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OFFICER SHOT IN GUN BATTLE IS NEAR DEATH Burglar Suspect Makes His Getaway: State Officers on His Trail. MOTORIST IS KIDNAPED Welch in Serious Condition, Say Doctors: Gunman Heading South. Suffering from a dangerous abdominal wound received in a gun duel with Ivan Coy, burglar suspect and moonshiner, late yesterday afternoon, Detective-Sergeant. John Welch was in a critical condition in city hospital tms afternoon. Police hopes ior the capture of Coy were buoyed by the report from Martinsville that Coy had stolen a Ford truck from a garage there and escaped. Description of the truck was given and police have been sent to make a thorough search of southern Indiana. On the theory that the desperado who encaged in the pistol duel with Detective Welch yesterday in front of 1515 Reisner street, probably was making for Arkansas, his home state, police under Lieutenant Donald Tooley were in Martinsville early today. Coy escaped from the scene of the pistol battle by kidnaping a motorist, Ernest Ray, 23, 1545 Hiatt street. Mr. Ray afterward told police that Coy forced him to drive toward Martinsville, leaping from the car at Paragon, Ind., and running through a cornfield toward a dense w’oods. Pursued Through Alley The shooting occurred at Detective Welch pursued Coy through an alley heading west from 1515 Teisner street when the fugitive suddenly turned and fired point-blank, striking the detective in the body just above the left hip and >n ihe right thigh. Detective Welch fell in the alley, but with a supreme effort raised himself on his elbow and, steadying h's right hand, emptied his revolver after Coy, who fled down the alley. Detective Sergeant Charles Russell, himself a victim of gunmens bullets several years- ago. chased Coy through the alley, but was outdistanced. In front of 1545 Hiatt street Coy found Ray seated in his car. Mrs. Clara Ray was seated in the car with her husband. Mrs. Ray, an expectant mother, was forced out of the car at the point of the desperado’s gun and suffered a .severe nervous shock as a result of her experience. With his pistol pressed into Ray's side the gunman forced him to drive him out of the city. Has Police Record Detective Welch was wounded when he and Detective Russen went to the Reisner street address, after they had received information that Coy. who was wanted for burglary in connection with the looting of a North Salem general store, was hiding in the house. Welch went to the front door of the house, while his partner went to the rear. Coy, from a window, saw Welch mounting the front steps and ran toward the back of the house. Welch started for the back and Coy. reversing his steps, dashed out of the front door and made for the alley, closely pursued by the detectives. Coy has a police record as a burglar and "bad man.” He came to Indianapolis from Jonesboro, Ark. At one time he served a term in prison at Little Rock. Ark. Detective Welch has been on the police force since 1910. He was promoted to detective sergeant during thp administration of Chief Mike Morrissey.

THREE NEGROES DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR Forfeit Life in Tennessee for Attacks on Whiff Women. By Pr* f NASHVILLE. Term.. April 4. Three Negroes died in thp plpctric chair at state penitentiary today for attack? on white women. One. perry Smith. 20. confessed his crime to Dr Pickens Johnson, penitentiary chaplain, just before going to the chair. Jasper Graham. 29, and Frank Mays, 30, accused in another case, died maintaining innocence after being reidentified by the girl they were convicted of assaulting. GANGSTER~IS CONVICTED Chicago Thug Found Guilty in $105,000 Mail Robbery. By f Hitrd Prat* CHARLOTTE. N. C.. April 4 Isaac Costner, Chicago gangster, today was found guilty of participation in the the $105,000 mail truck robbery here last November. Times Index Page Auto News 6 Berg Cartoon 10 Bridge 15 Broun 9 Classified 13, 14 Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 15 Curioua World 15 Editorial 10 Financial 11 Good Old Days 3 Hickman—Theaters 9 Lippmann v .. 11 Peeler 9 Radio 7 Sports 12, 13 State News 7 Wallace Series 2 Woman s Pages 4. 5

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VOLUME 45—NUMBER 281

GOVERNOR PRO TEM. TELLS PRESS HE FEELS SORRY FOR DILLINGER

The pro tern, governor of Indiana wishes tnat John Dillinger. arch desperado, would °scape the arms of the law. Richard Neff, 507 Buckingham drive, the Boy Scout who was chosen to rule as governor for an hour thLs morning, told newspapermen in a press conference that he "felt sorry for Dillinger.” When the reporters pressed the question and referred to the killing of a policeman in East Chicago, Ipaving a widow, "Governor” Neff said, "Well, when a man’s desperate, hell shoot.” Governor Paul V. McNutt admitted to young Neff that thp biggest worry for the governor was providing relipf for the unemployed. Governor McNutt expressed his admiration for the Boy Scout, movement,, saying that, he had been a scout commissioner himself. Wallace O. Lee, local Bov Scout commissioner, introduced Mr. Neff to the Governor.

