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FIFI STILLMAN WEDS HEIR OF M’CORMICKS Divorcee Ends Stormy Life With Banker; Marriage Follows Closely. BRIDE IS 52; MATE 32 Court Clashes of Pair Were Sensations for Years in New York. By United Press NEW YORK, June 6.—The tempestuous marital life which has taken the James A. Stiflmans through one court after another over a period of eleven years, definitely was at an end today, wit hthe signing of a final divorce decree and the marriage of Mrs. Anne Uurquhart (Fifi) Stillman to Fowler McCormick, son of Harold F. McCormick of Chicago and grandson of John D. Rockefeller and Cyrus H. McCormick. Mrs. Stillman’s divorce and her marriage to McCormick, twenty years her junior, were as surprising and as unexpected as her recent reconciliation with Stillman, after five years of court litigation, charges and counter charges of infidelity which brought to light the most intimate details of their married life. At that time Mrs. Stillman had a divorce action pending, but she dropped this suddenly and sailed with Stillman, banker and financial leader, on the Olympic on Feb. 6, 1926. Marries Younger Man Joseph Morschauser, supreme court justice, signed the final decrees at New City, N. Y., and it was filed at the county clerk’s office at Poughkeepsie Friday. Mrs. Stillman and McCormick were married at the home of John D. Rockefeller Sr. in Pocantico Hills, N. Y„ Thursday afternoon by Justice Graham A. Witschieff of Newburgh. The witnesses were John E. Mack, Mrs. Stillman’s lawyer, who announced the marriage Friday night, and Mrs. James Stillman Jr., Mrs. Stilman’s daughter-in-law. Meanwhile, Stillman, a former president of the National City bank, was on the Olympic bound for Europe. The McCormicks have gone to her cottage at East Hampton, L. 1., where they plan to spend the summer. Mrs. McCormick is 52, and McCormick is 32. Mrs. McCormick met her present husband through her son Bud, and they hav been friends since he was 22. McCormick aided Mrs. Stillman when her husband sued for divorce, disavowing the paternity of her youngest son, Guy, and naming Fred Beauvais, a Canadian Indian guide, as co-respondent and father of the child. Stillman is charged in the present decree with misconduct while in Nevada in 1930. In her interlocutory decree, Mrs. Stillman offered to name three women with whom Stillman had committed indiscretions, but the final decree made no mention of these. Justice Morschauser, who has presided in nearly all the Stillman litigation, heard the divorce case on Feb. 21. Neither of the principals appeared. The interlocutory decree * was granted on March 3. It specifically records that Stillman admitted being the father of four children by Mrs. Stillman Mrs. Henry P. Davison, 28; James (Bud) Stillman, 26; Alexander, 19, and Guy, 12. The testimony was not filed with the decree, the divorce and remarriage being conducted with the utmost secrecy. Mack said the court had given Mrs. Stillman custody of Guy. , For a number of years, to all outward appearances, the Stillmans were living in a state of connubial bliss. During the years following Mrs. Stillman saw McCormick often, but always laughed when it was suggested that she might marry him some day. McCormick is a graduate of the Parker school of Chicago, Groton school and Princeton . At one time was reported seeking the hand of his present wife's daughter, Anne . U. S. MAYORS ANGRY AT ‘JUNKETING’ IDEA V‘This Is a Dignified Trip,* Assertion of Portland (Ore.) Chief. By tlnitcd Press PARIS, June 6.—Visiting American mayor, angry at reports they have been on a “junketing” tour of France, planned to gather today to dutline a plan of action proving they were working hard on their present sojourn abroad. “This has been a dignified and informative trip,” Mayor George Baker, Portland, Ore., said. “There have been absolutely no un-Ameri-can incidents.” Baker was the mayor who was ousted as chairman of the visiting party - after a controversy when he was criticized for trying to "hog the whole show.’ “Much information has been gained,” Mayor Samuel Waimsley of New Orleans said. "It has been a proper, dignified trip” In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a."ra.: Southwest wind, sixteen miles an hour; temperature, 77; barometric pressure, 29.87 at sea level; ceiling, thin, broken clcutluc:;, milirfited; visibility, ten miles; field, good

