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Sjetatt THE WEATHER ncreingly cloudy Wedneiday; thunderitormi, cooler Thurtday. edlxjqnjSt Wednesday, June 22, 1938. 108th Year. No. 49 On Guard for Over a Century 22 Pages Three Cents Mayor to Ask Aid of U.S.

as Detroit WPA Money Melts 5 Kroger Stores Bombed on West Side of Detroit, All Within 15 Minutes Ickes Back Home with Bride of 25 Two Land at New York After Honeymoon Abroad NEW YORK, June 21 (A TM-Secretary Ickes arrived on the lie de France tonight with his red-haired bride, the former Jane Dahlman, 25 years old, and said, "I've never before come back from Europe in such a happy state of mind." Looking much younger than his 64 years, he affably paced the Berlin Denies Spying in U.S. by Nazi Army Charges that 18 Were Indicted to Create a 'Sensation America Will Extend Its Espionage Probe Kidnaping Ends Peddler's Idyllic Tent Honeymoon Enters Race Senate Post Blasts Are Called Work of Squads Other Buildings Are Damaged; Three Suffer Shock Company Employees on Strike for Week Gunmen Bind Trio in a $5,250 Gem Robbery Three Bandits Raid Store in Center of Wyandotte Method Is Like That of Holdup in Detroit Robbery of the jewelry store of David Samelson in the heart of Wyandotte's business district at 6 m. Tuesday netted three bandits approximately $5,000 in jewels and $250 in cash. The store is located at 3033 Bid-die Ave Samelson and two other men in the store at the time were forced into a back room and bound hand and foot with adhesive tape. They remained there for 20 minutes until friends found them, Asks to See Watch Samelson, who lives at 2052 Wavcrly Detroit, was preparing to close his store for the day when the first bandit, a well-dressed young man, came in and asked to see a watch.

Thomas Vitale, 17, of 222 Antoine Wyandotte, was a customer in the store at the time. When Samelson started showing watches to the bandit, the latter drew a gun and ordered Samelson and Vitale into the back room. Then the second bandit came in, followed closely by David Eisner, 32, of 1410 Oak Wyandotte. Eisner is a collector for Samelson. Bandit Halts Exit Believing Samelson was busy, Eisner turned to leave, but the second bandit drew his gun and forced him into the rear room.

The third bandit, masked, li i 1 I BERLIN, June 21 (U. The German Government flatly denied late today that German military leaders, indicted by a Federal grand jury in New York after a five-day spy investigation, had any connection with espionage activities in the United States. An official spokesman said that it was "out of the question" that any officer of the German armed forces could be connected with espionage plots in the United States, as alleged yesterday in indictments naming 18 persons. A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We know nothing officially as yet, and in any case we regard the whole matter as an attempt to create a sensation in the United States for obvious reasons. It is quite evident that the allegations overshoot the mark.

It is not so much a case of spies as spies imagined." Among those indicted were Capt1 Lieut. Udo von Bonin and Capt. Lieut. Hermann Menzcl, described as Reich War Ministry officers in charge of operations of the Reich's counterespionage division. Lieut.

Capt. Erich Pfeiffer, also indicted, is listed as being attached to General Headquarters of the 10th Army Corps in Bremen. U.S. Government Will Push Investigation into Espionage NEW YORK, June 21 (U.P.) America's biggest spy hunt since the World War, which has resulted in the indictment of 18 persons on charges of espionage, was pushed forward tonight. Federal authorities indicated tonight that the espionage grand jury, after a brief vacation, would go ahead with additional evidence which is expected to result in more indictments.

The arraignment of the four dc fendants in custody may take place tomorrow. The man credited with breaking the case Leon G. Turrou, veteran Federal Bureau of Investigation agent resigned from the Federal service today. Turrou worked night and day on the case for more than three months. He was the highest paid G-man in Federal service, but he said thJ he wished, to be free to "earn more money than I can in Federal service." Turrou is 42 and has been associated with the F.B.I, in most of its major investigations since he joined the service in 1028.

