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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-04-20
Mans Tongue Slit
From, Base to Tip;
3 Brothers Jailed
'BacklUOOds Vengeance
Is Blamed for attack
at Rural School.

TEXARKANA. Ark, April 20.-His
tongue slashed from tip to base by
knife thrust down his throat in what
a deputy sheriff described as back
woods vengeance" Jack Parker, Is,
was in a critical condition at a Tex
arkana hospital today while Miller
County officers sought witnesses to the
brutal assault.
Three brothers, held on charges Of
assault with intent to kill and at first
quoted by deputy sheriff as admitting
vounding Barker, yesterday steadfastly
protested their innocence.
Deputy Sheriff Will Greer said
"backwoods vengeance" was the motive
behind the attack.
The brothers, booked as Austin, %;
Arthur, II. and Odell Pilgreen, IA, and
Barker live at the little farming COM
munity of Fouke, Is miles south of
Texarkana.
The assault took place at the quiet
little Fairyland Rural School near
Fouke, where pupils we're staging
Spring playlet before approximately
100 farmers. their wives and children.
While the play was in progress, an
official said, the Pilgreen boys started
cutting the harness off Bankers mule.
Two women saw them and remon-
strated
When Barker went out, he told us
that the Pilgreen boys grabbed him.
Two OF them held him while a third
attacked him with the knife"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-04-20
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Increasing
cloudiness and warmer tonight. fol-
lowed by showers tomorrow: colder to-
morrow night; moderate to fresh
southwest winds.
Maryland-Increasingc loudiness and
warmer tonight; tomorrow showers,
colder tomorrow night and in north
west portion tomorrow afternoon.
Virginia-Fair and warmer tonight;
tomorrow cloudy, followed by showers:
colder tomorrow night and in extreme
west portion tomorrow afternoon.
West Virginia-Partly cloudy and
warmer tonight; tomorrow showers,
colder in afternoon and at night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-04-20
Precipitation.
FINANCIER DIES
Col. Robert Glendinning Victim
of Pneumonia at SO.

PHILADELPHIA, April 20 tP).-Col.
Robert Glendinning, widely known
financier and aviation enthusiast, died
last night of pneumonia. He was So.
Col. Glendinning was decorated by
the United States and foreign nations
during the World War for the part he
played in the advancement of Ameri-
can wartime aviation methods and
eouiDment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-04-20
Report for Last 4s Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, IS. at noon today. Year
ago. "a.
Lowest. 3s. at 2:15 am. today. Year
ago. so.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, So. on April 10.
Lowest. o on January %.
Humidity for Last Fl Hours.
From noon yesterday 10 noon today)
Highest. 20 per cent. at 3 am. today.
Lowest. % per cent. at noon. today.
Tide Tables,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-04-20
The Sun and Moon.

Rises. Sets.
Sun today SIS $40
Sun. tomorrow - 5:.14 $50
Moon, today APO am. 6.l3 p m.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current month to date:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-10

ooh, my! It's mad" brave Scouty
cried. Its swaying, now, from side
to side. We'd better run anG grab
it. I am not one bit afraid"
ooh, no." the hunter snapped.
"Stay here! 1t can't jump out, now.
Never fear Why, that's one of the
finest traps that have ever made"
Soon QUINCY started laughing
when the beast began to snort and
then flung out its trunk and grabbed
some Of the bars OF the small cage.
Hes stronger than you think,
guess" said Quincy. soon there1l
be a mess of little bars all over.
Why. the beast is in a rage"
The lad was right. Out came a
bar and it was tossed away out far
And then OUT came some others.
Why, the whole thing seemed like
play.
There goes your cage" yelled
Windy. Gee, that's just as sad as
it can be. In just about minute
that small beast will run away"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-10

IT don't call that swinging" said Doc well,
cousin-if you can't do it. how do you expect me
to?" "Humph" growled Dick I've got to have
little practice" But despite their awkwardness the
boys made progress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-10
(READ THE STORY, THEN COLOR THE PICTURE,
JAN. 10, 1896

