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THE DECATUR DAILY REVIEW FORTY-NINTH YEAR NO. 362. DECATUK, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1928. 16 PAGES--PRICE THREE CENTS Flyer's Wreck On Desert Planned; Two Are Injured Santa Fe Train Victim of Gang--Leaves Weakened Rails at High Speed. San Bernardino, Dec.

27 Sheriff Shea of San Bernardino county this morn- Ing was informed by Santa Fe officials that derailment of the "Missionary." Los Angeles-Chicago at Hesperia, Cal. with serious injury to at least two persons, was the work of train wreckers. Railroad officials told the shenff- that all the spikes had been removed from one rail and that the angle iron which connected that rail with the next had been unbolted and removed Two crowbars and a wrench, with the track tampering was declared to have been done, were stolen from the Santa Fe tool house at Hesperia. the officials said. AT HIGH SPEED.

The "Missionary" hit the weakened track about 1 a while traveling at high speed down into the Mejave desert from Cajon Pass The locomotive and seven cars left the rails Three sleepers went over a fifteen loot embankment, two of them rolling over on their sides A fourth sleeper fell on its side athwart the track. Mrs Mnckie of Los Angeles. of the assistant general manager of the Santa Fe, and W. Burbage of Winslow. Ariz.

Santa Fe attorney, the first two passengers re- ported'hurt Mrs. Mackie suffered an injury to her neck, and Burbage received a hip injury. PRAISES ENGINEER. Hoover Saves Board Bill New York, N. Dec.

27- Mr. Hoover changed his mind and is going to Washington and break the news to the office seekers, instead of having them come down to Florida and him have to feed 'em while there. That will knock those two railroads out of the biggest business they would have all year. A president elect's popularity is the shortest lived of any public man. It only lasts till he picks his cabinet.

Say, this police commissioner has rounded so many crooks up and put 'em in jail, that its interferring with the thater attendance. Yours. WILL Where Quake Killed 250 In Chile Must Protect All Industry Tilson Says G. O. P.

Floor Leader Expects Hoover to Call Extra Session. Hartford, Etec. 27--(A. policy of protection ap- the wife, praised I iyi with equal force to every the presence of Ming and ability of, nc justry of the country is fa- A fhp ero be of I vored by Representative Tilson, of the majority floor leader of the house, as a foundation stone for the tariff The d.vMrous force of the earthquake that lulled 250 people, injured 600 and caused damage in Tales, Chile, is shown in the picture above. The ruins of some of the citj most palatial are depicted.

The, town was almost destroyed by the quake. Sixteen Injured When Bus Crashes Through Bridge preventing great loss of life. Long brought the tram to a dead in fifteen car lengths," said Mackie "It was one of the greatest feats of locomotive engineering I and it prevented a ever have seen catastrophe Hesperia is 35 miles north of San Bernardino Farlev. a deputy sheriff at one of the first to ream the wreck, said that 6 or 8 persons had required medical attention when doctors and nurses as rived other passengers were bruised and; shaken. Farley said.

FINDS SPIKES. The deputy reported that he had found, in the ditch the railway embankment. the spikes Ihich had been removed from the nson or had no clue to the identity of the persons who had tampered high speed of the train. ixhlchYM ROUW about sixty miles an hour prevented the locomotive from over the embankment and the entire tram with it. Farley train trpw had told him sped across the weak- struck the structure changes to be decided upon by congress.

"We in New England," said Tilson in an address before members of the Connecticut chamber of commerce today, "should favor proper protection for farming, mining and other industries just as we ask and need it for purely manufacturing industries. A policy of projection must be based upon principles broad enough to cover the nation or it cannot stand. EXTRA SESSION. Tilson expressed the belief thai there was little chance of farm legislation being enacted this session and predicted Herbert Hoover would redeem his campaign pledge by calling to consider this. WHERE TO FIND SOME FEATURES Page Radio Sports Society 10 Women's and Household 10 Decatur History 6 Railroads Comics 12 News pictures Review story 8 Markets 13 Farm Interests 14 Classified Ads 14, 15 Markets At a Glance.

(By Tne Associated Press) NEW YORK. Stocks--Irregular; General Electric again scales new peak. Bonds--Dull; Andes Copper 7's decline 6's points. Foreign exchanges--Steady; sterling higher. Cotton--Quiet and steady.

Sugar--Easy; lower spot market Coffee--Higher; European buying. CHICAGO. Wheat--Easy; forecast beneficial weather. Corn--Easy; favorable Argentine advices. Cattle--Irregular.

