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BRIBE CHARGE STIRS TURMOIL IN CONGRESS Veteran Sergeant-at-Arms Is Suspended by Irate Senate. AL SMITH MENTIONED Resolution Demanding Libel Action Is Studied by Committee. BY LYLE C. WILSON I nilrd Pres% Staff rorre*i>ondent WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.—Senate judiciary committeemen today studied a resolution looking toward the possibility of bringing legal action against the magazine New Outlook for publishing an article implying that some congressmen sell their votes. The author of the article, 74-year-old David Barry, veteran senate sergeant-at-arms, was brought beiore the bar of the senate in an unprecedented scene Friday, crossexamined by angry legislators, and temporarily suspended. The judiciary committee is to submit for senate action Tuesday its recommendations on two questions: Whether Barry should be discharged; and whether legal action under the libel laws should be sought against him and against the magazine, of which Alfred E. Smith is editor. Senator Thomas Wal.sh (Dem., Mont., ferret of the oil scandals, quietly introduced the resolution which may detonate political dynamite. Senate Lawyers Disagree He asked that transcripts of the senate's inquisition of Barry be sent to the federal attorneys o fthe District of Columbia and the Southern district of New York. The resolution requests “appropriate action” by the New’ York prosecutor, in whose district the magazine is published. Senate lawyers disagreed as to whether the article coulud have violated the libel laws. Some held there could be no libel because no individuals were named in the article. The lines in Barry's article which stirred the senatorial tempest were: “Contrary, perhaps, to the popular belief, there are not many crooks in congress, that is, out and out grafters, or those who are will- * ing to be such; there are not many senators or representatives who sell their vote for money, and it is pretty well known who those few are. Adults Having no Proof Barry when placed in a witness chair on the presiding officer's dias, explained his idea was to defend the legislator’s reputations. But the senate w r as w r rathful over his implication that there were some who could be bought. Under a cross fire of questions Barry said he had no proof that some sell their votes. But he said he believed his accusation was not false, although a matter of opinion. By a vote of 40 to 31 the senate refused summarily to discharge Barry. On that moral issue, the senate divided almost exactly on political lines. Three Republicans—Brookhart, Norris and Nye—voted with the Democrats to fire Barry. Six Democrats voted wdth the Republicans against summary dismissal. They were Ashurst. Copeland, Glass, Hayden, Lewis and Tydings. Action Nearly Ludicrous Senator John J. Blaine 'Rep., Wis.t. demanded that the judiciary committee subpena ex-Governor Smith and other witnesses before reporting on the case. “The senate should go into the matter thoroughly and determine whether there are members who take bribes.” he said. The senate proceedings merged at times on the ludicrous before it finally was decided that action should be postponed. “Thumbs down, off with his head, throw him to the lions,” was, in effect, the battle cry on one side. “Thumbs down, at least for a little while, let's sleep on it." pleaded the others. Trouble Is Brewing “Let's give the sergeant-at-arms the croix de guerre and the medal of honor and retire him on full pay after March 4,” suggested Senator Thomas P. Gore (Dem., Okla.>. recalling that as a Republican appointee Barry is through Mgrch 4 regardless of decision in the present case. “Let him have counsel." pleaded Senator Arthur Robinson *Rep., Ind.L “You don't try a man without counsel.” “Plenty of people are going off the pay roll March 4 without benefit of counsel." said Senator Hugo Black <Dcm.. Ala.t. with a malicious grin at lame duck colleagues. In such fashion the senate finally decided to leave everything to later decision. But of far greater consequence today that Barn-, former newspaper reporter, who seems to have written himself out of a good job. is the brief resolution offered to the senate by the quiet Walsh. Trouble may come of that. In the Air Weather condition at 9 a. m.: Northwest wind. 8 miles an hour: temperature, 25; barometric pressure. 29.88 at sea level; general condition, overcast, hazy; ceiling, estimated 3,500 feet; visibility, 3 miles; field, good.

The Indianapolis Times Mostly fair and colder tonight with lowest temperature about 17; Sunday snow flurries and slowly rising temperature.

VOLUME 44—NUMBER 231

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Eight women, patients of the Ridgecliff Sanitarium in Wickliffe, Cleveland, died in flames that estroyed the hospital building. Firemen are shown searching the ruins for the body of a possible ninth ictim. Investigators said the blaze may prove to have been incendiary.