SCHOOL TEXTS CONTRACTS LET

Books Adopted for Five Years by State Board; Prices Lower. School texts in reading, writing and arithmetic were adopted for the next five years by the state board so public instruction today. Prices were from 1 to 3 cents lower than the old prices. Readoptions included primer, first reader, combined primer and second reader, awarded to Johnson Publishing Company. Richmond, Va.; third, fourth, fifth and sixth readers, Charles Scribner Sons, Chicago. New contract for seventh and eighth grade readers was awarded to Houghton-Mifflin Company. Chicago: writing system to the Columbia Press, Bloomington, Ind., Governor McNutt's home town, and three new arithmetics to Ginn & Cos.. Chicago. The American Book Company will continue to supply fourth, sixth and eighth grade arithmetics. U. S. BOND HOLDERS OFFERED NEW ISSUE Maturing Securities May Be Exchanged. By United Prrxx WASHINGTON. April 4.—Holders of a billion and a quarter dollars of maturing federal government securities were offered the privilege today of exchanging them for anew issue of 10 to 12-year 3'* ppr cent bonds. The maturing issues are approximately $1,000,000,000 of called Fourth Liberty Loan 4U per cent bonds due April 15 and $244,234,000 of 3 per cent treasury notes due May 2. No new money was asked by the government in the current financing, treasury officials apparently feeling that still better bond market conditions will prevail when further money for the recovery program is needed. STATE MAN, 65, ANO WIFE. 25. ARE SLAIN Indiana Couple Found Dead at Jonesville Home. Bu 1 ,iitrrl Prexx JONESVILLE. Ind.. April 4. Hosea Holcomb. 65. and his 25-year-old wife were found shot to death today at the home of Fred Bollman her. SEEKS DIVORCE FROM EX-STATE POLICEMAN Mrs. Carl Lnsey Charges Cruelty in Her Petition. Divorce, charging cruel and inhuman treatment, was requested today in a suit filed in superior court two by Mrs. Pearl J. Losev. 721 Olin avenue, against Carl Losev, former state policeman during the G. O. P. administration. Mrs. Losev requested support of $8 weekly for her son, Carl Lyman. 14. and SIOO attorney fees. Losev was prominent during the Republican regime as an investigator.

A Page for Thought THE Home edition of The Indianapolis Times today brings you the latest editorial comment on news of the day. The new editorial page of The Times carries each day the thought of the country's best editorial writers. Dr. Wirt, Gary school head, whp recently aroused the nation with charges concerning members of President Roosevelt's "brain trust " is named in the leading editorial on the page today. Indiana's park system wins notice in another editorial, reprinted from the Cincinnati Enquirer, in which the state is lauded for the state-wide system of parks and summer recreation centers. In addition there are other editorials, each dealing in direct language with problems of the day, with comment that you can not afford to miss. R. O. Berg. Times cartoonist, presents a striking cartoon relative to Samuel Insull and his arrest in Turkey. Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, nationally known commentator, discusses the desirability of passing the Warner-Lewis unemployment insurance bill in the first of two editorial page articles. Dr. Barnes' column appears daily. *iJ One of the outstanding features of the editorial pace is the Message Center, which has grown rapidly within the last few months. In this readers forum, residents are permitted to voice their views on questions of the day.

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FIVE HOOSIERS ESCAPE DEATH IN MINEBLAZE Workers Build Walls in Smoke-Filled Pit to Save Lives. ENTOMBED FIVE HOURS Joyous Reunions Follow Rescue After Battle With Flames.

