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PHONE YOUR WANT ADS TO THE RECORD UP TO 10 M. Dial 2-2121 just SAt "Charge' iV WEATHER FORECAST Eastern Pennsylvania Fair and warmer Thursday. Friday Increasing cloudiness, probably showers; cooler In west portion. DAILX KX1UNDED 1873. WEEKLY FOUNDED 183S.

THREE CENTS ON THB STREET FIFTY CENTS BI, THE MONTH WILKES-BARRE, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 9, 1931 TWENTY-TWO PAGES Til 0 on 1 ftlM MM Sentenced FRENCH ROYALISTS ARE MARRIED DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF FORTY FORT SLAYING Longworth Is Sinking Fast Sunday Sounds Prohibition's Loyalty Call Doctors Say Woman Flier Sets Record In Autogyro Amelia Earhart Attains an Altitude of 19,000 Feet in "Windmill" Craft But Foils in to Establish Satisfactory- Alibi "No Neutral Ground Speaker's Death Expected in Momentarily; Confined With Pneumonia This War," Fiery Evange list Tells 2,500 Here PITTSBURGH SUSPECT TRACED BY LETTERS Woman Appointed To Defend Murder Charge Defendant Lancaster, April 8 UP) A woman today was appointed to defend in the Lancaster County court a "man accused of murder. Members of the bar said Judge John M. Oroff's appointment of Miss Edna Hurst to defend William Indian Bill Craig in his trial for the slaying of Jack McNeil at Safe Harbor was the first time in the history of the Pennsylvania courts that a woman was named to defend a man accused of murder. Miss Hurst studied law in Judge Groff's office before he was admitted to the bar several years ago. WIFE AT BEDSIDE REVIEWS BENEFITS RUNS OUT OF CAS Says Husband Was Urged by Miss Dilley to Head Love Cult Goes Aloft Twice as Hubby Five Physicians-and Three Nurses Attending Ohio Speaker Impresses Hearers He Has Not Lost Any of His Forcef ulness and 1,000 Others Watch at Pitcairn Field Congressman Mrs.

Frances Thompson, 29, at, Fifth avenue, Pittsburgh, a former i SJMSWBBMSHMMSSSMMSMaSMSSSaSBBBBMSSM PAUL WUPPER Aiken. S. April 8 resident of River street, Forty Fdrt, was arrested at Pittsburgh last night in connection with the brutal 5 murder of Miss Minnie E. Dilley, aged Forty Fort spinster. TVio if Misa rilloir wih Ult Hanker Draws Willow Grove, April 8 UP) Amelia Earhart today added another outstanding performance to her brilliant flying record by taking an autogyro to a higher altitude than has ever been done before.

She made two flights and it was Pilot And Bride Killed In Crash Long Sentence By NORMAN E. DAVIS Billy Sunday, he who reached into thousands of hearts and homes in Wyoming Valley eighteen years ago, came back to Wilkes-Barre yesterday the same dynamic, tireless personality with the same ability to move his hearers to laughter and tears. His address on Prohibition in Central M. E. church yesterday afternoon was marked by the same colorful platform manner and his picturesque expressions were as forceful as those which attracted thousands down the sawdust trail of the Billy Sunday tabernacle on South Main street in 1913.

announced that she had reached an unofficial height of 19,000 feet or more on the second attempt. On the first flight it was announced she attained approximately 18,500 feet. She carried up with her a sealed barograph which will be sent to monia tonight threatened the life of Speaker Nicholas Longworth who came here ten days ago for a spring vacation. Developing late Monday from a heavy cold, the disease made rapid headway and despite every effort of science to forestall a crisis, the veteran Ohio congressman and son-in-law of Theodore Roosevelt, grew steadily weaker today. Aiding the three physicians and staff of nurses who sought to halt the malady was the speaker's wife, Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

She arrived here by train this morning from Washington. Until tonight, reports from the patient's room in the winter home of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Curtis, of Washington, whom he was visiting, had been cheerful.

But a different note crept in to the early is 110 Years in Prison Penally Imposed for Theft of Million Washington for official examina Plane Falls in Barnyard After Wing Hit Tree in Taking Off badly battered and lacerated bead, was found in front of the fireplac of her beautiful and elaborately furnished home, 98 River street, Forty Fort, last Saturday night- Until this morning Mrs. Thomp-V son denied knowledge of circumstances surrounding the death of Miss Dilley. Interrogators reported that the woman's behavior and conversation puzzled them but that sh uttered remarks which they will assist in placing responsibility for the slaying. The murder suspect told Alls gheni county detectives and Lu zernecounty authorities that Missj Dilley wanted Mrs. Thompson'sj -husband, Carl Thompson, 33, to become head of a "love cult" mads up of former school teachers.

