Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 119, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1934 — Page 1

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HUNT MUSICIAN IN SLAYING UF SCHOOLGIRL, 11 Relentless Search Starts After Finding of Body in Trunk. ALL TIPS ARE CHECKED Trap Drummer Released From Insane Hospital Attack Suspect. By Unit'd Pmt DETROIT, Sept. 27.—A relentless hunt lor Merton Ward Goodrich, suspected attacker and slayer of Lillian Gallaher. 11, spread out over j Michigan and neighboring states to- j day. while precautions were taken j against letting other school children I endanger themselves as Lillian did. j Lillian, normally shy and slow to: make friends, was seized by her 1 slayer as she was selling punchboard tickets for a school benefit. To prevent repetition of the case. Police Commissioner Heinrich A. j Pickert asked that an ordinance be drawn prohibiting children from j door-to-door selling or solicitation of funds. Many Juvenile cases grow out of : this practice.” Commissioner Pickert said, “although all of them do not end so tragically.” Goodrich, released last January from the State Hospital for Criminally Insane at Lima. 0., where he wax sentenced alter attacking a 12-vear-old schoolgirl, occupied the apartment where Lillian's body was found yesterday stuffed in a trunk His description was broadcast throughout the country. A suspect arrested at Adrian, Mich., a few hours after the discovery of Lillian's body was released wnen the United Press secured Goodrich's fingerprint classification from Lima, which did not check with his, and also verified his story of having attended a sister's funeral in Salt Lake City, Utah. Hundreds of tips as to Goodrich's whereabouts were given police. Each was being checked carefully. Possibility of a second man taking part in the slaying was investigated. A roomer in the apartment house where Goodrich and his wife stayed said she saw a second man in Goodrich’s room just before Lillian called on her with the punchboard. She said she thought the man was Wayne Schick, piano player in the orchestra in which Goodrich played the trap drums here. Schick convinced police he was not in the apartment Thursday, the day Lillian disappeared. In addition, police said that according to the woman's story, the second man could have left Goodrich's apartment before Lillian called. STORM' BRINGS SHARP DROP IN TEMPERATURE Parts of City in Darkness as Bolt Fires Pole. A spectacular lightning storm and severe rain and wind last night were followed today by a sharp decline in temperature and fair weather. The mercury slumped to 48 degrees at 8 a. m. Several city blocks were thrown into darkness by last night's storm. Lightning struck a circuit box or. a utility pole at East and Washington streets, burning the pole. Fog is forecast few tonight with local frost in some parts of the state. Temperature will rise tomorrow. according to the weather bureau. PLAYOFF PREPARED IN NATIONAL LEAQUE Provisions In Event of Tie Are Announced by Heydler. B 9 I nitrd PrrM NEW YORK Sept. 27.—Provisions for a playoff to determine the National League champion, if the New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals tie for that honor, were announced today by John A Heydler. president of the league. Such a playoff would be started in St. Louis next Tuesday. The second game of such a playoff wuodl be held in New York on Wednesday, and a third, if necessary. would also be played in New York, on Thursday. SLEEP SICKNESS FATAL Atwood Woman Fourth Victim in Kosciusko County. Bn United trrt ATWOOD. Ind. Sept 27.—Death of Mrs Ham- Campbell. 39. at her home here yesterday, was the fourth in Kosciusko county attributed to sleeping sickness, and followed a two-weeks' illness.

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Working Agreement With Oil Employes Not Union Recognition , Firms Say Seven Companies Grant Workers Right to Organize for Collective Bargaining, but Still Refuse to Accept Closed Shop. Although seven major oil companies,- as employers, have entered into a working agreement with representatives of Filling Station Employes Union No. 18990, the companies do not recognize the employe organization as a union. This was made clear today by a spokesman for the oil companies in discussing the agreement reached after conferences between employe

