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SMITH UNABLE TO APPEAR AT GAS QUIZ HERE Legislative Committee Adjourns for Indefinite Period After Detroit Official Is Forced to Cancel His Trip. ATTORNEY’S NAME GIVEN PROBERS Chicagoan Can Give Testimony About ‘Gigantic Monopoly,’ Is Assertion of Michigan Executive in Letter. The legislative gas probe committee today received a letter from John W. Smith, Detroit City Council president, stating he could not appear before it because his presence was required in his own city’s investigation of Columbia Gas and Electric Corp. At the same time, Mr. Smith asked the committee to invite Gilbert F. Wagner, Chicago, attorney for the objecting stockholders in the suit pending in Wilmington, Del., to put the Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Cos. into receivership. Mr. Smith said Attorney Wagner could supply the committee with the information that, he said, showed a “gigantic monopoly is being plotted by large pipe line owners who in-

tend to form a monopoly, charge monopolistic prices and set one city against another in the matter of rates.” Mr. Smith was to have appeared today before the committee to offer that testimony, and the committee had agreed to meet at his convenience. Committee Takes Recess The committee, having no scheduled witnesses now. recessed for an indefinite period to decide on its next step. It had before it to consider while it recessed several new and apparently unrelated developments in the natural gas business in the area. Pipe line companies are not now tinder regulation of either the Interstate Commerce Commission or the Indiana Public Service Commisison. It was suggested by some legislators that the bill might be an attempt to throw the whole situation back into the courts and further hold up the proposal of the city to buy the property of the Citizens Gas Cos. and operate it. Meanwhile, The Indianapolis Times obtained over the week-end Irom J. H. Hillman Jr.. Pittsburgh banker and capitalist, a statement, that his companies or interests were in no way linked with the Users Gas Cos. Giv*an Makes Statement Clinton H. Givan, Users attorney. Saturday told The Times that his company could, among other things, get natural gas from pipe lines extending to fields in Texas and Oklahoma, Kentucky or West Virginia. Mr. Hillman said he and his associates own the Kentucky Natural Gas pipe line, whose northern terminus is Terre Haute. He said this is the only pipe line company existing and operating that could bring gas into Indiana from Kentucky fields. Moreover. Mr. Hillman said he was interested in Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., and that it would not furnish Users with natural gas. Columbia Gas & Electric and Us subsidiaries he said, own the only pipe lines existing and operating that could bring natural gas to Indiana from either the West Virginia fields or the Southwestern fields. The Panhandle Eastern, built in 1930 and 1931 at a cost of $50,000,000. is the only existing and operating pipe line extending to Oklahoma and Texas fields, he said. It and the Kentucky line were originally subsidiaries' of the Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Cos., but were taken over by Hr. Hillman and the Columbia, according to Frank Parish. MissouriKansas president. Columbia owns the main pipe line extending to the West Virginia fields he said. Also, over the week-end. the purchase of the Indiana Southwestern Gas Corp. by an Indiana syndicate was announced by Raymond D. Drown of Indianapolis. Gas and Oil leases, wells, operating equipment and many miles of pipe lines, of a value estimated at $1,500,000 were involved in the sale. Dyer Among Directors The company supplies natural gas distributed by public utility companies serving Vincennes. Washington. Evansville. Oakland City, Francisco. Wheatland. Monroe City, Bicknell. Princeton and other southwestern Indiana cities. Mr. Brown is president of the new firm. Andrew M. Hatfield, who will move to Vincennes from New York shortly, is vice president and treasurer: and D. L. Rinehart, Indianapolis, is secretary. On the board of directors are Frank E. McKinney. president of the Fidelity Trust Cos. and county treasurer-elect, and State Rep. John Napier Dyer (D.. Vincennes). A well-founded rumor was current this morning as the Legislature reconvened that a bill would be introduced. perhaps today, that would classify natural gas pipe lines as common carriers and a public utility and hence, bring them under the supervision of the Indiana Public Service Commission. Backers of the bill were not identified. and it became, so far as the probe was concerned, anew and unfitted piece in the entire jig-saw puzzle with which the Legislature is struggling. I

The Indianapolis Times Cloudy and probably unsettled tonight and tomorrow'; lowest temperature tonight about 30; slightly warmer tomorrow.

