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‘TEA TIME’ DATES OF INDIANA PRISON

TRUSTIES REVEALED

Prisoners Walk Away to Join Girl Friends in ‘Revelry,’ Is Claim. GAMBLING ALSO BARED Doomed Man Bets Himself on Horse Races, and ‘Loses’ $6.45. “Tea time” romance and daily gambling on horse races and baseball games are indulged in by trusty inmates of the Indiana state prison, it was revealed this afternoon. Revelations of the pastimes of the trusted prisoners were made in a report presented Governor Paul V. McNutt by Wayne Coy, secretary in charge of penal affairs, after the latter had probed the walkaway escape of two trusties last week. The prisoners, Charles Irvin and Willard Butler, Negroes, were returned to the state prison. Saturday after their capture here, where they had spent an extended vacation after leaving the prison grounds. From the content of Mr. Coy's report it appears that certain trusties, following an old custom.'' have engaged in matinee romances between 3 and 5 in the afternoon, when at the completion of their work they have met women friends. These women, according to 'he specific cases of Butler and Irvin, took them to their homes in Michigan City cf to the home of friends where they participated in afternoon revelry. McNutt Makes No Comment Governor McNutt made no comment on the report but was studying it this afternoon. The report was released to newspaper men after it was prepared for Governor McNutt. Mr. Coy informed the Governor that the ‘ inmates seek every opportunity to gamble with one another. They bet money if they have it (very few have it) or any item of value which they have to buy, such as soap 'other than prison soap), tooth paste, tooth brushes, tobacco (even the tobacco issued by the prison). They bet on the outcome of the league baseball games and the races.” Excerpt Is Given Mr. Coy said he found no instances in which the inmates were able to place bets with outsiders on the outcome of sporting events, but • practically'’ every day, articles are confiscated by guards because of the betting activities. An excerpt from Mr. Coy’s report on the matinee turnout at the prison follows: "The men employed In toe residences of the officials evidently have some leisure time outside the walls. The work following the noonday ; meal is completed about 3 p. m., the ■ time depending on the number of \people for whom they prepared When they completed this work and father work in the residences. 1 “They have the time to themselves tmtil time to prepare the evening lineal. During this time it has been the custom of the prison over a period of years to give these men the freedom of the yard. This custom enabled Butler and Irvin to meet w’ith their women friends of Michigan City. Left Without Permission “From them I learned they had been doing this for a period of seven or eight years. Butler stated that he was able to meet his women companions once or twice a week. Irvin stated he met his friend about every eight or ten days. “To meet the women, Irvin and Butler left the prison yard without the permission of any prison official. Never at any time have they had permission to leave the grounds of the prison. They were able to walk away from the yard because the prison yard is not patrolled except on special occasions when men. not trusties, would be permitted out from the inside of the prison to do special work in the yard or in the residences of officials. “Irvin and Butler told me they would leave the yard and meet their women friends several blocks away from the institution and go with them to their homes in Michigan City and to the homes of their friends. Almost all of the meetings between Irvin and Butler and their women friends occurred in the afternoon, between 3 and 5. Doomed Man Bets Himself “Occasionally meetings occurred, however, after the supper hour, when they would complete their work.” In questioning Irvin I learned that the Berry woman with whom he had been keeping company for the last several years had a baby late in 1928 or early 1929.” Prison betting. Mr. Coy discovered, does not require more than one person. He said he obtained information that a man. condemned to die in the electric chair several years ago, wiled away his time by placing bets with himself on the horse races. According to Mr. Coy, the prisoner posted his bets on the wall of the cell, keeping a daily record on howmuch he would have won or lost if he would have been out of the prison and had been able to collect at th# "bookie” office odds. Mr. Coy's report says: “According to stories, he was 440.000 ahead at one time, but that was early in the game. Shortly before hi* execution he was 1645 behind the books.”

