New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 8, 1928, Page 10

+ /0 woman Who Pursues Bootleggers Lavishes Her Love On Children Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Who Has Adopted Daugh- ter, Has Well Defined Theories on How to Raise Youngsters. (BY JOHN W. DALY) Washington, D. C., Sept. $—Aside from her interes: in night clubs— that is, the closing of them—Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assist- ant United States Attorney General, in charge of prohibition enforce- ment, has another hobby, to wit; the rearing and raising of children. As in everything she does, Mrx Willebrandt has thrown her heart and soul into the problems that af- fect childhood. She has adopted a daughter, Mabel, Jr, and is now contemplating the addition of an adopted son, to take his place in the Willebrandt household, though of this Mrs. Willebrandt has pre- cious little to say; if anything. I would rather discuss children in general, instead of any specific child,” she said, waving aside ru- meors. Though Mrs. Willebrandt is a busy woman—probably one of the busiest women in the entire United States, what with the direction of raids on New York night clubs, and long lines of congressmen and news- papermen who hesicge her offic day in and day out—she has always time to devote to a discussion of her cherished subject, children. It might easily be supposed that a woman engaged in putting the mailed firt of the law on the necks of criminala would be a bit harden- ed; that there would courar through her voice precious littie of that fluid known as the milk of human kindness. In refutation, there are the kindly, the sparkling blue eyes of Mrs. Willebrandt, when she is talking of children. Yet, she is not a sentimentalist. Far from it. She is & practical student of child be- havior. So, when she was asked what, in all her experience, she be- lieved to be the best method ‘of raising a child, she said, a smile spreading her features: “It T told you out right, some of my friends would probably think I am ultra severe.” “Well,” came “what of 1t?” She thought for a while. ‘Willebrandt chooses her words with care, mulls over ideas that go trouping through her head, inspects them, like a hard-boiled captain his company, before she allows them to go out on parade. Believes in Discipline “] am a firm believer in disci- * Mrs. Willebrandt declared. emember what Napoleon said? “Well, it seema® that a fond mother, anxions to have her littlc boy, then six months old, emulate the example of the conqueror, told him she would start in on the dis- ciplinary methods when the baby was one year old. *That, madam,” replied the Little Corporal, or words to such effect, “will be one year too late.” Taking & leaf from the journals ot the Emperor, Mrs. Willebrandt believes that the time to start child training is one day after birth. Habits begin to form just about that time, she believes. If there is one thing Mrs. Wille- brandt does not want to do, it is this: set herself up as an authority on the raising of children. “Heavens,” she almost exclaimed, but did not, “I can imagine a lot of mothers saying, ‘What does that woman know about children, since the only one she has is an adopted chila’?” That, of course, is the touch of womanhood from time immemorial. Yet, mothers to the contrary not- withstanding, Mrs. Willebrandt does know about children—and she comes by her knowledge honestly, and almost as an impartial observer. Bince she has attained the prom- inent position thrust upon her by her successful invasion into politics, forsaking the schoolroom to become one of the leading lawyers of the United States, the life of Mrs. Wille- brandt is somewhat akin to the pro- verbial gold fish. “I can’t do any- thing but what it gets into the newspapers,” she moans, and so. moat of her activities are chronicled, sometimes even before they are ic- complished. In the case of the con- templated adoption of a baby boy, the world at large knew of it even before she had made a d¢finite de- cision. So she soft-pedals all of that, though she admits that this is a thought occupying her earrest consideration, and chances are she will adopt a boy. If she does, will be because of the inherent mother-love that is £0 much a pari @8 her make-up; of her life. And here, If & fact that is not generally knfown is let loose upon the public, it is done so to furnish further proof of the assertion: Mrs, Wille- brandt lost her own child in the carly stages of life. Once a mother, then, always a mother “I think I am a different mother than the average.” says Mre. Wille- brandt, “because the average moth- er is 50 much