Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1935 — Page 1

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UHLIG, FISCH’S CHUM, ON STAND TO BACK BRUNO Dead Furrier’s Best Friend to Tell Story of Trip to Germany in Effort to Clear Hauptmann. DEFENSE FINGERPRINT ACE SCORES Fiery Wilentz Unable to Shake Damaging Ladder Testimony of Physician; Framed, He Indicates. By United Press FLEMINGTON, N. J., Feb. 7.—Henry Uhlig, who was Isidor Fisch’s “best friend in America,” today began a recital of the activities of Fisch which the defense hopes will clear Bruno Richard Hauptmann of the murder of Charles A. Lindl>crgh Jr. Uhlig was on the stand only a few minutes before the noon recess, and had interrupted his story of a trip to Germany he made with “poverty stricken fur cutter.”

Fisch died in Leipzig, four months after he and Uhlig arrived in Germany. He testified, however, to various enterprises, including a pie business, in which Fisch had a hand. Hauptmann, who insists Fisch left a shoebox with him containing the ransom money found later in his garage, looks to Uhlig to pro'i his statement that Fisch had all tin ransom money in 1932. The witness remarked that Fisch had a “very bad cough" in 1932. Dr. John F Condon (Jafsie) described the man who negotiated with him for the ransom as having a cough. Fisch borrowed large sums from his friends, to use In various business enterprises, the defense showed. Mrs. Augusta Hile. mother-in-law of the attractive Mrs. Gerta Hengel, who testified in Hauptmann’s behalf vesterday, told the court Fisch borrowed $4350 from her "and never paid it back —not a cent of it.” The evidence was used to support Hauptmanns assertion that he, too, lent Fisch considerable money, and that Fisch owed him $7500 when he left the United States on the visit to Leipzig. •Framed.' Is Cairn Hauptmann's defense fought bitterly today to establish a theory that their client was "framed" by police, and that a board from which the Lindbergh kidnap ladder was constructed did not come from his attic, as the state contends Through Dr. Erasmus Hudson, phvsician and amateur fingerprint expert, it set forth that there was only one nail hole in the ladder section. and not four, as the prosecution has declared. The matter of the nail holes was important, because .Arthur Koehler, the state s wood expert, said he had matched four of them against holes in an attic beam, and that nails fitted in them perfectly. Dr. Hudson was not shaken by Atty. Gen. David T. Wilentz' biting cross-examination, still insisting that to the best of his recollection he sawonly one nail hole in the section when he examined it in March of 1932 Made No Notes. He Says Dr. Hudson admitted with some hesitation, however, that he "made no note" of the nail holes at the time he examined the ladder. Mr. Wilentz and Hauptmann's witnesses duelled over the "500 finger prints" Dr. Hudson said were shown upon the ladder by his silver nitrate process. and the expert was forced to admit that if many persons handled the ladder, any fingerprints previously made by Hauptmann would have been obliterated. State experts had testified that no flncer prints were found anywhere in the Lindbergh baby's room, and that the ladder itself was devoid of prints, claiming the kidnaper wore gloves. With its ace fingerprint expert off the stand, the defense began its attack on the credibility of witnesses who said they saw Bruno Hauptmann near the Lindbergh estate at the time of the kidnaping. Witnesses Flay Whited The “character and general reputation for truthfulness" of Millard Whited, who testified he saw Hauptmann on two occasions in February. 1932. were assailed by William Whitehead, a neighbor, who testified that Whited's reputation was “not of the best." ' Mr. Wilentz asked only one question on cross-examination. It was: "Were you ever in jail." The answer was “yes.” George E J. Lenz. another Hopewell neighbor, said he had known Whited for 20 years and that hie reputation for truthfulness was not good Thereupon, the attorney general showed that he and Whited had a feud over some lumber—which resulted In a long standing grudge. Arrange Stag Party Th# Indianapolis Council of 'Hie Knights of Columbus will hold its annual stag party a: 8 Monday. Receipts are earmarked for the gouccils sick and hospital fund.

