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First Indianan Ever to Serve On Top Bench
. Times Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 —Judge Sherman Minton of the U. 8. Circuit Court of Appeals will be nominated by President Truman to become the first Hoosier to sit on the, U. 8. Supreme Court. :
President Truman announced his plan today to name the former
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Indiana Sénator to fill the high! court vacancy created by the re-, cent death of Justice Wiley B. Rutledge. ™ If approved by the Senate the appointment will climax a polit-| Prophetic NEW ALBANY, Sept. 15 (UP) — Sherman Minton once was told by the late President Taft during a law school class | discussion that he'd have to get an appointment to the Supremé Court to interpret laws his way, At Yale, where Mr. Minton was a graduate student and Mr. Taft his professor, Mr. Minton took exception to an explanation concerning a certain law. They argued heatedly when Mr. Taft interrupted and said: “I'tn ‘raid, Mr. Minton, that if you won't like the way this ‘law has been interpreted you will have to get on the Supreme Court and change it.” ; The statement was prophetic. {
‘Smooth Road
WASHINGTON, _ Sept.
ical career which began in the fate at the hands of his former office of Public Counselor at the «crony” of the old Truman-Min-Public Service Commission 16 ton days in the Senate—Mon C. years ago. Judge Minton was ap- waligren, former Senator and pointed to that state job by for- governor of Washington. mer Gov. McNutt in 1933. The Senate Armed Services During that 16 years Judge committee tabled the nomination Minton, called “Shay” by his as- ,0 vi, waligren to be chairman »
sociates, Sefved in every branch jos the powerful Nationa! Security of the federal government. Resources Board and now, it is
became ‘Indiana's = outstanding in j political reported, President. -Trygman. :is Defiocrat Tir he national pol waiting until Congress recesses
As a close friend of Gov. Mec-| to give Mr. Wallgren an interim Nutt, Judge Minton played a ma- appointment to this Job—thus jor part in the drafting of the having him in the job when Convast Democratic legislative pro- gress returns. gram of 1933 which amounted in| Judge Minton's nomination effect to Indiana's own “little goes to the Senate Judiciary ComNew Deal.” mittee and, although there are He remained only a few months anti. Truman Democrats on this in the Publie Counselor's post but 6 mittee. the commitfée is ex-
utility rate cases was credited pected 1o approve the nomination fd : : . speedily. with saving Hoosier rate payers aT Hee hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Wallgren and Minion situ In 1934, he was drafted by the ations are not quite similar in McNutt administration to ‘head that Mr. Waligren was nominated
the Democratic ticket as a candi- for a job for which he obviously
date for U. 8S. Senator. He de- had no experience. feated the Republican incumbent, Minton Has Experience Sen. Arthur Robinson, by a heavy
Judge Minton has judicial experience, having served on the SeYing his six year term mn the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals since then Senator from Missouri, Mr. May 29, 1941—being appointed by Truman. } President Roosevelt after his deThe personal friendship..which| feat for re-election as U, 8. Senagrew up between the two Demo- tor from Indiana. . crat Senators then carried over, The Senate Judiciary Committo the White House. Judge Min- tee, too, has set recent precedent Hoon Te Pras Toney [1 PPrOVIng. with but two aioo : senting epublican = votes, e fe) Bin Tyan Succeeded nomination of Tom C. Clark to . **€ Beaten for So Seve : ‘the Supreme Court. And this Judge Minton Was BRL od for Came despite the fact that there re-election in 1940 when Indiana Nad been a long feud elven Mr, went almost solidly Republican Clark and Committee alr behind-Hoosier Republican presi- Pat McCarran (D. Nev.). Sen. dential hopeful Wendell Willkie. McCarran has had no such feud Although he lost his Senate seat With Judge Minton. to former Sen. Raymond E. Willis| Appointment of Judge Minton is that year, his standing as a de. expected here to add more
margin.
