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CIRCULATION
Dally averts distribution for th
montb ending September 31. 1931
CITY EDITION
Cloudiness with rain Thursday;
southerly gales.
10,590
Local: Max.. W: Mln., 33; rain,
.03; river, -3.4 feet: .cloudy; south
wind.
Average daily net paid 10,126
Iftmbw Audit Buimu of Circulation
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SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1931
PRICE THREE CENTS
ON TRAIN'S AND NKWS
tTAND FIVE CKNTfl
matter at Salem, Oregon
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SAY AMERICA
NOT HELPING
PEACEMOVES
Belief Widespread U. S.
Failing To Cooperate
With League
Accused of Playing Lone
Hand Pessimism
Rules League Council
Geneva Pi Tlwre was ft distinct
note of pessimism Wednesday eve
ning among persons In ft position
to know the trend of debate re
garding Manchuria In the League
of Nations council.
The belief was widespread that
the United States, represented by
Prentiss B. Gilbert, was not back
ing up the league's program of
pacification.
Reports of conversations at Wash
ington between Secretary of Slate
Stlmson and Katsuji Debuchl, the
Japanese ambassador, appeared to
have aroused fears that the United
States was playing a lone hand and
short-circuiting the council's ef
forts to Induce withdrawal of Jap
anese troops from Manchuria.
Kenklchl Yoshizawa, Japan's rep
resentative on the council, remain
ed adamant in his refusal to prom
ise recall of Japanese troops with
out certain guarantees which it Is
believed China is unwilling to un
dertake. It wax understood that the mem
bers of the council were very dis
couraged and that they were con
" (Concluded on page 10. column 6)
JUDD INMATE
OREGON ASYLUM
Dr. W. C. Judd. whose wife
sought In connection with the trunk
murder of Mrs. Agnes LeRol and Miss
Hedvlg Samuelson at Phoenix, was
an Inmate of the Oregon state hos
pital for the Insane from December
27, 1919 to February 21, 1920. The
hospital records show that he was
committed from Marion county as
a. drug addict.
Dr. Judd had served with the
United States forces overseas during
the World war and his commitment
followed his return here. Later, fol
lowing his discharge from the hos
pital, he Is said to have been offi
cial physician for the Brookings
Lumber company at Brookings, Ore.
near the California line.
He was graduated from the medi
cal college of Willamette university
In 1906 and for a time was an In
terne at Willamette sanitarium here.
Local physicians who knew Judd 1
describe him as normally a man of j
culture and very personable.
HOSPITAL PATIENTS
RESCUED IN FIRE
Oakland, Cal. UP) Twenty pa
tients in the main building of St.
Anthony's hospital were removed
safely Wednesday when fire men
aced the strcture.
A triple alarm summoned all
available fire appartus and fire
men assisted hospital attendants In
removing the patients to the ma
ternity ward In an adjoining build
ing. None was Injured.
Cause of the fire was not Im
mediately determined.
Two patients were overcome but
were quickly revived.
Physicians, nurses and nearby
residents aided firemen In remov
ing the patients In stretchers and
wheel chairs.
A score of convalescents gather
ed their paraphernalia and walked
to safety.
RELIGIOUS WARFARE
RAGES, VERA CRUZ
Mexico City i Reports of re
ligious trouble In the state of Vera
Crux were contained In dispatches
ITS chine here Wednesday.
A message from Tulancingo, Hid
logo, saM a movement led by an
unnamed priest had gained some
stremrth at Iihuallan, Vera Crux,
and that federal troops were
wnrtnf on the town.
In Coacoauintla, state of Vera
Cms. the report said. Agrarians
and municipal authorities clashed
and three persons were seriously
wounded.
SCHOOL BURNS
Rolderness, N. H. UFt Fire early
Wednesday destroyed the Holderness
school for boys and drove more than
forty students to the street. Damage
was animated M approximately
1206,000.
