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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17. 1924 mmiiicE PBBJPS Adele Garrison ivew Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE Copyright by Newspaper Feature Service CHAPTER 269 WHAT LILLIAN TOLD MADGE ABOUT KATHERINE "Joe's mysterious Iriends!" , I repeated Lillian's words ma cbaically. Indeed, for a second of two I did not grasp what sho meant, , The knowledge that sha had recognized Harry Underwood after all the care I had taken to keep her from It, together with Volume of Business i i not per cent of profit, is the governing principle in the conduct of this business. This means that we buy pure i foods at the lowest possible price and sell them at the lowest possible figure our volume of business will permit. The house-keeper will see in an instant where she can save money on the buying of her provisions: 6reaD of Seat iv 2Se Sre 16s "Gnwlnnr. Imported, in Oljve Oil, OR" OLiybaSaJO 2 for ... L . . Lx3h yr ? 014 Green River, Li UwCivJsJvJ Union Made, 2 for . U$?U prolate (Bandy jfaKfe , pr,!n..r,!r), Crescent QQ? LlLjL - UUti.3ir 5 Lbs. : .liB&lj) 1; lodsJ UhUiiW Lb. . . LzKjb I .i-'w!-, Sixow-Drift, 4 Lbs. . 94c j -C-wL-lLCj-Jiilg..: t - 8 Lbs. $1.80 Canns,, Pink. . 5e I niij; 12 Large 00 I L.-Lllibi.uJO ' i:t Boxes . VViSb v . M -: - LET DAT.I0N BE YOUR GROCER TODAY Fresh Vegetables Fresh Meat : : Groceries COLLEGE; STUDENTS Are Arriving Daily and Looking for Places to Stay HAVE YOU ROOMS TO RENT ? Many new arrivals call at The Statesman Office and watch tHe paper for new, "For Rent" ads ,-B.W4-.-H Yourself By Letting the Statesman Classified Columns Rent Tour Rooms i the startling revelation Mr. Under wood had given me, made a com bination upsetting to connected thought. "Yes. yes! -Wake up!" Lillian retorted. "They have actually ma terialized at last, and, better still, they have fallen for Katherine. She is to go with them as Joe's nurse when they take him from the hospital.?' Her voice; was filled with an elation which I could not share. 1 saw that her; mind was completely taken up with the triumph of a difficult task accomplished. But mine was obsessed with fear for my brother-cousin's gentle wife. I i "Won't there be danger for he" if she goes?' I asked anxiously. Two tiny white lines etched themselves at each side of Lillian's upper lip a signal to those who have studied her face that she is strongly moved. "Of course there is danger for her," she said slowly.. "But if I know Katherine, she is not the woman to hesitate on that ac count." That there was a subtle rebuk for me in her answer I was wll aware. I knew that t she acquitted me of personal cowardice, but I was sure that she subconscious ly at least resented my putting my fear for Katherine's safety before the patriotic flaming zeal for our enterprise which consum ed her own soul. A Special Duty And then, as is ever her way, she shut off the emotional posai- bilities of the moment with a bar rier of the practical. "Besides, our organization will see that she is well watched ami guarded," she said. "Can you pack a steamer trunk for Katherine, being sure that every article of clothing you put in has no be traying mark of her real name?" . With an effort I put away th-a anxiety for my little friend which I knew would haunt me until her safe return to us, and answered with cheery readiness. 1 "Of course I can and will. Shall I have an opportunity to see her and find out what she wishes to take, or must I guess at her se lection?" , "We can see Ier only once b-' fore she goes." she responded, "and that will be a distinctly risky proceeding, although I have a plan which I think will work out without any danger of Joe's friends discovering her identity; But Katherine has thought qf everything. Dr. Pettit brought me a memorandum from her, contain- ing concise and practical direc tions for everything Bhe wished done. I'll just turn it over to you now, and you "can get busy on It after you)ve rested a bit." "Very Strictly Watched" vi don't need any rest," I re? torted, striving to keep any hint of pettishness from my voice! "When does she go?" "Whenever Dr. Petitt gives his consent to Joe's being taken away." Her significant smile points ed her meaning, and I interrupted it hastily. "You mean, when you say the word." "Oh! Wise young dame!" sho paraphrased, and then immediate ly struck a more serious note. "Yes. Dr. Pettit will not give his consent to Joe's removal until I give him permission," she said. "But that permission depends upon the actions of another gifted; gentleman in our neighborhood.'