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M. HAMMOND, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1934. OFF TH1 Blnl ll THE FEW Pot EY ME MY YfcAR Did JTEWART beds and bedding for a family in which all are sleeping on the floor. She'd also like a baby carriage so a mother can haul her babe to the clinio these hot days. Phone 6636.

Highlights In Crisis Today In Europe TRUSTEES GET SEED FOR THE LATE GARDENS HOPE FOR EARLY SETTLEMENT OF STRIKE 'WOMAN IN RED' DESCRIBES HOW I0HN WAS SHOT SUCCESS OF POLICE CAMPAIGN 65 Out of 172 Arrests in June for Motor Law Offenses. FAMILY OF DILLINGER ALONE TODAY Man Offers Father $10,000 for Body of His Son; Is Refused RECEIVES ILOODQF ANSWERS You Hear That MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM HOFF-man and son, Billy, are in Detroit tor the balance of the week. IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN DOWN shopping yet today, remember the stores are open until 9:00 tonight.

LEO BESOZZL OF THE CITY engineer's office. Is rated as one of the most courteous telephone men in the establishment. BILL, HASSE AND WILL Schloer have returned home crowing about the fish they caught during their sojourn at Hayward, Wis. MRS. MARIE IRENE BOWMAN.

31. of 11 26 State street, died at her home today following a six years' illness. DR. ROBERT GILLIS IS A FIRM believer in Hammond Day sales. He almost emptied his purse before noon today making real buys.

CITY ENGINEER FRANK Blocker reports that the Little Calumet river will require two more months to dredge and landscape properly. MANY HAMMONDITES WERE spotted enjoying the cool breezes at Chicago's south side beaches last night. JIM HACKENBURG. ARDENT Calumet City fisherman, claims the water is -very low in the Kankakee and that fishing there Is poor. ANN O'CONNOR.

OF THE F. E. R. A Is so busy making out re ports to the federal government that ehe haa no time to think about the heat. WHILE CARPENTER ED.

SMITH was repairing Joe Jerseck's porch, he was utterly routed by a swarm of bees that had made their home in one of the columns. FRED ROBENHORST. WHO AT- tends more meetings every week than does any other man tn Hammond, maintained his record even during the heat wave. FRED VOLCOUN, OF HAMMOND. has it all figured out that the big mosquitoes push the little ones through the screen and later the little tikes divide the spoils.

ERNEST NOCK. THE CARPEN- ter, went huckleberry hiking In the dunes yesterday but got lost. Anxious friends finally found him 300 yards from camp. BARRETT O'HARA, CHICAGO lawyer heard many times over sta tion WCFL, will be main speaker at the Oil Workers union picnic Sunday at Douglas park. "CHUCK ROHDE AND GEORGE S.

Clemens are in the market for a housekeeper since their wives are leaving for a visit with friends in Grand Rapids, Mich. FRANK DREMONAS, HAMMOND High school football player, is doing heavy work this summer preparing for the opening of the grid season. Frank is working on a moving van. JOHN LIET2AN, GENIAL TAV- ern operator in Calumet City, pushes the scales past the 220-Vound mark now as compared with only 160 pounds a few years ago. DENTIST EARL S.

QUINN STILL insists that the Cubs will walk off with the National league pennant. He says his hunch will not be downed. P. J. DIVER.

OF THE GAS COM- pany, has returned to Hammond permanently. He worked out of the Indianapolis office for several months. THE ELEVATOR BOYS IN THE First Trust building proved they could take it when they wore their hot Jackets throughout the heat wave. GEORGE BATES. CALUMET City's leading Ike Walton, cannot find any sentimental descriptive words for, the new moon these nights, because the fish do not bite when the moon is full.

NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS ARE heard about the way the bicycles flit around the streets at night with no lights front or back. So far no rider has been killed but these are many close shaves. BACK HOME FROM A 8.000- mile trip through nine states, Dick Hoyt says that it gave him some satisfaction to find people com plaining about slack business in every town he visited. "It showed It wasn't limited to the Calumet re gion," he said. GENEVIEVE ZAROWNY.

NORTH side miss, has left for Long Island, N. to visit her school chum. Miss Helen Cukierski. MRS. WILLIAM NEWTON OF the Calumet City Civic association wants someone to donate some now have work, relieving him of the burden of supportinr them; so that he is better off, though he is earning no more and the prices he has to pay are higher.

