New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 28, 1930, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press EW BRITAIN HER Average Daily Circulation For Week Endmg 15 266 Oct. 25th . ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1930.—TWENTY-TWO PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS GAS DRIVES- RESCUE CREW OUT OF OKLAHOMA MINE; 26 MEN BELIEVED DEAD Oficls Abandon IR, VARGAS LIKELY Practicaly A1 Hone 7] [AN [ADER For Workers — Coal Damp So Thick That Four Cornered Fight Believed Near Settlement Efforts to Reach Low- \SITUATION CLEARING UP | o er Levels Fail. [ Capt. Juarez Willing to Accept Any | Four Bodies Seen on 1bth Level—Experts Estimate| It Will Take Crew of Six | Five Hours to Carry One e Body From Lower Level The Brazilian insurgents' four-cor- |nered fight for control of the gov- to Open Air. |ernment, let without a head by de- position of Dr. Washington Luis. was | believed here (P— | settled finally | Getulio egime. Solution That Pleases Majority— | New Leader Not Yet in City But | Expected Soon. today to have been with selection of Dr. Vargas to lead the new | McAlester, Okla., Oct. today drove rescue from the lower levels of the Wheat- | ley No. 4 coal mine, tomb of 28 miners since an explosion last night, nd ofticials virtually —abandoned lope that any of the trapped men would be found alive. One man was killed at the head of the mine by the blast. Bodies of four trapped miners were sighted on the 16th level. Several rescue workers were overcome by the gas, known as coal damp, and one, Jghn Moore, was carried from the mine. Damp Drives Men Bacl The damp sent rescuers—num- bering about 50—back to the 10th level of the mine where ventilation |should be suspended immediately. was good. Efforts were being-made | Previously the president of Rio lo obtain brattice cloth to curtain |Grande Do Sul (presumably Dr. off mine entries and aid ventila- | Osvaldo Aranha, president pro-tem.) tion lower down. | nad telegraphed the northern leader | Workers estimated it would re- |to continue his march beyond Bahia, | quire six men five hours to carry one | where he is now located, if he fel Lody from the lower levels, because |it necessary. of the mass of debris to be tra- Juarez Quite Willing versed. L Captain Juarez is understood here | Miller D. Hay, chief mine inspec- 4o have indicated to friends his will- tor, who entered the workings On |ingness to accept whatever solution | his arrival early today from Ada.|of the situation may be | Okla., was authority for the state-|worked out at Rio de Janeiro, choos- | ment there was little hope for the 28 3 worke Situation Cleared Up | Advices from Rio de Janeiro fn- dicated a clearing up of the situa- | |tion created by rival political antag- | {onisms of the military junta which ousted Dr. Washington Luis as pres- ident, Dr. Vargas, leader of the southern revolutionary army, insur- | |gent elements in Minas Geraes, and | Captain Juarez Tavora, leader of the | northern revolutionary army. Captain Juarcz received a tele- gram from the chief of general staff stating: “General Fragoso (head of | the military junta) has invited Dr. | Vargas to assume charge of the | |government. Accordingly hos | stepson, | messengers | for business today, clerical force arrived, then made the | | them up against the wall beside t Half an hour later the | ’———-'—— L Accused in Slaying 1 Associated Press Photo Minnie Stull of Princeton, who is accused of murder of her Mickey Stull, who met death by falling or being immersed in a tub of boiling water. BANDITS ESCAPE W. Va.,, degree INS200000 HAUL Compel Manager fo Get Safe Combination by Phone OTHER ~ EMPLOYES TIED | Robbers Enter Jewelry Store, Cow Negro Porter, Force Workers (o Allow Themselves to Be Tied Up —“Clean” Vault. Oct. 28 (A—Two self- assured robbers posing as telegraph tos a New York, entrance nea gained Broadway jewelry store, Times Square, waited until the manager open the safe and escaped with jewerly valued at $200,000. They cowed a Negro watchman with pistols before anyone else came then as the clerks arrived, lined he watchman. manager came and confessed he knew the combination of the safe. two hours before it opened | GEORGE V. OPENS PARLIAMENTWITH ' = Plans Atlantic Hop —_— WACDONALD NOTE ‘British Monarch Reads Speechi Prepared for Him by His Labor Ministry TIME-HONORED PAGEANTRY | OBSERVED FOR OCCASION | Address From Throne Deals With ‘ Election