Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 130, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1933 — Page 9

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WINKLER SLAIN; RUTHLESS MOB ‘CZAR’HUNTED Murder Believed Ordered to Prevent ‘Talking’ About Crimes. HINT ‘POLITICAL POWER’ Gigantic Crime Ring ‘On Run,’ Assert Federal Agents on Case. Hy L'nUfd Prnt CHICAGO. Oct. 10—A ruthless Kang czar, believed to have ordered the slaying of two of his lieutenants he suspected of giving information so federal officers, fought desperately today to thwart the government war against crime. Tha deaths of Gus Winkler and Edgar Lebensberger, known for their gang connections, were ordered, federal officers believe, because of fear they might reveal the wide ramifications of a gigantic crime ring. Winkler was killed yesterday by assassins who fired seventy-two shotgun slugs into his back a few’ hours before he was to have been questioned again concerning the $250,000 Chicago mail robbery last December. Lebensberger was found shot to death in his palatial North Shore home last Friday.

Police Without Clew The deaths remained as perplexing: a mystery as does the "higherup'’ from whom they took their orders and relayed them to hundreds of bank robbers, bond thiefs and racketeers in a dozen middle western cities. Both were regarded as "big shots’’ among gangsters because of their reputed connections with someone politically powerful enough to prevent a too closj scrutiny of their activities by city and state authorities. Under the direction of this modern Fagin, according to disclosures already made, a ring that included such notorious gunmen as Harvey Bailey, Fred (Killer) Burke, George (Machine Guni Kelly, Verne Miller and Frank Nash, robbed banks and mail trucks and trafficked in millions of dollars in stolen bonds. Score Under Arrest More than a score of men, suspected of implication, already are under arrest here. Warrants have | been Issued for at least seven others. Those under arrest include ! John J. (Boss) McLaughlin and Ed- j ward Sans. The list of crimes attributed to j the gang includes several kidnap- . ings, the machine-gun robbery of a Lincoln (Neb.) bank of $2,500,000 in 1930. and the $250,000 Chicago mail robbery last December. McLaughlin and Sans were arrested in connection with the Chicago mail robbery. Lebensperger had been indicted in connection with the same crime. Because of fear he might give federal agents information, he was marked for death. Apparently he killed himself rather than await gang assassination. Talked Way Out of Probe Winkler, who talked* his way out of ihe Lincoln robbery investigation by bargaining to return $583,000 in negotiable securities, was to have been questioned concerning the Chicago mail robbery and the more recent federal bank mail holdup, and the slaying of Patrolman Miles Cunningham. He was shot down as he walked nonchalantly from his automobile to the door of a beer distributing company, by gunmen hidden in a small green truck. The killers left no trail. One man, listed as a suspect in the slaying, was arrested today for questioning. He is Dominic Marzano. 23. Police were informed he was at the scene of the killing five minutes before Winkler arrived. RECOVER LEACH’S CAR SHORTLY AFTER LOSS Police Ownership Title Card Frightens Thief Away. Twenty minutes after the automobile of Captain Matt Leach of the state police had been stolen Sunday from a parking space at the statehouse it was recovered at Market and Liberty streets by city police. A bag of golf clubs which Captain Leach had borrowed two weeks ago. but which he had not found time to use. still were in the car. The car bears no state police lettering on the outside. It is believed the thief abandoned it after noticing "Indiana state police" on the title card carried on the steering post. SET LAST RITES FOR LEADER OF SOCIALISTS Morris Hillquit Dies; 111 Since New York Mayoralty Race. Ay United Press NEW’ YORK. Oct. 10.—Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Morris Hilquit, lawyer and author, who rose from immigrant boy to leader of the Socialist party in the United States. Hillquit. 64. died suddenly Saturday night at his home here, after an illness of many months. He became gravely ill after his strenuous mayoralty campaign last year, in which he received 250.000 votes, the largest ever accorded a Socialist. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Vera Hillquit, and their son and daughter.

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Riding With Uncle David

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He’s the prince of Wales to all the world, but to Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the duke and duchess of York, he’s, plain “Uncle David.” The prince and princess are here pictured driving back from church at Balmoral, Scotland, where the royal family is in residence.

