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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-11

General. I'VE shall go to the .yEfetHrG
and drink glass of brandy to my good
fortune. 1t would have been very I'M
fortunate for me if those pins had
fallen into the hands of my enemies.
In the Generals office, the brandy
was excellent. and DR.. Petardo felt
his nervousness disappear.
You are certainly a clever one. my
General" he said.
The General appeared to be in
confidential mood. He leaned forward
across the desk. Would you like to
hear my two rules of SUGGEST"
Il am eager"
The first is this" said the General,
smiling sardonically, Always make
your enemies pay for your wsdpons.'
But how to do that"
Without word the General reached
into a desk drawer and took out
leather pouch. He united the string
and poured on the desk number of
small cylindrical objects of shining
steel.
These are fring-p pins" he said
quietly. II ordered two complete sets
from Sweden. The others are in Colon.
! planned that little episode by the
river in order to tell my enemies spies
where those Others are. They think
my guns are useless without them.
So they will pay large price for the
pins. The money will be forwarded to
me. With it shall pay the Swedes for
their machine-guns.
Doctor Petardo kept his composure
wonderfully. He spilled only a few
drops of his brandy. You are mag
nihcent, my General" he said. Such
foresight! Then he rose hastily and
looked at his watch. You must ex-
cuse me now, have a patient who
needs my attention"
Mot yet. my old friend" pleaded
the General Stay a moment more.
want to tell you my second rule of
success. But it is very confidential.
Sostep this way" Smiling charmingly.
he led the Doctor to a wing of the
.Jefetur0. He opened a steel-grilled
door.
Come out, friend Carter" he said.
You did we'll. 1t must have been very
unpleasant.
The young American stepped
through the door. grinning broadly.
That's all right, General Anything
to oblige friend"
Step inside" said the General to
DR.. Petardo.
The Doctor jumped back with
cry. but the General pushed him into
the cell. He closed the door and locked
it securely,
My old friend" he said through
the bars, until recently did not
know that you were the Colonel's spy.
But you made one mistake So shall
tell you my second rule of success. 1t is
this: Never trust a medical man who
understands machine-guns."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-11

to South Africa. There the thunder
storms are extraordinarily severe. and
several institutions have joined forces
to seek the true secret of the mys-
terious lightning which is the cause of
so much destruction Of property and
life. Professor B. F. J. Secondhand. Of
the University of Cape Town, and
Engineer II. Collens. of the Victoria
Falls and Transvaal Power Company,
saw in the Boys camera strategic tool
for their use They improved the de-
sign of the camera, increased its speed.
and with the support of the South
African Institute of Electrical En-
gineers placed several of these swift
instruments out in the veldt. In two
thunderstorms they secured revealing
photographs of eighteen lightning
flashes. comprising fifty separate
strokes From these data they were
able to work out remarkable analysis
of what is happening when wild cleo
tricity crashes Its thunder and darts
its binding light.
First of all, says the revolving
camera. there is thin squirt of cleo
tricity from the cloud downWdrd to
the ground. The first down-coming
dart may run for two hundred feet.
then it disappears for about fifty
millionth of second. to be succeeded
by the next streak which darts down.
ward another two hundred feet or 81.
to another break to be followed by
third streak. III this way, by sue
cession of eighteen to twenty steps,
the downward stroke, or leader" as
DR.. Secondhand calls it. reaches the
ground.
This leader tunnels a path of cleo
trification through the al, and imme-
diately the next phase of lightning
follows - along the same trail but in
the opposite direction. For now more
intense fame-like stroke surges from
the Earth npWGrd to the cloud. A
tremendous blasting of air particles by
electricity moving under the pressure
of millions of volts takes place. 1t is
this main stroke - which may be a
succession of many upward-moving
surges - that provides the spectacle
and doubtless the main destructive
ness of lightning.
What the photograph shows is two
distorted images of the lightning -
but these displacements are tell-tale
thumbprints to the scientific detec-
tives. Knowing the velocities of the
lenses, they are able to work out from
the distorted lines of the photograph
not only the duration of each lightning
fash, but also its direction of motion.
and its speed. Speeds as high as
$1,000 miles an hour have been
recorded.
Years ago c. T.R. Wilson suggested
that the enormous electrical pres
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-11

trembling, uncertain and afraid.
Trembling because OF the words he
had spoken as his eyes searched her
face; uncertain because she had so
little time - these too few seconds
only - in which to make up her mind
to do a certain thing; afraid of life,
of the future, without him.
She went quickly across the room
and out the door. John" she called.
John. Oh, my DEAR!
He stopped, turned. and their eyes
met and held across the broad expanse
of lush green lawn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-11
BERTRAM THOMAS
HE Dared the Dry He'll "

