The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 October 1933 — Page 1
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forty-one
5.000 TAKEN by bandits at CENTRAL BANK
L r MEN hemeved escaped t t>NVT( TS STAGE DARING dayught holdup
MKK bank ..ABOUT 3 p. M
t | Rank Oi«>Utl Monday Afternoon Rj Calm Aim! DtotiberaU; Hand it Gang
our bandits walked into the CenNational bank at 2:45 o'clock nday afternoon, thrust machine other big guns in the of bank e m p I o y e s and tomeis iiinf looted the bunk of aipximately $75,000 in cash and ds. They worked without haste made u clean sweep of tile i»ank ney in the. cages ami the vault. exact amount was announced as
,782.00.
he men parked their automobile, a idebaker sedan, on the west side of bank building on Jackson street ween the alley on the west and the -er. No one was left in the autoile Tliree of the bandits went the hank pioper and the fourth ardei Hie front entrance. The first knew the holdup was being lied was when Ward Mayhall was inded a $20 bill and asked if it was od. He referred the customer to rry Wells, the cashier. Instead of ing to Mr Weils cage, the Imndit pel back slightly and pointed his at Mayhall. At the same time other bandit bounded over the railon the west side at the front of bank and entered the teller's cage, > meantime a half dozen cusers and bank clerks were herded the iron grill work in the !t room of Hie bank by one bandit "vered them with bis guns. The dit- worked calml> in the tellers ■je». They took everything in sight; n«d the various drawers and took cash, dropping it into what looked sugar bags. Harry Wells was rred by one bandit to open the invmiit -biyir*. pod be did p^der careful direction of the big gun the lands of the bandit. While Wells was ■working the comhinan I ck the bandit- told him to take . ti i e, but it was l»elieved the lock » vvorke :> in almost record time. Ttie robbery did not cro-ito any » excitement than the minimum d alt aiugh there was considerable Ik, business continued in the bank til closing time Monday evening d there was the usual business
utine Tuesday morning.
The rush taken, amounting t $IK.'82."!* md bonds totalling $.'iti,3<M). "II property of the bank and no ■Ustomcr or 'depositor suffeied any bii.'. This loss is fully covered by inJrance and the stability of the bank demonstrated during the afteroon when business continued uninfiupted for the remainder of the .aiikuig day and even though there a:, a large crowd in the hank 1' bhy was through curiosity alone as it as the nearest to a 'bank hold-up hat Greencastle |ieople have ever exAriemed. Many got a thrill out of t. little thinking of the grave danger hat many were in during the time. All the bonds in the vault were akpo by the rohliers. As they left the bunk, there was no excitement •along them Hind three of them went to the automobile wliioh was double parked nu Jackson street, one carrytog otip bag of loot over his shoulder. 7he fourth one guarded the front of
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1933.
NO. 320
The loss was extremely heavy, per- 1 haps the heaviest of any bank robbery in Indiana, but it was fortunate '
that no one was killed.
The men wore overcoats when they
entered the bank and had their ma- ] chine guns covered with the Oonts. They were middle aged men and were
positively identified as some
BATTLE LINES DRAWN ON NR A PRICE POWERS
men who escaped fioni the state ptis- | on at Michigan City two weeks ago. The men double-checkol the cages after they finished their work and I
Mrs. Edgar Ble- mg. age .'i.i year . wife of a Danville attorney and prominent her.-elf socially, ended her life at Danville Monday b\ she ting her-
self in the head "ith a tevolver. III-
of the { t 0 N'| ROYERsV OVER LIMITS OK I ness is , "' lieve ' 1 ll have U'cn the
MRS. EDGAR B1 ESSING ENDS HER LIFE MONDAY
MONEY BOARD PLANS TAKING FORM TODAY
I’RK K CONTROL TO BE FIGHT TO FINISH
took all the silver money with the exception of some nickles and pennies. They were interested in taking such things as $40b in halves; $200 in ones and about $200 in quarters; and even took 18 silver dollars from a small change tray on one of the counters. They opened all the money drawers in each cage md made just about as near a clean sweep of every-
thing as one could expect.