Pastor Convicted of Postal Frauds Got Chairs on Credit, Then Sold Them A Kerlcral Court jury deliberated 18 minutes Tuesday, then returned a guilty verdict against Robert F. McFarlane, 2'J years old, a former Baptist minister, accused of mail fraud in using his position to get credit on chairs which he then sold. Federal Judge Edward J. Moinet deferred sentence until Friday. McFarlane also faces sentence at that time for his conviction on a morals charge growing out of an incident on a boat bound for Cleveland last July 4.

Before his arrest last fall McFarlane was pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, E. Jefferson and Meadowbrook Aves. Thomas P. Thornton, assistant district attorney, had produced witnesses to show that McFarlane used the United States mails In appealing to chair companies several cities for delivery of approximately $4,000 worth of merchandise for which he never paid. City Will Use Up Funds by July 1 Reading Hopes to Get Federal Financing of Entire Setup Proposed Bond Sale Is Finding Opposition An appeal to the.

Federal Gov-rrmcnt to finance virtually all n'et'rnifs WPA program after July 1 will be made by Mayor Reading Washington Thursday, the Mayor decided Tuesday after a conference with WPA and City officials. The Mayor left for New York Tuesday night to attend the Louis-Schmeling fight Wednesday. It was expected that Gov. Murphy would be a passenger on the same tram and that he and the Mayor vmiM confer further on Detroit's relii'f problem. Before his anticipated conferee with Harry L.

Hopkins, WPA a and Paul V. Betters, secretary of the United Slates Conference of Mayors, the Mayor expected to receive a for-'WA opinion from Corporation Counsel Raymond J. Kelly on the lality of 'the proposed sale of sfino.fiOO of sewage disposal for welfare purposes. Dispute Over Bonds City Controller John N. Daley zni'd that the City's attempt to the bonds, in view of its in- nro'lnrss, bonding limn ana re- i mg agreement, would be cer- to prompt suit to prevent tne William M.

Walker, roun-tciH with the assertion that the Ktiieial Government would not, in nil probability, accept all Pe-irml welfare burden as long as the bonds remained unsold. Mayor Reading earlier in the riv informed the Council that President Roosevelt, in a letter the United States Conference rf Mayors, had reiterated his in-s'ene'e that States and munici-r ihties furnish the money for di-re, t. relief. Won't Change Policies The President wrote that there v. no intention of shifting the policy of providing relief tui able-bodied unemployed thiough a work program, but that Hi- states and municipalities must f.n!ir.ue to provide for direct relief as their fair share of the total u-- Murphy had also advised 1 the Mayor told the Council, thp has snrnt not onlv this year's welfare appropri- but all but a fraction of I year's.

Mayor Reading had "-'eil a special session of the I to meet the impend-i' ctisis, hut Governor Murphy's indicated that he. considered a course only an added to the taxpayer. if business conditions do not materially before next November, it probably will be to ask the Federal Oi eminent to provide still fur-' tVr assistance," the Governor v. "The alternative Reems to an increase in State and local ition, together with such administrative measures as will in-f ile utmost economy in government operation." School Plan Delayed The Public Welfare Commission ithheld approval of a plan to sehoois in the vicinity of nine ict welfare offices pending a 't on their use as supple-J 1 iil.it offices. 1 lie ruse load, it was reported.

oVit'O families, of which awaiting transfer to Vi A project s. Applications more than 1,000 daily, I -tricl .1. Ryan, chief nf the. welfare department, re- i' Max R. Barton.

WPA district eetor, was told at. the, Mayor's that the City would no more money to contribute us share of WPA costs after iy 1. Detroit's Schools Will Close Today Detroit schools will close lay for the summer vacation, lui'h ends Sept. 7. All schools close, although high school graduating exercises, which began Tuesday, will continue through "-toy, when Pershing High seniors will be graduated.

Doctor Treats Patient on Plane by Radio PASO, June 21 fU.P.) r'r'f an hour today Dr. Robert Hnrdwick sat at a microphone 1 directed by short wave radio treatment of an airplane -nger who became critically i flight im Phoenix, Ariz. patient James H. if Dallas. Returning to treatment at a Shu irium, Amble ship was pacing ovei sert.