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KILLER STUFFS BODY IN TRUNK Slayer Held in California After 2500-Mile Flight. By United Press TRUCKEE, Cal., Feb. 7.—A former convict’s 2500-mile flight with the body of a Kalamazoo (Mich.) man whom he had slain ended early today at the California border here. The crime was discovered when police pried open the trunk on an automobile driven by Clarence Frechette, 25-year-old Pontiac (Mich.) truck driver. In the trunk they found the body of 28-year-old Robert Brown, Kalamazoo trucking contractor. He had been shot twice in the head. In a pocket in the Pontiac machine, registered in Brown's name, the authorities found a .45-caliber automatic revolver. Frechette confessed the slaying and said that it had been accident \ He killed Brown neur Howe . Mich., on Tuesday, Jan 29, accori *ng to the confession given by police in the tiny Truckee jail. The contractor and Frechette, an employe, were returning from a trip to Detroit in Brown's sedan when they stopped outside of Howell. They began to argue about a girl, according to the alleged confession. Brown made a slighting remark about the girl and Frechette knocked him down. The contractor went to the car and obtained a revolver. They struggled for it*, possession. Then, according to Frechette, while the muzzle was turned toward Browns forehead, the trigger was pulled twice. RELIEF BILL AMENDED BY SENATE COMMITTEE Change Calls for Paying “Prevailing” Wage Scale. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—The Administration's $4,880,000,000 work relief bill was amended today by the Senate appropriations committee to provide that “prevailing wages” must be paid on all work done under the measure.

$3,787,477 Increase Revealed in 1935 State Budget; $4,771,389 in Requests Rejected; House to Get Bill

Recommendations totaling •'50,330.056 are contained in the 1935 biennial budget bill scheduled for introduction tomorrow in the Indiana House of Representatives. Chief among the increases amounting to $3,787,477 is the boosting of the general fund appropriation to $27,448,161. Requests amounting to $4,771,389.36 were rejected by the budget committee. The 1935 budget bill has been completed after several weeks of study by the four-member budget committee and contains one recommendation for a radical departure from former practices in allotting funds. This change is the placing of expenditures for capital outlays for state institutions directly in the hands of Gov. Paul V. McNutt and the budget committee. The former practice has been to allot whatever funds are appropriated directly to the institutions involved. Two reasons motivated the. change. One was the state administration's desire for closer control over the manner in which these capital outlays are expended. The second and more important reason is the necessity of placing Indiana in the position of other states able to meet allotments of federal money for public works projects. Faced by the fact that capital

Rudy Plays Records in Courtroom Phonograph Grinds Out Its Tell-Tale Story in Alimony Suit. By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—The first of the phonograph records on which Rudy Vallee, with rare foresight, preserved data on his shattered romance with Fay Webb, ground out its story in Supreme Court today to aid the crooner’s defense against an attempt to set aside a SIOO a week separation agreement. The record detailed a conversation between Rudy and his estranged wife’s father, Police Chief C. E. Webb of Santa Monica, Cal., on an occasion when the singer confronted his wife with suspicions her conduct was not exemplary. On the witness stand, Chief Webb admitted he had difficulty in remembering just what was said and Hyman Bushel, counsel for Vallee, received permission to play the record over strenuous objection of Thomas I. Sheridan, attorney for Mrs. Vallee. Mr. Sheridan cited a New Jersey opinion that a record could not be subjected to cross-examination and, besides, might be incomplete. Mr. Bushel retorted that he could “bring in Sousa's band” if he wanted to. Rudy himself prepared the aluminum cylinders, adjusted the loud speaker and wound the crank. Dressed in sober gray, he did not ence look at his black-clad wife, who, howpver, stole frequent glances at him. Earlier Supreme Court Justice Salvatore A. Cotilli criticised Benjamin Cohen, a lawyer brought from California by Chief Webb, and denied him the privileges of the court. “The state of California will know in time what a libel it is to the state of California to have you known as the Max Steuer of the California bar,” Justice Cotillo said. He did not amplify his remark.

