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3 THE bREGOk STATESMAN SALEM, OREGON , feDNESDAYiORNINd JUNEjili924!.U. DT MM I AG E PROBLEMS Aiel Garrtaoa Kew Fbaaa el REVELATIONS OP A WIFE Copyright 1I1L Dr Ntvtjtper 1 " : Flur Berrien, live. CHAPTER 187. THE STRANGE CODE KATHER INE STROVE TO INTERPRET. - .There was a little pardonable triumph In Katherine's eyes as she replied to Lillian's discovery that she had known the language of the man in the hospital. . . "Yea, 1 1 could understand them, all right: &e al- "I thought perhaps I would be able to when you told me about them, but I didn't, dare tell you for fear pf holding out false hopes. There are so many dialects in -all those tongues, you know. j.But I've al ways had a sort of knack at lang uages, and in the . hospitals over there I was able to pick up a sort ofworking. knowledge of a num ber of them. So it was easy for me to understand .these chaps, ex cept when thefr tones were very low. ( You see, ,1 was careful to keep a little distance from them with my back turned part of the time, and pretend to be busy with several things. I thought you would want me to, play safe on that score, especially if I am to gd on with Joe, out of the hospi tal." ; v . . . . , : She paused nd looked inquir ingly at Lillian, .who nodded an emphatic assent, r '; "Of course,' she said. "That's the vital thing, to be sure he has no suspicion of you. If I can once get you inside of .the .home to which I'm very sure - he's to be taken I'll ask nothing else of fate for at least three-quarters of an hour. , But go on." ; "They went through a lot of preliminary stuff, , Anton asking all about Joe's accident, and Joe describing it in detail. They were clever enough, to do most of this in Broken English, and were even Limbers 'Em Up in t Ease It's for joint troubles i in ankle, knee, hip, elbow, shoulder, knuckles or spine -whether rheu matic or not. It limbers them up, ; reduces the swelling, , chases out the pain and inflammation when Joint-Easp goes in Joint ag ony goes out no time wasted. But lately thou sands of people have discovered that it's also su premely good for quick relief in lumbago, neural- j gia and neuritis. Joint-Ease is an active emoli ent that soaks in almost instantly and remember when Joint-Ease gets In joint troubles get out quick- A tube 60 cents.. Daniel J. Fry sells lots of Joint Ease. Adv. lis w foxy enough to explain to me that they had to talk in their own lan guage sometimes, because Anton couldn't understand very well." "That's because Smith wanted to over-em phsizc,. the fact that he Is alien," Lillian commented. f "I imagined so," Katherine re turned. . "And then they got down to business in their own tongue, of course. It was queer to see how their relations changed the minute they stopped speaking what they called English. Before, they ostensibly had been equals, but in their own tongue it was plainly to be seen that Anton was in command. Joe the very humble subordinate." "Did You Get It?" "And a very arrogant comman der. Anton, or I miss my guess," Lillian Interrupted. ., "Exactly. In fact. If I hadn't known what a rascal , Joe 3was I should have felt sorry for him. Anton gave him a most thorough raking over for daring to get hurt. He reminded him that time was everything, and that this accident had delayed them a lot.. Then he asked this question 'Did you get It?' " ; Lillian sat tensely forward in her chair, and I knew that this question, obscure to me, meant much to her. r r ." Katherine's lips quirked Into a little smile as she went on. "I've . heard some pretty stiff swearing in my time," she said, "with men coming out of delirium and all, but I never heard Anton's efforts equalled, at Joe's sullen reply to the effect that the girl evidently Katie had the object, whatever it was, that Anton wish ed, and had promised to bring it to him on the evening he was hurt. Joe added, tyith some extra vicious epithets against Katie, that ho knew she still had the object they both called the thing 'RV becquse she would be afraid to give it to any one but himself. Katherine Takes Notes. "When Anton finished his curs ing, and he uttered it in the low est, most sullen , tones possible- no one who didn't understand the language would dream he was angry he demanded Katie's name and address, saying he would not fail as .Joe had. , And, honestly girls, he made my blood run cold at the smiling way he repeated 'Graham when Joe told him where Katie worked. He certainly has it in for your family." . . ' The lines around Lillian's mouth seemed deeper, but she . made no comment except to say with a faint trace of impatience: . "We must start home as soon as you've finished, Katherine." "The rset of the interview was the most untintelligible stuff im