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BANDITS LOOT BANK
Escape ‘Relatively Easy,” Declares Gottschalk.
ARE RETAKEN
Rumor of Warden's Ouster Revived by Incident.
MICHIGAN CITY, Feb. 11 (U. P.).—Thurman A. Gottschalk, superintendent of State Institutions, today
blamed the break of five con- more than an hour early to-
victs from the State Prison | | day by five bandits who es- | mont. | sparks, ‘destroyed the em yesterday. Loss was esti-
on “structural weaknesses which made the escape rela- |
tively easy.’ Mr. Gottschalk also said that | questioning of the three of the five convicts who were recaptured today revealed that George Christian, 26, who was seized today dozing in a farmer's automobile, evidently led the flight. He said the five convicts were quartered in adjoining cells on the top tier of a 30-year-old cell block next to the administration building,
the entrance to which forms part
of the prison ‘wall. - . Next «to the CORViCtS cell block was an old dormitory built in 1865 in which there was an attic. Mr. Gottschalk explained that the convicts sawed through their cell!
bars while the shift of guards at being ‘changed, |
the prison was climbed onto the roof and entered the attic of' the old building where they hid for some time. Kicked Hole in Roof Then, according to Mr. Gott schalk, they kicked a hole in the roof, crawled over the .administration building and let themselves down to the ground with a ladder improvised from sheets and blankeis. He said for years it has heen suggested that these old buildings be modernized or rebult, and particularly that the Degislature ¥ppro.
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istration Building instead of Mets
the building stand as a part of prison walls. Mr. Gottschalk said that steps
would be taken immediately to cor- |
rect such “structural weaknesses.” He came here early today from Indianapolis’ with John H. Klinger, State Corrections Division director, a few hours after they learned of the escape. The incident: revived rumors today that Warden Kunkel would’ be replaced. State officials repeatedly have denied they planned any immediate change. Meanwhile, questioning of the three men confinued as posses of State Police and sheriff’s deputies searched Porter County for -the two convicts still at large. Two of the fugitives were seized shortly after the jail break and the third was overpowered in a brief struggle on a arm two miles west of Valparaiso where he was taking a nap in an automobile. The remaining two are believed hiding out in the thick underbrush of Porter County, either intent on edging their way to the desolate Kankakee River vottoms ci making for adjacent Lake County and from there into Chicago. Lake County | deputies maintained ‘a close watch | on ‘their borders, The two men captured esas esidvs | Christian were: August Cummings, 87, of Indianapolis, and Rent Paviench, 24. Objects of the Porter County | manhunt were Theodore Hulburt, |
26, who once boasted in Indian- |
apolis that no jail could hold him, | and Angelo Gengo, 26. Christian was captured today on
the farm of Charlies Cobb, neat Val- |
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4 AT REFORMATORY
ARE GIVEN PAROLES spo
The State Clemency Commission today granted paroles to four Indians Reformatory prisoners, commuted sentences of five others, denied five petitions and continued one. Sentence of 10 years imposed upon Harry Ingalls in Marion County Oriminal Court July 28, 1932, for robbery and auto banditry, was commuted to an indeterminate term of from six to 10 years, with specification that he serve at least six ears. y The Commission denied the petition of Roy Godme, sentenced from Marion County Nov. 10, 1936, to two to five years for second degree purglary and grana larceny.
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‘VOLUME 49—-NUMBER 289
BREAK BLAMED ON
DEFECTS;
Burnettsville Man Is Forced Out of Bed By Gang of 5.
TILL YIELDS $250
Executive, os 7, Wife, Son Freed After Robbery.
BURNETTSVILLE, Ind. Feb. 11 (U. P.).—An aged bank president, his wife and
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| caped with loot in excess of | | $250. | Burnettsville is a town of 400 persons 10 miles west of Logansport.
