ι .. -.is Poru'.c > ινν
< :ipf. W. M. Quia;Iey
'.V ' ;,m M. Q y, 1'. S
Xa.... 1 . bed» appointed chief of
'aft <<f 1 hi' IN ru\ ian
navy I·!.--!·lf*>t Manuel Prado.
Il, : · ill i < S. ti:n ;il n:îi<-o-r to
I . ! ■ i il !i t he Sunt h Ameri
.: j's h i >.·; 11 -t navul rank.
tfov, 12, Gets Life
Robert Messcx
Γ ! l'<st l'f hi? li fp î53 tVio
o, ttobert Messex, 12. The boy
:· '■ ·■ Ί t>. life imprisonment
; ■ esboro, Ga„ for the fatal
■ ·' father in revenge fur
a whipping.
(Central Prcis)
Off to the Hunt
l.auriiz Milchior
laurit- *,! ' : ior. ^roat Wagnerian
ten :. 1 li a hunter in his
Opera ι.ι.. ■; and in real life, dons a
1 ar 1, Xi'w York home anil
■ Ljf'.inl hum as he pre
·.. iv. on a hunting trip. He
will . : ' ν ι ]i'"iiths in th.e back
is if Ala-ka.
Hits Pricc Fixing
Sen. I'.Uison I). Smith
^ investigation of price-fixing
Powers of Le,m Henderson, admin
istrator of the Office of l'rice Ad
ministration ami Civil Supply. »'»s
demanded in Washington l>y Son
«or Ellison 1). (Cotton Ed) Smith,
'•f South Carolina, who declared
Henderson would bo summoned be
iur« the Senate for questioning.
(Central tr*»»).
Held in Killing
α
MM
John Trudrung and his 21-year-olil
bride, Kathryn, arc pictured after
their arrest in Los Angeles in con
nection with tlic slaying· of Loo P.
Miller, 7'J. Police say ho was beaten
tu death in his Los Angeles rooming
house in a quarrel over rent.
Speaks for Defense
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, newly
appointed director of the Otliee of
Civilian Defense speaks at the
rally sponsored l>v the United Serv
ice Organizations m New York,
i'romisinn the "mistake-: of 1U1 Τ
Ι 8 will not Lie repeated," he asserted
the Ollice of Civilian Defense "is
going to be ditferent,"
Using α More Suitable Bed
May Result in Sounder Sleep
By LOGAN ( !.i:M>! MMi. M. I).
• Wo spend a third of oui lives
in bed, but we certainly do not
spend a tenth . f our energy and
thought in making our sle. ping
equipment comfortable and etli
cioiit. Ι)ι·. Norman I). Mattison of
New York is one of the very few
physicians who has attempted any
scientific study of the --ubject.
Ten years ago he began to be
interested in improving the nature
of the nation's sleep. Ho had spent
l>r. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
liis column.
λ day at the Mellon Institute in
Pittsburgh while the Simmons in
vestigation was going on. The re
sults of that investigation showed
that a sleeper made 115 tu fiO major
changes of position during the
night on ordinary mattresses, but
no study was made to show wheth
er fewer ,:tir.·· were made on more
scientific mattresses than on or
dinary ones.
Pi. Mattison got to thinking,
and he was inspire.1 by two con
siderations. One was that in the
United States there are consumed
from 35 to TO thousand pounds of
hypnotic drugs like luminal. This
would indicate that there is some
thing the matter with the comfort
of our beds. The other was that
millions of people are taking
treatment to improve their pos
ture·, which might be improved, he
surmised, by the use of better
sleeping equipment.
Regional Resistances
After several years' work he
has formulated a principle, which
is regional spring resistances pro
portional to regional differences
in recumbent body weight. By ar
ranging three scales with ham
mocks in them and putting differ
ent people of varying bodily build '
in these slings, he found that the ,
central scale bore twice as much
weight as either of the other two. j
Mattresses, he concluded, should
be more solidly constructed in the i
middle than they are to avoid the .
inevitable sagging. Mattresses
should be hard in some places and
soft in others.
He has been able to persuade
mattress.^ manufacturers of the
correctness of his views anil many
such mattresses are available. I
Undoubtedly it seems reason- j
able that such scientifically de
signed mattresses will tend to
make for beUi r posture and by
that means improve general j
health. ι
I The preference many people
have for a wide bed i- probably
because on a wide bed they can
subconsciously indulge in squirm
ing and turning in an · (Tort to get
j a just, distribution ef weights.
I There is no reason why we should
; not sleep well in a i..invw bed on
1 a properly designed mattress.