aginable," Katherine said slowly. "I'm sure it was code mostly, and how I wished I had Madge there behind a screen. She could have remembered it. but. all I could do was to interrupt them when they began it, take Joe's temperature and respiration "and pulse, and then make ; a great pretense, of filling in my chart and writing a letter. I was able to get some of it, although I could not follow it all, being in a different tongue. And it is certainly odd. A lot of it. seems based on the multiplica tion table said wrongly for in stance, atf, one place Anton said, 'three times eight are twenty seven, and Joe ( came back with 'six times sixteen' afo nine " Lillian sprang to her feet with os near excitement as I ever had seen in her. j "I've heard , of that," she said tensely. "Let me see your notes, please-" ; (To be continued.) PUTS RELEASE 20; Report By Commissioner Gram Summerizes Labor Situation in Oregon During the present spring about 20,000 men have been released from employment in camps and mills In the northwest, with a con sequent drop in wages, says a re port on conditions made yesterday by C. II, Gram, state labor com missioner. This slump in con ditions was not looked for until the winter was well over. A grad ual betterment of conditions is now looked for-during the re mainder of the year. The labor situation is indicated by the placements reported by licensed employment agencies for the first five, months of this year, which totaled 2.4,559, as compared with placements during the first five months f last year, which totaled 41,020. For the - timber occupations wages has dropped an average of 65 cents a day for May, as com pared with last December, t)r on a monthly basis with board the drop has been about $8.-46 a month. ' . The report says: : "Employment, conditions con tinued better than usual until the winter was well over. Reports in dicate the first half of February production of lumber to be 23 per cent above normal. Forty per cent of the lumber i produced moved by water. The combined value of exports for the month of February reached $3,741,986. For the same month last year they aggregated ( IL931, 926, and; for the corresponding month 'in 1922, $2,902,198. This activity In ship ping bad a. steadying effect on the employment situation in mid winter and several hundred extra men found employment at long shore work along the Columbia river. j "In the same month things things pointed to a banner build ing year from the fact that dur ing the first 15 days of February building permits for residences In Portland showed an increase of 87 per , cent, as compared with the same period of last'year. With a steady demand for construction labor to complete the. Southern Pacific extension beyond Oakridge, everything indicated that during 1924 labor would be gainfully em ployed. ."In March the logging and lum bering industries were showing signs of uneasiness and a program of curtailment of production was necessary. It became apparent that the country was not going to require as much lumber as it did in 1923. California will purchase less, lumber In 1924 than it did either in 1922 or 1923. By the month of May the program of cur tailment of lumber production as estimated resulted In a reduction of 23 per cent in the number of men employed in mills and log ging camps. In the northwest probably 20,000 men were releas ed from employment in camp and mlll3. These men entered into competition with other classes of workers but all could not , be ab sorbed andsorbed and with the oyersupply of labor the con quentjal drop in wages followed In resfs'ance a tew minor strikes resulted. "The drouth and foot and mouth disease in California have had a depressing effect In Oregop. Tho transDortation companies felt it to such an extent that a large number of employes were tempor arily released from employment." PICNIC? vjOEI SILVERTON, Ore., June 9. r (Special to The Statesman.) Trinity Youpg People's society spent Sunday afternoon in a pic nic at the home of Mr. and Mrs. "John jGoplerud of Brush Creek. A picnic dinner was enjoyed lol lowed by a short program. . WE PAY CASH ion YOUR AND TOOLS Capital Hardware Furniture Co. ; Best Prices Paid 285 N. Com'l St. Phone 217 AlWOUNCEMENf THE CORNER GROCERY Corner 13th and State f Will open this morning with a full line of staple and fancy 'groceries, fresh1 fruits and vegetables. Most of the Vegetable's carried will be from the Abiqua Gardens. Vegetables of Quality from Producer to Consirmer The Vegetable Corner S. D. HAfcTWELL, Proprietor. Corner Thirteenth and State. Phone 2'JO . . r- . ' ' rn Thbiisahds of Pairs of Shoei Takerk' from Short Lines Broken Up in the on:Hand When the Doors Open, as We Are Going to Sfell Shoes. Profits Part of the Sale Will Be Thrown Out for the Next Two