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Brewster Lied Under Oath, Says Hughes

Record Heat Wave Broken; Rain Forecast

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Lay That Rifle Down— : 2 p d Se hy £ . | Weatherman Promises yi Even If He Did See Him, | Cooler Tomorrow’ |. S t t t ; ? LOCAL TEMPERATURES dlements, ‘Gc Hunter’ Can’t i) ame Hunter’ Can Ep " y ; . 3pm Crisetaseinnein fn én & Ih Meervins crsnirivasrasses 8 He Charges Shoot ‘Lion’ In Par | 8pm im : : Law Says, ‘No, No'—McClain Says He Cornered 7 p-m.......ccooon. rere Takes Stand Again : : . | BP Miia 95 | In Contract Proiye Phantom Cat’ in Brown County Ravine Oa thir sare irr 9 n Conirac ro Harry MéClain, Indianapolis’ part-time big game hunter, may have | 10 Pe Me ooiiiieriiiiiniiinan. 85 WASHINGTON, July 7 (U. to stick to rabbits unless the “mountain lion” he saw in Brown County im tr tr 5 P.) .—Plane Maker Howard state park yesterday wanders off the park reservation. " (Today) lini Hughes today accused Sena- | It's against the law to use guns in any state park. If there's a, 1 a m. A ET DW y " mountain lion there, a park department spokesman said ‘today, it is | Baim od eas NB tor Owen Brewster of lying | ively an official state game warden will be sent to bag him. { BA MD, eds iiiv ina aaiis 4 under oath before a senate! ‘At the samé time, Donald fol ome iam teen cranes viv war investigating subcommit- Hughes. distros o Beh, BOA GENE “For that matter,” Mr. Hughes 5 & M.......ieeiens PAPE 73 or the conservation department, - . : AE OR PERC eA 74 tee. |said Mr. McClain could shoot the | 581d, so can any farmer who sees a ME re "5 The millionairé movie producer, iva) outside the park “on the cat. There's no closed season . g a mm. ............ce0eeees 75 and manufacturer continued an of- sight.” {in Indiana on mountain lions.” | CEE REAR oe EY ww |! fensive against the Maine Repub- s Y . 30. By Bheverissnuvivirsraranes 78 lican senator which began with the Comnars cal, ls Saved by Handy Cigar . { H Ba Mies svnonnssnsnsssunsone os . | narmed, r. cClain sal e, “I was unarme ecause ey LA Mi covssrevsannvsvanaye charge that Mr. Brewster tried Sy aubred the animal in a ravine don’t allow you to carry a gun in| 12 (Noon) ,....eevveevnvnnses 86 blackmail him into an air line the park,” he added. “Thinking| 1p. m.........co000nen ve 86

merger. : Mr. Brewster denied this Pther charges in sworn testimony | yesterday and today. | Mr. Hughes' charge

worth of plane contracts given 0 .paut four feet long.” | footprints. him by the government. . . . promised. J Wrote Own Statement | Too Many Curious People Spoil Hunting Before the sweltering "August hot The gangling, mustachioed Mr.| He complained that too man spell broke, however, tragedy

4 ry { Hughes charged Mr. Brewster with lion hunt this week after Brown curious people and scoffing news-

“obvious misstatements.” At one

point Mr. Brewster, chairman of county residents reported seeing an the full investigating committee, in- [animal they thought might be a terrupted to ask who had prepared mountain lion. | this anmial was the same one he|®°me bY the heat.

Mr. Hughes’ statement—Mr. Hughes |

or one of his publicity agents, Carl jay in wait several weeks near | Byoir. Lebanon with a specially built trap | the big cat he's going to seek out Mr. Hughes replied that he wrote [tg catch a similar animal reported |its lair because he's sure there are the statement himself in his own {here

hand. He added that his attorney,

|after four hours of ( aicking yesterand day.

