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ROADS BOARD PROBE VOTED BY SENATORS Strey Is Named Committee Head tor Inquiry on Highway Commission. START QUIZ MONDAY Failure in Collection of Federal Aid Subject for Study. Senator Charles L. Strey's resolution to investigate failure of the slate highway department to collect federal aid during the time the money was needed sorely for drought and unemployment relief received unanimous approval of senators when introduced today. Lieutenaht-Governor Edgar D. Bush immediately appointed an investigating committee of five, as the resolution provided, and Strey was made chairman. The investigation will commence Monday, Strey announced. Five Members on Committee The resolution read as follows: ‘ That the president of the senate hereby is instructed and directed to appoint a committee consisting of five members of the senate, three of whom shall be members of the majority party and two of whom shall be members of the minority party, whose duty it shall be to investigate the handling of Indiana's allotment of federal aid highway funds by the Indiana state highway commission. with special reference to the failure of said commission to collect $3,500,000 of said funds which were available to be claimed by Indiana during the fiscal year ending Sept. 30. 1930, and also to investigate failure of said Indiana state highway commission to co-operate with the United States bureau of public roads in the application of provisions of the federal highway law, with special reference to relations between the members of said Indiana state highway commission and the official engineers of the United States bureau of public roads. Strey Is Made Chairman “Upon the conclusion of such investigation. the committee shall submit a report to the senate embodying the results of its investigation. the conclusion drawn and such recommendations as it may desire to make.” Members of the committee are Chairman Strey (Rep., Kosciusko and Wabash), Senators C. Oliver Holmes (Rep., Lake), Glenn R. Slenker (Rep., Carroll, Clinton and White). William P.Dennigan (Dem., Daviess and Knox) and Anderson Ketchum (Dem., Bartholomew, Decatur, Franklin and Union). The matter to be investigated regarding the United States bureau of roads is an alleged attempt of Commissioner Jess Murden (Rep., Peru), to seek Washington political pressure on highway engineers to have rertain standards relaxed so the Indiana department could carry on as it pleased and still collect the federal funds. Long Fight Is Climaxed Strey. who is aided in his probe by figures compiled by John D. Williams, former state highway director, expects to disclose that while $5,639,688.22 in federal aid was available during the last fiscal year, only $2,072,530.60 was collected, despite the fact that there were more state funds available for matching federal aid funds than at any time in the history of the state highway department. Departmental expenditures for the year exceeded $22,000,000. making it the most costly season since the department was organized. Strey long ago directed fire on the loose manner in which department money was handled and accounts kept, but only Wednesday Director John J. Brown and department officials appeared before the state budget committee and asked that all restrictions be removed. May Urge Full-Time Group By this was meant that the money should no longer be budgeted for maintenance, construction and administration, but turned over in a lump sum for the commissioners to spend as they see fit with the gesture of supervision of the budget committee, which meets four times a year. Some idea of possible recommendations which will be made by the senate investigators was contained in the fact that Strey is ready to join with several other senators In introducing a bill c?iling for a fulltime commission of four members and completely abolishing the present set-up. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 20 10 a. m 31 7 a. m 21 11 a. m 34 8 a. m 22 12 (noon).. 38 9a- m 25 Ip. m 41

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Lioness Cub Mascot on Plane Tour of Capitals

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r REACHING a lioness cub to become air-minded isn’t a difficult task if you’ll believe the Hutchinson flying family, which stopped here Wednesday, met the Governor, Harry G. Leslie, lunched at the Spink-Arms and dashed away in their plane to Springfield, 111. Captain George R. Hutchinson of the staff of the Governor of Virginia, who is visiting each state capital of the United States obtaining signatures of Governors to a prosperity scroll, is pictured above with Mrs. Hutchinson, and their daughters, Janet Lee, 5 (right), and Kathryn, 8 (left). The captain is holding the three-montlis-old lioness, the playfellow of the girls. The beast is tame enough, but frequently playful. The conversation with a Times re-

