Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1939 — Page 1

DEMAN D GOVERN OR - ON STATE PAYROLL

Republicans in House Ask Department

. ‘Listing. ous IS HIGH

Fight Goes on Againd G. 0. P. Liquor Measure.

‘Partisan feeling flared in House today as the Republican majority. pushed through a resolution calling for an accounting of all State salaries and office space and Democrats - continued their fight against the G. O. P. liquor bill. In the Senate, the Committee .on Benevolent Institutions recommended the passage of a bill to remove the Governor's appointive power over the State Institutions’ personnel and place nearly 5000 employees on ‘a merit basis. The Republican resolution, which does not require Senate concurrence, passed 51 to 48 and would require Governor Townsend to furnish the Legislature within five days. a list of all department heads and employees, the duties of these “em- ' ployees, their salaries, the location of all: State offices and the amount of floor space of rented offices.

Agree to Hike Liquor Tax

It followed a conference of lead-

ers of ‘both: parties with Governor Townsend yesterday in which it was agreed that the best method of balancing the biennial budget is to. increase the liquor tax and slash the operating expenses of most State . departments.

The Ways and Means Committee’s|

conditional committee report favoring passage of a bill to reduce the gross income tax: rates for retailers ‘1 per cent to .% df 1 per cent and to ‘reduce: the retailer's slempeion from $3000 to $1000, was accepted by Speaker Knapp “bemer form.” As drafted thé commitice actually recommended passage of this measure when and if additional revenuies were found or some way was discovered ‘so ‘that. this reduction youd. not; further unkalance the et

“This is not strictly a committee 1

* report, ” Speaker Knapp said, “For want; of proper form I am referring this Hill back to: the committee.” -Today’s House resolutions was introduced by Rep. Robert A. Hoover ‘(R. Goshen). Opposing it, Rep. Edward Stein (D. Bloomfield) said: “It would require statement of floor

~ . space of rented offices.”

‘Calls Resolution. Silly

- "This "is a silly resolution. You think the State of Indiana is run :like & grocery store. This would be - a-tremendous task. “You know what the implication of this resolution is. - It is: the old _ elephant sticking his trunk out. As a matter of fact you can get nine tenths .of. this information in the State Budget Office.” “TI know a lot of grocery stores that are run a lot better than this State,” Rep. Hoover said. “There has heen a lot of talk about a deficit around here. This resolution merely would erable us to make an intelligent study of this problem.” In answer to the statement that he:could get nine-tenths of this information from the budget office, Rep. Hoover said: Sf alow the other one-tenth? at ‘might very important to the State.” y Py Rep. Stein said the information about floor space wasn’t available, - and: Rep. Hoover declared that he wanted to know if the State was - renting too much office space. “You don’t know what. you are getting into ‘with this resolution,” he said. “I want you to know that ‘there are 1400 employees now on the State payroll that were on under the administration of former ' Governor Leslie.” In explaining his vote on a roll

‘call, Rep. Roy J. Harrison (D. At-|.

tica) said that only by a resolution of this sort could an- intelligent |study of State government be made. He. said that recently the Governor ‘of Ohio had been able to weed out : (Continued on Page Eight)

CANTOR—HE HAS 5— GIVES DOLLS TO QUADS

GALVESTON, Tex., Feb. 3 (U. P.). —Eddie Cantor, the comedian who ‘has five well publicized daughters, |’ today sent congratulations to Mr.| and Mrs. W. E. Badgett, parents of |six- daughters, four of whom were ‘born Tuesday. -. Mr, Cantor also sent flowers to Mrs; Badgett and a doll for each of . the Suadmuplets,

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LEGISLATURE TODAY

HOUSE

Advanced to second reading the amended G. O. P. liquor : ‘bill.

~~ Recommits to the Ways and Means Committee its report on the measure'to halve the gross income tax rate for retailers.

Passed a resolution requiring Governor Townsend to furnish -the Legislature a list of department heads, employees, _ salaries, and amount of rented office space.

. Receives the State Medicine and Public Health Committee report on the bill to extend powers of the Indiana Barber Board.

