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THEY STAY KISSED
That Is, When Lupe Smacks ’Em
Lupe Velez . . . “when I kiss a man, he stays kissed!”
RvSKA Service
NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 24.—The average girl simply has to love
somebody—or something—and if there isn't a suitable male handy
she'd better find herself some sort of job on which she can pour all
her emotional fireworks.
Because if she doesn’t, she’s apt to explode!
These are the studied conclusions of none other than Lupe Velez,
Impetuous, diminutive, black-haired Mexican movie actress, voiced as
she paused in New Orleans en route to a picture location in Florida.
Lest there be a misunderstanding, Miss Velez hastened to add that,
as for herself, she loves only—her job.
“No man.” she said emphatically, has ever touched my soul. I
love my work. It gives me all the outlet in the world. It keeps me
from making a fool of myself over some man.”
The interviewer, recalling one of the nation's great traditions, sug
gested that surely one or another of Hollywood's marcelled army of
film lovers must have been able to kindle some faint kind of spark in
the breast of the intense little actress.
“No!” she said quickly, her eyes
flashing. "Not one. They are fine
boys. I like them. But love?—no.” j
“Not even in the love scenes?”:
persisted the reporter. “When you
are supposed to kiss them in the i
love scenes, don't you really kiss
them?”
Lupe Velez smiled.
"When I Kiss. He Stays Kissed!”
“I do all my kissing before the
mera.” she said. "And when I
ss a man—he stays kissed! But it j
the actress that is kissing him,
ot the girl. Lupe Velez. Down in j
y soul I have not felt it yet, this
love.”
Then she returned to her first
thesis.
“A girl.” she explained, “has to
love something or she dries up and
withers away, if she doesn't explode
first. Girls have to have an emo
tional outlet. When a girl is little
she finds it in her dolls. When she
gets older she tries to find it in boys
and men. You can’t bottle it up
any more than you can bottle up a
railroad train running at full speed.
If you do. you wreck the train.
“That is why so many girls, with
no other emotional outlet, make
fools of themselves in their first
love affairs.
“But I, thank God. have had my
work for my emotional outlet. So
far. that has kept me from making
& fool of myself. I hope it con
tinues to do so."
Just Hollywood Bunk
“That,” said the reporter, “is fine.
But how about these Hollywood
stories that you are engaged to Gary
Cooper?”
The dark-eyed Miss Velez ex
ploded.
"These Hollywood stories!" she
said. “Listen, mv friend. When I
fall In love with a man and get
engaged to him, it won't be some
body else who'll tell the world the
news. It'll be Lupe Velez. I'll climb
the highest tower in the world and
shout the. news through the big
gest megaphone there is. I'll buy
my own newspaper so I can have
all the space I need to tell how’
wonderful it is.
“In Hollywood, if you walk a city
block with a man they have you
ngaged to marry him. When I
ake up in the morning and look
t the newspapers. I find myself
"igaged to some man. I tell my
mily, ‘Don't you think It would
-> a good idea to get introduced to
hat man?’ They engage me to
x>ple I never heard of before. And
hen they disengage me just as
ast."
No—lt Isn’t a Wedding Ring
On the third finger of Miss
elez’ left hand there sparkled a
dutiful diamond solitaire ring,
'th a plain platinum band ring,
tie reporter indicated these rings
hh a questioning look.
“Why. that ring.” she said. “I
ear it because it is a lovely stone
id I like it. And the other ring,
t is not a wedding ring. It is a
;uard ring for the diamond.”
Neverthless, the guard ring was
worn below the solitaire. But
nothing more would Miss Velez say
about the rings.
Research to Be Reported
Ri/ Tim>'t Special
BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. Sept. 24 -
Jack Biel of Terre Haute, senior in
tb® law school of Indiana university,
vein make a report of research work
la the Indiana state prison during
the past summer, at a meeting of
fee delinquency committee to be
held at Indianapolis Oct. 11.
Full Leased Wire Service of
the United Pres* Association
MOVES MOURN
LEBER'S DEATH
Leaders Wire Messages of
Sympathy to Relatives.
