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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-12
THREE I l KIE y[yAz>}z E .4z[z%yE 3
D0en and Co

l have my algebra, which. decided,
meant, The family is in here, and
can't say word"
NHARY-FRANCES' share Of the
WI conversation, after that. was
made up largely of breathless mega
tory exclamations, prehxed and
suff1xed unfailingly with her
friends name.
No, Ermintrudei" "Ermintrude,
no." Really, Ermintrudel" "Oh,
Ermintrude, not" With an occa-
sional plea for haste: Oh, hurry,
Ermintrude.
The family and their guest strove
to carry on. They tried talking
over, under, and around the high
silvery tones that Mary Frances
used exclusively for telephone COM
munications.
They were worsted in all attempts
--undertones were enveloped; raised
voices gave an impression of COM
monplace being shouted in footlesS
competition with the trilling en-
thusiasms from the east wall.
Presently they gave it up and
smiled, patiently, shamefacedly,
amusedly, absent-mindedly, accord
ing to each ones mood, and waited
in silence while Grand slowly
diminished the mound of shelled
nuts he had piled beside his plate.
Since they had to wait there,
anyway, it was too bad that they
could not have heard Ermintrude'S
part in the dialogue.
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FRIENDLY FIVE GROUP
HOLDS FIRST SESSION
Women From All Parts Of State
Meet With Mrs. Leslie.


First meeting of the state COM
mittee to foster the Friendly Five"
movement originated by John H.
Hewitt, director of state unemploy-
ment relief, was held Friday at the
Governors mansion with Mrs. Harry
G. Leslie presiding.
Under the plan, citizens would
band in groups of five to aid the
needy. Those attending include:
Miss Blanche Merry. state attendance
officer; Mrs Mamie Canine, Terre Haute,
representing the Indiana Federation of
Clubs: Mrs Frank Doner, Greencastle;
Mrs. Frank Kimmel. Lafayette: Mrs. Ada
Frost. of the business and Professional
Women's Club of Union City: Mrs. Ruth
Mcconnell. of the Fowler auxiliary of the
American Legion; Mrs. Roscoe O'Byrne.
Brookyille. representing the D. A. r.; Mrs.
]. E. P Holland, Bloomington; Mrs G. D.
Root, Grown Point; Mrs Samuel Stout,
New Albany: Mrs. Harriet Toney. Ander-
son; Miss Matte Frye. Anderson; Miss
Edna E. Hatfield, executive secretary of
the Bloomington PIT. A.: Mrs. william
Hodges. Gary and the Misses Thelms
Fines, Logansport; Miss Alvina Held. and
Miss Halle Bortz. of Leesburg.
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CHAPTER FOUR
"VOU act as if it we're my fault, %
cafd Ann .rJ ,,,,-LnJ 49,. .

VOU act as if it we're my fault, -
i said Ann, and pushed some
more cans.
No, I don't" Cecily disputed.
That's the trouble here, though.
Everything is horrid and awful all
the time, and it never is anybody's
fault. I mean, it really isn't ever
anybody's fault. Well, I'll 90 and
tell him"
She would have TO make a Joke Of
IT. How should she begin? Fright
fully sorry No, that sounded
affected and too true. THE silliest
thing has happened" Having no
food in the house was not a sub
lect for jokes; it was wretched, and
humiliating. and humorous.
At least she could refuse his in
vltation to go somewhere and dine
with him. Possibly, probably he
wouldn't ask her. He'd have to ask
her
"Cecily." Ann was holding her
arm. Where are you going? What
90 you mean you are going to tell
him?"
Il must sayl That would be nice.
wouldn't it? What would he think
of us? The idea I've found some
minced dams-I thought we had a
can of them-and III make chow
der.
Well have a jelly omelet. there
are plenty Of eggs, and hot mullins.
For dessert we'll have nuts and
cheese-there's a lot Of that good
cheese that Mrs. Hill sent from her
brothers farmland I'll toast some
crackers.
IF there's nothing on the table
but chowder when we sit down
Grand will say short grace. That's
big advantage, and"
Cecily tossed back her head and
laughed and caught Ann in her
arms. Angel You're so good and
so funny, and you don't know it,
You're g peach. and a little holy
person, and blessing undisguised,
and"
Don't" said Ann. But then she
patted Cecily's cheek and said,
Silly-silly!" and smiled stoutly in
spite of the something aghast with
in her consciousness that was in
sisting over and over, "She does
care for him. She really cares for
him. She cares that much"
GRACE had been short to the
" point of abruptness. The
chowder had been fair and very
hot; the omelet a picture garniShed
with parsley and cooked carrot
rings; the salad a gay quip that
only Ann could have produced; and
the mullins were pulled yellow
paragons.
Rosalie, though she had girded
on all her cosmetics before she came
forth in the pink velvet blouse and
her second best old black skirt, had
been, perhaps, not too charming
Barry couldn't have been so defer
entail had he thought her merely a
silly old thing.
And Grand, up to the present
painful moment, had been cour-
teous and unqueStioning, Now. as
he cracked the walnuts-he had ex-
planned that they grew right here
on our own trees on our own estate,
and why the nuts, trees and estate
were superior to all other nuts, trees
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Painting and blowing the Gyor finally came
to bay. Then it was that the Horibs drew
their circle closer, whirling dizzily around the
gigantic creature. The ape-man, fascinated
watched the amazing scene, wondering how
they ever hoped to overcome that ten tons of
incarnate fury, wheeling this way and that.
But presently Horib darted in close to the
Gyor at such speed that the mount and the
rider were little more than blur.
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Prisoner Kills Self

