Decatur Evening Herald from Decatur, Illinois • Page 1

A 24-HOUR NEWSPAPER 1 catur 3Et Heralu THE WEATHER: Fair, Colder B8 I April 10, 1931 TH REE CENfT EJMERPUJRGEDTOIGN RUM REPEALS Rich BrewerHeldFor flSCONSONITE HIRED IN TRAP FREEPORT Join Hunt for Abductors and Former Brewer AUTOMOBILE FOUND (gj I I ROCKFORD. Apnl 10 red J. Blumer, 50, wealthy irettdent of thf Blumer Pro- Iticts company of Monroe. Ufa, wai reported held Friday of i a who demanded $150.000 hh re- tut. Sitrch for Blumer riisap- tindon way to country plub extended ovei Northern Ilnolj and Southern Wisconsin with Slitrlff Myron of Oreen leading the hunt Former Brewer Blurair a former brewer who tumid to the a a of soft drink) after prohibition lact wag hnrd of from Freeport 111 about nllei from Monroe after left for the club meeting, Frank Lueklnger an of compatn received a njtlirlWH telephone call from FrMport, MpUlnlnx that Blumer wu being hild fnr ransom and muld not harmed If the money wuptld Notify Wife alto a Rlumer's wth notified and nakl car BOOP-DOOP-A-DOOP HELEN IS COLONEL IN U.

S. ARTILLERY i fi DALLAS Tex April 10--As honoinrv colonel of the United nrniv. Helen Kane, boop- loop-n-doop actiess Frldny was undei piomise to defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic The actress became Colonel Kane, of the 411th field In a ceremony heie Thursday nlsrht She is the i honorary Colonel of the arrm I Piek- ford being one of the other four SPIRITUALISTS OF STATE DENOUNCE CONFESSED FAKE (ftv i "ii CHICAOO Api II 10 Members of the Illinois Spiritualists association In i here were not at all worried Fridnv, thev said over the a of Nino Pecararo New i i that he was through i the publir" after i 11 of success which he included converting Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to spiritualism "There are many fraudulent mediums and one of the most colossal Is Nino Perararo, declared Joseph Whitevvell natlqnal president who attended the state convention Dojlo Converted Self "Pecntnro Is a confessed fake like vou find In anv business or religion I don't believe he ever converted Sir A Conan Doyle and his announcement throws no discredit on true spiritualism Dovle was made sensitive to the spirit world right In his own home Other members of the state bodv al Pecararo and his uSu Freeport A announcement that ho believed all OMIto found the exactly physical manifestations of spirits' were deceptions They said there now are 2tl recognized mediums in Chicago alone and 10000000 spiritualists In the United States BOY, 3, SWALLOWS CAMPAIGN RELICS; DOCTORSJjOPEFUL IHt I nitnl PICIS) CHICAGO, Apul 10-Jarkle Craddich 3 entered so enthusiastically Into the spirit of speedilj chinging; municipal ad- i i i a i that he was in a hospital Fridaj A his eldeis had swept William Hale Thompson out of office by an unprecedented vote and commissioners had set an amazing record for election canvasses In order to speed Anton Ccrmak in as Thompson successor, Jackie decided to help He began bv swallowing Thompson campaign buttons to get rid of Ihem Physicians said he re- rover caller had oald It would tt located Blumer a call ihortly ht lett from a nan who himult as a Roekford druggist and who uid UN) hid hurt gnnt to on and to tm Burner at at the Eugena ho- ttl. In Chicago Bltmur remarked to his fnnillv he left that would stop Ihe hotel en route to the club Hi wu not men there onsidered Ilkelv that Blu- being held a prisoner In other wealthy kidnaped In recent months there Can't Fay fISO.ono daughter Marian the could not he Tie family derided to await promised telephone for farther dotalli going to let mutters wait day or two i wo hear i WWHitm" Miss Blumer said I I I lm Mlt le for to raise 1130 OCO Winner's brewery was one of the In Southern VVIs(onsln prohibition became i the business and lensed to a group ChKaKonns however gang i and again took conMol and hero manufacturing nenr beer ORB REPORTED TO JOINED REVOLT ClK'td 8pAln A in Th( at da 1 A ItlMdi Frl- BIG BILL BOUND DOWN THE RIVER IllU I'nilrd PEORIA, April 10--William Hale Thompson, defeated mayor of Chicago Joined his political cohorts aboard the Cape Olrardeau Fridaj and set sail down the river. Soon after he arrived here by a i from Chicago with Patrick Sheridan Smith, former city clerk and several other associates, 'Big Bill" Inspected the J400 000, rfv er rail terminal The Cape a a sailed at 9 415 a for Beardstown, where the a of 82 will spend the night before proceeding to St Louis The I i of the cruise, after a Saturday night stopover at St Louis takes in Paducah, Ky and the Tennessee river to Muscle Shoals CLAIK DODO No more Broadway foi Miss Clair Dodd, whose extreme loveliness Is icvenlcd She Is another who has deserted the legitimate boards for Hollywood films.

