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COAL ‘RACKET’ IS CHARGED TO CITY LIGHT CO. Paying 50 Cents Ton More Than Market Price, Is Claim. CONTRACT IS REVEALED Holding Firm ‘Grab’ Hint Is Dropped by Probers in Case. BY BASIL GALLAGHER Timp Staff Writer The Indianapolis Power and Light Company is alleged to be paying 50 rent: a ton for coal in excess of the market price, investigators charged today. The coal, it was learned, is bought bv the light company through a subsidiary organization of the Utilities Power and Light Corporation of Chicago. A ten-year contract. The Times learned, exists between the local utility and the United Collieries Company, Inc., the aforementioned subsidiary. Shorman Minton, public counselor before the public service commission. told The Times that he found a similar coal situation in the recent hearings w-hich w-ere conducted on the light rates of the Public Service Company of Indiana. Paid 52.05 a Ton During this case now- awaiting a ruling by the commission, it was revealed that the utility which serves several hundred towns in the southern section of the state paid $2.05 for coal from a mine operated by the company. R. Hartley Sherwood, coal authority of Indianapolis, testified that coal was selling on the market in 1929 for $1.79 a ton for mine run and $1.13 a ton for "screenings.” In 1932, according to Mr. Sherwood, mine run coal sold on the market for $1.20 a ton and “screenings” for sl. Utility experts assert that this is “another instance” of the alleged peculiar and complicated business procedures which have led to the issuance of an order by the public service commission to show cause, Feb. 1, why electric rates in Indianapolis should not be reduced. Incorporated ‘for Profit’ Corporation records in the office of the secretary of state reveal that the United Collieries Company, Inc., was incorporated under the laws of Delaware as a "corporation incorporated for profit.” The main office of the company is located at 327 South La Salle street. Chicago, which also is the address of the Utilities Power and Light Corporation, holding company of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. Engineers interviewed on the subject of fuel for the operation of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company assert that the company can use a good grade of "screenings" to advantage. All coal above "screenings” in size, they point out, must go through crushers to reduce it to screening size. Experts Give Opinions An investigation by The Times discloses that high-grade fourth and filth "screenings” have been offered on bids to large buyers at from 70 to 90 cents a ton. Mine run coal, fourth and fifth vein, has been offered at sl.lO to $1.25 a ton at the mine. No. 6 "shaft screenings” have been offered at from 65 cents a ton up, it was learned. Assuming that the Indianapolis Power and Light Company had a free hand in the purchase of coal, unhrmpored by the influence of the holding company, experts on the coal situation say the firm could buy half of its tonnage in high grade “screenings” and half in a similar quality of “mine rim.” This method, according to experts, would average the cost of the coal, purchased to about $1 a ton at the mine. On this basis the Indianapolis Fower and Light Company could have saved a sum considerably more than million dollars during the last five years and eleven months. Affects Rate. Is Claim Had such a saving been effected and listed in the reports of the light company to the public service commission it should have had considerable effect in bringing dowm the present high electric rates in Indianapolis, utility experts assert. But this, of course, would not have beer to the advantage of the United Collieries Compar*'-, Inc., the Utilities Power and Light Corporation, nor any of the other subsidiaries of the big Chicago utility enterprise, it is charged. Taking two years of the six-year operation of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company as an example, the following records of the coal bought at the mine, the tonnage and the total cost are taken from reports of the light company to the pubhc service commission: For the period ended December. 1929, for example, the Indianapolis Power and Light Company bought 505 173 tons of coal. Price at the mine averaged $1.3073 a ton. making a total of $658,911. Alleged Excess Computed In 1932 the light company purchased 328.401 tons at $1.3362 a ton. making a total of $438,824. An accountant for The Times has computed that an alleged excess charge of $252,586. figuring the coal at 50 cents a ton. was made in 1929. An excess charge of $197,041 at 60 cents a ton was made in 1932. it is alleged. Hourly Temperatures 6 • m 24 10 a. m 26 7 a m 25 11 a. m 27 8a - m 26 12 <noon).. 27 9a. m 26 Ip. m 27

