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CHAPTER I The Guilty Conscience LILA LATHAM—soon to be Lila Ware—even now the motor that was to take her to the church was whirring under the porte-cochere-had a guilty conscience. She stood before the full-length mirror in her dressing room* and saw herself, a misty, white-clad, vision, with eyes like stars under the tulle of her bridal veil. She looked like an angel. She felt like a black imp. The opening of the door behind her made her start. "Oh, it's you, Dot? I'm jumpy, I guess." She turned to a slender girl in a powder blue bridesmaid’s frock, who carried in her arms a huge bouquet of white orchids and lilies-of-the-valley. “Your flowers—they’ve just come,” Dorothy Caine buried her pretty nose in their fragrance. Lila took them absently. "Dot,” she said hollowly, "I’ve been wondering if I dare go through with it.” Dorothy’s eye opened wide. "Marry Herbert, you mean? What on earth has happened Have you discovered suddenly that you don’t love him?” "You know r very well what I mean! And I love him too frightfully much. If I didn’t, I wouldn t be behaving like a coward and a perfect hussy, in the bargain, because of my fear of losing him.” “Nonsense!” Dorothy deftly tucked a fold of the bridal veil more securely under its bandeau of pearls. “You’re just in a funk at the idea of walking down a church aisle in about fifteen minutes, with the whole world gaping at you. Ive been maid of honor eight times—and it affects ’em all the *®e way. Lile gripped Dot’s arm with a tense hand. "Dot—should I tell—even now? It isn’t too late?” Dorothy’s clear eyes met hers gravely. "Lila, dear, giving advice, even to one’s dearest friends, is a facer for the most intrepid person. How do I know what to say? To me, it seems that if not telling were to hurt someone, then you’d have a problem on your hands. But it can t hurt any one; neither can it do any good. If you confess at this eleventh hour, you will take the fine edge off this day—and it should ba the happiest in your life and Herbert’s.”

LILA sighed and trailed her gleaming train across the room to her dressing table. She unlocked her jewel case with a tiny key and, taking something from an inner compartment, held it up for Dorothy to see. , , “Is it wise to keep that? asked Dorothy gravely. "Have I ever been wise? countered Lila, with a wistful smile. “Os course, I shouldn’t keep it though it’s quite safe here. It’s in a secret compartment in the box—see? “Why don’t you—dispose of it?” “I don’t know,” confessed the prospective bride. “We women are queer things, aren’t we? We cherish such ridiculous, such dangerous tokens of sentiment.” She turned the slender diamond circlet over and over in her hand. “I thought I was so in love the day Jack put that on my finger and said: ‘Only death can part us now!” "Well, death parted you,” said Dorothy sofely. Lila dropped the ring back in the jewel case. Her face was wistful. “Dot, tell me, am I frightfully wicked? Should I tell Herbert—even now, at the last minute —confess to him that I wasn’t speaking all the truth when I gave my word that I’d never loved any one else? You see, it means so much to him. He isn’t like other men.” “You should powder your nose and be ready to go down,” advised Dorothy sensibly. “The cars are waiting, and we’re already late.” The matter-of-factness dropped from her voice. “Lila, dearest, don’t torture yourself and spoil your wedding day. Captain Farquaher is dead. He’s been dead five years, even though you didn’t know that until recently. Nobody knows, or suspects, that you were engaged—almost married.” “We meant to be married as soon as Jack could came back,” insisted Lila feverishly. “We pledged ourselves to each other that night in France, before all those witnesses. We were terribly in love—or thought we were.” “Well, you weren’t, or you wouldn’t have recovered the first minute you set eyes on Herbert,” said Dorothy, with a tiny smile. Lila smiled, too, waveringly. “Haven’t I been mad about him though? It’s the real thing, this time, Dot. I’ve completely lost my independence and my sense of humor and that’s ominous. I can’t even laugh at myself for being such a ninny about a man. “And the worst of it is that I

