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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24
RUNT NELSON IS
 NEXT ON LIST
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 Alvin Karpis and Frank Barker, kidnappers of wealthy Edward Bremen of St. Paul are two more men marked in the Federal hunt.
 The quiet working dead shot federal agents set disposal of the rest of the Dillinger gang as the next big job. They swung to the task today with new confidence and fresh enthusiasm.
 "We'l Get Them All"
 "We may get Nelson and the others tomorrow or may be it will take weeks, but we'll get them make no mistake about that" said director J. Edgar Hoover of the Justice department investigation division.
 officials recalled previous in- stances in which a "break" in a case such as the killing of Dillin- ger, has been followed by rapid fire developmen
 Things like that seem to come on threes," one official said.
 Whether hopes for quick clean up of the Dillinger band were based on anything more than hopes or lunches was anyone's guess.
 One of Hoover's reasons for de- clining to reveal events that led up to Dillinger's end or to disclose location of his hideouts was that this would handicap the hunt for Nelson, Hamilton and Van Meter. It was learned, however, that the gang had split up.
 Hoover was secretely correlating information from dozens of points, realigning scores of agents whG had been detailed to get Dillinger,
 Gillis Is His Alias
 Nelson, or Lester M. Gillis as he sometimes calls himself, is a Chi cagoan. He was sent to Illinois state prison at Joliet July IT. 1881 for robbery. In seven months he escaped, later to join Dillinger. Hamilton, 25 years old and once carpenter was sentenced to 25 years for bank robbery and es- capped from Indiana state prison Sept. 26, 1898. Hamilton is want ed for murder of Sheriff Jesse Sa- Der at Lima, O. on October 12, 1888.
 Van Meter, a hardened robber at 20, was parolled from Indiana prison May 19, 1883. He is want ed also in many of the Dillinger gangs bank robberies.
 Of Dillinger's other henchmen Tommy Carroll was killed by Waterloo. Ia.. police June [: fed eral agents fatally wounded Ed ward Green in St. Paul April B.; Albert w. Reilly was seized by federal men in Minneapolis June 27: Harry Pierpont' and Charles Makley are waiting execution in Ohio state prison; Russell Clark is serving life sentence there.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24

completely at the mercy of armed force as southern Illinois in the five coal counties known as Little Egypt. When newly y-delnobiliZed young miners began to try out their war knowledge on one another in Little Egypt, there was for three years a complete eclipse of'law and order.
 Feuds between klan and boot legger elements, equally lawless, started the Egypt troubles, and shootings torture and night riding terroriZed even the tough mine community.
 Then it simmered down to a feud between two gangs, one headed by the three notorious shelton broth- CTS, one headed by Charlie Birger.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24

There seems always a certain elemental justice when the law de- nies mercy to a man who has given none to the men he murdered, But in the case of Richard Reese Whit temore, there was an additional grim element in this justice.
 The trip through which Whittc- more dropped to doom was less than 300 feet from the spot where he had savagely murdered peni- tentiary guard.
 There was never a more con- temptuous, defiant, or audacious criminal than Whittemore. He was the descendant of an old and hon. est Maryland family.
 At the age of 10 he was brought
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24
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16 Pdrkers Pay
 Court $z Each

Eighteel motorists enriched the city count cOffers to the ex- tent of $26 during the 24-hour period ending this morning, according to a check-up of city court records. Sixteen drivers paid $1 each for illegal park ing, while two had nOlles granted for passing red lights when they paid $5.
 Frank Blaketz of 349 Will dow street and Sam Ellie of of 25 Ward street were the two who paid 8 for passing a signal lights. The parking viO- lators were slightly above the daily average in number.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24
Escapes Atlanta Prison

He was promptly recaptured, but Loerber, thinking Chapman dead, was meanwhile telling the whole story, and Chapman and Ander- son were sentenced to 25 years in prison for the mail robbery.
 Within six months Chapman es- cabed from the hospital ward at Atlanta penitentiary, but was re- captured quickly in a pistol battle.
 Escaping second time, he joined forces with Anderson, and the two took part in bootlegging and robbery operations from Bos- ton to Baltimore and Savannah, in- cluding an especially cold-blooded muTder of Patrolman Shelley in New Britian Conn.,, when the off, fieer interrupted safe robbery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24
Orders Mayor Slain

