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HURLEY SEES NO CHANCE OF WARFARE SOON War Secretary, Guest of City, Flays Profiteers; Visits Legion, HE IS NOT A CANDIDATE Denies He Seeks Post of Vice-President; 'Neither Militarist, Pacifist.’ Declaring there is “no possibility of a war in the near future,” Patrick J. Hurley, secretary of war, exminer and ex-cowpuncher, said here today that by eliminating opportunities for war profiteering, a certainty of peace can be obtained. ‘‘Every one understands that the United States has no imperialistic designs. Our withdrawal of troops from Nicaragua shows that,” said the war secretary. Here to be the guest of honor at a dinner and military ball tonight at the Columbia Club. Hurley paid a visit to the American Legion's national headquarters at noon. This afternoon a salute of nineteen guns wall honor his visit of inspection at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, where he arrived late Sunday aboard a tri-motored naval plane. At 4 he will review 1,200 high school R- O. T. C. cadets at the World War Memorial plaza. Denies He’s Candidate Tall, of soldierly bearing and pleasantly courteous, the secretary of war put an end today to the many stories being circulated in Washington that he is seeking the G. O. P. nomination for Vice-Presi-dent in the 1932 convention. "I am not a candidate for the post. I was for Charles Curtis in 1924, worked for him in 1925, and will be for him in 1932, if he wants the nomination,” Hurley said. A hand holding a cigaret waved emphasis: “I am not a militarist. Neither am Ia pacifist. I would welcome and work toward the time that the golden rule w T ill be in existence between nations. Believes in Army Nucleus And until that time comes I believe this nation should maintain an efficient, even if small, military establishment, well prepared to form the nucleus of an effective army. ‘ One effective means of putting a step to wars is by doing away with war profiteering. A commission now Is investigating methods to equalize the burden of war, minimize it if possible and eliminate profiteering.” This commission, which Hurley says is to report its findings in December, Is comprised of four members of President Hoover’s cabinet, four senators and four representatives. “We plan to eliminate profiteering by taking away the excess profits through taxation. If there could be no more more profiteering It would be a movement toward peace.” Divided Into Districts The war secretary explained that the nation has been divided into fourteen distributing districts headed by leading industrialists whose patriotism has been tried out in time of peace. “We hope thus to decentralize the purchase of equipment and keep one branch of the military establishment from bidding against the other. It will also do away with chaos in the purchasing of supplies and equipment for the armies. “It is most difficult to equalize the burden of war. Some men must fight, be wounded and die and there can be no compensation except the reward in the feeling of the man and his family that what has been sacrificed has been laid upon the altar of patriotism. “Takes What Comes” “When a man submits himself to the service, he takes whatever comes to him. Some see active service and others have to be clerks, so there can be no equalization there. “However, we can and must eliminate profiteering and so equalize the civic burden of war,” declared Hurley. “But as a people we desire to live on terms and amity with all other nations and hope for a time when the golden rule shall be the gauge of conduct.” He .admitted the government arsenal is experimenting with a new rifle which will fire ten cartridges semi-antomarically, thus providing an effective infantry weapon Worked in Coal MintHurley is one of the most picturesque war secretaries the nation has had. Born in Indian territory, now Oklahoma, in 1883, he worked In a coal mine at the age of 11 and went to night school. He punched cattle at 14, and when the Spanish war broke out, although less than 16, he enlisted in Troop L, Rough Riders. After going with the troop to Ft. Sam Houston he was sent home because of his youth, and a second attempt to enlist failed for the same reason. He was graduated as an A. B. from Indian university, Bacons, Okla, now Bacone college, an institution sponsored by the Baptist churches, and went to Washington where he went to National university law school at night and George Washington university by day, graduating in 1908 from both institutions with an L. L. B. degree. He was admitted to the Oklahoma bar in 1908 and to practice before the supreme court in 1911. Besides being a successful lawyer he is a successful banker and real estate operator.

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‘LAWRENCE OF ARABIA SPEAKS' —NO. 1

Lawrence of Arabia has spoken! Lawrence, who whirled like a mysterious force over the dunes of Arabia, to found an empire on its shifting political sands, has broken a silence of eight years to tell why he waved aside honor and glory, to sink his identity beneath the tunic of a private soldier.