(Following the leaving ,,f the bank, the nien drove ea.-t nil Washington street and south to the Pennsylvania railroad on Road 44 The crossing was blocked and thev doubled back west, following the dirt read down the north side of the raili' id to Berry street, and thence wo t to the city limits and south «n the Manhattan
road.
They disappeared completely after leaving the city, and although reports were received that tin y were being pursued near Mansfield in Parke county and Inter n ith to Waveland and in the vicinity of ('rawfordsville, no definite clues h I been obtained Tuesday morning. Telephone warnings went out of Greencastle in all directions within a few minutes after the robbery and all roads in various directions were soon hocked. Indianapolis police blocked the National read near Bridgeport and the Indiana state farm guards blocked all roads near the faun during the short Himafter the break, but no one appar-
ently saw the fleeing car.
The robbery was
NEXT MONDAY IS DEADLINE
President Issues Master Retail Code. Irade Circles And NR A • Line I p Forces.
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PICT \TK V \l.l K AND FIX
PRICE OF GOLD, COMMODITIES
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, (UP) _ Battle lines for a new fight over retail price control were being drawn today in trade circles and the NRA. Far from diqs sing of the issue, a muster retail rode (promulgated yesteulay by the president to take effect next Monday .-reined merely to have defined the limits within which the controversy now will be fought to a
finish.
Knocking out an original provision to ban sale.- of goods at less than wholesale c -t plus 10 |ier cent, the code forbids ales at less than cost with the added declaration that “the selling price of articles to the consumer shall include an allowance for actual wages of store labor, to he fixed and puhi ,iu d from time to time by the trade authority.” Stores with five or fewer employes in towns of less than 2,.‘i(M) are exempt not only fiont this but from all other code
provisions.
The issue affecting all other storenow is how much of the labor costs the trade authority will (tecide should be ineluded in the prices below which
g ods cannot lu> sold.
Those within the NRA who fought to the last for the cost plus 10 per cent plan express confidence that the
big news 'break mark-up to lie recommended by the
cause of her aet 1 .ineral servi -es i were held at Dan' illc Tuesday. Mrs. Ble sing was active ii sorority and club < rk and was als
well known over t state for her | To IMPOUND GOLD OUTPUT
connection with I* V R. work. She was a member of : ■ board of trustees of Ohio West m university. Mr. Blessing i ■ mirman of the Sixth district L p . >lii ,in - organi/.i-
tion.
Government Will . Mho Pay Higher
Prices To Domestic Miners l nder Proposed Plan
WASHINGTON, O t. 24. ((UP) — Plans for the establishment of a 1 aril to dictate the value of American money and fi\ the price of gold md commodities in world maikets
rapidly took form today.
"*■ j Under President Roosevelt’s plan, YEGGS BLOW \l | \\D Gl I government not ily will con-UNDETERMlM-.D \MOl N T; tuna to impound some k l.V.M) immi.OOp
Post Office At Clayton Itobbod
through which fluctuation in the pound are regulated. American gold would be kept at home smd added to the government's | rapidly mounting stock. The dollar would be cheapened to the extent of the rise in the government fixed gold price and is mnr dity prices would be expected to rise in direct proportion to the fall in the dollar if the administration should take this means to rai.se pri os. Because a higher pri e would be offered for gold in this count! y, sale by the treasuiv of American newly minqd gold under consignment to Europe likely would be disc ntinued. Presi lent R msevelt was reported considering appointment of a money committee or board to conduct the government’- gold operation. Such a boa to I w a - expected to be made up of representatives of the treasury and the Reconstruction Finance Cor-
porate n.