CHARGE FARMER DROVE FAMILY TO ILLINOISAN, NAMED TO FARM BOARD, VISITS CAPITAL II llfff Pi i WASHINGTON Api II i a Thompson Illinois farmer and banker selected to fill the Federal Farm boaid a a created by the resignation of Alexander Legge called at the board Fridaj for the first time since his appointment and announced he would assume his new duties shortly a Maj 1 Thompson expects his resignation as president of the American Farm bureau federation to become effective about the first of the month His duties will be on general agricultural subjects although he may become the grain expert after expiration of the ter Samuel MrKelvie on June 15. Thompson said he waa visiting CERMAK'S NEW BROOM SWEEPS CHICAGO CLEAN First Slash Adds 2,200 "City Hall-ers" to Windy City's Jobless Ranks GIRL BALKS mfed Press) CHICAGO, Apnl 1 0 -Anton J. Cermak's administrative broom became a scythe Friday as the new mayor of Chicago slashed right and left in his determination to make the city hall a "place of business Instead of a three ring circus Cermak slashed 2200 names from the city's pav rolls on his first day in office He indicated that another onslaught Friday would remove possibly 800 more Big Cleanup Establishing himself quickly In the office to which he was elected Tuesday Cermak began his task of 'cleaning by ridding the city hall of every possible reminder of the Thompson admimstiation He did not Immediately fill all cabinet positions, but selected men a more Important ones and Alice Longworth and Paulina Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of the late President Theodore Roosevelt and wife of the late Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the House of Representatives, Is shown here In an informal picture with their daughter, Paulina The photo was taken in the Longworth home In Washington. IHll I mtul 1 i HUNTS VILLE, Ala Apiil 10- The destiuctlon of a bottle of whisky so enraged Frank Markrmm a that he sent' his wife and her youngest child to their deaths in a blizzard, it was charged in a others vacant after accept- "of itlK the resi EnaUons of the Thomp. 1K son aids He will leave Monday for a vacation and may not complete the Farm board merely to ascertain the cablnet that, the requirements of his new posl- PB Boll Mon so that he could arrange his In sweeping the 2200 men and affairs accordingly.

Be- women out of their jobs the mayor 01 1 a aC VeJ TM em ord(lr that "one be paid off unless prove he ac ua nag -king for the city He explained that funds had been depleted Some of those caught in the general dismissal order Indicated they would protest legally Mrs Eva Hamilton, member of the zoning board of appeals, refused flatly to resign and defied Cermak to force her to "I appointed by Mayor Thompson to serve five years, and I propose to serve the full term she declared her of the board, he lefrained from discussing board policies except to i the'cHv' sav that he considered the movement towaid co-operative marketing as one of the most Important features of ths board's work. STOWAWAY'FOUND ON DEATH IN STORM SHIP IN MID-OCEAN I mini I', MJ) PARIS April 10--A French boy, imbued with the legend that most Americans are millionanes and determined to become an Ameiican business man, was discovered Friday aboard the liner LaFayette of a filed Fnday I the French line, well out in the At a i a was accused by his lantlc. Police, adv ised by the boj parents a he might be aboard the new flagship of the French line cabin fleet sent a wireless to Cip Jules Chabot, asking him to search. The boy Louis Chianese, waa found in the hold hidden in a case vement the i the mid A i dl on 11 ports Kin ml ouoms .11 MI- 0 A I nitr I in i i i I'l I i lid of of in with, 1830 10, ot nn on WEATHrR and tomorrow the north portion. 'I MILWAUKEE ROAD TO TRY CENT-A-MILE RATE 1 aitnl ST PAIH.

