Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 134, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1933 — Page 1

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ILL-FATED PLANE WRECKED BY BOMB, U. S. PROBER SAYS Murder Is Hinted as Investigators Seek Actual Cause of Tragedy Which Took Lives of Seven. LABORATORY TESTS UNDER WAY Ship Severed in Mid-Air by Blast, Is Finding; Tail of Craft Found Mile Away From Other Wreckage. Hy United Prc*n CHICAGO, Oct. 14.—A bomb or other high explosives wrecked the transport plane that plunged seven persons to death near Chesterton, Ind., Tuesday night, reports of tw’o official investigations said today. Explosion of something in the baggage department, either by design or by accident, wrecked the plane in midair and sent it to earth, department of justice and United Air Lines reports stated. Previously Carl Davis, Porter county coroner, who conducted an inquest, and experienced airplane pilots who viewed the wreckage, had expressed the opinion the huge air liner was “bombed.”

Witnesses at the inquest' testified an explosion in midair preceded the crash. The tail of the twin-motored ship j was torn off by the explosion j and flung 1 to earth a mile from j where the plane crashed. Melvin H. Purvis, department of justice agent, announced a detailed investigation led him to a ‘ positive belief something foreign to the airplane exploded.” He was not cer- j tain as to the type of explosive. It may have been caused by a | time bomb or a bottle of nitrogly- j cerin in the baggage, Mr. Purvis j said. D. B. Colyer, vice-president of; United Airlines, which operated the | ship, issued a statement saying he ! was convinced by exhaustive labora- : tory tests at Northwestern university j that a high explosive caused the tragedy. In Perfect Condition The plane was one of the most modern of the large fleet which had carried 325.000 passengers 40.000.000 miles without a previous fatality, Mr. Colyer said. It had been inspected thoroughly and was in perfect mechanical and structural condition, he said. ‘Consolidation of all available evidence surrounding the accident leads to the conclusion that it was caused by a high explosive, presumably located in the area of the cargo space and toilet section aft of the passenger cabin and ahead of the rear section. ’ Mr. Colyer said. “The passenger section and the rear section were severed by the explosion. This forced the plane to the ground, where it burst into flames. The nature of the container for the explosion probably never will be known, as it apparently was destroyed. Exhaustive Tests Made “It is impossible to determine whether it was a liquid or a solid form, according to the laboratory reports by Northwestern university, which made tests on fragments of the plane’s metal structure and cabin furnishings damaged by the explosive. "Despite a thorough investigation by the company and interested federal organizations, y has not been possible to ascertain as yet why the explosive was on the plane. We know of no possible reason for its having been placed there. “There is conclusive evidence that there was no gasoline explosion or fire preceding the crash and no structural failure of the airplane prior to the explosion.” Theories Are Advanced Several theories regarding the ~ possible motive for wrecking the k plane had been advanced, but none given official credence. Murder for revenge, suicide and anarchy are not borne out by known facts, Mr. Colyer said. The most plausible explanation, and there is no evidence to bear it out, Mr. Colyer said, is that of anarchy or murder for revenge. Department of justice agents already are working on these angles and also on the possibility one of the passengers might have been carrying an explosive.

Sky Ball The Sky Bail sectional contests which were to have been held in city parks today have been postponed until Oct. 28. The Times next week will carry locations of the various parks in which the sectionals will be held. In addition to the district competitions, the final contests also will be held on the night of Oct. 28 at Tomlinson hall. Watch The Times for additional announcements of the contests and retain your entry blank for entrance in the citywide race.

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REPORTS FUGITIVE CONVICT SEEN HERE Man Begging Coat Sought by City Police. Officers seeking convicts who escaped from the Indiana state prison several weeks ago, some of whom are suspects in slaying of the sheriff at Lima, 0., today investigated reports that one of the suspects was seen here yesterday. Gregory Quillin, 2441 Stewart street, told police that a man who came to his home and asked for an old overcoat and blanket, resembled newspaper pictures of Harry Copeland, named by the dying sheriff as one of his assailants. Quillin said after he gave the man a coat, the suspect walked a short distance down the street and met another man, both disappearing. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: South-southeast wind. 17 miles an hour; temperature, 49; barometric pressure. 30.29 at sea level: general conditions, high, scattered cluods; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, 15 miles.

