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1 1" A I1 I 7 Vim C.h?t ITZHht tyoa.Caii Buy a TTar flowf Jotigljlvecpsic JXtm l0rkr 7 Bar tires, gasoline. HO by Joining a group rid, dub. Double op to an gas nd Uiom prteloiu Urea. Army Officer's Daughter Held in Fiances Slaying Captain Dies Of Bullet Wound Father Claims Girl Beaten OOTJOLAS, AMZ. taret Herllhy; daughter of an Army officer, was held under guard In the county hoepltal today after the fatal shooting of her fiance, Capt D.

D. Carr. A charge of assault with a deadly weapon wai filed against the girl Saturday night, a few hour before Captain Carr died of two bullet woundi (uttered In a ahootlng at the home of Lieut. Col. EO.

Herllhy, Infantry commander at Fort Hua chuca. Deputy County Attorney Norman Herring aald the charge would be changed to murder, probably today. At the county hospital, Miss Herllhy wai reported In a seml hys terlcal condition. Captain Carr, 17 year old tank company officer, waa ahot early Saturday morning after he and Mlia Hefuhy returned from Agua Prleta, retort across the Mexican border. In a statement.

Colonel Herllhy aid he found marki of a beating on hla daughter, adding he wai 'convinced the wai fighting for ber life" agalnit Carr. Care apparently reaented the fact that we planned to take Margaret with, ui to Fort Bennlng, Oa, where have been transferred." the colonel aald. "We had alwayi opposed this engagement but did not interfere. At our daughter wat over 21 year old we thought thlngi would wont outr The couple wu to hay been mar lied Bept. 15.

Captain Carr, of Omaha. Neb, wai teacher and a newipaper reporter be wai called to active duty with the National Ouard Nov. 25, U10. He wai a graduate of the Infantry school at Fort Bennlng. etllllllllllllllllllkWI 1 efaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaSL 'hXSi, VTTraaaaaaaaaaH" Observation Tower Nears Completion Three Fliers Killed As Bomber Crashes SWU'l WATER.

HX (AP) An i Army bombing plane craahed and burned In a cotton field 10 mllei north' of Loratae Sunday, klllmg. three fllerx. rOKMZK LOCAL MAN HELD TJnderaherUT Crapeer returned from Canandalgua yesterday with a man he described a Joeeph McNeaL former North Clinton street real dent. Plated upn a charge of neglect; TTs waa" held tor arraignment bet or Judge Flannery. The Weather The swxhaaai aas ainUsefli tenpsratartt tfunni tha bnn kvlare I a.

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II run Aug tl yif $. i Uti ept i Al 11 1UU vr 1IUH WKk. a. av Uf.m.' tn UM m.m. County War Director OEOROE GREEN, left; OREOORY OILMAN, center, lub dlatrlct director of the Aircraft Warning lervlce; and W.

ROBERT WOOD, right, chief observer for the new aircraft observation post atop the Hotel Campbell, look over the view from the partially completed post. Plana call for an enclosed house where telephone, and chain, and desk will be placed for the con venience of watchers. A narrow porch, where the men above are standing, has been built on all four sides, giving observers a view In any direction. Mr "Wood aald this morning that many men are needed to work during the night observation shift Each man will be called upon to serve two hours one night during the week. Foushkttpal Krv TMbt Flirts Three Injured In County Accidents Violet Avenue Boy's Leg Broken Three people were hurt In two different automobile accidents yesterday In the county.

Private John Ostroskl, Flushing, luflered an injured right knee and Corporal Albert Russo. suffered a back Injury when the car In which they were riding wai In collision with another machine last night In the Manchester Brtdxt BtlUnji highway near Beala'i Inn, town of LaOrange. In another accident, Kenneth Trainer, six, Violet avenue, suffered a compound fracture of the right leg when he reputedly ran Into the left lid of a car driven by Charles B. Watts. 2 Alloc court Lynbrook.

