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DOLLAR SLASH MAY LEAD TO TRADE BATTLE Immediate Domestic Effect of Devaluation to Be Nil. 59.06 CENTS IS VALUE U. S., Great Britain War for World Markets Is Predicted. By I Pnss WASHINGTON. Feb. I.—Uncle Sam entered the international money markets today with a fund of $2,000,000.(100 while the American people began doing business with a 59.06-cent gold dollar in conformity with the most striking and vital experiment of the new deal. The immediate domestic effect of President Roosevelt's devaluation of the former gold content of the dollar was expected to be nil. Commodity prices and the cost of living should rise a bit, but it should be a gradual process, accompanied, the administration believes, by increased income for the people. The dollar domestically still is worth 100 cents, but on the basis of its former gold content of one ounce of gold equals $20.67, it is worth 59.06 cents. The foreign effect was expected to be world-shaking. In devaluating the dollar. Mr. Roosevelt coincidentally created the $2.000 000.000 stabilization fund with which to buy and sell gold, foreign exchange and government securities. A world wide battle for foreign markets may develop around that fund, and between Great Britain and the United States. The fund's operation will be surrounded by the strictest secrecy, with only Mr. Roosevelt and treasury secretary Henry Morgenthau cognizant of its dealings. Under the law they may spend from it today or whenever they choose and need not report for three years. President Roosevelt’s dramatic action placed the American dollar in a bargaining position calculated to speed international currency stabilization. It gave assurance to business and capital that the dollar noy is jelatively stable. Mr. Roosevelt at any time can change the value he placed upon the gold dollar, but under the monetary law he is restricted to a range between 50 and 60 cents. The dollar, therefore, can go down 9.06 cents, no more, or it can go up four onehundredths of a cent. Silver Not Affected Silver was not affected by the new monetary dispensation, but may figure in bargaining for international currency stabilization. Mr. Roosevelt accomplished what was probably the most far-reaching new deal action, when he affixed his signature to a proclamation at 3:10 p. m. yesterday. He pegged the dollar in terms of gold at 59.06 per cent of its former value in an effort to: 1. Expand credit. 2. Stabilize domestic prices. 3. Protect American foreign markets. The dealings of the stabilization fund are calculated to maintain the dollar at the 59.06 level in its relation to foreign currencies. They are intended to drive Great Britain and France to satisfactory 1 international currency stabilization agreement. The alternative is international money war with foreign trade the stake. Great Britain has a $1,800,000,000 stabilization fund. FTance would be a vitally interested third party because her gold standard hangs in the balance. First Change Since 1873 Mr. Roosevelt s’ action was the first change in the gold content of the dollar since the United States went on the gold standard in 1873. It craated automatically for the treasury a profit on gold estimated unofficially at $2,792,000,000. The dollar was devaluated 40 94 per cent. The profit figure represents that percentage of this nation's store of gold. The government took title to all outstanding gold in this country’ Jan. 30 All but $792,090,000 of the profit will be devoted to stabilization operations. The rest will shortly appear on the treasury books as a cash asset. Neither the pegged position of the dollar nor the $35 an ounce for gold is necessarily permanent. The President and secretary* Morgenthau have authority to change them subject to certain limitations. There is immediately in prospect now negotiation between London and Washington for currency stabilization. as he announced the new money plan yesterday. President Roosevelt told questioners it had no* been preceded by discussions with foreign powers Discussion may begin at any time and rather sooner than later unless Great Britain is determined to put up a fight to keep the dollar high in relation to the pound sterling. The vital French interest lies not only in this titanic struggle for foreign trade but in the possibility that she and her small group of supporters may be driven from the gold standard. The American gold price in effect today Is $1.70 above the price yesterday in London's free gold market. The $35 American gold price may force the London quotation to that figure. May Attract AH Gold Officials concede the possibility that the $35 may attract all gpld in the world market to the United States, compelling France and her allies to abandon the yellow standard Our own position now is described in soma official quarters as "a return to an international gold bullion standard.'* That is, we will make our International settlements in gold.

