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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-29
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80 81 M 1870 ne Ehgl7usbo1d HuI7les..efl.

Tommy had enlightened them
somewhat.
It was plain that she had wanted
to stop him from running away
with her sister, and now she was
going to let him do it.
Pigny especially was downcast.
He liked Tommy, but Irene was
anathema to him. Ever stree she
had intercepted and read, with
much public glee, one of his love
notes to Agnes, of their neighbor-
hood, he had hated the ground she
walked on"
Beryl's voice cheered them a bit,
however, when they neared her
home and she said briskly: We'll,
here we are, men. Bring forth the
captive and escort him to yon fair
damsel, who waits with trembling
heart and suitcase packed (some Of
my things, too)."
The car came to a noisy stop. 81
guess she wouldn't talk like that If
all was lost" one of the band whis-
pered to another, as they hauled
Tommy out and gave him a push
that sent him stumbling across the
sidewalk.
Gently, gently" cautioned Beryl.
"Wouldst damage the bridegroom
and send him frowsy to his doom?"
The boys desisted from further
violence upon the person OF the
belated bridegroom and turned to
Beryl. "Is that ALP" they chorused.
That's all, my lads. Your re-
ward will be forthcoming on the
morrow. Picnic rations for all hands
round and the end of the island If
old Wind in the Face can make it.
Bathing suits and iodine. And sound
the tocsin at daybreak. Away with
you now. Early to bed, or we won't
get back tomorrow night"
They scampered off, calling back
goodnight. Beryl watched them go
with look of pride. Noble little
rascals-her gang. 1t was not their
fault if she had failed. But had
she?
She did not drive on at once to
the ramshackle garage the boys
had built for her in the back yard
"a garage just big enough for the
old car to hop into. She sat, In
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seemed to have your heart set on It..
And now, just because you've be-
come infatuated with a pretty face,
you're ready to give it up"
1T sounds dastardly, doesn't it?"
Tommy Knocked; but don't take
it SO hard, fair lady. It's my fu-
neral. However. you can wait a
while to hold the wake The pretty
face may have more behind it than
you think, and the old aunt may
turn out to have a heart Of gold"
And you've turned out to be a
bigger sap than I thought you, y
Beryl snapped back at him.
Thanks" Tommy said tartly.
n
CHE bit her lip, thought mo-
~ ment., then looked worriedly
at the wrist watch her gang had
presented to her the Christmas be-
fore. 1t was big and clumsy, but
it was dear TO her heart, and it
kept fairly accurate time-if she
"set it two days ahead as she had
once told Tommy.
well, kids" she said, Il guess
we'd better take him back and let
him keep his rendezvous"
Gee no, Miss Beryl," the boy
called Pigmy protested. Lets take
it away from him. I want one of
those things for my dog Shocks"
You guessed it," Berry, informed
him. tits g, chain all right, only
in this case there's a ball attached
to it. And it's sure going to give
you a pain in the leg, Tommy boy" "
she added to their captive.
well, it's my :"
eyes, 1 know; it's your leg and
it's your funeral. And we're going
to take you to it. I'm thoroughly
disguised with you ="
Requested, you mean, Miss Berry" "
Thanks Mike, that's right
requested. Hang on everybody. Over
she goeS!"
With a chatter and bang Beryl
turned the old car about much as
she would the old boat she had
traded for it.
THE night air is bad for our
Watersprite," she remarked as the
car wheezed and suffered when she
gave it gas for first speed.
"Whatdyu call it that for?" one of
the youngsters wanted to know.
Because it's not boat, honey,
Beryl answered sweetly. Nov do
you understand"
yep" he said. That's why I call
my dog Rover; he never stays
home"
That's right, Buddy" Tommy en-
couraged. Don't you let her make
fool out of you"
Jaw, you shut up. You don't
count-you're going to get married
and my Dad says that's the end of
man."
All, little group OF Sophisticates, "
Tommy murmured awefully.
your father didn't mean that,
Angie" Beryl said gently. "He loves
to joke. Everyone knows it's fine to
marry the right person. And your
mother is awfully sweet"
yep, I guess she is" Angie ad-
mitted. "She likes you too, Miss
Beryl. I heard her say that if it
wasn't for you your family =. :"
Perhaps you heard her say that
in confidence" Beryl hastily in
terrupted. "I don't think I'd repeat
it, Angie"
1t would be just like Tommy, she
thought, to imagine she had coached
Angie.
"Oh, all right" Angie subsidized.