VOLUME 45—NUMBER 209

Captain Arrnent, Accused of Brutalities, Is Fired From State Farm Post Ousted from Job at Putnamville Institution, Times Learns; Democrat Is Given Office: Changes Are Ordered Made by Pleas Greenlee. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer Captain E. L. tPeepdown) Arrnent has been fired from his post in charge of the guards at the Indiana state farm, Putnamville, it was learned by The Times today. He was released last week, as also was Captain Fred Littleton of the night guard staff, it was admitted by Superintendent Ralph Howard.

COX FREED IN - HIT-RUN CASE Evidence Insufficient, Is Judge's Verdict; Grand Jury to Probe. Tracy Cox, junior welterweight pugilist, was dismissed in municipal court today on charges of failing to stop after an accident, but witnesses in the case were ordered to appear before the Marion county grand jury Jan. 16 for further investigation. Cox was charged with striking two pedestrians, James Collis, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, and Miss Thelma Griffin, 4209 East Thirtieth street, at Thirtieth street and Sherman drive several days ago, and with having failed to stop. In court today, witnesses were unable to identify the driver or tell the make of car injuring the victims. Stating that there was insufficient evidence before the court to convict, Judge Dewey Myers dismissed the charges, but ordered all witnesses to testify before the grand jury. Mr. Cox surrendered to police about ten hours after the accident. He denied know-ledge of hitting any one. Police said they found his car, w-hich resembled description given by witnesses, had a damaged fender and headlight. CHILD, 5, SHOT BY CHUM, NEAR DEATH Accident Victim Is Fighting for His Life. A 5-year-old boy, with odds against him. is fighting for his life with childish tenacity in St. Vincent's hospital today. He is Richard Sawyer, 5, of 3470 North Euclid avenue, the victim of an accidental shooting by a 5-year-old chum who played “toy gun” with a loaded .38-caiiber revolver. Today he was given a blood transfusion in a second effort to save his life. Dickie, with Robert Jeffries. 5, of 3422 North Colorado avenue, yesterday afternoon repeated their daily performance of playing at the home of Robert Maxw-ell, 4. of 3350 North Colorado avenue. But, yesterday, instead of playing with the toys in the front part of the house, the Jeffries boy wandered into a bedroom where Mrs. Flora Maxwell had hidden a revolver under the bed. Usually, Mrs. Maxwell hides the gun each morning. Yesterday she neglected to do it. The Jeffries boy was seated on a velocipede. In his hand he held the revolver he had taken from the bedroom. Within a few- feet was Dickie Sawyer. Pulling the trigger with both hands, the boy fired the revolver, the bullet striking Dickie in the abdomen. KILLING CLIMAXES LOVE 27-Y'ear-Old Woman May Face Charges of Murder. By United Press READING. Pa.. Jan. 10.—Unrepentant, Frances Sepse. 27. today faced charges of murder as the climax of her unrequitted love for Dr. Paul R. Hess, 33, prominent Reading attorney. She admitted freely that her love for the handsome doctor led her to kill him Monday night.

Dutch Stone Mason Is Beheaded on Nazi Order Plea of Queen Wilhelmina Fails to Save Young Lubbe, Convicted in Burning of Reichstag. By United Press LEIPZIG. Germany. Jan. 10.—Marinus Van Der Lubbe, moronic Dutch stene mason, convicted of burning the Reichstag building, was beheaded teday at Leipzig prison.

