The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 1

PROBE MELON RAID SLAYING A II R. Nebraska: Partly cloudy cooler tonight; Thursday fair, cooler in extreme southeast portion. Lincoln: Partly cloudy and cooler tonight; Thursday fair and cofiler. THE LINCOLN STAR Best Newspajziee For Police Call B-3321 Fire Alarm B-2222 ome EDITION TWENTY-NINTH YEARLINC OLN. WEDNESDAY.

SEPTEMBER 16. 1931. EIGHTEEN PAGES THREE CENTS CN (iBFATTR riVK CRVTS F.1.SKWHKRB MOYLE AND ALLEN FOUND SAFE ON ISLAND INQUEST WILL BE HELD IN DEATH OF LINCOLN FIGHT COLLEGE VIEW BOY TO GET SUSPECT inkier Qlum As Arrives Here For rial MISSING FLIERS BELIEVED ABOARD PACIFIC STEAMER IS SUCCESSFUL Gangster Denies Taking Part in Bank Robbery Year Ago Thursday. EXPRESSES DESIRE RE LET ALONE' Everett Wixson, 18, Slain While Fleeing After Group of Eight Youths Invaded Watermelon Demands Anderson, 17- Year-Old Farm Hand, Declares He Fired at Tires To Stop Truck. With parents calling for prosecutions C'ouniy Attorney Max tl.

'Powle Wednesday morning moved ahead with plans for an imjuest into the slaying Tuesday uight of Everett Wixson, 18, College View high school senior, during a raid on a watermelon patch at tin' H. Johnson farm a mile and a (juarter of the Veterans hospital, Anderson 17. West Lincoln, farm hand employed by the ton train Wednesday morning un- gaigster exposed hh face for a moment. At left Is'llal Koberta of the lUinois state police and Johnson.H and (leorge Johnson, 21, of John II. Johnson, are in the county jail.

Anderson, authorities say, confessed readily to firing the shot which killed Wixson. Among the score or more of wit- Towle Denies Prisoner Will Testify Against Tommy (V('onnor. A.S Gus Winkler, St. Ix)uLs gangster, stepped from the 9.05 Burling- lest Your Knowledge an you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to page 8 for the answers. 1.

Who said Is the last refuge of a 2. What is the average height of men in the I'niled States? 3. Who is Will II. Hays? 4. What pmition in the iiited States government is held by William Mitchell? .5.

Is a naturalized eltlren of the I nited States eligible to the vice presidencv? fi. Who l.s Frederick M. Sack- I. What continent is the home of the blaak race? 8. Who is ('hannlng Pollotk? 9.

What is the form of government of Slam? 10. Who was the third presi- dent of the I nited States? nesse.s who are to testily at the tnquest, lor 7 Thur.sday evening at Castle, Roiwr and Matthews mortuary, the other College who accompanied Wixson on the fatal to the melon patch, the second raid during the evening tor five of the boys. Wlx.son. son of Mr and Mrs. Kibus Wixson, 4623 av- was slam a.s the eight boys took to flight when they were at the out.set of the raid hv Anderson and who were guarding the pafeh.

died almost instantly, numerou.s fine fired from a .12 "uage shotgun lodging in hi.s Ilemands Prosecution. The father the youth and also iwrent.s of other of the hova Wednesday morning voiced indignant demands tor the prose- rutum nut only of but also of young John.son and the latters father. know my boy wa.sn’t to Mr Wix.son declared. wa.s coaxed into going to the patch He never ran around with I hone boys liefore. F.xerett wa.s dres.sed in hts school ciothe.s and borrowed a pair of trou.ser.s from the nunham boy before he would siiiuie ai i wiui.v-.sc-^'«*« iniuries go with them because he wa.s street.s will be laid next Sunday at- Rlmrelv Ir der heavy machine gun guard, local officers realized the successful conclusion of a bitter struggle against repeated efforts to prevent hi.s being brought to Lincoln for trial on the charge of being a participant in the $2,500,000 robbery of the Lincoln National Bank Trust Co.

Lacking one day, return rame exactly a year a iter the morning when -six bandits invaded downtown bank, forcing employes to lie uixm the floor while they rifled tills and vaults of a fortune in currency and bonds. Winkler return was le.ss rolorful than the reception given Thomas OConnor, Jack Bntt, and Howard Lee, other bandit suspects, when they were u.shered in on the same morning tram approximately four months ago. Lincoln residents did not know the exact hour of the by Rucklin August Winkler, center, the fourth suspec to be brought to Lincoln for trial In the 52,500,000 Lincoln Natiaial Bank Trust robbery, was extremely shy of cameramen when he and his guards arrived here Wednesday morning irom St. Joseph, Irh. The photo above was snapped when the notorious ga.igster exposed his face for a moment.

