Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1927, Page 4

g #23 BANK BANDITRY CUT! BY ARMED CITIZENS Reduction of 60 Per Cent Is i Effected by Organization in linois. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, August 22.—Bank ban- ditry in Illinois has been reduced by 60 per cent during the last 16 months through an organization of 10,000 men who have been armed by the Illinois Bankers' Association and who are spurred by the association's offer of $1,000 for a dead bank bandit, The association has invested $250,000 in protective measures, in arms, am- munition and rewards. Results have included six dead bank bandits, many wounded ones, more than 30 captured and hundreds of thousands of dollars saved from the bandits’ hands. Bank bandits have been curbed so sharply in Illinois and in Iowa, which has similar methods, that recently the bankers in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota called a conference in Chicago and asked the Bankers' As- sociation of Illinois and Iowa to tell them about their system. Arming of Thousands. Records and costs as submitted to the visiting bankers made out a plain case in favor of the Iowa and lllinois methods. The essence of the plan was the organizing and arming of thou- sands of honest citizens and the post- ing of rewards for them to work for. With Illinoils' and Iowa's results staring them in the face as cold but alluring facts, the northern bankers decided to organize guards in_every county of their respective States. Michigan has been active and has already buried several bank robbers. of heart disease at his residen Abe Martin Says: i i | h-§§~n-—~ 3 N 15 % § i 1t two kin live together these days at_any price they're goin' some. When it comes t' cheap labor it's purty hard t* improve on a good, will- ing wife. (Copvright, 1027, LEONARD A. MERRITT EXPIRES AT RESIDENCE State Department Accountant Will Be Buried Tomorrow After- noon From Home. Leonard A. Merritt, accountant at the State Department, where he had been employed for many years, died e, 154 F street southeast, yesterday. He was about 66 years old. Mr. Merritt was prominent in the In the five States today approximately | Masonic fraternity, being a member 85,000 men are guarding banks. States and fast e banks relatively easy pickings for gunmen who were willing to risk their skins for a fortune or two. 110 bank robberies. Bankers were ap- of New Jerusalem Lodge, Smooth roads in all these prosperous [ A. A. M.; Columbia Chapter, N automobiles made [A. M., and Wa No. 9, F. shington Commandery, Knights Templars. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. In Illinois | Charlotte B. Merritt; three daugh during the two years previous to or-| Miss Ella A. Merritt of this cit ganization of the patrol there were|Pearl K. Merritt of Brooklyn, and Mr: N. Y. Iva Merritt Dench of Ho' palled at the cize and regularity of |boken, N. J., and two step-sons, Ed- their losses. ruthlessly all over the State. But dur- ing the last year not more than robberies have been reported. Towns Are Prepared. Kach little town has its guards, and the robbing profession knows it. They and many of their imprisoned fellows have learned it hy experience. Each town has its electric alarm system, its automobiles ready for instant pursuit and its men with their arms close at hand and with ample willingness to Chicago’s gunmen struck | ward T. and Paul C. Hinsley. Funeral services will be conducted 20 [at the residence tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Congressional Cemetery. Interment will be in GEARE FUNERAL HELD. Services Conducted for Architect of Knickerbocker Theater.’ Funeral services for Reginald W. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D.” €. SIONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1927. BRARARAABAAABSSBBBBBEBBB BB EBABB BB RS BRR BARRBBBRBAILBARBAZBABRES Lansburgh & Bro. FLAYS U. S. POLICY INLATIN AMERICA Former Diplomat’s Attack on “Ruthlessness” Meets With Rejoinder. By the Associated Press. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., August 22.—A wholesale indictment of Ameri- can policy in Latin America was made before the Institute of Politics to- day by Horace G. Knowles, former American Minister to Rumania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Bolivia. A ruthless and indefensible policy of invasion and intervention and mis- use of the Monroe doctrine to facili- tate the success of its actions was charged to Washington by the former Minister, who declared that noth- ing was hurting America in the eyes of foreign nations more than this at- titude toward the small nations south of it Flays United States Policy. “We have imposed our force upon weak, helpless and defenseless coun- tries and slaughtered thousands of their citizens,” said Mr. Knowles. “We have attacked them when they expected we would defend them. We have used the Monroe doctrine to prevent sympathetic European na- tions going to their rescue when