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RULES RAIDERS’ DRY WARRANTS ARE ILLEGAL Provision in Bone Dry Law Held Unconstitutional by Collins. FINDING TO FREE TWO Takes From Courts Right to Use Discretion.’ Judge Declares. rhe Wright Bone Dry law’s prosion that private property may be searched on a warrant issued under an affidavit of “information and belief’ was held unconstitutional today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. In a written opinion on a case in which a man and woman were charged with the unlawful possession of a still, Collins held that the 1925 dry law is faulty because it takes from the courts the right to use discretion in issuing warrants. The ruling paved the way for freeing Mr. and Mrs. Minnje and Mike Krist, notorious for their bootleg activities over a period of year, of charges in an indictment returned against them by the Marion county grand jury almost a year ago. Escaped During Raid The arrest by a police squad Jan. 13. 1930. was made under a search warrant “issued without a proper hearing and for the sole purpose of obtaining evidence to cause the arrest of the defendants—all in violation of his constitutional rights.” Raiding the Krist home, a police squad found a 100-gallon still, twenty gallons of com whisky, thirteen fifty-gallon barrels of com mash, thirteen empty barrels, eleven pounds of yeast, 100 pounds of corn sugar and a variety of equipment used in the distilling of liquor. During the raid, Krist, a Bulgarian, escaped from the home and ras not apprehended until almost a month later. Police held his wife until he was caught. Ruling May Be Appealed Motion to quash the indictment because of the alleged faulty search warrant was filed by Earl Cox, attorney, last July after the man and woman were arraigned and had pleaded not guilty. Deputy Prosecutor William R. Ringer, in charge of the case, had not decided at noon whether the ruling would be appealed to the supreme court. Final hearing cn the case will be held before Collins at 2 Tuesday, after which Ringer said future moves will be determined. Dr. C. H. Winders, head of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, said a statement of the organization’s reception of the ruling will be made sometime this week. Collins, in his opinion, sustained the motion.

“Invasion of Rights Citing the “search and seizure” section of the Wright law, Collins ruled that the search of the Krist home was made on a warrant issued upon an affidavit which in this esc was illegal and the search of f ho defendant's home under the p-stonded authority of such a warram, was an invasion of his contitutional rights.” “Since the adoption of the eighteenth amendment and the enactment of state legislation to enforce prohibition, many attempts have been made to place anew construcHtn upon this fundamental law. However the trend of recent deciions of many of our highest courts upholds the amendment as a guarantee of the rights of the fndividu- ! citizen,” the decision reads. Quotes From Authority Collins quoted from Henry Campbell Black: an authority on the federal Constitution, as follows: "Nor is the warrant ever allowed n be used as the means of obtaining evidence against a person accused of crime. “. . . . it has always been the understanding of the American people that this process could not be employed as a means of gaining access to a man's house or his letters for the sole purpose of gaining evidence to be used against him in a criminal of penal proceeding.” Backing his ruling with decisions of other authorities. Collins cited the supreme court of Oklahoma in an opinion on the use of discreation by courts asked to issue search warrant. Cites Two Supreme Courts The citation follows: “This necessarily makes the issuance of a warrant of arrest a judicial act to be exercised by an officer, who is clothed by law with the power and authority to determine whether or not the warrant should be issued, and this discretion must rest upon facts verified by oath and affirmation. “The question of reasonable belief that an offense has been committed is addressed alone to the judgment of such officers, and their determination can not, by statute, be vested in the person who verifies the fact from which these opinions are drawn.” Collins also quoted the Indiana supreme court, which passed recently upon the same question. It follows: “The consensus of judicial opinion .... is that a search warrant issued upon a? affidavit of mere belief or on information and belief, is sufficient upon which to base a unding of probable cause, and its Pance under such circumstances ild he without warrant of the

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Eaton Victorious as Court Halts Giant Steel Merger

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JOFFBE IS NEAR END; IN COMA Condition ’Very Grave,’ Say Physicians. By United Press PARIS, Dec. 29.—Marshal Joseph ; Joffre lapsed into a state of coma late today, shortly after his physicians had announced a further weakening in his condition. The marshal, after rallying slightly earlier in the day, was in a “very grave” condition, the physicians announced. The bulletin issued at 5:30 p. m. said Marshal Joffre had “entered a state of coma.'’ It was signed by Dr. Raoul Boulifi and Professor Rene Leriche. At 3 p. m. a doctor asked the marshal: “How are you?” The patient replied in a sprightly tone: “Not so bad.” Last religious rites previously had been administered to the old solder, hero of the Marne and “savior of France.” He suffered slight, temporary facial paralysis during the night.

