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HOME tWm Indianapolis EDITION Wt 60 OU6 MIT The Times Increasing cloudiness with probably some rain or snow tonight, or by tomorrow tonight with lowest temperature about 32. PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents Entered as Second-Cla Matter B**c/vpps - mowamdl VOLUME 45—NUMBER 227* INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1934 at PostoiT.-ce. Indianapolis DILLINGER GLUM AS CAR TAKES HIM TO CROWN POINT CELL 5 PER CENT RATE ■ BRIBED CHICAGO COPS, CUT PROPOSAL BY JmßmSi KSHRr SAYS HARRY PIERPONT; LIGHT CO. STUDIED jmj ppp^ # ______ REPORT HAMILTON SLAIN Annual Savings of $440,000 for Consumers Predicted by Power Firm Providing Paid Thousands of Dollars to Keep Officers New Offer Is Accepted. DILLINGER IN From Turning Terror Mob In, Asserts Trigger Man. DISMISSAL OF SUIT IS OBJECTIVE INDIANA CELL; NEVER MISSED MEAL, CLAIMS MAKLEY Points Raised in The Times’ Series Discussed in Drafted Agreement Presented to UNDER GUARD ‘Kill-Crazy’ Gangster Says Bullet-Riddled Commission in Surprise Move. ‘Got Me Too Quick in Body of Aid Was Tossed Into River % Public service commissioners today are pondering an Tucson,’ He Says at After East Chicago Stickup. and Light Company for an offer by the Indianapolis Power John Dillinger, seated between policemen in the autd that carried the desperado from the Chicago air- Crown Point. BY BASIL GALLAGHER immediate rate reduction of 5 per cent, estimated as an an- port to Crown Point, Ind., to be tried for his life. Fear had taken the place of the bravado he had shown Times Staff Writer as a ruthless gunman. (Copyright, 1934. by United Press) nual savings to consumers of $440,000. CROWN POINT, Ind., Jan. 31. GOLDEN STATE LIMITED, EN ROUTE TO INDIANA, by agreement John Dillinger, Indiana desperado, LIBERAL, Kan., 31.—Harry Pierpont, captured member Acceptance of the cut would be that the today clung to a vanishing hope for Jan. suit to show cause why present rates are not too high to be Markey to Battle “one more chance’’ to shoot his way of the ‘terror mob,” told Captain Matt Leach and newspaper dropped, complete audit and appraisal of company properties and Wilson Groomed out of anew tight place, this time men today that he paid “thousands of dollars” to members the Lake county jail. stay be made and anew permanent rate schedule be ordered by j Under the muzzles of submachine of the Chicago police force for silence during the recent the commission. Judge Baker for Criminal Court Bench and riot guns, Dillinger sat in his of the gangsters in that city. jail cell, awaiting trial on charges was corroborated by Charles Mak- An agreement drawn by the company to effect such a , of murdering policeman William P. Pierpont’s statement plan was presented as a surprise move by attorneys at the Urged O'Malley of East Chicago. ley, also a member of the gang of Indiana convicts who are Pair to Make Race Lillian Holley, Lake county’s argument on motion to dismiss the case, Mrs. being returned to Michigan City aboard this train. close of an oral FIRE SWEEPS for Democratic COLD WAVE IN woman sheriff, took elaborate pre- before the full commission yesterday afternoon. cautions against affording another “The cops in Chicago put the ‘heat’ on us a number of heard The instituted by the commissioners upon informa- Nomination. opportunity to shoot it out. times,” said Pierpont, “and I have given a police officer there Suit was long-sought outlaw was placed in tion from Sherman Minton, THREEHGMES BY DICK MILLER her charge last night after he had as much as SI,OOO a week not to turn us in.” Pierpont also Times Staff Writer public counselor, declaring the the cost of that property tp the pres- CITYJROKEN been brought back to his old stamp- stated that Chicago police fired bullet holes into their own the ent owner. A mere examination of Any likelihood that incumbent ing-grounds in an airplane. they failed to catch John Dillinger, mob present rates excessive by the company's opening entry in this Loss in Woodruff Place Judge Frank P. Baker will be un- Mercury to Climb Into 30s Dillinger entered the jaillast night windshield after a year. particular shows that it was in- opposed for the Democratic nomina- with one regret, that he had been leader, when he evaded a trap near a Chicago doctor’s office $900,000 tended to reflect reproduction cost tion for the criminal court bench Today, Says Arming- unable to “shoot it out’ with Tucson disclosing for Blaze Is Estimated Data ample grounds as of Jan. 31, 1927, as arrived in the May was dissipated (Ariz.) police, who were too quick in November. brought out in a new primaries such action was at by