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Evening star., 1941-04-06
By FREDERICK GARDNER,
Associated Press Fina ancial Writer


NEW YORK. April 5.-Con-
fronted by more critical war and
labor problems. the stock market
today stepped into losing territory
for the first time this week
The list was hesitant at the start
and prices generally never displayed
any real advancing tendencies
Weakness was a rarity however
and most declines at the close were
limited to minor fractions.
The Associated Press average of
60 stocks was off i of a point at
422. but on the week held a net gain
of 8. Transfers for the two hours
amounted to 225,170 shares, COM
pared with 209 900 last Saturday.
Bulletins describing the Balkan
crisis as at the zero hour" caused
some shortening of commitments
for weekend protection, brokers
said. A little bearishness also de-
veloped over the total shutdown of
Ford plants as the result of the
c. 7. o. strike in which 10000
workers were made idle and threats
Of walkout in the United States
Steel Corp. involving some 25O.OO0.
On the other side, though, hope
revived that the soft coal mine
dispute would be settled soon and
that administrative pressure might
bring an adjustment of the lengthy
AlliS-ChalmerS union troubles.
Trade Outlook Good.
The business outlook still was up
to expectations, although there were
a few riffs in the shape of March
chain store sales which disclosed a
drop under the 1910 month.
Shares on the offside included
United States Steel. Crucible Steel,
Youngstown Sheet. Chrysler. Gen.
eral Motors. Santa Fr. Great North
ern, United States Rubber Mont
gomery Ward, Allis Chalmers.
Douglas Aircraft. American Tele-
phone. American Smelling. Stand
ard Oil of New JERSEY. General
Electric. Du Pont and Westing-
house.
Atlantic Gulf 4; West Indies COM
AiiOii anu vi tOSlcu lltN
highs for the year with advances
of l and ~. respectively. Up a
shade were Texas Corp. Young
Spring & Wire. Consolidated
Edison, Sears-Roebuck and Philip
Morris.
Curb Prices Down.
Generally lower quota tions were
the rule in the curb division. A
shade in arrears were Glen Alden
Coal, American Cyanamid "B."
American Gas. E. w. Bliss. Beech
Aircraft and Sherwin- Williams. The
turnover here was around 10000
shares versus $4,000 week ago.
The big board" had its best week
since early January owing to
strong midweek bulge. The list was
up a trif1e Monday. Tuesday and
Wednesday without a great deal
of outstanding news to go on. Low
priced rails and oils were the best
throughout. the former rejecting
wide upSwinos in traffic and earn
ings and the latter responding to
increases in crude and gasoline
rates.
A touch of imitation fever" was
credited with a swift market rally
Thursday when the average jumped
6 of point to equal the rise of
March 10, and the volume of nearly
million shares was the largest since
December 81. The market did virtu-
ally nothing Friday.
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Broader u. S. Price Controls
Forecast in Metal Markets
Henderson Warns Ceiling on Lead
Quotations May Be Necessary

I ia ation of u cents and quotations
elsewhere. Custom smelters, for in
stance, quote 1914 cents e pound and
the resale market 1874 to 1871 cents
q pound for nearby delivery.
Custom smelter production derives
! in large part from scrap copper
which is reprocessed. Hence 1t was
thought likely top for scrap might
also be set. The spread between No.
heavy copper wire scrap and pri-
mary refined copper is generally fig
ured at around Ia cents a pound.
A huge expansion program was
mapped out for the aluminium in
dustry which was calculated to bring
ingot capacity by midl942 to around
900 100000 pounds annually, or
double annual capacity at the end
of 1910. Aluminium Co. of America,
it was believed, would add 100000
900 tons of capacity and Reynolds
Metals another 100,000000.
News that tin deliveries to the
United States had stepped up sharp
" in the first two months of the
year conceded with the start of
efforts to reduce the amount Of tin
used in making tin plate for con-
tainers.
Can makers estimated 1000 to TO-
900 tons of tin year might thus be
diverted to defense needs. The
United States imported nearly $780,
900 tons in 1940
Zinc producers continued to allo-
cate meager supplies at the .un-
changed price of 725 cents pound
East st. Louis.
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Py the Associated Press.

