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Evening star., 1936-05-31

Il fancy it is the best | can hope
for. Am permitted to take down my
hands?" he asked.
Stay as you arer' the Major
barked you tell us where the safe
is we'll find it,"
The German shrugged his shoulders.
THE bookshelf behind me - the third
book from the right of the second row
is dummy. Pull it out and you'll see
knob which you must press"
Ned went behind the desk and
moment later. as though hidden
spring had been released, whole sec
tion of the bookshelf swung outward,
revealing an iron door The Major
ratified it. IT'S locked. You have the
key?"
THE fiat bronze key in the bunch"
said Grundt. nodding in the direction
of the blotter. Patricia brought the
bunch and Ned opened the door. A
small strong room was disclosed,
safe built into one of the side walls.
Grundt craned his head round. You'll
have to let me work the combina-
tion," he remarked, turning back to
Dallas.
GO ahead" said the latter, but
no tricks! I'm behind you with a gun,
remember
With a grunt of relief the big Ger
man dropped his arms and, retrieving
his cane, which had fallen on the
floor, hobbled into the strong room.
He bent over the safe and in mo-
ment had it open. For an instant, he
burrowed within, then brought out
file of papers which he flung on the
desk.
There you are, he remarked, land
if the documents you find there don't
get you reinstated, then come back to
me and I'll give you a job myself"
Evening star., 1936-05-31

sr's Feet First! When you step out for
beauty these days watch the shoeing of
the stars for gay and novel effects.
Beatrice Lille, who leads the parade in
smart originality, chooses three-eyelet, low
heeled oxford for her new red sports outfit
The shoes are of soft white buck with morocco
red leather trimming. A white grosgrain rib
bon furnishes the lacing and final decorative
touch. For evening she wears backless sandal
(Miss Lille prefers ''a sensible heel always'')
of gold kid, with white zigzag braid trimming
and wide strap over the instep.
Satin, brocaded cloth and kidskin-either
silver or gold-are popular with jewel or
sequin trimming for evening because they
pick up the lights. Gertrude Niesen, who ap-
preciates the importance of dainty, spar
king foot, wears combination of silver kid
skin and white crepe. The shoe is happy
medium between a pump and one-eyelet tie.
Evening star., 1936-05-31
THIS WEEK
The SPIDERS Touch
Continued from pose six

He laughed his rumbling laugh as he
stood in the doorway of the strong
room. his huge bulk almost completely
filling the entrance. leaning on his
stick.
The Major pounced on the file, turn
ing over the dusty pages. Gosh,
Bob" he exclaimed, "he's right Look
at these letters and wires from the
Waldeck girl"
Patricia and her brother had joined
the Major at the desk and were lean
ing over him as he examined the file.
For an instant Dallas took his eyes
off the massive figure towering in the
entrance of the vault and in that in
slant it happened. The light went out
and the library. its windows screened
by heavy curtains, was plunged in
darkness, They heard the clang of iron.
Head him OFF, the Major shouted
and tore the curtains of the nearest
window aside. In the dimness they
saw that Fame was already guarding
the library door Now he fingered the
switch beside him.
The light came on again. Grundt
had vanished. The bookcase still gaped,
but the strong room door was shut and
the key gone. Frantically the Major
tore at the door. but it was fast.
After himr' he stormed. We'll
catch him in the grounds if we're
quick" With Fame at his heels, he
dashed out.
Dallas would have followed him,
but he found the girl in his path. She
did not speak, but her eyes said. LET
him gop' Dallas was frowning. II
might have known it," he muttered.
"Clubfoot would always have a line
of retreat. A second light switch. a
secret exit to waiting car - once he
could get to that strong room. he
Evening star., 1936-05-31
Beauty Brevities
by MARTHA LEAVIT

She completes the gay shoe ensemble with
white lacing, which has two tiny rhinestone
balls at each end.
The tailored shoe comes into its own be-
cause so many sports ensembles are being
worn. An oxford, spectator pump or a wide
one-strap shoe is the answer. Katharine Hep
burn has suede sport shoes of the oxford style
which are laced through large square eyelets
bound in leather
Fannie Brce states quite emphatically: "If
my feet aren't comfortable can't be funny"
She chooses a moderate heel in a shoe COM
bination of satin and crepe. The new fabrics
and gabardine are also popular with her.
Miss Brice likes the opera pump style-"It's
more Aattering to my type of foot" And
Ginger Rogers, for early summer evenings,
brightens the dancing world with a pair
of cut-out sandals gaily tied with silver-mesh
cord.
Evening star., 1936-05-31
! 0
Mosozins Section

