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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-23
AMBASSADOR GIBSON ORDERED
BY DOCTOR TO REST MONTH
Activities in Belgium Cur
tailed for Stay
in Italy.
Has Been Working With
Dawes on Naval Confer
enCe PreIiminaries.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BRUSSELS, September %. - Weak
ened by overwork in connection with
American negotiations for world dis
armament, Hugh s. Gibson, United
States Ambassador to Belgium, has been
ordered by physicians to take months
rest in Italy, and he is curtailing all
public activities preparatory to leaving
the Belgian capital Wednesday.
Mr.. Gibson, as Washington's chief
naval expert among foreign service Of
ficers abroad, has been in close touch
with disarmament work In recent years,
During recent months he has worked
with Ambassador Dawes in London on
the preliminary negotiations for the
Anglo american naval power agree
ment.
Mr.. Gibson, who is 46 years old. is a
Californian. He joined the diplomatic
service in 1908 and has served in
numerous posts In Central America and
in Europe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-23
GRAND JURY PROBES
KENTUCKY BOARD
Highway Commissions A.
fairs to Be Investigated for
Alleged Irregularities.
b. the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FRANKFORT, KY, September 90
With Gov. Elem D. Sampson. seven
members of the State Textbook COM
mission and 25 publishers OF school
books already under indictment, the
Franklin County grand jury reconVenes
today to continue its investigator OF
State departments and commissions.
Those already accused were indicted
IN connection with the alleged practice
of accepting specimen copies Of text
books to be examined before the award
of contracts for uniform textbooks for
use in the public schools. The Text
book Commission in a statement yeSter-
day defended the practice as that
always" in vogue in Kentucky ana
other States of the circumstances, ana
pointed out that the specimen copies
were given in response to an ADVERTISE
nent for bids prepared by the Attorney
General.
Alleged Confessions.
Three members of the committee have
been quoted as admitting they sold
several hundred volumes each to second
hand dealers for total running up TO
1896.
The indictments were returned after
three weeks investigation. but Common
wealth Attorney Wade Hampton Whitley
stated the report made the last OF the
week was only partial. The present
grand Jury was under instructions from
a previous body that met in April to
continue an investigation made then
into affairs OF the State Highway De-
partment, and no mention has yet been
made of the investigation by the pre-
sent inquisitorial body. though the COM
mission chairman. Ben johnson. mas
been before the jury more than once.
Gov. Sampson, the first governor IN
a century of Kentucky history to be IN
dicted while in office. is to be tried
October 2 in Franklin Circuit Court
He and most of the seven commissioners
have posted the $3.50 bond required
but the trials of neither the commits
sioners nor the publishers have as yet
been set.
Politics Charged.
Loud charges Of politics" have been
heard from various sections OF the
State following the return OF the In
dictments. and indications were that
attempts would be made to make politi-
cal capital out of the jury's actions
The indictments, however. were but the
climax to whole series OF lawsuits
and charges over the Governors plan
to put free textbooks in the State
schools.
The Court of Appeals has thrown out
q uniform adoption OF textbooks, as not
complying with the law, and while up
holding the constitutionality Of the free
textbook act, pointed out that 1t was
imperative until definite provision was
made to pay for them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-23
Coolidge "Sold Popcorn. ="

Europe is taking an interest in the
Forthcoming autobiography of ex-Presi-
dent Coolidge in book form. In describ-
ing it, one London newspaper says: In
the true strain of American biography
he tells of his rise from the bottom up,
from the time when he sold popcorn
and apples to the magnifcence of the
White House."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-23

Buy and eat tumbler of Apple, Pine
apple, Currant, Blackberry, Raspberry or
Grape early this week so you'll have time
to return for big supply while this
price is effective.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
GIRLS SUICIDE
NOTE ON LEG
Tilted Miss, Is, Lives After
Death Attempt.

