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i: Chief Collins 'of ~Chicago A Statement Declares He -- Key to Whole Affair; F M Case to Jury ts dn Louis, I!I., and carried out by Bt. Louis and Chicago gunmen. Max Greenberg, former chief of Egans' Rats. a wel} known St. Louis band of gangsters, was the "master mind" of the robbery, he said. Of the eight men howtg have taken part in the robbery, four are under arrest and the others are be-- ing sought throughout the . middle Carlos Fontana, --a _ recognized leader of Chicago ~gunmen, and three -- Newtep brothers--William. Willis, and Joseph--are the Tour now held. The Newtons gave» the names of John Wayne,. J. H. Wat-- son and John Wade, respectively The four being sought are: CHICAGO, June 19.--Rob-- bery of $3,000,000 worth . of mail from a Chicago, Milwau-- kee, and St. Paul| train near Rondout, III., last week has been solved and all the partici-- pants are known, Morgan A. Collins, Chicago police: chief, announced today. | s The robbery plot, . Collins said, was planned in East St. The Newton brothers . and the Fontana brothers were involved in both the Harvey, I!l., and the East Chicago. Ind., mail thefts.. it was stated yvesterday by the officials. Only the $100,000-- found -- in the automobile deserted near Joliet, NL, has been recovered,. -- Chief Collins yesterday fixed the present amount a'.:'l:--ansmo in Currancy and D00 in bonds. une miss-- Closes Year With Fine Exercises ed the vital interest our citizens take in the public schools and we feel sure the program rendered pass-- the expectations of the most exact-- Grammar School The capacity audience which fill-- ed the high school auditoriaum last Friday night to witness the gradu-- grammar school class of 1924, show. After a song, "The Old--Fashioned Town", by the class, under the lead-- ership of Professor Walker, Rev. C. J. Dickey gave the Invocation. The Salutatory address by Ruth Hafe-- man brought enthusiastic and well deserved applause. In clarity of thought, well chosen expressions and clear and forceful delivery itwould have done--credit to a pupil of the high school. The same praise was deserved by the valedictorian, Gail Galloway. Mildred Ray gave the class history by stating in short clear eut sen-- tences the school events of the past gight years. 'The prophet is bound to be without honor in hifs own country, if like Willard Hyatt, he tries to hide his light under a bu-- :d.wmw-a-m,.:'.: udfl.lm.dfi.fofil. and-- frailties. of his class mates to The Class Poem as delivered and neted by Mary Just, was a and showed nwmmk ngfllty. The anu'ml br Mors was pointed a 'mv presenta-- tion of the Ch.dbym 1y Helen Miller was very impressive. few eulogistic words introduced the Mdhm&&. James Weedman. Jim's talk ald timers never know him ans o dift-- ferent from the usual high-- or-- Buperin i w n w i cprarin: --FOURTH YEAR. NO, 48. COPS STATE Practically every school in . the eounty 'had pupils who made per-- ect attendance records for the past year; reports T. A. Simpson, county superintendent of schools. Follow-- ing are the students who did not miss a day of the school term: . Commonwealth School, N. Chicago Anna Volin, Mary Hrupsa,> Lu-- cille Sluga, Tillie~ Cerk, Berenice Jenels, Evelyn Gartley, Apolinar Buksas, Alice-- Levandoski, Steve Many Attain Perfect Average _ In Rural School Attendance Holt, Marion _ Lambert, Charlotte Winckowiez, Sarah Postich, Alice Lake Bluf School Frank Cahill, Evelyn Finel, Mil-- dred Finel, Madelene Harris, Wil-- liam Geraghty, Anna Muto, Erma Mutae, Edwin Splix, Clayton White. -- Rudolph Slobe, Lawrence Thicle, Frank Gusista, Rose Gusista. Schultz School Elsie Paukonin, Elmer Erhsting. Smelby, J""h Bott, m mht Leo 8 A~"!'!'-'4':-,P"",:"", s T = .. Bush School m Sehoof , Rose Exon. . .. .