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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resurre Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Event of Noted People, Governments ind Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. . A fire that threatened a business block in the heart ot Redding, Cal., was controlled after two hours of " fighting Tuesday and confined to dam age estimated at $60,000. Preparation of a new Mellon plan embodying suggestions for a further revision of the tax law in accordance with President Coolidge's promise to press for tax reform to supplement tax reduction Is under way. Germany's request that inter-allied military control ot her armaments cease on September 30 was denied by the allied council of ambassadors in a rota handed to the German ambassa dor in Paris Tuesday evening, It was announced Wednesday. With a view toward curtailing the importation of luxuries, encouraging thrift and balancing foreign trade, the Japanese government Introduced in tha diet Monday a bill providing for an ad valorem duty of 100 per cent on 250 articles listed as luxuries. Dr. Robert Max Garrett, 43, asso ciate professor of English at the Uni versity ot Washington for 15 years and a prominent English scholar of the Pacific coast, died Tuesday at his home in Seattle after an Illness of four weeks caused by a nervous break down. Ceremonies for tlio formal notifica tion of President Coolldge of his nom ination by the republican national con vention as the presidential candidate wore indefinitely postponed Tuesday on account of the death of Mr. Cool idge's son. The data had been fixed for July 24. . A. Williams, D. Casey and II. W. Parker, all construction workers on the Kugouo-Klamath Falls cutoff, have been bound over to the federal grand 'jury on charges of smoking up Salt creek, after smoking had been forbid den there by the forest office because of fire dangor. Prohibition is a failure in the United Slates owing to contempt for the Vol stead act and contempt tor law in general, declnred Dr. Nlcholus Murray Ilutler, president of Columbia uuiver j Blly, New York City, on his nrrlvul In ; Victoria, B. C, to Investigate the British Columbia liquor control sys tem. Latest advices from U!o do Janeiro Indicate announcements ot capture by government forces of rebel positions lu Sao Pnulo were premature. The positions now are being bombarded by heavy artillery, with airplanes co operating, It Is stated, and the official word Is that "all is ready for tho final assault," The election ot John O. Price of Columbus, O., as grand exalted ruler and the selection ot Portland, Ore., as tho next anuual meeting place of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Niks wero the chief events of the ex ecutive session ot the grand lodge in lloHton Tuesday, held in conjunction with Iho sixtieth annual convention of the order. Reduction in tha duty on sugar by shout one fourth will bo recommended , to President Coolldg by three of the six members ot the tariff commission. The report of these members, who are expected to take tho position that the duties of the Fordney-MeCumber tar iff law constitute an unjustifiable bur den upon the American people, is ncaring completion, , Rear Admiral Oscar F. Stanton, 89, V. S. N. retired, died ut hla homo In New London, Conn., Sunday after a brief illness. He Is survived by two daughter. IIo graduated from An napolis In 1S33 and during tha civil wur fought under Farrugut with the west coast blockade squadron, com manding tho V. S. S. Pinolu In the battle of Mobile bay. He was retired In 1S04. Attorney General Stone, addressing tho annual convention of the Ameri can Par association In Philadelphia Tuesday night, declared that "not withstanding the Improvement, act mil nnd potential. In our static law," the ctuul administration of justice In the I'nlted States was not Improving snd that Ihere were multiplying evidences that it was In a period ot decline, which began before the world war and was greatly accelerated by the war. ALLIES CONFIDENT ON PACT Dawes Plan Up Before Reparations Committee in London. London. The inter-allied confer ence, which assembled in the foreign office Wednesday morning for the purpose of putting the Dawes report on reparations Into effect opened in an atmosphere of optimism. When the tentative arrangements for the meeting were concluded be tween Premiers MacDonald and Her riot at Paris last Thursday, the French premier characterized the oc casion as the best day for the entente since the armistice was signed and competent American and British ob servers declared they hoped that with in a fortnight the deliberations would be productive of an arrangement which will end once and for all time the quarrels and misunderstandings that have been continuous among the nations of Europe since the hostilities of the great war ended and the al lied powers began their struggles to get war compensation out of Germany. Such hopes as these have been ex pressed