Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1937 — Page 19
- G-MEN KILL BRADY
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CAPTURE DALHOVER, IN MAINE
HUNDREDS SEE FEDERAL AGENT ~ SHOT IN BATTLE
o0 w0T SLASH MILK ST, 15 PLEA
Fritz Tells Control Board Rate at Dairies Should Be 10 Cents a Quart.
STORES ASK STATE AID
Labor Division to Attempt Furniture Conciliation, Hutson Says.
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BULLETIN Frank Buckshot, independent milk distributor, who said he represented a group o” independents, told the State Milk Control Board this afternoon that if it did not “end the lockout of consumers from nonstruck Indianapolis dairies, I wiil ask Federal intervention.”
MILK SITUATION — State Milk Control Board asked to order:-de-liveries hv nonstruck dairies or reduce consumer price at plants to 10 cents a quart. Union-dis-tributor parleyvs fail FURNITURE STRIKE—State Lahor Department to attempt conciliation. Commissioner Thomas R. Hutson savs, Foon DRIVERS DISPUTE—Tomorrow afternoon set as deadline for counter proposal te union de Conference with Laher scheduled for Thurs-
mands, Depa riment dav. BYU CH Beech
STRIKE— Grove Civic League apponts committee to investigate sirike. Two hundred attend mass meeting. GREYHOUND BUS DISPUTE—Na-tion-wide strike of drivers originally called for tomorrow—postponed indefinitely.
GROVE BUN
Union leaders this afternoon asked the State Milk Control Board either to end what they called a “lockout of consumers” by 21 nonstruck dairies. or to reduce to 10 cents a quart the price consumers must pay at the dairies. The tieup is now in its fifth dav.
Adolph Fritz, State Federation of Labor secretary, told the Board that at-the-dairy prices now are 11 and 12 cents. Eleven cents, he said, Was <ct bv the Board recently as the over-the-counter store price, and 12 cents the home-delivered price, Inasmuch as dairies are hauling neither to the stores nor the homes. the prices should be reduced to 10 cents,” he said. The Board remained after the union leaders left, and said it would consider this afternoon its power in the present milk tieup and the strikes. All conciliatory conferences be- | tween owners and the union have failed so far, deadlocked over the union's closed shop demand. Mr. Fritz’ type\vritten statemen: to the board follows: “Refusal on part of the dairies which are not on strike to delive: milk on their regular routes to their customers has brought about a very | peculiar situation. : “Pirst of all, the Milk Control Board of Marion County has established a minimum price of .12 cents | a quart for milk which we believe to (Turn to Page 17)
MOVE FOR REVISION | OF TAXES DRAFTED
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in session
(Radio Details, Page
WASHINGTON. Oct. 12 (U. P) Chauman Doughton of the House Wavs and Means Committee con- | ferred with President Roosevelt todav on plans to submit a general tax | revision program to the regular session of Congress meeting in January. Rep. Doughton and Rep. Vinson (L. Ky.), tax specialist of the Ways and Means Committee, met with Mr. | Roosevelt as the President com- | pleted the address he will present to the nation in a ‘fireside chat” to- | night at 8'30 p. m. (Indianapolis | Time) over the major radio networks. Rep. Doughton expressed “fervent hope” that no additional or new | taxes would be necessary next year. He said the new tax program will consist chiefly of adjustments and revisions of the existing tax structure. Rep. O'Connor (D. N. Y), chairman of the House Rules Committee, said todav after a conference with President Roosevelt that “I am still, plaving my hunch” that there will | be a special session of Congress in November,
THE COMPLETE LIFE STORY OF
| Yoans
| effect
| Crops were sent
U.S. Corn Loan Plan Dratted To Lift Prices
(Radio Details, Page 25)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (U. P).— Farm administration officials rushed plans today for bolstering saoging markets with a Federal corn
loan program
The estimate of a 1937 corn crop of 2.561,936.000 bushels, largest since 1932, spurred plans for a loan program, preliminary plans for which already have been worked out, it
was learned authoritatively. In some corn states, notably lowa, state boards to handle the expected have been set up.
