Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1932 — Page 1

Children Cry for Mother ; Near Death After Beating by Husband

THIRD DEGREE OF 1 CURTIS IS DENIED : amous Detective Grilled 3 8c Ad Rented ’ • ' nn Witness Stand at House First Day | '<f§ t „ I „iirri l-rrt | of New Augusta placed I FLEMTNGTON. N. J., July I. a two-line rental ad In WM v JLti Vlth Harry D. Walsh, one of the M. . ountry s most famous detectives,, ing the ad was ordered 1 •" * piirming and uncomfortable in! cancelled, the house | he witness chair, counsel for John having een rented. f tughes Curtis, Norfolk shipbuilder. The cost, of renting | <***l^*^ >dav undertook to prove that, their “j® house was only | M, lient, was subjected to the “third 38cegree" while staying at the Hope- "ISpl jflk •ell home of Colonel Charles A. : . VO have a vacant, house, p JJ ' inribereh just call Miss Joe, RI. 5551, %£<; •"> Curtis is on trial charged with I "™l sh ? will help you rent it \ ! W A bstructing justice by telling false t the lowest possible cost. J|S J Lories of negotiations with the kid- ' i Nr WH .

THIRD DEGREE OF CURTIS IS DENIED

Famous Detective Grilled on Witness Stand at Hoaxer’s Trial. tty I nilrrl Press FLEMTNGTON. N. J., July I. With Harry D. Walsh, one of the country's mast famous detectives, squirming and uncomfortable in the witness chair, counsel for John Hughes Curtis, Norfolk shipbuilder, today undertook to prove that their client was subjected to the “third degree" while staying at the Hopewell home of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. Curtis is on trial charged with obstructing justice by telling false stories of negotiations with the kidnapers and murderers of Lindbergh's infant son. He confessed, but has since repudiated the confession. The intensely dramatic moment when Curtis stood before Colonel Lindbergh and admitted that he had lied was described bv Walsh. “Curtis asked me to get Colonel Lindbergh and we went into the dining room." Walsh said. He explained to Colonel Lindbergh the fact that he didn't see the ransom money and didn't check any of the bills. ' v “Lindbergh asked him why he had lied. He made some reply. “ ‘Here’s another lie.’ Colonel Lindbergh said. Curtis still insisted he had been in contact with the kidnapers. “Then Colonel Lindbergh, in a more or less disgusted manner, left the dining room." Called Him Bark Walsh obtained Curtis’ partial confession in writing. He said he was leaving the room when Curtis called him back. “Get me a typewriter. I’ll w'rite mv own story.” “This must be voluntary,” Walsh quoted himself. He got Curtis the typewriter and Curtis pounded out a full confession, he said. Walsh passed from the friendly hands of the prosecutor, into a severe cross-examination by Lloyd Fisher, defense counsel. He was forced to admit that Curtis slept in the cellar and that he was ' detained" at the Lindbergh home for five days. He denied that Curtis was confined to the cellar or that he was tortured with the clothing and tovs.of the Lindbergh baby. The state rested its case after Fisher’s grueling cross-examination. Walsh, no stranger to courtrooms and trials, like Fisher, made obvious plavs to the audience. When asked if he had promised Curtis to keep his confession secret. he declared dramatically: “I said I didn’t know, and that anything that might, happen to him would be small payment for what he had done to Colonel Lindbergh." The packed courtroom applauded. Clashes With Attorney Walsh, who gained nation-wide repute as a detective on the HallMills case, was a friendly witness under the tutelage of prosecution questioning, but became, truculent and defensive when Fisher questioned him. He forced Walsh to admit that Curtis was "detained” at the Lindbergh home from • May 13 to 18, when he was arrested formally. Walsh was called after a succession of minr police figures in the investigation had testified that Curtis was not ill treated. He denied that he told Curtis he could go home the moment he told the truth; that he told Curtis his only chance of getting home was to tell the truth: that he painted Colonel Schwarzkopf as a man of atone, who will run you down to the ends of the. earth and ruin you.” BANK CALL IS ISSUED First bank call in six months was tnade today by Luther F. Symons, Mate banking commissioner, following a call to natfonal banks by the federal government. Symons ordered all banks of the state to report condition as of June 30, which also is the date for the national call. By f'nitrd Press WASHINGTON. July 1, -J. W. Pole, comptroller of the currency, today called on all national banks to report their condition as of June 90.

