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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, JULY 2, 19SO ST. LOU IS POST-DISPATCH PAGE 2A 3 Areas of Greatest Destruction in Italian Earthquake GRAND JURY HEARS 3 NEWSPAPERMEN SLAIN BY GUNMEN i Jii h'4 r- rA I provinces in which the heaviest loss areas were damaged. CITY MEN TO Gov. CaulfKild Refuses to of Robbers WhT Killed Policeman.

By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITT, Ju-y I xnree gunmen who shot a through a Republican Convention crowd June 14, U'g escape after rpbbing the k0' Trust Co. in the manner 0 old West, today faced the c-v ty of death on the gallows tW row morning. Gov. Henry S.

Caulfieij nounced yesterday he woul-i stay the simultaneous executio the bandits, condemned for slaying of Patrolman Jamt (Happy) Smith. The men under death are lony (ixUypop) Mangia-aci. aanay or the- Italian colony; rJ -aseiio. macnine gunner, and jv Messino. driver, whose minxa.it ii io me capture or in gang.

Six robbers participated ia robbery, accomplished to th companiment of a rattling tnacir gun ana snotguns. From a rr a bank employe drove off the rs bers with tear gas bombs i they had gathered up lis.sos. reurmg roDDers tursd their weapons on a convene crowd thronging the street made a spectacular escape. Fa. man Smith, a charge of buckh-in his back, died as he shot tl windshield from the roVbers' ei Four others were wounied an4 witness died of heart failure.

Tony Bonello, fourth member the gang, pleaded guilty acj serving a life sentence ia tie souri penitentiary. While t-J at large his young wife was tu in New Tork. presumably by posters who thought she "knew much." Police still seek 5am as leader of the gang, and sixth participant in the robbe: known only as "The Cowboy." A. door torn from their tutor bile in the flight led to the rest of the three condemned cc 48 hours after the robbery. Fires at Robbers.

Raymond Smith, a janitor at Clara avenue, fired at two Nesre-J yesterday when he observed ii stripping the accessories of: automobile of Mrs. Catherine in the rear of her torn? at 5. Enright avenue. The Negroes ft abandoning the tire3 which ti had removed from the car. KANSAS HANG TfiynDft of life Las been reported.

More than Cross. The offer was extended in a cablegram to the Italian Red Cross in Rome. The message said: "Profoundly distressed by tragic disaster which has fallen upon your beautiful country. Wculd our help be welcome?" King Emmanuel Will Visit Scene of the Disaster. By the Aseocicted Press.

ROME, July 24. King Victor Emmanuel will leave this evening for the scene of the earthquake disaster in the southern provinces. The Italian ruler will cut short the holiday he has been enjoying at Santanna Dei Valdieri, Northern Italy. HITCH IN WATERWAY WORK State of Illinois Refuses Government Loan of Br the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, July 24.

Government work on the Illinois waterway is threatened by the tentative refusal of the State to lend the Government 52,000,000. Congress authorized the Government to take over the waterway, but no funds have been appropriated. Illinois was asked for the $2,000,0 00 loan to begin the work. The money had been set aside for bridges. Gov.

Emmerson wrote It could not be lent for other work unless the Government would take over old contracts made by the State. Secretary of War Hurley said today the Government could not comply with this condition. "ITT OF XAPLES and the four 80 villages and towns in these body of a little girl half buried In the debris. Hurricane Lashes Naples. A hurlcane which at times kicked up what resembled a tidal wave struck stricken Naples between 8 and 9 o'clock this morning.

One large wave pounded over the embankment into the road along the sea. At the same time the strong wind blew down trees and fragile summer cottages along the coast. The Neapolitans were still nervous over the earthquake and were badly frightened by the wind. Kishlng smacks with their bright colored sails had to point their noses hastily northward in order escape damage. The hurricane subsided as quick- as it arrived and a dreary driz- zle set in.