i A i I I 10--An i with a one cent a mile pnssengei i i be conducted bv the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul i i on April 24 and 21 Osll assistant passenger agent announced Friday All round-trip tickets between anv two points on the railroad east of the Mlssouil i will be sold at i of the regulai one-way a i The basis of present lates Is 3 8 rents pet mile nnd the new fare amounts to approximately a cent a mile Young Flyer Sets New London-Australia Mark ti I I i I A A i a i Api II 10 (' A Scott i i aviator i C'ommandei i foi flight i London to A i i Fildav i a new mark ot i days hours nnd i Kings i reroid flight made his a A a i was made in i days 21 hours and 40 i Oklahoma Votes Mad House Sterilization tllU I I OKLAHOMA CITY April 10--A bill i i foi stei libation of biothei in law, who Mgnecl the complaint, of i home in Decembei 1929, and i i i his wife nnd three i into a mountain snowstorm when he discovered a a bottle ot i had been emptied Into the snow The woman and her children became iont in the blizzard The two oldest childten Minnie Lee 15, and Ole Mae 10 i i the oideal but their mothei and their two years old sister vvoie found on Christmas clay to death In a hollow tree whole the had ciawl- i eel to esiape the stoim LAFAYKTTK BANK ROBBED (Hit 1 ntc Fa LAFAYETTF April 10 Two bandits escaped i $3000 in cash from the a State bank Fi Idaj a forcing tht cashier i cision rid Chicago of gangsteis of hats TJie boy will be sent back to France when the ship reaches New York GANGLAND INVASION FEARED IN ST. LOUIS I cannot be removed except for just cause and ifter a public hearing," she contended GENERAL BUTLER PUTS ON ANOTHER RECORD: CHICAGO ffltf Pi rst) PHILADELPHIA April 10 'Twenty-five hundred a i could clean tip Chicago in one week General Smedley Butler told an audience He said that the same number of policemen could do the same thing if they knew the people were backing tnem The overthrow of Bill Thompson" he said 'shows that the people of a great city will tolerate corruption in government just so fai Longworth Funeral Procession Starts for Home in Cincinnati Hoovers Will Attend Rites for Longworth i LAST RITES SATURDAY Carolina Social Leaders Pay Homage to Well- Liked Politician I Preits WASHINGTON, April 10 Arrangements were made Friday for President and Mrs Hoover to leave on a special train to attend the By FOSTER BATON United Press Staff Correspondent AIKEN, April body of Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the House of funeral of the late Speaker Nichol- as Longworth in Cincinnati, Satur- I representatives, started home Craig and Assistant Cashier A Kaiser, into the vault Thev fled In an automobile driven by a thitcl man Page Somebody! Capone Aids Law HuntMissingMan HV mint ST LOUIS, April 10- Orders were issued Fnday to all piecmct' police stations here to watch out! ARMY AWARDS SCOTT for gangsters from Chicago Police nrnntr Chief 1 Joseph Gerk said he feared FIELD BARRACK WORK Mayor Ceimak of Chicago de- IKll I mint 1 ir-tv) WASHINGTON, April TO--Con- tiactn totalling $1328713 in value, for construction at army camps throughout the country were awarded Fiiday by the War Department The contracts Include for detachment barrtcks at Scott Field, III, $99880 is likely to result in a migration of undciworld characters to St Louis Kvale, Whip Hand in Congress, May Lose Job 11 if i tint 1'n 16 A i i 10 Al Capone i nod i Fnclav and sent i of his most i gang slers out to seek Benjamin McWil- llfims 62 old attoinev hns been missing foi two wreks Infoimatlon that the gang leader had joined the search at the le (Bv I m(ed Pi cm ST PAUL, Minn April 10--Con- giessman Paul Kvale, farmer- laboi representative, who may determine whethei the House will be oiganizcd next December by Re publicans 01 Democrats, Friday Jaced loss of his congressional dist i i The Minnebota House of Rep- lesentatives passed a leapportlon- ment measure Thursday which would divide Kvale district Under the House's pioposal Kvale, who was fleeted to the office held by his fathei piior to