DERYL fell silent, and so did
OTommy. The children, too, were
quieter than usual, depressed by a
sense of failure. Their leader had
not told them what this kidnapping
was for, but her conversation with
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gan in a beggar's whine, but Beryl
stopped him.
You're like a brother TO me.
Tommy" she declared and though
she said it firmly somehow her
voice did not ring quite true. not. at
least, to her own ears. She hoped
that Tommy did not notice. Any
thing but having him think she was
acting through jealousy.
We've grown up together" she
went on hurriedly: I'VE played
robber and Indian and you let me
keep the tooth we pulled out with
the barn door. Remember? Irene
wouldn't touch it, and she cried
when your mouth got full Of blood"
"She was always more refined
than you," Tommy said brutally.
You see; you talk to me just like
a brother" Beryl said good-natured-
ly, but inwardly she WINGED. THAT
gives me the right to talk to you like
a sister. But all want to say is
just this: Won't you wait until
you're through college before you
get married."
"Oh, sister, sister, you're breaking
my heart" Tommy exclaimed with
mock sorrow. Then he became seri-
Gus, "but I'll break your neck if you
don't let me out of this"
mo you won't, mister" came in
unison from all of Beryls gang:
mot while we're here"
You little devils" Tommy NUT
tered.
mo swearing in a lady's pres
ence," he was warned
DERYL turned and looked at him.
ID We'll" she said, do you
promise?"
Don't be ridiculous!" Tommy re-
piled.
"Then 1 can't take you back, p"
Beryl told him. And I hate to
keep these kids up. Every one of
them slipped out of bed to help me
on this job. Really, Tommy, haven't
you any sense?" Her voice was i'm
patient now.
This means everything to you.
Can't you see? Irene has her own
way with every one. She's made
mother think it's all right for you
to deceive your aunt-it was easier
than stealing out as you were doing.
"She could get the right things
packed, you know. And think
she took some of mine, too" Beryl
added with what to Tommy was
uncalledfor warmth.
IF she's so good at handling peo-
pie maybe she can get the old run
away blessing from Aunt En-" he
suggested.
do you really want to go back
to managing the theater?" Beryl
countered. you know Mr.. Hoff-
man doesn't care what becomes of
you eventually. All he wants is to
have your best years, then, when his
old building falls down, he'll retire
and you can go job hunting-with
no profession, and no training"
Il could always manage q theater,
if I'm so good at it."
Eyes, but you'd always be working
for some one else. Irene never
would help you save enough to buy
theater of your own"
Il guess my aunt will leave me
some money some day"
That's what you think, and Irene
would think it, and she'd tell you it
wasn't necessary to save any money.
And then maybe your aunt wouldn't
leave you any money. A maybe's a
maybe, you know.
Besides, Tommy, haven't you any
pride? Don't you want to go on at
college, now that you've had two
years? If you had to quit it would
be different, but you planned it for
years. You used to talk about it a
lot when you were in high. You
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
VIRGINIA VETERANS
BORROW 100000
Richmond Office Reports Huge
Sum Paid Out on War
Bonuses.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va. August 22.-world
War veterans In virginia, exclusive OF
those in the counties adjacent to Wash
ington, have borrowed s9,594,64 80
under the amended, adjusted compen-
sation act, Veteran Administration re-
ports reveal.
The loans. all through the Richmond
regional office, were made TO 26.z53
veterans.
OF the Sc regional ofIlces handling
adjusted compensation loans, the Rich
mond ONCE ranked twenty eighth in
total loans. while 1t was twenty-ninth
In the number Of veterans receiving
loans.
The Richmond Office paid out more
money than Offices in such cities as
Baltimore. Denver, Des Moines, Hart
ford, Louisville and Providence
The washington ONCE, which Is han
ding a number of Virginia counties In
the northern part Of the State, led
the entire country. handling loans for
425,929 veterans for a total of $685.
O83, 20S.46. The New York office. which
paid out So, 069, 7i7.14 to 159,4o5, was
the Capitals closest rival.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
CATALAN CHURC CHI PROVISIONS
INTERPRETED BY PRESIDENT
Macia Declares for Liberty of Conscience
and Separation of Church and State.
Seen as Freedom Haven.

generalitat binds itself to guarantee
to all citizens Of Catalonia liberty of
creed and conscience" This clause was
placed there at the personal insistence
of President Macia, himself a devout
Catholic. BY that act he killed off or
ganized church opposition to his pro-
gram.