Telegrams of sympathy came
from leaders in the motion picture
industry to relatives of Robert
Lieber, Indianapolis inerchant and
pioneer in the cinema industry, as
Mr. Lieber was buried this after
noon in Crown Hill cemetery.
Funeral services were held at 2:30
p. m. at the home, 3502 Central ave
nue. Leo M. Ranpaport, attorney
and close friend of Mr. Lieber's.
gave the funeral address. Carl
Wilde, attorney, spoke at the grave
rites.
Telegrams of condolence came
from Richard Barthelmess, Will H.
Hays, the Warner brothers, Adolph
Zukor. Felix Feist, George Eastman
of the Eastman Kodak Company
and others well-known in the movie
world.
The Indiana, Circle and Ohio the
aters remained closed today until
6 p. m.
TIMES WORKER HURT
C. Edgar Hall Injured in
Auto Accident.
C. Edgar Hall. 48. of R. R. 10. Box
484. was found by Deputy Fred Fox
at his home today suffering from a
skull fracture as a result of an auto
accident on the National road east
of Indianapolis Monday night.
Hall was driving to his home, Fox
learned, about 'midnight, when two
autos, racing west on the road,
crowded his car from the pavement.
His car hurdled a ditch and broke
off a pole.
Hall was unconscious for some time
and then crawded from the wreckage
to his heme, one-fourth mile away.
Kis automobile was demolished. Fox
'ocated Hall after tracing the car’s
title number.
Hall is a icomposing room employe
of The Times and also operates a
north side radio shop. He was re
turning from a radio demonstration
when the accident occurred.
YOUTHS CONFESS THEFT
Seek Ex-Convict for Part in $512,000
Bond Robbery.
NEW YORK. Sept. 24.—Milton
Alter. 17. and David Schwartzberg.
19. were held without bail when ar
raigned today for their confessed
part in the theft of $512,000 worth
of securities belonging to R. V.
Hiscoe & Cos
Police are searching for an accom
plice. an ex-convict, who was known
to the boy as Carl Gorman. Only
*50.000 worth of the securities re
main to be recovered. The rest was
found in a mail box late Monday.
Maagazine to Be Revived
B u 7iwi * Sprcial
BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Sept. 24.
Publication of the Vagabond, pop
ular campus magazine of several
vears ago, will again be renewed, ac
cording to Walter Grant of Marion.
The Indianapolis Times
RED DREAM OF
RULE IN DIXIE
IS SHATTERED
Labor Troubles Can Not Be
Dismissed Merely as
Communist Plot.
SOUTH FACES NEW ERA
Old Order Passes Before
Industrial Awakening,
Breeding Strife.
BY RAY TUCKER
Times Staff Correspondent
GASTONIA, N. C., Sept. 24.—The
recent labor troubles and violent
outbreaks in this key city and
county of the cotton milling indus
try can not be dismissed as a Com
munist gesture in Moscow's reputed
red dream of Sovietizing the work
ers of the new industrial states of
the south.
That is the view held here today
by many, as they look back ruefully
on the strikes, murders, kidnapings,
floggings, militia mobilization, mis
trials, and night ridings, which, to
the distress of citizens and officials,
link this ordinarily peaceful, sunny
Carolina hamlet in the public mind
with the depredations of Chicago
gangsters.
It is a view shared by mill offcials.
city and county authorities, workers
themselves, and all whose business
have suffered.
There is, investigation reveals,
sufficient truth in this attitude to
give it plausibility. It is true that the
April strike at the Loray mill of the
Manville Jencks Company, the larg
est in this section, was called by
avowed Communist representatives
from New York, aligned with the
National Textile Workers’ Union, an
organization affiliated with the
Workers’ party.
It is true that the strike failed
miserably, and that the plant was
operating on full time with almost
all its old hands within three weeks.
Strikes Are Off
There are no strikes in the 105
textile mills in Gaston county now.
Except when the Communists sally
over here from the Charlotte head
quarters, twenty-one miles away,
for parading and preaching doc
trines which anger the community,
there is little or no violence.
