Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1939 — Page 1
The Indianapolis Times
VOLUME 51—NUMBER 99
38 KNOWN DEAD IN KENTUCKY FLOOD
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Workman at Coliseum E
SENATE GROUP DEFERS ACTION ONNEUTRALITY
Deals Blow to Roosevelt Bloc Seeking Removal of Embargo Clause.
MONETARY VOTE IS NEAR
G. 0. P. Blasts at Report, Claiming F. D. R. Gold | Power Is Dead.
1 WASHINGTON, July 5 (U. Pej Even as President Roosevelt pressed | his strategists into the thick of the fight, one setback occurred and another appeared imminent today in the Administration drive for favorable action on prize legislation. The Senate Foreign Relations] Committee again postponed consid-| eration of the Administration's; neutrality program and Senate Re-| publicans turned a withering fire on attempts ito revive the Presi-| dent's monetary powers. The Senaie is to vote at 4 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) on the monetary bill conference report. The delay on neutrality increased | the possibiliry that the revision measure will be shelved. The Foreign Relations Committee it was deferring action to give Social Security Act amendments the right oi way.
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New Hazards Ahead
After those amendments are dis-| posed of, the neutrality program,| already menaced by the threat of a| Senate filibuster, will face the additional hazard of growing Congressional pressure for adjournment. Chairman Pittman (D. Nev.) said the committee would be reconvened Saturday to consider the House-ap-| proved Bloom Bill which includes a modified arms embargo. The Ad-] ministration seeks removal of all] embargoes and substitution of a general cash-and-carry plan for arms sales i Senator Hatrison (D Miss) gained the group's approval of a de-| lav until the Finance Committee, of which he is chairman, could report the Social Security amendments. Several members of the Foreign Relations Committee also are on the Finance Committee
Barkley Unperturbed
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Senator Pittman and Senate Ma-
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ARMY IMPERILS
| with Germany and Italy.
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Judy's Gone |
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Wirehaired Terrier Victim of July 4 Fright. |
| UDY was only 2 vears old. but
she already had learned that | fireworks are nothing for a wire- |
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haired terrier to fool with. Last Fourth of July she disap- | peared for the entire day from the | home of her owners. Dr. Rollin He |
| Moser and family, Crows’ Nest,
Yesterday th-y :00xed around for her to tie her safely in the basement. But they couldn't find her. Late in the evening Mrs. Moser heard a bark. She identified it as that of Judy, apparently in dis- | tress. Dr.
and Mrs. Moser hunted for
| a short while and found Judy in |
the middle of the 12-inch culvert | that goes under 64th St. and | Springmill Road.
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HE culvert was pretty well | filled with mud and it is not | known whether, in her flight from | the firecrackers, Judy was struck | injured by an auto and | crawled into the culvert, or merely went in there to escape the noise and got stuck in the mud. Anyway, after a two-hour struggle to free the dog, Dr. Moser called Deputy Sheriffs Hubert Stevens and Dave Taylor. They tried to free Judy but at 1:30 a. m. all of the rescue party agreed it
| was impossible.
So Judy was shot to death and today the Moser children are in mourning.
TOKYO CABINET
Militarists - Threaten Its Overthrow; Danzig Tension Is Reduced.
{ | By UNITED PRESS Japan stirred up new worries for, the European security bloc today.
