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Evening star., 1935-01-13
Comancho Campfire Stories

HIS is a story of the Wyoming short
grass plains and of Coyote Bill, q
drifting cowpuncher who lived today
as he came to it, who had forgotten
all his yesterdays and never worried
about tomorrow.
The Board of Directors of the Burlington
Railroad, back in Boston, had decided to build
an extension a thousand miles northwest from
Grand Island, Nebr., to a spot on the Yellow
stone River. so that they could haul the ranch
ers' cattle to market.
civil engineer got a crew of men and
started out to find q route for the railroad.
And that was q big job, for he had to work
through an almost empty country with no
towns, no roads, nothing but wide open, hot
miles Of empty short-grass plains, stretching
to the horizon in every direction.
I come into the story as meat hunter for
that crew of husky surveyors. One day up
there in wyoming, on the river Belle Fourche,
rode in from hunt to place called "The
Crossing" where three or four log cabins had
been built beside the river where the new
wagon road followed the survey line west. One
of these cabins was road house, which in
those days meant a place where traveller
could buy a meal, have his team stabbed and
fed, and could get bed for the night. And
like all such places then, the road house had
a bar where liquor of any kind wanted was
sOld-most Of it all from the same barrel
T WAS pretty tough place all things con-
! sidered, for there was plenty of gambling
gor.s on. also. Andy Miller and Coyote Bill
ran the place. Coyote Bill was cowpuncher
who had turned road house keeper, and
never knew who Miller was or where he came
from. One did not ask personal questions In
the old frontier days-it just wasn't polite or
healthy.
AS I rode into this place that hot Summer
day In 1890, a man came toward me in a
hurry and shouted. "Hey, Comanch! Coyote
Bill killed his partner Andy Miller last night,
and he's down there with the dead man in the
road house. He's drunk and has a bottle of
whisky, two Winchester rifles and two Colt
six-shooters. all loaded, and he says he'll kill
any man who starts anything. Don't go down
there He'll shoot you sure, for he's in a nasty
temper"
"Yeah?" said "Arent there enough men
here to call his bluff"
What can we do? He's drunk armed and
a killer, and he's inside log cabin what's
the answer?"
Lets 60 and find out" replied, and started
to drive toward the road house.
had little trouble getting over to Bill the
idea that wanted to talk to him, but it finally
got through the whisky to his BRAIN After a
while sat on q stool in the cabin beside this
murderer, telling him q few things that were
good tor him to know. got the whisky away
from him and made him understand that there
were 20 men waiting for him to leave the
and hang him sure.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
ANSWERS.

1. Car. scar, races, crates
2. WING-wins-pins- pans-PASS.
PUCK luck - lock - -cook-cool-
coal-GOAL.
8. The triangle Is hockey, other, chug, keg.
Er. and Y.
4. Fist, add w, form Swift Dirt, add E. for
Tired.
S. Crossword puzzle solution.
Evening star., 1935-01-13


This is hockey season, so let's have a couple
Of hockey word chains. Change one letter at
: q time always forming genuine word.
Change WING to PASS in four moves.
Change PUCK to GOAL in seven moves.
Next we have q word triangle. The second
line IS not the same, the third is what old
automobiles do, the fourth is a small barrel
and the fifth is an abbreviation for Erbium
Complete the triangle.
II o c K EY
Take . four-letter word for what boxer
uses, add w, rearrange the letters and get fast.
Take q four-letter word for filth. add Z re-
arrange the letters and get fatigued.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
The definitions are:

The definitions are:
HORIZONTAL.
I. Curved.
4. Not closed.
z. Piers.
8. Within.
10. Average (Abbr.).
IL. Stony.
13. Meadow.
II. Food eaten for breakfast.
is. Farming implements.
Is. Indefinite article.
II. Pound (Abbr.).
18. Group Of warships.
%. Relative pronoun.
%. Silent.
VERTICAL.
I. Very bright.
2. North Dakota (Abbr.).
;. Toward.
4. Correct (Abbr.).
S. Postscript (Abbr.).
8. Fit for navigation.
3. Violent storm.
II. Strike smartly.
II. Affirmative.
10. Musical note.
10. Left tackle (Abbr.).
-. Printers measure.
IL Trade union (Abbe).
Evening star., 1935-01-13
PUZZLES

