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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-27
AUTO BACKFIRE FATAL
Yeedersburg Man Fatally Mangled
by Crank.

BIZ Times Special
VEEDERSBURG, Ind, June 27-
Injuries suffered when an automo-
bile backflred caused the death Of
Wallace Adkins, 55. He was crank
ing the car when the backfire oc-
CURED, the crank breaking his right
leg and tearing a hole in the flesh.
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CONTINUED From Page u

by any means. In an instant she
was her old buoyant self again.
You've got a lot Of nerve, /
Think" she went on evenly. you
must think you're a regular sheik."
Keene looked at her indulgently
and smiled his slow, whimsical smile.
He was utterly unconscious of the
fact that his little pal' term in
cidentally, that Teddy had come to
detest, was not joking.
"Well protect you against him,
Teddy. DEAR" smiled Diana Brooks.
She was feeling in anything but a
smiling mood. But she wanted to
bolster up the game little sob-sister's
efforts to appear jocular, to hide the
secret of that which had sent wild
but hopeless ecstacy through her
body when Donald Keene had given
her that. thoughtless kiss.
He was still very much af boy,
was Donald Keene, in spite of his 80
years insofar as concerned women
And there was one young woman,
who liked him far better even than
sine herself knew. And she under
stood him better than he understood
himself.
But this same young woman would
have repudiated any suggestion that
abe was in love with him-would
have laughed lat it as an absurdity.
We've got more'n an hour to kill, J"
Bill Garfield observed, glancing at
/ the clock. What do you all say we
xo down to Mikes Place and kill it
over some hot coffee?"
The proposal met with universal
approval and moment later the big
city room was deserted.
4 The all-night restaurant on the
ground floor of the Times building
held only one customer as the party
entered and took seats at central
table. This was a policeman Tim
Whalen. He was an old-timer on
the force and was known to them all.
He nodded from his perch on a stool
at the counter as they passed.
ANY word of th'old man, Mr..
Keene?" he queried, speaking with
easy familiarity.
mot thing, TIM" replied the
newspaperman. 1T was tn hope
that some clue might turn up that
has kept us down here till this I'M
godly hour"
Its funny, MIGHTY funny"
commented the old policeman with
Q heavy emphasis on the qualifier of
the much-misused word.
II have a premonition, spoke up
Diana at this point as they sat down,
'tthat we're going to meet with dis
appointment this morning"
The sweep Sof her glance embraced
the group around the table.
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I to life" and he looked appreciative-
ly at joys young beauty.
We'll. we shall see in the morn
ing" said the older man.
But JOY pinned her faith on the
words of the younger doctor. All
through the night she prayed. To-
ward four in the morning she left
her room and went to stand outside
Deke's door. Mrs. Deacon joined her
and the two women cried in each
others arms.
In the morning Joyce spent a
brief half hour with Deke before
they made him ready for the opera
ton. They said very little. When
the time came to part Joyce wills
pered against his lips, Il love you,
Deke. L know you will come back. ="
And he answered, Il love you
Joyce, my wife, l am going to come
back"
To Joyce the minutes they spent,
she and Deke's mother, Mr.. Deacon.
Judge Perkins, and Frankly, outside
the door of the surgery While the
doctors went about their delicate
work, seemed like separate eternities.
She felt utterly alone, despite the
presence of the others. BY the
clock it was three hours OF waiting.
To Joyce it was thirty years.
Then there came the scuffling of
feet. The door of the surgery was
flung open.
"Mr. Deacon is doing nicely" a
nurse said.
"Can he see?" burst from four
threats simultaneously. Joyce could
not speak.
"He can see" the nurse smiled.
And he is asking to see his wife,
1t is three years since I saw the
lovelight dawning in my husband s
eyes for me. I can still thrill to the
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DaailyDozen
ANSWERS

Here are the answers to Now
You Ask One" for today. The ques-
tons are on page 8:
/. They should be arranged thus:
John A Macready Aviation
Ebert II. Gary Industry
Roy Howard Journalism
John Golden Drama
George Gershwin Music
2. 1t means having no definite
form; shapelessi uncrystallized.
3. Yes; formerly North American
fresh water contributed some of the
finest pearls in the jewelers. trade.
4. DIR. Sigmund Freud.
5. Twelve.
6. Sir Thomas Upton.
l. The duck billed platypus.
8. Lord Byron.
9. The Detroit Tigers and the Chi
cago Cubs.
10. Frank Chance.
IL. For its limestone Quarries.
IL. Coal mine explosion in which
many miners were killed.
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CHAPTER Tx
The End