At left Is Hal Roberta of the Illino at the extreme right is Koy of the Cook eounty staff. BEGIN INQUEST PAHERSON CASE Officer Believes He as Gun I'sed By the Slayer. Arrest May Follow If His Suspicions are rLATTSMOinH. Neb. Sept.

15 iTl jury today ad- FRANK MARSH IN RACE AGAIN FOR STATE SECRETARY Frank Mar.sh, of state, filed Wednesday morning a.s a candidate for re-election, seeking the republican nomination, Mr. Marsh is now his third term as secretary of state, having come into office in 1927. He had held no elective governmental offices previously, either the state or his home community, Norfolk and Madison county. His ts the first filing for I lary of state made for the April primaries next year. STATE INVESTS CASH IN BONDS Cornerstone For Bonacum School To Be Laid Sunday gangster's arrival and the crowd at journed without reaching a verdict the station contained few more than on the murder last Saturday of a hundred Patterson, 77, Cass county Dressed In Style.

I and at Rook i Like the trio of bandit suspects Bluffs, Another session was schcd- first captured. Winkler presented a uled lor Saturday. appearance at the Depuiy Sheriff Pat Reed he; dre.ssed as he wa.s in an plnnncd to take the bullet which expensively cut and recently tailored Kihcd Patterson to Omaha today lor suit with modish hat and shoes Ronald i match. Wearing spectacles as a re- McDonald, ballistics cxjiert of the BAND WILL GIVE TWO CONCERTS armed hoys who don't know how to handle guns goardino his field tCoutmiied on Page BODY IS RECOVERED Floats to Surface AVhere Unattended Yacht Was Found. suit of the automobile accident in police department.

He said Michigan this summer led to gun from which his capture, the gangster appeared, haUi olr fired, and that if the 4 nevertheless in aoori liealth and said examination bears out his The cornerstone for Bonacum in- hat li hS alSt recovered fSm make an arrest, at and recovered irom was pre.sented to show i. out about four mmuU's after murdered Mark Furlong, Rock Bluffs resident, A A I when young Pat- HIIJ ti'rson left. son. Walter. 1.

ImRl Jldkj ite.stified he passed the about TT 7 nunutes after Robert Patter- MUCH LIVESTOCK I Suspicion Removed. Mark Furlong testified that when Bass Says Action Taken Because Banks Asking: 1 Per Cent Fee. Institutions Outside of Lincoln To Act As (Mearins: Houses. Anncuncmg purcha.se of $1.200,000 in government bonds, State Treasurer T. W.

Bass Wednesday morning declared he had not seen fit to change his mind on the bank service charge i.ssue for state funds. The tieasurer his been willing to sign agreements for the state to pay a service charge of one-half of 1 per cent oq state funds on de- nosit, but banks have been holding out for 1 per cent, the maximum Seattle Coast Guard Receives Message to Frances Bresson, Fiancee of Moyle, Signed Declaring Aviators Found Safe On Uninhabited Sent from Steamer Department Notified By Admiral Campbell. SEATTLE, Sept, coast guard received a report today that Ocil A. Allen and Don Moyle, ('alifornia aviators missing more than a week after a tran.s-I'acific flight attempt from Japan to Seattle, are safe. 'ITie coast guard here re- ceivetl a Irom the naval radio on St.

Paul Island in Bering sea to Muss FTani es Bresson, liancee of Moyle at Riverside, California Hers Found Safe. TliP message the fliers had been fiamd safe on an uninhabited island No details were given in tiie early reports. Several ye.s.sels of the coast guard have (oinbing the Aleutians westward of their base at Dutch Harbor. and Moyle left Samusluro beach, northern Japan, on Monday of In-st week on an attempted nonstop llight to Seattle They were about one hour alter they left Tokyo but were uiuseen after that. They were due in Seattle a week ago today.

Sent From Buriat. Captain D. Hinckley, commandant of the northern divusion of the coast guard, said the mpR.sage was sent from the steamer Buriat through the St. Paul station whicn relayed it to Cordova. Alaska, and thence here.