L. Curran, has appointed 95 county warehouse boards to “supervise Federai corn loans.” Federal Commodity Corp. officials met last week in Chicago with regional officials of the Department of Agriculture to discuss loan plans “to be ready to put into immediate any program announced.” Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace declined to comment on plans for a corn loan, but officials recalled his statement recently that “a decision on corn loans will be made when the crop is ready for market.” Department of Agriculture reports showing a corn crop of 1.000.000.000 bushels in excess of last year, the second largest cotton erop in history, a wheat crop of 886.895.000 bushels. largest since 1931, and other bumper to the White House.
BRITISH, SOVIET
CARS ATTACKED
Japanese Planes Blamed in Raid Near Shanghai on Embassy Autos.
SHANGHATI—Three British Embassy motor cars and a Soviet consulate car fired on by airplane alleged to be Japanese; American Ambassador allots $100,000 Red Cross funds for relief of Chinese sufferers; battle for Shanghai reaches peak of fury with “big push” stili to come.
NANKING—Most spectacular air battle of war takes place; Japanese planes raid city twice; one shot down.
(Editorial. Page 16)
SHANGHAI Oct. 12 UU. PDH. ~ Three motor cars earrving attaches of the British Embassy and a Soviet Consulate car were attacked and machine-gunned by airplanes todav on the Naning-Shanghai road. Less than six weeks ago, the British Ambassador was shot and gravely wounded on the same road. The Soviet Consulate announced that a Japanese plane turned a machine gun on a consulate car which
went out to pick vp Leonid Shahov, (Turn to Page Five)
THE BALTIMORE ARSENAL . . . .
Detective Mereditk Stewart,
Iowa's | | Secretary of Agriculture, Dr. Thom- |
U.S. CONSULIN SYRIA 1S SLAW BY ARMENIAN
J. Theodore Marriner Victim: Assassin Is Held on Murder Charge.
FIRED FROM DOORWAY
expected to be an- | nounced within the next two weeks. |
Refusal of Office to Grant Visa Believed Motive For Crime.
BEIRUT, Syria. Oct. 12 (U. P).— J. Theodore Marriner, Amerizan Consul General and a brilliant member of the United States Diplomatic assassinated today by an Armenian to whom the Consulate General had refused a passport. The assassin murder under man, Mr, Marriner was driving in his au.o through a narrow crooked street of the ancient city when the Armenian fired from a doorway with a revolver. Mr. Marriner, who was 45. died almost instantly. His chauffeur. leaping car, caught the assassin
Service, was
with rat-
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was his surname,
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Sought Visa for Visit
It was learned that for more than six weeks the Armenian had b2en trying to get a visa to visit the United States, Attaches of the Consulate General refused it—perhaps because of suspicion of his family history of insanity. Mr. Marriner was not personally responsible for ‘the refusal. But ‘he | Armenian, embittered fixed his rage
on him and lay in wait to kill him. |
Police emphasized that the attack
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Al Brady
STATE TO BRING DALHOVER HERE Say Grandparents Sadly
Captured Gangster Accused
Of Minneman Murder
By Police.
was one of an embittered individual |
on another individual, and was not the result of any anti-Americanism.
Rise in Diplomatic Service Was Rapid
The shot that Killed M Marringer removed a man of great popularity whose rise in the diplematic service was steady and rapid. He was known both in diplomatic and social circles of many countries as a diplomat of distinction. He was not married. He was born at Portland, Me.. May 1%, 1892. His first diplomatic post was at the legation at Stockholm as | secretary. Then he went to Bucha- | rest as secretary.
Detailed to Washington
Next, he was detailed to duty in the Western European Division of the State Department at Wasihngton frem 1923 to 1926. Thence he was sent. to Bern as secretary of the Legation. Returning to Washington, Mr Marriner headed the importani Western European Division. During the time he spent there, 1927 to 1931, he went to Paris for the signature of the Kellogg-Briand antiwar pact and again, to London, as a delegate to the 1930 London Naval Conference.