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CLEARS PUZZLE ON PREFIXING Hoke Says Independents’ Asked Governor Be Given Power. With the disclosure that “independent dealers” had caused the price-fixing clause to be inserted in the state NRA biil now pending before the House of Representatives, Rrp. J. Napier Dyer (D., Vincennes), author of the original bill took steps today to limit the price-fixing powers of Gov. Paul V. McNutt to "loss leaders.” Democratic members of the house were scheduled to hold a secret caucus on the measure at 3 this afternoon at a downtown hotel. Fred Hoke, National Emergency Council director for Indiana, today exonerated Gov. McNutt from responsibility for the price-fixing section. Mr. Hoke declared the section was brought to the committee by a group of “independent dealers” who told the committee that the Governor favored the proposal. Rep. Dyer was prepared to offer drastic further amendments to the changes submitted Friday. Saturday he declared the measure would be limited to restrict "loss leaders,” and the printed bill, as it was presented to the House this morning, defined “loss leaders” as “any article of merchandise, not damaged or depreciated, which is sold at less than the combined commodity and marketing costs thereof, or any service which is sold at less than the combined labor and other costs involved in performing or supplying such service.” The further amendments failed, however, to remove the opposition which has been growing against price-fixing powers. A number of Democratic members are opposed. Meanwhile Republicans met in caucus to organize their opposition to any state NRA act. Prof. Hugo Junkers Dead BERLIN, Feb. 4.—Prof. Hugo Junkers, one of the world's foremost airplane constructors, died at Munich Saturday, a News Agency dispatch saTd today. He would have been 76 yesterday.

City Pinochle Champion Is Sought in Times Tourney Local Title Holder to Win S3OO and Chance at SIOOO and National Honors: P. Hal Sims in Charge. Who is the pinochle champion of the United States? Pinocle enthusiasts soon will know. The Indianapolis Times will conduct a free city championship tournament under the general direction of P. Hal Sims, foremost authority on contract bridge, pinochle and ether card games, and author of many books on bridge, assisted by Fritz A. Schneider, oeginning Feb. 18 at the Columbia Club, to choose a city champion who in turn will play for the national championship at the Wal- | 1

dorf-Astoria, New York. The winner of the Indianapolis tournament will not only win a cash prize oi S3OO. but will represent Indianapolis at the national tournament with SIOOO as the grand prize. Expenses including railroad fare and hotel accommodations to and from New ifork will be paid. While in New York, he will be the guest of The Indianapolis Times at the Waldorf-Astoria. Besides the first prize of S3OO for local competition The Times will award second and third prizes of SIOO each lor the next 50 highest scores during the play The Times will present an autographed copy of the popular book “Pinochle Pointers’’ by P. Hal Sims. This book has just come from the press and is a “first edition." written by Mr. Sims in response to the demand of card players for a complete book on pinochle that really tells how to play the game that is now pushing bridge in popularity. The Indianapolis champion will!

Fay Webb’s Suit Heard Privately; Spicy Details Denied Rudy’s Admirers

Hu United Press New YORK. Feb. 4 —ln an attempt to effect a reconcilation or an amicable settlement out of court, Supreme Court Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo today adjourned to his chambers the scheduled trial of Fay Webb Vallee's suit for separation and increased alimony against Rudy Vallee, crooner. The orchestra leader, his wife and their attorneys went to the jurist's office while a steadily increasing audience, avid for the spicy details of the short-lived romance, had their hopes dashed when Justice Cotillo ordered the courtroom cleared. “We will have no hippodrome here,” he ruled. Several hundred persons, including hoards of giggling girls, sadly trouped out into the corridors. ‘‘l want to tell Mr. and Mrs. Vallee how I feel about it,” said Justice Cotillo, “and if they still want their day in court that’s what they’re here for.” a a a AS the jurist led the way, Rudy, who had been ostentatiously reading a weekly news magazine, stood up, adjusted the white handkerchief in the lapel of his dark blue suit, and went out with scarcely a glance at his sloeeyed, mink-muffled wife who was sniffling with a slight cold. Thomas I. Sheridan of counsel for Mrs. Vallee attempted to keep her from the conference on the grounds she was too nervous, but Justice Cotillo ordered both principals to attend. Mrs. Vallee, in sober black, set off by a gold chain and gold earrings, marched into the conference reassured by seven attorneys. Rudy, who is resisting the former film actress’ attempt to set aside their SIOO a week separation agreement, had only two lawyers. ’ At the witness table sat C. E. Webb, father of Mrs. Vallee and chief of police of Santa Monica, • Cal. He has stood by his daughter since her first allegation that she was persuaded to sign the SIOO a week agreement by the crooner's protestations of poverty. She assesses his earnings—for the purposes of this fourteenth legal maneuver—at from $300,000 to $600,000 a year.