Deke wore beautiful look on his
face. Mrs. Deacon kissed him. I'm
so glad for you BOTH" she MUIR
INJURED
isn't she marvellous" he asked
fatulously, patting his mothers
cheek.
Joyce was consulting with Judge
Perkins.
II can't very we'll read the cere-
mony and give you away too he
protested.
There was slight commotion in
the hall and a voice calling in a
stage whisper, "Joyce, oh Joyce"
Joyce went to the door. There
stood Gladys with Jim Hopkins
sheepishly at her side.
Joyce ran to them. You're just
in time for my wedding" she cried.
"Oh. and you can give me away,
Mr.. Hopkins"
And so it was. Jim Hopkins feel
ing that he occupied a star role in
his duel capacity Of newly married
bridegroom and father" OF Joyce
gave her in marriage with a dra-
matte 81 do"
Joyce made her answers quietly,
holding Deke's hand firmly in hers
and guiding his hand as he placed
the wedding ring on her finger.
Frankly had shopped for the plain
platinum band that Deke used as
he spoke the words, with this ring
l do thee we'd"
Frank, too, furnished most of the
tears. Gladys was too thrilled at this
dramatic proceeding, and Mrs. Dea-
con too deeply moved. to cry.
Judge. Perkins felt his eyes mist
when Joyce kissed Deke at the end
of the ceremony. He made his con-
CALCULATIONS in a shaky voice.
at must tell my mother and
father" Joyce said, when the cere-
mony was finished.
But Deke would not let her go.
you send the wire, Frankly.
Give them our love. Our, under
stand?"
Frank promised and presently
Joyce and Deke were alone waiting
for the final consultation of the spe-
cialists who were to perform the
operation in the morning
IT know that it will be a success
now" Deke said. 1--WE got to get
well. I want to see my wife"
Joyce held his hand closer.
"You will get WELL" she told him
solemnly.
But the great specialists shook
their heads at her later when she
faced them in the consultation
room.
This excitement has been very
bad for him." one of them told her
His pulse is rapid, his tempera-
ture shows an increase, and l am
seriously afraid, of the consequences
of the shock"
His confrere disagreed with him
"My observation of the patient, y
he said, sis that in the past he has
shown no particular inclination to
get well. Now he has an incentive
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memory OF that time when i stood
beside his bed while the nurse lifted
the bandage over his eyes for a
moment. Only a moment. for it was
days before he could go without
some protection for his eyes. But
in that brief glance 1 saw burning
in his gaze at me all the love and
faith and passion that had held me
true through my years OF trial.
What more can 1 write? The
finest, the biggest years OF my life
have been the last three, spent in
the shelter of Deke's love for me.
They too are a story of JOY.
Deke is reading the final chap
ters as I write this. l am waiting
for the kiss that I know will be
mine when he turns to me. after
reading the words the nurse spoke.
the words that summoned me to
happiness.
He is coming
why don't you write the real
end, or is it the beginning. of our
story" he asks me.
What else is there to tell?" I
answer, my hand in his. The rest
Of the story would be all you. the
story OF a wonderful husband.
Since you're so wonderful. you end
the story for me-"
"Darned if l will says my hus-
band. I'm no writer"
We looked up at the opening OF
the door. Escaping from the arms
OF his nurse was our small son,
Henry, Junior-whom my beloved
Deke will call Hank.
Here's the guy to write the end
Of our story" Deke cried. swinging
the boy to his shoulder and bending
over me- Just give Hank the pen
for a minute. He'll finish it for
you"
Not much" I answered, taking
Junior and steering his uncertain
/ hands into his fathers hair.
couch. You rascal! No wonder
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call you Hank" He grows a lit
tie thoughtful and smiles at me
with that steady smile know and
love so well.
you've done q real job here, Joy.
giving folks the inside of your strug-
gle. It's like a friendly letter to
them, like the letters you write to
Davey on his South American plan
tation. How's this for an ending?"
Young Hank was a year old Sun
day. He weighs twenty-five pounds.
More later. Regards.
Joy AND DEKE."
And so I close my long letter" to
you all. You know how perfectly
happy I am-if only Deke will stop
calling the baby HANK!
(The End
Copyright. 1927
Famous Features Syndicate Incl
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TIL COD CTCTED . CLIFFORD WEBB
4 UC OOD OlO IA 81 Dg and ROSE ELO

