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Whitney & Co. Scandal; Margin Accounts Between Traders Banned.

- WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (U.P.).—The securities and exchange com-

mission today announced a program for extensive reforms in rules and| practices of the New York Stock Exchange, developed jointly with the exchange following the conviction of former exchange President Richard

F. Whitney. . The program, the SEC said, calls for thorough revision of many current exchange practices, including a plan for separation of capital used for “banking functions” and brokerage activities. The report is the second issued by the SEC since the crash of Richard Whitney & Co. sent the head of the company to prison. Shortly after the SEC made the report public, SEC Chairman Wiliam O. Douglas went to the White House to present its details to President Roosevelt. The new program contemplates 13 major changes in exchange reg‘ulations, part of which will be promulgated into SEC rules, effective throughout all securities markets. The program includes: 1. Brokers must maintain a 15-to-1 ratio between indebtedness and working capital, replacing the present 20-to-1 ratio. 2. No governor or officer or employee of an exchange. may loan money or securities or borrow from any exchange member firm.

Quarterly Reports Ordered 3. No governor or member of.an .exchange committee may participate in an investigation of any ‘member or firm indebted to the ‘officer. 4. The exchange will require “short form” reports quarterly on financial condition of its members. Semi-annual “long form” reports now are required. 5. Audits of exchange member firms must be made by independent public accountants at least once a year.

6. The scope and frequency of supervisory audits and examinations by the exchange will be in-

creased.

7. Members will be required to present immediate reports on any loan over $2500. 8. No member firm may carry a margin account for anofher member of the exchange or another broker or dealer. 9. No firm may carry an account for a general partner of another firm without prior written consent of another partner of the other firm. The remaining four reforms deal principally with tightening of control over membership personnel, business conduct practices and underwriting activities.

SLADE, LAST MEMBER

OF BENTZ GANG, HELD

CHICAGO, Oct. 31 (U. P)—D. R.

. Ladd, head of the Chicago FBI. an-

nounced today that George Slade, 31, last. member of the notorious Bentz gang, had confessed participation in 18 bank and postoffice robberies in five states. The gang’s loot totaled $110,000. Agents captured Slade Wednesday in a Chicago rooming house but did not reveal his arrest until last night. They said Slade had not resisted. He had two revolvers and $300 when captured. He admitted that he had aided in robberies and burglaries in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Missouri and Wisconsin. The gang, composed of four members, had operated since 1935.

‘Shenk,

3000 TO STUDY CORN BREEDING

Scientific Development of Seed to Be Shown At Acton Farm.

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are growing several types of the common variety of yellow corn and more than a dozen varieties of hybrid corn, While the farmers look on, seed specialists from Purdue University will pluck a few of each type and make scientific tests to determine the moisture content, weight and potential yield of the ears. County Agricultural Agent Horace E. Abbot, who has watched the progress in production of hybrid corn in the past three years, said it has a considerably higher yield, matures earlier, grows lower on the stock, has a sturdier stock that will not break under the new mechanical corn pickers, and has twice the disease resistance that the old familiar varieties had. ‘Mr. Abbott explained that hybrid corn is the result of continued inbreeding and crossing of seeds to select and obtain desired characteristics adapted to a particular locality. - “For example,” Mr. Abbott said, “the specialist will pick out the two healthiest stalks in a diseased field and allow them to pollinate and inbreed for a number of years. He then attains an ear in which diseaseresisting characteristics have become dominate. “Then an inbred ear bearing a different desirable characteristic will be crossed with the first, and the hybrid seed is the result. As many as four characteristics are selected and lodged in one seed.” The corn which will be under the critical eye Wednesday is such a hybrid variety. Mr. Abbott explained that a new function in farming has developed since the inbreeding experiments, namely that of hybrid seed growing. Farmers have been afraid to use the hybrid seed. Mr. Abbott said. But with its increased success, they have become more interested during the past year. Three years ago there were only 15 patches of hybrid corn grown from cross-bred seed on Marion County farms. Last year, there were 300, and Mr. Abbott said there now are more than 1000.

