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The New Racket: Society

BY MARGARETTA ROBERTS >*l N,eretr, in th* Htoh of Some of the Country'* Wealthiest Families) NO figure in society carries a greater load on her shoulders than the daughter of a socially ambitious family. The son. too, is important but he can perform his obligations much more easily. The daughter has been educated in a fashionable private school, fin- j ished in Europe, and finally is ready | for her debut. If she has been handled correctly, she should be about 19 years old. If her family is in society, and is poor, she is supposed to retrieve the ! family fortune by marrying money, j If her family is rich, but not estab- j lished. it Is up to her to bring home : the blue blood. In either case, she must work quickly. A deb can hope for only one good year. If she hasn’t married by the end of his first season, she is called a “flop” deb. Thereafter she carries with her a faint but quite distinct stigma of failure. For the deb’s first year in society all the rest, of the family must stand back. Everything is staked on the girl. Next year there will be anew crop of debs, and this year’s crop will be forgotten. Work fast is the motto. In case the deb fails to win ft fti*6band the first year she can, of course, try again the next. The chances, however, are against her. In many cases the “flop'’ debs go in for "careers,” or take up philanthropic work. tt n a lAUNCHING a debutante is an expensive undertaking. The debut is infinitely more important than the marriage. Everything is staked on it. There are many debutantes com-ing-out parties that cost as much as $25,000 and more, but these are exceptional. I have known poor, but prominently social girls to be introduced for as little as $5,000, but they could not have done it without the assurance of impeccable background, and with the Help of their relatives and friends who have been in society for years. Some girls are given two debuts, one during the summer, at Newport. and a large formal comingout later in New York. If a girl is very popular, these two affairs will launch her, but should she be ‘difficult” the parents will need to arrange many theater parties, dances and all possible supplementary entertainment for her. With a great deal of wire pulling she may be presented at the Court of England. : If the young men do not seem to hover around her the family will have to give parties, and serve champagne and open the purse strings freely until they do. If they don't send her corsages or orchids and gardenias, her parents (provide them. Jn keeping with the spirit of the yes, some of the debutante afiairs are wild parties. A great many (Turn to rage 7) HAWKS FORCED BACK Returns to Tucson Airport When Line Breaks. Bv United Press TUCSON. Ariz.. March 31.-Cap-tain Frank Hawks, attempting a glider flight from San Diego to New York, returned to the airport here today after he and his tow plane, piloted by J. D. Jemigin Jr., had taken off for El Paso, Tex. An air bump broke the line towing the glider and forced the return, Hawks said. HOOVER GETS MEMENTO Gold Rush Days Recalled by Gift Ex-Prospector to President. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, March 31.—A memento of gold rush days of the west was presented to President Hoover today in the-form of a miniature prospector framed in a golden horseshoe. It was the work of Harry Morrell, veteran prospector of Verdi. Nev.. who labored for weeks fashioning the tiny shovels. Picks and drills from steel. DICTATORSHIP FAVORED New German Cabinet Willing to Resort to Action if Necessary. Bv United Press BERLIN. March 31.—The willingness of some members of the new Heinrich Bruening cabinet to resort to dictatorship in Germany if parliamentary opposition makes such a move necessary was indicated today in a statement by Gottfried Treviranus. new minister of occupied territories. COLLEGE BOXER HELD Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter After Opponent's Death. Hu l nited Press PHILADELPHIA, March 31.—William Struble. Penn State college boxing star, was held without bail today pending action of the coroner on a technical charge of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Oliver Home, Pennsylvania university boxing star, Saturday night.

