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DEATH TAKES DAME MELBA IN AUSTRALIA Former Great Opera Star Was ‘Discoverer’ of Enrico Caruso. CREATED MANY ROLES Won First Great Success in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in 1889. Picture on Pare Twc l, !/ United Press MELBOURNE, Australia, Feb. 23. —Dame Nellie Melba, who in 1902 peimaded the London opera house to give Ex'rico Caruso a trial, died here today. Death came to the opera star, one of the world’s greatest sopranos, in her seventy-second year after an illnes which befell her while in Cairo, Egypt, and for which she consulted specialists in Germany, Austria and France and England without success. • Homeward-bound to her native Austrialia, she became seriously ill aboard the liner Cathay Nov. 4 before the ship docked at Freemantle and doctors would not permit her to land. When the Cathay touched Melbourne she was taken ashore to a hospital, and since that time had hovered between life and death. Her death today marks the severance of a line betwen the musical work of today and the past two generations. Coached by Verdi Verdi coached her in the part of Gilda in “Rigoletto.” She helped Puccini create the role of Mimi in “La Boheme.” She created roles in operas by Gounod, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Saint-Saens, Sambroise, Thomas and Massanet. Among the celebrated singers with whom she was associated were Caruso and Jean and Edouard de Reske. Sarah Bernhhrdt, Eleanora Duse and Ellen Terry were her coaches In acting. Dame Nellie Melba was christened Helen Porter Mitchell. She was born in Melbourne May 19, 1860, the daughter of David Mitchell, a wealthy Scotch farmer. Her mother was of Spanish descent. She spent her early years on her father's large estate at Cave Hill in the Gippsland district of Victoria.

Started on Stage at 6 Strenuous outdoor life was mixed with the study of piano, organ, violin and singing. She also learned painting and delighted in sketching the broad Australian landscapes. At the age of 6 she made her first appearance on the stage, singing in a charity concert. Then she concentrated on piano work. Her staunch Presbyterian father objected to a stage career. In 1882, she married Charles Nesbitt Frederick Armstrong, a Queensland sugar planter. A few years later they went to Europe in order i that Mrs. Armstrong might perfect; her voice. j Her first attempts to win fame . were unsuccessful. Sir Arthur Sul- 1 livan her.rd her sing in London and i said he might find a minor part j for her m his new comic cpera, i “The Mikado." But Melba had no I intentions of singing in comic opera.! Fought for Success Madame Marchesi, one of the most famous Paris singing instructors, heard Melba sing one song, then rushed out of the room and cried to her husband: “Salvatore, Salvatore, I have found anew star.” It was on the night of Oct. 15, 1887, that she appeared at the Theatre De La Monnaie in Brussels in the part of Gilda, achieving only moderate success. A year later she made her first appearance at Covent Garden, London, in the title role of “Lucia Di Lammermcor.” The London critics treated her condescendingly. The following year in “Romeo and Juliet” she achieved a success such as few artists ever before had known. She soon was offered contracts in Paris, Rome, St. Petersburg, Vienna and Berlin. Copyrighted Her Name Melba made her first American tour in 1893, visiting most of the principal cities. Her greatest success m the United States was achieved in 1904-05, when she traveled 26,000 miles iij 120 days, visiting from New York to California. It was during one of these tours that she decided to copyright the name "Melba.” which she had assumed just before her Brussel's debut in honor of her native city of Melbourne. She had become so famous that her name was being used in connection with all kinds of patented products. Melba was the only singer who appeared for twenty consecutive seasons at Covent garden. In the early years of the twentieth century she was known as the autocrat of Covent garden, for her word was considered law. SCHWAB_!S OPTIMISTIC Veteran Steel Head Says Business Gradually Improving. By United Press NBJW YORK, Feb. 23.—Business is “steadily and gradually improving,” Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the board of the Eethlehem Steel Company, said today when he returned from a two weeks’ vacation m Cuba sh f&e Jldk Brginia, _

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PROPOSE INCOME TAX FILING FEE Senate Amendment to Bill Calls for $2 Payment With Each State Return. Every man and woman, over 21, in Indiana, with or without an income, would be required to file an income tax return, accompanied with a $2 filing fee, under an amendment affixed to the personal income tax measure on second reading in the state senate today. That such a provision would produce an added $1,000,000 in state revenues was the claim of the amendment’s author, Senator Anderson Ketehum (Dem., Bartholomew, Decatur, Franklin and Union.) The amendment was one of four the senate drafted into the bill. A fifth was rejected and the bill remained on second reading when the sen. ate recessed at noon.

