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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1956)
Bank Bandit Gets $65,000; Captives Freed (Picture Wirrphote Page) 'SOUTHPORT. Ind. I - A tall, lean gunman, Who backed up low spoken order with a nickel-plated revolver, robbed the Southport State Bank of 165,000 Tuesday aft er holding the bank president and nil wife captive for aeven hours. J. A. Whalen, the president, said the stocking-masked robber must have broken into the Whalen's In dianapolis home, north of South port, about 2 a.m. (EST). Drove Bank , "The firfit thins I knew there he was shining a flashlight in my eyes," Whalen said. "He made us get tressed and we sat around waiting until about 8:30 a.m. Then he made us get into our car ant drive to the bank, using a round about route." Six women employees entered the bank while the gunman was waiting for a time lock to release the vault door. "He told me to tell them 1 want ed to sec them in my office," Whalen said. "He stayed behind a door and as soon as they walked in the office he covered them with his gun." When the vault clicked open, the robber filled a while cloth bag with money, discarded a $2 bill and handed $."00 to Cashier Ruth Drake "to open the bank." He escaped in Whalen's car. Indiana State Police blockaded roads and searched the area with planes. Teller Verina Riser told state troopers the gunman was "very courteous," but Whalen com mented, "he cleaned us out com pletely. He got everything we hac!." The loot was the most taken from an Indiana bank since a $96,000 robbrry of an Angola bank in 1926. The Southport gunman was de scribed as between 30 and 35 years old, about six feet tall and weigh ing about 165 pounds. He wore a black and white checked sports shirt. Statesman, Salem, Ore.,' Wed., Jun. l3, o6'(Sec. I)-3 Truce Teams Take Leave of North Korea SEOUL. South Korea - Py ongyang radio Tuesday announced the withdrawal of the four-power armistice inspection teams from North Korea. An Ameritim source here said members of the truce team ar rived this morning in Panmunjom, In the neutral demarcation zone between North and South Korea. He added that "presumably" ' all the Swiss, Swedish. Czech and Po lish inspectors had moved out of the North. The neutral nations supervisory commission ordered the withdraw al from the North after the U.N. Command told the truce teams to get out of South Korea. The U.N. allies charged the Communist Czech and Polish truce inspectors were conniving with the North Ko reans in an effort to hide an arms buildup in violation of the armis tice. The U.N. Command moved the truce teams by air to Panmunjom Saturday. Similar teams had been stationed in the North Korean ports of Sinjuiju. Manpo and Sinunju. Truman Talks With Mollet About Peace PARIS i.fi Former President Harry S. Truman talked Tuesday with French Premier Guy Mollet ahi.ut "world peace." , Truman and Mollet met for about a half hour in the Salon Blanc of the Hotel Matignon. Mollet's offi cial residence. Truman was accom panied by Stanley Woodward, for mer U.S. ambassador to Canada and now Truman's traveling com panion, and Robert Joyce, charge d affairs of the U.S. embassy in Paris. "We had a most pleasant visit very satisfactory," Truman said afterward. Truman went from the hotel Ma tignon to the Elysee Palace, the French white house, where he had lunch with President Rene Coty, Mollet, Foreign Minister Christian Tineau, and other French leaders. Later Truman was to call on Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther. retiring supreme Allied commander in Europe. CONTEST ABANDONED KARACHI, akistan Beauty contest organizers Tuesday aban doned selecting .a Miss Pakistan for entry in the "Miss Universe" contest in the United States. Ar dent Moslems had protested that the beauty contest was un-Islamic I BEFORE . . 1 j You boy a Spinot ft jt Organ ... w Jfy Hava You Q, li Heard And m Splayed... Jf, , n. , l : I r. S. iou it oi napjj'' with a Baldwin'. 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