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■IE 6. 0. P. IeFSTUESDAY L State Convention Confused With ■ Many Issues June 27 (UP) , io th-- Republican Mali' if1.,., ■[■ „ sd.iy and W.-dn. s |fl v , ; ■ ■ today thoroughly flK.'. o ’ live senatorial candi to recess the con anil what to do about nator Frederick Van u political observers K that never before had a ■K ,«>■ r" on been as nnpre and so confused with "H the surface appeal irrelevant. aim tig the del -gates to ■Kj tontorrow before the dis HK-, ;s. - •..morrow night may the situation as all of the candidates established |K^ r ters where they will con ’-at ton.-- delegations. But these situations ar- : U;tic contest for the United 18,.. iiiuatioii th-

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fl SYNOPSIS jflfec Holden, returning to Bangfrom a dangerous mis- ■ L -t: the Annamite country, a typical American tourist. a Yankee mother and an missionary, Ned had been by native nurses. Officially he is actually a service man for the King of ■E- Holden meets an American Griffin, just arrived with her father, noted and Andri Chambon, French vicomte who is secretary and Virginia's Soon thereafter, Holden is of the theft of the famous Buddha from the royal before the Siamese winter Griffin is suspected. . . . under protest, consents and the next day flvches the Griffin hotel suite. Blrpnia unexpectedly returns and him there. She believes him Keto be a common thief, but lets .. . Next morning, the Gnfleaves for the interior of city of Laos as their goal. On of the French ■terror, a Laotian headman named ■sn (actually Holden) has been interpreter. That night an ■rov is shot into the camp from ■e forest; a warning from the ■hi that the Griffin party should ■n back. The next morning, ■pred by Chambon’s passionate ■krest in the art treasures he is Bmng and his neglect of her, Vir■toi threatens to break their enThat same day they find ■ ancient pagoda near the trail, ■dinside it two old Buddhas, one ■ wood and one of stone, which ■ambon insists on adding to the ■lection, despite Griffin's protest, ■mediately afterward they are ■opped by a group of Khas. T’Fan ■etends ignorance of their lanJjage and listens while Pu-Bow. ■om he has recognized as a great ■Ktian baron in the guise of a ■olie servant, scoffs at the little ■tn's warning that "He-Who-Has-■>me" should turn back. If he per■ti, they say, “his own head will CHAPTER XII ’What did he say?” Virginia French. Pu-Bow turned an impassive face. Nothing of matter, Heaven-Born. Wy that—wiid elephants have tided their plantations, and they "ih the white lords to take their ides and pursue them.” “Tell them sorry—we are not elekant hunters,” Chambon answered. “But with your pardon, I ask you »d the old master to get your rifles Iron their cases, on the small lance that we meet the herd on road and they give us trouble,” Grim though the situation, was, Ned's heart was beating a delighted Uttoo against his ribs. He had never ,e? n neater work than this last. By «• great god Budd, his so-called “u-Bow was a man! His hand Md write large in the events to <Nne. As Chambon and Griffin got their rifles, the Khas backed off Ming. "bve, they are afraid of the fireJticks/’ Pu-Bow said smiling. * But • * wfvant who knows the wild "ill elephant may speak, put shells “the riffv” The low, sinister snick of the *>«s shootir.'sf home overawed the “ttle jungle men. One by one they Mted into the shadows, their chief ’’last. Butashe-disappearedinto •he security of his pickets, he fired parting shot that would echo in ears for days to come. . We have spoken—soon will the ™!»ming arrows speak! Go back w ay you have come, and restore Emerald Buddha to his temple." So Ned was on tho right track! But who the thief, Griffin, Cham- *’». or Pu-Bow, and where was the hot? ■He'd discharge the first of his W suspects, because—because ho ’‘’ Virginia’s father! He must ‘ischaYge him, or this magnificent •wentta-e would turn to dust, r° r “■ in the end, he went back to his ’“least life, far from the light of I'tginia’s eyes, and reflect in his n *£hl' 1 how he had sent her “therto prison and disgrace—out what about Pu-Bow in his dress? Hera was quarry that