She spoke treInulously. You can't
shoot man in cold bloodr'
Grun6t confronted them in a stony
silence, his arms above his head. Gsz-
ing at him steadfastly, Dallas said.
Three of us had scores to settle wit,
you, Grundt, but it looks as though
| should have to be spokesman for
all" He paused. DO you remember
a.! American secret service man called
Ross?"
Gr,mdt nodded.
He was sent on a mission to Hol-
land during the war. They found him
hanging in a wood"
He was a spy" Grundt retorted
gruff1y. 'He only got what he de-
served"
major Hartigan was his friend"
said Dallas, Major Hartigan, whom
you or one of your people shot down
this afternoon. In Hartigan's absence
you'll answer to me for George Ross
life - if Ned Hartigan is dead. for his
life as we'll. The third of us is Ger
man, Colonel Won KONG"
Grundt frowned. Colonel Won Ko-
mig? l never heard of him. A German
c0fonel?"
His rank is Mexican; but thirty
years ago Wolf Won Konig was an
officer of the Prussian Footguards.
You cost him his commission"
Dallas paused deliberately - as you
cost me NINE
Clubfoot's expression changed. His
manner was suddenly cringing. "As
for that, heber Her," he broke in
deferentially, II was about to say that
l might be in position, through GER
tain papers that are in my possession,
to help you to regain your COM
mission"
A voice from the door said, wolf
is deadp'
The Major stood there. Patricia
screamed, Major Ned" and sped to
him. With an distracted air. he brushed
her aside and came in. His face was
set and white. his eyes merciless as,
ranging past Dallas and Fame stand
ing with pistols levelled, they rested
on the burly form erect behind the
desk with arms uplifted.
Dallas spoke tersely: $50 it was Wolf
and not you?"
Hartigan nodded. his gaze rivetted
on Grundt. HE thought was hit and
came out to rescue me. stayed with
him until he died - he's still there in
the wood Maier and his people are
going to take him back to the inn
You haven't forgotten our oath, Bob?"
Impassively Dallas shook his head.
Patricia laid her hand on the Majors
sleeve ''Major Ned d." she began.
your cars outside with some of
our people" he told her briefly. ''You
run along"
She stood her ground. 1--WE told
Robert - you can't kill man in cold
blood"
The Major flushed angrily. "And
what about those two poor things
yesterday? And George Ross, and now
Wolf? Let him have a gun and defend
himself. if you like, but one of us is
going to die"
Patricia said quietly. you don't
understand. You've got to spare his
life and I'll tell you why He can clear
Robert and help him to get his COM
mission back"
IAN odd sound broke the tension.
Grundt was softly chuckling. Spoken
like a practical AmeTik0nerin, Frau
lefn" he purred.
She turned to him. You said you
had papers?"
"JascoM The whole dossier is in
my SAFE
Patricia glanced round the room.
There's no safe here?"
Grundt laughed. MOP"
Where is it?''
He eyed her cunningly. We'll 60
into that when know that your pro-
Evening star., 1936-05-31
Moy 81, 1896

