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win II UfflLI 0 DR. ALIOS uyew in gollap FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT BY THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 7 Because of large surplusea, tons of coffee were -r burned by Brazilian coffee frowen ia 1933. THE DAILY JOURNAL-GAZETTE AND COMMERCIAL -STAR Price 5 Cent Published every afternoon except Sunday Fif ty-Jlinth Year. No. 297 Entered as second class mall matter at Mattoon, Illinois MATTOON, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1934 BELLINGER IN SENS ATIONAL ESCAPE FROM IND Bourbon Young Woman Is Killed in Accident Dillinger, the Court House and His Custodian Found Guilty dr.

nop IN COLLAPSE ON THESTAND ROOSEVELT'S FIRST YEAR IN I1TEJ0USE Pace Has Been Lively One Since He Be- came President. By International Newa Servrce. Washington, March 3. President Roosevelt com GIANT NEGRO AIDS KILLER III MAO DASH Guards, Cowed by Dillinger, Forced Into Jail Cell. Chicago, March 3.

Two hours after John Dillinger and his negro companion had escaped from the county jail at Crown Point, they released Deputy Sheriff Blunt from their car in Peotone, 111., 35 miles south of here. The car then was reported to have headed south out of Peotone on highway No. 49, then turned off on a country road eastward toward the Kankakee river valley. Upon being released, Blunt immediately joined in the hunt for the escaped desperadoes. By International Newt Service.

Crown Point, March 3. With a wooden toy pistol, John Dillinger, America's most notorious killer and bank robber, cowed 24 heavily armed guards in the Asks for Recess After Cross Examination by Prosecutor. Chicago, March 3. (INS) Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop collapsed on the witness stand this morning after a half hour of cross examination by Prosecutor Charles 8.

Dougherty. Breathing hard, the physician, who is on trial for the murder of her daughter-in-law, Rheta, turned to Judge Harry B. Miller and asked for a recess. The recess was ordered at once. I I pletes his first venr in the The above is a picture of John Dillinger, notorious outlaw, and the Lake county court house at Crown Point, where he was to have been tried for a murder committed in an East Chicago, bank, robbery.

The Jail, from which he escaped, is connected with the court house by a covered bridge. FATAL CRASH NEAR GREENUP By International Newt Service. Greenwood, March 2. Dr. Sara Ruth Dean, 33-year-old baby specialist, was found guilty today of the whisky highball poisoning of Dr.

Preston Kennedy, her sweetheart associate. The verdict made life imprisonment mandatory. TRUCK, CAR CRASHES DIE By International Newe Service. Carmi, 111., March 3. Five persons, four of them women, were killed and four Spaclal to The Journal-Gazetta.

Greenup, 111., March 3. E. Cox, a World War veteran of Richmond, was fa others injured in a collision CONSTRUCTION OF SCREEN COMPLETED As the Jury filed out, Dr. Wynekoop collapsed, her head falling over the back of the chair. Bailiffs and attorneys rushed to her aid.

Rallying, the accused physician insisted she would soon go on with the ordeal. Fails in Crisis. It appeared today that Dr. Wyne-koop's fate will be placed In the hands of the jury on Monday. Her testimony yesterday although dramatic in effect was apparently not pleasing in delivery to her counsel, Milton Smith.

In a weak dispirited voice she spoke the lines which defense counsel had counted upon to score heavily with the Innocence. The moment was a big one In the strange case when Defense Counsel Smith put the question to her. "Did you kill Rheta Wynekoop?" he demanded in stentorian tones. Here was her opportunity fairly to shout out her Innocence, but she didn't rise to the occasion. She replied weakly in a hollow voice as she sat half prone in the chair, her chin resting on her left hand: "No, 1 did not." "Lake county jail today between an automobile and a truck in a dense fog on Route SuperlntendenL-John A Ctoets.

Tjefw e'en herFand OrayviTIe tally injured Friday afternoon when a car he was driving collided with a big "aoouT toil mires west of here in U. S. Highway 40. Cox's car was knocked over into a ditch. He was still alive when taken from his car, but he died in last night.

Seven persons in an automobile were returning from a basketball game at Carmi, where Norwood Stone, 18, one of those killed, had participated in a game between the an ambulance while enroute to a. White House tomorrow. The New Deal is a vear old. It has been, friends and critics agree, one of the most remarkable periods in the peace-time history of the country, and certainly one of the most tempestuous first years any administration ever put in. Move at Fast Clip.