CAS TAX-JOBS BILL IS PASSED Senate, Weary of Debate, Takes Action Quickly. Having debated the so-called senate unemployment relief bill each day for more than a week, senators grew weary of their ow’n talk today and passed the measure without explanation or argument by a vote of 41 to 5. The bill merely provides for' month earlier distribution of the some $3,600,000 cities, counties and towns share of the state gasoline tax. If the bill passes the house the money will be made available in the office of the state auditor on Feb. 1, instead of March 1. as normally. Earlier distribution is on the contention that the money can be spent for local road and street work which will provide jobs for the jobless. Under the plan of distribution Indianapolis will receive around $200,000, It was estimated and Marion county between $40,000 and $50,000. SHOOTS SISTER, SELF ** '' War Veteran Flees After Drinking Poison. By Times Special YORKTOWN. Ind., Jan. 22.—Apparently mentally unbalanced, George Warfel, 30, World war veteran, today shot and probably fatally wounded his sister, Mrs. Clytis Warfel Marts, 18, at a farm house southwest of Yorktown. Warfel then shot himself in the side, drank a small quantity of poison and drove aw’ay in an automobile. He had not been found by sheriff’s deputies this afternoon. FEAR BLASTS Textile Strike Area Wins Promise of Aid From Red Cross. By United Press DANVILLE. Va., Jan. 22.—Threat of further dynamitings in the textile strike area here, and promise of Red Cross relief to needy families claimed attention today In the protracted labor dispute in the Dan river and Riverside cotton mills.

A ‘SOCK' AND A SOB AND $25 VANISHES

SQUATTING cross-legged in a desert tent, a chap named Omar long ago philosophized that when the moving finger has signed on the dotted line, there’s no breaking the contract. But Omar spoke rather hastily. Before he met up with George Pilcher, who manages a garage at 307 East Michigan street. George knows* that tears that leave the eyes of repentant men will wash out a lot of things. They washed him out of twenty-five bucks this morning, and in this age of farm relief, relief for starving Armenians and the Wickersham commission, twenty-five bucks is twenty-five bucks. A visitor surprised George in the small hours that preceded dawn. He came bearing gifts, and a lusty right arm. Very inhospitably the visitor conked George on the head with a hammer, or perhaps it was a mallet. In the gloom of the garage, George couldn’t distinguish.

Having socked him, the visitor demanded a fee for it. The price, he said, was twenty-five bucks, with which he departed. George, still under the influence of the sock on the head, reclined on the floor to think it over, and while he contemplated the recent happening, the visitor returned. His eyes were dripping tears. The lines of his face that had delineated hard-boiled thugism were softened with repentance. His heart had burst with sorrow. He carried 525 in aq outstretched hand. \ “I’fi sorry I hit you,” he mor.ieti to weeping generously.

porter was interrupted with a startled “Ow!” as the oversize kitten sneaked up behind him and nipped his leg. “Oh, he’s devoted to the kiddies, especially to Janet Lee,” Captain Hutchinson declared, and his daughters’ antics with their pet supported his statement. The scroll he is bearing was signed first by President Hoover, and welcomes 1931 as a year of prosperity, an epoch of/“comeback” from the depression of 1930, “We’re the first entire family that ever will have met every Governor in his executive offices,” Captain Hutchinson said. His trip here from Lansing was marked with a forced landing at Ft. Wayne Tuesday night in a blinding snowstorm. Thus far on the tour he has obtained autographs of thirteen Governors, besides that of the President.

SPEED KING IN U. S. FOR TEST Brings New Car for Record Try at Daytona Beach. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—Captain Malcolm Campbell, the only living man who' has traveled faster than 200 miles an hour in an automobile, arrived on the liner Homeric today with his racing car “New Bluebird” for a try at the speed record at Daytona Beach, Fla. He said he was confident the financial difficulties at Daytona Beach would be straightened out, and added that he planned to leave Friday for Florida. Six mechanics arrived with him. The “New Bluebird” has been refitted with a Napier-Schneider trophy aero engine that can develop 1,450 horse power. Campbell also brought an Austin car in which he hopes to make 100 miles an hour. Laboratory tests have shown, he said, that the “New Bluebird” is capable of 250 miles an hour. It has twelve cylinders, arranged in blocks of four, and behind the engine is a fireproof bulkhead. Campbell revealed he w r as a fatalist. He did not allow the word death to creep into his conversation, constantly referring to it as “it.” VOTE IMMIGRATION CUT House Group Approves 90 Per Cent Reduction for 2 Years. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—A 90 per cent reduction in immigration, to begin next July 1, and to extend two years, was approved today by the house immigration committee. 5 KILLED BY ‘LIQUOR’ Drinking of Anti-Freeze Solution Death Cause, Coroner Finds, By United Press ASHLAND, Ky„ Jan. 22.—Five men were dead here today after drinking what Coroner C. R. Hunter described as an anti-freeze solution. Pavlowa Dangerously 111 By United Press THE HAGUE, Jan. 22.—Mme. Anna Pavlowa, the famous dancer, was in a critical condition today a a result of an attack of pleurisy.

