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MERCURY AT 103; ALL-TIME RECORD MAY RE SMASHED Stifling Heat Claims Tenth Victim in Three Days When Federal Project Worker 'Dies While Sleeping. HOTTEST WEATHER IN 63 YEARS Temperatures Pass Century Mark for £ ifth Successive Day; Whole City Seeking Relief. Despite a weather bureau prediction of possibly cooler weather tomorrow, the temperature at 12:30 today had jumped to 103 decrees and was still rising, possibly to break the all-time heat record of 106 degrees for Indianapolis.

Even the slight prospects of cooler weather, caused by a high-pressure field in the northwest, gave hope to heat sufferers as the fifth day of the most terrific heat wave in sixty-three years gripped the city. Wllham H. Gray, 57. of 802 South Lyons avenue, a federal project laborer, died early today of the heat while sleeping in his garage. He was the tenth heat fatality in three days. Three names were added yesterday to the growing toll of heat fatalities m Indianapolis. The dead were Albert Gardner. 42. of 1658 College avenue; Jess Cotton. 51. of 917 Stillwell street, and Earl Woods, 6 months. 905 Fletcher avenue. Hottest in HistoryWeather bureau statistics showed that never before in the history of the bureau has the mercury jumped beyond 100 degrees on four consecutive days and prove that 1934 is one of the hottest years in Indianapolis, J. H. Armington, meteorologist, said today. Os a total of twenty-eight days when the temperature has exceeded 100 degrees in the sixty-three years of the weather bureau here, eight were this year. Yesterday was one of the most stifling days in several years because the 1023 degrees nigh mark at 2:30 p. m. was complicated by a lack of breeze, the wind gauge only three miles an hour. Burning with the heat of four days, chairs and beds in offices and homes last night were so uncomfortable as to foree huge crowds out in the highways and parks Corn Crop Not Injured In some places leaves were withering on the trees and falling off dried with the slightest movement of the wind. E C. Faust, editor of the Hoosier Farmer, said the intense heat had caused little, if any. injury to the com crop, which, he said, promised to be one of the finest in years. The farmers suffering most from the heat, he said, were truck farmers crowing tomatoes and letture Wafer company officials today said that water consumption was not abnormal, despite the four days of intense heat. Most of the heat seemed concentrated in the city where the pavement held it. It was several degrees cooler outside the city limits, especially alone the banks of White river and streams. Canned Goods Sale Heavy Women are using loss rouge, more ha*h salts and dusting powder, druggists say. Increased sales in tonics for upset stomachs were reported bv pharmacists. Electric fans, thermos jucs and picnic supplies sold rapidly. Soda fountain business leaped together with beer consumption. Grocers say that housewives, relur’ant to do any actual cooking during the hot weather, are buying canned goods and cold meats. Ice companies are harassed meeting demands. often making two trips a dav to one consumer, so quickly does the heat melt the ice. At the hospitals every effort is being made to keep patients comfortable. Some hospitals have air conditioner units which may be installed in the rooms. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer, has advised citizens to be careful of their diets. He has urged the drinking of moderate temperature water rather than ice-water. Other advice is to avoid heavy body exertion. 16 More Dead gy r „,frd Pr.gg ST LOUIS. July 24 —Sixteen additional heat deaths were reported her? early today, bringing the total for the five-day period to eightyone m St. Louis For the second time in four days the mercury rose to 109 degrees yesterday Equalling the all-time record of last Friday. At 8 o’clock last right the mercury was still above the ino mark, the thermometer registering 102 decrees at that hour. CHURCH PARLEY OPENS Young Members of Disciples Group Meet at Bethany Park. By t ”-4 Pr,t, BETHANY PARK. Ind . July 24. —One hundred and thirty persons attended the opening sessions of the young peoples religious conference of the Indiana Disciples church here today. Yron Hopper. St. Louis, dean of the session, was the principal speaker.

The Indianapolis Times Fair and continued warm tonight and tomorrow; possibly slightly cooler tomorrow night.

