Sheriff Roy S. Melvin said today that Fred Brown, a young Canadian farmer, has confessed that he strangled his 22-year-old wife and expectant mother, weighted her body with plough shares and threw it into the Nantcoke River after an argument over a cat, The woman's body, clad in a flowered print dress, tennis socks and without underwear, was sighted i the river bed by two fishermen yesterday and was brought to the surface by police who were hampered by heavy weights attached to it.—United Press, Japanese Service Heads In Conference Tokyo, June 22.
Generals and admirals held their regular meeting last night to exchange views on the China situation, The War Minister, Lieut-Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, and the Navy Minister, Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai. attended the meeting—Domei.
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