Pilnt John Mar- an pott en-I Dr. Gov. Lehman for Copeland ALBANY, N. June 21 (A. New York's Democratic governor, Herbert H.

Lehman, who a year ago left the ranks of Preside Roosevelt's unconditional supporters, created a political sensation tonight, ty offering to campaign for the United States Senate seat of the late Royal S. Copeland. The Governor's third term will expire next Dec. 31. Lehman, once described by President Roosevelt as "my good right arm," made his unexpected announcement a few hours after attending funeral services for the State's senior senator at Suffern, N.

along with many other political leaders. Lehman Statement "If my party desires me to be a candidate for the office of United States Senator to succeed Senator Copeland, I will accept the nomination," Lehman said in a printed statement handed to Capitol newspaper men. The 25 words projected Lehman into the national scene almost a year after he called for defeat of President Roosevelt's plan to enlarge, the Supreme Court of the United States. The statement cleared the way for a wide-open scramble among numerous Demo cratic possibilities for New Yorks first four-year governorship. Simultaneously, the statement removed the likelihood of Leh- mans exercising his power to ap- point a successor to fill the unex- piled term of Senator Copeland, who would have served at least until 1941.

Dratted in He came tn the governorship- in 1933 as successor to the newly elected President Roosevelt, was re-elected two years later and accepted a third-term nomination in 1936 after a draft movement launched at the national convention by Roosevelt followers. Just prior to the draft movement, he had announced his intention to retire to private life. Senator Cope land's death made necessary the election next November of two senators from the State for the first time, inasmuch as the term of the junior senator. Robert F. Wagner, expires next Dec.

31. Whether Wagner will run for re-election is a matter of conjecture. Political observers believe that he will in preference to accepting the governorship nomination, for which he frequently has been mentioned. Bennett's Hat Is In Shortly after Gov. Lehman had made his announcement.

Attornev General John J. Bennett nouneed in New York an- that, he would be a candidnte to succeed Lehman. Bennett made his announcement tn newsmen at a broadcasting station where he took part in a memorial program for Copeland. The Attorney General said, "Gov. Lehman will make a great senator.

I am for him 10' per cent. "In view of the Governor's announcement, I am a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor of New York." Among the other candidates mentioned for the nomination are Robert II. Jackson, United States! uient Roosevelt cnoice, and State Comptroller Morris S. Tremaine. Six Seized in City by Opium Raiders $1,500 Worth of Drug Is Confiscated Federal narcotic agents and Detroit police made a series of sudden raids in Detroit's Chinatown Tuesday night confiscated $1,500 ut Lit (JL (iwiiiiii, i iu nmsi ru bia mrn for possessing that drug and for selling heroin.

Ralph Oyler, Federal a-ent In charge of narcotic inforcement, said. that it was the largest opium raid made here in at least three years. Those held are Harry Joe, 33 years old. and Yee Bing, 40, both accused of selling heroin. Hong Fat, 57; Lee Sing, 48; Yee Fong, 42, and Moe Fook.

33. are charged with possessing opium. All were arrested in the neighborhood of Third between Porter St. and Michigan Ave. Oyler said that six opium pipes also had been confiscated.

Purchases were made in connection with the arrest of the alleged heroin sellers. The opium was found In "cooked form, ready tor retail sale. It was discovered only after thorough search of the places had been ine urug was conceaieq in floor boards and wall panels. Some was also found in "toi" jars, small containers that retail for about i Van Devanter Better ELLICOTT CITY. i A Former Justice Willis Van rerrf.rt.-l 'mnch bef hut tor.ight June 21' iupieme Court Devanter was and out of fur a rvn-i.

vrver wti cond care ni inn He has a physiciar. I i deck with his bride while news- reel cameras ground, but had little to say about state 'affairs. Eager to get back to Washington, he said that he had studious ly avoided reading the newspapers since their surprise marriage May 24 in Dublin, Ireland. After a day or two in New York, he said, they will go to his country place, Headwater Farm at Olney, Md. Mrs.