Good Evening!
Sips for Supper
By DON UPJOHN
Henry Mencken wrote an article
recently in which he urged the le
galising of lotteries, remaps ne
has found out since his marriage
that ft lottery isn't so bad, after all.
Our headline writer at the top of
the classified page handed out the
following last night: "Consider
these If's If Cleopatra had worn
long skirts; If Patrick Henry had
been born tongue UeH; If Paul Re
vere had been held up by traffic."
We might add the following:
If Herman Schellberg had, been
born deaf and dumb.
If Eve hadn't liked apples.
If Walter Raleigh had gone In his
shirtsleeves.
If Al Smith had been born
Methodist.
The depression bas even bit
the Salem high school secret
societies. At least they cant
keep the Wolf from the door.
Barney Bernhard, local A. P. man,
is urging a get together dinner for
state officials so they may become
acquainted. Leave It to a news
paperman to work up a free feed for
himseu.
The question arises If Max
Gchlhar should be compelled to
order Tusko to be shot whether
that would be another trunk
murder.
At any rate It's too bad Tusko
didn't get all the publicity before
the state fair. It would have made
It one of the big paying attrac
tions.
Anyway, at the rate of two tons
of hay a day, we can say for Tusko,
"What an elephant!"
Banker Lamport who has been
vice-president of the United States
National bank for a number 01
years, became Lawyer Lamport this
week and looks the part ensconced
in his new offices up In the bank
building. Here's hoping for lots of
litigation, Fred, and a multiplicity
of suits.
Right after our revealing the re
lationship of Frank Spears and Doc
Spears Frank got a citation to
come down to Portland and serve
on the federal grand Jury probably
as right tackle.
Some old philosopher once re
marked that you get out of life
what you put Into It. Which same
may also be said of a mirror as any
woman can testify.
GUNMEN HELD IN
LA GRANDE JAIL
La Grande, Ore. (IP) Life
death for Keith Crosswhite and
John Owen, youthful Springfield,
J Mo., "bad men", literally depended
Wednesday upon the fate of Amos
Helm, whom they shot.
Helm, a state policeman, was shot
down by one of the men last sun-
day as he questioned them about
robberies at Idaho Palls, Ida. Owen
and Crosswhite deserted Orlean
Wood house, a 10-year-old Idaho
girl, and took to the wild Blue
Mountain hills.
They were captured Tuesday, hun
gry, cold and dejected, without a
shot being fired. A searcher in an
airplane had located their hiding-
place.
If Helm dies, the prisoners win be
tried for first degree murder, a
capital offense. District Attorney
Carl Helm said.
Giant Hawk Tried
To Carry Off Boy
Sioux City, la. (IP) A giant hawk
which tried to carry "Buddy" Knud
son, 7, away, could not lift him and
got Its claws so entangled In the
boy's clothing It could not escape.
"Buddy" suffered severe scratches
before an older boy killed the hawk.
Winter Relief Work
Gets Definite Start
At Conference Here
Salem cot its organization for winter relief work as an
adjunct to its job-finding1 commiswion for the resident un
employed definitely under way at a meeting of the members
of the community service commit-
tee named by the chamber of com
merce Tuesday evening, when plans
for the collection and disbursement
of relief funds and the systematic
handling of all destitute and needy 1
cases were formulated and placed
in preliminary operation.
Without attempting to establish
an arbitrary quota, which would be
largely a matter of guess work tn
view of the abnormal emergency
existing, the committee will launch
a concerted campaign for funds on
November 1 with the Idea of tn--Juding
everyone tn the city who
FINAL TRIBUTE
PAID EDISON
AT OLD HOME
Funeral Ceremony Sim
pleMrs. Hoover At
tends All Electric Lights In Na
tion To Be Turned Off
One Minute Tonight
West Orange, N. J., UP In the
drawing room of the spacious, Vic
torlan mansion where he had lived
for many years, a simple tribute
was paid Wednesday to one of
America's greatest peace time
heroes Thomas Alva Edison.