LABOR PARTY WINS TORY STRONGHOLD Split Among Conservatives Brings Defeat. B\) United Press LONDON, Feb. 7.—A conservative split over Indian self-government and public dissatisfaction with cuts ir unemployment allowances put a Labor Party man in a House of Commons seat that had been a Conservative stronghold for years, returns from a by-election showed today. The election was for the Wavertree division of Liverpool. Returns were: J. J. Cleary, Labor, 15,611; James Piatt, Conservative. 13.771; Randolph Churchill, Independent Conservative. 10,575; T. Artoro Morris, Liberal, 4208. Churchill was the center of the fight. Son of Winston Churchill, Tory leader, he is 23. He campaigned on a platform opposing the plan for a measure of self-government for India, for a bigger air force and for more youth in parliament. Times Index Bridge 11 Broun 13 Comics 23 Crossword Puzzle 23 Curious World 23 Editorial 14 Finarc.al 18 Hickman—Theaters 19 Peglev .’... '.. 13 Radio 6 Sports 20-21 State News 24 Woman’s Pages 10-11

outlay has been practically negligent for several years and that several state institutions have a crying need for building, the budget bill recommends a biennial increase of $1,538,078, which brings the building funds up to $1,577,300. State institutions maintenance is increased $1,380,867 because of the demand for an improved state police force and enforcement of revenue statutes. The budget committee “worked on ! an economy platform" in preparing the bill and confined its increases to the foregoing sources. The recommendations turned over to Gov. McNutt contain the following observations: “The task of preparing the budget has been a most difficult one and the budget committee submits the results of its labor as representing its best judgment after careful consideration of each departmental request. “We have endeavored to keep constantly before us the necessity for strict economy. However, both good business and good government demand that the care of the property of the state, the care of the department charges of the state, maintenance of educational standards, law enforcement, administration of justice and carrying out of other necessary functions of government

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CITIZENS CO. DATA SOUGHT IN GAS PROBE List of Stockholders and Board Records to Be Subpenaed. TIMES INQUIRY BARED Managing Editor Links Users to Universal Pipe Line Company. A list of stockholders and records of the board of directors of the Citizens Gas Cos. will be subpenaed today by the legislative committee investigating Marion County gas operations. f The committee will ask officers of the company who have those books in their possession to appear before it at 8 tomorrow. The committee also will ask officials of the Columbia Gas and Electric Corp., described by one witness as the only possible company that could furnish Indianapolis with natural gas, to appear and testify. Decision to issue these subpenas followed testimony today of Charles E. Carll Jr., managing editor of The Indianapolis Times, and yesterday of Gilbert Wagner, attorney for the minority stockholders of the Mis-souri-Kansas Pipe Line Corp. Likely Backers Named Mr. Carll told the committee that an extensive and intensive investigation by The Indianapolis Times into finance houses in Chicago, Indiana, Ohio and New York had revealed the Universal Pipe Line Cos. and probably Frank A. Vanderlip Sr., New York financier, as the most likely backers of Users Gas Cos. The Users Gas Co.’s persistent attempt to get a franchise to sell natural gas in Marion County at a rate quoted in advance at about half the current rate for artificial gas, precipitated the entire gas investigation here. Clinton H. Givan, attorney for the Users, Mr. Carll said, would not confirm or deny that Universal backed his company. No officer or director of Users ever has publicly identified its backers. Investigation Results Bared Mr. Carll rad into the record reports of interviews Times representatives had with Frank Vanderlip Jr., speaking for his father, in New York, in which Mr. Vanderlip said his father had been interested, though not financially involved, a year ago in Universal. And he read into the record an interview The Times representative had with Basil A. Needham, head • (Turn to Page Three) TEXTILE WORKERS TO GET LABOR HEARING 4 National Silk Hosiery Cos. Faces Discrimination Charge. Charges of discrimination brought by members of Branch No. 35, American Federation of Hosiery Workers, against the National Silk Hosiery Cos. will be heard within the next few days by the Textile Relations Board, Walter Truman, union district manager, announced today. Mr. Truman stated that the union has been active in urging ratification by the Indiana General Assembly of the Federal Child Labor Amendment. Guffey Writes Coal Bill By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Support of a bill that would make bituminous coai a public utility was asked of President Roosevelt today by Senator Joseph Guffey (D.. Pa.), its sponsor.

under existing laws, must be provided for.’’ Appropriations for every fund are somewhat lower than those of 1933, except in the State Highway Commission, where the increase was from $21,900,000 to $22,100,000. The major decreases are in the construction service. Department appropriations and the comparison to the 1933 figures include: Department of Treasury, including 10 divisions, $1,771,662, against a 1933 appropriation of $511,772. In this connection, the budget committee points out that the 1933 budget did not contain provisions for the inheritance tax, intangibles tax, gross income tax or store tax and this biennium recommendation is based on expenditures of these departments this year. * Department of State, including 12 boards and divisions, $262,225 against $204,380 for the last two years. Department of Law, which includes the General’s office and the Legislative Reference Bureau, $172,000 against $132,000. Department of Public Works, including 10 divisions. $918,340 against $685,000. The major increases in this department are for the Lands and Waters and the Public Building and Grounds divisions.

