Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1932 — Page 1

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BLAME LIQUOR RING IN BABY KILLING

ANDERSON RUM CASE WILL GO TO JURY SOON Closing Arguments Will Be Completed Today on Plot Charges. WITNESSES ATTACKED li. S. Attorney Admits That ‘Admissions Made Are Shocking.’ Closing arguments in the Anderson liquor conspiracy rase were reS'uned today in federal court, and the case was expected to be given the Jury before noon. Arguments were begun late Friday. after the defense rested at 4, attorneys for all defense witnesses rxeept Police Chief Alvin Riggs and /ormer Detective Captain Ralph Jtirh addressing the Jury. •John A. Royse, attorney for Rich t>ud Riggs, opened arguments this tnorning, followed by District Attorney George R. Jeffrey. "The government holds no brief tfor some of Its witnesses," Alex G. Cavins, assistant district attorney, Wold the Jury in opening the arguments late Friday. Admits “Sickening Admissions” It is a sickening thing to hear • heir testimony and admissions of pome of them, but this is a condition you can expect where such things are going on. The government has to go to such people to get evidence. ' However, they are not the playmates of the federal government, mor of its agents, but of these deiendants on trial. "The defense is attempting to •nake these witnesses look as black as they are, themselves, but that doesn’t remove the stains from the defendants. “Merely because the pot calls the ketle black, it does not make the pot any cleaner." ITiere is not a citizen or official in the state whose liberay is safe as Jong as witnesses can testify to things f nat can be denied only in general Frank A. Symmes, who bpened arguments for the defense, declared. Blame Put on Muyor Blame for disappearance of confiscated liquor from police headquarters was shifted to shoulders of Mayor Jesse H. Mellett, who is not on trail at this time because of illness, in the closing defense (testimony. Riggs testified liquor had been removed from the station on orders of the mayor, denying government charges that he ever ordered any liquor removed illegally. He asserted that on one occasion Mellett told him to take a gallon of alcohol to Charles Otto, adding that, when he refused, the mayor (Turn to Page Two)

ALjJ THE MAN WHO CHANGED HISTORY

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HE was born an obscure camel driver, and he never learned to read or write. ... At 25, he married the richest woman in Mecca, who was 40. ... He learned of God through the Jews and the Christians, smashed the pagan idols of his people and founded a religion of his own, which forced his brand of salvation on millions at the point of the sword and In the glare of the torch. At one time he had nine wives—and yet he found time, while composing their jealous quarrels, to advance his new faith, which was destined to clai mthe adherence of 230 million people 1.300 years after his death. Pour stories on one of the most colorful figures in history, the 1300th anniversary of whose death win be observed by 230.000,000 Mohammedans throughout the world on June 6. The first will appear Monday, May 16, in THE TIMES

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VOLUME 44 NUMBER 3

Where Blanket of Leaves Hid Slain Baby

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—Copvrißht. 1932. by NEA Service. Inc. Transmitted by Telephone. ONLY forty-five feet from the Mt. Rose-Hopewell highway, seen in the foreground of the above air photo, was found the body of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. The cross indicates where the baby’s skeleton was discovered, partly covered by leaves and wind-blown debris, by William Allen. 46-year-old Negro, as he walked back into the woods leaving his companion, Orville Williams, in his truck on the highway. While police cars spied past the spot in the frenzied seventy-two-

PETERS MAKES VICTORY CLAIM Confident Democrats Will Name .Him Chairman. Indiana Democracy’s bitterest fight over state committee personnel in twenty-five years, was due to reach its climax today when the biennial reorganization meeting is held here. R. Earl Peters of Ft. Wayne, three-times state chairman was confident he would be re-elected, while the opposition, still uncertain as to its choice, was counting noses and attempting to determine whether it will favor Ed Eisner of Seymour, or Omer Jackson of Greenfield, Eleventh district chairman. Two ties must be decided before the election. At Wednesday's district reorganization there was a deadlock, 9-9, on Tenth district chairman between James E. Carpenter, auto license department head, and Charles Wall, Winchester banker. In the Fifth. Mrs. Mary Arnold of Peru and Mrs. W. D. Wyatt of Redkey also tied for vicechairman. Both deadlocks were certified to the state committee to be decided. If the anti-Peters group’s claim of eleven votes on the committee is true, thus giving the other side only eleven votes also. Peters is a cinch to win, because the chairman casts the deciding votes in the <ies. ORDER LAND SEIZED Governor of Mexican Province to Take Over Private Property. By L nited Prct* MEXICO CITY, May 14.—The Governor of the state of Hidalgo was authorized to seize “for the public good" any property within the state today, owners of the property to be reimbursed on the basis of an official appraisal with a 3 per cent down payment and the balance in installments over twenty years. The Governor was given the power to decide what property would be seized.