Army leaders at
cabinet of Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma | unless the Premier and his col-| leagues reconsider their refusal to’ join in an outright military alliance! Previously the Cabinet, with approval of naval leaders, had decided | that Japan could go no further than
jority Leader Barkley (D. Kv.) did moral and economic aid to the Eu-| not appear disturbed by the delay. ropean totalitarian bloc in event of | Both apparently were confident that | war unless Soviet Russia became in- | the neutrality issue would reach a volved. vote in the Senate, despite the Army Demands Alliance | ground swell of adjournment sen- |
timent and the House amendments] to provide an arms embargo. Mr. Roosevelt said at a press con- | ference in Hyde Park yesterday that Germany and Italy viewed the House's action as a set-back or the democracies. He said he wanted the Senate to vote the embargo out of the bill and that he wanted ac-| tion 2t this cession of Congress. i Rep. Hamilton Fish (R. N. Y)), who led the House fight against the Administration neutrality bill, asserted President Roosevelt's program is dead. “The American people have ex-| pressed to Congress their opposition to this interventionist and war-mak-ing proposal,” he said. “They will have none of it, and are opposed to the sale and export of arms and ammunition to warring naiions as being the first step toward sending our vouth to be slaughtered on the battlefields of Europe.” Acting Minority Leader Austin (R. Vt.) opened the final day's debate in the Senate on the monetary hill Thiz legislation is dead because has been repealed,” he said. Democratic leaders, armed with (Continued on Page Three)
NATIONAL AND STATE BANK CALLS ISSUED
WASHINGTON, July 5 (U. P) Controller of the Currency Preston Delano today called for the condition of national hanks as of June 30. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., also issued calls for condition of banks as of June 30.
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SI 2 | The State Department of Finan- | cial Institutions today issued a State] bank call as of June 30.
NAZIS CONFISCATE CATHOLIC PROPERTY
BERLIN, July 5 (U. Official Gazette announced today that all possessions of the headquarters of the Catholic Young Men's League at Duesseldorf had heen confiscated under decrees authorizing the seizure of “"Communist” property or that of persons “inimical to the state.”
STOCKS UP POINT: INDUSTRIALS CLIMB
NEW YORK, July 3 (U. Pp) — Gains ranged to more than a point in the stock market todav as the list advanced for the fourth consecutive session The industrial average was at the best level since June 27,
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patches to Hsinking reported fur-
The decision was viewed as a blow | the Nazi-Fascist desire to| strengthen their combination by a| close working agreement with Japan, whose fleet would be a powerful factor against British and French territory in event of an Eu-
| ropean war.
Now the army leaders, most outspoken in their desire to crush what | they consider the “Communist” movement, were understood to be planning drastic action this month if their demands for a military alliance are not accepted. At the same time, Japanese dis-
ther fighting between Japanese and | Soviet troops along the ManchukuoMongolian frontier, where Japanese! said thev had shot down 53 Russian airplanes and inflicted heavy losses on Soviet infantry.
New Difficulties Arise
{cut from an average of | personz during June to 2,400,000 by
FORECAST: Partly cloudy with thundershowers tonight or tomorrow; continued warm.
94 AT2 P.M:
‘| HOT WEATHER |
T0 CONTINUE
WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1939
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Showers and Clouds to
Offer Slight Relief, Bureau Says.
Outskirts Catch Occasional Breeze as Downtown Swelters.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES a.m... 1a. m.... 12 (noon). 1pm... 2pm...
89 92 93 9
The heat wave that today sent temperatures shooting into the 90s will continue tonight and tomorrow in spite of cloudiness and thundershowers, the Weather Bureau predicted today. Highest temperature for any July 5 recorded at the Indianapolis station was 99 .in 1936, and at 2 p. m. today a 94-degree temperature promised a near record maximum However, there was a film of clouds over the sky which protected the city somewhat and a five-mile-an-hour wind blew sometimes from the West and occasionally from the South. The breeze kept the north and east portions of the residential city rly cool. but did not do» much for the sweltering downtown where the syn’s rays hit pavements and jumped back in the faces of pedestrians. The Fourth of July weather fare was ideal for those who took to the outdoors. The sun shone most of the dav. Skies remained clear for several public fireworks displays. An estimated 30.000 filled the Butler Bowl for the Sahara Grotto's seventh annual show.
About 10,000 witnessed the
Other displays were presented at Riverside Amusement Ripple Park and the Beech Grove
City Park.
WPA CHIEF ORDERS 200,000 108 SLASH
Cut to Be Made by July 31 Under New Program.
