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mu fcxd feH I i 5 I gg hr 1 I 3 I 'I (Turn to Pag 11 Col 3) I 'A I4 1 A 3 rkn campus of for several headed funeral 4f "4 orecast for Indiana: Generally fair and continued warm tonight and Tuesday with slightly warmer in extrema north tOnight Local temperature from 7 a Saturday to 7 a mSunday: High' 86 low 64 mean 75jjo rainfall' Temperature from 7 tn Sunday to 7 a Monday! High 90 low 67 mean 78 no rainfall Sun rises 4:59 sun sets 6:44 12 TWO CENTS jg Reunion Held by Refugees of lood TXVK31EL1 IndAug (API Approximately 450 flood refugees of Louisville KyM and 250 Mitchell residents friends since the Louis ville persons' were quartered here for several weeks in looked forward today to another reunidn next year Thelr reunion at Spring 7 Mill 'State park yester day was successful 1 Bl ict i'wTr' lu 4 I becoming ac ute YS ANO GIRLS BRING STOCK TO COUNtY EXHIBIT Official Opening Day inds $69 'Anirrials Displayed at Clyb Shoy Basket Dinner To Be Tuesday Highlight rhe Tippecanoe county fair grounds presented a busy scene Monday the official opening day ofi the seventh annual county 4 club exhibit Hundreds of boy and girl i exhibitors were bringing in! their prize livestock all of A uthorize Electric' Distribution Lines ln Lafayette Area J' INDIANAPOLIS Ind Aug 16 The public service commis sion today authorized the South Indiana Power company to construct electric distribution lines in Tippecanoe and Wabash town ships of Tippecanoe i county and Prairie township of White county The commission acted after of ficials of the RuralpElectrlfication Membership corporation said they had no to the addi tional construction $20 $00 Burglary at Home ilm Star HOLLYWOOD Aug" 16 (INS) burglars broke into the home of Ketti Gallian rench film star and I stole clothes and jewels valued in excess 'of 820000 she told police 'today The actress said discovered the burglary when she retired after week ending In Santa Bar bara1 Cal Among the missing articles were six sable furs valued at $1000 eachand imported per fume worth more than $1000 If '4J State Death Toll Exceedingly Low In Past Weekend INDIANAPOLIS Aug 16 (INS) favorable weather accidental death toll for the past week end was com paratively low to arrest speeders: and feckless drivers made by police in Indianapolis and other largi cities probably" some effect according to state safety officialsHowever JVIRbrd Bowers 21 Of near was inujred fatally 'when his automobile left the read near Payne Ohio after the brakes' locked Three others in the car were injured In a collision of two cars at the intersection of roads 31 and 28 a day after stop signs were removed Mrs Virgil Hopkins 23 of near ort Wayne suffered a broken pelvis bone tand was in a critical condition and her son Clifford jr 2 was hurt slightly ight persons were Injured two critically in a head on collision of two automobiles atthe inter section of roads 45 and 54 about 14 miles southwest of Blooming ton Those hurt critically were XTra Arthur ortner of Huron Hendrck county: 4 and Mrs Knof el ive year old Jackie Nelson of and Mrs Russell Nelson of Lowell Ind was drowned in Bass lake and Charles Snell 22 was' drowned while he and three companions were swimming in a gravel pit near Mount Zion church four miles 1 of Win Chester 1 snancnai Japanese and Chinese? military forces warned to respect the neutrality of tenders and other small vessels" vwhite flags which are engaged in the workof evacuating all American woYgen and childrens from the jwar torn Ctty'" if1 JX 4 Because ofc theidangerr from shell firs' and aerial bombs steam ers are unable rto approach Shanghai closer than JV oosung it was said ixere and it has become necessary to ferry the refugees the International City down the river to the waiting steamers Evacuation of all American women and children' frqm Shang hai was approved by the state department aXter a decision for the exodus was'reached inta eon ference foe Admiral Harry Yarnell coinmanding the Asiatic fleet! Consul General Clar ence Gauss and cthe head ofc the American emergency committee in Shanghai I The Dollar liners Presidents McKinley Jefferson and Taft were standing i by to take off the Americans 4 0 yi 1 Crop Loans Will Start WKen DR Gives Word WASHINGTON Aug (AP) machinery is ready to make loans to farmers on cot ton corn wheat or any other crop agriculture department of ficials said today as soon as President Roosevelt or Secretary Wallace says ahead" They said experiences gained three seasons of cotton loans and two of corn loans would speed action whenever terms and condi tions of the price supporting pro gram are determined At the same time they