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(SIXTEEN PAGES) PRICE THREE C B im ONE DEAD, 3 HURT Balbo Takes New Post In Tripoli As World Speculates BANK BANDITS THREE PERSONS DIE, STEAL $130,000 IN BANK ROBBERY A N D ® AWAY MANY ARE INJURED IS PoEconan Slam in Bay State NEW YORK FACES Ym Armed Thugs Held Dp IN STORM IN STATE Hold Up as $10,000 BIG TAXI STRIKE Two Employes Near Jer­ Fall Ranges from 'Seva ^ Is Stolen— Bandits Es­ JR DOLLAR’S WORTH I / sey Instiliitioii — Fifty Seventea Inches cape in Antes. Drivers Quit Work Today Cars in Pursuit. GOES UP; BONDS ways Quickly Cleared Needham, Mass., Feb. 2.—(AP)— Because Tax Money Is Not Pennsgrave, N. J., Feb. —(AP) STRONGJN N. Y. One policeman was slain, three Man and Girl KiDed by other men shot and $10,000 taken Retnmed to Them. —Four men stole $130,000 from two from the Needham Trust Company bank employes today as they were Aotos; Wanner Weather today by four bandits, two of them entering the Pennagrove National Bankhig Offices in London, armed with what bank employes de­ New York, Feb. 2.—(AP)—Sev­ A -r / .y / . V < y.. ^ s <w ^ ^ ^ bank with the money in three pack­ Ahead. scribed as submachine guns. Forbes eral thousand taxicab drivers went age* and a mail bag. The robbers Paris and On Wall Street McLeod, policeman, shot through on strike today as a result of dis­ the stomach as be answered the A “political exile’’—or a future leader of Italy? While Fascists contend that Premier Mussolini sent Italo eaci^ied in aa^ automobile. satisfaction over disposition of the bank’s burglar alarm, died shortly Balbo, popular air hero, to Africa to broaden his experience, others Celleve his transfer was a demo^iqg^ The cash was to be used to meet Active in Purchasing Gold By Associated Press faterward in the Glover hospital. flve-cents-a-ride tax collected imder At any rate, it was a ceremonious welcome that the Provtoce of Libya, in Tripoli, gave the yoimg Air the demands of the employes of E. a city law that subsequently was de­ shM, when, as shown, here, be arrived to assume his duties as governor. A toll of two dead and msmy in­ As the bandits fled from the bank L Dupont de Nemours Euid Company jured w t: left beh’nd today in "Con­ they compelled Arnold McIntosh, clared'illegal. which pays its men by check. — Stocks Sag. treasurer and John B. Ricardan, The tax money, amounting to sev­ The bank gong and fire siren were necticut by a storm which eewered teller, to climb on the running board eral hundred thousand dollars, is be­ sounded and within five minutes fif­ Coimecticut with a snowfall ran<Tlug ing held in escrow. of their toiuring car to protect them ty aotomobiles carrying residents of By ASSOCIATED PRESS from 7 to 10 inches in the against possible pursuit. At the Parmclee and Yellow ga­ HOUSE POSIFdMES the town and vicinity started in rages it was acknowledged that ASKS FOR 450 MILUONS The dollar bounded upward *ln southern section of the state and Ricardan Jumped as the car sped search of the robbers. 15 to 17 inches in the zxzrth. through the square and escaped, un- there was trouble, but officials of Snow covered the roads, making terms of foreign currencies today, woimded as the bandits flred at him. both companies claimed they had a VOIEONCWAFUND travel difficult and no trace of the as New York pulled heavily upon Uzzlike that of December which McIntosh was thrown out a t the ma­ few cabs moving. TO CONTINUE CWA WORK robbers’ car could be found. the London gold market, and both was followed by severe cold weath­ er, the latest storm brought with it chine three miles farther on. The strike, which was not widely London and New York tugged at the heralded and was called in the main <S>- In Small Bills warmer temperatures, thus facili­ The men shot by the bandits were The money was 1^ bills of small reserves of the Bank of France. Walter H. Bartholomew, 75 year,old by word spread among the drivers tating the removal of sziow from during the last two da3rs, went into To Take It Up Monday So denominations sent by the Philadel­ Once gold moves in vohzme, highways and sidewalks. vault attendant, Forbes McLeod and Director Hopkins Says Pres­ phia Federal Reserve bank to Penns- bankers said, the