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Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-17

Alabama has had six undefeated
grid teams since football began at
the Capstone-in 1897, 1906, 1925,
1926. 1890 and 1894.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-17
Sundays Midget Races
Will Be Last Of Year
90

Fourteen talented Imperial Valley drivers today
began their last tuneup of the season in preparation Tor
final race of the the Ell Centro speedway next
Sunday afternoon Midget moguls announced night
racing will be resumed some time in March.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-17
Wildcats Favored TO
Defeat Notre Dame

NEW YORK Nov IT, WThe mythical national football champ
ionsp just Norhwesterns they
will be favored Saturday when they Notre
ends outstanding grid
the remaining undefeated elevens in the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-17

but Young stated Monday that
Hobe's lead will vanish SO fast he
will think he is pitted against NAL
colin Campbell.
Herrick admitted he is no NAL
colin Campbell but stated he was
confident his tiny auto is fast
enough to make the Brawley driv-
er eat dust all afternoon.
Special presentation ceremonies
will follow the main event at which
time the years champion will be
crowned and kissed by a pretty
Miss, and the Jack Person Trophy
will be given to Hardin Young who
has already cinched that cup with
eight trophy dash wins.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-17

Steve 10th, Northwestern full
back and one of the best punters
in the Big Ten, never did any kick
ing in high school.
Evening star., 1936-08-18

Continued From First Page.)
earlier by a damaging electrical storm
that ripped down telephone lines and
made communications with the vi
cinity difhcult.
$4,000 TROOPS AT CUSTER.
Evening star., 1936-08-18

Concentration for War Games Largest
in Michigan Post Since 1917.
By the Associated Press.
CAMP CUSTER, Mich. August 18.
This World War military post pre-
pared today for its largest concentra-
ton of troops since 1917 as the 32d
Division and the 18th Brigade Of
Regulars marched southwark to join
the 33d Division, which moved in
Monday from the 2nd Army maneu-
vers in Allegan County.
Motor trucks and horse-drawn We
hicles were used to bring nearly
24.000 troops to the reservation.
While the Illinois National Guards
men of the 33d Division were NOV
ing into camp here Monday. Wiscon-
sin and Michigan Guardsmen fought
a brisk theoretical battle with the
Regulars in Eastern Allegan County.
Umpires said the troops accomp-
lished their mission of delaying q
hypothetical Red" division digging
in on o line between Gun and Pine
Lakes. The Guardsmen drove the
enemy" back from the heights over
looking Dunningville with machine
gun, rifle and artillery fire.
The "Red" force. however, also was
adjudged to have accomplished its
mission in forcing the Blue" division
to deploy over a wide front.
Umpires checking back over their
records of the IL days of maneuvering
made q few additional observations
today. They were:
Gas attacks launched from air
planes with simulated mustard gas
were more successful than originally
believed, having inflicted SO per cent
theoretical casualties Artillery fire
during the operations was 40 per cent
dissipated. Lateral liaison between
the 32nd and 33rd Divisions was poor.
the Reds" making their most sue
cessful attacks between these units.
Evening star., 1936-08-18
FREEMAN
SURVIVES CRASH.
Husband Killed, but D. c.
Woman Escapes With
Minor Injuries.

The condition Of Mrs. Samuel B.
Freeman, whose husband. Q Federal
Communications Commission auditor,
was fatally injured Saturday when his
car struck . railroad train near Cam
ton. Ohio. was reported improved to-
day.
Mrs. Freeman suffered o sprained
neck and lesser injuries, according to
Mrs. Maxine Bratman, Q friend, who
lives near the Freeman apartment at
2150 Pennsylvania avenue.
In q long distance telephone conver-
sation with attendants at the Canton
hospital to which Mrs. Freeman and
her two children, Barbara. s, and
Richard, az. were taken for treat
ment Mrs. Bratman learned the wom.
ans condition was not considered Sc
rious and one of the children escaped
injury entirely. The other suffered q
fractured leg.
Freeman died yesterday Of injuries
received when his car struck the train
ut Minerva, Ohio, II miles south Of
Canton. The family had left here
Saturday to visit in Chicago, where
Freeman formerly lived and where a
brother, DR.. I. v. Freeman. now re-
sides. Another brother, Albert, lives
near New Orleans.
Freeman, who was 40, had been In
the Federal service for several years
Evening star., 1936-08-18