\A/E START of another group Of puzzles
w with q picture anagram.
Evening star., 1935-01-13

- HIS is story of the Wyoming short
grass plains and of Coyote Bill. q
drifting cowpuncher who lived today
as he came to it, who had forgotten
all his yesterdays, and never worried
The Washington times., 1935-12-04
DRIVER HELDUP
AT STOP LIGHT

A colored couple we're sought by
police today for the "stop-light"
hold,up last night of Albert D.
Cox, 1905 Chicago Avenue, Silver
Spring, Md.
AS Mr.. Cox stopped for traffic
signal at Sixteenth and R Streets
northwest the man and woman
jumped into his automobile. The
man drew a gun and ordered Mr..
Cox to drive to the Fifteenth
Street side of Meridian Park,
where they relieved him of his
wallet containing approximately
$40.
Jerry C. Campbell, 937 G Pl.
N. W., was robbed of SIT by three
armed men last night at Second
and C Streets Southeast, he told
police. The men escaped in an
automobile.
Two colored men are held for
investigation" following their
arrest last night after James Ellis
resident of the U. S. Soldiers
Home, told police he had been
grabbed from behind and robbed
of two watches by two colored
men.
The Washington times., 1935-12-04
Use Rod, Spoil Child,
Psychiatrist Argues

Parents who still adhere to the
spare the rod, spoil the child"
theory, might not agree with Dr.
Leo Kanner, associate professor in
psychiatry at Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine, but delegates
to the Child Guidance Conference
meeting last night at the Wash
ington Hotel, listened intently to
the physicians idea on modern
rearing.
DR.. Kanner, who has a son and
daughter, and who specializes in
children's personality difficulties,
is convinced that flogging Johnny,
who may be addicted to suffering,
have night tantrums, or possess a
morbid fear of policemen, will
only aggravate the trouble.
Parents to Blame
Adults who develop neuroses
in later years are more often
victims of unsympathetic parents
than actual mental cases, the
doctor said.
In dealing with the child. first
try to get a clear and simple
account of his difficulties, the
psychiatrist recommends. Per
haps his tonsils should come out
or his teeth need attention, or
he should have glasses. Perhaps
The Washington times., 1935-12-04
'LEWD' BOOKS
BARRED FROM
DISTRICT
Garnett Claims More
Than Dozen Have
Been Withdrawn

More than a dozen salacious
magazines carrying Objectionable
advertising and suggestive illustra-
tions have been withdrawn from
sale in the District of Columbia,
according to a statement made
today by District Attorney Leslie
Garnett.
Mr.. Garnett, who has been con.
Quoting a quiet investigation since
the growing number of doubtful"
magazines was brought to his at.
tention last September, assigned
his assistant, Samuel L. Beach,
to make a check of stores selling
salacious literature.
Did Thriving Business
The stores did a thriving busi-
ness while Mr.. Beach bought and
bought. He spent the next "a
hours reading so-called "obscene"
literature and at the end of that
time had digested q magazines
and IA books.
In many cases he found that
while the stories contained GER
tain suggestive matter that might
be considered obnoxious, they
could not, in the legal sense, be
called "lewd and obscene"
The chief objection, Mr.. Beach
said, was to certain advertise
ments and suggestive illustrations.
Magazines containing these were
withdrawn by the dealers and
distributors handling them, rather
than face prosecution. the Assist
ant District Attorney said.
A city-wide check by Times
today confirmed this.
Some of the magazines on the
market, while not being exactly
what parents would like their chill
dren to read, are still within the
bounds of decency. And the deal
ers have promised to keep OBJ
jectionable magazines from their
shelves.
Mr.. Garnett asserted that his
office would continue its present
policy of maintaining a close
watch on local newsstands.
The Washington times., 1935-12-04

his school environment is wrong
or he is not in the proper grade.
There are any number of little
things that can upset sensitive
child, things which can be cor
rected by intelligent parents and
not by force, Dr.. Kanner said.
Children are influenced by their
home environment. If mother
shrieks at thunderstorms and
father is nervous and irritable,
they react quickly, DR.. Kanner
stated.
Advice To Teachers
That the old idea of using force
on difficult" children is gradual
ly going the way of red flannel
underwear, was evident also when
more than 500 District school
teachers attended a meeting of
the District Education Association
last night at Roosevelt High
School. There DR.. Frederick L.
Patry, a psychiatriSt of the New
York State Department of Edu.
cation, declared every teacher
should be a doctor of happiness.
DR.. Patry told his audience that
the child is entitled to good
health, a feeling of prestige, social
security, success in achievement
and adequate facilities for specific
interests and creative expression
The Washington times., 1935-12-04
COUNTIES PUSH.
PARKPLAN

