Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 257, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1934 — Page 3

MARCH 7, 1931

DILLINGER ON WAY TO CITY. POLICE BELIEVE Feared Speeding Here After Reports From Sided and Dana. (Continued From Page One) local man who is said to have withheld $15,000 of Dillinger's loot, were recalled by police today as they held themselves ready to block any move by the bandit chief to enter Indianapolis. Police were deployed to the west and northwest sections of the city last night after a telephone call from the sheriff at Danville, 111., saying that Illinois authoritits were on the hunt for two suspicious lookin gears earning eight men thought to be heading toward Indianapolis. Shortly before 10 last night, the two cars were seen at Sidell. 111., acco.ding to the information given local authorities. The constable at Sidell said a boy had seen the eight men changing Illinois license plates for Indiana plates on a side street. Ti e Sidell constable called Danville as soon as he got the information, but it was too late. Several persons in Danville are alleged to have seen the cars go through that town. Later, according to the state police, the cars were sighted at Dana. Ind., heading toward Indianapolis. Gene Rvan of the state police received the information that the suspicious cars were heading toward this city. He immediately called the Indianapolis into action Sergeant Yoh speeded to the National road with a squad of men while Sergeant Hodges took a squad to the Rockville road. Sergeant Martin Fahey planted a squad at the intersection of the National and Rockville roads west of the city. State and city police scoured the neighborhood and patrolled the roads until long after midnight, but failed to find a trace of the cars. It was supposed that the two automobiles had headed west instead of coming into Indianapolis. Criticism of Sheriff Charles (Buck* Sumner for allowing Hilton Crouch. Dillinger mobster, to remain in Marion county jail instead of removing him to the state prison at Michigan City, resulted late yesterday in a hurried trip to the penitentiary with the gangster. With the utmost secrecy Crouch and another prisoner were taken to prison under heavy guard to Michigan City by Sheriff Sumner and Deputy Sheriff Ralph Hitch. Weiss Bares Plan Establishment of the state safety department as "the supreme police authority of the state." and the use of the merit system in selecting members of the state police force, will be the double goal of Senator Jacob Weiss <Dem„ Indianapolis), in the next session of the legislature. Senator Weiss today announced that he will introduce the bill and support it throughout the next session. Under the proposed bill “massing” of city, county and township peace officers under state jurisdiction to block crime outbreaks would be possible. It was pointed out that hurried formation of a “law enforcement blockade" Saturday might have halted the flight of John Dillinger. No. 1 crminal, from the Like county jail and Indiana. “I intend to propose to the next legislature a bill setting up the department of safety as the supreme police authority in the state with the power and authority to demand the co-operation and services of all city, county and township peace officers," Senator Weiss said. “The state police, under the department of safety, would be made up of men especially qualified for the positions under a merit system of appointment and promotion.” Senator Weiss said that the state police would not be empowered to act in labor disputes except on orders of the Governor. In addition to the personnel setup. Senator Weiss said he also will seek a statewide state police radio hookup. Lack of the merit system in selection of state police officers long has been decried. Charges have been hurled numerous times that the state police officers devoted most of their time to politics, rather than law enforcement. Senator Weiss often is referred to as an ‘unofficial spokesman” for Governor McNutt and the proposal was reported to be favored by the Governor. Two Under Arrest By l'nit* >1 Prc CROWN POINT. Ind.. March 7. —Two members of the force of seventeen guards posted in the Lake county jail, where John Dilln.ger, ruthless outlaw, broke to freedom, today faced charges of aimng and abetting the criminal’s escape. The pair. Sam Cahoon. 64-vear-old turnkey, and Deputy Sheriff Ernest Blunk. fingerprinting expert, were taken into custody \ esterday on warrants issued by Judge William J. Murray in Lake county criminal court. They were later released on their own recognizance. Thp charges were preferred by officials conducting a state investigation of the jail break. Cahoon was the first guard subdued by Dillinger and his little wooden gun. and Blunk the second. Blunk also was taken along to drive the desperado's automobile, stolen from Sheriff Lillian Holley. In addition to the ever-pyramid-ing criticism of the Lake county jail management came the announcement from South Bend by James R Fleming, federal district attorney for northern Indiana, that no federal prisoners would be sent to the Lake county institution as long as Sheriff Holley remained in office. Tire charges against Blunk and Cahoon were signed by Ray M. Hullett. special investigator. Blunk collapsed when he heard of the charges. Seek Pierpont Jury By t'nih it Prrts LIMA. O March 7 Selection of a jurj to hear the murder case of Harry Pierpont. Trigger-Man" of the Dillinger gang, continued in barricaded Allen county common pleas court here today. A tentative jury of eight men and tour women was in the box as court resumed this morning. They had been examined both by defense

