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destroyed the town site of Piedrecita., by covering all the houses. The historical town of Tipitara, ordinarily populated by 2,000 people, is sheltering 10,000 refugees. Special trains are running between Managua, Granada and Leon. Physicians and nurses are treating the injured in the marine and naval hospitals. two of the few buildings unharmed by the temblor. Operations and amputations are being performed half-hourly, in full sight of the hundreds of injured being housed in the hospitals. Schildt To Fly Serum. Washington, April (UP) marine aviator who has been the hero of several aerial episodes in the conflict with Nicaraguan Insurrectionists was ordered by the navy tonight on quick flight from Philadelphia to the plague-menaced Nicaraguan capital to carry serum and vaccine. The flier, First Lieutenant C. F. Schildt, was expected to leave Philadelphia early tomorrow on fourstop flight in a trimotor transport, in at. attempt to reach Managua by Sunday evening with 7,500 cuble centimeters of anti-typhoid serum. 8,000 cowpox vaccine, and 20,000 tubes of chloride of lime. Rear Admiral Arthur St. Clair Smith, who flew to Managua today, ordered the medical supplies brought at once. Schildt probably will make stops for fuel at Parris Island, N. C., Cuba and Belize. Horduras. conference. They conducted a midnight meeting in Paducah on the Sunday when the National Bank of Kentucky failed and severed their BancoKentucky The consideration in the reopening of the Security Bank was that the Chemical Bank and Trust Company, New York, would be permitted to sell 2,713 shares of Security stock that PancoKentucky had pledged on note apply to BancoKentucky's credit whatever might be eventually realized out of the sale of the stock. it was reported. None of the bank stocks, it was pointed out, were purchased without an audit, except in the case of the People's-Liberty of Covington. If these investments were unprofitable "there is nothing grand jury can do about it," the report said. Los Angeles, April 3-(AP)-Six former officials of the Pacific National Bank were indicted today by Federal Grand Jury charges of misapplication of $528,400 of the bank's funds. The men are Anthony F. Swensen, Thomas Morrissey, Frank W. Shelton, Robert G. Johnson, Arthur P. Adkisson and James M. O'Brien. Federal officials said depositors were and would not be affected by the alleged loss. two defunct banks in Newton County, Mississippi, on charges that include forgery false pretense was disclosed with their arrest today. They are: S. D. Rudsell, Vice President and Director of the Bank of Hickory at Hickory; A. S. McLendon, Vice President and Director of the Bank of Hickory, and Chairman of the State Legislature's Committee on Banks and Banking: W. M. McLendon, Cashier of the Bank of Hickory, and H. N. Brown, Cashier of the Citizens' Bank of Newton. They were released under bonds of $1,000 each. The indictments grew out of the failure of the banks early last year.
