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VERONAL FOUND IN BODY OF SLAIN BEAUTY; ETHER LURE IS BLAMED FOR DOWNFALL Parents Reveal Strange ‘Jekyll-Hyde’ Complex of Girl, Due to Use of Liquor and Drugs. KILLED TO SEAL LIPS, FAMILY VIEW Post-Mortem Adds Weight to Theory That Starr Faithfull Was Murdered, Then Tossed Into Sea. BY CARL D. GROAT t-'nited Press Staff Correspondent r (Coovricht. 1931. by United Press) ■NEW YORK, June *6.—Both the family of dead Starr Faithfull and District Attorney Elvin N. Edwards of Nassau county clung today to the theory of murder in her strange death. Moreover, their idea that the girl of many moods met a violent death before her body was cast up by the sea at Long Beach, was strengthened as traces of veronal were found in post-mortem examination. The veronal may have been merely a sedative, but from the sinister chain of circumstances so far adduced in her life history, authorities were more than ever convinced that death was traceable to someone who wanted her silenced.

Stanly Faithfull, who, with his wife, Helen* and stepdaughter, Tucker, are giving the United Press exclusive data on the career of the girl, insist that murder was done. The girl was not a drug fiend, but, according to their story, a man who debauched her as a child of 11 years taught her to like ether. This man, as they related to the United Press Monday, had the girl read him passages from sex works of Havelock Ellis, and maltreated her so that upon reaching young womanhood she was a warped creature of conflicting emotions and strange moods. Charmed by Ether “One day I was cleaning gloves with ether,” Stanley Faithfull, her stepfather, told the United Press. “Tlie girl smelled it and commented, ‘Oh, I love that.’ ” This strange ecstasy was a result, he believed, of the etherizing practice of the man who is described as the father of several children, prominent in his home community, and supposedly a man with a reputation above reproach. Liquor, too, had weird effects upon the girl, who in her normal moments was said to be “charming, fastidious and captivating” to all with whom she came in contact. If violence was done her, as suspected, it would mark the second time this year that she had been the victim of a brute. In March she was taken to Bellevue hospital, dazed and badly bruised. The man who brought her said he was her husband, and there had been a registration in a midtown hotel of a Joseph Collins and wife. Doping Is Suspected He was a short blonde man. Faithfull has a theory that he may be a man whom Starr met some time ago through a shipping friend, but he has nothing tangible on which to go. Faithfull pictured his stepdaughter as a girl of real refinement and culture, but subject to much introspection and to dark moods, which, he claims, were the result of the maltreatment of the man who crossed her youthful path. She liked men, and had many friends. But Faithfull, wishing to clear the girl of some aspersions in the press, hotly denies that she was promiscuous or that her companions were other than gentlemen. Pays $20,030 to Family The United Press today saw a sac simile copy of a release of claim the Faithfulls are alleged to have signed after receiving $20,000 when they sought reimbursement for outlays made to doctors on account of Starr's state. The United Press also had an insight into a ‘ mem” book the girl kept while she was a student in Rogers Hall, an exclusive school in Massachusetts. This book had a part of a page devoted to an alleged trip she made with a man and named several hotels at which, she wrote, they had stayed. Faithfull has checked on this alleged journey and believes it was part of the maltreatment he charged. Starr had done much traveling. The girl once wrote her mother on stationery of the Savoy hotel in London: “I am all settled in the new house, namely the Commodore hotel, 4 Pembridge square. I told you about D. B. He is buying a car and really Is trying so hard to make up for being ‘nasty to Susie’ that she has forgiven him practically. Cheerioski.” Then follows a picture of a star instead of her signature, Starr. “Do you do a great deal of racing around with Tucker in the car?” said the letter. ‘Tucker tells me you (Turn to Page Six) frahkuTprexy quits Homer P. Rainey Resigns to Take Presidency of BucknelL By United Prete FRANKLIN, Ind., June 16. Homer P. Rainey, president of Franklin college here since 1927, has resigned and will accept a similar position with Bueknell university. Lewlsburg, Pa., it was announced by the board of directors today The resignation was to take effect immediately. Rainey, who came here from the University of Oregon, is a member of the committee of the North Central Association of universities and colleges to revise standards In liberal art colleges.