There assembled his family and
his friends to bid him farewell,
with the music, the poetry, and the
flowers that he loved.
The wife of the president of the
United States, whom the inventor
counted among his friends, was
present, but there was about the
funeral little of the stately cere
mony one would associate with the
obsequies of a man of world wide
fame.
-The service opened with two of
Edifion's favorite songs "Little
Grey Heme in the West" and "I'll
Take You Home Again, Kathleen'
played on the violin by his old
t Concluded on page 11. column 8)
RAILROAD WAGE
CUT AVERTED
Washington (IP) A plan for stab
ilizing the critical railroad situa
tion without recourse to wage cuts
has been advanced as another of
the efforts which the government Itr
making to revive basis industries
and restore confidence to American
business.
The interstate commerce com
mission proposed the plan Tuesday
in rejecting the carriers petition
for a blanket 15 per cent rate In
crease. It contemplates a huge
pool of millions of dollars, accrued
through widely spread but small
rate increases for the benefit of
roads in financial distress. The in
creases would have scarcely any
effect - upon the average citizen.
As a companion effort to the
$500,000,000 National Credit corpor
ation and the proposed improve
ments In the real estate and home
building situations, the railroad
plan would marshal from $100,000,
000 to $125,000,000 for another in
dustry weakened by the strain of
adverse business conditions and
vitiated credit.
By making its counter proposal,
the commission was believed to
have averted for the time being
at least any further speculation re
garding wage reductions for ran
workers such as a flat denial prob
ably would have occasioned.
STARTS DRIYE ON
ONE EYED AUTDS
Charles Pray, state superinten
dent of police, Wednesday issued a
warning to motoriits driving at
night with only one headlight. The
police department is making a drive
against these offenders and any
one with single headlights will be
subject to arrest, Pray announced.
.Complaints of many one-light
drivers on the highways as well as
many with glaring headlights, have
come into the department, Pray
said. Both violations will be check
ed In -the drive for more safety on
highways.
desires to assist. The appeal, to be
directed bv a special corps of work
era under trie direction of William
McOllchrlst, Jr., will embrace every
class of people able to contribute
to poor relief from laborers and
salaried workers on through the
whole scale of occupations to bank
ers and professional men.
The proceed of the campaign
which, except In the event of un
forseen emergencies will be the
only such appeal made here dur
In the winter, will gojnto a com
" (Concluded on "pat 11, column iT
Freight Rates
On Lumber to
Be Increased
The Interstate commerce commis
sion ruling In granting certain in
creases on commodities shipped by
rail, although refusing the flat Is
per cent Increase requested by rail
roads, affects lumber, Charles M.
Thomas, public utilities commis
sioner, stated. He said his Inter
pretation of the findings showed
this was the only commodity ma
terially affecting Oregon.
The Increase permitted on lum
ber Interstate shipments was $3 a
carload. This Increase was Includ
ed In the conditionally approved
surcharges.
The commissioner announced mat
(Concluded on page 10, column t)
BECKETT HELD
TO GRAND JURY
Dallas Russell Beckett and L
Schaeffer, both Salem men, were
bound over to the Polk county
grand Jury Wednesday following
arraignment in the court of Justice
of the Peace Oregon, and released
under $500 bond furnished by Frank
Berrv. Portland bail bond broker,
as the result of their arrest here
early Monday morning by Chief of
Police Neufeldt. The two men were
charged with possession and trans
portation of alcoholic liquor ana
possession of a loaded gun upon a
public highway. I
A third man, one "John Doe"
who has consistently refused to
talk and consequently could not be
questioned by officers, occupies a
cell In the county Jail until he Is
willing to answer questions of the
officers.
Mysterious circumstances brought
the arrest of the trio according to
tht story told by Chief Neufeldt.