BV GERALD BOWMAN I'nitfd Pres* Staff Corrmpond^nt SWITZ CITY. Ind., April 4.—Five resourceful coal miners who were saved from what had seemed certain death in the smoke-filled Sinclair mine, celebrated their rescue today with a holiday. The miners were raised to safety in an improvised elevator after being entombed for five hours in a tiny underground prison which they had constructed to keep out the deadly fumes. Operations at the mine probably will be halted for a week, it was said, while the surface building, tipple, mine cage and wooden shaft are rebuilt. Ihe miners who were trapped are Roll Himebrook, 25, Dennis Combs, 26, and Thomas Barnett, 18, all of Linton, and Jack Hineman, 4, and Henry Johnson, 22, Lyons. Pony Is Rescued Prince, a black and white pony used to draw mine cars up the shaft, also was rescued. The pony had stood in the dense smoke for several houts before being tied to the improvised elevator and hauled to the surface. An ovation as great as that accorded the miners was given the plucky little pony when it reached the air and stood half conscious in the wierd shadow's cast by 2,000 joyous spectators. After the miners had been brought out safely they w'ent home to hold happy reunions u'ith relatives and friends who had expected to mourn their deaths. The fire started from undetermined origin, spreading swiftly to the surface building, the tipple and cage and wooden shaft. Rescue Work Starts An alarm brought fire departments from Lyons, Bloomfield and Lincon. But soon all chemicals and nearby water w'ere exhausted. Aided by volunteers, the firemen hauled water in huge tanks from the White river, four miles away. When the flames had been brought under control, rescue teams came forth, dressed in strange looking asbestos suits and wearing oxygen helmets. Ed Rogers, Linton, a deputy state mine inspector, and John Oglebay, leader of a rescue crew from Bicknell, made the first descent. Rogers and Oglebay found the pony at the bottom of the shaft| The foul air forced them back to the surface .however, and Jack Hayes and John Ingleman took up the rescue w'ork. Dig Way Through Walls. Fighting through debris, they made their way ten feet back into the mine chamber before being forced to seek fresh air. Meanwhile the air w'as freshened in the shaft by means of long strips of muslin w’hich were lowered by a heavy weight and w'aved in circles. The third squad which went down was composed of six Linton coal miners, Sam Linton, Jess Ellis, James Sargent, George Walls, Marshall Robertson and Bill Mahatighn. They dug their way through the walls constructed by the entombed men, and assisted them to safety. Barnett, driver of the pony, was the first of the imprisoned miners to discover the fire. He noticed the smoke coming dowm the shaft and ran back to warn his fellow workers abandoning the pony. Awaited Rescue Squad They fled back into the tunnel and used bits o$ cloth, clay, coal, mud anything they could get their hands on to build a wall. Before the wall was completed, however, the smoke started filtering through. The miners ran back forty yards and built two more walls, one at their front and one in the rear, entombing themselves in a chamber twenty-five feet long, twelve feet wide and three feet high. Then they sat down to await the rescue party. Fred Hoke to Speak Fred Hoke, Indianapolis business man. will speak on "Who Teaches Our Children,” at the Northwood Christian church, at 6:30 tomorrownight. Herschel Davis will be chairman of the meeting

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4,1934

DILLINGER SEEN IN MAYWOOD, CITY SUBURB, WITHIN LAST 36 HOURS, LIFELONG FRIEND SAYS

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WIRT'S CHARGE CALLED ‘SILLY’ ‘He Can’t Name One Plotter in Government,’ Says Speaker Rainey. . By I Hill'd Prrxx WASHINGTON. April 4.—Speaker Henry T. Rainey, calling the Wirt, "brain trust plot” charges “silly/’ said today that the Indiana educator “can't name a man in the government who is fomenting a revolution.” Speaker Rainey predicted that the house special committee investigation into the “red plot” charges of Dr. William A. Wirt. Gary, probably would last only a few hours. “He hasn’t got any informants,” said Mr. Rainey. “The whole thing is too silly for words. “If all Wirt has is what he has given out, namely that men like Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace and other key men are alleged to be leaning to Communism, the investigation will end almost immediately.” Speaker Rainey said he would name the five members of the special committee probably tomorrow. “They will all be loyal men,” said the speaker.

SHOWERS PREDICTED AS MERCURY SOARS All-Time Records Tumble in Heat Wave. Showers tonight and tomorrow were expected to cause a break in the abnormally high temperatures of yesterday and today, but no extreme weather change was anticipated. Tire mercury yesterday equalled th° all-time high for April 3, mounting to 79 at 3:30 p. m., and was expected to near the same mark today. The only other April 3 on record where the mercury touched the same height was in 1879. At 9 a. m. today, the theormometer reading was 70.

