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CHAPTER TwENTY-FOUR
M NOW " GO Go On ON WITH THE STORY

A NDY, no more than he was out
IA Of Sheila's presence, regretted
his turbulent outburSt. Partially
sobered by his brainstorm, he
cursed himself bitterly.
The baking at the restraints
Sheila tried to put upon him, he
held real affection for the girl
who had mothered him in the years
of his adolescence, but the warm
ing pricks of conscience which had
Stung him even as he was talking,
strangely seemed to have Infatuated
him the more to have added venom
to his tongue.
His nerves raw after a night of
dissipation, his brain inf1amed by
alcoholic excuses and himself
frustrated in his attempts to see
Edna and Mercy, the accumulated
pressure had burst the dam of self
control.
1t had Just happened that Sheila,
in her denunciation of Mercy, had
added the final drop and was caught
in the flood.
Morosely reviewing the painful
scene, Andy now counted the cost.
What fool he had been to have
given Sheila an inkling of the secret
than Mention had revealed to himi
What would Mention say if he
knew about it? 1t might ruin their
plans to make WILDER pay. Mention
had only said Sheila was not Will
ber's daughter; he had not said she
had been born out of wedlock.
He had no grounds for that accu-
sation; it had been born of his in
SenSate anger. If Sheila should
follow his fool advice and go to
WHEREOF, We gods! Sheila was
right, he ought to let up on the
booze; it always got him into a
meSSl
But this last virtuouS reflection
left no lasting impression on .Andy'S
consciousness: his first demand
upon his return to his apartment
was for a drink.
Ike supplied it and Andy threw
himself upon couch and demanded
more. He drank-and drank-un-
til he relaxed into sodden forget
fulnesS.
A S the doro slammed behind
IN Andy. Sheila stood for a mo-
ment as if frozen in her tracks,
then suddenly collapsed into a
chair. Unselfishly. her first thoughts
were not of herself, but of Andy
worried wonder at his strange be-
havior =. the boy must be in
sane.
Then the significance of his part
ing words were forced upon her. She
found herself repeating the phrases,
born out Of wedlock." "a found
ling" the man you call your faith
err" A look of horror crept into
her eyes Great heavens, Andy
couldn't have been meaning herI
Preposterousl Ridiculous!
Shs laughed Historically. She,
Sheils WILDER, founding. a name
less waif of the Streetsl Her mind
raced back to her childhood and in
every memory glimpse of those shell
tered, happy days stood the beloved
form OF her mother.
The stored-up tears burst forth.
Her mother, oh, the cruelty of such
thought Her mother not her
mother! No, no, no, no!
She sprang to her feet and paced
the room. The physical activity
helped her to think more coherently
OF course, 1t was all a hideouS
mistake, a delusion of a deranged
brain.
Andy was not responsible. His
mind must be affected. He should
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BIZ Times Special
MARION, Ind, Nov. 21.-Thomas
Longfellow, Marion attorney, spoke
on Law as a Profession" before
members of the Marion Rotary Club
Longfellow used narrative style, in
tending to typify the average law
yer. in his DAVIS routine.
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RFGIN HERE TODAY
OUT OUR WAY



FRANK SHERIDAN, wealthy young
Indianapolis Lawyer. whose hobby Is the
solving Of crime mysteries, is making
double investigation into the safe rob
berry at the Maple road home Of WILL
LIAM OLIVER WILB&R. inventor and
manufacturer. and into the strange
death by electrocution Of LENA
SWARTZ. a maid in the WILDER home.
From the safe has been stolen diary
of Wilber's wife. now dead. which con-
tanned a secret Of the birth of SHEILA,
Wilber's daughter. who is engaged to
marry Sheridan's friend, JOSEPH
SMEDLEY, assistant Marion county
prosecutor. Lena'S death apparently is
accidental. but Sheridan sees pos
sible connection between 1t and the
safe robbery. Suspicion points to RILEY
MORGAN. burglar and client OF
HOMER MENTION. an unprincipled
criminal lawyer. and to ANDY MAS
TIERS. Sheilas hayward cousin, who
wants TO marry EDNA ROGERS,
SHEII,AS chum, but is entangled IN
love affair with MERCEDES RIVERTON,
a stenographer in Mentions office. Shert-
dan makes the acquaintance OF Mer-
cedes and is invited to housewarming
at her apartment, where drinks are
At this party Sheridan Overhears A
significant conversation between Andy
and Mention. which connects Mention
with the strange happenings st the
WILDER home The next day Andy. in
toxicated and in a ouerrelsome mo2d.
during a call at the WILDER home, tells
Sheila she ie a founding and has no
right to the WILDER name.
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
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Martin

