Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 100, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1934 — Page 1

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BANK ‘LOOTED’ BY OffICERS, CHARGES RUCKER IN REPORT $1,000,000 ‘Embezzled/ Says Special Investigator in Report to Judge on State Savings and Trust. BANK INSOLVENT IN 1925, HE SAYS Claims Real Estate Subsidiaries in ‘Red’; Assets on Closing of • Institution’ Were ‘NOTHING/ He Asserts. Prosecution of officers of thfe defunct State Savings and Trust Company, which closed its doors April 25, 1930, for alleged embezzlement of the almost $1,500,000 then on deposit in that bank was demanded today by A. J. Rucker, special bank investigator for Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox. The demand, coupled with a suggestion that prosecution might possibly await one director, was contained in the final report of a series made by Mr. Rucker on this city s defunct banks. The report is packed from beginning to end with charges of dishonesty on the part of the officers. Shortly after Judge Cox received Mr. Ruckers report and announced that he would file it so that it would be available to Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker and Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson, Judge Baker summoned the grand jury be-

fore him and gave its members pointed instructions on consideration of bank cases. At the same time, Prosecutor Wilson revealed that the grand jury had subpenaed the Rucker report a week ago at his suggestion and had been told at that time that the report was not ready. The prosecutor, apparently resentful, said Judge Cox had yet to rorward a Rucker bank report to him. The judge first explained briefly the bankers’ embezzlement act in the Indiana code, discussed at length in Mr. Rucker's report, and told the jurors that, if an officer, knowing his bank to be insolvent, keeps it open for the purpose of receiving deposits, it is immaterial as to who accepts the money. Responsibility on Jury “I now wisn to impress upon the grand jury its responsibility ” he continued after the explanation and after commending the jurors for past work. ••There is a public impression that the prosecuting attorney is responsible lor indictments that are returned or for the failure of a grand / jury to return indictments. This impression is erroneous in the extreme. “The responsibility does not rest with the prosecutor; it rests solely upon the shoulders of the grand jury. "The prosecutor has the right to be present and to present evidence. It is his duty to advise you as to the law. He is not permitted to ! enter into a discussion as to I whether an indictment should or ■ should not be returned. "Hp is not permitted to be in the grand jury - room when a vote is taken.” First Thought of Wilson Judge Baker's statement here appeared at first to be a defense of Prosecutor Wilson's office, criticized again in the present Rucker report. It was learned, however, that he so instructed the jurors because of a report to him that the jurors had failed to return indictments in a consideration of one or more defunct banks because they believed officers must receive the deposits personally to be guilty of embezzlement. After referring to the numerous bank failures here and throughout the United States within the last five years. Judge Baker said: "It would be straining our credulity to believe that all officers of all of the insolvent banks and trust companies in our communities are dishonest, or that the failure of all these banks could be attributed to dishonesty on the part of the officers. Views Are Similar “However, where banks fail leaving practically no assets, it is unlikely that all of the officers of all such banks could be ignorant of their condition. It is your duty to uiquire diligently into all of them to ascertain which, if any, have violated the criminal law.” The judge's words on banks closing without assets were almost identical with those employed by Mr. Rucker in one section of his report. Mr. Rucker charges that the bank was insolvent or, at least, "on the brink of insolvency," in 1925—and, possibly, in 1924. Insolvency Is Charred He lays much of the bank's grief on alleged insolvency and mismanagement of its real estate subsidiaries and insists that at least one of these was insolvent from the time it was founded and was a constant drain on the bank's funds. The trust company's officers and their relatives were in debt to the bank when it closed, in many cases, and. in others, were carrying exceedingly small deposits, Mr. Ruckers report said. He scoffs at the theory that the depression was responsible for the bank's troubles, pointing to the early insolvency, and denies, at the mitf time, that the depression caused the failure of the MeyerKiser bank, the Washington Bank and Trust Company and the City Trust Company. The failure of all of these he laid to unsound and dishonest banking (Tuna to Page Three)

