others In in an ond kidnaping they left clues that en- lake was an old alligator popularly members of the gang Is believed to G-men and co-operation laney, trapped Atlantic City, merits and he furnished Smith with t HARVARD MEN abled the Federal agents to Identify known In the vicinity as "Old Joe." have led to the arrest of Bartholmey, with local police. N. J„ hotel when Karpis and Camp- broad summary, listing the larger TO MEET them and track them down. With only this meager description Fitzgerald and Peifer. Only two kidnapers besides Karpis bell escaped the trap a year ago, are payments, but withholding names of as a guide, the G-men an in- "The same committed both wanted list of the F. B. I. serving five-year sentences. contract signers. WIFE OF SUSPECT the cities were latent finger- began gang are on the Senator Elbert D. Thomas of Among Utah vestigation of all the lakes in Florida kidnapings,” Hoover told reporters at the time. are Wil- "We intend to knock off every one At a press conference last Wednes- prints—invisible to the naked eye—on present They will be the in the almost forlorn hope of alias Mahan, who ever worked with this gang,” i day Wallace said a clerical staff was principal speaker at the several empty gasoline cans discarded finding yesterday. liam Dainard, sought one with an alligator of that name, in Modus of the was the for the at Hoover said. "It may run to 25 or working on the list and that the annual banquet of the Harvard Club by Bremer’s kidnapers on the day of operandl gang Weyerhaeuser kidnaping a believe-it-or-not sort of climax they same in each case. Hamm was seized Tacoma, in connection with 30 people.” names and amounts desired by the of to be the ransom payment. Two brass ma- Wash., Washington, held at the located such a lake before tne search by several men as he walked down a which Harmon Waley and his wife are Senate could be obtained in five or rine lights used in signaling to the University Club at 8 p.m. Wednesday. had been under found on it of weeks. he indicated also to be way long, St. Paul street on the afternoon serving long terms, and Thomas H. six However, that ransom intermediary proved Others on the program include a hcuse w hose inhabitants had aroused June 1933. He was released after of Mrs. names of contract would not Leigh damaging evidence. 15. Robinson, jr.t kidnaper Berry Wallace signers Away on Visit at Time of suspicions of neighbors and placed it William W. Dunn, a friend, had tossed Stoll of Louisville, Ky. be included unless the Senate so re- Hoodley, professor of zoology at Har- The cans were brought to the bu- under surveillance. a bundle of $100,000 on a lonely <Continued From First quested. vard, and Ralph H. Hallett, reau’s technical here and Like the John Dillinger gang, whose Page.) secretary laboratory stretch of road near Postmaster’s that a man answering Wyoming, Minn., record was •‘closed" last Summer with Officials said they there, of the club. Kidnaping, by a special development process ex- Establishing expected Washington Music will Fred Barker's and a in response to a'pre-arranged signal— the in an Illinois ed that the A. A. A. would have to would be little or no opposition to be furnished the perts found on them fingerprints that description finding gravel pit by Chevy Chase Wife Asserts. woman his the flashing five times of automobile halt the of checks the resolution when It matched those in the bureau’s files resembling mother, Kate, of the remains of John Hamilton, one- mailing past-due Vandenberg Chanters under the direction of Robert alias "Ma,’’ were in the house, a raid- headlights. time brains of the organization, the to farmers to compile the information reached the floor. I E. Kline. toy the Associated Press. of Arthur Barker, paroled murderer. ing squad approached the dwelling, Kidnaped in Same Manner. Karpis-Baker crowd has withered un- sought. The Secretary said the A. A. BENSENVILLE, 111.. April 18.—The The signal lights were traced to a !