LESLIE TO DEMAND STATE READOPT SCHOOL BOOKS 0 Levels Scathing Attack at Publishers and Declares He Will Try to Balk Text Changes.

Governor Harry G .Leslie today announced he will demand that the state textbook commission rea-dopt the textbooks now in use in the schools when the commission meets at the statehouse Jam 5. This, the Governor asserted, will save thousands of dollars to parents and will checkmate any attempt of the so-called “book trust” to exploit Hoosier school children through text changes. “I am heartily disgusted with the conduct of certain textbook publishers, who are paying more to promote than produced their texts,” Leslie said. "They hire people for

GAMING CASES OUT Absence of Prober Results in Freedom of Trio. Untimely absence of William H. Cody. Chicago investigator hired by the board of safety this fall to probe charges of corruption in the Indianapolis police department, today was responsible for the freeing in criminal court of three alleged professional gamblers. It was under Cody's testimony that the four men received fines and jail sentences when tried in municipal court. They appealed their cases to Criminal Judge James A. Collins who in three instances sustained motions for discharge because of lack of evidence. Those freed were Earl Shears, 206 Indiana avenue; Abe Silverman. 120 West Maryland street, and Arthur Rahke. 120 West Maryland street. All were charged with gaming and visiting a gaming house. Theodore Allen, fourth of the group indicted, failed to appear in court to face gaming and a pool selling charge, and a S6OO bond was forfeited against him. 20 SLAIN IN RIOT Murder Causes Uprising at African Diamond Mines. By United Press CAPETOWN. South Africa, Dec. 29.—Serious rioting between native factions at the Rand diamond mines broke out today. Twenty natives were killed and one policeman seriously wounded. The fighting started when a basu was murder-d by a pondo. Several mir*|s were suspended end police reinforcements were sent.

Judge Rules Huge Deal by Sheet & Tube-Bethlehem Is Invalid. by United Press YOUNGSTOWN, 0., Dec. 29.—The billion-dollar Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company-Bethlehem Steel Corporation merger, which was ratified by Sheet & Tube shareholders last April, was held invalid by Common Pleas Judge David G. Jenkins today when he granted an injunction blocking the consolidation. The decision was a victory for Cyrus S. Eaton, dynamic Cleveland financier and largest individual Sheet & Tube Stockholder, who fought the cc .isclidation on the ground that it was tinged with fraud and woufj result in losses of $50,000,000 to fel ow stockholders. Eaton’s original opposition to the consolidation was based on charges that the negotiations were conducted secretly by James M. Campbell, chairman of the board, and Frank Purnell, president of Sheet & Tube, and Eugene G. Grace, president, and Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the board of Bethlehem. He and his associates amassed millions of dollars and threw them into a spectacular proxy fight, but they met defeat when Sheet and Tube shareholders met and ratified the amalgamation by a majority bf 58,000 votes. Eaton charged more than 100,000 shares of stock were voted illegally and immediately filed injunction suits to block the consolidation. The suits were filed last spring. Hearings began in June and the trial was concluded in September. Final arguments were heard in October. The pro-merger forces are ex-

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Brothers Believed to Have Escaped in Kentucky After Jail Raid. By United Press SALEM, Ind., Dec. 29.—Dan and Alonzo Gibson, brothers, who brought a Tennessee feud with them into southern Indiana, were believed today to have eluded a posse seeking them for the minder of the Salem town marshal and escaped into Kentucky on their way back to their native hills. A posse which set on their trail Saturday night after the Gibsons and two other brothers failed in an attempted lynching was certain for a time that it had cornered the men, but a thorough search yielded no traces. With the fugitive brothers was a

this promotion because of ‘who’ they know, ‘not ‘what’ they know*. I am having difficulty keeping good men on the state board of education, because they must act as the textbook commission. They are harassed to death with book peddlers.” One Man Has Quit “One man has tendered his resignation,” Leslie said, “because he said the book people have taken too much time away from his business. One concern sent fourteen different people to see him. “This book adoption has degenerated into a regular allotment proposition. “It is beneficial to the publisher to sell a book for 36 cents, which could be sold at a profit for 12 cents, but it isn’t very beneficial for the parents who pay the bills, U‘There is nothing to this argument that text changes have progressed to make it worth while to change the texts we have used during the last five years. We are going to keep them if I have anything to say about the matter.” The Governor is ex-officio member of the board charged with adoption.