Lighter In color even than this stranger"
and he chucked a thumb at Tarzan. AT once
the ape-man was all attention. He asked ques-
tons faster than the slow-witted anthropoid
could answer. Eyes, the bulls were short and
ugly, wearing yellow rings on their arms and
legs Dressed in the skins of Nuna and Sheeta-
They carried sticks and knives
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Blosser
BY, Crane

'"They were waddling rapidly along upon
their crooked legs. Now and then one would go
upon all fours like Boigani the gorilla The she
was small and slender and very white. They
dragged her along-sometimes by arm
sometimes by the long hair that grew upon her
head. Always they kicked and beat her. Oh.
but 1t was great fun to watch them"
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be married
Rotarians Hear Attorney

Ito Be Continued)
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Tarzan hunted with the apes as in days gone
by. They found his superior reason guided them
to the best food sources, that his cunning rope
ensnared toothsome game they seldom tasted
and they came to look up to him as they had
in the past after he became king. So it was
that before they left the amphitheater they had
once more chosen him as their leader.
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Before Tarzan had returned to the tribe.
certain young bull had, according to custom,
Jared forth to win fair lady from some neigh
boring community. He had just returned with
his bride. Among his adventures he told of
seeing a great tribe of strengthening apes.
They were all hairy-faced bulls but one, and
that one was shell
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Ostensibly, the scene within the
house Wednesday night was an or
dinary one. Father sat in the DIM
ing room, mother rocked baby IN
a living room chair and little JeWel
was playing on the floor.
Suddenly, and with no concrete
reason, bowl and a plate on the
dining room table, less than three
feet from Clemens, bestirred them
selves, glided to the edge OF the table
and crashed on the floor.
Clemens had not recovered from
his amazement when a chiffonier
drawer, in the same room, leaped
into space, and banged beside the
shattered bowl on the carpet.
Then a picture in the living room
dropped from the wall.
The family departed for Clemens
mothers home, at 416 Spring street.
In the morning they returned to
find the furniture turned topSy-
turvy.
Friday night Charles Clemens,
indianapolis policeman, Floy&s
brother, accompanied the family to
tie house for a ghost-watch.
Whatever evil spirits dominated
the strange rebellion of household
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Get Me HeaUen
NO Pay Phone Is Used
by Buns for World
Wide Calls to Pals.

BIZ United Press
~HICAGO, Nov. 22.-The hoboes
~ of West Madison street will
place no more long distance calls
over the telephone in the press
room in the county building. It's
been discontinued.
"Holy smoke!" exclaimed James
Russell, acting superintendent of
public service, when he received a
bill for $2,274 for the long distance
tolls on Franklin 3033. who's
been calling whom on that phone?"
Nobody seemed to know. But
here are some Of the calls put
in:
The Hotel Adlon in Berlin, by a
party who wanted to talk to "a
girl met in the war"
One persistent patron held the
line while connected with Texas
oil field, until party could be
reached, ten miles away, by a
messenger on horseback. That
cost 1888.
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QUIZ M M'MANUS
CASE WITNESS
ON GAMBLING
Session at Cards Involving
Half Million Is Barred
by Broker
ROTHSTEIN HEAVY LOSER
Gave |. O. US for $500, 900,
Is Testimony; Cut Deck
for Huge Sums.
BB United Press

