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HIGHWAY PAY CUTS BLOCKED IN HOUSE VOTE Bill Approved by Senate Advanced to Stage of Engrossment. UTILITY MEASURES UP Tax on Holding Companies, With Severe Penalties, Recommended. Victorious on two roll calls by majorities of only four and six, the administration advanced its highway commission ripper bill to engrossment in the house of representatives today. The bill already had been passed by the senate, where it originated. Three attempts were made to cut the annual salary of each member ol the new commission, the pay being fixed in the bill at $5,200 a year. First of the salary cut amendments was offered by Representative Paul It. Sturm (Dem.. Dana), who sought to fix the pay at $3,500 a year. After heated argument, the roll call showed 44 votes for the amendment and 43 opposed. As the call progressed, many Democrats explained their votes, declaring it to be poor economy in the face of conditions to pay commissioners SIOO a week. Held High Caliber Men Representative Edward H. Stein tDeiii., Bloomfield), administration leader, declared the caliber of men needed for the commission could not be obtained for less than the salary set, in the bill. One of the insurgent Democrats, Representative Eugene Martin, Ft. Wayne, declared that under the present s"tup the commissioners are paid a total of only $6,018 a year, while the salaries the bill sets would make a total of $15,600. The second cut, proposed by Representative Lee Shafer (Dem., Royal Center), was to fix the salaries at $4,200 a year. It lost, 45 to 39. Representative Herbert H. Evans, Newcastle, minority leader, proposed the third cut, to $4,800 a year. It lost on a voice vote. Utility Bill Advanced Stein joined the opposition to an amendment offered by Representative John F. Ryan (Dem., Terre Haute), who said the purpose was to prevent “fly by night” gravel operators from supplying material for state road construction. Such stipulation would be a regulatory matter, Stein said, and a (Turn to Page Three) COOLIDGE EULOGIZED AT RITES IN CONGRESS Hoover, Other High Officials Attend Solemn, Formal Services. By X nited Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—Congress in formal joint session today commemorated the life and public services of Calvin Coolidge, late former president, who died last month. They heard one of the former President's close friends. Chief Justice Arthur P. Rugg of the Massachusetts supreme court, eulogize Mr. Coolidge as “the incarnation of the ideal of the America of his day." Unflinching prosecution of the oil scandals, stern economy and tax reduction, consummation of the Kellogg peace treaty and the clearing away of misunderstandings with Mexico were cited by Chief Justice Rugg as the outstanding accomplishment of the Coolidge administration. 32 CITY FIRES IN DAY Total Damage Is $2,000; Two Women Routed in Night Clothes. Damage estimated by firemen at a total of $2,000 was caused by thirty-two fires in the city Sunday, one of which forced two women to flee from their homes in their night clothing as the mercury hovered near the zero mark. The woman, Mrs. Mary Scott, living in Apartment 6, Garden court, and a lodger, were awakened by clouds of smoke caused by a fire in a basement coal bin. They were given shelter at home of neighbors. Damage was small, according to firemen. BANKER GOES ON TRIAL Former Goshen Cashier Faces Court on Embezzlement Count. By 1 nihd I‘i i< ELKHART. Ind.. Feb. 6—Frank E. Yoder, former cashier of the defunct Goshen State bank, went on trial in Elkhart superior court today on charges of embezzlement and larceny. He is accused of taking approximately $2,000 of the bank's money.

What Is SI? If you say the dollar of 1926 was worth 100 cents, the dollar of 1917-1920 was worth from 65 to 84 cents. And the dollar of today Is worth $1.56. To the debtor that means it takes 50 per cent more labor or goods today to pay off a debt contracted in 1926 than it would have taken then. And twice as much labor or goods to pay ofl today a debt contracted in 1917-1920. What is the answer? Read the second article on conversion and inflation on Page 2.

The Indianapolis Times Snow probable tonight and Tuesday; slightly warmer tonight with lowest temperature about 23; cold wave Tuesday with temperature near zero at night.

