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CHICAGO NEGRO ATTACKER SLAIN Unidentified You n g Negro Slain By Police After Attack — Chicago, June 23.—(U,Rj- Suburhan Riverdale police shot and kill- , ed tin unidentified young negro , today after he attacked a widowed mother of two children. Victim of the assault was Mrs. ' Elizabeth Muhin, 25. of Riverdale.; employed as a “26 girl'' in a Chi- 1 <-ago restaurant. She said she had ' Just stepped from a train when the negro leaped at her from an j alley, knocked her down and at-: tacked her. "I pleaded with him not to hurt ‘ me and offered to give him my | money." she told police. "He said | he didn't want my money and I threatened to cut my throat if 1 , screamed. Hut I screamed just the siime." Her screams awakened a neighbor who called assistant police j chief Lester Brooksfelt and patrol-I man Frank Stieinann. They chas-, ed the negro, fired two shots in ’ the air and when he refused to i halt, fired at him. One bullet pierc- j ed his heart and he fell dead. The negro, about 25, was wear-, ing three pairs of trousers, three t shirts, a polo shirt and a coat

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.--- - - - — SYNOPSIS Ned Holden, son of a Yankee mother and an American missionary, looks the typical American tourist on his first trip to the Orient. Yet he had been brought up in Asia. Officially an ethnologist, he is actually a secret service man. Back from a dangerous expedition, Holden now plans a long holiday in Bangkok, Siam, among the Americans there. He meets Virginia Griffin, from St. Louis, Missouri; Daniel Griffin,noted Oriental art collector; his secretary and Virginia’s fiance, Andri Chambon. Immediately attracted to Virginia, Holden is planning a sightseeing jaunt with her when he learns of the theft of the famous Emerald Buddha from the royal temple. Revolution may result if the Buddha cannot be restored to its shrine before the Siamese winter festival six weeks hence. Virginia's father is suspected. Th next day Holden searches the hotel rooms of his new friends, Virginia returns unexpectedly and finds him there. Unable to give the true explanation of his presence, Ned allows the girl he already loves to believe him a common hotel thief. Soon the Griffin party prepares to leave for a motor trip through French Indo-China, with the ancient city of Laos as their destination. Griffin hires as interpreter a Laotian named T’Fan. recommended by the French governor. T’Fan, really Holden in disguise, hints his suspicions of Chambon to the Governor. Holden swears to restore the Buddha of Royal Siam to its temple. CHAPTER IX Soon after, the caravan got under way. At Virginia’s suggestion—there was balm in Gilead—Ned was given one of the folding chairs in the front car, Griffin beside him and the girl and her lover behind, all in reach of his voice. As he rode along, Ned tried to assemble his facts and fit them together. But they were colored stones from a broken mosaic vase; only the artist who conceived it could trace its fantastic pattern. Was Chambon himself the unknown victor of that fatal swordylay in a grove in France, avenging his mother’s wrongs 7 There he sat, gobbling a mango, dripping juice and talking with gay charm. Was the theft of the Emerald Buddha the act of a fanatical art collector 7 But back on the baggage truck rode My Lord the Leopard, dressed like a coolie! Was Griffin a confederate to the plot, or its victim 7 Just now he was busy licking into smokable thape the broken wrapper of a big black cigar. Was he, Ned, on the trail of the stolen Buddha, or off on the maddest, wildest goose chase of his career? But for the moment he was more concerned whether the nicest and prettiest girl he had ever met loved Vicomte Chambon past all care or cure. Griffin lighted his cigar and broke a long silence. ’’Andre, my boy. I’ve been guessing hard, but I can’t make it.” “Do not guess any more right now,” Chambon answered quickly. “Look at the scenery." But Griffin, bless his heart, blundered cheerfully on. “You said it would be the prize of a lifetime, the thing we’re going to get in Laos. Still I can’t figure it out.” Chambon turned carelessly to Ned. “T’Fan: I hope to provide a surprise in the way of a souvenir for Monsieur Griffin. It has no special pecuniary value, but great interest for an antiquary.” “Yes, Tuan," Ned answered respectfully. But his eyes were glittering. And now the changing country changed the subject. The level deltalands dropped behind; brush-grown hills rose. Further on they saw a village, little and obscure at the edge of the deep woods ... A score of thatchedroof houses perched on stilts; a few weed-grown fields of rice and maize; a group of small, dark, heavy-jawed men, all but naked, staring with sunken dull eyes at the passing can

