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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume Most Important - Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Brents of Noted People, Government and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. CURRENT WEEK Work was resumed on Tutankha men's tomb Wednesday morning after the customary break for the weekly market day, which also this time hap pened to be Christmas. ... An avalanche Wednesday carried away a cottage between Roseland and Beaufort, France, 30 miles northeast of Chambery, killing nine of the 11 occupants of the building. James Nippert, 23, University of Cincinnati football player, died Tues day of blood poisoning which resulted from a slight cut In the leg suffered In a football game Thanksgiving day. Heavy snow' storms and avalanches are reported from several points in Switzerland. One man was killed and several cattle destroyed in the col lapse of stables In Rlnggenberg, in the Bernese oberland. I ; Cleo de Merode, French motion pic ture actress, has lost her suit tor 100, 000 francs against the owners of the film "Peacock Alley," which she charged injured her reputation by bur lesquing incidents in her career. Seventeen persons are known to have perished Wednesday night In a fire which destroyed a part of one of the frame structures of the Chicago state hospital for the Insane at Dun ning, on the northwest edge of Chi cago. The ministry for Jewish affairs In Lithuania is to be discontinued, the national assembly having rejected the $ bill providing for its financial main tenance. The ministry for the affairs of the white Russian population was accorded similar treatment. . ' Religious and civic organizations will be asked to join with officials of the Presbyterian church In a congress to be held at Washington February 13 and 14, to plan a campaign for nation al legislation to bring all motion pic ture exhibitions under federal control. Three New York persons, two of them women more than 60 years old, were doad, two were in a critical con dition and more than a score of others were in hospitals Tuesday night as a result of drinking poisonous Christ mas liquor. Some of the victims were In a serious condition. Production of meat this year was the greatest in history, exceeding last year's figures by 1,500)00,000 pounds, according to estimates by the Insti tute of American Meat Packers. A big jump in pork production was large ly responsible for the Increase, 10.000, 000 more hogs being bought by the packers than In 1922. It the American people approve the plans selected by the jury of the $100,- 000 American peace award created by Edward W. Bok, Mr. Bok will take second stop toward the advancement of world peace with a far wider scope and Intent and an award larger and more important in every respect, he announces in the January Issue of the Atlantic Monthly. The veritable queen of the boot leggers will arrive in New York short ly from Nassau, capital of the Baha mas and capital also of the West In dies bootlegging trade. She is coming to Invest some of her wealth In Fifth avenue finery and to "do" Broadway as she has always longed to do It, but, according to her few Intimates in NasBau, hor chief doslro Is marriage with "the right man" and a suburban cottage, for which she would gladly forego the adventure and large in come of her present post. 1 Lieutenant Osborne C. Wood, son of Governor-General Leonard Wood of the Philippines, who is reported to have accumulated a fortune of be tweon 1700,000 and $300,000 In Wall street, received the information on which he acted through a Wall street "tipster" service, which sent him nightly cablegrams and for which he Is reported to have paid $1000 a month, including cable charges. Ac cording to the New York Times, the war department investigated the young officer's transactions and found no cause for censure. Realistic In a school essay a child wrote that a thrush said, "Mrs. Hewitt, Mrs. Hewitt" o often end so clearly in their Tillage that at last Mrs. Hewitt came to her door and said "Yes?" U. S. ARMS TO GOTO MEXICO Time and Place of Delivery Kept Se cret Airplanes Included. Washington, D. C Details of the contemplated sale of surplus army war materials to the Mexican govern ment occupied war department of ficials Sunday and it was indicated that orders to depot commanders from which the rifles and other equipment are to be taken will go forward within a day or two. Final decision to grant the request of the Obregon government and make the sale ' direct by the Washington government, was not reached until Sat urday, although the request is under stood to have been before administra tion officials practically all of last week. Although there has been no indication that the proposal was the subject of extended discussion at the cabinet meetings on last Tuesday and Friday, it Is unlikely that President Coolldge reached the decision to de part from the policy of the Harding administration in relation to the sale of surplus arms without laying the matter before his advisors. Presumably no publicity will be given by the Washington government to the time or place where any of the supplies are to be turned over to Mexican forces. Reasons of