LEBRUN SEEKS NEW PREMIER FOR FRANCE
DALADIER RESIGNS VI TER (IVII. SERVICE PROPOSAL IS DEFEATED COALITION CABINET SOUGHT French President ( alls senate And Chamber Of Deputies Ilea !a Into ( onlen me
BANDITS G FT SA.OOO
WRECK IN I I IGOR
Yegg- cracked ‘ ton post office d escaped with an u of money and sta here Tuesday mo> AccuruSng to U which opened tlv .-idcrable damage '
building.
ale of tilt* Clay- ■ the night and (■mined ainoutC was reporto |
dirt
also did eon interior of the
in gold now in its hands, but through paying higher price- to domestic miners, will setjk to acquire all American gol I hereafter mined Previously, American miner, have been |ktmitted to sell their newly mined
metal at the world pi ice.
In the future it i- prop ' I that
1 " ' ' i the government through tin* Recon-
truition Finance Corporation will buy, at prices slightly above the I world price level, all the gold offered. ! The effect would he to raise gold
THE M FATHER pri es and indinvtly raise commodity Mostly cloudy * generally fair | pri es through a cheapening of the
south portion to; ind Wedne- loll:).
day; colder Wedm lay and north Through sales and put chases of portion tonight wnti temperature gold the government could raise or near freezing. lower the purchasing power of the dollar almost at will, independent of COMMANDER) NOTICE foreign influences such as might Restated conclave, o, .m-. tie Com-• velop through the manipulating for mandcry Nc. 11, In T Wednmlay iu.-taiici*, of speeulat rs or of tin* hil at 7:30 |i. m. E. I aHwell, Rw. lioti-d dlar British equalization fund (iped
SOUTH BENI), Ind. Oct. 21 (UP) — Four men lielieved inimlx'rs of a
desparate band of outlaw
through Indiana h< T up the Western State Bank .«• South Bend today and
escaped with less than $5,000
S uth Bend police expres-ed the 1>'lief that the gang was the .same one which robbed the Central Nation d National Bank of Groetua tie of $75,'
000 yesterday.
PARIS, O.t. 24, (UP) President i Albert Lebrun eon 11111*1 political leaders at the Kly-cc Palace tmlay, seikilig a premier apable of guid ing France thr ugh omi of the moat portentous phases f iiei recent his-
tory.
A strong government, urc - f an adequate 'majority to font* through parliament a rigorous economy program and to pursue a firm diplomatic pi liey in view of the disarmament
doaming crisis and Germany’s dr nand for
armament equality, wa. regaidel as
urgently neces.-ary.
Edouard Daladier, i.idie il - eialist premier who bad headed the government since Jan. H. i* igii" I at ;t>d) a. m. today afl eal ( 329 to' '241, in the cliamber of deputies on bis proposal to cut civ il service pay bei tween 3 and i) |H*r ient. to balance
1 the budget.
The gam; believed t" imluilc lohn ] To replace his government Lebrun Dillingcr, who wa- incd iroin the sought a coalition cabinet, if possible lima (). ail la-i week. Hairy Cope-I composed of the center parties with land, a paiailtsI Indiana prison convict; ; representati n from the left wing
and W alter Dietrich and Harry Pier- I groups.
pent, two oi ten men who c-raped irom The president fifst calbrl iriGi contln- state prison at Michigan City ference Julc- Jeunneney, pre ident of
Sept 26.
The car used in the South Bend robbery bore Illinois license plates, ll is
west mi highway No. 2.
the senate, and Ferdinand Bonis ion,
piesident of the chamber.
He was understood to have told
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for Greenea.-tle, but came about twienty minutes after The Banner had gone to press and iiniie of the details were carried, although we stopped the pres- ami insert is I a short story in about one half of our tun. Irrli^a. polls (paper- sent spe ial representatives ever for additional information ami others asked for it from Greeni'astle correspondents. Tin* story was soon on the press wires all over the country, beonu-c of the (huge amount lost and it was not long before radio repoits were made from stations even in New Y rk City. Greencastle was heavily featured in glaring eight-col-umn headlines in ninny metropolitan night extras and morning papers of Tuesday. It will be a long time la*fore such a break comets for this city
again.
