Mati Hari Sent to Death by Comrade “Mile. Docteur,” on Death Bed, Confesses. Berne. Switxerland.—On her death bed Anne-Marie Leaser, notorlona "Mile. Docteur," German spy, re vealed how ahe betrayed the glam ©rous World war spy, Mata Hnrl, to her death before a French firing squad. "Mile. Docteur" died alone In a sanatorium near Zurich, where she had been under treatment for the narcotic hahlt. For she had taken drugs to deaden her memory. Her doctor in the sanatorium was the only person to whom she talked and after her recent death he dls closed for the first time her aston ishing story. It was a confession of a woman who stopped at no crime to gain war secrets for Ger many. Doctor’s Story. Here Is the doctor’s story: “Do you think, doctor, that I Should be arrested If 1 went to France?" “Certainly not," I replied, "the question would not even arise." “I should like to go to France,” the said, "to aee once more all those places where I used to go. I should like also to see Mata Hart’s grave; she waa one of my victims. I en gaged her and It waa from me that she obtained all her Instructions. “But one day she told me that she did not want to continue the work. She had had enough or ahe was afraid, I don’t know which, But she wished to be released from her promises. "For anyone who has trodden that path there la no possibility of retreat, I should not have been able to relense her even If I had wanted. I should have been sus pected at once. I threatened her, but without success. "Yes, I had her executed. Aa was customary, I arranged that the French should receive all the nec esanry evidence for her arrest. “And, now, doctor, 1 am going to tell you something which I alone know. An tasy ucain. "For a long time, for a very long time, I envied Mata Harl'a fate. Her deHth was ensy, 1 am going to tell you why. "She was condemned to denth and wns waiting for the end In her cell when a man came to her and snld In a low voice: “ ‘Fear nothing, Mata Ilarl, every thing has been arranged for your escape. You will have to go before the firing squad, but that will be a mere formality, the bullets will puss above your head. “ ‘Pretend to be dond, our men will put you on the bier and trans port you out of France on a wagon.’ “Mata Ilarl smiled gratefully, and went to what she believed to the last to be a mock execution, and smiling received the rifle bullets In her heart. She had an easy death." Anne Mnrle began her career ns a spy when she was sixteen when, described on her passport ns a stu dent at the Beaux Arts of Geneva, she appeared in a little French vil lage In the VosgeB which was go ing to be the scene of certain mili tary maneuvers. In 1014 there arrived at Brussels a splendid creature with a French name bearing only a vague resem g —- ' 1 —.. .— blance to the little student of the Beaux Arts of Geneva. The beautiful ‘French woman" was not long getting to know a young lieutenant, Bene Austin. In the Intervals of love making she painted little pictures, which she sent, via Switzerland, to Ber lin, where her chiefs, removing the oils, found underneath tracings of fortresses, guns and gunplts. MATCHED DETAILS nr * m rik nk uouh Simple frocks and coats drama tized with striking accessories Is the key to smart dressing for this fall and winter. The big thought Is to so co-ordinate accessories that the related Items will bring the costume Into a perfect unit. This movement along lines of high fash ion culture Is apparent through out npparel design this season. The Idea of artfully correlated acces sory details Is admirably Illustrated In the velvet hat, glove and scarf set portrayed herewith. The hat Is one of those picturesque Tyro lean high-crowned types which are so outstanding In the fall style pa rade. The handsomest ones are made of all-over stitched velvet In autumn colorings which are a de light to the eye. Of course they sport a bright Alpine feather and the model pictured does It gaily and smartly. The velvet scarf Is a trl nngle worn cowl fashion close up around the throat. The handsome gloves are also done In velvet. The little sketch at the top shows a reversible triangle sheer velvet scarf with two slits In front through which tho ends are pulled. The velvet gloves have knitted velvet palms. The other Rkctch Illustrates a cape which Is formed of five tiers of velvet petals. The short velvet gloves fasten on top of the wrist with Jeweled clips, which Is some thing new to think about Students Do Housework to Pay College Expense Manhattan, Kan.—A plan Intro duced last year at Kansas StHte col lege In which students assisted In preparation of their own meals and did housekeeping to defray expenses of a higher education will he con tinued, according to college authori ties. The co-operative plan at the dormitory calls for a $1.75 cash payment weekly and not more than eight hours of weekly work. Blindness No Hindrance to Six New Englanders Boston.