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3 INDIAN CITIES

New Council Announcement 3 Causes Outbreaks. |

BOMBAY," Aug. 2 (U. P| Riots flared in at least three tne | dian cities over the week-end following announcement of the Hindu- | dominated executive council of the! new interim government. | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, president of the all-India congress party | and prime minister-designate of the new government, toured Allahabad with a heavy body guard. One person was killed in Allahabad _Sun- | day night when police fired on a mob of demonstrators. Sir Shafaat Ahmed Khan, one of the Moslem appointees to the head ecutive council, reportedly was| stabbed seven times Sunday while | taking his morning walk in Simla, | Further outbreaks of Moslem-! Hindu violence were expected B% Wednesday or Thursday with the i appearance of the new moon, mark- | ing the Moslem Idd festival. |

Although well-equipped to do 80, comely Betty Jones will offer no competition to the nation’s top beauties who will seek the title of “Miss America of 1946” at the | annual beauty pageant in Atlantic City, N. J. As Miss Atlantie City, she acts as hostess to the visiting beauties and is ineligible | lo compete in the finals,

ARMY 1S T0 SEND ~ FERTILIZER ABROAD

By Science Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Instead of turning its swords to plowshares, the army will turn its bullets to bread as 15 army ordnance plants switch production from ammunition

FLAVORS -AT GROCERS _ — Open 10:30AM. to 2AM. —|

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CLEARANCE SALE!

Price Low! PRE-WAR QUALITY! Immediate Delivery!

to fertilizer next month for shipEach meal fashioned by our master ’ craftsmen. Strong, sturdy econstrue- | ment to famine-threatened countion. Guaranteed not to sa bend > rer 5 or tear. Will last a lifetime . . . | Lries overseas. ; with proper care. ; Undersecretary of War Kenneth Def d P t Pl | C. Royall gnnounced today that erre aymen an: architect-engineers and managers

Small down payment, as little as $200 will hold one of these meals for immediate delivery . Take as long as 12 years on balance.

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have been retained for the 15 plants. Two other plants will be included in the full program that is expected to produce 70,000 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer a month.

The fertilizer production by the RESTAURANT former munitions plants will help Se Americans, too, as more fertilizer 1606 N. Illinois St. will be available in the U. 8. the

army explained.

LAFAYETTE NURSE AT TIENTSIN HOSPITAL

TIENTSIN, CHina, Aug. 26 (U P.).—Lt. Virginia Kerr, corps, Lafayette, Ind., was one of five nurses who began a tour of duty today at the i sion hospital here.

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ing to a navy announcement. It was believed to be the first time in history that navy nurses have been attached to a U. S! marine corps hospital. The nurses arrived here Priday from Bikini where they witnessed the atomic bomb tests. JLt. Kerr said the tests were “tremendously impressive.”

2 FILMLAND COUPLES WED AT LAS VEGAS

LAS VEGAS, Nev. Aug. 26 (U. X P).—Two Hollywood couples were Modern Lamp. honeymooning today after their

{marriages in the Little Church of | the West in the Hotel Last Frontier.

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{ Isobel Lenhart, M. G. M. writer, Gracelul yrn.shabed Jamo and John Bryant Harding, actorr "we ad + writer, were married Saturday pertectiy esigne or con- ; : | night. sole, mantel or credenza. |

{ A half hour later, featured player in “Unconquered. and Mary Vincent, non-professional were married in the Little Church

‘DECATUR TWP. YOUTH HEADS 4-H LEADERS

Howard Mills, Decatur township has been elected president of the 4-H Jupior Leaders of county, Other officers are Ruth Gardner Lawrence township, vice president;

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ROBERT RICHARDS

A By ‘ BACK IN : OPERATION United Press Staff Correspondent

DETROIT, ‘Aug. 26 (U. P.).—One! NEW YORK, Aug 26—A little thousand workers on 20 railroad! boy was dead today-—drowned. late

returned to work today as the Na- | Brooklyn home -— because at two : i i d nine months he could, — tional Maritime union (C. IL | years an either walk nor talk. resumed negotiations with more! L