In Naples there was another fear, for Mount Vesuvius was seen glowing across the bay and many feared that an eruption would follow. The volcano of Pozzuoli, a smoky mountain obscured by the fame of its neighbor, Vesuvius, was in eruption today. Seismologists say it was kicked into action by earthquakes. Naples today had the apearance of a city under a wartime regime, with soldiers guarding the damaged buildings to ward off the curious and flags flying everywhere at half mast. An impressive funeral was held for the four per sons who died in Naples as a result of the earthquake and in com memoration of the two who were killed at Salerno and one at Trianl.

Cardinal Blesses the Crowd-Cardinal Ascalesi. Archbishop of Naples, at the conclusion of the serv ices brought a silver bust of St. Gennaro. the city's patron saint, to the steps of the cathedral and blessed the great crowd which had assembled. Among the damaged buildings is the royal palace at Casesta.

Romans had a scare about 7 o'clock this morning when unusual ly strong gusts of wind rattled windows and slammed doors. Some persons started out of their houses only to perceive that they were safe after alL The two Roman morning news papers, apparently by agreement or order, printed no figures or even estimates of the dead and injured. They gave no estimate of the ex tent of property damage. Both carried other details of the earth quake, however. While numerous American tour ists were known to be in the "ankle of Italy," which was stricken by the earthquake, the head of the largest American tourist agency in Naples said that not a single American or Italo-American had been caught in the entire devastated area.

During the day the Under-Sec retary of Public "Works and Senator Cremonesi. president of the Italian Red Cross, reached the scene in the interior of the worst WOMAN FOUND SLAIN IN HOME, TAXI DRIVER HUSBAND HELD Hartford, Coniu, Police Say He and Wife Quarreled Frequently; Three Children. By the Atsocicted Prc. HARTFORD, July 24. Mrs.

Ida Diamond, 27 years old. was hacked to death in her home early today while her three small children slept in an adjoining room. Her husband. Nathan Diamond, 28, a taxi cab driver, who told police he had found his wife's body in a bathroom, was held after several hours questioning by detectives. The Diamonds, police said, had been unhappy almost from the day they were married, six years ago.

On one occasion she complained to the Probation Department that Diamond had failed to support her for seven months. EARTHQUAKE TOLL RISES, 2000 KILLED AND 4000 INJURED Continued From Page One. calvo, Bisaccla, Lacedonia, Villa-nova and Accadia, Canvass of the provinces of Avel-lino showed "Villanova and Aqui-lonio each with 400 dead and Tre-vlso and Lacedonia each with 20 0 dead. Refugees from Ariano, the population of which was 9000, today described that town as a heap of ruins. Houses that were left standing, they asserted, must be torn down because they are tottering and unsafe.

Several hamlets, including Piana, Taverna, Martire, Spazione, Cieco-treta, Campo Reale and Orneto, constituting several section of Ariano. were virtually wiped out. That no person was killed at Candela was considered extraordinary, for SO per cent of the buildings of that place were rendered uinhabltable. There were fissures In the open ground near the Ofano River and it Is believed that If the river overflows its banks these will be transformed into lakes of considerable size. Rescue work, directed by soldiers and Fascist militiamen, continued through all of last night by torchlight, while those who survived the disaster slept in parks, in fields or anywhere except in buildings, fearing fresh shocks.

In some instances entire villages were almost obliterated. Villanova lost more than 350 persons, including the Mayor and all of his family. Another town which suffered greatly was Melfl, with the dead estimated at 181, hundreds of injured and the place itself a mass of debris. Many families were killed in their beds as their houses tumbled about them. Miles of Highways Blocked Miles and miles of highways were blocked by the tons of dirt hurled down mountainsides; railroads were halted and lines of communication were torn down, making computation of the death toll doubly dlfficult.

The stricken country was terrorized after the quakes began. As house after house toppled and the cries of victims were heard, survivors fled to the streets, their fright increased by a terrific thunderstorm. And since electric energy was put out in most places they roamed in the bewildering darkness. Those able to sleep lay wherever they could on what they could, but many obtained bedding from their homes for last night. In addition to the frightful loss caused by the tremors in buildings already wrecked, more hardship in the form of unemployment was forecast by the action of the authorities in Naples.

