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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-14

Summer. She will spend some time
in Switzerland
Mrs Roberta Campbell Lawson.
president Of the General Federation
of Womens Clubs, is spending the
week end with her cousins. Capt. and
Mrs. Edwin S. Addison. at their coun-
Try home on South River, near An
napoliS.
Mrs. Charles C. Wright of the Mar
Unique Hotel left by plane yesterday
for New England, where she will oc-
cupy for another season Penn-y-Crag
Continued on Page 8, Column 81
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CHAPTER XIII

DAY followed day, and the sky over
~ the parchedand livid land became
like a dome Of cOlorless metal, all
the blue beaten out of it by the in
tense heat. Fears that had smol-
dered separately throughout the
district, stole out, linked, and be-
came flaming panic. But the drouth
was only a fOre-runner Of a graver
holocaust.
In Fjelstad's feed and implement
store, Roddy Willard talked with
Sven Erickson and John Michener.
He struggled to conceal the alarm
he felt as he spoke.
"The county agent can't be ex-
pected to do it all by himself" he
said sharply. ut takes just one
day for a good army of grasshop-
pers to eat the chimney off your
house!
Il was talking with the agent
yesterday" Roddy continued. poi
son bran has been distributed to all
the farmers west of here, right to
the state line. But some of them
don't give a d-n, the shiftless
bOhunks! Their farms are going to
be seized for taxes anyhow, so they
can't be bothered about saving their
crops"
"Joe Fisher came through from
The Coolidge examiner., 1935-11-29
SYNOPSIS

Anna ("Silver") Grenoble, daugh-
ter of Gentleman Jim," formerly of
the community, but known as a
gembler, news of whose recent MUIR
der in Chicago has reached the town,
comes to Heron River to live with
Sophronia Willard, Jim Grenoble's S
sister. Sophronia's household consists
of her husband, and stepsons, Roder-
ick and Jason. The Willards own
only half Of the farm, the other half
being Annals. On Silver's arrival
Duke Melbank, shiftless youth,
makes himself obnoxious. Roderick
lis on the eve of marriage to Corinne
Meader. Silver says she wants to
live on the farm, and has no inten-
tion of selling her half, which the
Willards had feared. Silver tells
Sophronia ("Phronie," by request)
something-but by no means aL-of
her relations visa Gerald Lucas,
gambler friend Ok her fathse. Roddy
marries CorinrA Silver again meets
Lucas, who hs3 established a gam
bling resort near town. She intro
duces him to Corinne, though against
her will. Friendship between the
two develops, to Silver's dismay. At
q dance Duke Melbank insults Sill
Ver. Determined to break up the
growing intimacy between Lucas and
Corinne, Silver tells Roddy she has
decided to sell her portion of the
farm. Not understanding, he re-
proaches her for her "treachery."
Roddy finds he is falling in love
with Silver, and is dismayed. Silver
warns Corinne against Lucas. De-
spite herself, her love for Roddy
grows, but she determines to save
Corinne from disaster. Corinne re-
turns, with purchases little suitable
for farm life, and having spent all
the money Roddy has given her. He
tells Silver he is sure Lucas and
Corinne met in the city. While Sill
yer is alone Duke Melbank comes, in
a drunken condition. Roddy's arriv-
al frightens him away, and in her
perturbation Silver unwittingly re-
veals her love for Roddy. He re-
spends, ending all doubt as to their
mutual feelings.
The Coolidge examiner., 1935-11-29

