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INSULL WEEPS ON WITNESS STAND, CLEARS 16 ON TRIAL WITH HIM IN UTILITY CRASH

Tears Roll Down Financier’s Ruddy Cheeks as He Denies Co-Defendants Had Part in $2,000,000,000 Collapse. VOICE BREAKS DURING TESTIMONY Fallen Magnate Tells How He Was Brought to This Country by Thomas Edison; Exonerates Son of Blame. CHICAGO, Nov. I.—Samuel Insull, tears rolling down his ruddy face, testified in federal court today that the sixteen men on trial with him were “not in any way responsible for the collapse of his two-billion-dollar utility empiie. The government charges Insull and his associates with mail frauds aggregating $143,000,000. Insull’s exoneration of the other defendants, including his son, created a flutter of excitement in the packed court-

room as he pointed a finger at the array of his one-time associates. "If I feel embarrassment fitting her* I feel it infinitely more for the** younger men who have no responsibility in this situation, he said. Tears welled in his deep-set eyes for the second time during his testimony and his voice trembled. •'lf the prosecution will excuse me these defendants have no more to do with this case than you have. "These men were not in any way responsible for what happened. Yesterday fifteen of Insulls codefendants— mostly officials of the crumbled Corporation Securities Company—made a futile rffort to obtain freedom by directed verdicts of acquittal. Befriended by Edison Only Insull and his son, Samuel Jr, failed to petition for directed verdicts. Insull. whose sternness once made him feared in the industrial world, uept as he told how he was brought o the United States, a poor English immigrant boy. by the late Thomas Edison. ... Earlier in his testimony, while referring to Thomas A. Edison and the great inventor's friendship for h m. Insull broke down with sobs. The 74-year-old defendant's blanket exoneration of those on trial with him had an amazing effect upon the jury. They looked at each other with puzzled expressions. “Worshiped Edison” Insulls attorney. Floyd E. Thompson, had asked him with whom he surrounded himself and the whitehaired witness replied: "I ran answer that best by drawing you rattention to these other defendants” Tears rolled down his cheeks and his high-pitched voire broke as he described how he had been befriended by the great inventor whom he “worshipped like a god It was Mr. Edison who brought the \oung insull to the United States in February. 1891. and started him on the road to wealth and power. His mustache twitched and his hands fumbled a brown P folio is his lap as he told of Edison’s first wife and her kindness to Kl ™ m sorrv; I can't help it.” Insull said, turning to the jury and Judge James H. Wilkerson as his toice broke.

Mrs. lnsall Sobs His story of his friendship with Thomas Edison m /nhTrvrclaim that he never delibera.e swindled thousands of investor in the corporation Securities Company Mrs insull daubed her eves win a handkerchief in spectators' seats as her h . Ti-is overcome with emotion. Young Insull. called -Junior by his father drummed nervously on the arm of his chair and his face * The’toSinwny of the witness, civen to the jury in a flow rarrl> broken bv questions from his attornev Floyd E Thompson, reflected hours of* study V.d preparedness. Never did he appear to be groping for words or facts. Although questions by Thompson frequently brought ten-minute answers the government s Leslie Salter special assistant atto. rev-general, and District Attorney Dwicht H Green, did not object. HORSE THEFT REPORTED Hamilton County Probes First Such Crime in Decade. Bv V*tr4 Prrtt NOBLESVILLE, Ind. Nov. I— A team of dappled grays, valued at 5300. was sought by police here today as they investigated the first horse theft in Hamilton county in a decade. The horses were stolen from the farm of Briggs Tomlinson Times Index Page Bridge 19 Broun .. 15 Comics 25 Crossword Puzzle 9 Curious World 25 Editorial 16 Financial .. 24 Hickman— Theaters ............ 12 Pegler .. 15 Radio Sports 20.21 State News 4 Woman s Pages 18,19