Qualifications of this sort are so numerous that, out of'my 1,037 answers, there are 191 which stump me I can't determine whether they consider themselves better or worse off, or Just where they were a year ago. The fact remains that the vast majority say they are no better off, or worse. The net answer to the initial presidential query is "No" emphatically. It concentrated attention on. what I would say must be, from the White House tenant's standpoint, a highly unsatisfactory rejoinder to the executive interrogatory.

All of which just skims the sur face of replies to the presidential FINAL DETAILS FOR THE R. F. C. loan with which Receiver Harry Folk proposes to pay another 5 per cent dividend to of the First Trust and Savings bank, should be completed within a few days. THEY BURIED JOHN DILLING-er.

yesterday but his namesake, the machine gun motorcoach was on route No, 1 this morning, blasting the silence every time the driver took his toe off the accelerator. DAN ENRIGHT HAS A HUNCH that Europe will start another big war and put America's unemployed back to work. COURT HOUSE EMPLOYES were still looking for drinking water today. Nearby refreshment stands aren't kicking. DENTIST J.

MORAN chuckles at billiard opponents who leave him "oiled" and then call It accidental. ROMEO KOTECKI, IT IS RE-ported today, has been lecturing and demonstrating to a number of citizens of "Frogtown" in Calumet City how to dispose of flies. CLARENCE SMITH IS TAKING up the profession of a master of ceremonies in one of the places on Burnham avenue in Calumet City. FRIENDS OF WALTER CHICK are waiting anxiously to hear some more of his solo singing. He recently and went over in a big way.

NORMAN RUVELL, HAMMOND'S own crooner with Art Kassel's band now at the Palace theater in Chicago, will leave tomorrow for- a week's performance at the Fox theater in Detroit. VIRGINIA ADMIRAL LEFT YES-terday afternoon for Wisconsin, where she will spend the rest of the summer months. HARRY VEACH. FORMER HAM-mond merchant and now a resident of Peru, was visiting local friends yesterday. GEORGE RICHARDSON IS ONE of the few men who really knew how to keep cool during the late heat wave.

He had his hair cropped short. MORRIS EIN. FORMER HAM-mond car wrecker, and his daughter, Kitty, now residents of Mexico, are calling on old Hammond friends this week. MEMBERS OF THE HAMMOND Kiwanis club are planning an all-day outing on one of the big boats plying between Chicago and Benton Harbor. AUDITORS FROM GROSS income tax division are checking the books of several Hammond merchants who forgot that the state passed an income tax bill at the last meeting of the legislature.

UNDER MAC M'CLURE THE drum corps of Post 16. American Legion, is rapidly becoming one of the finest drilled organizations in north ern Indiana. CLERK HAS CUT $11,000 OFF OF BUDGET FOR '35 (SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) CROWN POINT, July 26. The county clerk's office will be op erated at a cost of approximately $11,000 less next year than for the current year, according to the 1935 budget submitted to County Auditor Joseph E. Finerty by Dr.

George W. Sweigart today. For 1935, Clerk Sweigart is ask ing 361,735. His 1934 budget totals 372,460. The reduction is made possible by the completion of the permanent registration this year, thereby eliminating most of the reg istration expense for next year.

The 1935 budget i places the clerk's salary at that of the chief deputy clerk, at $2,400, and that of all other deputies at A registration clerk is marked down for part-time clerks, at $1,200 as compared with $6,000 this year; part-time registration clerks, at $1,800 as compared with $7,250 this year; deputy registration officials, at $600, and insanity inquests, at $3,000, as compared with $4,000 this year. Other items contained in the 1935 budget are: Freight, $120; postage. $500; telephone end telegraph, $35; court calendars, repairs, $100; books. stationery and printing, clothing for the Insane, $4,000, and other expenses, $1,000. APPENDICITIS IS FATAL TO PETRIE Funeral' services will be held Satuday afternoon for Albert Petrie, 63..

of 237 Williams street. Hammond, who died last night at St. Margaret's hospital following an appendicitis operation performed Sunday noon. Besides his widow, he is survived by three sons, Russell, Harold and Raymond Petrie and two grandchildren, all of Hammond; two sisters, Mrs. Edgar Plain.

Hammond and Mrs. Edward Lauman of Kansas; three brothers, H. and Ellery Petri- ot Hammond, and Dr. S. T.

