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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 122

DEATH VOTE ON PAY AND HOUR BILL 1S ASKED

Connally Moves to Send Labor Measure Back To Committee.

NEW DEAL RIFT WIDENED

Harrison's Break Held Next To Garner's in Its Party Importance.

By United Press WASHINGTON, July 31.— Senator Connally (D. Tex.) today moved in the Senate to recommit the Black Wage and Hour Bill to the Labor and Education Committee. The action, if adopted, would kill the bill for this session.

Polls of the Senate showed a very close division on recommittal. Some

Last Act!

DROPPING OF §

| Codona, King of Tra- | peze, Shoots Wife | And Kills Self.

BULLETIN Ry United Press LONG BEACH. Cal, July 31.—Vera Bruce died at 12:30 | p. m. (Indianapolis Time) in the Seaside Hospital.

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'One-Man Jury Charges That Dearborn Officers Neglected Their Duty.

——— By United Press By BEACH, Cal, July 31.—| Something went wrong in the MURPHY RENEWS FIGHT brain of Alfredo Codona, supreme artist of the flying trapeze, and, ten- |

derly, little iogetically, he ried a revalver imo his wife. Governor Plans Second Ses-

sion as State Senate

| that is, emptied it of all but one | bullet. With that bullet, he Killed | Again Kills Labor Bill.

By United Press | the incomparable Lillian Leitzel,

HERSHEY, Pa. July 31.—

Pole-Sitting

SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1937

67 MOTORISTS ARE ASSESSED $o717 IN FINES

Convict Wins

Record, Cell

By United Press SAN QUENTIN, Cal, July 3l1.— Meyer Golas, a burglar from Los —— | Angeles with a yen for pole-sitting, : i \was off his perch again today and Two Boy Traffic Victims Fight for Lives in

| locked securely in an isolation block | Hospitals Here.

Golas' second marathon ended

{about 8 o'clock last night after a | . atively short squat of 9 hours | Drunken Driver Sentenced |

d a few minutes. A cold fog and | the Sa of hunger brought him To Serve 30-Day Jail Term.

down.

N STOP SIGNS

He was given a heaping steak dinner and locked up to repent his ways.

Earlier in the week, the 23-year- | Sixty-seven motorists paid a total

| Codona’s first wife, who fell from a flying ring in 1931, and was { killed. The tragedy occurred yesterday | afternoon. Miss Bruce was probably

| fatally wounded. Doctors said she |

could not live. | Throughout the world circus goers

old convict broke from the line and clambered up the pole for a 19-hour, 88-minute stay. After he was driven down by hunger, guards removed the bottom 15 rungs of the pole's ladder to prevent a recurrence, Yesterday as prisoners marched to the bathhouse, he broke away and | shinnied up the pole.

| Rep. Clare E. Hoffman, Mich. charged today that the Senate Civil Liberties Committee and the National Labor Relations | Board “have made a hell on earth for one industry after | another.” He branded the | Civil Liberties Committee's in-

of $577 fines and costs, an average of $8.61 each, in Municipal Court today. Meanwhile, two boys, among the 12 persons injured in a dozen traffic accidents overnight, battled for their lives in hospitals today. Wayne Orlott, 12, who is in James Whitcomb Riley Hospital, and 5-

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Indianapolis,

Judge Imposes Death on Police Dog for Biting

| | By United Press | SKOWHEGAN, Me, July 31-— | District Judge Maurice P. Merrill, | no dog owner himself, today sen- | tenced June, a police dog, to death —for & bite, Her owner, Mrs, Hattie Perkins, middle-aged housewife, appealed and furnished $100 bond. June was barred from the hearing. When Mrs. Perkins opened the door, June bounded in ahead of her, “Take the dog from the room.” Judge Merrill sternly ordered. “I won't have her in there.” The chief witness against June was Harry A. Dinsmore, 80, Mrs, Perkins’ neighbor. The attack occurred the night of | July 21 while he was crossing Mrs. | Perkins’ potato patch, Dinsmore | said. “This dog came out and grabbed me by the leg,” he said. “I had my cane raised in front of me and Mrs. Perkins came out and grabbed my cane. The dog grabbed me on the other side of my arm. Mrs, Perkins said she kept June | as a watchdog because she was hard

as Second-Olass Matter

PRICE THREE CENTS

FLEE ‘CITY OF

Loss of Two Northern Provinces Waited By Chinese.