‘John Dillinger Is as Good as Dead to Me!’ Says Former Wife

BY TRISTRAM COFFIN Time* Staff Writer HER face tense with emotion, her eyes glistening with tears, an attractive young woman clad in a simple house dress cried, “I haven't been to Crown Point. I've tried so hard to bury all that behind me.” Her farmer husband, dressed in blue denim overalls, stood in taciturn silence smoking his pipe. The reporter looked at her, embarrassed and awed by the tragedy he had unconsciously unearthed. “Please forget the past,” she pleaded, “John Dillinger is just as good as dead to me.” The woman was the only one who has ever had the legal right to the name of Mrs. John Dillinger. After a second unsuccessful marriage, she now lives deep in the hills of Morgan county happily and in simple respectability. She had long dreaded the day when people, knowing of that early unfortunate marriage, would stare at, her. She feared the day when gossips at the little crossroads town would dig up the past and munch over it. ass AFTER driving through roads, sloppy with mud, where toilcreased farmers waved with friendliness, the reporter knocked on the farmhouse door. An old woman came to the door. The reporter explained to the

Indiana in Brief Lively Spots in the State’s Happenings Put Together ‘Short and Sweet.’

By Times Sprrinl BURLINGTON. March 7.—Return of Collie, a dog owned by John W. Jordan, has brought joy to many residents of Burlington. The dog disappeared nearly three weeks ago. He was found hanging in a wire fence in a woods near here. The animal barely was alive. Ralph Hiatt, grocer, at whose store the dog spent much of his time, found the deg. Mr. Hiatt released the animal and left to find the owner. When he and Mr. Jordan returned, they found Collie had revived sufficiently to go to a nearby creek and drink. How long the dog had been held prisoner in cold weather and rain is not known.

“Rewards’ Gratitude By Timm Sprrinl GREENSBURG. March 7.—Liquor and ingratitude combined to deprive Robert Gordon of his liberty. Convicted of intoxication and assault and battery, Gordon was fined sls and sentenced to the state penal farm for thirty days by Mayor C. F Northern in city court. Gordon lost a leg when run over by a train several months ago. Many persons gave him aid, which included an artificial leg. However, police said he treated his benefactors badly and recently attempted to "beat up” one of them. a tt a Bicycle Marathon By Timm Sprrinl EL WOOD, March 7.—A thirtyhour bicycle riding marathon, open to boys from 13 to 16, will be held at Callaway park here June 8 and 9, sponsored by Louis Monroe post, American Legion. The contest will be open only to two-rider teams, and no rider will be permitted to ride more than one hour at a time. 000 Infirmary Inmate Dies By Timm Sprrinl NEWCASTLE. March 7.—Funeral services were held yesterday for Miss Jane Sherry. 94, inmate of the Henry county infirmary for twenty years, and the oldest person in the institution. 0 0 0 Foreclosure Asked By Timm Sprrinl NOBLESVILLE, March 7.—Suit for foreclosure of a mortgage on the property of the Noblesville Garment Company, in which hundreds of Hamilton county persons are stockholders, has been filed in Hamilton circuit court by the Wainwright Trust Company, seeking collection of a $4,000 loan made in 1926 to Charles Lower, receiver. 000 Mail Service Cut By Timm Sprrinl KOKOMO. March 7.—Mail delivery service in Kokomo will be the most meager at any time during the forty-five years since its establishment. as a result of curtailment ordered by the postoffice department as an economy measure. The change, to take effect within a few days, will reduce downtown mail deliveries from four to three a day. and in the residence section, from two to one. and the state in yesterday’s opening session and accepted temporarily. Several were excused for opposition to capital punishment. Pierpont, accused of being a member of the gang that raided the county jail here last Oct. 12, shot down Sheriff Jesse L. Sarber and freed John Dillinger. sat through the technical proceedings without outward show of emotion. He laughed as he entered the courtroom shackled to two heavily armed guards. Nearby were his aged parents. His mother sobbed frequently, but the father, a farmer, was unmoved. Reports were circulated that Dillinger, who escaped from a Crown Point <lnd.) jail last Saturday, planned a raid here to free his confederates. A special deputy sheriff, who carried a gun into the cell block occupied by the three gangsters, was dismissed today by Sheriff Donald Sarber, son of the slain official. Sarber said he had given specific orders that no weapon was to be taken near the men. Rad ; o Alarm Broadcast A radio alarm for a suspicious car bearing Illinois license plates was broadcast shortly before 10 today by Indianapolis police after L. T. Fugate. 1209 Wright street, reported seeing the automobile twice, in different parts of the city. Mr. Fugate told police that he first sighted the car shortly before 10 at West and Washington streets. His attention was first attracted to it by two bullet holes which he noticed in the rear of the car. He siad the driver wore glasses. Half an hour later. Mr. Fugate old the police, he again encountered the car at Bluff road and Meridian s'reet At that time, he said, he saw a man hiding under a robe in the tonneau of the car and holding a gun The car was speeding south on the Bluff road.