The greatest living explorer
- says Lowell Thomas, ad-
ventuer in his own right. of
Bertram Thomas. He tells of
Bertram's dangerous camel
back crossing of Arabia S desert,
and other highlights of the
noted Briton's exciting career.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-11

Mona Jeska, lady of mystery
and charm and toast of two
continents - what was the
story behind her half-veiled
eyes? Sheila Spencer tells it in
a tale that quickens the pulse,
For those who want to forget
the hum-drum side of life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-11

Americas Boy Scouts are
marking their 25th birthday
with a big ia mboree" in
Washington. The Boy Scout
whoaccompanied AdmiralByrd
to the Antarctic tells of the adj
venture of Scouting and the div
idends it has paid to boyhood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-11
CHARLES C.. LEAvITT
"Cambin' Men"

Gold! For six years it had
tied a young married couple to
the desert, gambling their
youth and happiness for high
stakes. At last came reward -
but in an unexpected manner
:. a story of love and crime in
1.-The southwest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-26
Mr. Jacobs ShOUed a Profit

TINE next day, Mike Jacobs who was somehow
Il associated with Mr. Richard in the Garden, be-
sides running the most prosperous scalpng shop in
town, dryly expressed to the journalists the Gar
den run his appreciation of their help. The news
paper furOre the outrage had made the Gus
toners more eager than ever to attend the prize
fight, which was terrible waltz, it turned out,
and not a seat remained unsod.
Earlier than that, in 1920. when Dempsey tipped
over Georges Carpenter at Boyles Thirty Acres in
Jersey City in the first of the millon-dollar fights
Mr. Richard paid off his political tax to the boss of
New Jersey by handing him great block of the best
seats for distribution among the deserving Demo-
Gratis of the yOnder shore. The boys then lifted
the price of the $55 tickets TO $500 squeezed Mr.
Richards customers for the difference, and thus
were taken care of.
Mr.. Richard already had been tapped for a con-
tribution of 100000 for steel work. in his rcketv
wooden stadium and thought the demand for SCALP
ing tickets somewhat excessive But the New JERSEY
boss came over to New York in a rage StOrmed into
Mr.. Richards little birds nest in the tower of the
old Garden and told him he would either get his
tickets for his deserving Democrats run Richard
and his fight right out of New Jersey The boss took
his tickets back to his deserving Democrats by hand
that night.
incidentally Richards stadium almost fell down
during the fight and diligent search of the struc-
ture after the contest with 10-cent magnet failed
TO reveal any structural steel larger than a ten
penny nail. Maybe the word was spelled wrong
AS the years went on, custom developed of re-
warding or appeasing individuals whom it was
deemed advisable to reward appease by handing
them blocks of the best seats for big fights at face
value which they then able to sell to the scalp
ers at an increased price. Naturally the profits are
smaller now than they used to be but they are
still proporionate to the gross receipts and by no
means to be ignored
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-26
Questions and Answers

Q-How many Confederate soldiers we're killed in
the Crvil WARP
A-The records in the Office OF the Adjutsnt
General in the War Department indicate l2slso
were killed
C-Has there ever been no-hit no-rln baseball
game pitched in a World Series?
A-NO.
C-when did the Continental Congress meet in
Princeton. y J2
A-From june 50 70 November I. 1888.
O-when did the widow OF Abraham Lincoln die?
Am 1882.
Q-Give the meaning and nationality Of the name
seller.
At is a German family name. derived from an
occupation and means rope or cord maker.
Q-Besides sydney. New South Wales N. S W..
IS there another important city by that name in the
British possessions2
A-Sydnev. Nova Scotia n. s..
Q-How long did King Edward VII father OF
King George Of Great Britain. reign?
Ale assembled the throne il 1901 upon the
death Of his mother. Queen Vic.oria. and died in
1910. after a reign o. nine wears
Q-How old is Mae West?
A-She Viii be IS in August.
Q-what is the diameter Of the largest satellite
q Jupiter
A-Ganymede is 3273 miles in diameter.
Odd Guy Kibbee appear in the motion picture
Broadway Bill7'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-26
Their Options q FLOn

