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H I- . COMING SOON .Salem's tint contract bridge toorney: a great place to 1m prove your game, have tarn, win worthwhile prizes. Starts next Tuesday, Marion hotel, 8 p. m. '- THE WEATHER . . -: Unsettled with occasional showers today and Thors- ' day; Max. Temp. Tuesday 02, Mia. 54, rirer foot, rain .04 inch, SV wind, i EIGHTY-THIRD. YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morninsr, September 27, 1933 n r : : . 4 ARRAIGN KELLY. 'iliii Unusual Precautions Taken Against - Delivery of ' Kidnap Suspect . Plan to Rush r Gangster to Oklahoma City Vetoed By Authorities ? MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 11. AP) George ! ''Machine Gun" Kelly, captsred at a bnagalow hideout here - this morninc, was held at tbe county Jail under a heavy guard tonight after a hur ried arraignment In his all-steel cell. : John M. Keith, special agent of the department ot Justice, took charge ot the proceedings and announced he had issued orders for officers not to discuss the case. ! 1 i "Not long back, we had a mas sacre of officers in Kansas' City in broad daylight," he said. "That was the result of too much talking. "We don't intend to let any thing like that i happen in Mem phis." ! Kelly's bond and that I ot his rife, Kathryn, was set at $100, 000 yy United States Commis sioner Lester Brenner. They were charged with kidnaping Charles P. Urschel and taking him to Paradise, Texas, pending payment of $200,000 ransom. Similar bonds were fixed for John C. Ticheaor, a crippled au tomobile mechanic, and his brother-in-law, S. E. T r a t 1 s, at whose home the capture was ef fected. ! f The Commercial Appeal quot ed Tichenor as saying a Memphis lawyer exchanged telegrams with Kelly while the lawyer was at Gainesville, Texas. Tichenor said the lawyer left here Sunday night with a little girl believ ed to have been Geraldino Ar nold, who tipped department of justice operatives oft to the whereabouts of the Kellys.: At one time tonight, officers debated rushing the Kellys to Oklahoma City by plane before morning but Oklahoma authori ties advised waiting until the conclusion of trials of a number (Turn to Page 2, column 4) FI FIGHTERS OF "PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 26. (API The matter of federal aid for fire departments held the attention of firemen, from an nnrt of the Pacific 'coast who met here today fjr the 40th an nual convention of the pacific Coast Association of Fire Chiefs. The convention will close Thurs day night. In a discussion that followed the readine by Chief E. F. Coop of Pasadena, Calif., of a paper on "Can we get federal aid for fire departments?" delegates told of instances where applications had been made to the govern ment and returned with the statement that federal aid would be impossible. Others, however, said applications had been placed on file for further consideration. Seeking information toward betterment of the Salem fire de partment Dr. O. A. Olson, chair man of the council fire commit tee and special civil service ex aminer, will go to Portland to day to attend ' meetings of the annual convention of the Paci fic Coast Fire Chiefs' associa tion being held through Thurg- 'i'day at the Multnomah hotel. Dr. - Olson is interested primarily in fire fighting and prevention reg ulations ot other cities and in equipment demonstrations. Fire Chief Harry Hutton went to Portland yesterday to remain tor all three days of the convention. OAKLAND. CaL, Sept. 2$. (AP) A husband who was mad dened, police said, by failure to effect a reconciliation with his wife, caused an hour's reign of terror and bloodshed In the streets ot Oakland tonight before he was shot and wounded with his own pistol. .- -;-.:;'. - ; Officers said the husband laid siege to his wife's barricaded home,'Critlcally wounded a taxi cab driver, raked the streets with gunfire and commandeered two automobiles. One ot the machines was occupied by lames K. Moffltt, Rati Francisco banker and indus trialist, and the other by Dr. For est C Kracaw, oauana pnysician, his wife and a woman friend. - Th man was said by Mrs. Susan . Wallace to have been her estranged husband, William Wal lace, 2$, unemployed 7 steamship steward of Los Angeles, COAST 110 MEET OMl REIGN OF TERfjOTVIS STAGED Chain Used to ' Btrid Urschel tit ' J it Si iil Herbert K. Hyde, chief prosecutor in the trial of Harvey Bailey at Oklahoma City, for the kidnap ing of Charles Urschel, oil mag nate, exhibits the chain with which Urschel was tied up dar ing his period of captivity. It was found at the Shannon farm in Texas, where Bailey was cap tured. TO BEJEpOESTEO Federal Funds for Adults' Classes Will be Asked By Salem District Salem school district may re quest a $1000 allotment