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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, March 21.-The
IN histrionic ability Of Captain
James j. Coy, small, sartorially
elegant policeman, so far has been
the chief attraction in the trial Of
Mae West and f1fty-seven others
charged witt giving an indecent
stage performance.
He faced the discrimination
today of Nathan Burkan, defense
counsel, as a prosecution witness.
For the benefit Of the jury, for
the edihcation of select, but gig
Cling courtroom crowd, and TO the
embarrassment of some of the de-
PENDANTS and to at least one juror,
Captain Coy gave a one-man per-
Torrance of Mae Vests play,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21
JOB INCREASE IN
CITY Is REPORTED
Boost OF 2 Per Cent in 20 Local
Industries Is Declared.

The number Of persons employed
in twenty-nine leading Indianapolis
industries increased 2 per cent from
Jan. l to March 1, Paul @. Richey,
Chamber Of Commerce president,
declared today. There were 22,741
men on the pay rolls March /, he
said.
The survey OF the chamber indus
trial commission also showed 6 per
cent more were employed on Jan. /
this year than a year previously.
Based on the accurate figures
obtained the conclusion Of the re-
port Is that Indianapolis Is in much
better condition in regard to en-
ployment than other cities of the
country and that with the opening
of outdoor work employment condi-
tons should be slightly better than
in past years" Richey said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21

Pleasure Man." which he and
number of other blue coated dra-
matte critics raided and closed
Oct. /, 1929.
The captain was bit "stage
struck" as he embarked on his
version of the play, chewing the
ends Of his tortoise-sheu spec
tacles. He gained confidence,
however, from the close attention
which every one, including Judge
Amedeo Bertini, paid him, and he
ended his recital in the calm, in
different manner of the profess
sional.
THE curtain rose on a scene
backstage in a vaudeville theater
on Monday morning." he stated
after taking deep breath. -Four
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21
BEAUTYS TROUBLES
ADJUSTED IN TEXAS

TT. Worth Blonde to Represent U.
S. at International Show.
BIZ United Press
MIAMI, Fla, March 21.-"Amer-
ica's Sweetheart" Miss Janet East
man, 20-year-old FIT. Worth (Tex0
blonde, will officially represent the
United States in the Rio De Janeiro
international beauty sweepstakes, it
was announced here today.
The announcement apparently
patched up previously reported diff
hculties between Miss Eastman and
CASTOR Andreade, n-American
director of the recent beauty pag-
cant here, who announced Thursday
he had selected Miss Beatrice Lee.
Miss Utah." to represent the United
States,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21

-Four male characters dressed
as female impersonators helped
each other off with their dresses"
he continued, describing each
article of wear. Then they all
put on kimonos and one of them
began to sew on a silk lamp
shade"
At this point, a juror blushed,
and in his distress he began also
to chew the ends of his glasses.
And before Captain Coy reached
tt.e third act, most of the de-
PENDANTS that had glasses were
doing likewise.
n
A DJUSTING his salmon-col-
N ored tie and Ticking of a
few specks of dust from the trim
lapels of his perfectly fitting
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21

actresses were on the stage. They
were scrubwomen and they we're
conversing. One said I've got it,
Another woman answered her
(this part of the testimony is I'M
printable) and she walked
across the stage dixie this)-shak-
ing her hips from left to right
and adding, oh, I've had my
time"
TTERE the captain wavered for
AZ minute and then, bravely,
he did his duty without mincing
words or forgetting a gesture.
He described a scene in the Sec
ond act, showing a croSs-Section
of the stage with the open dress
ing rooms, upstairs and down.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21

lazne that batting the
apple out of the lot, hoen-one sassafras
the
enough to give spring fever somewhere between bunon
the
traditional idea physical changes
u and it hasn't status the study medicine
King secretary of the Indiana state of health
IT'S just time that worthless
tnued Dr. King out
fish I can't blame
Nor Is maid
at her nifty limbs
the city health
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21