Ickes, a tall, blue-eyed Milwaukee girl who worked in the Department of the Interior for eight months after her graduation from Smith College, said that she had known Secretary Ickes "since I was very young." They chose a ceremony abroad, she said, because "we wanted it quiet," Spending Plan Becomes Law Fireside Chat Set for Friday Night HYDE PARK, N. June 21 (A. President Roosevelt signed the $3,750,000,000 lending and spending bill today and asserted that business is not and has not been as bad as a lot of people believe it to be. The President, at a press conference, cited Department of Com merce estimate that the. national income for the year would be slightly above $60,000,000,000.

Earlier Government estimates were $55,000,000,000. The President also announced that he would deliver a fireside chat to the nation from Washington at 9:30 p. m. Friday. It will go over all major radio networks.

He said that the talk would be general. Informed persons expected him to discuss, among other things, the lending-spending bill and prob ably other phases of his program that were enacted by Congress. His Other Announcements The President also announced: 1 That dirt would begin to fly on $350,000,000 of PWA projects within 60 days, now that the spending bill had been signed. 2 That the prospect for business for 1938, based on national incor figures for the first three months of the year, was definitely improved. The President added that his assertion that business was not as bad as some people believed applied both to industry and agriculture.

3 That he had signed 45 bills and vetoed seven since coming to his Hvle Park home and would i act on 10 more before he went to bed tonight, but still would have 337 to pass upon after that. Objects to Spending Laliel Mr. Roosevelt also took occasion I tn say that references to the last Congress as a $12,000,000,000 Congress were ridiculous in view of the fact that a large portion of the money appropriated was for loans which would be repaid. Moreover, he added, the sum represented in part authorization for which no appropriations had been made. Answering questions on international affairs, he asserted that he could say no more than that he had had talks of general international affairs with Joseph P.

Kennedy, ambassador to London, who visited him today. Asked whether Kennedy's call had made him cheerful, the President replied that it made him feel the same way he had felt for the last two or three years. The general international picture, he said, was not particularly a blight one, and all we could do was hope for the best. 1'lrnse. Turn In Page 5 Column 4 and Prosecutor Fred N.

Searl. "I was working in the field this morning," he told them, "when I heard a rifle shot and felt a pain in my stomach. I looked up and saw McGowen waving a rifle at me. I yelled, 'What are you doing "He shouted back at me, just killed Elizabeth and now I'm going to kill Bradley started to run he said. but another bullet struck him in the back and he fell near the road.

bor saw him and called police tg The neighbor was James Goodell, 76. He told Downing that he thought he heard a shot in the morning. Later he noticed something lying by the road. He investigated and saw the body, then called officers and doctors. Downing said that after questioning McGowen and Bradley the only possible cause he could find for a quarrel was Bia i'ey nailing the cider barrel shtit and stopping MoOo'ven 5 pprf.

T'l-'t-C Turtl V.Z1 4 5 p. PONTIAC, June 21 The romance of Walter Cardin, thirty-three-year-old itinerant peddler, came to an abrupt end Tuesday afternoon when State police located his eighteen-year-old bride of six weeks, whom he had reported as kidnaped shortly after noon. Cardin started a statewide hunt tor his bride when he told the Sheriff's office that he had witnessed the kidnaping of his bride at their tent home in Moon Valley, near Waterford. He said the kidnapers had hurled a hammer at him as they drove away. A description of the alleged kidnapers and their car was broadcast, and a short time later State police from Redford picked up the car.

They found Mrs. Cardin riding with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lcnnie Stilwell, of Detroit. Mrs.

Cardin told police that she no longer wished to live with her husband and that she had arranged the affair herself. Cardin admitted that he had recognized his mother-in-law as one of the kidnapers and asked Assistant Prosecutor William Do-hany for a warrant against her. After Dohany refused the warrant, Cardin described an idyllic courtship of two weeks in a tourist camp and a honeymoon with 30 of his relatives. "Down in Arkansas a man's bride is his'n," Cardin explained, "Nobody has any say about her but her husband, and I don't want i i i State to'Probe U.S. Bank Plan Auction-Sale Rumors Arouse Interest State officials were prepared Tuesday to ask full details of any consideration given by the United States Treasury to auction sales affecting any part of the remaining assets of the old First National Bank.

