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Ex-Governor Vic Donahey Wins Handily in Ohio Senate Race. NEBRASKA PICKS BURKE Stanch Roosevelt Supporter Coasts to Victory Over Bryan. By I ntfd Press The New Oral stood all even today on the score of primary election returns from Nebraska and Ohio. Other primaries in Idaho and Arkansas were chiefly of local interes* Former Governor Vic Donahey won the Ohio Democratic nomination for senator handily. That was construed as a New Deal setback. Representative Edward R. Burke was far ahead for a similar nomination in Nebraska. He is among the stanches New Deal supporters. While local issues played some part both in Ohio and Nebraska, attention was centered on the relation of the candidates to the Roosevelt administration. Farley Telegraphs Postmaster-General James A. Farley telegraphed his congratulat.uns today to Mr Donahey. expressing certainty that he would “eome to the senate in January” as “an ardent and entire supporter” of the Roosevelt program. Such certainty had not been felt previously in Democratic circles, however. Mr. Donahey defeated Representative Charles West, who was entered in the race as a “simonpure” supporter of the New Deal. Mr. West got into the fight originally due to anxiety over Governor George White, a third candidate. Donahey Steered Clear It was pointed out here that West and White spent much of their strength in campaigning against each other, thus allowing Donahey, who kept clear of the squabble, to draw support from all factions. Mr. Donahey. while not antagonistic to the New Deal, was lukewarm in his support, it was felt. However. after an initial declaration of qualified support of the President, lie came out more rtrongly for the Roosevelt policies as the campaign went on. Mr. Donahey will be pitted against Senator Simeon D. Fess. bitter Republican critic of the administration. in November. Mr. Fess won his nomination with little difficulty. Because of Ohio's pivotal position and Mr. Fess’ outspoken opposition to the President, the result will be watched closely However, the line will not tie drawn as closely as it would have been bad tbe favored West been victorious. In Nebraska, the apparent success of Mr. Burke was at the expense or Governor Charles Bryan who had criticised a number of New Deal policies, the AAA in particular. Sponsored by Muilen The Burke candidacy was sponsored bv Arthur Mullen. Mr. Roosevelt's floor manager at Chicago, and was given special significance when the President quoted Mr. Burke's definition of the New Deal in his Green Bav (Wis) speech. A victory for Mr. Burke was expected to receive the interpretation that it represented indorsement by a substantial portion of the farm bolt of the Roo'-evelt program The Nebraska Republican senatorial nominee is expected to be former Representative Robert Simmons. conservative critic of Roosevelt. In Idaho. Governor C. Ben Ross w is out in front for the Democratic nomination for Governor. His candidacy attracted attention as a victory this fall is expected to make him a leading candidate to oppose Senator William E. Borah in 1936.

TROOPS FIRE ON AUTO IN TRUCK STRIKE ZONE Driver of Machine Is Held for Violating Order. rnitrit Prr*M MINNEAPOLIS. Aug. 15— National guardsmen's bullets whizzed over Minneapolis streets today as troopers fired on an automobile that attempted to break through sentry lines. Otherwise, the truck drivers' strike remained in a deadlock that has stymied negotiations for a month. The shooting was only indirectly involved with the strike. A car driven by Archie Nadeau, was punctured with two bullets as he ignored a guardsman's challenge and sped through a blockaded area. None was injured. Nadeau was held in custody on a charge of violating martial law orders. Police said he was not connected with the strike. Times Index Page Automobile News 4 Bridge 8 Broun 11 Classified 16 Comics 17 Crossword Puzzle 9 Curious Word . 17 Editorial 12 Financial 13 Hickman—Theaters 6 Pegler 11 Radio 6 Serial Story 17 Sports 14. 15 State News 18 Vital Statistics 13 Women s Pages 8, 9

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Ellsworth Changes His Polar Expedition Plans to Carry Aid to Byrd

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Famed Explorer, Accompanied by Bernt Balchen and Noted Doctor, Plans Speedy Trip to Antarctic After Dysentery Report. By I sited Press NEW YORK. Aug. 15.—Lincoln Ellsworth, famous explorer of the polar regions, is changing the plans of his present expedition to the Antarctic to carry aid to the Little America expedition of his old friend. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, the New York Sun said today.