representatives, company officials and a federal conciliator. Preface of the agreement specifies that "the employer recognizes the right of its employes to organize for the purpose of bargaining collectively as provided In Section 7-A of i the National Industrial Recovery I Act and as embodied in the code of fair competition for the petroleum industry.” Thus, it was pointed out to The Times by spokesmen for the oil companies. the employers recognize the right of the union committee to bargain collectively, but do not recognize the union itself. The non-recognition of the filling station employes union, as a union, involves the oil companies’ thus far unalterable opposition to the closed shop, which, they believe, would result from union recognition. All Employes Not Members “In other words,” a spokesman for the oil companies said, “if we recognized the union, as a union, that would mean that all of our employes would be unionized. We do not question the filling station employes' organization claim that a majority of the filling station workers are members of the union. "However, all of our employes are not members and none of them has to be a union member to bargain with the employer." Item 7 of the agreement contains complete provisions for settlement of employe grievances, without including mention of the filling station union as a bargaining unit. "Any employe," reads the agreement, “shall have the right to be represented by a representative of : his own choosing in case of a con- ! troversy over the discharge of said ! employe or in case of controversy as to facts over general working conditions and violations of company rules. Oth\T Provisions Made "All such differences." the seci tion continues, "shall first be taken ! up with the employe's supervisor and in case satisfactory action is not secured, shall then be presented iin writing to the division management through oue or more of the aggrieved employe's fellow-employes. Should the matter then not be amicably adjusted, it shall be submitted for conciliation to a commissioner ;of conciliation of the United States department of labor.” The agreement contains provisions

Dean Linked to Holdup by Murder Trial Witnesses; Taxi Driver to Tell of Wild Ride After Slayiny

The arrival of an important state witness in the trial of Edward .Fogg)'' Dean, charged with the submachine gun murder of Police Sergeant Lester Jones in a garage holdup last year, was expected late today. Hal Butts, a taxicab driver, is en route from Chicago to testify here of his experiences during a wild taxi ride after five fleeing gunmen commandeered his cab a few minutes after the holdup and slaying. A grim commentary on gangland warfare was offered today by Bruce Parcels. 631 Tacoma street. i*olk Sanitary Milk Company distribution manager, in describing the milk company holdup in which Dean is alleged to have participated. In an attempt to shatter Mr. Parcels' positive identification of Dean. Clyde Miller, defense attorney. asked. "Weren't you excited during the holdup?" “No,” Mr. Parcel answered calmly. "I've been held up before."

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an apartment building near her home. The picture above shows coroner’s officers carrying the covered trunk from the building to an ambulance. *

also for adjustment of stock loss, one of the chief complaints of filling station workers, working hours, fidelity bond premium payment, uniform purchase and maintenance, company meeting attendance and application of seniority to reduction in force or layoffs. The seniority provision, however, sets out that the clause does not require retention or rehiring of men in or for positions for which they are not competent. The employer binds himself in hiring additional men to give preference to men who have been residents of Marion county for the preceding six months. Many of the clauses in the agreement have been in operation for more than a year among many of the companies, an employer spokesman said.

NEW RECOVERY DRIVE_MAPPED Roosevelt to Chart NRA Into ‘Evolutionary’ Fields. (Copvrixht. 193*. NEA Service. Inc.l WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—General Hugh S. Johnson hurried today to finish the story of his NRA amid early rumblings of the big fight due when congress meets to create a successor to the famous recovery unit. General Johnson was far from the Washington battlefront as the first artillery was being moved up for what was expected to be one of the stiffest tussles of the New Deal experience. The President's plan, now largely in the hands of Donald R. Richberg, will be the central theme for congressional wrangling. The wrangling will follow two lines—one set up by the pet projects of individual legislators and the other proposed by organized lobbies determined to obtain advantage for their interests. In the second - category come the efforts of the National Association of Manufacturers, the United States (Turn to Page Sixteen)

"Were your eyes always on the gun?” “No. The gun in Dean's hand was steady. It’s when the gun moves from your chin to your stomach that you should begin to be afraid." Mrs. Leota White. Carmel, milk company employe, also identified Dean as one of the hoodlums in the milk company holdup. She testified that five men were in the gang. Elmer Glidewell, operator of a case and filling station at Traders Point near where Dean lived, was recalled to the stand today to testify that Willie Mason and Ernest (Red> Giberson, two men suspected of complicity in the garage holdup, had been visitors at the Dean home. The state scored heavily when Special Judge Clyde Jones permitted a steady procession of witnesses to march to the witness stand and definitely connect Dean with a series of Indianapolis holdups a shbrt time before the robbery of Peoples Motor Coach garage in February,

