Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 179, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1928 — Page 11

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IT SEEMS TOME u * By HEYWOOD BROUN

SOME months ago I reported the fact that an amateur astrologer had cast my horoscope and predicted that all sorts of luck would descend upon me in December. Well, December is half over and I hereby

call upon the stars to do their stuff. As yet they’re sleeping. To be sure. I have won a few trifling sums at poker recently, but I had supposed that good fortune would concern itself with much more v i t al matters. The day which the chart referred to romance and ar-

dent friendship in no uncertain terms.

But as things stand, no one has said "you’re wonderful” in very many years, if ever. In fact, I can’t remember so much as a "call again some time.” Unless something happens soon I’m done with all occultism and superstition. Will to Believe I WOULD like to believe in spiritulism, the ouija board, palmistry, thought transference and tea leaves, but no convincing specimens ever have come before my attention. That isn’t evidence enough to discard all possibility of psychic phenomena. Reliable people have told me of extraordinary experiences, but mo cf . faith depends upon purely persor assurance. I wouldn’t much enjoy seeing a ghost, but I’d like to have a sign of some sort. My inability to detect things strange and mysterious may depend upon a lack of sensitivity. Still I’m no cynic. Once I attended a seance and so much had been said about the prowess of the medium that I was inclined before the event to believe that the dead both walked and talked. My mind was open and my heart was soft. That medium was a bungler and let me down into the cold realms of rationalism. In his favor it should be said that he did his stuff without flummery. After a pleasant dinner we sat down in a cheerful and well-lit room. The medium was a stout gentleman, well spoken and of a pleasing exterior. He chatted for a while and then slumped into his chair like one somewhat surfeited with meat and port. Every now. and again he passed his hand before his eyes. Presently in a matter of fact voice he remarked that the room was crowded with the spirits of the departed. I was properly impressed. This seemed a better way than tambourines and holding hands. Seemingly these ghosts stood like pupils in a class room, each one waving a hand to attract the attention of the teacher. They were not visible to me nor was any such spectacle intended. I had understood from the beginning that they could speak and become manifest only through the kind offices of genial Mr. T.

Granny Talks HE looked over all the applicants carefully, and finally chose to relay the words of an old lady whom he called Granny Campbell. In his own voice he delivered the message which was intended for me. And at this point he set my awe to cooling. I felt that there must be some mistake, for of all my grandmothers, not one was called Campbell. That happens to be my middle name, but it is derived only from the given name of an unde. By now' I have forgotten just what Granny Campbell said. It is my impression that she passed on to me some words of comfort from two aunts w'hom I never had. n n a More Than Aunts BUT there was no concealing the fact from the medium that my aunts were something less than a sensation, and so he looked again along the line of wTaiths and led forth a public character. It wa*, the actress, Clara Bloodgood, who had killed herself some ten years before. She was not known to any in the room, the two of us had seen her play. Indeed, as things developed, we knew more about her career than she did. One of the guests, a dramatic critic, undertook to question Miss Bloodgood on his own account. But his queries were not so very difficult. He merely asked, “Miss Bloodgood, can you tell us the name of the play in which you were \npearing at the time of your death, and the name of the dramatist?” Since the play in question was “The Truth,” and the author Clyde Pitch, she should have known the answer. The ghost of Miss Bloodgood could not remember. My friend, the dramatic critic, was angry and bitter about the whole affair. To him Mr. T. seemed but a sorry swindler. That was an opinion which I could not share. After all, we had paid nothing for the evening’s entertainment and had shared in an excellent dinner at no expense. For the ouija board I have no respect at all. I have watched those who could make it dance and sing, but under my fingers it is wholly inarticulate unless I push it. Some day I may see a ghost or hear the voice of one who is dead or run against unmistakable evidence of telepathy or second sight. When that day comes I’ll eat this column. More than that I’ll eat it gladly. (Copyright, 1928, for The Times.)