Marshall R. Diggs, acting comptroller, will be in Grand Rapids Thursday to attend the state bankers convention. Tlans affecting closed Michigan banks will be discussed with him then. Threat for Depositors The Free Press disclosure that auction sales were being considered by the so-called "10 per cent within the Comptroller office, offering the threat of sac rifices in values for depositors and deflation of Detroit realty, brought these developments: 1 Diggs denied in Washington that he personally had given serious consideration to such a plan. Revelation that some First National assets already had been sold at auction in the Pontiac sale last fall.

A Ivan Macauley. State banking commissioner, who expects to be in Washington Wednesday, planned to make inquiries. Market Without Cash There was general recognition that pressure selling, with the auctioneer collecting 10 per cent, in contrast with the 2.56 per cent cost of Receiver B. C. Schram's more orderly liquidation, would be a matter of grave concern to Detroit.

Especially is this true in a market without ready cash, and where well-financed outside bidders might have bargain advantages. Turn to Votr Column 1 22 in Far North Die of Starvation ST. JOHNS. Newfoundland, June 21 (UP) Cut off from supplies by ice-choked seas, 22 inhabitants of three Labrador Coast settlements starved to death this spring, according to reports reach-here tonight. Details of the tragedy in the Far North arrived by private mail and telegraph, after contact with the stricken communities had been made from Cartwright, Labrador.

According to the accounts, 180 men, women and children were found slowly starving to death in the settlements of Batteau, Black-tickel and Spotted Islands, when relief arrived. Temperature Likely to Go to 90 Degrees in Detroit The temperature will go up to P0 degrees Wednesday, the Weather Bureau said Tuesday night, and high humidity will not make life any easier for swelter ing citizens Showers mav sprinkle the state north of the city Wednesday, the bureau said, but rain is not expected to descend on Detroit until Thursday. 30 Peasants Drown BriKST-UTOVSK, poUn.i. June Cl i A.P. Thn ty peasants wete ned today in the River uh'n trie bottom of their boat Five stores nf the Kroger Grocery and Baking Co.

were bombed shortly after midnight Wednes-day within a period of 15 minutes. All of the stores bombed are on the west side of the City, and police first said that the bombings were the work of a group racing through the st.ectg from one location to another. Police later theoiized that the bombing crews consisted of men assigned to each store and the blasts had been synchronized to go off at a particular time. Inspector George Hertel, of the Special Investigation squau, ordered his entire squad to work on the bombings. Scout ears from all over tne city convergeu mi mc bombed area.

Warning Is Issued A warning was issued immediately to all scout cars and patrolmen to watch the company' stores on their beats. Police said the bombs were being tossed from cars onto the roofs of the buildings The first store attacked, at 13236-40 Livernois escaped damage when the bomb intended for it landed on the roof of the Thomas R. McLean Ice Cream Manufacturing Co. next door. A large hole was blown in the roof.

McLean, who lives at 20011 Coventry was in the building; with his wife Ida and John Levay, of 242 Bttena Vista a rtis. tomer. They were reported suffering from shock. Windows Shattered At 12:10 a. one minute after the first bomb exploited, another blew a hole 14 Inches square in a Kroger store, at 8728 Dexter Blvd.

The force of the blast broke 15 windows in a near-by flat. At 12.13 a. m. a third blast damaged a store at 7250 W. Lafayette Ave.

and blew a four-foot hole through a confectionery next door. Windows in the neighborhood were shattered. At 12:15 a. m. a hornb vva thrown through the back window of a store at 2627 Buchanan and caused considerable damage inside, police said.