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BANDIT SUSPECT CAPTURED HERE Michigan Man Confesses Westfield Raid, Say City Police. Arrested early today as one of two bandits who yesterday held up and robbed the Union State bank, Westfield, of SI,OOO, Raymond Tynell, 21, Snover, Mich, was being held under SIO,OOO bond on vagrancy charges. Police, who claimed Tynell had confessed, said they recovered approximately slls of the bank’s loot, adding that Tynell told them he spent $55 of the loot to buy the car he was driving when arrested by a police squad. Tynell's case was continued until Sept. 12 in municipal court. In the meantime, police were seeking Tynell's companion. Tynell admitted, police say, that he was the man who held the sawed-off shotgun during the holdup yesterday. He said he threw the weapon into a com field during the flight from the scene of the robbery. according to detectives. The prisoner’s arrest came as a result of a phone tip to Captain John Mullen that there was a man in an automobile at Keystone and Southeastern avenues “with a lot of money in a suitcase.” The tipster, whose identity was not revealed by police, said that, when Tynell stopped to fix a flat tire, he inadvertently spilled out and opened a suitcase containing the money when he reached for a tool box. G. 0. P. ‘CAMPAIGN OF FEAR,’ MINTON TARGET Democratic Senate Candidate Speaks at BlufTton. By Times Special BLUFTTON, Sept. s.—The "return of the Herbert Hoover breadline —not destruction of the Constitution” —is what the American people need to fear, Sherman Minton. Democratic nominee for United States senator, told Wells county Democrats here last night. “What we do need to fear is the return of the breadline under the discredited leadership of Herbert Hoover and the rest of the Republican reactionaries who preach their campaign of fear and turn their backs on the plight of the forgotten man,” the nominee declared.

School Champions Are Honored at State Fair Education Day Draws Thousands to Hoosierdom’s Greatest Show; Parade Features Event. The boy who can spell down the class, the girl who tops her mates in domestic science, received Hoosierdom’s acclaim today—Education day—

at the Indiana state fair. Prommly at 11 a. m., champions in all fines of educational endeavor marched to the tuneful airs of the Seymour Lion's Club band in front of the grand stand. Two thousand five hundred children were in the parade. Children. 12 and under, crashed the gate without cost for the final play fling at the fair before returning to their school books. Pupils of city schools formed the bulk of the children attending with nearby township schools adding to youth's day of homage at the exposition. A century of school transportation, ranging from children trudging to school to the most modem steel school bus, was shown in the educational parade. A trackless train, with Governor Paul V. McNutt and M. Clifford Townsend. Lieutenant-Governor, led the line of march. Special programs were held throughout the day in the modern and log-cabin schools on the fairground. Last year a attendance of 29,638 is

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GUARD MILLS TO AVERT SABOTAGE

•< i 'SsB WmLyy/ss J ... J PPPiI -BHft i-. . .iv- -? * %:/ 4 j i aHTMI lj®j|||! | - wßm I L • .: " ■' -- All the outer aspects of war accompany the textile strike in which 600,000 workers were called out. Here is a typical scene outside the Lonsdale cotton mill at Seneca, S. C., as guardsmen search a worker entering the plant. Everyone arriving at the mill gate is searched for hidden guns or bombs, in an effort to prevent damage to the machinery by saboteurs.

Roosevelt Board to Study Textile Strike President to Name Three-Man Committee; Rivals Agree to Co-operate as Violence Flares. (Copyriuht. 1934. by United Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. s.—Textile strike leaders and the industry pledged co-operation to President Roosevelt’s mediation proposal today in the midst of widening flareups of violence and code authority charges of intimidation by pickets. The President will name a three-man board to investigate the strike.

ine strixe win conunue, nowever, Francis J. Gorman, strike leader, warned in commenting on the President’s peace move. From north to south, meanwhile, came reports of fights at mill gates, of mobilization of troops units and state police in various textile strike centers. Through the strike areas a ominous tension was increasing. President George A. Sloan of the Cotton Textile Intsitute said the President’s mediation board "will receive our "utmost respect.” Mr. Sloan earlier had charged "mob action” by strikers was forcing workers involuntarily from their jobs. Other major developments in the rapidly changing strike scene: 1. More than 300,000 workers now in strike ranks, according to United Press survey. 2. North Carolina strike leaders order “flying squadrons” of pickets to “put on the brakes” in trying to force mills to close. Threats of martial law unless activities were curbed, brought the order. 3. Police and pickets fought with stones and clubs at numerous mill gates. Scores were injured. City Situation Quiet With the workers claiming that 50 per cent more of their fellows were out today than was the case yesterday, the United Textile Workers of America strike at the Indianapolis Bleaching Company mill, 900 West Wabash street, went quietly into its second day today. Last night, union leaders estimated that 350 workers were out. The plant management earljr in the day had made an estimate of 20 per cent which, with a 600-person pay roll, would be approximately 120 striking. An impartial observer believed that considerably more than two hundred actually were out. Strike leaders said only eighty union members had remained at work. They planned to keep up the enthusiasm of the strikers with another mass meeting this afternoon in the union's new head-

