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WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1940

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Oath Was First on Program

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Before the 900 workers inaugurated the central ballot counting system in Tomlinson Hall last night,

they were required to take an oath of their office. Here are some of the workers being sworn in by |

County Clerk Charles R. Ettinger.

TENSE HOLLAND Writer Describes Bombing INDIANA'S VOTE 900 Busy Counting Vote; Of Allies Leaving Namsos TREND PUZILINE Newness Confuses Workers

WAITS INVASION

All. Public Buildings Under Guard; Close Canals To Ships.

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Editors Note—Arthnr Menken. United | strover Bison. The French gunners |

' Townsend Pension Forces their duties and the routines of,

By ARTHUR MENKEN

eign countries had basen sharply restricted during the night and some calls had even been cut off.

Dawn today disclosed that in United Press Special Correspondent | public buildings in main towns A NORTHERN PORT, Scotland, throughout the country were being May 7—(Delayed by Censor)—Nam- | guarded by strong detachments of SOS amd the surrounding country soldiers. was riddled with spies when the Police forces had been fully mobi- British-French expeditionary forces lized during the night. i | withdrew last Friday to be subjected Amsterdam's “storm brigade” of 0 five German bombing attacks defenders was ready to rush to any during which the British Destroyer | part of the country. Afridi and the French Destroyer | Bison were sunk. Nation on the Alert The Allied troop transports crept Government authorities and mili- into Namsos Thursday night and tary quarters refused any comment left the next day crowded with Briton preparedness measures, more ish soldiers and members of the stringent than any since the World crack French chasseurs. War. The Germans were 25 miles away | T* was intimated, however, that all in the direction of Bangsund and preparations were part of a vre- 50 miles away in the direction of cautionary plan previously perfected Snaso, to the south and southeast in connection with the present war of Namsos. I saw no Norwegian and the nation’s determination to soldiers in Namsos and I do not behe on the alert for any develop- lieve that the Norwegians fought a meit. rear guard action to cover the Allied Reports from Belgium said that withdrawal. There were many spies everything was quiet in that coun- in Namsos and surrounding country, Holland's neighbor on the Ger- try, and’ it’ was impossible to trust man frontier. the civilian population. This fact caused the Dutch pub- : . lic, aware of foreign rumors Bhat 50 Bombers in Raid an attack on Holland might come at| The troop transports and their, any hour, to accept the statement British - French convoy ran the | that their Government's extraordi- gauntlet of five intensive air raids! nary military preparations were pre- ty 50 German bombing planes which | cautionary. But what had caused dropped 200 bombs. The Afridi and | the sudden precautionary moves re- the Bison went down, but not al mained a mystery. |single member of the Allied-Nor- | It was understood that the Gov-|wegian expeditionary force was lost. ernment had reserved all telephone, There were British troops and lines to foreign countries all night Chasseurs Alpins aboard my ship. | for its own use. |As I lay in a corridor on deck along- |

(Some cable messages from Am- side the weary, unshaven soldiers,|at the waterline with two other and will be opposed by Charles F.

sterdam were considerably delayed the first bomb from nine attacking! during the night, apparently by German planes dropped. Then three | censors.) lof the planes singled us out for at-| Phones Cut Off [tack and dropped, like plummets, |

Early this morning the United |from the sky. The anti-aircraft guns | during which time there was an air]

|stuck to their anti-aircraft

guns downing one of the attackers.

Bison Is Struck

Suddenly there was a terrific explosion and the Bison was lost from

view behind an enormous pall of | smoke. Then I saw other destroyers |

rush to her assistance. As we drew further away I heard more loud explosions. Then we were followed by a Ger-

.Cabs Bring Ballots a3

The ballot boxes were brought in taxicabs. | a half hour after the polls closed.

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This picture shows the first of the fleet of cabs arriving

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to the hall from the polling places

The workers were happy when they began their new tasks. moved the first ballots from the boxes—but they tir ed as the hours wore on and they didn’t seem to be

Were Jovial

| getting anywhere near the end of the job.

These workers were eager as they re-

Swamped by Gillie and |

Halleck.