GOERING BADLY HURT IN CRASH Prussian Premier Suffers Serious Injuries in Auto Smashup. By United Pres* MUNICH. Germany, Aug. 15. Hermann Goering, premier of Prussia and minister of aviation, recuperated at his country home at Obersalzburg today after a narrow escape from death when his motor car collided at high speed with a motor truck. Goering’s car was wrecked, and he suffered an injured back and cuts about the head and legs. He was operated on at Rosenheim and then taken in another car to his home. Afiolf Hitler visited him today and found him weak, but recovering. Goering himself was driving his car. a big Mercedes, and. as usual, was traveling at-great speed. He rounded a curve, ripped along the truck from end to end. Its left side was almost completely torn away. The front axle was broken, the left front wheel was torn off and the steering wheel was jammed. So badly were Goering's car and the truck jammed that a wrecking car had to be called to pull them apart. The driver of the other car was held responsible. TUGWELL WARNING IS GIVEN COTTON GROUP Urges Planters to Make Sacrifices on Crop Control. I! aln iteil Pres* CLEMSON. 6 C.. Aug. 15— Rex Tugwell. undersecretary of agriculture, today warned cotton planters that their decision on a 1935 crop control plan would go far toward determining the whole national policy on planned agriculture. •'Beyond the immediate decision." he said, "lies the question of the destiny of the south and of this nation. Small matters often determine great issues and the difference of a few cents in the price of your produce this year should not blind you to the fact that on your decision the future of this continent largely may depened." BANDIT SUSPECT IS QUESTIONED BY POLICE Greenfield Man Quizzed in Filling Station Holdups. Frederick Davis. Greenfield, was arrested yesterday by Anderson police, who noticed that front and rear license plates on the car he was driving bore dissimilar numbers. Davis admitted robbing several filling stations throughout the state, according to police. He will be questioned by Indianapolis authorities as to the recent robbery of filling stations here.

They’re Off! The Big Brown Derby Race Is on Once More!

'T''HE starters flag raises—drops! There they go! Look at that bald-headed dome clear on the outside He's on the rail! Watch that dark horse coming out of the pack! Boy whatta race! What race? Why. the race that opened today as the first ballot in the Brown Derby contest is printed on Page 18 of this newspaper. Look at ’em run! See 'em trying to cut each other off as they race for that dun-colored sky-

A mild attack of dysentery among the fifty-six men at the Byrd base in the Antarctic led to the change in plans, according to the newspaper, and Ellsworth. Dr. Francis D. Coman of Johns Hopkins hospital and Bernt Balchen, famous pilot, will sail for Little America as soon as possible. Many troubles have plagued the second Byrd expedition and at present the leader is isolated 123 miles south of the main base at a weather depot where he spent many weeks alone and where a relief party found him, thin and ill, a few days ago. Dysentery Is Reported Mr. Ellsworth's original plan was to go to Deception island on the opposite side of the continent from Little America and, later, to fly over the west coast of the Weddell sea and over uncharted regions to the Ross sea, not far from the Byrd base. But while he was in Honolulu from where he will sail with Mrs. Ellsworth on Aug. 26 for New Zealand the explorer was advised that there was dysentery at Little America the Sun said. While the attacks were confined to mild cases, it was felt that the presence of Dr. Coman would be desirable. He spent more than a year at the Byrd base with the first expedition. Asa result. Dr. Coman obtained leave of absence and will sail from Los Angeles on Aug. 22 to join the Ellsworths at Honolulu. Famed Pilot on Way Balchen left Los Angeles last week for New Zealand w’here Ellsworth’s ship is being made ready at Dunedin. Ellsworth plans to sail from New Zealand as soon as practicable and possibly will fly Dr. Coman to Byrd’s base if the Ross sea is too ice-filled for passage of the ship. Byrd and Ellsworth long have been friends as well as rivals in spectacular polar exploration. When Ellsworth's plane was wrecked on an Antarctic expedition during the first Byrd expedition—at which time Ellsworth also was exploring the region—Byrd offered to lend him a craft for his projected transpolar flight. Ellsworth declined. The plane now has been rebuilt and Ellsworth eventually hopes to make the 2.700-mile flight across the Antarctic continent on his present expedition. JOHNSON THREATENS TO LIFT BLUE EAGLE XRA Chief Hears Hosiery Mills Are Violating Code. tin United Pres* WASHINGTON. Aug. 15.—Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson indicated today he was ready to withdraw the Blue Eagle again from the Harriman hosiery mills if necessary. He said that reports had been received that the company still was refusing to bargain collectively as provided in the code, and "if they persist. I’ll remove the Blue Eagle again for fresh violations." Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 74 10 a. m 71 7a. m 77 11 a. m 75 Ba. m 79 12 moon).. 75 9 a. m 72 1 p. m 78

