Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 145, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1933 — Page 21

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HATRED OF ALL ORGANIZED SOCIETY DRIVES DILLINGER’S GANG TO MURDEROUS ACTS Cunning- of Criminally Crazed Mind of Mob’s Leader Characterizes Every Move of Vicious Band. WOMAN IS ‘KEY FIGURE’ IN SCHEME Fiendish Course of Outlaws Believed Mapped in Entirety From Cell in Ohio With Aid of Girl. BY TRISTRAM COFFIN Timm Staff Writer Word seeped through the grapevine system at Indiana state prison, Michigan City, that plans for a gigantic and daring prison break were brewing. Old convicts, tamed by rears in prison, gravely shook their heads at the audacity jf the daring scheme. It was bad. It would be tough for the rest of them in any event. Prison guards would crack down, grimly applying strict rules.

Hack in Dayton, 0., John Dillinger, awaiting trial for a robbery, plotted feverishly. Through the very bars of the Jail came his plans. His secret agent was a woman, said now by police to be Mary Kinder. Another woman, sister of a Michigan City convict, is suspected of helping chart the brutal and fiendish course. Through the criminally crazed mind of John Dillinger came a plan, so devastating and so ambitious that Indiana was to be clutched in the grip of a "reign of terror” for week^. In the Indiana state prison the shirt factory hummed with industry on the fateful day of Sept. 26. Gray-clad convicts worked over looms. Guards glanced about indifferently. It was all in the dav's work. Suddenly, quietly, menacingly, ten convicts faced guards with drawn guns—guns smuggled into the factory. A prison officer was forced to lead the moh at the point of a gun as it marched toward the gates. Reign of Terror Starts Once outside the prison gates the convicts commandeered the automobile of Sheriff William Neal and, holding him as hostage, drove into swampland in the vicinity of the prison. The automobile became mired. Plans awry, the convicts ranged through the woods and farm lands for three days scheming to get in contact with Dillinger. In those days swung the delicate pendulum of escape or capture. State police under Captain Matt Leach, surounded the Beene and at times were as close as fifteen yards to the criminals. One member of the gang, James Clark, could not stand the rigors of sleepless and foodless days and nights. He became ill. The mob left him with Sheriff Neal. Terrified by Threats Clark was captured soon after he and Neal limped wearily into Hammond. Later, arriving at state police headquarters for questioning, the veteran sheriff said that convicts had treated him roughly and had confided nothing to him. Terrified by threats against his wife and children, Neal said he had been afraid to cry out when he actually had seen state policemen on the trail. Meanwhile, continuing their desperate race for freedom, the ronvicts stole one automobile afte.r another. They contacted their agent, the mylsterious woman, now said to be Mary Kinder, sometime before or on Sept. 28. The mysterious woman furnished them money as they lay in anxious seclusion somewhere -near Indianapolis. Clothing was purchased for them. Escape From ‘‘Tight Spot" Making their get-away, the fleeing criminals almost were apprehended on the National highway near the city. One convict, James Jenkins, was thrown out of the car as it swerved to escape pursuing state police. He fled into a field. A half-hour later he kidnaped Victor Lyle, an Indianapolis man, stuck a gun in his ribs, and grimly commanded him to "get going south." At Nashville, in Brown county. Lyle fled home as they stopped at a filling station. Farmers in Bean Blossom, a few miles east of Nashville, attempted to halt Jenkins as he prowled through the backways of the town. He flred, wounding a farmer, but was killed in the ensuing skirmish. That was Sept. 30. On Oct. 4, Charles Makley. escaped convict, was branded as one of a bandit mob which held up a bank in St. Marys. 0.. escaping with $12,000 loot. Sheriff Is Murdered Two days later, Joseph Fox. escaped convict, was named as one of the hoidup men involved in the raid on a Gas City (Ind.) bank. Dillinger had been placed in a small jail at Lima. There, waiting. he watched his plans develop. On the night of Oct. 12, the mobsters raided the jail. Murdering in cold blood Sheriff Jesse Sarber, who resisted them, they liberated Dillinger and vanished. Burdened with a terrific hate of society, the mob went into action swiftly. It was a group gathered curiously from all waiks of life—laborers, ft plumber, a carpenter—the disciples of crime. Dillinger drifted into crime after a drinking spree in Mooresville. He nd a companion robbed an aged grocer and when his accomplice fled, Dillinger completed the holdup. He was given the maximum sentence. He served both In the state reformatory and at Michigan City,

