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HOUSE SPEEDS SHORTER WORK WEEK ACTION Leaders Expect to Report Bill Today: Snag Hit by Wage Measure. MINIMUM PAY URGED Frances Perkins and Head of Clothing Union Plead for Set Price. BY RUTH FINNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON. May 6.— Short work week legislation moved several steps closer to enactment today, while substitute legislation for control of production and prices, as well as hours of labor and wages, ran into difficulties. The house labor committee concluded hearings on the first measure late* Friday and prepared today to report a bill regardless of what action may be taken by groups conferring on the broader plan. Those working on the industrial control measure, however, have not succeeded in drafting a bill acceptable to the divergent employer and employe groups interested. As soon as agreement is reached, Senator Robert F. Wagner <Dem., N. Y.), will lay the bill before President Roosevelt and ask his serious consideration. Demand Minimum Wage The President is suspending judgment, meanwhile, and reserving comment until the two measures are in definite form. His present plans call for separate consideration of public works. A broadside in behalf of minimum wage legislation as part of any plan that may be adopted for putting men and women back at work in industry closed the hearings before the labor committee. It w'as led by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and echoed by strong groups of organized workers. The committee displayed more sympathetic interest than at any previous time. While the committee was deep in this discussion, a memorandum arrived from Secretary Perkins, answering objections to the minimum wage raised in the hearings. • Minimum wage legislation has been opposed on the ground that the minimum will become the maximum, that all w'orkers will be kept at a dead level. Conclusive disproof is to be found in the investigations of wages paid before and after the minimum wage rates were put into effect and the constantly increasing proportion of workers receiving more than the minimum rate.” Hillman Voices Warning The secretary quoted figures from California, where a sl6 a w'eek minimum exists for women, showing that a constantly increasing number of women, reaching in 1927 to 64 9 per cent of the total, received wages in excess of sl7. “There is a well-entrenched custom of paying the skilled worker more than the unskilled,” said Miss Perkins. “Increasing the wage of the unskilled would, therefore, bring pressure in the direction of forcing the wage of the skilled up somewhat in proportion.” Powerful arguments for the minimum wage were presented in behalf of one of the strongest labor organizations in the country, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, by Us president, Sidney Hillman. In spite of the strength of his organization, Hillman said, his workers can not be protected except with help from the national government. "I ask for the short work weekminimum wage bill because it is for the first time an attempt to meet the evil at its very source,” he said. Industry Can Supervise Self “I am for it because it gives industry, under supervision and guidance of the government, opportunity to manage itself. “I am for it right now because so far all measures adopted by the administration have, by reason of the financial crisis, been purely deflationary. The closing of the banks has left five billions of dollars frozen. As for inflation, which has given us the cheaper dollar and a higher price level for commodities, it still has left us with declining wages. “This bill is more necessary in connection with the inflation pro- ■ gram than ever before. And if it is not enacted, there will be a bank holiday with no banks reopening afterward.” Hillman scored the foreign embargo clause advocated by Chairman Connery as a “certain way to kill the legislation.” Adventure Held Risky “It is a risky adventure to proceed further in the depression without a minimum w'age as a companion piece to hours legislation.” j said Stephen Raushenbush, speaking for the department of labor of Pennsylvania and also for the United Mine Workers of America. “This bill is the only one offered which will bring the wage-earners up to the subsistence level.” The problem now worrying drafters of the industrial control bill concerns protection of workers. In general. the plan seeks to establish the right of collective bargaining and to outlaw the yellow dog contract. The problem of securing decent wages at once in unorganized plants and plants where company unions exist has proved difficult. The other end of the proposal, providing federal regulation of trade association agreements to control production and prices, has been approved in principle by the United States Chamber of Commerce, in tession here.

The Indianapolis Times Partly cloudy and slightly cooler tonight; Sunday, generally fair, with warmer by night.

