Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 113, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1931 — Page 3

SEPT. 19,1931

FIGURE PLANE'S ALTITUDE; WIN FREE FLIGHTS .Tickets to Dedication of City Airport Also to Be Awarded. BY JOE GLUTZ Still thinking about those free night airplane rides over Indianapolis next Thursday? Well, get your contestin' clothes out of hock, because the fun starts Monday. At 12:30 Monday afternoon, to get down to dots and dashes. Nine persons with good sight and Judgment of distance will ride as guests of The Times, Central Aeronautical Corporation, and the municipal airport dedication committee in the big Stinson junior cabin ship Dick Arnett trundles around the sky on night passenger hops. And twenty-seven others will attend the dedication program at the airport Friday, Saturday and Sunday. also as guests of this big triumveratc. How? Well, now, as a contemporary jester hath it, ‘at's somp'n. Siren to Be Warning There will be some strange doings over the town at 12:30 Monday afternoon. A siren will draw your gaze to a speck ever so many feet in the sky where a mystery airplane will oe warning you a week ahead of time that at 12:30 Friday afternoon the big show starts at the airport. And there’s more mystery to this airplane than as to the homicidal maniac who bumped off Cock Robin. That’s where you come in. Trot out all the analytic geometry you know’, throw in a dash of trigonometry for flavoring, and get a sextant if you have to, but after some fashion just tell me how high that mystery ship is flying when you see it over town Monday. The performance will be repeated Tuesday. And again Wednesday. And the person who computes nearest the altitude of the mystery plane each of these three days will get a ride for two persons in Dick’s Stinson.

Three Contests Offered Some of you young fellojvs might remember what I told you Friday. There’s going to be a moon next Thursday night—so my last confab with the weather oracle told me. Then the person who comes second nearest the altitude of the mystery ship each day, will get one free ride in the Stinson. Third places rate a pair of season general admission to the dedication, and fourth to tenth positions, inclusively, win single season general admissions. The rules and regulations more than this are below. So there will be three contests in one. Three persons will get free rides for two, three will get single trips aloft, and three will get double admissions, while twenty-one will walk off with single passes to the dedication events. Gave These Rules Now, get on the mark and wait for the siren o n the mystery ship at. 12:30 prompt Monday afternoon. Here are the rules governing the contest. 1. Each person computlns: most accuratelv the altitude of the mvsterv shin over Indianapolis at 12:30 p. m. on each of the three days. Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday, will be awarded a free nif?ht ride for two persons over Indianapolis in the Central Aeronautical Corporation's Stinson Junior cabin plane. 2. Each person computinar next closest the altitude of the mvsterv ship, as outlined in the first paragraph, will be awarded a ride for one person. 3. Each person computine third nearest the correct altitude will receive two season eeneral admission tickets to the municipal airport dedication Friday. Saturday and Sunday. 4. Those computing from fourth to tenth nearest the altitude will receive one season general admission ticket each to the dedication. 5. The altitude you figure must be received by the Dedication Contest Editor at The Times not later than noon the dav following each portion of the contest. That is. computations for Monday's flight will not be received after noon Tuesday. They may be mailed in. or brought In Derson to the Dedication Contest Editor. 6. Each contestant may submit only one figure daily. 7. A contestant receiving a free plane ride mav not win another on a later contest. but may win both a ride and a ticket to the dedication. No contestant mav win more than two tickets. 8. Contest open to everyone, except to employes of The Times or anv airport m the city and their families, or members of the airport dedication committees ana their families. 9. The last entries, for Wednesday's flight, must be in the hands of the contest editor bv noon Thursday, when the contest officially will be closed.