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'CHUTE SAVES GIRL HURLED FROMPLANE Kansas City Aviatrix Is Catapulted From Ship During Loop. CRAFT IS DEMOLISHED Woman Falls 100 Feet Before Managing to Pull Rip Cord. Bv United Prt ** BUFFALO, N. Y„ March 31. — Catapulted from her biplane while attempting to break her own world record for inside loops, Mildred Kauffman landed safely with the aid of her parachute at the Buffalo airport. The Kansas City aviatrix, who Is 24, and weighs less than a hundred pounds, ascended to a height of 10,000 feet Sunday. As the plane entered the thirtyfirst loop, 3,200 feet from the ground and was flying upside down, Miss Kauffman slipped from her safety belt. While she went over the side of the plane her foot caught in the parachute cord. She managed to get herself loose and after dropping 100 feet pulled the rip cord with both hands, opening the parachute. Miss Kauffman landed on her face in the soft mud near the airport. She was only scratched and bruised. The plane v/as demolished. EMERGE FROM COMA Cleveland Pair Three Days Under Drugs in Suicide Pact. Bv United Press CLEVELAND, March 31—Paul Markham, 21, and his 20-year-old wife Ruth, regained consciousness today after three days in a coma which physicians say resulted from use of drugs in an attempted suicide pact. 9 HURT IN DANCE RIOT One Man May Die of Wounds; Four Policemen Are Injured. Bv United Press CHICAGO, March 31.—Joseph Zachalava and his wife started an argument on the dance floor at a south side hall. The 400 dancers took sides. Police came. One man was shot, probably fatally. Eight others, including Zachalava, and four policemen, were injured.

Mexican Dancing Girls Wounded in Love Duel

BY JOHN R, MORRIS United Press Staff Correspondent MEXICO CITY, March 31.—Four beautiful Mexican dancing girls lay wounded in a hospital here today as the result of a combat for the love of a handsome habitue of the capital’s cabarets. The dancers, principals and seconds in a strange duel in the dark hours just before dawn after a Saturday night of jealousy that flamed into hate, inflicted the wounds on themselves. A knife and finger nails proved deadlier than pistols in the affair of hearts fought in a deserted street. The wounded are Maria Luisa Gonzales Lopez and Enriqueta Hernandez Juarez, principals in the drama; and Concha Meneses and Margarita seconds for Maria Luisa and Enriqueta, respectively.

Maria Luisa and Enriqueta mutually were jealous for the attentions of Sergio Augusto, frequenter of the cabaret in which they were employed. The rivalry came to a climax Saturday night, when Augusto showed a preference for Maria Luisa. He danced with her almost to the exclusion of the petulent Enriqueta .and otherwise convinced the spurned woman the hour for drastic measure had come. She challenger Maria Luisa to a duel. Maria Luisa accepted with delight They chose seconds from among their companions—the dancing girls—and proceeded without delay to a lonely spot on the Calzada Del Chabancano, near the outskirts of the city. It was after 3. m. ana a a a FACING each other beneath the dim glow of an electric street light, the girls opened fire. At the order of Concha Meneses, each sent six shots in the general direction of the other and all of them missed. Surprise and disappointment were evident on all faces. This was no ending for a duel to the death. A knife flashed, none professed to known whence, and the four dancers, screaming and clawing the darkness, succeeded in wounding one another before the police came. They were taken to a hospital. Sergio Augusto did not attend the meeting.

MERCURY DROP DUE Tuesday Will See End of Warmer Weather. Spring's advance on Indanapolis appeared checked temporarily with forecasts today by the United States weather bureau that temperatures here will drop Tuesday. Increasing cloudiness late today and tonight may bring 1 in Tuesday, according to J. H. Armington. meteorologist. In northern Indiana similar conditions probably will end la a snowstorm.

Flunks Course By United Press CHICAGO, March 31.—Edward Walz, 17, could not learn from the experience of others. When he was 12 he saw his brother William shot to death by a policeman after a store robbery. When he was 15 he visited the death cell from which another brother, Charles, went to the gallows for murder. Today Edward was in Jail, charged with stealing an automobile.

KAYE DON KITS 180-MILE CLIP Fails in First Assault on World Record. !:u United Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., March 31.—Kaye Don failed on his first assault on the world’s straightaway auto speed record here this afternoon, turning in a 178-mile-an-hour speed on his south run and a 180-mile-an-hour speed on the north run. The record is 231 miles an hour, set by Sir Henry Segrave of England last year. The beach again was in bad shape and rough in spots. On his first run today, Don sped past the stands with his motor apparently functioning perfectly. The car bounced considerably. His official speed was 178.664 miles an hour. On his second run, the Silver Bullet seemed to hug the ground even better than on the first run. His official speed was 180.27 miles an hour. AUTHOR TURNS DOWN APOLOGY Retraction by Pastor Is Rejected by Lewis. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 31. Charges that Sinclair Lewis was drunk while he wrote "Elmer Gantry,” made from a pulpit here three years ago, have been retracted by Dr. William L. Stidger, former Kansas City minister and now pastor of a Boston church. Stidger’s apology, made in a letter to Lewis, was rejected by the writer as "three years too late,” and “insincere.” The writer wrote, “if you have any more apologies to make, don’t make them to me. but to the God in whom you so loudly proclaim a belief,"

