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i i I T. A I f. OF i North Iowa's DAILY PAPER Edited for the Howie "THE NEWSPAPER THAT MAKES ALL NORTH IOWANS NEIGHBORS" HOME EDITION VOL. XL IflVE CENTS A COPY ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE SERVICE MASON CITY, IOWA, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1934 THIS PAPER CONSISTS OF TWO SECTIONS SECTION ONE NO. 245 DILLINGER "PUT ON SPOT" BY WOMAN DEATH TOLL FOR IOWA HITS 31 AS HEAT CONTINUES Even 100 in Mason City but "Not So Warm" on Tuesday.

Iowa's death toll for the weekend and Monday reached 17 Monday afternoon, swelling the total since Thursday to 31. Hundred degree temperatures continued throughout the' state. Mason City had an even 100 degrees but the weather bureau forecast not so warm for the west and extreme north portions of the state Tuesday. The reading was 107 at Ottumwa at 11 a. but at 1 p.

the temperature had dropped to 105.5. Clinton reproted 103; Iowa City 104; Council Bluffs 100; Charles City 100; Fort Dodge, Des Moines, Waterloo and Dubuque 102. Many Heat Prostrations. Numerous heat prostrations also were reported in various sections of the state. Frank Fredin, railroad brakeman, collapsed at Dubuque.

Monday's fatal victims included: Ernest Steere, 40, who had said he was from Audubon, died in the city jail at Clinton. Louis Noonan, 50, of Clinton, was found dead in his bed Monday morning. Henry Unkel, 64, of near Muscatine, died in the Decatur hospital Huefc' Pettit, 50, -and. Henry E. -Xienau, '65; at: Davenport and Michael Gira, 91, and Frank Hammond, 70, at Dubuque.

Wayne Thomas, 13, son of Ben Thomas of Northboro, drowned in the West Tarkio river. Nine More Victims. Those who died Sunday were: Jens Christensen, 86, of liar- lan; Dr. S. D.

Folsom, 47, of Muscatine; Charles Brown, 45, of Alto Pass, 111., who died at Muscatme; Hueh Pettit of Davenport. Jacob Mickalsky, 79, of Des Moines; Henry E. Lineau, 64 of Davenport; an unidentified man found in a street intersection in Des Moines; Einer Carlsbard 40 of Whiting, who broke his neck when he dove into shallow water in the Missouri river; Marjorie Blake, 15 of Altoona, who drowned at a new Des Moines bathing beach. The total of lives lost in the na tion mounted to at least 300. With even more severe temperatures predicted, all sections paid-the cities with lives, the country with livestock, ravaged crops ana failing water supplies, Heavy Crop Damage.

A survey of drought damage from the Mississippi to the Rocky mountains showed thousands of cattle lost, thousands more given up at forced sales, and crop losses placed at hundreds of millions of dollars It was 107 in Aurora, 111.. Sunday- Springfield, sweltered at 105 Minneapolis 104, St. Louis 102 Omaha and Chicago 101. The heaviest loss of lives was Missouri, where 76 have died from the heat. Illinois has forfeited 66 lives, Nebraska 41, Ohio 15, Kansas 12 Minnesota 11, and Texas 10.

Iowa's State Liquor System Pays Its Own Way Forest City Businessman Shoots Self Threatened Suicide as Sale of Beer Was Refused. FOREST CITY, July )lson, 37, local clothing merchant, led at 8:25 o'clock Sunday morn- ng after shooting himself in his partment over the clothing store. According to an investigation made by Sheriff J. F. Johnston, Olon got up about 3 o'clock in the lorning and went to Hawkes hotel purchase some beer.

Clarence Hawkes, proprietor of the hotel, old him beer could not be sold on unday. Made Threat at Hotel. "Well, I might as well shoot my- elf," Olson told Hawkes, accord- ng to the sheriff. Then, according to the sheriff, Hawkes returned to the kitchen of is apartment and shot himself. His wife was in another room of the apartment when this occurred.

The sheriff said that he learned that when Olson left his apartment early in the morning, he was unable find the key to get out and had mashed a glass panel in the door. Married Second Tune. The shot entered his body about wo Inches below his heart. A cor- hearing was scheduled for this afternoon. Olson 'had two children by his first wife, -wfib is now living; "in He had no children by his present wife.

