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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments nd Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. A very light and almost invisible fall of snow In Chicago Monday was the third latest snowfall In more than half a century, the weater bureau said. The temperature early was 45. Four women were killed and six other persons were Injured by a tornado which struck near Spring town, Okla., late Tuesday night, ac cording to reports over crippled wires. An earthquake shock Tuesday wrecked a building at Port De Paix, Haiti, killing three persons and in juring several others. A church steeple was demolished and the gardarmle barracks were badly damaged. The resolution to change the name of Mount Rainier to Mount Tacoma will not be considered at this session of congress, Chairman Slnnott of the house public lands committee inform ed Representatives of the Tacoina chambor o, commerce Tuesday. Police eat Hanna City, 111., Tuesday night arrested Norma Anderson, who, with her 2-year-old baby in her arms, held up and robbed the A. C. Stoen burg bank, obtaining $1500 In cash All of the money was recovered when the Anderson .woman was taken lntc custody. A permit for a f 1,000,000 temple which Is to be erected by the Seattle aerie, No. 1, Fraternal Order of Bugles hero, was issued Tuesday. Of ficers of. the lodge announced that work of razing buildings on a site preparatory to construction would com mence next. month. Arguments on the first of three mo tions filed by the dofense occupied the initial Besslon Tuesday of the trial board of the Protestant Episcopal church, summoned to Cloveland, O., to pass on charges that Right Rev. Wil liam Montgomery Brown, ex-bishop of . Arkansas, uttered doctrines not held by the church. Still maimed and in the shadow of a devastating series of tornadoes of less than a month ago, rural Alabama and Mississippi late Tuesday again wore stricken by a second storm visitation, ami at a late hour were taking toll of tholr dead and Injured and the unosllmated thousands of dollars' damage done to farm 3 and homes and buildings. Four policemen, a democratic politi cian, an ex-prohibition ngotit and 32 alleged boor makers and runners, in eluding John Torrio and Deau O'Bnn nlon, were Indicted by the federal grand Jury Tuosday on charges of con spiracy to violute the prohibition law. The Indictments were returned in court as a result of a recent raid on the Slebon brewery in Chicago, 111. Permitting their mother to have them only at feoding time and then taking them under her wing the rest of the time, a Rhode Island hen In JanoBvllle, Wis., has adopted three 10-duy-old kittens. The biddy, owned by Julius Cranke, guards the Maltese kittens Jealously, drives off Mrs. Tab by whonever she comes nenr and keops all intruding chickens at a dis tance. . The majority of American schools are lost to God and the gospel and to day, are the seals of unsound teaching and the prolific mothers of modernist preachers, all because Satan, working with his trump card, Is ever busy, was the assertion mado In Milwaukee, Wis., late Tuesday by Rov. W. B. Riley, Minneapolis, before the Baptist Bible union, a fundamentalist organ ization. Nine persons were Indicted Tues day by the grand Jury at Portland as tho climax of the county bridge probe. Three former county commissioners, Charles S. Rudoen, J. II. Rankin and Bow V. Walker, were charged with nmlfeaaunce in office in one indict ment, and five contractors, officers of tho three companies awarded the trans-Willamette bridge jobs April 1, were named In another indictment, the charge being conspiracy In submit ting a collusive bid on the work, there by defeating free competition on a public contract. A Sad Error. ; The lives of many are ruined by the fatul delusion that the more one pos sesses the more one enjoys. Boston Evening Transcript. WEEK TAX-CUT MEASURE SIGNED President Says Bill Lacks Economic Reform Small Incomes Benefit. Washington, D. C President Cool Idge Monday signed the tax reduction bill, but declaring It unsatisfactory, announced he would bend all his en ergies to obtain enactment of a better measure at the next session of con gress. The bill, which decreases tax rates In most Instances to the lowest levels since 1917 and which was the basis of the hotost legislative fight of the pres ent session of congress, was declared by the president in a 2500-word state ment issued incident with his approval of the measure to represent merely "tax reduction, not tax reform." "The bill does not represent a sound pormanent tax policy and In its pas sage has been subject to unfortunate Influence which ought not to control fiscal questions," the executive said. "Still, In spite of its obvious defects, Its advantages as a temporary relief and a temporary adjustment of busi ness conditions, in view of the uncer tainty of a better law within a reason able time, leads me to believe that the best interests of the counry would bo subserved if this bill became a law. "A correction of Its defects may be left to the next session of the con gress. I trust a bill less political and more truly