Many factories and offices were closed by official action, the Government considering it unsafe to work in the weakened structures. The Duchess of Aosta. who yes terday visited the wounded in the hospitals of Naples and did much to calm the people of the city. went into the stricken interior today. She was greatly moved, at Ariano, at sight of the orphan asylum which caved in and killed many children.

She wept, knelt and placed an ivory crucifix on the "VTOU can't always stop work and give-in to a headache, but you can always get relief from such suffering! A tablet or two of Bayer Aspirin will ease an aching head every time. Perfectly harmless; prescribed by thousands of doctors. An effective antidote for pain, taken by millions of men and women whenever they've a cold, headache; BATE HMfj ft ID'1 I 1 to ly SLAIN RADIO MAN EXTORTED $4000, BOOTLEGGER SAYS Detroit Police Assert Liquor Runner's Affidavit Names Gerald Buckley as "Shaking Down" Gang. 'BLACK LEO AND HIS GANG SOUGHT Authorities Think Gunmen Blamed Announcer for Failure to Keep Aids From Going to Prison. Bt the Prrss.

DETROIT, July 24. The Police Department announced today that "Black Leo" Cellura and his gangster followers, notorious river characters, are being sought in connection with the killing1 of Gerald E. (Jerry) Buckley, radio announcer. Detectives -working on the case advanced the theory that Buckley was shot down early yesterday r.y members of this gang because they thought him responsible for the failure to "fix" the cases of two of their number now serving terms in a Canadian prison. According to the nearest police theory, 4000 was paid in a futile attempt to keep Frank Cammarata notorious Detroit gangster, and Thomas LlcavoH from being sent to Jail at Kingston, Ontario, for three years in 1927 for possessing firearms in "Windsor.

The detectives think the gangsters blamed Buckley for the miscarriage of their dans and felt that "a double cross' had taken place somewhere along the line. "Black Leo," the detectives said, was for many years chief lieutenant to Chester La Mare, another notorious down-river character. The detectives pointed out that Buckley's slayers probably chose the night of the recall election for the assassination, in the hopes of diverting suspicion from themselves. AVhlle poor people who considered Buckley their champion today were contributing funds for flowers for his casket, police said they had In their possession an af fidavit purporting to show that the radio announcer was extorting money from bootleggers. Buckley was the political commentator for station W.MBC and had taken an active part in the successful campaign to recall -Mayor Charles Bowles.

He was in the lobby of the La Salle Hotel, where he lived and in which The radio station is. two and a half hours after he made the announcement that the Mayor had been retailed from office in Tuesday's special election. Theories of the Police. His brother, Paul, former assistant prosecutor, declared "Jerry's" activities for the recall was the ole reason for the murder. Police advanced other theories that he had made gangland enemies through hij attacks on gamblers, that he was witness of a gang murder and that he might have been storting money from gamblers and bootleggers.

"Jerry" Buckley championed the i ause of the unemployed last winter when thousands were In distress. He broadcast pleas for aid, directed programs of cheer to them, and, according to Intimate friends, spent all his savings In responding to personal requests for money. Accused of Extortion. Folice Commissioner Thomas C. vs ncox saia that he had a sworn statement from an admitted boot legjrer accusing Buckley of extortion.

The name of the accuser was withheld. The affidavit said that Buckley had Induced him to take tip liquor running. After he became connected with a prosperous bootlegging gang, the affidavtt said. Buckley demanded and received sums aggregating $4000. The Detroit News, however, says today that Commissioner "Wilcox was approved by a representative of the newspaper today with a request to see the affidavit, and aft-fr a number of questions had been put to him, said he had no such affidavit "as yet." The News says that the Commissioner first said he had the signed affidavit in his possession, but when asked to show it to a Judge of the Circuit Court so as to remove all doubts of its existence, t-ald: "Well, it isn't signed yet rot yet." The Commissioner was quoted as refusing to show- the affidavit to a Judge because it was "police business." The News says he agreed, however, to show the document to the Prosecuting Attorney.