woman that press dispatches claimed that a “Mrs. Dillinger” had come to the Crown Point jail where the criminal was incarcerated and was suspected of plotting to release him. The woman stared with amazement. "We don't know anything about John Dillinger around here.” she said. "Then turning to a young woman she asked, "B , what do you know about this? I don’t know anything.” A flush of anger rose on the face of the young woman. “I don't know anything. I don’t know anything,” she repeated tearfully. Her aunt and her parents-in-law learned for the first time the story that had been withheld through four years. The husband said half-regretfully, “I’m glad it’s out now. All that worry will be over. Whenever I went into town and people began hinting and asking questions, I had to get up and leave.” When her grief at the discovery had abated, the former Mrs. Dillinger said with still flashing, indignant eyes, “John w T as a nice boy when I married him. I don't know how he is now. Os course, I hope they catch him. He broke the law.” 000 AN idol on the baseball diamond at Martinsville. John Dillinger attracted the 16-year-old girl. She married him. living with her parents and his parents. But there always was some

Veteran Lawyer Dies By Timm Special SHELBYVILLE, March 7.—John A. Tindall, 75, a Shelby county lawyer for nearly fifty years, is dead. He retired eight years ago. Mr. Tindall, a lifelong resident of the county, was the donor of real estate to the. county, city of Shelby - ville and the First Presbyterian church. He also was the donor of a valuable diamond ring given to the Shelby County Bar Association for use by judges of Shelby circuit court. Mrs Tindall, formerly Miss Alice Emmert of Greensburg, died in 1933. 000 Services Planned By Timm Sprrinl HOPE, March 7.—Preliminary arrangements are under way for annual Easter services of the Hope Moravian church, which attracts visitors here from all parts of Indiana. Chorus of thirty-two voices is rehearsing for the services which begin at sunrise Easter morning.

Rickenbacker Defends Operators of Air Lines

‘lnvestment in Future, Not Subsidy,’ He Says of U. S. Payments. (Continued From Page One) air mail contracts and we go back ten years. Captain Rickenbacker termed as senseless the charges of collusion between operators and former Post-master-General Walter F. Brown. Instead, he declared, most of the operators were bitter at Mr. Brown and his ideas. “Phantom Companies” Out "Mr. Brown called the operators, including some of those who did not have mail contracts, to Washington. He explained the Waters bill, just passed by congress, and told them he wanted to develop aviation. “Mr. Brown did not welcome bids from ‘phantom companies,’ short on experience and finance and long on stock selling plans. Neither did he welcome bids from operators who, in boom days had sold their contracts at tremendous profits. He possibly felt that if these men again got contracts they would have a nuisance value and that the responsible companies would be forced to buy them out.” Captain Rickenbacker recalled that many of the star witnesses before the recent Black committee hearings were operators who once had mail contracts and who sold them profitably. “If there was collusion, then I don't know about it,” Captain Rickenbacker said. Mergers Necessary “The companies did not want to merge, but they realized they would have to do it to get a fair share of the air mail money available. The country was split up with small companies. The mail on a 2.000mile trip was handled by several outfits. It was wasteful, costly and inefficient. Aviation had made little progress in the years preceding 1929 and 1930, Captain Rickenbacker said. The postmaster-general pointed out to the operators that if they would merge, work out long lines, they probably would have the money to purchase badly needed, more efficient equipment. “And that is what happened,” Captain Rickenbacker said. “Today we lead the world.” Postmaster - General Brown blocked a plan to encourage wider use of the air mail. Captain Rickenbacker said. The explanation was that the government wanted operators to concentrate on passengers and express because they then would need new and better equipment. The most bitter split between the operators and the government came in 1932. when air mail postage was jumped from 5 to 8 cents. Captain Rickenbacker said. There was general belief among the operators that the Roosevelt administration was “air minded” and

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fundamental difference that made their marriage an unhappy one. Mrs. Dillinger was staying with her family when word came that John had robbed an elderly merchant near Mooresville. She obtained a divorce while he was serving time in the state prison. A fierce family loyalty guards details of their married life. The reporter was questioning her sister and mother.

