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Hubby Has 6 Spy In Wife's Boudoir Arthur Shapiro, 33, a radio musician, charged today his wife had been found nude in bed with another man by six detectives. Pending outcome of a divorce action filed by his wife Jeanne, Arthur Shapiro today filed suit to obtain custody of his son, aged 8, and daughter, Private detective "Abe Pelter, employed by Shapiro, said that early in the morning of Jan. 7 he and five of his aides raided Mrs. Shapiro's apartment at 6561 Fountain Ave. Pelter testified before superior court commissioner Robert L.

Brock they were let into the house by Shapiro. When in the house, they went directly to the bedroom, Pelter said. The light was on, Pelter, said, adding "The light disclosed Mrs. Shapiro nude in bed. By the side of the bed was a man who was identified as Tom Mace.

He was nude but held some kind of covering in front of him." Striker Hurled Missile At Truck, Court Carl R. Suter, 35, CIO oil strike picket, was found guilty today by a jury of hurling a missile at a truck during a strike at Union Oil Company's Lomita tank farm Sept. 24. Judge Clement D. Nye set Feb.

28 for probation and sentence for the misdemeanor ruling by the jury. Suter, of 5946 Jillson St. was indicted by the county grand jury. Pick Jury to Try Cowboy For Murder Selection of a jury began today Opium Ring Trial Slated For March Mrs. Jeanne Shapiro and Tom Robots Help U.S.

Get L.A. Taxes Science has come to one of the oldest functions of government- tax collection. The local office of the collector of internal revenue has installed 102 robot-like machines forms. The machines will free deputies of the task of checking returns by hand, Collector Harry C. Westover pointed out.

They can then get out and "bird-dog" delinquent taxpayers. Last year deputies worked 2000 man days checking returns, each averaging around 400 per day. The printing and accounting machine will spew out 150 processed returns per minute. Those who are entitled to an income tax refund can look for it around the middle of April, according to Westover. Last year it was the end of June before final refunds were mailed.

Angeles is one of five cities with mechanical income tax tabulation. The speed-up of refunds will pay rentals on the machines through interest savings to the government. SLEEPWALKER? Two Deaths Hike Traffic Toll to 53 Death of two persons, one of whom may have sleep-walked into the path of a hit and run driver, today raised Los Angeles citycounty traffic toll to 53. Mrs. Sarah Jane Froats, 82, of 3925 Orangedale Montrose, was found unconscious in the 2100 block on Honolulu Ave.

yesterday morning. She died today at Physicians and Surgeons hospital, Glendale. Montrose sheriff's deputies said she was dressed only in underclothes, leading them to believe she may have wandered from her home after retiring. Robert A. Lockwood, 56, 1429 E.

San Gabriel River parkway, was killed today when his car struck a pepper tree in the 2700 block on E. Valley Blvd. Highway patrol officers said no other vehicle was involved in the accident. LOS ANGELES, JAN. 24, 19491 in the murder trial of James S.

Blasingame, 24-year-old cowboy, for the brutal slaying of Otto Mueller, 'Hollywood haberdasher. Blasingame has twice confessed the murder, according to Hollywood detectives. He is charged with beating Mueller, 56, to death with a lamp and a board when Mueller resisted a holdup attempt last Feb. 27 in his 1112 N. Vine St.

shop. Mrs. Jean Morgan, 37, of 242. S. Frederick Burbank, is expected to be a principal witness.

Blasingame had previously accompanied her to Mueller's store, where she went to make a purchase. At that time, police said, Blasingame saw Mueller make change and decided on the holdup. Blasingame got $53 and a wristwatch. He was captured at Salinas. Trial of 10 men charged as the operators of an international opium smuggling ring was set by Federal Judge Jacob Weinberger today for March 1.

The group was arrested last December at a swank Hollywood apartment after they allegdly agreed to sell $50,000 in opium to undercover narcotics officers. The opium reportedly was grown and processed in Mexico and transported into the United States disguised as canned tomatoes, truck parts and other items. Named in the federal indictment are: R. L. Teyechea, 33, former army captain and Nogales bus lines operator; Ramiro Cazares, 25, Mexican farmer; Francisco J.

Lavat, 43, Mexico City merchant; Milton H. Burke, 39, railroad fireman. Enrique and Gabriel Tapia, Luis Lavat, Luis Espinoza Martinez and Francisco Espinoza Martinez. I WANNA GO HOME -So says Annabelle Bucar, 33, who gave up her U.S. citizenship to marry a Russian opera singer in Moscow.

Apparently fed up with life in Russia, she has written relatives in Pittsburgh she wants come home "as soon as I Acme. 12 THE MIRROR to tabulate 1948 1040-A tax William Wright Funeral Set Funeral services were being planned today for actor William Wright, 37, who died in Ensenada, last Wednesday. His mother, Mrs. William Wright said he had been in poor health and had gone to the Mexican resort last week for a When he did not return as expected Mrs. Wright called Ensenada Friday and was told he had died of cancer.

The actor has roles in four as yet unreleased pictures at Columbia studios. He had been in motion pictures for the past 15 years. His widow, Carol, and two children, Bill, 6, and Karen, 14, live at 753 N. Gramercy Pl. Mrs.

Wright said the body would be sent to Ogden, Utah, for burial at his birthplace. LUTHER, THE INDIAN, ESCAPES MORGUE SLAB Luther the Indian had survived the withering gunfire of the paleface that blasted him out of a towering redwood tree. But he never came closer to a cold morgue slab than he did today. He was riding in the back seat of a car driven by Robert Kuecher, 60, of 1835 N. Whitley Ave.

Pauline Gibbons, 40, of Sacramento, was up front with the paleface when the car skidded and drilled itself into a phone pole at Boyleston and Temple Sts. The driver and Miss Gibbons were taken to Georgia St. receiving hospital with Officers took one look at the twisted body of the noble redman and called the coroner. But a second look saved the doc a rainy trip. Luther was only a dummy--an unpaid extra in Bob Hope's 'Paleface." Kuecher was booked for drunk driving, felony.

Luther was booked as found property. 1 46 11. 1 ROBERT KUECHER EYES 'LUTHER'. -MIRRORFOTO.