VOLUME 44—NUMBER 309

Slow Track Is Forecast for Derby; 19 Named to Start in Classic Race

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Louisville Is Jammed for Historic Event; Favorite Is Ladysman. By I Hilril Press LOUISVILLE, May 6.— The field for the Kentucky Derby was cut to 19 today, when Fingal and Boilermaker, entries of Colonel E. R. Bradley, and the Calumet Farm's Warren Jr., were scratched. The weather had cleared at scratch time, but the track was heavy with mud. BY KENNETH D. FRY United Press Staff Correspondent LOUISVILLE, May 6.— The glamour and the glory of another Kentucky Derby lured a vast, gay moving throng to old Churchill Dow'ns today, where the season’s best 3-year-olds await the strenuous mile and a quarter test for a $50,000 pot of gold. Fast horses and beautiful women —Kentucky's boast —will be on parade at the time-honored Dow’ns, where the derby will he run'for the 59th time late this afternoon. Uncertainty marks every racing angle of today’s derby. Rain has been predicted for three days. After an afternoon of balmy w'eather Friday, a brief torrent fell Friday night. More showers were predicted for today. Field Is Large A surprisingly large field of tw'en-ty-one colts and one filly was named overnight, but three were scratched today. But if the Downs oval dries well today not more than fifteen are expected to go to the post. Several unexpected entries were made when threatening W'eather prevailed. For the first time in four years, the future book favorite selected when nominations closed Feb. 1, has withstood training perils. The favorite is Ladysman, W. R. Coe’s staunch son of Pompey, who failed in the 1926 race here. Coupled with Ladysman are Pomponius and Pompoleon and they might be as short as 8 to 5 by past time about 5 o'clock, central standard time. Sonny Workman will be astride Ladysman. Anew feature was injected into the Derby late Friday when Head Play, the western favorite, worth only $575 as a yearling, was sold by Mrs. William Crump of Nashville to Mrs. Silas Mason of Richmond, Ky., for $30,000 and 15 per cent of Head Play's earnings in the Derby. Head Play Second Choice Head Play holds favor as a staunch second choice to the Coe entry, at 4 to 1. Another w-ell-liked western colt, Charley 0., is rated at 6 to 1. Colonel R. Bradley, whose entries have w'on three Kentucky Derbies, ‘ has named three starters, Fingal, Broker s Tip, and Boilermaker. The latter two never have won a race, although Broker's Tip. a son of Black Toney, sire of Black Gold, the 1924 winner, has trained well and is supported heavily. If F. A. Griffith's Mr. Khayyam, winner of the mile start at Havre De Grace last week, comes pounding home under the wire, he will be the third son of a Derby w’inner to gain the brackets in the $50,000 race. Mr. Khayyam is held at 10 to 1. At Top Doubtful Starter No jockey riding a Derby entry today ever has been astride the winning horse in this event. Racing writers here for the Derby are almost equally divided in selecting the Coe entry and Head Play to win. The only fillv entered, Nash (Turn to Page Two), Times Index Page. Book a Day n Bridge 7 Classified 10 Comics 11 Crossword Puzzle 9 Curious World 9 Dietz on Science 12 Editorial 4 Financial 9 Fortunes From Depression —a Series 2 Heywood Broun 4 Hickman Theater Reviews 5 Industrial Page 12 Money—A Picture Story 7 Radio 12 1 Serial Story n Sports 11 Talburt Cartoon 4 Vital Statistics 9 Womb's Pages 6-7 i

