Thursday Morning, July 23, 1931 OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern FORT PIERCE NEWS WHERE HELP IS NEEDED The arrival of more and more detailed reports of suffering In the Pennsylvania soft coal mining areas makes it apparent that the miners and their families are having a dreadful time. It is not pleasant to Fori Pierce Society Fort Pierce, July X. Tom Bald- ridge, who is spending a two weeks' vacation at West Palm Beach and Miami, returned here Tuesday for a one-day stay. Airs. j.
d. Stnngiellow has re read of families making- a meal on dandelion greens, or to hear a doctor predict that many children are actually apt to die of starvation. The Red Cross has ruled that it cannot act to relieve the situation because it has to confine its services to natural disasters like floods, tornadoes and earthquakes. However, that does not mean that the country can ignore the plight of the miners. Americans do not usually sit back complacently, to let women and children starve to death.
If the Red Cross cannot act, it is time to form some relief organization that can. The suffering in the coal fields must be St. Lucie County Budget Cuts Due Fort Pierce, July 22. Drastic cuts in the county's budget for the fiscal year 1931, are under consideration by the board of county commissioners, who will hold an adjourned session Friday to take action on the matter. The board discussed the budget at length at its regular session on Tuesday, but no definite action was taken.
The slashes discussed included the discontinuance of the services of the county engineer, traffic officer, courthouse janitor and nightwatchman at the county warehouse; also, the discontinuance of electric and telephone services at the courthouse. The county is far behind in its current bills and the commissioners seek to reduce expenses in order that headway may be made in catching up. The Palm Beach Post Published Iailv and Kondsy hy The Pixt Publisbinn Co. Post Ilulidinc, West Palm Beach, Florida. New Iorlt office, 30 Park Phone Vnnderbilt 2522 D.
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Brunen. Mrs. E. L. Taylor wa3 hostess Wednesday afternoon to members TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Post files of July 23, 1921) C.
M. Jensen of Boynton is busy preparing to enter the nursery business. He has been raising a wide variety of plants. Bebe Daniels is playing in "She Couldn't Help It" Mr. and Mrs.
H. E. Robinson move into Ruggles house on Chase street, which was purchased recently by Mrs. Fannie Eversole. National House ways and means committee considers methods of raising four billion dollars in revenue.
A return to the 3-cent stamp is proposed. Secretary of Treasury Mellon is opposed to any kind of sales tax, but approves flat tax on corporations. Yacht La Dormer of Dania, 400 yards off Gus' Baths, sends distress signal and is rescued by Gus Jordahn and Robert McGriff. Captain Burt Hisco*ck tows yacht In through new inlet. Sheriff's Office Adds Fingerprint Bureau Fort Pierce, July 22.
The local sheriff's office has added a fingerprint department and hereafter will take the imprint of all persons arrested on criminal charges, sending copies thereof to the federal bureau of identification at Washington for identification and record purposes, according to announcement of Sheriff B. A. Brown. The department, it was stated, will be in charge of D. W.
Totten, this city, manager of a protective association. It will be installed and operated without expense to the county, the sheriff said. New York Day By Day of her bridge club. City To Take Appeal Mrs. Austin Critchley and Mrs.
driving. Other cases will be set to-j A cw- Tc Battery Count Brings James Gard were hostesses Wed nesday afternoon to members of In Thirty-Day Sentence trials are exPected tc be ended for Act: ivorce ion From Damage Suit Fort Pierce, July 22 An appeal to the United States circuit court of appeals at New Orleans, has been taken by the city in the damage suit of the Scofield Engineering Company, according the Wednesday Social Club. Mrs. James Snow has returned to her home here from Bartow. She was accompanied back by Mr.
and Mrs. Jessie Wilson and Ralph and Verne Wees, who will make a brief visit here. By O. O. McINTYRE Paris, July 22.
The Cafe de la Paix corner is still the liveliest in Paris. And to my notion the most democratic spot in ail Europe. At the terrasse tables, King Edward, the Prince of Wales, King Alphonso, King Albert and many other monarchs and high potentates have rubbed elbows with hoi-polloi. On the Capucines and opera side pavement are 350 marble topped tables with a capacity of 1,000. The tables begin to fill at 9 in the morning and until 1 o'clock at night there are few vacant.