81 Unjted Press
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. 12.-
Helen McCauley, 20, committed
suicide by choking herself with a
bedsheet in the Vigo county Jail
here. She was being held pending
a sanity hearing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-12
SLABS SILVER MOVE
SiIas Strawn Thinks Pittman's Plan
Economically Unsound."
En- United Press

81 tNlten PreS8
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 12.-The
plan of Senator Key Pittman of
Nevada to revive American export
trade by rehabilitating the silver
market was described as "econom-
ically unsound" today by Silas H.
Strawn, president of the United
States Chamber of Commerce.
America must retain the gold
standard" Strawn said. Il agree
with Senator Pittnan that an in
ternational silver conference is of
vital Importance just now, but I see
no hope for such a conference TAX
ing place so long as it is to the ad-
vantage of other nations to delay it."
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If the Horibs did not turn the beast the man
and girl were lost But the fifty unearthly
riders headed of the Gyor, though the charge
brought the fighting circle much nearer the
hidden watchers. AT last the Gyor slumped
groundward as the final lances proved too
much for even its mighty strength. Tarzan
was congratulating himself that good fortune
had kept Jana and himself from being dis
covered by these awful creatures when the
entire band wheeled and raced swiftly in his
direction.
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IT SEE. And your health? Has it
Il been reStOred9"

II SEE. And your health? Has it
4 been restored?"
Yes, sir, thank you. I'm feeling
fine, and the doctor here tells me
that it is merely matter now of
gaining few more pounds.
Staying out of doors, eating a
lot and sleeping a lot-mighty easy
course to follow.
Your parents live here, do they?"
Il live here with my uncle and
aunt Barry replied, without a mo-
ment's hesitation. and Cecily thrilled
to his cleverness. Smart. Posi-
bly, one couldn't trust A man as
clever as that, but trust might be
allowed to go by the board for
we'll, admiration, something of the
sort.
And Grand, sitting stern behind
his beard and thinking he had
been answered.
DO you plan a return to your
journalistic career?"
Dear heavens, would Grand never
stop it? Was Barry going to tell
him about the book that he was
writing? Barry had said that he
had told no one out here except
Cecily, and that had been gratifying.
Still, since he was brilliant and
wonderful and wise enough actually
to be writing a book, she did wish
he'd take Grand down a peg by
Boosting of it.
Barry answered, ''this northwest
country, with its mountains and
trees and mildness, gets hold of
person, don't you think so? After
a certain length of time out here,
it is hard to plan deliberately to
leave it."
Smart! Right there on the up
take every time. Grand grabbed
the bait like a good fellow.
MY boy, this northwest country.
as you say, is Gods own country.
used the expression with due
reverence, and I trust with due
/ humility. This northwest coun-
try"
The telephone bell rang. For no
dlscOverable reason except that it
had been installed there in the age
of inconvenience the telephone
hung high on the dining-room wall.
Mary-Frances jumped to its sum-
mons and stood on tiptoe and said.
Hello" in a high and wholly arti-
fetal voice, and followed it with,
oh, Ermintrude!" as if Ermintrude
had been abroad in far countries
for many years, and said next. YES.
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ITO Be Continued
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and estate-he had begun that in
ouisitiveness that he liked to as
sumo with young men.
You have been in the building
construction business for some time,
take it?"
No, sir" Barry was as pleasant
as could be. only for about six
months After I left the univer-
sity--"
May I ask what university, and
why you left?"
stanford. Id been graduated,
you see-time TO 60. I went east
and was there for two years in
newspaper work"
And what part of the east? And
what class of newspaper work did
you pursue?"
New York Cub reporting, and
some magazine work on the side"
"Ah. You will forgive me if I
say that it is difficult for me to
understand why any young man
who has, with even slight success,
embarked upon the sea Of Journal
ism should abandon it to become a
mere superintendent of building
constructions"
Cecilys cheeks burned until it
was hard to keep her hands away
from them. That mere" how I'M
speakable of Grand to say it,
Barry was hesitating. Undoubt-
eddy he was determining not to ans
swer at all. She couldn't blame him:
he was so sensitive about his health;
and why should he answer all these
personal questions?"
Surely, sir" (the darling. he was
going to be politeD, I know how
you feel about it. But, you see, 1
had some annoying bronchial
trouble. The doctor seemed to be
positive that an outdoor Job in a
milder climate was necessary for a
winter or two.
Portland used to be my home; so
l wrote to my uncle here, and he
offered me a place. I'd worked for
him summers while I was going to
Stanford. He'd had some trouble
with the man he fired-dishonesty
so he's good enough to say that
he is glad to have me in the job
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CHAPTER THREE CContinueO

