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URDAY, MARCH 1,

1941

B Hoosier Vagabond

| BIRMINGHAM, Eng. (by wireless).—This column

"is for Joan Crawford—to let her know that her 5000

photographs have not been bombed yet. But they've

had some mighty close shaves. Magbe I'd better explain. Well, some years ago the boys at M-G-M told me about a girl here in Birmingham whose hobby was collecting photographs of Joan Crawford, At that time she had 3011 of them. So I put her name down in my tip book, and said to myself that if I ever got to England I would look up this remarkable collection. It never occurred to me then that a war would be the cause of my first visit to Birmingham When I got here I remembered % the tip and showed the address AE to some friends, asking if they ul help me find the place. “That district has een pretty hard hit,” they said. “Most of the people have moved out. But wait a minute—we can find

* 80 one of them telephoned a certain outlying po-

4g ioe station and asked if they knew anything about

this woman.. The police—imagine this—said they'd . send a man right out to see. In ten minutes the § phone rang, and it was the police. They not only ad found my girl but had taken her right back to ® the station, and there she was on the phone! So we made a date, and the next evening I went

out te see her and her thousands of Joans.

Spent Year in U. S.

oh Christine Pasley is her name. It's pronounced . with a flat “a” as in “cat.” The Pasleys live in the nice middle-lass suburb. The houses are brick and all connected so that they make a solid wall the length of the block, with tiny front yards. Chirstine’s street is blocked off at one end, for a bomb tore up the pavement not far from her house.

By Ernie Pyle

All the houses have paper strips pasted over their windows. You need to [walk only. a ‘few feet to see roofs blown off, and walls caved in. Christine was a liftle overwhelmed to have somebody from America coming in wartime to see her photographs. She has a real sentiment for America, for when she was 14 she went to Chicago with an aunt and uncle and spent a year. She returned home at 15, .11 alone. Her 'un¢le is William Robinson, 1414 Elmwood Ave. Evanston, Ill. Christine is about 27 now. She has worked as a clerk, as ‘an office girl, as a {raveling companion. She doesn’t remember how! she got started collecting movie stars’ pictures, except that she was always crazy about the movies, She has been collecting photos of Joan Crawford for 10 years. Today her collection is far past thie 5000 mark.

She was working in London in 1932 when Joan|

visited England. Christine practically haunted her. Christine has never seen Joan since, but has heard from her several times a year. The last letter was mailed in Hollywood April 24 of last year.

Gets Her Nerve Back

Christine was working in| London when the war started, but after a few months. she came back to Birmingham, thinking her folks needed her. Her father has worked all his life in the office of a big Birmingham business firm. But he suffers from a nervous disorder, a hangover from the World War, and the bombings have been tough on him. Finally they had to leave Birmingham and rent a place in the country, 15 miles uf. = Christine went with! them and rode a bike to and from work. But after a few weeks she “got her nerve back,” "as she says, and now she stays in the city all alone, going to the country only for week-ends. She lives downstairs, for the second-floor windows are all blown out. . Christine doesn't |fe¢l much about the war except to wish it was over, and to hope she doesn’t get hit —and most of all that her pictures escape. Why don’t you send her a “thumbs up” cable, Joan?

Qnside Indianapolis (And “Our Town")

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Col. Arthur William Sydney Herrington, president of the Marmon-Her-frington Co., and the man who helped more than h'nost of us realize to make the British drive on Baria a success. Col. Herrington’s engineering prowess Ny probably is better known in such out-of-the-way lands as Iraq and Iran, Australia and China, than it is here at home. The Dutch East Indies are depending in the present crisis on the tanks, trucks and gun-toting tractors he designed, built and sold them. The Army of Iran (Persia) uses his equipment almost exclusively. His - ‘huge all-wheel drive trucks are serving the oil industry in the jungles ‘of - Colombia and Venezuela, in. the ftrackless deseit ge. Tn . wastes of Saudi Arabia, and other ‘remote regions. . When the British Army raced across , desert sands of Libya and surprised the Italians at

j* Bardia, it was the fleet, desert-defying equipment

built for the Australians by Col. Herrington right here in Indianapolis that turned the trick. The ~ Italians had nothing to match it. © The engineer on whom these armies are dependis an amiable, powerfully built man, standing over

i six feet in his stocking feet and tipping the scales

"at 200. Occasionally, the scales slide on past the 200 mark, and he reluctantly cuts down on second help-