from the $15,000 federal . grant set aside for relief of unemployed teachers in Oregon, Superintendent George Hug told the school directors last night. The money would be used in employing teachers to conduct classes in adult education. The state board for vocational educa tion will administer the Oregon allotment. Transportation of elementary pupils from, the Riverside, Port land road and Silverton road sec tions of the district by the McLean Transportation company at $18 per pupil per year was agreed to by the board. The board has made this provision for the past two years, since no schools are clos'e to these areas. The directors also accepted McLean's bond for per formance of the contract signed by Paul B. Wallace instead of by a surety company as in the past. The planning and zoning com- (Turn to Page 2, column 7) Truck Driver is Bitten by Dogs; Injuries Severe An unidentified truck driver last night was attacked and badly bitten by three dogs belonging to Frank Dayj who lives at Court and Front streets, city police said they were notified. The dogs were said to have bitten the man on one arm and about both legs. -Police said they had warned Day that his dogs would be shot it he did not keep them tied up. OWN RIFLE BLAMED ALBANY, Ore., Sept. 28. (AP) J. R. Wyatt, Albany attor ney was seriously wounded in the left shoulder today when his. rifle was accidentally discharged while he was crawling through a fence five miles west of Alsea, police said. Wyatt was hunting deer, stunned by the shot, he lay for more than an hour before he cculd call for help. He was brought to a hospital here tonight where attendants said he has a chance to recover. OWNER NOT FOUND s KLAMATH FALLS, Sept. 1$.- (AP) Austin Hyatt drove his truck down a grade on the Klamath-Ashland highway near Keno today, and suddenly, as he round ed a curve, he came upon a herd ot sheep strolling nonchalantly down the road. Before he could stop he killed 25 of the animals, police said. The owner ot the herd has not been found. TISITS ALTj STATES LA GRANDE, Ore.T Sejtf. 29. CAP) A hitch hiking- princess, age 70, dropped into La Grande recently for a lew hours' visit. She la "Princess" Naturich Saun- FJ IlllrJ I COUNTIES ILL Word Comes From McNary To That Effect; Ruling Of Interest Here Most of Claims Handled at Washington; Only Sale Receipts Available CORVALLI3, Sept. 26. (AP) A payment of 50 per ' cent of their claims will be received with in the next few days by Oregon counties in which Oregon and California grant lands are located, Senator Charles McNary in Wash ington, D. C, notified Victor P. Moses, Benton county judge, by wire today. Judge Moses is head of the organization of counties seeking full payment of land grant fund claims. In response to a message Judge Moses yesterday wired to McNary, asking that all speed possible be given the movement for obtaining payment, the senator wired: "Have received Information from assistant secretary of inter ior that interior department has nearly completed work in connec tion with payment to counties wherein O. & C. lands are located. That of IS counties submitting claims of O. & C. payment, 15 decisions have been sent secre tary of treasury. We expect that by Thursday all decisions will have been completed, then pay ment will be made according to agreement of decision of control ler of the currency The controller of the currency has ruled that O. & C. payments must be made from receipts of the sale of timber on O. & C lands, Judge Moses explained. The con troller has said there are o n 1 y enough funds on hand at Wash ington to pay 50 per cent ot the counties' claims. MnHnn rnnntv wfll waIva n. proximately 3500. as. Jesuit, of the distribution of O. & C. land grant, funds to the extent of 50 per cent of the claims. Although some of the counties' claims run to large figures, Marion's was only $7000 this year. The decision is of considerably more importance to some neighboring counties. flffl MAY GET SERVICE INCREASE The city council fire committee will disregard instructions of the citizens' budget committee rela tive to submitting a 1934 budget estimate for employing more fire men rather than giving present firemen their four-year service salary Increases, Dr. O. A. Olson, chairman, declared yesterday. jThe committee had been advised to submit a substitute estimate by today based on the re-employment idea. The fire department salary es timate submitted by the commit tee at the budget conference last Friday called for an increase of $2106 to raise salaries of seven firemen from $112.50 to $121 per month, or a total budget of $57, 780 for 1934. "The committee believes the present budget estimate will be ac cepted," Dr. Olson said. "We feel that these men have become en titled to the extra pay