Watts told attaches of the sheriffs office he was driving south in Violet avenue when the boy ran Into the side of his car from the east side of the road near Blrcber and Yates avenues. The Injured soldiers were riding In a car driven by Robert S. Tumber, Lebanon. Pa when It reputedly rammed the rear of an eastbound machine driven by Ambrose F. Le SIDE GLANCES 9BS (if 4 1 I ltVmeavTSlseWCr wr "Somehow I can't picture our boys war heroes I keep thinking aoout when they were little, how sad they got when we'd kill a duck (or dinner!" a Service Directory It you know the address of any Poughkeepsle or Dutchess county man in the Army, Navy or Marine corps, please fill out thu coupon and bring or send It to the Poughkeepsle New Yorker office: I HAMX iBRAltCH OF SXEVICK JfOW STATIONED AT: HOME 'ADDRESSl.

SUBMITTED BTl i. vi New York May Ration Hot Water Supply NEW YORK (AP) Timetable bathing, shaving, laundering and dishwashing appears In prospect for New York City apartment house dwellers, whose supply of hot water would be limited to certain hours of the day under a rationing plan outlined by Mayor F. La Ouardia. Hot water would flow only between 6 30 and 9 a. and and 8 p.

under the program formulated by a committee of real estate "boards and associations The mayor, announcing that New Yorkers will be asked In about a week to accept the limited hot water, said yesterday that If the public did not cooperate "we may all have to endure hot waterless days" because of a scarcity of fuel Roy, (1, farmer, Vassar road. Neither driver was Injured. In the Tumber car In addition to the Injured soldiers were Sergeant John Flumly nan, Bronx, and Sergeant James Barber. St Louis, Mo Deputy Sheriffs Adams and Baker reported. New York Guard Officer Commissioned Captain Danforth Bolton, commanding officer of Company I of the 3d Battalion.

New York Ouard. at Oneonta, has been commissioned a captain in the Army of the and ordered to report for duty in Miami. Major Arthur Murray, commandant at the state armory and head of the 3d Battalion, said today Captain Bolton, a former National Ouard officer who has been serving with the substitute New York Ouard sine? Its formation in 940, is the second" member of "Company to be commissioned recently Judge Donald Grant, county Judge of Otsego county, a World war officer and holder of the Distinguished Service cross, has been commissioned a lieutenant In the Military Police First Lieut. William Black, executive officer of Company I. will be in command pending the assignment or a new commanding officer.

The 3d Battalion Is comprised of Company of Poughkeepsle. Company I of Oneonta, and Company of Hudson Church Group To Discuss Plays There will be a special meeting tonight of the Choral and Dramatic club of the AME Zlon church, in the main auditorium of the church at a clock The purpose of the meeting Is to discuss several plays, from ahlch one will be selected to be presented In October Mrs Arthur May, director, win be in charge Auto Swaps Banned at Horse Traders' Convention ALMOND, N. (AP) An automobile with four new tires and a trunkful of gasoline rationing coupons couldnt arouse even a healthy horse laugh to dsy as the boys milled through Harry Martin's stables to open the 15th annual horse traders' convention George Kame. perennial president of the week long swap carnival has decreed that there will be no trade of automobiles for good solid horse flesh" "Jack knives billy goats or anything else that the traders have a mind to swap will be allowed." Kame asserted, "but 111 be darned If I will allow any of those city slickers to come up here 'and palm off, any of those mechanical contraptions for good red blooded horse flesh. Nazi Troop Train Collision Reported Serious Damage Claimed in Holland LONDON (AP) AneU.

Netherlands news agency, quoted a Soviet Information bureau report from Moscow that a heavily laden German troop train collided with another train at a station near Gron lngen In the northern Netherlands, causing serious damage and suspending traffic. Five prominent Netherlander! were executed by a Nasi firing aouad Saturday as hostages after saboteurs whom the Germans blamed for a similar troop train wreck Aug were not captured. The Germans previously had said the lives of 1.800 hostages would be taken If the saboteurs were not giv en up by their countrymen, and there was a possibility that other executions might follow the first five. Especially good service at a ban quet requires one good waiter to every eight guests. Mead Bennett Showdown Seen Democratic Party Leaders to Confer NEW YORK (AP) First fact to faee showdown In the campaign for New York states Democratic gubernatorial nomination, with President Roosevelt and Slate Chairman Jamea A.

