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PAGE TEN The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, June 21, 1929 ci Ayr v -WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE Phillip Edison la host at a nlirhi-elub f party to hla Just i-ecwntly-divorced wife and- Oliver Sewell, sportsman and Djn ' Jtian. Edison presumes that Sewell an4 - ltb divorcee are to be married. WWn ' the party break up. Edison goes to BeweU's home and, while he la wailing w- Ma return, la informed Sewell haa been fswnd dead. Inspector Marx begins a police investigation. He questions Se : weir Bussian valet. The elevator op- - erator la also quest tone w. He did not "'. s .Sewell return. A young medical examiner, with a taste for detective work, assists Marx. Their search of the apartment reveals complete ward robes for women In different colors. ; - n a safe-deposit box they find a scrap of paper bearing the inscription, "Paid In Full." The following day a Major Preston, who haa been a sporting as sociate of Sewell's, in interrogated. Tben Pewell's widow visits the apart - ttmt She intimates that Preston might know something. As the investigators are standing, after Mrs. Sewell's de parture, looking at a mirror door, it opens, and Mrs. Edison appears. She relates a story which the police do not tx'Heve. After she leaves, her lawyer threatens Marx with political reprisals It' the woman is molested. Then Edi son visits the apartment. As he goes out a shot is heard. Th Russian but ler is found dead and Edison is ar rested. Mary Fennel 1, whose clothes are found in the apartment, is ques , tioned. She identifies the "Paid In Full" note as her uncle's, the Major's hmidwrtrrng. A diary belonging to the ckad butler is found. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORT CHAPTFR .VI V . She, who calls herself Nina Ka rasova, was my fiance. Shi was the youngest daughter of a , wealthy Ukranian landlord, a ; neighbor of mine, and our mar riage was to unite two substan tial, if not noble families. I may add here that I have little use for the nobility, which, in Russia at least, belied its name end was di rectly responsible for the ata atrophe that, ruined all of uj .-Nina (the Countess, I may re peat. Is assumed) had come to l'etrograd with the outbreak of the war. She said something of going into nursln but her real reason was her desire for that gaiety which did not abate even when the whole world was strick en. I knew nothing of her then, although we were engaged, for I knew nothing of people, aut as sumed them to be like myself honest, well-meaning and pain fully frank. If she said "white," how was I to know she meant black" or "pale gray." But this is the feminine mind. At least it was Nina's mind. Perhaps I am stupid, unlike other men. Perhaps others would have understood her. This much I knew. J- wm in love with her, for she was beau tiful. She still is. And even iu the general humiliation, in the defeat that my Teturn to Petrograd sign ified, I was happy that I would se her again. And she, seemed happy to see me. It was from her I first learned of Sewell. She babbled innocently V enough about his gorgeou3 enter tainments, his generosity. She said he was a true friend of Rus sia. I must smile when I write this. ..Shortly after my arrival in Pet rograd, the Red Terror began. Everyone was under suspicion. I had long since discarded my uni form for a workman's blouse, Kheepskn coat, baggy trousers and eld boots, and I had taken a room with a carpenter's ;amily In the poorer quarters. Nina had been living at the hotel. I Insisted that she com-) and atay in my apartment, for the FLAT-FOOT MAY CAUSE SYMPTOMS OF ILLNESS Victims of This Condition Frequently Suffer Pains n. Associated with Rheumatism, Kidney or Spinal V Trouble, Says Dr. Copeland. By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D. United