REICHERS FORCED DOWN AT SEA; SAVED BY CHAMP RESCUE TEAM

By United Pre** Aboard s. s. president ROOSEVELT, EN ROUTE TO NEW YORK, May 14.—Lou Reichers, young New Jersey flier, who lost a gallant fight to span the Atlantic, was under care of ship’s surgeon today, pulled out of an angry ocean by America’s most famous maritime rescue team. Captain Georg* W. Pried and chief officer, Harry Manning. The Fried-Manning combination. already honored for its phenomenal ability to be in the right place at the right time for a sea rescue, and to do its work precisely in the face of danger, ••clicked" again. Reichers’ airplane Liberty, the highest-powered aircraft ever to venture over the Atlantic, was claimed by the ocean. Manning’s lifeboat also was abandoned, after Reichers had been taken out of his gold and black speed machine, his nose broken and his face lacerated. The flier said he was forced to

‘HOME’ SET UP.ON COURTHOUSE LAWN WITH its meager supply of household goods placed on the south lawn of the courthouse, a family which resisted eviction Friday from 2340 Calhoun street, is attracting attention of hundreds of persons today. Merle Ayres, jobless World war veteran, with a record of sixteen months’ service is the head of the family, which includes his wife; a son, Frank, 20; and two daughters, Erma. 14, and lather, 12. The parents and the son are together in their outdoor home. The two girls

are being cared for by relatives. Mrs. Ayers has a hand bandaged. She asserts it was injured in a struggle with a "constable,” Charles W. Freeman, 136 North Delaware street, when he attempted to serve the eviction wirt, issued from the court of T. S. Crutcher, Irvington justice of the peace. He was accompanied by another constable, O, P. Bebinger, 6506 College avenue. A well-dressed man paused today to survey the situation on the lawn. Poor Help Poor “My God!” he exclaimed, “the country I fought for can do this! ’ A hat was passed among the crowd of 200. One of the contributors was a poorly dressed woman. Opening a shabby purse, she drew out a dollar bill and handed ir, to Mrs. Ayres. “Sorry I can’t do more,” the giver said. A young man addressed the crowd, bitterly lenouncing Freeman. Smoke curls from the pipe of a dilapidated stove. A table, two chairs, and a bed complete the furnishings of the open air home. There are two signs. “Our only, home, sweet home,” one reads. "A No Mean City. Tough! Sure, It's Tough.” Two to Face Court The other sign reads; “Home, sweet home.” There is a drawing of a bird from whose mouth musical notes issue. Two persons will face municipal court today as a result of the disturbance Friday, when the eviction attempt was made. They are Mrs. Fay Allen, 30. of 2338 Calhoun street, mother of four children, one a baby in arms, and William Grose, 31, Terrace and Keystone avenues. He has a son, 4, and his wife and a newly bom baby are in a hospital. Mrs. Allen is charged with incit-

land because one wing of his plane was damaged and his precious fuel supply almost was gone. He was sighted at 9:10 p. m. (4:10 p. m. EST), forty-seven miles from F&stnet and four miles oft Cape Clear, Ireland. The weather near the cape was anything but clear. Visibility was poor. Mist hung over the ocean. If the luck of Freid and Manning had not held good and if Reichers had been a few miles farther off his course, the officer on watch might never have sighted the airplane, a mere speck buffeted about in high,seas. m * m npHE President Roosevelt's passengers had finished dinner and were chatting in the salons when the ship slowed down suddenly. News that an airplane had been sighted spread rapidly. Soon the passengers were at the rail while Captain Fried gave his orders from bridge and Manning

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1932

day baby hunt, messages directing the coast-to-coast service passed over special telephone wires linemen laid within seventy-five feet of the child’s body. Cars pictured no the highway were the first of hundreds bearing the curious to the scene of the tragedy’s climax, four and a half miles from Lindbergh’s Sourland mountain home. The airview portrays graphically the heavily wooded, rugged country searched without success by guardsmen and police for days after the child was stolen from Its crib March 1. The slope seen in the background rises into Mt. Rose.