SPURNED BY SUITOR, HOOSIER KILLS SELF

PAW PAW, Mich., Oct. 31 (U. P.). —Because the man she believed she was going to marry left her, Mildred 34-year-old housekeeper, soaked her clothes in kerosene and set herself afire, Sheriff Warren J. Dodge said today. A note said: “How could you treat me like this. You promised to marry me today. Mildred.” Police said Miss Shenk formerly

lived in Mishawaka, Ind.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record

County Deaths |Speeding ..... 13 (To Date) 1938

Sev edocs 94 1937 eesescenslll City Deaths (To Date) 1938 e000 sce 56 1937 IX NNR NN NN] 79 Oct. 29 & 30 Accidents .... 25 Injured eoeccen 12

Dead Arrests

Reckless Driving ..... 1

Running Preferential Street. 1

Running Red Light ....... 11

Drunken Driving ses 5

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MEETINGS TODAY

American Legion Auxiliary of Indiana, conference of presidents and secretaries Indiana World War Memorial Shrine, all ay.

Marion County Republican Veterans’ Bureau, meting, Claypool-Hote., 8 p. m. National Small Businessmen’s Association, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. Big Four Social Club, dinner, Hotel Washington, 6:30 p. m. i Indisnsnelis Press Club, dinner, 48 Monu- €.

ment Circ . om, Scientech Club, luncheon, Board of Trade,

Service Club, luncheon, Hotel Lincoln,

Irvington Republican Club, meeting, 5448Y; E. Washington St., 8 p. m. elta Upsilon, luncheon, Board of Trade,

oon. North Side Realtors, luncheon, Canary Cottage, noon. Notre Dame Club, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon Indiana University Club, luncheon, Co- - lumbia Club, noon.

MEETINGS TOMORROW Rotary Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel,

00! Associated Theater Owners of Indiana, convention, Hotel Antlers, all day. Knights of Columbus, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. Alpha Delta Omega, meeting, Hotel Washington. 7:30 p. m. .. Theta Chi, meeting, Hotel Washington,

8 E m. diana Indorsers ng, Claypool Hotel. . Mm. au Omega, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. S3re Club, luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel, oon. Mercator Club, luncheon, Columbia ‘Club, oon. Universal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, oon. University of Michigan Club, luncheon,

rd of Trade, noon. Bons Service Club, luncheon, Canary

Cottage, noon.

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BIRTHS Boys Robert, Elizabeth Burke, at Coleman. Russell, Naomi O’Brien, at Coleman. Robert, Jean Dooley, at Coleman. H , Francis Spaulding, at Coleman. er, Ida Frantz, at City.

at St. Kathleen Powell, at St. V

x, Ruth Guthrie, at St. Vincent's. James, Nancy VanBlericum, at - 1541

nh ner. Net i rt, Ruth Sweat, at 2417 Hovey.

54 Girls

; “Bobert, Geneva , Hulley, at Coleman, George, Ru omas, a . Lyman, Mary McGaubey, at dity.

James, Dorothy Ballard, at City. James, Katherine Browning, at Methodist. Robert, Dorothy Voorhies, at Methodist. Elrick, Margaret Moshier, at Methodist. John, Gladys Strack, at St. Vincent's. . Fernand, Jessie Trudel, at St. Vincent's. Peter, Francis Mondragon, at St. VinSs’,

ce at , 232

Theodore, Bakemeyer. Elvin, Vada Faris, at 2118 Bellis St. John, Lorena Watkins, at 372 Beauty. Oscar, Lucille Valentine, at 2286 Indian-

apolis. Harvey, Nellie Reese, at 4441 Baltimore.

DEATHS

William Milford Kanatzar, 70, at 1%25 Roosevelt, cerebral hemorrhage. Delilah Belle Douglas, 62, at 3215 Ralston, cerebral hemorrhage. Michael Scheible, 76, at 1155 W. 15th, chronic_myocarditis. Ione Fitzgerald, 70, at 1631 E. Michigan, lobar pneumonia. George Washington Ramsey. 55. at 4053 Rookwood. acute cardiac dHatation. Elisha D. Phillivs, 48, at Veterans Hospital, aortic insufficiency. Mattie McCord, 68. at 5773 W. Washington, cerebral ‘apoplexy. James Hollister, 59, at 801 Harrison, coronary occlusion. 7

Evelyn Kortepeter,’

OFFICIAL WEATHER

United States Weather Bur

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Fair and not so cool tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy and warmer. Sunrise ...... 6:13 | Sunset TEMPERATURE —Oct. 31, 1937—

tetas 4:44

7 a.

