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followed now. They'll take your
number down unless you watch out.
All you officers believe, because
your uniform was made in London,
that you've only got to call the po-
lice and"
Shut up"
"AIl right, strafe me! That's the
Army for you. I'm not Army. I'm
an underpaid civilian supernumer-
airy. Sack me if you want to.
O'Leary resumed his discourse:
'EThen believe this: while you was
performing an officers job WI a
banjo and a beauty, sat thirsty
by the campfire, so the smoke nd
keep the shelters off me, hoping for
one O. my spies to show up. But
came along man I don't know.
Crep' up surreptitious. Spoke Pun
iabi, mispronouncing it. It weren't
his right language. Says he: How
much?"
Gave you money!"
mot one annai He wanted to
know your price to side with the
priests against the Maharajah."
What did you tell hin?"
Nothing"
What did you do?"
''He was gone too quick. missed
him with the new iron skillet what
the cook had stuck to clean itself
among the embers. Damned nigh
red-hot. If I'd hit him, he'd ha'
sizzled. Point is that whoever sent
him will be figuring they tried the
wrong diplomacy. Next thing, knife
or bullet. Dodge EN- and look out
for poison. Make the cook taste
everything and then bury the cook.
From now on, eat nothing. Even
whiskey amt safe. They can drill
and plug the bottle; but it kills more
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THE STORY THUS FAR


Lynn At banquet that night the palace attended by Captain Nor
violently
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comforting thar ground glass or
bamboo fiber. The priests know you
dined at the palace tonight. They're
dead sure the Maharajah creased
your palm. WelI-there's where the
dump is. 'Tain't safe to go closer"
''Wait here" said Norwood.
O'Leary picked up a stick. He
Swallowed Norwood along the foot
path, until Norwood peered beneath
the waterfall. He had to stand on
slippery ledge of rock. As O'Lea-
~ had foretold, the moons rays did
wanly penetrate, but it was torch
light that revealed the tunnel-mouth.
Norwood stood there for several
minutes watching spectral figures
dump blue clay from baskets, to be
carried away by the river.
Look out!' yelled O'Leary.
Norwood jumped. A living cobra,
flung by an unseen hand, struck his
face-fen g-struck-missed
Norwood almost fell into the pool
beneath the waterfall, but O'Leary
crashed him, showed, almost fell in,
too, but scrambled-regained his
footing-attacked the cobra-beat it
with the long stick, slew it.
Now are you satisfied Lied to
you, did I? Going on in through the
hole, or acting sensible? Want to
know how it feels to be pitched
In the dark down diamond mine?"
Back to camp" said Norwood.
Thank you, III take whiskeyl
Watch your step, and watch your
Uncle Moses. If signal, don't call
me liar, duck quickl"
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FIJI Fingerprints You and Me;
Over Million Already Stamped

NIASHINGTON.- Last year
w in Des Moines, Ia, an auto
crash victim was identified at
the morgue by four reputable
citizens. The mourners had
barely assembled before finger
prints checked in Washington
with the federal bureau of in
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more months probation left, and she
must make up her mind very soon.
There's a lot at stake.
As shown in the chart below, the
United States has been supplying
Nippon more than half her imported
materials of war. An embargo
would not prevent continuance of
the conflict against China land the
sub rosa war with Russia) but it
would put a serious crimp in ia
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CHAPTER VI

Norwood changed into khaki and
followed O'Leary's lantern. O'Leary
was nervous, laxative, deliberately
disrespectful. Being only one-tnird
Irish, two-thirds of his turbulence
was assumed, not genuine. How
ever, Norwood understood that.
Someone" said O'Leary, must
have overheard us talking near the
palace gate. was followed to camp.
Heard him. Couldn't see him. We're
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Pretty for afternoon
Or to Wear at Home

