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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-06
Bandit Captured

Keep your mouth shut" the
man ordered. This Is a
holdup"
The tailor grappled with the
man. PaSsersby attracted by
the noise, rushed in and helped
the mcrcant subduc the thief
The young man was Byron
Wolff
A. 6 O'Clock that night Chief
DaAlN- AiFed Sheriff Rogers -ef
the capture of Wolf. Wolff re-
vcaled that he had been living
In a roOming house with Har-
mon The lieutenant then
grabbed a photograph and
detailed description Of Harmon
and left.
For more than two hours he
awaited the return OF Harmon
10 his rOomlng house firing Of
such inactivity, the lieutenant
began asking a few discreet
questions of people about the
place Soon he entered a saloon
up the street.
Instinct seemed 20 warn a
man who was standing at the
bar
The man AZ the bar fired
twice Al the ofhcer-both shots
missed. Swiftly 1t StromWell'S
pistol toared- into action Seven
slugs ripped into Glenn Harmon
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-06

started back to Carthage thar
afternoon.
The following morning a mes
sage from Chief Of Police James
j.. Davis of Los Angeles WAS
delivered 20 him:
"C hecked Eighth street al
dress where suspect paid room
rent In advance and disappeared.
Have called for an unarriVed
special delivery letter and are
expected TO call again for this
letter. We will keep watch and
notify you further"
BY the afternoon Of March ~.
three weeks after Van Hose IS
murder. Rogers had obtained A
confession from Victor Powell.
He told OF his ride in the Ford
sedan. a ride that started in
Kansas City the morning of
March 3, and ended in that
city about midnight. Glenn
Harmon and Wolf had Travelled
With him 10 Sleepy Hollow camp
and their chauffeur was the
man with the artificial hand
KNOWN 70 Powell only as Joe. y
The Ford was driven close 10
the Van HooSe home and parked
facing the concrete highway q
mile away. Powell said be did
not get out of the car. swear
INC that he and the mysterious
Joe" remained in the machine.
on the way TO Vanacres.
Glenn Harmon had talked of
robbIng some one. But long
and intensive questioning failed
10 shake Powell In his assertion
that il was Harmon and Wolf
who had gone into the Van
HooSe house. He said:
They were gone from the
car a short time when 1 heard
some shots, Harmon and Wolf
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-06
A Rich Mans Vanity Results
in His Murder FPrison-for 3

Wolf evidently were in that
vicinity q few days ago, but
they've skipped"
About noon the next day
Sheriff Rogers. with Powell and
Prosecutor Watson, started the
return journey 10 Carthage.
A sudden storm slowed up
their speed and il was after
9 o'clock when they arrived in
Pueblo. They were stopped by
a police car
There's an important message
for YOU at headquarters, sheriff."
a patrolman Informed Rogers.
Ten minutes later he was lis
tening to the voice Of Detective
Byron. who had called by long
distance from Denver.
"Tve got something hot, he
Nst++sF-- = %'sttt \ t~-tt ~ NNTf fftr
telephone"
Byron said he would drive
10 Pueblo and would be there by
midnight. When Detective
Byron arrived, he had with him
a relative who gave information
that directed the chase 10 the
West Coast. Wolff, nc said. mad
gone TO los Angeles. and 'he is
expecting 10 receive mail at
2Sl1 West Eighth"
A moment later Rogers sent
a message 10 the chief Of detec-
tives AT Los Angeles. The wire
gave descriptions Of Wolff, Har-
mon and the man with the aru-
fetal hand.
Having obtained the promise
OF fHit cooperation from the Los
Angeles department, Rogers
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-06
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~ tGH "OU''uhU

