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cks Weather Fair, Warmer DECATUR HERALD JOTHYEAR 12 Pages Decatur. Illinois. A A I October 26, 1929 THREE CENTS SAVE SHIPWRECKED CREW FROM STARVATION HEFLIN GALLS FOR PROBE OF U.S. FASCISTS Senator Alleges Mussolini Has Extended Activities to America CITES MAGAZINE ARTICLE By 1YLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON.

Oct. 26-Senator Heflin, introduced a resolution Saturday asking the secretary of state to report to the Senate all the information' available regarding the activities of. Fascist organization in this country. In the preamble of his resolution Benin alleged -that "certain American citizens Italian descent including F. N.

Dlavi of New York city and Carlo Jlagno of Hokoben. who have recently visited Italy, have been arrested and imprisoned and have had their American passports taken away because they were opposed to the'Fascist! activities In the United States." ClW Arttclp Heflin Included in the resolution several other charges which Ijnve been circulated recently in magazine articles and elsewhere including the following: "That persistent efforts are being made by the Fascist League of North America, a corporation of the station of New York, and its local branches throughout the United States, to invent the Americanization of Italians Crusader Dies REV. B. S. SHUMAKER Shumaker Dies Martyr to Cause, Friends Declare (By United EUDIANAPOLIS, Oct.

26. --The E. S. Shumaker, 62, for two -decades superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, and known as "the perfect prohibitionist," is dead here after a months' illness. Shumaker died at 4:45 p.

m. Friday. Physicians diagnosed the fatal In this country, to stifle at any rostj disease as a malignant tumor of the all criticism of Mussolini and to silence the opponents of Fascism Marcus Duffield writing in Harpers Magazine on "Mussolini's Amer- liver, but his friends contended he was a martyr to the "cause." His health was broken by a two months' sentence in the Indiana penal farm The dry leader was released from his the lean Emjrire" alleges existence of a for con em pt of the state supreme Fascist campaign of Itallanization court Instill loyalty to II Duce In Jtalo- American children. Bachelor's Taxed "These youngsters," Duffield said, "most of them born here, not only are being taught in Italian schools established by the Fascist' but actually are being given preliminary training to fit them for the Fascist army." The article continued to' allege taxes were being levied by Italian authorities upon Italc-Americans by (Continued on page 2 JURY DECIDES THAW MUST PAY $75,000 FOR SPANKING GIRL (By flniled Preti.t NEW YORK, Oct. 26--A jury has decided that Harry K.

Thaw must pay $75,000 damages for administering what probably is the world's most expensive'spanking The verdict was brought In late Thursday after the Jury on the first ballot decided for Miss Marcie Est- erdus, night club hostess, who claimed Thaw spanked' her with a hair brush on New Year's day, 1927. Thaw's counsel asked Supreme Court Justice Levy to set aside the verdict on the ground that It was "grossly excessive." When Miss attorneys asked the court to reserve decision until they had time to submit briefs, Levy assented. Thaw insisted he would appeal and said he planned to do so even if Miss Estardus had received a verdict of only four cents. HONOR CITY'S FOUNDER I By United I'rent 1 GRANITE CITY, Oct. 26 A bronze tablet was unveiled by Granite City citizens Friday out of tribute to the late George Niedrlng- haus, the city's founder.

Persons in all walks of life attended the ceremonies. the farm weighing pounds less than when he entered. At the time he was highly elated over his slea- derness, saying he had spent term "training down to fight demon rum." Several days later he nearly collapsed and shortly thereafter entered a sanitarium at Battle Creek, Mich. There he was told of T. cancerous growth and advised to undergo an operation.

He sank rapidly, however, and never became strong enough. Shumaker became nationally famous when he was instrumental in obtaining passage of the Wright "bone dry'' law, considered the most stringent prohibition United States. legislation in the THE WEATHER FOR ILLINOIS: Mostly fair tonight and Sunday, nHghtly warmer tonight central and southeast portions. LOCAL TEMPERATURE 7 m. yesterday 50 Highest yesterday 63 7 a.

m. today 44 Noon today 70 Lowest today 41 Sun rises 6:21 Sun sets ASK REHEARING IN GASOLINE TAX CASE (By United Press SPRINGFIELD, Oct. 26--A motion for a rehearing In the case $6,000,000 collected by the state under the invalid two cent gasoline law in 1927 will be filed in the state supreme covet to be passed on 1i the December term, the attorney general's office here was notified Friday. The supreme court in a decision last Saturday held that the money belongs to the state. The payments to the state, the court said, were made under the impression that the law was valid and not under duress.

