Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1935, Page 12

A—12 * ; BREMER PRISONER CLEARS 3 DEATHS Lifer Exonerated and Crimes Pinned on Barker- Karpis Gang. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn,, March 30.—Three murders were pinned on the Barker- Karpis gang and e life termer in Stillwater Prison was exonorated of the crimes in a written confession by | | one of the band held for the $200,000 kidnaping of Edward Bremer, it be- Oppose War ctame known today. On unimpeachable authority it was | learned that Leonard Hankins, serv-| ing a life term for the murder of two | policemen and a St. Paul motorist | in the robbery of the Minneapolis third Northwestern National Bank, had been | absolved of guilt. | Jess Doyle, indicted as the money- | changer in the Bremer abduction, is| said to have admitted he drove the | bandit car. Clears Three Murders. ‘The asserted confession clears up the slayings of Patrolmen Leo Gorski and Ira Evans of Minneapolis, mowed down by machine gun bullets in front ‘of tht bank on December 16, 1932, and the killing of Oscar Erickson, 29- year-old St. Paul resident, who un- wittingly stared at the bandits as they changed escape cars in Como Park, 8t. Paul. Doyle, who said he was dressed in & chauffeur’s uniform during the raid | named Alvin Karpin, public enemy No. 1, still at large; . rthur (Doc) Barker, held in the county jail here; Lawrence | Devol, rlias Larry Colton, serving a | life term in Stillwater Penitentiary; | William Weaver, alias Phoenix Donald, | a paroled lifer; Verne Miller, notorious | outlaw found shot to death in De- | troit, Mich., November 29, 1933, and | Fred Barker, a brother of “Doc” Barker, who with his mother, “Ma” Kate Barker, was slain last January by Federal agents in Florida. | Prisoner Thanks God. Hankins, a tall and strapping Ken- tuckian from Dawson Springs, was summoned from the prison shop by a reporter today and informed of Doyle’s reported statements. Visibly affected by the news, Han- kins said: “Thank God—I knew the truth | I'm in- | would come out some day. | By the Associated Press. | United States the same feeling that Left to right: Representative Lundeen, Senator Norris and Repre- sentative Knutson. The three men still in Congress who voted against American partici- pation in the World War listensd to Europe’s screaming bugles yesterday and urged once more that the United States keep clear. “I think America will keep out,” said Senator Norris, Republican, of Nebraska. “I am genuinely disturbed over the enormous increases in the appropria- tions we are making for prepared- ness,” Representative Knutson, Re- publican, of Minnesota, declared. “There is hysteria throughout the land,” Representative Dundeen, Far- mer-Lobor, of Minnesota, said. Norris Paces Office. Norris, one of six Senators who | opposed entry into the World War, paced his office almost excitedly as he made kriown his views. “All over the world except in the | we saw just before the World War | prevails, People are going crazy, wild, “I don't think they'll scare us into | another war though. We've had our fingers burned. Practically every one concedes that we should have kept out of the last war. Look at what it cost; the effects are still felt. “I don't think there is any justi- nocent—I don’t know this man Doyle, nor 4o I know members of the Barker- Karpis crowd, but if he admis he was a driver, he must know the real bandits. I'm a gambler, not a bank robber or a killer. The worst crime 1 ever committed in my life was to play c-rds. SCRUGHAM WILL SPEAK Nevada Representative on Purple Heart Association Program. Representative James G. Scrugham of Nevada, a lieutenant colonel dur- ing the war and an active worker in veterans' organizations ever since, will be the principal speaker at an “open house” to be held by Mount Vernon Chapter, Purple Heart Asso- ciation, at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the National Guard Armory. The open house will be preceded by a short business meeting, at which a report is to be received frcm a delegation headed by Comdr. Pistorio regarding a national executive mezting held last week in New York. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Lecture by Maurice Hindus before | Town Hall, “A New Deal for the Rus- | sian People,” Shoreham Hotel, 8 p.m. Lecture by Senator McCarran be- | fore the Holy Name Society of St.| Augustine’s Church, 1715 Fifteenth | street, 5:30 p.m. Dinner dance, Sigma Omega Delta Sorority, Hamilton Hotel, 9 p.m. Lecture by B. C. Marsh before the Washington Open Forum, “The Mess in Washington,” Continental Hotel, 3 pm. TOMORROW. Instruction in advanced contract bridge, auspices of the Massachusetts Soclety, Roosevelt High School, 8:15 | pm. Card party, Church of the Sncred! Heart, Park road and Sixteenth street. Bingo and card party, National Capital Post, No. 127, V. F. W,, 8 pm. Dinner dance, Pocomo Club, Ham- | {iton Hotel, 7:30 p.m. Dinner, 500 Club, Hamilton Hotel, 6 pm. Dinner. Washington _Automotive | Trade Association, Hamilton Hotel, 5:30 pm. Smoker, Variety Club, Willard Ho- tel, 9 pm. | FUTURE. Meeting, St. David Society of Wash- ington, Powell Junior High School, Hiatt place and Lamont street, Tues- day, 8 pm. Dinner dance, Aero Club, Shoreham fication for any increase in the size | of our Army.” | Knutson, publisher of the Wadena | Pioneer Journal, struck his glasses on his forehead and puffed a briar as he | spoke. | “I am at a loss to know whom we are arming,” he said, course, I would vote for war if the United States were ever invaded and if I thought the supremacy of the white race was at stake. I am of the | opinion we need a better understand- | ing among the nations of the earth! iruther than greater armaments.” | “Hysteria Throughout Land.” | Lundeen, who carried arms against | Spain and served nearly 11 years in the Army before becoming a lawyer, | | stopped the work of addressing nun- dreds of Agriculture Department year {books to his constituents to discuss | | the situation. In his shirt sleeves, he emphasized his point with waving arms. “The same propaganda that we had for a war of aggression in 1916 and Three Legislators Who Voted Against Conflict in 1917, Unchanged. THE SUNDAY for America | and I mean all nations; and entang- | ling alliances with none.’” “Who is fomenting the war hys- teria?” he was asked. “Why the international bankers,” he answered. “I don't want to discuss personalities, but you can say its the international bankers who have money and property involved who want war. It should be headed off.” Family’s Ages 727 Years. That the combined ages of the Joyce family holds the world record is the claim of residents of Wigham, Aus- tralia. The 10 Joyces have a total age of 727 years. The endest is 87, and | the youngest is 67. Four are sisters who have celebrated their golden wed- dings. The parents, the late Mr. and | Mrs. B. Joyce, were pioneers who pitched camp on the Bo Po Creek, be- | tween Wigham and Krambach. G St. at Eleventh 2, i larly priced, are mothers. . .Here 1917 is on now. There is hysteria | throughout the land. I believe in practical patriotism. 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Storey was held rm; 140 miles north of Flint Island. ‘The Canadian government ice- | breaker Montcalm, which crashed | her way to freedom last night after being trapped for several hours on a | trip from North Sydney to Louisburg, was expected to aid the Coalby. An_international ice patrol cutter, | the Mendota, was speeding north- ward in search of the schooner, re- | ported by the Norweglan freighter | Leif to be 4 miles in the pack. ADVANCED IN RESERVE Dr. J. G. Catlett, Former D. C. Man, Promoted by Army. Dr. J. G. Catlett of Miami, Fla., a former resident of Washington and | a graduate of the U. 8. College of | Veterinary Surgeons here, has been promoted from major to lleutenant colonel in the Army Reserves. Dr. Catlett’s mother, Mrs. Francis 1J S. Catlett, and three brothers, Lucas | W., william B. and O. W. Catlett, live in Washington. 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