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NO. 19 -v I ttb Shotgun Assassin Fires on G.O.P. Candidate Mercury Dips to One Below; Relief Today ELUDES CAPTOR IN CALIFORNIA MOTOR COURT THE NATION'S BEST INVESTMENT Button Saves Suburbs Shiver RADAR LANDING OF AIRPLANES Lawyer; Seeks The following unofficial temperatures were reported just before midnight from the communities listed: PREDICT SUGAR CONTROLS WILL BE CONTINUED Home wood 47thWardJob (Picture on back page) Demand for $10,000 Made in Note PROVED SAFEST Atty. John J. Hoellen, whose office Berwyn 2 Cicero 2 Crown Dea 6 East Chicago Elmhurst 5 Evanaton 2 Flossmoor Gary 2 Glen EUyn 2 Great 3 Hammond Highland 2 Hinsdale is at 120 S.

La Salle made a last Lake Forest 4 LibertyriMe 4 Maywood 2 Mandelein 5 Naperville Oak Park Park Kldge -5 River Forest 1 Riverside 2 Skokie -2 Waukegan 1 Wheaton -2 Whiting 3 day filing yesterday as regular Re publican candidate for 47th ward alderman. Three and one-half hours later, a shotgun blast blew a button off his coat in front of his home at (Picture on back page) Lodi. Jan. 21 Special Alice Dean Devine, 17. tonight was back unharmed in her home at Lodi after she had escaped from a kidnaper who demanded that her fa Army-Navy Tests Are Disclosed Talks Break Down; See Hoover Survey (Picture on page 4 and back page) Chicago's temperature was expect 1R42 Larchmont av.

The button saved him from xnjury. Hoellen, whose father, John J. ed to dip to zero early this morning: nnrl then tn start a slow rise to end Hoellen who was an alderman LOT Of for several years, died in 1936, said BY WAYNE THOMIS the sudden cold snap that brought a ther- John Edward Devine. wealthy reading of 1 below yesterday for the vineyardist, pay $10,000 ransom. Po-winter season's coldest spell thus lice in four states were hunting the he knew of no motive for the assault Evidence that the greatest aid to safety of winter opera except politics.

Some one, he de BY PHILIP WARDEN Chkip Tribane Freta Service 1 Washington, Jan. 21 Prospects of another Hoover food mission to Europe to tudy critical shortages At midnight the temperature was; kidnaper, who eluded a trap set for clared, evidently did not relish his announced intention of making a vigorous fight for election. Reports Mysterious Calls In Germany and Austria tonight shared the food spotlight with a prediction that congress probably will continue sugar price controls and tions by commercial air carriers of the nation ground radar for directional control of airplanes In bad weather landings has been rejected and burled under a pall of secrecy by a faction of the civil aeronautics administration as well as by certain air lines officials, was uncovered here yesterday by The Tribune. Linked with the shooting were mysterious telephone calls from a rationing. man who said ho was a newspaper The day brought these develop reporter eager to Interview and ments: photograf the candidate.

The caller's inquiries kept him in touch with 1. The White House announced A heretofore suppressed report of that former President Hoover would Hoellen's movements until shortly confer with President Truman at I II i 4 above, a one degree drop from 11 p. m. Yesterday's cold particularly hit about 10,000 commuters on the Illinois Central electric railway system when the line's overhead power wires snapped from cold contraction at the busy Randolph st. and Roosevelt rd.

stations. Heaviest of the evening rush hour was over, but more than a dozen long trains were held up more than two hours. Hundreds of passengers shivered on the outside platforms, altho others found warmth inside the stations. Other rasengers Shuttle The power wire break at Roosevelt rd. was first repaired, giving service up to the Van Buren st.

station. Passengers at the Randolph st. station were forced to shuttle on foot or by bus or cab down Michigan av. in the cold to the intermediate station, where they boarded trains for home. The end of the cold snap was predicted by Forecaster I.

W. Brunk. Earlier predictions of 3 to 4 below him at the ransom rendezvous. Sgt. Coy Long of the state hich-way police in Sacramento said the kidnaper, known only as Mr.

Giles," threatened the slender, attractive high school senior with a knife and a gun last night, forcing her to submit to being bound hand and foot gagged, and blindfolded. The abductor, described as a long nosed, well dressed man about 40, then tossed the girl into the trur.k of his sedan and drove to the Victoria Auto court, 2 miles south of Sacramento, where he had rented a cabin last week. Surreptitiously he carried the girl into the cabin and bound her to the bed. He then dropped off to sleep in a chair. Girl Frees Herself This afternoon, the girl told Sgt-Long, her captor left, saying he was going to make a telephone call.