younger-—say, abeut twenty years of age—and therefore, that early human inclina- tion to indulg: the child in all its whims and fancies. As we gt old- er we with clearer vision. At least 1 think so. That is why, at my age. 1 can do soni- of thing that perhaps would seem severe to the younger mother Tells Her Aze Mrs. Willehrandt is one of men not tell confessing el Her adopted daughter ¢ life some thre of two. “Her says the suggestion, Mrs. there s, tee afraid an o he appr to forty me o her years ngo, at the age given nom othy Mrs. Wil wants to be cail and that it is In talking children, Mrs. 2 thirty years in her childhood loads of little throngh the eonnir They ean. caplains “poor lecs put on tion 1 ing t om: mind arose children m was 1 w orphans little sxhibition chil romender my o ehildien, Always that it 1 wonld prrhaps trer of fact s i \brandt could follow her heart's in- clinations, she might adopt an en- tire orphan asylum. The mere the | merrier, in her estimation. n the adoption of children,” she was asked, “are you not afraid of | hereditary influences playing a pa of environment having cut a deepe swath than you imagine, of—?" he did not use the word poppy cock; but in her tone was the equi- valent think,” “that most | that old ho, | aid Mrs. Willebrandt, people have shaken oft | . the tear of heredity |that we have, as a nation, if it can Le put that way, come out of the |shadow of the valley of heredita linfluences. At least, we are up on the hillside.” | Heredity infiuences. Environ- ment. Certainly they play their part in life, but over and against these {are those other important factors in {the raising of children—discipline, indulgence, example, good or bad, {love, neglect, sympathetic under- standing, misunderstanding, gui- dance, and a world and contributing influence !shape and mold the r. here is no more Mteresting pa time in all the world than watching | young life develop, the formation of character, the growing of a boy or girl from infancy into adolescence and then on into manhood or won |anhood. In an age when economic | conditions have brought about the | smaller family, Mrs. Willebrandt be- ieves there are more people inter- ested in adopting children than we |ever Lefore engaged in this benevo- |lent work. “Children are who have not children of own,” said Mrs. Willebrandt. America, especially, the supply | demand are about equal, so children deprived of parents, or | Whose parents cannot afford to support them, have good chances of finding splendid homes." The home means so much to lit- |tle children, according to Mrs. Willebrandt. It plays an all-impor- | tant part in the shaping of destiny; far more than the average person realizes. In her work as a school teacher, she was seven years prin- cipal of schools in northern Mis- souri, Mrs, Willebrandt declares that most of her troubles in the class- | room were the result of habits formed and developed in the hom At the mother's knee, in the bosom of the family ,the child gets started on the right or the wrong track. Forces striving for recogni- tion in, later life gather momentum there. In the formative years, crim- | inals and highly esteemed citizens are in the making and at home. Be- cause she believes the first impres- sions in a child's life are the all-im- portant ones, Mrs. Willebrandt lays particular stress on the first years of life. Mother Love Greatest Factor Mother love, in all its wide rang: of emotion, can either muke or| break & child. So says Mrs. Wille- brandt. It means that a mother, by over-indulgence and by over-fond- | ling a youngster, by placing too fre- | quently protective arms about it, by trying to save it from all knock and bumps, may make a weukling of her offspring. It mcans, too, that properly dirccted mother love can hoist to the very highest heights the | soul entrusted to its care. The case, of Col. Charles A. Lindberg is cited. | Had his mother’s love contained too | much restraining caution, it might | easily have turned the boy's fancy | into a more sombre and safer walk | of life | In the examination of criminals during the course of her legal work, Mrs. Willebrandt has had oc to delve beneath the surface. has asked, whenever opportunity presented itself, “What were the underlying forces that brought this man or this woman to such posi i tion?" Always the answer pointed back to intancy, to childhood day to the home where, she says, for the want of a better word, an inferiority | complex was developed. “I dislike the use of that word ‘compl id Mrs. Willebrandt, but it is the only one that applies. | By fear. by unwarranted force, by the exercise of malign