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PRIEST SLAPS HOOVER, AIDS FOR DRY VIEW Thinking Has Been Muddled by Prohibition, Asserts Prominent Educator. STATE OPTION IS URGED Citizens Are Not Bound by Conscience to Respect Law, House Told. Hv United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—President Hoover, Attorney-General Mitchell and the Wickersham law enforcement commission are among those who have Joined In "unusual violations of constitutional rights’ in connection with prohibition enforcement, it was charged before the house judiciary commmittee hearing on bills to repeal or modify the dry law r , today. The Rev. John Ryan, Catholic university sociologist, who made the charge, also told the committee he did not believe there was a duty of conscience on the citizen to obey the prohibition law. Other prominent educators and lawyers condemned the eighteenth amendment in strongest terms today. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler assailed the amendment as an "impertinent invasion of the Constitution” in a letter sent to the committee from Columbia university, of which he Is president. Wilton J. Lambert., nationally known Washington lawyer; Rice Hooe, also an attorney at the capital and Dr. Francis J. Gerty of the Chicago psychopathic hospital, all attacked the law. Urge State Option Both Father Ryan and Dr. Butler, recommended adoption of the Canadian liquor dispensary system, while the two Washington lawyers, both of whom painted conditions in the capital as "very bad.” urged adoption of a state option system somewhat similar to that of the Province of Quebec. Prohibitionists have the spirit of Toryism, the Catholic university sociologist asserted, citing a statement by Dr. Clarence True Wilson, dry leader, that "criminals who brew, distill, and buy and sell liquor and who drink and serve drinks” have no right to protection of the home under the fourth amendment. The priest assailed the Jones "five and ten” law as tyrannical because of its "cruel and unusual punishments.” In his statement that he does not believe the citizen is bound by conscience to obey the dry law. Father Ryan said this belief is directly opposite to that he held five years ago when, he said, he thought the law was for the public good. Explains Attack In explaining his statement concerning “violations of constitutional rights” by the President and other high officials, Father Ryan said: ‘■Prohibition sears everything it touches. It confuses the mental processes of the higher officials.” “I do not believe you realize the extent to which home brewing and moonshining is rampant,” Father Ryan continued. “In Minnesota they have a particular brand of moonshine known as 'Minnesota No. 13,* named after a famous brand of corn. “Bishop Shanlev of North Dakota told me most of the people in North Dakota years ago never knew anything about liquor, but conditions are different there today. "I have a sister who is a nun at Jamestown, N. D.. who tells me the same thing. She is a nun and should be sheltered from that sort of thing, but the Information practically is thrust upon her." Easy Problem Butler’s letter asserted there is no difficulty in dealing with the social problems which arise from liquor “if one really wishes to deal with them intelligently.” He cited the example of the Scandinavian people and those of Quebec. Most of Dr. Gerty’s testimony concerned the increase in the number of alcoholic cases since prohibition. The Chicago physician also pointed to the fact that Keely institute for alcoholics recently built anew building and enlarged its hospital. The increase in drinking among young people also was stressed by Lambert, noted lawyer who defended former Secretary of Interior Fall in the Elk Hills and Teapot Dome oil cases. Lambert said government employes do not make enough money to drink good liquor. HONOR FIVE AMERICANS Magazine Lists Twelve as Outstanding in Drive for Peace, By United Press NEW YORK. Feb. 26 —Five Americans are among the twelve persons considered the most effective public influence for world peace, according to a survey just completed by World Unity magazine. The twelve, in the order of their ranking, are: Ramsay MacDonald, Aristide Briand. Herbert Hoover, Jane Addams. Mahatma Gandi, Lord Robert Cecil. Frank Kellogg. Elihu Root, Salmon O. Levinson. Remain Ro land. General Jan C. Smuts and Erich Maria Remarque.