CAPONE TO VISIT MIAMI Wife Expects Chicago Gang Leader in Florida by Air Tuesday. /?' J nittd Prc** MIAMI. Fal. March 31.—Mrs. Alphonse Capone, wife of the Chicago gang leader, announced today her husband is due to arrive here by air Tuesday. WOOD ALCOHOL FATAL James Donahue Succumbs to Bad Liquor Poisoning. James Donahue, 68. roomer at 1222 English avenue, died late Saturday night in city hospital from effects of wood alcohol, accor&ng to Coroner aH. Keever today, _

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DROP MILLIONS IN EFFORT TO corner; rye Eastern Group Is Reported Heavy Loser in Raid on Grain Mart. BOUGHT AT HIGH PRICE Cost of Storing Bushels by Thousands Brings Plot Collapse. I Bii United Press CHICAGO, March 31.—A halfdozen enterprising eastern men were reported today to have lost around $17,000,000 through an abortive effort to corner the rye market. No definite confirmation of the report could be obtained at the Board of Trade, but it is known that an eastern group has been buying rye heavily in the last few months. The steady buying was reported at slightly higher prices than the current market quotations and increasing cost of storing the thousands of bushels of the grain caused collapse of the attempt, according to the reports. The attempt was said to have started in January when the government crop report indicated that a corner could be obtained by obtaining control of a comparatively small amount of grain. After the drive started, however, increasing amounts of rye appeared on the market while the storage cost of the grain already purchased, mounted. CONFER IN GRAIN CRISIS Federal Chiefs Meet on Appeal to Cut Wheat Acreage. By United Press CHICAGO, March 31.—Wording of the federal farm board’s appeal to the farmers of the northwest to reduce wheat acreage was expected to result from a conference here today between Alexander Legge, chairman of the farm board, and Dr. John L. Coulter, chief economist of the tariff commission. GRUNDY ENTERS RACE Pennsylvania Senator Files Papers for G. O. P. Nomination. By United Press HARRISBURG, Pa., March 31. United States Senator Joseph R. Grundy filed papers in the state election biyeau today for the Republican nomination for senator. THREE DIE IN BLAZE Sleepers Perish in Farm Home at Anderson. Bv United Press ANDERSON, Ind., March 31. Three persons were burned to death when the farm home of Mrs. James Gooding, 58, six miles northwest of Anderson, was destroyed by fire today. Mrs. Gooding, Mrs. Mary Rise, 60, and J. W. Moore, 65, succumbed. The occupants were sleeping when the fire broke out. Neighbors were unable to render assistance when the blaze was discovered. Bodies of the victims were badly burned.

Wales Is ‘Baby’ By Times Special LONDON, March 31.—The prince of Wales is just like any man when it comes to being babied when he is sick, according to Miss Grace Fuller, one of the nurses who attended him when he was ill recently in South Africa with malarial fever. "He was a splendid patient,” said Miss Fuller in a letter to friends in London, “but he was a real baby when it came to swallowing pills.”

SLAYER IS EXECUTED Pennsylvania Crime Penalty Paid in Chair. Bv United Press BELLEFONT, Pa, March 31. Ralph Russell Sloat, 29, convicted of slaying John Lowry, 20-year-old taxicab driver of Scranton, paid with his life in the electric chair at Rockview penitentiary today.

COLORFUL EGYPTIAN HISTORY BARED BY EXPEDITION

Bv United Press PHILADELPHIA. March 31. Two colorful personalities of ancient Egypt have been brought to light by the University of Pennsylvania expedition at Meydum, according to a report just received from Alan Rowe, field director in charge of excavations. One is a woman called Sat-Her-Em-Hat, who went in for costly Jewelry.. Her mummy, bearing its amulets and jewels, baa been brought out of its tomb,

