Vidette-Messenger, The (Newspaper) - October 29, 1935, Valparaiso, Indiana Someone seems to have been Ing the clock back on us All business from New York about gain murders underworld protection and the like sounds as If it ought to have come out of cago in the era It was the sort of thing that was going to fall apart of its own weight when prohibition was ended Well it didn't fall apart turnover of underworld rackets in he nation's biggest city is close half a billion dollars according to Thomas E Dewey special prosecutor of the governor's in- The New York police say there arc guns at the disposal of the Gotham underworld August 12 gangsters have been murdered 20 have been wounded three have been kidnaped and four simply have vanished Dillinger Had Intended Surrender A DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR ALL PORTER COUNTY VALPARAISO THE HOME OF VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY VOLUME 9 THE HOME CITY OF I HE CALUMET DISTRICT VALPARAISO INDIANA TUESDAY OCTOBER 29 1935 MEMBER OF UNITED I M S NEWS SERVICES THREE CENTS FERNEKES COMMITS SUICIDE Here we have a struggle which from the point of view of sheer size is worthy of comparison with the war The cash in- come at stake is larger than any re- turn Mussolini can hope to milk out of the natural resources of Ethiopia The number of firearms available seems to be quite as great as the number now being discharged on Ethiopian soil and the casualty lisl is almost as impressive as that of Mussolini's armies All of this might have been fore- seen It should have been ly obvious that those well-organized well-financed und utterly ruthless illegal organizations that waxed fat under the prohibition law were not simply going to lay their guns and go back to honest toil the prohibition law ended If one racket failed they would inevitably turn to another they did so and the warfare which ated in the murder of Dutch Schultz is the natural result But to say that does nod help much The American people supposed that gangsterism was last on the run are shocked to learn that in New York at least it j Is as lawless and defiant as ever and what they chiefly want to know What can be done about FATHER READY TO GIVE Hi OP Notorious Indiana Gunman Feared for His Life Dis- pute Between McNutt and Judge Discloses Expected to Wed JUDGE BLAMED FOR HIS TURN TO CRiME INDIANAPOLIS Ind Oct were underway for the peaceful surrender of the late John Dillinger ace Indiana outlaw to authorities when he was mowed down by federal bullets in Chicago it was revealed for the first time here today WASHINGTON Oct American under- world is armed to the teeth and public support is necessary to help it General Homer said today in a demand for stricter firearms laws and a clean-up of the outrages committed at-ainst justice Criminals he said have raided national guard ar- and other public to obtain thousands of suns and ammunition lor their activities Federal of In- records showed that since January 1 1933 there have been thefts of government owned firearms and rounds of ammunition he dis- closed Harvey Varner Brawny Mimic At Legion Parades Gets Verbal Spanking From New Commander American Legion members in- Harvey Varner of Charles Pratt Post of Valparaiso were given a verbal spanking today by J Ray Murphy of Ida Grove la national commander of the pranks in legion ranks From persons high in in the legion auxiliary and from many other citizens against some of the performances in our legion parade We have all come of age in a legion sense and I think you will agree with me that there is necessity for legionnaires if they be legionnaires to maintain near nudity of other members sound decorum state and national conventions were The national commander asked by Murphy who that the parade ades dressed in brief costumes and condemned by Murphy he did not wish to be a prude or a scold He spoke to state ants and commanders from nine departments of the legion j meeting in Indianapolis The national legion commander In the past there have been those who were all too scantily clad in suggestive feminine attire I don't think it dignified to have these floats I think that we all agree that our legion parades should be pageants of patriotism Another wedding of a White House attache is believed imminent as j Washington society awaits the i should be dignified and completely marriage Ida Bourne White j jn accordance wiln yeals of our organization i This year there has been much above of Louisville Ky and E W Starling head of White House Secret Service men Though Starling also is a criticism from members of our own i luckinn he and Mrs White met at the capital that the parade in Cleveland O when the veterans gather for a national convention be a decent one Attention was first called to the strikingly brief costume of Varner brawny Valparaiso grocer when he copped first prize in the Chicago convention legion parade His next award for an individual costume came when he hopped and skipped in the Gary parade dressed as Little Lord Fauntleroy Crowds at three other parades one at gan City Indianapolis the latest at St Louis cheered his antics as the most original of any seen Varner appeared as an infant with a diaper at St Louis HAZARDS AT BRIDGE TO BE CORRECTED 2 BILLION SLASH NEXT YEAR IN U S EXPENSES IN