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Hourly Temperature* 12 mud- 7 a. m 34 night* .... 88 Ba. m. ... 87 la. m 37 9a. m 91 2a. m 36 !0 a. m.... 96 2a. m 34 11 a. m 100 4 a m 82 12 m00n*..100.9 sa. m 81 12:30 p. m. 103 fi a. m 82 Ip. m 102 COMMUNISTS RAIDED NEAR KINGAN PLANT Police Break I p Protest Meeting; Arrest Five. A protest meeting of the Communist party was broken up by police this noon and five persons were arrested near the Kingan & Cos. packing plant. The meeting was raided by police and the arrests made with no apparent cause, observers said. No were reported. It ls said two men and one woman speaker were protesting past actions of police in the vicinity of the packing plant when the meeting was ended by the police charge. PEACE JUSTICE LOSES LIFE IN INDIAN CREEK Frank Mohler of Oaklandon Is Drowning Victim. While fishing in Indian creek near the mouth of Indian lake yesterday, Frank Mohler, 41, Oaklandon justice of the peace, was drowned accidentally. The body was found standing upright in nine feet of water. He is survived by the widow. Mrs. Marie Mohler; his father. Ward Mohler, and two brothers, Leslie Mohler and the Rev. Harold Mohler. EIGHT RUSSIANS TO DIE 15 Others Given Prison Terms for Railway Sabotage. By I nilrd Prrgg MOSCOW. July 24—Eight persons have been sentenced to death and fifteen to prison terms for complicity in a railway sabotage plot, it was announced today. The trial was the first under the new judical system initiated when the secret police, the OGPU were merged into the new department of internal affairs, and so was held in the supreme court. The defendants were charged with wrecking three trains. Red Cross Course Set An American Red Cross lifesaving course will be given in she Broad Ripple swimming pool at 9:30 tomorrow morning by Arno Wade. Church Lawn Social Set St. Mark's church will hold its annual lawn social from 5 to 10 tomorrow night at Prospect and Linden streets. Dinner will be served from 5 to 7. Apartment Is Looted Thieves stole a $145 ring and sl4 is cash from the rooms of Matilda Fenimore. 3527 College avenue. Apt. 2. last night, police report.

Will Boots Accept? (T\ |SL U: BOOTS is involved in a very deep and intriguing lov? affair. Maybe she doesn't quite realize it —but she will! Ronnie is certain of what he wants to do with the engagement ring Agatha returned to him. He is. however, a bit bashful . but it's just a question of time till everything will be up to Boots. What will the answer be? Read “Boots and Her Buddies" every day, on the Comic Page.

Sh-h-h! Robinson War Record Is Embalmed in Secret U. S. Files.