economic may be passed at that time. To that end I shall bend all my energies." The legislation as approved by the president reduces the taxes of almost every federal taxpayer and cuts down the federal revenues by an amount estimated at 5301,000,000 for the next fiscal year. This reduction, however, will not result in any deficit, accord ing to treasury experts. The principal effect of the new law will not be felt until next year, the 50 per cent reductions in income taxes being made applicable to incomes ol this year, but payable in 1925. Imme diate relief, however, is granted every Income taxpayer, as a 25 per cent decrease is ordered In the case of in come taxes for the current year and now duo. Persons who are paying this year's incomo taxes on the installment plan may cut their second payment, duo Juno 15, by one-half and their other two installments by one-fourth each. Those who already have paU their Income taxes in full will get a re fund without applying for It. Another effect that soon will be- ap preciable is the provision of the new law repealing within 30 days mans excise taxes such as those on tele graph and telephone messages, soft drinks, candy, carpets, rugs, trunks and thentor admissions of DO cents or less. The revision of the income tax rates effected undor the now law brings o cut in all such levies. This amounts to 50 per cent reduction on incomes of $8000 and under. On amounts above that the normal rate Is cut from S ti 8 per cont, whllo the surtax rutes an revised on a similar basis. Tho new surtax schedule starts wit' 1 pur cent on flO.OOO and graduates up to -10 per cent on 1500,000 and over. A new feature written into the legislation at the recommendation of Secretary Mellon, who initiated the move for tux revision last September, provides for an additional reduction of 25 per cent on earned incomes up to $10,000 with all incomes of $5000 and under classed as earned. Approval was given by the presi dent to tho measure exactly one week to the hour from the time he received It after almost unanimous final action by the house and senate. The presi dent acted after study of a longthy report made on the bill by the treasury department and after several confer ences with Secretary Mellon, to whose original plan for tax revision he had given his support and indorsement. Man Is Heavily Insured. New York. The most heavily insur ed man in this country it not in any land is Rodman Wnnnmaker. He carries life insurance policies aggre gating $6,000,000. according to an an nouncement by the Association of Life Underwriters of Philadelphia. Wnnnmaker, son of the late depart ment store multi-millionaire, ' John Wanamakor, who heads the list of 65 American business men, each of whom curries more than $1,000,000 life in surance, has just taken out another policy for $1,500,000, which brings his total up to $6,000,000. Power Boat Blown Up. rort Orchard, Wash. Walter Harris, owner of the Georgia, a vessel plying between this port and the Brem erton, navy-yard, was missing Monday and believed dead from an explosion completely wrecking his boat and causing slight damage to nearby build ings. The boat was berthed at the main dock here and Capjaln Harris was the only person aboard, so far as known. It was believed the explosion took place while repairing the engine. FIRE 111 SCHOOL 22 20 Others in Precarious Con dition in Hospital. ' YOUNG AND OLD BURN 3-Story California Structure Is Called Fire-Trap Nurses From Hos pital Make Rescues. Los Angeles, Cal. Ashes of the Hope development school for sub-normal children at Playa pel Rey, 18 miles from here, on the ocean beach, Sunday yielded the burned bodies of 22 persons as the result of a tire last night. Twenty others, Inmates of the school, are in a precarious condition at St. Catherine's hospital in Santa Monica, a few miles away. The holo caust victims ranged in years from 4 to 48. Tho throe-Btory structure, reclaim ed from the abandoned building of an old cafe in the deserted pleasure re sort town of many years ago, was de clared by investigators to have been a fire trap isolated from any protec tion. All that remains of it is a brick chimney and twisted iron pipes and ashes. About 40 girls were housed within the private institution when flames burst out at 8:30 Saturday night. In addition there were in the old building the matron, Mrs. J. C. Thomas, and Wilfred Ringer, 14-year-old adopted son of the proprietor, Mrs. Mary E. Jacobs. The matron and the boy per ished. A family of beach picnickers observ ed the flames and sounded the alarm. Before the fire apparatus could arrive from Venice, the nearest town, the building was a mass ot uncontrollable flames. One of the first rescue squads to arrive was a staff of nurses from S Catherine's hospital in Santa Monica. They were instrumental in rescuing IS children, all of whom were suffering from fumes and whose lives were i; the balance. Six firemen were treated for minor injuries. JAPANESE CHARGE TREATY VIOLATION Washington, U. C. Japan's "solemn protest" against the exclusion section of the new immigratien law was form ally presented to Secretary Hughes Saturday by Ambassador' Hanihara, and