of Its own, and poured tills forth, even thus trampled. "I guess you could do 'most any thing you set your hand to," said Cornish. "Oh, no," Lulu said again. "Sing and play and cook " "But I can't earn anything. I'd like to earn something." But this she had not meant to say. She stopped, rather frightened. "You would I Why, you have It fine here, I thought." "Oh, fine, yes. Dwlght gives me what I have. And I do tjielr work." "I see," said Cornish. "I never thought of that," he added. She caught his speculative look he had heard a tale or two concerning her re turn, as who in Warbleton bad not heard? "You're wondering why I didn't stay with him I" Lulu said recklessly. This was no less than wrung from her, but Its utterance occasioned in her an unspeakable relief. "Oh, no," Cornish disclaimed, and colored and rocked. "Yes, you are," she swept on. "The whole town's wondering. Well, I'd like 'em to know, but Dwlght won't let me tell." Cornish frowned, trying to under stand. " 'Won't let you 1' " he repeated. "I should say that was your own affair." "No. Not when Dwlght gives me all I have." "Oh. that" said Cornish. "Thafa not right" BE! irvtrt "No. But there It is. It puts me you see what it does to me. They think they all think my husband left me." It was curious to hear her bring out that word tentatively, deprecatlng- ly, like some one daring a foreign phrase without warrant. Cornish said feebly: "Oh, well. Before she willed It, she was telling him: "He didn't. He didn't leave me," she cried with passion. "He had an other wife." Incredibly it was as if she were defending both him and her self. "Lord sakes!" said Cornish. She poured it out, In her passion to tell some one, to share her news of her state where there would be neither hardness nor censure. "We were In Savannah, Georgia," she said. "We were going to leave for Oregon going to go through Califor nia. We were In the hotel, and he was going out to get the tickets. He started to go. Then he came back. I was sitting the same as there. He opened the door again the same us here. I saw he looked different and he said quick: 'There's something you'd ought to know before we go.' And, of course, I said, 'What?' And he said It right out how lie was married eighteen years ago and In two years she ran away and she must be dead, but he wasn't sure. He hadn't the proofs. So, of course, I came home. But It wasn't him left me." "No, no. Of "course he didn't," Cornish said earnestly. "But, Lord's sakes " he said again. He rose to walk about, found it impracticable and sat down. "That's what Dwlght don't want me to tell he thinks It Isn't true. He thinks he didn't have any other wife. He thinks he wanted" Lulu looked up at him. "You see," she said, "Dwlght thinks he didn't want me." "But why don't you make your hus bandI mean, why doesn't he write to Mr. Deacon here, and tell him the truth" Cornish burst out. Under this Implied belief, she re laxed and Into her face came Its rare sweetness. "He has written," she said. "The letter's there." He followed her look, scowled at the two letters. "What'd he say?" "Dwlght don't like me to touch his mall. I'll have to wait till he comes back." "Lord sakes!" said Cornish. 'This time he did rise and walk about. He wanted to say something, wanted it with passion, ire paused beside Lulu and stammered: "You you you're too nice a girl to get a deal like this. Darned If you aren't." To her own complete surprise Lulu's eyes filled with tears, nnd she could not speak. She was by no meuus above self-sympathy. "And there ain't," said Cornish sor rowfully, "there ain't a thing I can do." And yet he was doing much. He was gentle, he was listening, and on his face a frown of concern. Ills face continually surprised her, It was so fine and alive and near, by comparison with Nlnlnn's loose-lipped, ruddy, Im personal look and Dwlght's thin, high boned hardness. All the time Cornish gave her something, Instead ot draw ing upon her. Above all, he was there, and she could talk to hlin. "It's It's funny," Lulu said. "I'd be awful glad If I just could know for sure that the other woman was alive If I couldn't know she's dead." This surprising admission Cornish seemed to understand. "Sure you would," he said briefly. "Cora Wnters," Lulu said. "Cora Waters, of San Diego, California. And she never heard of me." "No," Cornish admitted. They stared at each other as across some abyss. In the doorway Mrs. Bett appeared. "I scraped up everything," she re marked, "and left the dishes set." "That's right, mamma," Lulu said. "Come and sit down." Mrs. Bett entered with a leisurely air of doing the thing next expected of her. "I don't hear any more playln' and Blngln'," she remarked. "It sounded real nice." "We we sung all I knew how to play, I guess, mamma." "I use' to play on the melodeon," Mrs. Bett volunteered, nnd spread and examined her right hand. "Weill" Bald Cornish. She now told them nbout her log house In a New Englnnd clearing, when she was a bride. All her store of drama and life came from her. She rehearsed It with far eyes. She laughed at old delights, drooped at old fears. She told nbout her little daughter who had died at sixteen a tragedy such as once would have been renewed In a vital ballad At the end she yawned frankly as If, In some ter rible sophistication, she had been tell ing the story of some one else. "Give us one more piece," she said. "Can we?" Cornish asked. "I can play 'I Think When I Read That Sweet Story of Old,' " Lulu said. "That's the ticket !" said Cornish. They sang It, to Lulu's right hand. "Thnt's the one you picked out when you was a little girl, Lulle," cried Mrs. Bett (TO BBj CONTINUED.) Good Definition of Wisdom. Wisdom Is that attribute of man through which every action of a man receives its Ideal value and Import Schllermacher.