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Show 'Captain BlaisiOsii Under $10,000 Bond SEATTLE. Wash.. Jan. 2-1. Captain John F. Dlain, formerly Northern Pa cific coast district manager of the llJmorgency Fleet Corporation, was at1 liberty today under $10,000 bond following fol-lowing his "indictment by a federal, (grand jury yesterday on charges o profiting through the sale of material: for use on shipping board vessels. Further Indictments were declared a possibility by W. C Foster, special 'agent of the department of justice, jwhon the grand jury reconvenes next I Tuesday. ' i Two Indictments, one of which contained con-tained fifty counts, were returned t against Captain Blaiu. A charge in- eluded in the indictmonts was that ! Captain Blain had received secret j commissions amounting to ?17.750 arising from contracts between the 'government and a company which he J was an alleged agent, i I Captain Blain la well known in Pa-, jclflc coast shipping circles and at (Boston, where he formerly was an ln-! 'fpector of hulls and boilers. ! |