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Second Disastrous Fire In Year Sweeps Coney Island; Loss Is $250,000 Solid Block of Concessions Are Destroyed Before Score of Companies Are Successful in Their Spectacular Fight to Control Blaze. By L nited Prr ss NEW YORK, Feb. 6. —The second disastrous fire within a year swept Coney Island, America’s most gaudy amusement resort, early today. A solid block of concessions were destroyed, with a loss estimated at $250,000.

Fanned by a strong wind, the flames threatened to engulf a large portion of the resort, but five alarms mobilized a score of fire-fighting companies and after a two-hour battie, they were confined to the one block. Freezing temperature that solidified water into solid sheets in the streets, and on building walls plus the roaring, crackling flames, made

University Music Dean’s Wife Is Held for Ransom Gang Drive Car to Door of California Woman to Abduct Her; Life Threatened in Note. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6.—Kidnaped by a gang which drove an automobile to her home, knocked o n her door, and lured or forced her into the machine, Mrs. Mary Skeele, 65, wife of the dean of music at the University of Southern California, today was held for SIO,OOO ransom.

While her husband, Dr. Walter Skeele, played the organ at a church service Sunday night, Mrs. Skeele received a telephone call advising her that he had been injured in an automobile accident. Then, police were told, she telephoned a son, Franklin, asked him to meet her at the hospital to which she had been told Dr. Skeele was taken. The son, an advertising executive, promised. Suddenly, he said, his mother told him: “A car has just pulled up in front of the house and somebody’s knocking on the door. I think it’s the car they said they’d send for me.” She ended the conversation, locked the house and vanished, apparently spirited away in the abductor’s car as she emerged from the front door. At the hospital the son learned his father was not a patient, that his mother had not appeared. He found his father at the church, rushed with him to the home, to find a two-page ransom note pinned to the screen door. Threatening harm to Mrs Skeele if police were notified, it demanded SIO,OOO ransom ‘‘immediately.” FIREMEN'S BATTLE TO SAVE LIFE FAILS Kokomo Girl Dies After Recovery Is Predicted. By Failed Press KOKOMO, Ind.. Feb. 6.—Miss Mary Hilligoss, 22-year-old Kokomo waitress, died Sunday from penumonia, ending the long fight waged by firemen to keep her alive by artificial respiration. Death came a few hours after physicians had ordered the resusciator removed, and predicted her recovery. CORBETT IS -UNCHANGED' Former Heavyweight Champion Still Is in critical Condition. Bjl United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—Condition of James J. (Gentleman Jim) Corbett. former heavyweight boxing champion, is “unchanged’’ at his Bayside home, where he is suffering from a critical glandular disorder induced by heart disease. ‘LAME DUCK~ERA~ENDS New Amendment to U. S. Constitution Officially rroclaimed. B;i United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 6.—Secretary of State Henry Stimson today officially proclaimed in effect the so-called "lame duck’’ amendment to the Constitution, changing the term of office of the President, VicePresident and the congress. GIRL. 3. DIES IN FIRE Burned to Death in Farm Home of Grandfather Near Lebanon. Bn United Press LEBANON. Ind.. Feb. 6.—Phyllis Padgett. 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Padgett, was burned to death when the farm ; home of her grandfather. Ollie Milj ler. near here, was destroyed by fire. Eight other persons escaped. STAND AGAINST JAPAN i League’s Committee of 19 Agrees on Non-Recognition of Manchukuo. Hn I niteil Press GENEVA. Feb. 6.—The League of Nations committee of nineteen agreed today in principle that nonrecognition of the state of Manchuokuo should be included in recommendations for settlement of the Manchurian dispute between Japan and China. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 15 10 a. m 27 7 a. m 16 11 a. m 30 8 a. m 19 12 (noon) ..32 9 a. m 22 1 p. m 34

it one of Coney’s most bizarre spectacles. Firemen manning hose lines had to be relieved every ten minutes and taken to heated rooms where the ice was broken off their clothes. The concessions lost included Night in Venice, the Virginia Reel, the Wonder Park, the Caterpillar Ride and the Motor Parkway.