He has a ruddy face, high forehead, dark hair and eyebrows and very blue eyes. Even when he's Joking, his expression usually is serious. He looks like a mai. who would have a deep. booming voice, « -but he hasn't.

| i He's Chief Tester, Too

I BORN IN ENGLAND, he was brought to this | country when he was 5. He studied engineering at A Stevens Institute and worked as a machinist in the

Hupp Motor plant until an engineering job opened ‘up with the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Co. He '’ served on the Mexican Border with Pershing, helped design the Liberty truck motor and fought overseas with the Second Army. Back home again, he served the Army in an engineering capacity, spent several more years with arley-Davidson, and worked with several other ‘automotive firms before coming here in 1931 to help Wstmon-Herr ington.

\ WASHINGTON, March 1.— A few months ago some of the New Dealers were looking upon the defense program as something that would bring an enormous surge of prosperity to the country, would put two cars in every garage, two radios in every home and a fur coat on the back of every wife and lady friend. Thanks to defense work, we would wallow in prosperity more lush than that of 1929. We would have not only guns and butter but more butter. That idea has died. The burial rites took place when President Roosevelt anncunced that in his judgment existing steel facilities, I plus the moderate expansion now under way, would be adequate. The blunt meaning of that was --not put into words; indeed, as is customary at burial services, only kind words were heard. There would be steel enough for all military ‘and civilian requirements. Bui the civilian requireiments won't. be what the New Dealers expected them p be when, a couple of months ago, they were crowdjit: g President Roosevelt to force a 20 per cent expansion of steel capacity. At that time defense was § thought of as samething that could be superimposed upon the regular civilian life of the country.

"Down to Earth Now it is realized here that this cannot be the case, Defense production must eut into civilian pro- ~ duction at many points. Aluminum is being rationed.

' Machine ‘tools are being rationed. Small manufacturers have been notified that they will have diffi-

V My Day

WA NGTON, Priday—We flew back from New York City yesterday and I thought I noticed a certain eticence when I asked if they had any news about apt. Rickenbacker. Every time we have an acciant of that’ kind, I regret it, because while, on a : percentage basis, there are prokably as few accidents in flying as there are in other methods of

transportation, still mishaps in the.

air are always more dramatic and - one feels that there should be some way of avoiding them. There have been a number of Army and Navy mishaps, too, lately, and I wonder if we are paying as much attention as we should to the development and experimentation of every possible safety de‘vice. of the human element cannot be if in any way we neglect to experiment which ntight make for greater safety fighting ‘services or on commercial lines, ds development in a line of transporta-

no on, 1 spent two hours with a group n the development of guidance services iople in rural areas. ested to find that health conditions in ére mentioned so often in the discus‘to think that one of the things

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“such stars as Ching Johnson. .and almost every Sunday and occasiondl evenings you

; his busy plant on W. Washington. St., he's

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. Failures that exist because"

anything but a figurehead. Besides being president and principal owner, he's the chief engineer and the company’s most exacting test inspector. Whenever some new type of allswheel drive vehicle comes off the line, the Colonel clitnbs aboard and tries to drive it to pieces on the testing ground. Until the present, war started, he spent about half the year visiting the niabobs of faraway lands, selling them the mechanized equipment his own country wasn't interested in—then, He doesn't have|to/ make any sales trips now, for there's a steady stream of representatives of friendly foreign powers to his plant, begging for equipment.

Ah, a Cake Eater!

THE HERRINGTONS live at Roseneath, 4256 Boulevard Place, where they have seven acres—a whole city block—to | themselves. There's a lot of work to be done abotit such a big place, but not by the Colonel. He won't|do a lick of work around home. After a 10 or 12+hgur day at the plant, he hurries home, grabs an efigineering book or magazine and heads for his easy chair. He reads almost no fiction, an occasional biography, and buys every aviation and boat magazine he ¢an lay his hands on. He enjoys food, efpecially slightly rare beefsteak, and plum pudding. And he has to be limited to four pieces of cake, or held eat it all. He's fond of good music and takes in #&n occasional show.

