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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-26
HERE'S FOXY GRANDPA'S STORY

wood and on to a back lane
where it really looked like an
English country side, where
Shops ancestors might have tend
ed their sheep.
There was no trouble in teach
ing Shep to follow close behind
Mr.. Joyce's heels. He seemed
to understand 1t perfectly. If he
did scamper away for a short run
he ran back quickly to his master.
The lane took us over a bridge
and we stood for q moment look.
ing down at the stream which ran
under us. AS we stood there five
or six little lambs which were in
the pasture through which the
stream ran. came leaping down to
the edge of the stream. They each
nosed the water. took drink and
then looked longingly across the
stream. 1t was very clear that
they wanted to cross, but they
were afraid.
Suddenly Shep ran down to the
side of the bank of the stream,
got on the down side of the lambs
and gently moved them up to
narrow, shallow place in the
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stream where they could safely
cross. He was as businessIil1e as
if he had tended sheep for 10
years. and we stood silent in ad-
miration at his clever work.
Look" said Bobby Look, they
got over safely. He just knew
the right place for them to cross, +"
Shep came running back to Mr..
Joyce as if nothing had happened,
looked up in his face and barked,
and we went on our way.
That's the most remarka BILE
thing I've ever seen" 1 remarked
to Mr.. Joyce as he walked along
smiling at his new dog.
Isn't it extraordinary" said
Mr.. Joyce. ITO think that this
little fellow has never seen a sheep
in all his life, and yet because
he came from a race Of dogs that
were used to working with sheep
he knew without being taught
what to do"
Blood will tell" declared Bunny
very solemnly as he looked at
Shep with approval.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-26
You Will Want to Know Beautiful Peggy Starr Heroine OF
the Most Interesting Story of Young Love Ever
Penned By Beatrice Burton.

Nine women out of ten would
have made up some silly tale to
explain how they had happened
to drop their hairpins and hand
kerchiefs there. But not Fay
Shirley!
She said nothing at all, but
simply reached out for the things
and tucked them out OF sight
under her lacey pillows.
Quite Self-possessed Fl
In a half minute she was talk.
ing In her lively way about some,
thing else, and Peggy was left
to draw her own conclusions as
to how she had happened to be in
Ranny's car that night!
At first she was tempted to ask
Ranny about 1t.
But on second thought she
made up her mind never to. men
ton the affair to him. For he
seemed to have forgotten Fay
these days.
He seemed to have forgotten
everyone but herself. He be-
longed to her as he never had be-
longed to her before.
Every night he came home for
dinner at The Nest, before 8
o'clock. Afterward he would help
Peggy with the dishes and then
they would settle down to read,
or go for g. walk, winding up at
the movies In all probability. 1t
was like the magical time of their
engagement, when Ranny had
seemed to want no one but her.
And Peggy was forced to adj
NIT that Aunt Agony had been
right when she said: Nothing
makes man settle down the
way a child does
For the mere prospect of
fatherhood had sobered Ranny
and made him settle down in q
way that seemed nothing short
Of a miracle to Peggy.
A Reformed Character
You're a reformed character,
Ranny Phelps. Do you know it?''
she asked him gaily one day as
she sat on the arm of his chair
with her cheek against his hair.
"A month ago was afraid I was
going to lose you to Fay, after
all. You seemed to be so crazy
about her.
He stopped her lips with q
kiss. Forget Fay" he said, II
have"
But IL he had forgotten Fay,
she was not going to let him for
get her 30 easily.
Fol. one afternoon late in Octo-
Der the doorbell rang, and Peggy,
who had been peeling carrots for
dinner, wiped her hands. took
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and white kitchen. but she did
not attempt to help her.
Instead she settled herself on q
chair and proceeded to smoke
cigarette after cigarette, just as
fast as she could puff them away.
What in the world have you
been doing with yourself for the
last month or so?" she asked, 81
haven't seen you for perfect
ages. -
Peggy shrugged her shoulders.
''Oh, nothing much. Just keeping
house and darning socks and
things" she answered. Really
Ranny and haven't seen the
crowd for so long that / bet
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Ranny. now, that nothing must
break.
she was glad Of the dusk all
around tlem--the friendly blue
twilight that was like q screen
between her and Fay, when she
spoke.
ave haven't been going out
much lately, Fay" she said, ''be-
cause / haven't been feeling very
peppy. You see-you see-1' m
going to have a baby in the
spring"
She never forgot the look on
Fay-s face when she said It.
Even through the haif-darkness
she could see how the green eyes
widened with surprise and the
mouth fell laxly open.
+H-h-how perfectly wonderful!
Fay said at last when she found
her voice. Aren't you thrilled
to DEATH"
Peggy shook her dark head.
mot what you call thrilled to
death. You don't get thrilled to
death about q baby coming. It's
something deeper and quieter
than being thrilled the feeling
that comes to you when you
know 1t" she said TITS the sort
Of feeling you have when you go
to church early on Easter morn
ing
She never finished the sentence,
for Fay was getting out Of her
chair and speaking as mechani-
caliy as a talking machine.
II think it's the most wonder
full thing ever heard Of" she
was saying jerkiIy Think OF
you with baby-youM be the
sweetest thing in the world as q
mother-now, I've got to go,
1ovey. I've got to 60"
Is Fay Forgotten?
She only shook her head in re-
fusaI when Peggy asked her to
stay for dinner
She had not been gone for
more than five minutes before
Ranny came In.
He walked out into the kitchen
where Peggy was seasoning. the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-26

