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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-24
CHAPTER XXI
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Carter DeIand lost no time in pre-
senting himself to Joyce again.
He stopped her as she was leaving
the board the next afternoon.
''Hello, there, Miss Daring. This
has been a long summer for me,
without sight of YOU" He made
his customary bow.
.'That's nice of you," said Joy
dimpling.
"And what are you doing with
yourself this bright afternoon"
I'm going a-shopping, sir" she
said. Joyce answered with a curt
sey.
May I go with you, my pretty
maid?" He came a little closer to
her. 81 mean that you know. You're
going out to look for a dress that
you can wear in the afternoon and
maybe to the movies in the evening.
1t must be simple enough so you can
wear it to work, and smart enough
so you can feel dressed up in it..
You're going to spend about twenty
five dollars for it. Am I right?''
Joyce gasped. you are" she
said, ''but how did you gue,ss?"
ooh, 1 often help my friends buy
their clothes. They tell me 1 have
very good taste. And their hus-
bands find shopping with their
wives tedious"
While Joyce stood hesitating Mrs.
Fiez-Simons, accompanied by Miss
Truesdaye, came up.
Dear Mrs. -Simons," said Car
ter, "help me please, Miss Daring
here is going out to buy a new frock
and / want her to let me go along
to tell her whether her choice is be-
coming or not. Persuade her that
often do such errands.
How lovely of you, Carter" cried
Mrs. Fitz-Simons. Really, Miss
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SYNOPSIS

This is the story of Joyce Daring. and
how she worked out her fate when she
lost her home by. the separation of her
parents. Her problem is complicated by
about her. and who jealousy fights her
lover, Henry Deacon, for her; In the fight fight
Fearful Of Death Mrs. Daring tells --oyce
how she had become tool of bootleg
ring and was in the power Of Settler in
Citation when her father John Daring.
gives Of his blood TO- save, his wite'z life.
but the family is split. wider by the mys-
ferrous disappearance of Mrs Daring. Joyce
dedicates five thousand dollars. her mother
had left her to finding her. and loses much
iaaves to fiaisb his work at ceilege. The
field is left clear to David Tompkins.
childhood admirer and to Carter Deland. q
man about town and an older friend of
young Deacon. 1t was Deland young Dea-
con feared not the other boy. as he left
for college.
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exerted himself to be entertaining.
When the meal was over he drove
Joyce home, making no suggestion
that they spend the evening to-
gether. Joyce felt disappointed.
Gladys was lying down in their
room when Joyce went in. Had a
headache and came home," she ex.
planned. "Good night, Joyce. What
have you got on?"
She sat up in bed and looked at
Joyce in her finery. Come here"
She felt OF the soft charmeen.
whats you pay for it?"
twenty-five dollars" Joyce won
dered why it suddenly seemed so
very small a sum to mention.
"Oh hell" said Gladys. II wasn't
born yesterday. Deke buy it for
you? What'd it COST"
II bought it myself, tell YOU"
said Joyce. "And it cost twenty-five
dollars just like said. Mr.. Deland
picked it out"
"I thought So" said Gladys nod
ding her head. Joyce, you poor
baby, don't you know that dress cost
at least a hundred dollars? Maybe
hundred and fifty? If you've got
any sense you'll send it back to him
tomorrow"
Next-When a girl goes shopping
with an older man, and finds she has
dress worth six times what she
paid for it, what should she do with
the dress? Send it basl, or keep it?
Read tomorrow's absorbing install
ment of Joy" the love story of an
American girl.
Copyright 1926, Famous Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
AMERICAN LEGION TRAINS PARIS NEARLY WRECKED
 BY DYNAMITE.eS

Nice, France, Sept. 25, (P)- Dynamiters and train wreckers ap- parently tried to wreck the Ameri- can Legion 1.-two goodwill special trains" but Leg.onaires reached Nice safely and ran into another huge welcome. A bomb exploded on the track few miles this side of Cannes, early Sunday five min utes after the regular express pass ed, but eleven hours before the Legion train was due. The rails were torn up and deep hole made in the roadbed fifty seven telephone and telegraph wires were cut and another attempt was dis covered. a few miles east of Nice. on the line near Monte Carlo. Rocks were piled on the rails but these were removed by the track crew. The Legionaires knew absolutely nothing about it. Two possible disasters to other trains were av- erted. overnight. by the authori- ties immediately calling out all available guards to protect Ameri- can guests.
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LIEUT. .kOENNECkE AND
 COMPANIONS NOT REPORTED