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VOLUME 44—NUMBER 44

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MARION TALLEY PIANIST’S BRIDE Young Singer Secretly Is Married to German. By luited Press WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., July I. Marion Talley, former opera singer, was secretly married here Friday to Michael Raucheisen, German pianist, it was revealed today by County Clerk George Zechiel. Zechiel said he issued a license to tiie couple, who asked that he refrain from making public the information immediately. They were “married in the First Presbyterian church by the Rev. Frank Walker. After one season as the prodigy of grand opera, Miss Talley retired to a Kansas farm. The marriage license application gave Miss Talley's age as 25 and her birthplace as Nevada, Mo. Raucheisen said he was 43 and that he had been married previously and divorced. He gave his address as Berlin. The couple said they would make their home at Kansas City. CHILDREN ESCAPE BOLT Lightning Scrapes Paint From Bed Where They Slept. By Cniteif Press JACKSON. Mich.. July I.—A bolt of lightning struck the home of George V. Akerman early today, taking the paint off the bed in which three of his children were sleeping, without harming them. Donald, an 11-year-old. in another bed. was stunned. The room was wrecked. CITY WATER HELD SAFE Unpleasant Taste Is Due to Cleaning of System. Unpleasant taste of water which caused several complaints to be registered with the city board of health, is due to the annual cleaning of the water system, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the board, said today. The water is safe for use from a bacteriological standpoint, he explained.

AL KISSES ELY FOR NOMINATION SPEECH, CONVENTION’S ORATORICAL MASTERPIECE

BY RAY TUCKER Timm Staff Writer CHICAGO, July I.—Governor Joseph B. Ely (Mass.) may not- have achieved the White House for Alfred E. Smith by his deeply moving address before the Democratic national convention, but he won a kiss on the cheek from a “Happy Warrior." "And it was a real kiss, too,” said the Yankee Governor as he told with frank pride how the man he characterized as “our modem Andrew Jackson" had expressed his gratitude. No sooner had Ely entered Al’s hotel room, where the latter remained behind to hates te con-

Children of Mrs. Florence Rollins, who is in a critical condition at city hospital as a result of a beating by her husband, Herman Rollins. Left to right—Orla Lee, Laverne. Billy, Odell and Elmo. Below—Billy and his pet crow, Blackie, given to him by his father. With her skull fractured as result of a beating at the hands of her husband. Mrs. Florence Rollins, 29. mother of five children, lies near death today at city hospital. Herman Rollins, the husband, is held under $2,000 bond on an assault and battery charge. Dissatisfaction over a supper prepared by his wife late Thursday afternoon is said to have driven Rollins into a frenzy of anger at the family home, 519 North Pine street. “He wants biscuits three times a day. He won’t eat loaf bread,” Mrs. Pansy Carver, 616 East Michigan street, mother of Mrs. Rollins, said today as she exhibited a badly bruised right arm. She charges Rollins attacked her when she went to her daughter’s aid, knocking her down three times. “Florence had been sick, but said she would bake the biscuits,” Mrs. Carver continued. “Then he demanded eggs. Florence sent one of the children to a grocery to get them. He said he wanted buttermilk to drink and he was told there was some in the ice box. Called to the table he yelled. ‘I don’t want buttermilk. I want coffee.’ ” Reminded that he had said he wanted milk. Rollins, according to the mother-in-law, hurled a glass of milk at his wife. Then he threw a cup. Mrs. Rollins remonstrated and the beating is said to have followed. Mrs. Carver said one of the children ran to her home, telling her “Papa is beating mother on the floor." She went to the Rollins home. She said she found her daughter seated in a chair with blood streaming down the side of her face. Neighbors said the children, ranging in age from 6 to 14, cried throughout the night for their mother. The youngest, Billy, 6. who treasures a pet crow. Blackie, a gift from his father, seemed dazed by the trouble that had come into his home, but felt keenly the absence of father and mother. The other children are Orla Lee. 8; Laverne, 10: Odell, 12, and Elmo. 14. The couple was married in Nashville, Tenn.. fifteen years ago, and has lived in Indianapolis nearly four years.

