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Grill Caddies

Marion Miley

Robbery as Sole Motive Doubted in Brutal Slaying

LEXINGTON, Ky., Sept. 20 (U.

questioning” of caddies atthe exclusive in an effort to solve the mysterious slaying of Marion Miley, 27, national]

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ECCLES FAVORS GEILING ON PAY

“Reserve Head-Also Believes Longer Work Week Needed To Check Inflation.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (U. P.).

«Federal Reserve Board Chairman

Marriner S. Eccles, suggesting the advisability of a longer work week and a curb on wages to check inflation, said today he feared that the Government “may be forced to resort to the.very system we would like to see defeated” to insure suc-

cess of the defense effort. e testified before the House anking Committee in support of the Administration’s price control bill, but implied that it does not go far enough because it makes no attempt to impose a ceiling on wages or a drastic maximum level on farm prices. Mr. Eccles also told the Committee that higher taxes are necessary to avert possible inflation. He condemned strikes of all kinds during a period of national emergency. He suggested creation of a central government agency to work out a schedule of wages during the emergency that would provide a “yard- . stick” for maximum pay In various producing areas. Mr. Eccles declared it might be necessary during the emergency to extend the generally prevalent 40hour work week to 48 hours as an anti-inflation measure. Other Administration spokesmen have opposed wage and stringent agricultural price controls at this time. The Administration bill would prohibit the fixing of farm prices at less than 110 per cent of parity.

_ PREDICTS U. S. ENTRY SOON JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Sept. 20 (U. P.).—Prime Minister Gen. Jan C. Smuts, speaking at the opening of the national war-fund carnival, today reiterated his belief that the time is “very near” when the United States will enter the war on Britain’s side.

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P) ~Detectives undertook “routine Country Club today

-of her mother, Mrs M Detective Sergeant Joseph

dies, ; said their queries were ‘“routine” fn search of more definite clues to the mysterious shooting early yesterday in the white-col-umned country club. The young golfer was found dead, with bullet wounds in her forehead and back, in the second floor apartment she occupied with her mother in the clubhouse. Shot three times in the stomach, Mrs. Miley was reported “sinking fast” at noon today in a Lexington hospital. She walked and crawled nearly a quarter of a mile after the shooting to notify police. |

Untouched Cash Found |

Lexington and Fayette County authorities, who got a disconnected account of the crime from Mrs. Miley before she became unconscious, at first believed the ‘two masked assailants had sought | the proceeds of a dance given at|the country club Saturday night. Discovery of untouched cas about $75'in a closet in Mrs. Miley's room and $60 in a desk at the clubhouse—led police, however, to believe that robbery was not the sole motive. County Patrol Chief J. W. McCord described Mrs. Miley's accoun “unusual” and said he was investigating “other angles” which hel declined to specify.

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Chief McCord said the discovery | ; of the $75 in the closet, which was locked, was ‘especially significant? because Mrs. Miley had said: that she -told the gunmen the dance receipts of* about $145 were in the closet: before she was shot. He said the gunmen would have

broken into the closet, if their mos tive was robbery, -even®after they presumably found the dance money in a blood-stained dresser drawer. Police questioned Mary Stone, 21(Continued on Page Two)

TOKYO DISCUSSIONS CALLED SIGNIFICANT

Foreign Minister Calls at Palace After Seeing Grew. TOKYO, Sept. 20 (U. P.).—For-

eign Minister Teijiro Toyoda went to the Imperial Palace today to re-

‘|port to Emperior Hirohito, it was

believed, on what are described as

-|“most important and significant”

discussions under way here. . The Japanese Foreign Minister conferred at length two -days ago with United States Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew. There was no explanation .of the subject of the Toyoda-Grew discussions.’ 2 The sudden change of pls the British Ambassador Sir — Crajgie . who had planned to, leave

5| Tokyo and then cancelled his trip

at the last moment was still unexplained here as was. the question whether the change was linked with the Grew-Toyoda meeting. ‘ Other conferences which are

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5| rapprochement include meetings of Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye

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Trial Judge Finds C. I. 0. West Coast Leader Had Been a Communist.

