Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 254, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1930 — Page 9

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Envoy's $100,000 Bequest to Queen Fought

Queen Victoria

NAVAL SLASH IMPOSSIBLE IN SUMS’ VIEW Only a ivliracie Will Bring Even a Five-Power Pact for Limitation. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS LONDON, March 4.—There is not a ghost of a chance for naval reduction at the present time. If a miracle happens and all five powers sign a limitation treaty here, on the best terms now possible, even then the United States, France and Ttalv will continue building and Britain and Japan will hold on to their fleets practically as they are. If a miracle does not happen, America, Britain and Japan probably will sign some sort of agreement. still leaving the United States with a large cruiser program ahead of her. Britain still is reserving the right to build if France does so. If France remains outside a London agreement she may be expected to proceed with her 240.000-ton irship program announced for completion by 1936. If she does, then Italy doubtless will also start building, confronting Europe with a dangerous Franco-Italian armament race. Whereupon, Britain would be sure to exercise her option to build. Would Intensify Race To maintain parity with Britain. America, ir. such contingency, would bo'obliged to build still more ships and Japan would follow the lead o' Britain and America without hesitation. At the worst, the world will face a perilous situation if the parley fails to reach a five-power accord. At best, there will be limitation—limitation upward in many cases, but still limitation, with a battleship replacement holiday and possible future reductions. But much depends on whether Washington acts with foresight and courage and in time. Briand and Tardieu are due back here at the end of the week, with French opinion at least 80 per cent behind them not to yield unless they get something in return. Frankly, just what they want still is hard to define, but certainly there must be some sort o: international agreement, at least to consult in event of the threat of war. Unless they have something of that sort to present to the chamber of deputies, France may be counted out definitely, and Italy most likely, with her—with all that their remaining outside implies. No Chance for Cut There is not the slightest chance of a general naval reduction here for the American fleet must be built up to the British if parity is to be accomplished. But there can be naval limitations now, with every likelihood of future naval reductions if America leads the \vay. The time, therefore, is dffinitelv at hand for Washington to authorize the delegation here to come forward with a plain-spoken offer which no nation can refuse, without admitting to the world that signatures to the covenant of the League of Nations, the Locarno treaties and the Kellogg pact mean nothing. M'NUTT TO BE PAID FOR DRAFTING LAW Ogden Rules Money May Be Taken From Engineering Fund. Dean Paul V. McNutt of the Indiana university law school will receive s6Bs which Archie Bobbitt, state auditor, has previously revised to pay. The money, to be drawn from Governor Harry G. Leslie's emergency contingent fund, is to reimburse McNutt for expenditures made in drafting the new Indiana corporation law. James M. Ogden, atforney-gener-ald, in an opin.on to Bobbitt, said the Governor has "wide discretion" in use of the fund. He said that, although the legislature intended no expense should be incurred by the corporation's commission, the matter was one of resolution and not of statute and. Therefore, could not prevent the Governor making payment if he sees fit. DRUNKEN DRIVER FINED After municipal court jury found him guilty of drunken driving, Howard Ray. living at a downtown hotel, was fined SIOO and sentenced to sixty days in jail, by Judge Thomas E. Garvin Monday. The case was pending in the court since last summer.

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By United Press NEW YORK. March 4.—Mrs. Dorothy Russell O'Reilly Calvit. daughter of Lillian Russell, famous actress, and stepdaughter of the late Alexander P. Moore, former ambassador to Spain, has nnounced she will contest her stepfather's will and has retained a lawyer for that purpose. When she learned that Moore had bequeathed her only $1,000. although he had left $100,000 to Queen Victoria of Spain to be used for charitable purposes, Mrs. Calvit said:

For the Needy Children Get Shoes and Clothing in Answer to Plea.

VIOLA, 9, and William, 10, with James and Wallace, twins, 7, opened the door to the office of the Volunteers of America headquarters, 320 North Illinois street, this morning. Fearfuily, the three brothers end sister peered inside. Then Viola, assuming the duties as little mother, timidly approached the desk and handed over a note from her mother begging for clothing and shoes. Viola wore arctics over her stockinged feet and William wore rubbers without, any shoes. The twins wore soleless shoes. Smilingly the four left the headquarters wearing shoes and carrying bundles of clothing for those at home. Heavy demands for clothing have exhausted supplies of the Volunteers of America and contributions of cast-off clothing of all kinds are asked by Earle F. Hites, major. Shoes especially are in demand.