1,000 IN ATTENDANCE AT CHURCH REUNION —i —■ — Friends Congregation Northwest of Noblesville Among Oldest. J> ii TimrSpecial NOBLESVILLE, Ind.. Sept, 19. One thousand persons from many parts of the state, most of them Quakers, came to their former church home for the annual homecoming at the Hinkle Friends church, seven miles northwest of this city. The church is one of the oldest in the state, having been organized ninety-five years ago. The Rev. Frank Klingensmith, deputy in the office of the auditor of the War of 1812. Following a dinner served in the basement of the church, the afternoon was given over to addresses Dy visitors who related early history of the church and this section of Indiana. The first church, built of logs, was erected in 1836. This building gave way to a frame structure in 1872. In a cemetery adjoining the church are the graves of twentyfive Civil war veterans, and also the grave of William Sumner, a veteran of state, is pastor. SCOUT TROOP INSTALLS Rites of Parent Council Held at Irvington M. E. Church, Installation of new officers of the parent council of Boy Scout Troop NO. 9 was held Friday night at a meeting in the Irvington M. E. church. The officers are: Mrs. Ira Melvin, president: Mrs. Robert Instev, vice-president; Mrs. W. 8. S. Johnson. secretary; Mrs. James Carr, financial secretary, and P R. McAnnalv. treasurer. Mrs. O. H Winchell. retiring president, conducted the installation. Music was provided bv Sam aims. Joaaoh Macv and F. O. Belrer. Indianapolis scout executive. William Sanford, district mujmlMtoner. and Kenenth Hittle. his asaatant. were guests.

Papa 5 Mad By United Prcus CHICAGO. Sept. 19. The vitamin family, A, B. C. D, and E. are in bad with the man who fathered them. Dr. A. V. McCullom of Johns Hopkins university. Not that Dr. McCullom has disowned vitamins, but he is piqued because the nation has “petted and spoiled them.” “It looks as though the country had gone wild on the subject of correct nutrition,” Dr. McCullom told teachers at the health institute program of the milk council Friday night. Ten years ago or so, Dr. McCullom was considered radical on diet theories. His vitamin discovery changed the daily menus of millions.

COOL HEAD HAS STEERED JAPAN GLEAR OF WAR Clash With Chinese Still Imminent as Result of ‘Execution.’ BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Forrisn Editor WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—While the eyes of the western world have been focused on their own danger spots, a menacing situation has developed unnoticed in this cockpit of Asia. But for the political accident that placed the liberal Baron Shidehara in the foreign office at Tokio at this time, instead of the military faction which now and then is in the saddle, the Japanese army might even now be on the march in Manchuria. The alleged murder of Captain Shintaro Makamura, Japanese army officer, in Manchuria on Aug. 17 served to bring to a head a crisis of long standing. Execution Firebrand A firing squad of Chinese soldiers, it is claimed, executed Nakamura and another Japanese subject along with a Russian and a Mongolian, as spies. Tokio authorities assert the officer and his party held official Chinese permits authorizing them to make maps of the region. Urgent protests to China went unanswered, it is charged, though press dispatches from Nanking quote Foreign Minister C. T. Wang as saying bandits, not Chinese soldiers, were responsible. Fanned by the military, a blaze of anger swept Japan. There is a large faction who. all along have urged a “strong hand - ’ policy in China, and for a time it was feared these might win their point. The Daily Asahi of Tokio quoted war office officials as saying they “might resort to force” to bring China to terms, and that “a concentration of troops in Manchuria” was being considered. Resentment Not Quieted Fortunately, however, Foreign Minister Shidehara withstood the pressure. He made it clear that world opinion at this time would not sanction any such warlike move. Furthermore, he was able to announce that the Mukden government, if not the Nationalists at Nanking, had met his demands. There would be indemnity, punishment of the guilty persons, and assurance that efforts would be made to prevent similar incidents in the future. The agitation, however, is reported as continuing in Japan, where it is said it is being kept alive by the militarists. A huge mass meeting, organized by reserve officers, was held last week in Tokio and another demonstration in which more than 10,000 reservists propose to take part, is described as in preparation. Tension between Chinese and Japanese in Manchuria has been increasing for years. Observers on the spot are convinced that nothing short of a showdown determining who is boss in that part of Asia will end it definitely.

