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PAGE FIVE THE DES MOINES REGISTER TU ESD A MORXIN'C. JULY 24, 19.1-1. A. D' (acrredlted BAR SCHOOL reived their barman. I Hundreds View Dillinger Body in Chicago Morgue fLSON NEXT, P-DAmiATPC m' Monday night, all but two had- JlrUJl 1 iO Orijiihs manning heer pumps, swing- inB cocktail shakers and a new And Ail But Two Have Join dux of had matriculated.

HOOVER ORDERS a Day Later. plJNRA Outlaws Prizes KANSAS CITY, MO. KM Tcrm3 'Baby Face' a In Candy Packages" WASHINGTON, I), C. P)-NKA crazy ahiw, Members of the flrHt graduating class of the Kansas City beverage WASHINGTON, D. C.

VP) little woman, drened In mmrry pink, Monday congratu Kdear Hoover. Invest! dispensers school (bartender to Monday outlawed tho prize pack you I received their degrees Sim- fter July 30. dav night is agnUist "break anil take" and "pick and draw" Garbed in spotless white aprons whcn tho tl9. and Jackets, 82 young men is present. uve head of the department of juitlf tle aehlh iotin I few mlnutei after he left silver, black eyei (mapping named M- tn man most wanted oy me aepari Agent'.

Widow. The caller wa. Mr, W. Carter finm widow of a upeclal agent jiiiifd in the.Wlaconaln wooda last Aprll when Dilllnger and hla blazed their way to freedom after being trapped at a country if DILLINGER DINED WITHANKERS Hoover Reveals Bold Exploits of Outlaw. My a Kptvlul Corr'iiMmlrnt.

(Copyright, HIM. by Tht Nurth tinrin NiMr Alllano, Inr I WASHINGTON, D. Edgar Hoover, reticent director of the division of Investigation's criminal catchers, sat beside the telephone from which he had dispatched orders for the successful Dilllnger trap In Chicago and told an amii.lng story of exploits of John Dilllnger. "At one time lie. posed as a writer for a detective story magazine," Hoover said, "and gained admittance to a police station, where officials showed him their arsenal of rifles and pistols.

Later, he returned and robbed the station of all Its guns. Banqueted With Hunker, "Another time, he heard that bankers In a certain city were holding a banquet. Ha attended the banquet in the role of a salesman of bunk accessories, apparently to hear what holdup possibilities were. "On a third occasion, he went to a bank and represented himself as an agent of a concern specializing In air conditioning apparatus for bank vaults and time clock devices." "Keporled Everywhere." Hoover expressed the opinion Dilllnger had participated in few if any raids or other escapades since he fled under fire of federal guns at the Little Bohemia inn in northern Wisconsin. "ile was reported everywhere.

Of course we had to run down every lead hundreds of them, sometimes a dozen or more in a single day but. as timo went on, it seemed doubtful to me Dillinger was venturing Into the open that way," the division chief said. Inn. Gilli. named by the government Baum'a assassin, is probably better known as George "Baby Ve" Nrton-We're going to get that fcl Hoover said grimly.

"No body can kill one of our men and FLORSHEIM SHOES It amounts to a cash dividend on every pair cf Florsheim Shoes this temporary reduction et sway witn u. $.5,000 Reward. A reward of $3,000 is out stand lng for Glllls' capture and $2,500 has been orrerea lor iniormauon leading to his arrest. Hoover named John Hamilton and Homer Van Meier as the Dilllnger lieu tenants whom the government is out to get. Amone the other criminals from regular Florsheim prices.

Collect the extra wanted, now that Dilllnger is As a ateudy stream of people marched by the glass Incloted stall In Chicago morgue to view body of John Dilllnger, sluin gangster. Note, expression on fares of some of those viewing body. MOIT ITVlll tone, he named Charles "Pretty Boy" Kloyd and Richard Calatas, western outlaws alleged to have strus O85 profit by buying now. Papers Stained With 'Dillinger Blood' for 25c taken part in the murder of four The Man Who Couldn't 'Beat the Law' police officers and their prisoner Frank Nash, in Kansas uiy, mo. June 17.

