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ft CITY f) CENTS JJJ PAYHOMORE INAL NEWSPAPER GREATEST WORLD'S THE TRICE TEN CENTS JANUARY 26, 1947 (REG. U.S. PAT. OFFICE. COPYRIGHT 1947 BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE) VOLUME CVI.

NO. 4 i OP Florida Villa give workers Capone Dies in nn mi i lnun Two Chicago Business Men Die in Indiana Rensselaer, Jan. 25 Special INSIDE STORY: BETRAYAL OF POLES BY F.D.R. "PLEASE STICK YOUR NECK OUT STEEL BACK PAY Five men, including two Chicago JQLIET GUARDS KEPT AT PEAK OF EFFICIENCY Heart Fails After Stroke of Apoplexy Miami 3each, Jan. 25 (JP) Scar-face Al Capone, Chicago prohibition business men, were killed tonight when a twin motored Beechcraft airplane crashed and exploded near a farmer's house on route 16, about 12 miles south of Rensselaer.

Rens Boost Wages to End Churchill Also Hit by Ex-Envoy Scale Inequities era mobster, died in his villa here at 6:25 Chicago time! tonight. He was 48. selaer is 73 miles southeast of Chicago. Indiana state police identified the dead Chicagoans as Arthur Porche, about 50, of 301 E. Marion Prospect Heights, district sales manager of the United States Machine corporation, 1614 S.

Wabash and Herbert Lees, 61, of 5143 N. Christi Death came very suddenly," said Dr. Kenneth S. Phillips, who has been attending the ex-gang Pittsburgh, Jan. 25 An hourly wage standardization agreement which will net workers in far flung Their Discipline as Stern as Convicts' leader since he wa stricken with apoplexy last Tuesday.

BY WALTER TROHAN I Chicago Tribane frm Serrlre Washington, Jan. 25 The inside tory of the betrayal of Poland by President Roosc- velt and Prime Minister ChUrch- ill In npnpralissi- ana av a representative or me "All the family was present. His United States Steel corporation plants more than 30 million dollars in back pay was announced today by the corporation and the CIO same corporation. The other dead were I. J.

Enger, 34, pilot, of Minneapolis, head of the Enger Supply company, dealer in used and new airplanes; Ralph A. Wheeler, 34, of Austin, and Theodore J. Katz, 54, of Wau- it tic pursuit of the will o' the wisp of unlly among tlnltedi United Steel Workers. The union set the back pay figure at 32 millions and said the agreement additionally will mean wage raises totaling 17 millions for many of about 175,000 workers in the corporation's five principal steel producing subsidiaries. The corporation said the back pay would be in excess of 30 millions pi wife, Mae, collapsed and is in very serious condition." Dr.

Phillips said death was caused by heart failure. Announced by Doctor Dr. Phillips emerged from the Capone home about 7:30 p. m. and announced the death to newsmen.

Dozens of persons, none of them identified, were admitted to the estate. A block long line of sleek, black limousines was parked outside. Tourists and the curious also flocked to the island. A virtual promenade of rubberneckers strolled by or stood around, chatting, some laughing. A hearse pulled thru the gates and soon afterward took the body of Capone to a funeral home.

Louts Rago, undertaker at 62b W. but fixed no figure for raise benefits watosa. Wis. Grounded for Repair Porche, en route home from a sales meeting in Lebanon, telephoned his daughter, Mrs. Yvonne Zeck, 6217 Waveland Chicago, from the Wier Cook airport In Indianapolis to tell her he would be delayed because the plane had been grounded for repairs.

He said something was wrong with the landing gear. to workers in the standardized scale. List Affected Firms Employes of the American Steel and Russia is Cli2vMled for the Jan rtrrhuciiiki first time with the publication of the memoirs of Jan Ciechanowski. Poland's war time arr.bassarlor to Washington. The absorbing recollection! are entitled "Defeat In In recognition of the fact that altho the allies achieved victory.

Poland, the first war victim of totalitarian Egression, has fallen from the status of a free state to that of a soviet ruppet. The book is being published by Doubleday, Doran Co. of New York. and Wire company, Carnegie-Illinois (This i the sixth of a series of articles by a Trihurtm reporter tcrihing state penitentiaries of firm miJwmtPrn states and comparing conditions in them u-ith thote in federal prisons.) BY WILLARD EDWARDS (Chicago Tribane rrea Serrire Statevllle Prison. Joliet, 111- Jan.