LINDBERGH 33 TODAY; DOESN’T MISS TRIAL Birthday Fails to Keep Flier From Hauptmann Hearing. By United Press FLEMINGTON, N. J., Feb. 4 Col. Charles A. Lindbergh celebrated the 33rd anniversary of his birth today in the courtroom where Bruno Richard Hauptmann is on trial for the murder of the flier’s infant son. He occupied his usual seat in the courtroom, behind the prosecution table, and flanked by his two companions. Col. Henry Breckenridge and Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, state police head. HIGH COURT UPHOLDS M'CRACKEN JAIL TERM Supports Senate Action in Airmail Investigation. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—The 10day jail sentence imposed on William P. MacCracken, former assistant secretary of commerce, for alleged contempt of the Senate’s airmail investigating committee, was approved this afternoon by the Supreme Court. WELLBAUM IS IMPROVED New York Telephone Cos. Official Now Takes Short Walks. George Wellbaum, former publicity director of the Indiana Bell Telephone Cos., has sufficiently recovered from his recent illness to take short walks near his home at 470 W. 24th-st, New York, friends here have learned in letters from Mr. Wellbaum.

be pitted against representatives from 16 other large cities, who have competed for honors in their own communities Besides Indianapolis the following cities will enter a local champion to compete for national honors: Chicago, New York. Philadelphia, Boston, Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, Baltimore, Washington. Detroit, Cleveland. St. Louis, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. The tournament will extend over a period of three weeks and during that time nine sessions will be held. The play will be individual, the game being two-handed. Play will be for games, instead of points, 1000 points constituting a game. There is no fee for entrants. The only requirement is that you sign the coupon on Page Nine and send it to the Pinochle Tournament Manager, The Indianapolis Times. Cards, rules and score sheets will also be provided without cost to contestants.

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Fay Webb . . . Sniffling Plaintiff

CHAPMAN CONFESSED SLAYING, JURY TOLD Prosecutor’s Aid Recalls Talk at Hospital. John Dugan, special prosecutor’s investigator, today told the court and jury trying Charles Chapman for Ihe murder of Mrs. Grace Lackey that Chapman admitted the killing to him when Chapman was recovering from self-inflicted wounds in City Hospital. Alhough Mr. Dugan said he had obtained a signed confession from Chapman, it was not offered in evidence by Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer. Mr. Dugan said Chapman had told him of the shooting, told him he wrote the note which was found, and which intimated a suicide pact, and told him he attempted to kill himself. The trial was adjourned abruptly late Friday when Deputy Sheriff Harry Cook testified that Chapman’s bullet-riddled hat, found at the scene of the shooting, had mysteriously disappeared. The *mystery ended today, however, when Mr. Cook produced the hat in court and told Special Judge Clyde Karrer that a trusty at the ja.l had been wearing it since early this year when Sheriff Otto Ray took office and ordered house cleaning at the jail. The hat was tossed into a trash barrel through an error, he said. OVERCAST SKIES HERE BRING HINT OF RAIN Wind Movement Practically at a Standstill, Airport Notes. With wind movement practically at a standstill over the entire Midwest, a twilight-like darkness settled on Indianapolis today. Municipal airport observers reported a wind velocity of only six miles an hour. J. H. Armington. meteorologist here, said that unsettled conditions were reported throughout the entire Ohio Valley and that Indianapolis might see light showers or snowfall later today.

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Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 28 10 a. m 29 7a. m 29 11 a. m 29 Ba. m 29 12 (Noon).. 30 9 a. m 28 1 p. m 32 Tomorrow's simrise, 6:50 a. m.; sunset, 5:09 p. m. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: North-northwest wind, 6 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.09 at sea level; temperature, 28: general conditions, overcast, dark to the East; ceiling, estimated at 1500 feet; visibility, 15 miles. Times Index Page Bridge 5 Broun 7 Comics 13 Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious World 13 Editorial 6 Financial 8 Hickman—Theaters 11 Piano Lesson 4 Pegler 7 Radio 14 Sports 10-11 State News 14 Woman's Pages 4-5

