Globe-Gazette from Mason City, Iowa • Page 2

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1942 MASON CITY GLOBE-GAZETTE they fired on us and they had to be killed," Hoover explained. Lanthorn, (he FBI director Mid, was one of the most clous and ruthless criminals in country. He was a thief at 12. and at 15, while haud- cuffed, be swam a swamp and trota police. His left was paralyzed from bullet The captures began at Minne- --apolis on Dee.

lli with Matthew Nelson, a -JO year olci lifer who over the Joliet wall fWith Touhy. After the gang hnd "holed up" -4n Chicago, Nelson went out and drunk. When he came in, -Hoover said, the gang "pistol him--the worst punish- Zjnent a man can take." They beat 1 -him into a pulp with the butts barrels of their guns as a -lesson not to endanger them again "by his predilection tor liquor. -C After that Nelson and the gang and Nelson went to -ilinneapolis, where he was cap- -tured in a hotel sleeping peacefully with a pistol under his pil- -low. Hoover did not say so but he left a clear implication that Nelson, recalling his pistol had given clues which led to the gauf cleanup Tuesday.

William Stewart, like Nelson a lifer at Joliet, was cap- i. lured in Chicago on Dec. 19. I. Hoover's account of the gang's activities, began on Dec.

27--nine days after the capture of Nelson. He said the gang rented two north side apartments a mile apart. his account of the two in which the other five mem- bers of the mob were accounted Hoover disclosed that had been found in the Bangbart-Touhy hangout. This was believed to be the proceeds from holdups perpetrated since the prison break. Police had reported that a i-woman named Mary Block was taken with the mobsters but -Hoover refused to confirm this.

Hoover shook his head when asked 8 this could be May Blalock Banghart of -Knoxville, Banghart's wife. Hoover said "the gang's cleaned up" but there may be arrests of persons helped them evade capture. He said the federal government wasn't interested in the Stateville break, a state matter. job is done." he said, except for the inquest!" -Hoover said he would confer with Attorney General Francis and with J. Albert S.

district attorney for North- 5rn Illinois, on the disposition of the five desperadoes taken alive. Hoover said he believed all would be surrendered to Illinois authorities for return to state prison, except Banghart who probably would be placed in a federal penitentiary to serve 36 years for mail robbery. indicated Tuesday that Touhy. Darlak. Steivart.

antT Nelson probably would be sent back to (he state prison at Joliet because the sentences they were serving there were greater than any they could receive for draft evasion or other federal offenses they incurred since their escape. FBI men said they were surprised the way Touhy had aged, despite his peroxide curls and the bright red pajamas in which he surrendered. Hoover said he was shaken and relieved not to been killed." Touhy mob which was broken up Tuesday was not the that terrified Chicago in the dry era but FBI men said the band of cutthroats and thieves Touhy and the Owl recruited in prison was just as dangerous. O'Connor and Mdnerney had been under surveillance for some time, in hope they would lead the agents to Touhy and Banghart. On Sunday the trap was prepared.

The agents told the Bat- taglias they were going to make the will be some Almost Captured Here When British eighth army forces surrounded German army units at Marble Arch in Tripolitania, a London story- reveals that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel narrowly escaped capture himself. The Marble Arch, named after a London landmark, is pictured above as British armored 'cars raced through it in pursuit of the fleeing army. shooting," Mrs. Battaglia quoted the agents. "Certain apartments must be vacated." Residents were asked to move from the apartments on either side and beloiv the one occupied by O'Connor and McInerney.

The agents moved into the i-acated apartments early Monday night. It was known the two fugitives usually left early in the evening and when (hey did. the hideout itself was occupied as was the washroom di- reclly across the hall. At i with agents shadowing them, O'Connor and Mc- lnerney returned. When they opened- the door of their apartment, they were confronted by three agents armed with pistols and sub-machine guns.

"You're under arrest," one of the G-men said. The fugitives ran toward the slairs. Agents immediately began shooting and fired about 12 shots. The two dropped dead on the second floor landing. O'Connor, who had escaped from prison twice before, had been serving a one year to life sentence for armed robbery.

