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Officer Reveals Stook on * Hand Impounded as J Defective. ) GTON, Aug. 1 (U. P).

Mead committee today diss a report that the army sevtimes halted all war-time shipments’ of mertar shells to battle- . fronts, This was done rather than risk sending defective ammunition whigh might kill Amercian soldiers. Chairman James M. Mead (D. N. Y), also announced that “firsthand knowledge” of shell failures is being sought from some 50 officers

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HER ABDUCTION TALE HOAX, WOMAN SAYS

STATE LINE, Nev. Aug. 1 (U.P), Mrs, Barbara Walker styled herself a “poor fibber" teday and admitted her story about being abducted by. a “clean-cut young man" was a hoax, The young matron turned up waiting tables at a high Sierra roadside cafe. She had been the object of a nation-wide search since last Thursday, when she disappeared from a family pienie at Echo Lake, N. H,

By ROBERT RICHARDS United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 1.—You must use a cigaretholder, if you puff from behind a heard, “And it's all right to wiggle your ears to let stale smoke out, You ean even inhale in a erowded elevator, so ling as you don't burn the buttons off any fat man's vest. I'm not trying ta tell you what to do. I don’t even smoke, But there's a smoking school starting Aug. 10 on Fifth avenue— the first of its kind in the nation— and you may as well know all the

Under the questioning of Sheriff Lowell O. West, Mrs, Walker broke down ‘and admitted her disappear-

ance was the aftermath of a spat with her husband at the pienie.

answers before you go to class, The school, backed by a large tobacco corporation, is strictly for free. ,The professors hope that their pupils will become graduate customers.

She flew to Reno, Nev,

enlisted men who have writa to the committee. Mr, and Mrs, Ed Wynn

2 i va sent & Qetalled) ppvERLY HILLS, Onl, Aug. 1 (U.| Information regarding the mortar| I) Comedian Ed Wynn, .60, today | shells Was sent to the senate’s war| wad honeymaoning with Darathy | ; Blizabeth Nesbitt, 41 — whom he investigating committee by the for- married In Las Vegas, Nev mer commander of a chemical war- Th was th 2 ‘ i f fare service depot in Europe. as the second marriage for the noted star of stage, screen and | Defective Shells Impounded radio, whose first wife died in 1940, | He wrote that “on numerous oc-| His bride is the divorced wife of | casions” no shipments could bejJohn White of New York. made to front-line troops because mt — the entire stock on hand was “impounded” as defective. The first disclosure that faulty 43-inch mortar shells had exploded prematurely in combat, killing and maiming American troops, was made during the committee's inquiry into the Garsson munitions combine. Senator Mead. stressed, however, that the shell investigation is being pressed as a matter entirely apart from ‘any excessive war profits made by the 16-firm Garsson syndicate. Summer Deaths Reported One army officer wrote the committee ta dispute statements that shell failures occurred only in winter and that “only a couple of thousand shells" were defective, “1 commanded a depot and I know that in the summer (July) of 1944, | ‘ in Normandy, «deaths were eaused | by defective shells and that shipments of these defective’shells were gtill being received from the United States up to May and June of 1945, at the port of Ghent, Belgium,” he wrote. ! “Puring fective lot numbers were impounded |

ANNEX SUBURBS, CHAMBER URGES

Plans Advanced to Spread Municipal Costs,

Indianapolis faces an immediate! need for agreement on some way) of co-operating with suburban areas) te spread the cost of municipal services more evenly, the Chamber | of Commerce warned today. { In a four-page bulletin discussing | the metropolitan problem of rapidly expanding “greater Indianapolis,” | the bulletin offered five possible | salutions, Which suggestion or oom- | hination of suggestions is settled | upan must be decided not just by | officials but by the taxpayers as well, the chamber pointed aut. Local citizens, the bulletin urged, | this time. at least 50 de- | Must “quit sitting on our hands,” : and move to modernize a govern-| .. . and until V-J day, over 500,000 | Mental framewark which is “of the | shells were being reworked to cor- | °'® Of bution shoes and bob-tailed vect the defects in them, so that | NAS. they could be reshipped to the! ‘With the guess that greater In-| Pacific theater. dianapolis had grown to a popula- | “On numerous occasions, we were L0n Of 510000 and would hit 600,- | unable to make any shipments ta 200 hy 1870, the Chamber af Com- | the front, because of afl stock, up- | Meree governmental research bureau | ward of 100,000 shells, were all im- "

