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FREEPORT JOURNAL-STANDARD 86th Pages PRB8S AMD (ITBD PRESS. M. B. A. BBHVICB FREEPORT, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1934 ilBMBBR AUDIT BUHBAO OF CIRCULATIONS Price Three Cents DILLINGER STILL ELUDES DRAGNET Instill Touches At Last Port Before Coming Home KILL VESSEL GOOD SHIP EXILONA HEAVILY GUARDED WHILE ANCHORED AT CASABLANCA STORY OF INSULL'S FLIGHT ON STEAMERJIAIOTIS TOLD It Is Gradually Gleaned In Conver sations with Fugitive on His Present Voyage Casablanca, Morocco, heavy.

police cordon was thrown around the S. S. Exllona when she arrived here at 11:30 a. today and her prisoner-passenger Samuel Insull, was not permitted to go to shore. Local newspapermen were kep away from the ship by the police at the request of the Exilona's captain.

The Exilona will sail at 7 p. m. tonight for Boston, returning the former utilities operator to American soil for criminal trial. All morning the ship forged aUng the American coast, through a heavy, rolling sea. Insull, probably the best sailor of all the passengers seemed to enjoy greatly the swell It was a bright, sunshiny day.

BY JOHN LLOYB Associated ITess Foreign Staff (Copyright, 1934, by the Associated Press) Aboard the S. S. Exllona, April, 24 by bit, as the S. S. Exllona bears him homeward to face his accusers, Samuel Insull, has disclosed the story of his dramatic dash for freedom cient tramp steamer' Maibtis from Athens into the eastern Mediterranean.

Extremely reticent at first, he gradually has become more talkative until, piecing together the Incidents he has related, It is possible to reconstruct the adventure in almost its entirety. He Answers' Most Questions His lips have remained sealed regarding the country where he finally decided to seek refuge but, otherwise, few questions have gone unanswered. He reflects back, upon the Maiotls' cruise with an apparent mixture of emotion and memories that are not altogether bitter. His story Is best told In installments as each of the three phases into which the happenings fall has its particular characteristics. The first deals with his incognito departure from Athens; the second is confined to his wanderings at sea in quest of a sanctuary; the third refers to the events which led him into a Turkish jail and later into the hands of American authorities.

Here is the story as told by the white haired old man through the smoke of after-dinner cigars in the cozy lounge of this trim little American steamer, howeward bound by coincidence from a "vagabond cruise," that originally had nothing to do with the adventures of Insull. His Secret Departure From Athens It begins early in the morning of March 14 when the one-time "Little Giant" of the utilities business sat pondering over orders to leave Greece within a matter of hours. No one expected a man in his 74th year, who had been described as in a serious condition from a heart ailment, to resort to the methods that Samuel Insull was at that moment turning over in his mind. Consequently, none of the sentinels on duty was prepared to penetrate the disguise of the man they man whom they were about to see appear as 25 years younger. This fact, Insull decided, would permit him to pass through their lines.

Cosmetics Transform Him Procuring a box of blacking such as women use to touch up their eyes, he set to work coloring his hair and moustache. He worked patiently, and finally accomplished a remarkable transformation. He (Contitaued on Page 111 Spy Gets Five Years At Abo, Finland, yesterday, Arvid Jacobson. 30-year-old University 'of Mlchlgun srraduate was sentenced to five years at hard labor today for participating in far- flung espionage activities. Mrs.

Marie Louise Schul Martin, the central figure of the twenty-eight persons brought to trial, was sentenced to eight years at hard labor. Both lost their civil for ten years and Mrs. Martin for fifteen years. It was charged thtt they had been supplying some foreign government with Information, plans, documents, photographs and charts concerning the Finnish forces. defense COURT FOR SECOND TIME REFUSES TO DIRECT VERDICT OF ACQUITTAL Washington, April For the second time, Justice Peyton Gordon today denied, a defense motion that he Instruct the jury in District of Columbia supreme court to acquit Bishop James Cannon, and Miss Ada L.

