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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-04-06

the Inlteu MINE
Workers central
p e n n s y ! vania
district, who IL
scheduled TO tes.
tify TO d a in
Washington be.
ore Congress.
man Nolan's La.
Dor Committee.
Brophy suggests
[ h at President
Harding appoint
a half and half
C o III m | 3 sion
half OF coal oper.
ators and half of
miners - to pro.
coed at once to
study the whole
coal industry, an.
thracite and hi.
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Neutral Probe of Coal Problem
Essential to Strike Settlement

be able to save ourselves next time?
And the only way to do II Is to put
men on our ships, and have them
there fully trained and instantly
ready"
And the sad ironic fact is that
while the Rogers program for a
vigorous and capable navy would
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carry by a large majority in the
British embassy it seems likely to
be much attacked and reduced and
weakened in the American House
of Representatives.
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Michael Collins, In q special fea.
ture ARTICLE in The Sunday Times,
writes most Interestingly concerning
THE Restoration Of the Gaelic
Civilization"
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j. 8. WILL PUT
CURB ON COAL
PR0F|TEER|NG

Continued from First Page)
the strike was in effect We're gen
orally good and that the situation
this far was merely a friendly
conversation" between the opera
tors and the miners.
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BY WILLIAM HARD,
News SSrvirs

Best idea I've heard on how to get
this coal strike on toward settlement
is from John Brophy. president OF
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More revelations by The Queen of
the Underworld" will appear I'm The
Sunday Times.
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Sec NELL ON RUFFLED AT SF1AKEUPS ORDERED OVER HIS
WHOSE LOVE
MEANT FATAL SEQUEL


Colonel
Beck, who
formerly
lived in
Washington
and who was
well known
in Capital
society,
was shot and
killed by .
Former
Judge Day,
of Oklahoma,
when the
latter found
the young
flyer
making wild
love
to Mrs. Day.
The Days
are also
well known
to Washing
ton society,
having
spent last
winter here.
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Select the Easter Flower.
at GUIDES. Specimen bloom Lilies Roses
etc. 1910 F.-Advt
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should be the guest, the friend Of such
people as the Sherrills? No one as
yet, since Sheriff. had told him he was
Corvet's son. had called him by name;
when they did, what would they call
him? Alan Conrad still? Or Alan
Corvet?
lie noticed, up a street to the west.
the lighted sign OF i drug store and
turned UP that way; he had promised,
he had recollected low, to write to
i. those in Kansa5-he could not
call them father" ana mother" any
more-and tell them what he had dis
covered as soon as he arrived. He
could not tell them that, but he could
write them al least that he had ar
rived safely and vas well. He bought
q postcard in the drug store, and wrote
Just, ARRIVED safely; am we'll" to
John Welton in Kansas. There waS
a little vending machine upon the coun-
ter, and he dropped in a penny and got
a box Of matches and put them in his
pocket.
he IudllcN llS tuIu ullu lulucN DdCh
to Aston street; and he walked more
swiftly now, having come TO his deci-
sion, and only shot one quick look up
ut the house as he approached it. With
what had his father shut himself up
within that house for twenty years?
And was it there still? And was it
from that that Benjamin Corvet had
led? lie saw no II in the street,
ana was certain no one was observing
him as, taking the key from his pocket,
he ran up the steps and unlocked the
outer door. Holding this door open
TO get the light from the street lamp,
lie fitted the key into the inner door;
then he closed the outer door. For full
" a minute, with fast-beating heart
and q sense Of expectation of he knew
not what, he kept his hand upon the
key before he turned it; then he
opened the door and stepped into the
lark and silent house.
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CHAPTER IV.-Continucd.

