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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-16
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TINE famous Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in
l. Alaska is losing its smoke. It's steaming VOL
canic craters and fumaroles to be numbered
by tens now. instead of by thousands; before very
long it will be a peaceful grassy vale, no more
markable than any other open place between noun
tainS.
The Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, S. j.. the famous
GLACIER priest" of Alaska, makes this revelation in
Grade of the Storms" (Dodd. Mead e. Co, 3d. the
book IN which he tells of his astounding re-
searches among Alaska volcanoes.
He made his way into the valey-whch came
into being in 1912, following tremendous volcanic
exploson-last year and found its spectacular prop
critics rapidly disappearing.
TINE government, he says, might we'll remove
Il it from the national monument classification
and throw it open to hunters and trappers for it is
not going to be another Yellowstone people orig
inally supposed.
This change is in line with Alaskas geologic his
tory. The earth is changing rapidly. up there.
Father Hubbard has watched new land in the
making has seen islands turning into peninsulas
has gagged the extension of the long of the
Alaskan peninsula toward Asia
He also found where own American weather
in the Aleutians; from them the influences
that determine what sort of winters to- have
Father Hubbard has written uncommonly in
tereStlng book. Both the text and the numerous
photographs convey excellent idea of the wild
Suotly menacing beauty of that ittle-known land
by Bruce CattonD.
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ing She reads the papers, and
her mail. She gets a large bum
die of letters every day-from
lawyers, newspapers, well-wishers
and fanatics. Some of the let
tiers will have a dollar bill, or a
bunch of postage stamps, in them.
She doesn't try to answer them
all, but her lawyer bought her a
hundred postal cards the other
day, and she's answering some Of
them. She writes a very nice
hand
She doesn't have many visitors
since the trial. because they won't
let many people see her. And she
can't talk to those that do come,
unless it's her family
DR.. F. N. HiX, the county coro-
ner and jail physician, sees her
every morning. He is one of those
who believes Is years was too stiff
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He is in late middle age, a nice
looking man of considerable cul-
ture, and he is extremely we'll
thought of around here. He is
tolerant of the mass public opin-
ior against Edith. He under
stands it, and is sorry.
He feels that her trial was con-
Quoted fairly, but that the jury's
decision simply wasn't in line with
the evidence. He says there's
nothing to the tales of Edith be-
ing convicted by mountain
code" He is distressed by all
this hillbilly publicity. and the
outside interference
AS Senator Bruce goes slowly
over the defense claims, they
seem plausible. The whole muir
der case boils down to this: The
unsupported story of the family,
against a lot of circumstantial
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-16
2O1 COUNTY PUPILS
ARE AIDED BY NYA
High School Boys, Girls
Earn 1911 in Month.

Funds to permit continued high
school study are being earned by
POI needy boys and girls in Marion
County, according to report from
the Office of the state National
Youth Administration
During the month ended Nov. IS,
pupils worked 1851 hours, receiving
S97170. They are employed as
assistants to physical education in
structors, as music librarians, school
athletic equipm t custodians,
laboratory assistants and school his
tory typists.
Marion County high schools with
pupils at work are Acton, Ben
Davis, Broad Ripple, Cathedral,
Crispus Attacks, Manual, New
Bethel Shortridge. Technical, War
rem Central and Washington.
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by M A R Y
P | c K F O R D

passenger air liner giant amphibian, that will
meet this country with Hawaii and the Orient;
clipper that hours distance that once took
months to travel
Man is solving time and space!
He is conquering the skies!
Yet, not very long ago. he terrified to explore
even the because he thought he would drop off the
edge at the horizon!
this year of 1885 chucke the fellows who
believed in fiat world where monsters lurked at the
brink to eat them up. And cheer for Columbus and
other Adventures who sailed into the unknown only to
discover lands. But let any dare speculate
about the uncharted of the day. the of
this life and the next and the average begins
wrgge uncomfortably and mutter, Hey, don't be
bid" why bring that up?"
All the I'm going to bring it up. And I'll tell you
why. The same average mantle who needs it the
mos-muddes through his days. the paything of his five
lying He seldom wakes up to what he where
he is going until he loves disappears this
e horizon Then he is shocked into consciousness De
perate for explanation of this separation he casts
about for In striving to understand Death he
frequently sumbles the truth about Life and the fact
that all have indestructibe self that never dies
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-16
WINNING FIRST CLUB TRICK IS ERROR

