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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13
SERIAL STORY
TAMBAY GOLD
CHATTER XVI

Money 10 bad for my system.
I'm not used to II In big gobs, and
n goes TO my head like nouor.
Juddy u no better. Both of Nc
were suffering from financial de-
hisions Of grandeur. We were sure
singing at our work these days.
Besides what we were taking In.
sach Of w had q little of our orig
inai capital left - Juddy In the
hank, me In the sock. Nothing
would do W. but we had 10 make
our dream Of the big central
dinery and dance floor come true.
Well, before We knew It. the old
place was fun Of high-priced car
pentry noises. No hillbilly labor
this time. Those birds are swell
walters. but they can't handle
important stuff. Costs began TO
pile up 10 fast that we were afraid
TO look at our weekly sheets. Fast
~ the cash was coming In. It was
going out faster.
Lets face II. pal" said. 81
know it's worse than we thought
II would be. but how much have
we let ourselves in for ?"
Juddy bit the end Off Of her
pencil. swell, say six thousand.
minimum"
"You say IT," / said. I'D choke.
We must have been drunk with
prosperity"
sWhat'il we do now ?"
had one of my brilliant flashes.
whats = bank for ?" ! said. I'VE
can take our books down to Old
Man La Rue At the Leverton
National. and after he's seen the
profit figures he'll lend M the but
tons off his coat. Any banker
would"
DO we put II up to Maurie Sears.
He didn't seem too taken with the
notion. and his report was . sock.
The bank didn't yearn for our
business At all.
1T looks TO me like Hollister
Mcwry IN blocking IT," he said.
Hes right influential n both
banks"
whats his idea ," said.
You know he's got tho gold
fever. don't your He'll BE- after
those diggings ~ soon ~ the We'll
liver lease 10 up. I'm surprised that
he hasn't been after you with .
proposition. Cousin"
He has Juddy said.
When we were back In the car.
Juddy said:
ANY other ideas, Nom :.
The only thing / can think of
ID for you to marry = millionaire. "
I said.
u did, she said. Look what
II got me"
There's others and maybs dif-
ferent.. said. You're the kind
Of gal that men chase with . check
book In one hand and Q WEDDING
certificate In thu other. I don't
know what you do to EN-. Juddy.
You're no Helen. the original Miss
Troy. You've got something.
though Euess its that you're
30 dsrned alive"
She took = long time before she
answered Il could always 10
back to Hendy.s
We'll. what's the matter with
mat. after all 20
I've been fighting against Il,
You don't know how hard I've
been fighting II. Nom
That was . surprise. Have you
stiil got . ven for him -
She shook her head. No. but
never was cut out for being poor.
Every morning when ! wake up
and look 1t Tsmbsy Mansion I call
myself . fool for living this way
any longer. BY evening, I'm loving
the place 20 that can't bear Il
think OF leaving II. Its Tambss
against Hendy Tambsy and you
and" She stopped.
Angel" I said.
she gave me that queer, slanted
look again. ! couldn't make gu,
whether she nodded or not
! Angel wouldn't b. any hslr u
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13
Why Thousands Of
Doctors prescribed
MWW,. p.
MvENvEW
CAUSED ~ colDs)

For years thousands upon thou
sands of Doctors have prescribed
Pertussin to promptly relieve bron-
chial. croupy and night coughs due
to colds. This is the same effective
yet inexpensive Pertussin you can
get today from your drugstore
Pertussin-a famous herbal REM
edy = is scientifically prepared to
work internally. 1t acts at once. It
not only relieves your coughing
spell. but also loosens sticky phlegm
and makes 1t easier to raise.
Pertussin is safe and mighty eff
fectiue for both old and young
even small children. Get to-day
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13

Personnel Manager, fwoman) (:
No In my experience I don't ever
remember having asked anyone .
question like that. ! think per-
haps he h developing q persecu-
ton about his past.
Housewife: No. Unless some
one asks him point-blank. In that
case. Of course. he would have TO
tell the truth.
eteWogrApher: No. Men should
not keep thinking about their
pasts: they should think about
their futures.
Copyright. 1927
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13