Raid Mooresville Farm in Hunt for Dillinger

No Trace of ‘No. 1 Bad Man’ Is Found at Father's Home. No trace of John Dillinger. escaped bank bandit, was found in a raid on the farm of his father, E. H. Dillinger, near Mooresville, late night. Aroused from his sleep, the convict's father stood on the concrete porch of the farmhouse and explained to the raiding party, composed of twenty police, deputy sheriffs and constables, that he has not seen his son since last May. “At that time.” said the elder Dillinger, “he came home on parole from the Indiana state prison a half hour after his mother died. I don't know what to think of him now—it's pretty bad.” The father, according to the police, apparently has been following

It’s a Tough Old Grind, Say Reporters Trying to Cover NRA

S. H. BURROW Times Special Writer WASHINGTON. Oct. 14.—There is only one way to describe the situation of a reporter covering the NRA. Imagine, if you can, a four-year college course in economics. current history, sociology and industrial relations jammed into three 'months and acquired entirely on foot with the instructors all too busy to give much, if any, help to the students and the students facing the stiffest possible requirements with danger of expulsion if any of them fail to learn as much as any others. In that appalling picture the reporters are the students. Early in the summer General Johnson promulgated a rule of "40-honr work weeks for every one else, but for us around here. 44-hour days." Neither the general nor his assistants nor his staff of reporters covering NRA ever have had as much exercise and as little sleep in any other period of their lives.

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One man and a police officer were wounded today when five bandits armed with machine guns were cornered in the Hamilton-Harris & Cos. store, 302 West South street. The building was surrounded by squads of police, with all available guns ready for use. Much confusion was evident at headquarters and details of the raid were lacking. Sergeant Charles Hodges was wounded in the left arm. He was struck when a hail of bullets followed an attempt of himself and Lieutenant Dan Scanlan to enter the building. The injured man, John Gardner, Beech Grove, clerk in the cash and carry department of the company, is so badly wounded that doctors say there is practically no chance for him to recover. He was riddled by a blast from a sawed off shotgun in the hands of one of the bandits. The bandits, all young men, fled in a Graham sedan stolen a short while before from Gus Billman, 96 East Morris street.

Indiana to Clash With Notre Dame Bloomington Game Is Top Attraction on Today’s Football Card. Hoosierland held the nation's collegiate football spotlight today, with the “big three” involved in two major battles. Notre Dame's struggle with an improved Indiana university eleven at Bloomington -was rated at the top of the list, with the Irish out to blot out last week's stinging scoreless upset tie by Kansas and the Crimson battling to prove their 6 to 6 tie with Minnesota as no accident. Sophomores were expected to play an important role for each club, with the upstaters favored. Purdue, pre-race Big Ten favorites. faced a terrific struggle with Minnesota at Minneapolis. The Gophers have pointed for the Boilermakers since the start of the campaign. The Kizerman were favored. Wabash took on Rose Poly at Crawfordsville, De Pauw entertained Earlham, Indiana State was favored over Manchester, and Valparaiso was host to Grand Rapids, Mich., in other games. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 40 8 a. m 46 7 a. m 41 9 a. m 49

his son's recent activities, including the killing of Sheriff Jess Sarber at Lima, 0.. during the sensational delivery from jail of the younger Dillinger—through newspaper accounts. Four state policemen originally assigned to the raiding party were suddenly withdrawn when A1 Feeney, state safety director, explained that “it was a cold trail.” The Dillinger case has developed a sharp rift between state and city police, it was learned at the Statehouse. A conference attended by Governor Paul V. McNutt, state and city police officials, was held at the statehouse yesterday. At the close, all parties announced that "harmony” existed, but observers were skeptical. Chief Mike Morrissey blamed Matt Leach of the state police for allowing Dillinger to be turned over to Lima (O.) authorities instead of holding him in Indiana for prosecution of the Massachusetts avenue savings bank holdup, it was learned.

They’ve never had such a good time, either. Newspaper paradise is a place where things happen every minute, startling, unexpected things that make headlines. NRA is the nearest earthly approach so far to that paradise. a a a OF course it could be improved. If there were any way the reporters could get time enough to buy new shoes to replace the ones they wear out tramping the corridors of the Commerce building . . . ! Or even if they could have benches in those corridors, to rest on once in a while . . . ! NRA was under way and gathering momentum even before the ink was dry on the act that created it. Reporters, accustomed to the leisurely way of new government bureaus, strolling around to the Commerce building some days later were embarrassed at finding the new organization at work in offices with little if asfy furniture, and with