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Dillinger was paroled, released into a society that he admitted hating. Following his parole, he robbed two banks, one of them the Massachusetts Avenue bank here, according to identifications of employes. He was captured in Ohio and Indiana w r as refused its extradition appeals. . On Oct. 14, Walter Detrick and Dillinger were identified as two of the marauders who broke into the Auburn police station. There they looted machine guns, rifles, and ammunition. On Oct. 21, they struck again, robbing the police station at Peru and escaping with every weapon. Meanwhile, authorities of the Marion county jail here discovered hidden weapons among prisoners. They suspected a plot to release alleged slayers of Police Sergeant Lester Jones. In a deliberate coup last Monday, four men, believed to be Detrick, Pierpont, Copeland and Dillinger, robbed the Central National bank at Greencastle of approximately $75,000. Tuesday the Western State bank, South Bend, was looted of approximately SII,OOO. Small-time bandits, emboldened by the unresisted raids, held up the Fillmore and Modoc banks, taking approximately S6OO. Federal authorities entered the chase after The Indianapolis Times had requested their aid. Governor McNutt announced that, as the result of a prison investigation, veteran deputy warden H. D. Claudy was discharged for "gross negligence.” That brings the story up to today. More than 700 state troopers are standing guard—twenty-Your-hour duty—watching, waiting in forty-four state armories—watching for Dillinger's "Terror Mob”—lndiana's worst criminal gang in it’s history. Trapped by Footprint SEATTLE, Oct. 27.—Clifford G. Farrell, 21, was arrested by his footprint instead of a fingerprint. Farrell was accused of robbing a service station and his footprint was found on the gravel grounds.

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Big, Gray Maxim Litvinoff, Soviets’ Emissary to U. S., Is Human Dynamo

Talks English With London Accent, Can Argue With Anybody. Julia Blanshard, who has a wide acquaintance among the leaders of pres-ent-day Soviet Russia through her travels as correspondent for this newspaper and NEA Service, presents below a personality story replete with many heretofore unpublished facts about Foreign Commissar Litvinoff. who soon is to sail for America on a history-making diplomatic mission. ( BY JULIA BLANSHARD NEA Service Writer INTRODUCING— "Comrad” Maximovitch Litvinoff 'pronounced Lit-vee-nof), who is coming to America to confer with President Roosevelt on American recognition of Soviet Russia. He is a big man with a fat stomach, graying light hair, pale blue eyes that are cold and calculating at one time, warm and merry when he looks at his children. He looks like a successful Jewish cloak-and-suit merchant, shakes hands like a western cowboy, talks English with a London west-end Jewish accent, wears you out with his dynamic energy, and can outargue anybody, on earth. He has been criticised by bigoted, orthodox Bolsheviks because he has two dress suits and both a black silk and a white pique evening tie, not to mention longtailed evening clothes, striped gray trousers and cutaway and a Tuxedo. He even wears them in Moscow, when meeting foreigq diplomats, though Stalin and othdr high-ups stick to their workingmen’s clothes. He does not wear a formidable Russian beard, he doesn’t even have a mustache. His glasses have horned rims that are "made in America” and his formal clothes are made on Bond street. In spite of these outfits for formal occasions, however, Litvinoff on ordinary work-days usually looks as if he slept in his clothes. a a a lITVINOFF also has been critiv cised at home because he has a foreign, bourgeoise wife who is also a Bohemian. To proletarian Russia a bourgeoise wife is bad enough. To have her Bohemian in her tastes is practically counter to their ideals. Yet Mrs. Litvinoff, the former English upper-class woman, Ivy Low, niece of the late journalist, Sir Maurice Low, goes right ahead doing exactly as she pleases in Moscow, absolutely backed by her husband. She has written articles for the press of foreign countries, has published a detective story, is working on a novel, has reported drama for Russia’s only English-printed paper, the Moscow News, and in addition holds the one and only "salon” that any Bolshevik leader’s wife boasts. Here writers, artists, actors and visiting foreigners lucky enough to have been introduced by “Ivy’s” friends meet informally and talk seriously to the enjoyment of all. Criticism doesn’t bother Litvinoff. He always has met with it. He knows that hajias a longer and better record for sticking to Bolshevik ideals than practically any one in Russia. He is, in fact, one of the "Old Bolsheviks,” a title reserved for the small group which included Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and others lucky enough to have been in on the 1905 revolution. Litvinoff was born in Bielostok in 1876, when that part of Poland was Russia. His real name, Wal-

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Proudly wearing his black “ten-gallon hat” . . . two buttons conspicuously missing from his overcoat . . . scorning a porter to carry his own bag . . . Foreign Commissar Litvinoff is shown here in a character-revealing photograph taken of him in a Moscow railway station.

loch, apparently has never been used by him. When he was 17 he was exiled to Siberia for anti-czarist activities. He went to Switzerland and continued undercover work for the revolutionists, was held for smuggling in the arms used in the 1905 Revolution.