Introducing, ‘Mr. Shaw :

T. E. Lawrence is 42, and comes of a Leicestershire family. He was educated at Oxford high school and at Jesus college, Oxford, where he specialized in the study of history. In 1910, in order to study the architecture of the Crusades, he went on a walking tour through Syria the first cf a long

series of adventurous journeys. Subsequently, he joined an expedition to the Euphrates for archelogical research, and in 1914 became attached to the Survey of North Sinai. Though inclined to scholarship and letters, he showed a singular ability and capacity for inspiring confidence in Arabs. Asa protege of Lord Kitchener, and later of General Allenby, he went into Arabia during the World war and distinguished himself in a series of advetures that has given him a reputation that is almost legendary.

ALLEGE CONSPIRACY IN BUS BILL SUIT Conspiracy as well as fraud marked the passing of House Bill 6, which takes home rule in the matter of truck and bus regulation away from the cities, will be charged in an additional pleading to be filed in Marion circuit court today. George Koons, Muncie, who represents that city in seeking to restrain the bill from becoming law, stated that he will file conspiracy charges following a conference with James Deery, Indianapolis city attorney, this morning. R. L. Ewbank is representing certain Muncie citizens in prosecuting the case and the state defense is being handled by Hugh Mvrrifisld and

Eprl JStroup, deputy attorneys-generi Should the prosecution be successful, Secretary of State Frank Mayr Jr. will be enjoined from publishing House Bill 6 in the Acts of 1931. It .is alleged that' the bill,. as signed by Governor Harry G. Leslie, is not - in the same form as passed by the senate and fraud was practiced to bring about this deceit. Filing of the conspiracy charge will permit witnesses to be heard. These likely will include the Governor, presiding officers and clerks of both the house and senate. The state will enter general denial and the case will be tried, perhaps next Thursday, it was said. VICTORY IS CELEBRATED Flags of Six Nations Flying Over Alamo in Texas Fiestas. By United Press SAN ANTONIO, Tex., April 20. The flags of six nations which have ruled Texas flew today from the historic Alamo as thousands of revelers gathered for the fortieth battle of flowers, Fiesta De San Jacinto and other events marking the anniversary of General Sam Houston’s victory over Santa Ana’s Mexican army at San Jacinto and the establishment of Texas independence. Aged Widow Buried TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 20. —Funeral services were held here Sunday for Mrs. Ernestine Gerstmeyer, 77, widow of Dr. Charles Gerstmeyer, for whom a high school here was named. Last Christmas she gave a check for SI,OOO for use in buying band instruments.

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Unrecognized by Loving Mother

WHILE an April thunderstorm raged outside, an aged mother sat with death at dawn today, darning her son's socks in his bedroom. She did not know that the sleep of the son. Dalton S. O’Brien, 27, of 3149 Kenwood avenue, was the sleep from which he would never awake. He lay In bed with a .32-caliber bullet in his brain, apparently a suicide. Laying away the socks when they were done, Mrs. Daisy O'Brien tiptoed from the room to prepare his breakfast. Then, when she returned to the bedroom to arouse him, she found he was dead. The gun, a pistol, lay near his hand on the counterpane. She called Dr. Karl Koons, a deputy coroner, who summoned police. ‘T remember now, I heard a noise about 2:30 this morning, '* she told Dr. Koons. “I though it was a window shutting, but it must have been the shot.” a a a DALTON came home about 1 a. m., she told the coroner. She said she did not know where he spent the evening. Likewise, she was unable to account for the suicide. The body was sent to Shirley Brothers, undertakers, and later will be returned home. Surviving, his mother, is His lather,

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aligned against the attitude of the allies toward the Arabs, Lawrence left government service in 1922 and, quitting all official rank and decorations and even his surname, enlisted as a mechanic in the Royal air force. In 1923 he transfered, because of unwelcome publicity, to the tank corps, but was reassigned to the air force two years later. He was sent to India for a while and served on the northwestern frontier, then returned to England in 1928, to continue in the self-imposed obscurity as “Aircraftsman Shaw,”

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POST TO EX-JUDGE South Bend Man Reported Boxing Group Choice. By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 20. Galitzen A. Farabaugh, Democratic city judge here from 1910 to 1914 and one time Notre Dame athlete, is to be chosen attorney for the newly created state boxing commission, it was reported here today. Farabaugh is personal attorney for Andrew Weisberg, South Bend hotel man, chairman of the commission. A commission organization meeting is scheduled to be held in Indianapolis Wednesday. At that time rules will be drafted, putting all boxing bouts under commission jurisdiction and setting up standards, it was said. ' Headquarters will be in Indianapolis and it is expected that an Indianapolis man will be made secretary. Predictions from the capital have favored James I. Veach, American Legion fight promoter in Indianapolis. Both the attorney and secretary salaries are set in the new boxing law at $3,000 a year.

