Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 63, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1924 — Page 8
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FLAMES CLAIM LOLL IN FORESTS; CALIFORNIA HIT fires Rage in Western States Threaten to Set /High Mark, By T<mes Special WASHINGTON, July 22.—Forest fires are threatening' to set anew high toll of destruction and devastation this year. The dry season has scarcely begun yet fires have been raging liy western States with such frequency,that forestry officials are greatly alarmed over the prospects of what •will happen when the “fire season” aYrives. Already more than 40.000 acres of forests in California alone have been destroyed, while In New Mexico and Arizona last week eighty-six fires were raging at one time. " “This is the-worst fire season this early in the year in history,” E. A. Sherman, assistant chief of the U. S. Forestry Service, declared. Sherman says unless unexpected rains arriyei the record of 1922, when 51,891 forest fires toqk place, is likely to be surpassed.
Damage Is $16,678,485 The area burned that year was 11.500,000 acres and -the damage amounted to $16,678,485. The latest big fire In California broke out among the giant Sequoias, trees 3,000 years old. and for a time threatened General Grant Park, where soifle of the jriggest redwood trees in the country are standing. Sherman has Just been advised rangers, aided by hundreds of volunteers from Fresno, fifty miles away, had succeeded in getting the blaze under control. At thp.t time, however, more than four thousand acres In the pine belt had been wiped out. California, Arizona and New Mexico have not. been States to suffer. One of- the most destructive fires this year broke out in the Arapaho forest fifty miles Denver, Colo. Sweeps Tree Tops This fire was of the type known as a “crown fire,” where the bldze sweeps through the tree tops with express train speed, leaving the' trunks and lower limbs to be burned more slowly unless extinguished. Despite the fact that three rangers and a force of volunteers were on the scene ten minutes after the blaze was discovered, so fiercely did it burn that in three hours and a half a whole section of three thousand acres was destroyed. Failure of C6ngress to provide.adequate money properly to keep watch over and prevent forest fires is the admitted cause of such disasters, which, added to the lack of an adequate forest conservation policy, is rapidly denuding the entire country of trees. ✓ ! Hide "The Kiss” TOKIO. —The introduction of kissing into Japdn must not be encouraged, authorities have decided. Rodin’s masterpiece. “The Kiss,” at the French art exhibition here, has been covered by bamboo screens. The picture was shown for three months in Osaka, however, without any apparent effect on the morals of the people.
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Hoosier Briefs f2T R. HARLES, Lafayette, j(j policeman, not only looks i out for burglars, but snakes &s well. He killed a/sixfoot blue racer he mel on hia ..eat. Martin Gilbert, Unlondale, nea' Blufffon, didn’t cheat his stomach after all. When he. choked, on a large piece of meat, he went to a doctor's office, who pushed it on down. . Kokomo residents who for years have sought the paving of Vaile Av(., celebrate the completion of the improvement with a street dance. Walter Dixfn of the Kokomo Asphalt Paving Company may act as “master of ceremonies.” HARLES WHITE of Greensburg had two ideas ■' when_Lon Redmon drove upr"in his machine and cursed him. One, he told Squire Holmes, was to get an ax and chop up Redmon's machine. He decided on the other—filing an affidavit. Redmond was fined $1 and costs. Charles Taylor,prominent Marion man,” hunts lightning bugs with a I fervor of a small kid. Puts the bugs in a bottle, puts a hook and sinker on the bottle and goessfishlng. Fish ■ are like moths, says Taylor, who 1 reports unusual success with his I idea.