warned winter wheat growers to keep in mind the crop control program which was the other end of the bargain betjveen Mr Roosevelt and farm state senators The agricultural adjustment ad ministration said not more than 80 per cent of the acreage? should be planted for harvest in 1938 The advice wasgiven now officials said because winter wheat will be in the ground before con gress can enact farm legislation The president agreed at a con ference with southern "senators to make cotton loans but enacted a promise general farm legis lation would be the first order of business when congress convenes again The senate promptly passed a resolution binding itself to this program Chairman Jones (D TexJ r'of the house agriculture committee predicted the house would approve it by Tuesday or Wednesday! 1 Agriculture department officials said they expected the loans to be ordered formally soon after the house No 196 Vol 18 GUIDE TO RADIO TREATS i Each day the Journal and Courier the choicest programs the air for tho benoftt at its readers The Weather Woman Indicted In Cincinnati for 7 Poison Murders CINCINNATI Aug (AP) After receiving evidence in what Prosecutor Dudley Miller Outcalt biggest mass murder in this country the Hampton county grand Jury today indicted Anna Hahn 31 year old mother on two charges of mur der 4 The jurors charged: her with the "malicious and premeditated slaying of George CGsellman67 who died suddenly July and Jacob Wagner 78 a teamster who died June 3" The two short form 'indictments were reported to Judge Charleses Bell bv Grand Jury oreman John Bauerle within fifteen minutes after the jury was called to con rider the case Police have nine other unexplained deaths under scrutiny four of which were of elderly German men with whomMm Hahn admitted having been friendly Both Gsell and bodies were exhumed and vital organs examined by City Chemist Behrer who reported find ing "positive traces of ln viscera Outcalt reported one witness identified Mrs Hahn as av woman seen with Gsellman the night be fore his death Mrs Hahn denied knowing Grellman but admitted Schattle said that she ministered to Wagner The indictments catn as Cap tain Hayes reported thirteen pre scriptions for poisons' and nar cotics had 'been traced to Mrs Hphn Children's Deaths Puzzle Physicians EVANSVILLE Indi 'Aug (AP) An unusual illness which caused the deaths of two children and threatened the lives' of two others of the same family puzzled phvslcians here today JO and Thomas 12 of Mr and' Mr a Harry Ambrose of Buckskin Ind died of the disease Bertha 13 and 8 are critically ilL The children were first thought to have been afflicted with ty phoid but Dr Robert Gorman of St Mary's hospital said an autopsy on the dead girl not show INAL Wife of Al Jolson Surgical Patient HOLLYWOOD Aug (INS) Keeler dancing and sing ing star and' wife of Al Jolson underwent' art for ap pendicitis herfe today Dr Moore attending sur geon announced the operation was successful and that Miss condition was good Miss Keeler who returned here with Jolson from A New York vacation trip a week ago was stricken last Wednesday Z' 4 Admits Hammering 1 His Wife to Death YORK Aug Jl Joseph' Cortese unemployed violin ist and taxidermist who admitted S2 he hammered his wife Sarah to death in their home in Brooklyn said today he did it because AL feed me and the kids any meat RESUME WAGE 'PARLEY CHICAGO Aug Gen eral chairmen of the five big op erating brotherhoods resumed to day negotiations for a 20 per cent wage increase "with a committee representing the railroads A Enochs chairman of the carriers committee 7 predicted the confer ences would continue "at least an AINT SIGNALS BELIEVED ROM 6 LOST AIRMEN Jimmy Mattern Will Lead Search: for Soviet Aviators orced Down in Arctic Wastelands WASHINGTON Aug (AP) Soviet embassy announced today the government radio sta tion at Irkutsk Siberia had pick ed up signals "of a weak and irregularly working believed to be the emergency radio set of Sigismund Levaneff sky missing SoViet flier The signals were received at 8:23 a (CST) the embassy said MARSHAL OR SEARCH AIRBANKS Alaska Aug pioneer aviators famed for many mercy flights co ordinated forces today In one of the most dramatic aerial hunts of the frozen the search for Soviet six gallant transpolar airmen Everv available Diane here cap able of long range flight was ffiajshaned' Into The Tiercn lor Pilot Sigismund Levanevsky and his five comrades Co pilot Kos tanaveff Navigator Levchenko Radio Operator' Galkovsky and Mechanics Pobzerhimoff and Gos Jimmy Mattern famed flier who gped here from Oakland Calif at 185 miles an4hour In his $125000 Lockheed Electra da116 the search wanted