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;. MaKlNNEy, Tex., Mar 10. <AP)
—'Wallace Reld. J*, was injured fa-
Ullyat Princeton yesterday when u
v £$P* p|# hlm * • « played bsute-
bsll with friends and went out into a
road to retrieve a ball. Eye-wit-
neaaea aaid the accident was un
PALESTINE, Tex., Mar. 10. (AP)
Paul Lancaster, 21, of Krankaton,
died hero today from injuries Buffer-
ed in an automobile accident on hljh-
way 19 south of Palestine last night.
Claud,. Reynold)** 20, of Palestine,
was injured, but not seriously.
WHAT HAS nAPPBNBO
Bllie, daughter of the wealthy Ales-'
HUtti Andrews. is snatched /com IH«
We at her husband, King Westley, by
• •• Vf nri fiuouii nu, i>i"V n an«|fj .
her lather Immediately after the uti
ding ceremony in Seta York, The
father.' believing Wetilr.it a tor tune-
seeker, take* Silt*, against her will,
on his yacht 10 Florida, file esoapes
and if making her way back to Sew
York via but. She become* acquainted
toith young Peter Warne. peter, to
have El lie from the advances of Shone*
ley* a traveling salesman, says that
Kltie is hie wife. Though they are
continually arguiiio, Elite and Peter
are thrown topnlStsr. continually be-
cause of the odd circunistance. When
the bus is stalled for a night because
nf a .washed-out oridt/e, Warne ami
Bills spend the Hiffllt <u the name cot-
tnae—lkoueih a blanket, hunn on a
clothesline, serves ae a barrier ocftftcii
tHeir two cols. It is the tier! mumixt<1
tfudElite has *"st~ bortnuted I'Cter s
robe to go outside to the ••outdoor
washroom."
ttOW 00 OiV WITB THE STORY
Elite, flopping about ludicrously
In Peter's huge robe, ran out. When
aha returned. Peter was busily set-
ting the small table.
"High time you got bad," snlil
Peter without turning.
- "I met some very interesting
women at the Showers. We got to
chatting about this atid that. You
know how time flies." ^
"Hurry up and get dresseit."
tn a surprisingly tow minutes,
Bllie was dressed. She Sniffed
hungrily.
"My, my, scrambled eggs!"
"Egg." corrected Peter. "One egg
—one roll—black coffee. That's
your ration till lunch. Any com-
plaints?" —
"Nope," said Ellle, cheerfully. "No
complaints."
"I'd have gotten you some
cream, but It meant buying a whole
pint."
"Why, you don't Lave to apolo-
Thejr stared at each other hos-
tiiely for a moment, then both
turned as voices rose outside their
dbor. It proved to be two of Alex-
ander Andrew's very best private
detectives, very much Interested in
finding * very much lost Ellle An-
drews. Peter's quick ivit saved the
day. He explained to the detectives
that Ellle waa his wife. To prove
It. he started a mock argument with
the glrli Entering Into the spirit,
Bllie let fly with her own invec-
tives, The hotness of the argument
soon convinced the detectives that
Ellle and Peter were married. They
apologized profusely and left. They
watched the officers leave, then
brok„ Into loud laughter.
"Say," said Peter, when they bad
quieted down, "you were pretty
irood. Jumping in like that. (Jot a\.j
brain, haven't you?" ,
"You weren't «o bad yourself."!
"We could start a two-person
stock company. If things get toufh—
—we can play some small town au-
ditoriums. We'll call this one "The
Great Deception."
Ellle laughed. "Next week, "East '
Lynne." " *
"Hchv about " Peter was In-
terrupted as the door was flung
open and the camp owner poked his
head In. s- " •
?'Your bus leaves in five minutes."
The head disappeared.
-."Holy jumping! We haven't
started to pack yet!" Peter jumped
for the'suitcase, and both began to
throw their belongings carelessly,
but quickly, into the bag.