due to their four-years' service. The other firemen have already re ceived this increase." Albany Lawyer Wounded Princess, 70, Visitor Track Kills 25 Sheep Rescue Lone Fisherman ders, full-blooded Cherokee Indian For the past four years she has been hitch hiking, she said, and has been In every state in the union, besides visiting Canada, Cuba and Mexico. She left here for Butte, Mont., stating that from there she expects to go' into the Dakota, then back to San Fran cisco nd finally to Miami. SEVEN DARS IN STORM ASTORIA, Sept. 26. (AP) Exhausted by his long and lonely vigil In the trolling boat Grant H. of Seattle, Francis Huntsueker of Hoquiam, Wash., was rescued last night when his boat was towed into the Columbia river by life boats from the Point Adams and Cape Disappointment coast guard stations. The small vessel had 'been bat tered about by the stormy Pacific winds tor the past seven days. It was almost ont ot fuel and Hunt sucker brought It Into a precar ious refuge late yesterday in the lee of the Tillamook Rock light. The lightkeeper- telephoned the coast guard of the boat's plight. : Huntsueker, who was treated here for exposure, said he planned , to obtain fuel and leave immedi- ately lor Grays Harbor, Convicts Riot After Seizing Warden and Slashing Inmates Enraged at Removal of Privileges as Result of Attempted Break; Mattresses Are Ignited; Outbreak Quelled PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 26. (AP) The entire convict population of the Eastern penitentiary 1492 "long: term" felons revolted tonight and threw the old stone pri son into the worst riot of its 103 years. With smoke and flames shooting1 along the radiating corridors and yells that could be heard for four blocks in ' i iothe thickly populated neighbor PERSONHELOn DRUM CORPS WIS TOLD 4-1 men Listed to Journey to Chicago; Public Program To be Given Tonight Forty-one men will comprise the personnel of the Salem drum corps on its scheduled trip to Chi cago to compete at the American Legion national convention, Man ager Tom Hill announced last night. This represents an increase of six men "in the playing mem bership of the corps, an addition of four regular buglers and two regular snare drummers. - A varied program featuring the corps but including the Legion Auxiliary national champion trio, the auxiliary Quartet and the Le gion cadet band will be given as a farewell gesture at Sweetland field at 7:45 o'clock; tonight. A small admission fee will be charged. Hill said the corps would en train at Liberty and Trade streets at 7:30 o'clock Thursday night for Portland where it will board the Portland Rose. A large send off crowd is anticipated. The personnel making the trip, Hill said, will be as follows: "Udy SCBUltZ. mUSIC instructor; lcvh rf 8 ,Whltt?m"e- n.a"onA1 uuaiuiiiuu urum major; weuu Moorman, drillmaster; J. T. De- laney, finance officer; James Madley, equipment master; Henry Ahrens, R. D. Barton, Percy Black stone, Cecil Blakely, Fred Hubler, Tom Hill, Frank Jlrak, Leo Kleck er, D. W. W. L o o n e y, William McRae, 'Russell Mudd, Harry Riches, H. E. Shade, Roy Smith, Arthur Vonless and Frank Whitte- more; Byron Lieuallen, supernu merary bugler. Ralph Baldwin, Hadden Bond, George Cherrington, Dr. C. W. Davis, Ray DeGuire, Harry Gus- tafson, Curtis Johnson, Lloyd Lee, S. B. McDonald, M.,E. Reeves, Dorsey Reeves and Frank Straus- gaugh, snare drummers; Renus Verhagen and A. Rondau, snare supernumeraries; G e n e Diets, George Edwards, L. A. Hamilton, James Flood and M. 1 Clifford Moynihan, cymbals and bass drums. L Although an extension of time is being sought, to date limita tions have not been removed and farmers in this district applying for federal seed loans will have to do so between Thursday and Saturday of this week in the of fice of P. H. Bell on tbe second floor of the Oregon building. This was the announcement made here last night by Ira Hyde of the crop production office of the Farm Credit administration. Hyde spent yesterday after noon conferring with D. W. Eyre, Roy Melson and S. H. Van Trump, members of the local seed loan committee. Although the period for making application for the loans does not open until Thurs day, farmers Interested may make Inquiry today, Hyde said. Loans may range from a min imum of $25 to a maximum of $300; with a maximum of $1.25 per planted acre allowed. Last spring Marion county farmers, 600 m number, received more money through the seed loan than any other Oregon county, obtain ing in all approximately $50,000. Loans this fall : are limited to wheat and application must be made by Saturday night. Helen Milburn Dies; 33 Years With Oregdnian PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. Jf. ( AP) Mrs. Helen Kehoe un burn, 52, for SS years an employe ot the