London. Sept 26, (P More than forty-eight hours have passed with out word of Lieut. koennecke and his companions who left An gora. Turkey Saturday for Bahara at the head of the Persian Gulf. q distance of ten hundred and fifty miles. There are many miles of desert between Angora and Bahra as well as much sparsely settled country If the airmen were fore ed to alight. they might be some time before reaching point from which to report.
 This expedition is going around the world making the same route. but in the opposite direction from the American around the world fly CTS
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BASE BALL DOPE

New York, Sept. 26, (P,-With only five games left on their sche- dule the Pittsburgh Pirates saw the National Pennant within their grasp by winning both euGs of a double header from Chicago when Pittsburgh became two full games ahead of St. Louis which team jumped into second place by mak- ing double killing at the expense of the Boston Braves.
 The New York Giants held to seven innings in scoreless tie with Brooklyn whc were in third place and two and d half games behind Pittsburgh The Pirates ear clinch the pepnant by winning f'ur out of five remaining games even though in second place. St. Louis if they won all their re- maining five games the Giants would have six games left on their schedule and would tie for first place if they won all of them, while Pittsburgh was losing two out of live.
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BIG ALASKA GAME HUNTERS
 LEAVE CHECKS DOG RACES

Seward, Sept 2S. (Pp-fn appre- citation of their wonderful big game hunt, H. Wendell Endicott and John Haley. both prominent Boston bankers. each left a check for five hundred dollars as par of the prize money for the Fairbanks Sweepstakes Dog Derby to be run this winter.
 Captain w H. Faweett. publish CT. Of "Whiz Bang" Magazine, Dr. H. C. Harper, of Newcastle Penn sylvania H Thomas Gotham, of New Orleans, Norman Marshall Saltwater. of Massachu ulett-. have also just completed q big game hunt with glacier tours to the kenai Peninsula and fhirkaloon districts. returned here today with exceptionally big bags of big game. They all stated that they would re- turn again. They departed on th , steamer Aleutian for Seattle.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
MINNEAPOLIS SEEKS
 1928 q. Q. P. MEET

Minneapolis. tP,-Emphasizing it's equipment with a new s3,ooo.- 900 auditorium seating 12,OOO persons. Minneapolis is taking steps to invite the Republican Party to hold it's next national convention here.
 National hadquart of the Lin coin Clubs. political group with units in virtually every large city is leading in the movement. It is asserted that the northwest long has been eligible for. the honor, but has been handicapped by lack of city with adequate convention facilities and hotel accommodations
 Minneapolis has expanded in it's hotels and St. Paul. it's sister city, is prepared to handle any overflow,
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MONDAY
FOOTBALL SCORES

Oregon z, Linfield 0.
 University Southern California 33, Occidental College 0.
 University of California 33, San ta Barbara State Teachers College Nothing.
 Montana State 22, North Dakota State 0.
 University of Montana 19. Cen terville of Butte 0.
 Stanford [. Olympic Club 6. Army 13 Boston University 0. Syracuse 13. Hobart 0.
 Brown 27, Rhode Island State 0. Ohio University 21, Rio Grande 0 Alabama 46, Millsapi 0. Lafayette 39, Schuykill 13. Hamilton 0, Colgate 21. Columbia 32, Vermont 0. Amherst 21, Alfred 0. Dartmouth AT. Norwich 0.
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io-YEAR.OLD ROY SCOUT
 KILLS STEP.FATHER

Berkeley. Calf. Sept. 28, R- Calmly cleaning his gun while po- lice investigators stood in group about him. Jerome F. Cornell. a 12-year old Boy Scout. admitted killing his step-father Charles Van Aiberwilt. thirty-fve years of age. and the manager of the American Express Company of San Francisco. because: "The brute had my moth CT by the throat"
 The boys mother at frst tried to protect the boy by saying that she did the shooting. When Jerome ad- mitted the shooting and the stor~ was corroborated by his thirteen year-old step-brother. Mrs. Van All berwilt revealed the truth ard said her husband had attacked her on previous occasions.
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DEMPSEY CONSIDERING
 THIRD BOUT WITH TINNEY

