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~ SATURD. JAPRILIZ ISM ms | Drastic GOP Measure 8 Is OK'd by 184 Vote;

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pproves Bill To Restrict L N2 Veterans ER Jag Phone Union | sks Ready to Live Strike Funds

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DAY, APRIL 12,

ead Speaks x F Indiana y at ; —. lerks Vo ve ee | ©@0CS YO Floor Tuesday, py jarigep Re

f the New York ld the Sons of night that all in an offensive mocracy to come - | totalitarianism, native of Peru, 3 named ‘“oute if the year” by nerly of Marion, ons of Indiana. . Schram for his | to awaken the me need of de-

Officials of two Indiana telephone ch 4 unions today prepared to ask their her. members. for large donations to the this national strike fund. Miss Velma Fults, president of In-|in diana Telephone Traffic Union, said the clerical union here already has voted to give 25 per cent of salaries|for % to the fund. : " |rubbed a blister on h She said executive committees of She thought, Oh, darn! I's two other wnions will vote today|!o take a cab two

on how much their members shall [car, and decided give. Members of these unions are slowly and pretend

Three Democrats Support Republicans ~ On Bill Which Would Curb Strikes

WASHINGTON, April 12 (U. P.).—The house labor committee today approved a Republican-drafted bill clamping tight restrictions on labor unions. ad The vote was 18-4, with three Democrats supporting the 15 Republican members, in approving the drastic measure. Voting against the bill were four Democrats: Reps. John Lesinski

" (Mich), Augustine B. Kelley (Pa.), Luciano Jailed

AVC Questionnaire Sherry. Today it depressed

Brings Response

The American Veterans commit. tee said today that 212 veterans’ families have expressed desire to| live at Ft. Harrison when the post is abandoned hy the army June 30. Irwin Katz, executive secretary of Indiana AVC, said' this many veterans have answered an AVC

Ray J. Madden (Ind) and John P Kennedy (Mass.).

‘Coeling-Off’' Period

ting our way of . 2 ae idual I Sane meg, Shetuloy Jor Sloot “ questionnaire on whether families {so scattered it will be difficult tos : : , desire housing et the fort. only regiments eNnoa 0 ICe e take a membership vote, she said. ; private property at preventing ‘nationwide strikes. He said the vetérans responded by = as but also’ Waat It would abolish industry-wide bar- : application for housing. These ap- Campaign Keeps On red and blue hand i hy gaining, outlaw the closed shop and] Will Go to Sicily plications will be turned over to the Operators here who stayed on the | yoeked, even what they Yequire 75-day “cooling off" periogie . |agency which takes possession of job when the national strike took| «Now you can't wear it with Ie, senior by SSO T0/MGHORS-in Under Guard Later |Pt. Harrison when the army leaves. Tet, fuiinted Dar Lig » 2 gray, you idiot” Sherry told hers . putes . g : o ears freedom Committee Chairman Fred A.| GENOA, Apri 12 (U. P)— Tadoise AVC Kool. e are working against our will. sr = Sa you shink of y live, think and Hartley Jr. (R. N. J) predicted Charles . (Lucky) Luciano, former Mr. Katz sald the Sacramento This is our strike too.” She stopped in front of a leopard-

club has indorsed the AVC's efforts to estaglish a low-cost rental project at Pl. Harrison. Robert Crouch, president of the club, which is composed of 125 In-

8 own purpose,” . Meanwhile, union officials snd officers of the Citizens Gas & Coke f | Utility awaited a circuit court decision on a plea for permanent in-

junction against picketing the

“house passage of the bill by next Friday. He acknowledged that the senate probably will adopt a milder bill, but said his committee's measure “will be vigorously defended on

New York vice boss deported from Cuba, was hustled. to his native Italian shores aboard a police launch today protesting that his arrest was all a mistake.

skin coat, but really she was think

Ek = des ing about the boulevard. It had

llectivism,” Mr, ut. an offensive

mocracy. the of the house when we get| Ten Italian policemen awakened |dianapolis veterans who served strike-bound utility. * to A with the senate.” |Luciano aboard the Turkish ship|aboard the cruiser Sacramento, said Picketing was resumed at the to Speak House committee action came ‘as|Bakir 12 miles outside Genoa harbor|thé organization voted unanimously plant yesterday after Circuit Judge|, f senate Republicans went into con-|at 5 a. m., told him he was under to indorse the program. Lloyd D. Claycombe dissolved a re- i nrerence ference to discuss union control [Italian arerst, gave him time to don Mr. Katz said about 90 per cent straining order issued last week.

of the people who contacted AVC now live with inJlaws or have sleeping rooms with no kitchen facilities.