Things have moved at breathtaking speed since that bleak fourth of March a year ago, when Franklin D. Roosevelt took over the reins of government from I erbert Hoover on the wind-swept plaza of the capltol. The next day he electrified the country by an executive order closing every bank in the country, and from that date onward the new administration has moved at a dizzy pace to combat the forces of depression and unemployment. Great experiments have been embarked upon; precedents shattered light, Mt; new government undreamed of a year ago have been set up; business and industry regimented under hundreds of codes; agricultural production controlled by federal edict; billions of dollars poured out for human relief needs; prohibition repealed; Russia recognized; the country taken off the gold standard and the dollar devalued to 59 cents; a $3,300,000,000 public works program inaugurated; in a hundred and one different ways the federal government has moved into the lives of its citizens. There is no period comparable to it in American history.

Most of it has been marked by an absence of political partisanship, but now as the first year ends political opposition is beginning to appear. The Republicans as well as Democratic oppositionists are beginning to question the wisdom of various phases of the new deal. Democratic "pointing with pride" is Interspersed with Republican "viewing with alarm." There are increasing indications that the second year of the new deal Is not to be as smooth sailing as the first. Mr. Roosevelt himself ends rjts first year In the White House' in a genial mood.

No particular celebration is planned for the end of the first year, other than that the ten members of his cabinet will tender the President a dinner tomorrow. He calls all of them by their first names. None except members of the cabinet will be at the dinner. Orayville and Carmi high schools. and a small force of city water department workmen completed today the construction of a wire screen across the spillway at Lake Mattoon.

The screen is constructed of fine steel mesh. It was erected on the north edge of the spillway and extends 18 inches above the spillway and one foot below. It is held in place by two-inch galvanized steel posts placed six feet four inches apart. Openings in the mesh of the screen are only seven-sixteenths of an inch, thereby preventing any fish from escaping from the lake with the water that flows over the spillway. Only small minnows, according to Superintendent Goetz, can pass through the screen.

2 MOTOR CARS, IN COLLISION NEARARCOLA Miss Lloyd Compton Sustains a Broken Neck; Others Hurt Special to The Journal-Gazette. Tuscola, 111., March 3. Miss Lloyd Compton, 23, a' resident of Bourbon, eight miles southwest of was instantly killed in U. 8 Highway 45 about a mila north of Areola at 10:30 o'clock Friday night, when a( light automobile in which she was riding collided headon with a heavy car driven by; Robert Imbrogno of Chicago Miss Compton's neck was broken, her skull fractured! and one jawbone was shat tered. Body Wedged Under CowL The impact threw Miss Comptonj underneath the cowl of the ear, where her body was wedged so tightly that great difficulty wae encountered In releasing It Russell Grossman of near Tuscola, companion of Miss Compton, who was driving the car, sustained only; minor injuries.

Imbrogno sustain ed chest injuries, cuts on one kneej teiclrbruiserandTrga-WOT -forehead, from ear to ear. John Pisano and Mike Ma-gill, Chicagoans with Imbrogno were also hurt. The former sustained chest injuries and the latter minor hurts. Crash Due te Fog. The collision is said to have been due to a fog, which was so dense that drivers of cars were unable to -see either the black line in the center of the pavement or approaching cars.

Crossman and Miss Compton were on their way to Tuscola from, Areola when the accident occurred. They had gone to Areola to attend a class play at the Areola High School, where a sister of Crossman, is employed as a teacher. The car was a light, one-seated vehicle. The Chicago car was southbound. Both automobiles were badly damaged and had to be towed from the scene.

The body of Miss Compton was brought to Tuscola this morning. An inquest was conducted this afternoon by County Coroner Boylson. Tuscola H. S. Graduate.

Miss Compton was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Compton of Bourbon. She was graduated from the Tuscola High School and for a time was employed as a school teacher, teaching last year at Bourbon. She was this year.

Surviving besides her parents are two sisters, Mrs. Clara Foster of Decatur and Miss Mary Compton of Bourbon, and three brothers, Frank Compton of Bourbon, Court-land Compton of Indiana and Vel-mond Compton of Pittsburgh, Pa. The young woman's father at Tuscola Friday night after being -notified of the accident stated that his daughter and Mr. Crossman had left home intending to go to Mattoon to attend a show. "Word from Areola, however, is to the effect that they attended a school functien in that city.

