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Confession Lays Lingle Murder to Joe Traum Gang mmnaaalaaa—* • a a a a a a a a a a a a CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN CHAUFFEUR TELLS GRAND JURY DEATH STORY

Bv United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 4.—The mystery of the murder of Alfred J. Lingle, Tribune reporter, was believed nearing a definite solution today after a conscience-stricken chauffeur told a coroner's jury he had aided in the slaying. Lingle was killed by Joe Traum and members of his notorious Indiana and Kentucky gang, Frank Bell, former convict, who has been under arrest since June on charges of robbery and murder, told Coroner Herman N. Bundesen and a jury Friday night. Traum. Bell. Richard Michael Sullivan and a blonde man whose

Suspicion of Ted Giesking Is Revived ‘Killer Looked Like Pictures’ of Indiana Gangster, Bell Says. Theory that Ted Geisking, Indiananolis and Terre Haute gangster and rum runner, might have been the slayer of Alfred (Jake) Lingle, Chicago newspaper man, June 9, was revived today with the confession of Frank H. Bell, ex-con-vict. held by Chicago authorities. Bell it is alleged, stated he was driving a car for Joe au ™’“ o ' torious Indiana gangster and head of the one-time Traum gang and that Traum promised to let mm in. on some real money. ‘Looked Like Geisking' . Bell, according to the purported statement, drove the car in which Traum and Richard H. Sullivan, exconvict, were riding. •‘After they (Traum and Sullivan) got out of the car, up stepped a fellow who looks like Geisking's pictures,” Bell is reported to have said. ‘'Then Traum came back and said, ‘This is my man,’ and took the revolver from the car. I drove back to the outer drive.” . Geisking was held in Louisville, Ky Sept. 11, as the alleged killer of Lingle but witnesses faded to identify him as the man alleged to have been seen running from the subway after Lingle was murdered. Subpoenas Arc Ignored Traum now is in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth serving the remainder of a two-year sentence for liquor law violation after he is alleged to have violated his parole. He was to have been brought here today to face four booze indictments pending against him. George Jeffrey, district attorney, however, said Leavenworth authorities have not heeded two subpoenas for the gangster. Jeffrey said he will make another effort to have him brought here later. BABY IS INJURED IN COLLISION OF AUTOS Police Charge Father Failed to Stop at Preferential StreeL Harry Edward Christie, 1-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Christie of Neoga, 111., suffered cuts and bruises today when the automobile driven by his father collided with a car driven by Raymond Quental, 30, of 1508 North Drexel avenue, at Bradley and East Washington streets. Police charge Quental was traveling south on Bradley and failed to stop at the street intersection. The body was given an emergency treatment and his parents returned to their home in Illinois. PORKERS ADVANCE 10 CENTS AT CITY PENS Cattle Market Nominal; Vealers Hold Unchanged. Hogs ended the week’s trade at the Union Stockyards with an advance of 10 cents on most classes this morning. The bulk, 160 to 300 pounds, sold for $lO to $10.40, top price $10.40. Receipts were estimated at 3.500; holdovers were 101. The cattle market was nominal with receipts of 100. Vealers were steady at sl3 down. Calf receipts were 200. Lambs were 25 to 50 cents higher, the bulk selling at $8 to $9. Sheep receipts were 200. Chicago hog receipts were 6,000, including 4,000 direct. Holdovers were 2.000. Not enough hogs were on hand to make a market. Scattered early sales of good to choice 190 to 200-pound weights sold 10 to 15 cents higher than Friday's average at $lO. Cattle receipts were 200, calves 200, the market steady. Sheep receipts 1.500, steady. FIRM SLAMS AT LEGGE Harvester Corporation Demands Chairman Retract Statement Bv United Press * _ . INDEPENDENCE. Mo., Oct. 4. Officials of the Gleaner Combine Harvester Corporation demanded today that Alexander Legge, chairman of the federal farm board, retract a statement that he ‘•understood" the local company took Russian wheat In payment for farm machinery. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: East wind. 12 miles an hour; temperature 62; barometric pressure. 30.39 at sea level; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, 5 fijiles* §e& good.