What Sheriff. had told Alan of his
father had been i~terating itself again
and again in Alan'S thoughts now he
recalled that Sheriff. had said that his
daughter believed that COrvet'S dis
appearance had had something to do
with her. Alan had wondered at the
moment how that could be; and as he
watched her across the table ana now
and then exchanged a comment with
her, it puzzled him still more. He
had opportunity TO ask her when she
waited with him in the library, after
dinner was finished ana her mother
had gone upstairs; but he did not see
then how 10 20 about it.
I'm sorry" she said to him, chat
we can't be home tonight; but perhaps
you would rather he alone?'
lie did not answer that.
Have you Il picture here, Miss Shcr-
riil, of-my father| he asked.
"Uncle Benny had had very few pic
lures taken; but there is one here"
She went into the study and came
back with a book open at a half-tone
picture Of Benjamin COrvet. Alan took
it from her and carried it quickly
closer to the light. Tie face that
looked up to him from the heavily
glazed page was regular of feature,
handsome in "a way, and forCeful.
There were imagination and vigor of
thought in the broad, smooth fore
head; the eyes were strangely moody
AID broOding; the mouth was gentle,
rather kindly it was u Queerly i'm
polling, haunting face. This was his
father! But, as Alan held the picture,
gazing down upon it, the only emotion
which came to him was realization that
he felt none. BE had no emotion Of
any sort he could not attach TO this
man, because he bore the name which
some one had told him was his IA
theirs, the passions which, when
dreaming Of his father, he had felt.
Alan stood still a monen longer,
then, remembering the book which he
held, ne drew a chair up to the light,
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DdddyS
Ga36 EVeNn8
Fairy Tale
WWARY GRAHAM PONNER
- CO." N1-1 - ~SrtsN NsVypkStr uio. -
L.ADY'S SLIPPER

"Enie Elf" said Daddy, had gone
walking in the woods, and had met
there a lovely Lady's slipper flower.
The Lady's Slipper vas growing in
the ground and was looking very hand
some ANA lovely.
"'Ilello, Lady's slipper said Ellie
Elf. May l call you Lady for Il pet
name?
"'Certainly, said the Lady's slipper,
Lady shah ms name be 10 you!
II have met some of the small yell
low flowers which are relatives of
yours. They were So sweet ana fra
grant and it was IA great pleasure to
see them. But Tye long wanted to
have a chat with you.
Tell me, Lady, will you talk with
me and tel me a story which l hear
you have to tell me, an adventure
story l believe it is?'
"'Indeed | will tell you my story.
l am sure that the Wood Fairy must
have told YOU l had "A story. Was
that how YOU heard Of it?'
THAT was the way said Efie
Elf.
"tSometimes I am known as the
Moccasin Flower because i look some
thing like a mocCasin.
"'Also | am known as the Lady'S
Slipper because | look like Il lady's
slipper. Sometimes | am known as
the StemleSs Lady's Slipper because /
haven't the greatest amount Of stem
to me that one might imagine l might
have.
Though, again, nc II might eX-
pect much of Il stem to me after all.
| don't know. / don't think any OF
my names suit me as well as that Of
Pink Slipper, for / I'M like a Pink
Slipper. Still Moccasin Flower suits
me pretty well. And Lady's Slipper
is all right, too.
"'After all, l think most Of my
names are nice. | really, really DO.
"'But wanted to tell you my story,
for | may not get another chance.
"'We are picked SO much because
we look like orchids and because or
chids are tich and fine flowers.
at is true, we belong to the Orchid
family.
MY story is this-but before / go
further. ! think I'd like to be called
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1er, 100, was O & large man AlGn'6
own hand was OF good size ana pow
erful, but when he put his fingers We
the marks the other man had made. he
found that the other hand must have
been larger and more powerful than
his own. Had it been Corvet'S sery-
ant? 1t might have been, though the
marks seemed too fresh for that; for
the servant, Sheriff. had said, had left
the day Corvet's disappearance was
discovered.
This proof that some one had been
prying about in the house before him
self and since Corvet had gone, star
tied Alan and angcred him. Who had
been searching in Benjamin Corvet's
in Alan's house? He pushed the
drawers shut hastily and hurried
ccross the hall to the room opposite.
In this room-plainly Benjamin Cor
vets bedrOom-Werc no signs OF in
trusion. lie went 70 the door Of the
room connecting with it, turned on
the light, and looked In. 1t was n
smaller room than the others and
contained Il roll-top desk and a cabi-
net. The cover Of the desk was closed,
ana the drawers of the cabinet were
shur and apparently undisturbed. He
tried the cover Of the desk, but it ap-
pcarod to be locked; after looking
Around vainly for a key, he trieo
again, eXcrting a little more force,
and this time the top went up easily,
tearing away the metal plate into
which the claws of the lock clasped
ana the two long screws which had
held it. He examined the lock, sur
rrised, ara saw that the must
have been merely set into the holes;
scars showed where a chisel or some
metal implement had beer thrust in
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"HeIIo, Lady's Slipper"

