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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resurre Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Two women and three children, all members o the same family, were . killed in a fire that swept through three Brooklyn apartment houses late Wednesday. The execution of Gee John and Hughie Sing by, the administering of lethal gas was fixed by Judge Walsh t In the district court o Mineral county at Hawthorne, Nev.; Wednesday, for Friday, February 8. , The health ot ex-Premier Venizelos of Greece, who was taken 111 early this week, in Continuing to Improve. He was able to resume his confer ences Tuesday with the political lead ers, including the royalists. A Spanish royal decree was issued Tuesday dissolving the chamber of deputies and dismissing the elective I members of the (senate. Under the decree life senators are deprived of their parliamentary immunity. Details of the round-the-world flight , of United States army aviators, start ing from Seattle April 2, were made public Monday by Major Henry H. Arnold, commander of Rockwell field, and Lieutenant Virgil Hlnes, post ad jutant. ' Announcement was made In the fed eral court in Memphis, Tenn., Tuesday that the Bult for $1,000,000 filed by the American Trust company of Nashville, Tenn., against the PIggly Wlggly cor poration had been settled by com promise and that the suit would be , withdrawn., ., ,,..., An official bulletin says the acute ness ot the malady ot Leon Trotzky, the Russian soviot war mlnistor, which ' resulted from an attack, ot influenza and from which he had suffered since November 6, makes it desirable that he Immediately cease work and take absolute rest In a milder climate. Right of Presbyterian clergymen to exercise liberty of thought and teach ing is maintained In an affirmation signed by 150 Presbyterian ministers in all parts of the United States, is sued Wednesday by a committee head ed by the Rev. Murray Shipley How- land of the Buffalo, N. Y., Presby terian church. i The United States ,Jias determined no longer to be a dumping ground fur undesirable aliens, Representative Vail of Colorado, member of the house committee on Immigration, told the Women's National Republican club Tuosday. He said restriction of imml gnu-ion was favored by every member of the committee. Mrs. Henry Lango, 75, of Merldon, Conn., has been discharged as cured from the Merlden hospital after watch ing the Burgeons remove half her stomnch and cut a large growth from her intestines while she was under the influence ot local auaosthotlcg only. The operation took two. hours, during which Mrs. Lange conversed with the surgoons. Ira Sparks ot Peru, Ind., who ar rived In Honolulu a year ago from Sun Francisco In a packing box, hnV' lug consigned himself as "freight en route to the orient," Wednesday suited for the far cost In a 23-foot dory. He announced that be was bound for the Holy Land to "seek the true word of God." A crowd estimated at 1500 witnessed his departure. Two men were killed and a woman was Injured Wednesday during a clash hot ween officers and citizens and bund ot outlaws in the Florida Ever glades, 26 miles north of West Palm Bunch. The officers, using machine guns, opened fire on the outlaws' camp about 2 A. M. The tight raged all day and posses of several hundred clt liens and officers are searching the swamp lands for escaped members ot the band, known a the "Ashley gang An alligator seized and swallowed a man named League while he was bathing iu Five Milo creek, near Card well, North Queensland, Wednesday, The party was bathing In a deep pool when tho alligator, which was 13 feet long, aeited League beforo Uie eyes ot his companions and sank with him beneath the water. The party starch ed the banks, found the monster and shot It. They dragged the body ashore and cut It open, recovering League's body. EXPERTS GERMANY'S CASE Dawes Puts Real Life Into Repara tion Session. Paris. Brigadier-General Charles G. Dawes, U. S. A., chairman of the first committee of experts appointed by the reparation commission to consider the resources and capacity of Germany looking to a solution of the repara tions problem, delivered a straight forward, hard-hitting speech at the opening of that body here Monday. He declared he could speak neither for the government of the United States nor for the American people, but as an individual. After reviewing the situation from the standpoint of an American business man, he made an earnest plea for common sense and practical co-operation among the na tions, so that Germany's productive ness could be restored to her that she might meet her obligations. With characteristic forcefulness General Dawes denounced "the inces sant misrepresentations and intoler able