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RELIGION FIGHT SMALL PART OF SOVIET ACTIVITY Business Expansion Plan Occupies Major Place on Program. Following Is thf sixth of t series of articles br Ed L. Keen, rice-president of the l.’nlted Press for Enrope, destine with conditions In Rossis snd his personal impression of the religious and economic morements in the Soviet republic. Keen has returned from Moscow to Berlin. BY ED L. KEEN United Press Vice-President for Europe BERLIN, March I.—Because these dispatches dealing with Russian affairs have been concerned largely with the religious question, it should not be assumed that the Soviets are so occupied with their anti-religious campaign that they have no time to pursue other phases in the development of their revolutionary program. The fact is that the religious question occupies a comparatively small part of their attention and provides one of the least of their manifold activities. Probably few persons in the outer world appreciate that the Soviet government already is the biggest single business enterprise in history, conducting as it does practically all the manufacturing, mining, buying, selling, transportation, banking, importing and exporting for a nation of 150.000,000 people, covering onesixth of the earth’s surface. Trade Restricted It Is a super-trust such as the world never before has seen. Only about 15 per cent of the country’s entire business still remains outside its clutches, and this narrow margin of private trade is being restricted further day by day. Just now this Goliath of trusts is engaged in a breath-taking scheme of business expansion involving increases in every trade and industry and even; department of commercial and cultural life, including education, exploration, art, the drama and even motion picture films. It is known as the “five-year plan,” and its execution began on Oct. 1. 1928. Production during the first year, scheduled to increase by 21 per cent, actually increased 24 per cent. This huge plan for inudstrial expansion affords a distinct advantage to outside enterprise. Purchases Increase The principal needs of the Soviet from abroad, in pursuit of this industrial plan, are quantities of machinery of all kinds for the construction ol new plants, and the expert, technical assistance of foreign engineers and other specialists. , In both these respects, the United States is occupying an increasingly important place. Purchases of American machinery are increasing steadily, and hundreds of American technicians already are working in the industrial centers of the Soviet Union, co-operating in, and in many places actually directing, the construction of factories and the improvement of existing works. These and similar agencies are contributing materially to help Russia achieve the realization oS the most daring and the most important economic scheme ever drafted by audacious mankind. Indigestion Causes Death PLYMOUTH. Ind., March I. John Luse. 57. Plymouth railroad crossing watchman, fell dead at the home of a son, a victim of ingigestion. \\ Down Ladies' or Gents' _ _ Diamond /QC Ring Gorgeous Blue White Diamond set in latest style engraved solid white gold mounting, sent to you on approval. Order now’ aiL' 43 S. Illinois St Mail OrdefsNo Money Down Mail This Coupon for FREE INSPECTION Sencf no montv. Nothing to pgv on delivery. You take no risk. Mail orders filled, no matter where you live. Sent all prepaid. RITE'S. tj S. ILL. ST . INDIANAPOLIS. Gentlemen: I would be glad to have you send me. delivery prepaid, the beautiful $19.75 Diamond Ring for mv free inspection. If satisfactorv. 1 will send 75c a week until paid lor. Otherwise Til return at your expense within 5 days after receiving merchandise. Tour Nome (in full) Addrett City or P. O. Busin- s* or Occwpnf ;ot* Credit Reference Times A GOOD BUSINESS SCHOOL Strong business, stenographic, secretarial and accounting courses; individual Instruction In major subjects, large faculty of specialists in their respective lines: Free Employment Service. Fred W. Case. Prin. CENTRAL BUSINESS COLLEGE Pennsylvania and Vermont, First Door North X. W. C. Au, Indian*polls, I*4.