Petrie of Chicago. The body of Mr. Petrie, who resided in Hammond 28 years, will lie at the Timmerman and Richardson funeral chapel until services at 2 p. m. Saturday.

Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE Highlights In the grave international crisis precipitated by the assassination yesterday of Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria, as reported from world capitals, follow: VIENNA Prince von Starhem-berg, vice-chancellor, provisionally assumed the chancellorship as the government admitted fighting was continuing in the Province of Sty-rla, nazl stronghold, with at least six killed. Dr. Anton Rintelen, candidate of the nasi terrorists to succeed Dollfuss, committed suicide after his arrest. Courts-martiaf will try actual assassins of Dollfuss, remainder of 144 nazls who raided the chancellory and imprisoned Dollfuss and his to be dumped across the German border.

ROME Mussolini announced Italy would resist with all the forces at her command any threat to Austrian Independence but the Italian foreign office, where he presides, Issued a statement assuring the Italian people and the world there was no cause for alarm. At the same time Italian troops to the number of about 80,000 were massing along the Austrian frontier. LONDON Parliament was informed by Sir John Simon, foreign secretary, that Great Britain is determined to maintain Austria's independence, the foreign seoretary repeating his famous "hands off" warning of last February. PARIS French military activities were reported along the German border; Premier Doumergue was in conference with his colleagues but the foreign office announced France has adopted a policy of watchful waiting. Stocks declined sharply on the Paris bourse because of the war scare.

BERLIN Chancellor Hitler dashed back to Berlin from Bavaria to take command of the situation and President von Hindenburg and Foreign Minister von Neurath sent Austria Germany's official condolences on the death of Chancellor Dollfuss. Berlin papers advised European governments to keep cool and avoid a new European war and unanimously agreed Germany was not to blame for yesterday's bloody events in Vienna, Dr. Rieth, German minister to Vienna, was dismissed by Hitler for negotiating amnesty for the nazt assassins of Chancellor Dollfuss. COMMITTEES ON DOG WEEK HAVE BEEN APPOINTED Committees for the Dog Week observance to be held in Hammond next month were appointed last night by Mrs. Hildegarde B.

Donaldson, general chairman of National Dog Week for Lake county and a member of the national executive committee. The observance will include an exhibit, parade and promenade. Mayor Charles O. Schonert is honorary chairman and Edward J. Heckleman is the active chairman.

Other appointments follow: Police Chief Tom Martinson, City Clerk Walter Green, Fred Roben-horst, H. Delmar LeRoy, Councilman Chris G. Cole, Councilman Charles N. Scott, Dr. H.

G. Cole, George Knoerser, Levi Golden, J. D. Dennis. O.

G. Maecher, Dr. Daniel W. Bleker. H.

G. Meyer. Dr. A. J.

Warber, Homer Dell, William Grue-ner, John H. Millett, C. H. Rae, Matt Young, Leo F. Engel, Harry LeRoy, G.

M. Puntney, Dr. Glenn I Ebright, R. J. Ward.

Edward J. Bohling and R. C. Henri. Members of the advisory board are Judge Harold Strickland, A.

E. Tinkham and City Judge Virgil E. Whitaker. The courtesy committee is composed of Mrs. Edward J.

Bohling, Mrs. Ray Waller, Mrs. Otto Knoerser, Mrs. Leo F. Engel, Mrs.

Kepert, Mrs. William Tegtman, Mrs. Harry Petzinger, Mrs. R. C.

Henri, Mrs. Fred Robenhorst, Miss Dot Ripley and Mrs. R. J. Ward.

The float committee comprises Mrs. E. J. Thompson, Mrs. William Mrosefaki, Mrs.

James Dickson, Mrs. Homer Dell, Mrs. Margarete Dell, Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. Hilson and Mrs.

Joseph Nallen. Chairmen of the out-of-town committees are Dr. Stuart, of Gary; Andrew Rooney, of East Chicago; John A. Tokari, ot Whiting; Samuel Benante, of Indiana Harbor; Mrs. August Bremer, of Crown Point; Herman A.

Kellner, of Highland; Mrs. F. B. Switzer, of Munster; Mrs. Alvina Killlgrew, of Hobart; Mrs.

R. J. Schieve. of Midlothian. Mrs.

Otto Miller, of Calumet City, Mayor John W. Jaranowski, honorary chairman, of Calumet City. F.E.R. A. WORKERS TO START MONDAY Fifteen enumerators and office employes will go to work Monday morning on the housing survey that will permit Hammond to apply for loans under the provisions of the national housing act.

