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The Indianapolis times., 1929-12-19
HOME FUNERAL
SLATED FRIDAY
FOR MRS. HENRY
Deceased Wife of Minister
Was Prominent in Club,
Educational Work.

Funeral services for Mrs. 5. Ed
ward Henry, 81, prominent in Indi-
annapolis club and educational life
who died Tuesday after a years Ill
ness, will be contacted at the home
48l4 North Meridian street. at 2
p. m. Friday, with the Rev George
A. Frantz, pastor of First Presby-
erian church, officiating. Burial will
be in Crown Hill cemetery
Born in Lagro, Tenn, Mrs Henry
lived at Marysvilie in the same state
for several years, where Shc attend
ed college. She is a former instruct
OF in the Teachers College of In
dlanapolis.
A resident of Indianapolis about
twenty-five years, Mrs. Hency was a
member of the Presbyterian church,
the Propylaeum, Society of Indiana
Pioneers, John Heron Art Institute
and Matinee Musicale.
Survivors are the husband, the
Rev. S. E. Henry, a Presbyterian
clergyman; two daughters, the
Misses Margaret and Anna Lou
Henry; two sisters, Miss Emma
Colbert and Mrs. Annie E. Meyers
of Minneapolis, and five brothers,
c. G. Colbert, Elkhart; Louis d
Colbert, Fairbanks, Alaska; Paul
Colbert, Montreal; N. r. Colbert of
indianapolis, and E. r. Colbert of
Candy.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-12-19
1856 Acres Acquired in
North, Out of License
Fee Funds.

Purchase of 1856 acres Of land
in Jasper and Pulaski counties for
a state game refuge was announced
today by the state conservation de-
partment.
The land represents an invest
ment of $37, ,95381, plus certain ditch
assessments and taxes. The money
came from earnings Of the fish and
game division, according to George
N. Mannfeld, division chief.
Increase of the holding to 5000
acres is planned, he said. This is
the third game reserve established
by the department. The land lies
in Walker township, Jasper county,
and Clay township. Pulaski county.
The area had been ditched but
proved unproductive, it was said.
The fish and game division pro-
poses to refood parts of the area,
to produce wild duck marshes. The
place now is well stocked with quail
and prairie chicken, according to
Mannfeld.
Purchase of several plots was
negotiated throUoh Pow y. Thon'r-
The Indianapolis times., 1929-12-19
Commission Buys Land
for State Game Refuge

son of Rensselaer," Mannfeld ex-
planned. Some 522 acres included
in the reserve were owned formerly
by Thompson. There are few habi-
tations and the land is particularly
well adapted for propagation of wild
life.
This division of the conservation
department operates from the sale
of fishing and hunting licenses, and
annually holds certain funds for
requirement of public lands.
"The division now owns 1876
acres in game refugees, 16,077 pur-
chased direct from moneys provided
by spOrtsmen."
The Indianapolis times., 1929-12-19
Bury Wreck Victim

Last rites for Mrs. Nellie s
Whitehead, former resident of In
dianapolis and Terre Haute, who
was injured fatally in an auto crash
in California several weeks ago
were to be held at 2 p. m. today at
the Flanner 1 Buchanan mortuary.
Mrs. Whitehead taugh school at
Terre Haute for several years. Sur
vivors, besides the husband, Her
bert L. Whitehead, are a sister, Miss
Charlotte Shaver; an uncle, William
Speer, both Of Terre Haute, and a
brother, A. Shaver of Chicago.
Her husband, former local theater
owner, suffered injuries in the acci-
dent which prevented him returning
with the body.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-12-19

ed after he drew a gun at a town
board meeting Monday night when
board members, seeking to disanneX
a tract of 9,040 acres, objected to
his declaration that the board meet
ing was adjourned and that election
Of five board members was Illegal
because written notice of the meet
ing was not given.
Petitions for Instrumentation are
being circulated under auspices of
the Wayne Township Civic League
and the Lynhurst Civic League.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-12-19
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

mayor" to work out a settlement.
kellogg has expressed himself as
intending to resign as chairman of
the board because Of the labors in
volved, but has indicated he would
not resign under fire.
Civic association leaders declared
they do not desire any factionsl
struggle among residents and that
they viii endeavor to work with
Kellogg.
Kellogg's appeals from two fines
of 500 and costs for drawing deadly
weapons and carrying concealed
weapons is pending. He was arrest
The Indianapolis times., 1929-12-19
FOUR FlREMEN HURT
100, Wearing Gas Masks, Battle
Flames for 16 Hours.

