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THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1938

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HURRIE

SESSION NEAR END: FDR GAINS PRESTIGE

NATIONAL

AFFAIRS

RECOVERY BILL action by House accepted in Senate. ADJOURNMENT believed certain some time today.

VETO ON FARM LOANS ov

erriden by House and Senate.

F. D. R. gains prestige by success in session. WHAT WAGE SCALE means to workers (Page 11). C. I. O. PLANS FIGHT on Rules Committee. PWA TO SPEND two billion in two years.

HOOSIERS IN CONGRESS

Senate Accepts House

Farm Parity Plan

BULLETIN WASHINGTON, June 18 (U, I'.).—House and Senate conferees reached final agreement foday on a 290 million dollar second deficiency bill, except for twe mihor Senate amendments which went te the House for a vote. WASHINGTON,

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une 73th Congress today final phase when the Senate acpted the House method of alioting $212,000,000 parity payments to armers, attached as an amendment $3,753.000,000 Recovery bill. Senate action brought the Re lief-Recovery measure close ) final gre ions! approval Th 1ate agreed to a compro- ) roviding £700,000 for rural administration exsent the measure, dehe Administration as to relieve business rethe House for concurhis detail. The bill then he White House for PresRoosevelt's signature wising in the midst of considerthe recovery measure, the > summai joined the House \ ding the President's veto of ill to extend July 1. 1940, low rat on Federal Land Ban loans to farmers objected that the bill £48 0000.00 burden to

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Congressional Success Gives F. D. R. Prestige

By THOMAS IL. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 16. — Outstanding a backward glance at the Congress, just coming to its is what might be called President Roosevelt's program of personal political recovery. A year ago his prestige was besmirched by Senate defeat of the Supreme Court “packing” bill and the bottling up by the House Rules! Committee of his Wage-Hour Bill And he was severely criticized when it turned out that his ne Court appointee, Justic Black, had once been : oe BS | lansman. Coservatives exulted, Southerners |

among them, abetted by some from | other sections, began to reach

again for the party reins they held for so many years determined to Six Die in State as as Four Are Injured Here, One

Critically.

HOLLYWOOD. June 16.—Alice Fave, blond actress, was recuperating today from a tonsillectomy at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital She was ordered to rest a month before resuming w work.

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wal But in recent weeks the President has seen his forces revive, has reasserted his leadership, and once again | finds himself in a commanding position preparatory to one of the hotprimary campaigns in years— one of the most sighificant— to the November elections

The dawn traffic patrol, designed to enforce traffic laws on persons hastening to work, was resumed today by police as four persons were injured here overnight Meanwhile, Safety dent Theo motorists that stopped as streetcars loaded passengers at abandoned safety zones “some ohe will be killed before we can build protected islands.” Between 6 a.m. and 2 a. m. the dawn patrol arrested 14 drivers, accused of going from 40 to 48 miles an hour, In the state six died from traffic injuries, Marshall Lux, 17, was killed at Shelbyville. Oscar O. Harroid, 86, and Roy Hoagland, 41, died at Rochester of injuries received in traffic previously. At Gary, J. G Morris, 39, and Mrs. R. E. Boyd, 50. Michigan City, died in a wreck. Corwin Cain, 36, Bloomfield, died after his car overturned near Linton. In announcing the resumption of the dawn police patrol. Lieut. Lawrence McCarty, Accident Prevention Bureau head, said that a recent survev of the time accidents happen showed a number occured between 4 and 7 in the morning when drivers | (Continued on Page Two)

