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Propose to Make Delphi Greek Artistic Center X Ancient City Attempting to Stage Comeback. Washington. ? Delphi la staging a comeback. This ADcIent city, once an artistic center of Greece, long In ruins, may again become an intellectual hub of Greece and a meeting place for scholars ef all nations. The erection of a large library, auditoriums, and probably a new hotel, will make this community, its rebullders hope, "a Geneva of thought nnd the arts." "Thus history stages another re vlval," says tbe National Geographic society. "For the desolate ruins of Delphi, bleaching on the southern slope of Mount Parnassus, were once a crowded city, beautiful with temples and thousands of statues. A symbolic, central stone In the temple of Apollo ^marked the supposed center of the world, and so Delphi must have seemed to the early Greeks. "Here (locked merchants, over the great network of trade roads that led to the city; pilgrims, to consult the famous oracle; athletes to compete In the Pythian games. Delphi became en riched by votive statues of pilgrims and temples built by Greek states. To protect the riches of Delphi, twelve states north of the Gulf of Corinth united In what was the oldest league of Greece. Delegates from rival states came under flags of truce to settle dis putes by arbitration. Interchange o?f ideas among these visitants from dif ferent sections of the country made Delphi rich In geographic Information. In the Eighth and Seventh centuries B. C. when Greece was founding nu merous colonies, none were established without first consulting the oracle as to the best locations. Goats Responsible. "According to tradition, the ubiquit ous Greek goats were partly responsi ble for the oracle at Delphi. Legend relates that a stream (lowing through a crevice on Mount Parnassus exhaled Intoxicating vapors. Goats inhaling thes& cavorted until their goat-herd also breathed the vapors. Hearing his muttt>rlngs, Greeks deemed them In spired by Apollo anjl built a temple over the stream. Xlu>y seated a priest ess on a gold err tripod over the chastn and surrounded her with priests who interpreted her ravings In ambiguous verse. In the winter months, when Apollo was on his vacation in the land of the Hyperboreans, Dionysus, also prophetic, was worshiped instead. "Most Important temple of the sun god In Greece, the Delphi temple was for centuries the greatest of Greek shrines, thronged \yith thousands of pilgrims. The oracle was consulted for decisions on everything from marriage to wars until the end of the Fourth century, When the Byzantine Kruperor Theodor lc stopped the conMiltatlons by slaying those who consulted. "Today, the temple lies In ruins, the magic stream has dried up, and there no longer exists even any trace of the chasm through which It is said to have flowed. "Almost as important as the oracle to Greek life were the Pythian games, which were celebrated every -fourth year. Various Greek states sent dele gates to compete for laurel crowns In what originated as a song competition, turned to foot-races in the stadium, and ended in chariot races on the plain below Delphi. What splendid runners the ancient Greeks were may be Judged by the record of the flre-brnglng Eu chldas who ran 111 miles in a single 1 day, to take the sacred Are from Del phi to Plataea. Legend Clings to Parnassus. "The stadjum was built in the high est part of Delphi, Itself 2,000 feet above sea level, and breathing Its crisp cold air, which put a bluish patina on Delphi's bronze statues, one realizes why Delphi became a sort of health resort, crowded by patients and phy sicians. "East of Delphi loom the twin sil very cliffs, the Phaedrlades, so-called 'shining rocks,' from whose crannies eagles and cultures soar over snow m I II II I. ? II . Automobile Banned From Public Square Butler, Mo. ? Anyone who oper ates u motor vehicle on the public square here la subject to a tine of $1 to $100 under terms of an ordi nance enacted In 1900 and which has never been revoked. > The ban on "gasoline buggies" was pronounced after several resi dents had been Injured In runaways when their horses were frightened by the autos. capped Mount Parnassus. These cliffs rise sheer for about 800 feet and were convenient for the Delphlans, who used to hurl their enemies from them. The path zigzagging up to the ajimmit of the mountain passes through pine woods resounding with woodsmen's axesj and over bare gray rock relieved only by moss and lavender crocuses. Tlie shouts of muleteers and tinkling mulebells replace the revels that leg end ascribes to this mountain famed as the haunt of Pan and the nymphs. "To France gbes the credit for