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NEW LIGHT 1$ CAST ON BANK ‘COW DEAL’; Delay of Nine Months in Prosecution of Harriman Case Revealed. ' EXPLANATION IS GIVEN Fear That Run Would Be Made on Institution Brought Delay. h'l •'( i ippK-tloiranl A cicspaprr Alliance WASHINGTON. March 25.—The demand for congressional investigation of the treasury, the comptroller of the currency, and the department I of justice grew today, with disclosure that Hoover administration officials delayed for nine months the* prosecution of Joseph W. Harriman, j president of the closed Harriman National Bank and Trust Company | of New York, for alleged falsification of accounts. The alleged irregularities first j were discovered on July 9. but a detailed report was not submitted to the comptroller of the currency by j L K. Roberts, chief national bank examiner, until Dec. 23. Only an informal letter for filing * was sent to the comptroller by Roberts on July 25, and it contained no! basis for court action. J. W. Pole ; was comptroller at this time, but he resigned on Sept. 20. Confer With Investigator The senate banking and currency committee, through its chairman, Senator Duncan U. Fletcher <Dem., i Fla.t, now is in long-distance tele- j phone connection with Ferdinand J Pccora, counsel for the committee stock market investigation, in New York, on the Harriman matter. Pecora may come to Washington Tuesday for the committee's scheduled meeting, in which event the Harriman case probably will be taken up. The committee is charged with investigating stock transactions, such as those participated in by bank affiliates, and will look into I the Harriman affair on this basis, | if any evidence is found that the j Harriman bank funds went into; security buying. When Examiner Roberts’ report { reached Acting Controller F. G. j Await on Dec. 23, he immediately j forwarded copies to the department ; so justice here and to George Z. j Mcdahe, United States attorney, at ! New York. Under instructions from the department here, Medalie held j up prosecution, and no action was taken against Harriman until | after the Roosevelt administration j , came in. Reason Given for Delay The reason for the delay in both i instances, according to Mr. Await | and department of justice officials. | was the precarious banking situation. and the fear that an indictment would lead to a run on the j Harriman bank, and possibly others.; Roberts said in his July 25 letter he was holding up his report in! the hope that funds could be recov-| ered and a disquieting situation st rengthened. The bank remained ! open until the national holiday, but. now is closed. When asked if bank examiners had this authority. Await answered that it was justified by the situa- * tion. He still is* in constant communication with New York Clearing House officials, who asked delay in prosecution after he had forwarded a report to the department of justice. When the moment for initial i prosecution arrived on the day j Awalt’s reports reached the prosecu- i ting authorities, he was visited by | Henry E. Cooper, new president of j the bank, the attorney for the New York clearing house, and another bank official. Asked No Publicity They urged no publicity while i they sought to reorganize, also pointing out the delicate situation. , and Await recommended this course j to the department of justice, if it j were "consistent with justice." Treasury officials asked that no action be started without notifying them first. In a conference with officials of the department of justice, the same spokesmen asked for "temporary ; delay." They said they simply want- j ed time to "fortify" the Harriman i bank against any run that might' follow publicity attending the in- ! dictment. Though they produced no records, i they said the bank was safe and liquid, but not in a condition to stand the sort of run that might j follow the indictment of Harriman. FALSE ARREST CHARGED "Malicious Prosecution’ Claimed in 515.000 Suit Against Store. Charging that he was arrested in connection with the robbery of a department store, held in jail for several days and laier dismissed by the grand jury, Harold Barker has filed suit for $15,000 damages from: the store management for malicious ‘ prosecution. The suit, filed in superior court three, names Eugene Presti and Barnett and Abe Jacobson, owners of the Jacobson department store at 1841-43 Shelby street, as defendants. Fingers Crushed in Box Car Door Three fingers on the right hand of Theodore Walter. 18. Allendale. HI., were crushed Friday when the door of a box car car he was trying to enter was blown shut on his J hand, in the Hawthorne railroad yards. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 35 8 a. m 39 7 a. m 36 9 a. m 40 10 a. m 40 |

The Indianapolis Times

VOLUME 44—NUMBER 273

Bodies of Seamen Taken From Sunken Liner; 35 on Board Accounted For Damage to Dollar Steamship Which Went Down at Seattle Dry Dock Is Estimated at Quarter Million. By Ini led Pun SEATTLE, March 25. —The bodies of two seamen were recovered today from the hold of the luxurious Dollar liner President Madison, which sank at her moorings alongside dry dock Friday night.