dollar should come Frank Haddock, policemen and effect when the night drivers took PLAN TO RECOVER But L tradition can be trusted, their cabs to the garages. The day That No Changes Can Be grove last night. down to its new parity in terms of the warmer weather will be short­ Timothy Coughlin, a flreman. Shortly before 9 a. m., Hsu-old An­ gold currencies, and the pound lived and winter is due to last sfc: Shot In StcHDach drivers, instead of taking the ma­ ent Funds Win Be Ex­ chines out again, formed picket CONTRAQ RECORDS derson, bank teller, and W. H. Wad- sterling must either rise against the more weeks. McLeod was shot through the dington, bEink runner, walked to the dollar, or decline in terzzis of the It was groundhog day and in New stomach as he raced to the bank in lines. Police were assigned to the Made. principal garages to guard against hausted on Feb. 9; Wants post office and obtained the two gold. At New York, bonds were Haven '•he sim shone brightly from response to the sounding of the in­ sacks. strong, but stocks sagged a little. a cloudless sky, leaving no doubt stitution’s burglar alarm. disorder. Sttghtly Affected Washington, Feb. 2—(AP) — Far As they reached the bank an auto­ In tbe meantime, banking offices that Mr. Groundhog would be sure Bartholomew was felled with a to Carry on T il May. Former Federal Official TeDs mobile drove up and three men, all handlin,7 gold in all three big finan­ to see hlr shadow durlzig his »Tmn^i hand wound as the bandits entered The Terminal Cab Corporation,, from being unable to get enough of cial capita were in a state of third major operator in the city, with pistols, got out, while a fourth sortie from his hotel. the bank. Haddock tried to intercept the money it wants for relief and mzm stayed at the wheel of the car. feverish activity. Beware of Jack Frost the fleeing bandit car as it sp^ was said to be only slightly affected. Senate Probers They Some $4,000,000 In gold was of­ That company was reported yester­ Wellington, Feb. 2.—(AP)—An continuation of the CWA, the ad­ 'The money packages Md bag Tradition says tf there is no shad­ through Needham Hegihts and tramelMate appropriation of $450,- ministration leadership in the House were seized and tossed into the back fered in London. It was understood ow to frighten him, winter will Coughlin, stationed at a nearby fire day to have assured its men that to have been quickly gobbled up by they could have anything they want­ 000,000 iP carry on die Civil Works Have Been Taken Away^ found it expedient today to defer of the car, which qulcklysped away. soon be over. Othei’wise bewaro of house, was cut down as he ran to until Monday a vote on the $950,- New York banks. The price surged Jack F--ost for at least six more ed as to the tax, as far as the com­ progrtim $nd its 4,000,000 employes PennsgTove is opposite Wilming­ up to the record London figure of Haddock’s assistance. All four vic­ 000,000 appropriation —so ius to ton, Del., about 25 miles south of weeks. tims were taken to the Glover hospi- pany was concerned. .r C/./',000 for direct relief thwart attempts to swell that fund. 139 schillings 6 pence an ounce. That The tax was adopted by the Tam­ Washington, Feb. 2.—(AP)—The Philadelphia. was still a little under the $35 Tbe New Haven branch of the taL ded to the House to­ While Senate leaders finally Witness Story Uziited, States Weather Bureau re­ Foreign Appearing many administration under John P. Senate roail investigating commit­ reached the vote-taking stage on American price. O’Brien late last year in one of sev­ day by.tt||,si^>K^>riations commit­ Carl Luger, 21, an employe of a Gold Prloes ported the mercury dropped to 19 "They came into the bank Just tee today ordered the impounding of the St. Lawrence wateiway treaty, above zero after it ceased anowlzig eral moves to balance the budget. tee, .............. all was Kt for the House to put hardware store adjoining the btuik, G<^d prices in both London uzA at after we bad opened for business,’’ all records relating to air mail con­ v/as a witness to thq holdup. He compared to record sub-zero rec.d- Miss Elizabeth Kimball, secretary As a result, the starting charge on uSly, the .