FISCH TOOK PACKAGE TO BRUNO’S HOME JUST BEFORE HE SAILED FOR EUROPE, HAUPTMANN’S FRIEND SAYS

CHU LM. mas CHECK Senator Beveridge’s Pioneer Efforts Recalled by City Executive. Ratification of the Fdereal Child Labor Amendment is the only effective means of stamping out interstate industrial practices inconsistent with the true welfare of the future citizens of America, Mayor John W. Kern said today. The effort to have Indiana become the twenty-fourth state to approve the amendment to the Constitution to oulaw child labor will come to a test vote tomorrow at 11:30 when the House of Representatives acts on a minority labor committee report. In addition to being a Democratic program measure sponsored by President Roosevelt, it is indorsed by Gov. Paul V. McNutt and the governors of 23 other states and is vigorously supported by organized labor, the American Legion, 24 national organizations and 25 other Indiana clubs. “Most Americans are opposed to child labor in industry,” Mayor Kern said, pointing out that most states, including Indiana, have leg# islation prohibiting it. “However, in view of the fact that industry is largely organized on a national scope,” the Mayor continued, “the factories in states not having such legislation have an advantage by reason of their ability to employ child labor at cheap wages in competition with factories not employing child labor and paying decent wages.” Mayor Kern, who is a former Marion County Superior Court judge, reviewed the Federal legislation that has been passed in an effort to outlaw such unfair competition. He .recalled that the late Senator Albert J. Beveridge had advocated legislation designed to regulate child labor. “It was recognized long ago, Mayor Kern pointed out, “that the regulation of child labor is a Federal problem and an act was passed by Congress prohibiting the transportation in interstate commerce of goods manufactured in factories employing child labor. , “This act was advocated by the late Senator Beveridge and finally passed Congress during the Wilson Administration and was held unconstitutional by a divided Supreme Court,” the Mayor declared. “I understand this proposed amendment is aimed at removing the constitutional difficulties raised by the majority of the court in that opinion. “I feel that the opinion of the (Turn to Page Three)

RIVER PROJECT WINS WORKS BOARD 0. K. 2000 to Be Given Jobs on Flood Relief. The Works Board today formally authorized the Federal Emergency Relief Administration flood prevention project along White River from the Kentucky-av. bridge to North-st. The board estimated that approximately 2000 men would be employed on the project when work reached its peak. The project, first news of which was published exclusively in The Indianapolis Times last week, plans to eliminate shanty dwellings in Hooverville and Curtisville along the river’s edge. Famed Jurist Is Dead Bn United Press ITHACA, N. Y„ Feb. 4.—Cuthbert Winfred Pound,' distinguished jurist and former chief judge of the New York State Court of Appeals, died yesterday following a stroke. He was 70.

Britain, France Agree to Aid Each Other Against Any Nation Starting War

By United Press LONDON, Feb. 4. Great Britain and France today offered to recognize German rearmament under proposals that would send the air forces of neighboring European nations against any nation that started a war. Three days of negotiations between the premiers and foreign ministers of the great World War allies were brought to an end with a communique which envisaged a complicated series of regional treaties whose authority would be the bombing airplanes of their signatories. The negotiators based their agreement on a Germany which, recognized as an equal for negotiatory purposes, would return to the League of Nations and participate in a general armaments treaty. Though on the surface the agreement was plain, it seemed to be subject to interpretations which might make it unsatisfactory to Britain, France or Germany—or to

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F<?rd Could Get Pension, House Told And He Could Squander It All, Says Townsend at Hearing. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—John D. Rockefeller or Henry Ford could qualify for the S2OO a month Townsend plan old-age pension and spend it all for whisky, if they wanted to, Dr. F. E. Townsend agreed today during questioning by the House Ways and Means Committee. The elderly country doctor appeared at a hearing on the Administration’s economic security bill shortly after a letter from E. E. Witte, Administration social insurance expert, was made public attacking the Townsend plan. Mr. Witte warned that if enacted it would close all stock exchanges and cost the Federal government $24,000,000,000 a year. Dr. Townsend, who had refused to answer questions last week on advice of physicians, calmly agreed to be questioned today, but admitted he was not an economist. “Would your plan apply to John D. Rockefeller, J. Pierpont Morgan and Henry Ford as well as paupers?” asked Rep. Samuel Hill (D., Wash.). “Yes, they would be eligible,” said Dr. Townsend, "but they would have to give up any salaried job they have so someone else could have work. “Only a few wealthy people of course would apply, but we can't make the plan discriminatory. We want to stimulate business of all kinds. Not only beans and bacon, but luxuries.” “Could they squander the S2OO a month? Mr. Hill asked. “Why not?” replied Townsend. “It’s immaterial what they do. They could buy whisky with it if they want to. We're not trying to regulate people's morals, but what we want to do is to get money into circulation.”