Interjections of those foul and carrion-loving vultures the national istic demagogues ot all countries who would exploit their pitiful personali ties out of a common misfortune." The American plan, as briefly out lined by the chairman, consists of sta bilization of German currency and bal ancing the German budget, and, he declared: "As the economic processes ot Germany under a stable currency and with a balanced budget are re vived there will be demonstrated the capacity of Germany to pay. Let us first help Germany to got well." The experts got off to a breezy start." This expresses the general sentiment in reparations and diplo. matic circles of the beginning of the work of the experts. General Dawes' "legendary energy," as M. Barthou put it, seemed to send a draft of fresh air throughout repara tions headquarters, which had not ap peared to shelter so much activity be fore since the commission was organ ized. "Can he keep them up to it? was a question asked repeatedly around the buildings, when it became known that General Dawes would propose that his colleagues work night and day until they got somewhere with the' Inquiry. Other members of the delegation were heartily with General Dawes In the desire to moke as short work as possible ot their task, but some of them are rather frightened at the Idea of three sessions daily. The general has conceded a point by agreeing - that the night meetings should be merely informal personal exchanges ot views among the mem bers. The impression made by General Dawes' speech was in every way fav orable, inside and outside ot repara tion circles, excepting in extreme na tionalist quarters, where his reference to "nationalistic demagogues" caused some slight emotion. One of the British delegates said "The Impression was most favorable; the beginning of the discussions augurs well." Colonel James A. Logan, American unofficial observer on the reparation commission, expressed himself to the same effect, while M. Barthou, 'presi dent of the commission, declared that the committee could not have got to work under better auspices. Root In Surgeon's Care. t Now York. Ellhu Root, ex-secre tary of state, Monday underwent what was described as a successful opera tion at the New York hospital. The nature of the operation was withheld by the physicians, who simply said that Mr. Root was resting comfort ably. Later It was learned that the operation was for removal of a stone in the kidney. It was said Mr. Root would be at the hospital for two or three weeks. Warmer Cause Death. Klamath Fulls, Or. Two old plow shares, heated and placed In her bed for foot warmers, ignited bed clothing and resulted In the death ot Nellie Moody. Klumnth Indian woman, 82 who tiled here Monday. The aged woman was rescued from the flumes apparently without injury other than partial strangulation from smoke, but Immediately contracted pneumonia which proved tutal. Body Found Mutilated. Illuffton. Ohio. The body of Mrs. Kalherine Mohler, 70, who disappear ed several weeks ago, wus found an abandoned cistern at her home, ono mllo south ot here, Sunday. The head, legs and arms hnd been severed and were found with the torso. Wil liam Mohler, 78, husband ot the dead woman, was arrested. Farmer Admits Killing. Lima, O. William Mohler, 7$, weal thy fanner, late Monday confessed h hnd killed his wife, Mrs. Katherlne Mohler, 68, dismembered her body and hid tt In an abandoned cistern two week ago. Mohler confessed after 26 hour ot third degree. ALIEN FUNDS' USE' $180,000,000 Cash on Deposit Available. - UST0DIAN REPORTS Revival of Commerce With ex-Enemy Countries and Profit .by Gov ernment Held Possible. Washington, D. C Creation 'of a federal agency to utilize in productive enterprise the enemy funds on de posit in the treasury to the credit ot the alien property custodian was pro posed in the annual report ot Colonel Thomas W. Miller, the custodian, made public Sunday. Colonel Miller suggested that two ends would be Berved by returning the funds to active enterprise revival of business and commercial relations with the former enemy countries, and the reaping of profits by the federal corporation which, if desired, could be applied to settlement ot claims which later might be adjudicated by the mixed claims commission. , "There is approximately $180,000,- 000 of cash on deposit in the United States treasury to the credit of the alien property custodian, which sum will Increase as the liquidation policy is carried out," Colonel Miller said "It is suggested that a plan be con sidered whereby that portion of the remaining alien property represented by cash in the treasury may be util ized in reviving trade and the com mercial relations which formerly ex isted between this country and the former enemy powers. "To all intents