FORMER MAYOR SENT TO PRISON Others Given Terms in East Chicago Case. By United Press HAMMOND, Ind.. March 4. Raleigh P. Kale, former mayor of East Chicago, was sentenced to serve two years in federal prison and fined $2,000 by Judge Thomas W. Slick in federal court here Monday for conspiracy to violate the federal prohibition law. James W Regan, former police chief; Martin Zarkovich, former chief of detectives, and Patsey Ramey, former detective, all of East Chicago, also were given two-year sentences on the same charge. Regan was fined $2,000 and Zarkovich and Ramey, each $500. Grice Chandler, alleged East Chicago vice lord, was sentenced to serve two consecutive two-year terms Attorneys for Hale, Regan. Zarkovich and Ramey filed notice of appeal. They were granted ninety clays in which to perfect their briefs. CHARGE GRAIN FRAUD Lakeville Farmers Cause Arrest of Two. By Times Special LAKEVILLE, Ind.. March 4.— Farmers in this vicinity will hold a mass meeting here Saturday in an endeavor to formulate a plan whereby they can recoup what is declared to be losses of several thousand dollars through operations of the Wolff & Schafer grain elevator here. The business was closed about ten days ago. Lee Wolff and Clem Schafer, operators of the elevator, are under arrest on swindling charges, filed after a committee of five farmers representing seventy-five alleged to be losers conferred with Harry Taylor, St. Joseph county prosecuting attorney, at South Bend. Harold Geyer, one of the farmers, declared: “We have lost thousands of dol lars because these operators sold our wheat without authority.” MILLIONS ARE JOBLESS Unemployed in U. S. Estimated at 6,000,000 by Laborite Paper. By United Press LONDON. March 4—From 15,000.000 to 16,000.000 men and women are without jobs in civilized countries of the world, the Laborite newspaper. the Daily Herald, charged today. Jobless in Germany are estimated to number 4,500,000: United States, 6,000,000; Russia, 2,000,000; Great Britain, 1,500,000; Japan, 800,000; Italy, 500,000.

WITNESS VANISHES IN RACKET DEATH

GARY, Ind., March 4.—Mrs. Anna Stevens, believed the last person to converse with Paul Perconti, Gary liquor racketeer, before he went on a trip in his automobile which ended in his murder, is mysteriously missing, police here reveal. Sam Athens, owner of a flat in which Mrs. Stevens. Thomas Morocco and an unidentified man lived for fifteen days, said his tenants moved without notifying him or leaving any word as to their whereabouts. On the night of Feb. 19. Perconti appeared at the flat and asked for Morocco, saying he wished to accompany him on a trip "to see a fellow.” Morocco was away from

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“I shall fight such a will for all I am worth, and that goes for the queen, too.” Since Moore left no children, Mrs. Calvit contends she should be his legal heir, entitled to one-third of the estate. However, she intimated that if she received her mother’s possessions, she might drop the suit. “Charity begins at home,” she said, “and I hold I am entitled at least to the things which belonged to my mother. At least I should receive her linen, jewels, silver and the Howard Chandler Christy portrait of her.”

SLATER FAILS TO APPEAR AS BOMB SLEUTH Cheaper Detective Starts Probe at Marion After Five Killings. By United Press MARION, Ind., March 4.—Grant, county and Marlon city authorities, joined now by a detective from a national agency, continue efforts to solve the mystery of three bombings here that have taken lives of five members of Mold Makers, Local 35, of American Flint Glass Makers Union. The investigation is based on the theory that the bombings were connected with labor trouble, although union officials and those of a glass company said there had been no friction between employer and employes. nor any dissension among workers. After the killing of John Ashcraft, 55, mold maker. Wednesday, the Crim detective agency was asked to send Ora Slater, nationally known detective, to work on the mystery. Word was received here that Slater would come, but another detective was sent in his place. The identity of the man was not disclosed, it being deemed he could do better work under such circumstances. It was agreed to pay Slater $25 a day plus expenses and $15 a day plus expenses for each assistant. It is rumored here that Slater preferred not to risk his national reputation as a detective and sent a $15 a day man in his place. After a conference of labor leaders and city officials, it is expected a reward will be posted for apprehension of the killers. BOARD RECIEVES PAVING PROTEST Fifty-Sixth Street Project to Be Inspected, More than a dozen Washington township residents appeared before the state tax board this morning to protest the proposed $58,000 bond issue for paving Fifty-sixth street from Keystone avenue to the Millersville road. Real estate men appeared in defense of the project. Tax board members agreed to inspect the road before acting on the bond proposal. Appeal was brought by Harry Miese of the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, opposing the plan on the ground that the road expenditure is unnecessary at this time. The Bottomly road bond issue of $30,000 for Center township will be heard this afternoon. ACCIDENT AVERAGE IS DEPLORED BY FIFIELD “One Driver in Every 30 Gets His Man.” Educators Told. By Times Special NEW ALBANY. March 4.—“One automobile driver in every thirty ‘gets his man’ and either kills or maims him,’' Otto G. Fifield, secretary of state, told the educational safety conference here today. The meeting is the second of a series being held throughout the state for county school superintendents, teachers and representatives of parent-teacher associations. Fifield urged adoption of a safety program as par, of the schools’ curriculum. STORE IS PLUNDERED Bursars Get $100 in Merchandise From Clothing Firm. Merchandise valued at $100 was reported taken by burglars from the Clem Barkskin clothing store at 1245 Oliver avenue, Monday night.

