The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 36, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 January 1937 — Page 6

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ACTIVITIES FOR 1937 TO USHER NEW PROGRAM To Show Motion Picture After Pot-luck Dinner At School Building A “Pot Luck” Dinner and the showing of two outstanding motion will be the feature of the Syracuse-Wa-wasee Community Chamber of Commerce dinner which is to be held in the Gymnasium of the Syracuse High School Thursday evening*. i Through the Courtesy of Mr. W. E. Long “Feature Story” one of the nations outstanding educational motion pcitures will be shown—“ Feature Story” which was more than a year in ’the making and was produced at a cost of many thousands of dollars is filled with many thrilling and interesting sequences. Lon Warneke, former Chicago Cub hurling ace who was recently traded to the Pittsburg Pirates plays a feature role. This outstanding sound motion picture also has sequences devoted to foreign natoin. Ace Williams motion picture cameraman traveled 30,000 miles through forty countries making the foreign portion Os the picture. Also Mr. Long will exhibit another motion picture which he had produced, ‘ featuring Lake Wawasee and Syracuse. This picture also shows many interesting views of last years’ Mardi-Gras. The dinner will be served at 6:30 p. m. according to WarrerfT. Colwell, president every person should bring some dish of food to add to the pot, and that each individual must provide his or her table service. The school is not equipped to care for a large number 5 of guests, and it is essential that each person provide his own silverware and dishes. The affair next week is open to all who wish to attend, and is, not confined to members of the Chandler of Commerce. ' FAIRY THEATRE NAPPANEE, IND. Show starts at 7:00 p. m. Fri., Sat. Jan. 8, 9 Double Feature Program THENK YOU, JEEVES With Arthur Treacher, Virginia Field, David Niven * 1 and Bob Allen in THE UNKNOWN RANGER With Martha Tibbetts Also color cartoon “Birds in Love” Sun., Mon., Jan. 10, 11 Nino Martini. in THE GAY DESPERADO With Ida Lupino and Leo Carrillo. Also Fox News, color cartoon “Christmas Comes Once A Year” and paragraphics “Sapor Shorty” Tuesday One Night Only Jan. 12 HIDEAWAY GIRL With Martha Raye, Shirley Ross, Robert Cummings. Also comedy, “Whose Baby Are You?” cartoon “Wise Little Hen”, and song and comedy hit “Play! Girls”. Wed., Thurs. Jan. 13 14 Joe E. Brown in k POLO JOE With Carol Hughes, Richard “Sheets” Gallagher, Gordon Elliott . Also comedy “That’s Pictures,” Headliner “Gypsy Revels” colortour adventure ‘ Northern Lights”, Harman-Ising “Little Gheeser.”

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Behind the scenes with the camera crew while making “Feature Story” which is to be shown at the Commercial Club dinner next Thursday evening. Here Lon Warneke, former Chi-

Afternoon Club Elects Officers Mrs. A. W. Emerson Named President For 1937 At Meeting Yesterday Mrs. Effie Emerson was elected president of the Wednesday Afternoon Club, at their meeting yesterday at the home of Mrs. Ralph Thornburg. To serve with her during the new year are Carrie Stone, vice-president; Lufcy Miles, secre-tary-treasurer Macy, corresponding secretary. Esther Stoelting was named in charge of publicity and Alice Clark is program chairman. The club donated five dollars to the school milk fund. The program for the meeting was in charge of Birdella Pfingst, Mary Hoy and Grace Slabaugh. Each read poems by Audrey Wurdemann, Frank Carlton Nelson and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

BACHMAN’S (Grand Hotel Building) To Close Out Men’s Women’s Children’s HOSE per pair 10 cents Ginghams Plain Colors and Checks, Formerly 1 C 25c now, per yard IOC Sateeru Variety of Colors—Good Quality -| Q Formerly 25c to 45c per yard, now I<?C Sliptex Cloths, Suitable for Underclothing and 1 Linings, formerly 25 to 35c per yd. Now 1 vC Comforter Chailies, per yard 10c

cago Cub pitching Ace, who is now with the Pittsburgh Pirates, is shown being photographed. He plays a feature part in this, outstanding educational production. ,

