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six killed as PLANE BURNS AFTERCRASH German Prince and English Naval Officer Only Survivors. SHIP DIVES IN FOREST Heavy Fog Thought Cause; Royal Co-Pilot May Succumb. RY ARCH RODGERS I'nlted Pres* Staff Correspondent OODSTONE. SURREY. England, Nov. 6.—A tri-motored Lufthansa passenger plane, with eight persons aboard, including the Prince Eugene von Sehaumburg-Lippe, crashed Into a woods at Marden park near here today. Six bodies were recovered from the wreckage, which caught fire when it crashed. One passenger and one member of the crew escaped alive, but with injuries. The plane was demolished. The two who escaped were Prince Eugene, w'ho was second pilot of the plane, and Lieutenant Commander B. G. Glen-Kidston, retired British naval officer, a passenger. The prince was injured seriously. Glen-Kidston was cut and bruised, but was able to depart for London. The plane, en route from Croydon airdome to Amsterdam and Berlin, ran into bad weather shortly after starting its trip. Visibility was poor and the pilot apparently attempted to return to Croydon.

Loses Bearings Flying over a heavily wooded region, the • pilot lost his bearings in the thick fog and the plane crashed into a clump of trees on a high hill. The sound of the crash was heard a mile away. The plane burst into flames as it struck the trees. Police had considerable difficulty in locating the wreckage due to the fog. A young woman who was nearby at the time of the crash saved the life of the German prince. She was Mrs. H. R. Meredith, who rah to the scene of the wreck and pulled Prince Eugene from the edge of the burning craft. The dead: D. L. Jones, H. S. Gasper, G. Milne, all English passengers; First Pilot Rodchinke, Wireless Operator Niklas, and Mechanic Ullrich. Besides the narrow escape of the scion of the ancient German house of Schaumburg-Lippe, the accident furnished another chapter in the charmed life of Glen-Kidston. The former naval officer’s good fortune has carried him through many adventures in the air, under the sea and in motor racing. Served on Subs He served on submarines before his retirement and took up aviation this year. With a sportsman friend he purchased the giant passenger airplane from which Alfred Loewenstein, Belgian financier, fell to nis death in the English channel last year. Glen-Kidston hired Loewenstein's former pilot to take him and his companion on a big game hunting expedition in Kenya Colony, Africa The plane crashed near Nairobi and they narrowly escaped death. Prince Eugene, who is a distant relative of the wife of the former German Kaiser, Princess Hermine, recently had taken up commercial aviation. Dr. D. L. Greig. who attended the prince, told the United Press that he was ‘’injured very badly” and was still unconscious in Greig's surgery. Courage Is Praised The courage of Prince Eugene was praised by workmen who reached the scene of the crash shortly after Mrs. Meredith. They said he attempted to direct them in rescuing the passengers, although he was suffering terrible pain. Mrs. Meredith found the prince lving near the wreck, which was still blazing. She pulled him away and he was hurried to Dr. Grieg's nursing home. His face was burned almost beyond recognition.

FILMS LOST IN CRASH Plane Pilot Saves Life by Leaping in Parachute. Bu Unit' and rr- ss _ „ , RINGTOWN, Pa.. Nov. 6 —Valuable motion picture films and bank notes were destroyed today when Thomas Nelson’s air mail plane caught fire in mid air and crashed. Nelson saved himself by leaping in a parachute, but it was a narrow escape, as he had only a fraction of a second to make a clear leap from the burning airplane. He was unhurt. STEAMERS IN COLLISION Two Italian Ships Damaged in Crash; One Is Beached. Bu United Press LONDON. Nov. 6—A Lloyd s dispatch from Rotterdam said the Italian steamship Atlantide collided with the Barbana G., another Italian steamer, today, and both were damaged. The Atlantide had a large hole amidships and was filling with water when beached. The Barbana G. was damaged at the stem.

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MARKET TUMBLES UNDER IMPACT OF FRENZIEDSELLING Many Issues Set New Lows for Year With U. S. Steel Leading Decline; Losses Estimated at Ten Billion. BY ELMER C. WALZER United Prrss Financial Editor NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—The stock market received another ten billion dollar blow today when traders throughout the nation dumped their holdings on the market and prices shot downward. There was only brief support for the sagging market—which was a scene of frenzied trading with ticker tape running forty-five minutes oehind the sales, and that failed toward the close. Many issues closed at their lows of the day.