to be the firstkviator in the air today Mattern owes his to Lev 1 anevsky and Navigator Levchen ko They rescued Mattern from the Siberian wastelands iwhen he was forced down in 1933 in his round tle worid plane not said Mat tern "that I owe those men my Tuesday at Exhibit Ha AND COLT CLUB DAY 8 a judging of and jjirls pig club by Prof John Schwab of Purdue 8 a receiving 'of garden4 Orchard and bee club exhibits 8 a senior dress revue 5 9:30 a judging of poultry by Munger 12 noon annual 4 Club basket dinner I junior demonstrationeam contest 11:30 nx music West La fayette community orchestra 1:30 judging orchardnd garden clubs by Prof Stair of Purdue I' 7 open1 house invited I 7:30 nu music Jackson township community orchestra 7:30 judging of and club colts by Harold Sco field of Purdue 8:10 demonstra tions by winners inr junior dem onstration I 8:30 junioti dress revue' 9 mV livestock parade 9:15 im selection of pitcher for arm Bureau baseball team for game Wed nesday afternoon with Cham ber pC Commerce team which was be in pens or stalls by 5 in the evening The animals were being weighed as they brought in The exhibit will end with an auc tion of fat stock Thursday after noon Advance enrollments show ed an entry list of 469 hiead of livestock Boys and girls had listed 82 head of beef steers '42 of which are purebred natives 31 westerns and nine beef heifers The dairy club had 59 calves en ficials Order General Exodus 4 4 International News Service) A violent explosion of undetermined origin spread panic 1 international of Shanghai today as casualties mounted in the wake of new hostilities between Japanese and Chinese forces The city waslsubjected to the most violent bombardment in its history as? Japanese forces launched a land sea and air attack against Chinese positions 1 oreign women and children including many Americans began evacuating the city while additional United States marines and British troops were landed to protect those compelled to (remain SHANGHAI Aug (AP) American women and children passed safely through "hell fire today and began officially ordered from stricken Shanghai The first of the hundreds who must leave this 1 city of war within the next' few days were sped through the heart of Chinese Japanese CHINESE AND JAPS ENGAGE IN BATTLE BY LAND AIR AND SEA 4 I City Undergoes Most Violent Bombardment in Its History and American Women and Chil rr idren Pass Safely Through Shellfire As Of 1 1 1 THE JOURNAL ESTABLISHED M8T Expires on Lawn Of uneral Home InL i Aug 1 (INS) Suffering an at tack Charles Hays 61 for 14 years 'superintendent ofc buildings and groundslat Indiana university died on the lawn qf vthe Walter Allen funeral home her Haya who beautiful sunken 5 garden op the was'" known 1 to thousands mer I students He had been ill for weeks and was believed for a business call at the home when 1 death came 7 iremen to Conven MUNCIE Ind Aug The Jndianai association will ptart' its annual convention here tomorrow JTher convention will end Thursday with election of Gerhardt Shute xtf Hammond will preside rfest prop beason In Years Hoosier orecaster Says Justin agricultural statis tician at Purdue university re ported Monday that indications are Indiana will have one of th best crop season in recent years but It likely that any record will be broken He estimated the winter wheat crop at 34592000 bushels 12 per cent more than last year and the corn yield at 186480000 bu hels 62'per cent above 1936 On Aug' the corn crop was reported 88 per cent of normal 42 points above a year ago and 13 points above the 1923 32 aver agpThe is expected to aver age 40 bushels an'acrg he 'wheat crop expected to yild bushels an acre is 12 pefr cent above last year and 31 peS cent above the five year aver agi feather in July was reported favorable for growing crops al though in some southern area of th state the need for rain was becoming acute L'f' I 4 1 4 JUDICIARY CDMMITTEEVOTES AVORABLY TO REPORT BLACK Senators Engage i in urious Debate Over Eli gibility of Alabaman for Suprertie Court Nomination Before Approval1 13 to 4 De feat Move to Delay Action xvAQTTTKaTON A Aug (INS) Voting '13 to 4 the senate judiciary committee today favorably reported the nomination of Senator Hugo Black? Alabama liberal democrat to be an associate justice of the supreme court x' A furious debate over the legal eligibility of Black was staged byJ the committee before it voted to report him favorably Senators Burke (D) Nebraska and Austin (R) Vermont led a for further study of the legal points involved but they were over ruled A formal motion to delay action on the nomination until the legal questions could be studied was defeated 5 to 