Their discovery accounted for all of the thirty-five workmen and skeleton crew on board when the giant vessel, plates removed from her starboard side, tilted suddenly by the inrush of water and settled on the mud bottom of Elliot bay. OnlV the grasp of several steel hawsers kept the ship from submerging completely. Rescuers found the bodies of Jack Rose, 60, engine room storekeeper, and Carl Edberg, 40, junior engineer. deep in the hold.

LIBBY’S CLAIM BEFORE COURT Reynolds’ Estate Trustees Ask Ruling on Sharing of Tobacco Fortune. By I nilrd Press BALTIMORE, Md.. March 25. Libby Holman Reynolds’ claim to a share of the R. J. Reynolds tobacco millions for her infant son has been placed before the Baltimore circuit court for decision. The Safe Deposit and Trust Company, trustees of the Reynolds estate, asked the court to take jurisdiction over the estate and determine the share to which various claimants, including the former Broadway torch singer, are entitled. Neither the company, nor its attorneys’ would reveal the value of the estate, widely reported to approach $100,000,000. The will of R. J. Reynolds is understood to have left about $20,000,00 in trust for Smith Reynolds, Miss Holmans husband, who died of mysterious gunshot wounds at Winston-Salem, N. C„ last summer. The trustees asked the court to rule on the validity of the divorce of Smith Reynolds’ first wife', Ann Canon Smith, and his subsequent marriage to Miss Holman. The petition said the legality of the first wife’s Nevada divorce had been questioned. The court also was asked to determine the validity of Smith Reynolds’ will which has been filed in New York. Reynolds moved to New York from North Carolina without permission of his guardians. North Carolina law invalidates any will left by aminor. Young Reynolds was only 20 when he died. MINSTREL PLANS MADE I. U. Men Will Present Show Mareh 29 at School Auditorium. Gordon France, Anderson, and Virgil Hague, Bloomington, Illinois, will direct a minstrel to be given by the men of Indiana Central college on March 29 at the Kophart Memorial auditorium. The minstrel was scheduled for an earlier date but was postponed due to the bank holiday. The members of the cast include James Eaton, introlocutor; and Arnold Elzey. Virgil Hague. Kenneth Brice, and Melvin Livingood, end man. Parts have also been taken by Professors W. E. Stonebumer and D. H. Gilliant. Youth Attempts Suicide Ermel Cantwell, 18, of 438 Smith street, is recovering following an attempt at suicide Friday by swallowing poison. No motive for the act was ascertained by police. Mortgage Holiday Ordered BOISE. Idaho. March 25.—A proclamation suspending mortgage foreclosures for sixty days was issued Friday by Governor C. Ben Ross of Idaho. Extension of the order will depend on the attitude of mortgage holders, the chief executve asserted. Pulls Tooth With Pliers; Dies BIG PINEY. Wyo.. March 25Joseph A. Hansen, rancher, is dead here today, because he pulled an aching tooth with a pair of pliers. A virulent infection started shortly after he pulled the tooth and he was rushed here to the hospital on a dog sled.

State Repeal Voting Set Tentatively for June 6

Tentative date for Indiana's eighteenth amendment repeal convention election has been set by Governor Paul V. McNutt for June 2. Issuance of the proclamation calling for the election will be next week. McNutt said. Originally he announced that it would be ready this week and the election held the latter part of May. “The first week in June seems to be agreeable to both sides,” he explained. Since elections invariably are held on Tuesdays this would make it June 6, the first Tuesday of the month. Both drys and wets now are organizing and the Democratic organization, with approval of the

Clearing this afternoon; fair tonight and Sunday; not much change in temperature; lowest tonight about 32.

A few minutes earlier rescuers reached John Hansen, watchman, who had been trapped in the mam dining salon. He was uninjured. Other members of the ship’s force scrambled over the decks to the docks as soon as the liner keeled over. Damages to the engines and furnishings tentatively was estimated at $250,000.