influence over | the will of the child, by some odds | | the youngster felt uncqual to ove: | cone, latent strength h was never quite + develop there was the beginning of a cow- jard and later 6f a criminal. Over- | fondling mothers, women who arc constantly picking up their children Kissing them. sooth- | ing their humped heads and making | much ado over nothing partly | responsible for many of sad cases that appear in the police of the land. They make of their childrer 100, are to blum: Ise pr the I same that young help char- ac | those their wanted by nd ) caressing them the courts weakli | thers With | wish zoing they | viop | to through the 1 to endure sorl of t prevent from hardship na xo ) 4 of stumina the y Willehr are real riod, as. adversely, are fuare in life, While cssentially the Labora e all this fine il he So nt of 1 siznitic in- fancy be lieves geniu for in that p mast of th» the home is ory wherein is il e counted me me iome | m iphasized ent Jevel ef he ry i nearly e Knowy mankind ries of lite, g ) 1 er e e 7 o wealth of | that | vears to impress the Lity, | are important in th, Lauick to I spiritual home, or the home of spirituality—not one of those goody- goody sort of places, you understand. but a dwelling that, while it may not have everything in a material sense yet has something more—a good father and a good mother who, at an early age, inculcate in their offspring the ideals of life. There can ,of course, be a coupling of the material and the spiritual homes. In the estimation of Mrs, Wille- brandt ,the spiritual is what counts. She is afraid that by over-emphasis of outward objects and by neglect of sowing the inner seeds of sanctity. most of the spiritual forces that shape a chtld's life are lost. These are brought to bear on youngsters even before the power of memory 18 developed, which usually begins somewhere between the fourth and fifth years .In the period gone be- fore, the subconscious mind is ex- ceedingly active. Impressions, feel- ings, Rabit-forming tendencies, are constantly coming into being. So there is a serious side even in the moral life of innocents. Life's Greatest Blessing Mrs. Willebrandt, like most wom- en, recognizes in little children, | 1ife's greatest blessings. “You would think," the suggestion was offered, “that anyone—man or woman—would be willing to make srifices for little children.” Sacrifices for children. The idea did not sit well with Mrs. Wille- brandt. Somehow, she did not see where there was any sacrifice needed. “Well, take the economical aspect of the thing—what about those people who believe, honestly, they {cannot afford the incidental ex- penses that go with the rearing of little ones?" There was, of course, something to that! Children, as well as grown- ups, must eat—and they must be clothed, kept warm in winter, cool | in the summer, but—Well, where therc's a will there's a way. Young mothers, of course, count their sacrifices in the hours they cannot spend away from their off- | spring—unable to get maids, and nurses, and capable care, or what- ever it is; but are these really sac- rifices? The question was in Mrs. Willebrandt's eyes rather than on her lips. To the observer, Her idea) ems to be that children, in them- ‘lves, offer so much outright joy that to talk of sacrifice in their subjective discussion amounts some- what to sacrilege. This, of course, merely an impression. Another impression is that she always has in mind the obedient child, and by this she lays great stress and store. “The obedient child.” says Mrs. Willebrandt, emphatically, “is the happiest child.” Obedience, she believes, s taught at the crib, Authority there well asserted. By dint of constant hovering and practice, if you will, it asserts itself in terms so unmistakable that the child never forgets. The main problem of childhood, says this woman, is to adjust itself to adult standards. “We are con- stantly asking that—that the little | child, knowing no standards, shall | conform to the standards of its| elders, By right of experience, of having been here before, to put it that way. there is only one way a new. comer into this world may become acquainted with the laws that have been in existence all these years that is. by learning them from the grown-ups. Insofar as the grown- upd teach the leesons, and teach them well, so far will the children advance. Spoiled children are the bane of existence, Indulgent influences in the forma- tive years of childhood wreak dev- stating conscquences in later life, Mrs. Willebrandt believes—and she bases her conclusions on an intense study of the science of human con- duct. She formed this