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The Jacksonville Daily Journal from Jacksonville, Illinois • Page 5

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CAPONE GIVEN YEAR IN JAIL From Page One He was allowed to cat nap on a cell bench until breakfast when he was given the usudi The two men then were taken before the grand jury, indicted and taken into court. The police'moves were so swift that Bernard L. Lemisch and Comellous Haggarty, counsel for the men, had no time to seek court writs for their release or halt the men in the rapid march to the bar of justice. When Capone and Cline faced Judge Walsh and were asked how they pleaded they stood mute and the court clerk, in accordance with law, recorded It took only 44 minutes to select a jury, counsel for Capone then was given thirty minutes to confer with their clients. At the end of the recess.

Lemisch held a 15 minutes side talk with Judge Walsh. and then to the surprise of the spectators, counsel for the oners announced that each pleaded guilty. Judge Walsh instantly sentenced the two men to one year in the county prison. Capone made a lengthy statement to the director in the presence of Inspector of Detectives William Connelly, Superintendent of Police Mills and Assistant Director of Public Safety Theodore F. Wood.

The interview took place between midnight and 2 a. m. Director Schofield told of the talk after Capone had started for pnson. had one of the most interesting talks on the racket in the United States with Capone. Capone was in a reminiscent mood and seemed to be at the point where he was anxious to be at peace not only with gangsters but with the serious elements of life.

In a quiet, gentlemanly manner, he told me that he was on an errand of peace when the Philadelphia cops grabbed him and put him in a cell. king of racketeers told me that it was at his suggestion that the leaders of the Chicago gangsters were assembled at Atlantic City to discuss a peace pact. story which Capone told me was tins: went into the racket in Chicago i four and a half years ago. During the last two years been trying to get out, but once in the racket you're ways in it. It seems.

The parasites trail you, begging for favors and for money, and you can never get away from them, no matter where you go Loves His Children I have a wife and an eleven year old boy I idolize, and a beautiful home at Palm Island, Fla. If I could go there and forget it all. I would be the happiest man in the world. I want peace and I am willing to live I and let live. I'm tired of gang murders and gang shootings.

With the idea in mind of making peace among the gangsters I In Chicago, I spent the week in Atlantic City, and 1 have the word of each of the men participating that there shall be no more shootings Chicago Officers Laugh Chicago, May (A loucl laugh of gratification went heavenward from law enforcement circles today at the news of the skillfully greased Philadelphia legal skid which landed boozedoms Alphonse Capone, behind the bars with a year's jail sentence pinned to his lapel. i The conviction, the first of Its kind returned against big in nearly a decade of terrorization, was 1 gleefully pointed to as the beginning 1 of the end of his power in the underworld here. There was little comment on "Scar, face" story of having effected a gangland truce at Atlantic City. Ca; pon? has sued for peace before but there is no in gunman land. Takes Rap Smilingly It was believed the champion booze runner had "taken the smilingly, glad to evade for a while rival gangsters who have been threatening his life and to escape the constant payment of graft to which Capone is subject.

He will have no need of expensive body guards, either, in Phila- i delphlas jail. "This is the beginning of the end of Al opined the veteran prosecutor, Frn.nk J. Loeach, who is president of crime commission. tKtacso cketeerri believe his idea has been for some time to get into a jail where he will be safe from rival gang vengeance in store for him. people wonder why we in Chicago have not able to send notorious gangsters to iail with such dispatch.

It took them just sixteen hours in the Quaker Cf.y. our state supreme court has ruled that a police officer cannot search a man for a gun uniess he has a warrant, and it he does so the man arrested is discharged because his constitutional rights have been violated. Fernandes Beauty Shop Permanent Wave with two Shampoos and two resets We successfully wave over an old permanent, bleached or dyed hair. Newly installed Textome- ter. Three test curls given to enable us to tell the condition of your hair and what treatment, it should receive.

Over Shoe Store Experienced Operators Telephone 1577 Jacksonville ATURDAY MORNING, WAY 18. 1929 AUKSONVILLE DAILY JOURNAL, r'AUbi HVE Marathon Dancers at it Again; Flag Pol Fes ers, Too HUGE AIRSHIP LOSES BATTLE AGAINST GALE Continued From One the iirst day but aftrr engines went bad it was impossible to keen up cooking and today the lunch was a cold one Most of us thought this morning that we would be able to get back to Germany but. we met strong winds aeainst which the ship had to struggle again and the fart that only one motor was worklnc during the after- n'xm made this impossible. 'H ere never was anv doubt among the crew and passengers, however, but that Dr would bring the ship tafely to rest. Fven before we landed, Dr Eckener had said would be a ouestion of only ten or fifteen davs before he would have new motors installed and would start again for Lakehurst.

Send New temporary re- hH thpn flv HarV tn -hit Dr Eckener had not beer, ed that new motors wore bem" sent to Cuers from Germany, which msv cause him to change his plans' Diring the afternoon our commander maneuvered the ship skillfully in order to take advantage the that helped to push it down Cuers. As soon as we landed most of uf in automobiles which the French kindly provided for all aboard midnight more than half of those whn were aboard the Zeppelin were in bed here in Toulon. But Dr. Eckener and the under him. as well as --ome member? ANNOUNCE PLANS FOR AIDED NIGHT FLYING Cleveland.