‘WAITING’ POLICY

‘Chiang Is Expected to Bide Time Until He Is Stronger.

By H. R. EKINS (Copyright, 1937, by United Prems)

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SHRIEKING MOBS TIENTJIN,

TERROR’

Japanese Turn Guns On Native Quarter,

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Writer Says.

PANIC IS STARTED

Bodies Trampled on

River Bank During Flight.

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By H. 0. THOMPSON (Copyright, 193%, by United Press)

| and circus performers mourned tion of the Chicago Codona today, for he was to the | yestigatio Day riots a “fla(circus what Garbo is to the movies | ot exhibition of shyster | —a performer without a peer. He | methods.” y

Prison doctors said Golas was a | harmless mental case. | —— ———

| had made innumerable world tours |

His charges were the high-

A. F. of L. officials were urging | and had appeared in practically |

Senators to send the bill back to | every sizeabie town of the United

committee and some representatives | States, star of the aerial act, “The |

| lights of a two-day closed | conference of independent un-

DRUGEIST FACES

vear-old Kenneth Lee Swickard, in City Hospital, both were reported in critical condition. Eleven more motorists were scheduled to appear before .Judge Charles Karabell later today on traffic counts

of hearing.

RANGER LEADS

SHANGHAI, July 31, — Japan has won again, it seemed today. Shattered

TIENTSIN, July 381, == Tientsin was turned suddenly into an inferno of hate, fear

of farm organizations were active in the lobbies for the same purpose. A vote on Senator Connally’s motion was expected shortly. No votes on any amendments to the bill can be taken until the recommittal motion is disposed of. Previously the Administration

jonists organizing to oppose the Committee for Industrial Organization and the American Federation of Labor.

Flying Codonas.” =

By United Press DETROIT, July 31.— Common Pleas. Judge Ralph W. Liddy, who

Thirty-two persons paid a total of

THUG SUSPECT «= for preferential street ordi-

| nance violations, with costs susounded Man Is Unable to

| pended in 11 cases. Eight speeders and 14 stop light runners wera Positively Identify

| fined $113, with costs suspended | in seven cases,

~ IN YACHT RAGE

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‘Spectator Boats Swarm at Starting Line as Cup

beat an amendment affecting Secre- | the death of Miss Leitzel, whom he

tary of State Hull's good-neighbor tariff policy. Senator McCarran (D. Nev.) offered an amendment which would

have barred importation of products |

made abroad under so-called ‘‘substandard” labor conditions. He sharply assailed importation of foreign dairy and agricultural products now sold in this country in competition with domestic products. The McCarran amendment was defeated 53 to 27. The Senate also turned down an amendment by Senator Davis (R. Pa.) which would have exempted from the bill all employees paid on a commission basis.

Harrison Breaks

With New Deal

By RUTH FINNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, July 31.—Senator Pat Harrison (D. Miss.), who came within one vote of being elected Democratic floor leader last week, has broken with the New Deal and stepped back into his old role gadfly. For four years he has voted for all of the New Deal's legislation and even sponsored some of it, though occasionally with a wry face. But the bile that has been accumulating in the last few years overflowed yesterday in one of those deadly, sarcastic speeches that have made Senator Harrison famous. It was the old Harrison speaking, the Harrison who made life miserable for Republicans in the CoolidgeHoover days when his party was a minority in the Senate. Ridicules Perkins

He ridiculed Secretary of Labor Perkins. He took sideswipes at NRA, although he himself reported

the recovery act from the Finance |

Committee and sponsored it on the fioor; at the Social Security Act, with its tax on business, and at the National Labor Relations Act. Senators crowded the fioor to hear this right-about face. Bankhead and House Leader Ravburn walked over from the House to listen. Next to Vice President Garner's break with the Administration on the Court Bill, the Harrison defection was greeted as the most important milestone so far in the Democratic party's widening rift.