81 players. This shows that du-
plicate bridge is just as popular
in the West as in the East.
Today's interesting play came
up during one of the qualifying
rounds. I wonder how many of
my readers. as declarer, made the
natural mistake Of winning the
first club trick!
Most players have been taught
the hold-up play. Suppose the
dummy held two small clubs and
the North hand held the ace-7-6
of clubs. You know that the
club trick should not be won I'M
til the third round so as to try
to exhaust the West hand of
clubs. Well, that is the principle
employed in today's hand.
The Play
Against the three no trump
contract, East's natural opening
is his fourth best club, the eight
spot.
The first thing declarer should
do is count his tricks. He has one
spade. three hearts, and a club,
five tricks in all. To make his
contract he must take at least
four diamond tricks.
Now. the danger of this hand
is that the diamond fineSse may
be wrong. If you win the first
club trick and then take the dia-
mond flnesse, the long club suit
will be run.
While the hold-up employed in
todayss hand is a little unusual,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-16
BY ERNIE PYLE

WISE Va Dec 16.-1 have
w seen Edith Maxwell, and I
like her.
1t was y45 in the morning
when I sent word that I wanted
to see her. She had just got up,
and sent word back to wait till
she combed her hair.
She is in a basement cell with
several girls. The back of the
cell has a barred window looking
on to the lawn. The front opens
into a wide corridor.
The jailer and I stood at barred
gate at the end of the corridor. She
came out of her cell (the door was
OPEN and over to my gate
was startled by her looks. She
is really pretty. Much prettier
than in her pictures, which give
her a coarse look. She is medium
tall. Her face is thin, and sensi-
tive looking. She is much younger
and more boyish than in her pic
lures. I thought she would appear
older than 81, but she doesn't. She
looks right at you when she talks.
She has a good countenance.
She had on navy blue upper
jacket, the kind boys wear, and
she kept her hands in the slit
breast pockets, as you do when
you are cold. I have an idea this
is the way she looks best; not
dressed up.
Knowing that she was signed up
with newspaper service. I asked
her if she were permitted to talk
to me at all. She said she was
sorry, but she wasn't supposed TO
talk about the case. She was quite
decent and friendly about it, and
willing to talk about anything
else.
If I could have thought of any,
thing to say outside of the case.
we could have had long chat.
But l never was good at making
small talk, so after a couple of
minutes I wished her luck, and
left.
THE Jail is a miserable old
Il place. 1t looks good from
the outside. but it's bad inside.
It's falling to pieces. They can't
even keep it sanitary.
Edith sleeps late in the morn
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CHAPTER l

w Where are we going?
When separation from loved comes is it for
all time?
Once satisfied to label such questions mysteries
l knew living in remarkable when the world
was making greater in thought and invention
than it had in so centuries preceding, But it not
until sorrow my way and ached for
that began to appreciate the infinite that
being solved about ourselves and the universe around
There is no time space, I learned And 1 caught
hint of their unreality when in my apartment
the thirtysiXth floor of New York hotel talked by
wireless telephone to friend ship 10 days the
Pacific. He at least 1000 miles away But though
1t was the night of certain day where he and the
morning of the day where was his voice reached
a few seconds after he spoke
Just now stood in my window in Beverly Hills and
watched gray plane sky was the first
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a sentence. DR.. Hix likes Edith,
and jokes with her.
He told her the other evening
he'd like to swap pictures with
her, so he could sell a picture to
the newspapers for $500. She
laughed and said all right, she'd
swap, but he'd have to trade places
with her too, and serve her SEN
tence.
DR.. Hix says Edith sort of moth
ers the other girls in Jail, most of
whom are younger and less edu-
Gated than she. There are usually
from 10 to 20 girls in there.
Il y
T HAD several talks with former
Il State Senator Robert P. Bruce,
Edith's chief attorney. He has an
old Office across the street from
the Courthouse. They call him
Senator" here. He is a gentle
man, if 1 have ever seen one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-16