since then had insisted on keeping
his money on his person.
The bandits, who were seen by
employees of neighboring establish
ments as they fed, are believed to
have lain in wait for Siratonis to
open his shop.
Shortly before 7:30 o'clock cries were
heard in the cleaning establishment,
but persons who heard them believed
Siratonis was arguing over some work.
Curious, q janitor in q nearby store
went outside to look into the shop.
He said he saw one Of the bandits
beating Siratonis over the head with
o blackjack while the other rifled the
victims pockets.
While the janitor ran to call police,
passers-by told police they saw Sira-
TOMS slump to the floor and the ban
dts run from the place.
In front of the shop police found
blood-stained blackjack. 1t was near
" broken in half by the force of the
blows.
In an alley in the 1900 block of Har-
ward street police found revolver and
q sweater, believed to have been dis
carded by the bandits.
Carried Large Sum Of Cash.
A man who said he knew Siratonis
well told police the cleaning estab-
lishment proprietor frequently carried
as much as $4,000 or $4,000 in his
pockets.
Siratonis slept in the rear of his
shop. There are three locks on the
front door.
Employees Of o filling station next
door told police they saw the colored
men run down Columbia road. One
of them ran all the way to Thirteenth
street. but the other leaped into a
parked automobile. Failing to start
the car, the second bandit also fled
on foot. Police checked the owner
ship Of the parked car and found 1t
was stolen recently.
A description flashed by police soon
after the hold-up said one Of the
bandits was about rs years old, light
skinned, about S feet inches tall,
weighing $50 pounds, and dressed in
a gray suit and hat. The other was
described as being about 35 years old,
5 feet 9 inches tall, weighing l60
pounds and wearing a black jacket
and dark trousers.
Siratonis Is the third person badly
beaten by bandits In the last few
days.
Others Beaten and Robbed.
Near the end of last week Cecil
Steinecke, 28. night manager Of a gas
station at First and Atlantic streets
southeast, and Max Bass, S.. pro-
prietor OF a jewelry store, at 1888 Sew
enth street, were beaten and robbed.
Steinecke was slugged with q bottle,
while a length of pipe was believed to
have been used by the bandits who at
tackled Bass.
In another hold-up last night, Pietro
Fera, 80, of 521 Virginia avenue
southeast, was assaulted by three col
ored men, who robbed him of $40
while he was walking through Garfield
Park, Third street and Virginia avenue
southeast. Fera was treated at Provi-
dence Hospital for chin and hand
lacerations.
Evening star., 1936-08-18
HOAX GIRL READY
TO FACE CHARGE.
Valves Extradition on Hear.
inq and Is Turned Over to
Baltimore Detective.

Margaret Louise Jean Bell, 23, whose
humiliation" hoax early last month
led to her Identification as the girl
who robbed . World War veteran Of
500 bonus money. waived IN extra
dition hearing in Police Court today
and was turned over to Baltimore
authorities to answer the robbery
charge.
Held at the Woman's Bureau since
her arrest, the girl was turned over
to Detective Lieut.. Joseph Itzel OF
Baltimore to be returned there for
trial on Q charge Of robbing Philip
r. Davis, . Mount Alto Hospital pa
tient on June 20. The robbery al
legedly occurred in Baltimore hotel,
following . drinking party.
Miss Bell gained notoriety when
she told police New York gangsters
sneaked into her apartment, In the
1900 block Of New Hampshire avenue,
slashed her, carved the initials &C. L"
on her body, turned on the gas and
left her to die. They sought ven
eeance, she declared, because she had
testified before New York grand Jury
investigating vice charges against
Charles lucky Luciano.
Publication of her picture in news
papers led to her tentative identifica-
ton by Davis as the girl who robbed
him. He later picked her from q
police lineup. Police broke" her
hoax story on July is.
She has been arrested here sew
eral times on charges involving i'm
morality.
Attorney Joseph Donohue. who rep
resented the girl when she was ar
raigned before Judge John p. Nc
Mahon, said no date had been set,
as yet, for her trial in Baltimore.
Evening star., 1936-08-18

