St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 5, 1928

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TODAY =6ée wv & FAT OFF 3I.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service A A CS IC TI II it i 2 NO. 180. ST. LOUIS, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1928—36 PAGES. a . ge Ee 15 PER CENT FALL IN - WORK IN FACTORIES "By CHARLES G. ROSS, | Washington Correspondent 4 _ of the Post-Dispatch. 9 WASHINGTON, March 5.—Sen- : ator Robert F. Wagner (Dem.), BP New York, in his first speech in the Senate, painted today a vivid cture of the unemployment sit- uation in the United States, and charged President Coolidge with Phaving given the country “optim- Pistic information” wholly at var- “Biance with the findings of his own ‘Government experts. @ The speech of the junior New | pork Senator, who is serving his t term, made a deep impression. He was heard attentively by a large ’ ndance of Senators on both ides of the aisle. After a discus- om aroused by his speech, the “@ienate adopted without dissent his “Byesolution instructing the Secretary age labor to send to the Senate a gomprehensive report on unem- Mpoyment with a statement on the Woarthods used in making his esti- /Wagner called attention to Mr. bolidge’s statements in the first aph of his last message to gress, that “‘wages are at a try high range” and “employment e pientiful.” ® “I wish the President would in- frm the Congress,” he said, there he obtained that optimistic rmation; .where he learned mt ‘wages are at a high range?’ mho told him that ‘employment is lentiful?? At a recent press con- rence, the press informs us he d prosperity in glowing Seerms, but he said not a word “Bout unemployment. @ “surely he had not’ consulted ith his statistical or industrial ex- ris in his Department of Labor, h® he would not have obtained tis information there. The data ith which they would have sup- med him would have been quite ferent. Lower Level Than in 1926. “Let us consider how plentiful Mployment really is. As far back last June the Commissioner of ador’s statistics would have in- "ee'med the President that employ- “eeent and wages were at a lower Wel than in 1926. Had the Presi- mt studied the digures for No- mber—the month during which ®was preparing his message—he tid have found that 15 of every ~men engaged in manufactur- in 1923 had been dropped from payrolls by November, 1927, that situation prevailed roughout the whole United es, /And where did he get the in- MMation concerning ‘the high mige of wages?’ I find no foot- sin the message giving his au- Writies. Had he consulted his Pf experts, including the Bureau | Labor Statistics, they would We informed him that total wages € had declined as steadily as e volume of employment. ° “He could have found all kinds evidence justifying a conclusion ile contrary to that he gave to Congress in reporting on ‘the eof the Union. Labor Depart- ent reports, statistics of employ- ent Offices, the human docu- “ats of welfare and charitable Allzations, railroad records, in- and commercial data, fs of business failures and ™ foreclosures—all these would * Spelled out for him in sharp, inant letters that this country €n, and is now, in the grip “2 unemployment problem 560 that it cannot be neglected. . "Yeh a believer in the most Seiecees sort of government ure od facts which not only ish & panorama of human ! el tesa a eae Rerament."" erly society and . Summarizes the Evidence, E acher Summarized the y of unemployment as evi- fol- (), Reports of the Bureau of Statistics show a decline of ae per cent in the num- sc in manufacturing ents. This, of course, Completely show the ex- tnemployment, for many Y part — are employed 4 2), A decline of 13 per cent in ~ ad on Page 3. Column 2. t FAIR, WARMER TONIGHT, PARTLY CLOUDY TOMORROW ae TEMPERATURES. 2 SO COs FP EP Pep o> Ww! ¥ m.); ~~ ~o ~ seard ian” uae £ver ay 's h, 49 a. ate @ ov. ONE MORE?! for St. Louis and YEAR CF THES Fn tpn Fair and Slightly warmer -O.P.. ie with the ~~ oweést tempera- (hs | ture about 25 de- grees; tomorrow partly cloudy with rising tem- perature. Missouri: In- creasing cloudi- ness and not so cold tonight; to- morrow partly cloudy with ris- ing temperature. Illinois: Fair tonight; not quite so cold in north and central por- tions; tomorrow partly cloudy and slightly warmer. ie —— a S Arkansas: Tonight, fair, slightly | warmer in northeast portion; to- morrow, fair, rising temperature. FLOODS IN SOUTHERN FRANCE: GALE LASHES MEDITERRANEAN Power Plants at Beziers Inundated, Closing Factories; Spring Pre- vails in Northern Area. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 5.