Hitler Given Hindenburg Decree Muzzling Press Two Communist Newspapers Suspended by Chancellor: Others Are Expected to Be Suppressed. BY FREDERICK KL’H {(nited Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, Feb. 4.—A decree curtailing 1 the freedom of the press was signed today by President Von Hindenburg. The decree was understood to include the same essential provisions as an edict issued when Franz von Papen was chancellor, which was rescinded by Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher.

FOUR PRISONERS ESCAPE HERE Flee From Deputy While Being Taken to State Farm. Four prisoners escaped from custody of Marion county deputy sheriffs in the downtown district early today while being taken to the Indiana state farm at Putnamville. Twenty other prisoners did not escape. Two of the prisoners leaped from rear of a bus at West and Washington streets, while two others made their escape at the White river bridge. Squads of police were scouting both vicinities in search for the escaped men. The deputies were Harry Coot and Michael Lane. They are Leroy Bryant, 2235 West Morris street; James O. Finn. 2623 East Washington street, and James Smith, Negro, 411 West North street, all facing- terms for drunkenness, and Robert . Daniels, Negro, 653 Bright street, convicted of petit larceny. DEATH WREATH STOLEN Thief Runs Off With Mourning Flowers at Hammond. By 1 nited Pre* HAMMOND. Ind.. Feb. 4.—As the body of Mrs. Thomas O'Toole lay in a casket, a thief stole the mourning wreath from the door of the home. A sister-in-law heard steps on the porch at 4 a. m. Opening the front door, she discovered the wreath was gone. ”50 Enrolled at Wabash By t n ill and Pn CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind.. Feb. 4 —An enrollment of 350 for the second semester was announced today by Wabash college officials.

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Bv United Trfss Standard Brands. Inc., reports 1932 net income of $15,001,491, against $14,542,319 in 1931. Dome Mines reports January output of $364,879. against $319.736 in January, last year. Interstate commerce commission reports December income of first seventy reporting railroads increased 16.6 per cent over December. 1931 total. Youngstown district steed operations hold firm at 20 per cent at producers forecast further small advance.

Conversion or Inflation? Which Is Wag Out? Congress Takes Step for Justice to Both Debtor and Creditor

Thi* is the first of serifs on conversion and inflation. Wilt cither help solve the problems of the depression? Both have their adherents and their arguments will he presented in this series. The fifth of the series on inflation hv Farl Sparling appears today on Pate ?. The final one will he printed Monday. BY HERBERT LITTLE Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.-The people of the United States owe more than they can pay. All of us. individuals and corporations alike, are unable on the whole to balance our budgets. "We already have r ached the i point," sajs Senator Boiah, "when,

EIGHT WOMEN DIE IN SANITARIUM FIRE

] The new decree was expected tc jbe published tonight. It follower ! action of the government of Adolf : Hitler in suppressing the Commu- | nist organ Vorwaerts for three days ' on charges of “high treason and in- | citing to uprising.” The Communist newspaper Rote I Fahn already was under suspension. The decree was expected to be apj plied chiefly to extermist publications. Formerly, newspapers cirticizing the govei-nment or calculated to create political strife have been subject to suspension. Nationalist quarters close to Dr. Alfred Hugenburg, new German food controller, reported that the government was contemplating a i three to four months’ total inter- ! nal moratorium on agricultural | debts to afford a stable basis for j further farm relief. The report appeared in the na- | tionalist newspaper, Kreuz Zeitung, | and was generally assumed to have | emanated from the food controller’s | office. Official confirmation was | lacking. The total agricultural indebtedness is estimated officially at 11,000.000,000 marks. Although pri- | vate estimates are as high as 14,- ; 000,000.000 marks, or approximately 53.500.000.000. Political interest shifted momentarily from the reich to the Prus- ! sian diet, which met to discuss a Nazi motion demanding dissolution of the diet and general elections March 5. when the new reichstag will be elected.