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| ‘James O. Cox leading indecisively | lamong three Democrats. THIRD DISTRICT—Congressman

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man flying boat which never let us Robert A Grant, Republican, easily | late ballots from 75 precincts simul- |

man planes flew up, attacked with

| out of sight. Scon, additional Ger- renominated almost 10 to 1 in com- | taneously.

plete returns; George Sands un-|

a barrage of bombs laid horizontally opposed for Democratic nomination. |

and then bombed the destroyers. | FOURTH DISTRICT — Al most! One Junkers JU-87 ripped down final returns give Mr. Gillie 25,287

The first precinct completed was | the 13th of the 20th Ward which| showed 39 Republican votes and 97! Democrats, 11 of which were voided |

Funk’s Decisive Edge

BRADFORD BLOC LEADS ING. 0.P.

Is Major Upset; Petit | Goes Ahead.

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Votes Taxied

341 Cabs Haul Ballets | To Counting Center; Beat Deadline.

THREE HUNDRED and fortyone taxicabs were used to trans port election officials and ballots to Tomlinson Hall for the central counting. The first cab arrived at

6:15 p. m. and the last rolled up at 8:40 p. m., 20 minutes before the deadline set by law, " » "

As the polls closed, County

committeman of their choice for the| Clerk Charles R. Ettinger and

convention at 1 o'clock Saturday, Municipal Judge John McNelis which is mandatory by law.” were reported involved in a lively

from the sky at the Afridi and let | loose a flood of bombs. A tremendous explosion told us the Afridi had been hit. She heeled to the starboard. but plunged through the waters with undiminished speed. Then she circled, smoke pouring forth from amidships, and dropped out of the convoy. Other destroyers righed to her assistance while a hail of bombs fell around the vessels composing the convoy.

It was a terrifying sight, with the |biazing Afridi the center, the Ger-

man planes raining destruction and

{all ships blazing away with anti-

aircraft and machine gun fire. Huddle in Corridors

The troops on my ship huddled in the corridors and below deck to escape flying shrapnel and bomb splinters. Later, there was a submarine scare and the destroyers dropped depth charges. A flying boat joined the convoy to pick out any submarines, but there was none to be seen. Aboard my ship there were 20 German prisoners, 30 Allied and Norwegian wounded and one wounded German. We reached this harbor Sunday, but before the convoy was within sight of land I was locked in a cabin

American correspondents and a Danish cameraman. The porthole was sealed to prevent us looking out. We were locked up for 20 hours,

in 283 of 312 precincts, a 12 to 1 advantage over Fred Greene, his closest opponent; Frank E. Corbett | of Ft. Wayne is the apparent Dem- | ocratic winner. ! FIFTH DISTRICT—Republican Congressman Forest Harness unop- | posed; George Wolf of Peru the] apparent winner with 12804 votes! to 9707 for iJorman Myers in 331 of 380 precincts. SIXTH DISTRICT — Republican Congressman Noble J. Johnson unopposed: neck and neck race be{tween Alanson Albright and Lenhardt Bauer, 8031 to 7265 in 253 of 361 precincts with the Terre Haute vote still to be counted. This reportedly favors Mr. Bauer.

SEVENTH DISTRICT—A bitter! (factional quarrel was settled when | (Mr. Bedwell won the Democratic!

(Congressional nomination over Mr. | [Culbertson of Vincennes, 19,124 to! [7622 with 362 of 432 precincts re-|

| porting. State Democratic Chairman |

|Fred Bays backed Mr. Bedwell, his| \neighbor. Rep. Gerald W. Landis

was unopposed for renomination.