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1934

RIVALS RENEW PEACE PARLEY IN CITYSTRIKE Union and Plant Officials in Conference; Mayor Is Conciliator. REPORTERS ARE BARRED Progress of Negotiations Arranged by Times Unannounced. In their second day of attempts to settle through conciliation the strike at the Indianapolis Bleaching Company, representatives of the management and the United Textile Workers of America had been closeted with Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, the conciliator, for more than an hour this afternoon. No word of the progress of their negotiations came from the mayor’s office, from which, as was the case yesterday afternoon, reporters were barred. Occasionally, the voice of Charles A. Young, plant manager for the company, could be heard raised in apparent protest. Mr. Young had suggested that reporters be allowed into the meeting, saying that he believed his was the only plant in the country still affected by the textile strike and that he thought the country should know the cause. The conferees agreed, however, to keep the meeting secret. The present difficulties at the mill are based primarily on the rehiring of strikers. The conference was arranged through the efforts of The Indianapolis Times and Mayor Sullivan in an attempt to bring industrial peace to Indianapolis. The union was represented at today's conference by Charles P. Drake, business agent of Local No. 2069, U. T. W. A., and Mrs. Bessie Southworth, James Bryant, George Burns and Philip Bohn, the last four rank-and-file committee from the plant's various departments. Mr. Young headed the delegation representing the management. He was accompanied by his immediate subordinates, including Edwin J. Young, his son; W. H. Reynolds, Elbert Terhune and J. W. Knowles. Yesterday, Mr. Drake and Mr. Young conferred alone with the mayor for approximately fifty minutes and then Mr. Drake called into the mayor’s office the rank-and-file committee, which had accompanied him to city hall from strike headquarters. The six men then were closeted for approximately twenty minutes more before the conference ended. New Board Is Named By United Preset WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—President Roosevelt acted speedily to meet a rising chorus of complaints of discrimination against returning strikers of the textile industry. The President named anew national textile labor relations board composed of the same personnel as the steel labor relations board appointed at the time of the steel strike threat in early summer. . .He instructed the board to investigate cases of alleged discrimination and take appropriate action. He also ordered the labor department and federal trade commission to start immediately on studies of wages, hours and economic conditions in the textile industry as provided in the report of the Winant board. The action of the President rapidly set in motion the machinery for studying and correcting the ills which led to the calling of the na-tion-wide textile strike. Members of the board are Judge Walter P. Stacy of North Carolina, chairman, James A. Mullenbach of Illinois, and Admiral Henry A. Wiley. Judge Stacy will serve only during the organization period of the board, probably about two weeks. TWO HAT CASES STOLEN Thief Should Be Well Equipped With Headgear. The thief who stole two cases from the automobile of E. W. Gartner, New Haven, Mo., parked in front of the Spink hotel last night, should be very well equipped in hats for both winter and summer. One case contained four dozen straw hats valued at $lO, the other three I dozen felt hats valued at $65.

1933. when Sergeant Jones was killed. Over the repeated objections of Mr. Miller, Judge Jones allowed state's witnesses to identify Dean as the “lookout” in the January, 1933. robbery of the milk company. The defense fought desperately to keep the evidence from the jury on .the ground the crime in no way indicated that Dean had participated in the motor coach garage holdup. Floyd J. Mattice. chief deputy prosecutor handling the state’s case, convinced Judge Jones that the evidence of previous crimes 'was admissable to show identification evidence linking him to Willie Mason, Ernest (Red> Giberson and other members of the alleged bandit gang. Mr. Parcels testified that he had Identified Dean as he was brought into the criminal court room one morning of his present trial for murder. “I was waiting in my car in front of the milk company offices,” said Mr. Parcels. “I had no idea a holdiup was in progress until I saw Mi

LINDBERGH IN, DISGUISE, SEES KIDNAPING SUSPECT

DAMAGING CLEWS THAT WEAVE NET AROUND HAUPTMANN

The ladder down which Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was taken from his nursery to his death is shown here, being inspected by officers, as one of the clews on which Bruno Hauptmann is hejd as a suspect. The ladder is of the kind of wood to wlYich the prisoner had access in a Bronx lumber yard.

