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the table. At what I saw I drop ped the match and flopped down on my back again.
 q am mad, or else I am dream ing" I said quite aloud.
 The two men did not speak.
 In that moment of light I had seen playing cards and stacks of poker chips on the table. The two men were pls'ing poker in the dark and their cards were exposed It was a showdown
 Crouched against the floor, I fought the horror rising in my breast. I was asleep! That was it of course. Afterwards, I would laugh at my crazy nightmare! And yet and yeti ran my hands over the floor. Sand secured my finger ends. I felt of my body-thin and bony, but real enough. Breathing deeply, I lifted my eyes to the window again. The outlines of the two heads and shoulders were still there.
 Well" I said aloud, If you want to sit in the dark pretending to play poker, why shouldn't you? It's your business, isn't it? And if you don't choose to take notice of me can likewise ignore you
 But this nonsense didn't check my rising hysteria. which suddenly got the better of me.
 Who are you?" shrilled.
 Silence still.
 What are you doing there? You can't play poker in the dark You can't make a fool out of mel" I pounded on the floor with my fists. No response.
 For Gods sake speak to me" I screamed. "Who-who are you?' Still that devastating silence. l I got to my hands and knees and crawled towards the table. Why don't you speak to me?" I begged T can't stand itl I'll make l you talk! What are you?" Sliding my hand over the edge of the table clutched one of the playing cards. That, at least, was real, and thrust it into a pocket Steadying myself with the table, l climbed to my feet. I thought ] would fall, but somehow I managed to remain standing.
 l My trembling hand went out to the arm of the figure on my right felt shirt, gritty with sand Still half blinded, I could make nothing
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was too i'll to care and too dazed to move. Some time passed and then I heard him no more.
 Presently I began to feel better. The room was pitch black. still had a single match. Treasuring it between my fingers, I was 10th to use it. If struck the match the flame would burn out and I would have lost my last anchorage in re- ality. In way, I think feared the light even more than did the dark, for I had an uncanny sense of some fresh horror awaiting me. This sounds absurd, but it will in dicate to you the abnormal state of my mind and how unfitted l was to pass on the nature of what was to follow.
 I tried to rid my mind of its ob- session by focusing my attention on the events that had brought me to this graveyard town. Gold bull lets-poker chips-playing cards the man "Jerry" Ogden and Alex Peterson the same man blackmail-Mrs. Joe Lundy-Dillon --Furie-Jerry flying for his life but it wasn't Jerry!-Nathan Hyde Jerry and Lucy driving into the sandblast. And then: who had fired on me at the mine? Furie-Dillon? Diuon-Furie? Furie-?
 God help mel" I thought. Tt can't be reall Or else I am going mad!"
 I found then, that the storm had stopped. When, I did not know, for I had lost track of time. The si- lence was more devastating to my tortured nerves than the uproar which had preceded it. I wanted tc weep, to laugh, to scream, to dash my head against the floor.
 And then I made discovery The room wasn't as dark as il had been when I fell in through the door. I made out the shape of g small window on the north side of the room. As continued to stare at the window a paralyzine coldness came over my body.
 was not alone in the room!
 Two men were sitting facing each other over a table in front oi the window. The outline of theil heads and shoulders merged into the shadows which enclosed tho frame, but they were unmistakab- ly there. That is, unless I were mad, and was not at all surs
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DOUGLAS NEVIS
FORMER ISLAND WOMAN
 DIES AT ANCHORAGE

