Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1949 — Page 1

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Progress Made in All Sectors of Program,

Truman Asserts <o By JOSEPH L.MYLER _ United Press Stal Cotvéuqunbont WASHINGTON, Aug. I—Pr ident Truman today reported “splendid progress” and - te worthy Savances™ in. A-bom —A husky, 16-year-old, blond

production which he said should [American girl has come out give “reassurance and faith” to of fhe. shanty home of her § all peoples who rely: on this has p ts here and today’

“tion’s strength, The President in a Aatment is in- Tewgland, training fo reviewed the sixth semi-annual gwim: the English’ Channel, report of the Atomic Energy She is Shirley May France. Her Commission in which the AEC! (father, J. Walter France, was said production of “new and ‘moreionce a professional “swimmer | effective” bombs and their €x- hinjself and for years has been plosive contents has spyted to teaching: Shirley with the Channew highs, ' inel goal in mind, If ‘successful, Reports Wide Progress i Shirley will be the first Amer“Mr. Truman sak the commis = - sion’in the past six months has | made progréss ‘in every sector’) of ‘the $35 bililon project which has made “us stronger from aj mitary standpoint while at the! same time it promotes our peace-| time goals,” The -Presidént did not mention | the recent Senatorial investiga-| tion of mismanagément charges; against the commission. But he "said the country's atomic policy| “has the overwhelming support] of the American people” and| Today, however, the water added; was calmer. “As I review the state of this - " nation’s atomic energy program, ican to swim the 19 niles of tide ~1-firmly believe that -the people rips and currents since 1926 and of the United States and all who the youngest person of either rely on the strength of this nation | sex ever to complete the journey. have reason for Siggurance and | Shirley hopes to make the swim’ Lfalth>_ ~ batere her 17th birthday on Aug. Huge U ranium Supply The board gave assurance. to) Congress that “enormous ton-|

Trained 5 Years For 19-Mile od |

cant of Four Articles. iy RICHARD

SOMERSET, Mass, Aug. 1

DOVER, England, Avg. : (UP)~—Shirley May France got. her first real taste of the English Channel today and stroked a leisurely two and a half miles ' to warm up for her cross-chan- * mel try later this month. The Somerset, Mass., high school girl was in the water for 20 minutes yesterday but a storm forced her to curtail what was to have been her first practice session in 12 days.

ie will fell-her story excluigively in The Times.

- nages” of Jow grade uranium ores! in this country guarantee sus-| tained bomb production even if higher foreign raw material sources should be cut off. The report made no direct ref-| erence to. the forthcoming nego..tiations with Great Britain and Canada on exchange of atomic

did it allide to the congressonal investigation of “inered-|

BH ‘against

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y, _ Aug.:1 (UP)~—The United Nations Conventional. Armaments C today spproved

- charges

Shirley looks a typical whole-

somé small town girl. She's hapIpiest in a bathing suit but likes to dress in blue jeans, tee. shirt

1and saddle strap shoes. She wears

no makeup. What sets her apart is a combination ‘of heart, lungs and muscles which already has earned her distance Swimming

ition to. swim her way to fame

{financial rewards.” Shirley wants neither fame nor’ fortune Yor herself. She iy Nithem so she can get her comity out of their ‘ramshackle home. “The France home Is ‘one-story. | roofed With red tar paper ani covered . with imitation brick!

~~ Shirley May France _ gh ~Mired in; Taxes—

oaf of Bread Baked

Here Bears 151 Levies

with the hope thst it may bring

Million Dollar” Saving Seeh as Firm Plays Trump Card

. _By DAN KIDNEY fram one ipl aman— Sa - WH OF

WASHINGTON, Aug, 1—Pan-| handle Eastern Pipeline Co.| played a trump card today by offering to bring natural gas to {Indianapolis by July 1, 1950; an “build its own pipeline from’ its. Zionsville plant to do so. According. to previous testi-| mony before the. Federal Power) Commission - this would: mean a| . (savings to the Citizens ‘Gas and] {Coke Utility of Indianapolis of] {more than a million dollars. | The .offer, supported by. corre-| spondence between parties in-t {volved, was presented © at the ko [fourth of ‘the Indianapolis gas! ~. thearings' today’ vefcre FPC Ex[aminer Edward P. Marsh. f ¢ |" Vice President Fred A. Robin{son of. Panhandle was the ~witness, He identified mu letter which he {sent to the. Indianapolis. hoard) {of directors making the offer of {delivery of the requested 10 mil{lion cubic feet of natural gas+on July 1, 1950, with an increase to {15 million in 1951, . 11952, 25 million in 1953 and what- | lever is contracted for in 1954 and! “ithereafter for 15 years beginning!

