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WOID HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume "Most Important Daily News Items. v COMPILED FOR YOU Brent of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other 4 Things Worth Knowing. President Coolidge by proclamation Tuesday restored the rights of Ameri can citizenship to all deserters from the army and navy during the three year period between the armistice and the formal ending of the world war. Slipping In from the high seas un der cover of a heavy fog, 21 vessels,' headed by the British steam yacht Istar, Wednesday dropped anchor along rum row in New York, to dis pose of 160,000 cases of liquor $8, 000,000 worth. , Throe hundred persons were burn ed to death, suffocated or died in panics as a result of a fire which swept the important town of Chowt sun, 40 miles east of Tsinan, Shan tung province, last Friday. Seven hundred others were injured. Those who visit Tijuana, the Mex ican resort across the boundary line, 14 miles from San Diego, Cal., will have to return to United States soil before 9 P. M. hereafter or remain in Mexico overnight, according to an nouncement made at the American customs office. Robert C. Shlpman, world war vet eran and homesteader living two miles south of Grants Pass, Or., was knock ed down and killed by a ferocious boar while feeding his hogs at noon Wed nesday. Mr. Shipman was bit on the leg, his femoral artery severed and death was due to loss of blood. John H. Dunbar, attorney-general of Washington state, and T. J. L. Ken nedy, corporation counsel of Soattle, will annanf In thn TTnltAfl Stfl.tAR RU- preme court April 14 to oppose an appeal of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company and the Home Telephone company, it was announced Tuesday. King George sees in the good under standing between Great Britain and the United States "the best guaran tee for the future peace of the world." This declaration was sent Wednesday to President Coolidge at the request of the king by Sir Esme Howard and marked the presentation of the new ambassador's credentials to the Amer ican chief executive. On recommendation of the grand jury, Judge WilBon in Hood Rlvor, Or., Tuesday omitted assessment of a fine against R. C. Goodman, ex-high school manual training teacher, who plead ed guilty to contributing to the de linquency of Kenneth Coovert, a 16-year-old boy, by inciting him to com plicity in thefts of automobile acces sories. Judge Wilson sentenced Good man to 20 days in jail. President Coolidge is in entire ac cord with the desire to assist the farm ers of the northwest and those of the country generally through the present period of depression, it was stated of ficially Tuesday, but has arrived at no decision as to the form such aid should take. Officials of the depart ment ,of agriculture are expected to submit recommendations to the presi dent upon the various legislative pro posals now assuming shape in con gress. The Philippines' plea for immediate independence was dealt a stinging blow Wednesday by President Cool idge. The president, in a letter to Manuel Uoxes, head of the Philippine ludopondonco mission, declared flat ly the administration did not believe the time had come to grant independ ence to the Filipino people and assert ed that grievances against Governor General Wood were unjustified and, like the independence appeal, wore un supported by a considerable portion of the island's population. The tax reduction bill passed by the house will have to be remodeled to Chairman Smoot of the senate finance committoo announced Wednesday night on the eve of consideration of the measure by that committee. Bas ing his calculations on estimates re ported this week by the treasury de partment that the house bill would cut off 446,000,000 In revenue In the calendar year 1925, Mr. Smoot said this would tall by 1100,000.000 to pro vide funds for the working expenses of the government alone, exclusive of a soldier bonus bill or other pending extra appropriation measures. CURRENT WEEK INCOME TAX CUT DELAYED First Payment March 15 to Be I'n changed Later Action Expected. Washington, D. C. The movement to obtain immediate action on the proposed 25 per cent reduction in in come taxes payable this year was re vived in the house Monday, but as quickly turned down. Republican leaders decided that action could not be obtained on a resolution before March 15, when first installments are due. Republican members of the ways and means committee, meeting with Representative Longworth, party lead er, agreed, however, that if the rev enue bill, already passed by the house and containing this provision, meets with any delay in enactment, a separ ate resolution to make the cut ef fective before June 15 would be press