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Ooanplit Weather Statistic! od Flnrt Page. Baoond Section. Volume 76, No. 87 Whole German Finance in Trouble Prisons in the Air New Way to Travel Mr. Baer and Mr.

Camera (Copyright. I'M) T7ROM the world wide point of view the news is sua pension of payments by the Ger man Reichbank, which means that Germany stops paying even private debts. It is not merely the usual default on international debts. Wise Paris "fears the worst" as usual, in this instance that Ger many's financial condition is far worse than the world knows, wprse than Germany realizes or cares to admit. The sustantial Paris Temps says of the Reichsbank payment suspension "it is needless to insist on the gravity of this measure.

It demonstrates the desperate situation in which Germany finds itself. IV AAYOR LaGUARDIA, of New iVl York, asks Washington for $17, 000,000 to build a criminal courts skyscraper, "with a prison on the upper floors." Such prisons in the air are in use in several modern cities, Los Angeles and Miami, among others. So called civilization used to put graveyards on hilltops that the dead might enjoy a fine view, incidentally allowing disease germs to run downhill into open wells. Old prisons were in hole and dungeons underground. The skyscraper prison is baaed on common sense.

Skyscraper prison en cannot get out, since a drop of 15 or more stories would be involved, and lynching mobs cannot get in. Our kind civilization demands many precautions. "THE latest gold rush is in and A near Grand Forks. British Columbia. Prospectors have staked out 5,000 acres of claims, some of them on city golf links.

Ben Smith of New York, who specializes in gold, and makes it pay, says Americans should investigate gold mining possibilities In Canada and British Columbia. They might profitably investigate in Russia, also, but Russia will not let you have the gold, if you find it. JB SMlTEPS' traveling methods 1V1 show what flying vmaohines can do. He recently started around the world with his family by "floating steamer. On the way, in Java, he thought he would like to see the Grand National Steeplechase, and flew back to England, from that point, saw the race and flew back to join his family and their ship at an African port.

in New York, he flew to California, took another plane to British Columbia, flew back, via San Francisco, to New York. He thus saves months of old fashioned "high speed travel." NEXT Thursday occurs the Car nera Baer prize fight, and there is much interest. Camera, Italian, is well described as "the man mountain" sometimes as the "fighting mastodon." For box office reasons Mr. Baer is advertised as a "Jewish heavyweight prize fighter." Although not on the soundest enthological basis. According to the "New Yorker." Baer's mother was Scotch Irish, more than six feet tall, weigh ing more than 200 pounds.

His father was half Jewish only. The son grew strong, slaughtering and chopping up calves and sheep for his father. If he wins, Scotchmen and. Irishmen will claim the victory for the mother's fighting blood. His Jewish admirers will say that the Jewish quarter of his brain did the thinking and won the fight.

It is to be remembered, however, that if Spinoza, Disraeli, the origi nal Rothschild and Mamionides got in the ring with Camera, ajl at the same time, Camera, with leisurely ease, could knock out all four, which proves that being heavy weight champion does not amount to, much; also, lest the ambitious young forget, it may once more be stated that if Camera, Baer and other two human fighters that ever lived entered a ring with a full grown gorilla and made the gorilla angry, the four would not last two minutes. The gorilla, however, being a decent animal, would not fight unless offended and other gorillas, more respectable than humans, would not want to see the fight, much less give cocoanuts to see it. RUSSIA RECOGNIZED BY LITTLE ENTENTE Action Rouses Enthusiasm in Soviet Capital MOSCOW, June 10 IPy Recognition of the Soviet government by Rumania and Czechoslovakia, and the certainty that recognition will be extended soon by Yugoslavia, were hailed with great enthusiasm today by the Russian public and the Moscow press. The new understanding witli the "little entente, established at Geneva yesterday, was regarded a triumph for the peace policy of Maxim Litvinoff, Russian commissar for foreign affairs. It was pronounced a stabilizing influence ia the troubled European situation.

TODATfl By ARTHUR BRISBANE a of of COMPLETE No. 23,489 STEEL WORKERS TO DECIDE NEXT MOVE THURSDAY Johnson Advised to Steer Clear of Pittsburgh Meeting PRESIDENT IN TOUCH Indiana District 'Reaffirms Strike Vote; Expects Victory PITTSBURGH, June 10 VP) Union men of the nation's steel mills who have threatened to strike this month, tonight were summoned to Pittsburgh for a special NLB Settles 80 P.C. Of Cases Before It WASHINGTON, Jane 10 (IP) Settlement of percent of the cases brought before the national labor board up to Jane 1 was announced today by Senator Warner N. board chairman. Wagner said 2,000,000 or more workers were affected by the total of 3,755 cases, of which 3,061, affecting 1,750,000 workers, were settled.