Agriculture Committee continnes study of bill to extend the State’s milk control system for two years.

SENATE

Received series of bills dealing with child welfare. (Page )

Received split committee report on the Senate bill to repeal the railroad full. crew law, Studies bill to place the State in the insurance business in competition with private workmen's compensation insurance companies.

~~ Prepares to return to committee for further revision bills to provide a State-wide primary following an announcement by the Governor that he would not oppose enactment of a primary extension law.

Received favorable committee report on bill to place employees of State Institutions on merit basis.

PARLEY TO TAKE UP WATER ISSUE

'Mayor, Indianapolis House

Affairs Group Will “Confer.

Mayor Sullivan will confer with the House Indianapolis Affairs Committee this afternoon on legislative aspects of the, proposed purchase of the Indianapolis Water Co. by the City. City officials revealed yesteiday

~lthey were considering possibility of

purchasing the eompany but had reached no decision. The proposal first was suggested several months ago at a meeting of City Council. They also said an amendment to the 1929 Indianapolis Utilities Act apparently would be necessary to permit purchase. Rep. Daniel Bower (D. Indidnapolis), chairman of the Indianapolis Affairs Committee; said the conference was scheduled for discussion of the bill to amend the Barrett Law, but he added that, as caucus chairman of the Indianapolis House delegation, he intended to bring up the Water Company purchase question. Question Still Undecided

Among the officials scheduled to attend the conference were Mayor Sullivan and ‘Corporation Counsel Edward 'H. Knight. “The matter is still in the mill,” Dr. Bower said, “but it is possible something of interest might develop from our talk.” Mayor Sullivan said yesterday it would ‘be desirable to have some kind: of legisaltion enabling the City to buy the company if the purchase should be found advisable, © He emphasized, however; that “we do not know yet it would be advisable.” Mr. Knight said that if it were decided to seek an amendment, the bill would be prepared by the City Legal Department. The Barrett Law athendinent being considered by the Indianapolis Affairs Committee would permit Indianapolis to issue indenfures when sufficient funds are not available in the street and alley fmprovement fund.

PARK ON SOUTH SIDE 1S ASSURED BY CITY

10-Acre Plot Near Sanitation Plant Is Leased.

A new South Side park and playground was assured today when Louis C. Brandt, Works Board president, > announced that the Works Board will lease ‘to the Park Board a 10-acre plot of ground south of the Sanitation Plant. A. C. Sallee, City parks: superin‘tendent, requested - the lease when a delegation representirig 200 South | Side - residents petitioned ‘the Park

27 Board for the new playground.

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US, T0 SET UP CIVIL LIBERTY PROBE BUREAU

Murphy Also Says He Will Name Assistant for Judiciary Quiz.

‘VIGILANT ACTION’ SET

New Unit Will Be Directed By H. A. Schweinhaut, Harlan Prosecutor.

Attorney General Murphy today established a Civil Liberties Division in the U. S. Justice Department to study and make recommendations on the status of civil rights. Mr. Murphy announced he intends to appoint an outstanding member of the bar as a special assistant to make a “prompt and vigorous” investigation of the Federal Judiciary. This action follows the resignation

of Circuit’ Judge Martin T. Manton of New York, who is being investigated. Establishment of a permanent Civil Liberties Bureau came after suggestions by members of the Senate Civil Liberties Committee. That group, headed by Senator La Follette (Prog. Wis.), has been investigating “alleged violations of civil rights for two years. The new unit, part of the Criminal Division, will be directed by Henry A. Schweinhaut, special assistant to the Attorney General, who took an important part in prosecution of Harlan County, Kentucky, coal operators. “In a - democracy,” Mr. Murphy said, “an important function of the, law enforcement branch of government is the aggressive protection of the fundamental rights inherent in |g a free people. In America these guarantees are contained in expressed provision of the Constitution and in acts of Congress. It is the purpose of the Department of Justice to pursue a program of vigilant action in the prosecution of infringements of these rights. “It must be borne in mind that the authority of the Federal Government’ in this field is' somewhat limited by the fact that many of the ‘Constitutional guarantees are guar-|"

Government itself, or by the State Governments, and are not guaran-

tees against infringement by individuals or groups of individuals.” »

FORECAST TONIGHT

‘State Reports Roads Hazardous.