Awards Await Winners in Scrambled Photo Game

Times-Palace Contest Will Bring Cash-In Chinee for Victors. Tomorrow The Times will publish the first motion picture jigsaw puzzle. It will be a scrambled photograph of the highest-salaried and most popular juvenile player on the screen—a youngster w'ho began his acting career as an extra at a salary of $5 and who, today, is under a long-term contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at a salary in excess of $5,000 a week. Every movie fan knows him and has admired his work in many of the more notable talking pictures of the last five years. The boy today is only 9. but has had his name in electric lights for more than four years. By this time you probably have guessed the name of tomorrow’s jigsaw puzzle subject. If you still are in doubt, it may be explained that he is fifty-one inches tall, weighs seventy-three pounds, and has blond hair and hazel eyes. Among his activities on the screen were important roles in such pictures as "Sunnyside Up,” “Skippy,” “Donovan's Kid,” "Divorce in the Family,” “Sooky,” ’ Broadway to Hollywood,” and the latest of the United Artists pictures. “The Bowery.” which is coming to Loewis Palace theater Friday. The Times is going to ask you to re-assemble this boy's picture as it appears tomorrow 1 , forming the jigsaw into a complete photograph. To each of the twenty-five readers who send in the neatest correct answers to The Times Scrambled Photo Editor, The Times will present two tickets to Übew’s Palace, good for any day during the engagement of "The Bowery.” Watch for the motion picture jigsaw puzzle in tomorrow's Times and send in your correctly assembled photograph as soon as you have it completed. And remember, neatness will count in making the twentyfive awards. Send it to The Times Scrambled Photo Editor. 70, NEVER MISSES DAY Holyoke Baker at His Job Without Fail for Fifty Years. Ay Vnited Press HOLYOKE. Mass., Oct. 10.— Richard Dietz. has been a baker in Holyoke fifty years and all during that time has been getting to his shop every workday at 4 a. m.

Lindbergh Case, Kansas City Massacre Cause War on Gangs

This Is the second of six absorbing articles written by Robert Talley, staff corespondent for NEA Service and The Times, describing how the federal government has crime on the run. BY ROBERT TALLEY Times Special Writer FOR the wave of public indignation against organized criminals. which awakened the nation from its lethargy of years, brought the law enforcement agencies of Uncle Sam into the picture, and ultimately put crime on the run. the underworld can blame two of its most daring deeds. First was the kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby, which shocked the nation as no crime ever had shocked it before and brought widespread clamor for action. Second was the Kansas City Union station massacre last June 17, in which gangland roared a machine gun challenge to Uncle Sam. with the murder of four officers, one of them a federal agent. Two other federal officers were wounded and a federal prisoner, whom the gang was trying to rescue from the law, was killed accidentally. The war between the government and organized crime was on in earnest then, and it has continued ever since. Today, the alleged ringleader and chief ma-chine-gunner of that massacre— Harvey Bailey, “the most dangerous criminal alive”—stands convicted of a sensational kidnaping.

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Squad’s Left! Butler Gridders Receive Roadside Education.

After all, a promoter has to make something. That was the grudging decision of the Butler university football team members after they had played a "guessing game” in an low'a cornfield on their way to Des Moines Thursday. Stranded along the road because of tire trouble, John Stewart, senior class president, collected 5 cents from each of the twenty-nine members of the squad for the privilege of guessing how many grains of corn were on each of two ears he collected in a nearby cornfield. The winner got 50 cents: second best, 35 cents, and—well, a promoter has to get something for his trouble.