IContinued From First Page.)
down the slopes. The latter method
promotes natural bitches that en-
courage erosion, while the former
causes the water to soak into the soil.
There are $1,000 acres in the Dali
hart demonstration project. There the
Government has been cooperating
with farmers for two years, expert
menting in ways to fight drought.
The tract which the committee in
spected yesterday, was on the c. M.
Peden farm, where some scenes of the
Resettlement Administrators mo-
ton picture, "The Plow That Broke
the Plains" were taken.
Then it was barren, dust-blown
field. Now it Is green with crops.
Thousands Of acres in the Pan
handle have been damaged by wind
storms and water erosion, but all can
be brought back into production" Fin
nell said. IF the land can not be
used for crops it can be turned back
to native grass"
He said contouring has increased
production from "a to IS per cent
where it has been tried, even in dry
years.
"It's merely q matter Of saving what
moisture we get," Finnen asserted.
At washington, williams said that
$4,000 additional farmers in each Of
the Dakotas will be given jobs within
the next few days" The total al
ready given work was announced at
$4,000 in North Dakota and $4,000
In South Dakota.
Some A. A. A. officials said the feed
situation was becoming serious in
parched sections where there Is an
unusually large Spring lamb crop.
Taking cognizance Of crop deterior-
alton reports because of drought in
the Southwest and West corn shot up
the market limit of I cents bushel at
Chicago yesterday. Almost 10000. 900
bushels were needed there for Septem-
ber delivery contracts and only q
small portion Of it was on hand. Live
hogs, corn on the hoof," reached q
peak unequaled previously but once
in six years.
Evening star., 1936-08-18
Drought

IContinued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1936-08-18
SORORITY OPENS
CONVENTION HERE
Mrs. Grigsby Addresses Sigma
Sigma Sigma Group as
Meeting Starts,

Mrs. Joseph d. Grigsby Of WASH
ington, national president Of the Tri
Delta Sorority, delivered the opening
address today at the biennial con-
vention of Sigma Sigma Sigma So
rority. holding five-day meeting at
Wardman Park Hotel.
Registration Of delegates from all
sections Of the country is expected to
reach approximately 200. Miss Mabel
Lee Walton, Woodstock, Va, is pres
ident.
A boat trip to Mount Vernon was
scheduled for this afternoon, to be
followed by an "ice-breaker" dinner
and business meeting tonight.
Tomorrow night, with DR.. D. H.
Lees OF the University of Pennsylvania
Student Health Service as speaker, the
sorority expects to launch a new So
cial service project for the discovery
and prevention of tuberculosis at COL
lege age. Ohicers, to be elected to-
morrow, will be installed at the cere-
Evening star., 1936-08-18
Plane Crash

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1936-08-18
PARENTS LEARN OF KILLING.

NEW YORK, August 18 (R.-Ar-
irving from Europe on the liner Aqui-
tania today, Mr.. and Mrs. James Link
Of Knoxville. Tenn, stepfather and
mother of Mrs. Mary Louise Trammell,
said they had learned only this morn
ing she had been found strangled and
beaten to death Sunday In Chicago.
Maintaining her composure only
with visible effort, Mrs. Link said
they had Just seen a paragraph in the
ships newspaper telling Of her daugh-
ter's death.
She said the girl, "a, had been visit
ing her in Knoxville at the time Mr.
and Mrs. Link left for England July
Is. At that time, her daughter ex-
pected to rejoin her husband ANY
day, as soon as he sent the money"
Neither had any theory as to why their
daughter was killed.
Evening star., 1936-08-18
Hold-Up

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1936-08-18
CHICAGO MURDER
SUSPECT GIVES UP
CoIored Gambler, Sought in
TrammeII Staying, Sur
renders to Police.
Nv the Associated Press.

