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FATHER OF BOY IS SOUGHT BY POLICE IN MURDER PROBE Parent Threatened Family Many Times, Asserts Attorney for Employer of Mother, One of Men Under Arrest. MISSING RIFLE IS OBJECT OF SEARCH Woman Scoffs at Suggestion Gilbert Jacobs May Know Anything of • Revolting Crime. Charges that Shirley C. Dillon, lather of the brutally murdered Donald Dillon, had threatened to “murder his entire family” were made todfy by an attorney for Gilbert •Jacobs, one of the three men held for questioning in connection with the 13-year-old boy’s death*. The attorney, Lawrence Shaw, was brought into the case by Mrs. Dimmie Dillon, the murdered boy’s mother, who is housekeej>er for Jacobs. The attorney represented Mrs. Dillon last year when she obtained her divorce, in which she alleged, among other

things, that her husband, | whose present whereabouts | is unknown, was not a fit: guardian for their children. The father has threatened on numerous occasions to murder the entire family,” charged Mr. Shaw. ••Before the divorce, I advised Mrs. Dillon to move away from him because I did not believe she was safe living with him.” The divorce was granted June 26. 1933, m superior “court five here after Dillon had failed to contest a complaint which charged him with having an uncontrollable temper. being abusive and threatening violence, being addicted to overindulgence in alcoholic beverages, failing to support his family and absenting himself from his family as much as five weeks at a time. Sought in Northern Indiana Mrs. Dillon said today she had not seen him since he left the present Jacobe-Dillon home. 1871 Shelby street, in February. 1833. It was said she had lived in fear of him. however. and she had visited the attorney s office Monday afternoon to express her fear that something rad happened to Donald, who had been missing since Sunday afternoon. While the lawyer was making the charges against Dillon, authorities in northern Indiana were seeking him at the request of Detective Chief Fred Simon. Dillon is understood to be somewhere near Remington. Ind.. in Jasper county, and the sheriff’s office at Rensselaer, county seat, was asked to co-operate. Meanwhile. Jacobs' hearing on vagrancy charges was continued to Thursdav. Sept 20. and bond was set at SSOOO He did not post it at once. Comment Is Withheld Simultaneously. Deputy Coroner John E. Wyttenbaeh. still withholding all comment on the case, had subpenas issued calling all witness to the finding of the body yesterday and to other aspects of the crime to a hearing in his office Friday. With news of Jacobs’ arrest here, word came from Bloomington, near which he formerly lived, that he had been sentenced to sixty days on the Indiana state farm June 5. 1933. in the Monroe county circuit court on charges of drunken driving. The charges arose out of an automobile accident north of Bloomington May 27, 1933. and. according to Monroe county authorities. Mrs. Dillon was in the car at the time. Both Mrs. Dillon and Jacobs were injured and were treated at Bloomington, it is said there. Mother Regains Composure In the Jacobs-Dillon home. Mrs. Dillon, prostrated with grief vesterdav. appeared to have regained much of her composure. She expressed surprise and regret that Jacobs had been arrested and laid the arrest to 'he fact that a 22-cali-ber rifle disappeared from his room about the time Donald disappeared from home Sunday. Police efforts today were concentrated to a large degree in a search for the 22 or 25-caliber rifle from which, investigators believe, was fired the bullet which killed Donald. Mrs Dillor. scoffed at suggestions Jacobs might know more about the cnme than he has told The two men held with Jacobs are William Jackson. IC. Negro, and his brother. Addison Jackson. 20. Negro, both of 1253 Calhoun street. Tr.e Negroes wer* arrested because of past records as molesters cf children near the bridge, over Pleasant Run creek at Minnesota and Shelby streets, under which IXmaid’s bodv was found yesterday when a flooded storm sewer carried It out into Pleasant Run t reek Autopsy Is Conducted With the police thus apparently in possession of some hopefu! leads, the revolting nature of the crime had become mote apparent tnrough an autopsy conducted late yesterday by Deputy Coroner Dr Wvttenbach While Dr. Wyttenbaeh refused verification, it was learned on excellent authority that the murder aur.oet eeruunly was the work of a degenerate In addition, it was learned that the killer, apparently with fiendish intensity, had thrust the rumdkerchief-gag found in the boys month deep down ino his throat, Arrangements for the funeral have not yet been made.

