Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 297, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1923 — Page 4

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KNOWING ■yN 1848 the country went wild over the three YOUR I Fox sisters of Ilydeville. Y. Y. They gave SUBJECT J,. public seances in America and Europe—socalled spirit rappings and moving heavy objects apparently without touching them. The Fox sisters climaxed a wave of spiritualism that surged through the American people. Now we have a similar wave. The appearance in Indianapolis of Sir Conan Doyle, a learned student of the supernatural, is an evidence of it. Interest in psychic phenomena is .so intense that the Scientific American is offering two prizes of s*J.r>oo each for “proof.” On a street ear the other morning we overheard two men discussing things psychic. One of them, a Big Talker, snorted: “The whole thing is fakerv—bunk.” A stranger sitting ahead of him turned. Then this conversation : STRANGER: “Have you ever attended a seance'.’ Have you gone to the libraries and read what the leading scientific observers have written on the subject ? Have you thoroughly investigated?” BIG TALKER: “Well. no. but I've heard a lot about * * *” STRANGER: “On what grounds, then, do you set yourself up as qualified to pass judgment? Tn court, a witness has to be an expert to give disinterested testimony on matters of medicine, business or science. The judge has to be an expert, do the attorneys. Yet here you come along, with no knowledge of the subject except hearsay, and placidly pass judgment. 1 bet you don’t follow the same rule when you buy diamonds. Yo. you go to a reliable expert." This editorial is not a discussion oi spiritualism or psychic phenomena of any sort, either for or against. • But what the stranger on the street car had to say about expert opinion set us thinking that he had touched a common human weakness—the tendency to set ourselves up as authorities on subjects of which we are as good as ignorant. Two men can almost conic to blows, discussing the League of Nations—although neither of them knows his subject ■> per cent. They have picked up a bit of information here, a bit of misinformation there, taken snap judgment and closed their ears to argument. The value of expert testimony seems to be recognized only when we go to law. get sick or have a delicate piece of work to be done. And we carry this tendency from our private lives into our national affairs—for instance, a committee of lawyers in Uongress is appointed to investigate and decide in a few months a subject that experts a-e unable to master in a lifetime. One Eastern city even appointed a horse doctor as its export in a eras supply row. When two people discuss calmly, they arc learning, both of them. When the conversation gets lo afed and argumentative, they're generally merely displaying their ignorance. And we usually do our loudest arguing about things of which we are most ignorant. Vanity, precedent and snap judgment sway and unbalance ihe reasoning power of the human intellect

SOME A T last the county commissioners have taken BEAUTY /\ st op- to beautify the courthouse grounds. NEEDED X JL This i- a movement in the ritrht direction. The "round surrounding' the courthouse has been an eyesore for many years and it has given a had impression to visitors, for a city is judged to a large extent In its public buildings. It is to be hoped that market standholders will be prevented from dumping refuse on the grounds and that the beautification plans are carried through. When this is done, some attention should be given the interior of the courthouse. Ii is a building constructed in the period when more attention was given to decorations that would catch dust than was given to beauty but even so. there is room for improvement Marion county may some day have anew courthouse, that is. if the present one. erected in the 70’s, ever is paid for THE PAST is growing among scientists that the AND American Indian’s remote ancestors came FUTURE 1. 3 from Asia, possibly. China They probably . arrived on foot instead of by ship. Recent exploration by paleontologists indicates that Alaska and Siberia in ancient times were connected by a land bridge, which later sank into the ocean. What difference does it make where they came from? We are too much interested in the past, not enough in the future. If you investigate humanity’s origin, you are a scientist. If you investigate humanity’s destination, science usually laughs end cells you a faker.

