Show US sleuths scan tove low clubs powers case starts government probe of mat tri agencies washington while harry F powers prepares to go to the gallows in march in the state penitentiary at moundsville Mounds ville ava W va federal authorities are making a nationwide investigation of matrimonial agencies and love clubs such as the one through which powers met two live women he murdered there are more than such agencies in the united states it Is asserted and they have more than a million members embers ro including both men and women the government ch charges arges that men and women are not only being swindled by these organizations but also that through them they are also being placed at the mercy of confidence men blackmailers and even killers many others like powers powers ho was condemned to die for killing a chicago woman after he had find made love to her and obtained her money after meeting her through a detroit matrimonial agency Is not the first to take life under such circumstances still remembered Is the case of desire landru called bluebeard the frenchman aho vho bo dismembered the bodies of 11 women to whom he be had made love before robbing and hen then killing them landru lured JUNIOR NET CHAMP IN am Y miss katherine winthrop wynthrop of loston coston made her winter vacation from the foxcroft school in virginia a profitable table one for she successfully defended her national junior girls tennis championship on the longwood covered courts defeating miss jones of swampscott Swamp scott mass in the final his victims through love wanted notices as also alio did bela belai kiss a hung hungarian brinn kiss became engaged to more than women through gli various matrimonial agencies and killed 3 30 10 0 of f them years ago johann floh of chi achl cago became acquainted ith 12 women whom he married robbed and then killed agencies are thriving the rate fate met by the victims of powers has not by any means put a damper on the business of the lie matrimonial agencies and the loe clubs investigating agents haie bae learned hundreds of letters are put into the malls mails every day in all ports parts of the country as men and women from all walks of life take advantage of honeyed offers of soul mates and connubial bliss investigators assert that all acquaintances quain arranged through gli these matrimonial agencies are dangerous there are numerous cases here love club correspondence has resulted in happy marriages but at the same time the lie dangerous contacts so greatly outnumber the safe ones that federal authorities hae assorted that there should be more strict federal feiler nl super supervision lIon of the lie activities of all of them |