FIND TWO RINGS AT DEATH HOME i Attorney, Slayer’s Brother Discover Jewelry in Flour Bin. Two diamond rings, valued at SBOO, were found Friday concealed in a flour bin at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D Evans, 1321 Congress avenue, where Evans murdered his wife and dismembered her body. The find was made by Paul Rochford, attorney, and Benjamin Evans, the slayer’s brother, who have been appointed co-administrators of Evans' estate. Other searches by the two and police had been fruitless, but Friday while Rochford was probing in the flour bin with a knife he uncovered one ring. The flour then was sifted and the second ring recovered. They wefe the property of the wife, but it is not known whether she or her husband secreted them. Evans’ brutal crime was discovered in Cincinnati when he was halted by police for an inquiry about 1932 license plates on his car. Further investigation of kitchen utensils in the rear of the car disclosed the fourteen dismembered pieces of his wife’s body, and Evans slashed himself to death with a razor blade as he fought off three police officers. Dr. William E. Arbuckle, Marion county coroner, Friday questioned Dorothy Hill, the Evans’ Negro maid, but failed to learn much that would add t-o reconstruction of the crime or disclose any motice except that of matrimonial discord which had marked the Evans’ thirty-two years together.

Up They Go Thief and Girl Friend All Set to Take ‘Higher Place in Society.’

ONE Indianapolis thief now is all set to graduate to a higher level of society and take his girl friend along with him—at least, as far as appearances are concerned. Harold E. Fenimore, 201 North Celia street, Muncie, reported to police he parked his car near New' York and Meridian streets and a thief tw'isted a handle from the door, taking a pigskin case containing a tuxedo and a ladies’ black evening gown, trimmed with rhinestone buckles. Also included in the loot was a dress shirt and toilet set with miscellaneous articles of clothing valued at $l5O. Arrange Nurse Program The young people's choir and solo quartet of the First Friends church, assisted by the Mu Phi Epsilon Patroness club ensemble, have arranged an attractive musical program for the Scottish Rite monthly afternoon service to be held Sunday at the Rite Cathedral. Students Fight for Beer ANNAPOLIS. Md.. March 25.—An archaic law wiTl not bar the students of St. John's college from their beer and wine if they can avoid it. Student leaders today made plans to go Into court and fight an old statute which prohibits merchants from selling them beer and wine.

Governor, is expected to throw its | force to the wet side. Delegates w r ill be chosen as wet or j dry. without party labels. If the election is June 6, the convention would be held in the house of representatives June 26. at 2 p. m. Delegates will vote wet or dry. as elected, and the majority will prevail. A total of 329 delegates are to be chosen, forty-two from Marion county. All legal voters are entitled to vote. Each county shall elect one delegate and each county with an excess of 10.00 shall elect another delegate for each 10,000 or major fraction thereof. Candidates for delegates shall be ,at least 21 and residents of the ; county. Nominations shall be by petition.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1933

FLOOD ROUTS 50 FAMILIES I AT EVANSVILLE Ohio Continues as Most Menacing of State Streams in ‘Pocket.’ WABASH LEVEE BREAKS $15,000 Damage Is Caused to American Can Cos. at Terre Haute. Forecast of clearing weather, with j no rain tonight or Sunday and tem- j peratures around freezing, indicate j that rise of streams in flooded sec- [ tions of Indiana will not be as rapid over the week-end as expected. The Ohio river continues the most menacing of the flooded streams to the "pocket area,” comprising; Evansville and vicinity. Fifty fam-! ilies abandoned their homes in a low section of Evansville. One death due to the flood was | reported Friday. The body of Haven Sheets, 40, Wingate, missing several hours, was found in the high water of a small stream near Crawfordsville. Apparently, he had been hurled into the stream as his automobile left a road and went down an embankment. The Wabash river, three feet above flood stage at Terre Haute, smashed a levee which had protected the plant of the American Can Company, causing damage estimated at $15,000. Several residents of West Terre Haute left their homes. At Vincennes the river is nearly two feet above flood stage. Lower stages are reported in White river, which is falling as far south as Edwardsport.