ed. The action again places in the hands of the senate the problem of tax reduc tion and the senate finance commit tee in its consideration of the revenue bill will take up the section which provides for the cut in 1923 income taxes. Most of the administrative sections of the bill were gone over without change by the committee. Upon wind ing up these details of the measure thfl various tax schedules will be taken up, Sectary Mellon will be asked to present estimates on the amount of revenue necessary to be raised and his opinion on the rates required to obtain such revenue. . Chairman Smoot has expressed the opinion that the bill as passed by the house falls by $100,000,000 of raising sufficient revenue and had declared many of the tax rates will have to be raised. If the provision to make the 25 per cent reduction on 1923 taxes ef fective is finally agreed to as carried in the revenue bill, deductions in taxes due in the other three installments will be allowed to make up for the full payments made March 15. House Votes Sale of Plant to Ford. Washington, D. C Henry Ford's of fer for Muscle Shoals, pending before congress for more than two years, was approved Monday by the house. By a vote of 227 to 142 the Mc Kenzie bill, which would authorize acceptance fo Ford's bid, was passed and sent to the senate, where there is uncertainty as to what action, if any, will be taken on it at this ses sion. Continuously before the house for a week, the McKenzle measure was approved virtually In the form in which it was reported by the military committee, which had been informed by Mr. Ford that he would take over the government's nitrate and power project on the Tennessee river under the terms embodied in the bill. To the last, advocates of the Ford offer resisted attempts to modify the proposed contract. Amendment after amendment, aimed at the heart of the bill, was thrown out by decisive vote, and as passed the measure carried less than half a dozen changes, all of minor Importance which proponents of the bill were willing to accept. Under terms of the bill, Ford will have the right to lease for 100 years dams 2 and 3 at Muscle Shoals, and adjacent power stations. Franc Drops to New Low Level Paris. The French franc sank to a new low level Monday after a tem porary sharp Improvement during the day, attributed to the government's announcement that there should be no further loans or inflation to justify posslmism regarding French finance. The franc was worth 3.54 cents, the dollar being quoted at 28.13 and the pound at 119.80 when curb-trading stopped. Baby Believed Tiniest. Chicago. Henry Gauze Jr., prob ably Is the tiniest baby in the world. He weighs only 12 ounces and stretches himsolf out to a bare eight inches. Henry was born Saturday to Mrs. Henry Gnnze of Melrose park. 'The boy is so small he can rest easily in a cigar box," the father said. The father Is 24 and the mother 20. ' Moral Sentiment First. Science . . . necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses. Yet it does not surprise the moral sen timent. That was older, and awaited expoetant these larger insights. Emerson. How Men Judge. Men usually judge of the prudence of a man by the result, and are very apt to say that the successful man has had much forethought, and the unsuc cessful has shown great want of it. CUT IN 1924 LEVY STAYS IN 1 BILL House Leaders Agree Not to Form Separate Measure. FEAR COOLIDGE VETO Democrats Declare Move Is First Step in Plan for Wreck of Proposed Law. Washington, D. C The provision for a 25 per cent reduction in income taxes payable this year will rest on the fortunes of the revenue bill, house leaders reaching a tentative agree ment Saturday not to remove It from the revenue measure and seek its im mediate enactment in a separate reso lution. Advocates of the latter plan, includ ing Representative Tllson, Connecti cut, a republican member of the ways and means committee, admitted it would be almost impossible to get such a resolution through by March 15, when first installments on income taxes are due. The treasury depart ment had asked this in an effort to avoid the necessity of making refunds on these payments, and President Coolidge indorsed the proposal. The proposition was opposed by many members of both parties, demo crats declaring it was the first step by the administration leading to a presidential veto of the revenue bill, the new rates of which will apply first to taxes payable next year. Meanwhile the senate finance com mittee reached the first important sec tion in its consideration of the revenue bill the estate taxes. , The rates of these taxes were rais ed by the house over the opposition of republican organization members and strong sentiment developed in the finance committee to revise the en tire