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LINDY CONSIDERS GREENLAND ROUTE FOR ORIENT TOUR Far North Course Would Take Air Ace Across Atlantic for Second Time, With Long Arctic Trip. By United Press NEW YORK, June 6.—Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh had under consideration today a plan to fly by way of Greenland #nd Spitzbergen to the Orient, as an alternate to the projected trans-Pacific flight to China and Japan. Should the colonel decide on this route instead of the Alaskan and Aleutian Island route, the flight would take him across the Atlantic by airplane for the second time, much of it in the Arctic regions, over Europe and Asia and southward into China through Mongolia. Such a route from New York to the coast of Siberia would cover approximately 4,500 miles.

CAVE-IN KILLS FIVE WORKERS Excavation Wall Gives Way; Four Are Injured. By United Press PHILADELPHIA. June 6.—Five workmen were believed to have been killed by a cave-in as they were working in an excavation here today seventy feet below the street level. A policeman, Elmer Patterson, was killed when a patrol wagon in which he rode collided with a truck while speeding to the scene of the disaster. The excavation was being carried on for the construction of the thirty-two-story building of the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society. The five missing men were buried beneath the tons of earth when the south wall of the excavation, forty feet high, gave way. Rescuers attempting to find the missing men were halted when it was found the remainder of the wall might collapse and that reinforcements would have to be made before the rescue work could continue. PROWLERS ROUTED 1 Guns Are Pulled When Men Are Spied Near Homes. Prowlers were welcomed warmly in Indianapolis Friday night. Two outsped hot lead when residents spied them near their homes. Mrs. Mary Roe, through the window of her home at 534 East Miami, street, saw a man peering in and chased him away with a gun. Patrolman Louis P. Geiger, 1113 Church street, saw a man creeping around his house and shot twice, but missed. ILLINOIS WANTS PAIR HELD BY CITY COPS Auto Theft Charge Faced by One of Trio Arrested in Raid. Illinois authorities today were to seek extradition of two of three persons arrested here Friday night on fugitive from justice and vagrancy charges. The trio arrested at 116 East Twenty-seventh street, are Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith ar 1 H. B. Klinger, all of Lawrencr file, 111. Illinois officers allege that the Smiths are wanted for the theft of an auto at Lawrenceville. Klinger was arrested on a vagrancy charge after ten gallons of alleged white mule were found in the house. Klinger denied ownership of the booze. THREE U. S. .JOBS OPEN Posts Are Announced by Henry M. Trimpe of Examiners’ Board. Three openings in the United States plvil service have announced herp who declared that full information as to the posts may be obtained from his office in the federal building. The positions are fire protection engineer in the bureau of standards paying $3,800 a year; junior marketing specialist in tobacco in the bureau of agricultural economics carrying a salary of from $2.000 to $2,600 annually, and assistant superintendent of machinery in the Washington fire department. paying $3,000 a year.

FIRES TO TEST GUN, THEN SHOOTS SELF

- Lying in the shadow of death while an 11-eyar-old daughter weeps and prays for almost hopeless recovery, a nerve-shattered mother is in. St Vincent's hospital, the victime of a suicidal bullet early today. She Is Mrs. Grac Bazis. 30, of 131 South Belmon avenue, who Stood before a miri tr in her bedroom this morning, fired one shot into the mirror frame to test a revolver, and then placed the muzzle pointing upward beneath her chin and pulled the trigger again. In the next room Viola, her daughter, heard the shots and ran screaming to her -mother's room where the form, sprawled on the floor. Maddened with fright the little girl ran from the house into the arms of a neighbor woman, who took the child into her home. Carl Cress, brother of Mrs. Bazis, in the house at the time, was second in the bedroom, and telephoned police who sent Mrs. Bazis to the hospital. The bullet, from a .23calibcr revolver, pierced her head, cm citing at the top and back of the