{and the aid of a handy cigar saved | that Mr. pis life, he said. Brewster lied was contained in &| pr McClain said when he spotted ask the conservation people if I) prepared statement which hé read ine animal in a thicket it was only can take my rifie with me.” to the subcommittee which is in-|apout 12 feet away, glaring at him| He also said he planned to make Scattered vestigating more than $40 million |, 4 twitching its tail that “was plaster casts of the big animal's Promised for today. It will be cool-

quickly, I took a cigar out of my | hl n pocket, lit it and puffed hard, The heat wave, which sent the

“That scared the cat away. temperature to a blistering 100 here “I want to go back there today yesterday, was broken today.

and get the critter. I'm going to| The temperature won't go above 90 today. It will drop as low as 66

Only quick thinking on his part

| tonight, . thundershowers were

er tomorrow, the weatherman

. i untain My. McClain started his moun [struck at two local swimming places

yesterday where a 23-year-old man and a 3-year-old boy were drowned. Several other persons were over-

| papermen spoiled his hunting then {and the animal disappeared. Mr. McClain wasn't sure whether |

Drops to 73 For the first time since Sunday night, city residents got a good] night's sleep when a sudden cool | breeze sprang up about 10 p. m. The temperature dropped from 92 to 856

Last summer the big game hunter had sought last summer, But he said that when he kills

young mountain lions there..

Tom Slack, and Mr. Byoir helped!

prepare questions which' Mr. Hughes SEMAN Stands by Prowler Seized ot a oh was general over

propounded to Mr. Brewster earlies in the day. . Mr. Hughes has repeatedly accused Mr. Brewster of ordering the"econ+ tract investigation because Mr. Hughes refused to merge his TransWorld Air lines with Juan Trippe’s Pan American Airways. He has asserted—and Mr, Brew-|

probe was intensified when the senator and Pan American decided to push again this year legislation calling for merger of U. S. overseas air service in one big company, Statement Is Untrue Mr. Hughes read his statement at! an afternoon session after the sub-| committee had devoted a full forenoon session to asking Mr. Brewster | questions posed by his accuser. Mr. | Brewster admitted accepting surtain/ favors, including two free airplane rides, from Pan American, | But he rejected as false any] suggestion that he was concerned! fn any way with Pan American's | fortunes. He asserted that he had | no financial interest in the airways. | In this connection Mr, Hughes said: J : “Senator Brewster has made cer-| tain statements that are obviously untrue. One:of them is that he has no connéction—direct or indirect— | with Pan American.

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in an hour. Low temperature was

most of the north central states. A cold front—the meteorologist's technical term for s mass of cool air—rolled down from Canada, push= ing the humid heat away in front

Girl He Smuggled | Into America By Roomer i ——————————

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 7 (U. PJ. Awakened by Man, lof it. =A Porfland, Ore. merchant sea- | ry The front hit Chicago about 3 man and the attractive German Woman Called for Aid a eranapolis time), bringing he smuggled into the United States About 2 a. m. today, Miss Frances with it a thunder-and-lightning vowed today that deportation ora Cannavan, 26; 2304 College ave,, was ‘storm which soaked parched lawns prison sentence wouldn't destroy... veneq’ by a man ° crawling and cooled houses in. which heat- | her Yamane. x T1 fol ! through her bedroom window. [tortured residents were sleeping fit-| 1 they send her back, "| She notified other members of the fully. | low her and marry her over there, household. Moving Qver Indiana | Walter L. Strange, 38, said. Allen B. Mills, 32, another roomer,! “This ‘morning the front was movHe is In Moyamensing Prison, ;.;",,, prowler in the window ing southward across Indiana, Illi-| while AVailing sentencing Of} and smacked him a knock-out blow. nois, Missouri and Kansas at 10 to charges of bringing Francesca William R. Richard, 30, a guest 15 miles an hour. It was expected {of Mr. Mills, also ran into the room to bring cooling relief throughout plod, on Letave, FIANCE and they both held the intruder un-|Ohio by nightfall. " : vr » { til police arrived. | The thundershowers accompany- | THE couple met in a Le Havre] The suspect gave his name as ing the cool air were too scattered, | cafe last June, {Russell Finch, 28, of 2058 N. New however, to help the Midwestern! Immigration agents said, Strange | Jersey st. He was slated on a corn and other crops which need dressed Francesca in dungarees and |vagrancy charge pending further ac- rain badly. a sweater and hid her blond hair tion. Besides the immediate relief from under a 'seaman’s hat. They said he| Clarence Leight, 20, of 1502 E. the heat wave, the weather bureau “sneaked” her into Mis cabin for the 17th st. reported last night that a had other good news for Midwestern voyage to the United States. {bandit robbed him of $19 in the residents. | The couple was arrested in a 400 block N. Illinois st. Forecasters said that another hot | Philadelphia hotel last- Friday, the| Willlam Delacruz, 1817 N. Ala-|spell, expected to hit over the week-|