double breasted uniform coat, he
began his most serious work in
the famous ! ~rty scene of the
third act.
He described the dancing of the
Whoops sisters and the Yoo-
Hooers and then went into a
snake dance. He spread his hands
fanwise under his chin and
looked archly at the jury in
describing a song entitled, Off
Ger, Let Me Pat Your Horse"
There were other songs, he said,
that had nasty, double meanings.
In addressing the jury, defense
lawyer Burkan said he would
prove no act of indecency was
committed and that it was no
crime for a man to be effeminate
and have a falsetto voice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21

t ky a V e n u e
Wednesday night,
win be sent today
to homes in Ken
lucky and Geor-
gia, for burial.
The body Of
Ponpeii Loftin
Garnto, %, Rush
vile, Ga, is to be
sent TO WrightS-
vile, Ga, and
that of Oscar Guy
T h o m pson, to
Horse Cave, KY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21

Refusing information unless given
a reward, man twice has tele-
phoned by long distance during the
last week offering to tell Mrs. Allen
Nicholson Of Plainfield, the where
abouts of her husband. who disap-
peared from home Nov. 20, 1929.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21
JEER SPRING FEVER
Ther1gS No Such Disease, Say Docs
BY ARCH STEINEL

N recognition from the medical
- Indianapolis Texas Cunan night club hostess would
a religious meeting in song
of "dog-dayS" and dodrumS.
recognize symptom disease microbe
it, retorted William supeTintend-
ent of city hospital
sticking thermometer inquiry into the mouths of its annual
gets
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21

naIlOQ as SCaCe
representative h a S
been announced by
Verne G. Chap
man, SO, of 3443
School street, at
torney with offices
in the New City
Trust building.
Chapman, n o W
engaged in gen.
eral law practice,
for two and one
half years was in
charges of the legal
department of Hol-
C ON b & H o K e
M a n u f a curing
COnO9OV a OOSi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21
Suit Asks $4,000

BIZ Tuner SDectnI
GREENCASTLE, Ind, March 81.
Damages of $4,000 are sought by
Guy Jackson in a suit filed in Put
nam circuit court against Andrew
Hirt, alleging Misrepresentation by
the defendant in influencing invest
ment in Mississippi real estate,
which it is claimed resulted in
losses to the plaintiff.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21
DEMANDS REWARD
FOR MISSING MAN

The man, telephoning from pay
station phones in Chicago, informed
Mrs. Nicholson he had played cards
with her husband in Texas.
Nicholson. automobile dealer at
Plainfield. left home without the
reason being known to his family.
The car he drove was found In an
indianapolis garage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21
Executives Visit Plant

BIZ Times Special
MUNCIE. Ind, March 21.-Forty
executives Of the Graybar Electric
Company conferred with officials of
the Indiana Steel and Wire Com
pany of Muncie. which supplies the
Graybar organization with wire.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21
Just Bored

Bp United Press
SEATTLE, Wash, March 81.
If your guests stay too long
and bore you-just draw a re-
volver and fire few shots.
That's the way Don Moore,
50, got rid of his. Moore had
enough, but his friends re-
manned. His patience waning,
he fired six shot out the win
dows Of his apartment. The
visitors rushed out in disorder
and police rushed in a few
minutes later.
"Just fired a few shots TO
scare them home" Moore ex-
planned. He will continue his
Glory in municipal court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21

Bp United Press
FIT. RILEY, Kan, March 21-
Facts in connection with the death
of Mrs. Zenana Shepard, wife Of
Major Charles A. Shepard, United
States army surgeon, will be pre-
sented before a federal grand jury
in Topeka next month, it was
learned today.
An investigation of the death has
been conducted secretly by depart
ment of justice operatives, it was
said here, and much evidence alleg-
eddy pointing to death by poisoning,
is understood TO have been assem-
bled.
Miss Grace Brandon, g, stenog-
rapher at Brook field, San Antonio,
is expected to be summoned as the
governments star witness in the
hearing. Major Shepard told Colo
RADIO authorities he became engaged
to the girl after the death of his
wife.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21

ton he retains. He was delegate
from the First precinct of the First
ward to the 1928 Republican state
convention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
DENVER, March 81. - Major
Charles A. Shepard, held here on a
federal charge of numbering his
wife, will fight any attempt to re-
move him to Kansas for trial, Harry
S. Class, attorney for the 59-year-
old army surgeon, announced today.
The attorney indicated he believed
Major Shepard could prove that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21
BUILD MODEL HOME
Exhibit for Realtors Exposition Is
Near Completion.

