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ARMY CRUSHES INTERNATIONAL
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Multi-Million Ring Bared By Arrest of Americans | In Paris, Berlin. |
BERLIN, Aug. 12 (UpgyP.).—The! U. 8. army reported today that fits! agents had smashed a multi-million | dollar global black market ring operated by a New York family with sons in Berlin, Paris, New York and Shanghai. Criminal investigation men sald two of the round-the-world black marketeers were arrested a few days ago, one in Ber-|
lin and one in Paris. The New| York and Shanghai members were | reported still at large. CID officials | 83id they “are being taken care of.” The agents seized bales of letters and cables in Paris and Berlin which they said unfolded the entire operating plan. Copies of each letter written by any member of the family were sent to all the others.
Members Are Named
bers were: {
Lewis Warner, 22, former air |
ologist for. American Overseas air-| lines in Berlin.
Robert Warner, former navy lieu- | Witness at her husband's murder| ters she had sent him at the countenant and now traffic manager for | trial was ordered by Judge Julius|ty jail.
the UNRRA in Shanghai
Oscar Selig Warner, 29, former (the prosecution and defense. Her ness to the slaying. In low, choked
navy lieutenant recently operating a so-called export-import business | in Paris. Al Warner, an exporter in New| York. David Warner, father of the] brothers, who allegedly worked with | all from headquarters in New York The officers said they had found | evidence the Warners were dealing in almost every kind of black market goods, including diamonds, cigarets, rugs, silks, penicillin, currency, perfumes, watches, ciothes and the like. The ring was described as the biggest uncovered in years. Two of the brothers, Oscar in Paris and Lewis in Berlin, have been under arrest for several days, CID officers reported. Military authorities in Berlin have notified the war department in Washington of the evidence. The New York ‘@nd Shanghai] members, including a French wom- | an partner of Robert Warner, were expected to be arrested, the authori-
ties said. i | unconfirmed reports circulated that|
One of the letters from Roberts addressed to his brothers and his| father, estimated that the average! net in China for the group was $10,000 a week. |
RECOMMEND GIVING
SOVIET U. §. CREDITS,
PRAGUE, Aug. 12 (U. P.).—Seven| members of the American-Russian | relief committee, who just com-| pleted a 500-mile uncensored tour of ‘the Soviet union, today recom-| mended the granting of American credits to speed the rebuilding of | Russian cities destroyed in the war.! Members of the committee will leave Prague today for Amsterdam | and New York. Dr. Edward Young, Boston, Mass., |
said “if Minsk or Stalingrad, whose, Earlier reports that the 1500 already | nt Dad cocktails with him at a destruction could not have been|in the harbor would be moved to
more complete, could have one brick | cleaner like the 50 which Americans’ took to Berlin, it would relieve 200 women laborers.’ Dr. Louis Newton, Atlanta, Ga.
president of the Southern Baptist of 33 who allegedly engaged troops door at 10:30 that night.
convention, said, “One caterpillar
bulldozer would help thousands of |17 after mining the railroad shops. | Fletcher was dressed only in a people existing in the rubble of Seven were killed outright and two bathrobe. She was nude, she said.
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twin girls were born Saturday.
—Acme Telephoto Here are Macatee girls, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, or, left to right, Eileen, Betty Ann and Rosemary, triplets born 14 months age to Mr. and | Mrs. Raymond Macatee, who are at home in Philadelphia waiting for
the hospital where Nos. 4 and §,
Wife, Fighting
Tells of Nude Tryst in Hotel
CHICAGO, Aug. 12 (U, P.).—Mrs. Doris Murray, 36, tried to save her husband from a possible death sentence today by describing to a CID officials said the gang mem- | packed ourtroom how he found her in the nude in a downtown hotel
room with his best frined.
