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THIS HAS HAPPENED NATHANIEL DANN, a struggling K* v "* a party at his Greenwich * u< * lO i. in honor of his fiancee. VIRGINIA, beautiful daughter and heriess of RICHARD BREWSTER. Wall btreet financier. model, CHIRL, is jealous of VIRGINIA and tells him that he will •poll his career if he marries the wealthy girl who cannot appreciate his He tests VIRGINIA by showing her his studies in nude and then introducing her to the model, but her reaction is so wholesomely sweet that he is more in love than ever. While the party is in progress. NIEL receives a phone message that VIRGINIA’S father is found dead of heart failure. He hurries her home, where she is prostrated with grief. At sight of the peculiarly tortured expression on the dead man’s face, NIEL involuntarily asks the doctor, “Do vou think it was * . . . natural death?” NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER I (Continued) That one look answered Virginia’s qoestion. The father she loved, the parent who had been both mother and father to her since the time, two years after her birth, when he had looked upon her face for the first time, was dead. Until then his grief at losing her mother had driven him to far corners of the earth, fighting his unnatural reluctance to look upon the child that had cost him the life of the only woman he ever had loved. Then one day he had come home to take up the responsibility of rearing his motherless daughter; and with the first grip of her chubby little fingers around his own, which trembled, and her first friendly smile, he experienced a poignant re-gret-for the two lost years. Virginia had grown up nurtured end protected by a great love. With no brothers and sisters to share it, there was developed between father and daughter a companionship that narrowly missed being a complex in the life of both. Richard Brewster had made not the slightest objection to Virginia’s choice of a husband. He returned the liking that Nathaniel felt for him, and while many of his friends regarded the prospective groom as beneath Virginia’s station in life, Mr. Brewster only smiled tolerantly at their veiled comments. He knew that most of them had missed the indescribable happiness of a great love, and he believed that Virginia ■would know it with Nathaniel Dann. His great fear and dread had been that she might love the wrong kind of man. But that fear had vanished ■when she told him she wanted to marry Nathaniel Dann. After that he had had but one worry—a worry, however, so consuming that it had shortened his life. For years he had carried a secret burden, unknown to his world except for a few persons who did not talk of what they knew. The marks of his mental suffering showed plainly upon his features now, and Nathaniel thought, as he stood helplessly watching Virginia when she rushed forward and threw herself frantically upon the lifeless body, that he had never seen a face so altered. For a while no one dared touch her, so piteous were her efforts to reclaim her father from death. Then the doctor’s hands fell firmly upon her shoulders and he nodded to Nathaniel. Nathaniel half led, half carried her into the drawing-room, where she lay on the sofa shaking with heartbreaking sobs. He tried to talk to her, but she seemed not to hear him. It caught him unprepared with an evasion when she drew herself up suddenly and cried, ‘‘Niel, did you notice that awful expression on his face?” Before he could stop himself Nathaniel had said yes. “Do you . . . suppose someone did something to him?” Nathaniel read the fearful thought behind the stumbling words. “Certainly not,” he replied earnestly; “didn’t you hear what Dr. Meyerling said? It was his heart, Virginia. He couldn’t have suffered much; the end came quickly.” "I can’t help thinking that something terrible happened to him,” she persisted. “O, Niel, think of it ... he might have been calling me . . . and I was dancing and having a good time.” "Virginia, you must not talk like that Your father wouldn’t like it.” “I can’t help it. It’s so ghastly to think of his going like this while we were so happy.” “Virginia, please. Here, Doctor, thank heaven you came in. Miss Brewster needs looking after.” “Send in the housekeeper,” Dr. Meyerling directed Nathaniel. “We will get this young lady to bed." "I’ve given her an opiate,” he told Nathaniel later. Nathaniel looked at him oddly, then spoke as though he were somewhat ashamed of his words. "Was it altogether a . . . natural death, doctor?” he asked. CHAPTER II DR. MEYERLING regarded Nathaniel with grave thoughtfulness before replying to his question. Then he said quietly, “Why do you ask me that?” Nathaniel hesitated just a second. “That look on his face,” he began uncertainly; “sort of fearful and "You are engaged to Miss Brewster, I believe?” Dr. Meyerling broke in. “Yes? Well, then I’ll tell you that Mr. Brewster worried himself to death. I warned him often that it would come to this.” “What in the world did he have to worry about?” Nathaniel asked, unbelievingly. "Money, young man; the thing that is at the bottom of most men’s worries.” "I can’t imagine Mr. Brewster in financial difficulties,” Nathaniel remarked frankly, “but if it was as you say, could that have made him look as though he saw an assassin before him?" “He did see an assassin. He saw Death, and this time he must have known that Death would be victorious.” “Still, I can’t see why facing death could have marked him like that. Surely it must have been something more. I don’t believe Mr.

