Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 73, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1934 — Page 1

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LAXITY IN PRISON CONTROL CHARGED IN COY’S REPORT - Negligence Attributed to Guards by Wayne Coy After Investigation of Break at Michigan City. FREES WARDEN KUNKEL OF BLAME Eleven Recommendations Are Made to Governor by Undersecretary; ‘Tip’ Was Received Early, He Asserts. fEditnrian on page 6) • Governor Paul V. McNutt today was studying recommendations of his undersecretary, Wayne Coy, for a drastic shakeup of guards at the Indiana state prison as result of escape last Saturday of five prisoners, four of whom have been recaptured. Mr. Coy’s report was made public yesterday at Michigan City following a several days’ investigation of conditions at the prison. Mr. Coy returned to Indianapolis last night and was expected to confer further with the Governor on the matter. 11 is report failed to criticise Warden Louis Kunkel, but laid the blame for the prison break on alleged negligence on

the part of Captain \\. C. Griswold and guards \\ illiam Netzel, Harry Parker, N. E. Bums and B. C. Ferguson. Two of these men, Griswold and Netzel, already have l>een dismissed. Suggestions that discipline be strictly for both prisoners and guards, and that structural improvements to prison building be made were made in the report. The five prisoners who escaped last Saturday fled from the prison hospital. In his report. Mr. Coy charged Captain Griswold with failing to assign officers to guard the outer wall cfter a report the prisoners were attempting to escape. Tip Rereived. Is Report Netzel. who was on guard duty in the hospital, was charged with fading to report finding a skeleton key, prior to the escape. The report accused Parker of failing to notify guards on the wall of the break and Burns with not haling notified superior officers when he heard footsteps of the five escaping prisoners on the hospital roof. Ferguson had received a tip that the escape was to be attempted a f least two weeks before it took place, and failed to notify other authorities. it was charged. The escape was rehearsed July * during a baseball game, Mr. Coy said he learned. Accompanying Mr. Coy's report was a statement from Governor McNutt attributing the escape primarily to alleged failure or negligence of old employes and lack of proper equipment. Governor .Makes Statement “Conditions at the state prison, as revealed by the reports of the American Prison Association and other investigating bodies, have not been satisfactory for several years," the report said. The two deplorable deliveries during recent months were due primarily to negligence of old rmploves and the lack of proper equipment." Continuing, the Governor commented: • Management of the state's penal institutions has been a matter of deepest concern. The advice of the nation's leading experts has been sought. Their recommendations, as well as those set out by Mr. Coy. will be followed as soon as funds are available. •Changes in personnel will be made when and where indicated. Nothing short of the best in methods. management and equipment will satisfy ihis administration.”

YOUNGSTER PULLS A DILLINGER* IN BANK; SHOWS REAL PISTOL

A 6-yrar-old youngster played •bad man Dillinger” yesterday afternoon, much to the surprise ana annoyance of clerks and clients of the Live Stock Exchange bank. Walking into the bank, the youngster pulled out a 25-caliber automatic pistol and brandished it at the startled people. John Mahoney. 117 Pleasant Run boulevard, who was in the bank, took the gun away from the boy and called police. When police arrived they found the gun. but the youngster had vanished. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 am.: South wind. 3 miles an hour, vanaole; barometric pressure. 30 04 a; e* level; temperature 82; general conditions, clear; ceiling, unpin ltd; visibility, seven miles. Hourly Temperatures 0 a. m 67 8 a. m..... 77 7 a. m 66 9 a. m..... 82

The Indianapolis Times Increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight and Sunday with possibly showers Sunday.