Mr. Thompson is a former school teacher. In another breath Mrs. Thomp-. son is said to have told authorities that she believed Miss Dilley had ButAe "strange influence" over Mrs.

Thompson's husband. This implication, Luzerne county authorities Central church was jammed to the doorafor the meeting, about 2,500 gainnig admittance while hundreds were turned away. tion. Miss Earhart made the; flights in the presence of her husband, George Palmer Putnam, of New York, and a -crowd of about 1,000 persons at the Pitcairn Field, north of here. To the hundreds of men and West Point, April 8 CP) A 110-year prison sentence today Princess Isabelle of Orleans, in her bridal robes, in wliich she became the Countess of Paris through her marriage at Palermo, Sicily, to the Count of Paris (inset), son of the Duke De Guise, pretender to the throne of France.

Due to the presence of many exponents of the French monarchist cause at the ceremony special dispensation was obtained from the Vatican. (Story Appears Below) Jefferson, Ohio, April 8 UP) An aviator and his bride of a week, Rollie Patterson, 22, and Mrs. Ruth Patterson, 18, of Madison, Lake County, were killed tonight bulletin tonight. The attending physicians for the first time admitted that the condition of the 61-year-old lawmaker was "critical." Still less encouragement was ex women in the audience, little change was apparent in the appearance of Mr. Sunday.

He is perhaps grayer and his face has the lines years of intensive evangelistic work would naturally put there. In phvsique he is unchanged, tall and slender and straight, impulsive and alwavs ready to turn th point of his story into a laugh. He has lost none of his pep and the spacious platform of Central Church seemingly was too small and cramped his style as he ranged from one side of It to the other. when their airplane crashed at the farm of G. C.

Patterson, six milis south of here. The plane crashed from an altitude of about 80 feet when a wing Snow Falls In Prince Henri pressed after consultation among the two Aiken physicians who have was imposed on Paul Wupper, bigamist-banker, who immigrated from Germany to become president of the Beemer, State Bank, which collapsed In 1928. He0 pleaded guilty in district court to ten forgery offenses, each of which contained two counts. For each offense he was fined $500 by District Judge Clinton Chase, who said that to his knowledge the sentence was the longest handed down In For the first nffpn hn wfls sentenced to 20 Rests Between Flights The intrepid flier said she hoped to be able to make another try later for a still higher altitude. Miss Earhart went up on the second flight shortly after 4 o'clock after a two hours rest.

Coming down from the first flight she had luncheon with her husband and Harold F. Pitcairn, American developer of the autogyro. Then she lay down in the Pitcairn office for a rest and when the mechanics had the "windmill" craft ready forher she went aloft. In about 15 minutes she was clouds and -was been attending Speaker Longwortn, a specialist from Augusta, Ga. Dr.

R. H. Wilds, of Aiken, ad tip struck the branches of a tree as they were taking off from a announced from Pittsburgh Was carried in threatening letters' which Takes Bride mitted there was apprehension the they said Mrs. Thompson had sent meadow. The young bride was dead when the de to WiflB Dilley at intervals in ths hanging oveir its dge with 3tfiht illness might "take a iatai turn duriryg the night, In a formal, bulletin, the physi- New England Deiuli Ranges Froin-8 to 19 Inches; Several Towns 4 ifm ovvtsTetd as be hamijferl molished ship, i vllfc her husband died 15 minutes The couple-- had" flown- to the farm to visit the owner, who was hoftifr hH-f8M Descendants tf Vanished years in prison, and.

tor each of. the "Longworth" ba Jigt6m not seen again until she suddenly ranidlv worse during the day, and Afiar aywTeSif'vToaay lies intend to further question 2 is Thompson in pursuance of their theory that the woman killed Miss Dilley because of weird hallucinations. The theory that Miss Dilley the putlook is extremely unfavor An Idea of Ihe pace the evangelist is going is to be found in his program for three days. On Tuesday evening Mr. Sunday spoke in Philadelphia.

