Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1929, Page 6

INSANITY DEFENSE SURPRSES BANKER C. D. Waggone: Says Attor- ney’s Plans Had Not Been Revealed to Him. By the Associated Press. OMAHA, Nebr,, September 24.—Pass- ing through here early today en route | to New “York City tc face trial cn | charges of swindling six banks out ori $500,000, C. D. Waggoner, former presi- dent-of the Bank of ITelluride, Col., ex- pressed surprise when told that his at- torngy, S. D. Crump, had announced that insanity would be his defense. “It's the first I have heard of it,” said he. “Of course, i don't know what 1s going on, but that's a surprise to me.” His eyes sparkled and he puffed a little faster on the stump of his cigar ‘when informed that the New York Fed- eral grand jury, by its acticn yesterday, had practically assured Telluride bank depositors ‘the money now -in the bank there.: “Is that a fact?” he askcd. “I don’t know what has been going on, don't even know how much there is to the credit of the.bank new. But if the bank holds it, there's enough for all| depositors and a littls over.” - Asked how he was able to fool the ' New York banks, Wagoner replied: | “I didn’'t fool them. They are prob- | ably fond of us down at Telluride and Were trying to help us " DORAN ORDERS RUM CLEAN-UP IN CHICAGO E. C. Yellowley Returns From | Washington Conference, Where Plans for Action Are Made, By the Associated Preas. CHICAGO, September 24 —E. C. Yel- lowley, Chicago prohibition administra- tor, returned from Washington yester- | day with the information that James M. Doran, chief of prohibition enforce- ment, has ordered an immediate dry clean-up here, Yellowley announced he would call a conference of city, county and State | authorities in a few days to perfect plans for a joint drive. In Washington Yellowley conferred with Commissioner Doran,” George E. Q. Johnson, United States district at- torney for this district, and Alexander Jamie, chief of special agents assigned to this district. Attorney Johnson said plans were made at the Washington conference that would result in ‘“‘more effectively reaching the sources out of which come the income that goes into the treasury | of gangland.” \ N.B.C. TO BROADCAST BITS OF “GAY PARISIAN” LIFE Series of Programs to Start Sunday | Night at 9:15 Over Radio Chain. A new series of radio programs dra- matizing the gay life of Paris will be introduced . over the National Broad- casting System Sunday night at 9:15 o'clock. . “The d'Orsay Parisienne Romance" 1s the title of the new broadcast. Epi- sodes in the lives of the Parisians, the | gay and the smart fllaces of Paris, and i the opera and the theaters will provide the situations and the theme. The cast for the dramatizations will ‘be com] d of & group of experienced | radio players. 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J., September 24.—Doubling his body into a jiu-jitsu twist Maj. Eric Wood of Roosevelt Pield, Saturday night escaped death as his Laird rAn‘cer plane turned a somersault on landing and then broke in half here at Central rport. The ship cracked at the cock-pit in which Wcod was seated. Had he not shoved his doubled body forward into the front half of the parting craft Wood would have been torn in two by the rending of the plane, according to fiyers who observed the accident. ‘More than 100,000 spectators in the airpoft grandstand, shocked to silence when the smoothly gliding plane suddenly upset, gasped as Maj, Wood stepped from the wreckage and walked calmly off the fleld. . The accident occurred just after field with the same debonair aplomb { Wood had won his third race of the as that with which he won the heavy day, the free-for-all, the decision had |commercial plane race and the maneu- been made, and Wood went up in a |verability contest early in the program. climbing bank. Then he turned msl ‘Wood's mishap was the only one that plane, circled the 600-acre port, which [ marred the day's dedication program, was. ‘dedicated today, and des:ended.'kn which Gov. Morgan F. Larson of Thirty' feet from the ground he throt- | New Jersey, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, George Haldemann and other notables T‘gm metshln twlsl.?d. a:e tfell t: her\plmcipnud. side, went over again, and turned for| Rickenbacker flew to Central Afrport the third time, with her cock-pit side- | i a giant Fokker cabin plane. which Wise, disgorged 32 passengers, who witnessed ‘The nose of the ship executed a crazy | the day's events. Haldemann flew in dip and dug into the earth. Then the ; from Wilmington, Del., paused for a plane cracked in half. few moments and then took off for Spectators and ambulance attendants | Canada. The greatest ovation of the day was emerge unscathed from it. 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