Reform, Indian Round | .Table Conference, Disarmament Convention, Unemployment. Eco- | nomic Depression, Raising of Age the first | 8-year-old | for Compulsory School Attendance | Oct. government, S (P—1] in Tondon) Mac- | Donald | speech from the throne made a definite he l\ng of parliament |bid for vocating manded by the liberal party which | holds the balance of power. | King George, recovered from his long illness, convened parliament for its winter on with all the pa- geantry customary for |He read the nine-minute speech |from the throne, in a firm resonant voice. International relations, India, un- | cmployment, clectoral reform and laws relating to trade disputes and | |trade unions were the high spots | |touched upon by his majesty in the | speech by which the laborite govern- |ment has now outlined its program | | before parliament. | The lords adjournment was until tention in office by ad- reform long de- its ref electoral ‘mc(‘t again at 3 p. m., when debate lon an address in reply to the king's speech was due to begin. Two fea- tures of the speech from the throne | controver- and v | were accepted as highly sial, projected electoral reform, indications of an attempt to null the law which strike of 1926 illegal and would tend to prevent other strikes of the ma- | ture. Bid for Support The projected electoral reform represents a definite bid of the Mac- Donald ministry, affirmed in a s ment of the prime minister h last night, to remain in office |long as possible, since it is a men= sure long sought by the liberal party, today's at the open- | the occasion. | |4:15 p. m., but the commons was to | men trapped in the 16th, 17th and 15th levels. Rescue Work Started McAeclster, Okla., Oct. (UP)— Working in relays and protected by cumbersone gas masks, volunteer cue crews dug their way, foot by root, today into the Samples Coal Mine No. 4, where 28 miners, all but one of a recently established night shift, were entombed. Curley Doniey, the 29th man of he shift, was dead, killed by a ter- rific blast that wrecked the mine late last night and shook violently ing despite a considerable popularity | in the north to subordinate his own political aspirations for the present. In a message to Mauricio Lacerda, liberal deputy, he said that he favor ed a transitory dictatorship to allow avoidance of precedent which might hamper “hygienization and mora zation” of judicial and administra- |tive policies. He also believes that it is the duty | of military men to refuse posts in |the new government in order to be | in a position to veto with *“moral™ force names of politicians believed incapable of carrying out aspirations of the revolutionists. | ager's side, Forgets Proper Numbers But the excitement drove tha combination from his mind and his /| hands trembled so he could not | pen the vault. One of the robbers pressing 4 gun against the man- forced him to telephone | M. Rosenthal, proprictor of the | store, who furnished the combina- | ion without asking questions. | proportional representation scheme. The store is that of M. Rosenthal [Such a scheme would give them rep- & Sons, at 1637 Broadway. | resentation in the commons far in Charles Lewis, the Negro watch-|excess of their present membership, man, told police a man called to de- | which is limited by reason of threc liver a telegram two hours before cornered constituenc races, n the store opened, and when he “as\\\'hich. although the liberals alway on whose votes Mr. MacDonald de- pends for the life of his government. ‘While the Kking's speech, which i written and composed for him by Mr. MacDonald and his minister, merely mentions that an electoral re. form measure will be submitted to parliament, it was understood that the measure will include the liberal | William | Pretty Helen dina, N. Y., plans her grandparents in Ireland by planc. The 18-year-old aviatri shown here in the cockpit of Marie Boyd of | plane at the I!olmld Woodward air- | announced [port, LeRoy, N. Y., has |she will atic mpl an eastward trans | Atlantic flight as soon carned a transport dzughter of Thomas Boyd, iron and brass manufacturer, already has a pilot's license. | license, Me- to go calling on | air: as she has| Medina she ) JUDGE WITHHOLDS DECISION IN CASE OF STRAUSS-ROTH {Wishes to Gonsult Ordinances Govering Sale and Display Uniit Meat ALL-DAY LEGAL BATTLE | CARRIED ON BY DEFENSE | | of Finding Sweaty | in \lflln‘ | Witnesses Tell and Decomposed Meat Street