Southern

TEMPERATURES

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A minimum temperature of 20 tonight, followed by fair and'warmer weather tomorrow, was forecast today by the Weather Bureau for Indianapolis. The lowest temperature in the last 24 hours was reached at 6 a. m. and continued until 9 a. m.—25 degrees. The Highway Commission reported there is from two to four inches of snow in the Seymour district, with between four and five inches at Evansville. Roads are hazardous: in the southern . section, the Commission said, because snow, rain and snow fell in that order and there is ice below the last snow. Road 66 is closed south of Derby, 157 north of Washington, 245 south of LaMar and 235 east of Seymour. There was no snow north of Bloomington or east of Columbus and Seymour, the Commission said.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3 (U. P.). —Rena Mooney said today Tom Mooney wants to divorce her “but I

fought to get him out ‘of prison.”

life for Tom,” Mrs. Mooney said. “He can’t discard me now. I'll go

to the last ditch.” Mr. Mooney said: “This not only affects myself and

my cosufferer,

Two weeks ago in Los Angeles he branded rumors of an impending separation as “lying statements by

credit me.”

tended to seek divorce on grounds of incompatabijity—that the lives

imprisonment, made them “unsuited for each other.” :

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (U.P).—|

antees against abuses by the Federal] -

20-DEGREE MINIMUN

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- FRIDAY, er 3, 1939

SLAYER OF WIFE, | CHILD GIVES UP|

Murdered Them ir in Quarrel, Says Dentist, Broken By Conscience.

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 3 (U. P.)—A conscience-stricken University of Pittsburgh dental graduate returned

nearly four years and today confessed the brutal hammer-knife slaying of his wife and young son. “I wanted to get it all off my mind,” ‘Dr. Norman Stewart II, 34, told District Attorney Andrew T. Park as he ‘related how he bludgeoned and stabbed his wife, Mary Louise, a college sweetheart, and garroted and clubbed his son, Norman Stewart III, 4, on the -afternoon of June 14, 1935. The timid, bespectacled slayer gave himself up after a bus trip from Jacksonville, Fla., where he was said to have stolen $300 from a hotel cash register to finance the trip, desérting a ‘Jacksonville girl he married a year ago, according to Mr. Park. . Stewart use the alias Jake, it was revealed.

Shows the Strain

Stewart showed the strain of his years ‘as a fugitive Ee recited details: of .a struggle following an| argument over family finan that ended in. the slayings. “My mind ' just ‘went blank, ” he said. ~The doctor revealed bow the depression forced him: to quit his dental practice and take a $153-a-week job as a stock room: clerk in a downtown grocery. After the slaying, Stewart said he left Pittsburgh after twice | re-

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ing ahd a’second time for wearing} apparel ‘for his oldest child, Janet, 7, who was spending the week-end with her grandparents. The double. killing. was discovered four days later when police broke into the Stewart's shabby secondfloor ‘apartment in Wilkinsburg.

Worked as Bartender

The young husband was believed by police to have been a suicide but, according’ to Stewart, he went to Florida by way of Indianapolis, St. Louis, Macon and Atlanta. He arrived in Jacksonville about a week after the. slaying, he said. While in Jacksonville, he worked as a bartender at hotels and resorts there, and his trip back to Pittsburgh, according to Mr. Park, was financed ‘by $300 he had stolen from his last employer. Stewart arranged his surrender through ga college friend, C., Dick Cabel, an attorney, who scheduled a: meeting last night with Mz, Park. When he walked into Mr. Park's office, Stewart was wearing a: serge suit’ and. carried -a small zipper bag.

confession which Stewart signed as “complete in every detail.” He quoted him as saying, “I don’t remember much about it — my mind went blank. The next thing ‘I re-

won’t let him after all the years I've |

. “I've spent the best years of my |

Fight into court and fight his efforts |;

my wife but also concerns vitally |:

my enemies in an attempt to isa]

It was rumored Mr. Mooney in-|

member they were dead.” :

he and Mrs. Mooney lived, since his|

Mrs. Mooney said the only, rea-| Filip iv) son she revealed her hugkands i. yo!

to Pittsburgh after an absence ofj.

