ALVA C. RECORDS, 63, real estate dealer, strangled himself to death in his cell at the county jail last night by tightly twisting a-piece torn from a blanket around his neck. He was held on a charge of uttering a forged instrument in real estate deals, and also was subject to a charge of firing a shot at Deputy Sheriff Ora Kinsell, who took the man into custody. The body of Records was found by Cleon Summers of Avoca fellow prisoner when he noted that a blanket was hanging down through the barred door of the cell and investigated, believing something was wrong. The body of the man was found on the floor, where it evidently had laid most of the night. It was fully clothed. It is believed that Records was a tool for higher ups in the alleged false real estate transfers has been indicated among officials and it is known that they had hoped to secure from him information, which would bring others into the charges.

Records had worked in local car repair shops for a number of years previous to his entrance into the real estate business, which he conducted from his home at 817 South Seventh Street. He had been admitted as an attorney in Nebraska in 1888 and recently appeared before U.S. Commissioner, P.C. Rasmussen, asking to be admitted to practice in the federal court here. The man before entering the real estate field here took a correspondence course in business management and real estate. A business card recently distributed by Records gave his business as solicitor and political worker and an appended note gage the information "nineteen years a delegate to county, judicial and state conventions. My silent canvass does the work."

Funeral services for Alva C. Records who took his own life in the county jail during Sunday night will be held Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock from Cutler's Chapel. Rev. R.C. Buchanan of the Epworth M.E. Church officiating.

Burial will be in Walnut Hill Cemetery.