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JAIL BREAKER CAPTURED HERE Roy Weaver Behind Bars Again Today; Pal Not Yet Found. Rov Weaver, 31, Paragon, one of two prisoners who slugged their way out of the Monroe county jail at Bloomington July 30, was behind the bars again today. He was captured by Indianapolis detectives shortly after negotiating the sale of a stolen automobile. Weaver's companion in the escape. Marvin Roache, 27. has not been found. They were being held at the Bloomington jail on robbery charges, having been identified as participants in the holdup of the. general store at Elletsville. Weaver drew an empty revolver and pulled the trigger when he was approached by detectives last night. He was subdued with maces. Police said he sold the stolen automobile yesterday, accepting $lO as a down payment. He was en route to complete the deal w'hen arrested. He will be turned over to Monroe county authorities again. Fred Simon, chief of detectives, indicated. NURSES BANNED FROM GIVING ANESTHETICS I.uti Rules Only Doctors Mav Administer Potions. Licensed physicians are the only persons who may administer anesthetics, Phillip Lutz Jr., attor-nev-general. ruled yesterday. Nurses administering anesthetics would be violating the medical practice act. Mr. Lutz informed the state board of medical examination and registration.

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NOONE’S SELECTIONS FOR TODAY i Copyright. 1934. by United Press* Day’s Best —Ladfield. Best Longshot—Gillie. Rest Parlay—Pacheco and High Glee.

Af Xarragansctt — One Best—Legume. 1. Legume. Candy Maid. Radiator. 2. Fake. Alaric. Polly Plum. 3. Toy Time. Gold Step, Zorana. 4. Labrot Entry, Saint Kitts. Friar Mark. 5. High Glee. Sobieha. The Pelican. 6. Hadagal, Roustabout. Big Beau. 7. Pr.nce Abbot, Stepbrother. Grand Acre. 8. Cold Spell, Polly Cee, High Socks. 9. Hasty Belie, Macadam, Suspicious. Af Detroit — One Best—Lad field. 1. In Motion. Last Time. Uptodate. 2. Devilish. Monastic. Minnequa. 3. Fredrick. Shoot. Tela. 4. Noelwood, Nitten Nancy, Catwalk. 5. Pacheco. Bright Day, Black Stockings. 6. Ladfield, Black Target, Royai Blunder. 7. A1 Neiman. Inferno Lad, The. Petter. ' 1

By L Prrtt SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 4.—Six deputy sheriffs guarded a stretch of railroad track where a box of dynamite had been found four days ago until the special train bearing President Roosevelt and his party passed safely over it at 1 a. m. (Pacific standard time) today. Four days ago a signalman reported to Sheriff G. G. Miles that he had seen two men leave a box containing eight sticks of dynamite and caps along the tracks two and one-half miles south of here. Sheriff Miles said he rushed two deputies to the place. They removed the explosive immediately.

A LITTLE MISS DEMPSEY ARRIVES

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Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dempsey By United Press NEW YORK. Aug. 4.—A nurse slipped from a room at Polyclinic hospital today and whispered sonething to Jack Dempsey. ‘‘lt's a girl!" exclaimed the former heavyweight champion with a smile of relief. “Seven and three-quarters pounds and, oh, boy!"—he mopped his perspiring brow—“am I glad it's over.” Dempsey brought his wife, the former Hannah Williams, singer, to the hospital last night. During the early morning hours he nervously passed the corridor, apparently taking more punishment than he did in his celebrated bouts with Gene Tunney. “I sure hope it's a boy,” he said at one time, “I w'ant to match him with Tunney’s kid.” A few moments later the nurse hurried out. “Disappointed?" she asked. “Not a bit, not a bit,” said Dempsey. ‘I love little girls.”

Truck Employers Warned Full Military Force Will Be Used to Smash Strike By United Press MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 4.—Governor Floyd B. Olson will smash tomorrow with all the power of a military dictator at recalcitrant employers of 6,000 striking truck drivers, he announced today. Promptly at midnight Sunday, the Governor said, he will rule all but the most essential trucks off Minneapolis streets. He threatened yesterday to make the order effective today.