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m... Total preciptation- since Jan. 1 Excess since Jan 1

MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Fair tonight and tomorrow; not so cool tonight; warmer tomorrow. Illinois—Gen rally fair tonight and tomorrow; not so cool tonight except extreme northeast; warmer tomorrow, Lower Michigan—Generally fair in south portion, mostly cloudy in north portion; not so cool tonight; tomorrow vossibly showers in north portion, increasing clcudiness in south portion; somewhat warmer in south and east central portions. Ohio—Fair tonight and tomorrow, risin t-mperature tonight and in east and sout portions tomorrow. Kentucky—Fair, slightly warmer in cenral and west portions tonight; tomorrow fair and warmer.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Sta ,

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Harold Mobley Robert York

Robert York and Harold Mobley, 20-year-old Indianapolis youths (above), are held by Indianapolis police as suspects in several holdups. York, who has been sought as a fugitive since May 17, when he escaped from guards while attending his mother’s funeral, was arrested yesterday at Frankfort. Mobley was arrested here Tuesday. (Story, Page Eight).

California 2-to-1 Against $30-a-Week Pension Plan, ~ Gallup’s Survey Reveals

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BROADCAST OF 0, 5, INVASION

Airing of Fictitious Drama|

Causes Wave of Hysteria Through Country.

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Police and Newspapers *

Swamped With Queries

NEW YORK, Oct. 31. (U. P).— A radio program which caused thousands of persons to believe that the eastern United States had been invaded by creatures from the planet Mars swamped police and newspapers of New York City and New Jersey towns and cities with phone queries. : But it was not limited to the East. In Toledo, O. three persons fainted at telephones while trying to call police. : In Chicago, persons ran out of restaurants without finishing their meals. . In Salt Lake City, residents

Thursday” plan does not depend, as most observers have thought, on the voter's age so much as on his income. In California, for instance, a majority of persons of 50 and over

are opposed to enactment of the California Pension Plan, known throughout the State as “Ham-and-Eggs for Everybody.”

But a majority of California voters in the lower income group— regardless of age—favor the plan. The same division of opinion is indicated in the Institute’s investigations throughout the country. The vote for the country at large is:

For Against Plan Plan,

Upper Income Group .. 9% 91% Middle Income Group ...ceocooees000000cssscsses 26% 14% Lower Income Group ..... Sissi Ray . 54% 46%

Persons on relief are included in the lower income group. 'Taken separately, they are almost 2 to 1 in favor of the plan—more than any other class of voters.

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HE age of a voter makes very little difference in his judgment of the pension question, as the following figures for the whole country show:

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For Plan Voters Under 30 .....oc0000c0tvaeccecsccacconcees 33% 30 to 49 * ssn 000 Cr rvivssiniateaenansesesetusesses 32% 68% 50 and Over ........vovssc0nvvorsnsss vee 349% 66% In other words, the demand for “$30 Every Thursday” comes pre= dominantly from voters in the group which President Roosevelt calls the “ill-clothed, il:-fed and ill-housed” lower third.

Against Plan

67%

94 Per Cent for Pension Principle

Although the California Pension Plan is facing almost inevitable defeat in the State elections Nov. 8, the overwhelming majority of California voters believes in the principle of old age pensions. ? The Institute asked: “Are you in favor of some form of Government old age pensions?” y : The cross-section of California voters shows:

For Old Age Pensions......... sr sasenines .. 949% Against 6% Institute surveys for the past three years have shown similarly large majorities in favor of Government old age pensions throughout the country. California voters set a median of $50 a month as the pension necessary for a single person, $100 for a husband and wife. In a recent survey, the Institute reported that voters in the country as a whole set a median of $40 for single persons, $70 for husband and wife, -

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Young voters in the lower income group favor a plan like California’s “Ham-and-Eggs” plan because “it would mean cash” for their parents and grandparents, thus raising the income of the whole family, their comments in the Institute survey show.

Families in the lower third of the population had average incomes of less than $800 in 1937, according to Government statistics, or well below what public opinion considers a minimum standard of living.

In an Institute survey several months ago, American voters set $1560 as the amount necessary for a family of four for “health and decency.” ”

OTH in California and throughout the Unitrd States, the twin surveys show, the greatest demand for $38 Every Thursday” is among city dwellers rather than among farm voters.