'ROOSEVELTS GATHER FOR JOHN'S WEDDING

NAHANT, Mass, June 18 (U, P) ~The Rosevelt family was assembling today for the wedding of the President's only bachelor son Satur-

test and leading Recent Successes Board PresiDammever

I'he history of the last few weeks one ol continuous successes—) passage of a Wage-Hour bill, which’ not long ago was pronounced dead: victory all along the line on the four-billion-dollar recovery bill against which his enemies threw their onslaughts in vain: passage, after six years, of a food-and-drug bill, though not one entirely satisfactory to the Administration. and two notable victories on the publicpower front-—defeat of the attempt to check PWA-financed municipal power plants, and establishment of the Government's right, in the Flood-Control Bill, to condemn lang for dam sites without consent of the states. An analysis of the strategy employed by Mr. Roosevelt to regain control of his party is interesting It goes back many months, It consisted, first, of appealing to the voters over the heads of their representatives in Congress, and second, in never admitting defeat. Final enactment of the Wage-Hour Bill is a tribute to the President's refusal to give up this fight in the face of heavy odds, Time after time, (C ontinied | on A Page Thive)

$500,000 GIVEN FOR FALL GREEK WORK

Allocated for Flood Control By War Secretary.

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day. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and his bride of a vear, Ethel Du Pont, were expected to arrive from the family home in New York City. Jr. will be best man at the wedding of his brother John and Anne Lindsay Clark. Tomorrow the other members of the family are expected, including Mr. and Mrs. James Roosevelt, Mr. and Mis. Elliot Roosevelt, and Mr and Mrs. John Boettiger, The President was to leave Washington by train today and board the Presidential yacht Potomac at New London, Conn. Tomorrow night he will entertain the bridal party aboard the Potomac in Nahant Harbor.

Secretary of War Woodring has allocated $£3500.000 for flood control work in Fall Creek, it was announced today in Washington, It was part of 861708980 approved by Congress for rivers and harbot projects. Of that. $6.239000 was for work in the Ohio River basin, and $3.939.000 was to be spent on Indiana projects Henry B, Steeg, Flood Commission the War Department has been interested for more than a year in extending the W. 10th St. and W. Michigan St. bridges over Fall Creek and in Strengthening the levees

Suman st ost Sm FAIR AND COOLER, IS FORECAST MERE

he Believe d the money was for these projects tomy Other Indiana y proved included TEMPERATURES Examinations and survevs, Evans- . ville, $643.000; Tell City, £2%00.000; « WM Lm, Lm.

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Cannelton, $540.000; Brevoort levee, Wabash River, 8386.000 Muncie, flood wall and channel improveme: *, 2450000: Lyford levee unit. Waba River, 8200000: Gill Township Levee unit, Wabash River, £215 .000

1 7 The Weather Bureau today predicted fair weather for tonight and

tomorrow and cooler | tonight.

Mountain Music Opens Fishing Season in State

(Another Story, Page 19) TWo or three orchestras, ing doelful mountain music melodies, played for the fishermen, but probabl didn't add to the catches, the Department said. “There were some | ish caught, though,” said.

The fishing season, which opened at midnight, drew record crowds, some loud music, and various kinds of luck, the State Conservation Department reported today. K. M. Kunkel, Fish and Game Division head, who attended festivities at the Brown County State Park and Game Preserve, described the opening there as being similar to a mob scene from a Cecil DeMille movie Anglers began to arrive at 8 p. m. vesterday and by the time the midnight deadline was reached, there were 1000 standing almost shoulder to shoulder around the old lake, and i on the new lake, he said.

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“A lot of folks brought in four and five-pound bass.” This marked the first time fishing | has been allowed in the Brown | County lakes, Part of the crowd's | enthusiasm was attributed to the fact that good fshing holes are rare in Southern Indiana. Similar ceremonies and record crowds were at Monticello, Angola, Syracuse, ahd |

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S, Recuperative EXECUTION OF fan p lL MYERS URGES

IN TWO WEEKS

Florida Governor to Set Date For Kidnaper’'s Electrocution.

NO APPEAL INDICATED

Sentencing Today Completes Swift Application Of Justice.

MIAMI, Fla., June 16 Franklin Pierce McCall, who Kidnapped Jimmy Cash to obtain the “better things of life.” today sentenced to die in the electric chair.