Burroughs of a charge of conspiracy to violate the federal corrupt practices act. Attorneys for the southern Methodist churchman, on trial as a result of failure to report all the contributions received for his 1928 effort to defeat Alfred E. Smith for president, made the motion after ill the testimony in the case had been completed. The court also overruled a defense motion to strike out all evidence by the prosecution except of E. C.

Jameson, a New York nsurance executive, showing how IB made his contributions to the anti-Smith campaign. Jameson gave 1 $65,300 for the anti-Smith campaign, but only was reported. The bishop contended the remainder was spent within Virginia and a report was not required under the corrupt practices act. All that remained before the case went to the jury were the arguments and the court's instructions. LE BARON RUSSELL BRIGGS, FORMER HARVARD DEAN, DIES IN MILWAUKEE AT AGE OF 79 Milwaukee, Mar.

Baron Russell Briggs, 79, professor emeritus former dearj of Harvard unl- ersity and former president of Radcliffe college, died here today at he home of his daughter, Lucia Russell Briggs, president of Milwau- Downer college. His death re- ulted from a heart ailment. Science Is Watching Experiment Of Restoring Life to Dead Dog Berkeley, Calil April Science watched anxiously over a sleeping dog today, hoping for a d-efitme indication the animal would regain consciousness. The dog has lain unconscious for ten days in a University of California laboratory, ever since it was asphixiated and restored to life by Dr. Robert Cornish.

Ur Cornish is the man put t-meral dogs to death and restored physical functions but was unable to bring them back to consciousness. He found that the heart, once stopped, could be made to pump blood into the arteries again, but that a diminishing supply of blood finally caused the heart to stop beating forever. In his latest experiment, he Injected a fluid into the dog's veins to supply something for the heart to pump again, with the result that tho dog has remained alive since April 13, and has even given signs of regaining consciousness. Light causes the dog to blink his eyes, Dr. Cornish said, and a fly on his ear causes the animal to twitch.

These signs indicate, the scientist said, that it is not impossible for the brain cells to be restored. If the eye's retina can repair itself, he believes, other brain centers may be restored in time. The dog was fed at first by injec- DISORDER MARKS STRIKES BOTH IN CLEVELAND AND ST. LOUIS IN LATTER IS STABBED AND TRUCKS STONED Meanwhile Efforts are Being Made for Settlement of Railway and Coal Disputes (By The Associated Press) Strike disorders sharpened the capital-labor controversy in the automotive Industry today while negotiations went forward for settlement of the railroad and Alabama coal wage disputes. At Cleveland mounted police restored order among a crowd of 6.00C strike sympathizers who crowded around the Fisher Body company's plant, where about half of the 8,000 employes walked out In a demand for union recognition.

A picket was stabbed at St. Louis where 3,000 workers left their jobs at the Chevrolet Motor company and Fisher body plants asking union recognition. Eight men were arrested for stoning trucks carrying workers from the plants. At Toledo 1,900 automotive workers remained on strike. Trying to Restore Peace The national automobile labor board worked at Detroit to restore peace In the industry, hearing both manufacturers and labor leaders.

At Cleveland gasoline truck drivers joined a strike of 2,000 filling station attendants. Higher wages, shorter hours and union recognition are the demands. Striking employes of the Garton Toy company at Sheboygan, paraded last night after 20 persons, arrested by the police during demonstration at the plant, had seen araigned on charges of umaw- ul assemblage. Police used tear gas quell the outbreak. At Washington railroad labor eaders and executives sough; in a new series of conferences to end the wage dispute.

"May Day" Celebration That Is Different Washington, D. April President Roosevelt was informed of a novel May day celebration parade "in tribute to the satis- 'actory conditions existing between abor and capital." George F. Johnson, of Endicott, York, wrote Mr. Roosevelt about unusual observance to be staged on April 30 by the working people of hat city, Binghamton, Johnson City and Oswego. "This is one feature 'of a May day wrote Johnson, "orig- nated and sponsored by the workers as an expression of mutual confidence in contrast with the usual May day demonstrations of protest and discontent." The white house also received today a resolution adopted by the Laborers-Citizens club of Boston endorsing the adminstration's attitude toward labor and pledging support.