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Brewster could have feared so greatly to die.” “He did not fear for himself, no, but he wanted to live so that the day when his daughter must learn that for years his fortune had been rapidly dwindling away would be postponed.” Nathaniel uttered a sound of dismay, but he was thinking only of Virginia, and Dr. Meyerling comprehended this. “His only relieving thought was that his daughter was going to marry a man he believed in,” he told Nathaniel warmly and put a friendly hand on his shoulder. "I think it would be advisable to have Mrs. Pike communicate with some of Miss Brewster's friends and get someone here as soon as possible,” he went on, not waiting for Nathaniel to speak. “I’ll send in a nurse, but Miss Brewster will sleep for several hours. You’d better go home and get some rest. She will need you tomorrow.” Nathaniel remained until a friend of Virginia’s appeared. He thought the girl looked incapable of comforting her; Mrs. Pike assured him that she was Virginia’s closest friend. Strange he hadn’t met her before. Miss Dean? Then he remembered. She had been in Europe for two years, but Virginia often had talked about her. He wondered why Virginia cared for her. The attraction of opposites, perhaps, he told himself. As he walked home, the many blocks uncounted, his hears ached with pity for Virginia. In his studio he took a stiff drink from a bottle that he found on a side table. The guests were gone, the butler, too. When he put down the glass Nathaniel seemed to view his surroundings with anew meaning. The table was somewhat disordered and the once temptingly garnished patties and jellies were messy looking now. The orchids drooped and in the hollow stems of champaige glasses a pale liquid had lost its effervescent power. It seemed to symbolize the joy that had blossomed here and died. “My God,” he cried sharply, and sank down with his head on the table. He felt for the moment that he and his guests had danced on a grave. “Have a cigaret?” Nathaniel lifted his head. “Why didn’t you go with the others?” he demanded of the girl who stood there proffering a package of cigarets. "Guessed you’d get into a funk. What was it, Niel? Is her father dead?” Nathaniel nodded. "Heart trouble.” “That’s too bad for you. Now you will have a rich wife instead of merely an heiress.” “No! Though it’s going to be rough on Virginia, I won’t have to play that role, Chiri. Mr. Brewster did not leave a fortune.” Chiri gasped. “Well, you found that out soon enough. She must be sure of your love to tell you.” “She—if you mean Virginia—did not tell me. In fact, she doesn’t know it yet; at least, I believe she doesn’t.” “Ah.” Chiri breathed the word as though with its utterance she experienced an exhilarating emotion. Quickly, through her scheming little head, had passed anew idea, one that she accepted with a satisfaction that took no thought of what it would mean to Nathaniel if the idea became a reality. Virginia Brewster, heiress to Richard Brewster’s millions, could afford the luxury of a poor husband—but Virginia Brewster, deprived of those millions . . .? she might throw Niel over! Chiri rose, having seated herself, and got the bottle from which she had seen Nathaniel pour his drink. “Here, have another,” she urged, coming back to him. It wouldn’t harm her newly-born hopes if she could send Nathaniel to Virginia with the effects of drinking showing on his features. “At a time like this,” she thought, “she’d hate it. Even I would if it were my father.” But Nathaniel had needed only one bracer. It was enough. He told Chiri so. She shrugged at the quick failure of her plan. After all, she shouldn’t have expected it to work—Niel was too decent for that. “Well, there’s nothing more to offer you—except that I know you don’t want, my loving comfort—so I’ll get on to my downy couch. It hasn’t been impressed with my dainty figure for two nights. I don’t suppose you’ll be working for some time. “Mind if I go to Hark for his series? He won’t finish with me very soon, but when you’re back at work again you’ll have to do the murals and let your illustrations go anyhow, so you won’t need me.” "Good-night,” Nath:i*iel muttered, and Chiri understood she could go to Fell Harkness, or anywhere else she liked. “I’ll come in and make you some coffee,” she promised., “What time are you getting up?”