WASHINGTON, July 5 (U. P).— Work Projects Commissioner Harrington today ordered WPA rolls 2.600.000
the end of July under the new $1.755,600,000 relicf program. The July quotas are the first step
rolls down to &n average of 2047.- St; two sisters, Mrs. Jerome Kauff- | public displays. was reduced to 26. the Lacocks in their beds. Mr. La-| 000 for the current fiscal year end- | man and Buena Vista Fagan, both | Eighty-seven were hurt by ‘crackers cock suffered a wrenched neck when | Schlueter were unable to halt the |
ing June 30. 1940. Rolls dung the 1939 fiscal vear which ended June 30 averaged
laround 2.900.000 under total relief
appropriations by Congress for the
[12 mouths of $2.250.000.000.
The Julvr quotas call for 2.266.845 persons on straight WPA state pro-
grams, slightly over 33.000 in Fed- | {eral about
and scat-
“white collar” agencies, 100.000 employees in
{tered Federal agencies paid from
In London, there still was ¢onfidence that Britain and the Soviets | would get together in an alliance bringing Moscow into the security| front if only because that development is so necessary tp success of London's plans that iheRritish must go to great lengths to achieve it. It was obvious, however, that new | difficulties had arisen as a result in connection with the small nations whose independence would be guar-| (Continued on Page Three)
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WPA [unds.
HOG PRICES PLUNGE
A price plunge of from 5 to 80]
cents today brought quotations on heavier hogs at Indianapolis in line
‘with outside markets, Weights under 1220 pounds remained stationary and
the peak on 210 to 220-pounders held at 87.55. Vealers rose 50 cents
to make a top of $10 and spring lambs were stationary with a top|
price of $10.50.
Take It,” Hitler-Hating Poles Warn Germany
dis- | play at Coleman Park, sponsored hy, Tokyo made the West Michigan Street Business guiding a large block of stone on a plans for an effort to overthrow the and Professional Men's Association. derrick cable when the accident
Park, Broad)
JULY 5 RECORD IS 99
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J. C. Horton, State Agricultural Board inspector (right) asks Damo derrick engineer. about the cable which touched the high tension line.
Entered as Second-Class at Postoffice,
lectrocuted
Times Photo. n Frederick, 50, of 4101 Byram Ave,
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Tragedy Occurs as Cable Only Four Fireworks Deaths
| Contacts Power Line 25 Last Year; Six Ki
The nation counted nearly 700 John Fagan. 46. of 313 N. Fast St. [day celebration of the 163d anniv
At Fair Grounds. | | Paradoxically, it was a safe a
ia workman on the new Coliseum at | OTIeE sine ; { the Fair Grounds. was killed today | fireworks were concerned. Only for ' compared to 25 last year.
‘when a cable he was holding crossed | i. ‘a high tension line. Two other} : : DURING WEEK-END
[workmen were burned. on Fourth
| Mr. Fagan, sn employee of the 3 L. Seven Deaths Boost Total; 3 Drown.
Simmons Construction Co., was
‘happened. Mr. Fagan was held to the cable. {When he called for help Damon A. | Frederick. 50, of 4101 Byram Ave. derrick operator, grabbed one cf [the metal controls to pull the cable [from the line. He also was held by the electric charge and was { burned. | Harold Yonker,
Indiana's violent death toll for
33 of the Fair the prolonged Independence Day
RS HURT National Toll at 679 In July 4 Celebration
By UNITED PRESS
Hundreds were injured.
Indianapeiis,
FINAL HOME
PRICE THREE CENTS
Matter Ind.
WALL OF WATER HITS 3 TOWNS AFTER DELUGE
Inundation Comes Without Warning and Many Take to Roofs to Be Rescued by Men in Small Boats.
FEAR DEATH TOLL MAY RISE TO 50
Morehead, Clearfield and Farmers Battered By Torrent; 50 Homes Washed Away; Red Cross Rushes Aid.