Mc- Inernej-, a safe blower and bandit, was serving a life sentence as an habitual criminal. Touhy and Banghart had been sentenced to 99-year terms for the 570,000 kidnaping of John (Jake the Barber) Factor in July, 19S3. In the prison break. Touhy stabbed Jack Cito, another inmate, commandeered the garbage truck which Cito had been driving at the prison grounds, and then forced guards at gun-point to help load the truck with ladders, which were used to scale the prison wall. On their way over the wall, the convicts shot and slightly wounded Herman Cross, tower guard, took the keys to Cross' car and a tower exit.

Once outside they took the guard's car and flfd. Touhy. now 45. was one the shrewdest'and toughest mobsters of Chicago's prcibition era. His gang rivalled Al Capone's in i 'A I 1 dppewionce id MODERNIZE Are you having any fun? Are you going to a party? December and January are the months for parties, proms, dinners and festivities! Your wardrobe must contain one "dress-up" suit that will be right for any event short of strictly formal.

Your Dad used to coll them "Sunday Suits" but we call them modernized STERLINGWORTH dress suits. 6 power and at one time it controlled the north side bootleg liquor and saloon rackets in Chicago. With his brothers. Tom and Edward. Roger Touhy the "Terrible Touhy sang." They turned to gambling and kidnap- ing in post-prohibition days.

Tom later was arrested and is serving 23 years in Leavenwonh prison for a Minneapolis mail robbery. Edward dropped out of sight and it was rumored in the underworld thai he Mas dead. Roger Touhy was supposed to have been the brains of the gang. So well did he direct his mob's fortunes that for many years they escaped arrest, and until :934, Touhy himself never was convicted of any crime. In 1933 he was tried for the kidnaping of William Hamtn.

wealthy. St. Paul brewer, but won acquittal. The next year he was tried and convicted of kidnaping Factor, wanted in England on a $7,000,000 swindle charge, and holding him for $70,000 ransom. Factor testified against him and after being convicted, Touhy swore to kill him.

Banghart. 42, was Touhy's machine gunner. Known as "The Owl" and "The Killer." he was ruthless and cruel. Between the time of Touhy's capture and conviction, Banghart was known to have committed a 5105,000 mail robbery at Charlotte, N. Car.

He of Factor's kidnaping. POLICE HUNT RABID DOGS Hunt Extends Over County in New York NEW CITY, N. (U.PJ-- Police with high powered rifles began Hunting dogs Tuesday in an ef- Twenty or more persons and 50 animals have been bitten by mad dogs recently, and. although many infected animals have been killed, cases of dog bite steadily increased. Persons who have been bitten have been warned they must immediately seek treatment, and owners of dogs have beeri told to have their pets inoculated and keep them muzzled.

WALLACE BACKS WORLD ECONOMY Some Believe Talk Is "Trial Balloon" A I President Wallace's proposal for a world council after the war to direct a planned global economy a a viewed in some ressional quarters Tuesday as possibly a "trial balloon" for Prcs- i Roosevelt's a ress to congress on Jan. 7. Wallace, who was known to WALLACE have consulted with the president while preparing his speech, said in a broadcast commemorating the birthday of Woodrow Wilson Monday night that the new freedom for which Wilson fought was "the forerunner of the Roosevelt new deal of 1933 and of the worldwide new democracy which is the goal of the united nations in this present struggle." "The task of our generation-the generation which President Roosevelt once said has a 'rendezvous with destiny'--" he said, "is so to organize human affairs that no Adolf Hitler, no power-hunffry war mongers, whatever their nationality, can ever again plunge the whole world into war and blooshed." Senator Wheeler Mont.) promptly commented that the people of this country must put a stop to "bureaucracy and regimentation" or face the prospect losing their democracy. Some senators declared postwar program makers should be chary about drafting- a detailed blueprint for the peace until they know what kind of governments and men they will have to deal with at the conference tables. Wallace said that "obviously the united nations must first have machinery which can disarm and keep disarmed those parts of the world which would break the peace." He added that "we must make absolutely sure (hat the guilty leaders are punished, that (he defeated nation realizes its defeat and is not permitted to rearm.

