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FOCH TO UE IN FINAL REST BY NAPOLEON France Will Pay Highest Tribute at Funeral Tuesday. HUNDREDS PASS BIER Women Drop Bouquets of Spring Flowers Beside Catafalque. BY RALPH HEINZEN United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, March 22.—The body of Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch rested in a magnificent casket today as the humble of France paid tribute to their great. Throngs of admirers—stolid war veterans, widow of soldiers and orphans—filed into the quiet mansion on the Rue de Grenelles this morning to pause for a moment beside the bier of the “Little Warrior.” Foch’s body has been placed inside an oak coffin. The coffin has been sealed inside a lead coffin and then placed inside another varnished oak casket with silver handles. Over this is draped the French flag and on it are three medals—the Croix de Guerre, the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor and the Medaille Militaire—and a silver crucifix. All day the slow file of men and women will be permitted to pass by. Marshal to Rest by Napoleon Saturday the doors of the mansion will be closed to permit the family of the great soldier to mourn alone before the government pays the pompous .tribute of a national funeral. The great soldier will rest beside the eternal flame under the Arc de Triomphe, which will be draped In black, on Sunday and Monday. From the grave of the unknown soldier he will be removed Tuesday to the Notre Dame cathedral and t) lence to the Invalides to rest beside Napoleon. i There was no shame for the tears as the men and women of France today paid a last tribute. Blind veterans, widows of men who died in Flanders and the hundreds of others who had sacrificed for France a decade ago sought admission to the slew-moving file which formed at the door of the mansion late Thursday, was halted shortly after dusk and resumed again this morning. Funeral Arranged Arrangements have been completed for the national funeral Tuesday although some details still are lacking. Traffic will be suspended on the streets through which the funeral procession will pass and while the cortege proceeds from Notre Dame cathedral to the Invalides. church bells throughout Paris will ring. Six herses will draw the gun carriage on which the casket will be placed and the marshal's favorite charger, saddled with thl stirrups reversed, will be led behind. The theatrical syndicate and many stores in the capital announced that they would close on the funeral day. Race tracks also are expected to shut down. Meantime, theaters, many are holding silent prayer minutes for Foch at all performances. Many functions, both official and private, have been cancelled. Drop Flowers by Bier Two nuns prayed at the bier throughout the night after the masses had been permitted to pay their first tribute to Foch Thursday. The column of admirers filing into the mansion included many womep, some of whom dropped simple penny bouquets of spring flowers near the body despite Madame Foch's request that no flowers be brought. * The invhation to allied governments to participate in the funeral services rrude it probable that pallbearers would include Marshal Joffre, General John J. Pershing, General Weygandt and Field Marshal Lord Plumer of England, who will represent the late Earl Haig.

‘MOST ARRESTED’ MAN IN CITY IS ‘IN AGAIN’ William Carey Held as Suspect in Robbery Case. Two weeks after he had “out again,” William (Willie) Carey, 31, of 320 Kentucky avenue, was “in again” today. Willie, the “most arrested” man in Indianapolis, was arrested Thursday night as a suspect in the slugging and robbing of James M. Farlow. 74, of 11254 West New York street. Farlow was robbed of $1.50 on Vermont and Bright streets. Willie was released from county jail two weeks ago after waiting trial on a federal liquor conspiracy charge since Dec. 17. He was qiven a one-day sentence. He is under indictment on another liquor charge. Hourly Temperatures . m 54 10 a. m 54 - 7a. m 55 11 a. m..... 58 la. m 57 12 (noon).. 58 9a. m..... 58 Ip. m..... 60.

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Murder With Ax Revealed by Prisoner Negro Held at Gary Lays Two Slayings to Companion. x Bit United Press GARY, Ind., March 22.—A series of ax murders and beatings that have spread terror in Gary was believed solved today when Gillis Mack, 28-year-old Negro, confessed that he clubbed a young man and woman and stood by while a companion attacked a 20-year-old girl and afterwards beat her to death. Mack has been under since Wednesday, after the body of Miss Josephine Adorizzi was found in a vacant lot. A bloodstained hatchet, found in Mack's home, was used to club Miss Adorizzi to death, he said, while he stood guard. He refused to name his companion. Miss Mary Gigl, 16, and Chester Dybalski, 19, are in a hospital as a result of having been beaten by Mack. Miss Gigl is not expected to recover. Miss Adorizzi disappeared Sunday night when she went to meet her fiance. Two boys, playing in the vacant lot, discovered her body Tuesday, under a pile of rubbish. Mack also confessed that 'he ax police found was used to kill Thomas Gordon, a Negro, who was found dead in his flat home last week. He said his companion killed Gordon.