Nv the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August lS.-James Gray
2e, colored gambler, sought Tor ques-
t;oninr in connection with the hotel
room Staying of Mrs. Mary Louise
Trammell last Sunday, surrendered
today to the police.
GRAY walked into police headquar-
tArs and said he had read in the news
papers that he was being sought.
He told the police he knew nothing
Of the staying, but identified bundle
of laundry held at the station as his
property.
The laundry was obtained by the
police through q laundry check found
at the hotel by william Schumacher
EIGHT days ago after he frightened
away O colored prowler who attempted
to enter his room.
Has Police Record.
Assistant Prosecutor Morris Meyers
said Gray had q police record as a
speeping Tom" and ordered police
squads to comb the South Side COL
ored quarter for him.
A note book and a gaudy green
and white shirt prompted the hunt
for Gray for questioning IN connec.
ton with the death Of the 24-year-oio
bride. who was fatally beaten and
choked by an assailant who crept loto
her hotel room Saturday night.
The note book contained Laundry
ticket, notations on horse race ano
policy game gambling, and NUMBER
of names and telephone numbers.
One telephone number led detectives
to Audrey Tatum, q colored enter
tainer. They hurried her to the
laundry, where the ticket was issued
The bundle of clothing left there by
the ticket holder was produced. From
it the girl picked out the garish green
and white shirt. She said it was worn
by Gray when he recently visited the
cabaret where she danced. She also
identified q police picture Of Gray.
Lieut.. Otto Erlanson. head OF the
homicide squad, spurred the search
with the assertion that Mrs. Trammell
and Mrs. Florence Thompson Castle
24-year- -old night club hostess, might
have been killed by the same man.
In both instances, the attacker
stole up hotel fire escapes and crushed
the skulls of his victims as they lay
In bed. Mrs. Lillian Guild. SO, was
bludgeoned to death in q similar
manner in the first Of three recent
crimes Of that type, but Thomas Starr
colored, was sentenced to 1873 years
imprisonment for her murder.
Assistant States Attorney Meyers
remarked the similarity of the Tram
nell and Castle homicides.
Thomas Trammell, 40, dining car
steward who found the body Of his
young wife Sunday upon his return
from q week end run, said he had noti-
fed relatives Of Mrs. Trammell at her
former home in Knoxville, Tenn.
PARENTS LEARN OF KILLING.
Evening star., 1936-08-18

and was formerly chief clerk for the
Panama Canal Commission. During
the World War he was with the Food
Administration. He had been with
the r. @. @. for the past 18 months.
No word of funeral arrangements had
been received here today.
Mrs. Freeman was . stenographer
for the special House committee head
ed by Representative SABBATH Of Illinois
which has been investigating real
estate bondholders' reorganizations.
Evening star., 1936-08-18
Speaking Glass Held.

Rollin Hunter and Prof. Harold F.
Harding were principal speakers last
night in the third of a series Of Young
Republican speaking classes at the
National Capital Republican Club,
Sixteenth street at Scott Circle.
Evening star., 1936-08-18

moTiiai banquet which will conclude
the meeting Saturday night.
Other features of the program in
clude the founders dinner and
stunt" program Thursday night and
a Surprise" program. to follow at
tendance at the Water Gate concert
on Friday.
Evening star., 1936-08-18

Peru Is topping all records this year
In buying electrical appliances.
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SYNOPSIS

Kerry Young, lad Of seven, is
prepared to fee the burning lumber
camp of his benefactor, Jack Snow,
who took the youngster to live with
him at, the death Of Kerry's mother.
Tod West has instructed Kerry TO
come with file containing the camps
funds should 1t be endangered.
Flames attack the office, and Kerry,
hugging the precious file, and TOO
race to town. Tod acts queerly. At
the bank the file is found empty ana
Kerry is blamed with taking the
wrong one. Snow, his Headquarters
and money gone, is ruined, and soon
thereafter dies, leaving Kerry to the
Poor Commissioner. Kerry suspects
Tod and swears to even the score.
In a st. Paul office Kerry, now In
manhood, and an expert woodsman,
learns Of the whereabouts Of west.
Kerry rescues lovely girl from a
scoundrel, who proves to be west
Tod threatens to pauperize the girl
Nan Downer.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1936-05-28
CHAPTER ~

