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Lake County Register (1922), 12 May 1926, p. 8

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Fg -- seovery of $500,000 in bonds taken in ~=-- ~#ke Rondout mail robbery. 4 _ Offers To Give Tip On Loot _-- . In Lake County Theft. Q * Following --his conviction in Chi-- . ~<emgie Wednesday on charges of dis-- e a"'hlln Kid"?" -- Weil was t se to have made overtures to E Apparently shorm for the first je: time of his confidence following the -- _ BONDS SOUEHT #found 'and the "Yellow Kid" gave government men to understand he could shed considerable light on their whereabouts if the authorities show-- ed an inclination to grant him "some about the conviction. werdict which makes him liable to thirty--two years imprisonment, the "Yellow Kid," who in spite of the sobriquet is in the heavy half of the fifties, is reported to have offered to "turn up" fences and "hot bond" experts and to aid half million dol-- lars or the $2,000,000 loot taken in torney Edward J. Hess, who prose-- euted him. "The Kid," it was report-- gd, volunteered to "be of service" to the government if his release could be arranged so he could work with government investigators. So far no boomerang and it was Santley's tes-- timony for the government that was ROTOR SHIP invention of Anton Flettner, prove an spection of the "Baden--Baden" his Sirst boat of this type which has just erossed the Atlantic, averaging 220 es miles a day. A reebnd and larger boat is ready After Weil had been placed behind the bars in default of $50,000 bail he underwent a change of heart new to him and requested an interview with Asst. United States District At-- action has been taken on the prop-- It recalled that Weil did aid tbgfi---tinmtingflury is now in New York is inviting in« to be launched at Bremen. The "Baden--Baden" weighs 600 tons and whereas the new boat is 3,000 tons. _ The boats are driven by wind op-- erated vanes in a revolving funnel. To start rotation of the three cy-- liders requires 100 horse power, but the effective power developed by the rotors is 1,000 horse power, A Diesel engine of 1,000 horse power is also installed in the ship in case of lack onsideration" for his services. 4 Loses His Confidence. "My invention of the rotor ship," fi-mqphhl,"doesnotin-1 tend to supplant shipping machin-- muwyhumchodml;. high degree of development. My intention is to give to the shipping world a new and simple way of util-- fzing costless wind power, thereby saving fuel, without enlarging the :Lhfilflomt:;nmanhip b he Mauretania, said, would take about the same space as a loss of time in bucking winds dur-- #from the prison when seven convicts murdered a deputy warden and slip-- pad thru the gates to freedom. While one of the jailers insisted penitentiary Saturday where he is held prisoner for life. ecollege graduate who murdered 14-- year old Bobby Franks for a thrill, If you want to keep your automo-- bile from being stolen, sleep in it. according to W. P. Young, of *;-t.'mydflnm al Automobile Underwriters® Asso-- cintion, is about the only way to beat the automobile thieves. One of the greatest menaces con-- fronting the underwriters today is the thief who books his orders for ears 'several days before delivery, said Young. *The usual mothod is to ask the r- buyer if he wants to a certafn make of car which its owner must sacrifice because his WAY TO STOP penniless joy riders. for this usually, and the thief--sales-- MiAp goee off and steals the car for the buyer," Young said. Approximately 70,000 automobiles are stolen each year in the United States. Many of these cars are re-- eovered immadiately following the one of the central I$ NEW ONEF AUTO THEFTS DENIES PLOT Jt., in may be Drops Flag Over North Pole, Word the 'North Pole Sunday, according to dispatches from the north is being landed --by authorities at ~Great Lakes, many of whom knew him when he was on temporary duty at the Great Lakes station some years Lieutenant Commander Byrd and his pilot, Floyd Bennett, flew over the pole and dropped the American flag from their airplane, dispatches state. They returned to their flying base some hours later. $5,000. Among the contributors to this fund are taxpayers who have The American treasury derives a certain amount of pin money from restitutions made by persons who are troubled by the prickings of con-- science. Last year the amount re-- OSLO, Norway, May 10--Lieuten-- ant Commander Richard N. Byrd, U. S. N., and his pilot, Floyd Bennett, were hailed today as new conquer-- ers of the North Pole. -- Byrd-- expedition's airplane, accord-- ing to advices from King's Bay. Byrd and Bennett took the air on their flight toward the pole at 1:55 a. m., yesterday, returning at 5 p. m., after an absence of 15 hours. Commander Byrd declared that no land was visible at the --pole, dis-- patches said. He discovered a large strip of wa-- ter, such as Amundsen saw. -- The newspaper € declared edi-- torially todam was reason to doubt that Commander Birl reach-- ed the neighborhood of the pole and praises his speed, cleverness and luck with weather conditions. minimized their incomes, importers who have evaded customs duties, let-- ter writers who have used stamps that had done service before but had not been defaced, government clerks who have exaggerated their expense accounts and old soldiers who wish The airmen réturned to . King's Bay, Spitzenbergen, yesterday after-- noon, and reported that they had flown over the North Pale in the to make amends for a saddle blan-- ket stolen long ago. One of the most curious recent examples of penitence was that of a Washington pniteaeemthatofaWaMJ woman who was "in desperate need' of a story which could be procured only from a newspaper in the files ef the library of congress. It was several columns long, and she felt unequal to the labor of --copying it, so she took the paper away with her. Thereafter her conscience gave her no rest until she sent 4 cents CONSCIENCE FUND IS BEING TALKED in payment of her debt. It must have been an easily satisfied con-- science, for the value of a paper in a set of records can scarcely be measured by the selling price on the day of publication. -- Manchester Lieutenant 1 Eight centilaters in side walls kecpinteriorfreshand sweet altways BA Deep, seftlagersof fine new feit» ed cotten form luxurieus cushion CC You see the moving vans lum-- bering down the streets and tied on behind are mattresses that are lumpy, sodden, incapable of giving tie restful comfort that Let them remind you to study your mattress. Why not replace it this spring with . the mattress that «h #** will never sag or n pack down -- the o has: 4 i ha t

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