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Show f - . .. . : . . Ij THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON. UTAH I : l' "jfllC By Jamtt Oliver Curwood Plains of Abraham by Doubled Doraa Co., Inc. WNU rvlcs. irtmnwwjWMwmnnwiMiwiiiw' where the banners of Gulenna flut-tered on the ridge. Tartans waved and bagpipes screamed defiance as Montcolio waited for reinforcements which never came, and the bushes and knolls and cornfields were taken by fifteen hundred Canadians and Indians whose guns answered with a roar. Back and forth the battle raged, and France began to crumble. Then came ten o'clock. Something must have broken in Montcalm's heart. His Judgment wavered, and he gave the fatal command which raised England to the supremacy of the world. The French had formed with bayonets fixed In five short, thick Irues, four white and one blue j the English stood with double-shotte- d guns In a long, thin red line. Level ground lay between. Had England advanced, history might have written Itself different-ly. But England waited. France advanced. Jeems went with her. He was already hit A shot had canght hlra in the shoulder, and blood ran down his arm and dripped from his fingers. He felt no pain, but a slumberous feeling was creeping over hlra as he staggered on with the lines. He saw Mont-calm ride along the front of his men, cheering them on to victory; he noted the wers dead. Quebec lay In 4 mass of ruins, and England was supreme In the New world, although the battle of Salnte Foy hod not been fought From then until late In November, when he was strong enough to take advantage of the freedom of movement the British gove to French soldiers who had been wounded, he thought fre-quently of the three-legge- d dog that had passed between the French and English lines. He said nothing of the Incident, not even to Mere de Salnte-Claud- the Superior, who took a special Inter-es- t In him, nor to any of her virgin sisters wbo cared for him so ten-derly In the dark hours of his struggle for life and .the more hoiieful ones of his convalescence. Each day of Increasing strength added to his suspicion that what he had seen and heard were the Illusions of senses crumbling under the effects of hurt and shock, and he kept to himself whatever faith he hud in them. When at Inst he was able to mingle with the disarmed populace and the crowds of soldiers in the streets, he wns strangely unlike the old Jeems. He had been bndly wounded and realised that noth-ing less than a miraculous Inter-vention which the nuns ascribed to the mercy of God could have kept him beyond the reach of death. A ball hod passed through his shoulder when three others struck him at the discharge of the Eng-lish guna. That they had failed to kill him he did not accept as a blessing. The impression grew In him that he had been very close to his mother and Toinette and that a fate not satisfied with his uuhapplnoss had drawn him back from them. This thought estab-lished his belief that Odd's appear-onc- e as well as his mother's voice and the nearness of Toinette had been purely spiritual. But whenever he saw a dog In the streets of Quebec he looked to see If one foot was missing. His excursions were short and he wandered alone. He saw a number of his comrades, but they did not recognize him and he did not feel the Impulse to let them know who he was. Flesh had dropped from his bones until he resembled one approaching death Instead of escaping it. He walked with stooped shoulders. His eyes were sunken, and bis hands, In one of which he carried a staff, were emacluted to the thinness of extreme age. Vhe small Interest life had held for him seemed to ' CHAPTER XII Continued -1- 5-i As the captured cannon ' were rushed from Fort William Henry to Ticonderoga, Jeems surrendered himself, as Montcalm was doing in another way, to the last chapter in his fate. There was no goal at ' which be could aim, nothing for which he could play; winning for Canada, should the miracle of ulti-mate victory come, could hold no I more of solace and happiness for r him than defeat at the hands of the English. There were times when his French and English dt'If, was divided against Itself, when bis mother and Hepslbah Adams and all they stood for looked upon hlra questlonlngly ' from out of the past as if he had turned traitor to some precious part of them, yet in such a way that they could not condemn him. In hours like these, the spirit of Toinette came to his side and placed her hand in his, and he knew it was for her he was fight-ing, for the home which would have been theirs, for the country she would have made a paradise for him. She grew nearer as the sureness of an approaching end crept upon him, and he felt the be-ginning of a