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What dees the pattern on Willow ware china mean? The story is: A beautiful girl lived in a castle, and she was loved by a young' man who was very brave and handsome. The father of the girl hated the young man. and refused to let his daughter marry him. The lovers eloped, using a little boat to cross the lake, and they built a beautiful little cottage on the far shore. The angry father revenged himself by crossing the lake, aqd burning the cottage with the lovers inside. Their spirits escaped from the flames, and continued to hover above the place of their former happiness in the form of two cooing doves. The castle, lake boat, cottage and doves are pictured in the design. What is the story of “Brady’s Leap?” Samuel Brady lived in his youth in Pennsylvania, and in an Indian raid his family and the whole settlement were wiped out. He escaped, but swore deadly hatred to the Indians. The accounts of his leap vary, but in the main they agree that he jumped across the Cuyahoga river in Portage County. Ohio prohabiy in May of 1780. He had been a prisoner i:i an Indian camp and the story is told that he was about to be burned at the stake, when he broke the bonds and escaped, followed madly by the Indians. He outstripped them for some time, but was about to be taken when he reached the banks of the Cuyahoga river and daringly leaped jama The Indiana feared to follow

and had to go around to the ford. The place where he is said to have crossed was probably twenty-four to twenty six feet wide. The river lias changed so much now that the exact spot can not be located "hat is the longest straightaway distance over which electricity for light and imwer is transmitted? From Owens Valley to Riverside, Cal., 300 miles. Wliat Is the weight of a grizzly bear? The largest ever killed weighed 787 pounds. What became of the British steamer Appam tha' was captured by the German raider M-ruvr during the war. and brought into Norfolk by a prize crew? The British government sued to cover the vessel and the United States Supreme Court decided for the British owners. The vessel was finally turned over to them. What movements in space docs the earth make? Three motions: .in orbital path around the sun. which occupies one year: a daily itvolnt.ion on it- axis, which lakes approximately i-.enH'-four hours: and a -low u abide o' tile pole, called the precession of the equinoxes which requires about 25.UOO years. This wabble may be compared with the spinning top when it “sleeps." The wholo solar system (the sun and all its dependent planets end other bodies) Is also through space? ■

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CIVIC CLUBS UNITE TO SUPPORT DRIVE OF RILEY HOSPITAL Ministers Offer Services to Conduct Campaign Over All Parts of City, Many organizations in the city aie active in support of the movement to complete Marion County's uuota of the building fund for the Riley Hospital for Children, to open Monday. The Woman's Department Club will raise a special memorial fund tor the hospital and Mrs. Felix T. McYVhirter, president, already has pledged SIOO to the fund. Mrs. George A. Drysdale is chairman of the hospital committee of the club and Mrs. G. Q. Dunlop is chairman of the department nt community service. j The Amicitia Club, of which Mrs. I Alex Goodwin, 2221 Ashland Ave., j is president, will raise a fund of ?50u. | T'n,- Indiana Federation of Business ' and Professional Worrnrn ha- also ! pledged support, as has the Indiana State Federation of Labor. Sixty girls, members of the Junior i League of Indiana, will have charge jof booths which will be placed in | downtown hotels banks and other j business places. Announcement has been made that Homer \V. Horst, secretary of the i Community ' "best, has been named : ch tirman of the big givers' -elicitation committee, preliminary to the actual starting of the general campaign. More than eighty Indianapolis min isterc hav,- notified the campaign headquarters i hat they are organizing trams within their congregations j for active work in the rest iential dis j trims. Gonstruction work on the first ! $500,000 unit of the Riley Hospital is well under way. All pledges to the : building fund are made payable over Ia four-year period, onefoutth of the I total pledge payable each year HOW YOUR COLLAR GOES IN BUILDING NEW FRAME HOUSE Lumbei man and Plumber Take Bisgest Percentage, Survey Shows By .rnHN ('ARSON limm S'-tft 1 'irrr*ii<iti'lent ww j \SIiI.NGTOX April 21 Where do your dollars go when you ’ buy material for the house you intend to build? Through some investigations, the 1 housing division of the Department of I Commerce learned that your dollar spent for materials used in a six-room i frame house went as follows: Lumber, 45 cents: brick. 4.2 cents: cement, 3.5 cents: sand. 2 4 cents: lime. 2.2 cents: glass. 2.3 cents: lath. .2.6 cents: plumbing, 10.3 < . uta. heat mg equipment. 8.4 cents electric equipment 3. <5 cents: roofing. 5.6 cents; finished hardware. 2.5 cents: paint and varnish. ! cents: miscellarii onus, 3.4 cents. In a house, huilt with some degree of legitimate costs and which is sold at $5,060, it has been estimated that j the expense for materials would be | $1,501'. In such a house, figured on the Department of Commerce report. 1 your dollars would go as follows: Lumber, $675; brick. $63; cement, $52.50; sand. $36: litne. $33; glass, j 134.50; latb. $33; plumbing, 154.50; heat-i ■mg equipment. 126: electric equipintent, $54; roofing, SB4: finishing hard-1 ware. $37.50 paint and varnish S6O; j miscellaneous, ssl.

