Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 257, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1931 — Page 15

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AGE PENSION ADVANCE ONL v NOTABLE GAIN Otherwise Record of Assembly Shows Lack of Important Work. TAX BILLS STILL WAIT Democratic Income Levy Pledge Faces Possibility of Not Being Enacted. BY BEN STERN Although the curtain will not be rung down until Monday midnight on the seventy-seventh renewal of the great Hoosier biennial oratorical rodeo, sometimes seriously referred to as the seventy-seventh general assembly, the fact remains that with but one exception the record remains a blank as far as passage of important remedial - legislation is concerned. This one exception is the Nejdl-. Chamber old age pension bill which was passed by the house Tuesday and was vetoed today by Governor Harry G. Leslie. The senate concurred in the veto. If the senate and the house are really serious in their desire to pass measures of grave moment to the people, they can do so by suspending the rules in the remaining days, but. this is exceedingly doubtful.

Tax Measures Menaced | The Democratic platform pledges of personal and corporate income tax measures are in grave danger. The senate Feb. 23 passed the personal tax bill after lowering exemptions and maximum rates, but as yet no conference committee has been appointed by Speaker Walter Myers. The corporate income tax bill appears to be doomed to death. The senate cut the rate on net incomes of corporations from 3 to 1% per cent on first reading; and then raised the rate to 3 per cent on second reading, thus paving the way for its defeat when it is handed down for final passage today. House Democrats will not permit the personal income tax to pass if the corporate tax measure is killed. For this would mean placing an even greater burden on the mass of working men and farmers, it was pointed out. The companion intangible tax bills, which would have permitted taxation on 25 per cent of the face value of bonds, stocks and money credits are dead. One was killed in the house and the other is dying in •■he senate finance committee. Bush Victorious Defeat of these two measures is a victory for Lieutenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush. He even managed to have the joint tax conference committee strike them from its list of preferred measures. Senate Republicans were incensed when the house killed the bill turning auto license fees over-to the 6tate general fund. Lingering death seems to be in store for the primary repeal bill introduced by Senator Joe Rand Beckett (Rep., Marion) and thirteen others, which is sponsored by the Republican state committee. Although failing of passage <v ce it was called down again and \ *sed. It now reposes oh the desk the chairman of the house judiciary B committee. The theory, often quoted and more often proved, that the members of the general assembly stand in fear of their own creations—state commissions and boards—was exemplified this week when the senate defeated the Strey-Ketchum bill providing for abolition of the oresent highway commission and creation of a full-time four-man commission with senate approval of the appointments. Calling down of this bill was preceded by a minority report of the senate highway probe committee, signed by the authors of the bill taking to task the commission and Director John J. Brown for failing to obtain federal aid for highways. Lobby Power Demonstrated Democrats lined up with Republicans to defeat the measure which was opposed by a powerful lobby of 'black top material" men and others who sell supplies to the commission. Substituting tire Republican senate congressional reapportionment, plan for the one passed by the house, the senate will vote on its passage today, following which it will be cent to a conference committee of both houses, from which there is some possibility it may never emerge. Sharp cleavage in the Democratic house ranks has resulted from the ■uniform fees and salaries bill, which has suffered legislative anemia in its most pernicious form. This bill, which was introduced Feb. 13 and reported four days later, lay on the Speaker's desk from that date until Thursday when it was brought down for second reading and amendment. It was then that Earl Crawford (Union and Wayne), Demo cratic caucus chairman, through others, attempted to strike out all of the bill but the enacting clause, and insert anew bill giving county councils power to fix county officials’ salaries. Rising in wrath, floor leader Delph L. McKesson (Marshall) rebuked Crawford for attempting to obtain passage of his amendment “because it has been turned down by two Democratic caususes.” Through virtue of the gavel of Speaker Myers,, a division was stopped end the amendment lost] on a voice vote. Democrats opposed to the fees and salaries bill swung in with the Republicans for the amendment Back of McKesson’s ire lies what he, by inference, already has expressed, that the late introduction of the bill and its constant delay is prompted by the state committee heads who feel they should make * gesture towards carrying out campaign pledges, .but at heart are not in favor of these same promises.