my best to get tn number Of tn
house, and if l do I'll call you up at
once?"
Does your husband know you're
acquainted with Miss Brooks?" Don
aid Keene asked her sharply.
mo, SIR" replied the woman. 'he
thinks I'm out this morning gather
ing up washing. An that's no lie,
either, as it happens. I have two
bundles of wash to take home"
Then you will call me?" asked
Diana as she slipped yellow
backed bill into the woman's toll
worn hand and quickly turned her
head to avoid the look of gratitude
she knew was shining in the tired
ewes.
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words with keen anxiety.
"Only WHAT" Diana prompted
quickly, tell meat once! What
has happened? Where is my father?
Have they taken him"
That's it," cut in the woman ex-
citedly. She caught her breath with
a little gulp. They've took him
from that house, tn third I'm tn
corner" indicating the opposite
side of the street-"about 2 o'clock
this morning. found out that much
I'm my man when he came in an
hour ago But couldn't get tn num-
Der FIN ninth place where they
took your father-although he said
1T was somewhere in K-street.
That's in tn Sicilian district. I'll do
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1t is three years since / saw the
lovelight dawning in my husbands
eyes for me. l can still thrill to the
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Why Was Diana Brooks Kidnapped?

"C'mon," he said. 'it isn't more
than Is minutes drive out to where
we're going, but we might as well
wait out there as here"
1t proved to be almost a S0-minute
drive but they found the woman
waiting in the shadow Of tree at
the place she had named.
'Oh, my friend" she began at once
as Diana, followed closely by her
four companions, hurried up to her.
81 never was so sorry in all my life!
l was so sure l was going to be able
to do you a good turn in pay for all
you've done for me. I would, too.
only"
She stopped and gazed helplessly
at Diana. who was hanging on her
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OUTING NEEDS

The Icy Hot Thermos Vacuum
is one quart capacity. A good look
ing plain green enamel compost
ton case. Keeps liquids hot or cold
for "a hours. This is a special
nrice during Nav
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II seem to hear dad calling to me, -
she continued. Its nerves of
course. I realize that. But l seem
to feel that we are going on fruit
less Journey
The older girls grief-stricken voice
released the Stop-cock of Teddy's
ever-susceptible emotions.
''Dia. dear" she exclaimed, you
take all tn heart out of me again!
And was feeling so optimistic toov'
For time the talk drifted in and
out of the groove Of generalities.
At length the slow-moving hand on
the wall clock touched the $50 fig
ure. Donald Keene showed back his
chair and rose from the table.
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(Tn Be Continued

(TO BE Continued
THE kidnapping of Roger Brooks
is not the only threat that fore
casts startling events at the
Times. Don learns of a surpris-
ing development in the next in
stallment.)
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"Yes, indeed, will, Miss Brooksp"
The reply was emphatic and eager.
"And I'll manage somehow to get
that number. Maybe I'll get him
drunk"
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His Rheumatism
Is Entirely Gone
Found Quick Relief After Is Years
of Constant Suffering.

Any reader who knows what tor
ture rheumatism can inf1ict, will re-
joice with Col. Bedwell, COS w.
Franklin ST., Hartford City, Ind, in
his complete recovery. Mr.. Bedwell
tells how he found the way back to
health, in the following letter:
Il suffered with rheumatism for
Is years without getting more than
temporary relief. My feet and legs
would swell until at times 1 could
hardly move, and the pain was aw-
full. l couldn't even take off my
coat without help. Then I heard Of
Viuna and bought bottle. From
the tirst 1 saw it was helping me,
and so / kept right on, and now 1
am pleased to say my rheumatism
Is all gone and feel fine, ard work
at the factory every day. feel my
present health is all due to Viuna."
viuna acts promptly on sluggish
bowels, lazy liver and weak kidneys. II
purifies the blood, clears the skin. re-
stores appetite and digestion, and brings
new strength and energy to. the whole
body. Take a bottle on trial Then if
you're not glad you tried Viuna, your
money will be refunded. 81 at druggists,
or mailed postpaid by Iceland Medicine
Co., Indianapolis, Ind.
WI Ut N a
The WOnder Medicine
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-28
Pittsburg Thugs
On Job Ready for
Big Coal Strike