LEWIS FIRES NEW BLAST AT RICHBERG ‘Hypocrite,’ Says Miners’ Head of Recovery Boss. Bn United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.—President John L. Lewis, of the United Mine Workers, returned to his attack on Recovery Co-ordinator Donald R. Richberg today in the bitter fight which is arousing fears of spreading unrest along the in-r dustrial front. Mr. Lewis issued a rejoinder to Mr. Richberg who had defenfied President Roosevelt’s extension of the automobile code. The extension is under fire by labor leaders who claimed they were not consulted concerning the action. “In tearing the mask of hypocrisy from Richberg,” said Mr. Lewis, “labor is not attacking the President. It is merely revealing to the President the unworthy liaison for a trusted servant.” BAR ASSOCIATION BILL IS DEFEATED IN HOUSE Minority Report Opposing Change Is Adopted. The House of Representatives today defeated the Indiana Bar Association’s integrated bar bill, which provided for the licensing of attorneys through adoption of a minority report unfavorable to the bill. Rep. Guy D. Dausman (Rep., Goshen) led the floor attack on the bill and said it was designed to compel attorneys to become members of the state association. The administration’s biil providing for state regulation of nonprofit corporations, domestic and foreign, was passed by the House.

Italy—when the time came for backing it up. The agreement was of major importance if for no other reason than that it represented a joint offer of the two great allied powers to Germany. No sooner had the communique been issued at the end of the present talks than a British spokesman hastened to say that Britain had undertaken no new committments; that the agreement reached was merely intended to define, more precisely, the obligations which it assumed under the Locarno treaty. Commentators in Paris, on the other hand, at once took the view that if Germany attacked France, j British aerial support of France would necessarily involve the British army and navy. The British-French communique expressed willingness to give Germany the right—which it already has exercised—to rearm if it joined

Saw Furrier Bring Box to Defendant at Party, Hans Kloppenburg Testifies; Evidence of Two Other Witnesses Shaken. STORIES ARE DISCREDITED BY STATE Fingerprint Expert Caught in Maze of Contradictions and Next Man to Take Stand Alters His Evidence. By United Press FLEMINGTON, N. J., Feb. 4.—Hans Kloppenburg, compatriot and friend of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, testified today that he saw Isidor Fisch, carry a package into the Hauptmann home on Saturday night before Fisch sailed for Germany. It was the defense contention that the package contained what was left of the $50,000 ransom money passed over the fence of St. Raymond's Cemetery, and into the hands of the Bronx extortioner. Mr. Kloppenburg's story from the witness stand was designed to clear Hauptmann of charges that he collected the

EXCLUSIVE CLUB SLAYINGPROBED Bartender Victim Lived Far Beyond Income, Police Learn. By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 4.—Louis K. Straub, mysteriously slain bartender of the exclusive Saddle and Cycle Club, earned only $l6O a month although he lived in a state of luxury, a. coroner’s jury was told today. The murdered man’s mode, of living—more like that of the society notables to whom he served drinks than of a club menial—was described by his brother, Ernest, club manager. “I know he didn’t get more than $l6O a month, bceause I paid him,” the brother said. The slain man, who maintained a luxurious apartment and drove a good car, was killed early yetserday. His body, seven bullets in it, was 'found in a basement closet by his wife, Helen, and a night watchman. Full disclosures of Straub's phantom income were blocked when police and state’s attorneys refused to allow Deputy Coroner John Butler to place the testimony of the widow before the jury. The widow, former night club entertainer who amused herself by playing bridge with friends while her husband catered to the Gold Coast’s rich, has been held by police since discovery of the body. She has been subjected to hours of questioning in an effort to clear up discrepancies in her story. Morris Meyer, assistant state’s attorney said that clews indicating a deep-laid murder plot might be rendered valueless if Mrs. Straub testified. After an argument Mr. Butler consented to postpone the inquest until Saturday. VICTIM OF HOLDUP IN CRITICAL CONDITION Police Seek Bandit Who Shot Woman Grocery Operator. Mrs. Lenore Kerr, 61, operator of a grocery at Stop 6!6, Rockville-rd, remained today in a critical condition at City Hospital from a bullet wound in her breast, as deputy sheriffs were searching for her assailant, a masked thug who held up the store Saturday night. Mrs. Kerr fired three shots into the floor to frighten the hoodlum after he had scooped $2 from a cash drawer. The gunman fired twice, hitting Mrs. Kerr in the breast and wounding her husband, W. D. Kerr, 63, in the band.