Declares for Readoption Roy P. Wisehart, retiring superintendent of public instruction, has set Jan. 5 as the adoption date. He' also is an ex-officio member of the! board, as are the president of the j higher state educational institutions and superintendents of the three largest cities. Other members are j appointed by the Governor. Superintendent W. W. Borden of the South Bend schools already has declared for readoption. Texts to be considered include geography, English grammar, spelling, physiology. United States history and domestic science. Leslie says that geography alone ' would mean a change in 750,000 books. “Early Letting” Criticised .w anonymous letter from a book concern to Wisehart today criticised 1 1 ‘"arly letting,” which this year, is s* tral months in advance of any pr /ious adoption. It pointed out : that publishers did not have time ter submit samples and that board would not have time to properly consider them. Superintendent S. L. Scott of the Clark county schools also sent in a resolution asking that text changes ; to save money by decreased costs of prsduction and to take advantage cf progress an texts made during the last five years.

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pected to file an immediate appeal. They intimated the decision would be carried to the United States supreme court if necessary. The court’s decision wholly was unexpected. There was no fanfare or preliminaries. The ruling leaves Sheet and Tube an independent steel company, the goal for which Eaton and his associates fought. It also is believed to pave the way for a consolidation with the Republic Steel Corporation, controlled by Eaton. The decision against the Bethle-hem-Sheet and Tube merger brings to a climax one of the most bitter and most costly fights in American industrial history. According to reliable information, the Eaton interests have spent nearly $3,000,000 in blocking the merger, and the Bethlehem interests have spent large sums to refute Eaton's allegations.

neighbor, named Nixon, who gave them shelter Saturday night. More than twenty years ago the Spurlock-GiDson feud began in Tennessee. Others of the hill folk said it started over some petty quarrel which even the participants had forgotten. From time to time the warfare flared anew No one knows how f many victims it claimed. I It generally is believed in the hills that more than five Spurlocks and an equal number of Gibsons Were killed, most of them from ambush. Aboiit twelve years ago members of one family moved here from Tennessee. Members of the other followed soon. Strike Terror to Community Two weeks ago, Patton Gibson, leader of his clan, was killed. Rumors were that his slaying followed his boast that he had just come back from Tennessee and had “killed some more Spurlooks.” John and Cleas Spurlock were charged with the murder of Patton Gibson and were placed in the county jail. Early Sunday four of the Gibson brothers, Otis, Gilfred, Don and Alonzo renewed the feud in a manner that struck terror into the community and caused an uprising of outraged citizens determined that the laws of the hills should not supplant the laws of the commonwealth in Salem. Without warning, the ' brothers stormed the jail. Otis remained outside. The other three entered. A battle ensued. Sheriff Milton Trinkle was shot in the leg; his wife Ida, a deputy, was shot in the thigh. Fear Another Raid The trio fled as Otis engaged outside in a battle with town marshal Elmer Gerald, who was attracted by the shooting. Otis shot first and Gerald fell, a bullet through his abdomen, but as he fell the marshal fired, and Otis dropped dead. He was shot through the heart. Gerald’s condition was critical. The entire town was thrown into an uproar as the three remaining Gibsons fled into the country. Ranking law enforcement officials summoned volunteers. American Legion men and others joined their forces immediately. A cordon of sharpshooters was thrown about the jail. It was feared the Gibsons might summon other members of their family and make a more determined effort to rid the jail.

SEEK LYNCHING JURY Trial of Mob Suspect at Marion to Open Soon. By United Press MARION, Ind., Dec. 29.—Selection of the jury for trial of Robert Beshire, 45, on a charge of participating in the lynching of two Negroes last Aug. 7, went forward rapidly at the morning session of circuit court, with indications that a jury might be completed today. E. H. Graves, attorney for the defendant, asked each venireman if he would be influenced by the fact that Beshire is not a naturalized citizen, or by the presence of the state in the prosecution. Meri Wall, deputy attorney-gen-eral, had charge of the state’s case, assisted by Earl Stroup, another deputy, and Harley F. Hardin, Grant county prosecutor. Judge O. D. is presiding.