BRANDS OGDEN AS NEGLIGENT Galloway Bill to Charge Lake County Corruption Not Prosecuted. Charging Attorney-General James M. Ogden with negligence in prosecuting alleged Lake county corruption in public office, Representative Fred S. Galloway (Dem., Marion) today prepared to ask the Indiana house to reprimand the attorneygeneral “for failure to perform his duty.” Galloway, in a lengthy resoultion he held ready for introduction, asserted that state and Lake county funds have been plundered of $137,824.29 through illegal award of contracts in the Calumet district and set forth reports of such juggling made by the state accounts board and turned over to Ogden. Between 1921 and 1930, Galloway charged, Lake county officials received excess charges and allowances and payment for services never performed. Charges Are Specific On one purchase of Lake county equipment, Galloway says the board of accounts report shows $14,000 was paid out of the county funds when in reality the actual retail cost of the goods only was $372. Other items listed in the general charge against Ogden and purported shown by the accounts board include: That Benjamin H. Strong, former Lake county sheriff, received $2,749.70 in excess of the amount allowed him for boarding prisoners, transporting them to institutions and for laundry. That William C. Rose, former Lake county recorder, defrauded the county of $12,500 for excess charges in copying records when no such service was performed. That the Lake county commissioners allowed the Tuf-Tread Road Service Company $31,817.34 in excess payment for road material. Inspectors Are Listed Galloway charged further in his resolution that “it is alleged an effort has been made to allow those involved in the Lake county scandal to escape by the statute of limitations.” State oil inspectors listed by Galloway as owing the state varying amounts from S2OO to $19,000 include J. Everett Jarrett, Arthur L. Rest, J. Sandy Young, John W. Davis, John J. Jones and Phil D. Trenary. The resolution asked that all of the charges be made a part of the house journal. WO MANSUED TUNNEY: NOW TRIES SUICIDE Despondency Given as Reason for Unsuccessful Attempt. By United Press DALLAS, Tex., Feb. 23.—Mrs. Katherine King, 38, who once sued James J. (Gene) Tunney, the boxer, for $200,000 damages, charging breach of promise, was recovering today after an attempt to commit suicide by taking poison. Attendants at Baylor hospital said Mrs. Fogarty, who was admitted under the name of Mrs. Katherine King, told them she was despondent because of illness and financial difficulties. Former Stage Star Weds By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—The former Lucy Cotton, musicial comedy star and widow of Col. E. R. Thomas, millionaire sportsman and publisher, was married Feb. 5 to Nhartes Hann Jr., Wall street lawyer, it was disclosed today.

BUSY RUSSIA—AN ACHIEVEMENT AGAINST BIG ODDS H o;i and Paid for in Blood and Privations, a Vast, Amazing, Workshop

BY EUGENE LYONS United Press Staff Corresnondent TtfOSCOW, Feb. 23.—1 have been in the Soviet Union during three years, crucial and pethaps decisive in the story of the Russian resolution. Asa newspaperman it was my business to watch the exciting scene with the utmost attention; as a human being I was absorbed in watching it quite aside from professional duty. 0 Certainly history rarely has served up such an interesting and often bewildering spectacle. ' One-sixth of the earth’s habitable surface has been fenced off economically and culturally from the rest of the world. It has been hermetically sealedlike Russian windows in the wintertime—against all outside influences and turned into a collosial social laboratory. Its 160,000,000 people, its vast natural resources, its national genius traditions, every-