—Judge Charles .B. Sears, Justice Department special examiner, held today that Harry Bridges, West Coast C. I. O. leader, had been a Communist and recommended that he be deported to his native Australia. Judge Sears upheld the Justice Department’s contention that Mr.

organization, which he identified as the Communist Party, which ‘“advocates overthrow by force and violence of the Government -of the United States.” Under a new law, this makes Mr. Bridges subject to deportation because he is an alien.

Finds Conduct Consistent

‘ “There is evidence that he (Bridges) co-operated with known members of the Communist Party

and affiliated organizations, and very often shared their views upon political, social and, particularly labor questions,” Judge Sears reported. " “In my judgment . .,. these instances viewed as a whole form a pattern. which _is more consistent with the conclusion that the alien followed" this course of conduct as an affiliate of the Communist Party, rather than as a matter of chance coincidence. ; “In this respect, I do not rely upon any single incident, ‘but rather upon a. course of conduct extending

{from the year 1032 and comprising |®

a large number of instances.” Subject to Review

Judge Sears’ findings, which are subject’ to review by higher authority, were handed down in the Government’s second attempt fo deport the Australian-born C. I. O. leader, Judge Sears conducted special hearings in San Francisco last spring. Dean James W. Landis of the Harvard Law School had acquitted Mr, Briciges of being a Comniunist at a previous hearing. At the time that Mr, Landis conducted his hearing ‘the law did not require deportation of aliens who previously had been: affiliated with subversive organizations. The law then applied only to current affiliation with such organizatiins, and Mr. Landis held that Mr, Bridges was not affiliated with the Colamunists at the time of those proceedings.

F. . B. MAPS FINAL NEUTRALITY STAND

Summons Secretary Hull For Talk Tomorrow.

HYDE. PARK, N. Y. Sept. 29 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt today summoned Secretary of State Cordell Hull to the White House for. a 10 a. m. conference tomorrow to draw the final outline of Adminisstration plans for revision or repeal of the Neutrality Act. The Hull conference, amplifying daily telephone discussions ‘' held over the week-end, will be prepar-

& atory to a conference Wednesday

morning between the President and Congressional leaders. . That meeting may give Congress its first direct information whether Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Hull advocate outright repeal of the Neutrality Law or merely. its modification to permit arming of merchant ships serving Britain's life line and relaxation of the “combat zones” to permit American merchantmen complete freedom of the seas.

By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—He may be getting old, he may be getting tired, he may be getting slow; but from that deep cave in the mind where hunches are born I can hear those gentle voices calling: “OI Black Joe.” So I'll string along with the voices and with him. I'll string along one f| more time with Ol’ Black Joe—Joe Louis Barrow from the canebrakes: of Alabama—the greatest piece of fighting machinery in our time, and, if you like, in all time. How it will happen and the precise minute on which it will happen

11 don’t profess to know. The voices

don’t tell you things like that. They just keep humming, soft as moonlight on a Dixie cotton field, and the So ev re humming is “Ol’ Black

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INDIANA OFFICE S OPENED HERE

Local Businessman Named

To Help Decentralize Work of OPM.

Albert O. Evans, new manager of the Indiana Priorities Office here, said today he hoped to have the new office ready for business by Wednesday. Announcement of the appointment of Mr. Evans as head of the office was made over the wek-end by officials of the Priorities Division of the OPM in Washington. Mr. Evans is a prominent Indianapolis businessman and club leader. He is former owner-president of

adertising manager of The dianapolis Times,

Work Decentralized

Mr. Evans ‘returned to Indian|apolis . from . Washington. where he completed a two weeks. concentrated course of instruction in priorities and defense contract distribution. Donald Nelson, Sears-Roebuck president and new head of the Supplies, Priorities and Allocations Board in Washington, has ordered the establishment of the state priorities offices in order to decentralize the administration of subcontracting and priorities. Today Mr. Evans said he was interviewing applicants for positions on his staff. All jobs, inéluding that of Mr. Evans himself, are subject to Civil Service regulations.

Selects Assistants

About eight people will be hired for the local office, Mr. Evans said. They will include one or more ana|1vsts, secretaries and stenographers. A temporary office has been set up at 915 Circle Tower Building,

the Indiana Training Within Industry Division of the OPM. It is believed that the new priorities managers will be given increasingly free control to straighten ou the priorities and defense subcontracting situation considered one of the “bottlenecks” in the defense program.