ing to riot and resisting process of law, while Grose faces only the latter charge. Charged With Riot A few days ago Mrs. Allen and two other persons were discharged in municipal court on riot inciting charges. Arrests were made during a demonstration of jobless at the statehouse against imprisonment of Theodore Luesse, unemployed leader, serving a penal farm term for Interfering with an eviction. A moving van was ready to take the Ayers household goods away Friday, but friends moved the furniture to the yard of the Allen home. “Who moved you here?” a police officer asked Mrs. Ayers today. “I don’t know,” she replied. Delegation of seven called on Dow R. Vorihes, county commissioner, asking aid for the family. “There is no way to do It,” he said. "See the trustee, see the Chamber of Commerce, or go to the poor farm.” PLANT WALNUT TREES Scouts to Set Out Mt. Vernon Plants at Reservation Sunday. Two walnut trees from the Mt. Vernon home of George Washington will be planted at the Boy Scouts reservation Sunday at a bicentennial observance of troop No. 3 of the Irvington Presbyterian church. The trees, gifts of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Carr, will be planted with 200 evergreen trees. The planting will be preceded by a picnic dinner in the Kiwanis hut. F. O. Belzer, scout executive, will be in charge.

summoned the crew of lifeboat No. 10. A strong southwest wind was blowing. The President Roosevelt’s searchlights picked up the form of an airplane, a low-winged, beautifully stream-lined machine. Passengers gasped as the pilot nosed his machine down and struck the water with a crash that sent a sudden, white spray up from the black waters. The airplane righted itself and remained on top of the water, but was tossed about like a cork and in obvious danger of foundering. Meanwhile Capt. Fried maneuvered the bulk of the ocean liner alongside the plane. Manning and his crew were lowered in the lifeboat. * u m THE thrill of the rescue at sea, the end of a lone attempt to fly the Atlantic, was described tersely by Captain Fried in his report, which ended

SCREAMS ROUT BABYJDNAPER Nurse Sees Man at Window; Find Ransom Note. Screams of her nurse are believed to have prevented the kidnaping Friday night of Betty Ann Anthony, 10 months old, from the home of her parents, Mr. and Mis. James L. Anthony, 1611 College avenue. The father is an automobile accessories dealer. The nurse, Mrs. Della Fields, 47, told police she saw a man peering through the window of the baby’s room on the second floor. He fled when she screamed. She took the baby from bed, ran downstairs and telephoned police. On the slate roof of a porch where the man had stood was found an envelope on which in printed characters was "Ransom $100,000.” A thin chisel about one inch in width was near. The envelope, which was of linen paper, contained a leaf from a cheap paper tablet on which the printing was repeated. The parents were attending a theater and the nurse and baby were alone In the heme. The father said that previously an attempt had been made to open a window and later a rock was hurled through a window. He said he and Mrs. Anthony are away from home only one night a week and he believes the house is watched and attempts made to enter it while they are away. Radio patrolmen were first to arrive at the home. Later an investigation was made by squads under the direction of Major Herbert Fletcher, Lieutenants Dan Cummins, Walter Claffey and John Sheehan. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Southwest wind, 11 miles an hour; temperature, 66; barometric pressure, 29.98 at sea level; ceiling, overcast, sprinkling, raining northwest, estimated 5,000 feet; visibility, 10 miles; field, good.

"They took off Lou Reichers, the lone pilot. Unable to salvage lifeboat or plane on account of high, rough sea. (Signed) Fried.” Passengers were much more excited. They rushed to the captain’s cabin to congratulate the captain and chief officer, who have figured in more thrilling rescues than any other “team" on the north Atlantic run. . Captain Fried has stood on the bridge several times while Chief Officer Manning led a lifeboat to a rescue, notably in the rescue of the crew of the freighter Florida. It sank 700 miles off the Virginia coast in January, 1929. Manning and his crew braved towering seas and took off the Florida’s crew against odds which appeared insurmountable. mum THE officers were honored by the oMy of New York for the rescue, btjfjt was becoming an old story. THp -years before they