BU United Press
DENVER, Dec. 19.-Four firemen
were injured in a fire which razed
a packing company plant here. and
caused damage estimated at $4,000.
One hundred flremen, wearing gas
masks as a protection against fumes
from ammonia tanks, battled the
blaze for sixteen hours.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-12-19
PEACE is COAL
AT LYNHURST
Mayor Willing to Quit, but
Not Under Fire.

Private conferences today marked
the land annexation fight in Lyn-
hurst, town corporation southwest of
Indianapolis.
Peaceful solution Of the dispute
over legality of election of five town
board members was expected by
civic association leaders and several
planned to confer with Ernest Kel-
logg, board chairman and town
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Chicago Woman
Claims She Has
Lien on Husband
Courts Interfere, Sending
74-Year-Old Mate to
Psycopathic Ward.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 26.-Leap year has
come and gone, but nevertheless Mrs
Nellie Jones has got her man. Having
saved his life. she claimed a lien on it
and married him, the courts notwith-
standing
Now the courts have interfered and
her 72-year-old husband, Charles D.
Vassar, has left her private sanitarium
for the psychopathic hospital.
Vassar was the son of a wealthy New
York architect who died more than 80
years ago, leaving the son an annuity.
Nearly two-scorc years he lived here
with Mrs Nellie Reniff and her mother.
Illness came last December, and they
took him to Mrs. Jones sanitarium.
Since then. the Reniffs told the
court. they have not been permitted to
see him and Mrs. Jones has drawn a
will conveying Vassar's estate to herself.
Married After Writ Served.
The septuagenaran husband was
brought into court yesterday on ha-
beas corpus writ and it developed Mrs.
Jones had married him after the writ
was served.
Are you married." Judge Emanuel
Eller asked him
mo" Vassar replied THAT is. yes. "
What was said when you talked
about being married."
Mrs. Jones said we were going to be
married.
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CITIZENS START
FIGHT ON SMOKE
Georgetown Asso citation
Backs Move to Open Educa-
tionaI Campaign by Mail.

Plans to launch a vigorous educa-
] tional campaign through the diStribu-
ton of printed matter with monthly
: gas bills in an effort to abate the smoke
nuisance in the community we're APP
proved by the Georgetown Citizens As
, S0clatl0n last night at a meeting in the
Potomac Bank Building.
A list of-every apartment house. pri-
Vate residence and business place in
. Georgetown, will be compiled and sent
to the Washington Gas Light Co, SO
that the printed appeal. which is to be
made up under the direction of the
executive committee of the association.
may be sent.
In this connection, a special COM
mittee also was appointed to look into
the existence of certain undesirable
agencies now operating in Georgetown
with a view to eliminating unpleasant
odors and smoke regarded as a nui-
sance.
The association also passed a resolu-
ton to appeal to the director of traffic
TO cause the immediate installation of
traffic signal lights on Pennsylvania
avenue from Twenty-eighth to Twenty
ninth and on NJ street to the Key
Bridge and also on Q street from
Twenty-second to Thirty-fifth. It
also was voted to ask the Capital Trac-
ton Co. to place a street car loading
platform at the corner of Twenty
eighth street and Pennsylvania avenue.
The association went on record as in
favor of the proposed street railway
merger plan as decided on in the SEN
ate District committee.
John Paul Jones was elected perma-
ment secretary of the association, sue
ceeding Philip Walker, who resigned
because of ill-health. B. A. Bowles.
president of the association, presided.
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THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON G.