Under Ketchum’s amendment, persons who paid the $2 filing fee and whose income tax return showed, in consideration of exemption, that no income tax need be paid, would be given credit to the amount of their poll tax if satisfactory proof of its payment was submitted with the income tax return. Such a credit' might, under the amendment, be deducted from the filing fee. Unless such proof was submitted, the $2 fees would be retained in full by the state. Vote Down Doogs Amendment “This does not amount to a double poll tax,” Ketehum argued. “Forty per cent of Indiana’s voters do not pay a poll tax. I beileve there are possible 1,000,000 persons in Indiana sufficiently conscientious to make these income tax reports without expensive collection machinery.” The senate rejected the amendment offered by Senator Wililam V. Doogs iDem., Dubois, Perry and Spencer) which would have allowed as a deduction the amount of tax paid on real estate from which income was listed in the income tax return. In cases where such taxes were in excess of the amount of income tax to be paid, no income tax would be collectable under Doogs’ amendment, which was voted down. Another adopted amendment, of which Ketehum was the author, brought salaries of superior, criminal, probate and juvenile judges and United States employes under the state income tax. The amendment, thus limited judgeship exemptions to constitutional offices. House Moves Eliminated The other two amendments corrected typographical errors and made certain that the 3 per cent income tax applied to salaries between $9,000 and SIO,OOO, a matter inadvertently not covered in the bill. The senate last Friday amended the measure which originated in the house, to restore the rates and exemptions originally recommended by the state tax survey committee. Doing this, the senate eliminated house amendments which had been drafted by Paul V. McNutt, dean of the Indiana law school, and so brought smaller incomes within the scope of the' bill while reducing the maximum income tax rate from 6 to 4 per cent.

‘ln the Bag ’ By United Press % NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—Newton T. Baker, returning today on the Britannic from a Mediterranean cruise, said he had “sixty-seven persons who are willing to vote for me for President. He made the remark in reply to a newspaper man who promised to vote for Baker if he would run for President. “That makes sixty-seven persons,” said Baker, laughing.

PASTOR FLAYS % DUCE’ Mussolini Said to Be Greatest Enemy of Democracy. By United Press DETROIT, Feb. 23.—Benito Mussolini, premier of Italy, was described as the world’s greatest enemy of liberalism and democracy by Dr. M. S. Rice, pastor of the Metropolitan Methodist church, in his Sunday night sermon here. CONTEMPT BILL SIGNED Meastu-e Provides for Change of Trial Judge. Governor Harry G. Leslie today signed the bill providing for change of judge in indirect contempt cases. The measure was drafted and backed by Sigma Delta Chi, national journalistic fraternity.

thing and everybody have been cast into the crucibles by an immense unprecedented experiment—a word Communists dislike as applied to their revolution. It implies the possibility of failure and they do not admit such a possibility. a a a WHEN I an Iv id here in February, 1928, ter tain processes were only beginning which since then have gathered speed and startled the world with their audacity and relentlessness. The revolution at that time had just passed through what Lenin called a “breathing spell.” NEP, the period of the new economic policy, was a truce with the defeated past by a victorious but exhausted revolution. Private property retrieved some of its nationalized ground. The old intelligentsia soothed itself with the belief of a peaceable transition of democratic government on American lines. A portion of the Communist vanguard itself drooped into the comfort of permanent compmmise.

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PROHIBITION IS ‘PUT ON TRIAL’ IN GINDEATH Virgil Kirkland Begins His Fight for Life in Court at Valparaiso. SOCIETY IS BLAMED Murder of High School Girl at Drinking Party Is Charged. By Times Special VALPARAISO, Ind., Feb. 23. “Society, prohibition, and Virgil Kirkland,” 20, of Gary, went on trial in Porter circuit court het*e today for the alleged murder of Miss Arlene Draves, 17-year-old Gary high school girl, on a gin party in Gary Nov. 29. Only one stands formally accused. He is Kirkland, whose life the state will seek. Modem society and the “noble experiment” will be blamed for the crime by Barrett O’Hara, former LiteutenantGovemor of Illinois, counsel for the youth. Painted as Tragic Figure “Virgil is a tragic figure of a gin-drenched jazz age,” said O’Hara before eburt convened. “High school youths, drinking alcohol their elders do, can not be held responsible for their individual acts. Society and the prohibition laws are just as much on trial as the boy in this case.” The stkrt of Kirkland’s trial was delayed today by a technicality. In venuing the case from Lake comity courts, clerks sent to Valparaiso a certified copy of the indictment against Kirkland. It developed this morning that the original would have to be read in court. It was ordered from Crown Point and the opening of the case was delayed until 1:30 p. m. It is expected at least two days will be spent in selection of a jury, and the following days of the trial will see more than two score witnesses examined before: the jury. A special venire of fifty talesmen reported for jury selection this morning.

