Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1932 — Page 1

11. S. WITNESS ADMITS DALE ORDERED HIM TO CLEAN UP ‘RED LIGHT,’ BOOZE JOINTS Deputy Sheriff, Discharged as Cop, Testifies That He Never Received Command to Protect Any One. GOVERNMENT TO REST CASE SOON Mayor of Muncie and Ten Co-Defendants May Start Presentation of Their Evidence Late Today. A former policeman, testifying as a government witness, in the liquor conspiracy case against George R. Dale, Muncie mayor, and ten other men, turned the tables of testimony today, when he admitted, on cross-examination, that he had received orders from Dale to “close the red light district and arrest bootleggers. The witness, William Sims, Negro deputy sheriff and former policeman, testified he was discharged from the force March 1, for ‘‘inefficiency.’' The prosecution is expected to rest its case late today. The case probably will go to the jury Thursday or Friday.

First defense witness was to be Warren P. Allcnder, federal prohibition agent, who entered Muncie with a government dry force to uncover the alleged conspiracy. Defense attorneys indicated that Dale probably will take the witness ttand Thursday. Elms, who took part, in the raid on an alleged house of ill fame in which Joseph Denny, special department of justice operative, was arrested, made another admission on cross-examination which struck at the government's version of the Incident. George R. Jeffrey, district attorney. has charged that the raid in which Denny was arrested was made at Dale's orders, to intimidate government witnesses and agents. No Orders to Protect Any One Sims, however, said he suggested to patrolman Dan Davis that they re-visit the alleged house of ill fame j and “pick up" Fred Bohlinger, former police spy. "I never got orders to protect any one,” he said on cross-exami-ne ion. One of the most amusing pieces ' of testimony during the trial came when George Frazier, former policeman. was on the stand testifying about the Muncie policemen's ball. He said he met Virgil Tuttle and smelled liquor on his breath. "Where did you get it? I asked him." Frazier said. He told me to see Harry Nelson /detective and defendant) and I did. Nelson gave me a half-pint. Nearly everybody at the affair had liquor and I helped drink it. “It was a wonderful party,” said Frazier. Never Saw Dale Drink He asserted he had seen Police Chief Frank Massey drink confiscated liquor at the police station on two occasions. He said, however, that he never saw Dale take a drink. He said Muncie police tested confiscated liquor at headquarters by a big drink." Dale today appeared confident of being able, in defense testimony, to refute testimony of the government's “star” witnesses, who revealed motives of revenge and desire to become government agents ** the basis for acting as federal ••stool pigeons.” The government offered testimony H-ainst Dale Tuesday afternoon through Bohlinger. who became a federal “stool pigeon” after his dismissal from the Muncie force, and Tom Duncan, Negro, former employe of Dale, who testified he had been promised a job as federal agent or informer by Bohlinger and Hershe Rose. Rose, self-admitted perjurer, testified he began aiding federal agents after having been beaten by Massey, a defendant. Admits He Is Perjurer Rose said Muncie police officials had induced him to sign a false affidavit that he had purchased liquor from Elmer Gentry, in order to get Gentry's case in federal court anc: that, after testifying falsely before the federal grand jury, he "told the truth at the trial/* Gentry being dismissed. For this reason, he said, Massey attacked him. Bohlinger said he was hired by Dale in 1930 as an undercover police inspector, reporting personally to Dale, and that he was fired in 1931. after protecting Rose .Tom detective Kenneth Horstman. a defendant. He told of making “buys" of liquor and turning the evidence over to Dale, and of being told 'not to bother certain places.” Held Clab Over Dale These, he said, included places of Fred Kubeck and Ernest Flatters, alleged bootleggers, defendants, and the “Pi'S Stand ' barbecue. He declared Flatters had a mysterious "club over Dale's head.” as result of a letter Flatters gave Bohlinger to give to Dale. Defense attorneys presented the letter, signed by Gene Williams, former assistant prosecuting attorney at Muncie. whom they said had been convicted in federal court. The letter read to the Jury, called Flatters' attention to an investigation of Dale being made by “Mr. Sutton of the Muncie Press.” and referred to alleged relations between