Mrs. Carl Weiss, former resident of Douglas and Juneau, passed away at her home in Anchorage, at Il o'clock yesterday morning, &C., cording to a telegram received here, death being due to heart failure. She is survived by her husband.
 Mrs. Weiss was very well known and liked in Douglas having lived here for many years prior to the Treadwell cave-in. She was a member of both the Northern Light Rebekah Lodge and Nugget Chap ter No. 2, Eastern Stars, of Doug las
 No arrangements for the funeral were mentioned in the message announcing her death.
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SYNOPSIS: Driven into the deserted Lundy saloon by the fury of the Skull Valley sand storm, John Peebles is pursued in the dark by an unknown enemy. From behind the bar on the first floor, Peebles flees from his assailant's bullets to a gallery on the floor above. PeebIes hurIs a chair at the man, grapples with him and is thrown against the wall. As he strikes it, he discovers small door, through which he crawls into another room. The door bolted, Peebles coilapses, tenn porarily safe from his attack CT,
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definite of the man, but there was solid stuff beneath the shirt. I fear fully ran my hand up to the shoul- der. No word or movement from the figure.
 Speak to mel" I implored. "A word Oh, speakw
 Still that dreadful silence. Hor- TOT clawled within my breast. My hand clept along the shoulder to the neck, and then to the face.
 The flesh was cold.
 Something snapped in my brain, All feeling went out of my arms and legs and body and pitched eenseless to the floor.
 Copyright, 1929, WIn. Morrow Co)
 Have the horrors of the night
 driven Peebles insane? VIII he
 be saved? Read the answer in
 tomorrow's chapter.
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MARGNITA LEAVES TONIGHT

The mailboat Margnita, Capt. s. Swanson, will leave tonight at 6 o'clock for Sitka and way ports. It is planned for the Margnita to make special trip to Ketchikan from Juneau about June 3, Purser Theodore Heyder said today. Any one wishing to inquire about the trip can obtain information at the office of the Coastwise Transporta- tion Company at the Relia b e Transfer Company's office on Front Street.
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FUNERAL OF MRS.
 PHILLIPS SATURDAY

The funeral services for Mrs. Emma L. M. Phillips, mother of Mrs. Gus Messerschmidt, who dieo on May Is, will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the Juneau-Young Chapel. Rev. Harry R. Allen, of the Lutheran church, who returns tonight from the south, will officiate.
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Chapter 9 POKER FACES

The storm lashed at the build- ing and loose boards rattled like skeletons dancing in closet. l was vaguely aware of the man inves- tigating the other side of the wall
 He would rap on the door with the butt of his pistol, then hurl him. self upon it, but without effect. I
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Body of Carey Hodgson Is Recovered; DroaUned
 m SqualI Last Surlda3l

ANNAPOLIS, Md, May 23.-The body of Carey " Hodgson, United States Geodetic Survey official, who was drowned Sunday in a sudden storm on Chesapeake Bay while he and his l0-year-old son were canoeing, has been recovered. Hodgson has been Assistant Chief of the Division of the Geodetic Survey since 1921.
 
 Ice cream, brick or bulk. Juneau Ice Cream Parlors adv.
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& Libby, and for the present man. aging the cannery for the Libby company, arrived in Juneau on business yesterday afternoon on the new cannery tender, Mary Lou. He expects to leave tonight for Kar- heen.
 MT. Chapin has cannery site at Wrangell where he has a plant now under construction.
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LEAVE FOR CHICHAGOF

Mrs. Henry Stragier and three children left last night on the Virginia " for Chichagof where they will make their home. MT. Stragier is employed in the mines there.
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VENUS IN WITH .TWENTY-TWO
 THOUSAND POUNDS HALIBUT

The Venus, Capt. W. E. Muller, was in this morning with 22,0o0 pounds of halibut which was taken by the Alaska Fish Brokerage for 11A and cents.
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PLEADS NOT GUILTY

George Cone was arrested last night by Deputy U. s. Marshal Sibley and charged with violation of the Alaska Bone Dry Law. He pleaded not guilty and requested a jury trial.
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TRINITY GUILD MEETING

The ladies of Trinity Church Guild will meet tomorrow, Friday afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock, at the residence of Mrs. T. c. Gardner, on the Glacier Highway.
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FINED IN COURT

Katie Miller, Indian, was fined $50 in the U. S. Commissioners Court this morning on a charge of violation of the Alaska Bone Dry Law.
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OLD D. H. S. GRADUATE
 VISITS IN DOUGLAS

Arne Vesoja, former Douglas boy, and graduate of the local high school, was a visitor here for few hours this week, while the cannery boat on which he will work during the summer was in port. Arne has been attending the University of Washington for the past four years with but two quarters left to complete his course.
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GUY CHAPIN HERE ON
 BUSINESS; LEAVES TODAY

Guy Chapin, former owner of the Karheen packing company, recently purchased by the Libby, McNeill
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Commercial job printing at She Empire.
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Try the Five O'Clock Dinner Specials at MabrJ's. adv.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20