WOUND IS LAID TO GANG PLOT Martinsville Attorney Shot From Ambush. Bu Tni>ed Press MARTINSVILLE. Ind., Nov. 6. What is believed by S. C. Kivett, local attorney, to be a big city underworld attempt to murder him is being investigated here today. Kivett was shot and slightly wounded on Tuesday night by unidentified assailants when he returned home. Kivett had been uptown to hear the election returns. He returned, drove his automobile into the garage at his home and turned off the lights. As he stepped from the car two shots, apparently from a 16gauge shotgun, were fired through the window at the north side of the garage. One struck him in the right leg and the second in the right side. Kivett told police that he had been employed in prosecuting some underworld cases “in a big city” and believed the shooting was an outcome of his activities. He did not see the persons w'ho shot him, he told police and friends. Authorities who investigated said the shooting was done by two men hidden in shrubbery at the north side of the garage. The men ran to a schoolhouse across a street, police said, where trace of them was lost. In 1926 Kivett defended John Thomas Shaw, Indianapolis Negro, through one of the most sensational murder trials ever staged in Indiana.

Naval Parley Affects You When the first fish came up out of the water and began to live on dry land, it was quite an occasion in the world’s development. When the nations quit going to war over the command of the seas—if they do—it will be another epochal event in the relations of mankind. Next January, in London, America, Britain, Japan, France and Italy will meet in an attempt to substitute law for war on the ocean, If they succeed, your chance of keeping up your installments on your home, your car, and your radio will be vastly improved. Because the London conference may mean much to every man, woman and child in America, and in the world, The Times has made plans to keep you posted from start to finish. Read next Monday’s Times. That will be Armistice day.

REPORTERS GO TO JAIL Three Withdraw Appeals Against Contempt of Court Verdict. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 6.—The three Washington Times reporters today decided to serve their full sentences in jail for contempt of court and withdrew their appeal of the case. The men will serve forty-five days each for refusing" to divulge identity of persons who gave data on liquor law violations here, which they used in a series of exposures for their paper, though names and addresses were supplied to the grand jury. The reporters, Gorman Hendricks, Linton Burkett and Jack Nevin Jr., will be allowed credit for the four days they already have spent in jail.

PLANES SENT TO AID OF EXPLORERS FORCED DOWN

Rv I'nited Pr' * WINNIPEG, Man.. Nov. 6.—Four airplanes which were dispatched to bring back to civilization Colonel C. D. McAlpine and his party of seven aerial explorers, have been farced down at Bathurst Inlet'by fog. but will proceed as soon as the weather clears, according to radiograms received here today. Captain G. C. Blanchet, in charge of the rescue party, advised Dominion explorers here that he had been forced down near a Hudson Bay post, but would proceed as soon as possible via Baker and Churchill. McAlpine’s party, in two airplanes, nu lost Sept. 3, when forced down

Sales for the day totaled 5,914,760 shares, compared with 6,202,930 shares Monday, a five-hour session The market opened with a sharp break but there came a brief recovery. This was just a lull before the actual storm of selling which carried almost unabated up to the final gong. There was one slight rallying around noon, but it meant nothing for in the last hour, prices plunged down and down, U. S. Steel led the drop. It opened at 18114. Then it rallied slightly but later broke through 180 and then down through 170, coming near its low on the reaction made Oct. 29, at 166 Vs. All Blue Chips Drop When the leader failed to get support, the entire group of blue chips dropped abruptly. General Electric shot down 30 points, breaking through its previous low and selling nearly 200 points under the high of the year.

