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ul S. EMBASSY | VOTERS’ REGISTRATION SPEEDED UP: IN COUNTY
MAY BE SHUT IN SPAIN SOON
© Loyalists Promise to Make
- Rigid Investigation’ of Ship Bombing.
ATTACK SPURS ACTION
State Department Plans tl Avoid Involvement i Civil. War.
“BULLETIN By United Press MADRID, Sept. 1.—The government, replying to a protest from the United States against the bombing of the U. S. destroyer Kane off “the Spanish coast, informed Eric, C. Wendelin, charge ~ d'affaires, today that no Logxalist plane was in the vicinity at the time. Moreover, the government . ®aid, it does not possess a plane of the type described.
United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. — + Spanish government has assured ! the United States that it will con- | _ duct a rigid investigation of the |
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bothbing of the U. S. destroyer Kane | by a Spanish airplane off the coast.| the. embassy | at Madrid informed the State De- |
of Spain last Sunday,
pattmen: today. The closing of the United States embassy in Madrid and .the withdrawal of all American warships now in Spanish waters, perhaps by the erid of next week, were. forecast today.
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This government plans for a speedy withdrawal of all American official activity . in Spain determined to avoid being involved in any ‘way in Spain's war on the growing war fever of all Europe. All American nationals remaining in Madrid have been given a last “warning to get out by Wednesday = night. They were- told that ‘ may be left even representation. in the Spanish capital if they istezarded the order. The embassy staff may & drawn as.a measure of safety, in| " view of the increasingly frequent | ebel bombing raids on the capital. | Recall of American warships was | “considered to aveid a repetition of : Sunday: s bombing of the Kane.
Eight Spanish Cities - Bombed by Airplanes
By United Press Some of the horror of Spain's civil war was brought home today news of bombing in all parts of the country of cities and towns, mostly
Last W arning, Given
advanced its
undefended and with large civilian |
populations.
In the last 24 hours, eight centers |
were bombed, either by insurgent or loyalist planes. Madrid itseif was attacked from the air for the third time.’
The bombardment of beleaguered | Airplanes and | shells | starting |
Irun was merciless. artillery poured bombs and into the center of the city, fires and killing an unknown numPer of persons. Women and chil- * dren had been evacuated from Irun, but rebel hostages held by the doyalists were. placed in the most | {Tarn to Page Three)
JUDGE E ENTERS JAIL TO GET ‘EXPERIENCE’
ev ited Press x BS BURGH, Musmanno hs Court, was a Western Penitentiary a self-imposed “sentence” days. The jurist was living the life of a cenvict—sitting on a narrow bed behind iron bars, being shaved by the prison barbers, and mingliing with the inmates: : ~ ZA judge should know something of the environment and the daily = routine in a prison,” Judge Musmanno explained,
MARION COUNTY MEN WIN STATE PAROLES
_ Two Marion among five grant
Sept. of “prisoner” today serving of three
Allegheny
County men were ed paroles by the
. State Clemency Commission today. | _ They were Leo Francis and Ed- |
cach sentenced in robbery Four state instituwere - Geotge for -bur-
ward T. Young, 1833 to°10 vears for restaurant here. * County prisoners in ~ tions denied paroles Hodge, serving 10 years
* glary; Cecil Rufl, 10 years for bur-| “ glary: Alexander Geisking, 10 years]
for auto panditry, and James Miller, #10 years for robbery.
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obably will rise to between the
85 and 90 degrees tomorrow, ‘Weather Bureau forecast today. Temperatures today probably will ‘between 80 and 85, with thunywers probable tonight, 1 said.
USSIA INCREASES ARMY OW, Sept. 1.—Nine hundred | nd recruits were ordered into my today in a call which, 8. of routine nature, served to army's strength to 1,600,-
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Starting today,
the County Clerk's office is to remain open until
10 p. m. each night to speed registration of the reported 30,000 un-
registered voters. (right),
The photo above shows Thelma Dickman, 1208 N. and Eileen Reidenback, 1031 E. Raymend-st, as
Windsor-s +. they regisfjered with Harry J. Gasper, 303 E. 1l1th-st, at the office of
County Clerk Glenn Ralston.
City at Top in Auto Toll;
[Thomas Fowler, 76, Latest Victim; Resident Greentown Killed.