MOREHEAD, Ky., July 5 (U. P.).—A cloudhurst dee scended upon Rowan County in the early morning hours today, overflowing Triplett Creek and washing homes away, leaving a heavy death toll in Morehead, Clearfield and Farmers. Thirty-eight persons were known to have drowned. Joseph Duncan, manager of the telephone exchange at Morehead, in a brief long distance call to Ashland after limited telephone service had been restored at noon, cone
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Reported as Compared with! lled as Auto Hits Bus.
dead today as the cost of its four'ersary of American Independence. | nd sane Fourth of July as far as ir persons were killed by explosives, But a nation-wide survey showed lat least 679 were killed, compared to) [595 in last year's three-day celebra- | [ tion. ¥ | Traffic on congested highways claimed 288 lives. Drownings caused [181 deaths and 216 others died in shootings. fires, train and plane ac‘cidents and from other miscellane0uS Causes. California Leads | Every state reported at least one violent death. Nine states—California, Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio, New | York, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and South Carolina—accounted for (nearly half of the casualties.
firmed that 38 had drowned and said he believed that the death list would reach “at least 50.” Mr. Duncan was one of the volunteers who started out, at the risk of their own lives, in small fishing boats when the water began running several feet deep in the streets of Morehead before dawn, Working without even searchlights in a swift current and with the frail boats, the town volunteers rescued all the trapped persons they could see or hear. Eleven of the drowned were said to have heen identified but only the name of Mrs. Minnie G. Carter was reported
BLAST AND FIRE "= ooo DESTROY HOME
Mr. Duncan estimated that bee | tween 50 and 100 houses had been Woman Treated for Shock; Daughter Escapes;
washed away by the wall of water. | The storm struck shortly after | midnight. It was a deluge that drove almost everyone indoors. But few realized that it would start the mountain stream rising to flood stage within a matter of minutes.
Through Heart of Town
Victims were trapped before they realized the danger. The stream, or-
celebration stood at 24 today with |
Loss $5000.
California, with 70 deaths, led all
dinarily no wider than an alley,
{Grounds Hotel, jumped to the der[rick cab attempting to help Mr. Frederick. The charge knocked {both from the cab. | Mr. Frederick climbed back into
seven more lives added yesterday. states. Pennsylvania had 55. Texas Scores were hurt. |43, Ohio 4i, New York 37, Michigan Only one person. an Indianapolis 36 Tllinois 85, Indiana 24 and South,
violinist, met death on the nigh (C2 0lina 23.
A fire caused by an exploding kerosene stove this afterncon destroyed the one-story five-room resi-
flows through the heart of this town of 2400 in northeastern Kene tucky, 60 miles west of Ashland on the main road to Louisville. Water poured into the lowlands
{the cab and released the cable from |the tension line by using an insu{lated control.
ways yesterday. Another was killed *' Mr. F 46 DOE t Mati {in an auto race crash. Three others and: Pen Mite of I ont | were drowned and another was elec- | New Albany. ‘He had lived here |trocuted. An Indianapolis man died |16 years. {today of injuries received when he | He is survived by his wife, Mrs. was struck by an auto June 17. Mary Fagan, 3716 E. New York St.;| The number injured here by fire{three sons, Dan, 19, John, 15 works, which veritably rocked the James, 8; a daughter, Mrs. Mary city from dawn until midnight, and
lof Washington, D. C. and two|last year. uncles, Joe and Emmett Fagan of | Eight persons were injured, New Albany. | seriously, in holiday traffic | There were 20 accidents. Yesterday's victims:
SIDNEY M. NETZORG, of 3003 Park Ave. WILLIS EMMONS. Whiteland. CHARLES CALLAHAN, 35. Aurora. ERNEST PASS, 33. Rensselaer. HUBERT SCHWARTZ, 35. Jasper. JOSEPH ROBINA, DICK ELLIOTT,
The plant closed was Fisher Body | ford City. No. 21 in Detroit. Union officials| Mr. Netzorg died from injuries said workers left the factory im- received when his car collided with mediately after the strike call and one driven by Miss Helen Buscher, about 60 of them formed a picket Atlanta, Ind. at the intersection of line. Others went to their union hall; two rural roads about a mile south for a meeting. General Motors of Atlanta in Hamilton County. officials said 525 employees would be| Miss Buscher and Robert Jaeger, affected on the two shifts at the 23, of 2035 Washington Blvd, Mr. plant. (Continued on Page Three)
FISHER BODY PLANT ~ CLOSED BY STRIKE
{ TY 1 DETROIT, July 5 (U. P).—One| kev plant of General Motors Corp. | was closed today by a strike of C. T.|
22,
| O. United Automobile Workers, and! [union officials said skilled workers | | might walk out in other plants] “momentarily.” {
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By EDWARD W. BEATTIE JR. United Press Staff Correspondent ARSAW, Poland, July 5 (U. P.).—Secrawled in chalk on a wall at the main entrance of the Polish Foreign Office are four words that resound today in the ears of millions of Poles: “We want another Grunwald!” No Pole reads the words or hears them spoken without remembering the story of the bloody Battle of Grunwald near Tannenberg five centuries ago when the Polish Armies, aided by the Lithuanians. crushed | the order of German knights. {
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Those words. say some enthusiastic Poles, are the nation’s answer | to the question whether Poland “can take it” in this year's vital struggle with Nazi Germany over Danzig and the Polish Corridor.
