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ARMY FLIERS RESUME AIR MAIL SERVICE ‘Safety First’ New Motto as Flights Are Started on Eight Routes. ELEVENTH PILOT KILLED Radio to Aid Experienced Men; Congress Redrafts Postal Bill. By United Presn WASHINGTON. March 19.—The army tacked the words “safety first” on to the cherished slogan that the mail must go through and today resumed the service on eight routes interrupted after ten young men had given their lives in sacrifice to the original creed. An eleventh flier was killed Saturday near Cheyenne while seeking to familiarize himself with a route to which he was assigned. As the first pianes roared to their takeoffs, administration advisers were busy redrafting the bill which will retire the army from its emergency mail-carrying services and restore the function to private hands. In most parts of the country the weather was favorable. Experienced Pilots Chosen The army ships, withdrawn from air mail service at President Roosevelt’s insistence that t’ e wave of fliers’ deaths cease, have been equipped with additional flying instruments and two-way radio. Only the most experienced pilots were assigned to the first runs. Major-General Benjamin D. Foulois, army air chief, today completed a tour of inspection of the eastern flight zone and was assured that every precaution against new deaths had been taken. This, coupled with cessation of the hazardous weather which was blamed for many of the first fatalities, was hoped to insure as high a degree of safety as was possible in civilian operation of the air mail. Roosevelt Offers Help The revision of the new air mail bill, which were being undertaken, followed a Sunday conference at the White House called by President Roosevelt. Congressional leaders met with him and were believed to have discussed the bill in the light of testimony at the air mail j hearings. The revision was not expected, as it had been known for several days that the measure must be rewritten to meet such objections as these brought out at hearings by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, and aviators Clarence Chamberlin and Eddie Rickenbacker. These men all criticised a feature of the measure which would deny transport concerns with claims against the government from bidding on new contracts. Complete Hearing Today Hearings on the bills are expected to be completed today. The bill itself may not be ready for a week or more. How scon the service might be returned to private operation was uncertain. If the army succeeds in restoring mail service without resumption of casualties, it was believed the administration would not hurry to negotiate new private contracts. New fatalities, however, would be almost certain to hasten the return of the mail to the private handlers. Those sitting in with Mr. Roosevelt in the White House meeting included Chairman Kenneth D. McKellar of the senate postoffice committee, Senate Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson and Chairman Hugo L. Black of the special senate air mail committee. Mail routes ordered resumed today were: Boston-New York, New YorkJacksonville. New York-Chicago, Chicago-Dallas. Chicago-San Francisco. Salt Lake City-San Diego, Salt Lake City-Seattle and CheyenneDenver.

Commercial Fliers Aid lift l nitni Pr**s CHICAGO. March 19.—Under the eye of their ccmmander-in-chief, Major-General Benjamin D. Foulois. central zone army air mail fliers resumed service today on new “safe" scheduits. “Fair weather” reports and the addition of radio, blind and night flying aids to planes ennanced the safety factor. The army tliers’ ranks were swelled by the addition of sixteen former commercial air lines pilots who were dropped fiom the commercial lines' service. These men were reserve officers. General Fculois was on a tour of inspection. After supervising the installation of new safety instruments in army planes here, he flew to St. Louis. General Foulois said that he was satisfied that everything had been done to make the army flights safe. His visit here was preceded by a tour of eastern airports. Shortly after General Foulois' takeoff for St. Louis, the first planes of the new service took to the air. Lieutenant-Colonel Horace Hiekam of the central zone predicted that the new service would not be required of the army for long. “The army will continue to be of service for as long as it's needed, but we almost expect an average of one fatality for every 3.000 miles of flying." Liutenant-Colonel Hickam said. Notre Dame Student Killed fit/ l nttid Pr, ft CHICAGO, March 19. Bruce Graham, 20. a junior in Notre Dame university, was dead today of injuries suffered when his automobile crashed into a telephone pole. He was son of Felix T. Graham, secretary of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana.