TORNADO DEAD IS SETAT TEN Schooihouse Is Struck by Alabama Twister, Bn United Press MAXWELLBORN, Ala., March 22.—A tornado struck a Negro school two miles west of here today. Two pupils were reported to have been killed. H. B. Maxwellborn said eight or ten persons were injured. The twister did not strike here. Jacksonville, Ala., two miles each of Merrellton, reported eight persons killed and a score injured. A Negro school was reported demolished and about thirty buildings blown down.!.

NEW BUSSES READY Service on Meridian Route to Begin in April. Bus service will be inaugurated on the new Meridian street route on or about April 1, according to announcement today by Joseph A. McGowan, secretary-treasurer of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company. “First arrivals of the ten new busses to be used on the new route are expected today or tomorrow,” McGowan said. Os the ten neA r conveyances, costing approximately $75,000, five arc coming from the Mack International Motor Company. Allentown, Pa., and an equal number from the White company of Cleveland. Each will seat twenty-nine passengers. Service will be on a seven and one-half minute schedule, varying with the density of traffics The 10cent fare will prevail with the usual 2-cent transfer privileges. CONVICT KILLER OF 3 Aged Infirmary Inmate Must Go to Electric Chair. B.u United Press VAN BUREN, Ark.. March 22. Aged William E. Nowell, former inmate of Crawford county infirmary, must die in the electric chair for the mruder of three persons whom he killed In a fit of anger when he was dismissed from the institution. a circuit court jury decided here. Nowell killed Cliff defenbaigh, Infirmary superintendent, Mrs. Defenbaugh and Jefferson Nicholson. Porto Rico to Get New Head Bn United Press WASHINGTON, March 22.—The resignation of Governor Horace M. Towner of Porto Rico will be accepted as soon as his successor can be selected, it was learned, unofficially today.

BALDWINJO SPEAK Noted Pacifist Will Talk in City Tonight. Some cognizance of recent restrictions upon human rights in Indiana is expected to be taken tonight by Roger Baldwin, secretary of the American Civil Liberties Union, in a speech in the small auditorium at the Athenaeum at 8. The meeting was arranged by Alex Vocnegut, head of the Indianapolis branch of the union. * | Baldwin, noted for a decade for his leadership in the fight against civil oppression, will speak on “The Fighting Issues of Civil Liberty Today.” The meeting is public and .free.