It is a constantly shifting, polyglot and leisurely crowd. One may buy a one-franc drink and sit all day. The cafe is owned by the Grand Hotel, occupying most of the block, and has often paid 60 per cent on its common stock. Even during the trying days of the war it made money. Waiters receive no salaries Charged with assault and battery on Ewell Stubbs, 15-year-old youth, Carl Powell received a 30-day sentence in the criminal court of record on Wednesday from Judge J.
Stockton Bryan. He was arrested late Tuesday by Deputy Barney Savage. Also arrested by Deputy Savage, John Hix pleaded guilty to beating a board bill and was sentenced to City Charter Bill Offered In House The city charter amendment bill was introduced in the Florida house by Representatives R. K. Lewis and Elvin A.
Bass, the Tallahassee office of the Associated Press said. The bill proposes virtunl!" the to announcement of City Attorney I G. R. Nottingham. The appeal is from the United OCtlOOl Kepair DlClS Come Up Next Week which, upon the recent trial of the case before Judge Halsted L.
Rit-ter, a directed verdict of $37,251 was given the plaintiff. The case arises from a utility Mrs. Margaretta Neal, whose divorce decree of April 13, was recently vacated by court order here, acknowledged Tuesday in her answer to the bill filed by her husband. Frederick Joseph Neal, that she, had refused to live with her husband since 1928, Mrs. Neal's reason was that she did not wish to live in Florida.
Regardless of her wishes, she alleges, her husband insisted on moving from New York to Florida and she declined to accompany him. The answer was filed by her attorney, Willard Utley. The final decree wns vacated owing to lack of proper service on Mrs. Neal, according to New York law. serve 30 days, which sentence was same charter amenrimpnts as wptr Following the return Wednesday from Tallahassee of J.
A. Young-blood, superintendent of public instruction, he announced that the school board would not meet until deferred for 30 days to allow him to offered at a previous session. De-make the payment. Sentence was tails of the measure were nublish- survey made by the engineenn deferred on Jack Rhines, charged ed in The Post Tuesday morning. but pay 15 francs a day to work there.
Some have company in 1928. along with a pro- THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1931 FLORIDA LAUGHS LAST Some time ago when Florida was taking her famous toboggan ride alter the boom and the explosions of her banks sounded somewhat like a gigantic celebration of the Fourth of July, the other states looked on with varying degrees of pity and the secret satisfaction that they were not in the same boat. There was even a governor in Tennessee who said that the disastrous collapse was a sort of financial whipping administered by God to punish the bad little boys of Florida for the orgies of extravagance and dissipation indulged in during the golden but ephemeral period of prosperity. People in the rest of the country danced and had their fun and felt sorry for Florida with the comfortable feeling described by Shakespeare, "Let the galled jade wince. My withers are unwrung." But now, it is beginning to look as if the shoe were on the other foot.
All over the United States the depression that first visited Florida is being feit. It ha3 been discovered that the eccentricity of failing to open its doors is not solely a characteristic of a Florida bank. Unemployment, the retrenchment program of big business, bread lines, and all the other signs of hard times are found from Maine to California, Evidently, if Florida's disasters were caused by an enraged providence, there must have been some fine capers cut in the other states too. People no longer murmur, "Poor Florida." They have too many troubles of their own, and it is beginning to dawn on them, as it is on us, that this state is now in the enviable position of having reached the bottom and started up again. It has been said that the real upbuilding of a state does not occur during the periods of rapid expansion, but in the seemingly quiet time of rehabilitation that comes after a crash has been experienced.
Now is the time when a real healthy progress is made the significant period when strong men of intelligence and faith are needed to build a firm foundation for Florida's future prosperity. We somehow feel that the men who have been with her through hurricane and famine, who have been tested and not found wanting, will be equal to the job. They have stuck this far and they will follow through, for they know that Florida, like Pilgrim, has been through the "Valley of Despond," and is now climbing slowly but steadily upwards with her eyes fixed on the "Delectable Mountains." Sanford Herald. Town rich posed program of expansion. Considered by tourists a "yokel" retreat, its inside restaurants are the delight of gourmets from all St.