Marion =~ County's traffic toll reached 104 today with the death of of Thomas Fowler, 424 S. Dearborni st, injured in an automobile accident lastgSaturday. Mr. Fowler, who was 76, received | a broken collar bone and head in- | juries when struck by an auto- | mobile driven by Douglas English, | 18, of 244 Villa-av. He died this | morning in City Hospital. | James Mitchell, 63, of 243% Vir- | ginia-av, was injured critically | today when he was struck by a taxi while crossing Ohio-st at Delaware- | st. “The cab driver, William RadclifT. | [ 53, of 220 N, East-st, was arrested | on charges of reckless driving and | vagrancy. | | Radcliff, according to pelice,| made a left turn off Delaware-st | while traveling at a high rate of | i speed, and dragged Mr. Mitchell's | | body 62 feet. Mr. Mitchell was | { taken to City Hospital. Car Hits Yee House } John Murphy, 60, of Greentown, | | died in St. Joseph's Hospital, Ko- | komo, last night from a fractured | | skull received when his car vcollided with a ,truck driven by William Meeks, ‘95, of Michigantown, {at a road intersection near Ko- | komo. = Tall corn at the intersection ob- | structed the view of both drivers. {| Mr. Murphy was Howard County's third traffic victim in four days. Jerry Lee Helton, 5 months old, was killed yesterday when the family automobile overturned on a gravel road near Cory. Mrs. Elza Helton, the mother, received a frac- | tured hand. Asleep in an ice house at Sher-man-dr and 10th-st, where he is employed, William Richmond, 53, of 973 N. Sherman-dr, received chest and head injuries early this morn- | ing ‘when an automobile crashed into the building. Raymond Waterman, 18, of R. R. | | 3 who was driving, said he. lost control of the car when he struck { a bump in the street. Four persons { riding with Waterman were unin- | jured. Richmond was taken to | City Hospital. '
Woman Driver Arrested
Louis Newby, 5, of 824 N. Califor-nia-st, received minor head and | body injuries last night when he was struck by an automobile while cross- | ing Indiana-av in the 500 block. Ralph Hatley, 1528 Montcalm, driv er, said the boy ran in front of‘ his automobile. Police arrested Sylvester Smothers, 41, of 151 Doviglass-st¥: on charges of drunkenness and drunken driving after his automobile collided with a car driven by John Chambers, 29, of 1012 Colion-st, in the {1300 block on N. West-st. Mr. | Chambers’ wife, Edna; 25, received i an injured neck. | Mrs. Ora Morgan, 29, of 963 In-diana-av, was arrested on charges | of failing to stop at a preferential | street and failure to have a driver's | license after her automobile knocked" | down a police no-parking sign and a state highway route marker at { Vermont and Delaware-sts last i night.
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. -y Vacation Note 1 By United Press WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Sept. 1—-Two small boys set fire to - the grade school building here. {| The school will not be able to open on schedule next week,
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County Dea ths Reach 104
‘Record Worst in State for
Larger Cities, 1936 Survey Shows.
Indianapolis, with an death rate of 38.5 per 100,000 population for the first seven months of ranks highest in automobile fatalities among Indiana cities of
70,000 population or more, according |
to figures released today by Don F. Stiver, state safety director, Automobile accidents caused 99
deaths on Indiana highways during |
July, the report showed, bringing | the total for seven months up to 618, a gain ,of 25 deaths, or 4 per cent, over the same period a year ago.
For the entire United States the death total was 2 per cent higher than a year ago, putting Indiana 2 per cent ahead of the whole country. 3
110 Deaths in County
Marion County showed 110 deaths during the period as compared with 106 in 1935. This includes deaths of persons brought here after accidents in other counties. Fort Waynecrhad the best record among large cities with a rate of 14.5 per 100,000 population. Delphi had the highest rate in the state with a figure of 156.1. For the second successive month; Kokomo had the best record in the 25,000-70,000 population class with an average of 13.7 deaths per 100,000 population. Twenty-six Indiana cities in the 5000-25,000 population class had perfect records with no deaths being recorded for the period. Seven counties, Daviess, Spencer, Owen, Crawford, Scott, Union and Ohio, ‘had perfect records, with no deaths recorded.