; Since mattresses are opposed to
I be soft, Dr. Mattison suggests that
: their tendency to sag w.!:i age be
corrected with pillows, folded
blankets, or even with wood. But
a correctly designed r.i-w mattress
made on scientific principles is
better. As a mat. ί et fact, soft
mattresses are not r.. .·■ -sarily the
best. It has been 1' ! that people
who sleep on the !·:::.· flwor make
a smaller number ef turnings and
position adjustmu - during the
night than those on -< 1't mat
tresses.
We have spent a g << i deal of
thought and time ::i designing
scientific shoes which ! ear the
weight of the body ,.;r:· g the day
time. Why not sp< nd s. me of the
same effort to design a scientific
apparatus to support i,.ir weight
at night?
QUESTION'S AND ANSWERS
R. E.:—"Please ads;-·· me if
constant, scorching baths,
without being followed : y cold,
have any bad effects η skin."
Answer—I think they do in el
derly people. They make the skin
dry, remove the gieasc, i'.d cause
itching. Un loss used for some
definite purpose, I am net in favor
of what you describe as c. nstant,
scorching hot baths.
A M. P.:—"Please tell me
whether lemon juice and epsoni
,-alts is good for high blood pres
sure."
Answer—I do not believe they
are of any value. There lias been
a recent rediscovery of the use of
peppermint lozenges foi high
blood pressure. 1 know of a woman
whose mother wrote her from
England to use peppermint lozen
ges and she has one in her mouth
all the time, and all the symptôme
of high blood pressure which she
had have disappeared.
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ir, ■ l>iei' . "Indigestion and Constipation",
"l! ■•hieing and (îaininu", "Infant Keed
i! ' Iinstructions tor the Treatment of
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Late of the Hair aud Skin".
R/CHARD HOUGHTON
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cn \i'Ti:n two
71Λ Ν" S )NS!STKT> that IKr.ry
Ci i,'>. . ' 111 ■ I at'.; a S-luit.
Ν ·! ···;·. u ·> l.'i: 1 ii in rain like
this."
I'i-.at ·.· ■ ;· 111 I'lC tile p.. ill,]
f ι nr : . ι > H> ι iv Pi··!· : I ■
kr· λ it ..a- a sli .t— and fee l:ne-.v
that nu ! 'mî> r would he· aim ι |
1-îiit lu· didn't i"t Hans s. e he was
v. · >ι ι ,ι ι. ι ; ii -, I v. ;is nu
lle numihU !.
The I. S r-.Jo still flute1 ■
arm a s t '.» ·,· hr· ι iι Ί <!■ >\νι, - -1 ■ j
ailil t h r> ί 11 'h·· I· is- ii .· ::· ■ ■ :·.
\l. Iiii h ι !"·■· i !>· ! il: : ' ■ :n
ail'! si ι u t ΙΊΙ t t li> si ι a in.
Henry, used to the njodest di
mcnMiif.s nf (.nil lu- ,s
impressed ftrst liy the size of the
room Iiich trust have been 5n feet
S(|lliiM>, a pillar evi i v in ι· . t t"
μ 11 >1 ii 11 the In-avy hean.s ι f tl:··
floor above, f-"U y blue canvas hail
1m i n hiin«i n;;ai"St II:·' '.is in a
colli anions sh> ι t al' : ■,.· v. ,iy
an inn· I II:·· η ·■ ■ : 11. (i in ' ! . r- ί.ι .·
half way down to the floor. Lighted
by hidden electric globes, this arti
ficial sky < I'.-at. Ί tl .· :, . : :i of
vast .list !·:.·> - C : . . ! · > η
rounded so that they disappeared
: : I h l.'i: t n
Λ : H1 ;i \.
ward Hi f.rv ···:·. th a
heavy p. 1 t f of
the· c.;n\ · tl: >.>:·: · .f -·.·::·
tint v. mil I t I 1. ι " · r ··.,»
cn ate a Ian·: r.i; ·
Urn: y ■
a clerk at I 'a
— lull 111 1. !
ist—he was
va re store
'^i nation
to sec that the m nit I railroad cluk
was créa tin·· ··. nt mature world of
. . stri teh away
1 · ι·· lier, s η 11 w
ι;. ; ί. t ran the
its ι \vn I
on ο::··
capped
llonz :.
rl.i ■ ■
r,.:
vv u ;
1 ■· "
II . .
tl
r ' :r cl 11 ί,"' ρv
v. .th shell
."! Ί for
"It's Henry
I!.
