The Holland Evening Sentinel from Holland, Michigan • Page 4

TWELVE THE HOLLAND, MICHIGAN, EVENING SENTINEL Respected Citizen Goes Off Beam And Admits Robbing Nearby Bank ELK RIVER. Minn. Clifford Baughman, 69. silver- haired, quiet and respected, said todav he took his wife's "orders for vears and i a conceived a daring holdup on his own. He stole S6 ''ll by threatening to 'urn Elk River Bank into a "slaughter house" Thursday.

"My wife i know a i about' this." he boasted. Police found he had even drawn up plans titled "How To Rob a Bank." "She was always i You know how it is. Everything a i came up. she knew how to do he said. He a i his decision to hold up the bank was a "mistake." But be said he hadn't told his i a thing about his plans.

didn't set. along too good lately. So I slopped i her things. She had no idea where J. was when I was at 'he bank." Baughman had been a model citizen until he robbed the bank in this community of 51,500.

Tie was a key-maker. He even had fixed the -'locks several times on the jail where he is being held. He said he has had a "had heart" and offered to bet S1.00 he'd be "gone" in 60 days. He said he decided if ho was going to do something i rob a bank he'd have "to do it soon." He was arrested when he got, to his borne in Anoka. V2 miles away.

an hour after he walked into the hank and shoved a note and a gun at Assistant Cashier Dale Palmer. The note read: "Keep your eyes down or this .15 colP will go off. II the alarm goes off so will you. Don't talk just nod. If anything starts I'll make a slaughterhouse out of this bank.

You will pull the switch when i tell you." In the process of holding up the hank, he locked four employes and three customers into vaults. After fleeing in bis own car. he put the money and his clothes into cellophane bags, stuck the bags in a burlap sack filled with sand and hid them under water in a nearby creek. For six hours a his capture he wouldn't talk about the robbery. But shortly before midnight he dictated a confession to Sheriff C.

.1. and the United when everyone else had left. Baughrnan sat on a slraight- hacked chair and propped bis stocking feet over another chair while he talked. His shoes had been laken by deputies and labeled as evidence. "My feel, are cold, but my heart is hot and heavy." he said.

He snid he would sell his whole story "in three or four for SUOOO. "I'm going to art the tbousanr PLASTIC ONE ond OMtY! A ckooer mode for cleaning PLASTrCS. orvd rrvairvtains that new" look by tKe microscopic, noo- oppon- bucks while this thing is hot," he said. "That set my wife up. She could hold on to our plai-p and maybe get some money from i' and make out okay.

"She has been all right. But sh was always 'right'. You know what 1 mean." he said. Railroad Unions Present Demands WASHINGTON irpi Kirn-en: unions representing 1,000.000 vorkers today served demands on he nation's railroads lor extensive new contract improvements. Union representatives nolilied officials ol railroads thai they want to begin bargaining on live 'fringe" benefits, i i MTiployer-paid health and wellare plans, paid holidays, longer vacations, i nd more free passes.

(jeorge K. Leighly. president of Ihe Railway Labor Executives' Association, said the unions will gel around later to selling demands for a new wage increase. Under of the present con- a no wage increase can be sought until their expiration dale of October 1. Workers represented by the rail labor group are I hi; so-called non- operating employes machinists, anil clerks who work behind-the-scenes in Ihe railroad industry.

Operating employes who man Ihe trains are not. a by today's move. Bulletin Compares A-Bomb Output 394 PINE AVE. ent, ckst-catchrg oil Film on A A I PCASTK WPHOtSTERY FLOORS DE WAARD FLOOR COVERING PHONE 6-8570 REVISION MOVIES See Us For Home Entertainment ALLIN'S RADIO SHOP Home of Good Service -250 RIVER AVENUE PHONE 4289 AT HEERSPINK'S SII OUR ARRAY OF GIFTS FOR EVERY GRADUATE COMPLETE WATCH SELECTION .75 FOR HIM CUFF LINKS TIE CLASP SETS FOR HER HEERSPINKS JEWELRY GIFT SHOP Holland's Lowest Outlying Jewelry ond Gift Shop Washington Square Phone 2917 Champion Speller Meets President WASHINGTON UPI Buxom Elizabeth Hess of Phoenix, the nation's new champion speller, was called to the White House today to receive the personal congratulations of President Eisenhower. The studious eighth-grader won when she outspelled 52 other finalists for the 3953 championship.

She took- the 5500 top money rize and is headed expense ree week-end in New York he will appear on a Sunday night jlevision show. Elizabeth won when she correctly pelleri 'souhrette' Thursday at the i a II and the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl Marshal, followed by the Duke of Edinburgh i a i Abbey in London, where daily a a are a i place in preparation for the a i BONN, Cermany A West Merman bulletin. Quo- linn "Military Kxporl." said today Soviet Russia has produced "ui the most." 1(10 atom bombs. The I'nilod a is making an estimated 500 atom and hydrogen bombs yearly. Ihe bulletin said.