As the following sectional analysis shows, the demand is particularly strong in the industrial East, less strong in the South and Middle West with their large farm populations living on the land and able to grow much of their own food:

For $30 Pension Against Plan Plan 35% 65% 36% 64% 35% 65% 28% 72% sesecsssssssssrsesnssesneencensgress 21% 3% West ......... 70% Economists say that one reason why “$30-Every-Thursday” would

not work is that the public would not accept scrip warrants as “real money.”

The Institute survey in California shows that the economists probably are right.

Fifty per cent of the. voters in the survey doubt that the pension scrip could be used to pay for such essentials as food and rent.

And most important of all, a majority of them (55%) say they would be unwilling to accept scrip themselves.

The typical California voter, like a San Jose garage owner interviewed in the Institute survey, says tl'at “everybody is for old age DH but the ‘Ham-and-Eggs’ scrip plan would do more harm an g 2

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T= survey shows just what California voters fear, should the plan become law Nov. 8:

1. A substantial majority (62%) say the plan would hurt business in California rather than help it.

2. Eighty-three per cent think the plan, if passed, would draw a

host of unemployed old people from all over the United States.

3. Sixty-two per cent think it would cause California industries to flee the State rather than cause new industries to move in.

4. More than half the voters (56%) think the plan would bankrupt he State Government, which would have to accept tax payments in scrip.

BRIDE, 12, TO ASK COURT'S SANCTION

Laborer-Husband Held After Valparaiso Elopement.

FIVE PLEDGED BY JOURNALISM GROUP

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Oct. 31.—The Indiana University chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity, announced here today the pledging of the following journalism students: Tom Elrod, Indianapolis; Paul Meacham, Acton; David Richardson, Maplewood, N. J.; John Hemstock, Hammond, and Robert E. Johnson, Decatyr.,

WORK TO BEGIN ON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

CHICAGO, Oct. 31 (U. P.).—Mrs. Jennie Renello Rota, 12, an expectant mother ,will appear before a Juvenile Court judge today to plead for approval of her marriage to a 24-year-old laborer. The marriage came to light last night as Jennie made preparations for the hearing. Her husband,

.|snatch up in their flight.

Frank, is held at the County Jail on a technical charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He was arrested last week. Mrs. Rota said she left her seventh

|8rade class Aug. 30 and eloped to

Valparaiso, Ind, with Rota, a roomer in her parent’s home. A Justice of the Peace married them

Shar Jennie had told him she was

VALPARAISO, Oct. ‘31 (U. P.).— Ground will be broken here Thursday for the new $225,000 Porter County Memorial Hospital, The building contract, 45 per cent of which will be financed through a WPA project, will be let in six weeks. A bid of $11,832 for exgavation and construction of foundations has been accepted .from the Foster Lumber and Construction Co. here.

packed their belongings and were only dissuaded from fleeing their homes by proof that it was all just entertainment.

Hundreds Flee Newark

But in the East, in the country being subjected to the “invasion,” hysteria ran viot. Several persons came forward to swear they saw the rocket land and “strange creatures” climb out of it. In Newark, N. J, hundreds fled from two city blocks, carrying what possessions they could Police cars screamed through the streets of a score of towns, responding to frenzied alarms. z The reaction was bitter and the Columbia Broadcasting System, on whose network the program—a dramatization of H. G. Well's novel, “The War of the Worlds”—was broadcast, was inundated with protest telegrams and telephone calls and its press department was busy with explanations and apologies. The broadcasting system had taken every precaution to prevent anyone thinking its program was real. Program listings in Sunday newspapers had announced that the time between 8 and 9 p. m. would be taken by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater of the Air in “The War of the Worlds.” Mr. Welles, playwright and actor, opened the program with a detailed exposition of the series of which the program was a part, Then, four times during the hour broadcast, an announcer broke in to inform listeners that it was a play. 1500 Reported Killed The play was realistic enough that if heard independently of the announcements, it was identical with many ordinary news programs. 1t began with a weather report. An announcer said that the program would continue with dance music from a hotel. This was interrupted by a flash reporting that an observatory professor had noted a series of gas explosions on the planet Mars. Then came a series of bulletins and first hand reporting from the scene. One of the first bulletins said a meteor had landed near Princeton, killing 1500 persons. Soon, another bulletin announced that it hadn't been a meteor at all, but a metal cylinder containing “strange creatures” armed with death rays who were warring on earth’s inhabitants. Then an actor, representing the Interior Secretary, came on, spoke of the terrible disaster. Then other officials urged residents to flee the cities. New York police reported that they handled thousands of calls even while the program was on the air. Newark, Jersey City, Trenton, Philadelphia, and other cities within close range of the focal point of the “invasion” were equally swamped. Many of the callers wanted to know whether it was safer to be in the cellar or on the roof during the gas attack. Others wanted to know the best way to flee. Others wanted pisrely to be advised that it was not real. Relatives ‘Fate’ Asked Telegraph companies reported that they were delivering telegrams from as distant as California inquiring of the fate of relatives. No one was more surprised than officials of the Columbia Broadcasting System and Mr. Welles. Early today, the system, in behalf of Mr. Welles, issued this statement: “Orson Welles, in behalf of the Mercury Theater of the Air, is deeply regretful to learn that the H. G. Welles fantasy, ‘War of the Worlds,’ which was designed as entertainment, has caused some apprehension among Columbia network listeners. “Far from expecting - the radio audience to take the program as fact rather than a ‘fictional presentation, we feared that the classic H. G. Welles story, which has served as inspiration for so many moving pictures, radio serials, and even comic strips might appear too old fashioned for modern consumption. We can only suppose that the special nature of radio which is often heard in fragments, or in parts disconnected from the whole, has led to this misunderstanding.” The broadcasting system broadcast special announcements during the rest of the night explaining that it had been entertainment merely. But until 1 a. m., its switchboards were jammed with indignant listeners, some of them threatening to sue.