<: .. | '_Doris Paddock, LaVerne Brown, Carr, Alice Volin, William _ Jesko, Josephine Gunt, Frances Purlock, Edward Hussar, Karl -- Globewick, Tony Carr. _ 3 g Iles, Norma Dahlin, Wilbur Yates. Practically Every One -- of County Institutions Is Rep-- Lake county will be the scene of many bus tours during the summer, according to announcement made by officials of the North. Shore elec-- tm line which has-- made Rockford the turnin-- hub in its tourist ser-- vice from--Caicago to--points in nor-- thern Wisconsin. The tour #service proper will begin June 23 and will ecntinue until Sept. 22. There will be four distinct trips, each includ-- ing hotels, meals and boat service. Busses to Carry <~Crowds in Beveral Days of Travel Through Cities y¥ .. The five day tour will} also begin on Monday and cover a distance of 738 miles, going through Lake For-- esi, Milwaukee, West Bend, Fond di Lac, Appleton, Shawano, Neopit, Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay, Alpine via-- Appleton, Fond du Lae,-- West Bend, Milwaukee, Kenoshs -- and Highland Park t»-- Chicago. The three--day tour covering a total distance f four hundred fifty-- five miles, wili leave Chicago on Friday, going through Lake Forest, Lake Geneva, Fort Atkinson, Madi-- son, Devil's Lake, Kilbourn, . the Dells, Baraboo, -- Janesville, Rock-- #6rd, and the Grant highway into Chicago. The one day tour, covering a dis-- tance of one hundred eighty miles will leave Chicago daily except Sun-- days through Lake Forest and ar-- riving at Lake Geneva at 2:80 p. m. and leaving at 4 p. m., returning to Chicago at 9:45 p. m. pression on those | young plastic minds on the stage than any high-- brow speech ever did. ns Glen Hoskins, the new president of the Board of Education expressed his pride in the class of 1924 and thereby paid a gracious compliment to his predecessor in office and the old school board. He spoke of the Tor the futare and undep in morget-- or re kmmwm.b:'; great improvements. He compli-- mented Mr. Hudson on the steady ad-- vance the grammar school has made in the six years of his superintend-- ency--a compliment which is fully deserved. After the presentation of diplomas the exercises closed by the benedi¢-- tion by Rev. Guy Smoek. Misa Adalaine Miler is enjoying a week at The Dells, Wisconsin. 19 Ames School Marion Gehrke. resented ww Central School, N. Chicago Ward Edwards, Helen Pedersen, Lillian Wells. ~Hazel Anderson, Gorman Ander-- son, Esther Anderson, Grace Minto. leb. Grace Shields, for three years, Harold Cashmore for three years, Alice Cashmore for two years, Ju-- Hia Ray, Margaret Lux, Leona Cash-- more, Clifton Lux, Belle Cashmore, Edmund Bartlett. . _ Kelsey School " Geneva Nitz, Bernice Netz,/ Grayslake ~Bchool Waliter Krummery, Evalyn Pes-- ter, ~Donald Rowling, ~Florence Hook, < Albert Wagmer, Clayton Bchlosser, Merril Tegan, Harold James, Agnes Benedict, Myra Figh, er, Clarence Vassau, Helen Pech, Helen Benedict, Virginia Loftus, Hn.rr'JLuk. Mario.. Herbes, Ken-- neth Vassau, Beatrice Wallace, Ed-- ward Krummery, Chester Behning, Churchil}, FElizabeth James, Bhalzy McDonald, Natalie Powers. : Monaville School «Clarence Galiger, Mary Gaiiger. ® Hickory School _-- Glenn Paddock. ORPHANS GUESTS OF SHOWS HERE That kindred "feeling _ which comes from having been in some-- what similar cireumstances himself today moved Con T. Kennedy to act as host to a group of orphans from the Lake Bluoff .Orphanage at his shows in the large tented area at Thirteenth street and North Sher-- idan road, North Chicago. Wednesday afternoon the young-- sters were taken to the carnival at-- traction in a tour held under the au-- spices of the Kiwanis club and were shown about <the great space of specialties in the amusement lines. o -- Is Ohphan Also. &M,Mnm' WQW ci-- ties makes it his object to see that Kiwanis Club and Kennedy into the varied attractions which are housed in the side shows along the long avenues of the amusement village--all these were for the or-- phans 'Wednesday afternoon. 4004A pounds milk containing 688.11 pounds butterfat equivalent to 858.8 pounds butter. As a consequence of this record she displaces the former state lead-- er in this class, Woodlawn Princess Pink Cornucopia, owned by Rock River Farms at Byron, whose ree ord is 19,081.5 pounds millk and 841 Delevan Produces Right One in Recent Tests, Records In-- NEW CHAMPION BUTTER COWS Town Line School . -- _ Dorothy Gart, George Shelley. Oak Grove School . John C. Epker. ; <Grange Hall School Dorothy E. Clark, Harry E. Hart-- West Newport School Eleanor Peterson. ; .. Long Grove School Arthur Reimers, Bessie Goss-- s Aptakisic School Celia Potts: © Happy Today (Continued on Page Two) Wadsworth School Glynch School!l to