Rockne Again Nominee

| EIGHTH DISTRICT — Congress-| (man John W. Boehne easily won re- | {nomination on the Democratic ticket |

Werner, 1938 Republican nominee, | {who polled the odd figure of 11,111} {in 258 of 345 precincts. |

NINTH DISTRICT — Democratic Congressman Eugene B. Crowe was

Press Berlin Bureau telephoned the opened up, creating an infernal din, raid alarm, but no guns were Aired. | anospecen: A six-cornered Repub- |

Amsterdam Bureau to comment on filling the sky with grey puffs from | a report that Germany had recalled | exploding shells. to military duty all reservists be-| Then six planes dropped a curtain tween the ages of 30 and 50 years. of bombs alongside the convoy with-| Berlin had just said that “officials out damage. Six large bombs fell 300 | refuse any information since the yards from my ship. They flew away! report is of military nature” when but twe more planes roared out of the telephone line developed inter-|/the sun and dropped a salvo of ference. Then the call was severed. bombs. one of which struck the De-

As the army, navy and air force F

eanceled leaves, the governmental inspector general of navigation in

home waters announced that entry VICTORIOUS HALLECK | of vessels into strategic waters would be halted between Saturday and BACK IN WASHINGTON Monday. Ships which entered these!

waters during the closed period will

be held up until release is given Monday.

Times Special | WASHINGTON, May 8.—Rep | | Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind), who |

RADIO STATION CHANGE O.K.’D Won a better than 2 te 1 victory over WASHINGTON, May 8 (U, P).— | his primary opponent, Frederick | The Federal Communications Com- Landis Jr. arrived here by plane of WGBF, Evansville, Ind, to change from part time operation on 630 kilocycies t6 1250 kilocycles unlimitéd hours, with five kilowatts power during daytime hours and one kilowatt at night.

bill which would transfer control of |

ment. The House defeated the measure 1232 to 153. SIX BRITISH TRAWLERS SUNK, Rep Halleck received congratulaLONDON, May 8 (U. P).—The tions on his primary victory from! Admiralty reported today that six|colleagues on both sides of the naval trawlers were sunk in air at-| House. The Republican leaders] tacks during the Allied evacuation!rate him as one of the outstanding from the Trondheim area ‘men on their side.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

. , Col bia Club, . Here Is the Traffic Record | aan Ciiah of aaa, Protected Home DEATHS TO DATE

| Cirele. Claypool Hotel, all day. | pildiana Association of Master Plumbers, | otel Lincoln, a ay County City Total| Indiana Telephone Association, Claypool 16 17 33 | Hotel, all day. 26 36{,, Apartment Owners, Hotel Washington, ! : .. | Marion County Fish & Game Associa- | tion, Hotel Washington, 7:30 p. m. ... 14| Institute of Credit, Hotel Washington, 58/6:30 p.m

1939

BIRTHS

Sitting in my hotel room I still can see the German bombers, hear the drone of their engines and the whistle of falling bombs. One trivial detail sticks out in my memory. During the fight three rats scurriéd out of a life boat, dashed down a rove to the deck and plunged unhesitatingly into the sea.

‘WAR BABIES’ GAIN; POUND OFF TO $3.31

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Earl Wilson of Huron, who has Townsendite support and 9202 votes in 361 of 417 precincts, and Grant Rogers, who is trailing with 8609 votes in the same number of precincts.

TENTH DISTRICT—With only 20 of the 349 precincts in the 10th Dis- | trict missing, Don Ward of Union | City won over Fred Culp of Middle- | ton, 12,629 to 7440. ELEVENTH DISTRICT — Con(gressman William H. Larrabee of | New Palestine headed for the Demo-

lican fight has narrowed down a le reported into the Eelection Board by 9 p. m.

because of faulty markings. | Despite the slow count, Mr. Et-| tinger, who was described as the “boss counter,” said that “once this

|system is properly instituted it will

be the best ever.” | “This is one election that isn't] going to be stolen,” he said, explain-| ing the Election Board's policy of | deliberately slowing down the vote! to guard against manipulations. Election Board officials also said | a “mistake was maae” in delaying | the start of the counting until 10] o'clock last night. Counting had been scheduled to start at 9| o'clock. Public interest in the balloting] yesterday fell below expectations of | party leaders who had predicted that | © the perfect weather and the con-| tests between organization slates! and anti-machine candidates would swell the vote. | The balloting was marked by| | many reports of irregularities and | seme fist fights but election officials | said none was serious. No arrests were made all day although Mr. Ettinger threatened to prosecute some precinct workers if irregularities in instructions of vot-| os nok Stoppel. bearing pre.| The three cities where the count

cinct workers and their sealed ballot | was speedy were Muncie, Ft. Wayne

Times Photos.