military prudence would require the Mexican officials to conceal the route by which the arms are to be taken into Mexico, so far as that is possible. The de liveries, however, will be made from the depots of the Eighth Army corps area. , Difficulties of the Obregon govern ment In transporting military supplies to the active front between Vera Cruz and Mexico City are Increased by the fact that the rebel stronghold at Vera Cruz closest to the federal forces re quires the sea route of delivery. There have been no large outbreaks of revolutionary activity in northern Mexico, however, and presumably of ficials at Mexico City are satisfied that they can safely transport arms and ammunition from the border to the Mexican government storehouses in the capital. Aid For Veterans Asked. Washington, D. C Assistance in the task of finding jobs for rehabili tated former service men has been asked by President Coolldge In letters to the American Federation of Labor, the United States chamber of com merce and the chambers of commerce of the larger cities. The president, In letters addressed to these organizations and made pub lic by the veterans' bureau, declared that "while much has been achieved, Lespeclally by the United States veter ans bureau, in this very vital prob lem, there is still much to be accom plished for the approximately 70,000 who are still in training and who are to become ready for employment at the rate of about 6000 per month." Invents New Microphone. New York. Perfection of an elec tric ultra-audible microphone, Invent ed by Dr. Phillips Thomas, which, it is claimed, will permit scientists to reaord sound vibrations which now are too faint for the human ear to catch, was announced Saturday by the Westlnghouse Electric & Manufactur ing company. Iu Its experimental stage, accord ing to S. M. Klntnor, director of re search for the Westlnghouse company, the microphone has been used success fully to transmit by radio the highest notes of the voice and of musical instruments, which the ordinary trans mitter and receiver reproduce as mere noise. Mr. KIntner declared the device" had been perfected and simplified to a point where It could be used by vessols at sea in picking up the warn lugs of fog horns or other sound warn ings beyond the range of the human ear; in studying the finer sound vibra tions of organs of the human body, such as the heart and the brain, and in the renlm of the entomologist who has tried in vain to pick up sounds known to be made by tiny insects, but Inaudible to humans. Dauntless Is Wrecked. Seattle, Wash. Crewless and help less in the grip of a 60-mlle gale, the steamer Dauntless, owned and oper ated by the Puget Sound Freight line, broke loose from Its moorings at Kingston, Bainbridge Island, Saturday night, drifted across Puget sound and was pounded to pieces on the rocks at Meadow point, near the town of Richmond Beach, ten miles north of Seattle. The boat, valued at $60,000, Is a total loss. V Venlzelos on Way Home. Marseilles. The Andros, a( Greek steamer, flying the British flag, with M. Venizolos aboard, left Sunday for Greece, notwithstanding the bad weather prevailing. M. Venlzelos who Is returning to his homeland in an endeavor to straighten out the po litical situation, went aboard Saturday night. He declined to see any per sons but intimate friends. 1 BILL FOLLOWS MELLON PROPOSALS Seeks 25 Per .Cent Exemption on "Earned Income." PENALTIES LOWERED Several Hundred Amendments to Existing Revenue Law Are Proposed. Washington, D. C. The complete text of the new tax bill was made pub lic Friday by Chairman Green of the house ways and means committee, which will meet again as soon as con gress reassembles on January 3 to continue its study of the sweeping re visions proposed by the administra tion. In all its features the bill follows the recommendations previously made public by Secretary Mellon. It pro poses several hundred amendments of the existing revenue law, many of them of a highly technical nature and designed to put an end to tax evasions, and many others dealing with the changes advocated by Mr. Mellon in income and other tax schedules. So far the bill has been the sub ject of only a preliminary study by the committee, which has made no attempt to reach decisions as to what, it any, changes it will make before the measure Is reported to the house. It has been agreed, however, that the administrative provisions ,j shall be passed upon first, before any attention is given to Mr. Mellon's proposals for changes in tax schedules. One of the principal revisions pro vided In the bill is a reduction of sur tax rates so that the surtax would begin at 1 per cent on net incomes from $10,000 to $12,000; would pro vide an additional 1 per cent for each additional $2000 up to $36,000; 1 per cent additional for the next $4000; and would then add 1 per cent for each $6000 up to a maximum of 25 per cent on incomes of $100,000 or more. Under the present law surtaxes be gin at 1 per cent on net incomes be tween $6000 and $10,000 and scale up ward to a maximum of SO per cent on net incomes exceeding $200,000.' The new bill also provides that the normal tax on incomes shall be 3 per cent where It now Is 4 per cent, and 6 per cent where It