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1933

MISSING GIRL SOUGHT Police Asked to Join in Search for Y'oung Woman. Police today were asked to search for Miss Madelin Dashan, 17, of 935 South Delaware street, missing from her home since Thursday. Relatives said at first they thought she had gone to the home of relatives in Louisville but telegrams revealed she was not there. She is described as being 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 95 pounds, with brown eyes and hair. When last seen she was wearing a brown dress, gray coat and brown oxfords. DR . KERSHNER TO TALK Bible Class Will Hear Address by Dean of University. Dr. Bruce L. Kershner, Butler university dean, will address the men’s Bible class of the Central Christian church at 9:30 Sunday morning. His subject will be “Two Great Ladies and a Great Church.” BUS "service provided Company Offers Transportation to Saddle Horse Roundup. Special bus service will be provided at 9:15 and 10:30 tomorrow morning by Indianapolis Railways, Inc., for the saddle horse round-up of the Indiana Polo, Hunt and Saddle Clubs, at Meridian and One Hundred Sixth street. The busses will start on the Circle in front of the English opera house.

WASHINGTON PARK, HOMEWOOD, 111., Oct. 14.—The running of the eighth race this afternoon at Washington Park marks the last of the racing on the mile tracks in this vicinity for the season. It is getaway day and don’t think the boys won’t be shooting for the moon in an effort to get shipping money for the bad legged bangtails to get south on.

Lamp Black in the third looks the best of anything on the card. He won his last out, but sure figures to be a repeater. The Audrey Farm Stables seem to have another one of the good 2-year-olds going postward in Trey, who will face Starter Cassidy in the Sixth. Watch Tower in the seventh figures to be the old bird that can stick out the two and a quarter mile distance and make the field like it, while Sydney Grant is my choice to be the runner up. Major Lamphier should cop the last heat. It looks like the wise boys would sure make a cleaning at Laurel this afternoon. Dropping down to the last race, I find Flying Cherokee to be the best thing of the day. In the second, who can pick one to beat Head Play? Greyglade will be the one to catch in the third and Tred Avon, whom someone said was sponged, should get a fair workout in the fifth galloping in front of that field.

a staff multiplying as fast as rabbits. ‘•We’re simply reorienting a couple of thousand universes in a minute and a half," Mr. Johnson said about his great enterprise. And if he actually were shifting around stars, planets and the sun and moon his efforts couldn't be a better news story or a more important one. But it takes a good athletic reporter with the instincts of a bloodhound and the capacity to store up sleep as a camel stores water to keep him covered. General Johnson and his aides mean well by reporters. They have a staff of publicity men and women working day and night getting out statements, handouts, condensed hearings, code copies. The General has a press conference twice a week, and seldom fails to be on time or to answer questions that are put to him. But in between those conferences the curiosity of news gatherers rises to fever pitch a thousand times be-

SCENE OF TRAGIC DILLINGER JAIL-BREAK

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Scene of the Lima (O.) jail delivery, in which John L. Dillinger, bank robber suspect, was freed and Sheriff Jess L. Sarber was slain by a bandit rescue gang, and the principals in the tragedy are shown here. Top, left, is the Allen county jail. Top, right, is Dillinger. paroled Indiana convict, believed to be the “outside man” in the recent Michigan City prison break in which ten convicts escaped. Below, left to right, are Sheriff Sarber; Harry Pierpont, one of the convicts who broke from the Indiana prison and now branded as the trigger man who shot down the sheriff at his desk; and Deputy Sheriff Wilbert Sharpe, who was locked in a cell as the rescue was effected.

Kidnapers of State Cop Branded as Rum Runners 1

Detective Chief Simon Casts Doubts Men Were Jail Killers. Skepticism that the kidnaping of State Patrolman Ernest Richardson near Lebanon yesterday was connected with the delivery of John Dillinger, bank bandit suspect, from the Lima (O.) jail, grew today as city and state police admitted anew theory as to the motive for Richardson’s abduction.

RACE TRACK S elections BT O SEVILLA

Today’s Selections At Washington Park—1. Our Rose, Cotton Club, Boom’s Pal. 2. Grand Prince, Volta Maid, Backlog. 3. Lamp Black, Hyman, Flying Cadet. 4. Pancheo Lopez, Bedight, Captain Red. 5. Our Justice, Axtel, Interpreter. 6. Trey, Penncote, Speedy Skippy. 7. Watch Tower, Sidney Grant, Rowdy Boy. 8. Major Lamphier, John Mill, His Last. At Laurel—1. No selections. 2. Doeskin, Time Off. White Cloud. 3. Head Play, Marooned, Sir James. 4. Greyglade, Toytime, Landsman. 5. Tred Avon, Jamestown, Mate. 6. The Darb, Monel, Fingal. 7. Renaissance, Bright Bird, Hacky H. 8. Flying Cherokee, Syriac, Peldam.