'He spoke here yesterday Dynasties Are United in Matrimony It was signed, by Dr. Wilds and Are Isolated nine timers, ten years, xng sentences, Judge Chase said, would run consecutively. The State charged Wupper embezzled approximately a million dollars from the bank before he disappeared in September, 1928. The forgery counts involved only Dr. Thomas G.

Brooks, of Aiken came into view about an hour and a half later. She circled the field several times and made a light landing, coming down almost vertical. Miss Earhart said that when she reached the ceiling she tried hard to send the ship higher, but it would go no farther. She had Patterson uncle, at about 4 p. m.

The young flier was introducing his bride, whom he married on March 31, at Madison, Ohio. They started to take off at about 6:30 p. m. with the Pattersons and other relatives watching. The pilot got his two-seater open-cockpit biplane to an altitude of about 80 feet and was circling while he and Dr.

V. P. Sydenstricker, the Augusta specialist, who has been Palermo, Sicily, April 8 UP). Princes Henri, Count of Paris, afternoon and in Elm Park Church, Scranton, last evening. This afternoon he will address a mass meeting at Allentown and this evening a meeting in Reading.

And all meetings and addresses are the key to a tremendous campaign being conducted throughout the country, especially In the wet areas to recapturing some of the and Princess Isabelle of Orleans and Bragance, descendants of two and his wife waved goodbye. When $35,000. Wupper, who Is more than a dozen years ruled Beemer as mayor, and was known by his friends as "The Little Kaiser." Marital troubles in Philadelphia where he was held for bigamy, led to his return to Nebraska. His sec the wing tip hit the tree the ship was slain by a woman became paramount last Sunday afternoon while authorities were investigating the Dilley home. Threatening letters from Thompson are said to have been found in the Dilley home and thesa sent police out on the Pittsburgh clue.

Several of the letters are said to have accused Miss Dilley of having "put a cflarm" on Carl Thomp -son. Early- this morning it was Aha plan of Luzerne authorities to leava Pittsburgh about 10 with Mrs. Thompson. On the return trip the woman will be in charge of Donald O. Coughlin, assistant district attorney; John Dempsey, county detective and Sergt.

Norman Annichf vanished dynasties, where joined todry amid royal splendor in the Mediaeval Cathedral of Palermo. The 23-year-old prince and his shot upward abruptly, the witnesses said, then dived almost straight down and buried its nose in the barnyard. sentiment which drv. leaders admit the cause of prohibition has lost. Boston, April 8 UP).

While Southeastern New England was getting acclimated to a day of warm spring weather, Northern New England to-day was buried under snow ranging in depth from 8 to 19 inches. Highways were blocked by snow and fallen trees, communications and other electrical facilities were disrupted and railroad trains delayed by the most disastrous storm of the year. Sweeping down on the northern portion of this group of States last nin-ht the storm caused heavy damage and isolated several towns. New Hampshire and Vermont 18-year-old bride will start on their honeymoon trip tomorrow, remain Mr. Sunday is appearing under Young Patterson had owned the ond wife charged him with bigamy and he admitted to officers that he was wanted in Nebraska in connection with the bank failure which auspices of Anti-Saloon League.

(Sw 81'NDAY SPEAKS On Page t) plane for two years and conducted making two trips daily to see the patient. Oxygen was used last night to aid the speaker's respiration, but at the time, the physicians said that fact did not indicate a critical condition. Four were assigned to the case yesterday, and Mrs. Long-worth brought a fifth with her today. An hour after the official bulletin was issued, the physicians said no change had been noted in the patient's condition.

Drs, Wilds and Brooks spent the night, at the Curtis home but Dr. Sydenstricker returned to Augusta. 1 Killed, 11 Injured As Building Crumbles passenger and instruction busi ness at a private field near Ash wiped out the savings of hundreds tabula, north of here. of residents of this county, includ Kills Wife Then Trys ing his own wife, who now lives Bodies of the couple were taken at Fremont. plenty of gas, she said, and the motor was working fine.

Runs Out of Fuel On the first flight which she started at noon and which lasted one hour and fifty minutes Miss Earhart came down after she ran out of gas. She found a high wind on the second flight, but it was not so strong as on the first. Miss Earhart was d.ressed in regulation flying clothes. The plane was equipped with an oxygen container. The oxygen was used once or twice in the second flight, she said, more as a matter of precaution.

