Show 5 adio Commission i May Probe Report H. H Of Fake Broadcast S I t Allegedly J ErrOlle Erroneous us Story o oj of 4 j S She Sheriff Bandit riff riff- Bandit Gun r Battle Charged I t. t i- i Dr Dy Press Pros I CHESTERTON Ind Sept 29 The 29 Th r federal deral radio commission may get an echo ho ot of shots allegedly fired to add a aI at I t touch of ot r realism to a radiocast deI depIcting dc de- de- de I northern Indiana's extensive I J Ji manhunt for the convicts who recent recently sq ly escaped from the st state te p penitents ts I 1 try y and kid aped Sheriff Charles Charlesi i Neel of Corydon IndI Ind 1 t I 1 This was revealed last night when I. I Captain Mathew Lc ch of at the tle Indiana state police said he understood that tha s I I station WIND WIN D of Gary Ind md had hada a failed saIled to broadcasts broadcast retraction of ot an anI I I. I J allegedly erroneous radio report puri purporting pur- pur I i porting to describe a fight tight between I M H the hc cs escaped aped convicts and nd police As AsI I a ares result lt the officer said that he be would i J ft a file tile charges against WIN WIND I ND D. D i I The charges he said would bo be deI deJ de- de I J liberate falsification p o of a news reI reI re- re I I port I Jj hELD FALSE REPORT t 5 4 I 1 understand he said that those t ho broadcast the maliciously and false report of the gun gur 1 ittle Ue between police and a group of r COI convi convicts ts have failed to keep ejr r promise to broadcast a 3 He added that fon on o of that report e promise had been made when he Released i Steve Trumbull an t. t roz the Coll Columbia Broadcasting I pm who had been taken to Tremont lr Jor questioning The Ss-The S. The broadcast was made Wc Wednes- Wednes nes- nes ay night from the scene of the man- man Kunt and recorded an an interview with a Mrs rs Thelma Gustatson Gustafson who told of P Seeing eing several escaping convicts near ir ifer r home Captain Leach said Trum- Trum l 1 asked him for several men to help kL k putting on a gun show but that had bt branded the idea as S fi us ref refusing sing the request Trum- Trum U however said the shots were I t jred ed by t three rec oU officers and arid one civil- civil an nn without solicitation from the ra- ra operators He denied the broad- broad Ast was erroneous I FUSES FUSES RETRACTION rom From Ralph Atlass president of sta- sta on V WIND IND came a statement that hf tle saw saw no reason why there should WI a retraction n and asserted that his hisa a had nothing to do with th the pickup of the program but id merely rebroadcast it as had hadI her lher stations on th the chain Colum- Colum a He added he couldn't under under- 11 I nd wh why action should be taken his station and not against all alle II ritte e others that participated Sheriff Neel Ned is still stilli i if lt rissing So are all ten of the coni con- con i i who slugged and shot their way i a freedom from the Michigan City lI penitentiary last Tuesday Gov- Gov r Paul V. V McNutt has named a co of three he said to I up on the details of ot prison ministration un under er Warden Louis Junkel Junket r recently ce appointed SMUGGLED S r. r I the nie mek means ns whereby by t ven pistols were smuggled to the I. I tS who esc escaped ped Investigate p reports of a decline In Inz z proficiency allegedly due to the re re- pont replacement of Jt 69 old guards lith ath new men mend earn if it there Is any truth in a reI re- re tri that four a of the new guards are re I ex convicts and t measures to prevent a recur- recur r of the escape WA h in President t Ready to 10 Talk NEW YORK Sept 29 Paul Paui White ite head of Columbia News Ser Ser- vice the affiliate of f the Columbia Broadcasting company which sponsored sponsored sponsored spon spon- a program containing an allegedly allegedly allegedly alleg alleg- edly fake broadcast o of a gunfight be between between between be- be tween Indiana state police and es escaped escaped escaped es- es convicts announced today that he ic had no statement to make inas inas- much as his own O Investigation of ot the facts acts was not c complete He said aid a statement would be forthcoming as soon as he finished his checkup The broadcast he said originated from the Chicago office of the corn com pany |