MEANS IS TRANSFERRED Bu Inited Press WASHINGTON, July 31.—Gaston B. Means, sentenced to prison in connection with the defrauding of Mrs. Edward B. McLean in the Lindbergh kidnap case, was ordered transferred today from Leavenworth Prison to the Federal Hospital for

Defective Delinquents at Springfield, Mo.

BOB BURNS

Says: July 31. —

There's nothin’ I like better than seein’ a good horse race. but people out here wonder why I don’t bet on ‘em. It's just that I ain't a gamblin’ man. It's kinda a family trait, especially among the women folks of my family. They sure are against it. I'll never forget how hurt and disillusioned my Aunt Scphie was pretty soon after she was married when she found out that

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» | WO years ago Codona was performing his celebrated triple somersault in Philadelphia. Miss Bruce propeled him into space, 85 | feet above the circus ring, at a | speed of 60 miles an hour. In a dis(Turn to Page Three)

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PWA MAKING FINAL LOCKEFIELD CHECK

‘Approval for Occupancy May Follow.

| Times Special

WASHINGTON, July 31—Final

conducted a one-man grand jury investigation into the riot at the Ford River Rouge plant May 26, | today asked the dismissal of SIX | members of the Dearborn, Mich, police force for neglect of duty, In a presentment prepared by | Wayne County Prosecutor Duncan

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| were assessed $92 by Judge Karabell, Negro Held.

Donald Demree, 32-year-old] Brightwood pharmacist today was | unable to positively identify a Ne-| gro suspect as the gunman who had | ‘wounded him and his father in a | C. McCrea, Judge Liddy Tecom- nsiqyp attempt Thursday night in| mended that the six be “disciplined” | jis drugstore at Roosevelt Ave. and | or removed from their positions for | 17 St., police said. | failure to intervene in fighting be- Lying on a hospital bed in St. tween employees of the Ford Motor | yincent's Hospital, Mr. Demree was Co. and members of the United ponfronted with the suspect, who Automobile Workers of America. | was arrested earlier today, but The six named were: Inspector | could not speak because of hypoCharles W. Slamer; Sergt. Jt | dermics administered to ease his Dean, mounted division; Patrolman | pain. Allen BE. Wasser, mounted division: | In a nearby room was his father, Patrolman Clarence Snider, motor- | Arthur W. Demree, 65, reported to cycle division; Patrolman Fred Her- | be weakening in his battle for life man, mounted division, and Netta | against a gunshot wound in the Hitcheock, police matron. abdomen. Jehn J. Fish, chairman of the | The suspect was returned to poDearborn Safety Commission, said ' lice headquarters and held A no action would be taken until |$5000 bond for further in . Monday when the commission meeta Officers thought it possible he was in regular session. the third man sought Ih an East Side manhunt yesterday when two Negroes were captured by 11 policemen and three detectives. They were released today when | arraigned in Municipal Court on vagrancy charges. A fourth suspect was taken into custody, heid on a vagrancy charge and questioned this afternoon. Detective Captain Michael Hynes said he would be confronted with the wounded men at the hospital when questioning was concluded. z Authorities also were working on

‘Murphy Still Hopes ‘To Pass Labor Act

By United Press LANSING, Mich. July 31.-—An-other special session of the Legis- | lature will be called to reconsider a | “Little Wagner Act” for Michigan, | Governor Murphy said before he left for Washington today to con- | | fer over the week-end with Presi- | | dent Roosevelt. | The Senate last night for the sec- |

Drunken Driver Jailed

Three reckless drivers paid a total of $25, with costs suspended in two cases, Clarence Smith, 1531 Yandes St., was fined $10 and costs and sentenced to 30 days in jail on a drunken driving charge. His car allegedly struck a parked truck in the 1900 block of Cornell St. last night, Hartwell Ward, 933 W. 30th St., was fined a total of $40 on charges of speeding and reckless driving. Motorcycle Officer Harold Morton testified Ward was driving 54 miles an hour at 26th and Clayton Sts. Five persons were injured early

today when the car in which they |

were riding crashed into a temporary wooden railing of the Emrichsville bridge on 16th St.