!; "Smith!" I ejaculated involun tarily. She nodded. "The same, alias Anton, i alias. goodness alone knows how many other names. I'm expecting every minute to get a report from Tom Chester or Mr. Briggs that Mr. Smith has taken his foot In his hand and departed for a stroll in our direction. He apparently has accepted Dr. Pettit's dictum that his wrenched ankle cannot be used but he Is such a foxy customer that nobody knows what's running through his noodle. However, he's tieing very strictly "watched so we'll know when anything does break. Here is this memorandum of Katherine's. If you need any help call on me." , "Don't you think you have enough on hand?" I asked. . . U "1 suppose you're perfectly care free yourself," she retorted, then she dropped her hand in comrad ely fashion on my shoulder. "Whatever should I do without you. Madge!" she exlaimed, and was out of the room before . I could reply. But I went at the task of pack ing for Katherine with a heart from which she had deftly extract ed every bit of the petty soreness I had felt. (To be continued) CI BOOSTS SUGAR Head of Producers of De fiance; Ohio, Talks to Kiwanians Home grown sugar not only af fords the onljr competition to the socalled sugar trust, but also of fers one solution t the present farm distress; Charles II. Allen, president of the Farmers Sugar company, of Defiance, Ohio, said in an address; before the Ki wants club at the Marion hotel Tuesday noon. He had as his subject "Who Fills Your Sugar Bowl." . Unless tillers of the soil real ize that crops cannot be grown year after year and the fertility exhausted they will eventually pay a price, he said. ' Mr. Allen will speak before jthe " Rotary club to day.;: : . Depletion of Soil llaits "Our agricultural troubles have been caused principally by deple tion of our soil fertility, through constant growing of wheat and other crops high in mineral ele ments, he Said. "These crops have been sold at less than cost of production, if the cost of the mineral elements they contain were counted. "Sugar, on the other hand. takes no fertility from the soil. Chemically itj is nothing but car bon and water. The sugar beet gets the water from the rain and the carbon from the carbon diox ide in the air through the action of sunshine on the green leaves of the plant.! "Sunshine and rain are Inex haustible," the speaker declared, 'and America should follow the agricultural practice of Germany, France, Denmark and Belgium, and raise more of such farm pro ducts as do not exhaust soil.' in stead of so much wheat, corn and other crops that 'are low in price and are hard on soil fertility." Xedless Kxpendltares Cited While sugar beets' take fertile soil, the speaker explained that tops and crown ' are left on the ground to be plowed under and the pulp, after sugar is extracted, is put back on i the land as food for dairy cattle. , "In 1920 alone," said the speak er, "the people of the United States- 110,000,000 of us went to Cuba and handed over $900,- 000,000 for the sunshine and rain over Cuba in the form of sugar, just as if we didn't have any of our own. I Mr. Allen urged his hearers to Insist that their congressmen sup port such laws as will foster the production of food products that come from the inexhaustible ma terials, not from the exhaustible mineral matter qf the soil. Tariff is Fair The present tariff of $1.75 per 100 pounds is none too hleh for the protection of the; American farmer against the black labor and cheap living iconditions of foreign countries, he said. Yet the Cuban sugar interests want it still fur ther reduced so they can in turn cut the price so low during three months when domestic sugar is on the market,! that ' the American farmer will be forced out of the sugar business. Then with no competition, the speaker charged, the trust managers could boost the price as jhigh as they pleased. Branding as a myth the idea that governmental stimulation of the, American sugar crop or tariff raises the : price of ' sugar, the speaker asserted that "in reality sugar is always lowest in price at the time the domestic crop is going on the market in,' comoeti- tion with the imports from Cuba, He said : "A week after Ohio and Michigan sugar factories be-, gan to grind beets last fall, they offered sugar as far east as Buf falo at 90 cents a hundred pounds less than the price quoted on the New York stock(. exchange. But the sugar! grown in America was practically! all sold and consumed by the middle of February, and then the price advanced, because the entire supply was in the hands of the. sugar; trust-the seven re fineries in New York citv which control the jubati sugar Imports. Vaudeville A TODAY TOMORROW BABY MARY ROSE - - - f The Wee Movie Star In SONGS AXD DAXCES LE ROY DRIGGS . PIAXOLOGUE TEX BENDER COWBOY FIDDLER ' ALL XEW PICTURE PROGRAM Bligh Theatre Four Act Vaudeville Road Show Starting Friday Boycotts Ineffective "When sugar goes so high, the housewives organize boycotts, but they have no effect. The price does not drop until ', the home grown crop goes on the market, and v then It drops immediately. During the months of November, December and January ' last year the home ' sugar crop saved the American people $30,000,000 on their sugar bill. But through the summer New York capital will dic tate the price on the basis of Cu ban sugar. -; .