The clothing store was establish- by his father, W. A. Olson, many years ago. His father is now deac nd the son operated the clothing store for-the past seven FORECAST IOWA: Generally fair Monday night and Tuesday, not so warm in the extreme northwest portion late Monday night and in the west and north portions Tuesday. MINNESOTA: Generally fair Monday night and Tuesday, except local thunder showers this afternoon or tonight In east portion; cooler Monday night, except in extreme southeast and slightly warmer along Lake Superior; cooler Tuesday in south portion.

LOCAL STATISTICS Globe-Gazette weather figure, for 24 hour period ending at o'clock Monday morning: Maximum Sunday 101 Minimum in Nisjht 76 At 8 A. M. Monday 85 Figures for 24 hour period end tog at 8 o'clock Sunday morning: Maximum Saturday Minimum In Night 101 77 Sfctvrday's maximum hit a high for July--equaled again Sun day--and Saturday night ranked a the warmest -of the month DAKOTABATTLE STARTED ANEW Quorum in Senate May Leac to Special Session's Carrying On. BISMARCK, N. July 23.

(IP --Battle and strife began anew in North Dakota's political life today when the legislature, a week-end iruce ended, met once more in con inued extraordinary 'session. Eyes of two factions turned in quiringly toward the senate where establishment of a quorum may re suit in the special gathering carry ing on indefinitely, although con to orders of acting Gov. Ol H. Olson, who still refuses to look upon the meeting as a legal one. Decide on Procedure.

Scheduled to reconvene at 2 p. m. today, the house expected to hea from its committee appointed de cide upon procedure in impeachmen action. Appointment of a committe to investigate trial and conviction federal court of William Langer ousted governor, is expected to fol low quickly. Factional whips in the senate sai they believed they would possess majority of 25 members.

It was un derstood that strenuous efforts ha been made over the week-end bring in hold out senators. Olso supporters doubted if the Lange group would be able to muster sul ficient strength to give them their claimed legality. Nye Target of Attack. U. S.

Senator Gerald P. Nye wa the target Sunday of Langer at political rally near Judson, 30 mile southwest of here. Addressing approximately 2,00 farmers, with their wives and chi dren, Langer cried: "If charges graft by Senator Nye are so tru why doesn't Olson call a special ses sion of the legislature to invest gate? Why delay? He can call th present assembly into continue special session, appropriate fund and really investigate the so-calle charges. "That's what should be done, stead of all this newspaper talk. Review Message.

Langer reviewed his message the legislature given before the join session of the two houses Saturdaj The gathering concluded with appeal for funds from State Senate A. F. Bonzer, for the Lange defense fund. Approximately 400 responde Langcr's men said, with collection ranging from three cents to being dropped in a tin bucket men. women and children.

URGE ARMY AIR CORPS WITHOUT PEER FOR U. S. 3aker Report a i Young Officers Who Carried Mail. WASHINGTON, July 2S. JB-'he world of aviation read with agerness today a report of the war epartment's special committee urg- ng an army air corps without a eer.

Secretary of War Dern placed his tamp of approval on the report, asked quick addition of 1,000 ew planes to bring the corps' trength to 2,320, The report was tade by a committee headed by Newton D. Baker, former secretary war. "The next great war," it warn- "is likely to begin with engagements between opposing aircraft, ither sea-based or land-based, and arly aerial supremacy is quite ikely to be an important factor." Oppose Unified Force. The board opposed a unified air orce as a "serious error" and un iconomical; blamed congress foi not supplying more funds to the army air corps; praised "the young officers who carried the airmail' but implied criticism or their equipment and training. James famous flyer filed a.

minority report urging unified air force. The report is expected to be assistance to President Roosevelt's aviation committee. This board headed by Clark Howell, is em- iarking on an extensive survey of American aviation in general. Airmail Operation. Following is the summary oj airmail operations under the air orps: Trips scheduled, trips com- ileted on schedule, trips not on schedule, 841.

Causes of delay: Bad weather, 446; late trains, 16; mechanical rouble, 39; mail not ready at post- iffice and working mail, 111; wait- ng connection other routes, 223; miscellaneous, unknown, ac Trips partly completed, 571 Causes of noncompletion: Accident bad weather, 424; stop order, 5 mechanical trouble, 10; no pilot, 10 miscellaneous, 130. Canceled Mail Trips. Trips, canceled, 664. Causes of cancelation: Waiting connections weather, 618; mechanical, no lot, combined with other routes suspension of route, no plane stop orders, no mail, 11; no flying, 13. Percentage of trips completed 65.83.