J with a label showing It wus purl chased at Evansville, Ind. In his I pockets, police found three bottles of perfume, a tube of shaving 101 l ll lion. two decks of playing cards. 150 cents In change, dippings of | the Louis-Sehmellng fight, u loaf lof bread, a sandwich, a small pie and a pocket knife with a 5-lnch | blade that he apparently made no attempt to use. Mrs. Muhin was taken to a hosI pital where doctors verified she I had been attacked. Innocent Man Freed Chicago. June 22. —<U.R> -Thom- | as McCall, serving a five-year senI tence for a crime subsequently ad- ■ i mltted by an 18-year-old negro i who later repudiated the confessi ion, was freed today after a speedy ! re-trial in which he was acquitted i by criminal Judge John C. Lewe. He was returned to Joliet, but | only as a formality pending issu- ; ance of official release papers ex- : ported tomorrow. McCall was convicted last DeI eember on a charge of criminally assaulting Miss Virginia Austin. New York doll designer, in her "loop" hotel room, and started j serving his sentence in January. Last month Robert Nixon, who. I police said, admitted five attack- . murders, "confessed" it was he ' who attacked Miss Austin. Nixon, i however, repudiated the alleged I confession when he confronted McCall a fortnight ago before Chief | Justice Cornelius J. Harrington of (criminal court. i Before the unusual re-trial was

... How many like it Ned had seen! How many more, before he could return to his own lost world! “They are Khas, wild people," he explained. “Mostly they live on tops of our mountains. In the days of our kingdom they were slaves, but the kings died and the French set them free.” “Good for the French!” Griffin exclaimed. But Chambon looked scornful. “We were fools to interfere. The Laotians are a great people of ancient culture and superb art. Why shouldn’t they make slaves of those jungle monkeys ? If the kingdom is ever restored, they’ll be slaves again.”

SbgiSfcXw JWlfeu k j \ MR’ “Heaven-Born, did you see the Emerald Buddha in the temple at Bangkok?”

“You go in mighty hard for ancient art and superb culture,” Virginia broke in, with more feeling than the occasion seemed to warrant. “I much prefer living human beings.” Ned decided to remember this conversation. Soon the scattered thickets gave way to impenetrable jungle. The road ran as between sheer walls of wondrously carved green jade. It was an old story to Ned, a pleasantly exciting story, but Virginia felt a vague growing dismay. Her vague uneasiness changed to a creepy foreboding ... as though they were plunging into some tremendous, perilous adventure, instead of a mere auto trip through Indo-China. She felt queerly alone, too; her father was nodding; Chambon suddenly seemed like a stranger. Some man she had never met looked out of his eyes, as they climbed further info these mysterious jun-gle-grown hills. No one was left but the native interpreter, T’Fan, a brown man long-haired and earringed. Still—and this was bewildering—the sight of him seemed to comfort her, to make everything all right. At sundown they drove into a little walled fort near the summit of the range and only two hours’ journey from the Laotian frontier. Here a grizzled army officer greeted the visitors. The three white people must remain for dinner. T’Fan and the servants could cook their own meal at the rest-house, half a mile beyond, and make the beds and hang the nets for the night. But Virginia felt childishly disappointed. Not until they were at table, and the Frenchman was pouring his prized Burgundy, was she glad she had stayed. “I am not sure it’s a good time for

■ ordered today. Mrs. Marcello Duffe , testified ut request of McCall's at- ( torneys. She identified several letters from Miss Austin. In one of these, Miss Austin was quoted ; as saying. "... My instinct does not tel) me he (McCall) is the criminal In the case.” Mrs. Duffe also told of a conversation in which she quoted Miss Austin as saying "it was a negro who attacked me." McCall himself testified ho was not in the hotel and denied the attack. Judge Lewe then ordered the retrial. McCall plead not guilty and was acquitted by the judge. o GOVERNMENT DRIVE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) other new deal leaders, administration officials speeded all phases of the multi-billion dollar recovery program. They expected that the president's fireside chat tomorrow night would add new incentive to efforts being made to put men back to work and to increase the volume of business. PWA entered the second of three consecutive days in which it will offer funds from its portion of the lending - spending fund, designed eventually to create $600,000,000 of public works projects. Yesterday, 590 projects, affecting nearly every state and requiring $77,811,000 of federal money, were released. With the local share added, the completed cost of these will be approximately $148,795,000.