But there is, on both sides, a
spirit of violence, and nobody
knows where it may flare up next.
The good folk go to bed each night
with their ears pricked and windows
opened for shots and shouts; they
scan the headlines each morning
for news of possible encounters.
The townspeople are determined,
as they put it, that “the reds shall
not get a foothold in this county.”
The Communist organizers declare
they will not leave this “front" un
til they have accomplished their
purpose, their first success at the
Loray mill last April having raised
hope of eventual victory.
Meanwhile, there is an armed
truce, though the arms are kept
carefully concealed on most occa
sions. Both sides are awaiting the
outcome of trials and inquiries re
sulting from murders, kidnapings
and floggings.
At Charlotte sixteen I orav strike
leaders, including Fred Erwin Beal,
Clarence Miller, Veria Bush and
Amy Schechter ’of the workers’
party, are on trial charged with the
murder of O. F. Aderholt, Gastonia
police chief, June 7.
Several Arc Indicted
Several Loray mil! officials and
employes are under indictment for
the kidnaping and whipping of
three Communist leaders. Local au
thorities are Investigating the shoot
ing and death of Ella May Wiggins,
a rural supporter of the strike, dur
ing a demonstration here Sept. 14.
At Marion, a community in the
mountains eighty miles west, where
the American Federation of Labor
staged a strike wholly apart from
the movement launched here by its
Communist enemies, several labor
representatives are on trial on in
dictments charging rioting and in
citement to riot.
These activities are now the only
aftermath of what was launched in
April as a far-flung movement to
organize southern textile workers.
The communist leaders themselves
seem to have given up their union
ization program, for the funds and
publicity they can obtain out of the
defense of their indicted comrades.
Mistrials in both the Charlotte
and Marion cases have prolonged
the disturbances. Since both forces
have dug in for a fight to the finish.
No Sign of Plot
No evidence can be found that
mill operators or substantial ele
ments here have inspired violent
retaliation against the Communists.
For one thing, they do not have to.
Sentiment among the townspeople
and many of the employes them
selves is all against the strike lead
ers now.
The Loray workers themselves
now are said to feel that the Com
munists tricked and used them.
The crv of Communism, however.
| is a superficial view of the signi
ficance of these labor disturbances
in the Carolinas and across the line
in Tennessee. It does not take into
account fundamental problems fac
| ing the southern textile industry as
a result of the colonization of work
ers in millbuilt towns. The sixty
hour week and average pay of $lB or
i less, the clash of ideas—almost of
| civilizations—growing out of the
descent from the mountains of
thousands and their exposure to
new and complex conditions of life.
It disregards the readjustments, as
even mill officials admit, that must
be made to keep pace with greater
industrialization of the south,
through development of water power
and migration of more industries.
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, SEPT. 24, 1929
Lindy and
Wife Feted
in Guiana
Colonel and Mate Rest in
Preparation for Long
Return Flight.
Bn United Press
PARAMARIBO, DUTCH GUI
ANA, Sept. 24. —Pioneering of the
new air mail route from Miami to
Paramaribo added to his accom
plishments, Colonel Charles A. Lind
bergh rested here today before start
ing on his northward flight through
the Caribbean Islands back to his
starting point.
The 2,600-mile journey from
Miami was completed Monday to
accompaniment of ship and factory
whistles in the harbor here.
Mrs. Lindbergh, who accompanied
the pilot on his trip, was the center
of great interest. She and her hus
band were welcomed by the Ameri
can consul and a group of high
officials of the colony.
The flier and his wife spent the
night as guests of Manager De Mun
nick of the Bauxite Company. Dur
ing the afternoon and until late at
night there were receptions and
public welcomes, dinners and torch
light processions.
TEACHER-WIFE
SUES FOR JOB
State Tenure Law to Face
Court Test.
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Sept.
24—What is thought will be a test
case of the teacher tenure law has
been filed in Montgomery circuit
court by Mrs. Mary Cave Ramsey,
who seeks to regain a position on
the teaching staff of the local
schools from which she was dis
missed when she was married last
June.
