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U. S. VICTOR IN BATTLE TO KEEP CAPONE IN ‘PEN’

Judge Grants Government Plea to Dismiss Suit for Writ. MUST SERVE TEN YEARS Gang Lord Had Claimed Statute of Limitations V in Case. By I nitrd I'rrxx ATLANTA. La., Jan. 25. A1 Capone, former Chicago gang czar, lost his attempt today to gain his freedom from federal prison here. Judge E. Marin Underwood granted the government's motion to dismiss his plea for a writ of habeas corpus. Attorneys for Capone had sought his release on grounds his ten-year sentence in federal prison is excessive, and that, the income tax law evasions for which he was convicted were covered by the statute of limitations. TWO BILLS AFFECTING CITY KILLED IN HOUSE Another Pair Is Advanced to Second Reading in Legislature. Two bills a fleeting the city of Indianapolis were killed today and two others advanced to second reading in the house of representatives. Bills killed contained the following provisions: Making optional, instead of mandatory, employment of a superintendent of buildings and grounds for the Indianapolis school system, and authorizing the school board to combine the offices of school secretary and business director. Making optional instead of mandatory continuance of the city purchasing department. Bills on which favorable reports were made and adopted aie. Providing for appeal to circuit instead of superior courts by persons whose property is damaged by railroad and street grade separation projects. ~ Providing present bed of White river shall be permant boundary be tween Perry and Decatur townships, Marion county. ___ VON SCHLEICHER MAY „ TAKE DICTATOR ROLE Head of German Government Irritated by Tactics of Opponents. Ft/ I nitrd I'rrxx BERLIN, Jan. 25.— Dissolution of the reichstng when it meets next week, and establishment of a dictatorial regime under Chancellor General Kurt Von Schleicher were regarded by political leaders today as practically a certainty. The stern old general, now head of the government, was believed irritated by failure of his conciliatory efforts with the opposition in moves ‘designed to establish political peace f within the country and prevent a semi-riotous session of the reichstfl £>•. These tactics having failed. Von Schleicher was said to be ready to rule without the reiclistag. at least for the sixty-day period permitted before elections must be held, and empolye harsher methods to gain his ends.

CONGRESS TODAY

By 1 nitrd Prrss SENATE Continues debate on Glass banking bill. Privileges and elections committee resumes consideration of Pritch-ard-Bailcy election contest. A Joint congressional committee continues veterans’ economy hearings. HOUSE Considers routine legislation. Naval affairs committee hearing on capital ship repairs. Labor committee continues fivedav week hearings. Banking committee considers farm mortgage relief. Store Burglars Are Sentenced By United I'rrxx SCOTTSBURG. Ind.. Jan. 25. Harry Hughes. Oscar B. Jones and £,yle Venter, all of Lansing. Mich., were sentenced to serve three to ten years in the reformatory Tuesday aftr pleading guilty on charges of robbing a Scottsburg clothing store, Jan. 15.

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‘SAFETY TREES’ TO LINE CREEK City Acts for Prevention of Tragedies, Foliowing Evans Fatalities. Trees will be used to reduce driving hazards on Fall Creek boulevard, it was decided today by members of the safety board and officials of the city park department. The decision was made after Chief Mike Morrissey had pointed out that the city now owns cedar, elm, and sycamore trees with which to line the banks of the creek. # Plans were started immediately for transplanting. Guard rails will be erected temporarily to guard the trees. In addition, a neon sign reading "Danger, Street Ends," will be placed at the intersection of Talbot | street and the creek, the point at which Mr. and Mrs. Walter Evans of Richmond met their death Saturday night when their car w'ent ! over the bank into the water. The sign will be erected free to the city by ari advertising company seeking to test the neon lights for traffic. Morrissey was to confer today with Todd Stoops of the Hoosier Motor Club to determine what steps should be taken by the club in reducing the creek hazard. Verdict of "drowning by submersion" was rendered today by Coroner William E. Arbuckle, at conclusion of his inquest into the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Evans. 300 JOBLESS STORM POOR RELIEF DEPOT Hurl Pepper Into Eyes of Defending Policemen. W.v f nil ed /Vrs. CHICAGO. Jan. 25.—Three hundred unemployed food rioters led by a woman stormed a southwest side emergency relief depot today. The rioters threw peppe/ into policemen's eyes and bit the officers before they were subdued. Several were injured, none seriously. ' RIFT WITH WIFE ISDENIED BY DOUG JR. Gets 12 Telegrams From Joan Crawford on Way East. He Says. By Times Special CHICAGO. Jan. 25. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. stopped here long enough today to deny published rumors that there has been a rift in his romance with Joan Crawford, his wife. This was said to be the first time since their marriage in 1929 that either of the couple has made a trip east without the other. "She may go east also in a few days," said Fairbanks. "She has sent me twelve telegrams since I left. I guess if we were separated she wouldn't do that, would she?” Fairbanks plans to visit for a week with his mother in New York, then return to Hollywood to make another picture. 500-Gallon Still Seized Confiscation of a 500-gallon still and 10,000 gallons of mash on a farm near Terre Haute Tuesday was reported today by Basil H. Minnich. new deputy prohibition administrator. Gus Gilmore, occupant of ! the farm. .as arrested by dry said. 1