tourists to visit Laos,” he said out of a clear sky. Virginia said nothing, but watched every face, not quite knowing why. “What do you mean, Captain?” Chambon asked. The officer looked long at his plate. "What I mean, has no meaning. It is only a shadow. Had I not lived a generation in these hills I could not see it myself. But pots are boiling in Laos." “You don’t think—revolution?” Griffin asked. “Impossible. There are only a few millions left, and all they do is dream. But the excitement has reached my Kha villagers; I hear their drums at all hours."

“Would you advise us to turn back?” Virginia asked bluntly. “Ma petite!" Chambon’s tone was warm and tender—overdoing it, she thought. “Monsieur le Capitaine had no such idea.” “No, there is no reasonable danger,” the officer answered at last. “If danger exists, it is unreasonable. Go on and see our wonderful, incredible country.” But Virginia decided to look deeper into this matter. When she and her party had driven on to the rest-house, she summoned the interpreter, T’Fan. Watchinghis friendly brown face in the light of a campfire, she began to repeat the officer's story. “You’re a Laotian, and you’ll know if there’s anything in it,” she concluded. She saw a little glitter come in his eye. “Heaven-Bom, I will tell you. It is only a childish rumor among our people. Did you see the Emerald Buddha in the temple at Bangkok T” “I heard about it.” Yes, and from a hotel thief named Ned Holden! A remembered shame flushed her cheeks. < “It belonged to us once," her in-i terpreter went on, gravely. “It is’ the true embodiment of our Shining One. Our foolish, fond people are whispering a tale that it will soon travel this way again—some say it is already on the march. But where it is going, and what is the meaning, no one can even guess." “What a silly story,” came Chambon’s voice quickly—too quickly it seemed to Virginia. That was all. Nothing more. Yet a sense of strangeness—drama—danger perhaps—kept her nerves on edge. (To be continued.) Copyright b* Ediaoo Marahail. CUtributod by King Faaturaa Syndicate, taa.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY .JUNE 23, 1938.

Cripples and Children Among Bombing Victims I* x . • '———J—l ■H&y JsJi -X • J - Killed in Japanese air raids on Canton ,

An infant and a cripple are among the dead in this i group of victima who lost their lives during Japanese air raids on Cantop, China, It was estimated ,

A similar number of allotments will [ be announced today. Two other factors appeared like-, ly to help government officials in I their effort to make business men J and industrialists share their op-| timistic outlook: 1. Secretary of the Treasury | , Henry Morgenthau. Jr., and federal I I reserve board chairman Marriner [ S. Eccles have agreed upon a plan to relax somewhat and make uni--1 form bank examination requirements. This move is expected to make bankers feel more inclined ■ to grant loans to small businesses. The agreement will be presented to Mr. Roosevelt when he returns from his Hyde Park, N. Y„ home 1 Friday morning. 2. Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, in a 1938 fiscal yearend statement, said that the depression “seems to be scraping bottom.” This was made one day laster the president had remarked I | that he had felt a few drops of; recovery rain and expected a : “much-needed shower" before long, j Roper was understood to have made his statement after consulting economists in his department's foreign and domestic commerce, and census bureaus. Mr. Roosevelt oft»n relies upon these same advisers for information on the general economic situation. o Fort Wayne Youths Held As Burglars Fort Wayne, June 23 — (U.K) — Police today reported they had : solved two filling station burglaries. three automobile thefts and looting of numerous other cars within the last month, with the | arrest of four Fort Wayne young j I men. Robert V. McKeeman, 16. and J. Edward Osborn, 18. are charged ■ with vehicle taking and Donald J.; Klerner, 18, and Robert W. Rehm, 18. are charged with entering to commit a felony. McKeeman and Osborn were arrested while asleep in a stolen car containing filling station loot.