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PROGRAM SET FOR AIR AND RAILROUTES Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana Will Handle Business Affairs. i J. A. PERRY IS PRESIDENT Company to Take Care of Passengers on Coast to Coast Journeys, Business affairs of the Transcontinental Air Transport, Iqc., the 48-hour-air-rail, coast-to-coast passenger line, to be inaugurated April 1, with Indianapolis as a junction point, will be handled by Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana. Coupled with this announcement by Captain H. Weir Cook, vicepresident of the Curtiss company, was announcement of a complete organization of the new flying service company. The Curtiss company will accept reservations, care for passengers, service the huge tri-motored T. A. T. planes and handle all administrative affairs of the transcontinental line, relieving it of the necessity of maintaining a staff here. Perry Is President Officers of the Curtiss company are President James A. Ferry, president of the Indianapolis baseball club: Vice-Presidents Cook and C. S. (Casey) Jones, New York City, president of Curtiss Flying Service! Inc.; Secretary Paul Richey, president of Russell M. Seeds advertising agency; and Treasurer J. A. B. Smith. New York City. Directors are Norman, A. Perry president of the Indianapolis Power and Light company: G. M. Williams, Marmon Motor Car company president: Jones, James A. Perry, and Cook. The technical committee consists of Cook, who recently resigned as regular army instructor attached to the Indiana National Guard; Captain Charles E. Cox, Jr., officers reserve corps; Captain Oliver H. Stout, National Guard flier; Walker W. Winslow, of the ChapmanPrice Steel Company, and a flier; Lieutenant Sidney A. Stout, Officers Reserve corps, and Lieutenant Fred J. Maibucher, National Guard flier. One of 25 Organizations

Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana is one of twenty-five organizations being formed by Curtiss Flying Service, Inc., New York City, in larger cities of the country, to give flying instruction, distribute Curtiss airplanes. and conduct a regular local and distance passenger service. Cities where such schools are being formed include Chicago, Detroit, Columbus, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Syracuse, New York City, Kansas City and Miami. In four or five of these cities, of which Indianapolis may be one, special advanced courses will be given along lines of training given in a college or university. The local ground school course and flying instruction will be started early in January. The ground school course will include theory of flight, aircraft engines, airplane rigging and maintenance, instruments, navigation, meterology, airways, de - partment of commerce regulations, and kindred subjects. Course to Be Standardized This course will be standardized throughout the country and is modeled after similar courses in training schools for army and navy pilots. The school has received three Curtiss Robin cabin planes and expects to receive several more within the next two weeks. Within ten days it will receive its first Curtiss Fledgling primary training plane, similar to Curtiss naval training ships. The company plans to establish dealers to distribute and service Curtiss planes in the larger cities of Indiana. Captain Cook served eleven years in the United States army aviation service, being an overseas flier in the World war and having official credit of seven victories over German planes, as well as several unofficial victories. Three Active Instructors Active instructors in the Curtiss school will be Cook, Captain Cox, also an overseas flier with several German planes to his credit, ‘ and Lieutenant Maibucher. The company has opened offices at 646 Illinois building. For the present its flying activities are centered at Indianapolis airport, Mars Hill, National Guard flying field.

YEAR TO LIVE, SIO,OOO EACH TO SPEND, 5 WOMEN FACE FATE IN DIFFERENT WAYS

NLW YORK, Dec. 17.—Just across the Hudson river, in Orange, N. J., five young women, free, life-loving, apparently healthy, afe doomed to die. They are guilty of nothing, but their fate is morei rrevocably fixed than if the nation’s highest court had sentenced them. Apparently healthy? Yes. But in each of them courses a minute bit of that most valuable, most mysterious, most deadly substance in the world—radium! “A year to live,” the doctors said. And that was six months ago. They were given SIO,OOO each by the company in whose service they had invited death. And now the world is watching the enacted answer to that hitherto academic question: “What would you do if you were

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To see whether she “bore any scars,” Earl Carroll. Broadway revue producer, is alleged to have demanded that Ann Moss Gaynor, show girl pictured here, pose before him as beauty unadorned when she applied for a place in one of his choruses. She refused, and—she didn’t get the job. At least, that's w’hat Ann told the United States district attorney and the Actors’ Equity, both oi whom are investigating her charges.