So. Shore Resident Observes Birthday A dinner was held in honor of Charles Franklin who will be ninety years old Wednesday, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Landan. Guests included Paul Dickenson, Cincinnati, Ohio; Ross Franklin and Otis Clyde Butt, Fort Wayne, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown and family of Columbus, Ohio, returned home Saturday after spending the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Ingalls. , Mrs. Forrest Snepp called on Mrs. Bert? Searfoss, Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Niles and William Kelly called- at the Bert Searfoss h°me Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ling have moved to his father’s farm. recently vacated by Raymond Ling" and family, who have moved, to* Goshen. Mr. and Mrs. John Murphey and son, spent Friday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Lester Mock. Mrs. Frank Brown called at the Bert Searfoss home, Friday evening.

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Rev. J. Kaufman Heads Ministers Succeeds Rev. J. S. Pritchard — Rev. Joseph Bailey Is Named Secretary The Ministerial Association met at the home, of Rev. Jerome Kaufman on Monday morning. Rev. Kaufman, minister of Grace Lutheran Church was elected to succeed Rev. J. S. Pritchard as president of the Association. Rev. Joseph Bailey succeds Rev. Travis Purdy as secretary. Frank Green presented a tentative prodgram jof the Kosciusko County Council of Christian Education Convention which will be held in Syracuse on March 23 and 24. The services of Dr. J. Raymond Schutz, North Manchester; Rev. R. H. Mueller and Rev. A. T. Albertson of Indianapole have been secured for the affair. At the next meeting of the Association, February 1, definite acton will be taken concerning the curriculum and program of the and progrom of the Vacation School to be held here; next summer. 1 FOR SALE—Open Ar circulating heater, one small kitchen range. See G. M. Harvey, Syracuse, Ind. —j——— ; FOR SALE—One 7-room house furnace in A-l shape. $lO. See R. C. Me Farren. Syracuse. - ! ' . - ' SAVE AT |Greigers| • Salmon 1 lb. can 10c 2 •Peas, Early June J 'No. 2 Can - 10cJ 2 Rice, lb. - - 5c 2 2 Bliss Coffe, lb. -23 c 2 22 lb. Soda Crackers 15c 2 •Bacon,lb. - -19 c 2 •Swiss Steak, lb. - -19 c 2 •Cube Steak, lb. -18 c • •Bologna, Frankfurter, Mino* •ed Ham, 2 lb. - -25 c • 22 Ib. Lard - -27 c • _ ______ _ .

ELTON ENGFEHR GETS TERM OF 10T020YEARS Bandid Who Burglarized Nearly 100 Homes Gets 10 to 20 Years GOSHEN, Jan. 6, (INS)-El-ton Engfehr 25, who confessed to burglarizing 87 homes in northern Indiana cities, was sentenced Monday by Judge Aldo J. Simpson in the Elkhart circuit court to serve from 10 to 20 years in the Indiana state reformatory on each of two first degree burglary charges. He was also fined SI,OOO on each charge. The sentences are to run concurrently. Engfehr, who pleaded guilty to si first degree burglary charge last Monday following his arrest here on Sunday, entered a plea of guilty to a second first degree burglary charge. He was charged with entering the home of George Whittle in Goshen, November 1. You are lucky to be in the court room to be sentenced today,” Judge Simpson told the prisoner. “You are lucky some one did not kill you when you were 3 prowling around his home.” “I am tickled about it,” Engfehr said when asked if he had any thing to say after being sentenced. “I would rather serve Time in prison here. I don’t like Ohio. I like this state better.” “The reason I think the defendant should be imprisoned. in Indiana is so officials of the court and law enforcing bodies will be notified when you come up for parole or pardon, thus giving Indiana officials a chance to express their views. “It seems to me that you have had a chance to stay away from burglries. Although you were an escaped prisoner, from Ohio, you had the chance to go straight atnd stay away from burglaries but you chose a career of crime. Evangelical S. S. Installs Officers Mrs. Wilma Hire is Superintendent —All Teacher Assignments Are Made Officers of the Evangelical Sunday School were installed Sunday for 1937. They are Wilma Hire, superintendent; Peter Soltau, assistant; A. H. Blanchard, secretary; Lucille Osborn, assistant secretary; N. G. Skidgel doorkeeper and librarian.' Ray Wilkinson, assistant librarian; Katherine Dillen, pianist; Mrs. Sadie Hire, chorister; Mrs. Robert Strieby, superintendent of Children’s department; Mrs. Eldred Mabie, superintendent of Roll; Mrs. Carrie Dillen, Superintendent of Home department. Teachers installed “for 1937 are: Nursey class, Mrs. Ray Wilkinson, Mrs. Raymond Kitson;, Beginners class, Mrs. Dale Grimes, Mrs. Dean Jenson; Primary class, Mrs.. Melvin Dillen, Mrs. Eloise Klink; Junior class, Mrs. Melburn Rapp, Mrs. Guy Karig. Junior Boys class, Mrs. Paul Cook, Mr. Alfred Matthesian; Intermediate class Mrs. Herschel! Grimes, Miss Pearl Grimes; High School class, Mrs. J. S. Pritchard, Mr. C. E. Beck; Fellowship class, Rev. J. S. Pritchard, Mrs. Carl L. Thomas; Senior adult class Mrs. A. H. Blanchard, Mrs. Carrie Dillen and Rev. W. H. My grant. . Mty cHgnraiD shrdlu shrr Mission Society Meeting "The Womans Missionary Society met in the home of Mrs. Grant Skidgel Tuesday afternoon. The lesson study was presented by Mrs. A. H. Blanchard on the subject, “The Cross Within the Heart”, a discussion of the marriage customs in Africa.