Since the companies did not purpose returning the tax to the customers who paid it, they are not In equity entitled to relief, it concluded. FALL SENTENCE TO BE IMPOSED ON NEXT FRIDAY May Be From One Day to Three Years, With Fine Up to $300,000 JUSTICE HITZ ATTACKED A Panic Rocked Financial Center of Nation filt Hltcd Oct. 26-Former Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall probably will be sentenced next Friday to im- prisonment, fine and disqualifi-i cation from public office for accepting what'a jury adjudged a $100,000 bribe a of (he I Harding cabinet Sentence may be from one day to three years, but the juiy which found the 68 years old defendant guilty of accepting a bribe from E. L.

Doheny, oil millionaire, unanimously recommended mercy. There is little likhhood therefore that the maximum sentence of threp years and the amount of the bribe--will be imposed. Attack Justice Hitz Fall's lawyers, headed by Frank J. Hogan, planned an attack on the actions of Justice William Hitz, In their argument for a new trial The motion, filed a few hours after the verdict and containing 30 grounds, will be argued Friday. The motion, and an accompanying one for stay of judgment, arc formalities prior to making an appeal to the district court of appeals.

Such motions are almost invariably denied. If they are denied the sentence will be Imposed, and defense' lawyers will appeal from this Judg-. lagged Rocks and Storm Hinder Rescue 31 Men Lake Superior Freighter Driven to Pieces on Rocky Rampart of Island Near Sault Ste. Marie, Sailors Near Exhaustion Photo snapped Thursday in front of the New York Stock Exchange building in Wall street. New York, as police dispelled crowds- following the greatest smash in prices of securities in the nation's history.

More than $5,000,000,000 in paper profits was wiped out as sales reached an all time record of 12,894,650 shares. ANNOUNCE GIANT MOIom Man Is RADIO MERGER ment. Fall First In History remained in seclusion In his hotel suite Saturday, with his wife, daughters and friends, smarting under the ignominy of being the first cabinet officer In United States history to be convicted of a felonv committed while in office. The family planned to leave at once for New Mexico. Fall is reported financially Insolvent, his ranch, improved and enlarged with the $269,000 he received from Doheny tnd Harrv Sinclair, having been sold at foreclosure sale last spring, and purchased by Doheny.

FORMS NEW CABINET Baladler. President of Radical Socialist Party, Succeeds Brland (By United PARIS, Oct. 26--Edouard Dala- dier, president of the radical Socialist party, announced -after a series of conferences Saturday that he was prepared to accept President Gaston Doumergue's Invitation to form a new cabinet to succeed that of Arts- tide Brland, which was defeated Tuesday. In his announcement Daladier saiJ that at 2 p. he formally would accept the invitation without waiting R.

Westinghouse, General Electric and Victor Combine (By United Preit 1 CAMDEN, N. Oct. 26--The Radio Corporation of America, the Westinghouse Electrical Company, the Victor Talking Machine Company and the General Electric Com- in automobile. One of his piis- pany have merged for the produc- oners out of the car before Hotel Robbery (Special to The Herald) CHAMPAIGN, Oct. 26 Glen Nichols, Mattoon, was arrested in Chicago Saturday i on charges of holding up and lobbing the Inman hotel in Champaign some time ago.

Nichols is said to have taken $500 from the hotel safe about 4 o'clock in the morning, kidnaping the clerk and the bellboy and steal- tion and sale of radio equipment. Announcement of the merger was made Friday night by General Jame? G. Harbord, president of the Radio Corporation. He said the combine would become effective Jan. 1.

The merger, one of the most important in the radio industry, will untie the leading manufacturers of radio equipment The central plant will be located here and the general officers of the company will be in New York. E. E. Schumacker, president of the Victor company, will be head of the new organization. it left Champaign and the other was thrown out on the city limits.

COUNTESS SHOOTS HERSELF FOR LOVE OF CHICAGO COPPER FIRST DEATH OCCURS IN VATICAN CITY VATICAN I nitrit Frrii CITY, Oct. 26 -The first death in Vatican City was recorded Saturday when Teresa Defor the Socialist party to decide santis, 76, mother of a Papal civil servant died. Complications result- whether or not it would collaborate with him by accepting portfolios in the new cabinet. The Socialists, under the leadership of Jean Paul-Boncour. who had been prominently mentioned as a possible successor to Briand, announced they would meet Sunday to decide whether or not they would participate in the new cabinet formation.