May system of national airways interconnected by radio and interspersed with adequately lighted landing fields will, in the future, insure safety for passengers, although flyers never will completely conquer darkness, dense fog and storms. That was brought out Thursday at the first national airport convention here. To function fir adequate safety, airports must operate night and day and work with accurate instruments to determine winds, temperatures, air pressures, ceilings and other information vital to saie flying. W. H.

Gregg, senior meteorlogist of the United Sttaes weather bureau, said. By the middle cf the summer the department of commerce plans to inaugurate a system lor forecasting weather reports prepared every three hours at 200 to 300 airports to be broadcast every hour to plants, each of which will be required to carrv a radio receiver. F. C. Hlngsburg.

chief DECLARE WAR ON NEW LYING CLUBS Safe At 'en inis struggle nc.wied on ove nea The crippled rhij five motors work in hela from a third, to bei tnce More beiore he air jarush 18 passengers crew again pi above which certainty thn The landln m. easterr than 33 and one-half the had nosed from Friedrichshafen a course ftv Lak-hurst, hours later, after an unusua Dr Hugo Eckener. cor with the loss of two motors, his ship back home irom the Coast. Galp Wins Brittle The to win passage Rhone Valley against, the from the northwest failed and Dr. Eckener decided on a landing here It was nearly dark when the ship appeared.

Lieutenant Salmon, commander of the airdrome had assembled soldiers, sailors and riviUflns hours before. They drew the ship down and within half an hour the passengers, one bv one, descended to the ground from short ladders raised to the cabin door. The mayor and most of the doctors of this village of 3,000 inhabitants were at the field, the passengers needed no medical aid. Dr. Hugo Eckener was the last to leave the car.

He turned immediately to thank the French officials, who with others all up the Rhone Valley, had stood by throughout the day to give him aid. Even the female gorilla was brought out of her compartment. The animal seemed to have suffered more than the human passengers. Cuers-Pierrefeu is the center for air defense for the fortified city of Toulon, one of the great French naval bases. has an aviation school with hangars for both airplanes and dirigibles.

The commandant of the naval district, as soon as the distress of the Graf Zeppelin was apparent, ordered preparations for an emergency landing. Troops were rushed to the field by motor trucks from Hyera, Frejus ana Toulon. While the Zeppelin was hovering over this town the French air ministry received a telegram from the man- ment of the Zeppelin society at Luawigshafen saying for ycur good service and help during the pest POLITICS IN KANE COUNTY BEING AIRED hicapo Illinois Avia izafion to wa TSP ft Society, cn win Gr of Aviation, i ty, and Capta messy, Hawks Greer ent of the W. Gorby. Trust and 3, is vice md the di- irious cities i J.

ie Clue ago Some Starch. (Continued From Page One.) sailed the judge for taking an active part in politics while on the bench. Judge Hewhail acknowledged making campaign speeches for George Car- i bary. successful Republican candidate for state's attorney, but denied that was boss and that there was a political machine dominating the; county. Tffoe Accuses Judge The Chicago legislator endeavored to show that Judge Newhall controll- L'tion of a grand jury by the county board cf sup- rrvisors which picked the jurors.

Igoe i also sought to show that the board of supervisors appropriated the fund for the dry investigation of the state's I attorney. In eddition Igoe asked why Judge Newhall had not used his judi-! c.al powers to clean up Kane county without waiting to support the candi- dacy of Carbary who ran on a clean-' up platform. Judge Newhall said his powers were not sufficient and the Cjrperation necessary was not forth Urch of Kane county 111 2 committee the county was' that Judge Newhall was dry and 2 Carbary had a dry plank in his Replying to questions by Urch said Judge Newhall dominated the Republican organization of Kcounty. Urch said since Carbary toak cii'icc last November the Sheriff 3 office had made no dry raids except on warrants issued by the Carbary Testifies. Carbary he had begun his campaign following his nomination and that batween the time he was elected on November 6 and took office December 8.

he conducted a.d he had made a pledge le to clean up the county and that he intended to fulfill his pledge. Carbary said he had no knowledge of the fatal De King raid until after it had been carried out. He said the grand jury which investigated the raid and killing did not ask i him for recommendations regarding the case of Deputy Sheriff Roy Smith who shot the woman, but asked him his opinion about her husband, Jos-1 eph De King. He said he recommen-1 ded no charge be made aeainst De-1 King because he had been "punished enough. ids.

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Wood is used nowadays most decoratively, fpr ons for tailored frocks, for frames of new purses fashioned of summer fabrics and for belt and pump buckles on sports thines. One Hundred small lacks Can be made better than IG ONE Well, be long now. It's another dance a and one. according to Milton D. Crandall, who staged a similar marathon in New York last year to the tunc of f.120.000 box ofiice receipts beiore the Health Department stepped in and stopped the show.

Terpsichorean champions of last event were left to right: Tommy Nolan and Anna King and Alga Christensen ard Jimmy Scott. Lower left you see other contestants dining afoot. And it alone a dance marathon, either. Kelly, right, shinned up to the top of a 50-ioot pole, promising he come down until the last dancer was carried off the floor on a HILLS BROS COFFEE nd roasting coffee as Wills Bros fezo pounds at a time by a continuous process, results in a flavor that bulk roasting never had ills ros offee Inc. 461 West Erie Street Chicago, Illinois more vou can control the cooking of those small flap jacks with more exactness it you fry them a few at a time.

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