A plea by Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, sent through the Dutch minister, for commutation was unavailing and the 24-year-old Lubbe went to the block at 7:30 a. m. *■ The silk-hatted, frock-coated executioner severed Lubbe's head just after daybreak in the inner court of the Saxon state prison. The beheading, in Nazi eyes, was a concession. He was to have been hanged, a death considered less honorable. Lubbe went to the scaffold like a dumb animal and placed lus head on the block. The executioner released the knife of the guillotine and Lubbe's head was severed in the manner first prescribed in Saxony 130 years ago by Napoleon I. Had the execution occurred anywhere else in Germany, the executioner would have used a battle ax, which, by tradition, is the usual instrument of death. No details were given in Germany .k.

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Captain Arrnent was blamed by former prisoners at the farm for the cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on inmates guilty of misdemeanors. These charges included handcuffing prisoners to cell bars, working sick men until they dropped, beating with canes and working men in chains. This state of affairs was exposeef last summer in a series of articles in The Times which attracted statewide attention and aroused editorial comment. Governor Paul V. McNutt at that time transferred Mr. How-ard back to the farm superintendency from the Indiana state reformatory, where he had been sent from the farm post by former Governor Harry G. Leslie. Take on “Political Tinge” Superintendent Clifford Craig, who had succeeded Mr. How-ard at the farm, was relieved of duty. He was ill at the state sanatorium at Rockville and chief clerk Harry Wissel nominally w-as in charge when The Times investigation w-as made. It w-as disclosed, however, that Captain Arrnent had charge of all discipline in the institution. As at other institutions under the McNutt administration, the staff changes have taken on a political tinge. Two “deserving Democrats” have been trained for several months to take the places of Captains Arrnent and Littleton. Howard Is Republican Superintendent How-ard is a Republican. however, with years of service in state penal institutions. Captain Arrnent was replaced by H. Baxter Plew, state representative from Sulivan county and Captain Littleton by Porter Blaydes. Roachdale. Both are appointees of Pleas Greenlee, McNutt patronage secretary. Mr. Greenlee ordered the changes made, it was learned. Captain Arrnent is a Republican from Lake county. Captain Littleton comes from Lafayette. He recently was transferred from tl night post because of alleged misconduct, it was reported, but Superintendent Howard said it w-as not serious.

INDIANA LIQUOR LAW WORST, DRYS TOLD Anti-Saloon League Convention Predicts Prohibition. By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 10.—The Anti-Saloon League of America today concluded its annual convention in a Baptist Sunday school room w-ith the prediction that liquor soon w-ill be outlawed again. •'lndiana has the w-orst liquor lawin the United States,” L. E. York, of Indianapolis, told the delegates. Dr. F. Scott Mcßride, general superintendent, and other leaders asserted that the league w-ould fight as it “never had fought before,” and that the necessity for economy w-ould in nc w-ise dampen its ardor. FOOD STORES DRAFT RULES FOR OPERATION NRA Provisions to Be Observed by City Grocers. Rules covering operations of food stores throughout the Indianapolis trading area, under NRA provisions will be submitted to Washington within a few- days by the Indianapolis food stores authority, Paul F. Murphy, secretary and authority enforcing officer, said today. ' The Indianapolis authority is preparing rules now- and when the hours are submitted to a vote, store operators must state the opening and closing hours ior their individual stores. Mr. Murphy said that they will not be permitted to work on a split-shift basis.

regarding the execution. Newspapers. rigidly controlled by the Nazi state, were ordered to publish merely the fact that Lubbe had been beheaded. Refusing the ministrations of a chaplain. Lubbe was led out of his cell at daybreak and mounted the stepxs of the guillotine stolidly. He stood hanging his head, as usual, while the verdict of the court was read to him a second time. "Have you any last words?" asked Prosecutor Werner. "No." mumhled Lubbe, shaking his head. Werner turned to Heinrich Goerdeler. the Madgeburg executioner, who beheaded six Communists at Dusseldorf Dec. 30, and said firmly: “Executioner, ao your duty." The knife creaked up the framework.—a moment later it crashed down. Blood spurred, and Lubbe's head thumped into the basket.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1934

