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A S H L A N D D A IL Y PAGE SIX ' SUVIET JAILED WIFE OF U. S. MAN AS SPY Seized When Her Husband, Offi cer of Near East Relief, Leaves Tifiis. ----------------------------- A coiu-in-a-slot machine has been POPULAR SCIENCE Invented by an Englishman to enable a passenger to learn at what speed he Germany is making synthetic gaso i is traveling in a train. line from brown coal-tar. A life-saving buoy Invented in Eu- United Stales chemists discovered 32 ] rope is hammock-shaped and large new poisons during the World war. enough for a man to lie in and propel himself through the water with a pad X-rays are being used successfully dle. ’ to bring out erased parts of ancient palimpsest writings. , A Chinese university has collected 170 varieties of silk worm eggs, for A radium application is said to have use in connection with a course in seri made plants burst out into bud during culture. It is believed to be the most the dormant season. complete collection ever made. W hat happens to the foreigner locked up as a political suspect even under the supposedly inlld rule of this Soviet may be judged from the case of Mrs. Liana Edwards, the Russian wife of James Edwards of Youngs town, Ohio, who has been released Gathering nuts from the ground has through the efforts of the Dutch con been made easier by a Californian's sul, ’representing United States Inter invention of a device for the' purpose. ests here. Mrs. Edwards had a perfectly good A Frenchman has invented methods passport, obtained as the wife of James for enlarging and reducing phonograph Edwurils, whom she married at Tiflis , records to obtain increased or dimin sixteen months ago while he was an ished intensity. officer of the Near East relief. He went away on business, so he told The United States is now making her, and lias not since returned. for its laboratories 800 rare chemicals When Georgia passed again into the which were formerly imported entire hands of Moscow last March, after ly from Germany. Beveral years as an independent re public, Mrs. Edwards fled with many others to Batum, but there decided to remain and take her chances. She worked for a time as translator of English under the new soviet and then in August was arrested by the secret police, charged with being a foreign spy. Money was offered to her to go to Constantinople and w’ork for the soviet. This she refused and •o was sent to Tiflis and imprisoned. In prison most of her clothes were taken away, ostensibly to be burned fluring the cholera epidemic, and those she had on were fumigated. She did not have a bed but was told to sleep "on the floor. Her food, so she related later, consisted of a pound of bad brea<i a day, with hot water in the ’ morning and thin soup at night. She scrubbed floor* during the day. Also 'each day she was told she would be shot as ft bourgeois, i What aroused the special hate and attention of the Bolsheviki was her maiden name of Romanoff. She states that her mother was an American, Liana Davenport, and that she was born In Tuskent, where her father was gov ernor general. Because of the name Romanoff she was suspected of being related to the family of the late czar. She gave her last possessions of Jewels as a bribe to a released woman prisoner and got word to the Dutch consul, who after various demands obtained her release. For her safety ahe was removed to the now unoccu pied American consulate and food is being provided by the Near Ea6t re lief. a v e n ib e r 3 0 , T ID IN G S 1921 CHARLES M. SCHWAB A Business Service Station W e lik e to think of th is Institu tion as a b u sin ess service station — w h ere a n yon e can corne for advice and assistan ce in order that his business m ay run ju st as ♦ 1 . sm oothly as possible. 35 to 45—Only fifteen of the 10( working (away from home!) while eighty-three are keeping house, bear ing children and raising them. The Citizens Bank 45 to 55—Fourteen of the 100 are still at work, the rest in the home or dependent. Oregon Ashland, 55 to 65—Thirteen at work, earning Recent photograph o f C harles very small wages, twenty-one are Schwab, the steel m agnate. widowed. ilari snJafBan M O T O R O IL FREE FROM DESTRUCTIVE SULPHO COMPOUNDS , Produced u n d e r Ihenew HEXEON process. ' » f fi ~ *» ' y • í Í 1 '! k , * f . - 7 \ * •V’4’' ■ ■*» . ( s -i GIRL HIKES 3.000 MILES TO EASTERN UNIVERSITY Here’s the reason, Mr. Farnsworth, “Why Cycol lasts so much longer” r* < 1 ¿a Because Cycol retains its body it maintains the essential lubricating film — reduces friction weaf, over heating, burned out bearings and other costly troubles which result from the use of ordinary oil. Cycol is made by a new refining method—the Hexeon Process—used exclusively by us. This process re moves d e s tru c tiv e “su lp h o ” com pounds and other damaging impuri ties found in ordinary oils. The crude used in the manufacture of Cycol is Cyclo-Naphthene. Mr. Farnsworth’s letter above is one Owing to its distinctive chemical of the hundreds from enthusiastic characteristics Cycol does not break motorists who have discovered that down, thin out or evaporate rapidly Cycol reduces motor operating and under engine heat. As a result, Cycol maintenance costs. lasts much longer in the motor. This means not only economy but is proof Flush your crank case— not with of Cycol’s greater durability and kerosene—then refill with Cycol and prove it in your own motor. lubricating value. • Miss Theresa Trorap, studying for a doctor’s degree in philosophy at Co lumbia university, walked 3.000 miles from her home in Ferndale, Wash., to the college in New’ York in order that she might obtain a degree from an eastern college. Miss Tromp left her home in the early spring, and on the way slept with Indian squaws in their reservation and jumped freight trains and had many other interesting ex periences. She gave a “wild west” party to the girls when she arrived at the college. ASSOCIATED OIL COMPANY, San Francisco APPLE TREE 100 YEARS OLD S till P roducing F r u it and A ppears to Be Good fo r Several Years. Boxes of apples plucked from the oldest tree on the Pacific Coast have been sent to President Harding and to the secretary of the Department of Agriculture. The famous tree will he 100 years old next March, and this season pro duced a fair crop of fruit. When but a seedling it was brought to the mouth of the Columbia river by em ployees of the old Hudsons Bay com pany. Other trees planted at the ■eme time have long since been dead and destroyed. The patriarchal apple tree is carefully pruned and sprayed each year by A. R. Brown, its present owiuu-. Although gnarled and twist ed by the storms of a century, k promises to live and produce for acme years. MOTOR OIL D E S T R U C T IV E i .-1