we abused them. In our dealings with them we never allow them their day in court, and we ignore and disregard that principle of due process of law which our Constitution safeguards to all our citizens whenever their per- sonal liberties or property rights are involved.” Mr. Knowles asserted that while calling them backward, uneducated and uncivilized America has made no Christian move to remedy this conai- tion, and that our national policy has been to take all and give nothing, de- spite the promises which the Mon- roe doctrine held out. “Instead of sending them teachers, instructors and helpers we have sent them concession hunters, conscience- less and usurious bankers, avaricious capitalists, bribers, commercial trick- sters, murderers, soldiers to shoot them. degenerates and carriers of infectious diseases,” he said. ‘“Instead of our trying to elevate and make their peo- ple better and more patriotic, we have made crooks and traitors of many of them in order that our unscrupulous bankers and capitalists and Washing- ton can control the government and affairs of their countries.” Statements Challenged. 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N., took sharp issue with Knowles. “I regard this paper as a vicious, vindictive and violent attack upon our governmental policy,” the command- er declared. “We have intervened in Latin America only when the states themselves were unable to maintain stable governments, a right conceded A Sale of 4-Inch Washable Caracul Paw Coats in a few minutes. The sheriffs of the respective counties are in charge. “It is the only remedy,” according to Ray E. Garrison, who supervises the guards. He is under direction of the Illinois Bankers’ Association. Jowa originated the system under the direction of R. C. Saunders, for- mer chief of police in Des Moines. In 781 towns he organized 4,000 guards. Rewards were posted totaling $110,000. The bankers purchased and distributed 3.700 rifles, pistols and sawed-off shot- guns. Yeggs Are Apprehended. In six months bank banditry in Jowa was making most of its entrles on the red-ink side of the sheet. “Hank” Hankins, one of the smooth- Mrs. L. Hamilton of Washington, 60, Is Hotel Suicide. By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y, August 22.—A woman who registered last night as Mrs. L. Hamilton of Washington, D. C., leaped to her death from the third floor of the Y. W. C. A. hotel here today. The woman apparently was about 60 years of age. An examination of Mrs. Hamilton's room after her death revealed several letters addressed to Mrs. Lily Hamil- ton at the Stuyvesant Apartments, this city, and a bank book from a local bank. No clue was found as to her Washington address. by international law.” He denounced as a monstrosity Knowles’ characterization of Ameri- cans in Latin America as murderers and degenerates, demanded facts to prove each of Knowles’ assertions, and presented State documents of his own to_justify American intervention. Knowles replied that our actions in Haiti and Nicaragua were “imperial- ism running wild,” and_that, should we ever be at war with Europe, Latin America would surely not be our ally.” The meeting was adjourned with feeling running high. —_— Chopin, the great Polish musician, was buried in the dress suit in which :xe had made his last public appear- nce. —in the advance Sale of Fur Coats 51497 Cocoa Silver Carter Grey 3.50 Flat Crepe 9 est and most capable yeggs, cashed in his checks during an attempted hold- up and they buried him with his skin plentifully pierced with bullet holes. Harry Dean, “Lop-eared” Bill Davis, #Kiq" Martin and “Scarface” Hogan are on the inside looking out. They tried to rob a Pleasantville bank. They were about to get away with $61,000, but the system rounded them up. Others of their ilk fared as badly. The year before organization the Towa bankers lost $300,000. The loss last year was $2,500. Eighty-six banks in Chicago sub- urbs have organized a special patrol of 360 men sworn in as special police in their own communities. They are prepared at all times to drop their own business and respond to bandit alarms. These men protect not only the banks but business houses in general. They have been equipped with $11,200 worth of arms purchased by bankers. N Gas Victim Hurt in Fall Mrs. Maggie Thompson, 60 years old, 2121 Pennsylvania avenue, was overcome this afternoon by gas from a leaky meter, and fell, striking her head against the floor. She was taken to Emergency Hospital suffering from a scalp wound, but her condi- tion was not described as serious. e i o ool James W. Baltzell Dies. James W. Baltzell, 59 years old, died in Providence Hospital yesterday after a long illness. He is survived .by a sister, Miss Ida Baltzell, and a brother, Charles Baltzell. Funeral services will be conducted | at the residence, 639 Farragut street, | Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. | Rev. W. 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