Chuck Virgins, the old Hoosier
master, took Sandy Seifert, the big,
blonde German heavyweight from
Pittsburgh, in hand at the Armory
Tuesday night and gave the Penn
sylvanian ten rounds of instruction
on the scientific points of might
ing.
The bout was not exceptionally
interesting from' point of speed
and action, but then, heavyweights
can not be expected to move
around like bantams.
Chuck wasn't bothered much by
Seifert's rushing and paving tao
tics and had a clear edge in seven
of the ten rounds. Three were about
even. Seifert weighed 1872 and
Virgins 1el.
The Indianapolis heavy had blood
flowing from 9ut over Seifert's
right eye and nose, while Virgins
was hampsred slightly in the early
rounds by scalp cut, caused either
bS wild swing or butt.
The eight-round semi-windup,
staged after the feature so, proved
to be the best bout on the card,
Howard Jones, Louisville junior
lightweight, handing Lon Lovelace
Of Terre Haute a severe pasting.
Lovelace caught right-handed
wallop on the chin in the second
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-20
Smiling Hoosier Ace Is
Ready for Campaign;
Other Sports Chatter.
BY NORMAN E. IsAACS

TNDIANA'S greatest tennis ace,
Il "Smilin' Johnny" Hennessey, is
ready for another campaign on the
courts and Hoosierdon once again
is all set to sit up and take notice
of the great Indiana racqueteer'S
performances with the United States
Davis cup team,
The United States Lawn Tennis
Association Tuesday announced that
Uncle Sans court team will meet
the Canadian squad at Montreal on
May Is, II and IS in the opening
matches in the American zone.
No training camp will be held this
year in preparation for the zone
conflicts. and the United States
team will face the Canucks minus
the services of Bill Tilden and
Frank Hunter.
Hennessey said today that Til
den and Hunter probably will
leave for Europe on or about May
s to compete in the Wimbledon,
French and Holland champion
ships.
u u 4
IN THAT EVENT IT IS QUITE LIKELY
THAT THE GREAT HoosIER STAR WILL
CAPTAIN THE AMERICAN METERS IN
THEIR BATTLES WITH THE CANADIANS
IT STILL Is QUITE EASY TO REMEM-
Der THE GALLANT. MATCHES "SMILIN
| JOHNNY PUT UP IN THE DAVIS CUE
STRUGGLES OVERSEAS AGAINST TIKI
ITALIANS AND THE FRENCH.
q
The boys down on the corner still
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Catholic II. S.
Net Tourney
at Chic a go
Cathedral Among 0utStand-
ing Teams in Race for
National Laurels.

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, March 2O.-With thir-
ty-two teams competing, the sixth
annual national Catholic high
school basketball tournament begins
al Loyola university here tonight.
The tournament will continue until
Sunday. The program will open to-
night with three games, between
eastern and middle-Western teams.
The feature of the three starters
brings together De La Sale OF
Joliet, ILL.,, and Camden Catholic
school of Camden, N. j. De La Sale
has won the championship during
the past two years and has three
veterans to form the nucleus of this
years team Camden ranks with
the best Catholic teams in the east.
With a reputation of being a
tournament team" De La Sale is
conceded a good chance to retain
first place honors.
Other entries looked upon as
favorites were: Williamsport, Pa;
Syracuse, N. Y; Union City, N. j.;
from the east; Rapid City, S. D.,
and Omaha, Neb, from the west;
st. Charles, Mimi, from the north
west; Charleston, S. c.; Bay st.
Louis, Miss, from the south, and
Cathedral Of Indianapolis from the
midwest,
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Johnny Hennessey Again After Tennis LaureLs