Victim of Careless Kids

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20 million in+™

{July 1, 1850. - 8

Reply Introdue ed

|. Copy of an answer to this con- | act offer ‘was Introduced “Which | showéd that the Indiangpotis au ithaorities:

preferred to det tHE FER

decide who would provide the |

gas. It cited previous testimony of |

Texas Gas Transmission to pro-! vide Texas Eastern Big“ Inch-| Little Inch) with the gas for. In-| jdianapolis delivery. | The reply “to iibandle was isigned by E: W. Harris, president | {of the board of trustees for utili-| ities, and B. Elsey, B the board of directors. t* _2The city has intervened in four proceedings before the FPC| | without favorable results,” the {letter stated. It then pointed out = ithat non of the companies “|wanted to supply Indianapolis {when the city's case was launched {last March on the grounds that

1 “they had no } ith the - askin companies

ready to make Indianapolis de- | livery next summer, it would be | necessary for-“the city to c¢éonstruct ‘a 55-mile connecting Jine

president of mE

+'the sidewalk at Lexington Ave. . an Grove BU

Mrs. Rella Long

when he swung at the ball. She was treated By a physician on ~ a General Hospital ambulance. and sent home. - A widow, Mrs. Long is wor- | ried about getting back to her

Mrs. Relia Leng, 50. was “wishing “those kids would be more careful” today as she was confined to bed at her: home, 1022 Fletcher Ave. aftér being ~hit-geeidentally by a baseball a ‘bat yesterday while walking.on & Ca.—her chief means of sup HITE wetting t : even to walk on the sidewalk.” ‘she sighed. a decent place to play, things wouldn't happen.”

Mrs. Long said she was struck painfully in the chest by a bat which flew out of the hands, 8 10-year-old boy

these

job as a packer at L. 8. Ayres |

Police » Search Entire Building

For Missile

FBI: Agents Probe. Anonymous Call. ‘Giving Warning Five hundred government pl were evacuated from U. 8. government of. fices in 342 Massachusetts

anonymous telephone. call, to police that a bomb was set to expode in ‘the butlding. City police and agents of the {Federal Bureau of Investigation

-lordered all. workers out of the

building at 10:11 a. m. Employees

{Massae

ectts Ave, and filtered into, ‘nearby restaurants to drink coffee “while city police searched the building from basement to No Trace Found No trace of a bomb was found. {Department heads assisted police {in a desk by desk and drawer by |drawer search of “the offices. | ~The building, a former ware house, houses 16 government lagencies. Federal workers milled {on the sidewalk, talking and laughing excitedly, and then bee ‘came bored. {It was determined workers an be permitted to re-enter at 1 P-4 m.

“If the children had |

[10:08 a. m. A man said: “I cant talk. Tre being watched. There is a

Ave. this morning on an

in the plans for & world census of all

armaments except the atomic bomb. Russian delegate Semyom K. Tsarapkin charged beere TT

to Texas Eastern at an estimated

Many Other Hidden “Imposts Running tof $2.2400000 cos a ceord v Far Back Into Process ‘Notiincluded previous testimony in the Ty :

By EARL SICHERT, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer fe Estimales 18 "Miles “WASHINGTON? Aug. 1-- Without digging very deep, the Tax "Mr. Robinson estimated [Foundation has found 151 hidden federat- “and stats- taxes. on a Panhandle. line. to. the, city. dhs,

loaf of bread. | miles, but previous expert opi , nion eS ectey for NT} was a loaf of bread made and sold in In- {presented by’ Indianapolis OR

jit at 25 miles and a cost of

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State Marshal -

Probes Two Fires °

“Three Barns Burned |

building. It'll go off in 10 or 15 minutes.” : Er Get Ev body: Out Miss Lud said she asked {who was Milking. The man an-

Report 9. New Polio Cases; Hope. Pinned on Cool Spell

Parents.Here Urged jo Keep Sick Children Gtr “te-buildiag: a From Gatherings; Muncie Sprays bor 23 mm Only nine - new cases of polio were Teported over -the he nian bung up; she inf

commission that the - United States, and not Russia, was engaging in ap arms race as the groundwork for Waotld War 11.

to) Ant talk. Get everybedy.