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Dale and Chauncey Stillson, alleged bootlegger, indicted In the case, but never arrested. Bohlinger alleged he heard Dale tell “Flatters he could open a gambling house. Flatters agreeing to pay Dale 40 per cent of the profits, but that Flatters couldn't raise enough money, so he went into business with Verne (Pug) Walburn, cigar shop operator, instead.” A few weeks later. Bohlinger testified. Stillson told him to tell Dale that, he, Stillson. “would give Dale a week to put Walburn out of business.” Instead of telling Dale, the witness asserted, he told Massey, and the chief and his men took axes and wrecked Walburn’s place. Bohlinger denied he and Rose had I attempted to induce a 12-year-old boy to swear to federal agents that he had seen large quantities of liquor at the Pig Stand, and “to make the story plenty strong.” Ex-Stool Pigeon Testifies Duncan, the Negro youth, was brought to the courtroom from the Marion county jail, where he is being held by the government. He testified that he formerly worked for Muncie police as a stool! pigeon, obtaining evidence against bootleggers. Last January, he said, after he had talked to a federal Investigator, I he was taken to police headquar- j ters. where he met Dale. Massey. Hortsman. Nelson and others. “They asked me why I talked to the federal man and what I told him. and I said I talked to him be- j cause I wanted money to go to Lima. 0.,” he said. “Dale asked me something, but didn't give me time to answer before he started choking and shaking me, and Horstman struck at me with a blackjack. Made to Sign, He Says “They made me sign a .statement that Denny offered me $35 to testify I had seen Dale and Massey use liquor in the Muncie city building.’’ Then, he said, he was given $3.50 from the prosecutor’s funds to go to Lima. From Lima he went to Toledo. he said, being nabbed there on a liquor-running charge, and while in jail he was visited by Massey and W. A. McClellan, a defense attorney. The defense produced two letters which the Negro admitted writing to a Muncie Negro foot doctor, asking aid. In one of the letters, read to thfe jury. Duncan asked his friend. Dr. Turner, to send him aid. stating "I think the same boys who were trying to get me a job are trying to frame me. They have me charged with bringing liquor from Canada. I suppose you know who did this— Fred Bohlinger and Hershel Rose.” Admits Telling Lies Duncan admitted, when questioned by McClellan, that he "had told a pack of lies." and wanted McClellan to get him out of it. Denny, a Justice department special agent, testified that he and Bohlinger hac been “arrested” by Muncie police and Fred Ellis, safety beard member, while they were obtaining a statement from Anna Morning, operator of a redlight district house. He said officers at first refused to recognize his government credentials. and then Nelson said: “We've got to arrest you and take you down to talk to Dale, or we'll all lose our jobs. They sent Ellis along to watch us. v At the police station. Denny said he was questioned briefly by Dale and was offered use of a room at police headquarters to conduct his investigation. Anna Morning and Lucille Justice, who lived at Mrs. Morning's house, took the stand to corroborate Denny's testimony. SITS TILL BEER RETURNS “Shipwreck Kelly" in New Stunt: Old Mark Menaced. By l nited Pre BOSTON. May 18—Alvin (Shipwreck) Kelly mounted a flag pole atop a theater building in Scollay Square today, resolving not to come down until “real beer” was legalized in the United States.. Observers on Beacon Hill, which overlooks the scene of the stunt, were of the opinion Kelly would break his old record of forty-nine days one hour if he kept his resolution.

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SENATE VOTE ON LEGAL ‘BEER FOR JOBS’ IS DUE