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WIFE TO HELP POET'S SLAYER ‘White Hibiscus,’ of Slain Man’s Notes to Testify for Defense. By United Prekb WOODLAND. Cal.. Nov. I.—Helqn Louise Doke. dark-eyed paramour of a campus poet, will emerge from the seclusion she has sought since her husband killed her lover, young Lamar Holhngshead, and will testify for the defense at Judson C. Doke’s trial on murder charges, defense attorneys said today. In exposing Mrs. Doke to the crdc 1 of the witness stand, the defense “has no desire to add to her Humiliation,” A. C. Huston Sr., counsel for Doke, said in accepting her offer to aid her husband. Nor will the defense subject her to humiliation “except to the extent necessary to present properly hPr husband’s case to the jury,” Mr. Huston added. Only once since the San Leandro milk inspector shot and killed Hollingshead at the ranch where he was working to obtain college funds last July has Mrs. Doke spoken publicly. Then she admitted her infidelities. saying she had not been “all a wife should be.” She came here the day the trial opened but has not appeared in the little courtroom where an eager crowd daily has examined each new’ arrival closely in the hope of seeing the "white hibiscus” sweetheart to whom Hollingshead dedicated -a trilogy of love poems interrupted by Doke's bullet. Her appearance on the stand will be one of the most dramatic moments of a trial already marked by defense efforts to impeach the testimony of the medical examiner who attended Hollingshead at the Woodland hospital where he died a few hours after the shooting.

TODAY’S WEATHER

Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 36 10 a. 33 7a. m 36 11 a. m 39 Ba. m 35 12 (noon).. 39 9 a. m 37 1 p. m 38 Tomorrow's sunrise, 6:15 a. m.; sunset, 4:42 p. m. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Northwest wind, fifteen miles an hour: barometric pressure. 29.97 at sea level; temperature. 37; general conditions, clear; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, sixteen miles. Mercury at 23 in St. Paul AtV t nit> and Pre** ST. aPAUL. Nov. I.—A northwest wind and flurries of snow drove the mercury down to 23 degrees, the season's low. today. Fair and warmer weather was forecast.

Engineer Killed as Two Trains Collide Head-On; Fireman, Saved by Victim, Hurt in Leap to Safety

Coroner William E. Arbuckle and railroad officials today were investigating a head-on collision of two freight trains on the Belt railroad, near East Ninth street, which last night cost the life of one man. brought severe injuries to another and necessitated the destruction of eight cattle mangled in the wreckage. The man killed was Merrit H. Gritton, 55. of 57 North Tremont avenue, engineer of an inbound Baltimore & Ohio railroad train, caught between his engine and the tender as he attempted to leap to safety. Gritton, for whom funeral services will be held at 10 Saturday at his home, with burial in Washington Park, died a hero. When he saw that the crash was inevitable, he shouted to his fireman. David Sprankle. 46. Mooresville. the injured man. to leap tc safety. Then, the engineer stayed at his controls long enough to cut off the steam and to apply the brakes before he sought safety for httiself in jumping. Mr. Sprankle was cut above the left eye and his hip was injured. At St. Vincent's hospital today, it was said that his condition was not serious.

