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TWO HELD HERE $640,000 AUD CHARGE
Mrs. Ethel Pitt Donnell and | Robert Beckett Jailed in | Default of Bail.
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WOMAN CALLED ‘BRAINS’
Pair Mulcted 200 Investors Of Building and Loan Stocks, Nolan Says.
Two Indianapolis persons, charged in a Federal indictment with par-| ticipating in an alleged swindle ring
that took $640,000 from 200 Indiana investors, today were held in the County Jail in default of $10,000 bond each. | Under arrest are Mrs. Ethel Pitt] Donnell, 60, of 3715 N. Meridian St. | described by District Attorney Val! Nolan as the “brains” of the alleged scheme, and Robert D. Beckett, 45, of 5520 College Ave. Mr. Nolan said the alleged swindle was accomplished through the trading of promissory notes fov good building and loan stock, and in some cases. a subsequent payback with alleged worthless bonds Mrs. Donnell was an officer of four companies through which operations were carried on, Mr. Nolan «aid. and Mr. Beckett was sales agent for them. These companies are The Green River Valley Coal Co.. Indianapoiis, and the Green River Valley Terminal Co. of Indianapolis and Evansville, both Indiana corporations; ine Chicago. Ohio & Mississippi TranCo.. Henderson, Ky, a Delaware corporation, and The American Terminals & Transit Co, denderson. Kv, a Kentucky corporation Mr. Nolan said that operations covered bv the indictments, which make 18 separate charges of fraud, occurred during the years 1932 to 1837 and that most of the investors were widows and aged persons, some of whom lost their life savings.
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Arrested at Party
Mrs. Donnell, who was arrested she entertained friends in her apartment, charged the indictment a “Securities Exchange Commission frameup” which she said] had investigated the transactions involved in the indictment and “found nothing wrong.” She made séveral attempts to contact people by phone from the! U. 8. marshal's office to secure bond. She called a former Indiana | Governor and identified herself as “Ethel,” the office reported Her husband, she said, had been ill and unable to work for 10 years He was not involved in any of the indictments. Mr. Nolan said Mrs. Donnell was president, director and | treasurer of the Green River Valley Terminal Co. secretary-treasurer of the American Terminals & Transit Co. vice president, treasurer and director of the Green River Valley Coal Co. and vice president, treasurer and director of the Chicago, Ohio & Mississippi Transit Co Mr. Nolan said investors traded promissory notes of the Green River Valley Terminal Co for building and loan stock, which was immediately sold on the market. some for 80 cents on the dollar
Gave Bonds for Notes
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was
were
provided for the payprincipal to begin one the transaction and to
The notes ment of the month after continue until it was paid These pavments, Mr. Nolan said, were made for a month or two and then some investors were persuaded to rade the note: for 10-year income bonds of the American Terminals & Transit Co. which were rep- | resented as paving 7 per cent interest. semiannually The bonds, Mo not eall for 7 annualiv, but for “interest not to exceed 7 per cent” and that if nt (Continued on Page Three)
CHRYSLER WORKERS RECALLED IN STATE
NEW CASTLE, Ind. June 8 (U Pp) Employees of the Chrysler Motor Co. plant were called to work today after a two-week layoff caused by the strike at the Briggs plant in Detroit. The Briggs plant manufactures part for Chrysler.