view after extensive dealing with those who violate the law. A yearly average of more than 5000 defendants parade before her watchful eyes— persons who scheme to beat Uncle Sam out of taxes or those who have taken up the profitable if | somewhat reprehensible profession of bootlegging; or is it a trade? The government itself, and par- ents, too, are prone to forget one contributing influence to the making of criminals, Mrs. Willebrandt opines. That is, the neglect of proper guidance in the early years of childhood. Inattention to disci- plinary methods, failure in the early young Idea what it's all about” is one of the contributing causcs of crime. In other words, the gentle art of spoil- | ing children makes inmates, later| on, for the penal institutions of the and. A startling number of these behind the bars were, in carly life, | spoiled children—according to this authority. First-laid best is | impressions of author- | of law, of truth, of self-denial, raising of chil- says Mrs. Willebrandt. If| are made properly there is| ause for worry. The child is | dren thes Tittle urally 9 wuant to in-| their babies | dnlg, The warning is, | Children Always Bad + tragedy of it all s, in the cs- timation of Mrs. Willebrandt, and of those psycholozists she has studied, notably ~ Dr. Alfred Adler, spoiled children do not mend their ways. It is characteristic of all speiled children that they cannot shake off the 1 habits formed in early life] Many children have been hampered il through life by too much indul- at home, hy wrong and thoughless methods. This scems to bhe an established fact Over and against fhese es in the life of the t Mrs. Willebrandt likes to call the spiritual forcos—love. fo hegin with: truth, for the child must come into contact with this forth- vight and forthwith: faith, that the | child shall know where fo place its trust and selt-reliance, which Vdomaiden ot eanr: exil influ- | child are is the ha o oa el and in no way ndulgenes. All - of htily, in bringing cantrol nliness life. 8o Mrs these holp, | self- in be- ahont mantine w v Willebrandt | steel to enable them to ikin to self- | ) period of Infancy, the first four years, at least, and ‘there will be little need' for the administering of severe punishment later. _Beware of tears Those great big drops that start in the lacrymal ducts and gradually find their way down robust cheeks are seductive sirens—and yet, according to Mrs. Willebrandt, they work, in the end, toward the child's undoing; for, by letting children believe that tears will save them they eventually be- come lost—the children, not the tears. Like charity, diacipline should begin at home, and Mrs. Wille- brandt believes that, before admin. istering to thelr offspring, parents should, first of all, take a bit of this potent remedy themselves—so as to instill in their souls enough forge the temptation of indulging where in- dulgence is poisonous. It takes quite an understanding love to say ‘No,"” when it is s0 easy, at a given moment,, to say “Yes." No baby is too young to learn obedience, states Mrs. Willebrandt. What happens in the home is, in a small way, what will happen again in the larger aphere of action they call the world; for the home, after all, i a miniature state of its own, a place where the authority cxerted is merely the first begin- nings of the law of the stage. A nation, someone has said, is merely a family grown large. DAVIS CUP GONE FOR FIVE YEARS |William M. Joboston Gives Yaeifs 0D 'fCdiisd Viuook Philadelphia, Sept. 8 (@—William M. Johnston, the imuortal “Little Bill” of tennis, who is here for the Pranco-American team thinks it may be “five or six years” before the Lnited States wins back the Davis'cup. The former “mighty atom" of the courts, now a tired San ancisco stock and bond saleSiian on a ‘a- cation, saw little ground for op- timism in the opening of the two- day serics yesterday when the French won three of the four played. After watch.ng Henri Cochet de- feat George Lott, 6-1, 6-3; Jeun Borotra down John Hcennessy, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4; and Christian Doussus and Pierre Landry trim John Doeg and Junior Coen in doubles, 6-2, 7-5 while Johnny Van Ryn won the only American victory by scores of 6-3, 6-2 over Jacques Brugnon, Lit- tle Bili was more inclinded to talk of Cochet’s play than of winning back the cup. What impressed him most of all, he said, was “the great- ly improved playing of Cochet.” There was no one on the courts, I'rench or American, who could or the other great French star, Rene Lacoste,” Little Bill went on “and until America develops some one who can beat them, the