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The Washington times., 1931-03-07
ALMA RUBENS' LIFE STORY

thanked God that I was cured,
even if I had to be sent to
Patton to make the cure COM
plete.
MY mother took me to the
ranch in MADEIRA and there I
lived quietly, resting and sleep
ing and building up my health
on good home food.
February 10 was my birthday.
And I felt that I had, indeed,
been born again, so I made up.
my mind to go to New York.
get back into my regular routine,
see the pictures, buy some new
clothes, make new acqualnt-
ances, and gradually work UP
the courage to look my old
friends in the face again.
When stepped off the train
in New York there was my huS-
band waiting for me. Before
had a chance to realize that he
was really there-really alive,
and as handsome as ever, I was
surrounded with a surging
crowd.
kilograms Greet Alma
There was a truck full Of
roses, and orchids-there was a
great armful of kilograms
greetings from Broadway, and
Hollywood stars. Messages Of
faith and affection from old
friends, from rich people and
poor people, messages from so
ciety women, and one pretty,
simple little corsage came from
q little dressmaker who had
once worked for me. For some
strange reason I loved that
best of all. 7 pinned it to my
coat, and my husband ordered
the rest of the gifts sent to the
hotel.
More flowers, more tele-
grams, more friends. My heart
sang and 7 was a poor foolish
woman in Paradise.
The moment I was alone
with my husband I knew that
everything was over between
us. He had nothing to say to
me, except what he would have
said to any stranger. He was
playing at a Broadway theater
and he asked that I come and
sit in a box and see the per
formance.
Putting Up a Front
The theater was packed and
when my husband came on
the stage he threw out his
arms to me and he introduced
me from the stage saying:
my dear little wife, Alma
RubenS, Mrs. Cortez."
We had decided to "put up
a 'front.'" for the sake of busi-
ness-but we were never happy
together for one minute again.
Within four weeks I signed
up for Is weeks on the vaude-
vile circuit. I was paid $1,000
a week.
have often done limitations
of well-known actresses, but
never gave any imitation of the
way I looked and acted when
I was being "cured" at the Pat
ton Insane Asylum.
My limitations were a great
success, but when I came back
to New York, flushed with my
triumphS. I met another we'll
known and highly respected
doctor.
And in no time at all he had
trapped me into dope-again!
And all that I had hitherto
known or imagined about drug
orgies, and degenerate exist
ence, faded into nothingness.
Love cults-devil worship,
drug Madness got to know
them all. That was how I
stayed cured"
Ito Be Continued Monday
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FASHIONS
FANCIES

Smart Summer Rugs-Some-
times when you're looking for
a good summer rug, ask to
see a Kelim pronounced Key
limb. These were originally
Turkish saddle blankets and
are something like a Navajo
Indian blanket in texture, but
a little lighter in weight.
They make good hard wear
ing attractive rugs for the
summer home and are compar-
atively inexpensive.
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Macs Christmas was a bounti-
full one.
When they were home again
and he was alone for q minute
with Mary Lou, he said, quite
simply:
THANK you for making me
go, Delight. I wouldn't have
missed that meeting with Mac
for millions. And how close I
came to missing it,"
"I didn't make you," she
said, at once, you made your
SELF"
Copyright, 1881. ty Faith Baldwin
CONTINUED Monday
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CHAPTER xxXVI