This view is an artist’s conception of the man who received the $50,000 Lindbergh ransom money from Dr. John Condon at a Bronx cemetery. It was drawn by a department of justice artist from descriptions given by “Jafsie” and the cab driver who was paid $1 to carry a note while the negotiationswere under way.

LIEBER RITES WILL BE HELD AT HOME HERE Prominent Manufacturer to Be Buried in Crown Hill. Funeral services for Albert Lieber, 71? prominent Indianapolis citizen and manufacturer, who died yesterday at his home near Traders Point, will be held on the lawn of the home at 3 tomorrow, where friends may attend. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Services will be in the charge of the Rev. E. Ainger Powell, rector of Christ church. Honorary pallbearers will include Clarence Rhodes, Joseph Daniels, Eugene Miller. Sam Schwitzer, Paul Simpson, Russell Sullivan, John P. Frenzel Jr., Fred Dickson, Herman P. Lieber, James W. Noel and Fred Siebel Sr., Chicago. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 46 10 a. m 50 7a. m 46 11 a. m 53 8 a. m 45 li (noon)., 54 9a. m 46 Ip. m 57

armed men coming out of the building. “A man came toward me with a blue steel pistol in his hand.” “Do you see that man in this court room?” asked Mr. Mattice. “Yes, he is sF.’.ing there beside Mr. Miller," the milk company executive answered, pointing his finger toward Dean. "That man came up to the car and said: ‘I want your keys. You're not going to follow me.’ "I thought at first it was a joke. Then he put the gun to my side and reached in with his other hand and took the ignition key out of the car. “Dean started to .walk away when the taller of three other bandits, whom I now know as Red’ Qiberson, said; •‘ ’Hell that motor’s running. Shut it off.’ “Dean came back to the car and shut off the engine. “The taller man. whose hair is sandy or red, had a machine gun partly concealed under his overcoat.”

Handwriting on one ransom note sent Colonel Lindbergh is reproduced in the upper panel. Below are words in Hauptmann’s writing from letters to friends. Experts declare both were written by the same man. Stationery identical with which the ransom notes were'written was found in Hauptmann's home.

One of the most important clews in the hunt for the Lindbergh kidnaper-slayer is the footprint shown in the upper panel, photographed upon its discovery under the child's window the morning after the abduction. Below is shown one of-Hauptmann's shoes, which police declare is nearly a “match" for the print.

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A clew held of high value which seems to connect Hauptmann with the kidnaping was provided by nails found in the suspect's home, of .same make and types as those used in the kidnaper’s ladder. The nails, in barrel and can. are shown here after they had been brought to the district attorney's office.

GASOLINE IGNITED BY LANTERN; MAN BURNED House Also Set Afire in Accident; Victim in Hospital. The combination of a gasoline can and a lighted lantern proved unfortunate last night for Harry Ballenger, 55. Negro, 1130 East Twentythird street. He was carrying the two articles last night when he stumbled against a house at 1123 East Twenty-third street. The lantern was broken and ignited the gasoline. Ballenger was burned and the bouse caught fire. The fire department treated the house and city hospital treated Ballenger.

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Here is a profile view of Bruno Hauptmann, taken as he sat in a Bronx courtroom, waiting arraignment on the charge of extortion. It shows him as the stolid, emotionless type, which he has proved to be in the hours of relentless grilling to which he has been subjected since he was arrested as the kidnap suspect.

Finding of $13,750 of the Lindbergh ransom money in a garage used by Hauptmann was one of the most damaging links in the evidence woven against the German carpenter. Here are shown New York police officers as they inspected the money and the tin box in which it had been placed when buried in the dirt floor.

This small piece of board is one of the major clews that tightens the net around Bruno Hauptmann. Lindbergh kidnap suspect. Cleverly fitted over a door in a closet in the Hauptmann home, it bore the smudged street address and telephone number of “Jafsie." —(Photo copyright, 1934, News Syndicate Cos., from Acme.)

