Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 116, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1934 — Page 1

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HAUPTMANN WEAKENING, IS REPORT

DEAN BRANDED MURDERER BY POLICE OFFICER Radio Squad Man Picks Hoodlum as Killer of Sergeant. TESTIMONY AIDS STATE Patrolman Is First to Name Gangster as Actual Jones’ Slayer. Ernest (Fogay) Dean, local hoodlum, was identified positively in criminal court today as the submachine gunner who killed Police Sergeant Lester Jones during a holdup at a bus garage last year, by Michael McAllen, husky member of Sergeant Jones' radio squad. Speaking pleasantly with a slight Irish brogue. Officer McAllen testified that he was standing directly behind Sergeant Jones, who was met by a withering fire as he opened the doors of the People's Motor Coach Company garage. "Do you see in the courtroom the man who held the gun?" Floyd Matt ice, chief deputy prosecutor, asked. Points linger at Dean The packed room was silent as Mr. McAllen leaned over the chair and pointed an accusing finger at Dean, who is standing trial for the murder. -Yes. that gentleman there,” Mr. McAllen said. D in stared stolidly at the witness and shifted his position nervously. Could See Killer “I was in a good position to see the killer.” Mr. McAllen said. “I was standing only three feet behind the sergeant when he fell, and I drew my revolver and chased the gunner back through the garage. Dean was wearing a gray overcoat and a dark hat. I recognized him in a police lineup after he was arrested. too.” Special Judge Clyde Jones ordered the jury to inspect the bus garage on Yandes street after the defense cross-examination attempted to establish the location of busses and automobiles in the garage. Giving direct, clean replies. Mr. McAllen testified that the radio squad had been sent to the garage, that Sergeant Jones was met by an employe at the south door and that he proceeded to the north door. Testimony Pleases State Serecant Jones alighted from the car. followed by McAllen, and was pushing open the doors when he was spun around by the submachine gun bullets, according to the testimony. In the moments following the slaving. Mr. McAllen saw clearly enough to impress upon his mind each bandit, the told the court. The state, which is attempting to send Dean to the electric chair, was obviously elated at this testimony. Patrolman McAllen was the first state witness definitely to identify Dean as the actual killer. Others Detail Crime Previous witnesses detailed the crime as it was described by Mr. McAllen, but said that because of the darkness it was impossible to identify the gunner. Dean is alleged to have stood outside the office whtle his four accomplices looted the safe inside. Two men who pleaded guilty to participation in the holdup now are serving life sentences. A third alleged bandit. Ernest Red> Gibrrson. is in county jail following his capture after escaping from the Hamilton countv jail. Noblesvllle. The fourth alleged gunman. Willie Masor.. escaped from the Hamilton county jail this summer and still Is at farce. His first trial on the participating charges resulted in a hung jury.

BARUCH HINTED HEAD OF REORGANIZED NRA Financier Would Be Chief of Policy Council. Is Report. By t nitfd Prrtt HYDE PARK. N. Y.. Sept. 24 Selection of Bernard M. Baruch. New York financier, as head of a policy making council for a reorganized NRA was regarded as a strong possibility today in sources close to the summer White House. President Roosevelt, maintaining silence on Washington reports that linked Mr. Baruch. Professor Raymond Moley and Donald Richberg. chief NRA counsel, as leaders of the proposed new setup, meanwhile continue his studies of the reorganization problems. GOVERNMENT TO TEST LABOR BOARD DECISION U. S. Will File Suit Against Houde Engineering Company. Prttt WASHINGTON. Sept. 24—A su i\ by the government against the Houde Engineering Company. Buffalo. NY. testing the majority rule decision of the National Labor Relations Board, will be filed soon in the United States district court for the western district of New York, it was learned this afternoon.

