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Mystery Death of Girl, 19, At Dance Baffles Science

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES cm of Giant Amphibian

MONDAY, DEC. 25, 1989 STATES RAISE Secrecy Veils New Aircraft Carrier

TARIFF WALLS, HAMPER TRADE.

Inspection, Quarantine and Tax Laws Restrict Free Flow of Goods.

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{| MENLO PARK, Oal, Deo. 25 (U. [P) =The mysterious death of pret. ty June Katharine Twohig, 19, baffled medical men today. Thay planned a thorough investigation to learn what strange thing had killed her on the eve of her engagement wi | PARTLY, | She went dancing with a group of “% [high school friends Saturday night "| She danced gaily and at the end of a dance she went with her escort | to their table, As she sat down she slumped in | her chair, Friends believed she had | fainted, but water failed to resusci- | tate her, A fire department pulre motor was called, It, too, failed. Sh NDA | She was dead,

lI Seng Doctors said there was not a tarpaulins to conceal secret equipment. At right is the mysterious XPBY-5A, largest single clue to what caused her | amphibian plane in the world. Tt can operate successfully over land and sea and will death, She had been in perfect be especially useful in remote areas. w— —————— -

(meaning of “suspended” in the More than three billion dollars ——— JBLIN. 85 (U. P).~Four courtroom dictionary, The defends worth of United States Savings | oy i tes after SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 25 lant did, returned his hand to his Bonds have been sold since their| PETERSBURG, Ind, Dec. 25 (U. | jarge party of men, believed to be (U, P).—A youthful motorist, Pocket blushingly, thanked the first issue nearly five years ago,| P).--More than 600 persons from |members of the outlawed Irish Re-| name undisclosed by attendants |Judge--and departed. Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker| Pike County are spending Christ- | publican Army, raided a munitions was haled into Salt Lake police i : - units. each with its own tariff wall. | said today. mas Day stalking a large and magazine of the Eire Army in us aty n a 4 p STUDENTS THRIFTY We've heard a great deal about Jama SALE Hoosiers have purchased $03,786. | strange animal that has been Phoenix Park Saturday night, court on a charge of driving A CAT| TORONTO, Ontario, Dec. 25 (U. the dangers of centralized power | Times Specint ws 100 in bonds, giving Indiana 12th | roaming these PATS, A belated Government announce- with faulty license plates. The de- |p) More than 800 University of Washington; we've heard relatively May Decide Outcome. EVANSVILLE, Ind, Dec. 25 |rank in sales among the states. James Borders, County Council= ment yesterday said the raiding | tandant sald the plates had just | Toronto students are paying their William Christmas, 31, was cele- | Post office sales for the nation| man of near Union, Ind, de- |party escaped with a large amount | .. y way through their several courses brating the holiday bearing his |total $2,606633,150 while $404,059,- clares that he saw enough of the |of small arms and munitions, and |[®1en off and he was heading for =H name today because he listened to [950 were sold by mail order from | beast in the ray of his flashlight | the judge and agreed with him. | Washington, | to convince him that it is a lion, In the City Court Saturday on |... . iain i — a charge of drunkenness, and ac- |[™

cused of breaking a window dur || ; Vy ion Rice lecture: Hs 10 C ]

health-<her mother said she had never been ill in her life. A preliminary autopsy showed no trace of poison and she had nothing. to eat or drink since Saturday dinner with her parents, Dr. James F, Rinehart said he was mystified and he called in Joseph B. Swin, San Francisco toxicologist, Dr. Rinehart said he was “partice ularly interested «dn the adrenal blands.” He believed that possibly June fainted and a subsequent glandular disturbance caused the death--an almost unprecedented occurrence in medioal history, She was to announce her sngages ment Sunday night to Al Kasberg, a sailor now stationed in Honolulu. Mr, Kasherg's brother was to have slipped the ring on June's finger,

Editor's Note—The spread of inter. state barriers to commerce—trick inspec. tion laws, port.of-entry regulations, use taxes, and other evasions of the Con- | J stitution—has recently aroused the in. |§ terest of Federal officials. Below, in the | first of a series of articles on the sub- | fect, Miss Finney reveals the extent to | which this contagious practice of the | states has gone,

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The U. S. Navy's newest ships—of the air and sea—pictured during recent trials,

At left, above, is the $21,000,000 nircraft carrier Wasp, putting out from the shipyard at Quincy, Mass, on her first shake-down cruise, Parts of the ship were shrouded with

1.400,000 LACK | Day of Daze JOBS IN BRITAIN | a. Christmas Out for

Christmas; He'll Pay For Window.

By RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 Every day for six years, while this country has been thanking God it is not like Europe, it has been growing more and more like Europe.