of the 1938 ticket—ls still a fivesided race between Oliver Starr of Gary; Raymond Willis. Angola editor; Clarence H. "Dick" Wills of Kokomo; former senator James E. Watson ( and Walter F. Bossert, former ku khix klan official. Watson has enough allies after a political career of 4’ years or more to make a good showing on the first ballot purely because of past obligations. But after the first ballot It appears that the senatorial race Is going to narrow down to Starr. Willis and Wills. 2. The so-called "dark horse" talk now is centering about Ernest Morris, South Bend banker and finance company operator who is credited with being a guiding spirit behind the federal government's investigation of automobile finance corporations. He is reported to be receptive if the senatorial lightning strikes. 3. Most of the candidates for state offices on the 1938 ticket have made their announcement and are jockeying for support among the delegates affiliated withe the various senatorial candidates. Even the senatorial nomination may be decided by these deals for the state offices. 4. A much larger number of the 1.760 delegates to the convention than are estimated actually have made no commitments and are entirely uninstructed regardless of

would be joy to hunt. It woold be easy—too easy—to put him down as a mere cat’s paw. Actually he was an Oriental of high intelligence, noble blood, and possibly great wealth. He had far more reason to steal the Emerald Buddha than had Chambon himself; in his case it would hardly be stealing but only taking-back. “Hit own head will fall!” What a strange thing for the Khas to say! They were never head-hunters; could they refer to the guillotine of official France? He remembered a reference to fallen heads in the letter in Chambon’a trunk. Only one thing was sure: the little brown men were terribly and desperately afraid. Os wl.at? How could any white man know? A material danger, or a god or a devil or an opium dream in a stone-age brain? It was this, the mind of Asia, that made his great game so fascinating. A writing on a stone was as important as a decree from a royal governor; the mouthings of a priestess in a joss-house could start cannons roaring; all matter was only the shadow of a dream and every dream mattered; tomorrow was only yesterday seen from the rear. But he did not believe the Khas would carry out their threat. They would be content to make a little mud image of their enemy, stick an arrow through it, and throw it in the fire. The cars rolled on, slowly, and with frequent stops. Whatever the rendezvous in the purple hills. Chambon seemed in no hurry to keep it. All day he was adding trophies to Griffin’s collection—a carved opium pipe from a Chinese store; a matchlock of a more primitive type than even Ned had ever seen, bought from a hunter on the road; a bronze incense-burner decorated with startling love-symbols from the hut of a Laotian chief. “A queer bird,” Ned told himself “But a bird worth netting 1” At one of the stops, Virginia threw up her head with a startled movement and raised her hand for silence. “I hear something— Ned heard it too; a faint throb like the heart-beat of the jungle. It was a wild heart, now drumming swiftly, now almost dying away, its rhythm constantly changing. And then some distant jungle answered, mere black specks of sound at t.ie outer edge of sense. “Natives, talking back and forth,” Pu-Bow said carelessly in French. ~ . . Ned could do nothing but curse his luck he had never learned the language of the drums. They stopped for the mgnt av a rest-house in the bamboo thickets, at the edge of the great savannahs of interior Laos The Jungle here was in scattered patches, mostly palms, and brush thickets. . It was a quiet spot and a calm, cool evening. But as the men were unloading the cars and pitching camp, Asia proved herself agatinThe trouble started between PuBow and old Koh-Ken. The Laotian mandarin forgot he was rearing the garb of a coolie and took an insulttag tone with the old Siamese KohKen failed to remember that he was not now Number One boy of a Tuan, but only a vagrant cook with no “face” to defend; so he replied to Pu Bow with a pointed native provert. At once the powerful young Laotian sprang at him, seized hi by the throat, and began to slap him nnded here. Ned happened to be ead nearby, superintending p * rt ’ArtS th : hf?r Whirled him around, and Umber to soften the blow. the native wilted at his d t that H ? d ther e e would be no aftermath, point, there „ rega ined his By u* his head would cool. He faculties, his he n» a sant garb, would remembe hupc , , by down by the headman