Davis cup will st in France. “These young IFrench players are all right,” said Bill, “but they are not in the class with those two. ‘They're no better than our youn ters. Great stars like Cochet and Lacoste come only once in a tennis generation. It's all just a regular cycle, We had our day and were on top for seven years. Now the I'rench are up there. How long they will stay lepends on Lacoste and Cochet, “Lacoste’s game is so perfect that it requires constant practice to kecp it up to pitch. But he's like 1 was, he has other interests than tenms. I understand that now instead of making this trip with the French tcam he is devoting his time to busi- ness, 1. peak, but he and Cochet should hold on for five or six years more, if they keep at it. “Cochet in beating Lott so struck me as u very much playe since 1 played against him in the Davis cup matches here a year ago. Cochct used to be somewhat er- ratic but now I am considerably im- pressed by the all-around soundness of his game. You saw what he did to Lott and Lott is considered one of our best players. “1 don't believe nessy will be able French. We'll Lott and Hen- to topple the have to wait ch chaps as Van Kyn and Coel I think Coen is probably the best prospect we have, “Docg. 1 think, about as far as has he zone will go. just He | really reached his peak three years 8o No, there’s no one else in sight out on the coust, yet some one may bob up almost any time. lit docsn't take long. and Lacoste, Johnston believes his famous running mate, Big Bill Til- den, in his prime could have beaten either one the best day they cver played. Little greates The hoy Bill thinks Big Bill was the ever, of American ten- nis. b from amateur play on account of hix writings. is not in this series, however, and the Ameri- can team. playing without him on the Germantown Cricket club courts where he Jearncd the game, today faced the task of winning four out of five mat or losing the series to the French. The schedule fof today: m.—Rene Do Buzelet Hunter. ndry vs. Docg Coen. anW Brugnon vs. Lott and Cochet and I Alligon and Van Ryn Allison yesterday s« Helen Wills, 61 Fibition which showed her no 1 for one of the country's top ing men players. Allison s No. overwhelmed f-1.in an ex- ateh FGULAR AIR S Petting ot just 14 Pahying fios in the this e Al it's er Fondling should Discipline, <tern and unyield bt alwavs acconpanied by dis- | 10 he thing. Given ! of this, over the l nursery law ary what a toman vdve ate s busine i« not od ited | amplets do, Air are Calais sept jaunts to England in 15 minute offered the publie at France's first port. Three small sea- reh earrving the pilot and naer Fave opened a comnany’s servie and to he opsrated within a year if all gocs well. anaplane commereial matches, | come up to the standard of Cochet | ste probably has rcached his | I had not scen him in action | for | But great as he considers Cochet | Buzelot vs. Wilmer | MISS AGNES O LIVIA CARLSON M. and Mrs. John E. Carlson of 69 Maple Hill avenue, an- nounce the engagement of their daughter, Agnes Olivia, to {Edmund A. Klukas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Klukas of 49 { Linden street. No date has been set for the wedding. BERLIN NEWS (Continued from Page Seven) Boys' club nine of Kensington last | night lost the chance to tie the Worthington Juniors for the town junior championship and the last inamed team captured the silver lov- ing cup offcred the winners. ‘The Kensington Boys' club team won by a 6 to 4 score. was played in Kensington, Personals Miss Helen Skinner, a nurse Greenwich hospital, Greenwich, is visiting with her parents, Mr. and ner of Seymour road. Mr. Mrs. Joscph Horn and daughter, Helen, who have been spending a fow days as the guests of IMr. and Mrs. Frank Pierpont of Kensington will return to their home |in Detroit tomorrow. They were on {an automobile tour of the White | Mountains und Canada previous to their arrival in Kensington. Mr. and Mrs. Claude W. Stevens {and family have returned from De- troit, at East Berlin Items | Hervices ¢t the Methodist church will be held toriorrow merning at the usual hours. Morning worship at 10:45 o'clock with preaching by | the pastor, Rev. A. 1. Burgreen | Sunday school at 12 o'clock Th. Junior league will meet at 3:00 ,@'clock. The cvening service will be {held at 7:30 o'cloc The morning service at 8. Ga- briel's Episcopal church will be held tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock and will be conducted by Rev. Benjamin | B. Styring of New Britain. Church [ achool sessions will be resumed in the near future. Miss Virginia Walsh was pleasant- Iy surpiised by a