$5, but added: “Fine suspended.” | The youth started reaching in his pocket for the money. Judge Bo-

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This has nothing to do with dictators or ideologies, Nazi bunds or Communist cells, It has to do with | the fact that for six years certain

states have been at work breaking | on the Onion into 48 economic Papers Demand More Production Since Workers |

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little about the greater danger of decentralization outside Washing-

hy worki at part-time jo , ton a garage to get them fixed, is P ime Jobs at the

university or in various downtown Judge Reva Bosone fined him (business firms.

that a park ranger was injured seriously in a gun battle,

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By MILTON BRONNER LONDON, Dec. 25 (NEA) —While British and French fliers, sailors] and soldiers face their Nazi foes in the air, on the sea and on the land, | an equally bitter international fight | is being waged in the machine shops

State Raise Barriers

We've known as long as we've known anything about world affairs that the United States owes its phenomenal growth and prosperity | to the fact that it has been the world’s largest free-trade unit, that mass production never could have of Britain, France and Germany. developed in a smaller and more re- | . It is just possible that the war DE .. market; Tint hin may be won by the skilled workmen | erican wages 8 rides : | rv arity With automo- | at home, rather than by the fight-

biles, bathtubs, refrigerators, radios, | ing hin I onl i, uct as | and other items that go to make up . |

i | force upon Lonaon newspaper edi- | the highest Shane oe bv tors and upon a growing number of | the world, we are indebte | Tories, Liberals and Laborites in| single fact of this great free-trad | Parliament. area, he | The editors have clamored for| Yet the states are after the none production in the factories. | golden-egg goose with an ax. Wis-/my. members of Parliament have consin guards its dairy industry BY pean demanding secret sessions at | banning the South's by-product, which they can fully express what | oleomargarine. Texas will have ic in their minds. nothing to do with Wisconsin beer. - North Carolina bars wines not made Nazis Boast of Plans from North Carolina grapes Cali-| he war-time employment sitJohn keeps out Louisiana StraW- uation is sized up here as follows: "Ww." EITies, : Germany is a nation of 80,000,000 | ye Yor J Free trade no longer exists in the|nersons with about 25.000.000 sub- | Cheerful Ears Full United States. Approximately 1000 jant people such as the Czechs, ALEXANDRIA, Ind, Dec. 25.— laws infringing on free trade are Poles. etc. There is practically no Among the Christmas gifts handed | on state statute books today. And unemployment in Germany..In fact. | out by Mayor Harry DeMoss this | this does not count administrative poe and Czechs are being drafted | YEAr were six suspended sentences. | Those let off easy in City Court

ceeming Jaws into trade barriers. | OF forced labor on German farms,| Saturday were Jack Sigler, Frank“No state shall, without the con-|29¢ ————————— what may be absolutely necessary More than 5000000 men for the 'ducing shells, guns, tanks, mines, | TAXICAB HOLDUP tine laws, tax laws. They neverthe|submarines, thousands of mines It was an epidemic of the Sate ay Be Charen. sary. The 13 colonies were trying in | New York. It wasn't patriotic, and Gtrman war plants are running Hn, fen Te Had Plaine ing

seeming laws into trade barriers, 50 that Germans can produce more | RE eT Suni | Restrictions Charged food at home in the endeavor to) Ben Roop. George Chapman and | : > | From her abundant manhood, | sent of Congress, lay any imposts or Nazi Germany has drawn probably PAIR GETS $8 IN for executing its inspection laws:” |armed forces. Many of the rest So the trade barriers are dis‘airplanes and submarines, Jess accomplish the thing the Con-| Nazi leaders have boasted that stitution forbids, restriction of trade Two Men Held as Suspects t of thing nearly 200 years ago| . 1 that made the Constitution neces. With the Nazi system of enforced In North Side Filling the same way to build up home in- Strike nor have a say as to their dustry. Connecticut people couldn't| hours of work and their rates of up as fares, Fred Barber, 54, of 121 | it was practically impossible any-|full tilt 24 hours a day. W. Vermont St. a taxicab driver, way because the customs duties 1,400,000 Still Jobless Police said the driver picked up the passengers at Massachusetts

ing a spree, he heard Judge Mar“I don't see how T can be hard |! on A man named Christmas just two days before Christmas. In order to get you ouc of jail so you can enjoy the holiday, I'll fine you || $10 and costs and sentence you to 10 days in jail, but suspend it | all if you will pay for repairs to | the window.” Christmas agreed. » a » Leaves Dog House BRAZIL, Ind, Dec. 25.-—Mrs. Mary Ann Schoonover was out of | the “dog house” for Christmas today. Judge John Baumunk of the | Clay Circuit Court granted her a | divorce from James Schoonover, who she alleged, forced her to sleep with the dog.