An Old Pro Hockey Player

HE'S CRAZY |ABOUT HOCKEY and seldom misses a game when the Capitals are playing at home. That's because heéls fan ©0ld hockey player himself. For many years, while he was with Harley-Davidson, he played a bang-Up game of big league hockey with He still enjoys skating,

can find him out at the Coliseum taking a 90-minute workout on ice. He used to play such stienuous games as lacrosse, just for relaxation, But mow it’s yachting, deep sea fishing or big game hunting—when he can find time for it. "He plays golf only about twice a year, and his score isn’t so| hot. He enjoys a good car and drives carefully, observing all traffic laws. He has a pretty good memory for most things, but his age baffles hiin. He's forever getting it mixed up. ‘A while back, somedne discovered he had listed himself as several years older than he really was in applying for insurant ‘e, and for years had been paying more premium t@an necessary. P. 8S. In case he's forgotten again, he's 49.

By Raymond Clapper

culty obtaining aluminum and some other materials for nonessential work. * Mrs. Roosevelt) is calling upon housewives to sacrifice aluminum pots and pans to the defense program. That goes a little further literally than defense officials think necessary. There is no reason for a buyers’ panic. The readjustment will be made as smooth as possible, Many substitute materials will be used so that the consumer will scarcely feel the difference. Automobil¢ production may be held down but new cars will still be made. You may not have as much chrome trimming. Plastics will appear in place of metal in many places. The main effgrtiis to prevent a big 1929-type expansion in nonesseritial production. One-sixth of the nation’s industry ‘i now engaged in defense work. That is almost 20 per cenf and the proportion will be larger before. we are through.

Taxes to Be Heavier

‘The point is that even though steel capacity were vastly enlarged, other ‘shortages would interfere— shortages of skilled workmen, tungsten, sluminum, machine tools. I In anticipating a big domestic luxury- goods boom, New Dealers expected that it would appearw»in response to the anticipaled expansion in mass purchasing power thét would result from pay rolls, profits. and divideticds ‘out of the defense program. People would haye money to spend and goods must be made for them fo buy. But the Government would take care of that. Heavy taxes will be heavier. A campaign is being prepared to induce the public to buy Government defense bonds. The Treasury Department has just prdered 5,000,000 address plates for a heavy mail campaign. Incidentally, some trouble was countered because the plates are made of -aluminum, a restricted material,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

we need to stress is a community responsibility in the remedying of physical defects during the years of school attendance. There also seemed .to be emerging from the general discussion the fact that we, as a people, ‘often see particular things which need to be done and go ahead and do it. But we. neglect to go back to the causes which brought about this particular need and do not think forward to the ultimate end we have in view, One of the best Government programs, the CCC, is a good example of this. We have not yet really faced the problem which brought us the CCC camps and the NYA, namely, the lack of employment opportunities for young people. Careful investigation might lead us to all kinds of conclusions, even to a recon-

- sideration of our ecucational system in certain of its

phases. As a nation we don’t face the problem. Secondly, we haven't followed through to the next step after CCC camp employment and training. Boys are healthier. They have had a period of employment.. They have received some training. But what next? We still haven't solved that problem of un-

.emplovment.

We saw some excellent pictures last evening, taken by Dr. William Mann on his trip to Africa. Dwight Long of Seattle, Wash. showed us some of his trip in a 32-foot $ailing boat. He has sailed to many interesting places and his pictures and talk were fascinating..

Britain’

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they’ll find anything but a rubble of ashes and bricks .where they left their houses. Until they get back. and walk up the street, they never know whether the missus and the kids ‘will be there—or whether there have been funerals in the family. » ” »

The Real Voice of England

E may as well call her the Dauntless Mary for, Heaven knows, she is all of that. Her skipper is a mountain of a Yorkshireman with a jaw that’s a blood brother to Winston Churchill’s. When he talked about the home front the skipper’s voice, accent and all, was the voice of England. After all the years that I've hated British upper-class snobbery and denounced the blindness of British Governments and the months that I have railed against Neville Chamberlain, just to hear the skipper talk was like hearing Will Rogers suddenly speak above the acrimony of an American Presidential campaign. The skipper was like Will Rogers. He belonged to his own earth.