. vout New Deal Democrat led to strength to the diminishing *lib-
his appointment as administrative eral” bloc of the high court. assistant to President Roosevelt. | Judge Minton had a record as When former Judge Walter an all-out New Dealer during his Treanor of the Circuit Court of one term in the Senate, 1935-41. Appeals died in 1941, Mr. Roose-| After the deaths this summer velt appointed Judge Minton to of Justices Frank Murphy and
succeed him. n Wiley Rutledge—the man whom
Judge Minton was born |
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ha Hire Handicapped Week Grateful,’ Minton Proclaimed by Mayor
ro . Says. of Choice Mayor Al Feeney today proNEW ALBANY, Sept. 15 (UP) claimed the period Sept. 26-30. as ~—Judge Sherman Minton today Hire the Handicapped Week.” said he was “profoundly grateful” The Mayor's action Jollewed a for President Truman's announce- Proclamation by President Trument that he would be nominated Man and an act of Congress call-
for .a vacancy on the U. 8. Su- ing for national observation of,
Handicapped Week beginning the
ft. preme Cour same date..
“I'm profoundly grateful for the President's confidence in me,” Judge Minton said when he learned from the United Press of the President's announcement. “I hope I may prove worthy and Bridge ......13 Othman ....31 1 shall endeavor to the best of my Comics ......39 Pattern .....12 ability to do so0.”.
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“Lewis Renews he Demand for
| Charges Coal Firm. . Pays 10 Cents a Ton | For” ‘Private Army’ BULLETIN PITTSBURGH, Sept. 15 (UP) ~CIO President Philip Murray | | today charged that U, 8, Steel | Corp. and other steel companies t | “are deliberately seeking to i | ‘force a strike upon the union and the American people.”
| WASHINGTON, Sept, 15 (UP)—John L. Lewis today
|made another demand on the
‘pel the Island Creek Coal Co. {to pay up on its royalties to the United Mine Workers Welfare Fund. Mr. Lewis’ new demand was in reply to a. telegram from 1. F. Freiberger, board chairman of the bank, denying that the bank con{trolled James D, Franeis, presiident of the coal company. Mr, Freiberger told Mr. Lewis {last night that the Cleveland {Trust Co. controlled only onethird of the company’s stock, but Mr. Lewis said: “A oné-third stock interest in a corporation!
‘Minton Appointment Faces \whose stack is so widely scattered
constitutes absolute and unqual-|
V w+. (ified control.” ! en | “You can control him if you!
Critics of Truman's ‘Government by Crony’
Silenced by Hoosier's Judicial Experience By EARL RICHERT, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
wish,” Mr, Lewis told Mr. eiberger. Mr, Lewis said Mr. Frei{berger has “personal'y” exercised that control for a long time. | Royalty Withheld Mr. Francis and a number of
15—President. Truman . continued his other coal operators have withpolicy” of “promoting personal friends in elevating Circuit Judge held their 20 cents a ton réyalty Sherman Minton to the U. 8. Supreme Court, . | The Republicans call this “government by crony.” But Judge Minton is expected to meet a much more pleasant sence
due the welfare fund since last month, contending that the abof a contract with the min-
Senate colleagues than did another ers absolves them of responsibil- disorder.
ity for the payments The miners’ contract expired June 30. Pay{ments on coal mined in July were |due Aug. 20.
- » ~ Hoosiers Praise . . Mr. Lewis charged that Mr. : J . Francis was. “the commander of inton's election = army of 600 privately-paid ! deputy sheriffs in Logan County,
W, Va.” He said the Island Creek Co. paid a 10-cemt royalty
‘on all voal mined to support the “army.” ’
_ ‘Happy. and Proud,’ Says Schricker
By ROBERT BLOEM Holds Firm Cin Pay Republicans joined Democrats I suggest “that if the Island today in approval of President Creek Coal Co. could pay royalty Truman's announceipent that he '© Support the Aiacks of un would name Hoosie# Judge Min- thugs on peaceful citizens,” it ton to the U. S. Supreme Court. Should ajso “pay royalty under Gov. Schricker, the state's num-/ It present commitments to care ber one. Democrat, said the an- fOr the injured and the ill in the nouncement should “make every Mining industry,” Mr. Lewis said.| Hoosier happy and proud.” : “I respectfully suggest that you, “The President's action,” Gov. call Mr. James D. Francis. to Schricker said, “is recognition for Cleveland and require nim to give one of Indiana's able and qual- 8N accounting to you of his mad ified sons, the first in fact ever Stewardship.
