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AUGUST 1, 1939. PART I.I TUESDAY MORNING. Five Indicted Admiral's Trampled Dahlias Trap Two Slaying Suspects Five fo Survey Snake River Ex-Chief Justice and Wife Battle Turbulent Romance With His Former Stenographer Related in Their Suit i Louisiana NORFOLK (Va.) July 31. VP) ted an examination of fingerprint in lilt il ili(XLJVi iiui iiiui i-t -j uic liicii iui uaiiuv.aj. i were held tonight aboard the fingerprint information supplied aircraft carrier Ranger in con py tne nection with a downtown Norfolk hotel-room slaying a case Walls of Continent's.

Deepest Canyon Will Be Photographed for Road WEISER July 31. VP) Five adventurers will start tomorrow on a hazardous Snake New Line Started for Dam Power River expedition designed to survey the feasibility of a pro posed $12,000,000 highway through North America's deep 1 est-known canyon. LED BY ENGINEER R. J. Wood, postmaster of this Western Idaho town, veteran civil engineer, former Idaho drouth relief administrator and State engineering director for in which naval authorities promised co-operation to local police after an admiral's dahlia bed was trampled.

SALESMAN SLAIN Held in the brig of the anchored ship were Wallace E. Miller and Lawrence M. King, youthful enlisted men attached to the Marine Corps unit on the Ranger. They were charged with the beer-bottle bludgeoning of F. T.

Jennings, 49, an Augusta (Ga.) salesman, in his room a week ago. Admiral M. II. Simons, Navy Yard commandant, expressed his concern in the case after discovering intruders in his garden had flattened some of his pet dahlias and hearing reports from a gatekeeper at the yard that two marines had been seen scaling the seven-foot wall on the night of the murder. RED TAPE CUT The flower-fancying commandant snipped a lot of military red tape for.

local police and permit- WANTED Fred H. Little, who is hunted for murder of woman at Long Beach. the old Works Progress AdminiS' tration, will head the group. OKLAHOMA CITY, July 31. (JP) A former Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court and his onetime stenographer appeared in District Court today to relate details of a turbulent romance.

Madeline Braniff Branson asks a decree validating two purported marriages to Fred P. Branson and $500 a month support money. WIFE'S PETITION Into court records went varied chapters of the romance, which started after Madeline applied to Branson for a position as stenographer on Jan. 15, 1923, one week after he took the high court bench. In her petition Madeline stated she and the ex-justice were married in a civil ceremony at Tar-rytown, N.Y., in February, 1930, and again before Rev.

A. F. Monnott in New Orleans in March, 1030. EVERY TIME YOV EAT AT THRIFTY By photographing the rugged mountains that wall in the river Erection of Steel Poles Begun by Bureau Preparations for receiving an additional supply of Hoover Dam electrical energy moved forward today with the announcement that the Municipal Bureau of Power and Light yesterday began the erection of the first of several hundred steel towers that will carry the recently authorized third power transmission circuit from Los Angeles to the dam. The 71-mile section of line now under construction extends from a municipal power receiving station in San Fernando Valley to a switching station at Victorville, where it will connect to the existing 275,000 volt that has supplied the city with power since 1936.

through Hell's Canyon, he hopes to show that a road can be built MORRELL'S through it, a project he proposed two years ago. The proposed highway, which Wood estimated would cost $12, 000,000, would extend north from with that tatty ham-flavor! Fugitive Faces Murder Charge Complaint Issued for Aviation Employee in Beach Park Killing erved with tf A here 200 miles to Lewiston, fol Potato Salad Ex-Head of University Named in Further Action on Embezzling Scandal BATON ROUGE (La.) July 31. fU.R) The East Baton Rouge Parish grand jury tonight indicted five persons including the already many times indicted Dr. James Monroe on charges of embezzlement. A jury recommendation that 10 members of the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University, who served when Smith was president of the school, resign for "astounding negligence" sjvas rejected by the board which announced it would remain in office despite the grand jury, L.S.U.

alumni and others who have been demanding the resignations. MAKE TOTAL OF 47 The indictment the jury returned tonight made a total of 47 it had filed in five weeks. Indicted were: Smith, former president of Louisiana State University, held In Federal prison in New Orleans in $219,500 bond; Dr. Clarence A. Lorio.

already-indicted former political leader and State Senator; George Griffon, head of a Baton Rouge drug firm; Leon Weiss, New Orleans architect, and II. D. Andrews, manager of Sitman's drug store near the I.S.U. campus. CHARGES SET FORTH The grand jury handed up three Indictments tonight.

One charged Smith with aiding and abetting Weiss in the' embezzlement of $5750. The other two charged Lorio, Griffon and Andrews with obtaining money under false pretenses in two cases. The indictments did not reveal the details of the offenses. Andrews managed a drugstore belonging to Griffon; near' the campus and it handled a large part of the L.S.U. hospital's drug business.

Lorio was chief university physician until he Roll Butter Large Serving Freeh lowing Snake River virtually all the way. PARTY LISTED Orin McMullen, Weiser Police Chief who has made two trips down the riverr will be navigator. Accompanying them will be PEACH SHORTCAKE with plenty of (B) luscious whipped cream Gasoline Tax Gives County $1,382,059 Los Angeles County's public Horace Parker, Grangeville and Boise newspaperman; Dr. A. J.

Coats, Boise physician and ex- pert sportsman photographer, treasury was more than CALLS IT ILLEGAL Branson admitted in his statement he "went through a pretended marriage ceremony before a justice of the peace in New York" but declared the ceremony was illegal because six months had not elapsed since his first wife, Mrs. Eula Branson, had divorced him in January, 1930. Under direct examination bj Hal C. Thurman, Madeline's attorney and long-time friend of the couple, Branson said he had spent more than $14,000 on Madeline since their marriage in 1930. Cornell Alumni Fete Dean Kimball Seventy-five graduates and former students of Cornell University yesterday honored Dexter S.

Kimball, emeritus dean of Cornell's engineering school, at a luncheon at the -University Club. Ramsdell S. Lasher was announced as president of the Cornell Club of Southern California for the coming year. 000 richer today after receipt of a communication for State and Lyle Stanford of Nampa, University of Washington graduate who is doing advanced work in biology. Still being sought by police, Fred H.

Little, 45-year-old aviation plant employee, yesterday was charged with the murder of Mrs. Mamie Moore, 48, whose bullet-riddled body was found In Bixby Park, Long Beach, last Saturday. Dep. Dist. Atty.

William Bray-ton issued a murder complaint after Inspectors L. Q. Martin and A. F. Slaight of the Long Beach Police Department produced evidence indicating that Little was the man with whom Mrs.

Moore left her home at 217 W. 64th St. Friday evening. Controller Harry B. Riley in Sacramento.

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