the fiat, and Perconti sought to induce Mrs. Stevens to go with him, but she pleaded illness and remained behind. Four days later Perconti's body was found in a cement tomb beneath the floor of a barn which had housed a liquor making outfit. He had been shot twice. At a coroner’s inquest in Valparaiso, a verdict was returned that Perconti came to his death from gunshot wounds inflicted by "persons unknown.” Perconti had been a frequent visitor at the flat, neighbors said. They told authorities he and Morocco were often seen leaving the building carrying largs cans of a type used as alcohol containers.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1930

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Charles O. Harris Announcement of his candidacy for the Republican nomination for county treasurer has been made by Charles O. Harris, employe in the office since 1900, during fifteen administrations. He has served as chief deputy since 1918. Harris established what, is nationally known as the “double receipt." system of filing tax bills.

MAYOR DALE LOSES ROUND Court Ruling Ends Boycott on Muncie Court. By Times Special MUNCIE. Ind., March 4.—Mayor George R. Dale’s fight on a fellow Democrat, City Judge Mann, is at an end so far as preventing filing of criminal cases by police in city court. Judge L. A. Guthrie of Delaware circuit court put an end to the boycott on Mann’s court in a ruling to the effect a justice of the peace is without jurisdiction to try criminal cases. Jolice had been filing charges in the court of Justice E. W. Swain. Prosecutor Joe R. Davis, as a result of Judge Guthrie’s decision, will refile in Mann’s court seventeen cases placed with Swain by police. Veteran’s Widow Dies NOBLESVILLE, Ind., March 4. Mrs. Alice Etsler, 80, widow of John Etsler, Civil war veteran, is dead. She leaves a son, Lew Etsler. The family lived at Alexandria for several years.

Our Cow-Punching Cops Do Their ‘Act'

Police Capture ‘Bossy' in Heart of Indianapolis’ Downtown Section. Any one that tells you Indianapolis isn’t ‘‘Out Where the West Begins” didn’t get to work on tixne this morning. For Washington street became the plains of the west at clock-punch-ing time when a cow roundup was held in front of the Hotel Washington. A meek old cow, with wabbly legs, and a herd of calves as companions, were being carried by truck south on Senate avenue by Walter Adams of Castleton. Adams was on his way to the stockyards. His truck collided with a touring car driven by H. J. Scott, R. R. Box 26, at Washington street. The truckload of cattle was overturned, and while Scott and Adams argued who had the ‘‘go” sign the old cow ambled east on Washington street. Autos veered out of her path Street cars slowed to her clattering hoofs as she skidded on the asphalt. A hum’ call to police headquarters sent patrolmen James Teague and Frank Gallagher to double in the role of vaqueros. They arrived at the Washington in time to lasso Bossy as she nosed into a no-park-ing standard. Bossy was turned over to Adams to complete her trip beefsteakward. LOST HITCH-HIKERS RESCUED FROM COLD Bu United Pres* CANON CITY, Colo., March 4. Found after being lost in the rugged, snow-covered country near here for more than twenty-four hours, four young hikers, led by Father Roger Hoehn, were recovering from exhaustion today. Father Hoehn, Gene Ater and George Bessler were discovered by a rescue party at nightfall Monday, eight miles southwest of here. A few hours earlier Francis Hines and Joe Berlinden, two other members of the party, which had become separated, were found five miles southwest of here. Physicians t said that despite a night of exposure to below zero weather the leader and youths sul--1 tered only from exhaustion.