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Underworld Has More Arms Than Army and Navy, Says Cummings Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee and Pleads for Common Sense in Drive to Stamp Out Rampaging Criminal Gangs. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 19.—More persons are under arms in the underworld than in the combined forces of the army and navy of the United States, Attorney-General Homer S. Cummings said in testimony today before the senate judiciary committee.

Mr. Cummings was testifying on a series of anti-gangster and antiracketeering bills which the department of justice has proposed for enactment. * Senator William E. Borah asked Mr. Cummings regarding the extent of crime and criminal activity in the United States at present. Tells of Situation “There are more persons under arms in the underworld than in the combined forces of the army and navy of the United States,” Mr. Cummings replied. Mr. Cummings told of the serious crime situation which had developed to such an extent that local law enforcement had practically broken down. “It was perfectly manifest,” he said, “that we were confronted with an unusual situation. Roving bands of criminals were able to ply their vocation with considerable success because of the lack of co-ordination between state and federal authority.” Proposals Under Study Mr. Cummings said that many different proposals for dealing with the problem had been presented during a long and serious study of his department. Some wanted to call out the militia and army. “I haven’t taken that view,” Mr. Cummings said of the latter suggestion. “I have felt that crime suppression must be, primarily, the business of people where the crime occurs. I didn’t want to create a situation where the local units would quit functioning. “But I don’t want to duck any real responsibility. It is clear that we are dealing now with hoing groups of criminals and a situation which makes reliance on local authority futile. “I want to meet the situation, not radically, but with soemon sense.” Six Major Measures The bills Mr. Cummins’ department is sponsoring will, be compressed into about six major measures. designed to tighten up connections between state and federal authority so that gangster and racketeering activities will be curtailed sharply. The bills are drawn in conformity with the federal power over interstate commerce and the federal jurisdiction of the national banking situation. Mr. Cummings said the Touhy gang was establishing a reputation for brutality in Chicago not rivaled by the Capone gang or the Humphrey gang. “Humphrey is of a higher order than Capone and is not so brutal,” he said. “The gang now is not so apt to cut off ears or noses, or gouge out eye in the torturing methods gangsters use so frequently.”

YOUNG ROOSEVELT IS OPERATED UPON John Goes to Navy Hospital for Appendectomy. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 19.—John Roosevelt, youngest son of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, under- j went an operation for appendicitis I teday at the naval hospital. His case was not an emergency j one and he went to the hospital j alone. He joked with his father; about the operation before he left | the White House. Later, Mrs. Roosevelt went to the hospital to receive first-hand information on his condition. John came to Washington for his Easter holi- j days Saturday from Groton school in Groton, Mass. He attended the j dinner Saturday night at the White House in commemoration of his parents’ twenty-ninth wedding anniversary. Later he decided that he would have his appendix out while home. BANKHEAD COTTON BILL IS PASSED BY HOUSE Approval Given Measure in Face of G. O. P. Warning. By United I'ress WASHINGTON. March 19—The house today passed the Bankhead cotton control bill in the face of Republican warnings that the measure marked the first step in efforts to regiment all American agriculture. The vote was 251 to 114. The bill limits the next marketable crop tc- 10.000.000 bales and places taxes on all cotton in excess, of allotments which moves in interstate commerce.

65-Year Expansion Plan, Raising Italy to Peak of Power by Year 2000, Is Laid Down for Nation by Premier Mussolini

Hu L'nitid Pn * ROME. March 19.—Premier Benito Mussolini s Fascist party was pointed today toward a sixty-flve-year plan of expansion, designed to raise Ita y to international preeminence by the year 2000. Mussolini outlined the plan in a forty-minute speech yestei day to Fascist party heirarchs. “I could trace a plan of development as far as 1945.” he said. “I prefer to indicate the historic objectives to which our generations

