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B—8 That is why, County Attorney Ralph Crawford said she related in a signed statement yesterday, she drowned her youngest daughter, Tala, 6 months old, in Clear Creek last Thursday night. Mrs. Scala was charged with murder and her husband, Louis, whom she had accused in a previous statement, was released after a preliminary hear- [mz at League City, their home. “If T had had 8 clock it never would MOTHER DROWNS BABY, BLAMES LACK OF CLOCK Husband Freed After She Con- fesses Infanticide and Accuses Mate of Neglect. By the Associated Press. SALVESTON, Tex. August 33— have happened,” Crawford said Mrs. Mrs. Dorothy Scals, wife of & shrimp | goq)q5 statement deciared. Her hus- | fisherman and mother of five children, | pand, she asserted, refused to buy her 'THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1935. - @ ailing baby its medicine and when to feed it. 8he sald she accused her husband of drowning the child because she wanted him in jail. “I didn’t want any more children by him,” she as- serted. 414,000 in Personal Service. At least 414,000 people in London are employed in personal service, such as that in hotels, restaurants and bar- ber shops or as servants in private GUARDED IN HOSPITAL Man Charged With Slaying U. 8. Agent Held in Indianapolis. INDIANAPOLIS, August 22 (#).— George Barrett, facing Federal charges of killing a Department of Justice agent last Friday at College Corner, on the Ohio-Indiana line, was in the City Hospital under heavy guard. ‘The Lockland, Ohio, auto theft sus- pect, nursing leg wounds inflicted by Nelson B. Klein, the agent he killed, Hamilton, Ohio, hnuplw.ln custody of Federal officers. ‘The Federal grand jury for the Southern Indiana district, called to convene August 30, will consider charges against Barrett. ’ Shrimps Are Different. BILOXI, Miss. (#)—Mississippi packers are in disagreement with Ala- bama and Louisiana packers on how many shrimps make a pound. The Alabama and Louisiana pack- ers say 35. MIAMI TO OUST ALIENS Federal Agents Will Assist City in Round-up of Foreigners. MIAMI, Fla, August 23 (#).—Fed- eral immigration authorities will co- operate with Miami police, Safety Director Andrew J. Kavanaugh an- nounced yesterday, in a round-up of colored aliens illegally in this country. The city commission gave its ap- proval to the drive as outlined by Kav- soon as four immigration lmpecton. reach here. ‘The round-up is the sequel to com- plaints of the Unemploved League that many jobs were held here by colored aliens from nearby Bahama Islands. 40 Dogs Escape From Pound. 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