to face. Yet, a moment ago, when |
had him at my mercy and you spoke
up to save him, l suddenly realized
that didn't care damn whether he
lived or died. 1t was the sound of
your voice. think, but knew then
that the only thing that mattered was
you"
Patricia gave him wistful smile.
Your future was more important.
l saw what he was leading up to. He's
nobody's fool, your DIR. Grundt, let
me tell you. He held the trump card
- and he knew it."
Dallas touched the dusty file.
You've given me back my life. Pa
tricia. The trouble is. he added with
a sigh, that l don't know what to
do with it - without you"
She echoed his sigh, her arms about
him. That's my trouble, too. But it
gives me an idea, Robert"
He flushed. Forget itr' he told her.
She sat up abruptly. You're not
going to be stupid. hope - about
my having money, mean?"
Despondently he shook his head.
Much too much money, my dear"
Nonsense" Patricia said with
spirit. Were partners already in
manner of speaking The firm owes
you your share of the agreed fee of
hundred thousand dollars. Well. you
needn't draw it out - you can leave it
in the firm so that shall still be in
your debt. How's that?"
Sweet and kind like everything
you've said to me. But, darling, it
won't do ="
You can't have your own way in
everything" she declared. I've got
to be humored sometimes Aren't you
going to kiss me - Captain Merrall?"
Itwas an iron curtain shutting down
on his tragic past, the way she spoke
his old name and title. significantly,
her eyes shining. her face lifted ex-
pectantly towards him. He caught her
in his arms, stopped to her lips
A hurried step in the hall drove
them apart. Fame came in quickly.
Vanished in thin air" he announced,
land the rest of the gang with him.
It's lucky Ned left Maier to guard the
plane"
Grim and breathless the Major
burst in. THE Fedsr' he gasped.
Dallas was unmoved. You're sure,
Ned?"
Il hope know dick when l see
one" replied the Major. There are
two Americans, toting guns, and a
party of German plainclothcs ..on
coming up the drive
''Is the main gate locked?"
Barred and bolted.'
That should hold them for bit.
If it doesn't, well, there are three of
US here - all armed - we ought to
be able to put up some sort of scrap,
and let Miss Fame and her brother get
clear in the plane"
The Major spoke up promptly,
"You can't start anything like that,
old son - not as far as | am con-
cerned, anyway. I'm an American
citizen and these guys are on Uncle
Sans payroll - you can't expect me
to shoot it out with them, as if were
a gangster or something. And believe
me, if one of them gets knocked off,
it won't do Jimmy any good, you
must see that" He shrugged despond-
emily. 81 guess young Jimmy will have
to take his mediciner'
"Ned's right" Patricia struck in.
1--WE can't fight the Government. It's
unthinkable"
Dallas flushed. "All the same, I'll
see Brewer in hell, before hand Jimmy
overt
"And who said we're going to hand
him overS' was the demure reply.
She turned to Ned. You run along
and see what they're up to- Let me
know as soon as they reach the front
door"
Evening star., 1936-07-05
French Government
Is Not SOcialistic

PARASITIC position is taken here
that much confusion would be avoided
If people, both in France and abroad,
would remember that the present cab
met, headed by the Socialist chief
Leon Blum, is not a Socialist govern
ment and does not propose to intro
duce revolutionary reforms.
1t Is only because the Socialists man
aged to elect more Deputies than the
Radicals that they were called upon
to organize the cabinet, but the So
cialist party neither has a majority in
the Chamber itself, nor could it mus
ter a majority with the aid of the
Communists. The majority consists
essentially Of an alliance of three
parties-Socialists, Radicals and Com
munists - which together comprise
what is known as the front populaire,
or peoples front.
These three rarties-which were
Joined by few scattered groups be-
longing to the Left, notably the
Socialist Union, headed by Paul Bon
cour-got together before the recent
elections and decided upon a common
program, pledging themselves, in the
event of victory, to execute that pro-
gram and no other. It is not a Marx
ist program, but might be called an
advanced liberal program.
tcopyright, 193bJ
Evening star., 1936-07-05
Days Are Being Saved
On European Air Routes

LoNDON.--Flying by express air.
liner, business men and tourists can
now breakfast in London, have lunch
in Leipzig and sit down to dinner In
Budapest. Flying to Paris and back
in q day, you can have six clear
hours in the French capital; while a
journey, say to Vienna, is reduced
from ~ hours by surface travel to
8 hours so minutes by air.
On the main empire routes, BY
using air travel instead of surface
travel, passengers save Z days on
a journey to Baghdad. s days to Khar-
toum, 8 days tc Cape Town, o days
to Delhi, and going a step further, one
can make Singapore with a saving Of
IA days, and is days to Batavia.
while a flight right through England
to Brisbane, Australia, is accom-
plished in 1914 days by air, as COM
pared with 80 days by surface trans
portation.
Evening star., 1936-07-05