PITTSBURG, March 27.-Pitts-
burg, center of the bitterest exploita-
ton of labor in America, is getting
ready for an intensified reign of the
terror that stalked through the val
Ieys in 1919 and 1922. Some of the
big union coal outfits plan to con-
tinue production on a non-union basis
after April /. To this end franks
Of the coal and iron police guards
paid by the operators are being in
creased" reports the Wall Street
Journal. Extensive installations of
flood lights are being made to reduce
the possibility of night attacks on
properties"
Militant labor has been derelict in
not establishing a powerful weekly
paper in the important Pittsburg
steel and coal district. While the
editors Of such paper can expect
cracked heads and ruined presses not
only from the brutal anti-union en-
ployers there but from the bought
and paid for corrupt trade union Of
ficaldom, the job has to be done
sooner or later.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-28
Latin American Book,
"The Bird of Prey"
Raps American Eagle

WASHINGTON - (FP) - From
BuenOs Aires there has arrived in
Washington an advertising poster
for a new book, best seller in Latin
America, called "The Bird of Prey"
This bird is the American eagle.
The book recites the story of Ameri-
can armed aggressions in Latin
America--in Mexico, Nicaragua,
Haiti, the Dominican Republic. and
alleged plans for Intervention in
other countries in this hemisphere.
Investigators just returned from
South America say that large finan-
cial deals with American firms have
recently been rejected by the gov
ernments of Colombia and Yene-
zuela, with the explanation that
public opinion in Latin America
viii not now tolerate any conces-
sions to big business in the United
States for fear that American armed
forces may follow the dollars.
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tee for democracy in trade unions,
here, declared that in spite Of the
losses in the ranks of the miners
union caused by the misleadership of
the Lewis machine, the strike will be
heroically carried thru by the rank
and file.
"When the Lewis administration
failed to support the hundred thou
sand coke region strikers during the
last walk out, and left them to their
fate, altho they, unorganized, had
struck to aid the union and to become
a part of it, he served notice on the
operators that it was perfectly safe
for them to begin their inroads into
the union fields" said Brophy.
"Since the signing Of the Jackson
vile agreement the United Mine
Workers of America has lost $4,000
dues-paying members, and has also
lost, in some measure, its hold on it's
own membership" declared Brophy.
Brophy, who lost the presidency of
the United Mine Workers of America
at the last election only as result
Of the sleight-of- hand tactics of the
Lewis machine, asserted that since
the conclusion of that agreement dis
Indignation has resulted all along the
line in the bituminous industry.
In declaring that the nationalist
ton of the coal industry is the only
alternative to the present chaotic con-
dition, Brophy declared that the mine
operators squander not only coal as
result of their incompetence and
barbaric methods Of competition, but
also waste human life. "25,000 min
ers are killed at their work In the
mines Of the United States each
year." he said. "That is three times
the number Of Great Britain"
The progressive leader said that he
favored democracy in the trade
unions not because he was under any
illusion that il would create state
Of perfection, but because ut pro-
vides the only chance for growth and
changes for the best interests Of the
workers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-28
Six Cents Is Share
Of TOilers In Steel
Trusts Prosperity

U. S. Steel common stockholders
are to get a 40 per cent stock divi-
dend, whose cash value on each share
at present rating is STA. Each $500
share is now valued at $685. and with
the 40 per cent extra thrown in, will
be worth $500 or four times its nor
NAL value.
Contrast with this the dividend in
crease that the U. S. Steel worker got
last year in the shape of an increased
wage over 1925. 1t was exactly six
cents a day. His average wage in
1926 was $5.8S day and last year
it jumped 90 to $5.94. And at that
Wallprol places little reliance in the
steel trusts figures on wages. Just
how the average" was computed
would make an interesting study in
itself.
Just Soaked!
The original 500 steel trust share
Of common stock was outrageously
watered and actually represented but
fraction of that amount in invested
capital. But now IL is worth S400.
In one year it leaped in value by
Sl14 while the workers. wages went
up 6 cents!
That is not all by a long shot. The
steel worker averages $1.06 less a
day now than in 1920, on the trusts
own figures. Oh, what a good strong
union would do TO those contrasts.
And what a good strong Communist
party can do to the whole rotten set
up in the steel industry where the
owners get literally everything, leav-
ing to the producers only the barest,
most miserable existence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-28
SENATOR NORRIS
FLAYS WARLIKE
ACTS OF CALL Vim
Opposes the President
On Mexico, Nicaragua