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James O’Brien, who has been a semi-invalid many months, and a sister, Mrs. Marguerite Bennett, 6140 Ralston drive. O’Brien had been an assistant foreman at Kingan’s for several years. He was a member of Phi Delta Kappa*fratemity.

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Today, from his own lips, The Times is able to give his answer to a, riddle of eight years—the reason why this man, whose “kingdom” stretched from the Red sea to the Persian gulf, from Aleppo to Mocha, changed his name and became an humble mechanic in his majesty's air force.

In 1919, Lawrence played an important role in the peace conference, but retired from participation over disappointment at the French plans for Syria. He returned to Oxford for a year, but in 1921 Winston Churchill called him to the colonial office as adviser on Arabian affairs. Finally, still

BY HENRY T. RESSELL United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1931, in all countries by United Press) PLYMOUTH, England, April 20.—" Lawrence of Arabia,” the most mysterious figure that emerged from the great war, now serving in the Royal air force as Aircraftsman T. E. Shaw, lifted today the veil of secrecy which has surrounded his life during the past ten years. This man, single-handed, raised the Arabs against the Turks and changed the fate of the allies on the Palestine war front. For his body, dead or alive, the Turks offered $50,000 reward. For the first time he has told why he gave up the position which earned for him the description “Uncrowned King of Arabia,” abandoned his rank of colonel in the British army, refused all titles, moneAMERICAN BATTLESHIPS RUSHED TO HONDURAS! REBEL UPRISING PERILS 1,000 U, S, CITIZENS

Advices Indicate Revolt Is Directed at Privileges Given Foreigners, _ (Oouvrieht. 1931. by United Press) TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, April 20.—A military revolutionary movement, which began in northern Honduras Saturday night, threatened the safety of more than 1,000 Americans in the region today. The government of President Vicente M. Colindres sent loyal troops against the insurgents and repulsed an attack on Tela, a large coastal town. WASHINGTON, April 20.—The chain of United States warships along the Central American coast virtually was doubled in strength today as a revolt flared up in Honduras, endangering American lives. Officials reports of new trouble in central America reached the state department late Sunday. Hurriedly it consulated with the navy. Three cruisers were dispatched to the north Honduran coast. Private advices indicated the revolt was directed against United States interests, alleged to enjoy special privileges inimical to Honduras.

‘Leaving Unhappy Home,’ Says Note Received After Kil!ing= By United P r ess SAN DIEGO, Cal., April 20. Beautiful Louise Teuber, 17, was running away from what she considered an unhappy home when, with all her clothing except brassiere and slippers ripped off, she was mysteriously hanged and strangled to death at midnight, Saturday, on Black Mountain. This was learned today with delivery of a note she had written to her father, a well-to-do barber. The girl had quit her. job in a 5-and-10-cent store Saturday. The note, delivered many hours after her body was found by picnickers suspended from a tree, a double half-hitched looped around the neck and the toes of the slippers barely touching the ground, was posted Saturday night. It read: “Dear Dad: I have tried for a long time to- be satisfied with the way you are running the house and I can stand it no longer. I am leaving home tonight, and I am not coming back.” Second Mysterious Death I The letter, cent special delivery, was stamped at the postoffice at 7 p. m. Saturday and had been mailed in San Diego. Five hours later, it is believed, Louise was hanged to the tree. Sheriff Ed Cooper declared that either the girl had mailed the letter at an out-of-the-war box, or the slayer, finding it after Louise had been killed, figured that its delivery to the father would keep him from becoming alarmed, and possibly result in the body being undiscovered for days. Teuber said he had scolded Louise for going out with a youth, whose name he did not recall. A preliminary autopsy performed by Dr. F. E. Toomey, indicated the girl had not been attacked. All San Diego detectives were placed under the command of Sheriff Cooper in an effort to solve the second mysterious death of a girl here within three months. Two Sailors Are Released Virginia Brooks, 10, was kidnaped early in February and her mutilated body was found on Cainp Kearney mesa on March 11. The crime still is unsolved. Miss Tueber’s almost nude body was found by John Martinez, who had taken his family to Black mountain on a picnic Sunday. The rope ran over a limb of the oak tree and was fastened to the base of another small tree about twenty-five feet away. Two sailors, known acquaintances of the girl, were questioned today but not held. They were arrested on the theory that the double half-hitch, used to strangle the girl, is a common seamen’s knot. '4

