Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1926, Page 12

5 0 $140,000 AND FLEE Force Officer to Open Vault of Indiana Bank—3 Kill Cashier in North Dakota. By the Associated Press. LAPORTE, Ind.. November 12.— The People’s Trust and Savings Bank of Laporte was held up and robbed | today by five armed men. who es- capted with $140,000, of which $40 Apparently with intent to intimi- date, one robber fired a sawed-off shot- zun as the five entered the bank The charge imbedded itself in the ceiling. The other four men drew revolvers, lined up five customers waiting at the cages and took charge of the insti tution. About a dozen persons, amployes, were in the bank. All were forced to lie on the floor while two robbers stood guard over them George McClane, the president of the bank, was forced to lie down with the others, as was a woman who en tered while the robbers were at work. The robbers cleared the tellers’ tills of about $40,00Q in currency and then forced the cashier, Harry Keller, te open the vault and there about $100,000, chiefly in negotia’ secu- rities, was seized. Flee in Waiting Auto. The robbers fled eastward toward Seuth Bend in an automobile they bad waiting outside the bank. ‘The five, all well dres: and Dining now from Bedroom Suites now from Karpen Living Room Suites now from Console Tables now from Windsor Chairs metw from Spinet mow from Secretary Desks Bow-from Individual Chairs mow from Occasional Tables mow from Poster Row from 0 | was cash and the remainder securities. | including | The shot fired was not heard by persons on the streets, although the bank is_in the center of the city of about 15,000 population. George Petering, a teller, was talk- ing on the telephone as the robbers entered. Before he realized what was happening the robbers had jerked him from the telephone and thrown him to the floor. The whole robbery was executed swiftly and the bandits had departed before an alarm could be given. The robbery was the first bank hold-up experienced here. Three Kill Cashier. MINOT, N. Dak., November 12 (). —Three bandits held up the Citizens’ State Bank of Wheelock, Williams today and shot and killed | H. N. Peterson, 45, cashier of the | bank. DR. KIEP WILL BE>WEW GERMAN CHARGE HERE Dr. Dieckhoff to Become Counselor of Embassy in London. the Ascociated Press. BERLIN, November County, By 12.—Dr. Otto of the foreign office, has been appoint- ed counselor and charge d'affaires of the German embassy in Washington to succeed Dr. Hans Dieckhoff. Dr. Dieckhoff becomes counselor of the embassy in London, succeeding A. Dufour-Feronce, who goes to Geneva as German undersecretary to the League of Nations. The entire serles of changes is sub- | ject to the League Council's approval |of Herr Dufour-Feronce's appoint- ment, which, however, is taken for granted. Kiep, former chief of the press section | THE EVENING TO PICK SIXTH BABY Action Taken to Give Chance to Mothers Who Have Been Un- able to List Infants. An extra opportunity for mothers desirous of entering their babies in the contest being conducted each aft- ernoon at the food show in the Wash- ingtn Auditorium will be offered to- morrow_afternoon, it was announced today. In order to accommodate those who have not been able to enter their babies during the week, the judges will select a sixth baby just before the selection of the grand winner to- morrow afternoon. The baby chosen from the six daily winners tomorrow afternoon will be selected by the applause system. The grand winner will be awarded $10 in gold. Betty June Saunders, 3732 R street, 18 months old, won the daily contest yesterday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. D. Rosetta,” 704 Third street, won the “newlyweds" prize. Tonight a prize will be given to the voungest married couple in at- tendance. The food show will con- clude its two weeks’ stand tomorrow night with the award of a sedan auto- mobile and six other capital prizes. Washingtonians who succeeded in making “the smileless man” smile last night follow: Miss Dorothy Maxwell. Berwyn, Md.; L. MclIntosh, 918 Eighteenth street; I. Delise, 1031 North Capitol street; F. Harrls, 1752 U street; Miss M C. Buckholt, 1500 Massachusetts avenue; M. Loveless, 1423 North Caro- lina avenue northeast: Miss Effie Risk, 1802 G street; Miss Margaret Adams, Nineteenth street; Mrs. John M. , the Chastleton Apartments; Ella Sorenson, Wardman Park Mre. E. D. Lewis, 1825 New Miss Hotel; STAR, WASHINGTON, Hampshire avenue; Mrs. F. Schmidt, 1316 H street; Lodge V\'ltk!l\l l.’: F street northeast; Mrs. 4807 Davenport street; Mlu hlhel Yessell, 3927 Jenifer street; Chester A. Mundie, 417 Sixteenth street: Mrs. W. J. Close, 1121 New Hampshire ave- nue; Charles Ziehl, 322 Eleventh street northeast; Mrs. J. B. Moore, Riverdale, Md. Charles L. Ahern, 813% Eighth street northeast; M. Klomen, Arling- ton, Va.; Miss Janette Mothershead, 1364 Oak street; Miss Ruby Mullinax, 1536 P street; Mrs. J. F. Taylor, 618 O street: T. Kelly, 1127 C street north- east; Miss Bessie Cohen, 709 Twelfth street northeast; F. Burch, Mount Vernon Apartments; J. Stonebraker, J. McGuire, 1775 Calt- Carrington, 1775 California E. Lippold, 119 Massachusetts avenue; Mrs. R. E. Parker, 202 Tenth street southeast, and Mrs. J. G. Biegman, 1237 Shep- herd street. Organizer of Crusade Explains Its Significance. Right Rev. Thomas C. Darst, bishop of the diocese of eastern Carolina and organizer and leader of the “bishops’ crusade,” was the guest of honor last night at an informal dinner tendered {him by Rev. L. B. Franck, rector of Immanuel Episcopal Church, and Mrs. church, significance of the crusade. Guests at the dinner were: Rev. and Mrs. Pinckney Wroth, Rev. amd Mrs. Robert E. Lewis and Miss Florence Currie of Richmond. The meeting at the church was attended by a large congregation. Bishop Darst told of the progress of the movement to re- | vive interest in church a,('th(tles e Strange, but it's the man v\)m can't meet his creditors who meets most of them. JFET i Furniture Prices Franck, prior to an address at the | in which he explained the | 105080 ON CHARGE OF GIRL, 12 Justice Hoehling in Criminal Divi- sion 1 today sentenced Charles Sher- lock, 61 years old. to 15 years in the penitentiary on a charge of at- tempted serlous assault on a 12-year- old girl. Sherlock had enticed the girl into his home, 605 G street, July 15 last, it was charged. on the pretense of giv- ing her money for a bathing suit. 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