“They’ll never break us - with their bombs,” the skipper used to say. “We're goin’ to beat Hitler. We'll beat im if it takes 10 years. I tell. you, the people of England ave their teeth to it. You ought to see my old woman. She’s MAD!” FJ » »

Great Decision Far Behind.

OU COULD talk with any man on the Dauntless Mary

and you heard the same story. *

There was no doubt, either in their eyes or their bones. Now they were homeward bound. They were going home to the bombings and they could scarcely wait to get back. I had seen British fliers in Greece and Albania, know them and lived with them. : I had' seen British troops in Egypt and West Africa. These were not the confused, half-awakened, leaderless people I had seen in England during the first three months of the war. These were people who had the great decision far behind them. Now they all know, men and women and children, that they are going to fight to the end. Do you imagine that every German, - Nazi or anti-Nazi, knows and feels the same thing with the same intensity? I do not believe it and I have had no first-hand reports from inside Germsany to encourage a belief to the centrary. ” » »

Fighting Hearts Decide N ANY CASE, it is idle to discuss Britain's position in this war. unless you recognize clearly that modern wars, more than any of the past, are decided in great measure by fighting hearts and civilian morale.

That is why Finland is still an independent nation despite the terrific odds which she faced. The Finns lost a first round, but they won far more than the Russians did—and they are still free. The British have the same kind of fighting hearts, but they live on an island and they have a power= ful navy and a magnificent air force and time and circumstance with which to harden an army of several million men. When you consider the situation of Great Britain today, it is necessary to bear these factors in mind. The British only started to fight last June, when France capitulated. : The German people have been at war for eight years, but the British have been at war for only eight months. Everybody knows what severe handicaps this late start has imposed upon the British. It seems, however, that comparatively few people look to see the compensat-

“Until they get back and walk up the street they never know whether the missus and the kids will be there—or whether there have been funerals in the family.”

ing advantages which the British are reaping, with constantly increasing measure, every month. The smashing victories in Libya have been so striking that we all had to see them. In reality, the brilliant motorized triumph in Libya has been merely a symbol and a forewarning of future possibilities. » ” »

'Death Is an Episode’

ERHAPS the greatest advantage possessed by the British today is the ruthless fact that they are fighting for their lives and their existence as an independent parliamentary-gov-erned people. They have had to start with only a single alternative—submission and slavery or ultimate free dom, at whatever cost in wealth _and blood.

That was the only alternative the Finns and the Greeks had, and it was also their deepest source of strength. The underdog always knows the most that can happen to him is to die; that death can be a liberation and<«a victory beside life in physical or spiritual chains. The British have started at the point where “death is an episode.” . Oddly enough, the men at Valley Forge started from exactly the same place. So did the mixture of armies and peoples who overthrew another conqueror of all Europe who was named Napoleon. = n s

No Alternatives Right Now

IGHT now the British do not possess ‘‘alternatives.” They have no alternative but to fight and fight and fight. ' That .is why, unless I am much mistaken, they will have a good many alternatives tomorrow—at the latter part of this year and throughout next year. Let’s reserve the reasons for this statement for another article where they properly ‘belong. For the moment, let us suppose that Hitler fails to invade the British Isles during the next six

months (However fearfully uncertain the battle may rage) because Britain gets all the American arms that she needs in order to keep on fighting. If things should work out that way, how could the British extend the effectiveness of their warfare? The Libyan and East African campaigns have already given us one very illuminating indication. In Africa, British troops are fighting while German divisions

COMING

Leland Stowe has been flooded with questions from readers from all parts of the United States in ¢ o nnection with this series of articles. : Mr. Stowe

tions and The Indianapolis Times will publish in series form this important question-and-answer feature, which promises to be every bit as exciting and interesting as these articles.

are “occupying” or standing

guard. By the time they have cleaned up in Africa, the British will not only possess a very sizable expeditionary army; they will possess an elite of hardened, swift and efficient motorized divisions—plus air and naval forces practiced in complete co-ordination with land forces. Northern Africa and east Africa are invaluable training grounds for a large British army which, in all probability, will some day fight on European soil somewhere in the Balkans.