U.S. CONTROL IS ATTACKED BY HAITIANS. American Violence Supports Present Dictatorship, . Probers Told. PLEAS MADE TO GROUP Disorders Will Be Averted by Free Elections, Natives Say. BY HARRY W. FRANTZ United Press Staff Correspondent PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, March 4.—President Hoover's Haitian in- | vestigating commission Monday heard native attorneys open the case of “the people of Haiti vs. the American occupation.” They heard the presidency of Luis Borno described as “a dictatorship possible only with the support of American violence and an existing understanding between Borno and Brigadier-General John H. Rosselb, American high commissioner here.” They listened to an explanation of an alleged "joker” in the Haitian constitution of 1918 which, Haitian nationalists declare, has enabled President Borno to continue himself in office. This questioned clause in the constitution, as a matter of fact, lies at the bottom of much of Haiti’s unrest and political disturbance,; and it may prove a factor in the i American commission’s considera- I tion of the case. Election Loophole “The first election of members of the lislative body after adoption of this constitution shall take place on Jan. 10 of an even-numbered year,” the constitution reads. It does not say what year, however, and President Borno, his opponents say, never has found a propitious even-numbered year in which to hold the elections. Thus, it was claimed, the so-called council of state, which has chosen the president, has perpetuated itself and there has been no legislative body to stay its hand. Seymour Pradel, president of the National League for Constitutional Action, led the dignified, white-clad group of lawyers before the commission. Scores Administration He sought to prove, first, that in the present status under the constitution, Borno is ineligible for election to another term of office; second, that the council of state can not elect constitutionally a president because it is a temporary or provisional body; and, third, that when popular elections are held and a constitutional government has been established, the new government “could get together with the American government to secure the sovereign rights of the Haitian people.” Pradel concluded that his organization seeks to re-establish “the institution destroyed by eight years of dictation, with violence, brutality and injustice hitherto unknown.”

DIESEL-POWERED AUTO WILL RACE IN FLORIDA Columbus Man Prepares Entry for Daytona Beach Event. Bu Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., March 4. Road tests were started today of a Diesel engine speed automobile by Clessie L. Cummins, head of the Cummins Engine Company here, preparatory for entry in the national speed trials at Daytona Beach, Fla., March 25. Cummins announces he will not be a contender for the speed title, but will seek only a record for a Diesel engine from Indianapolis to New York at a cost of only $1.52 for crude oil used instead of gasoline as fuel. DEFEND \, U, STAND Students Cite Reasons for Attack on R. 0. T. C. By limes Special BLOOMINGTON, March 4. —lts attack on compulsory military training at Indiana university is not unpatriotic, editors of The Indiana Daily Student, campus newspaper, replied today to a letter presumably from a Bloomington citizen. ‘‘The government leaves it absolutely up to school officials to decide whether the course shall be optional or compulsory,” said the Student editorial. “We are not objecting to an act of the government. Our protest is against the continuation of a policy of the board of trustees. If we are unpatriotic, it is because we ask for a change in the policy of the university trustees that was adopted by them just after the close of the war ” RAID ELKS FOR LIQUOR Federal Agents Confiscate Booze, Bar and Arrest Four. B’i United Press BOSTON, March 4.—Federal prohibition agents raided the quarters of the Boston Elks lodge at the Elks hotel Monday night, confiscated a quantity of assorted liquors, a fortyfoot bar equipped with brass rail and ale taps, and arrested four men.

They Like Al in Prison

In a few days “Scarface'’ Al Capone will be released from Eastern Penitentiary, Philadelphia. He will leave behind him a host of new friends, and. waiting for him, will be members of his old pang. Right, “Scarface” Al Capone, supergangster; left, Warden Herbert Smith.