to receive such recognition. Judge Steel Walkout
Minton will bring a high degree
of qualification and dignity “ Believed Certain
‘Anything Nice’ PITTSBURGH, Sept. 15 (UP) ‘Over in the ‘Federal Building, — The prospect of a- nation-wide Judge Robert C. Baltzell. Repub- Steel strike Sept. 25 rose sharply lican veteran of nearly 25 years today as the JU 8. Steel Corp. on the federal bench here, com- And the CIO United Steelworkers mented: battled over the ‘recommenda“You may sdy anything nice fone of he presidential factthat you wish about Judge Min- neing boape. . . ton and quote me. He is.a fine’, | Presient Truman, meanwhile. judge and well qualified to hold eclined to comment on the steel
; stalemate beyond saying that he a place on the bench of the Su- hoped it would pe settled ‘peacepreme Court.” |
fully. Despite the fact that the ap- With only nine days left before pointment brought with it a blow
the strike deadline, the union and to Indiana's political ambition for: company appeared deadlocked two places on the U. 8. Circuit
over ‘the board's proposal for a Court of Appeals in Chicago,
company-financed insurance and State Democratic Chairman Ira pension program Haymaker also joined the gen-
for the steelworkers. eral approval of the President's Both the steelworkers and actign,
U. 8. Steel. major producer of the Treasurer of State F. Shirley! Industry, were determined not to Wilcox, like Judge Minton a “resi- S'irrender to each. other's dedent” of New Albany, called the mands. action “one of the finest appoint- Resentment throughout the steel industry against the factfinder's report .was mounting steadily and U. 8. Steel's stand POY SF Sulied the for Delghtened the likelihood of a Indiana but said he recognized | Strike of 500,000 basic steel workthat through It Indiana had lost a place on the Chicago- Appeals Court, . Judge Minton's seat on that court, it was reported, will go instead to an Illinois Republican. A newly created post on the Appeals bench; however, still was expected to go to a Hoosier, former. Indiana Supreme Court Judge Nathan Swaim. Judge Minton’s appointment, if approved, will leave the Chicago court with. three Illinois judges, and one ach from Indiana, Wis-
sibly have made.”
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Leahy Grid Picks Start Tomorrow
® Frank Leahy, famous coach of Notre Dame, joins The Times staff of stellar sports writers tomorrow to give you his pre-game predictions of week-end foot | ball. § . | ® Every Friday Leahy will
Sonja Henie to Wed run down the list of impor-
. ke tant games and tefl you in N. Y. Socialite Today advance what he thinks of
: statement “by Navy Secretary the winning prospects. Francis P. Matthews that no dis-' ; ® The Frank Leahy stories | ciplinary action was planned won fame and fortune on feeswill in The Times are MUST against Capt. Crommelin- at this be married . today to" Socialite Yeading for every football |yjnye, Winthrop Gardiner Jr. - an. : | It’ came barely an hour after gjari three iness fre seremon ? 2 2 Sarting Jomo « + + |President Truman told his news |S a sing viet oye 8: “Avenue Methodist SIVELY in The [conference he was taking no part ents and of being buffeted from | the Rev. Paul Otto, ~ Times. Ey Tithe Crommelin affair and that! place to place.” g Tom ago, When ET a ] = (it was entirely up to the Navy. | ! hoo : shar fl Te ¥
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‘Miss Universe’ Denies Betrothal
BOMBAY, India. Sept. 15 (UP) Nancy de Scaffa, ‘19-year-old Venezuelan beauty who was crowned ‘Miss Universe, 1048" in
today that she plans to marry the Shah of Iran. “Maybe I love him and maybe he loves me,” she said, “but that's as far as it goes.” She said the Shah had been a perfect host during her stay in
derful man.” “I would have been the happiest
marriage was out of the question because she is Catholic and he a Moslem. °
” = ~ NANCY plans to fly to New
planned visit to New York in vember, she sald with a smile: “That is pure coincidence.” The 29-year-old Shah was divorced last year from Princess
Farouk.