Hogs--Lower. folio-nine the earthquake that killed 250 and injured 600 An onen-air hospital, established during the emergency folio-nine the shown above. The scene is the mam street of the city of Talca, which was one of the heaviest 22 Passengers Hurled Into Icy Water South of Decatur--Three In Serious Condition In Pana. Will Shoot Gas and Food At Airplane Synchronizing Cannon tto be Used in Endurance Flight. Marshall, Dec.

27--(A. with the army air corp's tri-motored plane Question Mark, a tiny 60-horse power monoplane with an open cockpit will take off here during the first week of the new year in an effort to set a new endurance flight record with the aid of re-fueling. Unlike the luxurious Question Mark which will carry four men when it soars aloft at Los Angeles New Year's morning in an attempt to stay up 300 or more hours, the tiny test ship to be used here will be manned by only two men. Blame M. Tuxhorn.

Kansas City pilot, in announcing the flight today said that his copilot would be named within a few days. Sixteen persons were hurt, six of them seriously, when the southbound Chicago-St. Eouis bus belonging to the" Ni-Sun Line skidded on the wet pave- ment two miles north of Pana. 111., at 3:30 this morning, and crashed through the guard rail of a small bridge, plunging the bus and its thirty-two passengers into four feet of icy water. THE INJURED.

The seriously injured are: Miss Vannie Bonnel, aged 28, 2241 Cass avenue, St. Louis; cut and bruised and suffering from exposure. She is not expected to live. Charles ScMey, aged 57. a native of France whose relatives live at 1246 North Dearborn street, Chicago.

He is badly cut and bruised. Charles Graham, 818 Bowen avenue. Chicago. He is suffering from lacerations and exposure. Mr.

and Mrs Joe Slayden. Detroit. in serious condition from ex- Rail Income Generally Up and O. Shows Increase of Nearly $2,500,000. New York, Dec 27 (A.P )--Net operating income for November of most of the railroads reporting today I furnishecTthe ship here by means or a posure.

Albert Kuffel. Chicago: seriously TO USE CANNON. While the Question Mark's supplies will be replenished by re-fueling ships flying above and slightly ahead, I fuel, food and other supplies will be in sufferers, Bombs Easy To Get, Says Yale To Play Swanson, Viewing Crime At Chicago TT, i TV Chicago's State's Attorney Promises Results, But No Game on Oct. 17, 1931 to Miracles, in Reform. Chicago, Dec.

-a six feet two elude tariff revision the Republican! giant whose 200 pounds seem leader declared that New England' cram i in the office Of the manufacturers could help materially in preparation of a new tariff law by congress with material the Search For Hydes Without Results Phoenix. Ariz Dec 27-' AP.l- Fearch lor Mr and Mr? Glenn Hyde be neither overstated or understated. upon such understatement, then the protection given will not be sufficient and the result will be unsatisfactory, as was the case in a few instances in the revision of 1921-22. "On the other hand, if the case be lOIi- r'vmoon couple who disappeared in trTorand Camon of the Colorado, continues tediously, on foot and DJ have established that the dei actually entered the section of the ran.von under scrutiny but what became of thrm there is as much a mystery as cvei CROWN PRINCE AT CARDORNA'S GRAVE Pallanza. Italy.

Dec -The funeral of Count Marshal Car- dnrna. former commander-in-chief of the Italian armies, was held here to- dav with Crown Prince Humbert representing King Victor Emmanuel, the chief mourner. every New York. Dec mander Richard Evelyn Bird has sent i the following wireless message to Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur through the New York Times, the St.

Louis Post-Dispatch and associated newspapers. "We have reached the great mysterious ice barrier. It presents to us an ice cliff higher than the mast of the ship. On this Christmas day we thankful and proud to report that we have been able to carry the American flag several hundred miles farther south than it has ever been, and it teems fitting that an airplane, that instrument of good will, should reach farthest south on we 2.400 statute miles (rom the human dwelling in the rrlv in the world where a ship can get far from, civilization. That we are nere Mlely is due to provi- state's attorney which he sumed this month, put Chicago as wiirmspire the confid-j crime under the microscope to- those charge of the hear- analyzed its causes and prescribed his remedy.

