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FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1941

Facing Death, Girl Takes Poison After ‘Last Fling’

CHICAGO, July 11 (U., P) ~Dorothy Powell, 24, red-headed stenographer once voted Wisconsin’s bést amateur aviatrix, came to | Chicago for a “last fling” because she expected. io die soon, Then she swallowed poison to hasten her death. Her bewildered parents kept vigil at her bedside today in Passavant Hospital, where physicians were trying to save her life. Attend

ants indicated her chances of recovery were slim. Miss Powell was found unconscious in a hotel room. Police discovered a note, addressed to a man identified as “Don,” which said: “I love you. I can’t bring myself to write Mom and Dad. I've known oe last winter that I was going to die. I didn’t tell them or you or anybody. I wanted fun and excitement and I didn’t, want to WOITy anyone. “The time was so ‘short—three months, they said. Well, it was longer than that. Doctor's can be wrong, -too, but this is it. I'm not afraid, only lonesome, but I'd rather be alone right now.” The writing faded into an illegible scrawl with the words: “Things are getting pretty hazy now.. Don’t feel sorry for me.” Before drinking the poison, police said, Miss Powell had telephoned her former employer, the Ellsworth Pipe & Supply Co. Milwaukee, headed by Donald E. . Ellsworth. Police believed the note was addressed to Mr. Ellsworth. Police were, puzzled by the reference to impending death. Miss Powell's parents said thsy

By Their Cuspidor Ye Shall .. * Know Washington Officials WASHINGTON, July. 11 <U; P)~—The prominence of a Govern ment official can be rated by the kind of cuspidor he keeps. j This isn’t the most pleasant method of determining political importance but it is coldly accurate, according to the man who has charge of buying spittoons for the Government.

He also revealed that'the national ‘defense rogram oN working a hardship on the top-ranking offi-- p

cials by forcing them to hit their cuspidors with unerring accuracy. The - Government purchases about 50,000 new cuspidors a year, and they come in 10 different ‘ models, varying from ‘ornate stainless steel to drab cast iron. Big officials, such’ as Cabinet officers ‘and their ‘assistants, prefer the big brass model with a glistening top and a brass pan underneath as a protective measure. Because of the defense program and the demand for all metals, however, the pan must go. Henceforth, when a Cabinet member orders a new cuspidor hell get ‘ t J ” ®

Cadet, Tossed From Plane’ s Seat, Rides Tail to Earth

EAST ST. LOUIS, Il, July 11 (U. P) Victor Woodrick, 23-year=-old army flying cadet, unintentionally” matched the best in circus - entertainment yesterday when he somersaulted out of a training plane 500 feet in the air, landed on the tail assembly and rode the craft to the ground cowboy style with both feet locked on the fueselage. “I wasn’t scared,” Woodrick said today.

time to get scared. I was only in

the air for a fraction of a second.”

“We were practicing landings,” Woodrick said, “and. the plane . started to climb while I was put- - ting on my Gosport (speaking) * tube, Mr. Mattis took controland i nosed the ship down. Then I went out.” “I landed flat on my back on the fueselage right next to the tail. My parachute broke my fall and I wasn’t hurt a bit. I just lay still while Mr. Mattis landed the ship. Then I jumped down.” _ Mattis confirmed Woodrick’s ry. He said the ship was “alost unmanageable” after Woodick, who weighs about 165 pounds, nded on the tail. “I had .the . powerfull .on and

e stick all the way forward,”

attis said. “The flaps were part “way down too. Then I had a lot

of trouble keeping the plane

heading for a landing. “When we got. down } asked Woodrick if he was hurt and he sald ‘No.

Congress May Punishment

WASHINGTON, July 11 (U. P.). ~Lieut. Gen. Ben Lear, commander of the Second , to= day faced the possibility that both ‘Congress and the War Depart‘ment will investigate his methods of discipling the ' “yogo-hooing 110th” of the 35th division.

Gen. Leary, ordered 350 membefs

pf a quartermaster’s battalion to _hike 15 miles because, while pass- _ ing through Memphis Sunday on

# route back to Camp Robinson, |

Ark, they were too enthusiastic in

greeting girls wearing shorts and .

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. executives -will'.be : reduced to .'plain steel or cast iron. : °

* solo flying and a total of about, 12

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Probe Lear's

Dorothy Powell

were certain she was suffering from no illness which would cause death. The girl was too ill to submit to questioning.

just ‘a plain, little brass pot and nothing more.