General Motors was weak, as were Johns Manville, New York Central, American Can, American Telephone, Westinghouse Electric, Radio and dozens of others on the curb and big board. The stocks mentioned above dropped 10 to 20 points. The weakened stock market unsettled commodity exchanges. On the New York Cotton Exchange, prices were demoralized, breaking more than $4 a bale. Grains also were sharply lower at Chicago and other centers. All markets were late at the close. Curb tickers lagged more than three-quarters of an hour, and the bond ticket was later than that. The latter was delayed by the heavy volume of stock quotations carried to keep traders posted on floor prices when stock tickers lagged. Curb tickers closed at 1:38 p. m., 38 minutes after the final gong had i ung. Specialists at Posts On both stock and curb markets specialist* remained at their posts until 3 p. m., clearing up difficulties on open trades. They will be at their positions long before the opening Thursday also. In brokerage houses, clerks again were swamped by the large number of orders to record and it was expected they would be working into the night to try to get their work abreast of the market. Late in the day, the Chicago Board of Trade voted to close on next Monday, | Armistice day. Some talk was heard regarding the possibility of similar action by the New York and other stock exchanges. At the New York Stock Exchange, however, it was -said that no action had been taken. The Curb Exchange and Chicago Stock Exchange usually follow the action of the major market.

DETECT PRISON PLOT Wire Ladder and Knives Found in Western State Cells. Bu United Press SANTA FE, N. M., Nov. 6.—Five persons, believed to have planned an escape from the New Mexico state penitentiary, were in solitary confinement today after Pat Dugan, warden, had unearthed a wire ladder and four knives made in the prison shops. Dugan said he did not believe a mutiny was contemplated and would not divulge the names of the men, pending further investigation. SUFFERS FACE WOUNDS Virginia Seeds, 19, Injured Painfully in Auto Collision. Miss Virginia Seeds, 19, of 118 East Forty-fourth street, suffered face lacerations this afternoon when the car in which she was riding, driven by F. R. Masten, 20, of 6406 College avenue, overturned after colliding with a truck at Twenty-fourth street and Park avenue. The truck was operated by Tom Fagan, 38, 2837 North Delaware street. Miss Seeds was taken to the Methodist hospital.

through lack of fuel near Melbourne Island. The explorer-geolo-gists, who had been searching for copper deposits, were found by a party of three Eskimo hunters and guided to Cambridge Bay.

‘DON’T TAKE HUBBY SERIOUSLY,’ TEX TELLS WIVES

Bu Cnitrd Prrts CHICAGO, Nov. 6.—Husbands ire too important to be taken seriously, Texas Guinan, queen of night clubs, told 500 women who packed the lUinois Athletic Club ballroom to hear her discuss mat-

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bishop cannon FACTION LOSES VIRGINIA FIGHT Dr. Pollard Is Swept Into Governor's Chair by 60,000 Votes. ENTIRE TICKET ELECTED G. 0. P. Entry Even Fails to Carry Own Precinct; Both Professors. By United Press RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 6.—The Democratic party has administered a severe defeat to a coalition ticket by electing Dr. John Garland Pollard Governor by a majority that may reach 60,000. Late Tuesday night, Dr. William Mosely Brown, the coalition candidate, conceded the election of his rival and wired congratulations to Pollard. Dr. Pollard polled 146,936 votes in 1,523 precincts out of 1,683 in the state, against 85,130 votes for Dr. Brown in the same area. Only 160 precincts were missing. By sweeping the Democratic ticket into office, the voters administered a rebuke to the faction led by Bishop William Cannon Jr., which bolted the Democratic party in the presidential election last year and refused to support Alfred E. Smith. Glass Territory Lost The guernatoriai race between two college professors brought out some surprising results to political workers. Brown, regarded as a Cannon candidate, was unable to carry Blackstone, the bishop’s home precinct, which gave Pollard 479 votes and Brown 63. Brown failed even to carry Lexington, his own home. Richmond went for Pollard by about 6,000 votes, and Norfolk was carried by the Democrats by about 4,500. Lynchburg, home of Senator Carter Glass, which was regarded as a sure Brown district, was won by Pollard by 1,500. After conceding the election Brown announced he would return to Lexington and resume his duties as head of the department of psychology at Washington and Lee university. Pollard resigned as professor of government at William and Mary college to run for Governor. Last November Herbert Hoover carried the state by a majority of 24,463 over Smith in the presidential election. Back in Fold In the campaign that has just come to a close with overwhelming victory for Pollard, Brown received the backing of the combined forces of the Republican party and what remained of the anti-Smith Democrats. A host of these Democrats came back into the fold in the Democratic primary in August of this year, when Pollard won the nomination for Governor, and supported him in the general election. Circulation of the De Priest pamphlet in the final days of the campaign showing a photograph of the Chicago Negro congressman and his wife, together with reprints of extracts from alleged inflammatory speeches De Priest had made in Virginia and adjoining states, was reported to have proved an especially good vote-getter for Pollard in the Petersburg district, known as the black belt. It was reported further that the pamphlet quickly won over to the Pollard cause most of the KuKluxers who were in the field against him.