comfort he had not known before. It was the consola-tion of something about to bap-pe- n. Something that was tremen-dous and final. Something that 'i would have to do with her and with him. He knew what it was ond waited patiently for it as an-other year passed. Then came Ticonderoga, that July 8, 1758, when over a space of a hundred acres one could not walk without staining the soles of his shoes with French or English Mood that red day In history and heroism when three thousand toil-wor-harassed soldiers of New France faced six thousand British regulars and nine thousand Ames-lea- n mlltlamen; the day on which Jeems and his comrades drove back the waves of scarlet and gold and a thousand kilted Highlanders height from the river, hanging to bushes, digging their fingers into crevices of rock, crawling with their faces against the earth, mak-ing their way foot by foot "I am afraid yon cannot do it," Wolfe had said, looking at the pitlike blackness above. But they did. Nameless in history, they de-stroyed the old map of the world and put another In its place. In that hour twenty-fou- r men ruined France, gave rise to a greater Eng-land, created a new nation. At the top, Vergor, the French officer, slept soundly with his guards. To hlra fate might have given the glory of keeping the old map intact But he was killed be-fore he could wipe the daze of slumber from his ejres. Wolfe's path was made, and like a thin strenra of red ants the British con-tinued to sscend the trail which had been blazed for them. Vaudreuli, the governor, the archvlllaln who lost half a conti-nent for France, lay in his cozy nest of iniquity a short distance away dreaming of sensual days with the faithless Madame de Paean and planning a future with the king's own mistress, La Pom-padour. Across the St. Charles, ex-pecting the British In a different direction, sleepless, worn, robbed of every chance to win by the weak-ness and Imbecility of this favorite of a king's mistress, was Mont-calm. Jeems was with the battalion of Gulenne which had come up from Its camp on the St Charles at six o'clock In the morning, Its white uniforms thronging the ridge of Buttes-a-Neve- from which it be-held tl British molehill growing into a mountain. About hlra Jeems saw the Plains of Abraham, and a strange song was In his heart as he thought that Toinette had been of this soli and that her had given name to the earth soon to run red with blood. The Plains were wide and level in most I . ...11. knaKua and tnutfl nnrf have shriveled with the strength of his body. The English rekindled the spark, his mother's English, the half of himself which he had tried to hate. They were not act-ing the part of conquerors. They were unbelievably friends. From the gallant Brigadier Murray to the commonest soldier, they were courteous, humane, generous, di-viding their rations with the starved citizens, sharing their to-bacco with them, helping without pay to build up ruined homes, each day working themselves deeper into the good will of those who had been cheated ond despoiled by Governor Vaudreuli and his de-generate crowd and by the weak-ness of the king of France. Even the nuns and the priests welcomed them, men ond women of God who for two hundred years hod fought indefatlgably for New France. Honor and chivalry had come to conquer Quebec and had brought such friendship for Its people that a British soldier was hanged In the public square for stealing from a resident of the town. Jeems felt this comradeship of his enemies. At first he was taciturn and aloof and talked only when courtesy required the effort of him. He observed that many eyes regarded him with a pity which added shame to the bnrden of his distress, and at times when he was struggling to hold bis stooped shoulders erect sympathet-ic hands came to help him In spite of himself. His health re-turned slowly, but in the second week of his freedom an incident occurred which sent a warmer glow through his veins. He heard two soldiers talking on the street They were talking about a dog a three-legge- d dog that passed In front of their line as they hod stood ready to fire upon the mris wills uuonca " cornfields dotting them here and there. They were the front yard to Quebec, a field of destiny lying between the precipitous descents to the St Lawrence on one side and the snakelike, lazy St Charles on the other, with a world of splendid terrain spreading In a panorama under the eyes. As he lay watching with the men of Gulenne, Jeems could scarcely have guessed that this scene of pastoral beauty was the stage upon which one of the epic tragedies of all time was about to be enacted. A feeling of rest pos-sessed him, as ir a period had come to mark the end of the con-fusion and unhapplness