They will be selected from employment lists maintained by the United States employment bureau in Hammond and will work under the Jurisdiction of the Lake County Unemployment Relief commission. Their salaries will be paid by the F. E. R. A.

When the survey Is completed, it will be turned over to the Hammond Chamber of Commerce, which, in turn, will forward it to the department of commerce at Washington for eventual submission to the housing commission. Seed packages for late gardens now are available at the various township trustees' offices In Lake county to those who are eligible for poor relief. Miss Ann Connor, as sistant to Hawkins, of the F. E. R.

announced today. "Late garden vegetables," she said, "often will yield larger and better production than those sown in the spring. Such a garden may be made to serve family needs from late summer until fall, and its plant ing should not be neglected. "In most sections of Indiana, beans, beets and carrots be planted successfully up to July 20, Lettuce, radishes and turnips may be sown during August, or until September 1. "Under normal weather conditions and good soil cultivation, these vegetables usually will gl worth while returns; therefore, we urge those who are eligible for poor re lief to apply to their township trus tees immediately for seed packages so that no delay will be experienced in planting them." SULLIVAN NOT ALONE HELPING HOME OWNERS Other Courts Holding Special Sessions During Vacation to Hear Pleas Statements that the court of Cir cujt Judge Joseph P.

Sullivan in Crown Point furnished the only re lief for persons seeking Home Own era" Loan corporation loans in Lake county during court vacation were denied today by various court at taches throughout the county. Practically every Superior Judge in Lake county has held special sessions since the end of the May term in order to help distressed home owners seeding government loans. Although the Judges have not held regularly scheduled sessions, they have cooperated with attorneys by visiting their courts twice a week or more to hear petitions. Superior Judge Harold Strickland, for instance, has assisted more than 30 applicants since the closing of his court. Today he appeared in his courtroom to rule on more petitions and appoint successor trustees for various receiverships on which loans are sought.

Superior Judge Virgil S. Reiter will hold a special session in Room 1 next Monday to hear emergency matters that have arisen in two Hammond courts. Judge Strickland will preside at another special ses sion set for August 17. NEW DELAY IN SETTING PRICE FOR GYM SITE A controversy, over the use to which 40 acres of Erie railroad prop erty near Hammond High school should be put, has delayed an ap praisal of the land by the Real Estate Board until next Monday noon. President Roscoe Hemstock announced today.

He said the property is soned for class E. residential purposes, but some members of the board are in favor of re-zoning it for light industries. The city, however, now desires the land for a modern gymnasium and for school purposes. The special gymnasium committee empowered to negotiate for 20 acres of the land, in collaboration with the board of education, has requested the Real Estate Board to appraise the plot so that Erie railroad officials may decide what shall be done with the ground. Mr.

Hemstock asserted today that the Real Estate Board will arrive at a definite decision on the issue next Monday noon. The appraisal committee, composed of Samuel En- nls, Arthur J. Weiss and A. W. Kolle, either will or will not ap praise the property, Mr.

Hemstock said. J. M.YAN SICKLE, RETIRED TINNER, TAKEN BY DEATH Unnm. Van Sickle. 81.

re tired sheet metal contractor who helped build the old Hammond distillery at the turn of the century, died early this morning at his home. 13C Plummer avenue. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Eva Van Sickle: one son. Charles W.

Van Sickle, one grandchild, Mar garet; and one sister, Mrs. Alice Bowling of Covington, Ind. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 10 a. m. from the Neidow funeral chajpel and burial will be in Elmwood cemetery.

ATTACKED BY HOUND Attacked by a vicious Russian wolf hound, probably crazed by the heat, as he walked on the 6000 block of Madison avenue Wednesday eve-ing, John Normand. 14, of 855 State street, suffering today from two ugly and painful lacerations on his left side Just above the hip. CHICAGO, July 26. (I.N.S.) Hopes for an early settlement of the strike of 800 stock handlers which has tied up activities at the Union Stock yards rested today on a secret peace proposal presented to employers by federal conciliators. Efforts of the labor board to bring an end to the etrike were spurred on by sporadlo violence in which a guard and three workmen were attacked by strike demonstrators.