» Middling grade - officials in the past have been assigned: the plain brass job without the pan. Now, to keep the- social: and: political order in proper: sequence, : these

Last year the Government bought about 52,500 spittons, but 1940 was an unusually heavy year because of the many new defense workers. Also, the pressure’ of defense work seemed to wear out much of the old equipment. »

“I guess I didn’t have

{the suit against the local company

nical misdemeanor charge and it is

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In Case Involving Charges Of Criminal Nature.’

Prosecutor Sherwood: Blue said today he will “look into” facts surrounding a ‘civil suit in. which charges of a criminal nature ' are made and in, which two of his deputies are opposing counsel. Deputy Saul Rabb is representing the defendant, an Indianapolis auto sales company, and Deputy Edward Haerle is representing the plaintiff, a Warsaw auto dealer. Superior ' Court Judge Russell Ryan, after hearing evidence on a motion filed recently by Mr. Rabb, said he had told the deputy that “your client should be arrested on a perjury charge” and that the facts in the-case should be given to the rand ‘Jury. Check Is Returned

criminal angle in the case “had not occurred to me.’ The Prosecutor’s office pointed out there is nothing illegal in deputy prosecutors continuing private law practice and deputies have been handling outside cases. for many years. The specific charge. contained in

was that . the dealer notarized: a certificate of title transfer without having seen - the document signed by: the- Warsaw dealer, About ‘a year ago, - the Warsaw dealer~accepted a check from a man for a car and the check was returned marked “no funds.” Later the man sold the car to the' local dealer, presenting a certificate allegedly signed by the Warsaw dealer. The local company accepted the certificate and notarized. it. The fraudulent check passer was arrested and sentenced . to State Prison from Warsaw. A few months ago, the, Warsaw dealer brought the suit.in Superior, Court ‘here’ against ‘the local firm to recover the amount of the check.

Statement by. Rabb Mr. Haerle, attorney ‘for the plaintiff, said today that this is “just an ordinary lawsuit of one man trying to get his money out of a car he has sold.” He said there are “several other similar cases pending : in other. courts without criminal action because they are civil action to recover money.” He said the fraud: charges were ‘the basis for attempting to collect money.” “We never do take civil cases involving suit to recover’ property up for criminal action,” he said. - - Mr. Rabb: also ‘explained that fraud evidence is very often set out in civil suits and without criminal action. “This case involves only a tech-

very often done by auto dealers to avoid red tape,” he added.

“I knew’ he'd been thrown out immediately. I heard his parachute hit the cowling as he went out and I looked in tHe mirror and saW him floating through the

air. Then he hit the tail .of the ship. I started laughing because he looked just like a frog—lying Bat with his arms and legs spread ou ” Woodrick said that his safety belt had become unfastened in Sone way before he was thrown ou

superficially. Woodrick was graduated from Michigan Stdte Collége June 14 and arrived at the Air College for tralning June 19. : He, has had about one hour and 20 minutes. of

hours in the air. After his hairbreadth escape from death, he climbed into another plane and piloted ii'10 an alors in» 12-

of Yoo-hooers|: “Hey, buddy, don’t you want a caddy?”

The House Military Affairs Committee will meet early next week «in closed session to -decide what, if anything, “should be done about Gen. Meantime, War Department asked him ie a complete report 8s reports. circulated

of ESAs

The plane was damaged only

Pre ator Blue said: “I. have never heard anything about the case, but. will look into it at once.” .

COURT DISMISSES CUNNINGHAM CASE

Witness Against Assessor Fails to Appear.

Failure of the prosecuting witness to appear in Municipal Court resulted in the dismissal late yesterday of a traffic law violation charge pending’ against James F': ‘Cunningham, Center p assessor -and candidate. for the ‘Democratic mayoralty nomintion." An affidavit filled in Municipal Court several weeks ago accused the assessor of failing to stop after an auto accident at 16th St. and Col-| lege Ave. The affidavit was signed by Jack Childers, 23, of 1023. S. State st.,

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Deputies Are Opponents |

Mr. Rabb explained that the|

Art Rose Dead

Arthur E. Rose

AUTO ACCIDENT INJURIES FATAL

Services at 4:30 P. M. for 37-Year-Old President ‘Of Tire Firm.