which hod held him a victim for three years, ond he felt mysteriously neor the presence of Influences he could not see. He was a product of times when faith In the spiritual guid-ance of the affairs of men was strong, and It was not difficult for hlra to conceive that Toinette was close at his side, whispering In words which only his sout could heir that he had come home. Six o'clock grew Into seven, seven into eight, and eight into nine. In front of hira England was forming. Behind him, tricked and outgeneraled. Montcalm was rush-ing In mad haste across the St. Charles bridge and under the northern rampart of Quebec to en-ter the city through the Palace gate. At the edge of the Plains of Abraham the boyish Wolfe, poet and philosopher, was preparing for glory or doom. In the quaint narrow streets of the town were gathering hordes of Indians in scalp locks ond war paint troops of starved and chented Canadians ready to moke a last stand for their homes, battalions of Old France in white uniforms and with gleaming bayonets, battle-scarre- d veterans of Sarre and Languedoc and Roussillon and Beam, fed on meager rations for weeks but eager to fight for Montcalm. Ahead where Jeems was looking were quiet and order and the stole sureness of England's morale. Be-hind were courage and chivalry and the Iron sinews of heroes In the throes of excitement and rush. His Excursions Were Short and He Wandered Alone. green coat he wore, the polished cuirass at his breast the white linen of his wristband, and he heard bis voice as he asked, "Don't you want a little rest before you begin?" The answer, "We're never tired before a battle!" rose about him. Jeems' Hps framed the words which were repeated like increas-ing blasts in a storm. But the sun was growing less bright to his eyes, y, -- . , An advance of forty or fifty paces, then a pause, another ad-vance, another pause, In the way regulurs fought at that time on flat nnd open battlefields, and Jeems measured the distance between himself and the red line of the British. At each halt he fired with his comrades, then loaded and ad-vanced. The red line had broken precedent It made no move to play its part in the prescribed rou-tine of war, and continued to stand like a wall. Openings came In it where crimson blotches sank to the ground, but those who re-mained were unmoved and stead-fast as they waited with their double-shotte- d guns. A tremor ran through the French, a thickening of men's breaths, a quickening of their heartbeats, a crumbling un-der strain, while the melody of the bell stole softly over the Plains of Abraham. They halted again less than a hundred. paces away, ond still Eng-land's thinning line did not fire. A man close to Jeems laughed as If nerves had cracked Inside his head. Another gasped as If he had been struck. Jeems tried to hold himself erect The weird sensa-tion came over him that the armies were not going to fight after all. Then he heard bis name. It was his mother calling him. He an-swered with a cry and would hnve swayed toward her if hands had not dragged him back. "Madl" he heard a voice sny. He dropped his gun as he tried to wipe the blindness from his eyes. Things cleared. There were the red line, the open space, sunlight some-thing passing. Those who lived of the Black Watch led by Dun-ra- n Campbell of Inverawe, until, as Montcalm wrote to his wife, even the bullet-scarre- d trees seemed to be dripping blood. Through hours of tumult and death, Jeems loaded and fired, and stabbed with his bayonet, and the thing for which he was waiting did not come. Men fell around him, tens and scores and hundreds of them, as the day wore on. He saw whole ranks shiver and crum-ble before blasts of fire. But when it was ended end. the English dropped back In a last smashing defeat, he was unscathed except for bruises and powder burns. But Montcalm retreated, ond this puzzled Jeems. The army be-gan to learn the truth as, weary nnd footsore. It turned toward Quebec. Rapacity, folly, Intrigue, and falsehood had fed at the heart of New France until It was honey-combed by the rottenness of Montcalm was Its one sJrr of hope, and as autumn came, then winter, it seemed to Jeems that Montcalm's God had deserted him. The St Lawrence wos filled with British ships. The harvest was meager, and a borrel of flour cost two hundred francs. Even Montcalm ate horse-fles- Still he did not lose faith In God. A thou-sand scoundrels headed by Vau-dreuli had fattened on the na-tion's downfall, and he prayed for them. "What a country I" he ex-claimed. "Here all the knaves grow rich and the honest men are ruined." A fighting man, a man of sword and death, he kept his ' faltb to the end. "If we are driven from the St Lawrence," he wrote t- - his wife, "we will