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Weather Continued Rain 30TH YEAR 20 Pa ges DECATUR HERALD TM" Illinois A I Waggoner Pleads Guilty, 3 EMPLOYES OF nation jumor PTMiw ay ft 1 19 AMill I'm Sentenced to 15 Year Telluride Banker Surprises Court By Not Asking Trial on Charge of Insanity (By Viitcd NEW Oct. Charles Delos Waggoner, Tel Inride banker, pleadec guilty to using the mails to de fraud when his case was callec in federal court Thursday. The charge grew out of Wag goner's clever ruse in obtaining 1900,000 from six big New York banks to aid the Telluride bank, 01 wttch he wan He hat vied telegrams with banking code and letters to establish credit in the charge, to establish credits in the New York banks, and these credits the half million dollars to the little Colorado institution. The Colorado bank later; was closed. The guilty plea cajne as a distinct turprlM although Waggoner had, confuted to his pan in the affair in which he played the role of a modern Robin Hood who wanted to save l.ls depositors from loss.

He had been expected to plead emotional insanity and a committee of aHenUts from both, government mad defense had examined him. Was Found "Supernormal" tt was believed the sudden change in was taken as a result of the publication Wednesday of the alien- Mf verdict. They held the banker to be normal in all respects and "supernormal" in intelligence. Waggoner's counsel, Allan Tt. Campbell, entered the plea of juilty Just as soon as the banker was brought into Federal Judge Frank J.

Coleman's court Waggoner was standing by the lawyer's side. Before moving, for sentencing of iteJukcr. AtaUa Attorney Ckarles H. Tuttle addressed the court BACK TO BONDAGE WITH LONG SKIRTS, SAYS FANNIE HURST (By United NEW YORK, Oct. 10 When women put on long skirts this yea 1 bowed to the ultimatum of Paris designers, they went back into bondage, according to Fannie Hurst, novelist and short story writer.

"In the last seven years," Miss Hurst said, "we have shorn our heads, released our legs and un- corseted our torsos. Now industry, with a quirk of its hand, reaches out and attempts to put us back again. The leg is becoming nasty again with its long ailkeft covering of skirts. "The new fashions Indicate a mental let-down. Maybe We woti't backslide mentally--just maybe, but why should we take the chance? Women must not compromise.

They must, walk out on their dressmakers when they cannot get what they want." PANTAGES TELL OF "COACHING" Stories of Doctored Testimony Follow Actor's Recital of Bribe THEATER BARON UPSET Vnltal Pris.s i LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10-- Three-employes of the Pantages theater were called Thursday in' the trial of Alexander Pantages, millionaire theater man, asser- tedly to testify they were coached in their versions of his alleged attack on Eunice Pungle 17 years old dancer. The three are Tillie Russo, a blonde usherette; Roy Keene, business manager of the show, and William Jcbel- man, its press agent. District Attorney Buron Pitts said TJRBANA, Oct. 10--Petitions ask- ing reinstatement of oustid from campus 11 students organizations by the council of administration were circulated tl the University of Illinois Thursday.

The petitions in most instances asked that the students be reinstated and given a "fair trial." The 11 were ousted after a and robbery occurred during an organization election. The robbery resulted in the arrest of four students. An indignation meeting was held Wednesday night, campus leaders commenting upon the council's action and other subjects prevalent at the university at present. G. E.

Barld, Marshall, has taken over the presidency of the Illinois I Union which is provided in the organization's constitution. He succeeded C. F. Edwards, Kansas City who was ousted. It was considered likely that presl- ency of the student council would be taken over by Margretta Baii- stow, Waukegan, who is vice president of the Woman's league.