Mrs. Ramsey, who is the daughter
of Grant Cave, Union township
trustee, recites in the complaint that
she was employed for the school
year of 1928-29 at a salary of
$l,lOO and that her services were
satisfactory. Due to the fact that
she previously had been employed
as a teacher in the city schools for
a period of more than five years, she
asserts she is entitled to an indefi
nite contract under provisions of the
tenure law, regardless of the fact
that a local ruling prevents married
women from teaching in the city
schools.
Mrs. Ramsey says that she pre
sented herself to Superintendent A.
D. Montgomery on Sept. 9. the first
day of school, ready to assume her
duties, but that he and members cf
the school boa,rd refused to illow
her to teach. She asks that she be
reinstated in the position and be
allowed back salary for the past
three weeks.
CANAL SURVEY ORDERED
Five Engineers Are Selected for
Work in Nicaragua.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 24.—Lieu
tenant B. B. Talley has been
appointed b y
President Hoo
ver as one of
five engineers
who will spend
two years in
the wilds of
Nicaragua mak
ing a survey of
the proposed
canal across
that country.
He and his as
sociates are ex
pected to start
their prelimin
ary survey work
Lieut. Talley
in the very near future, it is said.
Scout Council Extended
Bw Times Rneeial
ALEXANDRIA, Ind., Sept. 24.
Reorganization of the Alexandria
Boy Scout council has been per
fected and Summitville admitted as
a member.
TRAM OF 34 CARS
STAGES WILD DASH
Bu United Press
POTTSVILLE, Pa.. Sept. 24.—The
wild dash of a freight locomotive
and a train of thirty-four loaded
coal cars down a five-mile-long
grade, with cars jumping the track,
smashing telephone and electric
light poles and ripping up the road
bed, was described today by the five
members of the train crew.
Miraculously, none of the men was
injured severely in leaping from the
train, after trying ineffectually to
retard its progress with handbrakes.
Nearing the top of the steep grade
at Morea, the coal train rapidly got
out of control of Engineer C. J. Zell
ner.
W T hile Zellner worked with his
controls, his fireman, H. H. Hawk,
climbed back over the tender to the
BASHFUL FAT BOYS, SNAP OUT OF IT, GET IN MOVIES
ARE all fat boys bashful?
Judging by the number
who have sent in pictures with
their applications for the Golden
Rule Safety Club movie, fat boys
are bashful. It may be necessary
to search Indiananolis with a fine
tooth comb to find one to take the
part of Fatty in the picture.
Os course there may be a dozen
fat boys who have sent in entry
blanks who haven’t Inclosed pic
tures. If so, we can forget the
fine tooth comb, and we’ll be glad
TRUCE CALLED
IN CAPITAL'S
SOCIAL WAR
Mrs. Longworth and Mrs.
Gann Will Not Attend
MacDonald Events.
‘CRISIS’ TO COME LATER
Question of Table Rank to
Arise This Winter to
Vex Hoover.
By United Press
WASHINGTON. Sept. 24.—Wash
ington’s social war is off and the
armistice is on.
Mrs. Dolly Curtis Gann, sister of
Vice-President Curtis, and Mrs.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of
the speaker of the house, have dis
covered pressing engagements at
their respective homes during the
several days Premier MacDonald
will be a guest here.
Pending their return to Washing
ton, the question of who sits where,
which has been troubling Washing
ton society since last April, will
trouble no one.
Capital hostesses have been
plagued by the responsibility of de
termining which of the official wom
en should be seated at table above
the other, if both attended the same
function. MacDonald's plan to visit
Washington roused hope the prob
lem finally would have to be decided
by the President or Secretary of
State Stimson.
If both women had been in the
city, both would have rated invita
tions, at least to the White House
dinner for MacDonald. In his
capacity as host, the President
would have to decide whether Mrs.
Gann or Mrs. Longworth should sit
on his right.