MIR. JACOBS, the old ticket expert by strange
4V1 turn of fortune now finds himself the front
man or sponsor of the prize fight department of Mr.
HearStS newspapers in New York Mr. Hearsts
papers have broken the Garden corporations old
monopoly on championship fights and were in a
lar way to establish monopoly of their own under
the title OF the Twentieth Century A. c. when a
mShap occurred to alter the plan if not disrupt it
entirely. The miShap James ]. Braddock's I'M
expected victory over Max Baer The Hearst papers
through their prize fight department, own an option
on Baer but neglected to take an option on Brad
dock. So the Garden owns Braddock and still con-
trolls the heavyweight championship.
There is a lack Of liaison between the editorial
department and the prize fight department of the
Hearst interests. The editorial department has often
denounced prize fighting as an immoral and degrad-
ing influence While the prize fight department
whoopng up the box office appeal of its tearing
tigers. At the present moment the prize fight de-
partment is emitting its final roars of excitement
over the Louis Camera fight which has been viewed
with alarm by the editorial side fraught with
danger Of bloody disorder between Negroes and
whites
It is the hope of one and ALL of course, that the
editorial department is wrong.
The mission of the Hearst prize fight department
is the saving of the lives of poor children through
the purchase of milk, laudable purpose to be
But. although the children of the poor always
have carried the banners for these prize fights they
have never run first in the distribution of the
turns Of course every one likes to see the chill
drens end of the money enhanced by every possible
dollar and to this end, doubt, the suggestion
would be warmly welcomed that they also be allotted
the scalping privilege.
Copyright. 1885. United Feature Syndicate Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-26

O-Is the song Sweet and Low" hymn?
Alt is a semi-cassical love song; not hymn.
(Which United States minis are operating
as mintS?
A-San Francisco Denver and Philadelphia.
Q-Can the President of the United States be
arrested and tried for murder?
A-The President is immune from arrest and
criminal prosecution. In a President trans
crossed the criminal laws, the procedure would be
to impeach him, and if found guilty by the Senate
sitting as a court Of impeachment, with the Chief
Justice of the United States presiding, he would be
removed from office After his removal he could be
arrested and prosecuted for the crime.
Q-Name the Governor of Hawaii
A-Joseph B. Poindexter
O-What was the strength Of the United States
Army on March 81, 1885?
A-Oficers, 1892, and enlisted men, 1860, ex-
elusive of $3.50 Philippine Scouts.
Q-When was "Godey's Lady's Book" first pub
lished, and when did it cease?
At was published first in 1880 and until 1893
it existed under various titles, when Frank A.
Munsey bought it and merged it with The Puritan
Q-Are there more Baptist than Methodist bodies
in the United States?
A-The u. S. Census Of Religious Bodies lists 10
Baptist bodies and 10 Methodist bodies.
Q-How long did the Revolutionary and Civil
last?
A-Revolutionary War from ITS to 1888; Civil
War from 1861 to 1865
Odd the prohibition amendment to the Con-
stitution apply to the Philippine Islands?
A-No The only prohibition in effect in the
Philippines is old local law forbidding the sale
gift Of intoxicating liquor to Mohammeoan Fill
pinos or Moros,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-26
Senate BareS Merchant
Marine Holding Setups
NEXT-Mr. "a"