section with a view, however, to raising the same amount of revenue as provided by the house. Chairman Smoot said considerable favor developed toward making the tax apply to beneficiaries of estates rather than to the estates of the de cedents before division. This would make it in the form of an inheritance tax and would require general revision of the rates. The $50,000 exemption allowed in the estate tax necessarily would be cut down, Mr. Smoot said, and per haps most of the rates raised. Pending study of the income tax schedules, definite lines on the expect ed fight over them have not been drawn. Senate democrats, however, have Indicated a desire to stand1 for the Garner income tax rates, pro posed by the house democrats as a substitute for the Mellon schedule. They once were placed on the bill in the house, but the Longworth com promise rates later were substituted. Likewise, republican organization lead ers, including Senator Watson of In diana, had said they would seek to replace the substitute rates with the Mellon rates, although admitting slight possibility of keeping these schedules in the bill for a vote In the senate. Homestead Areas Open. Washington, D. C. Opening to homestead entry of 323,000 acres in five western states the largest area to be set aside for that purpose in a year was announced Saturday by the interior department. Dates for fil ings will be announced later. The areas include 110,70 acres in Carbon and Phillips counties, Monti 69,000 acres in Landar and Pershing coun ties Nov.; 30,950 acres in Lake coun ty, Oregon. Senator Greene Better. Washington, D. C Senator Greene of Vermont, who was shot in the head several weeks ago during an encounter between a prohibition en forcement party and suspected boot leggers, was able Sunday to leave his bed for the first time. Paralysis, which developed in his left side, it is said, has steadily subsided. Baby Boy Found Slain. Seattle, Wash. The body of a baby boy was found Saturday on a munici pal bathing beach of this city. Police expressed belief that the baby had been murdered. Deputy coroner Harry W. Johnson declared that the body had been In the water several days and that the child had been between two and twelve weeks old. Whit Salmon. A colony of beavers Is creating havoo among the trees In the Columbia river district at' Bingen, causing damage to property by felled trees. vv. --. . . t ; ,'--JV3-l. I, iriM J. ..in K HMWfalto'riiMl 'i ifCSpYright CHAPTER VIII Continued. 12 "Tn the days of Lafitte the world was straight as a switch,'" trans lated De Marlgny for the benefit of a young American lieutenant, "and,' look you, Jarvls unfolds the pirate's flag. Another crack at Raoul's new friend the famous Sazarac I" For the artist, as his amateur buc caneers roared their chantey, shook free the colors, and planted the staff by Bosslere's table. A black banner upon which was a grotesque skull and cross-bones. Even Bosslere was con vulsed with laughter nt the grimacing Jarvls' antics. Then he uprose, glass in hand. "Well, then, to the buccaneers, my good Jarvls I The old cry: 'A-Barata-rlal A-Barataria !' " And then the old seaman seemed to stare curiously A Black Banner Upon Which Was a Grotesque Skull and Cross-bones. i at the nearest of the pirate mummers. Raoul's eye was on him; the young man caught a covert glance from Al eerman Dominique. But the shouting rabies saw nothing wrong. De Ma rlgny was up and roaring. "A flag I A flag, for the Scraphlne! A royal jest for Bonaparte when we scale the cliffs of St, Helena, hale him to sea, and run up the old colors of the free rovers I Ho, Jarvls, tills Is a hit!" A group was about the artist, drag ging him to a wine cask to mount and speak. But suddenly a new uproar burst from them all. One of the red shlrted masqueraders had sprung to the rail, seizing the black flag to wave It ns he ran. And his song burst forth there seemed some new, warn ing accent to the thing: "Dl terns M'sleu Lafitte" Above the hubbub De Almonaster's nervous senses caught a sound over the rail. His covert glance to the yellow river showed a deeper shadow, then the flash of oars. He found Al derman Dominique staring at him hastily. Then, turning, he henrd bare feet pattering along the wooden slope of the levee. But even when the first of a curious crew appeared at the gangway among the crowding serv ants, hustling them aside, the rev elers on the deck did no more than roar appreciatively. "Ho, Jarvls I More of your jesting! Faith, how many " Then De Marlgny stopped. Gorglo, the crayfish seller, was unwnrplng a mooring line that held the Sernphlne In the tide. And a huge mulatto leaped from rail to deck; there came a flash of a . cutlass from another figure. "De Almonaster!" cried La Bnrre, "that Is your hostler, Teton I This