DRIVER HELD DESPITE DENIAL OF ACCIDENT Police Make Arrest After Finding Front Door of Car Damaged. Harry Blair, 47, of 2727 North Pennsylvania street, said by police to have denied he had any knowledge of his car injuring a man, was confronted with what officers declare to be proof to the contrary. Officers went to Blair's home yesterday making inquiry regarding an accident in which Leonard Maxwell, 50, Negro, was hurt. In front of the house was Blair’s car, with one headlight damaged, and wedged between the sidemounted spare tire and fender was a cap believed to be Maxwell's. Blair was arrested. STATE JEWELERS TO CLOSE PARLEY HERE Convention to End With Election of Officers. The convention of the Indiana State Retail Jewelers’ Association will close today witn the election of officers. Delegates will be guests tonight of the Baldwin-Milier company, wholesale jewelers, at a dinner at the Antlers. The convention opened yesterday in the Severin.

several of his aids have been found guilty and others will face trial soon. Still at large, however, and leading federal officers a will-o’-the-wisp chase over the country, is the alleged second machine gunner, Verne Miller, a former South Dakota sheriff who turned criminal. a a a NOT only because of the merciless horror with which wholesale murder was perpetrated, but because it was a brazen challenge to the federal government on the part of the underworld. the Kansas City massacre stands out above other crimes. The story of what happened reads like a fiction thriller. Some time before. Frank Nash, a mail robber and member of Bailey's gang of outlaws, had escaped from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. Nash fled to Hot Springs, Ark., where he grew a mustache, purchased a wig to cover his- bald head as a further disguise, and posed as a • respectable" gambler around Hot Springs resorts. Federal officers trailed Nash there, surprised him as he was drinking a bottle of beer in a speakeasy, snatched off his wig to cinch their identification, and placed him under arrest. Immediately, as federal officers subsequently discovered, Mrs. Frances Nash, wife of- the pris-

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1933

REACH TRUCE IN‘2 PER CENT CLUETCLASH Committee to Decide Fate of State Pay Levy Organization. PETERS IS CRITICISED Meeting Delays Scored as Group Settles Fight on Funds. Fate of the Hoosier Democratic Club will be decided by the subcommittee on finance of the Democratic state committee at its first meeting next Tuesday at 1 at the Claypool headquarters. Announcement of the meeting was made today by Chairman A. N. Pursley, Hartford City, of the subcommittee. Other members are Miss Florence Smith, La Porte, and Omer Jackson, Greenfield. They were chosen as a means of settling the controversy between Governor Paul V. McNutt and R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman, over the 2 per cent state pay roll collections of the club. The subcommittee plan was approved by the state committee Monday, along with resolutions providing for state committee meetings monthly and otherwise at request of six members and indorsing both the state and national administrations. Mr. Peters has been criticised for not calling committee sessions more often. The entire matter of the club collections is now in the hands of the subcommittee, which also will recommend all disbursements, it was explained by Governor McNutt.He refused to comment on whether reprisals w’ill be made on state committee members who failed to rally to his support in the scrap with the state chairman.

SEES END FOR ADOLFHITLER Frommer Predicts Germany Will Revolt Against 'Horror Reign.’ Adolf Hitler’s “reign of horror and destruction” will result in a revolution in Germany by the end of next winter,” asserted Samuel Frommer, Indianapolis advertising man, in an address last night before the Indianapolis B nai B’rith at Kirshbaum Center. Recently returned from a visit to Germany, Mr. Frommer declared that Hitler has failed to carry out his promises to the German people. “Hitler promised whirring factory wheels, streams of freight cars at the sides of industrial plants waiting for their loads of goods, ships at every wharf waiting to carry those goods to the far-flung corners of the earth,” said Mr. Frommer. “Instead,” the speaker said, “daily, weekly, monthly, the whirring wheels go slower and slower. .Hundreds and thousands join the ranks of the unemployed. Hitler is completing the destruction of a great nation, a destruction started by the Versailles treaty.”

SIO,OOO Door Takes It With Him to Collect Prize.