Recently the Catholic Defense party
presented Macia with a petition con-
tanning % 900 names Of persons de-
manding religious guarantees. They
had an interview with Macia and as
a result made a report to Cardinal
Segllra. SPANS exiled primate. The
later talked to the Pope and then sent
word here that the Pope had accorded
a special benediction "to the popular
Catalan movement in defense OF true
religious liberty
While this does not mention Catalan
autonomy specifically, it is interpreted
as the Pope's expression Of satisfaction
with the new attitude of the Catalan
autononists.
tCopyrisht. 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
TAXI GRAFT Barred
/. IN GOTHAM PROBE
Drivers Forced to Bride
Police for Licenses, Wit
neSSeS Tell.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASbOClhbeQ FTesb.
NEW YORK, August 22.-Charges
that taxi drivers were compelled to pay
SIS and $40 brides to police inspectors of
the Public Hack Bureau TO keep their
licenses were under investigation today
by the Hofstadter Legislative Commit
tee.
The committee was told meters which
overcharged the passengers were over
looked and cabs unfit for use were al
lowed on the streets in return Tor the
tribute.
Vast Sum Dispensed.
Irving Cooper, one of the committees
LAWYERS, said he had received COM
plants that a vast sum had been dis
pensed in the form of graft to police
having Jurisdiction over taxi stands.
Among the first questioned was Frank
Putnam general manager of the Anal
gamated Taxi Association, which has a
membership of 500. Its books showed
annual expenditures of $4,000, the
Withdrawals ranging from $500 to
$4,000.
The checks were made out to cash. +"
The committee will attempt 10 learn
next week where this money went.
Upstate Probe Planned.
Tammany members of the Legislature
were reported to be preparing Dill
providing for an investigation into al
legged corruption in upstate Repub-
lican sections.
Gov. Roosevelt has not yet indicated
his attitude toward the inquiry. Po-
litical observers expect his decision VIII
decide in large measure the future re-
lations between him and the New York
City organization and thus have AT ef-
feet on his strength as a possible preSi-
dental candidate.
WALKER GIVEN DOGS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
.FUJ|MURA ACCOUNT
SLUMP EXPLAINED
Miss Won Reissner Tells of
LuxurieS Enjoyed at His
Expense.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. August 22-From Miss
Mary Won Reissner, the show girl who
accompanied Hisashi Fujimura Jap
anese importer, on the trip to Halifax
from which he failed to return, Federal
officials obtained tonight an explanation
of some of the items which took more
than $685. 900 from his checking ac-
count in less than six months.
They did not reveal the details, but
said Miss Won ReisSner had given them
leads which may help us to check up
on this matter"
From March l. about the time Miss
Won Reissner told authorities she met
the importer, until August g.. when they
left on the Belgenland, Federal ac-
countantS found that Fujimura's per-
sonal checking account shrank from
$4,000 to $2.65, although during the
period he made deposits of $685., $50.
Assistant United States attorneys
who examined the books said a 500
deposit was made after Fujimura left
determined who made the deposit.
Enjoyed Every Luxury.
In those six months. Miss Won
Reissner gave the Federal authorities
who questioned her to understand that
she enjoyed every luxury. The importer
gave her establishments both in the city
and out of town, expensive jewelry, furs
and at least one automobile.
On the six-dey cruise to Halifax dur
ing which she travelled ostensibly as
governess for Fujimura's 7-year-old
daughter, Miss Won Reissner said he
carried little cash, but had number of
travellers checks.
The authorities who questioned her
for eight hours today attempted to
check up on numerous leads obtained
yesterday in an investigation of the
Belgenland and its crew. They learned
that the man with whom Miss Won
Reissner was seen in Halifax depart
msnt store was Joseph Keden, the
vessels pianist, who accompanied heI
to the store and back to the ship be-
cause she told him she needed some one
to show her the way.
f. Keden will be questioned since mem
bers of the Belgenland crew have given
testimony which indicated Fujimura
might have been jealous of another
mans attentions TO his companion.
Two Women Subpoenaed.
Miss Won Reissner and another
woman, whose identity Hubbard re-
fused to disclose. have been subpoenaec
Federal grand jury.
While efforts are being made TO find
three card sharps who joined the ship
at Halifax, city detectives doubted they
were concerned in the case.
The district attorney intends TO in
vestigate a runnor that Simon Feinstein
one of Miss Won Reissner's attorneys
was threatened with violence unless he
withdrew from the case.
Accountants on Monday will begin q
study Of Fujimura's business accounts
with various banks.