County Clerk Charles R. Etfing-

as the count began.

| boxes, arrived at the central count-|and South Bend. Slow count was re-

ing scene in Tomlinson Hall 15 min- | ported in Evansville, Gary, Hamutes after the polls closed. There | mond, Anderson and Terre Haute. was a steady stream into the build- | One Democratic ballot from the ing until 8:40 p. m. when all pre- first precinct of the 11th Ward was cincts had reported officially. | voided because the voter put an Under the new central counting|“X” after everyone's name on the law, all ballot boxes are required to! ticket. The soft drink supply was exhausted at midnight and from then At ceremonies in Tomlinson Hall on there were a lot of thirsty peapie before the counting started, election in the hall. officials were introduced along with| The second shift took out a halflegislators who sponsored the central hour for breakfast at 6 a. m. |counting bill in the 1939 Legislature., Spectators remained in the gal- | Mayor Reginald Sullivan, intro- leries until about 2 a. m. duced to the counters, said: { There were only about a half “We have begun a new era in pol- dozen candidates in the hall last jitics. An honest count of ballots is night and early today. One Demothe basis of this republic.” |eratic candidate remarked that “the Reports from other first and way things are going we will be second class cities in which the cen- counting votes until election day.” [tral counting system is used under| A Republican candidate remarked

“War babies” advanced fractions cratic renomination with more than the new 1939 law, indicate that some that “this goes to show that under

to. more than a point on the New York Stock Exchange today.

|shares were generally higher and |

° | Republican nomination. : Webb Miller, Famous War

Bethlehem and Eastern Airlines hit new 1940 highs. A break in sterling sent the free

down to $3.31, lowest since late

188 cents to an all-time low.

the CAA to the Commerce Depart- Wheat was 2 to 13% cents higher |

at Chicago and corn was up 1% to 17s cents at the close.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. 8. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Mostly cloudy and somewhat cooler tonight and tomorrow, with occasional showers.

Sunrise 4:37 TEMPERATURE

~—May 8, 1939— Sinan hiss Billpwm ......

BAROMETER 6:30 a. m..... 30.02

Precipitation 24 hours

fam 61

on 24 ending 7 a. m. Total precipitation Since Jan

Deficiency since Jan.

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with occasional showers; cooler in south portion tonight and tomorrow, except continued warm tonight along the Ohio River.

0 11.97 2.20

TNlinois — Mostly cloudy, occasional showers tonight and in south’ and extreme

a 2-to-1 margin with no Marion | County votes tabulated whatever. | One-fourth of the district vote gave Robinson, a Townsend Plan advo-

| cate, more than a 4-to-1 lead for the

| TWELFTH DISTRICT—Only one

mission today granted application this morning to vote against the British pound rate at New York | recinct was reported from Marion latest Administration reorganization 94, The French franc fell b elow | County the State capital, under the

inew central counting law. This gave | a 78-to-5 margin to the veteran | | Louis Ludlow on the Democratic! | ticket. James Collins had a lead of 280 to 177 over Judson L. Starke in six of 209 precincts on the Republican ticket. With more than half the votes counted, it appeared that Floyd! | County, the home of U. S. Senator {Sherman Minton, a Democrat, was going Republican. n

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Probably the lightest vote in the | state was cast in Posey County. | There was no contest for any county (office on either ticket.

| Scientists Test

Women at Fair |

NEW YORK, May 8 (U. P.).— Science sought to demonstrate today that red-haired women have

Girls

east-central portions tomorrow, cooler in| twice as much body heat as

| wer> working speedily, while others the old system they must not have | were slow. ‘counted the ballots at all.”

Reporter, Killed in England

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the coach thinking he was near the the constitution that would enable platform. him to scurry around the world, A hard blow on the right side of risking the fevers of India and the the head, incurred when he stepped rigors of mountain travel in Ethiofrom the speeding train, apparently pia, but he always got through with caused instant death. An engineer the story and frequently he got on the first daylight train saw the through with it to the outside world,

'body, and railroad police took it to hours ahead of any one else.