BB United Press
CRIMINAL COURT, NEW YORK,
Nov. 22.-WitneSses resumed the
story of the half million dollar card
game alleged to have been the start
ing point of the Arnold Rothstein
murder, when today's session of the
trial of George A. McAIanus, accused
of killing Rothstein, began.
Meyer Solomon, better known as
Meyer Boston, and who said he was
a broker, was the first witness. He
explained his particular brokerage
business dealt with laying bets on
football and baseball games, prize
fights and other sporting events.
He had been at the card game at
the apartment Of James Meehan,
and told of Rothstein, McManus,
Titanic Thompson, Niger Nate
Raymond, Martin Bowe and others
having been there.
First we played bridge, then stud
and then we began making side bets
Oh high cards. Titanic, Rothstein,
McManuS, myself and Raymond bet
on high cards.
"There was some cash there and
some 7. o. US. won $4,000 and
got it in cash. McManus lost about
500. 900 in cash. 1 don't know
whether he gave out any I. o. US.
Arnold Rothstein lost about
100000. He gave I. o. US. for it..
He made out a lot of them. He
probably lost couple of thousand
dollars in cash. I don't know
whether he won any cash and kept
it or not. but l saw him have a lot
of valuable cash in front of him."
Rothstein, he said. began making
separate bets on high cards with
three and four different men on a
deal, stalking $4,000, and sometimes
$4,000 on the turn of card.
"Nigger Nate" Raymond, he said,
won about 100000 for which he got
Rothstein's /. o. us and Titanic"
Thompson won $25, 1000 for which he
got cash either then or a few days
later
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by Mrs. Clay and was knocked to
the pavement.
Witnesses said Mrs. Clay was driv-
ing slowly at the time of the ac-
cident. She was not arrested. The
child was taken to the city hospital
Her condition is critical.
Foley was injured as he stepped
from northbound street car at Six
teenth and Illinois streets. He was
struck by an auto driven by Frank
McLain, %, 528 East Twenty-third
street.
Funeral arrangements have not
been made.
Gus Keifer, 81, of 72S North East
street, suffered a laceration on the
forehead and bruises, and Mrs. G
E. Dertz, 2931 Washington boulevard
suffered bruises when the car driver
by Keifer collided with an auto
driven by v. w. Daley, 20, of the
Broadway hotel, taxi-driver, ir
front of 919 North Meridian street
Keifer was taken to city hospita
and Mrs. DertZ to her home. DALEY
was arrested on a charge of failing
to stop at a preferential street.
A Peoples Motor Coach Com.
pany bus, east-bound on Thirtietf
street, was struck by the Wabash
Flyer interurban at College ave.
nue. early today. No one was in
jured. Only two passengers were
on the bus.
Clyde Newell, 80, of $685. Orchard
street, driver Of the bus, said he hao
the 'go" signal and was crossing the
intersection when the outbound in
terurban struck him.
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COLD WAVE TO
RELEASE Grip
Rising Temperatures Are
Expected Saturday.

A definite break in cold wave,
that has held the city and state in
its grip since Wednesday, probably
will arrive Saturday, J. H. Arrning-
ton, meteoroligts, predicted today.
Rain or snow may follow the rise
in temperature, although unsettled
conditions prevailing in regions
northwest and southwest OF Indiana
make it difficult to determine
whether precipitation is likely, Arm
ington said.
Snow was reported this morning
HI Evansville and other points along
the Ohio river, from the Illinois
state line to Cincinnati. The low
est temperature in the state Thurs
day night probably was in the
northwest portion where the ther-
mometers sank to 10 degrees above
zero. Seventeen degrees was the
lowest recorded here, while IA was
registered at Ft. Wayne.
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HOUSE is ADJOURNED
Similar Senate Action tC
Dec. 2 Slated.
BIZ United Prcss

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-The
house adjourned sine die at 1880
p. m. today shortly after the senate
had recessed until 9:45 p. m. when
it will hold a short meeting to take
similar action.
Both will reconvene in regular
session Dec. 2.
Lively tariff debate in both the
house and senate marked the clos
ing meetings of President Hoover's
special session of the seventy first
congress.
Representative Edgar Howard
Oem.. Neb0 defined wild and tame
jackaSSeS" for the benefit Of New
England representatives and Repre-
sentative Rankin Dem., Misso
thanked God that the senate has
no gag rule" as he said the house
has
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'The time has come" the Walrus
said,
s"To talk of many things.

Among them, Jumps Of coal with
feet, and dresser drawers with
wings" Floyd Clemens, departing
from East Vermont street, concluded
the verse today.
And he spoke further of pictures
that loosed themselves from nails
and clattered to the floor; of
kitchenware that waltzed to a ta-
ble's edge, and dived headlong to
destruction; of furniture that turned
somersaults; and a bed that walked
through door SO narrow it could
not be returned to the bedroom
And even as he recited his mis-
adventures, Clemens gathered his
family about him, collected his few
remaining possessions, and forth
with fed the scene of such fantastic
prankS.
Only recently the Clemens family,
father and mother, a daughter, g.
year-old Jewel and a baby, moved
into the small, frame dwelling that
today is empty of everything but a
few pieces of broken furnishings.
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BREAD CAST ON WATER
Red Cross Aid to Chinese Brings Gift
BY ARCH STEINEL

