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CPA DECISIONS ARE PROBED BY CONGRESSMEN
Commercial Construction Is Being Choked, Hoosier Representatives Say.
By LARRY STILLERMAN Hoosier congressmen today are launching a probe into the procedures of the local civilian production administration office, charging the office with “restricting commercial eonstruction” in Indiana. This was revealed yesterday at a meeting of Mayor Tyndall's voluntary advisory housing committee by Albert O. Evans, CPA district manager, who termed the investigation as “merely a vote-getting movement.” Unperturbed by the investigation, Mr. Evans told the committee he had received telephone calls from three . Indiana congressmen charging the local CPAs with restricting commercial construction. | Names Are Withheld “These congressmen are merely, trying to impress their constituents,” Mr. Evans surmised. “This | is an election year.” He declined to name the three congressmen. | He said the congressmen were| showing “unusual interest” in the | granting of permits for construction, even though “they approved | the program of G. I. housing first, and other construction second.” Mr, Evans cited figures from his| office records showing that in the past week only 21 approvals in 101 applications were granted. . “All these were for essential] housing,” he stated. “The approvals aggregated a construction value of $1,061,151.94, while the] permits denied total $2,128,579.55.” Lumber Rotting Away At the same time, E. W. Hunter of the retail lumbermen's service asserted local housing had reached its lowest construction ebb today with lumber rotting in western and southern millyards because of lack of railroad shipping facilities. “The lumber situation is at its
He said railroads are using every piece of rolling stock to Move grain out of the Mid-west. ore,
age of westbound cars. “When cars move east, there is no profitable way to return them to the west,” he said. “Lumber not only is needed for housing, but it is needed for construction of more railroad ‘cars in which to carry more lumber.” "OPA Actions Assailed
He also charged that OPA is choking the movement of lumber to contractors. Lumber mi 2
ing prices ‘and either are selling above OPA prices or establishing retail distribution points themselves. “We must either do without lumber or go into the black market for it,” he said. He stated that sale of lumber is from 10 to 20 per cent less than production, while shipment of lumber is 7.8 to 11 per cent under the amount. of lumber cut. To counteract the charges of black marketeering on the lumber scene, the committee will hold a closed meeting with- James Strickland, district OPA manager, prior to the regular housing meeting at 2 p. m, next Thursday,
pre sowia) VOLUME 57—-NUMBER 130
'Get to Work,’ Delegates at Paris Warned
By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Aug. 16 (U, P.).—A New Zealand spokesman angrily charged today that all the peace conference did was “quack, quack, quack.” This came as. a new row broke out between Russia and the West over whether nations which: did not declare war against axis satellites should have a vote on the respec tive satellite treaty commissions. New Zealand Delegate W. J. Jordan appealed to his fellow conferees to get down to business and cease the “quack, quack, quack.” He made his plea when: Andrel Y. Vishinsky, Soviet delegate, moved
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PALESTINE PLAN CALLED DOOMED
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Britain "Charges U. Dodges Responsibility.
By UNITED PRESS The critical situation in Palestine | grew more alarming today in a 'series of rapid developments both in Great Britain and the Holy Land. ONE: In London, British government circles regarded the federa[tion plan for Palestine as dead and ‘sald British leaders were ready to submit the problem to the United | Nations. TWO: At Haifa, 18 young Jews were sentenced to death by a British military court for blowing up railroad workshops there in June. After the sentence was announced they battled policemen and troops just outside the courtroom for 10 minutes before finally being led away to solitary confinement. Four girls found guilty of the same charges received life sentences. THREE: Also at Haifa, another 1400 illegal Jewish immigrants were herded in the harbor awaiting transfer to Cyprus, and it became apparent that the drastic British deportation policy has not yet halted the refugee flow. FOUR: At Tel Aviv, it was reliably reported that 200 illegal immigrants had penetrated the British blockade and had landed in three places on the beaches near that city, and faded away among sympathetic residents of the countryside. British Blame U. S. Official London sources said British leaders . feel that the United States has failed to accept a legitimate share of the responsibility on an issue which has assumed world proportions. They said Britain no longer was able to.handle the issue alone. ; The British comments followed Teceipt of President Truman's reply to the Anglo-American experts’ proposals for partition of Palestine into four zones under British control. U. 8. Asks Immigrant Flow
President Truman is reported to have demanded that immigration to Palestine be resumed on a large scale during the discussion of a long-range program. He also is said to have proposed thanges in the federation plan to make it more acceptable to the Jews. The British government is holding talks with Jewish leaders in London to establish Jewish representation for the conferences planned between British, Arab and
Want to Get “Real Facts” Members explained that in a closed meeting “only can the real| facts of the situation be discussed. "1 Meanwhile, the Veterans of For-| eign Wars entered the housing pic- | ture today joining the American
“Veterans Committee and a citizens
housing group in urging the creation of a local housing authority. The Sgt. Ralph Barker post, 1585, will present a resolution to the city council Monday night requesting establishment of a permanent municipal housing program for Indianapolis. E. J. Ulmer, secretary of the building contractors association, today sald 151 of 172 men recéiving apprenticeship training conducted by nine different © “construction” uinons were veterans.