'What did you have to say to thats"
the Judge inquired.
Very little. / guess 1t was satisfac-
tory"
Were you ever married before?"
Not that l know Of"
He testified that he had not wanted
to see visitors at the sanitarium, be
cause they wanted to get money from
me-" and asked whether Mrs. Jones
told him TO say that, replied: YES, /
guess So"
Says She Is Entitled to Him.
Judge Eller called the woman before
him and asked what she had to say.
All I've got to say" Mrs. Jones said,
lis that saved this mans life when
he was sick, and any time l save a
mans life I'm entitled to him"
Judge Eller informed her she was in
contempt of court for marrying VaSsar
after she received the court summons,
but continued the hearing to April /
and sent Vassar to the Psychopathic
Hospital.
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Wanda" Cloth
85c yard

Our own importation, in a fast.
color Jaspe or stripe effect is
especially desirable for loose
covers. Choice colors: areen,
rose, gold, natural, apricot,
blue and peach. 46 inches wide.
UPHOLSTERY, SIXTH FLOOR.
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Asks $4,000 for Hurt Girl.

CHICAGO. March &c Cp.-Suit for
$4,000 damages was filed yesterday
against the Pullman Co. by Mrs. Ethel
Helen Twombly. who charged her
9-year-old daughter Gloria suffered Sc
we're burns above the eye when a negro
maid on Pullman car accidentally
struck her with hot curling iron. Mrs
Twombly, former wife of Willard Irv-
ing Twombly wealthy Niles, Mich, in
ventor. was en- route from New York
to Niles. Mich. when the accident
occurred.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-26
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-26
$3.50, 900 FOR RELIEF.
Fund to Aid British Miners May
= Close Shortly.

LONDON. March 20 t4'D.-The lord
mayors fund for relief of distress in the
mining areas Is expected to close short
ly. Public subscriptions amount to
s3,840,00o, which, with the government
pound-for- pound grant, provides ST.
100000.
This amount Is believed to be suffi-
Gent to meet the present needs and the
conservative government does not wish
to commit the next government, if it
should be defeated in the elections, to
the continuance of the $3.50 grant.
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Trunks almost pack themselves when one
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end of the trip just as they started.
Set of Three Cases for handkerchiefs,
hosiery and lingerie. in assorted shades.
$3.50 set
Garment Bags for one garment, with side
opening and snaps, $3.50.
Dress Folders bound with colored bindings.
81.
Lingerie Cases. small size, 4Oc. s., =
Handkerchief Cases, Csc.
NorioNs, AISLE az, FIRST FLOOR. ~
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They prove very attractive this interesting price
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Their dainty shapes, which really their chief
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-26
PLAN FLOOD RELIEF.
Red Cross Director Expected to
Confer With Florida Governor.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, March IS up.
Henry NJ. Baker, national director OF
disaster relief for the American Red
Cross, yesterday expected to confer with
Gov. Doyle Carlton on relief require
ments of Florida towns flooded in last
weeks torrential rains
Following his Florida tour to survey
needs for rehabilitation, Mr.. Baker will
go to Brewton and other flooded Sec
tons of Alabama
The disaster relief director has just
completed a tour OF the flooded sections
of the Flint and Chattahoochee Rivers
In Georgia
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When she came back ne was cleaning his
revolver, and she pouted ut him.
what? Not done with that old thing yet9'
He smiled up at her. Behind her gayety he
saw . little sadness. and there were black lines
on her cheeks, as though>sh had hurried back
to him in the Spring heat.
"Was 1t pleasant outsider"
"very. And-oh, yes, must tell you was
talking with such nice man. He came and
sat down beside me. Rather young and dis
tinguished. He writes books. He said he would
put me in a book! Ridiculous, isn't it?"
met at all ridiculous darling he said
gravely. who better deserves It? But-on
half-hourS acquaintance?"
She did not answer that. She said nothing
of the past week. Perhaps she was afraid of
hurting him. Or perhaps she herself knew
vaguely that she had been absurd.
Hes going away" she said her voice slight
ly fiattened. HE goes tonight. He lives away
from here" She went to the mirror and
glanced at herself Good heavens, why didn't
you tell me my face is dirty?"
Its the soft coal, honey"
Above the purple rouge below the dyed hair
her eyes met his, and with q little cry she
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went toward him and dropped down on hef
knees.
what ever would do without you?" she
said Historically. II can't bear to think Of It,
I can't"
His thin old hand caressed her hair. and to
his sensitive nostrils was waited that peculiar
aura of perfume and dye which now he saw
served her as his revolver had served him, as
strength against the encroaching weakness OF
the spirit
MY darling" he said. MY beautiful
darling!"
Suddenly he felt tired. His eyes under their
beetling brows made an effort, looked up at
the hole in the window frame, SO neatly re-
paired Then they closed, and he smiled
81 am so jealous of you," he murmured. so
jealousl I must be very young. You-you will
always be young"
And he felt her move closer to him. He was
her reinsurance and her strength. She needed
him. She would always need him. and he
would never fail her. Never, please God.
He slept, and for a long time she knelt there.
afraid to move away. Then she rose and, go
ing to the bedroom, proceeded to make up her
Redeemed eyes again.
(Copyright 1922
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his manhood He felt strong again, able to
cope with her, to defeat her.
IT won't have you meeting that fellow. Do
you hear?"
Let her cry.
1t was some time before he saw the bullet hole
in the window frame An hour before that
would have daunted him, but not now. He
would conquer that hole. What was bullet
hole to him?
There was a crafty look about him as he
hobbled about, a bit of whimsy. He would out
wit her, sharp-eyed little soft thing that she
was. bit of soap to I'LL it, then a touch of
red to match the wood.
He found some red salve in her vanity box
and finished the job. But when he had put
the salve back he stood looking down into
the box
He saw 1t now for what it was. 1t was her
armory, her secret protection against fear.
With this she fought her demons; of age. of
future loneliness, of death.
When he had closed the lid he bent down
and kissed 1t. Let her have q friend, let her
sit on a park bench and thrust out her tiny
feet to be seen and admired. Let life be bear
able, and sweet and kind TO her.
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Battery guarding Chain Bridge at washington In 1852