Store—Counsel for Defmsc\ Claims No Evidence it Was Oficr-i ed for Sale—Judge Saxe Denies Discharge. | After which dr an all day al battle | | athering of | to- | w a large spectators Judge Morris D. Saxe her | | day reserved decision until Saturday in the the which case of Strau el e charged with offering for sale mea | unfit for consumption. The defense re-opened the case this afternoor | meat market, A after a recess for luncheon by mal ing a motion for a discharge. This R-101 AIR CRASH INQUIRY STARTED (fficial Investigation Gets Under Way in London FLIGHT WAS EXPERIMEN Sir William Jowitt Outlines Case as Session Opens—Public Intere: made the general | Rivals That Scen Parliament., London, Oct (P work for evidence & caused the crash of the igible R-101 at B ago was laid today as a governmer inquiry was opened in the Civil Er gineers’ Institute. Sir John Simon opened the he ing. but the main speech was mac by Sir William Jowitt, eral, who pointed out s to the “factor of is insurance declared that an airship ignorance.” Less Regard For Safety He added that naturally mental airships, ope trained crews, must proceed Wit rd to safety than ordin eveloped commercial ente prises. Turni the R-101 itself, that the g to said at Opening of he ground what British dir- auvais three weeks was opposed by Pro: ney Joseph G. Woo He based his argument on the umption that the disposition of the case must be made in accordance with the at- | titude taken by the state in conduct- | ing the c Iz of Article 63 nanc Attorneys A. A. Greenberg and David L. Nair argued against this line of reasoning, stating that the section only allowed broad 7owers | oi condemnation to the health de- partment. In stating his attitude on the case to the court, Judge Saxe said it would be necessary fer him to read over the section of the city ordinance to try to discover if that | ordinance allowed only the power: of condemnation and if he munm that they imposed penalties or gave the power to impose penalties, sthat he would have to consider wheth the finding of unfit hamburg steak would constitute evidence of having . on display and for sale. State Takes Up Morning The case was called at this morn- ing's session of police court and the entire period of the morning from | 90'clock until recess was ordered | cuting Attor- of -l the city T st nt | n- ‘Dt‘n\ocruu(: Candidates Assail Rival|< o | Roth 5 | gate of the Stanley Works |and Governor | appointed | also | Likewise, | ment, despite the fact that many of | opposed to prohibition. HOOVER VIGOROUSLY DENIES KELLEY OIL SHALE CHARGE; SAYS STATEMENTS FALSE PAONESSA ASSAILS President Asserts Field JAIL CONDITIONS Head's Claims Have | All Been Investigated | Suggests Prison Probers Lok and Disproved—- Sees Into Gounty Lockup | Political Plot to Dis- ADDRESSES NOON RALLY 872ce Officials. ctual Land Sold Totals 43,000 Acres, Not 8,000,- 000 as Charged—20,000 of This Man Who Made forme ayor Angelo M. Paonessa, demo- | Claims Approved Him- cratic nominee for county riff, | 3 told an audience at the Myrtle street self. this noon, Trumbull, who has| a committee to investi- te conditions in the state’s prison at Wethersfield, would do well to look into the Seyms street institution Leaders and Policies at Factory Gatherings — Greer Would Tax | vat Old Guys.” Conditions in Hartford jail are “not fit for a pig, county Washington, Oct. 28.—(#)—Presi- dent Hoover denounced as gn at- tempt to fasten an odious oil scan- dal upon his administration the charges by Ralph S. Kelley, former | head of the Denver field force of the department of the interior, that oil companies were obtaining illggal- ly valuable oil shale lands from the government. The old age which ex- as a sible men pension bill, the democratic party favors, v plained by the former mayor measure intended to make po | days and years of comfort for and women when they have reached | the age at which they can no longer provide for themselves. The repub- lican party is opposed to the meas- sure and prefers to “throw the old people into the town house,” he said. the republican party has | refused to come out in the open and | avor the repeal of the 18th amend- The president said that while publication of the Kelley charges in the newspapers did not represent the high standard of American journal- ism, the newspapers might have been misled. He said Kelley or the newspapers publishing his storles could have determined the falsity of the charges