and purposes this sura represents available capital re moved from the channels of trade and should be put to a useful purpose. Such a governmental agency, similar to the War Finance corporation, hav ing a capital ot several hundred mil lion dollars, would be capable of earn ing enough on this sum to not only settle American claims, when they are finally adjudicated, but return in full the property or its equivalent to the former enemies when the affairs of the alien property office are finally terminated. "There are a number ot enemy cor porations whose assets were seized and liquidated by this office which would thereby be encouraged to re sume buslness'in this country." Colonel Miller said there were two divergent schools of thought with ref erence to disposition ot the alien property. One side, he said, would utilize immediately -the private prop erty ot our former enemies for the payment of the dobts of the former enemy governments when they are adjudicated by the mixed claims com mission. The other would return Im mediately all property seized under the trading with the enemy act. He did not comment on the merits of either programme, but reiterated that some use Bhould be made ot the Idle funds which had been withdrawn from active business. FARM LOAN BOARD TO ISSUE BONDS Washington, D. C. The federal farm loan board, preparing to meet the late winter and spring demand for money expectod to be mado on the federal loan banks, announced Satur day that it would issue 160,000,000 In federal farm loan bonds. The bonds will be offered through federal land banks, national farm loan associations and othor distributors at 100 with accrued Interest from Jan uary 1, the date ot Issue. Maturity of the debentures will be fixed at 30 years with the callable privilege after January 1, 1934. They will bear i per cent Interest. "The 12 federal land banks," said Commissioner Cooper ot the farm loan board, "have, during the last year. Increased their capital to $43,597.3 and their assets to 876,232,007. With this continued growth and continued evidence ot their solidarity, It li an ticipated that the present offering ot securities will be promptly absorbed." Chines Cabinet Filled. Pekln. Tsao Kun, president of China, has Issued a mandate accept Ing en bloc the resignations ot the old cabinet, which was In office when he waa elected. The reconstructed cabinet was made posslblo whea the low house ot parliament formally ap proved the appointment ot Sun Tao Cht, after several months ot political maneuvering. Approval ot the house was not needed tor the other mem ber ot the cabinet pyright "HE MEANT ME!" SYNOPSIS Under the name of "Captain Sazarac." and disguised. Jean Lafltte. former freebooter of Baratarla, proscribed, returns to the city of New Orleans. He 1b recognized by two of his old companions, Alderman Dominique and Beluche. At the earning .-tables Sazarac has won much money from Colonel Carr, Brit ish officer. John Jarvls, the city's first bohemlan of the arts and letters, an old-time friend of La fltte. tells of a woman's face and smile. As his last wager. Carr puts up a woman, presumably a slave. Custom compels Sazarac to accept the stake. He wins. His old associates and Count Raoul do Almonaster accost him as Lafltte. A project of the youthful adventurers of New Or leans 1b the rescue of Napoleon Bonaparte from St. Helena, and a ship, the Seraphlne, has been made ready. From De Almon aster Sazarac learns that the girl he "won" at the card table is white, of high estate, and that the matter has been made a by word in the city's resorts. Saz arac finds Mademoiselle Lestron, a fellow passenger on a river steamer a few days before, and with whom he had fallen In love, Is the girl and In chivalry fore goes his revenge against Carr. Jarvls admires Mademoiselle Les tron. He Is a witness of the meeting and picks up a camellia which the girl had thrown, un noticed, to Sazarac. CHAPTER III Continued. " 'Pon word, fellow, you had the ef frontery to show up, then?" Something in the cold eyes of the taller man stung through to his drunken brain. "I will not fight you, eh? Is that what you are thinking? Of course not of course not, Captain Sazarac I I of Ills Majesty's Serv ice, and you not a gentleman In the city could vouch for you!" 