By United Press TSTANBUL, Turkey, Oct. 10. Ahmed Resit won SIO,OOO with his kitchen door in the recent state lottery, it was disclosed today. Resit, fearing he might lose his ticket, pasted it on the door. It was a prize winner, but was stuck to the door so firmly it could not be removed. Resit unhinged the door, took it to the lottery office, and got his prize.

oner, telephoned friends in Chicago. The latter telephoned to underworld friends of Bailey and Miller at Kansas City and in this way Bailey and Miller were informed that the officers and their prisoner would arrive at the Kansas City Union station the following morning. There, they were to enter an auto for the short drive to Leavenworth. Original of the BaileyMiller gang, federal officers since have learned, called for the outlaws to intercept the auto on the highway to Leavenworth and effect Nash's release there. But these plans seem to have miscarried, for some unknown reason, and Nash died at the hands of his pals who were trying to free him. ana FIVE minutes after the train arrived, the plaza of Kansas City's union station became an arena of horror, as eight men were ambushed with machine guns and five of them killed outright in a brief but murderous burst of fire. Officers escorting Nash, reinforced by Kansas City police, who met them at the train, barely had crossed the station plaza and entered a waiting auto when machine guns roared from another car, parked nearby. When the smoke cleared, Raymond J. Caffery, special agent of

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Roosevelt Junior Hunts Seclusion

A Harvard freshman who wants no favors and seeks no special privileges is Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (upper left), son of the President, who lives simply in old Weld hall (upper right). Though lie has steadfastly declined to be interviewed or photographed at college, he couldn't escape the cameraman when, as shown below, he took his place in the stroke position in the yearling crew's first practice.

By \EA Service BOSTON, Oct. 10.—In the dimly lit corridor of Harvard’s least pretentious dormitory you will find in the directory of the freshmen students living there a Cohen, a Foley, a Benecchi, a Koffman and a Pellegrino. At the foot of the cosmopolitan list is the name F. D. Roosevelt Jr. Other Roosevelts have been at Harvard, but few have begun their undergraduate careers there with more modesty and less ceremony than tne handsome second son of the President of the United States. Young Roosevelt rooms with his cousin, R. B. Delano, on the third floor of Weld in a suite almost monastic in its simplicity. He pays to live in it $220 a year, which is less than half of what it would cost to reside at one of the finer dormitories. With no private bath, he uses a washroom in common with the other students. The Roosevelt - Delano study, light and airy, is equipped only with a large table, two desks, four wooden chairs. In each of the small bedrooms leading off the study is a bed, a chair, a dresser. If Freshman Roosevelt wants to go in for refinements like rugs, curtains, pictures and the like, it’s up to him to get them. Perhaps it’s because the Roose-

City Man to Be State Witness in Death Case

Peck Not Indicted by Grand Jurors on Torture Count. By Times Special NEWTON, 111., Oct. 10.—Harold L. Peck of Indianapolis will be a witness for the state in the torture killing of an 82-year-old woman, which resulted yesterday in three men arrested with him being indicted by a Jasper county grand jury here on murder charges. The accused men are Henry Shelby, Tilton, ill., and John Allen, Danville, 111., both said to have confessed by county authorities, and

the United States department of justice, was dead. So were Otto Reed, police chief at McAlester, Okla., who was accompanying Caffery, and city detectives Frank Hermanson and W. J. Grooms of Kansas City. Sprawled on the front seat of the auto was Frank Nash, killed by his pals, who had tried to rescue him. Badly wounded was Special Agent F. J. Lackey of the department of justice. Slightly wounded was Special Agent R. E. Vetterli. Unhurt, and by a miracle, was Special Agent Frank Smith. With one federal officer murdered and two others wounded in a bandit gang’s brazen challenge to the government, the department of justice snapped into action. Tracing telephone calls, they located the Kansas City bootlegger to whom the message from Chicago had come. Tracing some furniture that had been moved some time before, they found a home in a residential section of Kansas City where Verne Miller, posing as “Mr. V. C. Moore,” had lived in quiet respectability. Miller and his wife had departed hurriedly on the day of the massacre. a u a IN a few days the government had brought about the indictment of two persons as conspirators in the massacre, includ-

velts are familiar with freshman life at Harvard that a bundle of bed clothes was sent from the White House to Suite 16. Weld hall. And perhaps that is why Mrs. Roosevelt came down to Boston to shop around for such things as rugs, hangings to match, and a coffee percolator and a bread box. And maybe that was also the reason why the first lady inspected her son’s room to calculate measurements for curtains. For all this simplicity and humbleness young young Roosevelt is truly grateful. Just back from a torn* of Europe, where he met and was feted by leading statesmen, the President’s son wants to be treated like any other of his classmates who live in the freshman melting pot that is called Harvard Yard, and has recently been tagged “Harvard’s Ellis Island.” At the Harvard Union, where he pays $9 a week for his meals, Roosevelt rubs elbows with the sons of laborers and he wants to be on equal footing with them. “I want to be treated just as any other Harvard freshman,” he told reporters. “I don’t want anything special because I happen to be the son of the President of the United States. I want people to forget that, and I want to stand on my own.” With this conviction, the tall,