Wearing masks, three of the Sup men entered the home of John
| nettsville State Bank, and at gun year-old wife to walk a block to the
42, cashier of the bank. There the bandits aroused the younger Duffey, his wife and their T7-year-old son. They ordered George
at the Duffey home. Gunman Guards Elders
Leaving one gunman to guard the elder Duffeys, their daughter-in-law and grandson, the other two forced George Duffey to drive them ito the bank in his car. At the bank, the two bandits were joined by two companions. They forced Mr. Duffey to unlock the front door of the bank. Once inside, they told Mr. Duffey to open the safe. He informed them it was reguIanted by a. time lock and could not be entered. While Mr. Duffey sat on a box in i, two of his. com nions suc-
aiming." setety deposi
boxes. The fourth gunman stood guard outside the bank. They attempted to enter the safe containing several hundred dollars by breaking off the knob and blowing it open but were unsuccessful. They went through the drawers and picked up loose change and currency amounting to about $250. Mr. Duffey was unable to estimate how much they obtained from the safety deposit boxes although he said he heard one of the gunmen say he got “several $10s and $20s.” After becoming convinced they
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forced Mr. Duffey to drive back to his home. All of the Duffeys reported the bandits treated them with extreme courtesy. At the Duffey home, the masked guard sat quietly and complacently with a gun in his hand while ‘his companions worked at the bank. He did not threaten the four members of the family and said al-
most nothing. Before leaving town, the bandits
Imffey homes.
35 GOLDEN GLOVES BOUTS ON SCHEDULE
‘Capacity Crowd crowd Expected at Times-Legion Show.
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Heavy action is to be resumed at the Armory tonight in the Golden Gloves tournament, third in the series‘ of amateur boxing bouts sponsored by The Indianapolis Times and Bruce P. Robison Post, American Legion. The first engagement on tonight's card is to start at T p. m. Officials hope to run off between 35 and 40 bouts and action is expected to last until nearly midnight. All ‘records for attendance have been shattered in the first two shows this vear and another capacity crowd is expected. Finals are to be held Feb. 18 and wihners in the Open division are to go to Chicago to take part in the Tournament of Champions opening there Feb. 28.
points forced Duffey and his 75- | ‘home of their /son, George Duffey,’
Duffey to drive his car from the garage and parked their own auto
of one
cut the telephone wires at both |
A fire, believed started
’ . This -is all that remained today of a two-story | ome owned by Wade Kiggan on Road 34 near Cler-
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11,1938
Flames Wreck Home Near Clermont
mated at $5000.
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from chimney of control.
Times Photo. Many of the furnishings had been
removed before firemen arrived. A township pumper answered the Sh but the blaze already was out
CITY PREPARES | LINCOLN HOMAGE
| War President Spent Early Years in State; Meetings Set.
Duffey, 77, president of the Buc. |
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Indianapolis and the state today | prepared for observance tomorrow | of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, who spent his formative years |
in ‘Indiana. A series of meetings has been | scheduled by the new G. O. P. State | | Executive Committee. They are to | be held in all 92 counties, Mrs. Melville Muckelstone, Chi- | cago, former national president of | the ‘American liegion Auxiliary, told the Women’s Republican Club at | the Columbia Club, yesterday that | “we deserve our fate if we allow | our liberties to be transferred to a
dictator.” A : former U. 8. +» Clarence R. Marformer ¥ ‘Court | judge, ana Rober: Lee nburr, | attorney, spoke last night before the | American Constitutional Association. They: praised the: martyred | President at the meeting of Ward | 7 Republican organization at the | American United Insurance audi- | torium. ‘Former U.'S. Senator James E.| Watson gave a Lincoln Day address | at Lebanon. = Speakers at other meetings honoring Lincoln included: John XK. Ruckelshaus, State G.. O. P. Executive Committee chairman, at Shelbyville; Siate Representative Joseph | A. Andrew, at Flora; John A.! Shields of Seymour, at Crawfordsville; Harvey A. Grabill of Indian- | apolis, at Newcastle; James M. Tucker of Paoli, at Franklin; Richard A. James of Portland, at Peru, and Congressman’ Charles A. Hal- | leck at Winchester. Tomorrow is a legal holiday and banks and governmental offices, with the exception of the Federal Building will “be closed.