20,000 Sue Insull for Accounting Investors' Court Action Is Launched by Church in Michigan. By United Prrxx * CHICAGO. Jan. 25.—Twenty thousand investors who intrusted their funds to the crumbled Insull Utility Investment Company looked today for federal court action to give them an accounting of 560.000.000 in the firm's gold debenture bonds. They were represented in a suit filed against the bankrupt bolding company of St. John’s church of Michigan. The church holds a SI,OOO gold debenture. The suit was aimed directly at Samuel Insull, guiding hand of the ! vast utility empire, now in Greece, I and sixty-four other directors. The I latter included Martin J. Insull, Samuel's brother, who is in Canada. It charged questionable manipulation of funds invested in debentures, that the company declared dividends while it was hopelessly insolvent, and that wrongful loans were made from banks. It requested judgment against the individual directors for funds said to have been diverted from the company.

ARBUCKLE ON PRISON BOARD Rushville Attorney, Once on Pardon Commission, Succeeds Foley. J. T. Arbuckle. Rushville attorney and former member of the state pardon board, was appointed by Governor Paul V. McNutt today as successor to M. E. Foley on the Indiana state prison board of trustees. Foley resigned last week after twenty-five years’ service. Arbuckle previously served on the pardon board under the administration of the late Governor Samuel Ralston. . His pardon board experience was one of the principal reasons for liis choice as trustee, McNutt explained. Arbuckle was an unsuccessful candidate for Lieutenant-Governor at the Democratic state convention last year. McNutt today also put the stamp of approval on “essential improvements” at two state institutions and allowed their- inclusion in the state budget, despite his banning of all construction, as an economy move. Budget committeemen explained to McNutt that new boilers are needed at the Madison state hospital and the Rockville sanatorium. It was shown that the present plants are dangerous and have been condemned. 'REDS, KEEP OUT,’ WABASHWARNING Unemployed Council Merged With Ex-Service Men. By United Prrxx WABASH, Ind., Jan. 25.—Ordering all persons with communistic leanings to “stay out,” the Wabash County Unemployed Council and Allied Ex-service Men’s Organization merged Wednesday night. The new organization, to be known as Wabash County Unemployed Association, named Howard Strickler chairman. At the joint meeting, attended by 250 persons. Clarence Hamilton, Communist candidate for prosecuting attorney in the fall election, was voted out of the organization Two others. Carl Hautt and Milo Long, were warned not to attend any more meetings. OPEN ANNUAL MEETING Twelfth Yearly Session of Church Women Is Started Here. The House of Church Women of the Indianapolis diocese opened the twelfth annual meeting today at Christ church, with Mrs. R. Hartley Sherwood Jr. presiding. Reports were given in the forenoon meeting. Miss Elizabeth Matthews. Glendale, 0., spoke at the afternoon session. Luncheon was served by the women of Christ church.

Brothers Who Captured Prowler Month Ago Shoot Down Burglar Suspect at Store, Seize Another

For the second time In less than two months. Orie and Orville Pugh, operators of a store at Post road, near Lawrence, early today shot and wounded an alleged burglar, and held his alleged accomplice for deputy sheriffs. The shooting took place at the store a few hours before the brothers were to appear in criminal court today as prosecuting witnesses against an alleged burglar whom they captured in their store the night of Dec. 19. Wilbur Horn. 29. who was wounded today was arrested by police an hour later when he appeared at a filling station on State Road 67 with shotgun w*ounds in the back. He was taken to city hospital where it is said his condition is fair. Horn was identified as a participant in the attempted burglary by Lee Drake, 25, 907 Edson place,