Beckett allegedly brought "John
Doe" to Dallas in a light coupe
late Sunday night. "John Doe" got
out of the car, and Beckett head
ed back toward Salem. Police
promptly picked up the stranger as
a suspicious character. About 4
o'clock the next morning accord
ing to the officer's story, Beckett
returned driving a truck and was
accompanied by Schaeffer. When
Neufeldt stopped him. Beckett al-
iCoucluded onpntte 10, column 7)
DENY PERMISSION
TO DRAG WHALE
Portland. Ore., tip) The words
'only a bird In a gilded cage" will
never apply to Egbert the whale.
Permission to catch Egbert and
drag him 300 yards overland to
concrete pool full of salt water was
denied P. Pl?her and Clyde Lei
cer. Vancouver, Wash., Wednesday
by the Oregon Humane society.
In rendering Its dictum, the so
ciety was thinking only of Eg
bert's welfare, Mrs. LUlle Thomas
president, indicated.
We think it would be cruel to
drag the whale 300 yards and put
it tn a tank only nine feet deep,
she said.
A counter proposal to tow Eg
bert from his adopted home in
Oregon slough Into the Columbia
river and start him on a 100-mile
journey down the river to salt
water, was being considered by the
society Wednesday.
LAVAL TO SPEAK
ON RADIO MONDAY
New York iJPt Premier Pierre La
val of Prance, coming to the United
States for conferences with Presl- I
dent Hoover, is to speak before the j
microphone next Monday evening.
The address is to be made at a !
dinner in his honor by the French
chamber of commerce In the United
States and will be broadcast from
New York by WABC-CBS.
The premier s arrival some lime
Thursday morning Is to be described
over an NBC network.
Wednesday the premier finished
writing the speech he will make In
New York and sent a copy of it
to Washington by radio so President ;
Hoover might look tt over before It Is
delivered. I
Henry Ford Thinks
Hard Times Do Good
New York 0P Henry Ford thinks
the economic slump "has done less
harm to the people of our country
than a continuance of our previous
false prosperity would have done."
In an interview In Wednesday's
issue of the American Automobile
Mr. Ford says that "the depression
Is a wholesome thing. In general.
"The condition mill be broken
when people cease to believe that
something can be obtained for
nothing and when people get back
their self-lependence; that is. when
they cease to lean on the initiative
of a few either to provide work or
charity."
FINANCE AND
ECONOMIES TO
BE DISCUSSED
Hoover and Laval To
Confer on Readjust
ment of Conditions
Debt Revision and Arma
ment Reduction Prin
ciple Subjects
(Copyright. If 31, hj Auociated Ptcm)
Washington, (ffV-A broad read
justment of the tangled world eco
nomics, including possible debt re
visions and drastic arms reduction,
but Involving no American guar
antee of French political security,
is conoeived by the American gov
ernment to be the theme of Pre
mier Laval's coming conferences
with President Hoover.
There la no expectation here that
any sort of prior commitment, in
the form of a Franco-American
consultative pact or otherwise, will
be discussed when the two states
men converse at the White House
later this week.
The United States does not con
sider Itself in a position to make
promises respecting the security of
any European nation. It will be a
surprise if Mr. Laval suggests such
a step.
The understanding here is tnat
the sole basis of the Hoover-Laval
conversations will be world econo
mic rehabilitation. France and the
United States, holding between
(Concluded ori page 10. column 4)
WOUNDED COP
WORSE TODAY
LeGrande wv-The condition of
Amos Helms, state trooper, shot
here Sunday by Keith Crosswhite,
19. and John Owens, 28, of Spring
field, Mo., appeared less satisfac
tory Wednesday than it did Tues
day. He passed a restless night.
Crosswhite and Owens were cap
tured Tuesday near Meacham after
posses of national guardsmen, state
police, sheriffs deputies and clti
zens had sought them since Sunday
after they shot Helms who with
Captain Lee Noe had tried to ques
tion them for auto theft.