Il am awful sorry I met you,
and I hope our love will cease after
this"
This brief message, 1aboriously
penciled on the calf of one of the
legs Of Miss Vickey Pursley, IS,
waitress. GOT Birch avenue, told
her motive for an attempt to end
her live with poison early today.
Patrolnen Orval Hudson and
Harry Smith investigated an ambu-
lance call to the Birch avenue ad-
dress at 2 a. m. They found Miss
Pursley i'll a serious condition.
They questioned her.
He has been making dates with
other girls sobbed the girl, men
tioning the name Of 22-year-old
roonler at the same address. and she
pointed down to her leg to tell the
rest Of the story.
'I want to die. want to die
screamed the girl City hospital
doctors said they believe she was
brought to them in time to save her
life. however.
The girl got the poison from a
neighbor. saying she wanted kill
some rats.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
Rival WIVES 9BS7ss5 B7s.'1{5 Ag{T5N N
CHAPTER l

clock of sunny crisp November day Nan Carroll
was happy. Not just content happy in paid mega
tive sort of but happy with the upswngng of the spirit
which is akin to ecstasy
And yet opening the door of the suite of
three ocesa door bearing the dgnifed sign John Curtis
Morgan, Attorney and peepng in upon her could
have discovered any outstanding for her happiness
Just pretty young stenographer private secretary and
busy at that, he might have thought.
But if it had been girl who had peeped and Nan S
flushed pretty face she would have deduced instantly that
Nan happiness born of the consciousness she looked
extremely well in her fall dress of silk crepe sim
pie little slip of dress whose short skirt dipped demurey
just over the caps of rounded, slim knees.
Certainly Nan had for happiness the fact that
silk crepe almost exactly the color Of her bobbed
brown hair that the velvet of her brown pumps
subty matched i'll the velvet of her round brown eyes.
Such narmonies are accidental but with Nan they
instructive and sufficient for the JOY that had sud
denly flooded her that her small body almost visb
vbraed with she in the ACKNOWLEDGED chair be-
fore her typewriter
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
BOY, 9, IN RAFT
RIDE, RESCUED
Ventures on Old Door Into
White River.

Michael Dugan, g, of 153 Blake
street, today had q tale of his thrill
ing rescue from White river late
Thursday, to tell his schoolmates,
while ne nursed q slight cold result
ing from getting wet and very, very
frightened.
Mike and his playmate, Isaiah Ed
wards, 9, Negro, 119 Blake street,
poking about the end of Market
street at the river, discovered an old
door, washed up by the flood waters
Of the last few days.
Mike, like a modern Tom Sawyer
ventured out on It, Isaiah gave it
little push. The swirling waters
caught it and before Mike and
Isaiah could think what to do Mike
was far out in the rushing stream.
The Negro boy told nearby work.
men, who called police
Meanwhile, Mike scrambled down
on the door and lying flat was
rushed toward the Mississippi. Pill
ing Of the Pennsylvania railroad
bridge, half a mile downstream,
ended the journey, but not the ad-
venture.
By the time police caught up with
the derelict, Harvey Castetter, 249
Eastern avenue, railroad fireman,
had seen the lad, and secured a rope.
Police let him down with the rope
tied around his body. He clung to
the piling and tied the rope around
the boy.
Police pulled the lad up, then
lowered the rope and rescued the
rescuer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17

ing rays of the November sun should
not strike into the eyes of the man
who would soon sit at that desk,
a spread palm over the concealed
radiator to make sure that heat was
coming up
She was interrupted by the sound
of the outer doors opening and
closing. In a flash her small body
was across the room, her hand upon
the knob of the dividing door.
Hello, Nan! Blake back yet? Did
Preston call?"
The very tall, very thin man tossed
his hat upon a knob of the tree
and shrugged out of his gray tweed
topcoat. His black hair, Winging
upward in natural pompadour
from an extremely high and broad
forehead, was shot through with
threads of silver.
Nan never saw a silver fox pelt
without thinking with a sharp con-
traction of the heart, of that silver
f1ecked name of John Curtis Nor
gan's. His black eyes shone now
with the brilliance Of fatigue and
excitement. Nan Carroll thought
and had thought since the day she
first saw hinl-that he was the most
MISUNDERSTANDING man she had
ever seen.
Mr.. Blake isn't here yet" Nan
answered eagerly, her eyes sweeping
over him and noting every sign of
fatigue. "He telephoned from the
sheriff S Office. where he's waiting for
Buck. I telepl1oned Mr.. Preston
when had not heard from him by
Il o'clock, and made an appoint
ment for you for half past four
here" she added triunphantly. 81
knew you'd be tired"
a humorous smile zigzagged across
Morgan's thin face. tWitching the
wide, sensitive mouth. and settling
in his deep set eyes. There was ten
der, teasing friendliness in his deep
voice as he answered:
Good girl! I don't know how
you do it. I honestly believe you d
make Cal Coolidge come here if I
happened to want to consult him
about something. busy, important
man like Preston Oh, this is
splendid. Nan! I didn't think you'd
have time to finish this brief before
7 got back. That clears the decks
for us to work on this mass of stuff
Turn to Page Sevenl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
WHITMAN TO PLAY
AT SPEEDWAY RACE
Famops Band viii Paraae Before
Start Memori~i Day.