said. did semi-
Nolan per cent
KOROMO, Ind, June 8 (U. P).— Chrysler Co. officials here today, notified all employees to report for | work immediately
STOCK MARKET DIPS
NEW YORK, June 8 (UP) — Technical factors were blamed for a loss of fractions to more than a point in the stock list today. The list dipped after displaying a mixed tone in early trading Dealings were quiet
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PRICE THREE CENTS
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Big One on Hook Proves To Be Rike
William Day, 15. of 921 S. Missouri St. using a cane pole and an inch long red worm, | vesterday caught a bicycle. He was fishing in White River near Kentucky Ave, and found it necessary 10 wade in to land the cvele, He turned it over to police Persons catching trieveles are hereby notified they are too short and will have to be thrown back
5 DIE IN STATE ROAD CRASHES
Former lllinois Mayor, Wife, Truck Driver Killed in One Collision. i — |
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Five persons were killed in over night accidents on Indiana highways. Three met death in a truck-au-tomobile head-on collision near Evansville. One of the victims, the truck driver, was burned to death A 6-year-old bov was killed when! struck by a car at La Grange. | A Knightsville man died in a collision near Greencastle. In Indianapolis, only two persons were hurt in 12 accidents while police arrested 55 motorists Daniel Coers, 61. of Shelbyville, was held for the Grand Jury when arraigned before Municipal Court Judge John MeNelis on a charge of failure to stop after an accident. He was released on his own recognizance He was charged with being volved in a three-car crash at St
ih38th and Boulevard Place, May 11.
Three Killed When | Auto. Truck Collide
EVANSVILLE, Ind. June 3 (U P) —A head-on auntomobile-truck crash claimed three lives eight miles west of here late yesterday. The dead are: E. E. BRAYFIELD. 46, Terre Haute, former Mavor of DuQuoin, Il, who received a skull fracture and internal injuries MR. BRAYFIELDS whose neck was broken JACK O'QUINN, 26, Little Rock, Ark. who burned to death when the trick cab caught fire. Mr. Brayfield, eastern division sales manager of Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. was en route to the southern Illinois oil fields. The truek, driven by O'Quinn, was headed for Evansville, Victor
WIFE, 40,
| Paulette, 23, North Little Rock, Ark
who was riding with O'Quinn, but was not injured seriously, told officers that Bravfield's car swerved across the road in front of the truck Paulette was thrown from the truck cab and escaped the fire,
LA GRANGE, Ind, P.) —Lyle Carpenter, 6, son of Mv and Mrs. Edward Carpenter, was killed yesterday when he was hit by a car driven by Dr. Harley Flanagan, of La Grange. Flanagan and his sister who was with him were’ in serious condition from injuries suffered when he drove the car into the ditch in an attempt to avoid hitting the boy
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GREENCASTLE, Ind, June 8 (U PP.) Delbert Heacox, 25, of Knightsville, was killed last night when his car collided with a truck driven by Ralph Dullerdick near here He was en route home from a new job he had procured after a long period of unemployment
TRUCK TIRE TAXES
Governor Calls Conference On Program.
Governor Townsend today conference of Motor to outline to collect
called Vehicle a ‘'‘erack the new
a
down” program truck tire taxes Frank Finney, motor license bureau director, said only a small per cent of the anticipated $1,000,000 revenue from the tax has been collected since the licenses were placed on sale three weeks ago, It is estimated that there are 30,000 trucks in Indiana on which the tax should be collected The tax is based upon the size and pressure of tires, ranging from $2 to $75 The Governor indicated that a deadline may have to be fixed and enforcement machinery organized to collect the levy
4 Million Kinds of Grief, Or a Tale With a Sting
By JOE COLLIER Mosquitos go from eggs to adults to eggs in 10 days and that law of nature may mean the difference between a happy summer and a seratehy one {or you Here's why, according Frank Wallace, State entomologist, who has studied as well as slapped the little beasts Mosquitos breed in water, such as is left in tin cans or may stand in the eaves of a home If the pools dry up within 10 davs, the eggs wither and no new generation of mosquitos comes forth to bother vou. The old ones may be there, but they won't be there in any, great numbers.
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CITY WILL
Park Board to Retain Last
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PLAYLOTS POOLS M
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Year's Schedule of Fees For Swimming.