WASHINGTON, March 81 (FP).-
Sen. Geo. w. Norris, leader of the pro-
gressive group in congress, has been
the first to sepak out against the war
making program of the Coolidge adj
uinistration in Latin American, indi-
Gated by the sale Of arms by the
United States government to Adolfo
Diaz, its puppet president in Mica
ragua, and by the ending of the treaty
against smuggling arms into Mexico.
1.-THE action Of the president and
secretary Of state" said Norris, sis
shocking to every peace-loving. citizen
in civilization. The action in regard
to Mexico is notice to those who want
to overthrow the Mexican government
that they will have a free hand in
shipping there from our country all
the arms and ammunition that may
be needed.
Seat New Gar
''If the president and SECRETARY of
state without consent of congress can
sell guns and ammunitions of war to
Diaz to keep him in power in Mica
ragua, there is no reason why they
could not sell some of our battleships
to MussolinI; there is no reason why
they could not put car on the throne
in Russia and sell him, in time, on
his promissory note, the cannons and
guns now belonging to our govern
ment."
Sen. Borah, meeting the press cor
respondents daily, has not ventured
to denounce the administration acts,
although he considers them in viola
ito NOT the senate resolution asking
for friendly arbitration of the oil
lands dispute with Mexico.
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Henry Ford to Testify,
Immune to Exposure

Continued from Page One)
a most severe cross examination, say
the attorneys for the inventor of
"The Ford System. 1t is expected,
however, that Senator Jim Reed
chief of consul for Ford, will rest on
his publicity already gained, and
leave this routine job to Stewart Han
ley, former Detroit judge.
Repeats Charge.
Ford's paper, the Dearborn indie
pendent, in its latest issue has re-
iterated some Of the charges against
Sapiro's handling of "cooperatives",
and adds long-winded defense of
religious prejudice. 1t says about
Sapiro's financial deals:
"Under the Sapiro plan of coopera-
tive marketing organizations, farm
ers or growers, in whatever locality
an association was formed, signed
contracts binding themselves to de-
liver their entire crop output to the
association over a fixed period of
years, the association to sell the pro-
ducts, paying the farmer after deduc-
ting all operating and selling ex-
pense. II was claimed for the plar
that through this form of coopera.
tive marketing, prices could be bet
ter controlled and that the producers
would receive greater return for his
products.
Declares Plan Disastrous.
Investigation Of the Sapiro plar
by The Dearborn Independent showed
just the REVERSE. With few excep
tions, the investigation disclosed thai
the Sapiro plan Of cooperative mar
keting resulted disastrously for the
producers.
Following the publication Of thes,
stories, Mr.. Sapiro in 1925 filed hi
suit for libel"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-28
UNION HEADS TO
FIX AUTO LABOR
JURISDICTIONS

WASHINGTON, (FP).-Executives
of all international unions claiming
jurisdiction over parts of the motor
vehicle industry took part in a con-
ference in the executive council room
at American Federation of Labor
headquarters on March "a to consider
ways and means of organizing the
100000 or more workers in the auto
mobile, truck and accessories plants
of the United States and Canada.
Jurisdictional Fights.
This was the second such meeting
held since the A. F. of l.. convention
at Detroit last October ordered that
campaign be launched to unionize
these workers. AT the first gather
ing it appeared that some unions
were indifferent, because Of jurisdie-
tional claims, to the project of Great
ing an industrial union of automobile
workers.
The executive council of the A. +.
of L. then asked the several unions
executives to secure consent from
their executive boards for surrender
of jurisdiction, at least until all the
automobile plants should be made
safe for labor unionism. 1t was sug-
gested that the ALLEGATION of the new
recruits to the various trade unions
could be taken up afterNard.
Try To Settle.
Studies have meanwhile been made
by the A. +. of L. research depart
ment as to just what labor processes
are involved in the industry, and how
those numerous operations, per-
formed generally in connection with
new and complicated machinery, may
be classed as to trade.
This problem Of deciding whether
a Ford or General Motors employee is
machinist or q sheet metal worker
or a common laborer is the most diff
ficult one with which the jurisdic-
tional experts have had TO deal. The
employee may be shifted from the one
class to another and from that to a
third within brief time.