-- "The late: President Harding said the way: to reduce the high price of sugar was to grow more at home. Every year his policy is proved.", K ' Mr. Allen- explained that with proper encouragement, beet grow ers In this state could not only grow all the sugar the state needs, but could also furnish its neigh bors, and in doing so the farmers would be selling only sunshine and rain, instead of the . exhaustible mineral matter of the soil. The speaker heads 1200 Ohio farmers: who are building their own sugar factory on a cooper ative basis.' Entertainers Appear Novel entertainment, including sleight of hand work and old time fiddle tunes, was offered by Har old's Dad and Harold, profession al entertainers. Following the address given by Mr. Allen, Dr. H. E. Morris,, pres ident of the club, announced that farm relations was on of the ob jectives of the Kiwanis club and that he believed this the best time to name the committee, which will consist of Percy Cupper, chairman, C. B. McCullough, C. E. Albin, C. E. Wilson, Harry Weiss and J. L. Brady. 1 The attendance prize, offered by George King, was won by Lloyd Rigdon. SALEM BQYS 1NT FOOTBALL UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eu gene, Sept. 16. Rex Adolph and Jones, former Salem high school athletes reported today for initial workout of the Oregon football team. During their freshman year both men starred jin football and baseball at the University and will undoubtedly give the veterans a hard fight for berths on the var sity eleven this season. Jones is a line smasher of abil ity and adept at snaring passicg, There is a possibility that Adolph will do some of the kicking for the Oregon eleven as coach Mad' dock is working him in that c ip& city i i-i piesen mv WILBUR SUMMONS IS NOT EXPLAINED (Continued pg 3) might indicate that aircraft in the future would play so much greater a part in warfare that such an un dertaking as the United States ac complished In 1917-18 when it transported 2,000,000 ; men to France, would be an impossibility in the face of large hostile - air fleets. It was not indicated that the president had arrived at any conclusion of his own in this re gard. It was said, however, that he saw the necessity in the shaping of naval budgets of taking all fac tors Into account and it was In dicated that in the circumstances he did not favor urging congress to make substantial Increases in the appropriation for the navy im provement of old ships which had a. limited life at best under the naval limitation treat. ' It has been estimated by the navy de partment that the complete mod ernization of the treaty battleships over a period of about 10 years would cost ; approximately ; $30, 000,000. That chap who fell dead in a bank lobby doubtless found a pen that would work. WE PAY CASH FOR YOUR FURNITURE AND TOOLS Capital Hardware & Furniture Co. Best Prices Paid 285 N. Coml SL Phone 347 1. MILES IS IK FRDWT HIS LDFiIG TRIP Spent Three and va Half Months Investigating Flax and Linen Industry B. C. Miles is home from his long trip, of three , and a half months, investigating the flax and linen industry in Europe' and the east and Canada. He was accompanied home by Mrs. Miles, and they arrived yes terday afternoon on the Southern Pacific, having come over the Ca nadian Pacific, and to Seattle by boat. Miss Eva Miles, their daughter, will ; remain ' six months in Paris and Berlin with friends, studying. She graduated last year from Pa cific college, Newberg. : - Their other daughter, Lyra, and her husband Robert H.'Dann are In Belfast Ireland. Mr. Dann is. taking a course in . the . textile school or institute of the 5 Irish Linen society, and. Mrs. Dann is also taking an Interest In the same studies, and. will likely have some post graduate work in Queen's College, Belfast. Had Our Flax Tried. Mr. Miles had with him samples of flax fiber produced In the Sa lem district, and he had it worked out first by one of the great linen mills of Dundee, Scotland. This mill has 48,000 spindles. Then he went with one of bis samples to Ghent, Belgium,: and had this sample tried out " there."- From Belgium be went with samples to Belfast the greatest linen city in the world. One of the Belfast mills that took samples for spin ning has 35,000 spindles. In every case, the Oregon flax fiber showed up an exceptionally good percentage of long line fiber, Mr. Miles brought home with him the written reports of the spinners. They were glad to make grade range (dan unusually, low pnee $75-00 Come In To-day yJTHE WIDE AND jLS .. . X , S"AttOW FIREBOX , - j Xj ' W "' ' 1 It I 1 II" 'I till'' MML..I ..!. . .... the tests,' and they did the work without any charge Every one of the spinners was ' complimen tary concerning the strength and the largo proportion of long line fiber produced. Some of them, if hot most of them, said, the sam ples of