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From the legends sung of John Henry, a Negro six feet tall, whose "feets don’t fetch the ground," Roark Bradford has created a beautiful picture of humor and even tragedy. The author is the man who wrote "or Man Adam an’ His Chillun’, ” from which the great stage play, "The Green Pastures," was made. "John Henry” is the September selection of the Literary Guild. BY WALTER 1). HICKMAN. MANY people are writing reviews for this departr-.-nt since it was announced that the book review published on Friday in this department would give the winner anew book. Write your reviews of any book, fiction, juvenile or non-fiction. Keep your review around 200, even 150 words is good length for a thumbnail review. The winning review this week is written by Kathryn Mason, 52 North Fifteenth avenue, Beech Grove, Ind. She will receive a brand new mystery novel, "About 2 A. M„” by Charles Francis Cole, published by the Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. It sells for $2. Send your reviews to The Literary Editor of The Indianapolis Times. Thia is a fine way to increase your library as well as your reading experience. , a tt a THE winning review of Kathryn Mason is on "Storm Drift," by Edthel M. Dell and is as follow’s: "Storm Drift” is fiction, yet a very highly dramatized piece of work. The author expresses her characters as a storm drift on the sea of life. The heroine is one of the women who is morally weak, yet you sympathize with her, because the sea of life for her is so cruel. The hero is a common character loving the woman through pity, but fate throws th? woman on his raft, which causes both of them to become a storm drift. At the end, they reach a safe harbor, weary, but safe. The author does her greatest work in the creation of the character Harvey, this character is an artist, and when he paints a picture, he paints the soul. He is what we call a super-human character and genius. Just to know the character of Harvey is worth the time of reading. tt tt a A rich broker is murdered during the game season on the porch of his lodge in a north camp. That happens in “About 2 A. M.,” the first mystery novel by Charles Francis Coe, author of "The Other Half.” Published by Cosmopolitan. You meet anew type of a detective or rather a secret service man who finds the murderer but never brings her*or him to justice. There be reasons not. No. the arm of the law didn’t do the murdering. Lemuel Tobias Bedkins, the detective. generally starts every sentence with such expressions of "By Jasper,” "Gee Willikins” and "Land Bakes Alive." Quaint. This one has odd construction and much detail but it will hold your interest to the end. I liked it because it is different. a a tt Children do not have to worry because the authors have not forgotten them. Bertha L. Gunterman, editor for Longman's Green and Cos., announces in "Books for Boys and Girls" that they have listed nineteen new titles for young readers. They lay importance on "Waterless Mountain," by Laura Adams Armer. a tt tt Want to read some new* mystery novels? Bruce Catton or NEA suggests these: “The Cape Cod Mystery,” by Phoebe Atwood Taylor (BobbsMerrill, $2). A novelist is sandbagged into the hereafter in a Cape Cod cottage. Almost everyone is suspected, and a canny native does the sleuthing that nails the culprit. A better-than-average detective yarn, competently told. “Murder in the Willett Family,” by Rufus King (Crime Club. $1). Somebody is potting the Willets, one by one, and Inspector Valcour can't make sense out of it until it’s almost too late. You might be able to guess who did it, but it’s a good yam anyway. RITCHIE EYES UTILITIES Prepares Statement for Speech Be- j fore American Bad Body. NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Marylang mentioned as a possible candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, will make his first statement on public utility matters before the American Bar Association at Atlantic City Tuesday. The association’s announcement said Ritchie would ‘analyze and discuss some of the proposals of Governor Giffford Pinchot of Pennsylvania and Governor Franklin D. Rosevelt of New York."