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VOLUME 41—NUMBER 249

When Sinclair and His $50,000,000 Went to Jail

FELLOW INMATE DESCRIBES OIL MAGNATE’S ‘JOLT’

This story. the first in a series of six written especially for The Times and NEA Service by a former prisoner at the District of Colombia jail, who describes Harry F. Sinclair's confinement there following the oil magnate’s conviction for contempt of the U. S. Senate, tells how an ordinary prisoner is received at the jail and contrasts this treatment with the treatment Sinclair received on arrival. The next Installment will give the details of Sinclair's first hours in the jail. BY A FELLOW PRISONER (Copyright. 1930. NEA Service. Inc.) I WAS a prisoner in the District of Columbia jail during the time that Harry F. Sinclair, millionaire oil man, was confined there, having been convicted on charges of conTHROAT IS CUT IN COURTROOM Confessed Bandit Attacks Prosecuting Witness. By United Press BUFFALO, Feb. 26.—A courtroom was thrown into an uproar today when Peter Dombkiewicz. who had pleaded guilty to complicity in the $20,000 holdup of a Jewelry store, slashed the throat of David L. Glickstein, victim of the holdup. The knife inflicted a six-inch cut, but the wound was not believed to be fatal. The stabbing occurred during the trial of Sally Joyce Richards, blond bobbed-hair girl, credited with engineering the store robbery. Investigation showed Dombkiewicz had concealed a knife up his sleeve. As the girl stepped down from the stand, after testifying, she was “afraid to squeal because Petie had threatened her,” Dombkiewcz pulled the weapon. “That’s what I do to squealers,” he shouted, making a lunge at the jeweler, who was passing in front of the prisoners’ box.

NELSON GIFT IS ACCEPTED BY I. U.

Endowment of a chair of philosophy with a gift of $200,000 by James B. Nelson, president of the Fame chain of power laundries in Indianapolis, was accepted by Indiana university today. Income from property, chiefly city real estate subject to ninety-nine-year leases, will pay the salary of an instructor and if possible, bring to the university for lectures, outstanding men in the field of philosophy or kindred subjects. No part of the principal or income is to be invested in physical equipment of the university, Nelson stipulated. “Indiana is my native state, and CARDINAL IS DEAD Merry Del Val Succumbs After Operation. By United Press ROME, Feb. 26.—Cardinal Merry Del Val died today shortly after he had undergone an operation for appendicitis,. The cardinal, a member of an old and prominent Spanish family, had been stricken suddenly with appendicitis and was forced to undergo an operation Tuesday night. Professor Raffaele Bastlnelli, member of the Italian senate, performed the operation. The cardinal was secretary of the congregation of the holy office and arch priest of the Vatican Basilica. His father was the late Don Raphel Merry Del Val of Spain, and his brother, the Marquis De Merry Del Val, Is Spanish ambassador to London. STATE TRIAL VICTOR Scores Points at Gastonia Murder Hearing. CHARLOTTE. N. C., Feb. 26 The trial of the five non-union Loray mill workers of Gastonia on the charge of murdering Mrs. Ella May Wiggins, union textile striker, last September, continued today after the state had scored what it considered a double victory. The first was when Judge J. H. Clement upheld the contention of Attorney-General Dennis G. Brummitt that the question of whether the national textile union, of which Mrs. Wiggins was a member, was allied with the Communist party, had nothing to do with the trial. The second was scored by the state when Julius Fowler, of Gastonia,, supposedly an eye-wit-ness to the clash between a group of strikers on a truck and a mob of anti-communists, swore that he was wheelus “steady his gun across his left arm and fire into that truck.” Then, -he witn r 'ss tes ified, he heard Mrs. Wiggins cry out “I’m shot.”

tempt of the United States senate and shadowing a federal Jury. Asa prisoner, I had every opportunity to see what Sinclair’s life in Jail was like. In this and following articles I will tell just what happens when fifty million dollars goes to jail. And I won’t pass on any of the hundreds of rumors about Sinclair that were forever circulating over the jail “grapevine.” I’ll just tell what I know. Harry Sinclair was never in jail at all, as 999 out of 1,000 jail prisoners understand that term. Whatever agony he suffered was mental, for he suffered little physical discomfort induced by jail routine or treatment from the time he went in until the time he got out. As far as other prisoners were concerned, the net result of Sinclair’s confinement there was to make them more than ever sure that “if you have money you can get anything you want.” If a prisoner had a tendency to make life’s pathway easier by takj ing things that didn’t belong to him, Sinclair’s treatment was notning but an inducement to go out and do it some more. # # # PERHAPS the best way to illustrate will be to begin by contrasting Sinclair's arrival at the jail with that of an ordinary prisoner—myself, for instance.