"Approximately two thirds of these settlements," he said, "were agreements, and agreements spell sound settlements." Wagner added the board had mediated 2,323 strikees involving 870,000 workers. convention, June 14, to decide their next move. The outcome of the deliberations, at which the Jtv element's peaee proposal may be considered, probably will decide whether the steel industry will be paralyzed by summer walkouts. Michael P. Tighe, president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and TuV Workers, said tonight the "convention is to devise ways and means of carrying out the seven point program drawn up at our April convention here." This program principally con cerned demands upon the steel masters for recognition of the Amalgamated, thereby empowering the union to represent the workers in collective bargaining negotiations.

The question of hours and wages also is included. The dele gates voted at that time to strike in June if the Industry failed to grant the demands. Since then the iron and steel institute flatly refused to concede, what is terms the "closed shop," and the admin istration stepped in seeking to settle the strife. Leaders Favor Peace Plan It was indicated that Tighe and other international officers are favorably inclined to the peace plan proposed by Hugh 8. Johnson, NBA administrator, and endorsed by the Iron and Steel This proposal, similar to the one adopted in the automobile industry recently, calls for the appointment of a neutral three man board to iron out labor disputes.

But leaders of the insurgent group in the union, including William J. Spang and Earl J. 7or beck of the self styled rank and file: committee, have expressed (Turn to Page Seven) QUADRUPLETS BORN TO COUPLE IN IOWA Three Girls and Boy Are Well and Hungry SAC CITY, June 10 OP) Iowa's quadruplets three girls and boy were "doing well" today at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. L.

R. Wycoff, here. Dr. C. M.

Swearingen, who delivered the babies last night for his first such experience in 30 years practice of medicine, reported today all were healthy and hungry. The weights of the babes range from four and one quarter pounds, for one of the girls, down to two and one half pounds for the littlest her sisters. The, boy is second in weight. The heaviest girl and the boy are being fed like the slightly older and more famous quintuplets of Corbeit, with medicine droppers. They are given a specially prepared food, the doctor said.

The two smaller infants are receiving nourishment through tubes. The babies run the family rosty Wycoff children up to nine, there being five other children. Dr. Swearingen reported Mrs. Wycoff's condition was "satisfactory." The husband and father is employed as a highway worker.

ONE OF QUINTUPLETS SOMEWHAT WEAKENED CORBEIL, June 10 (P). Yvonne, heaviest of the 13 day old Dionne quintuplets, was reported by Dr. A. R. Dafoe as "somewhat weakened" today, although she has gained half an ounce in weight since Saturday.

Teh five children gained four and one half ounces in the 24 hours previous to today's weighing and now total 10 pounds, 11 ounces. Marie. smallest of the lot, now weighs 28 ounces. ASSOCIATED. PRESS NEWS AND UNIVERSAL TELEGRAPH AND CABLE SERVICE Hands OvlY 1 Henry P.

Fletcher, new chairman of the Republican national committee, assumes his Important duties with a smile as he starts directing the G. O. P. effort for a comeback. The Pennsylvania diplomat is shown here (left) at the Chicago session of the committee, giving a hearty handshake to his predecessor, Everett Austria to Use Methods Of Old Frontier Days Forms Vigilance Committees as Bombings and Terrorism Spread VIENNA, June 10 (Py The Austrian government tonight decided to use law enforcement methods of the American frontier to check a fast spreading wave of bombings and terrorism.

After two long meetings the cabinet of Chancellor Dollfuss announced it will organize volunteer defense groups similar to the historic vigilance committees which battled the outlaw of the western United States. All. Austrian were directed to organise such groups to co operate with the police, gendarmes and the armed groups of the "fatherland front." 150 Arrested at Gra i The extraordinary cabinet action followed on the heels of arrests of 150 federal and city employes at Graz, a stronghold of Nazi sentiment. It came at the end of a day marked by new outbreaks of violence, Including bombings and wrecking of railroad tracks here and in other parts of Austria. An official announcement by the cabinet, which all newspapers must publish, declares that the direction of bombings in many case has been traced to Germany.