Mrs. Murray, comely brunet who once sang on the radio, corroborated force lieutenant and now meteor-|her husband's story that he shot and killed Maj. John Fletcher of the
Canadian army in self-defense, Mrs. Murray's appearance as a Miner over the protests of bath
husband had rejected her offer to
2000 REFUGEE ARRIVE AT HAIFA
1500 Other lilegel Immi-
grants Awaiting Fate.
By ELIAV SIMON United Press Staff Correspondent JERUSALEM, Aug. 12.—Two
more battered ships bearing ap-
. : ta} roximately 2000 illegal is - proximately illegal Jewish im | husband did not look at her. He
migrants arrived today off the barricaded port of Haifa, where the British concentrated warships, tanks and infantry against outbreaks. Fifteen hundred other illegal immigrants aboard five ships in Haifa harbor awaited their fate, while
some refugees were to be moved soon to camps in Cyprus. Ashore, the trial of 24 Irgun Zvai Leumi members charged with sabotaging the Haifa railroad shop began in the tense atmosphere of a British military court. The court was held in the “Arab league building,” less than a mile from the harbor.
24 Face Possible Death
The 24 young Jews on trial face pletcher to the railroad station.
possible death sentences.
Deep mystery surrounded British called her on the telephone later military operations and plans for
the growing throng of refugees. passenger liner, the Empire Rival, was moored at the cargo jetty and four landing craft converted nto floating cages waited in the harbor. It was rumored the Empire Rival
{would be used to transport future 0 at the Morrison.
immigrant arrivals to Cyprus.
Cyprus were unconfirmed and appeared less probable.
Tanks, Infantry Guard Area The 24 on trial are the survivors
when they ran ito a road-block June
bombed cities to get a decent place |died later,
to live”
(A London News -Chronicle dis-
The committee members said they {Patch from Famagusta, Cyprus, sa
inspected every phase of Soviet life without restriction and for the most part without official guidance.
id workers had. been summoned for duty Monday following reports that six shiploads of Jewish immigrants crease in the tax levy from 88 cents
{were expected there.)
RESUME COURT FIGHT Additional British tanks and in- | on Danville property hes been asked
ON GAMBLING SHIP
fantry were posted in the Haifa area Sunday night. Six warships
LONG BEACH, Cal, Aug. 12 (U,|parricaded the harbor entrance. The
to guard
to Save Mate,
help him and had torn up the let-
| Mrs. Murray was the only wit-
{voice she told of her tryst with Maj. Fletcher May 27 in the Morrison hotel. Says He Was Threatened | She told how Her husband, Don-
ald, 41, entered the room and shot Maj. Fletcher after the army officer had assaulted him with a chair. Before she was called to the witness stand, Mrs. Murray told reporters: “1 still love my husband. He's wonderful. To go through with this { alone, without me, proves it. 1 want to do everything in my power {to save him.” Throughout her testimony,
her
kept his eyes on the floor and mopped his forehead with a handkerchief. " Mrs. Murray told of Maj. Fletcher's [stay at their suburban home as a week-end guest. She told of a party (the night before the slaying. Asks for Divorce ! “I got a little tight,” she said, “and after Jack went to bed I told my husband that I wanted a divorce. ‘I'm very much in love with Jack and he's very much in love with me’ I said. ‘He's getting a divorce and I want a divorce.'” She said her husband told her | she was drunk, and to go to bed. The next morning, she said, she and her husband drove Maj.
| But instead of leaving, she said, he
and told her he was getting a hotel room. i= Then, she said, her husband called at her office and suggested they take a four-day vacation together. Just as she was about to agree, Maj. Fletcher telephoned, she said, and told her he had a
she said, and they
| music and poetry. | Mr. Fletcher's room, {2:30 p. m. She said she was there until her husband knocked on the
When he entered, she said, Mr.
\DANVILLE BOARD INCREASES TAX RATE DANVILLE Ind. Aug. 12.—An into $1.27, per $100 assessed valuation,
| by the town board.