1nW and Gentlemen Of the Jury: Does man have 10 90
oound N his life paying and over again for the mis-
0 h paid for in prison? I'm that need help badly
o. tine had nice job but fool enough to think
ocud ct with something took Of money over
peEisd - nsnhs always thinking that could catch up
VII uy md get Il paid hack Instead of that they caught
- With me got senenced but my cut short with
parole.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13
Variety of Flavors Used
To Season Favorite Dish
Bureau OF Home Economics Also Suggests That Dry Peas
Or Peanuts Be Included in Diet Several Tine, Weet

Prom the Puget Sound - Key
West-from Maine 10 California
there's unity Of opinion that dry
beans are among the bess Of foods.
Slow baked white beans with
salt pork and molasses are tops
with the New Englander Black
eyed beans. OF peas" as they're
usually called. favored with ham
knuckle and combined with nee.
are in demand south Of the Ma
son-Dixon line. Pinto beans. -ea-
>oned with garlic and chill. are
highly regarded IN the states
bordering on Mexico.
They are indispensa BILE in the
diets of our own armed forces. On
the civilian front dry beans are
equally valuable. especially to
home makers operating on modest
food budgets. The Bureau of
Home Economics in its Iow-cost
adequate diet plans suggest that
dry beans. dry peas. or peanuts be
included several times a week
: Here are the rules for success
ful bean cookery:
Soak beans before you cook
them overnight or NJ least 5 or 6
hours. One cup dry beans will
yield from to cups cooked
beans. To get the most food value
from beans. use the soaking water
for cooking.
Use soft water IL you can. Hard
water tougher. bean skins. Never
use soda to cook beans This de-
stroys the valuable vitamin B1.
Cook beans slowly. Simmer them
on top Of stove. Use slow oven
(sround $50 degrees FL for
baked beans. Watch them care
fully as they cook and keep add
ing more liquid.
SEASONING
otdSOH Dtdns Will SDiIltAniIlE
salt, sour. fresh, crisp, or bright
and spicy. Beans are bland and
combine well with crisp bacon.
ham knuckle, salt pork. chilli, a
dash OF lemon juice, onion. toma-
toes or hot tomato sauce.
For a spicy bean stew. cook IL
cups dry beans tender. Brown \
cup chopped onion in salt pork
fat. add y pound ground lean
meat, stir and cook slowly for 5
minutes. Combine meat. onion.
salt pork, and 8 cups of canned
tomatoes with cooked beans. Add
salt and pepper to taste and sim
mer until meat is tender and flaw
ors well blended. This recipe will
serve six.
BEAN SALAD
Hot bean salad is an excellent
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13
TEST ANSWERS

Below are the answers n test
questions printed on the editorial
page.
1. Moose
2. Gresnish-ysllow.
5. Arthur n. Stsrnes.
4. Hswthorne's The Scarlet
Letter"
S. Benjamin Franklin.
8. Linotype.
Z. Hypo.
S. False.
9. Friday.
10. Pentecost.
You help yourself when you buy
u. s. Defense Bonds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13

way n use cooked beans ~ hand.
Cut strips 81 bacon OF salt pork
INTO half-inch pieces and fry To
hghi brown. Add = cup Of
chopped onion and brown lightly.
Add 8 cups baked OF boiled beans.
teaspoon Of mustard. = cup OF
vinegar. i cup Of water. dash Of
pepper. Simmer until the beans
absorb vinegar and water. Serve
hot
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13

IN Uee nov hut you would
nnvur hnow II. I've applied for
several yohs and I've told them the
Who'll truth about myself. thinking
tlat wns the best way. since they
would find II out anyhow. EVERY
49, rve 49, snFned down. AZ
onnn - they hear what I've got to
~ them they suddenly decide
10y emit need me. I'm trying "a
- honeuA I want n start over
~ . clean slate. but II surp II
hnRd b -.
D. you think I should 20 on
ennfng ~ truth about my past
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13

This emerald cotton vel
veteen with florine skirt is
desieed for woItzine. Jew
eled birds ore designed in
flight ocross the droped sur
plice bodice, and novel dou-
bic shoulder Straps, one set
ending in O halter, mode it q
conversation piece. A per-
feet dress for COLO winter
evenings, soys singer Dinoh
Shore.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13
SNAIL SEERS

Scottish maidens once placed
snails of states in the thought
that their twisting, crooked tails
might spell out the names of flu
ture husbands.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13

Your postmaster can tell you
how TO invest in L. s. Defense
Bonds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13