'Colonel Carr," put In the girl steadily, "will you cease?" She stepped nearer: "The gentleman but wishes to depart. The house will be aroused, the servants are gabbling now I" "You will excuse him, sir." Madame Carr turned to the stranger ; and even in her disarray, he saw that she was matronly beautiful, but hollow-eyed as one torn by ceaseless anxiety : "He does not know of what he speaks." "I can speak that, Madame, that would put all Louisiana In an uproar. Langhorne, the consul, will open his eyes when when " With a sudden furious movement Mrs. Carr closed his month. He threw her oil violently. "Cease this, Madame! I am not a child, or fool! Already about this crack-brained city the clouds are gathering! From the Sabine country the Spaniards " "Be still P She checked him with rising fury. In the moonlight her eyes held the glitter of a tigress. But the officer's drunken madness became uncontrollable. "To your rooms, you women ! Both of you ! As for this man " he turned again, staring abruptly at the tall cloaked figure; for the time, he hod forgotten him : "Bah ! He Is here be cause " "We know," put In the elder woman coldly, "he has ruined you at cards everything. The consul has Informed me of this humiliation beyond words, Carr was laughing evilly again. "Eh, well! The pot-house gallants saw It all. Oh, ho! there were wa gers that Captain Sazarac woxild not even dare lift his face nguln nt the gaming-houses. He would find pre texts, he would Invent reasons Indeed It was a shabby trick to put upon even a packet gambler P There was a silence. Madame Carr was staring at the stranger. "What Is this, sir? I heard some silly story of the card rooms Madame des Trehan would not explain, but there was comment, upon the prome nade, today. Sir, as my husband but shouts, laughing, will you enlighten uT" Monsieur Sazarac stood with fold ed arms. The girl In white was watch ing him doubtfully. Suddenly she came nearer. There was almost pleading In her softness. "Tell me. There was some cruel Jest put upon you, slrf Th stranger would not answer. Carr laughed hoarsely, lurching against the rail. "The Jest Is this, ladles! Upon the packet trip, this man wa all eye for one of you. Chagrined that I would not Introduce him, he was bent upon breaking me at cards. He had the luck of a cold devil even to th last throw at Msspero's. Eh, well. It was but a Jetl The town -buckles over It I wagered him against his win ning of the packet a bond girl of our household. He took Ii creedlly ha-ha I" "Sir. w traveled with no servant eave the public help." the wife put In, "That I true." Carr strnliih'eneil np with drunken gravity, "Nut h f" , th wager, tie thought evilly enough, Charles Tenney JacKson Illustrations by by The BobbS-Merrill Company, there was a wench of San Domingo fair as one of you. He was Imbecile enough to yearn for her glances!" "Your word, sir, If you recall?" said Sazarac gravely. "A jest ! Who would deem It but a cardroom jest!" The stranger turned as If to escape from an unpleaslng situation. But the elder woman suddenly came be tween them. "But what is this curi ous thing they whisper of along the promenade? I caught a laugh, a pity ing look !" She swept scornfully upon her hus band. "Did you, then, cheat at the cards?" Carr roared his mirth : "No on my honor! There was no need!" "The affair is done," murmured the stranger. "Your pardon, Madame! But as he made to pass, Carr must gibe once more at him, "Your wager, sir? The prize you claim which was it?" The silence grew acute. The two women stared unbelievingly ; tne younger turned widening eyes upon the silent stranger. "He told you that?" "Nothing, Mademoiselle. Allow me to depart!" He meant me! A girl of San Do mingo! Bandied my name in the cardrooms " "You were not mentioned, Mademoi selle. I never knew your name before. You will allow me to go, Mademoiselle Lestron. It Is enough " "It Is not enough! You do not know all, sir!" She turned swiftly to the drunken colonel and struck him sharply In the face. "You dared this ! You Infamous coward! I a slave of San Domingo" Carr stood In an abject sobering. Louise, this Is folly!" "I shall speak! Whom could you mean?" "Eh? A Jest! I said, a Jest not meant for anyone's ears but his and mine! He had the Impudence to come here to claim something " Carr settled back on the rail uncer tainly. Something?" Miss Lestron turned Icily to Sazarac. "Sir, and what?" 'I do not know. I hnd no thought save to seek Colonel Carr and demand satisfaction. The affair could have Sh Swept Scornfully Upon Her Hue band "Did You, Then, Cheat at th Cards?" , been arranged at the Oaks with no breath of the quarrel' point. One of us should die . . . the other's lips sealed In honor. Was that not enough, Mademoiselle, for your protection?" Sazatrc, the river gamester, saw a curious light In her eyes. Grateful ness, scorn, or the brief Interest In this Idea of protecting her, he could not say which, for she turned at once to the other man. Her voice flowed ou steadily hut mounting to a peak ot Implacable contempt "On the turn of a card, sir? You played high very high . . . an empire, perhaps, risked In a Chart re gambling house I" "Will you be still?" blustered Carr, staggering forth. "A Jest I said a Jest on him! Your name was Dot