Members of the board indicated {that the jump in the tax rate is
P.).—The second round" of Tony Port was treated as a “prohibitive | necessary because of higher cast of Cornero Stralla’s legal bout to re-jarea” and all civilians removed. | materials and labor and because of open his million dollar gambling Machine gun nests and barbed wire | the large amount of work which has
An American C-47 army transport
» ed today.
ship Lux comes up in federal court | today when attorneys seek release | of 11 impounded water taxis which serviced the floating casino. Federal Judge William C. Mathes will hear arguments on a petition of George Garvin, water taxi fleet operator, to restrain Los - Angeles | county and Long Beach officials |
from interfering with operation of | his boats. | Garvin's fleet, valued at $250,000, provided sole transportation to Stralla’s converted navy minelayer, anchored .five miles off shore. The petitioner claimed officials inter-| fered with foreign commerce in| violation of admiralty laws when | they impounded the craft last] Thursday.
U. S. PLANE IS FORCED DOWN IN YUGOSLAVIA’
BELGRADE, Aug. 12 (U. P).—
plane was forced down by Yugoslav fighter aircraft Aug. 9 while flying over northwestern Yugoslavia, the official Tanjug news agency report-
Tanjug said a note of protest had been sent to the U, 8. embassy in Belgrade concerning the “systematic violation” of northwestern Yugoslavia by American military planes. The dispatch said 172 planes had violated “Yugoslavian sovereign rights” in one month, The C-47 was forced down at Ljubljana, on the northern tip of Yugoslavia, according to the news agency. whim
WOMAN DIES IN CRASH PITTSBURGH, Aug. 12 (U. P). —BEdward Councelman, Evanston, 111, fell asleep at the driver's wheel yesterday and his automobile crashed into a fire hydrant, killing
his wife, Roberta, 26.
| Lonn e Hood, 5
barricades indicated British fears of violence in this city of 125,000.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Galthel Throgmorton, 2831 B. Washington; ebecca June Kiser, 1628'a E. Washington. Edward Stanford Butcher, Bloomington; Dorothy K. Butcher, 1943 Tallman, Willie J. Burk, 316 N. Elder; Merle M. Dugan, 1474 -W. 34th, 29 B. West; Bernice Maxine Tidd, R., R, 3, Box 372. Peter Charles Karabon, 724 8. Meridian; Martha May Allen, 4928 Naomi Thomas Franklin Wines, 926 Greer; Helen Slaughter, 964 En ‘ Robert Frazier Maas, 525 Sutherland; .Mayme E. Thompson, 525 Sutherland. Homer Hadley Tyler, 1616 N. Arlington; Tilitha Tyler, 20 N, Highland, No. 5. Gene Lenn Meihsner, 829 Paxton pl.; Ramona 2 netie St. Clair, 7402 Spring ill r
Frederick Raymond Marsh, 5326 S. State; Evelyn Guire, 334 N, Addison. Dale Robert Caldwell, 303 N. Bancroft; Mary Lou Hines, 211 BE. North, George E. Martz, 312 N. Keystone, Joe Ann Morgan, T18 N erson. Gordon T., Jones, Peru, Ruth Marie ladden, Peru. Alex , South Bend; Kinga Nowicki, South Bend. Edward G. Allen, 142 E. Ohio, No. 404; Sally Christine Shows, 1124 N. New
Jersey. Carl Degpain, 1222 8. Harding; Hazel Louise cClintick, 1812 Hoyt. George C, Damour, 233 Massachusetts No 36; Mary G. Wazel, R. R. 1, Box David Edward Powers, Oswego, N, Y.;
Myra Jane Briggs, 323 E. 58th, Harold Brady, 2301 Smith; Lula B. Summer, 519 W, 13th, Harold Carlton Lincoln, 1041 W. Congress; a , 2716 W. Washington. Theodore Duncan, 530 W. 10th; Willoran Arthur Eugene Davis, 470 8. Meridian; Jane E. Denton, 470 8. Meridian. Robert. Newton Euliss, Danville; Luana M. Treon, 1225 Mills, James Robert Corrick, 1730 Southeastern; Margaret Louise Dobbins, 320 W, Boulevard, Charlotte, N. O. George Clifton Jupp, 1217 8. State; Stella Lavern- Stewart, 1338'% Hoyt. Fred Lowell Surber, 1109 N. Olney; Edna
Lucille Lobb, 1118 N. Oiney. Donal B. Dugger, 3020 Meredith; Rose Marie Kluty, 1104 E. 11th, Nolan Keith Bilism, 1514 Kennington, Mil:
dred Edith Bohley, 808 E. Troy. | Emory Raymond Schaeffer, 3315 E. New York; Judith Aldrich, Washington, D, C. | John C. VanHorn, 4135 Carrollton: Mary Katherine Roberts, 3232 Central Eugene Joseph Donlan, 3445 Broadway: Dorothy Marie Hedegard, 331 W Hamp- |
on dr, . William Bernard Upton, 2217 N. Alabama,
Elnora Jume Gehrett, 3217 N. Alabama.! Evard.
