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AIRTIGHT CASE GOAL OF PROBERS; WOMAN SOUGHT

Search for Confederates May Lead to Quizzing of Servants, U. S. Agents Indicate; Alien Guilty, They Claim. ■Copyright. 1334. bv United Pressj NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—A theory that a confederate — possibly a woman —aided Bruno Richard Hauptmann in abduction of the Lindbergh baby gained strength in police circles today. The search for a confederate was an integral part of the campaign of j>olice and federal investigators to build up an air-tight circumstantial case against Hauptmann, who stolidly has resisted efforts to obtain a confession from him.

Police, however, found few concrete facts aiding the theory that Hauptmann had confederates. Developments included: 1. A theory advanced by Assistant Chief Inspector John J. Sullivan that a woman aided Hauptmann because ‘‘no man would risk moving a baby through that countryside without a woman to aid him.” 2. A deposit slip filled out when $2,970 of the ransom gold backs were turned in for silver certificates j was checked to determine whether Hauptmann or a confederate turned , in the money. A mysterious suicide —apparently not connected with the Lindbergh case—was on the record in connection with investigation of the deposit slip. 3. Isadore Fische. who died in j Germany and who was named by Hauptmann as the man who gave him the $13,750 recovered ransom money, at one tune borrowed $4,000 from an unidentified woman. Fische also had boi rowed $7,500 from Hauptmann in 1932. records showed, apparently blasting Hauptmann's claim that Fische left him the money. Several Women Questioned Whether the woman fiom whom Fische borrowed the $4,000 had any connection with the Lindbergh ransom money was not disclosed by police. At the office of Samuel J. Foley. United States attorney for Bronx county, it was said that several j women were questioned yesterday in the Hauptmann investigation. It was emphasized, however, that these women were merely witnesses, that none of them were suspected of being connected with the Lind- j brgh case in any way and that I Foley's office does not expect to connect any woman with the case. None is under arrest or detained at present. officials said. Dozens of department of justice agents and New York City detectives were assigned to uncover every detail of Hauptmann's life immediately preceding March 1, 1932. when the baby was stolen from the then Lindbergh home in Hopewell. N. J.. and of the two and one-half years following. No law enforcement authority involved had the least doubt but that Hauptmann was the man sought for the most revolting crime of the century. Hauptmann Gets Sleep New Jersey withheld its formal request for extradition ponding completion of an airtight case which authorities thought would be ready by Monday or Tuesday. John Doe indictments, charging murder and kidnaping, pend in Hunterdon and Mercer counties. New Jersey. So he could hardly stay on his feet. Hauptmann was lodged in the Bronx county jail for his first extended sleep since he was arrested Wednesday. Following a usual but little publicized police method, he had been questioned almost continuously and without sleep for more than fifty hours The ordinary criminal would have broken under the strain. However. German army machine gunner. ex-German convict. Hauptmann demonstrated time and time again that he was far above the ordinary m both stamina and intelligence. His explanation of his possession of $13,750 of the $50,000 Colonel Lindbergh paid out for the safe return of a baby that had been murdered, was thoroughly unbelievable police said In Washington, federal authorities hinted that operatives sought to connect Hauptmann with the Lindbergh houscho’d. believing incontestable proof that he had contacts with any of the servants at Hopewell or at the home of Mrs. Dwight M. Morrow. Mrs. Lindberghs mother. at Englewood N. J. would go a long way toward convincing a jury that Hauptmann engineered and perpetrated the crime single-handed. In New York, detectives already had all but proven the falsity of Hauptmanns alibi which in brief was that a man named Isidore Fische left the $13,500 of Lindbergh money in his keeping in 1933 and returned to Germany, where he died last December. They had ascertained that Hauptmann began speculating m the stock market or. a scale impossible to an unemployed, impoverished carpenter in April, 1932. immediately after the ransooi was paid and before Colonel Lmbergh knew his baby had been murdered. It was understood that detectives