The me.ssage was signed he said, and told Miss Bres.soa the fliers wTre on the island and tContinued on Page Ten ie THK WFSTIII'R. It it LINCOLN. Sspt. 1931. it it Forecast lor toniint and Thursday, it For Lincoln and Vicinity Partlv cloudy and cooler fouighi, Thursday it fair and coo it it For Nebraska Partly cloudy and dr cooler tonight; Thur.sday fair, cooler it In extreme southeast portion.

it it For K.tnsa.s Partly clotidy, cooler dr In west and north poriions tonight, it Thursday somewhat unsettled and not so warm. it it it it The temperature during the past it 34 hours .1 p. 4 5 7 8 9 p. 19 Up 12 midnight la tn 3 a 77 78 78 77 74 72 73 74 74 78 79 80 3 a 4 a 5 a 8 a 7 a 8 a. 9 a 10 a 11 a 12 1 p.

2 79 it .78 it 78 31 .77 Wind veloeitv at 12 30 p. today, 15 miles par hour, dr W'eather throughout stale at 7 a today, clear aonfh and south- west cloudy to partly cloudy else- 3 where 3 3k it Higliesf temperature a year ago 3k or Kood had no btisincss having up.vtiay. The corncrstonr service will (Continued on Page mans left the Plays Thursday Afternoon And Evening. Lincoln music lowers will hear the allowed by law. outstanding military concert band Purcna-se of the bonds.

Mr. Bass of the world, when the U. S. army followed receipt of an opinion band, known n.s Own. will play at 4 and at 8:1.5 Thursday fi'oni the attorney general holding afternoon and evening at Epworth such a cour.se legal when approved 31 todsy, 75, 84 3r 3k it it 3k 3k 3k 3k 7 on A 13 30 nrv Bulb 77 95 Wet Bulb 8ft 74 Re! Hum 51 38 Sun and Moon, Sun 8 08 m.

sets. 8 35 Moon rises. 11 48 m. Moon sets. 9 08 m.

JURY (IBTAINEB TO TRY EBSENS begin at 4 clock. UiKhop Kucera will lay the stone and will deliver an addre.ss afterwards. All Catholie pastors Lincoln will take part in the service. Children of the Cathedral school will the national anthem and other patriotic airs, AIRS. ROBIN REID SUFFERS INJURY TO HIP IN FALL Special to The Star HASTINGS.

Sept. 16 -Mrs. Robin Reid of Lincoln is a patient BAY, Y. Sept. 16 the Mary Lannlng hospital here The body of nenjamln Col- suffering Irom a hip injury.

The hngs. Stamford, retired n- rniLT le.s ot her hip were sprained gmter to the surface at a fail She was received at the Lllovds neck Ixmg LJand. at 6 20 htxspital Tue.sday afternoon and is HI; hands being attended by Dr. George Pin-jm northeastern Nebra.ska since the Tuesdov to attend the funeraLser-1 and were Dound. There was ic-y.

Her condition is much Improved outbreak of the dlsea.se la.st fw Patter.son. Burial was an imury to nis ad Dr. H. Felstner. state Rock Bluffs cemeterv, one ol ilhngs tKMly ill ur- Judge and Mrs.

Reid were arum, announced Wednesday a oldc.sl in the stale. Veterinarian Estimates the ughts were on. Search for a young Rock Bluffs From 850 to 900 i about the time of the murder, has Killpd been abandoned, authorities today i said. 1 hey do not believe he connected with the crime. Cane and Sudan firass c'Wpncp wa.s pre.sented defm- vaiiv anu ouuctii Vkrasb pnging murder of Patter- Alsil Wllltam Shera I uiSkuniiiK 21 vpars ago under similar circum- Cause lx)sses.

by the governor, auditor treasurer. The thiee state officiaLs met and authorized, the treasurer to pur'chasp government bonds up to an omant of ot.e and a half mil- ions, Mr. Bas.s said. As c. result the trea.surer purchased $800,000 in bonds of the new Lake park.

General Pershing, who founded and promoted the band when it wa-s the official organization of the A. E. and who is spending a few weeks sLster, Miss May Pershing, here, will be among those attending the evening concert. Mark W. Woods w'ill pre.side, and various prominent citizens will be pre.sent.

J. Stannard Is leader of the government bearing 3 per cent band, and 'Thomas F. Darcy second interest and $400,000 of 3 1-8 per leader. Soloists include Mr. Darcy, cent governme.it bonds cornet: Frank J.