Other class presidencies will not be filled at present and there was 1 rumors that "there will be no junio, prom this year." The board of trustees of the university held its monthly meeting- in Chicago Thursday and It was believed it might take some action I OT.DT Tin-on, Peace Mission 5uZ Ss days Premier on Leaving Head of Pennsylvania Manu-1 facturers' Association to i Competitive Naval Building Between Great Britain and Be Questioned INTERESTED IN TARIFF United States Ended for All Time, Says Joint Statement on the "political university. situation" at the LINDBERGHS FIND FOUR OLD CITIES Rich Discoveries Mark Last Day of Aerial Exploration Trip was alone when she entered the TU- dltorium of the theater. Miss Pringle had testified Pantages told her to wait there. URGE PURCHASE LANDBANKBONDS i Brookhart Says Government Action Will Give Farmers Money BV PAUL K. MADDON (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Oct.

10 -The long sought lobby investigation will be started next Tuesday morning when representatives of tariff interests will be called to testify, the investigating committee decided in an executive session Thursday. Subpenas will be issued tor the witnesses later in the day, Chairman Caraway announced after the meel- Their names will not be made PARIS, Oct. ubli until the subpenas are serv- Doris Stevens Given Divorce From D. F. Malone (Kit VmtiJ Pi ait there.

uuiicd Jobelman was expected to i WASHINGTON 30--A he rushed to Pantages' side to direct Secretary of the he wished to make it clear ttat the plea of guilty was not rmitlo by (rearrangement and that no had been made. Scores of witnesses, some from as far as las Angeles Seattle, had been summoned by the government and were on hand to testify. They will be allowed to return to their homes immediately. After some preliminaries, Wag- toner was sentenced to 15 years im prteonment The 'sentence was Atlanta Federal penitentiary. to TREND AWAY FROM OWNING OWN HOME.

SAYS LEAGUE HEAD (By Vnttttt SPRINGFIELD. Oct. 10--America may be a land of home loving people but Earnest A. Hale, Boston president of the United States League of Building and Loan associations, says apartment houses and luxuries are leading them astray "Home ownership is one of the things in the world," said Hale, who is here attending the annual convention of the league. "But the trend is away from the Individ- tally owned home." It is leading a majority of residents of cities to become apartment house dwellers." Hale declared the emphasis is not en saving money but on spending it he cited the large sums which are expended for luxuries annually.

SWIFT JUSTICE ruffal Pres-i.) CHAMPAIGN, Oct. 10 Cham- Wlgn county's justice is swift. Arrested at 1:30 p. Wednesday on tRarges of possession of liquor, Alex 6n was hailed a Judge 2:30 to plead guilty and at 3:30 was enroute to the state farm to six months. UIAMI, 10--Completing on extended exploration toi tear ttfifeWaTWftiftff four previously unknown ruins" of the ancient Maya Indian tribes, Col.

Charles A. Lindbergh prepared to return to Miami Thursday from Con- zumeg Islands, off the Mexican coast. Radio messages to the Pen-American Airways Station here said Lindbergh, Mrs. Lindbergh and Dr. A.

J. Kidder of the Carnegie Institution, landed at Cozumel at 6:15 p. Wednesday after a day of aerial exploration over the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The day was marked by many important findings of ruins which had been hidden for centuries in the dense jungles. The party took off from Belize, British Honduras.

The first discovery was made when Mrs. Lindbergh, sighted a hidden highway, built of blocks of solid stone. Dr. Kidder identified the road as part of the intera. city communicating links.

Col. Lindbergh sighted the next ruins as he circled about a triangular plot of mounds, identified as one of the lost Maya cities. It was charted in detail, although clouds prevented photographs. Mrs. Lindbergh found a crumbling wall glistening above the deep green bush.

