Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 1

FOUNDED IN 1881. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1931 rr'titifiti Lincoln and 5-Mile I rtnCiEi I I 115 five CENTS Elsewhere. INCOLN LINEMAN IS BURNED Dillinger Hunted in Chicago After Being Twice See RI CRITICALLY HURT Gasoline Station Attendant Says Dillinger Boasted of His Daring. CHICAGO. (If).

The police radio flashed directions to all available squad cars at 12:30 p. m. to speed to a south side neighborhood where John Dillinger and a woman were reported to have been seen. The police had been notified that the escaped killer was driving past the Southmoor hotel at Stony Island avenue and 67th street in a sedan with a woman. This was the region in which a gasoline station attendant said he recognized Dillinger Wednesday night.

The attendant reported to police that Dillinger stopped at his place of employment on the south side and boasted of his daring jail breaks. B. H. Deacon, 35. said Dillinger stopped at the station about 10 p.

m. Wednesday, asked to wash his hands in a gruff voice, and left after making veiled threats. tll Police did not make public the report until Thursday, wishing to keep secret the information whit Deacon gave despite the threats. Deacon told police the man believed to be Dillinger was driving a gray sedan without license plates and that he carried two pistols in holsters under his arms. Deacon said he saw the holsters when the man removed his coat to wash.

Shown several pictures of criminals, Deacon promptly picked out 'Td recognize it in a he said. "He was a tough looking fellow, with a high fc head, possibly a little bald The man he thought Dillinger dragged his foot as if hurt, (Continued on Page 6.) WOULD PUNISH AN EDITOR Kentucky Probers Plan Further Steps. FRANKFORT, Ky. Chairman Hugo K. Bullitt, chairman of the house lobby investigating committee, indicated the committee will take further steps in an effort to punish Vance Armentrout, acting editor of the Louisville Courier Journal, for alleged contempt in refusing to disclose to the committee the name of a writer to the point of view column.

Armentrout was committed to the county jail by the committee after he refused to reveal the name of a member of the general assembly who wrote a letter which criticized the rules committee and speaker of the house of the Kentucky legislature. The editor was released on writ of habeas corpus issued by County Judge L. Boone Hamilton, who sustained the contention arrest was illegal. Bullitt indicated the committee would attempt to invoke a statutory provision which he said made contempt of a legislative committee a misdemeanor and authorized a fine of $1,000 or a six months sentence. Clothes Set Ablaze By Arc at Top of Pole Thursday.

Bill Hawkins, 35, 9th and lineman for the Iowa Nebraska light and Power company, was badly burned above the waist about the face and head, when his clothing caught fire from an electric arc atop an electric light pole near the 9th street power plant. He whjs working with Walter Thompson, who was only slightly burned. BE ALLOWED TO TAKE AIRMAIL Legislation to Carry Out Plan to Be Introduced. William White. Text of airmail in on page 3.

letter on Ml Try to Whip Into Practicable Form Program for More Employment. WASHINGTON. (UP). Industrialists at the NRA conference selected small groups to work with administrator Johnson in an effort to whip into practicable form the program for further employment and higher wages. Code authorities of the capital goods industries met under the chairmanship of George Houston, president of the Baldwin Locomotive works.

They selected a nominating committee headed by Ralph E. Flanders, New England manufacturer, to name a committee of twelve to meet with Johnson later in the day. Consumers goods industries held a similar meeting under the chairmanship of George Sloan, president of the Cotton Textile msti- tute. Houston said the capital goods industries thru their committee has a real opportunity to present its case as it has not been presented before and he hoped the committee would bring before General Johnson a sympathetic solution of the problems. Henry Wise Wood, president of the Wood Newspaper Machinery corporation, New York City, in re sponse to Johnson's request for useful suggestions, proposed that during the emergency all corporation earnings which are reinvested in capital goods should be exempt from federal taxation.

He said this would stimulate replacement of obsolete equipment, promoting employment and eventually increasing buying power. HULL FOR TARIFF BILL Pleads for, Non-Partisan Support of Measure. WASHINGTON. (UP). Secretary of State Hull pleaded for nonpartisan support of the administration's reciprocal tariff bill, which he said offered only feasible means of restoration of foreign Hull was the first witness as the house ways and means committee opened hearings on the bill which President Roosevelt said would constitute a vital link in the recovery setup.