from an oven. Silver got to her feet
and saw in the cornfield to the east
the gray-white wave Of air moving
over the pale, brittle tassels. The
heat licked over the field like hor-
rid little tongues of dull fire.
Silver paused in the dry grass
half way down to the yard. Sudden
ly every fiber of her being was
alert to a sound in the air that was
more than the burning flow of the
wind. She knew at once that the
sound had been present from the
moment when she had gone up the
hill, that her preoccupation with
her own thoughts had shut it out. It
was a brisk drone, muffled and yet
somehow sharp, as a keen sound
might strike on the ear of a person
partly deaf. Silver glanced appre-
hensively about her, then upward
at the sun. 1t seemed now that
the hot chatter in the air was in
creasing in volume with every sec
Ond.
She saw Boldly and Steve drive
in from the highway in the truck
and stop in the shadow of the barns
She hurried back down the hill and
into the yard. On the hard, level
ground in front of the barn, where
a tarpaulin had been spread, Roddy
and Steve had dumped a quantity
of bran. In a large tin container.
old Roderick was mixing the water,
arsenic and molasses. Sophronia
was standing to one side watching
the men.
"Phronie!" Silver cried. "What
are you doing out here?"
"Bein' out here won't do me as
much harm as sittin' in the house
and worryin'," SophrOnia retorted.
"Steve, you old gallOOt, you're Iettin'
that bran run off on the ground,
there"
Silver stepped forward and lift
ed the edge of the tarpaulin and
shook the bran back into place.
Then old Roderick poured the ar.
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Brookings yesterday" Michener OBJ
served. land he had to put chains
on his tires. That sounds like a
tall one, but Joe swears it's the
Gods truth He stopped at a place
where a fellow said the hoppers ate
the harness off a horses back-for
the salt in the leather. You can take
that or leave it."
Roddy thoughtfully rolled a ciga-
rette. well, l wouldn't believe Joe
even if l knew he was telling the
truth. But it's bad enough, any
how. l disked and narrowed last
fall, and made a thorough inspec-
ton of my land this spring for To-
Gust eggs. Ny land is clean. But
even poison bait won't keep them
from doing a lot of damage before
they die-if they begin coming in
Clouds"
John Michener and Roddy fell
to talking then of the comparative
danger of the differential and the
lesser migratory grasshoppers, and
Sven, to whom a locust was merely
locust and a pest, listened ca
gerly.
Darn it, anyhow" Kitchener said
at last, his eXpletive rather humor-
Gus in his deep voice, "if it would
only rain! 1t gathered up fine yes
terday, and then sailed off again
to the north. A couple more days
like this and there won't be enough
left for grasshopper's lunch"
"Vell-I spose dey starve to death,
den," Sven observed.
The soaring heat continued and in
a few days the earth, from the top
of the Willard hill, looked like one
great notified leaf curled up at the
edges, the dry atmosphere giving
the horizon scalloped effect. Sill
yer, who had gone in the afternoon
to the brushwood above the farm
stead in quest of a breath of air,
gaZed down into the shallow valley
below with a sinking heart.
The door of the stone house
opened and Sophronia came out,
walking slowly, unsteadily still, uI
the slope toward the barns. Yester-
day she had ventured as far as the
chicken-house for the first time.
Silver had made an effort to tell
her, only last night, that she had
written to Benjamin Hubbard in
Chicago and that he had secured a
position for her. But just at the mo-
ment when she might have spoken,
Sophronia's head had dropped for
ward over her crocheting and the
gray exhaustion of her face had
filled Silver with an alarm that pre-
vented her uttering a word Of her
plans.
The leaves of the poplars above
her rustled sharply, but the breeze
that moved them was like a gust
The Coolidge examiner., 1935-11-29
World Wheat Supply Is
Cut 33O,OOO,OOO Bushels

This years world wheat supply
will be about 330,00O,0OO bushels less
than in 1934-35, according to the Bill
reau of Agricultural Economics re-
port on world wheat prospects.
Production is estimated at about
3,430,O00,O00 bushels and the world
carryOver outside of Russia at S0O.-
100000 bushels, or a total Of about
4 4,230,000,000 bushels. Production
last year was 3.459,0OO,000 bushels
The Coolidge examiner., 1935-11-29
LONGEST FIRE-BREAK