Wage Decision Raises Question. Are We Self-Governing People?

By HERBERT QUICK rxtUK Supreme Court of the United I States has said that the Dls- { trict of Columbia minimum | wage for women is unconstitutional. This means that Congress cannot | govern the District on that point. It i probably means that no State Degis- | lature can govern its people on this point. The decision raises a question imOptimism Preferred By BERTOS BRALEY THERE are times in every species of existence When the tamo of life seems scarcely worth the while. When your hopes and dreams all vanish in the distance And your iuek is unex caption ally vile: When your labors cannot yet you any rains out I Os whatever is the business yon essay. Still, if I were you I wouldo I blow my brains out. Eor tomorrow is. you know, another day! TIiOUOIi you cannot nmeli prospect of improveti: nt. Though the shy with heavy elouds is overcast. Though the stork- that you have purchased show a movement Which is downward, and they're dropping very fast Though when you would gather hay it always mins out. And it's sunny when for rainy days you play: Still, if f were you I wouldn't blow my brains out. for tomorrow is. you know, another day. VU lll.'bH the only thine lh:i* s- ailing >,; oil the corner Is misfortune with a visage that is' glum. Though yoi r wife lakes ail . our earnings to adorn her. And then beats it with your fondly trusted chum; ! Though you long to cut your troubles and your pains out By a method thatll finish all your sorrow: Still, today you hadn't better blow your brains out. For you may prefer to hang yourself tomorrow! i Copyright. 1923. NBA Ssrrlos, I no.)

Lady Betty’s Wedding Gown Will Be Very Simple Ivory of Medieval Design

By MILTON BRONNER, X K'A Service Staff Writer LONDON. April 24.—When Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon is married to the Duke of York on Thursday, she will wear a wedding uress of simple, medieval design The design dates hack to the fourteenth century and will be unusual because of its beauty and qunintness. The material will he chiffon moide of an old ivory color embroidered with pearl beads, pearls and silver lame. The gown will fall almost straight from the shoulders to the hem. fol--1 wing the lines of the ligure more nj less closely above the waist, but getting fuller toward the liem. The skirt will touch the toes. The ivory tone has been chosen to match the lace, which has been made especially at Nottingham. T ,ady Elizabeth will he the first royal bride to wear machine-made lace. It is a perfect reproduction of an old Malines pattern. This lace will be used for the nm dieval sleeves, covering the arm as far as the elbow. The lower half of the arm is bare, but the lace fails in two long ends to the ground at the bark. For embroidery there a* 1 three bands of silver lace across the hod iee and a -entra! one that is continued down the front of the skirt. ThD silver is partly covered both on the bodice and the skirt with a conventional design carried out in pearls, pearl beads and fine silver thread, the hard llr.es of ‘he lace being softened by tiny scrolls of sil vet- thread eacn centered with a pearl on either side (>ld lace worn by the queen at her wedding will form the train <>f ih" w- ddfntr gown This will be mounted on ebiffon. A tulle veil mounted with a wreath of orange blossoms will complete the cost time. one romantic item of the trousseau is a strip of priceless old rose point

