The Daily Independent from Murphysboro, Illinois • Page 1

full Eight Hoar United "Iron Main" Service Than Aii Othe-i jaeksou Newspapers Combined 1891 MITRPHYKMORO. ILLINOIS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1930 CAPO! IS NOW Aiello's Murder Removes Last Rival for Gang Control New Wars May Start in Chicago's Gangdom to Unseat "Scarface" OeT. mnrdei r.i' a former Italian commission who hungered for the poiler. wealth -and fame that go gang leaders-hip, and went down into the underworld to get today leaves Al Capone. the legendary bad man of the South Side, practically the undisputed king of Chicago's When Joe Aiello crumpled up and-, breathed his last under a machine gun barrage, the Capone clinched his title 'o sole rulership of gangland.

One by, one sometimes, two by has seen his rivals erased. Of all the "big shots" who tried to get i their cut in Chicago's illegal revenues without diverting a share into Capone's pockets, not one of any prominence now remains. Capone's- victory is just about 'complete. Future Is in Doubt Whether or not it is h'nal is an- othtT question, yet to be answered. Two things are possible.

The Chicago underworld can settle down in Capone's iron grip, with competition at, a minimum and killings unnecessary; or can be linal desperate flare-up on the part of the once-powerful North Side gang with a great deal of shooting and a. frantic effort to KjlOCK OUt C-ttpOllG otcii.ui.uij' k.iicaiyc; MI Lire c. my ncitn oil my ja The. first alter-iiaUya more Suhda y. hanging herself with a blanket she tied probable.

But' whatever ha'ppeiis. and fashioned into a r.cose. remains that right now North Side gang seems to be hope- This Ktrikins; layout shows how' Joe Aiello, abovu, was mti'dered as he left his home. Upper left, the room in the house across the street where machine gunners waited behind a curtained window rV'ht i the front of Aiello's home and the door from which lie emerged ar.d was lired upon the black' arrows indicating bullet holes made in the wall by the spraying machine gun and the white cross the spot where Aiello fell after he had turned to run up the alleyway and was shot by a gunman hidden on the balcony, indicated by the white arrow. Below is the.feast that the" machine aunners had spread in their apartment, detectives coating, the dishes with chemicals in an attempt to develop linger- OALVA, yoctnn, Galva's richest citi- and btiKl to he one of the weal- 'thtPst bankers in west'central llli- innis.

was missing today and it is believed he was held a captive ichiapers who wanted ransom, i The banker, authorities believed, kidnaped from his own front y. id bj men whom he tried to be- by showing tli2in the way to 1 a they pretended they wished to visit. 'Where is the home of Yoeum, the banker's wilie, a stranger ask of her hus- Sa'turday night as Yocum en- his front yard after 1 children, and Ami, to a niovhis picture theater. Mvs. Yocum she did not hear the last word of the stranger's query, slie did hear her husband 1111- Iswer "right over there." The stranger, she said, then ask- led Vocuin, who is persident of the Yocum State Bank of Galva, if he would show him the wuy.

Yocum ami strolled away. An hour psased. 'Yocum did not! heuirn. His wife became worried attempted to teleiihone to neighbors. Getting no she investigated and found that the telephone wires had been cut outside the- house.

Police were called, 'posses formed and ihe ON THESPOJ S. Senator Glenn Asks Federal Aid In Case Price iSt Per Week HE. GOT PRUNES ENOUGH i TO LAST HIS LIFETIME CHICAGO, Oct. Simpson, 15 negro of Lqvejoy, 111., used like primes' "heltpr'n nn- hut now he never wants see another one as long as he lives. He said so himself Chicago and 'Alton railroa- hrakeman released him from sealed 'which Pioyc been imprisoned for (i'v days witii nothing tit.

eat Im prunes-. He had sneaked intf oar near Cairo, and bee; locked in'before he h-id a. ch.in'c to oat ull he wanted. Five days with nothing lo en but Ills fond however, even for'Floyd, and his remark upon stepping Train tin car "Boss, 1 wants no mon prunes." TEACHER COLLEGE PARTY FOUR, MONSTER StflCKGAIM TIOT CE1EBRATED IN Hoover and MacDonaid Talk Over Radio On Naval limitations EFFINGHAM, Oct. Shadwell, 17, held on i statutory charge in the Effingharn county jail, committed suicide I to a Bar in her cell I news ot Yocum's 'disappear spread rapidly through this town of 23.000 inhabitants, which BRIEF NEWS BULLETINS DAYS HERE AGAIN in SATURDAY EVE The as Yocum, one of the town's most popular as weil as its TTtninv rlllVQ WASHINGTON.