AROLD TRANSOU of Greensburg, went to his electrical shop earlier than usual and discovered a small blaze. If he had been late his shop would have burned, firemen told him. Blanche. 10, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Achenbach, went to call her grandfather, V lliiam H. Achen bach, Tipton, to dinner and found him dead. Edward Phillips, lad at Seymour, is suffering from blood poise ning. He waded through a patch* of cat o nine tails on a fishing trip and the poisoning followed. \yf HEX Dr. Herbert Inlow W campaigned for Shelbyville’s new hospital, he didn't know the first baby born in it would be his. IVJrs. Mildred Poorman of Muncle is trying to solve a mystery with police aid. Diamonds, valued at SI,OOO, stolen from her, were found in her mail box. rCl TATE SENATOR I Q •CHARLES BATT and * • other Democrats received a shock when an invitation to a Kiwanls dinner said: “We will hear Honorable Charles Stacy Batt, Republican Senator.” eLander TTtt, BruceviUe, began his . forty-seventh year of- wheat thrashing career tfiis week. He started with “ox pow&r.” Elk Bother Farmers WEXATCHEE, Wash. —Hungry elk emerging from the foothills and feasting on haystacks in* the vicinity of Okanogan have caused farmers to organize to combat them. The elk herds have been driven back, by the firing of blank shells ovy their'-heads, but with the return of hunger the animals revisit the farii lands. Greek Hair Styles PARlS.—Parisian women are replacing shingled hair with a sort of Greek headdress, which consists of a band around the head, forcing all the hair hack. The ears ar£ tucked behind or left outside the band. In this way lhng hair can be grown again to replace the now unpopular shingle bob. \
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BEGIN HERE TODAY John Ainsley, a man of education and breeding. becomes a maseer crook—-preying upon other thieves. One afternoon on Fifth Avenue he knocks down 'X man whom he sees , abusing a hunchback, and then runs. At an auction sale he secs newly rich Marcus Anderson buy a golden. Jewel-studded box for $65,000. Later he sees Anderson in the company of the hunchback /a.n(\ a crook known as the White Eagle. The White Eagle lives in a modest private residence on the upper East Side, posing as a duke, with the hunchback as his secretary. Ainsiey sets about ItYi find out in what way the White "Eagle .s endeavoring to rJb Anderson. He picks the lock of tlfc East Side residence and enters. f NOW GO OX WITH THE STORY mWENT over that liouse ftora collar to servants’ quarters on the top floor. I**— these latter rooms I found no - clothing. The servants ha3 been discharged and had left with all -their belongirgs. | Two floors below, I entered a study. Eehind it wa kthe chief bedroom of the house. I knew that it must belong to the White Eagle. And in that bedroom were packed suitcases. To that room, then, the White Eagle would unquestionably come. But in the study was a decanter of wine and cigarets. If I knew my (Jochet, there would be at least one cigaret smoked and one glass of wine drunk in celebration of his latest coup. IrP this room, then, behind a great leather I ensconced myself. But before I went into hiding I took a half dozen towels from the bathroom adjoining the bedchamber, and from the latter room took a .score of apparently discarded era vats. I tested each one of these and them satisfactory. They were no longer beautiful, but I *was certain that they would prove serviceable, Ard behini the leather ccuch I knotted them into four stout thongs. I had finished when I heard the front door open. •Cochet bounded up the stairs With an activity which I envied. I hoped that I, when I attained his years, wpuld be as supple. He entered the room w here I was hidden, snapped on the lights, filled two glasses from
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the decanter on the table, and lifted Vine high above hi? head. The hunchback? *ess /active, now entered the room. Cochet greeted him loudly. FROM THAT ARTIFICIAL DEFORMITY I TOOK THE BOX. “Drink, mon brave!” he cried, -“Drink to the genius of the White Eagle, who sees and swoops and rises triumphant!” "Genius is td weak a word,” said the hunchback. “You work miracles, my master.” y He, too, took the other glass from the table and drank eagerly. Cochet filled the v glasses again. “And of a simplicity, Raoul,” boasted the Whits Eagle. ‘This pigdog of a profiteer shows us his priceless box. opens It and lets us behold the richest jewels of his so vulgar wife-that gleam within it. And then, as he closes the safe door, I distract his attention Esnd you snatch the box even as the-door is being closed.” In my hiding place I nodded approvingly. This was sleight of hand tjiafc might be matched against my own gift of legerdemain^ The hunchback's voice was depre-