THE Tinymites kept very still,
l. till Colby whispered, what a
thrill, to watch that tiny elephant
play round the little rap.
The hunters right. The beast
is small. Why, it would not be hard
at ali for me, If I could get the
thing, TO hold it in my lap"
BE quiet" snapped Wee Windy.
you will scare the beast. That's
what you'll do! And that would
spoil the hunters plan" Fair Colby
said, "Okay."
The elephant brushed round a
tree. Much palmer could the TIMES
see. at soon will be my prisoner"
they heard the hunter say.
Then came the finest thrill of all.
The TIMES saw the small trap fall.
The elephant had stepped inside to
get the peanuts there.
OF course the beast was quite sur
prised when it looked round and
realized that it was captured. Then
it started jumping in the air.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-10
INSTALLATION is SET
BY PYTHIAN SISTERS
New Officers of Myrtle Temple Take
Posts Tuesday Night.

Officers of Myrtle Temple, No. Z.
Pythian Sisters. are to be installed
Tuesday night in knights of Pyth-
las Hall. l3th-st and Park-av. They
arc Lula Gunsett, most excellent
ri1ief; Mrs. Eta Reiner. excellent
kenior; Mrs. Lena Darnell, excellent
junior; Lenora Goodwin, manager:
Mrs. Audrey Brown, mistress of
ecords and correspondence.
AIRS. Nettie Harmon. mistress of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-10

finance; Miss May Mann, proctor;
Miss Anna Belford, grand. In
Sailing officers are Nellie B.
Petri, Elizabeth Bell and Mary
Meak. Annice Helfrish is trustee
and press correspondent; Mabel
Teogue, drill captain: Mary Mad
sen and Elizabeth Smith also are
trustees
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by Williams
9 1895 BY seA SERVICE. INC.
BY BlOsser
BY Crane

Twilight had fallen, and 1t no easy matter
to follow straight line through dense jungle when
the sun was not visible. So it not strange that
within hundred yards the boys had so altered
their course that they penetrating deeper into
the perilous wild!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-10
Former State Official Dies


LoGANSPORT, Jan. 10. - DR..
Charles Mummert, So, former presi-
dent of the Indiana Veterinarian
Board, died here yesterday after a
long illness. The widow and two
children survive.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-29
10 MILLION STILL
UNCLAIMED IN
POST OFFICE

Millions Of dollars are lying
around the Post Office Depart
ment, merely waiting for people
to claim them. They represent
uncashed money orders, and are
growing at the rate Of nearly
100000 a year, it has been re-
ported.
Made up of small sums, they
have grown to the staggering total
Of $18,847,615. This includes
$472,170 in unclaimed money
orders which piled up during the
fiscal year which ended June 80.
Every human catastrophe known
to man, postal officials said, has
contributed to the growing hoard.
Sickness, death, accidents, de-
Struction by fire and floods, they
said, are only a few of the factors
responsible for the failure Of per-
sons to whom the money orders
were addressed to claim them.
The dead letter office, also the
recipient Of unclaimed funds en-
trusted to mail, found $35,535 IN
cash last year in envelopes ad-
dressed to persons who could not
be located. In previous years the
dead letter office has received as
much as $4,000 in this fashion.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-29
Taxi-DriVers Like
Short Green LiQht

NEW YORK, Oct. 20 Q.N.S).
Operators Of north and south
bound buses today stood alone in
opposition to the police plan to
solve the Manhattan-and Amer
lean traffic tangle problem by
cutting short green light time.
The country watched as New
York sought to solve its problem
by cutting north and south green
light time from 80 to Sc seconds
and east and west time from 80
to 26 seconds.
Taxi drivers, croSStown bus
drivers, police and pedestrians IA
vored the change.
But
"It's lousy. Terrible" said a
conductor on a north and south
bound bus. IF they were going
to change the system they should
have given us more time, not
less"
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"After this first punishment,
the length of which will be fixed
by the court, the hard labor It.
self will begin"
Asked if it would be necessary
to construct a new prison, possibly
on the order of Americas Alcatraz,
Andrieu said:
"NOt at present. There are .
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-29

Of abolishing Devils Island. We
are not going to transfer any
prisoners from there to France;
we are simply sentencing no
more men to Guiana.
"At the end of Is years we
may take what few cOnvicts will
be left there and bring them
back, but no definite arrange.
mentS have been made"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-29