and he was killed almost in
stantly!
Harmon and Wolf, one dead
and one alive. were returned 10
Carthage leaving Rogers only
ono moro 0t the mon 10 DC ac-
counted for Naturally, he had
communicated with the Kansas
City police concerning -" Joe
and the Ford with dented
running board. and Chief OF De-
TeCITVGs Thomas j. higgins
promised cooperation.
Victor Powell then furnished
a lead that sent Assistant Prose
cutor Birkhead and Detective
A. II Kessel 20 Kansas City
looking for a motor car with a
denied right running board and
a city cab license on IFS wind
shield
At Twelfth and Wyandotte
SIIcctA- they soon spotted such
car A man was slumped
down in the drivers seat, and
as the officers stood watching.
the driver placed his hands on
The SteFTlng-Wheel. Ills right
hand which was gloved, seemed
stiff and unnatural
That right hand vas artificial!
At police headquarters the
man gave his name as William
= MOOrS and he admitted a
criminal record which included
a sentence in the Missouri State
Penitentiary
In June less than four months
after the Van Hose murder,
Wolff and Powell were found
guilty of first degree murder
and sentenced 10 life in the
Missouri State Prison, while
Moors was sent TO the federal
hospital Tor The insane. |
Copyright. lsit. by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-06

the layout, another one Of them
answered.
II didn't hear any names men
toned, but they talked about
meeting at $3.50 that night on
the road past the BrOadview
Country Club"
Dugan had recognized one of
the men, a former resident OF
Carthage; but the other three
were not known 20 him. How
ever, when he named Glenn
Harmon as the former resident
OF the town, Sheriff Rogers
perked his ears. For Glenn
Harmon was an eX-conV1ct who
had been sought by the st.
Louis police since 1892. He had
been released on bond in that
city following asholdup.
G Monday afternoon Sheriff
Rogers learned of another meet
ing place of the group of men.
After leaving Sleepy Hollow
camp late Saturday afternoon,
they had driven directly 10
Riddles cafe on Howard street
N Carthage.
The trait led back 10 Sleepy
Hollow, where the group re-
NAMED for short while. From
Sleepy Hollow camp the men
returned 20 the cafe in Car
thage, where they divided, with
Harmon and second man
driving 10 The Jacobs filllng sta
ton for gasoline.
the IT1sH=eaHTe together
AT Riddles cafe. Two departed
in the Ford sedan and Harmon
and another went out a few
minutes later.
There the trail ended. All
efforts 10 track the movements
of those men after $50 o'clock
Saturday night pr o d uce d
e. blank
An Obscure person IN Denver,
who knew nothing Of the case,
made remark 10 the effect
that Glenn Harmon had left
Denver with two other men Feb.
n. And that information reached
The ears OF Walter Byron, who
operates a private detective
agency In Denver.
ware OF the nationwide
search for Harmon. Byron con-
tacted Detective Capt. William
j. Armstrong OF the Denver
police, and on March Il they
arrested Victor r.. Powell. He
Was one of the two men who
had Travelled from Denver 10
Kansas City with Harmon.
In quick order Capt. Arm
strong knew the name OF the
third man in the group that had
left Denver Feb. II. lie was
Byron Wolf.
In the meantime, Sheriff Ed
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-06

Embedded in the wood panel
ing on the wall opposite the
entrance was bullet OF that
type: another was found In
the wood standard OF a cloth
-iftfs.1= -s---= =====
Van HOSES .3s-caliber re-
volver lay by his right side;
one cartridge had been fred.
II was not until Sheriff Rog-
crS learned Of the bullet hole in
TIC COUPE tf1at fTe- WIS able tn
determine how Van Hoose had
been slain. A lead bullet was
found on the floor OF the car.
and although battered, u was
evident that il was OF .3S call
Der, probably fired from the
dead mans revolver
This is how Sheriff Rogers
reconstructed the crime:
"The murder must have DC
Cured Saturday night or before
daylight Sunday. The killer
opened the screen door at the
driveway entrance and then
rang the bell. Van Hoose, APP
parentIy suspicious, had his re-
-polper ready. He Afed At the
man, but missed. the bullet
striking his car. The murderer
fred three times, missing once.
an Hooss probably slammed
the door shut as ne staggered
back into the reception room
II the killer had planned a rob
berry, he probably was Too
frightened TO carry IL out"
Mrs. Tom Haekett, VINO lived
a short distance from the Van
Hoosc home, reported hearing
q series al sharp explosions Al
. bout 8 90 clock Saturday
NIGHT
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-06
No Names Mentioned