You I know about the shock of parting. Two of
the people loved best this world my mother my
brother Jack have crossed this worlds horizon have
been hurled right down into the lowest pit of grief And
slowly painfully, have climbed back to brighter out
look where understanding replaces
OF course grimly grit teeth and bear the
~ black pit until get used to it, But since there is
ladder available help climb cheerful place.
why it? fact there many different ladders
And of you may have found quite different from
the have used
But since that which Ian average hopeful woman
have to believe may help others who find themselves
hopeessly ired in sorrow and since it may show them
how to climb out of that SorroWin other words to gain
faith in God and themseves-I writing this.
IF die shall he live again?"
Job asked that And have all the others who like
those doubling mariners in the time of Columbus wonder
if tumble Of Life and into Oblivion the horizon
Well, there young carpenter of Nazareth who
proved that putting off the body wasn't the end. His
attempted to destroy him thoroughly they
knew how; they crucifed him and pierced his side and
sealed him stone sepucher; yet in three days he
returned to show them life could not be destroyed And
T. for one, willing to have faith in what he proved
THE tomb is not blind alley it is open thorough
fare is the way Victor Hugo looked at it. 1T closes
twilight open in the dawn My work is only begin
ning-is hardly above the foundation I would gladly
mounting forever The thirst for the Infinite proves
infnity"
glorious feeling of release that thought gives!
divorces from the fear of extinction And
freed of the fear of death, then free indeed.
TOMORROW: The SLY Demon, Self Pity.
Copyright 1885, the Pckford
distributed United Feature Syndcate)
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On Abusing Mr.. WOOlIcOtt

"RUT" my best friends say, that is no excuse for
~ your growing tendency to indulge in petty spite
and malice. You have been extremely captious on
several occasions about your old friend Mr. Woolcott
and without good cause. The pixie strain which you
profess to find in his writing is by no means absent
from your own work. You have tried your hand at
being arch, and you have done little show pieces for
Christmas, and, if you don't mind its being
toned your magazine fiction is pretty terrible.
why don't you get wise to yourself? You're
jealous Of Alec If you had been successful on the
radio and obtained lucrative commercial job you
would be indorsing things all the lot today
stead Of being hypocritica and hoty -hoity. Why
take it out on somebody else just because you were
a hop?"
To which I can only answer Can I help it if 1
was lucky enough to be saved from great tempta-
tion?"
1t may be that my criticism of the hddle-faddle
school of writing is not based wholly on an intense
precccupation with burning world It is quite true
that seeds Of diScord planted in my subcon-
scous mind good many years ago by my mother
When Alec and l were both dramatic critics she
used to say to me quite frequently, why don't you
try to write more like Mr. Woolcott?" And what
was even more embittering occasion on which
she said, II think Mr.. Woollcott had beautiful line
IN his review yesterday" whereupon she quoted back
TO me sentence which I had written.
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>Cuew Girl Much Pretter Than Her Pictures Ernie Discovers
Visit to Miserable Jail Where She Mothers Younger Prisoners

evidence. Both sides are weak.
And when there's doubt-25 years
seems a long time if there's even
possibility you might be mistaken
I am for Edith, if for no other
reason than that man of Sem
ator Bruce's character is willing
to believe her innocent.
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nevertheless the proper play to
the first club trick is the four spot
from dummy and, when West
plays the 10, .declarer must play
small club. West will return
the five of clubs, East winning
with the ace and now, when he
returns the three of clubs, declarer
will win with the queen.
He can now take the diamond
f1nesse with safety, for when West
wins the trick with the king of
diamonds, he has to return either
a heart or spade. and declarer's
contract is easily made.
lcopyright. 1885. NEA Service. Incl
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CIEdSInBIy Grabbed. They assert
that a slight strain of mellowness
which once they found is now al
together missing.
fear they flatter me too much,
for if this were really true I'd be
prepared to say, Good radiance
In my opinion another three or
four years will be required before I
am completely graduated out of
feeble attempts at Chestertonian
Whimsicality. Somebody told me
once that l looked like Chester
ton, and probably that had bad
effect.
I've also been told that | look
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-16
Literary Notes