SUSPECT IN RAID ON CITY HOME SET FREE Woman Fails to Identify Man as One of Gang Who Searched House. One suspect arrested by police Friday night following a search by five men of the home of Charles Spillman, 6365 Washington boulevard, was released after Mrs. Spillman failed to identify him. The house formerly was occupied by Tony Ferracane, “big time” liquor dealer. The five men, one of them armed, forced their way in w'hile Mrs. Spillman, her mother-in-law, Mrs. Flora Spillman, and a nephew', Bud Dividen, Louisville, Ky., were the only persons in the house. Refusing to explain their actions, the men searched the basement and a garage. They left hurriedly when Mrs. Charles Spillman went to the front door to meet a bakery delivery man. WARD NAMED TO HEAR ' CITY WATER RATE CALL Special Master in Chancey to Fix Date for Aruments Soon. Date for hearing the Indianapefis Water rate case in federal court will be set by Albert Ward, special master in chancery, as soon as he confers with water company and public service commission attorneys. This announcement w'as made today by Ward, after his appointment to hear the case by Judge Robert C. Baltzell Friday afternoon. The w'ater company seeks an injunction to prevent enforcement of the public service commission’s rate schedule w'hich became effective Jan. 1. Minimum charge for water to consumers w'as increased from SI.OB to $1.25 a month under the schedule. No Prohibition Exhibit at Fair By Times Special CHICAGO. March 25.—Another milestone w'as passed in the fading out of prohibition today. The department of justice announced that it had dropped plans for putting on a prohibition exhibit at the world's fair here this summer. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: West-southwest wind. 23 miles an hour; temperature. 40; barometric pressure. 29.87 at sea level: general condition, overcast, light rain and light fog; ceiling estimated 300 feet; visibility, one and one-fourth miles. Chicago Stocks Opening •By Abbott. Hoppin & Cos.) —March 25 Cities Serv ~ . 2> 3 Middlewest > s Cord Corp 5' 2 Walgreen Stores 13 Corn Chi com. . l'

I See by Tonight’s Vi ant Ads A person wishes to purchase a used airplane. For complete details read Classification 5. You cau have your winter blankets laundered for 25 cents a pair. For further information. read Business Service Ads. Classification 7. Under Classification 4. a person is advertising for the return of S4O lost downtown Monday. A reward is offered. Turn to the Want Ads for further details. An advertiser offers to swap an pleotric motor for potatoes or meat. See Classification 39 for other interesting swaps. BUM Turn to the Want Ad Page For Many Desirable Offerings.

HITLER’S FOE IS HELD

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Dr. Karl Severing (above), former Prussian minister of the interior and Socialist foe of Adolph Hitler, is under arrest at Hitler's order, charged with misuse of 2.000.000 marks ($746,000). Hitlerites charge Severing used money of the Prussian state to finance a campaign to defeat Hitler.

HIDE MOVES IN MURDER QUIZ Police Adopt Secrecy Steps in Grilling of Jones Killer Suspects. With ail the main points cf the case known by the public, police on Friday adopted methods of secrecy in questioning suspects in the machine gun slaying Feb. 7 of Police Sergeant Lester E. Jones at the People's Motor Coach garage, which officers tried to enter during a robbery attempt. Barricades were placed around the “show up” room, where about fifty persons have identified some of the five suspects held as participants in a series of robberies. Persons who had business in municipal court three Friday afternoon experienced diffficulty in entering the courtroom, due to barricades. The suspects are George Schwartz, Fred Adams, A1 Thompson and Edward Miller, held in the county jail, and William Mason, a prisoner at city hospital, suffering from an infection which developed from a gunshot wound in the foot. Witnesses of the $2,700 robbery of the McLean place barns of Indianapolis Railways, Inc., viewed the prisoners Friday, but police refused to say whether any identification was made.