The Ponderosa Way. said to be the
longest fire-break in the world, IS
nearing completion, j. FL. Price, writ
ing in American Forests, reported re-
Gently. 1t extends lengthwise through
major part of California, from the
Pitt river in the north to the Kern
river In the south, distance of $50
miles. 1t varies in width from so
to 200 feet, and follows the lower
edge of the Ponderosa pine-beIt, pro-
tecting the pines from fires starting
in the foothills below.
The Coolidge examiner., 1935-11-29
CHAPTER XIl-Continued

Silver's brow puckered into a lit
tie frown of laughing denial. Ger
tainly notl And you stop looking
for trouble. You're ever so much
better this morning. This sun is do
ing wonders for you"
"Yes," Phronie sighed, wonders
for me-but what is it doin' to the
crops? 1t hasn't really rained since
1 got sick, has it?"
"Now, there you CO." Silver re-
buked her. "If it isn't one thing,
it's another. Roddy says there's no
real danger yet, so get your mind"
I've seen it go like this before,
my girl. l know what I'm talking
about"
Sophronia shifted herself to
more comfortable position in her
chair. II wish one of you would take
run up and see how Paula is" she
said uneasily. "We haven't had a
word from them in a week."
Silver looked at her and put her
hands on her hips. "Will you stop
talking and worrying about things!
/ have to go and fix up the house.
I'll look out on you in fifteen min
utes-and if you're not asleep, I'll
call Doctor Woodward"
"Oh, dearr' Sophronia sighed, set
tling herself finally.
Silver stood with a hamper con-
tanning a coffee pot and a dish of
buttered rolls, and listened at the
screen door of Roddy's house. She
was hoping that Corinne might go
along with her down to the field
where the men were at work, as
she had done before. But there was
no sound from within. Corinne was
probably not yet awake. 1t was
only a little after seven, and she
had been at a dance last night at
the Richter cottage on the lake.
Roddy was working alone at the
upper end of the plot. Silver came
quietly up to the old wooden fence
that surrounded it, stepping care
fully over the ripe strawberries So
phronia craved, and stood watching
him, scarcely drawing a breath.
Carefully, intently, Roddy ex-
posed the silk of the vivid green
sheath beneath the transparent
sack in which it had been enclosed,
and poured upon it the pollen from
the tassel which had been painstak-
ingly collected in a similar sack to
prevent its scattering elsewhere on
the wind.
The corn plot, in the motionless
blue and gold atmosphere of early
morning, was fixed in the clean dark
of earth and the glistening, vertical
green stain of the stalks, viable and
proud. 1t was almost as though
some great emerald stood between
the small field and the sun, she'd
ding lovely, calm, and vertiginous
dew upon the fresh curve of the
young leaves, upon the purplish
gloom of the furrow. But it was
actually dew of earth, before hot
winds rose. Silver, standing in the
rough meadow outside the field, felt
the dew about her ankles and saw
it sparkling on the ribboned leaves
beneath Roddy's hands.
In the pure, jeweled light, the
Dung ears received the yellow pol
The Coolidge examiner., 1935-11-29