DERBY FIELD

Bn I nilrd Press LOUISVILLE, May 6. —Here’s the official field for today’s fiftyninth running of the Kentucky Derby: Sixth race: $50,000 added, 3-year-olds, IL4 miles. Post Horse Prob. Odds 1. iB) Pompoleon 8-5 2. Charley 0 6-1 3. <C> Good Advice 10-1 4. Dark Winter 40-1 5. (B) Ladysman 8-5 6. Kerry Patch 20-1 7. Inlander 30-1 8. Captain Red 50-1 9. Head Play 4-1 10. Strideaway 60-1 11. Spicson 60-1 12. Silent Shot 100-1 13. Sarada 12-1 14. At Top 20-1 15 Isaiah 50-1 16. Broker's Tip 15-1 17. <B) Pomponius 8-5 18. Fair Rochester 60-1 19. <C) Mr. Khayyam 10-1 Note —All carry 126 pounds except At Top, 121. B—W. R. Coe entry. C—Catawba farm entry. Doubtful Starters—Good Advice, Silent Shot, Pompoleon, Fair Rochester. Probable Post Time—s p. m. (C.S.T.) Weather Forecast—Probably showers, clearing in afternoon. Morning Scratches—Fingal, Boilermaker, Warren Jr. Mutuel Field —Dark Winter, Strideaw'ay, Spicson, Silent Shot, At Top, Fair Rochester, CaDtain Red. OFFICERS RE-ELECTED BY NATIONAL C. OF C. Two Substitutions Are Made at Washington Conclave. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, May 6.—Present officers of the United States Chamber of Commerce were reelected Friday by the board of directors with two exceptions. William V. Hodges of Denver was substituted for Nathan Adams of Dallas as vice-president of the southern division, and Robert V. Fleming of Washington substituted as treasurer for Oscar Wells of Birmingham, resigned. The board of and rectors was elected as nominated earlier in the w'eek. It includes W. F. Gephart and A. P. Greensfelder of St. Louis. In the Air Weather condition at 9 a. m.: West wind, 16 miles an hour; temperature. 52; barometric pressure, 29.90 at sea level; general conditions, overcast, hazy; ceiling, 1,800 feet; visibility, 6 miles.

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CHURCHILL DOWNS. LOUISVILLE. Ky.. May 6.— Likewise looks like the safest thing of the card today. This nag is about the fastest thing on the track in the way of 2-year-olds and should pop right back again, although I'm warning you it's Derby day and look out!

There is a 2-year-old starter in the third that looks the works and I am handing this to you as a good thing. She went a half in :48 in a workout the other day and I understand she is going for the works Derby day. I can't see anything else but Charley O. in the big race, with Ladysman second and Mr. Khayyam for what's left. Looks to me like Charley is going to make his big brother. Mike Hall, proud of him after today. Ogygia ran a hangup race last out and today should do the wellknown tow rope act. Habanero looks like another winner for Whitney in the seventh and it is Cayuga in the second. Trcd Avon, no doubt, is the best of the lot at Pimlico in the sixth. It is coupled with Open Hearth, which probably will be scratched. Today’s Selections At Churchill Downs—1. Naval Cadet, Southland Duke. Thomasville. 2. Cayuga, Gettin' Even, Threat.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1933