Important News On Inside Pages
Pein leaders late this month.
‘Top Officers Are
The Daily Express said the Brit-
|soen to eliminate shocking condi-
U.S. HELP MAY BE SOUGHT FOR NEW HOSPITALS
Federal Fund Is Studied!
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1946
Entered as Bego . Infenapatis,
As Means of Abolishing ‘Horror’ Asylums.
By NOBLE REED An application for newly created federal aid funds for construction of hospitals and health centers will be considered by “Marion county commissioners, it was learned today. Commissioners were discussing new hospital possibilities in connec~ tion with plans to prevent repetition of conditions found in a raid on the “house of horror” nursing home here recently. County officials said they would study provisions of an appropriation bill passed by congress and signed by President Truman this week, allocating $1,600,000 a year for five years to be used for construction of hospitals and health centers in Indiana. “Certainly, some steps toward a new hospital must be taken here
tions in private nursing homes and to* relieve overcrowded hospitals,” declared William T. Ayres, county| commissioner, Plan Care for Aged
Health authorities have proposed construction by the county of a “chronic disease” hospital to care for aged and senile persons who usually are housed in ill-equipped and understaffed private nursing | homes. Meanwhile, Governor Gates was |
There's More of These Where This Fish Came From
La Raw
scheduled to confer with county | commissioners this afternoon to complete arrangements for the removal of patients from the ‘house of horror” nursing home at 1828 N. Illinois st. where inmates were! found beaten and chained to their beds in a raid last Saturday. The home is being liquidated under an injunction order issued Wednesday by Judge Emsley W. Johnson of superior court 3. The order ousted from management of | the home Mrs. Margaret Colvin and her son, Hershel, who are charged with operating the home without a state license. 5 . Mrs: Colvin also is charged with assault and battery on the patients. 12 Patients Removed
Twelve of the 29 patients found in the home have been removed by relatives.
W. C. (Radio Bill)
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Medenwald, 3050 W. 16th. . . .
Trains Busses Rerouted A guest of the Medenwalds, he ’ .
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 18 (U, P.).— More than 2000 St. Louis area fai ilies were homeless today and there! were two possible drownings in the wake of the second rain storm in two days. Flash floods inundated streets in;
and catfish;
| state, Now he's keeping quiet,
There are more of these in the Tippecanoe river,
The 'Arizona Kid' No Longer HITS ST. LOUIS, Speaks of Indiana 'Minnows'
Thirteen-year-old Dicky Medenwald of Glendale, Ariz, derisive of Indiana “minnows” since the fishing trip he took last week12000 Families Homeless, end with his uncle, W. C. (Radio Bill) Medenwald, 3050 W. 16th st.
ond with his unele in the hopes the party ean duplicate last week-end's a -inch great Rortiuniike was the prise of a bag that incinded bass, perch
Up until that time Dicky had | boasted of the big fish of his home
is not so
is-back at Warsaw, Ind., this week-
sadsOlass Matter at Postoffice . Issued daily except Bunday
PRICE FIVE CENTS |
Large Nreiiny Deposits Found In Giddings Bod
Poison Was Administered
Over Long Pe
under the care of Mrs. Lottie
parentsly administered over a
Mrs. Lockman, known to have
SOLUTION STILL ELUDES POLICE
Evidence Is Circumstantial, Probers’ Views Divided.
