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By ANDREW TULLY Seripps-Howard Staff Writer VV ASHINGTON, Sept. 6 —If you're lucky, you can get away with murder

her’ veported —but only temporarily, cation today Riley Brown McCaine of ’ Dwight Bi Houston is not around personnt and 12 are “ally to vouch for this, having enson, died in the. electric chair Aug. ( ‘Poll ater 20, 1948. But his case s almost os as “inde a perfect illustration of how a ed." murderer's luck eventually runs r papers have out, 863, the pub- McCaine had more fool luck e Stevenson than even a law-abiding citizen ation of 149,- can expect from fate. On the vendents and very morning after choking a

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ower list than Innocent bystander in disposin 12 Hoosier of the body. And to i teyenson tied police throughout the nation largest num- looking for him, he was ar- + Democratie rested on minor charges and then released because nobody . knew who he was. Burned McCaine’s almost incredible Fi streak of luck began on the n re night of Sept. 30, 1945. As he sr baby were cruised down a Houston street en she spilled In a light drizzle, he saw a t caught fire young woman named Elnora ng dinner, Collins, 30, standing at a bus Jeanine Clays stop. Pulling up to the curb, ; 7-month-old McClaine offered Miss Collins a Talbot Ave, ethodist Hose

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young woman to death, he had gotten unwitting help from an

lift downtown and she aécepted, Nobody ever saw Elnora Collins alive again. » 2 ”

FOUR DAYS later, her body, the face and neck badly burned, was discovered in a clump of woods off a dirt road near Beaumont, Tex. Apparently, the body had been dragged several hundred feet through the weeds from the highway. Fingerprints identified the body as that of Elnora Collins.

Next day, law officers found an abandoned JPlymouth sedan, its seat cushions stained with blood, near Woodland, La. In the car were pieces of Miss Colling’ clothing, and some other items which investigation showed belonged-to one Riley Brown McClaine, a Houston tire salesman. Moreover, it was learned MecCaine had told acquaintances in Woodland that he was going to Washington to see his estranged wife. Swiftly, Washing police descended’ on the apartment of McCaine's wife— and discovered McCaine had been there the day before, but had left without seeing his wife. Lucky guy, McCaine. Nothing definite was heard of the fugitive again until nearly three months after the mur-

CAMPAIGN WEAPON—

Heckling Is An Old British Custom

(Last of Series) LONDON, Sept. 6—Heckling is a phase of British election campaigning which is seldom seen in such spirited form outside Britain itself. In fact, Webster defines heckling as a Scottish word meaning “to badger with questions, comments or gibes, as a candidate for Parliament.” A candidate who wishes to win election to Parliament has to submit to several weeks of verbal artillery. His opponents bombard him with questions at every public meeting at which he appears, and the “neurtals” demand to know where he stands on everything from bingo games to the situation on Mars. He is expected to answer cogently—with facts, good humor and grace. If he loses his temper, or says he doesn't know, he’s a goner.

= = 2 THE CANDIDATE doesn’t often have to put up with physi-

cal assault, though the ripe egg

and tomato have their role even in tightly-rationed Britain." In Glasgow, where passions run high at election times, the stink-bomb and flour-bomb

often. play persuasive parts at meetings. : In some university towns

candidates have on occasions been temporarily “kidnaped” by hilarious students,

cof ew HECKLING FINDS its height at the street-corner political meetings, another tradition of British politics. Here the candidaté has to answer questions, often rude and pointed, from electors who are practically breathing in his face. Speaking on Tower Hill, London, last year, one of

HECKLING CROWDS—Intimacy of contact between can-

uns Out

United Press Telephoto. EXECUTED—Riley Brown McCaine, who had colossal luck, but still got caught.

der, when, on Dec, 10, 1945, McCaine was arrested in Tampa,

Fla., after a tavern brawl. McCaine gave his. name as Roy McCarter and was released on posting $25 bond. Next day, he left town even as his fingerprints were en route to the FBI in Washington for a routine check. T » » » McCAINE WAS a dope, for sure. Twelve days later he let

didate and voters features British campaigns. Here's Churchill in

action.