Kentwocd Glendennlng, inst his
death by hydrocyanic poisoning.
or by some poison Of the nature
OF hydrocyanic acid, administered
by way Of the skin by Ibrahim
Abu Saeed. sometimes called
Suke."
The chief Of police turned to
Kathleen:
81 can't express my sorrow at
what you've been through, Miss
Crittenden. ! know you have suf-
fered fortunes. Try not to think
too hardly of us. We are only
human beings and we err: the
case from the beginning was a
battling one"
He turned to Loren Echard,
who stood white faced, a little
apart-a prisoner who is reprieved
at the scaffold and cannot yet
realize It:
"As for you, sir God and
chance have been with you. MUIR
der Is the unlawful and inten.
tional killing of a human being
by a human being. AS the man
you Snot was ALREADY DEAD you
could not have killed him. You
are not a murderer in the eyes
Of the law, and you are free to
co."
At Dinner
Loren Echard whispered some
thing so low that it could hardly
he heard:
IT am not a murderer
am caught back from the jaws Of
hell"
It was s o'clock that evening.
In SOL, Kathleen, Hazel and DIR.
Cressy were drinking the black
coffee OF little dinner served in
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has made her mark, being unable
to write
The coroner looked through the
confession, then handed it to the
clerk:
Let this be written into the
records Of the case" He turned
to the jury:
HIS OPINION
There seems no vestige of
doubt. gentlemen, that an at
tempt to poison the deceased
was made. The point in de-
Gliding the cause of death seems
to be-did the revolver shot
enter the body ante or post NOR
tenn? Upon the establishing Of
this fact depends the placing
of the guilt for murder upon
Loren Echard or upon the young
Egyptian known as Suke.
Luckily you. a physician, DIR.
Cressy, were among the first
to see the dead body. Giving
your testimony now as a med
zeal man, what, in your opinion,
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GIVES" said Mr.. Joyce, the
l. gentleman at whose home
on Long Island we were spending
a few days, II bought him at the
dog show in New York. He won
he blue ribbon in the puppy
class Of English sheep dogs and
just couldn't resist him! He
vas born in a kennel here and
has never seen a sheep; but
suppose his ancestors tended
many a herd of sheep back in
England. He's the best bred
puppy of his kind in America"
May we see him?" asked
Bobby.
Il hope So" said Mr.. Joyce.
I'm fact / expect the man to
bring him down this afternoon.
So IL you don't mind We'll wait
until he arrives, because I want
% be the first to feed him."
Bobby looked rather puzzled at
his, and then Mr.. Joyce ex-
blamed:
Here's something for you to
remember, Bobby. II you ever
get a new dog, when he arrives
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off her apron and hurried to the
door.
There, in the bIue-gray duck of
the autumn afternoon, stood Fay,
with her arms full Of yellow
chrysanthemums. She came in,
filling the air of the living room
with their acrid smell and the
freshness OF the outdoors she had
come from.
go ahead with whatever you
were doing, honey" she said.
kissing Peggy on both of her
cheeks. IF you were cooking.
let me go out into tbs kitchen
with you and help" She followed
Peggy into the cheerful little blue
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-26
Is He Jealous?