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might be dispatched to Germany in an effort to locate another cache of ransom money. The $13,500 found in Hauptmann's garage plus about $5,000 he is known to have spent, leaves about $32,000 still unaccounted for. Detectives believed that some of this had been spent without trace, but were convinced that somewhere, some place, a good portion of it was hidden. Hauptmann's wife, who visited Germany soon after the kidnaping, was questioned as to the packages she carried there from New York. Police aid not say what information if any she had given. Planned Trip to Germany The • more detectives looked into the past of the sly, sullen Teuton, the more they were amazed by the cunning mind behind an apparently stupid exterior. They discovered he had arranged settlement of criminal charges that had been pending against him in Germany since 1923, end was prepared to return to his native country in a few weeks. Had he left, the Lindbergh ransom money would have gone with him, ending at least temporarily and perhaps forever, any possibility of a solution of the kidnaping and murder. Detectives located the brokerage account through which Hauptmann, began his market manipulations in April, 1932. To explain why he stopped working at the time the ransom was paid and has not worked since, and also his sudden transformation from an unemployed artisan who cound livelihood very difficult, into a prosperous burgher who could afford a European trip for his wife. Hauptmann said he had won steadily in Wall Street. The brokerage account and several of his bank accounts were being audited. Detectives were noncommunicative, but it was understood thftt instead of winning in Wall Street. Hauptmann had lost steadily. These losses may explain what happened to a portion of the ransom money still missing, authorities said. All Evidence Not Disclosed A law enforcement official, prominent in the investigation, told the United Press: "We have not disclosed all the circumstantial evidence we have. I might add that men have been hanged on lies ciri cumstantial evidence than we have against Hauptmann.” Anew link in the chain of circumstantial evidence, authorities disclosed, was the tracing of Hauptmann's past to the lumber yard of the National Millwork and Lumber Corporation in the Bronx. The lumber used in the kidnaper's ladder came from this yard. Hauptmann worked in the yard on odd i jobs only a few months before the crime. While this chain grew stronger j and stronger, there were those who believed implicitly in the carpenter's innocence. His wife, Anna. 32, mother of his 10-months-old son, was one. She said it was impossible for him to have either kidnaped or murdered the baby. She was questioned all of Wednesday night. Thursday, and Thursday night, released Friday, but ques- : tioned again Friday night. Police : said there was no reason to hold her.

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TWENTY-NINE BOXES OF OBSCENITY TURN COPPERS’ FACES RED

Blushing furiously and trying not to appear too self-conscious, police carried twenty-nine boxes of obscene literature, pictures, dies and plates, a truck load in all, into headquarters late yesterday. The contraband was seized by Sergeant Thomas McCormick and his squad in a raid on the McMichael Novelty Company, 131 South Illinois street, on information furnished by Carroll Holley, deputy sheriff at Crown Point, who had arrested an alleged salesman for the concern. George Michaels, 46. of 3932 North Illinois street, owner and operator of the company, was arrested on a vagrancy charge pending further investigation.

$727,217 GOAL SET FOR 1934 GHARITYDRIVE Amount Is Minimum Needed for Community Fund, Says Chairman. The fifteenth annual Indianapolis Community Fund campaign will open Oct. 26, with a goal of $727,217, Arthur v. Brown, general drive chairman, announced today. “The amount stipulated is the absolute minimum necessary for the needs of the community during the coming year,” Mr. Brown said. The figure was set by the fund board following the findings of the budget committee and the campaign executive committe, he declared. This year’s goal is approximately $22,000 more than was raised by the fund a year ago. “Certain agencies among the thir-ty-six member organizations of the fund have been drastically skeletonized and reduced in budgets and activities during the last three years,” Mr. Brown said. “It is increasingly imperative that these necessary services be brought toward a normal level,’’ he declared. Opinion that the general public will respond whole-heartedly to the “mobilization for human needs” was expressed by members of the campaign committee. Attention was called to the fact that for fourteen years the Community Fund has been the “heart of the city” through which thousands of public spirited citizens have expressed their desire to help, in a systematic and sympathetic w’ay. those who are in need. “Because of the proper understanding and generosity of the farsighted citizens of this city, the fund has been able to stand as a bulwark of defense against destructive social forces,” Mr. Brown said.

TWO CITY MEN HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT Local Oddfellows Injured Near Ann Arbor, Mich. Word was received here today from Ann Arbor. Mich., of the serious injury of two Indianapolis men m a motor car accident near the Michigan city. Jchn D. Cockrum. 75. of 1416 North Alabama street, retired head of the legal department of the New York. Chicago A: St. Louis Railway Company, and George Barnwasser Sr.. Indianapolis Odd Fellows’ i lodge secretary, were the injured ■ men. A third man. Lawrence Handley, former mayor of Richmond, who was with them, also was injured. All three will recover, physicians said. The men were returning from an Odd Fellows national convention in Toronto. Canada, when the accident occurred. Mrs. Cockrum is seriously ill at her home, according to relatives. Mr. Barnwasser lives at the English hotel. He has a son. George Barnwasser Jr., living at New Albany C 0 H N AS K S NE W T RIAL Special Judge Cavins Hears Oral Arguments on Motion. Oral arguments on a motion for a new trial for Melville S. Cohn, Mever-Kiser bank vice-president, convicted on an embezzlement charge in criminal court, were heard this morning by Special Judge AlexI ander Cavins.