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what the candidates say. Hence the greater possibility of either a magnificent fight on the convention floor or successful strategy among these uninstructed delegates by the candidates. 5 The delegates from Allen, Tippecanoe, Porter and Starke counties are committed to battle for a convention recess until after the Democrats meet and after Gov. M. Clifford Townsend makes up his mind on a special session of the legislature to appropriate funds for an J 8.000,000 institutional building program. 6. These same four counties may advocate that the convention nominate no one for the senate and thus allow Republicans to support the independent democratic candidacy of Senator Van Nuys. The convention resolutions committee may be called upon to consider the Van Nuys situation. 7. State Republican Chairman Archie Bobbitt denounced again the proopsal that the Republican party have anything to do with Van Nuys, and inferentially the recess proposal. He said that Van Nuys answered President Roosevelt's last Friday night description of a "liberal" and consequently is entitled only to Democratic support. Bossert is the only candidate who has spoken out openly against the recess proposal, tantamount to opposing Van Nuys ( but the United

and a chief, and if be took revenge at all, a knife thrust from the dark or a little, a very little, thorn-apple in his bread, he would wait for some more suitable time and place. But the trouble had not ended; it had only begun. Chambon was standing at the door of the rest-house. In his hand was a strap he had just taken off one of his bags. For some reason yet unknown, the sight of Pu-Bow collapsing on the ground made him turn white with fury. “Son of a swine!” he called to Ned in French. And then leaping out, he lashed at him with the strap, so that it left a red welt on his face and coiled around his neck. If Ned were truly a Laotian interpreter, he might have taken the blow tamely. It was Kismet that white men held place and power to whip native servants, and so no cause for a feud. Even so, this blow was not of a suitable kind between lord and slave —the merest coolie would know that. It was not cool, judicious, but flaming angry—and anger, like love, annuls all barriers of color and caste. Yes, even a dark man might have had the right to draw his knife, and if the old gray governors of the colony sent him to the guillotine, it would be for the sake of policy, not punishment. But the darkness on Ned’s face was only paint. He had kept his role fairly well until now; even when knocking down Pu-Bow he had; barked a native oath. But as the whip stung his cheek, T’Fan the guide vanished from the scene and a free-born American stood there in Laotian clothes. His answer was altogether Yankee. He lashed out straight froml the shoulder, his fist landing on. Chamb'.n’s chin, lifting him almost: off the ground, and hurling him down into the thickets. Instantly he was sorry. With a surge of his will he remembered his role, as T’Fan. And the next instant he was more than sorry: a cold chill he had known only a few times in his rich life shot up his back and into his scalp and down into his heart. That cold chill was terror. With it came a sense of utter disaster. But it was neither Chambon nor Pu-Bow who was striking at his very life; both lay helpless on the ground. The danger rose behind him. He heard it in a high-pitched scream, the crescendo of the storm. It was a woman’s scream, not terror, but passion. An expert at interpretation, instantly, unescapably he knew just what it meant. He knew that even as she opened her mouth to give vent to that inhuman yell, she dived at him to kill him. Nor was this the futile hateful shriek of one who attacks with empty hands. And there was no tune to turn. Old Koh-Ken tried to leap between, but his stiff joints could not hurl him there in time. Unless all signs failed, the woman’s' upraised knife would surely skewer Ned through the back before any friendly force could move. But at the first sound of trouble, Griffin had come on the run. He had seen Pu-Bow and Chambon go to the ground; if he had arrived a second later Ned would have joined them there to stay. He had just time to raise his foot, trip up the would-be murderess, and with a vigorous thrust, push her falling body to one side. “You would, would you?” he was yelling. Ned had whirled, by now, to see old Nokka turn back from a shewolf into a woman. W ith trembling hands she returned her knife to an unseen sheath under her wrong, and pitifully salaamed to them all. “I did not mean to do it,” she said in French., “But I saw him strike my son—” , “Say nothing more, mother, PuBow answered in the M, ” e getting to his feet. “I am not hurt But it was a long time afterward before Ned began to wonder why this Laotian, speaking in a moment of excitement to his native mother, should happen to employ F rench instead of his own language. It was Is though the remark was meant for other ears . . • (To be continued.) CowrUM S» ktVIUH. DUtrihoteS to IU tondietU.

Leader of Bund Attacks Jews <> -1 eb iiii Kuhn testifying Testifying In New York before a state legislature committee on law enforcement Fritz Kuhn, right, leader of the German-American Bund, accused both major political parties in United States of being under domination of Jews and stated that they were "not Americans".

