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Not, of course, in any hope that they would be able to induce him to betray any secrets, or intention ally to tell us anything detriment- al to the interests of those who had trusted him.
 But there was, according to Will liam, chance that he might be hoodwinked into discretion, for, like many other great men, Uncle had a weakness. He was no drunkard and indeed he rarely drank. But when he did he drank good deal; and, although he never became intoxicated, he would, on these occasions, become mellow, reminiscent, and commun- icative.
 Even so, single indiscreet question or remark would suffice to shut him up like an oyster.
 On the other hand, a friend and confidant who talked wisely and well, gently leading the converse ton in the required direction might learn lot in the course of gos- sip-provided he betrayed no in- terest in what he heard, and con- trived to convey the impression that all this was no news to him, and that he and Uncle were equal ly well informed upon the subject.
 Naturally, Uncle was not our only hope, nor he and the clientele of his speak-easy our only sources of information on the subject of the past and current history of the leading crooks whose more particular line of business was blackmail and Kidnapping for ran som.
 Not only did we frequent every likely speak-easy, but, for time, William and actually opened and ran one of our own, in the hope that we might make it the rendez- vous of the type of people with whom we wished to hold enlight- ening converse.
 This venture came ito an abrupt end, however, for one day the rep resentative of a big beer baron, rival to him who supplied us with our liquor, burst into our saloon and sought sorrow.
 Say" bawled our visitor, which of you guys runs this joint?"
 q do," admitted William, sup pressing hiccup. Pleased to meet you"
 Well, look here. You won't be pleased next time, if you go on selling any more North Side stuff. see? Beginning tomorrow you'll get your daily dollop of our dope and you'll cash up to me every Sunday morning Get me?'
 I'm fixed to pay dollars on Saturdays l" replied William But I could pay in lead Sundays,
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in all the world to bribe him to betray a trust.
 And, although this strange crea- ture was admittedly and professed- ly the friend, helper and confi- dant Of crooks and criminals, he was not regularly engaged in the pursuit of any form of crime save indeed that of vendor of it. licit alcohol.
 Nor was Uncle in any sense of the word a receiver of stolen prop erty, albeit, he did, at times, mind" for his friends large sums of money, and articles of the high est value, such as jewelry, which he must have known or very strongly suspected to have been stolen by those who entrusted them to his care.
 For this service he made fixed but reasonable charge, and once, a crook had deposited money or jew elry with Uncle, he knew it to be as safe as if it were in bank.
 Uncle was not only useful indi- rectly to the police, but was also, for political reasons under the pro- lection of some powerful Higher up,' for Uncle swung big vote.
 Williams H. William, like the Chief of Police, was of opinion that if anybody in America knew any thing at all about the gang who had got away with the St. Clair diamond, it would, sooner or later, be my friend Uncle"
 For not only was he a clearing house for all the information of crcokdom, but was also the person. al friend of all the biggest crooks.
 Naturally it would be idiotic to walk into Uncle's speak-easy and simply say to him:
 Who was it kidnapped St. Clair's kid, and touched him for the big sparkler?"
 Uncle would merely regard the speaker with cold suspicion, and ask him what he was talking about.
 No, our plan, as sketched out by Williams H. William, was that he and his wife should impinge most gradually upon the consciousness of Uncle, in the role of obviously very wealthy and successful crooks; that they should very gradually cultivate him, and that after weeks and months-and if necessary, a year-they should attain to inti- macy and win his approval and confidence.
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SYNOPSIS: After Jehn Wave c1capea from the prison where he had been sent for a murder he had net committed, he re- news his queat of vengeance for the lxidnapers of his daugh- ter, Rosemary. She is dead, the victim of their cruelty, and Wave has lost also his famed diamond, The Unsetting Sun, and ether costly jewels paid for her ransom. His old identity and real name, John Wave St. Clair, have been buried by fake suicide, and among his new associates is an influen- tiaI crock called Uncle" Will Hams II. William and his wife, engaged as detectives to help Wave trace the abductOrs, are revealed as the Colonel Camp ball and the Miss Skinner of the nursing home, scene Of the action in the part Of the story first related.
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DOUGLAS NEWS
JUNIOR PLAY
 BIC SUCCESS
L a u ghable Situatio n $ Abound in Is Eat So?'
 Given at Douglas