MUST BE FAIR "Don't look for miracles," said the as the voters' protest against rampant crime De "Citizens themselves must show some If understated and based of the backbone and courage which they expect of me and my assistants." BASIC CAUSES He spoke of the bombings that have destroyed thousands of dollars worth of Chicago property; he talked of slayings, of hoodlum rule, of sters and gunmen; and he picked each evc'j item by both friends and loes apar t. seeking its basic cause of the tariff, will surely reveal the Thg state attorney strode ner- exaggeration of the need for protec- vously about the small office in the tion and the error will recoil upon crlmlna i cour building. He spoke par- the heads of those giving the inac- tK ar i bombs, for himself nar- curate information to the injury c)I rOT escaped death when a bomb the industry that has been thus mis-, wag tossed at nlm a few weeks before represented." the primary election last April. The "immense revenue collected by organized crime 1 is, in the state's attorney's opinion, the principal obstacle in Chicago to law enforcement. FOR PROTECTION.

"A great share of this immense- revenue, running into millions, is collected from liquor law violators, rack- fPJeose Turn to Page Five) Meat Cleaver Is Used In Attack Springfield, 111,, Dec. 27--(A in the back with a meat cleaver as he turned away from Louis Chin, restaurant proprietor, after an argument, Jack Engleman, twenty- five, was in a serious condition in a hospital today and Chin was held in dence and my loyal and stout-he art- jail on a charge of attempted murder. Expect 1,500,000 Or More Licenses Chicago, Dec. than a million and a Half Illinois automobile licenses will be issued this year and 150,000 of them are to arrive here today for distribution throughout the The new licenses were mailed last night from the secretary of state's office in Springfield. The plates are being sent through Chicago because of the greater facilities of the postoffiee here.

The plates this year will be red and black. Delay in receipt of licenses is due to the insistence of many automobile owners for certain numbers of- As Coach. Chicago, Dec. 27--(A football eleven will come to Chicago on Oct 17, 1931. for a game with the University of Chicago, it was announced today.

The game will commemorate A. A. South Africans, Destitute, Stagg's fortieth anniversary as coach Farmers Plan Diamond Rush Dernand Rights To Dig Gems. day were patrolling the diamond fields of Mamaqualand, where diamonds were only recently discovered. Threats have been made that the people would start prospecting in defiance of government orders agam-t Reports were current here of at the University of Chicago.

Announcement of the game was made at a luncheon of Yale fathers and sons given by the Yale club of Chicago. Henry A Gardner, whose term as president of the club ended last month, and the man who inaugurated the effort to bring the Yale team to Chicago, made the announcement. The Yale club of Chicago took the initiative the matter when Mr. Gardner became its president a year ago, because of the desire of western bWein the police and thl alumni to see their team in action in people who have been reduced to this section, desperation by a prolonged drought' ir which ruined their crops. Two thousand persons at a recent meeting at Port Nolloth demanded No part in the successful effort to bring the Yale team here was taken by the University of Chicago.

A desire to honor Stagg, who as a student the late 'eighties' was one CANADA AND U. S. TO DISCUSS BORDER Ottawa, Dec. 27-- (A.P.)-- Government representatives of the United States and Canada will meet here Monday, Jan. 7, to discuss steps for the control of commercial smuggling, the department of external affairs announced today.

that the government throw open 34 of yale's greatest athletes, was the acres of state diggings or else employ additional diggers. It was understood that the people threatened that if these demands were not granted by Friday the state diggings would be rushed. The government has insisted upon restricting prospecting order to protect the diamond industry. SITUATION NORMAL. Pretoria, Union of South Africa.

Dec. 27. (A Latest reports reaching Pretoria state that the situation at Port Nolloth, where trouble chief factor in the decision of Yale authorities to deviate from their regular policy, according to the latter written to Mr Stagg by George H. Nettleton, chairman of the Yale University Athletic Association. Byrd's Party Reaches Great Barrier of Ice Towering Cliff Halts Ships 2,400 Miles from Civilization--Face Two-Year Stay.

Get $8,500 At Washington, 111. Bloomington, 111, (A.F )-anon at rm, i-- bandits, one Snong "free" diamond prospectors off shotgun, entered the Danforth hrewine. is now normal. Banking company at Wash- are substantially higher than in November, 1927. Baltimore Ohio reported an in- sue crease to $5,119.258 from $2,737,183, go.

hile the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe shows a drop to $7,129,528 from $7,360,632 November, 19127. OTHER FIGURES. Other railroads to report net operating income for November compared to November, 1927, include: New York Central Lines. $4,413,028 against $3.108,245. Boston Maine, $968,156 against a deficit of $125,606.