smile when they recall the wire re-
ports from England telling of how
Johnny shocked all Wimbledon ira
ditions by striding onto the courts
clad in striped hannels in place of
the more conventional plain
whites"
= = =
Hennessey, in all probability,
again will pair with George Lott
of Chicago in the doubles. That
duet turned in some magnificent
performances last year and de-
served the number one position
awarded them in the annual dou-
bIeS rankings.
= II
IT'S A CINCH ALL HOOsIERDoM WILL
BE ROOFING FOR JOHNNY WHEN HE
TAKES THE COURTS TO BATTLE FOR
THE STARS AND STRIPES. JOHNNY
BELIEVES THAT JOHN VAN RYN, THE
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UNIVERSITY. CHICAGO. JOE DEINHART
HAS A SPLENDID AGGREGATION AND
THE BOYS STAND A GOOD CHANCE OF
BRINGING A NATIONAL GROWN BACK
HOME.
n
The Stanley cup series for the
worlds hockey championship has
started and the doctors and under
takers are taking a bit more inter-
est in the sport. There's the sport
that has more thrills and speed
than any other game in the world
and Indianapolis will see the day
when it has an ice hockey team.
And that day isn't so far off.
Il 4
Up in northern Ontario a man
was said to be found standing in
his tracks, frozen. The boys say
he may be disqualified by the
A. A. u, for refusing to run.
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US. Jumper
All Set for
Aintree Race
Americans StOutIy Back
Billy Barton in Historic
Grand National.
BIZ United Press
TTUEDDnnT

bU Jnited Press
LIVERPOOL. March 20.-All was
in readiness today at the historic
Aintree course for the greatest of
all steeplechase races, the Grand
National, which will be run off Fri
day afternoon. The Grand National
course is over a distance of four
miles, $50 yards.
Already thousands of people are
pouring into Liverpool for the event,
from all parts of Europe and
America. The distinct international
flavor of the race has attracted
many race followers from France,
Ireland, Germany and the Unitd
States.
Americans, for the most part, will
center their attention and their
betting on the chances of Billy Bar
ton, bred in Maryland, owned by
Howard Bruce of Baltimore, and
which finished second in the Grand
National of 1923.
The odds at the moment favor
Great Span and Master Billie, but
the influence of Billy Barton's back
ers is beginning to make itself felt
and the chances are that by pest
time the Baltimore thoroughbred
will be joined with the present IA
vorites in the betting.
The Aintree course, the hardest
steeplechase course in the world, is
filed with hazards. Besides the
canal turn" are such obstacles as,
"Becher's Brook" and Valentine
Brook" The former is thorn fence
five feet high, with a natural brook
five feet six inches wide, beyond it.
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YOUTHFUL PRINCETON STAR, IS THE
GREATEST OF ALL THE YOUNGER
AMERICAN PLAYERS.
Il II
XXTHEN the boys start Cabling
wv about "showmen" they should
rope in Mr.. Charles Frederick
(Chuck) Virgins, the famous Hoo
sier heavyweight. Chuck today
is indianapolis greatest gate attrac-
ton in the squared ring.
y
In the mood, Chuck can pull
more tricks and stunts than any
other fighter in the business. The
old boy sure can pull 'em in at the
ticket booths.
Il 4
INDIANAPOLIS IS INTERESTED IN
CATHEDRALS COMPETITION IN THE
NATIONAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT. AT LoYOLA
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Hildebrand Is
Butler Pilot
Elect Southport Lad as Blue
Cage Leader.

Oral Hildebrand of Southport was
elected captain of next seasons But
Ter university basketball team Tues
day night at the annual dinner in
honor of the squad Hildebrand is
regarded as one of the best centers
in the state.
Ten letters were awarded by
Coach Paul (Tony) Hinkle. They
were to Captain Frank White, Cap
tain-elect Hildebrand, Maurice
Hosier, Bill Bugg, Dana Chandler,
Marshall Christopher, Wilbur Allen,
Cleon Reynolds, Allen Fromuth and
Jake CaSkey.
George Lloyd, student manager,
was given a minor award. Hide
brand is star twirler on the But
Ter baseball team and is a member
of the Lamda Chi Alpha and Sphinx
Clubs.
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Chuck Instructs Sandy Seifert in
Finer Points of Gloved Science
Virgins Wins in Walk; Lon LoveIace Takes Severe
Lacing From Howard Jones.

and went down for nine-count,
and again hit the canvas in the
second before another right Jones
showed some nice form and a great
right hand. The Terre Haute lad
displayed a lot of gameness.
Ted Hunt, indianapolis, shaded
Bib Luntzel, Louisville, in six rounds
of erratic scrapping. Luntzel had a
nice left. The scrap took on lot
of speed after a dull start.
The veteran Johnny Murphy, IN
dianapolis, had the edge on Eddie
Roberts, indianapolis, in six inter
esting stanzas. Buddy Watts shaded
Billy Edwards in the round
opener.
George Balduc, thu french
Canadian featherweight, fighting
out of Boston, will meet Harry
kid Brown Of Philadelphia in the
feature bout next Tue15zs.
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CadIe Card
Is Complete
Five Bouts on Friday FiStiC
Program.