Oct. 27 suggestion that the nations of the world must spoil go on to extend the naval arms limitation of the London treaty was mads today by President. In a speech broadcast through- De the world, the hailed PEORIA. that no warning whistle was sounded on an approaching Toledo, Peoria, and Western Railway train, Mrs. Jennie Higgins today filed a $20,000 damage suit in circuit court against the railroad for damages sustained tob'er 26, 1929.

I an accident on Oc- lessly shattered and Icaderless. Ca pone, over whose round pate a of regniems were chanted when he went to prison in Philadelphia 'couple of years ago, has "come back" with a a good many bangs, in fact. Those jubi- the lant announcements that 1 through seem to have been premature. Two Foes Bead, One Jailed During the. last few years Ca-j PEORIA, Oct.

from her -room on the pone's -enemies were grouped im- fifth. floor of St. Francis' hospital, Mrs. Josephine Snnd, 58, struck der ihe leadership of a triumverate cement driveway and was killed instantly today. Moran, Jack Znta I ed from a nervous breakdown since her late husband, Carl died that no casualties'resulted, and this Joe Aiello, who used to I last July of heat prostration.

C. li. Coleman of Cartervill conduct a flourishing and law-abid-' ing business in the buying and selling of fresh vegetables and who. witli prisoners. Some became "happy" and others became alleged clisi.ui hers of the peace.

I One prisoner was held for alleg- URBANA, Oct. the fact that it experienced edly driving a car when ho was largest student enrollment in its history this the Board of i intoxicated. he was I Trustees of the University of Illinois announ-ced today that it would! During the evening cars deveiop- a trifle ask for an increase in appropriations for the operation for I ed a tendency of iir'riving at the the next two years. appear voluntarily. Word from the examiner's onice at Springlield was that cu uiul JB mav bank was in excellent forward with assuranc- tcThe fict locum was here to be that future conferences In a speech Broadcast throughout the world, the president hailed the deposit of ratifications of the treaty in London today by the vfir'ous nntions.

hut made clear did not believe the limitation of should end here. "If the limitations now establish- can be maintained we mav same spot same time and timiins' over. Police nuide no reports of Mrs. Sand had suffer-! wrecks for tile reason Ihey worth more than 81,000.000. 'He is known by bankers throughout the "the pavement at thoj st; bouncing back seeing the money that was to be made in the underworld, turned Oct.

coroner's jury today gated the death of Dean Jackson, 15, of Mulberry Grove, reported LUG ucai-ii vi ii, ui tviuiuciiy ui ove, reported accidentally shot by Bob Duncan, another youth, while hunting Sunday. Duncan told police that Jackson, a lifelong friend was walking in front crook and went out to get his. him, when he stumbled, his rifIS going off, and the bullet entering and Aiello are now dead and Moran I Jackson's back. is in jail. The South Side outfit started WATSEKA, Oct.

for 510,000 damages was gunning for this unholy trio a long filed today against the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway by Henry time ago. They opened the attack Boomgardtn, administrator of the estate of his wife, Augusta, who was with gangland's major offensive to (killed on July 1930. The bill fii.sd in circuit court alleges that a pas- Valentine's Day massacre, isenger train of the railroad traveled 45 miios an hour in violation of which sounds like the invention ofj the 15 mile an hour city ordinance. some unbalanced writer of dime novels but which actually happen-j 'SPRINGFIELD, Oct. marketing c-d.

garage that was one of thejnois grown apples will' be attempted by Illinois fruit growers. announced by Stuart E. Pierson, Director of the State Department of upon the receipt of confirmation from federal officials, it easier to bring about further steps in reduct'on." he said, speaking' directly bv radio to. premier MacDnnnld of Great Britain in London and Premier Hnmaguchi of Japan, in fokio, who also spoke hi the international radio ceremoiiv. "It is ihe fervent pr.Tyer'of r'ghi thinking men and women of this generation that the international confidence hay been so p.a- demand for ransom was re; ported, but officials felt certain tiiiu a demand had been received by Mrs.

Yocum, who was suffering from nervousness and fear. v-ni LCI I Officials said a special delivery held and a charge of drunken driv- which came into Galva on a'r. i- ing. j-east bound train, was delivered to As gaiti.es of the evening readied wire Sunday afternoon climax at. o'clock Officer O.