Oregonlan, for which she served as cashier, died at her horn here today after an illness of 13 months. Mrs. Milburn entered the serv ice ot the Oregonlan under the late II. L. Plttock. publisher. She was named assistant to- Pittock after the death ot Leigh Burton, who had served In that capacity. Besides her Interest In her pre fessional duties, Urs.' Milburn was an "accomplished niansi t LOIS 1 T T Him Badly hood, the rioters grabbed tbe warden, . Herbert J. "Hard-Boil ed" Smith, and heat and slashed him severely before guards came to the rescue. The convicts, enraged at the loss of the special privileges af ter an earlier attempted prison break, started the bedlam about an hour after they were locked in their cells for the night and the lights extinguished. Igniting their mattresses, they shoved them through the bars of their cells into the corridors, set ting up a flaming barrier that prevented the guards from en tering the long tiers that radiate from a center hall like tbe spokes of a wheel. The riot was put down short ly after midnight after firemen directed streams of water on the convicts, and state troopers ar rived with machine guns and riot sticks to augment city police who until that time were satisfied with keeping the screaming con victs at bay. A number of the convicts were beaten and overcome by smoke. Warden Smith was struck over the head and on the cheek by a piece of bed wielded by a convict who attacked him as he walked past a cell during the riot. TOOL DIE WORKERS OF DETROIT E 8000" Respond to Order is Claim of Spokesmen; Others to Join DETROIT. Sept. 26. (AP) Mechanics' Educational society spokesmen claimed tonight that 8000 tool and die makers had responded to a strike order is sued this afternoon and that 2.- 000 more are expected to walk out within 24 hours. The society bas a membership ot 11,000 here, most of the men being employed la automobile factories. Should the strike reach the proportions claimed, another 25,000 automotive employes prob ably would be left without work. Jay J. Griffin, chairman of the strike committee, said the strike was called in sympathy with the walk-out of several hun dred society members in Flint automobile plants last week, and also to force recognition of their organization. Tbe strikers said they were drafting other demands, includ ing wages ranging from $1 to $1.50 an hour and a 30-hour week. The present scale, they said, is from 75 cents to $1.15 an hour. Chester M. Culver, general manager of the Employers asso ciation of Detroit, discussed the strike late today with the local NRA compliance board. He said (Turn to Page. 2, column 1) Strayer Decides To go, Interim Committee Meet While Senator Strayer ot Ba ker would prefer to have Gover nor Mefer's recent appointments to the hoard of education held up for confirmation or rejection : at the special session of the legisla ture this fall, he will attend the meeting of the senate interim com. mittee at Portland on next Sat urday, it was learned here yes terday. This committee, named by the senate at Its last meeting, will act upon the appointments. The governor wished the committee to meet and act so the hoard ot high er education could hold a meet ing before the legislative session was called. 1 Prune Pool at . Eugene Closed EUGENE.- Sept. 21. (AP) J. Or Holt, manager of . the Eu gene Fruit Growers' association. announced today thai the 1S32 prune pool ot the association has been closed. The price received by the rrowers in tho .nool waa 11 per cent better fban that paid by the average - Independent , buyer, w -1. " 1 ' nan siaiea. t - : f ' NEWSPAPER CHEEP DIES ' CLEVELAND, Sep U XI. (AP) Elbert H. Baker, 7 9, -chairman of the hoard of the Plain Dealer Publishing company, died tonight at Lakeside hospital. He had been ill only about a week and under went an abdomenal operation last Friday, r ' . 1 HOURS TOLD Ben Jones, 34, Arrested in Los Angeles After 10 Years of Freedom Dangling at end of Rope is One Form of Torture;. Claim in Story, LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1. (AP) A story of torture, days without food, of hours spent dan gling on ropes' ends with his toes Just touching the floor, of flog gings and threats to kill him was told tonight -by Ben Jones, 34, Jailed by sheriffs deputies on sus picion of being a convicted mur derer and a fugitive from a South Carolina prison camp. Jones, business agent for a mo tion picture projectionists' union under the name of C. D. Cooper, was siezed by authorities on the threshold of his home where he was kissing his young wife, Mrs. Irene Jones hefore leaving the city for a fewdays. The arrest was made, Charles Ellison and Mary Zahn, sheriff's deputies said, on a tip received from Mrs. Isidore Gore, wife of a theater operator, who