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VOLUME 46—NUMBER 106

HUEY WINS IN NEWORLEANS Kingfish Conquers Regular Machine, Winning All Battles. By United Press NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 12.—Senator Huey P. Long became a figure of greatly increased national significance today as a result of his spectacular victory over the local political machine in yesterday's primary. But the fight was not over. The old regulars, in control of New Orleans for several decades, were believed planning litigation on the grounds that Long's election commissioners counted the vote. Long brought in the state militia, seized the office where voters are registered, scratched some 25,000 alleged illegally registered voters. His two congressmen won renomination and his candidates for the supreme court and the public service commission also won. By strengthening his position at home, the Kingfish is free to embark on any ambitious endeavor which he may choose to attempt nationally. While he denies any intention of seeking the presidency, he has been accused of planning to seek control of the national government. Despite the presence of the military and the bitterness of the preelection campaign, it was the most peaceful election in New Orleans in many years. Long, the center of a noisy, cheering throng at his hotel suite, said the success of his candidates was a victory for “honest government and honest campaigning." "The people never have had a chance to have their votes counted honestly,” he said. “If we hadn’t brought in the militia they’d stolen this election, too.”

MODERNIZE NOW The government is supporting the national drive to modernize homes and Indianapolis has the opjJort unity to derive benefits from the campaign. United States loans will be given persons who desire to remodel their homes, apartment and farm buildings and factories. In conjunction with this campaign. The Indianapolis Times today presents the first of a series of twelve articles by Roger B Whitman, national housing expert, who tells you in plain language how you should go about remodeling your home. The first of the series appears today on Fage 3. Each of them carries helpful hints and other stories will appear in The Times daily.

Number Three “The Coming American Boom” LAWRENCE L. B. ANGAS

miTOß S NOTE—la the preeedint latiUmfn( Meier Ans in trlling vhr he heliered the Caited States weald teen rtpertenre a been, described hew the adailaittratlen'a paltry es rredit inHatien threats cerernairnt herrowing wai last getting aader war through the delayed rlrenlatiea es none; taent for nubile werhe INSTALLMENT 111 THEN the President took office W m March, 1933, much had gone wrong with America's civilization. Production and pnces had fallen nearly 50 per cent from the 1929 peak; 16 000.000 persons ere unemployed; banking assets had fallen o below ’labilities and a na-tion-wide run on the banks was occurring; thousands of banks had already closed; foreign trade had also come to a standstill; central,

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Fifteen-year-old Hazel Dillon, sister of Donald Dillon, 13. 1871 Shelby street, took over the duties of the household yesterday, when her mother, Mrs. Demmie Dillon • lower) was overcome with grief at finding of the boy’s murdered body in a sewer emptying into Pleasant Run creek. Hazel is shown (upper) on the steps in front of their home, with the dog with which her younger brother played.

TURNER. PANGBORN ON WAY EAST IN PLANE Fliers Ready to Sail for London Air Race Start. By United Press LOS ANGELES. Sept, 12.—Advancing their original schedule several hours. Colonel Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pangborn took off at 2:45 a. m- • Indianapolis time) today for New York* They flew eastward in the new dual-motored Boeing monoplane in which they plan to participate in the London-Melbourne air derby next month. They will sail from New York next Wednesday for London.

Minton, Scornful, Rips at G. 0. P. Campaign of Fear Roosevelt Pointing Way to Recovery, Senate Candidate Asserts in Address at Terre Haute. BY JAMES DOSS Times Staff Writer TERRE HAUTE, Sept. 12.—“ You can’t walk up to a hungry man and say: 'Here, have a Constitution',” Sherman Minton, Democratic candidate for the United States senate, declared last night when more than 1.000 persons gathered here for the so-called official opening of the Democratic campaign.