■t I TASHINGTON, July 24 W Senator Arthur R. Robinson is on the list of those starspangled men whose World war records have been removed from the common files and placed in secret archives, the war department reported today. Common soldiers, who still are common citizens, have their World war records, housed in common files in an old temporary building here. But when one is a senator, no such ordinary treatment is accorded. The war department has developd a scheme w'hereby the World w'ar records of “men prominent in public life" are lifted from the files and hidden aw'ay where there is no chance of their being seen. How do you determine who these great men are?” an attache was asked. “Oh, w-e take out those in high office or prominent in the papers,” he replied. Name of D. C. Stephenson was not found in the common files, and it w'as considered unlikely that it w r ould be in the archives with that of Senator Robinson, since before being sentenced for murder, the highest office he had obtained was grand rt’-agon of the Ku-Klux Klan in Indiana. At that time the two names wore linked. KISER EXPLAINS BANK ADVANCES Sums Constituted Loans to Realty Company, Former Officer Says. The defense in the Melville S. Cohn embezzlement trial today introduced thirty-five letters from officers of the defunct Meyer-Kiser bank, of which Mr. Cohn was a vicepresident and director, to prove Uiat • advances” from the bank to !he Frailich Realty Company, Gary, were loans. The state charges those “advances” actually represented embezzled funds. Julian J. Kiser, another vice-president and director of the bank, also under indictment, who iderrtiiied the letters, was the first defense witness. GIRLS BODY FOUND; KIDNAPED, IS BELIEF Child Is Found Dead in Texas Creek. By I nitrd Pi-rug HOUSTON. Tex., July 24.—A game warden today found the body of a 5-year-old curly haired girl in the waters of Cypress creek, twenty miles north of here. Officers believed the body was tht of Dorothy Ste Wart, 5. daughter of E. H. Stewart. Houston business man. Mr. Stewart was aiding police at the time the body w-as found in a search for the missing child. He believed she had been kidnaped. He said Dorothy disappeared late last night from his automobile which he had parked on a downtown street here. SEVEN ARE BITTEN BY DOGS IN CITY Five of Victims Children: Two Go to Hospital. Seven persons, five of them children. were bitten by dogs yesterday. The seven are Ralph Miiler. 37, of 1572 West New York street; Christy Halline, 1030 North Goodlet avenue; Robert Younce, 16, of 1441 North Gladstone avenue; Raymond Longsworth, 10. of 2119 North Riley avenue; Wilbur Downing, 16, Richmond; Robert Berling. 14. of 4353 College avenue, and Francis Dryaen. 12, Negro. 850 West Twentyfifth street. The Berling and Dryden youths were taken to city hospital for treatment. BLUE EAGLE IS TAKEN FROM CITY BOX PLANT Privileges Removed on Order of General Johnson. Privilege of using NRA insignia has been taken from the United States Corrugated Fibre Box Company. 1409 Roosevelt avenue, on the order of General Hugh S. Johnson, NRA administrator. Notification of the revoking of the privileges come today in a telegram to the state NRA compliance office from B. M. Williams, executive secretary of the compliance council. General Johnson's message to the company advised that the action was taken following announcement of the code authority that in spite of warnings, the company has violated the code repeatedly. METHODIST BISHOP DIES Venerable Washington Cleric Passes in Boston Hosiptal. By United Pregg BOSTON. July 24—Bishop John William Hamilton, 89. of Washington. D. C., dean of the board of bishops, of tfce* Methodist Episcopal ; church, died 4a t a hospital today after a brief illness.

IXDIAXAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1934

DILLINGER HEARSE COMING HOME WITH BODY OF SLAIN OUTLAW

Indiana Officers Laid Death Trap for Desperado, They Reveal. ESCAPED FIRST AMBUSH Capture Set for Saturday Night, East Chicago Police Admit. BY BASIL GALLAGHER Times Staff Writer CHICAGO, July 24.—John Dillinger could have been captured the night before he was slain. Two East Chicago (Ind.) detectives stood in the same movie doorway, the Biograph theater, from where he walked to his death on Sunday night, and him leave the theater. Dillinger got into a taxicab and after doubling up and down streets, changed to' another cab and eluded officers. This was related for the first time today by Captain Timothy O'Neil of the East Chicago police, as he told how the death trap was laid for the man w'ho no longer is Public Enemy No. 1. O'Neil’s story showed a ba*d man’s penchant for movie melodrama coupled with his way with women to bring him death from the federal agents’ guns. The claws of the death trap opened as East Chicago detectives, led by O'Neil and Martin Zarkovich, detective sergeant, shadowed their quarry. Federal agents lurked in the background, aiding and directing. Played Double Date Dillinger was sometimes with one woman, "the woman in red.” Other times detectives saw a second woman hanging to his arm as he waited until dark to visit the cheap tenderloin movie house where he was slain. And, on occasions, he played a double-date with both women accompanying . him to the romances and blood-and-thunder dramas of the screen. With the “heat” on him and abandoned by confederates, he and the two women left Chicago and hid out in the north woods. They returned July 14. The Dillinger cunning in that return won tribute from detectives as they told the story behind the scenes. Rode Serenely Into Chicago He did not drive directly to Chicago. He knew the roads were watched. He picked his time. He drove to Barrington, 111., near the Arlington park race track. The Arlingtn Park handicap was run that day. Race crowds jammed the highways. Motorcycle men rode within arms length of Dillinger as they directed race traffic. With the “woman in red” at the wheel of the car and Dillinger in the back seat, the era’s most noted desperado rode serenely into Chicago. irail's end neared and Dillinger seemed to sense it. He kept on the hop. He went to Whiting, Ind., and it was there that the ‘woman in red” joined hands, it is believed, with East Chicago detectives and a Croatian gambler in assuring Dillinger’s death. At Same Stations Sergeant Zarkovich and Captain O'Neil contacted the gambler. He led them to a north side hotel where one of Dillinger's two loves had registered for him. Movie shows, always the late performances, were frequented. Each change of bill saw Dillinger clamoring like a child for a ticket. Zarkovich and O'Neil were tipped by the woman in red that he would be at the Biograph theater Saturday night. It was the “finger” night, set for what police and detectives say was merely rehearsal evening for the capture and possible slaying. Although Sergeant Zarkovich And Captain O'Neil would not admit it, it is believed that federal agents, directed by Melvin Purvis, chief agent, were at the same stations on Saturday night that they were Sunday night when Dillinger was shot down and killed. It is believed that all federal agents there got their first glimpse of the man they had hunted so long on that night and that they merely wanted to be sure that, regardless of the outcome, it was Dillinger. Pictures Were Changed Sergeant Zarkovich and Captain O'Neil saw him enter the taxicab after the show. They trailed him in another car. But the alert Dillinger ducked into another cab and lost the officers or. as some detectives say, was permitted by the East Chicago detectives to escape the net once—as the last strand, his identification. had been woven. The Biograph theater changed pictures on Sunday lights just ss do thousands of neighborhood houses throughout the nation. The police and federal agents knew Dillinger would want to see that new picture Manhattan Melodrama.” The "woman in red” whispered the word. He did.

