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k Test Your Knowledge Can you answer seven of these ten questions? Turn to page Four for the answers. •- -4 1. For what degree do the initials ,1. C. f>. stand? 2. On what river is the city of Berlin. Germany? 3. How is 1939 written in Roman numerals? 1. For what is Sir Henry Bessemer famous? 5. What does perfidious mean? ! 6. What religion did the French chemist Louis Pasteur proiess? 7. Can women vote in the U. S. at the age of eighteen? 8. Who was appointed by Pre- ; ideut Roosevelt to fill the T. V. A. | post vacated by Arthur E. Morgan? 9. What is another name for the game of draughts? 10. What is the poetical name for Ireland? 1. Where is the Copper River? 2. What is a hydrometer? 3. Who was appointed by President Roosevelt to the Supreme

Morgenthau Explains '*'2 Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., explains to Senator Morris Sheppard, chairman of the Military Affairs Committee, how it happened that M. Paul Chemidlin, of the French Air Ministry, was riding In the light bomber which crashed during test at Los Angeles. Morgenthau said the U. S. was aiding the French mission in their purchase ot war planes.

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Court of the U. 8., to fill the vacancy created by the death of Benjamin N. Cardozo? 4. Can the President pardon anyone who has been convicted of a ctime? 5. What are the pigment primary colors? 6. Whom did Jess Willaid defeat to win the world's heavyweiglht ’ oxing championship? 7. What is the correct pronunciation of the word insatiate? S. Is Armistice Day, Nov. 11 a legal holiday in the District of Colurbia? * 9. What are the colors in the flag ■ of Czecho-Slovakia? 10. Name the river that drains the Great Lakes. • ■ ■——■ —O " * '■ Coir. Flip Elects Corst-b ; » £ > Clarksburg, C:.. .u.R) When Ralph Plyman and Joseph Mello each received 22S votes for constable. the chairman of the board ! of supervisors took the election ; into his own hands, flipped a dollar and awarded the election to Plyman on the turning up of "tails."

Church Aids Aborigines Melbourne (U.R) — The Presbyterian Church of Australia has undertaken to take care of the dying remnants of the aboriginal tribes of the country. It has purchased Ernabella, a &i>o-squure-mile sheep ranch in the heart of Australia which will be kept Inviolate for the aborigines who will help with the grazing of 1,65(1 sheep.

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CHAPTER XXVI “1 do hope,” Ann sighed, “that those men who are down here from Scotland Yard have not been worrying Elisabeth.” Matresser looked across at his sister with a slight frown. “Please do not get this matter wrong," he said coldly. "There is only one bona fide Scotland Yard man down —Inspector Finch—and I am sure that he has not been near Mademoiselle Stamier. The other fellow, Marlow, is a different type altogether. He had a brief interview with Mademoiselle Stamier in my presence and I can answer for it that he remained entirely civil. He is dining here tonight, so for heaven’s sake let everyone be polite to him! “I think I hear some cars in the drive,” Matresser went on, listening for a moment. “I suggest that we all avoid the subject of the Fergus death during the evening, and while I think of it -at half-past nine precisely—l shall have to go to the telephone. Yates tdok a message while I was out in the Park talking to the pilot.” “More mysteries?" his mother asked, with a slight uplifting of the eyebrows. “Nothing that approaches a mystery,” her son assured her. “It is this little excursion that Sir Francis wants me to undertake. I was not so keen on it, till he sent this plane down. Now I must confess that I am rr.ther looking forward to it.” “If you were anything of a brother,” Ann said reproachfully, “you would take your little sister with you. I would love to fly, if it were only to Paris.” “Next time,” Matresser promised. “Here come our friends.” » » « At precisely twenty-five minutes past nine that evening Burrows approached his master with: “I beg your lordship’s pardon, but there is a call through from London on the telephone.” | Matresser excused himself to his immediate neighbors and waved his hand in apology to his mother. In the study he found Henry Yates who whispered, “They have just rung up to warn that a message will be through on the private line as the clock strikes nine-thirty.” Yates was showing signs of excitement. Matresser, on the other hand, seemed entirely unaffected by the tenseness of the moment. The idea that he was probably to be the first person in the world outside Downing Street to hear certain great news may have possessed some dramatic significance for him, but he showed no signs of it. With a glance at the clock he lit a cigarette and took his place before the table. Precisely at the half hour, . the expected tinkle came. “Francis Tring speaking from London. Is that Matresser?” “Speaking, Sir Francis,” was the clear reply. “It is now half-past nine,” the Foreign Secretary continued. “We have been in conference for five hours. We are, I honestly believe, nearing agreement but we have not reached it yet.” “What happens then?” “We have adjourned for an hour. Some of us are dining here, others are going home for a few minutes. At a quarter past ten we reassemble. It is understood between us that we are to arrive at a decision before we separate.” “That seems sound.” “I have already received news that the plane arrived.” “Quite right. It has been here for a couple of hours.” will