"The military disarmament will have to be backed up with psychological disarmament--supervision or at least inspection, of the school systems of Germany and Japan, to undo so far as possible the diabolical work of Hitler and the Japanese war lords in poisoning the minds of the young." Also necessary, he said, was "machinery for preventing economic warfare." "Probably there will have to be an international court to make decisions in cases of dispute." Wal- in ctisus 01 Qisnuie i a r' TMl a nvictai A an international court presupposes some kind of world council, so that whatever world system evolves will have enough flexibility to meet chang ing circumstances as they Without well planned and vigorous economic reconstruction, he said, a series of economic storms would follow the and temporary scarcities, followed by surpluses, crashing prices, unemployment, bankruptcy and in some cases violent revolution." He suggested that the United fort to stop a rabies epidemic. The hunt extended over most of He suggested that the Unite the county. Most of the dogs they slates could provide "guidance souaht (o kill worr- formor nofc technical advice and in some case: sought to kill were former pets. opposition "high tariff, penny pinching, isn lationist policies." Wallace pi- posed an exchange of "posl-wm 10:15 KCWS surpluses for goods, for peace and Memorable Music for improving the standard of liv- I ing of so-called backward pco- 5 and pies." Clarence Slettens Celebrate Silver Wedding Anniversary SCARVILLE Mr. and Mrs.

Clarence Sletten were guests of honor at a silver wedding at their home Sunday evening. Members of the immediate family and the bridal party of 25 years ago were seated at the wedding table which was appropriately decorated with silver and pink streamers and silver candles. White cards on silver bells served as placecards. Mr. and Mrs.

Sletten's four children, Mrs. Russell Noorlun of Kiester. Robert of Binford. N. Delmaine and Beverly at home, and one grandson, Lylc Slctten, were all present.

Mrs. Lu- Vcrne Anderson. Rosella Rogness and Lu Vcrna Nelson served the dinner which was followed by a short program and the presentation of a gift of money by Harry Larson of Thompson. Mr. and Mrs.

Sletten were married at Emmons Dec. 24. 1917. with Mrs. Andrew Rogness of Emmons.

Alfred Rogness of Joicc, Mrs. Miter Nelson of Scarvillc and Harry Larson of Thompson as attendants. convicted on charge. World Council Ureed AIR YA LISTENIN? VXVTHHWH. I Crowded Month." Airs Tundo KGLO-CBS' annual news nroerram.

r. 1 news program, "Twelve Crowded Months," will be broadcast Tuesday from 8 :30 to 9 :30 p. surveying world events over the last year. The network's 9 -f famous news analysis and re- 3 0 I Tuesday P. M.

4:00 St. Louis Matinee. CBS Bernje. WrigLey Gum. CfcS CBS 5:1.1 Symphonic Lawrence We Ik's Orchestra World CBS News of the Nation.

P. G. A. E. Hany CBS North American Insurance 0:05 KGLO Forum Sports Camera Let's Prctead 1:30 Memorable New! of the World HiUD Burns and Allen, Swan Soap, CCS Twelve Crowded Months, CBS 9 34 Public AJfairs.

CBS Treasury Star Parade Evening News Roundup, Firit National Bank Benny Goodman's Orchestra, CBS Xavier Cur Orchestra, CBS I Pits, News, CBS ll.flj Jan Savin's Orchestra. CBS Eddie OtchCstci. CBS CMW Press News, CBS 12:05 Sijn Oft Wednesday, Dec. 30 Dawn Patrol, Markets 6:15 or nine News Roundup, Globe-Ga- icUe Car jill Prod acts Program Bible Radio Chapel Keep TimeVlth Damon's Today In Oage Morning Bible Kev, Prince Clear Lake on Ibe Air MorniiiE Concert Cheerful LitDe tiiy House Children, Wonder Bread CBS Decker DffCilp Jacob Decker and Sons Waltz Time for Today 10:4,1 Home Town lofra Shoe Brokerage 11:00 Kale SmJtb Speaki, General Foods. CBS Myiltry Game Farm Front.

Markets 12:13 Him and Front Pape Morcaln 12:43 Modern Home Physician Xovatones 1:00 Young IJocier Hxlonc, General Foods CDS Accent on Music 1:20 We Love and Learn. General Foods, CBS Caesar Pelrillo's Orchestra, CBS American Spirit 2:15 Sint Along. CBS Philippine Celebration, CBS Press CBS Raymond Orchestra. CBS Golden Gate Quartet. CBS Mountain Music, CBS St.