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1933

HOUSE SPEEDS ITS ACTION ON BEER CONTROL Eight of Ten Democrats on Committee Are Back of Measure. DRAUGHT BEER IS OUT Bill Advanced to Second Reading: Fear of Saloon Return Stressed. Bill to set up a beer control sys- ; tern in Indiana was advanced to second reading today in the house of representatives, on a favorable majority report from the committee on public morals, headed by Representative John F. Ryan (Dem., Terre Haute), one of the authors of the measure. But the bill, with administration backing, lacked two votes of getting unanimous support from the ten Democratic members of the morals committee. Representative Harry L. Matlock, Kokomo, dry Democrat, did not sign the report, and another Democrat, H. Baxter Plew, Hymera, who had signed, withdrew his name without comment while the report was before the house. He is said to have, refused to concur because the bill contains no provision for draught beer. Minority Report Offered A minority report was presented by the only Republican member of the committee, Hobart Creighton, Atwood, who asked indefinite postponement. As advanced to second reading, 1 the measure differs in several de- • tails from the original bill, but adheres strictly to a ban on draught beer. Such beverage, administraj tion leaders declare, would mean i the return of the saloon, which the Democratic state platform pledged | not be. Ryan took the floor to explain the majority report, pointing out the wet planks in both major party : platforms and that the vote in the i election last Nov. 8 was 16 to 1 in | favor of Wright bone dry law repeal, which is a part of the beer control measure. Cites G. O. P. Approval "Such big Republicans as Will Hayes, Henry Marshall, and James P. Goodrich sanctioned the wet plank in the G. O. P. platform,” Ryan said. This brought the retort from Representative Herbert H. Evans (Rep., Newcastle) “that I hope when the | Republican party is reorganized, j those three gentlemne will be left | out.” Another Republican, Oran W. Cromer. Middletown, intimated that he holds to the theory that party platform committments are not necessarily binding on a candidate. He said nominations of candidates who took part in the November election were made in May, before platforms were written. Saloon Ban Pledged Representative Edward H. Stein, ! Bloomfield. Democratic floor leader, | reminded the house that both parties were pledged not to permit return of the saloon. Speaking on the Wright law re- | peal provisions of the bill, Representative Christ T. Lassen, Crown | Point, Democratic morals commit- | tee member, declared the speakeasy | a worse menace to youth than the i saloon. Major amendments made by the committee include: Increasing the maximum number lof breweries from fifteen to twen- | ty-one. Abolish Brewery Restriction Abolition of the restriction of the number of breweries to two in any one congressional district. Lowering of the minimum seating | capacity of a hotel cr restaurant j which receives a permit to sell beer. I from fifty to twenty-five. Reduction of private club fees | from S3OO to SIOO. Amendments made by the committee governing sale of medicinal | whisky include abolishing the proI posed 50 cents a gallon tax on grain j alcohol; reduction of the drug store license fee from SSO to $25; requir- | ing retail druggists to buy medicinal i liquor only from established wholesale firms, and requiring that drug firms be established three years before receiving a permit. The committee also recommended exemption from the 40 cents a pound malt tax on all malt sirup : manufactured in Indiana, but I shipped to other states.

who was captured by the Pughs in their store and held for deputy sheriffs. Horn’s identity was established by Drake in the presence of witnesses, deputy sheriffs said, although Horn denied that he had entered the store. Both were charged with robbery. In the Dec. 19 burglary, the Pughs captured Daniel Lady, 20, who was found in the store with a bundle of cheese and bacon, valued at $5, and turned him over to deputy sheriffs. Special Judge Clyde E. Karrer. in criminal court today, sentenced Lady to one year on the state farm, after he pleaded guilty to petit larceny. He admitted he was a deserter from the army, and that he entered the store to obtain food for himself and wife, who is an expectant mother. Mrs. Thelma Lady. 16-year-old wife of the defendant, was in