SIGHT The worst of it Is that there Is no simple easy answer In the last analysis we have gangs and gang wars we have built up the kind of society in which such things can grow That is we have tolerated corrupt politics we have made Does it the chief criterion of cess we have developed a fondness for the open town in which abiding citizens demand the right to buy the things which only the sters will sell to them and we have let the doctrine that might makes right govern all too many of the activities of our economic life That Dillinger was about to be surrendered to the law by his fathei John Dillinger Sr was admitted by Al G Feeney former state safety director who had entered the That feared for his life and was about to capitulate was made public in connection with BY RICHARD L United Press Staff correspondent WASHINGTON Oct of a slash in federal expenses next year were Elimination of hazardous today as administration lions at the north end of Joliet I to bridge Pennsylvania railroad submitted to congress m pass where State Roads 30 and 130 I merge at the west end of way will be undertaken shortly by the Valparaiso city council Ever since the Pennsylvania controversy between Governor Paul i road constructed its bridge in V McNutt and former Judge wise fashion across its right-of-way seph Williams of Martinsville trial instead of bringing it in on an angle judge who first sentenced the I Mooresville outlaw I The elder Dillinger got Continued on Page 2 Column NEGRO IS GIVEN TEN YEAR TERM FOR ROBBERIES John Henry Agnew age 26 col- ored was given a ten-year sentence in prison by Judge Mark B well in Porter superior court this morning on a charge of robbery Agnew was arrested Saturday With such a background big city morning by Sheriff Neil Fry and rangs are inevitable Until we Deputy Sheriff Carl Herren change the in j after he had aroused the suspicion short we reform our whole social I of the officers by his actions and the state highway commission followed it up by placing State Road touch flush against the viaduct city lias been faced with one of the most perplexing traffic problems in its history How to remedy a grave situation from a traffic standpoint is now con- fronting the council This was from a spirited discussion at Monday night's regular meeting of the body at City Hall One of the factors responsible for accidents at the bridge is said to be a yellow line painted on the black top which points the way to the bridge Truck drivers and motorists This costs i July 1 reduction In government the fiscal year beginning was predicated on a con- of the economic recovery i which President Roosevelt ed would permit a corresponding reduction in the amount of money the government must spend for relief and rehabilitation For the current fiscal year which ends June 30 1936 the budget fixes recovery and relief at But this estimate is Continued on Page 2 Column 6 can't hope to clean up our metropolitan Along the same subject Attorney General Homer who re- cently returned from a European tour demands stricter firearms laws and a clean-up of the outrages committed against justice When searched a gun was found a holster strapped around his j left shoulder A quantity of I elry and other articles were found on his person FOUR ARE FINED FOR SPEEDING c A Neher of Cleveland O R A Woolf Alexander Va Lawrence Scheming Kankakee 111 and I Under questioning lit admitted Roffi of Iml were burglarizing the home Monday afternoon in near Wheeler in addition to five j justice Kenneth J Wolf's court for other places at South Bend speeding on They were mouth and Danville 111 I arrested by city police He stated foreign nations were meeting their crime problems more successfully than this country and I revealed that he would continue to press for early congressional action on a to place pistols and heavier firearms under the national firearms act FAILURE OF RESIDENTS ON TO REMOVE THEIR SIGNS IS DISCUSSED AGAIN thirty-three percent above the present rate of expenditures and federal agencies report thousands nent of workers returning to private payrolls Administration officials have not yet fixed a figure for probable re- The treasury still has expenditures The government will be In the red to the extent of this fiscal year Should the mated revenue of be as large in the new fiscal year the indicated deficit would be only in the new year While these estimates are it was recalled that Mr sevelt nearly two years ago ex- pressed the hope that the ment would be able by the 1937 fiscal year to make expenses equal actual revenues If these figures are followed the budget would be within little more than a billion dollars of a complete balance Indications that the government would seek to pare recovery and relief costs in the new year were seen in remarks yesterday by ing Budget Director Daniel W Bell that the cost of running government departments would be cut about from 1935 to a total of CITY TRAFFIC ORDINANCE IS UNDER DRAFT I Regulation of Parking Downtown Streets is Dis- j cussed by Council at Monday Session To Celebrate PROPOSE FINES OF FROM TO problems and how to deal with them by ordinance and wies was the main topic for dis- cussion at Monday night's regular meeting of the city council Featuring the session presided over by Councilman Joseph Durand as