cause things happen so fast. Mr. Johnson will answer questions if he can be cornered, but that’s the difficulty. a a a , HE dashes off here in an airplane. he jumps into his car and disappears somewhere else, he charges down the hall into a conference, he gets a telephone message to report at once to the White House—and after him trails a stream of panting reporters like the tail of a comet. His deputies and assistants are just as busy. Yet all of them are making news, turning it out with the speed and regularity of so many machines. So the reporters pace the halls of the Commerce building. At first it was just one long corridor wtiere all the offices were located. Then the thing grew, the blue eagle drive was started. Now it fills corridors on both sides of the Commerce building, with cross corridors between, on the fourth floor and on the third floor, too!

Detective Chief Fred Simon of the city department first surmised that the two men who overpowered Richardson on state road No. 52 were members of a rum-running gang, who expected to meet a liquor cargo on the highway, and realized that a state policeman's presence would be embarrassing. So—Simon deduced—they disarmed Richardson and forced him to drive one of them to Indianapolis, where the kidnaper slipped out of the state police car and escaped running. “I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case,” A1 G. Feeney, state director of public safety, said this morning when he heard of Simon's interpretation of the affair. However, Feeney said he had no clews to the identity of the abductors, or to their motive for the strange affair. Richardson stopped on the highway to warn a motorist, who with another man apparently was repairing a tire, to park off the concrete. He said he saw two guns lying in the auto, and as he grabbed them the two men attacked him, recovered their weapons and took his own, and then forced him back into his car. While one held a gun on him, Richardson told his chiefs, he drove his police car while the other man followed in their machine a short distance, and then disappeared. Authorities at first believed the pair to be members of the gang who invaded the Lima jail Thursday night, liberated Dillinger, and blazed their way out of the place, killing a sheriff. Dillinger was wanted here as a bank bandit suspect. After state authorities obtained extradition papers for him, his return from Dayton, where he was arrested, was balked as Dayton police turned him over to Lima officials. MACON DODGES STORM Dirigible Forced to Alter Course On Way to Join Pacific Fleet. By United Press MIDLAND, Tex., Oct. 14.—The navy dirigible Macon, en route to fleet maneuvers in the Pacific, soared over the Guadalupe mountains at dawn today after skirting a severe west Texas storm.

Around and around the reporters go, in squads and singly, shuffling with a peculiar gait induced by the slippery floors of the new building and tending toward flat-footedness as the summer wore on. Sometimes six or eight code hearings go on at once. Preliminary conferences on a dozen other codes may be in progress. The labor and industrial advisory boards meet almost daily. The natonal labor board meets daily. The special industrial recovery board of cabinet members meets once a w&k. The PRA board is in almost continuous session. a a a BUSINESS men from New York, from Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans and all points between mill up and down the corridors. Will Rogers arrives, Kate Smith, other celebrities. Walking up and down the corriaor past Johnson’s office every one of any importance in America seems ,to go sooner cr later. “ * *

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GERMANY QUITS LEAGUE, WORLD ARMS PARLEY Double Withdrawal Precipitates Europe Into Gravest Crisis in Years; London Refuses to Make Any Comment. REJECTED PLAN BACKED BY U. S. Germany Kicks Over Traces in Conflict Raging About Her Determination to Rearm Despite Versailles Treaty. By United Prese BERLIN, Oct. 14.—Germany in bitter anger announced today her withdrawal from the League of Nations and the wwld disarmament conference. President Paul Von Hindenburg at the government's request immediately decreed the dissolution of the dormant Reichstag and proclaimed for Nov. 12 a general parliamentary election, designed to test the nation’s opinion of the double withdrawal w 7 hich precipitated Europe into its grav-