South for her health, but returned
to Richmond in March, 1854. and since
she had not yet gained her strength
because of her long confinement IN
prison, she decided to visit Europe and
so made her arrangements for sailing
on blockade-runner. When President
Jefferson Davis heard of her plans he
made her the bearer Of dispatches TO
England.
The vessel was overhauled before it
reached Bermuda and was brought back
to Fortress Monroe as prize. The gal
liant Federal officer who was put In
charge. of the prize ship on its journey
into port fell victim to Bellies charm
And so she plighted her troth to Lieut.
Sam Wylde Hardinge.
Lieut.. Hardinge was ordered to take
his prize to New York. where he and
Belle debarked for dinner and the
theater. and then on to Boston. where
Belle was informed In a hotel. She OBJ
tanned permission a few days later to
leave the country and made her way
to Montreal then to Quebec and finally
to England Lieut.. Hardinge, mean
while. sent in his resignation, which
was accepted. He then joined Belle in
London and they were married.
In a few days after the happy sur
render of La Belle Rebelle to the
Yankee naval officer he sailed to
America, only to be seized by the Fed
eral authorities and thrown into prison
as a deserter For more than q year
Belle was left in London without money,
while her husband was shifted from one
prison to the other, the remittances
which were sent to her being confis-
Gated by the authorities. At the close
Of the war she joined him. but hts
health was broken by the hardships he
had undergone and he died In 1863,
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crate armies swept back and forth over
Northern Virginia. that she should have
been captured. Mr.. Stanton, the Secre-
tary of War. ordered her arrest and she
was escorted in a coach. guarded by $50
horsemen with drawn sabers. to the
railway terminal and sent in charge
Of a detective to Washington and lodged
in the old Capitol Prison.
The War Department records show
that she spent at least five weeks in
prison before she was sent South in
an exchange of prisoners because mo
specific charges or information have
been lodged against her.
After her return to Virginia, Belle
made tour of the South. where she
was the toast of every town she visited.
Not only were her bravery and her suf-
ferings known, but they were being
heralded through the North as we'll, but
in less complimentary significance.
Upon her return to Martinsburg an
order was received for her arrest from
Secretary Stanton and again she was
taken to Washington. this time to be
lodged in the old Carroll Prison. The
newspapers during that period frequent
ly carried items about the beautiful
spy, many of them highly uncompli-
mentary but admiring young men shot
messages tied to arrows into her room,
and hundreds of former enemies be-
came her stanchest friends. The room
in which she was confined for so long
was low and fearfully warm, and the
"air was fetid and rank with the fumes
of an ill-ventilated bastile." Belle was
stricken with typhoid fever. Accord
ing to the War Department records, she
remained in Carroll Prison from Au-
gust %, 1863, until some time in No.
vember. when she was again sent
through the Federal lines into the
South.
Again Belle 1ourneyed 10 the Far
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IDENTIFY had gorgeous imagination and
perhaps she did embroider the story a
little bit, but the above is the way she
tells it.
Gen. Shields marched south to lay
a trap for poor old Jackson and his
demoralized army" as he told Belle,
leaving behind few hundred soldiers
to hold Front Royal. Meanwhile Belle
was discovered with some discriminating
papers and put under closer surveil-
lance. A few days later the rebels
came Unexpectedly upon the town and