Pink Lady's Slipper, or Pink Lady for
short. That sounds very pretty I
think
"'All right, Pink Lady, smiled Efie
Elf.
- am eager to hear the story she
said.
"a day or so ago. said Pink Lady,
a bde came along and asked If he
might have a little meal.
~ told him he could have all the
meals he wanted to have and so he
came In, and had n gorgeous meal in
our best banquet hall.
"'He came in from the sloping side
entrances which we have on the way
to the banquet hall and he thought it
was a beautiful place with much rich
food.
"'Then, when he had had enough
he wanted to come out again. At
first he thought he was In a trap, for
he buzzed away and couldn't seem to
find his way out.
"'But after a time he saw the two
little hall lights l have beyond my
banquet hall. They are really little
openings at the other end of my pas
sage-hali which let the light shine
through them into the banquet hell.
"He followed these lights and came
along the narrow, narrow hall Of mine
and rs he walked along he had to
push his way through and the sticky
decorations | had along the way, the
sticky curtains and so forth, caught
the pollen he had on his back aid
head which he had brought from an
other Lady's Slipper flower.
"'You see We have this way of help
ing each other along and the Bee does
1t for US but with a great deal Of help
from US and suggestions about how
he should walk out Of our banquet
hall.
""Then he goes through another lit
tie passage way and gets some Of our
pollen to take away with him to II
Of our relatives who gets it from him
as he leaves her banquet hall just
as / did,
"'What an interesting story said
Efiie Elf. and what a fine way you all
have Of working together, though you
are separated from each other"
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under the top to force it up. The
pigeOnhOles and little drawers in the
upper part of the desk, as he swiftly
opened them, he found entirely empty.
He hurried to the cabinet the draw
ers Of the cabinet too had been forced,
and very recently for the scars and
the spIinters of wood were clean and
fresh. These drawers and the draw
ers in the lower part of the desk
either were empty, or the papers in
them had been diSarranged and tum-
bled in confusion, as though some n
had examined them hastily and tossed
them back. To Alan, the marks of
violence and roughness were unmis-
takably the work OF the man with the
big hands who had left marks upon
the top Of the chest OF drawers; and
the feeling that he had been In the
ever.
Alan ran out into the hall and lis
tened he heard no sound but he went
back to the little room more excited
than before. For what had the other
man been searching? For the same
things which Alan vas looking for?
And had the other man got them!
Who might the other be. and what
might be his connection with Benja-
min COrvet? Alan has no doubt that
everything Of Importance must have
been taken away, but he would make
sure of that. He took some of the pa
perS from the drawers and began to
examine them; after nearly an hour
Of this, he had found only one article
which appeared connected in any way
with what Sheriff. had told him or
with Alan himself. IN one OF the little
drawers Of the desk he found several
books, much worn as though from
being carried in q pocket, and one OF
these contained a series of entries
stretching over several years. These
listed an amount-$lJ0-opposite a So
ries of dates with only the year and
the month given, and there vas an
entry for every second month.
Alan felt his fingers trembling as he
turned the pages Of the little book
and found at the end of the list q
blank, and below, in the same hand
but in writing which had changed
slightly with the passage OF years, an
other date and the confirming entry Of
$500. Alan looked through the little
book again and put it in his pocket.
1t was, beyond doubt. his fathers
memorandum of the sums SEN to Blue
Rapids for Alan; it told him that here
he had been in his fathers thoughts.
He grew warm at the thought as lie
began putting the other things back
into the drawers.
He started and Strengthened sudden
~; then he listened attentively. and
his skin, warm an instant before.
turned cold and prickled. Somewhere
within the house, Enthusiastically on the
floor below him, a door had slammed.
Some one-it was beyond question
now, for the realization was quite diff
ferent from the feeling he had had
about that before-was In the house
with him. Was it his father
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and read the short, dry biography OF
his father printed on the page oppo-
size the portrait. 1t summarized in
q Few hundred words his fathers life.
Alan shut the book and sat thought
full. The tell clock in the hall struck
nine. He got up and went out into
the ball and asked for his hat and
coat. When they he'd been brought
hirn. he put them on and went out.
He went down the steps and to the
corner and turned west 30 Astor street.
When he reached the house Of his ia
Their he stopped under a street lamp,
looking up at the biz, stern old man
sion Gucsjioningly.
He cGrld not call up any sense that
the house was his, any more than he
had bean able TO when Sheriff. had
told hi.n of ii. He W Il house on
that street. Yet WIS that In Itself
any more remarkable chan that he
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"FLESH! FLESH!"