“This campaign is a call to service and not a whisper of alarm,” Mr. Minton said in making the principal address of the rally in the packed gymnasium of the Indiana State Teachers’ college. “This campaign.” Mr. Minton continued, "is a challenge to the liberal, progressive forces of the nation by the reactionary, standpat forces. It is a call to rally to the standard of the greatest leader the liberal forces of the nation ever produced. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. "President Roosevelt speaks for

state and municipal budgets were in debt; credit was being contracted in all directions; the fear of deflation had brought production to a standstill, and incomes and consumption had disastrously declined. Orthodox financiers and advisers were stunned: they could not put forward a practical solution. The cure, they pleaded, could only come from -hard work, economy and selfsacrifice.” The President, however, took a different view which was doubtless based on a study of past business cycles. By the end of 1932 the slump, which had begun in September. 1929, had finally assumed, as all slumps have done in the past in their later stages, a purely mone- , tary character, viz: that of a cumu-

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1934

DEAN CASE JURY QUIZRESUMES State May Call Alleged Accomplices in Crime, Is Indication. Hints that the state may offer testimony of alleged accomplices in the effort to send Edward (Foggy) Dean to the electric chair, were made in criminal court today as efforts to select a jury were resumed. Dean is on trial on a first degree murder charge growing out of the machine gun slaying of Sergeant Lester Jones in February, 1933. Prospective jurors were questioned closely by defense counsel and Floyd Mattice, chief deputy prosecutor, on the amount of corroboration they would demand for stories that might be related on the witness stand by other defendants in the case. When Special Judge Clyde H. Jones declared a recess at noon yesterday until this morning, no venireman had been accepted definitely. * In the box at that time, undergoing examination, were: David M. Shepherd, 1439 Woodlawn avenue; Oscar M. Crays, R. R. 10; Ernest Schultz, 3533 East Vermont street; James W. Prather, 2344 Kenwood avenue; John Pfegley, 711 North Sherman drive; Albert C. Crump, R. R. 10; John O'Mara, 818 North Wallace street; Marion R. Cotton. R. R. 12; Charles W. Martin, 1230 Livingston street; Wilson B. Parker. 5825 Guilford avenue; William M. Schumacher, 2724 North Meridian street, and Raleigh H. Pogue, 440 North Euclid avenue. Soon after court opened Mr. Shepherd was excused by the state. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 64 10 a. m 74 7a. m 64 11 a. m 78 Ba. m 67 12 (noon),. 80 9 a. m 69 1 p. m 81

the forces that found the nation on the verge of collapse and he now is pointing the road to recovery. "Herbert Hoover speaks for the forces that led the country into the greatest panic we ever have known and he now asks the people to return his party to power on a plea that offers nothing except a return to the policies that got us into this unhappy mess. “The issue is clear-cut and the choice is plain.” Other speakers on the night pro- • (Turn to Page Three)

lative deflation of bank credit and prices. Modem business is conducted with the aid of a huge inverted pyramid of credit superimposed on a small basis of gold or notes, bank credit currency tin America) vary-

The theories of Major L. L. B. Angas. in “The Coming American Boom” are presented bx_The Indianapolis Times to its readers as a journalistic function of service. Publication of the series of ten articles written by the noted British economist does not imply an indorsement of his views by this newspaper.

REVEALS LINER’S CAPTAIN FEARED ‘TROUBLE’ ON TRIP

U, S. Plane Firm Sought Hoover’s Aid in Sale of Ships, Probers Reveal Company Asked Meeting Between Ex-President, Aviation Chief of Chile to Offset ‘Good-Will’ Tour by Prince of Wales, Is Report. By United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 12.—Evidence that the Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation instructed its Washington office in March, 1931, to arrange for a meeting between President Hoover and the chief of aviation of Chile to offset the sales efforts of the Prince of Wales, on his good will tour of America, was presented today to the senate munitions committee.