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Sinclair's Delicacies Odd Contrast to Turnips and Beans Diet Suffered by Fellow-Inmates. In this article, the fourth of a series In which a former Inmate of the District of Columbia Jail rivet tho Inalde story of Harry F. Sinclair's Imprisonment there for contempt of the l'. S. Senate, the writer tells how Sinrlalr avoided the coarse, unpalatable Jail food and dined on special fare sent In from outside restaurants and prepared by his own attendants In lail. BY A FELLOW PRISONER fCopyright. 1930, by NEA Service. Inc.l THE one great source of squawks in jail is the food. This ts true in every jail; especially true in the District of Columbia jail. I don’t know what the money allowance per meal per person Is. Obviously, it Isn’t enough. I'm not criticising the jail officials. Probably with the money available, and with prison help in the kitchen, things couldn't be improved But I do know that whereas Harry Sinclair left the Jail in better health than when he came in, the average prisoner had a mighty slim chance of doing the same thing. A man simply can’t thrive on the kind of food that we got—the food that Sinclair didn’t get. There was enough of It. It was the quality that was at fault. There was so much food served that five minutes after mealtime the dining room was always a madhouse from the noise of prisoners beating their tin messkits against the garbage I pails to empty out their uneaten food. n m a IT'OR breakfast we would get -*• baked potatoes and gravy, bread and coffee; or some cereal—oatmeal on some days, cornflakes on another, and so on—bread and coffee. The milk on the cereal, by the way, was always of the “substitute” variety. For dinner there would be lima beans, bacon, bread and water; or kidney beans, bread and water; or navy beans, bread and water; or kidney stew, bread and water; or turnips, bread and water. I don’t mean we had our choice of these dishes. It would be one thing one j day, another the next. For supper there would be, probably, dried peaches or apples or prunes and bread and tea. The jail commissary was open to prisoners if they had any money. The things you could buy there were limited to sardines, chocolate | bars, smokes, etc. The idea in limiting the list so strictly, of course, is to let prisoners know they are being punished. Prisoners’ friends or relatives outside are not allowed to send food into the jail for them. If such food is sent it is refused at the jail office. Money to buy food from the commissary may be sent in, and is given to the prisoner in $5 amounts. This is a strict jail regulation. So you can see that the ordinary prisoner, even if he had money, could not add very greatly to the highly limited jail menu. e m m BUT Harry Sinclair rarely, If ever, ate the jail food. He had liis food brought In from the outside. If—as often happened—his appetite was fr roast squabs on toast, or fresh berries with cream, he got ! those things, whether they were in | season or not. It goes without saying, of course, that he paid for them, and also paid those who got them and served them. There was a Negro prisoner who earned the nickname of Salad Man because of his services to Sinclair. This man had been a railroad dining car waiter, and he knew something about the art of serving food. Sinclair was strong for salads, and that was this boy's long suit. So he made them for him, in abundance, with materials that Sinclair had sent in from the outside. Despite the rule about receiving gifts of food from the outside, Sinclair got many boxes of delicacies from his friends. One friend, in ! particular, in New York state, was very faithful, sending him a box every week loaded with good things. And these boxes were never turned back at the jail office. a a e FROM what I have said, you might suppose that Sinclair would have been vastly unpopular j with the rest of the prisoners. There was a good deal of resentj ment over the special treatment that i was given him, natuarlly; and ! often, when the prisoners sat down ; to a particularly unattractive meal, j one of them would remark causti- | cally. “I wonder how Sinclair would like this!” But on the whole, the | jail inmates liked Sinclair well 'enough. When Sinclair first came in he made a studied effort to adapt himself to his new surroundings and develop cordial relations. Being an office man. of course, he was not much thrown with his fellow prisoners, especially after he got that private bedroom: so he concentrated on the guards, handing out good cigars for the slightest favors. In return he was treated with def- ! erence and respect, and one who did ! not know the circumstances would j have been led to believe that he was only a visitor—anything but a prisoner. NEXT: Visitors, mail and special services. . - e. Six Services for Family Washing! The Best Grand Laundry RI ley 2555

Above is the prisoners’ dining room at the District of Columbia jail, but Harry F. Sinclair did not eat there—his meals were prepared from food sent in from the outside and served by a prisoner who formerly had been a dining car waiter. The inset of Sinclair shows him as he left the jail, apparently having suffered little from his confinement.