was made public at the state de partment without comment. Coupled with the protest was the request of the Japanese government that the American government "take all possible and suitable measures for removal of discrimination. The communication declared inter national discriminations are particu larly "unwelcome" when "based on race," and added that discrimination of that character is expressed in the exclusion statute. The history of commercial agree ments between the two countries, it was declared, showed that the Jap anese government has sought to pro tect its nationals from "discrimina tory ' immigration legislation in the United States," which position was "fully understood and appreciated by the American government." "The Japanese government desires now to point out," said the note, "that the new legislation is in entire dis regard of the spirit and circumstances that uuderlio the conclusion of the treaty (of 1911)." It was added that the provisions of tho new law "have made it impossible for Japan to continue the undertakings assumed under the gentlemen's agree ment." "The patient, loyal and scrupulous observance by Japan for more than 16 years of these self-denying regula tions, in the interest ot good rela tions between the two countries, now seems to have been wasted," the pro test continued. - At the end Ambassador Hanihara appended the following paragraph: "I am Instructed further to express the confidence that this communica tion will be received by the American government in the same spirit of friendliness and candor in which it is made." Americans Are Barred. Berlin. Citizens from countries which failed to recognize the soviet government of Russia will be refused a visa to enter Russia at any price and under any pretext, according to a new secret circular letter sent to the Russian consulates by the Russian commissariate of foreign affairs. The United States heads the list of coun tries whose citizens are barred. France, Spain. Bulgaria and China also are on the list. 005 LIVES THE RED LOCK A. Tale of the Flatwoods f By DAVID ANDERSON Author of "The Blue Moon" Copyright by Tha Bobbs-Merrili C THE PREACHER SYNOPSIS. On tha banks ot tha Wabash stand Texle Colin and Jack Warhopa, young and very much In love. Text Is tha only daughter of old Pap Simon, rich man and money-lender. Jack Is the orphan bound boy of Pap Simon, who had foreclosed a mortgage on tha Warhopa estate. At first Texle and Jack talk sadly of Ken Colin, tha girl's missing brother. Then Jack says that in ten 'days his servitude will be over, that he will ride out Into the big world to seek his fortune. Both know what that will mean to them. CHAPTER I Continued. She glanced away along the distant windings of the road. "When men of the woods ride out yonder, they don't come back. Ken didn't" The man's eyes searched her face for some hidden meaning In her words ; apparently did not find it. "I ain't almin' t' let the big worl out yonder swaller me up like it did Ken. Some flatboatmen told me yes terd'y there's a wagon train niakin' up in the city for the gold diggln's in California. Y'u know, when a bound boy's time's out, the man he's bound to most gener'ly starts '1m oil with a boss and saddle and bridle. Pap Simon said he flg'r'd on glvln' me Graylock. "I 'low we'll Jine that wagon train Graylock and me. And when we find gold, we're coinln' back." He stole a shy look at her. She dropped her eyes. "You'll f rget the Flatwoods when you've found gold." He seemed to search her words aguln for some meaning that he wished much to find. But her face was very thoughtful and turned aside. "F'rget the Flatwoods 1 Where else In the world is there a sight like that; The minute I've got money enough I'm comin' buck. I'll buy the homestead back f'om Pap Simon; finish the house; and then" An arm unconsciously reached to ward her. The movement brought the red-roofed cottage into his line of vis ionthe red-roofed cottage, where lay a pnper that bound him to servitude. He drew his arm back ; crushed his hat rim in his powerful fingers. Down by the rivulet In the barn lot the geese honked and clapped their wings. The sound aroused the man from the half bitter mood and he glanced at his companion, to find her eyes upon him. "Jack " she hesitated; "do y'u s'pose It could be the red lock that made Ken act like 'e did?" The question was so at variance with the man's trend of thought that he was a long time considering It "It ain't the red lock," he finally answered in his slow way, "it's the drop of blood that come along with It F'r that matter, though, every man gits a bad drop 'r two out of the past. But them bad drops can be overcome, If a man bucks ag'ln 'em. The trouble with Ken was It didn't 'pear like he wanted t' buck ag'ln' his." "The 'curse of Coliu,'" was the girl's musing comment "F'r hundreds of years ever sence the days of 'Red Colin,1 the old sea pirate it's be'n breakln' out In the family .every few generations. It alw'ys worried Ken that it broke out on him., I've some times thought it would 'a' be'n better If he'd never 'a' found out the mean In' of that red lock that It was the 'curse of Colin'" "That's