11 Then came the final vote on' a favorable report AS SOLONS VOTED vote was: or favorable report: Ashurst' Neely McCarran Van Nuys' Logan Dieterich 1' McGill Hatch Pittman Connally honey and Hughes (democrats BorahTepubUcan (13) 1 "Against favorable report: King and Burke democrats Austin and Stelwer republicans This quartet was joined by Mo Carranrin voting for further study eligibility was challeng ed chiefly upon the i contention that he was appointed to a new position on the court which had been created during hit term 4 in the senate This ws based uppn an allegation that the Sumner retirement act left Justice Van Devanter still a member of the court but created a hew tenth justiceship to which Black was appointed Under the constitution a sena tes cannot ba appointed to a post created during his term Administration members Of the committee though held that the retirement act if it created a DosU createdthML a rtired nn I GuarcUan in'China i 4 A College Educat ion i or Youth WhoSon Soap Box Contest Aug" Twelve year old Robert son of a White Plains real estate broker thanked Mt trip lit tle $982 racer today for the All American Soap box f4derby Cham pionship and a four year univer sity scholarship a silver trophy and4 a diamond set medat The home made speeder carried Robert to victory yesterday in the fourth annual soap box classic in which 123 boys participated They represented as many communities One Dead One Hurt in Bomb Explosion CHICAGO Aug? One man was killed and a womai) critically injured when an' airbomb exploded Qin the midst of several hundred persons i during 1 a fireworks display in an Italian religious festival on the northwest side early today The blast occurred when Nich olas Mastandrea 42 lighted the bomb in the yard of St Philip Benizi church as a crowd throng ed about him The bomb explod ed prematurely fatally wounding' Mastandreai Miss ay Uzzo 23 who was standing nearby was struck with fragments bf the explosive and physicians at4 Henrotin hospitalaid she mights not live 4 uthorTeacherls Arrested for raud INDIANAPOLIS Aug? 16 (INS) A Kennedy 60 former ly of Jndlariapolls whois fan author and former news paper man was in jail here to day charged with "obtaining mon ey under false pretenses Kennedy was arrested atvSan Antonio Tex on a warrant stgrfed by David Simpson of 'Tipton Intib 'concernlng alleged irregulari ties in connection with develop ment of the Pan American unb iersity at Lima Peru Z'1 I I Bandit Robs Hotel INDIANAPOLIS 'Aug' (INS) a young bandit' cowered4 two employes of the Riley hotel4 escaped with $200 early today The gfinman described as about 25 year of age and dressed in gray forced Hawes 1 Ewinell 29 the clerk and Thomas Hunter 27 toriie on as'he scooped up the money and fled TENT REVIVAL i Evangelist NicholaK PiroIo is at tracting large congregations Ho the tent revival at Kossuth and Seven teenth streets He is bringing mes sages on prophecy each evening at 7:45 to which Rev Calvin StantSr pastorr invitesthe public Monticello and owler May Get 1 New Postoffices WASHINGTON Aug 16 (AP) house appropriations com mittee listed today a 'large num ber of buildings throughout the country for proposed construction under a $70000000 public building program The projects axe on the recommended Jist from which the treasury and postoffice department will' select those to be undertak en The third deficiency appro priation bill carries a $23000000 lump siim for 'public' buildings The projects actually selected fop immediate construction will "be an nounced after "congress? completes action 'on the bill The list of new authorized post offices in Indiana from which will be selected those for actual con etruction follows: Austin $70000 Bicknell $70000 Bloomfield $80000 Brookville $75000 Butler $70000 Cambridge City $70000 Cannelton $75000 Edinburg $70000 owler $85000 Greenwood $70000 Huntingburg $85000 Knox $80000 Loogootee $70000 Milltown $70000 Mitchell $70000 Monticello $80000 Oakland City $70000 Petersburg $75000 Scottsburg $75000 Sheridan $70 000 Winona Lake $70000 Police Hunt for Brutal Assailant Of Woman A rtist CHICAGO Aug A mass roundup of negro loop work ers was in progress today a po lice intensified their hunt for the brutal assailant of Miss' Virginia Austen 25 a New York artist i The intruder crept into Miss hotel room while she was asleep and beat her insensible with a brick before she could cry out He attacked while she was uny conscious and then emptied her purse before escaping by the win dow through whicn ne enter ea rom hia few words before he fled Miss Austen told police that she gained the impression he knew the location of her room and that she would be alone