Farrar & Rinehart who recently published The
Bedroom Companion" for men only, are planning
The Boudoir Companion for March publication"
Funk g. Wagnalls have issued pamphlet con-
tanning three articles the Constitution prepared
by the editors of the Literary Digest which recently
appeared in the magazine.
Louis Bromfelds book-length novel in the Janu-
airy Cosmopolitan, And 1t All Came True" has al
ready been bought by Warner Brothers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-16
Just a Speechn1aker

/ HAVE found it dangerous to make any conces-
- sions to ones best friends and severest critics,
for when I admit that I am not above prejudice
and malice the onslaught becomes even more severe
and it runs as follows:
THE trouble with you is that you're SO per cent
fake. In the last couple of years you've been rather
active in labor and radical movements. You go
around making speeches and challenging chairmen
to let you have floor Don't you realize that this
is just part of your eXhbitionism?
The trouble with you is that you're stagestruck,
and if the theater won't have you, then you insist
on breaking INTO Madison Square and Union Square
meetings, where there's stage doorman to stop
you. You're martyr. You're having the time of
your life. You even like to picket in short snatches"
All right! All right, my friends! l do like it..
l used to like going from night club to another
Now seldom make more than two in evening.
never said I was a martyr, but if 1 can take
deep interest at times in the things that really count
haven't right to say that the boy grew older?
Copyright 1851
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EUEnouNh
BY
WESIbROOK PEGLER

p ONE, Dec i6-At this writing there's a feeling
in Rome that the of the pacfsts has been
averted on terms which apparently constitute seri
Gus blow to the prestige of the League of Nations.
If this is so it will be only matter of short time
until Signor Mussolin turns of the heat and the
English speaking visitor may ask a barber for a
haircut with reasonable assurance that the barber
VIII not cut his throat instead.
1t has been trying time for Englishmen in Italy
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ter to grow beard and look like Jeremiah This is
l think, world in which mans first duty is to get
upon his hind legs and hoer do the best l can
but at times grow tired and relax into an easy chair
and in easy chair it is difficult to be anything but
amable. or course change of pace may be good
thing in pitcher or columnst, but in a newspaper
or on the diamond the hurer must make up his
mind whether he is fundamentally fast ball pitcher
or the throWer of slow curves Id like to be fast
ball pitcher when I grow up
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neva, should resume their normal ~
attitude toward the English in due time Discontinued
public opinion is wonderful thing as the Italians
have demonstrated more than once in the last few
years. There were Italian soldiers on guard at the
German japanese and Greek embassies on various
occasions In the more or less recent past As soon
as the armed guards removed from an embassy
II may be assumed that the steam has been turned
OH and that all is we'll again in the great big happy
family of nations.
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and Americans have been con-
scious of some unpopularity. too,
due to the similarity between the
English and American languages
to the naked ear of the patriotic
Italian. But on the whole the
Italian people have behaved re-
markedly well. for they have bro
Ken out in only a few instances,
although every agency of their
government has been steanlng
them up. They have a very low
boiling point and steam readily.
but they also cool off quickly and.
barring further warlike decisions
from the Palace of Peace in Ge-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-16
II Seems hM
BY
Haywood BROUN

MY forty seventh birthday passed quietly almost
Az a week ago. I got letter from an insurance
agent and blue neckte from my mother but there
was no other commotion. did not even write about
the event myself And yet when man has reached
a point in his life when he is halfway home he ought
to take stock coumnist might even take public
stock OF where he stands and whittier he is drifting
Among my small circle Of friends the chief COM
plant find is that with middle age become in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-16
SCHOOLS HELD HAZARD.
MARSHAL PROBE ASKED
State Fire Chief Urged to Inspect
New Bethel Buildings.