UPPER MARLBORO. Md, Dec.
4.-The Prince Georges County
Community Council will back ef-
forts of the Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission to push through its bill
for park developments in the
metropolitan areas of Prince e
Georges and Montgomery coun-
ties in the next session of the
State legislature.
The community council, repre-
senting organizations throughout
the county, promised its support
to the commissions bill at the
councils semiannual meeting here
yesterday, and at the same time
authorized the appointment of a
committee to work toward this
end in the legislature.
The bill seeks to empower the
Park and Planning Commission
with authority to lay assessments
for the development of parks
upon obtaining the approval of
the property owners of so per
cent of the land which will be
affected.
r. Howard Duckett, chairman
of the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission, reported
that the commission had leased
a dumping lot on River Road,
where licensed dumping will start
December 10.
The Washington times., 1935-12-04
CHILDREN LIKE
MODELLING

Budding artists go to make up
the transient juvenile population
of the Receiving Home for Chill
dren these days, according to Miss
Pherne Miller who has been con-
Quoting classes in Sculpturlng
there for about a month.
Inasmuch as the average stay
of the child at the home is but
five days, not much but the
principles of the art can be
instilled. Miss Miller, who halls
from Oregon, finds out in which
direction the child's mind leans
and endeavors to teach it to trans
late its favorite subject into clay
models. Thus, a child interested
in automobiles is taught to mould
his favorite vehicle, while those
expressing a prediction for air
planes are soon modelling with one
in view.
The average population of the
home, according to Grady H.
Leonard, superintendent, is AZ
children. These are taken in
groups of four or five classes per
day to spend 80 minutes in what
has proved an interesting innova-
ton.
Financed by WPA funds, the
project will continue in operation
until next spring.
The Washington times., 1935-12-04
Ken Murray
Says:

It takes a lot of fun out Of
that European situation to hear
Mussolini say that if the British
enforce the oil sanctions, he'll
sink the British fleet. Evil
IDENTIFY, after going this far, IL
Duce is in no mood to get out
of that war machine and walk
back for gas.
But while he's waiting to have
his tank filled, he'd better have
his windshield wiped off, too. -.
There are still plenty of danger
Gus curves ahead.
AS far as 1 can see, the trouble
is that MussOIini does not want
England controlling his motor
fuel, and Britain is just as ada
mant about Italy butting in on
the Mediterranean. All this
proves, once more, that oil and
water do not mix.
P. S. What ever happened to
Halle SelaSsie?
The Washington times., 1935-12-04
PLAN T0H0N0R
JEFFERSON

Plans for the erection here of a
permanent memorial to Thomas
jefferson will be discussed at a
meeting of the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Commission in the
House Office Building at 2:30
p. m. today.
John Russell Pope, architect,
will address the group, which is
headed by Representative John j.
Boylan CD of New York.
Other speakers include DR..
Charles C. Moore, chairman of
the Fine Art Commission; H. P.
Coemmerer, it's secretary, and
members of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission.
A memorial was authorized by
the Seventy-third Congress.
The Washington times., 1935-12-04
D. {. DRY LAW
FIGHT READY
IN CONGRESS
Rep. Guyer, Sen. Cap
per Lay Battle Lines
For New Session