exca vating Delphi. A modern village, Kas tri, had been superimposed upon the ancient ruins, but French excavators moved the village a mile further south west on the slope, and restored as far as possible the ancient city of Apollo." Mrs. Ruth Owen Brings Back a Husky Mrs. Kuth Bryan Owen, the United States ambassador to Denmark, pic tured with a pet Greenland husky, "Dlsko," which she brought back with her from that far north Island. Mrs. Owen and her party came back on the coast guard cutter Champlaln. Old Bandit Leaves Map to Rich Treasure Sheep Herder Given Key to Lo cation of Wealth. San Jose, Cnllf. ? A treasure map, marking the hiding plnce of uncounted thousands In. Spanish coin, gold Ingots nnd precious stones, has been placed for safety In a hank vault here by a practical, common sense contractor, Clayton Angltis. Seven years ago Anglus met an old man of ninety-six, who told him tales of his patron, Vasquez, the fa mous bandit of the '70s. The man's name was Francisco Torres. He had been a sheepherder and find often shel tered Vasquez after a raid. Torres opened a chest and drew out a creased bit of yellow butchers' pa per ? the map. He said that when the bandit wns brought to trial In San Jose In 1875, he sent word through n Spanish wom an that he must see Torres. Thereon he had drawn this map and told the herder that In an Iron chest at a spot Indicated was burled the wealth of FIRST OF HER KIND MIm Wllnor Murdoch of New Tfork, jwho waa declared the winner of the "Individual makers' champlonahlp of the American Bridge league at tourna ment In thft Hotel Ambaaaador, New York. Rhe la the flrat of her aex to win jthe Ml* seven raids. Among the priceless Jew els were gold Ingots to the amount ,4>f $1 7.0()0. \ Afterwards he had tried to hunt the trensure, but since It Is on a 1.000 acre cattle ranch, a systematic search would ho necessary, and he never ob tained permission from the owner. He pave the map to Anglus with one re quest, that If he found the chest, part of the money be spent for masses for the souls of Vnsquez and himself. Then he died. Anglus says ho has made numerous attempts to gain permission to locate the spot, Indicated on the map, and to excavate. The property belongs to a San Francisco man, who has Ignored the request. Nevertheless, he has found out that the remnants of an old stone house by a spring; a giant tree, broken an<i the trunk hollowed out, do exist ns they appear in the hasty sketch. Briton Slays Shrew Wife; Get# One Year in Prison London. ? A British Judge and Jury agreed In an unprecedented decision that a man who kills his wife because she "nags" him Is no>t guilty of mur der. Sydney Hnggerty, forty-one, success fully pleaded that he was driven to strangling his wife because she con tlnuously nagged him. The murder charge was reduced to manslaughter, and Hnggerty was sen tenced one year's imprisonment In Old Bailey. In summing up the case the judge pointed out that Hnggerty was a "nice, peaceable man," whereas his wife waa "quarrelsome and violent." Boy Hat 3 1st Fracture; Now ti Unable to Walk Lebanon, Pa. ? Thirty-one fractures of both lega have deprived James Weiss, eleven, of the power to walk. Physicians said the boy will never be able to use his legs because of the weakness of the bone formation. He recorded his thlrty-flrat fracture re cently when he figured In an automo bile truck accident near Washington, r>. c. Although tinable to walk, .Tamos has devised a system of his own to get around, fie uses his handa and hla back to develop locomotion, and In Ihta manner la able to ascend and de acend atalra. -*?" United States to Have Permanent Stamp Exhibit Washington. ? Plans to establish a permanent stamp exhibit in the Tost Office department's philatelic agency, occupying an entire room in the new $10,000,000 post office building, were announced by the department. The display, to be tho largest and most Inclusive in the country, will em brace copies of every stamp Issued by the United States and those of almost? every other nation. The decision was prompted, officials said, by the rapidly growing Interest In stamp collections. Every week brings to the philatelic agency more than 3,000 letters asking stamp Infor mation. ICxcept for the four issues put out In September and October, there will be no more special stamps this year, It was announced. Thus far this year thirteen special stamps have been la med. Of these the average Issue has been 2r<0,000,000, although the Mother's day stamp ran close to 420,000,000. The four yet to appear this year are all In the national park series. Soldiers Walk 20 Miles, Penalty for Riding Free Canton, China. ? The practice of tho Kwangtung troops stationed