Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1940 — Page 1
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Mrs. Stella Crater Kunz . .. tong fight over?
NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (U. Py Counsel for Mrs. Stella Crater Kunz announced today that two insurance companies had conceded the death of her first husband, ' Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater, and had agreed to pay her a total of $20,861.
A spokesman for one company admitted a settlement was being discussed. 2 The attorney declared his inquiry into the strange disappearance of Crater in 1930 had convinced him the jurist was slain the night he vanished by persons not involved in politics, that the ‘body was disposed of so carefully it probably never will be found. He said he “did not care” to discuss any possible motive.
GENERAL FUND IN STATE DOWN
Balance Now at 9 Millions; Relief and Building Programs Cited.
By NOBLE REED : "The State Government has a balance of $9,113,952 in its general fund, a drop of $5,644,000 since last July 1, a semi-annual report of the State Auditor's office disclosed today. The State’s all-time high balance of 24 billion dollars, reached in
July, 1938, has been cut down 15 " billion dollars in the last 18 months
by increased State Welfare Department distributions, statisticians in the Governor's office said. The balance on Jan, 1 a year ago was $12,497,321 and was increased to $14,757,226 by gross income tax revenues. tatisticians estimated that unless State tax revenues increase more than the present normal trend, the $9,113,952 balance will have been wiped out by July 1, 1941. In addition to the increased State Welfare disbursements, authorized by the special session of the Legislature in 1936, statisticians said the legislative appropriations for new buildings at State institutions “will eat up the balance considerably.” Appropriations listed for the fiscal year beginning last July 1 totaled $43,510,789. Of this about $20,000,000 has been spent, leaving $23,000,000
of the appropriations yet to be spent|
before July 1. The present balance of all funds in the State Treasury, including Federal money and special departmental appropriations, is $33,688,000.
FIRST LADY HONORED BY TOLERANCE LEAGUE
NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (U. P)). The American League for Tolerance announced today that Dr. John Haynes Holmes, of the Town Hall Community Church, "and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt had been selected the most tolerant man and woman of 1939. 3 The league named as the most tolerant deed of 1939 the formation of a Catholic organization by Dr. Emanuel Chapman, editor of The Voice, to combat anti-Semitism. The award was made to Mrs. Roosevelt for “her championing of Marian Anderson, the colored singer.” Dr. Holmes was chosen “for his energetic support of the American
arecroppers, and his untiring ef-|tod
forts in behalf of eppressed ok an minorities.”
SEC BARS DIVIDEND BY ASSOCIATED GAS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (U. P.).— The Securities and Exchange Commission today forbid the Associated Gas & Electric Corp. to pay divi-
. dends on its capital stock or to pay
interest on a 5 per cent cumulative income note. : The Commission said it acted in
» -order to “protect the financial in-
tegrity” of companies in the Associated Gas & Electric holding company systems; to safeguard the working capital of companies in the system; and to prevent payment of dividends out of capital or unearned surplus.
NAMED STATE CORN KING
. LAFAYETTE, Ind. Jan. 10 (U. P.)—Ralph Kolkmeier of Waldron won the title of Indiana corn king for the second time in six years today when his 10-ear sample of Johnson County white corn won the grand sweepstakes in the state corn and small grains show held in con-
nection with the annual agricultural senference University.
ME 51—NUMBER %1
U.S.70 eT ALLEGED RACE 8
SERVICE HERE,
Report City Is Now National Center for Information Doubted by Lewis.
A report that a new nation-wide service for horse race results has been established in Indianapolis will be investigated by William J. Campbell, U. 8. District Attorney at Chicago, he announced today. Mr. Campbell, who is conducting the Government's drive against disgemination of race betting informaion to bookie joints, said he would send his assistant, Samuel Klaus, here, as soon as Mr. Klaus completes an investigation in Los An-
. | geles, probably next week.
Meanwhile, Prosecutor David M. Lewis said he doubted the report.
Court Prohibits Service
First hint that such-a headquarters had been opened here came in an affidavit Mr. Klaus filed in a Los Angeles court, in which he said persons formerly connected with Moe Annenberg were running a Tace ‘| service here. | nnenberg, millionaire. Philadelphia publisher and operator of the Nation-Wide News Service, is under indictment at Chicago for income tax evasion. He also 'has been prohibited by a Federal Court at Chicago from operating his race results service. rosecutor Lewis said recent i Ris he and Police Chief Michael F. Morrissey have made give no indication the report is true, but added that they “had better stay out of Indianapolis or we’ll put them out.”