Driver Injured

The timbers had been placed in front of the concrete railing which was being repaired after a large section was torn out in a previous accident. Those injured were the driver, Fred Wisher, 26, of 537 N. Tremont St.: his wife, Tessie Wisher; John Williams, 31, of R. R. 7, Box 365; his (Turn to Page Thre=)

TRIO SLAYS ESCORT,

ASSAULTS GIRL, 21

By United Press

TOPEKA, Kas, July 31.-—-Miss

the theory that the gunman may mMarie Fink, 21, who drove several

check on the Lockefield Gardens ond time in two days voted adjourn- | | Apartments in Indianapolis is now | ment after refusing to pass the bill. | under way and some of the build- | House Democrats meet today in a ings there are expected to be ap- | session protesting Senate adjournproved for occupancy next week, ment. | the Housing Division of the Public | | Works Adminfstration announced New Albany Box Co. today. . Although completed several months | 17UCE is Announced ago, the job has not been acceptable | Thomas Hutson, State Labor |to the Government because of Commissioner today announced a | | faulty brick work and cement con- | truce in labor trouble at the New | | struction, PWA officials said. They | Albany Box Co. when 150 men |

have been prompted by revenge in| miles with the body of her friend,

Series Starts.

By United Press ABOARD C. G. C., CHELAN, OFF | NEWPORT, July 31.—Beating into | a light southeast wind, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's Ranger, the | defender, and T. O. M. Sopwith’s | ®ndeavour II, the British chal- | lenger, began the 17th series ol races today for possessiun of the world's greatest yachting trophy, the America's Cup. The unofficial starting time was 11:25 =a. m. Indianapolis Time, They crossed the starting line of i the 30-mile race almost stmultaneously. Ranger, however, had nailed the weather berth and was regarded *as having the advantage. The course was south hy east from the Government buoy nine miles southeast of the Brenton Reef light vessel. Vanderbilt. could be seen plainly at the wheel of his Wwhite-hulled | sloop as the hoats neared the start(Turn to Page Six)

THREE WPA PICKETS SEIZED BY POLICE

Crowd of 100 Dispersed as

' Demands Are Pressed.

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Police today arrested three pickets

bodies floating down the river | toward the Yellow Sea from | Tientsin, ruins of a beautiful ‘university, homeless women ‘and children, battered towns ‘and the rout of a brave, illarmed Chinese Army testified to China's newest defeat

lin the north.

| sin announced in a contemptuous | | bulletin that “the enemy has gone |

| with the wind.” | Tt was indicated strongly that | China's leaders, biting down their

| impotent rage and outraged pride, |

| would take all this and wait. Realize Dangers

| the heart of the country, that to

| national catastrophe,

The danger of a flare-up that might flame into real war remained, and will remain. Throughout the country the people believe there is going to be war now, immediately and inevitabiy. But the real view, and it is reflected in stock and bond prices, is that the country’s leaders will resort, to statesmanship rather than to war because they know the hopelessness of attempting to oust Japan from their territory now. The Shanghai stock market remained | steady despite war talk. | The Government warily pondered | the situation and people's eyes turned toward Generalissimo Chi- | ang Kai-shek, commander in chief (Turn to Page Three)

They realize clearly, according fo | the best informed sources here in |

| make war on Japan would mean a |

that |

and jangled nerves today at a moment when it had seemed that the brief, tragic “war” between China and Japan had ended.