Members of the new "vigilance committee" will have the same legal standing as professional police in their handling of situations in the course of duty, the announcement states. It was also said that trials of persons accused of terrorism will be speeded up, and im position of some death sentences is expected. Bomb Blows Up Bridge A bomb today blew up supports of the Ansbach railway bridge west of Vienna, damaging it so seriously that traffic will be tied up several days. In other sections farmers directed their attention to railroads, damaging the Stadlaur bridge east of Vienna and tearing up rails at Rekawinkll and Klein Wolkersdors Another infernal machine went off in the Chamber of Commerce building at Seefeld, Tyrol, police explaining suspicion is directed to Austrian Legionnaires Bavaria. A state of high tension prevailed throughout Grai as authorities (Turn to Fg SeTen) MUSSOLINI, HITLER MAY MEET FRIDAY VENICE, Italy, June 10 (P The momentous meeting between Premier Mussolini and Chancellor Hitler will take place In an aristo cratic villa on the road between Venice and Padua, it was said in semi official circles here today.

Hitler, in Munich today, was expected to arrive here with his ad visers Friday morning. The chancellor of the Reich will make his headquarters in a large hotel facing the grand canal. I It was believed Mussolini and Under Secretary Suvich will arrive at Padua Friday morning, and that they will motor to the Villa which is about half way between Padua and Venice. SISTERS STRUCK BY AUTO ON BRIDGE Two sisters were injured yesterday afternoon when they struck by an automobile as they were crossing the highway on the Buttonwood street bridge. Stella Bauscher, 10, 435 Huyett was injured about her left thigh and her sister, Edna, 18, suffered bruises about the right shoulder.

They were treated at the Reading hospital. The driver of the automobile according to the hospital authori ties was H. E. Carson, west Read ing. rltfV3 n.Day vi.

O. P. Reins Good Old U. S. Stuff; Kill Tot in Madrid MADRID, June 10 (JP) Turning a machine gun onto a group of youthful pie nickers returning home along a Madrid street, gunmen tonight killed a small boy and wounded three girls.

The group was quietly walking along Cardinal Clsneros street when an automobile parked at corner suddenly backed up, nearly over running the youngsters. They set up a howl of protest The driver of the ear then shoved It Into gear and sped away while occupants loosed a ml of JkuDets Jnto the group children. TOPTON YOUTH CRASH VICTIM Paul F. Brause, Motorcyclist, Dies in Allen town Hospital Injured in a crash between an automobile and his motorcycle Saturday night, Paul F. Brause, 30, of Topton, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Paul F. Brause, of Trexler's Furnace, died yesterday in the Allentown1 hospital. According to hospital records, Brause was driving his motorcycle when it figured in a collision at 11.30 o'clock Saturday night between Longswamp and Maple Grove, with an automobile driven by John Hoffman, Pennsburg. The young man Was treated at the office of Dr.

William F. Long, at Longswamp, and Dr. Long ordered him removed to the Allen town hospital. 4 i Stove Company Employe The dead youth was an employe of the Klein Stove company, Top ton, and a member of the Lutheran congregation of Longswamp church. He is survived by his parents; three sisters Mrs.

Clarence Haines, Al 'burtis; Mrs. Walter HartseU, Ma cungie, and Marie, at home; and the following step brothers and step sisters: Fred Dey and Walter Dey, Alburtis; Mrs. Lloyd Sheirer, Alburtis; Mrs. John Belcler, Topton, and Mayme Dey, Allentown. The funeral will be held at .1.30 p.

m. daylight saving time from the home of the parents, near Trexler's Furnace, Alburtis, W. D. Services will be held at the home and at Trinity Lutheran church, Topton, with interment in the Union cemetery at Topton. The Rev.

William F. Bond, Shamrock, and the Rev. W. H. Kline, Topton, will officiate.

Undertaker Irvin D. DeLong, Top ton, will have charge of the funeral. POSIES BRIGHTEN SHUT INS' DAY Bouquets Supplied 200 in Berks Too Late for Two Two hundred Berks county shut ins had their day brightened with flowers from the Florists' Telegraph Delivery association, but In two homes, the flowers came too snapdragons, delphinium, larkspur, and carnations were hustled to the shut ins by the de livery trucks seven ReadljJ florists, because it was National Flower Shut in Day, I Ay ORN ING, UN 11,1934 SIGNALS GIVE HOPE FOR 7 IN MISSING PLANE Light and Sheet Reported Seen on Peak of Catskills SEARCHERS WAIT DAY Air Liner," Missing 36 Hours, Believed to Have Crashed NEW YORK, June 11 '(Monday) (IP). A flickering light and a white sheet reported flying from a precipitous peak in the heart of the rugged Catsklll mountains kept hope alive early today for the seven occupants of a Chicago bound air liner, missing since Saturday. State police and veteran pilots, spurred by the possibility that the light might be a flare from the huge, 16 seater biplane, said they would leave at daybreak for Black Dome mountain, near the haifllet of Round Top in Greene county.