Will See Nolan, FBI Agents
In Chicago, District Attorney Campbell said: “Preliminary investigation indicates that a’ new center of ‘bookie’ service is being operated at Indianapolis by former employees of the Nation-Wide News Service. “Mr.. Klaus will interview District Attorney Val Nolan, FBI agents, internal revenue agents and possibly telephone company agents in pursuit of the investigation.”
. He'said his preliminary investiga-
tion indicates that officers of the dissolved Nation-wide outfit are not involved in the ‘new organization here. - Persons close to the “bookie busi= ness said race results are being received telegraphically by a new organization in the old headquarters of the Nation-Wide Service in a downtown office building. From there, it was said, the results are phoned to about 300 clients in Indiana, Kentucky, Eastern: Illinois and Western Ohio. There are about 30 telephones in the offices, it was reported. An estimated 25 “bookie” operators receive results from this headquarters, paying a fee of about $30 a week.
Denies Any Connection
John J. Gorman, former manager of Annenberg’s service here, said he is operating the Capital City Publishing Co., issuing a small “scratch sheet” for “clients out over the state” now, and has no connection with Annenberg’s outfit. It was reported several “scratch 'sheets,” which carry races scheduled are being printed here. Prosecutor Lewis said he was un-
certain what could be done about
this and was making a close¢ study of Indiana statutes’ covering the situation. He added that he would welcome any information of law violations in connection with gambling. “We are looking for such information continually,” Mr. Lewis said, “but the little activity we find here has been checked thoroughly. “We won't permit any organization to come here and use-‘Indian-apolis as a race horse results headquarters,” he said.
GAIN FORECAST FOR NEW INDIANA HOMES
11 Per Cent Increase Likely, ~ Lumber Dealers Told.
Residential construction in Indiana will increase 11 per cent in 1940, H. R. Northup, Washington, secretary of the National Small Homes Demonstration, | Inc., predicted here ay. Mr. Northup is here for the convention .of the Indiana Lumber and Builders Supply Association, at
| which an Indiana Homes Foundation was formed to advise builders of
homes costing $5000 or less. He gave five reasons for the expected home building increase in the state and natipn. They were rising rent frends; leveling off of material costs; increased employment; the easiest financing in hisory and only a 1 per cent vacancy ra “We're convinced that private industry can deliver adequate housing at less cost per room than the agencies of Federal Government,” Mr. Northup said. “We want to set up an organization: that will enable a prospective owner fo ask for a ‘house that costs just so much—and get that house.” The Indiana Homes Foundation will be a co-operative organization of building material dealers. Mr. Northup said that research by dealers shows that $5000 homes can be built and paid for at a rate of 50 cents to $1 a day.
SWISS WIVES DRAFTED BASLE, Jan. 10 (U. P.).—Wives of street car conductors who have been mobilized were taking the places of their husbands today. It marked the
first time in Switzerland that women trolley conductors.
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‘WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1940
tered as Second-Class Matter In Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.
“British Planes Raid German North Sec Air Bases
Like swallows agaiiust a sky are these British planes, flying into the dawn to meet German warbirds.
MOTHER DIES, CHILDRENPLAY
Keep House Two Days, Unaware of Tragedy; Found by Teacher.
NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (U. P.)— Last Sunday afternoon Mrs. Sarah Pizarro suffered a pain in her chest and lay on the bed in her little, second-floor apartment. She died, perhaps at that time, from a heart attack. Her husband, a seaman, was on a freighter bound for Manila, P. I. The children, Anthony, 7, and Judith, 5, were at home. They had heard their mother complain of the pain and they decided to let her “sleep.” At supper time, they made their own simple meal of milk and dried cereal, then climbed into bed Beside their mother and slept. When mother didn't awaken Monday’ morning they made their own breakfast. from school. All day he and his sister played quietly in the kitchen, so as not to disturb Mrs. Pizarro.