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Vern Sankey, Suspect in Lindbergh Kidnaping Case, Caught in Chicago Federal Agents Give Notorious Criminal No Rest From Questioning: Utmost Secrecy Surrounds All Movements in Arrest and Quiz. By United Press * CHICAGO, Feb. I.—Crack justice department agents pitilessly questioned Verne Sankey today seeking to link him with the most notorious kidnaping of all time—the Lindbergh case. The questioning which has gone on without surcease since the South Dakota outlaw was captured yesterday was led today by an unnamed secret agent who rushed here by airplane w r hen word was received at W ashington of Sankey s arrest.

Files of the Lindbergh case were brought to the questioning chamber today. Sankey was given no rest from the questioning. Federal agents worked in relays. The suspect was held in a tiny room in the suite of Melvin Purvis, chief Chicago federal investigator. Sankey s responses to questions were checked as rapidly as given by long distance telephone with department of justice headquarters in Washington and New Jersey police officials at Trenton. Almost constant communication by telephone was being maintained with these offices. It was believed that additional justice department agents who have been working on the Lindbergh case since the famous flier’s baby son was kidnaped and murdered a year and eleven months ago were en route here.

Secrecy Surrounds Moves Utmost secrecy surrounded the federal activities. Sankey’s arrest was not even announced locally until after the news had been given out in Washington, an unprecedented procedure. Question after question was being flung at the South Dakota rancher in hope of finding some clew to the Lindbergh abduction. The serial numbers of some $3,000 in billc found in his possession were being checked, despite Sankey’s statement that the money represented ransom from the abduction of Charles Boettcher 11. of Denver, which had been changed to smaller bills some time before. From the guarded statements of the questioners it was learned that Sankey talked freely regarding every detail of the kidnapings of Boettcher and Haskell Bohn of St. Paul which he had confessed to. This was regarded with suspicion by the federal agents. Faces Murder Charge They pointed out Sankey had been positively identified in both these cases and that he had been named in confessions of accomplices. In these cases also he faces a simple charge of kidnaping while if linked to the Lindbergh case he faces a murder charge in addition. Helen Mattem. woman found living in Sankey’s apartment, was believed by police to be wthout knowledge of his identity. They questioned her for many hours, but she appeared to be ignorant of Sankey’s true name and only regarded questions blankly when asked if she knew “Verne Sankey.” She knew the suspect under the alias of W. E. Clark, Thomas E. Dahill, chief of police, and M. F. Kinkead, prosecuting attorney from St. Paul, arrived today with extradition papers signed by Governor Floyd B. Olson seeking return of Sankey to Minnesota. Purvis informed the Minnesota officials that the government is not yet through questioning Sankey and until then he will not consider extradition requests.

‘Battle of Secretaries’ Upsets Hoosier Politics

BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Timts Staff Writer Not the “battle of the century,” but the "battle of the secretaries" is upsetting Hoosier Democratic politics at the present moment. Using ringside terms, the participants might be introduced as “Battling" Ben Stem and “Pleas the Panther” Greenlee. For it is these two boys who are staging the main go. Mr. Stern is secretary to Senator Frederick Van Nuys and Mr. Greenlee secretary to Governor Paul V. McNutt. Both like to assume the roll of king maker, it is reported by visiting politicians, returning from either th? state or national capitals. Patronage is the weapon being used by each in the effort at Democratic party domination and control. When Mr. Greenlee ordered Miss Ruth Bledsoe fired from a position as stenographer at the statehouse last Saturday, he was frank to admit that it was in retaliation against her uncle. Judge Martin Pigg, who got her the place. Judge Pigg. Pleas charged, was entirely too active in his support of

To Drink or Not to Drink —That Is Question Before Teachers

HAS the world become modern enough in 1934 so that Hoosier school teachers of cither sex may smoke and drink occasionally. like other folk? The department of public instruction expects to have the answer to this and other pioblems through a questionnaire sent to all city, county and town school superintendents throughout the state. Questions were drafted by Clarence,Murray of the teacher license

The Indianapolis Times Fair tonight, with lowest temperature about 25; tomorrow, increasing cloudiness and rising temperature.