6 REPORTED MISSING IN OKLAHOMA FLOOD Farm Lands Inundated as Rain Swells Rivers’ Overflow. By United Per** ELK CITY. Okla., April 4.—Fed by heavy rains, low-banked streams in this flat plains country overflowed today, inundating farm land and some villages. Six persons were reported missing. It was feared they had drowned. Several houses in the Hamman section were under water. CUBA REPORTS BOMBING Explosion in Havana Wrecks Twen-ty-Three Phone Cables. By United Press HAVANA, April 4. —A bomb explosion broke twenty-three telephone cables in Havana today, putting hundreds of telephones in the cenrer of Havana out of commission. Three persons were injured. The bomb was believed to have been set off by strikers. Gas Control Plan Looms By United P/i * WASHINGTON. April 4. —An emergency plan, designed to meet a chaotic situation in the gasoline production branch of the petroleum industry, will be announced tomorrow, the petroleum administrative board revealed today.

By United Prexx WASHINGTON, April 4 Race horse gambling in the south and the turbulent Louisiana political situation were the central themes today at an exciting senate hearing in which Colonel Edward R. Bradley, famous Kentucky turfman, testified that he w'as w-illing to "gamble on anything.” Colonel Bradley was a witness before the senate finance committee in an investigation forced by Senator Huey P. Long iDem.. La.), into the nomination of Daniel D. Moore as collector of internal revenue for the Louisiana district. One man was ejected from the crow'ded committeeroom for applauding when Colonel Bradley w'as called. The hearing was carried on in a courtroom atmosphere, both Mr. Moore and Colonel Bradley sitting with their counsel. Colonel Bradley, elderly, quiet spoken and gentle of manner, sent a buzz through the room when he gave ,his business as “speculator raiser of race horses and a gambler.” Called “Chief Racketeer” “Do you gamble only on race horses?” asked Senator Long, who w'as playing the role of prosecuting attorney in his effort to convince the committee of his charges that Colonel Bradley* w'as the nation's “chief racketeer and gambler” and that Mr. Moore w'as the political tool of John P. Sullivan, also accused of being a "big time” gambler. ‘I gamble on anything,” Colonel Bradley replied. Chairman Pat Harrison took up the questioning. “Do you know Mr. Moore/’ “No.” “What is your connection with Mr. Sulivan?" “Just a social friend.” “What, are your business relations wdtb him?” “I'm a stockholder in the Louisiana Jockey Club with him and many others.” Bets on Own Horses Earlier witnesses testified that hand-book horse race betting, illegal in Louisiana, w’as carried on with reports being sent to Mr. Sullivan's office, and women employed in Mr. Sulivan's office had gone into the bureau of internal revenue after Mr. Moore's appointment. The evidence was intended to show' that at least two of them did part-time w'ork for Mr. Sullivan while being employed by the government in Mr. Moore's office. Colonel Bradley testified at one time he owmed about 50 per cent of the jockey's club stock and Sullivan. 33 per cent. He said he had sold out his interest. Senator Long attempted to have Colonel Bradley testify about gambling houses, but committeemen objected on the ground the subject w'as “irrevelant.” Colonel Bradley, slightly deaf, answered questions slowly and in a low voice. He said he placed bets on his owrn horses and had an agent at the Louisiana track. He denied that Mr. Sullivan w’as the agent.

America Has ‘Turned the Corner ’ to Prosperity, Big Business Readily Admits

BY MAX BUCKINGHAM United Press Financial Writer ‘Copyright. 1934. bv United Press') NEW YORK. April 4.—America ponders more intently than ever today w'hether she has at last "turned the corner" in a. long and desperate fight against economic depression. Controversy, gloom and optimism still are intermingled in the national economic picture. Perhaps most unusual, however has been the recent tendency of outstanding business executives to bieak a long silence on industroal conditions. Some have attacked pending governmental measures others have supported the program of the administration. But in recent week.? there has been a growing unanimity in comment on business improvement. To back this up have been rapid developments, including wage increases for hundreds of thousands of workers; sharp production increase in huge industries such as steel, automobiles, electricity, retail trade and building. Even to a startling increase in the number of top haus on Fifth avenue on Easter Sunday. Following are straws in the economic wind: Myron C. Taylor, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation: "Last year we thought we had turned the corner and could see ahead immediate signs of revival. Today we know we can." Samuel M. Vauclain, chairman of the Baldwin Locomotive Works: During the next year tne nation will see a veritable cyclone of business.” Allred P. Sloan, president of Gen-