The Chilean air chief was Commandante Arturo Merino. Later C. W. Webster,- LatinAmerican chief of the Curtiss firm, testified that he -‘didn’t think Merino saw Mr. Hoover.” “Was this arrangement made?” Chairman Gerald P. Nye asked. “Yes” said Webster. ‘‘l don't think Merino visited Mr. Hoover, but he did see many officials of the army and navy.” Curtiss-Wright officials said the prince of Wales invited Merino to visit him in England. Urges Hoover Aid After declaring that Merino had been responsible for ‘‘all our business in Chile,” Webster wrote the Washington office on March 11. 1931: ‘‘lt is up to us to lean over backward in selling Merino American ideas, methods and equipment x x x. ‘‘lf possible we would like to have you arrange for permission for him to visit various army and navy stations and have him meet the army and navy secretaries, and if possible President Hoover. “This seems advisable and necessary in order to offset the efforts of the prince of Wales.” False Labels Planned Previously evidence was presented that the Curtiss Corporation in April, 1933, planned to place false labels on equipment meant for shipment to Peru because the Grace Line Steamship Company had refused to transport war materials while Peru and Colombia were involved In the Leticia dispute. General Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff of the United States army, was mentioned in a Curtiss company letter as having “apparently talked up American military equipment to the skies" in discussions he had with the Turkish general staff while on a visit to Turkey in 1932. The names of Stephen T. Early, assistant secretary to President Roosevelt, and Major James Doolittle. famous speed flier, also were brought into the hearing today. Doolittle “Helpful” Doolittle, who was a member of the Baker board which investigated the army air corps recently, was “helpful" in selling Curtiss airplanes in South America, Jack Allard, president of the Intercontinent Aviation, Inc., testified. A letter from the Curtiss-Wright company's files showed that Mr. Early was arranging in 1929 to obtain a Curtiss plane from the army for a stunt flight by Doolittle over New York. Mr. Early then was a representative of a sound picture firm.

GRAND JURY RAPS STATE DRY CHIEF Finds York Charges Are Based on Hearsay. The county grand jury today took a direct slap at L. E. York, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, by branding as mere “hearsay” his statements that public officials in the state were directly associated with the liquor industry. The grand jury reported to Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker that Mr. York had been called before the grand jury to substantiate his pub-licly-made assertions concerning public officials and the liquor industry. Condemning Mr. York for contin* uing his statements after the investigation. the grand jury said that Mr. York had admitted before the jurists that his allegations were based on hearsay. The report further stated that Mr York had presented no facts to the grand jury.

ing from about ten to fifteen times' the gold basis. Now, the prudent bank manager, in the course of his duty toward his depositors, must necessarily call in loans as collateral values shrink, so as to keep his accounts well covered. The unfortunate borrower is then forced to sell; his forced selling leads to still lower prices; other bankers then call in additional loans, and the process gathers momentum. Prudent bank management thus rapidly leads to cumulative rial collapse. Hence a casual* fall in prices, when once it has begun, normally tends to gather momentum. mam TO cure such a slump it Is never sufficient to aim at removing the primary or initial causes (e. g.

TEXTILE PEACE OFFER DROPPED Time Limit on Arbitration Expires; Union Ready for Long Fight. (Copyright, 1934. by United Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—Union leaders, pessimistic over- hopes of immediate settlement of the textile strike, planned today for at least another month of the labor-capital struggle. With their time limit for arbitration expired and serious violence developing in New England, Francis J. Gorman, chairman of the United Textile workers special strike committee, said: “We are now preparing for at least a month of struggle to win the textile strike.” He telegraphed President Roosevelt urging him to advise Governors of textile states to use troops in “a strictly impartial manner.” Twelve thousand national guardsmen are out in five states. Adequate funds for carrying on the strike due to American Federation of Labor co-operation appeared assured as union leaders drafted plans for a prolonged walkout. The federal mediation board, meanwhile, met with manufacturers here again today in an attempt to unsnarl the arbitration wrangle. Martial Law Invoked By Umite.fi Pres* SAYLESVILLE. R. 1., Sept. 12. Army lorries cargoed with barbed wire and rope moved through the streets of normally peaceful Saylesville today as steel-helmeted national guardsmen girded themselves to resist fresh strike offensives expected this afternoon. With 133 men and women nursing gunshot wounds and other injuria* suffered during the riotous clashes of yesterday and last night, the militiamen, 1,200 strong, set methodically about the task of setting the scene for the anticipated new outbreaks. Violence Flares Here Determined to curtail activities of the Indianapolis Bleaching Company, 900 West Wabash street, Charles A. Drake, business agent of the striking textile union here, said today that he was prepared to present to the regional labor board affidavits purporting to prove that the company was using the banned “stretch out” system. Charles A. Young, plant manager, denied that workers had been working extra looms because of the strike. Sporadic stoning of mill workers reporting for the early shift today was related by police. The picket line was tense as strikers charged that company employes were carrying arms and thus forcing probable violence. Mr. Young at a meeting yesterday strongly advised workers not to carry arms, but asserted that if they were armed to be careful to avoid accidents. The company has opened a dining room for employes, and today Mr. Young invited the strikers to use the dining hall if they were hungry. The first reported violence along the picket line flared late yesterday, when, police say, strikers stoned mill workers as they left the plant. A freight car backed up on a siding near the plant and trapped workers in automobiles in a crowd of strikers for approximately twenty minutes.