Excellence Of the rcriormancc of "Is Eat Sop, three act Junior class comedy, delighted the aud fence Saturday nig.l+. The clever, witty speeches, the humorous situ- ations and the well-coached actors made the play tremendous suc- cess. The student players were continually forced to delay speech e5 until the spectators quieted down. When Angus Gair, as Mike Connolly, appeared, the laughter and applause lasted for several minutes. His makeup as the elderly Irishman was well execut- ed with a bald wig and appro- priate makeup. His corn-cob pipe completed his realistic appear ance.
 Hilja Reinikka in the part of Mrs. Connolly, the lovable but sometimes sharp-tongued Irish h landlady, performed like a star Her brogue and her mannerisms brought down the house. Quanti- ties of gray hair on top of her head and middle-aged makeup con- tributed greatly to the success of her appearance.
 TaunO Niemi Sings
 The role of the vaudeville actor, ''Remorse," was exceller1tly taken by Tauno Niemi. He sang several songs including, Isle of Golden Dreams "On the Beach at Wai- kiki,' and "Mademoiselle from Ar mantiers." His interpretation of the speeches and his acting left nothing to be desired and almost every remark of his brought hearty laughter.
 Peggy Bryant, the heroine of the piece, was appealingly portrayed by Rosie Africh. Her voice carried well and delightfully."- expressed the different shades of meaning in her lines.
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if you must come he added.

if you must come" he added.
 The mans right hand moved like lightning, there was a flash Of blued steel from his hip pocket and shattering bang.
 But the bang came from Will liam, and the West Side beer bar cn's representative staggered back with broken arm as an auto matic pistol fell from his hand.
 Dent stoop for it, brother" ad- vised William, and go while the goings good"
 Nursing his arm, the man stag gered to the door, and, as he shouldered it open, turned and faced us
 Make yer wills, both of ye,' he growled, and was gone.
 I've been expecting just that, observed William. "Joint-keeping' 6 a mugs game Your own brewery shoots you up, if you switch over to another, and the other shoots you up if you don't"
 He then rang up our beer bar on's office to mention the mat ter, and received a reply to the effect that in any case the usual amount of beer would be delivered every Monday, and the usual sum of money collected every Satur- day.
 On William pointing out that it was derogatory and insulting to the beer baron that his preserves should be poached upon in this shameless way, that gentleman or his representative did. however, add that, in the interests of sport and fair play, he would send Slip per MGinty round on Sunday morning with instructions to join William and myself behind the bar and shoot it out with the West Side representative and his friends when they came to collect.
 This-providing we won the bat tle-might teach Big Bill Morissy not to butt-in with his beer where he didn't belong.
 However. as neither our heart nor our resources were really in the beer business, and we were not out for wealth, notoriety, or trouble, we closed down and quit. We preferred to do wrong by stealth, and would have blushed to find it fame.
 Copyright, 1880, by Frederick A.
 Stokes Co.,
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Chapter 36 CULTIVATING JUNGLE