60 PER CENT MARK PASSED IN FUME Contributions So Far Total $438,864.19, Collectors Are Advised. Community Fund workers at noon today reported the collection of $55,466. This brings the total to $494,330, or 68 per cent of the goal. More than 60 per cent of the fifteenth Indianapolis Community Fund had been subscribed when volunteer workers prepared to submit additional pledges at today's report meeting. The subscriptions were swelled to $438,864.19 yesterday when $114,148.47 in pledges were reported by Arthur V. Brown, general chairman. Encouraged by Mr. Brown’s statement that pledges to date exceed by $125,000 the total reported at last year’s third assembly of canvassers, workers were told that increased giving by employes of factories, stores and other business houses has marked this year’s efforts. Newspapers Are Lauded Mr. Brown attributed much of the success of this year’s canvass to the co-operation of Indianapolis newspapers. Pledges obtained by the employes’ division yesterday included: Frest-O-Lite Storage Battery Company, $2,265.72; National Malleable and Steel Castings Company, $2,844.21; Linde Air Products, $2,503.50; Star Store, $506; Pearson Piano Company, Inc., $220.45; Grain Dealers Mutual Fire Insurance Company, $1,283.10; Sanborn Electric Company, $56; Central States Envelope Company, $567.80. Other employe pledges reported are: Keyless Lock Company, $173.50; E. C. Atkins & Cos., $870; Kramer Corporation, $39; Indiana National Bank, $554; Barnes-Ross Company, $41.50; Henry Coburn Company, $23.75. Teachers’ Donations At yesterday’s meeting it was announced that Indianapolis school teachers have contributed $8,305. This sum will be increased when the final report is made, it was said. Among larger gifts reported by the special gifts division was the pledge of H. P. Wasson & Cos. of SIO,OOO the Indianapolis Water Company contribution of SIO,OOO. Schwitzer-Cummins Company gave SI,OOO. Other large pledges are: Arthur V. Brown, $5,000; Belt Railroad and Stock Yards Company, $3,000; S. E. Rauh, $1,200; Diamond Chain and Manufacturing Company, $2,400; Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Efroymson. $4,000; Union Trust Company. $3,000; Van Camp Hardware and Iron Company, $3,000; Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. West, SI,OOO, and Mr. and Mrs. William A Zumpfe, $2,000. Corporation Donors National corporations included in j the list of contributions are: S. S. Kresge <te Cos., $600; P. R. Mallory Company, $500; National Malleable Iron and Steel Castings Company, $750; Prest-O-Lite Storage and Battery Corporation. SSOO. and Sears. Roebuck & Cos.. $1,500. Other gifts reported by the employes division are: Brandt Bros. Sc iCo., $37.50 Oval Sc Koster. 527; J. I. Case, $22.50; Indianapolis ; Times, $92.50; Benham Sc Mundy. $24.50; Fletcher Avenue Savings Company, S2O; Weber Milk Company. $100; Banquet Ice Cream Company, $39. Pittman-Moore Company, $247; P. R. Mallory & Cos . $481.10; Refrigi eration Equipment Corporation, $53; Lyman Bros., Inc., S2O; Lath-rop-Moyer, Inc., $43.50; Charles Mayer Sc Cos., $83.25.

Mr. Gritton's train, pulled by a light switching engine, was in collision with a Big Four freight, pulled by an engine twice as large as that or. the B. &O. train. The Big Four was bound through the Bnghtwood yards for Cleveland, 0., from St. Louis. Mo. The B. & O. engine was pulling only a few cars in a routine switching operation. The two trains met about 250 feet south of East Ninth street. The Big Four train was traveling approximately four miles an hour, the B & 0.. about twenty. Responsibility for the wreck was shouldered by Daniel Landrigan. 35, of 737 Biltmore avenue, a reserve telephone operator in the Panhandle junction tower. Belt railroad and East Washington street, in a statement which he gave to detectives, they said in their report. Mr. Landrigan is quoted by police as saying that he neglected to close a crossover switch and, thus, started the Big Four train easibound down the main westbound track. When he realized his error, police say. he attempted to stop the B. & O. train by calling the tower at East

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Trapped in the cab of a film transit truck, which was in collision with a car north of Indianapolis last night, Edward Eviston, 30, of 620 Fletcher avenue, was burned to death. DRIVER DIES IN TRUCK DLAZE Film Vehicle Catches Fire Following Crash on Road 31. Funeral arrangements have not been completed for Edward Eviston, 30, of 620 Fletcher avenue, driver for the Bradford Film Transit Company, burned to death in his truck when it collided with a passenger car on U. S. Road 31 last night. Burial will be in Tipton, Ind. Two other men were injured in the crash which caused the fire in which both cars were destroyed. They were R. J. Brown, Ft. Wayne, manager for the Chevrolet Motor Company, driver of the passenger vehicle, and Clarence Carpenter, Kokomo, who had flagged Mr. Brown tc get gasoline for his stalled car. Mr. Brown was talking to Mr. Carpenter when the accident occured. Mr. Brown was taken to Tipton emergency hospital suffering from burns on the hands and face. Mr. Carpenter was treated for an arm fracture.