8. Chubasco, Running Heel, Transbird. At Hawthorne — One Best—Come On 1. Advantage, Galla Clay, Pompous Genie. 2. Infinity, Portmanteau, Gunfire. 3. Burning Feet, Longus. Trvfair. 4. Ima Greenock, Lovito, Love Sick. 5. Pancoast, Rubio. Glynson. 6. New Deal, Chartres, Pou Au Brooms. 7. Bichloride, Unkie Tom. Cloudet. 8. Come On, Morpheus, Black Fool. 9. Commandant, Lady Louella, Willa T. At Saratoga — One Best Nesconset. 1. Merrily On. Vicar. DreeL 2. Nesconset, Cita, Ridian. 3. Sailor Beware, Today, Try Sympathy. 4. Gay Monarch, Only One, Speedmore. 5. Watch Him, Mr. Khayyam, Faireno. 6. Gillie, Tempestuous

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The delay was requested by the Rev. Francis J. Haas and E. H. Dunnigan, federal mediators. Both said a strike of 6,000 truck drivers which provoked the ultimatum may be ended before that time. Governor Olson warned both union leaders and their employers, however, that an embargo which would leave 516.000 persons with transportation facilities for only the barest necessities, would not be further altered. Employers Are Warned Only trucks carrying bread, ice, milk and gasoline trucks in interstate commerce and trucks whose owners subscribe to the so-called • Haas-Dunnigan” proposal for settling the strike will be permitted to use Minneapolis streets. Employers were warned that the ban will not be lifted until striking drivers obtain ‘ decent” terms. Union leaders likewise were sternly told that national guardsmen and a provost court will mete severe punishment to any one violating any martial rule. The government’s new ultimatum followed on the heels of a night raid on offices of the Citizens’ Alliance. a secret membership group of business men which has backed the employers' advisory committee in fighting the union. Seized Records Studied Ten picked guardsmen acting under personal orders of the Governor seized documents and records of the alliance and held the offices for four hours. Records were turned over to accountants for analysis. The mediators’ hope for an early settlement of the 19-day-old, riotfilled and bloody strike was based on progress in negotiations yesterday.

JOHN DILLINGER PAID SIO,OOO TO EFFECT CROWN POINT JAIL BREAK, ATTORNEY-GENERAL LUTZ ASSERTS

Negligence Charge Hurled bg Business Bureau Chief in Alleged Stock Racket Securities Commissioner Ignored Warnings Involving Mann & Cos., Overley Says; Bares Purported Bucket Shops in South Bend. State-wide ramifications of alleged “bucket shops” in other cities Was disclosed today as the probe of Mann & Cos., Indianapolis firm and alleged losses to investors of $250,000, was begun by federal and state officers. T. M. Overley, head of the Better Business Bureau, disclosed that one alleged “bucket shop” had begun operations in South Bend.

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Police received a report that a man was electrocuted at Twentyninth and North Harding streets, late this morning. NEW ORLEANS CLASHLOOMS Troops and Police Face One Another Across 30Foot Street. By United Press NEW ORLEANS La. Aug. 4. State troops wearing steel helmets and gas masks defended the registrar of voters’ office for Senator Huey P. Long today in defiance of a court order. City officials alarmed at the new' antics of militiamen rushed 100 special policemen to the city hall to defend it They were armed with pistols. The hostile armies faced each other across thirty-foot Lafayette street. The city’s legal advisers convened to debate how they might jail Senator Long and Adjutant-General Ray Fleming troop commander for contempt of civil district court. Newspapers charged that registrars under troop protection were harassing anti-Long persons who came to register for the Sept. 11 congressional primary. The TimesPicayune alleged many were being denied the right to vote, their registration cards torn up because of such trivial errors as failure to dot an “i” or cross a “t.” ONE BADLY INJURED IN CAR CRASH HERE Two Autos Wrecked; Victim’s Father Held. One man was injured and two autos wrecked this morning in a crash at Minnesota and South East streets. Elijah Brandon. 36, of 758 Pleasant Run boulevard, suffered lacerations and possible internal injuries when the car in which he was riding collided with a telephone pole after striking a car driven by Robert W. Schultz, 22, of 704 Terrace avenue. He was taken to city hospital. James E. Brandon, 57, father of the injured man. was arrested by police on charges of having no certificate of title and Improper license plates. Schultz’s car crashed into a building at 1708 South East street, after being struck by the Brandon auto. POT HUNTERS BARRED FROM NATIONAL PARKS Amateur Excavations Valueless Says Supervisor. By United Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.. Aug. 4.— ‘ Pot hunters" and “vandals’ have been ordered to ‘get out and stay out” of the national parks in this state that have Indian ruins The order has been issued by E. G. Miller, supervisor of the Coconino National Forest, who threatens prosecution to anyone arrested digging in Indian ruins without a permit. “These pot hunters' excavations are not only valueless to themselves,” Miller pointed out. “but they destroy valuable evidence that could be classified by trained men.”