Hours later, just as dawn broke, than half of the 17 shipping com- workers on the docks of New York! panies involved in the '12-day-old | harbor found the floating body of | | 43-year-old Joseph Merritt, the

dead child's father. ! 0 retur Kk The men Yoled to return 10 wor It was a simple and tragic story.

yesterday as the union prepared to The grief-stricken mother, reopen settlement talks along the Mary Merritt, lines of an agreement by which lying face down, some 200 striking seamen returned | pajamas, to work on 17 Bethlehem Transpor- | the bathtub, told police she knew tation Co. and Standard Oil of | why it had happened. Indiana ships. Resumption of operations on the | despondent,” she said, “because ferries released six Pere Marquette | Kenneth was backward and could boats in Ludington, Mich, and | not walk or tak.” three in Detroit; three Wabash | This had preyed on the father's boats in Detroit; two Grand Trunk | mind. He would come home from! and Western boats in Milwaukee | work, drop down in a ehair, and and one in Muskegon, Mich. and! spend hours just staring at the five Ann Arbor railroad boats in! child. Frankfort, Mich. Mrs. Merritt, told police that she

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~ Little Boy Dead Because He Couldn t Walk or Talk

in two inches of water in|

had left their home about 7 p. m.!her, last night to visit with neighbors, | { home and crawled through an-open kenneth was gone. 11 30 window,

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returned about she found the front door!

when she knocked. This was unusual.

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{ , . house. She found him in the bath- | ferries operated on the Great Lakes last night in a bathtub in his locked and there was no response months-old som, William, quietly n° he found n

sleeping. She breathed a sigh of

It frightened relief and turned to the other bed. |

Sheriff Halted in 'Slot' Probe

Sheriff Albert C. Magenheimer and against clubs having slot machines.”

his deputies over the week-end at-| tempted unsuccessfully

apolis.

The sheriff was stymied in his outside the city limits. Almost half slightly.

A story in The Times Saturday

to uncover revealed the exact number of slot!nounced him dead. Mrs. somé-of the 141 slot machines in machines operated in Marion coun- | who found her son taverns and clubs around Indian- ty and disclosed their ‘location.

Of the 141, all but five are located

quest for the one-armed bandits be- of the mechanical bandits, 59, are

affidavits charging that the

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club unless we are armed with a Country clubs, where they ques-|in the water of upper New York bay | killed.

“Joseph’ had been worried and cause he could get no one to sign located In country clubs.

The sheriff and his deputy in-

vaded several public establishments | “We cannot legally raid a private and waited outside a number of! A dock worker saw a body floating cident in which two persons were

search warrant,” said the sheriff. tioned departing patrons and un-

“If anyone cares to sign an affi- successfully urged them to sign war- dock. take quick action rants.

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room, motionless _in the tub. Mrs. Merritt screamed and lifted {damage to the firm,

[her son's body from the water. | Chie! Roscoe A. McKinney said Neighbors, hearing her cries, sum-|the fire was caused by spontaneous moned police and an emergency | combustion in cardboard boxes !squad from a nearby hospital. They in the basement. worked for an hour over the child,! Firemen had to batter down a but it was no use. A doctor pro-| {heavy freight elevator door to gain entrance to, the building, which Mrs. Merritt, shaken and weeping, | is owned by the Pilgrim Holiness |tord Detective Elwood Lawer that church. Kenneth had been under wu doctor's | care and that he had improved!

STARTS PRISON TERM

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Aug. 26 (U. The police took down a full de- p) —George White, 52, producer of - scription of Joseph Merritt, who famous musical revues, protested “I | worked in a barrel factory. The! {don't belong here,” as he entered order. went out, “find him.” | the county jail yesterday to serve Today Joseph Merritt. was found. !s year's term for a hit-and-run ac-

White, producer of the “George White Scandals,” sur« Merritt was taken to the rendered at the jail at noon yes“Yes” she said, “that's the terday at expiration of a 48-hour | baby's father.” stay to arrange his affairs.

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