MAKES TARGET OFDRY LAW Attorney Holds Name of Buyer Should Be Used. Bn Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 17.—A new attack on prohibition law indictments in federal court here has delayed a ruling in the case of Floyd Overmeyer, charged with liquor selling. O. A. Pursley, Hartford City attorney, defending Overmeyer, raised anew issue when he moved that the indictment in the case be quashed, asserting that congress did not have authority to pass a law to the “effect that the name of a person to whom liquor was alleged to have been sold need not be used in an indictment. The attorney told the court thatleaving out the name places the accused in jeopardy as preparation of a iefense can not be made due to uncertainty of the offense charged. So impressed was the court with pursley’s view that the ruling in the case was deferred until the April term. CITY AIB SITE UP Council Expected to Act Tonight. City council is expected to act on the proposal to buy a municipal air port tonight. Mayor L. Ert Slack turned over option on Site 8, south of Ben Davis. He recommended purchase of the 1,000-acre tract which will cost about $300,000. A bond issue of $675,000 is .planned to buy the land and make improvements. Several councilmen were anxious to speed the airport plans and were expected to urge action tonight. Councilmen and several other city officials including the mayor, were to be guests of Edward B. Rauh Sr., council president, at the Indianapolis Athletic Club tonight at a dinner. Tonight’s council session will be the last of the year and an effort to clear the calendar will be made by Raub. BUILDS CASKET; USES !T Bn United Press PARK LANE, Va., Dec. 17. Twenty-nine years ago James T. Mateer, 73, made his casket from an oak tree cut down on his homestead at Colvin Run. It was opened after his death, Saturday night, and a note was found therein, giving instructions that he was to be buried in the wooden casket and describing the color of shroud he preferred.

given a fortune and a year to live?” 8 8 8 THE story of their poisoning has been told. But the manner in which they have chosen to spend their precious interim—an unmatched study in the variety of human character and ideals—is reported for the first time in an article appearing in the January issue of Cosmopolitan. The five are Mrs. Quinta McDonald and Mrs. Albina Larice, sisters; Miss Katherine Schaub, Mrs. Edna Hussman and Miss Grace Fryer. As girls in their teens, they worked during the war in a New Jersey factory. Their job was to paint radiant dials on wrist watches for the doughboys in France.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, DEC. 17,1928

MARS MESSAGE AGAINISHZZLE Girl Friend of London Doctor Is Coldly Silent. Bn United Press RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 17.—Dr. Hugh Mansfield Robinson’s Martian girl friend, beautiful big-eared Oomaruru. remained coldly silent today after his latest message to her, Nothing happened when just before midnight the Companhia Madiotelegraphica Brasiliera, a radio corporation subsidy, broadcast a message from Dr. Robinson to Oomaruru from its Septiba station. “God is love—earth to Mars,” the message said. Dr. Mansfield hoped that Oomaruru, whom he met in a telepathic flirtation, the first inter-planetary romance on record in real life, would reply.. But while he waited in his London office, his ears caressing the earpieces of a special apparatus which he sadly confided cost him SSO, engineers at the Septiba station also waited in vain for a flash through the ether that Oomaruru had received the message. It was the physician-psycholo-gist’s second attempt, on a scientific basis, to communicate with Oomaruru. The first was made in England several months ago, and likewise was a flop. HUGE HOCKEY CROWD Capacity Attendance Sees New York Rangers Defeat Cougars. By United Press , NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—New York’s professional hockey teams, the Rangers and Amercians, continued toda yto show the way in the two divisions of the National Hockey League. The Rangers increased their hold on first place in the American group Sunday, by defeating the Detroit Cougars, 3 to 0, before a capacity crowd at Madison Square Garden. The Americans went into undisputed possession of first place in the International group, by defeating the Black Hawks at Chicago, 1 to 0. K. OF C. HOLD’BENEFIT Folk Songs Presented at Program to Aid Orphans. Folk songs and popular melodies of a bygone day were presented by local artists in the sixth annual Knights of Columbus benefit for the orphans’ Christmas fund, Sunday night. Tonight the annual turkey dinner is to be given at the auditorium, Thirteenth and Delaware streets, to aid the orphans fund.