Louis CSS Ben Ber'nie. Wrijley Gum, CBS .1:00 Music Roth Memorable Music S. Service .1:15 The World Today. CBS ol the P. 7.

A- Harry James. Chesterfields. CBS North Insurance KGLO Forum Sports Camera --W Nelson Eddy. Old Colds. CBS 7:30 Dr.

Christian. Chesebroucb, CBS Organ Interlude 2:00 Arkansas TraFcler. Lever CBS Mayor vT Ihe Town, Lever CBS 9:04 Great in Mule. Celmnese CBS 9:30 The Man Behind the Can, CBS JOrOW Eveninr News Ruanda? Benny Goodman's Orchestra, CBS Kv'10 Guy Lombarda's Orchestra, C1JS lino Press News, CBS 1:05 Bobby Sherwood's Orchestra. CBS 1:30 Nei! Dondi.hu Orchestra.

CBS Press News, CBS ::05 Eir.i OH porters will be heard in the one hour show giving highlights in the news of 1S42 the United States' first war year. Rita and Gracie Making a Cinderella girl out of glamorous Rita Hayworth is the amazing feat attempted by the unpredictable Gracie Allen on the "Burns and Allen" program Tuesday on KGLO-CBS from 8 to ":30 p. m. Gracie deduces that anybody with the 16-cylinder attraction of a Hayworth must be neglected by the boys because they think Rita is dated up at least six months in advance. To correct this sad state, Gracie appeals to the chivalrous Bill Goodwin, who has the mistaken idea that Gracie is still trying to pair him off with Tootsie (Horse.

Face) Sagwell. The pay-off comes at Geoi-ge's suggestion when Rita is inducted into the "Beverly Hills Uplift Society" on the assumption that her social standing will be improved IE she casts her lot with this gabby organization. "Music Makers" Harry James and his "Music Makers" broadcast the first of their three programs this week Tuesday from 6:15 to 6:30 p. m. Besides featuring James on the trumpet.

Songstress Helen Forrest comes in for her rightful share of the limelight on each program. tit REP NETTCOKK NBC Kllocjclt, WEDNESDAY I Morris 5:4:) Pop Stover's Ganc 6:00 Heaven and Home Familiar Melodies Farm News 6:45 Jerry Zelrfa 7:00 Alex Dreier. News Time to Shine 7:30 News 7:45 Uncle Stan niOO Edith Dunham Webber 8:15 Austin at the Organ 5:30 Clifr ontl Helen Aunt Jenny 9:00 Old Refrains O'Neills 9:30 Help Mate 9:45 Lxme Journey 10:00 Hoad of Ule 10:13 Vic and Sade Snow Village 10:45 David Harum 11:00 Judy and Jane TUESDAY EVENING 6:00 Sundown Serenade News of the World News 0:00 Fob Hope 3:.10 Skcllon 10:10 Victory Tune Time. 10:15 Nc News 11:45 Music: War News 12:00 Swing Shitt Matinee REVOKE RATIOV BOOK ADEL, (iP--The Adel rationing board has revoked Ihe Rasoline ra- i 114 tion book of Paul J. Houston, on truck-load lots soybeans farmer, after Houston had been which was put into effect here to a reckless driving relieve a storage space shortage last fall, has been lifted.

LIFT SOYBEAN EMBARGO DBS 3MOINES, (if)--An embargo Friendly Help Algerian native Arabs joke with British troops while showing them the way to the Maison Blanche airdrome. An entire British army, under Gen. Kenneth Anderson, landed in Algeria and is battling the nazis in Tunisia. Let's Pretend For the 10th consecutive year on "Let's Pretend," Nila Mack presents her original Christmas drama, "The House of the World Tuesday on KGLO-CBS at 7 "The House of the World" is an allegorical play and has won so much acclaim that it is now a fixture for the holiday season on Nita's "Let's Pretend" program. Sen.