I Killed Them Four Years Ago’

Times Telephoto,

Detective - Jerry Deasy auestions Norman Stewart -

Baby Faces Invalidism

Or Death

SOUTH ‘BEND, Feb. 3 (U. P.). — The parents of a: 5-month-old daughter doomed to die of a spinal affliction decided today against an operation which might prolong her life, but only as an invalid. The parents are Mr. and Mrs. Willis H. Sriver. He is a - former So Bend policeman. The child was born with four veterebrae missing and Mr. Sriver said that experts had told him that at best surgery would only prolong life and might be fatal immediately. _° “They tell me,” Mr. Sriver . said sadly, “that the. spinal fluid has ruptured the baby’s back where the four vertebrae are missing. When that little sac (containing the fluid) is broken, %he child ‘must die fron paralysis. “In the meantime, if she is: kept on her side or stomach ‘she seems perfectly normal. We can only let lat, nature take

Entered as Second-Class

at Postoffice, Indianavolis, Ind.

Us Dien!

ROME ATTACKS ON PRESIDENT

FOREIGN AFFAIRS WASHINGTON—President outlines foreign policy. 3 =U]. S. sued by Spanish Rebels in silver buying.

ROME—U. 8S. protests Italian press attack on Roosevelt,

<’ 2 8 5 LONDON—Chamberlain approach to Hitler forecast. # 8 »

LONDON—W idespread plot feared in new bombing explosions. :

8 nn» PARIS—Informal envoy on way to Spanish Rebel headquarters. ROME, Feb. 3 (U.P.).—The United States Embassy protested to the foreign office today against a violent campaign in the Italian press against President Roosevelt.

The Rome newspapers have been picturing the Presidént as an “in-

. | ternational agitator” who is trying

to start a war against the total-

‘|itarian nations by joining up with

Britain and France. Today’s outstanding attack was by Virginio Gayda, editor of the authoritative newspaper Giornale D'Italia. The protest ‘was in the form of a note from United ‘States Ambassa-| dor William Phillips to Gount Galeazzo Ciano, Italian foreign minister. It was delivered to the foreign office this afternoon.

Called Insulting The note said that recent comments in the Italian press:were personally. insulting bo So, President Roose-

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should somehow live she would probably be an invalid. So, we have decided to let nature take its course.”

8 FREMEN BURIED ALIVE IN SYRACUSE

Rescue Crews Dig in Ruins;

All Believed Dead.

SYRACUSE, N. Y,, Feb. 3 (U. P). — Rescue crews strove desperately

today to reach eight firemen buried

in the smouldering ruins of a fourstory warehouse, gutted by a $100,000 fire of an undetermined origin. Officials had abandoned all hope of finding any of the seven alive, Emergency crews pressed into action, used all available trucks to pull down remaining walls of the structure. ! At the same time, an attempt was being made to tunnel into the ruins from an adjoining building. . The victims were’ identified by fire officials as Thomas ‘Dugan, Lieutenants John Young, David Levine and Raymond Bauder, and firemen John Egan, James Diamond, Gregory - Dixon, and Frank Kerlin. { Three others were injured, two seriously. Those injured included William Moore, Warren Ostrander and Claytong Crandall. Mr. Moore and Mr. Ostrander were in hos-

Mr. ' Park - described the 18-page pitals,

' Walls of the burning building began to crumble as 10 firemen were on the roof attempting to prevent the fire from spreading to the city’s largest office building, which adJoins the warehouse.

Acting Chief|.

While no exception was taken to political .comments regarding the United States, the note said that nevertheless the Embassy felt it was

‘|compelled to’ call the attention of

the foreign office to personal criticism of the President. | The personal nature of the press attack included mention. by some newspapers of the President's physical disabilities, which they inferred “caused ‘mental aberrations.” The Gazetta di Popolo of Turin described the President as “Public Enemy to Peace No. 1.” -Circles close to the United States Embassy understood that Ambassador Phillips expected an answer within the next few days. It was learned that a note was sent be-

than an actual visit by the Ambas= sador to the Foreign Office.