Earl Stark, who has not yet been arrested. Peck, who escaped indictment here, must stand trial in Conklin county, Missouri, on a charge of robbery with a weapon, and charges of burglary and larceny have been filed against him at Danville. The Indianapolis men loaned his automobile to the men accused of a criminal attack upon Mrs. Mary Schraeder, farm woman, living near Newton, on Aug. 29, which resulted in her death. Her brother, Bernard Weldon, 84, and a daughter, Miss Anna Schraeder, 47, were beaten in an effort to force them to reveal the hiding place of money.

ing the widow of the slain convict. Those arrested were turned over to Kansas City authorities, since the crime of murder is punishable by state law. Local officers cooperated with the government in the arrests. But still at large was Harvey Bailey, who, the government says, was ringleader of the massacre gang. Officers declare Bailey gave the command to open fire and operated one of the machine guns. For Bailey—bandit leader, kidnaper, and bank robber whom government officials called “the most dangerous criminal in the nation” —one of the greatest manhunts in the history of the southwest was begun. The climax came when a squad of heavily armed federal officers advanced on a remote farm forty miles from Ft. Worth, Tex., in the early morning, and surprised Bailey as he slept on a cot in the yard. America’s super-desperado awakened to find himself looking directly into the barrel of a machine gun in the hands of a federal agsnt. He had no chance to use two. automatic pistols concealed under his pillow, or his own machine gun and a rifle that leaned against a nearby porch. a a a WITH the Kansas City murder charge still hanging over him, Bailey was placed on

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affable freshman has steadfastly refused to grant formal interviews or to pose for photographs of himself alone. When, at 8:30 on the morning of registration day, he bounded from the gloomy portals of his dormitory nattily attired in white shoes, smart brown felt hat, gray flannel suit, and saw a camera aimed at him, he side-stepped like a startled deer, darted behind a tree and dashed across the lawn. Safely out of focus, but still smiling, he shouted to his would-be photographer, “Sorry . . . sorry . . . *Tm not going in for that kind of stuff, you know.” And he said what he meant. A few days later he appeared at Soldiers’ Field with the intention of trying for a place on the freshman football team. He drew a uniform, but as promptly returned it. He had seen through the windows of the field house that an army of photographers was awaiting him. Then this athletic freshman switched to crew because he “didn’t want to be hounded by photographers.” But still they followed, and the Roosevelt temper mounted. And so, finally, when one of them sought to snap him in rowing trunks, Oarsman Roosevelt told him: “I’ll punch you in the nose. And I really mean it.”

Blows Self Up Michigan Man Is Torn to Bits in Blast.

By United Press C't ALUMET, Mich., Oct. 10. John Korr, tiring of life after fifty-five years, placed a stick of dynamite in his trousers pocket late yesterday and lighted a fuse leading to it. Then he wandered into the room where his landlady, Mrs. Mary Chopp and her daughter were seated. Terrified, the two women fled from the house. Korr was blown to bits. Mrs. Chopp and her daughter were unhurt.

trial in federal court at Oklahoma City and convicted for the kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel, Oklahoma oil millionaire. He was accused as “the brains” of this kidnaping; some of the marked Urschel ransom money was found on his person, and Urschel had been held captive at the farm where Bailey was arrested. With Bailey bagged, the government redoubled its search for .Verne Miller, who is allleged to have operated the second machine gun in the Kansas City massacre. Miller is a former South Dakota sheriff who got in bad over an embezzlement charge and turned outlaw. He i3 believed to have joined with Bailey in Chicago when the latter was active in crime there several years ago. Also sought in connection with the Kansas City massacre are Wilbur Underhill and Robert C. Brady, two of the desperadoes who escaped from the Kansas penitentiary in the daring break led by Bailey last Memorial day. The Kansas City massacre marked the underworld's challenge to the federal government in its war on crime—and Uncle Sam has accepted that challenge. Next—Chicago sends 300 criminals to prison in sixty days. 4

