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$60,000 PAID BY BLACKMER TO END EXILE Figure in Teapot Dome Scandals Tires of Years in Paris. FACES OTHER CHARGES Denver Millionaire Seeks Compromise on Income Tax Case. /;./ / mt'd Pn M NEW YORK. May 24 Henry M. Blackmer. fighting district attorney, xvho left the roaring mining camp of Cripple Creek to become a millionaire oil man without a country, has sent $60,000 to Washington to pay his fine in the Teapot Dome oil scandals, si he can come back home. And if the Denver millionaire's payment, is accepted, as is probable, he mav return from his self-im-po rd exile in £ come tax connpirary Involving a penalties of .*9.- fc, Blarkmer has B been abroad. most Os the time m Paris, ever since the Teapot Dome oil scandals broke Blarkmer about the grayed. financially-worried Albert B. Pall, secretary of the interior in the cabinet of Warren G. Harding, sending Fall to prison. The attorney, oil man, banker and western "good fellow'' had refused to testify against his old friend. Harry F. Sinclair, soda clerk, who became one of the most dar- i ing of the millionaire oil operators In the middle west fields Blackmer was fined $60,000 for contempt of court. He fled to France. Sends Money for Fine The government confiscated SIOO - 1 000 of his property, levied a fine of •60.000, then took away his pass- j port, making travel in Europe most inconvenient. The French government refused to send the oil man back Jo this country for trial, after a court hearing in which the millionaire sat in a courtroom beside two manacled bandits. Blackmer has been in France since, banned from all American social affairs in which official Washington was represented. But active in other social life about the French capital. His life, however, has not been one of the happiness and freedom to which he was accustomed. So today, it became known through an announcement by Blackmor's chief counsel. George Gordon Battle, that, the oil man sought an end to his exile. •Securities covering the amount of Mr. Blackmer's fine have been turned over to the United States marshal's office in Washington " he said. This was confirmed in Washington. Continental Company • I think this action will permit Mr. Blackmer to return to America freely. I can not discuss possible developments in other cases pending against him in this country." Blackmer was one of the organizers of the Continental Trading Company, a group whose activities brought about another sensational corporation battle—the fight of the Rockefeller interests to oust Colonel Robert Wright Stewart, former head of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. Government evidence during the oil lease trials was intended to show that the trading company was formed to buy oil from the men who leased the Teapot Dome oil field from the government, and resell to corporations which they represented as individuals. Th? profit of the trading company In the middle man deal, the government claimed, was split between the individuals, and a fund used for * political influence " Compromises to Be Sought Some of this fund, if was claimed, indirectly found its way into the •'little black bag" which helped send Albert B. Fall to prison for accepting a bribe. He has just completed that prison term. F H Doheny. the oil man accused of bribing Fall, was acquitted If his $60,000 fine is marked off the books. Blackmer then may proceed to settle a federal court indictment in Denver, charging conspiracy to violate the income tax laws, and government penalties imposed for alleged failure of hi* estate to make proper income tax returns. This latter may be compromised at $43,000,000. His friends believe all charges will be compromised They believe his flight to France was the result of an attempt to shield some unknown person, for they never doubted Blackmers personal integrity. STILLMAN HOME BURNS Loss in Blare at Fifi's Mansion Estimated at $500,000. By l nitiil Prn* PLEASANTVILLE. N. Y . May 24. —The James A. Stillman thirty-five-room mansion on the Mondanne estate near here, was a charred ruins today after a vain fight by 150 volunteers to save it from fire. The estate is the property of Mr. and Mrs. Fowler McCormick. She is the former Fifi Stillman. Loss mas estimated at $500,000.

HERE’S THE BIG FICTION HIT YOU’VE BEEN AWAITING—“LEAP YEAR BRIDE,” A GREAT SERIAL STARTING WEDNESDAY IN THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES. i . L * ■