Watson Asks Rigid Ban on Aliens
LEBANON, Feb. 11.-—More rigid | enforcement of immigration laws was urged by former U. S: Senator James E. Watson in a Lincoln Day address here ' last night. ' He .declared there are 5,000,000 aliens in | the: United States #nd that 2,000,000 of them are on the dole. Mr, Watson urged a reduction in ‘taxes by elimination of many from the Federal payroll by “a sane’ reorganization of the departments without conferring autocratic power upon any individual.”
Ruckelshaus. Wants Middle-Class Security
SHELBYVILLE, Feb, 11 (U. P).— A “sensible .political program. to give greater economic security. to the middle-class businessman” was proposed for the Republican Party by John K. Ruckelshaus, Indiana Republican executive committee chairan, Mey Spoke Se the Shelby unty organization last Mr. Ruckelshaus said tie Republican Party now has a “sensible political program which will lnean ultimately a nomic security New Deal program.”
Spurned Bachelor Needs Basket to Dany Fan Mail
Shuns Parc [COUNTY WATER
In Execution
Of Dalhover
| Times Special
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.— Friends of U. S. Marshal Al W. Hosinski here said today that the Northern Indiana District official, during a visit here this week, asked the Justice Department to excuse him from the job of pulling the switch when James Dalhover, Brady gangster, is electrocuted at Michigan City Prison. Dalhover is to die April 8 for the murder of Policeman Paul Minneman. Marshal Hosinski told friends e . didn’t feel “squeamish” about carrying out an execution they said, put that he had: learned to know Dalhover when the latter was on trial in Federal court at Hammond. ahd wanted, to be excused in this ? purticulns Jon. : Te Marshal fs sup-
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Department officials wad : to confirm the story that an Indiana Prison official would pull the switch. They. sald Marshal Hosinski was here to complete details for the execution.
2 ACCUSED OFFICERS
GET HEARING TONIGHT
‘Board to Probe Solicitation
Of Money Charges.
Charges of conduct unbecoming | an officer against Radio Patrolmen Harry M. O'Mara and James J. Hayes, under suspension by Police Chief Morrissey, are to be heard before a police trial board tonight. Chief Morrissey charged they solicited and accepted $10 Trom Joseph | Reddick, 17, of 811 E. Main St., Broad Ripple. Patrolman O'Mara, in a Statement yesterday ‘in the presence of “his fellow officer, said he and his partner - had ‘to fear’ because they were “inthe clear.” He said the money was a gift. =
CORRECTION
In its account of the ee against two, Indianapolis po licemen yesterday, The Times erroneously listed . one of ‘the ofticers as “Harry M. O'Hara.” The name should have ‘read: “Harry M. O'Mara.” Be
Chief Morrissey ‘said ‘the men were suspended on the story of the youth that he agreed to give the cers ‘the money when he’ feared’ arrest on a “charge of ighoring a traffic light. He 5 said the amount was agreed upon in Broad Ripple, Tuesday night. The Chief said - Inspector ‘John Mullin saw the money passed to the officers Wednesday night and found it on their persons. Patrolman O'Mara said the youth offered
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Auditor’s Office Over ‘Expenditure.
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County Commissioners clashed with the County Auditor's office over & $15 water bill today following the @tate Tax Board's rejection of a $7539 County Council appropriation. The . bill was presented to the Commissioners by the Indianapolis
Water ‘Co. for fire protection to the |
Court House the last three months. Commissioners Clarence I. Wheat-
'|lev and John Newhouse refused to
approve the claim, saying the service was unnecessary. However, Dow W. Vorhies, Board president, sighéd the claim, declar“I believe it's necessary, just like fire insurance. You can’t tell when you're. going to need protecYection. > »
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tor, then suggested that all proposed expenditures and claims be checked through the Auditor’s office to determine if sufficient funds for the expenditure have been appropriated He said his suggestion was meant to apply to all departments and was not particularly aimed at the Commissioners and the $15 bill. Mr. Wheatley disfavored the sug- | gestion. Mr. Newhouse agreed with the proposal. He said since the State Tax Board rejected the County Council's $7539.88 appropriation for obligations contracted for or spent outside the budget, a new check system on expenditures of county institutions ha had been set up."