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Circuit Judge H. F. Atkinson, who |

pronounced sentence in a closely guarded courtroom. left a decision as to the exact date of the execution to Gov. Cone of Florida who must sign the death warrant. But it was indicated that stolid, 21-year-old fawnboy heard his emotion will ling the week or June 26—almost lexactly one month after he | snatched the blue-eyed boy from Fs cradle May 28 and accidentally | smothered him with handkerchiefs. Judge Atkinson said McCall's plea of guilty left no alternative but the death sentence. Had he pleaded not guilty and stood trial, a jury might have recommended life imprisonment.

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The childless son and brother of ministers stood mute while the white-haired judge cautioned spectators to make demonstration and pronounced the death sentence He stared at the floor in silence, and showed no as guards led him back to the Miami skyscraper jail to await plans for the execution, The sentence was pronounced exactly 19 days after McCall kidnaped the baby. It was the most swift application of justice in Florida since Guisseppe Zangara was executed for assassinating Mavor Anton Cermak of Chicago.

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sentence without visible | be electrocuted dur- |

Neither McCall nor his attorney |

gave any indication he would appeal. He has told his guards, who witch him night and day to prevent a suicide attempt, that he would prefer death in the electric chair to life imprisonment. McCall was indicted both on kKidnaping and first-degree murder charges. In view of the death sentence on the first charge, it appeared improbable that any attempt would be made to convict him of murder,

Britain Is Ready to Act U.S. for Arms Cut

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BULLETIN (u. Proposed in the Senate today that the United States sever diplo-

WASHINGTON, June 18

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LONDON. June 18 (U. P).—Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons today that Britain is willing to co- operate with the United States or any other nation in efforts to reduce armaments. His statement was in response to a question by Arthur Henderson Britain would offer —® lines

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REYNOLDS | BABY IN GRANDPARENTS' HOME

RICHMOND, Va. June 18 (U. P53. | —Richard Roland Reynolds, 1-vear-old son of Mr Reynolds, was at the estate of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard 8. Reynolds. in West Hampton, Richmond suburb. todav. The father of the young heir to tobacco millions said the boy was brought here “several days ago” hy a trained nurse. Julian Reynolds. the father, flew here vesterdav from New York. His wife. the former Helene Fortescue, has filed a separation suit in New York.

STATE REMC GETS FUNDS WASHINGTON, June 16 (U, P).

~The Rural Electrification Admin. |

istration today allocated $200,258 to! the Jackson County, Indiana, Rural | Electric Membérship Corp. to build | approximately 202 miles of line to serve 940 customers Jennings and Washington counties.

| TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

| Books ...... | Comics ...... 22 Crossword ... 23 | Curious World 22 | Byle Editorials .... 1a desc 18

. 13 | Mrs. Ferguson 14 Obituaries . ..

Pegler

| Financial .... 23 [Radio ....... 22 | Flynn 14 | Mrs, Roosevelt 13 Forum . 14 | Scherrer ... . 13 Grin, Bear Tt. 3 Serial Story. . 22 In Indpls. Society ... 18, 17 Jane Jordan. . 0s Sports ... 10, 20 Johnson ..... 14 State Deaths. 1 iggam i 14

S. Interested in British policy SHANGHAI—Breaking dykes spread China floods. HENDAYE—Rebels cut off Loyalists in passes, PARIS—Communists disrupt chamber session. LONDON—Britain plane food dictatorship.

and Mrs. Julian Louis |

in Jackson, |

11 NEW PROJECT ON STATE PLANS; SESSION CURBED

Building Program for

MARION COUNTY HEALTH CLINIC

Project Would Be Operated At Cost, Hospital

Head Says. ‘Most Democrats Give

NEEDED pledge to Limit Legislature.

$300,000 IS Institutions Is

Believes Laboratory Would Announced.

hi DATE UNCERTAIN SHIFT HOSPITALS edicine.

5,000 Allotted Indianapolis in Draft.

Speaker and 2 House $4, 12¢ Members Colleagues.