By United Press BOGALUSA, La.. Feb. I.—Tickfaw river fish, where R. F. D. No. 3, Franklinton, crosses the stream, are so vicious “they’ll steal your teeth” was today’s report from Millard Carrier, farmer. Carrier, while watering his horses in the Tickfaw, decided to wash his “store-bought” teeth. A fish struck his hand and took the teeth. After unsuccessfully fishing with pole and hook, Carrier spied the finny thief and shot him with a rifle. The false molars were found inside the eight - pound #jackfish when he cut it open. TOUHY COUNSEL HINTS FACTOR NOT KIDNAPED ‘State Hasn’t Proved He Was Abducted,’ Declares Attorney. By t n ited Pries CRIMINAL COURTS BUILDING, CHICAGO, Feb. I.—John (Jake the Barber) Factor never was kidnaped for ransom. Defense Counsel William Scott Steward told a jury today in his closing argument for Roger Touhy and two Touhy gangsters charged with the Factor abduction. "There was no real evidence presented in this case that Factor actually was kidnaped,” said the defense counsel as the case neared the stage of jury deliberation. “The state hasn't proved that Factor was kidnaped, let alone linking the abduction to Touhy.”

AUTOS CLAIM EIGHTHVICTIM Injuries Fatal to Man Hurt in Collision Between Truck and Car. Injuries received in a collision between an automobile and a truck Tuesday proved fatal early today to John Stein, 60, of 229 South

Warman avenue. . Mr. Stein, who died at city hospital, was the eighth victim of traffic accidents this year. He was riding in a truck,

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driven by Harvey Robertson, 29, of 314 South Holmes avenue, which was in collision at Addison and Jackson streets Tuesday with a car driven by Clarence Coonce, 43, of 552 South Addison street. Three other persons were injured, less seriously, in the accident.

Bites Biters Fish Swallows Farmer’s Store Teeth.

Fred Bays for Sullivan county Democratic chairman, when the McNutt machine wanted Golden Webb. “We demand loyalty,” Mr. Greenlee declared in commenting on the girl’s dismissal. He did not charge that she had taken part in the Sullivan county fight, which was lost by the Governor's forces 47 to 32. Miss Dorothy Carlisle, Dugger, succeeded Miss Bledsoe in the office of Loren Warner, who is in charge of accident prevention work. But today it was announced that Miss Bledsoe will be employed at the federal building. The appointment was credited to Mr. Stern, who is said to be carrying on his anti-McNutt administration fight through Kirk McKinney, head of the federal home loan business in the state. Lee Bays, long time Sullivan county Democratic boss and brother of Fred, is in charge of the home loan business at Sullivan. Mr. McKinney’s connection with Mr. Stern is reported to be somewhat frowned upon by Will Smith, internal revenue collector, who formerly was listed as Senator Van Nuys’ No. •! man here.

division and were being sent out today with approval of Floyd I. McMurray, superintendent of public instruction. He calls the questioning a survey of the attitude of Indiana school administrators toward personal habits of prospective teachers. The questions are arranged so that the form can be checked with a plus sign for desirable traits, minus for undesirable and zero for questions that should not have been considered.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1934