Famops Band viii Paraoe Before
Start Memori"i Day.
Paul Whiteman, rotund Jazz
king and his thirty piece Old Gold
band. will circle the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway at f1ve-lnile pace
with all horns hitting" Immediately
preceding the start of the 500-mile
race Memorial day.
Whiteman's band will begin it's
circuit of the two and one-half-
mile oval in a direction opposite to
that taken by the 1,500-piece band
that provides the fanflares for the
annual classic.
The circuit completed. the NOV
ing platform bearing Whiteman's
band will move into place before
the grand stand and Reinald Wer-
renrath, famous concert baritone,
will sing My Country Tis Of Thee.
Then the race will start.
In the afternoon. White0an's
band will play a concert in the in
field.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
WHEAT LOWEST
IN FIVE YEARS
Flood of Selling Forces
Grain Price Down.

Bu Luitcd Press
CHICAGO, May IA flood of
selling orders coming from all parts
of the country today forced wheat
deliveries to the lowest prices
registered on the board of trade in
more than five years.
No new factor affected the decline.
the break coming when evening up
sales over the European holidays
wore through the markets thin
support and uncovered numerous
stop loss orders.
Later i'll the day May wheat was
selling at $102l4 July $1.o6ls. and
September S1092i.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
Grocer Is Lynched
After Gun Battle
Fatal to His Wife
Mob Takes Prisoner From Jail and Riddles
Body With Bullets; Angered Over
Shooting of Chief Of Police

Finally. agreeing to remove the
rubbish, Romey later was said to
have telephored Baker that ne had
replaced them.
Come back and try to make me
move them again" the grocer dared
the policeman.
When Baker returned to the store
an argument began and Mrs.
Romey emerged with a pistol. She
fred three shots at Baker, who re-
turned the fire.
One shot took effect in Bakers
shoulder and Mrs. Romey was
struck BY five bullets. She died
about midnight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17

By nitcd Press
LAKE CITY. Fla. MAY I'm. G.
Romey, a. grocer, was taken from
the city Jail and lynched today after
a gun duel Thursday night in which
his wife was killed and Police Chief
John F. Baker was wounded.
The bullet-riddled body of the
grocer was found in a ditch beside
the highway. An inquest was held
but the verdict was not announced.
Rooney was placed in jail Thurs
day after the shooting, which start
ed when he was ordered by Chief
Baker to remove rubbish in front
Of his store.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
POLICE GUARD ASKED
Woman Declares Prowler Tried to
Enter Home.

Mrs. June Boldvolderauer. 460
Inolda street. asked police protec-
tion for her home today. Mrs. Bold
volderauer told police today an un-
identified man tried to gain en-
trance to her home last night by
prying al rear door. The man fled
when other occupants Of the house
discovered him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
100 PERISH IN FIRE
Flames Destroy ESQ Homes
in Polish City.

BIZ United Press
LONDON. May 17.-One hun
dred persons we're killed in a fire
which destroyed $50 houses at
IWie, eastern Poland. during tn,
night, an Exchange Telegraph dis
patch from Warsaw said today.
Five hundred families we're made
homeless. Flames could be seen for
thirty miles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
DERBY ROUTE CLEAR
U. S. Road 81 Best; All
Paved, No Water.