‘RAILROAD COAL PRICE
MINIMUM SL SUSPENDED
Court ofder. A Affects Two | Indiana Companies.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (U. Py. The U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia today signed orders temporarily sus-
«| pending minimum: prices established
Dec. 16 by the National Bituminous Coal Commission for 209 railroads and two mining companies. The Courtidid not rule on validity of the Commission’s action, but merely sust@ined the plaintiffs in their demands for relief pending final determination of legality of the ntinima, Consume Most Coal ‘Railroads affected in the order are SI of the American Association of Railroads and the American Fhortine Ra. Association. e mining companies are the Saxon Coal Mining Co. and the Enos Coal Mining Co. both of Indiana. The railroad attorneys, appearing before Judge Stephens and two associates last Friday, contended that the Commission had violated the ‘Guffey Coal Control Act and the Constitution as well by setting prices without public hearings, without
. tunity for ‘presentation of ‘consum-
er's arguments. Suspension ‘of prices for railroad coal was believed to presage similar
; ‘action “with respect to “other soft-
pines Matter is,
Fostofion,
TERM UPHELD; 45 FINED $137
Motorist Given Given. Suspended! Sentence for Left Hand Turn.
BUS AND TRUCK CRASH
Salesman and Prospective Auto Buyer Hurt as | Car Overturns. |
Forty-five motorists were ordered | to pay $137 in Municipal Court to- | day for traffic law violations. A a | of $260 was suspended. Violators include 10 arrests for making illegal left-hand turns at! 16th and Illinois Sts. One of these | was fined $5 and costs and given | a 30-day suspended jail sentence, The campaign against erring mo- |
plaints of merchants and citizens, police said. Criminal Court Judge Frank P. Baker today reduced from $83 to $20 the fings assessed an alleged drunken driver who had appealed his case from Municipal Court. Judge Baker ordered the driver, James Sexton of Danville, to serve the 75-day jail sentence which Municipal Judge Charles J. Kara-
Fabian Blemer, chief deputy audi- dale Ave. and her husband,
| bell had given him. Trucking Operator Fined
Sexton was arrested Dec. 27 on | five charges. All except drunken | driving charges were dismissed in | Criminal Court. E. H Moorman, trucking company operator, was warned by Judge Baker “to be more careful of displaying license plates and certificates of title.” He was fined $5 on the two charges after he had appealed the conviction of one of his drivers from a Justice of the Peace Court. Noble Benedict, 432 W. 15th St., the driver, was arrested last October by State Police,
Bus and Truck Collide
Eleven bus passengers were shaken, bui none injured, in one o1 three traffic accidents reported to police and deputy sheriffs overnight. The bus, driven by Earl McCreary, 35, Greensburg, collided with a truck operated by Samuel Alley, 19, Waldron, at Hanna Ave. and Road 29
a. Della Clark, 54, of 1948 Fruit-
Joseph, 66, were injured slightly today when the car she was driving sideswiped another in 3100 block W. Morris St. this morning. Clarence Dillon, 32, of 2032 Berwick St., driver of the other car, was unhurt, A prospective auto buyer and the auto salesman who was riding with him were injured when their car turned, over on. U. S. Road 40, onehalf mile west of High School Road. Deputy sheriffs found the new car turned over in a ditch. Wilbur Brooks, 32, of 603 Cole St., who was driving, said he lost conirol and the car swerved off the highway. Dewey Huddleston, 40, of 931 Manhattan St., the salesman, suffered injuries to his right side. Mr.
Brooks was cut and bruised. Both | were treated at City Hospital.