| better sanitary conditions and free
dom from wars and fighting There
are openings for plantations, but these
would employ only minority of Ger
mans, and they would require capital
in their operation.
In the whole Of the German Colo
nies before the Great War there were
only 1852 Germans settled, despite
every sort of encouragement by the
go1ernment in Berlin.
A vast colonial empire does not in
itself necessarily solve the unemploy-
ment problem. In Britain We have a
very difficult labor situation, with
nearly 100000 people out of work:
yet We have the greatest colonial en-
pire in the world. The United States
has vast and wealthy territory, not
overpopulated and with ample sup
plies of nearly all the principal raw
materials needed by modern industry;
| yet it suffers from a serious unemploy-
ment problem
| The second main argument is that
Germany needs access TO raw ma
terials and especially that it is neces-
sary for her to be able to pay for these
with her own currency. There is glut
in most Of the principal raw materials
at the present time and the producers
| are only too anxious to sell them for
German or any other currency. But it
is also fact that colonial production
does not represent the bulk of the in
duStrial raw materials in the world,
with the exception of rubber, palm oil
and copra
The following paragraphs give the
percentage Of colonial production Of
the four main classes Of industrial raw
materials. It will be seen that in sew
eral OF the most important less than
half are produced in the colonies of all
the world as compared with the total
world production:
Metals:
Tin. $50 per cent colonial; copper,
21.3; tungsten ore, 1856; manganese
ore. 1877; bauXite, 1871; chrome ore,
1873.
Non-metallic minerals
Phosphates, $40; graphite. 46.o.
Rubber and textile materials:
Rubber, 96.1.
Vegetable oils:
Palm oil, 98.s; copra. 64.4; ground
nuts, 28.5; olive oil, 1873; soya, 114.
DR.. Goebbels states that "the basic
materials Of modern industrialization
are coal, iron, oil, cotton, rubber and
copper"
In the case of the first four. only 4
per cent of the worlds supplies come
from colonial areas. AS the above fig
ures show, in the case of copper, only a
Evening star., 1936-07-05
EUROPE SEEN POWERLESS
TO BLOCK CHINA'S FALL
Growing Menace in Asia to Tense
Europe Through Japan's Actions
Cited by Editor.

Hopei. 1t enables the smuggled
goods to compete in the markets of
Shanghai and Southern China with
the goods that have paid duty at
other ports. Thus it kills two birds,
as it were, with one stone.
Survey by Sir Frederick.
All this and much more is hap
pening under the disinterested guard
ianship which Japan has set up, first
in Manchuria and now in North
| China, and the blessings of which we
may confidently anticipate she hopes
TO extend farther south. 1t is because of
these circumstances that Sir Frederick
Leith-Ross, one of the most eminent
authorities of the British treasury, has
spent seven months making a sur
vey Of the financial and economic con-
ditions of China. 1t had been hoped
that the United States, France and
japan would appoint experts to coll
laborate with him, but this was not
found possible and his report contains
therefore only the results of his own
Investigations. 1t is discreet, carefully
avoids political considerations and
concerns itself only with what China
is doing for herself.
The general tenor of the document
is that China is learning to walk alone,
Is making marked strides in her Or
ganization and that, except in mill
tary sense. she is quite capable of put
ting her house in order-if she is
allowed to. The currency problems
have been handled boldly and sue
cesSfully by the central government,
which is replacing silver by an in
convertible managed currency. Diff
cultieS there are, mainly political,
and the withdrawal of silver is one
cause of the recent breach between
the central government and Canton.
But Sir Frederick has no doubt of
the soundness and growing success
of the policy.
Criticizes Tariff Increase.
Moreover, exports are expanding
and the adverse balance of trade has
been greatly reduced" The chief crit.
icism which Sir Frederick makes is in
regard to the recent raising of tariff
rates. These protect the Chinese in
dustrialist at the expense Of the
Chinese farmer, who represents three
quarters Of the population. And Sir
Frederick points out that the measure
of China's prosperity must always be
the purchasing power of this numer-
ically dominant class. Apart from
this. the outlook of China, left to go
her own way, is most reasSuring.
But will she be left? Will the COM
mercial prospects opened up by mere
enlightened regime be realized by
Europe and the outside world? Under
the ambitious policy of Japan. difficul-
ties have increased and will increase.
Europe has steadily lost ground and
fails to produce any policy that will
check the tendency. And what Is
happening in the North may well be
. foretaste of what will be the ex-
perience Of China as o whole.
tCopyright, 1850
Evening star., 1936-07-05
LABOR AT CROSSROADS
AGAIN In OLD DISPUTE
Friction Between Craft and Industrial
UniOnists First Flared i'm Economic
Era After Civil War.

There has been no apparent
tessening OF the friction bet,oeen
the craft and industrial unioniStS.
The crdtt-controlled erecuttue
council OF the American Federation
OF Labor meets in Washington merit
Wednesday and is erpected to act
upon the refusal OF the industrial
unioniSts to diSband their Commit
tee on Industrial Organization. The
origins and forces in this dispute
are delinedted in the tolloUtng As
socidted Press article.
Evening star., 1936-07-05
Pay Saving Is Feared
As Chinese Trickery

