Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1932 — Page 2

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ANDERSON RUM CASE WILL GO TO JURY SOON Closing Arguments Will Be Completed Today on Plot Charges. (Continued From Page li ordered him to instruct Louis Lavelle, police-chauffeur, and another defendant, to deliver the liquor to the mayor's friend. “I had missed quite a bit of liquor, held as evidence; from my office," the chief related. "Mellett and I were the only ones having keys to my office. Refused to Deliver "One day I went into my office and found Mellett there, wTapping a gallon can of alcohol. “ ‘Take this over to Charley Otto,’ he ordered. “I refused saying if I had to deliver alcohol for his friends, I would quit my job. Then he told me to tell Lavelle to deliver the alcohol, which I did, explaining it was the mayor’s orders, not mine." Riggs denied offering City Judge Dailey a gallon of alcohol, and denied most of the government witnesses’ testimony, explaining much of the testimony of witnesses against him was result of animosity of policemen and former officers because he had reduced or discharged them, and by bootleggers, because he continuously had raided them. Riggs said he still was receiving pay as the Anderson police chief, although he is on "leave of absence, pending outcome of the trial." Says He Is "On Wagon" He testified he does not drink, having been "on the wagon" since becoming police chief, because of his health, and denied ever drinking or serving liquor in his office, as testified by government witnesses. Rich, now a patrolman, who testified Friday morning, resumed the witness stand Friday afternoon. Rich admitted that, as captain of detectives, he drank occasionally. He explained that he "had made home brew at home,” adding that it was the odor of home brew, consumed at home, which officers may have smelled at police headquarters, but that he never drank at headquarters. He admitted being called to the resort operated by Frank Francois, government witness, and finding four policemen there early one: morning under influence of liquor. Tells Hypnotism Story However, he said, a Negro detective, lying naked on a bed. told him he had been hypnotised by Francois and was not drunk. He told the jury Francois offered him a drink, which he refused, and said he reported actions of the officers to Riggs. In addition to Riggs. Rich and Lavelle, defendants on trial are Albert Abel, Mrs. Edna Boyer, Earl Hoel, Robert Clark, Ora (Tink) Raines. Raymond (Scabby) Ross and John Stinson, alleged liquor law violators. Following close of t.he government’s evidence, two other defendants, John Owens and Ulysses Grant Lawson, alleged bootleggers, were dismissed by the court on directed verdicts of acquittal, Lawson being rearrested immediately on another liquor charge. Several Plead Guilty Defendants who have pleaded guilty and will be sentenced after the jury’s reports are John Bronnenberg, Joe Galassi, Blake Gwlnn, son of a police sergeant; Roscoe Hartman, Lew Llewellyn, Joe Meleher Jr., alleged liquor ring leader and son of the city garage collect or; Closser Riggsby, Russell Riggsbv, Bert Stinson. Robert Thrawley, and Rex and Otto White- j head. In addition to the mayor, three other defendants are not on trial— J Pete Campo, uner arrest in Illinois i and resisting extradition; Tony J Smello and Ray Boyer, fugitives. POLICEMAN’S QUICK ACT SAVES PARTNER’S LIFE Calvin Simmons Knocks Gun From Theft Suspect’s Hands. Knocking a revolver from the hand of a theft suspect Friday night, patrolman Calvin Simmons was credited with saving the life of officer Michael McAllen, his "partner." Aa a result. Ernest Hancock. 36. Negro, of 1252 Yandes street, was arrested on charges of vagrancy, drawing deadly weapons, and carrying concealed weapons. McAllen and Simmons were watching a section of Massachusetts ■ avenue in a search for two thieves' who had stolen some shoes. They saw Hancock and called him to the police car. As Hancock approached, McAllen seized him by the overall bib, while Simmons walked around the car to. search the suspect. At this point. j Hancock is alleged to have leveled a .22-caliber revolver at McAllen. Simmons’ fist crashed into the suspect’* Jaw. and the weapon dropped to the sidewalk. SERVICE STAR TO LILLY Kiwanis Club Award to Be Made at Business Women’s Parley. Award of the state star service medal of Indiana Kiwanis Club will be made to J. K. Lilly, head of Eli Lilly dc Cos., at a meeting of the Indiana Federation of Business and Professional Women Sunday in Evansville, it was announced today. The medal is in recognition of citizenship service. Lilly also receive dthe organization's Indianapolis citation, as one i of twenty persons in the state to receive the honor.

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Beatrice Wade, Alberta White, Lavetta Adamson, Estel Stringer, Vinabelle Lawson, Floris Fulford. Bottom Row—Geneva Abell, Evelyn Grooms, Hazel Boyd.