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Snapen LR only-were the federal and state taxes paid by $1,077, ;500.

{| th ocer, the baker, the con- ;~ 3 a the ingredients | manufacturer in Chicago, the uy Another letter, presented-today’ { that went directly into the yeast factory in Chicago—and b re obinson; revealed jthat bread “and the railroads that | the railroads that transported |r anhandle can get | ddditional gas hauled the ingredients. all these ingredients. (from Gulfcoast Northern Gas Co.

x wx a . If = these concerfis - weren't | Risa, Okla -if FTC Approy es NO LOCAL taxes were count-_| Tosing money, they were passing pany’s construction“of a

and Chairman David-E. Lilienthal Ti Ti bye Ben: Bourke B. Hicken oope With $40,000 Loss Bat it said “actions have ‘been; -. State Fire Marshal's investi] taken to improve and make more gators began probing two farm gertain the supply of faranium)! [fires in the westerirand southeast-| ores both from abroad and’ from in sections of airn County] Sy eou:pany's cons out sources in the Unfted States.” | Yesterday which destroyed nearly! ‘ed nor was any attempt made | : ; yrpus- Christi, And it asserted, as though in 340.000 worth of farm équipment.. to add in taxes paid by such | their tax costs along in the bills Zak to. Norris City, Il, where answer to Sen:-Hickéniooper that! ~ Origin of both fires" was unde-Fgar.pack factors in the chain | [hey ¢harged for their products |Tanhandles line would make con- i 0 wide polio epidemic brought tp m8 pg “the past six moriths have brought| termined by stunned farmers who, of “production as the farmer | and services, Altogether, Tax nection. This new pipeline would the state's. total from Jan. 1 to) ; Jy S6iren n° the basément "6¢ changes and "advances in “all Moved through debris of their wpq w the wheat or the | Foundation researchers figured Ave &-daily sales capacity of ap- July 31 to 242. In the same pe- the faithtul sruture. brick ‘and stone

Yesterday barns salvaging mechanical equip-| v {proximately 550 million. = cubije ~phases of the national atomic) g quip manufacturer who made (he that these supplying concerns | riod last year 81 cases were re- aig€d in family-devotions by two energy program”.ifi which Amer]. TENT and" TeNOvIRg dead MVE "ven pans. T= PREIE. seetothe letter stated ~The fetter rd re-otshectrtretgiots-brond- ~Retattvey ANXions . | Word of the police search ot

pA have invested $3.5, stock. PANS hess for thé ax] and the transporting railroads was written by Panhandle to the feasts and sermons printed in} billion since 1942 { The first fire lait night broke) foundation, a tax study or- paid.a total of 124 federal and | Tulsa company and set out points, gs newspapers as all churches reATH Cancer Troafment—— —tout-on-the-farm of Herb Ristow. ganization. found- thatthe -Hn-{ state. taxes—not counting any or agreement in the matter. ..: this week-end and the mained Closed. ithe. building‘ for the bomb, caused Radioactive. elements produced. & Co. in 57 N. Roena Ave., off the dianapolis ‘grocer, a small -in- | state taxes for the rail oads, Patrick "Smith, one of —the for the year remained st 2 “TAVerns Were open for SRT WHR in atomic piles, the report said, Rockville Road. ¥t rapidly got! dependent, paid four federal |= battery of attorneys Appearing. gix of the nipe ar were earry-out sales and seated only} there ‘to come to the scene seek are advancing diagnosis and treat- Out of control. despite efforts! tsxee—individual income tax, Times. Index [Tor the city and utility, Has been. reported in the stages three polio {00d customers Saturday. Owners ing information. ment of disease, particularly can-|0f township fire apparatus to put| 5 per cent tax on his telephone, | — | fNghting against Panhandle -de- «p4 spots,” Randolph, Jay and {sald theyawould tontinde this pro-| FPassersby swelled the throng Aerts 6 Movies .. lay. {Delaware Counties. Three new cedure for the duration of the, which: overflowed from tlie avenue ban. into nearby restaurants and Health authorities annoynfed taverns to wait out the search