States Senator from New York. Former Commissioner of Health, Keu York City. ANYTHING that interferes with the natural and free use of the feet in walking Is bound to cause all manner of disagreeable symptoms. If your foot is thrown out of its natural position, train is bound to be the result. . pain extending anywhere from the foot itself through the leg and, into the back. ; Many a person has believed himself to be Buffering frcm rheumatism, or even some sort f kidney or spinal trouble, when these organs nd parts are really perfectly normal. He is teerely paying the penalty of walking on a foot which has became too weakened in certain parts pt its delicate structure to perform Its function properly. -V Flat-foot is the name given this trouble. It b a displacement of the bones of the foot which receive the weight of the body when standing or walking. As a result the arch of the foot is depressed or flattened. There are many causes of this Condition. Chief of these are improperly fitted shoes. They may be shoes with excessively high heels, or narrow or short shoes., or shoes which Ha not give necessary support to highly arched insteps. t Another cause ia the turning of the feet outward ia walking. Weakened muscles and ligaments due to exhausting illness, poor ing on nara noors. corns and oun-y. Ions and specific diseasesall these re factors in producing: flat-foot. ' The first measure to take In the treatment of flat-foot Is to get prop erly adjusted shoes. These should have broad, low heels and ample pace for the toes. Everybody should cultivate correct attitude In standing and walking. The sufferer from flat-foot shouid a row the weirht of the body fre est ly upon the outer side of the feet while standing. He should walk with the feet held parallel and point ad forward, with the weight on the titer side. j The third thing to do Is to prac tice tip-toe exercises twice daily. The vhuctct loom wiui m toea point i wiY-T.?5 ..HTTvJ"" 22 s2X.X Jul. rending with the weight on Tiiifai ai4.fl.sv a . kaAls , ww bmuv va Ufa U'CTiat - - If these measures do not give re lief It win be necessary to strap the foot with adhesive plaster or to place It for a time in a cast or to use mechanical appliances. Tour doctor the specialist wHI advise you re garding such treatment. Even after the condition has been .corrected the person who has once suffered from flat-foot must ate close attention to the selection and fit of hla shoes and to the cultiva tion of a proper attitude In standing and walklnc Ha must do this If It is to avoid a return of th trouble. Answer to Health Qnerieaf .Henry H. i Q. Can aaythlask 4on to stop & from srowlagf r SAMUEL hotels were constantly being searched. But she said that Sew ell hd promised to protect her. Sewell,- as an American, was safe, and his safety would extend to her. I did not know she was al ready Sewell's mi Ureas. This seemed vastly important and heart-breaking at one time, but now as I write it, it slsnlfiej noth ing, t may have been in lore with NinaJ at least a girl who looked like Nina. But that love was kill ed when I discovered her as she is. Perhaps this is not coherent, but I must set down the events as they happened, in sequence. Being separated from N!uaf I had to think up ingenious schemes of seeing her. Dressed as a poor workiagman I would go to the ho tel and get past the guards by in sisting I had been asignsd to make certain repairs. I carried the carpenter's tools as verifica tion of this story. Thus I would be enabled to get into the hotel, and then I would run up to her room and we would sit and talk. Strangely enough, I never met Sewell then. Perhaps Nina took care I should never meet him. But I digress again. On one occasion when I made what I then deemed one of my pilgrimmages to Nina, I was attracted by the sudden opening of a door. An aristocratic woman of perhaps .fifty, terribly distraught, beckoned to me; ! ap proached her, and she hurriedly dragged me in, and shut the door. I was too amazed to talk. "You are Igor Simonovich?" she asked. What prompted me to nod, I do not know. Perhaps my natural slowness and stolidity. Perhaps it was lust curiosity. In any case, she fumbled with htr gown and then produced something wrap ped in tissue paper. "Here it is," phe breathed heavily, and thrust the package in my hand. "And for God'c sake hurry, for they've gotten wind of it, and they're coming here to search, and if they find it, we'll both be dead." I stared at her. "Hurry! Hurry!" she panted, and as unceremoniously a3 she had dragged me in, she pushed me out again. I felt the package in my pocket. I paused In the corridor and undid the package. Then I gapped. You have heard ol thi Shah diamond, the most famous dia mond in the collection of he Ro manoffs. I do not exaggerate when I say it was as big as an egg. Not a hen's egg. A duck egg. And at one end of the didTond the Shah, if history is to be trust ed, had caused a cut to be made, over which he fitted a string. The string he tied to his throne, so that ki his lighter moments he coud play with the diamond. But this may betHttle this most magnificent of stones which at that moment seemed to burn my hands, like a live coal. It blinded one with its myriads of light, Its pure brilliance. It was so large that it seemed incredible. And yet you will find it coldly and accur ately described in any work of reference. As I stood blinking at It, I heard a commotion in the o'her Such strain is capable 51 causing tXL CBPBJND. E. C Q. What do yoa advise for pimples and blackheads? A. Correct the diet, by cutting; down on sugar, starches aad coffee. Avoid constipation. 'lira. Q. 11. Q. What can be don for neurasthenic patient would constipation be a factor In any way? A. This condition can be Improved by correcting th constipation and by Improving to health In general. T. W. -Q. What is the cause of ringing in the ears? -rvi. i .a... i i catarrh which has extended Into the tonCT r- can be cured with v.. viyca ucawncuw uvov tuiu uai vaa spray Is beneficiaL MISS L. P. a What should ftirl wehrh who la II years old ana 4 ft. 11 Ins. tall? X. now cam X ain weixht? A. For her ag and height sh should weigh about 10? pounds. 1. Proper distina la th secret. Too should eat nourish ins; foods and have plenty of sleep aad rest. Deep breathing ia essential. ... - Annabell. Q What cause twitch ing below th jrettd? AiThls may k Am to aervous- rirat of an try to remova the 1 1 4 o ' v h r i it would b end of the corridor. I slipped It hastily Into my pocket and then sped down to Nina's room. She was expecting me, and she was alone. She could see that something had happened, and she asked for I me. But I brushed her questions I aside, for I did not know mrself I what happened. Later I deduced that the aristocratic woman had mistaken me for some messenger she had expected. I say deduced because she was executed later, and I never learned the full story. This much I do know. She -yas a lady-in-waiting to the Csaiina, and when the revolution had burst in full force, site got hold of the Shah diamond and was deter mined to make her way out of Russia with it. So she sect forth a messenger to. take it front, her, while the authorities came to search presumably she received a friendly warning and it her desperation she had, taken me for the appointed messenger. For many months afterwards I was puzzled by her complete madness in this thrusting the stone at the first comer, but life to her was more precious than the stone, Lnd she was anxious to be rid of it at any cost. I come -back now to my meet ing with Nina, bailing to learn' from me what, disturbed me, she indicated a desire to have the vis it cut aa short as possible. She complained of a headache.' Per haps I