The light and the sheet were reported after posses and two dosen planes returned from an all day search of the heavily wooded, sparsely settled Cats kills west of the Hudson river. "It looks like a sure Sergt. Walter Wheeler of the state police told Albany headquarters before midnight, "but I won't be convinced until morning. "Whatever is on top of Black Dome, it looks like a signal. To get there you have to climb a mountain almost straight up and down and it is filled with deep ravines making ascent almost impossible.

We are leaving here (Jefferson Heights) at 4 a. with planes. (The sheet was about 13 feet square and looked like a signal, said Sergeant Wheeler. May Be Parachute Possibility that the sheet might be the parachute of one of two flares carried by the orange and blue plane was seen by Earl Ward, general superintendent of the American Airlines. The parachute, made of white sllkwould be about that size, he saidT Four passengers and a crew "of" threerwere aboard the missing ship which had been enveloped in silence for nearly 36 hours.

The only food carried was lunch for seven. Ward, returning to Newark air port from a personal air search, was told by Wheeler in a telephone conversation that any effort to scale the mountain at night might result fatally. Fanners Report Crash The search for the liner, which left Newark at 4 p. m. Saturday, (E.

S. centered in Greene county, the retreat of the slain Jack Diamond, New York gangster. Farmers in that area reported having seen and heard a ship early Saturday evening. Mrs. Rose Love (Turn to Pase Seven) AUTO RACER DIES, BRIDE BY HIS SIDE PHILADELPHIA, June 10 (iV Joe Russo, Indianapolis automobile race driver, died today in a hospital at Bristol, of injuries suffered in a smash up during the 50 mile feature race at the Langhorne speedway.

At his bedside was his bride of a few months, who had witnessed the accident yesterday. Russo, who was 35, suffered a fractured skull, a broken jaw and internal injuries, and never regained consciousness. His car careened off the track at the north turn on the thirty eighth lap and rolled over, throwing the driver 75 feet. He was driving Lou Moore's "Foreman Axel special." which was demolished. Russo finished fifth in the recent 500 mile race at Indianapolis, NEW G.

P. HEAD SEES FUN IN JOB GREEN. CASTLE, June 10 (IP). Henry P. Pletcher, newly elected chairman of the Republican national committee, says he expects to have "lots of fun" in his new post.

He addressed several hundred citizens of his home town avfter they held a torchlight parade in his honor last night. Judge Watson Davison, Franklin county jurist, cousin of Fletcher, acted as spokesman for the crowd, saying the demonstration marked the appreciation "for the honor you have brought to Green Castle and to Pennsylvania." Fletcher spoke from the front porch of his home. The posies came too late for two of those they were intended for. "Our deliverymen said the flowers brought great joy to the unfortunate folks they were sent to," John S. Giles, Reading florist, said last night.

"We spent most of the morning getting them delivered, but whatever joy we were able to bring made it worth every effort any of us took. The men on the trucks GILES TO TRY ONE WAY PLAN FOR SIXTH ST. Traffic Northbound Only Between Penn and Walnut Starting Saturday SENTIMENT IN FAVOR Folks South of Penn Op posed to Scheme There; Parking Lots Object Sixth street will become a one way street for northbound traffic Satur day. Police Commissioner Giles announced yesterday that public sentiment Justified experimenting with the plan, and that the one way rule would be in effect for three weeks. If the public still seems to like the arrangement, Giles said, It will be made permanent.

The one way plan will affect the two blocks between Penn and Wal nut streets, Giles said.V Parking, which now is restricted to the east side of the street, will be permitted on both sides for the duration of the experiment. Opinion Favorable "We have obtained a very good cross section of public opinion in this matter, and the opinion is over whelmingly in favor of making the experiment," Giles said. "We have even had requests for an extension of the plan to include the block be tween Walnut and Elm. However, we'll make a test only in the two blocks north of Penn." said the police department also was considering the one way plan for South Sixth street, but that because several strenuous protests had been made, chiefly by parking lot operators, that part of the ar rangement would be held in abey ance for a while longer. Test for Three Weeks "We'll make a test for three weeks on the two blocks north of Giles said.

