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The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-06-16

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person. At any rate, the apartment Is still there and the man is watch ing. It's Alice Lorton who has left. My men report there's no one in the apartment" Sidney Griff made a snorting. explosive sound.
 well" he said, "we'1l let it pass. I'll tell you more about that after a while. What else have you got?"
 "The mail," Blocker said. q can't understand It."
 "What about it?"
 "We made a wonderful catch" he said. "Im afraid we're going to have trouble about it. There's going to be trouble with the postal authorities"
 That's all matter of history now. It's been done," Grif said impatiently. What did you get"
 "We got Esther Ordway's bank ing statement with the cancelled checks. It had been mailed to her by her bank, apparently in re- sponse to a request she had tele- phoned in"
 "Ah," said Sidney Griff, and his tone contained the purring satis- faction of some huge cat that has just been give n a dish of raw liver. "Ah-h-h-h" he said again. and rubbed his hands together. Blocker pulled a long envelope
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Nails Ridged and Brittle

What causes the fingernails to get ridges and become brittle? (P E. L)
 Answer-Faulty nutrition. In some cases course of cod liver oil internally, say tablespoon daily for two or three months, has cor rected the fault.
 Flushing
 am 20 and all my fun is spoiled by blushing. Might be the life of the party were it not for this. Walking down the street the mere sight of some one approaching starts me blushing. Yet some days l couldn't blush if tried co. R.)
 Answer In some instances blushing arises from purely physi- cal causes and you can do nothing but outgrow it. I have recently all most outgrown it myself. In other cases the cause is mental. Even physical blushing may, of course, disturb the mental ease. Where the cause is an overactive self-con- sciousness, confidential interview with a psychiatrist (mental dis ease specialisD may help the vic- tim to find an easier attitude. Or even simple instruction or advice about physiology and hygiene may change the outlook. I am happy to give such advice or instruction to any correspondent who may con- fide in me.
 AntiSeptic
 Kindly give me the formula for a boric acid mouth wash. (L. l.. E. .
 Answer = Heaping teaspoonful boric (formerly called boracic) acid dissolved in pint of freshly boiled water. This is suitable for use as mouth wash, gargle, nasal spray or irrigation, ear drops. eye drops or eye wash, general douche, bathing. wound or application of hot wet antiseptic dressing. (Copyright, 1884, John F. Dille Co.)
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1.-So eminent an authority on men as Abraham Lincoln said no. He maintained that the first thing was to get him to like you so he would have confidence in your Judgment. This is sound psycholo- gy. A man who needs reforming, such as one with the drink or drug habit, hasn't much judgment. That Is why he needs reforming. It is only as you appeal to his emotions that you can slowly build up his rational judgment. Most of our conduct is guided more by emo- tion than by reason and this is es- pecially true of those unstable characters who need to be re- formed. And we all do in some di- rections. N
 { 2.--No. In a delightful book, ..NRture Chats" John Harvey Fur. bay, biologist of Emporia (Kan- sas) college, says: Rural people often farm by the moon. They believe meat killed in the dark of
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day. These are the patients who demand an injection of local an- aesthetic before the dentist begins work.
 In a review of records of some 1000 cases in which physicians prescribed rations of five or six vit- amins as a supplement in the treat ment of various nutritional disor- ders, some interesting observations were made concerning the unex- pected by-effects. In numerous in- stances the patients themselves res ported that since they had taken the optimal vitamin ration they had lost their dread of ordinary dental treatment, for their teeth were no longer so Representative to the den- lists instruments. In several in- stances such patients who had al- ways insisted on the preliminary shot of local anesthetic found they now could weather an hour in the chair with little discomfort and no strain on their overexcitable nerves.
 Just which of the vitamins may be chiefly or wholly responsible for that, do not know, but I fancy vitamin c has at least as much to do with it as has D.
 Vitamin c, you poor ginks with sensitive teeth and bad gums will want to know, is present in fresh fruits and fresh green vegetables. It is destroyed by cooking. It is de- stroyed by prolonged moderate heating more than it is by short high heating-hence fresh milk containing vitamin c (milk con tains some if the cows get fresh pasturage or green fodder) retains the vitamin better if brought to a boil for a minute to kill any dis ease germs, than it does if pasteur- ized.
 Canning by the vacuum process, universally used in canning factor ies, preserves vitamin c, while home canning, more or less ac- cording to the process, destroys it. Canned tomato or tomato juice is nearly as rich a source of vitamin c as is orange, lime or lemon or grapefruit or its juice.