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adore him for being so jealous. Do you know, Dot, he’s even jealous of you; and as for my old beaux—” she laughed softly, triumphantly—"every time I introduce him to an old friend, he wants to know if that particular man has ever kissed me. That’s why I daren’t tell him about Jack. He’d be wild! He’d do something dreadful!" Dorothy was at the mirror, adjusting her powder-blue picture hat. "Are you ready?” she asked. "Dot!” Lila had another disquieting thought. "The letters? Have you destroyed them?” u * mean your—Captain FarX quahar’s letters?” Dorothy shook her head. "I burned the envelopes, but I thought the letters—the ones you read aloud to me—were too beautiful to destroy. There is nothing in them to identify you. He never used your name, remember? It was always as ’my soon-to-be wife’ that he addressed you. He must have been rather interesting, your Jack Farquahar.’ "Oh, he was a handsome chap,” said Lila, powdering her nose vigorously, “the dashing, masterful sort that appeals to a silly girl of 18. Not like Herbert, fine and strong and dependable.” "And stubborn and dignified and narrow,” added Dorothy—but not aloud. Lila flung herself suddenly into her bridesmaid’s arms. "Dot, wish me luck and tell me I’m not making a mistake in not confessing to Herbert.” “I think, under the circumstances, it would be the worst possible thing you could do.” “Not only that—it would be fatal!” Lila was her gay self again. "Herbert would throw me down at the very chancel! But, if that’s your advice, you’ve got to stick by it. If I get in a jam you’ll have to help me out!” It was high noon when Lila, radiant and beautiful as the flowers she carried, walked slowly up the aisle of fashionable St. Timothy’s, between pews marked by tall standards of Easter lilies. She saw only Herbert, as he waited in the chancel; grave, goodlooking, carefully groomed. Her tiny, wavering smile was so beautiful that his stern face took on an expression of sheer adoration that brought a catch to the hearts of the older onlookers. There is five hours difference in time between New York and France. When it is high noon in New York, the Riviera is sauntering along the many promenades by the sea, stopping under gay awnings, where the tables are set and the orchestras are playing for its before-dinner aperatif. At 5 o’clock, then, on the day that Lila Latham was becoming Lila Ware, a lean, dark young man, the pallor of recent illness, or suffering, on his handsome face, was sitting under the awning of the Case de Paris at Monte Carlo, staring at the sea, his thin hand nervously turning the stem of a wine glass. "Six months more of this—maybe only three!” he was saying, half to himself, half to his companion, “and then I’ll be in shape to go home. There’s a girl waiting for me. I haven’t seen her for five years!” He began to talk about her with boyish eagerness.

CHAPTER II The Home-Coming THE young Wares spent their honeymoon in Bermuda. To Lila it was an ecstatic time of golden days melting into burnished tropical nights, when the sea sang and the moonlight sifted like quicksilver through the gently stirring palm trees. Her happiness was unalloyed; so was Herbert’s. He was as much in love als she, and Lila’s infatuation knew no limits. She had ceased to think of that other rdmancs of hers. Now she could easily concede Dorothy Caine’s (Turn to Page 1, Second Section) FINLEY M’CONNELDIES Veteran Printer, 72, Passes at Son’s Home in Bedford. Finley R. McConnel, 72, for fortyone years a member of the Indianapolis Typographical Union and an employe of The Indianapolis Times and predecessors for thirty-five years, died this morning at the home of a son in Bedford. Mr. McConnel, who retired six years ago, was one of the best known of the “old timers” in Indianapolis newspaper offices and printing shops. He was active in the typographical organization and was an Odd Fellow, a Mason and a Woodman. Funeral services will be held Saturday. Local Student Elected CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 18.—John H. Binford, Indianapolis, has been elected assistant yell leader of Wabash college from a group of four applicants. Binford is a sophomore and a member of Phi Delta Theta.