now Is 8 per cent a reduction which the treasury esti mates will result in a loss of revenue of $91,600,000 a year. Provisions also Is made in the bill that 25 per cent of "earned Income" which is defined as wages, salaries and professional fees, shall be count ed as exempt In computing tax re turns. The greater part of this ex emption Is expected to fall to those having small incomes, which the re sult that the treasury expects a reduc tion of $97,500,000 from this section alone. The bill proposes the outright re peal of the present taxes on tele grams, telephone and radio messages, theater admissions and of .certain other nuisance taxes, including the levies on silver-plated flat silverware, pencils and fountain pens selling for not more than $1, and clocks and watches selling for not more than $5. , The administrative features of the bill Include a provision for creating a board of tax appeals, composed of not less than seven nor more than 28 members, appointed for ten-year terms at salaries of $10,000 each by the secretary of the treasury and without senate confirmation. The board would hear and determine cases Involving the assessment of taxes, but both the government and the taxpay er would be privileged to appeal any decision to the courts. Uncle Sam Gets Blame Farls. The United States was held chiefly responsible for present condi tions In Europe by Paul Raynaud, speaking in the chamber of deputies Saturday during interpellations on the government's foreign policy. M. Reynaud, referring to the inter allied debts and their effect upon Europe, said: "America weighs upon England's shoulders. England weighs on ours and we are a burden to Germany. This is a strangely impressive pyramid. Volcano Belches Lava. IIIlo, T. H. Superintendent Boles ot the Hawaii national park telephon ed from Volcano house this morning that the volcano Kllauea had shown unusual activity ever since dark last night. At least 10 to 15 feet ot lava, he said, has overflowed into the main pit ot the crnter, covering an area of about 40 acres, and a number ot fountains ot lava, were spurting from openings in the pit. Captain By Charles Tenney Jackson Copyright br The Bobbi-Mcrrill Company "THE CAP7MN JEAN1" SYNOPSIS Under the name of "Captain Bazarac," and disguised, Jean Lafltte, former freebooter of Baratarla, proscribed, return! to the city of New Orleans. He is recognized by two ot his old companions, Alderman Dominique and Beluche. At the gaming tables Bazarac has won much money from Colonel Carr. Brit ish officer. John Jarvls, the city's first bohemlan of the arts and Utters, an old-time friend of La fltte, tells of a woman's face and smile. CHAPTER I Continued. 2 The stranger's face was all but averted. The profile gave the Impres sion of utter obliviousness to the crowded room. His English small clothes were rather passe for the pe riod; and the powdered hair above a coat of blue broadcloth, his buff breeches, and silk stockings thrust into low sliver-buckled shoes gave a quaint distinction to his tall figure. The two young men watched his bronzed hand turning a card under the ruby light. After a moment Jar vis yawned audibly ; and then a nudge came between him and the Count de Almonaster. They looked down upon the short, stout form of Dominique, the alderman. Behind him peered Beluche, the restless seaman of Car tagena. The artist strolled again to the bar. room. Not even the buzz of Interest that followed a violent exclamation In the cardroom lured him again from his cognac. But Dominique, the alder man, had started to his tiptoes with a curious glance at his fellow-buccaneer. "A voice?" he whispered, and stared past the onlookers. The British officer, flushed with drink and chagrin, had leaned closer to his opponent. "Do you question my word, sir, as to the worth of the wench? Put her upon the block at the Rotunda tomorrow I She would fetch three thousand dollars at Charleston; and In this town, sir, if you will find a fairer one slave, or free woman of color or even among Its reputed beauties" There was a stir ; the Creole gentle man glanced at one another darkling. Langhorne, the consul, raised his hand, but Sazarac had answered slowly : "Your pardon, sir, I did not know the the she was a chattel. I own no slaves, sir, nor do I care to wager for one." "You shall play on, sir. You have ruined my fortunes on this river voy age, and In last night's play I I de mand my chance at retrieving. You have Just accepted my two horses In pledge. Now, then this San Domingo girl, upon the card, sir?" Sazarac gathered the long rough surtout about his shoulders as If to arise. The consul whispered to the red-faced Carr. The dealer sat back with a glance at the circle of faces. "You cannot leave!" Carr cried hoarsely. He turned to those behind him : "Gentlemen I Is it customary, In New Orleans, for a loser to be re fused any legitimate wager that may reinstate him?" There was a murmur; It was the code at Maspero's. The stranger must know. De Marlgny whispered: "He has Sazarac there. The stranger must play!" The stranger glanced about Carr struck the table violently. "It Is my privilege, gentlemen I A card, slrl The turn of one card, In stead of running the deal 1 No chance, then, for trickery!" The