HOOSIER OFFICERS WAGE WAR ON PAPER FIELDS WITH PENCIL CANNON

By DAN M. KIDNEY "Tj'AR and near, high and clear, -*■ hark to the call of war.’ Once more Hoosier soldiers are assembled for combat. At least they were Monday night and will be every Monday night in May and the first two in June. The assembled troops fulfil the fable of Villa’s army. They are all officers. With the clank of spurs and swagger of Sam Browne belts, some dozens of Indianapolis and surrounding area reserve officers answered roll call at the Chamber of Commerce. The war was on.

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“I’m not going to bed, and don't bother, please.” “You mean you’re going to sit up all night and soak yourself in grief over what’s happened to Miss Brewster?” Nathaniel glanced at his watch. “It’s almost > morning now.” “Then I’ll’make the coffee before I go.” “Never mind . . .” Nathaniel feared she would want to stay to drink with him. But she surprised him by leaving as soon as she had the percolator going and sugar at his elbow. Chiri often did the unexpected. Nathaniel thought of that with gratitude as he drank the steaming black liquid. Then he forgot her entirely in thinking of Virginia. As early as he dared he was at her apartment that morning and for the next few days he remained at her side as much as he was perj mitted to. She had not been told about her ; father’s financial troubles. He learned this from Dr. Meyerling, who had talked with Mr. Brewster's lawyers. The physician had advised against telling her until after her father’s funeral. Nathaniel dreaded the hour of disclosure for her. Its coming so close on the shock of her great bereavement made him wonder if she could stand up under it. She was so pitifully near collapse as it was. But he was to see anew side of Virginia’s character when Mr. Gardiner, the lawyer, intoned the bad news in an excessively grave voice. Nathaniel had been rather astonished at her abandonment to grief such as one expects only from less tortured persons. He had expected more self -control from her, but then, he reminded himself, her love for her father was not of the ordinary filial kind. They had been truly devored to each other. Nathaniel sensed the fact that Virginia's loss had terri led her. It was different now, however, when she learned that she had lost a fortune as well. It seemed rather to bewilder than to hurt her. "But I can’t understand,” she murmured; “how can you say there is nothing left? We still have the house at Glen Cove . . . daddy . . . never curtailed our expenses . . ” "He ruined himself to keep up appearances,” Mr Gardiner explained bluntly. “All the property he inherited was heavily mortgaged long ago. Somehow he managed to keep the estate you speak of clear . . . until about three months ago. What he did with the money he obtained on it at that time I have not been able to discover. There are no receipted bills of any recent date. I fear* Miss Brewster, that there is an appalling number of accounts yet to be paid, and foreclosures on your property are sure to be immediate.” The man all but droned the words, doing his duty. He found it difficult. of course, but Virginia’s attitude deceived him. She seemed so indifferent, except to Nathaniel, who sat close enough to watch her reactions corning and going in her grief-filled eyes. Mr. Gardiner suspected It was possible she possessed some means unknown to him . . . ah, yes, the money her father had raised on the estate at Glen Cove . . . no, no . . . that would not be like them. Richard Brewster hadn’t known how to brake the toboggan of habit on which he was riding to his financial doom, but his lawyer knew that he would not have planned to cheat any one to whom he owed money. Nathaniel felt that his voice could have been softer, his manner more gentle, and he was infinitely glad when it was all over and he was alone with Virginia. He had something he considered very important to say to her before he left her this time. But he did not get to say it. They were interrupted by an unexpected caller whom Virginia would not refuse to see. (To Be Continued) BOY SHOT AT CARDS Lad Wounds Brother After Losing Games. OMAHA, May 9.—Just like Dead Eye Dick, who shot his crooked card partner, is the incident of Max McClure, who shot his brother, Verne. Verne, 8, won two games of cards in succession from his brother, Max, 12. Max, enraged, picked up a small bore rifle and shot his brother in the eye. Both boys say the shooting was an accident, because Max did not know the gun was loaded. BLIND DOG IS FREED Held Blameless for Biting Deaf Man. By United Press YONKERS, N. Y., May Mrs. Mary Rich’s blind dog was exonerated in court for biting Walter Pfeifer, 80, a deaf man. The court ruled that the dog could not be held responsible because if Pfeifer had his hearing he would have been warned by the animal’s bark.