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Lindbergh said he was considering this route among others, but declined to discuss it, repeating that his plans still were undetermined. If he follows this plan and flies over Greenland and Spitzbergen. it would be necessary for him to obtain permission from the Danish government, which owns the islands, to land and arrange fuel and supply bases. He expects to be ready for the flight in about a month, but. as on his famous trans-Atlantic flight, he probably will not set a definite date and time of departure until just before the start. Mechanics at the Glenn H. Curtiss airport in North Beach, Long Island, virtually have completed converting Colonel Lindbergh’s LoockheedSirius airplane into a flying boat by putting pontoons on the under carriage.

STEAL COSTLY RUGS Passkey Burglars Plunder Home; Store Entered. While Dr. and Mrs. D. L. Bowers, 3934 Arthington boulevard attended a lawn party across the street from their home Friday night, burglars let themselves into the house with a pass key and removed oriental j-ugs valued at S7OO. An ADT alarm sent police to the I. Bremen Jewelry store early today, where they found a burglar had crossed an adjoining roof and cut through the ceiling above the store to enter by means of a rope. Bremen said he could not tell whether anything was missing until he could check his inventory. Two bandits driving an old sedan put a rusty pistol on C. H. Cook, Shell filling station attendant at 1101 Park avenue later Friday and forced Cook to hand over S3O, his day’s receipts. MANY HOOSIERS ARE RETURNING TO FARMS City Unemployed Leaving Rapidly, State Commission Expert Says. Unemployed workers In Indiana cities are returning to the farms from which many of them came during the high wage days when industry was operating at top speed, according to Dr. John H. Hewitt, secretary of the state unemployment commission. Where a single township had twenty-three vacant farms last year there are but three now, he reports. In Hamilton county there is not a single farm left untenanted, Dr. Hewitt declared. They are returning to the farm where they can be assured of something to eat, he pointed out. LOSE SUIT ON POLICY Jury \ erdict Denies Payment of Claim in Theft Case. Suits of the R. L. Leeson & Sons Company of Alexandria to collect $7,131.08 on burglary policies were decided in favor of United States Fidelity and Guaranty’ Company of Baltimore, by a federal court jury Friday. The Leeson dry goods store was looted Nov. 9. 1929, and the insurance company refused to pay the policies on the ground that a" window was left open the entry was not “forced.” W. C. T. U. Work Described By United Press TORONTO. Ontario. June 6. The work of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in Syria and India was described last night at the world convention of the organization.

“The first noise, I thought that was an automobile backfire,’’ Viola sobbed. “Then the next one—X knew' that was mamma.” Friday night Mrs. Bazis told her housekeeper she need not report at tire house early this morning. Mrs. Bazis had been suffering four months from nervous collapse. Her husband John operates a case at Virginia avenue and Maryland street.

CITY’S ‘PUBLIC ENEMIES,’ HUNTED IN JACKSON MURDER, STILL ARE AT LARGE

Twelve public enemies named in a mop-up order Friday still are at: large today despite command of De- ; tective Chief Fred Simon to arrest j them on sight. Order for their roundup was the j latest resource of police on the trail: of three gunmen wanted for the j murder of Lafayette A. Jackson, Standard grocery chain owner, in I