The home that will form the
centerpiece of the ninth annual
Realtors Home Complete EXPOSE
ton, state Playground. April to
u. is nearing completion, according
to Walter STAGE, builder.
The framework is in place, dining
and living room walls paneled, and
placing of sandstone blocks on the
outside walls nearly finished, he
said,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21
SEND BODIES TO HOMES
Prepare for Burials Of Victims of
Tragic Auto Accident.

Bodies of two victims of an auto
accident at Eagle Creek and Ken
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21
STATE OFFICE is ASKED
Verne G. Chapman Announces for
State Representative.

Candidacy for Republican nomi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21

ANDERSON, Ind, March 81. -
The board of works has authorized
purchase of a car load of Kentucky
Rock asphalt to be used in repair
ing paved streets. The work will
be under supervision of William
Helton, street commissioner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
MOI So Deaf and Dumb.

a ND that was that. felt so sorry for Tho
Klo that agreed to go along and wait for
MN while he pulled down his air castle. and tn
CUNT nome WIN MIN. He said he'd need son,e
one to talk to. Boy, he was feeling low.
1t was a wonderful night that night The
moon was big and round, and II was most os
ngnt as day. took myself for a stroll ACROSS
the campus in Union City, while Pete went e,1t
to see Mary.
Wen, this thing had got to me so that the
nrst thing knew was sitting on bench With
my head in my hands. hate to see a sood
guy get tough break.
AS sat there I saw a co,,nle conoinO oo-o.
the campus in the moonlight. walking ~Iov1
and close together, and Trecognized who IL uas
just in time to duck behind a tree and let them
pass. 1t would never do for Mary Brown to see
me just then. " Wv
bench where I had been sitting. And there
was behind the tree
Ihat Is my allbi for being there so near them
And the man never lived who could saw Spiko
CROSBY tuned In on something that wasn't his
party. ''o
I peeped around the tree to see - tho,
showed any signs of moving on. And +nars
was Pete his face showing white in the moon
light, talking to her with his fingers
couldn't tell what he was saying. of course
put olont need rule book to tell me he was
making clean breast of everything To ever
a mans fingers wept as they moved Pete,s dtd
that night ~
couldn't bear to stand there seeing 1t all.
SO I ducked my head back behind the trae
again And waited. And waited. And thc1
something happened that can hardly believe
even now.
! heard voice. It was a voice that .vsr,
an old bunny like me would like To hear ~, !.
moonlight night in June.
Oh Petel" cried the voice so joyfully and
yet SO fun OF tears that even my case-hardened
heart began emoting at an illegal rate of speed
ooh, Pete. you blessed. silly angel, You've
changed one whole tonight. For even as much
as ADORE you. don't believe I could have
gone on pretending like that foreverI"
xen' some guys get all the breaks.
Copyright, 1920
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silence is golden they wouldn't have lsed
many oral words even If they had been normal
And they weren't. They were getting worse
every minute.
There wasn't anything could do about it at
al. ! couldn't understand love like that. I
thought OF suggesting to Pete that he buv a
picture of pretty girl and put it over his desk
since ne preferred silent beauty, but remem-
oered In time that even speeches. lips can
osculate. No, he was bound to play the strong
silent man IN movie which belonged in the
age before talkies came, and all I could do was
SIT by and hope for the best
Pete had liked other girls, of course Rut
ne had wearied of them all sooner or later
Maybe that would happen this time But he
mad grown tired of most Of the ladies because
they talked too much. They got on his nerves.
They said 1t with words until he decided to
keep out OF earshot Luck and love were
against me. Mary's voice was music in his ears
because he couldn't hear it,
And then one day he said something that mt
me wise to the fact he had been hit by the
same bunch. Only, Of course he was thinking
OF 1t from her side of the deal.
Spike" said he one night, you're lots older
than am and you knows lots more On the
level what do you think of this step I'm tax
ing?"
I stalled more than grOggy wrestler
told MIN 1t looked o. K. to me and that Mary
Brown was WOW, even If she didn't talk
L know that" he interrupted. But how
about her? Am shooting square with her?
What II she finds it out some day?"
Wen" I said, maybe she wouldn't mind so
much. Who can tel?"
II can" said Pete. "It would ruin her life.
what would she think of double crosSer who
mad married her under false pretenses as i'm
portant as the ones I'm pulling?"
He was right, of course. And then he said
something that shows you what a right guy this
Pete Hamilton is.
I'm going down to Union City tonight" he
said, and come clean with her. It's going to
hurt lot for it means curtains for me- But
it's the only square thing to do"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05