It was signed by Vincent Dl Nunno, president. IN OMAHA EXTORTION PLOT Two "model" freshmen at Crelghton university, Edward Muffltt (upper left) and John E. Flanagan (lower left), who bunglei a plot to extort $1,000 from Mrs. Sarah Joslyn (right), wealthy Dmaha widow, Insisted their scheme was a "prank" as federal officials discussed plans to prosecute them. Muffltt Is a star football and basketball player, Mrs.

Joslyn said she was "sorry for the boys" and would leave their pun- Ishment to the courts. They were arraigned on charges of violating the ''Lindbergh law" and pleaded notgullty. (Associated Prees Photos) Three Brigands Defeated in Bank Holdup Attempt MRS, ROOSEVELT'S BROTHER NEW PRESIDENT OF PEORIA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Peorla, 111., April Hall Roosevelt, nephew of the late Theodore Roosevelt and brother of Mrs. Franklin K. Roosevelt, was elected president of the Peoria Mutual Life Insurance company, The company plans to take over the Insolvent Peoria Life Insurance company, although Ernest Palmer, state superintendent of Insurance, and Attorney General Otto Kcrner announced they would oppose the move.

CHECK FOR $5,000 SOOTHES INJURED FEELING OF ACTRESS Los Angeles, April A check for $5,000 and court costs brought to an end today the breach of promise suit of Marjorle Whiteis, film actress, against Harry Joe Brown, director and producer. Miss WhiteU had sued Brown for $100000 and had obtained a judg- Round Lake, 111., April A quick-shooting bank president and alert vigilantes fought it out with bandits today and thwarted an attempted robbery of the First State Bank of Round Lake. One robber was wounded and capered, one got away In his automobile and the third was believed to be cornered in a lumberyard. The trio walked Into the bank at :30 a. m.

and began firing at random. E. C. Weber, the president, with his wife and Miss Vilah Hart, a were in the bank. Bullet- jroof glass saved them.

Weber grabbed his own gun at the first shot, poked it through an opening in the protected cage and returned the fire. The sound of firing brought organized vigilantes from the neighborhood shops on the double-quick, and as the bandits ran out without a cent of loot they met a rain of bullets. A citizen, armed with a garden rake, accomplished the conquest of one of the robbers. He brought the tool down on the gunman's pate and felled him to the sidewalk. Without attempting to gather up his.

comrades another of the trio started the car and raced away. The third took to tils heels and reached covnr In the lumberyard with a posse on his trail. Round Lake is a small town In the lake resort region of northeastern Illinois, west of Waukegan and ten miles south of the Wisconsin line. The man supposed to be in the lumber yard was later discovered to have been picked up by his companion In the car. The townspeople declare that none of the men resembles any of the Dlllinger gang.

CONFESSESlrr'OOKTART IN ROBBERY Chicago, April Robert Wilson, 32, confessed to police late last night that he participated in the $45,000 robbery of the Bluffs, 111., State bank on November 17 last year. In a signed confession to deputy chief of detectives, Walter Storms, Waukegan Fire Dept. Does Its Stuff For Robin Waukegan 111., April high strung robin got the Waukegan fire department out at dawn today to save his neck. Busily hopping around in search of home building materials, he.lit on a nice long piece of string. Cock Robin grabbed it in his bill and hopped off for the nest.

Navigating that long string was no small Job, and the robin got himself all tangled up in it. When Sam Gordon, a Waukegan merchant, came along he discovered the bird fluttering from one of the topmost branches of a tall elm, the string snarled around its neck, one foot and under a wing. He called the fire department, and Capt. George Ryckman dispatched a ladder truck to tho rescue. Fireman William Worth climbed up and set the bird free.