Officials said Wednesday they ex
pect to file charges of assault with
attempt to kill against the two men
If Helms recovers. If he dies the
two will face murder charges.
Police said both men signed con
fesslons admitting they shot Helms,
robbed a service station at Idaho
Falls and stole the car in Missouri.
Miss Orlenn Woodhouse, 15, of
Idaho Falls, who was with the two
when they shot the officer, is held
as a material witness. She left their
company after the shooting.
PACIFIC FLIERS CALL
AT WHITE HOUSE
Washington A' Two non-stop
fliers Hugh Herndon and Clyde
Pa born Mopped Wednesday at
tne wnite House.
The Pacific fliers stayed long
enough to shake hands with Presl
dent Hoover and pose with him for
pictures.
They were accompanied by Mrs.
Herndon and Assistant Secretary
Young of the commerce depart
ment.
After a call on Ambassador De
buchl of Japan and a visit to the
state department, Herndon and
Pan r born planned to return to New
York, they expect to receive there
tomorrow the $25,000 check offered
by a Japanese newspaper for their
flight.
Storm Warnings Are
Posted Along Coast
Portland Southeast storm
storm warning were ordered up at
all Oregon and Washington coast
stations at I ft. m. Wednesday. The
weather bureau said the first real
blow of the season tSLlndlcated.
a storm or maraeu intensity, the
forecast said, la nearing the Ore
gon and Washington coastline from
the Oulf of Alaska. Rain Wednes
day night and Thursday and south
erly gales to the coast and off
shore were predicted.
Portland had the lowest tempera
ture of the season Wednesday with
ft minimum of 39 degrees at I ft. m.
MORE VICTIMS DIE
Heme, Westphalia, Germany Of,
The death toll of Monday's mine
explosion at Mont Cenls col Her
was raised to 17 Wednesday when
five more of the victims died.
Filter Construction
Offer Repeated By
Water Firm Chief
If and when the question of municipal ownershiD of the
city water supply system is submitted to the people of Salem
and rejected, or sooner if the city council will execute ft con
tract with the Oregon-Washington Water Service company
to protect the company in the
ment in betterment ana improve-.
menu, the company stands ready
to proceed immediately with work
of completing the filter plant,
pumping plant, extension of its
mains, enlargement of the present
reservoir and the construction of ft
150,000 gallon supply tank atop
Fairmount hill.
This Is the sense of ft reply to
queries addressed to him by the
Capital Journal by E. C. Elliott,
president of the water company, who
Is Just now In New York. In view
of the agitation of the Salem chap-
tec of the Oregon Building Con
gress and local building trades
unions for the resumption of work
upon the contemplated water sys
tem betterments either by the com-
(Concluded on pw 11, column 6)
POSSES HUNTING
BANK ROBBERS
- l
Menominee, Wis., UP Sheriff's
posses Wednesday were hunting
three members of a machine gun
bandit gang for the hold-up of the
Kraft State bank In which a son
of the bank's president and ft
fourth robber were slain.
The body of James Kraft, 19, as
sistant cashier in the bank head
ed by his father, W. H. Kraft, was
found on the highway six miles
from here where it had been
thrown from the bandits' car. The
slain bandit, whose body was also
found along the country road, was
Identified through fingerprints as
Frank Webber alias Frank Smith,
who was captured In a Salt Lakt
City bank robbery In 1919.
Sixteen persons were forced to
lie on the bank floor by the three
bandits. The leader scooped up an
estimated $10,000 in cash and se
curities. The robber car, blood spattered,
was later found. Possemen Wed
nesday were continuing the search
in the neighborhood of Webster,
and Sponnervllle, Wis.
W. H. Kraft, another son of the
president, was shot In the back as
he lay on the floor when he re
fused to tell the bandits where
other valuables were. He Is expec
ted to recover.