| len as ROddy busted it out of the
tassel-bag. Suddenly, from the pas
ture nearby, a meadow-lark flung
up into the silence a fountain of
liquid notes. Roddy glanced around
and saw Silver leaning over the
fence watching him.
He reddened duly and pushed his
wide straw hat back from his brow
Then, with a quizzical, perpleXed
smile he came and stood looking
| down at her.
1--WE been watching you," she
said, nodding toward the corn. Il
| wish l could help"
"Why don't you?" he replied.
You'd get real kick out of it."
She raised the hamper toward
him. 81 brought some fresh buttered
rolls" she said.
II suppose Corrie isn't up yet"
he remarked, taking the hamper
| from her.
Il listened at the door," Silver
told him, ''but 1 didn't hear any
stir, so l came on alone"
He set the hamper on the grass
at his feet, then spoke in a low,
vehement voice that became thrill
ing agony in her heart. "These
weeks have been HI, Silver 1 don't
know how I've stood it. 1 don't
know how I'm going to go on stand
ing it"
"Oh-Roddy," she pleaded breath
lessly.
He stepped closer to her and the
yearning and despair in his bronzed
face drew from her an involuntary,
broken cry. She thrust her hands
across the fence toward him. Roddy
took them and pressed them to his
lips and eyes.
"Tm no good, Silver" he muttered
'I can't go through with this farce.
I've got to tell her"
Swiftly Silver leaned forward and
brushed his blue shirt-sleeve with
! her cheek. "Roddy-Roddy," she
whispered in a stifled voice. "You
can't tell her-you can't ever tell
her! 1t would be too terrible! !"
ut wouldn't" he protested. "She
doesn't love mel don't think she
ever did"
You mustn't say that" Silver ar
gued. "You mustn't do anything
you can't! And it won't be for long,
Roddy. AS soon as Phronie is we'll
again"
He swept his hat from his head
and ran his fingers through his thick
hair in a gesture of mortified an
guish. Cd, what a spectacle 1
am-standing here, talking like this
I have no right" He broke off
suddenly. "Of course-you must go
away"
GAS soon as Phronie gets little
stronger, I'll tell her. And we-you
and l must not talk like this again,
Roddy. It's too hard on us. II
can't stand it,
Il know" he said fatty. "It's ter
riblel But I want you to know that
1 never had any idea what love was
like-until this happened"
Nobody will ever mean anything
to me again, Roddy-after you,"
she told him. you"
She could not go on. Tears
seemed to be running backward,
down into her throat, choking her
words. With a smothered oath, Rod
dy flung his arm across the fence,
strained her desperately to him for
a moment, then released her and
turned abruptly away, swept up the
hamper and strobe down the edge of
the fields as though he were half
blind.
Silver moved back into the grass
pasture, knelt down and began pick
ing berries for Sophronia, gathering
leaves and flowers indiScriminately
with hands that shook.
The Coolidge examiner., 1935-11-29
DESPITE What?

Why don't they make q thorough
survey of men over one hundred
years old and find out why they live
so long? Science ought not be con-
tent simply to point at and wonder
The Coolidge examiner., 1935-11-29

and carryover 1,1O0,00O,0OO bushels,
or a total of about 4,559,000,0O0
bushels. The short crops this year
will reduce world carryover by the
end of this season to between 400,-
100000 and 5OO,OOO.OOO bushels. or
not much more than normal world
carryover prior to 1928.
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SUPREME COURT
is ONLY HOPE,
HALLECK HOLDS
Roosevelt View Toward
Constitution 'DeriSive,'
He Tells G. O. P.

Placing all hope for future bust
ness recovery in the Supreme Court,
Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer,, Re
publican congressman from the Sec
ond District, told members of the
Irvington Republican Club last
night that President Roosevelt has
"a derisive attitude toward the Con-
stitution."
After declaring that business was
"hog-tied, shackled and manacled, "
Rep. Halleck said:
The Supreme Court, in due
time, will remove many of these
chains, even as it killed the MIRA.
AS result, business will have some
chance of going ahead and again
bringing prosperity to the United
States. Such economic upturn as
we have experienced in the last few
months undoubtedly is due to the
action of the Supreme Court"
The speaker warned his audience
that when the breathing spell" for
business, which the President prom
ised in recent letter to Roy How
ard, head of Scripps- Howard news
papers, was over, American indus
try would be plagued by more I'M
constitutional and dangerous laws.
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Lulu BeIanger Rites

