Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 163, Decatur, Adams County, 11 July 1935 — Page 1

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|p LARCENY BARGES FILED ■gainst youth I Brew -ter Charged Kere: Material Witnesses Are Freed ■ ; I larceny Has ■U i-> Vl “ ms H i: .rt Brewster. 19, ■ 8 ,. umg.-sl member ■ . r.nii lounded ■ H \',,k S’-'" Wa -' ,lt ' a,;d county. ■ ,oxl.o'i ■i--""' 1 by Sheriff ■ r.ruML ' by responsible | K.„, llll . l eeu hading to the .W”- Hie loot W.c'jWt!!. J.:b ' ...eat Be, lie has admitted his con- ||;,. Berne robberies lU .n lie did not partioi- ■ I.a-ak-ins. merein tin- gang’s auto and a lookout. S,. at the Jefferson accurately re- . . have been hundred dollars. Boasts of Crimes Wayne. Ind July 11 (U.R) Bo » -'J. who had object of extensive n Since ».;■ aries ed in a b ~ h.-adquarters - burg'aries in ;ng 17 n county, two K, : n DeKalb and I'. C. foil Wayne and I oinei !’•- ..oils who had | c 0..; held as, a: n- ■ ,■ treed I l oin i "■ft • ollie .- - Melvin .1- in Lough. a’l Wayne. 0 X. ■ a while j- the ■B i-ed to make to police JgE ■ '■ e v ;r fix Hi fVENTION AT ■.HOPE OHM ■ Creek Sunday School ■mention To Be H Held Sunday |M !>'..< I'uiiday enliven:' . i.eld ' t . 11, ■ | . ..lets Siin.ia. 14 The , sions, and er SH 11 " .i'll will pen ' 1. -’H'l'l.l 'd rnie, Cid the j 1 J, :. ci. Hi.; ,;übj?ct 1■" Bund* y ■ ■.l.ty to trie ni-ie ■ ,i; ..pen at 1 ' si.. I li i . R v. Huiler «,i .i -liver the add also include i.unitn i' trading;; and rtcfl|.l‘>aiii,' omplete S 9 Afternoon Scecion ■Bj ■' "' I> an I.uutEmory Smith ,a * ,s 3-6 Salem. |^W‘ n 3-Mrc f rn Yoder. 4-Union. ■J 31 ; 11 "-1! tty Ab.hnert ‘■'fount Hope. KT?'" Os th . Sunand It.; Ri.iponsibility «■ U'ir." l|.. v . \ Valt ~. Johll . 4 Uni n |■'I‘■' 1 ‘■' > it.. Gp() . w Bail Night Session ■ ~ v - be E. Bragg ® r ’ ans Install |g Officers Tonight n> S e’” bp ins,al 'ed at ■ ilub t n ng f:h3r > f"'-r ■>ots) Off '.' s eve ning at the IK/.'?, '" Li t 0 be install, d !»Vito? r3on ’ pr " ii4 '"t: L *o nev. C. M. -BF- wi-P- 5 ’ R(w «>e Glenden-*B-»l-ar.T, a .' leU Remolds, an-

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Guy Koos Awarded Free Trip To Camp Guy Koos of Rotary troop num-' her 61 has been awarded a trip to the Anthony Wayne area Boy Scout camp at Rome City. All bls expenses will be paid for one week. The local <roop was given the right to send a boy to the camp I because the rtoop Aimed an 87.5; per cent advancement of second [class scouts to first class rank during the achievement round up. Guy was the second highest scout in the Rotary troop In the number of points earned in the Jamboree contest. Junior Zerkel won the largest number of points; in this contest and as a result earned a trip to Washington, D. C., | I next month, where he will attend the national Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America. 0 SEEK TO SOLVE STRANGE DEATH Chicago Man Murdered; Four Persons Are Taken Into Custody — Chicago, July 11.— (U.R) —Police ■ today raked through a tangle of clues in an effort to pierce the '• mystery surrounding tne murder of Ervin 1-aiig, 28, whose legless, garroted body was found in a marsh near Hammond, Ind., Tuesday night The mtr:Bated torso, sacked In towels and newspapers, was identified yesterday by hysterical sweetheart, Josephine McKinley, who was to have become his bride this fall. Po'ice said they believed Lang had been strangled to death in Chicago and his leg; hacked off at the hips to facilitate removal to I' gangsters’ cemetery.” the lonely I swamp where three of Scarface Al I Capone’s gang were dumped after lan underworld death ‘‘ride’’ in 11929. Four persons, two of them suspects, were held in temporary custody in connection with the slayi ing. Mrs. Blanche Dunkel. 50, mother of Lang’s late wife, Mallie, with whom lie made his home, was gua.rded closely a? a hospita* where she Is recovering from a minor opa - on. She will be questioned today. Miss McKinley told police Mrs. Dunkel was jealous of her and had threatened to ’’kill us both if Ervin doesn’t break our engagement.” Also held was Rurxell Anderson. 