Wows Hole in Roof The last blast occurred at 12:23 a. and again the bombers missed their mark -a store at 6413 Regular anil hit the roof of a ernoerv and meat, market at 6421 Regular Ave blowing a hole three feet square. Windows were shattered along the street, police said. Kroger employees have been on strike for more than a week, many of the stores being closed. The strike was called by thre unions, the Bakers Local 136, the Teamsters and Trucksters Union A.F.

of and the United Bakery and Food Handlers Local (CIO.) The company has 350 stores in Detroit. Pastor, 8 Years Old, Officiates at Wedding CLEVELAND, June 21 (A.P.) Miss Florence Brinkman, 21 years old, and Clifton Hoffman, 23, chose an eight-year-old minister to marry them tonight. The Rev. Charles E. Jaynes, described by his parents as the youngest ordained minister in the world, said that he regarded the marriage ceremony a "just another ministerial duty." The elder Jayneses are joint pastors of the Four Square Gospel Church here, and their son wai ordained last July at the International Ministerial Federation Conference.

Sunstroke Fatal SEEEWAING. June 21 Herman Eruggeman, sixty -year old farmer, died Tuesday of sunstroke. Start the Day Right with the Free Press Pages Alden. Ruth 9 Around the Town 12 Chatterbox Collyer, Bert 13 Comics 21 Crossword Puzzle 4 Editorial 6 Financial 17 Foreign News 4 Guest. Edgar A 6 I Wish to Report Literary Ladies 10 National Whirligig 6 Newton.

Dr. Joseph 6 Obituaries i5 Qmllen. Robert 6 Radio Programs 1 Screen 11 Serial. "Forgotten Bride" 21 Society Stat? News 2 Sullivan divwi.o.j It rh- ater Via! a i vs 1 Ward to Wns- ft entered from the allev into the back room where the men were held prisoners and where the safe was located. Samelson told Wyandotte police he had put approximately $4,000 worth of diamonds and rings in the safe.

The bandits tied the prisoners, looted the safe, took $250, went to the front of the store, looted the counters and went out. the back door. They escaped in a car that, was parked in the alley, police said. Iave Him Three Kill Samelson complained to the bandits that he would have no money if the bandits took it all, so they left him three $1 bills. Emil Edelson, manager of a furniture store across the street and Harry Handler, a clerk, released the prisoners.

A few diamond rings and watches were found in the alley near the store door. Detroit police were notified of the holdup, and compared descriptions of the bandits with those in other tecent holdups. They said that the methods used were similar to those in the holdup at the jewelry store of William Devlin, 17125 Livernois June 16. Police also considered the possibility that the same three men stole $5,000 in jewelry and merchandise from the home of Edward Wolf. 171P4 Parkside last Thursday night.

Bigamist Blames His Dancing Feet Forgot He Had a Wife When He Married Again Howard Curry, of 540 Harper blamed his dancing feet for! the bigamy charge on which he appeared Tuesday in Recorder's Court before Judge W. McKay SKUlman. Three vears aco. he said, he met Valada Racctte Gerrard, 50 years old, of 1128 W. Forest Ave.

She danced so well that Curry forgot that he had a wife and married Miss Gerrard, he said. Recently the former Maude Mc-Gec, 42, of 1128 W. Forest whom Curry married Jan. 8, 1929. met Mrs.

Valada Curry. The two wives went to the Prosecutor's office and a bigamy warrant was issued. Curry pleaded guilty Tuesday and was placed on five year's probation with orders to pay $10 a fnr the siinnnrt of his seven- ear.niH rhiM horn tn Mrs. Maude Curry. Curry, who is 49 years old, is the father of two children by another wife who died in 1925.

Tax Workers in Dark, So Citizens Get Break PHOENIX, June 21 (A.P.) Fifty taxpayers had a day's respite today because the State Capitol owes a $2,000 electric light bill. The Tax Commission sales tax office is in the Capitol basement and after the lights were turned off the office had to close. The bill has not been paid i because of departmental squab- i ling. City's Bonded Debt Put Ann i I at $376,428,011 by JJaley i The Pitv prns hnnr rtr-bt IK $376,428,011.73, exclusive of the Water Board and D.S City Controller John N. Daley reported to the Common Council Tuesday.