 We know some vitamin c is ad- visable every day, but we do not yet know definitely how much is essential (to prevent scurvy) and how much may be deemed the op- timal daily ration, to keep the body in the highest degree of health.
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the moon shrinks when cooked, that crops growing above ground only thrive if planted in the dark below ground, like potatoes, must of the moon, while crops growing be planted in the light of the moon. Shingles put on a roof dur- ing 8 new moon are believed to curl up and pull the nails out. Careful. studies show there is no relation whatever to the time of the moon and any of these results"
 S.--Just the opposite. In study I cited recently by Jessie Bernard of Washington university, St Louis, in which she used a method she has developed for measuring married happiness. she found that. although more men than women were dissatisfied with marriage. yet they rated their wives higher on their personal qualities than the wives did their husbands. Copyright John F. Dille Col
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GLoRIFYINo
 YOURSELF
Alicia Hart
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 Many modern authorities on skin care tell us that the daily cleansing with soap and water and the stlIn- Itlating action of brush and Ea&or contribute largely to the fact that men <, generally speaking, nave clearer compilations and LeWer wrinkles than women. In addiLionS the members of the so-calleo stronger sex seem particularly iM- mune of sallowness and cloggeo pores.
 If this is true--and it certainly sounds plausible--it's about time that girls started copying part of the male method of complexion care. There's no harm in trying anyway. After all, soap and water won't hurt the average skin. IT Iather seems to be too drying, use nOtirishi1g cream afterwaru.
 First, choose a good soap. There are many fine varieties and you shouldn't have any trouble finding one that just suits you. Then get a 9complexion brush. It should have soft. flexible bristles and handle or base that is easy to grasp. If you're serious about trying the soap and water method of cleans ing, you probably will like a new complexion brush and soap set now on the.cosmetic counters, The soap --a luscious smelling connection that makes good lather-contains a lot of milk. It come in a little composition complexion bowl with a cover that keeps dust out. The accompanying brush is especially designed for use with the soap.
 Remember that your are not SUD- posed to scrub your skin with a complexion brush. Grasp 1t firmly, whisk 1t across the soap and then with light circular movements, gently massage the foamy studs over face and neck. Use no more pressure than is necessary to keep the tips of the hairs firmly in con tact with the skin. Rinse, several times
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The CIevv of the
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SYNOPSIS
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 When CHARLES MORDEN, reporter for The Blade is found dead DAN BLEEK FIR, pubiish- CT, employs SIDNEY GRIEF, famous cfHInin0lOEist, to solve the murder.
 MOrden had been Investigating the affairs of FRANK B. CA THAY, wealthy and prominent, following the arrest of an iTnp0s- tor claiming to be Cathay and accompanied by a girl called MARY BRIGGS.
 The day following MOrden's death Cathay dies of poisoning.
 Griff learns that Morden had visited the. apartment of ALICE HORTON who has reported to police the disappearance of her rOOmmate,i ESTHER O3DWAY. Griff accuses Alice of being in- volved in Morden's murder but does not succeed in breaking down her story. He talks to HARRY FANCHER, inventor, with whom Cathay broke an en- gagement on the night of the ar- / rest.
 Detectives report to Griff that Alice LortOn and a man believed to be KENNETH BOONE, left her apartment shortly after Griff's call there.
 Blocker locates the cab driver who took MOrden to Alice's apartment.
 CHAPTER Xxv
 While Blocker was telephoning, Sidney Griff paced restleSSly up and down the apartment. His head was thrust forward. His eyes were squinted in thought. He seemed utterly oblivious of Dan Blocker and of the telephoned instructions Blocker was giving to his news paper. When Blocker had hung up the telephone and returned to his chair Griff suddenly whirled on him.
 How about putting them on that Elite Apartment to shadow wl1o- ever came out? Did you do it?''
 Blocker looked crestfallen.
 "I did it." he said, "but I'm afraid I did it too late. didn't it was of prime import ance. I sent men out there. After all, you know, we're running a and while I'm going to move heaven and earth to get this thing cleared up, we haven't got men to scatter around the city, just on the hope something may turn up."
 "So," said Griff softly and with an ominous calm, you let her get away from you. Is that right?''
 Mot Esther Ordway," said R1Aeker tShe'd zone already. There was no use watching the place after she'd left, except to get there and I couldn't see how we could find out just who was going to her apartment and who was go- ing to the apartment of some other
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the disappearance of her fictitious roommate"