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N. Y. Mayor Faces Income Tax Inquiry Federal Agents Launch Quiz Into Returns of Jimmy Walker. fly l mitrd P,r§* NEW YORK. May 24.—Federal agents today Investigated Mayor James J. Walker's income tax returns for the past four years. The mavor prepared to explain some $60,000 in fees and gifts, and his relations with certain multiJobed politicians. The federal tax investigation is the result of disclosures that $26,500 in bends was given the mayor in 1929 or 1930 as his share of a stock deal, managed by a taxicab promoter interested in city legislation. The "gift" was revealed in testimony before the Hofstadter investigating committee, which added to the records Monday with stories that Russell T. Sherwood. Walker's missing agent, got rid of 1.000 shares of stock for 522.000 more than market value. This deal was described by Samuel Ungerleider, former head of Ungerleider <fc Cos. Another $15,000 was paid either Walker or Sherwood for legal services by a theatrical company, which already had its own legal counsel one witness said. Other items Walker will be called upon to explain when he appears before the committee Wednesday include: Testimony that he took with him to Europe a SIO,OOO letter of credit, purchased for cash by J. Allan Smith, promoter of the Equitable Coach Company, who later made good a $3,000 overdraft for Walker. Relationship between himself and State Senator John A. Hastings of Brooklyn, who seemingly was interested in the Equitable Coach Company and the application of a Queens bus company for franchises. Hastings held many lucrative jobs as "contact man." Walker's financial transactions and bank deposits. PRINCE HONORS MISS EARHART Wales Visits for Half Hour With Atlantic Flier. fly I hiltd Pri %* LONDON. May 24.—Amelia Earhart today achieved an honor many American girls have sought, a conference with the prince of Wales. The American woman, who flew across the Atlantic in record time last week, was received at the prince's residence. St. James palace, and for thirty minutes discussed her flight with the British heir. The prince of Wales received Miss Earhart in his own study, where he received Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and other distinguished visitors. Hr sent for Miss Earhart personally. because hr wanted to hear the story of her flight at first hand, just as he heard Lindbergh's. The prince is particularly interested in aviation and spent almost the entire half-hour of the interview absorbed in her 'story. Miss Earhart told the press she probably would not go to Rome, as she had planned, but would at least go to Paris on Friday or Saturday. Senate Votes Medal Bn l nitrtl Prt** WASHINGTON. May 24.—The senate today passed without debate i resolution awarding a distinguished flying cross to Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam, first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic ocean. The award was made pursuant to a resolution of Seantor Frederic C. Walcott 'Rep.. Conn). DO-X IN GERMANY Lands in Lake Muezzel, Near Berlin. fly I ii it rd Pr( , BERLIN. May 24 —The DO-X. en route from America to its Lake Constance base, flew over Berlin late today. After going over the city, the DO-X landed at Lake Mueggel, in the suburbs of Berlin, completing its Atlantic flight from the United States.

Garbo? ? ? ? What started all this Greta Garbo mystery and what's it all about? All movie fans wonder, with Hollywood agog over the story that the Great Garbo is about to spurn all tempting financial offers and return to Sweden. with a fortune that she has amassed in American films. The girl who bounded from a start in a Stockholm millinery ctore to the heights of fame in filmdom is the big enigma of the cinema world. So you'll be interested in the story of her life, which will start in The Times Pink editions Wednesday. You'll learn how she fought her way to the top. ever fired by a boundless ambition; the story cf her home life in Sweden. the story of her achievements in Hollywood. In the Pink editions of The Times Wednesday.

Increasing cloudiness tonight, followed by thundershowers Wednesday; slightly warmer tonight.