OREGON FOOTBALL
TEAM OFF FOR EAST
Eugene, Ore. P) Bound eastward
for two lntersectlonal games on suc
cessive Saturdays, the University of
Oregon football squad entrained
Wednesday for Grand Forks, N.
where they will meet the University
of North Dakota eleven Saturday.
From Grand Forks the Webfoota
will go to New York for a game with
New York University October 31.
The Oregon team worked until
long after dark Tuesday In an at
tempt to smooth out their attack.
Doc Spears, coach, drove his men
hard throughout the afternoon and
scrimmaged them for over two
hours.
The Oregon camp was down
hearted when word came from the
hospital that examination revealed
that Lawrence Winter, regular end,
had suffered a knee fracture in the
Trojan game last Saturday. Speara
had planned a new attack built
around Winter.
Devers' Report Upon
Unemployed In Oregon
In Governor's Hands
J. M. Devers, attorney
sion who was designated to make county-by-county survey
of the unemployment situation In Oregon in connection with
Oovernor Meiers plans for state
and county cooperation in the
emergency employment of idle la
bor during the winter, was Wed
nesday whipping his final report
into shape for submission to the
executive office.
He expected to have the finished
report In the executive offices late
In the afternoon and It was an
nounced there that the report
would be made public Thursday.
Devers would make no advance
statements as to the contents of the
report, but It It understood that his
amount of its actual invest
CONDITS WIN
SUIT FOR LAND
Circuit Judge Hill Wednesday
handed down a decision decreeing
in the case of Emma and Ross Con
dit against Charles L., and Margaret
Martin that a deed of trust from the
Condits to the Martins covering 53
acres of land la void and of no ef
fect and the plaintiff Emma Condlt
is decreed owner of the property. An
accounting of rents and profits also
is asked for.
The decree Is final outcome of ft
case which aroused considerable in
terest, especially in the Aumisville
district which resulted in Ross Con
dlt going to the penitentiary on
charges of statutory acts against ft
young girl. He has since been re
leased. The court In decreeing the proper
ty back to Mrs. Condit holds that
the plaintiffs have failed to establish
by a preponderance of evidence any
of the allegations of the amended
complaint of conspiracy, fraud,
threats of undue influence and false
representations, and declares that
such allegations are not true.
The court In setting aside the deed
of trust held that It was wholly
without consideration and the only
ciaim trnrc tne defendants asserted
was that they held the same In trust
for the use and benefit of Emma
Condlt and her minor children.
The court states that insofar as
the evidence tends to establish such
a trust that It is too uncertain and
indefinite as to constitute a legal
and valid trust.
CLAIM POLICE
RECEIVE BRIBES
Oakland, Cal., (LP) More than
150 Oakland policemen were un
der fire Wednesday in an Investi
gation by District Attorney Earl
Warren of Alameda county on evi
dence that bootleggers are paying
huge sums of "protection money"
here.
Aided by federal agents during
Inquiry lasting two months. War
ren claJ med information linking
officers with the payment of $50,000
or more a month in bribes by li
quor Interests, and the asserted
sale of seized liquor to bootleggers.
Warren alleged one special duty
officer had withdrawn nearly $40,
000 from a hidden bank account
since July and that another, paid
$250 a month salary, had deposited
$20,000 in a year.
Indictment on bribery. Income
tax evasion and prohibition counts
may be sought. Warren indicated.
The prosecutor gave the first
hint of Ills inquiry in an address
before a men's club when he
charged that "liquor Interests are
corrupting our police forces.
11 RESERVE BANKS
RAISE DISCOUNT RATE
Washington IP Increases In re
discount rates by tne Philadelphia
Federal Reserve bank from 3 to 3l
per cent, and the St. Louise Reserve
bank from 21. to 3li er cent effec
tive Thursday were announced by
the federal reserve board.
for the state highway commis
- . ...