Humble Parish Priest Holds Power Over Italian Cabinet

Ht W t .Srrtur Rt >M I;. April 24. American newspaper readers a few days ■go glanced casually at and dismi-sell a brief dispatch from Lome announcing that the Populist party had withdrawn support from Premier B'lilto Mtt.--o!inl. and that the minis'; ;, so. ;:,, a shaky. Hut behind that dispatch lies Ihe most gripping romance politics anywhere can yield—the story of a humble parish priest who rose to the political dictatorship of Italy, a man born of aristocrats who devote,! his life to fighting them, the destroyer of two cabinets who may yet add Mussolini's scalp to his collection. The Populist party, controlling more than one hundred deputies, a balance of power in fin Italian Parliament—quit Mussolini because it was directed to do so by Its leader lion Luigi sturzo, priest and po litio. 1 leader who caused the downfall of Premiers Gb littl and Facta. His Strange t arcer lon Luigi Sturzo d'Altobfar.do — that's his full name—was horn of aristocratic parents in Sicily llfty t h ree years Rgo. The young nobleman elected to enter the clergy, and to this end was educated in the seminary of ('nltnglrone. Hut young Sturzo soon turned his attention from theology and began to look into social problems. He saw tlie peasants of Sicily tolling for the benefit of wealthy landown ers who basked in the social sun of Rome. The young priest organized parish clubs throughout Sicily, urged the people to attend schools or to oil ucate themselves, formed cooperative peasants’ unions and founded rtiral savings banks. Elected Mayor Soon he was elected mayor of Oaltagirone. a city of 40,000 —and proved such a good mayor that his constituents kept on re-electing him for fifteen years. He developed a municipal light and power ulant. built community

, iio ion l\ greater than the minimum wngo question. it raises the whole question ns to whether or not we are a self governing people It raises that stupendous question—and it answers it It answers by deciding that we are j not a self-governing people. Then by whom are we governed? | Vim will say that it decides that vve i are governed by the Supreme < 'ourt i of the United States; but ii is worse than that—far worse. It means that we are governed by : what a majority of these Supreme I Court judges think tlie men meant who made the Constitution of the United States more than a hundred years ago. And these judges are old men appointed for life and not removable by any possible means. No other people In the world are governed by any such extravagantly absurb petrification of authority. When the British Parliament makes a law. it is the law. There is no written constitution to unmake it, no Supreme Court to say that statesmen a hundred years ago meant so and so i about a problem they had never heard of. The same is true of every other nation. We are a hundred years behind the times in this matter. We are ruled by the ghosts of 1787. Senator Da Follette and others have proposed in Congress measures to make sure that laws it makes are laws in spite of the Supreme Court. That is a step forward Democratic and up-to-date- government. Dot's make it an issue. Child Dies of Burns By Times Special SHELBYVILLE, lnd., April 24. Golden Cowin, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cowin, Is dead of burns suffered when he fell against an overheated j stove. * .

with this and a toque of blue

Brussels lace which is to be inserted in the wedding dress. it has been an heirloom in the Strathmore family for generations. An ancestress of th-- bride wore It at a great ball given for "Bonnie Prince Charlie" when he was staying at Holyrood palace in Scotland. Blue and gray arc the colors that predominate in the r- .-! of the Pride's trousseau. (>ne es her afternoon gowns Is i pi arl gra; inarocain frock The full skirt is scalloped and edged with a narrow blue rurhing. There is si gray silk Honk to g<> with this and a toque of blue ami gray flowers

#> DON LUIGI STURZO

houses for laborers, founded technical and zoological institutes and brought to ( ’altogiroue a prosperity the sleepy Sicilian town never had dreamed of. In 1919. Sturzo retired from the mayoralty to giv,- his attention to war-torn and communist threatened Italy. He organized the Populist party with very liberal—even a little so riallstio —tenents. Sturzo found Premier Oiolitti tin suitable. So, backed by the power of his party, he removed him and placed Facta at the head of the government. Facta failed to suit and was politically beheaded. Mussolini would probably find his place untenable in the face of vigorous opposition by Sturzo and his followers.