In and around Canton of riding on public busses without paying fares has been stopped by the military authorities in a novel, yet effective, manner. The number of fre? rldea had In creased to approximately 2,000 dally, according to n complaint of the bua company. The military authorities established armed patrols who arrested on sight any soldier found trying to force his way Into a bus or refusing to pay his fare. The offenders were loaded Into trucks, taken about twenty miles from their barracks, made to dismount and walk back. More than fiOO soldiers were "taken for a ride" In this manner. "Tough Guy" Prisoners Most Afraid of Dentist Boston. - The tougher a "tough guy" ho Is the more he fears the dentist. That Is tho conclusion of Dr. J. Payson McDonald, staff dentist at the state prison here. After treating every one of the 1,000 prisoners In the Institution at least twice a year for several years, Doctor McDonald says that the worst crim inals squirm and tremble like children when they are sitting In the chair. ' BRISBANE THIS WEEK Another Royal Murder Mr. Rockefeller Starts Propaganda Work Mussolini Winks King Alexander of Jugoslavia, land ing at Marseilles, beginning of a "good will** tour of Franco, was killed by an assassin-, and Louis Barthou, foreign minister of France, who had gone to Marseilles to meet the king, was shot down at the same moment and died later from loss of blood. Their car was "spattered with bullets." Louis Barthou, seventy-two years old, ono of the ablest of French statesmen, had looked forward to the visit of the Jugo slavian king as the beginning of an era of peace in Europe. As a result of the king's assassina tion on foreign soli It might have been feared that another war would be pre cipitated. Tho great war started with the murder of the Austrian archduke. Vienna published rumors that the Jugoslavian government had ordered mobilization of Its army on the Italian and Hungarian frontiers. It happens, however, that the mur derer in this case Is a certain Petrus Kaleman, thlrty-five-year-old Jugoslav, one of King Alexander's own subjects, so that no International complication is suggested. Kaleman, captured after firing the shots which killed Barthou 'and Alex ander, attempted suicide by shooting himself in the mouth, , but was cut down by police sabers and died from the deep gushes Inflicted and from po lice bullet wounds. John I>. Rockefeller, not delaying this year, has started for Florida ac companied by his son, John D., Jr. There is longer life In sunshine. Some day swift air transportation will make it possible for millions of old men and women and young children that now fight cold and colds in the northern winter to spend that winter somewhere In the United States' sun parlor, that stretches from Florida on the east, west along the gulf coast, and north along the Pacific ocean. Money changes Its so-called "value" and those supposed to control It do not ahvnys realize how It Is changing. We rejoice over increased govern ment receipts, forgetting that the gov ernment Is now taking In 50 or 60 cent dollars. In England the pound ster ling, normally worth more than 124 francs, sells for 71 francs, a drop of 40 per cent. And In Englnnd gold sells above 142 shillings an ounce, or at a premium of 09 per cent. Trouble continues In Spain, with troOps gunrdlng the parliament nnd Inconceivably savage outrages reported In the war against religion. A priest and t%vo civil guards are snld to have been burned alive nnd a Catholic or phnnage dynamited In an outburst of terrorism and religious hatred In north em Spain. The Associated Press re ports mnny churches burned, nnd fifty two soldiers killed when a mllltnry truck was blown up. Urged on by the belief that Upton Sinclair will be elected governor of California nnd proceed to give every old man a pension of $50 a month for the rent of hln life, many $50 and $25 second-hand automobiles, fully loaded, are said to he on the way to California. One well-Inforn^ed says: "Everybody that can raise $25 or $50, and buy ? ear that will run. In bound for Cali fornia to get some of that Upton Sin clair money." This Is written to advise those gen tlemen to turn around, go back and enjoy their newly bought cars nearer home. You cannot "give everybody past sixty $50 a month" unless yon have the $50 to give. The bureau of agricultural economics tells you to prepare for a change In diet. It will be made, necessary by the drouth for all but tho "predatory rich" and the fairly well off. The real rise In food prices will not come nntll next spring; then meats, dairy products, poftltry, wjll go up Fourth of July skyrocket fashion. Yon will eat vegetable*. * Kin* rMtWW !?