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Show PHONE SAVES WHITE WOMAN FROM NEGRO Sapulpa, Okla., Dec. 1? Kate Xur veil. 8 telephone operator at Mounds, seven miles south of here, sat before the switchboard early today The annunciator of number 418 dropped. Miss Nurvell plugged it and called "Number, please " There was no answer She started to replace the drop when she heard a woman's voice say "Don't! 1 tell you where it is Alarmed. Miss Nurvell called to the police who went to the home of Fred Allen, a hardware dealer, and found a negro choking Mrs. Ailen because 6he would not tell him where she kept the familv valuables Mrs. AlifMi was 1 alone in the house. In her struggle with the negro sh" pulled the receiver down, which gave the signal to the telephone Offii |