It," he commented. "I 'low Ken flg'r'd the curse had 'Ira anyhow, and so It wasn't wo'th while f buck ag'in it." "Mother kep' the lock cut oft, y'u know, till Ken was big enough f notice it himself. After that he alw'ys kep' It combed under bo's it didn't show. I don't reckon anybody in the Flat woods but you and me and father know'd 'e had It" "Yes," the woodsman Interrupted, "ol' Uncle Nick Wlffles knows. But that's as good as sayln' it's dead and burled. Nothln' ever gits a-past Uncle Nick's Jaw." He grinned, pushed up the mop of tousled hair that fell over his brow and pointed to a scar. "That's where Ken struck me with 'is whip han'le the day I found out 'e had it." The girl ran her slim finders over the scar. "And he cut me with the whip b'cause I flew at 'lm when 'e done it." "And then I hit 'iin with a rock b'cause 'e cut you." The girl shivered. "I thought he'd kill y'u that day," she said. "Bis bat fell off, his hair was mussed, and y'u know how awful it made 'lm look when that red lock worked out and fell down over 'is eyes wild and savage and terrible; like ol' 'Red Colin' must 'a' looked. He jerked y'u up and drawed the butt of 'is whip mercy I It makes me shiver t' think about it But he only laughed hard tad wild and let y'u go." A iinile crawled across the bold features ot the woodsman, narrowed bis eyes and pinched out two queer little wisps of friendly frankness. "This ain't Fourth o' July, m't Chrla'uias, n'r nobody's weddln'. How com the scenery J" Ht reached out his big hand and touched the smart bow of ribbon at her waist. "W'y, didn't y'u know, the new preacher's a-comln' on the Milford stage this evenin', and we're all goln' t' meet 'lm you, too." The twinkle at the corners of the man's eyes deepened. "Am I?" "Father's already fixed it f'r 'im t' have the use of ol' preacher Mason's study at the parsonage Mis' Mason's terrible lonesome sence the ol' preach er died, and he'll be company. He'll do 'Is wrltln' and makln' up 'Is ser mons there. He'll board with us he ain't married, y'u know." She paused and laid a hand on the man's arm. He covered It with bis great palm; looked hard at her, with suddenly sobered eyes. "He was a classmate of Ken's," she went on, "and he's now one ot the teachers and preachers in the very college where Ken went." The man's eyes widened. She drew her hand from under his palm. "I 'low that's why father was s' quick t' hire 'lm; ahd mebbe that's why he was s' wlllln' t' come. " He ain't none too well, his letter said, beln' nigh broke down with tenchin' and preachin', and he 'lowed this would be a good place t' rest up In." Her eyes swept the serene land scape ; suddenly she raised an arm and pointed to the blurred end of the road. His eyes followed the direction of her rigid finger. The Milford stage was Just crawling out of the bronze shad ows and coming Into view. The next moment she had seized his' hand and was dragging him, half unwilling, down the cliff. CHAPTER II East Meets West. Of four stnges that pussed through Buckeye each day the evening stage from up the river from the city twen ty miles above was by far the most Important Its arrival was the one big event of the' day. Half the village was usually gathered about the broken porch of Zeke Pollek's general store to see It come In. The Buckeye post office shifted back and forth across the River road about as often as the nation changed presi dents. Zeke Pollck was a Whig, and the man In the White House in far-off The Old Man Grinned, as Broadly as the Pinched Shrewdness of His Dry Face Would Allow. Washington happened to be a Whig. That's why the post office was In a store on the north side of the road in the year of grace, 1849, Instead of In a store on the south side. The River road was a bigger Insti tution than the town. It not only halved the town; it well-nigh halved its political faith. From the Warhope farmstead at the east edge to the school house at the west edge, 'it formed, In political years, a sort of "devil's lane" between the north sld ers and the south alders. The farm stead and the red-roofed cottage which is to say Jack Warhope and the Collns were both on the north side of the road. Simon Colin had once been Zeke Pollek's partner, but had dissolved the partnership years before to follow the more lucrative business of lending money and collecting rents mostly his own. A banker w ithout a bank, so shrewd was his Judgment and so hard the bargains he drove, that half the Flatwoods was under mortgage to him. He still kept a sort of office in the store a desk by the dusty window; a narrow shelf nailed along the tops of the palings at the longer side; a chair; a table against the wall, on It three or four law books that were never opened. There was no safe. That was at the red-roofed cottage. Not a very Imposing office but the commerce of the Flatwoods passed across those time-faded, unpainted palings. Even Zeke Pollck, Simon's closest business associate, would have been astonished to know the ac tual wealth that journeyed in an old satchel back and forth every day be tween house and store. DangerousT-rtwlee the attempt had been made to see inside that