The girl managed to struggle free from her bonds and ran out to the highway. U. S. 99, where she flagged Hrtti-n a clato ri i riJLfl Tiatrol iui bank atrust CQ. A PAY TO THE the army air forces covering an exhaustive series of actual flight tests conducted at the CAA's Indianapolis Ind.

experimental instrument landing site as long ago as last July is in the possession of The Tribune. It discloses that the radar system, in competition with an electronics beam system for bad weather approaches, proved to be the best method now available for bringing large military or commercial airplanes to safe landing positions. Army Follows Navy It explains why the army has followed the navy's example and; sS OF Jit -7- before the attorney left his home. As Hoellen reached the sidewalk, he said, a man, about 38, in a tan overcoat, walked out from between Hoellen's home and the next house. The man asked, "You're Hoellen, aren't you? Hoellen swung around and replied, "Yes," then saw the man was carrying a shotgun and asked, What are you doing with that gun? Neighbors then heard the shotgun blast, lloeilen, stunned, saw his assailant run down the street and vanish thru an areaway.

Blast Tears His Coat With the button, the blast tore off I Tf oS IS DOILAttS mi I i ISTOKY ON PAGE SI Copyright, JMT, by Tbs Chicago Tntwas. adopted the ground radar system known as GCA or ground controlled hippy Wins a approach as its approved system around 7 a m. were moderated tojdriven by Sgt. RusseU at that MRS. F.D.RS PROTEGE GETS TWO YEAR TERM FOR STEALING CHECKS a two inch section of Hoellen's coat.

Shotgun pellets were found lodged for all airports under its command and for all categories of aircraft to in the coat lining and a photograf 12:30 p. m. tomorrow. Persons close to Mr. Hoover confirmed war department rumors 'that he had been Invited by the President to go to Germany on a food mission.

2. Chairman Andresen Minn. cf the house food shortage investigating committee told reporters following an all-day sugar hearing that it is likely congress will continue rationing and price control of ugar." Sugar Negotiations Fail S. A spokesman for the International emergency food council said negotiations here in the last two days to determine the 1917 sugar allocations of 15 nations, including the United States, broke down when It was found there was "too much disparity between requested allocations and prospective supplies." The negotiations will be resumed Feb 3. 4.

James II. Marshall, head of the agricultural department's sugar branch, told Andresen's committee that the department hopes to increase sugar rations 10 pounds to household consumers later this year. Republican members of the committee expressed opinions that supply prospects indicate larger ration boosts are warranted. If Mr. Hoover accepts Mr.

Truman's invitation to head a new food mission, the trip will be in the nature cf a "follow-up" on the visit which the former President made to zero hour. Brunk said that today would bring a high of 20 and tonight a low of 15, followed by a high of 35 tomorrow. Relief will not be noticeable until this afternoon. be flown in bad weather. sergeant drove Miss Devine, who was unharmed except for hciiises and rope burns, to the patrol's headquarters in Sacramento.

The girl's parents, well known Using GCA, a radar operator peer ing into a. television scope on the the attorney was carrying was damaged. Detectives Thomas Owens and Talbert Bates said the button took the force of the charge before it could spread. Brunk said that the cold wive had ground "sees the landing air moved swiftly east and south, carry-1 here' Were notified of her escaPe ine readings of 22 in as Devine was preparing to plane and all obstacles around it. He speaks by radio directly to the Boston, Jan.

21 Special Alfred B. Parkhurst, 27, former Harvard student and a protege of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, today was sentenced to two years in federal prison on his plea of guilty to stealing GI students' sustenance checks to finance Hoellen received the first mysteri CaponeRallies After Strokein Florida Home (Picture on page 2) Miami Jan. 21 Special Al Capone, one time boss of multimillion dollar rackets in Chicago, who suffered a stroke of apoplexy at 4 a. m.

today in his Palm Island home, rallied tonight, regained consciousness, and was given a fighting chance to live. The sudden change in Capone's condition, which occurred after he had received the last rites of the pilot and gives specific directions that enable the latter to fly to the ous phone call upon returning to his office after filing his petition. When the caller phoned again, the attorney asked an afternoon newspaper if such a man was employed by it and was told the caller was proper runway, lhe electronics beam known as ILS or SCS-51 places the entire burden on the pilot who thru use of his instru Bride, Loses an Argument (Picture on page 3) Los Angeles, Jan. 21 Special Movie Actress Laraine Day and Leo Lippy Durocher finally admitted tonight they are married but their matrimonial bliss was tempered when the garrulous manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team lost an argument with an umpire who deprived him of his bridegroom status in California. The couple returned here by plane late today from a whirlwind tour of the Mexican border during which Laraine obtained her second divorce in 24 hours and they were pronounced man and wife by a justice of the peace at El Paso, Tex.