REVOLT AIMED AT‘BOSS RULE’ OF TEACHERS Reign of Federation Bloc Will Be Fought at Convention. 16,000 AT CONFERENCES Sectional Meetings Start; Committees Work on Nominations. News of freetional meetings Pa*e 3. A fight to wrest control of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association from the Federation of Public School Teachers’ group was waged in the thirteen district meetings of the teachers’ convention late this afternoon. The convention of 16,000 teachers opened with sectional meetings with a voting bloc of 4,000, the federation has been in successful control of the state association for many years, educators here charge. The group received its first setback last year, when after a bitter battle in the nominating committee the federation's candidate was defeated. 8 to 5, and C. E. Hinshaw of Kokomo was elected chairman. Teachers from each of the thirteen districts in the state met this afternoon at Cadle tabernacle to select a district representative on the nominating committee. Committee Reports Friday The nominating committee will meet at 8 Friday morning and make its report at 11 a. m. at the general meeting in Cadle tabernacle. Recommendations of the nominating committee have in the past been accepted, although it is permissible to lead a fight on the floor to nominate another candidate. But the 4.000 federation votes have been considered a strong deterrent in the past. It has been agreed universally that a woman should be selected as the 1929 president. The federation group has decided upon Miss Mattie Frye, assistant superintendent of Anderson schools. Twelve thousand teachers had registered by late this afternoon and several thousand more were expected to be present by tomorrow morning. Federation Is Assailed No possible candidate for the anti-federation group had been suggested by late this afternoon, although it is expected that when the nominating committee meets tomorrow morning several names besides that of Miss Frye will be suggested. Several school superintendents of large Indiana cities meeting in a group in the lobby of the Claypool today were unanimous in condemning the federation, which, according to Louis Ward, Ft. Wayne school superintendent, "is stronger than any labor union in the state and has succeeded in foisting the teacher tenure law upon the people.” Ward denounced the tenure law, which provides that a teacher after serving for five years holds practically a life appointment and can be discharged only for “extreme viciousness.”

Called Backward Step “It is dragging education backward in the state, because when a teacher has completed five years of service she can lay back on her oars in her profession,” he said. The federation bloc of the association will wage a determined fight to have the association reaffirm its faith in the tenure law. “We shall not plan any legislative campaign this year, but we will make a determined effort to retain what we have,” declared Miss Martha Whitacre of Richmond, last president of the association, and member of the state board of education. Name Committee Members The Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth districts will elect executive committee members to succeed C. W. Steele, Tenth district; M. C. Townsend, Eleventh district; E. M. Suter, Twelfth district, and George W. Worley, Thirteenth district. Two executive committeemen-at-large will be chosen to succeed Donald Du Shane, Columbus, and Verna Hoke, Gary. ' Inaugural address of C. E. Hinshaw of Kokomo, president of the association, will be the high point of the general meeting tonight. PONDER SUBWAY IASE Gotham Seven-Cent Fare Fight Up to U. S. High Court. Bu United Prefix WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. The United Sttaes supreme court took the New York city 7-ce subway fare case under advisement today, after attorneys for the city and the state transit commission, characterized the Interborough Rapid Transit Company as improvident.

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Daring British Aviator, Risking Life in Tiny Plane to Cross Atlantic, Due at Goal Today

Anxiety Grows in England as Hours Pass Without Word of Flier. BY J. C. MEANEY ('•sited Press Special Correspondent ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Oct. 18.—For a thrill, which capture by cannibalistic Africans and wartime submarine service had failed to provide, Commander H. C. MacDonald today was risking his life in 4 daring attempt at a transAtlantic crossing. The former British naval officer started—without any great advance publicity—from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, about noon Wednesday, hoping to land in England within eighteen hours. So unostentatious was the start that many believed he was just taking his 85-horsepower Dehaviland Moth up for an air jaunt. But as darkness crept over this area and the first streaks of dawn came today it was certain MacDonald was risking his life in a daring gamble that the little plane would carry him to England. Most Daring Flight It is the most daring transAtlantic flight ever attempted and made by a man whpse air experience is almost negligible as compared with the other illustrious fliers who have attempted overseas flights. A year ago. MacDonald started flying. He made a long distance tour in a Moth down into Africa and there was captured by natives, rescue coming just when the cannibalistic natives had decided to kill him. That had not given him the thrUl he wanted. He announced a transAtlantic flight. With little advance notice he arrived in Newfoundland, Sept. 27, and started preparations. No Radio in Machine So tiny was the plane MacDonald intended using that mnay could not believe the serious intent of this ruddy 1 , *3-year-old former naval officer. The plane weighed but 800 pounds. Its wing spread was but twenty-six feet. Its motor could develop only eighty-five horse power. Its cruising range was only about 3,500 miles. Like Colonel Lindbergh, MacDonald did not install radio into the machine and planned dead reckoning for the selection of a flight course. In many ways the start cl MacDonald and Lindbergh's flights were not dissimilar. When the proper conditions availed Lindbergh quietly climbed into his Spirit of St. Louis and started for Paris. So it was with McDonald Wednesday. He heard conditions were favorable over the Atlantic. He prt pared, personally, a thermos bottle with coffee, a few sandwiches, and walked oTjer to his little Moth, a mechanic twisted the propeller. The engine roared and with a wave of his hand to the mechanic and the five or six spectators about, he was away.