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Face to Face With Bruno Hauptmann —Kidnap Suspect

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"A clever, sly fellow,” German authorities whom he eluded to come to the United States eleven years ago call Bruno R. Hauptmann, whose possession of Lindbergh ransom money led to his imprisonment. New York police, however, know him as a different sort of man, as these camera studies reveal, answering

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The similarity of the handwriting in the Lindbergh ransom notes and in letters written to friends by Bruno R. Hauptmann, suspect held in New York, has led experts to declare that they were written by the same person. Above, for purpose of comparison, are shown enlargements of the same words taken

Van Meter Killed Sarber, Pierpont’s Mother Says Relates Story Told Her, She Insists, by John Dillinger Two Weeks Before His Death. By United rress COLUMBUS, Sept. 24.—John Dillinger was quoted here today by Mrs. Gilbert Pierpont, mether of Harry Pierpont, who was wounded Saturday at Ohio penitentiary in a futile attempt to escape from the death house, as having named Homer Van Meter as the trigger man in the slaying of Sheriff Jesse Sarber of Lima. Dillinger was freed from the Lima jail, where he was helcf on a bank robbery charge, by members of his gang who murdered Sheriff Sarber.

Pierpont and Charles Makley. who was killed Saturday when he joined Pierpont in the attempted prison break, were convicted of the slaying of the sheriff and were sentenced to die. Mrs. Pierpont visited her son yesterday, coming from her Lakeville tlnd.) home. Physicians had just pronounced him out of danger from wounds he suffered in a blaze of gunfire which stopped his bid for freedom, a bid backed only by toy guns he and Makley had made of soap. The mother told how a rendezvous with Dillinger was arranged for her in Chicago two weeks before federal agents killed Dillinger. "I asked him point bank,” she said, “who freed him from the Lima jail.” • He told me: “I'll tell you who turned me out. Homer Van Meter is the man who fired the shot that killed Sarber and Tommy Carroll and George McGinnis are the men who were in the Lima jail and turned me out.” Van Meter was slain in St. Paul and Carroll was killed in Waterloo, la., in encounters with officers within recent months. Mrs. Pierpont told interviewers that "Harry was at home eating supper when the sheriff was shot at Lima last October.” An alibi was claimed for Pierpont in his Lima trial, but testimony of Mrs. Sarber and a deputy sheriff, who witnessed the shooting, that Pierpont and Makley. along with Russell Clark, performed the Dillinger delivery was regarded as overthrowing the alibi. Clark was imprisoned for life. Makley’s body today had been sent to Leipsic. 0., on telegraphic orders of Mrs. Mildred Bathelmy of Eldorado, Kan., a half-sister, who will make funeral arrangements on her arrival there. She asked that the funeral be private. •News* to Miss Levy Miss Jessie Levy, attorney for the Dillinger mobsters in their unsuccessful fight against the chair after the murder of Sheriff Jesse Sarber at Lima. 0., today said that she never had been toid of the alleged naming of Homer Van Meter as “trigger man” in the Sarber killing. Miss Levy said, however, that she believed Harry Pierpont's mother. Mrs. Lena Pierpont, had been in Chicago at the time Mrs. Pierpont now says John Dillinger lifted all blame from her son and named Van Meter as Sheriff Sarber's actual murderer. The attorney said she had not seen or heard from Mrs. Pierpont since that time. This was not unusual. she added, as she had little direct contact with her client's mother. Miss Levy repeated her belief that > must have been at least a sub-

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conscious desire to commit suicide back of the attempted jail break Saturday, pointing out the strength of the Ohio state penitentiary which, she said, is manned by guards operating under the merit system and not by “green political employes.” “I spent three hours with the prisoners in the death house Wednesday afternoon,” Miss Levy said. * “We talked about all •sorts of things, of course, many of which I can not divulge in my position as their attorney, but I would never have suspected that anything like this could happen, particularly as I argued their appeal before the Ohio supreme court Saturday.”

HONEYMOONERS HURT IN MOTORCAR CRASH Penn U. Head’s Daughter in Hospital. By United Press SACRAMENTO. Cal., Sept. 24. Virginia Gates McCafferty's honeymoon tour in a second-hand 1926 model automobile, temporarily at least, ended today in a Sacramento hospital after an automobile accident in which a child was killed and the Philadelphia socialite received a fractured skilll. Six others were injured, including Daniel McCafferty, 26, jobless mechanic whom the daughter of the University of Pennsylvania president met and married while hitchhiking in Idaho last month. Doctors held little hope for the recovery of Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Johnson, whose daughter Ellen. 7, was killed in the crash at Dixon, near here last night.