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GIBERSON MAY AID STATE IN DEAITS TRIAL Alleged Gang Member May Be Called as Witness in Murder Case. Ernest <Red) Giberson. alleged member of the bandit gang accused of murdering Police Sergeant Lester Jones during a garage robbery, may be a state’s witness Monday in the first degree murder trial of Edward (Foggy) Dean. With the first degree murder trial recess over the week-end, Floyd Mattice, chief deputy prosecutor, declined to comment on the possibility that Giberson will be brought from Marion county jail, where he is held awaiting trial, to testify. Delay in arraigning Giberson, court attaches said, indicated the state is holding him as a witness to connect Dean with the murder in the People’s Motor Coach Company garage in February, 1933. Giberson was connected with Dean in testimony drawn from a reluctant witness yesterday. Visited Dean Home According to Miss Alberta J. Akers, Negro maid at the Dean home near Trader’s Point, Giberson and four other men were at the Dean home two or three days before the murder. According to the witness, Dean also was there. The testimony of the 18-year-old maid was the most damaging evidence produced during the day. Efforts of Clyde Miller, defense counsel, to have the girl express the belief the men who visited the Dean home shortly before the robbery were rum-runners or possibly dog fanciers interested in buying some of Mrs. Dean’s registered dogs, failed. None of the eight witnesses balled yesterday by the state definitely connected Dean with the murder. Fails to Identify Dean Martin H. Wills, Negro, 1616 Columbia avenue, tire repairman at the motor coach company garage, who saw the bandit gang enter the garage and witnessed the submachine gun murder of Sergeant Jones from the door of his tire room, said he could not identify the bandit who stood with a machine gun across his hips and fired a burst of bullets as Sergeant Jones stepped in the garage doors. Dean stared at the witness as Mr. Mattice asked: “Do you see in the court room the man ycu saw with the submachine gun?” The dapper defendant relaxed in his chair as the witness said he did not. Policeman on Stand Policeman Willard Hawkins, 1027 North New Jersey street, was the last of the state’s witnesses yesterday. He was driving a radio patrol car on the night of the murder. Seated in the front seat with him, he testified, was Sergeant Jones. A radio message, received while the car was on Seventeenth street, east of College avenue, sent the patrol squad to the motor coach garage. Sergeant Jones alighted first, officer Hawkins testified. The witness declared Sergeant Jones was mowed down by machine gun fire the instant he threw open the garage doors. Hawkins said Sergeant Jones had not drawn his pistol. Mr. Hawkins said he could not identify any of the bandits. The trial will be resumed at 9:30 Monday morning.

BLOOMINGTON JAIL FUGITIVES CAUGHT Two Men Nabbed in Morgan County Hog House. By United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind.. Sept. 22. Two prisoners who sawed their way out of the Monroe county jail. Sept. 17, were returned here today by Lieutenant Ray Hinkle of the state police. The prisoners, Roy Weaver, 31, Paragon, and Riley Shipley, 36. were captured shortly after midnight last night in a hog house in northern Morgan county. EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY ASKED FOR HAMILTON Governor to Review Condemned Slayer’s Case Monday. Plea for executive clemency for Louis Hamilton. loin, Kan., under death sentence for the holdup slaying of Lafayette Jackson, city chain store owner, will be reviewed at 2 Monday afternoon by Governor Paul V McNutt The Indiana supreme court recently denied Hamilton a rehearing on his appeal from the death sentence. The hearing was requested by the condemned man’s father. James Hamilton. Hamilton's pal, Charles Vernon Witt, has been electrocuted. Hamilton is scheduled to die in the chair Sept. 28,

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FIGHT IN CAFE PROVESFATAL Tavern Patron Mortally Wounded by Shot From Street. A case quarrel resulted early today in the death of Joseph Calvert, 32, of 1237 Oliver avenue at city hospital. Police are holding Lawrence Lewis, 47, of 1256 Oliver avenue, on a vagrancy charge and are searching for another man in connection w r ith the quarrel that ended in the shooting of Calvert in the Silver Moon Case, 1228 Oliver avenue. > Calvert was wounded mortally while sitting at a counter drinking beer. The bullet, believed to be a .22-caliber, w r as fired into the case from the street. It struck Calvert in the neck. He died at 2:30 a. m today at city hospital. Police believe the bullet which struck CalVert was intended for someone else. Clyde Hoffa, 33, of 565 1 2 Warren avenue, is owner of the caf£. Hoffa, according flip police, is said to have admitted having a quarrel with several men shortly before the fatal shot was fired. It is said a patron of the case made a slighting remark about the w T ife of his brother, Dorsa Hoffa, 25, of 1254 Oliver avenue, and that a brawl ensued. Lewis, according to police, admitted that he was with the men who were in the brawl. He said he and his companions were sheet metal workers employed at Connersville. He said they had been on a strike.