day after their arrival here. bama st., said he left $100 hidden in | end, had been dissipated. They embraced each other yester-

a closet last night and when he| “The hot weather probably will

| | day in federal court, where Strange returned several “hours later the | continue in the southern states, but |

pleaded no defense to the charges money was missing. The home had in the northern states it will con- |

back-to-school! “ | bee nsacked b burgl tinue mild for as long "as we can Most people in the aviation in-|28ainst him. {een ransac y a burglar, 5 NNELS! SAN- dustry ow that statement is 4 “No matter what happens,” the ———————— ee ne see in advance, the. Chicago TTONS! SAN- ¥ kn un wedther bureau said. true. girl told him in halting English, i Each full cut Three-year-old Leland Max Rus-

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Mr. Hughes said the public had | seen “two men getting up here un-| der oath and telling fhings that were quite contrary.” ~ “It stands to reason,” he added, *that one of us must have been telling something that is not the

“I'll always love you.” Screams Save The judge deferred sentencing of

sell was drowned at Ravenswood beach where he had been taken by |

Strange pending a pre-sentence re- | » { be | port from immigration authorities. | his mother, Mrs. Gerald Russell, | Francesca will be given a hearing | [0 i |7015 Ralston ave, to escape the

Lheat.

in a few days. PEPSIN, Wis, Aug. 7 (U, P)~—| The child had been splashing

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Mistook Plant For Airport

Refinery Is Scene Of Unique Accident

(Photo, Page Two) EVERETT, Mass., Aug. T { (U. P.).—Four socially-prom= | inent North Shore residents | were killed early today when their monoplane — groping through fog — plunged into [the flaming mouth of a giant caule dron at an oil refinery. Assistant Fire Chief James A, Scott identified the dead as: Thomas Mandell, 56, of Beverly, a Boston broker; his two daughe ters, Ann, 22, and Harriet, 19, both 5 of Boston, and John Nelson Bor- hi land Pell, 32, of the Myopia Hung club, Beverly, pilot of the plane, : dis Oft Its Course Chief Scott said the party had 3 taken off from Montreal last night A and was scheduled to land at Beve 8 erly airport, 20 miles north of here, at 12:53 a. m. The plane, off its course in the murky weather, crashed shortly after 2:30 a. m. Scene of the accident was & waste-gas furnace on the brightly lighted reservation of the Colonial Beacon Oil Co. in South Everett, The pilot apparently mistook it for nearby Logan International airport in the fog. The furnace was double walled brick construction, 40 feet high and 15 feet in diameter at the top. It burns like an inferno 2¢ hours. & day, belching flames and smoke, |The plane missed half a dozen J tky-scraping * chifsneys” “in the = South Everett ares, only to against this stubby cauldron,

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Chief Scott, who was at the res | finery in connection with the instal lation of a new tank, was only & block away when the ‘crash oc~ curred, He had sighted one light . of the plane as it emerged silently from the fog. He sald he could not hear the motor. Smashing into the rim of the chimney, the plane disintegrated, with the wings being sheared off and most of the fuselage dropping

