Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 225, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1926 — Page 12

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SEARCHES WORLD FOR WITNESSES IN OIL PLOT TRIAL Government Strives for Testimony Against Fall and Sinclair. Pu United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Somewhere in Paris. Cannes or Nice, in the Egyptian Sudan, or, perhaps, Russia, are the witnesses the Government must produce Feb. 2, to prove Its charges of conspiracy against Harry F. Sinclair and Albert B. Fall. Owen J. Roberts, counsel for the Government, has said he can get the men here by that date, if at all. If successful he will get together five men who met the last time, so far as recorded, in the Vanderbilt hotel. New York, to talk about Naval reserves, oil and Liberty bonds. They scattered to the earth's far corners when the Senate began to investigate their transaction. H. M. Blackmer, former chairman of the Midwest Refining Company, went to France and is said to have bought a home there. He refused to come to the United States for the Teapot Dome civil suit at Cheyenne and his attorney said then that Blackmer would never return. James E. O'Neal went about the same time and is living at Cannes, lie w'as president of the Prairie Oil and Gas Company, a subsidiary of the Sinclair companies. Travels Far H. S. Osier has covered a large amount of territory since a Canadian court ruled that he must answer the Government's Teapot Dome questions. He was in London, Egypt, Russia. No one seems to know where he is now. As long as he is not found on British or American ■oil, no one can make him answer. He was president of the famous Continental Trading Company, which the Government charges was organized solely to make a profit from resale of oil and transfer it to Fall and others. Col. R. W. Stewart, beard chairman of the Standard Oh ’ompany (Indiana), is the fourth man said to have been in the Continental deal with Sinclair last year while Federal officials were looking for him to summon him, he sailed for South America "on urgent business.' He is said to be in this country now'. Stringent Law Applies The Walsh law, passed since the Teapot trial, provides that witnesses abroad refusing to respond to subpoena may he found guilty of contempt of court and their property seized to the extent of SIOO,OOO. If even one of the men can be secured, it will ad dgreat strength to the Government’s case. None of the five men has ever been forced to testify about the famous Vanderbilt Hotel meeting. The Government's only information concerning it comes from Col. A. E. Humphreys of Denver, president of the Mexia Oil Company, and his attorney, former Senator C. S. Thomas of Denver, who were present at the last conference. It was from Humphreys that the Continental was to buy its oil. Neither Humphreys nor Thomas knew of the resale agreement, by which the huge profit was to be obtained, they said.

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SONIA Dangerous Love By Vida Hurst

SON.'A MARSH leaves Sto.-kton and eotm-s to San Knuidauu to live hi r hie as pleases. DON STILLWATKR, a yoiuik doctor, helps her yet a joh in the real estate office of his unule. Jed Thomas. __ , „„ Believing she has captivated r RANKLiN CKANE. petted youuf salesman. Sonia allows him to make love to her. crediting' his explanation that lie cannot marry her because the breaking ot his emnisenient to Genevieve Erickson, a Eretty society girl, might prove iatat to is invalid mother Though Souia still loves Crane she is disgusted with him aim marries Dr. Stillwater They keep the news Srum all hut their parents. She refuses to accompany her husband to Berlin. Before Sonia tells Crane she is married. he mentioned the breaking of his engagement. She says she will be live after Don returns. Wealthy WALTER HENDERSON whom Sonia refused to marry is found drowned Crane is suspected and to save him she falsely declared she was with him that night in bis Marla County shack. She sends newspaper clippings of the story to 'loh. SAM MARSH kills himself because of Sonias dUgrive She is surpmod to learn irom her mother that Jed- Thomas is Sonias father, but Mrs. Marsh never told her husband the truth. Don wires that he is returning home, but Sonia continues to spend the week - ends with Crane. CHAPTER LXXVII Sonia faced the facts grimly. No use weeping over her condition or moaning with remorse. This was the chance she had taken the first time she snatched at her freedom. Because it had not occurred to her then made it none less possible. Her challenge to fate had been accepted. The gauntlet was lifted. The fight was on. “Well, I must be sensible," she repeated again and again. "There is a way out of every difficulty—if I can Just keep cool enough to think.” But to think was difficult, with the room swaying about her. She was so 111 that nothing seemed to matter save a moment's respite. She held her breath and, with closed eyes, lay very still .... Later she was able to reeach the kitchen and prepare breakfast. This revived her, although she felt Incapable of sustained action. So she lay in a chair, turning the pages of a magazine, whispering, "Keep cool, old thing! This has happened to hundreds of other girls.’’ But the knowledge shook her like a chill. Cold drops of perspiration bathel her face. She knew she was trapped. With a great sweeping determination, she conquered her fear. “Don is coming home. He will be only to glad to release me. We can be married within a week. There is no reason we shouldn't be married ...” * She knew that Franklin was more than willing to marry her, ready to defy his mother now that the spell had once been broken. Sonia was confident his affection was sincere. He had said, time after time, "When is your husband coming home? I want to marry you, darling, to claim you openly. . And once they were married, let the world howl! She would be circumsepct all the rest of her life, and people would forget. Why, it had been rumored that one of the older girls in Stockton "had to be married.” But every one had been just as nice to her as before. Her mother seemed to be as proud as any other grandmother. “Yes,” Sonia decided, "marriage would settle the gossips.” If only Don would hurry! The simple wedding in the shabby parsonage had never happened to her. She had not been that whit-faced bride. The disloyalty of that wife had nothing to do with her. Gradually she became able to face the future without flinching. She was not so wicked. Her sin had been committed in love. Had not Christ himself said, of another woman, "Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much?” Resignation filled her heart. She saw herself settling down to a quiet, contented life, mistress of a home, mother of a child. Franklin's mother would forgive them after the child was born. Grandmothers were never able to resist babies. They seemed wGehed by tiny, rose-leaf Angers. 666 I* a PrraeHptlon for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria. It UUa the (trail.

She knew. She hail seen her own mother. Rocking in the twilight, she told herself that perhaps after all It was best. This was the reason she had not been able to flrul a position. She would not need it. She was to be sheltered and protected. To realize the dream most girls cherish secretly. She would not regret her youth, her vanished good times. She told herself, complacently, that ex perlence had made her older than her age. She had no more illusion about fairy princes and emeralds and love. The thrills did not last. Life within the grimy four walls of this room hail taught her that. There was nothing to the madness which seized you hv the throat. She pictured Franklin changed In their new relations. He Insisted lie would love her more than ever if she were 111. "When he realized why she had been blue so often, he would be more tender. She would tell him as soon as he came, would relate, too, the secret of her cable from Don. He would tie less irritable when he knew that Don would be here any day. The strain and stealth had been unpleasant for them both, but it would soon be over. It, too, would he like a dream. A solemn excitement swept her as she dressed. Don need never know of this new development. He had always been the soul of chivalry. She was sure he would not stand in her way. The future began to stretch before her like a flowery path. True, she had never cared a great deal for Vera's children, but her own would be different. It would be a symbol of her love. "O God, I will be good, I will be worthy." She prayed that her father, wherever he might be, would know and understand.

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