Thousands Expected at Dillinger Rites; Troops May Help Police Keep Order

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This tombstone, uncarved except for one name and that a name which struck terror to all Americ for many months, stands at the head of the Dillinger plot in Crown Hill cemetery here, where John Di linger will be buried tomorrow or Thursday.

900 QUIT JOBS AT STOCKYARD Walkout Paralyzes Industry; Parched Cattle Die 'by Scores. By United Pregg CHICAGO, July 24.—A1l cattle shipments were ordered halted today as a strike of 900 live stock handlers paralyzed the Union Stockyards and left thousands of drought-stricken cattle to die in the jammed pens. The ordinarily smooth routine of the yards was tangled hopelessly by the walkout. Parched and hungry animals bawled lustily while whiteshirted executives and office workers worked feverishly in the broiling sun to water them. Cattle died by the score. Farmers who had driven hundreds of miles were turned back at the gates to make the long dusty trip to farms where no feed and little ivater awaited their calves. Four hundred pickets guarded every entrance to the yards. A heavy police guard was detailed to the district, but no violence was reported. The pickets, on the contrary, were inclined to be amused as the office workers, neckties askew, worked frantically at jobs they knew nothing about. Truckers Gain Recruits By United Pregg MINNEAPOLIS. July 24.—Strike paralysis spread slowly over Minneapolis today. Members of the Cleaners, Dyers and Laundry Workers Union walked out in sympathy with striking truck drivers. Leaders said the strike was for a day only. Pickets were placed about the seventy-five affected cleaning and laundry plants. The union claiming membership of 2.000, said the strike would effect 3,400 employes of the industry. Dock Workers Voting By United Pregg SAN FRANCISCO. July 24.—Left wing leaders revived the hiring hall issue today in a final effort to prolong the Pacific coast maritime strike while longshoremen were voting, apparently favorably, on accepting federal arbitration. Harry Bridges, chairman of the joint marine strike committee, protested against longshoremen's plans to return to work immediately if a majority favor mediation. Bridges dominated the meeting of San Francisco longshoremen at which the vote on returning to work at once was delayed until another meeting tonight. Sentiment in Los Angeles, Portland, and other ports favored an immediate return to work if result* of the vote are favorable to arbitration. BUS TRAGEDY DEATH TOLL MOUNTS TO 18 Man's Body Recovered From Water Near Accident Scene. By i nitrd Pregg OSSINING, N. Y„ July 24. The known death toll of Sunday's bus tragedy rose to eighteen today with the recovery of a mans body from the water of a lumber yard slip adjacent to the scene of the accident.

Governor Confers With Aids on Controlling Crowds; Plot Holders Resent Crown Hill Burial. A heavy guard of state and city police—and possibly national guardsmen—will supervise the funeral of John Dillinger at Maywood and his burial in Crown Hill cemetery, set tentatively for 2 p. m. tomorrow'.