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name Bell did not know, were hired, Bell testiiied, to kill the reporter for SIO,OOO. They were to collect the money, he said, from Christ Patras, north side restaurant owner and friend of Jack Zuta, powerful gang leader who police say hated Lingle because the reporter “shook him down” and then double crossed him. When they tried to collect their SIO,OOO, Bell testified, Patras drew a gun instead of money from his safe, a duel ensued and Patras was killed. A few months later Zuta was killed in a Wisconsin hotel resort. Bell has been in jail since late June, Sullivan since late July. Police

PUBLIC RIGHTS CANCELED FOR CUBA ELECTION Island Congress Votes Full Dictator’s Power to President. Bv United Press HAVANA, Oct. 4.—The Cuban congress gave President Gerardo Machado the power to suspend constitutional rights until after the November elections at a special session early today. Congress adopted the measure, presented by the president, by a vote of 15 to 5 in the senate, and 78 to 10 in the house. The presidential message said that extraordinary conditions in Cuba made "necessary the suspension of constitutional rights, which meant granting of dictatorial powers to the president. The president did not state when or for how long he intended to use the power granted him. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scrinps-Honard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—With the action of the Cuban congress suspending civil rights, the United States is brought face to face with yet another grave and complex problem in its already complicated relations with the countries of the Caribbean. With the eyes of the other nineteen republics of Latin-America intently fixed on Washington, watching its every move, or its failure to move, the state department admittedly is anxious. Intervention in Cuba, in event of serious disorders, would arouse still another storm, from Tia Juana to Punta Arenas. Failure to take a hand to restore the civil liberties of the Cuban masses, as guaranteed by treaty, likewise will provoke widespread criticism. Charged too Complacent Cuban exiles in this country already charge the United States has been too complacent. Dr. Domingo Tamargo, wealthy member of the Cubanbar and autnority on constitutional law. asserts President Machado brought about his re-elect-tion “in clear violation of the Constitution, by scrapping the Crowder electorial code and in complete defiance of the subsisting treaty with the United States.” Citing cases, Dr. Tamargo declared that long before now, free speech, free press and the right of assembly were denied the Cuban people. “Th Cuban people can not by peaceful and orderly processes hope to restore constitutional and decent government in their country,” he said. “They can not resort to revolution because this will bring the intervention of the United States, a condition which the Cubans greatly fear in view of the fact that the United States, through its embassy in Havana, has appeared to support the Machado regime with all its tyranny and oppression.” Drafted by Crowder The Crowder electoral code to which Tamargo refers was enacted by the Cuban congress in 1919. It largely was drafted by General Enoch H. Crowder at the request of the two leading parties of the island to insure an effective party system and honest elections. It contains provisions to prevent cliques from “delivering” the political parties en masse, through usurpation of power. A candidate, for example, may not run on two tickets, and nominations shall be made in a manner somewhat like that obtaining in this country*. President Machado's opponents charge him with violating all these provisions and since, his re-election, with having used the army to prevent the holding of political meetings against him. Charge U. S>. to Blame The United States, Cubans charge, largely is responsible for these violations. The Platt amendment to the Cuban constitution, forced upon the people of the island agairst their will, they assert, and subsequently put into treaty form, makes i it the duty of Washington to safeguard life, property and individual liberty of the inhabitants, and a warning to the Cuban president, given in time, might have been the stitch to prevent the present threatened wholesale disintegration. The attitude of Washington today is one of the extreme reluctance, more so. perhaps, than has been the case in the past. This is partly due to the fact that a burnt child dreads another scorching. What a red flag is to a bull, intervention in any part of Latin-Amer-ica is to the rest of that region, and the Nicaraguan adventure, to mention only the latest, did not, to say the lfast, make Uncle Sam any more popular with his neighbors.