25 The sharp crackle of rifle fire broke the wintry night silence. The time was 9 p. m. Nearly 3.000 convicts were preparing for bed in the great cell houses behind Warden Joseph E. Ragen's living quarters where this reporter was spending the night.

Don't be startled," said the warden, smiling. "The guards are having some target practice from the wall." The incident illustrated Ragen's passion for efficiency among the custodial force of 5S0 men sworn to keep the peace in this vast institu tion. At other prisons, the reporter had witnessed guards practicing or rifle ranges. It had never occurred to fiim that such men almost alwaj i are called upon to shoot downward and at night Such practice is a nightly occurrence here. Advance from Ranks The official personnel In Illinois prisons are the highest paid In the Steel corporation.

Columbus Steel Three hours later Earl Foulks heard the plane circling above his farm home. Before he could get out Western Chicago, left for Miami side to look for it, the plane crashed and exploded in a field about 200 feet from the farm house. company, National Tube company, and Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad company, whose rates have been lower than the new scale, will benefit. United States Steel reported. The agreement also applies to the Ironton, Utah, plant of the Geneva Steel company.

The new scale will be effective the first pay in February. Corpora Beach by plane last nighf to take charge of arrangements for Capone's I funeral. The body will be brought to Chicago, arriving Tuesday or Copyrif hi i4T. by Cant Tribom. Wednesday.

It was understood that Capone's mother expressed the desire that both the funeral and the burial be in Chicago. The family has a plot in Mount Olivet cemetery. 1 tion sources said it was equivalent to an Increase of 1V cents an hour to a large percentage of workers, ONLY ONE MORE DAY TO REGISTER BEFORE FEB. 25 ELECTIONS JEWELER FIRES SHOT AT BROTHER BANDITS; ONE DIES OF WOUND The union estimated the hourly wage benefits at from 1 cent an hour to around 29 cents an hour Indians Claim Pale Faces as Their Wards Foulks said the gasoline tanks were burning when he reached the scene, but the fire subsided without destroying the wreckage. The bodies of all five occupants were hurled from the plane at it crashed.

The bodies were removed to a mortuary In Wolcott, eight miles south of here. Crashes Near House Sheriff William Webb of Jasper county and State Policeman Robert Bostwick said Mrs. Melvin Shannon, Route 1, Rensselaer, saw the plane flying low over her home. The plane backfired and sounded as if it was in said. "It was flying very low and we thought it was going to land on Foulks' farm, then it exploded.

There was a great Telia of Four Year Mission The book details the ambassador' four year diplomatic mission in furthering the cause of Free Poland in Washington. Reports are given rf conversation! and correspondence with President Roosevelt, Cordell Hull. Sumner Welles, Edward R-Stcttinius. Harry Hopkins, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and ether members of the White House palace guard. In addition former Ambassador Ciechanowski makes public confidential reports of conferences with by Gen.

Wladyslaw Sikorski, Gen. Wladyslaw Andsrs, and former Premier Stanlslaw Mikolajczyk. These include diplomatic conferences in which Churchill and W. Averell Harriman. American ambassador to and said some workers may receive midwest, almost but not quite ap Tomorrow is the last day to reg (Picture on pag 3) Two brothers second holdup of the day with an unloaded pistol ended fatally yes- proaching the federal pay scale which attracts many of the men trained in state institutions.

Guards receive $195 a month, plus their uni as much as $1,800 in back pay. The agreement was reached after two years of work by a joint union-management committee following a directive by the national war labor board to negotiate wage scales ister for the aldermanic elections and mayoral primary on Feb. 25. Persons who have qualified as residents since the last election, who Chicago Tribane Pre Service VANCOUVER, B. Jan.

25 Tom-toms were beating and smoke signals were rising tonight thruout British Columbia. Indians were on have come of age since November, An apoplectic stroke hit Capone Jan. 21 and swept him so close to death that the Rt. Rev. William Barry administered the last rites of the Roman Catholic church.

Pneumonia Sets In More than 16 hours later the one time gang overlord rallied and came out of his coma to talk with his wife and son, Alfred. He was out of danger for a time, then pneumonia developed and with this complication his heart weakened. At his Palm Island home when he died were his wife and son, his mother, Theresa; his father, Ermio; a sister, Mrs. Mafalda Mariotote, and two brothers, Ralph and eliminating alleged intraplant wage rate inequities, with adjustments to forms and two meals a day. Bus transportation is also provided to and from the homes of those who do not live at the prison.