Spanked By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind.. Feb. 26.— Mary Metcalf, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Metcalf, ran away from home after being spanked, and her parents and neighbors fearing she had been kidnaped became alarmed and obtained services of police. Much excitement prevailed when the girl failed to return home from a grocery to which she had been sent on an errand. After a day and night, however, she returned home and said she ran away because an older sister had spanked her too much.

the state in which my business is conducted. I wish to do something for her public good, and I believe nothing is more important than proper inspiration of her youth by great teachers, particularly in the field of philosophy,” Nelson declared. Indiana university officials are greatly pleased with the endowment, President William Lowe Bryan said. “Horace said of his poetry: ‘lhave reared a monument more lasting than brass.’ The James B. Nelson professorship of philosophy in Indiana university is such a monument to its founder,” President Bryan said. “Mr. Nelson’s munificent gift will prove of inestimable value to the oncoming generations of undergraduate students,” declared Professor Daniel S. Robinson, head of the Indiana philosophy department, as he envisioned the beginnings of a school of philosophy to rival the Sage school at Cornell university. Nelson is a graduate of Michigan university, and was a student at De Pauw university. He formerly lived in Greencastle and Evansville. SEARCH FOR 3 FLIERS Hunt Is Concentrated in San Bernardino Mountains. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26.—The search for three fliers who have not been reported seen since taking off from Kingman, Ariz., on a flight to Los Anegeles Sunday, was concentrated today around Cajon Pass in the San Bernardino mountains. Motors of a plane were heard in the San Bernardino county Sunday afternoon, when the fliers, pilot Jan.es Doles, co-pilot Albert W. Beiber and a steward, John W. Slaton, were due in that vicinity.

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Like most prisoners, I came up from police court. First there was the discomfort of the stuffy “pen” under the courtroom, and then the ride in the crowded patrol wagon. Then, on arrival, the steel door swings open and the line of prisoners is herded inside. There each man is stripped to the waist, while his shoes are beaten on the floor by a guard—to see if contraband is hidden in them. After that each man paddles into a shower bath. When he comes out he dresses, and a trusty, called the “head tierman,’' takes down his name, age, sentence, etc., for the “jail jacket,” or office docket. This tierman then assigns the prisoner to his cell and leads him into it. # # # WHEN I came in he put me through this course of sprouts and then led me down a corridor to a cell that housed six other men. They promptly surrounded me and began asking questions—what was I in for, what had I done, had I any money, who was my lawyer? The question about money was the most important. With money, many things could be bought at the jail commissary, to be shared—according to jail custom—with the other occupants of one’s cell. I should mention here, that when a prisoner is admitted all his money, except $5, is taken from him and

SNOOK IS TOLD OF IMPENDJNG DOOM BY HARRY WILSON SHARPE United Press Staff Correspondent COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 26—Though the decision was announced Tuesday, Dr. James Howard Snook, under sentence to die in the electric chair Friday for the murder of Theora Hix, his co-ed inamorata, learned for the first time today that the United States supreme court had refused to review his case. Coincident with a visit to the state penitentiary by E. O. Ricketts, Snook’s chief counsel, who informed the former professor that his last

legal hope had been swept away, i confer with Governor Myers Y. Coo fort to delay the execution. Member be present at the conference. Snook’s reaction when Ricketts told him execution of sentence seemed inevitable, was not made known. Unless the Governor and the board of clemency intervene and this seems improbable, the ex-pro-fessor of veterinary medicine will die between 7:30 and 8 p. m. Friday night, eight months after the mutilated body of Miss Hix, a co-ed in the college of medicine at Ohio State, was found on the New York Central rifle range here. Three reprieves have saved the condemned man and Tuesday as his wife Helen paid him one of her final visits the supreme court announced its decision. Informed as she left the prison that her husband’s last legal hope had been swept away, Mrs. Snook burst into tears, re-entered the penitentiary and sought sanctuary in the warden’s office. Snook was convicted last August: and was sentenced to die on Nov. 29. His trial revealed a long relationship with Miss Hix, who had come to Ohio Stte from New York, to study medicine. Prior to his trial he confessed the murder, declaring he killed the girl because she threatened to slay his wife and baby.