Ballot to Determine If Most of Nuisance Taxes Will Be Dropped. By United Pres* WASHINGTON. May 18.—The senate today rejected a proposal to legalize beer for the purpose of taxation and as a source of revenue for a vast public construction program. The Tydings amendment was defeated as the senate, still under high speed schedule, continued consideration of the tax bill. BY MARSHALL M'NEILL Timm Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 18.—A senate decision on legalizing and taxing 2.*75 per cent beer to help balance the federal budget, and provide a $1,500,000,000 Aind to put men back to work, is assured this, afternoon. The vote, to come before 2 p. m., is on the amendment of Senator Millard Tydings iDcm., Md.). which was offered to the Senate Tuesday night. The youthful, earnest Marylander urged his solution upon senators for more than two hours. The vote will determine whether the senate wants to use this method to eliminate most of the nuisance taxes in the $1,030,000,000 revenue bill, and help obliterate the racket and crime erected around the beer bootlegging trade. Dark Future Is Seen By Tydings’ plan, $150,000,000 of the estimated $500,000,000 annual surtax would be earmarked to pay interest and principal on the $1,500.000,000 In bonds he proposes, and the remainder would go into the treasury to meet expenses and the present deficit. "What kind of a situation is ahead of us?" Tydings asked the senate. “Every man here knows that there are from 7.000.000 to 10,000,000 people unemployed in this country. “Every man here knows that the community funds next, winter will not be sufficient to deal with the job. What Is to Be Done? “It is warm now,” Tydings went on. * and the community -Vnds have not quite broken down. There is time to act. And I am afraid that if we do not act now—and I do not want to be an alarmist—when the snows of next winter fall it may be too late to act rationally. “What are we going to do? “We know that three-fourths of a million farms have been sold for mortgage foreclosures, for delinquent taxes in the last two j’ears. We know that about 3.800 banks have failed. “Even if my amendment were to transgress the eighteenth amendment. and I do not think it does, I would most rather whittle off that little bit of a corner of our Constitution than to see riot and disorder and crime break out. which would be the result of not adequately providing for the unemployed. “This country can not go on as it is going.”

Night of Horror in Sea Fire Related by Survivors

BY A. E. ADAMS railed Prtn Staff Cormpondent ADEN, Arabia. May 18.—European, Indian, Filipino, Arab and Chinese survivors o? the liner Georges Phillipar, destroyed by fire in the Gulf of Aden, told today how flames trapped men and women in their cabins, and forced others to jump Into the sea, killing approximately one hundred victims. The survivors were landed here by the British steamers Contractor and Mahsud. They were all wearing night clothing. They had lost everything else in the fire. The Mahsud picked up 134 and the Contractor 129. There were 422 more known rescued, who were landed today at Djibouti. Africa.

Generally fair and somewhat warmer tonight and Thursday.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY IS, 1932

Indianapolis are observing National Repeal week. Women in charge of the Pennsylvania street headquarters are shown in the above photo, with the posters.

CITY THREATENS WAGESjOYCOTT Orders Paving Contractors to Boost Pay. Flaying paving contractors for failing to pay a “living wage” to laborers employed on city street projects, the works board today threatened to boycott contractors unles the wage scale is raised. The threat was contained in a resolution adopted following conference with Adolph Fritz, secretary of the State Federation of Labor, and William Holmes, president of the Central Lafcor Union. In the resolution, city officials branded as “grossly inadequate” the 20-cents-an-hour scale now being paid laborers. Board members pointed out that the “low wage” is “not reflected on contractors' bids” on projects. "Hereafter, the board will consider this factor in determining the lowest and best bids,” the resolution states. FIRST AT SPEEDWAY Young Texans Reach Gates for 500-Mile Race. First harbinger of the Memorial day racing throng at the Indianapolis speedway arrived today, when two young men from Dallas, Tex., planked the four wheels of their light roadster in front of the gates, and announced that they would stay there until the hinges creak open a week from next Monday. Pete Crawford, 19, and Calvin Jones, 21. said they were inspired by accounts of previous early arrivals. and were determined to be the first into the grounds for this year's race. They drove from Dallas to Louisville in 22 hours and spent two days there. Neither ever has seen the 500-mile classic. PROTESTS WATER BILLS Charles Lahrman Charged “More for Less Use.” Charles Lahrman. 927 Edison street, today Joined ranks of those opposing revised rates of the Indianapolis Water Company. He said he received a bill April 25 for seventeen cubic feet of water, in the sum of $2.01. The next bill, for fifteen cubic feet, was $3.23. Lahrman asserts. He and his wife are the only occupants of a five-room house. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 48 10 a. m 61 7a. m 51 11 a. m 64 9a. m 60 12 (noon).. 62 8 a. m 58 1 p. m 66

Some of the women rescued had borrowed men's clothing from the crews of the rescue ships. Many children wore only a man's coat or some other garment they could borrow. Fortunately, the sea was calm when they left the Georges Phillipar. Many of the survivors suffered burns received when they fled over the blazing decks of the liner, returning from her maiden voyage to Indo-China, a great, shining ship of 17,000 tons built especially for the comfort of passengers traveling in the tropics. The survivors were housed at hotels here, at air force headquarters, and in private residences. They were given food and clothing.

