Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 258, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1932 — Page 14

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GO-BETWEEN IN LINDBERGH CASE DODGING PRESS Resents Publicity Thrust on Him by Kidnaping Sensation. BY JOHN M. MARTYN 1 nlted Pres* Staff Corresnnndent fCoßvrleht. 1032. bv United Press) NEW YORK, March 7.—Salvatore Spitale doesn't like all the publicity he's getting because he has been named as a "go-between” in the Lindbergh baby kidnaping, and he is sorry he didn't get any news of the baby the first day, he told the United Press today after watching Sunday night’s hockey game. Spitale, his henchman, Irving Bitz, and Mrs. Bitz occupied a box at Madison Square Garden while most of the world wondered whe r e they were, what they planned to do and what they had learned about the kidnapers. "I’m kinda sorry I got mixed up in this," he informed questioners.. ‘‘Papers are printing pictures of my children, and dragging my family into the story. “My policy of avoiding publicity has been knocked for a row of milk bottles. Now I'm right up in news bigger than the Shanghai war. Watched by Gangs “From now on I’ll be watched, not only by the newspapers, but by the gangsters. Every radio program tells the world I’m gangland’s appointed hoodlum.” “And,” the manager of one of Spitale’s restaurants chimed in, "where's he going to be when this thing dies down? The same place A1 Capone was when he got too famous.” Spitale sat in a rear room of a restaurant in which he is the reputed heavy stockholder as he answered the questions submitted by United Press. “Yeah, I'm a little discouraged that I didn’t hear anything about the baby today, but I feel sure he is in the hands of a clever band and will be returned safe,” he said. “No, I’m not doing anything about it. Why should I? There is nothing I can do. Nothing to Gain “I have offered to be the middle man until somebody shows up with the baby. I hope to continue my regular business until then. "I didn’t agree to this idea of capitalizing on Lindbergh's misfortune. This publicity is the worst thing that could happen to me. I have nothing to gain. However, there are favors no man could refuse. “I was asked to use my influence to find the Lindbergh baby and that is what I intend to do. “As far as searching the town is concerned, that’s out. Reports that 3 have sent men around to various dives are ridiculous. I’m no cop. “If the kidnapers are professionals, or even amateurs with big ideas, they’ll find me sooner than I could find them. If they are cranks, I don’t mean a thing to them, and they don’t mean anything to me.” . , . At the garden Sunday might, a newspaper man recognized Spitale. and sent over a card with a note to the effect that he had some information on the baby. He was admitted to the box. Not Playing Detective “If you have the baby, I’ll talk to you,” Spitale told him: “If not, take your phony tips to the police. The kidnapers know me or know where to find me. I’m not playing detective; I’m a business man and have my business to attend to. I “Anybody ‘in the know’ can reach j me at any hour in five minutes.; Anybody not ‘in the know’ wouldn t have ft very tough time finding out how to reach me,” he added. And that was that. Later he was asked if he credited reports the baby had been stolen by kidnapers who carried him down the Delaware river to a sea-going vessel. “It’s possible, but not probable,” he said. “On top of all other hazards, they’d have to beat the rum fleet, port, officials, passing marine traffic, and coast guards who would make transfer of ransom all the tougher,” he explained. Besieged by Reporters Besieged by reporters all day Sunday, Spitale denied himself to visitors in the ornate apartment house where he makes his home on Central Park west. He left word in the lobby that he was not to be disturbed. He cautioned bellboys and doormen not to talk about his connection with the Lindbergh case. “With all these reporters hanging hround.” one employe there explained, “he doesn’t believe the kidnapers will try to get in touch with him.' He wants the press to leave him completely alone and stay away from this place so that if they do try to communicate with him they won’t have to plow through a regiment of reporters and photographers.” It was said at the apartment that so far Spitale has not received pny communication or visitor indicating contact has been established. DISPLAY ELECTRIC EYE Fhotographic Device Will Catch Shadow of Bullet. An electrical photographic device so sensitive that the shadow of a passing bullet will actuate it, is emong the 300 kinds of apparatus which form the Allen-Bradley Company’s display of electrical control devices to be on view beginning Thursday at the administration building of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, 1230 West Morris street. The exhibit will be open daily from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m., until March 19. PLAN DEDICATION RITES Fire Department to Hold Ceremony for New Station. Formal dedication of new Fire Station 8, Eleventh street and Broadway, has been set for 6:30 Wednesday night. Fire Chief Harry E. Voshell announced today. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, members of the safety board and city council and other officials have been invited to attend the supper p.nd program.