Ward 5 was bad enough in
all conscience, but it wasn't the
worst place in Patton.
I found the worst place soon
enough.
One day I said something to
one of the keepers that she
didn't like, and in less than no
time I was in ward 6.
AS long as live I shall wake
up at night, shuddering, for
that ward 6, and the pitiful
wretches who lived in it, will
haunt me as long as I live.
The attendants were not
brutal to the patients in ward 6.
The poor creatures locked up
there were simply mindless
bodies animals with no feel
ing, no pride. They didn't have
any temper. They just sat
and stared into vacancy all day
long.
Poor Crushed Souls
Sometimes for some little dis
obedience of rules the attend
ants would take some poor,
sodden creature and stand her
with her face to the wall. The
patient" would stand there
without moving a muscle, some
times for hours at a time, until
the attendant came and turned
the poor mindless creature into
some other position.
Where we're their thoughts?
I wondered time and again.
Did the poor crushed souls
escape from the poor twisted
bodies and wander somewhere
in pleasant fields, where wild
flowers grew, and where the
beasts of the field were at least
clean, and sane?
They didn't seem to think at
all.
Many Of them were so repul-
sive that I shut my eyes when
ever I had to pass one of the
poor degraded beings.
I had nothing to read, no
one to talk to, I couldn't even
think. I just sat and looked
ahead of me, like the rest
of the wretches in Ward Six.
One day I was sitting in
my cage counting-counting-
counting-74, rs, 76-on and
on, up to a thousand. I said
the figures over to myself so
I could hear a sane voice
speaking, it shut out the con
slant muttering, whispering,
and strange, hoarse. chuckling
that went on around me cease
lesSly night and day.
Enter the Boss
"Seventy-seven, seventy-eight,
seventy.nine," I said, and sud-
denly I was conscious that
someone stopped at my cage.
It was the asylum superin-
tendent.
Stand up." he said. .
stood up.
"Your time is about up,
you're about virtually cured"
eyes, sir" I said meekly.
To myself I thought:
Cured, yes I am cured. I
am cured of happiness, cured
of hope, cured of my faith in
human nature, yes, I'm cured" !"
In the Chapel
That afternoon I was sent to
Ward IS, the best cottage in
the grounds. To one from out
side Ward IS wouldn't look
much like a paradise, I sup
pose, but after what I had
been through it was like
heaven to me.
We were allowed 70 go to
chapel in the morning, and we
had a radio, and a piano. Not
much of q radio, and not much
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CORRECT
MANNERS
Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman-|

A Gentleman Raises His Hat
DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
Should a gentleman who is
escorting a girl tip his hat to
a man (young or oldD to who
she speaks. READER.
A gentleman who is with q
lady always raises his hat to
a man, young or old, to whom
she speaks. This is one of the
fundamental rules Of good man.
ners for a gentleman. For him
not to do this is for him to
commit a distinct breach Of
etiquette, one I should think
a girl would find difficulty in
understanding.
BY the way, the word "tip"
is not in good usage in the
expression "tip the hat" The
better words are "raise his
hat" or "lift his hat"
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BY Anne Adams

Pattern 1880 makes up beau
tifully in georgette, voile, lawn,
organdy or flat crepe-white for
confirmation and one of the
lovely pastels for festive occa-
sionS.
May be obtained only in sizes
8, 10, II, IA and 16. Size 10
requires 2A yards Of 39-inch
fabric.
Send Is cents, coin or stamps
for each pattern giving name,
address, style number and size
wanted. Send for Spring and
Summer fashion book, price Is
cents. Book with pattern, rs
cents. Address Washington
Times Pattern Bureau, 243
West 18th St., New York City.
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WHAT DO YOU
KNOW?
Answers To TOd0y's Test

AnsWers To TOd0y's Test
Questions On Editorial Page
/. Fortress. 2. Fetid. 8. Quake.
{. Inside. 5. Light Sunshade. 6.
Walter Scott. Z. Cleopatra. 8.
John Adams and Thomas JEFF
ferSon. 8. Hypocritical sorrow.
10. Not procurable from the pub
Usher. II. Chinese. IL. Benja-
min Franklin. Is. Lapidary. IA.
David slew him with a sling
and stone. Is. Fourteen years.
Copyright. 1881. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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Chapter 20