Judge Claycombe was to rule on the injunction Monday.

his natty clothes and ferri

legislation. The senate labor comashore to Marassi prison in Genoa.

mittee has been meeting in execu-

ident of the In=

er of commerce, shorts and halters with pretty eager

“Yo , tive session the past few' days to| Luciano was booked on charges of were sometimes at og Jeans draft its bill. clandestine expatriation han off He said some of them ar: em- rn sleek-haired ard s utility confer- Even Stronger Restrictions ~~ |his departure from Italy to Cuba ployed in Indianapolis but lve in Charles Nordhoff so affectedly nonchalant. “The 1, which begins Mr. Hartley predicted that his last year. : other cities because they can find| | ¥ |hermits, oe t hermi rT. r 5 p oh Be: toned Genoa police said Lucfano would |n0 place here to live. Most of the : 1. had Yife Io 8. a ¢ Ind Eleo- committees bill wou be taken to his native home at|familles have children, Mr. Katz oh inioresion her I es

down when it reaches the house floor Tuesday. If any changes are made by the house, he said, they will be in the direction of. even

Lercarra Freddi, Sicily, by police guards. They said they believed he would be held in the Genoa prison

e conference is nity for young } various electrie

5s mutual probe whlons, about a week. Their orders were to WeONer JeHiElony - reply to a keep Luciano “until further notice 0 the Swo-diy qiedion thet the Bill “sbeclutely” {30d UR the publicity has died B» Bodie?, Tse Ne mrasufieby John L Leww|0W0C ‘ ong soft coal miners July 1 when the : why I'm 8, AB 0, vice mines are returned to private own- arrested. I can clarify everything, orthern Indiana ers by the government Luciano said aboard the Baker, on : : which he made an enforced 24-day — He said the miners could be : enjoined, the operators could sue the crossing from Cuba. He had been) 3 Executed United Mine Workers (A. F. of L) placed aboard the Baker in Havana |

by Cuban police. Luciano previously had been deported to Italy by the United States, after his release from a long prison term. He was sent to Sicily but left quietly for Cuba some months later. He was arrested by the Cuban

for damages and it would be possible to suspend the miners’ bargaining rights for one year. Among the many restrictions in the house bill is one aimed at Communist-dominated unions. It

at Wa would deny collective bargaining n, the oii certification to any union if any of A od hel 2 Naval e few details. its national officers were Commu-

or could “reasonably be re- until a vessel going to Italy became

available. Meanwhile, 140 workers of the nd members. z y . - re a permit | ——— Cf Arperican Vitrified Products . Co, ther branch of the clay indusIES and union shops in some cases drew . ano the fire of Reps. Clare E. eam OTfiCerS to Hear iy, entered the second day of their (R. Mich) and Ralph W. Gwinn ; TANTS (R. N. Y.). They asserted nat k 2 L), S. Generals ate Sontrant of Se Utiiod Buick { - ents us from taking the full \ ¢ high-grade ey acted 0 protect workers Mal Gen. M. 8. Hidy, deputy structural products industry expites accountants from exploitation by union bosses. commander of the 2d army, and May 1 and negotiations are under WOmen—con i De union shop, an em- Maj: Gen. Thomas — way for a new contract. However, receden Te ; hire anyone but his em- J, Hanley Jr, imanagement has not yet indicated Hp jad ployer may "10 bec union | cOmmander of the it would meet the union demands opportunities pioyees jpust agree 10 t Ole eviod 11th air force, will for a 40. per cent pay increase. salaries . . . smembers with a Sor a Ps be principal ED workers, ease. aake t Javon. Te Ml} wou $ gy of the Speakers for .the building tile and other building nal develop- Mpa Phd Rh ar for it |Siate Reserve Of- materials, receive 90 cents an hour y . ‘|ficers co tion i p prestige. They could not force it on manage- wal Yih onder Be presen contract- and are striking. } Ave ig o the oo anes of the bill: April 19-20. 4 ’ The workers on strike are in the h the | Gen. Eddy com- sewer pipe and drain tile industry. ess College The President could, throug el nanded the. Ith 7. attorney general, seek court injunc- sorps which spear- : _ ; The others tions against any strike in trans- oo. 0 Gen. Eddy Police Arrest 16 Muncie, Lo- portation, public utilities, or com-| ; A . on, Kokomo, munications if the work stoppage | Gem Patton's advances through | In Gambling Raid mbus, Rich: threatens public health, safety or » g and Germany.| police today held 15 mem on nnes—all ap- ¥ interest. " He ag ited charges of gaming and one for ing. 1u- rnal | : world war I|geeping a gambling house. Gg Valea Tus al hed tf while command-| Melvin Jackson, 31, of 318 Miseo) A enploves YOu be Dro gE ing a machine- | nerva st., was charged with running or see, write from interfering With 4th Jorma: SUN company. Rea A i W. Case, tion of internal affa 5 0 oust | Geni. Hanley] a oe LIS W. ; agreeing » an invo unsery Jue headed the China~ an check-off ; ning a closed shop | ; " al contract or ow to bargain with > ra Iie Alb They Sites us a poke Jot College the certified representatives of his Ty SPlmanc gaming and confiscated | employees. | He formerly serv- : : Unions would be forbidden to od in tie Mexican B | A oid Alam charge initiation fees greater than 0 u ars V! ' Gen. Hanley campaign and re

