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SENATE VOTES $500,000,000 TAX MEASURE New Bill Is Submitted to President Without House O. K. REVISED MANY TIMES Higher Levy on Large Incomes Approved; 7 Vote Against Act. By Unit'd press WASHINGTON. April 14.—The new tax bill, many times revised by the senate before it was passed last night, was submitted to President Roosevelt today before the house had been given the opportunity of considering the senate amendments. The procedure was considered unusual. The $500,000,000 measure, with higher taxes on large incomes and lower taxes on small incomes, now has pasesd both houses. It provides for publicity on tax returns and for heavy levies on inheritances. Usualy after the senate adopts a tax bill it goes back to the house, but the present bill will not go back until Mr. Roosevelt has given his opinion on changes originated by Republican independent senators, which almost doubled the amount of potential revenue asked by the administration. Chairman Pat Harrison of the senate finanre committee, who piloted the bill on its long and stormy voyage through the senate, delayed arrangements for a conference between the two houses until he saw the President. He expected to do this today. 8188,000,000 in New Kevenup Capitol tax experts estimated that the bill in the form it passed the senate, after nearly two weeks of raiding by the liberal group intent upon higher taxation, would bring $488,000,000 in new revenue. The house bill provided for $258,000.000 in new federal income. One reason for consulting Mr. Roosevelt was to determine his attitude toward the tax on cocoanut and other oils imported from the Philippines. The President has opposed this tax. Some have believed he might veto the bill for this reason. A roli call was taken when the bill passed the senate after neary two weeks of debate. It found only seven votes against the measure. All were cast by Republicans. Recovery Tax Approved Principal features of the senate tax bill: It imposes a blanket 10 per cent “recovery tax" increase for one year on ah income taxes. Even with this increase, the income tax rates are below present levies except in the higher brackets. Increased taxes were voted on large inheritances. Surtax rates were increased. Income tax returns were made public records, open to public inspection. Tin privilege extended to affiliated corporations of filing consolidated tax returns at a slightly increased rate was removed. The 10 per cent “recovery tax" was expected to be removed before final adoption of the tax law. The removal of consolidated returns was voted twice by the senate and was expected to remain in the bill. TEACHER DROPS FIGHT TO HEAD ASSOCIATION Mill Not Resort to Courts. Woman Ousted by Board Says. Announcing that she did not wish to cause further disturbance in the Indiana State Teachers' Association by insisting on her right to hold the office of president. Miss Harriett Palmer Franklin, ousted head of the teachers' association, will not D tempt court action to regain her office. The executive rommittee of the association recently ruled that Miss Franklin was not eligible to hold the office because she was not a member of the association at the time of her election. HIT BY STREET CAR, WOMAN IS IMPROVING Fraternity Housemother Dragged Several Feet Under Tram. Dragged several feet under a street car yesterday, Mrs. Margaret Brickert, 64. of 460 West Forty-sixth street, today was recovering at city hospital. She escaped with bruises and cuts and a hip injury. She was knocked down by the street car in front of the L. S. Ayres store as she crossed Washington street. Mrs. Brickert is housemother for the Delta Kappa Rho fraternity. Times Index Page Business News 9 Bridge 4 Broun 7 Catholicism in Indiana 2 Church Services 3 Classified 11-12 Comics 13 Conservation . 3 Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious W’orld 13 Editorial 6 Financial 14 Gardening 3 Hickman—Theaters 7 Pcgler *. 7 Radio 3 Sport* 10-11 State News 3 Sunday Sermon 3 Wallace Series 2 Woman s Pages 4-5