Refers to U. S. History

The anti-Roosevelt press campaign reached a new high in Sig. Gayda’s three-column front-page editorial in the Giornale d'Italia. Sig. Gayda asked the United States to remember the “history of American persecutions before criticizing totalitarian states.” American history has “plenty of dirty linen” to be aired, he said.

Premier Mussolini, called the President European affairs which are none of his business and an agitator of international disorder by war mongers.” Mr. Roosevelt,, he charged, {is “pouring oil on the fire.” After saying that the President’s statements to the Senate Military Affairs Committee caused exultation in France, Sig. Gayda denied foreign reports that the statements “scorched the Fascist skin.” “Our skin is tough,” Sig. Gayda wrote. “This skin is not burned by

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Tom Mooney Wan ts Divorce, Wife, 61, Declares, ‘But 1 Won ’t Let Him, + After Years I ? ve Fought to Get Him Out’

«1 started giving music Yeswons when I was 15. I'm 61 now. My | dream through the long years Tom

4 |was away from me, was that some

day he would be. freed — and we would start life all over again, and be happy together during the last years.” Rumors that all was not well with the Mooneys have been in circulation for years but they repeatedly denied them. Mrs. Mooney said her husband! had no legitimate grounds for divorce. “You know, Tom’s really a dictator at: heart.” - Mrs. Moeney | said she would “jump. off the Golden |

Gate Bridge” if forced off the: music,

‘project. “I don’t think,” Mrs. Mooney said, “that I ought: to: be’ on relief ‘any-.way---what. with Tom riding around in airplanes and living in expensive, ‘hotel rooms. . “I suppose Tom will think I'm ‘after publicity—but I'm not.

“I would never, never have said

ag all this if I hadn't been threatened

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Report That American Defense Line’ Hal Been. Pushed to Rhine Branded as‘ ‘Deliberate Lie.

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FOUR - POINT POLICY IS OUTLINED

President Protests Published Versions’ of

Secret Conference as Politics and

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Misrepresentation.

(Editorial, Cartoon, Pegler and Fiynn, Page 18; My Diary, Page 1%)

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt today sternly outlined a four-point United States foreign policy of opposition to entangling alliances and sympathy, with the peaceful maintenance of the complete independerice

of all nations.

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He spoke in his press conference when reporters sought to discover what transpired in recent secret White House and Capitol discussions of foreign affairs and aid to Euro-

pean democracies,

OMB SUBWAYS

IN LONDON AREA

Sections of Two Stations Wrecked, 11 Injured; Plot Feared.

LONDON, Fes. 3 (U. P).—Explosions in two subway stations sent Ecotland Yard operatives on an urgent hunt for bombs in every subvay and railroad station in greater

london today in fear that a widespread terroristic “plot fhresiened

‘the city.” ? Parts of two sabYay stations in the heart of London’s west end were wrecked, shop windows were shat{ered and at least 11 persons were injured by explosions at about 6 a. in, today as early risers were on “heir way to work. Strong police squads at once slosed both stations. Scotland Yard men were rushed n squad cars to close, empty and search all luggage rooms of the metropolitan subway system, fearing|. -hat other hombs had been planted.

Rail Depots Searched -

Such a serious view was taken of the explosions that later it was de-

cause it would be more informal

f eaks for Sig. Gayda, who often sp |phred.

sh _indisereet disiurbes Of mak a new outbreak of terrorisra

cided to include all main railroad stations in the search. The incident was raised as soon

las the House of Commons met and

Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary,

"said in reply to a question by Maj.

Clement Attlee, Leader of the Labor Party, that the explosions were apparently due to bombs with time fuses left overnight in the cloak ‘and baggage rooms of the Leicester Square and Tottenham Court road subway stations, where the explosions occurred. He added that considerable damage was done and that investigation of the bombings was being actively

Police feared that the explosions

by the “Irish Republican Army,” extremist organization which Irish authorities have outlawed, in pursuit of its‘demand that all British officials get out .of Northern Ireland.