cer. and are helping to produce it out. It destroyed a 100x70-foot| 3 ner cent tax on transportation | oo 16132 more fruitful seed corn and other Darn which contained six tractors, of property and 20 per cent on | Eddie Ash .. 1] My Day 4 cases brought Jay County's polio > b Novel ....v0 total singé Jan. “1 to 46, the] { all funerals will be private and bY golice, firemen; FBI agents asked friends of bereaved fam- and three custodians,

food plants. jand os machinery and dam-| pig, safety deposit box. 16! He v chi " ra lidit The report dealt at length with|aged a Jreenhouse, causing an; . The baker, a large national Business .... 8 Othman .... 9 of Bp iy hallenge \be pealigity highest ih the. state. progress made in biological and|¢Stimated $20,000 damage. | corporation that owns its trucks, [Classified 13-14 Patiern .... 5 on the groiinds that it could in- Thefe were fhree new _con|Crossword .. firmed cases In Randolph County ilies to co-operate by making only! On the first floor of the build< brief. calls at mortuaries. {ing are the offices of the Social Guests invited to one of the Security Administration of the

medical research carried out or| Two Barns Burn | paid eight federal taxes—a cor- olive. : : financed by the commission. High-| The second fire destroyed two De aticy income tax, stamp Editorials +o 10 Ruark .. vee late Eich. the one in Delaware County.| “lights included: tbarns and damaged a third and| taxes on -its security transfers Food ....... 5 Side Glahces 10 FPC if its “rolled:rate” provosals making each a total of 29 cases 10 Society 4 are accepted. , A since. the start. of the year. jeity’s” largest weddings of the Federal Security Agency and the 16 Sports TB Yo8eph Daniels Pamhandie| Other Counties Report ~~ [Year —were—asied-not—to- -attohd -Publie—Butidings—A Other - counties reporting new in a special newspaper bulletin|of the Federal Works Agency,

ONE: It may be possible to[a milk house op the farm of Byron! ang issues, the telephon is ‘build up resistance to atomic ra-| “Southeast of New Bettet|" ‘the telegram tax of 25 pe tT Hollywood i 3, Teen Prob. . Blcounsel from Indianapolis, re-| a ty immediate family mem Weather Ma G-appeared in the case 1 i- cases were Blackford two and an on id P Pp oday al The epidemic bers attended thé service on Sai-| Other. Offices Included On the second ficor are offices

Itoday and health authorities pinned hopes for a decrease in n police.

‘the Evacuation of the building, die

rected by Supt. Emerson Parrish, While the State Board of Health officials voiced no Aptimism p.o.., immediately. Within mins

* ovéy the low figure for-the week-end period, it contrastes favorably ies three squads of police, led to several days last week when as, - §QCAL TEMPERATURES by Capt. Michael Kavanagh wers high as 17 cases were reported in’ ga. m....58 10 a: m... 78 there to assist in evacuation: one 24-hour period. i 11 am... 75 | Police made a. hurrie = The nine latest cases in-the 12 (Noom) 18 of the: building, concentrating

cases on the cooler weather which moved Into Indiana ‘ove week-end.