They are, left to right, Mrs. Robert Adams, vice-chairman; Mrs. Meredith Nicholson Jr., vicechairman. and Mrs. Sylvester Johnson Jr., finance chairman 3or the Indianapolis organization.

Winner Soon The judges in “The Lena Rivers” contest, conducted by The Indianapolis Times, in connection with the current showing at the Apollo theater, find it necessary to postpone announcement of the winners for a few days. This is made necessary because many of the books submitted did not contain the date of publication, making it necessary for the judges to investigate many editions. It is hoped that the announcement may be made on Thursday or Friday. AH tickets will be good at the Apollo next week if the awards are not made in time for this week.

ASKS HAWAII RULER Dictatorship for Islands, Aim of Britten. By United Pre WASHINGTON. May 18.—A bill which would place the Territory of Hawaii under a military or naval dictatorship was introduced in the house today by Representative Fred A. Britten (Rep., 111.). Britten, ranking Republican member of the naval affairs committee, issued a statement declaring that “no other nation on earth would allow so important a possession to be so completely dominated by a native population.” The Massie case, he said, “has shown the extreme to which the civilian population as well as the courts will go to uphold the native spirit against anything that is American." KILLER TO FACE COURT Men who Confessed Slaying Childf in Whiting to Be Arraigned. By United Pm* CROWN POINT, Ind., May 18.— Glen Donald Shustrom, Whiting, will be arraigned in Lake criminal court Thursday on murder charges, accusing him of slaying Susan Alberta Knights, 12-year-old Whiting girl. Prosecutor Robert G. Estill has indicated he will demand the death penalty. Shustrom. who confessed, was indicted on two first degree murder counts, and two murder counts in connection with criminal attack. RAPS JUNK YARD PLANS League Opposes Use of Formci Neal Institute Site. Proposal to establish a junk yard on the site of the former Neal institute. 1800 West Washington street, is being vigorously opposed by Belmont Civic League. Thursday it is planned to protest to the park board and a mass meeting will be held at night in the Washington Street Presbyterian church, Miley avenue and Washington street.

A member of the French vessel's crew told how he and his comrades battled under the direction of Captain Vico and other officers to control the fire. •'The fire started in a cabin deluxe on D deck," he said. "We understand it was due tq a short circuit. The flames spread so rapidly that escape was cut off fsc-m many cabins." *T saw one woman jump overboard with her clothing on Are. Looking through a porthole I could see a husband and wife trapped in their cabin. "There was no panic. All available boats were lowered safely. Captain Vico was the last to leave the ship.” *

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GUARD CURTIS CLOSELY IN FEAR HE WILL END LIFE OVER CRUEL KIDNAP HOAX

Wild Flowers This Is wild flower season. Nature has raised the curtain on one of her most choice displays. Even if you can not get to the woods, you can read what the leading characters in the show 7 are doing. Violets, buttercups, Dutchman's breeches, columbine, fleur-de-lis and lady's slipper are the subjects of a series of six special articles wTitten by Dr. Frank Thone 61 Science Service for The Times. The series starts Thursday in The Times.