EDITOR ‘PANS’ MARY GARDEN, TEXANS HOWL V Hot Words Fly in Amarillo; Howe Defends Self as Critic. ‘ROTTER,’ SAYS' SINGER • , Cause of Furore Says He’s About Ready to Quit ‘Culture Drive.’ Bit t v it cl Press OMAHA, Neb.. March 22.—Gene Howe, editor of the Amarillo NewsGlobe, who criticised her appearance in the opera, “Thais,” was called a “damned swine,” by Mary Garden, prima donna, when she passed through here en route to Minneapolis. “Howe is a dirty rotter,” Miss Garden said. “He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. I’ll still be singing when he’s too feeble to pound a typewriter.” Proposes to Retire Bji United Pi ess AMARILLO, Tex., March 22. Almost “exhausted by trying to establish real culture on the plains of Texas,” Gene Howe, editor of the Amarillo News-Globe, celebrated his 43rd birthday today by threatening to retire. Writing again as “the Tackless Texan,” Howe threatens to quit if he can’t prove he is right in criticising the production of the opera “Thais,” by Mary Garden and the Chicago Civic Opera here recently. This was his answer to an attempted boycott of his paper by music clubs and other admirers of Miss Garden and the opera company after the editor panned the performance. Ready to Resign Howe’s latest statement said in part: “I’m becoming exhausted trying to establish real culture on the plains of Texas, and if I’m not sustained, or rather vindicated in this latest outbreak, I’m willing to step down and out. “If I cannot prove that I am capable as a critic of opera and fine music, I’ll resign as editor. “I have heard more and know more about grand opera than any six persons in the entire Panhandle of Texas. The one exception I make it May Peterson, the wife of Colonel Ernest O. Thompson of Amarillo. She Is an opera singer, and besides was born in Indiana and not in the Panhandle. “Travesty” on Real Opera “My only thought in telling the truth about the atrocious performance given by the Chicago Civic Opera company in Amarillo was to protect the public. “Instead of the musically inclined trying to drive me out of Amarillo they should back me in my efforts to prevent further raids by barnstorming aggregations. The performance in Amarillo was cut and skimped unmecrifully, and all of the stars saved their voices. “We paid $16,000 in Amarillo to hear ‘Thais,’ and this is a whole lot of money* whether it's in Amarillo or Chicago. The ‘Thais’ we saw in Amarillo was a travesty on ‘Thais’ as it is presented in Chicago.” INDICTED IN MURDER Princeton Police Chief Among Three Facing Charges. Bit United Press PRINCETON, Ind.. March 22 An indictment charging Tony Boger, 48, with the murder of George W. Pierce, 45, who was stabbed to death, has been returned by the Gibson county grand jury. Another indictment charges Herschell Higgins, chief of police, with being an accomplice. A third indictment, named Edward Scott, at whose home the stabbing occurred. HELD FOR KNIFING WIFE Man Charged With Stabbing Mate • Week Ago. Charged with stabbing his wife severely with a pen knife a week ago, Gilbert West, 26. of 1728 Calvin street, was arrested today. He had been sought by police since the stabbing.

HUSBAND JAILED FOR BOOZE SALE BY WIFE Woman Released for Selling: Liquor to U. S. Agent. John Edwards, 56, of 230 West Wyoming street, paid for an alleged sin of his wife's in municipal court this morning. He was fined SIOO and sentenced to forty-five days on the Indiana state farm. His wife, Cora, is alleged to have | sold a drink of liquor to a federal ; undercover agent But, because Edwards was on the premises she was released this morning. Ira Holmes, attorney for the couple, read Judge Paul C. Wetter a supreme court opinion that said a wife was not responsible for selling liquor while her husband was in the home. ,

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Buys Village Bit United Press TARRYTOWN, N, Y.. March 22. —The village of Eastview, a community of forty-six families, which began its existence even before the day Peter Stuyvesant hobbled down the Moumerie in Nieu Amsterdam, today no longer had its place on the map. John D. Rockefeller Jr. purchased the village to keep the New York Central Railroad from running its Putnam division through the middle of his estate at Pocantico Hills. He paid more than $700,000 for sixty parcels of land, a price representing three or four times the assessed valuation.

LIFE TOLL 25 IN MINE BUST Three More Bodies Are Removed From Shaft; Find One Alive. Bit United Press PARNASSUS, Pa.. March 22. The known death list in the Kinloch mine explosion mounted to twenty-five at noon today when three more bodies were removed from the wrecked workings. The bodies of the three men were brought up the main shaft where the explosion occurred. A few hours before, Lawrence Allshouse, 28, was found alive and carried from the pit. He was in the same portion of the mine in which the last three bodies were located. Still alive, after lying in an injured condition for twenty-seven hours, Allshouse was removed to a hospital, where it is said he probably will die. He was semi-conscious. Allshouse brought the list of miners rescued alive to 234. Company officials said after the last three bodies were removed that thirty miners remained to be accounted for. But they believed that many of that number escaped from the mine uninjured and went to their homes without checking through the company offices. Rescue workers reported at noon that another oody or two had been located in the workings, but not removed.

PUSH ROBBERY TRIAL Continue Hearing of Two in Pettis Case Saturday. Trial of Dodder Delatore of Indianapolis and Dewey Bryant of Chicago, charged with conspiracy to commit a felony in connection with the $6,000 safe robbery at the Pettis Dry Goods Company, three months ago, will be ontinued Saturday in criminal court. The state rested its case against the men Thursday afternoon after Robert Prather of Chicago, a third member of the alleged bandit gang, turned state’s evidence. The indictment against him was nolled by prosecutors. James E. Burke and Thomas Hindman, Negro, we tried an auto banditry and robbery charges Thursday morning but Judge James A- Collins withheld judgment.