New York. Sept. 27. (P)-Jaek Dempsey came to New York to talk over his boxing future with Tex Rickard. Dempsey is believed to be seriously considering entering the heavyweight elimination tour nament that Rickard has planned for the winter and spring The third figh. between Dempsey and Tunney was one of the main topics of their talk. Very few persons profess to believe that Dempsey will be successful in his attempt to lift the title, but nearly every body agrees he is still the biggest drawing power in a business way.
 Dempsey said cit would not take me long to get ready, as l feel fine with two fights under my belt"
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After Attu comes Atka, thence the course reaches to Dutch Har- bor. From Dutch Harbor to Chig- nix the dangers will increase for the Germans by mirages showing headlands and islands in the air and phantom snow ridges that do not exist is another obstacle which the Germans must conquer. The hop to Seward presents the most trouble and if this is conquered the Germans will find it compara- lively easy continuing to Seattle.
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COUNCIL CATHOLIC WOMEN SCORES BEAUTY CONTESTS
 AND DARWINIAN THEORY

Washington. Sept. 2S. (P)--Beau- ty contests and the Darwinian The ory of Evolution are both under fire at the annual convention of the National Council Catholic Women at their meeting here. which is now in session with approximately hundred delegates from all over the country.
 Beach pageants and semi-bare competitions were bitterly attacked and a resolution denouncing such displays as detrimental to the well fare of the girls of America. was framed for submission to the full convention.
 Evolution, and one of its recent opponents. Lord Bishop of Birming- ham, were assailed in an address by the Rt. Rev Joseph Schrembe, Bishop of Cleveland.
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DEMPSEY WANTS
 DECISION REVERSED

Chicago. Sept. 26. R-Jack Dem psey wired the Illinois Boxing Commission that his manager and are preparing for mail letter which will arrive at your offices Tuesday asking that you reverse the decision and declare Dempsey the winner by knockout over Gene Tunney." Dempsey's mana ger Flynn, indicated that an ap- peal would be made to the Nation al Boxing Commission, which is an association of Commissions of eighteen states banded together for the purpose of making uniform regulations of boxing. Dempsey's closest associate pointed out that Dempsey was not inclined to file a protest over the decision. but felt duty bound to stand by his manager.
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WILL CROSS BY PLANE
 FROM TOKYO TO ALASKA

Washington, Sept. 18th. R- Back tracking the historic Pacific flight of the Army. Otto Koennecke the German aviator accompanied by Count Solmslaubach and Johnnes Herman will face the greatest natural imped!ments to his jump towards progress in attempting to cross from Tokyo to Alaska by way of the Aleutian Islands. which re- zion is noted for "willi Ways" or small whirlwinCs that whistle down the valleys from the moutain tops. one of which 1t will be recalled caught Major Martin. commander of the Army round the world flight.
 The eight hundred and seventy eight miles to Attu Island with it's dense growth. of grass and moss makes 1t dimcult for . plane with wheels to land in the Aleuttans.
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MILLIONAIRE MISSING,
 FOUL PLAY FEARED

New York, sejt. 2s. [Pl-The New York Times says that Rich ard J. Reynolds, twenty-one years of age and president of the Rey- holds Company and the eldest son of the late R. J. Reynolds, founder ot the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. one of the heirs to a fortune estimated at fifty million dollars. disappeared twelve days ago and the efforts of detectives, relatives and friends to find him, have been unsuccessful. and have aroused the fear that he has met with some accident or has met with foul play from some person or per- sons who might have known that he had several thousand dollars cash with him. He was last seen in New York on the morning of September sixteenth.
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SCORES LIVES RELIEVED
 LOST IN THE ALPS

London. Sept. 2S. (R-Scores of lives are believed to have been lost In alpine floods which inundated the principality of Lichtenstein. in the eastern section of Switzerland. and the upper section of Italy. af- ter the tremendous rains of the last few days. Many villages are under several feet of water and some of the inhabitants were caught by the rushing torrent be- fore they could reach the mountain sides and perished. The actual total of fatalities cannot be com puted until the broken communi- cations are restored.
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SEVEN YEAR OLD GIRL SHOT
 IN HER BED, REVENGE

New York. Sept. 27. @-A sev- en-year-old girl was shot dead as she slept by a sixty-five year-old man in revenge for the eiopement of his daughter, the police allege.
 Angetine Constance was asleep in her bed when she was instantly titled with a shotgun by Biaggio Arsenic, who escaped over the roof tops. Relatives told the police that Biaggio raged over the elope- ment of his daughter with young man to whom she was int.odnced by the slain child's parents. When the girls father left for work yes- terday the police said Arsenic wait
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
OXFORD TRACK COACH
 ENDS 3O.YEAR CAREER