O’NEILL RIVALS LISTED FOR ’34 NOBEL PRIZE D'Annunzio and Chesterton Are Among Those Mentioned By United Press STOCKHOLM, Nov. I.—Rumors that named Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, as posible winner of the 1934 Nobel prize in literature, were broadened today to include: Gabriele D’Annunzio, Italian poet. G. K. Chesterton. English novelist. Paul Valery, of France, poet and essayist. Andre Gide. of France, novelist, poet and essayist. Jose Ortego Y Gasset, Spain, critic and philosopher. JURY DISAGREES IN FOX EXTORTION CASE Suspect Is Returned to Jail to Aw’ait New Trial. By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. I.—His “Lindbergh law’ ’trial ended by a jury disagreement. Maurice Monnier, Hewlett, N. Y., chauffuer, charged kith sending an extortion letter to Mrs. Wiliam Fox. wife of the former motion picture producer, awaited in jail under $20,000 bail today for a new' trial set tentatively for Nov. 7. The jury reported disagreemnt last night after deliberating eleven and a half hours and was discharged by Federal Judge Clarance G. Galston. FORMER RESIDENT DIES Man Believed Maxwell Wright Drops Dead in Bloomington. ■ < 7 imes Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. Nov. I. A man tentatively identified as Maxwell Wright, 45. former Indianapolis resident, fell dead of heart disease in a physiciarv's office here today. Papers on the mans possessions were addressed to Maxwell Wright.

Thirteenth street, but was unsuccessful. Police conducted an intensive investigation at the scene last night, co-operating with railroad detectives and Deputy Coroner E. R. Wilson. It Coroner Arbuckle and Dr. Wilson find a possibility of criminal negligence in their investigation, the police homicide squad will swing into action at once, it was said at headquarters today. There seemed to be a very definite feeling toward Mr. Landrigan in official circles, however. The injured cattle were in the first of a number of cattle cars on the Big Four train. The car was derailed and splintered. City detectives shot seven of the injured animals; a railroad detective shot another. All through the night, and until after sunrise today, railroad detectives were chasing more than thirty other animals, freed by the crash, through east side streets. The wreckage was cleared away completely by S this morning. Rathal R. Burton, 54, of 261 North Pershing avenue, was the conductor in charge of the B. & O. train. Alonzo C. Hubbard, 54, of 1105 North La Salle street, was conductor in

MELVIN PURVIS, ACE MANHUNTER OF FEDERAL AGENTS, MAY JOIN IN PROBE OF DILLINGER JAIL BREAK

300,000 Rioting Merrymakers Wreck World’s Fair, Toss Benches Cops Into Lagoon, Hurl Bottles From Skyride

By United Press Chicago, Nov. i.— Rioting Halloween merrymakers wrecked large areas of the $55.000.000 World's Fair in its closing hours early today, tearing buildings apart, trampling elaborate gardens, throwing hundreds of benches and chairs into lagoons and tossing police in behind them. The mob, 300,000 strong at midnight, took complete possession of eighty-three miles of streets and concessions, drank everything in sight except Lake Michigan, and snatched everything movable as souvenirs. Men, women and children fainted in the crush along the Street of Villages, where barkers abandoned their posts to aid guards in keeping the crowd outside their gates. Police were called to quell dozens of fist fights and tw'o ambulances of the exposition’s emergency hospital screamed their way continually across the packed grounds. Harried fair officials said they would be unable to determine complete attendance figures until late today. Plans to close the gates at midnight were abandoned after a screaming mob had battered through 200 police reserves and demolished a section of fence. Busses, taxicabs, street cars and private automobiles still were piouring thousands into the grounds at 3 a. m. The year’s sixteen-milliontn visitor passed the Twelfth street turnstiles yesterday afternoon, bringing attendance for 1933 and 1934 to 38,565,859. Attendance for the day was estimated unofficially at 400,000. nan THE scene along the island Midway, on the lagoon bridges and in the amusement villages was like a New Year’s eve at its worst—or best. A hilariously screaming fat man, decked with a red-checked tablecloth from some pi.’fered case, held fair police at bay lor many minutes from a perch atop the hood of a $3,000 automobile in one of the exhibits. “Come and get me,” he yelled, whirling a souvenir cane in threatening circles. “Come and get me and we’ll go together.” The watching crowd cheered for him while he held his fort, and then yelled equally for the police PEACE THOUGHT NEAR IN A. & P. DISPUTE Union Leaders and Conciliators of U. S. Optimistic. By United Press CLEVELAND. Nov. 1. Union leaders and federal labor conciliators were optimistic today that a truce agreement to end the warfare between the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company and organized labor here would be approved by both the company and the unions. A. L. Faulkner, United States department of labor conciliator, said the situation “looks very good.”