ElAY SHIRLEY gives Peggy
q few ssinside hints" ON
how to keep RanIy's love.
Keep him guessing, says
worIdly-wise Fay. There Is 2
Halloween party at The Nest
which ends i'm pretty sharp
words between Ranny and
staid old Peter WIKI. Is RanI1y
Jealous? Read tOInOrrOw's in
staIIment.
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By Stella Wynne
whose Stories of Mystery an
Love Are Causing Wide
spread Comment

NN1E jurors GRAINED forward to
look, but none OF them seemed
inclined to examine more closely
the seemingly harmless dress
shirt stud DR.. Cressy handed
the little box as evidence to the
court, who received 1t very de-
lcately and wrapped 1t In his
pocket handkerchief. He next
produced the confession Of Suke,
wri ten on the coarse Manila
wrapping paper, and signed by
the two Witnesses:
f'aThis confession" he, said,
was taken down by me as 1t
VAS spoken by the lips of the
dying man. The Spanish fisher
man. Jose Machado. at whose
home the death occurred, and
his wife, Rosa, were the wit
nesses. The man has affixed his
signature here, but the woman
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-26
BY Beatrice Burton
Author of FIapper Wife"
s'GiIded Kisses" and
sFoOtlOOse''

AIRS. SHIRLEY came to the
41A door.
why. it's little Peggy she
said, and kissed her. "Fay's still
m bed. She was up late last
night and shes just having her
breakfast; go right up"
Peggy ran up the broad stairs
and tapped on the closed door of
Fay's bedroom. Without waiting
for an answer she went in.
Fay was propped up in bed
against a mountain Of little
pillows.
Her green eyes looked bare and
staring without the makeup that
she used, when in the public eye,
and her lips were smeared with
the indeiibIe rouge that she used
IN the evening.
For one instant Peggy wished
wickedIy that Ranny could see
her as she looked now, without
her war paint
Hello, Early Bird What brings
you out at the crack OF DAWN"
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the front room OF the suite.
Hazel almost looked her old
self, with her brilliant bobbed hair
fluffing around her childish face
in which a little pink was again
beginning to show.
Kathleen. who had gone to bed
for several hours after coming
back from the coroner's jury. was
still pale with black rings under
her eyes. but something of the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-26
By STELLA WYNNE

terrible tenseness had left her
face.
Hazel rose
I'd better go in and see Marie, =
she said nervously, that dumb
bell of night operator comes on
) at 8. She may switch call to
500, and Marie'lI hear about it
this morning she's in
bad enough shape as it is
TO Be Continued Tomorrow
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The Storu Thus Far

PEGGY STARR has been engaged to RANDALL PHELPS for
nearly when he asks her break their lie
frankly tells her that he's in love with her best friend FAY
Bkenhead Peggy gives him up much the satisfaction Of
her AUNT AGONY, spnster, reared her She
Peggy PETER WIKI sObermnded bache
lOr who's in love with her.
Fay tells Peggy that they have decided that they don't really
enough for each other through life together And Peggy
that Fay still seeing great deal of her old beau EDDIE
On moOnt May night Peter gives picnic in Peggys honor
The young guests play like children in the dark
woods Peggy find with He tells
her that after ALL she's the only girl the world for him. Afraid
that she him him Peggy
that they that night and get married
And they do!
Before many months past Peggy finds that her dream Of
welded life different His life
still with Eddie Carriers of poker players He loses
heavily and eggy keeps house next nothing doing all hf
work. And he rather much of
day Peggy Ranny going
baby few months she finds Shrleys handkerchief and
carved harpn of hers in Rannys in her.
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The Winter Sleep Of Animals

OE animals the squirrel sleep only during the
weather The badger sleeps for Of the winter
the hedgehog remain kind Of tOrpor
until spring.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-26
This Day in History

THIS the anniversary the death in 1861 Of Pedro de la Barca
Caderon Lopez Vago SPANS greatest dramatst
With golden period Spanish drama
The Winslow mail., 1926-05-28

bingles in five attempts, with Rey-
nolds running a duplicate total.
But for tragic incident, AL Le-
Roy might have also broken into
the home-run column. Rounding
second after a long poke that look
ed like a cinch for the circuit, Le-
Roy let down few sails, and
stopped at third. 1t was ascer-
tanned that in the heat of excit-
ment, Al had swallowed a cud of
Peachy Plug which he was masti-
eating, and the unaccustomed diet
almost stopped him even before he
got to third, where an unmanly
weakness caused him to sit and
rest
The team batting average for the
commentaries stands now at .344.
with team fielding average at .921.
Snyder, who cavorts around the
kestone sack for the Merchants,
handled ten chances without bob
BILE in Sundays fracas, ably assist
ing in boosting the fielding figures.
The box score:
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FISHERMEN READY
FOR TROUT SEASON
OPENING JUNE 1ST