| announced its official business and the dter the fire of the Federal agents. A. had consistently refused to give wife of Postmaster Midwestern store, where a sales clerk Bremer was kidnaped in much red-haired Acting names of contract the called on the pair to surrender. The as he terms are signers during Edmund Conrad Bartholmey said to- identified a photograph of Alvin same way on January 17, 1934, Serving long jail Lloyd Appreciate this 50% l answer was a burst of machine gun the street after Barker and Davis. William existence of the crop-control pro- i saving she was away on "something like” ICarpis. known to be a pal of the walked along taking Volney day fire from “Ma" Barker in a second grams. was as the man who had his daughter to school. He was re- Weaver, Cassius MacDonald and a visit at the time her husband Barkers, pur- I UNUSUAL VALUES floor window. A lively gun battle en- Walter friend ! others have faced courts this Later Wallace said the A. A. A. had accused Government agents of hid- chased them. leased after Magee, year. by sued, "Ma” Barker and her son finally named as intermediary, had thrown Wynone Burdette and Delores De- begun a survey of the benefit pay- Oculist Prescriptions Filled by Registered Optometrist ing kidnaped William A. Hamm, jr„ With the Karpis-Barker gang dying with guns in their hands. to the — in their home. a $200,000 bundle of currency ^ of St. Paul, definitely identified in Bremer's kid- It learned from a colored was road near Faribault, Minn. The sig- with her duties of the ... imm Busy running naping, the agents shadowed known servant and that Karpis Harry Camp- the ransom this time office in her mate's stead, Mrs. friends of the nal for payment post girl Barkers in Chi- bell, a who is still companion, sought, was the flashing of red. green and a leader in the civic and where was ■ H»%M il Bartholmey, cago, the gang well known. had left the house a few hours before ^ activities of this suburban white lights from the marine lamps. religious Arthur Barker was seen to enter the and were the raiders arrived driving All of the 63 cases which of 1.700 persons, declined to of kidnaping village apartment one of the girls and north. A of their car was description have occurred since passage of the answer any other questions in connec- emerge with the girl. They went to broadcast and Atlantic City police lo- Federal ‘‘Lindbergh law” have been Save tion with the Department of Justice’s another house not far Money! apartment cated the car in front of a hotel at listed as solved. Some of these cases allegations that Hamm was imprisoned away, with G-men them. Then trailing the resort. Without waiting for Fed- handled the ON her home after his abduction for have been entirely by In they returned to the girl’s apartment. eral reinforcements, the police at- $100,000 ransom in 1933. Simultaneous raids were staged on tempted to capture the men, who Rimless "I couldn't say. I was away from both apartments. ’’Doc" Barker was i escaped after an exchange of shots. home at the time,” she told ques- captured without gunfire, but Russell Surgery Operation Reported. “Murco” ! tioners. Gibson, alias ’’Slim" Gray, opened fire Karpis has been flushed several Glasses Neighbors of the Bartholmeys said on the raiders at the other apartment ] times by the Federal forces. Several Grands Paint they never had reason to suspect that Lifelong and was shot and killed in return. months ago it was reported he had Hamm also was concealed in their j and use no Captured in Gibson’s hideout was undergone a plastic surgery operation We short cuts in the making of vicinity. That’s A Byron Bolton, who now is 20 i on his face. Recently he Is said to “MURCO.” why it DOES LAST said and his fam- serving ft They Bartholmey a near <1 years for the Bremer kidnaping. j have fled from house Hot LONG TIME, and why it retains its beauty, ily had been active in many of the before F. B. I. KRYPTOK Hoover says he has been definitely Springs. Ark., just f affairs of this community of small All this means your paint dollars go farther identified as a agents raided it. Upright participant in the I ■ Invisible Bifocal Lenses. One home owners, about 14 miles west of I when use “MURCO.” It’s —newest rimless classes that pair Hamm also. Information obtained from captured you always lOO'o abduction are so Chicago's loop. Bartholmey had been extremely popular. to see far and near. $12 VALUE! Arthur pure. a clerk in the Milwaukee & Barker was convicted in the Chicago, Pianos TORIC LENSES v Bremer case and sent to Alcatraz Ask about our new EASY PAY PLAN St. Paul Railroad yard offices here, Either far or near vision ^ B Island Penitentiary for life. He and 9AZ had been a member of an employer- Rent * For Scientific eye examination a ™^ employe board to settle disputes, and his brother Fred have been identified by in the Hamm case. registered Optometrist had held several public trusts. Hoover declared. E. J. Murphy Co., Inc. I Tinted and Cylindrical Lenses Excepted In searching the apartment where 710 12th NAtl.