‘ONLY MEAL TICKET’ TO WIFE, SEEKS DIVORCE Hurling Carbolic Acid in Face Last Straw, Petition Asserts. “You are nothing but a meal ticket to me.” Lester A. Gradwell, 650 Davidson street, heard his wife say that many times, but when she threw carbolic acid in his face June 30, 1928, he gave up, he legally has declared. Today he filed suit in superior court five against Mrs. Ascension V. Gradwell, who now resides in South Bend. He alleged that in addition to characterizing him as her “meal ticket,” she raged hysterically and tore his clothes and hers and broke up household furniture. 13 Face Liquor Charges Bn United Press EVANSVILLE. Ind., March 22 Thirteen persons, eleven men and two women, were to be arraigned before United States Commissioner Charles Harmon today, after raids by fifteen federal agents in Spencer and Dußois counties Thursday.

PROPAGANDA BARED SBO,OOO Spent Annually by West Coast Utilities. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, March 22. —A three-fold propaganda campaign costing Pacific coast electrical corporations more than SBO,OOO annually was disclosed today in testimony before the federal trade commission. With W. L. Frost. Los Angeles, former president of the Pacific Coast Electrical Association on the stand, the commission learned of expenditures by California power groups far exceeding those shown in any other state by the investigation of utility propaganda to date.

BRIBES PAID ! SLEUTH TRAP ! BIG ROM RING First of 21 Ex-Customs Officials Convicted in Detroit Expose. ‘MR. X’ IS REVEALED Bare Identity of Secret Agent Who Uncovered Conspiracy. Bit United Press DETROIT, March 22.—James S. Mach, the first of twenty-one former custom border patrol inspectors to go on trial for accepting bribes from rum smugglers, was found guilty by a jury after ten minutes deliberation today. Federal Judge C. C. Simons sentenced Mack to serve two years at Leavenworth penitentiary and pay a $5,000 fine. Jack denied the specific indictments against him, but admitted he had received money from liquor runners on other occasions. Nineteen alleged bootleggers also are under indictment in connection with the whisky and beer smuggling conspiracy which is estimated to have allowed $50,000,000 worth of contraband liquor to pass over the Detroit river, between here and Windsor, Ontario, last year. . Six Others Plead Guilty Six other former inspectors have pleaded guilty to charges of bribe taking and are awaiting sentence. The identity of the mysterious “Mr. X,” secret undercover agent, and the bane of rum-runners and "beer barons” along the border here, was revealed for the first time at Mack’s trial. “Mr. X.” was revealed as Lawrence Fleishman, special customs agent, who exposed fche corrupt border patrol here after six we,eks of investigation when he served as a member of the pntrol. Received $1,700 in Bribes Fleishman received bribes totaling $1,700 during that period of time, his share of the estimated $2,000,000 yearly mm-graft. Asa result of his evidence the twenty-one inspectors and nineteen alleged bootleggers were indicted by the federal grand jury last November. Statements made at that time resulted in three of the inspectors being charged with perjury. Although Fleishman has been a member of the customs service only for two years, he is well known for his brilliant exploits last summer at New York where he exposed a graft ring similar to the one in operation here. Gets Leave of Absence His success in New York prompted his appointment to Detroit, where his identity was known only to Sumner C. Sleeper, former chief of the patrol.' Sleeper left Detroit on a “leave of absence” coincident with the indictment of the twenty-one inspectors here. Three other former border patrolmen. Shell Miller. Lamarr D. Smith and Harold T. Morrison also have insisted on a jury trial and they will be tried next week, according to John R. Watkins, United States district attorney.

ACCOUNTS BOARD GETS ARMORY QUIZ DATA Testimony of 9 Witnesses Turned Over by Probers. Testimony of nine witnesses appearing before the senate investigation committee inquiring into armory construction under the “closed corporation” plan was turned over to the state board of accounts today. The board has been empowered to continue the investigation. Action is expected to get under way when Lawrence Orr, chief examiner, returns to his office next week. He has spent this week with field examiners in Lake county. Many Hurt hi Labor Riot Bn United Press BOMBAY, March 22.—Many persons were injured in a clash between the police and employes of the great Indian Peninsula railway today after a mass meeting of 5,000 workers protesting the arrest of the secretary of the rail workers union.