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RUM RACKETEERS, AIDED BY NATIVE OF SOURLAND, ARE BELIEVED SLAYERS

New and Secret Line of Inquiry Is Begun by Prosecutor. PROBE FORCES BICKER No Evidence So Far for Arrests, Is Claim of Official. By United Pre*s TRENTON, N. J., May 14. —A new and secret line of inquiry, which Prosecutor Erwin Marshall is confident will yield results, opened today as the rr.assed forces of the federal, state and metropolitan police sought the wanton slayers of 18 - month - old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. Marshall, 60-years-old, will pursue an independent course in connection with his mysterous plan. “I am today pursuing an investigation at the scene where the body was found,” he said. “I am starting on anew clew never investigated before. I expect it to yield results.” Meanwhile, at Flemington, Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck Jr. of Hunterdon county, said he and Marshall had been placed in charge of the investigation by Attorney-Gen-eral William A. Stevens. Dispute Among Probers This tended to emphasize reports of difficulties between the prosecutors and the state police which were furthered by Marshall’s expresesd conviction that material obtained by state police from various sources—including Dr. John F. Condon and John Hughes Curtis —thus far was of little of real value. “I understand that the state police searched the hillside on the Sourland mountain section,” Marshall said today, “but as far as other sections are concerned, they made no search except to inspect telephone and telegraph lines when they paid particular attention to aire tapping.” Meanwhile, Hauck said the Hunterdon county grand Jury would convene Monday, but he said as far as he knew no indictments would be returned in connection with the Lindbergh case. Nothing to Bring Arrest* “There is absolutely nothing in the way of evidence upon which arrests could be made now,” Marshall said here. “John Hughes Curtis has not proved he ever was in touch with the kidnapers. “Colonel Breckinridge told me Friday at the morgue that there have been more than 100 determined efforts to cash in on this kidnaping, either by gangs or individuals. “I know such efforts were being made, but I didn't suspect there were so many of them. “I see no reason why each and every person who has attempted to capitalize on the kidnaping, through false information or false promises, should not be punished. I shall extend every aid toward such prosecutions.” Lindys May Go Abroad By United Pres* NEW YORK, May 14.—Reports were circulated today without official confirmation that Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh would go to Fiance in June to await the birth of their second child. Some weeks ago, it is known, the Lindberghs were offered the use of a chateau in France for the summer, and at that time the flier was reported considering the offer. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 58 9 a. m 68 7a. m 59 1 Oa. m 67 8 a. m..... 63

had rescued the crew of twentyfive of the British freighter Antinoe, when they were aboard the President Roosevelt. Two of the Manning's crew were lost. "Tie British parliament, at the request of King George, conferred medals upon the heroes. In March, 1930, Captain Fried accomplished a mission of mercy at sea when he led the transfer of Chief Engineer Frank Batt&m from the steamer Cranford to the S. 8. America. m m m B ATT AM’S daughter was near death in New Orleans and he was transferred to permit him to go to her. Reichers said he was “all right" in a message to Bemarr MacFadden. New York publisher who backed his flight. He sent the following message: "Picked up at sea by President Roosevelt steamship. Ship (airplane) is total loss I am all right. Further details tomorrow." jft

Bigger Game Curtis Associates Believe Lone Eagle Himself Kidnap Target.

BY CHARLES M’CANN loipuoawjjo;) ||T,g **4 NORFOLK, Va., May 14 —lntimate associates of John Hughes Curtis suggested today that the men who falsely promised to deliver the Lindbergh baby may have plotted to kidnap Col. Charles A. Lindbergh himself. Admitting that their theory wac little more than speculation,, these informants broached it as the only logical explanation of the fantastic “negtiations” which they conducted for two months, knowing all the time that the baby was not in their hands. First, it was held that the kidnapers, after murdering the Lindbergh baby, obviously set out to extort as much money as possible from the bereaved parents, under the pretext that the child, alive and well, was in their hands. They did get $50,000, the money that Dr. John F. Condon tossed over a graveyard wall in exchange for the information that the baby was aboard the fllshing smack Sally, off Martha’s Vineyard. Lindbergh flew out to sea twice in search of the phantom ship, once with Curtis. * * * UNSATfSFIED with this exquisite bit of torture, the kidnapers then, through Curtis, sought to extort more money. They even submitted samples of the “Jafsie” money as sign of their ‘‘good faith.” Lindbergh refused to yield more without the baby itself. Then the kidnapers audaciously promised to deliver the baby for a ransom understood to be a comparatively trifling amount. Curtis' intimates here based on this fact their theory that Lindbergh himself was to be kidnapped. They granted a possible alternative—that by their nervewrecking tactics of delay, they hoped to bring Lindbergh finally to the stage where he himself would offer a "final’’ ransom sum. The alternative, however, was not accepted as feasible, becase the hard-headed Llngbergh apparently was determined not to part with more money in advance. mm m IT was suggested therefore, that these men, who murdered the baby after acquiring evidence sufficient to identify themselves as the kidnapers, were shooting at bigger game even than the world’s most famous baby—his world famous father. It is know now that Lindbergh was aboard the Marcon on its cruises. Those aboard who denied absolutely that Lindbergh was aboard, admit now that they spoke falsely. The seaplanes that flew out whenever the Marcon cruised, really were furnished by the navy as protection for Lindbergh, on the chance that the kidnapers might attack the yacht. It was these navy seaplanes that were the main factors in the final “etsback” in the weird “negotiations.” Lindbergh. Curtis and their companions were on a small private yacht Thursday afternoon when their little receiving radio set—it could not send—rasped out the news that the baby’s skeleton had been found. Police awaited further word from New Jersey today on the kidnaping clews they are to work on. They sought themselves information regarding the halfdozen Purple gangsters who were here two weeks ago, and who, they believe, were here on some angle of the Lindbergh case.