THE dress with shirring on the
l shoulders and sleeve tops is a
charming, soft fashion for after
moons. No. 1895 gives you an un-
usually nice fgure-line-rounded
above and very slim at the waist
line and hips, because the pam
eled skirt is cut high and beauti-
fully fitted. This is very easy to
make. Choose georgette, chiffon
or silk crepe.
For the Young Girl.
No. 1898 is perfect dream Of a
dress for slim young girls, who
look especially sweet in high neck
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As foster-mother, Aunty Deborah
Harding had neglected no detail of
Lynn's social education. Whatever
Lynn did, she did well. She had
been taught to ride perfectly. On
one Of the Maharajah's thorough
breds, Ii the early morning cool,
she looked worthy of the splendid
animal that she controlled with no
visible effort. Lynn, the mystic In
dian daybreak and the vigor of her
motion through the long mauve
shadows, were all one merriment
to make a mans eyes widen and
his heart leap.
One could recognize Rundhia from
a mile of by the way he swung his
right arm at the trot, an uncon-
scious habit that II had been no.
body's business to tell him about.
But Rundhia could ride, too. They
were pair to stop and gaze at.
Lynn seemed to have forgotten
the previous nights disagreement.
She appeared glad to see Norwood:
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Germany for these war materials,
because all those nations are utiliZ-
ing every resource In their own re-
armament programs. The new pact
with Germany, signed in direct re-
taliation against the United States
the cay after the 1911 treaty was alb
rogated, carries little economic
weight.
Japan Buys Material.
Scrap iron is not the only ma
terial at stake. Often forgotten are
Japan's heavy purchases of Ameri-
can machinery for manufacturing
war materials. These purchases
have been especially heavy the past
two years and a few months ago
s85 ,227 900 in gold was shipped from
Tokyo to the United States for addi-
tional machinery which will take al
most year to fabricate If the
embargo is placed in effect before
this machinery is finished, delivery
will be blocked. In itself a serious
blow to Japan, the shock would be
doubly hard because the new parts
are designed to supplement what
she has already installed.
Several things might happen be-
fore next January; the burden rests
with Japan, not with Washington.
The optimistic viewpoint is that
Americas embargo threat will slim
ulate hasty completion of the war
in China, whereupon Japan would
feel free to relax and again seek
the good graces of western nations
Or, she may suddenly sue for peace
on the best possible terms.
Japan May Get Angry
And here's the pessimistic view
point: The American abrogation,
which President Roosevelt has
termed an act short of war;" may
be considered not so short by ia
pan. Cock-sure, maddened or des-
perate-one way or another-she
might decide the United States ac-
ton warrants hostilities.
But japanese are smart. Though
their militaristic leaders plunge
heedlessly into war, scofing at con-
sequences, the mine-run Tokyo bust
nessman will think twice. He will
recall that in 1929 American pur-
chases reached a peak of S431 ,973,-
600. By 1887, thanks to Americas
distaste for japanese aggression,
this had been cut in half-to S204,-
201, 900. Last year these exports
dropped still more.
Reaction in q. S.
Most important to Americans is
another question: Would we suffer
by placing an embargo against ia
pan?
Agriculturally speaking, no. Al
though japan was once our best cot
ton customer, the shift from COM
mercial to arms staples has brought
a steady decline in fiber exports.
In the first five months of 1897 ia
pan bought 500, 900 bales. In 1888,
for the same period, only All, 900
bales were shipped This year it
dropped to $50, 900 bales.
Restricted exports to Japan would
inevitably mean restricted imports
as well, and it is here that Japa-
nese trade would suffer most heav-
lily. Silk, once in heavy demand
by the United States, has already
become drug on the market even
though American manufacturers
took $50, 000, 900 in the first FIVE
months of 1889.
Such is the import of Secretary
HulPs pre-emptory treaty abroga-
ton. In six months We'll probably
know the outcome.
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u. S. Loads Japan's Guns

following abuaon United States
Chinese Council Amer
exports Japan
Figures for 1888
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Know ThYSelf
NERVOUS?