Daya. Do Forgotten; Our Sole Object Is to'Fbrce Our Stock to th6 Lowest Level urn 3 (j C rrr-i . n o (a Childreii's and Boys' Shoes : and Oxfords Children's Red arid Blue Pumps : The very newest thing on the market, all sizes, regular, $4.00 and $4.50 grades, while they last ACi at ; I 0 VD ' Boys' Elk Bals An excellent wearing shoe for rough wear, about fifty pair in the lot, sizes from 9 to 2, get a pair before AA . they go, at PA .UU Boy's' and Youths' Outing and Play Shoes The best quality shoe on the mar ket for boys, it has been tested for years and proven the best for wear. BOYS . YqUTHS $2.65 $2.35 Lot of Boys', Chndrelosaiibr Women's Tennis and outing shoes, this is a sample line, some shoes 1 sold as high as $4.00. If you come early you Cl Hfl . can get a pair for .... .i.: J) 1 U U Boys' Dress" Shoes Black calf dress shoes in good styles,' regularly sold for a.uu, me Desi ooy scout shoer i CO HE? . j. .) VD at Boys' Army or Scout Shoes' The best brown elk shoe ever made for a boys wcarl com- lurutoic, scrviceaoie ana gooa looking, lie P1 AP i vo.vo sure to get a pair at Children's Shoes We have hundreds', of pairs of all kinds of Children's shoes-in all sizes from the smallest to the larg- est at greatly re duced prices. We can not list all of these shoes but the" prices, are reduced equal with the other shoes that are listed. 19, Shoes and Oxfords v. t 1 Men's . Dress Shoes in both brown and black lace, newest last, reg- QC ularly sold at $7.00, now go at .. r'.rylyu Men's Dress Oxfords The best $7.00 value in the city, both black and brown, now go Qjj , : Men's Dress ; Shoes In" both calf arid kid, regular $9.00 values, all Oft QC ...V((l Men's Outing Bals' t Regular $3.00 quality brown elk uppers with dT QC best soles, all sizes while they last so at ......vlvO Men's Work Shoes Best brown army shoe soft upper box toe, the best $6.00, shoe in Salem, this sale, QC goes at . J...HtuO Men s Rubber Sole Outing Shoes With leather trim, a very comfortable shoe for CO QC outing or work, we have a full line at :.....vi'0 I , MeiiVLeatheFHouse Slippers A regular $3.00 grade, all sizes, well made and fljl QC good looking, while they last, go at . ........... V 1 UO sizes and ' widths, now go at ... Men's Dress Oxfords In brown and' black, new styles, just arrived, all widths and sizes, regu lar $9.00 values,, this sale go at $6.95 s Men's Felt House Slippers The best $3.00 value in the city, all colors, all J1 QC sizes, take your choice at ..... ;....J. . Ladies' Pumps and Oxfords Ladies' White Pumps All styles of white cloth pumps, regularly ' sold , up to $6.00, not all sizes in each style but all sizes f fC . Ladies' Gray and Brown Oxfords Two new low heel styles, in ladies and big girls Oxf ord3, all sizes and widths, regularly sold at $7.00. A. p r We will close the two lines out at u Ladies' Black Rid Oxfords x Also brown, regular $8.00 and $9.00 values, all the best known makes. We can fit any foot and . guarantee every pair. Save money and get a pair at . . $4.95 Two Hundred Pairs Women's Shoes Brown, black, and colors, most all sizes, regularly sold up to $12.00, take your choice of any pair In n'r the lot at ........... . 1. U J One Hundred Black Satin Pumjss Atl the very latest styles, all sizes, all widths' 'regularly ujq ai o.uu ana 10 close out every 0' (1C . ............... ....... isJJa pair goes at in most styles, to close out at Ladies' White Kid Pumps Dozens1 of - styles, just the thing for graduation, regularly priced from $7.00 to $10.00, to close QC out while they last ..vvO Two Hundred Odd Pairs Pumps Sold regular up to $12.00 each, in all leathers, including kid, patent, tan, suede, in fact all leathers, d4 QC take your choice . .......-.......-, ;........xlJ New Sandals for Ladies and Girls Log Cabin, Biege and Patent leather, just arrived, the very newest $5.00 sandal on the market, get OQ flC a pair before they are gone, at ...UmVO White Reihskin - , Oxfords Regularly sold at $8, $9 and $10, all sizes and thev are all to be closed out in this sale, at $3.95 Ladies' House Slippers In both felt and satin comfort slippers, all color?, oli rose.'copan, emerald, coral, wine and smoke, regular $2.00 grades. Wc have hundreds of pairs to nC ' close out, at I. VDC fVEXPERTiREPMR' MN: : Always on the job , We have one pf the best equipped shops' in the state and we use the highest grade "leather and repair materials in all of our repair work. We guarantee our work to give the best of satisfaction or no pay. . i -allot CO., Setii Shoes FJotAfflaaw Rubber Heel Day Wednesday We will put oh any make of rubber heel on any kind of shoel in either black or brown or white rubber for Half Price Wednes day of Each Week. The best 50c heels oh the market Wednes day , 25 c 3Z6 8t&teaHcxtS)UH(C(ak8A.