number of her friends last cvening in the social St. Gabriel's Episcopal church. A social time was enjoyed, imes and cards being played. Miss Walsh was presented with a purse of money. The Pythian outing will not be { held tomorrow as originally sched- luled. The event will not be held | this year. it 15 said. The Modern Woodmen will Monday evening at 8 o'clock Athletic hall. Mr. znd Mrs, Theodore Carns re- { rooms of | meet at irelatives in Bridgeton, N. J. The football squad vill hold a practice ncar the Hubbard school tomorrow merning at 10:30 o'clock. Candidates for the team are elizible " from all over the fown, Scrimmag- |ing will be started tomiorrow it is | expected be held Mond the rooms unl The East y evening at 8 o'clock Methodist church social 5 ot ise announced. Berlin list of new vot- crs for this year is the largest ever | recorded. There are 40 new voters to be made on September 15, ac- cording to an announcment by Royal Morse, registrar of voters. These will not b [ the caucus on Monday evening. Ar- [rangements are being de for | transportation for all wishing to at- | tend the caucus. Night school, 86 month. Al hook Connecticut Britain.- day school, $15 1 and supplies free. Business College, New adt., Gil May Be Elected el Provisional Head Mex'co City, Sept. 8 (P —Support en Emilio IPortes Gil, secretary of industry, by the majority bloc of the chamber of deputies will be guf- |ficient to elect him provisional pr ident if there is no further chang |in the political situation. Meeting in caucus, deputies | requested their leader, Ricardo To- i pete. who supported General Manuel | 1erez Trevino, governor of Coahuila, Ifor the office, to resign. They then “decided to vote for Portes Gil when meets 1o elect a PESOT 1to P'resident Calles, whose term ex- pires on December 1 see DIES O rittsfiold, M FRACTURE ) SKULL Sopt. 8 - Michasl Furey, a city employe., died in Hous: of Mercy hospital yes- terday afternoon of fractured ekull. suffered when he struck by a trucs eperated by Burt C. Smith, employed by a coal company. The game ' | turned last evening from a visit with | A mecting of, the Wesleyans will made eligible to vete in | PLAINVILLE NEWS (Continued from Page Seven) in the morning, and they will re- port i full éress uniform. Edward R. Modeley and Melvin Hart are in charge of arrangements. High School Footbell I"'ootball formed the chicf item ot discussion at a joint assembly of the | High school and Junior High school pupils yesterday afternoon, and {Vice Principal Douglas MacDonald and Coach Caulfield sketched plans for th: coming season. Iour games |Pave already been contracted for nd others ure being arranged. The first practice will be held Monday night. Just what Plainville High's chances will be is problematical, as several of its be men have grad- vated Lut there remain a number of veterans fiom year as well as some from other years who did not try out last fall, put Meoting Boy Scout Troop 23 will resume lits weekly mcetings Monday eve, |ning, when it will meet at 7:30 |o'clock at the parish house of the Church ef Our Saviour. A full at- tendance is requested No Game Tomorrow Plainville will be without a base- ball game tomorrow. Most of the | All-Plainville players are panning to attend the Yankee-Athle ble header in New York city, {no game has been scheduled them. Wins Poultry Iizes | English gray Dorcans raised by [dohn Ive of Plainville took two |first prizes and one sccond award at the Connec fair at Charter OQak this | week. for | A s born yesterday to M. Mrs. Fred Hart of Pierce | street, Mr. and Mrs. George O. Hodge land Migs Edith M. Knill of Trum- bull avenue have returned from a ion spent in the White moun- nd at Lake Winnepesaukee, Night school. $6; day school, $15 a month. All books and supplies free. Connecticut Dusiness College, New Britein.—adt. Youthful Flier Of On Trip to New York Rockingham, N. C., Scpt. 8 (P— Joe Garside, d to be the younge:st authorized airplane pilot in America, left here yesterday on |a non-stop fiizht to New York. To- | ¢ay he expeets to continue to Bos- {ton. his home. The Jad came to Charlotte weeks ago to visit relatives and be- | He took course | his ag an aviation instruction and. though on account of a pilot’s license could not be obtained for him, he sccured an of- fcial government permit. Tod flight wus the fir long one he has |attempted. He was accompanied by | passenger. L. E. Shealey of Char- Totte, i 'Duqzie to Be Acting Head of Panama o Sept. § (A—It was learn- ‘rml semi-officially yesterday that Tomas Gabriel Duque, first vice president, will become acting presi- dent. toda President Rodolto [ Chiari, whose term: cxpires on Oct. 1, has ok ned a Jeave bhecause of Lill health, Duque, who is 35 ¥ of Wwill he the voungest executive head that Panama has ever had. He owns three of the leading newspapers in | Panama City and has an interest in {others in the interior. | the recent ational Arozemena to succecd Chiari. ¥ age. ident | French Ffiers {0 Get Sorie Spare Parts | Perpignan, France, Sept. 8 (P — Sorgeant Jean Assolant arrived by irplane yesterday en route for Paris to obtain parts needed to re- pair the “Canary Bird.” in which he wo companions had flown to blanca, Morocco. He declared | his intention, with Kergeant Rene | Lefesre, of carrying on his flight to Tirazil as soon as the plane is re- paired. He left by train for Paris. six | [came interested in becoming a pilot. | LOMBARDA SHOT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT Death of Frank Uale Chicago, 8ept. 8§ UP—Tony Lom- bardo's dead, a dum-dum bullet in his bruin. The vengeance of Frank Uale, slain New York gangster, has spoken. Never was murder done more boldly. Thousands of persons were pushing along in the late Friday aft- ernoon crush when the loop canyons echoed to the roar of assassins’ guns, and Lombardo, pal of Al Capone, pitched forward on his face. The slayers could not have gotten half a block from the vicinity of 61 West Madison street, in front of which Lombardo fell, before bedlam broke. 8cores had secn the shots fired, hundreds had aeen the three gunmen drop their =till smoking weapcns to the pavement and then lose themselves in the crowd; thou- sands had heard the shots, while cther thousands poured to the mur- der scene from adjacent streets and office buildings, adding to the con- fusion. L Many Guns Not in a long time has the sun gleamed on the barrels of so many revolvers, unsheathed for action, as it saw in the hands of police yester- day afternoon. Detectives in plain clothes, squad men and traffic offi- cers, pistols ready, dotted the crowds as the blood of Lombardo oozed onto the sidewalk from the ugly bullet hole behind his ear. The downtown, daylight murder of the one time head of the Unione Siciliano meant more to police than the passing of another gang chief. In the blood of Lombardo they saw the handwriting of Frank Uale's avengers. They saw the outbreak of new gang gunning. this time on an inter-city scale,” with the bad men of New York and Chicago aligned against each other. Marked Man Capone, they said, is a marked man. His close alliance with Lom- bardo was well known. The Altello | brothers, down in the police cata- logue as bitter foes of Capone and Lombardo, also were mentioned frequently as the best sleuths of the newly reorganized police force studied the long and involved rami- fications of gang murders, seeking a lead that would take them to Lombardo’s murderers. The Uale connection was explain- ed this way: Uale was shot down presumably by Chicago gunmen. Capone’s name was brought into that case by reason of the belief that he had been instrumental in obtaining the weapons with which Uale was killed. New York gang- sters, therefore, might have picked | Lombardo, Capone's close associate, as the victim by whose assassina- tion they meant to answer the guns that got Uale. Powerful Men Both Lombardo and Uale were Sicillans, cach powerful in his ter- ritory. Each dominated large groups, collecting tribute, police said, in many forms. Lombardo, os- tensibly a commission broker, was | reputed to have had a monopoly on |the sale of sugar to hundreds of | persons engaged in the manufacture of bootleg alcohol. *“King of the Mafla” was a title police often placed in opposition to his name. Lombardo was in his early forties. The gangster rarely lives to be much older. When he ‘was Killed he had a revolver, but it -was still in his pocket when police reached his | body. Two bodyguards were with Lom- bLardo when the shooting took place. One of them, Joseph Ierraro, was shot in the back and may die. Jo- seph Lolordo escuped the gunfire and was pursuing the killers when ! police stopped him | Polic #peculated on the po: I bility that Lombardo’s death might | mean the transfer of the control ot | thousands of votes which Lombardo |is belicved to have possessed. Not | '. ce five men shot down Dion | O'Banion in his flower shop has | !there been a slaying as portentous of future warfare as this one, po- lice said. Marked for Deat It has been no-scerct for months | that Lombardo wus marked for death, and even before the Uale | killing in New York attempts were made against his life. Once polics runcovered @ small arsenal in A |building across from Lombardo's ihame. The