—Blindness Is no barrier to one girl and five boys who have entered New Knglnnd colleges. The girl lms enrolled at Hampton Institute, while the hoys have ma triculated at Harvard, Boston col lege and the New Knglnnd Conserv atory of Music. All are graduates of the Perkins Institution for the Blind. TRY DOPED SLEEP AS INSANITY CURE Narcotic-Induced Rest Said to Be Effective. London.—Some mental patient! at a hospital In England are be Ing drugged Into a new world cured of their affliction, experiment ers with the narcotic treatment claim. 1'ut to sleep for ten days or s fortnight by a narcotic, patient! have awakened with their tnenta’ depressions gone, as a result ol laboratory research at the Cardlfl Mental hospital, Whitechurch. It Is only after years of expert mentlng that a satisfactory narcot ic and the effective quantity to bf administered have been found. Re search workers discovered that the treatment caused certain toxics tc be set up In the body. These difficulties were met by giv ing the patient glucose and Inject ing Insulin at the same time the narcotic was administered. Dr. J, H. Quastel, director of the hospital laboratory, reported the In vestigations revealed that the hu man body produces certain poisons which disturb the nerve cells and may In some cases be a contribu tory cause to mental disorder. The sleep and rest treatment can not be applied to all patients. It Is possible by the aid of blood tests to ascertain whether a patient Is suf fering from severe emotional ten sion. Doctor Quastel said. Saxophone’s Wail Hot? Really Is, Says Science Cambridge, Mass.—Tuneful melo dies of dance orchestras and Jazz bands may actually be "hot” Scientists of the Massachusetts In stitute of Technology, according to the October Technology Review, say that fluff bugle and saxophone notes all have n temperature. Prof. liOuls Harris nnd Hills A. Johnson, research workers at Round Experiment station at Buzzard’s Bay, Mnss., announced that a deli cate sound thermometer, capable of telling the exact temperntures of all sound waves, as well as picking up sounds Inaudible to the human ear, has been perfected. The new mechanical ear will re spond to Infinitesimal changes of temperature created by the press ing of sound waves ngrilnst one an other as they surge through the air. The Instrument consists of thin metal strips or slivers. One mil lion of them would form a pile one Inch high. The metal strips are built up by sprinkling atoms of twp dissimilar metals over a strip of film. This Is accomplished by a process known to scientists as "sputtering" and Is really the bom bardment of a metal by Ions. Increase Mayor’s Salary Despite His Protests Budapest.—Despite his vehement protest, the mayor of Kalecsa has been forced to agree to an Increase of 1,400 pengoes (ubout$300) a year In his salary. The city council passed a unani mous resolution to pay tribute In this way to what It considered the mayor's extraordinary merits. After the resolution had been entered on the records, the mayor found out about It, and declared that he would withhold his signature rather than legalize a reward to which he felt he was not entitled. IBs protests were In vnln, how ever, nnd the city council had Its way. Whisky Snake Story Has New Dressing Mystic, Conn.—Fish story No 9,999,909! Bill llenshaw hns n water snake, tamed by a drink of wills ky, that fetches him frogs for bait. lie came upon the snake one day, he related, in the act of swallowing a frog. Bill wanted the frog for bait and poured a gulp of rum down its throat to malt© It cough. Later lie felt something flapping against his boot. It was the snake back with another frog—for a drink. Treasure Hunters Who Were Arrested Klghteeu members of a Hrttish treasure huottua Mere arrested on t Wos Island h) Costa lilt-an autbirttlea am) their valuable equipment coatees ted. This photograph shows (lie expedition lauding on the island where they hoped to And gold burled by the bureauer's SEEN*"*' HEARD •round th* National Capital ——Tifc By CARTER FIELD-=33=1 Washington.—President Roosevelt Is adamant on the question of the 5-5-3 naval ratio for the United States. Great Britain and Japnn. There will be no yielding to Jap anese insistence on parity so far as this country is concerned. If Japan Insists on increasing her ratio, the American delegates will reluctant ly sail for home, permitting the treaty to be abrogated. But the next step will he that the United States will proceed to main tain at least the present differential by exceeding to Just that extent any building program Japan may at tempt. That is to say, the White House would recommend to con gress such appropriations ns would be necessary to accomplish that. This would not come immediate ly, unless Japan actually h ke faith by starting to build before the expiration of the two-years’ no tice