HOPE FADES FOR 48

Undersea Craft Sinks After Channel Collision.

; . TOKYO, Feb. 3 (U. P.).—Japan’s crack long-distance submarine, 1-63, [capable of a cruise to the United States and return without refueling, lay at the bottom g¢f the turbulent Bungo Channel today, crippled in a collision with a sister submarine. Thirty hours had passed without news from it, and hope for its crew of about 48 was ‘almost given up. Navy. ships were nosing out from the great Kure navy base at dawn yesterday when the collision - oc~ curred in the deep, dangerous strait, between - Shikoku and Kiushiu {islands at the southwestern end of {the Japanese island group. The I-63 {sank at once. Maneuvers were suspended and urgen{ calls sent for salvage crews. ‘News of the ship’s sinking was with held by the navy until midday to-

‘day, and this was taken to mean that all efforts to raise it or even to contact it had failed.

BULLETIN

"WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (U0, Je mes alter a tu-

Lifting the White House : prohibition * against direct quotation, the President said the statement)that he had told Senators the American defense line now lay on the Rhine—in = France—was a

“deliberate lie.”

Then he outlined his foreign’ “pols icy, recorded as follows by the: ufs ficial White House stenographer: “The foreign policy has . not changed and it is not: going: to change. If you want a Compara tively simple statement of the policy, I will give it to you. Ses : Opposes Entanglements

“No. 1. We are against any ene tangling alliances, obviously. “No. 2. We are in favor of the maintance of world trade for everye

selves. 2 “No. 3. We are-in comipiets Syms pathy with any and every effort made to reduce or limit armaments, “No. 4. As a nation—As Amer ican people—we are: :sympathetic with the peaceful maintenance. of political, economic: and socal ‘inde~ pendence of all nations - in" the world.” He charged that some legislators

ately lied about’ or misrepresented his foreign policy and sharply pro tested what he regarded as politics in national defense. Chairman Pittman. of the ‘Senate Foreign Relations ‘Committee was present during the press conference, Mr. Roosevelt said he was there so he could tell the Senate what actually was said. The President bluntly pholssiod the versions reaching the public of secret conferences on national de fense. Committee at Odds Simultaneously with his confer= ence, the Senate Military Affairs Committee in another hot and secret meeting failed to agree whether to reveal to the public its information about aid given by the Administration to the arming of France with new-type American fighting planes. Mr. Roosevelt acted both at home and abroad to counteract recent ree ports. of his foreign policy. Rome dispatches reported that the United State Embassy had protested to the foreign office against a violent press campaign against the President. This outcry apparently developed largely in response to published: reports of New Deal foreign : policy, and especially the statement that the President had told Senate committeemen that America’s defense line now lay in France. “That is a deliberate .lie;” the

- | President “said today. when: asked

JAPS ON SUBMARINE

about the new defense frontier: He said he did not doubt the remark had been attributed to him, bus wished the man who was responsible for it could be brought to the Whits House. The President declared he had not named the Rhine as our defensive frontier. Nor, he said, had he de= scribed France in such: terms. The President described the. uns named utterer of the “deliberats lie” as a. hoob—he thought seme boob had circulated the statement. He ridiculed the uproar about secret discussion of foreign policy, explaining that it would not be wise fo give publicity to the reports of intelligence officers on matters which probably were true but which could not immediately - be cons {Continued on Page Three)

CONVICTS’ HUNGER STRIKE NEAR END

(Early Details P: Page 16)

‘SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal, Feb. 3 (U. P.).—The hunger strike of San Quentin convicts a virtually ended today when -all but 133 of the prison’s 5266 inmates suc cumbed to/the lure of a square meal and trooj into the mess hall for breakfast. A cell-by-cell checkufi®’ dixon more than 2360 prisoners changed their minds about ‘turn {down the prison fare today. - terday : 2500 refused to tT

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|food was “monotonous,” ‘and’ ¢ : fisted, of “too much “corned ]

body—all nations—including: ours =

and newspaper owners have delibere ;