SYNCPSIS.-NeaIthy and highly
paced in the Chicago business
zorld. Benjamin Corvet il m
thing Of a recluse and a mystery
- ms associates. After a stormy
Interview with his partner, Henry
SDcarman, COrvet seeks Constance
Sheriff., daughter of his other
business partner. Lawrence Sher-
riil, and eCures from her a prom
iso not to marry Spearman. He
then disappears. Sheriff. learns
Corvet has written TO a certain
Alan Conrad, in Blue Rapids, Kan
sas, and exhibited strange agita-
ton over the matter. Corvet's let
ter summons Conrad, a youth of
unknown parentage, TO Chicago.
Alan arrives in Chicago. From a
statement Of Sheriff. it seems prob
able Conrad is Corbet'S illegitimate
son. COrVet has decided his house
and its contents to Alan.
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p v
An Encounter.

Alan, standing in the darkness Of
the hall, felt i'll his pocket for his
matches and struck one on the box.
The light showed the hall in front of
him, reaching back into some vague,
distant darkness, and great rooms with
wide portiered doorways gaping on
both sides. He turned into the room
upon his right. glanced to see that the
shades we're drawn on the windows
switch and turned on the electric light.
Alan had the feeling which so often
comes TO one in an unfamiliar and
vacant house that there was some one
in the house with him. He listened
and seemed to hear another sound in
the upper hall, a footstep. He went
out quickly to the foot Of the stairs
and, looked up them.
rs any one herey' he called. "Is
any herc?"
His voice brought no response. He
went half way up the curve OF the wide
stairway md called again, and lis
tened then he fought down the feeling
he had had; Sheriff. had said there
would be no one in the house, ana
Alan was certain there was no one.
SO he went back to the room where
he had left the light.
The center of this room, like the
room next to IT, was occupied by a
library table-desk. He pulled open
Eo,,n0 1rn 1,nrc IN -. D,nn or t.V,O hal
blueprints and technical drawings in
them; the others had only the miscel-
lany which accumulates in q room
much used. There were drawers also
under the bookcases all around the
room; they appeared. when Allan
opened. some of them, to contain pam
phletS of various societies, and the
scientific correspondence Of which
Sheriff. had told him. Alan felt that
seeing these things was bringing his
father closer TO him; they gave him a
little Of the feeling he had been unable
TO get when he looked at his fathers
picture. He could realize better now
the lonely, restless man, pursued by
some ghost he could not kill, taking
up for distraction n subject of study
after another. eXhausting each in turn
until he could no longer make it en-
gross him, and then absorbing him.
self in the next.
On the top of a chest Of high draw
ers in q corner nea the dressing
table were some papers. Alan went
over to look at them they were invi-
tations, notices Of concerts and Of
plays twenty years Old-the mail,
probably. of the morning when COrvet's
wife had gone away, left where her
maid or she herself had laid them.
and only picked up and put back there
ut the times since when the room was
busted. AS Alan touched them. he
saw that his fingers left marks in the
dust on the smooth top Of the chest;
he noticed that some M else had
touched the things and made marks
Of the same sort as he had made. The
freshness Of these other marks star
tied him; they had been made within
a day or so. They could not have
been made by Sheriff., for Alan had
noticed that Sherrill's hands were
slender and delicately formed; Cor
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Can You Guess?