TARGETS OF BITTER LABOR ATTACK

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On these two men, shown as they left the White House after a conference on the future of disputed Section 7-A, is now concentrating a bitter attack by organized labor. They are Clay Williams, left, head of the NIRB and a high executive of the uncoded cigaret industry, and Donald Richberg, right, “assistant president.” who faces violent A. F. of L. attacks because of his part in upholding the Automobile Board and extension of that industry's code.

Judges to Issue Ironclad Orders Against ‘Fixers* Loitering in Corridors Around Courtrooms to Be Expressly Forbidden in New Ruling. BY JOE COLLIER Times Staff Writer Judges of the criminal branch of Municipal Court today moved to make ironclad their ruling against loitering in corridors surrounding their courtrooms. They will post a printed sign, expressly forbidding loitering, and any one violating the order will be held in contempt of court and subject to the penalties attached to that offense.

The judges, Charles J. Karabeli and Dewey Myers, are aroused by the revelation by The Indianapolis Times yesterday that responsible Indianapolis attorneys are circulating petitions asking them to clear out “fixers," said to prey on bewildered defendants, and urging them to investigate the activities, of professional bondsmen. Full Co-Operation Pledged The judges pledged full co-opera-tion with Police Chief Mike Morrissey to take whatever remedial steps are within their power. Meantime, Henry Goett, Grand Jury Prosecutor, informed by The Times of the charges in the circulating petitions, pledged a grand jury investigation. Today Prosecutor Goett subpenaed from the files of The Times its copy of the petition being circulated. Chief Morrissey, saying that conditions now were far better than they had been in the days when bondsmen guaranteed to put prisoners “on the bricks” and keep them there for a specified sum, praised the judges for steps they had taken to clean up the situation and said he felt sure that, together, his department and the court could remedy any existing evils. Term Conditions “Disgraceful” The petitions, when they are signed, will be presented to the Indianapolis Bar Association at its March meeting. They say that conditions at and around the courts, where, they charge, at least 50 “fixers” operate and exist on the credulity of defendants on their relatives, are “disgraceful.” The petitions state that “fixers” tell defendants that they know someone who knows a lawyer who knows the judge and can get them out, no matter what the charge. Inexperienced defendants, frightened and unused to the ways of courts and police, pay the “fixer”

Department of Education, including 13 departmental requests, $7,935,000 against $7,788,950. In this department fall the appropriations for the four state schools, Indiana and Purdue universities and Indiana State Teachers College and Ball State Teachers College. The specific appropriations for Purdue and Indiana Universities remains unchanged at $2,980,000 and $2,900,000, respectively. Department of Commerce and Industries. including the lieutenantgovernor’s office and 16 other boards and divisions, $1,143,360 against $1,018,660. Supreme Court, $135,630 against $133,000. Appellate Court, $151,000 against $145,000. Supreme and Appellate Court clerk. $27,700 against $27,300. Judges State Courts, $830,400 against $882,100. Independent funds include: Motor vehicle fuel funds. $146,200; auto license fund, $387,500; weight tax, $41,300; fire marshal, $144,400; teacher retirement, $45,400; state highway commission, $22,100,000; state sinking fund, $17,035. Penal institutions and several other recommendations remain to be announced by the budget committee.