The measure would permit the president to lower or raise tariffs 50 percent and to enter into reciprocal agreements with other countries. Hull pointed out that most other governments had power to grant reciprocal tariff favors. He said that unless the American government was granted similar powers it would he most difficult to open new markets for American products or even to maintain existing ones. WASHINGTON. (UP).

Legislation to carry out President Roosevelt's plan fur a reorganized private operation of the airmail will be introduced in congress within a few days and pressed to early enactment, Chairman Kenneth Mci Kellar of the senate postoffice committee, said. McKellar said hearings would be held if interested parties desired. McKellar said that the "great, outstanding of the new law would be to provide for "honest competitive on the airmail contracts. want to be absolutely fair to all he said, "and at the same time to put into effect a thoroly honest Meanwhile, the proposal was attacked by Col. Paul H.

Henderson, vice president of the United Aircraft and Transport company, in testimony before the senate airmail investigating committee. He opposed the three year limitation that the president suggested upon all private contracts. Would Need Time. Of Mr. plan to eliminate from bidding those operators whose contracts recently were annulled by Postmaster General Farley, Henderson said: "To us, it would mean being deprived of the right to bid for the purpose of using our personal property, consisting of over 100 planes, sixty of which are less than nine months old, costing $3,500,000.

It seems to me the government will have to go thru a period of several years to build up an efficient service, in which those bold enough to go into the business will (Continued on Page 6.) OMAHA. UP). Crashing almost head-on into a freight train, a man and a woman died almost instantly in the wreckage of their automobile Wednesday night while a second man died a block from the hospital to which he was being taken. The dead are Thomas Bigelow, 25, of Omaha and Lincoln; Mrs. Electa Thiem 24, of Omaha and Will lam White, 35 salesman for Lincoln, Neb motor car con cern.

White and Mr Thiem, who was divorced by Richard Thiem of Omaha, last Friday on charges of desertion, were killed instantly. Bigelow died in the ambulance. Bigelow was the owner of the car and it is presumed that he was driving. Appearances were that he did not see the train until too late to stop. Members of the train said the car apparently struck the train at a slight angle indicating the driver made a last desperate attempt to stop and failed.

The three were enroute Omaha from Lincoln. Bigelow was the stepson of An son H. Bigelow, Omaha attorney He had attended the of Nebraska for one year, Grthnell college one year and later Ohio mechanical college. His parents and two sisters survive. He had been living recently in Lincoln He was here Tuesday night to see his mother and had left word would return Wednesday night.

Mrs. Bigelow was waiting for him at her home when advised of his death. Mrs. Thiem, survived by her fa ther, Lew Hill of San Francisco her divorced husband, a daughter, (Continued on Page 7.) Picture at top shows a street corner scene at Sioux Falls, S. when machine gunner held a Doliceman and bystanders at bay while confederates robbed the Security National bank and 1 rust comnanv of $46,000.

Arrow indi cates scene of his action. The robbers wounded a policeman forced the five persons shown below to accompany them for some distance as hostages to gunfire by pursuers. Left to right: Mildred Bostwick, Emma Knabach, Leo Olson, bank teller, Alice Belgen and Mary Photo. to he TEAR GAS DIES OFF Minneapolis Detective Says at Least One Bandit Wounded. MINNEAPOLIS.

UP). Identification of at least part of the bandit gang responsible for the $46,000 holdup of the Security National bank of Sioux Falls, S. Tuesday, has been made, Walter Gordon, manager of the local branch of a national detective agency, announced. Gordon whose agency protects banks affiliated with the American Bankers association, declined to say more than that or of the robbers had been identified. Gordon said that at least one of the bandits apparently was wounded.

One bandit standing on a running board slumped down and almost fell to the ground. One of the other raiders grabbed him and pulled him into the speeding machine. CROP LOAN OFFICE. County Agent Purbaugh received word that an emergency crop loan office will be opened at the court house here. The maximum amount of emergency crop loan that may be obtained by any one individual is $250 and the minimum $25.

Ap plication for loans in any amount from $25 to $150 may be accepted by the emergency crop loan office provided the farmer does not have sufficient security to get the loan elsewhere. A farmer applying for $150 or more must make application to the PCA. Bandits Leave Equipment, Take Typewriter and Pennies. ASHTON, Neb. Tear gas discharged when yeggs burned a hole thru the vault of the Ashton State bank early Thursday apparently thwarted a burglary.