~ Death Yoll at 25 There were no pew polio d

May Challenge Proposal

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male sex hormones and a protein Rd. Mr. Wicker estimated his| cent for ofclals traveling on |Inside Indpis. constituent called cysteine. It has damage .at. more than $17,000. company business, the transpor- Dr. Jordan .. worked with mice. - {Five calves were burned to death.| tation ‘of property tax, the safe Mrs, Manners 0: Treatment of radiation) Firemen from Fleming. Gar-| deposit tax and the 1 per cent Marriage ... sickness among casualties of dens. Rockville and Mickleyville,| of pay roll soc faleagcurity tax; atomic attack may be made more aided. Tater by Indianapolis, ul “ effective by toluidine blue and pro-| fought the Ristow. blaze over. TOGETHER: the. grocer and “taming, substances found to tWO and & half hours T “baking concern paid 15 state check bleeding caused by. radia-| Mr. Wicker was awakened by, taxes. with the bakery paying . tion. smoke about 2:15 a, m. He told “four-fifths of them because of THREE: Radioactive élements/tiréemen that éne barn was worth jts corporate status. and the have been used effectively in $10,000 was “already destroyed: gasoline and -motof vehicle treatment of thyroid capcer and Firemen,” who fought the blaze) taxes on itd.trucks. Included in | two blood diseases, leukemia and OVer an hour, were unable to the state taxes-paid by the bak- | polycythentl véba; to locate brain dave an adjoining barn worth ing concern was four corpora- | ‘tumors, to diagnose maladies re- $3000 and. $1500 damage was ‘tion taxes pald in. Delaware + sulting from lack of hormones,(done to the roof and ore side of since the concern is chartered | and to relieve ‘pain and distress|@ third barn. | there. Both the grocer and -the in two kinds of heart disease,| Five calves, worth $25 each,| paier pay @ Indiana gross inangina - pectoris ‘and congestive,Weére burned in the ‘blaze. Mr.! come tax. heart failure. Wicker said that 20 cows had] i The commission said the past heen turned out of the first barn half year wroduced a ‘marked ad- 10 pasture last ara with base h mills from which come the flour vance” ip output of uranium-235 A three-story barn with ‘base-i'haiq seven federal taxes and "and pliionium, These bomb ex-| Tent. f Fant Missouri. state taxes, And _ plosives, the report said, are “be Other Damage | the rafiroad that hauled the flour produ in greater quanti-| ‘Mr. Wicker valued the de-| to Indianapolis: paid five fed: ol than e before” and at a 'stroyed plow at $225 and the ‘eral taxes and a varying numunit tost nearly 30 per cent low- milking machine at. $175. The| ber of taxes to éach of. the ‘er than that of 1047. | milking house also was dam- states through which it operdtes — h aged: sanity Hlinois and. IndlGra Lo The grain loss included $2400 ana on this particular Haul, nd Jury Launc es worth of hay, $65 worth of corn! . The sugar that wént Into the Baby Death Inquiry A Grand Jury ‘today began Mr, Wicker said.

{ahd $150 worth of clover. séed: bread came from “a large refining concern in New Orleans and hearing witnesses in the case of ¥ire did not reach; the resi: ‘the refiner paid eight federal Billy Burke, Edwards and his wife dente. taxes and six Louisiana state “Brenda, charged by police with Mr. Wicker had wcrupied the taxes. The railroad hauling the © the, death of: their 7-month-6id (arm since he returnéd from serv- +SURAL nda paid five federal daughter, Beryl June, the morn- ice with the Cbast Guard in 19486. taxes and.a Whole flock of state , ing of July 20 in their home, 2105 His ‘brother, James, has the ad- . " Gent. Bt. Prosecutor George” 8.! joining farm. * THE STORY " the same fon Dailey po tf first: degree mur “In@ianapolis Pumper 25 and the the salt warehouses in Chicago, der indictment of the 2 Yourid Actor“ and Franklin Township the malt Tompany in Chicags. “World-War II veteran and hl fire companiés battled the blaze. the shortening ™anufacturer in wife, until 3:30 a. m; rh ey i, Clacinnati, the

‘diation through injections ef fe- early this morning on ‘the Senour| (pe transportation tax of 15 per {In Indpls. Joe Williams 11 though his law partner. G.| R. Vanderburgh one. a urday.

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Earl Wilson. 7 "Redding, handled the questioning crossed no new county lines, with| 5 £ v 9 ig The, county fair al#o has been for four Stout Field Air Reserve