COST OF BANK RECEIVERSHIPS AT HIGH MARK Expense Shown in Reports at 27 Per Cent of Whole Amount Realized. ONE OFFICIAL TARDY State Savings Figures Are Delayed: Action Taken on Meyer-Kiser. With filing of the final report for the second of three major Indianapolis bank receiverships, total cost for twenty-eight months’ liquidation has reached $204,431.88. Brandt C. Downey, receiver for the Washington Bank and Trust Company from Nov. 15, 1930, until Feb. 28, 1933, filed his final report Friday, showing expense of slll,485.40. The final report of Curtis Rottger, receiver of the City Trust Company from Nov, 18, 1930, until March C, 1933, was filed April 21. Operating expenses were listed at $92,946.48, Eben Wolcott, former receiver of the State Savings and Trust Company, has not filed the final report ordered by Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox. Deadline was fixed at April 22. Operating Cost 27 Per Cent During their terms of office, Downey liquidated $396,628.38 of the bank's assets and Rottger cashed a total of $356,034.21, w'hich represents $752,662.59. Compared with the results achieved, the operating expense represents approximately 27 per cent of the liquidated amounts, the reports show. The Meyer-Kiser bank w'as added as the fourth of the large local receiverships Thursday, with appointment of Thomas E. Garvin, former municipal court judge, to handle its affairs. Liquidation of the institution was rem.oved from the hands of former officers of the bank on petition of the state banking department, after an audit disclosed that the bank was insolvent. Handled by Ex-Officials For nearly two years the liquidation has been handled by Frod Meyer, J. J. Kiser and M. S. Cohn, liquidating’ agents and former-bank officials. Judge Cox w'ill hear further evidence Monday on. a receivership petition filed by Edw'ard Little and Sidney Horn, attorneys, against the Pilgrim Properties, Inc., a real estate firm organized by Meyer-Kiser bank officials. Little, holder of twenty-two shares in the property company, testified Friday that he was sold the stock on the representation that it was stock in the Meyer-Kiser Bank building pn East Washington street. Later he learned that the stock W'as on three local apartment houses, he testified. Cohn and Kiser were on the witness stand Friday and denied that the stock was misrepresented. T. B. CURE IS CLAIMED Scientist Asserts He Has Discovered Germ, Perfected Serum. Bn United Press BERLIN, May 6. —Professor John Habthan, an American scientist living in Berlin, today claimed that he had discovered the germs causing leprosy and tuberculosis were identical. Professor Habthan told the United Press that he already had perfected successful treatment for tuberculosis through injections, and that he successfully had treated 1,500 patients with his new' serum. Habthan said he formerly lived in New' York, but also did work in Eugene. Ore., San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago.

IN CONGRESS TODAY

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3. Atmosphere, Angon Bridge, New Deal. 4. Traitor, Noah’s Pride. Justina. 5. Likewise. Speedy Skippy, Penncote. 6. Charley O, Ladysman, Mr. Khayyam. 7. Habanero, Marie Jean, North Mill. 8- Ogygia, Royal Sport, Birthday Gift. Best—Likewise. Track—Fast. At Pimlico—1. No selections 2. Electric Gaff, Integrity, Your Bob. 3. Watch Him. Brandon Mint, Merrily On. 4. Ladfield. Vishnu, Mexico. 5. Foxianna. Garlic, Ming Sun. 6. Tred Avon, The Nut, Stepinfetchit. 7. Flaming Mamie. Ruane. Storm. 8. Night Patrol, Worthington, Traffic Judge. Best —Tred Avon. Track—Fast. ,

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John A. Griffith (above) is held in Columbus. 0., for investigation after he made a telephonic offer to the parents of kidnaped Peggy McMath to take them to their daughter. Griffin, a Clinton (Ind.) salesman, was arrested when he sought to charter a plane to take him to Cape Cod, the McMath home.

HEAVY BATTLE RAGESJNMA Severe Fighting Reported Inside Great Wall as Japanese Advance. Bn United Press SUICHUNG, Manchuria. May 6. Heavy fighting between Chinese and Japanese troops near Shenhochen, inside the Great Wall, w r as reported here today when a squadron of Japanese airplanes left to bomb Chinese concentrations. The battle opened with brisk cannonading Friday.