Police de duced the man might have been a worker in the neighborhood and spied on the girl previously Miss Austen was employed here in a department storq demonstrat ing and selling a string puppet doll she had inyented Dafoe Threatens to Ban Quint Visitors CALLANDER Ont Aug' Expressing a fear' that the Dionne quintuplets may be hin dered in normal development through their public appearances Dr Alan Roy Dafoe today threat ened to furthervlsits the general public to the famous nursery Speaking of the never ending stream of tourists Dr Dafoe said: "They seem to realize the health of those children comes above everything else 0 DrdDafoe pointed out that al though the children are unable to see the visitor watching them in their playground he nevertheless feared they have come to realize they being seen Lafayette Tenth ifir: Rituals by Eagles CHICAGO Au" lAP) In diana lodge carried with them today many prizes of competition at the 39th annual convention ofc the Order1 'of Eagles here i Kokomo Ind1' won the class A contest for exemplification of ritual Lafayette and South Bend Ind were tenth and 'eleventh re spectively 4 New Castle and Anderson TInd were firgt and second in a similar contest for Kokomo' was sixth Indianapolis seventh andtMinicie Ind: six teenth United Siates Neto' PdtestnSndhgnaV Deattis WASHCGTON Aug Acting jointly with Britain apd rance the United States through ita ambassadprs at Tokyo and Nan king ha lodged new vigorous representation with Japan and China pArrttn American live caused by the undeclared warat Shanghai? 4 1 air and sea battle along the Whangpoo ron their way to safety abroad i SHELLS RIP BOAT Shell fragments tore the decks and roofs of the which carried 200 many of them to the homebound liner President Taft waiting off the mouth Shanghai was surrounded by the 15 mile front of the Chinese Japanese war whlch raged through Hts fourth day here and United States authorities ordered all their women and children out Three hundred fifty more are to leave tomorrow for Manila on the dollar liner President McKinley A like number will go Wednesday on the President Jefferson i The big liner President Hoover bringing United 4 States marine reinforcements from Manila can carry about 1000 American refu gees from Shanghai about the end of the week Red Cross at Manila is preparing for their re ception IERCE LAND BATTLE i The fiercest land fighting of the battle for Shanghai roared tonight along the whole front around Shanghal and north bf the Yangtze river Starshells from both Chinese and Japanese kept the sky almost continuously alight Most i bitterly contested sector was along the Shanghai Woosung (Turn to Page 5 Col 5) Pretty Kentucky Coed Is Victim of Ambush Slaying i BEREA 'Aug This small college town'4 flamed with excitement 1 today as one of pretty co eds lay dead victimTast night of a mysterious ambush slaying I The murdered girl is Opal Sturgell 18 year old sophomore of Bera college who was shot and fatally woiinded while she strolled along Campus walk with Wil liam Anderson a friend The passed 'a clump of bushes I Came a burst of gun fire 'and the girl fell her body pierced by several bullets She died soon after without regaining consciousness Anderson told police 'that earlier in the day they had met George Wells 20 a sophomore at the college and an admirer of Miss Sturgell and that Wells had threatened to kill her I at once went to question Wells but they could not find him and a general alarm was sent out to pick him1 up Deputy sheriffs of Madison county joined Berea police and officers from surt'btuidihg tbwns in the search (Turn to Page 5 Col Looking for Hairy Boonville Monster BOONVILLE Ind Aug 16 looking for anairy ape near here today after a mon ster: Mas 'terrorized this bonlmun ity xv 2 Persons 4 living near Cypress Beach a few miles south of here have told tales of encountering giant beast which specialize' in blood curdling vcreamx in the middle of the nlght 'an deleaves footprint larger than a human Ralph Duff a 4 fisherman first reported the animal about a year $igo after his police dog was torn to shreds in an (encounter with Tieast 5 Duff believe that the animal is huge ape whlcti lives in one the cave along the river and set a number of bear traps I 4 $fcep Jenckes Wants Workless Vacation WASHINGTON' Aug (AP) Rep Virginia Jenckes (D Ind) 4id today she has stayed in the Capital to take of work In her office each of four 'previous summers with time out for a trip home to' accumulate' more business trip some where this year if possible" she (said today HOUSE PUSHES A JIS LL lU ULUSt TAX LOOPHOLE Speaker Bankhead PlanningNight Sessions Neces saiyto Clean Calendar for Adjournment