say both have confessed numerous robberies and to killing Patra Traum is in Leavenworth i on, where he and Bell first becanu acquainted. He was returned there 1 recently for violating his parole. I He was in Chicago June 9. Coroner Bundesen said he has bet decking Bell’s confession for many weeks and has found no reason to doubt it. He hurriedly called a jury together Friday night and ! made public the story after he had become convinced that it was true. Bell told the jury that he believed the blond man whose name he did not know was the actual j slayer of Linge, whose death resulted 1

Shades of Jesse James!

Ethel Rose James. 22-year-old granddaughter of Jesse James, the noted outlaw, has gone into the highway business herself—but she’s not a highwayman, just the proprietor of a roadside case that she and her sister have opened near Culver City, Cal. The establishment has a display of a number of Jesse James’ personal effects, including the bandit’s spurs and a Winchester rifle that he carried for eight years, with which Miss James is shown above.

‘LIE’ IS HURLED AT KNIFE KILLING QUIZ

Coroner Resents Charge of Prosecutor at Grand Jury Probe. Bn Unitrd Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 4.—The lie was passed as South Bend authorities, harassed by three recent murders, two of them unsolved, clashed in the grand jury investigation of the murder of Marverine Appel. 8, and Alice Woltman, 17. Harry S. Taylor, prosecutor, accused Coroner C. B. Crumpacker with attempting to burlesque the grand jury investigation in the Appel case. Crumpacker, who had announced that he would conduct an independent investigation, retaliated with a charge that Taylor’s statement was a “contemptible lie.” George S. Myers, 34, who had been held at the state prison, subsequent to his series of confessions and retractions to the attack and murder of the Appel child, was reported insane by a commisison at the state prison in Michigan City, Friday afternoon. Meanwhile police sought Herbert Smith, 34, Negro, who admitted killing his wife, Lula, with a shotgun, then disappeared. DIES IN RIVER PLUNGE Detroiter Drives Speeding Auto Off Dock. By United Press DETROIT, Oct. 4. —Before the horrified gaze of two dock idlers, Albert Hampson, 41, a toolmaker, rode to a spectacular death here late Friday when he drove his automobile at high speed, off the Third street dock into the Detroit river. The witnesses to the death ride told police that Hampson accelerated his car as it approached the dock and had attained an estimated speed of forty miles an hour when it plunged into the water thir-ty-five feet deep. Hampson had been in ill health for three months, his widow said. FUNERAL RITES SET FOR CHAPIN WAGNER Insurance Agent, 59, Had Lived in City for Thirty Years. Funeral services for Chapin Wagner, 59, insurance man and resident of Indianapolis thirty years, who died Friday at his home. 124 West Thirty-seventh street, will be held at 2 Monday at the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetry. Wagner was associated with the Kansas City Life Insurance Company and the Indemnity Life and Casualty Company. He was born in Vernon and attended Indiana university. Survivors include the widow and a brother. Ir* Wagner of Indianapolis.

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In discovering that he was a racketeer, in a violent police “shakeup,” and in bringing about a drive against crime that has had no parallel in the history of Chicago. Bell came to Chicago on April 9, he said, and met Traum, whom he had helped obtain a release from Leavenworth by making changes in Traum’s parole papers. Bell was a trusty clerk at the prison. The afternoon of June 9, Bell testified, he drove a stolen automobile, with Traum and Sullivan as passengers, to the Illinois Central pedestrian subway where Lingle was slain. There, he said, they met the blond man and Traum handed him