Erie Bonham
Dies in Pittsburgh
|ness and the dissolution of The! {Atlantic Commission Co., A. & Ps intendent of Ayres, Mr. Collins
Pirates’ Hurler, 36,
burgh Pirates hurler, died | Presbyterian Hospital today. The 36-year-old righthander, a veteran of both major leagues, had: undergone an-appendectomy last Thursday. The operation was complicated by an intestinal His condition took a sudden turn for the worse last night. His wife * had flown from their home in Sacra- *: "8 mento, Cal, to Ernie Bonham his bedside.
Bonham, *who had "won seven ito
games and lost four Pirates this year, complained of abdominal pains during the Pirates last road trip. When the club returned to Pittsburgh a week ago, the 215-pound hurler entered Presbyterian Hospital. Last Thursday he was operated on for appendicitis. Intestinal complications developed and his condition was critical after a three-hour stay in the operating room. . However, his condition improved and it was believed he would re-
cover until he suffered a relapse government:
last night. He was placed in an oxygen tent early this morning. ~—At—10:45 a. —m:he died of a cardiac collapse, Best Year in 1942 Bonham came up to the New York, Yankees in 1941 after 5 years in the minors. His best year was in 1942 when he won 21 games while losing only five and led the league in shutouts with six. His earned run average was: under 3.00 in 1942, 1943 and 1044. He pitched in three World Series for. the Yankees. . The Pirates purchased Bonham at the close of “the 1946 season. The. next year he won 11 games and lost eight. In 1948 his record dropped te six ‘victories and 10 defeafs. : ’
Defense Critic Loses Staff Post
WASHINGTON, Sept, 15- (UP) Capt. John Crommelin, the veteran Navy flier who cut loose with an unauthorized blast at unification last week-end, has been removed from his post on the
ers—at—11.01 p.m. Indianapolis staff of the Pentagon-high—ecom--
mand, it was learned today. Capt. Crommelin has accused the Army and Air Force of as-
partment to the detriment of the Navy.
to report to the Chief of Naval Operations for reassignment. There was no immediate indi-
cation whether he had bean trans- scrape sald to Judge Jose
ferred to sea duty or to another
shore post,
Word of his abrupt transfer from the Pentagon, where he had
been working as an aide to the Joint Army-Navy-Air Force high command broke on the heels of a
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U.S. Files Suit Three Others Climb
To Break Up
To Safety; Current
A&P. Chain CU! Off for Area
Seeks to Trim 6000 Stores to Around 800
—$l-Million Generating Unit Blows Up,
Burying Victims Under Mass of Debris y Times State Serviee . RUSHVILLE, Sept. 15—~Two men were killed and three others escaped serious injury when a $1 million power gen«
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 erating plant of the Southeastern Indiana Power Co. blew Iran and he is a “wise and won- (UP) — Attorney General J. up here today.
Howard McGrath today an-| ° woman in the world” if he had nounced that the government son, proposed, Nancy said, adding that 4 filed a civil anti-trust suit
to break the Atlantic and Pacific food chain stores into seven
retail food chains.
7 Mr. McGrath, in his first antiYork soon to start a film career. {st action since taking office, Asked whether her trip had any-| said the suit was filed in Federal ae +Cleveland Trust. Co. to. coms thing. t0..40. with, the . Shah's Court in. New..Xork. City against... No- the New York Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., Inc., of New York, and its nine subsidaries, and the
{two owners of the business. The suit seeks
trust case at Danville, Ill. Runs 6000 Stores
The suit also would require the New York A. & P, Co. the parent Des Moines, Ia.
firm, to separate
stores around the around- 800. The suit said A. & P.'s
practices” have had the
Affirmed by Minton
to eliminate Fawzia, sister of Egyptian King practices which were found illegal in September, 1946, when A. & P. was convicted in a criminal anti-
its manufac-' was with the D. Crawford & Co., jn turing and processing business from its buying and selling busi- Register Co., Dayton, O.