vention proceedings over the “raddio,” than the 1928 standard bearer leaped to his feet. He was white and shaking. His blue eyes were wet, and he made no effort to hide his tears. His arms were outstretched. “Thanks—thanks—thanks. Joe,” was the stumbling greeting. It was all A1 could say as he enfolded "Joe" in his arms, and held him there. m n n matter whom the convention may nominate, A1 was the star of the show, present or absent, and Ely s address the oratorical masterpiece. Veteran convention-goers e&lied

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1932

FAKE RAIDERS GRAFT S3OO TO ‘FIX’ BEER CASE Find Three Quarts of Brew, Obtain Money; Then Make Escape. TRIO IN EXTORTION Woman Taken to Bank, Gets Funds for Them, Put Out of Car. Claiming they were federal agents, three racketeers today raided the home of John Reese, 4423 Allisonville road, confiscated a small amount of home brew and were paid S3OO to “fix" the case, according to deputy sheriffs and police, Mrs. Reese, at home with her husband when the raid was made, was carried to a downtown bank in the raiders’ car and forced to withdraw the sum in payment. She was put out of the car near the bank and the raiders’ escaped. Searched Ice Box While the “raid” was in progress, Reese's daughter, Frances, 22, returned home after a drive, and frustrated an attempt of the thugs to steal her auto when she said the key to the car had been “taken by a friend.” Reese told authorities he was asleep when his wife was summoned to the door by the three men. They demanded entrance, exhibiting a fake search warrant, Mrs. Reese said, and searched an ice box. They took three quarts of home brew, Reese said, and after demanding money, were told Mrs. Reese would accompany them to the bank. As Mrs. Reese left in company of the men for the bank, her daughter hurriedly called police and a trap was laid in the downtown section, but the thugs evaded capture after releasing Mrs. Reese. Racketeers of the same description raided an Anderson home Wednesday night in a similar manner, obtaining SSOO, police said.

Belong to Gang of Eight Federal authorities said they believed the raiders were members of an extortion gang of eight operating out of Clinton. Ind., who recently were reported as having staged numerous other raids of the same nature in cities in central and southern Indiana. Police Chief Mike Morrirssey said that in August, 1931, Reese was arrested for blind tiger, after police raided a sumptuously-furnished social room in the basembnt of a house he formerly occupied at 42 South Brookville boulevard. Records show, Morrissey said, that police squads then confiscated 221 quarts of home brew, 25 gallons brewing and a large amount of beermaking apparatus. Reese pleaded guilty to the blind tiger charge before Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer, who suspended judgment, Morrissey said. FIREWORKS PLANNED 500 Orphans to Be Guests at Legion Display. Free fireworks display will be presented at Brookside park Monday night at 8:30 by East Indianapolis post, No. 13, American Legion, with 500 Indianapolis orphans as special guests. Funds for the exhibition were raised by members of the post in solicitations. The Indianapolis Street Railways, Inc., will give car and bus service to the orphans. Those in charge of the affair are Harry B. Perkins, chairman, and Dr. Simon Reisler. AMELIA JAKES OFF Starts Possible . Nonstop Hop to Los Angeles. By United Press NEWARK. N. J.. July I.—Amelia Earhart Putnam took off from Newark airport at 7:10 a. m. today in the same airplane in. which she made her recent solo trans-Atlantic flight for a possible nonstop flight to Loa Angeles. With her as passengers were her husband, John Palmer Putnam, the publisher, and his son, David Binney Putnam, known as an explorer and author. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 75 10 a. m 79 7 a. m 76 11 a. m 79 Ba. m 78 12 (noon).. 79 9 a. m 78 1 p. m 79