L'JCie County next Tuesday morning, at which bren king and entering, and the time bids on school building repairs case of James Fisher, charged with will be considered. possessing liquor, was nolle prossed. Chairman P. C. Reese and Mr.
The following cases are set for Youngblnod attended a meeting today: Willie Lanier, highway rob-relative to school finances In Clisbv Washington, assault When in dire straits, the Chinese believe they may expect the souls of their ancestors to come to their rescue, but only if the remains Has Many Autos have been properly buried and kept lahassee. and battery; George White, reckless intact Fort Pierce, July 22. St. Lucie County has one passenger car or HEART OF LIANE 1931 BY NEA SERVICE, IXC. By MABEL McELLIOTT truck for every three residents, ac- cording to figures of W.
R. Jack- son, county tag agent, and the 1930 federal census. The number of tags sold for passenger cars thus far this year is 1,867 and thofe for tmcks 437, a total of 2.304. There is one pas- senger car for every 3.7 of popu- lation. BUS DRIVERS NAMED Fort Pierce, July 22.
Appoint-1 ment of school bus drivers for the next school term has been made as I follows, according to announcement of County Superintendent N. Bullard: W. H. Newton, south parts of the world. From its cuisine one may order everything from shark's fin to Egyptian locusts in aspic.
On its sidewalks chiefly drinks and ices are sold, at an average of five francs (20 cents) each. From a chair there one watches all the world and his wife drift by. At the curb edge is a row of leafy maples. In the middle of the boulevard is a row of waiting fiacres with drooping drivers in glazed leather plug hats. Across the way the unceasing flow up and down the grand boulevards.
In the promenade one may see a coal black Senegalese with a monocle, a turbaned and white robed Moroccan, "registered" ladies expressing Parisian chic, a real sheik from the Sahara, Yvette, the one-legged cocotte on white crutches, East Indian princes, British lords from across the channel and so on. And etched in. ugly bas-relief a hunch backed violet hawker, the faceless war-wreck who cries "L'ln-transigeanf through a sardonic slit, palsied map sellers, withered crones who stand before you with hideous sores, whispering under-world guides and other beady-eyed rat3 of the sewers. The Prince hurried to the Clces-paugh box. "Mademoiselle he (taapod, his eyes searching the group.
"She has gone! Of a surety violence has been done!" naid, "What's that?" sharply, angrily. His Highness, Hugo of Slavaria, gesticulated wildly. "Of a certain mond and that resplendent figure appeared In the doorway. "His Highness wishes to be presented to mademoiselle," muttered the newspaper man. an audacious gleam in his eye.
Clive had risen, stood glowering. But Mrs. Cleespaugh was plainly delighted. Great lady that she was, she found room in her heart to that he had never tried to "make love" to her. Did he think ber so unattractive? Well, she mustn't quarrel with her fate.
He had asked her to mniry him and she, for reasons of her own, had agreed. The murmur ran along tho line. "The Prince!" A discreet, polite murmur. And after an instant, In the suddenly cleared doorway, he appeared. A tall, very thin, rather supercilious looking young man with pale brown hair and a monocle glazing one of his sharp brown eyes.
He was in a dress uniform of silver and blue. ty, as I said, Mademoiselle has defer to royalty. "Ma'mselle honors me with this -vaniGhed! Only her slipper remains fh wnero i iert ner at tne loot ot tne riverfront and part of White City into Fort Pierce; J. C. Rogers, Orange avenue extension into Fort Pierc: Severin Sorensen, White City and Maravilla into Fort Pierce; Al Wilson, St.
Luci into Fort Pierce; R. W. Lennard, north county and Fort Pierce Farms into Fort Pierce; Mrs, J. C. Clanton, serving Fort Pierce Farms; H.