Louis Heller and John Wilson, strike-breakers, were beaten and stabbed with pitchforks. The police guard in the yards was doubled when demonstrators threatened to attack railroad coaches used as sleeping quarters for strikebreakers. Federal conciliators held a lengthy meeting last night and early today with strikers' officials and officers of the Union Stockyards and Transit company, the employers, at which a basis of settlement was presented. Details of the plan were kept secret. Employers promised to give the proposal their careful consideration.

It was understood that the plan calls for restoring the strikers to their Jobs, ending the strike at once and submitting to arbitration all technical differences such as hours, pay and conditions of employment. FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. SUMMERS Funeral services will be held Friday at 1 p. m. for Mrs.

Marie Borem Summers, E4, former Hammond resident, who died Tuesday at her home In Chicago. She had lived here for about three decades until a few years ago. The body is at the Lain chapel on 63rd street, Chicago. will be in Oak Hill cemetery, Hammond. Survivors include her husband, Frank Summers; one daughter, Mrs.

Dorothy Dyke of Chicago; one sister, Mrs. Lillian Borg, Chicago; three brothers, John Borem of Hammond, Burr of Calumet City, and George of Lake Village, and three grandchildren. THOMAS NALEZNY BURIED SATURDAY Thomas Nalezny, 50, of 4346 Tor rence avenue, Hammond, who died yesterday morning at St. Marga ret's hospital as a result of the heat after being stricken Sunday morn ing, will be buried Saturday in Holy Cross cemetery following services at 10 a. m.

in St. Casimlr's church. Nelezny, a resident here for 29 years, is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Mary Zurawec and the Misses Helen and Lottie Nalezny; two sons, Theodore and John, all of Hammond, and 'three sisters and one WALKSTHON WEDDING TONIGHT Tonight at 9 p. m.

at the New Idea Walkathon located at Sibley and State Line streets, in Calumet City, the marriage of "Duke" De Syrette, of Chicago, and "Honey" De Bruin, of Kalamazoo, is to take place on the Walkathon floor. Having par ticlpated in Walkathons for nearly three years the young couple decided to get married in one, so they picked this one as the place to have the knot tied. Very popular among the Walkathon fans in the Calumet region. Duke" and "Honey" are to say "I do" before one of the largest crowds ever to witness an indoor show of its kind in the Calumet region. Last night during the endurance test "Duke" had the misfortune to buckle under the test and had to drop out because it was impossible to continue on under the strenuous grind, but "Honey" remained in the contest as a solo, and will try to bring home the-bacon to start their home agoing.

fccV fir fS it SI Mrs. Sage, Formerly of Gary, Denies "Putting Finger" on Dillinger I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO, July 26. The "woman in the red dress," identified as Mrs. Anna Sage, 42, yesterday told of her association with John Dillinger, slain Public Enemy No. 1, and of the events preceding the fatal mov ing picture party last Sunday.

Mrs. Sage, who police say has several aliases, admitted to Captain John Stege of the police department that she had been with Dillinger at the movie Sunday night, but denied it was she who "put the finger" on the outlaw. "I knew Dillinger as Jim Lawrence. I saw him the last time at o'clock Sunday night. He came to my house and had supper with us.

For a while before that he played cards with Tolly Hamilton. She was Lawr.nce's girl friend." POSED AS RICH CLERK Sage said Polly first brought Lawrence, who posed as Board of Trade clerk with plenty of money and a yen to do things and go places, to her place about five weeks ago. They frequently went out to drink beer, she said, dance or to the movies or played cards together. "He never told me whether he used a car or not," Mrs. Sage said in answer to a question.

"Polly told roe he was a married man and I didn't ask him any questions." Asked what had happened prior to the movie on Sunday night, Mrs. Sage said. DESCRIBES SHOOTING "Lawrence suggested a movie. I wanted to go to the Uptown theater, but he wanted to go around the corner to the Biograph. Then he walked to the show.

I guess Miss Hamilton was in the middle and Lawrence on the outside. In the theater I found a seat in the middle. They sat down near the front. "When we walked out of tha the ater we turned southeast toward ray house. When we reached a stors nearby, a man pushed me and stepped on my foot.

I looked around and saw a gun. Then I heard a shot In front of me and I looked back again and saw Dillinger on the ground. "I did not know what had happened. Polly grabbed me, by the arm and said: 'Jimmy got shot. FACES DEFORTATIOIT Mrs.

Sage then described how she and Miss Hamilton walked toward Fullerton avenue and the latter suggested taking the elevated. "I asked: "Where tor she said, and Miss Hamilton replied "Any place." Mrs. Sage said her girl companion was very nervous when they walked to her house. "She didn't want to stay there," Mrs. Sage said.