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ators,” Sir Francis went on, “hold- . ing on to the private line until we ’ give the signal for dismissal. You are an old campaigner and I know you won’t mind an all-night wait." “I shall be within a dozen yards i of the phone until it rings—say from eleven o’clock," Matresser announced. "Capital 1 Things are moving in the right direction but we are all a little nervous. I have attended many of these conferences and have never known the strain like it is now... . Later on, then, Matresser.” “Later on,” the latter echoed. • • • Matresser slipped quietly back into his place and picked up the conversation with his neighbor almost where they had left it. It happened to be a dinner of young people rather than a formal gathering and very soon his mother rose from her place and was followed from the room by the other women. “Come along, Colonel,” Matresser invited, "and you, Miller, and Marlow. There are all sorts of orgies for you young people tonight—table tennis, for one game. Pretty violent exercise, I must warn you. Bridge for the elders and billiards for the middle-aged. Two glasses of port and away we go. Cigars and coffee in the lounge. It is a sensible age we live in, General,” he went on, as Hamilton sank into the high-backed chair by his side. "We have got out of the arm-chair habit. Modern man is beginning to realize that there is nothing like movement for keeping young.” “That’s all very well for you youngsters,” the General grunted, “but what are you going to do when you find you are seated opposite a decanter of '7O port at my time of life?” “Well, that’s one temptation from which we shall be removed before long,” his host reminded him. “My cellarman tells me we are on the last bin of '7o’s. Is it true that you are going north, General?” “They are talking about it,” was the somewhat gloomy reply. “A hard life, a soldier's.” Major Miller, acting adjutant of the regiment, remarked fingering the stem of his wineglass. “You just get used to a place and begin to feel thoroughly at home when one of those mysterious fellows behind the scenes at the War Office gives you the shove. By-the-by, Matresser, are you going to add flying to the long list of your accomplishments?” he asked. “That's a magnificent plane in the corner of the Park there.” “No, I’m too old to take up flying,” Matresser replied. “That belongs to a foreign friend who wants to take me off for a few days....” There was a quarter of an hour’s neighborly talk, then Matresser led the way into the circular lounge where coffee was being served, i Without any apparent effort he , started two bridge tables and the table tennis. Soon the whole party was busily engaged. . . . Matresser took one last look around and slipped away to his study and Henry Yates. “All serene, Henry?” he asked, closing the door behind him. “Quite quiet, sir. The government operator from Norwich rang up to be sure that we were still in touch and to test the line. Nothing else.” Matresser glanced at the clock. It was ten minutes to eleven. “Shows their second session is lasting out,” he meditated. “Getting nervous. Henry?” “I don’t think that I am ever that, sir,” the little man replied, stroking his short beard, “but in this case I am not fully acquainted with the of Ithe_ situation.”

I here, alarmed by some squawking. ' and saw one of her chickens dis I appearing In a mudhole. GrabI bing the bird, she found it was being pulled under by a large turtle. , 0 ■——— — Quakes Losing Force Oakland. Cal. (U.R> Either California earthquakes are getting weak or else the public is gelling used to them. With 37 shocks during the past year, the most (he

“Can't say any of us are. We have > been drifting so long, though, that i any decisive action will seem to be sensational.” ... . “You think them will be war, sir?” ' Matresser answered like a man whose thoughts were in some faraway place. “One’s fancies go for nothing at such a time. They spring up in the mind like weeds and pass with the ticking of the clock. Something is going to happen, Henry. That I am sure of. I could feel the shiver of excitement all over Europe last time I came back. What does happen will depend upon such a small decision—a tremor in Downing Street tonight, a mind that turns the wrong way in Berlin tomorrow. Anything might do it, Henry. And what a war!” Matresser had walked to the broad window at the further end of the apartment looking across the Park. All was darkness as he stood there absorbed. “Tell me the time, Henry,” he asked without turning round. “Five minutes to eleven.” Matresser left the window and walked down the room toward the small round table on which the telephone stood. “I feel so foolishly futile,” he confided, “shut up here in a locked room talking to myself, trying to keep calm —and yet believe me, Henry, I am aching to overwhelm those bloody-minded, slobbering so-called men of letters who sit ready to launch their flailing phrases and raucous rhetoric. They have got it all cut-and-dried. ‘Not one yard of our beloved Empire, won by those who gave body and soul for their country, shall be parted with— ’ The clock began to strike the hour. Matresser was suddenly silent. His severe mood had left him. He stood close to Yates, whose eyes were fixed upon the telephone instrument. Before the last stroke of the clock the message came. “Norwich speaking. London is on the line.” Matresser gripped the receiver which had been handed to him. “Matresser this end,” he said calmly. It was Sir Francis’ voice, husky with emotion. "We have won, Matresser,” he announced. “Magnificent!” Sir Francis’ voice came for a moment shrill and then again hoarse. “At a great cost. Everyone seems stupefied. The room is like a battlefield strewn with the corpses of mangled phrases and mortally wounded hopes. Destroy your telephone connection. Leave with the dawn, or before, if the moonlight helps. Your pilot will know.” Then silence. Matresser took up a huge pair of scissors from the desk and cut the green telephone eord. His voice seemed suddenly inspired. Yates stared at him in amazement. “Official orders, Henry. Too late now for anyone to change their minds. It is only five minutes past eleven: You have sent everything to the plane?” “Everything.” Matresser's fingers were already upon the handle of the door when the crash came.' The casement of the French window fell inwards, smashed through the center and the carpet was covered with splintered glass. A man in blue overalls, his face bleeding, staggered into the room. “You must come to help,” he cried in German. “They will kill my pilot I I myself am shot!” (To be continued) Cwiyrftht. _l >3T, by King F—turei Syndicate