Do you feel 50 nervous you want to screamf
Are you cross and irritable? Do you scoid
those dearest to you?
II your nerves are on edge and you feel
you need a good general system tonic, try
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
made especially for icomen.
For over so years one woman has told an
other how to go smiling thru" with relia bic
Pinkham's Compound. It helps nature build
up more physical resistance and thus helps
calm quivering nerves and lessen discomforts
from annoying symptoms which often ac-
company female functional disorders
Why not give it q chance to help YOU7
Over one million women have written IN
reporting wonderful benefits from Pinkham's
Compound.
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search. Mr.. Roosevelt's instinct for
collecting has been responsible. He
has chung to every scrap and shred
of Recommendation, ranging from his
torical parchments to his own lit
tie inter-office conversations.
Also housed there VIII be the
Presidents unusual naval collection.
including models, prints and books.
He hopes members of his cabinet
win also donate their papers.
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corning his wartime experience as
assistant secretary of navy, his lat
er career as governor of New York,
and-most important-as President.
Setting precedent which has
drawn considerable criticism, the IL
brary win nevertheless preserve
documents which, IN previous eras,
were allowed to wander into private
hands, from where they could never
be reassembled for historical re-
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lines, roundly pulled sleeves,
softly bloused bodice and very
fiaring skirt. Little bows and a
sash add TO its futtery charm.
Dimity, organdy, taffeta and dot
ted swiss are especially pretty for
this. Later on it viii be lovely In
thin wool
The Patterns.
No. 1895 is designed for sizes 81,
SO, SO. 40, a, A, 46 and 48. Size
SO requires, with short sleeves, 5
yards of 39-inch material; 5iz
yards with long sleeves.
No. 1898 is designed for sizes 8,
10, Il, IA and 16 years. Size 10
requires 312 yards of 35-inch ma
terial; 212 yards of ribbon for sash
and 21z yards for little bows.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept, Room 1924.
I'll w. Wacker Dr., Chicago, Ill.
Price of patterns, Is cents Gin
coinS) each.
Bell Syndicate-WNU ServiceJ
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Fingerprint expert at federal
bureau of Investigation in Wash
ington examines files from the
bureaus records.
vestigation proved the repu-
table citizens to be wrong. The
mourners went home happy.
About the same time, the
body of a woman, decom-
posed to the point where iden-
LITIGATION was impossible, was iden-
titled by fngerprints as that of a
former government employee, lead
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pans plans. In the first place, she
cannot turn to Britain, France or
Germany for these war materials,
because all those nations are utiliz-
ing every resource in their own re-
armament programs. The new pact
with Germany, signed in direct re-
taliation against the United States
the Cay after the 1911 treaty was abb
rogated, carries little economic
weight.
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United States figure for 1888 includes ship
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-09-14

U. S. sentiment against Hitler, con-
founding isolationists by making the
nation a virtual silent ally of the
allies. Should enough American
non-combatants be killed via tor
pedoes, the flame of 1916 and 1917
might again blot out reason. Hence
the President urged the U. S. to
weigh it's facts with care.
The End?
Next to neutrality, the most moot
question among Americans con-
Germs the eventual end of hoStilities.
No longer does anyone but a fanat-
ical anti-German see justice in the
Versailles treaty of 20 years ago,
which wrung likelihood from the
Reich and placed it in such dire
straits that a Hitler was welcomed
with open arms. But will Versailles
be repeated?
Unless Russia jumps to Ger
many's aid, unless Mussolini and
Franco junk their apparent neutral
ity, war to the end would prob
ably find Germany collapsing under
economic stress. Hitler No. would
be vanquished, but can anything
short of another peace without hon.
or" (such as Woodrow Wilson sug-
gested) keep a Hitler No. 2 from
rising out of the ruins?
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Iessly exterminated lest they prove
a burden during evacuation. Said
one weeping pet owner: cts a
damn shame. 1t ought to be Hitler
on the end of this leash
Such was the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
background for war. Since 1886 he
had accepted its inevitability, yet
the awful reality of legalized brute
force somehow left him benumbed.
He watched without passion as Brit
aims popular Winston Churchill and
Anthony Eden-both foes of APP
peasement - were given cabinet
posts to solidify public sentiment.
He slowly built a halo around the
head of Prime Minister Chamber
lain, whose frantic umbrella waving
of the past two years had at least
postponed the war. He may have
wept over the news that French
troops marched to the front sal
most tenderly," hating war yet fer
vent in their ambition to smash
Hitler and all that he represents. I"
But as such things happen, Brit
ish and French men-on-the-street
were whipped into war frenzy the
next morning. Steaming to Mon
treal, the liner Athena was torpe-
decd off Ireland with 1,450 refugee
passengers aboard, providing
enough provocation to make even
the "tender" French soldiers hate
Germans in general as well as Der
Fuehrer. Paris and London heard
Polish civilians were suffering
''frightfully" as Adolf Hitler headed
for the eastern front and the first
major battle, just getting under
way in Upper Silesia.
After two days of fighting" the
World war of 1889 had developed
into a decidedly unorthodox conflict.
British warplanes flew over Nurem-
berg but dropped nothing heavier
than propaganda leaflets urging the
German people to discard Der
Fuehrer. Nazi anti-aircraft guns
failed to bark back. The same day
French soldiers on the Maginot line
were reported to have set placards
atop their pillboxes, carrying this
message to German soldiers in the
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THE WAR:
Good Start