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COMMITTEE IS LASHED AGAIN Judiciary B of House Is Assailed by McClain, Judiciary B committee of the Indiana house of representatives was under fire again today for dilatory tactics on bills referred to it when Representative Wililam McClain (Dem., Posey, Vanderburgh and Warrick) demanded an immediate report on a senate measure. McClain’s motion would have brought out of the committee without recommendation the SlenkerKehoe bill which established a bipartisan probatino commission of four members to be appointed by the Governor to serve without pay, and appoint a state probation officer. The measure is sponsored by the state crime commisison and the American legion. Representative Chester K. Watson .(Dem., Allen), judiciary B chairman, explained the measure has been referred to Representative Gerritt M. Bates (Dem., Marion) as a subcommittee of one and that “Bates haS misplaced the bill ‘or something..’ ” On Watson’s promise to obtain Immediate action on the. bill, the house voted down McClain’s motion.

REMAPPING OF STATE IN OOUBT Deadlock Probable Over Basis for Election, Although Speaker Walter Myers already has selected the two Democrats and a Republican who will constitute the conference committee of the house of representatives on congressional reapportionment, strong possibility of a deadlock which may result in no redistricting appeared today. , Lieutenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush will not name the senate conference committee until that body passes, what is by courtesy, known as the Core house plan of Democratic origin. All the resemblance the senate bill bears to the house plan is the name and the enacting clause. On senate committee report all but that clause was stricken out and the Adams Republican reapportionment plan inserted. Democrats appointed to the house conference committee are Clarence O. Schlegel (Clay) and Rollin S. Place (Miami). Republican minority members at a caucus selected Roy Street (Tippecanoe and Warren). SALARY~ BILL AMENDED Senate Would Leave Prosecutor’s ' ' ■ _ Pay at $7,500. Amended so that the Marlon county prosecutor’s salary remains at $7,500 instead of being boosted to SIO,OOO, and with cuts or increases in most other counties of the state, the house prosecutor’s salary bill was ready for passage in the senate today. The bill was amended on second reading in the senate Thursday. 800 Injured in Football Riot BOMBAY, March 6.—Rioting at a football game between Hindus and Mohammedans at Bangalore, capital of Mysore, caused the injury today of 800 persons, an official announcement said.

DOWN WITH ‘FURRIN’ SCIENCE IS BROWN COUNTY’S VERDICT

BY ARCH STEINEL Times Staff Correspondent Nashville, ind., March Heels propped against wood stoves, Brown county today gave “furrin” science a swift kick. Between spits at stove vents, and nodding heads of approval, Joshua Bond, coroner-v grocer-hotelkeeper-undertaker, denounced opinion of Indianapolis physicians that two bodies found in the Lee Brown home were those of males. “I don’t care what science says. I don’t care about what those fellows in Indianapolis think. We’ve got as good doctors here as they have up there. As far as Bran county is concerned, we