said she recognized a picture of Jones in a detective story magazine as that of Cooper, who worked for "her husband. Jones at first denied he was Cooper, the deputies said, but when they pointed to a scar on his face where the Suoth Carolina description showed a mole4 Jones admitted his identity and told his story to deputies Ellison and Zahn. "A guard tipped me off that I was to be killed tor testifying at a legislative investigation of the prison, so I built a rope and went over the wall," the deputies quot ed Jones as saying. "That was ten years ago. I came straight to Cal ifornia and have lived here as an nonorame man ever since. I was married three years ago and my wife has no knowledge of the shadow of my past." REPORT ON RELIEF NEEDS TO BE IDE LA GRANDE, Sept. 26. (AP) Governor Meier's relief com mittee of 32. created to study means of raising revenue with which to match federal funds for unemployment relief in Oregon, will meet Thursday morning at Portland. Fred E. Kiddle of Is land City, president of the state senate and chairman of the relief committee, issued the call for the meeting. Kiddle said it would be the final session of the general com mittee, which is expected to act on reports of sub-committees pre liminary to presenting its report to the governor. Upon the report of the commit tee, it is expected, will depend the governor's decision about calling a special session of the legislature to deal , with the problem of un employment relief. Unioh of Paper Workers Meet Members of the newly-formed Salem local of the papermakers union peeked their room in Union hall last night to witness presentation of their charter, State Senator Peter Zimmerman of Yamhill county, speaker of the evening, discussed factors leading up to passage ot the national In dustrial recovery act. Charles F, unwi is ure&iueui ui iu new union. Bt idge Tout ney Dh ectoi . He j e; First Event So o n With the arrival here Tuesday ot Miss Bette Harrnd. who with Mrs. William H. Qnlnn and The Oregon Statesman, will conduct a series of contract bridge classes and tournaments, plansWere tor- warded for each ot these events which ; will begin next. Tuesday, October 3, at the Marion hoteL ClasaL for beginners will start promptly at 3 p. m., while ad vanced players of contract bridge will be Instructed in a class start ing at 3:30 p. m. The tournament plan will be conducted each Tuesday night for eight weeks, beginning; promptly at 8 p. m. Already. number ot Salem people hare made Inquiries about the tournament which is ex pected to provide sot only much fan lor the players but also a lib eral education in contract bridge. In determining spon the tourna ment. The Statesman - especially stressed the fact that all contract slayers. irrespective : of ' ' ability." .'would be allowed, and urged Jo U.S. Victim of Cuban Disorder ' s'i i 4L Mrs. Lucille Smjrtbe Stadlinger, a native of Montgomery, Ala., whose home at Havana was en tered by a group of Cuban loot ers and ransacked of wearing apparel and jewelry. This Is the first time during tbe present Cuban trouble that an American home is known to have been violated. OF BIGJAWl GRANT 72-Foot Project is Assured, McNary Declares as Hearing Ended PORTLAND, Sept 26. (AP) -Assured by word from Wash ington, D. C, that the construction of a 72-foot dam across the Co- UimDia river i nonneviiie win oe approved by the public works ad ministration, the chamber of com merce tonight laid plans for a eel ebration to be held in the state park at Bonneville. The celebration, in the form of a mass meeting, will be held, it was- said, when Senator McNary and Congressman Martin, both of Oregon, return from tbe national capital. To their efforts largely the chamber attributed the virtual acceptance by the administration of the high dam that will provide power development as well as nav igation improvement. Word had reached heferthat the administra tion was considering a 30-foot dam for navigation improvement only. Walter W. R. May, manager of the chamber, said several up-river (Turn to Page 2, column 3) AT TIM IS 54 BY CLARK LEE i (Copyright, 1933, "by the Associated Press.)