SAVED BY SURGERY—James Steven Kidwell, 8 weeks old, is eating and sleeping normally after undergoing an operation for a "rebuilt" esophagus. He is show with his mofher, Mrs. Wilbur Kidwell. - °° _ :

Slayer of Three Doctors Rebuild Stomach, Mngt Side | Windpipe of Tiny Baby oi 53

Princeton Man Cuts Through Mouth After ‘Mirdicle of Surgery’ Both men and one of the girls Throat With Cup Mr. and Mrs, Wilbur Kidwell, 849 8. Illinois st., feel that a- miracle Were hurtled directly into the ses . of modern surgery was performed to save the life of their 8-weeks-old °f flames. The other girl dropped VINCENNES, Ind, Aug. 7 (U. P). baby, James Steven Kidwell. within the four-foot-wide space be—Officers at the Knox county jail| The baby, born June 10 in the Methodist hospital, choked every time tween the two walls but she also said today that Roy Turpin, 43, he was fed. His stomach became distended and his body turned blue. |¥®8 burned almost beyond recogniPrinceton, was recovering from a | Physicians attributed ‘the trouble to a malformation which con- |! on Then She. planes fue) tank bef nected his stomach with his wind~| ~~ mm meanest | p azing gasoline on her, suicide attempt k made Just. before pipe instead of his mouth. Mrs. Kidwell says he takes the same | Plane Circled Area his preliminary hearing before Jus- =, =... te and hazardous op-| food mixture from a nursing bottle Firemen closed the in-take valve tice J. FP, Maidlow at Princeton, | eration to rebuild the esophagus As that prescribed for the normal through which the furnace was fed Turpin, who police say has ad-| performed by a prominent tocal. infant of his age. and brought up hoselines to quench mitted the triple slaying of Mr.| ooo During the operation a| She said he cries about once in| 'N® flames. Even after the blaze and Mrs. Charles Bateman and his|, io.4 ransfusion was given and|24 hours and sleeps most of the| Wad out they continued to play sister, Nora Turpin, broke jhe oxygen administered. _ | time. He weighs 6 pounds-13 ounces, | * > €" on the retort until it was handcuffs_on his wrists, smashe | Afterwards-the-tiny-baby-was-fed which fs ~10 ounces more than at cool enough to approach, - ps an aluminum coffee cup and made | borarily through a tube. First, his birth, The seared bodies of one man & tireteinels gash in his throat, of" | riquia food- was injected into his| “Words can't say how much 308 ong Bir) were secuverel soon cers sald. | veins and later through an incision appreciate what they did for us more Doctors took 10 stitches. in-clos- yp, yg. stomach, at’ Methodist hospital,” Mrs. Kid. ‘ian two hours later that the other

ing the self-inflicted wound, which = yoo. two nervous months, his well said. “The les were extricated, iE p he we , nurses, doctors and just missed Turpin's jugular vein, w | Observers said the plane circled oy id, parents brought him home this week. everyone were wonderful to us. | the area for several minutes pri

Turpin was bound over at the > . EY - to the accident, and that the pilot pein bere 0 Se oe Junkman Injured (1 Dead, 10 Hurt ing session of the Gibson county ey

then suddenly cut his motor and grand jury on September. 8, at the

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headed for the chimney. Police believe he mistook the area for a

three of the victims were members, {published the now-defunct Boston Evening Transcript for more than A half ‘century. Mr. Mandell had