by investigation. Says Charges Delayed Mr. Hoover said that though Kel- ley came to Washington last July and arranged the sale of his story to a newspaper, his charges were delayed so they could be put into the political campaign. He said the newspaper that purchased the story was of political faith opposite to his own, Kelley, in the party leaders are known to be Attacks Tax Penalty When the former mayor asked the | audience if they liked to pay 12 per cent penalty interest on their unpaid taxes, several of his listeners shout- ed, “No.” “Indeed you don't” the speaker continued. “But you will continue to do so if the republicans stay in | charge of the government. I fought gainst it two years ago for you in Hartford but I did not get anywhere. | | The democratic party favors legis. Mr. Hoover's opinion, could himself have established the falsity of his charges by reference to his own records. Instead of 8,000,000 acres of oil titles worth millions of dollars being attorney gen- the purely experimental nature of the flight and afety against experi- ted by highly Sir | dirigible \t noon was taken up with the pre- |lation to do away with the 12 per sentation of the testimony of the ot | get together and talk | before thing: The case was the outcome of sev- you vote on clection day cral allegations on the part of mem- | Lieutenant Governor Ernest E. bers of the staff of the local board | Rogers was described by Paonessa | of health that meat allegedly unfit | as “a multi-millionaire who does not | | for human consumption was found | have to scratch and apes for a in the store and was kept there for | day's pay, consequently he does not | care to improve conditions for the rank and file.” Col. Clarence | Seymour, candidate for congressman | on the republican ticket, said in New | Britain on Sunday that the | wage standard should be retained in the factories, Paonessa said, but the over (Continued on Page Two) DISAGREE OVER LOSS h cent tax and it is up to you boys to | w. | high | working people know that there are | approved by this administration, the president said, there have been only | 43,000 acres of titles granted and | these could be bought, the chief exe- h»ume added, for a few dollars an | | the 43,000 acres, the president ,000 had heen approved by v himselr. Approves Sound Criticism The president said a proper in- quiry and sound criticism by the press was a safeguard of good gov- | ernment, but in this instance the paper circulating Kelley's v, which he did“not name, had the town of McAlester, mile and a half away. The arrival last night of Dr. Aranha cleared the situation great- “The only hope that any of the ]y, while the military junta's state- other 28 men is alive is that they iment yesterday—that it merely was | lave found a pocket of fresh air and [a temporary agent, serving until a slipped into it,” said J. G. Cuter- |new government could be formed— baugh, president of a McAlester fuel | was received by the morning press company, a veteran miner and & |with enthusiasm. leader in the rescue work. Much space was given the fact | “The chances for saving them are {hat Getulio Vargas probably would almost nil,” he added. |head the new government. Tarly this morning the rescue Vargas Coming Soon workers had reached the 400 foot| <hile Senor Vargas has not ar- lcvel, digging furiously but 810wl |rived here, he is making prepara- through the mass of wreckage that |{ions to come and has ordered & blocked the shaft. | special train made ready on the cen- | Make Way to Next Level | tral railroad to take him to Sao The rescue workers had burrowed | (heir way to the 500-foot level at 4 | o'clock this morning, Cuterbaugh, reported. He said the gas fumes were stronger, hindering the ad- | vance toward the entombed men. | American Legion members from McAlester stood guard at the mine throughout the night, holding the crowd back and preparing food for the rescue crews. Milling about the entrance were almost 2,000 excited persons. Among (Centinued on Page Two) Darien Officer May Be Voting Illegally Darien, Oct. 25 (P—Pending an | investigation into his status as a | citizen of the United States, the |board of selectmen today revoked the voting rights of Officer Charles | | Murphy of the Darien police depart- ment. When he was sworn in as a voter here Murphy declared that he | | had been a voter in Stamford. He | told the Stamford authorities that he | was born in New York city, but | more recently he has declared that It is understood that Murphy was |then adopted by a Springdale fam- {he may have been born in Belfast, abandoned by his parents when he ily. According to reports he docs Ireland. ONLY SMALL AMOUNTS| was seven ycars of age and he was not know his family name. (Continued on Page Two) Help Mayor’s Christmas admitted, drew a pistol. Qhartlv‘ (Continued on Page Eight) | TRUMBULL SAYS SCHOOL AT MERIDEN IMBROVED overnor Says New Superintendent and Board Making Honest Effort at Place. 