By VICTOR H. PETERSON Times Staff Writer Copyright, 1946, by The Indianapolis Times MADISON, Ind. Aug. 16-~Du-pont's poison case—as far as a solution is concerned—has bogged down. Despite the startling announcement of Dr. R. N. Harger, Indiana Medical Center toxicologist, in Indianapolis today that the body of Frederick (Uncle Fred) Giddings’ contained a large amount of mercury, the case remains as baffling a mystery as ever. All the evidence against Mrs. Lottie (Tot) Lockman is purely ecircumstantial,
(Week-end fishing prospects, Page 3)
vestigators confirm this, Source Unrevealed
vears and knows just where the Mr. Medenwald said he has fished | best spots are. | His favorite river for a number of |
But that, he says, is his secret.
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Toxicologist Here Reports
By SHERLEY UHL Mercury was found today in the exhumed organs ol “Uncle Fred” Giddings of Dupont, who died at 90 while
(Tot) Lockman,
Dr. R. N. Harger, Indiana university toxicologist, Yow vealed “Uncle Fred's” kidneys and liver, subjected to laboras tory tests, contained substantial deposits of mercury “ape
long period of time.”
“Uncle Fred” is the third Dupont resident nursed by
consumed mercury.
Traces of mercury also were found in the diginterred organs of Mrs. Minnie McConnell, whom Mrs, Lockman is charged with murdering, and in specimens from Mrs. Mayme
McConnell, now recovering at the McConnell home in Dupont where “Tot” was ousekeeper, ; * None in Embalming Finid In another test, Dr, Harger deters mined that embalming fluid used iw the body of Mrs, Minnie McConnell did not contain mercury, There had been conjecture over whethe® Dupont's undertakers used mere curiated embalming fluid. ot “The fact that mercury was found in all three Dupont poison tests performed here looks bad,” said Dy, Harger. “It's quite a coincidence. The mercury content in “Uncle Fred,” he added, was not high enough to constitute a case of acute mercury poisoning. Instead, he ase serted, the poisonous substance “appears to have entered the body over a relatively long period of time.” Well Above Normal “The deposit was considerably over normal,” Dr, Harger declared, “This man was getting mercury from some. source, but he didn't get it all in one dose.” “However,” he continued, “thers still remains the possibility tha§ both parties could have received
acc
The 17 remaining patients will be transferred to Julietta infirmary if arrangements are completed with commissioners in their conference
have equipment or personpel. to raandle” “eXtra patients. Governor) ties "expected to “offer state equipthent and extra personnel to care for the patients.
DISPUTED IN GOURT
Suit Seeks to Void County Unit System.
ality of Georgia's 50-year-old county unit vote system, and seeking to restrain red-suspendered . Eugene Talmadge from taking office as
ish’ were expected to tell the Arabs and Jews that the partition proposal could be .operated only if it has wide support.
6 POLICE CAPTAINS SWITGHED BY CHIEF
; ‘Rotated’ | To ‘Improve’ Force.
Police Chief Jesse McMurtry turned his top-command insideout today. The chief brought his three “outside” captains in and placed his three former desk captains outside on the streets. In other words, the inside and outside captains will trade assignments. Asked the significance of this shift, Chief McMurtry explained: “Oh, I think I'll rotate 'em each month for a while. It won't hurt anything sand it might help.” He said fhe "move is calculated both to improve enforcement and to “better satisfy” the officers involved,
Rumored Probe Involved
He denied emphatically it had|
cutor Sherwood Blue
police department. Meanwhile reports persisted that several elaborate gambling layouts had been hastily thrown up here for convenience of visiting Legion« naires and 101st airborne division convention delegates. One place in the downtown district is said to have uncrated 50 slot machines. “Outside” captains transferred inside are Claude Kinder, John Ambuhl and Wayne Baer. Desk captains moved outside are Jack Al-
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kire, Clifford Richter and Mike Hines. : :
anything to do with rumors Prose- | 1s conduct- |
governor next January. The suit, filed by a group of At{lanta citizens, contends the unit vote law violates the 14th amend{ment to the U. 8S. constitution, by discriminating against citizens of larger counties, whose votes are worth only a fraction of those cast in smaller counties. im - the July 17 Democratic prir. Talmadge received a J of county unit votes, but trailed James V, Carmichael in popnlar votes. The court also will hear a com-
votes.