KIN HUBBARD LAID MUST RESTING PLACE Famous Friends, Plain Folks Pay Tribute to Memory of Humorist. ALL UNITED BY GRIEF Nation Mourns as Creator of Abe Martin Is Buried Here. Famed folks and plain folks, united by a bond of sorrow, bowed their heads together today as last tribute was paid Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard at simple funeral rites at the Flaaner & Buchanan chapel. With heavy hearts, friends of the great humorist and paragrapher, heard recounted words of respect and prai.se reflecting the esteem and love for the nation held for the creator of Abe Martin. In the funeral throng there seemed to pass in invisible array the group loved the nation over—a group of Kin Hubbard's brain children, bom out of the vague stuff of which dreams of only a rare genius are woven. Abe Martin, his heretofore inexhaustible store of homely philosophies stilled—forever more—seemed to be here; and Miss Tawney Apple, Brown county’s contribution to the social world; the Hon. Ex-Editor Cale Fluhart, in the big black Hoosier statesman's hat; and Fawn Lippincut, feminine exponent of the inquiring reporter. Tribute Paid by Pastor “We think of Kin, first, not as the one who with deft pencil provoked our smiles and laughter,” said the Rev. Frank S. C. Wicks, pastor of All Souls Unitarian church, in the funeral address. “We think of him first as our friend, dear to us by reason of his comradeliness, humility, lovable.iess. “While the world will rmss one who entertained them, we mourn the passing of a friend. He was not first of all an humorist, but a philospher, one who extracted from life its wisdom and gave it force in pungent paragraphs.” “Was there a sham? He punctured it. Was there hypocrisy? He snatched away its mask. Was there a foible? He dismissed it with a smile. He was no preacher, but he brought truth home. There was a sharp) point to what he wrote, but it never was barbed with a malice. Did he evoke a smile? Often there lurked behind it a tear. He never bruised an aching heart.” Shank From Publicity “Kin never sought fame,” said Mr Wicks, “but fame sought him, though he would never wear its laurels. So modest was he that he shrank from all publicity. “Droll as was nis humor, he was not the jester with cap and bells, but always maintained a fine dignity,” said Dr. Wicks. “Frank, his baptismal name, suited his frank, candid, open nature, while Kin, his popular name, spoke of the feeling of kinship which he had for his fellows. “We can not tink of him as being away from us. That vivid personality seems with us yet. He is ensferined in our hearts, and his memory will not fade.” The auditorium at lanner & Buchanan was a bower of floral tributes to Mr. Hubbard. The throng of friends filled the room, and crowded into other chambers of the building were loud speakers carried the services to them. The service also was broadcast over WFBM, Interment Follows Services Music was furnished by Mrs. C. A. Brockway, organist, and Mrs. Louise Schellschmidt Koehne, harpist. Interment in Crown Hill cemetery followed the services. The honorary pallbearers included: George Ade, John T. McCutcheon, Will Rogers, O. O. Mclntyre. Edgar A. Quest, Samuel G. Blythe, Representative Louis Ludlow, Charles (Chick) Sale, Gaar Williams, Demas Coe. Morton H. Milford, Meredith Nicholson, Warren Fairbanks, James A. Stuart, Richard Fairbanks, Hilton U. Brown. B. F. Lawrence, Frank P. Manly, Ray D. Everson, William Herschell, Martin M. Hugg, Booth Tarkington, Herman Lieber, William Fortune and Louis Howland. Active palbearers were Frank McCracken, Bellefontaine, O.; John Dille, Chicago; John Taylor, Danville; Charles D. La Follette. New York; Earl E. Stafford, Paul W. Simpson. John W. Atherton. V. Walter MoCartv, Charles A. Clark and William Francis Fox Jr. Flags at city hall were at halfstaff today in respect for Mr. Hubbard by order of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. ‘SANTA’ SURVIVING BURN Man Whose Snit Caught Fire During Christmas Party Is Better. By United Press BURLINGTON, la., Dec. 29. Harvey Jaeger, commissioner of public safety, who was burned seriously while playing Santa Claus Saturday night, may live, physicians said today. He had been lying at the point of death since his Santa Claus suit caught fire at a Christmas party at the Eagles’ hall, enveloping him | in flames. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 26 10 a. m.... 26 7a. m 25 11 a. m 29 8a- m..... 26 12 (noon).. 31 9a. m 26 Ip. m 32

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Sergeant John Welsh (above) inspects the hole through which yeggs entered the Hook Drug Company store in the Occidental building, Washington and Illinois streets, early today from the candy shop next door. Below, Patrolman Charles O. Johnson is shown beside the safe, which was ripped open". -He is holding a candy cutter, taken from the store next door, and which probably was used to help rip open the* strongbox.