Anti-Saloon League to Discuss Possibility of Backing Robinson; Senator Is Lauded by York

Consideration of whether the Indiana Anti-Saloon League will take an active part in re-electing United States Senator Arthur R. Robinson and congressional candidates favorable to the league’s program will be discussed next week at a meeting of the organization's headquarters committee. Friendliness of the league toward Senator Robinson was expressed today by L. E. York, league superintendent. as he outlined a legislative policy to be pursued at the 1935 meeting of the general assembly. Mr. York said that if the headquarters coMQittee, led by Dr. T. Fred Williams of Lafayette, decided

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WILLMOTT FEARED ACID, SAYS WARMS Morro Castle Captain Hid in Cabin, Says Successor. By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—Captain Robert R. Willmott of the burned Morro Castle locked himself in his cabin about sixteen hours before the fatal fire because he feared George I. Alagna, second radio operator, would throw acid on him, acting Captain William F. Warms testified today. Warms, recalled before the department of commerce inquiry into the disaster that cost 134 lives, said the captain summoned him to his stateroom at 10 a. m., Friday, Sept. 7. told him that Alagna had “a bottle of sulphuric acid” and. that he was worried. Willmott added that he was going to keep his door locked for fear Alagna would throw the acid on him, Warms said.

By United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 24.—At-torney-General Homer S. Cummings this afternoon called upon the American people to resist to the utmost the “malign influence of political interference” with law enforcement agencies. Addressing the opening session of the convention of the International Association of Police Chiefs, the federal government's highest law enforcement official said: “I wish I could make the American people understand how necessary it. is that the police be left free to do their work without the interference of the malign influence of politicians.”

to take an active part in the ensuing campaign, that it merely would be a citing of the record of each candidate on the prohibition question. “The New Deal and other issues will not be factors in our presentation of the facts,” Mr. York said. Ousting of beer importers will be one of the main legislative planks of the league in seeking amendments to existing liquor acts of the state. He cited four major attacks on the law as follows: 1. Local option in Indiana. 2. Making the liquor traffic pay for personal or property damage

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Robinson’s Aims Selfish, G. O. P. Veteran Charges SENTOR ARTHUR R. ROBISON is a “spendthrift.” Sherman Minton, Democratic senatorial nominee, is a “practical economist.” “When Robinson was adding millions to the fixed charges of the government and playing for votes of special groups, Sherman Minton was saving millions to the masses in Indiana on utility rates.” —— These declarations were made

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the almost endless questions with alternately sullen and defiant denials of guilt in the kidnaping case. When questioning was halted momentarily, he would become eagerly alert to catch words from whispered conferences of his jailers. Later, on his way to court, he seemed depressed.

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from the sources as indicated. The words reproduced are, left to right, “and,” “money,” “will.” "you,” “as,” “baby.” Note especially the characteristic a's, o’s, m s n’s and y’s. Other comparisons of Hauptmann’s writing give the same results, probers say.

today to the Indianapolis Times by Will H. Craig, Noblesville, a Republican for forty years and at one time delegate to the Republican rational convention. Tracing the senior senator’s acts from the time he was a state senator to his years of wearing the toga of a United States senator, Mr. Craig scored his party leader for failure to back President Roosevelt's “Economy Act.” “During the nine years Arthur R. Robinson has been in the senate did he ever vote for economy? No bill of any consequence has his name attached to it. He has voted to override economy bills of Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt. He always is playing for the vote of the minority classes expecting the mass of the people to forget his record,” Mr. Craig charged. “The last time he made a jackass of himself was over the Economy bill. This was the best bill of the New Deal. It cut salaries of public officials 15 per cent and cut the graft out of the pension roll. It met the hearty approval of patriotic business men of the country. “Robinson,” continued Mr. Craig, “playing for the votes of the veterans and officeholders, denounced as ‘cowards’ every one that voted for the bilL “Through deception . .. another bill was offered to repeal the economy act. Then the real ‘cowards,’ fearing the class votes in the election, appeared on the scene and passed the bill. President Roosevelt vetoed the bill, then the ‘cowards’ passed it (Turn to Page Four) REPUBLICAN GETS 5 0ST Roosevelt Names Dr. Hoagland to Federal Home Loan Bank. By United t rest HYDE PARK, N. Y., Sept. 24. President Roosevelt today appointed Dr. Henry E. Hoagland, Ohio Republican, to the vacancy on the federal Home Loan bank board.