St. Louis county, the city and towns | on the Illinois side as the record downpour choked over - burdened sewers,
Lisi fs woyouths were sucked under | by a whirlpool, probably caused | by a séwer. ’ Trains, busses and street were rerouting schedules and put-
cars
| was mired and a flash flood swirled jo to the windows before the driver remove the passengers Fri ground. Most of the stranded (were on the east side. In Belleville
BONDS FOR VETERANS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U. P) --The armed forces terminal leave
to most treasury checks. Secretary of Treasury John Snyder said today that the punched card form of bonds would permit]
000 in production costs. The bonds will bear the portrait of the late Senator Carter Glass (D. Va.), who was secretary of treasury for two years in the Wilson | administration,
jof * reactionary” rail executives.
with Governor Gates. Two teen-aged DOVE were reCommissioners said they have ex- | ported drowned in St. Louis tra space at Julietta but do ot |they swam in eigl feet” of water. = TE
at-a-street THAIS HOR. Witnesses’
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RAIN, HOT WEATHER Took Throne - LEAD PREDICTIONS To Save Life,
Ps=ts= “Be eo ‘Cool yn Early Next Week.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
ing on extra crews in an effort to| § ® m. ... 70_10 a m. ... Lh TALMADGE VICTORY get passengers to their destinations,| 7 & ™- -.. un 11 a. m. ... nd In suburban Valley Park one bus| 3 # m. ... 72 12 (noon) .. Sam CHM... 18
Rain and hot weather led the list of the U. 8. weather bureau
families | predictions for the next five days. are. suspects, the bespectacled, ‘slight, ex500 families were forced’ to leave | forecast for today and tonight and emperor depicted in detail the their homes, while more than 1000|28ain tomorrow night and Sunday. events surrounding his accession as
Occasional thundershowers
1% to 1 inch of rain is predicted Gen.
TO BE PUNCHED CARDS during the period
(Weather Fotocast, Page 3)
bonds will be punched cards, similar SUPERVISORS UPHELD
IN UNION CONTRACT,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U, P)
—The U. 8. circuit court of appeals |. mechanization in accounting opera- | today refused to set aside a union-| tions on them and save about $225,- |
government contract
covering | | phase
county hills.
Pu- TC RE
TOKYO, Aug. 16 (U, P.).—Henry Pu-Yi, the Chinese “boy emperor” |who has lost two thrones in his {short lifetime, told the wer crimes | trial today that he Was forced to | accept the throne of Manchukuo or Jose his life. In a personal appearance as & prosecution witness in the trials of 27 leading Japanese war criminal
ATLANTA, Aug. 16 (U. P.).—A |other families were evacuated from |The bureau said it will be “quite head of the Japanese puppet state’ three-judge tribunal today pre- the Collinsville-East St. Louis area | Yarm” until late Sunday. in 1933. pared: to open hearings on a federal sem ertremsteeein i Cool weather will reign early, Toying with a fan in the aircourt suit challenging constitution- inext week until Wednesday. From conditioned courtroom, Pu-Yi named
Seishiro Itagaki, former chief {of staff of the Japanese army in {Manchuria and a defendant, as the man who threatened to kill him if he rejected the throne. “My desire was to refuse,” said, “but I had to accept.” | Nevertheless, he testified, he turned down the first Japanese “offer” only to meet with renewed threats by Itagaki. During this of his testimony, Pu-Yi
Pu-Yli
supervisory employees of -four Jones | (irc a supplicating pose with his
& Laughlin Steel Corp. coal mines.