$25 per member; to charge dues later was rated | that are HO ae the same junior military aviator at a time| class of members; to sell “Work per-|gnen the army had only 40: pilots. mits sowing non-union ipea i More than 200 delegates from 60 work temporarily upon a union Job; |giote chapters are expected to ate

| , to intimidate members on union {tong tHe two-day meet.

affairs; to deny a secret ballot on| i any dues assessment or. policy ques- cd tion; t6 fail te hold elections or Presbyterians Set officers at. least every four years; Spring Rally to fine or discipline a member for ‘young people of the Indianapolis having criticized the organization Presbytery will hold Shlr uswig and its officers. rally tomérrow afternoon and night No Mass Pioketing in the First Presbyterian church. . Unions would be prohibited from| mms youth groups of Lafayette force and violence and mass picket- | presbyterian churches will lead dis-|

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al strikes; secondary boycotts; s ing to compel a employer to more workers than he needs, or striking to compel employers to bargain on an industrywide basis. Other congressional developments:

Rent Senator Albert W. Hawkes (R. N, J.) served notice he will ask the senate to accept a 10 to 15 per cent general rent increase when it votes on legislation to continue rent controls. The senate banking committee turned down a general rent ipcrease. Its recommendation calls for continuation of rent control until March 1, 1948, on a new home | town basis with provisions for rent | WO gunmen who came to the rear increases to landlords in “hardship” cases,

RFC

Former RFC head Jesse Jones was expected to testify voluntarily before the senate banking committee’s investigation of charges that he and his agsociates engineered a “fictitious” bankruptcy of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad in 1944 in order to retain control of the system. Committee Chairman Charles W. Tobey (R. N. H) sald he does not plan to subpena the Texan be“cause he thinks “Mr, Jones will come without being asked.”

Taxes hy The house. ways and means com- . * mittee. reported it was getting hundreds of letters from business-

if | The young people of the First Pres- © | byterian churclwill be hosts to the entire rally personnel for supper and the meeting.

Police believed the two gunmen, same pair who have specialized jewelry and furs in a series of recent North side holdups. The gunmen knew that a policeman in civilian clothes guarded the front of the six-flat apartment. The . state's attorney’s home has been under a 24-hour police guard since 1939, when an attempt was made on the ilef of one of Tuohy’s predecessors. The victims were Mrs. Peter Fox, wife of ‘the president of the FoxDeluxe Brewing Co., and Mrs. Harold Sullivan, wife of an attorney and ‘sister-in-law of Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan. : They had driven to the Tuohy apartment to attend a party being given by Mrs. Tuohy in honor of - | Miss Annette Lyman, a prospective in the |bride. Fo a

whole federal tax structure.

said.

pointed a-committee to work with AVC on the project. Syers is chairman of the committee.

Tieup Threatens Clay Factories

eral walkout of - workers in the structural clay products industry threatened this clay center today.