24. Mrs. Dunkel’s nephew, al'eged to have been hired by his aunt to (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o i Men’s Brotherhood To Sponsor Social The min'd broth rho:d of th? Zion Reformed church will hold a social on th? church lawn F.iturday ev?nii g. The Decatur girls’ band, under the direction of Albert Sellxmeyer, will i ai.ide through the business dkvtrict at 7 o'clock, and will also play during the social. GENEVA MAN IS BEST SHOOTER W. W. Widows Cons Honors In County Vigilantes’ Shoot W. W. AViddows of Geneva made the high scores in the 15 and 25 vird rance pis’ol contest at a shoot held on the gehurger range east of Decatur by the Adams county vigilantes association Wednesday afternoon. o‘her high scores in this event were as follows: Tx>onard Baumpartner. B“rno. 80: John Dierkes. Decatur. 75: Fred Schurger. Decatur, 68. and Roy Dubach. Geneva, 64. These scores were of a I possible TOO. Throe men tied for high honom in the 100 and 200 yard rifle shooting. The perfect score would have been 50. Dave Dubach of Berne. Leonard ■ Baumgartner of Berne and Victor Hoffman of Preble tied for high honors with 44. W. W. Widdows of Geneva shot a score of 43. Three men made a score of 41. They were Roy Dubach of Geneva. Jack Ellsworth and John Dierkes of Decatur. Q Swimming Pool Opens Friday W. Guy Brown, superintendent of the Decatur municipal swimming pool announced toduy that the pool I will be open Friday afternoon. The water has been drained out and side.? thoroughly scrubbed and cleaned. The pool is being filled today.

MANY VICTIMS ARE REPORTED IN EARTHQUAKE Island Oft’ Japan Rocked By Quake; Over Score Are Killed Tokyo. July 11—(UP)—A disaaj trous e> rthquake rocked the south icentral portion of Honshiu Island to ; day. At least 22 ,per«ons were killed at Shizuoka. Heuvy damage wias I fearsd. it wau believed that the earthquake center wae 40 miles southwest of Shizuoka. The shock was frit ca far au Tokio, 100 milea up th* coast from Shizuoka. Communications were down. The Schizuoka radio station was crip-; pled because of damage to batteries. The railroad roundhouse col- [ ! lupsid, streets were cracked und ' many houses along the seashore demolished. The walla of the govrnsr’s residence and other buildings were ~ racked. i All the deaths first reported were ■ in one district of Shizuoka, the Takamatsu district. Several small fireo started in the i city. The crack Tokyo bound c ast ex- , pressed waa haulted at Shizuoka by a damaged bridge. An official summary issued at Shizuoka tonight ester a preliminary survey listed 22 dead. 3 serious- | ly injured and 50 slightly injured in the city. Thirty-five houses were destroyed and 13 damaged. Thirty girls were injured in the Toyo company's muslin mills. Fire which broke out in the city —one .by explosion of drug store mi ills—were put out. The bridge between Shimizu and Kusakari cr> shed, and traffic on the 'main line was suspended. The home office announced that its list (OONTINUHD ON PAGE TWO) VAUGHN FUNERAL RITES FRIDAY Prominent Bluffton Attorney Will Be Buried Friday Fun ral servi s will b? held Friday afternoon at Bluffton for E. C. i Vaughn. 82, county attorney of Wells c unty, and u form.-r judge. Judge A'aughn died Tuesday night f a heart cttack following a short illness. A number of members of the Adams county bar asociation will attend t"e funer I, which will be held at 3 o’clock Friday afternoon at the Bluffton F> iptist church. Dr. O. R. McKay, ndianapolis. former IBJuff ton pastor, will conduct the ser-' vie 8, assisted by the Bluffton Knight Templars. Judge Vaughn w s superintendent of the Bluffton city schools in 1876, resigned to study law. He servd as 11 ay or from 1881 to 1885. He a.rved two terms as prosecuting attorney. Judge Vaughn was appointed circuit court judge