war debts, dear money, or whatever it may have been); it is invariably necessary to concentrate mainly on the secondary causes, which are monetary. In past trade cycles something, as it happens, has always occurred to prevent the inverted pyramid of credit from collapsing completely. Ir. the present trade cycle, however, since there were factors present in America which were absent in past cycles, and since the modern credit machine is now much more highly developed than it was formerly, the normal check did not mature. The pyramid of credit was thus in danger of collapsing, and. unless a miracle of trade psychology occurred, or unless the “ovemment deliberately stepped in to counteract the credit defla-

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Chief Radio Operator Bares Fact Ship's Dead Chief Had Called His Wireless Assistant ‘Crazy Man.’ VICTIM OF ACCUSATION IS HELD Commander ‘Was Afraid Something Was ' Going to Happen,’ Witness Tells Federal Inquiry Leaders. . By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—Chief Radio Operator George White Rogers, who sat at his key in the smoke-filled radio room as the S. S. Morro Castle burned beneath him, told a federal inquiry today why an SOS call was not flashed until approximately half an Tiour after parts ot the ship were burning fiercely. "They are running around on the bridge and I can t get intelligent co-operation out of the men, Rogers quoted his first assistant, George Alagna, as saying after being sent to the bridge for instructions. Rogers’ testimony brought that Alagna, now under arrest in New York, had had trouble with the ship’s officers,

ROOSEVELT APPALLED, TO ASK LAW BARRING WOOD ON NEW SHIPS

By Unit'd Press HYDE PARK. Sept, 12.—Appalled oy the Morro Castle disaster, President Roosevelt said today that congress would be asked for legislation eliminating future construction of passenger ships of wooden interior construction. There will be a definite effort made for such legislation to affect ships, big and little, involving new construction, the President indicated. Whether the legislation would ask for modernization of present vessels, he did not say. The President feels that light steel can be used instead of wood without sacrificing comforts or beauty of passenger ships, at the same time providing a maximum of security. Meanwhile Mr. Roosevelt was watching closely the developments in the investigation of the Morro Castle fire now under way in New York. He made it plain that if culpable evidence was uncovered the department of justice would take charge. DEMAND RECOUNT IN MAINE SENATE RACE Democrats Lose to Hale by 1,200 Votes. By United Press PORTLAND. Me., Sept. 12 —With his margin of victory shaved to a scant 1,200, out of a total of more than a quarter million votes cast in Monday’s state election, United States Senator Frederick Hale (Rep.), today faced a recount to be demanded by his Democratic opponent, F. Harold Dubord. The Democrats retained the governorship and two of three congressional seats. Returns from all but five tiny precincts of the 631 in the state gave: Hale (Rep.) 139,482 Dubord (Dem.) 138,266 The complete vote in the gubernatorial contest, in which Governor Louis J. Brann was opposed by Alfred K. Ames, was: Brann (Dem.) 156,813 Ames (Rep.) 133,678 Times Index Auto News 4 Bridge 9 Broun 13 Classified 17, 18 Comics 19 Crossword Puzzle 9 Curious World 19 Editorial 14 Financial 15 Let’s Go Fishing 17 Pegler 13 Radio 10 Sports 16, 17 State News 4 Woman’s Pages 8, 9