Further exploration established the ruins as those of three small Maya villages. The walls of a majestic Maya temple were sighted by Lindbergh. The pyramid was estimated to be 70 or 80 feet high and was the center of an old temple. the girl screamed and Keene will asked whether he rearranged ture in the room where Miss Pnnglc testified she was attacked. "Manufactured" Story In the most unexpected testimony of the trial, John Sheridan, gun Diego actor, said Pantages had asked him to tell a "manufactured" story that ho was in.

the room at the time the girl claims she was attacked. "Pantages ca'me to see me in San Diego after I telephoned him," Shrri-l i "After I promised Treasury Mellon to buy $100,000,000 worth of Federal Land bank bonds w-a introduced Thursday by Senator Brookhart, Republican, Iowa. "The high interest rate in New York has taken surplus money in such huge amounts there to no money to lend the farmers," Brookhart said. "The Federal Land bank has practically gone out of operation." The Iowa senator said purchase of the land bank bonds was not a new jdea, and had been done once before. that occurred and we discussed the story I was to tell, was to say that I was in the room when the girl entered and that I saw story ---Brookhart he wo "I was to say that I left the room for a few minutes and that when returned she was in the same pooi- lion." Pantages Upset Pantages was on his feel all time Sheridan was testifying.

'he He was visibly stirred and prompted his attorneys in their cross examination. It was the first time the gray haired defendant had moved from his chair, during testimony. The defense questioned Sheridan In an effort to show that he had gone to the district attorney only after failing to get money from Pantages 1 son Rodney. "Did you not call Rodney Pantagu. and tell him that you had to have 5300 or you would go to the district attorney?" "No, I just said I wanti-d what I had coming to me," the actor "Didn't he tell you to go to the district attorney or to H-- and hang up the telephone?" I "No, he didn't," Sheridan replied.

The actor said that Pantages a paid him $123 In expense money and! that he had paid $231 of Ms own money. for immediate of the resolution. BROADENLINES OF BATTLE FOR OPENING OF DOG RACE TRACK EAST ST. 10--A bill for an injunction to restrain the sheriff and state's attorney of St. Clair county from interfering with the operation ofithe new dog-racing plant at Cahokia, has been filed in circuit court by (the Mississippi Valley Kennel club, owners of the new track.

The petition will be heard before Judge Henry G. Miller in the circuit court at Belleville Friday. The state's attorney's office has declared its intention of every effort to resisting the petitions. Sheriff Charles Ahrens said he would await the decision of the court before determining his future course. James C.

Gorham, president of the club, said the track is to open one of the leaders of the woman suf- ferage movement in the United States, Thursday obtained a oivo-cc from Dudley Field Malone, noted American lawyer, on the ground of desertion. Malone was third assistant sec.c- tary of state during the Wilson administration and resigned his office because he felt Wilson had to keep his promises to the movement. Miss formerly of Omaha, and Malone, were married in kill, N. in 1921, after Malone had been divorced by his first wife. Their romance began in 1916 when the suffragets picketing the House were being arrested for denouncing President Wilson because 1 fa ure io passage.

of the woman suffrage ameiidmjnt. Miss Stevens converted Malone to ed, a precaution usually taken in Senate investigations to prevent escape of prospective witnesses from sub- pena service. Grundy First Joseph -R. Grundy head of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association, is expected to be in the first group Caraway indicated. "The committee has authorized me to call some of those who sat around so close to the finance committee that members could not get their breath during consideration of I he tariff bill," Caraway said.

The chairman also said "an opportunity would be given," Charles L. Eyanson of the Connecticut Manufacturers Association, to explain hi? employment during tariff discussion' as a secretar. Blngham, Rej ment expense. High Lights of Peace Statement Ltnted WASHINGTON, Oct. 10--High lights of the joint statement issued by President Hoover and Prime Minister MacDonaId' follow: "War between us is unthinkable." "Distrusts and suspicions arising from doubts and fears must now cease to influence national policy." "Both our government resolve to accept the Kellogg peace pact not only as a declaration of good intentions but as a positive obligation to direct national policy in accordance with its pledge." NEW DELAY IN TRIAL OF FALL Former Secretary of Interior to, Senator Hiram' Conn, at 'govern-1 Not Satisfied With Physician 1 BY RAYMOND CLAPPER (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Oct.