A complete clinical and X-ray laboratory service which would be available at operating and main- | | tenance cost to all private physicians for their patients was advocated today by Dr. Charles Myers as a new approach to public health. The laboratory would be built with granted Federal Funds, would| A clear majority of Democratic cost about $300,000, and would be |,eniesentatives have pledged themlarge enough for Marion County, he selves lo consider only the appro-

said, ce ; Dr. Mvers, who is City Hospital | priation bill during the special sessuperintendent, said the project sion of the Legislature to be called next month to provide State funds

would operate to make clinical and X-ray diagnoses available to mid- to match an anticipated PWA grant, it was announced today.

| dle-salaried persons who now fre- | quently cannot afford either private hospital or private technicians’ lab- Three House leaders have heen oratory fees for needed work. | canvassing Democratic members for He said he believed such a labo- | the last several days securing these ratory would. pledges. 1. Be a great incentive ‘to pre- Rep. William J. Black, Anderson, ventive medicine, and thus make said he had contacted 30 Democratfor a healthier people. ic representatives and received 2. Provide physicians with a more | pledges from all of them. He said lucrative and pleasant type of prac- he still has one more member to tice. see. 3. Save society economic losses re- Speaker Edward Stein, Bloomsulting from the inability of middle- | field, and Frank Thompson, Blufisalaried families, who in a large ton, majority floor leaders, are the measure pay for the care of the in- other members securing pledges. digent through taxes, to pay exist- “We are to meet here tomorrow : to make a report, Rep. Black said “There may be an announcement then on the exact date of the spe-

ing laboratory fees. 4. Put the modern physician back on a family doctor basis in a modern ) way. cial session. From conversations Dr. Mvers said that the only I've had with Mr. Stein and Mr. difference between the family doctor | Thompson, T've heard they were and the present-day physician is the | doing as well as I was on the difficulty of obtaining adequate | pledges.” laboratory work at a price his pati- Administration leaders hope to ent can pay. limit the special session {0 conThe new laboratory would in no sideration of an appropriation from way eliminate existing laboratories the general fund balance of apin hospitals, nor would it. Dr. proximately $4,400,000 to pay the State's share of an $8,000,000 building program. It was indicated that the special session probably will be

| Myers said, necessarily invade the field of privately owned laboratories. called in mid-July after thé Democratic State Convention.

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hon sroomn HELD IN $15,000 JEWELRY THEFT

LA FOLLETTE OFFERS RAILROAD PROGRAM Detectives Claim Suspect Returned for Car,

NEW YORK, June 16 (U. P).— Governor Phil La Follette of Wis- | Confessed.

Canvass

HAGUE, G-MEN ARE ON ‘OUTS’

Jersey City Only One in U. S. At Odds With Bureau, Mayor Admits.

NEWARK. N. J, June 16 (U —Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City testified at a Federal Court hearing today that a misunderstanding with the Federal Bureau of Investigation forced him to withdraw his city's records of safety and protection of property from the Department of Justice Summoned as a fourth day, Mayor Hague admitted that his was the only city in the United States whose records are not incorporated in FBI reports. Morris Ernst, counsel for the C. 1 O. and the American Civil Liberties Union, questionec Mayor Hague at resumption of the hearing on an application by the two organizations for an injunction to restrain Jersey Citv authorities from interfering with civil rights The Mayor said the FBI had listed automobile accident deaths in the “murder” category. and that when he protested. threatening withdrawal of the city’s records, the Justice Department said "go ahead and withdraw.”

Eleven projects to be included in the State's proposed $8,375,000 build« ing program were outlined today by Thurman Gottschalk, State Welfare Department director, The program is fo be submitted to the special session of the Lege islature, expected to be called next month. Detailed plans of the program are to be submitted to Governor Towne send for approval next week. They were accompanied by a ree port detailing the need for the pro= posed program that cally for ree districting of State mental hospitals, construction of a new State office building, renovation and additions to several State institutions and construction of a new Health Board building. The Legislature is expected to ap« propriate funds for 55 per cent of the program. The remaining 45 per cent is expected to be financed through PWA grants.