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WO weeks of travel through the provinces, conversations with the broad-shouldered barge men eternally dredging mud from the River Vistula with long-handled baskets, interviews with the men who direct national policy in the cool halls of the foreign office and with casual cafe acquaintances have convinced me that hating Germany is now a| popular pursuit in Poland. From Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, inspector-general of the army.
{ Today six persons were killed and |three others injured when the auto jin which they were riding crashed linto a bus, careened across the road and plunged over a 10-foot bank a | few miles east of Washington, Pa.
Car Hits House
dence of Bruce Babbs, R. R. 3, Box 287. Damage was estimated at $5000. Mrs. Babbs was taken to City Hospital suffering from shock. She and |
first, then into streets in the busi= ness district. Those who saw the danger went to the hill at the end of town where Eastern State Teach-
her 14-year-old daughter eBtty were | ers College is located. There they | were safe.
| The impact of the collision threw | the little car over the bank and] linto a house occupied by Henry La-|
in the new program to bring relief Rose Barnes, 1703': E. Michigan | which now are outlawed, except for cock. The shock of the crash jolted neighbors and Fire
‘he fell out of bed. Fifteen persons were injured. | |50 were bruised and shaken last | night when a wooden stand crowded | with spectators at a pageant and| {fireworks show at Waukegan, Ill, | collapsed. Police said about 2000] | persons were thrown to the ground. | Florida, Texas, California and | | Maryland each had one of the fire- | | works deaths. Robert Grant, 18, | was blown to hits at Hollywood, Fla., when a keg of black powder with | [which he was making fireworks ex-| ploded. His brother, Wilbur, 16. was blown through a wall and injured! seriously. | | Hildred Sowders, 14, was Killed at| | Marlin, Tex, when a fireworks blast | | blew a piece of a tin can into his neck and severed his jugular vein,
Annoyed, Shoots Boy
John Bell, 46, was killed by a 15inch firecracker at Mago-Vista, Md., near Baltimore. He had placed the firecracker in a lead pipe. It didn’t explode and he crept back to it to investigate. It exploded just as he picked it up. The most ironic death was that of! Edward Fisher, 21, son of the sec-| retary of the National Safety Council. He was killed when his auto skidded off a road near Ludington, Mich. At Templeton, Mass, a T9-year= old farmer was arrested after he fired a shotgun blast into a 13-year= old boy, critically wounding him. “I was annoyed by boys shooting firecrackers,” the farmer said.
