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telephone to call police, he said, | Maj. Morris pulled a pistol out| of his pocket. He .then fired at close range as she attempted to run out the front door, the brother said.

She screamed and then fell in| the doorway, young Benge told’ police. The bullet tore through hee left side just under the arm “I grabbed at his arms ., . . tried to get the gun away from him but he pushed me away and went to the kitchen , . . I struggled with, him all the way and finally he slugged me, knocking me against the kitchen wall,” the youth related. “I ran back to the front room to see about my sister and then heard a shot in the kitchen” he. said. “I found the major in a pool of blood on the floor.”

Young Benge said that all during the argument Maj. Morris talked of the “other man who broke up our home.” Also a letter found in the dead man’s pockgt, addressed to his mother, Mrs. Julia Morris, Delodge, Mo., mentioned “the other man,” but no name was listed. The unmailed letter to his mother said: “I still love her.. am sorry we are all washed up . sorry I have to do it but it's the only way out , . .” Maj. Morris apparently came to Indianapolis by plane sometime yesterday and went immediately to his wife’s home.

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At the home was Mrs. Mary

McGill, 315 Fleming St., Speed-| way City, housekeeper who was back said she heard a shot and {saw Mrs. Morris fall out the

caring for Patricia. When the major appeared about 3 p. m. yesterday, Mrs. McGill said she telephohed Mrs. Morris at the Lynn Fur Co. in the Kahn

. Building where she worked as of-

fice manager. She said she ad‘vised Mrs. Morris to come home immediately because her husband was there. Young Benge, who works at the same office, said his sister insisted he accompany her home and that she appeared to fear trouble. Upon arrival home, he said, Maj. Morris began quarreling and threatened to take their daughter with him. Then Mrs. McGill, fearing trouble, took the child out of the house and to the home of neighbors. When Maj. Morris first pulled the pistol out of his pocket, young Benge said his sister talked him into taking out the clip of cartridges. He said his sister took the clip over to the home of a neighbor, Mrs, Mary Douise Salback, 4342 Crittenden Ave.

“THE ONLY, WAY . . "— That was how a letter found n the pockets of Maj. Thomas R. Morris explained his slaying of his wife and subsequent suicide:

SLAYING WITNESS — Eighteen-year-old Tilford Benge Jr. tried in.vain to stop the crazed killer after he saw his ster shot.

trouble,” she was quoted as saying. Then Mrs. Morris went back te

her home. A few minutes later, Mrs. Sal-

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would have gone to market during the next few months, will be withheld for fattening and breeding. This will cut-heavily into already-short supplies of these commodities “and, inevitably, cause higher More, Better Beef However, experts look for Tore ; and better beef at somewhat low er prices starting in January of February and probably continuing until farmers®can get a line on the 1949 corn crop. They an-

pork prices in 1940.

fall, resulting in more—and cheaper—poultry and eggs beginning next spring.

State Corn Crop Ranks 3d in U. S.

275,353,000 -Bushels To Set New Record

Police found two empty cartridges on the floor of the home and two unfired shells in Maj. Morris’ potieet. After the shooting, police took the daughter to the home of Mrs. Morris’ sister, Miss Evelyn Benge, 736 8. East St., where the younger brother also lives. The body of Mrs. Morris will be taken to Brownsburg, where she lived with her family before moving to Indianapolis seven married

he was stationed here for army| >

training early in the war, Besides her sister and brother

here, Mrs. Morris is survivéd by,

two other sisters, Mrs. Edna Hott, Browns Begley, Lexington, Ky.; three brothers, Elmer Benge of Gary, and Hiram and Robert Benge of Brownsburg; two half brothers, Albert Benge, Jamestown, and Sam

+ Mrs. Martha

Benge, Marydale, Ky. and two half sisters, Mrs. Mary Jane

Mal. total of 3,406,363,000 bushels. The

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Indiana ranked third in the nation in the Argiculture Depart ment's record-breaking 1948 corn crop estimate yesterday with ani’ all-time high of 275,353,000

Department predicted the state's) corn yleld this year at 252,018. 000 bushels. The Hoosier estimate for 1048 was boosted along with those of all other corn-producing states. Nationally, the Agriculture Department jumped its July estimate 177,501,000 bushels to a

revious record crop was 3,287, 927,000 bushels in 19486. Lows Leads Nation Iowa led the country with a ¥1646,140,000-bushel yield predicted there as against 331,360,000 last year, Illinois was second. . The *"Agriculture Department forecast a 41-bushel per acre yield for corn, compared to 38.9

Bares $2000 Payoff By Russ for Spying

Soviet Embassy's ‘Al’ Paid Miss Bentley

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UP) —Elizabeth . T. Bentley said today that Anatol Gromov, first secretary of the Soviet embassy, gave her $2000 and told her she had been awarded the Red Star for her services as a spy on the American government. Miss Bentley told the House