Churchill's ' supporters, Hugh Slesser, was heckled by a group of men, apparently Communists. “How do you know you're Sane?” one of them kept shout-

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AFTER HALF an hour of this, Slesser retorted, “I don’t. How do you know you're sane?” “Me?” said the Communist indignantly, “here's my discharge card” — and he flourished a document from an insane asylum,

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Woman Finds Task

Of Decorating Zoo -

'A Most Exciting One’

By GAY PAULEY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Sept. 6—Turn a woman loose with an assortment of paint and she's apt to do something star-

tling.

Bronx Zoo officials discovered that when they hired

a woman to be their color consultant. It began about 18 months ago when the zoo decided its more than 50 buildings and 252 acres could have a lot more eye appeal. Officials got in touch with an attractive New England woman who had built quite a reputation for her color know-how, - » . z SINCE THEN, blue-eyed Teresa Kilham has been directing a paint brush brigade among the old buildings. Now, about

25 per cent of the animal houses, once a calm buff and blue, glisten with decorators’ colors ranging from brilliant red to cherry, yellow and all sorts of blues and greens. . The children’s section of the 200 looks like a page from a fairy book—a medley of rose and lemon, azure and pink. The eagles hold regal court in huge cages topped by a

Welfare Clb Plans

Business Meeting

The Welfare Club of Indianapolis will hold a luncheon, followed by a business meeting, in the Riviera Club Monday. Mrs. Marshall Vogler is chairman of the club. Board members are Mesdames Douglas Reid, Larry Welch, Corydon Stevenson, Fred Sanders, Frank

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Goldrick, Forest” Spencer, Ted Leaf, G. E. Pohlman, Roy Thorpe, Thomas Hindman, W. R. Hatton, George Waif, Harry. Kuhn and Carl Sheets. =

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Haight, E. G. Hinshaw, Paul

brilliant red crest and banded with light blue, yellow and light green ironwork around deep blue screens.

THE BLACK panther is shown off against a backdrop of bright blue.

~ “We're just trying to make the zoo more attractive” officlals explained. “We're not experimenting with the effects of color on animals or anything like that.”

Miss Kilham, a native of Boston, said decorating a zoo has been the most exciting job she's had and certainly the most spectacular. » = n

“TP TO NOW I've been working on libraries and such,” she said. They included libraries at Trinity: College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Princeton University. She also has colorplanned high schools, ‘business offices and homes “for her friends and special clients, “I sure shocked officials with the first building,” she said. “It was lavish with yellow, red, blue and white, but they seemed pleased. I make sure there are no clashing colors so far as the eye can see.” :

Toastmistress ‘Club

The Meridian Toastmistresses

will meet at 6:10 p.m. tomor-

row in the YMCA. Migses Mary Keller, Mae McDaniel

-and Joan Wesseler Will be. the

Te.

+ Anderson,

In the interval between public meetings, the candidate is expected to go around ringing doorbells, offering to answer householders’ questions. » = a ALL THIS adds up to an intimacy of contact between candidates and electors. By the time polling day comes around, most electors know everything there is to know about the views, looks and manners of the rival candidates. Interest is high. Everybody votes who possibly can. At the

List Floral

Exhibit Winners

HIRTY - NINE florists competed in the floriculture division of the Indiana State Fair this week. In the

sweepstakes class, large floral arrangements, Richard Bailey won with his Elsie the Cow arrangement of asters, roses, statice, clematis, orchids and Amazonica lilies. Other winners in that classification are Mrs. Florence Wolf, second; KE. James Arbogast, third; Frank L. Luebking, fourth, and Fred Ross, Greenwood, fifth, ® 8s =» \ OTHER ENTRIES showed bride’s bouquet — Mr. Bailey, first; Mrs. Harold Schooler, Plainfield, second; Flowers by Hooper, Anderson, third; Arthur E. Blum, fourth, and Mr. Arbogast, fifth, Maid's bouquet—Mrs. Wolf, first; Mr. Bailey, second; Flow-% ers by Hooper, third; Mrs. John Klingensmith, Carmel, and Mrs. Schooler, fifth. Baby arrangements -— Mrs, Schooler, first; Mr. Blum, second; Mrs, Klingensmith, third; Flowers by Hooper, fourth, and Mr. Luebking, fifth. . Corsage of gladiolus — Mr, Luebking, first; Mr. Blum, second; Mrs, Schooler, third, and Mr. Arbogast, fourth, bY