Driving Hints
BY NAT'L SAFETY COUNCIL
INTERSECTIONS
O NOT approach an intersection at high speed and depend upon your brakes for a sudden , stop. This is not only hard on your, tires and brakes, but is also very often the cause of a rear-end collision with the. driv er behind you.
Unless you can see perfectly in:
all directions, approach intersections slowly. When you are sure the way is clear, and not until then, accelerate your speed. This practice will insure your having control over your car when you need it most.
MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC
TRAFFIC ARRESTS (August 31) Speeding Running red light Running preferential street. . Reckless driving Drunken Driving Other except parking
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
‘TARZAN’ GIVEN FIRST HAIRCUT IN 15 YEARS |
{| By United Press
WABASHA, Minn, Sept. 1.—Minnesota's in Rochester State Hospital today
{ for his first shave and haircut in|
| 15 years.
His language unintelligible, hair |
| thickly ‘matted, his feet caked with | |callouses, he struggled with his]
‘thim in the woods. But he made
| no attempt to harm them.
It ended a hermit-like existence
average |
“mad Tarzan” was locked |
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1936
POISON PLOT SUSPECTED IN
‘2 Others in Bedford Home | Stricken Mysteriously; Conditions Critical.
CONDUCT POST-MORTEM
Presence of Arsenic Found | in Examination Made by | State Police.
| By United Press | - BEDFORD, Ind.; Sept. 1. — The i deaths of two women and critical | illness of two men were investigated | by Lawrence County authorities to- | day on the suspicion they were vic- | tims of a poisoning plot. st-mortem examination of the | body* of one of the women revealed | she died of arsenic poisoning, Dr. | R. E. Wynne; Lawrence County cor- | oner, said. | Victims were Mrs. Katie Fultz, 50, | who died -Aug. 28; Mrs. Ruth Kern { Dillon, 25, who died Aug. 23, and | Samuel Kern and John Tuddy, both | seriously ill in a hospital here. All had been living at Mrs. Fultz’ home. Kern was a brother of Mrs. Dillon and Tuddy was a nephew of Mrs. Fultz. Kern became ill the day after Mrs. Fultz died and Tuddy was | stricken the following day. Dr. Wynne enlisted the aid of Sheriff Lincoln Dunbar and Prosecutor David F. Long in the investigation. When Mrs. Fultz died under conditions similar to those attending the death of Mrs. Dillon, the cor- { oner conducted a post-mortem ex‘amination and sent stomach contents to state police at Indianapolis. Informed that she had died of poisoning, the coroner conferred j with the prosecutor and sheriff on { the possibility of exhuming the body (of Mrs. Dillon for a similar examination. Relatives of the victims said they hed no reason to suspect a poisoning pio
State Detective:
Is Assigned
Capt. Matt Leach of the State Police said this afternoon he had sent Detetcive Harvey Hire to Bedford to aid in the investigation of the alleged poison death of two women and’ the critical illness of two men. Capt. Leach said he had not yet learned any of the delalls of the case.
COL, KNOX DECRIES LABOR PARTIALITY
Candidate Scores Political Activity of Unions.
By United Press ROCKY POINT, R. I, Sept. 1.— A government showing partiality “to one form of labor organization or the other is an un-American gov=ernment,” Frank Knox, Republican vice presidential nominee, asserted today at a G. O. P. clam bake rally. “American labor,” said Knox, “has until our time fought its own. battles” and “stayed clear from partisan political activities.” The "Republican discussion of labor and government relations came at a time when the American Federation of Labor is split into two factions and John IL. Lewis, mine union president and insurgent leader prominent in the . labor nonpartisan league, is working for reelection of President Roosevelt,
CEREMONY MARKS ‘BOULEVARD OPENING
Mayor Kern Accepts WPA Roadway.
Official opening of the new Fall Creek boulevard, from Keystone-av to, Millersville, was held at 10 a. m. today at the Keystone-av entrance of the new roadway. Mayor Kern, park department offi-
_| cials, and land donors took part in
the dedicatory ceremonies. Red, white and blue ribbons—barring entrance to the boulevard— were cut by Mayor Kern. with Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Marion County WPA director, making the | presentation speech and Mayor | | Kern accepting the roadway.