piece, the silver plaque, and the right to talk on anything from bunions to carbuncles on the night of Sept. 6 at the Indiana state fair. See those backers, spreading their bets clear across the board, as they snip with scissors, paring knives, and plows the ballots out of today s Times. Look at the pencil cramps forming on that pretty secretary's head over there as she signs her boss' signature over and over! Just lamp that smart guy using a rubber stamp to put bis candi-

Unsettled with showers probable tonight and tomorrow; slightly cooler tomorrow.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1931

ROOSEVELT TO BAR GAMBLING ONPRODUCE Reveals Plans to ‘Crack Down’ on Speculation in Grains. STRESSES HIS POWERS •Smart Money’ Shifted to Wheat Pit, Belief of President. By I nitrd Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—President Roosevelt today revealed plans to smash grain and produce exchange speculation if market manipulators seek to capitalize calamity in the farm belt for their private gain. Drought has left plenty of food in the United States, Mr. Roosevelt emphasized in announcing that close watch had been established over exchanges dealing in food stuffs. Mr. Roosevelt believes many millions of stock exchange smart money have been shifted from Wall Street to the Chicago wheat pit and other commodity exchanges to avoid federal regulation of stock transactions. General reports of prospective food profiteering are not warranted, in Mr Roosevelt’s opinion. He said today at his regular press conference that the government has ample authority to curb speculative profiteering. STATE PRISON LOSES PHONE OPERATOR AS LIFER GETS PAROLE The Indiana state prison will lose one man w r ho probably listened in on more prison escape conversation than any other operator the prison has had since its construction. Today the state clemency board paroled Oscar Goddard, Veedersburg, serving a life sentence for the slaying of his wife. Goddard is the prison's phone operator. A petition signed by 105 residents of Veedersburg and approved by the trial prosecutor, A. L. Marshall, resulted in the release of the Fountain county man. Goddard was sentenced from Fountain county in 1917. His wife was paralyzed. Goddard, a cripple, suffered temporary loss of his reason, and killed his wife. He has had a clear record during his seventeen years imprisonment and this coupled with the extenuating circumstances surrounding the slaying brought about the parole.

TWO ARE KILLED IN ELECTRICAL STORMS Temperatures Drop All Over Middle West. By United Press CHICAGO. Aug. 15.—Electrical storms accompanying a driving rain, which drove temperatures down over the middle west’s "desert’’ claimed at least two lives today. A 71-year-old farmer w r as killed when struck by a bolt of lightning at the Hawthorne race track near Chicago. A national guardsman was killed by lightning and eight other soldiers injured at the Camp Grant national guard encampment near Rockford, 111. Forecast for Indianapolis tonight and tomorrow is for showers and slightly cooler weather. The wind shifted to a northeast direction at 9 today, lowering the temperature several degrees. The mercury recorded only 75 degrees at noon today, LINCOLN, NEB., CHOSEN FOR TREE BELT OFFICE Headquarters for Huge Project to Open Soon. Bil United Pres* WASHINGTON. Aug. 15.—Central field office for the $75,000,000 tree shelter belt project will be established soon at Lincoln. Neb., the forest service announced today. With its opening, work will begin on the planting of trees over an area 100 miles wide and about 1,300 miles long. New York Sportsman Dead By United Press NEW YORK. Aug. 15.—Colonel James A. Blair, 54. widely known clubman, sportsman and societyleader. died today of a liver complaint.

date's name to the fore! All’s fair in marital strife and Brown Derbies. Any one can win the 1934 crown of crowns to determine the city's most distinguished citizen. a a * EACH vote counts FIVE through Saturday and after Saturday the ballots count one until the contest closes shortly before coronation night at the state fair. Sept. 6. Beginning Monday, ballots will be dated and must be in within twenty-four hours of the date.

