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THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SATURDAY MORNING AUGUST 8 1936 i iUS Secretly- Plans Moving Of Gold Hoard Perished ith Gun Still in Hand Saturday ake RestF rom FULL SAVniGS! Fifty Armored Trains Will Be Used to Send Men Gave Woman Gang Leader and Son Full Chance to Surrender but Were Answered by HaU of Bullets 10 Billions to West PASADENA CaL Aug UPl-f Technicians are taking a brief vacation from grinding the 200-inch mirror for Palomar observatory but other workmen are careful to keep it at a temperature of 70 or 80 degrees The large optical room at the California Institute of Technology aircooled and insulated with four inches of cork to prevent undue expansion or contraction of the 20-ton disc To Resume Work ITSYOUH DAY) COME ON MEN1 vr Remove Four Tens Captain McDowell told a group of scientists that four tons of glass would be removed from the 20-ton dies in preparing it for use Oddly other glass is used in the grinding and polishing Lessela former chief engi neer of an electrical company (Westinghouse) told the scientists intricate machinery now being con plated at Philadelphia for Palomar observatory embodies the ideas and suggestions of tho foremost scientists and engineers 1 The violent deaths of "Ma" Barker and her son Fred at the hands of besieging department of justice agents were among a series of gangster slayings that led to accusations of unjustified killings by men and resulted In underpover Investigation of their activities by agents of the secret service Here however is the real story of Barker and the part she played as a public enemy as gleaned from the files of the I in the fifth and last of a series of articles behind the shed to' draw thc-fire away from the agent Running and dodging across the lawn for a few feet tho inspector threw himself headlong toward the front porch of the house and rolled ever and ovec as bullets from machine gun thrqw dirt in his eyes and whistled around his ears By getting close to the house he was able to get out of range of fire as the Barkers would have had to expose themselves in the window to aim at him Firing Weapons The agents by this time were firing rifles and machine guns into the house from all angles Before long the firing from within the -house ceased and after several hails had gone unanswered the agents entered the bullet-riddled house Fred Barker had fallen on his face with a 45-caliber automatic in his hand Barker lay on the floor still caressing her machine gun which she had Reloaded with a 100-shot drum The drum had been partly used up In the house the agents found another machine gun three rifles three automatic pistols a number of bullet-proof vests and a large quantity of ammunition The two couples who had departed not long before the men arrived it developed later were Alvin Karpis and Harry Campbell and their women A few days later they shot their way out of a police trap at Atlantic only to be hunted down and captured without by Edgar Hoover and his men in sensational raids at New Orleans andToledo the ground and was seized before be could ariee The girl was taken without a struggle It was not necessary to fire a shot The couple was taken to the I office quietly and the agents hurried to aid their fellow officers at the Fine Grove avenue apartment The Inspector In charge went Into the lobby and called over the house telephone to the apartment upstairs in which it -was believed members of the gang were living A woman answered He asked for Bolton" meaning Byron Bolton known to be a member of the Karpis-Barker mob The woman asked who was calling and the inspector thereupon identified himself as a federal agent and demanded that everyone in the apartment come down the steps with uplifted hands Sound Movies 5 Birth Observed By Hollywood Work of grinding shaping and polishing the glass will be resumed next week Captain Clyde McDowell supervising engineer for the $6000000 Palomar observatory said it probably would be in operatioh by July 1 1939 Preparation of a mirror which will enable astronomers to explore 50 times as much sky sp as was possible when plans were made for the new observatory in is biggest test The first disc was cast In March 1934 but was damaged by defects in the mold The present glass was cast the following December and allowed to cool a few degrees a day for nearly a year It finally reached here by special train last April and shaping and grinding was started shortly afterward WASHINGTON Aug 7 WI1 Informed sources said Friday that 60 or mor armored trains may he required to move the bulk of Uncle $10600000000 gold hoard Into the strong box now near' ing completion at Fort Knox Ky Although the new depository will -Hot be ready for use until 15 plans for the huge ship inept already are being drafted secretly at the treasury i Part of Program i The transfer of the precious metal to the Fort Knox vault which treasury officials say will be impregnable to safe blowers is part of a long term program to shift gold reserves from seaboard Cities to points far In the Interior last year more $2000000000 In bullion was moved from San Francisco to a Valult at the Denver mint where the government considered It would be safe from any threat including Invasion by a foreign foe It is presumed that most of the bullion to be stored In the Kentucky hills will be sent from New York and Philadelphia Each of the armored trains men tioned as likely to haul the gold probably will include six three bullion cars two Pullmans and a diner They are expected to move on special schedules slower than an ordinary passenger train Each express coach would hold HOLLYWOOD Aug 7 Friday is one of many anniversaries in the of sound movies It is 10 years ago Friday for example since a New York theater audience heard Will Hays the of the industry say a few words in a picture and then heard a recorded orchestra score in the picture "Don Juan" starring John Barrymore From view' point therefore August 7 1926t Is the official birthday of the talkies s'! An Event This Year Has Yet to SPECIAL -SATURDAY AMAZING SALE Kin Agrees To Enter Sanitarium of Men's High' Quality 2-POUNB box Martha Washington CANDIES fa) LOS ANGELES Aug 7 VFb-A(tsr a lunacy hearing at the county hospital Friday Mrs Margaret Fllmore 36 sister of -Mary Miles Minter former screen star agreed to go temporarily to a sanitarium as her mother wished and psychiatrists recommended Superior