Whether they were instructed not to “point” their tiny brushes with their lips never has been settled satisfactorily. But the fact is that they did touch the brushes, bearing a radium composition, to their lips frequently during the day. It was in 1925 that the death of the French chemist, Demenitroux, aide of Mme. Curie, discoverer of radium, was traced to his laboratory experiments, and science’s attention was directed to all who had been in contact with the substance. 8 8 8 EXAMINATION convinced scientists that the five New Jersey women were doomed. Suits followed, which were settled in June, 1928, for SIO,OOO cash to

BUS DERAILS TROLLEY CAR; 8 ARE HURT Scores of Students Are Periled in Crash on Wet Street. DRIVER IS ARRESTED One Woman Killed; Eleven Injured in Other Accidents. Eight persons were injured today when a People’s Motor Coach Company bus, inbound on New York street, crashed into an East Michigan street car, loaded with Technical high school students on their way to school, at Fulton street. One woman was killed and eleven persons injured in other traffic accidents over the week-end. The bus-street car collision occurred shortly after 8 a. m. Leonard Du Pont, 3505 West Washington street, driver of the bus, was charged with assault and battery and reckless driving. His hands xere cut by glass from the bus windows, nearly all of which were broken. The bus smacked into the side of the street car in the center, knocking the rear truck of the car from the tracks and swinging the’ rear end of the car. jammed with screaming students, its length north. The swinging rear end of the car struck a truck, parked on Fulton street about twenty feet north of the corner and knocked it on to the sidewalk.

Wet Pavement Blamed Motorman Ray Purdue, 853 West New York street, declared he had stopped at the corner and was just starting up when the bus struck the car. Du Pont, driver of the bus. blamed the crash on the wet wood block pavement. He said he was not driving fast and jammed on his brakes and skidded three bus lengths. The bus was knocked into telephone poles at the northeast comer and badly damaged. All the injured persons were bus passengers. The injured: Mrs. Fred Sutherlin, 5707 East Twentieth street, right hand and arm cut; Mrs. lone DeNoun, 2230 Wallace avenue, hands cut; Mrs. Pearl Tulley, 1216 North Temple avenue gash on top of head; Miss Lora Givin, Twenty-first street and Leslie avenue, leg injuries; J. A. Thimann, 1429 East New York street right wrist sprained; K. W. Dickerson,, 2175 Riley avenue, right arm and shoulder sprained. Fatally Hurt in Crash One woman whose name was not learned also was injured. All the injured were treated at the scene and by neighboring doctors and taken to their homes. Mrs. Lola B. Parks, 63, of 3031 Bellefontaine street, was fatally injured late Saturday when struck by a Brookside avenue car at Massachusetts avenue and New Jersey street. She died Sunday afternoon of a fractured skull. Mrs. Parks was crossing the street with her daughter, Mrs. Osborne, with whom she lived, and pulled away from the daughter to step into the path of the car, police said. Knocked from Wagon Mrs. John Graham, 239 Lansing street, received bruises about the back and shoulders today when she was knocked from the wagon in which she was riding with her hus - band, John, when it was struck by an automobile driven by Thomas LaFever, 583 North Lynn street. The accident occurred in front oi 1111 West New York street and Mrs. Graham was taken into the office of a nearby physician. LaFever said that his car skidded on the wet pavement. C. L. Bruns, 45, of 2934 School street was seriously injured Saturday night at Sherman drive and English avenue when his machine collided with one driven by Harry Cunningham, 25, of 907 College avenue. Cunningham was charged with reckless driving and speeding. Others injured the week-end accidents included: Daniel Giblin. 1241 Shephard street; Howard Sprunger, 22, of 539 Burch avenue; Miss Irene Thompson, 18, of 614 North Denny street; Mary Roades, 3. R. R. 6, Box 224. Anderson Boy Attacked By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. 17.—Police are searching for an assailant of Paul Odell, 14, who struck him on the head while he was en route to his home at night. The boy lay senseless several minutes.