expected to be broken today. Tuesday, always a slim fair day, broke last year's mark of 19.209 with a total of 21.439 paid admissions. The fair's first four days show approximately 16.000 more paid admissions than last year. Champion state high school bands and soloists gave concerts and were to sing this afternoon in the I. U. auditorium. Harry Terhune, Maritnsville, winner of the national oratorical contest, was scheduled to give his winning address from the I. U. stage this afternoon. Major divisions in cattle, sheep, hogs and swine received blue ribbons as judges sweated despite the coolness in an effort to complete all awards before tomorrow night. Final awards were made in the dog show and owners prepared to move their ribbon-winners to make room for the felines of the state. The cat show opens tomorrow. Tomorrow the men. women and children who make the yearly fair possible will have & day of their own—Farmers' and 4-H Club day.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1934

quarters, a Negro church hall, at 441 Blake street. This hall is considarably closer to the scene of action than was the old headquarters, 2 KBs East Ohio street. •v It was reported at noon today that the bleaching plant’s electric power had been shut off and the plant completely closed down, but this was denied vigorously by plant officials. Manager Is “Satisfied” Charles A. Young, plant manager for the bleaching company, said he was “satisfied,” however, and expressed pleasure that the strike was being conducted in such an orderly fashion. The plant continued to be heavily picketed today, but there was no sign of disorder. When the day shift had reported, many of the pickets retired to a nearby vacant lot and began playing baseball and “pass.” Charges late yesterday by U. T. W. A. leaders that the bleaching company was violating labor provisions of the NRA textile code by employing the “stretchout” system were met with a flat denial by Mr. Young. “Poppycock” he snorted. “I believe the ‘stretchout’ is iniquitous and I certainly never would permit its use here. We have lived up to the code in all respects.” Under the “stretchout” system, one worker is forced to perform duties ordinarily performed by two or more. One of the reasons for the calling of the nationwide U. T. W. A. strike, of which the bleaching mill strike is only a small part, is alleged widespread employment of the “stretchout” throughout the industry. Denies Worker’s Charges Mr. Young also denied charges by the workers that he was bringing in outside workers. He said he had rehired this morning some persons ordinarily on the plant’s pay rolls as piece workers, who had not worked for the last several weeks. Strike leaders said the men had not been employed, in some instances, for one or two years and said that, in one specific case, the rehired man had been discharged twice. Today was pay day and more than 150 strikers received checks for work done last week. They were cautioned by strike leaders to take the money home to their families and not to spend it on liquor. The size of the pay checks caused some indignation among the workers, who showed them to a Times reporter. Insisting that it represented pay for a full week's work, one man showed a check for $6.75 and said he had a family of six to support. Mr. Young asked The Times to a misapprehension that he was sympathetic with the nationwide strike. He said he had meant to imply yesterday that he believed workers in certain specific sections had very real grievances a/id that their strikes were justified. H* added that he did not feci a ns nwide strike was justified however, and expressed the hope that, while the Indianapolis problem could not be settled locally, the men would be back at work in the near future. Weirton Case Delayed Bji United Prc*s WILMINGTON, Del.. Sept. 5. The hearing on the government petition for a permanent injunction against the Weirton Steel Company to prevent interference with collective bargaining by employes was postponed today until Oct. 2.