‘Victim of Appendicitis Wholesale purchasing and sales tailing field. He helped to shape
i > PITTSBURGH, Sept. 15 (UP) “phe suit. by asking that A. & P.| —Ernle (Tiny) Bonham, Pitts-'cq); at Jeast six of its seven retail” the formation of the store's
“unfair charge system of the time, .... "ity ) “direct! . On. the occasion of his 75th deathly silence settled ov effect” of setting up a two-price|birthday a reception was held for town and crowds began moving /Structure in the food industry. Mr. Collins in Ayres’ Auditorium toward the ! {The lower prices are- available/to which more than 1000 em{to A. & P. and the higher are Ployees attended. He was a mem- and nine |“necessarily paid” by A. & P.’s ber of the Pentalpha Lodge. Ma- scene. ‘retail competitors, it charged.
Pt certain areas in order to expand y hi
The dead were identified as John Wood, 33, of Henderand Elbert Cross, 34, Rushville, both engineers in the
sme plant. : : A. N. Collins Dies; , me, ye et ee Ex-Ayres Official i isn i
eastern part of Rushville on Ind. 34. , :
Three others who were Tn the building at the time of the explo sion managed to climb out. State police identified them as Bob Ratekin, Tony Barringer and George Kreher. Mr. Ratekin was treated at Rushville City Hospital for burns and bruises.. First reports said the entire top of the generating plant caromed into the air, with an explosion that shook most of the buildings town. Police Chief Julius Campbell During his 40 years as super- Sa he jag, yolice Deadyuartery “Seconds after that they called and said the power plant blew up,” he said. A : Trying to Reach Men ‘Eme Rushville and state
For 40 Years
Albert N. Collins, associated {with I. 8. Ayres & Co. for more than 40 years before his retirement in 1946, died yesterday at the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. Ernest Shipman, Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Collins came to Ayres’ in 1906 as general store superintendent from Younkers Brothers in Prior to that he
St. Louis, and the National Cash
became widely known iri the re-| Ayres’ service policies a aided
{employer - employee relationship. |
In divisions, would reduce the parent groyught to the store by Frederick police and sheriff's crews were company from ownership of 6000
M. Ayres, Mr. Collins, an expert trying to dig down into the wreck«
country to in charge systems, early in ‘the age of brick and masonry to.
1900's installed the most modern reach - the bodies of the men : After the expl
scene. Rushville ambulances physicians were at the
Three
State polise said one diesel ene gine in the east end of the genere
sonic order. Besides his grandjdaughter, Mrs. Shipman, he is
It also accused A. & P, of selld survived by two great grandchil-| ating plant developed a hot pise ing food at a loss temporarily in dren.
ton. Workmen attempted to get
Services will be held at Flanner it stopped but it exploded before
its business and recouping these & Buchanan, Saturday at 10 a. m.. they could act.
in other areas.
unanimously affirmed conviction of A. & P.
A. & P. did not appeal to the Supreme Court on that case, but
paid $175,000 in fines.
A. & P. Charges Suit Into Fourth Day
Hits Living Standards
Last Fepruary, Sherman Mi . ! n. U.S. "Circuit Court Judge at ert M.“Reilly. W. Rowland Allen. that power was off in"all 1¥ couns with. the Chicago nominated .to the Su- Carl Vehling, Robert Byrkett and preme Court today by President William J. Stout, all of L. 8. Truman, wrote the opinion which Ayres & Co. : the 1946
4 losses by charging higher prices is be followed by burial in Crown
The Public Service Company of
lll Cemetery. Honorary’ pall- Indiana, Inc., which supplies elec=
n- beaters will be Roy Guthrie, Rob- tricity in the Rushville area, said
ties served by Southeastern. Alert Canceled
John Mellett, public relations officer for the PSCI, said his company was asked an hour bee fore the explosion to be on the alert to offer stand-by service bee cause the plant was having trous ble. He said the alert was cane } celed before the blast, however, “Off-and-on-again’ chilling light and it was believed the trouble
Cold Snap Runs
NEW YORK, Sept. 15 (UP)— rain was expected to end by night- had been corrected.
The Great Atlantic and Pacific fall today as the fourth day of a the antitrust suit filed pojien Count. ..202 Per Cubic Yd. “threat to the ron [erga welfare and living Standards of 8 Standa 4 pr Lcordingfirm said it would fight the ac- Miller. tion by “every legitimate means.”