AS have said, MT. William was unattractive q, frankly, Mrs. William was not a very pretty woman. In appearance she was small and wizened; assertive, quar- lelsome and shrewish. Rarely did appearances more belle the truth. She was a dear, clever, delight full person. She had a great gilt of silence and, an equally great gift of what one might term, in conspicuousness.
 Very few people who were, for a time. with Mrs. Williams H. Wll- liam, could afterwards give any sort Of identificatory description of her.
 The third of the trio who kept hope alive in. my heart was that astonishing product of his times and environment, to whom l have already referred, and whom I will now describe, the crooks "Uncle' -albeit his help was given to me, in this case, unwittingly and unin- tentionally.
 How shall one describe Uncle?
 For he was at once a shameless liar whose word was his bond, a cunning rogue of guileless mind, an inveterate thief with whom one could trust ones property as with a bank, murderer of the sweet est nature, pleasant and gentle performer of cruel deeds.
 In the good-or bad old days, Uncle, very prominent under world politician, had been one of the best-known saloon-keepers in Chicago; and was, in these times, an even more important politician and proprietor of one of the best known speak of the same city.
 The police rested assured that Uncle would give them no false in- formation, and bear no false wit ness whereby some innoc en stranger should suffer for crime com mitted d by one of Uncle's friends.
 Crooks, on the other hand, knew that there was not enough money
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William Cashen gave a con vincing performance as Leo Mitch ell. Harry Lundell rendered a splendid characterization Of Art Lindau, the newspaper man. Ser nice Edwards was very effective as Hubby" and Orrin Edwards was good as Jimmy Valentine. Vieno Wahto acted the role of 'Mopupus" creditably. Although George Guerin had only few lines as Toney, the ic.nan, those lines were well-done.
 Kitchen Dining Room
 The setting featured an apart ment house room, cheaply furnish ed. One half the stage was devot- ed to the kitchen, with sink, ice box, cupboard, and washstand; the other half, the dining room, with sofa, writing desk, table and lamp. In the second act the room was made mere cosy with bright color ed drapes. The first two acts took place in 1916 and the third Christmas Eve, 1918, one month after the World War Armistice was signed.
 Several scenes were especially When the three pals, Leo, Art and Remorse, try to out-sing each other, Peggy comes in and they tell her, in explanation, that it is a song contest. She asks how they decide the winner and is told the one who sings the Then inquiring what the prize is, she is informed "a punch in the nose"
 Before the curtain went up on the first act, Miss Margaret Pearce played a piano solo. After the first act, Miss Marbaret Pimper- ton sang, accompanied by Miss Holbrook. Miss Betty Sey, &C., companied by Miss Bernice Ed
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wards, tap danced after the sec ond act
 The production staff included Arne Kronquist, stage manager Margaret Pearce, prompter; Make up, Miss Fraser, Mrs. Stragier, and Mrs Engstrom.
 After the performance, the Jun iors presented Mrs. Thelma Eng strom with a beautiful radio lamp in appreciation of her work as coach of the production.
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DISASTROUS FIRE AvERTED

A lighted cigarette carelessly thrown away on the City dock Saturday nearly caused a damag- ing fire which would undoubtedly have destroyed the cannery had il not been promptly discovered. The incident happened just be fore Wharfinger Schramm was leaving for the noon hour A fire eXtin-
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euisher was all that was necessary to put out the blaze. Fifteen
 minutes later, with the wharf very
 dry and a strong wind blowing, the
 blaze might have been different. Everyone is cautioned to be care ful on the wharf and elsewhere.
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ATTENTION MASONS

There will be Stated Communi- cation of Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 147 at the Masonic Temple Monday evening, April 27th. Members and visitors urged to be present. Work in the NM. Degree. By order of the w. M.
 J. w. LEVERS, (adv.) Secretary.
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SAVE THE DATE

Saturday night, May 3. Annual May Day Dance given by the Am erican Legion Auxiliary. adv.
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Top Card
Strong PreIim Bill Signed
for ZWick- 0'DoWd
Armory Scarp.

A promising main event, bringing
together two topnotch feather
weights, Phil Zwick of Cleveland,
and Midget Mike O'Dowd of Co
lumbuS, will top Tuesday nights
Legion nitt show at the Armory.
Advance sale of ringside ducats
started off with bang Wednesday.
An attractive lineup of support
ing bouts will bring several new
faces to the Legion ring, two of the
proteges of Captain Earl Myers of
Culver Military Academy being
down for action.
The complete card is announced
as follows:
Ten Rounds-Midget Mike o'Dowd, Co.
Iumbus, o., VS.. Phil Zwick, Cleveland, o.;
feathers.
Eight Rounds-Frankie Hughes. Ken
osha, Wis, vs.. Krietie Karr, Culver, Ind;
junior welterweights.
Four Rounds-Roy Pierson, Indianap-
oils, vs.. Ted Hunt, indianapolis! light
weights.
Four Rounds-Jack Sharkey, Culver.
Ind, VS.. Jene Shrode, Evansville, Ind. !;
junior welterweights.
Four ROunds--K. o. Michels, Detroit,
vs.. Roy Pruden, Newport, Ind; feather
weights.
Z Four Rounds--Tufy Mitchell, Indian
apolis, VS.. Tuck Smith, SheIbyviIle; fly
weights. -
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down the Alleys =
BY LEFTY LEE