II regret that after 1000 years Of man
kind, Sunday morning should find the
prime minister in the position OF annOunc-
ing that men are on the ere OF living like
beasts" .,
Such were the sentiments of John
McGovern, leader of parliament's
independent labor party. His was
the lone dissent that fateful morn
ing when Neville Chamberlain, his
peace efforts at a hopeless end, de-
clared war on Germany. A few
hours later France followed suit and
by nightfall most of the British en-
pire was also in line. By that time
the rest of the world clamored to
declare its neutrality.
Too busy was Neville Chamber
lain to notice that Barbara Hutton
Reventlow fed the romantic isle of
Capri, or that American radio spon-
sors were about to complain over
too many program Interruptions for
CHS and NBC news bulletins. Nor
did he notice that thousands of Lon
don's pet dogs and cats were pain
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Chronology

These t0ere the epents and dates that
led to t0dr in 1889:
AUGUST 81 - German-Soviet
non-aggression pact announced,
day after trade pact is signed.
AUGUST % - Hitler expands
demands on Poland, which are
refused. ......
AUGUST % - Hitler outlines
policy to French Premier Dalai
der.
AUGUST % - Britain stands
firm on negotiation for all points.
AUGUST 1880 - Notes ex-
changed, but peace dwindles.
AUGUST 81 - Hitler invades
Poland without declaring war.
SEPTEMBER France, Brit
ain send ultimatums, demanding
Germany withdraw troops from
Poland.
SEPTEMBER 3-Receiving no
answer, Britain declares war at
II a. m, France following at S
p. m.
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POLITICS:
Neutrality

Well remembered in Washington
is the hot July night Franklin Roose-
welt called the senate foreign rela-
tons committee into his White
House Oval room, discovered he
had insufficient votes to force a
change in the present neutrality
law, and sent the senators away
with acknowledgment that full re-
sponsibility for the failure" rested
on their shoulders.
Even better remembered is the
August day at Hyde Park when
Franklin Roosevelt TRADED against
an adjourned congress, pointing out
it had made two enormous bets:
Cd that his lend-spend bill was need
less because private enterprise
could do the job alone; (2) that no
neutrality revision was needed, be-
cause there would be no war in
Europe before next January when
congress meets again.
BY September l, four months be-
fore the next normal session, the
President might have boasted that
congress had already lost one bet.
There was war in Europe (See Col
un,n One), which gave Mr.. Roose-
welt and Secretary of State Corden
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hints l have found in your articles
and books. Thank you so much
for all of theme. H"
Here is the picture of the curved
needle used to sew bright con-
trasting cord to an upholstered
couch. 1t is a useful tool when
you are sewing to fabric that IS
stretched tightly. Everyone who
finds pleasure in making a home
attractive needs to know these lit
tie tricks that give work a prOfes-
sional touch.
Original ideas with complete di-
rections for slipcovers; draPeries
and other furnishings are in the
new Sewing Book No. 3. Every
homemaker should have a copy;
as well as everyone who likes 10
make gifts, and items for bazaars-
The price is only 10 cents post
paid. Send coin with name and
address to Mrs. Spears, 30 S. Des-
PLANES ST., Chicago, Ill
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ASIA:
about Face