CONSTABLE BAN ASKED IN SUIT Activities of Officers Are Branded as Racket. Alleging activities of special constables have reached the proportions of a racket, three men describing themselves as duly qualified constables filed suit today in superior court three asking that six justices of the peace in Marion county be restrained from appointing the special officers except under emergency conditions. The suing constables are O. P. Bebinger, Nelson J. Alley and Clarence E. Haymaker. Defendant justices are: James M. Chatterly, Edward F. Peck. Carl L. King, Peter J. Peal, John F. Manning and T. S. Crutcher. It is alleged by the constables that the special officers serve summons before suits are filed, being supplied with quantities of the documents by justices; that they solicit and encourage filing of suits, especially eviction cases, for the sole purpose of obtaining fees. The county grand jury still has an investigation pending on activities of "special constables” in Indianapolis. Information, revealing that hundreds of cases were handled each month by justices through ‘constables” who carried signed summonses in tiiair pockets, was laid before the jury by The Times. Last week. Charles W. Freeman, “constable" with offices at 136 North Delaware street, was involved in eviction of the family of Merle Ayres, 2340 Calhoun street. Freeman' carried paper from the court of T. S. Crutcher, justice of the peace, in Irvington. FIRE ON INDIAN MOBS Deaths in Riots Mount to 100: 1,200 Injured. By United Prr* EOMBAY, India, May 18.—Police fired three times on mobs of rioters today as the conflict between Moslems and Hindus, which has been in progress for five days, began to subside under stem military measures. Casualties totaled approximately 100 dead and 1,200 injured, Today's casualties were five dead and seventy-five injured, a sharp drop from preceding days. URGE $1.50 TAX RATE Wives of Real Estate Men to Offer Resolution at Meeting. Wivas of Indianapolis Real Estate Board members will be guests at the weekly luncheon Thursday noon in the cafeteria of the Real Silk Mills, Liberty and Noble streets. Resolution urging that platforms of both parties contain a plank for a $1.50 maximum tax rate on real estate will be presented. A tour of the mills will follow the luncheon. GOVE R N “FOUND’ Leslie Returns to Office; Visited Southern Indiana, “Places.” Governor Harry G. Leslie, who Tuesday was classed as “lost” by attaches of his office, returned to the statehouse today. It was his first appearance in his office since Friday. Leslie said he had been in southern Indiana and "places.” His secretaries Tuesday admitted they did not know where he had gone.

The survivors who were here did not include any Americans or English. according to first tabulations. Madame Leon Valentin, a passenger who summoned officers and led to the discovery of the fire, said the Are started in a de luxe cabin directly beneath hers. “Those who perished had no time to escape,” Madame Valentin said. “I had been looking out at Cape Guardafl and went to my cabin about 2 a. m. I noticed the group of lights In the ceiling grow dim, and thought something was wrong. The switch fell off in my hand when I tried to ring for a steward. "When officers reached my cabin we heard the sparking of mires in-

Norfolk Shipbuilder, Who Admits ‘Contact’ in Lindy Hunt Is Fake, Tried Suicide Year Ago, Police Learn. TERM IN PRISON MAY BE ASKED Misdemeanor Charge Believed Most Severe That Can Be Filed Against Norfolk Shipbuilder; 3-Year Sentence Maximum. BY DELOS SMITH United Pros Staff Correspondent HOPEWELL, N. J., May 18.—John H. Curtis, bankrupt Norfolk business man who wove a cruel fantasy of “contacts” with kidnapers in the hope of personal gain, was under close watch today to see he did not escape the police, or try to cheat their investigations in the Lindbergh kidnaping by suicide. Curtis, according to state police officials, had not attempted suicide since coming into their hands, nor had he had opportunity in view of their careful watch. Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf, heading the police investigation, revealed in a statement that he had had confidential informatoin that Curtis tried suicide after his financial troubles last year.

Schwarzkopf and his associates still were checking some loose ends of Curtis’ confession—a story as fantastic as dreams of an opium smoker and as cruei as mediaeval torture, for it raised in Colonel Lindbergh the false hope that his baby would lie returned alive. The cruel lies that led Colonel Lindbergh on a heart-breaking hunt for a phantom ship and kidnapers may be followed by arraignment of Curtis on misdemeanor charges. Penalty to Be Light Plans for immediate arraignment today were postponed, and the state police announced in their forenoon bulletin that "action on Curtis will be deferred until his further questioning is completed.” The most brutal hoax in the history of American crime—one that tortured an American idol, his wife and family with the belief that for money they could buy the safety of their child, murdered and hidden at the moment within sight of their home—rates hV New Jersey with petty larceny and traffic violations. It is punishable by a maximum sentence of three years in prison and a SI,OOO fine. The vicious chain of stories which were woven together into a melodrama scenario by the bankrupt Norfolk shipbuilder had been logical enough to convince thousands—among them Colonel Lindbergh himself, a Norfolk minister and a retired admiral, close friend of Lindbergh. Included Varied Activities It included mysterious trips at sea in search of the Gloucester schooner so definitely described by Curtis, mysterious telephone calls, encounters with desperadoes, short wave radio messages, involved deals through third parties, airplane trips to New York and Newark, a minute search by a fleet o seventy-five coast guard vessels, a hero named Curtis—and the full confidence, finally, of the deceived father and mother of the stolen baby. The Curtis hoax, every bit as sensational, unconceivably brutal as compared by the public with that perpetrated by Frederick Cook who claimed to have beaten Commander Peary to the north pole, may bring some further punishment by the law—the culprit’s signed confession indicated he was undergoing mental torture. There is a federal statute which provides prison sentences and fines for defrauding the government of either money or misuse of its functions. Statute Is Outlined Curtis’ call for coast guard vessels with attendant expense in the negotiations he conducted may bring prosecution under that statute. The statute under which the prosecutors planned to act reaxis; “Any person who shall knowingly or wilfully aid or assist any person who shall commit the crime of murder or any crime denominated by any law in this state or who