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LABOR EXPERT REPORTED HERE Donahue Said to Be Making Secret Investigation at Real Silk. P. A. Donahue, federal expert on labor troubles, was reported to be in Indianapolis today making a secret investigation of the strike troubles at the Real Silk hosiery mills, before reporting to the regional labor board or the company officials. Advices from Washington to The Times stated that Mr. Donahue left the capital Saturday night with the announced intention of going directly to Indianapolis. Labor officials said that Mr. Donahue personally would inspect the local situation before announcing his arrival. Mr. Donahue represents both the national labor board and Miss Frances Perkins, secretary of labor. He will attempt to bring the strikers, company officials and leaders of the Employes Mutual Benefit Association. the company union, together on some basis for conciliation. Following the announcement S urday of Mr. Donahue’s anr' plan to visit Indianapolis for purpose of conciliating the la rr trouble. Real Silk officials stormed into police headquarters, demanding better police protection of Chief Mike Morrissey. Little disorder w’as reported over the week-end. Halted with his arm in the air. Vergil Padgett, 18. of 4507 East Tenth street, a striker, was arrested today by police at East and Michigan streets. Police claim that the uplifted hand clutched a brick W’hich Padgett was preparing to heave into the side of a bus containing Real Silk workers. Padgett was charged with vagrancy and disorderly conduct.

HOPKINS TO TALK AT RELIEF PARLEY HERE Federal Chief to Address Midwestern Session. Harry L. Hopkins, federal emergency relief administrator. will speak at the rural rehabilitation conference for midwestern states to be held here Friday. The conference originally was scheduled to be held in Cincinnati and later at Knoxville. Purpose of the meetings will be to discuss with state relief directors and their advisers what has been done in carrying out the plan of rural rehabilitation, as announced last month, to learn what steps are in progress and. in general, to get the program in more concrete form. Mr. Hopkins announced. Representatives from Indiana. Ohio. Michigan. Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Wisconsin. Minesota, lowa. Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and North and South Dakota will be present. The one-day conference will be held at the Indiana relief commission headquarters. 217 North Senate avenue, starting at 10:30 a. m. INSULL SHIP BETWEEN AZORES AND NEW YORK Magnate, in Good Spirits. Listens to 11.l 1 . S. Radio Programs. By United Pr< a* ABOARD SS EXILONA. AT SEA. April 30.—1n touch with wireless stations at Boston and New York, the Exilona steamed between the Azores and New York on the southern Atlantic route today, carrying Samuel Insull to trial on fraud charges. Insull. maintaining his good spirits, listened all Sunday evening to music from the United States,

Birth of ‘Test Tube’ Twins Reveals 13 Similar Babies inN. Y.

Hu l nitrtl Prena NEW YORK April 30—The birth of twins via the test tube method was announced this afternoon by a Long Island martied couple and led to the disclosure that thirteen such *laboraion- babies” are t living in New York City. Two of the children are "eugenic” babies of prominent unmarried business women. & "growing practice” toward

The Indianapolis Times Fair and slightly warmer tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness, becoming unsettled by night.

‘Wreck of the Old 97’ The Boys, Fortified With Mountain Dew, Do Their Stuff at the Throttle.