The flights were made in a standard Pitcairn Autogyro with a 300-horsepower Wright whirlwind motor. On the first flight 38 gallons of gas were in the tank, but on the second trip the supply -was increased to 42 gallons. "This is not a stunt altitude flight," Miss Earhart said. "There was no idea of seeking a record. to their Madison home.

of Troop B. State police. To Commit Suicide A charge of embezzling $67,000 was not pressed oy uounty At 'Mystic' Who Converted suffered the most from winter's belated sally. Some sections of these States were cut off entirely from Pittsburgh, April 8 UP) Paul torney Harvey Ellenberger. Federal officials also had sought him in con Crissman, 28, who told police he Doyle, Exposes Tricks nection with using the1 mails to the rest of the world for several 'had been having trouble" with his defraud by mailing forged notes.

wife all during their married life. ing for a short time at Villa Igea and then making a tour of the courts of Europe. They will live at the Chateau's D'Agimont In the Belgian Ardennes near Brussels, a wedding present from the Duke of Guise, the groom's father, pretender to the fallen throne of King Louis Phillippe. Former Queen Amelie of Portugal, scores of princes and princesses and a thousand lesser nobles, attended the wedding ceremony, performed by Cardinal Lavitrano, by last minute concession of Pope Pius XI. The royalist movement of action francaise, which is under the ban of the Catholic church, was represented by hundreds of supporters of the Duke De Guise.

The bridal procession gathered in the palace of the Archbishop of (Sro PRINCE TAKES On I'dk 2 hours as the heavy blanket of snow weighted down and snapped wires. He told county authorities that New York, April 8 (P). Assert tonight killed Mrs. Crissman, 24 by slashing her throat and then at New Hampshire made claim to ing that "people want to be fooled" and that for 11 years he had done the deepest snow, 19 inches at Nel tempted to end his own life. He Mrs.

Thompson insisted that sh was being persecuted. Authorities said she was attempting to establish an alibi but that it was weak. She said that she had left her home on week ago yesterday and had returned last Saturday but her questioners said she was unable to give them a good story as to where she had spent her time. From Pittsburgh it was reported that Mrs. Thompson is a brunette and not overly good looking.

She insisted that her arrest resulted be- cause it had been learned that Miss Dilley allegedly had attempted to make Mr. Thompson believe that she was crazy. When questioning was temporart- son, which adjoins Keene. Keene also cut his throat and was re money which disappeared from the bank was lost in speculation and that he now was penniless. King George Better itself was cut off from other com just that, Nino Pecararo, "mystic" whom Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ad ported in a critical condition at a Berkeley, April 8 Of) One man was killed and eleven others were injured, seven seriously, when a section of new concrete roof of the Mechanics building, under construction at University of California campus, collapsed today.

Workmen had toiled to complete hospital. mitted wen him over to spiritual munities and without electrical service of any kind until late this The tragedy occurred in the ism, tonight declared that n-is seances "were all a fake." presence of a three-year old daugh ter of the couple. His Doctor Reports morning. Berlin and Jefferson reported seven to ten inches of light snow. Vermont fared little better than (See SNOW FA 1X8 On Pain 22) A suit case, packed as though for The best performance hoped for, on the basis of theoretical estimates for this particular Autogyro, was about 20,000 feet.

And at least three women and many men already have flown higher than that. "I've never seen a ghost and don't believe anyone else ever has," he "I'm sick and tired of giving V' laying of a 150-square yard area, three feet thick, above the new building. Skeleton bracing immediate departure, was found by police. They expressed a belief the Windsor, April 8 AP) News seances and having spiritualism woman was about to leave her hus- that Kine Georee was makine sat- 1 xttMLWMKwmimemm pear -ar my. seances-thoyamnd flPihe.

way te- hospital tnn mrru rvmer-trrnwntr i-mpmfln uy building at Pitt man weM by-Ptrslmit John ion-urn- Lng.jjj.nc mjati.jmumujj.ij.jj.. Machor as saying 'tl did It and I'm greatly hU ubjcct ordinary engine not supped up. today. On the threshold of the cell Mrs. Thompson turned to Donald O.