SPEED FARM LOANS, PLEA OF ROOSEVELT $2,000,000,000 Bond Issue Urged to Hurry Up Refinancing. BILL IS INTRODUCED I House Move Follows Chief’s Message: Guarantee of Principal Asked. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—President Roosevelt today put congress to w-ork on plans to speed up refinancing of the nation’s farm mortgage burden through a $2,000,000,000 issue of farm bonds carrying an unconditional guarantee of the government both on principal and interest. In a special message, the President urged congress to meet a “moral obligation” by guaranteeing principal on the bonds and thus make them readily acceptable to investors. The bonds were authorized last year, but with a guarantee only of interest. Chairman Marvin Jones of the house agriculture committee forthwith introduced a bill carrying out the President’ recommendations and setting up a farm loan mortgage corporation to aid federal land banks in carrying out the refinancing. Hearings w-ill begin tomorrow on the measure. Principal Not Guaranteed The bill also w-ould increase to $800,000,000 the $200,000.00 emergency fund established last spring for mortgage loans to farmers who can not finance their debts through the land banks.. Governor William I. Myers of the farm credit administration, explained that it had been impossible to market land bank bonds, on which principal is not guaranteed by the government, “at or near par” and consequently no public offering had been attempted. Under tthe new plan, he said, the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation wil Imake the additional $600,000,000 of emergency loans to farmers, and w-ill finance the land banks by buying their bonds, doing so through issuance of its own $2,000,000,000 issue of bonds carrying government guarantee. Scale Down Obligations “Since conditions are such as to make it underisable or impracticable to offer the bonds of the corporation for sale on the market, farmer borrowers from both the corporation and the federal land banks will be given, in lieu of cash, bonds of the corporation w-hich would be equivalent to direct obligations of the United States government.” This means, in short, that holders of present private mortgages which are being refinanced, w-ill be given an unconditional guaranteed government bond in exchage. This is expected to make mortgage holders more willing to scale dow-n their obligations and ease the burden of farm debt. In the refinancing program started last May, $235,000,000 of loans have been closed so far through the land banks.

Chicago Milk Strike at End ; U. S. Forces Truce Federal Government’s Decision to License All Distributors Features Agreement. By United Press CHICAGO. Jan. 10.—The Chicago milk strike was ended today w-ith an agreement of all parties to submit the matter to arbitration. Meanwhile the federal government prepared to take control of the situation by licensing all milk distributors in the city.

ELLSWORTH ARRIVES AT BYRD’S OLD BASE Finds Little America Unchanged, He Tells Admiral. Bn L'nited Press ON BOARD SS. JACOB RUPERT, Antarctic Ocean, Jan. 10.—(Via Mackay Radio)—Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd was advised today that the Lincoln Ellsw’orth Antarctic expedition had reached the old Byrd base on the Bay of Whales, to which the Ruppert is bound. Ellsworth wirelessed: “Little America is as you left it, with planes in good condition except for digging out. Radio masts O. K. but tremendous ridges show in front of Ver Sur Mer bay, making it impassable for dog teams." Fear for Missing Man Bis United Press CLEVELAND, Jan. 10. Apprehension increased today for the safety of Frank T. Joiner, reputed big-time slot machine operator, who has been missing from his home in Lakewood, a suburb, for a w r eek. Times Index Page Auto News 10 Berg Cartoon 14 Bridge 9 Broun 13 Classified 17-18 Comics 19 Congress Page 12 Crossword Puzzle 9 Curious World • 19 Editorial 14 Financial 15 Hickman—Theaters 13 Hunting 17 Lippman 15 Our Gang—A Series 13 Pegler 13 Radio 5 Sports 16-17 State News 20 Unknown Blond 19 Woman's Pages 8- 9