CRIME BODY SCANS ATTACK ON MOVIES

An attack on moving pictures and Will Hays, czar of the movie industry, reprinted from the Christian Century, was sent to members of the Indiana crime conference committee today from the office of Governor Harry G. Leslie. This reprint and a report of the subcommittee on pardons and parole of the national crime commission was mailed to committee members upon instructions from Chairman James A. VanOsdol of the state crime committee and Secretary Amos W. Butler. At a recent invitational meeting of the committee Bishop Edgar

kept in the office safe until he is released. When my quizzing was ended I went to bed; went to bed on a mattress, on the floor, all of the bunks in my cell being full. I had one blanket and I kept my clothes on. After a man has been in jail a short time the officers size him up, and if he is a person of intelligence and has behaved himself he may get one of the good assignments —an office job, or the like. # # # THAT’S the routine for the ordinary prisoner. It was the routine for me. But it was not the

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OLD OF G DOOM By Times Special NEW YORK, Feb. 26.— James Neiland, 25, fell out of the window of his room on the fifth floor of an apartment ON SHARPE house Tuesday. He hit a radio Correspondrnt aerial and bounced off, hit anhe decision was announced Tues- other aerial, and bounded off der sentence to die in the electric again.

it was announced that Ricketts will per at 11 a. m. Thursday in an efs of the state board of clemency will

CONVENTION CALL BRANDED FORGERY

Declaring a “call” for a convention of the United Mine Workers of America at Springfield, Ill., on March 10 “carries a forged seal of the International Union of the United Mine Workers of America,” the international executive board, meeting here has called a convention for Indianapolis on the same date. Boldly striking at what John L. Lewis, international president, and other members of the executive committee declare an effort of “discredited leaders” to set up a dual organization, members of the executive committee declared today that the convention called for Tomlinson hall here at 10 Monday, March 10, at the same hour and date of the Springfield meeting, will ’’separate the sheep from the goats.” Formal call was sent to local unions today, with special notice that special meetings should be

Blake of the Methodist church, Indianapolis area, suggested that she committee Investigate the movies, churches and press. “The Menace of the Movies” is the title of the pamphlet containing the Hays attack. In it are five articles, the first bearing the general title, “The Menace of the Movies,” and others being “Our Children and the Movies,” “Ambassadors of 111 Will,” “Who Controls the Movies?” and “What’s to Be Done With the Movies?” The menace matter is opened with comments on the success or failure of Hays in cleaning up the movies during the seven years he has been at the helm. The consensus from readers of the Christian Century is that “they are practically unanimous in their assertion that the movies are as bad or worse than they were then and that they constitute nothing short of a menace to the mental and moral life of America.” Following is a paragraph from the publication concluding a lengthy attack on Hays: "His employers seem well pleased with Mr. Hays. He has dope his job for them. He has got them to pulling together. He has increased the membership of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association from nine member companies in 1922 to twenty-seven today, including all the larger ones. “He has given the Tight slant’ to the news. He has lulled the church people to sleep with his soft speeches. He has staved off censorship. His employers have just renewed his contract. Why not? Behind a Presbyterian false front, they have gone merrily on making money out of muck.” In the final chapter remedies are offered. These consist of breaking the present moving picture chain theater-production company system, eliminate block and bl‘ni bookings, establish federal control as in public utilities and censor all exportations.

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routine for Harry F. Sinclair. Sinclair never was confined in the ordinary cell block! And his arrival was just a trifle different from ours. The whole jail had been waiting for him for hours. The “grapevine” had told every Inmate that he was coming, and we were all agog. Besides, there were several score newspaper men and photographers waiting in the jail yard and office. Major Peak kept telling them that Sinclair would not be treated any differently than any other prisoner; that he would not know what

‘Radio’s Child’ By Times Special NEW YORK, Feb. 26.— James Neiland, 25, fell out of the window of his room on the fifth floor of an apartment house Tuesday. He hit a radio aerial and bounced off, hit another aerial, and bounded off again. Then he struck a high board fence that almost was ready to collapse. The fence acted as a chute and projected Neiland on to an old bedstead, across which wires had been strung for an aerial. He was unhurt.

called immediately to elect delegates and adopt resolutions the local unions desire considered by the convention. Members of the executive board continued in session at 1107 Merchants Bank building today to make further plans for the convention and to discuss questions regarding the anthracite mine wage scale agreement which expires March 31. In a call for the meeting at Springfield, 111., Alexander Howat and August Dorchy, president, and vice-president of Kansas miners, and Walter Nesbit, secretary-treas-urer of Illinois miners, declare inetntion of “throwing the Indianapolis crowd overboard, adoption of a new constitution, election of international officers in accordance with the constitution and adoption of ways and means to unionize the scab fields and stabilize the coal industry.” Springfield dispatches declared the rump convention there will be attended by representatives of more than 3 500 Missouri and Iowa miners and will entertain delegates from Kansas, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Recovers From Suicide Effort Mrs. Ettie Turpin, 24. of 1944 West Vermont street, took poison at her home Tuesday night. Her condition at city hospital is favorable. Domostic trouble was blamed by police for her act