!. I it lie
M - a lu w. re
« 1 ι >n
fl Ί1 '"··'·; . : I 1, ·:■ ·■ 1
1 · ·. ·;: ν ·: ! I a ft :. .1 s I i>r
the Community Forum. The clerk
w.is flustered farther when the big
man ho hud set η at the doûr a wo
nn nt ■ '.· :. S! : '·.. King, I anlwr,
uu ■■ · ' 1 1.
hobby," King
told ii.· . . i. · :· ο of r ' '.η}.:
Cl.·. · :. As : ' : t v. ■ : · '·' aI Mit
vniir battle net >i:nt! It won't suffer.
V . · · · ι in <a v
a 1· in if y..u
s : .ι.
net
"i
I r..: ted a t: It blond
ii too brilliant lipitick.
."There von go nealn* Business
Statney Κ111 _κ, you ought tu be
ashanit (1 of yi >i 11self'"
II · !· r,kit's cheeks turr.i I pur
ple. "Marcia. I was mutly otb ting
to do Mr. l'utter a service. la it
iiri i. ■ --ary to comment ?"
Their eyes il., bel. and Henry
felt uncomfortable. His nerves, al
i< ι,Λ uneasy because of the lines·
pi.til,' I sh"t he had heard. sensed
ι U:i urn among tile people in this
place.
I I l'.idn't come here to join tin
!uli ' !.. .'\pla:r . 1. 1 just got
< 111·^lit ill tin· i.i η anil —"
Marcia laughed. "Ymi won't get
tv iy until they make a model rail
roader uut of you. They've even
got me modeling trees for tlioii
right-of-way."
Ay show you!" Hans insisted,
tugging at Henrys arm a,id grin
i,mg. "Come. You like it. Maybe
vjii change your mind."
"Yes. indeed,' agreed Professor
Bisheo, "you'll have a much differ
ent idea of model railroading once
you are acquainted with it."
They walked across the room to
where the young man was sketch
ing tree- 'ov ered lulls on the can
vas wall. He turned his head, and
Henry recognized Laurence Hark
ncss, a not distant neighbor.
"I didn't know you were an
artist," Henry said in surprise.
I don't claim to be one." The
voting man flushed with pleasure
.it the compliment.
"But those sketches are—"
' Our hobby seems to develop un
suspected talents," the proK-ssar
interrupted. "Take me, for exam
ple. Who would think I'd ever be
able to work with my hands?" He
picked up the body of a model re
frigerator car from the table over
■ hich Laurence had been leaning
to reach the · all. "Every part ex
actly to scale—quarter :nch to the
foot. Look at the little ladder. No
tice the couplers They really func
tion."
Henry marveled that the profes
sor's ptiQgy fingers had created
such minute detail The prolessor's
pride was that of an expert.
"Model railroading seems to pro
vide a job for everyone, · ο matter
how divi ι so their in I en . ts." l;i> bei
continued. "Hans le le isn t skilled
at making cars, hut at electrical
control circuits la's a 'vizard. You
ought to see u hat he can make
our locos do."
"Locos?" asked Henry, fearing
for a wild moment that maybe his
wife was right about the insanity
of model railroading
"Locomotives We have thrcv of
them. Cost us $100 a!', Ua.r.''
"Oh!"
Henry studiid the table with in
terest. It Stood about four feet
high, well above the height of an
ordinary table, i v, :: I gh.-r than ι
woi k table, a,al -.vas s à a- mist Ha
waii In low the blue sky It could !"
described as a shelf on legs, ex
tending the whole way at ur.d the
room, even having a folding section
that dropped down in place acros:
•ι,e pn'rsnce door when the i!oor
v\a< closed.
On tliia long table teintatwc
railroad tracta had been laid, com·
piete with switches, sidings, tiny
ignals Model buildingy ere be
j u.g installed, There were a few of
the model tires Marcia mentioned.
I 'livstt-r of pans painted to resem
ble earth vas shaped into moun
tains through which the railroad
; tunneled, and these nin.intains
I .vert' Su modeled that tllcy blended
into the mountain seeneiy Laur
1 ri e was sketching on the canvas.
Tuo "lia r members of the club,
.1 dark, tla. liily dressed man—ap
j parentlv a foreigner— anu a blue
•yed voung woman with goUUn
blond huii, advanced from the far
I side of the room to meet tin new
comer. Her eyes were sparkling
and her lace \ ivaciou.s. Hem y I'oj
I 1er. although a married man. ini
mediately resented the \vav the
foreigner monopolized her attcn
! t ion.
_ Stanley King introduced them In
I his grandiloquent manner. "Mr.
I l'oit'ι, th.ρ π {Susan r, and
Louis Spinelli "
' Su an is cair sculptress." said
Spinelli in an oily voice, sauce "nig
her aim. "She's modeling the in
habitants of our fairyland.'