Southport Gridmen Top Seymour, 12-6 The Southport high school football squad toppled the Seymour eleven. 12 to 6. at the Cardinal gridiron last night. Winchell and Langley starred for the Cards, while Fox and Smith were outstanding for the invaders. The Southport crew scored both touchdowns in the first half, the Owls pushed across their marker in the final quarter. Langley missed the extra boot for the home crew, and Smith failed for Seymour.

250 Feared Imprisoned in Blazing Welsh Mine By United Press WREXHAM, Wales. Sept. 22.— Blackened, broken bodies, raised one bv one to the pit head of the Gresford colliery while horrified, sobbing women stood by, today told the story of the latest disaster m the great

Welsh coal fields. It was feared that more than 250 men were trapped hopelessly behind raging flames in the mine galleries, and that the shaft would have to be sealed, despite statements of mine offices that they believed only 100 men were imprisoned. A thousand men of the night shift were working in the pit when at 2 a. m. there was an explosion. Immediately afterward flames began roaring through the galleries. Seven hundred of the men reached the surface easily. Most of the rest

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JAPAN RALLIES FROM TYPHOON 2,839 Officially Reported Injured in Disaster; 1,280 Killed. By United Press TOKIO, Sept. 22.—After a day and night of horror, Japan rallied today from the shock of a typhoon that killed at least 1,280 persons and began the tremendous task of rehabilitating its great industrial cities in the Osaka and Kyoto prefercture. Relief workers estimated that 250,000 persons needed food and clothing. Wind and rain, beating on the rice fields, destroyed 20 per cent of the staple crop. Power plants were crippled and many cities were without electricity. Thousands of persons were thrown out of work by damage to world-famous manufacturing plants. In hospitals were hundreds of injured. many of them school children, principal suffers in the disaster. The list of injured reported officially numbered 2,839 persons. The tidal waves which followed the winds in from the Pacific across central and southern Japan, washed ashore hundreds of small fishing boats and fifteen large coastal steamers. The storm had its heroes as well as its victims. In Osaka, Masuji Ashida. a school teacher, was honored. Seeing the exit of his classroom collapsing, Ashida formed an arch of his own body and supported the falling walls until the children had escaped. His crushed body was dug from the wrecakge today.

were trapped behind fire swept debris. At noon fifteen bodies had been brought up by rescuers. A sixteenth body brought to the surface was that of one of the many rescue men who braved the flames in an effort to cut a way through the debris. The tragedy was fnade even more poignant because nearly 100 men were working an extra shift overnight at their own request so they could attend a football match today. yM . , / ~

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fly I'nitrd Prrsi> COLUMBUS, 0., Sept. 22.—Harry Pierpont and Charles Makley, Dillinger gangsters under death sentence at Ohio penitentiary, today attempted to escape from death row by using wooden guns. Both were shot down by guards as they leaped from their cells. One of them was shot in the head. * It was not determined immediately which one suffered this wound, nor how seriously the second prisoner was hurt.

Sabotage Attempt Is Charged by Mill Heads in City Textile Strike Plant Officials Claim Man Nabbed in Factory Carried Two Sacks of Emery in Alleged Plot to Ruin Turbines; Violence Renewed. With a mass meeting of United Textile Workers of America strikers and of delegates from all labor unions in the city scheduled for this afternoon, the U. T. W. A. strike against the Indianapolis Bleaching Company was marked today by charges by company officials of attempted sabotage.