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 6,1931

‘GRACE’ PERIOD IS ENDED FOR CITY AUTOISTS New Traffic Code Will Be Enforced Rigidly Monday. NO EXCUSES, IS EDICT Tow-In, Crane-In Trucks Ready to Pick Up Offenders. Last few hours of their final “reprieve” from enforcement of the new traffic code were being enjoyed today by Indianapolis motorists, as police prepared to enforce the code rigidly Monday. Tow-in and crane-in trucks of the Indianapolis Motor Inns, Inc., which holds the city contract for impounding improperly parked cars, were being tuned up today, ready to swoop Monday on the first luckless motorists who violate provisions of the new code. All police traffic officers have been instructed to send for one of the yellow “police tow-in” trucks to drag away the first automobile they see parked in the downtown congested traffic district between 7 and 9:15 a. m., or cars parked double, i-n alleys, in safety zones and in front of fire plugs, theaters and similar places where parking is banned. No Excuses, Is Rule “Motorists have had several wfeeks to get acquainted with provisions of the new law and no excuses will be considered Monday,” Captain Lewis Johnson, in charge of traffic, said today. To recover impounded cars, motorists must obtain a release from City Clerk Heniy O. Goett and must pay $3, if the car is towedin, or $3.50, if it is craned in. Os this amount, the city will receive $2 and the tow-in garage will receive the remainder. The area banned for parking between 7 and 9:15 a. m., to halt allday parking, is bounded by Senate, Vermont, Alabama and South. Sundays and holidays are excepted. No parking at any time will be permitted on the Circle and its approaches and around the plaza block in which the obelisk is located. Banned Other Places Parking is baned on the west side of Meridian from Vermont to Sixteenth streets between 7 and 9:15 a. m., and on the east side of Meridian, between New York and Sixteenth streets, from 4:30 to 6 p. m. The ordinance bans driving on the middle lane of four-lane streets except for passing other cars; bans driving to the left of safety zones; bans angle parking anywhere; bans parking on the east or north side of streets less than thirty feet wide; bans running through yellow or “change” traffic signals; and bans following fire apparatus closer than 500 feet. It provides motorists must wait until the traffic signal changes before completing a left hand turn. Pedestrians crossing the street at intersections, after having tsarted to cross lawfully, are given right of way over cars. However, pedestrians are required to cross intersections with the “Go” signal. Resolution Hits Ban A resolution opposing the early morning downtown parking ban as unfair was adopted by the South Meridian Street Civic Club last night. parking ban will cause motorists and That the inconvenienc e the the loss of business to downtown merchants will not eb compensated for by other advantages, was the statement of A. J. Voigt, in introducing the resolution. Indianapolis Real Estate Board directors also considered provisions of the new ordinance Friday, instructing the board’s civic affairs cominittee to study all phases of the code. It was stated the direotors felt certain provisions of the ordinance are not necessary for a city the size of Indianapolis.

How the Market Opened

By United Press NEW YORK, June 6.—Prices eased off fractionally at the opening on the Scock Exchange today in light turnover. A few leading issues lost a point or more, but in general selling was not urgent. Steel Common dipped 114 points, to 91 on the first sale, 1,000 shares. New York Central lost a point to 801i>, and J. I. Case l's, to 70; while Standard of New Jersey was down ~s, at 33 Fractional losses were recorded in several of the amusements, oils, coppers and special issues. A. M. Byers ran against the trend, advancing a point to 3114. SearsRoebuck made a smaller gain while Packard, Transamerica, Montgomery Ward and a few others held around the previous closing levels.

his store at 419 East Washington street. Whether Chief Simon suspects any of the twelve whose names went up at headquarters Friday he would not say. although it was certain that one of those sought tallies closely in description with one of the bandits who shot Mr. Jackson. At any rate, guilty or. not, arrest of the twelve most* prominent

They Top Their West Point Class

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Os the 296 cadets in the graduating class at West Point, the seven pictured here have been designated as distinguished students. Left to right, in xhe order of their proficiency for the four scholastic years, they are: Kenneth A. McCrimmon, South Haven, Mich.; Walter H. Esdorn, New Rochelle, N. Y.; Chester W. Ott, Erie, Pa,;