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“Professor” Timothy McMahon, w-ho serves as police sergeant except on Thursday nights, when he’s the “boss” of the new school for traffic violators, is show-n giving advance instruction to Miss Helene Eder, 765 North Riley avenue, and telling her why she won the driving dunce cap and had to stay in after school. Miss Eder’s excuse for speeding was, “I'm a teacher, too, professor. I was in a hurry to get home to my dancing pupils.” School days! School days! Good old no-parking rule days. Speeding and Sparking w-ith Reckless Driving case, Taught to the tune of the rubber mace. tt tt tt tt tt B AND so, if you hear this sung in tenor and contralto keys Thursday night at 8 in municipal court three, with a jailer's key-ring playing tuning-fork, you’ll know that Indianapolis again has started its moonlight kindergarten for traffic violators.

EXPLOSION STARTS $6,000 BLAZE HERE Several Buildings Swept by Fire; One Man Burned. Damage estimated at $6,000 resulted from a blaze which swept several buildings in the 5703 block West Morris street last night. The fire started from explosion of a stove in the tire and battery shop of William Coons. Mr. Ccons was burned severely, and the shop was razed, with a loss of about $4,000. The flames spread to the residence and a barber shop and dry cleaning establishment, ow-ned byRalph Perry. Mr. Perry's loss w-as estimated at $2,000. A son of Mr. Perry was injured when a nail penetrated his foot as he aided in removing equipment from the store.

1 The arbitration agreement was announced by Mayor Edward J. Kelly after a conference of all parties to the dispute shortly after the United Press learned that federal authorities were going to invoke the licensing provisions of the agricultural adjustment act no matter what the warring milk factions decided to do. The decision to end the strike came after the most thorough disturbance of farm products marketing of a series w r hich has affected the midwest in the last tw T o years. The agreement to resume normal milk deliveries must be ratified by directors of the Chicago Pure Milk Association, but this was regarded as a mere formality. However from the Auditorium hotel where the farm picket leaders have been in all-night conference came reports that seme opposition might develop. Mayor Kelly said: ‘The strike is over. Every one has agreed to a truce. Milk deliveries will start again just as fast as we can get the machinery in operation." The settlement of the disputed question of w’hat farmers shall be paid for their milk would be left to a committee by terms of the mayor's pact. It was suggested that one representative of distributors, one representative of producers and a third man chosen by these two seek a solution of the matter. It w’as believed that almost normal deliversies would be restored tomorrow. REFINANCING OF HOME LOAN BONDS STUDIED Roosevelt working on Recommendations for 82,000,009,000 Project. B il United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 10.—President Roosevelt is working out recemmendations calling for a refinancing of the $2,000,030,000 in home loan bonds, it was learned today at the White House.

Weekly, on the same night, “Professors” Timothy McMahon and Harry Smith, alias sergeant and traffic officer, will take up the ferule and with blackboard scenes show-ing where Mister A mangled a North Illinois street fire-plug and Mrs. B. caressed a Meridian street lamp-pole, explain why autos roam on to front porches and sit down at your bridge table. Each pupil w-ill have a gradecard from a municipal judge relating his or her prowess in making a preferential street look like a back-alley or giving the wellangled thumb accompaniment to nose at stop-and-go lights. Say! “Professor” McMahon is at the teacher’s desk. The “professor” positively will accept no pineapples, morning-glories, or auto-rods from those seeking to become teacher’s pets. :: tt tt THE roll is called. “Johnny Jones! one-arm driving,” accuses the “Professor.” “Here! But Professor, I was just grinding along up Pennsy w-ith Pansy when up comes a big old bully on a motorcycle.” At this juncture, “plop,” something hits the blackboard at the starboard corner of “Professor” McMahon’s ear. “Who shot that paper wad?” demands the stern “Professor.” A hand at the rear of the schoolroom raises. "Tattle-tale! Tattle-tale! ought to be in jail!” choruses the backrow. “It was that mug sitting two rows ahead w-ho presented Fall creek*with twins, wire w-heels, last night!” recites Mary, glibly. Up shoot hands in varied corners of the schoolroom. Always fingers, sometimes tw-o and three. "Professor” McMahon is bewildered. He nods. Anew nod, another, another, nod, nod, nod, nod, nod nodnodnodno—d—d—. “School dismissed!” a tt u 'VTOW that may be one scene in L 1 he school that has been recalled after six years absence, but if Sergeant McMahon and Traffic Officer Smith have anything to do w-ith it, they’ll attempt to cram into skulls before they are fractured. this information: And as for those who play “hockey” from school, after being assigned to the classroom by a municipal judge—well, there's a w-oodshed with bars on it where the A. B. C.’s of traffic could be taught first-hand.