Five Are Accused Kirkland is one of five charged with attacking Miss/ Draves, and beating her, with fatal results. They attended a party in the home of David Thompson, at which a gallon of .alcohol and at least an equal amount of wine is said to have been consumed. Thompson, Don Barton, Harry Shirk and Leon Stanford, the others charged with the girl’s murder, are in Lake county jail at Crown Point, and will be tried separately later. Kirkland, a form or football star in Gary high schools, is charged by the state with having taken Miss Draves to the party, and, while drunk, with having attacked her on the porch of the Thompson home, where he tocfic her for air. Fall to Be Defense Then, the state says, the others joined Kirkland and the girl in an auto, where each of the men assaulted her. At dawn they took her to the residence of Dr. R. O. Wharton, who told the boys she was dead. They fled, but were arrested next day. Each confessed. Gary authorities say, and later repudiated their confessions. A coroner’s jury found that Miss Draves died from a cerebral hemorrhage and shock. O. B. Thiel, Gary attorney, also defending Kirkland, has said he will introduce expert medical testimony to the effect that the girl’s death was caused from a fall. S. E. RAUH IN HOSPITAL Business Man Is Recovering From Major Operation. Samuel E. Raul\ prominent Indianapolis business man, was recovering today from a major operation performed Sunday at Methodist hospital. He returned to Indianapolis Thursday after becoming ill while in Florida. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 39 10 a. m 41 7a. m 39 11 a- m 42 Ba. m 39 12 (noon).. 43 9 a. m 40

BUT early in 1328 that dream already was shattered. Under Stalin’s leadership the truce had t ien abandoned for a stronger and if possible, a “knock-out” offensive. What followed—and is still in full -wing—amounted to anew revolution and anew civil war.

This is the first of a series of stories by Eugene Lyons *n the human aspects of Soviet Russia today. On the basis of three years as a newspaperman and an interested spectator in Moscow and in the great producing regions of Russia, Lyons has written a story which will bring to the average reader the life of an average citizen of the Communist state. It is a story stripped of the complexities of statistics, political propaganda, charges and counter-charges. It is a story of what the Communist believes Leninism has done for him, of the meaning of a working Communist government to Russians and of what it may mean to the rest of the world. *

Only in such terms can the drama of these years be comprehended. They witnessed the almost total extinction of NEP. Private industry receives less than H of 1 per cent of the national income today. Private trade lingers on in dank icrners, struggling hopelessly for breath. Even individual profesional prac-.

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Left—Above, Donnie Schroeder, son of Mrs. Irene Schroeder; lower, Glenn Dague. Right—Two poses of Mrs. Schroeder. By United Press WHEELING, w. Va., Feb. 23.—Irene Schroederis last message to her family—one of three sent by telegraph within the last remaining hours of her life—was one of peace and contentment. “I am satisfied with things as they are now,” she advised. “Love. Take care of papa. Irene.” News of her execution was taken to the family by John Crawford, her brother, who waited in the office of the Wheeling News until the United Press advised that Irefie and Glenn Dague had been put to death. Then he went to the home of Irene’s sister where the family had waited through the night.

Four sisters of Mrs. Schroeder, nieces and nephews and a numof friends kept the watch at the home of one of the sisters here. The sisters are Mrs. Victor Schoenian, Mrs. Ruby Schroeder, Mrs. Mamie Baum and Mrs. Frank Muldoon. Donnie, five-year-old son of Irene, was not present. Donnie was the chief subject of conversation as the little group watched the last minutes of the life of Mrs. Schroeder tick away. Donnie has been chatting for

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Children, Parents Also to Be With Mobile Man in Torch Case, The drop of a gavel at 9:30 Tuesday morning in criminal court will set in motion the legal machinery to try Harold Herbert Schroeder, 35, of Mobile, Ala., for murder. While prosecutors reviewed evidence of the grewsome High School road torch car murder as it occured nine months ago, Schroeder today was to spend hours with his attorney, Ira M. Holmes, studying details of a defense on which a jury will be asked to return an acquittal verdict. One hundred and twenty-five persons were to be in the courtroom at the opening of the trial Tuesday for the tedious grilling that is expected before the jury finally is impeneled. Judge Frank P. Baker, at the same time, announced he is considering names of alienists asked by prosecutors to examine Schroeder for sanity. Baker said the appointments probably will be made Tuesday morning. The alienists will testify during the trial for or against Schroeder’s declaration that he was insane at the time of the alleged offense. On High School road last May 31, Schroeder admittedly set fire to his Chrysler sedan and to the body of a man, later found charred beyond recognition. Schroeder said the man died of a broken neck, and that he (Schroeder) set fire to the car and man in a panic of fear. Schroeder flea from the crime and was capturea ' hree weeks later