Democrats Elated Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. —The Democratic victory in Virginia Tuesday indicates the whole south will return to the Democratic fold “if a wise and liberal policy” is pursued, Senator Claude Swanson (Dem., Va.), declared in a statement here today. “The result in Virginia very clearly indicates that under normal political conditions and issues, Virginia is overwhelmingly Democratic,” Swanson said. ‘PIE-EYED’ OR INNOCENT Man Mast be “Dead Drunk” Before Arrest in England. Bu United Press LONDON, Nov. 6.—A man must be “dead drunk” before he can be arrested for intoxication, the licensing commission, which is investigating liquor regulatons in Great Britain, decided today, SOCIALISTS ARE SEATED Reading City Council Now Is Solid, After Election. By United Press READING, Pa., Ncv. 6.—Reading’s city council today was made up solidly of members of the Socialist party after Tuesday’s election in which two more Socialists were elected to the council. Three members of the party were elected to the school board, giving the Socialists nine places thereon.

rimonial ills. “Pet ’em, tease ’em,” she said, "but whatever you do don’t take either yourselves or your husbands seriously, and don’t talk about bills.” Miss Guinan arrived an hour

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Reginald H. Sullivan, new mayor of Indianapolis, who was swept into office by the largest plurality ever given a candidate in this city, 33,293 votes.

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Sullivan Senior Pledges His Son

“"O EGINALD will make a good mayor. He has the temperament for IV. the office. He will make no mistakes.” The man who gave this verdict Tuesday night can qualify as an expert on mayors and on Reginald H. Sullivan. For he is Thomas L. Sullivan Sr., twice mayor himself and the father of the mayor-elect. There was happiness and pride when Sullivan received the news of the returns and the overwhelming vote by which his son had been chosen as the chief executive of the city. For the Sullivans have been very much a part of the history of the state. It is no new circumstance for one of the family to be chosen to office and high office.

There was the grandfather, who was one of the first supreme court judges. And others, as the generations came, so that there was a certain satisfaction to Judge Sullivan that his son was following in the footsteps of his forefathers and keeping alive the tradition of public service. tt U U “TT was about forty years ago 1 that I was elected,” he reminisced. “The contest was much the same. The city was smaller, only about a hundred thousand, but the percentage of normal Republican votes was the same. And the issues and conditions were much similar. “There had been a great deal of corruption in government and I was drafted to run. I did not want the office. And you know that when Reginald accepted the nomination, he did so in the belief that he would not have to make a campaign, but that the City Manager system would be installed. “The man against whom I was pitted was of fine and high character. He had been a general in the army, and as a congressman had headed the powerful finance committee. The issue was not a contest between fitness of men or of personal character, but of revolt against a system that had been in power so long as to become corrupt. “QOMEWHAT different in those days, the news did not come to use out of the air. There were fireworks and parades ” And then just to prove that times do not wholly change, there came the sound of tin horns and the harsh sound of an extemporaneous drum made out of tin pans and a chant of “Hurrah for Sullivan.” Stepping to the windows, the parade disclosed itself to the father of the mayor-elect as composed of a group of small boys and girls, gathered from the neighborhood and self-organized, into a procession in honor for one of their neighborhood. “Well, anyway, we had a real band in those days and more than that—the city can trust my son,” the judge concluded. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 38 10 a. m 48 7a. m 38 11 a. m 49 Ba. m 39 12 (noon).. 53 9 a. m 42 1 p. m 55

late, wearing a black velvet dress and ermine coat, and chose as her subject “Why Husbands Stay Out Nights.” "They're all children,” the night club hostess declared, "and you have to let them play boss. £ui

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K. K. K. of ‘lt’ ‘Kop Kelch Kidnaps Kausal From Kastle in Klever Kapture.’

