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it doesn't matter which. When she saw
that Magda couldn't 60 through with
it, the old lady made up her mind to
give herself the-the release everybody
knew she wanted and had so often
begged for. Poor soul - III
$50 I pulled out the knife and
slipped it into Magda's hand, thinking
now she'd have death on her soul
for the rest Of her life and I could be
her knight for the rest of my life; and
after a while Magda came to :"
OF course, there was more to the
story-how Trafford and Judd Cowles
obtained q written, sworn confession
from Fayle, for secret keeping against
a day when it might be needed, which
1t probably never would be (after all,
the jury's verdict of record in the case
Of People VS.. Magda Deane was mot
guilty"); how Fayle took himself per-
manently out Of Magda'S life, to 60
home and try to make something more
ineligible out of the jigsaw puzzle Of
his own life; how he succeeded, after
time and after a fashion.
story that really mattered to Trafford
the slant-armed chair as Fayle's recital
Iimped to its climax. after a while
Magda came to-"
Magda's look said, as plainly as q
look could say, that when she had Of
fered to pay with her own blood for the
blood she believed she had shed, the
stone had been rolled away from be-
fore the tomb of her heart; that from
this moment she could take and exult
in life and love, as destiny might offer.
THE END
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for good; no chance of having her 60
away from me, or being taken away
from me--by. somebody like you, for
instance, Mister Trafford;" and Fayle
bowed mock-elaborately.
Magda's-well, her knight; without the
armor, of course, but her knight just
the same. Protecting her against the
world; against people, and peoples ly-
ing, gossipy tongues; against everybody
a az a, everything a;5i that can hurt anybody
Perfectly worthy ambition" Judd
Cowles encouraged.
did make one mistake. I underestimated
Magda's ability to take care of her
self. Never thought she'd be strong
enough to do Just what she did-turn
her aunt's estate into cash after the
trial, and leave that little town for
good. I thought If she had death on
her soul, on her heart, she'd need me.
But-she didn't"
Fayle came perilously close to hys-
composure in second or two. He was
helped by Trafford's "Ah, now we're
getting to it,
Yes. we are" he said. 1.-THE whole
idea flashed into my mind when I
went into the old lady's sickroom that
afternoon and saw-oh, why cut it
short? Magda didn't kill her aunt,
though I suppose it's perfectly true, as
she testified, that she thought of doing
it when she took the kitchen knife to
the bedroom. And didn't kill the old
lady, either. The old lady killed her
The room had been quiet before.
Now, the silence seemed so intense as
to exclude some of the faint dawn
noises OF the city outside.
Fayle went on after a moment: IT
saw Magda's aunt ramming the knife
into her own throat, just as I opened
the sickroom door. I waited several
seconds thought at first she was TAX
ing some kind of medicine; then, when
her hands fell away and the knife
handle stuck up from her throat, !
stood awhile longer, because this plan
of mine was jumping into my head. It
was too late to do anything for the
old lady, anyway"
But you did do something about
Magda," Trafford said.
eyes, did do something about Mag
da. She was sitting slumped over in a
chair by the bed, in a dead faint. It
was plain to see what had happened
The old lady had seen the knife, before
Magda tainted in the chair, or after,
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Fayle's grooming voice stopped short
mere, his mouth swapping shut almost
WIN click. Plainly terrified, he looked
apout him. His sudden alarm gave
Eayle's grasp and sank into a deep.
slant armed chair a few feet away.
Irafford knew he would never forget
the face the girl turned toward him,
whose life she believed she had offered
her own life to save.
Trafford spoke sharply: you'll tell
Judd Cowles seized Trafford's cue,
as Judd seized all cues. He whipped his
pistol about, and trained it on Fayle's
right eye. His gun hands pretended
Wabbling, gave way to the steadiness Of
a concrete gun emplacement.
drunk" Cowles said. Answer Traf-
ford's questions"
At that, Fayle began to break. His
fingers searched futilely for the door,
knob behind him, then gave up the
search; his forehead took on moist
simmer in the indirect lighting of the
but not to Hugh Trafford. Fayle adj
dressed the girl in the slant-armed
chair.
What he said was: "Well, anyway,
Magda, didn't do it either"
Magda looked up at him in bewilder-
why, of course you didn't, Ad," she
said. Il did. Must have. But, do you
know, don't feel so terrible about it
all now, somehow"
Trafford knew why that was, or
thought he knew. He would tell her
later on, no doubt. Just now there were
other foxes to run to ground.
He moved toward Adams Fayle, in
the quietly menacing manner he so
came for the last shattering questions
on cross-eNamination.
IF you didn't do it either Fayle,
to use your own very interesting word,
then who did do it?" Trafford strobe
toward Fayle until his chin was within
three inches of Fayle's chin, then halt
ed ed He spoke quietly 1IJ though meyer r rai
Deane's aunt, Fayle? And since of
course that's what you and Miss Deane
were discussing just now. You were the
only person to see the old lady die.
You testified at the trial that you saw
Miss Deane rising from the bedside with
the bloody knife in her hand. Now, you
let slip remark which indicates that
you lied at the trial; lied about every
body concerned" Trafford paused i'm
pressively. II want the truth, Fayle."
When at last the truth that he has
been hiding is dragged out of him,
every man tells it in his own way. Some
go into Mysteries, some into rage, some
into joyously defiant believing of
everything they know-plus. Adams
Fayle's was the deadly quiet way; the
way of the constitutionally sullen, pos
sessive, crafty man. He merely shifted
to a somewhat more comfortable po-
sition against the door, and began to
talk in a hard, cold voice.
"You can put down the gun now, Mr.
Cowles," he said first; and Judd Cowles
complied. Thanks" Fayle acknowledge
ed; then went into his story, his slight
ly too square and slightly too handsome
jaw set.
"The only explanation can Offer"
he said, "is that a man in love some
times does peculiar things. Builds up
strange ideas about the-the woman.
And suppose built up as strange an
idea about Magda as anybody could.
It's been surprising me more and more,
ever since the trial"
Lets have it," Trafford prompted.
"Oh-yes. Well, you see, + wanted
Magda, desperately. And I wanted her
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Masda Deaney Case 2
REUBEN MAURY

Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate.
PART TWO
couple Of hours, at the Broadway sup
per club which was currently utilizing
the smallest number Of young ladies
for the exhibition Of the largest acre
age Of bare skin.
The main action Of the little drama
was not to take place until after all
this; 1t was to be staged In the living
lininaries called for Cowles and Traf-
ford to carry on all evening q pretended
and unexplained quarrel.
In the party, besides Magda, Fayle,
CoWleS and Trafford, there were only
two other persons: friend of Cowles
named Allison Taylor, and Taylor's
wife.
you're Just extras, props" Cowles
had told the Taylors beforehand.
We're depending on you merely for
some heavy showing Of excitement, hor-
ror, alarm. But don't do anything, such
as grabbing my gun arm or calling the
police, whatever happens"
There was no mystery all evening
about what Fayle had in his mind, The
tall, medium fair young man, with the
sl.riily heavy good looks and the din
ner coat that didn't fit too snugly, had
never married, and had remained in
business in the upstate town which
Magda had fled.
Plainly enough, he was still much
interested in the girl. Quite as plainly,
he had joined the party tonight chiefly
in hope of finding out whether Magda
was interested in either Cowles or Traf-
ford. Fayle kept both men under q
constant corner-of- the-eye survefl-
ance which they would have found eX-
tremely CALLING if they had not had
their pretended quarrel to occupy their
minds.
The quarrel produced the desired eff
feet on Magda Deane. Wearing black
lace gown that set off her bright COM
plexion wildly, she began the evening
as the girl Trafford had come to love
gracious, interested, interesting.
And so, in the fullness of time and
the almost rural hush of New York at
certain hour before dawn, the little
party filed into Cowles' living room.
Like the consultation room, this one
was furnished in the modern style
chrome cleaned unexpectedly here and
there, intriguing lines and angles led
the eye in geometrical dance around
the room.
Cowles' man servant, a discreet per-
son who had been told of the plan the
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American and English visiting ath-
letes wanted storks in Olympic Village.
Danes wanted rabbits. Swedes asked
for swans and ducks. The Berlin ZOO
satisfied all-turning loose many vari-
cites of animals in the village.
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Until reorganization and enlargement
were effected in 1921, the Imperial
japanese naval air service was vastly
inferior to that of other powers. It Is
now among the leaders.
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It has been estimated that losses Of
milk bottles by theft and breakage in
London alone cost more than $62 600
annually,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-06
Other Editors Say
ANOTHER STEP FORWARD
lWaII Street Inurnan