in 1891 and served for 14 years. Surviving are the widow, tne d tighter, Mrs. AV. A. Patton of Bluffton and two granddaughters. Adopt Resolution A calkd m eting of the Adams county bar association was held in ths court house this morning. French Quinn was named to represent the 100 1 association st the gen ral meeting to be held at 12:30 o’clock Friday afternoon at Bluffton before the funeral. Representatives of bar associations in bhis | pirt of Indiana will be present. A committee compared of Oirk J. Lutz, Judson AV. and French Quinn drew up resolutions of respect for Judge Vaughn. Excerpts from the resolutions are: ’’After a long lite of activity this fine citizen, with a life full of good deeds and good friends, has been gathered to his fathers. ’’ —that th? Adams county tnr in meeting i-ssembled tender the ex(CONTINI'RD ON PAGE TWO) o Six Month Sentence F’or Breaking Jail Bloomington, Ind., July 11—(UP) The first application of the 1935 act designating jail escape as u. crime I had been made here today when ' Herschel Pelfre, 40, was fined S2OO and sentenced to the state farm for I elx months. Pelfre tore a heavy screen from a window of the city jail, constructed in the municipal building when the [county jail wus destroyed by fire, and esiaiped last Monday. He was recaptured several hours kater.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 11, 1935.

Dies in East r fy •AT Earl Martin, one of the founders and organizers of the Cloverleaf Creameries. Inc., of this city, died suddenly in a Olean, New York hotel last night. Mr. Martin formerly lived in Hunting’on and at present had his office in Indianapolis, being production manager of the Mid-West creameries, operated by the Indiana Farm Bureau. EARL MARTIN IS TAKEN BY DEATH Former President of Cloverleaf Creameries Dies Suddenly Earl Martin, 58, one of the founders and a former president of the Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., of this city, died last ntght in a hotel aX Olean, New York. Mr. Martin was production manager for the Mid-Weat Creameries, operated by the Indiana state farm bureau and was in the east attending to business for the company. His office was in Indianapolis. Word of his death was received here this morning by friends and . former business associates. He ’ died during the night, presumably from a heart attack. He was acI companied to Olean by Edison El- ' bridge, of Chicago. In 1915 Mr. Martin and W. A. K’epper of this city orgau-.zed the Martin-Klepper Creamery company in this city, the name being changed to the Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., in 1920, when a merger of the Dectaair, Huntington and Bluffton plants was made. Mr. Martin was not associated with the local creamery concern. About five years ago Mr. Martin accepted a posit-ion with the Indiana Farm Bureaat and was manager of the several creameries operated ;by this association. He formerly lived in Huntington, but recently maintained his home at Lake l AA’awase-?. He is survived by his i wife. The body will be taken to AVawasee. FuneraJ arrangements were not learned here this afternoon. — o BELIEVES GIRL TOOK OWN LIFE Capt. Matt Leach Convinced Frances Prince Committed Suicide Bedford, Ind., July 11 — (U.R) i All-night questioning of two suspects convinced Capt. Matt Leach of the s ate police today that 15-year-old Frances Irene Prince committed suicide Sunday but failed to shake local authorities from their determina’ion to make it a murder case. Leach questioned George Hale, 25, and Loretta Johnson, 15, companions of Frances and her exconvict sweetheart, Glen Kinder26. down a s’one quarry lane Sunday evening. *T’m convinced it was a suicide." Leach, said. ‘‘lt is the first time in my career as a police officer that I saw a girl shot iherself through the head, however. "Hale and the Johnson girl told j straightforward stories, with only ; slight variations from their original versions." Prosecutor David F. Long