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r T'HE rest of those ten years before the revolution, Litvinoff spent in England or on the continent, always earning his living in a bourgeoise world—as a salesman in Engand under the name of Henderson, as a teacher in the Berlitz School at Rotterdam, as an archi-

tectural draftsman, as a book dealer. His business training Is one of his biggest assets in his present job, for he is the only Russian commissar who thoroughly understands how to deal with representatives of bourgeois countries on their own ground. Moreover, he thoroughly enjoys it! Having worked personally with Lenin in England before the Bolshevik revolution, in 1918, Lenin, from Moscow’, appointed Litvinoff "Ambassador to England of the Russian people.” England already had one Russian ambassador (appointed by the late czar), so when Litvinoff began speech making, declaring Russia’s intention of making the whole world Bolshevik, they just put him in jail.. That happened simultaneously with Moscow’s jailing of the British high commissioner, R. H. Bruce Lockhart, who had been accused of conspiracy to overthrow the Bolsheviks. So Russia and England compromised. It is just exactly fifteen years ago this month that England traded the jailed Litvinoff back to Russia for England’s jailed Lockhart. n EVER since that day Litvinoff has been in and out of Russia as the official Soviet minister in Europe. First he served as assistant commissar of foreign affairs under Tchitcherin, and since 1929, as commissar. By 1924 Litvinoff had secured economic relations with all Europe and actual recognition with most European countries. In 1927 he threw the disarmament conference into a panic by rising and making a plea for “immediate and complete destruction of every possible instrument of war on land and sea.” Diplomats were not used to straight-from-the-shoulder propositions! In May this year he secured a non-aggressive pact with France, declared to be the peak of his amazing achievements. At the world economic conference he signed non-aggressive pacts with nine other nations and prepared the way to American recognition by discussing Russia’s possible purchase of 70 per cent of our cotton. In addition to being such a successful diplomat, Litvinoff is probably one of the best family men in Russia. He, Ivy and their two children, a boy of 12 and girl 10, the children’s dog, Brandy, and one servant live in four little rooms over the garage behind the former sugar king’s palace. It is In the latter place that they entertain on state occasions in rooms hung with faded tapestry, old masters’ paintings, rich carpets and high-backed state chairs.

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CHARITY FUND WORKERS NEAR HALFOF GOAL Hope to Pass 50 Per Cent Mark at Luncheon Report Today. $376,717 ALREADY GIVEN Strong Offensive Is Planned for Week-End as Finish Nears. Half-way mark in the Community Fund dpive was to be passed at noon today at the final report meeting of this week. A total of $376,717.22 has been collected in the one week of the campaign. The next report meeting after today will be held either Monday noon or night at the Claypool. Monday has been scheduled as the campaign’s closing day. Drive workers are centering their efforts in a strong offensive over the week-end to reach the $824,462 goal. Llly Gives $35,000 Increase In contributions of employes has been recorded by cornpay after company. Yesterday’s report meeting was boosted by a gift of $35,000 from the corporation and stockholders of Eli Lilly & Cos. Employes of the Lilly company gave $11,945.25 at an earlier reoprt meeting during the week. Arthur V. Brown, Community Fund president, gave a personal gift of $5,000 to the drive. Contributions Boosted A partial report from employes of the Public Service Company of Indiana lists contributions totaling $1,257.50. Prest-O-Lite employes increased their gift to $1,868.90. Employes of the Grain Dealers’ National Mutual Life Insurance Company donated $1,485, with State Life Insurance Company workers making a contribution of $594.50. Officials of the drive hope that good weather "breaks” will aid in the contacting of donors over the week-end. Malaria Cases High By United Frets NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 27.—The depression has another crime at its door. The Louisiana state board of health reported an increase in malaria cases caused by mosquitoes breeding in gutters and other places not kept as clean as usual, due to the economic depression.

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BY WALTER D. HICKMAN IF you were asked to choose your six favorite short stories, what would they be? I know that our lists would differ greatly. Booth Tarkington, who is guest editor of the November Golden Book, lists his six favorites as follows: "Boule de Sulf,” by Guy de Maupassant; “Shoes,” by O. Henry; "The Professional Santa Claus,” by Booth Jameson: "A Lodging for the Night,” by Robert Louis Stevenson; "Deep Canyons,” by Elizabeth Stanley, and "The Procurator of Judea,” by Anatole France. "These short stories seem to me of outstanding merit and interest,” says Mr. Tarkington. "Os course, I don’t mean to say I think them the greatest short stories that I’ve read; I don’t believe anybody is entitled to assume that lie knows what greatness is in literature. These six, and a few others, come to mind preponderantly when I review my own reading of short stories. I suggest them for publication because they happen to be the first that come to mind when I make no effort to search my memory or to search books for promptings to destroy.” Next to picking winners, the pleasantest pastime in the world is picking favorites. And so Mr. Tarkington got a break. Next month Hugh Walpole, as guest editor, will choose his favorite stories for the Golden Book. a a a * consider any addition to the Modern Library important news and I eagerly open every package of books that I receive from this company. Yesterday my mail contained a copy of Lew Wallace’s “Ben-Hur.” Sells for 95 cents a copy. This publication makes a total of 225 books in the Modern Library. I have on file in my office the complete list of this library and it is available to all readers of this department. This edition of "Ben-Hur” is beautifully printed on good paper. I am pleased to place this volume in my always-at-hand library. OREGON CUTS FIRE LOSS Nearly All Cities Show Reduction for Eight Months Period. By United Press SALEM, Ore., Oct. 27.—Fire lasses in nearly all Oregon cities wepe less last year than in 1931, the state fire marshal reported. Thirty-five Oregon cities made additions to fire fighting equipment during the last year.