10 More was achieved during the good-will mission of Prime Minister MacDonald than has been officially revealed according to information in authoritative -quarters Thursday. President Hoover and the prime minister haw reached a. lower basis of cruiser tonnage than had been thought possible before MacDonald left London, It was understood. Details are not known definitely it is understood the 30,000 tons in dispute may be eliminated from the parity mjnlmums suggested before MacDonald came to the United States. This, if It develops, will be In the direction of actual reduction of the building program sought bv President Hoover.

Watbtngtoa The prime minister and Misc Ish. bel left Washington Thursday hav- tag built up tremendous stores of good will against the time when inevitable controversies may test the patience and the two countries. President Hoover and the prime minister tamed a joint itatement de- of war tod, naval rivalry had been baniftfaed they BH "WASHINGTON, Oct. The ito the suffrage a friend of Wilson, he a critic of the Wilson Malone not only adopted Miss Stevens' views on the Suffrage issue but became a convert also to manv of her radical and socialistic ideas. MUSTTERVTSENTENCE State Supreme Court Rules IMn Amendment Does Not Hold In Jennings Case RV u.titet Pms i SPRINGFIELD, Oct: 10 Hooes PROSPERITY WAVE, SAYS ROGER BABSOW Umlcd PI-CSA CAPONE'S BROTHER SUDDENLY WEALTHY, U.

S. SEEKS CAUSE THE WEATHER FORECAST FOR ILLINOIS --Rain tonight and Friday, not change in temperature. IOCA1 TEMPERATURES 7 P. m. 50 Highest yesterday 58 7 a- m.

today 48 Noon today 53 Lowest today 47 Precipitation .34 Sun rises 6:06 Sun sets f.2S (By Uintrd 1'rcss.) CHICAGO, Oct. 10--Federal agents sought to discover Thursday exactly how Ralph "Bottles" Capone, brother of the notorious "Scarface got to be a millionaire, while Capone was at freedom on $35,000 bond following his arrest on a warrant charging he dodged payment of income tax. The arrest was made Wednesday. Capone, his pockets stuffed, with world series baseball tickets, fumed In jail. Finally a bondsman showed up with 35 new $1,000 bills and Capone got out in time to see the last two Innings of the Cubs' second defeat.

Government investigators learned Ralph owns seven race horses, has accounts in five banks, and has a bank balance averaging around $240,000 recently. Hearing on his case will be held Oct. 16. His brother Alphonse is In jail in Philadelphia serving a year's sentence for carrying concealed wecpons. INJURIES FATAL Ilia Uiittrrt J'ITM.) PARIS, Oct.

10--J. Frank Stephenson, prominent building contractor, died Wednesday of injuries received two weeks ago when his auto was struck by an interurban car at Danville. Pennsylvania Passenger Train and Freight in Collision At Portage I3y Vnltitt I'rcsi PITTSBURGH, Oct. 10 Three men are known to have lost their lives when an eastbound passenger train and a westbound freight train collided Thursday a half mile east of Portage, Pa. Pennsylvania Railroad officials said the dead are G.

L. Burkholder, fireman; W. T. Johnston, an engineer; and W. C.

Reed, an engineer. Railroad officials, who ordered an investigation, said the passenger train, a Washington-Wilkes-Barre express, went through Portage on Track No. 2, instead of No. 1, as it customarily does. The freight was crossing from track No.

4 'to No. 9 at the time cf the collision. ENID, Oct. 10-- Illinois, Oklahoma and Alabama will surpass other states in Industrial expansion in the next 10 years, it was forecast by Roger W. Babson, noted statistician, here in connection with a fuel survey for eastern Interests.