“It’s the new army game,” Col. W. H. Patterson, regular army officer on service with the 84th Reserve Division staff, explains. “It’s war and it’s up to every officer to do his best to win.” It is paper warfare. All the reports will come from committees rather than cannons. MOB OF course every war has a purpose. The purpose of this one is to teach as many of the 2,800 Hoosier reserve officers as can take part some lessons in tactics. side will represent the United States and the red the

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1928

Noted Air Pilot Dies in Plunge

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Lieut. R. V. Thomas

F,y United I*rent HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N. J„ May 9.—Lieut. Royal V. Thomas, who set anew endurance record for solo airplane flights a week ago, and Vaughn Weatherly, aeronautical engineer, were killed today when the Bellanca airplane in which they were making a speed test, crashed on the grounds of the Teterboro Golf Club. Thomas, a member of the Reserve Flying Corps of the Army, was one of the outstanding pilots in the East. His solo endurance record, eclipsing Col. Charles A. Lindbergh’s, was made over Long Island while attempting to take the world endurance record away from George Haldeman and Eddie Stinson. Thomas and Weatherly had taken off from Teterboro Airport, across the highway from the golf club. They were flying low in the same plane in which Thomas had set his solo record, when the plane turned over several times, as in a barrel roll, and then plunged down. It struck the earth tail first. The bodies of the two fliers were crushed and officials from the airport experienced difficulty extricating them from the wreckage.

GOOLIDGE TAX WINFORECAST Senate Approves Two Items on Reduction Draft. Pji United Press WASHINGTON, May 9.—Victory in the Senate, for the Administratio’s tax reduction program was predicted by Republican leaders today, following Tuesday’s favorable action on two of tis provisions. Amendments offered! by Democrats proposing to eliminate all admission taxes except on prize fights, and all taxes on club dues were defeated by Republicans, all voting together for the first time at this session. Schedules approved by the finance committee and the Treasury Department fixing a $3 exemption and 10 per cent tax on admissions and a $lO exemption and 10 per cent tax on chib dues were adopted in favor of the Democratic proposals. SALE OF TWINE HEAVY Farm Bureau Distributed 1,000,000 Pounds Report Shows More than 1,000,000 pounds of binder twine have been purchased by Hoosier farmers through “the Indiana Farm Bureau purchasing department during the last three years according to the bureau’s report on cooperative buying Issued today. Coal is another large Item of purchase the report states. Last season, which started in early summer, over 1,000 carloads were purchased and distributed. The bulk of this coal was from Kentucky. Orders for coal are coming in daily, the farmers buying their supplies for next season, the bureau men state. More than 15,000 tons of fertilizers were purchased this spring, as against 7,000 tons last year. swaLlows toy plane Operate on Girl, 2, to Remove Object from Throat. PITTSBURGH, May 9.—ln playing with her sister Miriam, 6, Martha Bechtold, 2, swallowed a toy airplane. It was removed by surgeons after being lodged in her throat for more than thirty-six hours.

enemy. A controlling committee will govern the combatants and the war will be decided by impartial judges. The first problem propounded Monday night gave every officer an opportunity to contemplate his own preparedness and that of his country. This is to be no small-time fray that can be settled by a few Marines. The problems will not only take in the Army, but will require cooperation of the Navy as well, the Colonel declared. After furnishing confidential maps and information the first