Alterations Made, H. G. Wells Says

LONDON, Oct. 31 (U.P.)~—H. G. Wells, author of “The War of the Worlds,” said today that in selling the rights for broadcast of his novel he gave no permission for such alterations as led many American listeners to believe that the United States actually was being attacked by Martians. : “I sold the rights for broadcast of the novel to Columbia Broadcasting Co., but it was implicit in the agreement that it was to be used as fiction and not news,” Mr. Wells said. ever for alterations that might lead to belief that it was .real news.” London afternoon newspapers, whose early editions are devoted to racing news, gave extraordinary prominence today to dispatches from New York describing the na-

tional sensation which resulted from the broadcast.

‘| been sent across the frontier under

French Start Talks on Settlement in Europe; Nazis, Poles Negotiate

IN EUROPE—

PARIS—Bonnet feels out powers on general appeasement. BERLIN—Negotiations with Poland on Jews begun, WARSAW=Poland cares for refugees from Nazis. PRAHA—Border negotiations to begin Wednesday at Vienna. HENDAYE—Spanish Rebels mourn Ramon Franco; claim advance.

IN THE FAR EAST— : SHANGHAI-U. S. protests to Japan on two incidents in China.

BERLIN, Oct. 31 (U. P).—A| PARIS, Oct. 31 (U. P.).—Foreign Secret Police spokesman said jonsy Minister Georges Bonnet today that all Polish Jews who had not)... series of conversations

which was regarded as the prelude {to a four-power negotiations for European appeasement.

M. Bonnet received his first report from Andre Francois-Poncet, who has been transferred from the Berlin [Embassy to Rome, on his last conversations with Fuehrer Hitler and high German officials. They talked at the War Office. M. Bonnet then returned to the Foreign Office and conferred in succession with Sir Eric Phipps, British Ambassador; Auguste Coulondre, new French Ambassador to Berlin; the Italian charge d’affaires, Renato Prunas,- and the German Ambassador, Count Johannes von Welczek.

Nonaggression Pact Hinted

Reports have been circulated in diplomatic quarters that M. Fran-cois-Poncet returned from Berlin with suggestions for a nonaggression pact or a gentlemen's agreement similar -to the joint declaration at Munich by Herr Hitler and Prime Minister Chamberlain of Great Britain.

Czech-Hungarian

Arbitration to Begin

PRAHA, Oct. 31 (U.P.).—Joachim von Ribbentrop and Count Gale-

azzo Ciano, German and Italian Foreign Ministers, meet at Vienna Wednesday to start arbitration negotiations to settle the Czecho-slovak-Hungarian frontier dispute, it was announced today.

U. S. Protests to Japs

deportation orders were returned to their homes during the week-end. The spokesman said that those Polish Jews held in jails in German cities, awaiting deportation, already had been released. ; Negotiations regarding the status of Polish Jews resident in Germany will be started at Warsaw tomorrow, a spokesman said. There was no official estimate of the number of Jews who had been returned to their homes after receiving deportation orders. In unofficial quarters, well-informed persons put the number at 8000.