Citizens Urged to Vote Early by Election Board * Last-Minute Instructions Are Given to Electorate; Warning Sounded Against Illegalities. Marion county voters today were urged by the board of election commissioners to cast their ballots early Tuesday to expedite the election and insure themselves opportunity of voting before the polls are closed. All equipment, places and means for voting have been provided by the board according to law, and they ask voters to bear certain facts

in mind. 1, No one can vote unless he is registered.

charge of the Big Four train, none o r the crew of which was injured. Frank Webster. 65. of 3861 East Thirty-first street, was the Big Four engineer; George Meeker, 46, of 3706 Roosevelt avenue, his fireman It was Mr. Webster who gave police the approximate speed of the trains. Mr. Webster said he was watching for a switch light to show up around a slight curve near the scene ■of the accident when he saw the headlight of the B. & O. train bearing down on him. Even at that time, however, he believed the train to be on the next track, where it belonged, he said, adding that it was not until the trains were only a few feet apart that he realized ; they were on the same track. Mr. Gritton is survived by his ! widow. Mrs. Ida Gritton; a daughter, Miss Gladys Gritton; a brother, Charles Gritton, Mercer county, Kentucky, where the engineer was bom, and a sister, Mrs. Nannie Lewis, Tangier, Ind. The engineer had lived here eight years, coming to Indianapolis from Montezuma, Ind. He was a member of Montezuma lodge. No. 89 Free and Accepted Masons.

when he slipped, fell with waving arms and legs, and was captured. The $500,000 horticultural building was almost denuded of rare plants by thrifty housewives who took home S2OO plants for their 50 cent admission souvenirs. Some 300 persons, led by a group of revelers masked as witches, littered the Italian village with wreckage when informed that Sally Rand would not appear in

ADSTRALIANS TO RESUME FLIGHT Kingsford-Smith, Taylor to Leave Honolulu Today for California. By United Press HONOLULU, T. H„ Nov. I.—Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith’s monoplane, “Lady Southern Cross” was poised at Wheeler Field for a takeoff at noon today (4:30 p. m. Indianapolis time) ior Oakland. Cal., and completion of the first west-to-east over-water flight from Australia to the United States. Clearing weather permitted the Australian flier to move up one day the time for attempting the last leg of a 7,200-mile flight. If all goes well on the 2,400-mile lap just ahead. Sir Charles and Captain P. G. Taylor, his navigator, should be in Oakland for a tremendous civic reception within eighteen hours after their departure from Honolulu, where they landed Monday after flying 3,100 miles from Naselai Beach, Fiji Islands. ‘‘•The motor which carried the Lockheed-Altair low wing plane across the equator to the Hawaiian islands in slightly more than twenty-four hours has been tuned carefully for the final leg. The radio apparatus with which Sir Charles kept in constant touch with ships at sea and stations on shore has' been tested. The equipment may be augmented by installation of equipment for receiving radio directional beams. The fliers anticipate meeting thick fogs as they approach the California coast and they need the beam equipment to guide them. In selecting Oakland as a landing place Sir Charles is returning to the field from which he lifted “the Southern Cross” in 1928 on the start of his successful east-to-west crossing. Flier Derailed; 4 Injured By United Press SPENCER. la.. Nov. 1. The Sioux, fast westbound flier of the Milwaukee road, was derailed here today. Four persons, all members of the train crew, were injured, none seriously.