—With North- ern France enjoying springlike weather weeks ahead of time, the south of France today was being drenched in a persistent rainfall and the Mediterranean lashed by easterly gales. The Department of Herault suf- fered severe floods. Water and electric plants in Beziers were in- undated, forcing a number of fac- tories to close. The village of Cazouls was invaded by flood wa- ters and the inhabitants forced to take refuge in neighboring ham- lets. In Northern France the temper- ature reached 65 degrees yester- day, which was unprecedented for March. BENEFICIARIES OF CARNEGIE WELD LIABLE FOR U. S. TAX Supreme Court Decides Taft and About 50 Others Should Pay on Annuities They Reccive. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, March 5.—Ben- eficiaries under the will of the late Andrew Carnegie, who include Chief Justice Taft, were declared today by the Supreme Court to be liable for Federal income tax on the annuities they receive. The de- cision of lower courts was affirmed. The case was brought by John W. Beatty, of Pittsburg, Pa. Be- sides Beatty and the Chief Justice, there are about 50 other benefici- aries, including Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, the former Mrs. Grover Cleveland, David Lloyd George and several other prominent persons. Their annuities were paid from in- terest on United States Steel Cor- poration bonds. Beatty contended was an untaxable gift. ‘HOT DOGS’ ENTER BIG BUSINESS Concessions for Their Sale Security for $2,000,000 Loan. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 5.—Retire- the annuity rment of $1,777,000 of outstanding bonds of the Madison Square Gar- den Corporation today gave the “hot dog’ a definite standing in the ranks of big business. The retired issue is being re- placed by a $2,000,000 loan at 5 per cent from the Mutual Life In- surance Co., on which interest and amortization are provided by funds from concessions for the sale of “hot dogs,” programs and kindred commodities at sporting events, controlled by the garden. $50,000 for Memorial to Women. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, March 5.—A bill, increasing by $50,000 the ap- .propriations of the Government for the erection of a memorial to the heroic women of the World War, was passed today by the House. The measure already has. been passed by the Senate. Men. He inebieed’ on getting the higher salaried men— And he- realized such men are: harder to find. But he spent enough time in the wording of his. advertisement to make it tell’ his story. Then che called MAin -1111— the Post-Dispatch, and asked for Betty,‘ the expert adtaker. Get the menryou~need to put over your big plans through a want ad-in- the ost-Dispatch. _ The Post- Dispatch is the One Big Hel anted Medium of The Billionarea— Greater St. Louis. Official forecast | ' : Higher. ay | ) POLICE BREAK UP MINERS’ MEETING. AND ARREST 63 Powers Hapgood and His Bride, Sacco-Vanzetti Sympathizers, Held Custody at Pittston, Pa. IGNORED WARNING OF AUTHORITIES Pair Attempted to Address Session to Raise Funds to Defend Three Accused of Mine Feud Murder. —— By the Associated Press. PITTSTON, Pa., March 5.—Pow- ers Hapgood and his bride, the former Mary Donovan of Boston, who became acquainted in the demonstrations preceding the Sac- co-Vanzetti executions, were in the county jail today. In the opinion of the police the couple ignored a warning that no radical meetings would be per- mitted until peace is restored in a coal mine feud. Hapgood is a nephew of Norman Hapgood, for- mer editor of Collier’s Weekly. Mr. and Mrs. Hapgood came to this section several weeks ago. Hapgood is understood to have ob- tained a job as a ‘laborer in a Wilkesbarre coal mine. Both he and his wife are college graduates. With Joseph Licata of Pittston, a labor leader, they were arrested yesterday when they attempted to hold a meeting in the State Arm- ory called by the “Save the Un- ion Committee.” Mr. and Mrs. Hapgood were locked up in default of $1000 bai’ each, charged with disorderly conduct. More than 60 others, arrested at the same time, | were discharged after hearings. Police Break Up Meeting. 'a fund fur the defense of three of- ficers of the miners’ union local held on charge of the murder of | one of the four mén in the Frank Agati, who have been slain since Jan. 18. Handbills advertising the gath- ering contained an attack on Rin-| aldo Cappellini, president of Dis- trict One, United Mine Workers. | More than 200 persons attempted to enter the building where the meeting was to have been held. All were turned back by State and county police and the more per- sistent ones arrested. An attempt- ed meeting on a vacant'lot and a parade also were broken up by she authorities, Hapgood. Harvard in who graduated from 1921, married Miss Donovan in New York City early this year. He was arrested numerous times fh Boston in con- nection with Sacco case on charges ranging from violation of munici- pal park rules to inciting to riot. He paid