Cock Robin went back to the business of home building, with mental reservations about the use of string. ment for $5,000 after claiming lie I Wilson also admitted he took jilted her at the end of a 4-year romance to marry Sally Eilors. screen player, last fall. Her lawyer. Whitney Smith, raid a check had been received in payment of the Miss Wliitri.s is to the screen as Marjonc Gay hundred from BiUffK through the mouth.

Fair Tonight; Light Frost The weather forecast for Freeport and Generally fair tonight, with light frost; Wednesday, increasing cloudiness. Sun rose at sets at postmasUT who entered the bank during the robbery. Police said lie adrnltw-d taking part in robberies of banks in Nauvoo and BumskJf, 111 but. refused to include thefc'j in his Mgnnd statc- Wilson was arrcMrd Sunday by police raided apartment and also appn.h£-nrlf-d his Mrs. Eunice Wilson, and her brothers, Henry 32, and John QAIENAM ENDS" LIFE WITH RIFLE Galena, 111.

April 8. Wilheimi, 45. of Galena, tax collector of Weat Galena township, ended High temperature vestcrday, 98,: his life by shooting himself in the lions, but now is being given foodj at phoenix; i ow jz, at Sault Ste.jhead with a rifle. Funeral services Marie I will be held Wednesday, SAY DEMOCRATS DESIRE MORE VOTERS; THEY OUT NATURALIZATION FEES Cost Of Becoming Citizen Reduced From $20 to $10 According To Order Received It may be true, maybe It's merely a jest, but when word was received here late yesterday that the cost of becoming a citizen of the United States hud been cut in half some one remarked "The Democrats want more voters." Now, there may be some who will take tho remark as a joke, but others will consider it seriously. However, the fact remains that the federal government has sliced the foes incident to naturalization from $20 to $10.

Word of the reduction was received at the U. S. district court here yesterday. There is a possibility that thn Democrats are starting tlinlr "last roundup" as many new citizens can be inducted before the next presidential election rolls around. However, the crack about wanting more voters is probably merely a jest.

Since July 1, 1923, fees charged persons desiring to become citizens of tho U. S. totaled This new for for certillcate of arrival has been reduced from $5 lo $2.50 while the fee for flr.st papers lias bec-n sliced from $5 to $2.50. Thr- nmv fee for final papers; will be $5 instead of $10. Naturalization in this area ha.s been taken out of UK; circuit court and persons from Urn dixtnct.

must now make application in (ock-rai court. ELECTIoTOMTmCERS" OF ILLINOIS GARDEN CLUB WILL ALSO ACT AWAITING AMERICAN REACTION TO RKITAIN'S DEMAND FOR EXPLANATION JAPANESE FOREWOFFICE HAS DIFFICULT TASK ON HAND Must Allay British Suspicions and Same Time Avoid Arousing Home Protests (By The Associated Press) World capitals seethed today us reactions to Japan's statement of her Chinese policy, made April 17, continued developing. Not the least Interest was expressed In Tokyo Itself, where the cabinet mot to hear an explanation from Koklo Hlrota, foreign minister Hlrota was reported to have told his colleagues that ho would attempt a further explanation to Washington and other capitals In order to nllay any suspicions of Japanese Intentions In Asia. League of nations circles at Geneva were described as "dazed" by the Japanese stand, This stand was expressed in Geneva by Yuchiro Yokoyama, the Japanese consul general, who described, a policy of Asia for Asiatics under the leadership of Japan," i The feeling In London Monday, that Great Britain should follow whatever lead vjas contemplated by the United St tes in was reported as shifting to ah opposition of any association with nation in dealing with Japan. British government sources said they relieved that the diplomatic Inquiry sent the British ambassador to Tokyo concerning a clarification of the Japanese document would sufficient to smooth over situation satisfactorily, at least as far as British Interest in China are concerned.