Lawrence the unknown, his burnoosclad figure appearing and disappearing like magic, is the man who fanned the flame of Arab revolt, and welded in its fire the engine that swept Turkish rule from the land. Today he tells why, shunning titles and honors, he asks for “nothing but modest

Trader Horn An amazing story of life and death in the African jungle, an enthralling tale woven largely around the white goddess of the dark continent, “the crudest woman in all Africa,” that is Trader Horn. This famous book, which won world-wide acclaim, will start as a serial in the Pink editions of The Times Wednesday.

ROWBOTTOM IS ON HIS WAY TO ‘PEN’

Nervously reading a copy of federal prison rules, Harry E. Rowbottom, former congressman from the First district, today whiled away the hours in the federal marshal’s office awaiting his departure at 2:45 for Leavenworth penitentiary. Rowbottom will serve a year and a day in the Kansas penitentiary on his conviction, Thursday, in Evansville, on charges of “selling”’ postoffice appointments while he was representing the Indiana district in congress. He entered the marshal’s office accompanied by Douglas Gunter and Clem Kevekordes of Evansville, friends of the former congressman, who acccmpapisd him on "the early morning auto trip from Evansville.

CASE GOES TO JURY Only Two Verdicts Possible in Buckley Murder. By United Press DETROIT, April 20. —Specifically instructed to return a verdict of first degree murder or not guilty, a recorder’s court jury today debated the fate of the three men accused of killing Jerry Buckley. The instructions were given by Judge Edward J. Jefferies during his forty minute charge this morning. The defendants, Ted Pizsino, Angelo Levicchi and Joe Bommarito, sat calmly at the defense table with their attorneys. INVITED TO DERBY RACE M. Bert Thurman, May Be Kentucky Governor’s Guest. M. Bert Thurman, Republican national committeeman from Indiana, was invited today by Governor Flem D. Sampson of Kentucky to be the Governor’s guest at the Derby day races at Churchill Downs.

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Hollywood, April 20.— Mary McCcrmic, opera singer, and Prince Serge M’Divani, former husband of Pola Negri, admitted today they had been married for more than a week. They plan an extended honeymoon in Europe. Where the ceremony took place, the couple declined to say. The prince said they first planned to be married in Las Vegas, Nev., but he saw newspaper men there he knew, and “traveled on.” Prince M’Divani said his wife definitely had given up her stage career in favor of marriage. The prince is in the oil business. During the absence of the couple on their wedding trip, their home here was robbed of furs and jewelry valued at $15,000. WARNS ON PAY CUTTING Would Be ‘Most Unfortunate,” Says Colonel Arthur Woods. By United Press WASHINGTON. April 20.—Wage cutting by industries at this time would be “most unfortunate,” Col. Arthur Woods, chairman of President Hoover’s emergency committee for unemployment, said today. Bulgarian Cabinet Resigns By United Press SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 20.—The cabinet of Premier Andrei Liapchev resigned today.

contentment. ” This is the first explanation of the mystery of “Aircraftsman Shaw." It was to Henry T. Russell of the United Press London bureau that he gate his story, in personal and privileged conversation. Here is the first of a series of four articles by Mr. Russell.