The question of more adequately enlghten-
ing stockholders contemplated actions OF the
directors when management asks for proxies is
now being studied by the SEC Certainly the
nature of the idea itself is good, as is all devel-
opment Of corporate policy or regulation which
tends toward greater information for stockhold-
ers. If the SEC tackles this proposal with the
moderation which has been characteristic Of
most of its actions, there seems no real reason
why its interest in the matter should be op-
posed.
There may be a genuine doubt as to whether
such action should be induced by govern
mental regulation or by the spontaneous exer-
ton of stockholders themselves. theoretically,
there seems little reason to compel manage
ments the agents Of stockholders, TO give great
er account Of their past future actions than
the stockholders themselves require. If the
stockholders are sufficiently concerned with the
matter a few energetic protests might bring
about the desired reforms without the necessity
of governmental action. Or so it would seem.
As a practical matter, however, stockholders
even if dissatisfied unlikely TO take any
action on their own initiative. Obviously the
thousands and in some instances hundreds of
thousands of owners of given corporation are
likely TO be neither so well informed nor so in
sistent as to start the ball rolling. In reality
the SEC may be presumed TO be acting in behalf
OF all stockholders and taking action OF which
the overwhelming majority would approve
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-06
Bruce Cation Says:>
How One Book Helped Bring on World War

nese. In England it was hailed as
the bible of imperialism. The
German Kaiser ordered every Of
ficer in his navy to read it; the
japanese mikado did the same. All
across the globe this book persuad-
ed soldiers and statesmen that
they could buy national Sc
curity only at the price of big nav
les.
So the great, worldwide naval
race that led up to 1914 was begun.
There were other factors involved,
of course; but it is hardly going too
far to say that it was Mahan who
touched it off. He provided the
naturalization of this impulse to-
ward bigger naval armaments; he
it was who persuaded the nations
of the earth that they needed more
battleships.
In 1889 the United States had no
battleships. In 1896 it had four a
float and eight more under con-
struction. England's naval budget
had gone up from 65,000,000
year to $160000,000. Germany's
had doubled. And the great powers
as a group England, America,
Russia, Germany, Austria, France,
Italy, and JAPAN which had
spent a total of $190000000 on
their navies in 1889, were spending
$685. 100000 by 1913.
To say that Mahan caused the
World War would be absurd. To
say that he started the naval race
which helped cause the war is no
more than the truth.
So much can be accomplished by
a genius who sits down to write a
book!
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-06
4 TRUTH TOO MANY
OF US FORGET

Ne6S Miller, writing in his book. 81
Found No Peace" has re-discovered a
truth that is as old as mankinds oldest
book, and as true today as it was in the
days before history 1t is this: that
friendship begets friends.
Miller describes himself in his early
days of newspaper reporting as young
man exceptionally shy of other people,
almost afraid to meet his fellows. Then,
gradually, he discovered that people
liked him if he liked them. 1t was as
simple as that.
Many of us who believe that we are
unpopular because of some mysterious
force in ourself or in Others or because
we cannot play the piano or whistle or
sing or dance, or for host of other
reasons, would reap high profits if only
we made the same discovery that moved
Webb Miller, the famous European cor
respondent. He made himself like peo-
pie, and they in turn liked him. In lik-
ing them he became interested in them,
and they returned the interest.
Popularity comes more from within
than from without. The world has not
time to be interested in persons who
make no effort to be interested in the
world, but retire into their moody selves
in state of self-pity or self-contain-
ment.
If you want popularity, remember
Webb Miler's discovery: If you like
people, they will like you.
The newspaper writer, psychologist
that he has become through close appli-
cation, might have made the same dis
covery by another method, if he had
analyzed the greatest book ever written.
The Bible gives sound advice, based or
sound psychology, when it says:
Love Thy Neighbor."
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-06
THE BEST WAY TO STABILIZE
THE MELON MARKET