About 100 sleep in a dormitory here, a valuable arrangement In case of a sudden outbreak. married, or changed their address, should register at any fire station, the warpath. be retroactive to Jan. 4, 1944. or at the board of election commis big flash and it came right down on the farm, next to the house." terday afternoon for one of them, John Ondrick, 27, of 8260 Mack-inaw av, machinist, who died in Illinois Central hospital of shock after being wounded in the right shoulder by Robert S.

Byall, sioners office in the city hall, from noon to 9 p. m. Residence qualifica Sergeants receive $210 monthly. Reclassify Mill Jobs The corporation said that, by agreement with the union, costs of intraplant adjustments would be limited to 3 cents per employe hour and that the retroactive pay COUGH BETRAYS POWs IN PACKING tions are one year in the state, six lieutenants, $235, and captains, $260. All advancement is from the months in the county, and 30 days ranks," said Ragen.

"Every man. in the precinct. jnva CASE; GIRL HELD John Ondrick including the assistant warden, worked his way up and owes his 6308 owner of the jewelry store at Chicago Tribune Pre Serrlce CALAIS, France, Jan. 25 Henri ette Klein, 25, an Alsatian born stu Stony Island av. Canada's federal Indian act decrees that native peoples are wards of the government and not citizens while they are on reserved lands.

Some 10,000 Indians in the province concluded that this condition had prevailed too long. They organized the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia NBBC. They decided that henceforth the white settlers of British Columbia should be wards of the state. The NBBC drew up a proclamation and sent it to Premier John Hart. It said in part: "This will inform you that your government, which has not seen fit job.

to ability and nothing else." Moscow, participated. White House visits of Sikorski and Mikolajczyk are also detailed. Secret Deal at Tehran By far the most important revelation in the work ls'the disclosure that Roosevelt and Churchill secretly agreed at Tehran in November and December, 1913, to give casern Poland to Russia. The book makes it clear that Roosevelt kept the secret until after the 1944 fourth term election because he and the White House palace guard were fearful of losing the Polish vote in that campaien. TYPICAL OF ERA Ondrick's brother, Emil 29, white wards are proved to have dissipated such relief in promoting pot-latches.

The natives will make no attempt to exploit the white wards. ments would approximate 70 per cent, payable in lump sums as soon as practicable. Under the agreement, the corporation said, more than 25,000 widely varied steel mill jobs are grouped into 30 general labor classifications, resulting in scales ranging up to dent of Oxford university in Eng of the Mackinaw av. address, also a Alphonse Capone personified an machinist, surrendered after the era. For the greater part of a dec However, white children will be seg shooting.

He and John were identi ade he was Chicago's most publicized fied as the pair who earlier robbed Michael J. Murphy, 7701 Calumet land, recently shipped a packing case labeled "Fragile right side up with care to Calais. She crossed the channel on the same steamer and claimed it -at the customs as household goods. A truck carried the box to her criminal: the figurehead universally regated, so as not to retard advancement of the native children. A curfew prohibiting the white wards $1.98 an hour in all plants in which the common labor base is now chosen to illustrate the breakdown or S3l in his furniture store at of law and order that followed the cents an hour.

The wage scale agreement fol effort to legislate alcoholic bever ritirinr. th time Roosevelt was from being abroad between 4 and 7 a. m. is being considered." 6414 Cottage Grove av. Byall, who resides at 6649 Black-stone said he fired as the Ond- ages out of America.

lowed hard on the heels of a com' and Henriette pried open the concealing the secret agreement, he i cover to release two German prison- rntertamed Premier Mikolajczyk in to permit the owners of the Pacific coast lands a voice in their control He was head of a huge ring of The burly chiefs at the NBBC pletely amicable agreement between ricks ran thru the store with eight All guards receive 60 days of training. Before that period has they have worked at every post in the prison. They are thoroly investigated and the slightest suspicion of an unsavory background bars them from admission. They enter civil service and under a pension system have security to look forward to. Stern Discipline for Guards Discipline is as stern for these men as for the prisoners.

A guard caught sleeping may draw only a suspension for the first offense but is promptly fired for a second. Nothing is truer in the prison world than the statement that a penal institution is as good only as its weakest ofSciaL Stateville has had its share of violence and Ragen was brought back as alcohol cookers, illegal brewers, vice big steel" and the union, which headquarters grunted approval. the White House, giving warm as rings, valued at $1,700, which they resort managers, gambling house claims 53,000 members in the en mrances of American support for Poland. Not until some weeks later keepers, whisky warehouse raiders, had snatched up. The robbers' gun, an ancient Harrington Richard en oi war wno naa oeen connnea in a camp near the university.

