Check Shows Stock in Federal Bldg. Depleted, Sargent Tells Representative La Guardia After Inquiry.

DISTRICT ATTORNEY INFORMED

Ward Told to Take Criminal Action If He Feels It Necessary.

By Roscoe B. Fleming
Times Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, April 13.—The Squibb liquor stock in the Indianapolis Federal Bldg, is 330 cases short, Attorney General Sargent reported to Representative La Guardia, New York, today.

Sargent added that the shortage had been reported to District Attorney Albert Ward in Indianapolis, and that Ward had been instructed to review all the facts and to take criminal action if he felt it necessary.

Sargent’s letter follows a charge made by La Guardia several weeks ago that part of the liquor, transferred from the Squibb distillery in Lawrenceburg, Ind., had been removed from the Indianapolis building, while under charge of Federal Marshal Linus P. Meredith.