each, with an additional monthly remittance during their lives. To them SIO,OOO was a fortune. What would they do before the year of grace reached its tragic end? How would they face that year of opulence—tragically, recklessly, hopefully, dispassionately? Katherine Schaub, youngest of the quintet, is realizing an ambition. repressed during the years of necessary factory work, to read, to write poetry. The Cosmopolitan writer found her hidden away in a farmhouse in the Catskills, surrounded by anew, but carefully selected, library, drinking in the rustic beauty she never had known before, making herself loved among her farm neighbors. But first she had taken up a mortgage on her father’s little home in Newark.

TEXT OF KELLOGG ANTI-WAR TREATY Here is the text of the Kellogg treaty to outlaw war: The president of the German Reich, the President of the United States of America, his majesty the king of the Belgians, th 6 president of the French republic, his majesty the king of Great Britain, Ireland, the British dominions beyond the seas, emperor of India, his majesty the king of Italy, his majesty the emperor of Japan, the president of the republic of Poland, the president of Czecho-Slovak republic: /Deeply sensible of their solemn duty to promote the welfare of mankind; Persuaded that the time has come when a frank renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy should be made to the end that the peaceful and friendly relations now existing between their peoples may be perpetuated; Convinced that all changes in their relations with one another should be sought only by pacific means and be the result of a peaceful and orderly process; and that any signatory power which shall hereafter seek to promote (ts national interests by resort to war should be denied the benefits furnished by this treaty; Hopeful that, encouraged by their example, all the other nations of the world will join in this humane endeavor and by adhering to the present treaty as soon as it comes into force bring their peoples within the scope of its beneficent provisions, thus uniting the civilized nations of the world in a common renunciation of war ps an instrument of their national policy; Have decided to conclude a treaty, and for that purpose have appointed as their respective plenipotentiaries; (Here fol'ow ihe names of the officials who negotiated the pact.) Who, ha ring communicated to one another their full powers found ir. go©cl and due form, have agreed upon the following artciles: ARTICLE I. The high contracting parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another. ARTICLE II The high contracting parties agree that the settlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts, of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them, shall never be sought except by pacific means. ARTICLE 111. The present treaty shall be ratified by the high contracting parties named in the preamble in accordance with their respective constitutional rquirements. and shall take effect as between them as soon as all their several instruments of ratification shall have been deposited at Washington • This treaty shall, when it has come into effect as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, remain open as long as may oe necessary for adherence by all the other powers of the world. Every instrument evidencing the adherence of a power shall be deposited at Washington, and the treaty shall immediately upon such deposit become effective as between the power thus adhering and the other parties hereto. (Then follows a paragraph putting upon the United States the duty of furnishing copies of the treaty to the governments involved, and of notifying such government of each ratification; and the treaty closes with the customary announcement as to signatures, seals and dates.)