INDIANA CONVICTS PLOTTING TO BLOW UP MICHIGAN CITY WALLS, PRISONER CONFIDES TO PROBER

Bandits Take $75,000 After Threatening to Kill Banker’s Family Machine-Gun Desperadoes Force President, Wife to Drive Them to Savings Institution and Turn Over All Funds. By United Press LAKE CITY, S. C., Sept. s.—After taking the bank's president from his home and threatening wholesale murder for his family, three bandits today robbed the Bank of Lake City of between $75,000 and SIOO,OOO. The bandits, in making their escape, took with them President J. Hoyt Carter and Cashier Fred Stalvey but released them near Lamar, S. C., thirty-five miles from here.

ARMS PROBERS BAREWERY' ‘Graft’ Necessary to Sell Warships, Boat Firm Says in Letter. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. s.—Electric Boat Company officials informed their British associates in 1927 that the business of selling warships in South America was based on “graft,” it was disclosed tt “.ay at the senate’s munitions investigation. The statement was made in a letter from L. Y. Spear, Electric Boat vice-president, to Commander C. W. Craven, managing director of Vickers Ltd., on March 3, 1927. Payment of special commissions to various interests by Luis Aubrey, Peruvian representative of Electric Boat, represented “bribery,” Senator Bennett Clark (Dem., Mo.) charged. Mr. Spear replied that he “wouldn’t call it ‘bribery’” but admitted “that you can’t do business in South America without paying special commission.” “They don’t call it ‘bribery’ down there,” he added. Clark read letters showing that Aubrey was to pay $15,000 a boat to three persons in Peru for each order Electric Boat received. “We all know,” Spear wrote to Craven, “however, that the real foundation of all South American business is graft and he (the agent in Chile) may know the people to pay in Santiago.” Officials of the boat company yesterday revealed amazing connections with Sir Basil Zaharoff, mysterious “merchant of death.” KANKAKEE MENACED BY SIOO,OOO BLAZE Costly Fires Are Believed Work of Arsonist. By United Press KANKAKEE, 111., Sept. s.—Fires broke out in three sections of Kankakee almost simultaneously today, spreading terror among the populace and causing great property damage. Authorities were investigating a theory that the blazes were the work of an arsonist. Fire departments from surrounding cities were recruited; dozens of local citizens joined in the fight, and the American Legion called on all its members to help before the flames finally were brought under control. Damage from the various fires was estimated at approximately SIOO,OOO. FRANKLIN POLO STAR IN SERIOUS CONDITION Lester Canary Struck on Head by Mallet in Game Here. Suffering from head injuries sustained when he was struck by a mallet in a game at the state fair last night, Lester Canary, Franklin polo star, was reported in serious condition at Methodist hospital today. First report was that the injury i was slight, but he withdrew from the game and reutrned to his home. He suffered severe pain during the night and was brought to the hospital where he was believed to have a fractured skull, although no final opinion had been given by doctors in charge. Times Index Page Berg Cartoon 8 Bridge 6 Broun 9 Classified 13, 14 ; Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 11 Curious World 15 ; Editorial *... 8 Financial 10 Hickman—Theaters 11 Let's Go Fishing 13 Pegler 9 Radio 13 Serial Story .................... 15 Sports 12, 13 State News 4 Vital Statistics 10 Woman s Pages 6, 7

Two of the bandits appeared at the Carter home about 7:30. As Mr. Carter came to the door, they threatened him with a machine gun. Athlea Carter, 16-year-old daughter, and Jimmy Carter, 10, were tied together to a bed. One of the robbers got in one car with Mr. Carter and the other forced Mrs. Carter to drive him to the bank. “We’ll meet Mr. Stalvey at the bank,” one of the ban<* said. “We’ve been making plans for this robbery for three days and everything is set.” Mrs. Carter was ordered out of her car a block from the bank, warned that if she spread an alarm, it would mean “wholesale murder for your family.” Meanwhile, a third bandit was trailing Mr. Stalvey to the bank. He was i.i the bank when the robbers with Mr. Carter arrived. The two officials then were ordered to give the funds to the gang.