1933. Bend Every Effort-. Florsheim Shoe Store 318 Sixth fquitoble Brfg. CHICAGO. ILL.

(U.P.) -Pieces Hoover added the department would bend every effort to appre hend all persons who have given of paper "stained with John Dillinger's blood" were on sale Monday for 25 cents a square inch and there were plenty of buyers. Chlcagoans were willing, even AI KTV GKOl'P NAM F.I). (Till Htgliter'i low News Rervli-t.) CEDAR RATIDS, aid to John Dilllnger or his mobs- i men. He said lawyers who had aided them were urder suspicion W. J.

Nelll Monday appointed 21 THIS STORE IS AIR-CONDITIONED eager, victims to hawkers who saw members of a new safety commission which will advise on and that doctors who tended the eanrsters' wounds and others in the spectacular death of the traffic control. outlaw a chance to make a little who provided food and shelter for the band would be apprehend money. ed as soon as possible. Nobody even pretended to be Retail Headquarters for the FRIGIDAIRE '34 lieve all the pieces of red paper Hoover called Gillis a "crazy killer" and rated him lower than on sale actually had been dipped Hamilton or Van Meter in Intel in the pool of blood where the ligence, but said he was the most criminal fell. They bought them anyway.

Mary Longurre of Cincinnati, Ohio, km In the heart of the slain gangster, John Dilllnger, when he was killed. This photo of her wan taken from Dilllnger's watch. A piece of stained handkerchief, vicious of the lot Ca'pone Era. Reared In Chicago during the Capone era, Gillis is 25. He escaped from the Joliet, peni guaranteed to be "one of Dillinger's" sold for 50 cents.

Enough 1 PHONE 3-6113 12th Walnut OPEN EVERY EVENING pieces were sold to make 50 handkerchiefs, all of which were sup A closeup of John Dilllnger's features as the desperado's body lay on a stub In tho Cook county morgue. tentiary Feb. 17, 1932, and never has been apprehended. posed to have come from Dillinger's pockets. tively planned to have the funeral services conducted Wednesday at John Hamilton, 28, was given a 25-year sentence for bank robbery A showman offered the city the home of Mrs.

Audre Hancock, jitfo for four bloodstained bricks in South Bend, in 1927 and started to serve his sentence Mar. 19, 1927, but escaped Sept. 26. 1933. from the Indiana state from the alley.

Another offered $1,000 for Dillinger's shirt. Others wanted to buy his hat and his tie. Tells How Dillinger's Body Struck Her in Death Fall John's sister, in Maywood, a sub urb of Indianapolis. "I Hope John Had Enough Job dm ttijmidrttihiU? I ii ii "I suspect John would rather it had been that way," the Indiana fore they reached the alley and then I heard the shots. Stopped (ilrls.

farmer said of his son's death Widow Says Outlaw's "I hope John had enough money rolled appealingly as he fell. I heard him mutter: 'They've got me at "Then he lay quiet. I was too "My partner and I ran over Into ii ii ii ii on him to pay his funeral expenses. If he didn't, It will be an lliils the crowd and Into the same girls. Eyes Rolled in Wild Appeal.

CHICAGO, ILL. John Dil I stopped them they are in their prison In Michigan City. Homer Van Meter has the most lengthy criminal record of the three. Now 29, he was first arrested at Aurora, 111., June 23, 1923, on a larceny charge and given a short prison sentence. He later was arrested for a similar charge and committed to the Illinois state prison at Menard Jan.

11, 1924, but was paroled In December of that year. Given Parole. On Mar. 12, 1925, he was arrest awful burden but I'll do the best I can." ii ir stunned to move. In my work I have been close to death many times, but not to such violence.

Dillinger's eyes as he died will thirties and asked them what the rush was. They tried to push past Only $7.80 was found In Dil Cf' II linger, in his death stumble to the linger's pockets and police as haunt me throughout life. me and start to run. A government man stopped me as I reached for them and said: 'Leave them serted that they had found no clew to where other funds, if he "A moment after the shooting alley pavement Sunday night, fell against a woman whose family alone. Don't get mixed up in this.

had known him as Johnnie Dil This In a government linger, a bashful boy who used to had any, were cached. "A Yellow Rat." J. Edgar Hoover, director of the federal investigation division said "I looked around and the girls had disappeared." call regularly to" buy milk. The woman is Mrs. Pearl Doss, ed at Crown Point, on two robbery charges and was committed to the Indiana state reformatory at Pendleton for from 10 to 21 years on each charge Later every effort would be made to FARLEY TELLS 45, a widow, who was passing the, apprehend Dillinger's associates.