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BEGIN' HERE TODAY Because he wants to observe SEYMOUR CROSBY. for certain sinister reasons connected with his profession. DETECTIVE BONNIE DUNDEE accepts DICK BERKELEY'S invitation to spend a week-end at the millionaire Berkeley's home. Crosby. social celebrity of New York, is engaged to CLORINDA BERKELEY, who is not in love with him. Her father is bitterly opposed to the marriage, but her mother is determined upon it. Dinner is an unpleasant ordeal. Gigi, the 15-year-old daughter, freely criticises her family to Dundee. After dinner Crosby presents Mrs. Berkeley with a large flask of perfume, which Gigi snatches from her mother, dashing madly from guest to guest, sprinkling them all. Incensed. Mrs. Berkeley slaps Gigi’s face, and the child runs from the room, soon followed by DICK BERKELEY. On his way to telephone police headquarters for full information on Crosby. Dundee sees Dick Berkeley forcing his attentions upon pretty DORIS MATTHEWS, lady’s maid, who is forced to agree to meet him later. At 10:45 Clorinda abruptly goes Upstairs. and the party breaks up, Mr. Berkeley, however, detaining Mrs. Berkeley for a "conference" in the library. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER FIVE THE room to which Dundee had been assigned was on the third floor of the Berkeley mansion. Dick Berkeley, ushering him into it upon his arrival that Friday evening, had explained: “Nobody but the servants and me up here. I chose my quarters for privacy. Sorry, but you’ll have to use my bath, old man. our room is really what Mother calls my ‘den,’ but the couch is comfortable. “Mother wanted you to have one of the lordly guest chambers on the second floor, but I thought you might enjoy a little bachelor peace and quiet. The ballroom’s on the east, extending the length of the house; otherwise there’s nothing clear across the front but my rooms. “I don’t think you'll mind the servants. They turn in fairly early, all except old Wickett, the butler, and use the backstairs.” Now, as Dundee plodded rather wearily up the winding marble staircase, his mind was a jumble of half-formed foreboding of he knew not what, snatches of strange conversation, distorted pictures. A queer, mad evening. A nightmare reaching its crescendo in that terrible moment when Mrs. Berkeley’s broad palm had left Its mark upon Gigi’s cheek. Funny, brazen, impudent little Gigi! But she had not deserved that! His hand, slipping along the cold marble balustrade, suddenly encountered something soft and living and warm. Startled, he looked down as little brown fingers curled about his. “Gigi!" he whispered, and bent over to stare at the forlorn little figure in incongruously gay pajamas, crouching against the stairhead. “I’ve been waiting for you to come up,” she whispered, her voice catching on a sob. “Dick’s not in his room, and I wanted somebody to pet me and tell me what an awful little beast I am. I couldn’t sleep,” she confessed miserably. Dundee rounded the stairhead and, protected from the sight of anyone below by the high marble balustrade, crouched beside her, cuddling the twisting little brown hands against his dinner coat. # # # YOU do smell sicky-sweet!” she giggled faintly. “Did you think I was terrible, wasting Abbie's perfume like that? Well, I wasn’t! I was just—” “She broke off the confidence abruptly, however; began on anew tack, her topaz eyes glowing like a cat's in the dim light from the third-floor hall bracket. “I wasn’t just being mean then, but afterwards —after Abbie—slapped me— Oh, I did something perfectly dreadful! And now I’m so frightened I can’t sleep!” “Poor little, deal little Gigi!” he said tenderly, and lifted the small hands to his lips. “You can't have done anything ‘perfectly dreadful,’ and of course you're going to trot off to bed right now.” “My!” she breathed softly, solemnly. “You kissed my hands, Bonnie Dundee! Just as if I were a grown-up young lady like Clorinda! I-listen!” she pleaded wistfully, “if you’ll kiss my eyelids I bet I will go to sleep!” He kissed the ecstatically fluttering lids very gently, but he did not kiss the soft, childish little mouth that quivered After all, she was only 15.

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She waited there, crouched against the stairs, until he had gone into his room and closed the door. Switching on the lights he found that a chambermaid had converted the couch into a beautifully madeup bed, and had left a thermos bottle of ice water and a napkincovered plate of tiny sandwiches on the bedside table. Munching one of the dainty triangles, he went into the bathroom, tried the door leading into Dick’s bedroom, and found it unlocked. He knocked, had no answer, then entered. The lights were on, but Gigi had been right. Dick Berkeley was not in his room, but he had been there very recently, for a thin blue layer of smoke still hung over an armchair, and an ash tray beside it held half a dozen cigaret stubs, deposited there since the chambermaid had turned down the covers of the bed. And in the room was a heavy odor of whisky and perfume. “He can’t have got far,” Dundee said to himself, and frowned thoughtfully. Suddenly his mind was made up. Regardless of that fact that Dick was his host, and that his host’s love affairs were none of his concern. Dundee knew that if he could prevent it Dick Berkeley should not further annoy Doris Matthews that night. The girl feared him. despised him, and he was more than half drunk. There was his empty pocket flask. Without forming any definite plan, Dundee hurried out into the hall. Yes, thank heaven, Gigi had gone to bed! He plunged down the stairs, his steps