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The Constitution says: | beat the British-French sea block Kenneth Watson of Anderson, duties on imports or exports, except | {are at work in the factories pro-| guised as inspection laws, quaranby next spring they will have 400 + among the states. land about 30,000 airplanes. Some labor, in which the men cannot : Station Robbery. buy anything grown or made in P2V, it is a safe assumption that was robbed of $8 early this mornlevied by each state were so high There is a growing uneasiness in

no one could afford the products of | : the other | Britain that a similar situation is

Eighteenth Century men of af- NOt true here. About 1,000.000 men fairs stopped that one with the plan | already have been absorbed into the for the Federal Union. And it was 8rmed forces, but there still remains | at that peint we escaped becoming | the sinister figure—1,400,000 unemanother Europe, a continent of small | Ployed. jealous nations, each one trying to| The Labor Party, which largely produce everything needed for its represents the trades union forces own people, and each failing to| Of Britain, is supporting the war achieve prosperity because it lacked | 100 per cent. Tt is giving the Gov- | a market big enough to justify eco- | ernment full backing and is raising nomical, large scale production, Drastically 30 Wid Oe that mig mpede the prosecution of the Guards Walk Borders war. In fact, it the Labor Party | Now it has to be done over again.| Which is most anxious about proThis time it began during the de-| duction. pression years when every commun-|_, There is a growing conviction that | ity was trying to build up its own | Britain and France cannot defeat |

faltering business by any desperate | Germany merely by producing gun | means and when public officials {Or gun, plane for plane, shell for

|ceeded along Fall Creek Boulevard,

were racking their brains for new taxes to collect. When one state made if difficult for the products of another to be sold there, retaliation followed immediately. Armed guards now walk state boundaries. At ports of entry travelers are stopped and searched

shell, | Demand for Planes

| There is a demand that Britain] so work its factories that the Allies | {shall have the superiority in muni- | | tions, artillery, ships and planes. | | Especially the latter. In this kind | of war, mastery in the air is expect-

Ave. and Bellefontaine St. and was told to drive them to an address on Northwestern Ave. As the cab pro-

Mr. Barber told police one of the men threw his arms around his neck | while the other rifled his pockets. | The bandits then drove to 24th St. and Paris Ave. and escaped. Police also held two men on a vagrancy charge suspected of break- | ing into a filling station at Walnut St. and Capitol Ave. Merchant Policeman Helps Called to that address early this morning, police found John Orme, 49, of Southport, Ind., a merchant |

| policeman, holding & man be said |

had fired at him before the police- | man got him out of the station. The | second man was caught running! down Walnut St. Police said sboth | admitted breaking into the station | before and one of the men said he had been making a living by com- | mitting burglaries, because he! couldn't find a job. A Lapel, Ind, youth is being held |

and sometimes made to pay {or the! y i ing! - privilege of entering. Big busines | Ney Wh Ney per ihe small business of all kinds is | arassed and burdened if it tries to higher rates of production are conoperate outside its own backyard. |fident Britain con achieve this, beThe thing has gone so far that it | cause it has the plants and the has frightened several score of gov-| skilled workmen and it has the edge ernors, Federal officials and others, on Germany in possessing an un-

and in the last six months there | limited supply of raw materials.

Grices, thrsies anv] Diane bot Fae STRANGER ADDS $50 TO KETTLE FUNDS

the situation. Times Special

Robert H. Jackson, Solicitor Gieneral of the United States, even suggested at one recent conference that ELKHART, Ind., Dec. 25.—For the fourth consecutive year, an unidentified donor, presumably the same

our security and our culture, as well as our future prosperity, depend upperson, has slipped a $50 bill into a Salvation Army kettle here for

on our restoring or sense of unity as Christmas dinners for the poor.

one nation, The donor put the bill into the

Those who are clamoring for

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on a vagrancy charge by police] pending further investigation after | a8 number of purses were reported | stolen from the Indiana Ballroom last night. The youth was turned over to police by the floor manager of the ballroom. Two other youths seen in company with the one arrested were gone when police arrived. Held as Fowl Thief One n was held on a vagrancy charge and another was being sought after police said they found the two men attempting to steal turkeys from a shed in the rear of a grocery at 818 W. Michigan St. The man held was handing turkeys to the one who got away, police said. The owner said he had been missing turkeys during the past week. Burglars took $8 and an overcoat | from the home of James Overton, |

kettle while the Salvation Army attendant was standing at her post] but got away unnoticed. i

OVER MINING JOKE:

31, of 1418 E. Maryland St. last night, police said.

BUTTE, Mont., Dec. 25 (U. P) — Roy Beadle still thinks he has the “prize” tourist. story. : It concerns a woman tourist from the East who stopped him on the street, said she was interested in the copper mines around” Butte, but that one thing puzzled her. “I heard a man say he worked on night shift,” she said. “Now what I want to ask is this—how Jn the world can they work in the mines at night when it gets dark?” Beadle observed the woman closely, perceived that she was serious, and said: “Have you ever been down in a mine?” When the woman head, Beadle added: . “Well, T advise you to take a trip through one, just to see how dark it gets, even in the daytime.”

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ONE SHOT BAGS 3 SQUIRRELS HOPEWELL, O., Dec. 25 (U. P.. —Three with one shot is the record ot 15-year-old Johnny Ridenour who fired into a leafy tree at one squirrel—and brought three of the furry animals tumbling to the

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