tice, in law, medicine, and the like, has virtually been stamped out. Most remarkable of all, the stubbornly individualistic peasantry has been driven far on the road toward socialized fanning. The amazing five-year plan, compressing generations of industrial

j upbuilding into a few short years, ! seemingly is well on the way toward ; i completion. a a a 'T'HESE things were not achieved by degrees or editorials in Izvestia. They were won and paid I for in blood and privations. i A stubborn resistance b£ those

days about “my Irene (as he calls his mother) goin’ to the “electric chair,” relatives said. They did not want him to have that picture of his mother in his mind. “We told him Irene wasn’t going to the electric chair, but was going to heaven to be with the Angels,” Mrs. Muldoon said. “From that time he has boasted of his mother who was to be an Angel in Heaven with white wings.”

in a weed patch near his Mobile home. Hurrying northward from Mobile today, Mrs. Leah Schroeder, wife of the central figure, and her two sons, Harold Herbert Jr., 10, and Ernest, 8, were expected to arrive in Indianapolis for of the trial. Schroeder’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest W. Schroeder Jr., of Clarion, la., also are en route to this city. Holmes said Schroeder’s wife, children and parents will be with him during the trial. Last minute preparations for the trial were being made today by Prosecutor Herbert Wilson and Floyd Mattice, chief deputy, who will represent the state. Marshalling of scores of state’s witnesses from distant points for instant call to the witness stand has occupied attentions of the state for the past two weeks. The state will introduce evidence intending to prove that Schroeder either-stabbed to death or shot the unidentified man before he set fire to his sedan. The first degree murder indictment against the Alabanaman charges he killed the man by “burning, stabbing or methods unknown.” REFUSE PLEA FOR LIFE Britisher Must Die for Murder, Appeals Court Rules. By United Press LONDON, Feb. 23.—The court of criminal appeals today dismissed the appeal of Alfred Arthur Rouse, 36-year-old traveling salesman and bigamist, who was sentenced to death after conviction of a charge of murder of an unidentified man.

whose interests were doomed was met with merciless vigor. The strain of the fight showed itself in a further centralization of the ruling party, which today is more rigid, more controlled from above downward than ever before. It showed itself in further limitations of personal freedom, including the freedflhi to dispose of one’s labor power where one wishes. There was a sharp strengthening of censorship and police control, with periods when G. P. U. executions listed in the press attracted no more attention than weather reports. Mass suffering and discontent were balanced by collective achievements against heavy odds. In a word, the last three years were crowded with significant and dramatic episode. For any one obliged to observe and report these events from day to day there is danger of loss of perspective. a a a M Y natural desire at the end of . this time is to look back and txjr to see it whoA

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TRIGGER WOMAN AND LOVER DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR FOR KILLING OF HIGHWAY OFFICER Calm Courage Carries Irene Schroeder Through to End; Walks Unassisted to Doom; Spends Sunday Reading. GUN GIRL IS FIRST TO BE EXECUTED Dague Pays Penalty Eight Minutes Later; Words of Twenty-Third Psalm Are Last . .Heard by Pair Before Paying Penalty. BY JOSEPH S. WASNEY United Press Staff Corresnondent WESTERN PENITENTIARY, ROCKVIEW, Pa.. Feb. 23. —The brief criminal careers of Irene Schroeder and Glenn Dague ended in a bare, stark room today where they were electrocuted in the half-light of dawn. The state of Pennsylvania claimed their lives for the murder of Corporal Brady Paul of the state highway patrol. Promptly at 7 a. m. Mrs. Schroeder was led down the corridor from the death cell, passed through the green door to the execution room, and was electrocuted at 7:05 a. m. Dague was executed eight minutes later. It was the first time a woman ever had been electrocuted in Pennsylvania. Forty-two years ago a woman was hanged. The deaths of Mrs. Schroeder and Dague came as the climax of a series of petty robberies in Pennsylvania that culminated in the shooting of Paul on a lonely road as the two were motoring back from robbing a grocery.

