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THE INDIANAPOLIS 7IMES . e as Old Gold Queen at Game Nov. 9

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One of these comely DePauw university coeds will be crowned Old Gold homecoming game at Greencastle. The candidates, nominated by the school’s fraternities, are (left to right) Sylvia Stephens, East Chicago;

Virginia Auble, Maywood, IIL; Joy Mullender, Chicago;

Day queen Nov. 9 between halves of the DePauw-Oberlin

Betty Lou Benson, Batavia, Ill, and Janis Hatz, Gary.

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HALLOWEEN PRANKS KEEP POLICE BUSY

Halloween pranksters aroused the wrath of at least five families in Indianapolis last night. Walter L. Brown, 2363 N. Talbot st, reported to police that youngsters took his steel gate. Harold Bland, 2918 E. 18th st, told police kids heaved a pumpkin against his front door, breaking the

glass. Sebaldus Hock, 238 N. Oakland

Leslie Axsom, 1318 S. Sheffield ave. informed police the iron gate on his front porch had been removed. R. ‘'W. Hammer, 621 N. Rural st, told police a roving band of vandals smeared red paint over his garage and threw a rock through a garage window.

HEALING OF BLIND CHILD IS REPORTED

young Francois Pascal.

GREEK KING ASKS CABINET

ers for a “national government.”

[posts for which they were not bureau of verification to-|suited.

miraculous healing of a|a railway ticket agent to the post had been blind and para-|of 300 technician.

statement said 11 physicians complete recovery of obser Oct. 31 (U. P.)~King|sts. The orgatiamtion. ale ord at KC

George of the Hellenes appealed t0-|4inner. held day to parliamentary party lead-| wid S00, % ‘oli yortny patron, 48 Cc

3 SHARE 2 PRIZES FOR MENTAL HEALTH

NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—A psychiatrist, a minister and a newspaper reporter were today honored for meritorious service -in promoting better mental healtn throughout the nation. ! The psychiatrist, Dr. W. Horsley | Gantt of Johns Hopkins university, received the $500 Lasker award at! the meeting here of the national committee for mental hygiene. Rev. Dr. R. Sharpe, president of! the Ohio Mental Hygiene association, and Walter Lerch, reporter on the Cleveland Press, shared another $500 Lasker award for their ef-| forts to improve the care of men-

FIRE RUSS OFFICIAL FOR BAD PROMOTIONS

MOSCOW, Oct. 31 (U. P.) —Prav-

QUAKERS TO AID HUNGARY PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 31 (U, P.).

been granted permission to enter |wife

Hungary to distribute food and|Southampton today clothing.

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da said the Soviet deputy minister of machine building, I. Zlatin, had been It said he was accused of promoting 46 persons into administrative

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Organizations

Queen Esther chapter Ne. 8, O. KE 8, will hold a dinner to honor past matrons and patrons at 6 p. m. tomorrow

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GEN. CLARK IN LONDON

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Queen Elizabeth.

LONDON, Oct. 31 (U. P,).~Gen. —A Quaker relief delegation has|Mark Clark, accompanied by his arrived at

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Millionaire’s Son, 6, Says “ ‘Daddy Shot Mommy.’

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Oct. 31 (U. P)~~Disheveled, morose and dressed in a farmer's rough work clothes, Charles Thomas Purdy, 42, a millionaire real estate operator,

| was held today for murder today.

Police said he confessed fatally

" |shooting his wife, Marie, while his

6-year-old son watched. Mr, Purdy, scion of an old and wealthy Westchester county family, shuffled into city court today for a hearing on a charge of first degree murder. The hearings was postponed until Nov. 7 upon request of the district attorney's office.

Sen Tells of Shooting

palatial home on a 50-acre estate.

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ment.” Married for 10 Years

terday.

lently.

10 years ago.

shortly before they were married.

Chief Assistant District “Attorney Charles Weeks sald that Purdy had confessed to shooting his wife fatal- marriage was understood to be a

ly last night in a ‘bedroom of their defense against possible bigamy

Chares Jr, 6, told police thati, oo.14 pe difficult to prove bigamy “Daddy got & gun out of his closet|,, 40 couple did A represent and shot mommy,” Mr. Weeks said.

The shooting occurred late yes-|,o.ame his fitth bride three days

Relatives told police Mr, Purdy t and his wife often quarreled vio- ol Ina Slats by uu le ey

Mr, Purdy was manager of the|, i. else large real estate holdings left him| oo by his father. He married the former Marie Shannon, daughter of a|in Los Angeles county, according to

janitor at the White Plains Elks club another of Mr. Shaw's attorneys,

She had lost her right hand in aboard thelan automobile accident in his car

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[Artie ‘Amber’ Legal Puzle— IN WIFE'S DEATH Wil Bigamy Charge Be Filed?

LLYWOOD, Oct. 31 (U. P.). ~The legal status of Bandleader Artie Shaw's Mexican marriage to Kathleen Winsor, author of “For- | ever Amber” was complicated further today. . «Mr. Shaw and his bride were back in Hollywood. The next move was up to the deputy district attorney. He said they could be | prosecuted as bigamists if they returned to California from Mexico, where they divorced their last mates in action not recognized in this state. . However, Deputy District Attorney Ernest Roll said today he would not prosecute unless charges were filed by the mates the two shed. Then Mr. Shaw's attorney, 8, 8. Hawn, said no one could prove Mr. Shaw and Miss Winsor were man and wife, Possible Bigamy Charge ~~ Mr, Hahn's virtual denial of the

charges. He apparently reason

“I realize there are many implications to what I say,” Mr. Hahn said. Mr.. Shaw and the sultry author of “Forever Amber,” who reportedly

ago in Juarez, Mex., reached Holly-

that each was married to some-

They didn't stay long, at least

Jerome B. Rosenthal. Was Only Kidding

themselves here as man and wifes] In a statement to the district at-|\r. (an marriages are not recog-

Mr. Weeks said i Purdy explained only that his wife hized 1 California,

was “drinking hard” and that he shot her on the “spur of the mo-

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said he was married.’ He said yes, he'd seen that too,” Mr. Rosenthal said. :

“He said he was going out of town on a honeymoon, and I said: “ ‘How can you go on & honeymoon unless you're married?’ “Then he said he was only kidding.”

“positively” that Mr. Shaw was noi in town “and not even in Los Angeles county.” Friends said: the couple planned a marriage in this country and a honeymoon in New York, Mr, Roll maintained that a Mexican marriage between them would not be legal in California because Mr. Shaw's California divorce from Actress Ava Gardner, wife No. 4, granted last week, will not be final for a year. / No Divorce Recorded

No California divorce has been Jjeraes for Miss Winsor, who got a\Mexican decree from Bob Herwig, ex-Marine officer and former AllAmé¢rican football center at University of California, a few hours

before her second wedding,

Neither her decree nor a Mexican one obtained by Mr, Shaw is recognized in California. Mr. Roll said, Jhowever, that he did not intend pressing charges unless Miss Gardner or Mr. Herwig complained.

Mr. S8haw’s other wives, in order,

Turner and Betty Kern, daughter of the late composer Jerome Kern.

court here to reinstate an original $2000 monthly alimony award. Mr. Shaw had the alimony cut in hal

year since he gave up pband-leading and tried to launch himself on a career as a movie producer.

“When Mr. Shaw telephoned me, I told him I had seen in the papers for court hearing Nov. 14,

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