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Program Outlined The detailed program calls for: 1. State Office Building. apolis, $3,000,000, to house all State administrative offices which there are no quarters in the State House, 2. State Health Board Building, $300,000; to house labotatoriss and administrative offices under the Board now in the State House An- | nex, to be erected at the Indiana | University Medical Center, 3. Muscatatuck Colony for Feeble Minded to be converted into a modern training school at an estie mated cost of $2,300,000, 4. Logansport Mental Hospital, £650,000; two new dormitories and | a new employees’ building. 5. Evansville State Hospital, $150,« 000; employees’ building to release 60 beds for patients. 6. Central State Hospital, Indian« apolis, $500,000; two new dormis | tories to replace the condemned Men's Ward. 7. Plainfield Boys" School, 000; four small cottages to replace Dunbar Dormitory and provide modern housing for 120 boys 8. Clermont. Girls’ School, $150,« 000; chapel and recreation building. 0. Newcastle Epileptic Village, $250,000; men's infirmary, 10. Indianapolis Women's $325,000; cottage to mates, power plant. and storeroom. 11. Southern Indiana berculosis Sanitorium, termined, $500,000.

Redistricting Sought

Redistricting of the State's [ive mental hospitals, located at Loganse port, Indianapolis, Richmond, Madison and Evansville, is designed to relieve overcrowding at all instituse tions, Mr. Gottschalk said. It would include: 1. Transfer of Hancock Hendricks County patients Madison to Central Hospital. 2. Transfer of Warren, Benton, Newton, Jasper, White, Tippecanoe, Carroll, Miami and Wabash Counties from the district served by Cenetral Hospital to the Logansport hospital. 3. Transfer of from the Central to Richmond. Two ‘“cottage-type” dormitories are recommended for Central Hose | pital to bring its facilities up to its rated capacity of 1800 patients.

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and Mr. Ernst exchanged sharp words again today, and at ohne time Judge William Clark intervened when counsel and the withess were talking simultaneously. Mr. Ernst referred to press reports from Germany lauding Mavor Hague for his testimony, and the Mayor retorted: “Dont blame me for that.” Mr. Hague said he opposes any “ism” that's “against Americanism.” He accused Norman Thomas, SoJoontinued on Page Four)

Mr. Hague

consin, leader of the new National | Progressives of America, expound- | ed his program in an interview with the New York World-Telegram today in which he advocated a moratorium on present railroad debts as | one means of reviving employment. He said he believed nearly 4.000,- | 000 men could be put back to work in the railroad industry a'one if its] { present bonds were pushed into the background and new cepital given Profereiee.

$250, Robert Holder. 32. of 532 W. 29th St.. was held by police today on a | burglary charge in connection with Fa theft of $15.450 worth of jewelry from the home of William Zumpfe, | veo N. Meridian St, during the week-end. He was bound to the grand jury | under $5000 bond by Municipal | Judge Charles Karabell. Detectives said Holder confessed to the burglary. He was arregjed early today in a garage where he had gone to get his car. according to Detective Chief Fred Simon. | Holder, in his alleged confession, | told detectives he left the city after | the burglary and returned last night to the home of a friend to get his car. Detective Chief Simon said the loot has not been recovered but that detectives expect to locate it later | today.

KEALING CONDEMNS CITY SWIMMING FEE

Says 10-Gent Charge Keeps Children From Pools.

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(Page 10.) Charging that the 10-cent Municipal swimming pools is “driv=ing children to unguarded swimsming holes,” City Councilman Ed-! | ward R. Kealing, Republican, said today he would offer a resolution | at next Monday's Council Meeting | “condemning” Mayor Boetcher and | the Park Board for permitting the practice. Wally Middlesworth, ation director, said the pools are free from 10 a. m. until 2:30 p. m. | After that, a 10-cent charge is made | with the following exceptions: Wil lard pool always free; Rhodius and Douglas, free Monday and Friday. and Garfield and Ellenberger free on Monday. Mr. Middlesworth said the purpose of the charge was to provide revenue and keep the pools from | being overcrowded. Mr. Kealing declared that Park Board is in better condition than any other City Department to provide this service free. Many children cannot afford the 10-cent charge. So they are forced to swim in unguarded streams and gravel pits, endanger8 their lives”