Ml CALLS SENATE PROBE STREET TALK’ Clashes With Board of Inquiry in Quiz on Primary Costs. DENIES MOVIES TO AID , Neither Spent Nor Received Money for Campaign, Committee Told. , P.u United Press WASHINGTON. May 9.—Questioning of Secretary of Commerce Hoover before the Senate campaign ; investigating committee today be- : came so heated that at one point Hoover interrupted to ask: "Isn't . this committee getting down to deal with a small type of street talk?” i Members of the committee became aroused and Senator Barkley I (Dem.), Kentucky, who was conducting the examination, said he had been prompted to ask searching questions by responsible authorities who gave him information. Hoover characterized many suggestions in the questions as "slanderous,” "absolutely false” and “grotesque.” Resents Implications Barkley asked at one time If Hoover was responsible for circulating an alleged charge in all "favorite son” States that the faorlte sons were “stalking horses for some other candidate.” Hoover had manifested a growing displeasure with questions of the committee, and he retorted. “I don’t know of any such charge. The talk that has gone on is beyond belief." Hoover denounced as "grotesque” the suggestion in one of Barkley's questions that Hoover had called chinaware manufacturers to Washington recently and agreed to help them raise prices 15 per cent. “If anyone thinks he is going to be a member of your cabinet, he is banking on optimism and not on promises?” Barkley asked at one point. “I don’t resent you asking that question Senator, but I resent the implication of It,” Hoover replied with considerable heat. Hoover said many of his friends contributed to his campaign, but he thought it “very unlikely” that any of his relatives contributed. Not So Wealthy At another point, Hoover said he understood the Indiana headquarters was “hard up” and had tried to borrow money from the California headquarters. “I have received a letter from your headquarters saying the international bankers in New York were against you,” Senator McMaster, Republican, South Dakota, said. “Are they against you?” “I don't know anything about the letter, “Hoover said. “I suppose they have a right to their free opinion. I haven't seen the letter.” In reply to a question, he said Will Hays, former chairman of the Republican national committee “has done practically nothing” for his campaign, though he is “friendly.” Asked as to whether he (Hoover) was a "man of considerable means,” Hoover replied: "Well, nothing like the amount generally reported.” Hoover said the story circulated from New York by Allen Fox that j a “movie campaign” for Hoover was being contemplated was false. No Movie Support “Do you know Roy Howard, chairman of the board of the Scrlpps- I Howard newspapers?” Barkley' asked. “Yes, sir.” “Have you had any conferences j with him?” “Yes, sir. He is a very ardent' supporter of mine and he has been to see me several times.” “His papers are supporting you?” “Yes, they made a public announcement to that effect some time ago.” “Have an negotiations been conducted with Mr. Will Hays to give you the support of the movies?” Barkley again asked. "Mr/ Hays wouldn't have any influence to do anything like that.” Secretary of Commerce Hoover told the Senate cmapaign investigating committee he had made no personal expenditures to get the Republican presidential nomination. "Unless you consider odds and ends, telephone bills and the like, I have no expenses,” Hoover said. “I have not received any contributions either.” The Reed-for-President organization has received $35,414 in contributions and spent $31,196.15, Ed S. Villmoare, treasurer of the organization, told the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee. The largest contributors were Otto Mathi of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company, A. Busch of the family of St. Louis brewers, and H. E. Draker of Kansas City, who gave $5,000 each.

situation was set forth as follows: "On Nov. 7, 1927, diplomatic relations were strained between an alliance of an Oriental State with a European (red) and the United States (blue) and was was imminent. The reds have obtained control of the North Atlantic and some of their sympathizers have bombed and destroyed the Gatun Lock of the Panama Canal, putting it definitely out of operation.” (Note: The reds in this case are not the Bolsheviki, and Colonel Patterson doesn’t want his problems to involve any particular nation.). _ *