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BUILDING GAIN INDICATED BY STONEORDERS Increased Operations in Gary Steel Mills Another Encouraging Note. RECORD AUTO OUTPUT Auburn February Business Largest in History of Company. * BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. The Times Encouraging factors disclosed in a business and industrial survey of Indiana Tor the week ended today include indications of a revival in building, afforded by orders for stone, and increased activities in steel production. The Mutual Oolitic Stone Company, Bloomington, has received orders for stone to be used in construction of postoffices at Morgantown, .W. Va., and Dillon, S. C.; a hospital at Baltimore, Md., and a church in New Jersey. Orders received by the Walker Brothers Company includes eighty | car loads for erection of a postoffice at Oklahoma City, and for ten car loads to be used in building a coast guard building at New London, Conn. Stone Will Cost SIOO,OOO Operations are being carried on night and day in erection of a SIOO,000 mill for the Alexander Ring Stone Company. A substantial building gain is noted at Ft. Wayne. During February permits issued were for structures to cost $337,000, while in January the total was only $66,000.With two more hearths placed in operation the Gary Works of the Illinois Steel Company is at 50 per cent of normal activity, twenty-five of its forty-nine hearths being in operation. Shipping from plants of the Auburn Automobile Company at Auburn and Connersville broke all records diming February, when 4,052 cars were sent out. During the same months last year the total was 1,768, and for February, 1929, it was 2,239. The best previous month, in the company’s history was June, 1929, with shipments of 3,185 cars. Anderson Plants Busy Nealy 8,000 persons are working full time .at Anderson in plants of the American Steel and Fire Company, and the Delco-Remy and Guide Lamp Corporations. Operations in the tinplate in-< dustry at Ehvood have been increased from 52 to 75 per cent of normal. . The -plant of the Hoosier Condensed Milk Company at Bluffton has received orders for 190 carloads of condensed milk and cream, assuring steady operations for many weeks. About sixty-five more girls will be added to the force of the Reliance Manufacturing Company at Washington, due to installation of more machinery. An order for twenty-one car loads of brick is being filled by the Burns & Hancock piant at Montezuma. x Receipt of an order for 37,500 yards of army overcoat cloth will bring resumption of activities of the Columbia Woollen mill at Columbia City after several weeks idleness. ATTACK ON GIRL, 16, CHARGED, THREE HELD Two Men, Woman Are Accused of Statutory Offenses. By United Press LOS ANGELES, March 6.—Two men and a woman were held under $5,000 bond each today after they had been charged with two counts of statutory offense by the district attorney’s office. John P. Mills, San Diego and Los Angeles real estate man; William Jobelmann, former theater publicity agent, and Olive Clark Day, said to be Jobelmann’s wife, were the three held. Clarice Tauber, 16, was said to have Identified Mills as the man w T ho attacked her in a hotel room after, she had been taken there by Jobelmann and Mrs. Day., Five other girls, who were said to have been victims under similar circumstnaces, were in technical custody, the district attorney's office said. CITY PAY BILL REPORTED Senate Receives Favorable Opinion on Increase Measure. A house bill giving Mayors George Dale of Muncie and Jesse H. Mellett j of Andersen and other city officials i substantial salary increases was re- , ceived in the senate Thursday on : favorable committee report Dale’s | salary is now $3,000, but under the r measure would be a minimum of j $5,200 and maximum of $7,500 a I year.

know that those bodies were those of Aunt Lurindy and Uncle Lee. And that’s that,” and the coroner adjusted his spectacles and leaned on his store case. “If you don’t think I know anatomy, ask Professor -. I’ve * gone to school twenty-five years. I've studied the best physiology books and I say I’m right. Aunt Lurindy Brown and Uncle LAe were killed by Paul Brown. Am I right, boys?” Nodding heads voiced the stove corner’s “Amen.” a a a SNOW had driven his audience from their customary lines on the famous.yiiars’ bench” in front

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1931

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Governor (and also senator-elect) Huey P. Long of Louisiana, leading exponent of dunking corn pone instead of crumbling it in pot likker, shows here just how he does it. Pot likker—for the benefit of those unfamiliar with the south—is the broth that is made in the pot when cabbage or other vegetable is boiled.

PRIMARY BILL LIKELY TG OIE Repeal Measure to Speaker; No Recommendation. Without recommendation of the house judiciary B committee the primary repeal bill sponsored by Senator Joe Rand Beckett (Rep., Marion) and thirteen other senators was handed out today to be laid on the Speaker’s table and probably to die as the majority of the Democrats are opposed to such a measure. The bill failed passage once in the senate, but after the Republican state committee applied pressure the bill was called down a second time and passed. It provides for nomination in convention of all candidates for public offices in counties having a population of 50,C00 or more and inakes the same procedure optional with smaller counties. Delegates to the state conventions would be elected at county conventions, but balloting would not be secret.