inaudible on the thick velvet runner. # # # In the ten minutes or so since he had gone up, the house had apparently settled down for the night. In all the big front hall there was only one dim light burning, but as Dundee was crossing noiselessly to the drawing room there came the faint sound of a door opening, immediately followed by an angry, implacable voice: “And that's my last word on the subject, Abbie! There’ll be no engagement announced here tomorrow night! I’ll not have my daughter marrying a wife-murderer!” “Shut that door, George Berkeley!” Dundee heard Mrs. Berkeley’s voice shrilling in the library. “Do you want Wickett to hear you? Now you listen to my last word—” # # # THE library door closed, and Dundee was temporarily saved from the charge of eavesdropping. He hesitated, his plan to interfere with Dick Berkeley’s amorous pursuits forgotten for the moment. So George Berkeley suspected, too! Or did he more than suspect? Had he ferreted out, with the aid of private detectives, something that had not appeared at that strangely perfunctory inquest eighteen months months ago in London? But wait! Perhaps he had no need of private detectives! Right here in the house was Doris Matthews, Mrs. Crosby's personal maid, whose testimony had figured so prominently in the inquest. Just what had she testified? Dundee knit his brows in an effort to remember clearly. Then he shrugged. Tomorrow he would have the resume of the case which Strawn had promised to mail that night. The Dick matter was more pressing now. And he stepped softly into the dark drawing room. His goal was the buffet in the dining room. If Dick wasn’t there, he probably wasn’t in the house at all. Halfway across the room a light from the dining room made the going easier. Wickett, the butler, stood at the big sideboard, counting silver spoons into a velvet-lined chest. He wheeled at some faint sound the detective had made, and peered frowningly. "I was looking for Mr. Dick Berkeley, Wickett,” Dundee declared himself. “He is not here. sir. The wine was returned to the cellar some time ago, sir.” “Right, Wickett!" Dundee grinned, then protested as the butler advanced dutifully to turn on the drawing room lights. “Don’t bother!

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I can see well enough. But if you do see Mr. Dick, I wish you would tell him I very much want to see him before I turn in.” The butler, with a “Very well, sir,” returned to his work, and Dundee threaded his way through the over-furnished, dimly lit drawing room. He was just about to step out into the hall when a faint, muffled cough warned him that someone was descending the stairs. Not relishing the idea of again explaining his presence on the darkened lower floor, he shrank back against the heavy silk brocade hangings, then, because he was a detective, and because that active sixth sense of his warned him that the person stealing down the stairs was as anxious to be unobserved as he was himself, he quite shamelessly peeped. # # # IT was Clorinda Berkeley. Even in the dim light her tall slender body was unmistakable. And she was going out, stealing out, for she was wearing, over the wine-red velvet evening dress, a cape of gold metal cloth, trimmed with dark fur. His eyes quite accustomed by now to the dim light, Dundee could even distinguish the modernistic pattern of the batik silk scarf she was pulling nervously through her fingers as she tiptoed down the last steps of the stairs. He waited, scarcely breathing, for he thought she must pass very close to him on her way to the front door. But she did not leave by that door. “She rounded the stairs, listened for a moment to the subdued clash of voices from within the library, then tiptoed down the hall toward the backstairs regions. Dundee heard the door open very softly, did not hear it close. Apparently Clorinda was guarding her return, that it might be as noiseless as possible. After a minute of hesitation, Dundee followed her to the door, and listened. Very faintly came the sound of a chain being rattled, then still more faintly the sound of a bolt being shot back. Clorinda had left the house by the back door, which Wickett had already made fast for the night. So Dick Berkeley was not the only member of that family who stole out to keep secret appointments! Whom was Clorinda meeting? Seymour Crosby? After all, they were engaged to be married, and their first evening together after weeks of separation had not been a signal success. But—they had not looked upon each other as lovers ardently desiring to be alone. Half an hour later—a quarter to 12—when Dundee had had a tepid bath to induce sleep, young Dick, at least, had not returned from his rendezvous. Dundee shrugged wearily as he got into bed. Apparently the lovely little Doris had been quite willing to meet her mistress’ son clandestinely, in spite of her seeming reluctance. Still—She certainly hadn’t looked like “that kind of a girl.” And hadn’t Mrs. Lambert told Crosby that Doris was very happy in her engagement to Arnold, the chauffeur? The next questions Dundee asked were spoken aloud; “Who’s there? What is it?” It was broad daylight and someone was pounding on his door and calling his name. (To Be Continued) WATCH REPAIRING I At Cost of Material WATCH CRYSTALS Round ......19c Fancy .........49c Unbreakable .....49c Cleaning (any watch) .....$1.09 Mainspring (any watch) .....99c Jewels (any watch) .....$1.19 Rite’s Jewelry Shop 43 S. Illinois St. 666 Tablets Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in 30 minutes, checks a Cold the first day, and cheeks Malaria in three days. 666 also in liquid

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