* DEATHS OF 2 |
+ 'An-unsigned confession purported:
| prosecutor, said:
Entered as Second-Class Matter ~ at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.
WOMAN IS SWORN IN AS COURT BAILIFF
Mrs. Esther Goff (above),
1205 Prospect-st,
is shown taking an
oath as special Criminal Court, bailiff to care for women Jurors during .
the Victor Crickmore murder trial.
A legal pecedent in Marion County was set last night when Special Judge E. E. McFerren ordered a jury of eight men and four women
locked up for she night.
Court attaches said this. was the first time a jury including women
had been locked up here. fense counsel, demanded that jurors Mrs. Goff and Bailiff Roy Lowe
The order came. after Clyde C. Karrer, de-
be free from any outside influence. took the jury to a downtown hotel:
where they are Jo Jive during the trial.
OPENS MURDER TRIAL EVIDENCE
State Stresses £5525 Crinkmore’s Alleged Confession, Calls Witnesses.
to have been made by Victor Crickmore was the chief point stressed in opening statements today at Crickmore’s murder trial in connection with the alleged fatal stoning of
John Penny, truck driver. Oscar Hagemeier, chief deputy
“Crickmore is a hired assassin. At one time he made a confession, which was taken down by Detective Paul Taylor, but which he later refused to sign.” Clyde Karrer, chief defense counsel, said the state wanted the confession in dérder to pin a crime on the union and put it out of business. “The state framed this story,” Mr. Karrer said, “to take Crickmore away from his children. The state offered him $10 a week if he would sign this statement.” /. The state charged thatf on the night of March 7, 1935, Crickmore, George Haygood, Mary Freels and Mrs. Alma Louis ‘McCracken Mc‘Clary drove out National Road, met Penny's truck near Belleville, and that Haygood and Crickmore threw bricks which killed Mr. Penny. First witnesses for the state foday were Fred Schmid Jr. and Phil Schmid, husky farm youths, who described finding the wrecked truck; Dr. Tracy O’Brien of Clayton, Ind., who was called to the scene by the
Schmid brothers and said he did not.
find any stones in the truck cab; William Alexander, Kroger Co. night foreman, and Don McKamy, Belleville farm hand, who said he saw a dark sedan turn around at Belleville: on the night of March. 7, 1935, and start west ‘on the National Road, but said he did not see any women in the car.
DEEP SEA DIVER GETS ‘BENDS’ ON LAKE JOB
By United Press | LEXINGTON, Ky. Sept. 1— Charles E. Heineman, Washington (D. C.) deep-sea diver suffering from the “bends” after an accident in Herrington Lake near Harrodsburg, Ky., was kept under an oxygen tank in a hospital here today. His condition was reported serious. Heineman suffered the dreaded condition after his air hose broke above the lake surface while he was diving to recover the boy of Mrs. Gladys Horner, 20, of New Lebanon,
0., drowned a week ago.
3 Brothers Die ‘While Trying to Save F ou
By United Press FULTON, Mo., Sept. 1.—Bodies of | three brothers were found today in a gas and water-filled coal mine near here. They died in a futile: effort to savera fourth brether. Louis Metz, 32, died from inhaling monoxide gas, but it was not known whether the cause of the deaths of Earnest Metz, 23, Freddie Metz, 21, and Harry Metz, 19, was gas poisoning or drowning. T. J. Wolfe, Fulton city employe and father-in-law of Louis Metz, was in a critical condition at Callaway Hospital of gas poisoning. Louis Metz and his father-in-law, Wolfe, were draining water from the abandoned shaft mine when ‘gas from the exhaust of a gasoline engine overcame them. One by one, the three younger Metz brothers slid down a rope into the mine and to their deaths. Workers wearing gas masks borrowed from fire departments of neighboring towns found the bodies of Ernest, Harry and Freddie Metz huddled close together. The body of Louis Metz was removed to the surface last night before the bodies of his three brothers were located.
PLANS FOR MODEL HOUSE GIVEN 0. K.
Specifications for Unit Here Are Accepted.