through an act similar to one in Illinois, which provides that the seller of liquor or the owner of the building which the seller leases or rents can be held liable through a court suit f r r damages caused by the liquor he sold to any citizen. 3. Ousting of beer importers by prohibiting public officials to be interested in any way in the manufacture. sa’r *v distribution of liquor. 4. Stringent regulation on hours and places where liquor can be sold. Prevent the sale of liquor nar schools and churches. He reiterated the statement that officials of Marion county could cio6e

Mills Follow Roosevelt Proposal, Says Gorman Strikers Being Discriminated Against in Rehiring, Union Charges; Specific Cases Are Cited. By United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 24.—Widespread compliance with President Roosevelt’s proposal to reopen textile mills was reported today by United Textile Workers headquarters after the general strike was called off Saturday.

“A number of mills did not open,” Francis J. Gorman, chairman of the organization committee, said, “and we expect it will be a few days before all of them resume. “Others could not employ a full complement of workers, but as time passes, we are assured they will be taken back.” At the same time the union charged that strikers were being discriminated against, chiefly in the south. “There is strong evidence,” a statement said, “of a preconceived design not to re-employ some of the workers.” Paterson, N. J.—Outright disSCHOOL PLEA HEARD IK BREWERY ACTION Injunction Would Harm System, Court Told. The state school system would be disturbed seriously if the federal court would enjoin the state from enforcing the Indiana liquor control law, Herbert J. Patrick, deputy attorney-general, contended in federal court before three judges today. Attorneys for the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company, the Premier’abst Sales Company and the Schlitz Brewing Company, who filed suit for an injunction against the act, claimed that it restricts interstate commerce, creates a monopoly and is discriminatory. The importers system particularly was attacked. Samuel D. Miller, breweries’ attorney, produced letters sent to the companies by Indiana importers asking a SSOO fee before the out-of-state beer would be distributed. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 59 10 a. m 76 7a. m 60 11 a. m 77 Ba. m 66 12 (noon).. 78 9 a. m 72

up one-half of the liquor places if they so desired. Mr. York admitted that in tours over the state he referred to Senator Robinson as well as Congressman Louis Ludlow and the league's friendliness to their continuation in office. He asserted that the league's membership had increased since prohibition repeal. He estimated the active members in Indiana at 25,000, with approximately 25,000 inactive supporters. Mr. York praised the state’s press for its vigilance in pointing out evils of the liquor acts, fairground. .

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crimination against workers belonging to union practiced. Wage cuts prevail. Manufacturers openly defy collective bargaining. Macon, Ga.—All mills refused to take any of employes back who were on strike. Columbus, Ga.—Wholesale discrimination against strikers. Gastonia, N. C. —Five mills reopened. Three others have complete lockout for union. Strikers Here Confer With peace declared along the national front in the United Textile Workers of America strike, difficulties developed here in the settlement of the local strike against the Indianapolis Bleaching Company, 900 West Wabash street. The first of these came early this morning when union pickets or sympathizers, picketing the mill despite the strike settlement, stoned a fleet of cars, convoyed by policemen, bringing working employes to the mill. The stoning was denounced by Charles A. Young, plant manager, as contrary to the spirit of President Roosevelt's strike peace request. The second difficulty presented itself when >rr. Young and Charles P. Drake, business agent of Local No. 2069, U. T. W. A., conducting the strike against the bleaching company, were unable to agree on how the strikers would return to work. Mr. Drake insisted that all should be returned immediately to the same jobs they had when the strike was called. Mr. Young said that the men would be absorbed as rapidly as possible, but added that he incended to keep such former employes of the mill as had been rehired during the strike. This, he argued, would necessitate some readjustments on jobs. Mr. Young also said he would not re-employ any one facing criminal charges as a result of strike activities until such workers had obtained dismissal of those charges in police court. The plant manager said that his cl*ief desire now was to get the difficulty adjusted as quickly as possible to obviate further violence. The management’s proposals were discussed at a meeting of the strikers this afternoon in strike headquarters, 411 Blake street. 271 LIVES ARE LOST IN WELSH MINE BLAST Ten Bodies Recovered, Others Are Sealed in Works. By United Prts WREXHAM, Wales. Sept. 24. Laborers sealed the Gresford Ihine today, entombing 261 men, victims of an explosion and fire Saturday. Total deaths were 271. Relatives identified bodies of ten men brought to the surface. Yonr motor checked. Carburetor adjusted. See Carburetor Sales, 214 East Ohtar-Adi, *

