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Night Garb Has - Gruesome History

By OPAL CROCKETT

Law officers. have shared ExSheriff Otto Ray's food and slept

Senators Hit Military Waste

Plan Combines Ideas Of Hoover Committee, Defense Department

‘By PAUL R. LEACH © Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Apr. 21— Here is the plan on which Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and the Senate Armed Services Committee are working to eliminate accounting and budget waste In the Army, Navy and Air Force: ONE. On “top levels” lay down & unified military plan to be followed by the nation in the coming year. TWO. List total requirements of all services In relation to the| approved plan's military setup, THREE. Prepare an accurate inventory of weapons, and all other usable properties on hand showing whether they are modern or need replacement or reFOUR. Stdte the total amount of weapons, equipment, food and clothing, etc, that have been ordered, but not delivered. FIVE. List-all unspent funds appropriated by Congress which can be used in buying ‘needed

pajamas.

shals, county sheriffs and police officers from all over the country peeled them off. fast upon learn-

by the last man legally hanged in Indiana. “Braggarts and tough sheriffs from Texas crawled out of them in a hurry- when I told them George W. Barrett borrowed them for his ‘hanging suit’ to mount the scaffold Mar, 24, 1936,” Mr. Ray. said. Some walked off bravely, pajamas under their arm, laughingly asking for a stiff drink. But in two hours the paJamas hung on a chair, Mr. Ray knows because he crept into the spare bedroom and checked. The pajamas are now 13 years old, but only Mr. Ray has spent a full night in them, ~ Killed Government Man ; Barrett : was convicted and] hanged in Indianapolis for murdering a government officer at College Corner, Ind. He went to| federal court In a wheel chair, having been wounded in an ex-! change of shots with the officer! he killed. |

Meat Defendant | Sues for $75,000

Asserts Prosecution ‘Instigated by Malice’ Roy W. Brown, one of 13 defendants in the “horseburger” arrests, today filed a suit in Superior Court 1 asking $75,000 damages for financial losses and “mental anguish.” Brown, accused of operating a horse slaughtering house at 5430 E. 30th 8t., named as defendants

over them. SIX: Set down needs in dollars over those unspent funds. SEVEN: Amend the Unification Act to give the Defense Secretary full authority over budgeting by all services and make their accounting systems uniform. EIGHT: Budget on a “func-

all “operational” basis. Copyright, 9, by Indi nd easy ite Snapalls. Time

N Hector Robertson, 3015 N. Irving- ete ne Harding ; t he S REMOVAL SALE on A ver E. Wi He said he and his wife had had| The } In hi it B | nec e d e FUR COATS arrest Bo wy harged Bla) she Jrept nagging me about snor- are: L wii Sass Than : and that the defendants in con- ng. Workmanship Cost certed acts and agreement . , . To S Hoo er The Newbys had been married WOHLFELD formed a malicious prosecution , Hor 35 years,

and brought about the wrongful abuse of process of law.”

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Charges Damage He sald he was damaged business credit, financial stand-|. ings, loss of business and mental! pain and. anguish.”

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Bedroom Ransacked; $120 Loss R

A burglar who crawled through the dasement window today escaped with $120 from the home of| Mrs. Catherine Hamlet, 53, of! 1027 N. Tremont Ave. Mrs. Hamlet said a door facing also bore marks of attempted entry and the bedroom of the home was ransacked,

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Otto Ray's “sleepers” leave sheriffs sleepless.

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Analyst's New Book Sees Red Armament

At Peck in 3 Years

NEW YORK, Apr. 21 (UP)— George Fielding Eliot, military analyst, believes that the United States for its own safety may have to threaten Russia’ with . |atomie attack unless the Soviets mend their ways before 1952, In his new book, “If Russia Strikes—," published today,

sia may have the atomi¢ bomb, a long-range air force, improved alr defense and a schnorke submarine fleet after three years.

would live in constant fear of Boviet attack and a war of mu-

sians are curbed or change their

« oo 1 “I sort of took an interest in Streets for three days—but only donates his services as an invest; postile attitude toward non-Com-

