Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1930, Page 5

» BANDITS IDENTIFIED 'N HUI.D'UP UF BANK Senator Says Conditions Fail Two Dead and Three Cap- tured Declared Members of Lang-Hunted Gang. By the Associated Press. SIDELL, Il December 17.—The trans- border line battl> which five daring bank bandits lost yesterday to a posse of unrelenting officers resulted in the cap- ture of bigger criminal game than was &t first indicated, authorities said as they surveyed the results. The gang, two of whose members were killed, one of them apparently by his own hands, was wanted for a series of bank hold-ups in Western Indiana, including one at Frankfort, in addition to th> robbery of the Citizens' State Bank at Clinton, which led to their downfall. Revealed by Officer. This was revealed by Chauncey A.! Manning of the Indiana State Bureau of Criminal Identification, who identified the dead bandits as Thomas Bzll, 42, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and G. W. Landiey, 65, ©of Frankfort, Ind. Landley is believed to have killed him- Self rather than be taken alive. Two members of the posse were wounded in the running fight which ended in an Tllinois codnfield near here after a chase | of nearly 70 miles. Bell was killed by Ernest Boetto, a volunteer posseman. | One of his companions, E. H. Hunter, | thought to b2 from Terre Haute, was Wounded. Two others.-Wiiliam Long of | Instead of increasing taxes, it is prob- | credit is so good and money so plenti- | ful, the simplest solution of our problem | Kansas City and William Martin, who refused to give his residence, were Loot of $15,000 Found. Practically - all th: estimated loot— 5,000—was recovered. : The two offices> wounded were Joe Walker, a deputy shex=> who tried to halt the bandit car as it spwa through a Walker was tal %0 & Terre Haute hospital where he died today. Burnsides, hit by a bullet from one of three machine guns car- rHed by the robbers, refused to abandon the chase until it ended. The robbers took to their heels after one of three automobiles commandeered by them along the route of their flizht became overheated. Their own car broke down about 12 miles out of ' Clinton, Everett Helm, chi:f of police of Clin- ton, organizer of the posse, reported that his automobile was hit nearly a dozen times by machine gun bullets. SHIPPING NEWS Arrivals at and Sailings From New York. T ungshoim-—Gotherb itic—Liverpool ... . n Juan . . rien—Puerlo Barrios DUE TODAY. iy s 5—] gston . . ember i0 American Merchant—London ,,D(Ct:bell: 6 DUE TOMORROW. anconia—West Indie rmuda—Bermuda -Deeember 14 vorita—Kingston fuzania—Southampton 'sden—Bremerhaven ...l Nerissa—Trinidad 2 DUE PRIDAY, DECEMBER 19. Korthern Prince—Buenos Aires..December 1 ta—Puerto Colombi can Farmer—London. itonia—London . ~ ampton . nland—Antwerp o R R oniso ITI—Corunna . DUE TUESDAY, Carinthis—Liverpool America—Hamburg Carabobo—La Guayra Oriente—Havana December 30 OUTGOING STEAMERS. SAILING TODAY. ivis—Halifax and St. John's. vt—Amtwerp. n_Luckenbach—Pacific Coast York—Cherbourg, Southampton and Cristobal, and Santa’ Ma: racas—La Maracaibo. ndam—Bermuda. SAILING TOMORROW. Bird City_Copenhagen President Fillmore—World cruise. _° Dresden—Cobh, Cherbourg and Bremerhaven. Coamo—8an Juan and Santo Domingo City. na, Progreso and Vera Cruz. diz and Barcelona. American Trader—London Eungsholm—West Indies cruise. SAILING FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19. Western Prince—Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo and Buenos Aires. Munargo—Nassau. Miami and Havana. Favorita—Kingston. Flora—Curacac and Maracaibo. Western Ocean—8t. Thomas. United States—Oslo and Copenhagen. Ban Americe —Bermuda Bresden—cobn. ver Hudson—Gibraltar. Puerto d Ban Prancisco. Colombia, Cristobal, rehant—Hambure Cristobal and Port Limon. n, Puerto Castills, Tels and 0. orro Castie—Havana innewaska—Cherbours and London. itic—Cobh and Liverpool. aracoa—Puerto Colombia. iance—West Indies cruise. ayette—West Indies cruise. rmuc muds. atendam—West Indies cruise. SAILING SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21. Musa—Puerto Cortez. SAILING MONDAY, DECEMBER 12. fiton—Norfolk i—Copenhagen and Gdynia. BAILING TUESDAY. DECEMBER 23. Albert Ballin—Cherbourg, Southampton and burs. Ancon—Port au Prince and Oristobal Nearly 200,000 pieces of and 100,000 knives, forks and spoons will be part of the equipment of a trensaziantic liner now under construc- sews soirs D0C CLEANED & PRESSED DOLLAR CLEANERS 1731 7th St. N.W. Pot. 3900 Subscribe Today It costs only about 1% cent: crockery REED FAVORS CHEAP MONEY TO FINANCE TREASURY DEFICIT to Justify Any Raise in Present Tax Rate. Early Economic Recovery Will Increase Revenue and Cut Loans, He Claims. The Evening Star American_ Newspaper Alliance Senator Reed, Republican, of Pennsyl- vania. and member of the Senate Finance Committee, to define his reasons for op- POSINg an’increase in Federal taxation at this ti In reply, he wrote the following BY DAVID A. REED. There can be no justification for any increase in taxes unless it is to be as- sumed that the current business depres- sion will last indefinitely. and the As one who has faith in the future of his country, Ido not believe that it will. Therefore I can see no reason why taxes should be increased, and there are substantial reasons why they should not. For several years, or since we began to get back to a peacetime basis, our Treasury statement has shown a surplus of revenues over expenditures. In con- sequence we have been able to reduce taxes repeatedly in this interval. It is reasonable to believe that as we recover our economic equilibrium Fed- eral revenues will again exceed or at least equal all ordinary requirements. able that before many years we shall be_able to reduce them further, In the interim there can be no sound | as are necessary t> make up the tem- | reason for increasing the income tax rom, NEW @ Keeping Washinglon YORK.AVENUE ot FIFTEENTH SENATOR REED. or imposing burdensome taxes of other sorts simply because we face a deficit this one year. - | As an alternative, I think the sound | course is to rely on Treasury financing i to carry us through the present period. | The Federal Government today is bor- | rowing money at 1% per cent. While its |15 to issue such short-term certificates ! porary deficit. When business picks up MenWell Dressed ® ]“Hll | | We hear it on all sides. Ap- parently our new shop couldn't be more centrally situated if it were in your very office. 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The House wet group has changed its name from “the Committee for Modi- fication of the Volstead Act” to the “Committee Opposed to National Pro- hibition.” Reinforced by 10 additional members, the bloc also authorized Chairman Lin- thicum, Democrat, Maryland, to appoint whips for the Republican and Demo- cratic sides of the House and to oppose the increased approriation of $2,500,000 asked by the Prohibition Bureau for enforcement purposes. The new members include Aldrich, Burdick, Condon, all of Rhode Island; Fish and Cooke of New York, Fenn and Goss of Connecticut, Andrew, Massachu- setts; Pittenger, Minnesota, and Rielly, Wisconsin. The Finer of agreed | ing a bombardment. FAMOYS WAR NURSE MARRIES THIRD TIME Mrs. Kathleen Burke McLean Weds Girard Van Barkaloo Hale in Los Angeles. By the Associated Press. 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