his death, and the veteran Republican Frank Clague of Redwood county, quest of one of McWilliams' friends wou in the same congressional came i the Secret Six ctime fighting organisation of the Asso- elation of Commerce which was called In on the case bv a brother, Paul McWilliams Litchfield, III judge, who Is sitting in Chicago su- pcrloi couit Seen In Saloon Benjamin McWilliams who also Is an official In the Illinois Title and Tiust Co a last seen in Joe Plane Forced Down in Lake, Flyers Rescued U( ICSV) VERMILION April 10 Five passengers and two pilots vveie taken aboard a coast guard cutter in Lake Erie off Veimillon this afternoon when fog forced down a Cleveland bound amphibian of the Tians American Air lines corporation The plane had left Detroit a Jew minutes before The passengers continued into Cleveland by automobile None was harmed The Senate i consider reap- poitionment der Friday by special or- tlii Insane wns passed by the Arnato soft drink parlor on i and sent to I So'uth Halsteil sttec-t according to i foi i i i i i wns passed i i i i Tt i for i a I i i a i a i i herldltarv i i Irtorv feeble mindness or epllcpsj. i i a to the 'Seciet Six Annlo is one of Capones men nn Al was ap- pioched he infoimed the fnends that '111 do what I can and ordei- ed a gangsters to find the I lawjer Bandits Snatch $5,000 Payrol in St. Louis (Rl Lintitt I'mks) ST LOUIS April 10 Two men held up Bert Maechhng Frl- da snatched a bag containing $5000 to have been used to meet the weekly payioll of the Victoi Drug company and escaped Maechling was taking the money from a bank to the drug company offices where he was employed. 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S. EMPLOYES' UNION (Bv 11 itcii Ft ens) WASHINGTON, April 10 -Secretary of Labor oDak now may look eveiy government em- ploye squarely in the eye He has joined the union Offered an honorary membership in the National Federation of Federal employes Doak refused, insisting upon paying his dues and joining the regulai way. day. The official funeral party will be besides the President and Mrs Hoover, Vice President Curtis and members of the cabinet, It will include 12 senators, twice the usual number, and 89 members of the House The Gridiion club dinner which was to have been held Saturday night, was postponed until Monday, April 27, owing to the desire of! many prospective guests to attend the funeral Partv Problem The death of Longworth- has added another problem to those concerning the Republican party'man- agement in the coming session of Congiess and the presidential campaign The House has been Mr Hoover's bulwark It has lost its strongest figure Democrats Intend to make a strong fight to replace Longworth with a Democrat from the first Ohio district They feel that if they rould take this seat in the special election, which probably will be held next fall there would be a strong reaction In their favor nationally Cincinnati Will Honor Longworth Inileit Press CINCINNATI April. 10 With flags at half staff and official buildings closed Cincinnati will be silent Saturday afternoon as the boy of the late Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth, is laid to rest in Spnng Grove cemetery The historic Chi 1st church seat of the Episcopal diocese of Southern Ohio, and situated in the heart of the city will be the setting for impressive funeral services according to present plans It was planned originally to hold the ceremonies at the Longworth home, but membeis of the family probably will consent they said to have them in a place where more friends and admireiers could pay their final respects May Broadcast Bites If Mrs Longworth will consent the services will be broadcast over national chain, through station WLW, it was said The late speaker's little daughter, Paulina, remains unaware that death has ended the career of her fathei whose devotion and attachment to her were by friends Mrs Buckner Walhngford, sister of Longworth, said Paulina knows only that her daddy Is "ill and somewhere far away." to Cincinnati for burial Friday.