NATION'S BUSINESS IS SOUND, PRESIDENT ASSURES COUNTRY Villicit Press.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 26--Assurances of fundamental soundness in the nation's business structure given out in two high administrative quarters were expected Saturday to bring about a speedy stabilization of the New York Stock Exchange. The effect of both statements, one reflecting the White House view and Ihc other analyzing business conditions from the standpoint of th-; federal reserve system, was observed in Wall Street. Presider Hoover's opinion that business on a "sound and prosperous basis," reflects the views of treasury officials, who one the day of the crash asserted business is "going along at strong jiressing opinion that stocks would Btabilize and work up again when it is realized that actual conditions are sound. Business Sound "The fundamental business of the country, that Is, the production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis," the President said "The best evidence is that although production and con- sumption are at high levels, the average orices of commodities have shown no appreciable increase and there has been a tendency of wages to Increase and the output of workers in many industiies again shows an Increase, all of which indicates a healthy condition.

"A tempoiary drop In gram prices sympathetically with stock exchange prices usually happens, but as the Department of Agriculture points out, the overriding fact in grain that this year's world wheat harvest is estimated to be 500,000000 bushels less than that of last year, which will result in a very low carryover al the end of the harvest year." No Further Meeting Federal reserve authorities cntly are satisfied that no further action on their part Is needed, for they have held no formal meeting since the day of the break. Recent developments indicate, however, that the board is contemplating cut in Its rediscount rate ir! the rot distant future. Some Washing- Ion brokers brlieve this was presages in the lowering of the acceptance figure Thursday. ed in the removal of the body to a cemetery on Italian soil. The body vas considered by officials as coming from a formgn country and was subject to special laws, resulting in lengthy communications between the tieasury department of Italy and the Vatican City Governor.

MACDONALD'S PARTY EN ROUTE TO ENGLAND (Bf; nltrd Pics': QUEBEC, Que, Oct. 26--Ramsa'" MacDonald, prime minister of Great Britain, was homewaid bound Saturday after thiee weeks on a mission of peace to the United States and of good will to Canada The British premier's party, Including his daughter, Ishbel, sailed at 8:15 p. Fiiday night on the llnei Duchess of York. Bloomington Dentist's Death Continues Mystery (Ry United Pints BLOOMINGTON, Oct. 26--Authorities here were still undecided Saturday as to whether Dr.

Leonard Lockett, 53, dentist, found dead with bullet wound in his head along- feide a highway near Funk's Grove, Friday, was a victim of murder or had shot himself. Dr. Lockett's body was found lying face upward and a revolver with one shell exploded at his feet. He was discovered by O. O.

Atterbuiy, Atlanta motor dealer who was enroutc to Chicago. The hood of his car which was but a short distance away was up and some personal belongings weie found in a grip which rested on the front seat of the car. United CHICAGO, Oct 26-The tragedy of a modern Becky Sharp with the woild for a Vanity Fair was revealed when Mrs Eva Waddington- Greeley, claimant to a countess' title, shot herself to death because a handsome policeman spurned her love Clad in a costly negligee, the body of the strikingly pretty 38 years old woman was found Friday lying on the floor of the living room of her exclusive Glenwood Avenue apartment. A bullet hole was In her breast over the heart A few fret away lay a revolver that htd been given to her by Patrolmen John Maier, 29, for love of whom she killed herself Police estimated she had been dead a week Patrolman Maier. who was questioned by police officials as to his relations with the mysterious beauty said she had told him a romantic tale of her life She claimed to be a descendant of an illegitimate child of an English king a friend of the Prince of Wales and a guest on the Carter expedition which unearthed the tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen In Egypt, Maier declared.

A passpoit found in her apait- ment, issued under the authority of the British government, stamped with the names of out of the way places most parts of the globe. ERRATIC MOVEMENTS ON CHICAGO EXCHANGE (Bit United Prcvs CHICAGO, Oct 26--Eriatic puce movements prevailed in dealings on the Chicago Stock Exchange Saturday with activity on a moderate scale. Changes, however, were small and most stocks fluctuated in a narrow range at about the previous closing levels It was evident that liquidation had run its course but on the other hand confidence was lacking and traders exercised considerable caution In making commitments. Cities Service was still under pressure and last more than a point while Insull Utility and Bendix Aviation eased fractionally STEPS TO DEATH RUSHVILLE, Oct. 26--Hurrying to mail a letter, Mrs.