But Mrs. Longworth will be in
Cincinnati well into October and
Mrs. Gann has revealed an en
gagement in Topeka, Kan., which
will conflict with capital festivities
in honor of MacDonald. Both wom
en will return, however, and the
question of their comparative rank
will arise again.
MacDonald and his daughter, Ish
bel, will be White House guests for
three days and the premier will
visit Hoover’s Blue Ridge camp, if
weather conditions permit. Secre
tary of State Stimson and Sir Esme
Howard, British ambassador, will
meet the premier’s train here Oct. 4.
STATE KIWANIS
PARLETOFENS
Terre Haute Is Host to
2,500 Members.
Ft.v Times Svecial
TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. Sept, 24.
With attendance estimated at 2,500
the state convention of Indiana Ki
wanis clubs opened here today to
continue through Thursday. A meet
ing of district trustees and a golf
tournament were on the opening
program.
Among important business matters
to be disposeu of will be a proposal
to increase the number of lieutenant
governors from six to eight and a
change in the method of nominat
ing and electing trustees.
Speakers Wednesday morning will
be Paul McNutt, national com
mander of the American Legion,
whose subject will be “America’s
Policy in World Leadership.” and
Floyd A. Allen, Detroit, assistant to
the president of General Motors
Corporation, on “The Trend and
Policies in Modern Business.”
Thursday morning the speakers
will include Horace M. McDavid, De
catur. 111., International president,
and Kiwanis governors of Kentucky,
Michigan and Ohio.
Much interest is being manifest in
contests for various state offices
first car and tried to set the brakes.
Occasionally a car toward the end
of the train swayed against a tele
phone pole, splintering it; others
jumped the track and tore up hun
dreds of yards of rails, ties and
ballast.
Nearing New Castle, one of the
heavy steel cars left the rails, and
nineteen more piled up in a mass
of twisted steel. Electric power and
light were cut off from a section of
Schuylkill county when the derailed
cars knocked down light poles.
At Big Bridge six more cars left
the rails. One car plunged through
the side of the bridge and hung
there.
At New Castle, Zellner succeeded
in stopping his engine, with the few
cars that stayed with the train.
to. But we must, we simply must,
have a fat boy. We can’t get along
without one. In fact, we may
need two.
So come on. you fattys. All
your lives you have been joshed
about how fat you are, and per
haps you can’t run as fast as some
of the other boys. But now your
failing may be the means of win
ning you no end of fame and, shall
we say, a fat part in-the movies?
And let the skinny boys and the
others laugh that off if they can.
Meet the Mr. and Mrs.
i
NEA
_ . ■ ■■■■ ■ • - —_— —■-
Here is the nation's most famous pair of newlyweds—Mr. and Mrs.
John Coolidge, photographed just after the ceremony late Monday aft
ernoon, that united Florence Trumbull, daughter of the Governor of
Connecticut, in marriage with the son of a former President of the
United States.
This picture, taken just as the bridal pair emerged from the Con
gregational church at Plainville, Conn., was transmitted to New York
by a special NEA Service airplane and transmitted thence by telephoto.
MORE LAKE COUNTY
WITNESSES CALLED
New Subpenas Reported to
Include Both Officials
and Citizens.
nu Times Special
SOUTH BEND. Ind., Sept. 24.
Additional witnesses in the federal
grand jury probe here of Lake coun
ty law violation conditions have
been subpened. These are said to
include public officials and well
known citizens of the county.
District Attorney Oliver M. Loomis
announces the grand jury will con
clude its work Oct. 7, the first day
of the next term of federal court
here.
Among witnesses Monday w r ere W.
H. Van Horan, Indiana Harbor at
torney, frequently on the bench of
the city court as a substitute for
Judge Michael Havran; Luther
Moore, Negro deputy sheriff, and
William A. Burrus, Negro member of
the Gary city council.
Nick Sudovich, reputed lieutenant
in Lake county of A1 Capone, Chi
cago gangster, and under indict
ment charging first degree murder
of Urosh Marovich, East Chicago
bootlegger, is seeking release
through a writ of habeas corpus
proceeding filed in circuit court at
Crowm Point.