"She makes little pig Of herself
that's what she does. The ideal"
i. Ann took her arm from Cecily's
shoulder and walked some 20-odd
feet across the kitchen and opened
a cupboard door. You're mean"
she said. ut isn't my fault that
Mary Frances ate the dinner, is it?"
I didn't say it was your fault, 3"
Cecily answered, and wondered
why there wasn't something anus
Ing about Mary Frances's having
eaten the dinner, and wished Ann
would stop pushing cans about or
that shelf
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..... BUN HERR TODAY -
ANNE. CEC1LY and MARY-FF7ANCES
FENWICK live with their grandparents.
once wealthy. now so impoverished that
anne and Cecily's earnings support
me household. The sisters have been
orphaned since childhood The grand
parents are known respectively as
hOShLIE and GRAND" and thew
former wealth
Anne. 2s. and cecily. "a. DO ssorc-
tsrial work. and Marv-Frances, IS, Is
sun IN school. All the girls are attrsc-
tive. When the story opens Anne has
been engaged 70 PHILIP ECROYD. Young
r1srrv hsesuse kn7e 5nors her sisteTs
and grandparents depend UPON her 70
manager their home
Cecilv brings BARRY McKEEL. home
70 dinner without telephoning. She has
known him only a short time but -
falling in love with him Anne points
which 70 prepare a company dinner.
now GO ON WITH THE STORY
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-30
WsW by 94a1oQ ReW CMaiqht # hE-AlL \

SYNOPSIS: Bruce and his atcpscn, Roy Donovan, comb Mother Mountain for the fa- mcus Iost gold vein as Pierre braves Nevada desert perils in hunt for Bruce. Though his love for Bruce's wife, Ann, is honorable, Bruce's deserti0n has been explained in a let ter charging a love affair be- tween her and Pierre. Not knowing that Bruce's com paniOn is his own father, Pierre plcds on, hoping to bring him back before the law does. For Bruce, like Ann'S father, is suspect in an Ohio cashiers murder, and Pierre knows that his arrest would disclose the shameful pretext for his flight, thereby disgracing Ann. Mean while Donovan and Bruce, 50 far unsuccessful in their gold hunt, discover that their water supply is almost gone.
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companion curiously Well" he said at last, you're not thinking of staying here, are you?" I'm not going back to Red Butte"
 1 The agony of fear that was re- vealed in the mans haggard and tWitching features told Donovan more than the words, that his com panion was facing desperate is sue.
 Behind the dyke of rock, Pierre heard in Bruce's voice all that ] Donovan saw in the bank clerk 5 face.
 Deliberately, as if he sought by his manner to steady the younger man, Donovan lowered his pack to the ground, put the canteen care fully down, and moving leisurely to a seat near Bruce began to roll cigarette.
 Pierre held his place-he could not move.
 Bruce, with a little more assur- ance, asked, Didn't you say there was way we could go from here to Gold Center?"
 Donovan answered calmly, We haven't enough water to last one of us half way to Gold Gen. ter"
 