Lorrimer's casual announce
ment to his mother than he
thought he'd like to go into
town-by himseH-and for
Christmas shopping, filled her
with amazement. 1t had been
years since he had left the
grounds of Westwood. Earlier,
he had occasionally gone to
New York, much against his
will, to consult one nerve special
ist or another, accompanied by
Mrs, Lorrimer. But in recent
years he had not set foot IN
the asphalt town save for rare
visits to the dentist. He refused
to 60 to plays, concerts, restau-
rants or to the homes Of friends.
Every so often his tailor's man
made the trip out and measured
him for clothes and displayed
materials to his disinterested
eyes. Haberdashery was ordered
by mail and telephone. AND
DR., Mathews looked after his i'm
mediate health.
Margaret ordered the car and
watched him go without COM
ment, but to Mary Lou her COM
ments were frequent and mostly
in the form of questions. Would
he be all right? Should she
have let him go alone? What
in the world had got into him?
Mary Lou opined that perhaps
he had caught the Christmas
spirit. She had repeated their
recent important conversation
to Margaret. She felt that she
should; that she should hold
nothing back from Lorrimer's
mother. Perhaps" she ended,
"I wasn't playing quite within
bounds to speak to him like
that, But it just hoped out. It
had tO!"
Perfectly Right
No mother, even the sanest
and most fair-minded, likes
to hear her sons shortcom-
ings and character failures
openly discussed, nor can 1t
entirely delight her to learn
that that same son has re-
ceived a vigorous verbal beat
ing. But all Mary Lou had
thought-and uttered-was so
true and might prove so help
full that Margaret conquered
her feeling of slightly indig-
nant dismay and said, in
stantly:
"You were perfectly right.
Poor Travers. 1T must have
been q bitter medicine!"
And Mary Lou had been
honest, to the very last ditch.
She had even repeated Lor-
rimer's reminder of their mar
riage' and his profession Of
love. At the one, Mrs. Lor-
rimer had sighed aloud; at
the other, wisely refrained
from comment, appreciating
deeply the girls honesty and
respecting the really painful
embarrassment it must have
been to her to have the whole
truth and nothing but the
truth.
That day, the day Travcrs
departed on his mysterious er-
rand. passed, as days will, but
It held hours of uneasiness
for Margaret. Shortly before
dinner he returned and his
overcoat pockets bulged with
small and large packages. At
dinner he seemed tired. a little
fine-drawn and nervous, but
his mood was genial and it
pleased him to be mysterious
about his sudden trip.
At dinner, too, he informed
his mother that when she went
to New York on her charitable
Christmas mission he'd like
to go along, please.
Her Deep Happiness
She nodded and said, simply,
''We'd love to have you." but
her eyes were misted over with
q sudden keen happiness, al
most unbearable. She knew, Of
course, what had brought, or
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Life, Love and Adventures
Of a Modern Cinderella
What Has Happened SO Far

upon Mary Lou ThurstOn. beau
tu vvaciOu orphan seeks position Noticing an ad
Q a seminvald Mitchell, reporter and
Mary louis warm friend shows to Mary applies for
paatial of Mrs LOrimer at West
ad should have read male companion as the
LOrrmer Mrs LOrrmerS Shot down
imprisoned World War aviator he has type OF
about to leave when TraVers enters
He calls "Dehght and
"e Mrs explains Tavers claims to have married
an American girl named Delight Hartford Obviously
Mary double" TaVers thinks her his missing
wife Mrs I0rrime begs remain at good salary
tae the name of Deght temporarily the role
of wife and help her SON regain normal state Of mind
md health. Finally consents.
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pests wouldn't sign his name to anything w
consulting his counsel. - -,.,
Vet he will meet in unconventional slick
dame him sending her the most damaging
cnrreSnNndence
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This Day in History

Luther Burbank, noted American naturalist, was
born at Lancaster Mass, March Z 1S49 He was
noted for his experiments on plants and flowers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-28
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enthusiastic over the prospect of a 2,000 mile road from Fairbanks, All aska, to Seattle, Wash
 Negotiations are centering now on the route. While the Canadians are studying the costs and the most feasible direction for the road to take, members of the United States Geological Survey, led by the Act ing Director w. C. Mendenhall, are making a survey of the Alaskan area.
 Both the Willow Creek and the Fairbanks sections are rich in gold. The region is being studied to as- certain the importance and value of other minerals as we'll. From geological point of view, the high way will be of great economic value to Alaska. In addition to serving as an artery opening up the inter for. it will promote greater traffic.
 Alaska is a veritable paradise for the vacationist. Its beauties are var jed and it's grandeur inspiring. Once accessible to the thousands of Am erican tourists by a direct highway, it is predicted that tourist traffic will expand to an extraordinary fl- gure compared with what it is to- day. A net work of continental roads from Los Angeles, Milwaukee, and cities to the east and south will serve as feeders to the Yukon Sy- stem.
 Tn addition to the great tourist travel anticipated, the railroads and steamships are expected to benefit greatly by an increased shipment of freight through Canada into various parts of Alaska.
 It is further believed that a con- siderable portion of the $500 O,OOO,- 900 now spent annually in Canada by American tourists will find its way into Alaska over the great highway.
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CANADIANS STUDYING COSTS AND FEASIBLE
 ROUTE ID ALASKA

WASHINGTON, Sept. IA. P)- Gratifying progress has been made in the negotiations between the United States and Canada for the construction of the Pacific Yukon highway, Ernest Walker Sawyer, member of the international com mission studying the project an- nounced at the Department of Tn terior upon his return from an ex- tensive trip through the Northwest
 Speaker George Black of the House of Commons at Ottawa re- gently received a report from the Territory of Yukon in which the cost of constructing the highway across that region is placed at a minimum of $6,O00 per mile and a maximum of $7,5O0, MT. Sawyer said
 Business men and officials of the Canadian governments through which the proposed highway will pass are growing more and more
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LIGHTHOUSE PLAT