tary rewards, decorations and honors, picked anew name and enlisted in the Royal air force as a private. As Colonel Lawrence during “his” war in the desert, he had virtual command of the entire Arab army. Today, as Aircraftsman Shaw, he must obey any one above the rank of an aircraftsman, first class, who gives him orders tt a a DURING the war, Lawrence was intrusted by the British government at various times with huge sums in gold which he apportioned as he saw fit among the Arab chieftains who fought his battles. Now his pay is 80 cents a day. From this he saves a small portion. The rest he spends on gasoline for his American-built speedboat, his motorcycle and for gramophone records for what he calls his “tinned music” supply. No Arabian prince ever had such power as Lawrence had during the war. Not even Field Marshal Lord Allenby, in command of the allied forces in Palestine, or any other of Lawrence’s technically superior officers, interfered with the orders which he issued in the* desert. Lawrence was, in effect, “uncrowned king of Arabia,”. n n tt HE lives in an army hut with nineteen other men, most of them air force mechanics. He sleeps on an olive-green iron army cot with a tough mattress of cocoanut fiber. He has five service blankets and a pair of sheets to cover him His pillow of the same substance is as tough as his mattress. Above his cot is a green steel locker. This generally contains most of the owner’s “treasures”—books, tobacco, spare clothing the like. a tt tt LAWRENCE showed me all this. While he was doing so he told me / why he chose this mode of living. He explained how it felt to be “hounded by the ghost of fame.” He denied ill health caused him to retire.

“I am an archaeologist,” he said, “but since my adventures in the desert the parts which I want to explore are banned territories to me. I can’t go to Egypt. The French won’t allow me

Rowbottom was not talkative and shortly after his arrival at the federal office and having shaken hands with Frank Holmes, deputy marshal, delved into the book of prison rules. - •* • Holmes and four deputies will leave Indianapolis with nine other prisoners, including bootleggers and counterfeiters. A.t Terre Haute additional federal prisoners will board the train. The ex-congressman flatly refused to pose for newspaper photographers, asserting: “You’ve got plenty pictures of me.” He said he felt “pretty good” and had net suffered from diabetes, which, his attorneys said, had cut down his physical resistance. “Are you ready to go?” he was asked.. “Ready,” he answered. Rowbottom was clad in a black suit and shoes with a white shirt, dark tie and gray felt hat. He smiled when reporters asked him if he were not “all dressed up.” PENSION PLAN ADOPTED U. S. Steel Stockholders Vote to Retire Officials at 70. By United Press HOBOKEN, N. J., April 20. Stockholders of the U. S. Steel corporation today adopted anew pension plan, proposed by Myron C. Taylor, chairman of the finance committee, whereby all important officials will be retired when they attain 70 years of age. Under this plan President James A. Farrell will retire Feb. 15, 1933.

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through any of their territory. Turkey won’t have me.” He paused, smiled, then pointing a finger at himself: “Look at me,” he said, “I am a dangerous man.” He laughed at his own sarcastic reference to his small stature, tt a tt “'T'HEY say I entered the R. A A. F. because of bad health! Some say I was ‘riddled with bullets’. Others say I was verging a nervous breakdown, following my experiences in the desert. “You can’t become a member of the R. A. F. if you are physically or mentally unfit. I joined the R. A. F. simply because I was sick and tired of politics. “I wanted a job at which I could work with my hands, as I used to when I conducted excavations. “Traditions in England made my desire difficult, to fulfill. Wherever I went I was expected to become the head or one of the heads of the firm. Nothing, you See, could be ’good enough.’ for Colonel Lawrence. i “Once a colonel, always a colonel. That a colonel should \vant to do work generally considered to be ‘beneath’ what a colonel should do is unthinkable. a a e “TN England rank counts for J- much. There are certain things which are ‘just not done’ when you have rank here. “For one thing, you do not, as, a rule, repair, machines when you are in a position to order someone else to repair them for you. “I like repairing machines. I enjoy tinkering with machinery. If I can’t do this as a colonel, then I want to do it as a private. So I am a private!” Being waited upon hand and foot as he was during his war in the desert, he explained, was monotonous after a time. Having rank and responsibility entailing obedience to politicians, he said, was odious to him. “You don’t have to agree with the policy of a government when you are a private in the air force,” he contended. ___ a tt tt 1 ''HAT is one reason why I reA fused decorations and other honors offered me,” he--'continued. “ Had I accepted them at the time they would have shut my mouth! By refusing them I was able to speak my mind.” “After a long struggle with cabinet ministers and others, I got the government, thanks to Winston Churchill, to fulfill as many promises made to the Arabs during the war as it was humanly possible and practicable to fulfill. “Then it was I decided to give up all of which I was sick and tired and chose to enter the R. A. F. “There is no mystery about my life there. I live as public a life as it is possible to live. I am in barracks with other men. I sleep under the same roof with nineteen of them. I eat with them. I perform my duties daily, as they do. “I can be seen any time by anybody who takes the trouble to look at me. I am known to hundreds in the air force. In ray hut we all know each other well. “'T'O begin with we all take our X shirts off in the same place every morning. We soon find out ail about one another. We soon know to whom we can lend a shilling and be sure to get it back. “The life I lead, I shohld say, is so public that one hardly can suggest that I am in some distant part of the world stirring up trouble. That is one reason why I chose such a life. “Yet, from newspaper clippings sent to me I understand that to this very day I am accused of being the soul of rebellions which break out from time to time in far distant lands. “But I have no such power. While they say these things about me I am doing far less romantic things.” “Every morning I sweep the office in which I work daily with my superior officer.” (To Bi Continnwh