THERE'S yellow card num-
L bered 11,001 in the files of the
Community Fund headquarters
today.
It looks like hundreds of other
subscription cards in the index;
but it isn't, for back of its
scrawled signature, back of the $5
given to the fund, is:
A Chinese revolution, a jap
anese earthquake, San Francisco's
Chinatown school, the thankful
ness of a Chinese mother, who
knows what charity's money can
do.
Here's how the card was OBJ
tanned:
Leonard B. Spach, captain of
team No. %, individual gifts di-
vision, and Bert Wertheimer, were
canvassing in the neighborhood Of
the 600 block on East Sixteenth
street.
There's hand laundry at 661
East Sixteenth street, let's try II"
Spach suggested.
= It
THEY were met by Mrs. Fook
IL See Loo, 42, proprietor of the
laundry.
Would you like to contribute to
the Community Fund.-" asked
Spach.
"I no understand. You come
back some other day. Come back
when my boy here" she replied
as her German police dog barked
at the intruders.
The mettle of the drive workers
bristled to the challenge.
Community Fund means homes
for orphans, the aged-the-the"
Spach hesitated, hunting the right
chord, "the Red Cross. You know
the Red Cross"
"Fook See Loo know not Com
munity Fund-but Fook See know
Red Gross. Fook See give five
dollar" the prompt reply.
4 n
I'm Chinese lettering she signed
a. the subscription cerd as she
recited in pidgin Eng iSh the ben
ef1ts of the Red Gross, one of the
thirty-f1ve agencies under the
Community Funds wing.
I'm Shanghai they help us. They
help my peoples in war times. In
Japan, my boys-No. l and No. 2
there. The earthquake come.
The Red Cross help. In San Fr'n-
cisco they take Albert-boy No. 8
to school. They teach him. He
in Purdue-you know Purdue. He
like Red Cross. He always give.
He not here now. I give"
That's why Spach and Wer-
theimer and directors of the drive
jealousy guard yellow card No.
11,001, for they know the donor
must have suffered much more
than she told-but was helped in
her suffering by one of the organ
izat:ons which they are sponsor
ing.
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CITY TRAFFIC TOLL
INCREASED BY ONE

One death and three persons in
jured was indianapolis traffic toll
today.
Dan Foley, SO, of the Denison
hotel, who was struck by an auto
mobile on Nov. Is as he stepped
from a street car. died early today
at the city hospital. A fractured
skull caused his death.
This morning Lois Sears, 5, of
10413 West New York street, suf-
fered a broken left le.; and pos
sible skull fracture when she was
struck by car driven by Mrs. Sarah
Clay, 26, of 336 Lockburn street, at
New York and Blackford streets.
The child was crossing the inter
section on her way to a grocery
when the accident occurred. She
stepped in front of the car driven
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POLICE CHIEF INDICTED
True Bill Lists "a Overt Acts in
Dry Conspiracy.

BIZ fuAEff ffFf9~S
YOUNGSTOWN, o.. Nov. o.
Police Chief Frank Cunningham, of
Campbell, suburb, was free on
$1,000 bond today to stand trial in
federal court on charges of having
conspired to violate the prohibition
laws. He was arrested Thursday on
a federal indictment.
The indictment sets twenty-four
instances in which Cunningham is
charged with having solicited money
from bootleggerS with the under
standing they would not be molest-
ed. Nick Garshoff, said to be a
former vice and booze policeman for
the suburb, and Michael WalloS,
now out on $4,000 on another con-
spiracy Indictment, viii stand trial
with Cunningham.
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:, COURTROOM SOCKS MUCH ALIKE, oPINEs CHUCK

or making tour of Europe It's
a tossup."
when I leave this jail" he con-
tinued, some Of the boys always
will remember me as the telephone
operator. It's a game, something
like this:
I'VE have a rubber tube in one
of the cells which we call the tele-
phone It's for green prisoners
They think think they're going to
talk to jailor when we call them,
but the minute the 'young'un'
puts the mouthpiece to his face,
he gets a shower bath.
That's what I think about JAN
lifAs
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The Ghost Walks but It's Not Pay Day.
House Is Haunted, So It's MOUimg Day

