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Daily News from New York, New York • 211

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New York, New York
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211
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DAILT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 195 ifeffcf Ems wi mi Self unusual for her, the employer called police. A patrolman forced his way into the apartment and found the bodies. Devoted Mother, Well-Trained Child Stunned neighbors described Mrs. Handibode as a religious woman and devoted mother. Police said that more than a dozen dolls ero perched on dressers and chairs in th bedroom.

At Holy Name Parochial School, Amsterdam near 97th nuns were shocked by, the death of Helen, a star pupil. One her teachers said: "Helen was a lovable, well-trained child wh adored her mother. When she left school each day she would go home and remain there until her mother returned from work. Her daily diversion was to sit at a window and wave friends in the street below." The husband and father, Randolph Handibode, 43, lives and works at the Salvattoa Army shelter, 4109 Park Bronx. ered by blankets.

Mother and daughter had been dead seven days. Assistant Medical Examiner, Emanuel Neuren, said. Two Parakeets Found Alive in Flat He ruled out gas as the cause of death because two parakeets were alive in the apartment. All windows were closed tight and the door was chained and bolted. Neuren narrowed the cause of death down to poison or an overdose of sleeping tablets.

An autopsy was ordered. The mother evidently killed the daughter and then took her own life, police said. For the last two years Mrs. Handibode had worked as a stenographer at the Pace Press, a printing concern at 636 11th Ave. A note addressed to her boss, Frances Friedman, read: "I have been ill for a long time and I can't go on." Mrs.

Handibode had not reported for work for more than a week. Alarmed at her absence. By illiam Federici and David Quirk Separated from her husband eight years, Mrs. Helen Handibode had one worry constantly on her mind. If anything happened to her, what would become of her pretty blonde daughter? For the mother, who was 47, feared that death would strike her suddenly and take her from her daughter, Heien, 9.

Mrs. Handibode was convinced that severe headaches that had plagued her in recent months, were caused by a malignant growth in the brain. The mother apparently came to a tragic decision seven days ago to take her own life and take Helen with her. Their bodies were, found yesterday in their spotless, tastefully furnished three-room apartment at 72 W. 95th St.

In nightclothes, they lay in twin beds, cov igWliiiil5iliil'a6' in Stitu Ave. Jtostt Off A 30-year-old bookkeeper was beaten with a hammer and robbed of a $2,600 payroll by lvo thugs yesterday in the lobby of an office building on 46th St a few doors east of Fifth Ave. The robbers then disappeared in the sidewalk crowds. Eleanor Galatan, of 6301 W9mm-S: 23d Ave Brooklyn, who works for the photography studio of Kurshan Lang, on the fifth floor of 10 E. 46th St, withdrew the payroll from a bank at Madison Ave.

and 45th St. shortly after 3 P. M. and then walked Uwidalcd Pmm Wirefoto Autherine Lucy discusses her plans with Mrs. Ruby Hurley (right), southeast regional secretary of the NAACP, and Arthur Shores, her attorney.

back to her office. Gets 5 Years As a Trader In Obscenity Called "one of the nai ion's biggest dealers in obscenity." Samuel Roth, 2 -year -old publisher, of 11 W. 81 KU was fined $3,000 and sentenced to five years in jail yesterday by Federal Judg John M. Cashm. Roth, who has at 119 Lafayette St.

and a rb.u TV Actress to Wed Comedian Apparently tailed all the way by the two hoodlums; she was set Upon as soon as she entered the empty lobby. One of the holdup men mugged her from behind. while the other began to strike her with the hammer as he tried to grab the envelope containing the money. Threaten Suit Over Ouster At Alabama U. Tuscaloosa, Feb.

7 (U.R). University of Alabama trustees" were threatened today with a contempt of court action unless they Sinks To Floor Miss Galatan held onto the -X', payroll for a few moments, but 1 finally relinquished her grip under a heavy rain of blows and sank to the lobby floor semi-conscious. The thugs grabbed the envelope and fled. Discovered within a short time by another tenant in the building. Miss Galatan was removed to Bellevue suffering from head injuries.

She wis able to tell police only that her assailants were Neirroes. The hammer, wrapped in yellow paper, was found in the lobby. Italy Gets U.S. A-Aid Rome, Feb. 7 (Reuters).

Italy has concluded agreements with the United States for a supply of heavy water to Italian nuclear research plants, it as announced today. i im It-'-' readmit a Negro student they suspended to halt campus. rioting, Arthur Shores, attorney for the suspended girl, Autherine Lucy, 26, said the trustees submitted to "mob rule" last night when they suspended her. The girl, first Negro student to enroll at the university, is the center of a desegregation controversy. Shores said that if Miss Lucy is not reinstated in the university within 48 hours he will go before a federal court demanding that the entire board- of trustees be cited for contempt.

University Is Quiet With Miss Lucy absent from classes, quiet returned to the university. But there was no sign that the bitter issue had been settled. Her suspension followed a series of demonstrations in which eggs, mud and stones were hurled Actress Veorgiann Johnson New Switch On Old Idea Could be that the lustrous chignon on your girl friend's head is not only a pin-on, but it isn't even hairl Turn to page 30 for Edna Ferguson's story of a new switch on an old beauty trick. Samael Rot at 27S Canal by a jury on Jan. I of cl.args of tending r.e matter through tie mail.

to far west as Su Assistant LT. S. Attorney George S. Leisure Jr. told tie court Rott had been I almost 40 yt-ui srH is r'iv-sidered by the Post if fire L-partment to be one of the most persistent offenders, i yesterday as she traveled between said today.

The couple came here without fanfare yesterday to obtain the license, then sped back to New York so Prager could go on stage as Prez in the Broadway hit. Ehode Island law requires a five-day waiting period after obtaining the (Special to THE SEWS) Providence, Feb. 7. Geor-giann Johnson, the saucy blonde Marge Weskit of the defunct Mr. Peepers TV show, and comedian Stanley Prager of "The Pajama Game" have taken out a marriage license here and will return to use it, friends classes.

The trustees said they used their Dower to bar her from classes until further notice in order to restore order and insure her safety..

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