Anna Thompson, stepped in front of a speeding automobile here last night and was fatally injured. i SENATE TO ACT IN BINGHAM CASE Finance Committee Turns Matter Over to Body Without Comment (fly United Press.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 26--The case of Senator Hiram Btngham, influential Senate Republican from Connecticut who took a $10,000 employee of the Connecticute Manufacturers Association into the secret tariff sessions of the Senate Finance Committee was Saturday cited to the Senate, wihout comment, for any action It may deem proper. A report, refraining from Interpreting the unusual circumstances of the employment was presented by Chairman Caraway of the lobby Investigating ommittee which heard the witnesses involved. In the verbal statement to the Senat, Caiaway asserted the evidence in the case "strikes at the dignity and honor of" the Senate and it will tend to shake the confidence of the public in the integrity of legislation." Caraway said this belief in the committee caused the report to be presented to the Senate.

SI a Year Men The only recommendation made was for adoption of a resolution calling upon Secretary of Commerce Lament to furnish the Senate a list of all the $1 a year men in employ of the depaitment, citing the 1919 statute which the committee contends, made such employment illegal. The action grew out of the testimony of Wuichet, a $3,000 a year clerk of the Manufacturers Association who said he received $1 a year from the commerce department for duties in connection with gathering tiade statistics. (Up United Prtss.) HAVANA, Cuba, Oct. wisdom of Solomon gave way Saturday to blood chemistry as two mothers, a black woman with a white child and a yearly wn te woman with an extremely Deep, Sticky Mud Thwarts Boy's Try for Escape (Special to The Herald) CHARLESTON, Oct. 26 Deep ngmg mud frustrated the attempt Dan Higginbotham, 18, to escape jles county authorities Saturday orning.

Higginbotham had just sentenced to an indeterminate on a charge of burglary and as being taken to the Coles county il when he broke and ran. Bob Scott, jailer, was in'the yard the court house raking leaves Higginbotham raced past him. Scott drew his gun and fired twice in, the air to frighten the fleeing convict Higginbotham raced down an alley way and started across a creek bottom with sheriffs forces in pursuit Across the bottom an automobile was waiting and Higginbotham made for it The mud merely slippery at first became deeper and stickier. Soon he could not go further. Deputies soon recaptured their prisoner and marched him back to the jail.

Higginbotham and Arnold Brown, 19, on a burglary charge, 'will be taken to the Pontiac reformatory to begin indeterminate sentences Sunday. TWO MOTHERS, BLACK AND WHITE, BELIEVE CHILDREN "SWITCHED" dark child, sought to determine whether their children had been switched In the maternity ward of a hospital. Senora Caridad Perez was the first to complain. She told Judge Saladrl- gas that her husband was threatening to divorce her because her child was growing darker every day and was developing kinky hair. On the same day her child was bom, Bernandina Vega, negress, became a mother In the same hospital.

Senora Perez insists the nurse put the two babies side by side and in returning them to their mothers got the children mixed. U. 0 Fl. AND CITY MILK MERCHANTS IN BATTLE BW United CHAMPAIGN, Oct threat of the Champaign County Milk Producers association to Wop its members selling milk to the University of Illinois dairy did not stop delivery of university milk to 900 patrons Saturday morning. The university dairy uses milk primarily for research and teaching purposes the surplus is sold to eliminate waste.

University authorities said the highest grade milk they purchase from the producers costs $3 per hundred, while it Is said the producers' pool price Is $2.66. PRESIDENT OF URBANA BANK ADMITS EMBEZZLING $100,000 (By United Press URBANA, Oct. 26--John H. Thornburn, 51, president of the Urbana Banking Co, was held in default of $200,000 bond here Saturday after police said he had confessed to misappropriating $100,000 in school funds deposited with the Institution. Thornburn returned here unexpectedly Friday, surrendered to State's Attorney Roy R.