CHANGSHA CAPTURE DENIED BY CHINESE

. CHUNGKING, Sept. 29 (U. P.).— A Government spokesman, in denial of Japanese ‘claims, said “at noon today Changsha was in our hands.” (Kunio Akiyama, official - Jap= anese Army spokesman, reported at Shanghai yesterday that Japanese troops had compléted the occupation of Changsha, capital of the rich . Hunan province, Saturday night.) The spokesman, saying residents of Changsha would “spare no sacrifices” to defend it ‘“to*the .end, reported that Japanese plainclothesmen had reached the: out-

between <9 and 10

skirts of the city Saturday but were “wiped out.”

there .will come a strange hush on 60,000 tongues and then a voice, magnified by the miracle of electricity, will speak four words. They will be: “Winnah and still champion!” And there will stand OI’ Black Joe as he has steod so many times before, dead-pan, medest, breathing a little fast and séarching the crannies of his mind desperately for some words to speak over the radio. Somewhere else in that square of rough, resined canvas will be Lou Nova—a game guy who gave it a

|game try. My hunch is that he

still will be on his feet, groggy, bleeding and bruised and trying to protest because the referee stopped the fight. And we may never see that sight again, for soon O!' Black Joe joins up for the bigger fight that has half the world in pames, Win or ‘lose this leaves a rec

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SEVER JUDGES POLITICS TIES, BAR HEAD ASKS

~ Legal Practices; 3000 Convene in City.

By WILLIAM CRABB President Jacob Lashly of the American Bar Association today called on members of his organization to work for the removal of judges from the political arena and to simplify the practices of the legal profession.

opening session of the association’s five-day meeting 'in the Murat Theater, cited these points as contributions the Bar can make toward the arming of this country both militarily and morally. “Behind an invincible Army, Navy and air force, there must be a.solid and satisfied citizenry,” Mr. Lashly said. - “There must be those who believe in their country and its institutions.

3000 Members Attend “It is unlikely that any branch of

permanent impressions upon the hearts of the many persons whom it

courts, where the people resort to submit their causes, redress their wrongs and try out the merits of their claims. “The measure of their patriotism will be direct proportion to the satisfaction and confidence which they have felt in the administration of the law as an instrumentality of

the Evans Printing Co. and former ing

Association members attending the

| meeting. This afternoon the House ‘lof ‘Delegates, policyforming -group,

was to meet in the Claypool. Biddle Among Speakers

Resolutions introduced at the Assembly this morning was .to be de-: bated before members of the Resolutions Committee this afternoon. Other highlights of today’s program included speeches by the following: . Francis Biddle, U. S. Attorney General, speaking before the Section of Judicial Administration at 2 p. m. on “Administrative Proced-|m ure Legislation.” Bruno MacChesney, assistant general counsel of the OPM, addressing the Section of Rea] Property, Probate and Trust Law at 2 p. m. on “Enforcement Problems in Governmental Price Control.” Archibald King of .the Judge Advocate General's Department, U. S. Army, speaking at the ternational and Comparative Law Section meeting at 2 p. m. on “Comparison Between Military Justice and Justice (Continued on Page Two)

REICH AND BRITAIN T0 TRADE WOUNDED

' Swiss Are Intermediaries in

First Exchange.

BASLE, Switzerland, Sept. 29 (U. P.).—Arrangements have been completed, after long negotiations, for: the first exchange of wounded British and German prisoners, it was announced today. " The exchange, based on Article 69 of the Geneva Convention with Switzerland acting as intermediary, will begin in October and involve 1150 seriously-wounded Britons who will be taken to a French Channel port where they will embark on a British hospital ship ‘bringing wounded Germans. Three hundred British prisoners will travel in a Swiss hospital train, which was handed over to German

authorities’ last night.