Federal officials have ended their
investigation of a leak of in
formation regarding the inquiry,
having learned that letters referring
to a conference in Chicago said to
have included Federal Judge
Thomas W. Slick, United States
Senator James E. Watson, and M.
Burt Thurman, Republican nation
al committeeman for Indiana, were
given to newspapers by the judge.
The conference was held at Chi
cago July 4. Those said to have at
tended deny that there was any
reference to the Lake county case.
BROKERAGE HEAD DIES
William A. Paine Was Member of
Firm Having 23 Branches.
Bn United Press
SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., Sept. 24.
William A. Paine, 75, senior member
of the brokerage firm of Paine. Web
ber & Cos., with offices in
twenty-three cities, died at his sum
mer home at Beach Bluff here today
Paine contracted a cold while at
tending a meeting of the partners
of the company at Harwichport
early this month.
Railroad Sued for SSOO
Bn Times Special
GREENCASTLE, Ind., Sept. 24.
Suit for S2OO damages for injuries
sustained in a crossing accident
June 13, has been filed against the
Monon railroad by Frank Long,
local man.
WE ARE going to use skinny
boys, too, of course. And
short ones and tall ones, and
many, many others. There will be
a lot of girls in the cast, too. So
don't you others worry. Remember
that every boy and girl who wants
to join the Golden Rule Safety
Club Is assured of taking part in
the filming of the picture, and
may see himself or herself on the
screen when the picture is shown.
Just send in the application
blank, properly filled out, which
Second Section
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Nature Leaves
Beaten Path
Bu Times Special
NOBLESVILLE. Ind., Sept.
24.—A cornstalk in a garden at
the home of Isaac Scott here
about five feet tall bears a well
developed ear of corn in its
tassel. C. D. Zimmer and C.
C. Carson have picked blossoms
from the apple trees in their
orchards during the last few
days.
DEMOCRATS CALLED
Issues of 1930 Campaign
to Be Discussed.
Issues for the 1930 biennial cam
paign will be discussed and formu
lated at the meeting of the Demo
cratic state committee Wednesday
at state headquarters in the Clay
pool.
It will be the first meeting of the
committee since the legislature.
Committee rules will be amended to
permit women vice-committeemen
to vote, in accordance with the
1929 act.
R. Earl Peters, state chairmaj*.
is expected to present a summary
of Republican measures that will
make campaign issues.
ROLLER SKATE 'HIKER’
IS EN ROUTE TO DAYTON
Danville (111.) Man Has Traveled
10.000 Miles In Three Years.
Traveling on roller skates, Asa
Hall of Danville, 111., passed through
Indianapolis on his way from the
Illinois city to Dayton.
Hall has skated 10.000 miles in the
last three years, worn out 100 sets
of rubber rollers, and made trips
throughout the middlewest.
He plans a skating tour from New
York to San Francisco in 1930.
Hall plans to make the round trip
from Danville to Dayton in four
days.
GOLD "WATCH IS STOLEN
Burglar Makes $l5O Haul; Holdup
Men Get $3.
Theft of a geld watch valued at
$l5O was reported to police today by
J. E. Campbell, 420 East Twelfth
Tw'o armed men held up Gerald
Kelly 18, of 2126 North New Jersey
street, in the 300 block West Ohio
street. Monday night and took $3. j
appears on Page 16 and watch for
further details as they appear in
The Times daily. Watch closely,
because the cast is going to be
chosen next week and it won't be
long before the filming will start.
The picture, being made through
co-operation of The Indianapolis
Times and the Lyric theater, will
be exciting and yet teach a lesson
of safety. You won't want to miss
it when all your friends are tak
ing part. Fill out and send in your
application today. Inclose a photo
or snapshot II you can.
EARL PEACOX,
WIFE SLAYER,
TELLS STORY
Debonair Killer Goes on
Stand Before Packed
Courtroom.
BARES ROMANCE TALE
Defense Holds That Crime
Was Due to Mad Rage;
Not Premeditated.