TRUCK AND AUTO ARE SMASHED BY TRAIN Drivers Escape With Slight Bruises in Crash. The driver of a truck and an automobile driver narrowly escaped injury when a Big Four freight car ' struck both machines at Belmont avenue and the Big Four Thursday night. The crossing watchman raised the gates after a train had passed not noteing the freight car which was being switched. The car struck the truck being driven south by Clarence Short, 29, of Mellott, Ind., and the north-bound auto of Charles Tauge, 20 North Traub avenue. Both drivers were on the opposite sides of the machines from the ones which the car struck and escaped with bruises. r

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“Little girls driving new Gra-ham-Paige roadsters should not crumple fenders,” Captain Art B. Hickox, safety expert, is telling Miss Marietta Sullivan, an Indianapolis girl appearing this week at the Indiana theater. “But how can little girls learn to drive automobiles more efficiently, captain?” she asked. “That’s easy,” he told her. “Just take this ticket, which will admit

NAT eOLDSTEIN GETSPARDON Figure in Booze Scandal Is Freed. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, March 22.—President Herbert Hoover has granted a full pardon to Nat Goldstein of St. Louis, to whom President Calvin Coolidge extended a parole for more than a year. The President’s action restored the full citizenship rights of Goldstein. Goldstein figured in the 1920 preconvention scandal ’ which deflated the boom of former Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois and later was convicted in the famous Jack Daniel distillery case at St. Louis withGeorge Remus and others. Authoritative news of the President’s action leaked out at the White House today and was then confirmed by officials. HOLD PARENTS IN SON’S DEATH AFTER WHIPPING Manslaughter Charged Pair; Take Children to County Home. Bn United Press TOKEKA, Kan,. March 22. Charged with manslaughter in the death of their 4-year old son, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Lillarrd were in jail here today awaiting trial. Seven living children were taken to the county detention home. A coroner’s report showed Kenneth Dean Lillard, 4, had been shipped shortly before his death. NEW POLICY ON RADIO Kansas City Journal Post Will Charge for Programs. Bn United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 22 Two new major policies of the Kansas City Journal-Post were announced today by a newly formed board of trustees, the first declaring employes can become owners of associate preference shares, and, the second, unique in American journalism, saying the Journal-Post hereafter will charge for publication of all radio programs.

TWO KILLED IN FIRE Firemen Die in $200,000 Blaze, One Missing. By United P. een PEORIA. HI., March 22.—Two firemen were killed by collapse of a roof anfl one man is missing in a $200,000 fire here today. Firemen Dick Keufel and Tom O'Connor were killed and M. E. Stroyer, a watchman, was reported missing. The fire destroyed the Peoria market, with a loss of $150,000, and did $50,000 damage to the Block & Kuhl department store.

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TWO ARE DEAD IN ACCIDENTS Church Fall Claims Second Victim; Crash Fatal. Two deaths in city hospital early this morning resulted from accidents in Indianapolis this week, one an automobile collision Thursday afternoon and the other the fatal crash of a scaffold Wednesday in the Tabernacle Presbyterian church at Thirty-fourth street and Central avenue. Richard Stites, 49, of Greencastle, Ind., died of injuries received when he was pinned beneath his overturned truck. The truck turned over at Troy and Meridian streets after it collided with a machine driven by Claude Stanley, Franklin, Ind. Ed Pendleton, Negro, 38. of 2796 Indianapolis avenue, died of a fractured skull as the result of the scaffold crash in which one other man was killed and eleven others injured. Frank Rucker, 56, of Seymour, died a few hours after the crash. The eleven other workmen were reported much improved in various hospitals today. ON TRIAL; DIVORCED Pettis Robbery Suspect Loses Wife, James C. Brown, 30, who is in the county awaiting completion of the criminal court case in which he and four other men are charged with conspiracy to rob the Pettis Dry Goods Company store last December, today lost his wife. She obtained a divorce today in superior court two after she testified that her home life was continually disrupted by visits of “Brown and his gang." She told the court that Brown continually carried a gun and boasted of his ability to “keep away from the police.” CHILDREN FIND HOME AFIRE, MOTHER DYING See Flames From School; Rush to House. By United Preaa CHICAGO. March 22.—Walter Wells, 14, was playing in the Arlington Heights school yard at recess time when he saw flames leaping from the roof of a house. “Gee, there’s a fire,” he shouted at his companions.. He looked again. “Why, it’s our house.” Walter called his two little sisters, who were playing nearby, and ran with them toward home. As the three youngsters arrived breathless, two firemen carried an unconscious woman from the house. She was Mrs. Lawrence Wells, mother of the three children. She died this morning in the Palatine hospital. Deputies Support Poincare Bn United Preaa PARIS, March 22.—The chamber of deputies gave Premier Raymond Poincare’s cabinet a vote of confidence again today during discussion of the religious questions. The vote was 334 to 242.