James E. Chenot. Prosecuting At. torney, said that the Commissioner had promised to show htm the affidavit but had not yet done so. Commissioner Wilcox is scheduled to appear befort the city Council today with a report of "progress in solving the city's latest and most sensational gangster mar.

ir. There are indications that tile Commissioner's resignation will be asked If that report does not convince the Council that is being made. Wilcox promised the most thor-ugS cleaning the city has ever -n and at the edge of the city the mate police post has ben by all men available from IN LINGLE INQUIRY Harry Reutlinger of Chicago American Thinks Brundidge Was Victim of a Hoax. E- the Araociated Press. CHICAGO, July 24.

A grand jury manifestly determined to thresh the chaff of false gossip from the ample harvest of rumor gleaned from the underworld since Alfred Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter, was murdered, went into action today. Three newspaper men were taken before the jury to give their accounts of published charges and Insinuations of racketeering among Chicago reporters. Ten other witnesses, two of them the former heads of the. Police Department and another the Mayor's chief adviser, were asked to testify tomorrow. Harry Reutlinger, assistant city editor of the Chicago Evening American, was the first witness today, emerging after nearly an hour's hearing.

He said he had told the grand jury all he knew and added that he believed Harry T. Brundidge, St. Louis reporter, was "the victim of a hoax. Everything I told Brundidge was a joke." It was the publication of Brun-didge's stories of alleged racketeering by Chicago reporters and his testimony before the jurors Tuesday that started the parade of witnesses to the grand jury chamber. The jurors went over the head of the State's Attorney to invite the St.

Louis man's testimony and to summon the 13 Chicago witnesses. No formal subpenas have been issued. Each witness was called by telephone and asked to offer evidence today and tomorrow. Reutlinger was followed on the stand by Robert M. Lee, city editor of the Tribune and for 10 years superior of the slain Tribune reporter.

Harry Read, city editor of the American, who has confirmed Brundidge's story that Read was a visitor at Al Capone's Miami estate, was the third witness of the day. Tomorrow the Jurors will put in another full day digging down to the bottom of the charges. Samuel Ettelson, corporation counsel of Chicago, is to appear in the morning, as well as William I Russell, former Police Commissioner, and John Stege, former detective chief. Their evidence may reJ-ite more closely to the unsolved murder of Lingle. for he was intimate with all three, held a joint brokerage account with Russell and was reported to have borrowed $5000 from Ettelson a transaction the corporation counsel denied.

PEORIA GAMBLER BACK HOME. SILENT ABOUT KIDNAPING William O. Urban Tells Sheriff Ho Was Unharmed; Will "ot Comment Further. Spet-ial to the Post-Dispatch. PEORIA, July 2 4.

William O. Urban, proprietor of a cafe here who was reported kidnaped by several men Monday, at noon today notified Sheriff Grant Minor that he had returned home. He said that he was unharmed and that he did not care to comment further. His partner, Frank Daugherty, and Ed Mahoney, an employe, left Peoria yesterday on an unexplained mission and it is presumed they met the kidnapers last night and paid the ransom demanded for Urban's release. Reporters learned that a withdrawal had been made yesterday from one of the Peoria banks and the withdrawal was thought to have been made by a member of Urban's family and a friend who turned the money over to two men in front of the bank.

Urban was said to have been held captive in Chicago for three days. He refused to confirm a re-i port that he paid $100,000 ransom for his freedom. Robbers Shoot Insurance Man. By the Associated Press. NEW TORK, July 24.

Hector Avalon. an insurance agent, was shot today by one of two men who held him up as he was leaving the apartment house where he had been collecting premiums. Both robbers escaped, and Avalon was taken to a hospital in a serious con-diticn. 1.58 -Inch Rain at Sedalia. By th Assonaied Press.

SEDALIA. July 24. The Sedalia district, suffering from several weeks of drouth, received 1.58 inches of rain last night. Thera were additional showers today. The rain is of great benefit to corn which had been seriously damaged.