self and his daughters to Montreal

to visit relatives,

SLEEVE truth.” ‘Painter Injured Mrs. Gaylord Seifert idly watched oo tinued on Page 3—Column 5) request of Prosecutor Luther Ben- | landing strip. SHIRTS “I may be a little unkind in what | 5 ¢ Fall from ler kitchen widow as her 2-| perme son. He was taken to the Knox S orse 0 S | n U d ld es Pilot Married Socialite I have to say” Mr. Hughes con-|'M £= fory Fa year-old daughter played quietly in Goldstein, Gutman Win county jail here after the hearing. | The. Mandell family, of which tinued.” “But IT shall also be un-| Lindel McDaniel, 952 N. Delaware | the yard of the ert farm home. ' i Meanwhile, at Princeton the fu-| “pave the Junkman,” known! SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Aug. 7 (U.| i.19 kind in appraising myself.” st, a painter, suffered a broken| Her contentment switched to hor- Women's Bridge Title neral of Miss Turpin was held this! 4010 on the East side. was in. P.).—Four earthquakes shook eastHe summed up Mr. Brewster as: | ankle and bruised arm when he feil | TOT 28 she saw the child lean Over, NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (U. P.).~—| morning and the double funeral] y he asl, soe, was ne ei Cuba during the ‘night leaving New, Pall cot~ “Clever, resourceful, a terrific pub-|from a second story ledge on alto pet a coiling 53-inch rattle snake. | pirg sq eonard Goldstein, Cincinnati, |for the Batemans was scheduled | Jured seriously today when he was, person dead and 10 injured. , with zipper lic speaker, a man who can hold an| building on N. Capitol ave, 600| Mrs. Seifert’s screams startled the land Mrs. Max Gutman, Covington, for tomorrow. Crowds of the guri- thrown from a wagon as his horse) The temblors, lasting up to 15 chartered the plane to take hims, guaranteed audience in the palm of his hand, |Dlock. Mr. McDaniel was taken to Child who darted away from theigy, were the new national women's ous swarmed into the funeral | bolted. [seconds each, cracked buildings ONE STRIPES and who has a reputation for being | City hospital. reptile. Workers in a nearby field | pairs championship bridge team to- home in Princeton last night to) A 10-year-old boy, riding with here and sent hundreds of persons

a rushed to the yard and killed the gay after defeating Mrs. Helen Sovel, [see the-bodies of the three victims. Dave, survived the care ride | (Continued on Page 4—Column 1) FARM: INCOME HIGHER snake. {New York, and Miss Ruth Sherman Turpin, recovering from ® recent uninjured and in ve pomibinn, 10 DATES Wn Heep OW She WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (U. P.).—| The rattler weighed 10 pounds and 435 points to 426. [nervous breakdown, told police|animal, Other localities In eastern Cuba Total farm income was‘ 22 per cent was as thick as a man’s arm, the Finals in the tournament were Tuesday that he-shot to death Mr.| The injured man, taken to city | reported feeling the shocks. But the higher during the first seven workers said. They said heat and played last night. and Mrs. Bateman while they slept | hospital, is David Wassey, 60, of 1102 only casualties were reported in

months of 1947, than it was in the drought were driving the snakes

Wife Couldn't Cook, Marriage Hits Rocks

In the national men's pairs cham-/and then shot his sister and. cut Deloss st. i ! wo in— —, BEATTLE, Aug. 7 (U. P.) —Paul corresponding period last year, the from the hills and that several per- pionship, Sol Mogal and Tobias her throat with a butcher knife, Beloved . by youngsters in eS Siago, de , yn | E. Newton, 65, was cooking. his own bureau of agricultural economics Te- | Sona in the area had reported seeing Stone, New York, won with 745: “They were always trying to boss | neighborhood, Dave had let young! attributed to a heart attack, hut 1D” food again today. ported today. them, points. me,” he said. Theodore Brown, 939 Harrison st..| falling debris was blamed for injur-

Mr. Newton was granted an un-

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ride on the seat of the wagon while! ing others, two seriously. Dave hung on the side. i [Electric power was knocked out | The horse, normally a gentle ani- for one hour and 40 minutes. In

Odom Takes Off

| Mr. Pell, the pilot, formerly was a pilot for American Airlines. His {marriage to the former Nancy (Campbell Blagden of New York {and Southampton, L. I., was a fea~ ture of New York's 1040 social season, Mr, Pell was building a {home near the exclusive Myopia [Hunt club, where the Prince of Wales was entertained a quarter | century ago.