Percentage of trips completed on schedule, 37.3. Mail poundage (total amount flown) 777,389. Mileage scheduled to he flown, 2,120,291.. Mileage of scheduled trips flown, 1,590,155. Hours scheduled to be flown, hours of scheduled trips flown, hours of scheduled trips not flown, 5,738:06 actual hours flown carrying the mail, 14,108:37.

SUMMARY OF REPORT WASHINGTON, July 23. (UP) --A summary of the Baker report on army aviation: While civil and naval aviation in the United States leads the world, army aviation is behind. Congress and the budget director have contributed to the situation by failing to supply funds. Army and navy aviation should be retained as components of their respective branches. The army air fleet should be built up to a minimum of 2,326 planes.

There should be a larger ratio of combat planes to other types. The aviation industry should be encouraged by government orders to provide a nucleus for mass production in wartime. The government should not attempt to build its own planes. Army flyers should be given at least 300 hours of flying each year instead of the 150 to 250 now allowed. Flyera should be given training in instrument and blind flying and flying under hazardous conditions.

An aviation policy should be decided on and maintained for a "reasonable" time develop morale. Temporary promotions should be permitted for air corps officers. There should be a closer understanding of problems and joint training between ground and air forces. FIGURES BASED UPON BUSINESS FOR ONE MONTH 18 Stores Show Profit and 9 Now Operate With Loss. Dillinger, Leaves to Claim Body of Slain Son Insists on Gving With Undertaker on Trip to Chicago.

Epidemic of Typhoid in Parts of Poland Latest Flood Result WARSAW, July 23. of typhoid fever in some section of Poland were reported today as drinking water was polluted and 200,000 were estimated nearly destitute because of the floods. The threat of a typhoid epidemic throughout the flood area caused apprehension while Warsaw awaited with fear a fourth flood crest moving from Cracow down the Vistula river. The known dead already number 240. The lack of drinking water is pressing because the rivers have been polluted by corpses.

GLACER PARK. July 23. William F. Faber. 74, presiding head of the Episcopal church of Montana, missing since Friday night from Two Medicine Chalets, was found today drowned in Paradise creek.

Trucks Move in Minneapolis as Truce Is Ended Pacific Coast Longshoremen Vote on Arbitration of Strike. MINNEAPOLIS, July 23. (JP-Employers conferred while awaiting Gov. Floyd E. Olson today as guarded trucks of food stuffs moved unmolested by cruising automobiles filled with sriking truck drivers.

Simpltaneously the employers' advisory committee, planning to meet later in the day with federal mediators, the Rev. Francis Haas and E. H. Dunnigan, announced that of 25 trucking firms with 286 employes, only 50 of the workers had not reported for work this morning. 236 Back at Work.

Of the total number 236 men reported for work, the employers said, in response to letters sent them last week that today would be the last day they would be taken back and assured of permanent employment. Reports had not been received, the committee said, from the remaining 141 firms. Meanwhile Chief of Police Michael Jones Johannes supplied two armed police convoys of 20 men each for vehicles loaded with groceries. Talks With Mayor. The governor arranged to meet with Mayor A.

G. Bainbridge and Adjt. Gen. E. A.

Walsh and the two federal mediators today. They expected to confer with the employers' committee and attempt to get the truck owners and the strikers at a joint conference in an effort to settle differences hinging on demands for higher wages and wider recognition of the union. One man was dead and 67 others, all but a few suffering police buckshot wounds, were recovering from injuries as 500 guardsmen, fully armed, moved into the downtown armory from the fairgrounds on the outskirts, ready to snuff out any further violence such as that of last Friday. Vandalism Breaks Out. SAN FRANCISCO, July 23.

UP)-Acts of vandalism broke out here today in the streetcar men's strike as Pacific coast longshoremen began balloting on whether to submit ali controversial issues to arbitration. A protest against the presence of national guardsmen at the headquarters of the Internatiooal Longshoremen's association, whose strike May 9 gradually led to the genera walkout, was voiced to President Roosevelt's labor disputes board. Longshoremen's officials said the soldiers hurred to the voting place when some 3,000 stevedores ap peared to cast their ballots One man was injured and four other persons were endangered when streetcar was wrecked at the north end of Polk street. Police said vandals apparently had greased the track. The motorman lost control.