WELL ON RAMPAGE Oil Gusher Blows Out Into Witd Gasser. Bp United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Dec. 29. —Drilled in more than a year ago, one of the oldest wells in the Oklahoma City oil field, suddenly went, on a rampage today and started blowing gas into the air a.t the rate of 40.000.000 cubic feet daily. Extra crews were rushed to the location and roads were blocked off as precautions were taken to prevent the gas from igniting. The blowout, considered extraordinary in a settled producer, occurred while drillers were plugging the well back to a ‘Shallower sand in the hope of increasing the well’s output. REVENUE ChTef“dURING WILSON REGIME DEAD Harry W. Mager, 39, Acquitted In Liquor Trial. Passes Away. By United Press CHICAGO. De -Harry W. Mager, 39, who was chief of the revenue agents of the department of justice during the administration of President Wilson, died Sunday after an illness of only a few hours. Mager was appointed chief of the 2,500 revenue agents by President Wilson in 1919 when he was 28. A few months later he was transferred to Chicago as collector of internal revenue. He held that office until Harding became president in 1921. A year after his retirement. Mager, Thomas J. O’Brien, Ben-, jamin M. Mitchell and August W; Bruchman were indicted on charges! of conspiring to collect money to prevent prosecutions of liquor cases, j None of them was convicted.

14 ARE FIRED BY PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONERS

Fourteen members of the engi- j neering and accounting staff of the \ public service commission were given notice of dismissal today, effective Jan. 1. Chairman John W. McCardle of : the commission explained that this course was necessary to keep the budget request down to the 1929 appropriation of $369,000. The commission had asked for $453,486, but withdrew the request to pare it down to the present appropriation. The cut will reduce the monthly pay roll $2,700 and leaves but seven engineers to do the field work, including Chief Harry Wenger. Wednesday, commissioners will meet with the budget committee to try to get a revolving fund, to be supported by the fees col-

Occidental Building Drug Store Entered by Boring Through Walls. Boring their way through walls of two adjacent store rooms, yeggs early today entered a Hook Drug Company pharmacy in the Occidental building, Washington and Illinois streets, and battered open a safe from which they took $2,000. Four employes who opened the store at 6 this morning discovered the robbery when they noticed the safe was not in its usual place on the mezzanine floor, and the cash register, which ordinarily sits on the strongbox had been deposited on the floor. Though the cash drawer was opened, about sls in it was not touched. The yeggs wheeled the safe behind a prescription counter and apparently used a pinch bar to batter away the combination. At first puzzled as to the mode of entry of the yeggs, police later discovered an empty box covered a hole through the wall of a candy store south of the pharmacy. Another hole was made through the opposite wall of the candy store, and the yeggs had forced their way through a front door of a vacant room two doors south of the pharmacy. I E. Taylor, 709 East Sixty-third street; William Rogers, 4024 East Eleventh street; James Traonos, 1530 North Illinois street, Apt. 49. and Herbert Gibbons, Negro custodian. 2206 Ralston avenue, discovered the robbery.

KERN RESIGNS FEDERAL POST U, S. Commissioner to Be Superior Court Judge, John W. Kern, Democratic judgeelect of Marion superior court one, today submitted to Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell his resignation as United States commissioner, a post Kern has held since Dec. 12, 1923. The resignation will become effective Jan. 1, the date when Kern assumes the superior court judgeship. Kern was first appointed to the commissionership by Judge Albert B. Anderson, and was reappointed by Baltzell in 1927 and 1928. Fae W. Patrick and Howard Young are the two remaining commissioners for the district court here. Judge Baltzell said he would not apponit a successor to Kern until he learned the outcome of a measure now In congress which would enlarge powers of commissioners and allow them to try minor cases. GIVES UP GASH PLAN Senator Abandons Proposal for Veterans’,Aid. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Senator Vandenburg :Rep., Mich.) announced after a call at the White House today that he had given up his proposal for cash payments of adjusted compensation to war veterans and now is working on a compromise plan. Vandenburg, original champion of cash payment, said it would be impossible to put it through because of administration opposition.