Farm Pets Hail Corning of Spring

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-A- DOODLE - DOO! V^lWoof —wow, b-r-ow! Ma-a-a, ba-a-a-a!” That means that down on the farm the sap is in the trees, the swimming hole has lost its last coat of ice, robins sing in the morning, chickens scratch in the huckleberry patch, and tads in blue jeans paraphrase tho oncepopular song as they pat the heads of bird, beast and fowl, exclaiming, "My pet!” “Let him crow!' shouts Vernon Ostermeier, 5, R. R. 11, Box 320, in the top left photo as his favorite rooster, "Doodle Doo,” is photographed. Carlo, in the top right photo, is all Shepherd and a yard wide to play in with his master, Marion Rodebeck, R. R. 11. And to carry the pet parade further just look who butted into the lower left photo! None other than Billy himself with his boss, Robert Breier, 5, of R. R. 11, Box 315. Nice Trixie soothes Howard Franklin Todd, 3, in the lower right photo as he tries to get Trixie to pose. BUCKET SHOPS CLOSED Racketeers Forced Out of Business as Crash Drives out Suekers By United Press NEW YORK, March 31.—The Stock Market collapse of last fall having cleaned the suckers, bucket shop racketeers have been forced out of business here, according to state officials.

AWAIT INSULL ORDER Utility Merger Ruling Will Be Ready in April. Indiana’s $70,000,000 Insull utilities merger case will be decided "some time in April,” it was announced today by Commissioner Howell Ellis, of the public service commission, who will write the order. The thirty days’ time for filing briefs by the attorneys has been eliminated, Ellis said. Today both the utility and opposition counsel agreed to let the case stand without briefs. BUILDING BILL SIGNED President Approves Construction as Aid to Unemployment. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, March 31.—The Keyes-Elliott public building bill authorizing appropriation of $230,000,000 for federal building construction and designed as an aid to the unemployment situation, was signed today by President Hoover,

where it lay undisturbed for 4,000 years. The other is a magician named Zedi, who lived in the time of Cheops, about 2850 B. C. Zedis mummy has not been found, but evidence of his remarkable life has been unearthed in the form of historical inscriptions. Herdedef, son of Cheops, wrote concerning Zedi: “There is a townsman. Zedi by name, who is 110 years of age, and he eateth 500 loaves of bread,

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JUDGE SPANKS BOYS IN COURT Young Jurist Supplies Lack of Parental Discipline. By United Press EMPORIA, Kan., March 31. When Wilford Riegle, Lyon county’s youthful probate judge, heard parents of three boys had not spanked them for misdemeanors which Drought them into his court, he decided he would administer the punishment personally. He turned two of the youths over a table and spanked them soundly after finding them guilty of truancy. The third was spanked for general mischievousness. He warned them a hickory paddle would be used more vigorously if they appeared before him again.

Fate’s Jest By United Press JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, March 31.—Samuel Honueyball, one of the discoverers of the billion-dollar Rand gold mines, has been found In a remote district of the Transvaal —shaggy, unkempt and poverty stricken. He Is living on a pension of $12.50 a month.

FIVE BODIES FOUND Rescue Workers Locate 11lFated Miners. By United Press PINEVILLE, Ky„ March 31.—The bodies of five of sixteen miners, entombed by a blast in the Pioneer Coal Company mine at Kettle Island, Ky.. Saturday were found by rescue workers today. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 33 10 a. m 46 7a. m 34 11 a. m 51 Ba. m 39 12 (noon).. 52 9 a. m..... 41 1 p. m 54

a haunch of beef and drinketh 100 jugs of beer unto this very day. He knoweth how to put on again a head that hath been cut off. And he knoweth how to make a lion follow after him with his leash trailing on the ground.” a a a THE mummy of Sat-Her-Em-Hat lay upon a pad of folded linen 70 feet long by 4 y feet wide, according to Rowe’s report,

DANCE BAN PUT on mo INN’ Court Is Threatened With Arrest by Sheriff. By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., March 31. The money that was won on a horse race can’t be used to promote a dance on the Sabbath—not in Hamilton county. That was the edict Sheriff T. E. Ramsey handed Arthur Court, winner of SBO,OOO in the English derby lottery a year ago, resulting in "no race” Sunday night at Court’s dance hall, “Trigo Inn,” eight miles south of Noblesville. Sheriff Ramsey said he has threatened Court with arrest if any drinking or further Sunday entertainment is allowed at his dance hall.