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Inspector Cowley’s Chart of Dillinger Trap in Chicago.

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OHN DILLINGER would be alive today, in all probability — and in Alcatraz prison — but for one thing: a determin-

ation never to be taken alive by officers of the law. With the permission of J. Edgar Hoover, director of the federal bureau of investigation, this writer has been privileged to delve into the grim files of the F. B. L on the lurid case of the late public enemy number one. , I have seen for myself—and am able to reveal publicly for the first time—intimate details of the carefully laid plans which led up to the fatal shooting of Dillinger outside a Chicago movie house on the night of July 22, 1934. Those plans, locked in a steel cabinet at the Department of Justice and guarded until now from any but official eyes, disclosed a number of interesting things bearing on the recently agitated question: Was the shooting to death of Dillinger justified? 1 1. Specific orders were issued by Hoover that Dillinger must be taken alive, if possible. 2. Four men were stationed on the sidewalk, near the theater entance, with instructions to “seize Dillinger bodily as he passes.” 3. By Hoover’s order, relayed to the agents, by Inspector Samuel P. Cowley, there were no machine guns, rifles or shotguns at the scene. The agents were armed only with pistols and warned not to draw them unless “absolutely necessary.” 4. Dillinger quickly saw two agents starting to close in and seize him, turned to face them, bent to a crouching position, whipped out a .38 caliber automatic pistol and was about to fire when three agents beat him to the draw. Unjustified? Well, of course, the agents could have let this known killer fire first, but in so doing, they would have endangered not only their own lives, but the safety of a gathering crowd of men, women and children emerging from the theater. * The circumstances surrounding the shooting of Dillinger have been the subject of an “ill-advised” inquiry by secret service men. They went to the Chicago police for information, it is said, but the Chicago police knew nothing of the plans. Those plans were made in the Chicago office of the F. B. 1., after telephonic conversations with Hoover at Washington. Only one other law enforcement agency was “in” on them. That was the police department of East Chicago, Ind., a sergeant of which had brought to the F. B. I. a woman who said she knew the whereabouts of Dillinger. This woman was after $5,000 which the Department of justice had offered for information leading to the capture of the gangster. After Dillinger’s death, she calmly collected the money and signed an extraordinary receipt in which she released the government from any further obligation “whatsoever.” More about that receipt later. The woman was Anna Sage. Her identity was guarded closely by the G-men after Dillinger’s death because they had promised solemnly not to “put her on the spot” Since Mrs. Sage herself has elected to disclose her connection with the case, the bureau no longer feels obligated to adhere to the promise of secrecy and consequently has given me the whole inside story of the Dillinger trap. Mrs. Sage, well-known to police of East Chicago, told Inspector Cowley on the afternoon of July 21, 1934, that she had been attending movies with a man who had been introduced by a girl friend as “Frank Sullivan.” The other woman’s identity will not be disclosed. Her first name was Polly. « Mrs. Sage asserted she recognized “Sullivan” as Dillinger and asked him outright if he were not the much-hunted fugitive. Dillinger admitted his identity. She declared she accompanied Dillinger and Polly to the Marbro movie theater in Chicago on several occasions, and that she would be willing, for $5,000, to tip off the agents when another visit was planned. Cowley and his men bided their time anxiously the remainder of that Saturday evening, but no further word came from the woman. All available agents in the Chicago area were ordered to “stand by” in anticipation of the tip that would start them into action. The agents sat around restlessly in the

