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(U. P.) —Luren D. Dickinson, whose - crusade against “vice and sin” high-
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MAJORS WIFE
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Officer Stabbed While ‘Making Sandwich.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3 (U. P.) — Mrs, Marie Tucker, 39, whose husband, Maj. George A. Tucker, was - supposed ‘to have stabbed himself while making a sandwich, was held “today on suspicion of having murdered him. She said she was innocent and
years. : Maj. Tucker. an artillery officer at Pt. MacArthur, Cal, died 12 days after he was stabbed at the end of a cocktail party at his San Pedro home on July 1. Police, unsatisfied with the Army explanation that he stabbed himself seven inches deep while making a ham sandwich, started an investigation. The body was exhumed, and Dr. Frank R. Webb, County autopsy surgeon, said the wound could have been inflicted purposely or acciden-
‘Loved Him Fervently’
Mrs. Tucker was takes into technical custody yesterday, questioned
Plump and less than five feet tall, she sobbed: “I am innocent. I tell you, I am innocent: I loved George fervently when I married him the day he graduatea from West Point. I loved him until the day he died. I loved him enough to bear him three fine sons.” She and the ‘eldest of her sons,
Grand Jury tomorrow. Subpoenas also have been issugd for Col. W. W. Hicks, Commandant at Pt. MacArthur, and Maj. Donald C. Collins, Army surgeon who operited on Maj. Tucker. Mrs. Tucker told police that she remembered very litsle about the night her husband was stabbed, ke-
She said -she had not quarreled with him and couldn't remember how the blood-soaked: carving knife that wounded him was found behind a kitchen drawer.
DICKINSON URGES PRAYERS GRAND RAPDS, Mich. Sept. 3
lighted his term as Michigan’s Governor, today advocated “prayer meetings” in the White House. He spoke to 2000 delegates at the 67th annual convention of the Women’s
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Mr. Schmelzel, vice president and general manager, has been connected with the automotive industry for 35 yexrs. in almost every capacity from retail salesman to as-
Ford Motor Co. In the firm’s first year it distributed 850 cars with a value of $750,000. In 1940, some 1700 cars were distributed. Last year the figure was more than 2000. The 1939 business volume was $1,250,000 and in 1946 it reached $2,000,000. One of 82 distributors in the United States, Ace Motors last year ranked seventh in efficiency and value to the parent company and since then -has climbed to third. :
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By Holding 'Open House’
Ace Motors, Inc., Hudson distributors for the Indianapolis territory, this week is celebrating its third anniversary by holding an “open ho in its new $100,000 building at 1136 N. Meridian St. In connection with the open house Ace Motors is showing the 1942 line of Hudsons in its new showrooms and also at the State Fair. Ace Motors was formed, in August, 1938, by J. W. LeTourneau and
unusually large showroom and service department. The showroom is 40 feet deep and 68 feet long. Besides the showroom, the front of the building contains walnut paneled executive offices. At the back are a parts and service department, fender and body shop, paint shop, and storerooms for parts and supplies. Also on display at the new building this week is the Safety Engineering Magazine award presented to Hudson as the safest 1941 car. The engineering staff of the magazine analyzes 18 principal cars for 14 different factors of body design. Hudson was rated “excellent” on all 14 factors, the first car in history to receive a complete excellent rating.
WILLIAM DOWLING FUNERAL IS HELD
Times Special
FAIRMOUNT, Ind. Sept. 3.— Funeral services were held here Priday for William Dowling, who was killed the previous Sunday in the South. ‘Mr. Dowling was 36..He was born in Gas City, and had spent most of his life in Fairmount. ; Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Mildred Dowling, and two aunts, Mrs. E. Dewart, Fairmount, and - Mrs. Anna Goodwin, Indianapolis.
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WAR WILL HIT U.S. KITCHENS
Even Paper Bags Used to Carry Home Groceries ~ Are Periled.