company’s engineers. Net today as several outstanding candi- ton. draw for the notorious out- single during that chase,” The Indianapolis the at $15,000. on the “Dillinger did not fire a shot series of articles in additions subsequent to that date dates were reported preparing to law. daily for several wind, fire With thermometer readings 20 said Pierpont. “The cops put Times, appearing have been added. Fanned by a strong make the race. “Got Me Too Quick” weeks. which caused a loss estimated at Regarded ‘‘out in front” in degrees higher today than yesterday, owh who screamed threats and defiance Under the agreement, a complete the the cold the bullet holes in their The drafted agreement contained $15,000 to three houses in Woodruff field of prospective candidates are severe wave, which brought “They got me too quick. I couldn't at Captain Leach in the Tucson jail, explanations of audit and appraisal will be made by sweep a the city today pistol the dresser car to show how tough the several company Place today, threatened to Joseph Markey, prominent attorney, subzero weather, had use a that was on had changed utterly. Times series. "disinterested” engineers and ac- be- been broken, against gang *of cops with sub- points raised in The large section of the community Prosecutor Wilson. weather bureau officials a pursuit had been. They’re not As the train rolled eastward the countants. in conjunction with the firemen. and Herbert reported. Dillinger complained. fore it was subdued by Either might obtain the backing machine guns,” terrific tension in prison commission, and final rates based on The mercury expected Tommy gun my grip, only crooked, but yellow.” the car the company The fire, believed to have resulted of the regular county organization was to “I had a in loosened. Editorial on their findings. in the four- climb into the thirties exactly frem wiring, broke out which Baker as today, re- but that didn’t do me much good Pierpont refused to say Mary Kinder snuggled up to her proposal appears today on page Mr. Thompson asserted that speed of Frank M. Reed, regards Judge maining near how times visited wUI used teen-room home somewhat of an insurgent. Since the freezing point to- when they took me by storm.” many the gang gangster lover in one seat. be in gatheringe the data, drive, causing a loss esti- night and climbing again charged Indianaoplis they Oppo- ten. 812 West the last county election, he has somewhat Indiana authorities that while were at site them, Russell Clark, still suffer- but not to the extent-that it would at SIO,OOO. From there it tomorrow. Dillinger has shot it admitted be inaccurate. mated banded himself with County Auditor in the past, large, but that their visits ing from the blows he received from incomplete or He to the ten-room residence of However, by night out with police, had all the ad- numbered than De- In urging adoption of the agree- that the accounting could spread Charles Grossart and Circuit Judge tomorrow some- but more a score. Tucson police, sat with his head estimated Mrs. Mildred Shoemaker, 826 West what colder weather is in prospect, vantages such as a bullet-proof vest, nying that they had lived in a ment, William H. Thompson, com- be completed by April 15. Earl Cox in what has become known cupped in his hands. drive, causing loss estimated at the mercury dropping to machine gun equally well- swamp Indianapolis, pany attorney, admitted that there as the Baker-Cox-Grossart faction more sea- a and near Makley Behind the trio, Makley, looking $5,000. sonable temperatures. him. It gang is no adequate audit and appraisal and which already has made its armed companions behind said that the had not missed for all the a prosperous The strong wind fanned the The cold was re- was such a shooting, the ma- world like extant upon which ‘‘just and reason- power felt in county politics. wave yesterday just a "meal or a bed” since their es- salesman in his gray flames and set fire to roof of the sponsible for twenty-six chine gunning of policeman Wil- neat suit and rates could be based. Its strength made itself evident runs being cape from the state prison. Pier- eyeglasses, gazed able’ SOVIET BALLOONISTS J. R. Ring, 38 West made the fire department; Chicago, silver-rimmed at alleged that present residence of in tne or courfty by. liam P. OCMai'ey. in .East -pont told -the following sto'.’y; Mr. Minton being extinguished recent contest the the desert scenery.'”* rates are based on excessive valua- drive, the blaze commissionership vacated by death that will be the basis for murder ■ small loss to the roof. con- "One night I went to an Indian- tion of company properties amount- with of Thomas Ellis.