Rods and reels will be moved out
of the store room and maps will be
persu2ss in search of routes to trout
fishing spots during the next few
days as sportsmen prepare for the
opening of the trout season June
1st. Misguided people who look
from afar at Arizona, and unwlsely
consider it as a desert art not cog
infant of the fact that the disciples
of the late Mr.. [. Walton recognize
it as a trout fsherman's Nirvana.
Within a few hours drive Of
Winslow are any number of high
ly populous trout centers, where
the speckled beauties congregate
large and often. Oak Creek and
other mountain streams to the east
divide honors with the many fine
trout streams in the White Noun
tains, and both sections make a
well-heard appeal to fishermen.
Arr. 1g local anglers who are
champiag on the bit are L. ]. Ben
nett and Bob Huddleston, both Of
whom have answered the clarion
call Of the season for many a year,
and count the days until they can
send a fly or grasshopper shaking
down stream. Both aver that the
present season will be good one
for the anglers but tough on the
fnny tribe.
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= p O Il = =

ming national fame and recognition
as sDrinter, will have everything
in his favor as far as coaching is
concerned as Dean Cromwell, U.
S. G. track coach, is known thru
out the length and breadth of the
land as maker of track cham
pions
Five men who have held or hold
worlds records in track and field
athletics have been moulded into
their championship form by the
hands of this grey-haired, sunny
souled coach"
Charley Paddock, worlds cham
pion sprinter who nosed Borah out
in the finish of a 100-yard race
that set new worlds record in
Los Angeles last Saturday a week
ago, and Bud Houser, greatest of
all weight men, have been coached
to fame by Dean Cromwell. How
ard Drew, worlds champion sprint
er in 1924; Fred Kelly, worlds
champion hurdler in 1912; and Earl
Thompson, holder of the worlds
high hurdle record at present, re-
ceived their training under the
Trojan cinder chief.
Drew was Cremwell's first great
sprinter. He was the first to be
officially credited with 9 6-10 Sec
OndS.
The Winslow mail., 1926-05-28
7 Tournament Is On;
Merchants Take On
Redskins Sunday

Baseball is what you might call
pulling infant in Winslow, but
not without ambition. Nossir. Ger
tain little things like work prevent
the baseball talent from staging a
fracas every day, and makes for
a rather more or less high school
sort of schedule, but even so, it is
not impossible to put on an enter
tainment of a more ambitious sort
than is usually encountered amid
such handicaps as are limited at
above.
For look you, three teams in town
is amply sufficient for a tournament
and a tournament is imminent.
Aided and abetted by a Sunday,
plus a holiday Immediately follow
ing, the three local squadrons will
stage a play-off to determine who
can and who can't go by the name
of champs Of Winslow.
Sunday afternoon at 2:30, which
reliable information tells us is a
popular hour in baseball, the Wins
low Merchants clash with the Rip
Track Redskins. Tie games will
not be tolerated, for the winner of
this contest is fated to meet the
colored Red Sox on the following
day, and the Sox absolutely refuse
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0 consider a double header.

to consider double header.
All the dope points the finger OF
destiny at the Merchants, since
they have handed a convincing
licking to the Sox, and the Sox have
trounced the Indians by an equally
lopsided score, but as everybody
knows who ever tried to turn five
into ten, dope is at best not al
together certain.
Certain ingredients known as
breaks" have, in fact, a lot to do
with winning these old baseball
games, and the Sox have been boil
stored up considerably by the ad-
dition of several recruits.
The Merchants are travelling at
a fast clip, there's no denying, and
so far have justified the almost
childlike faith of Manager Matthie.
Senor Matthie, by the way, is not
a POllyanna, and his optimistic
chortlings regarding his club are
by no means to be regarded as 50
much warm atmosphere. The com
mercial boys have fattened all their
opponents so far, and that without
extending themselves.
Hitchcock will start on the hill
lock for the Merchants, with Lee
in reserve to stem the tide Of base
blows should Danny get into diff
Guilty, but Matthie is hopeful that
Lee will be fresh for the fracas
Monday-that is, of course, if his
club should guess which shell the
little pea is under Reynolds will
be on the receiving end of Hitch
cocks slants. For the Indians,
Mariana and Slow will handle the
battery work. Mariano's arm is
in great shape, and he means to
register a win.
Should the Merchants meet the
Sox Monday, they will have a
chance to NOW down Pearson, a
new man. who will be heaving to
a highly touted newcomer.
Lee will take over the task of tam
ing the brunettes.
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Are Still
Numbering Pitchers;
Swamp Leupp 15-9
By GEORGE LAWS