Barrett. When he wanted to ‘look | 20 people entered the scaffold en-! gator to the Indiana Society for decent after dropping so far’ I closure to view the actual hang-|the Prevention of Cruelty to Anipajamas since|ing, Mr. Ray recalled. Otto Ray was sheriff from 1935 later a deputy sheriff investigating cases involving cruelty to animals. He now

offered him my my suit didn’t fit him,” the exsheriff explained. Thousands of people thronged around the jail yard at Alabama and Pearl

Woman Jaywalker Kills Wife Who Disliked Snoring

Conks ‘John Law’

WASHINGTON, Apr. 21 ~AUP)=Mrs. . Helen Zeliff, 42, was arrested for jaywalking. When the arresting officer called for a patrol wagon, she suggested a cab instead for the trip to jail. The officer insisted. Mrs. Zeliff, equally insistent, reportedly conked him with her purse. She was freed on $600 bond--$100 for the traffic violation and $500 for assaulting an officer.

‘Radio Theater” second, and

Hooper ratings for the “Top| daytime programs give) “Our Gal, Sunday” first place, “Ma Perkins” second, and Arthur Godfrey third. = Fatings for the “First Fifteen” programs are: Walter Winchell 26.8; “Radio Theater” 254; Jack Benny 22.5; Fibber McGee and]

10.3; “Stop the Music” 18.9; Bob Hope 18.8; Arthur Godfrey's Tal-| ent Scouts 18.7; “People Are Fun-| ny” 16.1;: Amos 'n’ Andy 158; “Duffy's Tavern” 15.1; “Mr. Dis-| trict Attorney” 15.0; “This Is! Your FBI” 14.3; Dennis Day, “The Fat Man,” and “Suspense”

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mals. He and his sister Miss Anna he :aid,

Ray live on Road 29 and 79th Street. Miss Ray formerly managed the Spencer Hotel restaurant.

Asserts He Couldn't Stand Her Nagging

KANSAS CITY, Kas, Apr. 21

(UP)—A

Earl

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prominent 68-year-old

businessman shot and killed his/ wife early today after she had Japanese Find Alibis awakened him and complained that he was snoring.

B. Newby, owner of a

widely known Kansas City sign

“family trouble for 10 years and 'given for not taking more baths

today against Newby. accept the international control Mrs. Newby; rushed to Bethany of atomic energy, and open your Hospital, died shortly after the borders to the -agents of the shooting. world atomic authority, or we “When she woke me up, I just shall procee' to the destruction went haywire,” Newby sald. “The Newbys—have-four -grown Supporting elements (such as machildren, all married. A daughter jor power stations) by the use of and son-in-law, who live with/OUr own air-atomic weapons.” them, notified authorities. Has Year to Decide

|For Not Taking Baths

‘are servicing nearly two-thirds of company, admitted the shooting! Japan’s population these days but orally to County Attorney Harold even at that they’re-not too husy,

away from home, ; Mr. Harding sald a first degree] THREE: Thieves steal your “Program Hooperatings Pocket| murder warrant would be issued clothes while you soak. PIECE” for ADF. 15, TElORBEA 10-[ m————— A — “In'day, ranks Walter Winchell first, |

Newby was held without bond| Major Eliot says Russia has in the pM jail. about a year in which to decide sessresn—— whether to attack Western Eu-

tainty of over-running Germany, Holland, Belgium, Denmark and northern Norway. France, he believes, would topple either by invasion or a Communist coup. By the spring of 1950, however, increased Allied strength resulting from the Western Union and the Atlanti ' Treaty probably could hold up a Soviet attack on the Rhine, he says. : He believes the western powers will hold their new superiority in arms only until about 1952, however. Thereafter, any war would

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ONE: They cost too much. TWO: The baths are too far

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Gives Logical Solution for Meat Surpluses PEORIA, TI. (UP)—The problem of surpluses of livestock and grain would be solved if Ameri-

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dent of the Tllinols Agricultural Association. > Mr. Shuman recommends that leach person in the United States eat at least four more pounds of

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SALON (UP)—Gr ‘mer Gree sentenced today fo - snurder of Broadcast ent last, A 10-ms los guilty murder

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