Two others in that city recently had closed their doors with alleged court admissions of the loss of SIOO,OOO to investors, he added. Mr. Overley said his bureau was investigating the opening of the new r firm in South Bend. He said they have installed seven telephones for drumming up prospects. Mr. Overley charged that while the investigation of Mann & Cos. went unheeded under the present administration, that under previous securities commissioners supervision of “bucket shops” had been vigorouly pursued. He asserted that William O’Neill, securities commissioner, was “grossly negligent” in not investigating Mann & Cos. and saving its clients from a loss which may amount to $250,000. Mr. Overley declared that even at the present time another company w'as operating in a similar fashion in Indianapolis, either with or without a permit. “I know of no licenses revoked by Mr. O’Neill in Indianapolis during his regime,” said Mr. Overley. “But under other securities commissioners, the mere report of the possibility of ‘bucket shop’ operations has resulted in raids being made on offices and their books checked,” Mr. Overley declared. Tells of Previous Probes “On one occasion I was made a deputy securities commissioner and after being sworn in we went to the suspected securities firm with an employe of the state securities department. We took charge of the office and all the books. Several hours of questioning revealed that the firm was costing its clients money. We telephoned the head of the securities commission at that time. When he heard our report he said, -Revoke their license.’ ” Mr. Overley charges that w'hen the operator of Mann & Cos. were brought to the attention of Mr. O’Neill, after numerous telephone calls and letters, many of which were unanswered, that Mr. O'Neill told him it was a matter for the county prosecutor. Mr. Overley, however, pointed out today that the firm operated legally as long as its license had not been revoked. ‘Warnings’ Are Recalled As far back as the early part of 1533, the state securities commissioner of West Virginia wrote to Mr. O’Neil, according to Mr. Over(Turn to Page Three) Times Index Page. Bridge 4 Broun 7 Church Services 9 Classified 10 Comics 11 Crossword Puzzle 4 Curious World 11 Editorial 6 Financial 12 Hickman—Theaters 2 Pegler 7 Radio 9 Serial Story 11 Sports 8, 9 State News 3 Vital Statistics 12 Woman's Pages 4, 5

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Famous 'Wooden Pistol’ Is in Indianapolis, Father of Slain Outlaw Admits; Given to Brother-in-Law by Desperado. GRAFT PROVEN, SAYS STATE OFFICIAL Name of Man Who Received Money Mentioned Frequently in Newspapers, Asserts McNutt Aid; Barce on Probe. BY BASIL GALLAGHER Times Staff Writer. (Copyright. 1934, by The Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos. All Rights Reserved.! That famous “wooden pistol” with which John Dillinger “toy-gunned” his way out of the Crown Point jail has been discovered. The “weapon” which created ironic laughter throughout the nation when the Hoosier desperado herded attaches in the “strongest jail in Indiana” into a cell, and made his getaway in Sheriff Lillian Holley’s car last March 3, is right here in Indianapolis.