*> VfFWfrrHm. i/os Angeles reports Industrious "reds" trying to corrupt sailors of the United States navy. One plan seeks t out young, attractive university girls that have not been elected to sororities. Tkey take advantage of their hurt state of feelings to make Communists of them nnd send them to mnke Com munlsts of snilors. Propaganda work Is also t^ne In high schools by Com munists. TOne newspaper urges negro students to "rise and demand colored teachers In the high schools." Special attention Is paid to young college graduates lacking Jobs that have enlisted in the navy. Their feel ings also were hurt and they are ex pected to respond* to the song, "Arise, Ye Prisoners of Starvation," although men In the navy are well fed. Mussolini, talking with "amplifiers" to 500,000 Italians In the Cathedral Square of Milan, remarked, "Relatione between Italy and France are notably Improved," and winked as he said It. The huge Italian crowd roared with laughter. Mussolini says the corpse of dis armament can never be resurrected, which means that European nations will continue arming against each other more and more extravagantly. JUGOSLAV KING IS SLAIN BY ASSASSIN Barthou, French Minister, Also Killed. Marseilles, France. ? King Alexander 1, of Jugoslavia, and Foreign Minister Louis Barthou of France, were shot dead here by an assassin. Four others were killed and eight gravely wounded. The other dead were lien. Alexander Dlmitrtejevlteh, marshal of the Serbian court ; a police man, a woman, and the assassin him self, Petriis Kelemen, a young Croa tian Opposed to Alexander's dictator ship. The wounded Included General George o^ France, Admiral Berthelot, French maritime prefect at Toulon, and members of the crowd, which broke Into rioting after the shooting and were charged by the police with sabers and batons. As In the case of the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Sarajevo In 1014, the assailant Jumped on the running board of the oltlclal car in which King Alexander and Bar thou were sitting side by side after the king's arrival on an Important diplo matic mission to France. Kelemen shouted, "Long live the king" and started tiring bullets Into his body. The chauffeur struck him and his revolver swept in an arc, hit ting Barthou and others. Police began firing and the bullets went into the crowd, striking spectators. Kelemen went down under bullets and a saber blow, and the mob trampled him in rage. Alexander Is succeeded by his son, Peter II, who has been at schnnl in England. He will rule under a re gency. The queen was en route to Paris from Italy when the shooting occurred. She was supposed fo have met the king at Dijon for a triumphal entry Into Paris. Her train was stopped by signal in Italy and she was given the sad news. President Albert Lebrun of France hurried to Marseilles. The French cab'net was summoned Into extraordi nary session. The political consequences of the as nssination probably will be far reach ing. France ami Italy, long it t odds, were about to enter into a political, military and economic pact. .Jugo slavia, opposed to Italy and allied with France, was perturbed. Belgrade. ? Peter II, eleven-year-old son of the late King Alexander, was proclaimed king of the nation of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, under a regency. Roosevelt to Keep Up CCC Activities Washington. ? President Roosevelt In tends to continue indefinitely the civilian conservation corps phase of his recovery program. lie has made this known in u letter to Robert Fechner, corps director, ac knowledging the hitter's enthusiastic report on a recent visit to l2o camps in ten western states. "I have been greatly Interested and encouraged by the fine report from your visit to CCC camps In many parts of the country," Mr. Roosevelt said. "This kind of work must go on. I Relieve that the nation feels that the work of these young men Is so thoroughly Justified and, In addition, the benefits to the men themselves are so clear that the actual cost will he met without much opposition or much complaint." Publicity Gets Job for Destitute Vet New York. ? John Franklin Worden, disabled war veteran, got a paying Job ? thanks to a public protest that he should be In dire need while the navy named a new dKstrover the Worden In memory of his fighting grandfather. Worden, grandson of Rear Admiral John Lorimer Worden, hero of tin Monitor, eagerly accepted a position ns receptionist at the Republican conntv Con^ij$P?