FREE PERIODS ARE KEPT
Largest Crowds in History Are Considered Certain By Officials. Thousands of youngsters in In- gE dianapolis today awaited two events of significance in a youngster's life & —-the closing of schools for the sums | mer Friday and the opening of City playgrounds and swimming pools Monday. The Park Board decided to keep last vear's schedule and fee in effect at the pools City Park officials predicted that the 1939 play season would draw the greatest crowds to the playgrounds and swimming pools in the City's history. Predicts New Record
“We'll have to go some to beat last year's record,” H. W. Middles= worth, recreation director, said “But I think we will top the 1938 mark of 1028021 on the playgrounds and 359.377 in the pools.” At 9 a. m. sharp on Monday, the gates of 38 playgrounds in ali sections of the City will swing open. There wasn't much doubt in the minds of recreation officials that hundreds of youngsters would be standing in line long before that! hour The 71 playground Instructors were ordered to be on hand “early” to get the youngsters organized into activities, There will be a 10-cent fee for use of the pools between 4 and 10 p. m five days a week and from 1:30 pe 10:30 p. m., Saturdays. Sundays and holidays ¢
Free Periods Scheduled
MOVE AGAINST CROSSING PERIL
Police Send Safety Pleas to Pennsylvania and Belt Railways.
Free periods at all pools will be between 10 a. m. and noon and from 1:30 to 4 p. m. five days a week. On Saturdays, Sundavs and holidays. the free period will be between 10 a. m. and noon. All pools will be] closed between noon and 1:30 p. m.| daily for water purification. Daily swimming and life-saving classes will be held at all pools between 9 and 10 a. m The Board banned bathing suits for women. but approved white and rubber bathing suits. Previously, the Board banned! topless suits for men. The Police Department today The pool schedule was adopted ,cked two railroads to co-operate in unanimously on the recommenda-|aoprecting traffic hazards at Madi« tion of Paul Rathert, Board mem- qn ave crossings which have reber. It also includes all-day [ree ged in nearly 50 accidents since periods at Garfield and Ellenberger| piarch. 1038. pools on Mondays and at Rhodius petters asking help in the project and Douglas pools on Mondays and were sent to the Pennsylvania and Fridays Belt Roads by Chief Morrissey. Jackiel W. Joseph, Board presi-' The 35th accident at the Penndent, estimated that the 10-cent fee qylyania crossing in the last 14 would net about $8000 at the end of ymonths was reported to police tothe season day. William Fillman, 38 of 1330 Pools N. New Jersey St. escaped injury when his car crashed into the flasher signal abutment
two-piece
Renovated
“We have to have some method.” he said, “of meeting our expenses "| : " on these pools. We're operating on Twenty-eight of the acciden’s at the theory that where a special this crossing were of this type with facility, such as a swimming pool, only three being collisions of trains is provided, the public should bear and autos Three fatalities and at least part of the maintenance” seven injuries have been reporied Mr. Joseph said that new chlor« there since Jan. 1 inating equipment had been in- Both this crossing and the Belt stalled in three pools and that the intersection are protected with equipment at two others had been flasher signals in the middle of the renovated “at considerable expense.” street. The Police Department is He said he did not believe that the investigating the advisability of reestimated $8000 would cover maine locating the signals to prevent the tenance expenses during the sums« abutmeni crashes mer months, The South Side Civie Club Meanwhile, the dedication ©0' campaigning for track elevation as Eagle Creek Park was set for Sun- a means of eliminating accidents,
day at 2 p.m Mavor Sullivan, FARMER, WIFE AND
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Mr. Joseph and other officials were expected to join West Side citizens in a special dedication ceremony Playground equipment will be erected Saturday All playgrounds SON 3 FOUND SLAIN have been cleaned and graded, Mr | | Middlesworih said. Swimming pools are now being cleaned and painted er ' Murder and Suicide Hinted OVERTIME PARKERS At Medaryville. TO GET 3 STICKERS MEDARYVILLE, Ind. June 8 (U. P).~The bodies of Edward Police will resume putting stick« jms. 54: his wife, Bdith, 31, and ers on cars that are parked overs i. g.year-old son. Edward Jr. time in the downtown area, Capt. were found in the bedroom of their Lewis Johnson, traffic department go... home today, their throats head, announced today. slashed with a razor-sharp, six-inch None has been placed in the last y,iaher knife found near the body several weeks while the pay window oe he father. has been removed from Police laude Burson, Pulaski County Headquarters to City Hall coroner, said it appeared to be a Courtesy stickers, warning erring ..<s of déuble murder and suicide motorists that a second offense will and believed Timms had slain his bring a $2 sticker, will be distrib=| ite and son early this morning, uted first, he said. Arrests will fol then cut his own throat 2 low next week, he said.