The State Planning Board today accepted and approved plans and specifications drawn by the Purdue Housing Research Project for a two-family house to be built as an experiment in the attempted solution of low-cost and low-rent housing in Indianapolis. Frank Watson, project director, said the house would cost no more than $1400 for materials and labor, and could be rented for $7 a family a month. : Each side of the house would contain two bedrooms, one livingroom and Kitchen : shower and an inside sanitary toilet. 3The preliminary plans from Purdue provided a shared toilet and | shower, but research into costs and economies in building have stretched the funds to provide one for each family, thereby overcoming one of the principal objections to the preliminary plan, Three livable rooms are consid- ; (Turn to Page Three)
combined, a |
PRICE THREE CENTS
Executive Also Will
nounced today.
Board president. Gov. McNutt and other
DERN HONORED BY. PRESIDENT
Exedulive in Salt in Salt Lake City for Funeral of His War Secretary.
By United Press ~ SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 1. —President Franklin D. Roosevelt, accompanied by six members and acting members of the Cabinet, arrived in the Utah capital shortly after 8 a. m. today to pay final respects to his late Secretary of | War,»George Henry Dern. | The presidential special was pre- | ceded a few minutes by the train bearing the body of Dern. #* The President was greeted at the Union Pacific Station by a large, but silent crowd. Mr. Roosevelt previously had requested that admirers refrain from cheering during his visit here to attend Dern’s funeral services. Immediately after arrival of the presidential party, the body of the Secretary was removed from the train under supervision of military authorities from Fort Douglas, local military post.
Landon Plans Brief Stay in Des Moines
By United Press TOPEKA, Sept. 1.—Gov. Alfred M. Landon’s role at the Des Moines drought conference called by President Roosevelt appeared likely today to be as unostentatious as is compatible with his job as Governor of Kansas. The Republican presidential nominee, agreeing with President Roosevelt’s declaration that politics must not enter into the drought relief program, was believed planning to make his visit to the Iowa capital as brief as circumstances permit.
STATE FAIR, SCHOOLS COMPLICATE TRAFFIC
65 WPA Workers to Help Police During Rush.
Police officials outlined emergency plans today to handle State Fair traffic along with the opening of schoals. Chief Morrissey said the regular force of patrolmen is to be augmented by 65 WPA traffic workers, who are to protect children at crossings near schools. No regular patrolmen are to be at school crossings because of extra | duty in handling Fair traffic, Chief Morrissey said. Ninety-seven pa- | trolmen, under Capt. Otto Pettit, | are to be on duty at the Fairground. In addition to WPA safety workers, 1600 school boys are to be stationed at street corners near schools. The School Board issued a statement today urging parents to caution their children about crossing streets during heavy traffic.
Well-Wishers Hamper Boy's Fight for Life
By United Press
HICAGO, Sept. 1.—A physician |
| _ fighting to save the life of a | smiling, T-year-old boy, explained
wearily today that the hundreds of | well-wishers who have called to offer their blood may only complicate { Philip Levitt's illness. The child—suffering from streptococcus veridans, little-known form of blood poisoning—must have. the
captors yesterday when they found i blood if he is to survive the wrack-
| ing torture which accompanies his | rare disease. But Dr. Paul Suhlins explained
Tn the Lo pene
which started when a lad of 14, his | that not one in hundreds can help: mind affected by sun-stroke, ran |that only one who has had an identical infection ana recovered, has
the blood which might save the child. : And recovery is so rare as to be almost unknown. Meanwhile, Dr. Sahlins said, offers of help have poured in from all corners of the country. Telegrams, telephone calls and personal visits into the hundreds—all of them disturbing to the boy who must, among other things, have rest.
‘WO possibilities are held out for Philip's recovery. One is preparation of a cuture from one who had recovered from
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of a vaccine from blood which has been immunized. The first is all but impossible, Dr. Sahlins said, both because of the rarity of the disease and because over a period of years the blood may have lost the quality which wil help the child. Philip’s parents, in a last desper. ate measure, have undertaken the second. They have been inoculated with his blood in nopes their own systems will develop an immunity which may be transmitted through vaccines to him. It will be a month before outcome of their sacrifice will be known.