Tip-Toe Around Apartment
In the evening, Paul Stein, building superintendent, came for the $18 rent. Anthony told him his mothers was asleep and Mr, Stein left without looking in. : From time to time the children tiptoed into the bedroom to see if
their: mother ‘had awakened, then |.
quietly tiptoed out again. Monday night both slept beside her in the bed. Tuesday the children followed the same routine, except that the milk and cereal had given out and they nibbled. on two green apples from the pantry. By then, Anthony's teacher was curious about his absence from
school, and last night she called at|
the Pizarro apartment. There was no response to her knock, and she inquired of-a neighbor, Mrs. Josephine Krasnik, who could tell her, nothing.
‘Mamma’s Asleep . +
Mrs. Krasnik rapped at the Pizzaro apartment door again. Anthony opened it and said, “Mamma’s asleep.” Mrs. Krasnik followed the boy inside, found the mother dead and Judith in bed with her. When the ambulance surgeon told Anthony that his mother was “sick,” the boy insisted on going along with her to the hospital. Then they had to tell him that mother was dead. He cried bitterly and - Judith. although she didn’t understand what had happened, also wept. Police took the children to the Society for Prevention of Cruelty. to Children and sent a cablegram to father Pizzaro at sea.
a > TREASURE SHIP STILL LISTED AS ‘MISSING’
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10 (1. P.)—The U. S. Hydrographic Office said today that the “missing” bulletin on the two-masted schooner Spindrift would not be withdrawn immediately despite reports that the treasure hunting ship was safe. The bulletin was issued in Washington Jan. 4. the day before the Cost Rican Consul in Los Angeles, Sidney Field, reported that he had received information that the Spindrift was en route from Cocos Island, off the Costa Rican coast, to California.
Anthony played hookey|
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (U. P.). —The Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion revealed today that a worker
in the Douglas Aircraft plant, Santa Monica, Cal., has been indicted on
Army bomber. The . plans later were recovered by G-Men. The theft was disclosed by Chief G-Man J. Edgar Hoover in testimony before a. House Appropriations sub-committee in support of a $1,475,000 emergency fund to vital-' ize the FBI's program for protection of plants against saboteurs and espionage agents. The FBI identified the indicted man as Edward William McDonald. Mr. Hoover presented only a few details of the incident and did not specify when or from which aircraft factory the plans had been stolen. “In one of the great airplane factories on the West Coast, a very im-
Flaming Plane Falls in Miami; Pilot Bails Out
MIAMI, Fla. Jan. 10 (U. P.).— A sky-writing plane broke into flames while flying over the city at noon today and crashed on a vacant lot in g thickly populated area near the downtown section.
fo safety while huge mid-day crowds watched from the stréets. Davis was burned, but the seriousness of his condition was not determined immediately. Davis came down on the roof of an apartment house.
MERGURY RISE ADDS T0 DRIVING HAZARD
Ninth Day of 1940 Passes With No Traffic Deaths.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
.. 25 10 a. m... 7a m....2%6 11a. m 8a m....27 12 (noon) ..39 9a m....27 1p m....31
Temperatures reached the 30s in Indianapolis today, the highest this year, bringing a thaw which. caused slush and new driving perils. —~ But despite conditions, no one was injured in traffic here in the 24 hours ending at 6 a. m. today and the City completed its ninth 1940 day without a traffic fatality. Snow or rain were forecast for tonight and tomorrow, with the lowest temperature tonight about 25. The Weather Bureau said that
6a m... ..28
all over the State. : John Vinson, 69, of 1220 N. Alabama St. slipped on ice at North
taken to City Hospital with back and spine injuries. Sam Stellatino, Long Island, N. Y., was injured and treated by a neighborhood physician when his
bus at Ritter Ave. and E. Washington St. today. Falling at the intersection of Caven and East Sts. yesterday, Mrs. Rose Tisch, 50, of 243 Caven St., re> ceived a broken ‘left ankle, police
cent’s Hospital.
charges of stealing plans for an|
The pilot, Art Davis, parachuted |
temperatures today were in the 20s
and Delaware Sts. today and was}
car skidded and collided with a’
said. She was taken to St. Vin-
Recovery of Stolen Army Bomber Plans Revealed
portant plant,” he said “plans for one of the Army bombers were stolen. We were successful in locat-. ing the man who stole them and in having the plans returned.”
plant lacked a proper program to
other secret data in the future. "Mr. Hoover disclosed that the FBI
tivities. This division, he reported, is compiling a master file of all individuals, groups: and organizations
espionage activities or in any activities that are possibly detrimental to the internal Security of the United States.”