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Evidence May Split Affair, Wide Open, Says Attorney for Suspect. JURY PROBE IS BEGUN | Lindbergh Flying Eastward Toward New York to Give Testimony. By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 24. New and “startling” developments in the Lindbergh kidnaping case were hinted today; by council for Bruno R. Hauptmann, against whom charges of extortion were presented to a Bronx county grand jury. J. M. Fawcett, the prisoner’s attorney, escorted Mrs. Anna Hauptmann and her infant j s °u to the district attorney’s j office, where Hauptmann was under questioning, and then announced: ‘‘l have startling information which is being carefully investigated. It may split the case wide open.” Other developments: 1. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh flew eastward from California for New York, where the famous pilot will appear before the grand jury. It was hinted Lindbergh might come on through tonight, thus being able to appear tomorrow instead ol Wednesday as expected. 2. The prisoner, accused of extortion in receiving the Lindbergh ransom money, was taken into magistrates court where his arraignment! was put over for one week. Begin Telling Story 3. Witnesses began telling the story of the kidnaping and ransom negotiations before the grand jury. 4. New Jersey completed plans for extraditing Hauptmann to that state to face murder and kidnaping charges. 5. Federal sources reported indications that Hauptmann waa "weakening” in his persistent denials ransom negotiations. ransom negoitiations. 6. New Jersey police who investigated an Ohio prisoner’s story that he had advance* - information from Hauptmann on the kidnaping said the story was “vivid invention.” Colonel Henry Breckenridge, attorney for Colonel Lindbergh, telephoned from Buffalo that he was delayed and would not be able to appear before the grand jury until tomorrow. Weakening, Is Hint Officials in constant touch with the battering questioning of Hauptmann said he had not yet confessed, but his weakening raised hopes among them that he might soon make at least a partial confession. It was understood that under relentless grilling by federal agents, New York and New Jersey police and prosecutors, Hauptmann had made several changes earlier statements and hints of admission of complicity in the case. That department of justice agents in charge of the investigation continued to believe Hauptmann alone was responsible for the kidnaping, murder and the collection of ransom, was shown when a squad of workmen began digging up the basement of the Hauptmann home today in search of more of the blood money. So far $17,000, all traceable to Hauptmann, has been recovered. Calls Case Air-Tight Samuel Foley, Bronx district attorney, said his case of extortion against the former German convict was air-tight and conclusive. Despite the grand jury presentation, it was intimated that Hauptmann never would be brought to trial in the Bronx, authorities there apparently anticipating extradition to New Jersey before his indictment colu.d be placed on the court calFederal agents had ail but broken Hauptmann’s contention that tha $13,750 in ransom money found hidden in his garage had been given to him by Isidore Fisch, a German fur dealer, who died in Germany last March. They discovered that, instead, Mr. Fisch had borrowed SI,OOO from Hauptmann and never gave any indication of affluence, while Hauptmann has not worked, but has been prosperous ever since Dr. Condon paid out $50,000 for tha baby's return. Mrs. Pauline Rauch. Hauptmann'* landlady, gave detectives the information that caused workmen to begin excavating the basement. She lives on the ground floor of the three-family house. The Hauptmanns occupied a part of the second floor, with a space in the basement for storage. I Last summer she contracted for installation of an oil-burning heating plant, but Hauptmann objected so strenuously to any one entering the basement that she canceled tha contract.