est crisis in years. In an official communique the government said: “In view of the humiliating and dishonoring demands of the other powers at the Geneva disarmament conference, the government has decided no longer to participate in the discussions of the conference and simultaneously to notify the League of Nations of the Reich government’s withdrawal from this body. “So that the nation could be given an opportunity to decide these questions. vital to Germany’s fate, the Reichstag was dissolved today by Presidential decree. New general elections will be held November 12.” Hitler to Go on Air Chancellor Adolf Hitler announced that. he would explain his action to the nation in a nationally broadcast radio speech at 7 p. m. •12 noon Indianapolis time). The government action was taken after long and anxious conferences between leading ministers—Chancellor Hitler, Foreign Minister Baron Konstantin von Neurath and Defense Minister Werner Blomberg, particularly. While they were meeting last night, the German delegates at Geneva pleaded with American disarament delegates to intercede with the British delegation and see that the door was not closed to agreement. But this morning the government learned the text of a speech made by Arthur Henderson, president of the disarmament conference, in opening the meeting of the steering committee. Then, it was said reliably, the decision to announce the withdrawal was at last decided, in the belief that Germany was confronted with a solid front of her World war enemies. Insures Nazi Reich It was believed the government was not fully acquainted with the speech made by Sir John Simon, presenting a loosely drawn eightyear disarmament plan. But whether even this new gesture would suffice to ease the present crisis was doubtful, in view of the drastic nature of the German government's action. By calling an election, it insured a vote on its nationalistic program, and virtually insured a Reichstag with a complete Nazi representation. Regardless of the Simon plan, Germany had said that she would not wait four years for other nations to begin disarming unless she in the meantime were permitted to rearm herself up toward their level. World War Is Feared By United Press GENEVA, Oct. 14.—A new eightyear disarmament plan was sponsored by World war allies today as Germany announced her with-

The richest men rub shoulders with delegates of labor unions. Men usually secluded in deep-carpeted offices with scores of flunkies to insure privacy are right there, fair prey for the lurking reporters. It’s great sport during the day. It begins to get tiresome by dinner time with perhaps a half dozen conferences still going on and no possibility of writing a story and going home until they’re finished. Early at night you think wistfully of the family you once had and wonder if it still remembers you. At midnight you sit down on the corridor floor too tired to stand up any longer and continue waiting. You wonder why you didn’t go in for life insurance or school-teaching or some nice mechanical job with the new short hours. Then the meeting breaks up, there’s a hot announcement, a big story to write, headlines for tomorrow—it’s again the most interesting place in the woild to be.

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drawal from the League of Nations I and the world disarmament conference. Despite the German announcement, members of the disarmament steering committee asserted they would present the plan, drafted by Sir John Simon, British foreign minister, with the co-operation of chief American delegate Norman H. Davis and others, to the full disarmament conference, which reconvenes Monday. Germany’s decision left all Geneva stupefied. % Delegates had gone to lunch when the first news flashes reached Geneva. Many left their meals at once to hurry to hotels for consultation with each other and their governments. With Germany under the fiery Hitler, and apparently determined to regain its place as a world power, the allied powers rear another World war. Europe Deeply Worried By United Press LONDON, Oct. 14.—Europe faced a diplomatic crisis of the gravest moment today when Germany announced her withdrawal from the League of Nations and the world disarmament conference. Worried officials, reluctant to speak, would say only that full responsibility must rest on Germany for “anything that might occurr,” in view of the new peace plan presented to the disarmament steering committee at Geneva only a few minutes before the withdrawal was announced at Berlin. From Geneva came word that even before the withdrawal was announced high American disarmament officials had said that the success or failure of the world conference depended on Germany’s acceptance or rejection of the Simon plan, indorsed in broad terms by Norman H. Davis, chief United States delegate. The withdrawal confronted the World war allies with a question how- far Germany, her national spirit aroused as it had not been since France invaded the Ruhr to inforce the Versailles treaty, might go this time. It was hoped that by temperate action and by persuasion Germany might be drawn back into the disarmament conference and the league. But naturally the question of the Versailles treaty itself, imposing on Germany rigid restriction of armaments, arose at once. If Germany’s withdrawal implied her determination to rearm, despite the treaty, the allies weie in a dilemma such as had not been presented since the Ruhr.

U. S. Sees Defeat B'J United press WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. Germany’s announcement of withdrawal from the world disarmament conference and the League of Nations was viewed by officials here as virtual defeat for the strenuous disarmament efforts of the last two years. Apparently the United States had anticipated some such move on the part of Hitler, for last night President Roosevelt in a national address took occasion to denounce threats to world peace. The announcement that Germany would leave the disarmament conference was received by American officials with surprise and dismay. It apparently means the defeat of the strenuous disarmament efforts of the United States, through Ambassador Norman H. Davis. France Wants Control With Germany out of the disarmament conference, little hope was seen for any agreement. France, the major military poweer of Europe, has consistently maintained that it could not sacrifice a single soldier or gun unless Germany came within the disarmament treaty. France has insisted that there must be a four-year period of international armament control, during which Germany would demonstrate its faitfulness to the armament limitations of the Versailles ~ treaty.