John Smith, whose age is forty-fve,
has a son aged twelve. When will
John Smith be three times as Old as his
son?
Answer: In four and a half years.
time John Smith will be forty-nine and
one-half and his son sixteen and me
half.
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"For this was the man whom
he had fought in Benjamin
Corvet's house the night be-
FORE"
(TO BE
Jud Tunkins.

Jud Tunkins says there's a big ad
vantage in using long words. Any
body would rather take what you say
for granted than be put to the troubl,
OF looking in the dictionary.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-13
from Providence to New York at Jewett

from Providence to New York at Jewett City, during midsummer.
 The term of court that closed Thursday disposed of a majority of the important cases awaiting attention.
 Thursday morning following funeral services at undertaking rooms here, the body of Mrs. P, M. Arnold was taken to Woonsocket for burial.
 Only little more than 5000 tons of coal are to be allotted to Putnam people for the coming winter, according to an nouncements just made here. This is against 10000 tons normally used. This is the statement of the state fuel com missioner, but coal men say there will be ar ample supply of their fuel after December l.
 The American Legion post of this city is to hold dances weekly during the fall and witer season, it was announced.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Rich of Grove street have announced the engagement of their daughter, Helen Frances. to Irving Willard Baldwin, of New York. Miss Rich is graduate of Columbia, 1921 MT. Baldwin is a graduate of Yale, 1916
 George Cook of Windham obtained some certified potato seed from Vermont last year, and the yielding qualities look ed so good that he called F. L. Davis. county agent, to determine the acre yield. Three hundred and twenty-five bushels to the acre of fine. marketable potatoes was what Mir. Cook obtained from his certified seed.
 Asa Ross and George Potvin are to be the democratic candidates for representa- tives from Putnam at the state election on November '.
 T c. Witter conducted an auction sale at the Brunn place in Woodstock Thurs | day.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-13
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS

leoHle were at Stafford on Thursday at .nding the fair, the last event of thar
 nd anywhere hereabputs this season.
 herd af deer was reported as hav- ing been seen Thursday morning near the state highway between Bapielson Wauregan.
 James A. Manning of Providence was a visitor in Danielsen on Thursday.
 Aside from the closing of the banks there was no observance of Columbus day in Danielsnn on Thursday.
 Attention is being called to the neces- sity ef observing the regulations at tendant upon starting fires within bcr- ough limits, this particular because or the general practice of burning leaves at the nresent time
 Ceal is being delivered in Danielson at $15 per ton. This Is s150 less p,r ] ton than prevailed at the end of the pas. winter. Families were being supp led with one ton each during Thursday, and more. cars are billed in here and wili be on local sidings within very shor; time
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-13
EAST KILLINGLY

Mrs Emma Rich has been visiting her cousin Mrs. Olive Arnold h S.x.- uate R. l.
 Mrs Grace E. Hill spert the day is Norwich last week.
 Mrs. Robert G. Smisa visited her bYo<h. CT Martin Shippee in Gloucester R. 1, Monday.
 Rev J. ". Carpenter is In Providence Mrs. Carpenter is sick al he- parents home in Providence, R. !.
 Congratulations are being xhewsres CT AIr. and, Mrs. Jacob SpaIlainE They were married, at the brides nome, iaIt Saturday.
 Mrs. Harold Green. of Dauielson. hsg been substituting in the primary school for Mrs Spaulding.
 Mrs Inez Handy has been on the sick last but is improving agala.
 Mrs. Weaver of Pawtuci;st. R. l., ig visiting with Mrs. Julia Douglas.
 The monthly social of the B. r. P. T. will be held at the home of Mrs. 0racs Sheffield.