Guests Robbed in Chicago At State's Attorney's Home

Society Bandits - Strip. Two Prominent "Women of Gems, Fur Coats Worth $4800

| CHICAGO, April 12 (J, P.).—State’s Attorney William Tuohy {assured his wife tdoay that police were working hard to track down the

two socially prominent guests of $4800 in furs and gems.

The Sacramento club has ap-

Paul R.

General Walkout Threatens Brazil, Ind.

Times State Service BRAZIL, Ind., April 12.—A gen-

Rob Tavern of $130

Police today were hunting burglars who sawed through the panel of a tavern door, entered without touching off the burglar alarm and took $130. Earl Hammond, owner of -the tavern, at -1627 Howard st. told officers the burglars took $30 from the cash register and $80.from the LOR » A .

Shortwave Fair by Science Service

WASHINGTON, April 12.—Most,

ing; sympathy strikes; jurisdiction-| .,ssions, folk games and worship. shortwave broadcasts from FEurope|

should get through this week-énd though only fair reception is forecast by the national bureau of standards here.

of the Tuohy home and robbed her

about 20 and 24 years old, were the in stripping well-to-do women of

parked automobiles and they drove to the rear of the house. The gunmen, wearing white handkerchiefs, pointed pistols at the women as they alighted from their car. They took Mrs. Fox’ mink stole valued at’ $2000, her diamond ring worth $1500 and her purse containing: $8. They took Mrs. Sullivan's diamond engagement ring worth $1000, her cocktail ring valued at $250, an alligator bag worth $94 and $10 in currency. | They escaped jn an -&utomobile. Mr. Tuohy was notified of the robbery ~ at police headquarters shortly after leaving a conference

THREE ORPHANS—This is ' band, Dr. Ralph Springer, veterin

nurse the pups, to eliminate medic

Mrs. Eva Springer, 1802 E. Washington st., wishes someone would be.kind to her and adopt these 3-day-old boxer puppies. Her hus-

Caesarean operation after their mother was struck by a carpand died. The Springers also would li

'Be Kind to Animal Week," ‘but

arian, delivered the puppies by

ike to locate a foster mother to ine dropper feedings.

Baby Is Surprise,

Authorities today held Kenneth

|robbery and assault: and battery.

Especially the Second One

ROOSTERVILLE, Mo., April 12 (U. P.).—Mrs. Theda Pearson; 24, who gave birth unattended to twin daughters, is “getting along fine,” a doctor said today. Mrs. Pearson said she hadn't ex-

pected a child until June—much less twins in April. When she first suspected her calculations were wrong, she retired to her bed in the living room of the small home. The first baby was born at 4:10 p. m, and the second 20 minutes later. “That second baby sure was a surprise,” she said. Mrs. Pearson’s husband, J. W., 46, first heard about the family addition when he came home for dinner. “Daddy, you'll have to cook supper,’ said his son, J. W. Jr, age 5 “We've got a lot of little sisters.”

Seize Ex-Convict, $4300 in Bogus “Money

GARY, Ind, April 12 (U. P).—

Stevens, 30, an ex-convict, who was seized in his rooming house with engraving equipment and $4300 in counterfeit $20 bills in his possession. Harry Danheiser, chief of the U. 8. secret service in Chicago, said his men had been watching Stephens since January. He said Stephens-hag served terms in ine Indiana state ‘prison for armed

Tornado Funerals Started Today

Woodward Churches [and came with his parents as a child to Ojai, Cal.—once known as Nordhoff, Cal.—where he was reared

Cancel Services

WOODWARD, Okla., April 12 (U.

burying its dead. Fifteen funerals were scheduled today. Others will be tomorrow. The four major churches have] cancelled Sunday school and regu- | lar Sunday services. Road blocks were set up tol prevent, motorists from coming into the area until the debris is cleared from the streets. They will remain

up Sunday. Grave diggers set to work to enlarge the Municipal cemetery.

