European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday March 7, 1968 Mim the stars and stripes Page 7 Reagan bemoans gop backbiting Ronald of Californi Washington a railed tuesday for an end to bickering and backbiting among republicans which he said could Cost them the presidential election in november. Saying the election of a re publican president is vital Rea Gan said in a message to a Salute to Republican leadership dinner the months ahead Are too crucial to allow for bickering and backbiting among Republic 4 hold family hostage flee with $72, Honolulu a four masked gunmen held a Bank manager s family hostage Al night using hydrochloric acid As a threat then fled with $72,000 after forcing the manager to go to the Bank tuesday morning whore he opened the vault. Thirteen employees of the ban were in Ned and left in a lunch room by the fleeing bandits after they tax k the Money from the manager. Police said the men Force their Way into the Home of Wai Den Mccullough about 10 30 and bound and gagged him and children Mark 10, an Mardia 8. They left mrs. Mccullough free to care for her 21-month-old baby. At one Point mrs. Mccullough said one of the four poured hydrochloric acid into an ashtray to show what would happen if the family did t cooperate. Cans. The need for Victory is to great. If we Are divided we May lose forever the Opportunity to meet the challenges of this the dinner was a 500-a-Plateaffair to build up Campaign chests for the House and Senate elections. Sponsors the Republican Senate and House Campaign committees figured on an at Tendance of More than 2,000 and estimated they would get Cash and pledges approaching $1 Mil expects to be his state s favorite son candidate atthe Miami Beach fla., Conven Tion. He insists he is not a Seri Ous aspirant for the nomination but has declined to name Choice. Viet morass Barry Goldwater who said he could t support new York gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller for the nomination and has reservations about backing him if he i nominated said he is convinced Reagan will not try for the to prize. In his message Reagan unloaded a fresh indictment of the democratic administration. They have sunk us eve deeper into the morass of Viet Nam he said. They have tolerated and continue to tolerate a bastion of communism i Cuba. They have let nato deteriorate in Europe and watched idly As de Gaulle has become an enemy in Home we have watched helplessly the failure of our elected leaders to solve the problems of crime and rioting of the deterioration of our cities of inflation of poverty in the midst of affluence of pollution in Short the problems of Anever More Urban Heather on the Bill Singer Gordo Macrae congratulates his daughter Heather next to Bun after she made her Broadway debut in Here s where i joining inthe festivities Are sister Meredith right and Macrae s sex wife Sheilah. A old Bandit Back in jail 1924 Holdup the greatest Ballinger Tex. A just Don t know Why i did these things said 76-year-old Willie Newton behind bars again As he spoke of the Newton gang Holdup of an Illinois mail train in 1924. But then mused the crusty Gray haired septuagenarian from his jail cell in this West Texas City who knows Why anyone does anything Newton and Robert c. Talley 47, were charged with burglar of the first National Bank of nearby Rowena the night of feb. Volume at stars & stripes bookstores volume set of ? president Sand famous americans enc Ernani Hubli a Vejl a sir Leo Newi Uno Iti co a Nunu. 28. No Money was taken inthe burglary. Both remain in jail after being denied Don l. Atkins identified Newton monday night alone of the old Newton gang that robbed a mail train at Rondout,111., on june 12, 1924. It was the greatest Bank Rob Bery every staged in the United states Newton said in a jail interview. The loot was More than $3 said the gang which included him three Brothers an two other men had planned the Holdup after being tipped off Bya postal inspector Riding the inspector had tipped off a member of the underground who in turn gave the tip to us Newton got two of our men to ride the rails into Chicago adjust As they got to Rondout these two went into the cab an pulled guns on the Engineer and fireman and ordered them to Stop the place was just outside the Mai car we were going to machine Guinis Newton said he was carrying 12-gauge Shotgun. The others were armed with machine gun Sand tear Gas he said. After the robbery was got shot six times by one of our own men Newton Man got All excited and started running off. I asked him where did he think he was going and he turned around and started shooting at Newton said he was shot inthe hand Arm Side and jaw. He said the gang left for hideout in Chicago to Divide the started getting gangrene in the jaw and we had to Call doctor in. That s when the police got us he said the postal inspector ended up with a 25-year sen tence and other members of the gang were sent to the Federal Penitentiary at leave North kan., for 12 sentences were probably shortened because a member of the gang turned Over part of his loot to officials As state Evi Dence he said. The Judy gave him 12 year and then figured that since it All had the same amount of loot we All should get the same Newton said lie got out of Leavenworth in 1933 and then left for Oklahoma where relived until 1949. When he lost his property there he went to Uvalde Tex., and began work As a 30ilermaker, a Trade he had Learned while in prison. He said he lived a quiet life since 1949 and that there was no record of him being involved i anything until the incident at what now Newton his plans were said he did know. I m a sick old Man and my Days Are numbered he said. Dealers were tipped on . Borrowing Washington a thet Eastry department reported tuesday a leak in the Federal apparatus gave some securities dealers Advance notice of Treasury borrowing last a Advance tip came from an employee of 46 years standing with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia the government reported. He was subsequently suspended and later Federal Reserve Board and the Treasury said new procedures on distributing information on government borrow Ings have been initiated to guard against any future Treasury s report of its m o n t h s -1 o n g investigation turned up no evidence that sub Stantial sums of Money we remade on the basis of the leak. It said there were som Price changes in the last hour before the securities markets closed that ouvre in the direction that would be consistent with Advance information hav ing been available but they were Small chair o i and the vol time of radim does not seem to have been abnormal in any