THE longer I lived in Barbary the less could
understood why we weren't all three laid
away thought was at the time but I woke
up. Maynard was over me. -Four Zouaves of
the patrol were over Old Perez across the way.
I got up. felt me over. Nothing was gone.
Maynard said: THANK GodI That leaves
only one"
who? What?"
I'm afraid the old mans got it."
I went over and looked down between the
soldiers. One look was enough He'd got n
knife in the wrong place and come to the end
of his cruise.
Not quite enough, though His eyes opened.
I got on knee and put my ear down. He
wasn't talking too loud.
That's my son. My boy. My names Diplo,
too. Him goin' to Ell but ell make a name
o that. Honly you got to find i'm. Pass him
hoath. mate. Find i'm and get i'm clear O.
ere. hoath, mate"
Perce's eyes closed again. The soldiers took
him up, but he was dead.
Maynard" said I, where's the monkey
gomez"
How should know? Scared cross-eyed over
the housetops, probably. That's not the ques-
ton, Gore. The question is: where's the man?"
Every minute of that time was an hour
There's something; If could only thinkI'
I remembered Maynard saying over and over:
MY God, If could only think?"
That night slept. The trouble was that
Maynard didn't. He had me out at In the
dark Of my hotel.
"Liston, Gore; what was it the old man said?
Was 1t Bah Kebir'? It's worth chance Get
into your things"
He took me out in the dark and cold. He
walked me miles around that wall, and he
walked me fast. It was almost dawn when we
came to the Bah Kebir, and that was the first
I knew that Bah was Gate,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05

eAAAnLlI1S conscience OF the street where he
was born" had carried him even to that length
OF honoring publicly in death the filthy old,
tipsy old reprobate he hadn't been willing to
confess his father, alive.
A BOUT a week after Dplo left for home I
was out for stroll with Bird, my chief
q was glad afterward it wasn't Maynard that
day., and we were rust coming out of the old
town through the Bah Kebir land was feeling
KIND OF funny to see the place again in the
light OF day) when Bird called my attention
to wrinkled old henna haired witch of q
woman squatted under the nearest palm.
Want to buy monkey, Gore?" he asked
me.
The dame had US in eye, straight off, She
fingered US to come, grinning and jabberipIu
and kicking her merchandise out into its ID .,
light at the end Of its half-a-line tether The
merchandise was Happy Days.
stopped. Who wouldn't? Bird took my
arm.
Good Lord man, you don't want that thing
was only joking"
II know" said I. told him didn't want.
the ape, buC that did have curiosity to know
how the woman had come by it. Bird nut il
to her in dialect. It was like opening up a dam
In Spring. It seemed to me, waiting patiently.
as she were trying to tell the story of her
life against the clock, scowling and grinnin1
and making devil of fuss all told When
shed begun to run down little Bird shifted
to me with grin of his own
You wanted to know about that monk
Wen. that monk is romantic and historic
monk-a sort of a bread-cast-on- the waters
monk, you must understand. It seems that a
good many years blackwell, let's see; she calls
1t the starving year. and that was a while
ago-in the Starving year. it seems this same
woman, sitting under this same tree here dis
posed OF this same creature for five gold duero
TO rolling roumi sailor man. She sold IT, I
gather, in job lot, along with one painted
mute, one stalk of Gafsa dates, and one male
offspring of her sister Aisha hint Bkhsr-a
three -year-old kid called Abdallah, with "yel-
low" hair. Now. it seems, very recently, the
monks come back to find her. And now she's
waiting patiently for Abdullah to show nm a
Hows that for romance, offhand? Y3
wanted it. Gore. I should think you'd owe the
old lady about one sou. Eh?"
l gave her the sou and we went along. and
that's the tale, and If it gives you an answer
to your question, you're welcome to it.
seemed as though the tinsmith had the
word
After all. didn't realize" said he "iust how
right was. How about heredity now, doctorp"
Ihe doctor didn't answer. After moment
the consul did
"Heredity?" he unused. "Yes-yes-" He
put up finger and thumb and opened them
apart IKE man releasing feather of thistle
down IN the wind. "Yes, heredity about so
much About so long-out of life This
man I've called Diplo was torpedoed off the
Galway coast on New Year Seventeen. and
went down praying God to save the King.
Copyright Isso)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05