palms upturned and both arms
The court denied the company &|f,,0 out, as though to recall his temporary injunction which would plight.
have stayed the execution of the| contract. Jones & Laughlin had | asked that the contract be set aside
bargain collectively.
| Pu- Yi, now 40, was brought to
Tokyo from Khabarovsk, Siberia, where he has been held by the Rus-
panion suit, filed on behalf of Earl JAPS THREATEN RAIL TIEUP |pending judicial deliberation of na- sians since the end of the war. P. Cook, Georgia Tech student-| TOKYO, Aug. 16 (U. P).--Japa- | tional labor relations board certifi- e.-a_.laa 5. veteran, challenging ‘constitution-|lese railway workers today threat-| cation of the employees involved. YOM og : ality of the recent primary in the | ened to call a 24-hour strike, tying] The contract, covering wages and | YOUTH DIES. IN. CRASH fifth congressional district, where up the entire Japanese rail trans-|working conditions, marked the] PALMIRA, Ind, Aug. 16 (U, P.— | Rep. Helen Douglas Mankin led in| portation’ system, unless the gov-|first ‘time the government had|J, Douglas Turnbaugh, 17, was popular votes but Judge James C.|ernment meets [its demands for recognized the right of supervisory killed early today when the car he]
Davis received *a majority of unitihigher pay and carries out a purge | employees in the coal industry to was driving crashed into a truck|
lone .mile west of Galena, Ind.
By JACK "THOM PSON
another woman who made national { headlines—Belle Gunness, the lady Bluebeard of LaPorte.
|
| century, in 1908. grisly career did not come to light until Mrs. Gunness, or somebody
murder,
lar farm wife really began and ended in the fire which consumed her home on April 28 of that year remains a moot question.r There
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| that of Belle Gunness.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY'S “mer- fire said the headless body, found the sheriff broke the news, “I alcury and old lace” murder mystery | huddled with the bodies of her | ways knew there was something | recalls to Hoosier crime analysts| three children in the ashes, was wrong out there, Several folks came
search was made for the head, and to go away
reers of all time.
In the first day of searching, de- ness. believed to be Mrs. Gunness, died composed parts of five other bodies| instead of the middle aisle, his renas she had lived — violently, by|were unearthed, Limbs, severed by dezvous with his bride-to- be. was someone who had the dexterity of 8 |yept in the “butchering room,’ Whether the story of the muscu-|butcher, were sewed in burlap sacks. (ofr the parlor, which the portly
One of the bodies dug up after
Belle's story electrified the na- the probing shovels turned up not}, . Go. 0 c believed to be that of | ing a personal investigation of the tion shortly after the turn of the only the missing member, but one, drew Heldgren, wealthy bachelor Ironically, her of the most astounding murder a! from Aberdeen, 5. D.. who. by mall,
had courted and “won” Mrs. GunThe evidence indicated that
' just
Neighbors began to recall strange |widow kept for just this purpose.