BANDITS TAKE CASH SAVED TO BUY COAL

Man Who Only Recently Obtained Work Is Robber Victim. Two bandits held up J. A. Turner. 1211 Polk street, in the alley back of his home as he w'as on his way to work at 6 a. m. today. The bandits took $4.90 which he had s saved to buy coal. Turner, who'only recently has gotten w’ork, said. They also stole from his pocket the application of the oldest of his five children, a girl, 11, for entrance into the State School for the Deaf. A youthful bandit held up the Sinclair Refining Company station at Twenty-fourth and Meridian streets Sunday night and took $25 from the attendant, Austin Wilson, 4054 Central avenue. Ban* its who threatened him with a gun Saturday night and led him up an alley near McCarty street and Virginia avenue slapped him when they got only $2 from his pockets, Harry Kelso, 811 Virginia avenue, told police. Called a short time later on a report that three men, one with a gun, were in the alley, police found three men and a half pint of liquor. As all denied ow'ning the liquor, the three were arrested on blind tiger charges. Thev gave their names as Tom Platt, 41 South Oriental street; John Means, 1624 Bates street, and Albert Johnson, 215 South Summit street.

ATKINS TAX REFUND CASE OPENS TUESDAY Remanded Here for Trial by Circuit Court of Appeals. Trial of the E. C. Atkins & Company $8,000,000 horizontal tax re fund case will start Tuesday in federal court. The case recently was remanded here for trial by the circuit court of appeals after being dismissed in September by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell for want of jurisdiction SEES bEATH SUSPECTS Youth Fails to Identify Two Men Held in Pulliam Killing. Carl Williams. 15-year-old youth riding with Paul Pulliam, Bair theater manager, when Pulliam was killed by bandits a month ago viewed two suspects held by police today. He failed to identify either.

Mrs. Edna Hussman had wanted all her life two things—leisure and music. She has her leisure, tragically limited, and all the music she can crowd into it with a fine player-piano in one corner of the modest Husman living room, an expensive cabinet radio in the other. u tt MRS. LARICE, through her girlhood had longed for and dreamed of distant horizons and far places. But always there has been the necessity of work and never the money to travel. Her first expenditure from the SIO,OOO was for a comfortable car and a long, gypsy-like tour of Canada. But to her sister, Mrs. McDonald, the money only meant increased tragedy. Immediately the check arrived, her husband quit

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Dashboards No Stickers on Them, Foe of Bedford Parking Ban Recalls.

By Times Special Bedford, ind.. Dec. i7.—a proposal that parking of automobiles around the LawTence county courthouse square here be limited to one hour, scheduled to be considered at a meeting of the city council Monday night, is opposed in an editorial in the Mitchell Tribune. The editorial says “Bedford Is county seat and the square belongs to the people, and we may decide that an hour cr even tw’o of them is not long enough to permit us to transact necessary business at the courthouse.” Then follows a plea for the courthouse square practice of years ago, in these words: "Years ago W T e all drove into the county seat early Saturday morning and parked the team on the square. The horses ate hay from the w'agon bed until 4 p. m., and no one molested us, and no stickers were pasted on the dashboards either. Any such ordinance as the one proposed is unconstitutional and a possible infringement of our rights.”

HURRY HURRICANE BILL Suspension of House Rules to Be Asked by Committee. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 17,—Tire house rules committee agreed today to request the house for a suspension of the rules so the Porto Rican hurricane relief bill could come up for immediate consideration this afternoon. Tiwo thirds of the house must agree to a suspension of the rules. probFsmugglingring Alleged Leader of Gang to Procure Aliens Held in Buffalo. Bu United Press BUFFALO, Dec. 17.—With the arrest here today of Charles Stewart of Buffalo, immigration authorities believe they have captured the leader of an alien smuggling ring which has been operating for the last year along the Niagara frontier.

his job to enjoy the sudden affluence. When she protested, there were quarrels, finally a separation. Her one concern now is for her two small children, and for their education the bulk of her money has gone into a trust fund But the fifth and last fights back at fate. No acceptance of science’s word for Grace Fryer. She holds her job with a Newark trust company, her money invested as though she were providing against a ripe old age. Hei outlook is unchanged. If anything she is more Interested in life, and in rallying her four friends. She is the irreconcilable one, intelligently following every effort of the experts who are striving frantically to stave off fate.