Hot bean salad Is an excellent
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-03
Kentucky Stamp Unseen Bandit
MayShow Boone Robs 7 Of $4,000

WASHINGTON. May .. 49, Re
quests that a likeness of Daniel
Boone. lucky pioneer. be
placed on the new stamp com
memorating the one hundred
fiftieth anniversary Of the admit
lance of Kentucky 10 statehood
are pouring into the postoffice de-
partment, an official disclosed.
The stamp is scheduled to be
released about June l, but no Of
fetal design has been selected
Meanwhile, citizens of Bladcns-
burg. Md. have flooded the de-
partment with requests that their
city be honored with special
stamp issue. Proponents of the
Bladensburg stamp pointed out
that the community celebrates its
two hundredth anniversary of
foundinr this year and was one OF
the first postoffices in the United
States.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-03

NEW YORK, May , (UP).-
Here's a holdup man who escaped
with $1,000 without his victims
ever seeing him.
The bandit slipped up behind
two employees of AleXander's de-
partment store while they were
walking from a bank in the Bronx
and whispered
"No cutlery. Keep walking.
got you covered"
The victims. Jonas MiSbin, p,
and Robert Thompson, -. said
they were ordered 60 put the
money in a shopping bag which
the holdup man held out to them.
They did without turning around
and while they kept walking
along the crowded street. he dis
appeared.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-03
Radio 10 Give
Burma Drama

CRASH and an old shrine
on the Burma road was gone!
Read in The American
Weekly with next Sundays issue Of
The Detroit Sunday Times :.
how a Jap bomb wrecked what
was. perhaps, the oldest memorial
in the world. a shrine in memory
or an eccentric woman, an I'M
inhibited American heiress.
A dozen husbands five Officially,
n spirit double resembling APP
polio. and a pet python as a din
ner companion, were some OF her
possessions.
The absorbing article, by Ivan
Narodny, will be illustrated in
full color. So rich with interest
will be the authors recital that
II has been made the basis of a
Front Page Drama to be heard
over - radio stations in Michigan
and Ontario next Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
the day of the broadcast differing
on various stations. as this list
shows:
MICHIGAN
WFDF. Flint. 9:15 p. m. Fri
day; WASH-WOOD, Grand Rap
ids, 10:15 y. m. Friday; WIBM,
jackson. 9:15 p. m. Friday;
WIN, Lansing. 9:l5 p. m. Friday;
WKBZ. Muskegon. Ills p. m. Fri
day; VICAR, Pontiac, 2:45 p. m,
Thursday; WSAM. Saginaw, 10:45
D.. m, Friday: WTCM. Traverse
City, 7:30 p. m. Wednesday.
ONTARIO
CFCO, Chatham. $50 p. m.
Thursday: CKOC. Hamilton, lis
%. m. Saturday; CKCR, Kitchener,
3 p. m. Thursday; CKCO. Ottawa,
els p. m. Friday; GIGS, STRAIT
ford. 7:45 p. m. Friday.
You are urged 10 tune in on one
of the stations for this radio pro.
gram, The Pricelo jewell" and
10 read. in The American Weekly
with next Sundays issue OF Detroit
Sunday Times. the amazing story
Of the odd shrine.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-03
Blind Phone Operator
Retires After '19 Yrs.

GREENFIELD. n. H.. May 2
uNS) Only blind eleph on G
switchboard operator in New Eng
land, Elwyn G. Smith retired re-
Gently after 10 years service when
the telephone company installed a
modern dial system 10 serve the
community.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-03
Dutch Gal

LOUISE BEAVERS. famous
colored actress who has an inn
portant role in Seven Sisters,
wears a Dutch costume through
out the picture. She is so enam-
ored Of her Dutch cap that She
is going TO buy il for personal
use when the picture IS COM
pleted.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-03
Newberry OCD Asks $500

EwBERRY. May 2-The
Newberry civilian defense corps
has asked the state for an
appropriation of $500 TO be used
IN the purchase Of defense equip
ment and maintenance OF the
home defense unit.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-03

Wheel outside for summing comfortably the shade OF
your porch. Adjustable different positions Has pillow
back umnzed metal Frame rubber tired back wheels Red green
or maroon water-replen upholstery with uny white piping
Summer Fmnitme-Sepeab FlOOr-East Building
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-23