Y. M. C. A. EVENTS FOR FALL MAPPED

Activities of Gym, Craft Group Will Begin Next Week. Beans—and more beans. Campers’ fare, which has proven propular in the past, will be a part of the Y. M. C. A. fall program announced today by A. H. Godard, general secretary. Activities for senior members will be in full swing Monday, when three gymnasium class units will begin their program. The noon group of business men will play volley ball, handball and paddle tennis: the 5:15 class will speciaize in handball, volley ball and wrestling. A third group will meet at 8 p. m. Each group will have only brief ’’setting up” exercises before turning to competitive sports and games. Bean Dinner Is Set R. L. Konecke. director of physical education, said that within ten days after the opening of the classes, groups interested in special activities would be started. At the close of each month's work in the junior groups, boys outstanding in personal attainment will be guests at a bean diner to be followed by an ‘overnight camp” at the gymnasium. Junior members are being enrolled in hobby clubs—photography, electrical, handicraft and soap carving clubs. “More clubs will be opened when the boys want them," I. M. Logan, boys' work secretary, declared. There were forty-seven different groups last year. Discussions on Program Christian Citizenship clubs are to meet Saturday. The “Friendly Indians” for boys 10 and 11 years old will meet at 8 a. m.. Pioneers at 11:15 and Comrades at 5:15. R. C. Alford will be in charge of the first two groups and Albert H. Thompson will conduct meetings of the Pioneers, club for boys 15 to 18. Popular clubs are divided into

’DEMOCRATS TOSPLIT ON MOVE TO HIKE TAXES Retarding of Public Debt Retirement Plank of Harrison Camp. Scrippx. Howard Xewspaper Alliance WASHINGTON. Sept. 19.—Agitation for increasing taxes will split Democrats into two camps in the next congress, with many joining Senator Pat Harrison iDem., Miss.h in his contention that tax hikes can be avoided if public debt retirement is retarded. This becomes more evident as members of congress come straggling back into Washington, in preparation for the December session. Harrison, since the retirement of Senator F. N. Simmons in the last election, has taken the leadership in this movement. It was Simmons who, in 1926, said that the minority—the Democrats—would demand that since our foreign debtors have been given sixty-two years to repay the money we loaned them, the taxpayers should be given time to meet the debts incurred by the borrowing of the money loaned abroad. Twice this summer Harrison has spoken against tax increases, and urged that public debt retirement be retarded, saying that if this is done the treasury’s needs will be less and that as a consequence increased taxes will not be required. Harrison, however, is opposed in this stand by other Democrats. Senator Sheppard of Texas, for instance, sees an increase in the income taxes in the higher brackets as the only tax solution. Many economists, generally unfriendly to Republican fiscal policies, and particularly those of this administration, have. however, praised this very thing—the treasury’s speedy retirement of the public debt. Secretary Andrew Mellon has told congress, when retarding debt retirement was seriously agitated there, that it had a technical, but he doubted its moral, right to cut down sinking fund payments.

4 ARE HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENTS One Motorist Is Held on Booze Charges. Four persons were injured, one seriously, Friday in two traffic mishaps that occurred in and near the city. James T. McClamroch, 29, of 719 East Fifty-ninth street, sustained severe head cuts and a broken finger when his car crashed into another in which Mrs. B. F. Mann and Mrs. Clara Kerguio of Peru were riding, at Kessler boulevard and Michigan road. The women were cut and bruised. According to deputy sheriffs, five quarts of home brew were found in McClamroch’s automobile. McClamroch was charged with drunkenness, operating an auto while drunk, transporting liquor and failure to stop at a preferential street. Knocked from his bicycle Friday night, Clifford Scholey, 12, of 2311 Kenwood avenue, sustained a broken leg. He was taken to city hosiptal. Altman Smith, 22, of 2247 Pierson avenue, driver of the car, was charged with reckless driving when police said they learned he was driving on the left side of the street. Former Banker Arrested By United Press WARSAW, Ind., Sept. 19.—John Matchett, former president of the Pierceton State bank, which was closed two years ago, was arrested today on indictments charging embezzlement. He was released on $6,000 bond.