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BOARD ISSUES FIREWORKS BAN Police Ordered to Halt Premature Celebration. The Fourth of July will be observed July 4, and not before. This was the edict today of the safety board, which instructed police to prevent premature celebration with firew'orks. The board set June 22 as the first day for fireworks wholesalers to start deliveries to retail dealers, and July 1 as the day when dealers may sell fireworks to individuals. Fireworks banned by the board,.include: Paper balloons, automatic torpedoes, spit devils, devil-on-walk, victory globe salutes, K. O. Radio, O. K. salutes, firecrackers 'longer than three inches, dynamite or other explosives more powerful than black gunpowder, blank or other cartridges and pistol, revolver or other devices for exploding any kind of cartridges. AL PLEADS GUllir Capone Admits Huge Income Tax Fraud. Detailed Capone Story Pa.se 1, Section 3. By United Press CHICAGO, June 16.—A1 Capone, his underworld power crushed by the United States government, stood in federal court today and pleaded guilty to defrauding the nation of almost $200,000 in income taxes and conspiring in a $200,000,000 beer combine to violate the prohibition laws. DEATH PENALTYTsKED Men Charged With Christmas Eve Murder on Trial at Plymouth. By United Press PLYMOUTH. Ind., June 16.—Defense counsel in the trial of Simon Dyer, 21, charged with the murder of Paul Scheiman, 23, North Judson, prepared to battle strong evidence presented by seven state witnesses, in Marshal circuit court here. The state is seeking a sentence of death against Dyer. Scheiman was slain last Christmas eve while on his way to a church entertainment with his mother and two sisters.

BROKERS SUED; CHARGE CASH EMBEZZLED, LOST ON STOCKS

Asking for the return of $50,000 alleged to have been embezzled by Cornelius E. Holloway and lost on the stock market, The American Surety Company of New York today brought suit against Thomson 6s McKinnon, city brokerage firm. Holloway formerly was secretary of the Indiana Savings and Investment company, whose losses were made good by the bonding company and which is not affected by the suit. The bonding company charges that the stock brokerage firm had knowledge that the money which Holloway lost on the market was that of the firm he represented, and for this reason is responsible for the loss. The suit, in effect, charges that the money was lost in gambling, and for this reason is unusual.

RAVENSWOOD PONDERS OFFER OF REDUCED RATES ON WHOLESALE SUICIDES

RAVENSWOOD is revising its swimming beach prices today. In fact, the new schedule may result in the little municipality with its multiplicity of “John Laws” to advertise itself as the “Gateway to Paradise, Purgatory, and Hades.” It all came about when a sedan with five youths in it crashed the beach gate, guarded by the town’s two {Marshals Monday night, and

Hoover Voices Plea That Country Have ‘Faith in Recovery’ President Urges Optimism in Address to G. O. P. Editors and Advances Theory for ‘Twenty-Year American Plan. 1 Defense of the tariff, condemnation of doles, government unemployment insurance, and such forms of public relief, a blast at Wall Street methods, and a plea for optimism was the message which President Herbert Hoover brought in his address at the Indiana Republican Editorial Association dinner Monday night at the state fairground. More than 5,000 heard the President advance his theory for recovery, which he called the “American Plan,” and which is to spread over a period of twenty years, but no method of putting this plan in operation was proposed in the address.

President Hoover brought a message of optimism to the mid-west. He warned that the country should not look “only at the empty hole in the middle of the doughnut,” but instead apply Itself to the American plan to consist of the voluntary individual efforts necessary to build the new business, facilities and homfs to meet needs of a 20,000,000 population increase in the next twenty years. Criticism of the activities of bear raiders in Wall Street who have pressed down major stocks was voiced just after he condemned those who would “make political capital out of the depression through magnifying our unemployment and our losses.”

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The business depression is the dominant subject before the country and the world today. Its blight stretches from all quarters of the globe to every business place and every cottage door in our land. I propose to discuss it and the policies of the government in respect to it. Depressions are not new experiences, though none has hitherto been so widespread. We have passed through no less than fifteen major depressions in the last century. We have learned something as the result of each of these experiences. From this one we shall gain stiffening and economic discipline, a greater knowledge upon which we must build a better safeguarded system. We have come out of each previous depression into a period of prosperity greater than ever before. We shall do so this time. As we look beyond the horizons of our own troubles and consider the events in other lands, we know that the .main causes of the extreme violence and the long continuance of this depression came not from within but from outside the United States. Had our wild speculation; our stock promotion with its infinite losses and hardship to innocent people; our loose and extravagant business methods: and our unprecedented drought, been our only disasters we would have recovered months ago. A large part of the forces which have swept our shores from abroad are the malign inheritances in Europe of the great war—its huge taxes, its mounting armament., its political and social instability, its disruption of economic life by the new boundaries. Without the war we would have no such depression.