Flooded streams in southern In
diana will not interrupt traffic from
Indianapolis to the Derby at Louis
vile, KY, Saturday, the state high
way department said today.
United States route 81, through
Franklin, Columbus, Seymour,
Scottsburg and JefferSonville is not
blockaded at any point by high
water. it vas announced.
Il furnishes the most direct route
to Louisville, is paved all the way
and free from detours. The distance
is lis miles to Jeffersonville, oppo-
site Louisville.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
SENTENCE CAPONE TO YEAR IN PEN
GRAF Yep, IN DESPERATE
PERIL IN STORM, Being
DRIVEN OUT OVER SEA
Derby Dope

Post positions Of the entrants
i'm the historic Kentucky Derby
classic to be run al Churchill
Downs. Louisville. Saturday
afternoon. will be found on
PAGE 25 of this edition.
For complete information Of
the classic of the American
turf Saturday, read The Times
Pink. on the streets immedi-
ately after the race, with COM
plete details of the big event.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
LESLIE TO ATTEND RACE
Governor viii Occupy Special Box
at Speedway.

Governor Harry C. Leslie and
Mrs. Leslie will attend the s00-mile
speedway race Memorial day, the
Governor said today Miss Dorothy
Cunningham. Republican national
committeewoman, and her brother
Fred Cunningham, will be in the
Governors party.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
AWAIT 1O.O0O-FOOT LEAP
Clear Stout Field for Parachute
Jump From Plane.

National guardsmen this after
noon we're ready TO clear Stout field
for the expected l0,000-foot
parachute leap Of Jack Cope, Chi
cago, from a plane.
Cope was flying from Chicago with
several thousand American Legion
membership cards which he was to
deliver to national headquarters
here before sundown in order TO get
credit for Illinois in the national
contest
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
EXTRA: MAN BITES NAG
Teamster Fined $40 for Chewing
Ear of Balky Horse.

. y l fti1tH KFEsE
NEW YORK, May 17.-Philip
Funzinella. 5l-year-old Brooklyn
tesmster, paid $40 to a court here
today when charged with biting a
piece out OF his horses ear. He ex-
planned in broken English that the
horse was balky.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
Population Set at 1924

r. Times Special
BLOOMINGTON. Ind, May IL
This city's population is estimated
at 1924 on the basis of q school
census showing 4.56i persons be-
tween the ages of and q years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
Jail Prisoner Cuts Finger

Joe Schmidt, 80. prisoner at the
county Jail, severed the index finger
on his left hand Thursday while op-
Grating a bread cutting machine at
the Jail. Schmidt is serving a term
for hootiegging.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
DAVIS ACCEPTS POST
Ex-SeCretary of War VIII
Govern Philippines.

BIZ niffG Press
WASHINGTON, May IT,
Dwight F. Davis. former secretary
of war, accepted the governor
generalShip of the Philippine
Islands. it was learned here today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17

Her ringless hands played
rapidly over the keyboard Of
the machine, as if endowed
with Il consciousness and intel
ligence of their own, for GER
tainly there was nothing in the
legal document she was tipping
from shorthand notes to bring
that high luster into her
brown-velvet eyes and that
ioy-fush into her cheeks.
"CTHREE oclock!' She glanced at
L her tiny, octagonal white-gold
watch as she reached the end Of her
shorthand notes. With an expert
twist of her wrist she took the
cracking sheets of legal-sized bond
paper and carbonS from the machine
sorted them swiftly, combined them
with the other pages OF the brief,
scanned their flaWleSS typing proud
ly. then added clips from a little
box that had its place in the meticu-
lous ohreh of her top desk drawer.
And as always, whenever she
touched it, her finger tips caressed
the exquisite little box, which John
Curtis Morgan, attorney-at-law, and
her employer for three years, had
given her as a Christmas present the
first year she had worked for him.
He had laughed at her for using
it as clip box. reminding her that
he had expected her to add it to her
dressing table knicknacks, and she
had defended herself lamely, unable
to tell him that she kept it here in
the Office because her heart was
here, rather in the furnished room
she rented by the week.
He said three O'Clock, but that
means any time before half past,
Nan reflected indulgently, as she ad-
ded the original copy of the brief to
the stack OF letters she had typed
earlier in the day. Court had ad-
journed early. That means that the
prosecution rested before Mr.. Nor
gan expected them to-He'u be
dreadfully tired and all keyed-up.
Maybe" and oddly enough her
eyes sparkled and her flush depend
at the thought he'll want me to
work tonight. So much to do-last
minute stuff: witness to subpoena;
his notes to be written up"
.ENTERING the Office marked "Mr.
~ Morgan"-the other Office OF
the suite was shared by the middle
aged clerk and the young lawyer
who worked for Mr.. Morgan on sal
ary-Nan deposited her tray of fin
ished work on the desk, made even
straighter a neat stack of unfolded
letters received that day; cast
measuring glance at the heavy onxy
ink well: blew a few grains of dust
from the shining surface beyond the
spotlesS new green biotter; adjusted
the window shade so that the slant
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-04
Woman's Skeleton
Is Found In Canyon
Close to Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, Cal. March 4.-(Py
The finding in Nichols Canyon,
only five blocks from Hollywood
boulevard, of the skeleton Of a wo-
man who apparently had been dead
for more than a year, puzzled police
today.
The skull had been severed from
the body and strands Of blonde hair
were clinging to it. 1t was found last
night by a group of mixers. Later
police found the remainder of the
body
From the tattered clothing police
determined that the woman was
wearing a sport ensemble. The coat
apparently was of rough Woolen
fabric, checked tan and green, with
silk lining. In the right pocket of
the coat a small coin purse of bro
caded satin was found. Inside was
a silver monogram d." two 81 bills,
and so cents in coins.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-04
FIVE INJURED
IN AUTO CRASH
Two Held In Jail After
Smashup On Highway
Near Olmito