SWINE LITTLE CHANGED IN SLOW EARLY TRADE | Cattle Nominally Steady on Light Receipts; Sheep Dull. Little change marked trade in j hogs at the city yards this morning, prices holding steady with Friday's averages. The bulk, 160 to 275 pounds, sold for $4 to $4.10; 275 pounds up. $3.80 to $3.95; 120 to 160 pounds. $3.70 to $4. Receipts were estimated at 1,500. Holdovers were 112. Cattle were nominally steady on receipt of 50 head. Vealers showed no change at $6.50 down. Calf receipts were 100. Not enough sheep were on hand to make a market this morning. Bulk of Friday’s late sales were at $5.65 to $5.75. Today’s receipts were 50. ‘BORING - BURGLAR BUSY Oil Vauled at $25 Is Taken From Gasoline Station. Oil valued at $25 was the loot obtained Friday night by ‘ the boring burglar” from a filling station at Eighteenth street and Boulevard place. Carl Thompson. 47 South La Salle street, attendant at the station, told police that three five-gallon and seven one-gallon cans of oil are missing. A radio set valued at $lO also is missing. Entrance was gained by removing the lock of a basement door after boring holes around it. Effort to enter two stores by the same method early this week failed. JIG-SAWS WRECK HOME Wife Says Husband Struck Her When She Bought Too Many. P-U Time* Special CHICAGO, March 25.—The jigsaw divorcee today joined the ranks of the golf and bridge divorcees. Mrs. Harriet Anderson filed suit for a decree and told the court that her husband struck her when she exceeded her week's allowance to buy the insidious puzzles. She pleaded guilty to being an addict, but declared that she thought her mate went too far in his discipline. Youngest Civil War Veteran Dies By United Press NILES. 0.. March 25.—Winfield Scott Lockwood, 83. believed to have been the youngest living Civil war veteran, is dead here. New York Stocks Opening By Abbott. Hoppin <fc Cos.) —March 25 American Can. 55 1 Johns Manville.. 19 Allied Chem... 78 3 4 Kroger lgy. Air Red 58 ! - Liggett & My B S7U Atchison ...... 43’s Mont y Ward.. 13'* Anaconda 7 s , N Y Centra!. .. 20 ! . Am Tel & Tel.. 93N. America ... 18 7 * Cons Gas 44 Penn R R 17’, Byers A M ... 11 Packard 14* Case J I 45*2 Radio 4‘* Ches & 0hi0... 28 3 , Cons Oil 5 1 * DuPont 37 Std of Ind f3 Fox Film A ... 13,I 3 , Std Oil of N J 25’, Gen Foods 25’, Texas Corp ... 12’, Gillette 14'a U S Steel 28U Gen Mot 12 United Corp ... 6 Gen Elec 13’* Un Aircraft ... 21 Goodyear 14 Un Carbide 23U Gold Dust .... 15 Westinehouse.,. 24 5 Gen Am Tank C 18’, Woolworth 28' 2 Int Niekle 3 s , Western Un ... 20 iIH Harv 22 5 *,

GERMAN JEWS DENY STORIES OF ATROCITIES War Veterans’ Association Condemns ‘Exaggerated’ Reports in U. S. ADMIT SOME ATTACKS But Maltreatments Are Disapproved by Hitler Regime, Is Claim. BY ERIC KEYSER United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, March 25.—The Jewish War Veterans Association today handed the United States embassy in Berlin a statement condemning "exaggerations" in reports on antiSemitic acts here, and requested that it be cabled to the United States. “Our duty toward our country as well as to the truth leads us to correct reports of alleged anti-Jewish atrocities,” the statement said in part. “Maltreatments and excesses have occurred, which we are unwilling to excuse, but such happenings are unavoidable in the case of revolution and the authorities always have energetically intervened whenever feasible. “However, those who participated in the attacks are for the most part irresponsible elements working in the dark. We know that the government disapproves of maltreatment accorded Jews.” The statement condemned reports circulated by “so-called Jewish intellectuals who sought a safe refuge spreading news full of exaggerations and harming their own people.” Jews Must ‘Report’ By I niled Press MUNICH, Germany, March 25. Police in the Palatinate, or Rhenish Bavaria, have ordered all Jews who immigrated into the Palatinate after 1914 to report to police headquarters, it was learned officially today. Many Jews are attempting to leave the country instead of reporting in order to prevent their escaping financial obligations by flight, bank deposits are being withheld and passports withdrawn, the United Press was informed. The measures apply only to Jews disobeying orders to report to the police, officials said. AUBURN CHIEFS HERE Brief Visit by Auto Firm Officials Made on 1,300-Mile Flight. Indianapolis was visited briefly Friday by officials of the Auburn Automobile Company and Aircrait Corporation making a 1.300-mile dawn-to-dusk business flight contacting Auburn and Stinson distributors in eight states. Those making the trip were C. A. J. Hadley, Auburn assistant .sales manager, and William A. Mara, Stinson vice-president, flying a Stinson plane. They were met at Hoosier airport by Earl Schott. <+ the Schott Auto Company, local Auburn distributor. 0. K. RATE REDUCTIONS Northern Indiana Rate Slashes Are Given State's Approval. Northern Indiana Power Company electric rate reductions, ranging from 7 to 38 per cent, have been approved by the public service commission for the following twentysix small towns: O’Dell, 38 per cent; Independence, 13.7; Disko, 16; Spikersville. 9.4: Eagletown, 22.5; Baker's Corner, 28.8; Jolietville,2l.B; Gadsden. 27.8; Rosston. 21.6; Perkinsville. 23.4; Hortonville, 20.5; Clarksville, 16.2: Northfield. 22; Boxley, 23.4; North Grove, 11.2; Sharon, 7.5; Radnor, 13.4; Wheeling, 19.8; Darwin. 14.9; Millersburg, 17.7; Durbin. 31; Fishersburg, 27.2; Middleford. 11.3; Geetingsville. 16.3: Clare. 25.4. and Strawtown. 13.9.