(offered these suggestions: | ONE: Annexation of some or all]

Another soldier wrote the com. | Of the unincorporated areas im- | mittee that it should be able to Mediately adjacent te the area.| learn the names of manufacturers) Seme of these areas, the bulletin of the defective shells that killed pointed out, already enjoy city serv- | tregps in the Battle of 1688 Which remain largely a burden the Bulge by securing battalion gr- OR the property owner within the | ders issued at the time. | city limits. {

TWO; Setting up of metropolitan | Tighter Laws Forecast

districts to enable areas too re-| On Campaign Donations

mote for annexation but still within | WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (U. P).—

a definite sphere of the. city's service | and influence to participate with! The $2500 check which Rep. Jahn

{the central city government for | special services, | war yo gro ay lu ao gi tion, offered hy some political iy of i% 8 #7 | scientists as a solution in cases . | where a county is primarily urban. pia ugar: wauied 8 tev i Means would have to he found te every ign contribution — re avoid inequitable burdens on agrigardless of whether it was received pL IORERY melt of town in a campaign on-¢ {Fh } O% he sear paign or nen campaign | ship boundaries so the city would Afb . {lie within the governing jurisdiction ht Sale was Jveisning of one instead of five townships. SOM, § FIVE: Consalidation of school

shack produced a flood of confliet- districts to equalize and standardize

ing testimony. a i But i emphasized that present | “heal facilities ahd puligles 1h the

W | metropolitan area. Jaws perm Sepvestiiiatives SOme= | quiside the city mow are adminwithout SE FB My YEArs istered by. nine township trustees parting sums they receive with widely differing methods of

for eamipaign expenses. i tio p A oon MAD now 1s required to] DeHaHEN and different tax rates for

report between 10 and 15 days be-!

Se inns sacuon wl semis) MAYOR CANCELS JOB WATCHING VOLCANO

and the final election. MOUNT RAINIER, Wash. Aug.

A second report must be filed Siva 80 days after the final elec-ty (yu. P.).—Mayor William Oaviezel Bn. But then they don't have to today abruptly cancelled plans to report again until the next election fly Hollywood screwball J ames Ho ar. Wiliam F. Knowland (R. | Moran here as a volcano watcher. al), left “a loophole in| “We had to abolish the position,” the law as wide as a barn door.” he said ommisiee Qhaiman James M.| “Under the new OPA, cost of livMud ht J sald the eom- ing atop the 14.408-foot crater Jie Shan PGommend to the would have heen too high. Price ges elections committees ceilings no longer reach ghove the of hoth houses that they prepare | fimber-line." Jegifiation Fequiring virtually con- Moran, equipped. with an Alaskan ens : poiitichl con- parka coated with ice-worm repel-

lant, had planned to pitch eamp Coffee contended during the atop the long-dermant voleanic t. when his secs | cone.

, Paul A Olson, recetved a| “His duties would have heen to pRNpalan eonteivution trom eye the mountain for signs of ie iy Bacoma war con- | eruption,” the mayor sald tractor, ! ' ' Was un-| The mountaineer, who held the

to repert it because it unpaid ’ p : , post before Moran, quit Was In a nen-campaign year after 30 uneventful years.

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| AHorneys Meet Heirens: May

CHICAGO, Aug. 1 (U. P).—Three at for William Heirens, 17. year admitted slayer of Suzanne ' | Degnan and two women, conferred LL with him at county jail today. i © There was speculation that Heirens Richmond, Ind.