Babson said abundant natural resources, climate and transportation changes in the central an'd southern sections of the country would forward decentralization of industries, moving many southward. His prediction was based on business statistics with reference to their bearing on business cycles. CASHIER ROBBED United Prcss.) GRANITE CITY, Oct. 10-- As Mill Rose Steiner, cashier of the Prudential Life Insurance Agency, stepped out of the office on her way to the tank, an unidentified man snatched the envelope containing the day's receipts, estimated at $1,000. ror.a parole of more than 600 prisoners In Illinois state penitentiaries, all convicted of robbery With a gun under the 1919 law, were shattered when the stale supreme court declared Harry Jennings released by Chicago court, must serve out a year sentence, here Thursday.

Jennings was convicted in 1921 on a charge of holding up a cigar store in Chicago. At that time the provided for a sentence from ten years of life. In 1927 the Legislature amended the to make it year to life. Jennings applied for a writ of habeas corpus and circuit Judge' Joseph David, of Chicago, ordered his release holding that under the new law Jennings was eligible to for good behavior after six years end three months. The attorney general's office up- plied to the supreme court for tin order to expunge David's action wd Thursday's action by the higher court means that eJnningn must be returned to prison to serve out the ten years.

AUTOGIRO IN HOUR tet. 10 Charles It Eyanson, Employe of the Connecticut Manufacturers' Association who attended meeting of the senate finance committee as secretary to Senator Blngham. can be prosecuted under an existing law, Chairman Caraway, of the Senate libby investigating committee' said Thursday. Caraway cited a statute forbidding anyone from being on the payroll of the government when he is on the payroll of any corporation or organ izatlon outside of the government. The lobby investigation committee will take no action in the matter, however, Caraway said, and he indicated he would not ask for'prosecu- tion of Eyanson.

Senator Blngham has admitted hiring Eyanson, first out his own money and then as an employe of the Senate, to assist him in his work an a member of the finance committee in drafting the new tariff bill. France Expected fo Be Second Nation to Answer Invitation to Parley i Unitc'l Pretii WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 The State Department Thursday announced acceptance of the British government's invitation to the London Naval Conference next January. In announcing the acceptance of the United States, Secretary of State Slimson said the text of this government's response to Foreign Minister, Henderson Friday. would be made public It was transmitted to the LYMPNE, England, Oct.

10 -Arthur Rawson, English pilot, flew a Clerva Autoglro across the English channel in an hour Thursday. He left St. Ingelvert, France at 12:25 p. and landed here at 1:25 p. m.

He had departed from LP Bourget field near Paris at 8:35 a. for St. Ingelvert. 19 MEMBERS OF GARY POLICE FORCE INDICTED American Embassy at London, to be delivered to the British Foreign of- The United States is the first to announce formally its acceptance cf the invitation, but unofficial reports Indicated France might be expected to send a similar reply shortly. GUN BATTLE'BRINGS BANDITS BAND TO END (Till i J.y, i-UV bribery trial of Albert B.

Fall, former Secretary "of the was adjourned Thursday until Friday to permit a more conclusive report on his physical condition. Dr. Thomas by Justice William Hitz to examine Pall after the former cabinet official for "personal reasons" had declined to Dr. Sterling Ruffin, originally named to make the examination, reported Thursday Fall was suffering from a lung congestion. Examined Him In 192.1 Ruffin' examined Fall in 1923 and pronounced him able to testify in the Senate Teapot Dome Investigation.

bribery charge is an outgrowth of Fall-also is understood to have had contact with Dr. Ruffin in the Wilson administration when Fall and other members of the Senate foreign telations committee called at the White House to ascertain the President's physical condition. Ruffin was one of the specialists attended the war president during bis illness. Not Satisfactory Justice Hitz said Dr. Claytor re ported Fall was too ill to appear In court soon or "likely not at all.

"The examination, however, was not entirely satisfactory," Justio Hitz said. "Dr. Claytor was not a. minister set Wnfit It aaid no far as Britain and the United States were concerned Competitive IMldlar "In view of the security afforded by the peace pact," the Hocver- MacDonald joint statement, "We been we trust, forever, all competitive building between ourselves with the risk of war and the waste of public m'onev Involved, by agreeing to parity of cat category. -Success at the coming conference will result in a large decrease in the naval equipment of the world, and Important, the re- i reduction of prospective programs of construction which would otherwise produce competitive building- to indefinite amount.