Just before a a simple hearse drove up to the home of Mr and Mrs James Curtis where Longworth died Thursday The casket was moved to the hearse and carried to the railway station, where it was placed within the private care of Charles Clarke Socletj Pas Homage Ten automobiles carrying mem-, bers of Aiken social colony, who had known the speaker as an annual participant In the gaieties of Aiken life, accompanied the hearse They included Mayor Weathers- ford, Deveresirx 'Mittturn, 1 polo player, Skiddy Van State, sportsman, Mrs Evalyn McLean of Washington, close friend of the now widowed Alice Roosevelt Longsworth, ajid.Dr Wilds chief of the physicians who attended Longsworth in his last illness The special funeral i a i char- teied by the government left Aiken at 11 36 a Alice In Black Mrs Longworth, garbed in black, accompanied by her brothers and other members of her immediate group, left the Curtis hcfme just before 11 30 a. The party drove through all but deserted streets to the station Immediately Mrs Longworth stepped from the cai, and, unassisted, walked the eight feet across the platform to the private car waiting on the tracks She entered it immediately and disappeared behind the drawn curtains The crowd on the platform stood in utter silence as the train began moving slowly down the track and finally vanished in the distance The funeral services will be in Cincinnati Saturday -Former Gautemalean President Dies in U. S. Blj United Pi ess 1 NEW ORLEANS, April 10--General Lazaro Chacon, former president of Guatemala, died here Fn- day from paralysis General Chacon was president of Guatemala from September, 1926, until last December when he resigned CRASH INJURIES FATAL (III MONMOUTH April 10-- Injuiies WETS DECLARE STA1FS VOTERS VOICED WISHES Delegation Cites Cermak'f Dripping Wet Platform as Another Expression REPLY TO DRYS By DON E. CHAMBERLAIN United Preas Staff Correspondent SPRINGFIELD, April Eiection of A.

J. Cerrnak, who made his campaign on a dripping wet platform, as mayor of Chicago, was offered by "wets" as a new reason why Gov. L. L. Emmerson should sign the Grady-McDermott bill to repeal all state prohibition laws This leason and many others were presented by leading "wets" from Cook county and downstate at a hearing before Emmerson Friday Must Act by Tuesday Emmerson received the bill a week ago and has until Tuesday to either sign or veto the measure he falls to act by that date the measure will automatically become a law Friday's hearing was gianted at the request of Representative Thomas O'Giady, Democrat, Chicago author of the "bill Drys last week urged the governor to veto the measure on the ground that it would be a step toward nullification of the United States constitution If It was allowed to become law Representative John Lee Democrat Chicago, cited Cermak's election as a reason for signing the bill Unconstitutional Senator Victor Michel, Republican, Peorla, who piloted the measure, basing his position on constitutional grounds.

He declared that the Eighteenth Amendment to the constitution Is the only one which gives concurrent power to enforce the law, and that it Is unconstitutional because it violate; the fifth amendment to the constitution which safeguards a person against double Jeopardy Michel called attention to the fact that the governor was chairman of the Republican state convention last August, which agreed to submit the liquor question to the voters at the November election Up to Party "The Republican he said, 'can not long be the majority party if it does not recognize the wishes of the members OGrady who neaded the Cook countv delegation told the governor that the repeal bill is a mandate from the people Non-Voters Cannot Rule Answering the charge that many people did not vote on the liquor questions a the November election O'Grady said. 'I don know that this government was ever operated by the people who didn vote. A large peicentagc of the people didn vote for governor in 1928 but that didn't stop the state canvassing from declaring youi excellency elected' Will of People "This bill was passed In both houses of the general assembly and the legislators who voted for the measure knew what they were doing," O'Grady said "They are in close touch with their constituents and had sounded out sentiment In their lespectlve districts before voting on the bill "If you have sounded it out among your friends," he told the governoi, "you no doubt know that the great majority of the peopla in favor of this measure" Chicago Woman Killed; Accident, Husband Says 11 iHle CHICAGO' April 10--Mrs Franklin Simmons, 28 wife of an executive of Armour and Company was killed Friday Her husband told police her death was an accident caused by discharge of a re- volvei with which she was toying The husband and Mrs Simmons parents, Mr and Mrs. Alfred Grove of Dodge City, Minn, were questioned preliminary to an Inquest "Flat World" VoKva" Seriously IU in Zion Bv Vmted Press WAUKEGAN, April 10--Wilbur Glenn Voliva, who claims the world is sh iped like a saucer and traveled "around" It recently to received in an automobile accident I prove his theory, was seriously ill between Monmouth and Kewance more than a week ago proved fatal Thmsday night to Reese McReynolds, 64, secretary of the Monmouth Elks Friday at his home In Zlon, religious colony near here, which he heads Upon his return in March from the world tour, admitted then he waa not well. SPAPFRI.