'Voices' Are Calling. 'OI' Black Joe;' and Writer Decides It's the Champ ‘Again

likely to match until the distant day when nature builds: another flawless fighting machine. His likes don’t come this way often. Tonight he defends his title for the 19th time, more times than any man ever has done it and almost as many times as all of them together. He has fought across the breadth of the nation—New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia, Washington, St. Louis and Chicago Listen and you can hear it. Mississippi murmurs it at St. Louis; the palm trees rustle it in Los Angeles; it. runs through Cadillac Square in Detroit and up Beacon Hill in Boston; it blends with -the waves on Lakeshore Drive in ‘Chicago: and moves in a march down Washington’s Constitution Ave.; the Liberty Bell rings it softly in Philadelphia and New York's 42d 5, sings it in

Lashly Also Favors Simpler|

Mr. Lashly, who addressed the E

the Government leaves as deep and|

Sir Norman Birkett, England’s bacon and egg breakfast at

Having been through all of the don, Sir Norman might of acute distate for the prospect. But he didn’t. Instead he. said then when one looked: back for a year and compared England’s situation then with the situa-| tion now, one had room for much encouragement. “We are et ter prepared in } defense and of‘fense. now,” he said. still have a long ; and, very gi cult task ahead. Sir Norman There is no feeling of complacency at all” Sir Norman, here to attend the annual ‘convention of the American Bar Association, said that although the leaders in England repeatedly warn the people that they must always expect an invasion . attempt, the people generally feel that Gerany missed its chance at invasion a aids ago. . _ “The people feel, I think,” he said, “that the time for an invasion was a year ago when we were so much worse. prepared for it.” “But I-don’t expect that Germany will allow- our attacks day and night over the occupied countries to go unanswered.” To illustrate the general attitude of the people in his home land, Sir Norman told two stories.

* The Uncertainty Ended

A little old lady whose neighbor= hood had been wrecked by bombs, stayed on in her home though it Iwas a shambles, he said, and refused all entreaties to move. She ‘explained: ‘When the shells go up and the bombs come down, it takes my mind off the war.” The other story was about a very little girl. ‘During an air raid a bomb struck her home, but she was uninjured. © She ran from. the wrecked home saying: “Hitler can’t make me cry.”

ROOSEVELT CRITIC BOOED BY LAWYERS

Bar Cracks Down on Member Hinting Impeachment.

Amid catcalls and boos, an American Bar Association member today asked the Association’s Assembly to examine the statements and acts of President Roosevelt to be used in _ |possible impeachment proceedings against the President. When President Jacob Lashly called for the introduction of resolutions at the opening of the association’s annual meeting Joseph F. Harrington of Chicago, active trial lawyer ‘and longtime member of the association, stated thé intent of two resolutions he was introducThe rules provide that the resolutions are to be handed to the sident, who turns them over to he resolutions committee for debate. Mr. - Hartington summarized from the floor his first resolution which

.|calls for an immediate referendum

of -all members of 'the group on whether they want war on air, sea ot land without a vote of Congress. Then, as the assembly realized the meaning of the second, boos and jeers came from all sections of the Murat Theater.’ President Lashly hammered with his gavel for several seconds. As the Sesolution was being hand-

calmly that he expects German bombs to touches "in civilian life as their] winter.

“But we

Bar Chief and Successor

At the close of the American Bar Association meeting : Friday, Jacob Lashiy of St. Louis (left) will turn over the presidency of the A. B. A. to Walter Armstrong of Memphis, Tenn.

Famed British Lawyer Here: Expects Renewal of Bombings

By JOE COLLIER

greatest trial lawyer, finished his

the Claypool Hotel today and said quite

rain again on England ‘this bombings of the war so far in Lon-

have been expected to have shown some evidence

CZECH PREMIER SEIZED, 6 SHOT

‘Puppet’ Rulers Escape Assassins.

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By UNITED PRESS The spread of unrest in. Nazidominated Europe was highlighted today by Berlin's admission that six Czechs have already been executed under the stern new Gestapo order applied to Bohemia and Moravia. Berlin also announced that Gen. Alois Elias, Premier of the Germandominated government of the Czech Protectorate on charges of activities inimical to Germany. The Czechoslovak, National. Committee in London said that its ‘private advices indicated that two of those executed by the Germans at Pralia were Czech generals. Eduard Benes, president of -the committee, predicted that Germany is about to

launch “a new wave of terror” in

the Protectorate. ‘Emergency’ Proclaimed

Benes, speaking before a Forum Club luncheon, called attention. to German action™in sending Reinhard Heydrich, chief aide to Heinrich Himmler, head of the Gestapo, as acting “protector” of Moravia and Bohemia. “You have heard what is going on in the Czech lands,” he said. “A state of emergency has been proclaimed. The chief of the socalled Government Protectorate has been arrested and the most sanguinary of Himmler’s lieutenants has been sent to Praha. “A new wave of terror will follow.” The two generals reported executed last night or this morning were Gen. Josef Bily, who had been in command of the .army in Bohemia, and Gen. Hugo Vojti, deputy (Continued on Page Two)