PRESIDENT SEES POWERPROJECTS Roosevelt to Take Trip to Grand Coulee Today by Motor. By United Press ABOARD PRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS SPECIAL TRAIN, EN ROUTE TO EPHRATA, WASH., Aug. 4.—President Roosevelt struck out into the heart of rugged Washington state today to see for himself the government’s $60,000,000 power, navigation and irrigation project at Grand Coulee. On the last lap of his 15,000-mile trip inspecting the workings of the New' Deal, the chief executive planned to motor to the Grand Coulee workings from Ephrata, a tiny dot on the map in this mountainous and wooded country. He entered Washington last night from Oregon, where he visited the Bonneville dam site near Portland, one of the yardsticks of his “power for the people” policy. In a brief address during his inspection of the $E0,000.000 Bonneville workings, Mr. Roosevelt said that the development of the Columbia river there should be just a starter for a much greater expansion in the future. As the train passed the border into Washington, several hundred persons were on the station platform at Arlington to welcome him. Farther along the line, Indians in full war paint danced around a large log fire in his honor as the train glided by. The President w'atched the scene from a wundow of his private car. With him were Mrs. Roosevelt, who joined him yesterday in Portland; his son James, who flew to Portland from Wyoming; and his younger sons, John and Franklin, who had accompanied their father on his trip from Annapolis through the Panama canal to the Hawaiian islands, then back to the continental United States. ANCIENT FLOUR MILL IS READY TO CLOSE Eleventh Century Plant Passed Through Illustrious Hands. By United Press LONDON, Aug. 4.—An eleventh century flour mill, dating back to 1086, will close when the venerable mill loses its workers and milling to new works at Victoria Docks. At one time the property of the ancient Syon Monastery, the mill has passed through many an illustrious hand, inlcuding that of Henry VIII, who, after he dispersed the monastery, gave it to the ancestors of the duke of Northumberland.

Capital EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

John Wilson Dillinger, aged father of the slain outlaw, admitted to The Times today, tTiat “Johnnie gave the wooden gun to Fred Hancock (his brother-in-law) as a keepsake.” Pictures of Dillinger holding the wooden pistol in one hand and a sub-machine gun under his arm were taken at the family reunion April 8 at the Dillinger homestead in Mooresville, The Times learned today. Refusing newspapermen permission to see the “weapon” or take pictures of it, Mr. Dillinger Sr., back on the farm for a few days before going to Chicago to play the “big time” in vaudeville, admitted that snapshots had beeh taken of John at the reunion. About Seven Inches Long The 70-year-old farmer described the wooden pistol as being about seven inches long, with a short handle and looking “pretty much like the real thing.” He admitted seeing it on April 8. “I can t let you see it now,” said the agir.g man,” because I’m writing a book about John and we want the picture of that wooden gun exclusive.” From all accounts it was a merry party which Dillinger and his sweetheart, Evelyn Frechette, enjoyed. Dillinger, it was learned, clowned with the toy gun and his more formidable weapons, while the federal agents were conducting their halfmillion dollar search for him. Phillip Lutz Jr., attorney-general, told The Times today that the Crown Point investigation still is open. The attorney-general said that investigators from his office have been working on the case steadily since Dillinger’s escape. SIO,OOO for Escape? Mr. Lutz told The Times that Edward Barce, his assistant, “practically has proven” that Dillinger paid SIO,OOO to gain his freedom from the jail. Mr. Lutz said that the name of the man suspected of receiving the SIO,OOO has been mentioned frequently in connection with the case. “The trouble in the investigation,” said Mr. Lutz, “is that we are dealing with convicts who are the only ones with any knowledge of the alleged graft. They won’t tell the true story to us, but they have told it to others who have relayed the information to my office." Dillinger, according to investigators, used his personality to good advantage In disarming his jailers. For weeks he had laughed and joked with guards until they came to regard him as ‘much overrated’ as a killer. Cahoon Supplied Shoeblack Sam Cahoon, turnkey of the Crown Point jail, supplied the shoe blacking with which Dillinger painted his wooden pistol black, Mr. Lutz charges. With the aid of his accomplice, according to Mr. Lutz's version, Dillinger got out of his cell. The rest was easy because of the laxity of the guards, he says. Dillinger merely scared the turnkeys with his whittled pistol and seized the real weapons which had been left about carelessly by the large force of special deputies hired especially to guard Dillinger, Mr. Lutz continues. “When Dillinger got out of the cell,” Mr. Lutz declares, “he knocked the wooden pistol against the cell door and turning to the frightened jail guards said, ‘Boys, I did it with this’.” If Dillinger did pay SIO,OOO to buy his way out of the Crown Point jail, the desperado, according to Captain Matt Leach of the state police, must have been about “broke” when he was killed in Chicago. It Just Doesn't Pay From figures supplied by the bandit himself after his arrest in Dayton, 0., last August, Captain Leach demonstrated in dollars and cents why crime doesn't pay. ‘‘l’ll show you Indiana’s ‘big shot’ (Torn to Page Three!