How the Market Opened

Bv Untied Press NEW YORK, Oct. 4.—United States Steel opened off %, at 158%, today on the Stock Exchange, but the majority of other issues made small gains in quiet trading. Steel immediately rose to 159. Radio Corporation held unchanged at 2814 and no change was noted in Texas Corporation, Radio-Keith-Orpheum, American Can and General Motors. Fractional gains were made by Vanadium, Chrysler, Sinclair, Packard, Bethlehem Steel, Standard of New York and General Electric. Kennecott was a firm spot in the coppers, rising nearly a point to 29 T g. Columbia Gas rose Hi, to 55%. in the utilities, where National Power and Light and International Telephone also were in demand. Westinghouse Electric opened at 131 "a, off %, and then rose a point from that level. Fox was much improved in the amusements, rising 1% to 42%. During the early dealings prices were holding firm in very quiet turnover. Steel firmed up to 159% and other leaders were up fractionally from the opening levels. FIELD, BRIDE IN AFRICA Chicago Millionaire Arrives by Plane for Big Game Hunt. Bv United Press KHARTOUM, Sudan, Africa, Oct. 4.—Marshall Field II of Chicago and his bride arrived today on their airplane tour and big game hunt in Africa. Hourly Temperature 6 a. m 50 8 a. m 56 7 a. m 52 9 a. m..... 62 10 a. m 64

U. S. DOPE SQUADS NAB 44, SEIZE DRUGS IN OHIO

By United Press CLEVELAND. Oct. 4.—After conclusion of three wo. 3ks work by two under cover agents, federal narcotic agents and city police in Cleveland and Akron early today arrested forty-four men and women on charges of peddling dope. More than $75,000 worth of morphine, heroin and cocain was seized, according to Ralph H. Oyler, agent in charge of the Ohio and Michigan districts. Fourteen were arrested here and thirty-one in Akron, agents said. The value of the dope seized in the Akron raids was not known. Agents said they learned that nearly all of the drugs being illegally dispensed in northern Ohio are shipped from New York. In an alleged drug den in the southeast section of the city, raiding agents were threatened with revolvers by three women after having

a snub-nosed pistol which he had tested a few minutes before in an alley a few blocks away. He waited, he testified, while Traum, Sullivan and the blond man went into the tunnel to “kidnap a man.” When they returned, Sullivan had been shot in the leg. They informed him their work had been done. The next day he read of the Lingle murder and said it was the first time he knew who their victim been. After Sullivan had recovered from the mysterious bullet wound, supposedly sustained as he was running from the tunnel, the two men went to Patras’ restaurant to col-

POOR’S PUGHT LAUGHED OFF BY4HEARER ‘Just Political Thunder,’ Says County Chief in Dodging Blame. Attempting to dodge blame for the plight of 370 male inmates at the county poor farm, revealed this week as result of investigation by The Times, County Commissioner John E. Shearer, Coffin henchman, today described the situation as “politics.” Sidetracking any temporary relief measures, Shearer seized at the pretext that The Times’ disclosures are Democratic campaign propaganda. He made a public statement to that effect despite binding action of State Fire Marshall Alfred M. Hogston, who, at request of The Times, ordered an investigation of poor farm conditions. Hogston Friday officially notified all commissioners end members of the county council to vacate the men’s building within ninety days. Unfit for Human Beings Hogston’s notification warned officials the men's building is a fire trap “unfit for human occupancy.” For the past five years county grand juries have laid the same verdict before commissioners. The Times investigation laid ba,re these sailent facts; More than a dozen aged and infirm men are sleeping on straw “ticks” on cold hallway floors. Scores of cots have been jammed in corridors, which in many instances are ill ventilated and dark. Facilities for feeding the constantly increasing population are overtaxed. The disease menace has become a paramount problem, which attendants admit is serious. Relief must be extended by officials if male inmates are to be housed decently this winter. Seeing opportunity for political ammunition in the investigation, two publicity men for the Democratic county committee were quick to get on the scene when Harry M. Styner, deputy fire marshal, was making the investigation at The Times’ request. Republicans’ Ire Aroused Republican county officials’ ire was aroused when results of the fire marshal’s probe were broadcast by radio speakers for the Democratic county committee. Shearer today construed the events as “campaign thunder.” “The whole thing is nothing but a feeble attempt by Democrats to discredit us. The men’s building is not dilapidated. It is clean and Inmates are being given the best of care,” Shearer said. Shearer, a candidate for re-elec-tion, pledged himself earlier this week to build six new buildings at the infirmary. Ordinance calling for issuance of $198,000 bonds to finance the improvement has been prepared for submission to the county council Oct. 17. ACTIVITIES OF PAIR PROBED AFTER RAID Police Find 24 Suits, 19 Dress' * in Apartment; Two Held. Detectives today were investigating activities of Miss Hazel Mae Hopper, 39, and Emil Parmerlee, 38, both of 334 East Walnut street, Apt. 3, who were arrested Friday night in the apartment. Twenty-four men’s suits, nineteen women’s dresses, and three coats were found in the apartment by detectives. The two are held on vagrancy charges.