‘‘Aw, that's all right,” George said, his own eyes none too strongly fortified against the libations of sorrow. ‘‘Here’s your money. Take it back,” offered the visitor. ‘‘Naw, if you need it, keep it," George argued. And the visitor did. He went . away, his sobs echoing vaguely back to George as the door closed. Later, George signed up for a little repentance himself. He told police of his plight, mentioning prominently the twenty-five bucks. But the visitor wgfi gone, like a bad dream. He did not come back again.

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HINT HOOVER MIGHT FAVOR DRY REVISION Still Open-Minded on Whole Subject, Some of Friends Say. PRESIDENT IS 'MUM’ Opposes Only Specific Changes Suggested by Group, Fess Says. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—A second quandary in connection with the Wickersham report arose today when President Hoover was represented in some quarters as not necessarily being opposed to revision of the eighteenth amendment, but only to the specific changes conditionally suggested by the commission. Mr. Hoover’s letter transmitting the report to congress generally was interpreted, at the time as a definite stand against any tampering with the amendment. Today, however, a number of his friends insisted that the President still is open-minded on the whole prohibition situation. Conflict in Report The first mystery developed when it was found individual members of the commission, in their separate statements attached to the report, had expressed disagreement with recommendations which on inspection of the report, seemed to be nonexistent. These sections, presumably, had to do with recommendation for revision of the eighteenth amendment. The United Press was informed by a source close to the President that such recommendations had been removed from the report at the President's insistence, and although denials have been made by Chairman Wickersham of the commission, no other explanation of the conflicts has been forthcoming. Thought Against Change When the President transmitted the report to congress his language was immediately interpreted as placing him on record revision of the amendment. The President in his message said: “The commission, by a large majority, does not favor the repeal of the eighteenth amendment as a method of cure for the inherent abuses of the liquor traffic. I am in accord with this view. “I am in unity with the spirit of the report in seeking constructive steps to advance the national ideal of eradication of the social and economic and political evils of this traffic, to preserve the gains which have been made and to eliminate the abuses which exist, at the same time facing with an open mind the difficulties which have arisen under this experiment. Fess Expresses View “I do, however, see serious objections to and, therefore, must not be understood as recommending the commmission’s proposed revision of commission’s amendment which is by them for possible consideration at some future time if the continued effort at enforcement should not prove successful. “My own duty and that of all executive officials is clear—to enforce the law with all the means at our disposal, without equivocation or reservation.” Senator Fess, chairman of the Republican national committee, in a published interview' today, which followed closely the lines of an editorial in at least one pro-adminis-tration newspaper this morning, said: President Is Silent “The President only is opposed to the form of revision recommended in the Wickersham report. He does not wish a revision that would throw the whole wet and dry question into congress to harry congressmen for perhaps another 100 years.” No amplification as to the President’s exact position, however, was forthcoming at the White House today when newspaper men sought an expression.

ADD $2,066 TO FUND Donors Raise Drought Aid Total to $6,375. Drought relief fund of the Indianapolis chapter of the American Red Cross mounted to $6,375.85 today, with receipt of $2,066 since Wednesday, according to William Fortune, chairman of the chapter. An appeal will go on the air from Station WKBF at 9:30 Friday night, with Meredith Nicholson, author, acting as master of ceremonies at a program on which will be prominent musicians and entertainers of the city. The program is sponsored by Indianapolis newspapers. Largest gift reported by Fortune today was SI,OOO from L. S. Ayres & Cos. ASKS OIL IMPORTS CUT Senator Capper Submits Measure to Protect U. S. Producers. By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 22.—Senator Arthur Capper (Rep.. Kan.), introduced in the senate today a bill to limit importation of crude oil in 1931, 1932 and 1933 go 16.000,000 barrels annually.

Anesthetic Explodes in Lungs and Kills Patient By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 22.—One of the strangest accidents in the history of surgery—the explosion of an anesthetic in the lungs of a patient—caused the death of Mrs. Maude Branton, 45, as she was undergoing a major abdominal operation. Coroner Frank Nance started an investigation today into the use of anesthetics in hospitals of the county, in an effort to determine the cause of the accident and to prevent recurrence. Mrs. Branton was ’dialing a mixture of ether, oxygen and nitrousoxide, when a spark, apparently caused by atmospheric sta ic, ignited the saturated cone. Her lungs were ruptured by the explosion. Dr. G. T. Stout, an expert on anesthetic, was administering the mixture, while Dr. Charles A. Warmer was performing the operation. Neither Dr. Stout, Dr. Warmer, nor Dr. B. A. Wilks, hospital superintendent, could account for the explosion, except to attribute the spark to atmospheric static.