LIGHT CO. CUT OFFER LIKELY TO BETAKEN Commission Studies Proposal to Slash Rates Here 5 Per Cent. GIVE DECISION SATURDAY Saving of $440,000 Promised If Show Cause Suit Is Dropped. Decision of the public service commission on the proposed 5 per cent rate cut agreement of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company will be made public Saturday at 10 a. m., it was announced today by Chairman Perry McCart. Acting on the adage that “half a loaf is better than no bread,” it appeared that the commissioners are likely to approve the rate cut plan. According to company figures this will mean a saving to consumers of $440,000 a year. Ordered to Show Cause That sum is approximately half of the $900,000 excess profits now being made by the company, according to ■ charges filed with the commission by Sherman Minton, public coun>I selor. Matter upon which the Minton | charges were based was made pub- ! lie in a series of articles in The Indianapolis Times. The commission summoned the company to show cause why present rates should not be lowered and scheduled a hearing for today. In the interim, company attorneys sought to dismiss the suit and at an oral argument Tuesday made the rate cut offer. Study Another Plan Ruling on the rate agreement was not made today, since the commission has not had sufficient time to study the proposal, it was announced by Chairman McCart, who adjourned the hearing until Saturday. Should they accept the cut it will mean that the suit to show cause will be dropped and a complete audit and appraisal of company properties made, upon which permanent rates will be based. In the interim, the 5 per cejit reduction will be in force, starting three days after the agreement is signed by the commissioners. Meanwhile an alternative plan, which would give more than 5 per cent to the rank and file consumer, also is being studied, it was learned.

RULES JUDGMENT MUST BEAR INTANGIBLE TAX Sales Levy Also Applies to $113,400 Verdict, Lutz Says. One hundred and fifty retail grocers. butchers and coal dealers who procured a $113,400 judgment against Marion county for poor relief supplies must pay an intangibles tax on their individual share. This was the ruling made to the state tax board today by AttorneyGeneral Philip Lutz Jr. In addition, uie gross income tax must be paid on the sales, the ruling set out. This brings the total tax on judgment and sales to IVi per cent.

KELLY HOLDUP TRIAL DELAYED INDEFINITELY Alleged Bandit Held in Stickup of Roberts Dairy Here. Trial of Willard Kelly, indicted in connection with the SBSO holdup of the William H. Roberts dairy Oct. 1, 1932, today was postponed again in criminal court. The trial had been postponed from today until Feb. 12, but because trial of Miss Cora Steele, teacher indicted in theft of teachers’ retirement fund bonds, had been set for that day, it was continued until after the Steele trial is concluded, no definite date being set. Kelly was arrested originally in connection with the murder of Sergeant Lester Jones, but was cleared of connection with that case. Times Index Page Berg Cartoon 14 Bridge 5 Broun *. 13 Classified 21, 22 Comics 23 Crossword Puzzle 18 Curious World 23 Editorial 14 Financial 19 Hickman—Theaters 13 Our Gang—A Series 13 Pegler 13 Radio 11 School News 6 Sports 20, 21 State News 17 Unknown Blond 23 War Pictures 15. 16 Woman’s Pages 4. 5

Superintendents may or may not sign the answers. Here are some of the posers: Should young men or women teachers keep company with students of the opposite sex?” Should a teacher be unduly friendly toward the opposite sex? Should they frequent uninvitational dances or road houses of questionable repute? Is it best for a teacher to abstain from alcoholic liquor, use it moderately or to an excessive degree?

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Happy that his son was not killed when captured and still hopeful that the nation’s No. 1 public enemy is not guilty of all the crimes attributed to him, John Dillinger Sr. (above), respected Mooresville (Ind.) citizen, waits anxiously on his farm for word from the “terror mob” leader. “I expect to hear from him soon,” he said. “I will go to him if he sends for me.”

MILD WEATHER TO SHY, IS FORECAST Armington Sees Nothing to Indicate More Cold. Continued mild weather was forecast for today and tomorrow by J. H. Armington, meteorologist, who said there is no indication at present of a recurrence of the extremely cold w&ather which gripped the city the first of this week. Temperature tonight is not expected to drop below 25 degrees, and the mercury probably will climb into the 40s tomorrow, he said. REORGANIZATION TOPIC BEFORE G. 0. P. GROUP State Committee Holds Informal Session Here. Reorganization of the Republican state committee was among the things informally discussed at a meeting of the committee today at Claypool headquarters. Under the election laws the regular reorganization takes place May 16, following the primaries and the local reorganization programs. The meeting was called by Chairman Don Irwin, Frankfort, and was the first held in several months. Office Thieves Get $226 Thieves broke into offices of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, 723 Meyer-Kiser bank building, last night and rifled a cash drawer of $226, Louis G. Ferguson, 5601 Broadway, manager, told police.