CARTOONIST AND HEIRESS BRIDE GIVEN CHARIVARI 'Old Homo Town’ Folk Serenade Newlyweds Girl Gives Up Mansion for Home on'Main Street,’

By f niter! Press XT CHARLES, ill April 24 —Dellota Angel! Norris, heiress to the John W. Gates $38,000,000. and her now husband. Lester Norris, cartoonist., were hauled through the streets in the traditional calf rack at an “old lmmc town" charivari last night. After they hail l-een serenaded by the townsfolk, who knew them as “lies." son of the furniture dealer, and "Dellorn.’’ a girl witli pigtails and gingham dress, in grammar school flays, the newly married couple "set up the treats.” The Norrises, culminating a sehoofday romance, were married recently in California, the heiress leaving a mansion to become the bride of St. Charles “favorite son" and come here to live in a modest house on Main Kt.

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lady betty and an after NOON Gou x which are part OF HER TROUSSEAU. AND THE PATTERN OF MACHINE MADE LACE USED IN HER WEDDING ul 1023 CUSTOMS RECEIPTS WILL HIT 525-MILLION MARK Nation Becomes World's Best Buyer Because Europe !s ‘Broke, 1 By Tin , s svenial \VA: N !T< >\ \pril 24.—We11, ten months of the tisi-al year are gone and w*- know that customs receipts for 1323 will break ill records in our history When President Harding signed the present tariff hill main estimates of possible receipts were made. "Four hundred and forty millions." said Secretary Mellon, well-known pessismist. "Four hundred and fifty millions.” ventured Senator McEumber. the cautious “Four hundred and eighty millions." prophesied Joseph S McCoy. Govern merit actuary and world-famous authorite on tariff figures \nd now w-> know that the a,dual figure:- will be not far from $525,000,Oofi “llow did it happen"" asked the re porter. “Very simple " replied McCoy. “You see the I S A has ntOs' of the money In the world. Europe has the goods and she Is willing to sell at almost any price in the only market she can find. Hence the flood of exports to America, and hence our customs receipts. "But," he added, "it can’t last. We nre not going to buy everything in the world, even at a price."

Shower;- of rice, ok l shoes; din from milk pails, dish.pans and cowbells greeted the couple ns they were called’ from their home for the “bridal ride." Mrs. Norris, nervously happy, rode up the same Main St. where “Des” used to carry her school books. The calf ruck, an aged wooden con- * traption, was hauled on the rear of a spring wagon. Bumps in the street gave it a peculiar sea-going motion. When the conveyance drew up to the homo of Cal Norris, father of the groom, the grownups of St. Charles shook hands with the bride and groom while th' kids were marshaled off to the town “soda fountain” for ice cream and rdd pop—at the expense of the newlyweds.

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WHO remembers the good o ld days of last month when seven hours was the nonstop dance record? • ♦ * Another Yew York woman has shot her husband. These Yew York women fret away with murder. Tailors tell us coat tails will he shorter, perhaps because some of us wear patched trousers.

A Chester (Pa.) horse has been made a wooden leg. The horse-flies have a surprise coming. * • * If we are what we eat, as a Spokane doctor says, we should never eat a big hunk of cheese. Kentuckian has patented a way to hold cow tails, so there is no use crying over spilt milk. • ♦ * Amundsen is on his way to fly over the north pole, when going around would be much more sensible. • • • Seattle man claims his wife hit him. but he may have been treating her like a mad dog. • * * Army aviators are trying for anew altitude record, which is the height *f indiscretion. • • • They had an earthquake in Mexico. Some of the ignorant Mexicans thought it was an election. • • • A gardener tells us it is hard to keep a good weed down. ■4 • • on never realize how high silk stockings are until you see a girl in a bathing suit. • • • 8a gc tea is considered a good spring tonic by the sages. ■ • * Running up and down newspaper columns is good exercise. Halt the tun of fishing is knowing you ought to he working. The only hard thing about holding a job is the work it takes.