: sae’ Nn ee to talk freely to Heirens has orally admitted these

torney in chargé of the Degnan case

sistant whe will prosecute the case of tHe slaying of Frances Brown, | |stenographer and ex-WAVE

officials, two slayings an thi Coghlan and Alviy Hansen, Mrs. gs 2 82 hifg, Ya of 3 58, ' il two of the attorneys, first entered | balked Tuesday after extensive he conference with Heirens. A preparations we en: re made to have attorney, Malachy Coghlan, | him’ give a’ full confession to Tuohy them sua he ye and others, i fram ; t was, The youth reportedly has been on . of another restless since he was returned to his : Ty (i eell Tuesday. F m J. Tuohy been additionally

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investi= | of a knife, which police are testing on the possibility that it was the|

@ne used to dismember the Degnan |

Coffee (D. Wash.) received from 8 THREE: Oity-county consalida= 1 1

prosecution, and by Alex Napali, as- |

Since then he has! ol the | ‘who has| Degnan slaying through discovery |

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day that his agendas was all lined up. “People will smoke, no matter what you tell them," he explained. “So they may as well do it right.” Mr. Korn plans’ to use six-inch clgarets, so that the pupils may puff away for an evéning lesson without a refill, “We're chiefly after the ‘puffer’,” he said. “We want te gorrect the nervous type. He exhalgs in short bursts, like a steam engine on a steep grade, and usually’ bangs his neighbor right in the mouth.” * Mr, Korn also scorns the “curler,” who permits smoke to seep gradu» ally fram the corners of his mouth and to curl up around his nose and eyes into his hair, . “In the hair,” Mr. Korn” said, “you can smell it for a week," The school ‘hopes all its gradu-

Head Prof. Saw! 0, Korn said to-

young suits and ‘dresses.

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exhale the smoke in one steady flow. | : Professprs will perform before mirrors, so that the students can eatch them from any angle. Pupils will be taught to tap a eigaret, in the beg movie star manner, after from the package. is no idle fun," Mr, Korn rid of loose tobacco," A glass megaphone will be used to show the class how much niger smoke behaves for a “blower” than it does for such rowdy tactics as “puffing” or “eurling." Pupils also must learn to hold the cigaret between the fore and middle fingers, with the lighted end peinting upward, “This lets the smoke escape,” Mr, Korn said, “and there is ne stain on the fingers.”

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or boxy .. . but brief! Designed to rest easily over .

. Forstmen Fleece, 55.00 Boxy Draper Fleece, 39.95 Melton Short Reefer, 39.95

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"The school refuses to compromise

on the subject of “butts” and your host's floor, “If you can't find an ash tray,” Mr. Korn said, “If worse comes to worse, we recommend that you pineh the fag and put in yowr pocket.”

PEARL HARBOR OPEN TO ATTACK, IS CHARGE

HONOLULU, Aug, 1 (U, P)— The , Honolulu Advertiser charged today Pear! Harbor is as vulnerable to attack now as it was Dee, 17, 1941, because of an “antiquated” command system, The paper made its editorial charge on the basis of a special Washington dispateh which claimed unity of army-navy command at Pearl Harbor was no nearer aecomplishment than It was four and a half years ago.

alted Shipments, Committee Hears

THREE LOCAL CLUBS T0 SPONSOR DANCE

Members of the Sultan, D, M. O. and Chi Delta clubs will serve as hosts at a @eranda dance in the Colonial Terrace tonight from 8:30 to 11 p. mu "Ed Hall and his band will play for the dance, which will be a weekly feature at Christian Park under the direction of the city parks and recreation department. John Yoder, Don Henkle, Tim Robets, Oarol Schneider, Jean Shaffer and Pat Kennedy will be in charge of the gotivities, Corp, Joe Deodip will direct a palarena of games which will be gin at 7 p. m, on the tennis eourts.

Mrs, Frances Lomax and Miss Lola Pfeiffer are the sponsors.

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