Navy Planes Poised for Massed Flight to Hawaii Six Flying Boats Ready to Take Off Today on Longest Ocean Hop; City Man Leads Squadron. | By Uni frit Press SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10.—Six gray flying boats of the United States navy were poised on the placid waters of Paradise cove today, ready to roar out over the Golden Gate this afternoon, for the Hawaiian islands on the longest over-water mass flight ever attempted.

A “flat calm" prevailed on the ; 2,103-mile stretch “patrol squadron 10” expected to cover within twenS ty-four hours in order to reach its base at Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, in i daylight tomorrow’. The weather was considered “ideal." But a storm was reported brewing west of Hawaii and threatening to move eastward into the path of the six huge planes as they winged their way across the Pacific. Accordingly, navy aerologists ; urged an Immediate start on the daring venture which was to navy i men just a matter of the routine transfer of the planes to their 1 permanent base-

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‘INSIDE’ OF STATE PRISON BREAK IS BARED BY DIETRICK Terror Mobster Reveals That He Was Signal Man for Escape Last Sept. 26 From Michigan City’s Walls. PIERPONT ‘OUTSIDE CONTACT MAN’ Grilled Here, Dapper Bandit Tells Details of Plot That Led to Wholesale Dash From Institution. BY ARCH STEINEL Times Staff Writer Dapper and bespatted Walter Dietrick, Indiana terror mobster, today revealed he was the signal man for the break Sept. 26 from Michigan City state prison in which ten convicts shot and slugged their way to liberty. Grilled for several hours today by Captain Matt Leach and Detective Gene Ryan of the state police, the Dillinger terror mobster, who was captured several days ago in Chicago, bared details of the plot leading up to the prison break.

FILES BURNED. SENATE TOLD Probers to Make Search for Trace of Missing Postal Records. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—A thorough search of the postoffice department for missing documents relating to ocean and air mail subsidies was under w-ay today as a senate investigating committee prepared to inquire further into startling testimony that official files were destroyed w-hen former Postmaster General Walter F. Brown retired from the department last March. Aided by postal inspectors, committee investigators hoped to discover copies of some of the documents required for the air mail inquiry. It was believed possible that duplicates may be stored away in some offices in the department. The committee received a frank admission from John Maher, a stenographer of eighteen years experience in the department, that on orders from Mr. Brown’s secretary he tossed official and personal files into a furnace just a few days before the Roosevelt administration entered the capital. “I took the files, a stick at a time,” he said calmly, “and threw them into a furnace in the basement.” The committee planned to call one of Maher’s fellow employe.-, who was reported to have been present w-hen the stenographer received instruction to destroy those files which Mr. Brown did not consider necessary to conserve.

ROOSEVELT TO REVIEW U. S. FLEET IN JUNE Ceremonies Set for New York City, Navy Heads Disclose. By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 10.—President Roosevelt w-ill review the entire United States fleet in June in the Hudson river at New York City, according to tentative plans disclosed today by the navy department: LEAGUE OF NATIONS^ 14 YEARS OLD TODAY Organization Due for Drastic Changes, is Belief. By United Press GENEVA, Jan. 10.—The League of Nations, conceived by Woodrow Wilson and organized in the atmosphere of the war’s end, observed its iourteenth birthday today. Many world figures believe the league has spent its last year in its present form. Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy is sponsor of a move to revise its covenant to make it more attractive to nations like the United States, Russia, and Germany.