the disappearance of her fictitious roommate"
 "But surely" Blocker said. "she couldn't have expected to have such a story stand up. Under a rigid police investigation the de- ception would have been noted al-
 most immediately. She couldn't have accounted for herself ;"
 Don't be too certain about that" Grin said. There undoubtedly was an Alice Lorton. Alice Lorton ! merged her identity into that of Esther Ordway for certain pur- poses. Then, when it became ap- parent that the Ordway identity was going to get her into trouble, she switched back to the identity of Alice Lorton. She could have given the police a fairly accurate history up to approximately the time that Esther Ordway entered the apartment"
 But the police could have con- fronted her with the people in the apartment and e"
 And would have got no place" Griff interrupted. "The police would have found that persons in the apartment had seen her com ing and gong. IHey WOulu nave
 known that she was living in the apartment. They wouldn't have known whether she was Esther HOrdway or Alice Lorton. The only persons who might have given tes- timony that would clinch her idens
 tity were the persons in the bank. For that reason she wanted to get
 her bank account closed and sent to her before there was an possi-
 bility of police interference. The fact that mail is not delivered on Saturday afternoon nor on Sunday
 brought about the downfall of the scheme"
 "Then this Ordway woman, or Alice Lorton as she calls herself, is probably the woman in the case. You forget" Griff pointed out.
 "that we have, as yet, to account for the mysterious Mrs Blanche Malone who is being eagerly sought by the bereaved widow" (TO Be Continued) "The key witness", announces
 Sidney Griff in the next install. she is still alive"
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Sister Mary:s Kitchen

There's a man in New York city who's made a fortune out of a lie. time associatio nwith the oyster. Lifetime, did l say? Why, IFS even longer than that, for his iatn- et was an oysterman before him. This mans been called Billy the Oysterman so long that he's nearly forgotten he ever had another name. Potentates and princes have eaten oysters at the tables in his restaurant, and if Billy had had his way about it, they would all have eaten them, newly-opened, on he'd of crushed ice without any sauce at all, only maybe a dash of lemon juice. Billy shudders at all cocktail sauces but as a con- cession to public tastes, serves vrey simple one, seasoned mostly with tabasco.
 Billy says oysters never should be opened long before they are eaten, and never should they be cut with a fork.
 When you serve oysters you must plan your meal with consideration of their food value. The oyster con- tains some of ali the food elements protein. carbohydrate fat, min erals and vitamins. So when you sit down to an oyster stew or an oys- ter scallop. you have in the oysters and milk a very nourishihg dish in a somewhat concentrated form. Consequently, the rest of the menu should be made up of foods which will supply ballast or '.roughage."
 oysters make splendid luncheon and supper hot dishes. Serve Q crisp piquant pepper and grape fruit salad and jelly roll for des- sert, and you have fine meal.
 Baked Oysters
 Twelve large oysters, table spoons cream, tablespoons white wine, teaspoon anchovy paste, 2 teaspoons grated cheese, table spoon grated lemon rind, l table, spoon butter. 1-2 cup coarse stale bread crumbs, 1-2 teaspoon salt, 1-S teaspoon pepper, IA teaspoon
 Put butter into a small sauce pan and melt without discoloring. Add cream and stir until very hot. Add wine, lemon rind and anchovy paste. Put half the sauce into a small buttered baking dish. Put oysters on the sauce and sprinkle over half the cheese and bread crumbs. Cover with remaining sauce and season with salt, pepper and paprika. Cover with rematn- ing crumbs and cheese and bake i4 hot oven (400 degree F.) untn the top is nicely Drowned. Serve at once.
 Pepper and Grape Fruit Salad Four sweet green peppers. cup grape fruit pulp, 1-2 cup diced celery, 2 tablespoons broken nut meats (use any nut except pea nuts), curly endive, mayonnaise. Cut slices from stem ends of peppers and remove seeds and white pith. Mix grape fruit pulp, celery and nuts with a little may onnaise and fill peppers with mix ture. Arrange on bed of endive and top with. more mayonnaise.
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SENSITIVE TEETH AND DREAD
 OF THE DENTIST