Of Dillinger he said: A CRIME CURB he was transferred to the state prison at Michigan City and was "He was just a yellow rat that the country may consider itself fortunate to be rid of. There are paroled May 19, 1933. Urges Citizens to Aid U. Long known as an outstanding bad man. "Prprrv Rnv irinvH Law Agencies.

I saw a peroxide blond woman, dressed in white, hatless and carrying a brief case. As the shots rang out she screamed and dashed down the alley. It seems to me now that she must have been with Dillinger. "Crazy Thought." "Before I had recovered sufficiently to move men came running toward me from all directions, it seemed. I had a crazy thought that perhaps they would blame me for the shooting.

"I recall that at one time a man and a woman, in trying to run away, Jostled against me. I heard the woman cry out that she had been shot. Couldn't Sleep. "Then someone said the dead man was Dillinger," and slowly I began to realize what had hap SACRAMENTO, CAL. Co other rats still to be gotten, however, and we are not taking any time off to celebrate about Dillinger." No Friends Present.

now 26. Nov. 24, 1930. he was sentenced to the Ohio State penitentiary on a bank robbery charge for from 12 to 15 years but es peration of the citizenry with law alley when government bullets cut Dillinger down. "A Bashfid Boy." Mrs.

Doss' daughter, Mrs. Louis Williams, lives in Mooresville, Dillinger's home town. A son-in-law of Mrs. Doss, Ralph Shake, had recalled that Dillinger was a. bashful boy who used to buy milk from the family and that he couldn't Imagine he was the same man.

"I was going north in Lincoln ave." Mrs. Doss said Monday, "and had just reached the alley enforcement agencies. Postmaster General James A. Farley said here No mstter what yon may think about this or that kind of electric refrigeration you can hire do idea other electric refrigerator. More ice! Uniformly low temperatures! Room for tall bottles on holb caped while en route to the penitentiary and has been at large Monday night, is all that Is neccs There were no friends or relatives of the dead men at the inquest.

At least, they did not make it known. Nor were there any of sary to rid America of its criminal element "to a greater extent than Underworld Veteran. has ever been done before." aiatas, 43, fifth man to be named in the Hoover blacklist, is Farley, in a speech, paid tribute to United States Senator Hiram underworld veteran. Both he and Flovd are wanted Johnson, and said, "my wishes are of what a modern electric refrigerator should be or do until you'e seen the Frigidatre Super Freezer. For here is a development that helps make the Frigid-air '34 the most unusual refrigerator ever built.

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The man the Indiana policemen who were credited with furnishing the information on which Dillinger was trapped. The witnesses included two of the federal agents who participated in the killing, A finger print expert testified that although Dillinger had attempted to remove his fingerprint whorls, he was convinced that the body was really that of the Indiana robber. The slaying, he "It has been one of the most uuo Reed, chief of police of Molester, and William J. Grooms and Frank E. Hermanson, Police officers of Kansas Pltv Mn Twenty per cent, or 105, of the postal inspectors are devoting their full time to criminal work horrible experiences of my life.

I tried to sleep after I got home but staggered and fell against me. with local peace authorities, Far "As he slumped to the ground I wasn't able to close my eyes. Raymond J. Caffrey, special agent the United States division of ley said. He sketched a list of mail saw his and I recall that the 'Before I left I saw some men Frigidaire 34" robberies to illustrate the govern mopping up Dillinger's blood with urs is a thought flashed through my mind that the face resembled Dillin investigation, and their prisoner, f'rank Nash, In the Kansas City niassaere.

ment's efficiency in capturing the said, was by a government agent. paper and selling the pieces for 25 bandits. cents each." ger pictures, me man eyes 3 CCC YOUTHS doctor who "lifted" Dillinger's face in his futile efforts to defy recog Dillinger Continued From Page 1. DROWN IN LAKE Fingers Treated. "His fingers had been treated," Purvis said later.