COLLECT $34,000 OIL FEE SHORTAGE, IS ORDER BY HOUSE

Head of Division Also Is Instructed to Dismiss J. Everett Jarrett. Attorney-General James M. Ogden was instructed by the Indiana house today to collect $34,000 alleged shortages from oil department inspectors: and the head of the division was ordered to “dismiss forthwith J. Everett Jarrett, an inspector” in a resolution adopted after the most bitter partisan battle of the session. Echoes of the attempt to make an investigation of the Jackson administration in the 1927 session were heard as Democratic floor leader Delph L. McKesson (Marshall) commented on the change of attitude by the minority floor leader. Representative James M. Knapp (Rep., Wayne). The debate was enlivened by a mishap which befell Republican

DAISY AWAITS JURY VERDICT 'Of Course Pm Not Nervous,’ Says Clara’s Ex-Aid. By United Press LOS ANGELES. Jan. 22.—Daisy De Voe waited calmly in court today while a jury of seven men and five women resumed deliberations upon her guilt or innocence on charges that she committed grand theft from Clara Bow, her former employer. “People ask me if I am nervous,” Miss De Voe, one time secretary and confidante of the screen star, said, “and the answer is, ‘Of course not.’ ” “The jury either will find me guilty or innocent. That’s all there is to that. “I believe, of course, that the jury will decide for me.” The jury of seven men and five women returned to the hall of justice shortly after 9 a. m. after a night spent under lock and key and immediately started considering the thirty-five counts of grand theft against Miss De Voe. There was no indication from the jury chambers as to when a verdict could be expected. The case went to the jury late Wednesday. G, R. ASHLEY leAD Indianapolis Broker Dies After Long Illness. Glenn R. Ashley, 34, merchandise broker, died today in his home, 1911 East Thirty-eighth street, after illness of three years. Mr. Ashley was a lifelong resident of the city, served in the navy during the World war, and was prominent in American Legion activities. Following the war he was associated with the A. V. Biney & Cos., as broker. Survivors are: The widow, Mrs. Dorothy Ashley; two brothers, Ralph and Roscoe Ashley, Indianapolis, and two sisters, Mrs. A. V. Biney, Indinapolis, and Mrs. Frank Derrickson, Flint, Mich.

Pneumonia Ends Spectacular Film Career of Alma Rubens

By United Press Hollywood, Jan. 22. —The checkered career of Alma Rubens, 33, noted film star, came to a peaceful and ' sudden end Wednesday night, when she died of pneumonia. Miss Rubens, once acclaimed the most beautiful actress on the screen,

was stricken four days ago in her Hollywood apartment. She was removed to the home of Dr. Charles F. Pfleuger, a close friend. There she lapsed into unconsciousness, and after fortyeight hours of peaceful sleep,

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died at 7:25 p. m. Her estranged husband, Ricardo Cortez, did not arrive before her death, but her mother, Mrs. Theresa Rubens; a sister, Mrs. Hazel Large, and her husband’s brother, Stanley Cortez, were with her. Miss Rubens gained much unfortunate publicity when ir. was learned she had become a drug addict. A long battle which she waged