SHOULDER TAP ENDS 13-YEAR HUNT FOR SPY •Most Brazen Soldier of Fortune in World’ Is Nabbed at Last. VETERAN COP NEMESIS Captain Duquesne Credited as ‘Man Who Killed Kitchener.’ BY H. ALLEN SMITH I nitrd Press Stiff Correspondrnt NEW YORK, May 24—" Ford of headquarters," relentless, implacable, unforgetting as Victor Hugo's "Javert," who was the mobel of ail police agents, ended a thirteen-year pursuit when he tapped Captain Fritz Joubert Duquesne on the shoulder and bade him come along to the station. “Duquesne." protesting that there was some mistake, and that he was an Englishman, T. De TrafTord Craven, went unwillingly, but today he rested as well as he could in the most secure cell in the depths oi' police headquarters. Duquesne. unless Thomas Ford has made a mistake, and Ford has made few in his career, is one of the worlds most brazen—and most fascinating soldiers of fortune. Charged with arson and swindling in America, he still also is wanted by England for "murder on the high seas." He was a soldier in the Boor war, a spy for Germany in the World war, and, by some reputaMon and in the boasting of 1 his friends, "the man who killed Kitchener.” Escaped From Bellevue Thirteen years ago Captain Fritz Jouber Dcquesne escaped from the criminal ward of Bellevue hospital, where he had been confined on his pretense that his legs were paralyzed. But there was no paralysis when he sawed through two bars at the window, leaped lightly to a roof beneath, and then disappeared completely—clad in hospital pajamas. You are mistaken, my friend,” said the captain today when Dej tective Ford, producing a Colt automatic from its shoulder holster, shoved Its muzzle ink, his ribs. "I am not mistaken," said Ford. ! “You are Captain Dusquesne, soldier of fortune, international adventurer, and a prize picaroon if there ever was one. You know who I am—- ; Ford of the old neutrality squad. You know damned well that I've been after you for thirteen years, eever since you escaped from Bclle- : vue." Police Are Reticent The police were reticent about the capture, perhaps because England is expected to ask for his extradition on the murder charge. But city editors hastily sent investigators to their flies for the old and sensational story. Duquesne. after thirty-five years of adventure, was arrested in December. 1917. charged with insurance fraud. He was accused of placing time bombs in a storage warehouse in Brooklyn, and of setting up a claim for insurance after the resultant explosion. Tried on this charge and convicted. he feigned paralysis, and in May, 1919, made Iris sensational escape. Duquesne is said to have been born of a French father and Dutch mother, in South Africa. He saw service in the Kaffir wars, and won distinction as a duelist with the saber and rapier when he was in military school in Belgium. On Boer Staff Asa valuable officer on the Boer general staff, he engaged in a remarkable series of plots against the British, one of which, the proposed burning of Capetown, nearly was successful. He was arrested, and sentenced to death as a spy. The sentence was commuted, and he was sent to Bermuda, whence he escaped on a private yacht by overpowering a seaman and using his uniform. Arriving in the United States, he worked as a reporter for a number iof New York newspapers, lectured, and wrote magazine articles to earn a living. At the outbreak of hostilities on the continent in 1914. he went to work immediately for Germany Three Sailors Killed Three British sailors were killed later on the Lamport and Holt liner Tennyson, bound from Brazil to New York, by the explosion of "minerals ’ said to have been shipped *>v Duquesne. It is for this crime that he is charged by the British with murder on the high seas. Therefore, at the time of his arrest for arson, in 1917, he was already wanted by England, and probably would have been extradited had it not been for his escape. As to "the man who killed Kitchener." the story is fantastic, wholly unsubstantiated, and yet It is not without the bounds of reasonable possibility. Lord Kitchener, secretary of war, had sailed for Russia on the Hampshire. Sailing with him. the story goes, was Duquesne, masquerading as a Russian officer. Duquesne signaled the German submarines by \ a prearranged signal. Torpedoes were launched. Kitchener died in the swirling waters. And the spy. reaching the submarine on a raft, was hauled inside, taken to Germany. decorated, loaded with honiors. ana hailed as a hero.

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BESIDE an overturned, burning automobile cn a lonely road, near West Newton. Dec. 22. 1931. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Steinbruegge, 1434 Lee street, lay unconscious. From the scene of the accident came the howls and cries of a dog which attracted farmers living nearly a mile away, who rescued the couple from the car. The dog was Mazi, German police dog. who stood bv the car of her master nnd mistiess and sent the call for aid. Today. Mazi is the winner of an honorable mention award of the National Anti-Vivisection Society of Chicago for “heroic and intelligent” service. M ft * “Tk/f AZI is jealous of any other IVJI pets, and an outsider needs a passport to enter the house or yard," Mrs. Steinbruegge said. "My husband and I did not realize the full significance of Mazi's life-saving deed until we had regained consciousness, and obtained medical aid after the accident.” Mrs. Steinbruegge said the dog is registered in the American Kennel Club which accepts only pedigreed dogs of four generations. “The way we named Mazi is interesting." she said. "Her father is Ziilo, international champion, owned by the German police force, and he has aided in apprehending 234 criminals. "Her mother is Marstiss, another famed German police dog. We took the first two letters of the parents’ names to name Mazi."

Times Reporters Barred From Dry Agents 9 Office Times reporters have been barred from the office of special agents. United States department of justice, bureau of prohibition—an office open to the public. The order was issued today by Oliver J. Gettle. agent in charge. Mr. Gettle. explaining his order, asserted that he did not like the attitude taken by The Times in the trial of George Dale and ten other Muncie defendants on liquor conspiracy charges. Attitude of The Times, according to Mr. Gettle, is "destructive toward the government." Stories of the Dale case were regarded by Mr. Gettle and his agents as attacks on them and an editorial in Monday's Times as "even worse.” So —Mr. Gettle's "ultimatum."