Press has ascertained that all four other senatorial candidates as well | as the Republican leadership also oppose the recess and Van Nuys. 8. Van Nuys has virtually closed the door to any organized Republican support by saying to the United Press last week that he is definite-: ly a Democrat and would reject the i Republican senatorial nomination even if it were offered to him. 9. And finally, the Republican, leadership seems determined that the best way to recoup its fortunes I both in 1938 and 1940 is to avoid any semblance of a conservative Democratic coalition, but to pursue its own fortunes, particularly with the strong possibility that it may I recover several congressional seats and even possibly the senate seat. | Around this nucleus, then, will be built the Hoosier 1940 presidential campaign. The Republican convention delegates today milled about the Clay-’ pool hotel lobby for the preludes which are expected to bring about 1 some meeting of minds for the con-, vention sessions Wednesday. Although the convention is scheduled for Tuesday also, that day's activities will include only the district caucuses at the statehouse and Claypool hotel Tuesday night when the members of the resolutions committee and other conveu tiou groups will be selected. o PLAN TO WEIGH (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Kuhn, Herman Kuhn ( Amos Lehman, Herman Lehman, Otto H. Lehman, Walter Lehman. Arthur Lengerich, Calvin R. Liechty & Son, Manasse Liechty, Vilas Lugin-1 bill. G. C. McCune, Omer Merriman, Menno Mertz. B. H. Miller, Floyd Mitchel A Brother, Kenneth Mitchel & Broth er, William Mitchel, Mrs. Ruth} Moser, Charles Myers, Ed Neadstine, Edwin Neuhauser, Joel ‘ Neuenschwander, Leon Neuen-. schwander, Noah Neuenschwander. William Nussbaum, William Reich ert, William Rodenbeck. Chester Roth. W. T. Rupert, Fred Schearer I Will Scherry, H. P. Schmitt. Char ! les Schenck, Noah 1). Schwartz. P D. Schwartz, Robert S. Scott. Earl Sipe, Archie H. Smltley, Alfred Sprunger, L. F. Sprunger, Martin F. Sprunger. Sprunger & Balsiger. | Albert Steiner, Jesse O. Teeter, John W. Tumbleson. H. C Wall. Willi.; a E. Witte, Lewis Yake, Jacob J. Yoder anil Wilman Yoder. o ONE BANDIT SLAIN, (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Clarence was dead." Burton wounded Orelle. The shootings occurred on the: C. A. Warner farm. The Warners I fled from their home when police warned them that the Eastons | were approaching their farm. After Craig and Burton opened fire on the fugitives, two score | state police who had been blockad-. ing roads around Dcselm joined in j the battle with machine guns and pistols. Ten minutes after the fir- ■ ing ceased, 200 other state police and deputies who had joined the | widespread manhunt, arrived al the | scene. At Kankakee jail. Orelle told po-, lice that he and his brother left I Valley City three weeks ago on a j hank robbing expedition. He i lapsed into unconsciousness from; loss of blood before he could com-, plete his story. Tho Easton brothers were believed responsible for a series of hold-, ups. shootings ar.d an abduction in Wisconsin during the past 10 days. They were linked to the Wisconsin shootings by an automobile they abandoned near Laporte. The machine bore Michigan license plates I stolen at Three Oaks. Mich. Inside j the car were several cartridges' and a set of Wisconsin license | plates stolen shortly after a woman had been robbed by two