“Casey Jones was the rounder's name, On a ‘6B wheeler’ he won his fame, He mounted to the cabin with the orders in his hand And he took a farewell trip to that promised land.” THE whistle of old “6505” gave a protesting shriek and Tim Welch. 28. of 435 Shelby street, and John Hayes, 35, of 1226 English avenue, began their short-lived railroad careers as dawn broke over an ashpit yesterday down near the roundhouse of the Big Four. The amateur railroaders, according to the police, were well fortified by what in old Kentucky is known as “mountain dew.” Without any previous training, they managed to get the locomotive started. Down the tracks she came with the two merry makers singing “Casey Jones’’ and other ballads appropriate to the occasion. “You could hear the roar of the big six-wheel As the drivers pounded the polished steel. And the screech of the flanges on the rail As she beat it west o’er the desert trail.” The engine gathered speed and the cooling winds of early morning beat refreshingly against the fevered brows of Tim and John. Near Shelby street, the engine reached top speed, her pistons pounding a loud tattoo. “As she hove in sight far up the track. She was working steam with the brake shoes slack, Whistling once at the whistling post, She flittered by like a frightened ghost.” Hayes looked at Welch and Welch looked*at Hayes. They grinned broadly. “Some fun—eh?” The boys now were taking turns at the throttle. Who said they couldn’t run a locomotive? Give her the gun, Tim! The steel monster roared past Olive street. “Far off in the west through the moonlight night. He saw the gleam of a big headlight; An east-bound stock run hummed the rail, It was due at the switch to clear the mail.” A look of horror crossed Tim’s face. John quit singing “The Wreck of the Monon.” There was a splintering crash as the locomotive crossed Leota street and smacked into a freight car which was on the tracks. But the special deity -which protects drunks and plain “dern fools” had not deserted Tim and John. They landed quite comfortably beside the tracks practically unscratched. Railroad detectives took them into custody and carried them off to police headquarters where they were charged with drunkenness and vehicle taking. “Tim knows the whirr of the rolling w r heels, And their click on the time-worn joints; His ear is attuned to the snap and snarl Os the train, at the rickety points.”

U. S. Drive on Bootleg Trade to Start May 10

BEER-DRINKING MATE LEADS WIFE TO END LIFE, POLICE CHARGE

Asa protest against her husband drinking beer, according to police reports. Mrs. Anna May Falietz. 19, of 756 Arn<V.da street, ended her life Saturday night by drinking poison. Her husband, Louis Falietz, told police that his wife then crawled in bed with her 14-months-old baby. Dr. Wililam E. Arbuckle, coroner, investigated. TWO MYSTERIOUSLY SLAIN IN CINCINNATI One of Victims Identified as Robber Suspect. By United Prraa CINCINNATI. April 30.—One of two men slain under mysterious circumstances here yesterday was identified this afternoon as Dan O'Leary. alias Robert Slattery, Pittsburgh. He was wanted in Toledo and Cincinnati for robberies. The other slain man, known only as “Pat,” has not been identified. Both died en route to the hospital from the liome of Louis Koester, where the shooting is alleged to have occurred. Koester said he knew nothing of the shooting. He was in another room, heard five shots fired, and rushed out into the hallway to find the men lying wounded, he said. GAME FISHING SEASON ENDS UNTIL JUNE 16 Trout Only Exception to Rule Effective in Breeding Period. Today's the day for Indiana fishermen to put up their rods until June 16. when the open season on game fish begins. The period, from April 30 to June 16. is designed as a protection of game fish during the breeding season. The closed season on game fish covers large and small mouth black bass, silver bass, bluegills, crappies. rock bass, red-eared sunfish. yellow or ring perch, pike perch, pike and pickerel. Hoosier anglers are permitted during the closed season on game fish to try their luck on trout. The open season on trout extends from April 1 to Aug. 31. with a limit of twenty, none of which may be less than seven inches. William C. Procter 111 By United Preaa CINCINNATI. April 30—William Cooper Procter. 72, chairman of the board of the Procter & Gamble Company, is critically ill with pneumonia at Holmes hospital. Dr. Frank Conroy said today.

artificial impregnation was reported by Dr. Frances Sevmoure, a specialist, who expressed surprise that Mr. and Mrs. Salvatore Laurecella. of Lawrence. L. 1., childless for eight years, had made known birth of their laboratory twins. "Usually.’’ she said, “the parents do not want any publicity.” Dr. Seymoure said she had succeeded moving thirteen women