satchel, and a man had died each time. The old banker carried a huge double-barreled horse pistol, loaded half to the muzzle with buckshot, and he knew " 'the 'way to its light trigger as the weasel knows the way to Its den. And the safe at home a cracksman from the city tried that one night. The old man blew a bole In his ribs the size of an open hand with a suwed oft shotgun he always kept near his bed. The old banker had Just closed his desk, picked up the rusty satchel, and come out on the porch of the store when his daughter and the big woods man Joined the crowd around the post" office a crowd doubly large, gathered for the doubly auspicious occasion. The girl ran to her father and slipped an arm about his waist. He looked down at her and grunted. It was the only sign he gave that he knew she was there. Up beyond the Warhope farmstead there came a . prodigious rattle of wheels, a clatter of iron-shod hoofs, and the Milford stage dashed into . sight; roared across the wooden bridge where the River road crossed Eagle run; rumbled past the church into the village and pulled up in front of the post office. The crowd flocked around it. The guard threw off the mall sack. Zeke Pollck picked It up and carried it in, and the lumbering stage rattled away down the river. One passenger had alighted, a tall young man wearing a full beard, neatly cropped and pointed the new preach er, without a doubt quite the oddest array of satchels and umbrella, patent leather boots and high hat, stiff neck stock and enormous spectacles, that had ever Invaded the Flatwoods. He seemed nervous as he stood at the side of the road peering through his enormous spectacles, slightly amber tinted, upon the crowd. The old banker, with his daughter a step behind him, advanced, touched his faded black hat and extended his hand. "The Rev. Caleb Hopkins, I 'low?" The eyes behind the huge spectacles lighted. The young preacher dropped one of his satchels and met the out stretched hand. "Ah Mr. Colin, I take Itr "All but the mister. I'm Jist plain Slme Colin." The old man grinned, as broadly as the pinched shrewdness of his dry face would allow. "I want y'u t' meet my daughter." He half turned; Jerked his thumb toward the girl ; Jerked it back toward the preacher. "Texle, Mr. Hopkins." The young preacher touched his tall hat ; dropped his other satchel, grasped the girl's hand in both his own and pressed It closer than the occasion could possibly warrant. It mny have been merely the ex pression of a genial nature touched with the fervency of his profession the outflowing of a benevolence that embraced all humanity but even bo, It brought a quick flush to the girl's face, and drove her eyes to the ground. The old banker had turned to the crowd. "Step up, step up," he called, "and shake hands with the new parson. The way y'u hang back, he'll think he's drapped off amongst a pack o' pub licans and sinners." The crowd had evidently been wait ing for Just such an invitation. Stolid faces raveled into grins, and the quaint vernacular of the Flatwoods had an airing. Odd bits of philosophy, ancient Jokes, that nobody would have dared to spring on his neighbor, were freely sprung on the hapless and help less sojourner from the polite East The Informal reception was over and most of the crowd gone when Texle noticed Jack Warhope still leaning against the porch post where she had left him. She ran back, caught his arm and dragged him forward. "Mr. Hopkins, meet Ja Mr. War hope." "Glad to meet you, Mr. Warhope." The young preacher stretched forth his hand; the other grasped It. The peering eyes behind the heavy glasses studied him with curious intentness, but the woodsman, only mildly inter ested, missed the inquisitive look. The old banker had taken a step up the road. "Well," he said, "I "low that Jist about winds up the how-d'-y'-doin'. Texle, run in and git the mall, and we'll be moseyln'." He half turned and glanced back over his shoulder at the preacher. "Pve dickered the use of our ol' preacher's study fr y'u at the parson age. Sister Mason the wldder, y'u know she 'lows she'll be right glad to have y'u come over and use the study, she's that lonely sence the par son died. We'll stop as we go a-past, and you can take a look at the study, and meet Sister Mason. But, as I writ y'u, I'm aimln' f'r y'u t' put up -with me, at least fr a few days" the brisk, raspy voice softened "I'm honein' t' have a talk with y'u about the boy." He glared down at the road; the preacher studied him curiously. So long had the old money-lender been accustomed to dominate every body about him that it did not once occur to him to inquire what the preacher's wishes might be. He strode another step or two up the road, re membered that his daughter had gone In after the mall, stopped and frowned half Impatiently toward the store door. At that moment Texle came out with half dozen letters In her hand, saw the big woodsman, and. with a tiny wisp of roguishness In her eye, stopped on the edge of the porch. "Yes; there's a fairy peeping Into the spring right now." (TO BC CONTINUED.) Enmity of your enemies Is less mi certain than the friendship of your friends.