caucus chairman Miles J. Furnas (Randolph), who, during a moment of oratory in which he was shouting at the top of his voice, shot his upper plate of false teeth into the air. Introduced by Galloway Furnas neatly caught the plate before it hit the floor, replaced it and continued his speech amid applause. The oil inspection probe resolution introduced by Representative Fred S. Galloway (Dem., Marion), Monday had been set as a special order of business for today. But before the session the special majority committee on investigations, headed by Caucus Chairman Earl Crawford (Dem., Union and Wayne), met with Galloway and instructed him to withdraw that resolution and introduce another. . Hot Debate Waged Debate started when Galloway asked unanimous consent to withdraw his resolution. Knapp speaking for his twentyfour colleagues declared the minority does not want to stand in the way of the investigation of any state board or commission, which if guilty should be brought to justice and punished. We will not refuse unanimous consent to withdraw the resolution because if the Democratic majority has picked up a hot iron and wants to lay it down, we won’t stop it. McKesson retorted with the reference to the 1927 session when he held the floor two hours and begged the then Republican majority, of which Knapp was a member, to pass a resolution investigating the Jackson regime. “But I begged in vain,” he said. “You did not want an investigation then. Now you have changed your attitude and I desire to compliment you.” The resolution was withdrawn and Galloway introduced another calling upon Ogden to collect the shortage money and for the food and drug commissioner to dismiss Jarrett. Resolution Is Adopted Furnas jumped to his feet and declared: “We are heartily in favor of the attorney-general collecting all money owed to the state and we move to amend the resolution so that the attorney-general shall go into the records of all departments, boards and commissions.” It was then that his teeth popped into the air. He continued with a plea that the house shall “hot sink to the low level of the United States senate and become a probe body. There was a short recess while the amendment was being written and, lead by McKesson, the amendment was tabled on a strict party voice vote division. The resolution was adopted in the same manner. BOAT~SETS FAST PACE Kaye Don Speeds 100 Miles an Hour With Throttle Half Open. By United Press LOUGHNEAGH, Ireland, Jan. 22. —Kaye Don, British speed driver, preparing for an attack at Buenos Aires on the world’s motor boa;, speed record, put Miss England over a trial course here today at a record-breaking pace, 100 miles an hour. The throttle never was more .than half open.

against narcotics aroused admiration for her fighting qualities and gained many friends for her. Narcotics first were administered to her during an illness by a New York physician, Miss Rubens told friends. A few months later, further opiates became necessary and it was not long before she w r as taking them for every real or imaginary ill, she said. Her addiction became known when she attacked a physician who was taking her to a sanitarium for treatment. Later she entered the state hospital at Spadra of her own accord. After a spectacular escape, she returned voluntarily to be transferred to the state hospital at Patton. A year ago she announced she had conquered her habit. Aided by friends, she began a fight to regain her popularity and appeared in a short play at the Writers’ Club. Then, with her husband, she appeared on the stage in New York. A few months ago she returned to Hollywood, where she lived quietly until she was arrested in San Diego this month on a charge of possessing narcotics. V Physicians bore out her state.v .

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SIX MASKED BANDITS OBTAIN $2,500 AND SHOOT PASSENGER IN HOLDUP OF TRAIN IN OHIO Enter Big Four Sleeping Car, Awaken Eight and Take Money and Jewelry; Escape From Coach Near Beliefontaine. OUTCRY OF FEAR BRINGS BULLET Victim in Critical Condition; Outlaws Work Coolly and Swiftly; Porter Escapes Notice By Hiding in Linen Closet. By United Press BELLEFONTAINE, 0., Jan. 22.—Six bandits held up a Detroit-Cincinnati Big Four train at Grants, near here, early today, shot one passenger and robbed seven others of $2,500 in cash and jewelry and then escaped as the train entered Bellefontaine. Edwin K. Nelson Jr. of Tampa, Fla., was shot through the lung when he made an outcry as the bandits sought to

‘Boy’ Is Mama ST. LOUIS, Jan. 22.—Thir-teen-year-old Roberc Gray tumid out today to be Mrs. Lavita Gray, 30, former circus midget, 41 inches tall and mother of two children. “Robert” walked into police headquarters Wednesday night, explained he was walking to Tulsa, Okla., and was given 20 cents and a place to sleep by a friendly patrolman. A policewoman’s suspicions were aroused and under questioning, “Robert” said: “My name is Lavita Gray. I have two children in school in South Bend, Ind., and I am trying to get to Tulsa to see about an estate my mother left me.” She said she had masqueraded as a boy because it was “easier to travel” that way.

ASSAIL REPORT ON PROHIBITION Wickersham Commission Is Attacked in Congress. (Details of debate on Meyer nomination. Pape 1, Second Section) By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Debate in which both wets and drys sought to draw consolation from the Wickersham report broke out in the house today as a forerunner to an organized effort by wets to restrict enforcement funds carried in the justice department appropriation bill. Representative Thomas R. Blanton (Dem., Tex.) precipitated the argument when he assailed the commission in general and described President Hoover’s procedure in appointing it as “ridiculous.” Referring to the $500,000 appropriation that the commission used as extravagant and wasteful, Blanton said, “we all knew what the report would be.” Nomination of Eugene Meyer Jr. to be governor of the federal reserve board was recommitted today to the senate banking and currency committee for further consideration after Senator Smith W. Brookhart (Rep. la.) complained on the floor of the senate he had been refused an opportunity to question Meyer prior to the favorable committee report. PUBLISHER IS DEAD Walter S. Dickey of Kansas City Dies Unexpectedly. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Jan. 22.—Walter S. Dickey, president of the Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company and principal stockholder in the Kansas City Journal-Post died unexpectedly at his home here at noon today.