FREE FOOD, IS JOBLESS CRY 300 Unemployed March on County Commissioners at Evansville. By X nited Press EVANSVILLE. Ind., Feb. 6. Three hundred unemployed “hunger marchers” stormed the county commissioner’s office here today demanding that their request for free food and utility service be met immediately. William Powell, spokesman for the group, headed the delegation. He presented the demands to County Attorney James F. Ensle, while the remainder of the crowd milled outside the building. Powell was informed that his demands could not be met immediately. Then, according to Ensle, Powell became boisterous, and police had to be called to take him out and to break up the crowd. None was injured. Six persons, including Powell, were placed in jail. The crowd followed police to the courthouse, but was forced back when officers used tear gas bombs which failed to explode. SHERIFF SUMNER MAY ENTER RACE FOR MAYOR Expected to Enter lasts Within Few Days; McKinney Is Silent. Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner is expected to enter the lists as a Democratic candidate for the mayoralty nomination within the next few days. E. Kirk McKinney, works board president, has been regarded as a prospective candidate, but has made no formal statement. Municipal Judge Thomas E. Garvin has denied he will be a mayoralty candidate on the Democratic ticket. Five Are Injured in Blast By X'nited Press DALLAS. Tex., Feb. 6. —Five men were injured, one perhaps fatally, in an explosion of dynamite among a crew of workmen on a storm sewer construction project today.

Muncie Pastor, Waiting Attack Trial, Suspended

Appointment of the Rev. J. P. Chamness as acting pastor of the Madison Street Methodist church at Muncie definitely confirmed reports today that the Rev. G. Lemuel Conwav, regular pastor, has been suspended pending trial by a church court on charges involving an 18-year-old girl. Chamness filled Mr. Conway’s pulpit Sunday and the Rev. Frank L. Dougherty, district superintendent, confirmed his appointment. Bishop Edgar Blake will preside at a meeting of church officials in Ft. Wayne Tuesday, when a venire of twenty-four ministers will be selected for Conway’s trial. Out of the twenty-four names approved, twelve will be selected to hear the case. The girl’s charges were contained in an indictment recently returned by the Delaware county grand jury. Mr. Conway is specifically charged with assault and battery while attempting a criminal attack. Another indictment also charged him with assault and battery. This case grew out of a fight between the minister and his choir leader in the church Jan. 22. William Aurand. the choir leader, was knocked over the chancel rail. By I xitrd Prr MUNCIE. Ind.. Feb. 6.—Failure of the Rev. G. Lemuel Conway to deliver his regular sermon at the Madison Street Methodist church

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1933

IVAN MORGAN PREPARES FOR PARLEYFIGHT G. 0. P. Chairman, Battling Ouster, May Demand Campaign Review. WATSON'S HAND SEEN Coffin, Gates and Irwin Are Boomed for State Job. When Ivan Morgan, chairman of the Republican state committee, faces district chairmen and women Tuesday afternoon, answering a demand made by a number at a meeting three weeks ago, he may call for a thorough review of the entire campaign. Morgan's friends attribute the effort to oust him to Senator James E. Watson, who, so they say. desires to retain control of the party machinery. To him is traced the strategy by which a number of the committeemen hope to step into the place. Last week an effort was made to placate Morgan by elevating him to the chairmanship of the executive committee, an honorary job of no power. Thus far, it is said, Morgan has refused to accept the place and prefers to fight in the open. Women Want Explanation The committee meets at 1 o’clock. But at 11 o’clock the women members of the committee have been invited to meet with Mrs. Beryl Holland, vice chairman, and discuss matters. Morgan is said to have been more considerate of the claims of the women of the party than were his predecessors and they are not unified on the proposal to replace him without some explanation. If Morgan should be voted out or decides to quit, the selection of a successor is not so certain. Watson is reported to have made overtures to others than Don Irwin of Frankfort. One of the new names is that of Ralph Gates of Columbia City, former commander of the American Legion. Coffin Is Boomed And from Indianapolis comes a claim that George b. Coffin should be put at the head, as the master politician of the state. He will have at least three votes and perhaps more. From others will come a resolution demanding an audit of expenditures. It is charged that one of the reasons for Watson’s antagonism to Morgan was the latter’s refusal to send more and more money to Lake county after he had placed $13,500 at disposal of John Scott, who led the fight against Morgan. ’ Another distribution of $4,500 was made to Huffman of Evansville and there was peevishness because more was not forthcoming. Other districts that saw their local tickets defeated are questioning even these amounts to two counties W’here defeat was overwhelming. In the meantime, Watson followers are attempting to smother any open discussion, by pleading with Morgan to be good and quit without any fuss, in return for a resolution of thanks and explanation that no farther sacrifices for the party will be asked. 30 QUIZZED IN MURDER Elkhart Police Convinced Real Estate Man Was Slain. By United Press ELKHART, Ind., Feb. 6.—Convinced that Harley Heimbaugh, Elkhart real estate dealer, was murdered instead of accidentally drowned, police today questioned thirty persons who saw him at a party, Feb. 3. Heimbaugh’s body was found in his automobile in St. Joseph river. He was in the back seat. Bloodstains indicated he had been slain before his car was pushed into the river.