The bu.-t rldo proved a suf-prlslna-.
nemesis for Elllo and Pete)-. Firstly,
Elite's generosity with Peter'snj°nei'
when they discovered that a mbthfr
and child on the bus were starving,-
depleted their funds no little. Then,
when Shapelgy, the traveling sales-
man, discovered, via a. newspaper
Peter twyked hit coat around EUte. Their facet were dangerouih
dote....their Zip*....
W "— (Posed by Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.
gi*e to me, Mr. Warne. You'll never
know how much I appreciate this."
"Whit." asked Peter gruffly,
"makes you so charming this morn-
. In«r . .
."Must bo the Spring." .
"Incidentally," said Peter, "that
marriage stuff Is over. I'm hand-
ing you back to King Westley tht«
morning. Practically as good as
new."
Ellle held out her cup. "(Coffee,
please, .Peter pourod the steam-
ing liquid into the cupr "Don't you
think It's high time you told'
-- something about, yourself, M;
Warne?" .
"Why?"
"Well—I usually liko tp get ac-
quainted with the men iwho cafB'
•vi* • promise me." /, 1 x--
Peter glanced at her disdainfully.
"I think 1 have a right to know.
You know all about me." continued
Ellle. , ■}
Peter paused, thens "I'm Just a
Buy. Like a million other guys. -I,
come from , poor but honest parents
—have a great fovw for real fcujnftn
being which, Incidentally, you' are
not—and hate rich people, who are
' phonies—of which you're a shining
example."
"Thanks,*- sold Ellle, pleasantly,
"What do you do? X mean for a
living."
"NothlftS—If I can help It. Once
In a while X too! around with
gadgets."
"OndKots?"
"Yeah—ifta' j up things.'
"Why, you're an inventor! * Raw
, exciting!"
"Nuts) More coffee?"
"Yes, please. Tell me something.
How do you happen to know King
Westley?" r
"I don't."
."Why—I thought "
"I once took a poke at hlm.'
"Really? When was that!"
"In college."
"Why?"
"For no reason.
.into « fraternity."
>1fou got into a fraternity Just
- ~ him?" ' '
-huh. Tou coJldn't get any-
nless you took a eoclc at
took two socks at him -
president."
s said Bllie, "no matter
- thinks, I like him."
** ■■■■■■■
* Is all yours." Peter
away from the table.
ttilg. | mttifj
to Mm.**
_ atm Ml yours.'
•var meet my Dad?"
-W
Except to get
"Ko4 thanks.
Ton'd be ci
craay about him. Ex-
he gets stubborn. Can
pPArnru
iKAllllC
The Toldeo M udhenn' baseball club
will arrive in Orange Saturday morn-
ing instead of Sunday, according to
information received here today from
<:V Y, "Red" StubblefieltJ, manager,
who will accompany the team here
for tit© spring training season.
Indications are today that West
End park, where the Mudhens Will
do their spring training, will be in
excellent condition, .an "it has been
In the hands of expert workmen for
tho past few days.
HPVHPISr'
'a got a big
Neither >• nor
headline, that a 110,000 dollar re
ward was .-being, offered fos EllleV
returi., Peter decided I* was hlgli
time they deserted bus travel." The
Journey to New York was novv-^i-
iltch-hlke! i
They spent the night under tlir
stars. Peter, gathering hugo arm
fuls of hay from a nearby haystacl.
made soft beds on the grass of )
meadow. The great vastness of tb'
night seemed to enclose them all thi
more because of their lonenesa. Tin
romance-filled air and the proxlmli
6f their bodies was a situation hat*
to resist. Peter tucked his con
round Ellle. Their faces were dan
rously close.. .their lips....
iter stood up quickly—nervously
Jerkily, he :it a cigarette, then sal
down 6r a nearby rock.
He blew a cloud of smoke to the
moon.. "Ybu'vo had a lot of mer
crazy about^you, haven't you?"
Ellle flldn't answer.