The bulletin adrlerl that America is outdistancing Russia in the development of atomic guns and Ihe use of atomic energy to drive motors. Bui. the official governmenl publication said Russia, China and Ihe Soviet satellites have a peacetime armed force strength of 6.438,000 men. including 175 divisions, compared to 175.1100 men and 90 land divisions in Ihe forces of Ihe 14 North Atlanl'u: Treaty nations. The bulletin estimated the Soviet on She Planted Cherry Seeds inside or Ice Cube Tray NORMAN.

Okla. Dixie Smith, an Air Force secretarial worker, explained to her perplexed neighbors today why she was "planling" ice cubes in her front yard in 100-degree heat the other aflernoon. F.ach ice cube, she said, contained a flowering cherry seed. She had intended to plant them hut when she failed to fall, one looked for a decline, one said it was loo early to tell anc four anticipated no substanlia change. Two of the Sarah Lawrenc College and Wagner College, plan tied tuition increases.

Fordham University said it was considerin such a step. Harvard announced it will rais tuition from $600 to 5800. Schools planning tuition tncreas es elsewhere include the Univer sity of Wisconsin, Un YOUR PICTURE FULL SIZE of a nine-hour spelling bee. Second place and $300 went to 1-year-old Raymond Sokolov of Detroit who went down on "spermaceti." The dimple-checked lad hurst, into tears as Elizabeth correctly spellei his word. Third place award ol $100 was won by David Hudson.

13, Cuyahoga Falls. who i a tripped on "consanguineous." Some species of snakes have many as 300 of ribs, loosely tied to the backbone. FRIDAY, MAY 1933 Raced in Stolen Car CULVL'R CITY. Calif. (UP) Kred Monroe Peebles.

26-year-old mechanic and race driver, crossed DIP finish line in third place in a stripped clown stock car race at Culver i Legion Stadium. He collected $40 prize money. nd ihen went to jail on suspicion of a i Mrs. Dorothy Frosts a i to enlor it in the GRAFLEX la si fall. gel.

them planted in lime them in "deep freeze" in cube tray until spring. Colleges Fight Tuition Boosts an put ice versity. a i and University at St. I the University of Paul. Maryland.

The University of Missouri has cut its tuition for out of a students. Schools anticipating enrollment increases included the University of Michigan. Boston University. Florida Slate University. Marquette, Georgia Tech.

Emory University. and Georgetown University. Union and satellites could mustei a i divisions i I i two months a whereas Ihe West could put only .1811 active divisions in the field. However. Ihe bulletin added that the Allies would en in HO divisions from Sweden.

Switzerland. Spain and YuRoslavin in Ihe event, of World War 111. Dockers Ordered I To'Clean House' By UNITED PKKSS Most colleges and universities' a trying to hold the line on tui- hut several win be Lift Wallet From Victim i'Hugging' Women Bandits costs spot I WASHINGTON U'PI The racket-ridden International shornmen's Association was under "final" orders today to clean out its rriminal elements or face expulsion from Ihe AFL. The AFL F.xecutivo Council, angered hy "inadoqijalo" slops a so lar hy the wale.r- Ironl union, told President seph A. Ryan hluntly to clean house completely hy Augusl.

Oth- orwise. Ihe council said, il would recommend punitive measures to handle the dock workers' union. The council, in its fourth session today, WHS scheduled to tackle another racketeering prohlem within its this time involving the AFI, Auto Workers. Lenders of Hie auto union wor, to make an appeal from the council's order to revoke the charter of Now York Taxicah Local .10:2. i headed hy John ron- vicled extortionist.

AFI. leaders demanded the local ho ousted he- cause ol its leadership. AFL, President Meany told news conference Thursday no decision has heen made on what punishment, miuht he meted out to the longshoremen's union. But, informed sources said the AFI. lop command would prohahly recommend a Ihe II.A ho kicked out of the parent ion if it fails compK, a a i is a hy the council at its meeting in August i he in the form of a recommendation to the AFI, convention MOM September.

Meany said the II will maintain its present a in the AFI. at least until the convention. The council, in i third session of a scheduled i a ronleronco. also look an important slop toward a possible merger i i the CIO. The members put their a ol a a on a plan to draw up no-raiding agreement with CIO leaders as a i step towards .1 nmtiod organisation of workers.

forced to increase them, check showerl today. Some schools anticipate a slight increase in enrollment, which fell off when the World War IT Gf education program ran its course. Two factors were cited in brighter enrollment prospects: 1. More GI's are returning from service and the GI training program is picking up again. 2.

The effect of Ihe low birth rale during the Depression is passing. Youngsters who were horn in the late when Ihe birth rale began picking up, now are entering college. A check of 13 representative colleges and universities in Now York. New Jersey and Connecticut showed that seven were anticipating inc.reased enrollment in the Take guesswork out of your picture-taking with this newest Graflex camera made by the makers of the famous Speed Graphic press camera. Graflex 22 helps you avoid tilted, badly cropped or out-of-focus pictures.

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