Show c. c HOLDUp SPURS DILLINGER HUNT Bandits Seize Hostages As Barricade to Block j Gunfire From Pursuers Pursuers' Two Desperadoes MaKe Escape s ape Four Prisoners R eased R RAID ID NETS LOOf LOO Police he heck k or on Dillinger Involved ST. ST PAUL April 25 S Four W-Four gunmen and two women raided a farm home near Elk River today took a small amount of fled causing a general alarm to Twin City police pollee First reports led the authorIties to the raiders might lave have been niem mem bets bers of the John Dillinger gang canz By Associated LM Press AKRON Ohio April 25 The 25 he M Mogadore Mo- Mo r SavIngs bank in suburban Mogadore was held up and robb robbed d of by two bandits shortly after afternoon afternoon noon today The robbers two clerks and two customers releasing releasing ing their cap captives ves about one arid and one half miles north of the city near the Cle road The captives gave Akron polIce Illi Illinois ois licEnse No as the one oe attached to the car used by the rob rob- hers bers The police poUce began an immediate immediate imme- imme diate check to whether this was Wa one of the Dillinger gang gangu cars which fled a trap in northern Wisconsin 48 hours ago The bandIts appeared in front of the small bank about 1135 a. a zm m. rushed inside and held up the two clerks and two other persons in the One man then thea calmly behind be be- hind the cages and grabbed aU of the c cash h in mone money drawers which be opened readily Directing their prisoners to go with them the robbers robbers rob rob- bers walked o t t. t placing ng two captives es on on ach ch running board of their caras h human man barricades against pursuers pursuers' gunfire The Thc captives were William Brilland Brill Brilland and Dean Adolph clerks Charles Abbott a customer and an unidentified lied fied man The captives were handled considerately by the rob robbers rs and were released one and onE miles north or of Mogadore All Akron squad cars were ordered to the scene Search Degenerates Into Mad Scramble CHICAGO April 25 UP of John Dillinger and an half dozen of his henchmen degener today into a scramble by thousands thou thou- sands of law enforcement ement officers to check a multitude of alarms over five ive states Almost department ot of agents reputedly crack marksmen leading a five i times larger force of local officers patrolled snow banked forest roads in northern Wisconsin following abduction and robbery of a filling station attend t at Ellsworth by three men The They were under orders orders or or- ders to shoot to kill The wIlderness search was directed by W. W A A. Rorer who ran to earth George Georg Machine Gun Kelly and d sent him to prison for the or of Charles Urschel in Oklahoma National Guardsmen Read Ready The ring ot of across th thc northern sector of the search was completed by preparation of soldiers soldiers sol sol- diers at Fort Brad Brady near Sault Ste. Ste Marie to join other forces it if any of the outlaws are cornered National g guard ard officers of Minnesota and Wis Wis- cons consi also offered aid In Chicago 25 department ot of justice Jus jus- Uce tice Investigators silted t through un un- State police ot of Indiana and Ohio where Dillinger perpetrated most of the crimes for tor which he is sought and where he escaped from two jails aUs swarmed over every highway leading from Wisconsin and Illinois Their search was dr driven by reports that the maroon wheeled red sedan which three of the gangsters stole stoIc Monday near St Sl Paul had been seen at Muncie and Fort Wayne md Ind with wit tour four occupants carrying a machine machin gun and pistols Airplanes Held Ready Airplanes were held at Ch Chicago St St. Paul and Milwaukee to transport ex cx pert federal marksmen to the scene of any future encounter ter with the quarry At the Ohio state pr prison on In Columbus Co- Co lumbus where three men Continued no In Pare ln Two BANK ROBBERY SPURS PURSUIT r Desperadoes Make Good Ec pe Four Hostages Hostages' V Released from Pare One convicted or of murder await tion almost fantastic precautions were ta taken n to prevent a rescue National guardsmen Who have guarded the trio since arrest were reinforced anti antl prison guards inItiated in in- a strict disciplinary regime inside imide the walls Dillinger Hunt Swings Back to Twin Cities ST Sr P PAUL UL April 25 With UP-With an army o ot law enforcement officers cers massed under a grim command to shoot to kill kiU the frantic manhunt for John the Hoosier farm bo boy turned terrorist turned again late today to the Twin Cities Squad cars bristling with machine guns md and other weapons roared out from central stations in response to tips tips' that Dillinger had returned to the locale ot of some of his most savage avage battles with the laW Jaw V Tension prevailed throughout the Twin Tin Cities as they were placed Under un Un- der almost martial law InvestigatIons ver under way at St St. Louis Park a Minneapolis suburb where police were reported looking for Tommy DillInger gangster gang gang- ster Iter in hiding there Another concentration or of federal agents and police was on at Columbia Heights another suburb in an effort to 10 track down a splattered mud black sedan wed used in the holdup of a farmer at Elk River The farmer August Oberg reported to police that he had been held up by four or five men and two women Other squad cars were ordered to toa It a district on art Summit avenue sIve St. St Paul residential district where gangsters have been found in hiding on several occasions Committee Approves V r More Bills Bills W WASHINGTON April 25 Two P vo T more senate bills to give the federal government additional power in dealing deal deal- ing with criminals were approved today today to- to day by the house corn com They it a federal offense to rob a rut natio o a hank or kill or assault a federal officer Dillinger Escape Puts federal Man On Spot MERCER Wis Wi April 25 A A j-A petition suspension of Melvin Mel Mel- via vin H. H Purvis chief of the bureau ot of of the United States Slates department de- de of justice ustice in this area rea pend- pend lag an investigation int the escape of the John Dillinger gang from rom Q a hideout near nr here Sunday night was being circulated toda today 25 R M Purvis tOd todAy y said I never lever comment on this things of that kind when informed in- in f formed a a Petition w was s circulating at I Mercer Wis asking Iris his suspension s-s s chIef of the Chicago office oUke ot of the United States division of tion for failure to capture John linger Inger at Little Bohemia camp Well Iet get soon Purvis laid aad V |