‘GUN GIRL'S' CASE UP Geckler Slated for Ruling on Vera Wood. Final disposition of the case of Vera Wood, former Shortridge high school pupil and alleged toygun bandit, will be made Thursday by Juvenile Judge John F. Geckler, he said today. Geckler took the case under advisement several weeks ago when he ordered a mental test made of the girl at city hospital. Thursday he will rule on charges of drunkenness and delinquency placed against her after she is alleged to have confessed to staging eleven holdups on a night robbery tour last winter. Geckler also may rule on the case of Joe Hottenrock. 32, cf Ravenswood. held as the girl's accomplice. He is charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. STARTS SIO,OOO SUIT Father of Child, Hurt by Taxicab May 8. Asks Damages. Suit for SIO,OOO damages was filed today in a superior court by Leslie Russell, father of 5-year-old Marie Russell, injured May 8 when struck by a taxicab on West Maryland street near the Illinois Central railroad tracks. Defendants are the Circle Cab Company and Lloyd Williams, driver of the cab.

Mazi, German police dog cited for heroism

RACING TRIALS ARE CONTINUED Three More Machines Qualify; List Raised to 26. Qualification trials for the 500mile race at the Indianapolis Sptedway Memorial day were to be continued this afternoon at the track, and A. A. A. officials estimated that perhaps six drivers would attempt to qualify their cars between 2 and 7:02. Three more machines were qualificld Monday, bringing the list of certain drivers in the race to twenty-six. Forty cars are allowed to start, and W. D. (Eddie Edenburn, chief steward of the race, asserted today that his checkup shows that more than forty cars will attempt to break into the lineup. In the event that more than forty cars qualify, the slowest will be eliminated. Qualifying speed is 100 miies an hour, and race track experts believe 105 miles an hour will make a driver a certain starter.

Qualifying trials will close Saturday and the track will be washed on Sunday in preparations for the race, while A. A. A. officials hand the drivers and mechanics their final instructions.

FAVORS SHORTER HOURS Labor Leader Says It’s Only Solution for Depression. But Kited Prrxx WASHINGTON. May 24 —Shorter hour for all workers is the one practical solution of the problem of depression, in the opinion of A. F. Wnitney. president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. He testified before the interstate commerce commission today in behalf of the six-hour day for railroad workers. PLEDGE CLEANUP PROBE Los Angeles Mayor Acts on Charge City Is "Wide Open." Bn United Pratt LOS ANGELES. May 24 —Charges made by Anthony Pratt, secretary of the Municipal League, and Mrs. Allie Simmons Wheeler, former president of the Los Angeles W. C. T. U„ that. Las Angeles is "wide open" brought promise of an immediate investigation today from Mayor John C. Porter. BOMB DEATHS MYSTERY Rancher. Elderly Sister Killed by Auto Starter Explosion. YAKIMA. Wash.. May 24. Authorities were without clews today in the mysterious explosion of a time bomb in an automobile which killed William Stillman. 53. and his elderly sister, Mrs. Rose Auritt at their ranch near Prosser.

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FARM RELIEF FIGHT DELAYS TAX MEASURE Norris Launches Battle for Export Debenture as Rider on Bill. PLEA FOR PRODUCER Watson Estimates Foes of Proposal Have Enough Votes to Beat It. BY MARSHALL McNEIL Times Staff Corresnondent WASHINGTON, May 24. The i senate today wandered off into a farm relief controversy, another time-consuming interlude in the tax bill debate. Senator George W. Norris 'Rep.. Neb.) opened the fight for farm relief with his amenoment to attach the export debenture as a rider to the tax bill. "I have tried my best to co-oper-ate with those in charge of this bill to obtain fair and speedy termination cf our consideration," Norris said. "I am offering the export debenture amendment in the same form to which the senate agreed when it was offered as an amendment to the 1930 tariff act. The object of the amendment is to give to the farmers of the United States the benefit of a protective tariff. Lose in Customs Revenues "It seems to me that since those who produce the food and feed of the nation should be protected as well as the manufacturer, no senator ought vote against this amendment."