Fear that a morbidly curious crowd of from 15,000 to 20.000 may attempt to attend the rites for America's No. 1 oulaw has been voiced by officials, w'ho point to the hysteria manifest by crowds of the curious when Dillinger was slain Sunday night in a Chicago alley. Then, scores attempted to walk in the outlaw’s blood to get stains on their shoes for permanent souvenirs. Others dipped in handkerchiefs and scraps of paper, either keeping them or selling them to sensation seekers. Governor Paul V. McNutt recognized the importance of the problem yesterday afternoon when he called in Ai Feeney, state safety director, and Adjutant-General Elmer F. Straub for a conference. While no announcement was made, it was reported they discussed the advisability of supplementing state and local police guards with a detachment of national guardsmen. Guard for Sister's Home Later Mr. Feeney and General Straub conferred with Police Chief Mike Morrissey and another meeting was to be held today. Guards will be placed about the home of Dillinger’s sister, Mrs. Audrey Hancock, Mayw'ood, w'here the funeral will be held, and guards probably will convoy the procession to Crown Hill. The Rev. Charles M. Fillmore, retired Disciples of Christ minister, will preach the Dillinger funeral oration. He was pastor of the Hillside Christian church w'hen the outlaw’s father. John Dillinger Sr., was a member, before the family moved to Mooresvillle. Mr. Fillmore is knowm as a w'riter of hymns, best known of which is “Tell Mother I'll Be There.” An anti-tobacco crusader, Mr. Fillmore remembers John Dillinger Jr. twenty-seven years ago when the father was one of the first and most active members of his church. Mr. Fillmore married the second Mrs. Dillinger to the older Mr. Dillinger and preached at her funeral. Plot Holders Protest The slain outlaw w r ill be buried in Lot 94. Section 44, in Crown Hill in the Dillinger family lot, but his ■ burial will be over the protests of persons indignant at having his | body interred near relatives of j theirs buried there. The objectors discovered, how- ! ever, that there is nothing to pre- | vent interment of the slain outlaw ; in Crown Hill since the elder Dil- | linger has paid for the lot for family burial purposes. The lot bears one large tombstone : w-ith the family name and two ; others, one with the name of Mrs. Mollie Dillinger. the outlaw's mother, j who is buried there, and the other at the head of a grave reserved for the elder Dillinger. Curious Visit Cemetery Located at the east side of the ; cemetery near Boulevard place, the lot already has been visited by the vanguard of curious that will attempt to attend the funeral. The Hancock home in Maywood where the funeral will be held, also has been the mecca of sensation seekers. The elder Dillinger; E. F. Harvey, ■ Mooresville undertaker; Hubert | Dillinger, the outlaw 's half brother, and Everett Moore, publisher of the Mooresville Times, are in Chicago to obtain the body. They expect to obtain a release today from federal officials and reI turn with the remains late tonight * or tomorrow, \

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Cemetery gates at Crow n Hill will be closed to curious Hoosier residents, as well as newspaper photographers and movie cameramen when the burial rites for John Dillinger are held. Announcement of the barring of the curious as well as the camera-eye was made by Raymond E. Sieberl, cemetery superintendent. He urged lotowners to stay away from the cemetery at the time of the Dillinger funeral.

CAFES WARNED ON SHORT BEER SALES Prosecution Is Threatened by Weight Sealer, Retail beer dealers who deceive the public by giving “short" steins face prosecution, Grover C. Parr, j commissioner of weights and measures, announced today. In a drive against unfair trade practices on the part of retail beer j dealers, Mr. Parr warned taverns ; and bars to give the amount of beer specified in the advertising signs. Investigating a number of beer places throughout the city, the commissioner found that some beer dealers who advertise twenty ounces j of beer for 10 cents actually give ! sixteen ounces or less. The same is true in cases where lesser ; amounts are advertised. Some dealers attempt to keep' within the terms of their advertise- ! ments by using a limited number of 1 steins of the advertised size and serving additional customers out of ; the smaller steins. “I have ordered these beer dealers to stock up on a sufficient number of proper-sized steins to take care of their demand," the commissioner said. “The dealers either must sell the amount of beer specified in their, signs or change the signs!" BYRD RESCUE PARTY BALKED BY BLIZZARD Victor Crew Forced to Turn Back. Bn t ni ft<i Prp LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica. July 23. Delayed —By Mackay Radioi—The five-mar tractor party, ' turned back by blizzards and low temperatures while en route to relieve Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, reported by radio today that it was heading for this expedition base. Richard Byrd, who reported his arm injured last week, has been 1 isolated at a tiny meteorological hut j 123 miles southward for months The tractor party, headed by Dr. i Thomas C. Poulter, started out to 1 relieve him but found the flag-, marked trail almost obliterated by snows and finally decided to turn back. Posse Battler* Bank Bandits By l niti'4 Prrts OXFORD, Kan., July 24—Four bandits engaged a vigilante posse in a gun battle here today after the robbers had looted thfc Oxford State bank. The bandits Scaped.