By PETER EDSON Times Special Writer . WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. — Another six months and this war may be reaching not only right into the family market basket, but it will also be doing things to ‘the very paper bags you won’t be able to get to carry home the things you won’t be able to buy—not because of high prices, but simply because a lot of the fancy groceries dependent on imports won't be available. Cooks may even have to change the seasoning in some of their pet recipes. Deliveries by stores may be eliminated. Milk routes may have to be combined. And some people may even be riding a bicycle to market instead of driving the old family jallopy. This somewhat eye-opening view of what might be called “the situation” comes from no less responsible a source that the division of industrial economy in the Department of Commerce.
Plenty of Applesauce
You are advised by the experts of this division that their dire prediction should not alarm you unduly, but it should wake you up to the future facts of living. There is and there apparently will be no shortage of items like meat, pota-
toes, applesauce, bread and. vitamins. : So far, the only two things which have had their impact on the civilian population as a whole have been the scrap aluminum drive and the silk stocking thing. Regionally, of course, there have been power shortages in the southeast and gasoline shortages in the east, but those matters are only the beginning. The niceties of life will be the hardest hit from now on. You wouldn’t think there would be any shortages of paper, but the kraft papers and the wrapping papers of all kinds are being used in unbelievable quantities by the defense program, and paper mill capacity is limited. Shortage of heavy paper hits the box and container industry from nearly every angle. One place it will hit hard is in the use of paper milk “bottles,” which have gained wide acceptance. The only substiture here is to start increasing the use of glass bottles again.
Combine Milk Routes
In areas where the gas shortage becomes acute and a labor shortage develops, there may be a govern-ment-sponsored effort to have milk routes of competing dairies combined so that a single delivery can take care of all the customers in a given district. And what goes for milk routes could easily be exterided for deliveries of all sorts, including ice cream and popcorn men. The tin shortage has already been talked about plenty, but that hits the market basket toter :indi-
will have to shift to containers their customers are not used to. Tea may become scarcer because of a lack of shipping space. Olive oil from Italy has long since disap-
and Portugal, but if the war spreads to those countries, goodby imported olive oil.
Shortage of Spices
Smyrna figs and Arabian dates will give way to the domestic product. Tapioca, which formerly came mainly from the Dutch East Indies, will have to come from Brazil, or maybe not at all. Cocoa previously imported frome West Africa will likewise have to come in increasing quantities from Brazil. All the imports from Central and South America, will be made available to the fullest extent shipping space permits, as part of the hemisphere defense plan. This applies
shut that off would simply ruin the Latin American banana republics. | The spice trade will probably suffer severely, and that is what will make cooks relearn some of their tricks. Home-grown mus , sage, peppers, ginger and the domestic
| spices will still be available.
'Lifeboats’ - Only 20 Dead Whales
JERSEY CITY, N. J, Sept. 3 (U. P)—Capt. W. W. Kuhne, master of the S. S. Excambion, sighted what appeared to be a group of overturned lifeboats off the * Azores t Aug. 16-17 en route to L > :
the ship’s return today, were 20 dead whales. : Kuhne said he believed the whales had been killed by a depth bomb. :
TREE YIELDS 125 YEARS
FORT ROSS, Cal. (U. P.) —An apple tree, planted by the Russians when they built a chapel, blockade and army headquarters here in 1812, has never missed a crop. Tradition has it. the priest who blessed it at its planting ut an in-
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Gallup Poll. Shows—
SENTIMENT FOR CONVOYS DROPS
Fewer Favor Use of U. S. Navy as British Sea Loss Decline.
By GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute ,of Public Opinion
PRINCETON, N, J, Sept. 3— Public sentiment for using the American Navy to convoy ships go-
_|ing to Britain has declined slightly
in the past six weeks, but a small majority of voters continue to be in
favor of an American convoy system, The fact is revealed by a nation-wide sur-_ vey of public opinion by the Institute. - The decline in i i as taken place during a period ACA when the Nazi- x Soviet war has. OPINION shifted attention away from the Battle of the Atlantic and when British shipping losses have been sharply reduced. The trend of opinion on the convoy issue follows: : “Do you,think the American Navy should be used to convoy ships carrying war materials to Britain?”