 Well, we're going to Gold Cen ter just the same returned Bruce with sullen, unreasoning stubborn ness.
 Donovan, watching his oompan- ion, asked calmly: And what are we going to do when we get to Gold Center"
 Were going to get another out fit with a supply of provisions and go prospecting again Thers must be some place in this des- ert where a man can live"
 50 that's it" said Donovan. T thought when you told me to call you Fred Burnes that there was something wrong"
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his companion for minute, Bruce again seated himself on the rock and bowed his head in his hands.
 Come on" called Donovan pres ently. Get a move on, will you? Here's your share of the grub. We've got to get out of here" He swung the small bundle of provi- sions over his shoulder and picked up the canteen. Bruce did not move.
 Pierre was making his way up a long sandy wash toward the hol- low between Mother Mountains breasts when suddenly he heard or fancied that he heard, a hu- man voice. He stopped and listen ed. His heart beat so loudly that he could hear nothing else. He restrained an impulse to shout and went on.
 The sound of voices came again louder. He was sure now. He was about to rush forward but checked himself. The voices were angry. It might not be Bruce and the man called Colorado Bill. It would be better to make sure be- fore revealing his presence.
 His feet on the sandy floor of the wash made no sound as he moved cautiously toward the point from which the voices came As he drew nearer he heard more and more distinctly. Then he was quite near-only low dyke or wall of rock scarcely higher than his head hid the speakers. He could hear clearly now, every word. One voice he knew-it was Bruce. The other voice was strange. He was about to make his presence known when the stranger spoke again and something made him hesitate. Donovan was looking at ms
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What are you going under the name of Colorado Bill for?" flash ed Bruce .angrily.
 Keep your shirt on, son." re turned Donovan coolly T read about that Orchard Hill bank af- fair in the paper the morning we left Red Butte. You thought when you used the paper to start our campfire, with that night that I hadn't seen it but had And it wasn't hard to guess why you wanted to be called Burnes, That's why I told Jimmie Harrigan at Dripping Spring that we were go- ing to my claim in the Painted Mountains.
 q turned our burros loose for a blind, figuring that we'd get away from here while there was still enough water and that we'd man. age to pull through to Gold Cen ter somehow-making it look like we'd wandered off in the desert somewhere and died. The longer we stayed here leaving a show like we were simply prospecting, pro viding we didn't stay too long, the better it would look. miscalculat- ed, that's all--cut it little too fine. With no more water than we have now we can't go any where but back to Dripping Spring, which means Red Butte because we can't carry enough grub to last us more than three or four days"
 But why didn't you tell me that you knew?" Bruce cried.
 T knew you would talk when you got in the proper frame of mind" returned Donovan. There wasn't any need for me to rush you. How did you make your get away from Orchard Hill anyhow Maybe they haven't succeeded in
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THE HIDDEN WITNESS

Roy Donovan shook the canteen he had torn from Bruce's lips anxiously estimating it's contents Then he looked up at his con- panion.
 There's barely enough water left now to get one man to Drip ping Spring" Donovan said slowly, "and it's got to do for us two. Do you understand? From now on I'll take charge of this. You'll get drink when I give it to you, and I promise you that it will be damned little at a time and as long as you can keep on your feet between times"
 "Oh, is that SOP" retorted Bruce sullenly.
 Donovan put the canteen care fully down close to his hand as he made up the packs of food which they must carry After watching
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locating you in Red Butte yet we might manage to get back there and get away again"
 T never killed Campbell" said Bruce, that is--I mean, I never meant to-"
 NO? But you got the money all right, didn't you?'
 T didn't get it from the bank. "
 You didn't"
 "No--I got it from Campbell, the cashier"
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DOROTHY BAKKE IS
 OFF FOR BERKELEY

Miss Dorothy Bakke, graduate of the 1881 High School class, is on her way to Berkeley, Cal, where she will enter the University of California which begins regular ses- sions next month. Miss Bakke is one of the first grads to leave for the south. She is accompanied
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STRING COVERS IS ACRES

ARKADELPh1A, Ark.-MammOth Spring covers Is acres and re- sembles a lake. More than 600,000 gallons of water flow every minute from a month 20 feet across. Up- ward pressure makes it impossible to lower even an anvil to any great depth.
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on the trip to Berkeley by Mrs. B. B. Green, the latter returning in about six weeks.
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Look here, Bruce, without vast ing too much time, suppose you tell me just what happened from the start?" Copyright, 1880, by D. Appleton
 and Co.)
 Honor among thieves? Not when that bank door opened on a fatal quarrel, disclosed tomorrow.
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Old Papers aV rhe Empire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-19
KELLEHER GRANTED
PAROLE ON MARCH q
Was Convicted During June, 1929,
on Charge of Setting Up
Gambling Table.