They were Otto Renwilch, 29, and Albert Heims, 33. The trio had a filet of sole dinner, drank champagne, and tire industry, to extend contracts Chief Oscar Peters of the Fraser Valley tribes announced: Our navy of canoes and fishing and hired gunmen that gave Chi with the corporation until May in the gloomy Kremlin did the Polish son pistol, was found on Emil, cago a reputation as a city of law Bethlehem Hails Move leader learn of the betrayal of his police said. attended a dance hall, and the next Contracts negotiated between morning Henriette boxed the pris- lessness in the roaring 1920s. He had rivals, of course, but few of them ever got rich and many of them perished by gunfire which, if United States Steel and the union oners up again and shipped them to namely, by voting no longer has any legal standing. Going on Wampum Standard "It is not our desire that white settlers be precipitated into a state of anarchy.

Civil servants and public services may continue to function. The present monetary system is to be continued until such time as we establish currency on the wampum standard. Whereas legal title of the Indian lands has never passed from our traditionally have set the pattern Brussels, Belgium, where an aunt VAN JOHNSON WEDS ON DAY OF boats is ready to put to sea. All avenues of escape of the pretender. Premier Hart, have been taken care of." But, despite tom-toms, smoke signals, proclamation and war speeches, the Indian act tonight was still on the law books, the red men were still wards of the white squatters, he did not order it, was at least in country at Tehran, a shock that carr.e thru a blundering admission by Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov.

Mikolajczyk cabled an appeal to Roosevelt, which the former ambas-sDr delivered on Oct. 27. 1944, asking whether the President had agreed, as stated by Molotov, to giving Russia almost half of Poland. Mikolajczyk did not get a reply of Heims would help them escape to Germany. At the Belgian frontier a customs inspector heard a cough which ema BRIDE'S DIVORCE (Picture on pagm 6) nated from the shipping case.

He warden by Gov. Green after Roger Touhy, the gangster, and six others engineered a daring and successful escape in 1942. All were eventually recaptured and are back within the El Paso, Jan. 25 VP) Van Johnson, film star, was married this for the industry. In New York, the Bethlehem Steel corporation made a public statement by Board Chairman Eugene G.

Grace in which Grace said: "The reported arrangement between United States Steel and the union seems to me to be a constructive move. As to Bethlehem, I can say that we will cooperate with the union in working out an extension of our agreement." hands, and whereas the present chief and as far as any one knew Premier Hart was sleeping peacefully in his official mansion at Victoria. his interest. Fantastic Tales About Capone. In the days of his power there were fantastic tales about him.

His "syndicate" was credited with doing a business of 25 million dollars a year and he was reputedly many times a millionaire; there was even a story that he had personally lost $7,500,000 in a few years of gambling. With awe. it was related that of the village of Victoria has seen fit broke it open. The POW's were sent back to England and Henriette was arrested and charged with aiding the enemy. afternoon to Evie Wynn at Juarez, Mexico.

walls. to deny residents of thousands of Only one major incident has oc years' ancestry the right to take His bride was divorced a few part In governing their lands, hours earlier in Juarez from Actor curred since then. Ten convicts attempted to use the same tactics employed in the Touhy break. A guard Therefore, we, in the name of Keenan Wynn. The couple left El all Pacific coast bands, do hereby Paso by plane immediately after VETS TO WED IF THEY FIND HOUSE WITHOUT STEPS Continued on page 12, column SJ declare white control of our lands the ceremony.

and a prisoner were slain but no one got over the wall. By the terms of the divorce, Mrs. at an end, and we order the white chieftains to surrender their false Johnson was awarded the custody of CIO EXTENDS ITS CHRYSLER PACT 30 DAYS Detroit, Jan. 25 (JP) Chrysler Portland, Jan. 25 (P) Harold Metsker, 29, and Elinor Tilden, 31, authority to an all-Indian govern her two children, Edmond, 5, and ment." Tracy, 2.