and I Coroner R. E. Wynne refused to accept the suicide theory. They believed Frances was shot in a struggle with’ Kinder over possession of a pistol. Chemical ipariffin tests showed traces of gunpowder on the hands ! cf both Kinder and his girl sweet- 1 heart. The prosecutor and coroner planned to hold Kinder on a charge of contributing to delin- [ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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LADY AVIATOR AFTER RECORD Laura Ingalls Starts NonStop Flight Across Continent Floyd Bennett Field, New York, July 11. — (U.R)—Laura Ingalls, one | of America’s premier women fliers, took off at 5:29 a. m. (EDT) today i in a powerful low-wing Lockheed Orlon monoplane on an attempt to become first of her sex to fly noni stop across the continent from east to west. Miss Ingalls hoped to set a speed record close to the women’s record for non-stop flights in the opposite direction, 19 hours, 5 minutes, established by Amelia Earhart Putnam. Her destination was Los Angeles. If she follows her projected route, she will pass over Harrisburg, Pa., Pittsburgh, Columbus, 0., Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, WicMla. Kan., Amarillo, Tex., Albuquerque, N. M., and Winslow, Ariz. ' Mite Ingalls, at the airport shortly after 3 a. m., ordered 600 gallons of gasoline loaded into the plane. When the p'ane was ready for the takeoff, Miss Ingalls shouted: "Everyone off the runway. I'm liable to kill someone else if I kill myself.” , I She feigned surprise at seeing so many reporters and cameramen at he field so early. She was irate over the action of airport officials who ordered her to take off north to south, instead of the usual east-west way. The reason for the change in i takeoff direction evidently was the fact that the Monteverde brothers nearly crashed into the airport administration building on the un- , successful attempt to take off on a flight to Rome. Once well aloft, Miss Ingalls cir(OONTINUBD ON PAGE TWO) ANNODNCE FLAY r CHARACTER CAST Knights Os Pythias To Present Damon And Pythias August 8 The fiv? principal characters of the play D mon and Pythias were announced today. Th? iplay will be given Thursday evening, Auguut 8 after the program for Dairy Dry. The play will be free and will be ; given on the ground west of the I Central S .hool building. Five of the cast ere: Damon, | George Morris, Pytiliias, AV. Guy Brown; Philistiuo, AV. F. Beery; I Dionysiu, Roy Mumma; Procl.s, Elmer Chase. There will be a total of about 20 ' in the cast. Only four of the parts are vocal. The rest of the action is taken up by pagantry. The play is to be presented in commemoration of the 604 h anniversary of the founding of the lodge in Decatur. Newly elected officers will be inj stalled at the regular meeting of the lodge tonight. Business pertaining : to the play and the program will ; be discussed. Following the instillation of officers under tue direction of Marion Hoagland, "past commander, the i third rank degree work will be given. The program tonight will be con- | eluded with refreshments served I by members of the lodge. — o — District Auxiliary Meet Held Wednesday The fourth district American Legion Auxiliary meeting was held at Tri Lakes AVednesday, with the Columbia City unit as hostesses. At the noon h ur a ipot-luck dinner was served at the club house and a proI gram was enjoyed. Fred Heutr of Decatur, was awarded the radio, which was sold by the auxiliary members. The next district meeting will be held in DeI eatur in September at which time i the new officers of Adams unit 43 I will be installed. Members from Decatur wh» attended the meeting were Mrs. Vincent Bormann, Mrs. Leo Ehinger, Mrs. Ralph Roop and Mrs. Charles AVeber. Fred Bittner Has Arm Broken In Fall Fred Bittner, employed at the Central Sugar company in the building of the new storage house, fell I last evening and broke his left arm. i X-rays of the fracture were taken today.