F. dancu 1IE1IE TODAY CASS BARRETT, stock oimmmy actrean. In glutl to iret out or be city for the summer to play at a (nHhlonuliIe I. mz Inland colony. HAVE, her IS-ycnr-old hcljin in (h box office irith MURIEL IADI), (li'liatnnte.
tt a party Liane meets A. HOBAKD, handsome man of th world. Cass lies Liane not to m'c him again, Mn-icl xnid lo he In love with CHUCK DESHO.Vl), debonair reporter, hat playi around with other men. ELSIE MISTKfl tell Liane there i Koxaip nhont Ho-bard and Muriel's morher. Cass goes on tour In fh5 antnmn, lenvinsr Mane with MRS.
CI.EKf-PAI'C.H. When she in taken gravely 111 Liane rushes to her. Cass recovers. Van's engagement tn Mnriel Is nnnoniieed. When Cass returns to the Cleespnnxh home CLIVE asks Liane to marry iilin -a marriaiie al convenience.
he accepts al-thontfh she does not love him. TMESSi loud and ber sister, MRS. A.WIIEHTU.V, come to visit the CleespnUKh. Ttessn dislikes Liane nnd hecins a plot against her. At a night clnh a sinister fellow thr-atens blackmail to Liane.
She noes to her friend, LUC 1 1 llil 1UV1I1 M. J. l.L 1 stairs." the formalities had been roundly and "iLIVE swore once, stair- IANB went down the Ion I have never seen what I would call a raving French beauty on the stage, at the races, opera or fashionable Bois restaurants. There are a number un. In tircely, and began to way with her gloved fingers rrHE orchestra in response to ttlfl BPtn nf that- i Hazellief, Bluefields into Fort' 1 hidden signal struck up the skv blue iacket.
She passed Tressa who are "smart." That is they wear clothes with a Pierce superb dash, but there are, I venture, more truly i his train followed quickly the Prince, Chuck Desmond and half a dozen other young men. Tressa who had been sitting at Mrs. Clees-paugh's side tried to soothe that agitated lady. Shad News beautiful women in Louisville, than all France. I The so-called middle class women of France are, tu Stuart.
July 22. Pythian atrociously ugly, spotched and warty complexions. held a public bunco partv Sisters recent- i who favored her with a cool. Interested stare. Tressa was sinuous and lovely in black.
She thought childishly that would be nice if Van Robard might be there to see her dancing with tire Prince. Make him sorry. Sorry for what? All this seemed the veriest fabric "It's nothing," she said In her i cool, amused tone. "No doubt she's stringy hair, hairy lips and chins and invariably un- Iy at the Edgewater Apartments. young notable's national air.
He smiled. He clicked his heels and bowed from the waist. Liane heard fhe plump, green velveted matron murmur "Adorable!" In swooning accents. The Prince put out his arm to ona of the ladies in his party and the dance began again as suddenly as it had stopped. "Getting tired?" Clive wanted to know.
Liane shook her head. She! i Mrs. M. R. Cartwright, assisted by SHAVE McOEHHII), police officer, for Shane settles the flirting with someone on the terrace.
These men get excited over nothing at all." gainly. Sometimes among the midinettes there is a freshly vibrant and corn-fed beauty, but it fades early. Mrs. Cleespaugh bridled of a dream. The room, the shlm-i, Mrs.
Charles Rue and Mrs. Jim Stockley, was the hostess. I. L. Decker won high for men; Mrs.
I. L. Decker, high for women; Charles Rue low for men; Mr3. Roland Minnehan low for women. Those present: Mr.
and Mrs. Wil- I fear yon are not thinking inering fabrics, the music, the what 1 Hhed. ry, I angrily you say, Tressa," she admonis Radio fans would get a big kick out of programs over here. Last night at a private home while twid blackmailers and uarns them to let her alone. IMans for the wedding; gn forward.
Shnn warns Liane she has an enemy. SOW CO 0 WITH THE STORY CAPTER XXV HTHE word went from mouth to mouth. "The Prince! The Prince is here!" No one had been sure he was Tressa bit her lip. "Sorr McLure, Mr. and Mrs.