Husband at Resort Keeper. Charleston BL, March 3r-Roberf Imbrogno of Chicago, whose ear figured in a fatal accident north of Areola last night is the husband of Mrs. Gertrude Imbrogno, who operate the Black' and White Inn, east of Charleston. The tnn was ordered closed toft -week, following a free-for-all fight hi whioh one woman was seriously hurt, Mrs. Imbrogno was arrested for disorderly conduct and was fined $50 and eosts.

ltabrognertt 1m eaioV-wsv enroute-to Charleston to get Mrs, Imbrogno and take bet to Chicago, when the accident near Areola occurred, Those killed in addition to Stone were: Mrs. Gertie Cochran, a widow; Mrs. Maxine Stone, 17, wife of the young basketball player and the daughter of Mrs. Cochran, and Virginia and Mary Ellen Stone, 18 and 15, respectively, both sisters of Norwood Stone. Virginia Stone died after being taken to the Carmi Hospital The others were killed almost instantly.

Both the automobile and the truck burned after the collision, but the two occupants of the truck removed the pleasure car passengers before the fire got to them. -ifV SOON TO END CWA HIGHWAY PROJECTS It was stated seml-offlcially today that all state highway CWA projects in Coles county will probably be discontinued when the cui hospital. Death, it is said, was due to concussion of the brain. Smoke from a passing Pennsylvania train, which hovered over the slab, obscuring the view, was blamed by A. A.

Terhaar, driver of the bus, for the crash. Terhaar testified to this effect at an inquest conducted at the Hlles undertaking parlors in Greenup by Coroner Jake Vanaway of Toledo. A verdict of accidental death was returned. Terhaar said he could not see through the smoke and Just as he entered it, he collided with the Cox car. He said he was the only occupant of the bus, being assigned to "dead-head" it to New York from Kansas City.

Cox's body is to be taken to Richmond, where his wife and a brother reside. rent CWA week closes Thursday, March 8. None of the highway projects, which were started, has been completed. A few, were Just well under way when curtailment of projects began. The Trilla gravel road project, Sheriff Lillian Holley of Crown Point, who became hysterical when she was notified that John Dillinger, notorious bandit, had broken out of the Lake county Jail, where she was responsible for his safekeeping.

Mrs. Holley was not at home when Dillinger fled. which is considered one of the most important highway projects under way. will probably be finished be fore the proposed closing order is and escaped, in broad daylight, with a prisoner. Seizing'two machine guns from their jailers and forcing a deputy sheriff and a garage attendant to accompany them, Dillinger and his companion sped north out of Crown Point in a stolen car toward Chicago.

Break, Spectacular One. Dillinger's escape was the second of Ms career and among the most spectacular breaks in the history of American Obtaining the machine guns, Dillinger and his companion, a giant negro, cowed the guard and- deputies, forced them into a cell and backed out of the jail locking the doors after them. At the same time it was reported that Dillinger liberated three other prisoners. Jelling the three men to the desperado then ordered George Blunt, a deputy sheriff, to go with him. Earlier In the Jail house, Dillinger had called out to the guards and deputies: "Don't move or flU you full of lead." Outside, he singled out a black police sedan," forced Blunt Into the driver's seat, climbed in beside him, and, with his machine gun, snatched up in the, Jail, poked Into the deputy's side, ordered: "Now drive, and drive like Early Reports Erroneous.

Early reports of the jail break, erroneous because of the hysteria of the guards and deputies who were victimized, said that the negro had liberated Dillinger after walk-ing Into the cell house with a machine gun. Crown Point and Lake county authorities had boasted that their Jail proof." Mrs. LDllan Eolley, Lake county's woman received, if weather remains favorable for work. 357 ARE ON CWA QUOTA BOARD NOW The quota board at CWA headquarters shows 357 persons are at work on civil works projects throughout Coles county today. There are still some out of door jobs that are idle because of inclement weather.

In Mattoon 35 men went to work today in the Kinzel Field stadium project, 39 on the Lafayette avenue resurfacing job, 37 on the Peterson Park improvement project and 11 on the Oak avenue sewer. Seventeen are at work today on the Humbolt school project, nine on the North Okaw tile job, and seven on the Humbolt tile job. MINISTER SAYS A Chicago, Mar. 3. -Following are rCjfTk the weather indi London, March 1 (INS) The Greek foreign minister has notified the minister of the Interior that Samuel InsuU must leave Oeece in view of the expiration of the final 17 INJURED WHEN BUS IS OVERTURNED 111., March 3.

(INS) Seventeen persons were-injured, nine seriously, when a Jacksonville-Chicago motor bus turned over a mile north of Chandlerville today. The accident occurred about 6 a. and was caused by a heavy fog which prevented the driver from seeing the black mark causing the bus to leave the road. In attempting to get back on the pavement the bus turned over. Ambulances and private cars were pressed into service to bring the more seriously injured to a hospital here.