NANKING P),-Civil employees Of
the Chinese government are TO be
compelled to salt away part OF each
months pay check fer the rainy days
that may be ahead
Coming on top OF compulsory cor
tributions to food relief, and general
salary slashes. long suffering civil
servants are greeting the enforced
savings scheme with audible groans.
and whispered suspicious that this is
but another scheme to provide ready
cash for the governments official
spenderS.
From 2 to 1G per cent of all salaries
must &C into the thrift account of the
Central Trust Bureau. The interest
rate is fixed at the discretion Of the
bureau, which, incidentally Is respon-
sible fer arranging China's purchases
abroad Of airplanes, tanks and other
engines Of war.
Evening star., 1936-07-05
BY A. G. GARDINER,
Enslands Greatest Liberal Edito

7 ONDON.-Europe, according to
Winston Churchill, is in more
desperate situation than it was
in the Summer of 1914.
That Is a diagnosis that requires
some qualification, but, making every
discount, it is so far from extrava-
gance as to be a tenable statement
of the case. There is one respect in
deed in which the outlook is more
perpleMng and ominous than it was
in 1914, especially from the British
point of view. Then the menace was
tolerably clear, defined and calculable
and, above all, there we're no extra
European complications.
That is not the case now. Europe
is hell's broth Of confused motives,
and, far beyond Europe, there is the
vast shadow that is spreading over
Eastern Asia. Little is said about it
in the press, but neither the govern
ment nor the public is unaware Of
the vast significance of what Is hap
pening, the bearing it has upon the
European situation and the magnitude
of the British interests that are
threatened.
There are no illusions here about
Japan. Like Mussolini in Italy, she
permits us to have no illusions. She,
with Italy, and, it is to be feared,
the resurrected Germany, stands for
power politics and the divine right
of the sword.
Cites Japan's Attitude.
The economic consequences of that
policy are in no doubt. Japan's bland
assurance Of her strictly honorable
intentions in China have no relation
to her acts. She swallows those as
surances with the same placid calm
with which she accepts the assas-
sfnation by the military of the cream
of her elder statesmen, who have been
indiscrete enough to think that Japan
should observe some of elementary
conventions of a civilized world. She
stands for the open door in Man
churia, but, as the Times observes, it
Is the open door through which "she
has already, with impunity, kicked
foreign interests"
Her invasion Of China proper Is
designed with the most disinterested
concern. for the welfare Of that
country and respect for the rights of
other countries, but it has resulted
in the paralysis of the maritime Gus
toms service in Eastern Hopei, on
which the revenues Of China and the
interest on her foreign loans depend.
That service has been shattered by
smuggling on scale never before
seen in the world, smuggling 50 openly.
conducted, so frankly safeguarded by
Japanese bayonets directed against
the cusoms officers, who have
thoughtfully disarmed, that it may
be said to be part Of Japan's pa
ternal administration of her new
territory. It Is most efficient ad.
rninistration. It not only short
circuits the customs In Eastern
Evening star., 1936-07-05

tegic importance to Japan that size
IS understood to have already pre-
pared them as military bases, they
are Of little importance as sources of
supply Of raw material or as territories
for colonial settlement The most
important Of the former German Pa
cific islands, Nauru, valuable source
of supply of phosphates. is under
a joint mandate to the governments
OF Great Britain, Australia and New
Zealand.
The French are known to be opposed
to the return of Germany's former
colonies, and the Belgians also.
My own view is that a settlement
will be reached and that Germany will
probably get back Tanganyika terri
tory flom Britain, the Cameroons from
France and probably Western Samoa
from New Zealand, but in each case
under League mandate.
The mandate system has these ad-
vantages from the world point of view:
The principle of the open door-that is
to say, equal opportunities to the trad
ers Of all nations-is preserved, and
the mandatory power is forbidden to
establish naval or military bases or to
conscript or recruit the native popula-
tion as soldiers.
The whole subject has been compli-
Gated by Italy's occupation of Abys-
sinia and her declaration of sover-
eighty. This was done in defiance of
the League of Nations and of most of
the civilized opinion of the world If
Italy is left in possession of the spoils
it will be even more difficult to refuse
Germany's demands If these latter are
made in formal legal manner.
The South African dominion will be
particularly insistent that no native
armies shall be raised on the continent
of Africa south of the Equator The
South Africans object to the Negroes
being armed in any case, for easily
understandable reasons; and they fear,
furthermore. that large Negro armies
under European officers might one day
be menace to their own territorial
security.
Moral Equality Demand.
Apart from this question of prestige
and demand for moral equality. let us
examine the other German arguments
for the possession of colonies. 1t is
said, in the first place, that Germany
is overcrowded and cramped and de-
sires territory for the settlement of her
surplus population. There is not much
room for close European settlement in
any of the territories under discussion.
They are thickly populated by the in
digenous inhabitants and these are in
creasing in large numbers, owing to