BY GLENN BABB (Associated Pi-ess Foreign Staff) Tokyo, April Confronted by Great Britain's demands for ft clarification of Japan's 'statement of March 17 concerning the empire's China policy, official awaited Indication as to whether the United States would suit In a sign of Anglo-American solidarity. Thus far, no evidence has developed In Tokyo that the United States would follow Great Britain's lead. The Associated Press learned that the state department has not acted in that direction. Hlrota's Ticklish Task Great Britain's did not reach the foreign office although foreign office officials were informed of It by Koklo Hlrota, the foreign minister, the task of explaining his policy In such a way (a to appease British suspicions and, simultaneously, the retraction of any essential feature of the statement in which the world was warned not to meddle with Internal Chinese affairs. Such a retraction, it was believed, would be likely to evoke a storm of protests within Japan, Messag-e Received But Not Delivered It was learned that the Instructions sent by Sir John Slrnon, British foreign secretary, were received in the British embassy this morning, but by late afternoon tho ambassador had not yet visited the foreign office.

The cabinet today discussed the China policy, the ministers asking Hirota to explain to them the worldwide hostile reaction to the April 17 statement. According to the newspapers Asahl and Niclil Nichl, Hlrota promised the cabinet that the foreign office would attempt a further explanation to Washington and other foreign capitals to allay suspicions of other powers. No Recession Indicated An outline of tho prospective explanations appearing in Japanese language newspapers, however, in- To Sue For Divorce Gloria Swanson (above), film actress, todny Indicated she would file suit In a California court for a divorce from her fourth husband, F. Michael to whom she wiw married In 1D31. She will charge tnoompatablllty and mental cruelly.

TRAILED BY DEATH (Continued on Page Chicago, April Mrs. Euclid Snow, of Hinscialc, was elected president of the Garden club of Illinois. Ainon; new members elected to the board of directors were Mrs. Williat, R. Bach of Bloomington, and Mrs.

J. Carney of Aurora. MARKETS AT A GLANCE New York Irregular, leaders hesitant. Bonds: Irregular, S. governments advance.

Curb: Irregular, market life- Koreign Exchanges. Steady; dollar up siighUv. Cotton: Easy, May liquidation; weak market. Suyar: Steady; trade buying. Coffee: Higher; Brazilian support.

Chicago Wheat: Lower; liquidating sales heavy. Corn: Easy; shipping demand slack. Cattle: Fairy active, to 15 cents higher, top, $8.25. Hogs: About steady: lop, 13.95. FRANK It CHADWTCK, KILLED! FREEPORT BOY IS RELEASED Death seemed to have trailed members of the Glenn Lee orchestra, which'had been engagement at Dallas, Texas, as they departed from that city, yesterday, according to Associated Press dls- patchesl Early yesterday a car driven ay John Helden, Jr.

Freeport, member. of the struck another machine killing three Dallas persons and young Holden was temporarily on a charge of negll- jent homicide. He was later re- however. Later In the day Frank Goetzenberger, 28, son of Mrs. H.

E. Zugschwerdt, Chadwick, 111,, and a member of the band was killed In an auto crash ten miles east of Glaremore, Okla. He had been riding in the car with young Hclden and other band mem- when the fatal crash took place near Waco, Texas. He then his Journey being to Chadwlck to visit his mother when he met death. When Goetzenberger was killed two other persons were seriously and perhaps fatally hurt.

They were A. N. Banks, 32, driver of an auto convoy, and a youth about 20, named Cliffs, who was riding with Goetzenberger. According to reports of the fatal accident Goetzenberger attempted to pass a gasoline truck when he observed three convoy cars, with trailers, close upon him. Ho tried to steer his machine back onto the right side of the road but failed, striking the truck and the center convoy car.

Besides his mother Goelzfmberger is survived by his stop-father ruul two fitep-slslers. arc being made to bring the body back to Chadwick for burial. CHICAGOAN IS STRANGLED IN STRANGE FASHION Chicago, April his feet only inches from the ground, William C. McFadden strangled to death in the.iron stairway at the rear of his home. A step gave way, and his body dropped through, but his head caught In tho bars.