doings at the Gunness farm, shortly to become known as “murder farm.” Roy Lamphere,
|vators had found. 5
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were those who contended Belle| friend” of the husky Belle was jailed ness’ was “too. smart” to be trapped by | onsuspicion of murder and arson. supposed to have gone to school in own murderous He hlanched when’ told what exca- | California two years before,
” n " ANOTHER BODY was identified
farm hand ‘“boy|as that of Jennie Olson, Mrs, Gun-
adopted daughter, who was
The tbodies ol a. ma and. Wo anal
youngsters, sewn in sacks, were not identified immediately, The body of Mrs. Gunness’ first (husband, Max Sorenson, who had |died while they lived in Austin, Ill,
A routine to that farm who were never seen | was exhumed and found to contain
[traces of poison. Belle had collected [his insurance and later collected insurance on their home when it burned. After a brief sojourn in Chicago, during which a store she had started was burned, Belle's itinerary took her to La Porte. She married Peter Gunness, who died shortly afterward from a blow on the head, inflicted under mysterious circumstances with a butcher cleaver: Bele again collected the insurance. o " ~ AS THE STORY continued to unfold, “the shocked town learned Mrs. Gunness had a passion for matrimonial pureaus’and had sd-
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Both the prosecution and Defense Attorneys Joseph and Eugene Cooper agree murder has been
committed. = Fron the-da > Gi ool and she have maintained vigorously that the
& ‘guilty person is not in jail” There is a definite rift among state officials investigating the case. They still maintain, however, that Mrs. Lockman is a guilty party. While some insist she played the hand of a lone wolf, others maintain that, although they believe her guilty, the possibility exists she may have had ane or more accomplices. Statements Conflict
A mass of conflicting statements, gathered from a number of state investigators, who must of necessity remain anonymous, is the ‘main reason the case is up against a stone wall. It caused one of the key figures in the case to say: “Sometimes I feel she is guilty and the next minute, I'm not so sure of it. , We have a woman in jail charged with murder and we don't have a damned bit of evidence, except cir-| cumstantial, against her.” Another state official said, when asked a legal question: “What evidence? You can't quash what we don't have.” A statewide prominent criminal attorney consulted on the case is| reported to agree that all the evidence is circumstantial, Toss Out Red Herring Following the consultation With the lawyer a very red herring was dragged across the trial yesterday |
Mrs. Eotkman's
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to confuse the issue. This was the statement issued Wednesday by state police that “we don't need a lie detector test now,
This later was amplified by state- |
the case was “wrapped and “if she
ments that up, clinched”
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Poison Probe Recalls The ‘Lady Bluebeard’ Of LaPorte
| vertised, more than once, for a hus-
loune. Within a month, Belle was
| unofficially held responsible for 22 murders. The records showed she had collected $30,900 in insurance on nine men with whom she had
associated. Finally, from scattered parts of the country that women believed to be Belle Gunness were being held, a jawpone found in the ashes of her home “clinched” her death, Bridgework on’ the teeth was positively identified as belonging to Mrs, Gunness. v That fall, Roy Lamphere was tried and convicted as the murderer of Belle Gunness and her three children. His death in prison a year later, wrote the final chapter in the lurid tale of “Belle of Milder Farm ” «
62-year-old white-haired d Samaritan” of the Jefferson o. aid he hadn't found as much
is not]
while reports still came|"
mercury in medications.” Dr, Hargs
mercury in Uncle Fred Giddings as he had in Mrs, Minnie McConnell, “It could have happened in am innocent way,” he said. Dr. Harger qualified his Sndingy SHER * “¥1n the exhumatio on ‘cases of both Mrs. Minnie MoConnell and Fred Giddings, until we rule out the possibility that mercury may have been administered through certaim non-toxic drugs. I'm not ready to say either was a mercury deal At Madison, Ind., headquarters of the “mercury and old lace” puzzle, Defense Counsel Joseph Cooper said “this proves our case.” He indicated the defense will blame Due pont's mercury mystery on medie cines given Lottie's aged wards, "* Took Patented Medicine
“Lottie didn't poison Uncle Fred™ explained Attorney Cooper. “Why everybody knows he was addicted to patented medicines. He even sopped them up with his breakfast food. . He was an extensive consumes “calomel which contains mere
of cury Simultaneously, Prosecutor Done {ald Bear of Jefferson county pone | dered the advisability of leveling another murder charge against the 62-year-old Mrs, Lockman, who still I stoically proclaimed her innocence, She took the news of the latest | mercury finding calmly. “I still say I didn't do it.” she insisted. | “It's preposterous to think I'd de lanything like that. I was such a good friend to that old man for so many years.” Attorney Cooper definitely de< manded that the state arraign his |client on the first murder charge |before they lodge another against [ her. She also is accused of ate tempted murder as a result of the illness of Mrs. Mayme McConnell,
"tdaughter-in-law of Minnie;
The state proceeded with plans {to exhume the body of Mrs. Hattie Calhoun, another former Dupong | citizen nursed by Lottie. She's bure
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SUES FOR DIVORCE
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 16 (U. P.) ~= Actress Ava Gardner, who worked days while husband Artie Shaw worked ‘nights, sued today to bee come the bandleader's third ex« wife,
Smart Bungalow on Huge Let Near 38th and Keystone Avenue
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