Additional acreage jon the cemetery’s outskirts was condemned by | the city council because the ceme- | tery was too small. i Mayor R. A. Bosch met lumbermen, plumbers and contractors and three federal housing expediters last night. The expediters, L. W, Atkins, Oklahoma City; R. L. Van Norman, Dallas, and Bill Williams, Amarillo, assured them the government would request. manufacturers and jobbers to rush critical materials into the area. “I know of no better time than now,” Bosch said, “when we are dat the very bottom, to set up a plan to develop this city.” Rain poured down on the stricken city during the night, damaging sirproed, buildings with roafe rowed off and wetting 300 tents set up

Begin Drive for Funds |

To Revitalize ‘Y’ |

Y. M. C. A. workers here today began a fund raising drive to. collect $68,000 as the city’s part in the national campaign to revitalize “Y” activities. ! The drive, being made by 75 volunteer workers, will continue through May 10. The national goal is $8,650,000 and Indiana's quota is $282,365. The money will be used to rehabilitate “Y” secretaries and’their families in war torn countries and extend the organizations youth program here and abroad.

Four Youths Held For Starting Fight

Four teen-age boys were held by police today for starting a fight at the Brookside community house after a dance there last night. G. H. Fritz, an auxiliary policeman at the community house, said the fight broke out when one of the boys tried to grab his club. Police arrested Robert Pomeroy, 19, of 1214 N. Dearborn st.; William Haydon, 18, of 3525 N. Grant st.; William Harold, 18, of 1310 W. 27th st, and Richard Ray, 18, of 1302 Marlow ave. All were charged with ydisorderly conduct.

3 Ships Leave N. Y. NEW YORK, April 12 (U; P.).—) Ship movements scheduled today in New York harbor: : . Departing—Santa Isabel paraiso, Ft. Amherst for . Halifax,

on the Chicago crime situation with “Police Commis “John C.

for Val-|

for the, city’s homeless: ’

Convicted of Murder

NORRISTOWN, Pa., April 12 (U. P.) —Gerald C. Wentzel, 37, Potts town, Pa., civic leader was convicted of second degree murder last night for the bedroom strangulation slaying of Mrs. Mirfam Green, pretty 28-year-old Pottstown divorcee. Hg

Writer, Is Dead

a heart attack while reading.

Co-Authored ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’

SANTA BARBARA, Cal. April 12 (U. P.).—~Charles Bernard Nord-

hoff, writer of adventure stories and |they had come down to Henri’s or Cc Bounty,” was found dead yesterday |celebrations at Marino's on

o-author of “Mutiny on the in bed. He apparently succumbed to

Tod Ford, with whom he was

working on a new novel, called Mr.|things and starting to be fll.

Nordhoff for breakfast and found him dead, his book still propped in his lap ‘and the light still burning. Mr. Nordhoff, who was 60, lived in semi-retirement at exclusive Hope Ranch, a fashionable residential district on the edge of town. Few townspeople were aware of his living here, not far from his frequent

collaborator, James Norman Hall, with whom he wrote “Mutiny on the |furniture store. Well, the chal

Bounty.”

Mr. Nordhoff was born in London| ghopping had been fun that

of American parents Feb. 1, 1887

on a ranch.

Mr. Nordhoff’s first novel was P.)—Ravaged Woodward, where 83 “The Fledgling,” written in 1919. of the 146 Texas-Oklahoma tor- Other Nordhoff-Hall works included nado victims died, sealed itself off |“The Hurricane,” “Men Against The from the curious today and began Sea,” “Pitcairn's Island,” “Botany “The High Barbaree”

Bay” and —their last.

Eli Lilly Names

Two Directors

Two vice presidents of Ell Lilly & Co. have been elected to the drug firm’s board of directors. They are A. H. Fiske, vice president in charge of

control, and E. 8S. Retter, vice president in charge of marketing. They were named

Mr. Fiske to the board at a stockholders meeting yesterday. Mr. Fiske, who joined. Lilly . in 1919, -has served iti production, sales” a departments. :

Mr. Retter °

sales manager. present post several years.

faces a 10 to 20-year sentence.

Hanley.

EVENTS TODAY

Army Week Air exhibit, 1 to 5 pp m, Stout Feld, North Central Music Educators condgrence,

Claypool hotel. / Mid. Western Society of Church History,

convention, Butler university. State Hi-Y Council meeting, Roberts Park Methodist Shurch, Indiana Schodlmen’s association, meeting, Hotel Severin. Indiana State Teachers’ federation, meet~ ing, Hotel Lincoln. Board of Higher Education, Disciples of Ohrist, meeting, Hotel Lincoln, Mid-Western Photo Engravers tournament, Hotel Severin. . Indiana State Bowling tournament, West Side bowling alleys and Pritchett-Hunt

Bowling

& O'Grady. ‘ Indiana State Women's Bowling tourngment, Indiana alleys. Professionals of Region IX Campfire conference, convention, Claypool hotel,

BIRTHS y Twins At Methodist—Alvin, Harriet Ansley, girls. Loe Ghrls At St. Francis—Williain, Violet Norgls. orge,

At City—Melvin, Daisy Blair; Thelma Sizemore, and Emmett, i

Palmer, : At Coleman~Fred, Beulah. Firestone. At Methodiat—Dennle, Doris Sparks, and er, ‘

Haze!

