Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 239, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1933 — Page 5

FEB. 11, 1933

PACT OF PARIS FRAMER DRAFTS WAR DEBT PLAN Couples Arms Slash, Holiday With Four Lump Sum Payments. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripnn-liouard Foreign F.'iilur WASHINGTON, Fob. 14—A clean sweep of the war debts in exchange for four lump sums from Europe aggregating $1,250,000,000 and an agreement for an arms holiday and reduction, was urged here todaj by Salmon O. Levinson, one of the framers of the pact of Paris. Hus plan, which has been laid before leaders of both major political parties on Capitol Hill, stipu-1 later: 1. That France pay the first installment of $312,500,000 in cash on Jan. 15. 1934, that is to say, within the next fiscal year. 2. That Great Britain, on Jan. 15, 1935, similarly pay the second installment though, if they preferred, the two countries could pay j one-half jointly for the two years, j 3. For the third payment, and to, provide the allies with a breathing! spell, part of the proceeds derived from the $714.000,000 which Germany has agreed to pay to clean up j the reparations slate might be used ! 4. That Italy and the other thirteen nations pay the fourth-year installment, having had tour years in which to do it. Train Is Off the Track “Unless the United States uses the present opportunity to bring about a general reduction of armaments and an arms holiday," Levinson declared, “disarmament appears doomed for at least a generation. It likewise means that our country and the world will go deeper, instead of coming out of the depression. These problems all are tied together. “Our economic train is off the tiack. We must get it back on, and a way is now at hand if wc will only take advantage of it. “If the nations of the world will agree to a holiday in armament construction until the world recovers from the depression, say for the next four years, our savings will be enormous. Our own federal budget would be cut by $350,000,000 a year. “If, at the same time, the nations agree to a progressive cut in their armament, so that at the end of the holiday they would be reduced to aO per cent of their present status, a further big saving would be realized. Save Deefnsc Upkeep “The four lump sum payments on j war debts would total $1,250,000,000. By making an arms holiday an ab- ' solute condition of debt settlement, we would save, in the next four years, approximately $1,400,000,000 on new construction. Here is a total of $2,650,000,000. “If, in addition, the nations agreed to a progressive pro rata reduction of armaments so that by the end of the holiday they would be reduced to 50 per cent, there to remain until further agreement, we would save on annual defense upkeep some $300,000,000 a year, or $2,400,000,000 for the eight years following the holiday. The nation, in | mo twelve years, therefore, would effect a total saving of more than $5,000,000,000, counting in the debt payments. “The present worth of Europe's war debts to the United States, on a basis of 5 per cent interest, roughly is $5.000.000 000. Revive World Market “Tariffs, monetary problems and kindred questions could be settled afterward. Conditions in the world are so serious that time is of the utmost, essence. The other questions are not only seriously controversial among nations, but decidedly so within each nation itself. “The debt - reparations - disarma‘luent adjustments will not delay in any way the solution of the other crucial problems. Indeed, the mere announcement that such adjustments were on the way would instantly revive the markets of the world and metamorphose public sentiment.” Levinson is internationally known as a reorganizer of railroads and big industries and an authority on national and international finances. His study of world peace was a forerunner of the Briand-Kellogg pact outlawing war.

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Telltale Mark on Auto Is Downfall of Kansas Killer