BY arranging for his prelim
scraps, Promoter Jimmie McLemore
has completed his boxing card to
be staged Friday night at Cadle
tabernacle. Five bouts are on the
bill. The card follows:
Main Go, 10 Rounds-Rocky Smith. In
dianapolis, VS.. Jack Munroe, Columbus, o.
Welterweights.
Semf-windup, ROunds-Tommy O'Brien,
Indianapolis VS.. Young Stanley Ketchell,
Indianapolis. Welterweights.
Four Rounds-Young Grady, Indianapo-
lis, vs.. Roy Woods, Indianapolis. lis
pounds.
Four Rounds-Kid Williams, Negro,
Bloomington, Ind. VS.. Bill Breckenridge,
Negro, Indianapolis. $50 pounds.
Indianapolis. $50 pounds.
Four Rounds-Smitty Smith, BrightwOod,
VS.. Bobby Moore. Brightwood.. 1855 pounds.
Munroe, who meets Smith in the
top scrap, took an easy victory over
Tommy O'Brien last Friday, using
left jab and going practically I'M
touched throughout the ten rounds.
O'Brien is trying for a comeback"
this week by appearing in the semi
Windup.
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PIRATES RUN WILD

Bar United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, March 90
Crossing the plate ten times in the
first two innings, the Pittsburgh
Pirates defeated San Francisco of
the Pacific Coast League, TIL.
Adams, Pirate shortstop, led the
hitting with four hits in six times
at bat. Russell, Dawson and Lin
ton pitched nicely for the major
leapuerS.
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TEXANS RAP WHITE S0x

CORSICANA, Tex, March 20
The Chicago White Sox ran into
trouble IN the training camp of the
Dallas CTexas League) team Tues
day ala lost a Slugging match to
the Steers, 81. Manager Lena
Blackburne relied on the pitching of
George Cox. who failed to halt the
Dallas sluggers.
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Tribe batting averages follow
REDS TANGLE WITH AS

BIZ United Press
ORLANDO, Fla, March 20.-The
Cincinnati Reds today were hosts to
the Philadelphia Athletics in an ex-
hibition encounter here Ofhcials of
the club expected to release several
recruits to the Columbus team of
the Assoc etion, defeated Tuesday by
the Reds, 5 to 4. Columbus is a
Cincinnati farm"
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CUBS TACKLE TIGERS

BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, March 20.-After
winning four out of seven from the
Los Angeles team, the Chicago Cubs
prepared to start a series with the
Detroit Tigers, today.
To win the seventh game with the
Los Angeles team Tuesday, 11-3, the
Cubs hit two pitchers freely while
Horne and Grampp held the Coast
leaguers to five hits. Wilson and
Mcmillan hit home runs.
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CLUBS CONTINUE SERIES

BIZ United Press
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March
20,-The New York Yankees and the
Boston Braves continue their series
of exhibition games here today with
the National Leaguers, anxious to
avenge Tuesdays ten-inning 6-to-5
defeat. 1t was the second overtime
contest of the series.
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ROCKIES GIVEN CHANCE

BIZ Hifed Press
NEW ORLEANS. La. March 90
Several promising rockies, including
Dick Porter and Earl Averill, are ex-
pected to be given chance today
when tie Cleveland Indians meet the
New Orleans Pelicans here. Both
men have been showing to advan-
tage in workouts, especially in bat
ting.
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Dundee Ordered
to Post Forfeit

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, March 20.-Joe Dun-
dee, welterweight champion, Thurs
day will cease to be recognized by
the National Boxing Association un-
less he posts a $4,000 forfeit
guaranteeing a title fight soon, Paul
Prehn, president, said today.
In event the forfeit is not posted,
the Association will recognize the
winner of the Jack Field's-Young
Jack Thompson fight here next
week as the champion.