bored her. In any event, I was about to go outf-lde vhen I heard the tramping and voices of soldiers. I listened intently. They were searching every room in the hotel! I must explain here that the ways of undisciplined soldiers, such as the Reds were then, are unfathomable to tte 'average mind. Having . received Informa tion that the lady-in-waiting; pos sessed the stone, they did not at POLLY AND HER PALS SO VOJ WISH TO REI4T My ADIRONIT3ACK CAMP EH. MR- PERKlKlS? TILLIE, THE TOILER HS mrr MAC. AND MR. VMHlPfLt ARg EACH LETTIMG Me VUEEK GOT OF "THEIR VACATION MR. SIMPKINS. SO I'M eOlMG. ' VACATIOM S.TAtSTlN . i A TO ink LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY . Is 6R1WW, A M0U)6 LADY ADMlCR.WrSUE Has AM0UW6LAOy I AH- BLTT WHAT- 600DAMO cJEALOOS. MA. HOWES I U IS, MISS ANttlE, f QlAD To J&lKllMQ UP WITH ) VV5 CAM BREAld ADMICER. WrSWE WOlMl DAIS KiO DOUBT J fJOKA 6ET Acf ' V sV HERE'S rDUR. f MEET W, US, 6RJI0KSEV - A HER, IKA KU - TOBZ X ? jkJ WELLCOME ALOWfl, ( m ySf 4L HERO MRRIMMB! I d6kYT KViOW SKS 1 V v AWD 6ETAM0STVCV BAD WITH Jmj Jft2L V vA 1TWIMK MOW OC WHERE &MZT - V : V VtTW t wV VA - T THE niMKMEST VrEiL USE ( DAISVS VJ TOOTS AND CASPER HELLO, COLONEL HOOPER.'. HOVTHE. iCFEACTEti CAMCHtSATS FOR. THt T3RElbENC.V or "Trie "4root-raj.ovv' . CLUBT once visit her. There was too nsu - al bureaucratic delay, which per mitted some loyal friend io give her . wanting. Bat once emBaiked on the search, the Red machine was determined to make It thor ough. It meant I wonid be search ed. The problem before me was to hide the diamond. I turned to Ni na. I told her what had happened. I showed her the stone. (To be continued tomorrow 21 NORFOLK. Va.. June 20. (AP) The Knights of American Protestantism closed their sixth annual' national convention here tonight after re-electing all na tional officers and unanimously endorsing: a resolution "deploring the action of Mrs. Hoover in en tertaining the wife of a negro congressman," and declaring dis belief in "race equality." J. H. Walter of Norfolk, na tional vice president, announced that of the 21 members of the committee which drafted the re solution, not one was a southern er. S. H. Bemenderfer of Muncie. Ind., founder of the order was re elected president. Vacation time is near. Take out a Statesman Travel accident in surance policy before you start. COOD-NIGHT STORIES By Max Trell a Good Night Stories Fritiay Tin-Soldier Tells of His Hunt for the Ferocious Twiggcr "When I was young," the thin soldier said, "I hunted the fero- j clous Twigger ' Mi, Flor, Hanid and Yam the little shadow-children gazd at him in astonishment. "The what ?" they asked. 'The Twigger," he repeated. VA5 MA'AM.' MV AD THAT IS S l't LIK TGlT 5DME TViOP- Okl IX SIR1 ffi rekjtal SEASON TAKE OM0 MOMDAv i ALL RIGHT ran IE n VOU'U- HAXET LjOT OF VVOfe GET OUT before: voo Go. "X A-ERrVtoUtt6-LAD" I K VAlSSD GET feUT USTEM, J I ( W HERE UB ( AWfULLV VJ ANTE'S V SrfVvW MAVBE M DOWTMeNTlOM IT, CAMPER.! IT WAS A TIE, ANt ITS HUMIUATINcs TO ME. TO KNOW I MtT ET AMY MORE. VOTE THrV4 SAME. HALF that vTOU DID' FOOD THAT OUST .THE. ! "Everybody haa heard ' of th "tOf course!" Knarf, ,the shadow-boy broke in. He tried to look very wise. "Of course, every body haa heard of it." "If you're so smart, what does a Twigger look like?" Hanid ask ed him. "Humph.' he said, "the tin sol dier will teH you that, I don't want to interrupt." "Thank you," the tin-soldier said. "A Twigger looks something like a sandwich' and something like a medicine bottle. It gets its name from its nose which resem bles a twig." "What does it live on?" Tarn wanted to know. "It lives on everything that is black, such a3 blackberries and blackboards and '(lacking and blackbirds and blacksmiths. But for dessert it likes telephone wire particularly long instance tele phone wire. After dinner it taks its ladder and climbs to the