CABINET IS BEATEN MacDonald’s Labor Group Defeated Again. By United Press LONDON, March 31.—The labor government was defeated in the house of commons today on a motion for suspension of the rule which automatically terminates daily debate at 11 p. m. The house, by a vote of 183 to 179, rejected a motion by Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald to exempt today's session from the 11 p. m. provision. The opposition demanded the government’s resignation, but MacDonald’s cabinet was not expected to resign. The house of common’s rejection of the prime minister’s request was the second defeat suffered by the labor government this month. $25,000 in Gems Are Stolen By United Press MIAMI BEACH. Fla., March 31 The home of Edwin A. Bookmeyer Philadelphia insurance broker, was robbed Sunday night of jewels and clothing valued at $25,000.

Around her neck was hung a semi-circular pendant formed by several concentric rows of cylinder beads, alternately green and black. She also wore a string of large graded beads of polished amethyst and a string of exquisite miniature amulets, cut in carnelian, jaspas and lapis lazuli. A scarab found in the coffin, according to Rowe, bore the name “Her-Em-Hat, the Elder.” This probably belonged to a relative at the woman, the report states.

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AUTO LICENSE AUDITOR'S CAR HITS WOMAN George Clark Stricken With ‘Spell’ Loses Control of Machine. CIRCLES PLAZA OBELISK I Previous Accident Recalled; Termed “Fit’ to Pilot Auto by Doctor. Running down a woman and then ! swerving into grounds of the Indi- | ana World war memorial, Georg# Clark, traveling auditor in the state automobile license division, today I piloted his automobile around the j gold-tipped obelisk three times before finding a route to leave th# grounds. Subject to spells of unconsciousness, Clark has been continued ill sendee by the state department, under an affidavit of “fitness” to drive, signed by Dr. John A. Salb, despite a previous automobile accident. Mrs. Charlotte Watson. 35, of 725 North Pennsylvania street, who was struck by the car driven by Clark, was taken to city hospital. Her injuries axe not serious. Clark also was taken to city hospital to recover from the nervous condition blamei for the accident. Runs Into Grounds | Seized by one of the periodical I spells as he drove down Ft. Wayn# avenue this morning. Clark lost control of his car at North and Pennsylvania streets. The machln# leaped a curb, striking Mrs. Watson, and then ran into grounds of * the World war memorial. Clark piloted the car three time# in a circle about the shaft befor# recovering consciousness sufficiently to guide it from the open square. Police today held the automobil# and made an investigation of the accident, Several months ago, Clark was driving in Danville, Ind, with John McCord, license revocation judge, when he fell In a similar state and crashed into a tree in a nearby yard. Defended by Flficld The owner of the tree threatened to bring suit against Fifield. It was pointed out that a traveling auditor in the automobile license division who. although unfit to drive, was traveling about with the very judge who was to enforce the law against unfit drivers. Fifield defended both himself and Clark at the time by declaring that Clark was pronounced "fit” by Dr. John A. Salb. Clark’s spells are said to have resulted from his having been gassed during the World war. Today Fifield declared that he has ordered James Bradley, head of the automobile licensing division, to ; assign Clark immediately to an in- | side job and to forbid him to drive a car. "The doctor told me at the time of the Danville accident that Clark, was responding to treatment and probably would not lapfee into unconsciousness again,” the secretary of state explained. j “We can’t take a chance agabjt, for he might kill himself or sorae one else.” CIVIL WARFARE FLARES Northern China Leaders Agree tt,< Break With Government. 1 By United Press PEIPING, China, March 31. Military and extremist leaders of northern China, who have threatened civil war for months agreed today to a complete break with th national government of Chang Kal Shek. Military activities in Honan province with the object of capturing Hankow are reported unde* way. ‘QUEEN’ MARY TO MOVE Former House of David Coleader t# Live In Modest House. Bv United Press ST. JOSEPH, Mich, March 31. Queen Mary Purnell, who for years lived royally as the coleader of the House of David cult, at Benton Harbor, Tuesday will move Into a modest house near the site of her former home. Thus, the terms of the settlement reached between the cult faction led by her and that of her rival for leadership, Judge H. T. Dewhirst, will be fulfilled. MERGER IS IGNORED Goodyear Rubber Stockholders Vot# to Treble Stock. Bv United Press AKRON, O, March 31.—Taking no action on a rumored merger with Seiberling and United States Rubber Companies, stockholders of Goodyear Rubber today elected eight new directors and voted to treble the company’s common stock. Truck Kills Pedestrian By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind, March 31— Frank Hutter, 54. was fatally crushed against the side of a downtown building today by a coal truck which had swerved onto a sidewalk to avoid a collision with an automobile. He died oc the way to %i boepttaL , /dm

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