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GIRL. 4. DIES AFTEP BRAVE FIGHT AGAINST INCURABLE DISEASE

By United Pratt MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 14 Willie Mae Miller, 4-year-old : Memphis girl, died today of luke- | mia. an incurable disease in w-hich j white corpuscles crowd the red from the bloodstream. The girl had been ill for several months and physicians had abandoned the case. Death came unexpectedly, however, inasmuch as she had regained part of her lost strength on a liquid diet and her parents had hoped some “miracle" might save her life. Willie Mae had a sinking spell | durjiig the night and she was taken to a hospital where she died a few hours later. VAN SWERINGEN FACES COURT Magnate, Two Others Give Bail in $10.000,000 Alleged Fraud. By United Print CLEVELAND. April 14.-0. P. Van Sweringen, real estate and railroad magnate, and two officials of the failed Union Trust Company, appeared in a crowded courtroom today and pleaded not guilty to charges of causing false entries to be made in the bank's books. Mr. Van Sweringen, together with Joseph R. Niftt and Wilbur M. Baldwin, respectively chairman and president of the bank when it failed, were named in indictments returned late yesterday. * All are charged with participating in alleged manipulation of $10,000,000 in government securities whereby condition of the bank was made to appear $20,000,000 better than it actually was at t.ie time a financial statement was issued in September, 1931. Judge John P. Dempsey fixed bond for Mr. Van Sweringen and Mr. Nutt at $7,500 each. Bond for Mr. Baldwin, already under $7,500 bond under another indictment. was fixed at SI,OOO. Immediately after the pleas were entered attorney for the trio deentered attorneys for the trio detor Frank T. Cullitan objected. Mr. Van Sweringen and Mr. Nutt issued statements denying wrongdoing and expressing confidence of vindication when tried. The indictments climaxed a long investigation of the Union Trust, which did not reopen after the ! bank holiday of 1933. At that time it had deposits of $130,000,000 and j listed its assets at approximately | $189,000,000. . Investigators pursued Ia maze of transactions between Mr. | Van Sweringen and the bank that j even led to the Wall Street offices J of J. P. Morgan & Cos. REYNOLDS SURRENDERS IN CAFE MURDER CASE Wrestling Champ Indicted With Wife and David Polinsky. By t nitrd Prest CINCINNATI. April 14.—Jack | Reynolds, welterweight wrestling | champion, surrendered to the sheriff today on a charge of second degree murder. Reynolds was indicted yesterday ; with his wife. Alice Martin Reynolds, and David Polinck in connection with the fatal shooting March 11 of Philip Citron, reputed booki maker, and James Meyers, owner ;of the Vim case. The shooting oc- | curred in the restaurant and re- ; portedly followed an argument over | religion. The three will be arraigned I Monday, COMMISSION APPROVES PROSECUTOR FILINGS Technicality Will Not Disqualify Candidates, Is Ruling. 1 Naming of the judicial circuit | where the court covers a single j county is not essential when filing j as a candidate for prosecutor, the state election commission has ruled. The question was raised before Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state, when Lynn O'Neill. Logansport, was challenged in his last minute filing for Cass county prosecutor on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Mayr asked the commission ruling. Should they have held the error serious, twenty-five prosecutor candidacies would have been eliminated. FIRE KILLS STUDENT ' ' ' ' Two Injured in Oklahoma Rooming House Blaze. By United Press DURANT. Okla.. April 14—One man was burned to death and two other persons were injured, one critically, when fire destroyed a rooming house here today. Roy Doan. 19. Idabel. Southwestern State Teachers college student, was dead when firemen reached him in a second-story room where he was trapped with his brother Dewev. Dewey Doan. Midway school teacher. was rescued after suffering critical bums. ' G. 0. P LEADER DEAD William L. Risk. 77. Henry County Chairman. Succumbs. By United Press NEWCASTLE. Ind.. April 14 William L. Risk. 77, Henry county Republican chairman for twelve years and candidate for congress in 1912. died here late yesterday of heart disease. He retired as county chairman two years ago. Rail Fare Probe Ordered , By t iiited Pri ss WASHINGTON. April 14.—The interstate commerce commission today ordered an investigation into railroad passenger fares in the south and west. A nearing will be held here April 23.