Saturday and Sundays play will bring
TO a close the 1000 scratch team sweep
stakes at the Delaware alleys. This event,
open to all sanctioned league teams OF
the city, has. attracted a huge entry and
the final weekend OF play will be con-
tinual bombardment. Last minute entrants
house schedule, as practically all the
choice squads are filed. Entry fee is
$8.75 which includes bowling. The win
ming team is guaranteed a purse of 5000.
With Ray Fox back in form, Banquet
Tea took the entire series from 10l stores,
despite Browns 6l0 count during the
2O5, 267 and 1855, a total Of $50. illinois
Recreation also won three from Sugar
Greek Butter. as Gardner Special lost two
to Sweetheart Bread.
Mathews and Westfall provided the pins
needed Tor Silent Chains to take three
games from Crawlers during the Link Belt
to one, Snaggers, Conveyors and Roller
Chains defeating Castings. Sprookets and
Timing Chains.
series at the Central alleys, and then
packed their balls ready for the trip to
Snnun Trsate s w E0 In
members Of this loop D have t"H been sTSN soihs
are SeG Gar ThnP
day night resulted in three-game win
for Flint Ink. Press Assistants No. 80 AND
and Efer ana e. Saufe
and a two-game win for Indianapolis Star
from Indianapolis Engraving: Reynolds
schleimer had e24. Woodland 62S. Fehr COS
Gerking COS and Carmin an even 900 with
the high game OF 25S at the finish.
Faust Jr again showed his dad under
during the 1nterclub League play, 605 TO
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State Catholic Net Tourney
Drawings Set; Awards Given

Feeney, prominent local and South
Bend business man and former
Notre Dame football and basketball
star, will be given the player ex-
hibiting the best mental attitude
and ability in the tournament. 1t
was won last year by George Disser
Of Ft. Wayne.
The committee picked by Feeney
to ward the medal is composed of
Edward H. Bingham ST., DR.. Karl
R. Rudell, w. F. Fox Jr., Tommy
Hendricks, Curley Ash and Eco c,
Mcnamara.
The Indiana champions will re-
ceive a large modernistic bronze
plaque and twenty-two-inch lov-
inf cup, which goes to the first
team winning the meet three times.
A fifteen-inch silver statue will be
given the runner-up.
Gold basketball emblems will be
given as individual awards to the
ten players on the championship
team while the losers will be
awarded silver trophies.
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Shea Choice Over Francis In
Ring Tilt at Garden Tonight

victory over Battalino in an over
weight bout at Chicago last month
Shea's last previous appearance in
New York was in 1925 when he was
counted out in the fourth round of
bout with Charley (PhiD RoSen-
berg, who held the title at that
time. The fact that Shea's knock
OUT occurred in the round named
by wise. money gamblers resulted
in a life suspension for the Chi
cagoan.
Later it became known that a
dressing room call from a group Of
gunner, and the threat TT at failure
to "dive" would mean death, had
influenced Shea, then 19-year-old
youth.
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TIM CAMPBELL is going home"
Il tonight to prove to the citizens
Of Shelbyville that the home town
boy has made good in the big city.
Before coming here to take charge
Of things at Tech, Tim produced
winning teams at Shelbyville for
several seasons. Shelbyville, under
Coach Mccullough, boasts a spec
tacular victory string marred by
only two setbacks, and stands high
in the state circles. Last week, the
erstwhile "Camels" nosed out a one
point decision over Shortridge. Tim
has started to pour the sugar on
his boys, whispering words about
tournaments, ETC., and it wouldn't
be surprising to see the east siders
pull another victory out of the hat.
No sir, not a bit surprising.
Meanwhile Coach Peterman will be en-
tertaining some boys from his former
stamping grounds. namely Terre Haute.
Peterman leaped into prominence last sea-
son by turning out a winning combination
at Wiley. If the Blue Devils fail to trim
Garfield tonight. then there's something
putrid in Copenhagen.
n
Cathedral has been telling the
world about its proves, and backs
its claims with g. scorebook. The
Irish are proud of that scorebook.
There hasn't been red page in it
for some time. Mr.. McCrearys free
throw in the last twenty seconds
kept it clean at Hartford City
Thursday night. Another such Ler-
Torrance may be necessary out at
the west side gym tonight, says
Washington's Continentals, who
also add that one free throw might
not do much good. That's debat-
able, but interesting.
= =
We've been looking for this: Martins
vile, e5; Greencastie, "A (overtime). 1t
proves two things. MartinsvilIe is COM
ing-GreencaetIe is stiE there.
g q
Marion goes to Muncle tonight. Poor
Marion. Five years ago: the home town
folks would have lynched us for saying
that.
y n
Anderson goes to Frankfort tonight. An
derson has beaten Kokomo twice. Kokomo
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Squad
Held Idle
Rain Delays Workout of
Bruin Batterymen at
Catalina.