CITY GIRL AT COURT Will Meet Royal Family Tonight

NEED NEW BIDS ON AUDITORIUM New Call Must Be Issued, Due to Technicality. New bids for construction of a new Arsenal Technical high school auditorium at a cost of approximately $215,000, will be received by the Indianapolis school board, as result of a technicality which Tuesday night caused rejection of bids received last week. The board, last year, Included $200,000 for the auditorium in a proposed $450,000 boni issue of which $250,000 was for two new wings. The State tax board oermitted construction of the wings and agreed to construction of the auditorium later, without readvertising of intention of issuing bonds, which the board has found illegal. Asa result, the board must announce intention of issuing bonds and later readvertise for new bids. Appointment of three teachers for the remainder of the school year by Superintendent Charles F. Miller was approved. They are Grace Gass and Frances Gilley, elementary teachers, and Maxine Clark, Broad R:.pple high school. Board members were to visit several sites suggested as grade school sites this afternoon. Action on reconsideration of dismissal of three assistant superintendents, whose positions were abolished last November, was delayed, STEEL TREATERS MEET Second Annual Conference to Open Thursday at Purdue. By Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 9.—The second annual conference on steel treating will be held at Purdue University Thursday and Friday with the Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne and Notre Dame chapters of the American Society for Steel Treating cooperating with the Purdue engineering extension department. Superintendents, metallurgists and foremen of steel treating departments will attend. The university’s heat treating equipment, consisting of oil, gas and electric furnaces and temperature control apparatus, will be used in demonstrations that will be a feature of the conference. Tall and Short Bandits Busy MUNCIE, Ind., May 9.—The tall and short bandit pair staged its fourth consecutive hold up here Tuesday night, taking $75 from a drug store cash register after forcing John Campbell, a clerk, into a back room. The short man has carried a gun in previous holdups, but Tuesday night both were armed.

'T'HERE followed special advice to both sides regarding general mobilization plans, whicn includes mobilization of the 84tl; Division, “Indiana’s Own.’ So the stage is set for the next step. That will be the formal declaration of war. Next Monday night at' the Chamber of Commerce. Then the 84th will .mobilize (on paper) and the reds will launch their convoys en route here. In the weeks that follow the Hoosier troops will march from their training quarters at Ft. Harrison to the “theater of operations.” formerly “the front.” Jhe

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Miss Diana Rockwood

MISS DIANA ROCKWOOD, 1606 N. Delaware St., will be presented tonight- at the second royal court of the season at Buckingham Palace, London. Five other American women have been selected by the American legation to be receivd by King George and Queen Mary in the white drawing room of the palace. The court tonight is expected to be a repetition of the function Monday night, which was conceded to be the most brilliant ever conducted in Great Britain. Miss Rockwood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George O. Rockwood, has been studying in Paris for eight : months. She is touring Europe with her parents at present, having com- ] pleted a three weeks’ tour of Spain. The'lndianapolis girl will be preI sented to the King and Queen on j her nineteenth birthday, according ! to W. S. Rich, her grandfather, who was advised of the function in a letter some time ago. Miss Rockwood attended Miss Porter’s school at Farmington, Conn., after she was graduated here from Tudor Hall. The last eight months she attended La Rosarie finishing school in Paris. Her father is president of the Rockwood Manufacturing Company. “I think my granddaughter is the third person from Indiana to be presented at the royal court. They are selected from all sections iof the United States,” declared Rich. “A strict form prescribed by the American embassy even stipulates the style and manner of dress for the function,” he said. Seven hundred women, including sixteen Americans, were pretented Monday night. Other American women who will be presented tonight are; Mrs. John R. Stetson, Jr„ whose husband is in the American Legation at Warsaw. Miss Virginia Booth, Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau, head of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D. C. Miss Katherine Bullock, Denver, Colo. Miss Evelyn Clark, New York. HEN S BATTLE SNAKES Chickens Keep “Watch on Rhine” Against Viper Outbreak. By Science Service BERLIN, May 9.—German poultry is able to maintain its own “Watch on the Rhine” against invading enemies. The country around the town of Geestemuende, in Hanover, recently has suffered from an outbreak of vipers. These snakes are troublesomely poisonous, though their bites are not often fatal. The farmer’s best snake-alarms were their hens, which invariably set up a clatter when a viper appeared. A number of cases were reported of battles between a snake on one side and a flock of hens on the other, in whlrh the reptiles were invariably pecked to death.

reds will land on hostile shores and establish a bridgehead. That term will be one for the new second lieutenants to look up. Each force then will advance strategically until they form a contact. Then the blues will attack. The reds withdraw. The blues pursue. The officers whose maps and plans are most practically and realistically worked out will win the victory. All arms of the service will do their bit. Major H. C. Rexach is in command of the blue forces and Major H. Lee R. Muller the reds. Lieutenant Commander Austin of the Navy Is also cooper a Vng.