With hangover from their
hitting jag of the week end prev
ious, the Winslow Merchants
punched their blows and sat down
on the Leupp invaders Sunday by
the heavy ratio of 1873. Fifteen
blows for the Merchants, thirteen
for Leupp, four errors for the
home boys and six for the company,
made a game that baseball purists
might designate as ragged, but one
that at least was full of baseball,
good or bad.
Hitchcock and Clark connected
with the agate for one four-ply
swat per each, and Danny like
wise turned in clout that went
for two bags. Dan is still hitting
at a rapid clip, gathering three
The Winslow mail., 1926-05-28
RED SOX SCORE
EASY; WIN FROM
PRESCOTT TEAM
By CHARLES ERICKSON

Did they WIN? Why of course
they did, and got a lot of good prac-
tice too. The snappy dark COM
plexioned roundhouse Red Sox base
ball aggregation is sure enough
developing into a real 'leaguer"
team. At least the Prescott boys
thought themselves playing against
a bunch Of majors" and it is a
cinch they were "out classed" by
far.
To make a long story short the
Red 8 ~yjust Fhit and run" at will
until do the end of the seeming
ly "ever lasting" game a total of
So tallies were bundled up and
brought back to the Meteor City as
evidence while the Prescott nine,
try as they did, could manage to
squeeze only 4 runs across the
home plate. Manager "Pa" Allen
says that the reason for his Red
Sox not shutting out" the mile
High City" boys was because they
deemed that little field practice
wouldn't hurt them.
Lack of space, time and knowl-
edge makes it impossible to give
clear play by play write-up on
the game, but, from what appears
above, it is an easy matter for
Win9ow fans to see that our color
ed n e most certainly had great
slugging streak.
However, it is well to mention
that four mighty king O. swat"
blows were tapped out in favor OF
the Winslow club Horn got two
and Pierson and Strobe each got
one. Another interesting thing is
that Pierson unblushingly added 70
his creditable record by striking
out % batsmen.
Frank Holiday, the teams crack
catcher, was knocked out for the
count in the last frame of the ninth
when hit over the heart by tick
foul" He soon regained conscious
ness but had to retire from the
game.
The Red Sox will be idle next
Sunday anxiously awaiting the
game scheduled for Monday when
they will cross bats with either the
Merchants Of the Redskins. 1t de-
dends upon which of the latter
teams win over the other on Sun
day.
The Winslow mail., 1926-05-28

a chance to start in the tourney
that is scheduled to start some time
between June 5th and June 10th.
The mystery surrounding this
lack of data revolves around the
method of handicapping the con-
estants, inasmuch as the higher the
score, the bigger the handicap, and
influential club members who sys-
tematically shoot the course in
few strokes over par decline to
make known at present the large
and robust scores on their quail
flying cards.
The feminine contingent, who
constitute the chief mental hazard
of the club, are forming for tour
nament also, and several have quail
flied for the ladies' sweepstakes.
The Winslow mail., 1926-05-28
GIVE
NE.E.DE. .E.S "A HARD
BATTLE, BUT LOSE
BY CHARLEs ERICKSON

The riptrack Redskins, WHO in
vaded Needles last Sunday, brought
home another defeat. The game
was only a six inning contest on
account of the terrible condition Of
the diamond. After three of his
best first string players had been
injured, Manager Earnest Yasteya
"called" the game and forfeited It
to the Needles team rather than
take a chance on any more of his
men being hurt
AS a result of. a fast grOunder hit
ing one of the many chuck holes"
in the field and then suddenly kiss
ing short stop Taylor below the
eye he is compelled to submit to
treassp2nt for a cracked cheek bone,
at the hospital in Laguna, n NJ.
Frank Analla and Oscar Lewis were
the other two forced to retire from
the game on account of injuries
but which fortunately were not of
as serious a nature as the one Sus-
tanned by Taylor.
The six innings played however
were filled with fight on both
sides but the local team had the
small end Of the 5 to 4 score when
the contest was brought to a close.
n ,xt Sunday the Redskins meet
thS lndefeated Merchants squad on
the City Park diamond to argue
the right to play against the Red
Sox on the following Monday, which
is observed as a holiday because Of
Decoration Day being on Sunday.
The winner Of the final game will
decide the city championship among
the three local clubs.