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CITY HAS ITS j OWN ‘BIG DAY’ AT STATE FAIR ‘Society Night’ Scheduled; Judging to Be Finished; Windup of Races. PRIZE BEEF IS SOLD Premiums of 50 Cents a Pound Is Paid for ‘Blue Ribboners.’ Everybody has his day and today is "Indianapolis day" at the Indiana state fair. But Indianapolis had to divide a bit of that day with calf club boys and girls as they parted with the pets they've fed for a year to city packing houses, hotels, and railroad companies. The moon-eyed faces of Holsteins | and Guernseys that were trying affectionately to chew the shirts of i the calf club boys Thursday will be Monday’s beefsteak for rail travel--1 ers and hotel guests. But they parted with them like \ good scouts and at fair market prices. 50 Cents a Pound Ordinary beef was bringing 10 cents a pound while premiums of 50 cents a pound were paid for some of the choicest beef led into the Coliseum ring before the auctioneer. "Aw, well, I’ll have another calf to feed for next year’s fair, so what’s the diff,” was the philosophical reply of one youth as he parted with his “pal.” New suits, school books, a trip to the livestock exposition in Chicago, ; were some of the expenditures to be made by the boys who sold their ; loves-of-1931 today to packers. From completion of judging in all classes through "society’s night" at the horse show in the Coliseum, the day was to be one of recreation for Indianapolis residents. Finals in the horse-pulling contest started the fireworks this morning, with finals in the Indiana farm bureau quartet contest as a side attraction. The 4dng of the Brown Derby, Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner, will be crowned before the home-town-ers at about 3 tonight in. front of the grand stand. Racing to End The $1,500 Hotel Lockerbie stakes concluded the Grand Circuit racing this afternoon. Forewarning to county residents that the fair is drawing to a close and that today and Saturday will give last opportunities to see the 1931 exhibition is seen in the cattle, sheep and horse barns. Sheep are nervous. Cattle low often.' Horses champ at bits. “They know that the fair’s about over and they’re tired of showing themselves to judges and folk. They want to get back to the home pasture or anew fair,” declared one exhibitor. Animals Are Nervous It is because of this tendency to nervousness that showmen at the fair dislike having their animals judged late in any fair week. “Animals get pepped up just like people at the start of anything, but latter on they want to get going to anew place,” the exhibitor added. But if this nervousness was displayed in the show animals, it was not apparent in the hawkers of wares on the Midway. The last two days of the fair are their days to make a drive to pay the “nut." And they were shouting at topmost pitch today as Indianapolis paid them a visit. Aviation Stunts Slated The fair will take the air, literally, on its last duy, Saturday, when the One hundred thirteenth aerial sqaudron of tha; Indiana national guard gives an aviation circus in the afternoon in front of the grand stand. All the tricks of combat in actual warfare will be demonstrated for the air-minded or the novice. Vaudeville performances will serve as fare during intermissions or between stunts. The D. D. Murphy carnival shows will keep open until 10 p. m. on the Midway. State Officers to Act By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 11 Ralph Gates, newly elected commander of the Indiana - department of the American Legion, and other state officers, will be in charge at the installation of officers by George Hockett post of the American Legion here Sept. 29.

RARE SERUM GIVES MOTHER NEW HOPE

BY W. E. HALLBERG United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Sept. 11. Andrew 7 Nelson, carpenter, whistled a cheery tune as he walked the street looking for work today, for immient death no longer threatened the mother of his six children. On a cot in the Billings Memorial hospital lay Mrs. Nelson, victim of Addison’s disease, whose life was said by physicians to have been saved by a rare gland extract brought here from Buffalo by air, after a nation-wide call. Every two hours a small quantity of cortin, the only known treatment for the usually fatal disease, was administered. And word came today that the supply, sufficient three days only, would be augmented by enough cortex, a similar serum. to last ten days from the Mayo clinic at Rochester, Minn. “It was like a sentence of death when the doctors told us only this rare serum would save mother,” said Nelson. "We had to have some of it, but I didn’t knew how to get iti

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Benjamin P. Collings, above, wealthy 38-year-old yachtsman of Stamford, Conn., and graduate of Yale, is missing in the Long Island yacht mystery. Mrs. Collings told authorities “pirates" boarded their yacht, Penguin, locked her in a cabin and either threw Collings overboard or set him adrift in a skiff.