| Bdward, who lives on a neighbor [ing farm Police blamed poor heelth for the tragedy, Timms recently had recovered from pneumonia, and the poy was said to have been frail,
CRICKMORE, PEATS summer, it works out like this: SEEKING PAROLES
One egR hatches and the mos- A hearing on a petition seeking quito lives. Within 10 days it de- paroles for Victor Crickmore and
posits about 150 eggs. It rains. one garry Peats., serving prison sen- |
hundred fifty mosquitos hatch and | oo ac for the fatal stoning of John go about their business. Within 10 Penny. truckdriver, was to be held days they deposit a total of 22500{,¢ y)¢ State Clemency Commission eRes and, if it rains, 22,500 mos- today. Quitos get up The two men were sentenced to That gives you an idea. You can terms of two to 21 years each in either make it stop raining alto Appil, 1938. Both are officials of a gether, watch the little pools near labor union organization vour home, or put a lot of miles on a yourself slapping them. PRINCESR ELIZABETH ILL But remember, if that 22.500 mos-| LONDON, July 8 (U. P).—Pringuitos all lay eggs. vou will have cess Elizabeth, heir to the throne, im another 10 days, barring wear and was unable to attend the trooping tear, 4875000 mosquitos. |ot the color today because of a slight cold. '
HOW ARE
Emerging from Washington's Union Station for the Brig. Gen, Edwin M. Watson, the President's Military aide;
The bodies were discovered about | 9 a. m. by Gus Timms, brother of |
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Royalty
firing of the 2l-gun royal salute are King George, President Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt and Queen Elizabeth,
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By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
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the news of the shot fired at the Duchess of Kent must The woman behind the counter, who is an old “Yes, it certainly is a responsibility to have the We certainly have to take all precautions’
royalty exists! How hard it of those about vou! friend, remarked King and Queen here,
This was interesting in view
ASHINGTON, Wednesday —When I bought the Poughkeepsie Station yesterday morning, I exclaimed over
my newspapers In
How precariously
be to forget the constant anxiety
of the fact that I feel sure many
people would protest violently against the orders reported In New York City that all people on the sidewalks where the parade passes, as Il goes to the World's Fair, must stand motionless and all windows must
be closed On the train, a lady came up to me to sav how deeply she was interested in this visit and wit what interest she read my column to know just what was happening every dav. There is no shadow of a doubt in my mind that there are few individuals in any walk of life who are not thinking and wondering about the King and Queen of England, If I needed any further proof, my mail would corroborate this, One of my most amusing letters tells me that on scanning over the menu for dinner at the White House, the writer finds that [ish to be served with a wine sauce, which should never be served with that kind of accompanintent. My correspondent may be soothed with the news that the fish course has been eliminated
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HREE people I met vesterday asked me just how to greet the King and Queen, if they have an opportunity to meet them. That reminded me of a story told me in the Yosemite about one of the oldest rangers who was with me on a camping trip. Billy Nelson had accompanied King Albert and the Queen of the Belgians when they went through the Yosemite on their visit to toe United States immediately after the World War, They were a charming. royal couple and they understood well the real vaiue of human beings. I am sure that one look at Ranger Billy Nelson's face assured them he was a grand person, He had been carefully coached, however. as to the proper way of addressing royalty. When he stood before King Albert, he forgot everything and, with a reminiscent chuckle, he told me: “I just said ‘Howdy King' and held out my hand.” »
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Park is all decorated in anticipation of the visit of the King and Queen. Every farmer in the vicinity is praying for rain because the crops neec it very badly, but I feel sure that the village officials will be deeply disturbed i the flags and bunting are ruined by any real downpour of rain. When we reached Washingu:n yesterday afternoon, the decowntions had begun to appear even in this sophisticated city, which only puts on its gala attire at the ve'v last minute I found many questions of procedure on my desk awaiting last minute decisions
LINDY PRIZE DONOR DIES NEW YORK, June 8 (u. Funeral services will be held Saturday for Raymond Orteig, 69, donor of the $25,000 prize won by Col. [Charles from New York to Paris in 1927.