.{ Un-American Activities Commit-

tee that the pay-off took place on the New York waterfront on Oct. 17, 1945, while she was under surveillance by FBI agents. At that time, ‘she said, "she knew Mr. Gromov only as “Al” Miss Bentley-has been the chief witness in a congressional investigaton of alleged Red undergrounds and Sovet spy rings in| the capital. At the time of the Russian pay~ off, which has been confirmed by | the FBI, she had renounced the | Communists and told the FBI her | story. But she was pretending | tsill to be working for the Reds Before she retured to the stand, the committee: ONE: Announced that a subcommittee will go to New York tomorrow to question’ two Russian citizens—teacher Mikhal Sa-

nounced their homeland and offered to tell what they know about Soviet designs on he rest of she world,

Jr., former government employee, deny he ever was an “agent of a foreign government.” Mr. Collins refused on constitutional grounds to say whether he is a Commu-

by Time magazine, had a prewar Red met in Collins’ apartment. Mr. Collins insisted he did not know Mr. Chambers. But he refused to} they say whether the underground met in his home. Chairman J. Parnell Thomas (R. N. J.) announced that Laughlin Currie, administrative assistant to the late President Roosevelt, will testify Friday. Mr. Currie's name has been men-

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indicated last month. The crop yhere - consultations are held, last year was 28.6 bushels per|j.aving Mrs. X sitting in the car.

marin and his wife—who have re-

TWO: Heard Henry H. Collins comes from the finance company

nist. Whittaker Chambers, former Communist now employed the payment book. There is no

underground here warning of a penalty for past

PAYMENT BOOK—This is the payment book Mr. It was their first indication they'had signed a contract obligating them 16 pay $65 a month for 23 months and $846.90 the 24th month, The total sum was not filled in.

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$2695 they said the salesman*tol the slip lists $2795. Balance o insurance rose fo $2341.90. Tdta

X, including their trade in, was $3441 90—just double the list price.

Buy Used Car for $2695; But You Pay $3441 for It

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Pretty soon, Mrs. X observes one of the men removing the license plates from her car and placing them on the shiny new one. She thinks Mr. X has made the deal in the shack, Mr. X returns and notices the license plate switch. He thinks Mrs. X has made the deal. $1595 to Be Financed The salesman explains he will give $1100 for the old car in trade for the new one. The sale price}; is $2695. That will leave $1595 to be financed say for two years. “How much will that run us a month?” ’

eyes, twitches, groans snd computes. About $80--$85 he says.

much. Mr. X agrees. At the first sign the deal is fading, the dealer himself rushes into the fray and assures the parties he can fix it up. How about $65 a month? He

uggests. That will be all right. Sign Blank Contract The next thing Mr. and Mrs. X | know, they have signed a blank | contract, assured this is hot-shot | business procedure. + Before they have had time to {think about what they have done, {they are driving .the new car {home and have left the old one lon the lot. Right behind them, is the dealer's minion who can't wait until tomorrow to get the title of the old car, which 1s at home, The dealer has to have the title that very night. Possibly the old car will be sold in the morning. (And more likely Mr. and Mrs. X may change their minds.) Comes Payment Book Two weeks pass and there

an instrument known as a payment book and this is what it says: 23 Payments at $65 each. 1 Payment at $846.90, Horrified, Mr. and Mrs, X study

other information on it except a due payments. they got from the dealer. Instead the new car cost $2795, a slight noticed. Ask for Contract

This can’t be, so the X's rush down to the finance company and

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Mrs. X protests this is too|Champion sedan which listed for

Then they study the yellow slip| demonstrator in Fairmount, W. Va., last April. It ost him $2000] of $2695, the agreed price, it says and had 2000 miles on it. 7

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ip the used car dealer gave Mr. and Mrs. X when they bought the "new" used car. Instead of

d them was the price of the car, $1695 with finance charges and | cost of the car to Mr, and Mrs.

The dealer says he does not give out contracts. Back to the finance company rush Mr. and Mrs. X, desperate. The finance man lets them see the contract, now filled out. This is the score: Purchase price ......, $2795.00 \Teade-in allowance

vo 00 1100.00 Balanee to be

cerasesnnss 1005.00 Cost of and insurance, etc. verses 846.90 Total payment due. ...$2841.90 Now Mr. and Mrs, X see the light. The new car which they thought would cost them “around” $1505 plus interest and insurance now costs $2341.90. They add their down payment to that and come up with the to-

$3441.90 for the new car--in this case a 1948 Studebaker

The car had made’ , even in its brief existence, “It been| around. ’ It was. like some ancient crown

jewel which confers & curse on the luckless mortal who unwittingly comes into its It had a chronic rear end and everybody had been having trouble with that.”

speedometer lied when it said 1500 miles. It should have ‘read 18,000, for the speedometer was in perfect working order. The salesman

In this, the Indiana “Dep ment of Motor Vehicles was an unwitting accomplice to the dealer, for it listed only one previous owner. It did not list an Shgtion

He ran it around until May 14

tion for $2215. The car Jound its way to Dayton, O., where it was

are: Robert C. Pratter, Don Raymond F. Cooney, John ey {Robert Baskerville, Ht oS BIL. Had. 0 il June Sait, of 1

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