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Texan Gets Apology After Chicago Officers Probe Suitcase Of Quarters Chicago. Dec. 7.?Somewhere tonight there is a trusting Texas fwtth nearly SI.OHO changed into bills from quarters. And in Chicago there is a Judge who will return $10 bail bond to the lean stranger if the latter will write him. It all started when James W. Carter, 42, of Dallas walked ou* of a Loop hotel, gave a cab driv er a suitcase containing th9 quarters and asked him to take it to a bank and have the silver changed to folding money. "How do you know I'll come hack?" asked the driver. "We Texans trust people," j was the answer. I The trust wasn't misplaced. The driver brought the green etuff back to Carter and receiv ed a $20 tip. Hptel bellhops, impressed by| the Texan's exploit, told h?" [ detectives and they thought it ! as so fumy they would notify ( i city de'ectives and let them | I laugh too. ' Detective Emil Smickles popp ! ed into Carter's room in minutes' I and began to rile the Texan witli questions. 1 Pretty soon Smicklas was ask ing Carter questions in the de tective bureau. "What's your business," snapp ed Smicklas. "My business is none of yours,'" drawled Carter. Carter was booked on a dis orderly conduct charge, freed on $10 bond, returned to his hotel and checked out, suitcase and all. Said Judge Gutknecht in dis missing the charge -and ordering the bond forfeited: "Our police shouldnlt be ? so rude to a stranger. The suitcase of quart ers was his own business. "I apologize publicly to Car ter for the city, and, if he will write me, I will return his $10/' III Of Rare Malady, j Kansan Owes Life To Borrowed Blood Stanley Hughes, 16-year-old Belle Plains, Kansas, youth, is living literally on borrowed blood. By the end of August he had received over 2 50 blood transfusions. S anley is suffering from a ??re blood disease?purpura Mch causes him to bleed in fernally. Four years ago, when Stan 'ey's trouble began, he was hos pitalized for several months, re ceiving about 26 blood trans fusions to keep him alive. "Then," he said, "my family bad a hard time finding donors wi h the right type blood for me." Today it is , a different story. The blood Stanley needs in his battle for life is supplied laily through the Wichita Re gional Blood Center. On the road to recovery after his first illness, Stanley return ed to his home, but his progress vas retarded by an attack of inal meningitis. This time he has been in St. Francis Hospital, Wichita, almost continuously 3ince January. H's parents and two sisters are regular blood donors through the Red Cross National Blood Program. In addition, other rel atives and friends regularly do nate blood through the regional center or when the bloodmobile visits their home county. 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Gillette (Democrat, Iowa) of a Senate Agriculture subcommittee, promptly accused some retailers j of raising prices on stocks on hand as soon as they learn of a rise in manufacturers' prices. 1 If they would be as quick to ( follow - up on a price decrease, he commented, "maybe things would equalize." i Mark-Up Testimony The mark-up testimony was given by George McLaughlin, 80 year-old retired government clerk, as the subcommittee open ed its investigation into skyrock eting coffee prices. He said he watched a clerk in a Safeway store mark up the price of Bor Jpn's Instant Coffee from 42 cents to 51 cents a jar. He sub mitted the jar's lid as evidence. J. Arnold Anderson, Washing ton "price maker" for the chain, admitted the mark up, but said it was made three weeks after the manufacturer raised his price above Safeway's retail price. Asked About Bureau Subcommittee Counsel Paul Hadlich interrupted testimony by Edward G. Cale, deputy di rector of the State Department's Middle American Affairs Divis ion, to ask Cale about the Pan American Coffee Bureau of New York. Hadlich wanted to know what the department would do if It were determined the bureau "is in fact a cartel operating to cre ate artificially higher prices in coffee." Cale said he could not reply because there was no pre cedent. Coffee-Dumping Hadlich then said bureau of ficials will testify next Monday and will be asked about reports of coffee dumping and other ex pedients to keep prices up. John C. Gardner, president of the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange, blamed the price rises on "scare buying'' by housewives who, he said, were frightened Into hoarding by "inflammatory" newspaper stories. Fraud Charged Filed Against College Charlotte, Dec. 7.?The FBI today announced ' that fraud charges has been filed gaainst Southeastern Peoples College of Charlotte in connection with claims for GI tuition. Charles W. 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