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   Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1959, Tokyo, Japan                                Sunday february 15, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 5 exporter who covered Story describes 1929 massacre Capone wrote Valentine message in Lead by Robert t. Loughran Chicago up Al Capone s boys delivered their Valentines i person on st. Valentine s Day 1929. The Valentines were  left seven gangsters dead or dying on the floor of a North Glare st. Garage in the bloodiest single outburst of Chicago s prohibition Era gang warfare 30 year Sago. The st. Valentine s Day Mas Sacre demoted George bugs Moran then the Leader of a Northside bootlegging gang into a Leader without a gang. It left Capone a former Bawdy House bouncer virtually unchallenged at the Summit of an in credible Empire he built on Boot leg booze and ruled with bullets. It shocked even the sinful Gin Ful 20s, when Chicago boasted 10,000 Speake Asies gang murders mounted beyond the 500 Mark and taken for a ride became part of the  scene is much the same now As it was 30 years ago. The garage where the Moran gang awaited a Date with their Boss and a shipment of illicit alcohol still is used As a garage and Ware House. But the Walls which were Rake with machine gun bullets have been refinished and police say few curiosity seekers visit the building. What happened that morning while postmen s sacks sagged with lovers missives and Snow flurries wet the pavement outside 2122north Clark might have come straight from a modern to or movie scenario. But it did t. An open automobile resembling police squad car drove up and parked. Two men disguised As policemen and carrying shotguns got out and walked into the  rounded up seven Moran henchmen who were breakfasting on Coffee and crackers while wait ing for their Leader. They Dis armed the rival mobsters and line them up hands in air facing the whitewashed North Wall. Moran s men apparently though tit was just another Sham police  two men in Plain clothes go tout of the Cadillac Phaeton at the curb and strode into the garage. Hoist bucket Falls 100 feet 2 miners die Viburnum. To. A a wire Cable splice parted and dropped heavy hoist bucket containing four men 100 feet or More to the Bot Tom of a Lead mine Shaft Here. Two miners were killed. The two others survived but were gravely injured and Are in critical Condi Tion. Junior Gillam of Potosi an Don Hal ,. Of Fredericktown were killed. Gillam was thrown out of the bucket. The bucket later was lifted out with Hall and the survivors still in it. Arm severed. All four were from 30 to 35 years old and married mine official said. Loy Bennett of Fredericktown whose right Arm was severed and Lloyd Francis of Dillard who suffered multiple fractures were conscious when they were brought tip an hour later to waiting ambulances. It happened in a Flash Bennett said. Almost incoherent Bennett still was Able to Tell of the  moment after the explosive Impact of the heavy bucket on the Shaft s Bottom 175 feet of the heavy wire Cable rained Down on them. The splice parted he  of the st. Joseph Lead co. Mine said a three Quarter inc Cable attached to the bucket had been spliced to the one and 1%-Ihch Cable from the hoist. Survival surprising Francis f. Redfield division mine superintendent said the bucket fell 100 feet. Coroner Harry m. Jonas who placed the distance of the plunge at 175 to 200 feel said he had never heard of anyone surviving such a fall., it must have nearly drive their legs through their bodies he said and that Cable that Fellon them Hurt them almost As  director leaving to a for University Thomasville a. Cup or. Frank j. Welch has honoured his pledge to return to the University of Kentucky and resigned As a director of the Tennessee Valley authority. Welch 56, on a one year leave from his Post As Dean of the school of agriculture at Kentucky sen this resignation to president Eisen Hower. Press Secretary James c. Hag erty said no action has been taken on Welch s resignation. He said i would be incorrect to assume that the resignation would be automatically accepted. Hagerty said the president Here on vacation Jias no la seen the res ignation and therefore no action has been taken. Welch s resignation if accepted will leave the Tva Board with just two members chairman Gen Herbert Vogel and Arnold Jones both republicans. Welch is. A Democrat.  cultural Swap working without hitch Washington a the  Russia. Have successfully car ried out two thirds of their big cultural Exchange agreement with out a major hitch. This historic agreement signed about a year ago is working so Well that both sides Are consider ing extending it when it expire next january. A summary. Shows that More than 1,500 russians and americans have visited each others count Ryas part of 151 official delegations during the first 12 months of the agreement. Further the Swap of delegates has started a flow of private tourists. About 5,000 american tourist visited the soviet Union in. The first year after the agreement. I return 66 soviet tourists the first to visit this country since world War ii arrived late last year potential cited. Ambassador William Lacy who negotiated the agreement with the soviets said Friday the agreement has been a rousing Success from an american standpoint. He said it has even greater potential for the future. A More balanced picture of America is now being brought openly to soviet citizens who have previously been subjected Only to communist propaganda which portrayed