Among the unfortunate customers to enter the bank at the time the bauits were at work was Hugh Hamnr ml, district agent fur the Sinclair fill company; He had gone to the hank with two bunches of deposits. One was in a shirt pocket and was all currency, totalling about 8:;()ll. I he other deposit was in the form of cash and click- and w is in his check 1
trade authority would be close to that | figure. They believe*! it would prove j more acceptable when presented, as | it now will lie. as a mark-up to cover | pail of actual labor cists. The tiade authority of three mem- j hers is expected to be appointed quickly. It will have the assistance j of i nati npl retail trade council emu- | pos'ed nf members of each division of | the retail trail**. NRA officials fav I oniig a substantial minimum mark-up expressed belief that these ageneie would lose no time in working ■ ut the necessary formula as most p i eta Her-; are anxious to strengthen the "stop | loss" provisions of the code without delay. They anticipated that pioh- 1 aby half a dozen markups of varying j pel ventages would he (w orked out f r varying typejs of stores in which
labor costs differ
Those opposing mandatory mark- ■ ups of prices above wholesale costs contended that development of formula covering lalnr e- ~ts was likely to prove so complex and controver sial that it would he a long time before! anything along this line was
done.
Despite the provisions foi markups :
book in another pocket. He saved | lo cover part of store wages, the conthis amount, but they took his $300 in sumers advis* ry board an,I other,
* Rgenies which fought the cost plus i curiviK V • ^
Rex Th, rlton, manager of the A.!") per cent plan felt they had scored & |« store was in the hank at the 1 a vict,,r >- Tl "' i ti™*. and wa -t..*sl up in the middle vimon. they pointed out. would have of the floor hv the bandits. His i'npose.l a fixed .policy on funds were not taken, hut for a short and all goods. The r de time il looked as though his life |nssures that the markup may he made | would he. but he w as not badly i‘Hermit for yariou- tyiH-s of stores
He was -lugged and was j
in a highly | T"*te i* no expectation tust any
i markup ordered will in lude all labor j
Elmer Seller, clerk at the postoffiee ' «*osts. Far the estimated UIO.OOO
harmed. He was
taken home nfterwands
all store-
signed
was at
stores of all kinds in the nation
last’
year, comimnre dcpartinent ealcula tiolts how that their payndls equal
first cage uhh the
j jmstal receipts, which totalled mere
Bn* hank and the crowd standing out- i than SltH). but about *.I3(! was in hill- - , • . . .* a- —. '-..rr.ry^j'ry.y v'tI started north, it pulled up to .the j the other ni. the counter in a bag. ^ ^,.ral mrfrehandise. Cfn-sing, picked u|» the fourth man j One of the fortunate customers was ^ ^ ^ ( ^ ., |( j or
*mpared with the eliminated code
I
13.2 for f- id, j
17 5 j
•nd the quartet then headed east on | Miss Catherine Tillotson, from the f
Wellington street It was all done j treasurer’s office of the university. would have forbidden I ai’d the bandits were gone before the , she ex me m with the university re- tllikn ,. 0 gt with an allow- ! k'lUGi alarm at the hunk sounded, j .eipls about the tune ihe humlits go " ^ ^ )pafit |Mr ,-ent to help' :J -"'* first thing the empl, ye. were | „ g.rd stilt ut 'the C«y. . ( .„ v mmmM. For all store- in' , ' 1,1 '• 'do was let to '|m--h anv ] The holdup a strunfe one, IV | ^ pp, from Hie In-
more of people around 1 ' 1
thing
that a
There were probably at least a yie bank on the out idu realized whit
voice cost of g. iris amounted to 20.9
and Keith Hall from i T” r ‘•"' l
dozen people in the bank at the time 1 W as taking |d 1