The final admissions, when they Nashville, 6 above at Pittsburgh, and near freezing marks as far south as northwest Florida. Drop Is Precipitous The drop from 25 above at 1 a. m. yesterday to 1 below zero at 7:40 a. m.

was precipitous. It was 23 degrees at 2 a. then the mercury skidded 11 degrees and kept dropping. It rose to 2 above at noon, and in the evening it still hovered in the neighborhood of 4 above. ments must follow a double radio a gay life among New York's so-called smart set.

Mrs. Roosevelt, who expressed amazement at her protege's doings, said she helped him get out of the navy in 1943 by mentioning his case to the President's naval aide be not on the staff. The last call came while Hoellen leave for Sacramento with the ransom money. Guarded by Sacramento detectives under Capt. M.

W. Lincecura and by federal bureau of investigation agents called in to assist. Miss Devine and her parents parked in their automobile outside Riley's bar in Sacramento, where Devine had been told to bring the $10,000 ransom." The 8 p. m. 10 p.

Chicago time deadline for the payment passed without the appearance of the kidnaper, however, and the De-vines returned to their home here. Lays Plans for Content "Giles" first appeared in Lodi was preparing to leave for his cam paign headquarters. The psudo- reporter refused an appointment to beam sent from the airport. This report has not been a secret from the CAA because CAA personnel manned the ground radar during the testes and CAA pilots flew during the tests along with a group of commercial airline captains and the" AAF pilots. The army's terse Roman Catholic church, was announced by Dr.

Kenneth Phillips, the ex-gangster's physician for the last 7Vi years, as he left Capone's home for his office to study cardio- In western and north shore suburbs it was reported to have been 5 degrees below zero most of yesterday morning. Mundelein reported its thermometers registered 8 below until afternoon. but laudatory evaluation of GCA grafs of Capone's heart action. Pudgy, swarthy, scar-faced Capone, Saturday, when he made arrange- arrived at Miss Day's Santa Monica now 47, was unconscious thruout the The cold wave swept on Illinois ments with a local commercial pho- cause Parkhurst was a Harvard classmate of her son, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.

Parkhurst, who is the son of Harvard university's assistant business manager, pleaded guilty to 119 criminal counts based on the theft of government checks amounting to $2,789 from dormitory mail boxes at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Loot valued at $10,000 was found in his apartment, much of it stolen from Harvard dormitory rooms. The tall, handsome defendant told investicators he stole because I like a good time and I traveled with only the best people." day after suffering what Dr. Phil lips described as an acute emer and the central states thru the Da-tografer. Louis Dudley, to have pio kotas and Minnesota.

In the early taken for a high school con-hours yesterday it was officially 24 test last night. Dudley said Giles interview Hoellen at home, but promised to meet him at the heau-quarters. My automobile's stuck in the snow there," the caller said. Four Others Seek Job Hoellen's opponents in the alder-manic election will be Aid. Frank O.

Hilburn, nominally a Republican, who was backed by the regular Democratic organization in his last race; Paul Donohue, William Hunn, and Frank O'Malley. Hoellen, in addition to his law practice, owns a shoe store in the neighborhood where he resides. He inherited the shoe store and a meeting hall from his father. The son served in naval intelligence from 1911 until January, 1946, Europe last spring as "America's food ambassador for Mr. Truman.

Survey of Kurope Atked President Truman has asked Mr. Hoover to investigate the overall economic requirements of occupied Europe in addition to the current food shortages which in Germany and Aurtria are extremely critical, It was reported. British approval of the Hoover mission, necessary because the American and Pritish occupation tfinn have been combined, has been granted, it was reported. The Andresen committee heard a gency stroke." Two hours after he was stricken the Rt. Rev.

Msgr. Wil below zero at International Falls, I identified himself as a representa- liam Barry of Miami Beach was has been in the hands of CAA's top officials or has been available to them ever since that time. Army-Navy Offers Rejected Nevertheless, It was learned during The Tribune's investigation, offers made by the army and the navy for the use of surplus GCA equipment at the country's major airports during the current winter months were turned down by CAA chiefs. Also department of commerce officials, it is understood, went directly to the White House to close the lips of enthusiastic on the Canadian border. 40 Below In Canada called to give the last rites.