Unemployed Evicted at Legislature Illinois State Police Seize Demonstrators: Session Is Interrupted. By l nited Prrxx SPRINGFIELD. 111.. Jan. 25. Twenty unemployed demonstrators interrupted proceedings in the Illinois house of representatives today and several were forcibly removed to prevent disorder. State police and city detectives were rushed to the house gallery when the demonstrators shouted demands that they be given a hearing. The group, headed by George Boicey. Springfield, crowded into the house gallery when refused admission to the floor of the house to present demands for unemployment relief. “We'll either get in, or go to jail trying to,” Boicey shouted as the legislators halted their proceedings. Officers rushed him out of the chamber. Others who attempted to speak were similarly handled. Carpenters were sent to repair locks on doors to the assembly when attaches feared the demonstrators might try to force their way in. CLEAR HOSPITAL AIDSjN DEATH Absolved for Failure to Send Ambulance for Dying Child. City hospital attaches today were absolved of blame for failure to send an ambulance or physician to the home of a girl who died without receiving medical attention. In a report made following investigation of circumstances, Dr. Charles Myers, hospital superintendent,, and Dr. William E. Arbuckle, county coroner, said delay was due to unavoidable causes. Aid would have been sent at once if gravity of the child’s condition had been known, the officials said. The child. Hazel McCoy, 11, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCoy, 1130 South Sheffield avenue, had received medical treatment the day before her death. Last Friday, relatives became alarmed when the child began to suffer from intense pain. Two calls were made by the father and a sister to the hospital without result. Appeal was sent to police headquarters, and policemen were sent to the home. The officers also made an appeal to the hospital for a physician and an ambulance without result. The child died shortly afterward of a malady which it was believed may have been spinal meningitis. HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR DIES WHILE BOXING Heart Attack Fatal in Bout at Lafayette Armory. By United Prrxx LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 25.—Guy Ream, 17, a senior at Fowler high school, died from a heart attack Tuesday night while engaging in an amateur boxing match with Babe Million, Monticello, at the armory here. Coroner A. J. Bauer said death was caused by actute dilation of the heart induced by over exertion. Ream was pronounced dead by physicians who were called when he suddenly slumped to the floor. Tne boxer was carried out before spectators realized he was dead. SCHULZ RITES FRIDAY Funeral Services for Man Found Dead on Street Are Set. Funeral services for Otto H. Schulz, 4711 Rookwood avenue, who was found dead near Rookwood avenue, who was found dead near Rookwood avenue and Buckingham drive Tuesday morning will be held at 9:30 Friday in the home and at 10:30 in the Bethlehem Lutheran church. Burial will be in Concordia cemetery. The Rev. Allen K. Trout, pastor of the church, wall conduct services in the church. Death w-as due to heart disease. Mr. Schulz formerly was employed at Butler university.

court today. She has been living with her parents at 1408 Bellefontaine street. “I could give you a longer sentence,” Karrer told Lady, "but I believe that your dishonorable dls- | charge from the army is a greater punishment and disgrace.” A burglar alarm, arrainged to their home, nearly tw r o fhe store, gave first warning of the attempted burglarytoday, the brothers told deputy sheriffs. Seizing their shotguns and racing to the store the Pughs covered the distance in a short time, paralleling the happenings when Lady was captured. When they arrived at the store, I the Pughs said they saw a man run from the door and they fired. It was not learned which charge struck . Horn, who continued to run.

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‘HARD-BOILED’ DEALING SEEN ON WAR debt: Roosevelt Is Willing to Slash, but U. S. Must Be Benefitted. BY RAY TUCKER Times Staff Writer WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Jan. 25.-President-Elec Franklin D. Roosevelt will assume a hard-boiled attiude with representatives of debtor nations when they sit around the table in Washington after March 4 to discuss downward revision of the $22,000,000 owed to this country by Europe. Although willing to slice this financial burden in the interest oi world and domestic recovery, Mr. Roosevelt expects to get something for the American taxpayer in the form of stabilization of exchange, general lowering of tariffs and possible steps to reduce armaments in a steady, scientific way. By requiring that each nation deal separately with him and his secretary of state, Mr. Roosevelt feels he has broken European solidarity, and placed himself in an adventageous position for trading. The defaulting nations not now included in the conferences are expected to come in sooner or later. There is no mention here or at Washington of what the procedure will be in their case, for they have not yet applied, and Mr. Roosevelt will not answer “if” questions. The impression here is that Mr. Roosevelt and his secretary of state will handle all negotiations, with possibly some help from experts who have taken part in previous similar conferences. The suggestion persists that Owen D. Young is in the lead for secretary of state, although it was considered significant that the complete story of debt discussions of the last few weeks came out while Bernard M Baruch, New York financier, was in conference with the President-elect. France May Pay Soon BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON. Jan. 25.—Suspecting the United States of trying to smash her war debt entente with Great Britain, France soon may find aw ay to pay the $19,000,000 installment on which she defaulted last December, and, thus, frustrate the move. Payment automatically would restore France to the position she occupied prior to Dec. 15, and put her on the same footing. So far as war debts are concerned—as Britain, Italy and the other nondefaulting powers. The United States would have to extend to her the same invitation that has gone out to the rest. But, for France, the big induiement for paying up would be the restoration of the understanding between Paris and London. Britain would then have no further excuse not to make common cause with France in the coming negotiations with the United States. In fact, failure on her part to do so would be the occasion for a serious breach between the two countries. France easily can find a way to pay the December payment on the ground that it first wanted assurances that the whole subject would be reopened, and Washington’s present attitude might be taken as satisfying that demand. ‘TERROR TRIAL’ DELAYED Selection of Jury Holds Up Evidence Against Two Bandit Suspects. By United Prrxx LAFAYETTE. Ind., Jan. 25—Selection of a jury delayed presentation of testimony today in the robbery trial of Joe and Ward Swaim. brothers, of Danville, 111. They are accused of stealing $25 from Mrs. Amanda Walsh after entering her home here Nov. 19 while posing as federal prohibition agents. Mrs. Walsh and her daughter said they were terrorized by the intruders. Vernon E. St. John, deputy prosecutor, is representing the case. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 44 10 a. m 46 7a. m 45 11 a. m 46 Ba. m 44 12 (noon).. 47 9 a. m 45 1 p. m 49