STAND OUT IN PROBE OF JOHN DILLINGER’S ESCAPE FROM CROWN POINT JAIL

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Upper Left—The automobile belonging to Sheriff Lillian Holley of Crown Point, standing on Ardmore avenue between Kenmore and Winthrop avenues, Chicago, where police say they found it within fifteen hours after the escape of John Dillinger, who had taken it for his flight. Upper Right—Sam Cahoon, 64-year-old repair man, who served several terms in the Crow r n Point jail, and finally got a job as handy man and deputy sheriff there, w’ho is receiving a large share of the blame for the escape of John Dillinger. He was arrested yesterday with Ernest Blunk on charges o£ aiding Dillinger. Lower Left—Elaine De Kant Dent Burton, arrested in Chicago last December as a companion of Jack Hamilton w-hen the latter shot and killed a Chicago policeman, who has been identified as the woman who made several visits to John Dillinger when the desperado was lodged in the Crown Point jail. She is said to have pose and as Mrs. Dillinger, and to have visited him two days before his escape. Lower Right—Attorney-General Philip Lutz Jr. (left) and Prosecuting Attorney Robert Estill at Crown Point, where Mr. Lutz started an investigation into the escape of John Dillinger from the county prison there.

that there would be a “new deal” in aviation, Captain Rickenbacker said. "Postmaster-General James Farley invited them to Washington, explained that congress had cut the appropriation from $19,400,000 to $15,000,000 and urged them to prorate the reductions,” he said. "There was no collusion in this, no more than in the Browm 1930 meetings. “The operators ware in a bad w r ay. They had placed orders for $7,000.000 in new equipment. Their NRA code had lifted pay rolls 20 per cent. "Mr. Farley told them they had nothing to fear as long as they continued to provide good service. So the operators went home and began devising economies. "Then, suddenly, the contracts were cancelled and the industry was thrown into turmoil and confusion.” “If any operator is guilty of collusion it should immediately be proved and he should be punished. The proof has been promised. I am still waiting for it.” FROZEN RIVER CAUSES MUSTY WATER TASTE Supply’s Purity Unaffected, Say Company Officials. Peculiar musty taste to the city’s drinking water is due to the river being frozen, permitting little aeration, and has no effect on purity of the water, it was explained today by Indianapolis Water Company officials. Harry E. Jordan, water company sanitary engineer, said that the ice covering, as well as the slight flow of the river, both are responsible for the musty odor, adding that with rise in the river due to snow and rain, and melting of ice, the odor should disappear soon. City and state health departments have kept check and found purity of the water unaffected, he said.

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The mother said with the sigh of one unburdening a hidden secret, "Well, we might as well tell what was back of the trouble between the two.” The sister flashed a warning look and said with a quiet smile. “We always liked Johnny then. He was a nice kid. B never has said much about him except that she hoped he would be caught.”

$46,000 IS TAKEN BY BANDIT GANG

Free-Shooting Mob Sought for Stickup of Bank. By United Press ' SIOUX FALLS, S. D., March 7. —A swashbuckling, free-shooting band of six robbers was sought today between Sioux Falls and Minneapolis for the armed robbery of the Securities National Bank and Trust Company. The bandits obtained $46,000 in a holdup punctuated by bursts of machine gun fire which terrorized a crowd of 1,000 spectators and Sioux Falls police, one of whom was wounded. The bandits’ trail led into southern Minnesota and it was believed they were heading for the Twin Cities. Five hostages, who were forced to ride with the bandits for several miles, were released unharmed. Posses which had followed the bandits as far as Luverne, Minn., returned with their automobiles shot up. Physicians said that Hale Keith, motorcycle patrolman who was bowled from his machine in a burst of machine gun fire, was seriously wounded with bullets in his leg, arm and abdomen.

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POLICE CHIEF EVERETT RISINGER of Martinsville vouches readily for the character of both the former Mrs Dillinger and her present husband. “They have never been in any trouble at all and are greatly respected." he asserts. The husband said, laughing. “I read some place where Dillinger was supposed to have ccme down here and forced us to hide him.