French penitentiary administra'
ton, who added:
Don't believe for a minute
we want to tighten sentences.
What we are preparing will be
worse, a great deal worse. Every
prisoner who Is sent to Devils
Island cherishes the secret hope
of some day escaping. We will
destroy all hope of escape.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-29
ADVE RTIsEME
BRONCHIAL ASTHMA
SPASMS, HAY FEVER

Doctors form ula- cslafo Liquid-has
helped thousands. Must help you or
costs nothing. Aids in clearing con-
gested bronchial tubes of phlegm that
causes those choking spasms. Checks
tendency to attacks. You'll say Calafo
Liquid best or money back. $100 at
Peoples Drug Stores.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-29

PARIS, oct. 30 G.N.S0.-Al-
though Devils Island is soon to be
abolished as a convict colony, the
French government is planning to
submit it's criminals to a much
more severe system of punishment.
This was the statement Of Ed
Guard Andrieu, director Of the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-29

"Under our new plan, the pc
riod of the cOndemned's punish
ment will be divided into two
parts. For the first three or
four years he will be placed in
absolute solitary confinement.
In order to keep the prisoner
from going crazy we will give
him a little work to do each
day.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-29

number Of old unOccupied jails
in France, and these could be re-
conditioned and used for at least
two years. After that, we might
have to think Of building a new
institution.
MISUNDERSTANDING"
"There Is q great deal Of mis-
understanding 40 to our method
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-04-10
CHAPTER II

TT RAINED toward evening and
L Jack Snow got to town at dusk.
He had heard about his camp, of
course, but he had not heard about
the loss of his payroll. And when
they told him he said nothing for,
perhaps, quarter of a minute but
in those seconds he aged. Before,
men had called him Old Jack be-
cause they loved him. After
ward, he was an old man, in fact.
The first thing he said after he
knew the worst that had happened
referred to Kerry. He looked at
the boy and winked and managed a
sort of grin and said: But you're
all right, SON." as if that were all
he would admit as being of any i'm
portance.
And after that he said but lit
tie for days. He appeared to lis
ten when people talked but if he
heard he seldom answered prop
erly.
Once he said to Kerry, when they
were alone in their room at the
mill boarding house:
"Tough, to let a cOupla thousand
bust you. But it was that
clOst."
He managed to rustic enough to
pay off the crew; that is, those
who would take what they had
coming.
He began to be feverish and
talked at night in his sleep, holding
the little boy close in his arms
while the tremors ran through him.
Tod West came to say goodbye
and declared again that it was his
fault, that he should have fetched
the letter-file himself.
Jack reused from his lethargy.
Fault, hell?" he snorted and spit,
the way he used TO do. "You
done your damnedest, both of
you'll"
ITO BE CONTINUED
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-04-10
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The Coolidge examiner., 1936-04-10

-Tod, what's the matter?" he
asked shrilly. Tod, is the money
back yonder? Did it burn up, Tod?'
And then, summoning all his vigor,
Tod, l done just what you told
mel"
West shook his head. "No, you
didn't understand" he said in a
moan. You didn't understand, and
the moneys burned sure as hell
and My God, boys, it's my
fault"
Someone said: 1T amt your
fault. Tod. The kid, he got rat
tied"
Another said: It'll be all day
with old Jack now"
They all looked at the boy and
he knew they were blaming him.
All but Tod. Tod did not look his
way; there was something funny
about Tods eyes.
His nQstrils smarted and a lump
swelled in his throat suddenly. A
helpless feeling ran his bones and
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-04-10
CHAPTER !


2 MOKE filled MS eyes and his
- throat. Heat, so intense that
it seemed to be fluid, poured over
them. The sound of the speeder's
motor and the clatter of its wheels
on the uneven rails was almost
drowned in the raging voice of the
fire; and Tod, an arm around him.
holding him close as they rocked
and swayed down the grade, was
trembling.
But he wasn't going to cry, even
if he was more scared than he ever
had been in his seven years of eX-
perience. Not much, he wasn't
He hugged the precious letter-file
with old Jacks payroll in it closer,
and tried to look ahead; and when
he saw living flames from the burn
ing. cars of chemical wood swept
across the track like a curtain, he
threw himself fiat and squeezed his
eyes shut and held his breath, and
did not complain with so much as
a grunt when Tod's big body.
sprawling suddenly over his small
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-04-10