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DANCE HALL BURNS Pavilion Is Destroyed With $5,000 Loss, Losses totaling $7,600 was caused by three fires which destroyed a dance pavilion, and damaged a storeroom and a residence Sunday and early today, according to fire officials. An overheated stove was blamed by firemen for a fire which leveled the Land-o-Dance pavilion, operated by Robert Riser, at the Post road and Washington street, early today. Firemen were hampered in fighting the blaze by lack of water and high winds. Riser said the structure was not insured. Loss was estimated at $5,000. Damage estimated at $2,000 was caused by fire Sunday in a twostory concrete building at 48 South Eleventh avenue, Beech Grove, owned by Edward Brendon. Firemen said sparks were responsible for the blaze. Home of William Leonard, 4516 East Washington street, was damaged S6OO by a fire Sunday originating from sparks on the roof. NAVAL RESERVES ARE READY FOR INSPECTION Full Strength Includes Four Units, One of Radio. Four Indianapolis units of United States naval reserves today announced they are ready for inspection by the official board which arrives Thursday. Recruited to full strength, the units include three divisions of regular reserves and one radio unit. These, with the fourth division at Michigan City, comprise the Fourth battalion of the U. S. N. R. Lieutenant-Commander O. F. Heslar has charge of the five units. In each division are fifty-five regulars and twenty volunteers, with large numbers waiting to enlist, according to Lieutenant-Command-er Heslar. Inspection will be at headquarters, 730 East Washington street, and will be open to the public. SEEKS HIGH COURT POST Logansport Attorney in Race for State Supreme Bench. Members of the Cass County Bar Association today announced the candidacy of Michael L. Fansler of Logansport for the Democratic nomination for supreme court judge from the Fifth judicial district. Fansler is 49 and was admitted to practice in Cass county in 1905. He was associated with the late Judge Moses B. Lairy and the late Judge Joseph M. Rabb. The circular letter sent by the bar association declares that Fansler “is a close and careful student of the law and a vigorous and forceful advocate.”

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not,” which appeared in Saturday’s Times: A Fish That Prayed—During my stay in Vienna last year, my attention was called to a most bizarre gravestone in the Jewish cemetery situated at IX Seegasse, in the Austrian capital.' It is surmounted by the likeness of a fish, and marks the final resting place of a carp, which, before expiring in the frying pan, is said to have startled a Viennese hausfrau by exclaiming “Listen (O) Israel,” the two Hebrew words of an antemortem prayer. I secured a photograph of the curious monument on the spot and from it drew this cartoon. Tomorrow: The Greatest Sailing Race in History. PHONE DEFICIT SHOWN Payment of $2,640,000 Dividends Leaves $83,700 Loss. Annual report of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company for the year ended Dec. 31, 1931, made public today, shows a deficit of $83,700, after payment of $2,640,000 in dividends. Net income was $2,566,000. During the year, the report continues, 63,541 telephones were installed and 72,188 disconnected, making a net loss of 8,647. Longdistance business also declined sharply, the report said. Taxes for the year were $1,504,000, or 11.5 cents from each dollar of revenue.