and Cuba paid bond interest of
S1,244.344 almost entirely to the
parent company, Atlantic, Gulf and
West Indies. What interested the
investigators particularly was the
discovery that, instead of any OF
the bonds being retired, dividends in
excess of $16,O00000 we're distributed.
Profit Instead of Loss
The committee found that had
the New York and Cuba Mail
Steamship Co. used portion of this
$16,050,0OO to retire its bonds in
stead of paying it out in dividends,
and thus made it unnecessary to
pay bond interest to its parent COM
pany: and built its own ships in
stead of paying for their hire from
another subsidiary of its parent
company, the loss reflected upon its
books for the period of mail oper-
ations in the amount Of 5000
would have been a profit OF
$618,O0O'
The committees conclusion stated
that this complicated corporate
set-up and system of misleading in
tercompany transactions, W h n
dragged in5o the open, shows that
the actual beneficiaries Of the
marine subsidy have, in this case,
set up as the theoretical operator OF
the routes a mere corporate shell,
the books of which reflect a loss,
in spite of which the actual recipi-
ents of the benefits of the subsidy
have, during the period of the
postal contract, pocketed substantial
profits
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-26
Elaborate Systems Lead to
Draining of Mail
Profits. Is Claim.

By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, June &c. - The
Senate committee investigating
mail contracts has discovered a Sc
ries of complicated holding COM
panies in the American merchant
marine.
Elaborate corporation set ups
have made it possible, according to
the investigators, to drain off the
profits of operating companies that
hold fat mail contracts.
The Ward Line" was cited as an
example by the committee. This
company, the formal name Of which
is the New York & Cuba Mail
Steamship Co., operated the ILL
fated Moro Castle and her sister
ship, Oriente.
All but a small fraction Of the
stock of the New York & Cuba is
owned by the Atlantic, Gulf & West
Indies Steamship Lines.
Between 1928 and 1888, it APP
peared from the books of the New
York & Cuba, there was a loss of
ST, 735 900 which boosted the firms
total deficit to $10,895, 1877 against a
stockholders investment of $10000,-
900. This made the net worth of
the New York & Cuba minus $685.
900.
Paid 100000 Dividends
But this picture is complicated by
examination of the AGWI Naviga-
ton Co., a subsidiary of Atlantic,
Gulf & West Indies.
AGWI built the MORO Castle and
the Oriente, and chartered them to
the New York & Cuba. AGWIs
only function appears to be to build
and charter ships to the interests
of which it is a part.
The charter hire paid AGWI by
New York Cuba was sufficient tx
permit AGWI to pay 100000 in divi-
dends between 1923 and 1888 tC
Atlantic Gulf and West Indies, the
parent of both AGWI and the New
York and Cuba. This company hac
an investment of less than three
million dollars in AGWI.
Between 1928 and 1888, New York
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-26

-r- Is rrplungr they said how few pneumo-
trrrav workers are ataiing themselves Of lntra-
u.eu-7l pueumoivsis. and yet here is method that
converts more than ~ per cent oi partial coIapse
cases into complete and turns failure into success
f0r tho gwen patient
physicians. nurses and laymcn representing
Il 1000 tuberculosis associations and 500 sanator-
RUINS are gathered at SaTanaC Lake this week Tor
tho thlrtv-lrst annual meeting Of the National
Tuhcr~ulosi5 Association and the thrueth annual
meeting OF The American Sanaiouum ASSOCIATION
The week VIII be devoted 70 reading sclentlhc
uapery and 10 paving homage to the memory oil Dr-
Edward LIVINGSTON Trudeau. the father OF the
sauatOrum movement IN America
nURING the week a bronze plaque VIII be placed
II vt. n appropriate ceremonies upon the famous
Little Red cottage, where Just % years asO-lH
1ss5-Dr Trudeau opened the first tuberculosis sana-
forum N America Mrs. Carolyn r Lindsay Of Al
banv " Y the oldest living graduate oil the
aIirtIp Red is expected TO b. present a. the ceTe-
m0uies .
Dr Trudeau a victim Of tuberculosis. was given
nm bv the medical men OF his time. wishing 70
eTord tir last davs In quiet he went 10 Saranac
lake but instead 81 dying. he got better
Convinced that rest and quiet constituted me
hest treatment for tuberculosis he ioundeo the AIsV
sanatorium in the little cottage az the lake
Early diagnosis and prompt treatment llo4I 80
rnosf hone for the victim OF tuberculosis Dr LOUIS
l. Dublin. statistician Of the metropolitan Lie III
surance Co. said az the meeting
.rTrberrulosis is still an important cause OF
death he pointed out For the period lSLo-ISSu'
= 49, Inc leading cause in the age range 25-44 years
CO.. vtite male l5-34 Tor white females l5-44 among
Negro males and 5-3f among Negro females
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-26
JEWISH LEADERS TO
STUDY REFORMATION
New Doctrine of Judaism to
Be Outlined.
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, June ga new ref
ormation of reform" Judaism in
keeping with modern America was
the object today of liberal Jewish
leaders here for the forty-siXJh an
nual session of the Central Con-
ference of American Rabbits. The
conference will continue through
Sunday.
Leading rabbis Of the United
States and Canada expect to for
mulate new doctrine of Judaism
to supplant the famous pittsburgh
platform" of 1885.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-26