JOB FEE SLASH VOTEDJNHOUSE Ban on 'Gouge’ Commission Is Approved, “Gouging” commissions extorted by some employment agencies who charge as much as 30 per cent of a client’s first month’s salary, will be prohibited in Indiana in the future if the senate follows the house action in passing the Watson house bill. Under provisions of the measure, employment agencies would: be limited to 15 per cent of the first month’s salary. In defending his measure before the vote Thursday, Representative Chester K. Watson (Dem., Allen) declared there have been instances where high commissions have led to free splitting between the agencies and factory foremen or other minor personnel hgads. Restriction of the commission to 15 per cent, he said, would eliminate the “middle man” and thereby end this practice. He was supported by Representative Fred S. Galloway (Dem., Marion), who charged that most employment agency fees are “outrageous,” and that many agencies are “parasites preying on the workingman.” DISCUSS TRAFFIC LAW Proposed Ordinance to Be Considered at Safety Board Meeting. Traffic regulation changes proposed in anew ordinance were to be considered this afternoon at a meeting *of . the citizens’ traffic committee with the safety board and Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. The ordinance would bar use of fast lanes in two-lane streets except when passing another car going in the same direction, would impose new regulations at automatic stop-and-go signals at safety zones; prohibit parking in important traffic areas, and extend the limited parking area.

of the courthouse, and they were making the best of a bad day discussing Nashville’s mystery. The salutation in Nashville since the disagreement on the sex of one of the bodies found in the ruins at the Brown home, as a body meets a body on the street, is “male or female?” The natives joke at the quip while Vene, the town’s butt of jokes, is forgotten except by newspaper photographers seeking types that hook thumbs nonchalantly in suspenders and rear back and guffaw. Vene says he is Abe Martin. Horseplay is their forte. They will have it with their murders or their marriages. *

RASKOB FIRM ON WET PLAN DESPITE ROW Democrat Chairman Will Press for Adoption of 'Home Rule’ Measure. ASSAILED AT MEETING Criticism Is Showered on Chief; Party Morale Is Shaken. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 6.—Undaunted by opposition of dry leaders, those in control of the Democratic party machinery will press for adoption of the Raskob “home rule plan” for prohibition modification in the platform for next year’s presidential campaign. The assault of dry forces against this course at the Democratic national committee meeting here Thursday was staged with' unrestrained fury. Never within memory has a national chairman been subjected to such sharp and direct criticism as was showered upon John J. Raskob. It was unprecedented that a Democrat prestige of Senator Joseph T. Robinson, senate minority leader and vice-presidential candidate on the Smith ticket in 1928, should lash the party chairman to his face in such bare-fisted fashion. But Raskob and his backers remained confident that the issue must be met and that it should be met in some way similar to that j proposed. Party Morale Shaken Party morale was shaken tempo- ! rarily at least by this outburst of 1 feeling which provoked hissing and cat calls. The voices of dry leaders in and out of the party Were being, heard from today as men like F. Scott Mcßride, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, and Josephus Daniels of Raleigh, N. C., one of the influential spokesmen in the south, assailed the proposal. But predictions of disaster made r.o impression on those in control of the party organization. Apparently, they are convinced the party’s hope next year lies in grasping the prohibition issue with the expectation that it will aid in swinging large pivotal eastern states, and that the dry Democrats of the south will be willing, after they have spoken their minds, to go along with the party. Adopt Financial Plan The national committee adopted the financial plan outlined, under which a fund of $6,000,000 would be raised to finance the party deficit and the coming campaign. : This move was important because for the first time a political party is undertaking to replace the traditional haphazard money-raising methods of politicians with a scientific plan, worked out by professional money raisers, similar to methods used in raising endowment funds. Feeling over the prohibition issue, however, completely overshadowed this action. Raskob’s “home rule” plan is similar to that proposed by former Governor Alfred E. Smith in his acceptance speech in 1928. Raskob would supplement the eighteenth amendment with another permitting each state, within its borders, to manufacture, transport and sell liquor, under any plan it desires, such plan to be first approved by a state-wide referendum. Urges Ratification Conventions The proposed constitutional amendment would be ratified by state conventions called for the purpose. This plan differs from the proposed revision of the eighteenth amendment supported by several members of the Wickersham commission, but rejected by President Hoover. The Wickersham probers’ plan would give congress the right to regulate the liquor traffic in any way it saw fit, whereas Raskob would give congress nothing to do with it, but would leave each state to work out its own control plan or continue under absolute prohibition as desired. The outcome Trill depend upon whether a majority of the next. Democratic convention will support modification. Many Want Modification Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Democratic national executive committee, said recently that states whose delegates will represent a i majority of the next national con- | vention already have declared for 1 some change in existing conditions. In the congressional campaign last year there were Democratic platform declarations for repeal of the eighteenth amendment in twelve states: Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Illinois, Wisconsin and Washington.