Virginian Railway, $758,175 against $664,091. Southern Railway system, $4,132,875 against $3.685,598. Mobile Ohio, $289,758, against $191,296. Maine' Central, $56,776, against $10,827. Denver Rio Grande Western, $816.531 against $747,359.

Chicago Eastern Illinois, $326,445 against $188,072. Texas Pacific, $1,012,825 against $910,201. International Great Northern, $243,055 against $148,255. Missouri Pacific, $1,865,089, against $1,794,148. Gulf Coast Lines, $219,229 against $112,457.

-Western Maryland, $563,110, against $55.290. Norfolk Western, $3,865,654, against $2,078,613. Delaware Hudson, $571,295 against $445,998. Flu Deaths Nearly Double Washington, Dec. 27 (A.P.) -Fifty-eight cities today reported to the census bureau that 710 deaths from influenza occurred during-the week ended Dec.

22. The figures compared with 475 deaths from influenza in 62 cities during the previous week. Chicago reported 80 deaths. In the same cities there were 1,272 deaths rom pneumonia during the same week Cities reported for the ground synchronizing cannon, Tuxhorn's invention, which he has used successfully in picking up a mail car- Tuxhorn conducted successful tests in picking up an air mail cargo at Chillicothe, Mo. Fuel and food will be placed in a container and loaded into the cannon.

When a large hook at the end of a rope dangling from the plane comes in contact with a ground loop an electrical contact is completed and the cannon fired, sending the container into space at a It will days before we get on account of ice that will be in Bay of Whales. BYRD." FOR TWO YEARS. The party, which numbers 65, is equipped and provisioned to spend two years in the enterprise. Around on the South American side another expedition, headed by an aviator, is known to be looking toward a flight over the South Pole. That party is under command of Sir George Hubert Wilkins, who has joined with Commander Byrd in declaring that neither regards the other as a rival for the first flight across the Pole.

Two both using dog teams on overland tops have visited the South Pole. They were Roald Amundsen and Capt. Robert F. Scott ficiais say. has been brewing, is now ARKANSAS PISTOL DUEL KILLS TWO Crossett, Ark Dec 27--(A men were slam and a bystander was wounded in a pistol duel last night, the result of a family quarrel.

Frank Shipley, a cafe owner, and G. H. Vivian died almost instantly. Will Hagen, shot the neck, is expected to recover. ington, 111., late Wednesday afternoon, forced Frank Birkey, the assistant cashier, to open the vault, and escaped with $8,500.

Before leaving the building, the robbers exploded a tear gas bomb to prevent the em- ployes from spreading an alarm. Posses were quickly formed and are searching the district for the men's car, which bore no license plates. It was reported as passing through El 111, shortly after the robbery. Wife of Jackson County's State's Attorney In Jail Mrs. Rose Lewis, Bank Employe, Held for Alleged Shortage Totalling Around $12,000.

Murphysboro, Dec. Mrs. Rose Lewis, wife of State's Attorney Fletcher Lewis of Jackson county and assistant cashier of -the Murphysboro Savings Bank and Trust company, and Krank W. Baumler, a teller, were arrested yesterday on a charge of embezzling money from the bank. Both were released on bond.

H. O. Osborne, president, refused to name the amount which it was alleged, was- embezzled, but when told that it was rumored the peculations- were about $12,000, he said that figure was "about right." He confirmed a that tMe bank had sworn to information on which the assistant cashier arM teller were arrested. speed equal to that of the plane. this means no shock is felt in By the plane when the loop on the container is caught on the hook.

George Should Get Angry And Stay That Way Chicago, Dec. 27--(A Wood, a salesman, submitted tamely today to being held up and robbed of his watch and money, and offered no protest hen the robber demanded a rope with which to tie him, producing a length of rope from his automobile for the purpose. When the robber returned and stuffed a handkerchief in Wood's mouth Wood still had no complaint but the limit was reached when the thief came back the second time and snipped Mr. Wood's suspenders, allowing his trousers to come loose from their moorings in order to hamper any efforts at capture Mr. Wood might undertake.

That was too much and Mr. Wood got mad. He broke the ropes that bound him kicked off his pants, hit the holdup man in the jaw, snatched his pistol and whacked him over head with it. Then Mr. Wood became docile again and allowed the thief to escape while he was removing the handkerchief from his own mouth.

bruised and mashed about the body. IN PANA HOSPITAL. The first three named are being treated in the Huber Memorial hospital in Pana. The rest of the passengers were taken to the Silver Moon restaurant in that city, which is a stopping place for the bus, and physicians were called to minister to them. All-were wet to the skin from the water into which they were hurled when the bus went off the pavement and many of them suffered badl; from exposure.