the League of Nations and a general armaments treaty. It invited Germany, Italy, and Belgium to enter into an aerial mutual assistance treaty. Paris Is Exultant By United Press PARIS. Feb. 4. —Newspapers commented in exultant tone today on the British-French agreement at London, hinting of a belief that if France were attacked the promised aid of the British air force necessarily would include the British army and navy. So satisfactory did the newspapers find the agreement that they expressed doubt whether Germany could accept it. I.iey said, Germany at least would be forced to find an indirect way to refuse it because direct rejection would leave the Reich in the position of refusing to co-operate in an effort to consolidate peace.

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ransom money and, by inference, to place the guilt on Fisch. He swore that on the night when the state contends Hauptmann collected the ransom from Dr. J. F. Condon, he was at Hauptmann’s home and that the defendant wus there all evening. Then he related that, in December, 1933, Fisch attended another party at the Hauptmann- home, bringing with him a package about five inches by six inches by 14 inches. He immediately walked up to Hauptmann, Kloppenburg swore, and then both went into the kitchen. When they emerged, he said, Fisch did not have the package and Kloppenburg did not see it again all evening. Fisch sailed soon for Germany, where he later died. First W itness Tied Up Mr. Kloppenburg testified after the state had entangled Peter A. Sommer, a defense witness, in contradiction of his earlier story that he saw the “real” kidnapers fleeing with the babf. Another witness, Ben Lupica, undei subpena by the state but called by the defense, said he could not positively identify Hauptmann as a man he saw with a ladder near the scene of the crime, but that the defendant “strongly resembled” the man. Mr. Kloppenburg. inferentially, was one of the best witnesses the prisoner had. Although he was subjected to a rigid cross-examina-tion by Atty. Gen. David T. Wilentz, his story was not broken down materially. Under Wilentz’ questions, Lupica completely recanted a reported story that he definitely saw Hauptmann in the Lindbergh lane, and then told the court the man he saw “resembled Hauptman strongly.” Called as a defense witness, it was difficult to tell, after he finished, whether he had hurt or helped Hauptmann by his confusing stories, Lupica had not been called by the state, according to the prosecutor, because of confusion in his story. Originally, he had been quoted as saying he saw two men in the alleged kidnap car. Lately he had told police there was only one man in the car. Rival Attorneys Wrangle Sommer was confronted with his record as a alleged “professional witness,” but he stoutly denied ever changing his testimony “for a price.” Mr. Wilentz, smiling at the witness’ confusion, prodded him with one embarrassing question after another, and forced him to admit that he had worked for one side and testified for the other in the HallMills murder case. When he had Sommer in on® particularly embarrassing spot, Edward J. Reilly objected. “The attorney general is quoting newspaper headlines,” he said. “It comes with poor grace from Mr. Reilly,” Mr. Wilentz said, “to talk about newspaper headlines.”

7 ACCUSED BY STATE IN ALCOHOL DEATHS Woman Among Suspects; Three Face Murder Charges. By Unit) and Press UTICA, N. Y., Feb. 4 Six men and a woman were accused today of manufacturing the poisonous liquor that caused 32 deaths in central New York. Authorities sought Salvatore Di Bendetto and his sons, Philip and Michael, all three named in warrants charging first-degree murder. The others were Joseph Pape, Joseph Enea, Mrs. Rose Calabrese and Jack Callahan, all charged with firstdegree manslaughter. Public Safety Commisisoner Arthur W. Pickard said Di Benedetto had purchased quantities of radiator alcohol at a local gasoline station, subjected it to a purifying process which did not work. This alcohol was made into whisky and sold to Mrs. Calabrese, he said. Mrs. Calabrese was accused of retailing it to a man named Campbell and other speakeasy proprietors.