Teacher Isn't

‘Old Battle-ax’'

No, Johnny, teacher ISN'T “that old battle-ax” as you said one day. She’s human, and kind, and thoughtful about YOUR welfare . . . just like your mother is... ; Get The Times Monday, Johnny, and sit down with your parents and read the story one teacher has to tell. You'll find out what a good teacher is really “made of . . .” And, Mother and Dad, you owe it to your child to read...

‘YOUR CHILD AND YOUR SCHOOL’ Starting Monday

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himself be picked up on a vagrancy charge in a bus station in West Palm Beach, Fla, But again he slipped away--the court suspending a 30-day Sentence on condition re leave town, For nearly two years thereafter, McCaine successfully eluded a nation-wide manhunt, The FBI got reports of his having been seen in various cities around .the country, but McCaine always seemed to have just left when they tried to close in on him. Then, on Apr. 9, 1947, an employee of the Salvation Army in Seattle called at the local FBI office. With him he had a copy of a national magazine which carried a picture of McCainé. “I rather think,” said the Salvation Army man, “that this person is a guest in our little refuge.” He thought right, Two FBI agents found Riley Brown McCaine in the Salvation Army bunkhouse, spooning beef stew into his mouth. McCaine horsed ahout somewhat, but finally admitted who he was and told his stéry. McCaine said that after he picked up Elnora Collins dn that rainy September night in 1945, they had gone to a drivein stand in Houston, where they had had something to eat.

last General Election, 28,555,492 British voters went to the polls, out of a total électorate of 34,914,922 or 82 per cent, This percentage stacks up favorably against any nation in the free world.

Radio and TV viewers in Britain aren't treated to any party conventions. There aren't any. Each local branch of the parties picks its own ‘candidate, and that’s all there is to it. The parties do hold annual conferences, but these are devoted entirely to national policy, and preparing a party platform,

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THE IMPORTANCE -wHich women play in British politics is indicated by the fact that womby more than one million in Britain, Over 181; million women were eligible to vote in last year’s General Election, compared with a little over 17 million men voters. The. trade unions also play a powerful part in British General Elections. Because of their close tie-up with the Labor party they are probably able to

swing more votes than the

American trade unions in U. 8. elections. There are some 9 million trade unionists in Britain, representing nearly a quarter of the 35 million men and women

eligible to vote in the British:

General Election. s, H » BRITISH VOTERS have a serise of personal contact with their Member of Parliament through the intimacy and face-to-face methods of the electoral campaign. When Britain’s John Doe gets mad about anything, his first reaction is often to

Plan Candlelight Tea

Following the formal initiation of new members of the Mother Theodore Circle, Daughters of Isabella, at 2:30 p. m, tomorrow in the Catholic Com-

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N. Noble 8t., a candlelight tea

will be held. Mrs. Zeo W. Leach, regent; Miss Catherine

F. Fletcher, past state regent, and Miss Mary Hiekey, vice regent, will preside at the tea

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urge to choke her,” McCaine said. “I turned and put my hands around her neck and squeezed hard.’ squeezing for about 30 seconds. Then I let go, and she fell over, limp-like.” McCaine said he didn't know whether Miss Collins was dead or not, and he drove around Houston for several hours, trying to decide what to do. Finally, he went home and parked the car in the street outside his rooming house, the body still in the front seat.