Oxford. R)-When the Harvard Yale combined track team met the Oxford Ca mbridge team in Eng land a coach who had trained Har- yard track teams for six years anal Oxford teams for seven, participat- ed in his last meet. His track ca reer covers more thaR 30 yeras.
 The man is Alfred Shrubb. who has held fifteen worlds records. five world amateur records, and eleven Scottish records for distances from 2,0OO yards to Il miles. Shrubb says the ill-health of his wife oc- casions his retirement.
 During his six years at, Harvard just before the war, Shrubb did good work in building up the track team. The most notable meet held under his regime was that of 1912, the year in which William J. Bingham. now director of athlet- ics at Harvard. was track captain for the Crimson.
 Shrubb was In his prime in 1905 and 1904 when he piled up the majority of his 31 titles. He was National and Southern cross coun- try champion. from 1901 to 1904. He also holds the New Zealand mile record of minutes 22 sec- onds, and the scottish record for an hours running. il miles 1137 yards.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01

Chicago, Sept. 26. R-Frank Schlieben, aged nineteen. shot and killed Steffie Oielec aged sixteen. because she accepted fifteen cents for carfare from another youth, as they stood on a corner while re- turning from dance. The girl asked. Schlieben for fifteen cents to visit friends. He told her that she had better go home. warning her not to accept money from the other youth, who was with him. She disobeyed and he shot her. Schlieben admitted his guilt when arrested at the home of his sister.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
WEDNE ESDAY ,TELEGRAPHic>
EIGHTH ASSEMBLY, LEAGUE
 NATIONS COMES TO CLOSE,

Geneva. Sept. 2S, (P-The Eighth Assembly of the League of Nations, which has been in session here considering disarmament and international security problems for the past few weeks. came to close today on an optimistic note, sound ed by the retiring president Alberto Guani. Ambassador to France. He said that the work done by the as- future We will obtain the first re- duction in armament and better definition of guarantee os interna- tional security"
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
TUESDAY (TElEGRAPHiC
MAKES
 ANNOUNCEMENT

Juneau, Sept. 27th, tP)-James Wickersham, former federal judge and former Alaska delegate to Con candidate ill the Primary election next April for Delegate to the Re publican National Convention. He also said that at this time he re- garded Chas. Evans Hughes as the strongest man mentioned for the Republican nomination for the pres idency.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
FRENCH POLICE BELIEVE
 SA(t'O yANZETTT FRIENDS TRIED WRECK LEGION TRAIN

Nice, Sept. 21, CP - The police believe that it was Saceo and Van zetti sympathizers who were be- hind the two attempts to wreck the American Legion train near here Sunday When the American Legion trains pulled pulled out yesterday for Genoa, Italy. they were heavily guarded. Hundreds of track layers were on the alert to see that there was no other de- struetion on the line.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
TWO BANDITS STAGE
 BIG PAYROLL HOLDtF

Los Angeles, Sept. 27, (P)-Two armed men held up three officials of the Los Angeles Water Pipe Blu reau just after the offices had been opened and escaped with cash esti- mated at eighty-five thousand dol lars
 Fred kimble, the Bureau guard was in the robbers way as they emerged from the building and they bundled him into their waiting au- tomobile and he was thrown out ten miles east of the city.
 The two men entered the build ing. vaulted the counter and sat down. No particular attention was paid them, the officials thinking that they were employees of the bureau.
 George Pessilli, the cashier of the bureau, was forced to open the safe where the payroll money was kept. The money was scooped up and placed in satchels and the three officials were bound with school book straps. Rubber balls were then pushed into their mouths and Leld in place with handker- chiefs. Another cashier discover ed their plight. Hundreds of per- sons had passed in front of the building while the three were held captives.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
(HTNESE TIDAL WAVE
 TOOK HEAVY TOLL LIFE

Hong Kong. Sept. 27. R-The Exchange Telegraph today announce ed the receipt of a report that five thousand persons perished when an immense tidal wave and typhoon struck Youngttong in Ywanqtung Province. one hundred ffrty miles southwest of Hong Kong on Sep tember 10th. Twenty thousand or more homes were destroyed. while four hundred junker sampans were destroyed. The total loss Is esti- mated at more than million dol- lars.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01