The state fire marshals Office has
been asked by the State Tax Board
to inspect school buildings at New
Bethel and Acton in Franklin
Township, as a result of renewed
appeal by township residents for
approval of a SIS, 900 bond issue to
construct a new school. Persons
appearing Saturday before the tax
board with a rehearing request said
present buildings are fire hazards.
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FOREWORD

FOREWORD
When stop to consider that all of life as we
understand it, springs from little seed, then
progression of life beyond this present experience
should not seem such a miraculous thing.
The development of a Sequel tree growing $50
feet into the air and living 5000 years is, to me,
more amazing than the transition call death.
And so why do we humans in this world think of
our progression out of 1t such great mystery
when the wise ones through the ages have assured
us that the only part of us that really be de-
stroyed is false and limited conception of life?
M. P.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-16
BY w. E. M'KENNEY

Solution to Previ0us
Contract Problem
BY w. E. MKENNEY
Secretary American Bridge League
MY RECENT tour of midwest
1V1 ern states brought me to
Davenport, Ia. where found Mrs.
George FitzGibbon conducting a
championship tournament among
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-16
MY RENDEZVOUS WITH LIFE

articles of confidence and counsel by
whom life Of has
The Washington times., 1935-02-19
UOO|EDRS ODk LOVE ~ By Robert 7e1
Daring Novel Tells What Really
Happens When Women.
Cheat Nature
WHAT HAS HAPPENED

In the dining room of Los Angeles hotel Juliet Ran
kin is approached By Denton Terhune, aveIkno0 San
Francisco aaoyer Attracted By Jmiets beauty and
oloofness he asks If he might chat 0ith her, During
their conversation Terume tells Juliet that she is search
ina for something than love and mar11age-"G
breathess something you cannot nan1e.
He introduces Juliet to Madame Hubert, weGlthy beauty
erpert ard Thomas OHara, her manager The latter IS
avorried because client is dying result Of fGc'GL
opernton OF the institution Madame Hubert likes Juliet
Juliet accepts Madame Hubers offer to join her or
ronization despite OHarG'S objections.
The Washington times., 1935-02-19
NOW READ ON

And frightened little Mr. Gottleb turned out to be-
with his forehead damp and dull flush pervadmg the mas
terfu which dominated his otherwise negligible counte
'But thought Mrs Gottlieb in Milwaukee,! he kept
repeating. Her sister, Jenny, lives in Milwaukee and
Nothing, however deferred Juliet from taking him apart
from ripping his and turning his smuggery inside out
She revealed him the ugly and paty and trashy other
self that had usurped control Of his conduche cheap and
weedy mposer who not at all the aunchy respectable
Gottleb AS the hdeous dissection proceeded, unmanly
snrane into his blinking
Evening star., 1935-01-02

the case. He was accepted by the de.
fenSe and sworn In. : I"
Aaron l.. Herder, a young farmer
from Whltehouse Station, followed
Snyder.
i think that would be my duty" he
said when the defense asked him IF
he would decide the case solely on the
evidence and the law.
II believe so" and II expect so" he
answered when counsel for Haunt
mann pressed him to state whether
he would put aside all prejudice If he
were accepted.
The defense challenged peremptor.
lily and Herder stepped down.
Guards Are Sworn.
Ethel Stockton, Union housewife
was called next but Justice Trenchard
told her she would be questioned later.
He then told every one TO remain
where they were, called for silence and
directed guards be sworn for the four
jurors already chosen.
Mr.. Clerk, you may swear in three
more officers and then we'll have four.
Let two of them be women officers and
one man." he said.
Justice Trenchard, after telling the
guards to see that the jurors talk to no
one, said:
II want you also to see that they
read nothing of the case and hear no
radio broadcasts."
He then called for luncheon recess
of hour and Is minutes.