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FEAR 170 DEAD IN EXPLOSION OF GAS TANK German Industrial City Is Left in Ruins; 1,000 Are Injured. BLAST FELT 150 MILES Buildings Are Crushed Like Cardboard, Bodies Hurled Hundreds of Feet. Hu I iiitrit press NEUNKIRCHEN, Germany, Feb. 11. The industrial section of Neunkirchcn was in ruins today after the explosion of a gas tank that crushed buildings like cardboard, obliterated an iron works and a benzol plant, hurled bodies and debris through the air for hundreds of feet, and was felt, 150 miles away. Police, firemen, soldiers, and Volunteers rescue workers had recovered fifty bodies from the ruins early today. Police estimated that the death roll would reach at least 170. with 1,000 injured. Two hundred and eighty survivors were taken to hospitals in serious condition. Seven persons were kiled by the stones, pieces of steel, wood, glass, and miscellaneous parts of buildings hurled over the town. The top of the gas tank was found half a mile away on a railroad track. The top was about 150 feet in diameter. Supplies Are Commandeered The blast left remaining only the chassis of a street car, which was passing the iron works and Benzol plant when the explosion happened. The tank supplied the entire district with gas. An adjacent settlement of workmens’ houses was flattened, trapping women and children. A second explosion followed the first blast. Emergency hospitals and first aid stations were set up after the regular hospitals were filled. Medical supplies were commandeered and urgent appeals sent to nearby cities for doctors and nurses. Many Flee tor Miles Many residents of the district fled for several miles into the country. Five hundred men were known to have been working in various plants near the gas tank. Police estimated that most of today would be required to make an accurate check of the dead. "I saw ten houses knocked flat simultaneously by the explosion," an injured survivor told the United Press. "In one street, every house was wrecked, inhabitants of all parts of the city fled from their homes, believing at first that a serious earthquake had followed recent minor earth shocks here. "Many women and children were trampled in the stampede. Thousands of window’s were shattered* and chimney tumbled into the streets. I saw doctors performing operations in the streets, and priests administering the last sacrament to the dying. ’ Blast Felt 150 Miles Buildings wrecked included the railroad station, part of a hospital, a telephone exchange, and a theater which was unoccupied. The first explosion was felt at Cologne. Basle, and other cities within a range of 150 miles. The second occurred an hour later, when fire spread to a gasoline station. Police reserves were forced to fight back a crowd from the danger zone as members of families of workmen, mostly women and children, rushed to the scene. While doctors and nurses worked frantically amid great confusion, tpe clergy did its best to calm the population. Fragments of heavy freight cars were found seven miles from Neunkirchen. The cause of the blast was not determined, but it was believed that a minor explosion at the benzol plant started a fire which spread to gas pipes and finally ignited the gas tank. Unconfirmed reports laid the explosion to sabotage. Grewsome Scene Described "Immediately after the explosion there was a dead silence." one survivor said, "then people began running about mad with fear. Many who came from the direction of the benzol plant muttered and stammered in utter panic. "When I got to where the iron works had been, I found nothing but ruins and bodies. Terrible cries and groans came from the debris. Then I saw a stream of blazing liquid appear from the site of the benzol plant, and soon fire appeared in all parts of the ruins." Members of a rescue party reported that an injured woman died in their arms after they forced their way through the debris of her home. The woman was able to murmur only, “Eight of us. drinking coffee," before she died. Seven other members of her family were believed buried in the ruins. Pasengers on a street car blown to pieces were so mutilated that it was impossible to determine how many people had been on the car.

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A young woman music teacher, Louella Pearl Hammer, and an ex-convict friend, W. P. Howard, have confessed, according to Las Angeles police, that they kidnapped Mrs. Mary B. Skeele (upper) for SIO,OOO ransom. Police attempted to link the pair to the attempted abduction of Miss Isobel Smith (lower), who fought off would-be kidnapers at Pasadena. Stories of Mrs. Skeele and Miss Smith led to capture of the suspects.