 OF THE DENTIST
 From now on I suppose I shall have to tone down my comments about dentors. Have one in the family now, and already I'm plan- ming some extensive alterations to be paid for with the money saved on dentist bills, that is, if l can work 1t right.
 Dentors or dentists, certainly people vary in their attitude toward a seance in the chair. I'm mid ding good coward, always begin to holler before I'm hurt, but I don't think I'd mind much visiting my dentist or dentor, as the case may be, were it not for the pain of lis- tening to his 1898 arguments in favor of brushing the teeth and trying to be polite, as betits guy in such situation. So far as the song of the burr and the slipping of the chisels and things and the unintentional decorations of the gums are concerned, these have nev- CT tried my bovine soul enough to make me break into a cold sweat. But stronger men than I assure me they suffer from real shock at the mere anticipation of the ordeal in the dental chair and they must have something to soothe their tor tured nerves or they will be ut- terly disabled for the rest of the
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FAVOUR
 CHILDREN
pr Olve Roberts Bsrton
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One of the eternal miracles TO me IS how children in America grow up to be as patriotic as most Americans are.
 From the days when the hest or- ators in the country did their spell binding, urging recalcitrant states to get on the "Constitution Band Wagon, and sign on the line, until our own fall elections, children have had every opportunity to make few mental reservations re- eard1ng their great and glorious country.
 First, they. hear the pot calling the kettle black and then the ket- tie besmirching the pot. Certainly political fights are not pretty things,
 Dick goes to school and studies about his country being just fine and dandy, about what great and good men our presidents were, and about how we licked the world every time we half tried, and so on.
 He pledges allegiance to his flag, sings America" and "The Star Spangled Banner" and learns the "Gettyshurg Address for Friday afternoon.
 3e Ihen the contrast
 Then he goes home and unless he is deaf and blind, by radio, newspaper or corner congress, he hears enough villification to make him wonder who is joking--the school that teaches one thing. or the subversive hearsay of real life.
 And yet he survives. So far the school has come out on top.
 IT.. 1f h fe, hf- enment as to the clay feet of his gods, he still continues to respect the rocks and rills, the woods and fempled hills of his country, and the gentlemen who assume respon- sibility for them, or at least have done so heretofore.
 It speaks we'll for the schools, because certainly outside of it the forces of disillusionment are strong.
 However, one wonders just how { long this influence can hold the fort, Formerly, it was not only sec onded by the home, but by the ma jority; the unholy fights (mild compared to today) were apart from the boys experience. There was no radio. The press was more conservative. Even the men on the street usel less shocking terms in their arraignments.
 Even Foes Commanded Respect
 Respect was in their tones even when disapproving of candidates for high office. Political opponents usually behaved like gentlemen. too.
 The time is passing. Government and politics having become a free for-all and a devil-take-the-hi most game, it seems to me almost inevitable that children will soon be singing America" with their tongues in their cheeks.
 Our present-day ethics of poli- tical fights cannot help but under mine patriotism and civic respect.
 Copyright, 1884, NEA Service,
 Incl
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SMALLEST CHURCH IN USE

Dodgeville, Wis -- (UP) = The smallest church in Wisconsin and one of the smallest in the world, built nearly a century ago, is still in use. The rural Iowa County Methodist church measures 12 by 16 feet. It as been known to house congregations aggregating more than forty. The tiny structure was moved to its present location with an OK team.
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CIRCUS DISPLAYED

Ashland, Wis-(UP)-A minia- ture circus consisting of geo hand-- carved lions, tigers, clowns. band- wagons and everything else includ. ed in a circus recently was dis played by it's creator, Rudolph Hagene, 19, who claims four years were required to fashion the circus. Hagene intends to toud the country with his circus next summer. He expects to defray expenses by rent ing is show to merchants along the way for window displays
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PARIS STYLES
to town.
By MARY KNIGHT