prior to numerous other con ferences of the allied statesmen dur ing the last six years, but disappoint ment followed as the meetings were themselves out or abruptly broken up. The fundamental difficulties of the reparation problem are still un solved but the participation of the United States through the experts who worked In Paris for two months this year to produce the recommenda tions now universally known as the Dawes , report, has given new hope to the allies and Germany alike, and launched the seemingly perennial reparations problem on an entirely new phase. The allies and Germany jumped to accept the experts' report in principle, and on Wednesday Mr. MacDonald, M. Herriot, M. Theunls, the Belgian premier, and other allied plenipoten tiaries, together with Ambassador Kel logg as the official representative of the United States, empowered to act In behalf ot American interests, gath ered around the big horseshoe table in the foreign office overlooking Downing street to give political ef fort to tho business-like economic findings of General Dawes and his colleagues. There were more than 150 dele gates, experts and advisers present when the British prime minister wel comed them to tho conference and heard the responses of the leading plenlpotentaries. Groat Britain, France, Italy, Bol gium and Japan are each represent ed at the conference table by Beveral delegates. Ambassador Kellogg Is the only accredited representative ot the United States, but throughout the deliberations, Colonel James A. Logan Jr., who has followed the complexi ties of the reparations problem from tho beginning, will sit beside tho am bassador as his official adviser. Four other Americans, two from the em bassy nnd two of Colonel Logan's assistants, will be Included in the con ference secretariat. The only other American who Is to participate Is Owen D. Young, known to tho British ns the man behind tho Ilawes roport. He was a member of tho Dawes committee on tho Germnn budget and currency problem, nnd was tho general's chief aide In drawing up tho experts' pro posals. Two Missionaries Shot. Chouchowfu, Hunan. Revs, Karl Bock nnd George Snyder, missionaries of the Reformed Prosbytoriun church, were suffering from bullet wounds, one Chinese general Is dead and an other n fugitive with a price on his head, ns the result of a feud growing out of ummuultlon purchases which led to hostilities on tho night ot June 2. Beck and Snyder were trying to make peace between the hostile fac tions when they were wounded. Policemen Guard Flag. Berlin. Policemen with rifles from at op the Rrandcuburg gato nnd the roofs of nearby buildings guarded the (lag flying over the French embassy Monday to prevent n repetition of the Incident of throe years ago on the French national holiday when the tri color was wrested from tho staff. The embassy hoists Its flag only on July II. Debt Remission Urged. Chicago. Remlssiou by the United States ot Its war loans, not only ns a good moral measure, but for the sake of better prosperity, was advo cated by Clarence S. Barrow, the at torney, Monday In an address before tho University of Michigan Alumnae club of Chicago. Lutherans Plan Drive. St, Paul. A hquse-to-houso, nation wide soul-saving campaign will be formally authorlied by the Walter league, which began business ses sions of Its S2d annual International convention here Monday. The pro ject provides for an aggressive cam paign In the field of home missions. Mil PREDICTS E Earth Fault Under Manhattan, Is Statement. BIG BLOCKS MENACE Release of Pressure Inside Planet By Oil Drilling Declared Likely to Bring Violent Reaction. Philadelphia. "There is very real danger that New York city may suffer from an earthquake one of these days. "Unless the world gets over its mad search for oil, there are going to be some radical changes on this planet." These are some of the startling pre dictions made by Proessor David Todd of Amherst college, professor of astronomy, internationally-known scientist and author of half a dozen books and innumerable articles. Pro fessor Todd is spending his summer at the estate of P. M. Sharpless, near Westchester. Professor Todd's observations are not based on any Sodom and Go morrah Idea of divine vengeance, but are, as he points out, the result of cold, scientific reasoning. . New York city, he said, is as likely a site for the next earthquake as any of the United States. This is because of the geological formation of the land be neath it. Earthquakes almost invar iably come at a point where two strata JOHN W. DAVIS Nominated for President on the 103rd ballot by the Democratic National con vention. Charles W. Bryan, of Ne braska, brother of W. J. Bryan, was chosen for vice President on the first ballot. or layers beneath the surface of the ground come together. When terrific pressure comes on this point It Is In evitable that it should crack. According to Professor Todd, It has been ascertained that just such an underground joint lies beneath Manhattan island. The