WHOLESALE KILLER WORRIED IN COURT

Swaggering Air Gone When James Baker Is Held for Murder. By United Press NEW YORK. March 4.—Subdued and serious, James Baker, confessed slayer of eleven men, pleaded not guilty today to the murder of Henry Gaw, night watchman, and was remanded to Tombs prison without bail. Baker, who on previous appearances swaggered into court, was pale and nervous. Charles L. Sylvester, appointed with James D. C. Murray, noted criminal lawyer, to defend Baker, entered the plea. No trial date was set. Prior to his arraignment. Baker spoke to court attendants and expounded the philosophy that, he SALE OF TRAIN' HALTED AGAIN New Restraining Order Prevents Winkler's Auction. A court restraining order was the semaphore that stayed the auctioneer’s gavel today in the forced sale of the much-sued trackless train of International Beauty Tours, Inc. Ordered sold a few weeks ago to satisfy claims of a mortgage, he make-believe locomotive sat in the county garage awaiting the appearance of Sheriff George L. Winkler today, to be sold to the highest bidder. A deputy coroner, armed with a restraining order, put a halt to the impending sale. The order was issued by Superior Judge William S. McMasters in behalf of Clyde Terry, the engine’s engineer, who claims S6BO in salary to be recovered from the sale of the engine. The train is valued at more than SIO,OOO. INSURANCE FRAUD PLOT CHARGES NET FIFTEEN Five of Accused Under Arrest in Modern Woodmen Case. By United Press ANDERSON, Ind., March 4.—Fifteen persons stand accused today, after a two weeks’ investigation of being inmplicated in conspiracy to defraud the Modern Woodmen of America insurance department, in payment of death benefits. Five of the fifteen who have been arrested are Mrs. Emma Self and Hoyt Self, Clarksville, Ark; Cowden Smith, Alexander and C. W. George, lodge officials. Jesse Douglas, former lodge deputy, now Is in the Indiana reformatory serving a sentence for burglary. Those who are fugitives are Thomas Muncie, A. L. Scott, Herschel Hudson, Ben Gladden, Douglass Seal, C. B. Morrow, William Oakes, A. W. McMillan, all deputies, and Denny Hudson, beneficiary.

FLOAT WILL DEPICT LINCOLN ROMANCE

By Times Special VINCENNES, Ind., March 4.— Unique floats will be seen in a parade which will be one of the features of a tri-state Lincoln migration centennial celebration here Thursday. Petersburg will send two floats, one depicting the romance of Abraham Lincoln and Ann Rutledge, the other the fort at White Oak Springs where the Lincoln family spent a night on its migration from Indiana to Illinois. To add realism to the first display, a rail fence and stile will be used with a redbud

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Trimmed! By Times Special REDKEY, Ind., March 4.— William Clouse will spend thirty-four days in jail as a result of too forcible criticism of his wife's haircut. He ruffled her coiffure and then used scissors to give it a notched effect. Convicted on an assault and battery charge. Clouse was fined $25 and costs, a total of $33.65, which he was unable to pay and will serve it out in jail at a rate of $1 a day.

said, enables him to kill without remorse. “I don't regret those killings,” Baker said. “Sometimes it was either my life or theirs. That’s all past.” Baker said the only person he felt the slightest attraction for was Eleanor Ray, who lives on a farm near Detroit. He then gave his version of the death of Walter Aue, Grand Trunk railway detective in Detroit Jan. 20, 1929. “I was in the railroad yard and Aue said, ‘Come on over here.’ I didn’t- like the way he talked and he said, ‘lf you don’t come over here, I’ll shoot you,’ and he fired a shot at me. I got him on the draw and shot him five times.'’ AIRPORT TO RE PUT IK SHAPE Step Prompted by Refusal of Pilots to Stop. Immediate steps steps to improve the Mars Hill airport will be taken by the state armory board. Meeting Monday afternoon the beard heard a report from Dr. J. C. Arnett of Lafayette, who made a survey of the airport after army fliers and air mail pilots failed to stop here due to muddy condition of the field. The board decided to move buildings on the field to provide more parking space for automobiles, according to Adjutant-General Manford J. Henley. Runways will be graveled and a new drainage system installed and the field will be leveled and rolled. Work will be delayed, however, due to the fact funds must be provided from the rental and repair budget of the board. URGES TAX LIBERALIZING Limestone Chief Talks Before Statehouse Republican Club. The liberahzing of tax laws to encourage industry was urged in an address before the Statehouse Republican Fellowship Club Monday night by Lawrence H. Whiting, Chicago, chairman of the board of directs: sos Indiana Limestone Corporation. Employes of the auditor’s office will be in charge of the next meeting, April 7.

tree which has been transplanted to a houthouse in order to induce early blooming. Lincoln on his first visit to a theater will be depicted by a float from Palestine, Ill. The Fortnightly Club of Vincennes will depict the Lincoln family group during its occupancy of the White House. Another Vincennes float will be that of Lincoln high school, showing the emancipator at the slave market In New Orleans. Governors of Indiana. Illinois and Kentucky will be speakers at the celebration.