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Seen piling up during the last sev-
Garst At Methodist — Howard, Mary Louise Chambers; Marion, Margaret Moss Thomas, Sophia McMahon: Arley, Jean Farley; Kenneth, Wilda Etold; James, Illean Dorsett, and William, Lucille Gehle, | At: St. Vincent's— Paul, Virgisia Grace | Arthur, Jane Weaber, John,
eral years,
John Thomas Garland, 528 Coffey: Mary Lucile Browning, 313 N. Tacoma. Vestal Frederick Boughton, 2336 Broadway. Irene Hankins, 961 W. Drive, Woodruff Place Robert Prancis Gardner, 4929 Broadway; Elizabeth Jane Kervan, 3240 Ruckle.
Claude Edward Siegel, Fairmount; Mary Elizabeth Hays, 5724 Winthrop. Curtis Tennison, Fort Harrison; Rebecca
Hattie Roberts, 900 N. East, Bercell W. Se x N. Walcott; Dorotha Mae Bright, 3642 Graceland
Robert Hobart Spencer, Mingo Junotion, O.: Joyce I, He ghrenoe, 235 Leota Victor Califax, 1219 Nordyke; Delores L. Clark, 1443 ridge.
Jr., Terre Doroth George ert Lorentz, 1629 Ingram; Mary L. Nonte, U. 8. Veterans Hospital, William Cullen Henley, Greenhills, Shirley Jean Franklin, Clayton.
BIRTHS Girls
At St. Francis—Roy, Thelma Jenkins, and James, Mary Smith,
At City bert, Vasie Whyde; John, Georgietta Lacy, and Verne, Edith At Coleman—Robert, Dorothy Clark; Frederick, Virginia Hawickhorst: Raymond, Elnora Nedille; Thomas, Dorothy Mandabach; Glen, Alice all; Lawrence, Margaret Pruitt, and Dale,
Norma - Rady. At Methodist — Sidney, Elaine Devin; William, Helen Hudson; Charles, JuanIta Warren; Harold, Katherine Sweigart; Robert, Mary Belle Jenkins, Malcolm, Martha Menke; Howard, Vir. gills Gastineau, and Franklin, Leota atto
n At St Vincent's Harry, Florence Rus- . sell,
‘ Boys At St. Francis—Robert, Bessie Bramlett; William, Betty Maurice; Joseph, Norma Pittione; Kenneth, Esther Albertson, ACO ae vn a Jity — Melvin, Augusta Thomas, and Carl, Edna Steele. ™ wid At Coleman—George, Joyce Pfeiffer: Stanley, Ruby Barker; Richard. Kathryn Wells; Clifford, Betty Richeson: James, Helen Carter; Frank, Myra Linehan: Robert, Sara Wolfa, and James, Irene
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