Approval "We hope and believe that the by the people whom we as a substantial contribu- eftorts all nations to gain security tor (Jill Press 1 GARY, Oct. 10--Nineteen mcmb'ers of the Gary police force, including all the ranking officers, have been Indicted for conspiracy to violate the Volstead act and will be asked 1 to resign Thursday or face expulsion. The indictments were leturned Thursday by a federal grand jury at South Bend after five weeks of investigation of liquor, vice and gambling conditions in Northern Indiana. The officers were said to have illegally disposed of a truck load of tecr last year and it was believeu (he indictments grew out of that incident. Prospectors and Business Men Join in New Idaho Gold Rush WALLACE, Idaho, Oct.

10 --The cry of "gold" has been heatd in Wallace again and this little town, once a frontier outpost, is rallying to the stampede. Prospectors, mining men, business men--old and young--have joined the frantic rush to the hills northwest of Wallace where the first "strike" was reported. Hundreds poured through here. Thursday. They came in pairs, by the dozen and by the scoie, eager to stake a claim in the supposedly rich country.

John S. Tout, veteran prospector, found a piece of ore that assayed $2,663 in gold and smaller assays in silver and copper aout two weeks ago, but kept his find secret. But the word leaked out and the first rush was -underway a few hours after the announcement. Every available means of Conveyance is being used to reach the gold Held up in the hills. The focal point of the rush is located about 41 miles from Wallace and about- 25 miles northwest of Prlchard.

HAMMOND, Oct. 10-Propii- flora and patrons commuters' cabarets along the Indiana-Illinois line were breathing easier Thursday the belief the six predatory "robber baron" have barked their last "stick 'em up!" One of the sextet- was killed and two were injured in a gun battle in an apartment here Wednesdav which also claimed the Jife of one of the four policemen who raided it. Another policeman was injured. Among the forays the bandits admitted, police said, was the 'hilarious holdup of the Palm Gardens roadhouse last Sunday morning. After taking $10,000 from the cash register and 60 the robber crew held enforced carnival for two hours passing out drinks "on the house," dancing with the girls and giving back part of their loot to winners of an impromptu beauty contest.

able to make an examination which would enable him to present a final report as to his condition." Three prominent physicians then were named by Hitz to make a more thorough examination of the former Interior Secretary, and report Friday. U. S. OPPOSEDTd PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL BANK 1 Uailetl Press.1 WASHINGTON, Oct. 10--Official participation by the United States in the world bank now being formed Europe still Is opposed by this government, treasury officials said Thursday.

The U. S. Attitude toward the bank is one of sympathetic interest but this government will the federal reserve board or the treasury to bo represented officially on its directorate, it was said authoratively. by organisation -but by peaceful means rooted in' public opinion and enforced bv of Justice the civilised The statement explained conversations had been guided bv the double hope of settling naval the "Our A New Angle conversations have largely confined to the mutual been of the peace pact the etatement "Therefore in a new reinforced aenae the iwo government, not only declare war between them Is TM but that distrusts and arising from doubte and which may haveeen jurtlfled before he us to banished, and-that con-" between our military or naval COPS WERE DRUNK c. -A charge that drunken policemen participated in, the Loray Mill clash at Gastonia June 7, was made Thursday for the defense of seven union 'workers oh trial for the murder of Police Chief O.

F. Aderh.lt Mrs. Irene Corley, first defense witness called on the second day of the strikers' testimony declared that police officers were drunk when they came to union headquarters on the night of the fatal shooting. UNION MEMBERS WHO DONT CONFORM Awning was Issued when Nesbit learned that five locals of the Peoria district had been urged to sever regions with the district lEWSPAPERr VSPAPERI.