Judge Georgia Bullock recessed the hearing for 30 days The hearing was-on anjnsanity complaint filed by mother Mrs Charlotte Shelby She charged Mrs Fillmore has become a habitual drunkard talks irrationally and hears Imaginary voices 5105 tjl 1 RepiU cL hi Re pilar FOR SATURDAY ONLY1 Frightened Cry There was a frightened outcry as the phone was hung up A moment later the door of the apartment was opened and two women came down the stairs with hands raised high above their heads They were followed by Byron Bolton likewise evidencing submission The trio was asked why the other man did not come down The inspector warned that resistance would mean gunfire and that the apartment building was completely surrounded by armed agents One of the women frightened by this warning shouted a plea to to surrender was Russell Gibson alias Gray Gibson meanwhile put on a bulletproof vest picked up a Browning automatic rifle turned the lights out in the kitchen and stepped onto the back pbrch Agents saw him and called on him to surrender Instead Gibson opened fire with the rifle in an effort dear the way and started to riih down the back steps An agent stationed at the rear returned the fire and Gibson fell the remainder of the way down the fatally wounded Asked Question En route with Gibson to a hospital an agent asked: happened guess I must have run into Some of those government the dying gangster mumbled In the apartment were found three Browning automatic rifles two 351 automatic rifles four automatic pistols a sawed-off shotgun steel vesta and a large quantity of ammunition Most important of all however was a torn letter found in the apart 60 SOUTH MAIN ST 10 EAST BROADWAY Also OGDEN 427 Choice Selections Nationally Famous Makes Starting Saturday from $50000000 to 175000000 worth of gold bars about (he size of ordi- nary building bricks By Farm Post The gold sent from San Francisco to Denver was shipped as pareel post under the surveillance of postal inspectors It rolled in armored trucks through the Denver streets from the railway station for almost an entire night and few residents there knew of the movement until it was completed at dawn Secret service operatives and even the army may be called upon to help guard the transfer to Fort Knox Local officials will be warned In advance when the cargo will move through their towns and requested to keep a close watch on all suspected criminals Although the new depository will be guarded primarily by treasury employes it has been placed on a military reservation where 1100 troops are stationed normally Combines Features The treasure house itself combines the most modern construction with a few characteristics of the medieval castle Its outer walls are granite Inside it is built of steel and concrete Typ water-filled moats will circle the building At the touch of a button their water can be rleeased to flood underground vaults where the bars will be hidden Every scientific device from torch-proof steel to photo-electric rays detecting anyone who approaches has been employed to make the structure impenetrable SALE OF Color-fast rich heavy Broadcloth accurately sized correct in every detail Perfect fitting collars fused or that will never let you down in any weather Chest-room shoulder-freedom A great selection! White blue grey tan English checks blue tan grey Neat new stripes Complete collar jsizes 14 to 17 By REX COLLIER Copyright by North American Newspaper Alliance Inc WASHINGTON Aug 7-The men killed a a mother-in their famous siege of the KarpiS' Barker hideout on Lake Weir but what a woman! As a mother she had taught her four boys how to rob kidnap and murder She had giveh Tnem private lessons In the fine art of loadinr end firing a Thompson submachine gun She had plotted crimes for them obtained paroles for them chided them when they bungled a job patted them on the back when they carried out her carefully planned outrages Screaming with rage she had turned a machine gun on agents of tho federal bureau of investigation who called on her to surrender at Lake and she died with that gun still smoking in her hands Untimely End Such was the of Kate Barker known to the underworld of the midwestern corridor" of a few years back as Barker died with her bank-robbing kidnaping son Fred in a palatial eight -room frame house rented by the Karpis-Barker gang near Oklawaha Fla From the agent who led the raid on that house and from data in the flies of the I this writer has obtained a first-hand official account of the spectacular end of Kate and Fred Barker and of the Incidents which led to discovery by the men of the Flordia fortress The trail leading to the Barkers began When experts in the technical laboratory of the identified fingerprints found on gasoline cans in the Bremer kidnaping as those of Arthur Barker paroled murderer and son of Kate Known to Police The Barker family was well known to police of the midwest It was found that all known members of the family had disappeared from their usual haunts It was known also that Alvin Karpis was associated with Arthur and Fred Bar ker In a bank-robbing gang Barker had a sweetheart in Chicago whose name was learned by the agents investigating associates of the gang For six weeks agents shadowed her Finally the long vigilance was rewarded Barker arrived at the apartment one day but the agents waited in the hope that other members of the gang also would appear For four days thereafter the agents trailed Barker and the girl on pleasure jaunts and shopping tours about Chicago on several occasions they were seen to enter another apartment not far away from the Agents were to watch the second apartment on Fine Grove avenue They saw two men and two women come and go from this apartment at various times but the men were not known to the men Raid Apartmeqts On January 8 after Barker had been seen in his apartment and the other quartet had been in" at the Pine Grove avenue place it was decided to raid both apartments simultaneously or nearly so Just before the hour for the raids Barker and the girl emerged from the latter's apartment and waiting agents -with drawn guns closed in on them Barker started to run slipped on some ice fell to it Kl IK ment The salvaged portion of the not signed and had no letter was A Sleeve lengths 32 to 35 1 3 Women's Summer EXTRA! c- An Event Unsurpassed for Real Value-Giving on a High Standard A SUPPLY FOR EVERY DEMAND! 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