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‘kidnaped; is BLUNHCLAIM Crown Point Officer Held at Severin, Jail Here, He Charges. By Times Special CROWN POINT, Ind., March 19. —A conference was scheduled today between Ernest Blunk, star witness in the John Dillinger escape, and his attorney, Allen Twyman, to determine whether kidnaping charges would be filed against state authorities. After being held thirty-six hours against nis will, Blunk was permitted to return to his home here from Indianapolis. During his stay In Indianapolis, he was held in the Severin hotel as well as the ciiy prison. Upon his return, Blunk reiterated his innocence of any collusion in the escape of the desperado and told reporters he was informed of the probability that felony charges might be pressed against him. He was reticent about the alleged third degree given him during his stay in the hotel and the city prison. “They took me first to the Severin, where I was questioned by Deputy Attorney-General Edward Barce and three state investigators,” Blunk said. “About 1 o’clock Friday, they took me to the city jail, where I was held incommunicado. It was here that Barce told me that he would place a felony charge against me if I didn’t ‘come through’ with the real story,” Blunk said. “They showed me statements made by several other persons which make it look bad for me. I don’t see how any one can tell lies like they did, if true copies of their statements were shown to me,” the fingerprint expert declared. At the time that Blunk declared he was in the city jail, Police Chief Mike Morrissey, Indianapolis, and jail turnkeys were vehement in the declaration that the key witness of the Dillinger escape was not in the city prison. Indianapolis newspapers were given the ‘run-around” in their search for Blunk. At a habeas corpus hearing Saturdy afteernoon, Chief Morrissey did not produce Blunk in a Marion superior court. He told Mr. Twyman it was his understanding that his client had returned to Crown Point. Shortly afterward, the attorney verified the truth of the police chief's assertion. Blunk was expected to appear be-: fore a Lake county grand jury today! to relate what he knew of the j Crown Point-jail break. He is said to have told state investigators that Dillinger had a real gun instead of a wooden one. Dillinger is purported to have obtained the gun from a box of soap carried into the cell block the morning of the escape by Sam Cahoon, jail trusty. ACTION ON SILVER BILL POSTPONED IN HOUSE Rainey Follows Request Made by White House. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 19.—House action on the Fiesinger silver remonetization bill has been postponed at the request of the White House, Speaker Henry T. Rainey said today. Mr. Rainey said that he had conferred with the President on the Fiesinger bill and added “as a result we are not going to bring up the measure for the present on account of the President's decision to investigate the silver question.” Times Index Page Bridge 13 Broun 5 Classified 11,12 Comics 13 Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious World 13 Editorial 4 Financial 8 Hickman, Theaters 5 Hobby 6 Life of Our Lord 5 Lodge News 9 Pegler '5 Radio 11 Sports 10,11 State News 2 Talburt Cartoon 4

and those to follow must be headed. ‘ Let us talk quietly of a plan which will go to near the year 2000. Only sixty-five years separate us from that date. “Italy's historical aims must be toward Asia and Africa. South and e ist are the caidinal points which must incite and inflame the will of Italians. To the north there is little or nothing to be done. Neither toward the west nor toward Europe nor across the oceans is there anything. “Our aims in Africa and Asia are