GARNISHEE LAW RULEDJNVALID Decree Is Handed Down by Judge Pickens: Held Unconstitutional. . Marion county debtors today have the protection of a court decree against having their wages taken from them by garnishee process. Superior Judge William A. Pickens handed down the decree Friday, holding the 1925 garnishee law’ unconstitutional and invalid. This ruling w r ith those of tw r o other superior judges who have cited the law's unconstitutionality, during the last year, is expected to halt hundreds of suits in garnishment. However. Superior Judges Russell J. Ryan and Clarence E. Weir did not issue decrees. They held the law’ invalid in overruling demurrers in cases involving it. Pickens ruled ip favor of Frank Hodge, laborer, employed by the Link Belt Company, w r ho sued for injunction to prevent Schloss Brothers Investment Company from levying on 10 per cent of his w’ages. “The garnishee act violates the fourtteenth amendment to thee federal Constitution, in that it deprives a person of property without due process of law, Pickens held.

Fork-Eater Girl, 18. Is Operated On for Removal of Table Implement. Bp United Press ST. PAUL. Minn., Feb. 11.—Margaret Santell, 18. Tinderwent an operation at Ancker hospital Friday for removal from her stomach a seven-inch table fork which she had swallowed accidentally. The girl said the fork "just slipped" when she placed the handle of it in her throat in an effort to relieve illness. It lodged in her stomach w’ith the handle down and the prongs pointing upward. She said she suffered no pain.

Nine Coasting Sites Are Barricaded for Children

Nine protected coasting places in the city were provided by the police accident prevention bureau today, and announcement was made that the sites will be barricaded against motor traffic until the snow disappears. Hilly thoroughfares were c’osed in Garfield. Brookside and Ellenberger parks; Capitol avenue at Fifty-second street; Thirty-sixth street, from Elmira to the canal;

$1.50 TAX LAW HELD MENACE TO EDUCATION Connersville Bond Issue Is Defended as Necessary for Child Welfare. PASSES HOUSE, 51-29 . Slated as Special Order of Business in Senate Tuesday. Issue has been formed as to I whether welfare of children or retention of the state’s $1.50 tax limit law shall prevail. This is the declaration of supporters of a bill which would permit issuance of up ( to SIOO,OOO in I bonds by the city of Connersville to pay expenses of operating its schools for the term to open in September. The bill, passed in the house of representatives, 51 to 29, will be a special order of business in the senate at 2 Monday afternoon. The decision Friday followed debate precipitated when foes of the legislation sought indefinite postponement. Speaks for Children The senate committee on educai tion presented the bill with a split report, the majority favoring killing the bill and the minority urging its passage. Senator Walter S. Chambers (Dem., Newcastle), was the chief spokesman for the bill. "The sole issue,” he said, "is whether school children in Connersville are going to get an educaI tion or have a year taken out of their lives which never can be replaced.” Charge that ‘‘a certain Fayette county bank would like to get hold of that bond issue” was made by Senator Thollie W. Druley (Dem., Boston* in opposing the bill. Another opponent of the measure Senator Chester A. Perkins (Dem., South Bend) expressed fear that its passage would be the beginning of the end of the $1.50 tax law, which law he asserted was "an expression of the will of the people.” Stormy Scene Results Although defending the $1.50 law, Senator Anderson Ketchum, Greensburg, Democratic floor leader, asked: "Are we not charged with the responsibility of keeping children in school?” The bill caused a stormy scene before its passage in the house, Speaker Earl Crawfford having turned the gavel over to Edward H. Stein, Bloomfield, majority floor leader, so he could take the floor in defense of the measure. It was stated in the senate that the Fayette county tax adjustment board, to keep within the $1.50 limit, had set a tax rate which would provide only enough money to permit operation of Connersville schools for six weeks, beginning in September. COLUMBIA CLUB VOTE BARS DEMOCRATS Stronghold of G. 0. P. Stands Firm for Principles. There will remain one haven in the city where Republicans may find sanctuary from gloating Democrats who still "remember Novem- j ber,” directors of the Columbia Club ; decided Friday at their annual meeting. Proposal to permit Democrats to become members of the G. O. P. j stronghold was voted down. Directors re-rtected John C. j Ruckelshaus as president for 1933. 1 Other officers named are Fred C. 1 Gardner, vice-president; Frank A. j Butler, treasurer, and E. Park Akin, j secretary. Gardner was elected president of the Columbia Realty Company with Ruckelshaus, vice-president; Butler, treasurer, and Akin, secretary.

CONGRESS TODAY

By United Press SENATE Continues debate on war department appropriation bill. Judiciary subcommittee resumes hearings on Black five-day week bill. Agriculture committee resumes consideration of domestic allotment bill. Banking subcommittee continues study of farm credit legislation. HOUSE Considers minor legislation. Appropriations committee considers district of Columbia supplv bill.