tions which all prudent bank managers were necessarily pursuing, the collapse would have undoubtedly continued despite unlimited “hard work and self-sacrifice.” The problem facing America in March, 1933, was. to convert the vicious circle of falling prices, credit contraction and growing stagnation of trade into a virtuous circle of higher prices and expanding industry. This problem was first and foremost monetary, and this was the problem which the incoming President had to attack. Its constituent parts were: 1. To reopen the banks. 2. To stop the public from hoarding. 3. To stop cumulative bank fi-edlt deflation. (Tara to Page Three)

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including Acting Captain W. F. Warms, and was going to be fired when the vessel reached New York. “What were they afraid of in regard to this man Alagna?” asked D. N. Hoover, conducting the inquiry. A—Almost anything. “What does that mean? A—That he might jam the radio compass, jam the radio apparatus. Captain Robert Willmott told me to report the slightest trouble. He was afraid something was going to happen. He said he understood Alagna was a vengeful person and would not trust him further than he could throw a rope. Reports “No Co-Operation” Rogers also testified that: 1. He was awakened and reached the radio room at 2:55 a. m. Smoke was in the room and he could see flames. Earlier witnesses had said the fire was burning wildly in the lounge and writing room at that time. 2. He sent his first assistant, Alagna, to the bridge lor orders. Alagna returned at 3:13 a. m. and reported he could not get intelligent co-operation. 3. At 3:15 a. m.. on his own initiative, Rogers sent out an emergency “stand by” signal after hearing a ship at sea ask a land station wether a big liner was afire off the New Jersey coast. 4. The lighting system failed at 3:19 when Rogers had finished sending a second message. They started the auxiliary. Smoke in Radio Room 5. At about 3:25 a. m. or 3:30 a. m., Rogers said: Alagna came back from his second trip to the bridge and said “Okay, send the S O S.” At that time the radio room was dense with smoke, flames were crackling around Rogers’ table and he was having great difficulty in working his key. He was breathing through a wet towel, he said. In addition, Rogers told of having trouble with certain radio operators on the ship, saying there had been a strike of operators in New York two months ago. He said Alagna and a former second officer, Barrow, were leaders in the strike which was a protest against the food. He said the two referred to the late captaih Robert Willmott as “a yellow dog.” Alagna was arrested in New York yesterday after testifying before a federal grand jury. The ship finally sailed, he said, after an agreement was signed with the line. Barrow got drunk at Havana, and was fired, he said. Rogers went aboard as second officer and when Fearson, chief operator, quit the ship, Rogers became chief operator. Things went smoothly for a trip or two, he said, and then, on the Morro Castle's last trip, one morning Captain Wilmott talked to him about Alagna. “Think He’s Crazy” “Captain Willmott called me to the bridge. ‘What’s the matter with this man Alagna.’ the captain said. ; I think he’s crazy. We've always had trouble with him.’ “I didn’t know what it was all about but the captain told me of trouble Alagna had caused over landing passes and trouble he was always starting with customs officials when he refused to obey certain regulations. Captain Willmott told me at that time, ‘I want you to get rid of Alagna when we get to New York. I also want you to take the key to the emergency ra- , dio room and not let Alagna get to ! it. I don't trust him at all.’ ” “The captain also told me that ; he feared that Alagna would try to damage the radio compass or send!mg equipment. That was on this i last voyage.” Rogers said the captain told him, he said, of an altercation between Alagna and the mate which led to bad feeling. The mate was Acting i Captain W. F. Warms, in charge of the vessel at the tune of the fire and whom Alagna alleged he could not get to give out the SOS order. Gus Mueller Improves Gus Mueller, state driver’s license judge and Democratic nominee for secretary of state, is improving at Methodist hospital from the effects of blood poisoning. IV is expected to be able to leave Ihospital in about ten days.