that the treaty provides must he given before modifying any sec tion of It. It so happens that Franklin D. Roosevelt Is perfectly familiar with the naval situation. He has never lost the Interest he acquired during the period of near ly eight years he was assistant sec retary of the navy. Also, It so hap pens that he has a great many friends among the high naval offi cers. .Most of them were Juniors when he was In the department, and they have no trouble In finding Ills ear today. And It Is quite a sympathetic ear. One visitor noticed recently a map on the wall of one of his rooms showing the Far East, Japan and the mandated islands, which she denies she is fortifying, but will not allow our ships to visit, and the Philippines. The point Is that this administra tion does not believe Japan needs for defensive purposes anything like as large a navy ns the United States or Great Britain. U. S. Will Not Yield Another point on which the Amer ican delegation at London is not go ing to yield is one made by both the Japanese and British. This is the elimination of 8-inch guns for cruisers. America Insists upon 8-inch guns. Japan and Britain want the size limited to 0 Inch. Answer—the British and Jap anese both have any number of fast merchant ships actually constructed with a view to mounting C-incli guns. Such a ship would be help less before a cruiser carrying 8-Inch guns, but could give a cruiser armed witli the same sized guns a fair battle. Which means that if the caliber were reduced to O-inch guns for all cruisers tlie British and Japanese would start with a tremendous superiority. It is highly important to realize, in considering these London discus sions on naval armament, that the American delegation has no posi tive orders to arrive at an agree ment. At only one prior naval con ference was this the case—the last one at London. And that was the only time that our delegates were enabled to refuse to accede to for eign demands. Which may be the reason for the saying that has be come a byword—that the United States never lost a war or won a conference. It may he of some interest to note at this time that at the only other conference where our dele gates did not have orders to reach an agreement, Mr. Itoosevelt was also President. Which is Interest ing as showing ids realization of the situation, and of his willingness to take tlie only steps which naval olllcers insist Japan understands. Gold Content Stands President Itoosevelt, though mak ing no promises, has been so im pressed with the arguments of rep resentatives of tiie gold bloc coun tries of Europe that there is little likelihood of any further devalua tion of the gold content of the dol lar for some time to come. He still retains the power to de value it 9 cents further, in gold, to the 60 i>er cent limit imposed by congress. But this power, it is al most certain, will not be exercised *n the near future. It will be held ss a reserve weapon against any possibility of things not going the way the administration hopes, “ither in International or domestic affairs. The President was told bluntly by the Kuropenn countries still on the gold standard—Italy, France, Switzerland. Belgium and Holland —tliut If the United States devalues *he remaining » cents authorized by law they will have no alternative as to their course. Every one of them would he compelled to devalue its own currency further. They pointed out that despite the faet that Great Britain ntul the United States have gone off gold. International trade still continues In terms of pounds sterling and dol lar*. Also that Britain had given every Indication of keeping the pound at something like the present rate of exchange with the dollar. Ami tiie British, they Insisted, are very stubborn. Ho that In all human probability. If the United States reduced the gold value of the dollar by 9 ad ditional cents, Britain would at I once put the pound sufficiently low er to equalise. Which would meat 1 putting the pound down about 41 cents in terms of dollars. These reductions In value of th< pound and dollar, the gold bloc rep resentatives told Mr. Roosevelt would force similar action on tht part of their countries. Might Cause Trouble It is not a question of protecting their gold. That could easily be done by other means. Rut the trou ble would be that such a lowering of values of the currencies of their chief competitors in world markets would force them to reduce their own production costs. Else they would not be able to export any product which is also produced In the United States or Great Britain. This Is nothing new, as a matter of fact. At the time the United States went off gold, the French told Mr. Roosevelt they could stand a depreciation of the gold value of the dollar down to a cer tain point, but if it went to f>0 cents they would be very reluctant ly obliged to reduce again the gold value of the franc. The case applies with greater force to Italy, and Is further mag nified when apj^^g.