The GrzI lead IN his ny 81 az
came from X. f. Dugan, pro-
pfietof of the Sleepy Hollow
tourist camp and cafe near the
cas- city limits of Carthage
Iio informed Rogers that four
men. who had occupied a room
in the Sleepy Hollow tourist
camp Saturday night, had
aroused has suspicious.
Il heard one 81 them SAY;
"a hats the layout" Dugan re-
lated.
That's all right: know
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-06

came running back 10 the car.
Harmon said. start driving :
Let's 20"
After we got started Har-
mon said, 4 had 20 shoot him.
tie took shot at me- -
Morris Sunshine was alone In
his tailor shop in Los Angeles
when Il stranger entered. gun IN
hand
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-06

ID L. VAN HOSES fvecarat diamond ring of the
why his friends had entreaed him 10 establish
living quarters inside the city He had lost the ring in
odup and associates feared he tempting fate by openly
Ul9earing valuable stone.
Another that he had been living alone in his
paatal mansion southwest of Carthage No. while Mrs Van
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-06
Fail 10 lake RING

That the murderer had not
taken the $4,000 ring was al
most as startling as The muir
der itself
Van IIooSc had been shot by
a 81 gun, presumably a re-
VolVeT.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-06
Old Joe said to Young Joe...

when YOU get over there in the thick of it.,
son, you won't have time 10 think about the
fancy ideals you re supposed TO be fighting for.
You'll be interested mostly in shooting straight,
and shooting first.
But some night when you're lying out under
the stars you'll probably figure the whole thing
out-And it will be very simple.
You'll realize that you're lighting to protect
the kind of decency and freedom you were raised
in-and will want TO raise your kids in, too
You'll be fighting protect the opportunity thar
all Americans have of starting at the bottom and
getting 10 the toP-and that's fybiealiy Ameriean.
You're fighting to protect your right to live
your own life in your own way without being
pushed around by some bright young bureaucrat
who wants TO do all your planning for you
That's about all there is to il, SON But it's
mighty worth whle-this business of keeping
our freedom-of sticking to the things that have
made America great.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-06

I've often thought that our own family was
pretty good example of what can happen in
this country-and nowhere else. ! started doing
odd Jobs in this very hardware store, when
was ten years old. Made up my mind I'd own
it some day. Nothing in the world TO stop me
If l really wanfed IT,
We didn't have cars and trucks and airplanes
in those days. No radios. No telephones, movies,
or electric Lights.
Il didn't have much education-didn't have the
time or money to get it. But made up my mind
that my own children would have some of the
things ] didn't have.
You've had good education You went to
college. You've travelled around the country in
your car. You've seen how the other fellow lives
You keep up to date through your radio and
your reading.
And, son, IFS hard to believe that most of the
inventions, advantages and improvements that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-06

p,,.ba,7. Be,, van ar, good %, 'f Sel'er
ii YOU doa 'sIs, .s ,,,' o.ser ,n-Po'po,'
liking nap P,n,bup' cootlns $500 sSe cost
M'nn % ~ 'i.'',' ,eo,re ingredients
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-06

Dean called George Beimdick
Van HOSES partner in the
BY Realty CO. at Carthage
Beimdiek hurried over forced
a window and climbed INTO tt1c
hease.
Forty minutes later Sheriff
OIL Rogers was standing over
THE body Of Jasper Gouuty-s
Weslthiesi citizen p. l.. Van
Hoose had been murdered,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-06

Burns and Deputy Sheriff Earl
White of Clear Greek County,
acting on a tip had been Strug-
Cling through the rugged, noun
famous country near d h o
Springs. A Gilpin City miner
had reported seeing two mystic
riouS strangers in a cabin Oh
Ute Creek.
Delayed by Storm
we got ths=tiP too late, g
Sheriff Burns said. Harmon and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-06

Hoose was staying In wash
ington, d. c., where their
daughter was studying art.
But the 64-year-old million
aire mine operator laughed
at the qualms of his friends
by telling them;
81 like my home and this
ring Is my only personal
vanity Dent worry about
me I" -
Nevertheless he obtained
permit for a gun, and q few
days later he purchased a
.3S-caliber revolver On Satur-
day afternoon Of March ,,
1884, he left his office, remark
ing TO employees ihat-he=iH-
tended 10 stop at a nearby
restaurant.
The next day Sunday, w. r.
Murray returned a trailer he
had borrowed from his wealthy
neighbor. He pushed on the
bell bat there was no answer.
The next morning he returned
and found the car still WIS in
the driveway. again there WAS
no answer 10 Murrays ring.
lie located r. l. Dean. an
employe on the estate, who
saw something tf1at csused t11T1
10 dash for a telephone
~ There was bbHiiet hole IN
e left door Of the Van Ii0ose
Iotyrpf
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-06