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VEHLING GIVES PLEDGE THAT HE’LLREFORM Coroner Tells Officials of County That He Will ‘Stay Inside Law,’ STATE INQUIRY STARTED Fee Claims to Be Probed; Embalming ‘Rush Act’ Is Stoppedc BY DICK MILLER With the state board of accounts opening an investigation today in the office of Coroner Fred W. Vehling, county officials were told by Vehling that he intended to operate his office “in strict accordance with the law” in the future. Officials said that without The Times expose of conditions in the office it was probable that the unethical practices revealed would have continued indefinitely. The Times has showed that many bodies were rushed by Vehling to his own undertaing establishment and that claims were filed for services in tfubpenaing persons as witnesses in death cases when, in fact, the persons appeared either voluntarily or were called by phone. Autopsy Fund Exhausted It also war, revealed in The Times inquiry that Vehling had exhausted his annual autopsy appropriation of SI,BOO, and already had sought to have an additional SSO claim paid. He has been in office only since Jan. 1. In a conference with Herbert Wilson, county prosecutor, Vehling is said to have told the prosecutor that unethical practices would not occur in his office again. He also said that he and Hugo Sommers, constable, were anxious to have the law set out so they ..might not overstep their authority in any line. Sommers is alleged to have collected the service fees without giving personal service of subpenas to witnesses. Vehling countersigned and attested the claims as true, according to records. Serving to Be Done Legally Indianapolis police today were notified by Vehling and Sommers that they will be served with subpenas today at their legal residences. The inquiry revealed that claims were made for service when all attaches of Vehling’s office had done'Was to gather, up the reports of officers on death cases and, after copying' them as inquest evidence, returned them to officers for signatures. The accounts board will check, as best as can be done in view of the incomplete bookkeeping in the coroner’s office, to determine the number of cases in which witness service fees were collected illegally and the number of autopsies for which the county paid without reason. The law says the coroner shall not conduct an autopsy unless evidence of the death indicates the person w’as a victim of violence or casualty. New System Ordered The accounts board also will place into operation a complete bookkeeping system in Vehling’s office, following completion of the probe. County commissioners said they will take, further check of records into their own hands after the recording system is installed. Harvey GrabUl, county attorney, will make a demand on William Hamilton, former constable under Dr. Charles H. Keever, predecessor of Vehling’s, for an accounting of his mileage and service claims during his period in office. Civil suits to obtain for the county money that has been collected in illegal fees, should the accounts board probe reveal such cases, will be filed against either the incumbents or officials and employes of the former administration, or both, by Grabill. Funds May Be Repaid Vehling and Sommers may offer voluntary repayment of funds, should the investigation reveal illegally collected amounts. Police records reveal that since the results of The Times’ investigation have been printed, Vehling has abandoned his practice of rushing bodies to his undertaking establishment. All bodies now are being sent to the city hospital morgue by the coroner and no reports have been received of Vehling insisting on burial rights or embalming corpses before relatives had opportunity to make arrangements with the undertakers. Previously, Vehling often had the bodies embalmed within two hours after death, and, if he was not given burial privileges, would charge relatives $25 for the embalming. Would Quit Moving Bodies Commissioners Saturday were asked by Othniel Hitch, attorney, to take over control of moving bodies from places in the pounty. He said Vehling had told him he had no desire to continue this work. City health board officials today requested Clifford Askin, president of the Indianapolis School of Embalming, to draw a formal contract for the proposed embalming of bodies by members of the school at the hospital, to prevent any complications. * Dr. Herman G. Morgan, health board secretary, - said Vehling and Askin said a sls fee would be charged for the service. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 60 10 a. 7a. in..... 60 ua. 61 Ba. m 64 12 (noon*. 11 9 am...., 66 l £ V• •

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