descend the Mississippi and make a final stand for France among the swamps of Louisiana." Thus planned and prayed the man whose bleached skull is now shown to visitors lu the UrsuJIne convent at Quebec. Through the spring and summer of 1759. Jeems watched the spiders as they wove their web ever closer About Que-bec, the last French stronghold In America. It was In May of 1756 that Toinette had been killed, and It was In May of 1759 that he first . saw from the Montmorencl shore the mighty rock which so long'had been the mistress of the New French. When he returned to the little room which he still occupied in the general hospital Mere de Sainte-Claud- thought feser had set Itself upon him again. The next day, he went out looking for the dog nnd found others who hod beheld what his own eyes had seen. But be asked no questions excent in a casual way. and did not reveolt the reason for his in-terest. He knew the dog could not be Odd, yet it was Odd for whom he was seeking. This paradoxical State of mind bothered hlra, and be wondered if his Illness had left him entirely sane. To think Odd had escaped Tlaoga's vengeance and had wandered through hun-dreds of miles of wilderness to Quebec would sorely be an indica-tion that it had not He continued to seek, trying to believe he was making the quest a diversion which was healthful for his body, and that curiosity, not hope or faith, was encouraging hlra to find the three-legge- d dog. As Lower Town was the home of most of the dogs, he spent much of his time among its ruins, but without success. (TO BB CONTINUED.) did not forget what they saw. Eng-land took the story home with her, France gave it a little place In her history. For a few seconds men were not looking at death but at f dog. An old, decrepit dog who limped as he walked, a dog with one foot missing. Jeen.i made an- - effort to call. "Odd Odd " Then came Montcalm's command "Forward I" He marched with the others in-to the Jaws of death, blind, grop-ing, straining to make the dog hear words which never possed his Hps. There was no longer a day. No sun. No red wall before hlra. But his ears still caught the tramp of feet and the melody of the bell. These died In a roar, the roar of double-shotte- d guns. England fired Jeems saw none of this and nothing-- beyond the distant red lines. The Plains lay In sunshine, with bird wings flashing, crows feeding In the cornfields. The earth was a great oriental rug warm with autumn timings, the woods yellow and gold in a frame about It. The guns of Samoa, of Slllery, of the boat's In the river made sleepy detonations, and on the rise of Buttes-a-Neve- u Jeems might have slept lulled by that never-endin- g monotony, of sound, the warmth of the sun, the blue of the sky, the stillness of the Plains. He closed his eyes, and the silver and gold mists of sunsets rose about him. the ends of days In which he saw the Plains peopled again, first by Abraham Martin and his cows a hundred and thirty-fou- r years before, then by Toi-nette, his father and mother, Hep-slbah Adnms and himself. Here was a place he had known, a place his feet had trod, his soul had lived. He heard the earth whis-pering these things, the earth which he held between his fingers as if it were Tolnette's hands. In the town, priests and nuns were praying, and a bell sent forth Its melody, a cheer to man, an-other appeal to God. New France was on her knees, and Montcalm was on the. Plains, some of his men coming through the gate of St Louis and some through that of St John, breathless and eager, to worm. Four months later, on the most eventful September 13 of written history that "To-morro- Morn-ing" which will never be forgotten he stood on the Plains of Abra-ham. Montcalm's God was about to complete an Immaculate elegy which hung In the air like a mighty 'chorus waiting for a whispered command to begin. To Jeems Bulaln, facing the sun and the thin red line of the British across the meadows where Abraham Blor-tl-n had grazed his cattle, fate wos bringing an end to uncertainty and chnos It had missed him at Fort William Henry, at Ticonderoga, ot Montmorencl, but here he could feel Its presence an escape a e from bondage something greater than iron or flesh as the crimen lines drew nearer. He felt the spirit of what Montcalm hod said to his doomed heroes a few minutes before. "God Is sure-ly watching over the Plains of Abraham today CHAPTER XIII WAS ten o'clock, the hour of ITthe crisis. At dawn It had been frnrirV at six showers hnd fallen; now it was hot It might have heen July instead of September. J darkness twenty-fou- r British WDteer. had climbed the steep at forty paces, and France went down In a shapeless mass of dead. With the front line fell Jeems. CHAPTER XIV v WAS a long