Battersea Mortuary. He scored a world beat on the Two letters were found in Mr. Mil-| Italian invasion of Ethiopia and ler’s clothing, one from his son who United Press newspapers knew the is now in New York and the other| war had started even before word

{from Hollywood Cal.—Praise irom reached the War Office in Rome.

reader of the reporter’s best-selling In 1930 Mr. Miller flew 12,000 miles autobigraphy, “I Found No Peace.” |through 16 countries to do a brilMr. Miller was only 48 years old, | liant piece of reporting on the salt but into his newspaper career had riots in India. He went into Russia been crowded more excitement and and came out with a comprehensive adventure than the average man explanation of the Stalin blood

: | purges. can hope for in a life of three score Those feats and the work he did and ten. The burden of “I Found

er gave the wn '~vg instructions |

Vincent's,

MEETINGS TODAY ¥. M. C. A. Camera Club, Y. M. C. A, 5 m bh, Claypool Hotel. noon. Lions clot. Discussion V Club, Y.M.C.A,. : Pardue Alumni Association, Severin Ho- |

, noon, . te ath Distriet,

Trade "Alpha Epsilon, Board of Trade,

noon. a heta Tau, Seville Tavern. noon, Del erative Club of Indianapolis. Co-

0 | Arrests TUESDAY TRAFFIC CHART { : | Leon, Blanka Frisch, at Methodist. Violations Tried tions Paid) William, Josephine Bertermann, Speeding 16 16 Andrew, Margaret Shalley, at Methodist. 2 0! Harold, Pauline Coghill, at City. Failure to stop at ! Robert, Dorothy Burns, at 2249 N. through street 3 3 6 Pennsylvania. jenal DEATHS Da driving .. 0 Ida M. Schaefer, 65, at 2030 S. Meridian, Mattie Hunter, ——— broncho-pneumonia. | _ Ada 1840 Boulevard $113 | Place, cerebral hemorrhage. nephritis. Marie Cooney, 65, at St. ust J. Buchman, 76. at St. Vincent's, coronary thrombosis. Tuesday 10:5 M.—Michigan

3 | Accidents Cases Convic- Fines $90 Methodist. “3 3 Reckless driving Claude, Charlene Scruggs, at City. Disobeying traffic cirrhosis of liver. All others 8 6 69, at 222 S. Addison, Kennard, 66, ai Hattie Gyer, 82, at 373 N. Holmes, acute brongcho-pneumonia. Aug FIRE ALARMS 3 A. auto, Yefective wiring. los 1:48 P. M.

American Legion, Board of

tine, no loss 5:15 P. M.—Alabama light mistaken for fire. 8:1 M.—Pennsylvania and Ohio, auto,

and Maryland,

and Eastern, | j s . { —1126 English, burning turpen- M

, noon. t. 8:13. P. Motor Traffic Association, Hotel | defective

Antlers.

wiring. loss . am and Ninth, false E

southeast and extreme south portions. Lower Michigan—Cloudy and continued cool tonight and tomorrow, occasional light rain in south tonight and in extreme southeast portion tomorrow. Ohio—Mostly cloudy, scattered showers in northeast portion tonight and in south portion tomorrow; cooler in south portion tomorrow. Kentucky—Partly cloudy, slightly cooler in northwest portion tonight: scattered showers and somewhat cooler tomorrow.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Stations Weather Bar. Temp. Amarillo, Tex. ........ Cloudy 30.04 55 Bismarck, N. D. .... Boston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland

brunets and that blonds are the coolest of the lot. Six young women, two in each category, were tested in a “human furnace” exhibit at the World's Fair. Placed in a six-foot glass case equipped with gadgets and a dial which recorded body heat, the red-heads radiated twice as much warmth as the brunets. The blonds were a close third.