muzzle of a machine gun ‘was aimed at -the Lombardo front door. Later officers ided a room in a downtown hotel and found several machine guns in position to i { | of Oklahoma City, | nood of their scured field. be fired across the street into a cigar store which Lombardo and arface Al" frequented. | Investigators of yesterday’s Kill- |ing got little help from either of | Lombardo's bodygyards. They told | Ferraro he was dying, but he only | shrugged his shoulders and would | not talk. Lolordo was more talkative but pleaded ignorance of any con- | nection with Lombardo. | long Conference At Lombardos office in a build- {ing near the place he was slain, po- lice found several chairs arranged in a semi-circle, as though a confer- ence had been held. The floor was covered with cigar and cigarette ashes, as though the conference had been a long one. Lombardo's name, in his own handwriting, was scrib. bled on several pieces of paper scat- l(l’rml about. No two storics of the killing were ike. Police pinned their confidence on that told by Omar Riffle, who | | elections, | & clected pres. | said rather vaguely that he was from West Virginia.” Riffie aaid: * “] was standing back of Lom- bardo when he was shot. ] saw & man come from the doorway of the restaurant we were passing, and run toward Lombardo's back. I losked away for a second. and then came the shots. Lombardo fell and the: everyone started first one way al then another, and the men With guns were running around the cor- ner and policemen were running to- ward the men who were ghot. “It was only a minute before the streets were jammed with people.” EL PASO NEXT ON ROUTE OF FLIERS (Continued from First Page) Worth from Kansas City. His un- ofticial time from New York w 14:14 as compared with 15:08 for Robert Dake, Pitsburgh, whose speedy American Moth . hgs held second place from the start, Rankin Fourth Tex Rankin, Portland, Ore., defy- ing superstition with a huge white *13" emblazoned on - his Waco, loomed as a threat in the race when he moved into fourth place in the clapsed time with 16:43. Rankin was credited unofficially with cove ering the 200 mile leg from Okla- homa City to Fort Worth in 1 the fastest time reported. He ar- rived here with the upper wing of his plane torn and filled with wuter, The dumage was caused when a dit lodged wind indication spinner was blown .through the linen. W. N. Emery, Jr.. Bradford, Pa, in a Travelair was third in elapsed time with 16:18. Several pilots increased their po- sitions materially. Louis Derryberry, Abilene, Tex, in a Travelair landed in his home srate in 11th position after leaving Kansas City 23rd. George W. Hop- kins, Detroit, flying a Stinson Jr., moved from tith to fifth place and Dale G. Jackson, St. Louls, in a Swallow, advanced from 10th to fourth, Fliers Oft Roosevelt Field, N. Y. BSept. § (A—L. A. Shoenhair of Los Angeles took off at 6:18 a. m. (eastern standard time) today, leading the departure of planes in the class 1 race of the transcontinental air derby to l.os Angelea. C. W. (Speed) Holam of 8t. Paul, the winner of a $10,000 prize in last year’s derby, was next away. “We'll win,” Holam said just before he ave his clipped wing Laird the 'gun” and roared down the field. Intervals of one minute passed between the departure of each craft of their four day journey of ap- proximately 3,000 miles to the Paci- fic ‘coast. The planes headed for McKeesport, Pa., the first of 13 stops to be made, before the race ends at Mines Field, Los Angeles. Stuart F. Auer of Milwaukee, took the air a minute after Holman, and was followed by Paul R. Breniff G. C. Quick of Wichita, Kans., John H. Livingston of Monmouth, 1., M, Whitin Whitt- all of Worcester, Mass., John R. Wod of Wausau, Wis., Erreld Bohl, and E. E. Ballough, of Chicago. Conquers Fog Pittsburgh, Pa., Conquering & dense fog over the Pittsburgh dis trict .the first of the Class B trans- continental air derby entries reached Ilettis fleld this morning from Roosevelt field. John H. Livingston of Monmouth, Tl flying his Waco plane, and accompanied by M. B. |Allen of Troy, O., landed at 10:12:20 a. m., eastern daylight time. No Visibility McKeesport, Pa., Bept. 8§ (® — With the fog so dense that objects could not be distinguished 50 feet away, officers at Bettis field here sent up red flares this morning in the hope that they might provide & guide for the entries in the trans. | continental air derby due here from | Roosevelt tield, New York. Fliers here gaid that it was re- markable that any of the aviators would be able to cross the dangerous mountains east .of . 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