Services for Mrs. Lulu Belanger,
Lawrence. a native resident of Mar
ion County. VIII be held at the
Harry w. Moore Funeral Home at
, tomorrow, with burial in Crown
Hill.
The widow of William F. Belan-
ger. Monon Railroad engineer. who
was killed in a wreck at Hammond
eight year ago. Mrs. Belanger died
at the Robert w. Long Hospital
yesterday after a two weeks illness.
She was SO.
Surviving her are a brother Mar
shall CullinS. Glenwood, and two
sisters. Mrs. Mary ]. Davis and Mrs.
A. E Playfoot. both of Indian
apohS.
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IN a restaurant one evening I
struck up an acquaintance
with two young actors from the
local stock company. They in
vited me to watch the perform
ance from backstage.
That is a night I never shall
forget 1t sealed my fate. I
knew then that I never should
become a doctor; I must be an
actor Before many days I was
working in the theater as a call
boy, and my night school was
over.
The first words I spoke on
stage we're Good evening. mad
am" I was playing a butler. 1t
was my great moment. And not
many weeks later 1 learned the
first bitter lesson of the theater,
that the show must go on. Word
came that my second mother had
died.
My father could not tolerate the
memories of the farm. He sold
it and went to the Oklahoma oil
fields. ! joined him in Bigheart
and went to work for S12 a day.
I kept on for a year before
striking out for Kansas City to
begin two years of varied eXpe-
rience with a small travelling the
atrical company. We played in
tents, barns, churches and occa-
sionally in theaters.
We went broke in March in
Butte, Mont. I had two dimes,
a nickel and a penny. Once
again I knew a sympathy for
that lost hen in the Snowstorm.
=
TOWARD evening a freight
l. train came through. I slept
that night in a rumbling box car.
In the morning 1 was in Portland,
Ore, and my spirits rose. I had
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10

TINE scene is a flying school be-
Il hind the front. during the
World War. Two ships have just
crashed in midair-and one has
fallen to earth in a steep glide, up
side down. Let's see what hap
pened.
The motorcycles arrived at the
wreckage first. There was the
De Haviland, struts splintered and
cleaning wings and fuselage
wrapped up in a ball. The landing
gear and two unchanged wheels
pointed toward the sky.
And here, coming toward the res
cuers. was a flgure-with a helmet
damned down over one eye, broken
goggles dangling from spent elastic,
one khaki sleeve missing. And not
even dust and streaks of mud could
hide the wry smile which broke
through the scarecrow makeup. 1t
was Jimmy Pedler. with his usual
pleasant. calm smile.
Jimmy" some one yelled. What
happened?" How did you get away
with ito"
Well drawled Jimmy. the con-
trolls were damned 1 could only
move the control stick forward-so
when We got close to the ground I
Just showed her forward and leveled
out
Student War Pilot Jimmy Pedler
had landed a tough ship upside
down-even before he knew much
about flying right side up.
During the Junior Aviator air
meet at Akron. while was standing
beside my Hawk. along came the
same quiet Jimmy Pedler. looking
little older. but the smile hadn't
changed. He was towing tiny
Junior Aviator whom he had met a
few minutes before.
"Al. will you autograph this lit
tie mans book?"
Sure" I said and we both
laughed as We locked at the ear
nest little man" who was holding
out note book that was suspicious
" Sticky-with the thumb and fin
ger marks of the unlocked portions
of an ice cream cone.
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PHOTOGRAPHER
DEAD; FUNERAL
is HELD TODAY
Frank HirShburg SuCCumbS
to Pneumonia After
Brief Illness.

Funeral services for Frank K
Hirshburg. local commercial pho
tographer and member of a family
noted for its Photographic work
were conducted at 10 today st the
Flanner & Buchanan MOTtusry.
with burial in Scottsburg his former
home.
Nj Hirshburg. a brother Of Roy
Hirshburg, Richmond, and Morris
Hirshburg. Charlottesville. died yes
terday at the United States Veter-
ans Hopital after a brief attack Of
pneumonia.
DevOting almost a lifetime 20
photography, Mr. Hirschburg. who
was Al. had maintained a studio in
the Holiday Building here for the
last six years. He served overseas
with the 152d Ambulance Company.
and suffered lung injuries.
IN addition TO the two brothers,
both well-knoWn as portrait pho
tOgraphers. ne is survived by his
mother Mrs Eta Dalton, Marion.
and a sister Mrs Theodore L. Fem
burg Chicago.
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William ROeder Services