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1934

Promises of Rigid Liquor Regulation Is Made by Treasury. By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON. April 30. Revelations by Joseph H. Choate Jr., federal alcohol control administrator, that the bootleg trade has maintained its huge production rapacity since repeal, today brought promises of rigid liquor regulation by the treasury. On May 10, under the supervision of Arthur J. Mallott, deputy commissioner of internal revenue, anew unit of alcohol regulation will begin to function, combining under one head the remnants of the department of justice prohibition enforcement squad and the regular field operatives of the treasury's industrial alcohol division. At that time 2.000 treasury agents, operating throughout the nation, will start a determined drive to eliminate the bootleg business which Director Choate declares will offer and sell more liquor during 1934 than can be produced in the legal distilleries. Treasury officials offer no alibi for their efforts since repeal to force legal manufacture of alcohol. They say that immediately following the death of the eighteenth amendment federal enforcement agencies were demoralized through a split in authority between their department and the department of justice. In the latter division the enforcement personnel was reduced from 3.000 to 1,000 men with very little power to operate. In the treasury the staff of field men assigned to the bureau of industrial alcohol was under 500. This confusion existed until March 10. when President Roosevelt, by executive order, placed all power under the treasury. Again difficulties arose as the treasury sought to employ desirable operatives from civil service eligible lists. Finally an agreement was reached whereby wo :ers were transferred from depi ment of justice rolls and the fi 'force increased to 700 men. ■easurv officials say the new div n under Deputy Mallott. to op- ( e successfully must have the co- ? ation of state and local authority . $17,000 LOOT SEIZED BY BOSTON BANDITS Pair Flees With Weekly Pay Roll of Sears, Roebuck Company. By United Press BOSTON. April 30.—Two bandits escaped with nearly $17,000 in cash and checks in a holdup at Sears, Roebuck & Cos. in the Back Bay at noon today. The holdup was believed to involve a weekly pay roll. The gunmen held up a special policeman and presumably a paymaster. seized $14,064 in cash and $2,860 in checks, and fled. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 52 10 a. m 65 7a. m 54 11 a. m 66 8 a. m 58 12 (noon).. 68 9a. m 62 Ip. m 69

test-tube babies in the last two years. She used two types of laboratory impregnation. In one form, an anonymous man known only to the physician becomes the father of the eugenic baby. The mother never sees the father. "The two mothers are both prominent business women,” she said. "They wanted babies, but weren't married. They felt they had a right to have^hildren.”

4 DILUNGER MOBSTERS, LED BY HAMILTON, DISARM POUCE SQUAD, ESCAPE AFTER SLUGGING OFFICER

HMPED CRI KILLED, FEAR OF SEARCHERS Federal Agents Take Full Charge of Case: $15,000 Ransom Ready. By United Presa TUCSON, Ariz.. April 30. The federal government assumed entire charge of the search for June Robles, 6, kidnaped heiress, today, as fear grew that the child had been killed by a madman. * Local authorities surrendered the case to Joseph Dunn, Los Angeles, chief department of justice agent. It was agreed to halt all police activity in a final hope the child’s abductors might negotiate with her frantic family. June was kidnaped late Wednesday by a dark man in a green automobile as she returned home from school. A ray of hope that the child still was alive came with the secret departure of her wealthy grandfather, Bernable Robles, for Santa Ana. Sonora. His trip became known when he arrived at Nogales and crossed the border with two friends, Henry Dalton, Tucson alderman, and another believed to be A1 Aguirre, business associate. Many Believe Girl Dead A slight stir was caused here when the party failed to return today, but Mr. Robles’ wife was not apprehensive. She said her husband told her that he might remain all night in Sonora. Friends said he went to Santa Ana to consult a seer, believing the clairvoyant would be able to inform j -of hrs, granddaughter's whereabouts. The seer is said to be held in high respect by his Mexican followers. The elder Robles is a native of Sonora, a member of a family belonging to the old Spanish grandees. Despite activity of the federal agents and the truce called by local police, many officials were convinced June was dead. Among these was Governor B. B. Moeur. who came here to extend his sympathies to the girl's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fernando Robles. Governor Moeur believed she had been abducted by a demented man. $15,000 Is Withdrawn \ The family was prepared to meet any demand in exchange for June's release. The elder Robles has withdrawn $15,000 from the bank in denominations of twenty, ten and five dollar bills as stipulated in the Original ransom note, it was learned. With the exception of last night, he had followed out the note’s instructions to drive each night after 9 p. m. along a designated highway until he saw a white string stretched across the road. But on each drive, he found no such string and returned home, more dispirited than ever. Dunn was insistent that all police activity cease to allow the kidnapers a wider range of freedom to negotiate their original $15.j00 ransom demands. FIVE DIE IN BLAST IN BRITISH COAL MINE 300 Men in shaft. But All Others Escape Safely. By United Press LEIGH. England, April 30— Five men were killed today by an explosion at Bickershaw coal pit No. 3, caused by ignition of a gas pocket. Three hundred men were in he mine, but the others all escaped. Times Index Page Bridge 7 Broun 5 Classified 11,12 Comics 13 Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious World 13 Editorial 4 Financial 8 Gardening 14 Hickman, Theaters 7 ; Hobby 6 Indiana and New Deal 5 Masonic History 3 Pegler 5 Radio 11 Sports 10,11 State News 2 Stavisky, a Series 3 Vital Statistics 11 Woman’s Pages 6,7