Charles A. Young, plant manager, said that his guards had captured a man in the mill with two sacks of emery, which, he said, would have ruined the plant turbines if dumped into them. The man has not been arrested, but an investigation is being pushed, Mr. Young told The Times. The manager quoted the intruder, an employe of the mill, as saying he had received the emery and instructions to dump it in the turbines from a man on the picket line* and had taken the emery in the belief that he might thus prevent such dumping by others. Union Official Makes Denial Charles P. Drake, business agent of U. T. W. A., local No. 2069, said the story was preposterous and pointed out that he had warned the strikers repeatedly against violent tactics. The mass meeting this afternoon was called by Mr. Drake and Ethel Nicholson, the local's secretary, with the co-operaton of Crossroads of America lodge, No. 43, Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, another American Federation of Labor unit. Plans for successfully prolonging the strike of national U. T. W. A. leaders reject the peace proposal of President Roosevelt’s special textile board, were to be discussed at the meeting, which will be held at strike headquarters, 441 Blake street. Protest Alleged Brutality Yesterday saw a protest by Mr. Drake and other union representatives to Chief Mike Morrissey over what they alleged was brutality on the part of patrolman Charles Springer on the picket line last Monday. Yesterday also saw a renewal of the minor outbursts of violence which have characterized the strike for the last ten days. Ernest Key, 50, of 1406 North Mount street, was beaten on the head with a hammer and four men were arrested as his alleged attackers. Those arrested are Emmett J. Williams, 45, ot 1141 Broadway, said by police to be a member of the teamsters’ union; Bernard Barr, 18. of 1020 Dennison street; Willard McKinney, 31, of 1023 River avenue, and Herman Carlisle, 24, of 404 South Harris street, said by police to be strikers or strike sympathizers. By Lnited Prtss WASHINGTON. Sept. 22—Peace by Monday on the textile strike front appeared certain today if mill owners agree to the settlement of President Roosevelt’s inquiry board The executive committee of the United Textile Workers, which has directed the New Deal’s most serious industrial conflict, were expected to vote today to end the strike. The one condition probably will be acceptance of the peace plan by the industry. How much of an obstacle that condition will prove should be revealed today. A last-minute flurry caused some worry. Statement by President George A. Sloan of the Cotton Textile Institute on the peace plan drew angry protest from Francis J. Gorman, strike leader.

EDENBURN BURIAL TO BE HELD HERE MONDAY Services Will Be Held in Detroit for Speedway Steward. By f nitrd Press DETROIT. Sept. 22. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon for W D. 'Eddie) Edenbum. well-known automobile figure who died yesterday of uremic poisoning. The body will be taken to Indianapolis for burial Monday. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m..66' 8 a. m 61 7a. m 64 9a. m..... 60

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RAILS FEATURE STOCKMARKET Strength and Activity Is Shown; Others Also Move Higher. By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Strength and activity in railroad shares featured a firm opening on the Stock Exchange today. Gains in the main list ranged up to more than a point and opening volume was fairly heavy. Consolidation of two railroad agencies into one with authority to deal with railroad problems gave traders hope the roads would make concerted action to overcome recently increased expenditures without revenue increases. J. I. Case featured the farm equipments. U S. Smelting was up a point in the silver division. Mail order shares continued to gain on increased sales. American Woolen preferred rase 1% points to 42 on outlook for settlement of the textile strike. Utilities were steady. Steels mad© small gains. Chrysler was active and firm in the motors. Wet stocks were unchanged. Chemicals advanced small amounts. Trading quieted down after the opening with the prices holding firm or increasing gains. Wheat Prices Higher By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—Moderate buying of wheat at the opening of the Board of Trade today resulted in a fractional upturn of prices. Wheat started to % cent higher; corn was unchanged to % cent higher; oats was up L 4 to % cent, and rye was up % cent. A statement by the bureau of agricultural economics that wheat production in forty countries of the world was estimated at 2,856,316,000 bushels, or 9 per cent under the 3 149.077.000 bushels harvested in 1933. attracted some attention. The trade at the start paid little attention to the easiness at Liverpool. A M Hre*. H;eh Low N Y clo*e. Amer Can .. 99 98% 98% 99 Amer Smelt 34', 31’, 34', 34% Am T and T 112', lIP, HP, 111% Am Tobacco (B) 75% 75% 75% 75% Atchison 50% 50% 50% 50*4 Chrysler 33% 33% 33% 33% Gen Motors 29 % 29 % 29% 29% Goodyear 22 21% 21% 21% Int harvester 29 29 28% 28% Loew s, Inc. .. 27% 27*4 27 % 27% Nat'l Biscuit 30% 29A: 29’, 3 n Penn R R 23 22% 23 27% Radio Corp 5% 5% 5% % Rep Steel 13% 13 13% 13 Standard Brands 19*, 19% 19*, o SG of Indiana 26 25’, 26 24% U S Sn-lters 118% 118% 118% 17% U S Steel 33 32% 32% 33% By United Press LONDON. Sept. 22 —The pound was $4 99% today. Gold was $35.18 with the sterling rale 140 shillings 10 pence. Times Index Page. Berg Cartoon 8 Bridge . 4 Broun . 7 Church Services 8 Classified . 9, 10 Comics . 11 Crossword Puzzle 4 Curious World . 11 Editorial . 6 Financial .. 12 Modernize Your Home 2 Pegler . 7 Radio 9 Serial Story 11 Sports 8. 9 State News -• 3 Vital Statistics Woman's Pages 4. *