one $20 fine and sued a Captain of the State police because he was sent to the psychopathic hospital. He was released from che hospital two days after being ad- mitted. Radicals Blamed for Strife. Miss Donovan was dismissed as an employe of the Massachuseits State Board of Labor and Indus- try on charges arising out of her alleged neglect of her position in- cident to her activities as secre- tary of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee. International officers to the miners union assert that radical leaders are responsible for much of the strife at No. 6 colliery of the Pennsylvania Coal Co., where the Pittston trouble centers, and Mayor W. H. Gillespie said today he was determined that nothing should be done,to intensify the sit- uation. BILL TO END ‘LAME DUCK’ SESSIONS UP TOMORROW Constitutional Amendment Change Datesof Meeting of Congress Gets Right of Way. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON. March 5.—The Norris-White constitutional amend- ment to change the dates for the meetings of Congress to do away with the so-called lame duck ses- sions was given the right of way today by the House Rules Commit- tee. The measure will be taken up tomorrow. Under it members would not be able to participate in legislation after they had been de- feated at the polls. After it has been disposed of the Senate resolu- tion to extend for one year the life of the Radio Commission will be called up. : = D’Annunzio Reported Recovering. By the Associated Press. ROME, March 6.—Reports from Gardone state that Gabriel d’An- nunzio, Italy's poet-soldier, ts# re- eoveringe from bronchitic. to in | GAMBLER SLAIN; 70,000 HE WON AT DICE MISSING | ! ii H. ‘‘Scarface” Spen- cer, Known on All Race Tracks, Picked up Dying in New York Street. | DIAMONDS AND WATCH ALSO GONE Body of Another Chance Player, Discovered Later —Police Doubt Murders Have Any Connection. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 6.—John Henry (Scarface) Spencer, whose nod was good for thousands of dol- lars where the big gamblers lay their bets, was found dying in a street in Brooklyn yesterday. His last big game was belleved to have led to his murder. But a few hours before, police said, he had left a ‘floating crap game,’’ so-called because its loca- tion is changed each night and to which only the big’ players gain ac- cess, with $75,000+—his night’s win- nings. His pockets were empty and his diamond ring, stickpin and watch had been stripped from him when he was found. He died on the way to the hospital. Some hours after Spencer had been found the body of Richard Adams, a barber and _ race track gambler, also Known as Richard Wallace, was found In a Brooklyn street with four bullet wounds. His wife said a man had called at their home in the Richmond Hill section of Brooklyn at 7:30 Satur- for a ride. Adams was old. | money. |culiar boy and I never knew much Spencer Known at Tracks. day night and asked Adams to go} 25 years Although police at first believed | 'there might beSome connection be- tween the two murders, they later | The meeting was called to raise} were inclined to regard this theory | as hardly plausible since Adams } was not known as a big gambler, | RIVER IN FRANCE REVERTS TO and they held it as unlikely he was an associate of Spencer. feud | ' Scriptive of a 'which resulted from a boyhood ac- | was known in New Orleans, | | Havre de Grace, his nickname mark on his “Scarface,” face cident, saltimore, Louisville, Saratoga, Lexing- ton, gam- blers gather. He was 38 years old, and had a 5-year-old son. married, For 15 | lice as a player and proprietor of | gambling houses | riod he had been sprees 13 times, ; During that pe- police records show, but in only one instance was a case made against him, in 1913. when he sentenced in New York to months in jail for carrying con- cealed weapons. He also paid a fine of $50 in Springfield, Mass., in 1915 for gambling. Had Hight Houses. At one time he had eight gam- bling houses running in the Bore ough Hall section of Brooklyn, pa- tronized by business men and poli- ticlans, police say, and won a court fight to restrain them from post- ing a policeman on the premises of the most elaborate of his “‘clubs.” The court action fo'tlowed a raid ordered by Police Commissioner George C. McLaughlin who had been told that in 10 months Spen- cer and his associates had divided $900,000 in profits from the one house. Although police at first believed he died from the result of blows on the head a medical examiner later stated that only two super- ficial scalp wounds were found and expressed the view that death had been caused by poison. Police hold to the belief that Spencer died worth several hun- dred thousand dollars but his fa- ther believed his son left little “He was a very pe- about his business,” the father said. It is probable that only those present at the “floating dice game” will ever know what events pre- ceded the _ killing of Spencer. Changing the location every night makes it difficult for police to check on the activities of its pa- trons. SHOPPER COLLAPSES AND -DIES Unidentified Woman Has Fatal Seizure in Department Store. An unidentified woman about 50 years old collapsed when shopping in the Famous-Barr department Store today, and died soon after- ward. Her body was taken to city hospital morgue. She was about 5 feet 3 inches tall, had brown hair turning gray and gray eyes. She wore a gray coat and brown dress. Postal Receipts Decline Here. WASHINGTON, March 6.