PAULETTE’S FATHER ASKS $600 MONTHLY

HOLLYWOOD, May 8 (U. P.).— Joseph R. Levee, father of Paulette Goddard, filed suit against her today for $600 a month for his personal support. The suit set forth that Miss Goddard, wife of Charlie Chaplin,

No Peace” was that the author was, at heart, a man who would like to read philosophy in a quiet countryside, far from wars and the alarms and worries of the world. But whenever trouble broke out in far-away places, Mr. Miller was the first man to look up airplane schedules and make plans to get into the thick of the story. He watched war change from Gen. Pershing’s cavalry maneuvers on the border in pursuit of Pancho Villa into the mechanized blitzkrieg that makes today's headlines. He had the knack of making friends of men of such diversified personalities as Mahatma Gandhi and Benito

on four major wars—the World War, the Italian campaign in Ethiopia, the Spanish Civil War and the Russo-Finnish conflict—did not dampen Mr. Miller's zest for being where momentous things were happening. Before his death he had obtained credentials that would have admitted him to almost every European country and he had made arrangements to be among the first correspondents accredited to the British Expeditionary Forces in Norway. Mr. Miller was born in Dowagiac, Mich. He described himself as a timid lad impressed with the works of Henry David Thoreau In Thoreau's “Walden” he tound a

Mussolini And he managed to per- pattern for human peace and hap-

form two jobs at once, for in addi-|

tion to being a top-flight interna- |

tional reporter, he was

piness. As a man he once said, “The phiiosophy of Thoreau

general is impractical as a rule of life,” but European manager of the United| he

always carried a

copy of]

Press. “Walden” in his pocket.

sult attorneys on the possibility of al court ruling to protect the rights of all committeemen. The Bradford group issued a slate | | by mailing more than 100,000 letters | direct to the voters, giving them | | “suggestions” on candidates to sup-| port. The slate in nearly every | contest opposed candidates backed by the regular organization. The final test of control, however, ! {will not be known until all the 193 | Republican contested precinct com- | imitteemen votes are tabulated and | the committeemen meet for the an- | nual county reorganization convention Saturday.

| { | Mr. Vandivier said he would con-| | {

Cat Was Still In Bag, But—

SOUTH BEND, Ind, May 8 (U. P.).—Because of a cat in a bag, one man suffered from serious injuries today and another was under arrest. Oscar Smith, 18, was carrying | the cat in a bag on the seat of his car. Suddenly the cat, bag and | all, leaped onto the steering | wheel, causing Mr, Smith to lose | control of his car and crash into a truck driven by Joseph Jozwiak, 8

Both of Mr. Jozwiak’s legs were fractured and Mr. Smith was arrested on a charge of driving on

| the

the wrong side of the street.

argument at Precinct 8, 12th Ward, 1507 Northwestern Ave. Mr. Ettinger had made a pre-

| vious visit to the polling place to

investigate reports that “they're marking ballots for voters.” He had seized hundreds of alleged illegal slates and had admonished a precinct worker against marking ballots, When he returned a second time Judge McNelis was there. Party workers pointed at Mr. Ettinger and told the judge: “There is the man who took the slates.” Judge McNelis is reported to have asked the precinct sheriff to expel Mr. Ettinger. John Dugan, special investigator in the Prosecutor's office dispersed the crowd and no one was expelled. s uw =

THE ELECTION BOARD received reports that workers for both parties had “mutually agreed” to permit late arrivals to

| vote at one polling place after the

6 p. m. closing time. ” » ”

THE COUNTING Law specifically forbids candidates to be on the floor. State Senator Jacob Weiss, Indianapolis, helped enact law. He was wandering through the tables last night. Hendricks J. Kenworthy, election commissioner, put the finger on Senator Weiss and motioned him to leave. The Senator did not protest and obeyed orders.

STRAUSS SAYS:

Beginning Tomorrow, Just 60 Suits, Jackets, with contrasting or matching Slacks.

Sizes 16 to 22 (including b-footers for tall fellows).

Reduced for quick clearance—to

12 and 517

(In the $17 group—are a faw four-piece suits:

alarm. Mr. Miller was a soft-spoken man, Mr.

of medium height and inclined to be| wife, Fo Thi both i. STRAUSS & 00, INC. SENIOR HALL (SECOND FLOOR) ‘

slender. He did not appear to have | of whom are in the United States,

has been paying him $300 a month but Levee contended this sum was inadequate.

aon. Junior Chamber of Commerce, Canary

Cota Club, Indianapolis Chamber of Commeree, 7:30 p. m.

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Wednesday 5:58 A. M.—126 8. Illinois, cigaret In ibed, no loss

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