"I guess," Pe r. continued, softly,
you've pretty mtrCh had your own
way with them. Thht's your trouble
mostly." You've always had youi
owp way. That's why you're sucli
a mess now. "It'o all yo tr father's
fault. Instead of apankirtg you n
long time ago when you needed it.
he's trying to do It now. Its t
shame. You had the maki
P jpie like you spend all your
on a merry-go-round. I guess that'
whit makes you so dlxty. You're \
always chasing after something. A; \
least, you think you are. Truth is
you're Just running away. From
yourself, mostly. 'Cause you're
miserable. You hate yourself. The
world's full of people like you. Don t ~,.
know what they want."
"Do you know?" Ellle asked sud-
denly.
"Sure."
"What*" , ■ 4
"Nothing. Nothing you'd give two
cents for. Nothing you'd even un-
derstand."/
"Try tn®*"
■*I Just want to be let alone, that's
alL Life's sweil If you don't try
too hard. Stoat people try to get a
stranglehold on It. They're not liv-
hig. Just feverish. After all you
can only eat three meals • day, only
sleep In one bed—right now, that
hay feels pretty goodjo you, doesnt
it? Sure it does. 'Cause ««^were
tired—and It's the only thing avail-
able." *
"Yon sound like a hobo." ,
*1 am."
"Then why do you fool around "
with inventions r „ \ V
"'Cause I like It I get fun out
of It Soon as I don't, they go In
the ashcan. Two years ago I got
a notion and went to Chins.
wan a war going On. BwaUl Alter
a while It got bonsorna. I went
down to Tahiti. Just Uy ontho
beach for six months. What could
bo sweeter." i
"Doesn't Sound very exciting."
anvbody else la colnir to stoo me
from getting to New iotk."jfciIe,s
tone was emphatic. . ,
could," 'Said Peter, threaten-
r, "play n dirty frlck on
fon wouldn't! Yon J
flikMrt't
"I guess not. Td have given,
wouldn't mean anything to inj
he reat of
TOU. Goodnight"
dtSw thVrest of_yeur Ufa. I {ty
ass2&EO&
Newly Married
(Couple Die In
Suicide Pact
, PIX'ATOXICA. 111.. Mar. 10. (AP)
-—Fear; of public acorn is believed
to have driven Mr. and Mrs. Ray
llolqouib, newly married couple, to
i>olnt shotguns at each other's heart
and press the triggers Hliuultaneously.
The couple, married only 24 hours,
were found dead, yesterday under
circumstances which, Coroner W- R.
Julian said,- indicated u strange sui-
cide pact.
Ml;s. Holcomb, Who was 35, ob-
taiued a divorce on Thursday from
Ray Holcomb's brother John. Fif-
teen uilnutes later Nhe married her
former brother-in-law.
Yesterday John Holcomb called to
arrange a Charivari for the newly-
weds. He found their bodies on a
couch in their living room. On the
floor beside them were two dis-
charged shotguns.
A note. In Mrs. Holcomb's hand:
•writing, read:
"Clod forgive us. We truly loved
each other, but can not go on. know-
ing what the public Is thinking* of
jUsfr.^If we can'f live together hap-
pily, ^hcre is nothimc left, liury us
>Nell-"
Coroner ' Julian said there wua no
doubt the dcatba.. were suicides, but
he plana an Inquest. H« aaid that
they apparently pointed the shotguns
at each other and discharged them
Instant. M
said ; it was Mrs.
comb's fourth marriage.
Three Drown
When Car Plunges
In Flood Waters
Wajor clyd* C. Johnson. Kelly field
chief flight surgeon, were in "clo-
luslon" to bar Major Ocker fr<#m a
ttilot'M status because of physical de-
fects and that if Col. Clugett, was
given more .than a cursory examina-
tion- be would be disqualified.