Girl. Killed as Car
Sials, | Overturns
BEND, Feb. 11 (U. P.).— Fa Woh Nemeth, living near
Jesteney. Both vehicles were dam-~ 4 rumors that two or three Italian |
Granger, Ind, was killed instantly near her home early today when the automobile in which she was | riding with her brother, Steve, 19, skidded on a sleet-covered road and upset. She was 21.
Train-Truek Victim Dies at Crawfordsville
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Feb. 11 (U. P).—David Hughes, Lebanon, died in a hospital here today from injuries received this week in a trucktrain crash. He was 18.
YOUNG DEMOCRATS SELECT TERRE HAUTE
The 1938 convention of the Young Democrats of Indiana will be held at Terre Haute, Alvin C. Johnson, president, announced today. He said Terre Haute was selected by state officers after officials of the club at Anderson, which had been voted the convention, withdrew because they said they did not think that city had housing accommodations for the 2000 to 3000 expected to attend. He sald that convention dates had not been set definitely, but probably would be March 25 and
26 or April 1 and 2.
Nitin: will give its State Police) officers special training in ‘traffic safety in an attempt to reduce the annual automobile fatality toll, Severo: Tovusens sd Susur
aking last night 8 '» banquet in the Indianapolis Abide Clit Std given bv his Co-ordinsting Sate: I ror
‘the services “efficient
Committee, the . oyrAffic Safety Ind SSDs Modern which requires
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CAROL DICTATOR
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By United Press
Secretary of State Cordell | Hull’s remark on Wednesday |
world have the “jitters” was strikingly illustrated in Europe today as the whole |
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torists at that corner followed com- | that the people of the whole |
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BUDGET RAISED
Japan May Reply to Powers on Ships Today.
WASHINGTON—Rop. Vinson. te add section to “big Navy” hin givipg President power to suspend authorizations in event of an international arms limitation agreement. President Roosevelt refuses to comment. Congress asked te add $16,880,000 to War Depart ment 1939 budget.
continent seethed with ru-|TOKYO—Japan expected to give mors of unrest in the German |
Army, trouble
in Austra,
troop movements in Italy, and | the course of the royal dicta-
torship in Rumania. The German situation was clarifled by a statement of Dr, Dietrich, Reich press chief, from
| Adolf Hitler's Bavarian mountain
retreat that the Army is quiet, the German. borders are open and that Fuehrer Hitler is in good health. Some Nazi quarters admitted there was a natural feeling of uncertainty and unrest in the Army because of the recent shakeup of officers, but said .it did not extend beyond that.
In Rumania, King Carol estab- | for aggressio on.
lished a royal dictatorship under the Army and a state of siege after Premier Octavian Goga’s anti-Jew-ish Government had been forced out. . Premier Goga retired with the bitter exclamation: “Israel, you are victorious.” In Austria, the Governmnet increased the term of compulsory military service from one year to 18 months to enable the Government to retain many men in service in case of need. Rome strongly denied persistent
divisions had been sent to the Bren- | ner Pass frontier because of reports |
of imminent trouble in Austria.
Carol Assumes
Power in Rumania
BUCHAREST, Feb. 11 (U. P).— Rumania’s 19 million people woke today to find themselves under a royal dictatorship backed by the Army and a stern state of siege. When the people went to bed last night the anti-Jewish cabinet of Octavian Goga had resigned, bitterly enraged, proclaiming: “Israel, you are victorious.” At 1 a. m. today King Carol named a new Government. Nonpolitical in character, representing not only the country’s strongest men of varied political affiliations but, perhaps ‘more importantly, boih the National ‘Orthodox and Roman
| Catholic churches, the new Cabinet
included seven former Prime Ministers under the Patriarch Miron Cristea Orthodox church holy synod president. King Carol, addressing this cab(Turn to Page Three) .
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U. 5. MARINES AWAIT WNUTT AT GUAM
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Way From Manila.