S1 'e refused to divulge its contents. T. Caywood had occasion to go into Authorities felt certain the letter violent action to induce several of- contained threats and a demand may and be "extended tenders to accompany him to jail. money or that it had beer 1 writ-1 "Never ngpin must I'n'pn In At the county jail CHim Pugh ten by Yoeum and directed how naval armaments be -llowed In ransom was to be turned over seV develop cre.tly to tlla "bductors. The president also expressed tho it was recalled that a wealthy hope that France and Italy nr-'ht eoria, 111., citizen was kidnaped soon he able to compose their nav i only a few months ago and held "1 differences and becom' and single-mindedlv ac-'htev- ed may endure so that the agree- eagree- ucunu-iy i (ments ivh-ch have been reached field of shorts.

Ids Barrett Dies; Three Other Ladies Injured; Transport Owner and Driver Arrested Here Miss Lois Barrett, Teacher's college student at Carbond.ile, injured early Sunday evening when a Ford cabrolet Ind a truck crashed on Ko'nte 13 near Murphy s'horo. Others injured were Miss Laura Caboml, student; Misses Hilda Stem Aileen Carpenter, all of Teachers College, C.n hond-il ind R. Stone, colored, truck driver. In the span of a second after Stone turned his truck the Mack line in passing a parked car, death blew its breath acioss iha stream of late-Sunday traffic. In a flash the cumbersome, truck and the light car crashed Poi nslant wilence obtained.

Then the screams of women minaled wuh lie bawling of cattle and the squealing of car brakes as the 'stream paused. Wife, Children With Millionaire Sportsman When Death Came The truck was out oi Ahniry, I Kentucky, with in cows jnd mlvei for the National Stock Y.uds, East St. Ldtiis and was approaching i liurphysboro oppr Mif Pleasant i drove school le'-s than four miles out of the city. The time was (5:211 p. in.

i The rumble-seated Ford occupied by the four ladies was returning to i Carbondnle. It- was mem rfioup j.iust completing a perfect afternoon 1 motoring through the October truck hit almost NEW YORK, Octi -UJ A I 1 Harry Whitney, muUi-mil-', breaking up its lioiiiure" sportsman financier. "hell. The truck died of last night ui '''e. li-nme, S71 Fifth Avenue.

He was i The auto head-on. The sudden shift of the nt'd the cows within to Inrch one way at one time, and the weight turned the truck over, un its body like an egg left tire o'l Hie drivers left. 1 The impact of the err the monster truck was tcr i rible. The motor of the Ford slMit i (Il ivei1 the machine', midrift. The cushion of the drher'a scat was driven forward alinu pneumonia developed.

hitney, the former Jllt against the broken whcol From his secretary it was learn ed that Whitney caught cold with fever last Tuesday. It was not considered serious, weight of the two occupants in HIP Ger-1 rumble seat being Imilfd Vanderbilt, a sculptress of i forward. note, and their three children were I "I don't know what, its all about with him when he died. one of the injured women kept peating. "I don't know what u-c-ii Harry Payne Whitney, one of the mean." The while she walked'about- richest men in America, was the the scene like a sleep-walker in a C.

Whitney. Secre- lary of Navy in the cabinet of I'resi- They took Miss Barrett and anolh- dent Grover Cleveland, and Flora i er of. Ihe ladies lo Holdall, Payne Whitney. He was horn April hospital. Carliondale.

Mi; 2fl, 1872. in New York. He attend-J died enroute. The other 1 d.YHle University, from which in-1 least injured, remained at Ihe see ticiilarly fur liis and Irvin Rive of Old Du Quoin brought in Sunday noon by a. state speed cop charged with' drunken driving.

headquarters depots whiskey trade was for Koran's invaded one of Illi- it was Naval Treaty Ratifications the limitation agreement. moining by a squad of South Side executioners, 'ami the seven men who were busy in it at the moment were lined up against a and killed with machine guns, while a startled dog, cowering under a truck, looked on and survived as the only witness to the bloody affair. That massacre, sensational as it ling was, was not a success, it had of negligence the validity of state fruit inspection certificates for exportation to for- eign markets. A trial shipment, to be placed on Great Britain markets, of five cariots of gancs from orchards in the Flora fruit district, will be the first offering in Illinois' attempt for marketing expansion. More shipments will follow if conditions in the European market will justify it, it was said.

caplive.ne.-ir Chicago for five days It was reported in that cas. although he denied the re-' even further, expressing He was an expert poloist. a member of the "Big Four" of inon that h'ought to AfnericH from England the International polo cup and established the reputation of the United States in that sport. He was one the. few players in polo history to hold the maximum handicap I ol' 10 goals.

and who was reported asleep the crash came. Xix did not receive a scratch. Stone and Nix in the county j.iil loday thorough investigation. L. Z.