G. S. dling the dial I got Spain, then Germany and all of son danced dreamily, casually, me scent of rare perfumes. Moat iin-tlirob of the music was in her blood, all seemed Liane herself, an It was like an enchantment. Ab- insubstantial figure in pale rose ruptly she felt her partner's arm 1 gossamer, treading the measure about hor loosen.
She looked up with a prince of the blood. "In into the grinning face of Chuck! bait a minute," she thought, "I'll Chesterman, Mr. and Mrs. Charles coming. The great Hunt ball had Desmond, who had said "Cut?" to a sudden, smack on the barrel a Soviet lecture from Moscow, But the real thrill was when tiring of a rendition of "Carmen" in Italy, I twisted the dingus and heard a booming voice singing "My Canary's Got Rings Under Its Eyes." It was Sophie Tucker in London.
NOT A SHYLOCK TOWN Some citizens have asked why a moratorium could not be declared in thi3 city St. Petersburg, and in Florida, under a plan somewhat similar to that put into effect by President Hoover on behalf of Germany. It is argued that many of our own people are more entitled to debt relief than is Germany, which was our ruthless war enemy only a few years ago. As a matter of fact many individual moratoriums have been declared in St. Petersburg.
Debtors in large numbers have been granted relief. Very few men here have insisted on prompt and full paymnt. Creditors have not demanded their pound of flesh. Hundreds of suits to foreclose on mortgages have been filed in our courts during the last two years, but in very few instances has there been a foreclosure suit when the debtor has shown any willingness or effort to pay even in part. Holders of mortgages have, as a rule, been perfectly willing to allow the debt to run if the debtor would pay interest, and in many instances mortgagees have reduced the interest rate or suspended interest payment if taxs and insurance were kept paid.
Mortgage-holder3 in St. Petersburg are not the stern, hard, exacting money-lenders that some persons would make believe. They are not pressing down hard on those who owe them money. They are more willing to extend the time for payment than are the nations to which Germany owes money. Holders of mortgages, in most instances, do not want the property under mortgage.
They are investors and want their Interest or the principal not the property, because most of them already have more property than they care to look after. This is not a Shylock town. St. Petersburg Independent. been an annual affair in Willow Springs since the first fur kings and railroad barons had built their Victorian palaces there back tn the 'nineties.
It was always a gala event even in the rarifled atmosphere of that gilded township. That its date coincided with the visit of His Royal Highness was pure chance. No one had been certain Clive. "You!" she gasped, startled. "The kid himself," Desmond acknowledged.
"I crashed this party with His Nibs. Used to be a correspondent in Siavaria when his father was in power. He makes me drag along wherever he goes and the boss doesn't mind. It gives me the inside track." was just trying to cheer you," she lightly. "CIlvo will find her.
Don't worry." Little groups began to gather at the and of the ballroom. The orchestra leader lifted an authoritative baton and a great crashing of jazz ensued. Most of the dancers dancers, thus assured, joined in the fox trot. Meantime Clive, after a frantic questioning of a Bleepy footman or two. elicited the Information that an unrecognized car had left the ranks a few moments befora driving (the man thought) west.
He was not positive of the direction. "AnJ it's a dry, clear night. Not a chance of ruts or tracks," muttsred Clive. The Prince's car was being brought around. With, wake up to find myself on the folding bed in the apartment, reaching for the alarm clock and dashing to get breakfast." His Highness said, "Mademoiselle waltzes as If on air." Liane smiled up at him.
"It Ib my partner who dances well," she returned. She thought, I'm Cinderella, What If the clock strikes 12? They danced into a little covert of chrysanthemums and silken hangings. "Rest?" her escort asked. "One grows fatigued?" "Not at all," Liane assured him. But already he was drawing out a McLane, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Rue and daughters, Leila and Leona, Mrs. H. C. Rue, Mr.
and Mrs. I. L. Decker, Mr. and Mrs.
Burleigh Phillips, Mrs. R. I. Taylor, Mrs. C.
C. Ferguson, Robert Robb, Mrs. Roland Minnehan, Mrs. Chambers, Mrs. Chet Homan, Mrs.
Jim Stock-ley, Mrs. George Watkins, Mr. and Mrs. M. R.