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SCOTTSBORO YOUTH'S SENTENCE AFFIRMED

MONTGOMERY, Ala, (U. P).—The Alabama Supreme Court today affirmed the death sentence imposed on Clarence Nor- | ris in the Scottsboro attack cases and ordered him to die in the electric chair Aug. 19. The Court refused Norris’ attorneys for a new trial, holding that “tne record discloses no reversible errors and the judgment of the trial court must be affirmed.” It was believed defense attorneys would appeal the conviction to the | U. 8. Supreme Court. Such an appeal automatically would stay Norris’ execution.

such co-operation along the City Recreof the suggestion made by Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State. in his recent speech. Mr. Chamberlain told Mr. Henderson the British Government is aware of Seeretary Hull's offer to join in an agreement to humanize welfare

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Majesty's Government.’ the Prime Minister =aid, “is always ready to co-operate in seekinz an agreement to humanize the rules and practices of warfare.” Mr. Chamberlain's in reply to Mr. tion: “Has the Prime Minister's attention been drawn to the recent speech of Cordell Hull, U. S. Seereame on Page Four)

the plea of

“the financial Recommend Dormitories statement was Henderson's ques- Two standard-type dormitories, capable of accommodating 350 to 400 patients, are recommended for Logansport to enable it to serve a larger district Its total capacity would be increased to about 1700 patients with the proposed addi tions. The proposed training school [or feeblesminded at Muscatatuck will increase capacity from 600 to 1600, lin addition to providing a rehabili= tation program, Mr. Gottschalk said, Estimated cost of this project ia $2,300,000 in new buildings.

Stating that at present, the pase tlents there “have good care but lit= tle training, and practically no pro= gram that might fit them to be returned to their homes,” he urged the proposal as a constructive measure, In urging a state tuberculosis hose | pital for southern Indiana, Mr, | Gottschalk declared this section of the state lies in an area having the highest tuberculgeis death rate in the country. & Thirty-eight

Vander Meer Goes Fishing as Fans Cheer Second Straight No-Hit Game

heto | nervous. | camped under it for the final out.

i ot ; " | Cincinnati Reds swarmed about today—Johnny Vander Meer, 2. : py ya et he Vander Meer, swung him to their vear-old rookie, who pitched his | shoulders. Fans stormed onto the second no-hit, no-run game in suc | One of baseball's superstitions—that | faq pinally, police guards, huskier pitchers crack up after their great | peds and ushers opened a path for cession last night for the Cinecin- games—and that since he had | him to reach the dressing room. nati Reds ‘ | pitched a not-hit game three days There never had been a feat like

1 he hoped & hi | He had little to say, was chiefly earlier e 0 0 spare 8 it A no-hit, no-run game puts a pe P! interested in resting and appeared pitcher in the hall of fame. Several

mother the sight of a dismal per- | eager to get away for trout fishing formance, |today with his family and sweet have one such feat to their credit He stood tensely in the pitcher's | heart. but two in a row was, until last box when the final inning came. The six<foot, one-inch. Jeft-hander night, almost inconceivable, Cincinnati was leading, <0. and the | had pitohed his first no<hit, no<run A crowd of 38747 at Ebbets Field Dodgers had their last chance to | game against the Boston Bees last in Brooklyn saw Vander Meer's spoil his record. Saturd his two perform« achievement end shortly before | 1] midnight. Among them were “Pa”

ay. Leo Durocher was al bat; Lhe bases | ances he faced 68 batters. Only 1 were filled, two batters were out. all on walks. and “Ma” Vander Meer, seated be- In the game last t eight men hind the Reds’ dugout, and iA a Vander Meer poised his left arin on base, three in tb

of them got on | The count was two strikes, two balls. in, box was Babe Ruth, who seemed, and let fly, x crowd let loose a | inning,

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