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Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- Friday, April 27, 1928 NEPHI. UTAH S. mm Sylvia of the Minute By - ivrawT. ...vi i. iTM'll-,- -: ( HELEN R. MARTIN Copyright by Dodd. Mead & WND Servlc COw ? CHAPITER IX Continued 21 Tou needn't try to bluff me, Marvin!" his father frowned. "I know II about ltl You've come here to keep an appointment with this young woman !" "I was not aware of ltl" "I tU you," his father Indignantly Insisted, "you needn't try to humbug me I I caught her in the very act of waiting for you !" Marvin looked perplexed. "Well, If you did, why on earth should you (apparently) be blaming me for that?" "When I show yon what I have here " Cut as his father snatched from his breast pocket a folded paper. Meely broke in : "Now that you are here, Mr. Mar-Tin- , will you be so kind as to drive me to the nearest telegraph office? I've got to wire some money to my needy parents and It's pressing." "I'm at your service," Marvin, loosing more and more bewildered, responded, taking her coat from a hook on the wall as she 'started to reach for It, and holding It while she slipped Into It. his father stammered. Hushing very red, ".Miss Schwenckton! Tour promise! This paper you've signed " "Yes?" she Inquired. "What about "B-but- it?" "What about it Tour signed promise to make no demands on my son " "But I wouldn't suppose my asking ! him to take me to the express office to cable telegraph to my family a bit of money I've acquired would come under the 'demands' referred to in that paper, would It?" "In the very hour of your signing this paper and accepting that money you dare to go off driving with my eon !" "What on earth?" asked Marvin, their demeanor and conversation not only not bearing out his supposition, but suggesting a very different state of tilings. "Look at this!" his father exclaimed, thrusting the paper at him. "Read that ! And then decide whether you want to go off driving with that girl !" Marvin, feeling dizzy, read the few sentences on the paper signed "Amelia Schwenckton." "ISut what, In God's name. Is It all about? What sort of "demands' Is she swearing not to make on me " He stopped short, a staggering idea flashing upon him. "You must mean St. Croix!" He turned to the girt. "Does this refer to St. Croix?" "I don't know !" "You don't know !" cried Mr. Crelgh-ton- . "Why," he exclaimed, "are you both trying to saddle St. Croix with a thing he has nothing to do with? As If I'd fver have to buy off a girl from marrying him!" "Are you buying off Miss Schwenek-tlofrom marrying me?" laughed Marvin, and as he spoke he tore the paper Info bits and scattered them on the n floor. "What makes you think, Father, that such desperate measures as this re necessary for my protection against even so dangerous a person as Miss Schwenckton?" "And anyway." the girl spoke In, "I'm resigning. Please find a teacher,-Mr- . Marvin, for my school, will you? for I'm leaving tonight." "Father! Why on earth are you driving her awayT There's absolutely nothing between us and " ' 'Dangerous person' Is right, Mar-Tin-, nnd no exaggeration ! I have Just plven that girl five thousand dollars for the signed promise which you so Imprudently destroyed !" "I don't believe It!" cried Marvin sharply. "Miss Schwenckton, will you show him the roll of bills I've Just given you?" "He might tear them up as he did your piece of paper!" she demurred, showing no least embarrassment or shnme. "It's not a bribe. Mr. .Marvin," he explained, "it's a loan, which I shall pay back as soon as I've earned Your father seemed It at Hollywood. so anxious to believe that I was luring you to your ruin and so eager to buy me off you that I hadn't the heart to rtisBpiit!t blin; especially as I'm In desperate need of money. And It is nice of your father to give the American screen a chance to be elevnted! So Fin off to Hollywood:" And before either Marvin or his father could rep'y, she had seized her hat and fled from the room. Marvin mad j a dash to follow, but his f:ittier Inierposed slamming the door niil standing against It. "Don't imike a d d fool of yourself. Margin! Running after a girl Who Inkc a briiw i" No worse than your giving her a bribe!" Marvin panted. "You can thank me fur saving you from being taken In by nn unprincipled hussy!" "Stop calling her names) You're en'lrely wrong about her."' ' What would Joii rnll a girl Who accept (he thousand dollars to drop on cold?" "You beard her say she was borrowShe's per ing It. t i," te Hollywood. fectly right, too. She needs It and you don't You've too much money and she hasn't enough. You held It out to her and she grabbed It. I don't blame her! What started you on such a wild chase as this? What on earth put It Into your head that I was courting her? Surely she didn't claim I was'r" "Her accepting the bribe was an admission of It ! If you'd marry a girl that would take a bribe " "You thrust it on her she needed It desperately " "Do you deny being In love with her?" "I wasn't sure until just