Finally Birger, convinced that Mayer Adams of West City had aided the Sheltons in their coup which bombed and burned Shady Rest tp the ground. ordered Adams death.
 Summoned to his door one night by a forged note, Adams was shot down in cold deliberation by two Blrger henchmen.
 Indicted, Birger surrendered without struggle. Heavily armed posses protected him from
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24
EIGHT WERE KILLED

Hartford. Conn.,, July 24--(UPl Eight persons were killed in automobile accidents last week, tho state department of motor vehicles reports. This brings the total for the year to date, 211, IS less than for the same period last year. There were 262 accidents last week, 134 of which occurred in cities. The department suspended the licenses of 2O9 operators during the week
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24
Trails En dat Last

Closer and closer they came, and one night, as Whittemore left a west side night club in New York and took his seat in his car parked outside, police guns stared him in the face.
 A Buffalo jury disagreed at his trial there for murder of two pay roll guards, and Whittemore was taken home to Baltimore. There he was speedily convicted sof the murder of the guard Hoffman.
 Every legal resource was ex- hausted, even to an appeal to the U. s. supreme court; the man who had given Hoffman no chance was given every chance himself.
 But 1t was in vain. There in the Maryland penitentiary, within a few feet of the spot where he had struck down Hoffman, Richard Reese Whittemore felt the scratchy caress of knot of new hemp as it nestled beside his ear.
 NEXT: Within . year. the law has closed its books on at least five of the most desperate men of to-day; bars and bullets have bal anced the accounts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24
Seventeen Die in Feud

Before the lawless feud ended, 15 men and two women lay dead. Birger was a New Yorker who drifted to Harrisburg, Saline county, H., when he was de- mobilized as a cavalryman. He was affable and kindly, good family man, and was well-liked. He became allied with the Sheltons in bootleg operations.
 But in 1925 there was a dispute over money, and the Sheltons and Birger became sworn enemies. Each fortified headquarters. the Sheltons at Herrin, Birger at Shady Rest, "roadhouse" in Will Hanson county.
 Using every army weapon except gas and heavy artillery. the two gangs turrfed little Egypt into a shambles as they fought each other to, the death.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24
Trapped in Muncie, Ind

At a Muncie, Ind, doctors of- flee, the trail ended. Detectives spotted Chapman, rapped him on the jaw when he tried to shoot them down, and brought him to trial and conviction.
 No resource was spared, legal or financial, to delay or avert Chap mans just deserts. But he sat, none the less, in the death cell, writing sonnets and vague philoso- phies until the end.
 "Futility sets in at times like a tightening mold" he wrote his lawyer. Futility, indeed. A clever, imaginative mind which did not turn to decent channels until just before men came at midnight to put felt slippers on his feet and strap his arms. The felt slippers shuffled slowly down a corridor. As the clock ceased striking 12 the warden pressed a little plunger in the floor.
 War Bends Little Egypt
 Certainly no community since
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24
Kills Guard Brutally

Then Whittempre's full tigerish-, ness revealed itself. One day while passing through the prison yard he whipped a piece of iron pipe from his shirt and so savagely assaulted Robert H. Hoffman, a rison guard, that Hoffman fell in d pool of blood and died.
 Whittemore stole his gun, keys, and money and escaped. He re- organized his gang in New York, and in a year is believed to have footed stores of $1,000,00D.
 Six murders were attributed to Whittemore, and Buffalo, New York, and Baltimore detectives were on his bloody trail.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24
Enters Crime in Earnest

Esca ping from reform school, he was sentenced to the House of Cor rection. sEIe escaped, enlisted in the coast guard, deserted, got into a series of escapades and robber- ies, and was sent to prison. Re- leased after serving three years, ie went into crime in earnest.
 When they were cornered in a Philadelphia apartment by police raiders, Whittemore's wife stealth fly opened a bureau drawer and tossed pistols to two members of the gang, opening fire with third.
 But live members of the gang were rounded up here and sen tenced to prison.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24
'NO Jail Can Hold Me-" Educated Crook
 BOasted