<>-l\e:idqiinrlers. The Jo|> was offered by Cbqse Mellon, .!r., I.epuh Mean county leader, who read of Wor den's plight In newspapers. Wife Killed in Crash; Army Officer Is Accused San Diego, Calif.? Mrs. Lorainc (joiner, nineteen, a bride of eight days, was killed In n motor car's crash Into a telephone pole. Iler husband, Second Lieutenant Richard T. Coiner, twenty three, was charged with manslaughter. He, slightly hurt, was released to the army pending Iris preliminary bearing. Leaps 155 Feet From Bridge; Gets Headache Rnn Diego, Calif. ? Clnrence M. Mnl vnney, sailor from the IJ. S. S. Rlgel, leaped lfifi feet from Cnbrlllo bridge In Bnlbon pnrk here In what police de scribed ns nn attempt nt suicide. An ambulance crew found him fitting be side a Illy pond In which he had landed. Ho had n headache. Sting Kill. Worn ? n Rpeaiflsh, S. I). ? Shock, due to n bee sting, Is blamed for the death of Mrs Maude CJarhnrt of Spear-fish valley, who fell dead In n drug store. She Is said to have had a weak heart. Her husband, John Oarhart, Is a profes alonal keeper of bees. Traffic Cluh Fatal Hhullshurg, Wis, ? Injuries received when his automobile was struck by a Dubuque bread truck were fatal Uf Louis Kllcoyne. KING PETER II p Within a few hours ut'ter t lie assassi nation of King Alexander of Jugoslavia in Marseilles the government proclaimed his eleven-year-old son King I'eter II, uniler a recency. The lad was attend ing a school In England. CARDINALS CAPTURE THE WORLD SERIES Shut Out the Detroit Tigers in Final Game. Detroit ? The St. Louis Cardinals won the world series at Detroit, de feating t he Tigers. 11 to 0 in the sev enth came, and Dizzy Dean elevated himself to the ranks of baseball's pitching immortals with one of the most brilliant exhibitions of hurling the national pastime has ever pro duced. In fart no pitcher ever succeeded more masterfully in the greatest test of the g.ime, and while that is saying a great deal. It is also saying ii with out exaggeration. The manner in which Dean led the Cardinals to their third worlds championship in nine years and their second in four years was one of the nerviest displays of .instilled self-belief the world of sport has seen in years. At the end of ti e sixth inning there nr^se n demonstration which almost overshadowed the game itself, and would have if It had not been the sev enth and deciding contest of a particu larly tense world series. Medwick had come into third on a three-base hit. sliding with his spikes high. Marvin Owen, the Tigers' third base caretaker, appeared to fall on him but apparently stepped on him in addi tion. At any rate Medwick retaliated by a vigorous display of kicking. It wasn't so awfully much of a con troversy so far as the two players were concerned and the affair was over with almost before It started. Hut the fans wanted to get in. too. So when Med wick went to left field to take*his po sition at the half, the bleaeherites promptly laid down about him a bar rage of oranges, lemons, pop and beer bottles. Medwick retreated to the In field while the groundkeeper cleaned up tho mess and then returned to his position, The barrage promptly began again. This was repeated a third time and It was stopped only after Commis sioner I.andis was appealed to and or dered Medwick out of the game. Before this action Landis had asked both Medwick and Owen for their version of what happened on the slide, and when Medwick, whether In pirjue or bcfuddlement replied, "a lot of things can happen on a s'ide," the com missioner arb:tr?n-iij ordered the Car dinal off the field, Huey's Candidate Wins Supreme Court Primary I.ake Charles, I, a. ? Senator Huey P. I.ong chalked up another victory at the polls and went back to New Orleans to complete the political annihilation of his arch enemy. Mayor T. Semmes Wa Inisley. I. lent. (Jov. .John H. Fournet, candi date of the "klr.gflsir in the "extra primary" election of a state Supremo court Justice In the Third district, de feated District Judge Thomas Porter, who based his campaign almost solely on his opposition to I.ong. Paraguay Offers to End Chaco War fienevn, Switzerland. ? Paraguay de manded Immediate cessation of hos tilities In the Chaco war In a messago to the I.eague of Nations conciliatory committee, and a special nonaggresslon pact with ""International guaranties." Paraguay also informed the commit tee that It was disposed to proceed toward conciliation will) trie Idea of reaching a direct accord with Bolivia on the differences and eventually n de cision by arbitration. Rancher Found Dnad Billings, Mont. James Lahey, about seventy five, n rancher, former cowboy, and a veternn of the Indian wars, was found shot to death In his cabin on Pryor creek, 28 miles southeast of here. Killed by Own Shotgun Faribault, Minn.? Killed when his shotgun accidentally was discharged, the body of Oliver Lee, Faribault, wan found by a searching party near Can non lake.