DES MOINES, July 23. state operated liquor store system is paying its own way, with anticipated net profits for one month of 521,695 on a gross business of $183,050, the Iowa liquor control commission estimated in a profit and loss statement today. The commission criticized Mississippi river cities for allegedly continuing to patronize bootleggers and indicated liquor prices may be lowered somewhat if a larger volume of business is obtained. The figures are based on a hypothetical month's business, estimated on experiences in operating 27 stores for periods from five to 24 dfiys. Eighteen of the stores now in operation, the report revealed, are operating at a profit.

Nine are losing money. Profit and Loss. The profit and loss statement indicated: Estimated average monthly estimated cost merchandise, $120,815 estimated gross profit, estimated to tal expense (all overhead) $40,440 estimated net. prof it, -These Commission Chair man Harold Mi Cooper said, indicat a markup from the wholesale pric of 32.96 per cent on sales in th state liquor stores. The markup Cooper said, includes store overhead 12 per cent, warehouse and central office, overhead 10 per cent, profit 10.96 per cent.

The profit and loss statement did not include revenue from sale of permits and licenses, which would have added thousands of dollars to the profit side of the ledger. The permit revenue was not included, the commission said, because it desired to make the statement a record of merchandizing. Permit Fees Separate. Inasmuch as the permit fees are collected annually, they will be reated as a fund separate from the iquor sale revenue. The stores losing money are Carroll, Decorah, Manchester, Keokuk, Tort Madison, Burlington, Muscatine, Clinton and Dubuque.

Pointing out that all but three of stores losing money are along the Mississippi i opposite Lllinois, which has privately operated liquor stores, Chairman Cooper said: "The fact that our stores located in the so-called dripping wet river counties are losing money indicates our repeal friends who voted so heavily in the election last year, are still patronizing the bootlegger. Challenge to Law. "We accept this situation as a challenge to law enforcement. It is a keen disappointment to this commission, ana we not intend to I am warning every one of these river towns that our law enforcement department is going to give special attention to this condition at a very early date. "This commission will cheerfully close its stores where there is gen- (Tnro to 3, Column 2) MOORESVILLE, July 23.

UP) --John Dillinger, left today for Chicago to claim the body of his slain son. Although ill from indigestion and sick at heart the father insisted on riding in an undertaker's ambulance which he engaged to bring back his son's body. The 70 year old man was accompanied by E. F. Harvey, the undertaker; Hubert Dillinger, half brother of the slain desperado, and Everett L.

Moore, publisher of the Mooresville Times. Plans Funeral Rites. Before departing the father made entative arrangements for holding uneral services Wednesday at the Maywood home of Mrs. Aubrey Hancock. John's sister who cared for him many years after the death of his mother.

The Rev. Charles M. Fillmore, a retired minister of the Disciples of Christ church, was requested to conduct the funeral services. Buried Near Mother. The father also planned to bury his son's body in Crown Hill cemetery in Indianapolis by the side of the mother who died when Dillinger was a child.

Dillinger, and Mrs. both said they had been "expecting something like this to happen to OF SLAIN GANGSTER AT MOVIE HELD Name of Who Gave Tip Never to Be Made Known. CHICAGO, July 23 Dillinger lay dead in the county morgue today, put "on the spot" by a woman. Federal operative aided by a group of officers from East Chicago, and Chicago detectives, shot and killed the arch public enemy as he left a small neighborhood theater with two women late last night. Three bullets from federal guns snuffed out his life almost instantly as the desperado darted down an alley seeking shelter from the leaden volley.

His women companions were held ncommunicado by Chicago police. Went With John. The "finger woman" was reported have gone to the cinema on dangerous John's pistol arm, but to have tarried behind as he sauntered from the lobby to his tryst with JOHN W. DILLINGER, SB. Johnny," and in the next bre'ath strongly upheld him as a peace loving young man who turned on society only after he had been given a "raw deal." I).

OUT TO GET FACE' NOW George Nelson Moves Into No. 1 Position Among Nation's Badmen. WASHINGTON, July 23. four and a half months' nationwide search for John Dillinger over--at the cost of an agent's life and thousands of dollars of government funds -the department of justice set out with renewed vigor today to cap- who last Ja.n. 25 captured I ture a new "public enemy No.