VISIT INVOLVES HIGH DIPLOMATIC STAKES
New Era in Anglo-American | Relations Forecast.
| WASHINGTON, June 8 (U, P.), = | Behind the pomp and glitter ol [British Majesty's first visit to the [United States diplomats saw today [the prospect of a new era in AngloAmerican re@ationship with possible | far-reaching effects upon a warlelonded world High diplomatic stakes are volved for boih nations. | For Britain there lies the that the visit will win for England-beset on every side with threats to its traditional power and |prestige—hoth moral and material sympathies of the nation which threw off British rule a century and a half ago.
hope
For the United States, seeking to]
live in peace in a world jangling
with successive alarms of war, there | friendly feeling | the | closer!
was the hope that engendered by the youthful rulers might allegiance by Britain those policies which America believes necessary if the world is not again to be plunged into general conflict. Constitutional limitations sur-
visit of win
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vent the occasioh from being more han a friendly gesture, The British King is prohibited by law from personal diplomatic activity. President Roosevelt likewise would be unable o make any agreement with the 3ritish King, if he desired to do 50.
U. S. Isn't as Crazy as It Seems, London Learns
LONDON, June 8 (U, P.).—Head-|
lines announcing that New York Harbor was to be swept for mines [to protect King George and Queen |Elizabeth, and assurances that | America was not so crazy a land as [it might seem from the newsreels,
puzzled Britons today as they cen-|
[tered their interest on the arrival of the roval couple in the United States, A big heat wave, bolder members of the House of Commons attended sessions without vests under their winter-weight
so severe that
P.) — morning coats, was not sufficient to|
|divert general interest from the
royal visit. The heat abated during the day,
A. Lindbergh on his flight but the excitement over the royal
visit grew hotter.
in- |
rounding the British Throne pre-|
YOU? GLAD TO SEE YOU, SAYS ROOSEVELT TO KING GEORGE
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Royal Couple Cheered By 500,000 at Washington.
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MERCURY IS AT 89
LADIES IN BLUE “SMILE HAPPILY.
Man Dies of Heat as > : . 150 Women Faint; Tank Burns. By WEBB MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 8.— | Their Brittanic Majesties ar ‘rived today on an epochal first visit to the United Sates and | . paraded through jam-packed ‘thousands along Pennsylvania Ave. to the noontime shelter ‘of the White House. It was a rip-roaring beginning to their | United Sates tour. “God Save the King" was Lhe [capital's national anthem and “Hurray For Their Majesties’ was the password on this festal occasion, Deep currents of statecraft flowed beneath the glamorous surface of the royal show. But Washinglon had no state occasions with which to compare it. Thousands lined the streets under a broiling sun. Tanks, airplanes and troops put a new front on a : peaceful city. Cross streets were Times-Acme Telephoto. jammed for hundreds of yards from | the parade route. As for traffic— there was none in the usually ace cepted sense of the word. All Washington could do was echo the words of President Roosevelt as King-Emperor George VI and the President met in the scrubbed up and furbished reception room at the Union Station: “Indeed a Pleasure”
“How are you,” said Mr. Roose= velt, putting out the right hand that has touched fingers with a mil= lion voters, ‘so glad to see you." The King replied: “Mr. President it is indeed a pleasure for Her Majes= [ty and myself to be here.” | Vice President Garner, who is not lexactly a social butterfly, went WASHINGTON, June 8 (U. P)—|through with his part of the barThe Queen of all the Britons and | gain and met the royalty, but, as an the First Lady of 130,000,000 Amer- old Texan, he left before the shoot jcans met today and rode in splen- ing besan. dor past hundreds of thousands. | Wearing formal morning clothes Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain, and a high silk hat, he confined
and Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the Bis pO bo init you Wi President of the United States—two | OW Majesty, an en hurrie
women clad in blue—exchanged first [back to the office even before the greetings in the lavishly fitted Presi- |21-Sun salute was fired. He did not dential room at Union Station. Mrs. [Fide in the parade. ia Roosevelt did not curtsy. | This was one of the capital's Then they rode down historic truly big public receptions, fit to
avenues of Washington, seated side 80K with that given Gen. John J.