led to the belief today that he was under suspension pending outcome of serious charges being considered by Bishop Edgar Blake, Detroit. The pulpit was filled Sunday by the Rev. J. P. Chamness, a former pastor. The Delaware couifty grand jury recently indicted Mr. Conway on charges of attempting a criminal attack on Helen Huffman, 18-year-old high school girl.

Long Public Life of Cordell Hull, Likely Secretary of State, Devoted to Tariff and Economic Subjects

BY MARSHALL McNEIL Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—Around the capitol one sees a tall, spare man who walks with his body bent forward. A definitely pre-oc-cupied air is about him. His long, finely-modeled head with a thinning gray thatch of hair is bent forward and down. His eyes seem fixed on the floor just before him. He passes an acquaintance and looks up, almost as if by chance. There is an expression of surprise on his face that he should see just that person at that spot. His thin lips transform a broad, almost grim mouth into a friendly,

VACANT HOUSES RIPPED TO BITS BY VANDALS

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Fate of vacant residences in Indianapolis is shown strikingly in these photos of a house in the 2000 block Ludlow avenue, that has been dismantled by vandals seeking lumber and wood for fuel. The residence has not been occupied for almost two years, and in the upper photo it is shown how the porch was torn from the

Girl Plunges to Death; Quiz A. R. Erskine Jr. Quarrel at Night Club Results in Pretty Blond Leaping From Window of Thirty-Third-Floor Apartment. By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 6.—Albert Russel Erskine Jr., adopted son of the millionaire automobile manufacturer, was summoned today for an inquest into the death of a pretty blond, who leaped from a thirty-third floor window’ of a hotel after a cabaret party to which Erskine took her.

COLD WAVE TO HOLDGRIP HERE Zero Weather by Tuesday Night Is Forecast of Weather Man. A severe cold wave again by Tuesday night was forecast for the city and state today by the weather bureau. Following an unexpected drop to 1.8 degrees above zero early Sunday the slight mercury rise today will be followed by a plunge downward, and zero will be reached Tuesday j night, J. H. Armington, meteorolo- ; gist, forecast. Below zero temperatures are scheduled for northern Indiana. A wave of intense cold will sween eastward from the far northwest where temperatures this morning were from 50 to 60 degrees lower, in some sections as low as 30 degrees below zero. The temperature tonight will be about 23. Lowest mercury reading Sunday night was 12 at 8. 9, 10 and 11. At 6 this morning temperature was 15. Snow is probable for tonight and Tuesday, Armington said. MOLLISON IS OFF ON NEW LONG HOF " South America, New York Two Sea Flights on Route. i By United Press LYMPNE AIRDROME. England, Feb. 6.—James A. Mollison left in | his baby monoplane today on a ! journey which he expected to carry him across the South Atlantic to Argentina, northward to New York and back to England, via the North [ Atlantic.

pleasant smile. He speaks affably. Down goes his head and he walks on. In his left hand, grasped with long expressive fingers, there is a bundle of papers. His distinguished form, clothed in a dark conservative suit, disappears through the senate doors. If you didn't know that was Cordell Hull, the junior Democratic senator from Tennessee, you might guess he was a professor, hurrying to a class in phikoophy or the science of government. Cordell Hull probably was thinking about the tariff and its effect on present world conditions. He has been thinking about these matters for nearly a generation. Twenty-three years ago, on Jan.

house and the walls stripped of boarding. In the lower photo the rear of the dwelling is shown as it looks today, stripped of all lumber. On an adjoining lot a house has been torn down completely, only the foundation remaining in proof that a structure ever stood on the site.