Women’s “ee of Mr. Robinson. «still only 45 counties reporting - - “| polio cases. cancelled "and all = city recrea- units, the Indianapolis sub-office |" ‘Marion County’s total remained tional facilities closed. The mayor of the Air Forces, the Labor De« “lat 20. City Health Officer Dr. #aid, fhe ban would continue in/partment’s Wage. Hour and Puhe Gerald Kempf said polio had hot/Torce: during thé emergency. lie” Contracts Division and the reached an epidemic stfige in Ir-| 31h Indianapolis the Red Cross Public Roads Administration of dianapolis but advised parents to ahtjounced i had obj ined five the FWA. . In Exclusive Times Articles take all precautions to keep sick,more’ local nurses to. serve In The office of the Housing Exe . children away from public gather-|polior wards at, Riley and Bong pediter.- the Indianapolis Defense Once called “Paradise of ‘the Pacific,’ the Hawaiian lands” ings and to seek immediate medi: Hospitals and said one more was Office, the ~ Rent Control and are the center of a new and bitter struggle for economic and val attentiin. for any Hind litical or. While health authorities hesi- ; tated to lnk the apparent wane If. the Communist echniques in the aiempled conquest of of the disease with three: days Hawaii. succdbd, that experi- of cooler weather, past history ence can be employed else.

wp ri ————— ri flogr. The entire fifth floor is Thief Holds Child =ot.to the Federal Hou of polio indicates the disease As Hostage ‘While where and on a larger scale. moderates in cool weather, Edwin C. Heinke, assistant

Administration's s Indiana office, - ‘Society Matron Found | {Im Muncie, Where the critical Robbing Home Dead, Butler Shot : h . + spread of polio brought a ban - + managing editor of The Indian- - all Pabi aatheriags. health, CHICAGO, Aug. 1 (UP) URLARLOTTE. -N. .C.. Aug. 1 apolis Times, has.completed an authorities hoped . the combina. drunken gunman értérsd a South] Caro. exhaustive research of the tense situation in Honolulu.

Heinke to Report on Hawaii= Test:Tube for Communists—

needed at Riley. {Rental Otfices are on the fourth

a THE KANSAS CITY flour

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A L(UP)--A 88-year-old Now lina society matron wi _|8ide home early inday, seized a as shot to pon apr 2ig-year-old girl as -a ‘hostage, ., death and hier butler seriously . ounded by knife slashes h f ' the/ban would bring relief to tha-and forced her father to tie up(¥ In ‘a It's the story of .a second stricken. city his wife and His mother-in-law. mysterious attack at a swank -Poagl Harbor—a story of how |" “Meanwhile, nine’ ‘mote. ks: ae threatened to kill the child home ina subyrb here today. & hard core of trained Com: pected and. confirmed polio cases| [ifhis commands were Siaobeyed; Officers - found Mrs, | munists is is ‘strangling the - com- | were admitted to Ball Memorial: the ower and fed with 50 re of 8 Rend ii ay merce and disrupting the lives [Hospital over-‘the ‘week-end, five| {from the family budget bank-and ko SERIE, dead an: “of 540,000 inhabitants ol the {from Muncie and Delaware Coun- [$150 im Jewelry. [pedro of her fashionabl * Yorrilory, ty and. four from nearby commu- hui < Hae She ha Hick As iN me I nities. (WIL LIAM MeCARY, 29, said(PY 2. 410-ga shotgun "blast - 9 my an avy offi 1 A radio appeal for additional his wife, Doris, ' 28. their| \Which-tore into her chest. cials “kndw. what- is behind the . il registered’ nurses. Tollowed the duughter. Sharon, and Mrs. Me-| The A3-year-old - servant, Wie 4208 90-day longshoremen’s strike. 4 N ned admissions and. hospital, ai: Cary’s .mother, Mrs. Esther Par. ford ' Randlernan, was found 3 Hawaii's Gavernor . Stainback [thaorities also asked county com- pelt, +i Aakened by the door-islumped in the ‘butier's quarters knows what the situation is. missioners for" an increase in or. a apt R Joie a ond he house. » trail of. blood eh | ow Sa’ : ost gn fund: fiom the State Board, In paemern bnion.* [yard Hie. wast [bond "se ney all about it<=but ‘nobody has Tp 1 fam rom Atle Board. The ‘gunman pushed t her ¥ A *itet dane anything to ey n Edwin C. Heinke {of “Health remained In“Muneié 10 into their Aree room Sasemeqt| Pita] with his, throat cy cy ny” Heinke's first of several on-the-scones reports will tart milk * solids | in imes tomorrow.

direct a study of ‘the epidemicifiat. = After th, robbery, the gun. head d battered by crushing ‘which has - claimed 36 victims, man Beds ving the chia De ea 1 ny Sol . (since the. first, of the year, hind. . «3;

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