AROUND THE WORLD JN FIVE MINUTES

Typewriter Repairmen Needed Chinese mechanics know too little about typewriter construction to do a sene', job rep Uring. Those employing them say th, y do the machines more harm than good. and that an American typewriter service is much needed. I.ipstirks in Africa Europeans in Portuguese East Africa make a hig market for toilet goods, surh as toothpaste, talcum powders, perfumes, lotions, lipsticks, creams, and rouges. Natives’ complexions are adapted to the climate and need less artificial assistance. English Honesty After Aug. 1. 1923. all canned cordon sed skimmed milk in England must he labeled “unfit for babies."

Native Haitian, Under Veneer, Is Still Cannibal of Jungles

By W H. PORTERFIELD I' S voodooism still practiced in darkest Haiti? Os course, no one ■ save the actual participants really know just what is done back | there in the jungles, where the ragged or unclothed natives live in dlrtI floored huts; gorging when food is . plentiful, starving when conditions j are less favorable. | The Haitian or voodoo term for human sacrifice is "the goat without horns,” and at least one well authenticated case was cited when 1 was In Haiti of where the half eaten body of an Infant boy was found by the dying embers of a rude altar, away up in the high mountains of the interior, and this not so long ago. Loss than a year ago. an Army T-lane, forced to descend in a mountain gorge, ran upon what was declared to he a voodoo festival, where there was certainly the dead hodj- of n child, naked and lying upon an altar. Another story of cannibalism involves the reported murder of an aviator who was caught similarly in a mountain fastness, and whose dead body was partially devoured before the cannibals were routed. You can believe these stories or not. Me. I don't know But that tlie native Haitian, under the thinnest of veneer, is a jungle savage is perfectly demonstrable. Driving back from Camp Russell, sixteen miles out of Fort au Prince, on Easter Sunday, a small party of us ran into what was denominated as “a religious procession.” tlie same being a mob of perhaps a hundred coal black natives, costumed in the most wildiv fantastic attire, dancing. singing and beating the everlasting tom tom of the jungle, a great long drum covered with cow hide, on which they continually pound out the weirdest, most blood curdling tones imaginable. One, who appeared to be chief, wore an enormous head-dress adorned with pieces of small mirrors, posters, high-

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Sauce on Tobacco No manufacturers of tobacco are lo eated in British or French West Africa, and the entire consumption consists of unmanufactured leaf. Exporters in the United States have a large business selling leaf tobacco treated with specially prepared sauces and known as "Black Fats.” Diamonds in Dutch Guiana Diamonds have been discovered at Brownswog Dutch Gtiiana. This district has yielded gold for over forty years. Sounds Like War Time Three in, .dess day.- a week have een d< 'dared by the Greek govern- : ment.

I ly-coiored paper labels from bottles ! and fruit cans, while across the top : was a pictorial advertisement of a brand of gin. Many of the dancers wore a single ! garment made from flour sacking. ! others wore trousers and motley rags wrapped around their torsos, and ail were going through nameless, lascivious contortions, grinning horribly and moaning a sort of low chant all the time. SVo dropped some coins into a raw hide bag and drove on. but at night in the hills we could hear the horrid “music” of the jungle drums or tom toms, like weird signals from mysterious lands proclaiming the gather lng of midnight clans about sense heathen sacrifice. INDIANA SYNOD ELECTS Louisville Man Named President of District Church Conference. The Rev. William K. Mehl of Louis ville was elected president of the In diana, district of the Evangelical Synod of North America at the closing .session of a week's conference at St. John Evangelical Church In Cumberland Monday night. The Rev. F. P. Puhlman of Cumber • land was elected treasurer; Rev. Conrad Held of Indianapolis, secretary, and Rev. Paul Gehn of Piqua, Ohio, vice president. Three Hold for Escape Angola police have arrested Doris Blair Miller, an inmate of the Indiana Girls’ School at Clermont, together with Mrs. Carrie McGarrity. her aunt and Victor Adams, both of Angola, according to word received by Dr. Kenosha Sessions, superintendent of the school. The Miller girl escaped in an automobile in which her aunt came to visit her, school officials said.