WHITE PLAINS,
N. Y„ Sept, 24.—More than seven
hundred spectators sought admission
to supreme court today to hear Earl
Francis Peacox, smooth young radio
lecturer, tell how he beat and choked
his pretty wife to death in their Mt.
Vernon apartment last April and
then burned her body.
Feacox’ defense is that he killed
Mrs. Dorothy Peacox during an in
sane rage when she spurned his at
tempt. to effect a reconciliation on
their first anniversary. The state,
however, contends the slaying was
premeditated.
Only a scant 200 of the early
comers were admitted to the cham
bers and they faced a long wait, a
court was an hour late in con
vening.
Mrs. Catherine A. Peacox, the de
fendant's mother, was the day’s first
defense witness. She is a short,
stout, gray-haired woman of 64, and
is employed as a housekeeper.
After she had given a brief testi
mony, Peacox, the young defendant,
was called. He was calm and deb
onair.
Slayer On Stand.
Peacox said he was 22 years old,
that he got along well in his studies
at school and was graduated from
Yonkers high school, where he took
up radio as a special study.
He said he first met Dorothy in
1921 at a Bronxville swimming pool.
He was only 14 then.
“It was quite accidental.’’ Peacox
said. “I was sitting on the side of
the pool when one of a group of
girls fell into the pool. Then I
dived in and pulled her out."
He said he saw' her again during
the winter and next on Sept, 10,
1926. when “sne asked me to come
to her home in Bronxville, and I
decided to go.’’
Engaged in 1927
Q —After this occasion did you go
around frequently with Dolly?
A—Well, I heard during the lat
ter part of September, 1926, tha f
she was engaged.
Q —When were you engaged to
her.
A—About August, 1927.
Q —Between the time that you
i heard she was engaged and the time
you became engaged to her, how
often did you see her?
A—About four or five times.
Q—How old were you then?
A—l was 19.
Syme then asked Peacox If Doro-
I thy told him before their marriage
that she was going to have a baby,
;if she blamed another man for her
J condition, and if he took her to a
I physician to have an operation per
! formed.
Questions Ruled Out
i Justice Tompkins ruled these
questions out on the grounds that
anything of that nature was not
pertinent. Finally, however, Peacox
1 was allowed to say that he had not
! lived with Dorothy before he mar
• lied her.
Peacox told of his marital life,
! how he and his wife failed to get
| i
along, and then how complications
I came up. He was asked to tell what
.ie meant by complications.
"One night when she had gone
away and I came home, I found a
note from Dolly to Ihe effect that
| she had gone out—where, she did
not state. I asked Mrs. Heinzlemaa
I what Dolly could mean by the not 3 ,
and Mrs. Heinzleman said she did
not know.
"Dolly didn’t come home until 4
o’clock in the morning. When I
asked her where she had been, sho
would not tell me.
Laughed at Protest
Q—When your wife came back did
you discuss the situation? A —She
laughed and said I could make the
best of it. After the quarrel she
decided that she would not sleep in
the one. bed in the apartment with
me and she tried to 6leep on the
floor. I picked her up and put her
in the b°d and 1 ; pent the rest of
the night in a chair.
In the morning, Peacox said, she
tore up his picture and threw the
pieces in his face. Then he did
likewise with a photograph of her.
Later, he recounted, he pasted the
picture together and kept it. 16
was produced in court.
"I wanted to keep it forever, be
cause I loved her.” Peacox said.
Court adjourned for luncheon.
8 PETITIONS HIT LEVIES
School City. County Rates Chief
Targets of Taxpayers.
Eight petitions to the state tax
board appealing county, city, school
city and Lawrence township 1930
tax levies, were on file today with
County Auditor Harry Dunn. Seven
cf the petitions were filed by the In
diana Taxpayers’ Association, charg
ing the rates are excessive.
Six of the petitions attacked tha
school city rate of $1.34 and the
county rate of 41.5 cents. Petition
against the city levy, specifically
naming the sanitary district rata
of 7 cents as excessive, was signed
by eighteen taxpayers, headed iff
LeGrande Marvin, 3342 North New
Jersey street.