Gs lIlS hSSOIldltu Tltsos
NEW YORK. April 5.-Govern-
ment officials interviewed in metal
markets again this week to prevent
unwarranted price rises and rumors
persisted that Federal controls might
spread.
Leon Henderson, chief of the price
stabiliZation division of the Nation
al Defense Advisory Commission
warned that it might be necessary
to establish a price ceiling on lead
Henderson has requested leading
producers to refrain from further
price increases, which dealers inter-
preted as tantamount to official con-
troll. The price of copper, it was
recalled, has been kept at IL cents
a pound by leading producers since
September, 1910, under a gentle
mans agreement between the in
dustry and Government.
Lead currently is priced at 5.S5 a
pound, the highest since 6 cents was
charged in September. 1887. The
price has been hoisted three times
this year from the $50 base prevail
ing December 2.
Henderson charged an unexpected
large increase in demand was ap-
parent and due in large part to un-
necessary large forward buying and
stocking up. Sellers have been forced
recently to use foreign supplies
which came in the country under a
duty.
The possibility of price limits or
copper was seen as a result OF the
disparity between the producer quo
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been named vice chairman. The
complete membership of the COM
mittee, also announced yesterday,
follows:
Bernard L. Amiss, assistant trust
officer, Washington Loan & Trust
Co: Barnum L. Cotton. vice presi-
dent, National Savings & Trust Co.;
s. Wilson Earnshaw. secretary and
treasurer. East Washington Savings
Bank: Hans w. Ireland. treasurer,
American Security & Trust Co.;
r. Hunton Leith, vice president and
cashier, Security Savings q Com
mercial: Leonard Marbury, assistant
trust officer. Washington Loan &
Trust; J. C. Pyles. jr., vice president,
City Bank: Francis E. Robey, cashier,
Bank of Commerce & Savings.
Express Shipments Climb.
Another report rejecting the
Capitals business prosperity in
March came from the Railway EX-
press Agency yesterday.
Shipments handled by the Wash
ington Office in March totaled 1877
Ali, compared with shipments re-
ceived or dispatched in March, 1910,
numbering 175,659. an increase this
year of 21752 shipments, or l2.4 per
cent. Supt w. C. Turner announced.
The March gain compares with
q 13 per cent rise in January and
a 142 per cent jump in February.
The March upswing also exceeds the
average increase for the full year
1910 when business was II per cent
better than in the previous year.
Shipments by months so far in 1941
compare as follows with the like
rAriods in 1910:
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United Gas Underwriting
Fee TO Be Impounded
By tht Associated Press.

BY tht Associated Press
An agreement to impound the
managing underwriters fee has
been reached in connection with the
proposed sale of the United Gas I'M
provement Co. of its holdings of the
common stock of the Connecticut
Light & Power Co., it was learned
last night.
The agreement. it was said, is a
move to avert any possibility that
the sale might be delayed by the
question whether U. G. I. and the
underwater had engaged in arm S
length bargaining"
U. G. I. intends to offer 701 900
shares of the stock next week
through an underwriting syndicate
headed by Drexel & Co., Phila-
delphia Sale of the stock. carried
on the U. G. I. books at $50 900 900,
was decided upon in compliance
with the so-called death sentence"
of the Holding Company Act under
which the securities commission has
indicated that U. G. I. must dispose
of all of its subsidiaries except a
group of electric properties in the
Philadelphia area.
The S. E. C. has called a hearing
Monday on the proposed sale of the
stock. While it did not specify the
questions to be taken up. it was
learned that the possible relation
ship between Drexel & Co. and
U. G. I. was one of the matters
which would be considered.
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Material Shortages
Held Chief Threat
To Auto Output
Substitutes Will Not
Detroct From Cors.
Engineers Soy
BY DAVID ]. WILKIE,

DETROIT, April 5-The men who
make motorcars are pretty well
agreed that a curtailment of car
output will be necessary early in
the 1912 model year if not sooner,
but they believe it will come as the
result of materials shortage rather
than of any scarcity of skilled labor,
They appear also agreed that re-
gardless of whether the curtailment
affects 194l model production. the
current model run will be concluded
early in July in most plants, with
some manufacturers winding up
even in advance of that time.
With the number of vital metals
on the mandatory priorities list
growing steadily, the search in the
industry's laboratories for replace
ment materials is going ahead at
full speed. Some of these substitu-
tions already have been found, some
even have been put into use on a
limited scale.
AS the industry comes closer to
the point where the full impact OF
defense priorities must be encoun-
tered. the problems 1t faces in en-
deavoring to maintain a practical
volume of passenger car production
become more realistic.
Changes Necessary.
Machining operations on the sub
stitute materials. for example. re-
ouire the return to certain manufac-
turing processes long ago discarded
or the development of new pro-
cedure in the face of the fact the
industry does not have access to
new machine tools That means that
not only must the substitute ma
terials be developed with facilities
now in hand. but they must be fab
ricated wholly with the machinery
within the plants.
1t is true also that in the initial
stages at least of substituting other
metals for the restricted materials,
processing operations will be slower
and consequently more expensive. To
some extent. however. these higher
costs will be balanced by savings
that will be possible in other re-
placement steps.
The replacement of aluminium pis-
tons presents a typical case of the
manufacturing problems the indus
try is trying anticipate. although at
least two of the volume producers
already have substituted cast iron
or alloy metal, while some others
have not been using aluminium for
some years.
much more rapidly; moreover, they
require a lighter type of bearing
AS a result they are regarded in
several plants as much easier to
produce.
Regarded as Permanent.
One of the results of the research
work now going on in the labora-
tories, according to leading auto
motive engineers, is the probability
that many of the replacement"
metals will become regular" ma
terials for motorcar manufacture.
"One of the results of the last
war" said a top-f1ight engineer this
week. was a great acceleration of
metallurgical progress. 1t is more
(See WILKIE. Page Esd
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Lumber Output Dips
Moderately in Week
Bv Tic Associated Press