81 United Press
AVALON. CATALINA ISLAND.
Cal, Feb. 2o.-Delayed a day in the
efforts to reduce the total weight
of the Chicago Cub pitching staff,
Manager Rogers Hornsby sen
fenced" the players to extra drill
today.
Rain and win Thursday kept the
pitchers inside the clubhouse, where
they had skull practice. Late in
the afternoon they played soccer.
The entire squad of twenty-five
pitchers and catchers is in excel
lent shape, HornSby said.
CHICAGO, Feb. 20.-Inf1elders
and outfielders of the Chicago Cubs
were gathering here today prepars.-
tory to the departure Saturday Of
the second squad to the training
camp at Catalina Island.
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has. beaten Frankfort Red Thompson IS
still riding on crutches. Frankfort isn't
worried about winning games at the pres
ent time. Write your own ticket at your
risk, but be careful
TWO favorites with the boys who
4 contend this is a dark horse
year are Franklin and Connersville.
Fuzzy Vandiver and his youngsters
are going over tonight to pay visit
to Nose Pruitt and his big Spartans.
Ali sorts of pencil manipulations
fail to reveal the probable victor.
Both are strong fnishers, usually in
the big show at the fieldhouse, and
both are under full steam and
pressure right now.
u u
These Bronchos from JEFF of Lafayette
have been doing the unexpected all sea-
son. In fact, they've done so much that
Everett Case of Frankfort has been making
few trips to the college city to see his
prospective regional rivals in action. Just
how tough they really arc probably win
be determined at LOgansport tonight. Cliff
Wells gang looks good to us.
y q
And in case you find the doors at the
above mentioned occasions closed and
bolted. there's that Washington and Wiley
(Terre Haute) event, in which the Hatchets
hope to pick some Cotton; Bedford at New
Albany, another one Of those regional
rivalry ''feelers:" Central (Evansvilie) at
Vincennes. another victory for the Alices;
Delphi at Horace Mann Of which the less
is said, the better, as far as picking goes;
Winchester at Newcastle. ditto for Win
chester, and Lebanon at Charlottesville,
hurrsa for the Athenians.
= =
If somebody walks up to you and
says Muncie will win the state
comma be gentle with him period
he may be an uncle comma and he
most assuredly is right period.
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Drawings for the state Catholic
high school cage title tourney, to
be staged at the local armory Feb.
u and %, will be made here Sat-
urday, it was announced today.
Various awards which are to be
given to the teams and players also
were announced by DR.. Joseph Ker-
mel, chairman of the awards COM
mittee.
The A. G. Feeney diamond-stud-
ded medal, given each year by AL
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BIZ United Preas

By United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 20.-Broadway
bettors are convinced it would re-
quire more than a, gang of gunner
to make Eddie Shea "dive" after
one unfortunate experience along
those lines, and have established the
Chicagoan as an 8 to favorite to
defeat Kid Francis Of Italy in the
feature bout at Madison Square
Garden tonight.
The bout marks Shea's return to
New York after a six-year exile and
brings together the leading conten-
ders for champion Bat Battalino's
featherwight title. Both Francis
and Shea boast decisions over Fidel
Labarba, erstwhile "uncrowned
champion" and Shea also holds a
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Franklin Rally
Upsets Wabash

By United Press
CRAWFORDsvILLE, Ind, Feb.
20.-Overcoming a five point lead in
the final ten-minutes Of play, Griz
Wagner's Franklin college i've
tripped Wabash here Thursday, 81
to 26. Each team counted twelve
times from the field, but Franklin
won out at the free throw stripe.
Wabash was in front IL to 10 at
half time. Cline, Staples, Surace
and Anderson were best for the
victors, while Smith, sub forward;
Howell and Johnson shared the los
ers' honors.