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f iluvud to have boon heart failure. 1 Ho died shortly after noon, while raking a nmp preparatory to a •wim He had asked hla daughter, Mrs. Marie H< haffner. who was at the vol rage with him and hla wife, to waken him at 3 p. tn. but because of the heal she decided to allow him to sleep Mrs. Bchuffiii-r found Miller dead about 4 p. m. The coroner Indirated hr probably had died shortly after lying down. Miller, who operated a tavern In I the Chicago loop, was well known I as a gangland figure during the ' prohibition era. figured in boot-1 fagging activities and In the cleaning and dying Industry troubles of the early 1920'5. He first appeared lu a major I case in 1930 when he was tried along with Ham Morton for the shooting of two policemen In a South State street tavern. Tried | twice for murder, both Miller and 1 Morton were acquitted. A little after his acquittal Miller J went Into the cleaning and dying ' business as an operator of a cut* ‘ rate establishment. Believed to , have been bootlegging at the same j time, he was known to have had violent trouble with gangland ■ chiefs and ou more than one ocean-1 . lon was the target of gunmen, lu ■ 1924 hla war with the racketeers < culminated lu the murder of his . brother. Davey, by Dion O'Banioti. ' a professional gunman. In 1935 he got out of the cleaning and dy- ' Ing business. . Since HBo. when lie apparently i terminated his underworld cornierturns. Miller's name had not ap-

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poured on the police blotter. Miller's body was moved to Chi cago today where tuners! arrangements will be completed BRITAIN' POURS tCONTIWUKD PHOM PAQC ON Kt imperially dominant British Intereats in the far east has l>een Intensified Britons have been blockaded, British vessels have been stopped and searched. British trade has been whittled down and British concessions In China have I been edged steadily out. Other foreigners have felt the same pressure but, with nnil-Brltish propaganda spreading among Japanese. the British have taken the hardest blows because they were the biggest rival of Japan In the far east. With a turmoil of European troubles across the English Chan- , ’nel, the London government has I been forced to limit its resistance In the far east. There has horn I much speculation regarding Hong i Kong and not Infrequent suggestions that that gnat British trade I center was wide open to attack I and seizure. But lu days ago British and | French military and naval commanders met quietly at Singapore and surveyed the possibilities of defending their Interests in the Orient. It was understood they decided that preparations were sufficient, regardless of developments in Europe, to stand off any toe in the southern areas. Thus the proposal to adopt couluriptlon among the 1,000,000 popu-

lation (largely Chinese who aroi British suhjectsl of Hong Kung would indicate that the govern-1 mvut had decided on drastic tnvaauras. If necessary, to defend empire interests In the far east. It j also was believed to be of Importance as a test of whether conscription might be extended to all British crown colonies end as a seiJinwi-rah pi< paredneaa wgiiinWßNiy iff- , — „ i", VETERINARIANS iCONTINVKD FltOM FAUK OMK> was the principal cause of such deaths and that correction was timely now because the farrowing season is approaching, and Dr. W S. Gochenour Jr., of the Pitman Moore laboratories, whose, subject was "The Importance of Labotatory Diagnosis in Poultry Diseases.' A feature of the afternoon program was a clinical demonstration in high protein rations for pigs, including soybean oil meal, conducted by W. L. Robinson of the Ohio experiment station, and Dr. A. F. Schalk of the Ohio State university college of veterinary medicine. Pigs were inspected alive at the opening of the meeting and at its conclusion were returned to the < onference after being butchered. Veterinarians were permitted in this manm-r to see the benelits of the protein ration in the production of superior pork. WPA STRIKES, (CONTINUED ON PAOE HIX) tomorrow It was reported that there was some sentiment In favor of continuing the strike in the belief that WPA officials would be uii.il>h to u placc them on projects

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| If the entire WPA list walked out. To Submit Pisa Waalilugton. July 13 ■— tU.PJ —• President William Green of the American federation of labor announced today that he will ask President Roosevelt tomorrow to testore prevailing wage rates for ! skilled relief workers. Aliandonment of the prevailing wage schedule and adoption of a security wage policy In paying relief labor has t aus.-d a widespread ! strike among WPA workers, involving upwards of 77.mw). of thia number approximately It.tMNi have been dismissed for failing to report to work. Mr. RiMiaevelt has indicated that | the new WPA policy, written Into law by congress In the new relief act, had his suppoit. , Green will head a committee j which will call on the president. It was appointed nt an emergency conference of all AFL union preeldents here yesterday Its visit to the White House will la- the opening of a united labor-front fight for restoring hourly wage rates in effect prior to July 1 on WPA pro-p-eta. The decision to appeal first directly to the president was reached at a strategy confarenra of the committee In Chwsn's office this morning. Later, tike group will See Speaker William B. Bankhead and vice president John M. Garner. - 11 o Ctrl and Deg Rout Tc-ief Cloveland. O. >U.PJ — A bicycle thief hasn't a chance with 17-year old Dorothy Schneider and her dog Pal. A thief attempted to wrest th-’ biccyle from her as she wheeled It home. Pal bit him on the ankle and while engaged with the dog. Dorothy struck him on the head with a bicycle pump He fled.

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