'SCARFACE' AL NEARS END OF PRISON JOB’ Gangland Chieftain to Be Spirited to Hideaway St. Patrick's Day. CHICAGO IS ’HOT SPOT’ Capone Wins Affection of Officials for Many Acts of Charity. BY PAUL HARRISON NFA Service Writer PHILADELPHIA, March 4.—lt will be the same old "Scarface" A1 Capone, master mind of gangdom, who will walk out of Eastern penitentiary here on St, Patrick's day, March 17. The ten-month exile behind those gray walls has not changed his plans materially, according to men who have been close to Capone during his imprisonment. There still are millions to be made, rackets to bo organized, and some affairs of underworld honor to be settled. Not that, this supergangster intends to continue the journey to Chicago which was so rudely interrupted when two Philadelphia detectives found him carrying a gun. No; he’ll wait, just as he did last spring in Miami, until various federal officials and a vrand jury are ready to interview him about a subject on which he is the supreme authority—Chicago crime. Won’t Go to Chicago Capone knows it wouldn’t be healthy to rush to Chicago immediately after his release. He knows what sort of ''coming-out" party has been planned for him there. So when the big iron gates swing wide for him on St. Patrick's day, trusted friends will be waiting to whisk him to a safe and secret destination. It may interest the ' Bugs" Moran gong, or what is left of it after the St. Valentine massacre lost year, to know that “Scarface" is coming out of prison in fine physican fettle. It will interest everybody who doesn't know him intimately that Capone is leaving behind him scores of admiring friends—and they’re not counted just among the prisoners, either. Dr. Herbert Goddard, for instance, vice-president of the board of trustees and a distinguished surgeon, is one. Penology is a fascinating science to nim. He spends much of his time at the prison hospital and in interviewing convicts. Not Unhappy “Believe it or not," said the ruddy-faced surgeon, “Capone has not been unhappy here. He has had a chance to indulge himself in a lot of human qualities rone of us ever guessed he had. His mind is of the highest type and his nature is kindly. “He has been a splendid prisoner, and he has done a great deal for the rest of the men.” The racket chief had plenty of money in Eastern penitentiary, where convicts are permitted to carry accounts at the office, but are not allowed to buy luxuries for themselves from the outside. Hero is the way Canone spent part of his funds according to a prison official, who said: Not So I lard boiled At Christmas time. Warden Herbert Smith twho isn’t so hardboiled as he likes to believe) was tearing around interviewing inmates about their needy families. Capone did some investigating for himself and paid for twenty-five heaping baskets of, food. “He heard about a campaign for anew children’s hospital and sent SI,OOO. Thinking about it later, he decided that wasn’t enough and he gave SSOO more. “Through the prison chaplain he has sent money to old poor families outside. One woman with eight children who was about to be evicted from her home received S2OO. He paid another's hospital bills and offered her husband a job! This was declined with thanks, nobody knowing just what the ‘job’ would be. “He has helped a lot of the prisoners, too, but they are the only ones who ever say anything about his good turns.” Quarters No Better Capone and his cell-mate, forger, had no better quarters than scores of other men. Prison-made rag rugs, gaily colored, covered the cold concrete floor and there were a few pictures on the walls. A small table and two comfortable cote comprised the furniture. A cheap radio and a phonograph had been purchased from the prisoners who previously had occupied the cell. The ace of gangland wrote sco _ es of letters in the evenings—to hi* wife and relatives and friends. He received many letters. threatening letters, friendly letters—almost everything but life insurance prospectives. Each of these was carefully censored, and prison officials have laughed at the report that he was directing the activities of racketeers. Capone, they say, always looked eagerly for letters from a certain neighboring town. They were written by a quiet, studious-looking youth who bears no resemblance to the racketeer. He is his kid brother and Scarface is putting him through college. Former Kills Self Zfty 7 i m• ■* Suecinl BOONVILLE, Ind.. March 4L Jacob F. Goad. 69, farmer, committed suicide by drowning in a i pond at his home seven miles northeast of here.