tele phone ,wire " "Can't it climb telephone kole3?" demanded MiJ. "No, certainly not " started the soldier. "Certainly not!" added Kuarf. "A Twigger doesn't begia to know how to climh a telephone pole," continued the soldier. "It thinks that it has io start from the top" " and you can't climb a tele phone pole from the top!"' con cluded Wn&Tt. "You can climb it down," sid Yam. But neither the tin-soldier nor Knarf seemed to hear her. . "The way to catch a Twigger." the soldier went on. "is to wait until it is feasting on a telephone wire and then to creep up under it and tickle it on the soles of its feet. How well I rememboi the time when King Fa'.wat Coked me to help him catch a Twigger for his napkin-ring " "For his napkin-ring!" ex claimed Flor. "Yes, Twigger-skins make ex- cellent covers for nakin-rings. ! 'We'll go catch a Twigger togeth- er,' said the King. 'Ay, ay. Your Majesty," said I, 'we'll go at once.' So out we went. Just as we walk ed out of the royal gardens, what did we see but- IS SErLP-EXPLAKJATORV'- 'ADI ROtslDACK CAMP- 60 ACRES - 72. MILE SHORE FROisJT- 2OR0OM LODGE, E:X?LISlTELy FURkJISHED 10 CAR GARAGE " BOAT-HOU5cb" fCE PLAnJT- SERVAsIT'S HALL. etc. per vr 30.1 i tn, nuw I I ADtPkir H JYUi-. A t III I iso sr: - t -7 W,rv Tl i AT n'?' ) I II I I I - fc ---ss-ss-ssBM-r-- i vrvi i l n m i x i i g i mmmM a n c i n H f-l TU DTV 1 K' O i LLkftoG- y VMM ERE IHE "'D SHU THE SAM I . -JHAD TO OO OUT u 1 1 l I AMD CiO SOMt r IT WASKT SO LONlr ArO THAT tbu PAID OVER. 70O.J FOR A BAKIQOBT TO TMO"Se 13 THAT IF MY IMDRECTVT CD NfJUQ ELECTlOl CUJB MEMBER' i THEN THE. OP THOSE. rUYS SNDoTicr Toma. SHOULD NE-tMBURSEI ME PDO.THR. VOTED FOR. MP. ArAIMST-Tbui THOSE, i israviA. t- VCTTEO FO fou' vinvj DID TO BECAUSE FELT OBLIGATED a Twigger! -shouted MU, Flor, Hanid, and -Yam. suable to restrain themselves. "No we saw a telephone wire. Let us hide in a telephone booth until a Twigger comes,' I said to King FatwaL Ay, ay said be. So IP I Used to Hani T lagers!" we hid in a telephone booth. By and by a Twigger stole up. tarry ing Us ladder. In a flaeh it climb ed up to the top and began nib bling the wire. The first thiag we did was to take down its ladder. Then 1 bowed to King Kaiwat. 'Your Majesty may have the hon or of climbing up the pole first." said I. Without a word he climb ed up. I followed close behind his feet. All at once a cuious thing happened. Instead of reaching up and tickling the Twigger's soles, I tickled his Majesty's. 'Hco-hee-hee-hee' he laughed. Then down he came, right atop of me, and we both fell to the ground to gether. Then we both started to run I in front and the King close behind me. 'Come back, ho cried, and I'll make you a gen eral.' But I didn't, for Kins? Fat- j wat didn't always keep his prom- ise, you see, especially when he was disappointed at not catching ' m , a i wi&ger. 'And what happened to the Twigger?" asked Hanid. "It didn't have its ladder to come down with." "No," said the tin-soldier, "so it just stayed there. "' "Of course, it j ist stayed MERELY A MATTER OP- FA?m MV DEAR pnAP. IAJAhiJA oh! BARTX TO occupy . .J- A5SEMCE. ABROAD. C5RHAT scott : vu-h TTT- r. r- . . ALL OVV -MAO - WHEgE- a a is s tr V O? WELLJ AV L IA 1 MUST B1 MOVlNr' BANQUCT I ALDNT.COLDNEl. HOOFEPi j POEVDfH IF I NEVER. "SEE TOU I ATTAIN TT WILL. BE TOO OONI I HATH TO CLUB THAT YJHAT TAUON 1 A. rr was THPOur " HARt YORtf-THATj tm Asuccess: Home-Maki By ELEANOR ROSS Cool Cooking in Warn Weather Even If the family maintains a good, normal appetite In warm weather, it Isn't necessary for the housekeeper to maintain a hot kitchen. Lots of people manage to keep their appetites unimpaired by the dog days. They gaze upon a meat dinner with positive re lish, a relish that may not be shared by the housekeeper, who spent a warm day in the kitchen. However, fortunately, here's at least one case where opposite