mayor pro tern in the absence of Mayor C L Bartholomew now pheasant shooting in South Dakota was a report on the proposed new parking ordinance to be adopted by the council as a means of solving the present parking difficulties Presented to the council by City Attorney J A the new ordinance sweeping in character would provide for parallel parking in all parts of the city except in a few designated places in the town district where diagonal ing would obtain to give added parking space In reading the provisions of the new ordinance the city attorney in- formed the council he was not pre- pared to introduce the ordinance as the draft was still in tentative form He pointed out that the legislation embodied the various ideas of the council but that action should be deferred until the council was sure of what is desired in the line of parking As any legislation to be really effective must contain a penal clause It Is provided that persons violating the ordinance and found guilty may be fined in any sum not less than nor more than If the present ordinance is on Page 2 Column TAKES IN CELL ENDING Daring Gunman Who Et- caped Joliet ust 3 Was Captured Yesterday in Chicago TWO ARRESTED FOR AIDING FUGITIVE When the famous U S marines whose heroic war and peacetime exploits have won them world renown and the title Devil celebrate on Armistice Day the anniversary of their ing Maj Gen John Henry Russell above present commandant will play an important role in the monies Former U S high com- missioner of Haiti Maj -Gen sell relinquishes his marine post in 1936 HEBRON MAN IS HORT AS TRUCK FINAL RELIEF CHECK RECEIVED TO PAY CLAIMS covery costs for the year beginning July 1 1936 but it was believed 906 in recovery and relief funds it has not yet spent out of a total the government would not need j of for much more than j these purposes by congress Late News Flashes THE Fair temperature Wednesday tonight and Wednesday rising COUPLE LEAP FROM CAR TO SAVE LIVES Peru Ind Oct L Schneider 68 Wabash and his wife 65 leaped from their stalled automobile here and escaped death on the tracks of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad A freight train demolished their automobile THIRD VICTIM OF MANIAC DIES Chicago Oct William L Hawthorne died today the third victim of a maniacal rage of Raymond j Lamming former convict who also killed former Judge Despite repeated urging would not prove a financial loss Fetler committed suicide Nathan 29 1 in official notices and otherwise anyone if all obeyed the same was Dy Lamming is e The final check to Porter county with which to pay off part of its monthly poor relief obligations was received Monday by County tor Ezra Stoner covering flve percent of allowable claims for September amounting to State assistance with poor relief ended with September March 1934 until October courtly received between and for poor relief assistance Although the money received from the state was handled through the county auditor's office all dis- was by townships In recent months all poor claims I submitted to any township trustee were handled by M R Williamson county poor relief investigator and sent to Indianapolis where they were checked The state did Floyd Bryant age 45 years well known Boone township farmer was injured Monday afternoon about o'clock when a hay rack oni which he was riding was rammed from the rear by by Russell Warren of ville Ind The accident occurred about 300 feet north of the driveway of the Bryant farm on State Roads 153 and 2 south of Hebron The truck was owned by Peter Warren of Crawfordsville Bryant was brought to Hebron and treated for badly sprained right ankle and shoulder at the office of Dr Roscoe P Mood He also suffered body bruises and con- The injured man resides with his mother Mrs Charles Bryant Sheriff Neil Fry and Chief CHICAGO 111 Oct Henry Midget Fernekes Haling diminutive bandit and killert a dent of chemicals and explosives ended his bloody 15 year cuter crime today by committing In a police cell known as a throughout the middle had escaped Joliet penitentiary Auf 3 in a single handed jail break thai was so simple it scandal in the state administration resulted in dismissal of several guards and was followed by resignation of den Frank D ma recaptured yesterday by Captain Dan Gilbert and Harry the state's attorney's Alter spending a night ate a scant breakfast and lay down on his cell cot Sergeant Frank Ballou saw him topple to floor unconscious When they ed to revive him police suspected a suicide caily with He wu transferred to lac city hospital but was found dead ar- rival Dr Edward Milen declared had taken either arsonic or strychnine and police autopsy and analysis of his fast to determine how he died himself Police also minutely ex- his clothes to learn bow truck driven Fernekes concealed the poison on uty Carl From accident 1 the Herren Investigated the DUCK HUNTING REPORTED GOOD With the squirrel season coming to an end tomorrow hunters re- port that duck hunting is proving excellent in many parts of the county Reports slate that three geese were killed during the week and many good bags of ducks made The rabbit and quail season will not pay anything j open on Nov 10 There will be no on claims for some items Including j open season on pheasants in and burials or ter county