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CHICAGO, November 10.—The story of a hunt for the $2.500,000 loot taken | in the greatest bank robbery of all| time and of & desperate bargain driven | by a gangster for his freedom was told | today. | It begins with the sacking of the Lincoln National Bank & Trust Co., 1n“ September 17, 1930, and the story 1s still unfinished. Perhaps it is told too soon, For Nebraska has not yet accepted the bid of “Gus” Winkler, pal of the Capones and Fred Burke, to purchase hisimmunity | from prosecution with/the return of ail but a pittance of the stolen bonds. And, with the telling before the bargain it | struck, those who traded with the| emissaries of this highly forganized | bank-looting _syndicate wonder how safe are their lives and the lives of Upon Max Towle, county attorney at Lincoln, the bankers and Attorney General C. A. Sorenson rests the re- sponsibility for taking or leaving Wink- ler's tender. Parleys at Benton Harbor. Operatives of the “3ecret Six,” crime- fighting body set up by Chicago_busi ness men, and of the Illinois Bank ers’ Association tracad the deviou paths the year's investigation has fol lowed. Once 1t 1zd to a little cottage rendezvous near Benton Harbor, Mich where the Capones and Winkler and Phil d'Andrea—the gun-bearing bods servant of “Sarface Al" who is undc six_months' sentence for contempt of Federal court—had their business con- ferences. In front of the cottage the public street was barred to public traffic by the gangsters' blockade; gunners stood guard. Once it led to the Lexington Hotel in Chicago, whence the Capone men re- cently decamped. There Phil D'Andrea received Winkler's telegram from the Lincoln jail and soon D'Andrea had ar- ranged $100,000 cash bond for the re- lease of Gus. The investigators found traces of in- ternational alliances among the bank robbers and counted up a toll of around $5,000,000 taken in 25 major robberies since 1925 by these allies—the Burke- Winkler gangs, the Sheltons of South- ern Illinois, Fitzgerald O\ Minneapolis and, more remotely related, the Fleagles of Colorado. Here and there the inv tigators dircerned traces of interrela- tions of these gangs and blamed the famous Denver mint maid on s affili- ated band. Again and again the trail led to the Capone headquarters, 25 when Winkler, in the Lincoln cell, said to an Illinois bank representative: “Make the bond as high as you like, Make it $500,000 “. you want to. I'll get out. The ‘big boy is back of me.” ‘The detectives wonder whether it is rot worth much to the Capones, as they trundle off to prison, to have Gus free to_come back and take the helm. It was worth $100,000 bond to get him out, worth the $75,000 more he has offered to pay the unnamed bandits who hold the stolen Lincoln bonds without which the bank and its six correspond- ents are in danger. Winkler protests his innocence of the Lincoln and the Plano I, “jobs,” claims he can prove an alibi by documentary evidence in New York, but fears a Lincoln jury will rail- road 'him to the penitentiary. And he told the Secret Six he would die by his own hand first. He makes the appar- ently magnanimous offer to buy back the Lincoln loot because he wants to be hed up,” prove his innocence, prove he has been mistaken for a double—Hom Slattery, killed in a hold- up in Maryland last April 9. Secret Six agents agree Slattery was almost his twin, No Arrests in Seven Months. For seven months after the seven machine gunners surrounded the bank | and held police at bay, speeding away with $2,500,000 in their car while a siren shrieked warning to traffic, there were no_arrests and no identifications. Simultaneously, last April, Illinois; State highway police and Secret Six operatives got wind that their quarry Wwas in St. Louis. They joined forces and with Illinois and Nebraska bank agents rounded up three suspects, of whom Thomas Patrick Connors has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, Howard Lee has been convicted, but not yet sentenced and Jack Britt has just been tried with a jury disagreeing. Then Winkler was caught after an automobile accident at Benton Harbor, in which he sufferec a fractured skull and lost one eye. Sergt. Roy Steffens of the Secret $ix spent hours with him in the hospital. Winkler claimed “absolute innocence” of the robbery, but did knov some- thing about the bonds. Steffen con- vinced him if he could get the bonds back he might save 18,000 to 20,000 Nebraska bank depositors and redeem himself in the eyes of that State. County Attorney Towle, Steffens said, approved his bargaining with Winkler. The gangster got out on his $100,000 bond. The bank's loss, Steffers sxid today, would then be reduced to & mere $10.000 or $12,000, if the offer is ac- BOARD URGED BY GROUP Various Civic Units Asked to Form Directorate of Annual Festival. Unanimous agreement that the Hal-| loween celebration here should be made | a permanent annual event was expressed last night at a meeting of the Wash-| ington Halloween Committee in the Dis- trict Building. William A. Roberts, chairman of the | was directed to confer with the presicent of the District Com- missioners, the director of public build- ings and public parks, the heads of the | Board of Trade, Chamber of Commerce, | Merchants and Manufacturers’ Associa- tion, Federation of Citizens’ Associations and chairman of the Greater National al Committee in regard to the for- ion of a board to direct the festival ach year. The leaders of these various civic units will be asked to become memters of the Halloween Executive Committee. Will Rogers Says HOLLYWOOD, Calif —Well I got home, and we heard from the boys. Yes, on the 1st of the month they remembered us. They had arrived at_their school OK. If their remittance is in proportion to their grades I am not going to have such a tough year at that, and here is a warning to the world at large: Please quit sending me by either mail, telegram, booklet, volumes or word of mouth, schemes to end depression horough, ~_sincere work by practical roofers. your roofing needs. Roofing Company. 