f “TY7HAT do you think about it VV now, sheriff?” comes a query from a lounger in a crowd at a gas station, as Sheriff Fremont Weddle halts before them. The sheriff's answer echoed in the news of the chameleon case I with the snip of a knife as the questioner's belt is sliced off. The joke victim tightens in another notch and continues the ; conversation. Reporters are greeted with: “What paper are you from? Now, you want to go to the Brown home? Well, you take that thar road and go until you get to the forks tother side of Old Man So-and-So’s place, and then you turn left and go up a hill past a shack

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Descendants of early California pioneers are included in the cast of the annual Ramona pageant to be staged this year by residents of Hemet, in the heart of the “Ramona country,”- near Los Angeles. At top, Miss Grace Rubidoux, descendant of the family which held much of the area by grant of the Spanish crown; below, Misses Evelyn and Helyn Salee, descendants of Henry Bergman, pioneer stage-coach operator.

CURTIS ON 10-DAY VACATION IN FLORIDA Vice-President to “Take It Easy” and “Lie Around.” Bv Scrtnns-Howard Netospaver Alliance WASHINGTON, March 6.—Following the strenuous experiences cf the last few days, with the senate in session practically flight and day, Vice-President Curtis has st r ad a ten-day vacation in Miami. Curtis will spend his time “taking it easy,” he said. He said he wants a rest and intends to “lie around.” While the Vice-President may do a little fishing, he is no such devotee of the sport as Mr. Hoover and it will be incidental to his Florida holiday. On his return to Washington, Curtis will make plans for an extended visit to his home in Topeka, Kan. He expects to spend much time in his state during the summer and hopes to visit every section. CLAUSE IN DRY LAW ASSAILED Prosecutor’s Fee Branded as Shaming Justice. Arraigned as guilty of “hypocrisy, cowardice, and fanaticism, and of flouting the constitution,’ members of the Indiana house of representatives late Thursday were enjoined to “bow their heads in shame for their rape of justice and for discrediting the state of Indiana.” This scathing indictment came at the close of a four-page resolution introduced by Representative John D. T. Bold (Dem., Vanderburgh), in which he condemned the house failure to pass the Egan bill which would have struck from the Wright bone dry law the provision placing a “bounty” on the prosecution of liquor cases. Adoption was defeated, 70-18, several fnembers of the. house liberal group deserting Bold, who was permitted to have the resolution entered in the house journal as a “personal protest.” It was assailed during the vote by Representative Jacob Weiss (Dem., Marion), a wet, as “supid,” and “should not take up the house’s time.” Several members voted “no” in a disgusted tone, but the wets were equally vehement in expressing their approval. FLAY STUDENT DRINKING Undergraduates Take Up Fight to Combat Liquor Evil. By United Press 9 PITTSBURGH, March 6.—Student drinking in universities and colleges is recognized as a serious problem not only by school officials but by members of the student body, according to reports submitted to the mid-west student conference today. Measures taken to combat the liquor evil at Pennsylvania State college, University of Tennessee and Notre Dame university were discussed.