CONGRESS TODAY

By {(nitrd Fress SENATE Continues debate on treasury-post ; office bill. Judiciary subcommittee continues ; hearings on Tyding's labor bill. Agriculture committee continues hearings on domestic allotment plan. Banking and currency subcommittee continues hearings on farm credit legislation. Joint committee continues hearings on veterans’ economy. HOUSE Considers legislative appropriation bill. Banking and currency committee | meets on financial legislation. Coinage committee continues j hearings on silver demonetization. Judiciary committee meets on i Communism bill. New York Stocks Opening (By Abbott, Hoppin & Cos.) - Feb 4Amer Can 57 s a Lig Myers 8..,. 58*4 Allied Chem ... 81*4 Mont Ward .... 12*8 Air Red 57VN Y Central ... 19 Atchison 43 3 y N America .... 24 5 Am Tel & Tel. 100 Penn R R 18 3 „ ; Auburn 41 * 4 Packard 2 3 s Cons Gas 52*4 Radio 4 3 s ; Case J I 42 1 4 R K O 1' 4 I Ches & 0hi0... 29 Std ot Ind 20* K Dupont33s„5 5 „ Std Oil of N J.. 26*4 Fox Film A ... 1 3 a Texas Corp .... 12' Gen Foods .... 23 5 U S Steel 26'. Gillette 16 ! 4 United Corp ... 7 3 < Gen Mot 12*a Un Aircraft ... 23*. Gen Elec 14 Un Carbide .... 25 5 a Goodyear ... 12 Vanadium 11' 4 Gen Am Tk Car 17 3 4 Westinghouse .. 26'a : Int Nickie .... TVWoolworth .... 33 - Johns Man .... 19*a Western Union.. 23*a

measured against interest and taxes, the income of the nation is about zero.’’ That is the story of the deflation. commonly called "depression.” in a headline. But the nation has just as many hogs and cattle, just as much cotton and corn and wheat, and just as many willing productive workers as it ever had. Why can not this situation be adjusted? The statesmen, politicians, and economists of the nation are working on this problem from many different angles, he job is the biggest one in the world today. Some of the proposals and their operations will be outlined here and in subsequent stones* , A

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1933

CAROL ORDERS TROOPS RULE Action Taken After Wrecking of Standard Oil Office by Mob. By lill'll Prow BUCHAREST, Feb. 4.—King Carol signed decrees today establishing a military state of emergency, tantamount to martial law, in Bucharest and the oil district of Ploesti, where a mob wrecked offices of a subsidiary of the Standard Oil of New r Jersey three days ago. The king summoned a cabinet meeting this morning to discuss extending the state of emergency throughout the country. Bucharest and environs were quiet. Widespread labor unrest w r as responsible for the decrees. Troops were ready to go to Ploesti, center of the important Rumanian oil refining industry. Workers invadded the offices, wrecked furniture and attempted to destroy files and records. Parliament began discusion Friday night of proclaiming the military dicatorship veiled uunder the term of “state emergency.” The parliamentary debate followed a general strike of railroad shop workers at Jassy, Bessarabia. Strikers appealed to traffic workers to join them. The w’alkout theratened to cripple railroad service in Moldavia, one of the most important communications systems in the country. The situation w’as aggravated by resignation of Pan Halippa, cabinet minister for the Bessarabian territory, which chiefly will be affected by the emergency decrees. HOGS RISE 10 TO 15 CENTS ON LIGHT SUPPLY Cattle Nominal With Vealers Around Half-Dollar Off. Hogs advanced 10 to 15 cents this morning at the city yards on sharply decreased supplies. Receipts at the local market were estimated at only 1,500. Holdovers were 200. The bulk of sales, on weights of 160 to 250 pounds, -were at $3.50 to $3.60; 250 pounds up, $3.30 to $3.45; 120 to 160 pounds, $3.30 to $3.50. Cattle were nominal on receipts of 50. Vealers held around 50 cents lower at $6.50 down. Calf receipts were 200. Little change was noted in the sheep market, the supply mostly unfinished lambs going at $5.25. Receipts w ; ere 400. CHURCHMEN TO MEET Unitarian Laymen to Hold Annual Mid-Western Parley Here. The annual mid-w’estern 'convention of the Unitarian Laymen's League of the Mississippi and Ohio valleys .will meet Feb. 11 and 12 in the All Souls Unitarian church, Fifteenth and Alabama streets. “Laymen as a Vital Force in the Church and Community” wil be the convention theme. Herbert C. Parsons. Boston. Mass., president of the league and executive secretary of the child council of Massachusetts, will preside at all sessions. Chicago Stocks Opening ißv Abbott. Hopnin & Cos. i Feb. 4 Bore Warner... SVCont Chi com.. 144 Cities Serv .... 2' ( Cont Chi pfd... 15 3 . Cord Coro 6'.