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Led by Police Escort. Caravan Heads for Indiana Roads. FATHER IN FRONT SEAT •It Was a Woman Who Did It,’ He Mutters as He Leaves. Bv Times Staff Correspondent EN ROUTE TO INDIANAPOLIS, July 24.—Through crowded Chicago streets, past smoking' steel mills, and back to his native state, John Dillinger came home today. Mobs of curious and morbid Chicagoans and lloosiers trailed the funeral cortege out of the Windy city in an attempt to get one last peep of the remains of the man who left Indiana via a crudely carved wooden gun and came back in a cheap wooden casket. Every wayside filling station and town on U. S. Road 41 added its groups to the curious thousands whose eyes pierced the hearse in an attempt to make out the sorrowing old man, John Dillinger Sr., who rode for the last time with his son. The route of the cortege to Indianapolis was over Highway 41 to its junction with state road No. 52, and thence due south past Lafayette into Indianapolis. Cops Bawl at Crowd Tlie body, all that remained of the bullet-riddled corpse of a son, who was the nation's terror, was turned over to the father shortly before noon. Into a small north side undertaking establishment three burly, sweating policemen carried the bul-let-riddled remains in a wicker basket. A squad of bluecoats roughly bowled at the crowd to get back and let them through. The father, a 70-year-old Quaker farmer, gazed silently at the basket. He leaned on the arm of another son, Hubert, 26-year-old halfbrother of the murderous John. The father was deeply affected as he gazed on the body of his son, laid out on an ordinary roller cot and covered with a plain white sheet. “My Son!” He Weeps He wept. Leaning heavily on Hubert's arm. he exclaimed; “Mv son!” Hubert remained calm and displayed no as he helped his father to a room upstairs, where the two waited until preparations were completed for starting the long, hot ride back to Indiana. The lawn and street outside the undertaking establishment were crowded. Extra squads of police were required to control the situation. Tottering as he was taken to the upstairs room by Hubert, the aged man asked for a glass of ice water. It was handed to him. The Times’ writer asked him what he thought of his dead son s morgue appearance. Corroborates Identification “I would have known him anywhere, even though he was cahnged considerably,” he said as he definitely accepted police identification of the nation’s most hunted mobster. The aged man said, however, that he did not believe strangers would have known his son. “A woman, I know, put my son where he is,” he muttered. “I know it. It was a woman.’ He moved his toil-bent body backward and forward in rocker, fanning himself and occasionally giving a hitch to his red “galluses.” “Mooresville will look pretty good to me when I get back. It’s a long ways I’ve been, but theer are just a few more miles to home,” he concluded, just before he stepped into the hearse. As police sirens screamed, the hearse and its cavalcade of reporters’ cars left the Sheridan road mortuary bearing an old man down a road with his son on “the last few miles” to home—and to a cemetery marker that in a few days will have the fresh carved name: "John Dillinger Jr.. Died July 22, Chicago, 111.” John Dillinger was coming home. Diplomatic Relations Resumed By United Pr> MOSCOW. July 24—Resumption of diplomatic relations with Bulgaria was announced today. Times Index Page. Berg Cartoon 8 Bndge 6 Broun 9 Classified 1* Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 5 Curious World 15 Editorial 8 Financial 10 Hickman —Theaters 11 Let's Go Fishing . 13 Lippmann 9 Pegler 9 Radio 4 Serial Story 15 Sport* 12, 13 State News 4 Vital Statistic* -It) Womans Pages .............• ••6, 7