ments that she was not taking drugs. She claimed she was a victim of a ‘‘frameup,” but was held to the federal grand jury. Miss Rubens gained her first stage experience in San Francisco in 1917 when she substituted for a chorus girl. With the same company was Franklin Farnum. When the troupe reached Los Angeles, Farnum was given a motion picture role, and persuaded Miss Rubens to accompany him into the new profession. The couple had been married, but this was not learned until Miss Rubens secured a divorce from Farnum in 1918. She was given a supporting role with Douglas Fairbanks in “The Half Breed,” and made an immediate success. She followed this with an appearance in “Humoresque.” Her last appearances on the screen were in “Show Boat” and “She Goes to War.” Miss Rubens was born in San Francisco and educated in the Sacred Heart convent. Following her divorce from Farnum. she was married in 1923 to Dr. Daniel Carson Goodman, motion picture producer. They parted early in 1925 and she war married to Cortez in February, 106. They separated last September;

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search him. All the victims were occupants of a sleeping car, which was entered when the passengers were asleep. They were aroused, forced to accompany the outlaws to the dressing room and were robbed. The names of the victims as furnished by local railroad officials were E. W. Warner, Cincinnati. S2O loss; Mr. and Mrs. A. McPherson, Cedar Springs, Ontario, S9O: Mrs. L. G.. Dearing, Chattanooga, Tenn., damond ring valued at $200; Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Young, 35 Lyle, Toronto, Ontario, no loss, and Mrs. E. J. Zacharias, Atlanta, Ga., diamond scudded watch valued at SSOO. Bandits Wear Red Masks The train was held up as it lay on a siding at Grants, awaiting another train to pass. TV earing red masks, the outlaws entered from a day coach ahead and began rousing the passengers from their berths. Prodded by guns, they were forced to march down the aisles to the smoking room where others had preceded them and there placed under guard of four of the bandits. Nelson made an outcry when he has awakened. Warned to remain silent, he again shouted for help and the bandit fired. F. E. Morrison, brakeman of Bellefontaine, had alighted from the train as it came to a stop and re-entered to find the bandits in the act of arousing the passengers. Work Coolly and Swiftly “Thai was the first indication I had anything was wrong,” Morrison said. “I stepped into the aisle and a bandit poked a revolver in my back and ordered me into the dressing room, where other passengers already had been assembled while others were being forced from their compartments.” Working coolly and swiftly, two of the bandits made a methodical search of the compartments. Bags were thrust open, and contents scattered about the car as the highwaymen seized articles of value. Returning to the smoking room where the passengers were cowed, the bandits began to search them. Women were stripped of their jewelry while the men were forced to hand over their watches or whatever else of value they held. Porter Hides In Linen Closet After all the passengers had been robbed, they were compelled to remain silent while the train contined on toward Bellefontaine. As it pulled into the yards, the outlaws withdrew with a final warning to their victims to remain silent, threw open the vestibule door and jumped out. Police believe, the spot where they alighted had been marked and that they were awaited there by accomplices with cars in which they escaped. One member of the crew’ assigned to the car escaped search. He was the Negro porter w’ho took advantage of the bandits’ work in arousing the passengers to slip away from the smoking room and hide in a linen closet. There he remained until the train had pulled Into Bellefontaine and officers notified. Wounded Man Hurt Seriously Nelson's condition was regarded as serious. The bullet penetrated his left lung and he was in a semiconscious condition, unable to furnish an account oft Vie holdup. An extensive search immediately was instituted after the alarm had been sounded and authorities in a wide area were ordered to watch roads leading out of Bellefontaine. The outlaws were believed to have boarded the train at Toledo.

POLICE ARREST DRIVER AFTER 3-MILE CHASE Shotguns Used to Capture Negro; Eight Charges Filed., After a three-mile chase over northside streets today, police arrested Carl Austin, 20, Negro, of 1227 North Capitol avenue, on eight charges. Sergeant Leo Troutman and squad covered Austin with shotguns to arrest him. The charges filed against him were: Failing to stop at a preferential street, speeding, reckles* driving, throwing glas6 on the street, blind tiger, transporting liquor, resisting arrest and improper license plates. Troutman said Austin hurled a bottle of liquor from the car during the chase. The license pla , were issued for another car. '