•'This puts the farmer in the same basket as the manufacturer,” Norris continued, ‘and gives him equality under the tariff. "I can't see why we should force the farmer to buy on this side of the tariff wall and sell on the other. “Asa matter of common justice, we owe it to those who do our work that they should not become peasants and slaves. They will not submit forever.” Senator Smith W. Brookhart i 'Rep.. la.) estimated that the export debenture would lose $100,000.000 in customs revenues. He and Norris agreed that the amount would have to be made up somewhere else, and Norris suggested raising the income tax rates in the 'higher brackets as provided in amendments to the bill already defeated once by the senate. Watson Predicts Defeat Senate Majority Leader James E. Watson said that opponents of the export debenture had sufficient senate votes to defeat the Norris : amendment. Watson expects the Democrats to split about even on the vote and the Republicans to be against the amendment almost two to one. President Hoover opposes the export debenture. Later. Senator Hiram Bing- : ham ißep., Conn.*, plans to bring lup his beer amendment, as a sub- ; stitute for the excuse taxes. Then the senate will proceed to the special excises themselves. These begin with the highly controversial levy on automobiles, vigorously fought by the Michigan senators, Couzens and Vandenberg. The tariff fight lulled today, after the sudden break Monday night which permitted the last two of the four import duties to be voted into the $1,030,000,000 revenue bill. Approve Lumber Tariff Senator Millard Tydings (Dem., Md.* started his tariff filibuster by offering the first four of his 504 tariff amendments to the HawlcySmoot act. But his efforts petered out and there was doubt whether Tydings would renew it. Tydings got record votes on three of his amendments, and withdrew a fourth, whereupon the senate proceeded at once to approve the lumber tariff, 36 to 24. This was a wide margin, considering, the earlier statements of senate leaders that the lumber impost was the weakest of the four. The copper tariff, carrying compensatory duties on many copper manufactures, then went in. 42 to 25. BOY, 11, DROWNED Tragedy Scene on White River North of Thirtieth. Glenn Smith. 11. of 958 West Thirty-second street, was drowned about 1 this afternoon in White river, one-half mile north of the Thirtieth street bridge, a boy of his age made a futile effort at ! rescue. POLICE STAY ON JOBS Muncie Officers, Convicted Here, Not Asked to Resign. B'j I'nitrri prrt* MUNCIE. Ind.. May 24.—Muncie policemen convicted in Indianapolis last week on federal charges of liquor conspiracy will not be re- ! quired to resign their positions until their cases have been disposed of finally. Chief Frank Massey, himself one of the convicted me, has announced Massey thus far has declined to accept the resignation of William A. Parkhurst. police captain, tendered last Saturday as a result of his conviction. Hourly Temperature* 6a. m 59 10 a. m 78 > 7a. m,.... 63 11 a. m 80 Ba. m 71 12 (noon'.. 81 9 a. m 74 1 p. m 84

Short, Sweet Platform, Is Baker Plea •Make It So Brief Man in Street Can Memorize ii,' He Urges. By T'nitrd Pm* CLEVELAND. May 24.—Adoption of a Democratic national platform so simple that the man in the street can memorize it was urged Monday night by Newton D. Baker, speaking for the first time on national politics, which mention him prominently as a presidential candidate. With such a platform, he said, selection of a candidate will be of secondary importance. Baker broke his studied silence after he had been re-elected chairman of the Cuyahoga county Demo-

cratic central committee before a record convention crowd, which cheered enthusiast! cally when his name was mentioned for the presidency. Denouncing the Republican tariff and declaring that the major problem of the next administr a t i o n would be to readjust our economic machinery for a wider and more equal distribution

of labor's products, Woodrow Wilson's secretary of war urged Cuyahoga delegates to fight for a short platform at the Chicago convention. "I have some public advice lor the delegates to the Democratic national convention I see here,’’ he said. "The most important thing to be done at Chicago is the adoption of a short platform, short enough to be memorized by a man whose memory is not very good, a platform bold, truthful and constructive, and addressed to the evils from which the country now is suffering. "At Houston we adopted one neither bold, candid nor constructive, but by great good .tirtune the candidate who was nominated, was bold, truthful and constructive. "Al Smith was fifty times as big as the platform they stood him on."

BLOND REVEALS KIDNAP DETAILS Tells How Abductors Made Her Undress; Chained Her. By L nih and Prr*s CHICAGO. May 24—Pretty Mrs. Georgia Gecht, her blond hair set off by a dark suit, told from the witness stand in Judge Fhilip Sullivan's court today how she and her husband were kidnaped by a gang of men and of mistreatment at their hands in the suburban house where they were imprisoned. Mrs. Gecht detailed the flirtation ' she carried on with Gus Sanger, charged as one of the abductors, which led to the arrest of five other men. She told of being forced to take off all her clothing—of being handcuffed to a bed at night—and how she hid two expensive rings in her ! garter belt. "Sanger seemed smitten with me from the first. He argued against handcuffing me to the bed at night! and told me he wanted to keep a date with me after I was released. He said he thought I was wonderful but that being friendly with me I might lead to his capture by the police." Sanger's arrest did result after Dr. and Mrs. Gecht had been released by the extortionists, when he sought to kpep a rendezvous with the physician's wife. Ward C. Swalwell. former assistant state's attorney, and Edward Finnen now are on trial charged with the kidnaping. Pingera and William Thomas, who also were defendants in the present case, pleaded guilty in return for life prison sentences. Neil Montague, another of the band, escaped from the county jail. Sanger turned state's witness. BIRTH CONTROL LOSES By 20 to 4 Vote House Committee Adversely Reports Bill. By I nitrd Prr* * WASHINGTON. May 24—By a vote of 20 to 4 the house ways I and means committee today ad- j verscly reported the Hancock bill to legalize dissemination of birth control information.