The calm ”Ourage that carried Mrs. Schroeder and her lover, Dague, through the crimes they committed because they were dazzled with visions of wealth stayed with her in the last speeding moments of her life. Unassisted, she walked through the green door and stood, eyes straight ahead, a dozen paces from death. Behind her came the Rev. T. F. Lauers, prison chaplain, and a matron. “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want,” intoned Lauers. No one else in the room—there were twelve witnesses —spoke. Robert Elliott, official executioner who also electrocuted Ruth Snyder, edged closer to the panel where the switch was concealed. Meets Death Bravely Mrs. Schroeder, her blonde hair cropped close, took two paces forward. “He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside the still waters,” came the chaplain’s voice. The 22-year-old woman faced the electric chair, unwavering, turned herself, adjusting her back. Her rayon dress rustled and a matron, eyes wet with tears, patted her hand. Elliott awaited the signal. “Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thcu art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.” The executioner pulled the switch, Mrs. Schroeder’s body lunged forward and the dipper on her right foot dropped t* the floor. Slept on Death Night She was pronounced dead and the body was taken from the execution room. Lauers, apparently shaken by the sight of seeing Mrs. Schroeder die, did not accompany Dague into the execution room. The Rev. H. M. Teagarden, spiritual adviser to Mrs. Schroeder, walked to the death ropm with Dague. The last words the 28-year-o!d condemned man heard were from the Twenty-third Psalm, and he stepped to the electric chair and settled himself Into it. Once more Elliott’s hand strayed up to the switch, and at the signal, the current shot through Dague’s body. Once more a physician went through the formality of pronouncing death. Although Mrs. Schroeder had contended to the last that she loved

I have attended numberless con-gresses,-mass meetings and demonstrations, and plowed through the day-to-day newspaper record of speeches, resolutions, decrees and Communist sermons. I have \Tsited other cities, towns and villages, factories, communal kitchens; workers’ clubs, collectivized political trials, grain factories, “pep” meetings, Soviet elections, schools, theaters, ofilces, even private homes which, for the foreigner, are the most difficult of all to penetrate. I have found friends and enemies of the Soviet regime, sometimes in the most unlikely places, and have talked to them. In the following articles I want to attempt to draw a line under all of it, to see what it adds up to, not merely in economic but in human terms. Next: Soviet Russia seeks to build from ruins of ezardom where ignorance and fear held millions like serfs.

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Details of last letters of Irene Schroeder and Glen Dague will be found on Page Two.

Dague, neither made an attempt to see the other before the execution. They were awakened at 5:20 for a breakfast of grapefruit, cereal, toast and coffee. Guards said the condemned prisoners had been asleep since 10:45 o’clock Sunday night. Prisoners Bco Witnesses As witnesses, matrons and ministers went through the main prison to + he execution room, many of the 900 prisoners booed them. The party proceeded down the corridor to a point near the cells of Dague and Mrs. Schroeder. Teagarden and Lauers sang two hymns—“ What a Friend We Have in Jesus” and “O, What a Happy Day When Jesus Rolled the Stone Away.” Before Mrs, Schroeder was led through the corridor to the execution chamber, a screen was placed in front of Dague’s cell. He had worked through Sunday completing his autobiography and handed the last chapter to Teagarden, who did not reveal what disposal he would make of the manuscript. Mrs. Schroeder spent Sunday reading as many comic strips in the newspapers as she could find. She told prison officials she did not care about the rest of the newspapers. Joseph Crawford, father of Irene, and her brother, John Crawford! were permitted to see her for about forty minutes Sunday. It was their last visit. No Tears, Hysterics There were no tears nor hysterics during the interview. The Craw* lords afterward stopped to say goodby to Dague after they left Irene s cell. Relatives will claim the bodies of the two Tuesday and take them to West Virginia, where Dague and Mrs. Schroeder began their criminal careers when they met by accident after he almost ran her down with his automobile. Mrs. Schroeder leaves a 4-year-old son, Donnie, whose remark to a detective that “my mother killed a cop like you,” helped convict her. She sent a telegram to her son Sunday. 4 KILLED IN EXPLOSION Blast Occurs in Gasoline Still of Texas Refinery. By United Press PORT ARTHUR, Tex., Feb 23Four persons were killed and nearly a score were injured in an explosion at the Gulf refinery shortly before midnight. The explosion occurred in a high pressure gasoline DRY CLEANERS CONVENE Business Conditions of Past and Future Discussed Open forum with members of the Indiana Dry Cleaners’ Association discussing business conditions the last year and future business outlook was held during the annual state meeting at the Lincoln today.

Make ’Em Over Last year’s clothes made new for this year. That’s something that will interest almost every woman reader of The Times. The first of a series of articles by Mrs. Annette Guth, sewing expert of the Home Making Center, New York City, appears on the Home Page of The Times today. They’ll show you how to transform old styles, into new. It’s a series that every woman should welcome. Read today’s article and we know you won't miss the other four.

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