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MARKET daily report r.t ... Ml AND FOREIGN Brady's Market for D fca . Hm Orville. H'-Qano Closed at 12 Noor v January j. K No commit' „ aillJ Veal, recited 100 to to 110 140 to 200 to 23,i |bs MW to 250 to 3"O lbs 300 to 350 |l,s. 350 lbs., and up ■■ Roughs spring lambs Yearling bin .. i anibs Yearlings WHOLESALE EGG POULTRY QLOTATIOnM —~ Furnished oy Metz's Egg 4 p uultry Decatur p hone (. orre. ■ d .lati .ary Prices tor first las.. -- and over per ;ls >> jH||| .... Heavy Springers. white Rock 5 ar. ; up, Heavy hens, ’.-It. and up Leghorn h< ns l.eutioin >; " BIU CHICAGO GRAIN July Wheat ,v, ■■ Corn Oats FORT WAYNE ■_ I—Livestock:1—Livestock: BSD Ilogs. 15< SMo; lbs . $S 20, > 240 lbs Jiri 260-2 SO lbs $7.45; $7 3-' lbs. $7 IV ; 120 lbs.. $7.55. M Roughs. $6.5" izs. Calves, sl2. :; v hsH INDIANAPOLIS

liidiau. —Livestock: ■ . lbs.. $' J-‘. $' !• itZM js -■ .'H| Itio lbs . $7 Iliull'T. Ill< •> * V ' •• »’ MB Cattle. 1 ..■■’■ •"«: ing slow i'ii i lasses, : BE stronger pri, ■ - s'.en:M|| early lu i•♦•: - - al $!i.25: bidtliuu .V I OWS . X > ” Sheep. I l.i'llbS higher : t<d « |:!IM 100 lbs . J'i.S". :.w best M $9-»9.50. H EAST BUFFALO LIVESTOM East Buffalo, N Y (U.R>—Livestock: B Hogs. l.Sho: active: :«■ Friday; good ;r l chniee B| pounds, usually lbs.. $'.75: 22' " ■ 270-300 lbs.. $. > ' 140-200 lbs.. *' J. iv sows mainly 15" He. “$■ $6.65. Cattle. 2.300. ’ adians: active, steady; o>® ferings steady. steed® yearlings. $9.5" -jio.i..; ye® heifers, $9.75; bulk nn-cHum and heifers inn > ■. < iinadm® $9; beef cows. $«.5"-$7; lo® ter cows, $4-$5 3-‘. medium® $6.40-$6.75. ■ Calves, 500. ssiow® good and choi< ■ "" "® sl3. ® Sheep. 111111,8 ® steady; good and choice ■ | largely 19.75; inferior ,h ™B ■ $6 and less; fat ev s, sF»‘® * LOCAL GRAIN BURK ELEVATOR <-O.M Corrected January s°- ■ Prices to be paid tomvWtW I No. 1 Wheat, 60 lbs or i No. 2 Wheat, etc '■ Oats, 30 lbs. test "■ | No. 2 Yellow Corn ■ I New No. 4 Yellow Corn | I No. 2 Soy Beans 9 ' Rye | CENTRAL SOYA CO. I No. 2 Soy Beans • - I MARKETS AT A JUA*® Stocks: higher in <l lliel ■ Bonds: fhm; U- S. governs higher. I Cunb stocks: irreghiar. ■ Chicago stocks: irregulariy| er. . I Call money: otic per cen ■ ■ Foreign exchange: J rate steady in relation ■ “11 Cotton: Irregular. ~, stl Grains: Chicago wdica- | corn firm up about 's c ' ll ‘ i Chicago livestock. ho« 1 ; cattle steady to i ll-0 " 8, 1 steady. < ■ I Rubber up more | Silver bar in New lot 1 led at 42%c a fine ounce. I