PORK PRICES AT LOW LEVEL Costs Less Than at Any Time Since 1897. By Tinilrit Prr* CHICAGO, May 14.—The squeal of pigs in the pen is not the music to farmers it was three years ago, but the bell on the butcher's cash register rings a merrier tune for the housewife buying bacon, or pork chops or lard. Prices of hogs on the hoof—the key to what the farmer gets for his labor, his corn and skim milk and the broods from his sows—are at the lowest figures since Spanish-Amer-ican war days. When the average price paid for live hogs at the Chicago stockyards dropped to $3.30 the other day, that was the lowest price since 1897, and almost exactly one-third of the $9.88 average for the year 1929. A survey of meat markets in ten representative cities over the country today indicated that this saving has been handed on to the consumer only in part. The housewife now pays for pork products about one-half what she did in 1929, the survey showed. The man who raises the hogs gets one-third what he got three vears ago. METHODIST LAYMEN IN ‘GREATEST OF RALLIES’ Senator Joseph Robinson to Speak at Atlantir City Parley. By 1 nitrit Prrm ATLANTIC CITY, N. J„ Mav 14. —Methodist layment plan one of the greatest rallies in the history of the church tonight in a general conference session here with Senator Joseph T. Robinson <Dem„ Ark.) as one of the principal speakers. Four years ago Robinson was candidate for Vice-President of the United Stales on a wet ticket headed by Alfred E. Smith. Among others on the program are Arthur M. Hyde, secretary of agriculture; Bishop Edwin H. Hughes of Chicago; Bishop Frederick B. Fisher of Ann Arbor, Mich.; Bishop Francis J. McConnell of New York, and the Rev. Dr. Merton S. Rice of Detroit. The rally, which will be attended by hundreds of laymen, has been arranged by the men's council, and will mark the climax of the second week of conference sessions. MAKE TOUR OF FORESTS Legion Conservation Chiefs Start Two-Day Inspection Trip. Fifty district and post conservation officers of the American Legion assembled from throughout the state today to make a two-day tour of state Jorests, parks and fish hatcheries. The delegation assembled at the statehouae and the tour is under the direction of Ralph Wilcox, chairman of the conservation committee of the Indiana Legion. Wilcox is also the state forester.. After visiting the hatcheries here the party will proceed to the Mor-gan-Monroe state forest to spend the night in log cabins. The Sunday program includes inspection of game preserves and the new Brown ■ county state park.

Top Row (left to right)—Robert Newland, Leland Cecil, Nick Califar, Robert Wavman, John Weasner, Robert McCoy. Second Row—Fred Mueller, Howard Thompsor., Donald Short, Richard Goss, Riley Lasley, MenJl Voorhis. Third Row—lmogene May, Marvalin Whitaker, Lilly Klazmer, Dorothy Wineman, Thplma Barlow. Frances Henry. Fourth Row—Rosemary Carney, Genevieve Sanders, Earl Eggers, Arthur Icenogle, Earl Roe, Charles Bell. Fifth Row—

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Conrad Wiegand. 4858 East Thirtieth sireet. Chevrolet touring. 43-410. from La Salle and Michigan streets. Dan Rogozla. 35 North Mount, street. Bulck coupe. 42-870. from 35 North Mount street. Consignment Sales Comoanv. 1030 North Meridian street. Ford sedan, no license plates, from 1030 North Meridian street. Alvin W. Bakhus. 1323 West Thirty-sec-ond street. Nash sedan from Twentv-flrst and Illinois streets. Walter F. Jones. 717 East Twenty-eighth street. Ford Tudor. 66-546. from In front of 440 North Caoitol avenue. Rav Diet*. 321 South Oakland avenue. Ford coupe, from 1100 Olive street. Lawrence Mays. 3239 Boulevard place. Hudson sedan. 41-556. from garage In rear of 3239 Boulevard place. BACK HOME AGAIN Stolen automobiles recovered bv police belong to: Ford Tudor, card board license plate M TOO. found at Lincoln and Bast streets. Eltlmh Helenburg. 136 Fulton street, Chevrolet coach, found on Puryear street, near Alabama street. Dr. D. R. Talbot. 200 Park avenue. Wrst Mansfield. Ohio. Bulck sedan. 79-094 Ohio, found at 3000 Moore avenue. K. R. Hallock. 3667 Rockville Road, Chevrolet, found at Terre Haute. Ind. Walter M. Basset. 2851 Sutherland avenue. Auburn sedan, found In parking space at Technical high school. TAX DEBATE COSTLY Treasury Loses SSO for Every Word. By United Pmk WASHINGTON. May 14. -Senate debate on the tax bill is costing the treasury more than SSO b word today. The argument is one of ihe most expensive on record. Chairman Reed Smoot of the senate finance committee estimates that every day of delay in passing the bill represents a loss to the treasury of $2,000,000 in taxes which w’ould be collected under the new, high rates. Senators talk at an average rate of aoout 100 words a minute or 6,000 words an hour. The average session is about five hours daily. If those figures were exact, every word uttered from the beginning to the end of the senate tax debate would cost $66.66. Only members of congress are able to talk so expensively so long. BARE EXTORTION PLOT Police Say O. R. Fuller. Auto Magnate, Asked to Give $50,000. By United Prrm LOS ANGELES, May 14.—0. R. Fuller, millionaire head of AuburnFuller Motor Company, was revealed today as the intended victim of a $50,000 extortion plot. Police arrested Carl Poehnl, a former ch&i ffeur in his employ. "Your life is not in danger if you comply with our demands—remember. you’re an ideal target for the mob,” read a porMon of a note received two days ago by Fuller, according to police. Poehnl denied connection with the case. Discovers $222 Theft Theft of $222.50 from an A. <fc P. grocery at 1103 College avenue was discovered today when the manager, W. L. Ray, 1615 Park avenue, opened the atore. A pass key was used to open the front door.