forced their way through three barricaded doors. The women were subdued after a struggle. A large quantity of marijuana, a Mexican drug, was seized in the £jace. Investigations which led up to the raids were conducted by agents Malcolm MasFayden and J. C. McAvoy. The two spent more than $3,000 for drugs during the investigation, Oyler said. The raids were made in all sections of the city. Arrrest of Mike Campo, considered one of the most important peddlers picked up, was made in public square. He was said to be a member of what is thought to be a large dope ring. More than SI,OOO worth of drugs were sold by him to the undercover agents, they charged. He wars held on $50,000 bond. Additional arrests and chug seizures were expected today.

lect their money. The shooting of Patras followed. Shortly after that Bell was arrested after a holdup in which another of his companions was slain. He confessed, Bundesen said, to many crimes, and, becoming angry because Sullivan did not visit him, involved Sullivan. The story of the Lingle murder was brought out a bit at a time, the coroner said, until Bell, goaded by his conscience, confessed everything. Bundesen recently went to Leavenworth, questioned Traum, who denied the story, and checked on details of Bell’s confession. He said he found the man’s story true in

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Bn United Press BRADDOCK, Pa„ Oct, 4.—A man and his wife were killed and two other persons were wounded seriously when three men opened fire with a machine gun here today. U. S. Agents Smash at 3 More Stills ‘Death Blow’ Is Fired at Booze Industry in Clinton District. Three stills with a capacity of 2,500 gallons were confiscated by federal prohibition agents Friday night in what they termed a “death blow” against the giant whisky and alcohol industry in Clinton, Ind. Federal agents who had obtained six stills Friday morning found more than 60,000 gallons of mash working in the three places they raided Friday night. Two of the stills were of 1,000-gallon capacity and were used for cooking alcohol, agents said. The third was for 500 gallons of whisky distilling, they said. .No Further Raids Likely James G. Browning, prohibition inspector who directed the smash on the liquor-making section, said he believed the raids were the “death blow” to the illicit business that has brought hundreds of thousands of dollars to operators. It was believed agents will not make further raids in the district. They were called to Indianapolis today to attend hearings in federal court. Browning, however, intimated several arrests will be made next week. Operating for Years In one of the places where agents found a 1,000-gallon still they said they also unearthed a cistern containing 12,000 gallons of mash. Large silo-type vats augmented the mash capacity in the places, they said. For years a network of stills has been operated In the section. Liquor sold by gangsters in Illinois, Indiana and other parts of the middle west has been made in this area. FOURCONFESS CHILD MURDER Body of Boy, 3, Was Twisted Lifeless at Rum Bout. Bit United Press NEW MARTINSVILLE, W. Va., Oct. 4.—Four men, one of whom is a government worker, assertedly confessed to police today to the brutal murder of 3-year-old Garlan Bally, whose bruised and battered body was found on Grandview island in the Ohio river early Monday morning. The boy’s mother, Eva Baily 40, also was held implicated in the alleged confession. Terminating an all night period of questioning, Ray Henry, light tender on the island for the government; his brother Charles and Clyde Mcßee and James Dunn, both of Grand View, signed confessions admitting the crime, police said. The confession narrated a cold blooded tale of how the four men and the w*oman who was divorced from Garlan’s father, took the child to the island last Sunday afternoon during a drinking party and deciding to “get rid of the kid,” the men took the screaming child in their hands and twisted the body until it was lifeless. WALKS STREET WITH SIGN SEEKING WORK Detroit Man Spends Five Years’ Savings; He’s Still Jobless. DETROIT, Oct. 4.—Joe Vandervoort had been out of work a year. The savings of five prosperous years have dwindled away and payments on the little house he was buying had lapsed. He lived outside the city limits and could not obtain welfare board aid. Finally Vandervoort painted a sign. It read: “Who will help me get a job? I do not want charity.” With the sign on his shoulder and his “heart shriveling within him” Vandervoort walked the downtown street* He still Is undbptoyed. '