Return of prohibition to the
District of Columbia during the
next session CT Congress loomed
today as a distinct posSibilit
Lines for the fight are being
dra n throughout the country
with Representative U. S. Guyer
(R), Kansas, as the spearhead on
the House side and his colleague
Senator Arthur Capper (R). Kan
Sas, carrying the banner on the
Senate side.
Already organizations and in.
dividual citizens in the States
have begun to lombard the
House District Committee with
letters urging the enactment OF
the Guyer bill which was intro
duced last July and will be alive
for action at the comming session.
introduced Last July
In the past few days the com.
mittee clerk has received four
letters-three from oregon and
one from Connecticut supporting
the measure.
The Guyer bill was introduced
July /, and referred to the
Judiciary subcommittee of the
House District Committee July 10
where it has lain dormant.
Recently local dry forces or
ganized and are preparing to
urge passage of the bill as soon as
the committee holds its first
meeting.
Program Mapped
On the Senate side a definite
program has been mapped out
between Senator Morris Sheppard
CD, Texas, and Senator Capper'
Senator Sheppard is prepared to
push enactment of a national
amendment as soon as the nation
wide dry forces decide upon which
of his resolutions they desire to
back. Both of his resolutions were
introduced at the last session.
Each seeks to dry up the nation
but under different tie h mic a ]
language.
Senator Capper will handle the
local problem although it was
under a bill sponsored by Senator
Sheppard that the District first
went dry.
The Washington times., 1935-12-04
REFER ENDUM
FOR POLICE
CONTROL
Arlington Federation
To Press Action in
Legislature

ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE,
Va, Dec. 4.-Four changes in the
governmental Set-up of Arlington
County will be sought in the Gen
eral Assembly next January by
the Arlington County Civic Fed
Grafton. The changes were ap-
proved last night after several
hours heated discussion of six
proposals affecting the admins
tration Of county affairs.
Changes favored by the Fed
Grafton include an amendment to
the present county manager law
that would give the people a
referendum on the question Of
whether they wanted the county
police under the direction Of the
manager, or to remain under the
sheriff. The change would also
give the county manager author
ity to recommend appointments
to the circuit judge.
School Election Loses
A proposal for popular election
of the school electoral board was
lost to substitute motion that the
school board be chosen by the
county board. This recommended
ton was made only after bitter
discussion and was carried by the
vote of % delegates, while IL
registered opposition.
Under the present set-up, the
electoral board selects the school
board.
Next among the changes the
federation will ask the two county
representatives in the legislature
to support will be a change in the
law allowing the circuit judge to
appoint officers to fill uneXpired
terms. An amendment drawn up
by the federation last night would
require vacancies occurring more
than one year before the eXpira-
ton of the term to be filled by
special election, except where the
vacancy occurs within one year
of the next general election.
Temporary officers to serve while
awaiting the special or general
election would still be appointed
by the circuit judge.
Court Fee Accounting
Last of the changes recon-
mended by the Federation was
that the clerk of the circuit court
be ordered to account for police
court fees. At present these fees
are paid to the. clerk in addition
to his salary, which is the highest
in the country. .
Proposals lost included one to
have the country board elected in
| the spring of a year other than
that of general election, and an
other that would give the county
board the authority to select its
own counsel, leaving the Common
wealth's attorney to represent the
county in police and circuit court
as in first-class cities.
The Federation approved its
committees recommendation to
petition the State Corporation
Commission to permit the Poto-
mac Electric Power Company to
extend its lines throughout the
country. It's request was IN the
form that the State commission
mot interfere" with the Pepco's
extension.
officers elected for the coming
wear were Chance Buchanan, OF
the Lyon Village Citizens Assocl'
alton, president; Mrs. Florence
Cannon, of the Organized Women
Voters, vice president, and Mrs.
Wilda Mcnamara, of the Clar-
endon Citizens Association treas
urer.
The Washington times., 1935-12-04
Will Address Bar

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Dec. 4
(SpeciaD Prof. Armstead Dobie,
dean of the University of Virginia
Law School, will address a meet
ing of the Alexandria Bar ASso-
citation in the George Mason Ho-
tel tonight.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-09-19