West Vermont street at Holmes avenue; South Randolph street, from Palmer street to Pleasant Run boulevard; Ohmer avenue, between University and Downey avenues, and Watson road at Thirty-sixth street. In closin'? the streets, police called attention to the city ordinance prohibiting coasting in any but authorized sections. Skating on Fall creek also is prohibited by ordinance,

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1933

Too ‘Perfect’ Girl’s Walk in Zero Weather to Attend School Costly.

Bp r nited Press "tTICKSBURG, Mich., Feb, 11 VKatherine Needham. 16. braved temperatures and walked four miles to school Friday, just to keep her attendance record perfect. She was taken in a serious condition to Franklin Memorial hospital, where attaches said her body was froshtbitten from the hips to her toes. BULLETIN - Hilton Crouch, ex-convict, was released today in municipal court after toeing held two days as a suspect in the machinegun laying of Sergeant Lester E. Jones Tuesday. Release was recommended by Chief Mike Morrissey. STUDENTS FIGHT HITCH-HIKE BILL 1,800 I. U. Youths Sign Petition to McNutt Against Measure. Bp United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 11.— Indiana university students don’t like the bill introduced in the Indiana house of representatives prohibiting hitch-hiking. "It comparatively is easy for a motorist t odistinguish between a college student and a common bum.” says a petition being circulated today. Officers of Blue Key, campus honorary. say they will have signatories of 1,800 men students. The petition will be presented to Governor Paul V. McNutt with the claim that many men students could not visit their homes if the bill is passed. Representative Martin J. Downey (Dem., Hammond) introduced the bill Monday. Maximum punishment of a SSO fine and thirty days in jail for soliciting rides on a highway is provided.

10-YEAR NOTES FOR TAXPAYERS URGED Legislative Action Is Sought by Apartment Owners. Plan for paying taxes by ten-year notes, against which the county may issue bonds, has been approved by the Apartment Owners’ Association, and immediate legislation action will be urged, according to H. H. Woodsman, president. The plan has been discussed informally with various Marion county officials. Further discussion will be devoted to the plan at a meeting of the association Wednesday. Under the proposed arrangement, taxes could be paid by accepting notes from realty owners, payable over a ten-year period in ten equal installments wx,h interest. The notes would be used as security against which bonds could be issued. ELECTED BY BUREAU Three Are Named Directors of Better Business Board. Election of John J. Burke, Evans Woollen Jr., and Milton K. Foxworthy as directors of the Indianapolis Better Business Bureau was announced today following the annual meeting at the Indianapolis Athletic Club Friday. Joseph E. Reagan was re-elected to the board. Annual report of Manager T. M. Overlay was given. REMY RITES MONDAY Former State Official to Be Laid to Rest at Crown Hill. Last rites for Edward A. Remy,'7l. former deputy auditor of state ard examiner in the state accounts board who died Friday at his home, 945 Middle drive, Woodruff Place, will be held at 10 Monday. The services will be in the Hisey and Titus funeral home 951 North Delaware afreet, with the Rev. O. R. McKay, associate pastor of the First Baptist church in charge. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. 150 MEN TO GET JOBS ■ Posey County Plans Road Repair as Relief Project. fly T nit erf Pres* MT. VERNON, Ind., Feb. 11.—A plan to employ 150 men daily in alternating shifts to grade and repair dirt roads in Posey county as an unemployment relief project, was announced here today. Gas tax funds will finance the project. New York Stocks Opening ißy Abbott. HooDin & Co.j . „ —Feb. 11— 5 ® ! * Lie * Mvers B. . 52 ! i Chem.... 83 s , Monfv Ward ... 13 il Cf,150 2 44', N Y Central ... 19 s , Anaconda 7= . Natl Cash Ree . 7 .Am For Pwr... 6*, Penn R R ..... i ß ’ 2 Am Tel & Tel.. 102‘ 2 Radio 4s* Auburn 42 Cons Oil 53’ “Ons Gas 52 T s Std of Ind . . . 21 Case J I 42- 4 Std Oil of N J... 26 5 , 2hes A- Ohio 30 Texas Corn 12 s . Cities Serv 2- 2 U S Steel .. ’ 97', Duoont 37 >, United Com *8 Gen Foods 24‘ Un Aircraft .... 23 s , Gillette 16 3 , Un Carbide .... 24 s , Gen Mot 13 s , Westinehouse ... Gen Elec 13 s , Woolworth 32', Gold Dust 14' . Western Un .... 23*t Int Harv 19 s , HOURLY TEMPERATURES 12 midnight 20 5 a. m.... 16 1 a. m.... 20 6 a. m.... 13 2 a. m.... 19 7 a. m.... 11 3 a. m.... 19 8 a. m.,.. 10 4 a. m.... 19 9 a. m.... 12