SEAL SALE TO BREAK RECORD IN MAMON CO. Head of Association Sees Great Progress Made in Health Fight. DEATH RATE TO DROP Civic Agency Committees Co-Operate in Drive for Funds, The largest Christmas sea] sale in the history of Marion county was predicted today by Fred A. Sim*, president of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association. Asa result, the county tubercular death rate of 90.9 for each 100,000 population is expected to be reduced materially. Total deaths throughout the county during 1927 was 37V In 1926 the total was 433, according to Sims, and 637 in 1914, when the Christmas seal drive was started. This made the 1914 rate 224.7 for each 100,000 population. "It has been shown conclusively by experience in various sections of the country that approximately nine open cases of tuberculosis exist In a given community for each death recorded for the disease,” Sims says. 3,300 Active Cases Here "At this ration in Indianapolis and Marion county, there are 3.300 active cases among us. It is these cases which the Marion County Tuberculosis association and other health agencies constantly are attacking with such modern preventive and curative methods as the child nutrition camp for sick children at Bridgeport, adequate clinics, more public health nursing facilities, discovery and isolation of cases of tuberculosis and the general campaign among children and adults to educate them in methods of living which w’ill control spreao of the disease. "To keep up thought against the plague -here in 1929. the immediate thing to be done is financing of the next year’s work through sale of Christmas seals. "Committees from many civic agencies are cooperating with the Marion County Tuberculosis association in its annual struggle to finance next year's work. The seal sale program calls for only a few dollars from each citizen. Donations Help Fight "These small contributions, added together, make it possible to continue the local, state and national effort to eradicate tuberculosis from the list of the foes of mankind. “The sale here this year is a definite part of the country-wide program aimed to keep the death rate going down through coming years.” In 1927 there were 585 deaths from tuberculosis in twenty-eight southern counties of the state, figures collected by the association show\ Death rate in these counties is 88.2. Meanwhile, the northern counties had a rate- of 53.8, the thirty-three central counties a rate of 65.7. and the total number of deaths of 956. Highest death rate was In Jefferson county, forty-seven deaths giving that county a rate of 224.8 for each 100.000 population. White county, with but three deaths in 1927, had the lowest rate, 17.3. DUCHESS VISITS U. S. SCOFFS AT ‘ANASTASIA’ Cousin of Late Czar Here to Visit in California. By United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 17.—The Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna, daughter of the Grand Duke Paul of Russia, who was killed by bolshevists, and first cousin of the late Czar Nicholas 11, arrived here Sunday on the French liner Paris. The grand duchess, who is 38, was asked if she believed the story of the young lady who came here some months ago, claiming to be Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of the late czar. "Os course I do not believe it,” she said. “I have come to America,” she said, “to gratify a long felt desire, and am looking forward to my journey across this great country to California, where I am to be the guest of Mrs. William R. Hearst at her ranch,”

DEATH TAKES WRITER OF ‘ORPHAN ANGEL’ Elinor Wylie Dies at Home; Paralytic Stroke Is Cause. Bn United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—Elinor Wylie, 42, poet and novelist, died at her home here Sunday night after a paralytic stroke. Miss Wylie was the wife of William Rose Benet, prominent critic and author. She was born in Richmond, Va., the daughter of Henry M. Hoyt of Washington, who was solicitor-gen-eral under President Taft. Miss Wylie had been married three times. ~ Critics said her greatest prose success was the novel, “Orphan Angel.” Other novels written by her are; “The Venetian Glass Nephew,” “Jennifer Lorn” and “Mr. Hodge and Mr. Hazard.” Her best known books of verse are: “Nets to Catch the Wind” and “Black Armour.” She was working on a book of verse, "Angel and Earthly Creatures” for publication in the spring.