Erskine and the girl, Miss Vera Heyburn, 25, quarreled at the night club because she believed he was too attentive to other women, police were told. She left the party, went to the exclusive Medinah Athletic Club, where Erskine lives, and leaped from a window near his room. Her body plunged to a setback on the twenty-fifth floor. It lay there eight hours in the near-zero weather until discovered by a maid who peered from the open window. The club, where Erskine has lived two months, faces on Michigan avenue. Erskine told police that he and Miss Heyburn were accompanied to the party by F. Ward Just, son of a Waukegan publisher; A. C. Atwater, brother-in-law ,of Philip K. Wrigley, and Miss Gladys Stewart. After their quarrel, Erskine said, he gave Miss Heyburn taxi fare, and went to spend the night with Atwater. He did not learn of the suicide until Sunday afternoon. Police said they were satisfied with Erskine’s story. They believed that Miss Heyburn went to the Athletic Club, to' wait for Erskine to come home, despondent as a result of their quarrel. Miss Hej’burn was unemployed, but formerly was a stenographer in a broker's office. Erskine, who is 24, is an adopted son of the president of the Studebaker Corporation at South Bend

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27, 1910, Mr. Hull, then a member of the house from Tennessee, rose and said: “Mr. Chairman, our present monopoly tariff law is a miserable travesty, an ill-designed patchwork, a piece of brazen legislative jobbery. Protection to a small number of pampered, stilted individuals, not revenue for the government, is its chief design. “This indefensible doctrine has become the cancer of the government’s fiscal system. It is the mightiest engine of oppression ever devised by legislative legerdemain. ’’ On May 19. 1932, Senator Hull spoke to the senate, saying: “The tariff act referred to ithat of

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GLASS’ CHARGE OF VOTE BUYING CITED BY BARRY Suspended Senate Employe Reads Words of Virginian Attacking Bankers Before Committee Investigating Case. CONGRESSMEN ‘HIRED/ IS CLAIM Sergeant-at-Arms Asserts Washington College Students Are Taught by Professors That Corruption Is General. BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—David S. Barry, suspended sergeant-at-arms of the senate, today defended his assertions that some congressmen accept bribes by citing statements of two senators and allegations that local university students were taught that corruption in congress was general. Barry appeared before the senate judiciary committee. Calm in the midst of a rapid-fire burst of questions, lie read a prepared statement asserting that Senator Carter Glass (Dem., Va.) had stated in the senate that bankers “hired some congressmen” to oppose the Glass bank bill.

MUTINY FLARES ON DUTCH SHIP Crew Takes Over Vessel; Warships on Way to Quell Uprising. By United Press THE HAGUE. Netherlands. Feb. 6. —Naval seaplanes flew over the cruiser Zeven Provincien, seized by mutineers in the East Indies, and threatened to bomb the ship if it does not surrender, authorities were advised today. The fliers displayed their bombs threateningly to the men on the deck of the ship. The crew mutinied to rescue sailors imprisoned for rioting over pay cuts. Meanwhile, the entire Dutch East Indian fleet was concentrating near Sumatra. Native Sumatrans, who made up the crew of the Cruiser De Zezen Provincien had overpowered their officers, and according to the ministry of colonies here, were heading for Sourabaya, Java, where they ; >parently hoped to free native enlisted men arrested after the pay cut protests. Pay in the Dutch navy was reduced 17 per cent.