stillness became acute. It was a bad word at Maspero's. De Marlgny expected the next Instant to see the unknown gamester fling his glove into Carrs face. But the quiet profile did not change. Langhorne clucked In his throat as If the situation were Intol erable as if, Indeed, more portentous things than a slave girl hung on the turn of the card. "The card, then" Sazarac went on slowly. "Three thousand dollars on the red against the bond girl." "Taken " Carr bowed. "The black will turn, gentlemen!" The dealer threw the cards In a semicircle across the cloth. Deliber ately, but with a flash of his white fingers, he picked one at random and turned it np. It was the ace of hearts. The groups watched It curiously. Captain Sazarac arose, threw his cloak higher about his face, although the day was warm, and turned 'to go. The dealer, at a gesture from him, swept the notes and gold upon the cloth, Into a leather bag. The groups broke up with a comment here and there; the gentlemen by the door gave away to the stranger as he advanced. Colonel Carr had started sullenly at this abrupt dismissal by his victorious opponent Whatever wild word was upon the ruined man's lips was checked by the consul's muttered warning. But Carr, too, arose, fol lowing a pace to growl over the crowd at the door. "The girt, sir, will be at your dis posal at the hotel at whatever hour you claim your property!" The stranger bowed. Ont in the drlnklng-room he seemed like one con scious that the eyes of all New Or leans' men of affairs were upon him. Just outside the door he stopped ab ruptly. In the shadow of the arched courtwiy of St Louis street two squat, short figures, their hetds to Sazarac gether, their arms gesticulating wild ly, were vainly trying each to quiet the other. "You know It is!" gasped the wor thy alderman, holding his side. "By the Lord! I am not fooled no, no! Shaven as a priest, his hair whlted as an English squire's muffled by stock and peruke no, nothing deceives these old eyes of mine!" "Thou d d fool silence !" whis pered the swarthy admiral of Carta gena. "Is there not still a price upon his head an, added price since he re nounced the President's pardon, and Involved himself in that affair of Gal veston Island? Spanish, English the Americans, too they would hound him to the gallows!" The tall cloaked figure was passing. Twenty paces away, the entrance to La Bourse de la Maspero was filled with watching burghers. And from them all a young man had advanced smilingly. In his full skirted green coat and shining white breeches held within his polished Hes sian boots, the young Count de Almo naster bowed graca41y and extended a hand all but hidden by his beruffled cuff. "At the green room of Maspero's, sir, none play save those to whom New Orleans extends Its hospitality. If, perchance, at any time, the name of a gentleman could serve In a pos sible affair, I am the grandson of Don Almonaster y Roxus." "I thank you, Monsieur." The stranger extended his own. "I am Captain Gaspar Sazarac, recently on service with the United States explo rations In the West." He shrugged smilingly: "I thank you, Monsieur." He .turned and met again two eld erly men who stared unbelievingly. Then the gold-laced admiral of Car tagena placed hand upon his shoulder. "Behold us!" he whispered. "I Beluche and this, old Dominique! Dogs of old days and green seas! And you the Captain Jean I" The stranger gazed at them - ques tlonly. "It may be," he mused, "that after the heat Is done, I shall take the air upon the levee by the old Fort St. Louis. The gentry do not promenade Just there, I believe." Before the eyes of the watching burghers at the coffee house he saun tered down the cobbles of the rue Chartres. The fat and honest alder man muttered; and then, at a laugh from the young count, he turned to stare fiercely at him. "I shall take the air upon the levee myself, sirs," smiled Raoul. "Ho) Dominique! Do not fail your cap tain !" CHAPTER II A Ship for a Pirate's Eye. It was dusk when Raoul de Almo naster sauntered along the molderlng brick parapet of the little pentagonal fort that marked the upper river Junc- "Well, I Am I afitte. I Am at Your Mercy, Monsieur!" tlon of the dismantled city wall with the green-scummed moat built to de fend the landward side. Along the Inner levee face he presently saw what he had come to see. Dominique, the honorable councilor of the city, and the resplendent admiral of the re public of Cartagena, even now fight ing for Its Ufe against the king o' Spain's men across the Caribbean sea. The small carronade which marked the hour of retreat eight o'clock barked at the city hall. At once, slaves and children, soldiers and sailors, must be off the streets of the Vleux Carre. The lazy boom of a war ship down the crescent bend of the Mississippi answered; and, following the sound Idly, the count's eye noted, before the plaza, a long, blacK, rakish clipper with shining yellow masts, new sails glistening as they hung to dry, and untenanted decks, sweet and clean as a ballroom floor. "A beauty, that Seraphlne!" he mused. 