goods in the Clemens home, they
sent a swift warning to the laws
representative. A huge oval pic
ture fell in front of him, missing
his toes by an inch.
And then, while he gaped in as
tonishment, a lump Of coal de-
serted it's brethren in a bucket, and
galloped gaily between his feet.
Sheriff George Winkler, who with
several deputies at once began an
investigation, propounded the first
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-22
Henry Ford's Wage Increase Order Impetus
to Wave of Optimism; Unions Pledge
No Efforts to Force Hike
HOOVER SESSION DEPRESSION BLOCK
Promises of Huge Spending Program Seen
Indicative of Banner Year in 1880;
Barnes Is Advisory Head.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22-Capital and labor lined up as
partners today under the guiding hand of President Hoover
They will pull together for winter of mutual prosperity
Giants of American industry have promised the Presi
dent hold wages up Henry Ford even has announced he
will raise wages in his plants.
Labor has promised Mr. Hoover to prevent further eff
forts to force wage increases
This of full pay envelopes gave industry re-
newed hope for the future today
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, explanation of the freak happen
ings.
Some one must be doing some
thing around here" he said.
1t makes little difference, now,
whether this strange, modern Alice
and her Mad Halter return to their
Wonderland without further mo-
lestation of the little house, the
sheriff's probe will continue; the
Clemens residence on East Vermont
street will not.
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Serve the majority of these
prisoners strawberry shortcake
three times day and they would
continue to grippe themselves to
death. They all say they're doing
bum rapS.
why, among $50 of them I'm
the only one who'll admit his
guilt"
Virgins looked cheerfully to-
ward his release Saturday morn
ing after spending two months OF
confinement for an attack on two
policemen and a fireman On Sept.
IS he was lined $3.50 and costs hy
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Special Criminal Judge Homer
Elliot and assessed jail sentence.
He had pleaded guilty to nine
charges ranging from assault and
battery to profanity.
"The future is rosy" he said.
1T think the first thing I do will
be to 60 duck hunting somewhere.
I've got to do it to condition my
self" He tips the scales at the
205-pound mark now, considerable
above his fighting weight.
AFTER that" he continued,
sthere are three opportunities.
fighting In California or Michigan
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10000 LISTED
ON FUND ROLLS
Community Chest Drive Is
Extended Two Days.
BULLETIN

Subscriptions obtained up 10
noon today totaled $76,035.84
bringing the grand total sub
scribed to $3.50, 6,575.49 with but %
per cent to be collected to reach
the drives goal.
More than 10000 Indianapolis
citizens and firms had contributed
S495,539 to the Community Fund
goal of $786,853 when workers today
carried reports to their noon meet
ing at the Claypool, which were ex-
pected to boost the total far above
the half million mark.
Campaign leaders declared many
who subscribed last year have in
creased their subscriptions, while
there is a marked enrolment OF new
donors.
approximately one-twentieth OF
the city's population had contributed
two thirds of the 1929 goal when the
total rose to $495, ,539 Thursday noon.
The drive will close wednesday
instead of Monday, the two-day eX-
tension being announced by Hugh
NICK. Landau, president, because
many volunteer workers were unable
to canvass last Saturday and are
expected to take a brief rest Satur-
day afternoon to join football
crowds.
"By closing the campaign at noon
Wednesday at the Claypool, we are
planning victory meeting" Lan-
don said. No report meetings will
be held Saturday or Tuesday.
Success surely will be OURS If we
continue the pace we now are set
ting" was the comment of j. I. Hol-
comb, general chairman.
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Probe Is
OUeYdne
in Plant
Dry Agent Admits Framing
Cases of Two Serving
Sentences for Life in
Michigan Prison.

Bn United Press
LANSING, Mich, Nov. ga
grand jury investigation into the
conviction of Mrs. Eta Mae ,Ii1ler
and Fred Palm, who are serving life
sentences for violation of tie state
liquor laws, was ordered this morn
ing by John Wendell Bird. Ingham
county prosecutor.
The order was made following the
publication of an interview with
Frank Eastman, former member of
the Lansing city liquor squad by the
Chicago Tribune. In the interview
Eastman said that liquor was
planted" and use as '',e basis of
the conviction in the two cases.
Eastman and his former partner,
William Knapp, arrested Fred Palm
and Mrs. Eta Mae Miller on the
charges that put them in prison fol-
life under the Michigan law, provid-
ing that penalty on fourth convic-
ton of felony.
Mrs. Miller, the mother of ten
children, was convicted of third
ofense after liquor had been placed
in the cupboard of her house on
Knapp's orders, the Tribune story
said Eastman declared.
Her fourth conviction, it contin-
ued, was obtained on the evidence
Of small quantity of liquor OBJ
tanned from two rubbing alcohol
bottles, thrown from an automobile
in which Mrs Miller was riding with
a man.
Eastman himself planted" a part
ly filled bottle of gin in one of
Palms boots, the Tribune story
said.