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INSULL ASKS INTERCESSION BY ROOSEVELT Fleeing Utilities Head Said to Have Pleaded for Aid From President. DESTINATION MYSTERY Ship Chartered by Self-Exile May Finally Land at Port Said. By United Press ATHENS, March 19.—Samuel Insull, seeking a refuge from American law in the little tramp steamer Maiotis, was understood today to have instructed “influential” friends in the United States to intercede with President Roosevelt in his behalf.. It was understood that Insull’s lawyers here, who are in constant touch with his agents at London, would wireless him before he approached Port Said to advise on a landing place. George Xiros, one of Insull’s lawyers here, told the United Press that just before the Maiotis sailed he handed Insull a list of thirty countries with which the United States has no extradition treaty. There was natural secrecy regarding the Maiotsi’s destination. The ship is Insull’s by charter until April 20. Lawyer Xiros said Insull might or might not go to Abyssinia, in the African interior. Climate unfavorable “The climate there .is warm, and unfavorable for Insull’s heart disease,” Xiros said. “Insuil himself would prefer to go to Sweden if arrangements could be made.” The attorneys here and at London were busy seeking a landing place where he would be safe from American extradition. Br i t i<£ h, Greek and Egyptian ports, among ports of many other nations, are closed to him. Free for the time being as he steamed across the Mediterranean, Insull was beset by fears of being kidnaped. Before he left here early yesterday, after his brief return at the demand of the government, Insull expressed the fear that American authorities might charter a ship to kidnap him or to “exterminate” him in a simulated collision. Fears May Be Justified His statement showed tne hysterical condition in which events of the last few days had left tne aged utilities man, interested only in avoiding a return to the United States to face trial on the charge of irregularities in connection with the collapse of his industries. But there were reports here that Insull’s fears of kidnaping might be justified. These reports were that an American yacht, manned by gangsters, sought to intercept the Maiotis. It was said that a yacht called The Vulture set out from Istanbul, Turkey, in search of it. Authorities at Istanbul denied that any such yacht, or any American yacht at all, had been there recently. Work on Warrant By United Press TORONTO, Ontario, March 19. Details of the warrant under which Martin J. Insull, former Chicago utility magnate, will be extradited to the United States will be completed today before Chief Justice Sir William Mulock. Counsel for Insull are anxious to have the warrant revised from its original form, which was based on three charges of theft. The court of appeal here last Friday, threw out one count of the deposition order, and reduced another from $104,000 to $20,000. Joseph Sedgewick of the attorneygeneral’s department, who is acting for Cook county, explained that Insull can only be tried in Illinois on the charges on which he is extradited and that it was highly important to the defense that the order be corrected in detail. No new charge can be laid against Insull after his return to the United States and if he is acquitted on those charges in which he is extradited, he must be given a reasonable time in which to leave the country again. Meanwhile Insull is confined to the hospital ward of the city jail, a privilege extended to all prisoners over 60. Officers from Chicago are expected to arrive today and Insull will be taken back to Chicago as soon as the extradition warrant has been completed. “Student Prince” Author Dies BERLIN, March 19.—Wilhelm Meyer-Foerster, 72. author of the p’ay, “Old Heidelberg,” died last night of grippe. “Old Heidelberg” was known throughout the world as “The Student Prince.”

geographically and historically justified. Amongst the western powers Italy is nearest to Africa. A few hours of navigation, a very few hours of flying are sufficient to unite Italy with Africa and Asia. “Nobody must misinterpret the meaning of this problem I am assigning, this future I outline. Territorial conquests have nothing to do with it. But natural expansion must bring collaboration between Italy and the African people, and between Italy and the eastern nations.

Ignore Strike Agitation by A. F. of L./ Plea of Auto Heads to Workers

When William Green (right), president of the American Federation of Labor, testified before the senate committee on Senator Wagner’s labor disputes bill, he warned that the automobile industry “is on the verge of one cf the greatest strikes in the history of the nation.” He is conferring with two other famous labor leaders, John L. Lewis (left), president of the United Mine Workers, and Senator James J. Davis (center) of Pennsylvania, who was secretary of labor in the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover cabinets.

Labor Federation Is Denounced as ‘Un-American and Unpatriotic’ by Industries National Board in Critical Secret Council. By United Press DETROIT, March 19.—A formal statement denouncing organization activities of the American Federation of Labor as “un-American and unpatriotic” was addressed to automobile industry workers today by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce.