Most embarrassed by Russia's
non-aggression treaty with Adolf
Hitler were Communists in other
lands, who talked themselves silly
trying to justify their new bedfellow,
socialism. Second greatest embar-
rassment fell to Japan, which only
a few weeks ago was busy insulting
U. S., British and French interests
in the Orient. Confident of her anti
Commitern pact with Italy and Ger
many, still more confident after she
signed trade treaty with Germany,
Tokyo suddenly found herself friend
less when the Reich adopted Com
rade Stain.
Highly nervous was the Japanese
press as European hostilities got
underway. While war planes con-
tinued to bomb Chungking in an eff
fort to close the Chinese war
promptly, the Tokyo cabinet sat in
extraordinary session.
Splendid isolation" was the ad-
vice of Tokyo newspapers, but there
was good evidence Japan was will
ing to turn about and WOO for
democracies' friendship.
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Hull severe headache. Under the
present neutrality law, they had no
alternative but to declare an en-
barge on implements of war" for
belligerents. Just as good neu-
trality, in the eyes of Messrs. Roose-
welt, Hull and Sen. Key Pittman,
chairman of the senate committee,
is the "cash-and-carry" variety un-
der which any belligerent able to
reach a u. S. port could buy and
carry off all the implements of
war" he wanted.
Not at all impossible as war broke
out was the special congressional
session Mr.. Roosevelt has long
threatened in such an eventuality.
But if he thought congress would
give him free hand, indeed, if he
thought this free hand might help
him keep the U. S. out of war and
thus pave the way for third term
in 1910, he was badly mistaken.
Gallup polls of public sentiment
found such an assumption wrong on
two counts:
ID Last April a Gallup poll
showed 81 per cent favoring a
change in neutrality. By early Sep
TENDER it had dropped to so per
cent, indicating the nation was less
and less sure that the administra-
ton is right.
(2) Also in early September, an
yoo1 CHI II 81
vored a special congressional ses-
sion in case of war, comments re-
vealing that the public would feel
"safer" that way. Whether this
sentiment discredited the Presi-
dents ability, constituted a vote of
confidence in his rebellious con-
gress, neither, or both, was any
body's guess.
Emphatically minus political i'm
port, however, were the steps Mr..
Roosevelt took. Clamped down i'm
mediately was the arms embargo.
Confscated were the passports of
all Americans returning from Eu-
rope, while the state department
terminated all u. S. tourist travel
to the continent. Belatedly came the
official proclamation of American
neutrality. Next day the navy de-
partment pondered the advisability
of assigning naval conveys to mer-
chantmen Transporting U. S. citi-
zens from war zones. At the same
time Attorney General Frank Muir
ply began seeking ways to tighten
statutes regulating profiteering dur
ing war time. Still to come were
new farm policies to deal with the
new situation, though an advisory
council was being formed.
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the Baltic end of the Corridor, IA
miles west of Danzig. In is years
it has grown from a fishing village
to a modern city of IS, 900 people. Its
commerce places it among the six
leading ports of continental Europe
well ahead of Danzig
KRAKOW (CRACOW): Leading
city of southwest Poland and the
country's fifth largest. A railroad
junction at the head of navigation
on the Wisla river, on a trade route
used to carry Baltic amber to an
cient Rome.
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ST PRUSSIA.

south of East Prussia.
CORRIDOR: The Polish Corridor
is a strip IS miles long, varying in
width from 20 to IS miles, which
separates Germany from Danzig
and East Prussia. 1t joins inland
Poland with the vital new port OF
Gdynia on the country's 88 miles of
curved Baltic seacoast. Three
fourths of Poland's foreign trade is
shipped through the Corridor.
GDYNIA: The new Polish port at
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New Easy Flow Type
Wire Cable Invented

NEW YORK-Research work with
complex mathematical equations at
the u. S. bureau of standards has
resulted in the development of
new "easy flow" type wire cable for
use in ignition equipment. Using
steel wire in place of the traditional
copper wire, the Washington Insti-
tute of Technology produced wire
cable with minimum resistance and
''low capacitance."
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The technologists based their ex-
periments with the new wire on a
series of mathematical studies COM
pleted by DR.. Melville A. Peters,
bureau of standards physicist.
The new ignition wire gives hot
ter, faster spark which lasts longer,
thus cutting down on the amount of
current necessary to start a gaso-
line engine. The navy used the new
wire for two years in naval aircraft,
and found it so satisfactory the wire
until recently was kept on the navy's
secret list.
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Polish Towns Now in War News Are Listed

Here is a thumbnail gazetteer of
Poland prepared by the National
Geographic society. Listed are a
few of the important cities and
places now in the news from
Europe.
WARSAW. Poland's capital since
the Sixteenth century and the larg-
est city in the country. Almost in
the center of the nation, Warsaw is
about 325 miles east of Berlin, ITO
miles south of Danzig, 20 miles