Coughlin, assistant district attor- To prove his paint ha- allowed himself to be securely bound, then freed himself and wrote two messages. One was "from Doyle'f and the other "from Houdini." The improvement in the king's a--4he roof -collapsed beneath- -hi feet. Amerlco Cabral of Oakland died shortly after rescuers extricated him from the mass of wet concrete. Eleven others were taken to hos TO CLEAN UP CHICAGO condition reported this morning has been maintained throughout the ne-y and said: If they put me In the electrie day and tonight, it was stated of chair, it certainly will be a joke." Crazy Woman Kills Son And Daughter Colorado Springs. April 8 The handwriting compared favorably with authentic originals of the famous men.

ficially. Attorney Coughlin asked the Queen Mary left Windsor Castle for a short automobile ride while In addition Pecararo passed on Mayor-Elect Issues Warning to Gangsters and woman what she meant and she replied: "Or perhaps I should say, rather it would be a travesty." pitals where their injuries were found to range from fractured skulls, internal injuries and cuts to broken bones. Queen Marie In Accident two "messages" from dead persons the king busied himself with mat iw anortiy Derore dawn today willing to take my medicine. Three Men Hold Up Bank Moodus, April 8 UP) Three men entered the Moodus Savings Bank shortly ater closing time to-day, menaced with pistols the two employees remaining in the building, seized $5,000 in bills, and walked away, leaving their two victims lying on the floor, bound. The robbery became known only after Arthur W.

Chaffee, assistant treasurer, and Miss Mary Shea, clerk, the two employees In the building at the time of the robbery, freed their bonds sometime later and notified State police. The arrest of Mrs. Thompson to newspapermen present and also had "ghost hands" play an Hoodlums to Vacate Metropolis ters of state under the watchful eyes of Nurse Davis, who was Mrs. unistina volgin, 38, shot and killed her daughter Anna, 13; fatally wounded a son Sam, 16, and trusted to see that he doesn't at came after her husband had been taken Into custody and then released. The husband was quoted by tempt too much work.

Princess slightly wounded another daughter, Treasury Balance Mary, 10. Sr DILLEY CASE On Pace 1) ier invalid husband, locked in a Chicago, April 8 UP). A speedy reorganization of the Chicago municipal government was promised ted room by his wife, made frantic Washington, April 8 UP) Mary and her husband, Lord Hare-wood, and their two sons arrived to visit for a few days. This evening the king was considerably cheered by the arrival of his two grandsons, Viscount Las-celles and the Honorable Gerald Lascelles. Belgrade, Jugoslavia, April 8 UP).

Queen Marie of Jugoslavia escaped uninjured today from an automobile accident. She was driving her own car when another machine collided with it, bursting a tire and crumpling a fender on the royal machine. The was treasury balance April 6 $526,054,841.78. night by Mayor-elect Anton J. Cermak, who expected to be inducted to office Thursday.

The man who beat William Hale Thompson by 191,916 votes in Tuesday's election spent most of the day selecting men for the more import efforts to liberate himself and finally aroused a neighbor who called police. Mrs. Volgin was arrested and is held in jail. When officers arrived, they said the woman was preparing to kill herself with a knife. Mr.

Volgin said his wife toad been WOMEN OF FINLAND DEMAND REPEAL OF PROHIBITION LAW ant jobs out of the 12,000 appointive Czecho-Slovakia. There was also a telegram from the Czecho-Slovakia envoy in Washington saying he felt sure "that the old country will rejoice in seeing that the good traditional racial qualities contributed so largely In making out of you an outstanding American citizen." The telegrams could wait for later inspection, but the mayor-elect finally succumbed to six insistent long distance telephone calls from London newspapers. "What are you going to do about Al Capone?" was one question nearly all of the English reporters asked. "I understand he is out of town," replied Cermak, "and my advice to him is to stay out for the next four Equated 2 The renting season is here, and Record want ads can help you rent your vacant apartment quickly and economically. Mrs.

E. Jones of 334 Ridge Avenue, Kingston, rented her apartment with this want ad in the Record. McADOO WARNS DEMOCRATS CAN'T WIN ON RUM ISSUE positions lie must fill. "I promised- to clean out the city hall," he said, "and I'm going to lose no time doing it. The bums and hoodlums who hang around in Helsingfors, Finland, April 8 UP) Prohibition leaders of Finland to in a state of frenzy lately because the children were becoming "Americanized" and were learning to speak "American." The husband 1 said his wife had recently been released from a psychopathic hospital.