The statement, issued while leaders of the industry were conferring in New York on labor demands of the federation, was a plea to workers to ignore strike agitation. It said in paxt: “'The American Federation of Labor and other outside unions are trying to force you to join their union and to pay dues to support professional labor leaders. “They are trying to destroy the present satisfactory arrangement between you and the management under which your right to collective bargaining is fully recognized. “The outside labor leaders are trying by force, by coercion, by intimidation of you and your families and threat of strike to make you join their union. Regardless of what you want, these labor leaders want the right to speak for all of you. They want dues-paying members. Improved Conditions Cited “But the N. I. R. A. does not say that the American Federation of Labor or any other union shall speak for you. “You know that hours have been shortened voluntarily to an annual average of thirty-six hours per week; that wage rates have been increased more than 50 per cent within the last year and in many cases are higher than they were in 1929 at the peak of prosperity and that twice as many men are at work today as during the depression. “There is only one fundamental issue here, namely: “Whether the automobile industry is to be run by the American Federation of Labor or any other outside union; “Whether you have to get a union card in order to work in these plants. Abide by Employes Plans “Whether your job and your advancement in the industry will be based on merit; “Whether the employe representative shall be ousted in favor of outside labor leaders who have interests to serve other than your interests. “If the strike comes, it won’t be because you want to strike. “The strike threat comes from the American Federation of Labor and not from the automobile workers. “The automobile manufacturers intend to abide by the employee representation plans as they may be modified from time to time by the employes themselves. Auto Industry Leads Way “And Dear this in mind, the automobile industry is unquestionably leading the way back to prosperity. “This increased demand (for automobiles) means more jobs at good wages—not only in the automobile industry, but in thousands of other industries supplying materials and parts to the automobile manufacturers. “A strike at this time not only will work hardship on you and your families, but will interfere with the recovery efforts of the President of the United States.” ' Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 11 10 a. m 23 7 a. m 12 11 a. m 27 7 a. m 17 12 (noon).. 30 9 a. m 19 1 p. m 31

“Our action must develop numberless resources on the two continets, and especially on the African. They must be included more thoroughly in the circle of the world's civilization. Italy can do this. Its place in the Mediterranean sea, which is regaining its historic function of connecting the east and west, gives us this right, imposes this duty on us. We do not intend to claim a monopoly of privileges, but we seek to insure that those who have already arrived, those satisfied conservatives, will not work * t V

COLD WAVE TO LIFT TOMORROW Temperatures to Mount Above Freezing, Forecast of Armington. Relief from the cold wave which besieged the city over the week-end is expected by tomorrow, when temperatures probably will mount above freezing, it was forecast today. The mercury, which touched 10 above zero at 5:45 a. m. today, was not expected to drop belcw 25 above zero tonight. The weather bureau forecast the possibility of snow tonight and tomorrow.-

St Patrick Celebration Lands Attorney in Jail Dillinger Lawyer’s ‘lrish’ Aroused by Arrest on Bribery Charge During Visit to Lima. BY BASIL GALLAGHER Times Staff Writer LIMA, 0., March 19. A Chicago Irishmap, who told Judge Neal Lorain in police court here today that he was ‘most emphatically not the best lawyer in Chicago,” concluded a belated St. Patrick s day celebration here today in a belligerent mood.

Dressed appropriately enough in a green suit and stating to the press that his ancestors were from “Kilkenny, where even the geese fly high, sometimes,” Louis P. Piquette, Dillinger lawyer, answered charges of an attempted bribery and disorderly conduct. He was released on the recognizance of his attorney, Frances Durbin, Lima, and his case postponed for a future hearing on the two charges which grew out of a boisterous visit to the excited community on St. Patrick's day. Mr. Piquette, a rotund Irishman with a ruddy face and unruly, iron gray hair, told the press that he was very embarrassed by the publicity which followed his visit to the town, where the names of the Dilliger gangtser are on every one’s tongue. “Sure and I just came down to help Russell Clark,” said Mr. Piquette, with the hint of brogue. “I admit that I was celebrating set. Paddy’s day, but what Irishman wouldn’t? It that a crime?” Mr. Piquette said he had come to Lima from Chicago after a request had come to him from Mrs. May Clark, Detroit, to defend her son. “And what do I find in the good city of Lima.” said the attorney, his “Irish” rising visibly, “but a damned armed camp. A blooming arsenal, b’ gad, with soldiers poppin’ out at me from every comer. A swell place this is for even an Irishman to start fight. “From now on, I'm going to be a Chinaman and bow low in this town when I’m spoken to. I’m not just going to bow, I’m going to bow low.