How the Market Opened

BY" ELMER C. WALZER United Press Financial Editor NEW YORK, May 6.— Stocks resumed their uptrend at the opening today after absorbing considerable profit-taking near the close Friday. The dollar continued to decline, breaking to anew low since 1879. Cotton futures advanced 85 cents a bale. Buying orders came into brokerage houses when the pound sterling and other foreign units advanced against the dollar. The pound reached S4.OSVi, up 7 cents and anew high since September, 1931. Gains in the stocks ranged upward to a point and large blocks turned over on the opening. The first sale of U. S. Steel was made at 48%, up 14 on a block of 4.500 shares. It moved higher in the early dealings. American Telephone opened 1.500 shares at 103%, up %. Allied Chemical opened at 94%. up 1; Consolidated Gas 52%, up %; Atchison 58"s, up %. General motors sold at 22%, up U on an initial block of 3,000 shares. Grain Futures Strong Bn United Press CHICAGO, May 6.— Corn shot into the lead on the Board of Trade today as prices advanced a sharp •% to 1% cents on the continued wet weather and consequent delay to seeding. Wheat was unsettled and unevenly % cent lower to % cent higher. Other grains forsook the leadership of wheat and rushed upward with corn. Oats advanced % to ■% cent while rye w r as % to % cent higher and barley 1% to 1% cents higher. Provisions also were strong. Foreign markets were stronger than expected which- offset profit-taking selling in wheat, but the irregularity lin stocks slackened activity at the start. Legion Post to Give Play Service v post of the American Legion will present "The SevenEleven Minstrels,” at the McCordsville high school building at 8 Tuesday night. Twenty-four post members make up the cast. The show will be in charge of Dr. Russell A. Showalter, Lawrence V. Kinder, Clell Gibson and Fred McConaha.

Roosevelt Looks Back on 60 Days of / Work and Sees Progress Achieved

BY RAY TUCKER Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON. May 6— “ When I promised to give America a newdeal, I meant just that.” President Roosevelt today feels that he has earned the right to pass that judgment on his first two months. Although indulging in no extravagant promises, he is hopeful for steady improvement. He realizes, along with everybody else, that the great test is ahead—whether the reforms set in motion so speedily will work. Signs of betterment show in higher stock and commodity prices, and a widespread spirit of confidence, but he knows the real battle comes now. Regardless of future trends, his action, courage, and leadership are reflected in what he has tried to do. When he took office, banks everywhere were closing; he had to shut their doors completely. Gold was escaping to Europe and mattresses; he had to embargo shipment and demand its return under legal penalty. Few people had money to buy necessities, though prices were so low that manufacturers were going

KIDNAPED GIRL RETURNED; $70,000 RANSOM IS PAID; POLICE, FAMILY CLASH

mutton® mm to. MIMES Utility Pleads Return Is Too Low; Hearing to Be Resumed Wednesday. Temporary truce in the Indianapolis Water Company's fight for higher rates was in effect today, following adjournment in federal court Friday until Wednesday. First w'eek of the lengthy hearing before Albert Ward, special master in chancery, was marked by testimony of water company witnesses. They said the company is earning less than 6 per cent on a $22,500,000 valuation under the public service commission's December rate order. They made their first steps in the effort to show' the company's rate-making valuation should be set at from $26,000,000 to $28,000,000, on which the company asks a return of from 7'- to 8 per cent. Testimony Is Assailed Testimony of Emerson W. Chaille and George T. Whelden, realtors, that the company’s lands, exclusive of improvements, are worth from $3,725,445 to $3,806,679, w’as attacked bitterly by George W. Hufsmith, deputy attorney-general, defending the commission's rate order. Hufsmith Friday brought admission from Chaille that his valuation for rate-making purposes included parts of Wabash and Missouri street, title to which the company claims through its purchase of the canal. Attack on what is termed excessive valuations set on farm lands owmed by the company is expected to be continued Wednesday. Engineers to Testify The water company later in the w'eek is expected to introduce testimony by consulting engineers as to value of the company’s improvements. William L. Ransom, New York, and Joseph J. Daniels, Indianapolis, are representing the water company. Hufsmith is being aided by Sherman Minton, new state public counselor; Edward H. Knight, city corporation counsel, and James E. Deery, city attorney. 1,400 TAKEN OFF POOR RELIEF ROLL April Cost Drops $30,000 From March Figures. Decrease of 1,400 persons receiving Center township poor relief was announced today by Charles Clark, county attorney. He said jobs suppied through the city modernization drive caused the decrease. Relief costs in April for coal, seed, fuel, and administration dropped approximately $30,000 from March figures to $140,000, Clark said. Families now are being taken off the relief list at a rate of sixty a day, he said. Clark estimated that approximately 500 more families will be released, due to funds sent home from reforestation camps. Poor relief costs w'ill be reduced further by the 7,000 gardens being planted by relief recipients, Clark said. S2O Sombrero Is Stolen A “five-gallon” sombrero, valued at S2O, and a glaGstone bag containing $l5O w'orth of clothing and toilet articles were stolen Friday afternoon from the car of Albert McCabe, circus employe, w’hile it was parked in the 3600 block. Coliseum avenue. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 54 8 a. m 52 7 a. m 54 9 a. m 52