U. S. INFORMS MUSSOLINI IT OPPOSES WAR Views Os Government Are Expressed On Possibility Os War AVashington, July 11 —<U.R>—The United States has informed Italy •that this country would view with extreme misgivings any steps taken by Italy in Abyssinia which would lead to actual war, it was learned at the state department today. Secretary of State Cordell Hull orally expressed this government's views to the Italian ambassador, Augusto Rosso, when the latter called at the state department late yesterday to inform the secretary of h!s plans to return to Rome for a brief visit. It was understood Hull also re-1 peated to Roeso practically the same sentiments expressed in Hull's recent note to the Abyssinian emperor, Haile Selassie. These were to the effect that the two countriee should refer the dispute again to the league of nations and reiterated this government’s hope that Italy and I Abyssinia would not resort to war. i Hull at a press conference later i said he had informed the Italian ambassador that this government was deeply concerned for the preservation of peace everywhere. [ and wee closely observing -<IIJ developments in the Italo-Abyssin-ian situation. Officials mean’ime expressed ■ interest in Great Britain’s provisional embargo on munitions shipments to Abysalnia. but said they had no power to prevent shipments from this country to either Italy or Abyssinia, except surpi materials as might reveal military secrets. Several proposals to give the government power to embargo arms sales to nations at war have ■ been made recently by the adminis’ration and members of congress, but so far no general meaisure has passed. Shift Policy London. July 11— (U.R) — 'Sneaking to a crowded house of commons, Sir Samuel Hoare, British foreign secretary, today support(CONTINUED ON PAGE BIT? 0 Roadhouses Hit By Porter County Judge A'alparaiso, Ind., July 11 —(UP) — | Prosecution of state liquor lbw violations was renewed- in Porter county today after circuit judge Charles AV. Jensen dissolved a restraining I I order obtained by 22 tavern and roadhouse proprietors. The order was dissolved up n motion of Ralph Hanna and Alfred Johnson, representatives of the state’s attorney general office. REPORT TUUHY MAY SURRENDER Last Os Famous Gangster Family iMay Give In To Officers (Copyright, 1933, by UP.) Chicago. July 11—(U.R)- Tommy Tquhy, crippled by bullet wounds and wasted by illness, is making a last stand in a northern AVisconsin hideout, it was learned today. Postoffice inspectors were reported closing in on "the terrible" Touhy, last of the notorious family that once ruled with smoking guns more territory than A! Capone boasted in his heydey. Reports from the north woods indicated the desperado has been located by the persistent postal inspectors who are out to get him dead or alive unless —and this is a strong possibility—he surrenders voluntarily. He may give himself up on learn-' ing that St. Paul authorities aren’t interested in connecting him with the k'.dnapings of William Hamm ! or Edward G. Bremer. He is want- . ed instead for complicity in the robbery in St. Paul of a Chicago & Milwaukee road mail train from which $20,000 was taken. ! , Compared with the crimes of kidnaping, murder, and bank robbery which have been laid at the door of the Touhy gang the train , robbery is relatively minor. Instead of a capital crime it is an offense for which the maximum penalty is 25 years in prison. Eight men participated in the St. Paul .robbery. Seven of them are in jail or dead. Tommy Touhy (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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SENATE PROBE IS RECESSED < . .1 Investigation Os Virgin Islands By Senate Is Recessed Today Washington, July 11.—(U.R) —The senate Virgin Islands investigation was summarily recessed today after a visit by chairman Millard S. Tydings, D„ Md., to the White House. Bitter dispute rocked the new deal high command today as chairman Miliard E. Tydings of the senate insular affairs committee charge Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ilckes with making false statements and in pointed language invited him to keep hands off the i investigation of the Virgin Islands. "I make this statement to you, sir,” Tydings wrote the secretary, "that we do not need the executive branch of this government, through your department, to tell the United States senate —the legislative brajich elected by the people — how to conduct its affairs, and if f you wfll just run your department as it should be run and let us run ; our department as we think it j should be run, it will conduce to orderly business." Climaxing a week in which public men have been calling each other “liars” and “fakirs," Tydings, a Maryland Democrat, said Ickes had made ' false statement," “mls(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O HOLD YOUTH FOR SHOOTING GIRL Twelve-Year-Old Girl Is Shot By Youth At Indianapolis Indiani p,lis, Ind.. July 11 —(UP) I—A 1 j year old girl wa; in a hospital with a bullet wound in h?r chest today and two young boys were being held in connection with the ebooting. The girl. Eva Mulcahy, told police I she was sitting in the front yard of | | her home when a boy, inter identii fied as Richard Thomas, 16, shot at | 'her. Th? youth had glued an air-rifle pellet cm the end of a blank cartridge which he fired from a pistol ] police said. He wi.s held on charges of assault [ and battery, shooting a gun within the city limits and carrying a weapon without a permit. The se. nd youth arrested in the case was Homer Powell, 16, alleged to have sold the weapon to young Thomas. He was charged with selling firearms without a permit. The girl was taken to a hospital where i; hy.sicians iprobed unsuccessfully for the bullet. Iler condition was n-t considered serious, however. 0 Escaped Inmate Is Caught Here Ernest Beammer, an escaped inmate at the Dunning asylum near Chicago, was arrested here this afternoon by local officers and is being held in the Adams county jail. The authorities were warned to be on the look-out for Beammer by a Dunning physician. Beammer fromerly lived here. o— Dance Tickets May Be Bought At Door Tickets f r the “Wild Oats" ball may be purchased at the door at the Decatur Country Club tonight. Th? dance is sponsored by the Decatur Junior Chamber of Couwnerce ! to raise money for ti’ae premium list lot the horse show which will be held , in connection with the Decatur Free . Street Fair. Tickets are selling for 30 cents a person. TLj? decorations at the “Wild Oats” ball will be unique and in keeping with the purpose for which the iproceeds will be used. o WEATHER Local showers or thunderstorms tonight or Friday, except generally fair tonight south portion; cooler Friday night and north portion Friday.