Mrs. Sage then told police about how she was twice raided while operating a cheap hotel in Gary, and is in deportation proceedings with the federal government, being an alien Roumanian. 15 GROUPS OF GERMANS WILL ATTEND PICNIC Seven Hammond societies and eight Gary organizations will participate in the gigantic German day celebration which is expected to attract 25,000 Sunday at the Lake county fair grounds in Crown Point. The Hammond societies include Damen Chor, Deutscher Untersteut-zungsbund district No. 629, Deutscher Frauen Vereln, Gegenseitiger Utersteutzungsverein section No.

JO, German-American Republican club, Hammond Saengerbund Fidelia and the Steuben society of Indiana. Gary organizations Include the Deutsch Lutherlsche Huterus Ge-melnde, Deutsch Unterateutzungs-bund district No. 421, Erster Sieben-buergersachsen K. U. V.

No. 26, Arster Siebenbuergersachsen Frauen. K. U. Vereln, Gary Liederkrans, German Sport club, Literary Dramatic club and the Siebenbuerger- sachsen Sport club.

TIRE MEN MEET IN GARY TONIGHT TO PICK BOSSES Tire dealers of the Calumet district of Indiana and Illinois will meet in the Gary T. M. C. A. tonight to recommend appointments for the local authority that will administer the national tire code in this area, which comprises Zone 1.

Ralph Pohlplatz, of Hammond, president of the Calumet Region Auto Service association, will represent Hammond, East Chicago, Whiting, and Calumet City. He will bs accompanied by a delegation who are empowered to act for the association. The local authority actually will be appointed by the national authority, but the recommendations of the meeting tonight are expected to be accepted by the national au thority. The tire code eliminates unfair competition, sets up fair trade practices, and specifies the maximum number of hours that employes shall work and the minimum pay they shall receive. Material evidence of the( success of the Hammond police campaign to rid the city's streets of the careless drivers who have been largely responsible for the unprecedently high accident toll this year was presented to the Hammond board of safety by Chief Thomas J.

Martinson Wednesday afternoon. Out of a total of 172 arrests made during the month of June by police, 65 were for offenses relating to the state motor laws, the chief showed in his monthly reports The largest number of speed law violators, 33, were booked for reckless This was also the largest number arrested for any offense during the month. Eleven persons were arrested for violating the state automobile license law, eight for driving while drunk, eight more for driving without a driver's license, one for Joy riding, three for leaving the scene of an accident, and one for violating the traffic laws. The next largest category of arrests, 27, was made for drunkenness. Nineteen other persons were piclied up on warrants charging them with assault and battery.

There were relatively few arrests for major offenses like felonies. Only four men were booked for burglary, three for larceny, eight for robbery, one for manslaughter, and one for rape. Of the 172 persons arrested during the month, 149 were Americans and 23 foreigners, 88 were married and 64 single, only one was an illiterate and only 13 colored, and 159 were males and 13 females. value of lost and stolen property recovered and turned over to its owners was $987.50, mostly recovered automobiles. Six hundred and eighty-nine night lodgers were housed during the month.

The final disposition of the 172 cases was listed as follows: Discharged, 39; fined and paid, 20; fined and Jailed, fined and in default, bound over to the criminal court, 13; turned over to Juvenile authorities. turned over to outside authorities, 11; appealed, bench warrants, nolle pros, 15; ordered to pay support money, pending, 25; released, 26, QUIZZED BY POLICE, HE COURTS DEATH CHICAGO, July 26. (u.P.) A man being questioned by department of justice agents in connection with the plastic surgery on John Dillinger's face leaped to his death from a window of the Justice department's office today. Samuel P. Cowley, assistant to Melvln H.

Purvis, chief of the department's activities in the Chicago area, said tha. suspect was 'James Johnstone Probasco, 67. The man had been left in an ante room while Cowley and several other agents went into conference to discuss the evidence which they had obtained against him. When they returned the window, facing on Rookery court, was open. The man's body lay in the court below.

