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Show Thj Cache American, Iijran, Cache County. Utah Page Seven Kathleen Norris Says: The Plan That Saved a Marriage TIIE STOUT THIS EAR: Zori Corey It railroaded Into uktns a ul aha duti od want, hrlptnf old Admiral Dunraa Kba If la lov MO bla mrmulra. a lib Paul Dunraa, tbt admlral't (randioa. Hhila aboard Uia Samoa ta routa la Hawaii aba It tbrowa oterboard, and ba (ora arrlvlni at Oaba Inland Pearl Harbor It bombrd. Altar landlnf, Paul and Zorla ovarbrar Paul't bandaoma brotbar, Slava, with whom Zorla It Intatuatad, plotunf wllb Hlntbrop Lannlni la toma radar equipment la lha Aalt. Brllrvlni Suva la danger Zorla Irlat la aava bim, but If tapturrd by tanning, bo lakat brr Into iba aiuunulnt and talla bar tba mud dla. Lanning makrt toma aiplanatlont. source of a magical new radio device which the United State Navy had perfected and was trying out here, in Kokee, It would detect airplanes at a distance of a thousand miles. Fifteen hundred, he said tonight. Yes, Mis Corey. That wa, I fear, more of St ve red herring. He is o clever with red herring. It sounded plausible. It excited my curiosity. Why shouldnt It? Zrie asked. You havent yet proved that Steve lied to you. But I am convinced that there i no such device at If there is, CHAPTER XV! it is certainly not In Kokee! What convinced you? "My dear Miss Corey, he said In I am explaining it, my But an Indulgent voice, "you are match-in- g dear! adyour wits with an expert I Go on, said Zorie. mire you for what you are attemptwell, my dear. I am now Very You skilL do. I admire your ing to are one of the cleverest girls 1 have fully convinced that this Informaever known. With a little training, tion which he gave me that night in Lisbon we were both a little tight you could become one of the most was the first step in an elaborate talented women in the profession. and foxy scheme to trap Basil "I dont know, Zorle said InnoStromberg. about what cently, youre talking Zorie started to interrupt again. He laughed genially. "That, my He said quickly: I will explain that dear, is Answer B. It is always in a moment I was so taken in good, when delivered In just that that I communicated, by long disway . . . Miss Corey. I am really tance telephone, with my chief, in very serious about this. If you can Berlin. He was very excited about make up your mind if you can per- it He told me that two very capasuade Mr. Stromberg that you are ble people would meet me in New heart and soul in favor of our cause. York to give me every possible asIf you can show him a little of this sistance. cleverness I would back you up. "Pierre and Amber? And you would walk out of this cabYou Yes. He smiled swiftly. in, alive and free. think it strange, don't you, that "How, Zorie asked, could you I am being so utterly frank with back me up? He bent toward her. His expression was very serious. "Would you have to be lying? Miss Corey, I have Important work to do elsewhere. I badly need someone to replace Corinne. I am sure you would be precisely the person I need. The work is interesting. Your salary Mr. Lanning relaxed again. He was sadly shaking his head. "No. I can see by your eyes that Mr. Stromberg would never be convinced. You would be lying. And Mr. Stromberg has a talent for squeezing the truth from liars as these grinding mills squeeze the syrup from cane. Perhaps there are other approaches. I am ao anxious to help you. I will be most unhappy if you do not live to see a Waimea sunrise. "I am not In a position to argue Zorie said with Mr. Stromberg, quietly. . "Youve given me no arguments. I don't even know the background. And Im still very skeptical of the conclusions1 you've jumped rr JY-41- 9! to. "In respect to Steve? Yes. Please beShe nodded. lieve me I am not in Steves confidence. I know very little about this. But I am not convinced that Steve has been disloyal to you. Will you consider the evidence as I see it? "I will gladly, my dear. "Very well. Everything was going smoothly, according to plan, until Paul made his announcement that Steve was still in the United States Navy. Did he prove it? No! You were all on edge tonight. I sensed that The first mouse you saw, you all went to pieces. Paul supplied the mouse. "Just a moment," Mr. Lanning InLet me give you the terrupted. background, very briefly. Let me tell you quickly about Berlin and Madrid. Do you know that Steve got into Germany strictly on the I am strength of his now certain that that court-martiwas a trick. But can you prove it? Zorie asked. No. But there are other points. In Berlin, he enlisted the sympathy and confidence of certain men powerful