BARE DETAILS OF ‘SACRIFICE’ DEATHJCENE Kentuckians Are Waiting for ‘Resurrection’ of Aged Woman. FANTASTIC STORY TOLD Mountain Cabin Is Used for Frenzied Orgy Bring- * ing Killing. By United Press INEZ, Ky., Feb. 11.—The fantastic story of what happened at 1 Tojnahawk when aged Lucinda Mills ; was killed in a. sacrificial ceremony by her religion-crazed kinfolk, has [ been given to county authorities by I Mrs. Tom Boyd, in whose mounI tainside cabin the cult members held their last frenzied orgy. As Mrs. Boyd, the victim's daughter, narrated the incidents which led to the death, the countryside waited apprehensively for the promised “ressurrection” of the dead woman. John Mills, cult leader and one of her sons, who is accused of the actual killing, predicted that his 72-year-old mother would arise from the dead today, "born anew without sin.” Eight Held in Killing Meanwhile, in the county jail, the eight members of the family who were arrested at the height' of their ceremonial, were somewhat quieted and, for the most part, had ceased their chanting and wailing. Mills muttered his strange gibberish occasionally. Mrs. Boyd said she and her husband and her mother were at home in their cabin Tuesday. "We got up about 11 o’clock,” she said, “and ate breakfast. It wasn’t long before I heard shouting down the crick, and I looked out the window. "John Mills was coming up the holler holding a stick in front of him. His eye were shut, and he had a Bible in his other hand.

Smites Flock With Stick “Alongside of him was Ballard Mills (a nephew of Mrs. Mills) and he was carrying another stick, and holding it just like John. “They came on stumbling up the road, and I could see they were walking with their eyes shut because they stumbled over the rocks and bushes. ' Behind John and Ballard were their wives and Fred Mills and his wife and about thirty-five or forty kids. When I saw them I was scared. I knew something was going to happen. “After they got in the house, they started praying and shouting and John went around smiting people with the stick to see if they were worthy. “Instructed by Lord” “After a while, John said he had been instructed by the Lord to kill six virgins, and they all began to look around to see who they would pick for the virgins. Some of the kids got scared, and ran out of the house. “After they chanted a while, John said he was going to drive the devils out of our mother. She was in the other room, and had a sick headache. “John brought her out, and she sat down on the altar. Tlfen John told her to lay down on the altar, and he started waving his hands and praying. The others were yelling in the ‘tongue.’ “Then, all of a sudden, John grabbed her throat, and started to choke her. Too Weak to Escape “He got his knee in her chest, and choked her with one hand and beat her with the other. “She tried to get away but she was too weak.” - After Mrs. Mills had been killed, preparations were being made to burn her body as a sacrifice to God when authorities, notified of the chanting by neighbors, broke in the cabin door. John Mills is charged with the murder of his mother while the other eight members of the mountaineer family are held as accomplices. FINAL DECISION ON TAX BILLS AWAITED Administration Leaders Ready to W ithdraw Sales Measure. Final decision of administration leaders on tax bills is expected to be made over the week-end and the bills be presented in the house Monday or Tuesday, it was reported today. It is understood that the general sales tax bill will be withdrawn by the administration, in favor of an excise or gross income tax. A turn-over tax also is being considered. The excise tax would allow SI,OOO exemption and assess all income over the SI,OOO at 1 per cent. Intangibles tax also is to be pushed, the administration leaders now believing that it will produce more revenue than originally anticipated. Film Actor Faces Alien Hearing By United Prrxs LOS ANGELES. Feb. 11.—Immigration authorities today announced a hearing was scheduled shortly on the case of Albert Dion Bar-Smith, known on the screen as Sonny Ray, British filjn actor. The government claimed Ray overstayed his leave in this country.

NEW ZERO WAVE ON WAY TO MID-WEST

$3,000 A MONTH BARELY KEEPS HER GOING

Omer Jackson Will Be Appointed U. S. Marshal

Greenfield Democrat to Be Named for Post by Van Nuys; Supported by Taggart, Peters.