This is the sixth of a series of stories, b4hd on information from the files of the United States bureau of investigation nnd other sources, teliing for the first time the bureau'.-, agents part in lamous mysteries. BY LOL WEDEMAR Times Staff Writer THE First National Bank, of Lamar, Colo., was about to close on the afternoon of May 23, 1928, when four bandits entered. “Stick 'em up!" commanded the leader, a tall, slim man, with a dark mustache. Senator A A, Parrish, president of the bank, was at his desk. His son. John, was in the paying teller’s cage, E. A. Kessinger another teller, was at the window nearest the bandits. It had been a busy Jay, and more than $218,000 in cash was in the vault. Senator Parrish, who had grown up in the west, had no intention of submitting to the raiders. He started toward them. A hail of bullets struck him. His son ran to help and fell under another volley. Kessinger and other employes were cowed, and the bandits went to work. Driving Kessinger ahead of them, the leader and another man entered the vault and brought out sack after sack of gold, package after package of paper money. They dumped it all into two large bags they had brought with them, and then, before the alarm had spread, started for the street. A policeman was approaching, but the leader had taken precaution. He marched Kessinger ahead of him, a revolver pressed to the teller's head. Then the raiders and their prisoner stepped into an automobile and sped away. The officer opened fire, wounding one of the fugitives. At the edge of Lamar, a group in ambush tried to halt the car with gunfire, but it roared through without halting. a a a THE pursuit was not halted. Several weeks later Kessinger’s body, with a dozen bullets in it, was found in western Kansas. That made three dead, $218,000 stolen, and no clews. Dr. William Wineinger, popular and prosperous physician in Dighton, Kan., had heard of the holdup in Lamar, but it meant little to him. One night he received a telephone call from the Dohn farm near Garden City, saying a man was dying. He hurried to his assistance. Farmer Dohn did not answer Dr. Wineinger when he knocked at the door, but another voice did. and he entered the house. A man whose face was familiar stood there in the lamplight and pointed to another man on a bed. “Fix him up, doctor,” he said. A difficult operation performed, Dr. Wineinger put on his coat and prepared to leave. “Don’t let him move for a day or two,” he said. “By the way, where is Mr. Dohn?” The tall man produced a revolver. "He’s tied to a chair in the barn,” he replied. “Do you konw mo, Dec?” “I think I do. Aren’t you” A shot sounded and Dr. Wineinger fell dead beside his instrument case. THF. gang cleared out from the Dohn farm the next day, taking Dr. Wineinger’s body and his auto. At a canyon several miles away they started the car, leaped out and let it run into the canyon. Farmer Dohn got free and telephoned the sheriff Dohn thought he had recognized one of the bandits as a man called “Whitey.” Pressed by public clamor, the authorities rounded up “W hit ey” Walker, Charles C. Clinton, Floyd Jarrett and Alfred Oliver. The car was found in the canyon, with Dr. Wineinger’s body near by. On it was a single fingerprint which was not Dr. Wineinger’s. The prisoners were taken to Lamar, Colo., where a huge crowd gathered at the railway station. Before night sixty Lamar citizens had signed' affidavits identifying the four prisoners as the bank robbers and murderers. Despite the fact that they had alibis, they were held for trial. Now, in recent years police authorities all over the country have come to rely on the bureau of investigation's fingerprint division and send to it duplicates of all

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fingerprints taken in criminal cases. The single nrint found on Dr. Wineinger’s car was sent to the bureau, but it was new. That print never had been filed before and there seemed no possibility of an identification through it. B B B IT was sent through the department and every expert became familiar with it. It was of the 29 over 28 classification. A1 Ground, a war veteran, was in charge of the 2S-28 filing cabinets. “Not much chance of matching this print,” said Ground, “but I’ll sort of keep it in mind.” The trial of the four suspects in Lamar approached, and public demand for retribution was so great a verdict of guilty seemed assured, although the prosecutor had not been able to break down their alibis. Meanwhile, in Stockton, Cal., a tall, slender man was arrested in a routine police raid on a gambling resort. The police sent

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Jake Fleagle.

fingerprints of all the prisoners to the bureau of investigation in Washington. J. Edgar Hoover, in charge of the bureau, has set a thirty-six hour deadline for checking prints received. Within thirty-six hours after they arrive at the bureau the prints are classified, compared with prints on record, a report is made by one of seventy-five typists assigned to this work alone and a reply is mailed. Despite this speed, however, Ground always took time to match “Right Index A,” as he called his unlisted print. One card of the batch from Stockton ,ame to him. It bore the fingerprints of Harrison Holden, No. 2804-V. Ground glimpsed at that card and yelled. The index finger matched the print from Dr. Wineinger’s car! B B B NO time was lost. Director Hoover telephoned the Stockton authorities, only to learn that Holden had been released an hour after his arrest.