This Is the second of a series of stories telling how bullet, rope and prison cell have ended the canecfs of notorious bandits of the past and relating the records and giving detailed descriptions of the ''nnOst wanted" criminals Of today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24

selves married. he said. Testifying he spoke of her as "his wife" and Mrs Schultz" She was named in the proceedings only as Mrs Mabel Schultz.
 In 1880, he said, she left Ahim and their year old daughter and He has not heard from her since. He received custody of the child.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24
then Crawford broke to lead to

then Crawford broke to lead to 6.
 Wood broke back to level the match, held his own service on two aces and stormed the net to break through Crawford. winning against the Australians service with the loss of but a single point.
 Wood served first in the third set and after one point had been scored rain, for third time, in- terrupted play.
 Wood also won the second set 9-7.
 Rain Halts Match
 Wimbledon. England, July 24.- (UP)-Rain to- day halted play in the interzone, final Davis cup tie between the United States and Australia after Sidney B. Wood, Jr, of New York was, leading Jack Crawford.
 Only one point of the third set had been played when a fresh downpour halter the match. It was officially announced that play would be resumed tomorrow. weather permitting, at exactly the same point.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24
HUSBAND LOSES
 JOB. WIFE GONE

Wrentham. Mass, July "A - (UP)-A young man, who attended dances and went on moonlight bathing parties with her several times in recent weeks, was sought today in an effort to explain the disappearance of Mrs Violet Jan- son, 21, bride of IA months.
 Mrs Janson vanished from her home here withing 4s hours after her young husband, Paul. lost his job as chef at Weber Duck Inn.
 Overcome by the heat and by the strain of the fruitless search for his wife, Janson collapsed Sunday and since has been confined to Boston hospital.
 Though Police Chief Perley R. Dexter expressed the opinion that the attractive young matron's dis appearance was voluntary, he add cd that the foul play theory had not been discarded.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24
Law Clings Grimly To Trail Of Merciless Killers;
 Chapman, Whttemore And Birger Died By Moose
Baltimore Outlaw Pays With His Life at SIay-
 ing Scene

to court charged with firing a pis- tol within the Baltimore city linn it's. This charge was dismissed, but he was soon back with whole series of juvenile delinquencies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24

Building construction in the Netherlands is showing a marked increase.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24
By WILLIS THORNTON
NEA Service Stan Correspondent

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
 Gerald Chapman, Charles Birger, and Richard Reese Whittemore, in their day, were every bit as desper- ate, and defied the law just as suc- cessfully, as today's Diilingers and Barrows. Yet each of them met his doom at the end of rope.
 In some ways Chapman was the slipperiest of all. He boasted openly that no jail could hold him, and for a while he made the boast good.
 Son of decent Irish parents who had destined him for the priest hood. he received the beginnin of a good education. But he quit school at IT, and launched into petty thievery, which brought him to Auburn prison and acquaintance with George Anderson, really well-educated professional crook.
 On release. Chapman went to De- troit and dabbled in bootlegging. There he joined Anderson, and the two, urged by a mutual taste for high living, went to New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24

Six inches of rain fell in four hours recently in Bombay, India.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24
Stage $2,5OO,OOO Robbery

With Charles Loerber. a run-of- mine crook, they planned and pulled off the greatest postoffice robbery ever perpetrated - got away clean with loot of S2,5O0,0o0 in bonds and other valuables.
 Despite this huge haul, the trio was tempted to pull off, only few weeks later, at Buffalo, N. T., railway express robbery of $70,OO0 in money orders. even harder to cash in on than the numbered bonds. This set Gordon T, Me Carthy, express detective, on their trail, and he soon traced one of the cashed money orders to Loerber. Further. the bonds began to be traced, though cautiously sold.
 Detectives rounded up all three very neatly, and took them to the postoffice for questioning. It was here that Chapman made his ap- parent leap from the third-story window, walking a stone coping and letting himself in another win dow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24
FIVE SUITS IN
 COMMON PLEAS

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War Bends Little Egypt

Certainly no community since World war days has been so
The Washington times., 1934-08-14
MOTORISTS GET
. SIGN WARNING

Rockville motorists had better
observe those pretty new clue-and'
white parking signs that have re-
Gently been set up throughout the
town! That is, they must observe
them-or else.
This warning was issued today
by the mayor and town council in
the form of an announcement that
beginning bright and early tomor-
row morning members Of the
Montgomery county police force
will go on special patrol duty
through the business district to
see that the regulations which
were recently adopted are strictly
enforced. Coincident with the an
nouncement was another that
Judge Donald A. DeLaShmutt will
not deal lightly with offenders
when they are arraigned before
him in police court.
The new regulations establish a
two-hour parking limit along Mont
gomery Avenue from the town
limits on the lower end to the
Frederick Road at the upper end
with a five-minute limit in front
of the postoffice and several
places wherein no parking is per-
mitted at all during business
hours.
The Washington times., 1934-08-14
DRIVER SAVES
4 IN CRASH

