Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1929, Page 4

4 WIDE CRIME TRAIL 1S LAID T0 BURKE Arch Criminal Is Believed to Be in Chicago, Where He Was Seen in Hotel. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 18.—Many cities | todey cut new pages in the book ot crime imputed to Fred Burke as the | search for the reputed killer, kidnaper | | and bank robber became more intense. | The man hunt for the former lieu- | tenant of “Scarface Al Capone Wwas still centered in Chicago, with police | seeking definitely to connect Burke with | the massacre of the seven Moran gang- | sters last St. Valentine's day. but many | other chapters to the book were written | elsewhere. In Detroit Burke was described as the man who taught the gunman to become the machine gunner: the man | who gave lessons in kidnaping—who | made a million from ransoms and rob- beries. Believes None to Be Caught Alive. 1In addition. Inspector Henry J. Gar- | vin of the Detroit crime and bomb | squad called Burke the head of the| “most desperate band of outlaws in the | country—and not one of them, I be-| lieve, will ever be taken alive.” From St. Louis, the inspector added, came gunmen from the remnants of | Egan's Rats, once a notorious gang. Others came from elsewhere, the roster containing the names of the following leaders, Garvin said: Ray (Crane Neck) Nugent of Hamilton, Ohio: Gus Wink- jer, Bob Newberry and Raymond Mc- Ginnis, alias Shocker, all from St. Louis. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 18, 1929. s | YOUT TOOfs do not leak like our tents. SNOW BLOCKS BYR[]] GEOLOGICAL PARTY Gould Says Everything Is Wet | and Soggy in 23-Above Temperature. \ BY- RUSSELL OWEN, By Radio to The Star and New York Times. | LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, De- | cember 17.—~A message yesterday from | { | Dr. Lawrence Gould, head of the Bryd | geological party in the Queen Maud | | Mountains, says: | “still snowing and no prospect ot | immediate change in weather. Sledges | | nearly buried in snow, dogs living in | i/ holes and our tents hall covered. | Everything wet and soggy, for it is| warm and there is much melting. - Hope | ‘Not 40 below .zero, but this kind of weather makes sledging hard work. | | Left our few books at Camp Strom. | | Have one deck of cards and play hearts | and bridge for chocolate as pastime. | | Mountains on three sides of us, but can | see nothing,. Every one in high .Kph"“s} in spite of weather. | | It has been warm at Litfle America | also, and wherever there is any dirt | on the snow the surface has melted to | mush. Today it is 23 above zero, al- | though the sky is partly overcast. | “The radiation thermometers, which | act as collectors of heat from the sun | and show the sun’s intensity, registered | 120 degrees Fahrenheit today when the | sun_came out for a short time. | “These must not bc confused with | | the ordinary thermometers, as the mer- | | cury is. held in a black bulb in a | vacuum. They vary with the moisture in the air and the height of the sun. and, as they go up, the sensation of | BYRD’S BOY SCOUT OBSERVES BIRTHDAY Siple Is Sent Mate's Commission From National Headquarters on Reaching Age of 21. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK. December Antarctica as the youngest member of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, Paul A. Siple, member of the Sea Scout Division of the Boy Scouts of America. today | celebrates his twenty-first birthday an- niversary. On the way to Siple as a birthday token. but not due to reach | him until the Byrd supply ship arrives, | is his commission as a mate of Sea Scout ship Niagara of his home city of Erie, Pa. No Sea Scout can be commis- sioned a mate until he reaches 21 years. | The commission, dated today. was made out several weeks ago and is now on its way to him, accompanied by a letter from Chief Scout Execu- tive James E. West to. Comdr. Byrd asking the latter to present the com- mission. Today. through the New York Times radio station, a message conveying the birthday felicitations of the Boy Scouts | of America went from Daniel Carter Beard, national Sccut commissioner, to Siple. for the first time informing the Sea Scout of his promotion to mate. A complete display of lamps for every purpose. Table, Floor, Bridge, Junior and Bed styles. 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Al | previous beliefs of Chicago police that | two machine guns, two rifies, tear bombs, bulletproof clothing and hundreds of | UL e Burke would seek hiding in this city— | rounds of ammunition. g —Associated Press Photo. | : o where police said he was once the ex- Lower left: Fred R. Burke, alias Fred Dane, sought as the murderer of | " pert ne gunner for the Capone | Skelly. Lower right: A woman, who gave her mame as Mrs. Viola Dane and Record Cash Sale of Oats. gang, and as such was in command at | arrested in the home. She was charged with receiving stolen property. Se far| CHICAGO, December 18 (A).—What —P. & A. Photo. | was believed to be the largest cash oats | sale on record in the United States was the Moran massacre. she has refused to shed any light on the case. Says Couldn't Be Mistaken. | v 2 ke, ment officials, members of boards of vis- | Made yesterday by Nels B. Updike tiom Hitehinton of New Butao. M, ALUMNI TO ENTERTAIN | Omaha’ grain man. He sold 1.000000 T could not have been mistaken,” the ing business men, in addition to more | white corn to Frank Davis, president of His eyes lighted on me and I knew In than 500 alumni. elevator companies in Marshall, Tex. a flash that he recognized me. I got [Governor and Former Governors of | pal speaker. volved approximately $650,000. was prepared to shoot me if I tried to Virginia and College Presi- have him arrested.” : eriminology was put in use by Chicago | s authorities to show that included in the | > RIGHMOND, Ve, December 18.—Ex- home in St. Joseph was the machine | Byrd and Gov.-elect John Garland Pol= Y& . The identification was made by Wil- Y itors of all the State colleges, and lead- | pyshels of oats and 100,000 bushels of Aoy ot haye, ben mistaker. e | NOTED MEN AT MEETING i S Gov.-elect, Pollard will be the princi- | and«&Shreveport, La. The transaction in- the impression he held a weapon and All of the science of the experts in dents to Be Guests. arsenal found in the Burke lake fron! | Gov. E, Lee Trinkle, Gov. Harry Ficod Meanwhile, recognition of Burke in a downtown Chicago hotel by a man who “used to play cards with him in St Greist Lamps Emeralites Adjusto-Lites Goose Neck Floor and Table Lamps %< MUDDIMAN ;. 911 G St. NW. Phone Nat. 0180-2622. with which be may pay the loan; thus the borrower forms the habit of saving regus larly. 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