‘Better Treat Her Right’ ‘I Wish I Had a Machine Gun,’ Grits Pierpont as Mary Kinder Is Taken, From Him.

BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT Gotten state limited, en route to Chicago, Feb. i.— “They’d better treat her right,” Harry Pierpont brooded darkly last night as his thoughts turned to his separation at Kansas City from Mary Kinder, the girl he loves.

“Why should a girl marry a guy who’s going to be electrocuted?” the trigger man of the Dillinger mob muttered, arguing with himself more than talking at large. His cold, blue eyes dulled by lack of sleep. Pierpont sat with bowed head as the train neared Kansas City and his separation from the girl who, it was reported on the train, will become a mother. “We were married after a fashion,” Pierpont explained. “I can’t tell you the details now, but some day we’ll make them public. We got that license in Tucson merely to make our marriage formal.” Pierpont’s hopes of spending a final few moments alone with his sweetheart were foiled when the train pulled into Kansas City. A horde of Kansas City police, city officials, newspaper men and photographers descended in a swarm on the traveling penitentiary and blinding flashes of the photographers made the car a bedlam.

(This goes for both men and women teachers). The questions of tobacco are: Which is the most desirable trait for teachers: to abstain entirely, use tobacco moderately but not in the presence of pupils or to use it habitually when not on the school premises? Cigarets are substituted for ordinary tobacco in the questions addressed regarding women teachers.

TERROR MOBSTERS ARE IN STATE PRISON CELLS; RUSHED FROM CHICAGO

DUNan FACEMURDER Mil FBI. 13 Speedy Justice Sought by Prosecutor Who Says 22 Saw Killing. By United Press CROWN POINT, Ind., Feb. 1 Identified by twenty-two witnesses as the machine gunner who killed Detective Patrick O'Malley during the bank robbery at East Chicago. Jan. 16, John Dillinger, public enemy No. 1, awaited arraignment today on charges of murder in the commission of a holdup. The prosecutor said he would move to have the trial start Feb. 13. Should the notorious Indiana outlaw be convicted, electrocution at the state prison will be mandatory. Dillinger is expected to plead not guilty. He has retained W. W. O'Brien, noted Chicago criminal attorney, to defend him. Among the witnesses who identified Dillinger in connection with the East Chicago holdup were Walter L. Spencer and Edward L. Steck, vice-presidents, and James A. Dalton, cashier of the bank which was robbed. They said that Dillinger was in the institution for fifteen minutes and that they all got a good look at him. They told Prosecutor Robert G. Estil of Lake county that Dillinger pulled a machine gun out of a suit case, in full view of every one, swept it around the bank and mowed down detective O’Malley when the detective entered in response to a burglar alarm. Dillinger was brought here from Tucson, Ariz., where he was captured last week with Charles MaUley, Russell Clark and Harry Pierpont, three of ten convicts who escaped from the state prison at Michigan City last September.

Up in Smoke Cigaret and Liquor Tax Figures Given.

By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. I.—The average American smoked 894 cigarets last year, drank less than one pint of legal liquor, and more than five gallons of legal beer, internal revenue bureau statistics showed today. Taxes were paid last year on 12,645,361 gallons of distilled spirits, nearly half in December, following repeal of prohibition. Taxes were collected on 4,706,599 gallons of rectified spirits and wines and on 21,053,123 barrels of beer. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 29 10 a. m 29 7a. m 29 11 a. m 30 Ba. m 28 12 (noon).. 30 9a. m 28 Ip. m 30

All day long, Pierpont had been sitting with his arm around Mrs. Kinder as the train rolled through the dusty plains of Oklahoma and Kansas. Mrs. Kinder literally was dragged from his embrace to catch a train for Indianapolis under guard of Edward Barce, deputy attorney-general, and Miss Marie Grott, of the state police criminal identification bureau. Pierpont’s eyes darkened “They better treat her right,” he muttered, “and they better let me testify in court when she’s tried. That kid is as innocent of any deliberate crime with us as anybody. ’ “I wish I had a machine gun,” Pierpont gritted, as the swarm of police and newspapermen came into the car at Kansas City He turned his face to the wall. “They better treat her right,” he said.