Police Chauffeur George Nichol-
son was the hero of the auto
mobile crash on the Richmond
Highway yesterday in which Mrs.
Mary Elizabeth Fontaine and
three others were injured, it was
disclosed today.
Mr.. Nicholson, who was driv.
ing the escort car trailing the
machine with Mrs. Fontaine, star
Government witness in the Tri-
State gang case, leaped from his
car with a fire eXtinguisher and
saved the four persons from being
burned to death when the wrecked
car burst into flames.
Two of the injured, Policewoman
A. D. Mansfield and Postal In
spector Leo DeWaard, were still
in a Richmond Hospital today
with injuries received in the crash.
Detective Sergt. Floyd Truscott,
who was driving the car, and Mrs.
Fontaine, escaped with cuts and
bruises and were back in Wash.
ington, where Mrs. Fontaine is
held under close guard at the
Women'S Bureau,
The Washington times., 1934-08-14
.1ST HOME LOAN
CELEBRATED

Brief ceremonies at a local
bank will today symbolic for
the nation the opening of the
Governments 1900 million dollar
home modernization program.
The rites will mark the first
grant of a modernization loan to
a property owner, an event that
is expected to be reproduced
millions of times as property
owners throughout the country
go to their banks and other
private financial agencies to Sc
cure credit for the repair and
altering of their buildings.
Participating in the ceremony
will be officials of the Federal
Housing Administration, headed
by James A. Moffett, director; Of
ficials of the American Bankers
Association, headed by Robert V.
Fleming, executive vice president;
and the District branch of the
bankers body, headed by Fran
els P. Addison, chairman of its
modernization committee.
The Washington times., 1934-08-14
Republicans to Get Posts
At Fusion Party Poll

of the total vote Of the State in
the last general election.
Inasmuch as the Fusion move
ment in Montgomery county is
not more than a few months old,
it is not entitled to election posts
and any that are filled on its be-
half must be occupied by Republi-
cans.
Although Republicans will profit
almost $4,000 by the provisions Of
the law, this being the combined
total of the salaries of officials of
each party, Mr.. Peter stated that
his party does not feel it is being
sighted and will seek no addi-
ional patronage if the ticket is
elected just because of this extra
plum of the Republicans.
The Washington times., 1934-08-14
BENEFIT DANCE
CHALLENGED

Warning was issued today by
Capt. B. j. Cashell Of the Chevy
Chase Volunteer Fire Department
that dance for which residents
Of the Chevy Chase and Bethesda
were canvassed and which is al
legged to have been represented as
for the benefit of the Montgomery
County Volunteer Firemen'S Asso-
citation is for department outside
the county.
]. Fred Imirie, president of the
Montgomery county association,
plans to ask the return of their
money to Montgomery county sub
scriberS unless they are informed
that the dance is for an outside or.
ganization.
The Washington times., 1934-08-14

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
The Washington times., 1934-08-14
HITLER BISHOP
JA|LS 1900
PASTORS
By TOM WILHELM
copyright, 1884, by International
News Service)

BERLIN, Aug. IA G.N.S0.-Fff-
teen hundred Catholic and ProteS-
tant pastors have been arrested in
ReichSbishop Mueller'S campaign
to force all German clergymen to
submit to control by the Hitler
government, International News
Service learned today.
OF these, 670 are reported to be
still under detention.
These figures represent arrests
in Prussia alone, where resistance
to ReichsbiShop Mueller's DEGREES
has been strongest.
ESQ Priests Held
It is estimated that probably
$50 Catholic priests are still de-
tanned. Among them is Father
Stiller, Jesuit lecturer at Fried
burg University and well-known
writer. He is accused of having
sent letters to the Vatican, among
them being one from former Vice
Chancellor Won Papen, himself a
leader among Catholic laymen,
who has just been appointed Ger
man minister to Austria.
Seven hundred of the arrested
Protestant clergymen are said to
have been detained for investiga-
ton because they are members Of
Masonic lodges.
Among the prominent Protestant
pastors arrested were the Rev.
Karl Habicht, the Rev. Dietrich
Graue, the Rev. Franz Behrend,
the chaplain of the Moabit prison
in Berlin and several former
pastors of the imperial court.
Nazis Give Trouble
There are rumorS that several
bishops also have been taken into
custody but it is impossible to
confirm these reports.
The government amnesty de-
cree, announced last week, has
become effective and 5000 pris-
oners, political and minor Grim
inal offenders, have been released
from prison and concentration
camps. No prominent personages,
so far as can be determined, have
benefited by the amnesty decree,
Rumors we're in circulation to-
day that trouble broke out in the
ranks of the Austrian Nazi legion
after Hitler ordered their diSband-
ment and removal to labor camps
in Prussia. It is reported that the
government found it necessary to
provide military escorts for the
movement of the AuStrians from
Bavaria.
The Washington times., 1934-08-14