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They had been married 10 weeks. ¥ A ® ; mal, bolted, throwing the elderly 1933, an earthquake in the city took . =n the ne Pe ect Rose ach eek fo Girl hy man to the pavement. The boy many lives and caused extensive down hi Times Index of the 28 i" : I | clung to the seat as the horse raced property damage. ne, brand-new Heirs of Dead Soldier Ask Court to Break » Tome, Yeudd Valentine trom. Ne ek of Total ave. Tw. i Amusements. 28) Movies ....... 28 . . wrote. . a to the intersection with English ave.| PARIS, Aug. 7 (U. P)) —A series Carnival .....19| obituaries... 9| Will Which Left $3600 for Flowers Valentine's request became known| CHICAGO, Aug. 7 (U. P).—For-| The wagon narrowly missed a of earth tremors killed three perWalst d! Marquis Childs 20 | Dr. O'Brien ..12 By BETTY EWING, United Press Staff Correspondent when his sister, Margaret, contended | Mer Army pilot William P. Odom grocery” store at the corner as the sons and injured four others in ConBan Classified. . 32-34) Patterns .....23| RICHMOND, Va. Aug. 7—The Virginia supreme court of appeals : "| took off today on a solo speed fight horse galloped wildly up English stantine, Algeria, yesterday, the 3.98 Comics .....,.35| Radio ........35| was asked today to set aside the romantic desire of the late Valentine)'Dat Der brother's request was “not| =~ orld ave, | France press news agency reported rasensrnns OH Crossword ....20| Reflections ...20| Lawless to Keep “one perfect rose” alive for the girl who spurned his love. | Practical.” Young Theodore, unable to grab today from Algiers. Loo 588 Editorials .,..20| Mrs, Roosevelt 21 Valentine, an army air forces sergeant killed in battle, had asked| The sister, and other heirs named| Mr Odom lifted his converted | the reins, got hold of the horse's tall pe : Forum ....... 20| Side Glances..20| that a florist deliver to the girl one rose every week after his death.|in Valentine's will, claimed that fail-| Army A-26 attack bomber from the and pulled on it. A bystander ran Accuse 3 of Breakin adel Meta Given ..24| Society ....21-22| valentine had specifically instructed his brother not to reveal the name ure of the will to specify the “special runway at Douglas airport at| Out into the street and grabbed the 9 : 00 _ Hollywood ....19| Sports .....30-31| of the sender. : purposes” had the effect of leaving|12:53:20 p. m. (Indianapolis time). |horse, bringing him to a halt. (Egg Board Violations Seatiststuet | Homemaking .23| Washington ..20| «My idea,” Valentine wrote to his| “But I will continue to love her the $3600 in trust with Edward for| The plane was the “Reynolds Tn eo ,__.| Warrants were on file in the prosne, Ja) Saga 20| Wom. News 23-24 | prother, “Is to furnish the girl With for the duration of my life,” Valeri- the benefit of other heirs. Bombshell” in which Mr. Odom and| Blame Careless Smoker ecutor's office today charging three ndpls. .... 3| Wprd-A-Day .19/ the pleasure of receiving a rose, not| yo wore Edward, however, contended that his wealthy sponsor, Milton Reyn- : ls men with violations of the state's Inside Indpls..19 World Affairs. 20 ts have her think of me because I Like ottier soMditts ove Val.|CATTYing out the instructions in his|olds, set & round-the-world speed For Foothills Fire egg board regulations.

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brother's lefter was a “matter of conscience,” A lower coyrt ruled that Valen-

record last April, . Mr. Odom hopes to set the wheels of his converted A-26 “Bombshell”

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7 (U, P.).— A careless smoker was blamed to- | try Co. Inc, was charged with sellday for a two-day-old fire raging|ing eggs unfit for human consump- | out of control over 2000 acres in the

Harris Cohen of the Marion Poul-

tion ‘and selling eggs stamping the containers.

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