There are two suggested roads out 1 from under the staggering debt burden. which has reached a figure not much less than the national wealth. The first, which congress is treading hesitantly now, is reduction of principal and interest. The second, whose followers appear to be increasing, is inflation. The first is broadly known as conversion. and its aim is to adjust the debt charge downward to offset the rise of the dollar's value since 1929. Inflation seeks to bring the dollar's value down to a reasonable level, the level at which the dollar was borrowed, if that is possible. Our dollar today is charged with i being a "dishonest dollar/’ because t

STATE BUDGET IS FAR BELOW 1931 FIGURES Finishing Touches Will Be Put on Estimates Over Week-End. CUT SEVERAL MILLIONS McNutt Signs Bill Granting Him Wide Powers of Government. Finishing touches will be put on the state budget by Governor Paul V. McNutt and his cohorts over the week-end, and the measure will be presented in the legislature Monday or Tuesday, it was announced today. The bill is expected to carry the lowest total budget figures in many years, the cut from the biennial total of 1931 being between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000, according to reports. Tax bills, including McNutt’s favorite sales tax, will be held up pending passage of the budget bill, so that revenues can be raised to meet the needs, it was explained. Governor Signs Bill Complete control of the state government, under the reorganization plan, was assumed by Governor McNutt at 4:15 p. m., Friday, when he signed the measure, amid praise and applause from legislative leaders who rushed its passage. The Marion county senatorial delegation figured prominently in the picture by presenting the chief executive with an expensive gold fountain pen, one of a series used for the Governor's signature. Its presentation was accompanied by a letter in which the Marion county senators termed the bill “the most progressive piece of legislation in the history of the state.” The letter concluded: “We have arrogated to ourselves the unique and distinctive privilege of presenting to the Governor of the state of Indiana the mechanical instrument with which he will wipe out, obliterate, ami expunge from the face of our state the last vestige of corruption, venality and Stephensonism.” Hopes to Be of Service Representatives Wilfred Jessup (Dem., Centerville), and John Napier Dyer (Dem., Vincennes), coauthors of the bill, stood behind the Governor as he signed it. “I hope this act will enable me to fulfill my earnest desire, which is to be of service to our people,” McNutt said. The measure places all power in his hands and consolidates the government under eight departments. MT. VESUVIUS IS IN ACTION Countryside Terror-Stricken by Explosions Deep Within Mountain. fig Vnilrd Press NAPLES, Italy, Feb. 4.—Mt. Vesuvius, fiery ancient volcano, after slumbering two years, has resumed intense activity. Deep rumblings and earth shocks caused panic Friday among the people of the countryside and nearby villages. Hundreds of quakes had been registered since early Thursday. Professor Alessandro Malladra, director of the Vesuvius observatory, announced. The mest severe came at 3:30 p. m. today, shaking the observatory for fifteen seconds. It was felt in nearby towns of Torre Del Greco, Resila and Portici. Vesuvius spouted ashes and numerous explosion deep within the mountain caused peasants to fear an eruption of the dreaded boiling lava, which has snuffed out countless lives and flooded over villages and towns for centuries. “The new activity of Vesuvius has manifested itself in explosions, rumblings and spouting of incandescent ashes,” Professor Malladra reported. “The glowing, rosy sky around the top. over the crater is due to the boiling lava inside.” Divorces Actor Second Time By 1 nited Prctnt LOS ANGELES. Feb. 4.—Segunda Yriondo Lederer, member of a wealthy Barcelona, Spain, family, Friday, for the second time, was divorced from Otto Lederer, actor. She was divorced from Lederer in July, 1929, but a reconciliation was effected. i

it costs so much in goods or labor. The debtor's dollar goes no further than in 1929; the cerditor's dollar goes much further. To present the debt problem and the "dishonest dollar” in a single simplified example: In 1929. John Smith loaned William Jones SIO,OOO at 6 per cent on a home valued at $20,000. Today, Mr. Jones’ income is half what it was in 1929. and hence the SBOO interest charge takes twice as large a percentage of his income. Mr. Smith is twice as well off as he was in 1929. insofar as his loan is concerned, because of the low jlTurn to Page Nine;