The Federal Parole Board announced
today that parole effective March 4 has
been granted John B. Kelleher, wealthy
apartment house owner, who was SEN
fenced to eight years and nine months
Imprisonment on his conviction in Dis
trict Supreme Court during June of
1929 on % counts of an indictment
charging setting up gambling table.
A jury found Kelleher guilty on
felony and II misdemeanor counts on
June IL, 1929, and sentence was i'm
posed three days later by Chief Justice
Mccoy in Criminal Division l. The
trial attracted wide attention in SPORT
ing circles and the court room through
out the two-day session was crowded
with men known to police as tipsters,
bookmakers and gamblers
Kelleher was arrested December %,
1926, during a raid on an alleged book
making establishment in the 1400 block
Of H street.
A sensation was created at Kelleher's
trial when Judge Daniel Thew Wright
of defense counsel read into the record
a list of names of prominent real estate
men, members Of the Washington base
ball team and physicians, said by the
prosecution to have been patrons OF the
0ookmaking establishment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-19
DEAL IN SUPPORT
OF MEYER DENIED
Copeland and Wagner Fight
Charge of Effort to Bar
Tammany Probe.

BY the Associated Press.
Both New York Senators-Copeland
and Wagner-branded as false today
the charge of Chairman McFadden of
the House Banking Committee, that
they were supporting Eugene Meyer
for governor of the Federal Reserve
Board as part of deal to prevent
an investigation of Tammany.
Both Democrats, they rose on the
question of personal privilege" to deny
the charge, which was made by Nc
Fadden in a statement printed today
in the Congressional Record.
Rule Violation Claimed.
McFadden, who is opposing Meyers
confirmation, did not make the state
ment in speech, but in an extension
of remarks
Democratic Leader Robinson termed
his statement as violation of House
rules.
Il do not think it is fair for any
member OF Congress to play politics
with human character" Copeland said.
I brand as false any runorS or any
statements that have been approached
with reference to my vote on Mr. Meyer
IN exchange for some political deal in
my State or for any other reason.
Absolutely False, Says Wagner.
"The statement is utterly false and
unfounded."
Wagner characterized the charge as
absolutely false and untrue"
Declaring he had some experience
with McFadden during the inveStiga-
ton of Meyers confirmation, Wagner
said, so knew something of the I'M
reliable source" of the charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-19
CONVICT LABOR ON
LEE BOULEVARD HIT
Associated General Contractors
Condemn Move to Arlington
County Supervisors.

Denouncing the action of the Virginia
State Highway Commission in its de-
cision to establish prison labor organ
ization in Arlington County to build the
memorial Lee Boulevard and in divert
ing from its expressed intention of let
ting the work by contract as uneco-
nomical, reactionary and in the present
stress inhumane, Edward j. Harding
managing director of the Associated
General Contractors of America, today
called upon the Board of County Super
visorS and the people of Arlington
County to oppose the change in the in
terest Of unemployment relief and the
social welfare of the county.
Harding declared that the establish
ment of prison labor on the project,
which has been pushed by the Board
Of Supervisors as an unemployment re-
lief measure, will deprive at least 100
free and unemployed workmen in the
county from jobs that are rightfully
theirs and will turn loose upon the
county roads some of the States most
undesirable element. Harding's conten-
tons were supported by w. r. Richards,
an engineer and a member of the
Countys Zoning Commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-19
Bidder Offers u. S.
$lO,l75 for Right
To Rae Building
All Other Companies Ask
Money to Tear Down
Power Structure.

A surprising development in the Gov
ernment's public building program
came today, when the Washington Iron
l. Metal Co., Inc. made an offer to
pay the Government S10,175 for the
right to tear down two blocks of prop
erty now occupied by the Potomac
Electric Power Co. The site on B street
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth is
for the new Department of Labor.
This company was the only one Of
fering to pay the Government. all
the nine other bidders who figured on
the job putting in their bids to ask
the Government to pay them.
The bids asking for money from the
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