and about quarter mile past that you run into it. u n n STATE police are eyed askance. Rumor is rife with tidbits of what “Uncle So-and-So” said, and what that Smith boy down there knew about the case. The natives are convinced that the new life breathed into the farm murders was perpetrated purposely to make sensation. They bask in it, but bawl it out. Take Mary, the telephone operator, with her, “Gosh, I’ll be glad when all this is ever with! You’d think all these people had nothing better to do than come down here,” and she returns to her calling otf "Martinsville, oh.

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STATE SPURS NEW PROBE OF BROWN COUNTY DEATH RIDDLE; CORONER SCOFFS | Official Refuses to Believe That Indianapolis Doctors Are Right in Contending Victims Were Men. CRIMINAL BUREAU PROBER IGNORED Hill Region Residents Stick to View That Son Slew Father and Mother and'Then Fired Home, BY ARCH STEINEL Times Staff Correspondent NASHVILLE, Ind., March 6.—Discord loomed today among state and county officials conducting the probe of the revived and more complicated mystery of identity of two charred bodies found, in the fire-swept home of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Brown, near here, Dec. 15. Prosecuting Attorney Howard Robinson and his deputy. John Wright, met with Virgil Quinn, deputy state fire marshal, today without inviting Charles Bolte, state criminal investigation bureau representative, to the conference. They are ignoring Coroner Joshua Bond’s refusal to credit discovery by Dr. Thurman B. Rice, Indiana university school of medicine pathologist, that glands found only in males were in the bodies and that the remains probably are ithose of Lee Brown and his sen Paul, instead of those of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Brown.

AUTO LICENSE BILL IS KILLEO Revenue Measure Delayed Indefinitely in House. Legislation its authors calculate would have increased the state revenue from auto license fees approximately $3,000,000 a year met a speedy death today in the Indiana house. During the second reading of the Walter senate bill, Representative Earl Crawford, Milton banker and Democratic caucus chairman, moved for . indefinite postponement and was supported by an overwhelming voice vote. The measure embraced a graduated scale of license fees for motor vehicles and would Jiave taken the fees away from the state highway commission aid placed them in the state general fund.

INCREASED FUEL SAVING WILL BE DEMONSTRATED Scientists to Address Meetings of Chemical Society. Facts for increasing efficiency of fuel will be laid before the eighty-

first meeting of the American Chemical Society here, March 30 to Adill 3, by Dr. G. St. J. Perrott, superintendent of the Pittsburgh experiment station, United States bureau of mines. T r i umphs of chemists in the field of gaseous and solid fuels, called “the prime moving forces of present day civilization,” will be announced at a national sym-

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pcsium. Research chemists and industrialists from all parts of the country, including government and university scientists, will participate. CONFESS AFTER ARREST Negro Held for Auto Theft, Said to Admit Robbery. Arrest of two Negroes in connection with theft of an auto today resulted in their aleged cdhfession of the recent robbery of Taylor’s pharmacy, 39 East Thirty-fourth street, police said. Robert Bryant, 26, of 905 Edgemont street, held on vagrancy and vehicle taking charges, and John Bennett, 22, Danville, 111., held on vagrancy charges, were captured by police early today in a car they are said to have admitted stealing at Terre Haute. Police said Bryant also admitted he and two other men robbed the. drug store and that since then he had been hiding in Terre Haute. POULTRY MEN CONVENE More Than 400 Attend Convention of Two Associations. The Indiana Egg and Poultry Association and the Illinois Poultry and Egg Shippers’ Association opened their joint convention at the Claypool Thursday. More' than 400 persons attended. The convention will close late today after election of officers.