YES, SAID 1, mere we are. Now WHAT"
He let CO. I don't know what with all his
thinking" he had expected to find, but what
ever his fixed idea was, it let him down now
with a thud.
There was kahwaji there outside the wall;
we sat down on a bench in front called for
coffee, and put our heads in our hands.
WELL, suppose this story would never have
been told if I'd kept my head there: that
is, If hadn't peeked. Idly, you know between
my fingers. Then sat up. I think my hair
actually did stand on end
On my right stood the city wall and the
gate the vast gate" filled with shadow. Be-
fore me. before the gate, spread square all
powdered with white dust. Across the square
a row OF palm trees ran to pick up a road
that lay away straight ruler to the worlds
end-a painted road across a painted plain
that broke into naked, wrinkled hills against
the farthest sky There it stood between
my fingers, colored to the life in three dimen-
Sions, the stage scene of Abel Diplo's dream.
Even to the camels
Yes, 1t was all there, gentlemen: even to a
burnous-hundled Arab snoring In the dust
under the tree where Diplo had "'lusted" Gre
memberO to creep and lie and 'cripkle his
toes"
whats wrong?" Maynard logged nv elbow.
Here's the coffee come. Here! What are you
staring at?"
was staring at that burnous under the
tree. And before knew It, there it was on its
legs, shaking out its folds and starting of at
clock-work, sleep-walk jog along that desert
road, painted for certain now in the red of
dawn. And what its folds had shaken out was
following at hop and skip in the dust-a
little monkey as black as sin.
Well, followed, too: it wasn't sleep-walking.
either, it was sprint. Happy Days was the
nrst to know. I must have put foot on his
tai; Maynard told me afterward that the little
demon let out yell, looped four loops, and
Went up tree. didn't know. I'd got INV
nand on that purple burnous by that and
wrapped three times around for luck.
Dlpio! said I. Just like that
he TUNED and he gave me a look. For one
wild wink I'd thought I'd been fooled. The
fellow had knife slash down one temple and
cheek.
II I'd looked for trouble was mistaken He
stared at me minute, clapped his eyes shut.
opened them up again, gave a shiver, and
Gore!' he said, and that as ALL Great round
tears squeezed under his lids Next thing I
knew his face was down on my shoulder and
there he was, crying like the infant babe.
Maynard" said I, get hack"
Ihats the story, gentlemen. The thing was
done and it was finished. Chopped off / saw
MIN three days later on board his shin. the
same straight British merchant captain that
mad brought her out of the Mersey and would
take her back again, not a mark for remem-
prance on him but that one knife cut, and ON
his sleeve ribbon of crepe
Yes, he'd done that The ingrained row.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
|g| By Wilbur Daniel Steele

Granting conscience of "the street where he
was born" had carried him even to that length
OF honoring publicly in death the filthy old,
tipsy old reprobate he hadn't been willing to
confess his father, alive.
The Washington times., 1930-03-04
BENEFIT FOR LIBRARY

CLARENDON, Va, March A.
"a card party will be held Thurs
day afternoon at 1870 o'clock at
the home of Mrs. Mary Lockwood,
Hayes Street, Clarendon, for the
benefit of the Arlington District
Public Library.