Jakubec. euphonl- The according to the trcasum: and John Baumann, xylophone, urer, were purcliased with a view of The band recently returned from cnrrv them through to maturity a tour of Europe, where it received and a-e registered in tne name of tremendous ovations. Among the i the stcte. occasions for which the band has I Mr Bas.s said he deemed It advls- been called are the Coolidge and able to make this move owing to Three hundred iier.son.s six times inaugurations, the Lind- the fact that some of the banks Between 850 and 900 head of live- the number who claim Rock Blufts homecoming procession, the have refused to cairy state funds mostly cattle died of anthrax their home, thronged that town President Harding and unless the 1 per cent service ci.arge (Continued on Page Brothers are Uharged With Robbery of Bank At Red (Joud. hit "kit it hit it it it it AFTER MAN KNIFED DURING ARGUMENT cloud Neb.

16 The James Scott, 31, colored, suffered trial of Harry and Theodore Ebsen, an 8-inrh cut above his left kid- brothers charged with the $4.000 ney and cuts on his left arm In robbery of the Webster County bunk an argument with an Omaha wat- here July 2. opened in District court ermelon peddler at Ninth and this morning before Judge H. after 1 oclock Wed- Biarklrdge. The entire morning ses- nesday. The peddler escaped in his slon was taken up with the selec- truck, but police have notified tjon of a jury, whic was obtained ahoo and Ashland authorities to before the noon recess.

lookout for him. 'jury is composed entirely of Web- The cause of the altercation is county farmers not known. According to Scott, the afternoon se.s^lon opened with Omahan drew a knife used for sampling watermelon stock Onlookers called police, who took Scott to the office of Dr. 'r. McCarthy, where his wounds were dressed and then to St.

hospital. condition is not serl is. face at the exact where iour 'oti theic way to Denver when Mrs. found tne PnuUin Reid the injury. Judge Reid drlflmg unattended with CoUings's i.s a delegate to an Epi.s<tH>al con- 5 year-old daughter, Baioara, to be held in Denver, aboard rollings, who tor clays had oeen questioned about the m.v.'-teriou* of her husb.Tnd, s.ild he had been lox cd Into the der- bv two strange men.

who boarded her vacht. Fo- Coniinued on Pape Ten A.S Scc.s It liKVKUl.V HII.I.S, Cai IG Sii-tor Airnop McUhrr.Hon hau! JuBt ye.sior- day an omissary out tn invito mn a.g her cini to nt'W musical play ou tho Itihle hy Mosi mu.sic hy Mi Nnvv she has and grnt married on nu I am going to switch my affi et il ovrr to Konnody. lI'JlywiXKl may n- ki'op Hi i unir, it kt. you marryimr. fit ta wiiH il all liut ih amr fru it 'Uli 1 1 At' I 1 I Ir 1 WH COLON MAN ENDS LIFE BY HANGING' Joe Nation, Manager of Farmers Elevator ('o.

Found Dead. i Joe Nation, manager of the Farmer Elevator Co. at Colon, hanged him.self at noon No caufic could be assigned He was 32 old and had a wife and an 8 year old daughter. Hi; body was found hanging with a aroimd his neck in the drive, way of elevator at about 12 30 o'clock by John Severn, an employe, who returned from lunch at that time Friends of Mr. Nation said that he seemed to be in normal spirits this morning.

WALTON LEAGUE MEETS LLNCOLN NOHfOLK. Neb. Sept 16 APi nln wa.s by the Ne- 1 aak Walton league todaj Its 1932 convention rtiv Ir- KvU (Ymaha, re-elect- td during the final hci here ptcudeiK Mrs Mildred Spann of was re-elected secretary- IIEFFRKED. Blaine Fletcher. Mt Cook.

pleaded guilty to a federal indictment charging him with transporting a stolen automobile Interstate, but Judge Munger deferred sen- summarizdng the anthrax situation to date. The statement that there was a gradual increa.M» in cases from time of the fir.st, June 23, until mid-August, when the number declined In all, ninety-four quarantines have been issued, only tour tence until Tliursday morning of which have as yet been released, i The mcxst serlou.sly Infected tern- tory, says Dr, Felstner. has been an area in the northwest corner of 1 Knox county, covering a distance of about 13 miles ea.st and west by about 20 miles north and south. The greatest center of infection was Ravmond precinct In Knox county i which is between the Missouri and Niobrara rivens. Knox county had 42 cases.

Boyd 24, Holt 10, Washington 7, Antelojie i 7, and Cedar, Keya Paha. Thurston and one each according to the record. In August, slxtv-three quarantines on Page Tent SUES FOR Mazie Phelps brqi'ght suit for $10,000 personal Injury damage.s for herself and an additional $10,000 for her son. Marlin, against Mr. and Mrs.