M’NUTT STATE SETUP SCORED BY ATTORNEY Groninger Attacks ‘OneMan’ Government in Talk to G. 0. P. ASSAILS BEER HANDLING Municipal Utility Pledges ‘Forgotten,’ Speaker Tells Club. Governor Paul V. McNutt is conducting the state government along the lines of a "new’ thought school of Democracy in the raw’,’' members of the Irvington Republican Club were told last night. The club speaker was Taylor E. Groninger, local attorney and authority on utility law’. He termed the present Indiana administration a "one-man government” and criticised the entire state program from laws to personnel. "Only text book in the new thought school is McNutt's 'Primer of State Government,’” Mr. Groninger declared. "But the text book study is supplemented with frequent lectures by the dean—Governor McNutt. “Governor Is Everything” "One of the first subjects taught is 'Managerial Prowess.’ This stresses the importance of the chief executive being everything in something and something in everything that has to do w’ith state government. “Another chapter, designed to j give solace to the drys and at the I same time bring good cheer to the ! hearts of the liberals is the chapter on ‘Beer.’ "This makes it emphatic (for the benefit of the drys) that saloons are a curse and are gone, never to return, and that gin fizzes and highballs are forever taboo.

Bottles and Kegs “But, for the benefit of the liberals, the primer states that beer depots and beer emporiums have been established, ad libitum, and that brewed liquor with its white collar, whether drawn from keg or poured from bottle, may be sold any place, and where and any time, provided it is accompanied by a guardian pretzel. "There is some faint suspicion that the guardian already has resigned his trust. “The primer very cleverly explains that while the law originally required beer to be sold in bottles only, the legislature actually had in mind, at the time of the passage cf the act, the sale of it also in kegs. Famous Bung Ruling “This explanation was indorsed by the clairvoyant division of the state department of law. It enabled a mind-reader in the attor-ney-general’s office to advise the Governor to issue his famous executive order to pull the bung ‘at 9 in the morning.’ “You understand, of course, that ‘ours is a government of laws and not of men’ and ‘the legislature alone has the power to make, sanction, suspend or give effect to laws.’ “The primer also presents a very fine reason why the beer importer is necessary in distributing beer among its users. “The reason is difficult to find. Many have become near-sighted in thefr search for it. But many, after sympathetic search, believe they have discovered why we do not have a 5-cent stein. Scores Utility Plan “They are asking the dean to answer this question: ‘Why a beer importer?’ ” Mr. Groninger charged that the Democratic platform was not carried out in regard to utilities when municipal plants were left under public service commission jurisdiction. After dealing with each administration leader, the speaker closed: “Surely with the new thought school thus equipped and securely established, with its dean and other faculty members snugly ensconsed behind an impregnable rampart of new and elastic laws, Indiana’s new democracy will go forward to greater and grander achievements than those realized under the administration of any former Democratic Governor.”

MACEDONIANS SCORE SERBIAN, GREEK RULE City Committee Issues Declaration Against Conditions. Indianapolis committee of the Macedonian Political Organization in the United States and Canada has made public a declaration concerning the conditions in Macedonia under Serbian and Greek rule. Despite the rights guaranteed to it by the treaties of St. Germaine and Sevres fourteen years ago, the population of Macedonia has been oppressed by Serb and Greek authorities in a most brutal manner, the declaration asserts. The declaration was voted unanimously at the organizations twelfth regular congress in Detroit. TICKETS ON SALE FOR LABOR HEAD’S SPEECH Miss Frances Perkins to Talk on Town Hall Program. Sale of tickets for the lecture to be given by Miss Frances Perkins, secretary of labor at the Murat theater Friday night began yesterday at L. S. Ayres’ book shop and Town Hall headquarters in the Columbia Club. Announcement of Miss Perkins* lecture was made in a number of Indianapolis churches Sunday.