Indiana State Policeman who ‘was
with G-Men when they killed Al Brady and Clarence Lee Shaffer Jr.
today, is shown here with some recent Baltimore, Md., raid.
of the gang's arsenal found in a
James Dalhaver, Brady
ster cap.uiad in Bangor, Me. [after his two companions had deen to Indian- { apolis by plane tcmorrow, Detective informed State
killed, will b> returned | Meredith Stewart Police headquarters today. Detective Stewart was raiding party that “No. 1 gang” today. State Police claim Dalhover who killed man Paul Minneman
that State near Goodland, Ind., Dalhovel
held They
up the claim neman’'s body and that (Md. raid. was the “trigger according
| Baltimore | Dalhover of the gang, Police. Detective phoned . Capt. State Police tails of ‘the gun
Stewart. who
Walter battle,
of Investigation for several
case,
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was PoliceRoyal Center last May after the gang had bank. emptied a sawad-ofl shotgun into Officer Min- | they have the gun, recovered in a recent
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At 11142 8 Lynnhurst Drive, two elderly persons today learned what they had beeh expecting to hear for more than a year—that their 21-year old grandeon, ‘Clarence Lee Shaffer Jr, was dead.
George W, Shaffer, 70. was gather- =»
{ing wood for the fire and Shafler, washing.
30 vears.
Sally 69
Hr. Shaffer is a carpenter
was doing. the family |
They have lived there for | [arrest
“A man wants to talk to ‘us,”” Mr. |
Shaffer said, “I the boy.” They went into the shiny sitting room and sat side by side. “Yes, it's about Clarence'Lee. . “We always called him Lee, Mr. Shaffer interrupted, “We call his father Clarence.” “T came to tell you that your grandson 1s dead.” said the visitor. Mrs. Shaffer clasped her hands Neither spoke for a moment and then Mr. ShafTer said rather gently, ‘We have been expecting it.” There was another silence, the visitor asked. ‘'‘How did voung man get started with igang?” Mrs. Shaffer said: “We fknow-~none of Only that hauled coal with Charlie Geisking” i tnow in the Ohio State Penitentiary for his part in Brady crimes in Ohio.) She paused a moment, “This whole thing, all the way
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HANCOCK SHERIFF ‘GLAD’ .
“I'm sure glad of that.” said Sheriff Clarence E. Watson, shown here after the Brady mob had beaten him with an iron bar in making their escape from the Greenfield jail just ohe vear ago yesterday.
What a day that was.
it's about
along, was a heartbreak. My health
has been failing ever since the po- |
offizers came to our home 0 Lee. “He was a good boy until he got in with this gang.” | She leaned back a little in her chair, and dabbed her eyes. Then she said resolutely: | “If Lee not going to turn out any than this, then it is better he be dead than to take any lives of o her people. | “Too many peoples’ lives have been sacrificed on account of that gang... ” Mr. Shaffer broke in. “I told Lee when I went to see him in jail that if he ever got out of this scrape for God's sake to make a man of him-
lice
was better that more
| self.”
Between fhem, they told of how Lee left their home about a vear before slaving of Sergt. Richard Rivers in April last vear, and did not, come back to live with them until the day before he was arrested for the crime.
Mrs. Shaffer took from the family |
Bible a picture of Lee at 11 and asked that it be printed. She said that was when he was “the sweetest ‘bey.” The boy's father was at work today. They didn’t know just where
| He's a carpenter, too.
Lee's mother has been dead since he was a child.
Crime Career of Thr
ce Hoosiers Comes to
End in Bangor's Main Street as They
Walk Into Trap Laid by Police.
(Additional Photos and Stories, Page Three)
BANGOR, Me., Oct.