Iii iirv I (iter breathed a strong
u h iff of perfume from Spinelli. and
shrank from the man.
Λ knock sounded on the door
"Here's Ives." announced tIn bank
er. and in a loud voice called. · C ,me
in' Tiie track's Up"
Wind and rain blew in ··. i:h a
figure shrouded in a l ing t,!:lck
tu.TCI.at. John Ives tun., J and
pushed the door shut again, t the
storm, and leaned against it a mo
ment. Water diipped fr ■ ι hi..;
black I at. His muddy shot indi
cated Ile had walked to the π :
place.
Henry Potter knew iivtantly
that .lui;" I· s did not belong to
the model railroad club for pfeas
uie. He d: ! not smile. He vvas not
an old iii;::i, but his face was deep
lined and Ins eyes peered out from
under lowering brows Of all this
strange company he was the
strangest.
the banker rubbed his bar 's to
gether. "Well, all who said they
would come tonight are here Let's
put on a demonstration for our
gui .«t. John, t ike off your coat. It's
your turn to act as dispatcher.
We've been waiting for you "
"Ihe Lord put a few inconveni
ences in my way. but I am here."
The gloomy-faced man slowly
pulled his arms out of his heavy
cat He did not change expression.
1 here was a dull thud from some
thing heavy in a pocket of the coat
as it swung against one ot tlie pil
lars of the room. Henry saw the
l.;.i:dle of a revolver that almost
fell ι :n. then dropped back into the
loncealing garment. ·
i in: little clerk stiffened. Why
'hd John Ives need a revolver in a
place like tins?
(To lie ( ontiiiued)
G S **
H AT Wf'\ ■ ■
RICHARD Η Ο UGH TO
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CHAPTKH ΠΤΠΚΚ
APIWkK.Vi'LY η·· < - ί €ÎS0 S3
the revolver m ,h ·».ί 1 . ·
or it th«v :,·! it u : ι > : ' t ci-· · i< .·;
noteworthy.
"How abolit h I-. :: C<jg$è£ bi ' ·Γ<
yon run t ί - · ι : Mm.,
Rested. "I hi·· .. !-î three quar*
a t ht ι mi·.-· ".11 ·* « ! 1 U « · « · ι · hot. ΐ .
it ah..ι \. ' .im p ! · ' ' · r Ι'ι ι sh."
"CiOO· hi· .t," .'t«:Fee.I Spit·.·
"I'd Ii 1\e to s» e Su an | ·μι·;ιj_
fee. Domes t i« , yuii kn< .·.
Mar<ia snit'tV.I. "Tha! . λ I
I'rofessor Hit? bee c : ι * .·. · · *·
sans defense. He put
around lier shoulders. (
be surprised to see S :
coffee regularly one « : ■
Good old Anu r;< ι ;.
dear. Won't be haι .
American boy t«.
Henry notici ! '
American ai...
fessor, too. ·:.-'
Hans lift » . ;
place on tl
covered with .·
cia product :
"I'm sorry
with the ·
the prof· >
for her. I
her."
•I will IV ·
coquetishly, ·
a better «·ί.
with you."
"There s η
Stanley Κi:
lege educati · .
the life of a ; ■
"I though*.
cold voice,
railroad club. \.
t r · C
dark disa r ·ι ·τ.
.ί) to a
. not
Mar·
' '· t come
:.t ·." said
• tor in y
:.l t ί give
aid Susan
I'll have !
■ '■! . 'ililed '
ι ! sniffed |
ί .it il COl- :
• a. Oh for
ι Ives in a ■
is a model
staring in
• *' : it", - / i'·' C
arm, still a; a:
The professer will:
"Your usual kill jo
King "Wluit .1 ■
hoi il4.it.-r.
' it guiltily."
It ' sneered
' the old
clays! I can remember you when—"
John Ives !·. ! | uj a His
dark eyes j.:. n-r.l the others. "We
both have pasts :< it should be for
gotten—at.' forgiven."
The bank· ," ·'. "That's a
matter of opinion."
"Λ matter of fart ! '
"I don't think i ll drink any cof
fee," Laurence Harkness informed
them quietly. "If you don't mind—
I have a hit of sketching to finish."
(■
the
M
"I d I
told hi : ■. ■ : 1 !■· ' ;,
"Then
proaeh :
what ·.
feet! ν ■
Why
on, let
Aft 1 !
But I,
were :
room.
while I
mum I ■
"I do: ·
Hem ν .
ter ".Il 11
"U\ , ,
Vt li '
OVel1 : ι a : 1
e,i. M,·.
eontni 1
only Sel !: !