Norn's Speaks United States Senator George W. Norris, the Nebraska independent now retiring after having served his state more than 30 years in congress, speaks over KGLO-CBS from the scene of a singular public tribute in New York on Tuesday from 9:30 to 9:45 p. m. Senator Norris is guest of honor and principal speaker at a dinner given him in the Commodore hotel by a group liberal organizations. i Philippine Program A special Philippine program in commemoration of Rizal day is presented over KGLO-CBS Wednesday at 2:30 p.

m. with Dr. Arturo B. Rotor as guest speaker and Enya Gonzales, soprano. and Rodolfo Cornejo, composer- pianist, as soloists.

The Columbia concert orchestra, Bernard Herrmann conducting, is heard on the same program. Dr. Jose Rizal, executed by the Spaniards in 1896. is revered as the foremost Philippine patriot and martyr. Dr.

Rotor, a distinguished physician of the Philippines, has been serving as secretary to President Quezon and to the cabinet since the arrival of the Philippine government-in-exile in Washington. Post War Problems Discussed on Forum Hush M. Gilmore, president of Cerro Gordo Friends of Li- and former Mason City superintendent of schools, who returned a year ago from California, will speak on the KGLO Tuesday from 6:35 to 6:43 p. m. Mr.

Gilmore will discuss some post-war problems, usinc as his subject, "What Are We Fijhlins For?" Bedlam I whistles and the sirens of fire cni Sines shrieked in a mad bedlam in west Detroit Monday night as a spectacular fire swept part of i Michigan Central railroad round house. At least' 12 locomotives, some steamed up already to puff out into service, were damaged. Twenty-four pieces of fighting equipment, answering four alarms, fought the flames for an hour before gaining control. With the FBI taking part, an investigation to determine the cause of the fire was being conducted Tuesday. Railroad i cials said they had discovered no evidence of sabotage.

Where Dorian Was Shot The administration building in Algiers, where Admiral Jean Francois Darlan was assassinated, is pictured above. The slayer of the former Vichy leader was executed almost immediatelj'. Gen. Henri Giraud, acceptable both to the Fighting French and to the French in North Africa, has been chosen as Darlan's successor. Says Jury Should Have Seen Show NEW YORK, jury that convicted three heads "Wine, Women and Song" of presenting an indecent show should have seen the revue in the flesh first.

Supreme Court Justice J. Sidney Bernstein holds--and the trial judge should have gone, too. The fact that they saw no evidence beyond the spoken word and some gestures by witnesses led. Justice Bernstein to grant motion tor a certificate of reasonable doubt staying execution of a six-month jail sentence imposed on Isidore H. Herk, producer.

Said Bernstein: "Whether a play is decent or indecent may depend on the reaction of the person who sees the play in the surroundings in which it is exhibited. There may be a vast difference between a bare description in words of what has been said or done upon the stage and an actual view of the performance. "It may sound improper in the dialogue of the courtroom and appear innocuous in the atmosphere of the theater or vice versa. "Whatever it may be, the description cannot, however, equal the performance in accuracy and comprehensiveness. It cannot constitute the best evidence in the case." The defense had wanted the jury to witness the show, but General Sessions Judge Owen W.

Bohan ruled that descriptions provided by witnesses would have to suffice. Stripteasers Margie Hart and Hoe! Toy, stars of the revue, were called as witnesses but had to testify strictly with words. (Miss Hart broke her ankle bock home in Kansas City Christmas night when she fell down some steps in darkness.) Convicted with her were Samuel Funt, company manager, and Herman Shapiro, stage manager. They received suspended sentences. The certificate of reasonable doubt was granted for Herk pending appeal from his conviction.

KILLED IN CRASH CLAREMONT, U.R--En- sign Lawrence M. Knoring, Dorchester, was killed when his training plane crashed and burned as he tried to make a forced landing near here late Monday, SWAN WHITE flOATWs SOU KGLO at 8 p.m. ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT TO TRADE OFF THAT OLD SUIT OR OVERCOAT You Can Get For It in Trade, NOW You'll Never Get That For It Again 450 GARMENTS TO CHOOSE FROM 5 25 35 40 Allow- Mow- Allow- Allow- once once 2J 28 3J BETTER MOVE IN AHEAD OF CLOTHING RATIONING Onr First Aim is to Please You 109 South Federal Mason City, Iowa.