POWER PROBE BILL IS SIGNED 1 BY ROOSEVELT $50,000,000 Yearly Slash in Cost to Consumers Is Predicted. RATE STUDY ORDERED Federal Board to Compile Data: Senator Norris Is Honored. I By United Press WASHINGTON, April 14.—The | Rankin-Norris resolution, directing i the federal power commission to j investigate and compile rates | charged for electricity to residenj tial, rural, commercial and indus- ! trial consumers throughout the United States, was signed today by | President Roosevelt. Approval of the resolution was in I the presence of Senator George W. ! Norris (Rep., Neb.) and Representai tive John E. Rankin (Dem„ Miss.), its sponsors. Mr. Roosevelt pre- | sented to Senator Norris the pen he I used. “This is the first measure of its I kind ever passed in this country,” Mr. Rankin said. Its effect will be far reaching. In my opinion, it will do more to bring justice to the consumers of electric energy than any other step yet taken, with the exception of the passage of the Muscle Shoals bill. “I predict that the publicity it will give and the discriminations i and excessive rates it will reveal | will result in a reduction in costs | of light and power to the ultimate consumers of this country of not i less than $50,000,000 a year to be- ! gin with. It may reach many | times that amount.” LORD TENNYSON WEDS RICH BUFFALO WIDOW Grandson of Poet Laureate 3larries in Quiet Ceremony, By United Press SANTA BARBARA. Cal., April 14. —The scene of a quiet wedding ceremony was laid here today in a beautiful Montecito garden, where Lord Lionel Hallam Tennyson of England. grandson of the poet laureate, and Mrs. Joseph William Donner, wealthy Buffalo (N. Y.) widow, will be married late this afternoon. The couple will sail from New York for England April 20 and will go to Lord Tennyson's home at Farrington. Freshwater, Isle of Wight, to make their home.

Secret Lindbergh Quiz Revealed in Washington Air Mail Probe Discussed, Department of Justice Agent Says: Testimony Not Bared. By United Press WASHINGTON. April 14.—Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh submitted to secret questioning in connection with the sensatorial inquiry at the time of his visit to Washington last month, the United Press learned today.

4 KILLED AS FAST TRAIN CRUSHES AUTO Unidentified Bodies Strewn 400 Feet Along Track. By United Press HAMLET, Ind.. April 14.—Four unidentified persons were killed today when a fast Pennsylvania passenger train struck their automobile at a grade crosing on state Road 29 near here. Witnesses said a fifth person appeared to have occupied the car, but the bodies were so badly mangled that it could not be determined immediately whether there were more than four killed. Wreckage of the automobile and parts of the bodies were strewn along the right of way for 400 feet. Only mark of identification found was a card bearing the name and address. “W. C. Seingendaur. 17 South Lincoln street, Westmont. 111.” VOTE APPEAL ISSUED BY JUDICIAL ASPIRANT All Eligible in County’Should Exercise Franchise, Says Rhoadarmer. Paul F. Rhoadarmer, former chief deputy prosecuting attorney of Marion county, and Republican candidate for judge of superior court. Room 1. speaking at a meeting at 2600 West Tenth street, urged all citizens to vote in the coming primary election. “The citizens of t_his country should be vitally interested in the selection of their judges, particularly.” he said. “It is essential that the best qualified man should be selected for each of these important judicial offices.

“Why Wasn’t Policeman There?’ Injured Girl Asks

“Why wasn't a policeman there, like he usually is?” Little Pauline Pierce. 9. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pierce. 802 North Highland avenue, who was struck by an automobile on her way home from school, wonders. She does not realize that .-he is an indirect victim of the withdrawal of police protection from dangerous traffic intersections, that the Real Silk mills may be guarded against picketing. She was not injured seriously, but did not attend school yesterday. Pauline, a pupil at School 10,

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1934

A. F. OF L. ROSTER GAINS HALF MILLION UNDER BLUE EAGLE

By United Press WASHINGTON, April 14.—Organized labor, making its greatest drive for membership since the World war, under the aegis of the blue eagle, today showed a gain of nearly a half million members recruited since last August. The American Federation of Labor reported 2,581.343 paid up members in March, an increase of 455.000 since last Aug. 31. It was estimated that the number of workers organized in independent craft unions, company type unions, and similar organizations showed at least an equal percentage of gain. The A. F. of L. had 4,000.000 members in 1920.