A little boy who had lived in London all his life was invited by a distant relation to spend week end in the country. All his friends complfmented him on his luck, but the boy himself was not at all happy at the thought. and he re- fused. Coaxing. argument, piead- ing and the promises of untold wonders left him cold. "No coun- try for me-" was his ultimatum.
 "But why not?" asked his father.
 Because" replied the son. "they have got thrashing machines down there, an it's custe bad enough here. where it's done by hand!"- Answers. London.
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ed at the doorway slipping into tn , child's bedroom. Tha mother was absent. Mrs. Julia Saltrelli, the aunt of the girl, heard the shot and saw Arsenic climbing down d ladder
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SNOW FALLS IN DENBER

Denver, Colorado. Sept. 25, (Pl- The first snow of the season fell Sunday. The temperature was 34 in midday
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MISSING MoNoPLANE ARRIVES

, San Bernardino. Sept. 28, (F- Missing for fve days, the mono plane Spirit of Hollywood" arrived safely in Yearmo. with Miss Marion Mark, a motion picture actress, and pilot Frank Tomick, after having been marooned on the Mojave Des- ert with engine trouble and blown out tire on the landing gear.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
FUNERAL. NOTICE

Al members of the Loyal Order of Moose are requested to meet iu Moose Hall at 1:3O F. NJ. on Thursday, to attend the funeral services of brother Charles Les- cher which will he held at Feder- atetl Church at ? P. M.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
FLYNN Is BLAMED
 FOR DENIPSEY'S DEFEAT

Chicago, Sept 27, (P,-Under the law Dempsey is guaranteed q hearing by the Illinois Boxing Com mission if he desires to protest the decision which favored Tunney.
 The Commission Chairman Reg heimer said rumpus was being raised over the decision in an ef- fort to ballyhoo third champion ship fight between the pair. Joe Benja min the Pacific Coast light weight blamed Flynn for Dempsey's defeat and said that Jack was one week overtrained and that he the fight in three rounds.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
FUNERAL NOTICE

Members of the Pioneers of Al- aska will assemble at Pioneer Ig- lDO at 1:3O P. M Thursday, Sept. 29, to attend in a body the funeral of brother Charles Lescher, which will h held at Federated Church at F. NJ.
The Nome nugget., 1927-10-01
STILL NO WORD FROM
 LIEUTENANT kOENNECkE

Basra, Sept. 27. R)-Anxiety is increasing here over the fate of Lieut.. Koennecke and his compan- ions who were due here Saturday from Ang0ra. Turkey. Inquiries for news of the flyers have been sent in all directions.
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Boys are men that have not got as big as their papas and girls are women that will be ladies by-aud- by. Man was made before woman When God looked at Adam He said to Himself: Well. think I can do better if I try again" And He made Eve. God liked Eve so much better than Adam that there have been more women than men. Boys are trouble. They wear out ev- erything but soap. If I had my way half the world would he girls and the rest dolls. My papa is so nice that I think he must have been little girl when he was boy Boston Transcript.
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SAYS WOMAN'S STATUS
 VARIES IN ALL STATES

London. (R)-What woman is, depends upon the country In which she lives. believes Canon w. R. Dawson, headmaster of Brighton College.
 "Ip France, a woman is a play thing" said the canon in an ad- dress here.
 "In Germany, woman Is a drudge.
 "rn America, she is a goddess.
 "In England, she's a partner nearly always a ruling partner.
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spading marathons will become popular when new brand Of --uman nature sprouts
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The man who thinks he cannot be fooled already is
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Little Mabel. 4 years old. was laborously scratching . pencil over a sheet of paper. "I'm writing to the Lord for little baby sister. Whats the Lords first name?"
 "I'm not sure" replied her year old brother. but the minister al ways calls him o Lord. ."-Boston Transcript.
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Judging by Mondays papers the best safety Zone on Sunday is the hone.
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A Sunday school teacher had been featuring her class on virtue and it's reward
 "Now tell me" she said. what sort of people get the biggest crowns when they go to heaven?"
 Them with the biggest heads" answered her brightest pupil.-Tid Bits. London
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A cyntc is man who mistakes cheerfuluess for ignorance.
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Twill you let me kiss you if give you penny" asked the little boys aunt.
 "A penny!" he exclaimed. Why get more than that for taking castor oil"