LIE WENT on, then, bordering
! i the vagaries Of chance which
had guided today's encounter, after
all these years, under such partic-
ular circumstances.
So West was respected, was he?
A king, the girl had said. But the
sort who will press low advantage.
An hour later he made out build
ings below. First was log struc-
ture, low : eaved and wide rooted
with screened porch and automo-
biles parked in it's clearing. Not
club, not a logging camp. It must
be Mans establishment, he decided,
On below he discerned the
screened stack of mill and the
song of the saw came harshly to
his ears A railroad trestle spanned
the river, joining the small group
of buildings around the mill to an
other, larger settlement, with many
humble habitations, one pretentious
house Of peeled logs, boxcar de-
pot and several stores.
He went still further down, land:
ed in a clump Of poplars and set
J about making camp. He worked
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Fl AME IN THE FOREST .,.sdT 1;.u.
a.uu,aa rnn, Illustrations by IRWIN MYERS
wNU Service.

You ran that water to help me,
a stranger?"
His laughter rose higher.
I'D have swum it to help any
body if I'd known Tod West was
the party making trouble?"
'sThen you must have known him
far better than most people here
do"
"Quite figure, is he?"
She considered. "A a king,
in this country! He owns most of
it. Most of the people in it are de-
pendent on him, in one way or an
other. He isn't man to take
lightly"
''Then 1 sure am glad it was the
Mad Woman I picked out this sum-
mer!"
The girl eyed him curiously.
you're just going through, then?
Your objective wasn't near here?"
II had no objective when / put
in. Now, have. s. I've ques.
ton want answered. When I've
done that, then perhaps I can go
on.''
IF you're going to stay on here, .
she said, wed be glad to put you
up. We have accommodations for
fishermen, you know. It's part OF
| our Job. That's why I'm here, now
Two of our prospects are fishing
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CHAPTER Ill-continued

CHAPTER lIl-Continueu
>
Frantically, then, the retriever
nosed the packs, showing his muz-
zle deep into them, and came up
with the track line in his teeth.
Over he went into the shallow
water and backing, scroochlng
down, waggling his tail, growing,
he dragged the canoe af1oat. Then,
in deeper water, he swan rapidly
up and across the current, head
held sideways by the tug Of the line
in his jaws.
"That's smart dog" the girl said.
Smart" echoed Young, and
looked down at her. Her face was
averted and a flush stained her
cheeks.
whatever a girl says to stran-
ger who has helped her out OF
situation that's at once uncomfor-
table and, perhaps, dangerous ;.
whatever is to be said, l should say
to you" She was fighting desper-
ately for self-control. II I'm
very grateful. Is there more to be
said2'
..That wasn't necessary he re-
piled. mot even that. It was
quite a privilege to throw Tod West
into the river
He reached out to take the line
from Tip. sGood dog" he NUT
tered. .Go ashore and shake"
The girl had turned toward him.
'You know Tod West?"
"A long time ago / thought l
did. And for a good many years
I've wondered how well anyone in
that country knew him. But just
on suspicion, it was good to upset
him. I believe" he added, 'that
he ruined the best friend ] shall
ever have"
$50 I'm not the first! After all
that he's seemed to be with us, he
has a past, has he? =. And tn.
ture too, perhaps, bitterly.
81 took it, from his parting shot
that he had some deviltry afoot."
"Deviltry PIN an angered whis
per.
sWas it just because ! happened
along and took a hand that he's
going to make you pauper!'
She shook her head. mo. Tha
was settled before you came. 1
was after wouldn't =. wouldn'
barter myself to save my propert.
that he seemed to lose his head
that he became quite something
else from what we've Away
thought him to be-
The boat grated on sand an
Kerry sat down. looking hard a
her.
II have particular and peculia
interest in this bird. A man doesn'
change, you know; If he's a ras
cal today, he was yesterday; it h
is today, he will be tomorrow"
'Do you mind telling strange
what this Vests game is? I don
want to pry, but"
you're not prying. 1t is littl
enough for me to tell you. I'm !
your debt, you know Yours an
Tod West's!''
She stretched one pac-clad foe
80 the warm sun could dry it bette
and appeared to ponder on wher
to begin.
ITS better to give you the who
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the beaver pond UP the Creek
nodding toward small tributary
which debouched above them. "That
is why I happened to be here"
mice of you. But I've my tent.
Shingles and windows bother me. y
.The latch string will be out,
though. Please believe that
I'm truly thankful for all you've
DONE"