one, made his ribs bend out of
shape. No, sir! This was no time
to act like a baby!
Headquarters was going, sure
enough, but they were getting good
old Jacks money out to safety.
That was his job: to help save
good old Jack from going bust.
When you've got a job like that,
Tor a man like that, you can't let
on you're scared, can you? No;
not even at seven, you can't!
He had been outside the office,
standing in the deserted camp
clearing, staring off up the road
which Jack and the crew had taken
before daylight, and where the
cook had just gone with dinner
for the fire-fighters, when the book
keeper called to him.
Listen, Kerry" Tod had said.
Il want you to sit right here un-
til l call you or come back. Winds
getting worse"
His big, ordinarily good-natured
face was white, and fine beads of
moisture pricked out above his eye
brOwS.
Sure" said Kerry Young, and
swallowed, his heart going faster
with Tod looking so scared.
Nov, listen, careful. 1 took the
payroll out of the cash drawer,
see! It's in this letter-file - this
one, right here" He laid his hand
ON the brown box on top of the
safe. Another file was on the desk.
and more on a shelf above it: but
Tod put his hand right on that
special one. I'm goin' out to scout
around. If anything happens, it
may happen fast. The speeder's
right on the track, now-right by
the water-tank, there. If yell, you
bring the file and come a-runnin'.
Understand that?"
"Sure, Tod" said Kerry and
swallowed again, even if his mouth
was drier than ever.
Good boy! Everybody's got to
do his part, time like this"
He went out, then, and Kerry
sat down on a chair with ,his
breath tluttery in his throat. Re-
spOnsibility sat heavily on his small
shoulders, but he'd do lust what
Tod had told him to do. That paw
roll was old Jacks money, and he'd
break his neck to help old Jack.
he would! Good old Jack, who
had found him in the house the
day before his mother died, and
got the doctor and did all that he
could do, and who, after it was all
over and he was alone, brought
him to camp. That had been win
ter before last, and it looked as if
he was going to stay with Jack
forever. He certainly hoped so.
Nobody in the world could be SO
kind to a little boy who had nc
body else to look out for him as
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-04-10

sense of having been put-upon,
abused, outraged. Jack had gone
bust because his pay roll was
burned up but he had done just as
he had been told to do.
And before he knew what he
was doing, he was sObbing just
that:
Il fetched the one you told me
I did! 1 did ~
He got that far before his sobs
choked him and he skunk to a cor
ner, burying his face in his arms,
Old Jack was bust and they said it
was because he got ratified when
he had done as he'd been told and
tried his best to help!
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-04-10

could old Jack, and breaking your
neck for a man like that would be
little enough to do.
Jack had been so worried since
the fire started, day before yester-
day! He had been in town when
it came up, and had come back,
driving the engine himself, snak-
ing the empties over the steel fit
to shake the stakes out.
The crew was on the fire then,
of course, and old Jacks voice,
generally so good-natured, was
sharp as a knife when he ques-
toned Tod who was telephoning
for more wardens. Jack stuffed
the payroll money into the safe as
he talked, and then, telling Tod
certain things to do all in one
breath, he jumped into the waiting
blackboard and galloped to the
southwark, where a mile-wide front
of slash fire advanced toward
camp.
Kerry walked up when Jack came
in that night Their room was next
the office, with a big bed and a lit
tie one; and he lay in his little one
and looked through the open door
way and saw Jack standing by the
desk, shirt all scorched, hair
singed, talking lowly to Tod. 1t
was bad, he said. He'd brought
half the crew in to get some rest ;
he'd turn in himself and try to
catch wink, because with all that
chopping afre, tomorrow was go
ing to be hell itself. -.
And tomorrow was, with the tel
ephone ringing and help from town
coming through all day, and the
smoke thick and thicker.
But at breakfast this morning,
eaten before the first crack of
dawn, Jack had said:
"We got an even break, now.
We'd ought to hold her, but you
never can tell. Why, yesterday,
some Of them damn birch stubs got
burnin' clean to the top, md I'll
bet they was THROWN live brands
half a mile ahead of 'em."
"And they might go further than
that" Tod West commented.
They might, another said; not
likely, but still they might and
then Jack pulled Tod to one side
where nobody but Kerry could hear
and said:
"Since this thing broke I've
thought no more about payroll
than the boys have about pay day.
Shows I'm gettin' old. You'll be
here, Tod. Somebody with a head
on 'em's got to stay by the tele-
phone again. 1t amt likely she'll
get away from us. If she does, it
amt likely she'll get clean to camp
in hurry. But if anything should
happen, you get that payroll into
town. Silver's all right, but it's
mostly bills and bills'd burn sure
in that old safe of NINE"
"They sure would" agreed Tod.
Then Jack had looked at Kerry.
BE good boy, son" he said
cheerily, as if he were only going
out on the job and not to a fire
line. "Be good boy,"-and tweaked
Kerry's ear playfully.
"And him." he said to Tod, sud.
denly sober and jerking his head
at the lad. "Twenty-two hunderd.
small as it is, ID bust me right now,
so get that out if anything pops.
But him If you get a chance,
send him into town anyways" .
SO Kerry knew that Jack thought
more of him than he did of going
bust.
He sat there a long time, feeling
important. 1t wasn't much that
he could do for Jack ever. but
now, watching that file, he knew
that if fire should come into camp
he'd grab that box and get to the
speeder faster than he had ever
gotten anywhere before in his life.
He rose finally and looked through
the window toward the water tank
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-04-10
Play Just as Important to
Well Balanced Life as Work