in clinations can be served. The fam ily can have an ample cooked din ner regardless of the weather but there's no need for the house keeper to stay in an uncomfort ably warm kitchen for the pur pose. All sorts of devices, mental and mechanical, can be impressed into the service. First, iu the matter of planning full-course dinners with a minim um of cooking. And second, by adopting such cooking equipment as will do the cookin? with a min imum of direct heat. Fireles3 cookers are a great litilp. You can cook several things at once and need little direct heat to start with, and no watching in the kit chen while the process continues. Nowadays the tireless cookers come in all sorts of sized and prices, to fit the nrall kitchen ette as well as the large family kitchen. If cooked meals ire in evitable for the summer, invest ing in some kind of fireless cook er will pay in time saved, In kit chen comfort, and even in reduc ing the fuel bill. Another cooking utensil that reduces kitchen heat 'is the pres sure cooker. It's rath?r a large af fair, true, but it will cook meats and vegetables and cereals in a fraction of the time taken by oth er direct heat cooking. Double boilers save heat too. You can start cereals like rice, and after ten minutes of rapid there," cried Knarf. "Everybody knows that!" rJCT I.Sfcfc. IfiKl CARETAKER, t' LIME:, PLE4Sfc HUH? r THOUGHT VOU AIO you VVJEIE "TAfcTINKi &ME f J VA GOT Vtom vAC AT tow ME, BOSS MONOAV, TIU-IF-! 1ICE MurM rtr TOO CHANZrE THE. name of g3e-ete& i TO HAODYORV6? TK& WHOLE. WORLD WAlOWS VOU NEVER HAD A DiwlE UNTIL, iii n &Lt--- . -ny? "V if V-V 1 mmm mmm tig He Ips boiling turn, off the beat, keeping the vessel closely covared so that no heat escapes. The cooking pro cess win continue Ion,; enough to finish the- dish. sBut planning the kind of meals that require a minimum of cook ing is another excellent way of keeping a cool and comfortable kitchen. Let your icebox do tome meal preparation for you. Some raw fruits and vegetables tor sal ad and deserts; eren cold cooked soups and jellied meat and vege table dishes can be ice-box pre pared so that no long hot hours need be spent over the kitchen stove. Work can be cut ia half too. In the matter of serving full dinners to the family. The club plates, with their several grooved spaces to accommodate different foods, are rather informal, of course, but they are cozy enough for family use, and indeed mike for rather neat service. Their particular val ue, however, is to cut down the number of dshes to be washed. One ingenious luventor has gone even further In deviblng a method for saving dishwashing these warm days. Instead of china plates with grooved spaces, there is now on the market a type of decorated tray for individual serv ice. It is specially grooved in squares and circles of different shape with a special place for everything dinner plate, vege table dish, even bread and butter plats or butter pats, as preferred. With each tray you get paper plates to fit perfectly in these grooves. The paper is specially, prepared so that it does not Im part any flavor t hot or cold food, and it fr ftrong enough to resist knife and fotk. After dinner Is seived, all you need to do is to throw away the paper plates in each tray, but the tray Itself remains spotless and needs no washing. This may seem picnicky for ordinaiy use, but it's a boon on nights when one is in a hurry to finish up, or dih wash ing becomes too utt?rly repellent. By CLIFF STERRETT Al ALU THE PLACE IS FULLY EQUIPPED, WITH COMPETENT CAREIcicd; THE DOTTED 'I. V if 'P. By RUSS WESTOVER THAT'S K6HT- TUST &OUfiHT THE CUTEST -TEMMIS FROCK WITH A. J" BMLVJ 71 Vou'D uCMe IT. MR. By VERD By JIMMY MURPHY OOLDKIFI wnrseeo IS A Dc?areit uiftM THE. Dpacji fx gOND OF HIM IS BECAUSH faults,;but h&s no have your eye examined. 129. Kk I i Sriirii. bte, Cnst Bnute i ""''- ""ST'.:' '