Bv The Associated Press.
The National Lumber Manufac-
turers' Association reported that
lumber production for the week
ended March 20 stood at 129 per
cent of the average of the corre-
spending week 1858 and ship
ments 121 per cent.
Production totaled 240, ,402 900 feet,
which was per cent less than the
previous week, and IS per cent
greater than the corresponding week
year ago.
Shipments aggregated 254.434 900
feet, which was per cent less than
the previous week, and II per cent
greater than last years correspond
ing week.
Orders booked were 275 ,561 900
feet, which was l per cent greater
than the previous week, and % per
cent greater than the corresponding
week last year.
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FOREIGN Exchange

NEW YORK April 5 P.-The Cana
dian dollar dipped lie cent today in the
free foreign exchange market but main
tanned lead Of more than cents over
The swiss franc lost .O1 of a cent.
Other major rates were unchanged IN
terms of the United States dollar.
Closing rates follow tGreat Britain in
dollars others in cents, cents;
Ofioial Canadian Control Board rates
for United States dollars: Buying, 10 per
MUM. equivalent to discounts on Canadian
dollars in New York of buying 991 per
cent. selling 800 per cent.
Canadian dollar in New York open mar;
ket. IL per cent discount or 800 United
States cents.
Great Britain. official Bankers Foreign
Exchange Committee rates.: Buying S4;02:
sellins S4.O4 open market, cables. 81 % !:
GERMANY d9 oon CbenevolenD; 20do;
19.77n: Italy, 500; Portugal. 4 OF: swe-
den. 90 "a Switzerland (D "a; Yugo-
slavia, 2.30n.
Latin America.
Brazil, oficial soon; free, soon; Mexico,
20.f0n,
Japan 2s.4s; Hong Kons s4.es; shsns-
E.t.s. in spot cables unlsss otAsrw.ss
Nominal. Commercial transactions.
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Wheat Prices Fail
To Keep Advances
In Late Dealings
Market Near Peaks
For 10 Months Until
Selling Storts
BY FRANKLIN MULLN,
Associated Press Market Editor.

CHICAGO, April 5.-Wheat prices
rose as much as 15s cents at one
stage today to near the best levels
of the past 10 months. but could
not hold the advance in the face
of profit taking and hedging sales
Closing prices were Is lower to Il
higher compared with yesterday
May. 9214-12: July, 91l4-ls, and
only fractionally higher than week
ago.
Wheat derived much of the early
strength from implications involved
in the Government program OF
increased farm aid. Gains of more
than 5 cents in soybeans futures
and as much as 80 cents in lard
futures that carried prices of these
commodities to the highest levels
since December. 1899. and July, 1888
respectively, had bulliSh effect in
the wheat pit.
Corn rose almost a cent, but closed
unchanged to "a higher compared
with yesterday; May, 67l4-1s; July
675s-34. Oats finished 9s lower tc
y higher; SOY beans. 3-31: up; rye
AL cent higher and lard, 17-25
higher.
Wheat and corn trade was af-
fected by the strong demand fol
beans and lard. which, in turn, re-
f1ected the Governments newly de-
veloped program for encouraging
livestock production through pur-
chases of livestock products such as
lard. pork, butter and eggs for do
mestic and foreign distribution
Traders heard rumors that the Gov
ernment may enlarge its program
to improve the lot of producers of
wheat, cotton and tobacco, possibly
through higher loan rates provided
in pending legislation. They rea-
soned that while efforts would be
made to hold corn prices in line for
the building up of livestock pro-
duction. increased consumption of
grains would occur.
Grain range at principal markets
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Apple Stocks Still Large

WINCHESTER, Va, April (Spe-
ciaD With the 1941 apple budding
season in the offing, growers still
had today a total of 483, ,594 bushels
of last years fruit in three local
cold storage plants, charges on
which were advanced again April /.
However, they had succeeded in
selling 395,175 bushels during
March, a considerable portion to the
81 rs Marketing Administration.
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Cotton Futures Up
; 10 5 Points on
New York Market
Spot Interests Supply
Contracts for Mill,
Trade Demand
BY ttt Associated Press.