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JAPAN RUSHES ARMY TO WAR ZONEINCHINA More Troops and Planes Hasten to Help of Besieged Force. SITUATION IS CRITICAL Hostilities Continue, With Losses Small; Snipers Are Active. BY D. C. BESS United Press Staff Correspondent PEKIN, China, May 9.—Desultory fighting continued today between the Chinese Nationalist army and the Japanese expeditionary force at Tsinan-Fu with advices here stating that the Nationalists had evacuated the occupied zone. Casualties were said to be small, in advices from the Japanese wireless. Much of the operations were believed to be from snipers, who have been reported active in the last forty-eight hours in the stricken territory. Earlier unconfirmed reports said the Japanese were in an isolated and extremely precarious position. They were weary after twenty-one hours of fighting, the reports said, and it was found difficult to move reinforcements in to aid the bond of 3,000 expeditionary troops.

Railway Reported Cut Nationalists were reported to have cut the Tsinan-Tsingtao railroad near Minchui, thus preventing the Japanese troop movement from the port of Tsingtao. Through the night Tsinan-Fu was reported to have been in darkness, as the electric plant of the city had been destroyed. Other advices here said that Japanese troops were moving on Tsinan-Fu. Major General Iwakura was reported advancing with a mixed brigade from Tsingtao, while 2,500 additional troops and two airplanes were reported to have left Dairen Monday and were due at Tsinan-Fu today. Every indication here reported the situation at Tsinan-Fu becoming more and more tense. Late developments included: Japanese seizure of the TsingtaoTsinan railroad, which Gen. Chiang Kai Shek had needed for his northern advance toward Pekin. Barracks Blown Up Japanese destroyed the Chinese barracks with explosives. The Chinese forces started a counter offensive when Japanese general forces issued an ultimatum demanding the Nationalist forces evacuate Tsinan-Fu and a zone seven miles on each side of the impo'tant Tsingtao railroad. Military observers declared seizure of the railroad by the Japanesedescribed officially as necessary aggression against offensive measures—as a virtual declaration of war. Reports here that Gen. Chiang Kai Shek was losing control of his Nationalist armies, so intent were the Chinese on attacking the Japanese expeditionary troops. Another Clash Reported Advices were that another engagement had broken out between Japanese and Chinese at Kaomi, forty miles west of Tsingtao. There were believed to be 2,300 Japanese troops there and the Nationalist soldiers were said to be not in uniform. The latest engagements In Shantung province, If recent advices are correct, now have lasted more than thirty hours. Early reports here Indicated that Japanese losses had not been great, but Japanese soldiers said a number of civilians had been killed and that many houses had been looted. It was believed most of the foreigners in Tsinan-Fu, with the exception of the Japanese, were safe

BOOKKEEPERS FOUND TO HAVE SHORT LIVES Span Is Shorter Than In AH Other Occupations. CHICAGO. May 9.—Pity the poor bookkeeper. His environment Is such that statistics prepared by Dr. J. M Dodson, of the American Medical Association, show his life-span to be shorter than that of any other occupation. Doctors, on the other hand, seem to find the business of keeping others healthy a boon to their own well-being and longevity. The figures show bookkeepers live to an average age of 36.5 years, doctors 62 years and the life of the average American citizen is given at 47 years.

INDIANA STUDENTS WIN Two From Salem High School Achieve Scholarship Honors. By Times Special EMPORIA, Kan., May 9.—Two high school students from Indiana are among those who ranked in the highest 1 pe cent in some subject in the scholarship contest conducted on April 11 under supervision of Dr. E. R. Wood, bureau of research director of Kansas State Teachers College here. The Indiana honor students and their subjects were Eleanor McClintock, chemistry, and Martha Marks, second year Latin, Salem high were taken by students in 821 high schools in .wenty-four States in the contest.' ...