Felipe Ramirez and Antonio Gar
"a of Harlingen were placed under
arrest near Harlingen late Sunday
afternoon by Traffic Officer E. E.
S2~ler following a crash on the
highway near Olmito, in which five
persons were injured.
The injured were: Elisio Soils,
Lusindio Soils, Angelo Soils, Ramo-
ma Soils and Francisco Jiminez, all
of whom live in Mercedes. Each of
the five received severe cuts and
bruises, but their injuries we're pro-
nounced not serious.
Officers stated that both ,ars
were travelling northward. the car
driven by Felipe Ramirez cutting
in ahead of the Soils car, striking
the front wheel and turning it over
into the ditch. The Ramirez car
Gid not stop, officers stated. The
accident occurred one mile north Of
Olmito and Ramirez and Cara
were arrested near Harlingen.
The five injured persons. we're
brought back to Brownsville for
medical treatment, and are expect
ed to be returned to their homes in
Mercedes Monday or Tuesday. No
specific charges have been filed
against Ramirez and Cara.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-04
FOUR AIR LINES
TOCENTER HERE
Mexico West Coast Mail
To Come By Way Of
Monterrey

Brownsville's place as the air line
center Of the South was practically
assured Monday when plans were
announced for a fourth major air
route to be inaugurated March 9,
by the Corporation Aeronautica de
TranSporteS, S. A., who on that day
will start daily mail, passenger and
express service between this point
and Mazatlan, principal port city
on the west coast of Mexico. Cities
to be served on this new route are
Matamoros, Monterrey, Torreon,
Durango, and Mazatlan, the west
ern terminal.
j. M. Grajales, vice president of
the company, arrived at Matamoros
late Sunday, and Monday discussed
plans for the new route with
Brownsville Chamber Of Commerce
officials. Theodore T. Hall, Of Los
Angeles, president of the company
and also president Of the American
Aircraft Corporation, will be here
Thursday to complete plans for
initiation of the new line.
Grajales said that his company
had already been given the mail
contract by the Mexican govern
ment, and that Ryan and Fairchild
planes would be used, with trip
each way daily. The planes will
leave the east and west terminals
at approximately the same time.
Eight hours flying time is required
for the flight.
Representatives from each city
along the route will be in Browns
vile Saturday to see the first
plane take off, Grajales sale.
Evidence of MeXico's enthusiasm
over the proposal is contained in
Grajales' declaration that Durango
citizens worked day and night in
order to put their rough landing
field in condition after an appeal
by the mayor.
Lloyd Anderson, chief pilot for
the corporation, has had $500
hours in the air, and will fly the
first ship east toward Brownsville
from Mazatlan.
Other lines which will be in oper-
alton are: Pan-American, from
Brownsville to Mexico City; Texas
Air Transport, from Brownsville tc
San Antonio; and Gulf Air Lines
from Brownsville to Houston.