Shroiil of Murray. of the owners of the at rested here this morning chaiged his truck without a chauffem liVreii.se. the ssng opwuh LONDON, Oct. ratifications of the London naval treaty of 1'iSO were deposited today in the Locarno room ot 1 the foreign office. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, did indeed pass by the place half the al- WATSEKA, Oct.

bill was filed in circuit court I today by Bury receiver of the defunct bank of C.hebanse, seek-1 as it I ing to' hold that seven of the bank's directors were liable to charges .1 ut success, it had of negligence. The negligence charges were in connection with the uas sa 'lor Tsnneo Matsudaira, and been aimed at Moran himself, who employment as cashier of James W. Porch, who now is serving a term ''em'esentalrtes of Australia, New was to have been present, and wliojin Jcr'et penitentiary. Eight htS)dred creditors have filed claims against! lla 1 "id Soul.b Africa "were bank for a total of 3425,001. The was organized in 1920 and ent at the ceremony.

the bank closed. xo (v w. rtuLrviiyci uicu acvc'cii niuiiLiia MLJU oiiu mccnts Succeeded him tical success but a strategical fail-'as receiver, lire. Others "Get Theirs' The North Side gang, of retaliated. Capone hart a triumvirate of Scalisi, An- sfelmi and Quinto, and they went for an underworld ride; and such lesser South Siders as Lorenzo Juliano got theirs in the same way.

Port. The kidnaping 'of wealthy men, specially bankers, hotel in the midwest the last few years'! Oflicials usually have uctrilmied me abductions to Chicago or St. Louis i eration's' of the pr.opa-atorv lackotcernig gangs. Officers here' mittee Pn disarmament of bejieved Yocum probably had been taken by St. Louis men.

They has- nMr whi u.u IIIUCKU pass uy tne place half the bank for a total of The was organ! an hour before the trouble started. I closed because of frozen assets on March 7, 1929. Frai escaped and the job I vice president, committed suicide months after tl went down in the books as a lac- -John J. Ruckrigel died several months ago and Meents co se Open Big Charity Carnival Tuesday Runellf' Nephew Dies of Gun Wound But Capoiie himself, after lying the Safety of for a the hunt went on. The North Siders, meanwhile, The Carbondale Elks Lodge will hold a big Charity Carnival at tho Carboiidale Elku Home beginning; Tuesday evening.

The carnival ea were getting, desperate. Capone promises to be one of the best i once had halved the city with them. Now he was demanding complete control. His runners were on speakeasy proprietors on the North Side! and informing them that thereafter they were going to buy Capone.be&r. were made and his crowd, that had Half a ef- to ambush him but each -failed, held by the Carbondale Lodge, and will run on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights, October 2S.

29, arid 30. Features will be a'raid-way, con- cessibns, a. bingo stand, lunch i stand, and a ten cent dance, be-' Mr. Mrs. C.

R. Uunells were n.lled Mulberry Grove, 111., gain Sunday on account of the eatlv of Mrs. Rimells' nephew, Jackson, aged 13, who was Saturday while hunting, 'and d'ed Sunday. The lad with sever.nl other boys was hunting near his home and was accidently shot in the hack. The wound was not considered serious and the Runells who were in Mulberry Grove at the time, having boen called there on account of Mr.

Runells' father's ill- by the police before tb'ey could be used. Right here, incidentally, i where (Turn to page four, please) wiU be given away. On a favor fr 4 1C cmLi.y. v.iii ay evenng'. Te Friday night a Hallowe'en Ball will I death was treated as a severe be given with-.

inuuic furnished, by shock to his relatives. Funeral'ser: Vincent's Orchestra A large at-1 vices' tendance anticipated. and. he having ruE news of the lad's as a severe Js. Funeral'ser- will probably-be held Tues- Premier Hamagticlii mentioned the forthcoming delih- com- League of Nations "aW" expressed nidi.