28 (M—Governor | satisfied with the far in the re- Connecticut | and be- | Hartford, Oct Trumbull is well progress made thus organization of the School for Boys at Meriden, | lieves that the school has now taken its place with the other institutions | of the state. | 1t was Governor Trumbull who, following a report made to him by | a special investigating committee on conditions at the school, demanded a complete reorganization to the! end that unsatisfactory conditions at the school, both with respect to al- leged acts of cruelty and lack of proper care for the boys, might be climinated, | “The commission has, T helieve, | carnestly st about correcting con- ditions at the school,” said the gov- ernor. “The mew superindendent, Roy L. McLoughlin, scems to be, making good progress in improving conditions there, and I am confident the school will soon take its place in the list of progressive state institu- tion: | guise of Jamaic Fund But Little, Treas- | urer Ginns Says A very small percentage of what would have been received had the teachers accepted Mayor CGeorge A. Quigley’s salary contribution to the Christmas fund has been received s0 far, Treasurer James H. Ginns has announced. The teachers are| giving according to their own de- sires rather than through the vol- untary deduction of two per cent of their salary as Mayor Quigley ad- vocated. Although three weeks have pass- | ed, many of the teachers have not contributed. There. are about three | weeks more before the final date for | collection, November 21. The No- vember pay checks will become due on that date and it is expected that many of the contributions will be made then. The money will be used to aid Bridgeport, Oct. 28 (A—Chief Jus- | tice George W. Wheeler today retired from the supreme court of errors | |after serving 20 years as a member of Connecticut's highest court. He | {will be succeeded by Justice Wil- | liam Maltbie of Granby, who became associated justice in 1925, When the court opened its Oc- [tober session here today Judge Chris- | |topher L. Avery, who was elevated | from the superior court to the su- | preme court bench to fill the va- cancy created by the retirement of Chief Justice Wheeler, sat with it. | Iorty-two cases, including 13 from | Fairfield county and 29 from New | Haven county, were scheduled to hc‘ needy families during the depres- |argued before it at this session. | sion. All other city employes ars| Chief Justice Wheeler's retirement | contributing two per cent of their |was formally scheduled for Decem- salaries for September, October, and [ber 1 when he attains the retire November. ment age of 70 years. He decided, | ber, |ing to Chief Justice Wheeler Retires Today From Supreme Court Bench to advance his retirement because of- the likelihood that some of the cases which will be largued during the October session | may not be decided until after De- cember 1. He was elevated to the supreme court bench in September, 1910, and became chief justice in | 1920. Prior to 1910 he served on the | superior court bench for 17 year. He was graduated from the Yale law school in 1883 and immidiately | began the practice of law as a mem- of the Bridgeport law firm of Wheeler and Curtis. He served as city attorney from 1890 to 1893 and the following year he was appointed judge of the superior court Chief Justice Wheeler will main- | tain his office in the county build- devoto his time to e which have already been argued be fore him. however, to today | the |that he is consuming a liquid poll a large vote they usually are behind either conservatives of labor- ites or both. | The scene in the house of lor where King George and Queen Mary | sat before assembled peers, peeresses (Continued on Page Three) DORAN WARNS PUBLIC OF LIQUOR DANGERS Less Good Alcohol Avail- able, Hence More Bad Whiskey Oct. 28 (UP)—Citi- tempted to celebrate othe! coming were warned 10- Washington, zens who are falloween and the