Dr. Seymoure said the fathers were picked from a list of blood donors which are on file at all hospitals arid received from SIOO to $l5O for their services. “In the two cases in my practice,” she said, “I picked men who were plainly in the best of health. Then I had special blood tests made. Then I insisted that the donor remain confined in the ho - .pit&ljuntil the artificial msemina-

FIST FIGHT BETWEEN GABLE AND ROLAND AVERTED BY FRIENDS

HOLLYWOOD. Cal., April 30 A fight that might have been one of the best in Hollywood's history of famed one-rounders was averted when friends separated Cark Gable and Gibert Roland just when they had reached the coat-jerking stage in a verbal exchange involving Constance Bennett, it was learned this afternoon. The three were attending a party at Samuel Goldwyn’s home early yesterday when the "fight-that-might-have-been” occurred. Gable was chatting with Miss Bennett and Roland, Miss Bennett's escort, was seated nearby playing bridge. Friends professed ignorance as to the drift of Gable’s conversation, but he was interrupted by an angry Roland. “You quit picking on her and pick on me,” he challenged. Gable accepted the challenge and was ready to swing when friends intervened, it was said.

’BOSS' ADMITS ALUS REPORT McLaughlin Confesses Part in Bremen Case, Say Agents. By United Press CHICAGO. April 30.—John J. (Boss) McLaughlin, reputed Chicago gambling lord and former state legislator, this afternoon confessed to handling $53,000 of the ransom money paid for release of Edward G. Bremer, wealthy St. Paul banker, the department of justice announced. McLaughlin’s son, arrested Saturday at a grain broker's office in the Ix/Op where he was employed as a messenger boy, had SBS of the ransom money on his person when seized by government agents, it was announced. Melvin H. Purvis, chief of the department of investigation here, told newspapermen that McLaughlin made a detailed confession stating that he knew the money was “hot” and had come from the Bremer abduction.

FEDERAL JURY MEETS, MAY HEAR NRA CASE Ten Other Routine Cases Scheduled for Inquisitors. Members of the federal grand jury convened today for consideration of about ten cases. All cases on the docket are routine matters, except for one alleged NRA violation case which may be presented. It would- be the first of its kind considered by the grand jury. The jury will make its report late today and criminal arraignments are scheduled before Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell Thursday morning. FARMERS TRUSTWILL PAY SBO,OOO DIVIDENDS Court Approves Distribution for Firm in Receivership. Payment of approximately SBO,OOO dividends of the Farmers Trust Company, now in receivership, was authorized today by Superior Judge Clarence E. Weir. This amount represents 12' 2 per cent of dividends due depositors. Os this amount, $36,000 representing dividends to stockholders, temporarily will be held up pending a hearing Wednesday before Judge Weir. Boyd M. Ralston is receiver. Y’eggs Get $l5O Loot Yeggs entered the Commercial Printing Company, 307 East Market street, last night, broke open the safe and stole $l5O.