DILLINGER IS IDENTIFIED IN ST. PAUL CASE Gang Chief Was Gunner, Asserts Hoover, U. S. Police Chief. By United Prrxx WASHINGTON, April V—John Dillinger w-as identifed by department of justice agnest today as one of the two men who shot their way out of a St. Paul apartment Saturday, J. Edgar Hoover, head of the division of investigation, announced. The other man was identified as Eugene Green, who was seriously w'ounded by department of justice agents in another surprise raid last night. Fingerprints of both Dillinger and Green, together with those of John Hamilton, described as a lieutenant of Dillinger, w'ere found at the apartment raided last Saturday. The department reported Green was slowiv gaining strength and is being questioned. A total of 81.500 was found on the woman caught with Green last night. Pal Breaks Silence (Copyright, 1934, United Press* ST. PAUL. April 4.—The unsolved Edw'ard G. Bremer kidnaping was revived today w'hen a gangster shot dow'n during a federal roundup of underworld characters broke gangland’s code of silence as he lay near death. Capture of the gangster, Eugene Green, an ex-convict, and his auburn-haired sweetheart, w'as hinted as the prelude to a break in the month-long silence since Bremer, a wealthy banker. w r as turned loose after payment of $200,000 ransom. The gangster's sweetheart has been identified only as a St. Paul girl. Connection between Green and John Dillinger, elusive outlaw', was revealed by J. Edgar Hoover, head of the federal division of investigation, in commenting at Washington. Green, trailed by an automobile load of federal agents, leaped from a moving machine driven by his sweetheart into the bullets of another federal squad last night, eighty hours after he and the redhaired woman helped Dillinger shoot his way out of an apartment house trap. In the first affray. Green pursued with bullets federal agent R. C. Coulter, w'ho had gone to the apartment with a policeman to question the occupants. Coulter fired the shot that felled Green and sent him to a guarded hospital bed W'ith "one chance in seven” to live. The shot also broke Green's nerve, for the gangster gave Coulter and other agents a long statement, including a. confession to his part in the apartment house battle. Mother III; Son Is Sought Police today w'ere asked to search for William R. Nieewander, whose mother is critically ill in Franklin. Nicew'ander was known to have been in Indianapolis at | least two years ago. according to Adam Nicew’ander, his father.

eral Motors Corporation: “It seems reasonable to expect a further betterment of conditions." Charles M. Schwab, chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corporation: "Business is better and there are indications of still better business." Behind these statements there are signs and indications of business betterment and more optimism than any time since the palmy days of 1929. Silk hats glistening on Fifth avenue in Sunday's Easter parade, long lines of new automobiles on the streets, reappearance of expensive corsages and boutonnieres, modish and expensive new women’s frocks in the parade all gave a. tone to the Easter celebration that had not been seen since before the depression. While to many this might seem a superficial indication of more prosperous time, tradespeople and industrial statisticians pointed to these factors as showing that the temper of the people had turned from drabness to a more cheerful outlook as to the future. There also w r ere other indications from various sources that better times either are here or are in the making. Included in this list were such points as: Ford Motor Company: Recent survey of sales shows people want "something a little better.” * Dun <k Bradstreet, Inc.: Forecast motor car sales in 1934 at between 3.500,000 and 4 000.000 with some companies reporting earnings similar to those of the late 19205. In this connection Dow, Jones & Cos. from Detroit, said on the current base of motor car operations. March sales would equal the combined total for January and February. Federal Reserve Bank of New >

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Desperado Gave Schooldays Pal $lO for New Pair of Shoes, The Times Is Told Exclusively by Informant. DRESSED IN NEW GRAY SUIT ‘Don’t Be Afraid, I Won’t Rite You,’ Terror Mob Leader Reported to Have Said to Old Friend. BY BASIL GALLAGHER Time* Staff Writer John Dillinger. leader of the middle west's notorious “terror mob,” stopped in Maywood, an Indianapolis suburb, Monday, afternoon and with ostentatious generosity bought a pair of new shoes for a “down and out” friend. The recipient of the gift from the desperado, who is being hunted by law enforcement agencies throughout the country, is known to be a life-long acquaintance of the gangster. In proof of his story he stated that linemen for two local utilities were nearby when Dillinger proffered him $lO “to buy yourself some new shoes.” The Times informant asked that his identity be kept secret, lie said that he was sure that Dillinger was not in Indianapolis today, but positively asserted that the notorious desperado .had been here frequently since his escape from Crown Point jail with a wooden pistol.