The department of justice offices are located on the 19th floor of the Bankers' building on Adams street in the Loop. Cowley said that Probasco, errest-ed at his home on North Crawford street today by federal officers, had been named as the man who arranged to have the features of Dil-llnger altered and his finger tips seared with acid in an effort to avoid identification. Probasco also allegedly arranged for the altering: of the features of Homer Van Meter, diminutive lieu tenant of the Dillinger gang, who still is at liberty. The man was poorly dressed. Cowley said that his agents had not had an opportunity thoroughly to question Probasco to determine whether he had actually aided Dillinger's attempts to avoid identification and arrest.

DEATH OF HARRY GATHCART Ending a serious Illness of approximately two months, Harry Cathcart, 64, of 4535 Oak avenue, died atSt. Margaret's hospital Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Cathcart is survived by two stepchildren, Mrs. Charles Walker of Hammond and Roy McClaren of Gary.

The funeral will be held from the Burns funeral home Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock with the Rev. Wilbur Cox officiating. DEATH OFMRS. HEBL Mrs. Mary Nebl, 59, of 1014 169th street, succumbed to a two months' illness this morning at St.

Margaret's hospital. I She Is survived by her husband, Anthony, her Mrs. Anne Charles of Hammond, and two grandchildren. The body of Mrs. Nebl will lie In state at Burns' funeral home until Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock, when it will be removed to her home.

The funeral will be lield Saturday morning. MOOKESVILLE, July 25. (LN.S.) John W. Dillinger. 70, shabilly dressed and in poor health was alone today at his farm home near here with the stirring memories of the burial of his gangster son fresh in his mind.

One man, described as a Wisconsin oil distributor, offered $10,000 for the body and meager personal effects of the slain Dillinger. The elder Dillinger said: "I turned the offer down, but I do want to raise money to pay the mortgage upon my farm. I'll accept negotiations for the personal effects of John but will not Sell his body." At almost the same moment that the body of the notorious outlaw was being Incarcerated in a rain-soaked grave in Crown Hill cemetery here, police had located the rooms in which he lived in Chicago. They found no money or bonds in his rooms. A souvenir hunter was caught taking a tin cup full of dirt from the grave of the outlaw in hallowed Crown Hill cemetery here.

Police made him return the dirt but did not hold him. i Moving about the farm home Of the elder Dillinger was the two young step sisters of the slain bandit, Doris and Frances. These pretty girls lay aside their best blue dresses that they had worn at the funeral of the outlaw. Clad in "everyday" clothes they busied themselves with the chores about the farm home. Mrs.

Audrey Hancock, sister of John Dillinger, was under the care of a.physician today. It was stated that the months of vigil in which she hourly expected to hear that her brother had been mowed down by bullets of officers had undermined her health. The funeral, the crowds, the publicity and the heat almost finished the Job, her son Norman Hancock said. The towns of Mooresville and Maywood, Jammed with motorists and the curious yesterday, were almost deserted villages today. Only a few of the residents congregated, sipped beer, and recounted the colorful events that surrounded the last "home coming" the notorious John Dillinger.

COUNTY SAFETY CAMPAIGN WILL GET UNDER WAY (SPECIAL TO THE TIMES CROWN POINT. July 28. Preliminary phases of the county-wide safety campaign to be conducted next month, rapidly are nearing completion. Chief Deputy Sheriff Carroll Holley announced here today. Mr.

Holley is supervising the work under the direction of Sheriff Lillian Holley, general chairman of the campaign. The program is designed to reduce the causes for automobile smash-ups during August, the worst traffic month of the year. It will include the use of safety lanes for testing brakes, lights, mirrors and safety devices. It also will embrace a program of lectures, booklets and publicity. City and police officials of every municipality in the county are members of the committee that will supervise the drive.

It will be the first county-wide attempt to promote highway safety and therefore will provide the foundation for a permanent campaign. Mr. Holley said all phases of the program will be completed within the next few days so that the drive may be started August 1. MRS. VONASCH, 87, PASSES AT GARY Mrs.

Mary Webber Vonasch. 87, who had lived in Hammond 40 years before movin to Gary five years ago, died there yesterday, a victim nf the heat, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Erie B. Clement, 563 Connecticut street. A member of the German Lutheran church, she was well known In Hammond.

She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Clement. Mrs. J. R.

Smith, of Gary; Mrs. Fred Mears, of Chicago, and Mrs. Edward Horst, of Wiscon sin; two sons, Samuel and Carl, or Hammond: II grandchildren and one great grandchild. The body will lie at tne oexmann funeral chapel, where services will ha held Saturday at 2 p. with interment in Elmwood cemetery.