Love Letters of Dickens to Be Published in Times

Tender atui inspiring are the love letters of Charles Dickens to his lifelong sweetheart. Maria Beadnell. which will be published exclusively in The Times, beginning Wednesday. Throughout all history there have been loves so stirring that they have brought echoes in the hearts of all—Dante and Beatrice, Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd, George Bernard Shaw and Ellen Terry.

tion was completed. Sometimes the first attempt at insemination is not successful. It is. therefore, very necessary to keep the male donors under strict watch until the experiment is successful.” The physician added that neither of the two mothers ever had expressed any desire to know anything more about the fathers than that they were in good health and of better than leverage height.

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THREE ESCAPE OHIO’S PRISON; GUARDBLAMED Long-Term Convicts Break Way Out of Penitentiary at Columbus. By United Press COLUMBUS, 0., April 30.—Warden Preston E. Thomas today blamed a “crooked guard” for the daring escape of three long-term prisoners yesterday afternoon from the Ohio penitentiary. Officers combed the state for the three convicts who, armed with a .45 automatic revolver, held up two guards, forced fourteen other prisoners into a power plant ash pit, compelled a guard to help them carry a ladder to the northwest prison wall, where they dropped to the street, commandeered an automobile and fled. The escaped prisoners are: Arthur R. Koontz, 40, sentenced to three to twenty years for automobile stealing; Rufus Deeds, 39, sentenced to ten to twenty-five years for robbery, and Martin Schmidt, sentenced to twenty .years to life for bank robbery. All three have been admitted within the last ten years. It was the first prison break at the Ohio penitentiary in four years and followed closely on additional precautions taken by the warden to prevent any attempt to liberate the three Dillinger gangsters detained here Cor the murder of Sheriff Jesse Sarber at Lima, O. Two of them are awaiting execution. Blames ‘Crooked Guard’ “This wouldn’t have happened,” the warden said, “if this crooked guard had not smuggled in a revolver to the three convicts.” He refused to reveal the name of the guard whom he suspects of having supplied the escaped prisoners with the revolver. The three convicts were working with a detail of prisoners hauling and weighing coal and firing the boilers in the prison power plant. As the time approached for them to be locked in their cells, they herded the other prisoners into the ash pits, locked Edward L. Briggs, civilian engineer, in an ice house, and forced Guard J. M. Johnson to carry a ladder for them to the northwest corner of the prison yard. On their way, they cut the telephone lines leading from the guard towers on that section of the wall. Flee in Two Cars Cowed by the revolver, Johnson escorted the convicts to a corner tower. He was forced to tell guard Frank Alkire that the prisoners had come to hang an arc light. Before Alkire became aware of the prison break attempt, Koontz pressed the revolver against his side. The other two convicts immediately took possession of Alkire's revolver, rifle, sawed-off shotgun and tear-gas gun. With the ladder and a cable, the convicts slid to the ground outside the wall. They took possession of a Ford sedan, parked on the street, and a few minutes later commandeered a new Chevrolet coupe, forcing the occupants out. They fled in both cars. EX-LEADER OF STATE DRY PARTY IS DEAD Dr. Homer J. Hall, 82, Veteran Franklin Physician, Passes. By United Press FRANKLIN, Ind.. April 30. Dr. Homer J. Hall. 82. former chairman of the Indiana Prohibition party, and for forty years a physician in Johnson county, died at his home here yesterday. He was an active worker in the Disciples of Christ church and founded the American temperance board of the Christian church.