this year Michael Ob- tor's services mainly because the latter would not conform to the person to evade the police search yesterday A rip in the collar of shirt indicated he might have the death dose there Fernekes had been in jail since 1925 for bank robbery in 1924 He was under sentence to die for der but escaped hanging when the supreme court reversed the decision Fernekes was Identified the bandits who robbed River N Y state bank in 1931 when a clerk and a policeman were slain His record also includes lesser crimes since he left home at Valparaiso Ind Last spring Fernekes applied for parole and was refused On August 3 Fernekes donned smoked glasses changed into a smuggled suit of clothes tore from his ad- tape under which Tie had a mustache and walked out of the prison gates He was re- leased by the guard who had ed him for 10 years Investigation failed to reveal bribery but it did show that Fernekes had been inn stock market dealings from his I jail cell j Fernekes is supposed to have con- between and loot from his robberies having i established a reputation for Fernekes was once arrested in-the studying a profound local game warden states that game law are be- j ise on explosives scale of charges fixed by the ing carefully watched presumably gaining knowledge of how best to blow up a safe Search was also started for fat woman with whom was seen by proprietors of the A Daily Thought By George F Charity shall cover the of Peter 4 8 A wise man with a ledge of humanity supported by a charitable heart will Instead of exploiting the faults of ers cover up charitably con- strue much of what may pear sin and sometimes is not for things arc not always what they seem Don't look for the flaws you go through life and even when you find them It's wise and kind to be somewhat blind and March for the light behind jcd for removal of tourist room signs I from city property a number of East residents still maintain signs in front of their premises All of the offending property owners announced sometime ago the signs would be removed but with the approach of winter a number are still up and in some expected to recover BISHOP JOSEPH PRECIADO OF PANAMA AND PARTY VISIT HERE MONDAY WITH LOCAL PEOPLE continued oa Papi a I Another member declared that if any sign was a menace it was up to the police to remove it Valparaiso university has a today was scheduled to recall 800 men to work and sign on pointing to tr e production The new the university officials of the of at the plants number and will remit declare the sign causes many people to visit the school who otherwise would not Their tarrying here results in cases are proving menace lo able business lo the city traffic Another woman who operates an Last Wednesday City eating house stated that the sign City Treasurer Ernest J at the instance of the council wrote letters to all property owners who have signs on city property This and other pertinent mation provoked warm discussion among the city council members at the regular Monday night at city One of the members declared the removal the signs step was her bread and butter On West where many homes enter to tourists the signs have been moved buck and the re- sult is a greatly improved of the street City agitation for replacing the signs was started when the highway commission urged the STUDEBAKER TO RECALL 800 WORKERS South Bend Ind Oct Studebaker Cor- triple production The new employment will make the total of workers active in daily production of about 200 cars the management said CONFESSES STRANGLING YOUNG GIRL Auburn Me Oct Cressey 28 today con- to the strangle murder of Annie K Knights old Fairfield girl authorities announced after they had grilled the youth for over houri confession came after he had been arrested for allegedly attempting to attack a Livermore girl The body of the girl wai found tied to a clump of a from her home on October 7 She had been strangled and criminally attacked Bishop Joseph M Preciado Sunday to several hundred M F of Colon Republic of bers of the Chicago police anu the Vicar Apostolic ol Roman Catholic chinch for the force 1 who attended the service in a body headed by Captain Siege Previous to visiting Father the party had visited the by Rev Father Arthur M Shrine ol the Mission of San Gabriel near I Wheel j Los Angeles Cal Rev j ami j ant pasters of Our Lady of church at Ninety-first street and avenue South cago 111 visited here Monday with Rev Father John A Sullivan at St Paul's rectory Father Crook delivered the at the various ing the to St nt Our of church OB twoj of the Seven Dolors near After visiting with ther Sullivan they stopped for short visits at the of Mr and Mrs David Barry nnd at the of Mr and Mrs John M M II W J son John of Chicago accompanied the party to Valparaiso Mr Ing's son Charles now studying for the priesthood In Seminary in California Is a ber of the Missionary which closed last Sunday order of Preclude Preclude distributed Holy ion at the 8 o'clock high muss and the three Ing him are FORT WAYNE Ind Oct It hope ft beer This was the last HIM of a lease by which the New York Central railroad will rani a two-mile strip of land ww foot wide to the Wayne The city of Kurt to connect the municipal airport to the city kjr of land M thai MM at the Tkc the side the wM whether with rl