Miss Won Reissner Is going TO the
hospital, her attorney announced. The
nature Of her illness was not revealed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
OIL PRICE NEARING
MURRAY'S 81 GOAL
Market for High : Gravity
Crude Advances to 10
Cents Per Barrel.
Nv the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
TULSA. Okla, s.S-Ast 22.-Mid-
continent crude oil made tnSsa progress
today over the trail toward a Sl-a-
barrel price, the demand of Gov. w. H.
Murray of Oklahoma.
With the cheapened liquid restored
10 a more precious state by shutdown
of Oklahoma and East Texas gushers,
the midcontinent market advanced to
10 cents barrel for high-gravity oil
as the larger purchasing companies
fell into step with the price schedule
posted yesterday by the Texas Co., the
largest Of the independents"
Prices Up 80 Cents.
The new prices, beginning at 46
cents a barrel for below 20 gravity oil
and increasing 2 cents for each degree
of gravity, with the top at 10 cents for
oil of 40 gravity and above, represent
an increase of from IA to 80 cents
barrel.
Oil men said the higher prices would
be boon TO scores OF "strlpper' wells,
so-called because their average produc-
ton has ebbed to only few barrels
daily. Oklahoma wells with a daily
output of IS barrels or less were ex-
Guided from Gov. Murray's martial-law
shutdown under which flush fields were
gtilled nearly three weeks ago.
It appeared the higher prices would
bring no loosening Of the Oklahoma
East Texas lid, which the oil industry's
Statisticians say Is keeping nearly
1000 600 barrels daily of the market,
Gov. Murray stood by his shutdown
order, declaring nothing less than a
general 81 price would open his States
flush wells to production.
Gov. Ross S. Sterling Of Texas de-
clared troops would keep the East Texas
area closed down until wasteful produce
ton and an "insurrection" against the
states conservation laws could be end
ed. East Texas has been of production
since last Monday.
Magnolia Offer Low.
In the price-posting procession today
one major company the Magnolia
Petroleum Co, a subsidiary of the
Standard OH Co. of New York, failed
TO equal by cents barrel the offers
Of the ether companies. The Magnolia
company's new schedule carries top
price of 90 cents and includes East
Texas.
The higher crude oil prices were not
reflected Immediately in the midconti-
nent gasoline market, but oil men said
gasoline prices probably would show
further strength next week.
Refiners who are still giving spot
prices on the United States motor grade
of gasoline quoted it today at S to 5Lz
cents q gallon In tank car lots, I. o. b.
plants, unchanged from yesterday. Sew
eraI refners. pressed for crude supplies,
have withdrawn spot quotations entirely.
KANSAS CLOSES WELLS.
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denominations.1
By LAURENCE A. FERNSWORTH
BY Gable to The Star.
BARCELONA. August 22.-Contradic-
tory interpretations having been current
as to the extent of liberty in religious
worship guaranteed In the Catslonian
constitutional project now before the
National Cortes. Col. Francisco Macia,
president of Catalonia, today gave this
Of the proposed provisions.
"I believe in complete liberty Of con-
science and religious practice" he de-
clared. -sAbcye all, ! believe in COM
plste separation Of civil power and reli-
gious authority. It is the right Of every
citizen to adhere to any religious
creed Of his own, II he likes, and every
system Of religion should have the full
est liberty.
Churches May Have Schools.
Il believe. moreover, that the educa-
tional system should belong to the state
and be uninfuenced by religious teach
ings. This is exclusively the business
Of parents or church authorities, and
religion has no place in any system
supported by the state I dent mean
by that, Of course, that religious groups
should not be permitted TO have their
own schools under proper restrictions
or that parents should not be permitted
TO send children to those schools If they
50 choose"
Regarding the right Of religious
orders TO remain in Spain. President
Macia said that he preferred to say
nothing" 1t Is understood that al
though he personally regards the reli-
gious orders favcrably, he has taken q
neutral stand. largely at the insistence
Of those members Of his party who are
hostile to the Jesuits, and the final de-
cision viii remain with the National
Cortes.
A paradoxica1 feature Of the stu
alton is that the benediction OF the
Pope Is considered 70 have been given
by implication TO Catalonia's autonomy
program, which was ratified by the
voters. Moreover Catalonia, which but
a few weeks ago was the field of q
political battle in which one OF the
chief issues was clericalism and the
expulsion Of religious orders-an Issue
in which the church apparently was
beaten badly-today promises 10 be-
IOAaAC ORAAAA y 4AhfElk "a AEl&kAOHG
This applies both TO the Church OF
Rome and TO other denominations.