is not good taste!" And suddenly, with a roar, a score of burly forms rushed the rail and swept among the guests. Forward came a rattle of poles and blocks. A shouted order from old Johanness of the swamp; and the bow of the clip per was sheering off the wharf. A startled silence fell. The richly ap pareled gentlemen were staring as the Sernphlne's bow caught the slow current. De Almonaster grasped Dominique In turn. "They are here!" The two caught sight of a tall cloaked figure that had sprung to the quarterdeck and turned calmly to watch the melee. Captain Bosslere had leaped up shouting: "Laflttel Ton my soul the ban dit !" Then from the barefooted fellows arose the old cry of n decade agone: "A-Baratnrla ! ABarntarla !" "Off with them !" roared old Bohon, "to the work, bullies!" . The elegant young D Marlgny, In his eveulng clothes of broadcloth and . y. mm . i in. ii- IH,.m Vl'l t by ; Charles Tennetj tfacKson Illustration by ItfwinAtyers by I The BobbS-Mrr!ll Company. silk stockings, was lifted and hurled over the rail to the muddy levee. A sword flashed in Villeret's hand, and he was seized and thrown from the deck. La Barre sprang to the shrouds with a warning cry to the servants, but he, too, was propelled off. And with yells and laughter the Baratarlans rushed upon the retreat ing guests of the Napoleon ship. Overpowered, borne back, the strug gling gallants fought, but one by one the brawny hunters and fishermen of the chenieres threw them from rail and deck. Tables were overturned, the awning poles broken, lanterns flared up smoklly; and over the battle the one-time commander of the black I'e tral watchfld calmly. The pressure brought De Almonaster almost against him. "Jean I" he whispered ; "you dared, then?" But a hand clutched frantically at Raoul's sleeve. De La Vergne was borne past In the embrace of two lusty fellows. "A mol!" cried the youth, "ltaoul, we are attacked!" "Norn de Dleu !" muttered ltaoul. "Nez Coupe, do not Injure him !" "Over with him I" There was a splash In the bntture mud. The ship was swinging wide In the river flood. Jarvls came reeling aft, staring back at his lnte fellow guests and bon-vivants. Already ahead came the snap of a loosened jib. Jo hanness, the bo'sun, was shouting or ders to fellows who were manning the fore-rigging. At the wheel stood Be luche, one-time admiral of Cartagena, looking up to the break of the canvas. And even as De Almonaster gasped to see how swiftly the plotters had worked, each to an appointed station, the last of the youth and chivalry of La Nouvelle Orleans went over the side to the levee mud. Save one. Jarvls, the wit, had seized his hand-painted Jolly Roger and shook It toward the city. Then hewllderedly he looked again at La fitte. "Jean! What is this jest!" "Next time you seek to amuse the gentry of New Orleans," cried Johan ness, "do not allow Gorglo to choose your players !" Jarvls approached the master of the Sernphlne. "It might be of Interest, Monsieur Sazarac, why I am here, why my fat friend, Dominique, Is here?" "My good Jarvls, I wish you were ashore you and the councilor at least. This is a serious venture, sir. We are to the rescue of the English lady." The painter stared at him : "Why, I thought she you she did not flee with you after all? I may see her again?" "It lies with the winds of chance. You are set on a mad venture, sir." Jarvls poured him more drink un steadily. His captain stood frowning at the long tables on the banquet deck. Already along them wild spirits of of the crew were cracking bottles and making merry over the disordered feast which had been spread for the gentlemen-adventurers of New Or leans. The older men were working the ship safely In the broad reaches of the river on a following wind, but the others hardly gave way before the under-ofllcers. "Eh, well !" bawled the town's Jester suddenly, "no, slimy gallants. Ho, drenched blades o' the opera! to morrow, to celebrate the sailing of the Napoleon ship there will be such a scrubbing and hanging forth of furbe lows and ribbons as will keep the house mammies busied for a week! Who Is In the mud, now John Jarvls? Mo 1' almln vous comme cochon !" But after the laughter that followed him the author of It went aside to stare nhead into the dark. De Almon aster found him so, his pallor height ened, his cheeks twitching. The hiimlc seemed shaken with a fenr as he watched the bloom of shadowy sail drawing him on to unknown venture. "I am to see her, Monsieur and she me?" he said plaintively. "Monsieur Sazarac will rescue her by force If needs be, John." The other nodded slowly: "Yes Sazarac, always Sazarac. Ah, name o' G d: to play one hour! To be the poseur to have the lover's ges ture, the pretty speech; and to tell men: 'Go there! Come here I' with a mere