now ! But a girl with pluck enough to cheek you, Father, and grab while t lie grabbing was good oh, well," Marvin drew a long breath and turned away, his face suddenly gloomy and sullen, "you needn't worry! I wouldn't marry an actress, they're too temporary ; I'd prefer a permanent arrangement In marriage. Let me out, please." "Marvin!" His father's tone was. suddenly gentle. "Give up this fool job of yours and come home ! Your mother Is unhappy, having you away. And of course I want you back, too.' "I can't turn Marvin hesitated. down this job until my term of ottiee is over. And if my living at home means I've got to sell my manhood to you, Father " "I'll not interfere with you." "Even if I decide to marry a county tear! er?" "We can deal with that contingency when it comes up." "All right, then." The two men left the sehoolhouse together. . Mr. Crelghton took St. Croix to task for tils misleading description of the school teacher. "How you ever got the idea that she was illiterate, common " "But she Is!" "We can't possibly be talking of the same person !" "The person I'm talking of Is Miss Schwenckton, the teacher of William I'enn school, the niece of the farmer, I had doughnuts Snm Schwenckton. and coffee with her and Sam Schwenckton and his wife In their very own kitchen the night my watch was taken from me !" "I don't understand It at all !" complained his father. "Barring the fact that the girl accepted a bribe from me, I'd call her a thoroughbred !" The puzzle seemed Insolvable. Meantime, Marvin was feeling by no means so lenient Miss toward Schwenckton's accepting that money from his father as he had pretended. In spite, however, of the sick recoil he felt from her for departing with that five thousand dollars, the sight of her schooIhMise when he drove past It, now occupied by her etlieient. Informed and uninteresting successor, gave him a psng thnt every day grew sharper; a restless longing' that was In danger of Increasing to an Insatiable hunger. St. Croix, meantime, had Just about reached a stage where he was on the point of defying prudence and trying to see Meely once more; and Marvin was contemplating the probable folly and futility of his asking his board for a leave of absence to go to Hollywood, when a cablegram which their mother received Just at this time from Kng-landiverted them somewhat from their absorption In their own misery. The cablegram was from Mrs. Creighton's cousin. Sir John St. Croix, announcing that his daughter. Baroness Sylvia St. Croix, would sail for America on the Berengarla on January 2 for a short visit to her American cousins. She could be Identified nt the boat by a handkerchief tied cn her left wrist. This news threw the family Into some excitement. St. Croix volunteered to go to New York to meet the d In - x -;- x - - - - view of the disastrous Mlsls-slpp- l floods It Is Interesting to note that 2.1t years ago a Chinese I.I encl-neer- . down the correct principle for controlling ping, laid engineering the Hood conditions of a river (lowing through h flat alluvial plain. The works that be and his sons established for controlling the waters of the Mill river In Szechwan pror-ino- e and distributing them across the great Clunu'tn plain are still In perfect operation. The Cbengtn plain Is an area loo ir.!!s long and sixty miles wide. Across this plain (he Mln river Is distributed In eight main brnnehes, converging nt the lower end of the plain to form a single river again, which emptlvs Into thu Yangtze above the Gorges. Throughout the 2.100 years, the d Advice Of gintleniHti who Is frivolous none stands In nap. nor can his lenrn iiig he sound. Make fn thfuiness and truth thy miiMers ; baie no friend like tti.to thyself; be not shamfd 10 mind thy fau'.:. Confucius. It ' ''it rfypJfr"? ship. He, however, demanded of Mar via that he leave hlra a dear field. "I can at least safely promise you," said Marvin, "that I'll keep out of It unless until," he corrected himself, "she turns you down." As St. Croix' longing for Meely was never for a moment associated In his mind with the Idea of marriage, It did not In the least dampen the zest with which he went to New York to meet as he confidentially hoped and believed his prospective bride. This would be a marriage so exactly to his taste! nllled to an old English family of rank, administering a distinguished old estate that for generations had been In the family. His experience with girls gave him no reason to doubt that he would tlnd favor with his noble kinswoman. So, it was with a complacent his that, smartest d and clad hi t 4 & t h NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS In Flood Control Bill Fought by Coolidge and Others as "Extortionate." good-lookin- By EDWARD W. PICKARD 'TM1AT the flood control bill passed by the svnate and, with certain amendments, under debate in the house last week. Is the most extortionate measure in the history of the government Is the opinion of President CooHis remarkably outspoken view lidge. of this bill created something of a sensation in