The others did not require medical attention. HIGHWAY CONTRACTS. Springfield. DL, March 3. ms) Twelve contracts for the surfacing and paving of 9.67 miles of roadway and the building of seven bridges were awarded today by the Division of Highways.

The total cost cations for Illinois for thirty-six hours ending at seven p. m. Sunday: Showers tonight and possibly Sunday morning, ex extension of his residence permit, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from One Opinion of Guards at Crown Point An interesting angle on the situation at Crown Point, where John Dillinger, notorious bad man, escaped from Jail this morning, was supplied today by H. Z. Bean, former Mattoon man, in a letter written yesterday and received today by his sister, Miss Gertrude Be all Mr.

Beall is employed as assistant receiver for the First National Bank at Momence, which is only a short distance across the state line from Crown Point. His duties lately have necessitated his visiting Crown Point in the last few weeks. The letter, in part, reads: "Some of the farmers in the territory east of here are getting a good break at this time. The officials are employing a lot of them to guard the jail at Crown Point where they have Dillinger locked They are paying them 56e aa hoar, and have about 150 men on the Job at one time. They say those fellows have a boat every kind of a gan yoa can think of for arms, and I am wondering Jaai what would happen if semeeae, saoald set of a giant fire cracker areand there, bet for a waDe at least it weald seand like a young Balkan war, for those babies weald Uaae away with their sealrrel guns and at anything they saw loose.

Aay way," I wouldn't want te liie swag, at hand. JEROME CLARK FILES SUIT FOR A DIVORCE Athens said today. SHERIFF HYSTERICAL AFTER DILLINGER FLEES TRAFFIC HAMPERED BY AJPJEHSE FOG Mattoon and this entire section were shrouded Friday night by the heaviest fog of the winter season Motor traffic was crippled and one fatal automobile accident resulted. The fog settled shortly after 8 o'clock Friday evening and grew more dense later in the evening. In some low places, on state highways, it was nearly impossible to see further than six feet The fog did not clear until late this morning.

A light drizzly rain started about 10 o'clock Friday night It lasted several hours, the precipitation totaling .04 of an inch. The fog had little effect on rail traffic Trains on both the Illinois Central and Big Four systems ran close to schedule. Jerome Clark has filed in the Mattoon City Court a suit for divorce from Mrs. Dorothy Clark, whom he charges with desertion. Mrs.

Clark resides in San Francisco, CaL, and has possession of their daughter, Dorothy Dolores. The father says he has been supporting -the daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Clark were married Oct 19, 1938, and separated Feb.

34, 1933. cept fair Sunday in northwest; slightly colder Sunday afternoon or night LOCAL WEATHER AND TEMPERATURE. (Temperature from noon Friday to soon today.) Noon 41 I a. 38 3 p. m.

43 a. m. 33 6 41 9 a. m. 40 9 p.

m. 38 11 a m. 41 il p. 38 Noon .41 Weather conditions at noon: Cloudy. Barometer reading at noon, 39.85.

Sun rose today at 8:34 and sets at 5:53. Moon rises at 8:29 p. m. Minimum temperature today, 98 at 3 a. m.Maxtaumjtefnperai ture yesterday, 43 at p.

m. Rainfall last 34 hours, JM of an inch. Prevailing wind today, southeast Gary, Ind March I 0NS Sheriff Lffllaa HoQey became hysterical when she learned of the escape of John DiWnger, notorious killer, from her "fool proof" jail, at Crown Point She telephoned the Gary polk for aid instead of directing that a net of police be throws eat to capture the fugitives if they passed throat the town. She shrieked tote the telephone: "Send down afl the polk and gens you've get." Then hang an the reeerrer. It was IS minutes before Gary beedawarten-eoeld hra" the- CONFESSED SLATER FLEES CARL TLX JAIL SUITS GLEANED AND PRESSED 75G Called for and delivered.

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0. F. DANCE Carlyle, TJL, March WS) Tearing loose the drain pipe of his cell lavatory, Thomas A. Davis, 19-year-old Pittsburgh High. School student who, it is alleged, confessed slaying a Pennsylvania state highway patrolman, pried loose his cell bars today and escaped from the county jail here.

iff, who succeeded her husband to O. O. F. balL Saturday night. me onice wnea cueo, naa sua that Dillinger would be prqperly (Continued on page flveJ Bud Mallory'S orchestra.

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