'The latest Yankee, out from Boston, cannot match her. Ho, Be luche) She must make old blood stir In you two adventurers! Aye, turn your envlons eyes aside!" He started at a step on the levee. The gamester of the Bourse de la Maspero had come along the dis mantled rampart of the fort. Sazarac bowed with a recognizing smile. - The bronzed cheeks looked even darker below the whlted wig; his eyes had the level, thoughtful humor of the man who laughs behind unreadable reserve. -rou may well soy, Monsieur ae Almonaster. I have not seen In yeurs a hull so cleanly lined." . De Almonaster glanced at the hand upon the silver sword hilt The two rotund respectables had sefn the tall man In buff and broadcloth, and were hastening. "I see, Monsieur," retorted he, "that, despite your services with the American explorations In the West you know a ship' "I have seen the sea, Monsieur." Sazarac bowed with a searching glance at the younger man. "And you an eye for a ship Is an eye for a woman. . . . I did not expect to meet the Count de Almonaster so far from the fashionable promenade?" "Nor I to find Captain Lafltte so near again to the Place d'Armes !" Sazarac Studied him gravely : "Your pardon, sir! I think " Raoul snapped his fingers laugh ingly at old Dominique puffing up the levee. Admiral Beluche had drawn a cutlass in fervent salute to his cap tain. "Come come, gentlemen!". Saza rac's voice raised sharply, "Thou Jean !" whispered Doml nlque In the Acadian patois of the coast. "Lafltte sf Baratarla, Come, yon sir 1 Did you think you could tread these streets and not be recognized?" murmured De Almonaster. The two old adventurers crowded around the stranger. "Now, I am a man again," chuckled Dominique. "And not a clerk drooling over city affairs !" And suddenly, with an affectionate gesture, he lifted slightly the whlted peruke above Sazarac's ear. Raven black the hair, tinged with gray. "The beard shaven," droned on old Domi nique. "The cutiass scar concealed which you got from the Spaniard at Trinidad! And these arms caught you as you fell!" "And this cut the fellow down!" cried Beluche. "Jean, cease this fool ing I" The Captain Sazarac was laughing In turn. His old lieutenants seized his hands, stroked his sleeve, crying out brokenly. Sazarac glanced keenly at young Almonaster. - "No fear," mumbled the alderman. "I have heard this young gallant say but yesterday that he would draw sword In any affair If Lafltte was to command !" "Aye, for the emperor!" growled Beluche. "The clipper, Jean! Did you ever see a finer? Monsieur GIrod brought her from Charleston new from the ways! The finest teak lacquer tables, tapestries smuggled from Bllboa! All for the fallen em peror I Perhaps you have heard, my captain?" "We were saying who so worthy to command as Captain Lafltte?" fumed old Dominique, eager as a boy, "did we not young sir?" Sazarac smiled. Raoul Interposed: "The plot! Ah, yes , ... the plot!" "They have built a mansion for him In the rue Chartres " protested Domi nique. "Financed the ship not a first family In all Louisiana that will not have at least a midshipman aboard! But old Bosslere to com mandbah ! I would balk at It il I had a skin to risk I" "You might well with the English ring of ships around St. Helena," said Sazarac gravely. "Well, I am Lafltte. I am at your mercy. Monsieur !" The restless eyes of Beluche were upon a trio of officers from the American garrison tvho came slowly along the promenade. "Too much talk!" he muttered. "Since that old affair of yours, Jean the seizure of Galveston Island, despite the Presi dent's pardon, you have long been pro scribed. As to this emperor the devil with him I The Seraphlne look at her now! Is she a toy for the dan dies of this town to play with? A ship Jean, and a good ship?" "Ehr put In Alderman Dominique: "Robber, what's In your mind?" "The American officers " retorted the admiral. "Let us be on." "The Yankees " murmured Saza rac, throwing his silken neck scarf higher as the meeting groups saluted courteously. "When will Louisiana be dono with this Idea that she u a prin cipality aloof from the Washington government? The Yankees, gentle men, are here taking your little Paris." "They might better have left their manners In the Kentucky woods," Bald De Almonaster. "And cease meddling In the affairs of Spain across the Sa bine. You, yourself, sir what Is the feeling In the West?" Sazarac stopped to look over the darkening river. "It Is a far road to Washington. In the Ohlos there Is gossip. A new republic to be carved from the wilderness, the Spanlsji provinces to be seized ; and among the discontented spirits are the exiled To ries from the Canadas and the agents of His British Majesty ever watching with Jealous eyes. You saw, sir, the affair of yesterday at Maspero's?" "Colonel Carr, who came with yon down-river? I cannot make his mis sion out as I might wish." "Nor I. Now and then, on the packet, he boasted of curious things. I recall, one night a lady warned him to silence!" "The lady?" De Almonaster smiled. Tonight I uhall claim my wager from Colonel Carr." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Origin of Goldfish. Goldfish are the result of the elimi nation of the somber colors In a vari ety of carp by selective breeding be gun by the Chinese and Japanese in the Sixteenth century. Excitement It welcome In order to make us forget a good many things.