Investigations have revealed the
most serious unemployment condi
tions to exist In Portland, certain
of the valley eountles where indus
trial development is heaviest, and
In such counties as Clatsop, Coos
and Klamath where depression In
the lumber market has thrown
thousands of men out of work.
Unemployment conditions In east
ern Oregon are said to be generst
ly less serious than In the wet'tm
part of the state. Correlating with
(Concluded on past 10. column J
FEAR SUICIDE
MAY BE FATE
OF MRS. JUDD
Many Arrested But Re
leasedDoctor's Wife
Makes Escape Good
Husband With Others Be
lieves Murderess Wil
Not Be Found Alive
Los Angeles (LP) With a seal al
most equal to the search for Wil
liam Edward Hickman, murderer
of Marlon Parker, the hunt for Mrs.
Winnie Ruth Judd, 27, accused of
the "trunk slaylngs' of two of her
friends, went on throughout south
em California and Arizona Wed
nesday.
Just as In the case of Hickman,
Mrs. Judd was reported seen a doa
en times in as many different
places but as the day wore on each
of these tips seemed to have been
groundless.
One woman was questioned twice.
first at San Pedro and then again
near Vlctorvllle. Twice local polios
were called to downtown hotels by
clerks who believed Mrs. Judd waft
one of their guests. A woman "re
sembling" Mrs. Judd waa reported
hitch-hiking for the Mexican bord
er while still another was enroute
(Concluded on page 10, column 7)
TRAGIC DEATHS
FOR 3 NURSES
Portland fP) By a ghsatly turn of
fate three girls, all young, all pretty,
bound close by the ties of friend
ship, have met violent, tragic deaths
within a year.
The gruesome slaying of Agnes
LeRol and Hedvig Samuelson of
Phoenix, Ariz, recalled that a year
ago this month Ruth Nellie Rme
hart, young Portland and 8alem
nurse, and their close friend, disap
peared mysteriously from the steam-
Princess Louise while en route
from Wrangel, Alaska, to Portland.
Mrs. Le Rol saw Miss Rinehart off
on the Princess Louise when she
left Wrangel to sail south. Her dis
appearance from the boat never waa
explained.
Members of Mrs. Le Rot's family
said Wednesday that when the girl
was here last June she spoke of the
tragedy but appeared reluctant to
discuss details of her relationship
with the nurse or of her disappear
ance. IOWA BANK HELD UP
AND $4370 TAKEN
Yale, la. IP) Two bandits who
were inside the Farmers' State
bank of Yale Wednesday when em
loyes of the institution came to
work, held up the bank, took $4,
370 82 In cash and escaped.
J. W. Hemphill, bookkeeper, en
tered the bank for work Wednes
day morning and was accosted by
two bandits who had apparently
secreted themselves In the build
ing during the night. They ordered
him to open the vault, then bound
him and placed him Inside the
vault.
When W. R. Hltchins, assistant
cashier, arrived a few minutes later,
he was likewise bound and placed
in the vault.. After taking all the
available currency and strewing the
bonds around the vault, the ban
dits hurriedly escaped in a stolen
car,
BUTLER'S LECTURE
FINANCIAL FROST
Portland tlP-Whpn Major r.en
era) Bmedley Darlington Butler,
blew the lid of( crime." at the au
ditorium here last Saturday night.
he "drew" Just 14 50 more than tne
auditorium rental. The KUtson
White Chautauqua company bare
petitioned the council to reduce the
rental of 1360 (or the auditorium to
1160 because the total receipt
the Butler lecture amounted I
only 1164 50.
Marathon Dancer
Admitted Crazy
Chicago (IP) Michael Boras. It,
riplalned hen charged with steal
ing gloves that dsnclng 483 hours
had made him "so eraiy I dldnt
know what I was doing dt
Ijton Kdelman replied that any
body who danced that long "arat b
rrarr" and rcl.avd Borak ao pn-
I ballon.