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“What else do you know about him? the director asked the Stockton police chief. "Well, he’s also known as Joseph Reed. and. I understand, as Jake Fleagle. Comes from Kansas somewhere.” The pursuit got under way. In less than two days Holden had been identified as Jake Fleagle of Garden City, Kan. Late at night bureau agents, state and county authorities surrounded the Fleagle ranch and tock into custody Jake's youngest brother and his father, both reputable men. They knew nothing of the whereabouts of Jake or the other brotrer, Ralph. But fingerprints never lie—and there have never been found two fingerprints alike. So the Fleagles were questioned for nearly two weeks, at the end of which time the youngest beg. n to talk. “Ralph has been robbing banks,” he said. "He is hiding in Kankakee, 111, right now. a b a THE penultimate chapter was written within a few hours. Ralph Fleagle was captured in Kankakee and returned to Lamar. There, frightened by the angry mob outside the jail, he confessed to the First National bank robbery. “Jake led the gang.” he said. “Jake was right smart and planned it all. Herb Ro.vston and George Ashbier were with us.” Ralph and his two accomplices were given a stormy and speedy trial, convicted, and hanged. But Jake remained at liberty. Intensive study of the habits of Jake Feagle had been the job of one agent. Co-operating with postoffice authorities, he learned everything he could of the Fleagle family correspondence. Finally, in Missouri, postoffice inspectors noticed handwriting on a sealed letter that resembled Jake Fleagle's. It came from a small town in the Ozarks. A posse of Lamar deputies and postoffice inspectors started for the town. B B tt THE posse was notified en route that Jake’s hideout had teen found, but that he had disappeared. The officers continued through the Ozarks, however, determined to pick up the trail. Their train stopped at Branson, Mo. A tall, slender man got on board. Instantly half a dozen deputies, detectives, federal agents and postal inspectors leaped upon him. Jake Fleagle aimed a gun at Detective Harry Wilde. Another detective knocked the gun aside. At that moment someone shot Fleagle. They took him to the hospital in Springfield. Mo., where he made a full confession. He was told how he had been identified. “I'd aorta worn gloves,” said Jake. “Will you send for my mother?” he asked. “I want to see her. before the lights go out.” He died.

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FOUR HAWAIIAN NATIVES FREE IN MASSIE ATTACK ■ Indictments Against Accused Quashed on Prosecutor’s Motion. lt;i Vnitrd Prrtn HONOLULU, Feb. 14.—Hawaii officially wrote the last chapter in the Massie assault case today, closing the most sensational criminal litigation in the history of America's i insular “melting pot.” Little excitement was precipitated when Circuit Judge Charles | S. Davis, acting on motion of Prosecutor John W. Kelley, dismissed indictments charging four natives with criminally assaulting Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie, so- j dally prominent wife of a young naval lieutenant. Prosecutor K 'lev informed the court the state had no evidence | that Mrs. Massie had been attacked. Her manner of identifying Horace j Ida, Ben Ahakuelo, Henry Chang, David Takai and Joseph Kahahawai would not stand up in court, he said, j A jury at the first trial of the de- ! fendants disagreed. Kahahawai was kidnaped and slain a few days after the first trial ! Lieutenant Thomas H Massie, ■ husband of Mrs. Massie; Mrs. Gran- j ville R. Fortescue, her mother, and two naval enlisted men were convicted of manslaughter, but were ; freed after serving one hour.

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Automobiles renorted to police as stolen I belong to: Bernice H. Gcodlaw. 1218 East Twentysecond street. Ford truck. T 11-25/. trom in front of 1218 East Twcntv-second street William Pruitt. 208 West Forty-third street. Chrysler sedan. 124-533. from Pennsvlrania and New York streets. Rollin E. French. 715 East Fifty-ninth street. Ford coupe. 114-835. from Ohio am Illinois streptCharles W. Keating. North Salem. Ind.. Buick sedan. 601-911. irom lentn street a.< i J Jefferson avenue.

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Stolen automobiles recovered bv nolice belong to: Cecil B. Watkins. 2925 East Washington street, found at Dearborn and Michigan streets, automobile wrecked. E.-s'-x sedan. 16-921. found oi sidewalk a* Walnut street and Senate avenue.

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