INSULL’S SHIP IS UNBOUND Fugitive Cheerful as Long Voyage From Turkey Is Started. By United Press ABOARD SS. EXILONA (At Sea), April 14.—Samuel Insull, asleep in his cabin aboard the passenger cargo ship Exilona, started back to his adopted country today to face trial on fraud charges. In the cabinet next to Insull, as the Exilona sailed from picturesque old Smyrna at 12:30 a. m. today, was Burton Y. Berry of Fowler, Ind„ third secretary of the American embassy at Istanbul, detailed to accompany him on the 5.000-mile voyage to Boston, where it is due May 6 or 7. Mr. Berry planned to alternate in watching Insull with Captain Wendell Habell, master of the Exilona, who was detailed as joint custodian. Insull regained his nerve when he realized his eighteen months fight to evade extradition was over. From the moment the 74-year-old naturalized American left the detention house at Istanbul where he had been held, he became alert and smiling, and seemed years younger than the bent, complaining man who had said at Athens only a month ago that he was dying of heart disease. Captain Habel offered Insull a drink of whisky when he boarded the ship. “Only once in my life did I ever take a drink of liquor,” Insull responded, in refusing. He did not say when. Insull retired to his well furnished, comfortable cabin, later appearing in the ship’s lounge, smoking and watching the shore. A member of the Exilona's crew stoco guard at Insull’s cabin door throughout the night.

Colonel Lindbergh was questioned for several hours by Colonel Carl Ristine, department of justice official, who is aiding the senate committee in its investigation. The interview concerned an expansion es certain features of the aviator’s testimony before the senate committee. “Colonel Lindbergh is an aviation expert," a United Press informant said. “He has a vast store of information about aviation matters and the committee took advantage of his knowledge to throw iurther light on certain matters. He was questioned as an expert, rather than as an individual." The questioning took place in Colonel Ristine's office the day before Colonel Lindbergh left Washington after testifying before the senate committee. A stenographic transcript of questions put to him by Colonel Ristine and the aviator's answers w'as taken by an assistant in the department of justice. The United Press was advised the interview was confined to aviation subjects and that the justice department was not concerned with the inquiry. Colonel Ristine undertook the interview' as a routine matter of his assistance to the air mail commitand the justice department assistant made the stenographic report by chance, since he was the only person with stenographic knowledge available at the time. A. G. Patterson, chief investigator for the Black air mail committee, told the United Press that he had met Colonel Lindbergh in Colonel Ristine s office. He said he entered the office on another errand and met the colonel by accident. He had no knowledge ‘ of the subject matter of Colonel Ristine's questioning.

Thirteenth street and Carrollton avenue, told a Times reporter her own story of the accident. “I was walking home with Thelma and Frances (her sister) after school w'as over,” said Pauline. "We were crossing Massachusetts avenue at Tenth street with the other boys and girls." she continued. “The boy traffic officer was in the street holding up cars and letting us cross. “A big car came out into the street car tracks and I heard the breaks squeak and then I felt a big jolt and my side hurt.”