NEW YORK. April 5.-Trade and
mill demand lifted cotton futures 3
to points today.
Contracts were supplied by lead
ing spot interests. A Houston spot
house. for instance. offered fair sized
lots of new-crop deliveries at each
point advance Other selling was
believed to represent hedges against
purchases of equities in Govern
ment loan cotton and repoSsessions
of cotton from the loan
Worth street textile brokers fig
ured the weeks sale of cotton print
cloths and related items at around
rs per cent of production. Some
secondhand offerings appeared but
we're quickly taken up and mill ask
ing prices held firm. Available spot
delivery goods we're snapped up at
premiums.
No exports Friday; season so far
818.220 bales. Port receipts, 1882;
port stocks, 3.446, 1893.
RANGE follows.
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chairman of the
Ira importation
Committee for
the coming con-
vention of the
District Bankers
Association at
Hot Springs,
President A. M.
McLachlen an
nounced yester-
day.
Rutherford j.
Dooley. vice pres
ident and CASH
Ter of the Ma
tional Bank of
Washington. has
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weeks to remain
In his present
position as ne
will enter Army
service on April
Is.
with m oS t
brokers in the
Capital he has
been a favorlte
and they con-
slider he n a S
done an extra
good job for the
New York eX-
@ h q n 6 e. E X
change volume
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New York Sugar

NEW YORK. April dN.-Proft taking
wiped out gains of as much as a points
In world sugar futures today and the mar
ket closed unchsneed to l point lower
Sales totaled 1900 tons: May, .7Siab;
July .S3b.
Trade in domestic futures slumped to
only 500 tons and all deliveries were un-
chansed
Sparse offerings of raw sugar were
availa BILE al 3.45 cents a pound
Refined locally remained at $40 cents.
M z ranqe follows.
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Cottonseed oil futures finished * to
l. points advanced today with prices at
new 2la-yesr high level. Sales totaled
"s9 contracts May traded s64: July,
s.64 Sept, s.73-74. and Oct. S16.
NOTED by strength in outside markets. par
tcusrly lard hogs and tallow. Trade in
readily absorbed scale up profit taking and
hedge sales Crude oil was quoted 7ss
cents in the Southeast. Valley and Texas
offerings reported available.
Evening star., 1941-04-06
Metal Market

NEW YORK. April 5 P,.-copper
steady: electrolytic. spot. Connecticut Val
ley, 100: export, f.a.s. N. Y, II .00-12 90;
Tin steady. spot and nearby. 51.S7I2: for
5.s5-eo East St. Louis, SO. Zinc steady;
East st. Louis spct and forward; s.25.
platinum Chinese wolframite and domestic
scheelite UNCHANGED.
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Cottonseed oil closed steady. Bleachable
prime summer yellow. s.40a. Prime cruoe,
100 MAY, S.20b: July. S.25; September.
S35; October, S.3sb.
BID. a Asked. Nominal.
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Martins ARMY Call REGRETTED.

Washington brokers expressed re-
gret yesterday that William McC.
Martin, president of the New York
Stock Exchange, has less than two
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New Orleans Prices.

NEW ORLEANS April lPl-.Cotton
futures advanced here today on trade buy
ing and week end covering. Closing prices
were steady, ! TO points net higher.
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Cash wheat No. ; hard, a5l.: corn. No
4 mixed 67a4; No, 3 yellow, 6Sh-7O; NO.
:saa4: No ., 3ala-3. No. 3. 80; No. 4, 3S;
sample. 36o4 No. l red heavy. 39i4;
81 nominal: screenings, $3.50 nominal;
field seed unchanged.
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Winnipeg Cash Market.
WINNIPEG. April 5 tP.-Cash wheat,
No / northern. 16; No. ., "A; No. 3. 71ss;
oats. No. 2 white, 367s: No. 3. 35ss.
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Federal Lund Bunks
NEW YORK. April 5 GP.-Federal Land
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Stocks Retreat
Fractions After
Week
More Critical War
And Labor Problems
Depress Prices

What Stocks Did,
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New York Bank Stocks

NEW YORK April [P.-National Az
ISOLATION Securities pealerS. Inc
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(See STORES, Page Esd
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Drastic Moves Threatened.
Both the public and the authori-
ties are less inclined today than in
early 1887 to condone organization
strikes, and strong measures are
threatened to settle jurisdictional
strikes. 1t may, however, take a
little longer before the situation is
remedied
The Dykstra board has no legal
authority to compel settlement of
strikes. 1t steps in only if the
Secretary of Labor certifies that the
regular c0nCiliation service cannot
settle a dispute. which probably
means after q strike is already
under way. ItS chief Job IL 10 define
(see LABOR, Page ESD
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C0ttOnseed Oil.