holidays hilariously day by Industrial Alcohol Commis- sioner James M. Doran to beware of the poor quality of liquor being placed on the market this yea he federal government has re- duced diversion of alcohol from in- rial sources to a minimum of about 3 per cent of the 100,000 gal- lons manufactured annually,” Dor- an said. Bootleggers, ther: cd o rely on their for their main source of supply long ago, a oup of bootl foisted on the south a drink in the ginger tha lysis and dus! 2fore, are own distilleri Not widespread some deaths. “I have Newark, have recently bad liquor. par: a report from 20 persons drinking made dur- st had J., where died from An analysis 3 | ing post-mortems has disclosed that | | wood alcohol was the cause of death.” Wood alcohol is unregulated be- it is not a liquid fit for bev ge purposes, but is sold to deal- plainly marked a poison. Nevertheless, some bootleggers, un- able to obtain good alcohol, hav mixed wood alcohol with their duct. Government while containing wood alcohol in the naturants were held by Doran not likely to be a lethal dose becaus noxious taste warns a drinke not denaturing formulae small case of two beverage purposes. regulations to prevent diversion of industrial alcohol enforced by the industrial alcohol bureau, which has and gaugers in every industrial alcohol {plant in the country. intended for Bxacting watchers fore- | '8 | sgers | pro- | amounts of | are | went on four trial starting the cost 48 lives. The trial made after new bay had been added to the ai hip was followed shortly by ti cranting of a certificate of a worthiness. On a question as to whether ma- dir- igible had anything to do with the re- !terial used in constructing the calamity, the attorney general marked that a cable controlling a elevator had been found broken in 101 wreckage. He added that the R- (Continued on Page Eight) LIPTON'S NEXT YAGHT READY IN TWO YEARS Sir Thomas Says Make “America Sit Up” in 1932 London. Oct. | Lipton, entraining tod: ampton to take the | America, stated that he mined to have anothe ready in two years to race for th |Ame s cup. It will be o he said “will make the Americans s for Shamroc | that {up.” “Am 1 going to America’s cup next year? | Thomas. “I don't think | have a hoat like the | have.” He laughed, |lowing year I'll have a ready that will make the sit up. | “We Scotch- up.” Sir Thomas | moved away, “I'm | another smack at the [ time T'1 win.” | The merchant-sportsn {1y was in high spiri bronzed and fit and that h was Killing two birds with one ston this time, combining business with holiday ov “After 1've sts in New York,” eneral acquaintance with m contest for th unless Shamroc! h don't casily giv aid as his trai going to hav cup, He said looke attended to my he said, “I'll hav THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Cloudy, probably occasional rain tonight and Wednesday, Slightly colder Wednesday. flights before ill-fated voyage whic He'll §.—(®—Sir Thomas South- .eviathan for 1 deter: said Sir Americans “but by the fol- Americans but this n evident- inter: look around and resume old cronies. T0 SCHOOL FIXTURES School | h Al r- he ir Appraisers and Dept. at Odds Over Smith | School Damage at work on the apprais- s in furniture and fixtures at the Smith school which was in volved in a fire last Friday night | have failed to come to an agree- | ment with school department offi- | cials on the amount of damage done | and no settlement could be reached toda | Fred Bl o er ss of the Bliss & Cole Co. Hartford, is the insurance company adjuster. Yesterday he and School | Building Supervisor John E. Downes | went about the building and when they concluded the inspection they |arrived at the figure of $19,385 as the amount of damage done to the buildin, The furniture and fixtures include desks, chairs, books, paper and oth- er class room equipment, Some o it is classed as “‘completely destroy- | cd” and other material is termed “partly destroyed.” The school de- partment officials have figures cov- cring the loss which do not coincid: with the insurance estimates. | Supt. S. H. Holmes and Supervi- sor Downes were to make reports at | the meeting of the school board’s finance committee this afternoon. | k i, it s | form in the | pleased to learn of the efforts being gone further and apparently had made no effort to substantiate Kel- charges. Hoover pointed out that Kel- ley was in Washington for six weeks sar and during that