in our party, but when your country virtually broke with Germany, Steve was suspected more and more. court-martia- l? Why? We believed he was obtaining se- crets from a certain woman who was close to one of our leaders. But did you prove it? Can you prove anything, Mr. Lanning? I can, indeed, Miss Corey. Steve was ordered on ten minutes notice to leave Germany. I was Instructed to scrape his acquaintance, find out what I could kill him if I believed he had betrayed us. That was my sole assignment. But you didnt kill him. Steve Duncan is a very clever young man. In Lisbon, I managed to meet him. I introduced myself as a fellow martyr of Naziism. I had spent a few months, six years ago, on this island working as a field luna. That was why I was selected for this assignment. It gave us a bond. We were old pals! Did you work on Strombergs plantation? No. I did not know Stromberg then. Steve and I had two weeks in Lisbon, waiting for a passage to New York. Steve spent this time convincing me he loved Germany more than life itself. He is such a persuasive rascal. Zorie wondered if Steve had succeeded in persuading Pierre Savoyard not to kill him. Can you prove to me that he was lying? Yes, Miss Corey! One night, in Lisbon, he mentioned having learned from a secret but authoritative to the community but let us say that he was delicately suspected." "Just the wing tips, Zone suggested. "You might compare Mr, Stromberg to the unknown element in chemical formula. Mr. Lanning answered. "Hi presence is known, but his Identity remains obscure. United States Army and Navy Intelligence and the F.B.I. have been looking for a man who fits the formula, but Mr. Stromberg Is so elusive, so ingenious, that he has remained virtually unsuspected. Who, after all. would be Justified In suspecting a man of his position, hts Importance, hi avowed Americanism? And what could be more natural than that a man In his business should make trips frequently to Honolulu and the other islands to keep in touch with his many business Interests? "He must be very clever, indeed, Zorie murmured. She was, she believed, beginning to see the effects of this prodigious quantity of alcohol on Wlnthrop Lanning. He was beginning to become just a little garrulous. It was obvious that he was a great admirer of Basil Stromberg. ' "This device, this Mr. Lanning continued, "was intended to trap Mr. Stromberg. Berlin had or- -' dered him to participate, if necessary, In securing it. And tonight you heard Steve making it imperative. "But if there is no such device . . Zorie began. "One moment, my dear. Let us give Steve credit for possessing a resourceful mind. Let us assume that his superiors are giving him he requires. Why all the can't we safely assume that thera is a case weighing between' eighty and one hundred pounds in a small, padlocked building at the listening post? Why cant we assume that it was arranged for Steve and Pierre to get in there safely, secure it and make off with it? And then, Zorie added, to have been followed discreetly by sailors who would grab Mr. Stromberg and the rest of you when Steve and Pierre delivered the case? Of course! Mr. Lanning cried. JY-41- Why not? Zorie hesitated. The suspicion had crossed her mind that Mr. Lannings argument was every bit' as good as her own. Every scrap of evidence that either of them had employed could be used to prove that Steve was a patriotic American or a true-blu- e Nazi. But her mind wavered only a moment And regardless of where the truth lay, her only safe course was to convince Mr. Lanning that she was right and he was wrong. "Because its entirely an assumption! Zorie said crisply. Why cant you as safely assume that Steve was telling you the truth, that a case 9 is at this moment containing in a little padlocked building at the listening post and would very shortly be safely in your possession if you werent so skeptical? The case, Mr. Lanning stated, "contains a large collection of burned-ou- t radio tubes, useless containers, and other discarded accessories. But youre only assuming that! Mr. Lanning bent toward her again, so that Zorie could see a great deal of the yellowed white under his irises. My dear girl, you are being very obstinate. And the important thing we are facing is not whether Steve Duncan has been loyal to Berlin, Germany, or to Washington, D. C. Its quite obvious that you're in love with this man. You are doing your best to restore my faith in him. You are wasting your time. Miss Coreyl I know I am right. He again glanced at his watch. The important thing is, to have something ready for Mr. Stromberg when he arrives. I may not be here. If he does