119 3rd Bt. BW. | contribute the THE EVENING oover Greets New Police Head STAR, WASHING\'ON, GLASSFORD AND VETERANS INVITE PRESIDENT TO FETE. HESE committeemen the White H a benefit pag President Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, direct ] appointed by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, visited > yesterday to invite President Hoover to participate in tomorrow night at the Washington Auditorium. took the invitation under advisement. the superintendency of the Metropolitan Police Department in a few day resentative Royal C. Johnson of South Dakota, grand marshal of the p: President Hoover and Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, administrator of veterans’ affairs. The Left to right: Brig. or general of the pageant, who assumes Rep- geant; —Star Staff Photo. ABILLION HIGHWAY URGED I 0B PLAN Aircraft Gun Inventor Pro-: poses Superroad Built ‘ by Motor Tax. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 10.—A man who used to figure out how to Kkill German airmen now has an idea to restore prosperity. He would use motorists' pennies to | help pay for an $8,000,000,000 super- highway that would criss-cross the continent. A S. Baldwin, who designed an anti- | aircraft gun adopted by Uncle Sam during the World War, believes his plan would set the wheels of industry whir- ring, resulting in employment “equiva- lent to putting 3,000,000 men to work | at salaries averaging $2,000 a year for 10 years.” He announced he has submitted the propesal to President Hoover, the 48 | Governors and Congressional leaders. An issue of Treasury notes would take care of the first cost of the road. Pass- enger cars traveling over the 14,300-mile highway would pay toll of a cent-a- mile until the undertaking were paid for. Designed in Speed Areas. There is nothing picayune about the “Baldwin super-highway.” It would be 500 feet wide, with 10 traffic lanes run- | ning in each’ direction. 1f you wished to go 30 miles an hour, you would drive on a 30-milesan-hour lane. There would be other lanes for 50, 70, 90 and 119 mile spe-ds It would be really a highway system, not a single road. There would be three direct East and West Toutes across the continent, as well as a number of Norta and South arteries. By its brilliant lighting, the road would serve as a_continuous guide for planes. The fast freight transgprta- | tion would move factories out of the | cities 10 the open country, and deal a death blow to slums, Baldwin believes. | Road 200 Feet Wide. The road would consist of a central| portion of concrete 200 feet wide, con- taining the traffic lanes, and shoulders | of packed dirt or clipped turf 150 feet wide on eich side. Beneath th: shoul- | ders, which would be designed '« pro- | vide emergency landing fields for air-| vould be lnes to carry water, | gasoline, oil, electricity and com- It would be possible to repair “nes without ~disturbing highway traffic | sides the pennies of motorists, in- | e from the 300 hotels and tourist camps, 200 gasoline stations and other | businesses which weuld be operated in | connection with the highway, would be used to pay for the road. r. Baldwin proposes an appropria- 000,000 to purchase land s that owners in many ca‘°s fficiently public spirited to and.” the designer of the -aircraft gun, the engi- atives described him as entor of an automatic one- pounder used on Army and Navy| planes. He has a long background of | | expericnce with ordinance and metal concerns and now is president of an engincering concern’ here, e being B ar the Bank Bandit Killed. TWIN FALLS, Idaho, November 10 (#).—One of three men who robbed the Hazieton State Bank at Hazleton, Idaho, vesterday was shot and Kkilled by possemen who were warned the ttempt would be made today. TWo cther robbers were captured and the 1 $1.300 to $1,600, was ie dead robber has not ! d. Just go ahead and end it without any aid from me, and then you can wire me word collect that you have done it. | must raise aproximately $55,000,000 to | | where ne | quickly as pessible. CHANGE to our hard coal . .. it’s solidly packed with comfort! ORDER TODAY! Rinaldi Gal @Gmpany Inc. 649 Rhode Island Ave. N.E Phone: North 1600 955.000.000 FUND ASKED BY PNCHT No Pennsylvanian to Starvei This Winter, Governor Tells Legislature. By the Associated Press. [ HARRISBURG, Pa, November 10. —Gov. Gifford Pinchot today told the members of the Pennsylvania Legisla- ture, called into speclal session to con- sider unemployment relief, that ‘“no American, no Pennsylvanian can be allowed to starve,” and that the State meet the present situation, Chests to Raise Money. hree community chests in | propose to raise $20,000,000 of this amount, he said, and the remainder | must come from voluntary contributions to his proposed State Commission on Unemployment Relief. “The money subscribed will be used led without constitutional or other restrictions, except that none o it will be given as a dole in any forr the Governor said. 1 “To give work is better than to give ( relief,” he said. *“Accordingly, the pro- gram’ before you is intended to pro- vide work for the greatest possible num- ber during this Winter.” The Governor said politics has no | place in the present emergency and | asked the Legislature to do its task as| 900,000 Out of Work. He said that surveys had shown 900,- | 000 persons, or one-fourth of the State's | workers, to be unemployed. In addition a census of the Department of Public Instruction showed 125,000 school chil- dren in the State who will need food during the Winter. Money to cover emergency appro- priations, he said, would be provided by his_proposed tax on cigarettes on the basis of 1 cent for 10 and a tax on bill- boards at the rate of 3 cents per square foot plus an annual license fee. FISH-THOMAS DEBATE SET Socialist and Representative to Meet Here November 19. Claims that programs proposed by Socialists woul b i d cause destruction of the | autonomy of local governmental units | will be dealt with by Dr. Norman Thomas, Socialist leader, in his debate with Representative Hamilton Fish at the Masonic Temple, Thirteenth street and New York avenue, Thursday, No- vember 19. 