Whether or not teachers should be active politicians is developed in another series of questions asked. At the bottom of the questionnaire the matter is put up to the superintendent as a problem in this manner: “If there were two applicants of etfual qualifications would you select the one that drinks or smokes or the one that doesn’t?” Honest answers may furnish basis for anew teacher ethics, it was pointed out...

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Pierpont Placed in First Car, Makley in Second and Clark in Third; All Under Heavy Guard. LODGED IN SEPARATE CELLS AT PEN 5,000 Jam La Salle Street Station to Catch Glimpse of Desperadoes as Train From Arizona Pulls In. BY BASIL GALLAGHER Times Staff Writer MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Feb. 1.-The Dillinger terror mobsters, minus the man from whom they take their name, “came home” to Michigan City state prison today under a heavy guard of Indiana state police and Chicago detectives. Shortly before noon today the frowning portals of the state penitentiary received three of the ten man who shot and slugged their way out of the institution last September and since have committed the depredations which earned them the name “terror mob." A small army of uniformed policemen and plainclothes men met the Golden State limited when it pulled into La Salle street station at Chicago at 9:30 a. m.

The three mobsters, Harry Pierpont, alleged trigger man of the Dillinger gang; ruddyfaced Charles Makley, and Russell Clark, his head swathed in a crown of bandages, were arriving after a tiresome trip from Tucson, Ariz., and after a bitter battle between three states for their custody. Corridor of the station that led to the elevator connecting with the upper level was bristling with machine guns as the manacled mobsters detained under guard of Captain Matt Leach of the state police, and Chicago detectives. A horde of newspaper men and photographers descended on the group and the recurring. glares of flash bulbs made the police guards finger their submachine guns nervously. They were alert against reported plans to deliver the hoodlum trio. Heading the “reception committee’’ at La Salle station were Captain John 'Bulldog) Stege, ace homicide man of the Chicago detective department, and Sergeant Frank (Wolf) Reynolds, terror of the Chicago underworld, whose pistol alone has taken the life of a dozen criminals during his ten years on the force. Sergeant Reynolds is the sharpshooter of the Chicago department. 5,000 Jam Station Captain Stege estimated a crowd upward of 5,000 jammed the environs of the upper level of the La Salle station when the mobsters were led out to a waiting automobile escort of thirteen cars. Pierpont was placed in one car, Makley in the second and Clark in a third, all under neavy guard, and the procession proceeded through downtown Chicago, with sirens screaming and accompanied by a motorcycle escort of. outriders. The caravan drove on through Upper drive, through Lake drive and thence to Hammond, Gary and Michigan City. Part of the heavy guard was dispensed with at the state line, but Stege, Reynolds and several other Chicago detectives continued on to Michigan City. The trip to the prison was made with no excitement, except the encounter with another battery of photographers and newspaper men at the prison. In Separate Cells The trio passed into the prison in the same order they were loaded for the trip to it. Pierpont, then Makley, ducked as photographers went to work. The apathetic Clark shambled in fingering the bloodstained bandages on his head. They were gratefully, if not hospitably, received by prison officials who placed them in separate cells and said they would r.ot be allowed to communicate with each other. It was reported they might be questioned by Captain Stege on further information Pierpont and Makley gave Indiana state police on “hush money” they said they paid while evading Chicago police. Pierpont is said to have told Indiana state police on a train journey to Chicago that he paid “thousands of dollars’’ in protection money to Chicago policemen. Meanwhile, with the mobster trio safely ensconced behind bars in Michjgan City, a few miles away at Crown Point was John Dillinger. He is being held at Crown Point for trial in the murder of Patrolman Patrick O'Malley in the holdup of a bank at East Chicago, Ind. The appearance of the prisoners as they neared Chicago matched the drab landscape, Pierpont, silent and brooding after the departure of his sweetheart, Mary Kinder, slept intermitently. Clark, his head freshly bandaged by a Kansas City doctor, sprawled out on a seat in the :ar holding his head in his hands. Makley, who had enlivened the tedious trip from the far west with occasional witticisms, appeared sleepy and uneasy. At all stops along the way, swarms of detectives met Captain Leach at the door of the prison car and filed through to look the prisoners over. At Kansas City, the last big city before Chicago, a detail of more than a hundred policemen met the Golden Stjjte lim-