Foreign Exchange

*Bv Abbott. Hoppin & Cos.) —March 25Open. Sterling. England 53.42' Franc. France 0392'a Lira. Italy 0513> = Franc, Belgium 1395 Mark. Germany 2336 Guilder. Holland 4029 Peseta. Spain 0846 Krone. Norway 1753 Krone. Denmark 1528 Yen. Japan 2150

Senator Ketchum Named Secretary of Tax Board

Senator Anderson Ketchum. who whipped the Democrats into line on all administration bills during the 1933 legislative session, was rewarded by Governor Paul V. McNutt today. The chief executive announced that he had appointed Senator Ketchum as secretary of the state tax board. He will succeed L. O. Chasey, Republican appointee, April 1. Chasey was secretary to former Governor Harry G. Leslie, who secured the board secretaryship for him. Leslie also appointed his other secretary’, Gaylord Morton, to a membership on the tax board. It is reported McNutt may reappoint Morton as the Republican tax board member. Democratic members of the board, beginning April 1, will be Representative Albert FV Walsman and

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Dr. Edmund ,0. Soper, above, president of Onio Wesleyan university at Delaware. 0., has been chosen president of the Association of American Colleges, elected by brother college presidents.

CITY BREWERY AWAITS PERMIT Inspection Is Completed by Officers: Manufacture to Start April 1. Inspectors for the bureau of industrial alcohol in this terrritory today are checking more than 500 applications for permits to sell and prescribe medicinal liquor. These applications have been received by George L. Winkler and J. L. Hodges, local inspectors, who work under the Chicago office of the bureau. They announced that inspection of one Indianapolis brewery, expected to start manufacture of beer April 1, has been completed. First permit in Indianapolis to operate a brewery under the new law r w T as expected to arrirve today for the Indiana Brew’ers, Inc., 946 West New York street, from E. C. Yellowley, permit director of Chicago. Instructions on how to proceed with inspection of breweries and retail establishments, w’here beer w’ill be sold, w’ere received by Winkler and Hodges Friday. Inspectors are to be responsible for checking quantities manufactured to see that brewers pay the federal tax of $5 on each thirty-one gallons.

Bright Spots

By United Press F. W. Dodge Corporation reports contemplated construction work announced in February totaled $114,185,900, against slOl,843,300 in January. Electric Boat Company reports 1932 net income of $4,480. against net loss of $1,105,043 in 1931. New York. Ontario & Western railroad reports January net income of $161,565, against $152,665 in February, 1932. Reading Company reports February net operating income of $659,684. against $555,869 in February, last year. HEIRESS NOT ENGAGED Adonell Massie Denies She’ll Wed Cornelius Vanderbilt. By Times Special. SAN FRANCISCO, March 25. Denial that she wall marry Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. was voiced today by Miss Adonell Massie, 22, heiress to oil millions. Arriving here on the liner Empress ei Britain, Miss Massie declared that she and Vanderbilt merely are good friends and are not engaged. Vanderbilt left the liner at Ceylon, w'here he w'ill do some research w'ork. 3 CHILDREN INJURED Two Are Victims of Wringers of Washing Machines. Three children were injured Friday. two by wringers of washing machines. A badly mangled finger was incurred by Dorothea May, 3, of 513 West Ray street, and Willard Clayton, 3, of 229 Detroit street, suffered a mashed hand. Wilbur Gaugh, 7. of 2506 North Harding street, suffered a fracture of the right ankle when he fell from his bicycle at Harding street and East Riverside drive.

the veteran member Philip Zoercher. It appeared for a time that Zoercher might be ousted, but McNutt has indicated that he will stay for the present. Zoercher may be succeeded as board chairman by Walsman, however. Walsman was appointed by McNutt to succeed to the postion of James Showalter, Republican, who resigned. Ketchum comes from Greensburg and was president pro tern of the senate and Democratic floor leader. He had a perfect record in putting administration measures across. He has been a member of the senate since 1927. Formerly he was in the office of the supreme and appellate court clerk. A %'eteran of the World war, Ketchum is a member of the Greensburg past of the American Legion and the Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the Methodist cirirch. >.