Relative Kuslt to Side ine fort jNorman weather sta home, were substituted for earlier denials of both after Leo lost an argument to Superior Court Judge George A. Dockweiler. Granted Interlocutory Decree Yesterday the judge granted Miss Day an interlocutory divorce decree, final in a year, from Ray Hendricks, an airport executive. When he heard that she had obtained a quick divorce this morning at Juarez, Mexico, and planned to wed Durocher immediately, he had a word to say and it was bigamy." "If she is dissatisfied with the decree she obtained here," the jurist With Capone were his wife, Mae, who has been his constant com panion since his retirement in 1940, and his son, Buddy. Other members of the family were reported to be on their way from Chicago, including another son, Matthew; Capone's Three hundred twenty-right aspirants file lor 50 council Beats.

Story on page 5.1 aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ermio Capone, and a sister, Mrs. Mafalda THE WEATHER Maritote. Capone's brother, Ralph, told reporters, "we are dissatisfied with her attitude and will set it aside." navy officers who sought to lobby the CAA into using the GCA equipment.

Furthermore, it was disclosed, the army and navy have been successfully using GCA equipment to permit their own aircraft to operate safely under identical conditions and at identical places where commercial planes carrying pay pas- WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 22, 1947 was reported to have gone from Chi Judge Dockweiler said the terms tion in Canada reported it was 40 below there, 1.200 miles northwest of Medicine Hat, Alta. It has been colder in Chicago on a previous Jan. 21. On that day in 18S3 the mercury dropped to 14.9 below zero and on Jan.

22, 1883 a date it got even worse, skidding down, to 17.2 below. Frozen radiators and batteries that went out of commission stopped hundreds of automobiles yesterday. Reports from the outlying districts late in the afternoon said many cars were stalled along the highways or being towed to service stations. The Chicago Motor club reported that, in the period between 7 and 8:30 a. 400 calls from owners of stalled autos were received, against an earlier record of 250 in one hour.

There were many minor motor accidents. A number of thru trains on the railroads were reported late, prin of the divorce he granted forbid Miss Day marrying anywhere in cago to the Capones' summer home at Mercer, where a plane was waiting to take him to Florida. Capone has been in seclusion since the ravages of paresis, which progressively affects the brain, caused him to lose the cunning with which rocher promised they wouldn't be parties to bigamy. After putting Laraine's three adopted children to bed, Leo planned to spend the night at the home of George Raft, where he has been staying. For the next year," Laraine said, we will live like man and wife everywhere except in California." FIND NEW GERM KILLER IN BEEF BRAIN EXTRACT An extract of beef brains and other organs that has proved to be superior to penicillin in some respects has been used on mice inoculated with certain staphylococcus germs, according to the current issue of the Journal of Bacteriology.

The paper, by Leo G. Mutini and Sister Eva Maria Lynch of the In- the world until the interlocutory Continued on page 11, column 3 degrer comes finaL tive of a large weekly magazine sponsoring a contest for the typical American high school girl. "He said he wanted a photograf of a nice looking Kirl, preferably blonde, to use In a nation wide picture contest," Dudley said. He said if my picture won it would appear on the cover of a national magazine." "Giles" next went to the high school, where he outlined the supposed contest to Supt. of Schools Leroy Nichols.

After looking thru picture files of the school's annual, the Flame, he selected Betty Jo Brown, daughter of Lloyd G. Brown, an aviation instructor, as the Lodi High school entry for his contest-" Drops First Victim Police said they believe Giles thought Miss Brown was the daughter of another L. G. Brown, a well-to-do Lodi automobile, dealer. She told her father he dropped me like a hot potato" when he learned she was not.

The "contest agent" then shifted his attention to Miss Devine and won her parents' confidence by telling them Supt. Nichols had approved his intention of having her photogrifed as the school's contestant. "Giles" paid a taxi company yesterday morning to pick up Miss De-vine at her home last night. She arrived at the studio about 7 p. met Giles outside, and entered.

Dudley said he took 10 pictures of CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Mostly cloudy and not so cold today; tomorrow partly cloudy and warmer; high today, 20; low tonight, IS; high tomorrow, 35; southerly winds, 10 to 15 miles an hour today. ILLINOIS: Fair in snath, and mostly cloudy In north today; not ao rold In north and est central; generally fair and warmer tomorrow TEMPER ATI' RES IN CHICAGO For 24 hours ended 2 a. m. Jan. 22: In Li Paso the new bridegroom learned of the judge's attitude when he telephoned Miss Day's at he directed the syndicate." one of the most formidable and ruthless a.

4 a. el 8 a. 4 r-rocesylon of witnesses from the ugar industry testify that sugar price controls and rationing should be continued until late this year at ast. Marshall advised the committee that the agriculture department would seek authority to continue these controls. Rationing controls are slated to end March 31 and price controls next June 30.