CITY DISQUALIFIES
To Follow Specifications.
A joint purchasing committee of City officials today disqualified the Guarantee Oil Co. of Indianapolis as low bidder on City gasoline ‘on | grounds that it had failed to follow specifications. The committee upheld City Purchasing Agent Albert H. Losche, who
.|claimed that the Guarantee firm
should not be considered as a bidder. The committee decided that the As-| sociated Service Co., Indianapolis, | was next low bidder to the Indian
Refining Co., the original low bidder. Guarantee concern was disputed by which withdraw from the bidding. Mr. Losche’s disqualification of the Leo F. Welch, Works Board member, who contended that the contract should be awarded to the Guarantee Co. despite its failure to follow specifications. The Guarantee Co. had based its bid price on the Chicago Journal of Commerce quotations of gasolirfe ‘tank car prices. The 18 other bid- | ders on the City’s gasoline business! had followed specifications in basing their prices on consumers’ tank wagon prices. Upon Mr. Welch's request, the committee authorized Mr. Losche to investigate the possibility of using the Chicago tank. car price as a future basis for City gasoline specifications. Guarantee officials contended that the Chicago price would enable local gasoline concerns to submit lower bids. The Guarantee bid on 40,125 gallons of regular gasoline, was 11.58 cents a gallon, while the! Associated bid was 11.64 sents: a gallon.
STOCKS FIRM AFTER IRREGULAR START
Mr. Hoover said that theft of the| plans disclgsed that the aircraft
protect valuable military secrets| from being disclosed. The FBI, he| said, had installed a system which should prevent loss of any plans or]
has set up a special unit to super- |
vise anti-espionage and sabotage ac-|
“engaged .in subversive activities, in|
LOW GASOLINE BID
Rules Guarantee Co. JFailed
oT STiceD
Clash in Skies May Be First Of England’s Blows in Mystery ‘Blitzkrieg.’
BULLETIN |
‘LONDON, Jan. 10 (U. P.).—The Air Ministry armounced today that Royal Air Force planes last night dropped bombs | near the German North Sea sealane’ base of Sylt. | By UNITED PRESS Extremely heavy cannonading was heard from the Danish border today, indicating severe tighting between -the British and German aerial fleets.
The battle, believed raging over the German North Sea bases of Sylt and Helgoland, was regarded as a continuation - of three earlier British raids on the bases. The Official News Agency in Berlin reported that three of nine | British airplanes raiding Helgoland Bay had been shot down.
Steamer Is Sunk
The News Agency said that no German planes were lost. _Germany’s important naval and aerial bases off the North Coast are at Helgoland, the islands of Sylt and other points nearby. ‘While one unit of the Nazi plane fleet was occupied in defending Sylt and Helgoland, another was harass-
{ing British shipping. the Admiralty an-
In London, nounced that the steamer Oak Grove, 1936 tons, had been sunk by Nazi planes. The captain and five seamen were killed and 22 members of the crew landed. : The Danish ships Ivan Kondrup and Feddy, which previously had {been reported sunk in renewed GerIman air raids on shipping in British waters, still were afloat, the Admir-
lalty said.
All 48 passengers of the 10,002- ton Union Castle liner Dunbar Castle, sunk by a mine off the south coast of England yesterday evening,-were reported safe today. They included nine children and several women, The out-bound liner carrying a jeréew of 150 and sailing under convoy, was the only victim of mines in {a day of furious. attacks on British land neutral merchant ships by German airplanes. At least 14 ships were attacked with bombs and machine guns.
Steamship Gowrie Sunk The Admiralty announced ‘that
{German bombing planes had sunk
the 689-ton: British steamship Gowrie, from which all the crew was saved. : This afternoon two foreign planes, (flying low, passed the Danish island of Romoe. They were headed south. The noise of planes, metors and guns during the current engage-
‘ments was considerably heavier than
on Dec. 18 when the largest aerial battle of the war was fought when British planes raided Sylt and Helgoland. | ‘Earlier advices from observers (Continued on Page Three)
tiny UNITED PRESS
New York stocks, irregular in morning dealings, steadied in afternoon trading. = Volume continued light. opening, firmed after the U. S. Steel Corp. report of a record December. | Major European currencies held Steady.