LllJlt tllev WOllld- hp American Ambassador ed this belief on the fact the special "Cted in same G. -pawes. Japanese Am- delivery letter, to Mrs. Yocum haj which characterized thei Lon" the'eas" tr 18 Inlltentl ot 8 Powers'last The comparatively Ile "kidnnp- ra ket began about three years Some the outstanding 'cases were the abductions of Charles Perslftll, St. Louis, bunker, nonias Gnvnor, hnt-ot ilI own- iji iu.

tiiTi-tin sr ei. and James E. Hall, Detroit ho-'l th tel owner. other powers come A posse of 40 spent all of" Saturday night looking for Yocum practically the entire popula- re Irish jiart: 102-1 Whitney's horses won a total I do not know i7ow fast ') Of SriOO.OOO, more n( -hoi-- 1 fetable that Jsleep JS Charges Fire Bugs With Mine Blaze The Japanese ratification was rushed here by fast boat and airplane. The treaty for limitation was ratified by Britain, the United States and Japan.

Bus Ditched, 19 Children Hurt Every HARTFORD CITY. Oct. 2 tion meeting of naval spring. that- the' past ot'-' Paris im hated by Mr. Briand and; Mr Kellogg, has outlawed war," he said, 'fit is 'clear that -mv Nati al Coal Mine here last night, KLLEVILLE, Oct.

that lire which caused SSfi.OOO damage to the new i breach: of that solemn' agreement not, it is hardly 'they would allo-" active' help conceivable the break- re to interfere with their was started by incendiaries, were highway was guarded, and of all neighboring towns children were were asked to help, injured today when a school bus The aid of' federal officials was' crashed into a itself asked by U. S. Senator Otis against concrete almfment Hii'I' Glenn, who was en route to Chicago threw its passengers into a ro "i Washington and who is a close low stream. Meet at Marion MARION, bet of the Illinois Baptist Association -here today for their annual conference, whicli tonight, preceding formal convening of the (association meet- Elder John of Christopher will give the annual sermon to pas- 'Bo'th. Mr.

agreed upon which Hoover. Hama u. friend of. Yocum. Gcmer Gregory Dies Monday Gomer Gregory, brother of Mrs.

A. J. Reynolds lot Murphysb'oro Passed Mondav morn ng at His home at Union Hill UJ1UK 1SB moiAl uflueuce Funeral services will held the growing conscieacmuT of man Tuesday it 2 clock tio the Un hmd ea.a HamaBuc hi liuno ceremony a remarkable step in the. right di- HO Tr ca a11 i nt -fcieement founded in common sense He said it was "fair to al" ami dangerous to none," and that for suspic'on and mutual trust, good will and confidence" "Let ml us with thanks aoia inspire, us-to. gro forward with' -the courage, of-hops." ii a cbac i ud The treaty is bound to exercise lu? ttu ua sermon to.

pas- -uesay it 2 clock tio the Un md ea.a HamaBuc hi Eht meeting ion Hill Christian church six ralles sinking of will be named an ot south of ai a iim cnurcn six nines tees will be named and officers'oC south of Caibondile Burial at Un confidence the ministers' conference elected, ion Hill i uurn. and sood will tWU Dlua among "I came to a Dodge sedan that was parked on my of the slab. I do not know how much the Dodge i was on the slab. "I turned out to go round this i car. When I gol out to den it 1 saw the other car and we hit.

The other car's lights were binniasj "1 didn't have no chaufleur license." State's Attorney Lewis expressed the opinion today that the fact that Stone did not possess a drivei said fingerprints had of the dead is ic- been louml on fonr racking boxes i ported to have indicated night which had been opened, and their ji hat suit will be launched in the contents apparently used, to start! near Inture in tne the blaze, The boilers, Kenerators Later today Mr. Schrant pleaded and engine room were damaged. guilty in Justice Charles "01 ter The mine was placed on the court to employing a chauffeur 1st at a. convention ot Sub On- recnmmendi- Distnct 5. United Mine Workers tion of State's Attorney Lewis he was tilled the maximum of city costs.

Condition of injured Etich of the young women was I a captain of Thev i were returning from St Louis after a .11 the afternoon. All remained in Tlolden hospital today. Their recovery is Miss Carpenter, rit physical education, for women, has two fractures in her.loft, wiist aad abrasions and general bruises. MJss Jacob has genernl "bruiaes and a cbest injury, probablv a jor bruise which may not serious. iMisti Stein, a teacher ot biologv.

jjisu-ici, uiiueci jMine woriter: treaty last week, and Saturday pamphlet Jiunrovn i wins .1 were distributed through the attacking' the operators. Only 25 miners were "employed Lewis Denies Strike Plan SPRINGFIELD, Oct. -Disavowal of. any connection with attemiU'8 to call a statewide strike of Illinois coal miners No- vembe'r 15th was made in a wire whicli President John L. Lewis of" tbe Mine Workers of America, today sent to John Belcher president ot Subdistrict nirte Fiankfoit ne..