ITALIAN PEACE HOPES DASHEO Sarcastic Answer Given to Mussolini's Brother. By THOMAS B. MORGAN United Press Staff Correspondent ROME, June 6.—Despite publication of a conciliatory article by Arnuldo Mussolini, brother of the premier, w r hich many interpreted as offering peace overtures in the ItaloVatican controversy, it was indicated today that the hoped-for easy solution of the trouble was not at hand. The Vatican’s answer, published today in the official Observatore Romano, was couched in sarcastic terms and it once more disturbed the situation. When the government learned of Osservatore’s comment, it immediately ordered all Italian newspapers not to copy the inspired Mussolini article, which appeared Friday in his Milan newspaper Popolo D’ Italia, and deplored the recent “excessive demonstrations” by young Fascists against the Catholic church and the Pope. The United Press was told: “Don’t look for an immediate solution. These negotiations will continue for some time, and in that there is hope.” PORKERS SHOW LITTLE ACTION AT CITY YARDS Cattle Trade Nominal With Light Receipts on Hand. Hogs showed little action this morning at the city stockyards, prices holding steady with Friday’s average. The bulk, 140 to 300 pounds, sold for $6.25 to $6.45; early top holding at $6.45. Receipts were estimated at 2,o00; holdovers were 262. Cattle were nominal with receipts of 100. All classes held higher for the weeks. Vealers were unchanged at $8 down. Calf receipts w r ere 100. Hardly enough sheep were on hand Hardly enough sheep were on hand to make a market. The trend being lower at the close of the week’s trade. Sales were mostly $7.50 to $9. Receipts were 100.’ Chicago hog receipts were 6,000, including 5,000 direct. Quality was plain with market uneven. Prices held steady to 10 cents lower. Some cleanup lots were off more. Choice 160 to 240 pound weights $6.30 to $6.40; top. $6.40; plain kinds, $6 to $6.15; good to choice, 300 to 3’s pounds. $6; packing sows, $5 .■ $5.40; extreme weights down io $4.75; practically no pigs or light lights offered. Shippers took 500: estimated holdovers 2,000. warnsTndianOrivers Warning has been issued by Gus Mueller, chief heraing judge in the automobile license bureau, that Hoosiers driving to Canada on vacations must have their Indiana drivers’ licenses. Several already have been stopped there, Mueller reported. SOCIETY GURL~To WED By United Press NEW YORK. June 6.—Owen D. Young today announced the engagement of his daughter Josephine to Everett Needham Case of Plainfield, N. J., assistant secretary of the General Electric Company. The wedding will be held late this month.

gangsters in town will bring the chief figures of Indianapolis 1 underworld in for questioning, and from them some valuable information might be forthcoming on the crime now under investigation, the chief believes. * Virtually every police method has crashed against a stone wall in the man hunt that now is ten days old. That at least one of the bandits

Richard L. Jewett, Ft. Howard. Md.; Frederick G. Saint, Elmhurst, 111.; Frederick W. Warren, New York City; Louis R. Wirak, Butte, Mont. The marks of these honor men were 92 or better in every subject, while Cadet McCrimmon, whose standing was highest, scored a total of 2,828.58 out of a possible 2,970 classroom points.

What a Gal! She's Engaged to Two and Elopes With Two; ✓ Weds One Twice.

CHICAGO, June 6.—The former Miss Consuelo Stemm of Kenosha, Wis., was on her honeymoon today after being engaged to two men, eloping •with both of them, and marrying one of them twice, all within twentyfour hours. Miss Stemms’ engagement to Edward Beneke, member of a wealthy Highland Park family, was announced two weeks ago. Thursday she eloped, but not with Beneke. The winning suitor was Charles W. Allen, son of a Kenosha banker. They were married in Waukegan, the “Gretna Green” of northera Illinois. Three hours later the bride told Beneke of the elopement. He fainted. Beneke’s grief was so great Mrs. Allen became fearful. She told him she would marry him, after all. They went to Crown Point, which is as much of a “Gretna Green” in Indiana as Waukegan is in Illinois. At Crown Point, she and Beneke obtained a marriage license. They drove then to Lafayette, Ind., where Beneke’s sister Olga lives. Olga persuaded them to return to their homes. The Allens were married again Friday night at a church ceremony performed under a special dispensation from Archbishop Streitch of Milwaukee. TILSON’S WET VOTING MAY COST HIM POST Likely to Lose Speakership of House to Dry Snell. By Scripns-H oicard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, June 6. The prohibition question may play a big part in deciding who is to be the Speaker of the house, in case the Republicans organize that body. Although neither of the two leading Republican candidates, John Q. Tilson of Connecticut and Bertrand H. Snell of New York, has shown any desire to inject the prohibition issue, their records on this question are so diametrically opposed that it is difficult to see how the question can be avoided. Tilson has voted wet each time he answered a roll call on a bill involving prohibition, whereas Snell has constantly voted as a dry. Friends of the New Yorker believe this dry record may elect him Speaker. Masons Are in Cuba HAVANA, June 6.—A group of 500 Masons, on a post-convention visit to Havana from St. Petersburg, Fla., were here today. The delegation, members of the Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the enchanted realm, arrived on the new P. &; O. Lines steamer Florida, making her first special sailing from Port Tampa, Fla