DEPORTATION OF SLAYERHALTED Sudovich Must Serve Three Liquor Sentences. Tty Ignited Press GARY, Ind., Sept. 11’. Nick Sudovich, slayer, recently paroled from the Indiana state prison for deportation, will not be deported until he has served three liquor conviction sentences, Oliver M. Loomis, United States district attorney, announces. Sudovich was to be have been released from the Michigan City prison Saturday. Loomis said that Sudovich was convicted on one liquor conspiracy charge in East Chicago and on two others in Hammond. He was not sentenced on those charges because he was serving a two-to-twenty-one-year term on a manslaughter charge, Loomis said. Loomis expected that Sudovich would be retained in the state prison until he could be brought before Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick to be sentenced. Judge Slick, now on vacation, is not expected here until Oct. 1. RACE PYLONS READY Balloons Set for Airport Dedication Event. Arrangements for placing balloons as pylons for racing events in connection with dedication of municipal airport Sept. 25 to 27 were completed today. One of the pylons, which wall be placed by Carl Bauer, will be located in front of the grand stand, another five miles west of the airport and a third southwest of the port. New entries received for the racing events and contests include Arthur C. Chester, Joliet, 111., Davis monoplane; Earl Hansen, Monmouth, 111., monocoupe; Emil Graf, Cincinnati, monosport. In addition, Dryer Brothers Exhibition Company has entered three parachute jumpers. M. F. SHAW IS DEAD Rites Slated at Crawfordsville for Former City Man. Last rites for M. F. Shaw, former Indianapolis resident who died ift his home near Crawfordsville Thursday, will be held there at 2:30 Saturday afternoon. Burial will be in Battle Ground. Mr. Shaw was engaged in the lumber and loan business in Indianapolis many years, going to Crawfordsville in 1914. Indianapolis survivors are Mrs. H. N. Ogden 2108 North Alabama street, and Mrs. Mary Kindig, 428 East Twenty-first street, sisters-in-law. Delay Trial in Senator’s Shooting By United Press NEW YORK. Sept. 11.—Ruth Jane Cranmer, charged with the shooting of State Senator Roy T. Yates of New Jersey in the apartment he maintained for her, was given a month’s adjournment when rearraigned on a felonious assault chare today. Bail was fixed at $7,500.

and I had no money to pay for it. “Wednesday I walked the streets looking for work. I left our daughter Jane to look after mother. “I was in a daze when I got back home at noon. Jane met me, smiling and excited. “ ’The United Press,’ ” she said ‘phoned that the sdrum to save mother is on its way by airplane.’ “None of us wanted any lunch. All we did was talk about the miracle." Then, Nelson said, when he saw the plane from Cleveland glide down and learned the precious cortin had come, he was convinced. “I grabbed up Eleanor (she's 7) and hugged her. I couldn't say a word.” Dr. Allen T. Kenyon of the University of Chicago said it would be some hours before he could determine how much benefit Mrs. Nelson was receiving from the treatment. “Because Addison's disease is rare and the treatment is new, it is hard to forecast results in individual ases,”’he said.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1931