shelves. After almost an hour
had been licked away by the
granGfather's clock in the hall
she WAS forced to admit that the
books were not in the room at all.
"And that's that" she said grim
~, going out and closing the door.
It was past midnight as she
passed the cock in the hall. It
had long ago ceased to strike, but
it kept perfect time. OF least Rer-
tina had several times assured her
that it did, as she wound it be-
fore retiring. Tonight, with it's
noisy ticking resounding through
the quiet hall and with its yellow
ed face shining in the candle light
the clock seemed TO Ruth to be
living creature. She wondered
what stories it would tell if it's
clicking old tongue could speak.
IT had been witness to ell the old
house had eXpericnced-the hap
pincSs and sorrow, the births and
deaths, the Joys and honors, the
dise"reenents and partings. Was
it I'll over now for the Old house,
or was there something more ia
come? Ruth had the feeling that
the blue door was waiting fol
something. Or was it only she
heI self who waited?
II her room once more she blew
ont her candle and tried will
fi?mncss end determination tC
sleep. 1t was then that she heard
the footsteps. They went back
and forth with ceaseiess regular
jtv. Ike someone nacing.
"Penny must be sick!' she
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they'd say "Heiress Disappears
While on Visit to Mothers Old
Home" Then, in a later edition,
"Heiress Found Safe at College.
Unknown Girl Impersonatlng Her
Soughtw
Il must have been crazy to
think Of such q thing" Ruth mar
veied aloud. Suddenly she was
happy again because her noble
conduct was out of the question,
and because she was going to meet
John presently and drive back to
Worthwhile with him. II must
have been absolutely cuckoo"
She said the words clearly and
blithely, and an impudent youth
with freckles and a turned-up
nose, ioStling beside her in the
crowd, said, Talking to yourself,
sister, or me?"
TO myself Ruth replied, and
laughed. "To the worldw And
then she saw John at the hotel
entrance, waiting for her, scan
ming the crowds a bit anxiously.
Nothing else mattered.
He said, "We'n have dinner
here and drive home afterward.
There's a good orchestra"
The following day John Nc
Nein went to Pittsburgh on bust
ness, to be gone for an infinite
two days. you'll be here when
[ get back" he asked Ruth def
nitely, standing in the Hunter
halfway while his car motor ran
outside.
'I'll be here Ruth answered.
It was q pledge.
lie drove away, but she did not
feel unhappy OF restless because
of it. He was coming back, and
she would be there.
She said to Bertha Gibbs after
lunch, "Pm going to clean the IL
brary, Penny. I'm %oing to wipe
down the shelves and dust every
book
"Leave the library be, Miss
Elaine" replied Penny. "Dust
don't matter. Dust is good for
books"
Ruth disagreed. otis anything
hut good for books. 1t ruins them.
Therc'rs some leather-bound vol
umes in there that are simply 60
ing to pieces from neglect. Let me
have a bucket Of warm water and
some clothes, and coap. | could
use stepladdcr, too, if you have
one"
Penny provided the equipment,
grumbling and muttering to her
self. Ruth put on an apron, rolled
un her sleeves and started. She
worked all afternoon without los
ing enthusiasm; she loved books
and had never had the privilege Of
losing herself in a private library
before. She busted all the volumes
and replaced them on the clean
walnut shelves. On the whole, she
did not alter the arrangement OF
the books. They seemed well
placed. Heavy reference books oc-
cupied the lower shelves; smaller
volumes graduated toward the top.
Late in the afternoon, feeling
tired. she decided on a cup OF tea
and a rest. She went into the
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thought. She remembered how
Grcat-Aunt Matilda had paced the
floor with neuralgia many night
when Ruth was a child. Floor
walking always suggested pain to
her.
She got out of bed again and
opened the door. Penny she
called, still hearing the steps,
"Pcnny! Are you sick?"
Immediately the walking ceas-
cd, but there was no answer. Ruth
went back into her room, locked
the door and got into bed. Lying
there, she realized that the sounds
had not come from the second
floor at all, but from somewhere
overhead. Penny's room was at
the rear Of the second floor, down
tic h"ll from Ruth's own.
She thought irritably. "Tf Pen
ny's pacing the floor, why doesn't
she do it in her own territory?
Or can she be sleep-walking?"
~" litter seemed possible.
Either tn, or Penny was suffer-
inc from insomnia like herself
chad the coffee been too strong
at SupperD and was working off
r"r "nergT by cleaning the third
floor.
. "th"ts no more scnseless."
Ruth told herself, ethan stealing
half her own cake and carrying
of a set Of books when she can't
see to read them. There's Just
no use expecting Penny to act like
other people"
Having arrived at this conclu-
sion, Ruth pulled q blanket snug