— 2. Vote early; for, if the vote is heavy, you may not be able to get inside the polling booth before clos- , mg. 3. Do not try to vote unless you | are registered. It is a serious criminal offense to vote illegally. If you i are registered and the precinct records do not show it, do not argue, but come immediately to the circuit court clerk’s office at the courthouse and verify your registration frorfi the master records. 4. When you go to the polls you must give your name to the challengers outside the voting booth and then go into the voting room, where you will give your name and sign it on the voters’ poll list before going to the voting machine. You are allowed one minute in the voting machine booth. When you leave it. if you live in Indianapolis, you will be given two ballots, one for the school board and one for the township officers. These ballots must be voted in two minutes, or less, and deposited, folded, in the ballot boxes. Voting machines in Indianapolis will have state, county and city candidates. Outside the city they will bear state, county and township candidates. Both clerks' initials must appear, on paper ballots. 5. To be a qualified voter, you must have registered; lived in the state the last six months; in the precinct thirty days, and be a United States citizen not disfranchised on election day. If you have moved since registering, or since transferring your registration from the precinct, you can not vote: but if you have moved only in the precinct since registering, sou may jote, _

Enfrrerl a* Serond-Claas Matter at Postoffice. Indianapolis, Ind.

her bubble dance. Dancers and models in peep shows at the Streets of Paris fled and refused to appear after audiences repeatedly had torn down nettings and screens erected by the censors. Elevstors to the skyride observation tower, sixty-four stories hif£h, were halted when empty bottles began to shower the pavement below.

PLAY CRITICS ‘SCUM,’ SAYS ELMER RICE IN RETIREMENT SPEECH

By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. I.—Elmer Rice, Pulitzer prize winning dramatist, announced his retirement today with a scathing arraignment of dramatic critics, whom he called “scum of the earth.” “There is not a dramatic critic who knows anything about the problems of acting and directing,” Mr. Rice said. “You can call them all ticket grabbers. That’s what they are, ticket grabbers.” From generalizations, the embittered playwright became more specific. One New York critic, he said, w’as a “senile drunkard.” Another “A professional key hole peeper.” And still another “A degenerate.” Mr. Rice, author of “Street Scene,” “Counsellor-at-Law’” and others—spoke to a lecture group at Columbia university.

AIR MAIL TO EUROPE PROPOSED BT 0. S. Hugo Eckener Is Asked to .Submit Proposal. (Copyright. 1934. by United Pressl WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. The postoffice department has entered informal negotiations with Commodore Hugo Eckener for experimental trans-Atlantic airmail service beginning next July, the United Press learned today. Commodore Eckener, whose Graf Zeppelin has made many successful flights from the north African coast to Pernambuco, Brazil, has been called upon by Harllee Branch, second assistant postmaster-gener-al, to furnish in writing a proposition to carry mail by air to Europe next summer. During his conversation with Mr. Branch, Mr. Eckener said that it would be possible to fly mail to Europe by Zeppelin in approximately forty-eight hours, about three days less than required by fastest mail vessels. ginger rogers7o be BRIDE OF LEW AYERS Couple to Be Married in Hollywood About Nov. 10. II y United Press HOLLYWOOD, Nov. I.—One of Hollywood's long budding romances was confirmed today when Ginger Rogers and Lew Ayres admitted they are engaged. On their first free week-end from their studios, probably Nov. 10, they will be married, friends were told when Ginger returned from New York, where she collected her trousseau. The wedding is expected to be a quiet affair. The bride-to-be, whose real name is Virginia, was accompanied on her shopping expedition by her mother, Mrs. Lela P. Rogers. EMPLOYE HONORED BY INSURANCE COMPANY Ottis M. Sari Given Watch by Grain Dealers’ Organization. Ottis M. Earl, 5401 Kenwood avenue, mill and elevator department manager of the Grain Dealers National Mutual Fire Insurance Company. 1740 North Meridian street, has been granted the company's award for notable achievement, it was announced today. Mr. Earl was presented with a suitably inscribed testimonial watch at ceremonies in his honor yesterday. The watch was presented by J. J. Fitzgerald, 4832 Graceland avenue. company secretary-treasurer, after a vote by the board of directors. Mr. Earl has been with the company fifteen years. HIGHER WAGES URGED BY LABOR SECRETARY Purchasing Power of Lower Incomes Must Gain, She Says. By Unit'd Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. I. Purchasing power of persons in j the lower income groups must be : built up so that consumpton will , equal production, Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, believes. Mrs. Perkins spoke here last night in tiie first oX a local lecture series.