! TAMPICO, Mexico, Sept 26. (AP) The known death toll from Sunday's hurricane which buffeted this oil port for several hours was placed officially tonight as 54, with 850 known Injured and much of the city laid waste. It was feared, however, many more bodies were burled in the debris of . collapsed homes or had not been recovered from tbe water which swirled in from overflow ing rivers to cover the low lying sections. This correspondent, arriving from' Mexico, D. F., by airplane, the first fo reach Tampico since the storm, found the city suffer ing from heavy property damage but without the high death toll at first feared. Half of the eenter ot the city proper remained intact, but entire buildings weer twisted to pieces by the wind. Wooden buildings on the outskirts. Including sev eral ehurebes and motion picture theatres, were completely wrecked with few exceptions.' play. Inasmuch as play will be by sections, players ot varying abili ties will have opportunity to com pete against a fairly small group of players. In order to answer many Ques tions . arising about the tourna ment. The Statesman today , pub lishes the following questions and answers: v Who can register? Any person living In Marlon, Polk or Linn counties who Is in terested In contract bridge.1 Where can we register? At The Oregon Statesman office or at the Marion hotel. ' Can ,we register as a mixed team? ' "v'; " - - v Yes.- Any two people may reg ister, a man and a woman, two women, two men.-. Can we choose the sectlow is which we wish to play? For example; North and Booth, East mad West. . - ' i' No, that would he impractlc- j(Turn to Page' tt column fx. LAN CELEBRATION NOWNUT TEN PRISONERS 1 Daring Plot Carried out at ; Indiana Penitentiary By Long-Termers Deputy Warden is Forced to Escort Group Through Initial Barriers MICHIGAN CITT, Ind., .Sept, ' 6. -.(AP) Ten desperadoes ; shot down a - guard, kidnaped a ' sheriff and a motorist, menaced - two prison officials with death, and escaped today from the In-. diana state penitentiary. Successful in what apneared to have been a long plotted break for liberty, the convicts speeded away toward Chicago, 55 miles distant, in two automobiles com mandeered from the men they abducted. Two fugitives were sentenced for murder and five for bank robbery, all to life terms. The other four were serving maxi mum sentences of 25 years for robbery or auto banditry. They were regarded as the most dan gerous men in the prison. The escape started in the pri son shirt factory. Assistant War den Albert Evans was summoned to tbe shoD on nretezt h cm needed there because of a break down in machinery. He was greeted on arrival by seven men with pistols and four with clubs. The convicts disarm ed Evans and forced him and D. H. Stevens, plant superintendent, to accompany them. Each perado carried a bundle of shirts. Each guard they encountered was told bv the escanfnr men. We're taking these shirts ouL" Menaced by pistols concealed be neath the bundles of shirts, Evans and Stevens could not give a warning. Half a dozen iron doors were opened in that manner and the procession filed through. Finally, they reached guard room, one wall of which .formed part of the main gate and the prison. At that point two guards, Guy Burklow and Fred Wellnitz, ques tioned the group. Wellnftx was slugged into unconsciousness by (Turn to Page 2, column 1) SEIBEH TO DIE IS SLAYER SAN JOSE, CaL, Sept 2. (AP) The death sentence was pronounced today upon David A. Lamson, young Stanford univer sity publishing house representa tive convicted of wife murder, after he had professed innocence in an address to the court. Superior Judge R. G. Syer had just denied a hard-fought defense motion for a new trial ot the case growing out of the death of Al lene Thorpe Lamson, attractive Stanford Y. W. C. A. secretary, in a campus cottage May 30 and Lamson was asked to rise. "Have yon any legal cause or reason why Judgment should not be pronounced now?" asko ! Judge Syer. "I understand, your honor, said Lamson calmly, "that under the law and under this verdict you have no alternative but to pro nounce tbe death sentence. I should like you and the people of this state to know that- my con science la clear before your Judg ment and before the judgment of God. "I know in my heart that I have been a good husband. I loved Al lene. I have done her no harm. I am as innocent ot her death as you yourself. That Is all." DEATH OF CEli PLOTTED, CUB CHICAGO Sept 2. (AP) Startling testimony that the un derworld had marked the late Mayor Anton J. Cermak for exe cution because of his anti-criminal activities and ad chosen Louis -Little New York" Cam pagna as his executioner -.was given today In criminal court ' The declaration was mane ny former Police Sergeant Harry Miller in the trial ot Harry Lang. susnended police officer who is charged with assault with Intent to kill Frank NIttI, .reputed one -r time -enforcer of Al Capone's edicts, i . - Under cross-examination by Defense Attorney Abe Marovits, : Miller said a raid last December on a loop office where Nlttl waa shot had been ordered by the late mayor two days before. - Marovits asked whether, Mayor Cermak has received threats from the underworld, v t -Ha did," said Miller. "He told , of . a plan that had been made ' to kill him , because he had plan ned to stop all gangster . opera ' tions during the world fair, ESCAPE Till II !-4 J