^10 Switzerland and Belgium. France is more self supporting and self-contained than any other nation in the gold bloc. Italy is obliged to do a great deal of exporting, and even then strug gle against an unfavorable balance of trade. With the value of the dollar reduced further, she visual izes a much smaller amount of Ital ian goods bought in America. Comedy of Errors A comedy of errors has charac terized the relentless march of the administration toward more air tight control by the President and secretary of the treasury over the federal reserve board and comptrol ler’s oiilce. There seems little doubt that Roosevelt and Morgenthau will accomplish their purpose in the long run, but the slip-ups are amus ing certain insiders. The errors all center around re placing Comptroller of the Curren cy J. F. T. O'Connor, former law partner of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo and before that Democratic candidate for governor of North Dakota. O'Connor simply could not see why lie should do what Morgenthau commanded, either ns a member of the reserve board, or in running the national hank examiners of the country. He could not be removed out of hand, so to speak, for sev eral reasons. He had been duly ap pointed by the President and con firmed by the senate. So O’Connor had to be “kicked up stairs.” Morgenthau decided to have him elected federal agent for the Reserve bank of San Francisco, a position which would not only take him back to his adopted state, but would give him twice the salary he draws as comptroller. Two members of the federal re serve board, Adolph C. Miller an vote ns directed. Which would trouble the adminis tration a good deal more If it had not been able to persuade Szymczak aa. C.—WNU Service. 11E exploits of the Crusaders have stirred alike the imagina — tions of young and old ever since they made their armed pil grimages to the Holy Land almost a thousand years ago. Nearly all of us have heard something of the story of the Cru saders. We know that centuries ago our ancestors marched out of Europe into the East and founded there a kingdom which endured for nearly 200 years—from 1099 to 1291 of our era. And the Crusaders left traces which can still be seen. Because the tombs, chapels, and watchtowers, the castles that de fended this first eastern front, and the fortified harbors on the islands were Isolated In lands under Turk ish rule until the World war, few visitors have been able to examine them closely, except in Jerusalem It self and at the accessible points on the coast. Now one may make the trip in the steps of the Crusaders, with all the anticipation of an explorer of fabled lands. The start is from cen tral Europe where the first Crusad ers turned their backs on their homelands, to follow their Via Dei, “Road of God,” the trails that led to Jerusalem. Such a modern explorer plays the part of a hunter. Time and weath er during some 700 years have al most obliterated the remains left by the warriors of the Cross; often their buildings had been utilized by the Moslems for mosques. It Is necessary to look for cues by the way, to follow traces into some not easily accessible places, and to dis count most of the legendry that the people of the countryside always have on tap for the traveler. In Trieste, Italy, for example, a broken arch Is pointed out as the “Arch of Richard," with the ex planation that the English king dwelt in the stone house beside it when he was made captive on his return from the Holy Land. The arch, however, is Roman work, and although Richard may have occu pied the house, if he was ever in Trieste, lie certainly did not plan the fortification of the old city of Itagusa (now Dubrovnik), down the Dalmatian coast, as legend relates. uaieways to tne tast. On the other hand, in the neigh boring city of Venice, at the south west corner of the main structure of the Basilica of San Marco, near est the two columns, there is a group of four porphyry figures in armor. Few’ visitors notice it, but it is a relic of the Crusaders brought from their seaport of Acre by the Venetians. Venice itself was one of the gate ways by which the hosts of Crusad ers sought the East. Others took ship from Brindisi, to cross to the Dalmatian coast, and a chronicler of their day describes a mishap that showed the danger of embark ing upon the crude galleys, or dro monds, that felt their way from coast to coast without aid of com pass and chart: “The fleet was ready at Easter tide, and they embarked at the port of Brindisi. Among those ships, we beheld one suddenly break in the middle without nny cause. Nearly 400 men and women were cast into the water. . . . Only a few sur vived, and those lost their horses and mules In the waves, with much money.’’ This happened during the first Crusade, when multitudes were has tening toward Constantinople (now Istanbul), the halfway point in their great venture. It was the first movement in Europe of men In u mass directly toward the East. When they left Venice or Brindisi, or tiie broad valley of the Danube, they ventured into what was to them an unknown world. Only lead ers had an approximate idea where Jerusalem lay. Route Through the Balkans. “A barren land,’’ one of the Pro vencals relates of the Dalmatian coast route, “both iiathless and mountainless. If was winter by then and we saw neither birds nor beasts for thrice seven days. We wandered through low-hanging clouds so dense that w<- wee® able to tV-wi t*-*m and often to push them away from - vr .. .ved." Today you speed ev> Hw t#Hi i hills of the Hoik**"* t .«*i vay carriage w’.lfc i dlni* . r attached. Crossing a frontier n» •* no mom than showing ye’ ’ p port. »>.ti , the main body o( < . .lenders, led by 1 Godfrey of Bouillon, plodding though the “immense and indescrib able forests,” had to fight or barter for their grain and oil and cattle; they had to build rafts at rivers and sometimes to manage without rafts. "Then we came,” one relates, “to the swift river Demon, which is rightly named. For we had to watch many of our people, wading across step by step, swept down by the current. We could not save them. If the knights had not brought up their battle chargers to aid those on foot, many more would have per ished.” No wonder that these first Cru saders, coming out of the Balkan valley, beheld with amazement the mighty walls and towers of Con stantinople, with its domed basili cas and marble palaces! At this halfway point the almost exhausted hosts of marchers were furnished with adequate supplies by the Byzantine emperor. What was more important, they found out where they were, and obtained guides who knew the route ahead of them. But across the blue line of the Bosphorus the hostile Moslems lay in wait for them, and the rabble who had marched under Peter the Hermit were almost annihilated within two days’ travel of the shore. The better-armed host of Godfrey and the other barons, however, fought their way to the plateau of # Asia Minor. Across Asia Minor. The exact route they followed across Asia Minor is uncertain. It Is clear that they must have passed to the east of the Olympus heights (Ulu Dag), and to the east of the dark Sultan Dagi. The Turks who were fleeing before them Increased their suffering by driving off most of the cattle and burning the scat tered villages. At Konia (Konya), however, they found fertile land and ample food. They learned also how to make skins serve to carry water. Aided by the welcome appearance of a river, they crossed the remain der of the plateau land to Heraclea (now Eregli) in safety. It had taken many of them a year and a half to journey from their homes to» this gateway of the Holy Land. Perhaps a quarter of a million, per haps more, had taken the oath to make their way from the hamlets of Christendom to Jerusalem. More than 100,000 had passed through Constantinople, as nearly as we can judge from the scanty records. By now probably they num bered no more than sixty or seventy thousand. Only some 20,000 reached Jerusalem alive. They were camped this autumn under the mountain barrier of the Taurus (Toros) range. Here they encountered allies, the Christian Armenians of the mountain strong holds, who must have looked upon this host of road-weary warriors as a miraculous apparition. And here the host of the first Crusaders broke up, some galloping down through the ravine known as the Cilician Gates to the plain of Tar sus, while others wandered off to set up an independent kingdom in Edessa (now Urfa) among the Ar menians. On to Jerusalem. The greater part made a circuit to the northeast, to cross the Tau rus range. Apparently they felt their way through a gorge. “We entered,” a chronicler explains, “a defile of the devil, which was so lofty and steep that we hardly dared to pass ahead along the path. Horses fell bodily and one pack animal dragged another with It. The knights beat themselves with their bunds for grief in this place; some sold their shields, helmets, and body armor for whatever they could get. Others threw away their heavy armor and marched ou. And so we passed through the accursed mountain and cnrne to a city called Marash (now Maras). The inhabi tants came out Joyfully to meet us. There we all had plenty." Here lay the mighty city of Anti och (Antloche). The Crusaders laid siege to It und took it after n struggle of eight mouths, with this citadel behind them, the road down the Valley of the Orontes toward Jerusalem lay open. They had crossed the Asia Minor pinteuu, but other armies of t’ru siiders hastening after them failed to do so. Some were cut to pieces by the Suljuk Turks, others lost i;« ir way or were betrayed by the V* o tines.