Services and burial for William
ROeder, former member OF the In
dianapolis police department, Will
be held at tomorrow at Carmel.
where he had resided since his re-
tirement in January.
Mr.. Roeder. who was SO. died yes
terday. He served 20 years as a pa
trolman here He was a member
of the Masonic Lodge at Carmel
Surviving are the widow. Mrs.
Carrie ROeder; two sons, John and
Fred ROeder, and a daughter. Laurel
Roeder, all of Carmel; two other
daughters, Mrs. Louise Brooks. New
York, and Mrs Elizabeth Dolen, In
dianapolis. and a sister. Mrs. Clara
Moore, also of indianapolis.
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Mrs. John VanZant Rites

Private services for Mrs. John T
VanZant. SO. of 3539 Watson-rd,
who died at the residence yester-
day. Will be conducted at 10 Thurs
day at the Flanner & Buchanan
mOrtuary.
Mrs. VanZant had resided here
for more than so years. She was
active in the missionary work of
the North NJ. E. Church. a former
member of the Meridian Street II.
E Church and affiliated with the
Inter-NOS Literary Club.
Burial is to be delayed. pending
the arrival of a son, John L. Van
Zant. a student in Moscow. Russia.
She also is survived by the husband
and two sisters, Mrs. w. E. Clifford,
NobleSville. and Mrs. Schuyler C.
Young, Indianapolis.
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Bertha Walker Dead

Services for Mrs. Bertha A. Walk
er 24l6 N. Delaware-st. who died
yesterday at her home. will be con-
Quoted at 10 tomorrow at the Elan
ner & Buchanan Mortuary.
An Indianapolis resident for the
last 20 years. Mrs. Walker was a
member of the Little York NJ E.
Church. in Washington County, her
former home. She was 81.
Surviving are her mother, Mrs
Stella Williams. and a brother. Dur
bin Williams. both of this city. and
a sister, Jean Williams. Charleston,
w. Va.
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Joseph EngeSSer Funeral

Last rites for Joseph Engesser ST..
1044 Belle Vieu-pl, who died Sun
day after a four months illness, will
be held at the home at $3.50 tomor-
row and at 9 in Holy Trinity Church.
Burial will be in Crown Hill.
A native of Germany. Mr. Enges-
ser came to this country 35 years
ago. and for many years had been
employed as sanitary engineer at
the Claypool He was rs.
Survivors are the widow, Mrs.
Marie Engesser; two sons, Alfred
and Joseph Engesser Jr. and a
daughter. Mrs. c. G.. Ent, all of In
dianapOliS.
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FLA MEETING is CALLED
Fall and Winter Plans to Be Dis
CuSSed at Session.

Members of the Indiana Federal
Housing Administration advisory
committee will meet at the Sphinx
Arms Sept II to discuss new regu-
lations and a campaign for the fall
and winter months, 1t was an
nOlmced today by r. Earl Peters.
state housing director. Members Of
the jury Of award will meet with
the advisory committee, which rep
resentS approximately IS Indiana
groups having statewide organiza-
tiOnS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10
JOINS STAFF AT BUTLER
Miss Catherine Thompson Is Named
Physical Education Teacher.

Announcement of the appoint
ment OF Miss Catherine Thompson,
Terre Haute, as instructor in phys
zeal education for women at Butler
University was made today by Presi-
dent James w. Putnam. She will
succeed Miss Mercedes Weiss, who
recently resigned to become the
head of the physical education de-
partment at North Dakota State
College.
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With MAJ. AL WILLIAMS
Chief of Air Service
ScripDs- Howard Junior Aviator

QueStion-What does "pancaking"
mean?
To pancake means to level off a
plane at greater altitude than is
needed to make a landing, thus
causing it to stall and descend on
steeply inclined path with the
wings at very low angle of attack.