His priceless jewels-gorgeous dia-
monds, rubies and emeralds-alone
are said to be worth S150,000 900.
He is one of those chaps who, if he
cared for ostentation, could wear
pigeon blood rubbies for vest but
tons. and the rubies each would be
worth a kings ransom.
He also owns vast amounts of
land, bazars, houses, enormous
accumulations of gold bullion and
coin and has a civil list of $4,000
per day.
WITH all that, now past mid
w die age and having reigned
for "a years, unlike so many rich
Indian princes, he is totally averse
to OStentation. His mobiles dash
through the streets in silver-plat-
ed. high-priced English cars. The
Nizam uses a plain old American
car of inexpensive make.
A pious Moslem, he maintains
rigid frugality in his own meals
and manner of living. He still
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-26

of India to stand by their loyalty
to the British throne.
And he sent two regiments OF
his Hyderabad LanCers, who did
excellent work in the Palestine
campaign. Again in 1919 when the
Afghan war broke out, the Nizam
once more kept the Moslems quiet.
For all of which things the Brit
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-26
RAIL WORKERS BACK
LUDLOW ANTI-WAR BILL
Executives Association Endorses
Measure in Resolution.

The Railway Labor Executives
Association, speaking directly for
1000 900 members of standard rail-
road brotherhoods, has placed its
organized strength behind Rep.
Louis Ludlow's war referendum bill.
The resolution passed by the as
ISOLATION stated that we urge that
every effort be made to speed the
final adoption of this resolution.
This legislation is racing against
the danger Of war and there is 40
time to spare"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-26
BURGLARY SUSPECTS
CASE is CONTINUED
Trial of 1S-Year-Old City Youth to
Be Resumed Friday.

The case of Oscar Coffman, 10,
of 1923 Spann-av, charged with
burglary and grand larceny, has
been continued in Municipal Court
Four until Friday morning.
Coffman, alleged to have con-
fessed to burglaries involving loot
estimated worth more than $1,000,
and theft of four automobiles, sur
rendered Monday to Detectives Tom
Naumsek and Audry Jacobs.
Coffman is alleged to have been
a member of a gang which included
George Britt, 10, of 1852 English
av, and Harold Austin, 18, of Ills
Spann-av, who now are serving
terms of one to 10 years in the
State Reformatory for the burgla-
rieS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-26
auEnouh
bu
WESTBROOK PEGLER

TN the promotion of a prize fight which was baly-
il hooed as extensively as the bout between Joe
Louis and Primo Camera the profit on the scalp
ing privilege is always tempting prize. The public
conception OF the scalping business is very innocent
1t pictures rat-faCed citizens standing in line to buy
up tickets in pairs or tours through the windows at
boxofce prices and take them across the street to
hole-in-the-wal Offices. where they are sold for
much as they will bring, Promoters denounce the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-26

scalpers as parasites and flendS IN
human form, preying on the inno-
cent customers and. in some cases.
60 as far as to call on the collector
of internal revenue to avenge the
outrage.
Tex Richard once called on the
collector to avenge an outrage of
this kind on the eve of a fight be-
tween Jack Delaney and Jimmy
Maloney in the new Garden. This
fight drew 100000 in boxoffice re-
ceiptS, an indoor record which
stands to this time and may last
forever. The scalpers' margin was
enormous, but incalCulable.
Ey-e,, u-bila I,a woe 1-e11i,,o 70 tho