Dillinger ‘Threats’ Are Denied by Marie Grott

Woman Police Official ‘Laughs Off’ Attempts to Enter Apartment. Attempts to gain entrance into the apartment of Miss Marie Grott, 1503 North Pennsylvania street, of the state bureau of identification, were “laughed off” by Miss Grott yesterday. “I don’t think there’s any connection between the attempt to jimmy my door and the Dillinger escape,” Miss Grott said. “The door on which the attempt was made was the inside door—there is a service door, which leads into a small hall, and then the door into the apartment. The marks on the door show that it apparently was the work of an amateur, probably a boy, bent on petty thievery. They

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That's a lot of bosh. He had plenty of chance to see my wife since she divorced him. but she hasn't seen Dillinger since he went to prison.” Far from the towns and cities, the woman who scorned John Dillinger. passes hurriedly and with disdain over the pages of thi newspaper where mention of the fugitive is made. Her whole life remade, John Dillinger is dead to her.

seem to have been made with a screwdriver.” An additional lock has been placed on the service door of the apartment since the attempt was made to enter Miss Grott's apartment, Feb. 22. Miss Grott denied reports that she had received mysterious calls from a man during the night on numerous occasions, or that any one had rung the bell of her apartment, and attempted to persuade her to open her apartment door. The calls are said to have been made only a few days before John Dillinger escaped from the Lake county jail at Crown Point. Miss Grott accompanied Mary Kinder, alleged sweetheart of Harry Pierpont, from Tucson, Ariz., to Indianapolis, following capture of the gang in Tucson.

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LA GUARDIA RIPS INTO FARLEY AT PUBLIC BANQUET Tells Jim to His Face That He Is Responsible tor Bill’s Defeat. By United Press NEW YORK, March 7—Postmas-ter-General James A. Farley, left New York for Washington enveloped in a great cloud of silence today, after having been publicly embarrassed by Major Liorella H. La Guar-dia. Before a large audience, Mayor La Guardia told Mr. Farley to his face that he believed him responsible for the defeat of the city economy bill in the state legislature. Mayor La Guardia maintains that unless the bill is passed, the country's largest city is bankrupt. Mr. Farley, chairman of the Democratic national committee, of the New York state committee, and political big-gun of the Roosevelt administration. admitted the bill should pass, but desclaimed responsibility for its defeat. Both Mayor La Guardia and Mr. Farley were guests at the dinner of the Bronx Board of Trade. Mayor La Guardia sat at the speakers' table with Mr. Farley and delivered his denunciation with the postmas-ter-general only a few feet away. He held Edward J. Flynn. Bronx Democratic leader and Farley political ally, jointly responsible. Mr. Farley was visibly embarrassed. Farley's Democrats. Mayor La Guardia said, had betrayed New York City. The bill yesterday missed passing by seven votes. If Farley and Flynn had lined up seven Democratic votes it would have passed, he said. When Mayor La Guardia sat down amid thunderous applause, Mr. Farley stood up. His face was flushed. He agreed Mayor La Guardia’s bill should pass, but said the powers of political boss attributed to him were not true. The small La Guardia who had been standing beside the towering Farley, looked up into the Democratic leader's face at this latter statement—and laughed.

ICE INCASES WHALE OFF EASTERN PORT Mammal Starved or Was Crushed, Coast Guard Reports. By United Press PROVINCETOWN. Mass., March 7.—A giant humpback whale is incased in ice a mile off Long Point, according to coast guards of the wood end station. While first reports described the trapped mammal as "nearly one hundred feet long,” veteran Cape Codders believed the length was somewhat exaggerated. “He was caught in the jam and either starved or was crushed to death,” said boatswain’s mate Alfred Volton.

UTILITY SECURITIES ISSUANCE DECLINES New All-Time Low Reached in 1933,.Report Discloses. That issuance of utility securities reached an all-time low in 1933 was disclosed today in tabulations of receipts for securities approval by the public service commission. In 1930 such receipts amounted to $275,453, while last year they dropped to $1,262. Since the reorganization of the commisison by the McNutt administration, March 8, 1933, these receipts have been but $531. These fees dropped $131,000 from the 1932 total; $86,000 from the 1931. Parents Council to Meet Nominations for the April election of the Parent council of Troop 3, Boy Scouts of America, will be made at a meeting at 7:30 Friday in the scout room of the Irvington Presbyterian church.

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