Politics Is Unstable

Upon these war origins are superimposed the over-rapid expansion of production and collapse in price of many foreign raw materials. The demonetization of silver in certain countries and a score of more remote causes have all contributed to dislocation. Some particular calamity has happened to nearly every country in the world, and the difficulties of each have intensified the unemployment and financial difficulties of all the others. As either the cause or the effect,

Henry Holt and John W. Jordan, resident partners of Thomson & McKinnon, are made defendants in the suit. Affairs of the Indiana Savings and Investment Company are not jeopardized by the federal suit, because its losses already have been made good by the surety company. Complaint of the bonding company alleges that Holt and Jordan accepted Holloway’s account and permitted him to speculate in stocks that smashed with the general stock market slump, having at the time actual knowledge that the company’s money was being used. Action against the brokerage firm has been delayed two years, the attorneys explained in order to avert any danger of that publicity might bring on the Indiana Savings firm.

avoiding the 25 cents head tax on swimmers, dived into White river. J. L. Donovan, marshal for Mayor Charles Hubbs Sr., and Ben S. Smithly, marshal for Mayor Charles O. Ford, blithely were gathering in the “two-bits” from backless and trunkless suits when the attempted “wholesale suicide” occurred. g g g A SEDAN, driven by Sterling Henderson, 21, of 549 North Hamilton avfenue, careened to-

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we have witnessed armed revolutions within the past two years in a score of nations, not to mention disturbed political life in many others. Political instability has affected three-fourths of the population of the world. I do not at all minimize the economic interdependence of the world, but despite this the potential and redeeming strength of the United States in the face of this situation is that we are economically more selfcontained than any other great nation. This degree of independence gives asursance that with the passing of the temporary dislocations and shocks we can and will make a large measure of recovery irrespective of the rest of the world. We did so with even worse foreign conditions in 1921. W can roughly indicate this high degree of self-containment. Our average annual production of movable goods before the depression was about fifty billion dollars. We exported yearly about five billions, or 10 per cent. The w r orld disruption has temporarily reduced our exports to about three and one-half billions. In other words, the shrinkage of foreign trade by one and one-half billions amounts to only 2 or 3 per cent of our total productivity. Yet as a result of all the adverse forces our production has been reduced by, roughly, ten or twelve billions.

Stimulate Business Fear

This sharp contrast between a national shrinkage of, say, $12,000,000,000 and a loss of $1,500,000,000 from export trade is an indication of the disarrangement of our own internal production and consumption entirely apart from that resulting from decreased sales abroad. Some of this enlarged dislocation is also due to the ioreign effects upon prices of commodities and securities. Moreover, the repeated shocks from political disturbance and revolution in foreign countries stimulate fear and hesitation among our business men. These fears and apprehensions are unnecessarily increased by that minority of people who would make political capital out of the depression through magnifying our unemployment and losses. Other small groups in the business world make their contribution to distress by raids on our markets with purpose to profit frbm depreciation of securities and commodities. Both groups are within the law; they are equally condemned by our public and business opinion; they are by no means helpful to the nation. Fear and apprehension, whether their origins are domestic or foreign, are very real, tangible, economic forces. Fear of loss of a job or uncertainty as to the future has caused millions of our people unnecessarily to reduce their purchases of goods, thereby decreasing our production and employment. These uncertainties lead our bankers and business men to extreme caution, and in consequence a mania for liquidation has reduced our stocks of goods and our credits far below any necessity. All these apprehensions and actions (Torn to Page 7)