lected, McCardle said. They also j will try to get back the $64,154.58 expended from their appropriations for the Instill utilities merger investigation and hearings. This money was collected from Insull, but turned into the genral fund. Those leaving the department include several veteran engineers, but the majority were added to the staff when the merger investigations I were begun. They are Herbert Hutchinson, A. F. Schnepel, Fred R. Witherspoon, William E. Roby, D. O. V. Wigle, Thomas D. Pierce, Erwin X. Newhart, C. J. Whitney, Edgar 8. Coffman, Henry W. Marsh and John ! Hamilton of the engineering department. William C. Fitts, acl countant; Miss Henriette Smith, clerk in the accounting Apartment, and Miss Maude Dale, reporter,

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FOIL ESCAPE OF TWELVE AT STATE PRISON Desperate Michigan City Convicts Attack Guard in Liberty Attempt. MADE KEY FROM SPOON Criminals Fashion* Rope From Bed Clothes to Toss Over Wall. By United Press STATE PRISON, MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Dec, 29.—Twelve men. characterized by Warden Walter Daly as the most desperate men in the state prison, attempted to gain liberty from D cell house today. Joseph Bums of Kosciusko county, serving life for murder, made a key from a spoon and opened the cellhouse door. Daly said. Guards frustrated the attempt, and a cordon of police and firemen quickly surrounded the institution to help maintain order. Bums, who was charged with committing murder during a bank robbery at Culver, Ind.. in 1925, succeeded in opening the door to his cell and then released the other eleven men. They attacked Guy Zurklow. prison guard, sitting at a desk in the cellhouse. Rebellion Put Down Burkiow yeUted a warning to the guard in the adjoining cellhouse who notified prison officials. City firemen and police were called, the firemen given rifles and stationed along the prison wall and the police entered the building to assist the guards. Burkiow held the prisoners, who were unarmed, until reinforcements arrived, and the rebellion was put down without a shot being fired. Although the disturbance lasted fifty minutes, prisoners in other sections of the institution didn't even know of it. The twelve desperadoes had fashioned a rope from bed clothes which they apparently planned to throw over the outer wall to complete their escape. All Are long Termer*: The other eleven men were: Harry Pierpont, Kokomo, serving ten to. twenty-one years for bank robbery. Albert Rosenberg, St. Joseph county, twenty-five years for robbery. James Jenkins, Green county, life for murder. Dick Day, Terre Haute ten to twentv-one years for bank robbery. Edward Ware, Vigo county, twenty-five years for auto banditry. Maurice Delature, Marion county, life as habitual criminal. Frank Badgley. Miami county, life, as habitaul criminal Louis West, Marion county, ten to twenty-one years, for bank robbery. All Made Previous Attempts Wayne Williams, Allen county, life for murder. Willard Tex, St. Joseph county, ten to twenty-one years for robbery. Russel Clark, Marion county, twenty years for bank robbery. All had made individual attempt-! to escape during the past year, and would have been in solitary confinement but conditions were too crowded, and they were segregated in D cellhouse. After the attempted break the prisoners were thrown into solitary confinement, where they were “packed in like sardines,” as Dalv described it.

BANKERS SEEK SLASH IN RECEIVERSHIP FEES State Group Will Discuss Proposed Law Changes. Legal means by which the fees in receiverships may be reduced, and bank receivership control be revised, were to be discussed at the meeting of the Indiana Bankers’ Association legislative committee this afternoon at the Columbia Club. Recommendations of the bankers follow numerous complaints of the size of the fees paid in bank receiverships. At their noon meeting the bankers discussed the ratio banks should keep between their capital stock structure and deposit liability. Proposal also was made to recommend to the legislature that more examiners be appointed in the state banking department in order to strengthen banks’ supervision. Luther F. Symons, state banking commissioner, discussed this phase at the luncheon meeting, and State Senator Winfield Miller of Indianapolis spoke at the afternoon session. TEMPERATURE DROP FORECAST FOR CITY Snow Is Not Expected by Weather Bureau Within 24 Hours. Though in the grip of midwinter, Indianapolis today was almost free from snow and none was expected within twenty-four hours, although temperatures probably will drop Tuesday, according to the United States weather bureau here. Absence of snow during Christmas week contrasted sharply with the ! corresponding period a year ago, when virtually all of Indiana was bound by deep snowdrifts which began to thaw with mild tempera- : tures as the new year came in. Fair weather was forecast for this vicinity Tuesday, while in northern Indiana skies are expected to*Vcloudy.