"We believe it will do two things: Relieve congestion at the busy Sixth and Penn streets comer and provide much needed parking space, now unavailable be cause of the necessity for banning parking on the west side of the Giles said he was confident that fier the plan had been tried for iree weeks, there would be sufficient approval of it to justify making it permanent. PRESIDENT'S MOTHER TO RECEIVE DEGREE Will Be Honored by Moravian College BETHLEHEM, June 10 Mrs, James Roosevelt, mother of the President, Is to receive an honorary degree of doctor of letters Tues day at the one hundred and ninety first commencement exercises of the Moravian Seminary and Col lege for Women. Twenty one young women will be graduated with degrees of bachelors of art. Mrs. Roosevelt wul be accom panied from New York by her daughter in law and Mrs.

Alma Claybaugh and Mrs. Rita Hall They will return Tuesday night. Mrs. Roosevelt's visit will be the first of a mother of a President to the college. However, three wives of Presidents, Mrs.

Martha Wash ington. Mrs. John Quincy Adams and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, were entertained there. Roland S.

Morris, former ambassador to Japan, will deliver the commencement address. TENUSV CONVICTED ON MURDER CHARGE ST. JOHNS, June 10. Attorneys for Dorothea Irene Turley, convicted today by a jury of assault with intent to murder in connection with the "Ouija board" slaying of her husband, E. J.

Turley, retired navy man, prepared tonight to ask for a new trial. Mrs. Turley, known as the "Venus of America" in 1919, wtes calm as Judge P. Sawyer set July 7 for passing of sentence. Turley was shot and fatally wounded by his 15 year old daughter Mattie, who testified she fired the shot under instructions of a "Ouija board" so that her mother "could marry a handsome young cowboy." The girl added that the mystic board was "directed by my mother." Mattie is serving a term in the state reform school.

told us that two of those whose names have been given to us over a period of weeks died before the flowers could reach them." Giles said many cities in eastern Pennsylvania, among them Philadelphia, had such great demand for flowers for shut ins that their supply ran out before the day was over. Reading florists, he said, were forewarned and therefore forearmed. I TUe Own PnMidM tnry Morning Btcpt Bund jr. filtered a Mcond claaa natter Um Port OOitt at Beading. the Act of March.

1179. Ag Black Bea Night Nye Says U. Leads World in Arms Race KENNETT SQUARE, Pa, June 10 (JtyV. S. Senator Gerald P.

Nye said tonight the United States leads the world in the race for armaments. Addressing the 82nd yearly meeting of Friends In Historic Longwood Meeting house near Kenneth Square, Senator Nye said this country from 1913 to 1939 Increased its military appropriations 197 percent. The increase for Japan dur ing the. same period was 142 percent; for Great Britain 42 percent; for France 30 per cent; for Italy 44 percent and for Russia, 30 percent, he asserted. "Not another record on earth equals or even comes near to that of the so called greatest peace loving nation In the world" Nye said.

FINANCES TOPIC FOR CONVENTION To Discuss Preparedness Before Hosiery Convention Adjourns Tuesday Finances for organization and preparedness for a general strike will command the attention of delegates to the American Federation of Hosiery Workers' convention when they re convene at The Berkshire this morning. Because both problems are for the unionists momentous ones, settle ment of them is not expected much earlier than in time to permit the convention to adjourn by tomorrow mgnt. The question of a general strike arises out of two considerations, union leaders said yesterday. In the first place, the agreement which the federation has with 70 odd manufacturers can expire September 1 if the union serves notice to that effect by June 30. In the second place, industrial conditions throughout the country are in such a state as to make it impossible to forecast what emergency may arise in the interim between now and the next conven tion, leaders said.

Emergency Powers Problem The. problem the delegates will be called upon to answer one way or another is whether or not the fed eration's national executive board shall be given full and. sweeping powers to act in any emergency. Such power, it was said, wouldt give the board, of which Luther D. Adams, Reading, is a member, authority, without further reference to the general membership, to cancel the existing contracts, demand a 30 hour week instead of the present 40 hour week, call a general strike if necessary, and draw up the terms of settlement of that strike.