Britain's Ace-in-the-Sleeve

RITAIN’S allies are not simply exiled governments in London. Britain's most important allies are millions of peoples in every Nazi-occupied country in Europe from Norway to Rumania and Bulgaria. They are the forgotten ace-in-the-sleeve of the British cause: Forgotten by the defeatists, I mean. After working and living for seven months in the Balkan countries, I know from personal experience that all the Balkan peoples, Rumanians, Bulgarians, Jugoslavs or. what, are overwhelmingly anti-Nazi- and correspondingly pro-British. From the lips of many Italian Fascists I know how deeply they hate Nazi-Germans. Now that German troops and airplanes have to stay in Italy to keep Mussolini in power, the long-term result is inescapable. If the war goes through this summer the day will soon come «~when the Italian people will leap at the chance to fight with the British and against the Nazis, for their own liberation. As for the Norwegians, Dutch and the Belgians already they are

only waiting for the opportunity. -

A great many Frenchmen already feel the same and a great many more will feel that way six months from now. » ” 2

Alternatives Will Come

HESE facts seemr to be overlooked completely by many Americans who have understandable fears about our being drawn into the war and being asked to supply a second A. E. F. overseas. The truth is that more than half of Europe, including millions of men, is already a recruiting ground for Britain’s Allied armies of tomorrow. The millipns of men are already there. All they will need, once something approaching aerial equality strikes at Germany's civilian

morale, will be machine guns and munitions. When this moment comes, as I believe it will and as—signifi= cantly enough—the vast majority of the Balkan peoples are cone vinced it will come, then the British will have an ever-widening choice of alternatives. These alternatives may be in

Norway, Belgium or Spain. They .

may be in Greece, Bulgaria, Rumania—or even in Italy. For the immediate future every= thing hinges on the battle of Britain, and so long as Britain receives evergrowing quantities of airplanes, guns’ and other war materials from the United States the battle of Britain will not ‘be over in a hurry. The British people are steeled. as never before in hundreds of’ years of their history—for suffer= ing, anguish, something else. The something else is the FULL PRICE OF FREEDOM. They are not only steeled for it, but prepared to pay and now trained to fight. . . ” » 8

The Job Will Bs Done

ESIDE this dominant, all-em= bracing factor, speculation about future strategical possibile ities shrivels to its merited pro= portions. We have seen what the British people are capable of doing and

enduring for eight months now.

I. am convinced that what we shall yet see will dwarf all they have done sinoe last June. Providing only that America sends the “tools” to Great Britairi I am convinced that the job will ‘be done, You can take your choice between Hitler's jaw and Hitler's voice and the jaw and the voice of Winston Churchill. : I have seen and heard both and I have no qualms—providing

only that the men and women bé=

hind the Churchill jaw get all the materials that America can send, and is capable of sending them in the next few months.

MONDAY —Europe looks at America,

We have sriow today, and I thought we had said good-by to wintez! :

STATE BOARD'S CHIEF KILLED

Charles Fox of Terre Haute Dies After Car Crash Near Greencastle.

GREENCASTLE, March 1.—°

Charles. Fox of Terre Haute, attorney, Indiana Industrial Board chairman and former State Federation of Labor president, died last night as the result of injuries in an automobile accident. He was 66. Mr. Fox's car and another automobile collided yesterday morning at the intersection of U. S. 40 and State Road 43. It was reported that Mr. Fox's car hurtled into a field and overturned, throwing him out. The driver of the other car suffered serious head injuries and

possible internal injuries. He ‘was|

{aken to the Putnam County Hospita A native of Bicknell, Mr. Fox had served on the Industrial Board under Governors McCrae, Townsend and Schricker. He was secretary-treasurer of the U. M. W. District 11 many years and was Labor Federation pretider from 1913 to 1920. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Maude Fox; son, Dr. Noble Fox of Terre Haute; sister, Mrs. Zoe Hooper of Greencastle, and a niece, Mrs. William M. Houck, also of Greencastle. Services will be held at 2 p. ni. tomorrow at the Gillis Memorial Funeral Home at Terre Haute.