threw the few Federal troops into an
uproar. In the midst of the confusion
Belle obtained from a Federal officer
the general outline of the plans of the
Federal movements by asking him ex-
ciJedly as he was leaving what he in
tended to do.
So, putting on white sunbonnet, she
ran as fast as she could out over the
open fields toward the Confederate
lines, which were rapidly advancing
The Federal artillery soon spied her
and opened fire. Bullets sang and fell
around her and even pierced her
clothes. A big shell struck the ground
within 20 yards of her feet, and in
stinctively she threw herself on the
ground for protection against the flying
missiles. Then on again she ran until
she reached the Confederate lines.
Acting on the information, Gen. Jack
son was able to surprise Gen. Banks at
Strasburg and brought about the COM
plete rout of the Federal forces at that
point.
X X X
IRON that time on Belle was a
marked woman. The Northern
journals vie with one another in pub
fishing extravagant accounts of her ex-
ploits and heaped the worst of vituper-
alton upeh her character. 1t was in
eWtable. as the Federal and Confed-
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pride I confess that the suspicious of
the enemy were far from being un-
founded"
Because of the close surveillance of
her movements in Martinsburg, her
family sent her to her aunts home in
Front Royal, Va, which was also in
the hands of the Federal forces. The
commanding general had COM
Wandered the big house belonging to
the family for headquarters and Bellies
aunt was living in a smaller house in
the yard. Upon her arrival Belle i'm
mediately sent her card to Gen. Shields,
who answered it in person with true
courtly courtesy, and introduced Belle
to his susceptible Irish aides, who, from
time to time, paid Belle court, wrote to
her remarkable illusions" as she
called them, and gave her some with
cred flowers. From them she says she
obtained "a great DIAL Of very impor-
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tant information which was carefully
transmitted to my countrymen"
Gen. Shields was about to whip Gen.
Jackson" so he tainted Belle. The night
before he was to put his plans into exc
cution he held council of war in the
drawing room of the big house. Belle
knew that there was hole in the floor
of a closet in the room above the draw
ing room, so as soon as the officers were
assembled she stole softly upstairs and
by lying down on the floor of the closet
and putting her ear over the hole she
heard every word of the conversation
in the room below. AS soon as the
officers had gone to their tents, Belle
crept out, jotted down everything she
could remember, saddled horse, got
through the Federal lines with fake
passes, rode Is miles to put the infor-
nation into the hands Of Col. Ashby
himself and then got back home before
daylight.
It all sounds little improbable and
some historians say that not much of
that claim Of Bellies Is true. She evi-
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Eventually one of these notes fell
into the hands of the Union au-
thorities and Belle was summoned be-
fore the commander of the Union troops,
who read to her the article of war which
promised death or whatever penalty
the honorable members of the court
martial shall see fit to inflict."
II was not frightened" she says, for
I felt within me the spirit of the Doug
Eases from whom / am descended lis
tened quietly, made low bow, and
with a sarcastic Thank you, gentlemen
of the jury l departed; not in peace,
however, for my little rebel heart was
on fire and I INDUCED in thoughts and
plans of vengeance" And she was
only IT,
From this hour" she says. Il was a
suspect and all the mischief done to the
Federal cause was laid to my charge,
and 1t is with unfeigned Joy and true