pressure which will eventually force this Joint .apart and cause an earthquako Is duo. to the thousands and thousands of tons which are being heaped onto to the Island In the shape of huge buildings and foundations. Ho predicted that when the earth quake finally comes the destruction which will follow will be far greater and' more terrible than that which followed the Japanese upheaval ot last summer. ' Professor Todd was also pessimis tic over the consequences of the "oil madness" which is gripping the world at present. "Did you ever see a driller Btrike nil?" ho asked. "If you have you will get Bono idea ot the tremendous pressuro which is locked up in the ground beneath us. It is this pres sure which holds the world In shape and with tounlleaa hundreds ot oil wells tapping this pressure in every part of tho globe, what will be the result I dare not predict." Scientists have spent considerable time guessing at tho result ot this mad tapping ot the power which lies beneath us. Some have predicted that eventually there wilt bo a huge col lapse ot tho earth's surface more destructive than any earthquake the world has known. Others believe thnt the final outcome will be a change in the climate of the earth. When geo logists are asked as to the outcome they seldom commit themselves. "What happens when a chair Is pulled out from under your they ask. Boat Upsets; S Drown. Victoria, n. C A tragedy Involving five lives was disclosed Sunday when an overturned sailbout and the body uf a woman were picked up In Ross by. one ot Victoria's beacfi resorts. The woman was Identified as Mrs. Watson, wife of Lieutenant R. Wut ton, a British naval officer. Lieuten ant and Mrs. Watson left hero Satur day In the sail boat, manned by three sailors from the naval barracks for a pleasure cruise. IJUAK V '""W 1 If Jiiiiiiiitifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiif iitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirriiiiiiiitf iiiiiiiiiiti iiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii:Et:tiiiii I THE nrtn.i.mm..u.i.iu. mnm.mrm. THE NAKED KNIFE SYNOPSI8. On the banks of the Wabash- Hand Tezie Colin and Jack WaAope, young and very much tn love. Texle is the only daughter of old Pap Simon, rich man and money-lender. Jack te the orphan bound boy of Pap Simon who had foreclosed a mortgage on the Warhope estate. At first Texle and Jack talk sadly of Ken Colin, the glrl'i missing brother. Then Jack aayi that la 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. Texle and Jack talk of the red lock of "Red Colin," In herited by Ken. And Jack Bays he's coming back as soon as he finds gold In California. Then arrives the new preacher, Eev. Caleb Hopkins. Pap Simon in troduces the villagers to the new preacher, who was a college mate of Ken. At supper at the Colin home the preacher tells how the boy killed a gambler and disap peared. His father attributes Ken'a fall from grace to his red lock of hair. Then Pap Simon hae a sort of stroke, brought on by reading a letter from Ken. "somewhere In New York." who curses his father on his death bed. A postscript by another hand says he la dead. At the vil lage store and post office Logo Belden, a newcomer, Bays he saw the new parson with, his arm around Texle. Jack licks him, shoots a pistol from hfg hand and makes him say he was mistaken. The preacher and the villagers go fishing. Jack discovers the preacher carries a six-gun. A footprint on a concealed house boat fits the preacher's boot CHAPTER VI Continued. Of a truth, the comparison between the two men could not well have been .more striking. The young preacher was a very handsome man. The beard and spectacles, the mass of hair fail ing about his ears, seemed to Invest him with an air of exquisite mystery an air that has such power to compel the attention of women. The young woodsman, on the other hand, with his uncouth and 111-flttlng clothes, though far from plain, owed whatever attractions he possessed to his magnificent physique, a bold regu larity of features, and an honest, open frankness a man's man. With a jerky, elaborate bow to Jack, the young preacher turned to Texle, "I was Just hunting for you, Miss Texle. They want you at the punch bowl." The girl must have known the woodsman was about to speak to her. His face was as easy to read as iha signs of spring. She glanced at him; dropped her eyes; laughed a trifle uneasily he thought, knowing her so well and walked away beside the minister. The woodsman stood looking after them, a queer sense of emptiness in his breast a man nursed by nature, untaught to Juggle with the heart's emotions. The voice of the gray-haired gentle woman In the rocking chair recalled his straying thoughts. "Aren't they a fine-looking couple?" she wus saying. "Ub-huh." ,'As I look back over the years since we came to Buckeye, I remember that you snd she have always been play mates. My dear husband so often used to speak of the beautiful com panionship between you. Long associ ation with one so