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every detail he has been able to check upon thus far. -Sullivan, police said, has confessed that he and Bell killed Patras, but has denied any part in the Lingle killing, insisting he shot Patras because the restaurant owner resisted during a holdup. Both men are under indictment for the Patras slaying. Bell’s story, told rapidly and in a manner that bore out his contention that he was talking to clear his conscience, regardless of the consequences, was in line with police theories that Jack Zuta ordered the slaying of Lingle. While it left many angles of the

CARDINALS, BACKS TO WALL, FACE ATHLETICS TODAY IN THIRD WORLD SERIES TILT Fate of Red Birds, Trailing Two Games, Rests in Ham-Like Fists of Wild Bill Hallahan, Fire Ball Lefty. BY FRANK GETTY United Press Sports Editor ST. LOUIS, Oct. 4.—Backed by their home town fans, pepped up by the forceful admonitions of ‘Sergeant” Gabby Street and faced with the stern necessity of winning now or never, the St. Louis Cardinals went out today to try to wrest the third game of the 1930 world series from the Philadelphia Athletics. Defeat today undoubtedly would send the Red Birds to join the unhappy line of National League champions who have been beaten so decisively and unceremoniously by American League clubs during the past three series. Victory would put an entirely new complexion upon this thus far one-sided engagement for the world’s championship, and so the Cardinals tightened their belts and went to Sportsman’s Park determined to put up one of those battles which carried them from far behind to a smashing triumph in the recent pennant race.

Upon the strong left arm of young Bill Hallahan, a snubnosed, big-eared Irish boy, the National League champions and their followers pinned their hopes. It was Hallahan who pitched them to victory over Brooklyn in what proved the crucial game of the regular season late in September, when they took all the heart out of the Brooklyn Robins in an epic, 1 to 0, ten-inning struggle. And it was Hallahan who hel l their fate in his ham-like left hand today. As usual, the astute Mr. McGillicuddy, whose Athletics seem about to present him with his fifth world’s championship, was sitting back and saying nothing about his pitching selection for the third game. Hopes for Inspiration Having won with “Lefty” Grove and George Eamshaw, Connie —if the truth must out—has been hoping for some inspiration to help him pick another pitcher who can beat the Cardinals. This would leave him with both Grove and Eamshaw available to put a quick finish to the series. “I don’t know myself, and that’s a fact,” said the veteran manager of the American league champions when asked concerning his choice for the third game. It may be Bill Shores, a rough, tough, young right hander, or old Rube Walberg, a wise and wily southpaw. Or it may be Grove right over again, with Eamshaw to follow, in a bold move for a clean sweep of the series. Shortly before 1:30 p. m. this afternoon, one of the Philadelphia pitchers will saunter over to the little white-washed circle reserved for the final warming up, and then, and not until then, will the 42,000 fans in Sportman’s park and the 42,000,000 fans everywhere else know who has been selected. Wilson Behind Bat The Cardinals will try their star southpaw, with a veteran catcher behind the plate, instead of young Gus Mancuso. The hitter put up a great exhibition of backstopping in the first two games in Philadelphia, but Street has decided to take a chance on Jimmy Wilson, who was forced from the lineup late tn the season with an injured ankle. Wilson, a veteran, may prove a better receiver for Hallahan, who not so long ago won the appellation of “Wild Bill.” Thus far the Athletics have been economizing on hits, and have made the dozen obtained off Grimes and Rhem in the first two games good for eleven runs. They feel they are due to cut loose today against Hallahan, and indeed the youngster is being sent into a tight spot on the western front, with Mickey Cochrane, A1 Simmons and Jimmy Foxx polishing up their bats for a big killing. Naturally enough, the Athletics are overwhelming favorites to win the championship and 7 to 5 choices for today’s game. Cards Cite Park Difference Natioral League adherents were , hopeful that Sportsman's park, which measures considerably more than Bhibe port; from home plate