Funeral services for Arthur E. Rose, for 15 years president of the tire company that bore his name, were to be held at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon : at’ the Beth 5 Zedek

Tepid: Ruckle aud 3¢ will be He Bish El

Cem a. The 37-year-old = execitive - "died last ‘night in a Barberton, O., hosital of injuries he received "Monin an automobile a¢cident near there. Mr. Rose had been in a critical condition” and unconscious since the accident. For’ the last two day$ he had’ been in ‘an oxygen tent and had received several blood transfusions. :

Crashed During Rain

His car had crashed during a rainstorm while he was en route from: Indianapolis to Akron, O., on a business: trip. A native of Indianapolis, Mr. Rose had attended . Shortridge High School and became a traveling representative of the Michelin ‘Rubber Co., when he was only 16. In 1926 he opened the Rose Tire Co. at South and Meridian Sts. as practically a one-man .- business when he was 22.. Under Mr. Rose's direction, ‘the business expanded steadily and soon -outgrew- the small building‘ in which it was, located. ~About five’ years ago the business was moved to 930 N. Meridian St. and at Mr. Rose's death was one of the largest of. its kind in the city. "Mr, Rose had one helpér when he first went into the tire business. At the ‘present’ timeé there are 30 em(Continued on Page Eight)

CITY IN RAIN BELT; COOLER TOMORROW

TEMPERATURE

6am ....68 10am. ....7 7am ....69 1l'a.m.....76 ~ 8am. .....72 12!(Noon) .. 7 9a. m. .... 7% ipm...81

Indianapolis and Indiana were in a belt of thunder showers today that extended from lower Michigan to western. Texas. The rest of the country was hot. Tomorrow it will be fair and cool er, the Weather Bureau predicted: South and east of the rainy strip, 150 miles wide, climbed into the 90's. On the other side of the, rain belt, a mass of cool air spread southward out: of the Dakotas, dropping temperatures’ from the Upper Mississippi Valley southwest to Colorado.

whose car allegedly was struck by i

one «driven by Mr. Cunningham. The case was set.for trial yesterday, but Mr. Childers failed to appear for testimony against the assessor. Depity prosecutors said they

didn’t know why Mr. Childers did |

not appear,

FIGHTS FURTHER CUT.

IN AUTO PRODUCTION

LANSING, Mich., July 11 (U. P

WHEELER SAYS 3 SPHERES OF PATROL LISTED

England to Guard Channel And S. Atlantic, America The N. Atlantic. -

WASHINGTON, July 11 (U. P.. —Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.) ‘charged - today that American and" British officials "are “discussing - pooling naval resources of the two nations. . Under the arrangement, this nation ‘ would patrol: the North* Atlantic and the: British Navy the English Channel and the South Atlantic. The Navy had no comment on the

Other major developments in the Capital today were: President Roosevelt said ‘ that he would not be surprised if’ American workmen and materials are being employed at British expense on at least 50 bases scattered over the British Empire. He disclaimed any direct U. 8, interest in the projects.

Asks 3 Billion More

Mr. Roosevelt asked Congress for $3,323,000,000 in appropriations and contract authorizations for the Navy and the Maritime Commission. This brought total supplemental requests in 3 hours to $8, as er Ao ay the Presiden 000 for the War Departmen rr for big new guns and. ‘ammunition for them.

not. know. whether any (decision been reached on the proposed f ing of the American Britian | navies, He -that.a statement |. this week by Minister Winston Churehill, suggesting such: an arrangement, had been “merely a trial - balloon for something that Churchill already knew was being disc t

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sources,” Mr. Wheeler said, “is that official talks about: pooling the navies of the two countries are already under” way. They have been conferring. quite some time,

“Work on Bases Cited’,

“As I understand it, our Navy would work in the North and the British Navy would work in the Channel and the South.” Mr. Wheeler's statement was made in . an interview - after . President} Roosevelt's remarks about. American workmen being employed in building bases all over the British Empire. Mr. Roosevelt said that the materials involved in the construction of the bases. have been obtained through outright purchase or mger - + (Continued on Page Eight)

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- 2-Hour Conference. (Easier Details, tails, Page Nine)

The Supreme Court ‘this afternoon denied the Republican 'petition for a rehearing. on he constitutionality of the G. O. centralization” law. After ‘a two-hour conference ‘of the four Democratic judges who signed- the majority opinion invali-

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the Court Clerk’s office: with® “denied” written across the front of it. This.ends court action in the fiyemonths old 'casé. Earlier today, Democratic attorneys "had filed a|tion reply bor the 8. O. Pr petition. +

Senator Wheeler said that be tig | y

ussed : ; “My understanding from.reliable}

about the proposition: for growers.

HIGH COURT DENIES. [25s GOP REHEARING LEK] bole Democratic. Judges in

}wheat fed to live stock. The : tion was sent to Rep. Hampton

Named to.P.S.C.