FARM REVOLT GROWS; FIRST BLOODSHED STIRS FEARS IN CORN BELT

World Cut in Tariffs Urged bg Cordell H Jl, Likelg State Secretarg

Economic Parley to End Trade Barriers Sought to Speed Recovery. BY MARSHALL McNEIL Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Senator Cordell Hull (Dem., Tenn.) who is regarded widely as President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice for secretary of state, proposes that the United States call an international economic conference, and suggest to the nations of the world a common policy against further trade barriers and a reduction of 10 per cent of the respective permanent tariff rates. This, he believed, is the way to world recovery. On other international issues he is known by his record to stand as follows: World Court—He's for it. Disarmament—He's for it, but believes that economic disarmament must precede military disarmament.! Russian recognition—He is silent on it. War Debts—He does not see in them any panacea for world recovery, but believes that in the economic conference he proposes these and all other debts should be discussed. Third in U. S. Power Senator Hull, just back from Warm Springs, Ga., where he conferred with Mr. Roosevelt, declines j either to confirm or deny the widespread reports that he is to be the : next secretary of state—third in power in this government. His associates, however, sometimes are addressing him as “Mr. Secretary,” and members of the Tennessee delegation are so convinced that their colleague will get a cabinet post! that they are discussing his prob- i able successor in the senate. The statement of policy which i would be expected to guide Mr. Hull if he were given the foreign rela- I tions portfolio was enunciated by! him in a statement two months ago. j “The United States since 1920, with its greatly superior power and ■ prestige, having led other countries j to these unprecedented heights of ; tariff and other trade obstacles, j should proceed now to lead in the j opposite direction of sanity and i sound business recovery,” Senator Hull said then. Proposes Common End “To this end it is my individual opinion that our government should propose to other governments, acting individually and separately, the 1 carrying out of a common policy of discontinuing any further increases of tariff and similar trade obstructions, and of effecting a horizontal reduction of 10 per cent of their permanent tariff rates. “Our government, as an evidence j of its good faith, should announce its unqualified purpose thus to take ! I the lead. | “Reciprocal commercial treaties I based on mutual tariff concessions 1 and, as nearly as possible, the un- j j conditional favored-nation policy if j other governments will agree, greatly would supplement the usual legis- ' lative method of tariff readjust--1 ment. “Each government well could be , requested to consider a policy dis--1 continuing artificial protection for i any individual business that patenti ly is inefficient on acount of anti- i ' quated plant, or incompetent man- i agement, or hopelessly inflated cap- | ital structure, or for a business that ! ! is clearly not economically justifi- ! j able. Set on Tariff Policy “All efficient industry thereby | would be placed upon a much i healthier and more prosperous basis, j “Without reference to the merits ! of government debts due us, each i important country, before seeking i separate and preferential considera- | tion of their claims for further re- | duction, first should indicate their | ! attitude toward this broader and I more fundamental program. “This government, individually then could hear and consider the applications of our debtor govern- ; ments for further debt readjustment. ! “This it should do entirely sepa- : rately from, but simultaneously 1 , with or following, the proceedings of Ia world economic conference dealing with and acting on tariff policy —not tariff rates—and monetary stability and rehabilitation, credit policy and economic disarmament generally. Get Rid of Surplus This statement and the remainder of Hull's record in the senate and house indicates that if he becomes secretary of state he will concentrate almost wholly upon economic problems to stimulate foreign trade so we may be rid of our surpluses. A further indication, if any is; needed, is in the fact that Hull helped write the Democratic platform. which declares for “reciprocal tariff agreements with other nations. and an international eomomic conference designed to restore international trade and facilitate exchange.” Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 26 8 a. m 26 7 a. m 27 9 a. m 26 I 10 a. m 26

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MERCURY WILL TAKE BIG DROP About 15 Degrees Below Freezing, Is Forecast for Tonight. Light snow today was the forerunner of another temperature drop which may depress the mercury to about 15 degrees below freezing tonight, according to a weather bureau forecast. The temperature drop will be accompanied by mostly fair weather, but occasional snow flurries are expected Sunday when partly cloudy conditions will prevail. The state will feel effect of an area of extreme cold covering lowa and the northwest. Temperature at Des Moines today was zero. NINE SAVED FROM FLAMING CITY HOUSE Two Children Carried Out: Damage Is $1,500. Two small children were carried to safety and seven other persons were forced to flee from their homes early today when fire caused $1,500 damage to a double house at 532-34 South West street. Awakened as dense smoke filled an upstairs room. Mrs. Catherine Dietrick and a sister, Mrs. Mary Wright, carried to safety the two children of Mrs. Dietrick, Marlin, 18 months and Richard, 3 months, who were sleeping in an adjoining room. Flames, originating from a defective flue, according to firemen, first were discovered by Miss Nellie Reed, 18, and a sister, Mary 15, who were sleeping in an upstairs room on the opposite side of the house. The girls then awakened Mrs. Loretta Strait, 18, a guest, and William Reed, the father. They fled to the home of a neighbor. FIGHTER IS KILLED BY BIT OF SPONGE Strangles to Death During Charity Bout In Canada. By United Front KINGSVILLE Ont., Feb. 4.—An amateur boxer, Tony Dragon, 25, fighting in a charity bout here, strangled to death on a piece of his sponge mouthpiece, knocked down his throat, coroners had decided after an autopsy. Coroner H. C. Hillis said there were no injuries to the boxer’s head, and that he did not suffer a heart attack, as it was believed at first. Dragon collapsed in the third round of his bout, and died within a few minutes.