side the wall. Then smoke began coming through the wall and soon flames broke out in the walls of my cabin and surrounding cabins. “The ship was stom>ed immediately and the ventilauon was cut off. but the fire spread. “Passengers were ordered to the boats immediately, but some could not get out of their cabins.” Americans on Ship By United Pret* LONDON. May 18—There were twenty-three British and American passengers aboard the Georges Phillipar, it was revealed today, although reports from the rescue ships Contractor and Mashud indicated that none of them was aboard.

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being within the state of New Jersey shall for the purpose of preventing or hindering the apprehension of any such person whether within this state or not, knowingly or wilfully gives false or untrue reports shall be guilty of a misdemeanor for which the maximum sentence shall be three years’ imprisonment, SI,OOO fin? or both.” The dramatic confession Curtis made before dawn Tuesday and announced late that afternoon, was followed or accompanied in just as sensational manner by these developments: Identified Writing Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon was revealed as an authentic negotiator through identification of the handwriting on letters he received. Hugh McQuillan of the bureau of investigation, department of internal revenue, identified the writing as by the same hand that wrote the original ransom letter left in Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.'s crib the night he was stolen—March 1. Frank Parzych, Brooklyn narcotic addict, who insisted for twenty-four hours that he had a hand in the kidnaping of Colonel Lindbergh's son, confessed today that his whole story was a product of his imagination. He was taken back to Brooklyn to be arraigned on a charge of abandoning hts wife and children—the charge on which he was first taken into custody. The Bronx county grand jury, which heard details of Jafsie's want ad negotiations Tuesday, summoned Dr. Condon to tell his story Friday. Jafsie Assails Curtis Dr. Condon, accompanied by four detectives, today visited the Mt. Vernon detective bureau in an attempt to identify from the rogues’ gallery the man to whom he paid $50,000 in ransom for the Lindbergh baby. Dr. Condon, police said, was going over all of these photographs on file there. Three Bronx detectives and a New Jersey detective accompanied him. Jafsie blamed Curtis for his own failure to save the life of Baby Llndy and return the kidnaped child to his grieving parents. He “knew ali along that Curtis was a faker," he said. “He ruined my chances of maintaining contact with ihe kidnapers, established about a week after the baby was stolen,” he charged. “When Curtis announced to the newspapers he had been authorized to pay SIOO,OOO for the return of the baby, he ruined my work,” Condon stormed. “The kidnapers threw that offei in my face with me authorized to pay only $50,000. I didn't hear from them again for a long time.* Radio messages ordering an end to the coast guard search for tlu phantom vessel described by Curtfc dispatched twenty minutes be for* the death at Washington of Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard, commandant, who had directed the search from hts bedside. He was not told of the Curtis confession. Minister Is Stunned The Rev. H. Dobson-Pcacock, Norfolk rector, who with Admiral Guy H. Burrage, retired, unwittingly served as a “front” for Curtis’ negotiations, was summoned by Colonel H. Norman Schwartzkopf to come to the Lindbergh home at his earliest convenience. The minister, professing confidence in Curtis, was stunned. Burrage had no comment. A feverish hunt for Harry Fleischer, Detroit gangster and racketeer, was ordered in- Mexico, where he is believed hiding to escape questioning in the kidnaping and murder. A guilty conscience that tortured the soul of the Norfolk boat builder, who suffered a nervous breakdown a year ago, lour days of intensive questioning by nolice, and discrepancies uncovered by police and newspaper men led to Curtis’ confession and the rapid sequence of developments during the night. And by a strange trick of fate—iTurn to Page One, Second Section)