107s as James, ae ylor, Ten da Luli Hutehin :

Drew, . £|

George Washirigtdh for Bermuda.

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Elita woh

In Indianapolis

006 W. Pearl; Joecephus, Rose

South, Boy At St. Franeis—John, Fred, Mildred Schroeder, At City—Conrad, Robbie Rose Bellamy; Russell, Zota Carl, Ida Plummer. At Coleman—-Ned, Anita Hughes; Glayds Dinelbliss, and Rol

Jones. ‘ A. Methodist—William, Joan Carden Ralph, Mildred Law; Gerald, Fern tine; James, Nancy Woodlock; Lio Anna O'Donnell; liam, Grace War ner; Floyd, Venus Newkirk, and Hom Martina Powell, At 8t. Vincent’s—Charles, Marie Sullivan

Baker; Willis

Frank

Gerna Williams, At Home — Edward, Eliza Hinton

Hs Wis

Hen ueume urer, 8, at Riley, rheumati

research and

: |were convicted of slaying State

Mr. Retter has been with the company 30 years. He began as a medical service representatives in Kansas, later becoming a district He has held his

Other members of the board ‘are J. K. Lilly, chairman, and El Lilly, J. K. Lilly Jr, N. H. Noyes, C. J. Lynn, J. 8. Wright and W. A.

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II TI 1 Q Bris 1417 Deloss, and Olen, Una Single, 1201 . . Ethel Pattison, and Land, and

t, Gladys

Armand, Donna Courtot, and Thomas, 401

lish; Owen, ‘Ora Simpson cy Richard, Wilma Rikins, 320 N, Hamilton, and Liberty, W Birkla, 54 N. Keystone. % DEATHS Johr Holt, 53, at 1681 Columbia, coronary occlusion. v ! Dimi Joyner, ‘34, at Oity, cirrhosis of ver, ’ * ‘ ry Clay Harting, 89, st City," lobar

beards and loincloths and thonged sandals, ” t J #“

THEN THAT first fall, crisp and

Lane, and all dressed up. She had passed these same windows with the boys at night when

the movies, or one of their big

extra special occasions. She remembered the days when she was working and buying spring Sherry strolled on, her the shops. There was the store she used to patronize — was a better one now—and was the smart new restaurant Henri’s used to be, across street. That had gone, too, the boys and all her funny, hap life with them. The next str was the one with the unpain

ff:

HIT

had all the furniture she needed.

spring after she had married Just the best shops, and the

she wanted. Now there wasn’t much she couldn’t buy, but why buy anything? “You're an

» ” » SHE WAS writing seriously and rong Beach. had already sold three stories: Only two weeks ago the first pub-

Teen Girls Start Prison Terms

Two teen-age girls, companions of the slayers of a state trooper, began ‘terms of 2-21 years in Indiana Woman's prison here today. Vera Hornback, 16, Anderson, and Mary Ruth Ward, 15, Evansville, arrived at the prison yesterday from Bartholomew county where they had pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges. The girls were the sweethearts

Jets Too Noisy, %

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racket as they can and we're ing to take court action if necessary, stop it.” bu HABER Allison :

Trooper Herbert Wade Smith Dec. 5, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Man Reports Attack By Five Hoodlums

Police .today .were hunting five], hoodlums who beat and attempted to rob a man last night in the 1900 block of N. Martindale ave. Harold Prather, 29, of 653 Arch st, told officers he was going to work at Metal Industries Co. 1420 E. 20th st, when he was attacked by the five men. : After beating him severely, the men took his wallet, which contained no money, he said. :

9 NAZIS EXECUTED MECHELEN, Belgium, April 12 (U. P.)~Belgian firing squads executed 10 guards ‘from the Nazi Breendonck prison camp at dawn today.

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