A vacation helps to balance our
powers, to give us a more symmetri-
cal development. 1t keeps us from
becoming Onesided. 1t improves our
judgment.
People who alternate work with
play, who frequently get close to Ma
ture, preserve the sweetness of life;
are sOunder, saner; have more COM
nonsense than those who never
drop their work.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-04-10
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Begin III KsOSU

Start right here on one of
the swiftest, smackin' est
adventures of your whole
life. Never before has even
this noted writer of out
door adventure stories
reached the peak of two
fisted herman action of
FLAME IN THE FOREST.
Evening star., 1936-08-26

Of gophers, kangaroo-rats, prairie-dog
and badger domiciles.
Seeds Of flowers, grasses and desert
vegetation are industriously gathered.
They love Insects, and are not wise
enough to avoid traps baited with the
food they are fond of. Cactus seems
to furnish them with enough moisture.
Feasting all Summer, the ground
squirrels have laid up several layers Of
fat to carry them over the cold
weather. AL Winter they draw on
this reserve supply, and BY April are
out again In the warm sunshine and
eager for food.
II you know where the ground
squirrels have their home, you can pay
Q visit to them. One Of the first things
to do is to settle down in some COM
Portable spot, and wait until al Is
quiet once more. You may, in a short
time, see pair Of bright black eyes
peering out of some burrow near by.
II you have not attracted his unfavor-
able attention, you may see him take
. dust bath or perform some Of his
daily exercises.
As these squirrels do not occupy val
Evening star., 1936-08-26

he have gone of Of his own accord?
Somehow she couldn't believe that
any Of his enemies had been smart
enough to catch Dany Meadow Mouse.
No. sir, she couldn't believe that.
"It must be that he has gone
away" she said to herself, but why
should he do that?"
Then she remembered how she had
disappeared with the five babies. Re
membering that, she began to suspect
that Danny had given her up for lost.
HE probably hunted for me. and,
when he couldn't find me, he decided
that something had happened to me"
thought Nanny. THAT would be the
natural thing for him to think. Prob
ably he decided he would rather live
somewhere else. wish ! knew In
which direction he went"
Right then q most disturbing
thought popped into the funny little
head of Nanny Meadow Mouse. 1t
was most disturbing because it pro-
duced sudden jealousy, and Jealousy
is one of the most disturbing things
in all the Great World. Nanny
stopped abruptly. You see, that sud-
den thought was just like q blow.
IT wonder" said Nanny. Il wonder
II he has gone away with some one
else. I wonder If he has found an
other mate and gone to make another
hoRe."
Poor Nanny. 1t was bad enough to
be lonesome and worried, but to be
Jealous was just too much.
(Copyright, 1936.)
Evening star., 1936-08-26

East Room SO Feet Long.
The White Houses East Room Is
81 feet long (the width of the house,.
10 feet wide and "a feet high.