48 RESTRICTED INDIANA BANKS MUST INSURE Procure U. S. Insurance by May 1 or Close, Is Warning. 340 ALREADY IN FOLD State Institutions in Best Condition in History, Officials Say. Forty-eight Indiana banks which still are operating on a restricted (B Class) basis must procure federal deposit insurance and open as A banks by May 1, or else be liquidated. This ruling was announced at the statehouse today upon return from Washington of Herman Wells, director in charge of the banks under the department of financial Institutions, of which Richard McKinley is head. Mr. Wells and Fred Wiecking, assistant attorney-general, were in Washington to arrange for these banks to qualify under the rules of the Federal Deposit Guaranty Corporation. Records in Mr. Wells’ office disclosed that 340 class A, that is, unrestricted banks under state jurisdiction, already have taken out the federal insurance. Fifty-three, of which twentyseven are private banks, have not done so. Mr. Wells pointed out that private bank share holders assume unlimited liability and until Jan. 1, 1934. were not qualified under the deposit insurance rules. All banks connected with the federal reserve and all national banks must have the insurance. With state banks and trust companies it is optional. Any class A bank can qualify, however, Mr. Wells said. His report shows banking in Indiana now in the best condition in the entire history of the state. DEATHS PASS BIRTHS IN CITY FOR MARCH 508 to-473 Score Favors Grim Reaper. The stork lost a contest with the grim reaper in the city during March, the board of health announced today. For the second time since 1920, there were more deaths than births in the city in any one month, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the health board said. Death took 508 persons and only 473 babies were born. In February, 1933. a total of 411 persons died and 394 were born. CROWN POINT PROBE WILL BE CONTINUED Deputy From Attorney General's Office to Return. Despite dismissal of the Lake county grand jury, investigations into the Dillinger jail break at Crown Point will be continued, it was announced at the office of Phil Lutz Jr., attorney-general, today. Edward Barce, deputy attorneygeneral in charge of the Lake county investigations for the state, stated that he will return there tomorrow. Scope of the investigation has been widened to include other things than the jail break, he said. He also admitted that acts of public officials in regard to real estate deals *nay be investigated. SOVIET RESCUE FLIERS RECEIVE HIGH HONORS Decoration and Year's Pay Awarded Heroic Aviators. By United Prest MOSCOW. April 14.—Decoration with the Order of Lenin, highest Soviet award; Conference of a new. specially created title, “Hero of the Soviet Union.” and, more practically, a year's pay, was the award today awaiting aviators and mechanics who rescued 107 members of the Cheliuskin expedition from Arctic ice. A message of congratulation on their bravery was sent to others who engaged in rescue work and to the rescued themselves, who retained high morale during two months on the Arctic ice, in danger every moment. Six months’ pay and the Order of the Red Star will be given them. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6a. m 38 10 a. m 46 7a. m 39 11 a. m. ... 49 Ba. m 40 12 (noon) .. 51 9 a. m 42 1 p. m 53

Tears swelled into the child's eyes as she j-ecalled the experience. * “Somebody took me off the car.” Pauline recalled, tensely. I was afraid and I tried to run home.” Pauline's sister Thelma, 12, who saw the accident, interrupted the conversation and said that there were two men in the car. One of them got out and came up to Pauline, she said. The driver, however, started the car and drove away, disregarding the protests of the schoolboy patrolman, according to Thelma. “I was mad and afraid and my

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Left—Policeman Judd Pittinger, who wrestled with John Dillinger and kicked him down the stairs when the desperado raided the police station at Warsaw, Ind. early yesterday. Right—Evelyn Frechetti. alias Ann Martin, in custody of federal agents in Chicago, held on $60,000 bond, charged with harboring a fugitive. She is alleged to have aided Dillinger iq his escape after a gun battle with police in St. Paul two weeks ago.

Hit and Run Suspect Is Held in Girl’s Injury Driver Failed to Stop After Car Struck Student, Police Claim; School Heads Scored by Officers. Charged with being the driver whose car struck a school child Thursday, without stopping, Robert Lee Hodge, 42, of R. R. 12, Box 198, was arrested last night by sergeant Timothy McMahon.

The child. Pauline Pierce, 9, of 802 Highland avenue, was struck at Massachusetts avenue and Tenth street, while on her way home from school. Ordinarily, the intersection w'ould be protected during school hours by a policeman, but the officer at this corner, together with othr assigned to protect school children, was included in the group stationed at the Real Silk hosiery mill to prevent any possible strike disorder. Sergeant McMahon said he learned that the child ran into the street and was knocked down by the car’s bumper. Ed Gramble, 2517 East Sixteenth street, a passenger in the car, jumped out and ran to assist the child, who got to her feet and started home. Sergeant McMahon said he was told Gramble went to the child’s house and mentioned his name, calling a physician to determine her injuries. Hodge, who is said to have continued on, was charged with failing to stop after an accident, reckless driving and driving through a safety zone. Traffic Captain Lew'is Johnson today said school officials for four yyears have rejected offers made bypolice which w'ould have enabled them to settle satisfactorily the problem of guarding children in the vicinity of schools. “Providing protection for school children at dangerous crossings has been a problem in the last four years, with a reduced force,” he said. “During that period, we have offered 1 the school board not only police caps and badges, but also police coats, for custodians and janitors, if they would take over the task. The janitors and custodians already have police powers." “The school board has refused to take over the responsibility and passed the buck to police to furnish patrolmen for dangerous corners. “On all special occasions, when it is necessary to draw police irom these tasks and concentrate them at other points, the schools are notified in advance.” The controversy was renewed as result of indignation on the part of parents of school children when it was revealed th*at police had been withdrawn from the duty of protecting the life of small children near schools, to be stationed in vicinity of hosiery mills, part of the workers of which are on strike. A few of the schools are being given protection by motorcycle officers. Meanwhile the strike of hosiery workers continued today without development, strikers resting from their picketing duty until Monday, the hosiery mills do not work on Saturday. Strike Closes Hosiery Mill By United Press BEAVER DAM. Wis., April 14. The Bear Brand Hosiery Company announced today that its plant here is “out of business” because of the inability of the Chicago regional labor board to end a three weeks’ strike of its 300 employes. Aged Woman Dead at Methodist Mrs. Ella Duncan, 80, of 1234 North Alabama street, died last night at Methodist hospital from a skull fracture resulting from a fall in her home.