Cartwright and Mrs. Kimball of Jacksonville. Mrs. Will L. Howes and daughter, Sarah Lou, have returned to their home in Jacksonville, after a pleasant visit with Mrs.
Howes' parents, Captain and Mrs. E. S. Coutant. E.
R. Frederick and wife are visiting friends and relatives in Mar-shalville and Swainsboro, Ga. Miss Nellie Holmes McAnulty of Malone, is visiting Miss Es-telle Williams at the latter's apart In a hotel lobby I heard an American protesting over a hundred franc charge of a porter for buying a ticket to Frankfort, Germany. "But," argued the porter," "many Americans give me a thousand francs for such service." Replied the Yank: "Maybe so. But they will not be coming over this summer." he would actually be present But i "It's nice to see you," Liane told here he was.
I him. And Indeed this young man The cigar box like shops under the ancient rue Liane, In a frothy frock of petal whom Muriel had once described as chiffon cut demurely low to show "devastating" seemed more than her young shoulders was staying ever like a friend ami brother to-close to the kindly Mrs. Cleespaugh. night. There was about this atmosphere! "You're pretty easy on the eye de Rivoli porticoes depend largely on tourists and 8 1 two men on the box, it was an im little gilt chair, offering her cigar consequently pickings are thin.
But prices are as high as ever. Those of us who expected bargains this season can begin our hand-wringing the first day. New York is far cheaper. "Nice doodabs you're mlringly. "Modemoiselle does not wish? But how refreshing!" He mar- sporting." Llano looked down at the pearls Velil at her.
"Ah, this Is pleasant." on her throat "They are," shej They were a little withdrawn agreed. "They've been in my rum the ballroom. The music fiance's family for years. They're canie 0 them faintly muted. Liane so precious I'm afraid to wear thought of Clive whose blue eyes them, really, but he wanted me to would sarch the dancers for her ia tonight." vain.
"So you're joining up with the The Prince lifted a curtain which Junior Leaguers," Chuck Desmond I concealed a little door. "This leads murmured. "How d'you think you'll: to the balcony," he said softly, like it?" "Let us find ourselves some air. I A seller of dirty postcards sidled up near Rum-plemayer's and flashed his p*rnographic exhibit from under his coat. "What makes you think I'm interested in such trash?" I asked, hot under the collar.
"American college boys always are," he replied. Thus complimented, had he been selling anything else I would have bought him out. Tomorrow I shop for a blazer and beret. Rah, rah, rah! The clipped voices, the assured manners which were not manners at all but sublimated rudenesses, the massaged, scented and exquisitely dressed women frightened and chilled her. She thought, "Is it possible I am ever to enter this circle really as an intimate?" The idea vaguely terrified her.
Clive, at her elbow, said, "Dance this?" She looked up at him, grateful for his nearness, for the sense of Tightness and security his presence afforded her. As she gave herself, quite impersonally, to his embrace she thought that life would not be such a bad thing with this young Liane flushed and looked away. She said "Tell me about the Prince. What's he really like?" Chuck Desmond said shrewdly, ments. Mrs.
John Butterfield and chil- dren have returned from a visit to Cleveland- Joe Aplin and family have re-! turned from a trip to Indian Springs and Cordele, Ga. Miss Maxlne Cressler of Chicago, who has been visiting Miss Hazel Dyer, has gone to Jacksonville, where she is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. W.
Cressler. Mrs. R. B. Ulmer and small daughters, Peggy Joe and Elaine, drove to St.
Cloud Tuesday to visit her sister, Mrs. Kenneth Rothrock. While away Mrs, Ulmer visited Mr. I Ulmer's sisters who are at Benson Springs. i Miss Helen Weatherly who went to McCall, S.
a few weeks ago, writes friends here that they are having a pleasant summer. i Mr. and Mrs. O. L.
Baldwin have gone on a camping and fishing trip up the North Fork. The Rev. U. E. Reid is spending a few days at DeLand and Lees- burg.
