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DISGRUNTLED MAN SUES RAILROAD LONG ISLAND SYSTEM DE PENDANT IN SUIT OVER FARE NEW YORK, June 8 (TP)—A rockaway beach attorney named Asher Zeide has filed suit against the Long Island Railroad to collect a SSO penalty because the road charged him throe-cents-a-mile for coach tickets. Attorney Zeide said he paid 44 cents on the three cents a mile rate on June 4. That was three days after the Interstate Commerce Commis sion’s order on two-cent railroad fares throughout the East went into effect. Zeide said he had the conductor sign hie ticket stub, indicating the amount paid. This stub will be uaed, said Mr. Zeide, to collect the penalty estab lished for overcharging by railroad conductors. Supreme Court Justice George Fur man of Brooklyn has already issued a temporary injunction restraining the Long from charging its old three-cent fare. But the road hasn’t stopp'd it. Executives say they won’t stop It until they get the injunction order, signed by Judge Furman. Mean while rebellious commuters are rid ing the Long Island free —rather than pay three-cent fares. The conductors Jv»st won’t put them off. ALPHABET BABIES TRIPLETS A, B AND C ARE GIVEN REGULAR FIRST NAMES BLOOMINGTON. 111., June 8 (TP) The parents of Bloomington’s first set of triplets solved the problem of nam ing the youngsters today. The two baby boys and their sister were bom on May 30. Since then they have been known to the world as tEaby A,” “Baby B" and! “Baby O.” Their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Don Wheeler, confessed they were baffled for appropriate names. Today the youngsters bear the names of the three doctors who took oare of them. Baby “A" is new John; Baby “B’’ is Lester, and Baby “C“ is Geraldine. “GRIM REAPER’* FOILED BY PARACHUTE JUMPER GARWICK, England, June 8 (TP) —An English aviator miraculously es caped death Saturday when he stag ed a delayed parachute jump to thrill a crowd. The aviator, named Clemsohn, was taken up over the airport as the featured performer in ceremonies formally opening a new field. He j stepped from his plane at an altitude [ of 5,000 feet. While spectators gasp ed, he hurtled through the air with his parachutes still bunched on his hack. When only a few hundred feet from the ground, the jumper releas ed his first parachute. It failed to check his headlong drop. He then ripped loose the auxiliary envelope. It unfolded too late to save him from * terrific bump on the hard ground. His shoulder was wrenched and has body bruised. Two women screamed and fainted in the crowd. ii&spk ~~W ? * ? Tmmm mss mm m MW N m ft\\Vi AND EASY TERMS V TO SUIT YOU • ,£ J; BUDGET PAY PLAN lsU< P Summer heat causes blow-outs. Why risk trouble and delay driving on dangerous worn-out tires? Equip your car now with Goodrich Safety Silvertowns, the Safest Tire Ever Built and pay VjjCWffyl as you ride on easy, convenient terms. 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Before making the oa*ar per manent the. Commission celled off a scheduled hearing on rates, declining to hear new evidence. The order af fects 26 cities and towns served by the Lone Star Oas Co., of Texas and the Community Natural Gas Co. ‘BOYS IN GRAY’ IN ANNUAL REUNION SHREVEPORT, Pa., June 8 (TP)— A handful of .grizzled “cronies” who ! fought side by side in the Confederate I Army will gather today to spin home ly yarn* wad eaehaage reminisce* of their war aggpri—sgs. The oasaeiaa will he the annual rwgitan of the Confederate vetwrpne. Death bae thinned the ranks of the, “Boy* in Oray” each year, ©aty about 20fl of those who marched back from the trenches ih ’65 attended last year’s convention. The youngest of the veterans is 87. BILL KEHOE, Manager SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1938 MASSACHUSETTS POLICE SEEK FUGITIVE TRUSTY BILLERICA, Mass., June 8 (TP) — A trusty at the million-dollar Billerica House of Correction, today is no long er a trusty. The ex-trusty is Francis Chandnoit of Waltham. The 34-year-old prisoner was employed in the boiler room of the prison. He was serving a com parakvely short sentence. The war den eent Chandnett on an errand, as he had done several time* before,- but this time the trusty failed ts. re turn. > • Police throughout the stake have been told to watch out for the fugit ive. PHONE 3-1128 TEAR GAS ‘STOPS’ SHAM WAR FOES RED ARMY FAILED TO DON MASKS FOR JERSEY BATTLE HUNTSVILLE, N. J., June 8 (TP) Several hundred New Jers.y civilians are ready to agree today with Gen eral Sherman's estimate of war—even if the war is only a sham battle. The civilians turned out to watch a sham battle between a national guard unit and a reserve officers group. They laughed heartily when the “blue” army launched a surprise tear gas attack on the “reds. - ’ The “reds” MORE FRONT SHELF RONOE AND SAVE -25 TO s^/ n^r«v^ ARNER I * t o U'sy/.CHfAPU To 4 S- • Here’s the greatest refrigerator im provement in years. 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Just when the spectators were laughing their hardest at the tear fir ced “reds” running from the gas, the wind changed. That brought the gis right bang-smack towards the spectators. Laughs changed to tears quicker than you could say Jack Robinson. Mo one was seriously hurt but there were enough tears to float a battle ship b.fore the gas finally blew over. GIRL’S DISAPPEARANCE IS UNSOLVED MYSTERY FEKIN, Ill.', June 8 (TP) —Officials w:re ready today to list the disap pearance of pretty Dorothy Blumen shine among the unsolved mysteries of the police department. Three posses of 1,50(1 men and boys found no trace of the 14-year-old high school freshman in a two days’ search through a 25-mil3 radius of the girl’s home In Washington, 111... Dorothy disappeared nine days ago after attending a party with five of her friends. MRS. ROOSEVELT TALKS AT DBS MOINES TONIGHT DES MOINES. Jum 8 (TP>—The first lad of the land, Mrs. Franklin D. 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