MAHA, Neb, Sept. 1.—Attendants at St. Catherine's Hospital today were continuing tests of numerous persons who have offered to give blood transfusions to Helen Eley, 19, suffering from complications following an operation performed several years ago. Helen needs a specific, rare type of blood and in the last few days more than 150 persons have been tested without success. Byron Hirsch, Omaha, has been able to give the girl two wransfusions but will not be permitted to give more
donors was sent out by the girl's
Dr. Sahlins is keeping & list of would-be donors. oo
parents. , =,
of $1,000,000, was ca
for at least six weeks. An appeal for |
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.R. TO OPEN NDIANA FAIR IN TALK SATURDAY
President to Speak Briefly in Front of Grand Stand During Visit in Connection With Four-State Parley on Drought.
M'NUTT, AIDES, TO BE ON STAND
Inspect Three Major
WPA Projects at Hoosier Exposition; Wallace to Accompany Party.
President Roosevelt, who is to visit Indianapolis Saturday for a four-state drought relief conference, is to speak . briefly at the State Fairground at. 10:30 a. m., it was an-
The President is to speak in front of the racetrack grand stand, formally opening the eighty-fourth Indiana State Fair, according to C. H. Tayler, State Agricultural
officials of Indiana and sur. rounding Sentes are to be on the speakers’ platform, it ‘was -
said. Mr. Roosevelt also is to inspect three major WPA
projects at the Fairground
during his visit, Fair officials said. These include the new educational building, the model farm home and the concrete tunnel from the ine
field.
Midwest state officials who are expected to confer with Mr. Roosevelt at the Indianapolis Athletic Club at 11 a. m. on the drought Sustiony:
and who also are expected to at-, tend the fair opening are:
Govérnors McNutt, A, B. Chand~ ler, Kentucky; Martin L. Davey, Ohio, - and * Frank D. Fitzgerald, Michigan; and Senators Frederick VanNuys and Sherman Minton, Indiana; Vie Donahey and Robert J. Bulkley, Ohio; M. M. Logan and Alvin W. Barkley, Kentucky, and James Couzens and Arthur H. Vandenberg, Michigan, The presidential party is to arrive here by special train from Springfield, Ill, at 9 a. m. A motor tour
of the city’s Federal works projects
is scheduled immediately after the arrival. It also was reported the President may visit James Whit=~ comb Riley Hospital for Crippled Children during his brief visit.
Wallace to Be in Party
Following the drought conference, Mr. Roosevelt is to remain in the eity until 3 p. m., when his special train is to leave for his home in Hyde Park, N, Y. The presidential party is to in-
clude Henry Wallace, Secretary of
Agriculture; Harry Hopkins, National WPA Administrator; W. I, Meyers, Farm Credit Adninistration governor; Robert Fechner, National CCC director, and Eugene S:. Leggett
of the National Emergency Council.;
FRENCHMAN FAVORITE TO WIN PLANE RACE
By United Press ‘LOS ANGELES, Sept. . 1—Herrk Detroyat, famous French aviator,
today became a favorite to win the :
Thompson trophy dash of the Na=
tional Air Races, after he sent his
Renault-Caudron racer around a closed course at an estimated 285 miles an hour. He said the plane, reputedly built by the French government at a cost ble of going 300 miles an hour.
By United Press DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 1 —Pilots in the Ruth Chatterton Air Derby from Cleveland to Los Angeles were en route to El Paso, Tex., today,
PLAN BOARD NAMED FOR COLUMBUS, IND.
Times Special » COLUMBUS, Ind., Sept. 1.—Mayor John L. Hosea has announced the members of the new city planning commission for Columbus. They are: John W. Suverkrup, Frank M. Richman, Yandel C. Cline, Walter E. Simmen and Mrs. Ray Marr. Henry Loesch was appointed a member by.
the council and Mayor Hosea also
will serve.
The rapid growth of Columbus
prompied city officials to decide on the creation of a planning commis sion, Mayor Hosea said.
PLEADS GUILTY IN ‘MERCY’ SLAYING
By United Press NEWBURGH, N. Y., Sept. 1.— Mrs. Dorothy Sherwood, .28-year-old former showgirl who was saved from the electric chair by the Court
of Appeals, today pleaded guiity to
first degree man-slaughter in the
“mercy” drowning of her infant son.
Sentence was deferred.
HELD IN: FIRE PROBE
Henry Hapnel 71, of 10 8. Teme arrested
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