(Another Story, Page 14)
GUAM, Saturday, Feb. 12 (U. P). —-A special detail of Marines stood by here today for the arrival of a Pan-American. Clipper plane bringing Paul V. McNutt, High Commissioner of the Philippines, from Manila. It was understood the detail was 8 gesture of courtesy apd protection. It was believed unusual precautions also would be taken at
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United States, Great Britain and France its replies to their naval notes tonight. Emperor pardons 300,000 in celebration of 50th anniverasry of Japanese Empire.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (U. P.).—Chairman Carl Vinson (D. Ga.) of the House Naval‘ Affairs Committee today announced he will add a
statement to the $800,000,000
naval expansion bill reaffirming America’s fundamental policy of maintaining fleets for national defense and. not
At the same time Rep. Vinson disclosed that the policy provision wil open the door for United States pare ticipation’ in any subsequent international agreements for limitation of naval armaments. The clause would empower « the President, in the ‘event of internstional agreements for limitation, te suspend portions of authorized expansion programs necessary to bring U. 8. naval strength within the agreed limitations, it Is Silent. .
President Roosevelt declined to comment on foreign affairs or reports that the United States might make some positive gesture toward promoting a general arms. limitation. ' Abbreviating his regular Friday press conference to five minutes, the President was uncommunicative on questions of foreign relations. Earlier it had been revealed that he had asked Congress to add $16,880,000 to his previously submitted budget request of about $500,000,000 for 1939 fiscal year War Department expenditures. The White House revealed that Mr. Roosevelt transmitted his reece ommendation in a letter to House Speager William B. Bankhead Feb. 7 The ‘Budget Bureau reported that the $16,880,000 would be spent in the following six Army divisions: Army Engineers, $900,000; Ordinance Department, $14,172,062; Chemical Warfare Service, $300,000; Seacost defenses, $583,800 for ths United States and $349713 for ine sular departments, and National Guard equipment, $574,425. Meanwhile, the House Naval Af-
fairs Committee voted 14 to 2
against a motion to summon Arthur Kroeck, New York Times correspondent, to testify regarding sourcs of his information that the U.S, and Great Britain have a “winking”
Former Indiana Governor on | Tokyo May Reply
To Powers Today
TOKYO, Feb. 11 (U. P.). Japan's reply as ta her Naval building intentions is expected to be handed to the Ambassadors of Great Britain, the United States and Frances tonight. At the same time a joint state ment is expected to be issued by ‘the Foreign Office and the Navy clarifying Japan's attitude regarding. the
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dealing with the present international building programs. An amnesty which affected, in varying degrees, 300,000 persons was
Wake and Midway, other Olipper | granted today by Emperor Hirohito
The former Indiana Governor left Manila yesterday, accompanied by Wayne Coy, his administrative assistant, and is due at Alameda, Cal., Monday, after which he will proceed by train to Indianapolis. He is expected to return to Manila about April 1.
Special Safety Training To Be Given State Police
asked the 'most successful safety planners in the nation to work with us and develop a model program. “Indiana will be the first state to give State Policemen special trainjug. This training is to begin at the Michigan City barracks and is to continue until all officers have been schooled.”
Lieut. Franklin Kreml of the
as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of Japan’s modern empire. Of the persons affected, nearly all received restoration to full rights after the imposition of fines, and of these 150,000 cases involved violations of the election law. About 1000 prisoners actually received reduced sentences, six officers involved in the army of revolt of February, 1936, had their prison sentences reduced by one-fourth; three Navy officers involved in the assassination of Premier Tsuyoshi Tnukai in 1932 received reductions in sentence of one-fourth also. It was assumed that, as was usual, prisoners under the death sentences received commutations to life imprisonment and that life prisoners had their terms specified at 20 years.
REPORT 9,000,000 JOBLESS WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (U, P) «= The American Federation ‘of Labor estimated today that 829,000 work. ers lost their jobs in industry agriculture between Nov. 18 and Dec. 15, 1037, making a total of 8: O50 uhemployed during DU