The next morning, McCaine |

was the beneficiary of perhaps the most colossal chunk of luck in the annals of crime. When he tried to start his car, he found the battery was dead. So, fortified either with incredible gall or monumental stupidity, McCaine had gone into the house and gotten his landlord to give him a push with the landlord's car. The burns on Elnora's face and neck? Oh, McCaine had merely dumped the contents of his cigaret lighter on her face and then dropped a match on it.

write to his Member of Parliament or to go and see him. Any elector has the right to march into the House of Commons when the House is sitting, tell the policeman his name and ask for his MP to come and talk to him. n » »

MP’s HAVE to put up with a lot of crackpots, of course, so there is an unofficial screening system. One of the greatest social delights is to have tea with one’s MP on the famous terrace overlooking the River Thames, There have been several cases in recent years of MP’s switching from one party to another, after their election. They usually resigned, in order to let their constituents vote on their actions. Several of them were - re-elected. British electors don’t go for rubber stamp‘ Members of Parliament.

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Scandals to Truman TERRE HAUTE—Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind.) said last night the Truman administration makes showman ‘George White

“scandals.”

In a speech prepared for the opening of GOP campaign headquarters here, Mr. Halleck {charged there have been at least

[191 major scandals since Presi-'use here, the “wheel of fortune” clock at his place.

{dent Truman took office.

| He said the Truman administration is so “honey-combed with {graft” it'll require election of a {Republican President to deter{mine “how extensively the ter¥ Imites of corruption have burrowed through the executive {branch of government.”

White Cross Guild Units List Meetings

Garden and Ben Davis; Friday .

The following units of tHe White Cross Guild will méet in the Methodist Hospital Service

Center. next week: Monday—"

Broadway Baptist, Central » Avenue Methodist, Psychic Sci-

ence, First Baptist, Donati and

Blue and Gold; Tuesday—Grace Methodist, Calvary Baptist and Bellaire; Wednesday — Broadway Methodist, Quaker and Perry Township; Thursday -— Temple Sisterhood, Municipal

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Comman 16,000

By R. K. Shull

ONE OF THE biggest businesses in Indiana |—training more than 16,000 Hoosier Army re|servists—is the direct. responsibility of Col. Har{old ‘A. Doherty, chief of the Indiana Military | District. | At 57, he's a trim figure with 33 years mill{tary experience behind him. No stranger to Hoosierland, Col. Doherty {first was stationed in Indiana in 1928 when he {came to Ft. Harrison with the 3d Field Artery. Between 1930 and 1935, Col. Doherty was |ROTOC instructor at Purdue University, He didn't {return to Indiana until June, 1951, when he came to Ft. Harrison to assume his present [position behind a sweeping mahogany desk in one of the big brick administration buildings. “ob

| AS CHIEF of the Indiana Military District, Col. Doherty is responsible for the instruction of 16,000 Army reservists throughout the state and the 500 instructors who train them. He is coordinator between the Army and the Indiana National Guard. He ig the head of the Military Police who patrol the entire state, and has the 68th Criminal Investigation Division under his command. In addition to these activities, he operates the Army recruiting offices in Indiana, and the induction center where drafted men and volunteers are given mental and physical examinations before they are assigned to Armed Forces duty. To give some idea of the size of the colonel's job, he mentioned he had logged 10,000 miles on his car last year just driving around Indiana looking over the installations in his command. They were there during the Pearl Harbor bombA native of Omaha, Neb, Col. Doherty ibg, 3 : attended Shattuck Military College in Minnesota. > ob > B® FOR THE FIRST year of World War II Col. NEAR THE close of World War 1, he wint por pri,Siayed In Hawai. When he returned to into the Army as a 2d lieutenant, but the war Army posts gettin was over before he went overseas. as an instru Back in Omaha after his hitch in the reserve Then .in 1944 he Was sent to Europe with the corps, Col. Doherty took a comprehensive exami- D-Day invasion forces. He campaigned until the nation for a Regular Army commission in 1922. end of the war with the 9th Arm - At the time, the Army offered tests comparable : After the war rved as chief ns. sonnel to the stiff final exams at West Point: If the at different U. ‘8 posts until he ya Pt. candidate could pass the rugged test, then a few aah

Harrison last year. who made the highest grades were commissioned. ? “ - ”" a Fo made the grade Now, the colonel is “house-hunting” in Indian

COL. DOHERTY—Army boss in’ Indiana.