Juice Fans’ Get Souvenirs Tonight On Last Terre Haute Traction Run
Tonight will be a big night for “juice- fans.” For they will have another ¢ccasion to gather mementoes of a passing era when the last electric interurban between here and Terre Haute pulls into the Traction Terminal at about 1:45 a. m. The interurban service between here and Terre Haute, established 32 years ago, is being discontinued by the Indiana Railroad, to be replaced by :busses. The first of a fleet of eight new busses will leave here at 7:30 a.m tomorrow. The “juice fans,” so called to distinguish. them from the “steam fans” who specialize on steam transportation. relics, are coming from all over the Middle West for the occasion,' according to company officials. George Krambles, president of the Chicago Electric Rail Fans Association, is expected with a delegation from his organization. Several of the fans, including members of the ‘Indianapolis Rail Fans Club, are expected to be in
Terre Haute to ride in on the last interurban eaves there at!
11:40 p. m. Many of them will pick’ up useless locks or some other relics of no great value to the company, which they will keep as souvenirs of the occasion and for trading purposes in other ‘juice fans” over the US
Company officials who will make the last trip include Louis Rappeport, general auditor and agent for Receiver Bowman Elder; John Martin, superintendent of shops and equipment, and George D. Powell, superintendent of bus and truck operations. The busses will be operated on approximately the same schedule as the interurbans, leaving here on the half-hour, every other hour. In some cases, they will make faster time too, company officials said. Five 25-passenger busses will be in active operation, and three will]. be held in reserve. Car-load truck service also will begin tomortow morning. Trucks, carrying parcels and. less than carload orders, have been operating between here and Terre Haute since an
The busses will angle off & Road 40 ) through. Gi ad th
will come back on Road 40. Feeder service will be. operated to nearby towns on Road 40. A chance that towns along the traction line would have more busses than there are busses and traction cars how was ended 'by action of the Public Service Commission, Greyhound Lines, which had been running four round trips daily between Indianapolis and Terre Haute, increased its service to seven a day, but the Commission suspended Greyhound’s right to expand in Sompenton | to the Indiana Railroad usses
The forerunner of the Indian-apolis-Terre Haute, Yraction, and believed to be the Hrst interurban line in the Midwest, was a four and ‘one-half mile line known as the Brazil Rapid Transit Co. i It was a single-track line
lines were acquired by the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern | Traction Co. This system was sold to the Indi~| ana Railroad and the ‘Public Servjie Co. of Tndiahia abs teveiver)
Steel shares, weak ‘at the
between Cottage Hill and Harmony| in 1803. It and other intermediate]
‘'LL LOSE MY HOME,
INVESTOR TESTIFIES
Widow Charges $12,000 Loss to Shideler Firm.
A widow whose husband was killed in a railroad accident tearfully testified in Federal Court to|day that because of $12,000 she lost
{through investments in Shideler &
Co., she would lose her home. The woman, Mrs. Beulah Dick, of
1423 Moreland Ave. cried when she
testified “there’s a judgment in court against me for my house and I'm going to lose that late this month.” She said that she called William A, Shideler many times ‘because I was very worried about my money because it was all the money my baby and I had to live on.” Mrs. Dick referred to her -year-old daughter Shirley. The younger Shideler is being
tried before Federal Judge Thomas|
W. Slick of South Bend on charges of using the mails to defraud and violation of the Federal Securities Act. His father, Frederick™ W. Shideler, pleadéd guilty to the same charges and is serving a 7-year term at Leavenworth Penitentiary. © (Continued on Page Two)
TRAIN KILLS MOTORIST (OSHEN, Ind, Jan. 10 (U. P)— Arthur. Lentz, 47-year -old Milford, Indl, timber buyer, was killed inig Jday. when his automobile ck by a train at 8 Siossiig
hice THREE CENTS
a
vision.
of .an adequate defense.
horses frozen atop the snow
hastily that it still cluttered
“We couldn’t see them,” the final battle.
Russian infantry. -
was made. last night.
their supply lines.
smashed the 163d and 44th sector.
in the Raate sector,
near Raate, he said.
are beyond ‘the frontier.
of hunger.