BRAND COUNTY TAX ECONOMY AS ‘BIG JOKE’ Wages Cut, Several Fired, Only to Reduce Rate One-Half Cent. COURT BATTLES LOOM Council Stirs U|j Heated Strife by Defying All Pleas. Futile attempt of the county council to relieve the burden from taxpayers by discharging several county employes and lowering salaries of others 10 per cent was cited today by leaders of organized labor and county officials. The tax rate for 1932 as set by the council will be 34 cents on each SIOO taxable property as compared with 34 Ti cents, the present levy. Councilmen carried out their socalled “economy” program despite protests from the farmers, business men, the W. C. T. U„ office holders, county Democratic party leaders, and organized labor. All of these organizations opposed the wage reductions of the council. Cut One-Half Cent An appeal to the state tax board may lower the commissioners’ 1-cent request for the free* gravel road fund to cent and cut % cent from the 34-cent levy for 1932. Ignoring an opinion from County Attorney Harvey Grabill that they could not reduce, certain statutory salaries, councilmen now face court mandate suits from certain court employes and prosecutor office deputies. Although, several councilmen admitted these salaries must be paid at former schedules, no provision for this was made in the tax rate. This deficit probably will be added to the 1933 tax levy. A total of approximately SIB,OOO in statutory salaries was pared from the budget. Road Patrol Fight Started The tax rate of the council neither contains provision for working balances in any county departments, nor does it assume that a large amount of taxes may not be collected next year. Levies by the council follow: 1931. 1932. County General fund ..,$0.17 $0.17(4 Sinking fund 1314 .1314 Tuberculosis hospital 02'4 .02 Free gravel road fund ... .01(4 -01 Totals $0.3414 $0.34 Aside from wage cuts, the council aroused most cirticism by abolishing the sheriff’s road patrol, reducing the force by thirteen deputies. Salaries of chief officials at the county jail were pruned and operating expenses for the jail were reduced. The council sliced $21,120 from the requested $46,080 appropriation for jail deputies. Protests Are Lodged Mrs. Robert McKay, president of the Marion W. C. T. U., protested to the council against ousting the road patrol: “If you abolish this force,” she contended, “the county will not be safe for women and children to be on the roads." Farmers also vigorously opposed reducing the jail force, which they cited as “their only protection against crime." Bankers and business men supported the farmers. One farmer graphically illustrated his sentiments in these words: “That road patrol, with its officers cruising thorughout the county in their cars, has been the only thing we farmers have seen for the taxes we have paid.”

WARNS DRIVERS TO HEED SCHOOL PERIL

SOUR NOTES MAKE LINA FIGHTING MAD Dancer Turns Nails on Band Leader at Ritzy Night Club. By United Press HOLLYWOOD. Sept. 11.—Lina Basquette, motion picture actress

and featured dancer at the Embassy club, treated prominent film people and other visitors to an act not on the program early today when, spectators said, she attempted to scratch Harry Rosenthal, New York orchestra leader. Miss Rasquette accused Rosenthal and his orchestra of trying to “crab her act," witnesses

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said. Attendants pulled here away but not until after she told the orchestra leader what she thought of him. According to spectators. Miss Basquette charged Rosenthal and the orchestra with deliberately playing “sour notes.” The dancer left and refused to return for later numbers. FORMER GROCER DEAD Louis Schwegman Succumbs to Illness at Hospital. A lifelong resident of Indianapolis, Louis Schwegman. 1245 Windsor street, former grocer, died Thursday at St. Vincent’s hospital. He had been ill two days. Funeral services will be held at G:ls Monday morning at home and at 9 at St. Joseph’s Catholic church, of which he was a member. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Laura Schwegman and two daughters, Mrs. James Fox and Mrs. Edgar Sitzman.

‘Blue blood ’ Kitties Take a Bow

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Society of the feline world gave alley cats and back yard “Toms” the snub today, with the opening of the annual cat show at the Indiana state fair. The bluebloods of “kittydom,” ! however, “me-owed” in about the same key as their less fortunate !

GET READY FOR BEER'S RETURN Pabst Company Buys Huge Barley Warehouse. By L nited Press MILWAUKEE, Sept, 11:—Purchase of a grain storage elevator with 400,000 bushels capacity, partly in anticipation of the return of real beer to legal standing, was announced today by the Pabst Corporation, one of the largest of the pre-prohibition brewers. Fred Pabst, head of the corporation, revealed that barley, which can be purchased now at 55 cents a bushel, would be sored in the elevator for present needs. The elevator also will be useful against the time when, he said, “beer will come back —and in my opinion that won’t be long.” Pabst’s company recently announced the acquisition of machinery worth $1,000,000. This was said to have been done in preparation for the return of real beer. The company now is engaged in manufacturing soft drinks and food products. oldsaberrecaTls CIVJIL WAR BATTLE Rusty Blade Is Found Near Fredericksburg, Va. By United Press FREDERICKSBURG, Va., Sept. 11.—A rusted saber found by fence menders near here was recalling today to the few remaining Confederate veterans of this community one of the bloodiest engagements of the Civil War. The old weapon apparently had lain since 1864 in the bushes near Todd’s tavern, where a workman’s ax discovered it. At 6:30 a. m., May 8. 1864, the armies of the north and the south were maneuvering out of the Battle of the Wilderness. General Robert E. Lee and General George Gordon Meade were racing for Spottsylvania. Whether the saber was dropped in flight or in death by a Confederate or a Federal could not be determined from examination of the bared blade.