SDDI. -IUIIIII u CT IIIIUUII9IE'
n Nominal.
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(See WILKIE, Page Esd
Evening star., 1941-04-20
SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON D. C. 2o 1a4-PARr
Observance Of Annual
Be Kind 10 Animals
Week Opens Today
Need Of Protective
Action in Emergencies
Will Be Stressed

Observance of the 9th annua.
BE Kind to Animals Week" open,
today throughout the United State.
and Canada with the plight OF mil.
lions Of pets in war-torn Europe
emphasizing the need for protec.
tive measures in event of a ma.
tional emergency on this side ol
the Atlantic.
The week is being sponsored BY
800 member societies OF the Ameri-
can Humane Association through.
out the country and in this ares
by the Animal Rescue League, the
Tail-Waggers' Club and the Mary.
land and Virginia Animal Rescue
Service.
Washington public schools are
planning series Of programs ano
other activities for the week in
response to q request by Miss Esther
Scott, head of the Natural Sciences
Department. Several classes have
scheduled visits to the Animal Res.
cue League headquarters and the
District pound.
Throughout the week a motion
picture short entitled THE Great
Meddler" will be shown at the Lit
tie Theater to illustrate how the
humane movement was pioneered in
this country.
Preparations Cited
officials of the humane society
and the Red Star Animal Relief
Red Cross" service for pets,
say they are prepared for any emer-
gency. "Britain's war experience
has taught us many lessons" q
spokesman said.
One Of the most pitiful stories
at the outset of the European war
told how 500, 1000 London pets, mostly
cats and dogs, were destroyed by
their owners within two days. The
story related how owners, rather
than see their pets suffer, put them
to death humanely.
These mass executions were con-
trary to the advice OF the Royal
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals in Britain, founded by
Queen Victoria. Britons soon saw
why the society's counsel was wise,
and this was the last of such hys-
terra. For almost Immediately rats
and mice increased in numbers.
U. s. Procedure Adopted.
"All humane agencies of London
banded together under the Home
Once and today the work Of Brit
aims famed animal guards is an
important part OF air raid defense
efforts. The American tag and
registry procedure was adopted and
all pets and service animals were
accounted for.
During air raids animals are left
in gas-proof chambers, kennels,
hutches, stables or public shelters.
Special guards are stationed to look
out for the welfare Of the animals
during raids.
There are mobile units. ambu-
lances, clinics and hospitals for
animal victims of air raids"
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Sumuc Bush q Member
Of Cushew Family

The sumacs are probably our best
known native representatives of the
cashew family. This family includes
great variety of species, most OF
which are native to the warmer re-
gions of the world. Some are used
in the production of drugs, dyes,
WAKES and lacquers, some have
highly colored wood and are valua-
bic as timber, while others are i'm
portant sources of tannin.
Some are exceedingly poisonous
and produce strong caustics which
burn the skin severely, while others,
such as Pistachia produce valuable
edible nuts. The staghorn sumac Is
large shrub or small tree inhabit-
ing dry, waste places in Eastern
North America. 1t grows in the
mountains as far south as Georgia.
Clusters of velvety red fruit are pro-
duced, which Is of some value to
wildlife when more nourishing foods
are not available. The plant is also
Of some value as q source of tannin.
The leaves. twigs and small branches
are stripped from the stem, partially
dried, baled and sold to tannin ex-
tract plants.-American Wildlfe In
stitute.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
lives screened ths ashes Of \ smaller

tives screened the ashes Of q smaller
church furnace In Lukens' presence
They found nothing. Friday, after
the main furnace went out, detec-
tives screened its ashes-and again
found nothing. Then, on hunch
they went back to the original ashes
and recovered charred fragments OF
bone and dental porcelain.
Lukens admitted, Cross added,
that he was the same Albert B.
Lukens who A years ago, as Gin
cinnati grocery boy, beat to death
Mrs. Julia Stiegler. Sent to Mans
field Reformatory, Lukens was pa
rolled in 1907. He went back there as
q parole violator in 1908 after Can
ton police charged him in the ham,
killing of Elizabeth Brown. Two
Canton grand juries refused to in
dict In the Brown case, and Lukens
was freed from the reformatory in
1918.