“We had to get the planes to Honolulu.” explained Rear Admiral Alfred Johnson, commander of the aircraft base force, in announcing the flight. “It seemed easier to fly them across than to take them apart and move them by boat." The take-off time already had been advanced a wnoie day when the squadron, with Lieutenant Commander McGinnis of Indianapolis, veteran of fourteen years of naval aviation, leading the way, settled like nesting birds in the quiet cove after a leisurely flight from San Diego.

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“Harry Pierpont was the outside contact man for the break and arranged to have the guns smuggled into the prison shirt factory,” Dietrick said. “It had been in my mind, along with several others, for two years to make the break. Because I was in the shipping room of the prison shirt factory, it was decided between Pierpont, Clark, Mackley and Hamilton and myself that I was to receive the guns.” “Where’d they come from —outside?” broke in Captain Leach as Dietrick was questioned at state police headquarters here. “I’m Not Sure” Dietrick professed ignorance of the outside contact which he said had been utilized by Pierpont. “I think I know who supplied them,” Dietrick added, "but I'm not sure.” “I was to know what kind of a box the guns were coming in,” continued Dietrick. “They arrived two days before the break. There was only one box on the truck arid it was labeled ‘thread’.” Dietrick here explained that incoming shipments are to be checked by a civilian foreman of the company operating the prison shirt factory. “I didn’t give him much chance to inspect that box,” Dietrick said, “because I grabbed it as soon as it arrived and took it to the basement of the shirt factory warehouse. I unpacked it there and put the guns —three .38 calibre Colt automatics —in a box of buttons. “I Gave the Signal” “The day of the break, Mackley, Clark, Pierpont and Hamilton (others among the escaped convict band) assembled there and Clark, Pierpont and Hamilton took the three guns. “I gave the signal for the break by going up and talking to Stevens (short factory superintendent). There was a screw (guard) named Evans in the basement, but I kissed him off by telling him Stevens had found a jug of wine. “When we made the break, we had to tie up some of the other cons and lock them in the tunnels. "One of the boys, I'm not sure which, put a gun on Evans and another took care of Stevens and we walked toward the gates with bundles of shirts under our arms. Had No Fixed Plans “As we got to the gates, a screw named Swanson opened at Stevens’ command and somebody took Swanson’s keys. We went on through the other gates and joined the fellows outside who had disarmed Sheriff Neal.” Dietrick revealed that the convicts had no fixed plans for liberty beyond gaining the outside. He denied that he ever received any of the Massachusettls Avenue bank robbery proceeds from John Dillinger, with whom the convicts joined after the escape. “He wouldn’t have known where to send it—l was on the jump ail the time.” Dietrick said. The dapber mobster said never to his knowledge were police ever close to him, and asserted he believed he never would have been captured if he had not visited Jack Klutas. the kidnaper slain in the raid which netted Dietrick. Answers Queries Glibly Dressed in a neat brown ensemble including suit, hat, tie, shirt, shoes and spats, Dietrick answered glibly the questions shot at him by Leach and Ryan. He denied that any prison employes aided in the break. Deitrick also denied that his visit to Klutas, college-bred leader of a band of nationally notorious kidnapers, had anything to do with joining the Klutas mob. "I knew him before, and just went to see him,” Dietrick explained naievely. And meanwhile, there was an addition today to apparently cryptic pencil marks which adorn the wall cf the office next to Captain Leach'3 in which Dietrick was questioned. They consist of pencil maik chetks and comprise ‘ the score” of law and order against the conv.ct mob. The 'score'’ today, with the addition of a pencil check for Dietrick, is 6 to 3. The “6 to 3” means that six mobsters have been slain or captured and three police officers of two states have met their death in the hunt.