Omer Jackson, Greenfield, Democratic chairman of the Eleventh congressional district, will be recommended for the appointment of United States marshal for the southern Indiana district by Senator-Elect Frederick Van Nuys. Headquarters of the marshal are in the local federal building.

ROOSEVELT FOR WIDER POWER ‘Dictatorial’ Plan Backed by Garner Favored by President-Elect. Bp Scripps-Hoicard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Presi-dent-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt was represented here today as Willing to accept the "dictorial" power over fiscal policies and departmental reorganization given him in the amendment which house representatives will offer to the treasurypostoffice appropriation bills. Under the Garner proposal, which is much more far-reaching than that added to the bill in the senate, Mr. Roosevelt w r ould have authority to reduce all appropriations by 10 per cent within standards set by congress. Under some interpretations of this provision, he could cut salaries at will, reduce air mail contracts and slice allowances provided by law for veterans. The senate economy program already empowers him to consolidate, curtail or even abolish independent bureaus and agencies. CORBETTJESTING WELL Spends Comfortable Night at Home in Bayside, L. I. Bp United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—James J. Corbett rested quietly today after a comfortable night in his home at Bayside. L. 1., w’here he is gravely 111 with a heart ailment. In the Air Weather condition at 9 a. m.: West northwest wind, 16 miles an hour; temperature, 11; barometric pressure, 30.32 at sea level; general condition, clear, hazy, ceiling, un- j limited; visibility, 5 miles; field, good. 1

‘Billy Goat 9 Gang Rounded Up by Police; Six Held

Temporarily, at least, the “Billy Goat’’ gang has ceased its depredations in West Indianapolis. Headed by none other than the doughty “Billy Goat" himself, the robber gang swooped down on defenseless street car motorman Friday night, but a few minutes later the members were captured by police. And today, five Negro boys, ranging in age from 12 to 17, are held on charges of robbery and vagrancy. Unmasked at last, the “Billy Goat” was found to be a 15-year-old Negro youth. The feminine touch had been supplied by Miss Georgia Crumes, 21. a sister of one of the alleged gang members, who is held on a vagrancy charge following information obtained from the youths that she was “queen ’ of the gang. *

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Van Nuys said today that the recommendation for Jackson's selection will be made to President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt soon after the latter's inauguration, March 4. The post now is held by Alf O. ; Meloy, Indianapolis Republican, and member of the Coffin faction. Meloy's term does not expirt until 1935. but he is expected to resign within a few days. Selection of Jackson was approved by R. Earl Peters, Democratic state charman, and Thomas Taggart Jr., national committeeman. SENATE GUSHES ON TENURE REPEAL BILL Hostilities Brought to Haft by Adjournment. Teacher tenure repeal bill caused a sharp clash in the senate late Friday, hostilities having been halted by adjournment until 10 Monday morning. Motion to reconsider action Thursday night, .which placed the bill on the calendar for a vote on passage, and one to indefinitely postpone were before the senate when it adjourned. During the Friday afternoon session the senate passed the administration's highway commission ripper bill and one to reduce from two to one year the residence period required for filing a divorce suit. Bill increasing to SI,OOO the present S6OO exemption from execution to satisfy judgment failed to obtain a constitutional majority, the vote having been 22 to 17. Resolution providing for easier amending of the state Constitution passed the senate Friday by a 27-to-16 vote. Senator E. Curtis White (Dem., Indianapolis), author,l told the senate: "If you befleve the people of 1851 knew more about modern life than we do, then vote against the amendment.”

Another official role in the gang's activities, that of “spotter” was held by one of the boys, who received 25 cents a job for “listenin’ and whistlin’ if the police came,” police learned. Friday night he received r. bonus of eight tokens. Police were sent to the vicinity of the Robert Long hospital on West Michigan street after Harry Gillis, operator of a street car, reDort'd he had been held up and robbed of $3 of his own money, and his money changer, containing an undetermined amount of coins and tokens. The newly fallen snow presented a difficulty which even the “Billy Goat’’ could not have solved, granting that he had thought of it. The police had little difficulty in following the path of the gang as it led down the street and to their various homes.