Capital EDITION ' PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County. 3 Cents

STEEL PRICE FIXING PROBE NEARING HEAD Roosevelt Soon to Decide on Action in Major Railroad Phase. QUIZ STILL GOING ON Anti-Trust Law Violation Hinted: Legislation May Be Recommended. BY MARSHALL McNEIL Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, March 25.— The administration soon will have to decide whether its department of justice shall act as the result of its inquiry into the maintenance of steel rail prices over several years. And if the department does not act, the interstate commerce commission may take over the inquiry. This is a major phase of the railroad problem that slowly is coming to a head. President Roosevelt is pxpected soon to recommend legislation to congress not only to help distressed railroads, but also for the benefit of thousands of savings banks depositors and life insurance policy holders whose institutions hold railway securities, and to aid railway workers. The investigation to determine if there is any violation of the antitrust laws in the maintenance of steel rail prices at a high level, begun under the Hoover administration. still is in progress in the department of Justice. Reduced Only 53 Agents here are said to be prepared to lay the matter before Homer Cummings, acting attorneygeneral, for a decision as to policy. A group of steel Aien is expected here soon to seek information about the case. The price of steel rails w'as maintained at $43 a ton from about 1923 until last year, when it was i educed to S4O, in the hope of inducing heavier purchases by the railroads. This hope has not been fulfilled to any great degree. During the same nine-year period, and more particularly since the depression set in. prices of other iron and steel products and of commodities generally have swung downward. But steel rails, as Joseph B. Eastman, as interstate commerce commissioner, has said, have been “maintained near the pinnacle by the stubborn will of producers without insight or vision.” Forced to Push Inquiry Indeed, it was the I. C. C. which w'as credited last year with suggesting the steel rail price inquiry to the then attorney-general, William D. Mitchell. Senator James Couzens ! r ßep., Mich.) mentioned the facts jin the senate, and this caused : Mitchell to push the inquiry. But no action has been taken yet. While President, Roosevelt is working out his program, the house interstate and foreign commerce commission has reported out bills repealing the recapture clause of the transportation act, revising the base for rate making, and regulating railway holding companies. These, which were recommended months ago by the I. C. C„ can be regarded as part of the Roosevelt program. But while they are important. they do not go deep into the roots of railroad distress. Law Not l'et Used One measure intended to providfe fundamental help w’as the bankruptcy bill passed at the last session of congress, providing new means for reorganizing railroads, and the scaling down of top-heavy capital structures. But, so far as could be determined today, this law has not been used yet. As the Roosevelt program takes form, railway labor is demanding a thorough congressional investigation of their industry. New arguments for this apparently are presented in the pending w'age controversies between the managements of the Rock Island and Illinois Central and their employes. These carriers requested their workers to contribute one-sixth of their pay for March and April. The Railway Labor Executives’ Association instructed the men to refuse to sign any pay waivers. Apparently an agreement has been reached with the Rock Island. Called “Brazpn Defiance” But A. F. Whitney, president of the labor executives’ association, said that the “Illinois Central management has declined to withdraw its request that their employes permit deductions in their pay checks.” In this week’s Labor, published by Whitney’s organization, the roads’ request is called a ‘“brazen defiance of legislation enacted by congress—the railway labor act and related statutes—and sweeping decisions of the United States supreme court, and in flagrant violation of their signed agreement,” which reduced employes’ pay 15 per cent. Whitney said that “offices have been assigned to prosecute the matter with instructions that it be referred to thee United States board of mediation at once, if a settlement is not effected.”

IN CONGRESS TODAY

Br Cnited Pres* SENATE In recess. Labor committee considers Roosevelt reforestation program. Agriculture committee considers farm bill. HOUSE 1 In recess.