GIRL, 10, DROWNS AS COMPANION IS SAVED
OOLUMBIA CITY, Ind. July 5 (U. P.).—Quick action by Ralph Alt, a WPA worker, today caved the life of Jimmy Sovine, about 10, of Hamlet, Ind.. but Betty Myers, 10.
down the government officials fully recognize the German tactics of | wearing down moral and economic stamina by incessant pressure and increasingly violent attacks which keep millions of men under arms and the population under high tension. And, they add, Poland can take it. Defiantly, Poland gives the impression of a sutge of national effort wiping out party and race disunity and putting new life inte a chronically undernourished economic machine as a result of the threat from abroad. Admittedly, this nnity ih a traditionally disunited nation may be temporary. biit at the moment it seems a significant factor. When I was in Praha before last September's Nazi triumph, there {Continued on Page Three)
later put efforts 18. Fevab he
drowned in the swirling waters be= low Fel River Dam near her home at Collamer, which is near here. The children were plaving to= gether on a bicycle inner tube when the tube was ,sucked under by currents. Other children on the bank summoned the men from the WPA project. Kenneth Pratt located the body of the Myers girl about 20 minutes failed.
in the home when the stove i Sirens in the brick plant of the
ed: Neither was injured, .__|Leigh Clay Products Co. screamed A bucket brigade formed by 25|a warning to the others. The volun Company 26 teers organized quickly. Outside help Chief Frank | Was not available because roads were blocked. flames. The brigade carried water | Even the Chesapeake & Ohio 150 feet from a well behind the | Railroad's main line between WashThe Fire Company equip- |108ton and Louisville was closed at : Gates, six miles away, because tracks
600 llons of ga t | were under water and two bridges
under Batallion
ment carired only water, which was used to protec
| were washed out. surrounding property. i Several cots and some bed cloth-| Yhenever we heard someone cry
: Sd (for help, we rowed our boats that ing were the only household goods | and rescued them if we
way saved } ne Todt y : Two other children, Botbie, 15, cOUId." Mr. Duncan said. and Arvel, 9, were not at home whe¢ | Sufficient Boats Lacking
Gets 2-14, Friend 1-10 Woman Loses Arm.
the explosion occurred. Foon - in were. unable io dater-| rl saw some folks on the roofs ine what caused the stove to er- 9 elr houses, The water came 1D m *" [so fast that they had to climb up plage. = Se ‘there to keep from being drowned.” oy | Families huddled in little groups in the floodad district. Women MATE SENTENCED IN land children cried and some prayed, | The rescue work went slowly be= cause there were not nearly enough SHOOTING boats for such an emergency. . Triplett Creek has its source in the Ta [hills 50 miles away. «| The creek flows through Clearfield * and Farmers, just below Morehead, Tygart Creek also went on a rame page at Olive Hill in Carter County. — |Peope ly plage was reported . | heavy in these towns and there were Two men, including her estranged [unconfirmed reports that several had husband. today pleaded guilty t0|qrowned. There was no communiholding up and shooting Mrs. Rose eatin bien Morehead and these Marie Miller on June 21. They were | Villages, however. sentenced in Oriminal Court to or ior © dudier. bp Erankjort terms at the State Prison. Rowan County from Flemingsburg The husband, Joseph H. Miller, and Maysville. The state was to was sentenced to two to 14 years
send outside aid as rapidly as the roads cleared. State patrolmen from
for conspiracy to comimt a felony, and his friend, John Harry William Graves, 20, of 841 Greer St. was
Lexington, Flemingsburg and Mays= ville also were ordered on duty in the flooded area.
given one to 10 years for assault and battery with intent to Kill. Miller pleaded guilty after a confession signed by Graves implicated him. The holdup occurred at Lindbergh Road and Carson Ave, near Beech Grove.
TIMES FEATURES Mrs. Miller was shot in the hand | ON INSIDE PAGES by a shotgun held by Graves who
had ordered her to surrender her | 5 Ks valuables. At the time she and her 200 s husband had driven to the scene | STOUT and were apparently victims of a Ca bandit. omics wt 16 | Pegi A few days later, however, dep- Crossword ... 18 Pegler uty sheriffs arrested Graves who Curious World 17 Pyle made a signed confession, Later Editorials ... 12/Questions they arrested Miller, Financial .... 13/Radio
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Hospital where her arm was amputated because of the | Gallup... n oj Serial Stony. Jb ..8,9
shotgun wound. The loot amounted | 3 ta a small amount of cash which|In Indpls. | ; Mrs. Miller had in her purse. Jane Jordan. 6 156
Refugees went to the homes in (Continued on Page Three)
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