WHOLE OP NORTHERN WISCONSIN BEING COVERED BY GOVERNMENT MEN MANY BROUGHT LONG DISTANCE TO TAKE PART IN SEARCH Oc.M>ll« DlllliiRor's Luck, Skill and Nerve, Officers Feel He Is Near Last 8 In nil BULLETIN St. Paul, April mysterious midnight rnld on an. Ellsworth, Wis.i oil station by three desperate men who kidnaped the proprietor todny Intensified the search for John Dlllinger mobsters in the twin city area. Mercer, April Through the wooded wilds of the north country, freshly white with snow, an army of determined men Hunted big game Dlllinger, Crafty as a fox and ruthless as the wolf that sometimes prowls the bush-snarled timber lands of northern Wisconsin, the gunman from Indiana continued to elude one of the most extensive manhunts the northlands ever have known. Think He's Ncarlng; Last Stand "Dilllnger luck" was holding; but the feeling was strong among the hunters that John killer, bank robber, highwayman and Jail very close to his last stand, Tho government had nearly' 100 picked men on the Job.

Some of them drafted from points as far distant ns Philadelphia and Washington. Many airplanes dropped from the skies, bringing reinforcements, The department of Justice men were tinder orders to shoot to kill. The sentiment was openly expressed that Dlllinger dead would be more desirable to'the forces of law than Dilllnger alive. The memory of tho outlaw's latest government agent slain as blasted way from a tavern near here Sunday to encourage tho officers to take any chances, heavily armed desperado and his gang of criminals. 'Either In Woods or Twin Cities Dilllnger was believed hiding today either In his northwoods or to have In one of several hideouts he Is believed to have prepared In the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St.

Paul. The casualty list from Sunday night's two gun fights remained two dead and four wounded, with the condition of one of the wounded men critical. The belief that Dilllnger may be In one of the twin cities arose after tho skirmish which three men had yesterday with three deputy sheriffs in St. Paul Park, a suburb of St. Paul.

One of the men Is believed to have been Dlllinger. Yesterday's Skirmish Tho deputies, who hod been guarding tho roads In the search for the Dlllinger mob, exchanged shots when they encountered the trio In a small automobile bearing Wisconsin license plates. Here again fortune smiled on Dilllnger it was. A lumbering truck, coming In from a side street delayed the deputies' machine Just long enough to permit the trio to escape. One of number, however, was believed to have been wounded.

Bloodstains were discovered In the trio's car when It was found, abandoned. There were also rumors that the Dlllinger gang, which apparently split into two groups after the Sunday night gun fights near Mercer, lost another man in the gunfire in tho Wisconsin woods. The rumor iad It that the victim's body had 3Peii carried away in the which some Investigators believe the (Continued f2) Fourth Marriage Mistake, Thinks Gloria Swanson, So Plans Divorce New York, April Swanson and her fourth husband, F. Michael Farmer, have reached a parting of the ways, and the movie actress plans an early divorce. "I have thought about the matter for a long time." Miss Swanson said, "and I have dcndod our marriage a mistake." She and Farmer, Irish sportsman and broker, were mamed in 1931.

They have one child. Bridget Michaele, born in London in 1032. Miss Swanson said would seek a divorce in California on grounds of incompatibility and mental cruelty. Recent Hollywood reports have linked the names of the actress and Herbert Marshall, but Miss Swanson ridiculed the suggestion of a romance with Marshall. In her dressing room at a Broadway theatre, where she is appearing, the screen actress told of her fourth marital rift.

"Michael," she eaid, "belongs in one world and I belong in another. I have my work and I like to do what I am doing. "Ho has just returned from ft lovely yachting trip to Norway, and I hear I hat lie intends to take a trip around the "How nlt-e that Mr. Farmer has so much leisure. I am glad he Is enjoying himself.

For my part, I have obligations and it's up to me 10 tako care of them. That is why 1 am hero working," Farmer is now In Paris with their child. Husband Had Not Heard Pans, April 21 Michael Farmer said today he had not heard Gloria Swanson was CQU-? sidering filing a divorce suit, but admitted he Ls remaining In France. The Irish husband of the American film star added sadly: "In the mavis world, something always seems to happen whea husband and wile are.