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PROBE DELAY IS DUE TO CRASH Cuthbertson Says Water Survey Halted. Failure to report on his investigation of the result of the compromise. rates in the Indianapolis Water Company case, as scheduled for the public service commission conference Friday, was explained by Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertson today as due to "unavoidable delay." Webb Gilbert, chief of the commission accounting department, has been unable to continue his survey of April billings of the company due to injuries received in an automobile accident, Cuthbertson axplained. Gilbert w'as injured returning from the Kentucky Derby and has been unable to appear at the office. Cuthbertson was having Gilbert compile data on all April billings of the Indianapolis Water Company to show the effect of his rate compromise which consisted of both reductions and increases. The commissioner is expected to defend his rate order, which was passed by a vote of three to two, with the information thus secured. Under a motion of the commission he was to launch the investigation May 1, and report when completed. He originally had announced that the report would be ready for the conference this week. PUPILS GIVE PAGEANT More Than 100 Take Part In "May Day at Mt. Vernon.” "May Day at Mt. Vernon,’’ a pageant, was presented Friday afternoon at Manual Training high school by a cast of more than a hundred pupils. The pageant was part of the May day observance of the school, sponsored by the Girls’ League. Hilda Kuchler was crowned Queen of the May. A GOOD BUSINESS - SCHOOL Strona buslnesa. tCenograpblc. aecretarial and accounting; course*: Individual inatruction In major aubjecta. large facility of apeclaliata in tbdr reapectire Hnca. Free Employment Service. Fred W. Caae. Principal CENTRAL BUSINESS COLLEGE rtnnayJvaitia ritd Varmnof, Paor North T. W. ft. A . fnrfiiniifioYii, lml. LOANS AT REASONABLE RATES FOB ALL WORTHY PIRPOSES The Indianapolis Morris Plan Company DrUwnr* and Ohio Rt. Ktloy 158 jrjLfHß/AjT? fj atji il’l i,* NOW I 459 K. Haahlastoa bi. —3— ( 13* N. Pennsylvania H STORE* j ;p.3 W Wauhlngton at. |

BABY SLAYING IS BLAMED ON ALCOHOL RING Jafsie and Curtis Certain Their Contacts Were In on Kidnaping. (Continued From Page 11 whereas he formerly tried only to obtain the return of the baby. Authorities in Norfolk, who are confident Curtis knows the men with whom he dealt, also are confident that his search would be productive of results, definite clew* as to the identity of the killers, if not the killers themselves. And they were prepared to act, once orders were received from authorities in New Jersey conducting the investigation. Curtis told police, according to the New York Daily News, the names of the men he dealt with, and said they made their plans so well that another child had been put aboard their yacht to be turned over for ransom money. “They’ll flee the country, sure,” Curtis said. "They knew too much. They had too many definite bits of evidence to be any other than the murderers themselves.” The Norfolk shipbuilder gave Colonel Schwartzkopf the name of the boat used by the abductors, naming the captain, whom he believed innocent. "That man’s hair actually turned white in the three weeks in which he has been in the hands of the kidnapers," Curtis said. Curtis -’escribed the boat as a 116-foot hing schooner with an auxiliary 275-horse power Diesel engine. He said it left Cape May, N. J., on April 21 with the baby aboard. On April 20, according to Curtis, he had visited the boat off Cape May and no baby v.as aboard at that time. The kidnapers showed $1,500 of the marked “Jafsie” ransom money to Curtis, he declared. "That fifty grand was taken by a double-cro6ser in our crowd and we have taken good care of him,” the kidnapers explained to him. Mrs. Loudo nwill discuss when the Police Hope for Results As matters stood today, police were investigating with hope of results along these several lines: Negotiations Curtis and Lindbergh conducted along the sea coast. Condon’s negotiations, and his descriptions of men with whom he talked during those negotiations. Rosner’s activities, including his knowledge of the exact contents of the ransome note, and others who held that knowledge. The Detroit Purple gang, members of whom were believed to have been active in and near Norfolk, and possibly involved in the Curtis negotiations. Demented citizens of the Hopewell district and others who have had some imagined grievance against the Lindbergh family after they built their fine home in the almost desolate countryside. Naval Ships Aid Hunt Curtis was accompanied during the night by members of the state police force on a tour of South Jersey and adjacent waters. Condon, tired and worn after long, continued