MURDER BACKSTAIRS

BEGIN HERE TODAY DETECVTIVE BONNIE DUNDEE, secretly a member of the Hamilton homicide sauad, accepts an urgent Invitation from a former Yale classmate, DICK BERKELEY, to spend the week-end at Hillcrest, the millionaire Berkeleys estate. His landlady. MRS. RHODES, tells him that Mrs. Berkeley, formerly a nobody, is trying to crash society, and that she has fortified herself with a social secretary. MRS. LETITIA LAMBERT. formerly a society leader In New York and Newport. It is also rumored that CLORINDA BERKELEY is engaged to be married to SEYMOUR CROSBY, New York guest in the Berkeley home. For reasons of his own, Dundee has a strong professional curiosity to see and study Seymour Crosby. At the Berkeley home he meets Mr. and Mrs. Berkeley. Clorlnda, 15-year-old GIGI. who annoys her mother with her frank criticisms and unbridled comments. and gracious, well-bred Mrs. Lambert, the social secretary. But it is Seymour Crosby in whom the detective incognito is vitally interested. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER TWO YES, it was a strange and rather terrible dinner party, Dundee decided before the fish course was removed. In the first place, the dining room was too suffily grand for words. And the dinner service was overpowering. If this magnificence was trotted out for what Mrs. Berkeley called “a dull little family party,” what in heaven’s name would tomorrow night’s bring forth? Dundee wondered gloomily. And what a queerly assorted group they were! The Benjamin Smiths overawed into silence, or brief little spurts of ghastly gayety. Mrs. Berkeley had made it quite clear that her full duty to the undesirable Smiths was being discharged tonight; they would not

job to give him until he had talked with him and knew what his qualifications were; that he did not even know where Sinclair would sleep. The reporters busily phoned these statements to their offices. Meanwhile, the same information went out through the jail via the “grapevine”—to be met with scoffing comments from the prisoners, who were certain Sinclair’s life in jail would be different than theirs. I will let you judge whether the prisoners were right. Next: Sinclair’s arrival at the jail and his assignment.

The picture above shows the “Silver Bullet,” in which Kaye Don, lower right, will attempt to set a new world's straightaway speed record at Daytona Beach, Fla., in March. SOUTHAMPTON, England, Feb. 26.—Kaye Don, famed British racing driver, sailed today on the Berengaria for New York, en route to Daytona, Fla., where he will attempt to set anew world's straightaway speed record. Don will drive his secretly constructed “Silver Bullet,” over the smooth sands where Sir Henry Segrave established the present world’s record of 231 miles an hour and where the late Frank Lockhart, famous Indianapolis pilot, met death in his attempt to set a world’s mark. “I have every confidence in my car,” Don said as he sailed, “I hope to establish a record of perhaps 250 miles an hour.” MERCURY ON SLIDE Springlike Weather Ends With Mark of 40. Indiana’s mid-February spring was at an end today, as thermometers sank from readings in the 60s to 40 degrees, and promised to drop much lower. Temperatures tonight will range between 25 and 30 degrees, according to J. H. Armington, United States weather bureau meteorologist. Thursday and Friday probably will be fair, he said, with little change in temperature. Hourly Temperature 6 a. m..... 40 10 a. m..... 39 7 a. m..... 40 11 a. m..... 39 8 a. m..... 39 12 (noon).. 43 9 a. m..... 39 1 p. m..... 45