not come soon, I will have to leave you here alone. I am extremely valuable, not only to my employers, but to myself. He got up. He picked up the bottle. It gurgled into his mouth longer than usual. He put the bottle down. He walked to the kitchen door and stopped. He looked at Zorie for some time. He slowly shook his head. he said in a puzSometimes, zled voice, I wonder myself if you arent really Anna Boland! For the first time since dinner, Zorie smiled a faint stirring of her lips at the corners. Her arms felt numb. For some time there had been no sensation in her hands. Her feet were asleep, too. She noticed again a curious, pungent, mouldy odor that she had first detected when she had come into this room. "It's your suspicious nature, she said. Its what Ive been saying. As for Steves treachery to you where are all these proofs? I gave them to you! he cried. But you didnt, Mr. Lanning. In spite of your suspicions, in spite of your lucid reasoning, you have not proved that Steve has betrayed you. You have not convinced me that 9 is a case full of radio junk. So much time had passed that it was unlikely that Steve would come here that he was still alive. There as only a dwindling possibility. She wished her hands were free. In moments as intense as this one, it is so much easier to talk persuasively if you can use your hands. JY-41- Zorie wondered If Steve had succeeded In persuading Pierre not to kill him. you withholding nothing. Why, after all, should I? You heard Steve use that very, very clever simile likening the job 9 out of this island of getting to a play in a football game? Yes. I thought it was very intelligent. That, my dear girl, was next to his final move in the foxy game he was playing with us. It was the big moment toward which he had been working. And it was so plausible! Only for an instant did the wing tips of suspicion brush my mind. Meanwhile, Berlin had become extremely anxious to secure You may not suspect it, Miss Corey, but nations are sometimes quite as gullible as individuals. Zorie was shaking her head. Mr. Lanning, you havent yet advanced an atom of proof that Steve isnt loyal to Berlin. Your only piece of evidence is the statement made by his brother. He made that statement out of sheer vindictiveness. "Why was he vindictive? "Because he has always hated Steve. Long before I met Steve, paul told me that Steve had been kicked out of the navy, had turned Nazi and gone to Germany. Even when he was saying what he said on the lanai tonight, he still believed that. He refers to Steve as JY-41- JY-41- that Nazi! Mr. Lanning was smiling mysteriI am convinced that if your ously. fiance did not know the truth of what he was saying, he inadvertently stumbled upon it. It had the curious ring that nothing but the truth has. "It had nothing but a malicious, vindictive ring! "I am very sorry, Miss Corey. We differ, dont we? I was about to say that Berlin had become extremely anxious to secure so that it had communiSated with Mr. StromI berg Zorie took him up, is "Who, the leading Nazi here the man who directs all your espionage activities in Hawaii and works closely with the leading Japanese agents? Mr. Lanning smiled at her admiringly. You are such a clever young woman! Not much suspicion can have touched Mr. Stromberg he is so clever himself and such a credit JY-41- 9 JY-41- (TO BE CONTINUED) Bell CINCE most people believe tha the postwar world will be a won droua affair with new discoveries it science and transport revolution! ing our everyday living, it oc cuned to me some changes will b due In the motion picture industry. I don't remember who said, "I don't care who makes our laws, sc long as I can make our pictures, but I hied me over to Darryl F. Zanuck, a producer on whom the genius tag is pretty firmly tied since he made "Wilson." and asked him what sort of film fare we are going to give our returned soldiers. I wanted to know what we could expect of the film of the future. There was Zanuck pacing up and down his lush office like a caged tiger, swinging a polo mallet to give greater emphasis and he was ready to give. Here is what I got The over-al- l picture of the postwar cinema industry is a radical one. It has little in common with the Said Industry we know today. Zanuck. The postwar film will be international In scope. Picture-makinin our peacetime era will be a far different thing than it is today. The broadening scope of world vision that comes with peace will bring about the ascension of a great foreign star. I would not be surprised to see a great Chinese actress become a dominant figure. I look to see our company. Twentieth Century-Fox- , open a large