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Three Italians, held on fugitive warrants from St- Clair County, 111., where they are charged with kidnaping Sam Scorf ina, Carr street grocer, were arrested on Missouri kidnaping warrants in the same case today after they had made $25,000 bond each before Judge Welnbrenner of the Court of Criminal Correction. Kidnaping for ransom a capital offense In Missouri, they cannot be admitted to bail. Judge Weinbrenner, who had refused bond on the Illinois charges, was ordered to accept bail when the State did not content the appeal of the prisoners to the St. Louis Court of Appeals yesterday. Assistant Circuit Attorney Lennon, appearing before Judge Becker, admitted that the affidavits upon which the fugitive warrants were based did not specifically set out that the offense was punishable by death in Illinois.

The warrants were drawn in the office of State's Attorney Lindaucr at Belleville, where extradition papers also were prepared. A hearing will be held before Gov. Caul-field at Jefferson City Tuesday. Circuit Attorney Miller said that he would turn the prisoners over to St Clair County authorities if extradition was granted. Police, who had feared reprisal if the prisoners, Sora Mantla, Mike Lombardo and Baptista Bommari-to, whose arrest was requested by Scorfina, were released on bond, expressed satisfaction at the move of Circuit Attorney Miller to keep them in custody.

The Missouri warrant was issued after Scorfina had directed detectives to drive him over the route taken by the five men who forced him into their automobile at the east approach of Eads Bridge July 12. and from whom he escaped four days later near St. Genevieve, Mo. He was able to see. Scorfina said, that he was being driven ov er the Municipal Bridge to Seventh boulevard, thence to Broadway and to the city limits.

He pointed out landmarks that he had noted during the trip when he was able to see from beneath a blindfold, detectives said. The Missouri warrant is based on the theory that since the kidnapers drove through St. Louis, part of the offense was committed here. Capt, John Carroll and a police detail were waiting at the doors of Judge Weinbrenner's chambers to arrest the prisoners when they had given bonds, signed in each case by women relatives and returnable at 10 a. m.

July 2S. Efforts of the kidnapers to obtain $10,000 ransom from Scor- fina's relatives were unsuccessful. but $400 which he carried in his pockets was taken from him and he was eruelly beaten. other rosts to assist in the cleanup. Ninety-seven men were arrested and questioned by police last night In a campaign against gangsters.

They were taken into custody at a miniature golf course. Millionaire Defends Buckley. Robert Oakman, 7 0-year-old mil lionaire builder and politician. came to the defense today of Buckley. Oakman, found by reporters cruising on his yacht in Canadian waters, denounced characterizations of Buckley as a racketeer and blackmailer and called him.

a sincere foe of the underworld interests he opposed in his talks from Station WMBC. He called statements linking Buckley with underworld activities and representing him as receiving money from crooks. "Shameful innuendo against a man who had bore on his breast the weight of a fight for a clean city." "Jerry Buckley," Oakman said, "as far sa his radio business was concerned, should be judged by what he advocated over the microphone." Oakman helped to elect Charles Bowles Mayor last fall, then broke with him and aided the campaign which culminated in his recall. The reward offered for the capture an! conviction Buckley's slayers was increased to $7500 today by the offer of $2500 by the Detroit Times. The Council yesterday offered a reward of $3000, while James E.

Chenot. Prosecuting Attorney, plans to ask the Board of County Auditors to post an additional reward of another $5000.. of the disaster and organized relief measures. Today a column of Fascist motor trucks from Naples arrived in Av-ellino and distributed bread, cognac, milk and medicine. Squadrons composed of doctors and druggists worked their hardest to ward off illness.

Soldiers Under IM-sclpline Minister to Injured at Mclfi. By the Assont.ed Prers. MELFL Italy. July 2. Soldiers of the "disciplinary company, stationed here as a penalty tor various fo.ms of misconduct, proved them selves heroes in ministering to the injured and of this mountain city.

These soldiers, much liks the labor battalions of the United States Army, iiLve not since they were ro tid from their bar- shortly tfter midnight yesterday. The "ba i bvs of the army' hr.vs them selves a hundred times over by the prodigious work they iave performed. The surviving townsfolk today gave them the warmest praise and their commander mov.M to recommend for them the Kind's pardon and restoration to their regular units. American Red Crus Offers Aid to Stricken Area. By the Associated Press.

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