PROGRAM FOR RELIEF READY Governor's Commission to Have Charge: Weekly Hours Limited. Succeeding the CWA relief program in Indiana, the federal emergency relief administration today announced a work program in Indiana under the direction of the Governor's commission on unemployment relief. The works division of the organization has inaugurated a cash-work-relief program in which applicants for relief must be recommended by the county case work supervisor. Wage rates will be. those prevailing for the various trades in this locality, which will be determined by the local wage committee. A maximum week of twenty-four hours will be permitted under the I program. In Marion county dur- j ing April a standard week of I eighteen hours will be the rule . pending investigation of CWA employes transferred to FERA. Employes will work varying hours after May 1, depending upon budgetary needs. Investigations will be . complete by that time, it was an- ! nounced. The local program is under Leo M. Rappaport, Marion county district chairman; H. M. Dirks, work division director; Mrs. Helene Smith, case work supervisor, and D. Dietzenberger. employment director.

York: "Volume of industrial activity increased in February for tire third consecutive month and there was considerable growth in factory employment and pay rolls." The bank also reviewed building contracts for the first three weeks of March and reported: “Asa result contracts for this part of March were nearly 50 per cent larger than for the whole of February and the average daily amount was above the January level." John D. Rockefeller Jr.: "I am optimistic. What else can one be?" Jese H. Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. announced business was improving generally, and based his opinion on tie fact that RFC expenditures ioi 1934 are more than $500,000,000 under the estimates. Henry G. Simonds. assistant treasurer of Pacific Mills of Lawrence. Mass., said: "The business outlook for the woolen industry is really anybody's guess. Although business is 100 per cent better than a year ago, it is not a fair comparison due to the disturbed conditions then prevalent.” Salaries—Thousands of industrial j workers gained additional pay through wage increases announced by numerous corporations, including the steel industry, the motor car industry and scattered enterprises. Railroad Equipment—Railway Age records show: Freight car order? in 1934 are 20.397 as against 14.533 in the threeyear period, 1931-33. and 46.000 in the entire year of 1930; passenger cars, 227 so far this year, against 56 in the three years. Period, 1931-33, locomotive*. 20 so i far this year, against 44 last year.

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“Dillinger may have been here,” sairl Chief Mike Morrisey, “I am not in a position to verify The Times' information at this time.” It. cheeks to some extent with information received bv Ihe local polire Sunday that a man purported to he Diliingpr was sppn driving through Lafayette at 2 p. m. Sundav aftprnoon headed for Indianapolis." Chief Morrissey also recalled that Dillinger is known In have a marriPd sister living m Maywood whom the gangster frequently visited during his sorties with Harry Pierpont and other members of the "terror mob” while the escaped convicts were at large last fall. Thp purported meeting with hi* < old school friend was reported to have taken place in front of Dodd * general merchandise store in Maywood Monday afternoon. "There Was .Johnny" "I was walking past the store." related Thp Times informant, “when a voice from a car hailed me as 'Smggleheimer,' a nick name I had when I went, to school with Johnny. I looked around and there seated in anew Chevrolet, roupe was Johnny. He was hatless and dressed in anew gray suit. He laughed when I appeared to be frightened. “I'm not going to bite you,” he said. “I walked over and talked to him for about fifteen minutes. Twenty feet away from us three r four linemen were working on - pole. They saw us. but must not have recognized Dillinger. “Johnny told me that T w-as looking pretty seedy and said I should have gone with him whpn he asked me to join him after he was released on parole summer before last from thp Michigan City prison. "Von Need New Shoes" "You nperi new shoes. Sniggieheimer.'’ Johnny said. ‘ Here, take this ten bucks and buy yourself some. I'll see you before I leave town. And with that he drove off waving his hand.” The Times found three linemen from the Indianapolis Powpr and Light Companv who admitted they had bepn working in front of the Dodd store on the afternoon that Dillinger is reported to have therp. Two of the linesmen. Lonnie Johnson and Posroe Hamilton, said that they wpre in front of the store at time of thp supposed gift having been made by Dillinger to his acquaintance. but. said they had not noticed the ear described. They =aid that a number of people were in front of the store and the street was crowded. An employe for thp telephone company reported that a linesman for the concern had heard of Dillinger 's presence in Mavwood Monday and of the $lO gift. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 65 10 a. m 74 7a. m 65 11 a. m 73 Ba. m 69 12 <noon>.. 70 9 a. m 70 l p. m 71

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