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FACING LONG TERM Woman Burglar to Get 3 to 10 Years. Facing three to ten years in the Indiana woman’s prison, MisS May Mattox, 32, of 1628 East Washington street, whom police captured in an attempt to open a safe, pleaded guilty today before Criminal Judge Frank I*. Baker to charges of burglary. Miss Mattox was captured sitting on a safe in a Western Union Telegraph Company branch office at Pearl and Delaware streets two months ago. She admitted she had tried to work the safe’s combination. Baker said sentence will be pronounced Thursday. Pleas of guilty to burglary and larceny charges were entered by two youthful burglar suspects at arraignment today before Baker. They are Alexander Doss, 20, and John Brixy, of 2919 South Pennsylvania street. They will be sentenced Thursday. Civil War Veteran Dies By United Press BRAZIL, Ind., March 7.—Volney B. Shattuck, 86, a veteran of the Civil war, died here today. His death reduced to five the membership in the local G. A. R. post.

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HOOVER HELPS LAUNCH ‘BABY’ BONDCAMPAIGN Issues Plea to Hoarders in Nation-Wide Radio Talk; Other Leaders Speak. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 7. Hoarders today had before them a radio appeal of President Herbert | Hoover to .show their faith in ) America by putting their money back into useful channels. The President opened the national baby bond campaign in an address from the White House Sunday night. On the same national hookup j with him were Charles G. Dawes, i president of the Reconstruction ! Finance Corporation: Ogden L. ’ Mills, secretary of the treasury, and i Senator Joseph T. Robinson (Ark.),! Democratic senate leader. Mr. Hoover said the appeal to put idle dollars to work was “a call to i the faith of the people,” a call that would bring she country back to normal. ‘‘The safest risk in the world is i a share in the future of the Ameri- 1 can people,” he said. Secretary Mills explained the : baby bond issue. These bonds, or treasury certificates, are in denominations of SSO, SIOO and SSOO, and bear 2 per cent interest. They will be dated March 15 and will mature in one year. They are a direct gold obligation ■ of the"government, and are redeem- j able at any time on sixty days’ notice. They are intended to afford ! a thoroughly safe investment for I timid money, but bear a low interest rate to discourage withdrawing cash from banks to buy them. Dawes, addressing his remarks directly to the hoarders, pointed out that each man had a perfect right to do what he pleased with his money, but added: “Because so many other people at the same time have done the same thing, you now occupy anew rela- | tionship to the existing business dej pression and unemployment in the United States, and have incurred a I new and individual responsibility.” ! He expressed the conviction that I prosperity would return “in a reaj sonable time” if the hoarded dollars are brought out of hiding, but I feared that if they should not be reinvested “we must remain as a people for an indefinite time under the terrible hardships of an unprecedented business, industrial and and commercial stagnation with all its consequent human misery.”

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SLAIN BANDIT'S FUNERALTODAY Companion Will Be Given Hearing Thursday. Funeral services were to be held this afternoon for Fred C. Stuck, 36, killed by a police bullet early Saturday whem officers said they interrupted a holdup in which he and Harold Lester, 28, were taking part. The funeral was to be . held at Stuck’s home, 1208 Beecher street. Burial was to be in Floral Park cemetery. He leaves the widow, Mrs. Helen M. Stuck and a daughter, Mary K. Stuck. Lester, 1208 Finley avenue, is held on charges of robbery and automobile banditry. He will be given a hearing Thursday. He was arrested during investigation of the

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U. S, LOVE OF MUSIGLAUDED America Most Appreciative, Says Russ Composer. "America is more sound in appreciation of music than any other country in the world today,” according to Alexandre Gretchaninoff, Russian composer and pianist, who will play Tuesday night at the John Herron Art institute under auspices of the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale. Gretchaninoff, who is widely known for his church music, believes the era of jazz is on the wane. "Every time I come to this country, I see a greater interest on the part of the people in the more expressive music,” he states. He now is making his fourth tour of America. He is accompanied on his tour by Albert Rappaport, lyric tenor of Civic Opera Company, who, according to Gretchaninoff, is the greatest interpreter of his music. “Russians will not develop anew music to take the place of that ol the prerevolutionary days under the present rule,” Gretchaninoff believes. “They are mixing politics and art over there, and politics is dominant. “But Russians are artistic. That will change.” He would venture no opinion as to the future of his native land. His only statement was, “I do not believe in dictators.” Rappaport, as well as interpreting his songs, interprets also his speech. The composer speaks but little English.

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