Denounces Secret Pacts P.ep. Clevenger a member of the Andresen committee, denounced "the parade of secret agreements" made by administration officials after Marshall side-itepped questions about the size of the sugar allocation the United ftates would get from the IEFC this year. Clevenger said he may introduce legislation to nullify the agreements. Clevenger asserted that the administration has made one secret agreement after another as a result of the international conferences at Hcrt Springs, Yalta, and Tehran. He declared that agreements made at the Hot Springs food conference are one reason why the United States is compelled to ration sugar this long after the end of the war.

The agriculture department has been withholding any announcement of an increase in sugar rations until the allocation to the United States is determined. Andresen on Dec. 6 promised that an extra 5 pound susar stamp would be made good before April 1, but ration stamp has been validated for this purpose to date. A a. m.

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10 a. 1 stitutum Divi Thomae of Cincinnati, indicated that the brain ex winds up to 45 miles an hour. The railroads said they were keeping their suburban schedules on time. criminal organizations ever assembled. As early as 1929 his condition was cited in courts as justifying delays in income tax litigation.

Haled to Court in .1941 Since his retirement, Capone has been shielded from public view, except for a United States District court appearance at Miami in 1941, when the government sought to seize his property to satisfy a income tax judgment. In the years since 1940, he has passed most of the time on Palm Island in Biscayne bay, between Miami Beach and Miami, behind the walls of his 25 room villa. Once a Please Phone Your Sunday Want Ads Starting Today You will avoid possible delay and inconvenience on Friday if you will phone your Sunday want ad orders as early as possible this week. The demand for want ads in the Tribune continues to run far beyond the planned capacity of our want ad phone room facilities. By anticipating your needs and phoning your order today or tomorrow, you will help us give you the more efficient service for which our facilities are not always adequate during- Missing' Plane Landed tract held mortality to .9 per cent, as against 75 per cent for untreated mice, when used as a preventive.

As a cure, it appeared to hold fatalities" to zero, while rats treated torney, B. M. Silbert, and told him they had just been married. Phones Judge Twice The talkative manager quickly telephoned the judge twice, in fact. He told the judge that "Laraine and I are very much in love, she's upset about this now and we wonder if it will be all right for her to come back to California." It would be all right, the judge told him, so long as they didn't live together as man and wife.

Durocher promised they would abide by that ruling and would appear before Judge Dockweiler tomorrow. He is a very facile talker," the judge admitted later, "but this is one umpire he will have a hard time convincing." The judge said he didn't promise he wouldn't upset the California decree, but assured Durocher he wouldn't act until the couple appeared before him. Tonight both Miss Day and Du- High. tLow. Sanrise, 7:12.

Sunset, 4:54. Moonset, 6:12. p. m. tomorrow.

Morning stars: Venal and Jupiter. Evening star: haturn. For 24 boars ended 6:30 p. m. Jan.

21! Mean temperature. 12 degrees; normal, 22 degrees: excess since Jan. 1, 105 degrees. Precipitation, trace; deficiency strict Jan. 1, of an Inch.

Highest wind velocity, 41 miles an hour. Kelatlye humidity. 6:30 a. 73 per cent; 12:30 p. 60; 6:30 p.

66. Barometer readings: 6:30 a. 30.08 Inchea; 6:30 p. 30.41 Inches. (Other weather reporta on paga 211 with penicillin suffered 10 to 80 in China; 13 Believed Safe SHANGHAI, Jan.

22 Wednesday (JP) American authorities learned today that an army transport plane missing since Saturday with 13 persons aboard made a forced landing 100 miles northeast of Canton and it the girl, who then left with "Giles." year, however, he has been taken to rla( air( pmid eirtulati was presumed all were safe. News per cent mortality, according to size of dosage. Healing in the brain tissue group was faster than among the penicillin treated mice. The new extract is effective either by subcutaneous injection or by mouth, the experimenters report. They are now seeking to determine whether staphylococcus germs will develop resistance to the new medicine.

DECEMBER 1946 She was not seen again until picked up by Sgt. Fuson near the Victoria Auto court today. Shortly after her disappearance Devine received a telephone call, later traced to Riley's bar in Sacramento, telling him to look on the lawn near his house for a note. Pa- the busier hours on Friday. DULY of the fate of the plane came in a cable from one of the 13 men aboard.

Warrant Officer Harry Fair home 1,040,000 his elaborate summer home near Mercer, which is equally secluded. In Florida and Wisconsin, his chief recreation has been fishing, sitting in the sun, and an occasional game of tennis. Phone Superior 0100, Want Ad-Viser. Thank you! M0H town unavailable to a friend. Miss THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE Ettie Sherman of Shanghai.

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