Tea Co. charged. today that
against it was a
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Wanna Hoss? LONDON, Sept. 15 (UP) —The Aga Khan, one of the world's wealthiest men, said today that he wanted to sell some of his race horses. “I've got too many,” he said. “I'd like to sell some of them.” The father-in-law of actress Rita: Hayworth disclosed his plans as he boarded a plane for Paris after attending the races at Doncaster, England. The Aga's racing sfring is one of tye woild's greatest,
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Boy, 16, in Trouble, Tells Judge Parents Not to Blam
Juvenile Court Investigators Find, However,
Youth's Homelife Was Unwholesome “By PHILIP ¥. CLIFFORD JR.
Persons acquainted with the in Rushville plant said it was con« verted from an old building seven or eight years ago at a cost of about §1 million.
late summer
cold . snap
Indianapolis draws to a close, ac-
80 by 100 feet in dimension, caved Partial clearing and a low of in and part of the walls collapsed. 48 tonight will ba followed by The blast occurred about 10:40 fair and warmer fomorrow, weath--a. m. er forecasters said. The mercury =
ould reach near 73 tomorrow. Ggack|er Probes Bell Financing
Warm moist air from. the Gulf pushed into the Midwest late yesThe State dug deeper into tele
{terday causing showers through-
“fout the southern half of the state phone financing today as the
as it flowed over the top of cool cross-examination of Indiana Bell surface air. Telephone Co. rate hearing wits Rainfall last night ranged from nesses moved into its fourth day. heavy in the Ohio Valley Region| « William KE. Steckler, publis to only .09 inch in Indianapolis counselor, put F. J. McDiarmid, and at Weir Cook Airport. vice president in charge of invest, v o TR rents for e- Lincoln ationa LOC AL TEMPERATURES Life Insurance Co.. Ft. Wayne, on
6a m.. i 10 a.m... 52 the stand for questioning on the Tam. 52 11a m.. 53 financing methods of the Bell 8 a.m... 51 12 (Noon) 54 |gystem. 9 a m.. 51 IL p.m... 535 | "Mr, Steckler asked the witness
“if. the practice of selling ‘cone vertible debentures” was not actu« ally a means of selling common stock when the latter was hard to sell on the open market. Mr, McDiarmid said it amounted to an indirect sale of common stock at the time of conversion,
The American Telephone &
Juvenile Court investigators who were ready to blame broken parent, has floated nearly $1
family ties and lack of homelife for a 16-year-old boy's turning to piring to swallow the defense de. burglary for food and clothes, found the youth unwilling to shift
his blame in a hearing today.
The young burglar became suddenly articulate when he found An ‘Informed source sald the his crimes were being transferred to 46-year-old flier has been ordered delivered what was almost a ser-
mon to the court,
“Judge, this is between you and tather.
IL" the boy in his first
Hoffmann. ents brought into it. “Usually parents get
he continued. “But
‘Parents Indifferent’
whenever kids like me get into trouble,” got into this mess m
want my folks left out.”
1'live with. his mother who had re- swung vself and 1 married. But court workers said into the effect of the installation
billion In convertible debentures since the war. These, testimony revealed, were made convertible to common stock under the mare ket price. | Seeks Actual Value Mr. Steckler was trying to get at the actual value of AT&T
“delinquent ~parents,” and the youth was an infant and he lived most of his life with his! who remarried and had
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police eight other children. The 11 per- COmmon stock which maintains ph O. . lived in one basement rn a $0 a year dividend. He pointed “I don't want my par-in a rooming house | : = {children sleeping in a few beds, Ona permanent deb: basis when blamed on the floor and in chairs.
with the out that AT&T sold debentures
it could not sell common stock A yéar ago the youth went to to the public.
The cross-examination
[the stepfather “wholeheartedly of automutic equipment on tele
{despised” the boy and frequently phone earnings.
Court workers sald, however admonished the. mother in the wr McDiarmid said automatis
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spend onetelephones improved the ‘service,
(parents, records showed the youth cent on this brat.” Because of his but that dial service called for a was arrested Sept. 12 for bur- stepfather's dislike, he returned higher grade of maintenance, and places to his fathér's crowded home and that with increased taxes and ine
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