‘ment maneuvers.
REDS IN RETREA
FREEZE AS THE
Writer Touring Battlefield of Ice-Stiffened Corpses Finds Finns Map Defense With Destructive Precision.
By HUBERT UEXKUELL United Press Staff Correspondent
. WITH FINNISH NORTHEASTERN ARMY, NEAR RUSSIAN FRONTIER, .Jan. 10.—Finnish troops were reported in military dispatches today to have crossed the Russian frontier in pursuit of remnants of the smashed NEAR DENMARK 44th Division of the Red Army on the Eastern Front. ; ; : In a trip across the battlefield from Suomusalmi to Raate I saw how complete the Finnish victory had been not only in the defeat of the Russian 44th, but also to parts of
the 164th Division after earlier destruction of the 163d Di-
It was evident that the Finnish command had mapped out its plans carefully and carried them out with destructive precision. Lack of supplies, especially food, and bitter cold had prevented the Russians from making even the semblance
Sees Frozen Bodies of Men and Horses On the battlefield, 1 saw the bodies of countless men and
in the posture in which they
fell; war equipment abandoned, including 10-ton tanks, so
the roadway for four miles:
bark gnawed from trees by starving horses, and barricades by which the Finns had blocked both the retreat of the Russian troops and the advance of reinforcements whish the Red Army had on the border.
one Russian prisoner said of
“I 'saw how one after another of my comrades was killed «+ still I couldn’t see where the fire came from.” : It was after this battle that the Finns were reported to have crossed the frontier in pursuit of the remnants of the
The dispatches did not disclose the dirdagth of Finnish units that crossed the border or It was stated, however,
at what points: the entry that the action occurred
+ Dispatches to Helsinki today said that a large body of Russian troops apparently had been surrounded in the Salla Sector, on the North Central Front, after Finnish units cut The dispatches indicated a situation somewhat similar to that preceding Finnish attacks that
divisions in the Suomusalmi
Finns Claim 50, 000 Foes Destroyed
~ Prior to disclosure that the Finns had’ crossed the frontier, it was stated that Finnish troops on the Suomusalmi Front since Dec. 24 had almost destroyed a Russian Army corps of about 50,000 men. The. Army corps was the 47th Corps of the Russian Ninth Army, acterding to military advices reaching officials
Two entire divisions—the 163d and the 44th—and at least one regiment of about 4000 men from the 164th Divi--|sion was smashed or destroyed in the fighting, the Finnish advices said. “Col. X,” Fininsh commander of the southern part of the Suomusalmi Front, explained the manner of the Finnish victory on both sides of Lake Kianta. Russian 163d and 164th Divisions, which occupied the village of Suomusalmi early in December, escaped encirclement by going northward and northeastward across th ice of Lake Kianta, the 44th was surrounded and “annihilated” Jan. §
While part of the
Hundreds of Finnish military police: already were clear ing the battlefield when I made my Raate-Suomusalmi trip this morning. Walking for a hour along this road of death, I got the impression that this was a complete victory. . Those Russians who survived, fled into the forests and probably will not be able to return to Russian lines ‘which now
The staff of the 44th Division was reported to have been on the Russian side of the border. A majority of the Russians’ horses—more than 1000— were taken alive. The rest were killed or died along the road
Fodder for Horses Exhausted
While the Russian soldiers had some food up to the ; last moment, even if it was only hard bread or biscuits dropped from the air, there had been no horse fodder in the camp for many days and perhaps even for weeks. The disaster which befell the 44th Division apparently again was due to a large extent to the fact that the Russians cannot or dare not move in forests of the Northern Front. That made is possible for the Finns to carry out the encircles |
The Finns had built a rbad on the ice and along the * (Continued on Page Three)
NIVEN ENGAGED TO BRITISH WAR NURSE HOLLYWOOD, Jaf. 10 (U. P).— English actor David Niven is ens gaged to marry a young British war nurse, daughter of a Grenadier Guardsman, it was learned today. Samuel Goldwyn studio was in-
formed by Mr. Niven’s agent that he has become Ursula Kenyon Slaney, daughter wi Capt. Robert Kenyon Slaney of ‘Hatton Grange, Shifinal, She ® now serving in 1 the Auxiliary
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