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wmmmmmmmmmmmm for use until aftej-- the highest judicial tribune f in, Indiana, has finally passed, on-the case. Attorney Rappaport said this afternoon' that he had. no idea how long it would be before action would be -taken by the state supreme court The complicated situation in the Indiana courts respecting.the books and documents in the In ternational Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, held as. -evidence by the state courts in the dynamtiing cases in volving John J. ad James B. Mc- JNamara, was turtner intensihed today when the sheriff failed to obtain the evidence as directed in a replevin proceedings instituted by the iron workers, Prosecuting "Attorney Baker ,admitted knowing where a part of the alleged evidence was, but Judge Markey notified the sheriff that- the articles vwere not in Baker's possession, but were un der the care of the court, al though, he has entered a record surrendering them to the United States authorities, who desire to make a federal probe of the dyna miting cases. The replevin writ is directecLagainst Baker and two accountants who have "been ex amining the" documents. Attorneys for the iron workers today had placedon record in the criminal court here petitions ask ing that the petitions of J. Fred ericks and the United States, ask ing for the evidence, be reheard. Theourt promptly denied the petitions and an appeal bond was filed by: the-iron workers. WHO-SLEWJOHNRECH'S BABE, RECH OR SOCIETY? There is food for thought m a stoiy that comes from Santa Barn bara, Cal. ' John Rech, an Italian' gar dener who worked for $1 a day, murdered his two-days-old child. Sheriff Stewart hid near the Rech home, watching for the murderer. After twelve hours Rech reJ turned from the hills, where he had been in hiding, to bid good bye to his wife. Sheriff Stewart arrested him. As he was led to jail, Rech did not deny his crime. He shrug his ' shoulders hopelessly. "How could I support 'a wife and baby on a dollaT a day?" he asked. , ' His captors did, not answer him. Their duty was to see to it that Rech paid the penalty of his crime. But how could Rech support a wife and bahy on a dollar a day in these times 'of high cost of liv ing? 'And who is to blame for thej death of Rech's child. ' John Rech, ; Or the society that paid him one dollar a day for his labor? Warmer Tomorrow. Gloudy and unsettled tonight and Sunday; rising temperature. For Chicago-and vicinity: Mod erate southerly winds. The thermometer is the only; thing that's mot going up. a