CITY SCHOOL CHIEF LASHES AT POLITICS Teachers Hear Stetson at Conference. Political interference and shortsighted leaders were blamed for government financial problems in an address by Paul C. Stetson, school superintendent; at the opening of the three-day city teachers’ conference today. Approximately 1,900 teachers attended the session today at Technical high school preparatory to the formal opening of public schools of the city Monday. “Financial problems confronting our cities and states do not arise primarily from lack of financial resources, but from political interference, outmoded forms of government, antiquated taxation machinery and the refusal of many leaders to face the situation squarely and frankly,” Mr. Stetson said. The superintendent outlined a new teacher training plan whereby successful teachers will be selected to act as training teachers. He lauded the spirit of the Indianapolis teachers “who have come through this soul-trying period with their high standards of private and professional life unimpaired.”

Prison Reform Is Urged by U. S. Prisons Official Indiana Should Lose No Time in Making Times’ Plan Effective, Asserts Bixby. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. s.—lndorsement of The Indianapolis Times’ plan for reform of the penal system in Indiana was voiced here today by Dr. F. Lovell Bixby, federal prisons bureau official and noted penologist. Dr. Bixby recently completed a survey of the Indiana penal institutions and represented Sanford Bates, federal prisons director, on the

committee which made recommendations to Governor Paul V. McNutt. He is considered an outstanding authority on state penal affairs. Dr. Bixby did the research work for the “American Handbook of Prisons and Reformatories,” published last year. “I am 100 per cent for The Times’ plan, not only for Indiana but for every state in the union,” Dr. Bixby declared. "Some authorities hesitate about putting county jails under the civil service plan, but I am for that also. “Under present conditions, the civil service idea is the only way in which penal institutions, large or small, can be rescued from political control and resultant incompetency.” The only suggestion of possible change Dr. Bixby offered in regard to The Times’ plan is as to whether it might not be more advisable to have a nonpartisan, nonpaid board of outstanding citizens to effect the policy and then, through civil service rules, to select a state director who will carry out the plan. “I might even go farther than the idea of merely selecting socalled ‘responsible’ prison officials under civil service rules,” Dr. Bixby declared. “I would include every one at tbe prison from the warden on down to the last guard. All are ‘responsible’ and there can be no weak links without danger of prison deliveries.” Dr. Bixby cited the federal prison at Lewisville, Pa., as the outstanding example of the civil service sys-

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Brutality and Terrorism Have Ruled Behind Grim Walls for Nearly Decade, Investigator for Times Learns. BITTER KLAN REIGN IS AT AN END But Lack of System Makes Institution ‘City of Forgotten Men/ Prober Is Told by Unfortunates. BY BASIL GALLAGHER Times Staff Writer Reform of the Indiana penal system must begin with the state prison at Michigan City, experts say. Brutality, degeneracy and seething unrest among the inmates have characterized the prison administration for nearly a decade, The Indianapolis Times has learned. A system under civil service regulation, as proposed by

The Times, is required to rout inefficiency and lead to a program with far-reaching social objectives, investigation behind the grim walls at Michigan City discloses. Stories of murders, suicide 6, wholesale jail breaks and sadistic beatings of prisoners were told The Times investigator. The Times was informed that for more than eight years, from 1925 to 1933. the invisible empire of the Ku-Klux Klan counted the prison among its far-flung possessions. Men were beaten unmercifully because they were Jews, Catholics or political enemies, blue-clad prisoners said. Today things are vastly different. But remnants of the old order remain, and the program appears to consist solely of an unsuccessful effort to hold desperate men behind grim walls—a program utterly lacking in plan and objective. Dynamite Plot Hatched Even while this is being written, an inmate of the prison insists, a plot is being hatched to dynamite the prison walls as soon as daylight saving time goes out of effect and darkness descends earlier in the day on the red brick buildings on the shores of Lake Michigan. Prison officials deny the existence of such a plot. They deny that bottles of nitro-glycerine, dynamite and pistols hgve been found in the prison yard within the last although such reports persist within and without the prison walls. The prisoner who told The Times reporter of the “dynamite plot” is a former Indianapolis youth, a convicted burglar. He is a “two-time loser.” But he is intelligent, a college graduate. He answered patiently for more than an hour questions concerning prison administration; about the feeling among the prisoners and about the “big break” of the Dillinger gangsters. Answers Are Guarded He seemed anxious to talk. But his answers w r ere guarded. Prisonbred reticence marked his words. His face muscles twitched with nervousness. His shifty eyes ranged repeatedly over the other prisoners