This figure, he said, was derived from the first statement drawn from the City's new accounting system and is as of Dec. 31, A statement as of June 30 will be forwarded to the Council r.ext The fiXed of the rvy is $25 f6. the statement Mac rf i fe'l- .0. 1IKRRRRT II. LEHMAN' Bensons Rival Falling Behind Tight Minnesota Race Is a Surprise MINNEAPOLIS, June 21 (A.P.I Gov.

Elmer A. Benson tonight pulled into a slightly increasing leacl over Hjalmer Petersen on the Farmer-Labor ticket in the state primary election as more than three-fourths of the returns were tabulated. Benson had a lead of 9,202 in returns from 3,058 of 3,739 precincts. The vote was Benson 183,775, Petersen 174,573. It was by far the most surpris ing gubernatorial primary in Min nesota history.

Benson is an ardent New Deal supporter and champion of labor. Peterson, a member of the. State Railroad and Warehouse Commission, has adopted a comparatively conservative stand by demanding the ouster of "Communists from within the party and advocating stimulation nt private enterprise, A salient feature of the race was the size ot the armer-Lahor prim ary vote above compared with 225.000 for the Republicans and 70,000 for the Democrats. The size of the vote indicated that large numbers of Republicans and Democrats had ignored the advice of their candidates to remain in their own party columns. The urge by conservative voters to eliminate Benson from the fall elections apparently led many to mark the Farmer-Labor sections of the consolida'ed primary ballot.

In the Republican column Harold Stassen. young attorney from South St. Paul, won hv a nluralitv mn of about 35.000 over three others. Thomas Gallagher, of Minneapolis, led Democratic aspirants with 19,394 votes in 3,058 precincts. Others were Fred Schliplin, of St.

Cloud. Michael Murray, of loud, Victor Anderson Paul. 8.628; Charles Lethert, of St. Paul, 3.913. and .1.

Ander son, of Minneapolis, 2.778. Firemen Put Out Blaze at Louvre PARIS. June 21 (A.P.) Fast work by Paris firemen tonight extinguished a blaze which threatened to damage priceless art trcHsiires in the world famous Louvre Museum. Smoke issuing from the upper stories of the museum sent seven fire companies to the scene The fire was extinguished with damage limited to the roof. Detroit to Pay $3,035 to Keep Zoo Exhibits Animals and birds received by the Detroit Zoo in 1935 and 1936 have proved their worth, and the Common Council Tuesday approved contracts to buy them for Included in the contract are a pair of Dorcas gazelles, a female giraffe, three ostriches, 11 sparrow weavers, six rednecked wydahs, 10 yellow-shouldered wydahs, four redbill weavers, 10 cutthroat finches, three glossy starlings, two bar bets, a wood pigeon partridge and 12 doves.

a forest Pavment wju be made to Chnstoph Schulz, A Tanganyika Territory, Africa. Economic Ruralist NOBLES VILLE. Ir.d.. June A. P.

I This sicn hung at a r-ii of H. ONeal. '-vest 1 the of vn this rv.i'T ke-f tms PXr.ei ar Enraged Farmer Slays Wife, Shoots Her Brother and Self Cider Barrel Had Been Nailed Shut to End His Spree; Two in Critical Condition CEDAR SPRINGS, June, to State Trooper Perry Critchell 21 Infuriated when he found the hard-cider barrel nailed shut after two days of drinking. George W. McGowen, Algoma Township farmer, shot his wife dead with a .22 caliber rifle and critically wounded his brother-in-law Tuesday morning.

Then he shot himself. State Police Capt. A. A. Downing found Mrs.

Elizabeth McGowen. 62 years old. dead in her brother's Kent County farm home four and a half miles southwest of Cedar Springs. She had been peeling potatoes in the kitchen. A short distance from the house, ly- 7 I tha pi.n.l lloP hmlhol" I James Bradley.

71. Downing said McGowen, 54. had been wounded seriously in the suicide attempt. A bullet lodged under his hi-ait. McGowen told I Downing that he had been drink-ins two days and rouldn't explain what had hsppened.

He was takn to Butterwoith Hospital. Grand Rapids. In Ft Mrv'd H' -pi's'. Grand lr.ap.ds, Bradley made a statement.