EUROPE-U. S. ZEP AIR LINE CORPORATION DISCUSSED

Bn United, Press _ . LAKEHURST, N. J., Oct. 18.— Discussions concerning formation of a dirigible transportation corporation, to operate on a fifty-four-hour schedule between Europe and the United States, probably will get under way today between Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the Graf Zeppelin, and interested financiers. Dr. Eckener in New York Wednesday revealed that he hoped to for WHEN GUARDS GUARDED Cop Refuses to Listen to Al’s Daughters and Friend. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 18.—When Chicago policemen are sent out to guard a presidential nominee they do the job with thoroughness. A1 Smith’s two daughters and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, wife of the illustrator, didn’t have a bit of success in trying to convince the officers they belonged with the official parade Wednesday. “That’s a lot of boloney,” was the calm rejotner when Mrs. Frances Quillinan, Mrs. John A. Warner and Mrs. Gibson insisted on their identities. High School Press Meeting FRANKLIN, Ind., Oct. 18.—Five hundred high school newspaper workers are expected here Friday when a two-day session of the Indiana High School Press Association will open.

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INDIANA MINING PEACERUMORED Basic Sale of $6.10 a Day Forecast By United Preet TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Oct. 18.Settlement of the Indiana coal mining situation with a $6.10 basic wage scale and a 91-cent rate for tonnage workers is expected today by observers. * It is rumored the subcommittee is completing the final details of the agreement to be signed later by the representatives of the full scale committees. Neither operators or miners would confirm the rumor. Asked when a referendum of the miner vote on anew scale would be taken in case agreement was reached, Harvey Cartwright, president of District 11, United Mine Workers, said: “Immediately. We would expect to have the vote tabulated within three or four days." Questioned in regard to the rumor of settlement, Cartwright said “There are many rumors.”

mulate a corporation, with a capital of $14,000,00, for trans-Atlantic service before the Graf Zeppelin returns to its home port at Friedrichshafen, Germany. Later Captain E. A. Lehmann, first officer of the Graf Zeppelin, said the conference would be held here today. He would not indicate identity of the Americans interested in the proposed corporation. Eckener and the officers of the Graf Zeppelin were to come here today from New York to oversee a few of the plans for repairing the torn fin of the great air liner and then proceeded to Philadelphia, where a celebration has been arranged in their honor. Ford May Back Line 81l United Press DETROIT. Oct. 18.—Henry Ford returned to his office today from the east, but declined to comment on reports that Dr. Hugo Eckener was attempting to interest him in financing of the proposed transAtlantic Zeppelin air service. GRIPPE ATTACKS QUEEN Marie of Roumania Confined To Her Bed. Bu United Press VIENNA, Oct. 18.—A dispatch from Bucharest said today that Queen Marie of Roumania was confined to her bed' with a slight attack of grippe.