America As culturally and spiritually sterile he said. More americans than Russia shave been involved in exchanges thus far but this is due primarily to a soviet delay in arranging reciprocal Tours of the . Statistics show that 952 Ameri cans included m 81 separate projects visited Russia during the first year. In return 565 soviets came to the . As part of 70 delegations. Surgeon general urges support for dental insurance Chicago up the . Surgeon general has urged the nation s dentists to follow the medi Cal profession s Lead in group insurance and prepayment plans., dentistry has not aggressively supported plans or. Leroy  said whereby groups and individuals May finance their dental care expenses As they do their major Hospital and medical care expenses. Burney told the 94th meeting of the Chicago dental society several other state dental associations handmade Progress in the Field but Large segments of the population were not profiting from the sizable advances already made in the prevention and treatment of disease. This is nowhere More apparent than in the Field of dental care and dental Public health he said. Guinea pig for hepatitis Back in prison Pittsburgh a while serving a 10-year prison term for Bank robbery several years ago Ralph e. Richardson volunteered for a risky medical Experiment. He and two other inmates of the Federal Penitentiary at Lewis Burg pa., were Given injections of hepatitis virus which produces inflammation of the liver. Two of the volunteers  survived but he was in a coma for weeks developing both pneumonia and gangrene. His weight dropped from 210 to 145pounds. His Story was told in a National Magazine article. He was rewarded with a parole in 1957 after serv ing half of his sentence for the 1952 Bank robbery at Brookville a. Richardson was arrested Las month for passing allegedly Worth less checks for $85 near his Home in Butler a. Judge Clyde s. Shumaker impressed with Richardson s participation in the prison medical Experiment ordered him Only to make restitution and  court costs. But the charge was a parole Vio lation. Richardson was ordered Back to Lewisburg to Complete his term. I figure i have 1,908 Days Moreto serve now said Richardson philosophically As he awaited trans Fer to Lewisburg. Indians on Warpath for new Constitution a rebellious delegation from North Dakota s Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa indians shows up in Washington to warn Interior department officials that bloodshed May follow if the tribe in t Given a new Constitution. Left to. Right falling fog Tom parisian and either Eye. Up they carried sub machine  gave a signal. One Tom my gunner swept his weapon like Gardner spraying a a Tow of Bushes head High from left tonight. His partner pivoted from right to left. The  Back again and then again. The killers walked out the  of the garage the two policemen pointing their guns at the backs of the ones in civilian dress. To passers by it looked As if police had rounded up a couple of hoodlums. I got to the scene 10 minutes after Capone s men had left. I found six bodies perforated with bullets. The head of one had been almost shot off. The Coroner said each victim got a least 50 slugs. The seventh  Gusenberg still was alive. He had crawled to a chair and his head was resting Oil the seat. He died in a Hospital without talking. Other victims the other victims were Frank brother Pete James Clark gun Man and Moran s brother in Law John May $50-a-\veek Mechanic who repaired the bootleggers trucks Adam Heyer alias Snyder alias Hayes who Hud rented the massacre Gara gof Albert r. Wein Shank nightclub owner and or. Reinhardt Schwimmer an optometrist who played around wit the gangsters for a thrill. If the shooting had occurred minutes later it would have been a Complete Victory for Capone Smen. Moran and Ted Newberry one of his lieutenants came Dow the Street just in Lime to see the slayers leave. The two fled. Only Capone kills like that Moran said later. In Long hours of questioning underworld characters i Learned that the machine gunners were Willi Heeney a dope addict and Louis Little new York Campagna Ca Pone trigger Man. The policemen were Fred killer Burke mis Souri desperado and Fred Goetz wandering hoodlum. Three threats i also received three threats Only life and finally had to take Refuge in a Loop hotel under a assumed name to avoid the mob sters. All of the principals Are  was shot to death on a Chicago Street Burke died in Pris on where he was serving time for murder Heeney died of cancer eight years ago and Campagna was bumped off by a heart attacking 1955. Newberry s escape was Short lived. His Bullet pocked body was found in an Indiana ditch in 1933.Moran did 10 years in an Ohio prison for robbing a tavern employee then changed addresses to Leavenworth kan., Federal Penitentiary on a Bank robbery conviction. He died of lung cancer two years ago and was buried in cheap Pine Box at government expense. Triplets to crowd family s trailer Syracuse . Up Owen f. Case 26, figures his four room House trailer is getting a Little . Case gave birth to triplets two boys and a girl. The new Comers will join Debra Jean 3, and David Owen 11 months. The family lives in a 35-by-8 trailer that has two  said he Hopes to sell the trailer and buy a Home but that it is not too Bright a Prospect right  said his take Home  is., about $85 a week from his Job Asan engineering Laboratory assist ant in the heavy military equip ment department at the Genera electric corp  
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