The family is of Russian descent, the father having come to the United States the corridors and make the city hall look like a cheap lodging house day accepted the challenge made in on Saturday night are going to be swept right out." a petition signed by 100,000 women of the country asking repeal of the Finnish prohibition law, and were With completion of the official twenty years ago. Apartments, Unfurnished preparing tonight to organize meetings throughout the country at which an effort would be made to have many of the signers withdraw Check Artist Sentenced canvass late this afternoon in record time, Cermak planned to take tomorrow. A call for a special meeting of the city council to approve his bond was issued im years. He is under sentence here, you and I suggest that he stay in Florida. That's where he lives now." "What about gangsters In general?" he was asked.

"The people's vote and mv nofice 3 bath, all porches, 1st floor, heat and hot water turn. Cor. Atherton and Hoyt Sts, Call 7-4476. Philadelphia, April 8 W). mediately after completion of the canvass in accordance with the law Eleanor Shinn, 38, Reading, con of signers include Annie Furuhjelm, member of the Diet for many years: Cely Mechelin, daughter of the late Finnish statesman, and wives of editors of Finland's leading papers.

"We feel ourselves powerless," the women declared In the petition, "while prohibition, with its destructive moral consequences exists, instead of a sensible law for controlling consumption of alcohol under "'Hrh it would be possible to begin uly( effective temperance work." i The petition charges that the present prohibition situation in Finland is growing worse each year and has resulted in smuggling, an increase In murder, and the advent of cases of drunkenness astong women and hildren, which were formerly said to be unknown. Finnish the petition i charged, is supported only byi "fanatics and over 109.000 bootleg-' gers." department will drive them out of victed of passing worthless checks on several hotels here, was sen that 24 hours notice must be given for such a meeting. tion Here on April 13 for Jouett Shouse, chairman of the party's national executive committee. "Re-legalizing, liquor," he wrote, "will not put food into a single hungry mouth nor provide employment for the great army of jobless men and women in the United States more than six million in number as shown by a recent statement of Secretary of Commerce Lamont. "When we reflect there must be an average of at least two dependent persons on each of the six million unemployed, we can get some idea of the of the problem which these eighteen million people, largely without means of existence, presents to the coun--try.

"Is liquor the Democratic answer to this vital problem? If it Is then the party is too impoverlbhed in ideas to enter" even a snail's race." Los Angeles, April 8 UP). What he believes are the road to victory and the road to defeat for the Democratic party in the presidential election of 1932 were described today by William G. in a letter In which he took 'issue with the policies advocated by national chairman John J. Raskob. Intelligent treatment of the greatest problem facing the country today, unemployment, not prohibition, the former Democratic leader wrote, probably would bring back to the party' the presidential chair.

Instead, he warned, if. the party adopts the view of Chaleman-Raskob and presents the question of liquor as the major plank in its platform, only "certain and disastrous defeat" will The letter was written, to decline the post of vice chairman on a committee which will plan a recep- The new mayor will have a work tenced to-day to three months in the ing majority in the city council, county prison. After sentence was passed detectives from New Jersey their names. The petition, which is signed by scores of women prominent In Finland's civic and professional life, was being prepared today for presentation to the president of the republic. Declaring themselves to be "advocates of true temperance" the women, in their petition, express anxiety over the fate of future generations because of what they allege to be a continuous spread of drunkenness' in Finland under the present dry statute.

The 100,000 women signers as Individuals, It was, explained, not as members of organizations. The list considerably enhanced by victories which accompanied his own success Tuesday. Thirty of the city's fifty aldermen are Democrats. Nine of and- Reading lodged warrants aeainst her, charging the same offense. Your Want Ad in THE RECORD can do the same.

'DIAL 2-2121 Ask For Betty Brown The Want Ad Girl Just Say, "Charge It" town. I think with a good police department we can put this city on a law and order basis in less than 60 days." Cermak laughed when the London writers asked about Thompson's attack on King George. "He didn't really fool you people, did he?" chuckled the mavor-elect. "No, he isn't reallv anti-British. TVm British vote ts the smallest In Ch'rntro, so he derided to pick on the British King." Mrs.

Shinn, divorced mother of the 20 Republicans were clashed as allies of Mayor Thompson. two children was charged 'with passing approximately 40 worthless checks for a total of 2,603 hre pnrt More tnan 3,000 congratulatory messan poured Into Crmak's office in the building today, several of them from his native in other cities. She was arrested here February 20. '1.

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