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Capital EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

Milk Price War in Three States Adds Danger to Situation. THREE MEN ARE SHOT Defiance of Officials in Tax Sales Continues; Ban on Bidders. By 1 nited Front CHICAGO, Feb. 4.—The first bloodshed of farmers’ present revolt against burdensome conditions intensified today a rebellion that gradually spread from the Atlantic seaboard to the Rocky mountains. Through the corn belt the situation was made more apprehensive by a milk price war. Three states were affected by the controversy as dairymen protested against low prices. A South Dakota farmer and his two sons were wounded by gunfire when they attempted to run a gantlet of other farmers blocking roads to markets. R. D. Markell, 67. a wealthy Union county (S. D. farmer, was injured seriously by rifle and shotgun slugs. His sons, Harry, 32. and Keats, 24, were less seriously hurt. Other Casualties Reported Markell and his sons were taking 1.000 gallons of milk to Sioux City, la. About two miles west of Sioux City, in South Dakota, nearly seventy farmers placed logs across the road, stopped the Markell truck and ordered them to turn back. They refused. During the argument that followed the shots were fired. A third son, Frank, 22, was uninjured. Two other casualties were reported from lowa. N. Cochran, of Moville, la., who was said to have participated in picket lines, was treated at a hospital for head wounds and cuts. An unidentified man was treated at a doctor’s office for similar injuries. Wisconsin was the other state entangled in the milk price dispute. It also was reported that eastern lowa farmers would be asked to join the strike. Tax Sales Prevented Meanwhile, defiance of officials attempting foreclosure sales on farms continued. Farmers f in states as far west as Colorado, which heretofore ha., not been invol-. ed in the revolt, massed at forced sales to bid in property at penny prices and return it to the owner. Farmers in several other states which have not previously been drawn into the disorder, including Indiana, New York and Missouri, threatened similar proceedings. The sales, postponed in lowa several times, again were delayed in several sections. Farmers attended in groups to prevent prospective bidders from participating. ‘ALMOST DEAD,’ RARE TREATMENT SUCCESS “Methylene Blue" Used Successfully for Third Time to Save Life. Bg l nilrd Press CINCINNATI. O, Feb. 4.—A patient, “almost dead” from carbon monoxide poisoning, was treated successfully here with “methylene blue.” Drs. Edward Dulle and Leon Renneker, announced it was the third time in medical annals that the treatment had been used successfully. Charles Maisel. 46, contractor, was the patient. The physicians said they found him in his garage almost dead from effects of the gas and injected forty cubic centimeters of the “methylene blue” in his left arm. “In a few minutes,” it was said, “his breathing became noticeable, and he was able to move his arms and legs slightly. Within a short time he had been revived to the point that we could take him to the hospital.” DESPONDENT, YOUNG CONTRACTOR ENDS LIFE City Man Compliments Wife on Lunch, Then Puts Bullet Into Heart. After complimenting his wife on the excellence of a lunch, Roy Steckelmeyer, 30, of 334 South Lyons avenue, a contractor, went to a bedroom in his home and shot himself through the heart, Friday afternoon. Dr. John Salb, deputy coroner, said he learned that Steckelmeyer had been despondent because of financial affairs. Mrs. Steckelmeyer said her husband gave no sign of his impending act. After he left the table, he went to the bedroom, she said, and closed the door, without speaking to her. I. U. Student Kidnaped, Robbed Bj I Ml Hot Pro* BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. Feb. 4. - Amos Dollens. 20, Indiana university student, reported to police Friday night that he was kidnaped from a grocery store where he was employed and robbed of $75 by two men. He said he was left bound and gagged in a woods, but freed himself. ,