haul apparen Were slender -- as they crawled throuy» an cight inch cpening to. : ) the store, En-- trance was gained through a win dow in the rear, An iron barteutter and a putty knife were employed in <~By~means of the bar cutter one of the heavy bars on the window was broken o I the bottom and part of the e ' in which it was set being removed. The bar was then twisted upward making it pos-- sible to pry apen the window, _An attempt was made to break off an-- other 'bar, but it was unsuccessfu!l, the all'tifi'lfihflzw of .the belief that the bar.cutter wis broken on the second bar as it was found the m" -7 a 3-; Te loss was es-- prepaaty b'%:"*,. } r !'y,n' store pro-- prietor this bei 3! e price he paid fi. loth; u considering the ening eight eiches in width, the rob-- window and also take the 35 suits through the same opening. The po-- lice believe th or two men en-- tered the and handed out the eclothing to . members-- of their doors, both of which are boited and padlockéd over night, were opened, Mr. Wirts reported.: * next day a 'The robbery took place sometime between eight o'clock Monday night and 7:30 Tuesday morning. John Brefeld, clerk in the store locked the place Monday night and upon open-- ing Tuesday morning found robbers had made a visit. The police were informed of the robbery and an in-- vestigation | started immediately by Captain Thomas E. Kennedy. ~~"The store is . thought to -- have been entered and robbed 1 and 2 a m. Tuesday. m 2 a,. m.. by a noise, which the po-- lice believe was prohably caused by the robbers in tearing the bar loose, Krupp said that upon being aw-- akened from a deep slumber | he went to the rear door, which had been left open when he and _his wife retired do as to 'get some Rir, and looked out into the alley but could see no one. He said he wait-- ed for fully five minutes and that as he heard nothing more to arouse his suspicioons he went back to bed. He slammed the door closed. Great Number in Herds Are ' ~Killed, Figures on Activity SHOWS TESTS IN MANY COUNTIES '-:g"-m counties have -.dod ;: , for the vine tuberculosis. E are De ing in Hiincis now is 56. Five or Ll-." C " mn*h:. Kalb, Tazewell, Hr--.' War-- ren, McDonough a Cumberland. The total number of counties test-- (Continued on Page Eight) Get in Window. was only --an op= '0 _ made -- the re slender -- as h an ei'ht u' the store, En-- through a win-- the window in ts "The popular team of Scott and melody This Appenreq in's pleasing Melody R in a pleasing concert Wednesday afternoon while at night the ex-tvn' sauditorium 1it-- erailly shook h laughter at the gide--splitting situations of "Give and Take" the brand new American 'comedy with a capable New York From the stirring opening strains of "Hello Prosperity" to the haunt-- ing closing melodies of the "Lost Chord",..the (Troubadors were a genuine del'kht'h their two concerts Tuesday. Harmony, -- versatility ank mirth are the keynotes of both their vocal and instrumental num-- personal integrity. Thursday "Uncle John" Kelly, the ventriloquist, amused the youngsters while the Glen Wells Company pre-- Judge ~George D. Alden from "Maine, New Hampshire» and Ver-- mont", in a keen though witty analy-- gis--of human nature, pled fo ra re-- turn to old--fashion¢d standards of sented two. plays, "Atonement", a three act melodrama in the after-- noon and a "Pressing Matter at night. The former was a dramatic masterpiece, suberbly done, while the latter was a short farce comedy of merit, 3 en y * At night Frank Preston Johnson, wandering newspaperman, discussed community get--together plans, based on his extensive observations in all Tonight is announced as Joy Night when the 'Great> Laurant: and »his company of magicians and fun mak-- ers stage a complete production of baffling mystery and fun. His pro-- gram embodies a number of master ilusions, such as the bow! of flames, the magic fountain, the mind--reading elock, and the spectacular ecreama-- tion scene in which a young lady is burned alive. + Satlmhy\vdgl.nt .come the Mon-- tague Light Opera Singers, the fin-- est singing organization in Chautau-- qua, in their original comic opera| *"*Gretchen® of Holland." This is the farewell tour of a band of singing actors that has been a headline at-- traction for years. ~They appear in a short concert Saturday afternoon, after which Mr. Geoffrey| Morgan, hmrhtandimplnficnflnrohr. talks on "Success with Ease." The closing day is said to be the strong> est of the entire week. A unique feature of Friday is the Bombay: Trirs: a Hinta rracuate of Bombay, Oxford and rd uni-- newspaper in India, and globe--trot-- ting student of world affairs He tells the children stories of his na-- tiveé land in the morning and lec-- tures on "The New India" in the afternoon. 