The suit lists checks totaling $196,500 drawn on the company’s account by Holloway, together with $22,500 in cash. It charges these funds were paid over to Thomson & McKinnon to cover stock transactions between Sept. 1, 1928 and Nov. 14, 1929. It also includes $157,893.59 profits from the market returned to Holloway by the brokers, which, the complaint states, was paid back to the company, leaving $61,306.41 not repaid. Holloway, listed in city directory as a salesman for a downtown department store, after the death of his father in 1927, managed both the investment company and an affiliated firm, Charles E. Holloway & Son, Inc., engaging in real estate, mortgages, loans, rentals and fire insurance.

ward the gate guarded zealously by the two marshals. “Halt!” shouted Smlthly. The quintet in the sedan ignored the command.. "You can’t do that,” chimed in Marshal Donovan. The sedan, guided by Henderson, did. It gathered momentum and drove straight for the sandy beach. Bathers and sand moles screamed and scurried for safety. Mothers ran with their cliildrea. “* dlv * d “ ,,r

CHILL INDIANA HANDSHAKE IS GIVENHOQVER Polite and Perfunctory Is Applause for Nation’s Chief Executive. STIRS DOUBT IN G. 0. P. 5,000 at Dinner Given in Honor of President at Fairground. BY BEN STERN A large question mark was painted over the map of Indiana today by national political observers and administration strategists when President and Mrs. Hoover and their son Allan, with their entourage, left Indianapolis at 9 a. m. for Marion, 0., to attend dedication of the Harding memorial. All sought to solve the riddle of the reception given the President Monday afternoon on his trip across the city to the home of Governor and Mrs. Leslie, and compare it with that accorded him at the Indiana Republican Editorial Association dinner at the state fairground, Monday night. It was there that Hoover launched his 1932 campaign for re-election and renomination in a distinctly friendly atmosphere, made up in the main of Republican office holders, precinct committeemen and district and ward chairmen. Watson Leads Ovation Led by Senator James E. Watson, the 5,000 w r ho attended the dinner gave the President an ovation which lasted just forty-two seconds when he entered the banquet hall, and ’’stopped the show 7 ,” when he arose to speak, with a twominute round of applause. The applause which punctuated the President’s address, however, was similar to that which greeted him on the ride across town—politely courteous and perfunctory. Only twice was there anything approaching the applause W'hich should have come from so mammoth a crowd. That was when he declared: “We rigidly are excluding immigration until our own people are employed. Tire departures and deportations today actually exceed the arrivals.” No. Cheers on Farm Relief And then again when he touched the interests of almost every one present with “It is obvious that our banking system must be organized to give greater protection to depositors against failures.” A deathly pall seemed to settle over the audienca whenever the subject of “farms and farm relief” was mentioned. The President’s defense of the tariff caused a slight ripple, but only in the sections where sat Congressmen Fred Purnell, Bert Vestal and Will R. Wood. Avowedly Republican spokesmen were frank in their disappointment over the parade, but received encouragement at the dinner. State Republican leaders deemed significant the tumultuous applause accorded the name of Senator Watson when the President called the roll of Hoosier congressmen: and the light ripple which met that of Senator Arthur R. Robinson, who is now in the Orient. Stampede Fails An attempt by a small group to stampede the diners into a call for Senator Watson to speak was halted by Paul R. Bausman, president of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association, who was toastmaster. Watson called to him to continue with the program and pay no attention to the shouts. Although a Republican harmony meeting, there was a seething undercurrent in dissension throughout the entire affair, a result of split delegations from various counties and districts. Two distinct delegations were present from Vanderburg county. Lake county’s delegation also was split, with Ernest Forse, the county chairman, in charge of one section, and R. O. Johnson, mayor of Gary, chief of another. At the invitation of the President, ex-Governor James P. Goodrich, Watson, former Postmaster-General New and Oscar Foellinger, Ft. Wayne publisher and Hoover primary manager in 1928, accompanied the party to Marion. Dartmouth Honors Morrow By United Press HANOVER, N. H.. June 16. Dwight W. Morrow, United States senator, was awarded the honorary degree of doctor of laws by President Ernest Martin Hopkins at the one hundred sixty-second commencement at Dartmouth college today. A class of 432 was graduated. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 63 10 a. m 76 7a. m 65 11 a. m 76 Ba. m 71 12 (noon).. 76 9a. m 72 Ip. m 77

and only halted its plunge at mid-stream. g g g TJ' RIGHTENED swimmers awoke to the realization that the car’s occupants were in danger of drowning. Henderson and his companions were dragged to the beach, where three cf the youths immediately fled. While the twin marshals held Henderson and Lewis Cox, 19, of 317 North Wallace street, fox