The veteran, who 1* 58 aud who
its u - private in* tbe Mp«n-
ish-American war and who • rose to
recognition in national and Interna-
tional aeronautical circles fbr his
development of blind flying, did not'
comment but left tho ^ciurt room" im-
mediately to visit his sick 'daughter,
PADUCAH, Ky.. Mar. 10. (APX—
Three persons were drowned in Icy
b&ckiwuters of the swollen Ohio rivet-
today when their automobile plunged
from the Pnducnh-Metro polls. Hi.,
highway near hero. Two other pas-'
senders escaped serious Injury.
The deud. all of M etropotls, III.,
arc IIrs. W. I. Tune. 60; Mrs. Paul-
ing Catlock Yates, 24, and Mrs.
Bertha Catlock. 17. Those who es-
caped were Miss Aline Joyner, 111.
and Carlos Catlock, 28.
Catlock said he did not know how
he and Miss Joynerescaped the cur,
but remembered hearing breaking
ghtHS und "feeling ice cold . water.
They walked, half frozen, to tho
farm house of John McNeil, a mile
away.
Major W.C. Ocker
Is Acquitted by
Military Court
SAX ANTONIO, Mar- 10. (AP)—
Major William C. Ocker, the eldest
veteran in point of service in the
army air corps, today stood acquit-
ted by a military court of charges
of uttering remarks derogatory to
his superior officer.
In less than 15 minutes after it
had taken the case, the military
court returned a verdict of acquittal-
Major Ocker received the announce-
ment ami smiled happily.
M,ajor Ocker was officially charged
wltl'i stating I.ieut. Col. H-. I!. Clag-
eit. commander of Kelly field, and
Training Camp News
Here's
that Milt Gaston.
SARASOTA, Fin.
thusiasm—
Lefty Grove will pitch batting
practice today for the Red Sox. He
told Manager Hncky Harris he would
open up the practice session and
wofk for about 10 minutes. That
probably doesnt mean so much until
it Is explained that a star of
proves magnitude is never asked or
expected to pitch, for baiting prac-
tice.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The
hurling roster of the Braves is com-
plete. Ray Starr, the last awaited
moundsiuan... has arrived in cauip.
Starr, hails from Okluhoma and was
so long getting here, the rumor be-
gan to circulate that he might have
.struck oil.
PASADENA, Calif. — Recruits in
the Chicago White Sox camp, mid
oven u few veterans, ar<- wondering
jf the aje is1about to fall. The rea-
son for the wondering was tho ap-
pearance of Karl McNeely, manager (Jordan are veterans of a year ago
ofthe Sacramento club, seeking a , but First Baseman John McCarthy,
eoupl« of pitchers. It was reported ' never played pro ball before.
ii righthander yet-
>n;n, might go.
\
AVA)>A,N', Calif. — Gordon Phelps,
a rookie fiatvher of large proportion.
Is trying to nhvly.' the Chicago Cub
management Ix-licV*! they should'nt
have bothered to hrTrvji three, other
rweivers In camp, lie is-jlti-r the
jol|i of u ndcvst'Udy to Gabfiy^ilail-
hett. In the opening pruellee jfiitjue
yesterday he connccted for a hOHK
run und a double.
ST. I'BTEIUSBU ItG, Fla. — Tho
Hum of $1500. is keeping 1 stll Dickey
from signing a New York Vajlkee
contract for 1031. The club has
offered a, big catcher a $1000 salary
boost but Bill is holding out for u
raise of $2500.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Casey Stengel
of the Brooklyn Dodfiers insists his
present outfield is the fastest,
smoothest outfit he's ever seen, Joe
Stripp. Tony CUeelnello and JimUiy
Tlie Orange Leaden STfcSS
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Front Street by tho Orange Leader
Publishing Company.
Bnterej at Orange. Texas P. O. as
Second Class Mail Matter, Under Act
of Congress, March 3, 1879.
