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DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1934 2 pirvfNf Mfnlllfo Hll5)'I5ffi1lQf IBJlr LrvUJLro The NEWS in TABLOID AND INDEX Civilian Steals Prisoner From U. S. Army WW fe TOW Gunman Robs Governors Is. Of Prisoner By MICHAEL O'BRIEN. A STOCKY, ruddy faced civilian rowed across busy New York Harbor yesterday, stormed the Governors Island post of the United States Army single-handed, cowed seven soldiers and CCC workers with an automatic pistol and rowed away with a military prisoner he had come to deliver.

It was the most spectacular prison delivery in the history of eastern penal institutions. Its l.K5 nhoiut This is scene on Governors Island where civilian yesterday cowed soldiers and whisked prisoner off island. Arrow indicates spot where prisoner was working under guard. Man standing in truck declined an opportunity to escape. NEW YORK AND VICINITY.

Autopsy shows Willie Shapiro was buried alive by gangland foes. Page 2. Lone gunman holds up guards at Governors Island army post and escapes with military prisoner. Page 2. Herbert Myers, dying of bullet wounds, cleared of guilt in Garvey slaying.

Page 5. Madden meek in parole row at inquiry. Page 6. Rain squall cools city boys drowned by big wave at Coney Island. Page 6.

Attorney hurls another through glass door in clash over allowances. Page 8. Fatal scalding of baby, ward of city, in infants' home is probed. Page 19. Mulrooney stops leak in liquor law that would permit Sunday worming beer sale.

Page 21. Big Bill Edwards can pay alimony if he can entertain Tunney, says wife. Page 23. Colored woman believed deranged captured as she walks off with baby in Brooklyn. State minimum wage urged for laundry industry.

Smith and Seabury join in fight on borough governments. UNITED STATES Seattle Two thousand three hundred gassed as police, under direct leadership of Mayor Smith, drive back dock strikers. Page 3. Hollywood a that Cardinal is un-American stirs city. Page 3.

Minneapolis One killed, 48 shot as police fire on strike mob: troops called. Page 3. iro Was Buried Snap DAILY ALMANAC SATUR9AT, JULY 21, 1934. (Daylight Saving Time.) LOCAL Fair. Alive by Gang Foes By TOM CASSIDY.

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in. 2 p. Melvin Blanlon Prisoner ushitked from under Army's note. sheer daring and cool effrontery so paralyzed the whole Island that both men were allowed to dock their row-boats at the foot of Coffey Irvine Willie Meyer -JFor twenty-four hours ended at 5 P. July 20: Mean temperature, S2: normal, 74; deficienev since Jan.

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Barometer 26 29. 7 Humidity 9 SO Wind direction SV Wind velocity 14 21 Finding of body of Willie Shapiro brought to an end the careers of the three Shapiro brothers. Two other brothers, Irving and Meyer, had been previously murdered by gangdom. him his second burial yesterday as reports of the autopsy on his body disclosed that his gangland foes had buried him TIME Oif TIDES. Uovernurt Sanity Hook Island Hell Oat A.M.

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Bismarck, N. D. Angry, farmers march through Capital, shout threats at Gov. Olson. Page 7.

Los Angeles. Lupe Velez drops divorce suit against Weissmuller. Page 20. Washington, D. C.

Wire board asks phone data in move to equalize or slash rates. Washington, D. C. Department of Justice establishes fingerprint bureau to provide citizens with absolute proof of identity. FOREIGN London.

Lord Ashley files charges of continued misconduct against his wife and Fairbanks. Page 22. Berlin Hitler reorganizing Storm Troops and Reich industries. Vienna. Huge bomb wrecks Austrian power plant.

Paris. abinet asks Premier Doumergue to mediate squabble. SPORTS Giants 11, Cincinnati Reds 5. Page 24. Chicago.

White Sox 7, Yankees 6 (13 innings). Page 24. Cleveland. Manager Walter Johnson predicts Indians will "make him look good." Page 25. Karl Elmendorf replaces Arturo Toscanini as conductor in "Die Meistersinger" at opening of Bai-reuth festival in Germany.

Jews attending world session in Amsterdam appeal to League to curb German persecution. Secretary Hull submits tariff plan to economic commission of World Economic Conference. Eleanor Holm, Olympic swimming champion, wins backstroke title at Jones Beach for sixth consecutive time. Brooklyn, and disappear before pursuit was organized. The escape was complete.

Guarding Governors Island is the crack 16th Infantry regiment, comprising 1,000 picked troops. Here also is the headquarters of the 2d Corps Area with Major Gen. Dennis E. Nolan. But all this apparently meant nothing to the determined man in the rowboat.

The prisoner was Melvin Blan-ton, 23, of Camden, a long-term military convict who was found guilty of escape and desertion in January, 1931. He was to have been dishonorably discharged from service in October, 1935, when he had served his sentence. Police believe his deliverer was his brother, Jonas Blanton, who recently broke out of jail in Camden, O. This wasn't Melvin Blanton's first escape from military prisons. Once he got out of the guardhouse at Fort Thomas, and a second time from Fort Benjamin, Harrison, Ind.

He was known as a "bad actor" and the sentry, Private Stephen F. Grezegorak of the 16th Infantry, was armed with an automatic shotgun instead of the regulation Army rifle. Guard Saw Him Approach. Grezegorak had charge of Blanton and two other prisoners wh were working early yesterday morning at a dump and coal pocket at the southern end of the island. He noticed the approach of a civilian in a rowboat from the Brooklyn shore.

Grezegorak -thought nothing of it until the stranger approached him as if he had something important to communicate. He had. "Drop that gun or you'll get (Continued on page col. S) alive last Wednesday night. Shapiro, whose two elder brothers were put on the spot for muscle tactics which Willie tried to emulate, was interred in Mt.

Lebanon Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, in a plain black casket adorned with the Jewish "Mogen Duvid," or Star of David. His father, his sister Rose, and his mother, who used to" haunt Brownsville poolrooms to plead with the last of her sons to eschew the dangerous life which brought her other sons to death, attended services in Glassman's Funeral Chapel, 200 Broome Manhattan. Dies of Suffocation. Also in attendance were a few tieless, coatless, strong-arm men, incongruously wearing the skull caps used by Jewish males at last rites. Dr.

Gregory Robillard, Assistant Medical Examiner, said the autopsy revealed that the 24-year-old thug had died of suffocation after his beaten, cord-strangled, burlap-wrapped, but living body had been buried in a shallow grave on Jamaica Bay. New 'War' Expected. Members of the underworld freely predicted yesterday that Shapiro's death was probably the beginning of a serious war between two rival Brownsville gangs over the dice game concession in the area. Willie, considered a weak sister while his brothers were alive, had recently gone tough and muscled into the dice racket. (Other picture on page 14) U.

S. to Get Data to Cut Phone Rates WASHINGTON, D. July 20 u.R). -The initial move in the Government's nation-wide program to equalize and possibly lower all telephone rates was taken by the telephone division of the Federal Communications Commission today. The group, ranking unit of the commission's three, divisions, ordered all telephone companies, numbering thousands, but principally the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, to file with it complete schedules of rates, copies of contracts with all subordinate companies, together with ownership and financial statements of all corporations, whether individual or interlocking.

Equipment Costs Asked. Also each company most produce equipment costs, names of companies from which equipment and other supplies are purchased, (Continued on page 5, eol. S) 11934 JULY 1934 i i i I I ffurlr hr16 17 18 19 201211 an 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1934 AUGUST 1934 1 fj 2 1 3 4.