Morrissey Named Kinney’s Successor as Chief of Police

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Youngest Officer Ever to Hold Post Given Appointment. Lieutenant Michael F. Morrissey today was named Indianapolis police chief, the youngest officer to be awarded the post in, the history of the city. Not yet 34, Morrissey will step from his position as head of a gambling squad to the post vacated by the death of Jerry E. Kinney, June 9. Appointment of Morrissey was announced today in a statement signed by members of the city safety board. Morrissey, who lives at 1416 East Market street, was named to the police department as a patrolman June 14. 1922. No Change in Policy Since then he has served as head of motorcycle squads, in the traffic department and in the detective bureau. He was promoted to sergeantcy of the motorcycle squad in 1925, after having held a post in the traffic department. In the later part of 1925 he was transferred to the detective department and then reduced to patrolman in 1925 at the advent of the Duvall administration. In 1927 he again was named a sergeant. When Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan took office, he was named a lieutenant. He is a Democrat . Morrissey is unmarried and lives with his parents at the Market street address. Headed Gambling Squad Following his appointment by the board, Morrissey declared he would do “everything possible to suppress vice and crime, including gambling.” “The appointment came as a surprise to me,” he stated. “There will be no radical changes in personnel and policy. I will need co-operation from other members of the department and believe I will get it. “If I make a good record as chief, it will be because the members of the department have supported my efforts. “I appreciate the confidence Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and his board of safety have in me and will do all I can to enforce the law and uphold that confidence.” Morrissey is a member of the Elks lodge, the Knights of Columbus and Holy Cross Catholic church. Morrisey, as head of the gambling sweepup squad during the last six months, has staged several raids that have won him commendation from heads of the city and the department. *

FARM GROWN AUTO ‘PARTS,’ FORD’S AIM

By United Press ADRIAN, Mich., June 16.—Henry Ford intends to find out whether automobile raw materials can be “grown” on a farm. Taking a page from his close friend, Thomas A. Edison, who Monday announced he successfully had vulcanized synthetic rubber made from goldenrod, Ford is reported to have spent more than $5,000,000 in purchasing Lenawee county farm lands for farm-grown raw material experiments.

deputy sheriffs, they received explanation for the gate-crash. Leaning his shoulder on the two "Laws” and with friendly whiffs of his breath Henderson broke down in tears with, "I’d have succeeded if you hadn’t pulled \is out.” asm CO while Henderson is held in county jail charged with operating an automobile while under the influefre of liquor and

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JOCKEY FEARS ‘TOO MUCH GAB' Indianapolis Police to Quiz Injured Man. In a hospital room at Lebanon today lay Arthur Simons, Los Angeles, jockey, who is afraid he has “talked too much.” He was brought to the institution Saturday after motorists found him in a ditch on U. S. Road 52, unconscious and suffering from scalp wounds, believed inflicted by a blunt instrument. Hospital attaches said Simons became worried When he was informed that he had mumbled while unconscious of connections with Detroit gangsters. Simons, however, told police that his scalp wounds were of no importance and that he was suffering from a skull injury received several months ago when he was kicked by a horse on a California race track. Indianapolis police, according to Major Herbert Fletcher, will investigate and probably question Simons. STUDY SCHOOL LEVY 1931-32 Budget May Stay at 1930 Figure. The tax levy of the school city will remain at last year’s figure, sl.Ol, It was revealed today when the board of school commissioners adopted a tentative budget for the 1931-1932 school year calling for the expenditure of $7,459,546. The budget requirements for the new year is a reduction of $28,746 over the last year’s expenditures and this despite the fact that state aid to the school city will be $48,000 less during the current year. Ninety principals and assistant principals were appointed at the board meeting. Court to Act on Newspaper Sale By United Press WASHINGTON, June 16.—Justice Jesse C. Adkins of District of Columbia supreme court will act Wednesday on the proposal of Edward B. McLean to sell the Washington Post to David Lawrence for $3,000,000.

While the exact alms of the Detroit automobile manufacturer are cloaked in secrecy, some of his $5-a-day farm hands have heard or learned a few of the reasons why Ford has set up his 3,000-acre “agricultural laboratory.” Growth of cantaloupes to get alcohol for auto paint, one dirt farmer said, is contemplated by Ford. After the extraction of alcohol from the melons, the residue is to be made into anew cheap substance as serviceable as wood, the farmer reckoned.