Through the publication of these letters, Dickens and Marie Beadnell enter the lists of the immortals. As with the others, Dickeas never married Marie Beadnell. But her personality wove in and out of Dickens' works, as his ideal of womanhood. More than love letters, these epistles are sincere commentaries upon life. G-oping deep into his own mind and heart for expression, Dickeas gave to Maria Beadnell his spontaneous reflections and philosophy. BLUFFTON MAYOR"DEAD City executive, 52, SuccOmbs After Short Illness. By Initui Prt . BLUFFTON. Ind., April 30.Mayor John W. Kelley, 52. died here r oday after a week’s illness. A member of the city council will assume the mayorship for the remainder of Mr. Kelley’s term, which expires at the end of the present year. *

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Nelson, Van Meter and Fox Also in Gang Seen Near Chicago. DILLINGER NOT IN AUTO Federal Agents Unable to Find New Hideout of Outlaw. By United Presa CHICAGO, April 30. John Dillinper and his guerilla outlaws—the lives and bloody careers measured by the aim of their guns—today spread new terror across the middle west where thirteen lay dead in the wake of their ; swashbuckling forays. Uncle Sam. regimenting every resource to end the Hoosier desperado's grim mockery of one of the greatest man hunts in history, wrote down two more major depredations to the account of his henchmen. They were: 1. The kidnaping of Edward O. Bremer. St. Paul banker, for $200,000 ransom. 2. The disarming of a suburban police squad near Chicago and the slsgging of a policeman in typical Dillinger fashion. The department of justice announced that three Oklahoma criminals who have aligned themselves with Dillinger are being hunted for the actual kidnaping of Mr. Bremer. Five men, including John J. )Boss> McLaughlin, reputed Chicago gambling lord and one-time legislator, were held incommunicado here for the abduction. Carry Submachine Guns The appearance of Dillinger's killers in the Chicago territory almost added another life to the tell of thirteen when policeman Harr; Wayland was slugged in Belwood. t suburb, early today by four met carrying submachine guns. The gangsters were identified as John (Three-Fingered) Hamilton, grinning lieutenant of the gang; Homer Van Meter, George (Baby Face) Nelson and Joseph Fox. Dillinger was not among the four who fled after stripping the Brilwood police of their guns and for the first time in weeks authorities were without a fresh clue to the hiding spot of the man whose name strikes fear in the hearts of millions. Wayland was knocked unconscious when he attempted to draw a pistol and the other two police were forced to give up their guns and walk away from the bandits' car with hands in the air. The encounter occurred in the gasoline filling station of Harry Nieman in Bellwood. The police cruiser car had been parked near an intersection of country roads. The gunmen's automobile drove through a red light at high speed and the police pursued them with siren sounding. The outlaws accelerated their automobile and opened a wide gap between the cars. At Nieman’s station the gunmen stopped ; gasoline. ‘Ten Gallons, Quick' “Ten gallons, quick ” a gunmJ. identified as Hamilton ordered. Thi; . man stepped out ol the automob'll I to watch the road over which th 1 police were coming. Another gang ster, believed to be Nelson, left th automobile. The man identified • Van Meter remained at the whet Before Nirman could finish his task, the police automobile drove into the station driveway with siren still sounding. Hamilton dodged br.ck into the front seat of his automobile and picked up a machine gun. Nieman dropped the gasoline hose and ducked into the station, where he threw himself on the floor. Wayland descended from the police automobile and was followed closely by Policemen Gus Nence and Hagmeister. As the policeme i approached the bandits’ automobile Hamilton thrust the machine gun at them and demanded that they raise their hands. Under the menace of the weapon, all three police held their hands aloft. Hamilton was cursing and the other gangsters moved forward to surround the policemen. Nelson carried a machine gun and the other two had pistols. Disarm All Officers Suddenly Wayland reached for his pistol. Hamilton, who was within four feet of him, but whose gun was not pointed at the policeman, lunged and swung the gun. The weapon struck Wayland on the side of the head and he fell. The gangsters then disarmed all of th policemen and started a procession down the road, with two of the police walking with their hands in the air. After several hundred fee' the police were forced to walk inty field and were warned to y walking. # When the police returned to station the bandits were gone. Wayland still was unconscious and Nieman still was inside his station. The bandits had received only four gallons of gasoline. Wayland recovered consciousness at a hospital. Motor tuned up. Carburetor adjusted. See Carburetor Sales, 214 E. Ohio. J -Adv. ■