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3 5 Authority to shorten the Northwestern trackless line was sought today by Railways in 8 filed with the board of works and’ sanita< tion.

when the Illinois-Clifton feeder bus Eline becomes a through line to Monument Circle. Today's proposed change would eliminate a duplication of service at that time, the railway said. ' Better service could be maintained on the shortened Northwestern trolley line, according to James P. Tretton, vice president and general manager, who filed the petition. : The present terminus of the Northwestern ‘line is at Clifton and

proved by the Northwestern Civic league and Dr. Lucian B. Meriwether, second district city councilman.

NATIONAL 24-HOUR FORECAST SUMMARY: Cooler temperatures are predicted for the Northeast and west of the Mississippi Valley tonight and early tomorrow. (Air flow and air mass arrows on -the PFOTOCAST show cool northeasterly winds flowing over these sections.) Warm, humid weather is indicated from the Gulf States to the Ohio Valley as warm, moist southerly winds from the Gulf of Mexico flow inland. . Rain is scheduled for Michigan, Washington and Oregon. Showers and thunderstorms are the outlook from western New York and Ohio to the Gulf States. (Affected

stormy areas for the coming 24 hours.) Cloudy skies will extend from New York to West Virginia, Ohio

and Michigan, also in: thie north- |

west. Clear, starry skies will be visible over the central Plains, the Rockies and the Southwest. Fore-

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To Aid His Wife

PORTLAND, Ore, June 13 (U. P.).—Desperate for money to provide medical comfort for his dying wife, Herman E. Howard, 55, of Canby, Ore., today offered to sek one of his eyes. Mr. Howard wrote the Oregonian, Portland newspaper, that he had given up his job as a salesman to remain with his wife through her illness. He “The doctors tell me my wife has a bad cancer and cannot live many months longer,” he wrote. “Now I

“Ihave used up most of our savings

taking care of her. “I have two good eyes and would gladly sell one of them to somebody who could afford to pay me enough to give my wife the best of care for her remaining time with me. “We have been married 32 years.”

WILL THE CATS OBEY? SPRINGFIELD, Ill, June 13 (U. P.)—A bill passed by the state senate and approved today by a house committee would prohibit stray cats from prowling in alleys.

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XT. M REG. PAT'S PEND. COPR 1947 COW. L.A. WAGNER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. leys and the coastal areas of California as cool air flows around a high pressure cell off the Wash-ington-Oregon coast. Weather fans will. notice warm, moist air is flowing into the large storm area east of the Mississippi. This warm Gulf air is furnishing the moisture for the affected or (Note: Most of the moisture for storms east of the Rockies comes from the air stream northward from the Gulf

. Lowest temperatures expected tomorrow morning include Bismarck and Kansas City, 48; St, Louis and Cleveland, 50; Boston ‘and Chicago, 54; New York and

64; Washington, 68;.

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Precipitation 24 hrs. en T:30a.m, 00 Total precipitation: since Jan. 1 .... 19.81 Excess since Jan? 1 .......... saad 8

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(Continued From Page One) been reported by safety enthuslasts. : “We were using our, gasoline powered lawn mower, ’ The . boy turned the crank and the motor ran rhythmically. But the blades wouldn't turn, I reached my .hand toward the blades to give them a

Jturn when . . . whirrrr . . . the

blades started whirling. My finger tips had been saved by a distance of inches, i Ru - Teaches Safety Lesson ‘My Freak Squeak taught me to be sure that mechanical helpers are always turned completely off before trying to adjust them.” A housewife reported: “I was washing Ruth Ann's hair and had the radio on top of the refrigerator near the wash tub. She fell against the radio cord, pulling the radio down into the water. I snatched it out of the water, got shocked, dropped it back into the water, got another terrific shock when I attempted to pull it out again. By this time, Ruth Ann had fallen far enough to break the cord's connection. My arms were numb to my elbows for some time,

“My Freak Squeak taught me to

% |never use electric appliances where

you might touch the appliance and have your hands in water at the same time.” This One Near Fatal Another Freak Squeaker recalls a

when she was a child:

“When I was 10 years old I was walking around the yard on homemade stilts. As I reached the wire clothes line a block came loose from one of the stilts. As I dropped, my

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help, TI miraculously escaped only a badly bruised neck and throat when I swung my .arms and body frantically to free myself and fall to the ground. 3

“My Freak Squeak taught me to be sure that playthings are stoutly

built and to have clothes lines

raised high when not in use.” These examples might recall some Freak Squeak you experienced. Write in your own words what happened, but use as few words as possible. Then complete in 25 words or less this sentence: “My Freak Squeak taught me . ......." Mall or bring the account of your experience to Freak Squeak Editor, Indianapolis Times, 214 W. Maryland st., Indianapolis 9 The first $5 cash prise will be

awarded for letters brought in or

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stood at her side to see her safely

through her trip, The gasoline en- | gine which powers the delicate and all important breath giving lung

purred in the rear of the van,

Escorted by a state patrolman in

his car«<the van pulled away from the hospital followed by a car bearing relatives. It would take slightly more than two rs

reach Alexandria with one stop on

the way. to refuel the respirator

engine, : Only once during Mrs. Robinson's stay at the hospital did a crisis arise. The motor operating the lung went dead cutting off the patient's air, But two nurses, Mrs. Phyllis LaRue and Miss Judy Mitchell came to her ald immediately, While one nurse operated the hand pump the other repaired the motor, :

Graduate of I. U.

Mrs. Robinson, a native of Craw» fordsville, is a gradaute of Indiana university and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She was married to Mr. Robinson in 1937. He Is in the lumber business at Alexandria.

The trained nurse, Mrs. Audrey

| Stein, has been assigned to her

postmarked by midnight next Fri- case by the hospital and will re-

day.

‘The freak accident described must

actpally have happened. It must have happened to the letter writer or a member of the immediate family. "=A contestant may submit as many entries as he wishes, provided each is based on a separate and distinet accident. Ihe Indianapolis Times and the Indianapolis Safety council may use any entry for any

purpose they desire. .

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main with her for the next three weeks. Dr. William Ferguson attended her in the back of the van during the trip.

DIES IN ELECTRIC CHAIR SANTA FE, N. M, June 13 (U. P.). — Louis Young, 47-year-old trusty at the state penitentiary, died in the electric chair today for the murder of Mrs. Eloise Kennedy, wife of a Santa Fe bank clerk.

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