"Avenina Rosada" was said to grow hair on
the proverbial billiard ball.
To this day hardly mail comes TO my
Quito office that does not contain a request
for quantity of the Avelina Rosada.
No, Avelina Rosada will not grow hair
where the roots are dead I know of nothing
that will
Avona Rosada is however, an excellent
hair shampoo and we have another plant in
the Ecuadorean highlands which is commonly
called "Planta de Jabon" or soap plant"
Practically all Of the Quichua Indians use
this plant to wash their hair and clothing.
1t fathers just like regular soap and I'll
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-23

After the first week they would place
this log on stakes over the embers of dying
fire with me in il. packed usual After
a while the mud would become dry and quite
warm but never to the point where / was
burned or even uncomfortably hot Then in
order to take me out Of the mud pack they
practically had TO break it off in chunks
"Of course 1 was nude but this did not
seem so embarrassing since there were always
women of the tribe about and most of them
were either nude or practically so The men
paid no more attention TO nudity in a person
than in horse or dog. During the daytime
l was given draughts Of various liquids These
were not always the same. One day would
get an extremely bitter drink every hour
that seemed to make me perspire profusely
Possibly this had. cinchona bark in it from
which quinine is derived
THE next Day it would be an entirely diff
ferent drink and on two days the medicine
made me very dizzy. / seemed to be intoxi-
Gated and very probably I was though
could not place the taste of the medicine II
was like nothing l had ever had before in my
life. Within two weeks l could move. a little
From then on it was simply a matter of time
and Improvement
The Brujo discharged me at the end of
the fifth week. He refused my money but
asked me TO send him a good horse.c sent
him the best / could find, just as soon as |
returned home"
This Brujo's clinic is hidden away I know
of but one white man, besides myself who can
find it. Patients are taken there blidnfolded
Though many members Of the Colorados
tribe have been photographer. l believe the
picture Of the Brujo on the opposite page is
the only one that has ever been taken.
While a great deal of most Brujos treat
ments must be regarded as hocus pocus
there is a little doubt but that many of these
men do have knowledge Of cures that are OF
genuine value. The jungles Of South America
are enormous areas Of strange plant life and
1t is not far fetched to believe that through
out the centuries that these tribes have exist
ed in the selva certain known facts about
plants have been unearthed through the trial
and error method and handed down
Jungle Brujos made full use OF ouinine
long before it was known TO medical science
and I'll tell you another fact that I know 10
be true: my Colorados Brujo has been using
the fever method of treating syphilis for
many years
BY exposing the patient at night 10 the
bites Of the anopheles mosquitoes until he is
thoroughly infected with the malaria germ.
terrific fever is brought on. This in turn
kills the spirochaeta Of it doesn't kill the r.
tient) and syphilis is arrested II not actually
cured.
Modern medical science uses an artificial
fever TO attain similar results but some Of
the Brujos-at-+Cast this one was a good so
years ahead Of medical science in this regard.
WhyNpot in some others3
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-23

say this much for II. no one ever saw a
Quichua that did not have a luxurious growth
of thick healthy hair.
l don't think this plant would grow hair
where none exists, but Ia risk a guess that
those who use il regularly will never become
bald. This plant is one Of Ecuadors raw
products that some day may find a ready
market in the States
Know what "junEle cold cream is =? Per-
haps you've always thought that an Indian
had no need Of, no desire TO use anything like
facial cream. Wen, you're all wrong about
that. The Senorita of the sclva likes skin
you love 10 touch just as much as your
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-23

Cnlet. Sucn is the case with the COlOradOS
tribe in the region Occidente where 1 own
a 500-acre hacienda and with whom
frequently visit
This Brujo's reputation has spread far and
wide. His ex-patents are his sole advertise
ment and things have reached the point where
he has built separate bamboo-walled, thatch-
rooted large dwelling for the exclusive housing
Of his ever-increasing clinic. Surprising as
1t may seem, many white people of education
and intelligence patronize this Brujo.
What's his speciality Oh, merely
Strengthening crooked bones curing diseases
like leprosy and restoring 10 paralytics the
use Of their limbs.
Here's a case I happen TO know Of person
ally and can absolutely vouch for. young
woman school teacher became paralyzed, not
from her waist down but from her neck down
She couldn't so much as wigge a finger or
toe. She spent six months in a hospital she
was treated by three Of the country's best
physicians, doctors who had studied in the
states and in. Europe
No dice the girl was incurable they said
Then she tried series Of Swedish messages
with the same hopeless results. Finally she
was urged TO try the Brujo OF the Colorados
and FIVE weeks later she was back in the
school room with her class perfectly normal
She describes his treatment as follows:
The treatment was most difficult At
night I slept in a followed out log This log
was filled nearly half way 20 the top with
combination of what seemed to be plain wet
mud, but into the mud the Brujo stirred
crushed leaves Of plants After was placed
on this couch more Of the same mud mixed
with the same crushed plants, was packed
in around me and over me until only my
head was free from IL. / spent nine hours
out of every twenty four in this log.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-23