The plat of U. s. Survey No. 1914, U. s. Lighthouse Reserve, situated on southerly shore of East Chugach Island, entrance to Cook Inlet, will be filed in this office October 12, 1881. The land is not subject to entry as it is reserved for lighthouse purposes under Executive Order No. 3406, dated February 13, 1921, and only the filing of the plant is taking place.
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SURVEY VESSELS LEAVE

The USS Discoverer, Capt. Camp bell, and the auxiliary tender Westdahl, Captain Graham, which arrived in Seward Saturday night for supplies and mail, left again Sunday at midnight for the Bar ren Islands. The vessels are car rying on triangulation work at these islands under the direction of the U. s. Coast and Geodetlc Survey.
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FLY TO INTERIOR

Dr. Stephen R. Capps, geologist in charge of the special mineral investigations in the Railroad Belt and Dr. H. w. Alberts, director of Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations, made a flight into the Interior few days ago with the Alaskan AirwayS, Matt Nieminen, pilot. Dr. Alberts is to secure specimens of blue berry plants which he will take direct to the Agricultural Experiment Station, located at Matanuska, and pr. Capps will return to Anchorage.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-14

Seldovians, by popular vote, have endorsed the construction of a new street and walk, says the Seldovia Herald. They also have ample funds in sight and with the aid of volunteer labor and dona- tions they expect the improvement to soon be a reality
Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-14

Try our Seattle Ice Cream Fresh on every boat at SYLVIAS.
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If you haven't tried HORLUCK'S Danish Ice Cream you have missed something good. Sold only at the Candy Cottage.
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The much discussed DoOk-"Ihe We'll of Lonliness" now available at the Alaska Shop.
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D|MOND MEASURE
 APPEALING MINING
 ACT |s PASSED
FOSTER URGES CONSOLIDATION OF A. R. COMMISSION
 AND B. F. ROADS

JUNEAU, April 21. Especial to The Gateway)-The Senate Mon day morning passed Lomen's bill for protection of Alaska labor from the influx of cheap labor from the States or wage cutting requiring all work done by contract on pub lie works be performed at pre- vailing wage scale in the Terri tory and including subcontract work within it's provisions. Other Senate bills passed Mon day included the Dimond bill ere ating a budget commission clothed with adequate authority to fur nish a biennially balanced budget of estimates for the Legislature.
 Also the Dimond measure repeal ing the Wickersham mining act of 1912 limiting placer ground To- cations and requiring annual la bor and it's two supporting Terri torial acts.
 The Shattuck bill for 9 commiS- sion to study conditions and sur rendering dependent children and recommend suitable legislation for the next Legislature, and another Shattuck bill creating a commis sion to prepare plans, estimates and specifications for construct ing the new Pioneers Home for the next session were passed.
 The Dimond bill creating the office of Superintendent of Public Works to be filled by the highway engineer with an additional salary of $1,OOO and several minor meas ures now go to the House.
 The Senate is against postponed consideration of the community property bill which is slated for today.
 The House had 43 measures up for consideration today most un- der their second reading
 Foster instructed a memoral urging consolidation of the United States Bureau of Public Roads and the Alaska Road Commission and extension, through the con- solidated agency, of Federal high way act to Alaska.
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ALFONSO NOT 50 WELCOME FRANCE
 As FIRST THOUGHT
RUMOR HAS IT ROYAL EXILE HAS BOUGHT ENGLISH
 CASTLE

PARIS, April 20.. P)-King AL fonso was not as welcome guest in the Republic of France as his popular reception last Thursday night might have lead him to believe.
 Fearing an attempt on his life the police suggested tacitly that he seek refuge in some smaller place where better watch might be kept over him. His family leaves tomorrow for London to attend to private business.
 The press generally have dropped the royal exiles; some newspapers are now mentioning his name while others are printing just a few lines while some criticized the government for his warm welcome and criticized Alfonso as an en- emy to liberty.
 RumorS in London said he had bought the Norris castle near OS- borne where he spent his court ing days.
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RELIGIOUS ISSUE
 AGAIN BROUGHT
 BY DEMO SPOUSE
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN IS WARMING UP ALONG
 PACIFIC COAST
SAN FRANCISCO, April 20. (R