Bn United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 6.—J. B. Kausal, 36, h*ad of a utilities corporation, played tag with a policeman and wound up as “It.” Patrolman Herbert Kelsh appeared at Kausal’s office to arrest him for overtime parking. “Where’s your search warrant?” jeered the utilities man. “My office is my ‘castle,’ under the law. You can’t arrest me.” Kelsh jeered back. He argued until Kausal was furious. Then he fled under a barrage of invectives. Kausal followed him outside the door. The policeman turned and collared him. The business man broke loose and dodged inside again. But Kelsh knew his law, too. “You’re a fugitive now. Come along,” he ordered. Kausal was fined $3 for illegal parking and $25 for resisting arrest. WESTERN EDITOR DIES J. H. Duston of Butte Post Was Native of New York, Bu United Press ANACONDA, Mont., Nov. 6.—J. H. Durston, 81, editor of the Butte Post, is dead here after a week’s illness. He was a native of Syracuse, N. Y., came to Montana in 1887 and for fifty years was a leading figure among newspaper men of the Rocky Mountain states.

TRIAL OF TEXAS JURIST ALMOST READY FOR JURY

Bu United Press WEATHERFORD, Tex., Nov. 6. Confronted by testimony on one hand that Tom Walton Jr., never had owned a revolver, and on the other that Judge R. H. Hamilton

it’s just a game. You women always know you have the edge. If you would amuse your husbands when they come home they wouldn’t slip away and pay a $5 cover charge to get a little amusempn^*

DOFFINISM REPUDIATED AS CITY SWEEPS SULLIVAN INTO MAYOR’S CHAIR DY BIG VOTE Entire Democratic Ticket Also Elected in Greatest Landslide in Political History of Indianapolis. 33,293 PLURALITY SETJS NEW MARK G. O. P. ‘Boss’ Quits as Glossbrenner Concedes Defeat Hour and Half After Polls Close; 103,097 Total Vote Cast. Other election news on Pace one. Section two, and Page twelve. BY BEN STERN A jubilant city greeted the sun today as complete, official returns testified that the blot of Coftinism, Stephensonism and Duvallism had been obliterated by the avalanche of ballots which swept Reginald H. Sullivan, Democrat, into the mayoralty with a plurality of 33,293 votes. Labor joined the white collar man in rolling up a vote of 68,195 for Sullivan against the 34,902 given Alfred M. Glossbrenner, the Republican nominee. This vote of 103,097 is the largest ever cast in a municipal election in this city and Sullivan won by the greatest plurality ever given a mayoralty candidate in Indianapolis.

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Complete official returns, unofficially tabulated, of Tuesday’s election here: For Mayor Sullivan (D) 68,195 Glossbrenner (R) 34,902 For Clerk Goett (D) 67,011 Emmelman (R) 35,963 For City Council Ropkey (D> 66,948 Morgan ID)' 66,941 • Houck (D) 66,889 Wheatley CD) 66,778 Hildebrand (D) 66,596 Welch (D) 65,489 Gardner (R) 37,663 Henry (R) 37,385 Denker (R) 37,076 Tennant (R) 36,961 Egbert (R) 36,523 Keane (R) 36,422 School Commissioners <l93o—Three Chosen) Miller 54,259 Wetzel 52,890 Willson 49,734 Kern 9,167 Sedwick 7,933 Gray 6,940 Moore 6,208 Blueher 5,965 Marker 5,759 Mellett 5,706 Hoss 5,504 (1932—Tw0 Chosen) Sidener 51,791 Garrison 49,051 Kepner 8,938 Whiteman 8,564