12
(U. P.).—Al Brady, the Mid-
west's current Public Enemy No. 1, and his chief lieutenant, Clarence l.ee Shaffer Jr., were killed here today in battle with G-Men and the third member of the gang, James Dale
hover, was captured.
The spectacular coup, which Federal agents said wiped
out the Indiana gang,
phere of a New England main street. clerk's tip to the police chief
18-months hunt. Two weeks ago the clerk The
him to report it to Police Chief T.
to against Federal records. A
sent to Washington
circular listing Brad
check
was engineered in the holiday atmos-
A
was credited with ending an
hardware store
sold to Brady and Shaffer a unusual size of the sale caused He, in turn, the customers’ descriptions
I. Crowley,
, Shaffer and Dalhover cama
hack and the clerk identified the first two as the customers, The clerk recalled that the customers had said they would
return “in a couple of weeks.”
TELLS HOW HE TRAPPED GANG
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Suspicious Actions Led to G-Men’s Coup, Says Store Manager.
furthe tells
Store Manager Shep Hurd, who nished the tip that brought downfall of the Brady
here his own story of the case,
about gang today,
BANGOR, Me, Oct. 12 (U.P. .—I was checking stock in my sporting eoods store on the 21st of September, when two men came in and asked quietly to see some Colt automatics, I noticed that their pockets bulged and that one man kept his hand in his coat pocket all the time. I showed them several guns and they finally bought two 45 Colt automatics, three extra clips. and a box of ammunition, which contained 50 | shells. Under the law I have to report all gun sales to the police and this time 1 also reported to Chief Crowlev what I considered the suspicious actions of these two customers. The 'Chief said he would check with | Washington. I heard nothing more about it till last Tuesday when the same twe (Turn to Page Three)
Tuesday,
THEIR ‘LAST JOB’ IN INDIANA
The Goodland State Bank (above) was robbed hy the Brady gang
last May, their last known “job” in 1 near Royal Center where the ou Policeman Paul Minneman,
ndiana. Below is the country church tlaws ambushed and killed State
On the basis of Crowlev's report, 17 Federal agents | were sent here and had been in Bangor the past four days, Indiana authorities were nolified, They dispatched a state police officer who would be able to identify | the desperadoes This imposing arrav of officers were concealed in and around Dakins sporting goods store when the gangsters’ sedan, bearing Ohio license plates, was driven up and parked shortly before 8 a. m. (Indianapolis Time). Gangsters Begin Firing Dalhover entered the store first and was greeted by Federal agents, [| “Where are your partners?’ an agent asked, | Before he could answer Brady and Shaffer began firing from the streei, drilling holes through the store's plate-glass windows. A fusillade of bullets dropped Brady and Shaffer as they spun around and headed back toward their car. The bullets narrowly missed James Seeley, 22. clerk. whh was sweeping the sidewalk, He flattened himself on the walk while bullets whined above him. Six custiomars inside the store sought shelter bes hind counters.
25 or 30 Nhots' Fired
Shep Hurd. 40. the store manager, said “25 or 30 shots” were fired When the shooting ended, Brady and Shaffer lay dead in the street, Walsh was sprawled on the floor with blood streaming from a wound in the right shoulder. and Dalhover was struggling in the grip of other agents. | Mrs. Grace Hardy, who witnessed the clash, described the experience: “I was sitting in a parked car in front of the Federal man's car, which was parked in front of Daskin's Sporting Goods Store. 1 was ‘writing a letter, “A man-—I guess it was one of the Federal men standing behind my car—shouted ‘Look out!" Then I heard a rifle shot and dropped | (Turn to Page Three)
$200,000 CHARITY FUND MARK PASSED
| (Early Details Tage 17) | The Community Fund drive today passed the $200,000 mary, when vole unteer workers hel dtheir second ree port meeting in the Claypool Hotel, Pledges today totaled $104719.21, raising the receipts to $220.793.63, or 130.6 per cent of the campaign goal lof $721.287.
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