Washington and it encouraged a group of representatives, led by Mr. Frear of Wisconsin, in a determined light on the measure reported by the house committee. The main issue was the question of local contribution upon which the President solations and compensations. Looking for a wrist bound with a handkerchief proved to be rather a maddening business. Wrists could be examined only as the passengers passed close before him, while faces could be scanned halfway up the gangplank. A procession of men and elderly women sent his gaze far up the plank in search of more young people when suddenly his eye was caught by a lovely face nt the top of the long slope which struck him as vaguely familiar yet unfamiliar, too, in Its vivacious expression, its Intelligence, Its delicacy. Surely he had seen that face somewhere before though the poise of an exquisite small head, the general look and air of a thoroughbred, the modish style of the young woman, were not familiar. She looked like Meely Why! Schwenckton ! How strange and how absurd ! At least her features did extraordinarily like! yet so widely different, too, with that vivid, intellicountenance, proudly arched gent little head, graceful bearing and of course her neatly arranged hair, stylish clothing. But good G d, how like Meely she looked! "Am I seejng things?" he won(Vrd, his heart beating thickly. So close she passed him by that her arm brushed his and her eyes looked for an Instant straight Into his but not the trembling of a lash nor the leapt quiver of her Hps suggested that she had ever seen him before, iu she walked on to mingle with the crowd leaving him bewildered, confounded, with a weird doubt and uncertainty when suddenly, as his gaze followed her, she lifted her hand to straighten her hat. which In the crowd had been pushed askew and he saw, with a wild bounding of his heart, that her wrist was tied up with a handkerchief! In an Instant he was at her side and hvl seized her hand the confusion of bis mind so great that all his was lost In a usual floundering muddle. lie had been so sure of himself, of his ability to Impress favorably even a sophisticated English aristocrat mlth his ease and sang-froiand he was painfully aware that no country bumpkin could have been more awkward. had insisted. "Contribution Is a cardinal principle in federal, state, anil municipal aid," said Mr. Frear. "This case presents no exception. Thousands of corporations and large Individual owners under this bill will enjoy enormous financial benefits through flood protection. They should contribute toward the expense. If we pass this bill and adopt the plan of giving away the taxpayers' money without limit to rehabilitate or benefit great interests that can bring political pressure to bear on congress, a hundred other flood control projects now knocking at committee doors will all demand the same treatment without contribution." Iteid of Illinois, chairman of the flood control committee, said In reply : "There Is in the bill no provision for local contribution. There can he none If congress intends to protect the lives and property of Its citizens from these destructive floods. No levee system can be effective unless It Is uniand complete, und fied, should any levee district fail to pay a contribution necessary under the reclamation theory the whole plan would fall. Nearly every levee district is now or will soon be bankrupt. There Is no possible way for them to get money, as they are unable to sell any bonds because of the default in the bonds already Issued." There were conferences of house and senate leaders for the purpose of modifying the measure so that the President would sign It. Senators Ilansdell and S.ickett talked with Mr. Coolidge and reported that be would approve a bill similar to the Jones bill originally rerted from the senate committee. This draft, while It eliminated local contributions, contained various safeguards which were cot In the meamre as mssed by the senate and approved by the house flood control committee. up hi lion on the BY IIOLIjING naval 0 appropriation hill (TO RE CONTINt'ED.) tlie radical Bepuhllcans forced the sen- x- x ate to adopt the resolution of Blaine of Wisconsin demanding from Secretary Wilbur Information as to the cost by in lives and money sf the operations of the marines in Nicaragua. Mr. Wilglneerlne principle a!d down by bur Informed the senate that maintewithout which the whole system nance of the marine expetlitioiinry furce would have destroyed Itself centuries In Nicaragua hint reu'tel In the ago. has len followed. Flood condideath of 21 marines and the wounding tions are still unknown. On the walls of 45 others, lie el extra cost to the of (hp temple built to the memory of government of tnailne activities In U ping and his sons nt Kuan hlen. Nicaragua .nt $1...'K.I70 The total Is written this ssylng, familiar to cost of niiiiritaliiltiti the exMlitionary every Chinese student: "Shen tan force, Mr Wilbur fixed at $.'l..":ii',,im Fun to y:n." meaning "THg the bed It was explained, however, that