three divisions. One group interested in aviation will meet Monday nights at 8, a second meeting at 8 Tuesday nights will be devoted to a discussion of inventions, while the third group is to meet Thursday nights to discuss phases of ocean travel, water sports and the like. PASTOR’S KIN HELD TO JURYJN AUTO DEATH Devon Wicks Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter in Accident. Devon Wicks, 17, of 2015 South High School road, today faced grand jury investigation on charges of involuntary manslaughter and failure to stop after an accident, in connection with the auto death of Carl Yoh at Sixteenth and Meridian streets, July 11. Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron bound the youth over to the grand jury Friday afternoon despite recommendation of Lieutenant Frank Owen, accident prevention officer, that the manslaughter count not be included. Owen charged that Yoh had been drinking before the accident. Coroner Fred W. Vehling had returned a similar verdict. Wicks is the foster son of the Rev. Fank S. C. Wicks, pastor of the All Souls Unitarian church.

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Carved in granite, the great stone face of George Washington is shown here looking down from the Mt. Rushmore memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Size of the head, now nearing completion, is indicated by the men working on the nose. The head is sixty feet from chin to top of forehead and is built on the scale of a man 465 feet tall. Likenesses of Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt also are being chiseled into the stone.

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Cash Will Be Awarded to Critics Who Write of ‘Street Scene.’ Those amateur reviewers who would compete for prizes offered by The Times by writing reviews of Samuel Goldwyn’s “Street Scene,” the big United Artists production, which comes to Loew’s Palace today, are offered a few brief hints. Remember, brevity is the soul of wit —in a review as well as anywhere else. Short, punchy sentences, phrases neatly turned, common onesyllable words mean something. These are what count in writing criticisms. And neatness is sure to be worth a few points too! Here are the prizes you are competing for: First prize, $10; second, $5; third, $3; fourth, $2. Other Frizes Offered For the next best five reviews, The Times will pay $1 each. In ad. ’tion, ten pairs of guest tickets will be awarded to as many other amateur reviewers. Don’t forget that ih . reviewing “Street Scene,” you have the advantage of commenting on a film entirely different in theme and treatment from any previous photoplay. Elmer Rice, who wrote the stage play which ran for more than two years on Broadway and who adapted it for the talking screen, took the original slant on a sequence of events in the life of a great city—events which easily might happen—and have happened in much the same ■way, in many American cities, and from these fashioned an epic.

Vidor Is Director King Vidor, the director, selected five times in the annual poll of the ten best directors, was selected by Goldwyn to bring “Street Scene” to the screen. Follow these simple rules: The contest is open to every one, irrespective of age, sex and occupation, except employes of The Times, Loew’s Palace theater, United Artists Corporation and members of their families. Reviews must be legibly written on one side of the paper and must not exceed 100 words in length, addressed to “Street Scene” Review Editor, care Indianapolis Times. No review can be returned. Decision of the judges is final. BOY SCOUTS TO AIRPORT Asked to Assist Dedication at Municipal Field Next Week. Scouts have been asked to serve at the dedication of the municipal airport by F. O. Belzer, scout executive. Credit will be given for time put in after school hours Friday and all day Saturday. Scouts in uniform will report at the airport. No request is being made that scouts be excused from school on Friday. LEARN Even ng Law School B mm ma opens sei*t. 14th g 111 for 34tb Year f-‘; Ml WnjM Three-year standard leaJm fSW gal course leads to Wmmm m W LL.B. degree. Catalogue Dpon Request BENJAMIN HARRISON* TAW SCHOOL 1132 Consolidated Bid*. Riley 6887

Rambling By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Sept. 19. A rambler rose at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Swafford has spread into the house, entering at a window and growing between inner and outer walls, reappearing at another window and .extending outside again. It is believed there is several feet of vine between the walls.