Safe blowers knocked the combination off the vault and cut an 18 inch hole thru the steel door with an acetylene torch, only to abandon their work when within reach of success. Sheriff J. A. Thrailkill said the discharge of a tear gas cartridge within the vault apparently had driven them away. Abandoning gas tanks and other tools, the yeggs departed with a typewriter and a few pennies from the till as their only loot.

Blankets which might have been used to muffle an explosion were among the discarded equipment, but the sheriff doubted if explosives were used in the attempt. No one in town reported hearing suspicious sound, and the burglary attempt was discovered when Peter I. Badura, vice president of the bank, went to work Thursday morning. The gas tanks were stolen in Omaha, the sheriff reported. A truck taken at the same time was abandoned later in Omaha.

Sheriff Thrailkill had no clues to the identity of the yeggs, but commented: "It looks like a pretty coarse DEMOCRATS SEE PRESIDENT English Economist Believes New Deal Is Important to Entire World. Speaking for the first time before an audience, Hugh Dalton, economist and British statesman, addressed a University of Nebraska convocation Thursday morning at Temple theater. With the subject, "Economic Planning in Theory and Mr. Dalton described to his audience the plans with which various countries fight the depression. is my he said, "that experiments along the lines of social and economic planning will lead the world out of the twilight of frustration into the sunlight of common In the United States to study its depression measures, Mr.

Dalton said America had breast- deep into economic planning," in an experiment that would be of great importanc to the world. "However it he stated, "it will be judged by history to have been a very gallant Planning, as defined by the speaker, was deliberate direction, by persons in charge of large resources, of economic activities This is not compatible with free competition, he believes, and is a move away from the automatic direction thru price movements. Planning substitutes wider objectives, yet, he warned, it was not to be confused with socialism, nor did it indicate dictatorships. An impractical, yet possible type of economic life, he indicated, was that where there was little planning and much socialism. Using the Soviet union of Russia (Continued on Page 6.) 6ERMAN ENVOY PROTESTS Dislikes Mock Trial Held in New York City.

WASHINGTON. UR A protest made by the German embassy against the mock trial held in New York City in which Chancellor Hitler was found guilty of against but the state department declined to interfere. LATEST IN STYLE NEWS. The spring fashion features to be found in the society section of the Sunday Journal and Star will find high favor with women who vi achieve tinction. Noted style authorities who write for the press associations are carefully observing smartly dressed women in New York.

Paris, London and smart tropical resorts are wearing. Their reports, daily over the wires, assure readers of the very latest information. Artists and cameramen have been busy too and an abundance of illustrations will be included. No detail of the spring wardrobe will be overlooked with full treatment being given to ail dress accessories. Verdict in Case Man Who Shot Guest.

Vote on Proposed Strikes in San Francisco and Cleveland. By Assisted Voting on proposed strikes in San Francisco and Cleveland was the highlight in widespread labor unrest. Despite government intervention, officials of a union representing 4,500 workers in the Fisher Body plant at Cleveland decided to proceed with a strike vote. In San Francisco members of the International association, Pacific division, were asked to vote on a proposed strike which would be effective March 23 The association has between 12,000 and 15,000 members. Labor disputes also flared at other points in Ohio, in Pennsylvania and several mining and textile districts of the south.

Union recognition, wages and working time were some of the subjects disputed. A cotton textile manufacturing company in Augusta, asked an investigation of "suspected NRA code Employes of the C. N. W. railroad compiled a list of 512 matters in dispute, but an impend (Continued on Page 6.) FIGURES IN PLATTSMOUTH SHOOTING To Learn Views on Plan to Restore Pay Cut.

WASHINGTON. (UP). House democratic, leaders were scheduled to meet with President Roosevelt late Thursday to learn his views on proposal to restore the pay cut to federal employes and to give additional compensation to war veterans. Sources close to the white house revealed the chief executive as opposed to any measure that would upset his budget. The leaders were expected to be told flatly that should a bill or bills be passed wiping out economies effected by the administration, Mr.

Roosevelt would be compelled to veto them. The white house meeting pre- 0 Joe McMaken, left, shot and killed Douglas McCrary, right, whom cedes a caucus of house democrats he found in his Plattsmouth home with Mrs. McMaken, center, when on the economy issue Thursday he returned unexpectedly at 5:30 in the morning from a trip night. I to Fremont, PLATTSMOUTH, Neb. A jury Thursday afternoon returned a verdict of and recommended the immediate discharge of Joe McMaken, 35, who shot and killed Douglas McCrary, 28, after finding the latter in his home early Thursday.