The colonel, his wife, and later two daughters, shifted from post to post around the country until April, 1941, when they returned to Hawaii.

J apolis. Starting out as an infantry lieutenant, Col. o" "» Doherty switched to the field artillery. In 1925 err » Col. Doherty mtends to 'yetire? 1g 2

he was sent to Hawall for a two-year hitch. Most important occasion during his stint in the islands was meeting his future wife, visiting relatives there.

They met again at Ft. Sill, Okla., in 1927 and were married.

His youngest daughter, Connie, is a junior at Purdue University. Patricia, his other daughter, is married to a Navy lieutenant—a real bona fide graduate of Annapolis. But Col. Doherty is quick to disclaim any inter-service ill-will, It's all in the family.

Here's Your Chance to Register

Plan to vote in the Nov. 4 pres-| School 87, at 2411 Indianapolis] New Bethel School, New Bethel,

idential election? Ave, Acton School, Acton. Then you most be registered. Rite Station 14, at 2060 N. Ken- ir Hill School, Old Shelby You must register again if you|Weod Ave. McFarland School, E. Ra mond didn't vote in 1950 or since, or Si. Motors, 3409 N. Illinois |.’ : aol, ¥ have moved 10 snot ato. | ange: Ate Sari, TOY 1. Ea, Shoo: 200 3. ems '| Hlinols St. Walsman School, 1781 Sloan St,

branch boards will accept new Batchelder Garage, 26° W: 27th registrations and transfers from|St.

2 to 9 p. m. today at the following| Boards will operate during the 5th Ward sites: same hours tomorrow at these loSchool 36, at 2801 N. Capitol] cations in Franklin and Center Ave. Townships: p. m.

‘Fortune Wheels’ Seized in Raids Nashville Pastor

Two “electric clock wheels of house and gaming at Campbell's Dedication Spea ker " lice| Tavern, 150 St. fortune” were seized by police Police 4 they won 50: sents The Rev. W. R. Riley, Nash who made two arrests in sur- sal ville, Tenn., will give the address

on his clock. prise raids on two taverns last! Ben Linder, 34, of 3224 E.|at the dedication ceremonies of night.

Michigan 8t., was arrested and the Galilee Baptist Church at 3:30 Described by the Marion Coun- charged with selling pick-n-win|p. m. tomorrow. W Crime Coffitulasion us the tickets at Club LaSalle, same| The church, 25th and Eastern ty Ru {address. Police said they also/Ave, has completed a remodeling latest gambling device put in confiscated a “wheel of fortune” and redecorating program. Mem- . bers have been holding open house from 9 a. m. to 11 p. m. daily this week to enable interested persons

Town Hall, Beech Grove, In addition, the Registration Board office in the Courthouse basement is open daily, including tomorrow, from 8 a. m. to 10

[clocks have an extra red hand, | © [When a Dutton is pushed, the Scout Troop Fair to view the improvements.in the

red hand spins around and finally; Bridgeport Boy Scout Troop building. Pre-dedication services

stops at a “lucky number” or|131 will held a fair on ‘the grade |2lso have been conducted each {color—red, white or blue. |evening.

John Neil, 36, of 4516 Millers- school playgrounds at 6 p. m. toville "Rd. was g arrested - day. Prizes and games will follow aren wi i. Bo disuiatad at |charged with keeping a gambling |eats and refreshments. D. B. Dudley is pastor. : Tea to Open Fall Schedule 1 . I Of Business Women's Club "HE INDIANAPOLIS Charter Chapter, American : Business Women's Association, will give a tea from 3 to 5 p. m. tomorrow in the Woman's Department Club

simultaneously with other chapters throughout the

country, Jack Martin, Henrietta Clark, The national Hand of Friend- JF. A. Beaman, C. M. Schaefer, ship Tea will open fall member- C. M, Reese, H. B. Frist, Arfene ship activities. Executive mem- Crane, Elinor Shouse, Paul bership cha is Miss Lou- Patrick, Donna McCurdy, Helen isa Steeg an membership Allen, Vera Pursley, Lydia