The question is expected to give rise to an extended and heated debate on the floor, between the delegates who believe that the strike calling and strike settling machinery should be simplified and those who take the position that the rank and file should have a greater voice in any specific situation. 30 Hour Week Demand Looms If a general strike should be called the 30 hour week would be among the strikers' demands, it was pointed out, since the federation is already on record in favor of the curtailed week as a means of remedying overproduction in the indus try. A corresponding increase in wages, to compensate for the lost working hours, would be soueht also. it was saia. (Turn ts Pate Twe) 5 GO DOWN TO DEATH WITH WRECKED SHIP Little Schooner Sunk in Collision ST.

JOHN5S N. June 10 WV Splintered wreckage and a small valise today identified a little schooner which sank with a crew of five during the night after a col lision with the steamship Silver Searching parties cruising about the placid "waters north of Torbay came upon the mute evidence which established the victim as the schooner Ethel Collett. She carried her captain, Martin Ford, and four seamen. None of the bodies were found. The ill fated craft had discharged a cargo of lumber at Spaniards Bay, Wednesday, and apparently was proceeding to Carbonear when the accident occurred.

i Captain Edward Vardy. of the Silver City, wept openly today as he tola or the collision and of the piercing, frantic cries of the five men who went down with their ship within 10 minutes. For several hours the steamer cruised about the vicinity of the crash, but none of the bodies could be located. The People's Newspaper MmwM It Opii Om FmUie Alfmin, mnd Invitee the Opinimne mf Ite Rmmdert mn Current Topic 3 Cents a Copy mts Tiny Hof ner, 'Henny; Witman' Face Sunday Liquor Sales Charge SIX EMPLOYES HELD Slot Machines Seized; 2 A. M.

Descent Panics Patrons Throwing several hundred patrons into a brief panic and cutting short their end of the week merry making, raiders at 3 o'clock yesterday morning bore down on the River view and Black Bear clubs and arrested reputed proprietors and attendants for selling liquor on Sunday and maintaining slot machines. At the Riverview Riding club, popular resort alonp the Schuylkill about two miles north of the city, state police and State Liquor Control board agents arrested Frank Wojclechowskl as the proprietor and Nathan Rhoads and Paul Kerns as employes. At Black Bear another raid Ing party arrested Harold "Tiny" Hoffner as the pro prietor and four others they said were bartenders: John Mase, Ephrism Moyer, Stewart Elbert and Kenneth Lester. Air were held under $1,000 bail for hearings before Alderman Cast, ner. The liquor hearings will beheld at 11 o'clock this morning ahd the slot machine hearings at 7 o'clock tonight.

First Under Repeal The raids are the first conducted in Reading or Berks county since liquor was legalized and Sunday drinking outlawed by the state liquor control act. Both clubs were well known to those in Reading and its environs who go in for night life. The River view club was commonly known as "Henny Witman's," and was a rendezvous for scores of persons, many of them in Reading's social blue book. The club had more thati 100 tables for guests, a sizeable dance floor, and a lavish floor show each weekday night. The Black Bear place was opened only a few weeks ago.

Previously Hoffner for a considerable length bf time operated the Pricetown road club, just outside the city, known as "Tiny's Chateau," where there was a floor show as well, as sensational as the one subsequently staged for the customers' edification at Black Bear. Hoffner, play boy and former heavyweight boxer well known in Reading sports circles, was named by federal dry agents as the proprietor of the "Manhattan club," a city club speakeasy on Walnut street near Tenth, when the club was raided several years ago. Complaints Made The raiders said both raids were preceded by complaints to the State Liquor Control board. The troopers and control board agents did not molest patrons of the clubs, satisfying themselves with asking them to pay their checks and vamoose. Apprehensive and wondering what it was all about, the guests lost little time in settling for their evening's outing and clearing out.

Although conjecture was rife yes terdayN as to whether not the (Turn to Pase Two) GERMAN ENVOY'S HOME IS STONED HAVANA, June 10 (IP). A gang of hoodlums stoned the residence of the German minister to Cuba to day, breaking several windows. The stones were wrapped in papers upon which was printed "we demand Thelman's freedom," signed by the Young Communist's league. "Thelman" was taken to mean nst Thaelmann, German Communist leader, for whose release from prison Communists have been agitating widely. The gang scattered before the arrival of police.

No one was injured. 'The First Caller Took The Baby Coach Away" Mr. Green, who lives at 115? Mulberry advertised a baby coach for sale in the classified columns of The Times. A few days later he called to say: "The first caller bought the baby coach and took It away. I could have sold it at least 4 times.

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