No No Opinion 50% 9% 41 7 9 9
Yes April ..oeee.s 419 May ue 3 June July
Today ec.o... 52
Coincidental with the decline in convoy sentiments there has been a slight decline in the number of voters who favor all-out American participation in the European war. - Whereas 21 per cent of the voters interviewed by the Institute in June, before the Nazi invasion of Russia, were in favor of going to war, the most recent survey showed only 17 per cent for war. The decline in the vote for war and for convoys follows a pattern noted in many Institute surveys, which is that interventionist sentiment in the United States tends to decline when Nazi war pressure on Britain slackens and to rise when Britain faces an acute crisis.
LAD, 6, MAKES TRIP FROM NORWAY ALONE
JERSEY CITY, N. J., Sept. 3 (U. P.).—Johann Douglas Tate LieNielsen, 6 years old and red-haired, looked gravely at the man and woman who met him at the pier yesterday and greeted them politely in Norwegian, the only language he knows. . Until they announced themselves to him, the boy did not recognize the man and woman as his parents. And until the man interpreted for her, the woman dig-nhot know what her son was saying, for she does not speak Norwegian. Johann, who arrived on the S. S. Excambion, had come all the way from Oslo alone. For four years he had lived with his parental grandfather in the Norwegian capital, and it was only recently that his father was able to arrange passage to the United States. The man and woman were Capt. Johann Lie-Nielsen of Boston, a former skipper now in the wholesale lobster business, and his divorced wife, Mrs. Lester de C. Hinds of Boston. The parents sent the boy to Oslo when they were divorced, and it was the first reunion of the family since. ra Johann had traveled from Ger-man-occupied Norway to Lisbon, arriving Aug. 15 ‘abroad a German Lufthansa transport, and sailed on the Excambion Aug. 22.
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‘By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Paul V. McNutt has a new job here—measuring macaroni. - : Mr. McNutt is the Federal Secur ity Administrator, and the Co-ordi-nator of Health, Welfare and Related Defense Activities, and checking up on macaroni—so that it won’t be confused with such stuff as spaghetti or vermicelli—is just one of
the many duties of the Food and Drug Administration, which is part of his Federal Security agency. Administrator McNutt has served notice, through “The Federal Register,” that a hearing is to be held here Sept. 29, to “define and identify all such foods” including noodles. Macaroni makers are invited
{to attend or send depositions: “in '| quintuplicate.”
The published notice gives broad preliminary hints on how to recognize macaroni, etc.: “(a) Macaroni is the food prepared from dough made from semolina, durum flour, farina, or flour,
McNutt Wants fo Know — Just What is Macaroni
without salt as seasoning, by forming the dough into units. “Such food contains not less than —percent (to be fixed within the range of 87 per cent to 89 per cent) of total solids as determined by the method prescribed in ‘official and tentative methods: of analysis of the
Association of Official Agricultural Chemists,” fifth edition, 1940, Page
25, under ‘vacuum oven method—
official.’ “(b) Macaroni is in units which are tube shaped and are not more than 0.25-inch in outside diameter. “Spaghetti is the food which conforms to the requirements for macacroni prescribed by Section 16,000 (A), and is in units which are corn-shaped (not tubular) and are more than 0.06 inch in diameter, but not more than 0.11 inch, in diameter.
“Vermicelli. is the food which conforms to the requirements for macaroni prescribed by 16,000 (A), and is in units. which are cord shaped (not tubular) and are not more than 0.06 inch in diameter.” Alanson W. Willcox has been as-
or any combination of two or more
of these, with water and with or
signed by Mr. McNutt to preside at the hearing.
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Year's Review Claims 3 f¢ 1 Advantage in Air Operations.
LONDON, Sept. 3 (U. P.)—Tt Air Ministry, in a review at the and’ of the second year of war, said toe day that British fighters in air ope erations over and around Britain had destroyed 4500 enemy planes in two years as compared to 1400 Brite ish fighters lost. In addition to the three-to-one advantage claimed in planes the Air Ministry said that more than 450 pilots of the-lost British planes had been saved. ou The figures did not include enemy planes destroyed by fighters based in France in 1940 or German aire craft downed in the Norwegian campaign or in various other ace tions. ° i This year, it said, more than 1000 German planes had been destroyed, of which 380 were shot down a§ night.
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