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cating. “I have the. trick of the fingers, monsieur, but what are the mechanic's hands without the artist's To you goes all the credit.” Cochet laughed merrily. “But the profits, eh, mon They are more important than the glory, and you will have your share of those. But we must not stay here. That lady whom you Ijave so justly tenfied vulgar may desire to see her Jewels once again this evening. One never knows in w-hat direction a woman's whim may lead her*” “As always, my master, you are right,” said the cripple. ‘ “I will telephone for a 4 ta.xieab; we shall disappear. In a fortnight we shall land in la -belle France—” “But so much may happen in a fortnight.” I flatter myself that It was a lin< worthy of the situation. Certainly Cocher and Lotier greeted it with that stark amazement which a dramatic speech should arouse. I assurh you that I have never enjoyed a moment as much as I have enjoyed this one now, as, automatic pistol in my hand, I followed my words into the room from behind the couch. Cochet recovered his self-posses-sion first. * “This Is an unexpected honor, monsieur,’' he said. / I shrugged. “The more honor, the more surprise to a mocfkst man,” I grinner. “Monsieurs will kindly elevate their hands and keep them in the air.” The hunchback flashed a ligWt-ningh-like glance of question at the White Eagle, but Cochet k new that behind my levity lurked grimness. “Obey. Raoul,” he ordered. He looked at me. “Does the monsieur care to explain?” I doubt if I could have carried myself any better than he, In such a situation. “The Anderson jewel box and its contents, monsieur,” I said. “If monsieur will kindly give that to me I shall bid him. bon soir and bonne chance.” f helii out my left. hand. White Eagle .simulated amusement. I cut short his laugh. “I have overheard your conversation,” I t reminded him. “Monsieur lacks a sense of humor,” he retorted blandly. “He accepts idle jests as solemn truths.” “The box, please,’’ I Insisted. * “If monsieur's sad laek of humor persists, what can we do?” asked Cochet. * "Xothing,” I snapped, “but I can do something. I can search you.” , The cripple was ready to fight!*, but the White Eagle was a wary old campaigner. He believed I would
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j fire, Tvnd so he sharply again ordered the hunchback to obey. At the muzzle of my pistol Lotier bound, with the iitipropiptu ropes that I had manufactured from the neckties, the hands and feet of his master. Then I made the cripple insert his wrists through a slipnoose. I drew it tight, and the rest was easy. The use ot towels as gage was unnecessary. • • t And a few minutes later I decided that it had not necessary qj-ep to bind them. In fac*. my presence here was unnecessary. Fbr the Anderson Jewel box could not he found in the expansive overcoat pockets of either of them. Xor had they left it in the hall downstairs, or in the ♦lrawing* room, or else In the hoij&e. - It must have b?en delivered to a confederate waiting outside the millionaire's house. Yet this I did not bejieve. The White Eagle was not the sort who lets someone else take charge,f the spoils of his warfare against society. said Cochet as I re turned from .my fruitless search of the premises, "monsieur Is ready to apologize.” * / * In truth, I was. From yiy I drew a jackknife. I opened it placed it on the floor. “It •will take you perhaps fijtehn minutes to saw your bonds,” I told Cochet. “And despite monsieur’s affable manner, I feel that I need a quarter of an hour in which to disappear.” Cochet smiled; but behind that smile lay deadly menace. Always, fl-om now on, a • more dangerous enemy than the police would be at my Though he smiled, Cochet would never forgive this Indignity. “Bon soir, messieurs,” I said. 1 had failed, but I tried to carry off my failure with a good grace. I am not your vulgar crook who descends to threat or torture. My reasoning
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had been sound -1 did not believe that the box had been surrendered to a confederate, but what is belief in the face *rf fact? “You will have time \to escape from this house," T said, "before the police arrive here, provided that there is some element of truth in the jests I heard you enhance. Because I have been unfortunate is no retrson that I should wish you ilj fortune. Again, good evening, gen tlemfcn.” * And then I saw a gleam of triumph on the delicate face of the hunchback. Xow.i one cannot sue* ceed at my profession unless one has the quick intuition of a jsvoman. And To that Intuition musj be coupled the logic of a man—not of an ordinary man, but the sort of man that I am. I remembered how Insensitive the cripple’s hump had seemed to the rough touch of the bully whom I had knocked down. I tried to visualize the sleight-of-hhnd by which the box-had been extracted troth Anderson’s safe even as the millionaire locked its door. Where had the box been hidden? I remembered the Affair of the one-eyed men, and how a pearl had been sercrezed in a glass eye. The jewel box was too bulky to be placed in the pocket of a dinner jacket, and both of these men wore even ing clothes. And the cripple wore a look of triumph. ,Also, his hump was not sensitive. Oh, Armand Cochet is the White Eagle, but I am John Ainsley!- Shall I add more, or shall I let the modest narration of my deeds speak for me? I bent over, tore the dinner jacket from the body of Lustier, exposed the carefully false hump, and from that' artificial deformity I took the jewel box. I waved them a mocking good-by. With the box under my arm beneath my coat, I sauntered out of the house, over to Fifth Avenue, an'd taxied, like any law-abiding citisen.
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to my apartment overlooking the park. Five minutes * later I was examining the contents of the casket. I was rich, I could abandon forever the life to which necessity had driven me. At least, on that April evening I thought that I could. I aid not kn6w that sometimes there is truth in old saws. I had forgotten one of “Once a thief ■” s (Beginning In Our Next Issues “THIEVES’ JUSTICE.”) Oilcloth Ceiling WASHIXGTOX—OiIcIoth ceilings, full of small holes over a thick layer of felt, will eliminate office noises, according to Clifford M. Swan, consulting engineer. Such a ceiling doet£ away with reverberation, he says.
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