into bankruptcy, and farmers to the poorhouse. The spirit of a decade of bigotry, chaotic economics, and selfish nationalism was over the land. He walked in the very valley of depression as he descended the capitol stairway to the inaugural stand. He himself was grim. Today he smiles—a smiling dictator. Today—amidst criticism and encouragement—he is the nation's constitutional dictator. The federal government has assumed supervision of banking, the monetary system and agriculture; he proposes to extend regulation to railroads and all industry. He is moving in the direction of planned national economy, with a request that wages be raised simultaneously with price increases. He has transformed Washington into a world capital, to which statesmen of other lands make pilgrimage. He has tried to make the phrase—“ We've got to succeed”— the watchword for the coming London conference. Now he squares off at the end of the second monthr for his real task

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Father Grilled by Officers; ‘Deal’ Rouses Suspicions of Massachusetts Authorities, Who Continue Inquiry. ABDUCTORS GIVEN TIME TO FLEE Parent Admits Child Was Kept on Boat for Hours Before Word of Her Rescue Was Passed On. BY MARTIN KANE United Press Staff Correspondent WOOD’S HOLE, Mass., May 6.—The story of kidnaped Peggy McMath—a dramatic tale of Ihe blindfolds and ropes, of long imprisonment in darkness under the guard of a kindly man, and of treatment which drew a protest from her only when she was served ham sandwiches for the third day in succession—was made public today by Brigadier-General Daniel Needham, state director of public safety. As General Needham relayed the story to newspaper men shivering in cold dawn winds outside the Wood’s Hole coast guard station, and as he spoke, Peggy’s father, Neil C. McMath, was undergoing continuous examination inside the station.

Peggy was home again, sleeping in her own bed in the twenty - two - room McMath house at liarwichport, but the mystery of her kidnaping seemed as far from solution as ever. The girl was found with her father and several other men aboard a boat off Harwichport late Friday. McMath and his business associate, William Lee, as well as bankers and others concerned in the ransoming of Peggy, were questioned through the night after Peggy had told her story and had been sent home with Mrs. McMath. Ransom Is $70,000 Needham told Peggy’s story, announced that the ransom had amounted to $70,000 in currency, and made public some details of negotiations for the child’s return. But beyond that he flatly declined to go. Needham told Peggy's story and the other details shortly before 4 a. m., and indicated then that he and his men, as well as McMath and all the other witnesses, would stay at the coast guard station through the night. He warned, however, that he would allow no further statement to be made, and would let no information leak from the well-guarded station. Among the witnesses under examination w'as Cyril Buck, a Harwichport year-round resident who served as intermediary between McMath and the kidnapers. Asked to Name Dog As Needham relayed the story. Buck W'as approached by an agent of the kidnapers and asked to arrange negotiation. Buck insisted on proof that the girl was alive and after consulting McMath asked that she be requested to tell the name of her pet dog, which had died. The kidnaper’s agent returned w'ith the name, “Peter the Great” written in Peggy’s handw'riting, Needham said. That convinced the McMaths that it was safe to negotiate, and ransom payment was arranged, according to the story. But it was evident that police and federal agents w'ere w'holly unsatisfied with the situation. McMath was insisting upon maintaining a pledge to the kidnapers of fortyeight hours’ protection, it appeared, w'hereas the officers felt they should have all information and thus be enabled to start at once upon the trail. Clash With Police Many details of the story remained in doubt, and Needham was frankly resentful over the situation. “We’re just beginning work on this case,” a department of justice agent said when he and five other