Hoosier Motor Club Chief Urges Utmost Care Near Schools. Warning to motorists to drive j carefully with the resumption of i school sessions, was sounded today by Frank Hatfield, president of the I Hoosier Motor Club. Hatfield’s statement was made at i the close of the third day of The i Times two-week campaign to protect school children and bring a halt to the number of fatal accidents that have occurred in Marion county since Jan. 1. Police and school officials have adopted The Times slogan, LOSE A MINUTE AND SAVE A LIFE, in educating children and motorists to take every precaution to avoid auto I tragedies. “In the vast army of children | who will return to the streets en route to and from school, will be little boys and girls of 5 or 6, leaving the safety and protection of I their homes to enter an entirely new world. There will be problems enough without that of the reckless driver. “While there is no doubt teaching j safety in the schools, safety posters and the effective work of school boy j patrols have done much to protect these youngsters, the problem still challenges the best thought of all citizens. “Every motorist could feel obliged | to have a part in this great humanitarian work and they should j realize the enormous difference I their care and consideration would mean in keeping these children safe from physical harm as well as from a fear that may mar the rest of 1 their lives. “Such a spirit on the part of car I owners will do more thany anything else to make for safety.” LOSE A MINUTE AND SAVE A LIFE.

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brethren and purred with equal contentment when their ears were scratched. Left Photo—Just a pal is Rosadere Pal as she lounges in the arms of Miss Helen Hoover, R. R. 16, Indianapolis, between rounds of the judges.

Poor Pickings Wage $1.07, Fare 50 Cents, So Jackson Can Not Pay His Fine.

THE depression has struck Volley Jackson, Negro, 27, of 715 Maxwell street. In fact, conditions are so bad, that Jackson, who is on probation on a minor charge, probably won’t be able to pay that fine. He told his story to probation officers today, relating how he is a vegetable picker now. “Thursday I got on one of those trucks that take you places to pick vegetables," he said. “It was south of Greenfield. “A woman and I picked beans and worked all day. We got a penny a pound. They paid us $1.07 for the day’s work. “We didn’t have anything much to eat and those trucks cost twobits a round trip for the ride. We divided the 57 cents and I guess I can’t pay any money now." deputiesseTze WRIT Fair’s 'House of Creation’ Involved in Suit. Deputy sheriffs searched for a modern Hercules today to help them move a “city,” proverbially knowrn to followers of the amusement w’orld as the House of Creation. When asked to take into custody a mechanical city now on exposition at the state fair, Joe Tragresser, deputy, served a writ against its owner and scratched his head for a solution to the giant problem. Wallace F. Moore, Elkhart, who says the city’s owner, Rudolph - Smyth, and wife, Stella, owe him $269, demands the “city” be sold to pay the debt. “Who wants a city, with its policemen, traffic worries, light poles, etc., even if they are mechanical?” questions Deputy Tragressor. After guarding the “city,” which the owner says is worth $20,000, since 2 p. m. Thursday, deputies believed relief would come soon. A telegram from Moore stated he w r as coming to “fix things up.” PUT NEW BAN ON OIL Texas Rail Board Limits Drilling to One Well in 20 Acres, By United Press . AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 11.—The Texas railroad commission today bolstered its proration order for the extensive East Texas field by ordering that not more than one well be drilled to each twenty acres. The ortler came on the heels of a report that East Texas production was mounting to 400,000 barrels per day, the danger mark suggested by Governor Ross Sterling. BUS ROUTE~~APPRQVED New Line to Run to Butler On 46th from Central Avenue. Operation of a bus line from Central avenue to Butler university on Forty-sixth street was approved today by the works board. Two busses will run from Central avenue to the university in the morning and from the school east in the afternoon. The busses will be operated by the Indianapolis Street Railway Company.