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‘New. Terror,” Benes Says;

For Clues In Mystery Death Of Marion Miley:

ROME CLAMS VCTRYOVER. BRITISH FLEET

Report 4 Warships Sent Down; Germans Near Kharkov, Berlin Says. : |

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

THE ROYAL AIR FORCE made one of its biggest ate tacks on Italy today and Rome countered with a claim that Fascist warplanes have sunk

pedoed the 33,950-ton British battleship Nelson in the Medi-

terranean.

On the Eastern front the Rise sians claimed to be advancing again . southwest of Bryansk and German reports emphasized a tank and aire plane offensive toward Kharkov. Rome claimed that the Mediters ranean sinkings occurred in the transit of a convoy to the Middle East from 'Gilbraltar. The convoy was reported to be carrying Amer ican war materials and three of the merchant ships, Rome claimed, were sunk and another damaged in a 10 hour Italian plane attack. London Minimizes The Italian claim was challenged in London, where it was said that an important British convoy, ape parently the one referred to ‘im Rome; had transmitted the inland sea from west. to east with the loss of a single freighter arid slight dams age one warship.

its big nights of the war over —an attack timed to’ coincide wi the imposition of sweeping: Italian rations . and restrictions prog Thome to every Italian fame sacrifices and hardship Neh another war winter is brings

E. A PF planes concentrated on the big industrial plants of Genoa,

. | Turin, Spezia, Savona and

in the north. They made a round trip of more than 1600 miles over blacked-out France and electrical stoms in the Alps to make low-level attacks on the towns where Italian war production cenm ters

Other long-range planes, based nm Africa, flew over the Mediterranean to carry out an unusually severe ate tack on Sicily, bombing Palermo, Trapani, Marsala and Castel Ve trano. The officidl Rome communig admitted in an early tabulation that 23 persons were killed and wounded. Bread Is Rationed The British, planes dropped pamphlets as well as bombs on Italy. The pamphlets pres directed - the attention of citizens to the hardships and

support of the German war effort. New decrees and restrictions ane nounced in Rome over the

hardest winter of the war,

the Italian staff of life, has been rationed for tke first time since the World War. Householders were advised thas coal supplies will be restricted to 30 per cent of the short rations they obtained last year. On the East Front the Germans were said ‘by Radio Helsinki to have reached the Donets Basin outskirts and to hav®cut a semicircle around Kharkov. This report was not come firmed by Berlin, which said, ever, that three Russian’ divisions have been smashed northeast: of Dniepropetrovsk in a push toward Kharkov with the capture of 13,000 prisoners. § - A Russian counter-attack in the vicinity of Schlisselburg southes of Leningrad was said to have

reported that Marshal Klemen

Voroshilov is engaging in successfull counter-attacks around De

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Mr. Keemle impetus.

There is no

signs of cracking. That is a long range matter, but Britain is not overlooking the possibilities and hep propaganda arm is fanning smoldering blaze in every way pa sible. The intensified air attacks on Italy seemingly are designed to weaken Italian morale and lessen the aid which Germany's weaker ally can give her, including future

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst

The’ undercover war against Germany througie: out Occupied Europe may have an important bears - ing on the course of the war for several

of the sabotage and terrorist

ment from one occupied country to another APpeaty on the surface to be phychological. ficulties in overcoming Russia probably save

Germany’s

immediate prospect of any §

armed revolt at present. Organization and facilities are 1acking, J ever, there are some signs of rudimentary attempts at organiz which may form a nucleus later for a general uprising if Germany 8 h

is the possible effect of Eun unrest—incidentally, it is far Rk:

many’s production and the ti of essential supplies to Russia. 's war Production

operations in the Near East ;and North A AR

fices: which they are enduring =

end made it plain that Italy faces i

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Thé Royal Air Force had one of