—St. Louis postal receipts for February, 1928, were $1,066,972, a decrease of 3.2 per cent from the corre- spondine month last year k Was | six | de- | | By the wherever | ithe horses run and the big TRAIN MAROONED IN 36-HOUR TIE-UP BY SNOW NEAR SOO Railways Hope Transportation in Northern Michigan by Nightfall. By the Associated Press. SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich.., March 5.—The eastern section of the Upper Peninsula today was digging out of one of the worst storms of the winter and there were hopes that railroad transpor- O’NEIL, FUGITIVE OIL MAN, IN A RELIGIOUS RE TREAT: to Restore | tation, paralyzed for more than 36 hours, would be resumed by night- | fall. A Detroit Pullman car with 20 passengers, marooned at Soo Junc- tion since Sunday morning, cor | lowed a snow plow to Sault Ste. Marie today. | A train with 40 ever: bound for the Soo, encountered Such heavy snow drifts near Bil- christ, 75 miles west of here, Sun- day, that it turned back toward Minneapolis. Highway transportation is at a standstill, with all roads leading out of the Soo blocked. Tops of automobiles abandoned in Satur- day night’s storm, can be seen at intervals along the roads. One man started from Pickford on snowshoes this morning for Sault Ste. Marie, 25 miles away. GENERAL MOTORS COMMON CLIMBS TO NEW HIGH PRICE Rise of $10 a Share Since Friday Adds $185,000,000 to Market Value. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK,. March 5.—Com- mon stock of General Motors Corp., continuing its advance on the stock exchange, today closed at $146%&, a net gain of $2.50 a share, after having touched a new high record of $148. Total sales of the issue were 656,900 shares, worth, at cur- rent quotations, nearly $100,000,- 000. Willys-Overland common and preferred also advanced to. new high levels for the year today, as did about a dozen other issues, in- cluding Du Pont, Consolidated Gas, Coty, Paramount, Famous Players, Coca Cola, Southern Dairies A, and Montana Power. The tremendous speculative in- terest created in General Motors inspired bullish demonstrations in | a number of other popular indus- | trials, including U. S. mon and American Can, which advanced nearly 3 points. Gains in some of the specialties | ran as high as 9 points. EE ee ee COURSE OF TERTIARY PERIOD | Steel com- | each of | Brooks and Kelly Fields, Texas. BLACKMER UNEASY IN EXILE FIVE KILLED WHEN HOME-MADE PLANE FALLS 300 FEET Machine Stalls and Goes In- to Nose Dive in Getting Out of Way of Huge Air Liner at San Diego, Cal. ALL WARNED AGAINST GOING ON FLIGHT Owner, Denied a Pilot’s Li- cense, Recruited His Four Passengers From Crowd at Field. By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Cal., March Five men, includirg the pilot, were killed yesterday when a home- made airplane stalled and nose- dived 300 feet to earth in giving the right of way to a huge ai ut t0 make a landing. The ..— W. W. Bird, pilot and builder of the plane. Ralph Craig. Chester H. Kidwell. Clifford Dill. Irving Thomas. All were residents of the San Diego district except Thomas, wh) is believed to have come from AY arned Against Flying in Plane. | tWecorders of the City Air Control ' Board, |fused Bird a The plane left the airport against previously had re- pilot’s license on the = | ground hae he was inexperienced. |The board also had ordered that Cnsiderable Damage Done When | the plane be not allowed to go up the Drucat Goes Over Banks in Trebling Its Length. Associated Press. ABBEVILLE, Franée, March 5B. |'.—_The Drucat, a small tributary of ' the Somme River, has suddenly | tripled its length of three miles by ' reverting to the long dry course it years he had been known to po-' 1g a | | ithe country, i i i ' ; | | rains revived the followed during the tertiary period The return of the stream to its original course did considerable damage, for it spread out across flooding fields and gardens, surrounding houses and cutting the highway at two points. It is supposed the recent heavy ancient. springs which were the original sources of the Drucat, but which long ago had disappeared in fissures of the lime- stone strata. The tertiary period preceded the last great “ice age,” when a great part of Europe was covered. Science estimates the ‘ice age,”’’ which was of unknown dura- tion, ended from 5000 to 30,000 years ago. $15,870 MORE OF LOOT OF GRAND TRUNK HOLDUP FOUND Sister of One of Five Men Indicted for the Robbery Turned It Over to Chicago Authorities. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 5.—A second portion, totaling $15,870, of the loot obtained in the robbery of a Grand Trunk mail train at Ever- green Park, Ill, a few days ago, was recovered Saturday night by Sergt. Michael Naughton of the De- tective Bureau. The money was found in the home of Miss Mary Hoffman, 40 years old, a sister-in-law of Wil- liam Donovan, one of the five men indicted for the robbery by the Federal grand jury. Miss Hoffman admitted, | because it had been deemed not | airworthy. | Bird’s fgur passengers were re- |cruited from a crowd at the field. . off it is said, that Donovan | gave her the money to keep for | him, and took the police to its hid- | ing place in her home. POLICE PUT ON 10-HOUR SHIFT Increase of Crime Reason Given for Lengthening of Hours. Because of the increase of crime in the city, patrolmen beginning tomorrow will work a shift of 10 hours instead of the customary eight, Acting Chief John Glassco announced today, following a con- ference with police Lieutenants. The 10-hour shift will be in force until the decrease of grocery store, drug store and filling station hold- up justifies its discontinuance, Glassco said. House Votes to Cut Air Postage. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, March 5.—The Kelly bill, authorizing a reduction of the air mail postage rate and extending air mai! route contracts, was passed today by the House and sent to the Senate They were warned not to go witn Bird but insisted on ‘“taking a chance.’”’ Airmen who witnessed the take- said the plane stalled badly as it rose from the ground, indicating that it was overloaded or not prop- erly balanced. It made a short flight to Camp Kearney, nearby, and was returning when the acci- dent occurred. The Bird plane was in the path of the air liner,*which airport of- ficials said was entitled to the right of way. In turning out of the larger plane’s path the Bird ma- chine tipped, stalled and plunged. Engine Crushes Four. The 220-horsepower engine tele- scoped back through the frame- work of the machine and into the passenger compartment as it dived into the earth, crushing the life out of four of the men. Craig was the only one alive when airport attendants reached the wreck and he died in a few minutes. Bird, builder of the plane, form- erly was a contractor. He was bad- ly injured sometime ago when a “Jenny” plane he was operating crashed in the Tijuana River sand, and was wrecked. | The plane that crashed yesterday was built about two months ago by Bird. It was powered with a His- pano-Suiza engine. Of the victims of the crash three were married. Bird is sur- vived by his widow; Craig leaves a widow and Dill is survived by a widow and a 3%-year-old daugh- ter. TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHTS BY MANY BIRDS RECORDED Tern, Banded in Maine, Found in British West Africa, Biologi- cal Survey Reports. Special to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, March 65.— A United States biological survey report says that two black-headed gulls, banded at Rossiten, Ger- many, were found, one at Bridge- town, Barbadoes, in the British West Indies, and the other on the mainland of Mexico, near Vera Cruz. Two kitiwakes, banded at the Farne Islands off the English coast, were recovered almost directly across the Atlantic at points on the coasts of Labrador and Newfound- land. <A tern, banded at Eastern Egg Rock, Me., crossed both the Atlantic Ocean and the equator and was recovered from the delta |\@re masters of it," of the Niger River, British West Africa. A young Arctic tern, band- ed in Labrador, was recently found dead near La Rochelle, on the coast of France ; TEAPOT DOME EXILES : JAMES E. O’NEIL, PROCESS SERVERS WATCH FOR O'NEIL IN CANNES, FRANGE They Feel Sure He Occa- sionally Leaves. Alpine Hiding Place to Visit His Family There. HIS SON’S WIFE TALKS OF EXPATRIATION Blackmer, Living Luxuri- ously in Paris, Is Rest- less, Suspicious and Has Few Friends. — By ARNE DOSCH FLEUROT, A Staff Correspoudent of the Post- Dispatch and New York. World. Copyright, | sete. be bar Press and New York Werle and : PostDispate h,) VENTIMIGLIA, Italy, March 6. —lIn a religious retreat somewhere in the Maritime Alps, James E. O’Neil is waiting for the Teapot Dome Oil trials to finish, He is in as good health as any man of his age with high blood pressure and weakened heart. He is about 70, but there is no likeli- ag testimony SUBLETTE BONES NEAR BURIAL AFTER 32 YEARS