BOY, 7, IS STABBED BY 8-YEAR-OLD ‘FOE’ Runs to Defend Sister; Knife Plunged Into Neck. By United Press DALLAS, Tex., Feb. 6.—“ That’s my sister —you leave her alone,” cried Cleveland Huff. 7, as he rushed to defend his 6-year-old sister against two small boys who were throwing rocks at her. A moment later Cleveland lay on the sidewalk, critically wounded by one of the boys, 8 years old. who stabbed him behind the ear with a pochJt knife. The assailant and his companion, 6, were turned over to juvenile authorities. BANKING QUIZ DELAYED Other Court Matters to Be Disposed of First, Cox Announces. Continuation of the probe instituted by Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox regarding the affairs of defunct city banks and receivership will be delayed until disposal of other court matters, Cox said today. In rapid succession last week Cox heard twelve cases involving the Washington Bank and Trust Company, the State Savings and Trust Company and the City Trust Company, ail of which are closed and in receivership. Quell Flames on Steamer By United Press ASTORIA, Ore., Feb. 6.—Fire that broke out at sea in the engine room of the steamer Pacific Shipper of London, was brought under control today by the crew after Captain H. Fairclaugh had sent out a call for aid.

1930) has proven utterly disastrous to our trade as well as to our relationship with other countries. The truth is that American trade has almost been outlawed." In Warm Springs, Senator Hull recently has been in conference with President-elect Roosevelt, who called him there; and report is that the Tennessean will be secretary of state in the newcabinet. Senator Hull has been a member of congress for twenty-four years, the last two of them in the senate. He regards the peaks of his legislative career in the house as his writing of the federal income tax bill of 1913, its revision in 1926. and his authorship of the (Turn to Page Seven)

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The elderly senate employe cited a statement by Chairman Gerald Nye of the senate campaign fund investigating committee in further support of his charges. He said he had been told by a student that he had been taught that corruption was general in congress. The committee adjourned its hearing on the motion to remove Barry with the understanding that the name of the student and the professor would be given Tuesday. Raked by Big Three Barry revealed further that the offending paragraph in former Governor Alfred E. Smith's New Outlook had been lilted from the body of his article to become the first paragraph. The witness said he thought the university attended by the student with whom he had talked either was Georgetown or George Washington. Both schools are located here. The small elderly senate employe bristled under the rapid fire questioning of the senators, who sat around him at the committee table. The tiny room was packed. Many women stood on chairs in the rear, craning at the sight of the big three of the senate—Borah, Norris and Walsh, of Teapot Dome fame—raking the aged employe. Quotes Glass Assertion ‘Have you any knowledge that any senator or representative acted in a corrupt manner in selling his vote?” asked Borah. “No, I think not,’’ Barry said. “Don’t you know that Senator Glass was referring to a congress of ten years ago, not to the present congress?” asked Blaine (Rep.. Wis.). “I didn’t know it,” Barry answered. “If it is an offense to have said what I said in my article,” Barry had said in his prepared statement, “then I am not alone guilty, for on May 10, 1932, Senator Glass, speak-.* ing on the subject of the tion of certain bankers to the proposed legislation in regard to branch banking, said: “They hired a skillful and persuasive profession allobbyist and paid him a hifgh salary to come here to Washington—worse than that, they hired some congressmen to my positive and documentary knowledge—to oppose even that small measure o branch banking.” Barry’s statement distributed to the press underscored the reference to hiring congressmen. Won’t Resign, He Says Barry told the committee that in the New Outlook article he was “endeavoring to represent it as the true situation that the isolated case of the misconduct of individuals in office offered no basis for the loose public condemnation of the senate one so often hears.” He said he would not resign, but would await the judgment of the senate. The committee had before it a motion for his removal from office. The senate has agreed to vote on the motion Tuesday. Barry cited also a letter written by Chairman Gerald Nye of the senate campaign fund committee to the late Senator Thaddeus Caraway <Dem„ Ark.) referring to activities of lobbyists on Capitol hill, and to the fact that a senator had said “a certain measure would be enacted because the interests were behind it.”

Traitor Falls

Many baffling crimes fall to the lot of agents of the federal bureau of investigation. This is a little known arm of government service, in which 800 operatives, all college men, work. They operate under a system of secrecy which often leaves them unknown to one another. For the first time, the agents’ part in several famous cases will be told, in a series of stories which will start Wednesday in The Times. The initial story will tell the fate of a traitor in the ranks, who tried to ruin a fellow worker so he coulc. pocket a fat bribe from a dope ring. Read the first of this fascinating series Wednesday in The Times.