—day-by-day use of his extraordinary power. And he smiles. He has shown no fear of using his power. He has closed and opened banks, taken the nation off the gold standard, and prepared for inflation. He has slashed expenditures until the 1934 budget may balance. He has brought back beer. He has sent an advance army of 250.000 men into the woods to give them employment and take them off the dole. He soon will have, power to force farmers to curtail production under a system that may bring ready cash and higher prices. He has asked for and will receive legislation to reduce mortgage costs on farm and urban property. He will soon inaugurate in the Tennessee basin a great experiment in the proper use of natural resources. His advisers are preparing A sl,500.000,000 public W’orks measure to relieve unemployment. He wants authority to regulate security issues. and he favors a banking law that will underwrite the safety of ;he nation's banking systeiji.

Capital EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

federal agents left the coast guard station long after midnight. Friction between the McMaths and the police first became evident Thursday afternoon, when McMath asked that all officers be withdrawn from Cape Cod, and Needham refused. Less than twelve hours after this request, Peggy, blindfolded, was placed in an automobile beside her father not far from the McMath home, according to the girl's own story. She was taken immediately aboard a boat, she said. But it was not until late Friday that police discovered Peggy was back. They had their first tip through a Boston policeman, who reported being commissioned to guard the transfer of SBO,OOO in currency from a Boston bank to Harwichport. Found on Sailboat After questioning associates of the McMaths and members of the family, police sought coast guard aid, and Friday evening a picket boat moved alongside the 50-foot auxiliary sailboat of William Lee in Wychmere harbor. Coast guardsmen, armed and ready for a fight, went aboard Lee's boat, the Bob. They did not know what to expect—but w'hat they found was a pretty domestic scene. Peggy was drinking milk and eating fruit beside her father, with Lee and Buck and others sitting nearby. McMath explained then his promise to the kidnapers that he would keep Peggy on the boat for 48 hours to let them escape, but the police disagreed. They brought the whole party to Wood's Hole, and immediately started the questioning, which lasted through the night. At first Peggy, McMath, and Lee were examined in different rooms, their stories being checked constantly. Peggy’s story, as related later by Needham, added little of value to police, though it was a dramatic story coming from the lips of the 10-year-old. Others Are Quizzed Later others joined the conferences, including: George Bacon, vice-president of the Merchants National bank of Boston, from whose vaults the ransom money apparently came; Ralph H. Snow, treasurer of the Cape Cod Five-Cent Savingsbank at Harwich, to whom the money was consigned, and who was believed to have delivered it to McMath; E. E. Hall, chief of the Harwich police, and Frank E. Smith, assistant prosecutor of a district centered at Taunton. William C. Crossley, district attorney of New Bedford, had been associated in the examination from the start. Needham particularly was interested in learning whence had come the SBO,OOO, of which all but SIO,OOO later went to the kidnapers. McMath, himself a boat builder here, had been represented by Lee as having little money, though his father, Francis C. McMath, and his father-in-law, William Robert Kales, both of Detroit, are regarded as wealthy. Needham Is Suspicious “Some phases of this case are worth the utmost scrutiny,” Needham said. On one thing, at least, all officials in the case were agreed. Peggy, they said unanimously, is a brick. She told her story straightforwardly, and showed unusual powers of observation for a 10-year-old. She assured them that she was not afraid at any time, and she stood up firmly for the man who had caTed for her at a hideaway where she was held most of the time. He was a friend, she insisted, who sought only to return her to her parents without letting kidnapers get her. Mrs. McMath. it was learned for the first time this morning, visited Peggy on Lee's boat Friday morning while police of a dozen states still were maintaining vigilant watch for signs of possible kidnapers. The mother spent half an hour on the boat and then returned to shore, lest suspicions be arouse^ that the girl was aboard.