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Ethel Barrymore By Unitcil Press MAMARONECK. N. Y.. Aug. 15. —Ethel Barrymore celebrated her fifty-fifth birthday quietly today. She said she had forgotten all about it until reminded by the press.

HIGH OFFICIALS TO QUITPOSTS Posts to Be Filled With - More Liberal Men, Is Belief. (Copyright 1934. bv United Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 15— Resignation of three important administration banking officials and their possible replacement by persons of more liberal New Deal leanings was believed imminent today. The three officials expected to relinquish their posts are: Eugene R. Black, conservative Atlanta (Ga.) banker, and Roosevelt appointee as governor of the federal reserve board. Adolph Caspar Miller, one-time adviser of President Hoover and a member of the federal reserve board since its formation in 1914. His term expired Aug. 9. E. G. Bennett, Utah banker and Republican director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, appointed less than a year ago by President Roosevelt. All three men are rated as “conservatives” and possibly are not entirely in sympathy tvith the monetary and banking steps of the administration. President Roosevelt has made no move yet to fill the vacancies to be caused by the impending resignations, although Mr. Miller's term has expired and Governor Black and FDIC Director Bennett both have sought to resign for many months. Mr. Black expects to return to Atlanta within a few weeks and may have submitted his resignation to the President when he visited the White House yesterday. Although names ot few important candidates for these high positions have been heard in semiofficial quarters, it was expected in several important circles today that they w'ould be filled with more liberal “New- Dealers” on the type of Henry Morgenthau Jr., close Roosevelt friend and secretary of the treasury. The selection for the two impending federal reserve board vacancies are regarded as highly important in view of the aid which could be rendered to the treasury by the reserve board in working out the administration's financial program. REPUBLIC STEEL NETS PROFIT OF $864,125 Second Quarter Income Largest Reported Since 1930. By l imes Special CHICAGO. Aug. 15.—Net profit amounting to $864,125 is reported by the Republic Steel Corporation and its subsidiaries for the second quarter of the current year, the largest for any quarter since the company was formed by consolidation in April, 1930. In the first quarter of the current year a loss of $58,682 was reported and in the second quarter last year a net loss of $407,452 was suffered. After applying the first quarter loss to the second quarter earnings, the corporation had a net profit of $805,443 for the first half of the year as compared with a net loss of $2,929,020 in the corresponding period last year. DIVIDEND IS DECLARED A. T. Sc T. Directors Vote Regular Payment of 52.25. By United press NEW YORK. Aug. 15—Directors of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company today declared a regular dividend of $2.25 a share, payable Oct. 15 to stockholders of record Sept. 15.

Vote your ballot today on Page 18. Nominate your candidate. Here's just a few you can pick from or roll your own right into the hands of Jo-Jo, the dog-faced judge: . Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, Walter Pritchard, Police Chief Mike Morrissey. E. Kirk McKinney, Adolph Fritz, George J. Marott, Detective Chief Fred Simon, Superior Judge John W. Kern, Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox, Criminal Judge Frank Baker, Glenn B. Ralston, Ed Burk, LawTence Shaw, Judge William H. Sheaffer,