sweet and innocent must have had a most ennobling influ ence upon you." "It didn't hurt me none." "Dear me I but you are laconic this evening, my lad. Do you always Bpenk with such Spartan brevity?" She might as well have said It In Lstln. Jsck was frowning hard In an effort to make out her meaning when Zeke Pollck, officiously omnipresent, stopped at the old lady's chair. The woodsman was saved. lie walked away In the crowd, while Aunt Llia, a few seats away, never back ward about airing her views, leaned over toward the postmaster's wife and, In hoars half-whispers, laid down her vastly positive opinion on the very sub ject h had Just escaped discussing. "Ain't it burnln' shame the way Texle lets the new person carry ou with 'er, an leavln' Big Jack out "a the cold! an' hlra wo'th any two o' the parson, the best breath ' ever drawed. She'll rue It stark my words, Hanner Pollck, shell rue It." "Aw, shucks. Aunt Lisa, you're Jilt Jealous f'r Big Jack, bliu Iwiu' about y'u s much, an' Uncle Kick a teachln' Mm all about the woods an' boiln' an' Bleb." "Mck! Nick I" It would be utterly Impossible to commit to paper the ul timate contempt In the stifled tones "fr tli tan' sakesl VYhst d' y'u s'poee I car who tlxi ol' man teaches 'Is fool truck an' boxln' tricks to? She'll ru th day sh drnps fin lad Ilk Big Jack bound though ' b an' takes op with teetotst furrlner, jlst b'rsys ' happens t' be mil slicker lookln' mebbe -though, fr my part I don't consalt 1m one lot urn better lookln' than Big Jack Is. She'll ru It, llsnnrr Pollck, she'll rue It. That par son hain't got all that plarer an' tneechln' ways fr nothln", now there's th business of it, 1-Joeminy !" Th postmasters wlf had her lips set ready for her reply when there cam a sudden commotion at th door. A strsBg man, tall and powerfully RED LOC A f A Flatwoodl Br DAVID ANDERSON Author of "The Blue Moon" Copyright by The Bobbe-MerrUl Co. built, a slouch hat pulled low over his head, a swart face covered by a heavy stubble pf black beard, and apparently Just drunk enough to be dangerous, was roughly elbowing the crowd aside as he stalked back toward the table. "Gimme some cake," he growled. Miss Martin, trembling on the verge of panic, passed a plate of cake to him. He snatched off a piece, held It up contemptuously for a moment and then slammed it back with a force that dashed the plate from the timid little teacher's hand and scattered its con tents all about the table. "Aw, h 11, gimme some cake I" The preacher's shoulders lifted where ' he stood stooped among the women around the punch bowl. A spark of anger leaped Into the eyes behind the spectacles, arid his fingers curled toward his palms a movement that the others were too Intent upon the Intruder to notice. But the flash passed with the Instant ; his shoulders drooped; to his eyes came back the look of peering benevolence. "Friend," he called, still keeping his place among the women, "do you not realize that you are Intimidating these ladies and spoiling thisah most en joyable evening? Will you not please t, The swart-faced man stared Inso lently at the preacher, a curiously be wildered look crossed his heavy face. He seemed to study the drooping shoulders, the studious eyes behind the spectacles. "Say, you pore devil of a gospel sllnger," he snarled, "who's runnln' flils show? Dry up, 'r I might take a notion t' sa'nter over and twist y'ur ear." Turning back to the.table, he took from his pocket an ugly clasp knife and, snatching up a big cake that stood still uncut, a sort of ornamental cen- "Say, You Pore Devil of a Gospel Sllnger," He Snarled, "Who's Run nln' Thia Show?" terplece that had been selected for the honor beeaus of Its size and beauty, be hacked himself off an enormous slice. There Is that about a naked knife l certain cold, flinching thought of sharp steel drawn across warm flesh that no other weapon Inspires. Women gasped ; children flew In terror to their parents; the desperado was teft with the cleared center ot the floor to him self. He backed himself off another hug section; gulped It down; laughed con temptuously, and slammed the rest of the beautiful confection at a window with a force that snuffed out a candl and shivered the glass to splinters ; he glared around at the shrinking clrcl and smacked th knife against the palm of his hand. "Say, ladles," b leered, his vole sounding harsh and strident In th dead silence ot the room, "you aud the youngster nee'n' f git panicky. 