Capital EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

•Worst in Years,’ Is Storm Report From Northern States. 5 ABOVE HERE TONIGHT Heavy “Snow Brought by Latest Winter Drive on Farm Belt. I Bp l nited Press CHICAGO, Feb. 11. A new cold wave swept down from northern Canada toward the middle west today as the nation barely recovered from | the worst blizzard in thirtyfour years. South winds that brought relict | from temperatures ranging downj ward to 50 degrees below zero | shifted to the northwest. The local | United States w eather bureau prej dieted the mercury would drop to 10 below by Sunday. Shortly before sunrise In Chicago the mercury slumped from 14 to 5 above zero. Reports from northern states said the new storm w T as “the wwst in years.” Temperatures dropped in a few hours to low levels of a few days ago. Central states, w’hich suffered the heaviest toll in 150 casualties of the first storm, will bear the brunt of the frigid spell, the weather bureau said. Another heavy snow’fall w r ill accompany the storm, predictions said. Temperatures in St. Paul dropped again to below zero after the first day in a week above that point. Montana. North Dakota and other states along the Canadian border j began to fell effects of the storm today. More snow fell in New York and along the Atlantic seaboard, where temperatures had risen from their sub-zero levels. Snow was forecast generally along the east coast today. Sleet and rain storms were pre- | dieted for southern states. 5 Above Here Tonight Although its grip was loosening in the southwest, the cold wave gave no indication of breaking here before Sunday afternoon, according to a weather bureau forecast. Temperature tonight will be about 5 above, slightly colder than Friday night and early today, J. H. Armington. meteorologist, predicted. No further flurries are expected to add to the snowfall of 1.2 inches, which blanketed the city Friday night. Th emercury at 7 today read 11 above, three degrees higher than at the same hour Friday, when the day's highest temperature reached 22. Bright sunshine and fair weather w’ill bring warmer weather most of. today, but the downward slide will begin tonight, Armington said. NEW AIR MAIL PLAN MAY REPLACE SUBSIDIES Higher Rates and Postcards Offered bv Bill to Keep Service Going. Bp Seripps-Hntearrl Xewspaper Alliances WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—A solu- | tion of the high cost of transport* | ing the air mail, which will enable ! the government to get from under l the present $19,000,000 subsidy load, and enable the air transport companies to operate profitably without federal contribution, has been found in a bill introduced by Rep- | resentative Clyde Kelly (Rep., Pa.), in the opinion of members of the house committee on postoffices. The senate last week struck out | the $19,000,000 air mail subsidy from the postoffice department bill and unless the fund is restored in conference between the house and senate operation of the air mail will be jeopardized after July 1. The Kelly measure would increase the postage rate to 5 cents a halfounce instead of 8 cents an ounce as at present. This is expected to increase revenues, and authorize a new air mail postcard for 2 cents. This is expected to stimulate much new business. Contractors who now have air mail route certificates would surrender them and receive in return route warrants authorizing them to carry mails for 2 mills a pound mile. Chicago Stocks Opening I Bv Abbott. Hoddlu ic Cos. I _ —Feb. 11— Bor? Warner.. 8 Comm Edison .. 72 Cutes Serv 2'/, Swift Inti 7V. Cord Corn .... S' 2 Walgreen Stores. 13'a Cont Chi com., l'j *

Little 7-year-old Lucy Cotton Thomas t pictured here) must go on living on her $3,000 monthly income. Her mother. Mrs. Edward Russell Thomas, sought to increase the child's income derived from the estate of her millionaire publisher father, to $3,800 monthly, but a New York court has ruled that the $3,000 income is sufficient. Mrs. Thomas sought to prove that $3,000 a month was not eru/jgh for Lucy’s needs. Lucy told reporters that, when she becomes 21, she’d like to share her wealth with others lesr fortunate.

Found Brown Spaniel SPANIEL, reddish brown, license 3512. north. ‘ King.” Pet. Reward. HU-8505 King, a reddish brown spaniel, strayed from hit warm home last Monday night. His owner, Mrs. Frank Hiddle, 5.10 Fast Fifty-ninth street, placed a lost, notice in The Times. Late Tuesday evening "King" was returned to his owner by .Tack Hillock, who had read the notice in The Times Mr. Hillock will receive a pair of guest tickets from the Apollo theater as a reward for returning an article advertised as loat In The Times. A I.ost Ad Costs Only 3 Cents a Word. RI-5551. Place Your Next Lost Ad at Times Want Ad Headquarters, 214 West Maryland Street. RI. 5551.