New York debutante and she has,
at her finger tips, the finest
facial cream on earth. It's
nothing more nor less than the
meat of the avocado. The So
called alligator pear.
Sometimes they crush this
meat and add a bit of natural
cocoanut palm oil TO it. Though
it lacks the perfume that the gal
Of the North is accustomed to,
it is a cream that leaves rough
skin as smooth as satin.
And as for rouge, we'll the
seeds of the achiote plant are
perfect, Rubbed in family, they
give that pale orange color TO
lips or cheeks. Vigorous rubbing
will render a deeper red. A
little goes a long way with a
blonde, the brunettes have 10 rub
it a bit harder, that's all
Every tribe, east or west Of
the Andes cordillera, has it's
Brujo. Sometimes he is a sepa-
rate entity from the chief. and
sometimes the Brujo is also the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-23

Matter of clever psychology.
The Jivaros also use this drug and they
have another trick with it that's worth telling.
Every Indian family has coupe Of non
descript cur dogs. These dogs are naturally
friendly with the neighbors. The stunt is 10
steal one or more dogs from the village you
want 10 wreck, dope EN- up with Guantu and
kurn EN- loose close to the home town.
The effect is exactly like mad dogs. They
dash through the village street biting one
and all until someone can hurl an accurately
aimed lance
A few. years ago an American living near
Banos gave ont the story that two similar
plants in these junCles did surprising tricks
with ones hair. The "Avolina Blanca" so
this chap stated was a depilatory that would
remove hair in a jiffy. It's first cousin,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-23

days she was ready 10 go out and sell skirted
swim suits again 10 the natives!
But there just wasn't any more Of the
and realizing that sound logic dictated an
early return OF her physical miseries If she
remained there the woman allowed herself
to be packed of in a canoe
The last time l was through that village
the Colorados had all gone native again but
morals were up 10 par and there weren't any
more snGfcs.
lot has been written about the head
hunters of the Ecuadoroan jungles and their
practice Of shrinking human heads until
they're about the size Of oranges But what
most people don't know is that there's some
thing more to this than simple primitive
savagcry.
These shrunken heads play important
part in their witChcraft and it's from them
that the BrIjos are supposed to learn many
81 their dark secrets
The lips Of the shrivelcd heads are laced
together with thin thongs 10 imprson the
MANA or fragment Of universal soul sub
Iltance which each person is believed to pos
sess in addition 10 his individual soul
AS part of the vast universal soul. the
mana is credited with having occult knowl-
edge and great wisdom. So when a BruJos
wants 10 learn something OF special impor-
lance he carefully unlaces one corner OF the
lips of a shrunken head just enough TO let
the mana whisper 20 him without escaping
Once ne finds out what he wants 10 know. the
lips are quickly and carefully laced up again
1t is said that the Aucas Indians, who
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-03-12
Young Couple
Toke Marriage Vows

At 200 o'clock ceremony in the
Catholic rectory Saturday, Miss Car
ole Jane Smith, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. George Smith, became the
bride of Robert L. Nicolai, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. c. G. Nicolai of Gar
field, Wash. Father Edmund Taylor
officiated.
The bride wore light blue cos
tune suit trimmed in blue fox,
navy accessories and bouquet of
orchids. Her maid of honor, Miss
Virginia Petrusha, wore a beige
suit with luggage tan accessories
and her bouquet was of gardenias
and white rosebuds.
Dick Greiner was best man.
Following the wedding ceremony
there was a reception for As guests
at the home of the brides parents.
The newlyweds are now at home
in Cheney, Wash, where both have
been students at the Eastern Wash
ington College of Education. Mr..
Nicolai will take his B. A. degree
there this spring.