FURNITURE IN EXHIBIT City Women Contest for Institute Prize. Nearly two centuries of furniture age is represented in pieces entered by Indianapolis women in the national contest of the Household Science institute of Chicago to find the oldest piece of mohair-uphol-stered furniture in the country. Entries have been received from Mrs. C. W. Irwin, Apartment 10, 327 East Maple road; Mrs. Louis Coulon, 407 North Bradley street; Mrs. McMillan Carson, 1433 North Pennsylvania street, and Miss Lillian Gray Smith, 2122 North New Jersey street. The articles entered and the ages: Mrs. Irwin, sofa and straight chair, fifty-five; Mrs. Coulon, sofa, thirtyeight; Mrs. Carson, straight arm chair, forty-five, and Miss Smith, sofa, forty-eight; Owner of the winning piece will be awarded $250, and the article of furniture will be exhibited at Chicago’s 1933 Century of Progress.

THIEF GETS JEWELRY Woman Sees Crook Fleeing; Pharmacist Cut in Argument. Returning to her home Friday afternoon, Mrs. Izora Deßard, 2333 North Talbot street, saw a Negro thief flee with jewelry valued at $55, and $4, she told police. Alfonso Hornsey, Negro, 23, of 438 West Michigan street, clerk in a Walgreen pharmacy at North and West streets, was cut on the cheek Friday night during an altercation with a customer who refused to pay for merchandise, police were informed.

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WHEAT SURPLUS MENACES U. S„ SAYS Farm Board’s Failure Admitted by Senator at Newcastle. By Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., Slept. 19. Surplus wheat purchased by the federal farm board constitutes a positive menace to this nation, declared Senator James E. Watson, in an address Friday night at the new Tenth district Republican rally here. The senate leader confessed he sees no way out of the difficulty resulting from the purchase of the millions of bushels of wheat by the farm board in an effort to stabilize prices. “The federal farm board should not buy another bushel of wheat,” he said. “It is a menace even while it is stored.” Watson's answer to the entire problem was, “If the farmer is given an opportunity, and without too many restraining statutes, he will take care of himself.” Wants to Stay in Senate Back in his home district, Watson declared that despite newspaper reports he has no ambitions to be Vice-President. “Once I was almost President, but two fellow’s keut me out of it and it wasn’t in 1928 either,” Watson declared in answer to Chairman Raymond Springer’s introductory speech in which he said that he always wanted to vite for ‘Senator Jim’ for President “I have but one ambition,” the Republican leader declared,” and that is to finish my services on March 4. 1939, in the senate of the United States” Defending the tariff, Watson said: “You can t build an American civilization on European w r ages” Commends Hoover Feats In praise of Hoover’s efforts to stem the depression by asking capitalists not to cut wages and labor not to strike, Watson said, “Both efforts have proved successful. “Instead of damning Hoover we ought to build a monument for these remarkabel feats.” ■ Organization work in the new Tenth was well under way today with the tacit understanding that Ira J. Wilson of Muncie, old Eight chairman is to be chairman of the new district, while Raymond Springer of Connersville, old Sixth leader is to be a candidate for the nomination for either attorneygeneral of congressman.

WOMAN MAKES DASH FOR FREEDOM IN RAID “Just Running to Headquarters,” She Tells Cop Captor. Her dash for liberty blocked by patrolman Walter Daily, Mrs. Sarah O’Brien, 60, of 218 North New Jersey street, today faced a charge of operating a blind tiger after she vs alleged to have possessed fifty quarts of beer. A crowd gathered in front of Mrs. O’Brien’s house Friday afternoon when Lieutenant Walter Claffey staged the raid.* Mrs, O’Brien fled from the house, Daily kfter her. Successful, Daily returned her to the house. “Why do you have to humiliate me in front of all my friends?” she demanded of Claffey. “I don’t want to ride in the patrol wagon. I was just going to run down to headquarters.” Claffey said that in addition to the bottled beer, he found twenty gallons brewing and 104 empty bottles.