All property was disposed of World War II. veterans who have one good leg and two good arms be It was signed for Chief William under an agreement. $50,000 BLAZE TIES UP TRAFFIC OJV WEST SIDE Fire started by an explosion in a degreasing machine caused $50,000 damage yesterday to three buildings in the 4000 block on Lake st. Street cars on Pulaski rd. and Lake st.

were turned back from the scene. Service on the Lake st. branch of the elevated also was interrupted. The blaze, resulting in a 5-11 alarm, started in the two story brick building of the Corlett-Turner company, lock nut manufacturers, at 4011 Lake st, and spread to the three story brick building of the corporation today extended its con The Johnson-Wynn marriage was tween them, are planning to be married as soon as they find a house Scow, president of the NBBC, by Acting Agent M. Armytage Moore." Chief Scow then announced he was (Continued on page 6, column 2 THE WEATHER MDAT, JAM APT 2S 1947 CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Partly rloudy and continued mild today and tonight; tomorrow partly rloudy and becoming colder in afternoon and night; high today, 4S; low tonight, 38; high tomorrow, 47; southwesterly winds, 15 miles an hour, today.

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Kerning tr: Satara. For 24 boar ended 6:30 p. m. Jan. 25: tract with the CIO United Auto Workers, due to expire Sunday, for the third in which Hollywood personalities figured in the border commun without steps.

The two Portlanders, a former airman and a WAVE, both ready to take office with a cabinet ity within recent weeks. Kathleen 30 days. The extension was mutually agreed to, a company announce of native chiefs. Winsor divorced her husband to ment said. Negotiations between Chrysler Pledge No Discrimination Big Chief Tom Hurley of the Van marry Artie Shaw in Juarez; Laraine Day obtained her Juarez divorce and and the CIO began Jan.

16, and the couver reservation was named attor married Leo Durocher Tuesday. victims of Infantile paralysis, announced their engagement at the veterans' hospital. Elinor and Harold, riding side by side in their wheel chairs, explained that they met by voice across a corridor at Isolation hospital last summer. Elinor couldn't lift her company statement said, "Arrange For more news and photos, be sure to see Section Two of Part 1, which is presented in Two Sections Today ney general. He announced the leg Tank Traps Set Up Ragen has now built up what he regards as a foolproof system to prevent escapes.

One innovation was the planting about the enclosure of a series of reinforced concrete posts I tank traps in a manner of speaking which would prevent the driving of a seized truck to the prison wall, the method employed by Touhy. Men seeking to escape must i now approach the wall on foot targets for the rifles of tower guards. The warden also has his own home built intercommunication sys-item. Sitting in his office, he can italk to tower guards, captains, and lieutenants located about the 64 acres of the Institution, at any hour of the day or night. He makes a practice of demanding such checkups at unexpected times and the force must be ever on the alert.

Prisoners are awakened at 6 a. m. in the summer, 6:30 in the winter. They, make their beds, clean their UNRRA Now Loading Its islative program. With appropriate legal verbiage he proclaimed that ments have also been made to continue negotiations toward renewing this contract." 20 Millionth Cargo Ton Washington, Jan.

25 W) UNRRA Matt Coil-Less Burner company, makers of roof ventilators and roofing equipment, at 4015, and the two story frame and brick building at paralyzed arms to ring her bell for all white residents of British Columbia would become wards of the Indian government. Contracts with General Motors and the Ford Motor company have several months to run. the nurse. So Harold, whose back announced tonight that cargo now being loaded aboard the Liberty ship Hoosier State will bring the The government of British Co 4009. and legs were crippled, would ring his.

They didn't see each other until Elinor was moved to a different hos Sam Mandel, 1506 S. Spaulding armperalarc, 39 degree: normal. 22 oh; cseeaa aia Jan. 1, 146 degree. total supplies shipped abroad since av, employe of the Corlett-Turner lumbia will see that there is no discrimination in its treatment of the natives and their white wards," said Chief Tom.

Destitute white wards pital. company, said he was cleaning a de-greasing machine when it exploded, starting a blaze that spread so rtal avrmgm net paid circulatUn DECEMBER, 1946 1,500,000 THC CHICAGO TRIBUNE March, 1945, to 20 million tons worth approximately $2,325,000,000. Maj. Gen. Lowell W.

Rooks, director general, said about one-fifth of UNRRA's program remains to be fulfilled." PreripltatloB, trace; deficiency alnca Jan. 1, 1 tncli. Hirat wmd velocity, 19 miles an boar, kotiea haaatdltr. 6:30 a. 95 pep cent: 12 30 p.

96; 6:30 p. 84. Eon 1 1 1 reading: 6:30 a. 29.84 inchea; VJO p. 29.67 Inchea.

IfndMT vcaUur report em po 11 Then," the girl said, they took me into Harold's doorway so that I could say 'hello' and get a look at him." will receive the same grant of relief as destitute natives, a month, rapidly he was unable to put it out subject to revocation if any. of the with a hand extinguisher..