to block the spiritual, political and economic expansion of Facist Italy." Discussing the general international situation, Mussolini said it was illusory for nations to believe Germany could be kept disarmed. Os Austria, Mussolini said: “We are resolved to defend its independence and integrity. Austria can count on us to make every effort to help her. We shall support also Hungary’s just claims. She has been deprived of major territories, and she demands justice and fulfillment of promises made to her.”

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DILLINGER IN LIMA, PLOTTING ATTACK, SAYS ARMY CHIEF Terror Mob Chief May Attempt to Free Pals, General Bush Fears After Mysterious Car Is Seen Circling Prison. CLARK’S TRIAL IS POSTPONED Matt Leach Joins in Hunt as Third of Terror Mob Cases Goes Before Court; Guards on Lookout. BY BASIL GALLAGHER Times Staff Writer LIMA, 0., March 19. —Reports that John Dillinger is in or near Lima, awaiting a favorable opportunity to attempt to release his three terror mobsters from jail here, caused national guardsmen to renew their vigilance today. Brigadier-General Harold M. Bush admitted placing credence in the report, following a conference early today with Captain Matt Leach, of the Indiana state police, who arrived here Saturday. Guardsmen were on the lookout for a large black sedan, bearing six men, reported seen circling the jail last night.

The car was seen by several persons, General Bush disclosed, but no one, according to the commanding officer, got the license number. Previously, General Bush said, several mysterious persons had asked townspeople about the military layout around the jail. As the Allen county venire prepared today to assemble in the sandstone. courthouse on which the machine guns of the Ohio national guard have been trained for the last month, death without mercy was predicted by Allen county authorities for Russell Clark, whose trial for the murder of Sheriff Jess Sarber began today. Harry Pierpont, “trigger man” of the Dillinger gang, and Charles Makley, his jovial henchman, were convicted of the murder of the sheriff previously by Allen county juries which answered the threats of gangdom in verdicts which set records for speed in gangster trials. The juries in both cases failed to recommend mercy, which means that the gangsters will die in the electric chair, unless appeals are effective. The Clarx trial was adjourned until tomorrow. Defense attorneys indicated they will base the defense largely on an

“But if it takes me ten years, I’m going to clear myself of these charges,” the attorney added. “Didn't bribe any one. Why, I was only kidding the police chief because I felt pretty good.” Ward Taylor, Lima police chief made a formal charge of attempted bribery against Mr. Piquett. The chief stated in his charge that Mr. Piquett offered him SIOO to get out of prison. He told reporters that the alleged SIOO bribe followed an alleged previous bribe of $5,000 to the chief personally. Mr. Piquett, a former Chicago city prosecutor and defense attorney for Leo Brothers in the famous Jake Lingle slaying in Chicago, was entirely himself today. Seated in his lawyer’s office, he told The Times several new angles on the Dillinger case. “I saw him several days before he escaped from Crown Point,” said Mr. Piquett. ‘He told me then that he was going to try to get away. I told him he was a fool. Then he said that the nastiest memory he had was the slaying of Jess Sarber. He would never have done that personally. He’s not a killer.” “I had a perfect defense worked up for him in the trial set for the day of his escape at Crown Point when he was to answer for the alleged slaying of Detective Pat O'Malley in the East Chicago bank holdup. I have positive evidence and so had Robert G. Estill. Lake county prosecutor, that Dillinger was in Daytona Beach, Fla., on the day that O'Malley was killed. Mr. Piquett declared that he had five affidavits from “substantial citizens” in the Florida town that Dillinger was there until midnight, Jan. 14. Officer O'Malley was killed on the afternoon of Jan. 15. Mr. Piquett told The Times that the woman who represented herself as “Mrs. Dillinger,” got into the Crown Point jail before the desperado’s escape was “Ann Martin.” The description which Mr. Piquett gave of “Ann Martin” was the same as that of the girl arrested with Dillinger in Tucson. Ariz. Mr. Piquett said that the $1,250 found on Dillinger in Tucson and said to have been identified as money stolen from the East Chicago bank, was in the gangster’s possession to give to the family of John Hamilton. Dillinger gangster, who was reported dying. “But I think Hamilton recovered,” Mr. Piquett admitted.