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Chicago office on Sunday until 5:30 p. m., when, by phone, Mrs. Sage advised that she, Polly and Dillinger would attend either the Marbro or Biograph theater, on Chicago north side, about 8 p. m. Plans were made to “cover” both theaters. Two agents were assigned to the Marbro and two to the Biograph to watch all persons entering them and to flash the word to headquarters as soon as Dillinger was spotted. At 8:50 p. m. the agents at the Biograph phoned that Dillinger had just entered the movie house with Mrs. Sage and Polly. Polly, it should be explained, was wholly unaware of the approaching trap. _ Cowley mobilized a force of six-' teen agents and five policemen of I the East Chicago department. A I careful study had been made previously of the “layout” of the theater. Seven agents were assigned to guard emergency exits in the rear of the theater, while the others were stationed along the block in front, hidden in vestibules, areaways and other points of vantage. Among the four assigned to “seize Dillinger bodily” was Special Agent H. E. Hollis, who later was killed alongside Cowley by “Baby Face” Nelson. Names of all other agents are withheld. Hollis was standing at the curb, a few feet south of the theater entrance. Agent‘D was in the vestibule a little further south. If Dillinger walked to the south, it was the job of this pair to grab him as he passed between them. At the curb, about the same distance to the north of the theater, were two policemen in plain clothes. Agent A, loitering in a vestibule opposite the point where Hollis was standing, was to light a cigar as a signal that Dillinger was emerging. Agent B sat in an automobile parked near Hollis. Agent C was beside Agent D in a vestibule, about midway between the theater and an alley. At the curb, near the mouth of the alley, were Agents G and H, with instructions to watch for the cigar signal and then close in from the south. At the other side of the theater, near Policemen 3 and 4, were Agents E and F, who were to close in from the north. Across the street was the remainder of the detail. Inspector Cowley kept moving back and forth along the block, surveying the situation. At the moment Dillinger appeared, Cowley was across the street, but he crossed quickly as his men closed in. When Dillinger and the two women came out, they turned to the south. Agent A lighted his cigar. The files show that Agent D said to C: “That is Dillinger with the straw hat and the glasses.” As Dillinger passed, Agent' D stepped quickly across the sidewalk to a position on the right of Dillinger, while Agent C approached him from the left. Agent Hollis, by prearrangement, moved in behind Dillinger. As this maneuvering started, Dillinger became aware of the fact he was Affidavits of eyewitnesses agree that he reached quickly into his right trousers pocket—he was wearing no • coat—and whipped out his pistol. Immediately he began to crouch and dodge and was bringing the gun into firing position when Hollis and two other agents, in self-de-fense, drew their own pistols and fired. Dillinger fell without uttering a word and was dead when he reached a hospital. As the firing began, the two women ran. Cowley met Mrs. Sage in Los • Angeles on October 11, 1934, paid her the promised $5,000 and obtained her signature and fingerprints on a statement reading, in part: “The U. S. Department of Justice did employ me to secure information leading to apprehension of John Dillinger, alias Frank Sullivan. I, Anna Sage, did secure and deliver personally tq an official of the division of investigation, Department of Justice, information as to the whereabouts of the said John Dillinger at a particular time. “I, Anna Sage, for and in consideration of the sum of $5,000 lawful money of the United States to me in hand paid by S. P. Cowley, known to me as an official of the U. S. Dept, of Justice . . . do hereby release the Department of Justice from all . . . debts, dues, sums, reckonings, covenants, contracts, agreements, promises, damages, judgments, claims and demands whatsoever in law or in equity . .