Martinsville. I’ve got a party calling Indianapolis.” a a a MARY, outside of the highhighway and the mail, with her one trunk long distance line, is Nashville’s only spokesman with the world outside. Nashville convicts Paul Brown, whose body Indianapolis physicians say was one found in the ruins, of the slaying of his father and mother. They convict him readily and without vindictiveness. They convict him as Josh Bond convicts him, as he flits from selling crackers to exhuming bodies, with-“ Aunt Lurindy and Uncle Lee died in that house and Paul killed them.” W

Robinson, Wright and Quinn are in ‘disagreement with Bolte over advisability of further questioning Chester Bunge, farmhand, wounded by Paul Brown shortly before Brown is alleged to have shot his parents and fired the home. Bolte, who is investigating the murder angle, insists Bunge be questioned again, while Quinn, officially interested only in the arson angle, agrees with Robinson and Wright that Bunge’s story rings true and requestioning is not necessary. Bolte in Doubt Bolte, who is not altogether convinced by Bunge’s story, points out that the hills and gulleys of Brown county would provide many places for concealing a body. The conference today resulted in decision to sift ashes of ruins of the home as s<on as snow, \vhtch fell Thursday night, melts, sufficiently, probably not today. Quinn, Robinson and Wright agreed that if a gun of a different caliber from that believed used in the tragedy, or a third body should be found, then Bunge should be questioned again. Residents believe Mr. and Mrs. Brown were slain by their son Paul, who, it was learned, was indicted for the crime by a grand jury last week. Sticks by Verdict After a second investigation of the exhumed remains late Thursday, Coroner Bond declared he would stick by his former verdict that the bodies were those of a male and female and not, as Dr. Rice believes, bodies, possibly, of Lee Brown and his son Paul. “I’ll stick by you doctors and not by those Indianapolis doctors,” he told Dr. M. G. Murphy and W. C. Vandement, physicians who examined the bodies shortly after they were removed from the flaming home. Many residents of Brown county believe the Indianapolis physicians were brought into the case by relatives to aid in settling the estate, since as long as Paul Brown is alive there is another heir to the estate. Sheriff Willing to Act Sheriff Fremont Weddle, while upholding the innocence of Bunge, today said he was willing to “do something" if so instructed by the prosecuting attorney. The prosecutor Thursday said he believed bbth bodies were those of males, probably of Paul Brown and his father, and that the body of Mrs. Brown will be found later or was consumed by the flames. Reconstructing the story, the prosecuf>r believes Paul, after shooting and wounding Bunge, who fled, shot his parents to death, fired the home, and then committed suicide. Relatives of the fire victims were represented at the examination of the bodies by Wilfred Bradshaw, Indianapolis attorney, who was said to be of the opinion that the bodies weer those of males. Brother Is Present Roland Brown, a brother of Paul, stood outside the garage where the inquest was held, listening through the door, but not entering. Roland took an' active part Thursday in search of the farm for a third body, using a fishing pole to probe in a well where it was thought a body might be hidden. Residents here appeared irked by the fact that $13,500 in gold, found buried in the yard at the farm, never had appeared on the tax duplicates. Searchers Thursday found bullet holes in a tree, bam and fence post In front of the Brown home, tending to support Bunge’s story of fleeing from the house in hail of bullets fired by Paul Brown, after he previously had been wounded in the arm and the abdomen while in the house. Bunge Not Quizzed Bunge, working as a truckman, although not completely recovered from his wounds, was not ques 1 - [ tioned Thursday because he was at ! work near Martinsville. Exhumation of the bodies last Friday was obtained by Prosecutor Robinson, he said, to be able to prove identity of the victims and the method of their death in case Paul Brown ever were captured and i brought to trial. He explained the examination at i the scene of the fire had been cursory,