time before Jeems ITagain heard the melody of the bell. When he broke through the blackness which had overtaken him on the Plains of Abraham, he found himself In the general hospital under the care of the nuns of that Institution, It seemed as If only a few minutes had passed since the crash of the English guns. But It was the middle of October. Montcalm and Wolfa News Review of Current Events the World Over Sugar Lobby Gift Story Under Investigation, Senator Davis Promising Help Lame Duck Sessions Probably Will Be Abolished. By EDWARD W. PICKARD a constitution!!! convention bt by the submission to the states by congress of resolution for repeat".' J of tlie Eighteenth amendment. . - of divided opposition , BECAUSE Hale Thompson won the renomlnotlon by the Itepubllc-an- s for mayor --f Chicago otter one of the hottest primary contesta that city haa ever enjoyed. The attack on hlra was fierce and be would have been beaten by Judge John : Lyle, "ueraesls" of the gunmen and ? gangsters, had It not been for the candidacy of Alderman Albert who was supported by Senator Deneen and bis dwindling fnctlon. The hope of those Chlcagoans who aeek to eliminate Jbompsonlsm now rests with Anton Cermak, who is the nominee of the Democrats. Jx:A IN THE closing days of the ses-sion of congress the senate ran Into what gave some promise of devel-oping Into another lobbying scandal. Mr. Borah read to It an article in a New York newspa-per which said, In effect, that a sena-- . his for-- '''( WHILE tba on narcotics was In . progress In Wash- - , . , . Ington, word came 4 that Joseph C. drew, American ambassador to Tur-key, was getting results there In the fight to suppress the Illegal exporta-tion of the drugs members in the hallways of the of-fice building and they do not speak to me. My wife is punished for my daring. Even bureau clerk in legislative departments give me the cold shoulder and interfere with my work as a member of the house. "I have had members whisper that I am right, but thnt I would not succeed. Others have warned me that I would suffer for my rash-ness. The reaction against my proposal to make it 'unlawful' for any legislative, ministerial, or Judi-cial officer to appoint any person related to hlra when the pay is to come out of public funds has been most extraordinary." The last annual report of the clerk of the house reveals that ap-proximately 100 relatives are now on the pay rolls of members, and a survey shows that many of these have never done a lick of work in the offices for which they got their appointments. One letter to Mr. Stone points out that the daughter of a certain representative signed vouchers for $3,500 last year and spent almost the entire time abroad. Another report which he would like to In-vestigate before a committee is that a southern member has paid his father $16,000 and the man has never been in Washington. during Mer occupancy of JSrt li a high official Uoni had recelve(i $100,000 from the president of a domestic sugar company in return for a high sugar tariff. Senator Nye of North Dakota had already alluded to the story, deploring the act that such an unsubstantiated report had been given publicity and credence. Iteplylng to ques-tions, Nye admitted that the cam-paign expenditure committee, of which he Is chairman, had come upon the report of a $100,000 gift to a senator, had Incompletely in-vestigated it and had turned over memorandum to the committee on lobbying. He said he thought the senator in question was enti-tled to have an Inquiry made and the truth established by the lobby committee, which la headed by Sen-ator Caraway of Arkansas. At the Instance of Senator Borah, supported by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the senate Instructed the lobby committee to investigate the story. Immediately thereafter Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, former secretary of labor, an-nounced off the senate floor that he stood ready to appear before the lobby committee at any time and that he would assure the com-mittee of the presence of several witnesses whom It would desire to from that country. Ambassador Mr. Grew made J. C. Grew vigorous repres-entations to the government at Angora and brought about the sealing of the three big drug factories of Istanbul with their entire stocks, to be effective until the factories present docu- - ments attesting the amounts of production and exportation. Drug exporting from Turkey to countries as the United States, which do not allow unre-- : strlcted entry of narcotics, is henceforth expected to be Impos-sible, as a government official has been attached to each factory to control production and exportation. Factories must report to the nt every 24 hours the amount of raw inn terlal purchased and the amount of production. The direc-tor of the Japanese factory in Is-tanbul says the new order is so severe that his factory probably will be forced to cease function-ing. THOUGH King of L... -- "l ! Spain told Amerl- - - :' - 1 can correspondents I ' y 1 that all was calm i rfl In his country now F'w. t 'l , r MINNESOTA announced, through Chairman J.J. Far-re- li of their state executive comniit-tee.th- at they would try to unseat Sen-ator Thomas D. Schall. Republican, who was last November in a contest Farrel and that danger of Jk . 