TWO ARRESTED AS DRUNK AFTER HITTING LIGHT POST James Truss, 38, of 958 Sibley street, and Walter Cox, 32, of 703 Logan street, Hammond, were arrested and charged with drunkenness after Truss, driving Cox's car, lost control of the machine as he made a left turn into Hohman avenue from State Street and ran Into a light post on the northeast side of the avenue about 7:05 p. m. Wednesday evening. They were arrested by Officers George Henson and Namon Dlm-itrof of Hammond police. ajority Give Emphatic "No" Reply to Queries Submitted by the President By CHARLES P.

STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON. July 26. mong the many kindly read-s I am indebted to for an- Ivers to my recent question-kire, borrowed from President oosevelt's last radio talk be- pre his departure for Hawaii, prize optimist is a hotel man the far southwest, who. Lknowledging in order the first ur presidential queries 1 re flii better off than a year go? 2. Are your debts less jurdensome? 3.

Is your bank I A A ccount more secure i. Are pur working conditions bet- responds: "1. Worse off; income cut and ex-nses higher. 2. Debts burdensome st year; am now probably insol- nt.

3. Bank account securely oien solid in March, 1933; resem- sieve this season. 4. Couldn't ark harder than formerly, but feel more because aging STILL HAS FAITH Tet courageously replies to presi- ntial interrogatory No. 5 (is your ith in your individual future more hnly "Faith in indi- iual future more firmly grounded an ever it was." Moreover, this hardy southwest- ner explains why his faith In his dividual future Is so firmly ounded.

"I am well past 70," he writes. nd failing-rapidly; am confident I ail die before serious additional I luck can overtake me. I have ied to live righteously and expect go to heaven. Tou bet my faith mw. individual future is firmly k-ounded." If this isn't a hopeful way of look- at i tings, what is it? To fj.i the replies I have reived1 the presidential question- ire, submitting- to my own audi- hce, number 1,037.

More are com- g. but I fancy I have the bulk them in hand already. They represent the whole country from Maine to southern Call-rnlai from the state of Washing-n to- Florida. HIGH QUALITY LETTERS They, also represent all sorts of onomio groups industrial, agrl- Lltural and white collar. They ap- ar likewise to represent every hade political opinion demo- atic, republican and independent.

bparently with the independents rongly predominating. They manifestly represent, too, a gh degree of intelligence. I'll say frankly that the first-class bal-y ot this correspondence sur- ises me. I wouldn't have supposea fiat so clear an understanding of Listing problems was so general. I Ue scores of letters that any ewsDaper man might be proud to lave turned out, from the fashion of heir expression; that a professional -onomlst needn't be ashamed or om the grasp they indicate upon Lrrent conditions.

As fast as I can I'm trying to alyze this mass of raw material nd arrive at some general As u4y clarify themselves I pro-ose to publish them not in day- y-day scucession (it's impossible a lone analyst to work so rap- ily). but from time to time, as the progresses. The task is larger, admit, than I had anticipated. THE oSOES" IX MAJORITY -One thing is certain: To Presld nt Roosevelt's cleanest- ut Question, "Are you better on frian you were last year?" the is overwhelmingly "No." To be exact, it is the answer con fined in 806 out ot the 1.037 letters have received thus far. Of the riters of these 806 negative letters.

3 say (several of them with great ehemence) that they are aownngu worse off." Those who declare themselves Del off. and say it unmistakably, are astonishingly small proportion Enly out of 1.037. I had imag-a workers, who were out of mployment a year and wno nave tnriav (and there is no question iiat there has been an increase in ployment). would consider mem- elves better on, as inuwipuyj hey are. if tne presmcnva interpreiea.

nu. uj use to recognize it. Their general ttitudr that they are not as well ft a-Mby were before they lost heir laSt Jobs; they decline to limit hemselves to an exact year, but ate. th lona- run into account Lvhich seems to me more or less eemm.ter they feel that, oroaoiy peaking; mass living standards liave been lowered. ftUALIFIKD ASSWb On the opposite hand, seven corespondents who concede that they Ire.

to their today's Income, re- fceivicg less than year ago (or previously), still consider themselves better off. because they deem heir prospects better, and jnciuae khe future, as well as the immeai fte present. In their calculations which perhaps is as legitimate an Economic reckoning as the other), One correspondent mentions that. fa. year ago, he had.

dependent on him. two unemployed relatives, who questionnaire, however,.