studio In a foreign land quite possibly India where pictures will be aimed at world consumption although made basically for the East. I would have no hesitancy in making a motion picture with a love story between a typical American boy and a Chinese girl. The same is true of a picture with a high-typ- e Indian and an American By KATHLEEN NORRIS Thousands of mar- - g girL Films for Freedom "The reeducation of Germany will center largely around its film industry. Films were the instrument most freely used to propagandize the German people into Naziism. Films should therefore be the most powerful instrument used in their reeducation. "I would personally like to have the job of running the postwar German studios. I do not think this should be done by a government agency. It should be done by motion picture men. After all, we made our product so popular abroad that dictators banned our pictures in their countries. Well, with that for a starter (and I maintain that's a good hunk for anyone to chew on), lets cut back to the psychology of todays soldier as outlined by Zanuck. He said, War makes men think. There are no drunken sprees from cur returned soldiers today. These boys, transformed into men, have fought In 59 localities over every end and corner of the world. Theyre worldwide in vision. Geography ijnt something they learned out of a book. They didnt have to find the g places of the world on a map theyve been there. The motion picture industry will have to keep abreast of their way of thinking if we want to continue in business. 1 far-flun- The Three Ra, Too Servicemen, says Zanuck, have reflected a willingness to accept enlightenment along with their entertainment; and while the poll is high in favor of the pin-utype picture, many significant films rank .with musicals in attendance. Backgrounds outside the United States will be characteristic of many of our new films and the foreign star will come back into favor. Our international casting average will mount higher and higher when the avenues of foreign talent, shut out by wars, are opened again. There should be no national boundaries in art. There arent any in music, painting or sculpture. The talent of the world should and must be brought to our audiences. This will not come as any jolt to the people at home. Were building up a new audience here, too. places They know new names theyd possibly never have heard of If their sons hadnt been fighting there. Many of them are buried there. Theyll want to know more about St Malo and Cassino and those Chungking and Mitkyina places are familiar household words now." p hus- band and wife have no plan. There is nothing like a plan. The moment your mind begins to work on it you feel a new interest in life. The minute a man and woman unite on a common object in life, toward which their hopes and thoughts turn, they are dealto the vagueing a death-bloness, discontent, criticism, w emptiness that so often swamps married happiness. It may be a plan to build a house. It may be a plan to get out of debt It may be a plan to arrange for the professional education of the adored boy who is presently coming home, tired in soul and body, from the fighting front It may be a plan to have a baby, or adopt a baby, or acquire a little farm, or study Spanish and live in Mexico after the war. Whatever it is, if it lifts husband and wife out of the disillusioned contemplation of everyday humdrum living, and gives them a wider view of a happier world to come, it saves their mutual love and respect, and perhaps makes secure their lives and their childrens lives. Think out a plan. Make It extravagant. Make it a dream plan. Begin it with If we could have just what we want, after the war, Tom, what would it be? Clear away the obstacle of debt now; start the sacrificing and saving that will bring it about. There is no wjman alive, no matter how scatter-braine- d or how beset at this moment with all the confused conditions and obligations and difficulties of a world at war, who cannot pull her life right into shape with a good plan. There is no marriage, on shaky ground today, that will not be steadied and safeguarded by a plan. After the war each one of us is going to fa'll into one of two categories; those who go up and those who go down. Conditions will be pretty much the same for everyone, but to some theyll spell ruin and to others a new golden era of success. Those who are counting upon postwartime to pull them out of debt, to supply them with more money, to bring home from the front men who will contribute to the family support, are going to be fooled. Those who make a plan now, who bring their affairs into a