R. G. Eaton in District court Wednesday afternoon. The arises out of an automobile accident at and Sheridan boulevard on August 20. is Seventv-elght banks state funds are carried Itave slened the agreement to accpt one- half 1 per rejit service cliorge.

Some of the larger banks wnere ocposit.s are carried, Mr, Bass have not signed any agrre- nfnt lo the service laree and the accounts being earned along lust the same as they were prior to the time the servica charge law was pr5.srd. NEW HEAT RECORD. With the thermometer up to 100 degrees at 2:30 an all- time heat record for September 16 in Lincoln had been set. ITie previous record was 97 set on Sept. 16, 1895.

both sides making their opening statements to the jury. Among the states witnesses to be called today will be Retta McDowell and Alone Hamilton, bank employes, and Rev. Noah Wagoner, pioneer minister, all of whom were locked in the bank vault while the bandits made their get away. County Attorney E. O.

Caldwell is conducting the prosecution and i Attorney Carl Smedell of Nevada, la and E. Prince of Webster City la are defending the Ktasens. Principals In Fatal Melon Patch Shooting I Divine Hand Writes Rev. Wyland, at Funeral of Ole Ruck, Says Veteran Last Story Now Finished. TiEED HKI.P If you do the quickest and most economical wav is thru a Star Want Ad this lady phoned in the following ad to run for a week The next day called and had it cancelled the ad had gotten the desired re.sulis.

Cost 36c. i 25 or For -nnf rwoik, in person. 3038 S' Thi IS the of Star Want on the job minute, getting at a very I rof-t Phone B1234 and Charge It More than a of Nebraska newspaper editors, civic leaders in the state, press assoclatloii workers and publlsners from other states paid tribute to Ole Buck, veteran N( braska newspafiennan. at funeral services Wednesday afternoon at chapel. Will the gathering resembling a newspaixT convention as those who had known at first oand the work of the builder of the Nebraska Press association Joined to recall the services of Ole Buck to newspaiindom.

Rev B. P. wrote across career with pral.te for his Buck, pioneer newspaper hard yqears, when some kind of moral grand had to hold a man to such an unremuneratlve ta k. Illustrations out of many in that I ard schoctl of exiierirurc bear out my judgment. Around in lh97 when he the Long Pine, Neb.

Journal, his admtiliu- friends said lie roulcl the royotes card; and In tlie fine art of Btarv.ng,’ To me, only martyrs and propuets starve. In 1900 w.hen he stalled the Trey nor. Record, capital was $11 40. a wife and two babie.i in a town unclei 100 tlon. 15 mile; ircmi the railroad Reviews SuctrsKful Career.

from humble be- man mst, has turncd In Rlnmrgs unti! he the ropy and hls story Is now fm- the Nebraska a u- Rev. Wyland said and Ander-un and bv Hale FtlRI.rT KSON liffnrd 17 vear-old IJrKolit vnuth admitted, that he tired the sfiot cauxed the death of Everett Wlxxon, 18, (ol lege iew high xrhool dor as ne and seven eompanlons fled fri a watermelon patch on the .1 ohn II. Johnson farm of Lincoln Tu sday night. and (ieorge Johnson. 21, of John II, Johnson, were guarding the patch.

Both are In the eounty jail. ishcd," Rev last chapter Lhts time Is different All through Ms years his final jktra- graoh. carried the strange numeral 30 in his own hand, the term u.ied bv newspaper to Indicate tlie end of the str Eundav near midnight, a Divlpe hand quletlv wnde on copy now finished for- Shared of the I he was a pioneer n. ajierniHn. I mean he siiainl I he griefs and sorrows of a newborn and an that had to fight for itx life in a land cnlleo bv early Oicai American sert' They were drv of the A.

'Of Managers, four thousand newspaiM-T'- witti about ten million circulation is to tlie len.st that war- tru.sted. Like the tudeinent of Master of men in that Bible we 'Well done, thou anti fallhfui tvani "As If more verely te.M the and stuff of in-n the of onvironment wcie addf'u the luiibihty to walk fiotn 5 15, and (lii crutconly, lor inanv att.r He alPi.d- cd sf'hooii. less than nty-four months aiuj never moie fh-n two inonfiis running I lie on Page Windows To Be Unveiled At 7:30 Tonight For Fall Fashion Display.