Farley backing opposing candidates, may come at a conference of party leaders tomorrow Farley, who Is backing Attorney General John Bennett against D. Senator James M. Mead. endorsed by Preadent Roosevelt, claims that more than a majority of the 1.014 delegates to the state convention, which opens In Brooklyn Wednesday, are pledged to Bennett. Politicians see In the contest an apparent struggle bet' Local Defense Notices The Poughkeepsle Mew Yorker Is donating apace on this psge dally for notices and other announcements of the various divisions of the di tense organisation of Poughkeepsle and Dutohesa county.

Material for this column should be typed and sent to "Defense Editor." Poughkeepsle New Yorker. Copy must be received before 11 o'clock on the morning of publication and must be easily identified as originating In official sources The Poughkeepsle New Yorker reserves the right to edit or reject any copy not In conformance with the national policy concerning such Information. AIRCRAFT WARNING SERVICE There will be a meeting at the Hyde Park Town hall tonight, Aug IT, at o'clock for the purpose of arranging a new observer schedule tor the aircraft warning post at East Park The opening of schools on Bept. 3 U1 create a need for several new observers. All present observers as well as all others In Hyde Park and vicinity who are willing and able to serve are urged to attend.

WILLIAM HORN, Chief Observer. VOLUNTEERS WANTED Anyone Interested In volunteering for the operation of the new Control renter tn the town of Poughkeepsle, please be at the Arlington High school at clock tonight. Both men and women are needed to work at the Control center, which will be open 34 hours a day, seven days a week Men are needed particularly for the night shifts. It la planned to have to people on duty during each shift. THOMAS D.

MAHAR, Deputy Director of a Ulan Protection, Town of Poughkeepsle. dent Roosevelt to control his home state choice and possibly the delegation to the 1M4 Democratic national convention, and Farley's effort to bold control of the Democratic state organisation. Immediate attention was focused on the convention eve conference, called by Farley, because for the past 20 years the Democratic nominee for governor has been largely determined at such conferences. Further complication of the party split occurred when the American Labor party announced a decision to place a separate ticket In the election In the event Bennett Is nominated. Terence Mc Menus.

Mead's campaign manager, and Maurice Davidson, of the State Power authority, aald a Republican candi date surely would win If the ALP entered a ticket In the general elec tion. Thomas Dewey, former New York district attorney. Is considered the likely OOP. choice Mc Menus said "It would be suicidal" If the delegates did not insist that their district leaders release them from any commitments they msy have made to Bennett prior to Meads entry as a candidate The ALP, which gave Governor Lehman his margin of victory tn the last gubernatorial election, has endorsed Mead ALP leaders aald If their party entered a Ucket It would nominate New York City Controller Joseph McOoldrick. an Independent Democrat, tor governor Both Mead and Bennett are scheduled to address the 79th annual convention of the New York State Federation of Labor in Rochester, today, xnat organisation, which claims a membership of 1,500,000, heard Its president.

Thomas J. Lyons, yesterday repudiate "any attempt by the American Labor party or any other political organisation to speak for organized labor In this stand for labors taking a non partisan attitude In politics and for supporting those candidates for public office who will serve the best Interests of the people Lyons declared. Tammany hall leader Michael J. AUXILIARY POLICE PLATOON 3 Tnnliht at Brjratt Dark ball field there will be a drill and checkUD Prl on assignments for the coming blackout drills Start 6 45 as daylight Is rrowtnt less Reports from corporals of each box must be made to ser geants so that vacancies may be filled All withdrawals from ranks should be accurately reported tonight so that all stations are covered during blackouts. No excuses accepted on the night of blackout.

Pistol ratings also will be announced. STANLEY RIES. Captain 3rd Platoon. Baby Contest Held at Ri verview Beauty Competition Also Conducted Rlveniew playground held a baby contest Wednesday Judges awarded first prize to Judith Ann Badaml and second prize to Oall KozlowskL Other children who participated were Frank Home. Philip Clark.

Dolores Perrota, Buddy Rhlnehart, Annette Rhlnehart, Christina De Costa. Betty Weyne, Anna RlnaldL John Cancel. Gary Badowsky and Elizabeth Lawrence In a bathing beauty contest. Beatrice Freeman was given first prize; Catherine Takaca, second prise and Jeanette Oeronl and Helen Home, honorable mentions. Other contestants were Laura Mac chlarelu.