SAN FRANCISCO, April 20. (P3 Democratic tongues buzzed in San Francisco over the religious issue as they did in 1928 when Al Smiths creed was mixed with prohibition, the tariff and other election material.
 Jouett Shouse, right hand man of National Chairman Raskob, was the cause: he brought it up at the end of his programmed speech at the dinner of the Democratic Club at the Elks Club. Now that I am no longer on the air." Shouse said confidentially to the diners, "let us look into this talk of swearing the preident."
 But Shouse was mistaken: the mike was still broadcasting his re- marks. Then he turned to an ar ticle on Raskob recently published in an Eastern magazine, after as- erting that the Republican Ma tional Committee had purchased 10,OOO,O00 copies for nationwide distribution.
 ShouSe said: "Raskob is one of the most eminent Catholics in America. If he were a Methodist for instance, would the Republican National Committee have ordered these 1O,OO0,ooo copies?"
 shouse,s query was received in moment of dead silence, then the tongues began to wag and they kept it up until long after he boarded an airplane for Port land where he is scheduled to speak to the Democratic hosts.
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MEXICAN BANDITS
 ATTACK AND SACK
 TOWN; TEN DEAD

GERONIMO, Oaxaca, Mexico, Apr. 21, {R-Ten were killed, 20 were wounded when bandits at tackled and sacked the town of Juchitan Sunday.
 The bandits killed three civil ians, including a woman, before being driven off by the munich pal guard.
 Six bandits and one member of the guard completed the death list. The guard organized outside the town while the robbers were footing it; the guard then at tackled the bandits, driving them off.
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UN[UCKY THIRTEEN
 ARRESTED CHARGE
 SELLING SECRETS
ALLEGED PERFIDY MAY HAVE CONSIDERABLE BEARING
 ON S75,OOO,O 900 DEAL

BERLIN, April 20, (P)-German press reports announce that B communists have been arrested on serious charges growing out of the alleged sale of secret processes us- ed by the German Dye Trust.
 The sale of these secrets is sup posed to have been made to agents of the Soviet Government. Will helm Diestbach, leader of the Hes sian communists, is said to have directed German Reds in their act ivities, which resulted in their ob- taining some of Germany's most valuable chemical formula.
 Diestbach at one time was em- ployed by the Dye Trust and had obtained the confidence of it's of- ficals.
 Discovery of Diestbach's alleged perfidy is expected to have consid erable bearing upon the deal be- tween German and Russian busi- s1essmen, whereby Russians are expected to place orders amounting to $75,000,000 with German indus tries. The soviet delegation is al- ready to give his orders.
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POPE TO BROADCAST

VATICAN CITY, April 20 (P>- Pope Plus II has arranged with Senator Marconi for a system of international broadcasting thru the Vatican station which will permit the Pope to give his orders to church officials throughout the world
Seward daily gateway., 1931-04-21
EXPELLED FROM RUSSIA

BERLIN, April 20. (P-As a re- suit of an anecdote related in her magazine article "See Russia and Die Laughing" Eve Garrete, Amer ican writer, has been expelled from Russia. The story was con- sidered an insult to Stalin.
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COPS PAY HELD UP

CHICAGO, April q. (P Pay check for Chicago's 5000 police men and firemen were being tenn porarily held up pending return of $1,000,00O tax warrants, which were rushed to Florida by air plane for the signature of Mayor Anton Cermak.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-04-21
10 REGIMENTS OUT

MEXICO CITY, April 21. '(P)- The Mexican government decided on a further disbursement by the elimination Of 10 regiments of cavalry.
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GOOD PLACE TO AVOID

PERNAMBUCO, April 21. R- The Prince of Wales and his bro- tt,er, Prince George, sailed for Europe aboard the steamship Ar lanza. They will not stop at Ma drid as originally planned.
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MONOXIDE VICTIM

NEW YORK, April 21. (P,-Mrs. Harry Horton, wealthy Park Ave- nue resident, was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in the garret of her house. She had been missing since last Wednesday morning.
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INGRIANS DEPORTED

HEISINGFORS, Finland. April 20. (R)-The Soviet has launched a campaign of deportation against the population, according to re- liable reports. More than 1000 1ngrians were arrested in one day in districts near Leningrad and were sent to unknown destinations.
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IS LIKELY CHOICE

NEW YORK, April 20, (H-Wm. H. Mccarthy, of San Francisco, former Pacific Coast League Presi- dent, was regarded as the likely choice to succeed the late E. s. Barnard as head of the American League