J. S. MeBeatb Editor
J. B. Quiglcy ............. Business Manager
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FOR RENT: Light housekeeping
rooms. All modern conveniences,
512 Main street.,'
TYPEWRITERS—Remlngston, Ro«sl
and Underwood, all in good condi-
tion. Pbone 904 or 52. A- F. Bur;;*
who la oonvalcslng (root a broken
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Scout flews }>
Troop Three. The meeting waa
. p. nea at 0 o'clock with some games.
The Heave i- patrol gave a few mu-
sical uuinber.H, followed by repeti-
tion of th< scout oath and laws and
a prayer by Mr. Dlckerson, Tho
patrols met in their, corners and
gavo a report un it. SI were pres-
ent and the meeting and 109 per
vent attendance. We dlscusaed the
business of the truop and Mr. Dick-
POI LTRY ANU CHICKENS #
Visit VINTON HATCHERY, Vin-
ton, La., and see our quality chicks.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Publication Rates—Cask m Advance
For District .lodge 917.SO
For Other District Offices 15.00
^or County Offices . 15.00
I Except as Follows;
For ^ounty Commissioner . $10.00
For Jhstice of the Psaco 10.00
For MaVor . 15.00
For City Commissioner
POLITICAL\ANNOUNCE5IENT8
Tbe Orange Leader is suthorised
to announce the following candidates
Subject to the action 0f Hi® Demo-
cratic primaries in JMly, 1994: ' /<
For County Commissioner, pet. No. I
J. TOM SOILEAU \ /
E. B. BUFFINGTON
J. HEARD
For County Commissioner, Pet. ^o. 8
K. C. SETLIFF
The Orange Loader is aut;
to announce the following candidates
subject to the action of the City
Democrat id Primaries: /
fer. Mayer: ' V . ",/
E. L. BRUCE ' V.-—/' -
L. V. BHANt'M
" W. L. BLA>'CHARD
J. MONROE COLBURN
\ ED . McFARLAND
IP assess
FOR MORE AND BETTER EGOS
feed Puripa Family Flock, No grain,
oyster shell, -eliar coul or green stutT
necessary, camp Grain Co.- Phono
23.
for kale . '
FOR SALE: Star-4 Motor, also
racing' hull. Will trade for piano
or horn. W. E. S. Dlckerson.
fc^R7 SALE: Good work horses,
mules, milk cows. Phone 062-J. Lee
iturgess.
for kale or trade
•I have u load of Jersey cows with
baby calves for sale of trade on
puc« .fjrlve between "The Oaks"
,and Sajntir1 Fe railroad. Phone O. T.
Bell, 5C33. Beaumont.
.FOUND
FOUND: A Watch. Owner may have
it upon proper identification and
payment of this ad. ' xt;, B. Potta.
county agent. . \ \
•*v
m'-"
WANTED .
New merchandise for your old g'oltl.
Highest market prices paid. II. L.
COHENOUR, Jeweler and Optomet-
Vjat.
3D: Good usedv'cpupe, res-
Wrltc Bo* V, Leader.
hktip Wanted female
Earn BxtnK money copying Names,
Addresses To* mail order firms.
Home spare tlW, experience unnec-
essnry. Write foX Information. Clr-
cl|. Advertllsng. f«l Broadway, New
York. , ;'
TAXI SERVIC
Taxi bnsiness.
(doc.) Bailey.
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FOR
REN"?T
am still III the
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REST-
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HSfifflSesI
MALE IlEI/P WANTED
IF YOU WANT A WONDERFUL
OPPORTUNITY to mak« o a
and get a new Ford sedan ss
bonus besides, send ihe your«name
Immediately. No contest or lottery.
Particulars free. Albert Mills, S410
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•rwm gavn
We closed
benediction.
• Troop Two. Met at tfct
4**'- «nd opened th«
good ttirns. We then
St -<■ present and I
also 8 visitors.
aid rfor second class
Played Negro Baby, We h*d a hike
Planned for Saturday hut it was
postponed on account el bad weath-
er. We will go next Saturday, We
closed with the : scorit*" icnedlctiori.
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