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Radio Is Not Carried in Brave Attempt to Span Ocean. tfy United rrcus LONDON, Oct. 18. —Grave anxiety was felt this afternoon for the safety of Lieutenant Comander H. 0. MacDonald, R. N., retired, who left Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, at 11:40 a. m., eastern standard time, Wednesday, on aji attempt to fly across the Atlantic to Ireland or England. At 6 :40 (1:40 p. m. eastern standard time) Commander MacDonald fTad been gone from Harbor Grace twenty-six hours and no word had been received of his whereabouts. * At a consumption of four gallons an hour, MacDonald would have a margin of twenty-fire hours before his fuel was exhausted. Using four and one-half gallons, his margin would be cut to twenty-two hours. The twenty-two hours was up at 9:40 a. m. <E. S. TANARUS.) k Winds Are Favorable However, while unfavorable weather prevailed in Ills course ap - proaching Ireland, winds reported across the Atlantic may have enabled the flier to conserve his fuel and it was thought he may still have a chance to achie-ve his goal. Visibility was good on the south coast of Ireland, but earlier it had been poor, and similar conditions prevailed elsewhere, so that MacDonald could cross the coast without being observed. England was aroused to a high point of interest by the exploit of the young naval officer, who is only 33. While an experienced navigator, and a British submarine officer during the war, his flying experience was small. Storms Over Atlantic From mid-Atlantic to the Irish coast, there were reports of high winds, rain and poor visibility. At mid-Atlantic the winds were reported to be raging at between forty-five and fifty miles an hour. The De Haviland Gypsy Moth machine MacDonald took to Newfoundland in September, is one of the tiniest of the planes now in use in the British empire. Its wing spread is only twenty-six feet. It has only eight-five horsepower, whereas, Lindbergh’s machine could develop 225 horsepower. Its cruising range is estimated at more than 3,000 miles.

SHOT BY ‘EMPTY* GUN Brother of Girl Snaps Trigger Causing Injury. Evelyn Vincent, 9, 1947 Euclid avenue, is In a serious condition at city, hospital today from a bullet wound in her right arm received when a revolver was discharged in the hands of her brother, Gerald Vincent, 13, Wednesday afternoon. The gun was brought to the Vincent home by Edward Yeager, 11, of 2100 N. Olney street, who said that he found it hidden in a closet at his home. The boy said he had snapped the trigger many times and because nothing happened he thought the weapon harmless. DETECTIVE HUNTED Bury Murder Victim Found in Lime Pit. By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 18.— Funeral services will be held here today for Mrs. Genevieve Stults, beauty parlor operator, whose body was found near Elkhart, Monday, buried in a lime pit, and who police believe was murdered because of her clandestine love affair with a married man. Three persons have been charged with the murder. Charles L. Rhyer and his wife, Janie Rhyer, are in jail in Elkhart while police still are searching for Harvey L. Smith, private detective. It is believed Smith is traveling with a carnival in Alabama. Mrs. Rhyer has admitted she hired the dectective to get Mrs. Stults out of town, but she said she did not believe he would commit murder. > Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 58 10 a. m 59 7 a. m 57 11 a. m..... 58 8 a. m 57 12 (noon).. 58 9a. m.v... 57 Ip. m 54

STATE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE SUPERINTENDENT TO SERVE SIXTY-DAY TERM ON FARM Withdraws Appeal Motion Before High Court and Prepares to Depart for Putnamville Institution. ENDS LONG FIGHT IN CONTEMPT CASE Two Justices Dissent, in Minority Opinion, on Three Points, From Verdict Handed Down by Majority. Other Shumaker Stories Pajre 3. The Rev. Edward S. Shumaker, Indiana Anti-Saloon League superintendent, will leave for the Indiana State Farm at Putnamville at 8 a. m. Friday to begin serving his sixty-day sentence for contempt of the Indiana supreme court. The 61-year-old dry league chief today dropped his legal fight ‘o escape the state farm sentence and $250 fine imposed by the supreme court. Shumaker's attorneys filed with the supreme court a motion to withdraw his final effort to appeal his conviction. The court at once granted the motion, withdrawing his plea for a rehearing of a motion for anew trial.