1 a revolution had , I passed. Admiral j 1 , Juan Aznar, the 1 new premier, was I I not finding the sail- - iV,,i I ing weather espe- - jto" dally fine. This Senator said Schall would T. D. 8chall be charged with violating the state corrupt practices act and also with violating federal regulations gov-erning the use of postal franking privileges, and that the state elec-tions committee would be asked to declare tile seat vacant so that a new election may be callpd. When Senator Schall was told of this In Washington he said only: "That does not deserve comment." The blind senator's dispute with President Hoover and Attorney General' Mitchell over the appoint-ment of a new federal Judge for Minnesota continues. After reject-ing Scholl's choice for the post Ernest D. Michel of Minneapolis, the president named Gunnar B. Nordbye, now a Minneapolis dis-trict Judge, and Schall immediate-ly announced he would contest the nomination in the senate. His course In this matter, it is said, has led some Hoover Republicans in Minnesota to support the ouster move, ONCE again the United States court has upheld the validity of the Eighteenth amend-ment. This time the action, which was unanimous, was In reviewing the decision of Federal Judge Wil-liam Clark of Newark, N. J, who held that the amendment should have been ratified by state conven-tions Instead of by state legisla- - was mainiy oe-- Admiral cause the national juan Aznar executive commit- - tee of the Socialist party and t labor union decided to boycott the national elections and fully with the Republican revolu-tionary committee. Thl deter-mination was so forcible that some of the moderate leaders among the Socialists resigned from the committee, their places being filled with real revolutionists. These resignations ended . the t government's dream of splitting the revolutionary ranks illvwclni! the Socialists and their 800,000 workers with their terrible weapon of a general strike from the pure-l-r Republican element with their backing among the bourgeoisie and 1 friendly soldiery. The government announced that the municipal elections, the first In , a series of elections that will end eventually In balloting for an as- - , sembly to amend the constitution, ; would take place on April 12 In-stead of March 29. Educational in-stitutions, closed by the Berenguer government a month ago, are or-dered reopened. hear. Among the witnesses he named was Bror G. Dohlberg of Chicago, president of the Southern Sugar company. Mr. Davis de-clared he would assist the commit-tee In investigating the charges "to the bottom." Appearing later before the lobby committee. Senator Davis declared the charges, If directed at him, were absolutely false. WITH little or no expectation his veto would be sus-tained. President Hoover put the mark of his disapproval on the vet-erans' bonus loan bllL. His veto message to congress Included data provided by Secretary Mellon show-ing how the bonus loans would ag-gravate the financing difficulties of the treasury, and also new esti-mates of the number of veterans who will apply for the loons. of the "lame ABOLISHMENT of congress seemed sssured when the house adopted the GIfford resolution to that effect and providing for the inauguration of the newly elected President in January Instead of March. The resolution, which pro-poses an amendment to the Consti-tution, differs somewhat from the Norris measure passed by the sen-ate with the same purpose, but it was believed the differences would be ironed out in conference. It is planned that the terms of the President and Vice President shall end on the twenty-fourt- h day of January and the terms vt senators and representatives at noon on the fourth day of January of the years in which such terras normally would end. Congress would assem-ble on. January 4, and the Presi-dent would be sworn in on Janu--i ary 24. tures. This decision was reversea, the opinion being written by Jus-tice Owen D. Re.rts, the newest member of the Supreme court In a case appealed from Michi-gan, the Supreme court held that the severe penalties of the Jones "five and ten" law are not applica-ble to conviction for possesslpn of liquor. EVIND SVINHUFVUD. PEHB