Cline and asked that he be given a speedy trial. He refused to explain what be had done with the missing funds, but asked that "friends make no effort to raise the bail money Bank Closed Monday The bank was closed Monday after Thornburn had disappeared while supposedly in Chicago endeavoring to raise funds On his return the president was said to have told police he had no alibis to offer, but war suffering from remorse and wouk' plead guilty at his trial. "I did not intend to run away, I merely wanted time to think the thing over," Thornburn said as he sat in his cell in the Champaign county jail. State's Attorney Cline stated he would not ask the court to reconvene the grand jury until the state bank examiners had made their report which is expected to be by Monday evening. Two Mine Belt Banks Closed Within a Week iBy United Press) BENTON, Oct.

26--Closing of the Thompsonvillc and Benton State banks within a caused excitement Saturday in the center of the Illinois coal belt. The Benton State bank was closed by State Auditor Oscar Nelson while the Thompsonville institution was closed by its directors. Officials of both banks contended there was no connection between the two. 1 United Press.) SAULT STE. MARIE.

Oct. 26--The 31 members of the crew of the stranded steamer Chicago were rescued from Michipocton Island Saturday and are safe aboard the cutter Seminole, radio messages 'received here said. No details of the rescue were con- taihed in the four radio messages that carried he newe of the rescue. By United Press.) SAULT STE. MARIE.

Oct. 26--Thirty-one haggard and sailors shivered in the freezing gales sweeping Michipicoten Island in Lake Superior Saturday while ships held off from the jagged rocks, unable to rescue them. Starvation threatened the men. members of the crew of the package freighter Chicago, according to a radio message from the tug Whalen, which was awaiting a lull in the waves before making another rescue attempt Ship Rocks The Chicago, driven before the furious storm of Tuesday night, rammed onto the rocky ramptfrt of the little island. Seams were opened and the freighter sank, at the stern, submerging the crew's quarters.

Fighting through the icy combers falling over the wrecked vessel, the sailors made their way to shore Capt F. c. Ferret, of Buffalo, stayed aboard until all his men were safe. Reports from the Port of Quebec, an Indian settlement on the southeast side of the island, said one member of the crew stumbled in there Friday, almost dead from cold and exhaustion. His clothes had been soaked by marsh waters and his face and bands torn by brambles 180 to 1 Ounce 'It's one chance in 100 of getting through the way I came," he said.

"Im afraid not many will make it" The Whalen, owned by the Great Lakes Transit Corporation which owned the Chicago, put in at Quebec and attempted to hire Indians to take food and supplies to the men over the nine mile stretch of marsh separating them from the port The Indians declared the feat impossible. Mlchipicoten Island Is about 120 miles northwest of Sault Ste. Marie. It is a wilderness of craigs, underbrush and marshes. Ray of Hope for Ferry Survivors (By United Press.) CHICAGO, Oct 26 Hope thai some of the 52 sailors missing since the Grand Trunk car ferry went down in Lake.

Michigan during the storm Tuesday night might still be alive flared up Saturday and sped searchers by boat and airplane. Four bodies were found Friday night lashed to a nearly submerged lifeboat 45 miles northwest of St Joseph, Mich. The men had died of exposure and not drowning, coast guardsmen said, and they expressed the belief one was alive until Friday. The discovery indicated at least some of the crew of the ferry had time to take to lifeboats and tended to discount the prevalent theory the big craft dived suddenly under the water when its cargo of 27 loaded freight cars shifted to one side. Nine Bodies Recovered This brought to nine the bodies recovered.

Five victims, all of whom had perished by drowning-, were found off Kenosha, near where the ferry went down. Flags on public buildings flew at half mast at Grand Haven, Mich, where eight homes were saddened by loss of fathers, brothers and sons. Public funeral services probably will be held in churches there Sunday for the victims. FORESTERS MEET iBu United Pross ANNA, Oct. 26--Delegations from Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan were in attendance here Friday night at the annual convention of the Ohio Valley Section of the American Society 'of American GUARD WILLIE DOODY AFTER SUICIDE THREAT (By United pT-cis.) CHICAGO, Oct.

Doody, gangster sentenced to the electric chair on charges of having shot afcd" killed Police Chief Charier Levy ol Berwyn, was under heavy guard Saturday after repeated suicide threats. All state's witnesses in the trial also were under guard that Doody'B friends '-could take venge upon them. Foresters. The meeting was charge of the Illinois Foresters. In MINNESOTA FOREST FIRE (By United Press.) DULUTH, Oct 26-- An 'Increasing forest fire hazard in the eastern section of Minnesota north woods was reported here Saturday with 200 rangers and volunteer fighters laboring to chec: three serious blazelf.