In It! I said a slave girl. Bah I will go to Langhorne and borrow a wench to pay my debt If that Is the Issue P "Yon had best both be still,'' warned the older woman, frightened now. "Louise, come this is no mat ter for a cardronm brawl. Sazarac If he I vouched for a a gentlemaa In this city, must challenge. I sup poseah, God! lie will challenge " And, passing them with high head but tear-dimmed eyes, Madame Carr went to her chambers. "Bah muttered Carr with sadden drunken sleepiness. "Go home, Saza rac ! You. to your rooms, Louise ! My head ache with all thl ranting! It was a Jest. On Sazarac, because of his taking my last farthing n Lou ise, because of her airs. Enough, it's done. Sazarac can challenge and he d d. He can send a second if lie knows a gentleman In the city, which Is Improbable when I am sober. My affair Is in Langhorne's hands. Now,, to bed!" He staggered along the gallery. But suddenly, with a shrug, a bow a face serene In the moonlight Captain Sa zarac addressed him. "Sir, I am minded to recall my words. Now, I shall claim my wager!" "I say to bed " mumbled Carr thickly. He reeled at his door, waved a palsied finger at them and crashed against the furniture within. Miss Lestron stood at the balus trade of the winding staircase as the stranger was descending. A step be low he turned: "I claim my wager. Let them have a care who put a Jest upon me in this town I The sea is near . . . and it Is wide. Wide, Mademoiselle, and deep; and far very fur, is the way to Its secret places." "I do not understand." She was watching him Intently. He had gone to the next turn of the staircase. The moonlight struck the silver of his sword hilt. She leaned forth, and her eyes struck lire from his own when he glanced up. "Far?" she whispered: "And it may be beautiful !" He watched her lips. The perfume of the jasmined wall seemed to rise from the court and engage her; she seemed afloat In a purple sea formed by the shadows. A face, a form lumi nous in the mists of his dark years of remembrance. The soul of his youth was stirring . . . he had dared all, lost all, on decisions quick, hot, pregnant as this, in duys long put behind. "I love you," he said quietly. "You will remember that." She heard his boot on the stones of the court. He was passing the pomegranate clump when he thought something flashed near him in the moonlight. A white thing, a light thing a feather, a petal in the air. But he saw no more, nor heard a sound from above. He went to the untenanted street, wondering if she had waited until his footsteps died away. He wondered why be hud spoken; and then he laughed. Sazarac, the packet gamester . . . Jean Lafltte, last of the sea-adventurers ghost of a van ished time, back to tread the streets where his life was not worth the flicker of a moonbeam In the jasmine screen below her window. After he had gone, something did stir. A man crawled out from the shadows across the area, went to the gardened center of the court and searched under the fig and pomegran ate leaves. Presently he muttered and straightened up, a white blossom in his hand. "Eh?"'he said. "A camellia . . . It has been In her hair. She was to wear It to the opera, and Carr's orgy tonight prevented. I would have seen her pass . . . she would have thought me a red-eyed beggar stand ing by the areaway, but I would have seen her pass." John Jarvls stared up at the silent balcony. Then he, too, went his way. "The Cafe la Veau Qui Tete " he grumbled. "I shall put on my old waistcoat again to get drunk In. Sazarac! D n this Sazarac! A flower from her hair, and the fool did not see it I A flower for Sazarac !" At the Cafe la Veau he entered by the " garden gate and went to Bit among the huge wine tuns under the tiled shed. "Three measures of liquor and I could pulnt a white camellia against her hair," he mused ; "but the taproom and I together could not paint love In her eye for me." After that he sought a bench and slept. Presently In came another and by the same stealthy-passageway. A huge seaman, this, with broad hairy chest, and tattooed arms. He exam ined the sleeping painter, took off his coat and spread it above him. "He must be kept drunken and nsleep," muttered Johanness. "The fool would shout It through the town the Cap tain Jean returned, and meeting us old ghosts up from the Islands! Enter, Old Silt-Nose! None here save John, the taproom avocat A howl from him and he draws my knife point I Sit quiet and await Our host gave me the keys and Is abed ... he pre fers not to know what he should not know, like any wise man !" "Jean, whom I painted at th famou Isle! Jean!" (TO BE CONTINUED.) Try Thi Formula for Feet. Not atone upon the choice of shoes docs the comfort of the feet depend. 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