WASHINGTON Aug (INS) House leaders today ordered passage by nightfall of th Dough ton to close loopholes the initial step in drive to clean the house calendar for early ad journment 'i While the Measure contain some of the most drastic pro visions ever written into a 1 tax bUl' its sponsors predicted passage by an overwhelming vote "We are going no "pass the bill today and 4 will have our first night session if jBaidi Speaker AIMED AT EVADERS3Drafted by treasury and con gressional tax experts the measure is designed to virtually driva do mestic and foreign personal hold ing companies put of business ban Incorporation of talents by artists actors others: ban incorporation of yachts and coun try estates boost the rate of taxon foreigners and? revise' the system of deductions for interest and expense in calculating in come taxes House' leaders planned to call up the third deficiency bill pro viding for a new public building program and granting funds to many agencies for passage to The Wagner Steagall housing bill revised by: the banking com mittee was slated to be passed Wednesday While night sessions have been avoided in the house thus far this session leaders said the house may be held in session two or three nights this week to speed action on major and minor bills Gift to College TERRE HAUTE Ind Aug 16 (AP) The city of Terre Haute announced today a gift to Indiana Slate college of four blocks of streets running through the "campus valued at $300000 to make room for a five building' program at the college Sixty eight years ago Terre tsn non tn heln brine th college to the city other week NORTHWESTERN INDIANA GREATEST NEWSPAPER LAAYETTE' MONDAY EVENINGAUGUST 16 1937' s' 4 ARMYf TAKES REINOSAJ IN HARD IGHT Spanish Rebels Report Cap ture of Entire Loyalist Battalion and Say ive Other Units in WITH SPANISH INSURG ENTS i in Southern Santander Province Aug Two thousand Insurgent soldiers smash ed into the mountain jaws of Ven ta Nueva today on their way to Reinosa and far beyond it the city of Santander Insurgent Advices In rance said Gen troops pushed into Reinosa today in a terrific battle with retreating gov ernment troops I The insurgent repprted capture of an and said five other government battalion fled i It was the third day of th re newed offensive to sweep' govern ment troops xiut of Santander province just as General ran cisco men had conquered the Basque region to the cast AtXdusk yesterday four divisfons moving north along the Burgos Santander road had pene trated far into the notch of Venta Nueva despite the withering fire of government machine gdnners in concrete pillboxes and trenches I STORM MANY TOWNS As on Saturday when the Insur gents broke through' a maze of barbed wire and stormed town after town and mountain citadels fighters yesterday slash ed through seemingly impregnable defenses In4 days the column had broken through defenses which the government had had a' year to prepare Officers said only 500 men been! lost in the fighting prior to the Venta Nueva assault and that 5Q0 government troops had been captured There seemed to be no way to go 1 around the crevasses and hol lows this section The insur gents just put their heads down and plowed in urther Slash' in State WP A Rolls INDIANAPOLIS Aug (AP) 43955 persons were em ployed today on works progress administration projects and in ad mlnlstratlve capacities as against nearly 67 0(X) a year ago The rolls' total today is 1045 under the Aug 15 state quota of 45000' John Jennings state WPA administrator said he did not' anticipate any cuts after the Octoberquota of 41000 is met The September4uota is 41500 A recent of Admiral Har ry Yarnell' commander ln chief ofc'te United States Asiatic fleet who4 steamed from 'Tslngtao' to Shanghai his flagship? the Augusta to aid in protection of American 'lives and property the Sino Jap crisia Central Press 'Arrest Most Brutal Hit and Run Driver NEW YORK Aug Edward Dryer 27 year old held tending the outcome of Injuries suffered bylOliaa Mar garet McGuire 31 was charac terized by police today as New most brutal hit run driver: They said he admitted he delib 5 erately ran her down with his automobile thin robbed 'her: of after offering' to take her to a hospital 'and finally threw her i from his speeding automobile when police gave chase INDICT STRANGLER NEW YORK Aur Simon Elmore 57 yeaf old jobless painter ws indicted today on charge Of first degree murder for the assault strangling of Joan Kuieba 4 The girl body' was found in a Staten Island shack riday Police announced Satur day he had confessed the crime al tmbi LzAzzy f' 7' I 7 7 1 7 '3 3 4 7 I 9.

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