men at Stevens Point. , : The machine the bandits aband- ■ oned at Laporte apparently had 1 broken down. It was while Dixon offered the Eastons aid that he was shot down. As they attempted to get away I In Dixon's car deputies Charles I Hahn 52, and John Kowalczyk, 50. ; chanced by in their 1934 Studebaker. The gunmen then abandoned Dixon's car and commandeered that of the deputies. They held the deputies captive tor eight hours, driving them through sections of northern Indi-1 ana where desperadoes John Dil-' linger and Al Brady had made some I of their most spectacular raids. After releasing Hahn and Kowal-1 czyk west of Cook, Ind., the gun-; men sped across the state line into Illinois. Near Wilmington, about six miles northwest of here, they abandoned the Studebaker, and bald up Novy as he was riding by with his son. They took over Novy’s machine and held him and his son as hostages. They sped northeast to nearby Symerton, apparently en route to Chicago. At Symerton, however, they encountered gunfire by state police blockading roads. After I eluding that trap, they swung I south eastward toward Kankakee. | En route, they were fired at by a , I village policeman here and turned ■ off on a country road where their ’ mad dash came to grief. Hahn said that while he and Koi waleyzk were held captives, the desperadoes took a total of s2l Irom them “but otherwise treated us ail right." Hahn said he was forced to drive the car while the bandits sat in the back seat. The spectacular dash that endqfl I in the death for one of the gumtien started as result of an automobile accident. Dixon Improved Laporte, Ind., June 27 —■ (U.R) — i State Policeman Ray Dixon, who , was shot four times by two desperI adoes last night, was given a blood | transfusion today and was reported j to be responding favorably with , Iris chance of remaining alive definitely improved. | The blood was donated by his I ' close friend on the state police force. Donald Woodwind of South ' Bend. Job Done, Quits iff V I /J J ™ -a t Leon G. Turrou His job done, Leon G. Turrou, aca New York G-man, Vurns to writing about spies ip-slead of investigating them. Turrou, who resigned "his post, uncovered the sensational espionage story which , has been climaxed by a federal grand jury indictment of 18 persons, including two Germans high , in the Reich ministry. >

RESUME SEARCH FOR McCORMICK Expert Mountain Climbers Resume Search For Missing Youth Albuquerque, N. M., June 27 — <U.R> — Expert mountain climbers, who were driven off the face of Sandia mountain by wind and rain and hail, today will resume search for the body of Medill 'McCormick, 2T-year-old heir to publishing millions, if the elements permit. Gov. Clyde L, Tingley and the youth’s mother, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick Stanna, have 'personally directed the search since Friday, but the actual mountain work is being done by experts in the hazardous sport. Virtually all searchers agreed that McCormick had met death on the precipitous face of the mountain, as did his comnanion, Richard Witmer, 20. Whitmer's crushed body was found Friday evening. He and McCormidk drove into the mountain# Wednesday from their Albuquerque homes. Presumably they fell that afternoon. Five expert climbers, four of whom were flown here from Colorado, were working their way toward a ledge 1,000 feet below the

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qrest of the 9,000 foot mountain when a storm forced them to descend. Tied together by ropes, the five were trying to reach a epot where Col. E. J. Houae of the New Mexico state police ibelieved he had spotted through field glasses the crumpled form of a man. "I’m not cure that It Is a ‘body,” Colonel House said. "The distance Is too great for certainty. It may be only a stone formation, however, it appeared to me that it was the form of a man dreseed in blue trousers and a red shirt.” While the experts will work their way along tho sheer face of the granite cliffs, exploring ledgee and crevices for a trace of young McCormick, about 200 other searchers will work through the lower ranges of the mountain. Mr s. Simms brought cowboys from her famous Trinchera ranch to search the base of the cliff and five Indian trackers from a New Mexico reservation teat through tho back slope of the mountain. Dr. Karl Arndt of Denver, one of the expert climbers, said climbing the face of Sandia mountain was very difficult. "Sandia mountain cliff is as tough climbing as I have seen anywhere, either In America or Europe," he said. "It really isn't a place for mountain climbing. Rather, it's a spot for gymnastics.” Robert Ormes, Colorado Springs, and Dr. Frank Froelicher, headmaster of the exclusive Fountain Valley

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boys school near Colorado Springe, which both MoCortnick aud Whitmer once attended, agreed with Dr. Arndt that the cliff was as difficult as any clinilb they had encountered. 'Mrs. Sltnnts, whose first husband wss the late Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois was near collapse. She has been In the mountains almost continually since the eearch started Friday morning. Her husband, Albert Simms, attorney and former congressman, and Governor Singley have tried in vain to persuade her to remain in Albuquerque. She still feels that her son may be alive, wandering through the hills in a dazed condition from a fall. Funeral services for Whitmer will be delayed until his mother and sister return from England. They cabled they would sail on the next boat. o HARD RAINFALL (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) mercury about 20 points Sunday. This morning at 8 o’clock, the thermometers had climbed to 60 above and were expected again to rise to normal with the aid of a warm sun. Walter Gladfelter. local river and precipitation observer, reported that a total of 2.24 inches of rainfall was recorded for the week end, bringing the total for the month to 6.80 inches, nearly one and one-halt inches more than fell during the entire month last year.