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When his job fizzled out In San Francisco and he couldn’t find another, Charles Hyatt decided he’d go back to the paternal roof at Uniontown, Pa., with his girl wife, Reva, and their baby, Charles Jr., 8 months old. Broke, they started across country in box cars when they could get 'em. Here they are at Cincinnati on the last, lap of their 3,400mile journey, after thirty-seven days on the road in freight cars and hiking.

questioning, slept at home in New York. Meanwhile, it was known, naval ships searched the waters along the coast for yachts believed to have been used by the kidnapers, murderers or their representatives during their dealing with both Curtis and Condon. Here in New Jersey there was some doubt as to just who would lead the investigation. An all-day conference of New Jersey authorities led to reports of friction between various crime-police authorities and the state police, who are highway patrolmen. Police Head t’nder Fire Governor A. Harry Moore, who stepped into the investigation when the publicity connected with it was at its highest, was attacked by legislators for his support given the state police, commanded by Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf. Present at the conference Friday were Attorney-General WilL’am A. Stvens, two assistants, Prosecutor Erwin Marshall of mercer county, and Prosecutor Anthony Hauck of Henterdon county. The baby was stolen in Hunterdon county, and found In Mercer county. Schwarzkopf was called "incompetent’’ by Frank J. Harrolf, chairman of the executive committee of the county Detectives Association. Criticism was based chiefly on the fact that, the baby apparently lay ten weks in a spot that should have been thoroughly searched, and was not despite repeated suggestions of such a search.

AKRON TRIP ENDED Ship Is Safely Moored at Sunnyvale, Cal. By I nilrd Prrti SUNNYVALE, Cal., May 14.—At rest after a turbulent trip across the United States, the navy's big dirigible Akron was safe at the mooring mast here today. The ship was drawn successfully to the mooring mast and made fast on the twelfth attempt. Whether the Akron will join the fleet, now at sea, was not definitely decided. Today will be spent taking on supplies of helium, gasoline and food. The Akron may remain here Sunday to permit crowds to view the craft. The Akron left Lakehurst, N. .T., Sunday to Join the fleet, and was delayed three days by storms. sues hTghway chiefs Roy Chappelle Asks SBOO for Road Crash Injuries. Charging state highway commissioners with responsibility for allowing an embankment to go unguarded, James Roy Chappelle filed suit in superior court one Tuesday demanding SBOO judgment for personal injuries and damages to his car. The suit contends Chappelle suffered painful injuries when he drove his car over an embankment at intersection of state road No. 40 and Lynhurst drivp, May 30, 1931.

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PENNSYLVANIA G. 0. P. PARLEY ' TO VOTE WET Party Leaders Are Agreed on Need to Terminate Dry Amendment. v By Bcrippt-H owned Xctctpaprr Alliance PHILADELPHIA. May 14.—Pennsylvania Republicans in convention assembled here today will urge the Republican national convention, which convenes one month hence, to repeal national prohibition. Not in years have Pennsylvania Republicans, from district leaders to United States senators, been as agreed upon any question as they are upon termination of the eighteenth amendment. Governor Plnchot, foremost champion of the dry laws in the east, was without substantial Influence, and it is doubtful if Pinchot’s friends even will offer a ‘law en-‘ forcement" resolution. If they do, it will be voted down overwhelmingly. Senators l T rgc Repeal Senator David A. Reed, the latest Pennsylvania leader to advocate repeal. will urge adoption of the Swedish-Bratt system of liquor control. Reed's activities in behalf of the Bratt plan—originally recommended for the United States more than four years ago by Scripps-Howard newspapers—are regarded in some quarters here as forecasting an official recommendation along this line from the resolutions committee at the Chicago convention. Reed is said to be President Hoover's choice for chairman of the resolutions committee, although he . denied that he conferred with the President on the subject of prohibition before leaving Washington. Hoover to Get Delegates Senator James J. Davis, renominated with a 400,000 majority on a straightout repeal platform, also planned to urge a wet plank. A considerable group of delegates • favor immediate action by congress on pending senate amendments to legalize 4 per cent beer as a means of raising revenue, and also as a stimulus for employment. They are hopeful that passage of such a resolution may influence President Hoover and other Republican leaders in Washington. Senators Reed and Davis have indicated that they will vote for th* - beer amendment. The Pennsylvania delegation to the Republican convention is expected to vote solidly for Hoover * renomination.

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