have made you more efficient and more comfort.
able, have happened in my lifetime
But that's the very thing m talking about That's
the power of America. We've got push in this
country-and ingenuy-the determination to
keep on getting stronger and better all the time.
And all of US have got to see that nothing stops
that kind of representation enemies from the
outside, nor from fbe inside.
You're chip off the old block, son You think
about the way do. You work hard-very hard
But you've had more advantages than had And
you're better man in every way. You II go farther
Just remember this, my boy-you're a free
agent. Your future is under your hat You have
seen what our American way of doing things has
meant to you and me and millions of Others. in
opportunity, progress and happiness That's what
you're really fighting for, SON. You put the heat
on, over there-and III put it on over here
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-11-01
STOVE DEALERS TO FILE
INVENTORY ON STOCK

A complete inventory Of their
present stock Of stoves must be
filed by Dayton and Montgomery
County dealers in stoves with
county war price and rationing
board by tomorrow, Louis R. Mahrt,
board chairman announced yester-
day.
Stove inventories are essential
for the preparation Of the Cincin-
natl district OPA quota for stoves,
Mahrt explained adding that deal
ers have not filed reports for the
last two months.
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ing more and more public support
and that property valuation of
land-grant colleges has more pub
lie support and that property val
uation of land-grant colleges has
increased from $2,5OO,OOO n 1910
to more than $20,0OO,OOO in 1910,
he declared.
There are factors that affect Ne
groes and whites alike in the south,
he stated, but the problems of the
south and Of the Negro are ma
tional in character. He pleaded for
Negro parents to encourage their
children to acquire more education.
"If you fail our Negro boys and
girls, we have made no other ar
rangement," he declared.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-11-01
west INDIAN WORKERS
SHIFTED 70 INDUSTRY

WASHINGTON, Nov. l (ANP)
Jamaican workers imported by
the War Food administration for
agricultural purposes are now 60
ing into industry, it has been con-
firmed here by H. G. Macdonald,
chief liaison officer for British
West Indies labor.
Because of the slackening off in
agricultural work, Macdonald said,
the men are being gradually ab-
sorbed by forged and foundries,
where a labor shortage has long
existed, and in the canning indus
try. The likelihood is that others
may 60 into forestry.
So far about 1000 Of the $1,000
workers in the country have made
the switch, he added, and others
are changing over daily. When the
proposal was first made to use
these workers in the foundries, la
Dor representatives in the indus
try advised the War Production
board against ready low wage
scale.
The Jamaican workers who have
left the farms are now getting
more pay for their work, MacDon-
aid declared, but they are also sub
ject to income tax payments now
he added.
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"Outside of the Negro church"
she continued, "the labor move
ment has within it the largest and
most important congregation of
Negroes on the earth.
"This means power in numbers
and organization. These workers,
black and white, come under a So
cial discipline that cannot be found
anywhere else. AS organized labor
moves into all areas of life, includ-
ing the most important area, poll
tical action, it is essential that Ne
groes be large part of that ac-
tivity."
The growing Importance of the
labor movement, the fact that Ne
groes in war industries have shown
that they can, if given the oppor-
tunity, produce and master the
techniques of modern industry, and
the recognition Of this fact by man
agement were cited by Miss Tan
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-11-01
; GIRLS GRAB PURSE

Elizabeth Borbas, 1914 West
First street, reported to police that
her purse, containing 10 cents and a
handkerchief, was snatched by
three girls at the entrance to the
first alley north of Third street on
Broadway last night. She said that
all of the girls wore heavy checked
shirts and overall pants rolled to
the knees. All ran toward Williams
street, she reported.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-11-01

Hampton Institute, Va, Nov. l
-Deploring the distressing
amount of mis-information and
lack of information even among
the thousands of Negro workers al
ready enrolled today in the labor
movement" Miss Ann Tanneyhill
of the National Urban League
urged college students to concern
themselves with the broad problems
of working people in the first of a
series of vocational orientation
meetings held at Hampton Insti-
tute last week.
"Until the rank and file of Ne
gro workers-professional, skilled,
semi-skilled, and unskilled- under
stand that the future of all Ameri-
can workers is tied up in the fu-
ture of the labor movement, our
occupational problems Gas Ne
groes) will not be solved" Miss
Tanneyhill declared.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-11-01
EDUCATOR URGES HIGHER
EDUCATION FOR NEGRO RACE