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ited. Many of the cops carried submachine guns in the crook of their arms. Pierpont’s farewell to Mary was blighted by the press of detectives and photographers as the train lay in the Kansas City station for more than half an hour. Mary and Pierpont clung together in a close embrace shielding their faces from the cameras. Leach, Gang Swap Stories Makley pulled his coat collar up around his ears and kept his face covered until the photographer horde moved out of the car. As the final chapter was being written today in the amazing career of the captured members of the “terror mob,” pierpont, Makley and Clark became noticeably more depressed. From a late hour on Tuesday night until Wednesday morning, they regaled Captain Leach, At-torney-General Phillip Lutz and other members of the party with stories of prison life, high life in Chicago and Florida and reminscences of the four-month search for the “terror mob” over a score of states. As the train passed through Missouri and Illinois today, Makley, whose good nature has been unbounded during the long trip from Tucson, became morose. His mood seemed to have been induced by the actions of the Kansas City reporters and photographers. Earlier last night, Makley and Pierpont swapped storirs with Captain Leach. At times the stories became hilarious. “I thought you had me one night l ,’* Pierpont said to Captain Leach, “But all I got was a bad scare.” Denies Kokomo Paid “It was during the highly advertised Indiana highway blockade," the bandit chief laughed. “I had been reading how the militia had been called out to stop us. One night I was on Road 40 when I saw a red light straight ahead. I thought it was the blockade, I told my partner to get Mrs. Tom, the machine gun, out and ready. I threy my car in high and stepped on it. We went roaring past the red right with the gun ready. It proved to be a railroad sign.” Pierpont denied that he intended to hold up a Kokomo bank, which had been reported about to be robbed by the “terror mob.” “We had no thought of sticking up that bank, but during the day we passed the bank accidentally and saw the crowd standing around with the cops. It gave us a laugh.” Many times during his conversations with Captain Leach, Pierpont took obvious pride in his exploits. “My greatest thrill on this trip," said Captain Leach, “has been the opportunity to check the movements of the gang with my deductions. I find that I have been wrong many times, but right in many instances.” Captain Leach revealed that he had purposely given the newspapers false leads as to the direction in which the gang was supposedly headed in order to throw the mobsters off guard. His surmise that the “terror mob” read the papers religiously was amply justified by Maklev and Pierpont. Prison Conditions Attacked “We got a lot of laughs out of the papers,” said Pierpont. “But they also made us plenty sore, too.” “Why refer to us as ‘kill crazy,* or say that mothers and children fled as we passed through cities,” exclaimed Pierpont. “Os course, we’re not angels, but we only take bankers and I'll never shed a tear over any banker we robbed. Just look at the records of some of our best bankers.” Reports that heavily armed squads of police met Dillinger in Chicago and whisked him to the state prison, did not tend to increase the good spirits of the mobsters. Makley denied that a story attributed to a Chicago police official to the effect that members of the gang had made a solemn pledge to die in attempts to assist members who might be captured. “That’s just the bunk,” was his laconic comment. Before the entrance of the crowd at Kansas City, Makley enlarged further on his attack of prison con- ! ditions at the state prison in Michigan City. Some of the food which ,is served there is not fit for a human being to eat, he charged, v.