Entering the building, the Pughs said they found Drake lying on the floor in an attempt to avoid discovery. He was held until deputy sheriffs arrived. Police responded to a call from the service station, operated by James Gibson and Roland Todd, that a w'ounded man had staggered into the place. According to police. Horn explained his wounds with a description of a hijacking assault. He said he was returning from Pt. Wayne wdth another man and had seventy-five gallons of alcohol in his automobile. Hijackers attacked the car about three miles east of the Post road and wounded Horn, he said. When he regained consciousness, the man and the automobile had disappeared. Police took Horn to city hospital. >,

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SALES TAX BILL IS UNDER FIRE State C. of C. Goes Ahead With Plans for Mas: Meeting Here. Opposition to proposed general sales and income tax measures by merchants and the Indiana Chamber of Commerce continued unabated today as plans were progressing for mass meetings at which the pending bills will be discussed. Sponsored by the Indiana Council of Retail Merchants, business men from all sections of the state will assemble at 10 Thursday morning at the Lincoln to discuss the general sales tax. Next week the state Chamber of Commerce will hold a meeting for manufacturers and merchants at which complete details of probable effect of the sales tax will be presented. Provisions of the proposed state income tax law' are the most drastic imposed by any state, officials of the State Chamber of Commerce declared today after preparing comparative figures. No other state has a law' taxing incomes of individuals who earn only a little more than SSO monthly, the figures show'. “The unmarried, small wage earner, who makes more than SSO a month finds no chance for tax relief in the proposed measure,” a chamber bulletin asserts. “The married men w'ho is capable of earning sll7 monthly for the support of two dependents finds his problem made more difficult.” Under the proposed Indiana income tax, the levy on incomes w’ould be from 33 to 529 per cent higher (Turn to Page Two) GARNISHEE REPEAL MEASURE IS KILLED Indefinitely Postponed on Second House Reading. Only a brief flurry of action attended the death of the Jessup garnishee repeal bill Tuesday in the house when the measure was postponed indefinitely on second reading. Representative Harry G. Strickland (Dem., Greenfield) moved for indefinite postponement as soon as the bill was handed down by Speaker Earl Craw'ford. Representative Charles P. Tighe (Dem., New Albany) made an effort to save the bill by moving the postponement be tabled, but lost by a heavy vote.

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Bv Initert Pres* Bradstreet's Weekly reports | business failures in week ended Jan. 19 totaled 612, against 660 in i preceding w 7 eek and 718 in like 1932 w r eek. Axton-Fisher Tobacco Company reports 1932 net profit of $1,416,952. against $605,552 in 1931. Wabash Railway Company reports revenue freight loadings last week werei 11,165 cars, against 10,381 cars in preceding week. United States Glass Company reopens its Tiffen (O.) plant after months’ shutdown. EX-LEGISLATOR IS DEAD 1 Captain Patrick Hays, Civil War Veteran, Dies at ldavilie. ! By United Press IDAVILLE, Ind., Jan. 25.—Patrick Hays, 89, Civil war veteran and | former state legislator, died Tuesday at his home here. He served as White county commissioner from 1909 to 1912 and in 1913 began a term in the state ! legislature. He was a shoemaker and merchant until he retired in 1913. ROY 8080 ON STAND State Rests Murder Case and Defendant Takes Witness Stand. By United Press MARION. Ind.. Jan. 25.—The state rested today in the trial of Roy Bobo, 43. Marion, on charges of murdering his former wife, Mrs. Oda Lippens. ]• Defense attorneys immediately I called Bobo to the stand to relate his story of the shooting. 3