time made no reference o the charges to his superiors. Simultaneously, the presi- dent added, Kelley was negotiating for the sale of these charges to a | rival politi and even then held them some weeks 8o they might be launched in the mid- dle of the political campaign. When charges unsupported by evi- dence reflecting upon the honesty of : RS a man of the character of Secretary T e el | Wilbur have been made, the presi- Judge Al!!ng ]mpmvmg | dent said, they should do b But Will Not Campaign | damaze to those who make them Judge Benjamin W. Alling, repub- | than to the man attacked. n nominee for probate judge, | Spoke Month Ago id today that he would not, under | Xelley first made his charges a any circumstances, take the plat- | month ago today in a statement to campaign which comes | the press. At the same time he an- {o an end on next Tuesday. He | Dounced his resisnation after more said his strength was gradually re- | than 25 years service in the west. turning and he was encouraged b Secretary Wilbur —refused to ac- the progress moted by his physi- | CeDt the resignation and suspended cians, but he would not risk a re- | Xelley pending an investigation lapse or even the slightest unfavor- | Which he asked the justice depart- able reaction by going on the stump. | = = Judge Alling was in conference (Continued on Page Eight) }‘.,'.ih.-;\.\,;'\l]'.ifp"n e e [;”Y’S VflTlNfi “ST INCREASES ONLY 177 for the nomination, and was no more high wages, and in fact, for m:\n_v therc are no wages at all. “I am sorry I cannot be here Iriday and Saturday, but it is impossible, | because you know you won't be here | on those days,” he added. Says Lange Sneezed Once Attorney Samuel Googel, nominee for representative, delivered a fiery tallc which was well received. He | said he had looked up the record of Representative William J°. Lange, republican, in the legislature, and failed to find a single entry beside = | Page 19) | (Continued on tic; put forth in his behalf. In fai weather r, Judge Alling takes a walk daily but he will probably not at- tempt to become active in any way for several weeks. Deaths and Removals 1 K | e | n | c| Galva, Tll, Oct. 28 (P—The fate| of Earl Yocum, kidnapped banker rested today in the hands of his| hands of his wife. d | Mrs. Yocum announced that she ¢ | had called off all outside help in the ¢ |search for her husband, who dis- a |appeared Saturday, and that she | was “handling the matter herself.” She termed speculation that her | husband was held in Chicago for $50,000 as “all guess work,” and added that no one, except herself, had any knowledge of the supposed | ansom demand. | County authorities abandoned | heir hunt for Yocum when Mrs. | Yocum declined to take them into | her confidence. Two special delivery | ietters have been received by M Yocum, one from Kewance, 111, and the other from Chicago. Both are reported to have dealt with the ransom question. g o * Wife Refuses to Tell Police Any Details of Request for Ransom | cum family to drop the investigation {officers of the | quiet investigation of the recent k {napings of William Urban and Frank | | owner. From City Keep Regis- tration Down Although 575 new added to the lists of the Yo- | the net gain was only 177, figure: | released today by Registrars Wil liam Ziegler and Thomas J. Smith | disclose. Deaths and removals from the city account for the discrepancy. The new lists show a total of 21 421 men and women eligible to vote at the election Nov. 4, there beinz S men and 9,123 women. The xth ward again leads with 2,790 men and 1 women and the fourth ward is at the bottom with 1,358 men and §33 women. The first ward, with 2061 women, registered > |leads in that respect. voters we since last spring. The apparent anxiety was viewed with apprehension 1linois Bankers' sociation. They expressed bel it an extortion gang obtained “easy | money” from Yocum that other | small town bankers would become the constant prey of Kidnappers. | With no cooperation from Mrs. | Yocum we can do little now,” A. P. | Sherwood, of Chicago, secretary the Bankers association, was quoted as saying. He added that “jus soon as Yocum is released w going into action.” The registration is as follows: The criminal department of the| Ward Men Women Total association revealed at the same| 1 2061 4288 time that it has been conducting a| ! 1144 3 d- | 1907 8 Daugherty, of a both of Peoria, and also | Des Moines, lowa, cigar gtore | ) 31,421