more hanks low." Mlnne deep, keep t than $2.MiKI of the total cost would o polls Trlimne. have been expended on the marines ven If they had remained In their home stations. The secretary said It was known that 202 Nlciirugtiaii Antiquity of Bagpiptt had Jacques de Morgan, diirlnir Ma t been killed In fights with the marines. ravntlons In I'ersln, found some terra cot I ii figures, dating from the F.ightn New York and century 15. C playli g on what np WASHINGTON, plans to give pear to te iipppipe. Again we find rousing welcomes to the German Irish the bagpipe In Persia In (he Sixth transatlantic aviators, arid were fiscentury A. P. oi the great nrrh st sured that the flyers would visit those Whllu crude, TakU I Bostnn. the cities after getting nwny from desolate serves a evidence Greenly Island In lielle ie straits. that the bagpipe was ),i ue durir.j The stories of (heir flight show that the II centuries whleli flped be lost their way t.een'ne their comIween the time the terra foftn Azures they failed In the dark and the snowpass M;-gaI discovered by were storm, nn'l they wandered far t the molded and the earring in the rots north if their route. IleHcf nnd sld at Tnkht reached them by plane and otherwise j ' J and they were busy repairing the Bremen so they could continue their flight to New ' York. James promoted to major by the Free State government, was taken to Lake Ste. Agnes, Quebec, by Duke Schiller, Canadian aviator, to get a new propeller with which he Intended Fitz-mauric- clothes, he stood on the k Il-s- tan i I Ft 5 1 transatlantic crew Duke Schiller, Canadian aviator, who Hew to Greenly island to aid German-Irisof the Bremen. 2 President Coolidge accepting for the government the statue of Andrew Jackson In Statuary hall of the Capitol. 3 Gov. Al Smith of New York enjoying his vacation at Asheville, N. C. wharf on the afternoon of the arrival of the Berengarla and with tense expectation watched the passengers tile his past him down the gang-planeyes searching for a young gir! with a handkerchief on her left wrist. lie did hope she would be It would be an awful wet blanket If she turned out to be ; though nothing short of an' actual hump would stop him. A man could of course seek his consolations outside his home It did not occur to him, naturally, that his wife might have need of con- 1 i Let' CHAPTER X xx mxxx x xx x'Ix :'Xxh xxi Chinese Engineer River Kept in Order mix x- f by fly back to Greenly island. Baron von Huenet'eld, Koehl and Flizmaurice will be entertained in New" York for five days, and then, proceeding to Washington, will be the guests of President Coolidge, the Irish minister and the German ambassador. The wives of Koehl and Fitzmaurice will soon join them In this country. NOBILE nnd a of fifteen left Milan, Italy, In the dirigible Italia on the way to the North pole, and on the first lap of t tie journey ran into a fierce storm over Germany. Finally the airship, somewhat battered, came down siifely at Seddin airdrome, near Stolp, where repairs were made and further trial (lights begun. Two more hops will take it to King's hay, Spitsbergen, which will be the base of operations. Nobile, who piloted Amundsen over the North pole two years ago in the dirigible Nurge, intends to make several flights over the pole, taking scientific observations. He carries a cross given by the pope which will be planted in the ice at the top of the world. GEN. UMF.KKTO Pom-crani- A DM IRA L J. K. ROBISON, former chief of the navy engineering bureau, was a star witness for the defense In the Sinclair Teapot Dome conspiracy trial and he assumed full responsibility for the change in the government's policy from conserving the navy's oil reserves to storing fuel oil in seaboard tanks and that he favored the opening up of the whole re serve. "Sinclair asked me what we wanted If a contract was entered Into," declared Kobison. "I told him we wanted a pipe line among other things, nnd such arrangements us would give him the largest possible profits, and give us the largest possible share of hl production. The more money he got, the more I got for the navy. "I wanted to get the absolute maximum for the navy, and I got It." Itob-Iso- n almost shouted at the Jury, as he banged the rail of the witness enclosure with his fist. Under Ilobison was compelled to admit a close friendship for Sinclair. He disclosed that he traveled for a week In Sinclair's private car and was Sinclair's dinner guest at the exclusive Ixuus club In New York, lie also admitted he had played poker with Sinclair the very night that Sinclair secured three valuable contracts, one of them to supplement the Teapot lease. The defense sought to show through Former Secretary of the Navy Den by thnt the scheme to lease the Teapot Dome reserve was conceived In the Navy department, but Penny's testimony was shut out by a government objection. Before the senate Investigating committee C. C. Chase, a of Albert B. Fall, made admissions that were considered extremely damaging to Sinclair's cause, nnd he was summoned by the