Education at Washington, also
pleaded their cause of higher Ne
gro education in America. DR.. Cal
liver delivered his address before
800 college heads, faculty and
alumni members.
GAS I have seen the contribution
of these men," DR.. Caliver said,
81 have been impressed with the
contribution they have made to Ne
groes and the life of the nation"
While pointing out that the land
grant college presidents influence
the lives Of 10 million people, plus
an additional million who are in
directly influenced by the the boys
they have taught who are now
overseas, DR.. Caliver hit outmoded
school curriculae as he quoted lines
from the old-fashioned poe m
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars. "
He urged a new and more advanced
method of classroom training and
revealed that only one-fifth of all
Negro children of high school age
are enrolled in high school.
"Education does not really cost, y
he pleaded. "It is ignorance that
COSTS"
DR.. Caliver said that "every war
has left it's imprint on American
education" and backed his state.
ment by reference to Civil wal
days. eff we can have one world,
he pointed out, "surely we can worl
out our educational responsibilities
on national and international ba
SIS"
Reading a tongue-twisting pro
test letter from Texas business
man, he said science and taxes dt
not mix. Negro colleges are receiv
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-11-01
(0RINTHIAN news

The Rev. j. P. Turner of Atlanta,
Ca, will be the guest speaker at
Corinthian Baptist Church, Sun
day, Nov. 5 at the morning service.
The Senior Choirs and Chorus
will present their monthly musical
program Sunday evening.
The Rainbow Choir will be the
guest of the Sunday Schools pro-
gram at 9:30 am. Director and
pianist is Marie Arnold Poythress.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-11-01
STRESSES LABOR union IMPORTANCE TO STUDENTS

whether you have job, how
ever" Miss Tanneyhill warned the
students who heard her, depends
largely upon you as an individual.
"You are not going to get job
if you are unframed and unpre-
pared, or poorly trained and poor
ly prepared. And you are not going
to make satisfactory and produc-
tive worker unless you have what
we professional guidance people
like to call Job satisfaction
keep in your mind the thought
that if you can deliver the goods
there will be place for you; and
that that place can be retained by
you only as you give good perform
ance and only in proportion to the
manner in which you identify your
self with other American citizens
who have the same goals and the
same aspirations"
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neyhill as significant elements of
the climates" in which Negro and
white workers will find themselves
after the war.
Although the reconversion to
peace-time economy is going to
make immediate changes in ship
building, aircraft, ordnance, and
munitions, the four industries in
which colored workers have found
their greatest opportunity in war
time, Miss Tanneyhill stated that
there is reason to believe that they
will be able to get and hold post
war jobs in the fields of radio and
electrical communications, trans
portation and communications,
building and construction, public
health, social work, the production
of consumer goods, food manufac-
ture, and consumer service, as we'll
as in the professions.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-11-01
ABSENTEE BALLOTS
STILL COMING IN

About half of the $4,000 ballots
issued in the county for soldiers
have been returned, Edward T.
Weakley, clerk Of the board of cleo
tions, stated yesterday. They will be
taken to the precincts in which the
voters live, the day before election,
where they will be counted elec-
tion day.
Ballots for men and women in
the armed forces are still going out,
he said, although in many in
stances, because Of the distant
point to which they are being sent,
it will be impossible to get them
back in time to be counted.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-11-01
PLEADS GUILTY TO THEFT

Entering a plea Of guilty, Matte
Irwin, of Summit street, was fined
court costs before Judge Paul
Sherer in Municipal court yester-
day, for the theft of silverware
valued at SIS from Mrs. Eva Sager,
720 Huffman avenue. She was
placed on a years probation.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-11-01

CHICAGO, Nov. l (ANP)-
Lauding the contribution Of Negro
land-grant college presidents to the
race here during a banquet given
in their honor at the Parkway ball
room, DR.. Ambrose Caliver, at
tached to the u. S. Department Of