1," the desperado in their home" George "Baby Face" Nelson, before his escape n-om the Crown' Point jail. The officers were in Chicago visiting the World's fair, when they heard Dillinger had been killed by federal agents. Men Who Captured Dillinger Look at Body of Gangster CHICAGO, July 23. men who captured Dillinger looked at his body early today and remarked: "He can't get away this time." They were Chief of Police Dallas Ford and Capt. J.

Smith of Tucson, Search for Author of Threat Notes to Des Moines Women DES MOINES, July 23. UP)--Local police today were searching for the author of a number of threatening letters which have been sent to Des Moines women during the last 15 months. Police said lives of the recipients have been threatened unless certain trysts were kept. Nelson, alias Lester M. Gillis, moved into No.

1 position among America's badmen when special agents of the division of investigation shot down the Indiana outlaw as he emerged from a Chicago movie theater last night. "He was just a yellow rat that the country may consider itself fortunate to be rid of," said J. Edgar Hoover, director of the investigating division. "There are other rats still to be gotten, however, and we are not taking any time off to celebrate about Dillinger." Hoover named Nelson, henchman of Dillinger and reputed slayer of W. Carter Baum, federal agent, as heading the list of desperate criminals yet to be "gotten." The others for whom special search is being made, he said, are John Hamilton PLANNING ESCAPE CHICAGO, July 23.

Dillinger, according to reports current today, was planning his biggest escape when federal agents found and killed him last night. The desperado was trying to procure a. fake passport, police were informed, which would have let flee the intended "to gfetaj South America, in view of his known ambition to retire from crime and become a rancher there. AT LEAST 16 DIE IN BUS ACCIDENT Ride to Flaming Death as Machine Plunges Over 40 Foot Bank. OSSINING, N.

July 23. (tf-- At least 16 persons--men, women and children--rode to flaming death in a big motor bus yesterday, and the burned and twisted wreckage was searched today for more bodies. The bus, carrying more than 50 persons from Brooklyn to a scheduled baseball game at Sing Sing prison, plunged wildly down a sharp hill in Ossining, dove off a 40 foot embankment and burst into flames as it landed in a lumber yard. Blazing Gasoline. Sheets of blazing gasoline shot in all directions from the vehicle's exploding fuel tanks.

The flames raced over two square blocks of lumber and coal yards and ilcoks. Twelve seared bodies were removed as soon as the fire could be nnrn it, I'ae-fi 3. rnlnmn 1 Briton at Iceland on Ottawa Flight REYKJAVIK, Iseland, July 23. UP)--John Grierson, British flyer, arrived here at 3:30 p. m.

Iceland time (11:30 a. m. EST) today, after a flight from Londonderry, Ireland, on his way to Ottawa by the north route. and Homer 1 ieutenants. Van Meter, Dillinger DILLINGER SLAYING IS MAJOR NEWS IN PAPERS OF ENGLAND LONDON, July 23.

killing of John Dillinger, American outlaw, was prime news today in England, itself interested in three of the most killings in its recent history. Although the lateness of the hour caused the story to miss most morning newspapers, first editions of afternoon papers blazoned it under screaming headlines. Reports that 250 had died in the American heat wave were pushed far into the background by the news that Dillinger was dead. He was described as "the man for whom all America has searched." death just two hours and four minutes later. No comment came from authorities on the subject of who would receive the $5,000 award offered by the United States for information leading to the desperado's apprehension.

It appeared that on one would receive the the government placed on the fugitive's head. The federal agent who fired the shots heard around the world is ineligible by regulations to receive the bounty. Morbid at Morgue. Meanwhile a. morbid legion, numbering more than a thousand, eddied about the morgue.

Hous-swives, cab drivers, policemen, camera men, eager girls and countless other persons strove to obtain a glimpse of the shattered hulk of what once was America's number one marauder. "The bullet that killed Coroner's Physician Jerome announced, "was the one that entered the back of his neck right at the shoulder, ripped through into the head, cutting the spinal column, (Turn to Pane 3. Column 3) EASY TO SWIM! 3 KILLERS BREAK PRISON IN TEXAS Desperadoes Blast Way Out, Scaling Walls in Hail of Bullets. HUNTSVILLE, July 23. --Three desperate killers who blasted their way with gunfire out of the death house at the Texas state prison, were at large today.

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