government as a rebuttal witness In tlie trial. son-in-la- SPULN'G In China brought a the Nationalist campaign the Northerners and according the Southern armies reirts under Chiang are makitfg great progress In Shantung province, where the miseries of war are added to tho'-- of famine nnd flood. Foreign military observers In Shanghai predict the collapse of .Marshal Chang Tso-land bis withdrawal to M.iio huria within a few weeks. Japan expresses renewed fear for the safety of her nationals nnd her Interests In Shantung nnd therefore has landed marines nt Tslngtae nnd Is preparing to send n large body of troops. It Is almost certain (hat what Japan especially desires Is to assure the status of her large Interests In Manchuria In case Chang is defeated there. ngiiMist to latest Kai-she- e AL SMITH was formally en lis a candidate for the nomination for President by the New York slnte Democratic cone mlttee nt a meeting In Hip National Democratic club In New York city. Ills name was presented by former GOV. Pent-ocrntl- Lleuf. Gov. George It. Lunn, and the laudatory resolution was seconded by Mrs. Franklin D. Koosevelt. Both speakers centered the hopes of their party on the oil scandals. Senator Blease of South Carolina, who Is strongly against Smith, has put Into the Congressional Record his opinion Sumof the situation in his state. marized, this Is that South Carolina will oppose Smith for the nomination to the last bailot; that if Smith gets the nomination in the regular way by s the rule. South Carolina will not Initiate or Join in any rump convention ; and finally, that if Smith gets the nomination, some South Carolina Democrats, though not a great many, will vote the Republican ticket, while a considerable number of them will remain away from the polls, but not enough, in any event, to throw South Carolina Into the Republican column. Both Republicans and Democrats of Illinois held their state conventions, v two-third- the former being strong for Lwden and the latter turifing the delegates to Houston over to Smith. Republicans of Colorado refused to Instruct their delegates at large for Hoover. Those of Delaware and Connecticut chose delegations to the Kansas City convention, and it is expected these delegations will do their best to Senator Fess of "draft" Coolidge. Ohio, temporary chairman of the national convention, says lie believes it will be the duty of Mr. Coolidge to accept tlie nomination If a deadlock, real and not manipulated, develops. Meanwhile one national ticket already Is in the field. The Socialists held their national convention In New York city and nominated Norman M. Thomas of New Y'ork for President nnd James H. Maurer of Reading, Pa., for vice president. Thomas is a minister and lecturer. Maurer is a member of the Reading city council and president of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor. PUBLICATION of the government engineer's allotments for river and harbor work during the fiscal year 1929 discloses that Eastern and Southern waterways, together with the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers, have the lion's share of the Items running over $1,000,H0. Of the big allotments 57,22.j,0(iO goes to the Mississippi river letween the Ohio and Missouri rivers and between the Missouri river and Minneapolis, $4,590,000 on the Ohio river, $3..'H).0U0 on the Missouri, on the Hudson river, $1,200,-00- 0 on the East river, $2,150,000 on th Delaware river, $1,000,000 on the Inland waterway from the Pclawart river to Chesapeake bay, $800,000 for the Savannah, Ga., harbor, $S00,0OC for the waterway from Beaufort to the Cape Fear river, N. C $050,000 for Miami harbor, and $1,02T.,000 for the Sahlne-Neche- s walerway, Texas. The Illinois river is allotted $575,000 for Improvement work with the development of the Illinois link of the lakes to the gulf route. COOLIDGE, In an ad- dress at the opening cession of the annual convention of the Daughters of the American Revolution In Washington, criticized federal encroachment on the rights of the states nnd the growing Interference of government In business nnd the llfd of the Individual. He wns warmly applauded when he asserted that the American theory of society "rests upon a higher level than communism," and uttered a plea that the nation return to the high Ideal? for which the American Revolution was fought. PRESIDENT " EN. OSCAR CARMONA, dlctatot of Portugal, was Inaugurated President of the republic, having been elected by regular suffrage without opposition In March. Violent enrlh(uake shocks, extending over several days, caused the loss of many lives and vast destruction of property In the Balkans, mainly In Bulgaria. There were also dertruc-tlvtemblors In Peru and In Oaxnco slate, Mexico. Ellsworth Milton Siatler, sixty-five- , who roup from bellboy to ownership of more hotels than any other man In the world, died of piieumonln st the Hotel Peiinvlvsnl. New York, which he op p ernted. Forty persons were killed In West Plains. Mo., by n mysterlou? exploron that wrecked u dance halt r |