Claimants’ Loss of $3,000,000 Suit Apparently Ends Use of ‘‘Exhibit A.” The bones of Pinkney W. Sub- lette, Indian fighter, trapper and hunter, which have reposed in a wooden soapbox at the Courthouse ‘for 32 years, will be buried soon, unless somebody objects. The bones were dug up from a grave in Wyoming in 1895 and taken to the Courthouse as told heretofore by the Post-Dispatch, as Exhibit A in the suit of descen- dants of a brother, Solomon Sub- lette, to gain land in Southwest St. Louis under an old will, One of the issues was the date of Pink- neyl’s death. Exhibit A also in- cluded a stone from the Wyoming grave marked “P. W. S., d. 1865.” The heirs’ suit was dismissed on demurrer in Circuit Court in 1926, but an appeal was taken to the Mis- souri Supreme Court, which, last Saturday, sustained the lower court. Robert M. Nichols, attorney for local plaintiffs, today said the liti- gation apparently was ended and he had no objection to burying the bowes. Former Senator Bailey of Texas, representing plaintiffs in that State, is yet to be heard from. “Linless the Sublette descend- ants come forward in a reasonable time and take charge of the bones, I intend have them buried,” Cir- cuit Clerk Schmoll gaid today. “Of course, the bones have been at the Courthouse a long time, and there is no particular reason to hurry now. This office has no special fund for burial purposes, and it may be necessary to inter the boneg in a potter’s field.” FRENCH FLYERS AT CHICAGO Costes and Lebrix Make Flight From Detroit. By the Associated Press. ; CHICAGO, March 6. The French aviators, Capt. Dieudonne Costes and Lieut. Joseph Lebrix, arrived here today on their round- the-world trip at 2 p. m. They land- ed at the Municipal airport. They left Detroit at 12:25 Eastern time. The flyers denied they had re- ceived instructions to return . to France at once, and said they planned to complete their trip around the world, flying to San ore f--m there to Japan for an Asiatic flight. said . Lebrix. “We'll fly it wherever we: please.” The Frenchmen intimated to offi- cers of the Ford Motor Co., the lat- ter said; that they plan a Paris-to- New York flight in May or June. ; Francisco and taking a steamer| “This is our plane and we/ en a refuge by the received many generous gifts from him. It is understood he is in an ever, aS a monastic. Mrs. O'Neil, with their young daughter, is leading a quiet life in goes there occasionally but quiet- ly under cover of night. His son, Wayne O'Neil, with his wife and three small children is living almost as secluded a life in the Villa St. Patricio on a hill behind Bordighera, near San Remo, where they are almost sur- rounded by religious — | Son Ready to | Wayne has informed the Ameri- can Government he is ready to re- turn to testify if the Government wishes, but denies knowledge of hig father’s retreat. He has been absent during the last fortnight, but he does not fear process servy- ers, who are thick along this coast looking for the elder O'Neil and who become thicker as the im- portance of O'Neill's testimony in the oil scandalg is apparent. The son travels openly, but James O'Neil takes no chances such as Harry Blackmer did last spring when he took a sle¢ping car and was caught by a process server. O'Neil evidently travels only by au- tomobile. but until recently evi- dently went to his own villa, An- toine, for a few days occasionally. but has given this up in the last weeks. The only time he has been even reported seen in public was recent- ly at luncheon in a Mentone hotci with his son. They separated aft- erward. Aware from the American news- papers, whieh reach even hig re- treat, of the notoriety given his name, there is'‘no unhappler visitor to the Riviera than James O'Neil. Said to Be Anxious to Talk. Declared by doctors to be better physically than he has been for several years and past the critica! stage which made him believe the end was near when he went to Continental Trading Co.'s gains, he would like nothing better than to make a complete declaration of all he knows, I have been given to un- derstand. But he fears his testimony will ‘avoid testifying. Blackmer is in a better because he has no longer re te remain in hiding and goes fre- quently to Paris, where he is now. But when on the Riviera feels the embarrassment Monte Carlo is one of hig | : vorites, but not for gam cs hood of his immediate dissolution. ‘before the Senate Public Lands Committee sndicated. HARRY M. meaner whereabouts secret, But . s sae : £ Italian . Catholic clergy who Star Italian monastery now, not, how- the spacious villa Antoine, which 1 O’Neil bought, in Cannes, and he Montreal to restore his share of the -. p= as I have been able to « ‘oe = P “ee _— a taninen trays b meaiaitend aM oor saad tae ena R aC ar a et REO EN PP ; ~ er ee ae See Re eee ee