glance that they obey I Think of It I A Sazarac . . . Come, Mon sieur, the coguac. It is the refuge, the adventure and the dream. In the bottle I am Lord Sazarac I swag ger, I rescue I love." He twitched his friend's sleeve dolefully: "she must never see me . . . I am the ragged ghost out In the shadows. Mon sieurwhere her eyes cannot follow." He turned away, the sardonic mood quite shaken from him. "B.'low the emperor's chair, for Suzurac. The lady will come for Sazarac. Sazarac whq does not exist save In her dreams I . . . Why should I not play Sazarac for her? viiat right has Jean Lafitte to this gallant, res cuing role before her evesT CHAPTER IX A Question cf Diplomacy. . They had been a roaring, unruly lot forward until Bejuehe, as second of ficer, with Bohon and Nez Coupe, had brought discipline, at times with the threat of fist or marllmpike. The watches were picked and the mess or ganized, and the desultory plundering of stores and the finery left In disor der by the gentlemen crew of the Na poleon ship was sternly stopped. In deed, three fellows who had a set-to with the rum at once, were In the brig by nightfall; and a trio more had broken heads. But when the Captain Jenn, with Monsieur de Almonaster and Dominique, went on Inspection during the second watch, they were greeted with cheerful and subdued respect. The former, second officer of the Black Petral muttered to his chief. "There be sixty-four in all. Some old artillerymen of Jackson's day at Chalmette; some fo'cas'le lads who've sailed wl' David Porter and wl' Deca tur against the Tripolitans; some es caped Britishers from press gangs and there be a score of our old fel lows, Jean. Men of Grand Terre, and of Galveston Island, some wl the President's pardon some not." The gaunt, shifty-eyed John Crack ley, stepped from the line. "We have made bold to ask, sir under what flag this ship" A rumble of laughter stopped him. Aft, by the captain's companion, hung a stiff, painted banner already fraying In the gale. And by It, fast asleep, sprawled the artist-jester who had painted the thing to amusj the city of the Creoles. But Lafitte stopped the levity. "We shall attend to that. We are on a ven ture the end of which will be dis closed to you In due time." But when he had dismissed them tn quarters, old Beluche voiced his doubts. "Not a ruffian of them all but thinks we are privateering again. As to Napoleon, they would roar with laughter; and as to this rescue" of the English woman, well you can lead them to that, but It Is plunder that is In their minds." The chief looked thoughtfully nt De Almonaster. When they sat again over their brandy and coffee In the tapes tried luxury of the emperor's suite, the young man adverted to It. "We have the excuse, sir, that Mademoiselle Lestron was unlawfully seized out of the city. Only violent action could save her. She must ex plaln the mystery of her abduction to clear us with the admiralties" "The watch already reports a vessel making south," grunted Beluche. "Anil the Genaron will be a clumsy lout In weather that this clipper loves. The mists kept the Englishman "hid In the passes, but out to sea we can pick him up at our pleasure." Old Dominique twirled his thumbs upon his stomach, He had declined to take any active part In the ship's hurried organization, plendlng his gout and corpulence, but they had gibed him well. "If trouble comes of it as It will," grinned Beluche sourly, "you will still be the worthy councilor of New Or leans, eh? Pummeled aboard and oft against your will ! no, Dominique !" "And you may yet need an honest councilor to plead your cause," re-' torted Dominique. "And you get your selves Into admiralty court, the h'lg wigs will be hard to convince tills Is not open lawless piracy. The Captain Jean's love-affairs eh, well ! Can you get an advocate to speak them to the magistrates of Jamaica, or even In Charleston or New York !" A lanky tousled form came reeling under the rocking cabin. lamp "A magistrate !" chuckled Jarvls, "the rum, old gabbler that Is the prime magistrate! Since when did Domi nique mewl of the laws?" "Be still, Jarvls!" said Lafitte, "this Is a serious council. The lady of the Jmik lMf "In the Bottle; I Am Lord Sazarac; I Swagger, I Rescue I Love." Genaron Is to be rescued without vio lence If we may. After that" "Bonaparte 1" cried ltaoul eagerly, "that Is our one chance for fame, for fortune and for extenuation I The exiled emperor slipped from under their noses und to sea on the fastest clipper that Yankee brains ever de vised !" "And after that, pray?" mumbled old Dominique. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Just So. Teacher "What Is the meaning of false doctrine?" Johnny "That's when the doctor gives the wrong stuff to sick people." The Medical Quip.