Towels and blankets were procured and after the men and women were warmed and dried, they were sent or to St. Louis in another bus belonging to the company. DRIVER LOST CONTROL. Ted Bentley, Chicago, driver of the bus, said that he lost control of big vehicle when a wheel slipped off the slab and toe bus crashed into the guard rail. Bentley had a narrow escape worn death or cruel injury.

When the bu- crashed the rail, four-by-fours rammed through the radiator and bod of the bus, and one of them cam" perilously near impaling Bentlev Splinters from the rails in jured a number of the passengers. MANY ASLEEP. Many of the passengers were sleeping when the accident occurred. The bus was bowling along in the moonlight at a fairly good speed, but the pavement was slippery from the moisture of a light drizzle and mist tha. had been prevalent during the night Several minor accidents had occurred on route 2 south of Decatur during the twenty-four hours preceding, to the treacherous condition of the pavement from a coating of frost and moisture, HELPED ONE ANOTHER.

When the crash came and the bit; bus went into the ditch filled with water, the passengers were thrown into confusion. While some of them became hysterical, most of them kept their heads and helped and others out of the wreck onto the highway, where they stood shivering in the chill atmosphere and ambulances convey them to aid was given. OFFICIALS COME. Officials of the Ni-Sun company St. Louis came to Pana during th" forenoon to make an-investigation ot the accident, and arrange for th? i further care of the injured.

were procured to Pana, where first Pneumonia Holds 1 1 Up Ohio Operation Unsettled Cincinnati, Dec. ad- previous week showed a total of 1 -1 dltlon to tne suffering brought on by 207 deaths. a toy motorcycle which has lodged Public health officials today esti- his tnroat or nearly two mated there were approximately a million and a quarter new cases of influenza in the United States last week. This estimate was based upon reports of 240,562 cases in all but seven states. Officials noted the increase in the death rate as well as the increase in the number of cases, but said this was not unexpected inasmuch as any widespread disease affects many persons of lowered vitality and so increases the death rate.

Jackie Has Too Much Christmas Berlin, Dec. 27-- (A.P.)--Too much Christmas excitement proved the undoing of Jackie Coogan, youthful American film star, and he was in bed today with a light case of influenza. Jackie contracted the illness in in his hotel room in his joy over a steam engine, electric train and toy airplane. He was unable to appear in his vaudeville act last night. A physician after calling this morning assured the boy's parents that there was no danger but that he must b.e kept in a warm bed until Saturday.

Brooks, 18 months old child, to'day was ill of pneumonia. The little fellow was brought here last Friday after physicians at Bluefield, W. were unable to remove the toy and recommended a throat specialist. Surgeons here immediately prepared to operate but the child was too weak to permit it. Hospital attacfies said they did not know when his condition would permit an operation.

All Foreigners To Leave Kabul London, Dec. 27 (A.P.)-- It wasj understood today that evacuation of I foreigners from Kabul, capi' Afghanistan, would continue all were removed. Brief dispatches) from Peshawar, fndia, sent by wayj of Delhi and Lahore recorded the rival of many women and children of several nationalities including one American woman. They were brought from Kabul by British planes. A dispatch front New Delhi, India, today Sjaid that the American woman who was rescued was a Mrs.

Isacson. Her husband remained in Kabul, talc- ing refuge in the French legation. (The United States has no legation in Kabul.) or Illinois- Mostly fur ton i slightly colder in southeast im-tion; Friday partly cloudy to cloudy; somewhat warmer in southeast portion, colder in northwest portion. For Missouri-Generally fair to. Cloudy night and Friday; no decided change in temperature.

For Iowa-- Fair tonight, slightly warmer in northwest and north- central portions; Friday partly cloudy somewhat -colder in extreme northwest portion. LOCAL OB8EEVATION, Following Is the of lempynrture as capital Of. recorded by Dr. Clinradt, until i States weather otwewer: 1K7 Until I 7 p. m.

Wtdneidmr Hlilieit Wetaetd.r 53 Sky 1 a. m. Noon ThnntaT Lowert Thandar PrMlpHatiu Sun (Slaliari tlaM) SOB Kt t7 GENEBAL Springfield. Dec. is tow the northern put and urtble preclplUU Incton.

Wyootins Iowa. Or rthem part of the ward QMo, hu occurred in wart- and ueitefn Vlrtinli. hlih to In western Tenmralwet Me above normal In the northern states. esM- clally io in Idabo and Montana,.