CANADA’S ‘MOUNTIES’ ARE ASKED TO JOIN IN HUNT FOR KIDNAPING GANG

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Dealers Must Be Members of N. Y. Exchange, O'Neill Rules. Acting to halt “bucketing" and possible future loss to investors, the state securities commission today banned stock sale on margin unless dealers are New YorJl* Stock Exchange members. To prevent loss to installmentplan stock purchasers, similar to the alleged losses sustained by customers of Mann & Cos., the commission ordered that securities can not be sold on time unless they are deposited with an independent trustee for future delivery to the purchaser. Both federal and state authorities are probing alleged losses of Mann & Cos., and the commission's action was taken today as an effort to prevent repetition of those loSvSes occurring to investors. Phone Use Attacked In announcing the order, William P. O'Neill, state securities commissioner. said: “It is in line with Governor McNutt's request that the regulations and procedure of the commission be made as nearly conformable as the rules and practices of the federal commission.” Mr. O'Neil said an effort would be made to stop the growing use of .stock solicitation over the telephone. He said a provision against this abuse was provided in the investment bankers’ code, but that it was violated with impunity. “It is probable that legislation must be had in Indiana to make the commission’s efforts effective in this regard,” declared Mr. O'Neill. No Stock Found Mann <te Cos. operated by telephone salesmanship and canvassed numerous doctors and dentists of the state. The orders regarding stock exchange membership installment sales is directed at the registered securities dealers of the state. Mann & Cos. probers are in doubt as to whether customers of the company have any stock to show for the money which they sent on the installment plan to the firm. No stock coulckhe found in the firm's safe. A. C. Garrigus, postal inspector, has received word from Washington ordering him to investigate the company, while Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson has ordered a Marion county grand jury probe. Three new witneses, former salesmen of the company, were ordered before the jury today. AIR MAIL SCHEDULE TO NEW YORK IS SPEEDED Letter Mailed B[ere Delivered in Eastern City Next Day. Anew airmail schedule between New York City and Indianapolis will enable a letter to be mailed at 1:05 p. m. and be in this city at 7:31 p. m. and delivered before 11 p. m. This was announced today by J. A. Cruickshank. assistant superintendent of airmail, who said that increase in the use of airmail had been due to 6-cent flat rate for letters. Letters leaving here by air at 9:50 p. m. arrive in Newark, N. J„ at 4:45 a. m. Special delivery stamps must be placed on the New York letter if it i is to reach there in time for delivery the same day. FALL ECONOMIC PICKUP PREDICTED BY LEADERS Labor and Industrial Chiefs See Business Upturn. By United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 15.—Labor and industry leaders predicted an economic pickup this fall today as government departments also saw T indicators of business rallies. Henry I. Harriman, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, forecast a moderate business increase which he said would be “much more accentuated” j if the President “could give business more assurances.” President Wil- j liam Green of the American Federation of Labor predicted “a very substantial increase in business.” j

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Aid of All Dominion Police Requested by; Ontario’s Attorney-General to Find Abducted Brewer. RANSOM OF $150,000 IS DEMANDED Action Is Taken After Band Fails to Make Contact With La Batt Family; Victim Is Millionaire. By United Press TORONTO. Ont.. Aug. 15.—Aid of all Dominion enforcement agencies, including the famous Royal Canadian mounted police, was asked today to hunt the kidnapers of John S. La Batt, millionaire Ontario brewer, held for $150,000 ransom. The call went out after the kidnapers failed to contact Hugh La Batt, brother of the abducted brewer, at his room in the Royal York hotel, as provided in the ransom note.

IN3ULL ALLY IS ACQUITTED

Marshall E. Sampsell Wins Freedom in Trial at Chicago. By United Press CHICAGO. Aug. 15.—There was anew spring today in the step of gray-haired Samuel Insull because Marshall E. Sampsell, first executive of Insull’s utility chain to face trial on charges in connection with its collapse, was acquitted last night of embezzlement. Friends and associates of Insull. many of them facing trial on similar charges, hailed the verdict as an indication of the attitude juries may be expected to take in their own cases. Sampsell, once president of the Central Illinois Public Service Company, subsidiary of the Middle West Utilities Corporation, defended himself in much the way that Insull and several others are expected to follow'. He admitted without quibble that he took 4.000 shares of stock from the treasury of his company without authorization, but explained that the securities were posted as collateral for loans to keep the entire Insull structure from collapsing. “I would have been yellow if I had not tried to protect my stockholders,” he told the criminal court jury. Insull probably will be tried on embezzlement charges this fall.