chairman is Miss Margarita Wolf, Carl Polter, D. A. BroeKargacos, king, John Heimann, Arthur The national convention of Westling, Jack David and Carl the group will be Oct. 18 and Pferrer. 19 in Omaha, Neb, "Misses Joyce Watson, M. #8 a Jane Johnson, Orpha Bosley, POURING AT the tea will be Phyllis Hays, Eleanor G. Sexmembers of the executive ton, Marjorie Wessner, Doro-

board: Mrs. Dora Ogden Grieb,

thea Grace, Florence Shutt, president; Mrs. Helen Basch,

Frances Fouth, Genevieve Mc-

vice president; Miss Ludmilia Kay, Cecelia Logan, Joyce Valco, recording secretary; Shipp, Carolan Atkinson, MarMiss Louise Hoffman, corre- tha Robinson, Edith L. Moore, sponding secretary, and Dr. Eleanor Peterson, Edna Faeser,

Helen Muller, treasurer.

Dee Florey, Joan Weisenberger, Guests will be Mesdames

and Rosetta Petrilena.

Bridge Talk— 2

Club Games Open Sept. 25

THE 1952-53 season of play of the Women’s Contract Club of Indianapolis will open at 11:30 a. m. Sept. 25 with a guest bridge luncheon in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. -

Mrs. Roy C. Goodwine and Mrs, Willlam Rose, Mrs, RanMrs. F. C. Lewis are accepting dall Bass 151.5. reservations until noon Sept. 24. 8t, Joan of Arc, Wed. night:

Times photo by William A. Oates Jr, LIKE THIS—Broadmoor Country Club's pro, Noel Epperson (right), is seen giving last minute pointers to Mrs. Louis Marks and John Wolf before today’s two-ball foursome invitational, Mr. Wolf is chairman of the event with Mrs. Marks assisting him.

~—Tabernacle Garden, Mt. Comfort, Marytha, Wesleyan and Beta Sigma Phl.

Travel Club to Meet

Trans-Jordan Chapter, International Travel Study Club, will hold a dessert luncheon Tuesday in the Union Federal Savings & Loan Association, 806 Broad Ripple Ave. Mrs. John

Thornburgh will be the speaker, :

~ cle, Anderson,

The regular play and annual meeting of the group will be at 12:30 p. m. Oct. 2. Results of play of local clubs follows: Marott Club, Tuesday night: N & 8 (Possible Score 270)—John Lynn, J. J, O'Keefe 156.5; Charles Stimming, Jerome Jacobs and Ralph G, Ittenbach, Sid Kasle 143.5 (tie); E & W (Possible 270)—Mrs. Arch Falender, Mrs. Arthur Pratt 155; Mrs. William Epstein, Mrs. Mary Welch 153;

Rush Party Set By Delta Zetas

Misses Joan and Jane Tossell, 1160 N. Bolton Ave. will be hostesses for the Rose Tea of Delta Zeta Sorority. The party will be held from 2:30 to 5:30 p. m, tomorrow. Invitations havé been sent to Ploshective coeds attending Indiana University from Indianapolis, Clayton, Marion, MunWest Terre Haute, Hartsville, Kokomo, Centerville, Bloomington, Franklin, Lizton, Sullivan and Carlisle, of ? :

Mrs. John Lavelle, Mrs. Harry Albright 141.5; Mish Irene Hueber, Mrs. E. J. Ittenbach 128.5; Mrs. D, A. Sweeney, Mrs. J. T, Cracraft 127; E & W (Possible 220)~V. R. Rupp, Mrs. L. J. Blackmore 148; Mrs. C. F. Hummel, Mrs, 8. R. Richardson

137.5; Mrs. Don Schort, Claude Lett 130.

Miss Copeland To Appear Here

Children's’ Museum: Guild members are really excited today. Their big news is the personal appearance of Jo Copeland at Tuesday and Wednesday's “Jo Cppeland’s Fashion Gallery” in the Columbia Club, It will be the famous designer's only personal appearance in the country this year. jo aah Le ¥ She's bringing two of her

gowns. part of collection she