Caroline OohL Mary Moran. Dolores Becore and Anne Colllna. Also, Shirley Ann Conners, Virginia Becore. Yolanda Ceprephy. Theodora Clarke.

Jacqueline Hill, Rosa Home, Oeraldlne Edmonds, Joan Hatt. Mary Elizabeth Murphy. Patricia Oohl and Janice Mayfield. Today the members of the playground were the guests of the Stratford theater and Wednesday night the playground will participate In the annual closing ceremonies at Memorial playground. Kennedy has announced his support of Mead The Bennett camp claimed, however, that five Tammany district leaders have endorsed the attorney generaL and there were persistent reports that Tammany delegates might go to the convention free to vote their own choice.

Weekend Deaths Placed at 12 Seven Attributed To Car Accidents rjl Show Increase ALBANY (AP) Traffic aecldenU claimed seven weekend fatalities three In one accident at Barcelona hen a car spun off a curve and struck a pole Two were killed In explosions and one each by drowning, electric shock and a railroad accident The deaths by communities: Wynantsklll Thomas Cox, 50, South Troy, and Francis McLough lln. 31, Troy, explosion wrecked tavern. Selkirk Walter Boomer. 58. Ravens, New York Central engineer, crushed to death In locomotive freight car collision Stillwater Owen Rowley.

22. Oreen Ialand, car struck pole. Mount Morris Jane Lombardo, li. drowned While swimming tn Stone Quarry pond. Barcelona Harriett Van Buren, 1.

Mrs. Susie Van Buren. 38. and Maurice Curry, 20, all of Buffalo; car failed to negotiate curve and struck pole. Coopers Plains Donald Cady, IT, Beaver Dame, car and passenger train crashed Lockport Fred Peterson, (3, Hart land, car overturned Eden Mrs.

Rose Ball, 49. Salamanca, bus passenger car collision. Cortland Sherman Morgan, 47, seized metal gate In fence over which storm downed power wire hung. Bowen Cites Six One Defeat Democratic Vote Given as 3,050 520 Edward (Doc) Bowen recehw a total of 520 votes In last Tueslm primary contest for the Demoorsal nomination for member of Congrea Taking exception to statements tS he was beaten "10 to 1" by jwl, Ferdinand A. Hoyt, Bowen set fnS that Hoyt's total vote In the counties of the 26th congresskeal district was 3,050 or less thzg, times the Bowen tally.

Bowen agreed that Hoytli waa better than 10 times his on in Dutchess county, but said thu the Democratic regular cendldau polled less thsn "five times my vols in Orange, and four and ons hsj times my vote In Putnam" The votes for the two candidate tn all three counties, Bowen uu were aa follows: Hoyt, Orange county, 1890; Us. nam county, 343; Dutchess count! 1.017; total 3,050. Bowen, Orsna county, 343; Putnam county, 77: txt Dutchess county, 100; totsl, (jo. In a letter to Poughkeepsle, Yorker, Bowen added: "I might also add then wen several favorable showings for which have been Ignored, notably fc. Hoyt's own city of Beacon, for which showing I was warmly congratulate! over the radio, and In the Fourth ward of tma city, and several ether places." Factory Jobs Payrolls Rise Also in State ALBANY (AP) New Torts factory employment Increased percent and payrolls 3 1 percent front mid June to mid July on gains registered chiefly In the food canning, apparel and metals and machinery Industries There were declines In other fields The employment Increase was eight percent and the payrolls up 28 percent over July.

1041, the ttau Labor department disclosed today. The per capita weekly wage rise tu The department'! factory employ ment Index, based on the 1NHI average as 100. stands at 141 a pn Umlnary) In July. July employment and payroll la creases, explained by the department as partly reaction from unusually severe June curtailment, were registered In the Albany Troy Schenectady, Buffalo, Rochester sii New York City districts. Blngham ton srea shoe factory employment declined but general payrolls Increased Declines were noted In the titles and Syracuse areas.

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