it the most eloquent delivered before a Democratic convention in a quarter of a century. Many declared it would be remembered long after what the Democrats do here in the way of nominating a President and VicePresident is forgotten. It touched the spirit of poetry, of fair play,'of drama in every man and woman who heard it. Eighteen thousand people in the slanting galleries, as they have since the convention opened, gave their voices and their hearts to AJ and his Bay state champion. There were cheers and tears and smiles, and if these things were votes. A1 would be nominated.

Roosevelt Fails in Three Ballots for Nomination; Recess Parley Until Night

GARNER CAN ‘MAKE ROOSEVELT’—BUT WILL HE TRADE?

Child Playing Tag Runs Into Street; Killed

j**, * jjjpi is', gUr Bet tty Brower A child's delight at the stork's gift of anew baby cousin was stilled in death today. While paying her first visit to the new member of the family of a relative, Betty Brower. 3, of 109 North Elder avenue, was injured fatally when struck by an auto while playing in front of the home at 1252 West New York, street. The girl, with two brothers and their mother, Mrs. Roberta Brower, had taken their father to work ajid had stopped at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sharp, a relative of Mr. Brower, to see the new-born child. Stops to Play Tag After seeing the infant, born Thursday night, Betty and her brother, Leonard, 5, ran into the front yard to play “tag.” Within a few moments she was dead, after running into the street and being struck by a car driven by Herman Adkins, 19, of 1410 North Warman avenue. The child died in the arms of her mother twenty minutes after the wheel of the auto passed across her chest. Her death raised the traffic toll in the county to fifty since the first of the year. Adkins was not arrested by police, after witnesses said he was not to blame for the tragedy. The tragedy was witnessed by Leonard, who screamed and fainted as the car passed across his sister's bodv. Attracted from the house by the boy's, screams. Mrs. Brower ran to the street, frantically seized the injured child, and ran aimlessly down the street until stopped by Mrs. Clara Jacobs. 1141 West New York street. Mrs. Brower is under care of a physician. Mother Suffers Shock Mrs. Jacobs told police she did not see the accident, but noticed blood streaming from the face of the child in Mrs. Brower’s arms. Mrs. Jacobs summoned police and the city hospital ambulance. The child died as the ambulance arrived. Another brother of the dead girl, Junior. 7, was in the house when his sister was struck. Police said Adkins stopped his car within ten feet after striking the girl.

ELY said he had spoken with a full heart. “I could not study the crowd's reactions while speaking because it was too vast,” he said. “So I fixed my eyes on a little old lady in black in a front row. 'She took out her handkerchief and was crying gently at the fourth paragraph. I was crying myself at the sixth.'' “We call to you. Old Hickory,” cried Ely in tones vibrant with passion and sincerity. “We. call to you, though we know that you can not answer from your homeland in the south, * God brought you to us for an earlier crisis, and returned you to your father*