GETS MERCY FOR HER BOY; HE’S 41

The hand that stole was raised in a plea for mercy today. Standing before Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer Jess (Batt) Davis, 41, of 515 North New Jersey street, begged for another chance. With him was his mother, Mrs. Florence Hill of the same address who, although she had him arrested, begged the court show “my boy” mercy. On Aug. 27, Mrs. Hill took a nap. As she slept the hand of her son slipped beneath her pillow and took all the money she had —$32. “I don’t want you to send him away,” she pleaded. “He's promised

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Right Photo—Tom White is a proud Persian and dotes on milk and things, but he’s just like any ordinary mouser when it comes to objecting to a “dry-cleaning” before she’s shown. Miss Eleanor Brundige of 905 Woodruff Place is dousing the cleaning powder on Tom.

NEW PAVING TO BE READY SOON 110 Miles Fit for Service by Oct. 1. Few changes noted in the state i highway commission's traffic bulle- | tin issued from the office of John J. Brown, director, although officials indicated that paving projects are progressing so rapidly that by Oct. 1 nearly 110 miles of new pavement will be ready for service. Several bridges were completed this week, with ten miles of new concrete pavement on Road 43 from a mile north of Brookston to a mile south of Reynolds, the bulletin says. Light road oil is being spread on some sections of unpaved gravel and stone highways, and some retread w 7 ork is in progress. BAR MISS STANWYCK FROM WARNER FILM Actress Under Court Order to Finish Columbia Picture. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11.—Barbara Stanwyck, screen actress, was under court order today to refrain from working for 'Warner Brothers

until she comp 1 e t e s another picture for the Columbia studios. Superior Judge Douglas Edmonds issued the order Thursday after Charles E. Milliken, attorney for Colu mb ia pictures, charged that Miss Stanwyck “arbitrarily refused to proceed w r ith a third

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picture under her contract unless she were paid $50,000 instead of $16,000 as specified in the contract.” Later Miss Stanwyck accepted an offer of $35,000 to star in a picture for Warner Brothers, it was said. INDICT OIL PROMOTER Julian and Associates Charged W T ith Fraud by United States. By United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 11.—C. C. Julian, promoter, was indicted by a federal grand jury on mail fiud charges in connection with the C. C. Julian Oil & Royalties Company, Judge Edgar S. Vaught announced j today. Judge Vaught indicated that several of Julian’s associates also were indicted, but said their names could not be disclosed until warrants are issued. Julian had not been arrested. His attorney, O. A. Cargill, said he believed Julian was out of the city. MUNCIE MAN RENAMED National Association of Letter 1 Carriers Re-Elect All Heads. By United Press j OAKLAND, Cal., Sept. 11. President Edward J. Gainor, Muncie, Ind., and fellow’ officials of the National Association of Letter Carriers, were returned to office for an- 1 other year by 3,000 delegates to the biennial convention. Other re-elected officers included j John B. Foley, Boston, vice-presi-dent; M. T. Finnan, Bloomington, 111., secretary; C.-F. Stinson, Bay- ' onne, N. J., assistant secretary, and ! Charles R. Duffy, Chicago, treasur- j I er. Atlantic City was chosen for j the 1930 convention.

me he won’t steal or drink any more and I don’t want to prosecute him. He’s my boy and he‘ll be good now.” Davis told the court he had “sw’orn off” liquor and thefts and would try to find a job. “I really didn’t want to have my boy arrested,” Mrs. Hill said. “But my husband said that if I didn’t, he’ leave me. “Well, he left me anyway so I want my boy now.” Sheaffer suspended a 180-day sentence and gave Davis six months under probation to pay fine and costs totaling sll.