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Accessory After Murder Charges Are Dismissed by Judge. SELF-DEFENSE UPHELD Effect on Fight to Save Woman From Gallows Is Uncertain. BY GALE D. WALLACE, I nitfd Press Staff Correspondent PHOEXLX, Ariz., Jan. 25. —The fight of Winnie Ruth jJudd, condemned murderess, 1 to embroil J. J. (Happy Jack) Halloran, wealthy Arizona lumberman, in the murder of Agnes Ann Leroi, ended unsuccessfully tod'iy when complaint charging Halloran as an accessory after murder, vvas dismissed. ! Despite testimony by the attrac- ] dve blond nurse that Halloran ; helped her dismember and dispose |of the bodies of Mrs. Leroi and : Hedvig Samuelson, Superior Judge J. C. Niles ruled the state had failed to prove Mrs. Judd commitI ted murder, and that, as a consequence. Halloran could not be held. The court pointed out that Mrs. ; Judd, testifying for the state, claimed she killed the women—her best friends —in self-defense. "If this is true.” the judge said, “the facts of murder and the theory of self-defense can not be reconciled.’’ Legal Authorities Confused Halloran’s hearing began a w'eek ago with Mrs. Judd as the state’s star witness. She claimed she killer her friends in a fight over Halloran, her former admirer. Legal authorities w r ere confused as to W’hat effect the decision may have on Mrs. Judd’s case. At the time of the ruling she w r as |in her cell in death row at the ! state penitentiary, where on Feb. ! 17, she has been ordered hanged j for the Leroi slaying. | County attorneys and court attaches were inclined to believe the j decision would help Mrs. Judd only jas it w'ould influence the prison i board of pardons and parols, which :could intervene. ! She already sas an appeal before the board, taken immediately after the state supreme court upheld her convition. Tells Details of Killing Mrs. Judd in five consecutive days of hysterical and sometimes inco- | herent testimony, claimed Miss Samuelson first approached her with a gun, and that while she struggled for possession of it, Mrs. Leroi beat her with an ironing board. Eventually, she gained possession of the gun and killed her two assailants, she said. She contended she encountered Halloran, that he took care of pack- . ing the bodies in trunks and perI suaded her to flee to Los Angeles j where she was captured. Except for his persuasion, she testified, she would have notified either her husband or police of the slayings. STOCKHOLDERS RENEW BATTLE FOR ASSETS j Federal Judge Johnson Sits in Case of Mortgage Company. Efforts of preferred stockholders in the defunct Hawkins Mortgage I Company to share in distribution ot | assets was renewed In federal court | today in a hearing before Federal | Judge George E. Q. Johnson, Chii cago, sitting as special judge. The hearing was on petition ol I George T. Whittaker, Portland, | state court receiver, and H. G. i Hoch. Delaware, ancillary receiver, for review of a bankruptcy court ! ruling that about $150,000 he disj tributed to minority common and preferred stockholders who filed 1 claims within the stipulated period, which expired in 1925. The receivers ask that the funds, j now held by Warrick Wallace, J federal trusteein bankruptcy, be | turned over to them for distribution I to all preferred stockholders, as the 1 incorporation provided that preI ferred stockholders, whose claims aggregate about $500,000 be paid first. SCHOOL BOARD LOSER j Wayne Township Residents Win Fight to Avoid Paying Tuition. Indianapolis school board today ; lost in its attempt to force four Wayne township residents to pay j tuition for the attendance of their I children in Washington high school. Jury in municipal court one reI turned a verdict in favor of the deI fendants and ordered the school ■ board to refund SSO to S. C. CulI bertson. a defendant. The sum represented money already paid for tuition. Culbertson was sued for $180; Stephen Fullen. S9O; James Cossell, $l3O, and Lynn Reeves, SIBO. The school board alleged that the i defendants agreed to pay for tuition of the children pending transfers by Fred T. Gladden, county school superintendent. STEEL GAIN REPORTED Industry Is Expanding Slowly, Says Iron Age in Article. By United Prrxx NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—Steel industry operations continue to expand slowly, the Iron Age reported, placing this week’s output at 17 per cent of capacity.