Struggle Compromised.
This has been brought about by the
fact That the church elements have
agreed 10 accept Catalonia's new defini-
ton Of religious liberty, while certain
leaders Of President Macia's party, at
his behest, have agreed to forget their
hostility TO religion. The new defini-
ton Of religious liberty accepted here
| q definition which is revolutionary in
] Spain, where the church under the
monarchy had always been part Of the
states that ell denominations shall
have the right to exist without pref
erence or hindrance and without officiaI
recognition on the part Of the govern
ment for any.
A clause in the Catalan autonomy
project reads: THE government of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
WALKER GIVEN DOGS.
Admirers in Europe Present Mayor
With Canine Royalty.

Admirers in Europe Present Mayor
With Canine Royalty.
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, August %
GE).-If his visit to CzechoSlovakia Is
an indication of what is to follow,
Mayor James j. Walker Is likely to re-
turn to New York with q kennel of
purebred dogs of various descriptions.
AS the mayor left Prague today in a
special car for Budapest one enthusi-
astic Czech citizen presented him with
a pedigreed wire-haired fox terrier. At
Carlsbad he was given rare specimen
Of the Japanese Chin breed.
A delegation of actors met the mayor
at the station here and presented him
with a bronze plaque in appreciation
of his interest in things theatrical.
In the morning, before large crowd
at the City Hall, he said God must
have loved Czechoslovakians because he
made so many of them"
The mayor cited Mayor Anton Ger
max Of Chicago rs typical of Americans
born in Czechoslovakia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
RUSSIAN BRAKE BLAMED
FOR 80 WRECK DEATHS
American Students In Turkey Tell
Of Scene In Dalmatia When
Fire Consumed Cars.

ISTANBUL, Turkey. August ~ (H1.--
"A train crash which occurred ut Melita,
Dalrnatia, August II, and resulted IN
the death of 80 parsons, was stated to
be due to the use 81 new Russian
brake on the locomotive, in reports
which reached here today
A group Of American students who
came from Russia and brought details
Of the railway disaster, said an oil train
carrying two passenger cars Jumped the
rails. and the coaches telescoped and
caught FIRE, making funeral pyre which
could be seen for miles. The bodies, they
said, were burned beyond recognition,
and train service was delayed nearly a
week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
CARS DEBTS BARRED,
SOVIET TELLS FRANCE
Answers Paris Suggestion in Re
gard to Proposed Trade Agree
ment by Reiterating Policy.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. August 22.-The news
paper IZvestia today reiterated in an
editorial the Soviet government policy
that debts contracted by the czarist
regime can have no bearing on trade
negotiations conducted by the Soviet
state.
Commenting on a suggestion by lie
Temps, the Paris newspaper, that cur
rent negotiations for trade agree
ment between France and Russia can
not be concluded without settlement Of
the czarist debts. Izvestia asserts that
if France wants to find Russian mar
ket for her goods she will have to pro-
vide favorable credit conditions. Cred
its on new orders, the editorial asserts.
the Cars
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
KANSAS CLOSES WELLS.
yoins Texas and Oklahoma Seeking
81 Price.

TOPEKA, August "a [P-Kansas
has Joined Oklahoma and Texas in an
effort to force the price of midconti-
nent crude oil up TO q 81 minimum
through State enforced curtailment OF
production.
The DEVELOPMENT occurred when the
Kansas Public Service Commission or
dered a 100 per cent shutdown of pro-
duction in the Ritz-Canton pool in
Mcpherson County The pools present
output was estimated at around 10000
barrels daily.
Gov. Harry H WoodFing Of Kansas
said the shutdown order came "at the
instance Of independent oil interests
and because OF the threat OF opening
up the field further
Many Kansas producers voluntarily
have shut down their wells.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
Dock lowed Is. 500 Miles.

On the longest towing voyage on rec
ord, floating dock of 1900 tons lifting
capacity is on its way from the builders
in Wallsend, England, to Wellington,
New Zealand. The tow of 1880 miles
will last seven months. Two powerful
tugs are employed and the crew is
living on the dock during the voyage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
Bow Bells Ring From Record.

For the first time in five years the
tones of the famous Bow Bells were
heard when a monograph record Of the
chimes was played in Cheapside, Eng
land The reproduction was on the
porch Of the Church Of St. Mary-le-Bow
to call attention to the need of SIS, 900
to repair the edihce,