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U. S. Enters Case as Barce .Continues Grilling 8 Captives Here. BARRICADED IN HOTEL Life Threatened in Lake County, State Official Claims. Melvin Purvis, ace manhunter of the department of justice’s division of investigation, may enter the investigation into John Dillinger’s escape from the Lake county jail, Crown Point, the government announced this afternoon. James R. Fleming, United States district attorney for northern Indiana, also will work on the case. Mr. Fleming has received instructions from AttorneyGeneral Homer S. Cummings, Washington, to launch an immediate investigation of the famous break. Here because of threats against his life in northern Indiana, J. Edward Barce, assistant attorney-general, this afternoon had turned the Lockerbie into a feudal castle and was continuing there ht3 “quiet questioning” of the eight “witnesses” whom he spirited from their Lake county homes Tuesday. Thus, more than forty-eight hours after its sensational beginnings, the investigation into John Dillinger’s notorious “wooden gun’’ escape from the Lake county jail, Crown Point, was continued here after an interval in Monticello, ended abruptly in the pre-dawn cold of yesterday when reporters and attorneys located Mr. Barce there. It was Governor Paul V. McNutt, to whom Mr. Barce is said to be directly responsible in his conduct of the Crown Point investigation, who revealed that Mr. Barce had transferred his activities here, transferring his witnesses at the same time, because of threats against his life. “Besides,” the Governor added, "it is easier to question the witnesses here without interruption. U. S. Agents Interested Governor McNutt, who, until today, has remained markedly silent on the remarkable manner in w’hich Mr. Barce is conducting his inquiry, also confirmed a report federal agpnts were interested in the case. Phone calls to Waukegan, 111., where the federal authorities were supposed to be holding a man with full knowledge of the escape, however, brought a flat denial that any such prisoner was being held there for the government. “It may be Lake county, Indiana,” said a puzzled attache of the sheriff's office, unconsciously ironic. Mr. Barce’s presence at the Lockerbie was established definitely by The Indianapolis Times despite denials by the hotel management that he, his small army of state police assistants and his eight “captives’* were there and despite protestations at the statehouse that no one knew exactly where Mr. Barce was. Deputy Sheriff on Hand Shortly before noon, Ralph Hitch, Marion county chief deputy sheriff, arrived at the Lockerbie. This was believed to indicate arrangements were being made to lodge prisoners in the Marion county jail or that the sheriff's office here had been given legal papers to serve on Mr. Barce and his investigating assistants. Mr. Hitch, however, protested to newspaper men that he merely had “dropped in” at the Lockerbie. Others who “dropped in” found the hotel in almost a state of siege. No one was allowed to enter an elevator who did not have a key to a Lockerbie room. Reporters were massed in the lobby and outside the rear entrance, fearful Mr. Baice might “pull a sneak” as he had done at Monticello. Indignation Mounting Meanwhile, there still was no word as to what progress, if any, Mr. Barce had made in his investigation into the jail break through his questioning of the “witnesses,” who now have been under detention i for more than forty-eight hours with no charges placed against ; them. Indignation at this detention was mounting steadily in Lake county | and, presenting potential political danger to the McNutt administra- : tion, was being fomented by Re- ! publican leaders. Relatives of the six men and two [ women involved were searching here land, not quite sure that the “prisi oners” were here, also in the Calumet region.