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Canny Texan Holds All the Aces —and He Keeps His Own Counsel. BY MARSHALL M’NEIL Times Staff Writer CHICAGO. July 1. —Speaker John N. Garner sits in a vast political game today, and he's playing 'em close to his vest. The stakes are big. He has an outside chance at the Democratic presidential nomination. But he has a very much better chance at the vice-presidential nomination. Jack has 8n ace in the hole. Ninety aces, in fact; the forty-six Texas and forty-four California votes that are pledged to him. But he has not shown his hand, although the Roosevelt forces have been making many efforts for such a showdown. These votes probably would nominate the New Yorker. When he is good and ready. Jack Garner will face-up his cards. That’s ihe way he has played poker for years, with the actual pasteboards and with politics, back home in Uvalde, Tex., and up in Washington. Roosevelt Forces Hopeful Roosevelt w’orkers. including several congressmen w’ho are Garner's close friends, have been working on his managers and the Texas delegation for days, endeavoring to convince them that Garner is the logical man for Vice-President on the Roosevelt ticket, and to determine the answers to these three questions; 1. Will Garner release the Texas delegation which is instructed for him? 2. If he does, would the forty-six Texas votes be thrown to Roosevelt? 3. Will Garner take the vicepresidency for this tremendous favor? The answers must be drawn from circumstances of sometime ago. The boomlet for Garner for President burst into a shy and modest blossom coincidently with his elevation to the speakership. Texas, generally, knew little of him. He came from away down in the state, from the little town of Uvalde. Texans Proud of Him But the Lone Star state inordinately is proud, and its pride was not satisfied by having a Texan as Speaker. The Hearst newspapers took up the boom, and beat the drums all over the country. But all the while Garner kept (Turn to Page Three)

HOOSIER DELEGATES ARE HELD IN LINE

BY BEN STERN CHICAGO, July I.—To the profound amazement of Democratic convention leaders, so long accustomed to Indiana's bandwagon tactics, the Hoosier lines held during the long night and this morning, and thirty votes were scattered among four presidential aspirants. Although the name of Newton D. Baker, secretary of war in the Wilson administration, was not presented formally, the Hoosiers. aware of Indiana sentiment for him. gave Baker eight votes on each of the first three ballots. The Indiana vote was as follows; First ballot: Roosevelt. 14; Baker. 8: Ritchie. 4; Smith. 2; Trayler 1. and Byrd. 1. Second ballot: Roosevelt. 16; Baker. 8; Ritchie. 4. and Smith. 2. The same vote was cast on the third ballot. Giving Roosevelt sixteen votes was a concession, because a count of noses in a caucus which began at 2:15 a. m. and lasted for two hours revealed that the New York Governor had only thirteen real supporters in the delegation. William H. O'Brien, Lawrenceburg banker, took the flcor of the caucus, held in the stadium, to make a plea for Roasevelt. He was joined by Robert E. Proctor of Elkhart. the New Yorker's manager in Indiana.

“But he who guides the destiny of nations looks upon both the homelands of the south and the sidewalks of New York. “I am the small voice of the inarticulate souls of the millions of America begging you to respond to their cry for the leadership of one of their own.” SUB IT is being said that Ely's political future was assured by his oration. The demonstration for Smith was the only carnival in which the galleries joined with abandon. As the great organ blared out “Tha Std- walks 0i Nw YV

Slow Gain Is Made by New York Governor in Tally; Managers Foregn Sleep in Effort to End Deadlock. VOTE AFTER ALL-NIGHT SESSION ‘Work On’ Favorite Son Delegations, Trying 1 to Start Band Wagon; Vice-Presiden-tial Offers Held Out as Lure. iCoovrisht. 1932. bv United Press) CHICAGO. July I.—An’ appeal for prohibition forces to unite behind a dry third party with United States Senator William E. Borah, Republican, Idaho, as its presidential candidate, was made today before a secret meeting of the dry’s board of strategy, the United Press learned. Thirty-two leaders of prohibition organizations heard Dr. D. Leigh Colvin of New York declare in an impassioned speech that Senator Borah would be willing to he a dry third party’s candidate. I! y I ititrd Promt CHICAGO. July I.—The battle for ballots to bring to a decision tonight the Democratic party nomination went on furiously today after Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt had failed on three ballots this morning to achieve the heeded two-thirds vote. Worn from long hours, some leaders on both sides sacrificed sleep to carry on important bargaining negotiations. The convention adjourned this morning at 9:10. after

| a twelve-hour session. | Roosevelt gained strength slowly as the balloting proceeded. i From 6661,4 votes on the first ballot, he crept to 677 “4 ; on the second, and to 682.79 , on the third. Roosevelt managers hoped they ; could continue this chiseling process l in later ballots, but were working I mightily to swing over some big I state with a rich block of votes. After three ballots in a session ; which lasted from 9 last night to 19:10 this morning, the convention adjourned to 8:30 tonight. James A. Farley, manager for 'Roosevelt, discarded the advice of his associates that he rest a few | hours before resuming his hunt for needed delegates’ votes, and went about on secret errands. He and his friends still claimed they could “crack it.’’ The stop Roosevelt people, on the other hand predicted that Roosevelt was “washed up,” since he made only slow progress in the first three baliots—and did not reach even the 690 mark which many Rdoseveltians had claimed in advance for the first ballot. I California, Texas and New York