has Just been elected pres-ident of Finland, is going to have the prohibition question put up t him promptly. Distinguished wom-en of the country, of all parties, , : are circulating a petition asking bis support of a speedy repealof the "pernicious prohibition law. , , The petition urges mothers to "feel deep concern in the ever in-creasing intemperance which ruins men, women and children morally and physically. It is awful to con-template how alcohol will affect , the descendants of the present, poisoned generation unless legisla-tors abolish the prohibition sys-tem." The petition further points out that women are nnable to re-start movement un-til a temperance the demoralizing prohibition law is repealed and replaced by reasonable legislation. DRI Democrats congress were exceedingly active during the week getting ready for the meeting of the Democratic na-tional committee scheduled for March 6. Chair-man John J. Ras-kobh-announced that the committee would consider fu- - ' , ; a veto by President ONL can keep the government from going into the power business, for the senate Joined with the house in accepting the conference report on Muscle Shoals. The sen-ate vote was 55 to 23. This indi-cated that a veto would be sus-tained. Twenty Republicans voted for the measure, eleven of them be-ing of the radical group which has the power question for Its chief is-sue. Another rebuff for the adminis-tration was administered when the house passed Senator Wagner's b,ll setting up federal and state em-ployment agencies, without a rec-ord vote. It was believed Presi-dent Hoover might kill the meas-ure by a pocket veto. revo- - . COUNTER out in Peru nnder the leadership of friends of the president, Augusto Legula, and threatened the regime of Pro-visional ; President Luis M. Sanches Cerro. The upris-ing was quelled In R,t thft rpv- - ONE of lame dnck Republican congressmen, U. S. Stone of Norman, put forth a parting wail that aroused little if any sym-pathy among the national law mak-ers but consider-able among the public at large. ture policies or, me j. j. riatKoo party, and assura-- ing that he would try to commit it to the wet side of the prohibition controversy, the drys were lining up to fight him to the bitter end. Senator Morrison of North Caro-lina one of the most arid ones, said his group had enough votes to de-feat any wet resolution. Senator George of Georgia asserted the committee had no right to form narty policies, that being the func-tion of the national convention. Other Democratic leaders were anxious to head off any discussion of the liquor Issue. Naturally the approaching com-mittee meeting caused a lot of talk about presidential possibil-ities. The names heard oftenest were those of Governor Roosevelt of New York, Governor Ritchie of Maryland and Senator-elec- t James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois. In Chicago there developed quite a boom for Colonel Lewis on his re-turn home from a sojourn in tne Southwest Senator C C Dill of Washing-ton, in a speech in New York, pro-posed that his party, the Demo-crats, settle the wet and dry dis-pute within their ranks by support-ing a plan to resubmit notional prohibition to the people. e'ther b' President olutlonlsts seized Cerro Arequlpa and set up a government under the name "Southern Junta." They were Joined by considerable parts of the army and held control of southern Peru. To prove the sincerity of his In-tentions in leading the August rev-- s olution, Cerro issued a proclama-tion declaring that he would not be a candidate for the presidency when the elections are held. This, he and his adherents thought would pacify the Arequlpa rebels and lead to peace through negotia-- . -- tions. Meanwhile loyal troops were moving on Arequlpa and a caU for - volunteers was Issued. ; .. (ft nawMtwi NwDpr ViiUa I Mr. Stone had in-troduced a bill bar- - U. S. Stone ring relatives of members of congress and of Mgn officials from becoming federal em-ployees, and the other day he called at the White House to ask President Hoover's support fr the measure and also to tell what this attack on nepotism was get-ting him. . I never dreamed." Bald Nr. Stone, "that a simple, constructive move on my part could make such a difference. I pass fellow housa Call for Careful Planning The problem of launching a great modern ship la no mean problem, consisting In shifting a weight of some thousands of tons down to the water over a length of several hundred feet by means of Innumer able pieces of wood and some hun-dredweights of soft soap and tal low. No More Gold Dollar The smallest gold coin made for circulation in the United States Is the $2.50 gold piece, the dollar gold piece not bavlng been Issued for general circulation since 1889. |