His Mother Slain, Father SI I wo*'"’’' James Brown with Mrs, Thomas Lynch Unaware of the tragedy which has befallen him, James Brown, 13 months old, plays with a ball as he sits in the lap of a neighbor lady at Cambridge, Md., where his father is in custody of police in connection with the death of the child’s mother. Police said that Fred Brown 45-year-old farmer, had allegedly confessed to choking his wife,’ an expectant mother, and throwing her weighted body into the Nsntlcoks river.

that total casualties were in excess of 4.000, while property damage ran into the millions as bombers attempted to paralyze commerce in this key city.

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Wife Os Preacher Fatally Injured Sullivan, Ind., June 23 —(UP) —[ Mrs. Bertha Simpson, 45. wife of Alonzo Simpson pastor of the Dugger, Indiana Baptist church, died in the Sherman hospital here today from injuries suffered last night when she fell from an automdbile driven by her husband. Mrs. Simpeon sustained a fractured skull when she attempted to step from the automobile while it was still in motion. She apparently caught her foot on the running board or the door, throwing her to the pavement. _o Indiana U. To Offer Course In “Marriage” Bloomington, find., June 23 —(UP) —Student demand for a course in “marriage” has resulted in the board of trustees of Indiana university adding it to the curriculum. The new “mariage” course of 12 lectures will be offered to a eelected group of Senior men. women and graduate students, starting Tues-

Ambassador Back . . . . ■. r <- K ■> i BpM \ 7 Joseph P. Kennedy i Back in the United States from London to report on foreign affairs and possibility of a settle- > ment of Great Britain’s war debt, Joseph P. Kennedy, ambassador to the court of St. James, went to Hyde Park, N. Y.. to confer with the president. He admitted the economic outlook abroad was not too bright.

day. .Dr. A. C. Kinsey of the Zoology department will be in charge of the new course. Senior married members of the faculty will be seli ected for lectures on diverse ani gles of the mariage problem. Governor Townsend Democrat Keynoter Indianapolis, Ind., Jan 23 —(TTP) — ; Omer Stokes Jackson, state Demoeaid today that Gov. M. Clifford Townsend will ibe the temporary chairman and keynote speaker at the Democratic ; state convention July 11-12. U. S. Senator Sherman Minton ’ will be the permanent convention i chairman. Jackson said. The Democratic convention will be held in the coliseum of the state fairgrounds, where the Republican I convention also will meet next week. The same decorations will I prevail for both conventione, with | exception of pictures. Contractor Takes Life By Drowning Indianapolis, Ind., June 23 —(UP) —Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon for (Henry R. Dolman. prominent 66-year-old contrac-

SEEK PLEDGES I FROM SENATORS State leaders Seek Assurance Os Short Special Session Indianapolis, Juno 23.— i(U.R) - A three-matt committee today began contacting Democratic members of the Indiana senate to obtain assurance that they would consider nothing in the proposed special I session except the building appropriation measure. A house committee already has obtained pledges from a majority of the Democratic members of the lower chamber thut they will limit activities to the appropriation hill. Those contacting the senators are Sens. Joseph M. Robertson of i Brownstown and E. Curtis White of Indianapolis and Rep. Frank G. ; Thompson of Bluffton, majority leader of the house. Indications were that Gov. M. Clifford Townsend has decided definitely to summon the legisla-1 ture into special session, probably during the latter part of July. The assembly will be asked to appropriate funds for an $8,000,000 state building program, 45 per cent of which will be obtained from the public works administra- j tion. Included in the program are a new $3,000,000 office building, a new tuberculosis sanatorium and additions to the various state hospitals and the state fairgrounds. o Indianapolis Man Seeks Nomination Indianapolis. Juno 23. — (U.K/ — Clinton H. Givan of Indianapolis, former superior court judge, today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for judge of the ’state supreme court from the third district. Givan was the first Republican to announce either for the supreme or the appelate courts. The state convention next week must nomi- 1 nate two candidates for the supreme court and four for the appelate court. o Dogs' Nerves Snap. Too Pasadena. Cal. (U.P>—Dogs suffer from nervous breakdowns the same as human beings, according to Dr. R. M. Pritchard who is now treating one. The fact that dogs tor and real estate dealer who committed suicide by drowning in the White River. The body, clad only in underclothes. was found in several feet of water by a fisherman, Orville Kendall. A suicide note was found in a notebook on the 'bank nearby It said: “I just couldn’t take it any more." The act was attributed to poor health which Dolman had suffered recently.

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