Cheers from the packed courtroom greeted the verdict of the jury, composed of married men. Friends of McMaken rushed forward to congratulate him. County Attorney W. G. Kieck said he would release McMaken at once, and would not file charges against him unless directed to do so by Attorney General Paul Good.

Kieck was preparing a complete report for Good Thursday afternoon. McMaken, who had told from the witness stand the story of how McCrary had visited his home, burst into tears as the verdict was read. He was led from the courtroom by his father and Mrs. Sylvia Hill, the sister of his wife, after he had been given water to revive him. Attorney General Good said late Thursday afternoon that he would investigate the Plattsmouth- case further.

PLATTSMOUTH, Neb. Weeping as he testified, Joe McMaken, 35, related before a jury events that led to his fatal shooting of Douglas McCrary, 28-year-old barber, in the McMaken home early Wednesday. McMaken, a subconstractor, killed McCrary with three blasts from a shotgun when he returned home at 5 a. m. to find the abrber in his home with Mrs.

McMaken, who was not harmed. After hearing story and listening to the testimony of a policeman and L. S. Pucelik, who attended McCrary before he died, the jury adjourned for lunch. McMaken told the jury that he left his borne Tuesday night after telling his wife he was going state to look over a job; that he returned later and, after failing to get into the house, climbed thru a basement window, got a shotgun, and then entered the house thru a bathroom window.

He said he then heard the whisperings of a man and woman. "When I stepped into the bedroom and switched on the light, McCrary jumped and I he testified. fellow acted as if he was going to get something He said he had been told McCrary carried a gun, adding that he had been hearing rumors recently that McCrary had been paying visits to his wife. Policeman Roy Stewart had testified previously that a revolver was found In overcoat after the shooting. Mrs.

McMaken was not in court, but McCrary father and brother were present. o- As the arc came in contact with clothing a loud report was heard and a blinding flash for a moment concealed the man from observers. When the smoke cleared his clothing was all ablaze and he was dangling from his safety belt unable to get himself loose. Helped Down by Co-worker. He was helped down by Thompson and some other people who happened to be near at the time of the accident.

The light line was carrying 4,400 volts. Hawkins and Thompson had just finished a conduit at the top of a pole at 9th and at the corner of the power plant, and were laying rubber goods on it when men working below saw a brilliant flash and heard a loud explosion. The foreman of the ground crew was just preparing to send up some more rubber sheathing when the flash occurred. He was unprepared to say whether the powerful current had been short circuited at the top of the pole, or whether some accident in the plant had caused the explosion. Thompson was severely burned about the hands, face and chest.

Hawkins was taken to Lincoln General hospital in Castle, Roper Matthews ambulance. E. M. Kennedy, superintendent of service, was coming down 9th street at the time and was about to stop at the Traction company offices when the accident occurred and went to help. Mrs.

J. H. Ramsey, 505 So. 9th, also was a witness of the accident. Hawkins was rushed to the Lincoln General hospital under care of Dr.

Clayton Andrews. Hawkins was able to hold to the rope that brought him down from the pole, said George Frickel, 710 a witness. Hawkins' face was burned black, his hair burned off, has hands charred, one knee badly burnt and his neck and chest scorched. Lights in the neighborhood were dimmed. screams could be heard for quite a distance.

LOCAL CWA PROJECTS THE WEATHER. For Lincoln and vicinity: Fair tonight and Friday: Mimrahat namicr tonight Irmicretnrr tonight ahwit 2ft For Nebraska: Generally fair tonight and Friday: no decided change In temperature. Friday Min men, 6:48 a. in. 8:27 p.

m. KOI RI.Y TEMPKRATt RES. m. (Wed.) 8 a. 17 28 4 a.

ni 28 ft a. 17 28 ti a. 7 a. 17 8 a. a.

21 24 10 a. 28 ni 22 11 a. 80 12 a. 84 m. (Thu.) 10 I p.

38 18 2 p. in 42 7 a. Dry bulb 17, wet bulb IH. relallve humidity 77. At 12:80 p.

Dry bulb 87, wet bulb 82. relative humidity ft'. Total wind movement. 184; average per hour. 8.