Miss Helen R. McCord was a week-end guest of Miss Rannie Ri-cou, at Jensen. WHEN THE SHRINE PARADES Anyone who watched the recent Shrine convention, in which dozens of bands and thousands of gaily uniformed men marched in colorful parades, must wonder occasionally if just such fraternal organizations as this do not hold out a good deal of hope for world peace. One of the things that makes war attractive (when it begins) is the fact that it provides music, uniforms and marching men for a somewhat drab and monotonous world. People like those things and respond to them; sometimes they are willing to have a war just to get them.
But such an outfit as the Shrine furnishes all of these things in abundance without the war. Those who like to wear uniforms and march have a chance to get It out of their systems; those who like to watch such things can satisfy their desires without cost. Everybody is happy, and no harm is done. Isn't it, after all, a pretty good thing? "I didn't mean to butt in. Sorry I was pleased to learn that a roar of voices each 9:30 a.
m. through my hotel window was the recess shouting of a school nearby. Historians report a similar roar rising in Crescendo as the revolution got going Several times I've started packing. (Copyright, 1931, McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) posing vehicle of slate gray and chromium plate. His Highness sprang w'hin, beckoning Chuck Desmond 5 follow.
"You chaps go along," Clive said. "I'm driving my own car." He felt he could not bear to be shut up with this stupid youns man who had left Liane alone and unguarded at the mercy ot the unseen enemy. Clive sprang Into his own car and wheeled it around. Picking up speed it soon passed the biir, motor with the London licens plate. 'Though where I'm going exactly I don't know," the youns man admitted to himself, setting his jaws ominously.
"Only well, there may be a few necks broken tonight in this business!" At the first gas station he drew up with an unholy screech ot brakes. "See anything of a dark blue sedan with Jersey plates?" he wanted to know. The club attendant noted that much about the ghost car. The man in jeans shook his head slowly. "Been Inside," ha returned.
'S late. I was catch ing a nap. You In trouble?" Chuck said shortly. "We'ra after some fellows. Heard went this way." (To Be Continued) man by her side.
They threaded! Well, he's a swell guy but not at a their way through the mazes ot the racket like this. Too ha-cha-cha. The past five generations of peoples in the United States have wasted sufficient to provide a living for their two future generations. Daniel C. Burkholder, Holley, Ore.
perish here." The little winding stair Indeed led to tiny gallery with French windows. "Ah, you are cold," mourned the prince, noting that Liane shivered. "Permit me. I go to get a cloak." Liane by this time was beginning to find His Highness just a shade too notional but she hardly knew how to extricate herself from the situation. "I'll wait," she agreed.
The Prince hurried oil. He was not gone more than three mlnuteB at the most When he returned the staircase was empty. The little gilt chair had been overturned. One of the gardenias which the girl had worn on her shoulder lay crumpled, a shred of flesh colored chiffon clinging to it At the very foot ot the stairs lay the most tell-tale clue of all a tiny silver slipper. music.
Clive's arm tightened around her. How well he danced! He said. "Sorry," and steered her deftly around a cruising pair, a plump matron in sea green velvet and her languid escort Liane thought for an instant that the tightening of bis arm had been an impulsive movement Her pulse had quickened a little at the thought With disappointment she realized he was only being instinctively gallant, trying to avoid a collision which had seemed Imminent Strang, strange voting man, she reflected. A little piqued she was He's on parade. Can't be himself." Desmond said "Cheery-ho" as Clive, somewhat stiffly, cut in again.
"Known that fellow long?" Clive asked in a voice just a shade too casual. "I met him at the theatre last summer," Liane explained. "He's nice. Lot ot fun." Clive said "Hum" in a noncommittal manner. Liane almost giggled.
She had never before seen him give an impersonation of the protective male. She was sitting in the Cleespaugh, box a few moments later when Des- The financial position in which the government now finds itself is not unfavorable for dealing with the present emergency Secretary of Treasury "I'm just making the rounds," as the champ airily said, toying with a set-up. The famous German cruiser, the "Kaiser," has been raised from I the ocean bottom on which it was scuttled during the World War I and towed, upside down, to an I English port. 1 Nothing goes to a fellow's head so much as a good cast bay fever. The fear on three dollars a.
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