Convinced that Indiana’s penal and law enforcement systems must be reformed to insure a minimum of prison escapes, The Indianapolis Times is presenting a series of articles on such reform. Today The Times presents the views of Dr. F. Lovell Bixby, federal official and noted penologist. This newspaper urges selection of a central department of correction, its members to be chosen on a civil service basis; appointments of all wardens and their executive assistants on a civil service basis; removal of county jails from the control of politically named sheriffs; operation of the state police on a civil service basis.

tem. There, every one from the warden down was chosen through civil serivee examinations, he said. Civil service prevails in other federal prisons also, with the exception of the warden’s office, which is appointive. New York state has placed its wardens under civil service and North Carolina has put county jails under state control, Dr. Bixby declared. “The state is the proper unit for such things and that is what makes The Times’ plan so sound,” he concluded. “I hope that the proper legislation will be passed to bring it about so as to put Indiana in the forefront in penal affairs.” \

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and their visitors, seated at the long table in the visiting room. His story and the stories of other prisoners in Indiana’s village of “silent men” will be told during this series of life behind Michigan City prison walls. These stories will disclose a prison management that fails to segregate desperate criminals from first-offending youths, how youths fall easy prey, under threat of death, to imprisoned perverts. Shocking tales of prisoners cast into the prison insane asylum because someone thought them “tough guys,” will be related in contrast to penal methods elsewhere under which prisoners are “bugged” only after scientific tests by scientists selected on a basis of their professional experience and training. A Village of Broken Men Within the high walls of the prison, inclosing twenty-three acres of grounds and buildings, 2,379 men live, some for the remainder of their lives. Among them are murderers, thieves, robbers, embezzlers, kidnapers, yeggmen, moral perverts, forgers, wife-deserters and rapists, Their specific offenses run thewhole gamut of crime. They ha’ /e been sentenced from every coi anty in the state. Among them are bankers, - bakers, bond salesmen, bookkeepers?* * ne " chanics of all sorts, lawyers?- doc " tors, pharmacists, engineers, fa^iff 1 " ers, architects and in fact representatives of nearly every business, trade and profession—and of none, A village of broken men. Plant Is Well Managed The physical characteristics of the prison are prepossessing. Situated in the dunes along the shore of Lake Michigan, the “big house” has a water view equal to any in the middle west. The prison lawns are beautifully kept and bright with flowers. Dormatories and cell blocks are clean. There is evidence on every hand that the physical plant is being competently managed. The food is edible. Penal experts declare the defenses against prison breaks are adequate. Anew “guard” box, bristling with machine guns, stands inside the prison at the main gate, a memorial to the escape of the Dillinger gangsters, erected shortly after their break for freedom. Prisoners call it the “Dillinger” tower. Officials, who will not be quoted, agree that the expenditure of $346,000 contemplated by the state this year to erect new guard towers, install electric flood-lights and walls and make other improvements will not solve the problem of clearing the name of the Michigan City prison of the scandal which has been attached to it since a series of jail breaks began less than a year ago. Klan Brutality Bared For several days the writer practically lived in the prison. He' talked to inmates, guards, officials and other attaches. From D. C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of tne Ku-Klux Klan, he obtained the story of the klan regime in the prison, a story substantiated by officials. From the lips of broken men ho has heard stories of brutality which are comparable only to the tortures inflicted by the fiercest savages in the early days of American history. He has seen a man, once a perfect physical speciman, reduced to a gibbering weakling. In trips through the prison, he has seen the bitterness of men who are denied their freedom because they thought they could beat the law. The Lack of a System He has seen women, mothers, wives, sweethearts weeping as they came from interviews with men whom they love, despite restraining bars of steel. He has seen children at play on the rude tables of the reception room with “daddy” and has heard their childish laughter resound where heartaches through the weary years have turned men into desperate. freedom-seeking shells. Behind these scenes lie facts—frequently cruel facts—that strike at a system or the lack of it. Tomorrow’s installment will deal with conditions at Michigan City prison caused by lack of adequate segregation of desperadoes and first offenders. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m..... 54 10 a. m..,,, 70 7a. m 55 11 a, m..... 73 Ba. m..... 62 12 (noon).. 76 9a. m..,,, 67 Ip. m..... 77