our fiber they were given to work lacked . "nature;" that is pliability, or spinability. The quality they call "nature" ' IS one that gives the . fiber , a soft, oily feeling. ' A J! One Belfast man thought the fault was with our seed; another suggested that.it was probably in the processes employed here in retting or scutching it. Any way, this did not discourage Mr. Miles. He thinks we can learn the trick. A Botter Climate Here. Mr. Miles had mace a study of our climatic conditions in the Sa lem district ever since weather records have been kept. He com pared them with those of .the Bel fast district in Ireland. He found that the average rainfall there and here is about the earner But he also found that we have on the average very little rain here In harvest time; in July and August. In Belfast, while he was there, it rained nearly all the time. It rained so . much that the flax could not be harvested at all. One of the things' Mr. Miles in- quired about, from -the reporter, last evening, was as to whether our Salem district ' growers had been discouraged", over their un usual dry summer season, and con sequent shortage of the their flax crop, especially in Hhe fields with out Irrigation. When he was told that our farmers here have not been discouraged at all, realizing that they may not again have such a season in the course of many years, and that all they, ask is a good market, in order to grow all the . flax that may be taken, he was pleased. ' Mr. Miles would make no furth er comment concerning his plans. It is enough to say that he expects to see Salem some day the Belfast of the New World. . Labor conditions' ; in England and all . over Great Britain are poor. "There are 2,000,000 idle lj!uhiftY- THE FEIMCW. m"ZiX1 1 rooKlwa TOP We know of no other range made in America that compares with the Opal . Buffet , Type for range value; certainly no other range of f era more in quality, or in practical constructive features de signed especially to meet Pacific Coast require ments.." .. . . -"" . " The many years satisfaction it will give you in cooking and baking, and in the saving of fuel, will far exceed its low price. Sturdy appearance, pleas ing design and plain smooth - finish will quickly 1 arouse your desire to own one of these ranges. Two Practical and Economical Features of the OPAL Buffet Type Range the French ? 'ii Cooking Top Heats, quickly and uni formly, and hold the heat longer than the partitioned top. Being smooth and with large flat surface,' cooking utensils fit snugly to it, in suring . quicker results in cooking. Steaks, eggs - and hotcakea can- be cooked di rectly on this top. as ' on hotel and restaurant ranges There are many other quality, fea tures you'll be interested in knowing about The high grade porcelain enamel parts: Armco Rust -Resisting Iron, which ia used extensively in its construction ; " the excellence r o f workmanship and finish throughout. working people there, living on government"! doles,., and the scale of wages for those atiwork Is very low, compared .to our wajres here. He was very glad . to be . back in the United States, and in Salem, Oregon.- (Since writinc the above, tha reporter has learned that the fiber which Mr. Miles took with him was several years old, and It'wa3 from over ripe flax. ; That is the reason the spinners across tho water found it to be deficient in "nature.") 12 MINERS ARE RESCUED FROM A LIVE BURIAL (Continual from page 1 ed at the mine. . These men were sent into the main entrance and also to the fire entrance with orders to clear these passageways to permit the gas to escape from the filled mine -and also to clear away the wreckage and debris within the mine In order to expedite the work- of. searching for survivors. ' First reports received here were to the effect that. fire was raging within the mine but rescue crews coming out after short shifts were unable to confirm these Teporta although they had made little progress, into the interior of the mine proper. All of the timbers in the main portal were wrecked ' by the force of the blast. Practically all of -the men en tombed within the mine, and - de clared by company officials to be believed dead, have been residents of the mining community -of Sub let: for years- Fathers and &pns, according." to the", company .state ments, were employed In the mine and.it is believed that practically entire families have been wiped out by the blast. STAT E ST.! A II WANT ADS The shortest distance tctHC :a buyer and seller. . the Wide and Shallow Firebox ' The correct design and liberal . proportion of this Pacific Coast firebox insure quick cooking and baking It brings the heat directly up under' the cooking top and gives olume heat, flow around the oven. It's a; fuel aaver. - too.. Duplex grates for wood or coal. l : . L . . i. doli"' ,hi3 OPAL Range, to your home Balance cn easy, terms. 1 ; . i . . . I HAMILTON'S GOOD FURNITURE s Telephone 23 or 583