Montgomery county's Fusion
party will be represented at the
polls this fall by Republican cleo
ton officials, it was announced
at Rockville today.
This action, which at first was
expected to stir a great deal of
discord among the Democratic
and Republican members of newly
formed party, is in full accord
with the Maryland law, it was
stated by Edward Peter, leader Of
the Progressive Democratic fac
ton, and has nothing to do with
the Fusion movement.
Under the Maryland election
laws, posts are provided for only
the two major parties unless some
minor party has poled 10 per cent
The Washington times., 1934-08-14
Firemen to Open
Carnival Sept. 3

Final arrangements for the an
nual carnival and field days Of
the Arlington-Fairfax Counties
Firemen's Association will be made
tomorrow night in the Falls
Church (Va) fire hall.
The event opens September 3
on Khan Field, Ballston, Va, and
will continue through Septem-
Der Is.
The Washington times., 1934-08-14
Arlington to Buy
StreetSigns Today

Contract for the furnishing Of
about $500 street intersection
markers and signs for Arlington
county, Va, is to be let today by
the county board at its regular
meeting in Arlington court house.
Routine matters, including pay
roll and bills, also will be con-
cidoraS
The Washington times., 1934-08-14
FIRST IN
rs F|EL D

Dodge value considered, it is only natural
that Dodge is the undisputed leader in its
class. Latest official U.S. Registration figures
for 1894 Compiled by R. L. Polk & co.,
show Dodge first in its field by wide mar
gin-leading its nearest rival more than 18.4%
and currently outselling all but the three
smaller lowest-pricedm makes! Dodge salesars
up 46.4go over last year! Throughout Amer
lea, motorists who compare car values are
turning to Dodge. They are helped in this
decision by revolutionary new method of
comparison-the "Show- Down" Plan. 1t
deals with cold facts-puts car buying on
a sound, unbiased basis. Ask any Dodge
dealer about it.
The Washington times., 1934-08-14

thousands RHylodqe
AMWR Prices
S645 andup

MO wonder the swing is to Dodge-no
IN wonder Dodge is first in its field by a
wide margin, outselling all but the three
smaller, lowest-priced makesI At the new,
reduced prices the big, roomy, 117-inch
wheelbase Dodge actually costs less than
many smaller cars. Yet Dodge gives you a
wheelbase as long-or longer cars
costing as much as $3.50 morel And 81
costly features, many not found even in
high-priced cars!
Dodge has such outstanding safety ad-
vantageS as hydraulic brakes that stop
instantly and smoothly; and the sturdy,
safe Dodge all-steel body. Dodge gives you
modern comfort features such as Floating
Cushion" wheels that step over bumps;
patented Floating Power engine mountings
that smother vibration. Plus great economy
features like valve seat inserts that save
gas, cut valve-grinding costs. Dodge owners
report 18 to % miles per gallon of gas
The Washington times., 1934-08-14
AT RI Butte
TO VA uE

Only real value made Dodge the leader in
It's field. Car buyers quickly learned that
for the few extra dollars they pay to own
big, luxurious Dodge instead of one of the
lowest priced cars, they get roominess, COM
fort, safety, economy, big-car prestige and
advantages worth many, many times the
slight extra cost! That's why Dodge leads
its field by wide margin all
but the three lowest-priced makes.
Ask any Dodge dealer to let you compare
Dodge against rivals with the Showdown"
Plan. See for yourself how much value
Dodge today offers you at this amazing low
price. dodge cars are now priced as low
as $645 and up, f. o. b. factory, Detroit.
Terms to fit your budget. Ask for the official
Chrysler Motors Commercial Credit Plan.
Evening star., 1934-11-27

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