4 Ohio, who was here a few days last year, is back again as superinten-- dent, renewing his atbquaintances, and adding to his list of friends. The courteous and capable crew are Levi Summers, foreman and stage man-- ager; Irving LaRue, cashicr and Clarence Stewart, gateman. Plans are now being formulated for the return of the Chautauqua in 1925. Due to the new plan devised by Mr. Glen Hoskins, aided by his exe-- eutive ability and untiring work of the small number of solicitors, Rev. Smock. Mrs. A. LovoflJn. Brad-- ford, Mrs. J. Williams Mra. Ross of Area, the financing of this years Chautauqua was more of a success than it has been for many years. Each guarantor was given and had to pay for six tickets--$15.00 and it was up to him (or her) to get rid them., The solicitors, after canvass-- ing the town assisted in disposing of the guarantors tickets, Rev. Smock selling six tickets for an absent gwuarantor for the full price. "Mra. Lovell and Rev. Smock hardly took time to eat and sleep. And even the secretary and treasurer, Max Kohner, when he was not busy get-- ting kicks and complaints, and cus sings, did a Httle work besides re-- (Continued on Page Pour.) of the second oldest Rentater |-- L,G'M.'v Hearing on the citation in the John I. Marshall estate of Highland Park--was held'> and testimony was 'ordered reduced to writing and filed. _ Letters of administration -- with will annexed in the Alfred North estate of Wauconda were issued to Ray--Paddock. The bond was set at $1,.200. y Letters of conservatorship in the éstate of Philip Meade of Grayslake, distracted, were issued (to William C. Heard in the Probate court of Judge Martin C. Decker Monday. A bond of $50,000 was ordered. "Agnes Pinkham, -- who~ escaped from an orphanage in Chicago ten days ago appeared against Bantes and testified that he forced 'his at-- tentions on her and made an attack in a lonely place in the north end of Highland Park. The defendant made no statement. Oscar Lind-- blom was also arrested on a charge of attacking her companion. James Bantaes, a former restau-- rant worker in Highland Park, ar-- rested Monday by the sherifft's of-- fice on a charge of having attacked a 13 year old girl was bound to the :l\ndjury'!'nuday in bonds of 10,000 by Justice Ansel E. Smith of Highland Park. He couldn't ob tain bondsmen and was to be re-- moved to the county jail in Wau-- kegan, .© 7 Letters of guardianship of Caro-- line E. Kristan, et al, minors, were issued to Minnie Suhling. -- Bond was fixed 1t $4,000. ---- Will Matters Come Up for Ad-- ministration: Before Judge 'Decker ; will of: Anna Bohn of Waukegan was filed and set for hearing July BUSY DAY FOR PROBATE COURT the :estates of William . F. . Lange. and Sophia M. Domalik, both minors of Waukegan. The estates -- were elosed. + + Petition for dedimus to _ take proof of heirship in the estate of Ludger J. B. Stenlet, Lake* Forest, was filed and the dedimus ordered issged upon 60 days notice by pub-- lication. f x BANTES 18 HELD TO GRAND JURY The waiver of. widow's -- award and inventory in the estate of John C. Foley of Waukegan were ap-- proved. L ns o wae ols m # 'The inventory in the estate . of Henry Marshall Waldo, Libertyville, 'was approved. The 'final reports and accounts were approved --and the estate closed. £ The third report and aceount in the estate of Bessie Gosswiller, minor, were filed and approved. © August 14 has been set as "Wood-- man Day" throughout Lake county. *he Lake County Boosters associa-- tion of the Modern Woodmen of field last night where preliminary plans for the big pienie-- which will feature the day's program were laid. in charge of the program, announc-- ed that Round Lake has been chosen as the most centrally located »spot and most suitable