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Operate on 221 By United Press SPRINGFIELD. Colo.. Sept. 19.—Ice cream sold briskly today despite cool weather because 221 residents had just had tonsils or adenoids removed. An airplane brought fifty pounds of ether here from Denver Friday when the supply ran out at the free clinic for poor people held in a mortuary. Five surgeons operated on the 221, many of them school children. The American Legion post and the parent-teacher association arranged for the clinic.

BUTLER TO GET NEW BUS LINE Central Avenue Route Is Approved by Commission. Beginning Monday. Butler university students can reach the school by bus by way of Central avenue. Permission has been granted by the public service commission for the People’s Motor Coach Company to operate a Central avenue bus to the school. The bus will make four round trips daily for the students and others in the vicinity of the college. From the regular Central avenue route the bus will go west on Forty-sixth street to Sunset avenue and return. Commissioners at their Friday afternoon conference also authorized a $4,950,000 stock issue of the Public Service Company of Indiana (Insull owned). Eastern Indiana Gas Company of Newcastle was allowed to issue $52,119.53 in securities to pay for the recent purchase of the Fcrtville Natrual Gas and Oil Company. Rate increase from the present $1.50 a quarter to $2.50 was granted the Chandler Telephone Company, Chandler. Petitions to abandon agency stations of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis railroad at New Lisbon and Tyner were denied. RAIDERS ARREST NINE Beer and Wine Seized by Federal and Lafayette Officers. By United Pres* LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 19. Nine persons, including two women, were arrested in liquor raids conducted by federal agents and local authorities here Friday night. Two w'eeks ago, thirty-six federal agents arrested twenty-seven alleged liquor law violators in raids here. Agents confiscated beer, wine and brewing equipment. Those arrested were: Arthur Shoup, 47; Mrs. Maude Hammel, 45; Anthony Baker, 30; Curtis Lewis, 48; Paul Hahn, 35; Mrs. Ellen Haffner, 61; her son William, 41; John Kain, 50, and Delbert Velten, 19.

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HINT U. S. IS PROBING CITY’S POOL RACKETS Federal Investigation Puts Lottery Operators on ‘The Move.’ Rumors that federal authorities are laying the foundation of an investigation into pool and lottery rackets in Indianapolis are current today. Operators of the rackets, therefore. are “on the road,” holding drawings of “winning" numbers in the various lotteries in many sections of the city. Certain houses, clubrooms and hotels no longer are the definite places for the once or twice-a-week drawings. Players and agents of the pools no longer know exactly, from week to week, where they may find the crow’d when the winning tickets are picked. Few of the “boys" ever are told where the drawings are held. Police Squads Active Vacant houses, lots in secluded sections of the city, busses and automobiles have become drawing sites for the traveling pool operators. The racketeers also have found it hot because of recent inroads by raiding policemen under Chief Mike Morrissey. Operators find the roving type of operation more profitable, it is said. With only two or three of their own gang in on the drawings, it is not necessary to be as careful about selecting the winners as when ten to fifty men gathered in a room to smoke cigars and hear the payoff numbers and letters called as they dropped from the enchanted box. The federal investigation rumor has increased to the proportions of a windstorm. Promoters Are Worried Steady turnover of liquor cases to federal agents by police recently, and several dope raids in the last few weeks that have brought pressure from the national authorities have increased likelihood of the story. It is known that since The Times several weeks ago told how thousands of persons in Indianapolis were multced each year of $1,000,000 in only nine of a score of pool rackets, federal agents have been watching city developments. Chief interest of the federal leaders is whether, the United States government is getting its share of the pool promoters’ contrabrand profits. Several Indianapolis racketeers, seeking methods of preventing their downfall at the hands of federal income tax probers, have consulted attorneys as to their status, it has been learned.