"Mhe rebbery. Others at tern pled to , the High l’*>int f)il company, seeing in •lining .the time it was in prog- the men g" in wdth their guns, and few and -me or tw.. got In. while ; then seeing those on the inside hold “♦hers were met as th<> tmndits earn** ' up their hands, was in communicu0, i* «nd were told to scram in n„ un- tim with the p Ike headquarters dur«rtiin terms. , ing the time it was in progress. Ihe
Ratcliff, guard at the bank. | clarks at Hfr Mullins ding stoye also | .. . .. a t the Cit-I in the basemepl sE king the fire ‘ stoial in the* doorway and watched mg I- P«unds on d.si^ 1( _ L _•
"hen the robbery was pulled It was j the progie-.- of the robbery Presumed the\ watdhed him go out of j Mullins also was in telephonic m.iii- Hr Imst
th * building and knew t... one was on t munieution with police headquarters, mates that an
rwd. In hi, theret William Stil.a took a l,*„g chance o the .me yield ^ei, anyone „„ guard and*a general with his life a* h«* -'ged from the in-, HMons ^ lnihHnap .^
| ‘booting had been started, some of , terior * f the bank. . »h. rt d.stan^ , M.ss 7-. a ha
I 'be customers or- employes of the ' a time d.ur.ng the holdup. He finally | * the guest of MG . . b-mk would have bee,, killed. As it reached the exit through the base. ( Run^.^ ^
2" *' ■*** ;'r.'. , l „ri ZIZZiL c »* eu- R i
20 Years Ago
IN GREENCASTL1
Will Peck lias*a sugar beet weigh-
Mr.' i/ens National bank. Mr. Peck raised
in his garden and he esti i
0 f lieets the size !
>ui handit-
• on of
v ''b'n e few steps of the institution , 'b'i not know the robbery was in Hogress until told of it afterwards.
irirt'h^or'the'Vndit ;u^*.i«e.|j— Walker and Mrs W. «. Tim-
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The above picture- were taken in the Central Notional hank Monday afternoon and evening, following the 'olibery *c the hank I upper left scene shows the front of the bulk, which
was safey guarded by one of t while his ("inn. - b> toil
74,000.
Lower left Mi-- Gladys Hammond, Miss Edith Browning, and Mira Edith Cn a ness, employes. They .ven* all ee l under fire during the ridiliery anfl rniiDmird their work .pi-rwanls. Upper right ls*n Ratcliff, guard at t 1 c,bun 1 ',
who has been on duty for about Gm >'v to pick off a bandit, and when t
waiting
time came, h«
hapimned to lie in the basement stoking the fire. < (*!itei light Hugh Hu I ll I" 1 , who i- .I*'el.in.’ up his 1 ss, foil iwing the w dUing into the bandits. He talked too much, lie ause had he left whi J<r'in Rights dl left, h* * uld have missed them, hut, instead, h<* talkeil to Rightaell ami t!** •. .) a t**d hi- busint a* the bandits g a Ida! firs', fot about $30(1, ■ ght - •Ihivill N • of Jai 'ii, ;T , f, .-Ii,, " Del'auw, who tl to the Bnnne, office with the tug nows. He cu Id‘scarcely talk fi r - 'iie time, as he su.rted into the hank as l .a dit • , iim* • ut an* I him At s-ccr. 4 ■ qiiickiy Hr f, t > th, letter and we (don't blame him a bit. .
.-, said the K'mlebaker ral Bank r >b* Mr. ,1 W I Ins na'i e 'S to be an alias iim'l tiy John I'iU nget, not iri-ms il I ’tali State police believe •through parti 1 t " - iMdt , i , vittH ' 11 '' her I It r r y P , ' , ' r • 1 'll at . , | . ■ind It,i, , off 1 l'*ii*Tied with Ddliim . in pa c 11 mi xs PRESIDEM II' OL'D WASHINGTON 1 !4,* (UP) — Pre i cut R jr" ■ 'iffermgi a igh teidd toihi, .ind i.. < nducting •fate 'iffaii tod from his study at the White Hnu-p. ( i)HMI Ts si It Ujl, HOLLYWOOD. ' i'. O t. 24 (UP) Robert* R ,'l" ' ' 1 iU« MR - f the late stage actor of Shakespearean Dupe, shot ami kuie I him elf tiwlay at the apartment wher* he resided* vith his inotTer, Geiu vi* ve Hamper, act rose wcoxd ng t<> police. *