side hurt,” resumed Pauline. “I picked up a rock and almost threw it at the man. He said he wanted to help.” Arriving at the Pierce home, the man, refusing to give his name, called a doctor. After the doctor arrived and said the girl was in no danger, the man left, according to the child’s father. Police were notified of the accident, but as yet have no clew to the hit-and-run driver’s identity. “Maybe,” said Pauline, “that man wouldn't have gone away if a policeman was there.”

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MISSING FATHER'S SIGNATURE NEEDED; HELP ASKED HERE

A mother and her children in Cleveland are about to lose their home. A federal loan, to save it, needs the signature of the father, James G. Price. Mr. Price left his home Jan. 8, to seek employment. According to a letter from his daughter, Mrs. L. V. Pierman, 3727 West One hundred fiftyninth street, Cleveland, nothing has been heard of him for some time. “We are so worried,” she wrote The Times today. “Now w r e have heard that he is some place in your city. Will you please run this in your paper? Without his signature our loan will not go through and mother and the children love the home.” FLIER AND WIFE DIE IN OHIO PLANE CRASH Tragedy Occurs Two Days Before Couple’g First Anniversary. By Ini ted Press AKRON. O. April 14.—The bodies cf a young former army air pilot and his comely 20-year-old bride, whose lives w-ere snuffed out in a plane crash two days before the couple’s first wedding anniversary, were brought here today. The victims were Lester Krug, 24, departmental expert with a rubber company here, and his wife. The couple met death last night near Hinckley, 0., west of here, wiiile fiving from Cleveland, where they failed to negotiate for the sale of the plane in which they crashed. EFFORT BEING MADE TO FREE MISS STEELE Attorneys Have Papers for Filing Parole Petition. Although she has been in the Indiana Women's prison here .only since Feb. 12, effort already is being made to free Miss Cora Steele, Terre Haute school principal, who pleaded guilty to theft of $25,000 in bonds from- the state teachers' retirement fund. Wayne Coy, secretary of the state clemency board, stated today that attorneys for Miss Steele procured papers from him for filing a parole petition. Next meeting of the clemency board is April 24. RETAIL GROCERS WILL DISCUSS FOOD CODE All Members Urged to Attend Meeting Monday. Members of the Retail Grocers Association have been urged by Fred W. Steinsberger, president, to attend a meeting Monday at which the local food code will be discussed. The association also announced that a mass meeting will be held at the Claypool Tuesday night. The meeting will be closed to all except store owners and fruit and vegetable men. Kelly goes to prison TO START LONG TERM Deputy, Sent to Farm in Jail Break, One of Escorts. Willard Kelly,c onvicted dairy bandit, guarded by Paschal Pyle, former municipal court clerk, w r ho once served ninety days on the state farm in connection with the escape of a prisoner, and Charles Sandage, former deputy sheriff, today was taken in a car to Indiana state prison to serve a seventeen-and-one-half-year-sentence for robbery. Mr. Sandage was deputized as a special deputy sheriff by John Boyce, chief jailer, for the trip Boyce explained that Pyle merely was going along to earn some money,