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sensational mystery unsolved, it was regarded as the most important development since Lingle was slain. The slaying of Lingle, whose racketeering income, it was revealed, amounted to $60,000 a year, resulted almost immediately in the police "shake-up” and the starting of numerous drives against crime. Police are certain it had some connection with the murder of Zuta. whose death resulted in the finding of records that disclosed the enormous power which gangs had assumed in Chicago and led them to starting of new drives which municipal Judge John H. Lyle declared Friday have “forever ended the reign of the gangs.’’

ConfidenceBit United Prt s NEW YORK, Oct. 4.-A St. Louis Cardinal adherent today placed a freak bet on the world wagerin ? S2OO against $3,000 the Cards would win the next four games. J. S. Fried & Cos., betting commissioners, quote series odds of 4 to 1 in favor of the Philadelphia Athletics, with odds on today’s game at 13 to 10.

to the right field wall, would be able to provide a haven for the sort of fly balls which Cochrane and Simmons developed into home runs in the first two games. “Tom Thumb baseball,” as Hughie Fullerton calls it, is blamed by St. Louis fans for the defeat of their favorites in the opening game of the senes, and it is true that, given a little more room, an alert right fielder could have caught both of the home runs hit on Wednesday. On the other hand, “Sunny Jim” Bottomley. who hasn’t even been able to get to first base this series, except when taking his position in the field, is believed to be overdue for a homer or two. The Cardinals’ first baseman and clean-up hitter has a way of coming through with the winning punch after a disappointing start. The Athletics’ pitchers have got him down, but they may not be able to keep him there. The way this rather uninteresting series has been going, one good clean-up wallop, applied at the proper moment, would go a long ways toward restoring the St. Louis Cardinals to something like good standing. BANKER GIVEN DIVORCE India Financier Once Left Bride Stranded With S. By United Press RENO, Nev., Oct. 4.—Giraud Thrach, member of a prominent Nek York family and vice-president of the City National bank at Bombay, India, received a divorce degree Friday from Mrs. Marjorie Thrach. The couple aroused interest when shortly after their marriage in Bombay in August, 1928, Thrach disappeared, leaving his bride stranded at a hotel with only $6. QUIZZED IN SHOOTING Art Dampier Held in Wounding of Ray Walsh. Art Dampier, 1529 Wade street, is heV today at police headquarters investigation in connection with a probe into the shooting of Ray Walsh. Walsh is in the city hospital suffering from gunshot wounds sustained two months ago following an altercation. Walsh has refused to discuss the shooting. Dampier is held on a vagrancy count. Sorority Initiates Four Bv Times Biteeinl GREENCASTLE, Ind., Oct. 4. Four sophomore women at De Pauw university reached the required scholastic standing their first year I to be initiated Into Alpha Lambda Delta, national scholastic sorority for freshmen. They are Madge | Thorn town, Mlddlebury; Erma Jui lian, Greencastle; Wilma Abell, Nappanee, and Cyrillc Pratt. Ham-, mend. 1