by side in an open automobile, while | Pershing and his men who marched > {here in 1919; to Col. Lindbergh
from the sidelines came the ‘“ohs” Se = and “ahs” of women spectators who | When he returned from Paris; and quite as noisy and gay as the wel
marveled at the Queen's beauty, : | Clad in a gossamer dress of grey. come Bucky Harris’ ball team got ish blue, the Queen raisea a flimsy in 1924 when Washington won its white parasol to shield her head first and only World Series. from the intense Washington sun.| An unidentified man slumped |But she held the parasol high and fell dead on the sun-scorched (Continued on Page Three) |parade route—a tank flamed and — a —— sent its crew scurrying from the line of march a bit [further up Pennsylvania Ave.—at least 150 women fainted—and there were the usual crowd discomforts of such occasions. The temperaturs was 89 and the official police esti mate of the crowd was 500,000,
Meet
It was cooler in the air-condl-tioned White House when Their | Majesties sat down with the President and Mrs. Roosevelt and their guests for a light and intimate luncheon arranged around green turtle soup and broiled sweetbreads. Just before the luncheon the King and Queen were presented to More (hundershowers, either this 87 heads of diplomatic missions afternoon or tonight, were predict- and wives of mission heads. The ed by the Weather Bureau. The presentation was made at the | Bureau said it would be fair tomor-| White House by Sir Ronald Lind‘row and there would not be much say. the British Ambassador, and change in temperature. Lady Lindsay. The first heat prostration of the The King and Queen shook hands year was reported here yesterday with each of the 87, chatting a ‘evening, Benjamin Ooton, 77. of 808 moment or two informally with 'E. 16th St. collapsed at St. Clair | several. The ceremony occupied 20 {and Pennsylvania Sts.
and struck minutes. : ‘his head on the curb. He was treat- This afternoon—unless Their led at City Hospital.
Majesties are too tired—they were | The highest temperature here yes- drive around Washington for an lterday was 91 at 2:15 p. m.
Mrs. Roosevelt and Queen Ride in Splendor Past Massed Thousands.
MAN, STRICKEN BY HEAT, HURT IN FALL
More Thundershowers Are | Forecast for City.
modern |
Diplomats
| LOCAL TEMPERATURES .. 5G 10 a. m... in 11 a. m. 73 12 (noon) 6 1 pom
a a. a a
hour's sightseeing, visiting the Lin= [coln Memorial, the National Epise | (Continued on Page Three)
“HOW ABOUT DEBTS,’ SWEENEY ASKS KING
WASHINGTON, June 8 (U. P.).— Rep. Martin L. Sweeney (D. O.) an-
Newspapers published vivid descriptions of a visit of the King and
Queen, in raincoats, to the famous |
Cave of the Wind at Niagara Falls. The visit was canceled, but this made no cifference as the stories had been written in advance, “The King in the United States Crazy Welcome,” headlined the Daily Mirror, over a story reporting that Americans welcomed the King and Queen by singing “God Save the King’ in swing time. It reported also that Americans greeted the King with shouts of: “Hurry up. King, it's our tum to see you now." | “Hi ya, King, what about a little | hustle?” Newspapers, displaying various (Continued on Page Three),
nounced on the House floor today that he sent a telegram to King George VI, reminding the British monarch of the $5,000,000,000 British war debt to the United States Rep. Sweeney said he filed the telegram, but did not know whether it was delivered. Some Republican House members applauded as he read the telegram, and Speaker William B. Bankhead gaveled loudlv when he used more than the minute allotted him for his speech.
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