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Will Present Four-System Plan, The hearing will be on the applica- tion of the lines that the four-system plan they have devised be accepted instead of that for five systems which the commission proposed in 1929 in a 21-system set-up for the entire country. If this new principle is accepted, the carriers then will come in and seek | approval for the purchases or con- solidations necessary to effect the re- | spective mergers, although much al- | ready has been done along this line. The four-system idea does away with the Wabash-Seaboard system, which was the fifth in the commission line- up. Since_that was promulgated, the | Seaboard has gome into receivership and the carriers, in their suggested grouping, would dismember the Nerth- ern end of the original layout, allocat- | ing ihe roads otherwise. Porter Favored Four-Line Plan, Commissioner Porter had charge of the original consolidation inquiry, which was _instituted in complianc with the transportation act of 1920, which advanced the consolidation scheme. | Porter, in & dissenting opinion in the 1929 plan, suggested a four-system merger, based in general on the group- ings now suggested, but differeing in respects from it. | The commission’s announcement of the hearing will go to the Governors of all the States traversed by the lines involved in the proposal, and they in | turn will notify the interests in theis commonwealths which desire to be | heard. | It is expected that the probe will be a lengthy affair and months are | expected to be consumed before any- | thing definite is accomplished, particu- | Jarly if a move now on foot to give | Congress the final word in the matter | is successful. Labor Seeks Congress Veto, The way things now stand the com mission itself has the authority to pass on the plan, but in both Senate and House a determined effort is expected | to be made to change this. | ‘This movement has the support of organized railroad labor, which already has thousands of men in the ranks of the unemployed and fears further cuts if the consolidation were to be effected. | The consolidation hearings, which will | affect some $10,000,000,000 worth of property, will start just about a year | from the date when it was first an. nounced at the White House that th carriers were formulating this plan in an effort to bolster their economic struc- | ure. Two Members Critical. | Months were’ consumed in Working | out the details, the carriers in the meantime grappling with the freight | rate question. When the present plan was submitted the sponsors expressed | the belief that it was the best that could be worked out and at the same time protect all the interests involved. | Eight of the eleven members of the commission which drew up the fl\'c~’ system plan still are in office, including Commissioners Eastman and McMan- amy, who, the record shows, were criti- cal of the whole subject of consolidation and opposed cutting down the groupings over the entire country to a minimum, although they, as well as Porter, joined with the majority in presenting the re- port. | WILLS MILLION TO AIDE | New York Lawyer Leaves $1,460,- 775 to Secretary. _NEW YORK, November 10 (#).—The 25 years Miss Elizabeth A. Billings spent_as secretary to Henry A. Mon- fort, retired Jamaica lawyer, yesterday brought her a $1,460,775 fortune. A transfer tax appraisal disclosed that Monford left that sum to her when he aied on October 11, 1930. NORTH 1742 ‘ UPHOLSTERING || GET OUR ESTIMATES. 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So violent was the King's wrath at his younger brother’s deflance of his counsel that he ordered all records of the ceremony to be destroyed and au- horized the Bucharest government to issue a flat denial that the marriage had taken place. The mayor of Tchan, a small town | near Buzeu, knowing that he had in-| curred sharp criticism for performing the ceremony without the sanction of | the King, excused himself by declaring he knew no other course to follow when the determiried prince rode up to his home in a cloud of dust and ordered him to perform the ceremony. Carol's View Changed. 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There seemed little that he could do inasmuch as the civil ceremony uniting the prince and Mme. Deletj was apparently binding. His disapproval of the union was in- terpreted in some circles as an indica- tion he had undergone a decided change of viewpoint since he once re- nounced his right to the Rumanian throne rather than give up the red- haired Mme. Lupescu, that he had definitely given up any intention ho might have had of marrying her and that if he did marry it would be with the princess of some ruling house. Irish harps are becoming so rare in Ireland that some were sold recently for $500 A-3 {HARVARD AIR DEBATE SET —_— 0 Defies Carol l | Stanford to Be Radio Opponent on | Political Issue November 27. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, November 10 (#)—If President Hoover listers to his radio on Novembar 27 h» ray hear the | debating team of Stanford University, his alma mater, dcbate with Harvard cn the questic: . “Resolvedd That America Needs a Stronger Central Government.” | . 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