This morning started quietly, Japanese artillerymen coldly and unemotionally kept pounding their field gun shells into the smoking, black ruin of the Rockefeller li brary of beautiful Nankai Univers sity, just firing away,

H. R. Ekins, who circled the world in record time for The Indianapolis Times and the Scripps - Howard Newspapers last year, has arrived in China with H. O. Thompson to cover the developments in the Japanese crisis for the United Press. Mr, Ekins and Mr, Thompson are veteran war correspondents. Following his world tour, Mr. Ekins, spoke in Indianapolis,

Next, the Japanese artillery | opened up, without warning in the | Quiet, tense city, a terrible . bom bardment of the native city, the

| Hopel quarter, People Remained Unmoved

For the days of the fighting, | when their men were essaying their hopeless stand against the Japaness Army, the people of the city had remained fatalistically unmoved. But the bombardment caught them weakened. In a few moments, panic broke,

the shobting. | The revenge motive was ad- | | vanced when the younger Mr. Demree told officers he recognized the | gunman as the same man he had | | routed with a blow in a first un- | | successful holdup attempt a week | before. DROWN AS BOAT SINKS COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, July 31. —Five persons, all residents of the

Verne Hedrick, who was shot to death by three Negroes who then dragged her from the car and attacked her, was near collapse today. “We couldn't get much from the | ris Sts, : girl,” Police Chief Wayne Horning | Police and WPA officials said the said. “She was near collapse. When | pickets were members of the Workshe stumbled back to the car, she |ers’ Alliance. didn’t know whether Mr. Hedrick| The arrested wen gave their was dead or not. She said she [ names as James A. Scott, 50, of 1421 didn’t know how she got the car De Loss St. Willlam Nelson, 53, started or how long it took. She | same address, and William Preston,

| and dispersed a crowd estimated at {100 in front of the State WPA head~ [quarters at Kentucky Ave, and Mor-

| hardly able to walk interspersed the | crashing explosions of the Japanese

FILM OPERATOR HAS = | HIS SAY, WINS DAY! As iy yan, There Tours on She

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have required the contractor 10

Speaker remedy these defects and the proj- | the start of negotiations Aug. 5. Mr. | were drowned late last night

| ect now is undergoing its final in- | spection, they stated.

| — - | | | The machinery of justice bringing out some hidden exguse- | making talents among Marion | County folk this week, and a lot | of bad tempers among those who |saw their vacation plans blasted. | Those affected are members of a special venire of 200 listed as prospective jurors for the trial Monday of Joel A. Baker, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill Wayne Coy, former State Welfare Director. Deputy sheriffs, who were still | trying to complete serving notices to veniremen today, said at least 20 persons summoned already had the family auto all, greased up for a long-planned vacation trip. “All they can do is cancel their vacation plans and come to Criminal Court Monday, so far as I have anything to say about it,”

Chief Deputy Sheriff Henry Mueller said.

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| agreed to return to work pending Coeur D'Alene River valley district, in

small

| Hutson said the truce averted a Killarney Lake when their | strike. ( pleasure boat sank.

had to shove and push Mr. Hedrick from under the wheel. All this she did while harassed by thoughts the Negroes might return.”

deputies can excuse the service right then and there and | case opens Monday morning. we're usually greeted with a barrage | The “sick” excuse is used genof ‘BROUSES | erally, too, Mr. Mueller said. od : | “About one out of every four | “Our stock answer to them is | percons who give illness as an exi “You'll have to see the judge.’ and cuse for not serving is really sick | we're off for the next summons,” | when the facts are known,” Mr. Mr. Mueller said. | Mueller said. Two persons summoned yester-| On the other hand, about 50 day, Mr. Mueller said, handed the | persons who didn’t gét summoned | papers back to deputies with this | for service telephoned the Sheriff's remark: | office and asked to get on the list. “I've formed a definite opinion| “Their reasons for serving genabout the case and am not qualified erally were to get the $2.50 a day to serve.” | wages paid to jurors,” Mr. Mueller That got them no place, as the said. “That was earlier in the week deputy turned a deaf ear and when it was reported a pickup jury handed the summons back to them | might be summoned from bywith the remark: “You'll have to | standers.” tell it to the judge.” The Chief Deputy said 47 of the To complicate matters for those | 200 veniremen have not been found who don't want to appear, the | in the County. judge they have to see, James A.| “We found that a couple of them

her

husband gam-

bled.