WARSAW, Oct. 31 (U. P.).—Polish Rcd Cross authorities and Jewish organizations co-operated today Jin caring for an estimated 11,000 Polish Jews who had entered Poland under German deportation orders before the German Government agreed to defer action pending negotiations.

Franco’s Brother, Noted

Flier, Dies in Crash

HENDAYE, French-Spanish Frontier, Oct. 31 (U. P.).—Spanish Rebel leaders mourned today the loss of Lieut. Col. Ramon Franco, Spain’s most famous aviator and a brother of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. He was director of the great Rebel air base at Palma. Another brother, Nicolas, is Ambassador to Fortugal. Ramon Franco, called the Spanish Lindbergh, and four fellow avators took off at dawn Friday from the Palma air base, accompanied by another plane bound on a secret mission. The second plone returned to the base because of a severe : : : storm, but Col. Franco's plane On Incidents in China crashed at Formento Cape. SHANGHAI, Oct. 31 (U. P.)— The bodies of Ramon Franco and United States authorities have prothree others were found. The fifth|tested to the Japanese against two was still missing. incidents involving Americans, it In 1926 Col. Franco became a na-{was learned today. tional hero by flying from Palos,| At Peiping, American Embassy Spain, to Buenos Aires by stages.|authorities protested the killing by News of his death came as the Japanese bombing planes of Phoebe Rebels were celebrating the opening (Nyhus, 3-year-old daughter of Arof a vigorous offensive on the Ebro|thur Nyhus, of Fertile, Iowa. River front in eastern Spain.| Accoridng to American, consular Rebel communiques claimed a bigjauthorities at Hankow,. the Japanvictory, including the gain of some|ese had ben advised officially in adimportant positions and the cap-|vance of the raid of the locality of ture of more than 700 prisoners. the mission buildings, and the It was not good news to Rebels buildings had been marked prominhowever, that private homes and ently with the American flag. restaurants had been ordered to| At Hankow, American and British serve no more than two courses &t|Navy authorities protested to the each meal to conserve food. The|Japanese that Japanese sentries

lIRY 0B! ; MYSTERY DEATH

OF YOUNG WIFE

Lie Detector Clears Hus= band, Research Engineer, In Evanston Case.

EVANSTON, Il, Oct. 31 (U. P.)~—A bus driver said :. today he saw Mrs. Marion Nichols “dancing eccentrically in the midlde of the street, - coatless and in stocking feet, her hair flying in the wind,” a short time before she was found unconscious on a curb early yesterday.

EVANSTON, Ill, Oct. 31 (U. P.).= A coroner’s jury convenes today to investigate the mysterious death of Mrs. Marion Nichols, 30-year-old mother, who was found unconscious

early Sunday on a ‘curb near he home. 2 A passerby came upon her as he was returning home. Her German police dog was standing guard over her body. She died shortly after she had been taken to a hospital. A physician said she had suffered a skull fracture. : She was the daughter of - Pro William H. Timbie of the Massa« chusetts Institute of Technology at Boston. Her husband, Richard W. Nichols, 35, a research engineer, is the son of G. A. Nichols, New York, editor of Printer’s Ink. He agreed willingly to undergo a lie detector test after he had been questioned at intervals for 12 hours. The machine showed he had replied truthfully to every question and he was released. Several mysterious elements puze zled police. When found, Mrs. Nichols wore only blue knitted pajamas and silk stockings. Her coat was found four blocks away. The feet of her stockings were worn through, indicating she had run some diss tance. Slippers Missing

Mr. Nichols said she had worn red

slippers when she left home but po-

lice so far have been unable to and them. Police Lieut. David Eckman dismissed the possibility. that she had been struck by a hit-and-run driver because her injuries, other than the skull fracture, were minor and cone fined to the upper part of her body. He said the police dog, large and powerfully built, would have fought off anyone who might have at< tempted to molest her, ot

Suffered Breakdown

Mr. Nichols said his wife had been confined to a Boston Sanitarium 10 years ago as the result of a nervous breakdown. He said she was emo=tionally upset Saturday night and acted strangely. He took her to a restaurant and she ordered dinner but refused to eat it. After they had returned home she sought vainly to leave the house. Re refused to let her go and she ate tempted to escape through a bath= room window. Later he said she fell

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