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