RAILROADS BALKED IN PENSION FIGHT Temporary Restrainer Denied by Capital Judge. By i nitrd Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 15.—Railroads attacking the constitutionality of the railroad retirement act met their first court rebuff today when District Supreme Court Justice Hames M. Proctor refused to grant a temporary restraining order requested by 137 carriers. The railroads had asked Monday for an injunction to prevent the railroad retirement board from carrying out the provisions of the act. Asa preliminary move they asked for a temporary restraining order. The main question today before Justice Proctor was whether greater injury would result to the board through the granting of a temporary order or to the railroads should the restraining order be denied. FALLS FROM YACHT; PATROLS HUNT BODY Woolworh Company Official Is Drowned in Lake Michigan. By United Press CHICAGO. Aug. 15.—Coast guard patrols today took up a search for the body of Hugh Fehrman. F. W. Wool worth Company official, who was reported to have fallen from a yacht in Lake Michigan. Alfred P. Sirois, owner of the yacht Scarab, reported to the coas. guard that Fehrman fell overboard seven miles off the Chicago harbor light. A search was made but the body was not sighted, Sirois said.

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HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County. 3 Cent*

Attorney-General Arthur Roebuck of Ontario asked for federal aid in a communication with the Hon. Hugh . Guthrie, K. C., minister of j justice at Ottawa. He had conferred with General S. C. Mewburn, head of the Ontario branch of the ’Mounties." General Victor Williams of the Ontario provincial police and General D. C. Draper, chief of the Toronto police department. It was the first time such action, mobilizing all police forces, federal, provincial and local, had been taken in Canadian history. The move was indicative of a decision on the part of police authori lties to track down the kidnapers rather than wait for a contact from them because of the poor health of the abducted brewer and their failure to communicate with his brother this morning. The communication requested that the minister of justice command all forces to co-operate with Ontario officials. It was not known whether members of the La Batt family approved. Hugh La Batt, who w r as near a collapse as he waited for word from the kidnapers, confirmed that he was in possession of the $150,- ; 000 ransom money and was prepared to turn over the huge sum to the gangsters at a moment’s notice. It was disclosed that a note found in the wealthy brewer's abandoned automobile at London, Ontario, his home city, bore his signature across its face. It was believed that scores of Royal Canadian mounted police would be sent to the London-Sar-nia area, where the kidnaping took place, with instructions “to get their man’’ at any cost. La Batt s wife, who recovered today from a near collapse to care for her three children, appealed to | the kidnapers to guard carefully his | health and not to include fatty ! foods in his diet as he has a weak heart. Doctors warned that the I least shock might prove fatal. FAMED CHICAGO HOTEL IS ROCKED BY BOMB Three Are Injured in Blast at Edgewater Beach. B’t U mtrd Press CHICAGO. Aug. 15—Authorities today blamed labor troubles for the bombing last night of the Edgewater Beach hotel, causing injury to three persons. Two of the injured were pickets of the cooks', waiters’ and electricians’ unions who have been on strike for several months. More than 1,500 guests in the towering hotel. located on the shore of Lake Michigan, were roused from their beds. BOND AGENT ATTACKED BY COURTHOUSE MOB Frenzied Assault Delays Proposed Sale of Land. By United Pr< ss CARRUTHERSVILLE, Mo., Aug. 15.—A mob of a dozen men attacked and beat Charles Wahl of St. Louis in the courthouse today shortly before a scheduled sale of land to satisfy defaulted drainage bonds. Mr. Wahl was representing St. Louis bondholders at the sale. He was not injured seriously, but the sale was postponed until later today. LAUDS CROP REDUCTION “Greatest Thing Ever Done for Farmers,” Says O’Neal. By Uii it'd Press CHICAGO. Aug. 15.—The crop reduction plan of the AAA is the greatest thing ever done for the farmers of America in the opinion of E. A. O'Neal, president of the* American Farm Bureau Federation. "It is the only chance the farmer has had to come into his own in my lifetime,” the genial Alabama planter, who heads the largest farmer's co-operative organization in the world, declared. Five Drown in Brazil By Unitrd Press RIO DE JANEIRO. Brazil, Aug. 15—Five persons, including a mother and three children, were drowned when the river steamer Costa Pereira floundered near Chiquechique, advices from Bahia said today.