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TRAIL MYSTERY MANIfURASH Passenger in Taxi Leaves Girl Unconscious. Determined to end traffic violations and especially the practice of dashing through the yellow lights, Police Chief Claude M. Worley today ordered the accident prevention department to make a most thorough investigation of the accident of Sunday, Oct. 1. when a United Cab taxi and a motor bus crashed. “Get every witness and fix the guilt,” was the order of the chief. The police reports of the accident show that a man who was a passenger in the taxi ran from the scene, leaving behind his companion, Miss Lucille Wright, in an unconscious condition. Miss Wright was registered at the Claypool from Little Rock, Ark., and is said to be an official of that state. Inability to secure her testimony has turned the search toward her companion, and effort will be made to trace him. PLAN TRAFFIC CODE x Model Drawn by Hoover May Be Used in City. Use of the model municipal traffic ordinance, drawn by a national committee headed by Herbert Hoover, was recommended today by Councilman Edward W. Harris, in drafting anew city traffic code. Harris, Hoosier Motor Club vicepresident, said the model ordinance was drawn by national experts and approved by the American Automobile Association. RETURN SLAYER TO DIE Cleveland Killer Will Be Sent to Chair in Pennsylvania. Bu United Press PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 18.— Paul Jawarski, Allegheny county murderer, recently captured in Cleveland after he fatally wounded a policeman, will be returned to Pennsylvania to die in the electric chair, Edward C. Stanton, prosecuting attorney of Cleveland, and District Attorney Samuel H. Gardner agreed today.

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Commitment papers were served on Shumaker by William L. Resoner, supreme court sheriff, early this afternoon. Shumaker was ready to begin the j trip to the farm at once, but on j suggestion of Resoner, who said his automobile was not immediately I available for the trip, the start was , postponed until Friday. Ethan A. Miles, league attorney, | and James A. Bingham Sr., filed I todays motion with Judge Julius C. i Travis, Benjamin M. Willoughby j and Clarence R. Martin. Motion Is Granted The court granted the motion at once. The motion which Shumakci asked be withdrawn was filed ir: anticipation of proceedings in the | United States supreme court, to- ! day's motion declared. "The respondent (Shumaker) I does not now intend to take such ! proceedings in said cause, and TANARUS justice and fairness to this honorable court hereby withdraws said motion for anew trial on said motion for a rehearing,” it said. A hint that Shumakers followers have a faint hope of a habeas corpus appeal to Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell later was given by Miles. “Were not forfeiting or waiving any rights in this court. There are other courts besides the United States supreme court,” Miles stated. Shumaker has little belief that an appeal to the local federal court would aid him, it was understood, however. There also was believed to be little possibility that Governor Jackson would pardon the dry league superintendent, although friends of i Shumaker recently discussed that ; possibility with him. The Governor has that power, however, declared a minority opinj ion on various points in the Shu- : maker case, handed down today by Judge Martin and concurred in by Judge Gempifll. Opinion Covers Three Motions The opinion covered minority findings on three motions in the contempt case. They were the motoin of co-defendant Jesse E. Martin for anew trial and additional response of Attorney General Arthur R. Gilliom’s motion to modify judgement and increase the Shumaker sentence, ad the Shumakci petition for rehearing and motion for new trial. Both Martin and Gemmill disented in the original findings of the court by which Shumaker was sentenced to sixty days at Indiana State Farm and fined $250. At the close of the opinion, covering thirteen closely typed pages, Martin declared that the court’s original findings in the case have been criticised almost universally. He cites various law journals in support of this contention. Then, as in his minority opinion on the original findings, he pointed to allegedly contemptuous comment on the case published by various papers in the editorial columns. Editorials Are Cited Two editorials from The Indianapolis Times and one from the Indianapolis News were cited. The decision to drop the fight against Shumaker’s contempt sentence was reached because the AntiSalon League now has insufficient funds to carry an appeal to the supreme court, a statement issued by the league’s headquarters committee today declared. Shumaker, the statement said, repeatedly has asked headquarters committee to close the case, avoid further expense and permit him to serve his time.

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