"But the treatment had failed entirely. It reassures us that talk of a new surgical 'disguise' is Just bunk. "Dillinger had apparently used acid on his finger tips. The 'deltas' and the 'cores' were burned away. nition was known, being shadowed and his arrest was near.

The doctor was being allowed temporary like a shipping tag, was the pasteboard slip with "July 116" on It. It Indicated that it was the one hundred sixteenth body received during the month. Hubert Dillinger, a half-brother, accompanied Dillinger's father when the latter arrived at the Mc- Boat Upsets in Glacier Park East Water. Chicago police, particularly Tim O'Neill nnrl Sortrpnnt hStfTl IviViM 1 ljiia C'apt. freedom because other developments were expected to materialize through him.

He was reported to live in Indiana's Calumet GLACIER PARK, MONT. UPi- But it was easy to make identifica Cready undertaking parlor tion. One would have to cut awav i. i MtJil SunJdrJ 4 in a hoar. na.H Also authorities were searching mJw, ii launch carrying seven men sank in for Dillinger's late hideout and i oy Harvey, Lake Sherburne "i' Kovich.

Purvis said: "The person who gave the tip Probably never will be known." But the "girl in red" was the center 0f speculation. Zarkovich, was understood, struck up an "'quaintance with a man in a sawn Wh0 bOHStoH ho the huge loot he is believed to I mortician. 7' Jrroitint twitch twwini tr prymn ttrt Cjnlrml Ucmtwn th SmpfT dnm't ksft to A larnrd on icttrm of tht frmrr. .4 Frmrr pnmdrt Ull kotll tm mfttr defrotfmt nam- patented Liver irinei them space em both udei end btlpt pitted. It inrnt ilulf tn tltdmi ml at touch the heep the entire land ctm PictAre in Watch.

BERE IS i FRIGIDAIRE THAT USES LESS CURRENT THIN OIE ORDIIUT LIMP BULB Several hundred Inauisitive The victims were M. Greppo, Schenectady, N. A. Monte- have secreted. His mob netted pdrlsml mnitrmif (mid.

Aur, spectators crowded about the es- In tne slain nan's clothing were tablishmcnt and the services of iofounJ the 7-80 a rinK antJ marian, Brooklyn, N. and Gil about $500,000 in the brief time it held the spotlight of gangdom. huflkv tiHtrnlmen were rpmiirprt In CUP III me CailDer re. "little Father Arrives. Dillinger's father, John, wno was Dilllnger Pal 'the girl in red." bert Cooper, Ronan, Mont.

Four others in the launch managed to swim to shore. The party was crossing the lake with lunches for another group of forest wtrk- volver which Samuel P. Cowley, a federal agent, said Dillinger had drawn Just before he was shot. The definite assertion that there stooped and saddened Mooresville, Sold in I), American srrri.Y fO. XI!) l-ormt St.

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Will View Body. Police forced back a group of about 50 women who attempted to force their way into the rooms. The elder Dillinger, obviously fatigued after hla long journey and the sorrow attendant upon his son's violent demise, was taken to en upper chamber and given a glass of water. Arrangements were made to take the relatives to the Cook county morgue, where the battered body was to be held until this morning. Before the 70-year-old Di'l- JlilllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIlllliIIIIIII(ftlllltllfllllltItlll(IIIIltlltftllllltlllitl(lllltllllftllltlt(llllllllltllllllltlltItllltlltlllIII I mem the reward to be had Vt 'flI)Sering" Dillinger should not turned down.

Chicago police said the girl and "other woman accompanied the unsuspecting gangster to the Bio-rPh theater, came out with him thetl stepped aside to let federal men Plnao In D1. anU KtV. alffltSX HIV Jl JnX came in had to be guarded from the curious who stole bits of it for souvenirs. "It is better that he is dead than alive," the elder Dillinger mumbled. Then he went about his plans for a visit to the morgue.

Pasteboard Tag. Except for the attention it created and the bullet holes In it, the ncic i.tij wuiucrji Willi isiilllirr a I the theater was made by Detective Frank L. Slattery, one of the Sheffield ave. policemen who were called to the scene by theater attaches, who did not know the purpose of the federal men's visit. Tells of Shooting.

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