eROR SIEGE IS PROBED IN BOAT MYSTERY Brunet Tells of Outrage and Murder at Hands of Bay Pirates. TOSS MATE OVERBOARD. Bloody Deck Evidence o( Struggle in Strange Sea Tragedy. By SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE United Press Staff Correspondent SYOSSETT, L. 1.. Sept. 11.—A willing “guest” at Mineola police headquarters, Mrs. Benjamin P. Collings slept Thursday -nigh! : under the protection of Long Island police, seeking to recover her shat* | tered senses after a night of whas | she had described hysterically as j "piracy, assault and murder* | aboard her husband’s motor boat, i the Benguin. Today she was taken to Oystef Bay, L. 1., to re-enact the events j preceding and following the dis. appearance of her civil engineef husband from their motor boat, th Penguin, Thursday. Mrs. Collings, an attractive brunette of 28, was attended by Inspector Harold King of the Nassau county police. Police announced the discovery on board the mystery boat Penguin of a revolver and a broad-bladed hunting knife. The revolver was secreted beneath cushions on a seat on board the strange craft. It was admitted that the weapons might be the customary equipment of a boat, but the investigators attached importance to them. They tore up the deck of the little boat seeking further clues. Drag Water for Body Mrs. Collings w r as taken back to Mineola by motor car after reenacting her story of how her husband was thrown overboard. Police continued to drag the waters of Long Island sound for traces of her husband, retired civil engineer, believed to have been killed and thrown overboard by offshore pirates or rum-runners, while they checked over certain discrepancies in Mrs. Collings’ amazing story of terrorism. The disconnected story of Mrs. Collings, who was found adrift in another motor boat miles from the scene of the tragedy, is said to coincide in its main points, however, with that told by Barbara Collings, 5, the only unharmed occupant of the Penguin, w r ho was picked up Thursday morning by a fisherman while the little cabin motorboat w 7 as drifting aimlessly near Oyster Bay. Nassau county authorities, furthermore, attributed many of the seeming discrepancies to the effect of terror on Mrs. Collings’ mind, as well as a desire, at first, to cloak the fact that two men, “one about 50 and the other about 18,” had attacked her after Collings had been “tied and thrown overboard." Child, 5, Survives The tragedy was disclosed when the yacht Valentine, with a party headed by N. L. Noteman, nearly crashed into the derelict Penguin. Boarding the Penguin, Notemani found only the child, Barbara, aboard. Barbara. w r ho had been sleeping, told of hearing a fight on deck, but did not comprehend its significance. She was taken ashore. Almost at the same hour Mrs. Collings was discovered, crying for help, in a motorboat moored off Oyster Bay. In the boat was a blanket labeled, “St. Charles Hotel * tel." Mrs. Collings attempted to give al coherent report of the night’s events. She said the Penguin, on which her family has been spending the summer in short cruises, was boarded by tw 7 o men who demanded Collings take them across the sound td Norwalk. Her husband refused, sh# said—although he was offered SIOO —because he has no night lights on the boat. After an argument, according tqj her story, the men drew 7 revolvers, held Collings on deck and locked her in the cabin. In her fear, she took off two diamond rings and hid them in the shoes of Barbara, who was asleep. The boat w r as started, she said, and somee time later she she said and some, time later she South Norwalk: this is Stamford.” A moment later she heard the thud of a body on the deck, and the words, “Tie him up.” Assaulted, Set Adrift Whether she broke her way out of the locked cabin, or whether th© door was opened by the “pirates"—, she w 7 as not sure—a short time aftterward she found herself thrust into a canoe, and assaulted by the older of the pair. Still later—al. though she does not remember the event—she was put into the moored motor boat in which she was found. The mystery of an air-inflated mattress found in the Penguin’s dinghy was explained when Mrs. Collings told authorities she threw it overboard in hope that her husband, if able to struggle, might seize it and sav e himself. Examination of the Peguin showed signs of a struggle, bloodstains on the deck, broken milk bottles and a blood-stained boathook. Collings, possessing a modest fortune sufficient to care for living expenses, was educated at Exeter and Yale, where he was an honor student. Four years ago, at the age of 34, he retired, having accumulated sufficient wealth to give him an annual income of approximately $3.000. Boating was his hobby, and the family had intended to sail to Florida within a short time, on tho Penguin. * Prisoners Will Work By Times Special PERU. Ind., Sept, ll.—Deputy sheriff powers will be given tha Miami county road superintendent and his deputies so that jail prisoners may be used for work on roads, the county commissioner! announce.