How the Market Opened

By United Preu NEW YORK, May 14.—The stock market resumed its decline into new low ground for the bear market at the start of trading today, scattered selling sending leading Issues down from a fraction to more than a point. Acute weakness continued in the railroad shares, but leadership was shared by other prominent Issues, among which were American Telephone, which sold at anew low at 94 7 4; Western Union at 174, and Wool worth at 29%. Dealings again were quiet, but bearish sentiment was on the ascendency despite the absence of unsettling news developments overnight. Speculative sentiment continued to be swayed by a variety of rumors affecting the railroad situation. Union Pacific was a weak spot in the latter group, dropping more than a point to below the 44 level. Atchison dropped more than a point to a new low at 304 and the Missouri Pacific issues, New York Central and New Hayen sold at or near the lowest levels in their history on fractional declines. u

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Jafsie and Curtis ‘Contacts’ Knew Every Detail of Lindy Kidnaping. ‘GO-BETWEENS’ CERTAIN Whole Deal Typical of Alky Mob’s Tactics, Say Some Observers. BY BATES A. RANEY United Preet SUIT Correspondent TRENTON, N. J., May 14. —Liquor racketeers, possibly aided by a Sourland mountain native, kidnaped and murdered the Lindbergh baby, according to a theory strengthened by revelations within the past few hours. These revelations included the fact that "go-betweens” and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh were convinced beyond a doubt that purported kidnapers they dealt with knew every detail concerning the kidnaping—details withheld from newspapers and the public. For instance: Dr. John F. Condon, the “Jafsie” who talked to purported kidnapers then tossed them a $50,000 package in a Bronx cemetery, was shown garments that convinced Colonel Lindbergh and himself the negotiators were not lying. And John Hughes Curtis, the Norfolk boat builder, had proof so strong that he was dealing with the actual kidnapers, that it convinced Colonel Lindbergh, even after the latter had been duped, supposedly, in his $50,000 "Jafsie” deal. Want Ransom Note Printed Authorities announced, too, that certain ransom notes received revelled definite and absolute knowledge of the exact details of the crime, facts that could not be disputed. This led today, incidentally, to a demand by Dr. John Grier Hibben of Princeton that the notes be published the world over in facsimile, in the hope the handwriting might be recognized. It was revealed further that Morris Rosner, undercover man at one time for the government, and later active in the underworld, had a copy of the original ransom note obtained while he assisted Colonel Lindbergh in the kidnap hunt. Rosner traced a copy of this note for two* New York underworld gobetweens, Salvatore Spitale and Irving Bitz. Several versions of that note, all somewhat similar, have been published. Police, however, have denied their authenticity, despite demands that the original be published in an effort to trace the killers. Liquor Racket Uprofltable These facts, when assembled with other evidence, strengthened the theory that alcohol racketeers who sought refuge in the Sourland Hills for their illicit business flgurel in the crime. Once again the veiled suggestions by natives that the liquor distillers in the hills had discussed such a plot were recalled. One woman had claimed she was approached by four of the strangers, temporarily resident in the district, in such a plot. The liquor racket, it was explained, had become unprofitable in the hills. The men with whom Curtis and Condon dealt had clothing and descriptions known only to Intimate associates of Lindbergh. These items differed radically from the published descriptions. These false descriptions had been broadcast for the sole purpose of enabling investigators to determine when they were dealing with Bona fide kidnapers. According to this strengthened murder theory, natives of the district hardly would conduct negotiations with Curtis aboard yachts steaming up and down the Jersey and New Orleans coast, line. They hardly would deal with Condon as Condon says he was dealt with. Curtis Leads Searchers Alcohol racketeers would be in their element in such negotions, as reported by both Condon and Curtis. Curtis Friday night toured the area in which he had negotiated. He is attempting now to trace men who may be the killers of the Lindbergh baby as well as kidnapers, (Turn to Page Two)

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