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Administration Power Program Advocates Whip Rebellious House' In Line. TO CONFERENCE Washington, July 11. — (U.R) — President Roosevelt s power program advocates today ucored a smashing comeback, when a previously rebellious house approved the controversial Tennessee valley authority amendments extending the scope of the administration’s "electric late yardstick” project. Speaker Joseph W. Byrns announced the roll call vote as 277 to 100. The final vote came after the house rejected a Republican motion to recommit the bill to the military affairs committee to insert a provision which would have prevented TVA from selling surplus power below production cost after July X, 1938. Balking Democrats swung into line as administration leaders ripped up a "compromise" bill (hat had squeezed out of a deadlocked committee by a 13 to 12 vote and inserted amendments to make it conform closely to the senate approved bill, which the house favI ors. The bill now goes to the senate I for The house bill differs only in one fundS7nental respect from the senate measure and this will be settled in conference. The senate bill contains a provision that TVA can increase its bond issuing capacity from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 to purchase private utility properties for resale to states and municipalities. Report Agreement AVashington, July 11. ~(U.R>— The house ways and means sub-com-mittee considering the GuffeyI Snyder bituminous coal bill was reI ported today to have reached an j agreement to reduce the tax levied , by the bill on bituminous coal from 25 to 15 per cent. The agreement also called tor a reduction in the drawback accorded producers complying with terms of the code of fair practices set up by the bill from 99 per cent to 90 per cent, it was said. It was emphasized, however, that the agreements are merely | tentative. There was no assurance the new rates will be in the bill as it is finally reported to the full ways and means committee, or that the full committee will approve them if recommended. Questioned regarding the reports, subcommittee chairman Samuel B. Hill, D„ Wash., declined to comment. “We hope to have the bill out (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o BRAIN TRUSTER UENIAL UPHELD Insular Possessions Director Denies Any Threats Made AVanhingtou, July 11 —(UP)—Dr. Ernest Gruening. director of Ineular possessions, today supported Thomas Corcoran’s denial that he threatened to halt tihe Passamaquoddy ipower project in Maine if Rep. Ralph O. Brewster, R., Me., voted against the utilities “death sentence.” Gruening testified before the house utilities lobbying inquiry on the charge which precipitated the house $50,006 investigation of lobbying for and against the utilities bill. His version of conversations with Brewster and iCorcorun, young RFC attorney, generally supported Corcoran's ettory. Gruening was present at the meeting of Brewster and Corcoran at whioh. the alleged threat was made. The house inquiry progressed es the senate preipared to approve its own $50,000 investigation into all lobbying at this session of congress. Gruening testified that he himself urged IBlrewster to vote for the “death sentence” clause but denied hearing Corcoran make the alleged Fassaimaquoiidy threat. Gruening was called to testify after a brief reappearance by Corcoran in which he said he never “thumbed his nosr” at any "death sentence” opponent. “Nobody ever asked 'me to deliver (CONTINUED ON PAGE BIX).