Paris. (UP)-The Bible says it's wrong to envy, but 1t would surely forgive a girl for casting green eyes after Mrs Vincent Astor 1eav- ing Molyneux's in an afternoon frock of black wool with fabric fringe with jacket fastening with two black wool tassels.
 The top of the dress, under the jacket, is made of red, green and white figured crepe, and the Astor accessroies naturally are impec- cable. For wandering around in the mornings. Mrs Astor has Molly neux gray ribbed flannel dress with a brick wool tie and jacket short and snappy looking-of olive green wool. What a combination in soft colors!
 One of the Astor evening gowns is in mauve, beige and gold taf- feta with checks in the design. It has ruching effects on the back of the skirt and is better for standing purposes than sitting
 Julia Marlowe Sothern (you know, the actress), is as good at picking out dresses as she is at playing Shakespeare, and her lat est dress pick" Is one having hud- son seal scarf tipped with black ostrich feathers.
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nsckles and Buttons as Trim

Buckles and buttons are the most important trimming on the new winter dresses. The smartest frocks have huge afbric-covered buckles and rows of buttons to match. A handsome one-piece street dress of beige woolen has a large belt buckle, covered with dark green velveteen, a row of large velveteen buttons going around the left armhole and ex- tend outward across the front of Eh0 neCkEne.
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Tubbable and charming this practical little Scotch pladed ginEham jumper dress with plain white baste blouse
 Tiny girls feel grownup in jumper rocks and mothers know their practical worth For instance with the jumper pie
 needs only change of blouse look spc and span again The second blouse could also be batse in navy blu { give the costume a different look.
 Plain cotton broadcoth with shiny finish in French blue cunning with the blouse of white dnty dotted in blue
 Pattern No 34s4 includes the jumper and blouse in sizes and years Size requires 1N yards of 35nch material for < jumper and yard of 35-nch material for blouse
 Send FIFTEEN CENTS (Sc) in stamps or coin (con is SreferreD. Write plainly NAME, ADDRESS and STYLE nunber BE SURE TO STATE SIZE YOU WISH
 Let the latest FALL AND WINTER BOOK OF FASHIONS solve your clothes problems minimum of cost and effort Yt tes how 10 make smart coat easily as simple drrss There clothes for elaborate occasions well as 1auy trim designs for general You'll enjoy read nc about fsvoure star& You simply must not
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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
 BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D.

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An interesting new fabric for upholstery, designed by Donald Deslxey. has a dotted or checked appearance and 2 slightly metallic effect. secured by unusual weaving and an elective color contrast in the yarns. It combines a rayon straw and rayon yarn with cot- ton. The glint of the rayon straw gives 1t the metallic luster and ct
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'The key witness", announces Sidney Griff in the next instaiI- she is still alive"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-20
BUSINESS, INDUSTRY
IN CONFERENCE ASK
VOLUNTARY CODES

Continued from page one )
dated, and that the control Of pri-
mary and reserve credit be indie
pendent of governmental domina-
ton and political influence"
I, The resolution said the securi-
ties and exchange act is being ad-
ministered fairly, but it "con-
tains provisions which can place
upon trade and industry unnec-
essary and unreasonable burdens
of the character requiring correc.
ton" k
It is in the durable goods in
dustries, the conference held,
must come a, major Offensive
against the depression.
"Sixty per cent of the estimat-
ed 10000, 200 unemployed areSin
the durable goods industries" a
resolution said. "More than q
100000 are unemployed in one
segment alone construction =
representing total nearly four
times as large as the combined
unemployment in all consumers
goods industries.
"Deferred demand for the
products of the durable goods in
dustries has reached staggering
proportions, but must remain po-
tential and useless rather than eff
fective until the people of this
country possess such confidence
in their future that they dare look
beyond their day to day needs: l.
"Herein lies, a major offensive
against depression. IS
E"Chief among the Fundamental
conditions needed for recovery in
the durable goods industries are
% a free flow of private capital
into private business. (2) a Bound