Higheat temperature a year ago 40. lament temperature a year ago 27. 8 p. 4 p. ft p.

p. 7 P. 8 p. 0 p. 10 p.

11 p. 12 p. 1 a. 2 a. At Engineering Activities Drop Friday From 702 to 645 Favored.

CWA projects directly under the office of the city engineer on Friday will drop from i 02 men to 645. On expectancy that Uncle Sam will continue to be a good Samaritan after March 30, plans contemplate emphasis on street car track removal and paving replacement until those undertakings are completed, perhaps by April 5. It is the purpose then to shift men to the storm sewer program, contemplating $100,000 of improvements if the government does not withdraw its support, anticipated at $60,000. Water and light department CWA activities cut from 151 men to 111 for the current week will drop to 100 men for the week beginning Friday. Park department reduces Friday from 80 to 72 men, most of them employed at tree removal with activities centering about the capitol.

Several are trimming up ball diamonds, frees over an eignt block spread, parkways across from the state house, are being grubbed out to the last root to make way for approximately 150 scarlet oaks. Trees removed are carted to the big wood yard in Antelope park, where CWA men chop them into fuel. FAVOR 30-H0UR WEEK BILL House Leadership Tentatively Endorses Measure. WASHINGTON. (UP).

house leadership has tentatively approved the 30-hour week bill, Chairman William P. Connery, of the labor committee said. "Both Speaker Rainey and Majority Leader Byrns have indicated they are inclined to favor the bill and asked me to seek a rule on it next week, so action can be said Connery. Connery said the rules committee would be asked to give the measure right of way. MRS.

CLYDE ALLEN DIES BLAIR, Neb. Mrs. Clyde M. Allen, 52. member of a pioneer Washington county family and a leader in Nebraska D.

A. R. activities, dropped dead of a heart attack at her home here Wednesday night. Mrs. Allen, who had planned to leave Thursday for the D.

A. R. meeting at Wayne, had been forced to give up the trip because she was not feeling well. Her husband, son, five daughters, mother and three sisters survive. LARGEST SHARE Amounts to $13 Per Capita, Lawrence Reports After Washington Visit.

J. E. Lawrence of public works advisory board, back from a trip to Washington on behalf of this projects, said the greatest obstacle in the path of Nebraska projects "is the fact this state has a larger amount of money than most of the On the basis of population, Lawrence said federal PWA charts showed Nebraska first with a per capita allocation of $13. I went, to he said, "It was with the idea of explaining the significance of the major projects to the Nebraska farm plan. The Nebraska board feels keenly that in a planned agriculture, developments of the type which have been presented are most Federal examiners had raised questions concerning the liquidation of the North and Middle Loup plans, and as a result Lawrence asked for permission of engineers of these projects to resubmit their figures.

examinations of the Tri- County he said, "the Benkelman-Haigler-Arickaree the and the Blue Creek have not been completed. I discussed in some detail the scores of smaller projects yet awaiting action, and I am hopeful of approval of a considerable number, depending largely upon the availability of money. There seems at this time to be no definite information as to the amount of the appropriation which will be asked of congress for further public EXTRA GUARD TO PLACED OVER STEVENS North Platte Man Says He Will Die Rather Than Go to Penitentiary. NORTH PLATTE. (UP).

An extra guard will be placed over La Clede Stevens, alleged slayer of his wife and father-in-law, County Sheriff A. J. Salisbury said after being informed that Stevens has threatened to kill himself. As plans were being made to place Stevens under constant guard, efforts were being continued in district court to secure a jury to try him on first degree murder charges. When court recessed at noon, only eleven men had been approved for jury duty out of forty-five examined.

Word of threats reached the sheriff, he said, from several of jail mates, who quoted him as saying he would end his own life before he would he to the penitentiary. MONARCH WEDS COMMONER Engagement of Emperor of Annam Is Announced. SAIGON, Cochin-China. Emperor Bao Dai, youthful Europeanized monarch of Annam, has chosen a commoner for a bride. His engagement to Miss Yuen Hu Hao, daughter of a wealthy Coch- in-Chmese family, was announced.

The wedding will be March 20. Bao Dai succeeded to the throne of Annam, small French eight and one-half years ago. He returned in 1932 from Paris, where he had studied for ten years, and took up the powers of his kingly position in a week end of receptions and ceremonies, pomp, dancing and fireworks..