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alibi. Clark was led into the courtroom this morning, shackled hand and foot, walking between two burly deputy sheriffs. He was neatly dressed in a gray tailored suit/and his head showed no traces of the injuries ne received when he sought to evade capture at Tucson, Ariz. Judge Emmit E. Everett today received another crank letter, to which little attention was paid. It read:’ Clark, Makley and Pierpont are good friends to everybody, so watch your step, play the game square, or we will take care of you. He have the guts and men. Money talks—we’ve got it.’’ Tile letter was signed “J. D.,” purporting to be from John Dillinger. A postscript was signed “D. T ” It read: "I was in Middletown yesterday and could have taken over the bank and plenty of money. Plainclothes men all around but they didn’t know me.” General Bush Is Irate General Bush was irate today when a lieutenant of the guard reported he had seen an unidentified man carrying a .22-Caliber nickelplated automatic pistol in the courthouse, but had not arrested him. An order was issued to guards to be on the lookout for the man. Bush said close lookout also was being kept for the mysterious car carrying six men which last night, for the third time in a week or two’ has circled the courthouse. He expressed the opinion the men in toe car were looking over the situation in preparation for a possible sortie to release the gangsters. ’J* ISS . Jessi , e Lev y- chief defense counsel m the trials of both Pierpont and Makley, was retained late Sunday to defend Clark. Ernest Bot Kin, county prosecutor, said that Clark will be charged with being the ° ut .sKi e man” in the murder Sarber during the raid, Oct, 12, when Pierpont and other terror mobsters” delivered Dillinger from the Lima jail after murdering the sheriff. Shouse Not to Testify While is was regarded as almost certain that Edward Shouse, convict now serving life in the Indiana state prison at Michigan City, would not testify in the Clark case, Mr. Botkin promised some “surprise witnesses.” Shouse is said to have “put Pierpont on the spot” during the “trigger man’s” trial because of a personal hate for r.he gangster. Shouse refused to testify for the state in the Makley trial It was learned from attaches of the prosecutor’s office that two eyewitnesses have identified Harry Copeland, Dillinger gangster, as the third man in the jail office when the sheriff was murdered. Pierpont was convicted of firing the shot which killed Mr. Sarber, while Makley is guilty of brutally striking Mr. Sarber over the head as he lay dying on the floor. A woman who signed herself “D. A. R.” wrote a letter to General Bush Saturday in which she charged the trials of the terror mobsters was “brutal.” Residents of Indianapolis, she said, are “throwing John Dillinger parties and giving wooden gun favors.” “The prisoners in jail are lambs in a lion’s den,” she wrote. General Bush early today said that General Frank D. Henderson, commanding the Ohio state national guard, had pronounced the Dillinger “reception committee” here “satisfactory in all respects.” Search Is Continued By United Press PORT HURON. Mich., March 19. —The intensive hunt for John Dillinger in this vicinitj’ continued today although authorities expressed doubt that the outlaw had been here with Herbert Youngblood, his Negro pal, who was slain in a gun battle last Friday. Youngblood, who escaped with Dillinger from the Crovn Point, Ind., jail, told authorities when he was dying that the widely-sought outlaw and two other white men came-to Port Huron with him. Authorities said that the Negro later told a priest at the hospital that he and Dillinger separated shortly after their escape. “I think Dillinger is hundreds of miles from here,” Prosecuting Attorney Laurie O. Telfer said.