But Frank McHale of Logansport, chairman of the delegation: Frederick Van Nuys, senatorial nominee; Thomas D. Taggart, national committeeman, and Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan of Indianapolis, put up a fight for a vote for Baker and won. Delegates were pledged not to reveal how the members voted in the caucus. Several wanted to cast thp total vote for Roosevelt on the third ballot, because they felt that the break would come in that direction. But the McNutt command would not give way. Indiana's strategy during the entire convention has been a puzzle. It started out by supporting the stop-Roosevelt group on various issues, casting its total strength. Then, in the face of repeated claims of James A. Farley, manager for Roosevelt, that he would get at least twenty votes from Indiana on the first ballot, the delegation gave him only fourteen, and its standard appeared in three demonstrations. Proctor and Frank R. Martin of Hammond, carried the banner in the Roosevelt parade; Joseph Sheininger of South Bend took it out in the Smith show; and Edward W. Mason of Crawfordsville, and Thomas R. whiting carried it in the Ritchie demonstration.

the throng became mad, merry, hilarious, hysterical. On the topmost rim of the stadium hung a fat woman dressed in summery white, she first imperiled her life by swinging far out over the balcony as if to embrace the stadium itself. Then, grabbing her husband’s straw hat. she swung it toward the bannered rafters. When he arose to protest, she crowned him with it, and shot her arm through the crownless rim. Hubby sat back and grinned. From all sides came offers of straw hats by owners begging that they be sacrificed—or crowned—on the altar of their •ffeattfa Urn 44,

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Ho w They Voted

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City represented a part of the crucial territory. In this connection, the question of the vice-presidency and the mayoralty of New York played important roles. Working on Garner The Roosevelt people were understood to have approached Speaker John N. Garner with overtures that he be the running mate of Roosevelt. Up to the time of today's balloting, their overtures apparently had not borne fruit, and it was understood that persuavive gentlemen here and in Washington, were “working on” Garner to get him on the ticket, and to have him induce the Garner delegates—ninety strong, from California and Texas—to swing right aboard the Roosevelt chariot. At the same time, there were many anxious conferences over the New York situation. With New York casting, at the peak, only thirty-one of ninety-four votes for Roosevelt there was a big prize at stake. John F. Curry, Tammany leader, was trying to save Mayor James J. Walker of New York, who faces possible ouster by Roosevelt should the latter concur in the views of the Sea bury investigating committee as to Walker's conduct in office. Curry doesn't want Walker ousted. and it might be a blow to his Tammany control. Curry Perplexed on Stand There is no suggestion that Roosevelt's managers are being approached "to trade” in this matter and Roosevelt repeatedly has said the question is outside the realms of politics. In fact, he has resented insinuations that his course might be influenced by presidential aspirations. But if his decision should be favorable to Walker—and could on made now—it is understood that the Tammany folks probably would turn to Roosevelt. Curry himself i s perplexed as to what course he should follow in directing his votes on future ballots. There is also much nursing of Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and Uinois on the part of both groups. The penthouse conferences of the anti-Roosevelt group appeared to have taken on anew locale, but it was possible that this location would be used again. Relying on Switches The anti-Rooseevlt people were relying on some switches against Roosevelt at an early moment should tonight's balloting show that he had failed to acquire new votes in fair number during the day. The Texas delegation has called a caucus at 8 p. m., at whiofc urn* it was expected that Garntf Mil