1 aln'i go'n' t' hurt you none. I Jlst sa'nter'd In t git a look at a Jay I'v hear'n tell shoots up K'ntucklaus." The reference wss too plain to b misunderstood. Not a man titer but had heard of th shoot-up In th post utile th vning before. Every ey turned towsrd Jsck Wsrhope, stand ing atep or two In front ot th shrinking circle for the other had drawn back and h had not Th eyes of the desperado followed th eyes of th crowd. Slouching across the floor till ths two stood fsc to face, b stiffened snd glared with dull savagery. Texle. Just bark ot the preacher tt the punch bowl, leaned across th table and almost stopped breathing. "I'm a K"ntucklan." "I Mow they was right sorry when y'u left" Th reply stung the drunk men to madness. With unexpected vlclous ness b lunged snd strut k with th knife. Th woodsman sprang bark, warded th slow with ready quickness, snd whipped a vicious Jab to th chin that pitched th Intruder backward t th door. Bat th blow, quick as It vt. K ..iniiiiiimmmiiiiiimiiiiHiiiiimmiiiT? had come the flick of an Instant too late, the knife had found bis tlesh, grazed the left side of his neck, ripped through collar and tie and gashed his shoulder half-way to the armpit. Right there the Flatwoods showed Its teeth. Fifty pistols leaped Into view. Al Counterman, far back In the crowd, snatched a long-barreled six gun from somewhere under his blouse and his lanky body stiffened to bal ance, a light In his one eye no man there ever seen before. Uncle Nick, with a vigor that set at defiance his weight of years" hurled younger men aside and sprang into the cleared circle. ' But with so many women and chil dren present pistols were out of the question. The desperado doubtless counted on this very fact. Stung to madness by the blow, lie leaped up and lunged again with the knife. This time he ran square into the . preacher. With a readiness and cour age hardly looked for In one of his cloth, he had stepped In front of Jack Warhope, his tall figure erect nnd su perbly dominant. Fifty flatwoodsmen, half crouched and straining forward, stood staring. The eyes of the dark-faced man stretched so wide that they appeared to bulge from their sockets. He lifted a dirty hand, brushed it across the wiry stubble of his face and, like a man half dazed, slowly shut the clasp knife and put It back in his pocket Fifty flatwoodsmen relaxed, straight ened; fifty pistols went back into hiding. The preacher slowly raised an arm and pointed toward the open door. The desperado's eyes dropped; h rubbed his lips together as If to loosen them; turned and stalked from the room. "Mebbe we ortn't t' let 'lm git away," muttered a voice. "Aw leave 'lm go," grunted Uncle Nick, a curiously puzzled expression on his face as he gazed at the open door through which the renegade bad gone. "He's licked an' 'e ain't wo'th hangln'." The old man turned away, still with the puzzled expression on his fuce, motioned Jack to a chair at the side of the room and began examining his hurt At that moment Texle slipped through the crowd, some white strips of torn, tablecloth In her hand, and approached the woodsman. A smile twisted his lips, and the girl, dipping one of the strips In the cold water Aunt Liza brought, began to wush the blood from the gashed shoulder and make It ready to be bandaged. The preacher looked on a moment, turned away and went back among the women who were gathering again about the punch bowl. The elaborate frock coat and stiff neck stock had again asserted themselves. The stoop had come back to his. shoulders ; tha flare had left his eyes. The girl, with fingers trembling, glanced through the open door into the square of darkness that had swal lowed up the desperado; bent low over the bandages, and brought her face close to the woodsman's ear. "Jack he looked like like Ken would 'a looked I" The woodsman started; looked Into the square ot darkness; snd then Into the girl's face. "No, no!" he whispered. "Even if he was alive, he wouldn't V com down that low I CHAPTER VII i Fancies and Fane Ralls. Jack Warhop mad a one-handed Job of his work among th feed-pen next forenoon, though It was a task for two. The young woodsman was Immensely sensitive over the fact that he was a bound boy, though Simon Colin never obtruded It on him and seldom exercised any sort of authority over him. He allowed hlra to live on In th cabin where his father and mother had dreamed their dream, to come and go as h pleased. Th shrewd old money-lender probably knew that th young man's high spirit would urg him further than any amount of exer cised authority possibly could. And Simon Colin knew th rac from which his bound boy had sprung. From the first. Simon's treatment of his bound boy had caused his neigh bors no small wonder It was so un llk him. tie had sent hlra to th . Isg school till he outgrew It, and hud allowed him to roam the woods with out any sort of restraint Far from discouraging hi very aptitude for woodcraft h had even loosened his heart strings and his purse-strings; so Infinitely hsrder thing for him to do to th extent of buying him th best doubl-barreled shotgun th mar ket afforded, and a revolver of model and workmanship M fine ss th art of rvolTr-maklng could produr at that tlm two gift on which th boy cer tainly cast no discredit "Whjt iont y'u try om -day f trap your fairy?" (TO BC COXTI.Ml'ID.) tea Wster ss Cur. Sea wster Is at Its best for curative purpoM- SO miles from ahor and it a depth of SO fathoms. Its beneficial properties ar dartttd front U "helogea It coaulna la soluUo.