Melons. along with other perishable
crops, have always been more or less of
a gamble for the grower and shipper.
In a good season, profits are mountain
Gus. In a poor season, the loss can be
just as startling Fluctuating markets
are largely to blame.
For years, produce men have sought
some way to take most of the gamble
out of the melon deal. Pro-ratlng and
every other means of control have been
tried, with some success. The market,
it has been found can be controlled par
tially-but only partially # from the
shipping end.
At the other end is another problem.
This problem is the one now attacked
by the Western Growers Protective asso-
ciation-and the method of attack prom
ises that results will go long way to-
wards regulating the market. Happily,
regulation will not be through curtailed
production, but through increased con-
sumption. Advertising provides the We
hicle for moving the crop to greater
profits.
An advertising campaign, waged in
tensivelv for three or four months Of
the season throughout Ia of the biggest
marketing centers, will sell the ultimate
consumers on the idea that melons are
good food Those who have studied ad-
vertising methods and their results look
confidently for an increase in the size
of the melon market.
The idea is not an untried one. 1t was
inaugurated during the last lettuce sea-
son, and the lettuce market remained
good throughout the season.
1t will be interesting-and perhaps
enlightening TO many business men, to
watch this seasons melon market.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-06
AND NOW, TELEGRAMS
ON WHEELS

Throughout history, civilization has
expanded as communications were I'M
proved 1t is long cry from carrier
pigeons and signal fires to the wireless
and radio of today, but the march Of
improvement has not yet reached
halt
In the little things, we often see the
forerunner of new developments in many
branches of science More often than
not they are the reflection of an in
creasing public demand for better facili-
ties, a demand which is likely to bring
about still greater improvements OF
which we do not yet dream.
Such a comparatively minor addition
TO the science of communication IS seen
in the recent announcement that one
large telegraph company has equipped
and placed in operation telegraph offices
on wheels-that is, offices housed in
trailers that can be moved easily from
place to place Their worth was demon
strated in the middle-western floods Of
several weeks ago, and are shown every
day at the scenes of greater events,
where news is flashed to the four cor
ners of the world without moments
delay.
AS speed of travel and communica-
ton brings the nations Of the world ever
closer together. the interest aroused in
the doings of other peoples forces ever
greater speed in the sending of mes
sages.
What manner of transmitting news
will be derived because of the increas-
ing demand is still to be seen,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-06
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

Burton Holmes is among the in
creasing number of kimono addictS
about his apartment. He receives
guests so clad as do Roy Howard
and numerous others who have
spent much time in the Far East.
Noel Coward goes in for kimonos
when turning out a play and SO does
Cole Porter when in the throes
of tune tinkering. Adolph Menjou
has notable supply. A department
store has opened o mans kimono
section.
Noel Coward's collapse which
closed his box office hit has long
been predicted not only by his
physicians but his friends. For five
years now he has been burning the
candle at both ends with his the
atrical flic FLAG. He likes to ride a
success only for a quick gallop and
then swing to fresh mount. He is
so buzZy with ideas that he sleeps
only few hours nightly. Now he
must have absolute rest for year.
He is in his early thirties a mill
ionaire. And they say is becoming
tired of it all.
90
A page boy in flosSy hotel tells
me one Of his steady sources of in
come is from a philanderer for
whom he poses as an office boy
over the phone to the mans wife.
Once or twice a week the philan-
derer and a charmer drop into one
of the hotels tea rooms where the
page is stationed. When he sees
them he Immediately goes to the
phone to announce to the wife it
was her husbands office and he
had been detained and would not
be home for dinner. New York!
The busman's holiday idea is
strikingly illustrated at the Kit Kat
club-currently in favor as an early
morning rendezvous where, as Va
riety headlines Low songs WOW
high hats" A large percentage OF
the customers are projectors of
other night clubs who flock there
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-06