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TROOPS READY TO DRIVE 00T ‘BONUS ARMY’ Tension Grows When Sheriff Fails to Provide Trucks for Journey. TRAIN IS RELEASED Promise of Transportation Not Kept. Charge of Veterans* Group. By l nit id Prcs CASEYVILLE, 111., May 24.—The j "bonus crusade" of 350 World war veterans, against whom Illinois marched six companies of militia to keep railroad traffic moving, was thrown into confusion today when trucks to take them to Washington. Ind.. en route to Washington, D. C., could not be obtained. The announcement added to disappointment among the crusaders, en route from Portland. Ore., whose leader had gone ahead to meet them in Indiana. None knew what would be done next. Some were in favor of returning to the attempt to get a train ride. At the same time there was renewed activity in East St. Louis, a few miles away, where the six companies of national guardsmen, come units armed with machine guns and gas bombs, were encamped. The 400 militiamen were under orders to remain until the tension caused by the presence of the veterans had been relaxed bv their departure for Indiana. Lieu-tenant-Colonel Robert W. Davis, the men were made ready for movement to Caseyville State Police Patrol Vieinity Thirty-six state highway patrolmen under command of State Police Chief Dan Moody patrolled roads leading to "Camp Bonus." t Crowds of curious, anticipating disorders. were turned back. Moody would not indicate what action he planned to take, but Deputy Sheriff Mike Doyle said he j believed the guardsmen would be I called here to drive out the veti crans. Sheriff Munic sent out a call to al deputies to assemble. The veterans were armed only with clubs and railroad spikes, but declared, "we've come this far and we don't intend to be stopped now."

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Situation Is Tense The situation grew tense as the veterans voiced their disappom'ment in not receiving the trucks j rfier having been persuaded to release a Baltimore & Ohio freight ! train they held over night. "We've been tricked," one veteran shouted. Sheritf Munie, however, insisted he had made every effort to obtain trucks to take the veterans across the state, but that merchants had refused to allow the use of their trucks. "I am a veteran myself,” he said, "and I don t w-ant the boys to get into any trouble." The army, which had progressed to East St. Louis under strict discipline. was lcaderless and disorganized. W. W. Waters, "field marshal” of the army, left his command and went on toward Washington, Ind., in a bus. Workers’ Council in Charge "I didn’t want to get mixed up in what I saw was coming," he told Sheriff Munie before he left. In the place of their army regulations. the veterans today organized a Communist-like "workers’ council," to assume command. The ticket less excursion of the veterans had been a joy-ride until it reached East St. Louis, Friday. Then began a comic-opera "war” with authorities and railroad police. Railroad men previously had forbade them to ride on trains, then looked the other way as the former fighting men marched briskly in martial order and clambered aboard trains. When the men announced here they were going to board a Baltimore & Ohio freight train and ride to Washington, railroad offlicals ordered trainmen to move no freight cars in which the veterans were encamped. The veterans commandeered two trains, but were repulsed when the railroad ordered the trains halted until the travelers disembarked. Strategy Is Employed Then by a bit of neat strategy, the veterans captured a train here. They announced they had disbanded. and would not attempt to go further. The railroad took the announcement at face value, and secretly ordered a train made up here, seven miles east of East St. Louis, where the main body of veterans was camped. Through a military "spy” system, the veterans learned of the road's intention, and sent a scouting force hen; which soaped the rails, and prevented the train from leaving until they had boarded it. When the road learned the men were aboard, it refused to move the train, and called for the national guard to prevent confiscation of its property. INJURIES PROVE FATAL Mr. Florence Ferguson Was Hurt in Fall March 8. Mrs. Florence Ferguson. 65. of 2312 East Eleventh street, died too&7 at the Methodist hospital of injuries incurred March 8 when she fell from a chair at her home.