George M.- Barnard

Governor Schricker today announced the retirement of Moie Cook, a close personal friend of Frank McHale, Democratic National Committeeman, as Republican member of .the Public Service Co , and appointed George M. , In lawyer, to succeed him. Mr, Barnard is a former law. partner of U. 8. Senator Frederick VanNuys, who has been at odds for several years with Mr. McHale. Although the appointment was regarded in some State House quarters as a sign of an open: break between the Governor and Mr. McHale, Gov. Schricker said that Mr. Cook had been planning for the’ he past six months to retire and enter .puivate busiziess; Xo

And Wallace to Have _ Penalty Lifted.

Senator Frederick VanNuys this afternoon promised Indiana wheat | tj support at

active Ww: toward lifting the 49-

8 otait-astiushiel Pefigities on Wheat

‘quotas, with a committee of the Indiaha Marketing Quota Protest Association here. today, he told them he would confer next week .with Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard Vice President Henry Wallace. He further premised to suppott two bills, one in-the House and one in the Senate, which would lift the penalties: and - that he: would see that these bills hid public hearings. He asked the committee to collect all available data and to forward it to his:office in Washington so that he would have it Monday. : “TI told them I would do everyg my to see that this penalty was lifted,” Senator VanNuys said, “and they went away apparently satisfled that there will’ be action.” The committee already has registered a telegraphic complaint against the penalties with Congress. Meeting lastnight in the Claypool Hotel, it drafted a resolution asking that all penalties on excess wheat be removed, especially ' on U=

P. Fulmer, chairman of the House Agricultural Committee. +- It was signed by Lamont O’Harra, (Continued on Page Eight)

~ “VIRGIN FOREST ‘SAVED’

PAOLI, Ind, July 11 (U., P).— Success of a state-wide campaign to recover a 258-acre tract of virgin Indiana timber from commercial buyers for preservation;as a state park was. assured today with an announcement from Washington Joa) the National Forest ReservaCommission will pay half the

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Moscow and: Berlin Communiques ..... R. A. F. Attacks Germany, France and " Ieeland's Parliament Approves-U. 8. Move .

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

The Soviet Union put her three most famous military, :

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Russian defense line.

Although Moscow continued to report the Nazi Blita:

strength had been brought up

krieg stalled and Berlin avoided any definite claims, reports filtering through London were that the German reserve

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been repaired for: another assault designed to find a

~1spot in the Red Army defenses. 2 i if Possihip connedted with the reported new German

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e Syria, his defense forces spparenyly were collapsing rapidly. < reported anxious for Great Britain to create a néw fighting front ‘in the west, to divert German troops from the eastern battle. So far Britain's ‘chief help has been to make 138 raids against 52 different’ German and German-held towns, forcing Berlin to bring many| planes back from the Eastern Front |wi and apparently causing large-scale evacuation of women and children. Great Britain also’ was speculating on the possibility of a Unltd States air-naval base 4n North land (Ulster). Such an Moot pe of American bases was indirectly denied at London, but Belfast newspapers said that the proposed bases hight be “nearer than generally realized.” The outcome of the new Nazi: as-

1 Allied forces were closing) {in on Beirut, ;- Aleppo and

Germans unofficially advance patrols had crossed the Dnieper River on this front, where

troops. claimed advancés up to 37 miles mn the northern wasteland, but ha made little progress on the Isthmus toward Leningrad. Neither

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‘Nearer Than Realized?”

LONDON, July 11° (U. P)—The Foreign Office said today tha$

American employees’ of Great Britain were working on war projects

bases in Northern Ireland.

comment indicating that there was substance to the reports. The newspaper, commenting on charges by Senator Robert ‘Taft (R. ©.) that he was “reliably informed” the hases were being built, said: “Mr. Taft's proposals to establish American bases in Northern Ireland may be nearer than generally realized.” Such action by the United States would be welcomed, the newspaper added, and it. might aid in overcoming the refusal of Eire to grant Britain naval bases in" Southern {Ireland for Aghting the German U-boats. “Reports which - have received

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in Northern Ireland but that information available in London failed to support charges that the Uhited States was constructing air-naval

The Belfast newspaper Northern Whig made significant editorial

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tablishing a base in Northern Iree. aré not borne out by infore mation available in London,” the Foreign Office said. “It: 1s ihe in Senneciion with certain wo! that are in Northern Ireland Ie Miuctedis cians and laborers from the United States are engaged. All of 7 however, are direct employees the British Government.” The statement said that Amerie cans in North Ireland had a into their Smplovment | i the cise of their legal righ

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