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LEACH LEADS - INTENSE HUNT i FOR DILLINGER Midwestern Banks Guarded Against Raids by Desperado. OUTLAW ELUDES COPS ‘We’ll Get Him Soon,' Says Chief of U. S. Agents, Renewing Search. While banks throughout the middle west were carefully guarded against raids by Dillinger gangsters today. Captain Matt Leach of the state police went to the northern section of the state late today to conduct a personal scarce of the j lake region for the elusive outlaw. Before starting on his trip, Captain Leach admitted that no trace of Dillinger had been found since the desperado sped southwest early | yesterday morning after a spectacular raid on the arsenal of the Warsaw police station where he obtained bullet-proof vests and pistols. Federal agents today watched scores of known Dillinger hideouts in Chicago and northern Indiana. Melvin H Purvis, head of the United States division of investigation in Chicago, said the federal men knew the names of a dozen Dillingei; associates with whom the desperado has taken refuge in the past. In the possession of the government agents are scores of addresses being watched for the appearance of the outlaw or his mobsters. Passing Up No Tips “We are not passing up even the most ridiculous tips,” said Mr. Purvis. "Sometime one of these tips is going to come true and then we’re ; going to catch Dillinger. That time is going to be soon. We’ll get him.” Meanwhile, hundreds of hastily | organized posses searched the remote back roads in the lake region ! near Warsaw, where it is supposed I Dillinger and a man believed to be Homer Van Meter, his “contact man," took refuge following the robbery of the Warsaw police station, in which the outlaws stole four bul-let-proof vests and two pistols. Police automobiles, bristling with shotguns, patrolled the back roads in the northern part of the state. The hysteria which has followed Dillinger's latest foray best was illustrated by two raids made by local police last night on roadhouses located on State Road 67, southwest of the city. Admits Story Is Lie The raids followed a bizarre story told by Walter Johnson. 26, of 506 Buchanan street, who told police he had been given a ride by Dillinger, accompanied by two men and two women, from Milwaukee to Indianapolis. He offered to point out to police a tourist cabin where lie said Dillinger was to stay the night. The subsequent raids were futile and Johnson finally admitted to police that he had fabricated the story i “to get some publicity for myself." I must have been crazy," he ladded. As hopes of striking a hot trail in i the pursuit of Dillinger and Van Meter grew dimmer today, vigilantes in the northern counties planned to abandon their intensive hunt. State poiice, however, planned to continue, a search of summer cottages where the outlaws may have taken refuge, but the state officers held little hope of ,-uccess, declaring that Dillinger prooably had returned to his old haunts in Chicago or St. Paul. Bank Raids Feared The removal of the bullet-proof | vests and pistols from the Warsaw police station means that Dillinger and his mobsters are planning another series of raids on midwestern banks, police believe. Federal agents recently established that the Indiana outlaw has affiliated himself with the Barker gang, kidnapers of Edward G. Bremer, St. Paul millionaire, and rated “the most desperate and highly organized mob in the country.” Jud Pittenger. Warsaw night patrolman who said that he tried to capture Dillenger, was recovering today from blows on the head which he said were dealt by Van Meter when he attempted to resist the outlaws in looting the police arsenal. The raid on the Warsaw' police station yesterday was the third robbery of its kind perpetrated by the Dillinger gang in Indiana. Last fall. Dillinger and Harry' Pierpont robbed police arsenals at Peru and Auburn of bulletproof vests, submachine guns, pistols and ammunition. The weapons later were used in a series of murderous raids on banks in Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin and Iliinois. OKLAHOMA TROOPS TO PREVENT LAND SALES Governor Murray Stations National Guard in Eleven Centers, i By United Prist OKLAHOMA CITY, April 14. Governor W. H. Murray ordered the Oklahoma national guard out today for duty in eleven counties Monday morning to preevnt land sales by county treasurers. GANGSTER SHOT DOWN Gambling Quarrel Victim Near Death in Los Angeles. i By L nited Press LOS ANGELES. April 14—Near death from six bullet wounds, a man shot early today in a gambling quarrel during a “walkathon” at Winter Garden auditorium was I identified by police as James (Socks) McDonough, former Chicago underworld character.