have a chance to commit their faux pas on Saturday night, when “a very interesting announcement may be expected.” George Berkeley, darkly somber, but a perfect host except for the odd fact that he never addressed a single remark to the honor guest of the evening. Indeed, when his black eyes flashed a covert, measuring glance toward Seymour Crosby, the nature of his thoughts might easily be guessed by the tightening of his lips and the flaring of his nostrils. Clorlnda Berkeley, aloof, arrogant, apparently almost as determined to ignore her reputed fiance as was her father. Mrs. Berkeley, voluble, effusive, ridiculous. “No, I don’t like Mrs. Berkeley!” Dundee told himself fiercely, after she had subjected him to another barrage of questions, compliments and comments upon “bourgeois” Hamilton. “Considering that the jolly old town made us so lousy rich, I think you might lay off of it, Abbie,” Gigi suggested in her strident young voice. “Gigi, I must insist that you show me more respect!” Mrs. Berkeley burst out, in one of the fishwife rages which Gigi engendered in her mother almost every time she opened her frank mouth. “I’ve heard that every day of my life, when I wasn’t away at camp or school.” Gigi reminded her mother cheerfully. “For a change, (Turn to Page 7)

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iEND NEARS AS DEATH CLOSES GRIP ON TAFT Doctors Abandon Hope for Recovery of Former Chief Justice. RELATIVES ARE CALLED Condition More Serious Than at Any Time Since Falling 111. Bit United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 26—Former Chief Justice William Howard Taft is sinking slowly and his doctors have abandoned hope for his recovery. His condition, taking a decided change for the worse, today was more serious than at any time since he became ill several weeks ago, and was forced to resign from the supreme bench. His death only is a question of time. Dr. Francis K. Hagner, hLs physician. called relatives after his visit at noon today and apprised them of the former chief jusitce’s condition. They are expected to come here soon. The former head of the supreme court may linger for several days, or death may come sooner. The former chief justice is suffering from arterio-sclerosis and recurrence of an old bladder ailment. His heart is in a very weakened condition from hLs long fight against a general breakdown of his system. His condition also was aggravated by the death of hLs brother, Charles P. Taft, in Cincinnati several weeks ago. TALK EXCHANGE CLOSE Senate Resolution Considers Advisability of Action. B a Uniti a Press WASHINGTON, Feu. 26.--Secre-tary of Agriculture Hyde today was called upon through a senate resolution to report on activities of grain and cotton speculators and advisabilty of closing grain and cotton exchanges. The resolution was passed by the senate after several members had discussed the sudden break in wheat prices which Tuesday shot wheat down to below $1 a bushel for the first time in many months. THREE KILLED IN CRASH Collision With Street Car tn Pittaburgh Fatal to Trio. By United Press PITTSBURGH, Feb. 26.—Three young men were killed almost instantly today when the automobile in which they were riding crashed head-on into a street car. The machine turned over as it struck the street car, hurling the passengers into the street. The dead are: William H. Weingand, 33, Pittsburgh, driver of the automobile; H. M, Oyler, 32, Pittsburgh; Edgar Graham, 21, Pittsburgh. pay Tribute”to cody Westerners Celebrate Birth of Famed "Buffalo Bill.” Bu United Press CODY, Wyo., Feb. 26.— A1l of Cody and hundreds of old-time westerners today commemorated the birth of the founder of this frontier city, Colonel William F, (Buffalo Bill) Cody. Cody, the old west's greatest character, famed as an Indian fighter, hunter and scout, was born eighty-four years ago today. He died In Denver thirteen years ago. GANG WAR IS IMMINENT Frankie McErlane Hurls Ultimatum at His Enemies. CHICAGO, Feb. 26—War to the death against his enemies was the ultimatum that Frankie McErlane, gang leader, shot three times by gunmen who trapped him In a hospital room Monday night, issued today from the home of his parents, where he was barricaded. The south side beer baron, notorious as the "toughest gangster in Chicago,” was allowed to go home, despite protests of Detective Chief John Stege. EX - SENATOR SUCCU MBS Cann Dies at Methodist Hospital Following Long Illness. Howard A. Cann, 66, of Frankfort, Ind., former state senator, died at the Methodist hospital this morning after a long illness. Mr. Cann, Republican, last served as senator in the 1927 legislature. GETS CHAIR FOR MURDER Cleveland Bandit Smiles as Death Verdict Is Read. CHICAGO, Feb. 26.—Death in the electric chair was the penalty decreed by a jury today for William Lenhardt, 22, of Cleveland, convicted of murdering a restaurant proprietor, who resisted a holdup. Lenhardt smiled when the death verdict was read. Quake Rocks West Coast EL CENTRO, Cal., Feb. 26.—N0 idamf-gc had been reported today i from the earthquake of considerable intensity felt here late Tuesday.

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