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MISSISSIPPI DIKES BREAK; FLOODS GROW Torrents Pour Out Crumbling Levees Over Thousands of Acres. QUINCY, ILL., HARD HIT Rich Farm Lands in Five States Under Water; Vast Damage. Bu United Press CHICAGO, March 22.—Crumbling levees along the Mississippi river ip Illinois. lowa, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi today inundated thousands of acres of rich farm lands, sent farmers scurrying to the uplands and corps of workers to tha dikes in an effort to save other districts from being flooded. Illinois, in the vicinity of Quincy, was the hardest hit by the highest stage of the Mississippi river in twenty-six years. Indian levee, six miles north of Quincy, crumbled under constant pounding of the river, whipped to greater heights b? a high wind. Factories and wholesale houses along the waterfront in Quincy are under water and forced to close down. The men thrown out of jobs by the shutdown joined business men and laborers who worked Thursday and all night on levees around Quincy to prevent further overflow. At Keokuk, la., several factories have been closed and water was lapping at the tops of levees made higher by sandbag and lumber barricades. 20,000 Acres Under Water In case of more rain, workers feared the weakened levees would give way and the river overflow into thousands of acres of bottom land on both sides of the stream. About 20,000 acres are under water around Quincy and vast stretches along the river in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. F. W. Brist, meteorologist in St. Louis, said there was little possibility of a further rise in the Mississippi and that concentration of levee workers was more of a precaution than a fear the levees would break. He said tributaries were falling and that he anticipated a drop in the Mississippi in a day or two. More Damage in Wisconsin More than a hundred workers labored all night to prevent a levee below Rock Island. 111., where 2,000 acres of reclaimed land were threatened. In Wisconsin further flood damage was reported. Dynamite was used in several places pear Stevens Point to blast ice from around railroad bridges. Train service was disrupted on the Neloosa Soo line branch. Alabama Peril Grows Bu United Press MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 22. —Flood waters of the Tallapoosa and Coosa rivers were rising rapidly north of here today, adding new danger to hundreds of flood refugees. After heavy rains on the watershed of the Alabama river Thursday P. H. Smyth, government meteorologist, forecast anew rise on the river. Flood gates at Jordan and Martin dams on the Coosa have been raised in view of the expected rise after having been closed with the recession of the stream in its banks during the past several days. MAYOR IS INDICTED IN‘WIDE OPEN’ TOWN Virtually All of Ocean City (N. JF.) Police Force Face Charges. Bu United Press CAPE MAY, N. J„ March 22 Ocean City’s mayor, police chief and virtually all of its police force were under indictment today on a charge of nonfeasance in office, arising from the charges made a week ago by a citizens’ committee that the city was “wide open.” The Cape May county grand jury Thursday night handed up indictments against Mayor Joseph O. Champion, Chief of Police Howard Johnson and twenty police officers and men of Ocean City. The citizens’ committee charged the bootlegging and gambling elements held full sway in the community because the mayor and police ehief “winked” at the lawlessness. OUSTED COP SUES TO TO GET BACK ON FORCE Carl Parham Charges Dismissal Without Proof. Carl Parham, former city patrolman, today filed suit in circuit court seeking a mandate directing the safety board to rescind his discharge of March 12. The complaint alleged he was suspended from service by Police Chief Claude Worley on charges of inefficiency and neglect of duty. The charges were tha he had struck an auto of J. D. McSpadden. 1531 Woodlawn avenue with his car while he was supposed to be on duty. Parham alleged the charges were not substantiated by evidence and that at a hearing before the board he was not giver an opportunity to present a defense.

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