NEW YORK, Apr. 6.-Achieve-
ments of deafened have proved that
this affliction is not always a hand
leap. The most conspicuous example
of course, is the late Thomas A.
Edison. Indeed, many believe deaf
ness is a spur to successful endeav-
or. 1t has chivvied many out Of ruts.
Young Howard Hughes, who has
proved the most recent spectacular
pilot of the skies, can scarcely hear
the roar of his engines. And his
illustrious uncle Rupert is lip
reader always in high demand in
the literary martS and as public
orator. And is an accomplished
musician.
Royal Brown, who turns out such
fascinating love idylls, is stone deaf.
Rex Cole, the refrigerator tycoon,
is partially deaf and the late editor
Ray Long could not hear in one
ear. And IdWal Jones, who writes
such beautiful prose, is also an ear
cupper.
There are many more notable ex-
amples. Such as Marconi and Ellen
Glasgow, the novelist. Actors like
especially to perform for the hard
of hearing because they are re-
putedly not only the most attentive
but the most appreciative of humor
and dramatic skill.
Candour in a Bronx bakery: "Pies
like mother used to make cents.
Pies like mother used 10 try to
make-10 cents"
The three-cent hash houses on
the Bowery have no squeamishness
among customers. In surroundings
repulsive to the average diner, the
outcaSts m oStly mendicants-
eat and with apparent gusto. There
is sawdust on the floor and ceilings
are often crawling blanket of cock
reaches. Menus are frosted on the
windows and a filling meal may be
secured for IL cents. Nobody talks
or removes his hat in the hash
house. The walters are smudgy
aproned beetle browed-and one
cheep from a customer and out he
goes on his ear A man who owns
chain of these cheap eateries is
said TO live in Splendor uptown. He
was pointed out to me lunching at
the Ritz one day.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-06
NOTICE OF EXECUTORS SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
Probate No. 2740

fTODate ND. Et4U
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT or
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL
In the Matter of the Estate of
EDWARD E. FOSTER,
Deceased.
Under and by virtue of the pro-
visions of Section 754 and Sections
78O and 1872 of the Probate Code of
State of California, and by virtue
of my appointment as Executor un-
der the will of the above named
decedent;
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
that on Wednesday, the 14th day
of April, 1887, at the hour of 10
o'clock AM, the undersigned Exc
cutter will at private sale, sell all the
right, title and interest of said
decedent and of the estate of dece-
dent above named, in and to the
following described real property,
to-wit:
South Half $50 of Tract No.
159, in Township Is South,
Range 13 E., S.B.M, containing
81 acres of land according to
the U. S. Government re-survey.
Bids or offers must be in writing
and may be left at No. 442 Main
Street, in the City of Ell Centre,
Imperial County, California, or de-
liyered to said Executor at the above
designated address, or may be filed
in the office of the County Clerk
of the County of Imperial, Califor-
MIA, in the Court House in the City
of FL Centro, California, at any
time after the first publication of
this Notice.
Said sale will take place at No.
442 Main Street, in the City of Ell
Centro, California, the office of
said Executor
DATED: March 25, 1897
w. j. MEAGER,
Executor of the Estate of Edward
f. Foster, deceased.
FRANK BfRKHAUSFR.
Attorney for Executor.
m28-all incl
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-06

A great many different kinds OF
men help to shape history-invent-
ors. soldiers, statesmen, economists
and industrialists. But strangest
and most far-reaching of all is the
contribution occasionally made by
the man who writes book.
The publishing house OF Little,
Brown t& Co, in Boston, is celebrat-
ing its centennial this year, and
in its records there is the story OF
how one man-whom most Amer
leans. by this time, have complete
ly forgotten helped to bring on
the World War.
This man was Rear Admiral AL
fred Mahan. of the us. Navy. He
died in 1914 just as the war was
getting under way; but it was back
In 1890, when he was a captain,
that he brought out a book called
The Influence of Sea Power on
History
Now here was a book to which
the ordinary reading public paid
lIulC dUltllblOll. IL Woo lioJ es 1oP
ular" work; if the average reader
passed it up in favor of the latest
novel, he could hardly be blamed,
But it had a tremendous influence.
Captain Mahans thesis was that
the all-important factor in ma
tons rise to greatness. Control
of the sea won wars, he asserted,
even when the army got the credit.
Napoleon's grand army, he re-
marked, never even saw the Brit
iish fleet-but in the end it was
the British fleet, and not the ar
mics of the coalition, that caused
Napoleon's downfall.
The influence of this book was
worldwide. 1t was quickly trans
lated into German, French, Rus
sian, Spanish, Italian, and Japa-