GUNNER FELLED BY UNARMED ‘VICTIM’

By United Press NEW YORK, June 6.—A husky distributing superintendent today refused to be impressed by the sight of a machine gunner and with one blow knocked the lhachine gunner

was w'ounded in the battle with Mr. Jackson and three detectives, police are certain. They are equally sure that someone in Indianapolis knows who the gunmen were. To that person, for information leading to arrest and conviction of the slayers, The Times and friends and business associates of Mr. Jackson have rewards that aggregate $3,100. r

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DOX TO VISIT NEW YORK SOON Giant Flying Boat to Stop at Brazilian Ports. By United Press NATAL, Brazil, June 6.—The DOX, German flying boat, will proceed northward on its way to New York after a brief visit at Brazilian ports, it definitely was announced today. Captain Friedrich Christiansen, in command, said he hoped to leave for Rio De Janeiro shortly for a brief visit in the Brazilian capital. He doubted that they would take the big trans-Atlantic flying yacht farther south than Rio, however, desiring to hasten on to the United States. The DOX landed hare Friday f/’om Fernando Noronha, a Brazilian island 125 miles off Natal, after a swift, uneventful flight over the south Atlantic from Europe by way of West Africa and the Cape Verde islands. The cruise over the ocean was made without mishap, successfully ending this phase of the long delayed flight which began last November at Altenrhein, Switzerland. AMELIA'S AUTOGIRO IS DAMAGED IN STORM Forced Down in Nevada; to Go to Reno for Repairs. By United Press LOVELOCK, Nev., June 6. Amelia Earhart Putnam, first woman aviator to attempt a transcontinental autogiro flight, prepared to continue today to Reno for repairs to her ship, which was damaged in a forced landing here. Mrs. Putnam encountered a sand and thunderstorm in the desert two miles east of here Friday evening and made a hurried landing. Her stay in Reno will depend upon the time required for repairs. SEIZE ‘BOTTLED IN BOND' Cops Get Expensive Whisky in Raid on Apartment; Hold Pair. Bottles, purporting to contain such highclass brands of liquors as “Sandy McDonald,” “Walker s Rye” and “Teachers Highland Cream,” are in police headquarters today with their alleged owner, James Milton Wallace, 22, of Detroit, arrested in an apartment at Pratt and Pennsylvania streets. Police said they confiscated more than twenty quarts of alleged liquor and will turn the case over to federal authorities. Wallace is charged with blind tiger. Grider Barks, 1149 North Meridian street, in the apartment when the raid was made, was charged with vagrancy.

down and caused a gang of three robbers to flee. Three bandits, one of whom carried a light machine gun, overpowered fckir employes of R. H. Macy’s distributing center at Aubumdale, L. 1,, and forced them to | accompany the bandits to the home :of the superintendent, George ? Mathews. I At the Mathews home the ma- ! chine gunner knocked, suggested to j Mathews that he “come for a ride j with the boys,” showing the machine gun. Mathews swung. The i bandit rolled down the flight of steps, regained his feet, ran to a waiting motor car and with his two i bandit aids escaped. Not a shot was fired. Hourly Temperatures 6 a m 69 8 a. m..... 74 7a. m,.... 70 9a. ask... 77