HOUSING UNIT FOR CHARLESTOWN 0. K.'D

WASHINGTON, March 1 (U, P). —Defense Housing Co-ordinator C. F. Palmer has recommended to President Roosevelt that he approve 22 defense housing projects calling for 4156 family dwelling units. One of the units recommended is at Charlestown, Ind, where Mr. Palmer suggested the building of 100 tamlly units,

HOLD EVERYTHING

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“I knew a short cut, Sarge!”

GOVERNOR GETS BILL

ON SUNDAY BASEBALL |

A bill legalizing Sunday night baseball, ice hockey and all-day Sunday fishing awaited Governor Schricker’s signature today. The bill was passed last night in the Legislature's first night session. Both the Senate and the House met. The bill started‘in the Senate to legalize night baseball and was amended there to include ice hockey. The House added an amendment to make it all right to

fish on Sunday.

8 HURT IN CHICAGO - HARVESTER STRIKE

© CHICAGO, Ill, March 'l (U. P.)—Pickets .and police patrolled entrances to the Chicago McCormick works of the International Harvester, Co. today after an outbreak of violence in which eight mien were injured when the Farm Equipment Workers’ Organizing Com-

‘mittee ¢(C. I. O.) called workers out

on strike. The walkout was the fourth at International Harvester plants. The F..E. W. O. C. called the strike late yesterday to enforce de‘mands for wage increases and union ‘bargaining rights,

SENATE PASSES HOME RULE ACT

Only Two Dissent; House to Vote on Changes in Amendment.

The resolution sponsored by several civic groups for a. “home rule” constitutional amendment was passed by the Senate - yesterday

with only two. dissenting votes. The proposed amendment was shortened from four pages to two paragraphs by the upper house and the “self executing” provisions removed. It must now go back to the House for concurrence. As the amendment now stands, it would give the Indiana Legislature the power to enact laws to permit cities to establish whatever types of government they choose. It must be

passed. by the next session of the Legislature and receive a majority]

of votes in a general election before it can become a part of the State Constitution. The original “self executing” amendment would have permitted cities to establish any form of government without any legislative acts. Several senators felt that this amendment was too long to be written into the constitution and they succeeded in substituting the two-paragraph amendment for it.

DIES OF OVERDOSE OF SLEEPING POTION

A man identified as Jack H. Simpson, 33, of 611 N. Delaware St., was found dead yesterday in a room in a 8. Illinois St. hotel. The coroner said he died from an overdose of sleeping potion. Cards found in his clothing indicated he was from Bowling Green, Ky., and was employed at Allison's, but officials said his name was not listed on the personnel records.

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Mr. Bradford

Gets a Surprise

JAMES L. BRADFORD, Mare ion County Republican chairman, got the biggest surprise he ever had in his life last night. He said so himself when about 200 persons greeted him with flowers and congratulations in a surprise party at the St. Morita Restaurant. They sang “Happy Birthday to You” as they escorted Mr. ‘and Mrs, Bradford to a table deco= rated with flowers. Said Mr. Bradford: “I don’t know what to say. This is the biggest surprise of my life. I want to thank you all and tell you I'll keep working for the benefit of the people.”

EX-CONVICT ‘HUNTED IN HAMMER ASSAULT

State Police were searching Hame ilton County today for an ex-cone vict accused of beating his wife and daughter with a hammer after the wife refused to sign his parole report here early this morning.

and the condition of her 16-year-old fair. husband of four weeks, Lloyd,

apartment this morning and asked her to sign his parole report to be sent to the London, O., prison. Mrs,

On her refusal to sign the ree port, police said, Hudson beat wife on the head with a hai Rose ‘Marie was awakened. she screamed, Hudson also ne about the head, according to police. dene Neighbors called police, they learned Hudson had the home of a brother here :

Sowed 25 cents, explaining

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The wife, Mrs. Edna Hudson, 46, of 739% Massachusetts Ave., was in + a serious condition at City Hospital

Police said Mrs. Hudson and. her . had’

destruction and

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daughter, Rose Marie, was seported =

quarreled when he came to the

Hudson said, according to police, = that her husband had been drinking,