Cox on a vagrancy charge, the Ravenswood town board figures on anew beach price schedule that may run like this: Coupe suicides—no runningboard hangers-on—sl. Roadster dives—with wife—so cents—without, 73. Motorcycle manslaughter —35 cents. Sedan slaying—sl for car and driver—so cents a passenger. Trucks and all other vehicles—make special arrangement^.

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CHARGE WASTE OF POOR FUND BY EX-TRUSTEE Relief Given Men Employed on County Jobs, Say Board Members. PROBE HARDING REGIME Scores of Bills Question in State Accounts Group Inquiry. BY SHELDON KEY Probe into alleged expenditures for poor relief during the closing days of the administration of Mrs. Amelia Harding, former Center township trustee, today echoed with startling charges of waste and irregularities in distribution of poor aid funds. Expenditures of Mrs. Harding in 1930, totaled $487,130.86. Mrs. Harding, disregarding the already overburdened taxpaying public last December, had food baskets sent to her friends, one a deputy sheriff and another a deputy county treasurer, who still is in public office, state board of accounts members say their inquiry revealed. Scores of other poor relief bills submitted by one of Mrs. Harding's grocers, H. J. Boston, and totaling $17,129.42 for December alone, were questioned by county commissioners and have been under the scrutiny of the state board of accounts. Employed; Given Aid Fred P. Fox, former deputy sheriff under Sheriff George Winkler, and Arch C. Phelps, present deputy for Clyde E. Robinson, county treasurer, obtained poor relief by use of their wives' maiden names, the investigation is said to have shown. Combined income, at that time, of Fox and his wife, who lived at 521 North Grant avenue, was $260 a month, while Phelps is receiving SI,BOO a year as deputy treasurer,. The Phelps family lives at 523 North Grant avenue. After a two months' check of Boston’s poor relief bills, commissioners allowed him a claim of $17,104.36, deducting $10.74 for poor relief sent the deputy sheriff and $14.32 for groceries given the Phelps family. Other Bills Questioned Although the state board of accounts is said to have found no other definite indications of fraud upon the county, scores of other bills, including those of two coal companies, are questionable, county commissioners declared. Receipts for food delivered to houses, now vacant, and instances where families received from two to four tons of coal a month are among those upon which commissioners reluctantly stamped their approval, they said. Republican county leaders have announced they will ask Robinson to dismiss Phelps as soon as the treasurer leaves the hospital, where he now' is confined. Quizz Hundred Witnesses In connection with the probe, the board of accounts questioned almost a hundred witneses, many of whom verified the receipt of poor relief with sworn affidavits. Twenty-two other cases where delivery slips were missing of persons, to whom Phelps declared he delivered groceries, were checked during the investigation. Excessive poor relief bills were submitted by Boston, it is indicated by the statement of Commissioner George Snider, who said, “that the average monthly grocer’s bill for poor relief totaled approximately $5,000.” Boston’s wife also is employed by the county as a clerk in the county assessor’s office. Snider charged the administration of poor relief by Mrs. Harding was "one of the worst I ever have seen perpetrated on Marion county.” AVERT LAND TAX CRISIS British Laborites Accept Liberal Amendment to BilL By United Press LONDON, June 16.—The crisis that threatened the labor government over its land tax measures was averted today when Premier J. Ramsay MacDonald accepted a Liberal amendment to the bill guarding against double taxation on amounts already paid in income taxes. MacDonald told a meeting of the parliamentary labor party that the government accepted the amendment, as redrafted, subject to reconsideration of certain details. The threatened crisis in the house of commons tonight therefore would pass over, he said.

Now It’s Soup The early morning sun threw a series of grotesque shadows across the boulevards of Warfleigh. Patrolmen Mowery Johnson and Walter Bennett jogged along in their car basking in the freshness of the new day. An object moved several feet in front of the car and it came to an abrupt halt. "See that,” Johnson said. “Sure I do,” Bennett said. "Let’s look,” they both said. After careful investigation, the officers returned to police headquarters and invited their fellow officers to partake of soup. By the way, the moving object was a seven-pound turtle