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ARREST SEEN AS FINISH FOR CAPONE REIGN Long Prison Sentence Is Deemed Certain for Tax Violations. CASE CALLED AIRTIGHT Gang Czar Posts Bond and Vanishes Back Into Underworld Haunts. By United Prat CHICAGO. June 6.—lndictment and surrender of Scarface A1 Capone on charges of evading income tax payments was hailed today throughout Chicago as definitely marking the downfall of the most powerful and elusive gang chieftain in local or American history. Federal, state, and city officials, as well as all newspapers, agreed Capone's chances of escaping conviction and imprisonment are slight. Such predictions were based upon the record of George E. O. Johnson, United States district attorney, who brought about Capone’s indictment after three years of work, during which many lesser gangsters were captured. Gang Chief Surrenders Capone, chief of all gang chiefs, was the ninth gangster indicted. Johnson has been successful in his prosecution of the previous eight. It was considered safe to predict he would be successful in the ninth. Capone’s surrender came late Friday, three hours after indictments against him were made public. He was accompanied to the United States marshal’s office by his attorneys. A surety bond for $50,000 to cover the amount previously set, preceded him. The gang leader was in the office only a short time, signed his bonds, then disappeared again into the underworld which he controls. The two indictments, one voted in March and kept secret, charged that Capone owes the government $215,030.48 on a total income of $1,038,654.84 from 1924 to 1929. inclusive. No pretense was made that this was Capone’s total income for those years. It represented instead the amounts which Johnson and his staff said they knev/ they could prove_ ha had earned.

Never Paid Tax The gangster never has paid any income tax. Locating his wealth was a work of years, officials said, because he dealt always in cash and kept no .bank accounts. The voluminous indictments did not specify that any of the income designated had been derived from the extensive liquor or vice syndicates Capone is said to have contrelled and from which it was said he made millions annually. It revealed after Capone's surrender that much of the income specified renresented money sent to him from Chicago when he was living at his estate in Florida. Other evidence was gathered. Johnson revealed, by questioning of ether gangsters who “squealed" on their “big boss’’ to save themeslves. Some of these gangsters were members of Capone’s “inner circle,” the “cabinet” of lieutenants who were said to have ruled the gang world. Case Seems Airtight During the three years that Capone’s income was under investigation, scores of stills, roadhouses and vice resorts were raided. Every person arrested was questioned regarding money paid to Capone from these “enterprises.” Bit by bit, working day and night, sometimes with half a dozen men, sometimes with fifty. Johnson gathered his evidence. Never, he said, did he consider indicting Capone until he was “sure” that he could win in the courtroom. Because of this sureness on Johnson’s part, predictions were made freely today that Capone might plead guilty. Expect Booze Indictment BY THOMAS L. STOKES Vnited Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 6.—lndictment of A1 Capone, Chicago gang leader, on charges cf conspiracy to violate prohibition laws, thus striking directly at his far flung bootleg racket, is expected to follow the federal government's first blow in securing indictment for alleged income tax law’ violations? Government agents, it was learned today, gathered a mass of evidence about the gangster’s liquor operations in the investigation which brought his indictment Friday at Chicago on charges of twenty-two income tax violations. OfTcials believe a successful move against the giant liquor racket which Capone has built up, on top of the income tax move, would wipe out the organized bootleg ring which had made him known from coast to COuSt. The indictment on the liquor charges is expected momentarily. CLOUDY SKIES AHEAD Mercury Drop Will Follow Thunderstorms. Although not slated to receive heavy rains reported west of Indiana, the weather forecast for the state over the week-end calls for thunderstorms late today followed by floudy weather Sunday. Drop in the high temperatures will accompany the rain and eloudiness-

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