POLICE HUNT MOLESTER OF 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL Negro Who Entered Home Sought; Screams Frighten Prowler. All police squads today were ordered to be on the lookout for a Negro with prominent gold teeth, who is alleged to have attempted to molest a 14-year-old girl as she lay ill in bed this morning. The girl told police that the Negro entered her home on North Talbott avenue and tried to grab her. but that her screams frightened him away. The same Negro is wanted in connection with the attempted molesting of several women yesterday cm the north side.

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Flier Peers at Hauptmann for Ten Minutes, Makes No Sign. •NOT GUILTY.’ IS PLEA Bail for German Convict Is Set at SIOO,OOO by Judge. BY DELOS SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. Sept. 27Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh today saw the man who is accused of kidnaping and murdering his baby son. The famous aviator made a hurried trip to the Bronx county courthouse, where he stood in a group of policemen and looked at Bruno Richard Hauptmann as the latter was being led to court for arraignment on extortion charges. For fully ten minutes Colonel Lindbergh peered at the accused man through horn-rimmed glasses, but gave no outward sign of his emotional response. Hauptmann did not know that Colonel Lindbergh was present. The room. District Attorney Samuel Foley's office, was filled with policemen and employes of the prosecutor. Wears Cap and Glasses The stage was set, for Colonel Lindbergh to see the prisoner at the flier's own request, according to Mr. Foley. He came over hurriedly from Englewood, N. J., and entered the cdUrthouse without being recognized. He was wearing a cap and the glasses which altered his appearance. This is a favorite disguise which Colonel Lindbergh has used frequently on trips to New York City. A few minutes after the dramatic incident Hauotmann was arraigned on charges ol extorting $50,000 from Dr. John F. Condon, Lindbergh ransom negotiator. He pleaded not guilty, and over the protests of his attorney, bail was set at SIOO,OOO, the maximum allowed by law. Appearance la Brief The suspect’s attorney, James M, Fawcett, declared that a bond of $5,000 would be sufficient. Fawcett said he wanted Hauptmann to be free to "help me in my investigation of the case." Hauptmann’s court appearance was brief. He walked into the room between two guards and looked straight ahead. A stubble of beard added to hie attitude of dejection. He did not speak as the plea of not guilty was entered on his behalf by his counsel. No one in the courtroom at the time knew’ that Lindbergh w’as in the building. He did not attend the arraignment, but slipped away quietly after viewing the suspect. Although Lindbergh was disguised behind the dark-rimmed glasses in the district attorney’s office, Hauptmann might not have noticed him anyhow, as the policemen in the room all were in plain clothes. This made Lindbergh all the more inconspicuous. Put on ‘‘General Calendar” After the arraignment District Attorney Foley said he would put the Hauptmann extortion case “on the general calendar" and would not set a trial date until later. Before Hauptmann comes to trial here, New Jersey is expected to extradite him on charges of kidnaping and murder. Delay by New Jersey had not been explained. One theory is that they may hope to find Hauptmann’s accomplice within the next few days, in event an associate i a found Hauptmann and the associate might be indicted jointly. New Jersey to Seek Custody New Jersey officials Intimated they would wait until Hauptmann had been tried in New York before moving for his extradition to that state, where he will face trial for murder and kidnaping. They denied reports that they hesitated to force the issue, because of lack of conclusive evidence, by revealing evidence involving Hauptmann in the actual crime they said was strong enough to justify extradition and trial. J. Edgar Hoover, head of the federal division of criminal investigation, was prepared at a moment’s notice to leave Washington for New York in anticipation of the imminent arrest of Haunptmann's alleged accomplice in the crime. Federal agents were understood to have uncovered new trails leading directly to the supposed acomplice. Threatened. Says Fawcett Fawcett said that someone had telephoned his office twice to threaten him unless he withdrew from the defense. Workmen under the direction of detectives continued dissecting the Hauptmann home and garage today, hopeful of finding additional incriminating evidence. Yesterday they found SB4O more of the ransom money, cleverly concealed in augur holes, bringing to a total of $14,590 the ransom money found in Hauptmann's possession. It was believed that Hauptmann, an expert carpenter, could have constructed innumerable of these caches in the two buildings. Yesterday's discovery allowed detectives to show that Hauptmann possesses or has possessed a total of more than $50,000 since April 2, (Turn to Page Three) *• •