Ile [ai' .
sa 1 - 1 1
thought t
He < I il!·;
cei t lia
had to: ■
|ΙΠ ael , :
exclaimed
■ 1
1," Henry
oitsan, re
ives, "See
• two per
·. with us.
1 ? Gome
j coffee.
<|ΊϋΠ
irr tl
lit it."
1 lenrv already
i·ϊΓ si.ie of the
~li ! j -· y sketch
ml," Laurence
I low Ives,"
- tht* mat- :
II a I· ai<h.T j
• ' I,ι■ r to
s< c our
You've
: „,„J
til
ι explained, "since it opens crtit -'f
the main room the canvas doe»:. :
; i interfere."
Henry O'iokeJ under the » «>. —
an easy maneuver because of the
' table's unusual height, and found
himself with Laurence in a small
adjoining room. It -cemed to have
! no other entrance. There was not
!c\.>n a wind" v. Only furniture was
a large desk in the middle of the
tlih r. with an elaborate built-in
switchboard on its sloping· top—
and of course the chair tiiat went
with the desk.
"This used to be a storeroom, '
Laurence explained. "We cut a
hole in the button', of the door and
installed an electric fan for ven
tilation. This is where the train
dispatcher works."
"Why shut him oft in here?"
Laurence grinned. "Half the fun
of modi I railroading is in operating
i the trains as they would be done
by a full-scale railroad. A regular
train J.spatcher doesn't see his
trains. Neither does ouis. The
1: ' ·η this control board teil
Ihira where the trains are, and the
■ \ .- ·.·· lub members in the main
ι · '. I ! nit orders by telephone.
T: ■ i'.-lkr operates f.il the
. locomotives according
! t> t· i :· ·! irders and the opér
ât ill- sri i! that has been set
up t ·ί ·· ·. ' He's got to be on
In.·» ' ■ . .»«· he's responsible
in ta.-· >! . . 1."
!.",[■· s iq going to be
He doesn't
seem ! ι ! ι ' ' ii : ν i dea of a model
raili ei.lili : " i
I..:.' 1 "H( doesn't !
He an . - : . : son to i
[ ach ot la ν ' j
Ί i : ' ■ here?" '
"I :. ι : ib to
I keep :t eyt < >:. '. ■ . ι :: ί.
j lit in ! . .t ίι < : g up
his spine. Il·· thought of the revol
v« ι He II.1. !
j but suppose Ives Wet» bent on
nuird· : "
' \V1 ·'.« I ' i he '
M
Hans stuck his head under the
table ihnt t ro.-.-:od t >« :>>· : .-.ay and
■ died to then.. "\Vt· b< througu
■ \ it 11 coffee. Time fur trams."
They ducked out into the main
room auair u ^ f · to fac e
with Ives. His deep set eyes were
staring s:πι. -. ■ ' · f··· iis«.J
of hi»
own mind. He did nut seem to see
tlie t ■ ir· ί .1 :.···1 an·!
disappeared into the dispatcher's
room.
Laur· r.ce. Han···. K. .s .η·5 Spl
nelii each took one side ( f the big
room. There was η stool for each,
l'ii ing the track, and ,ι telephone
with headset. Marcia looked over
King's sh· 'ild· r . : i. -in a; 1 the pr o
fessur wore ro\ ; ■ · ■ c t at < i s, with
the professor ir. general charge of
tin fîic.
Henry I tter, r.irinus to see
what grown men found so fascinat
ing .η ' h·.- li · ί y. t<· ■'·' >;i a posi
Laurence.
The young man pointed to a
ck in front of him. "It s speeded
up to seal', time. Here we go!"
The center lights in the big room
fa . out. The painted sky glowed
in a kih 1 Of twilight. Signal lights
. e : .. I . to burn
.:i ' < !·. Buildings
..id a low rum·
ι1 it of a tunnel
. a i ::g freight,
like a g m snake. From the right
; ; · ■ . ■r t riitju.
'■ e Sid
ir.y ' Lain · 1 ·
Hen: \ . 1 ; : e freight
is·! t lal.ir . : ί· ·>!«!"
I.·, .· i .· t le
pl.·. ν es
cra.-hi . "I c w
cati h'-i ; : lv ad
Λ!> ι. . K.ng.
loa ;.!:_· In ! ! rung
tow aril tli · room
"Wijat'S Ives .<;· \iv liiKKed
under the »... :· : si^ht
Ihn'ilgii t!u · .
rin i .· ; r . - while in
lelur : . hi? face
i'roii'Ssoc Bisbee put an arm ,·:·,.>ιμί Susans siiomd·ί .
THE OLD HO/*TO1 I ·
By STANLEY
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