for the holding of the picnic. Twenty camps from all over the county will participate and the committee in charge of the affair stated that arrangements are being made to entertain _ several thousand people. George R. Rene-- han, proprietor of the Round Lake resort and himself a Woodman, stat-- ed at the Deerfleld mesting last night that he is bending all efforts to see that arrangements are pro-- vided to make the affair a suceess. The Waukegan camp has already chosen a baseball team which is about to send challenges to other Wobdmen camps throughout the gounty. The celebratien in August will not be open to Woeedmen alone bu* an invitation has been extended to the public at large. Petition for the probate of the "Shorty" Millier of Libertyville, Deerfleld Last Night for Af-- fair W has . not _-- been > a of McCloskey for at lum months and she resented the. ence that family trouble may have This circumstance revealed . fol-- lowing his disappearance. led to the belief of Mrs. McCloskey that her husband may have used the gun to take his own life following several financial worries in the restaurant. It is understood that he was heavily involved with ereditors, | one. of whom, Ben McMahon, another res-- taurant man, obtained a -- warrant Tuesday on a check. M¥ts. McCloskey came to the de-- fense of her husband Wednesday and McCloskey left Waukegan, as far as is known, last Thursday night and has not been seen since. At the time of his departure he took a re-- volver from the cash drawer of the restaurant and turning to one of the waitresses said, "If I'm not back at ten o'clock tomorrow, 1 won't be back at all." i es denied 'that there was any family trouble. She declared that their life was pleasant right up until the time her husband left. _ He even called her before he left and told her to wait up Thursday night and he would come home with ite ecream. Later she learned of his leaving. Fears that J. J. McCloskey, of the .. People's Cafe,-- North 'Genesee Street &:fi Waukegan, may have committed sui. _ -- cide were expressed by his wife af-- / ter a search conducetd for five days f failed to indicate the wnereabouts of the 'restaurant man. c : Subsequently -- she ;receive / the restaurant keys in a > registered package from her husband> mailed here and this tended only to streng-- then her 'belief that he may have taken hig life. . / 2 3C4 Defends Husband and Says No Family Trouble Was Re-- sponsible for His ~Leaving City ; Took Revolver been one of the chief reasons . for herf husband's leaving. ~ "It was almost an . impossibility to run the restaurant without in-- curring the debts because of the amount of funds available and it was not my husband's fault," Mrs. McCloskey said.© "He worked sev-- eral hours a day trying to make the place go. I myself put in 14 hours there many days." -- § 'Sln'dodnodtlutthnm of the place was taken from her a few days ago. There were four other stockholders in ;the _ restau« rant besides McCloskey, she said. McCloskey was placed in charge .. and tried to run things as well as s . possible, according to her, and | «. cause of the times and varying Sen» $2.00 PER YEAXR IN ADVANCH that her husband had appeared wor-- ried of late because of the business and expressed the belief that he may umboeom'umw"flvd'mg- His destination is not known to her, even remotely, she declared. . .. > --The Waukegan and Chicago po« lice were notified of the disappear« arce by Mrs. McCloskey three days ago. She is seeking to straighten o.. many matters and has not yet decided definitely on her plans. "DUKE" BIEN 18 NAMED IN WRIT unlawful possession of liquor, were filed in the County court by State's Attorney Smith Thursday afternoon against Paul "Duke" Bien of Fox Lake, George Kooth, Jr., of Grant township and Pauline * Maholich of Waukegan. $ Information charging wife 'aban-- donment was fAled against William Ketter. On Monday evening, June 16, § of our young people of Hawthors $8 Farm gathered at the home of Mr. _ _ and Mrs. P. J. Berdux to celebrate . . the birthdays of Orville Rider and ~~-- Colin Berdux. Bunco was '2 followed by dancing and #t "-11--..0*- f y a good time and wished them many happy returns of the day. § --OF WORRIES: DEBTS MADE Writs of information, that Attorney Her-- #3 &