He came in one morning and

handed her $5 and said, ‘Dear,

here's some money I won in a poker | game last night and I want you to |

go down and buy that new dress

you've been looking at.” Aunt So- | phie says, “It hurts me to accept

money that was made in that terrible manner—I want you to prom-

ise me that you'll give up that aw-

fu] habit as soon as you've made

enough money to get a hat to gO |

TIENTSIN’S NATIVE QUARTER

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See Judge,’ Excuse-Making Veniremen Told

“Some people seem to think our Emmert, lives in Shelbyville and live: in California and never did | from won't be in Indianapolis until the | live in Marion County and many | | of them have moved out since their

names were put on the tax duplicates,” he said. The large number of nonresidents on the list was attributed by Mr, Mueller to taking the names off the tax duplicates instead of the assessors’ books as was done heretofore. Taking the names off the assessors’ books was one of the objections listed in the defense plea that resulted in invalidation of a previous venire of 100 drawn for the Baker case last week, Deputy sheriffs said they had served summonses to 12¢ of the 200, leaving 29 still to be checked. No further attempts will be made to find the 47 who couldn't be located either in the directory, registration lists or at the Postoffice, Mr. Mueller said.

| 33, of 1255 Madison Ave. Police said they would be charged

| NEW YORK, July 31.-—A motion

| ness. The situation was approach | ing that which in 1932 sent United

ith disorderly conduct and congre- | picture operator had his work week | States troops to China, and a small

gating.

| reduced from 80'2 to 30 hours to-

British Army, in fear that foreign

Officers appeared on the scene gay because he got chummy with | Populations would be caught in an

| shortly after State WPA Director {John K. Jennings had met a com- [ mittee of eight from the Workers’ | Alliance and rejected eight new demands. The demands, according to Mr. Jennings, were: A 30 per cent wage increase, reinstatement of laid off | workers, recognition of the Workers’ [Alliance as the sole bargaining | agency with WPA, signing of an | agreement between the Alliance and | WPA, establishment of a Board of | Appeals, dismissal of WPA employees who carry petitions against | the Alliance, rescinding of the or- | der putting WPA trucks on con- | tracts and furnishing of materials | for sewing projects in townships | where trustees are unable to do so, by WPA.

: ——————— CLIPPER AT SOUTHAMPTON | By United Press | SOUTHAMPTON, England, July 31.—~The Pan-American Clipper III, which completed ils second | eastward crossing of the North Atlantic from Botwood, Newfound- | land, to Foynes, Irish Free State, | arrived here at 4:55 p, m. on & sur-

| vey flight,

THERE . . . . .

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ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL STREETS

| the audience,

| House lights flashed on in the | Greenwich Theater last night, the feature film vanished from the screen and a voice boomed: | “Ladies and gentlemen, this is | the motion picture operator speak[ing to you from the booth. There is no trouble with the equipment [and no cause for alarm. I am using | this means to protest to you against the inhuman working conditions in this theater, “I work seven days a week, 11% hours a day, have no vacations, no rest. 1 eat in the booth where the heat sometimes is unbearable, The management, refused to listen. designated Local 306 of the Motion Picture Operators Union as my bargaining agent. I. ask you not to patronize this theater until they sign up with Local 306." The voice was that of Morris M, Silver. When he finished talking, he locked himself in the booth with assistant Eli Rose to await developments. The audience filed out and had their tickets refunded. Early today, the union business agent sent word to Silver that the strike had ended; that he had won,

| uncontrollable holocaust, Turn Out in Alarm | The troops in foreign concessions | turned out at a general alarm and | took posts at the barricades. Troops at the bayonet point dee | fended their area and diverted all | Chinese who had no permits io other points, The terrorized Chinese began taking to the river. They thronged the banks of the Haibo between the foreign concessions and the East railroad station. They thronged the bank, trams (Turn to Page Three)

GIRL, 8, ATTACKED, STRANGLED TO DEATH

By United Press NEW YORK, July 31-Paula Magna, 8, was attacked and strangled to death today in the basement of a Brooklyn apartment house in which she lived. The nude body of the child, a rope looped three times around her neck, was found face down across the top of a baby carriage. LOCAL TEMPERATURES 66 10 a, mm... 7% Iam... 75 12 (Noon)

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