BEGS EXTRA TERM TO GET CHRISTMAS MEAL Jobless Thief Assured Holiday Dinner Without Cost. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 6.—Peter Supenski, 50, has completed his Christmas shopping. Peter, who has been out of work for many months, was sentenced to thirty days in jail Tuesday for stealing some lead. “That’s not enough, your honor,” he protested. “Sixty days, then," said the judge. “What’s the idea?” “I’ll get Christmas dinner in Jail that way, sir,” replied Supenski. JOB FOR GLOSSBRENNER Defeated Candidate to Serve on Sinking Fund Board. Alfred M. Glossbrenner, defeated Republican candidate for mayor, will have a part in the administration of Reginald Sullivan, Democrat, who won a sweeping victory Tuesday. Mayor L. Ert Slack today announced the reappointment of Glossbrenner as a member of the city sinking fund commission to serve for four years. Slack also named John N. Hollett, attorney, as a member of the commission. Terms of both commissioners expired some months ago, but they held over, pending reappointment.

had killed his unwanted son-in-law in self-defense, a jury of eleven farmers and a bank cashier was expected to retire today to deliberate on the Judge’s face. The day opened with a charge to the jurors by Judge C. E. Carter, after which opposing counsel began final pleas. Judge Hamilton was summoned to the stand and denied that when Tom Walton came to his law office last May 4 he knew that the boy was his son-in-law. This was in reply to the state’s attempt to show premeditation in the shooting. Judge Hamilton’s lawyers pleaded self-defense.

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Henry Goett, Democratic candidate for city clerk, trod close on the heels of Sullivan and defeated Wayne Emmelman, Republican, by a plural-} ity of 31,048 votes. The entire councilmanic ticket rode into office on the crest of the wage of indignation. Simultaneously with the overthrow of the Coffin machine came the announcement from George V. Coffin, district and city Republican chairman, that he would call a meeting of the city central committee within a few days to name his successor. Wishes Sullivan Well Coffin has been confined to his bed for several days as the result of the recurrence of an attack of stomach ulcers, from which he has suffered for some time. With the announcement of his proposed resignation, Coffin also congratulated Sullivan: “I want to congratulate Mr. Sullivan on his victory. He will make a fine mayor. I wish him well In every respect.” Never before in the political history of thp city has a candidate suffered the defeat accorded Glossbrenner. Democratic victory today was ascribed to three causes: Anger of labor directed at Glossbrenner, who has been an avowed enemy of tradeunions; digust of other voters with Coffinism; and the march upon the polls by the irate housewife who went to elect the citizens’ school ticket and remained to vote against Coffinism.

Carries Two Wards The Republican candidate carried but two wards, the Fifth and Sixth, heavily populated by Negroes. Glossbrenner carried the Fifth by 506 votes and the Sixth by 117 votes. The narrow margin in these two wards had a bitter taste for Republicans, for in 1925, when John L. Duvall, an avowed klansman, was a candidate, the Fifth gave him a plurality of 881 votes and the Sixth 455 votes. So decisive a victory was not expected by Democrats, although Fred Barrett, chairman of the speaker’s bureau, had declared the party either would lose by a few thousand or be swept into office by a landslide. The “practically impossible” was accomplished when the Fourth ward, where Glossbrenner lives, normally 5,000 Republican, gave Su livan a plurality of 4,541 votes, Glossbrenner lost his precinct, the Ninth, by seventeen votes. It was predicted by observers that if the Democrats could split the Fourth and win the First and Ninth, the victory would be assured. The First ward, where the strong labor-klan vote has been Republican for the last three campaigns, gave Sullivan a plurality of 3,523 votes. Never Conceded Republican headquarters at no time during the campaign was willing to concede the First ward to the Democrats. But labor was determined to win and the First ward went Democratic. The white collar man living in the Ninth ward, which Includes Irvington, also was determined to fight shoulder to shoulder with his fellow citizen, and the Ninth, which Duvall lost In 1925 by only forty-five votes, was taken from Glossbrenner by 8,150 votes. South side wards which always have been Democratic stayed in line and the result a foregone conclusion. First glimpse of defeat was afforded the Republicans when returns from the Seventh ward, always Republican through the exercise of all political strategems, showed it was won by the Democrats by 1,051 votes. It was then that Emmelman, speaking as county secretary and for Coffin, conceded the defeat by 20,000 votes. At 7:30 p. m. Glossbrenner conceded his defeat and congratulated Sullivan. _ .

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