condition of complete solvency, are going to find very profitable avenues for investment, very gratifying opportunities to secure what' always Is in wait for thrifty Americans prosperity, security, success. Women Active in New Fields. Make your choice now. Thousands of American women are doing things today that they never did before. Life has changed for us all, and only those who realize that are going to fit into tlie new plan. Looking back now on the time before the last two years, I think I must have been asleep all my life, writes Mary Perry from Texas. I married young, and always took it for granted that Walter would make the money and I would spend it. We had four children in seven years, and through those years a steady burden of debt and discomfort all but swamped our marriage. I would have left him, but I had nowhere to go, and he certainly would have deserted me but for the children, and the impossibility of supporting two The Truth Brought Back Jinx Falkenburg, all dolled up in a sarong on the Song of Tahiti set walked over to chat with a bunch of visiting marines, just back from the South Pacific. Said Jinx, Tell me do you think I make an authentic South Sea Island girl?" After a brief hesitation, one of the'marines Well hardly. spoke up and said, Miss Falkenburg. The trouble is, you're about 80 pounds underweight, you smell too nice, and you have far ,co many teeth! yndlealo. mA place in the country. . WNU Peaturoa. , CHART YOUR COVRSE Making plant and U'orking them out together it what holdt marriages together, tayt Miss Norris. It is aimlessness, vague ness of direction, that brings disillusionment and finally disaster, Clinging to tome objective, meeting and conquering difficulties, achieving little successes, will put zest and purpose into any marriage, and make life worth while living again. Any tort oj plan may do, but a high ambitious one is best. Something worth striving for, a goal distant but not entirely out of reach, will lift you out of yourself, and make little difficulties teem unimportant. The plan may be to save enough to buy a house in the suburbs, or a little farm. It may be to provide for the education of children for a profession; it may be merely to get out of debt and start afresh. But whatever it is, a plan is a stabilizer, an inspiration in marriage. Whatever you do, dont just drift, hoping that the future will take care of itself. -- It wont. establishments. It was an unhappy time for us both. "When your letter came I read it to him, she goes on, "and we decided, rather doubtfully, to start all over again, and this time with a plan for ourselves, our children, and our future. We moved to a cheaper place in the country, we began to save money, we went in for fruit trees and a Victory garden, we checked up every month upon our affairs and our gradual approach to the dignified beautiful living we both wanted. The plan is in Its 17th month now," finishes Marys letter, "and it has saved our marriage. There is nothing in the world so stimulating as to know where you want to get, and to start. Persuade Your Husband By Hinting, Not Nagging Heres a tip on how to get your husband to do what you want (occasionally) and yet avoid being tagged with that obnoxious description: a nagging wife. Instead of scolding or complaining, use humor and ingenuity in your approach to everyday problems. Getting hubby to shave daily is an example. Instead of nagging him for failing to shave, a recent issue of She magazine suggests that you cut out glamour boy ads for shaving lotion or razor blades and tack them over the washstand with a personal annotation, such as You, too, can look like this. Of course, there are two principal objections to this good advice, as youve probably made a mental note of already. The first is, it takes a powerful amount of for a woman whos consumed with agger to keep her temper and think of little practical jokes instead. The second thing is the time and trouble it takes to cook up cute little schemes. We admit its all a lot of fuss and bother which is just what a husband is most of the time anyway but if you dont want to bother to fuss, over him dont complain if you lose him! self-contr- ol Remove Spots With Powder Spots and stains on thick materials like mattresses, upholstery, pillows, heavy rugs, and wall paper are often more successfully removed by drawing out rather than sponging out Corn starch, white com-mea- l, talcum powder, salt, magnesia powder and Fullers earth can all be used. Shake the absorbing powder on the wet spot, brush off with a soft brush. Repeat until moisture has "been absorbed. Then dry bet'eeB layers of blotting paper. |