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his fee and then have no recourse when the “fixer” does little or nothing for them. The petitions further charge that certain employes of the city and county use real or assumed prestiges to presume upon the court and police officers having cases before the court, and that frequently solicit persons who have business before the courts, or their relatives, and accept fees for their services. Professional bondsmen have been known, the petition charges, to represent prisoners before the court to ask continuances and reduction in bail, and to perform other services which, attorneys believe, are within the meaning of the practice of law. All of this to make the defendants feel that justice in Marion County municipal courts can be purchased for money, the petitions say. It also tends to put a stigma on attorneys practicing before the court or who have occasion to go before the court. The petition closes with suggested remedies, one of which would prohibit the appearance in court of any professional bondsman, and another of which would set up as a rule that judges not talk about any case to any one other than police officers and bona fide lawyers having business before the court on the case, or the defendants. TODAY’S WEATHER Hourly Temperatures 6a. m .12 10 a. m 22 7a. m 12 11 a. m 25 Ba. m. ... 16 12 (Noon).. 29 9 a. m 20 1 p. m. ... 31 Tomorrow’s sunrise, 6:46 a. m.; sunset, 5:12 p. m. Weather conditions at noon: Southeast wind, eight miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.35 at sea level; temperature, 26; general conditions, overcast; ceiling, estimated at 9000 feet; visibility one and one-quarter miles, smoky.

4 FATEFUL YEARS In 1810 the world’s most powerful ruler ... in 1814 an exile on the lonely isle of Elba. History has recorded in meticulous detail the swift-moving train of events that plunged Napoleon from the dizzy heights of his greatest glory to the depths of his spectacular career in these four short years. And now with the publication FOR THE FIRST TIME of the recently discovered LOVE LETTERS OF NAPOLEON TO MARIE LOUISE the world will learn from the pen of Napoleon himself the intimate thoughts, feelings and ambitions of this amazing personality during this momentous period. You’ll thoroughly enjoy these human and historic documents . . . and the brilliant explanatory comments by a noted Napoleonic authority that fill in the background of events against which the letters were writteni THE LOVE LETTERS OF NAPOLEON TO MARIE LOUISE Start Wednesday, Feb. 13, in The Times

RATIFICATION OF AMENDMENT IS VOTED, 66 TO 29 Democratic Leaders Shape Up Victorious Majority in Behalf of Federal Measure; Triumph Is Overwhelming. LEGION ACTIVE IN SUPPORTING ACT Six Republicans Desert G. 0. P. Ranks, Join in Balloting to Outlaw Exploitation of Nation’s Youth. The Indiana House of Representatives today voted to ratify the Child Labor Amendment to the Federal Constitution to outlaw child exploitation. By a vote of 66 to 29, the lower house approved the amendment adopted by Congress in 1924 and now accepted by 22 states, and sent it to the Indiana Senate, where prompt concurrence is expected. The Senate Committee on Constitutional Revision has recommended ratification and Democratic leaders predict the upper house will vote approval by a substantial majority. Shouting charges that the amendment was written by Communists and is a “Russian plot to nationalize the youth of the land,” Rep. Herbert H. Evans, Newcastle, Republican floor leader, urged the House to withhold approval of the amendment whei hhe claimed “will supplant parental authority with Federal control over children.” “This amendment, if ratified by the states, will set up a national bureau of old maids and female tyrants who will

PAY ROLL THEFT SUSPECT HELD Wounded Youth Confesses Three Holdups, City Police Claim. Twenty-three-year-old Ernest Tait, whose police record daces to 1930 and includes one suspended sentence to Indiana State Reformatory, has confessed, police reported today, to participating in the S2OOO Wilmoth Auto Cos. safe robbery at 730 N. Meridian-st, Dec. 30; a $3600 Jacksonville (Fla.) bank robbery Jan. 9; and the S2OOO Evans Milling Cos. pay roll robbery Sept. 18, 1934. He was captured, wounded, after police say they shot him while he attempted to escape a trap laid at the Speedway State Bank, Jan. 25, which safe crackers were attempting to rob. Others whom police charge are connected with some of Tait’s activities are James Flaherty, 44, of 926 N. Meridian-st, who has no police record; Harry Pierson, 32, Mickleyville, Ind., whose police record extends to 1924 and includes three sentences to Indiana Reformatory, all in some way shortened; Benny DeWitt, 28, who according to police, gave a non-existent address on St. Joseph-st and who has 10 arrests to his discredit. All are held on vagrancy charges. CAPTAINS FACE TRIAL Skippers Involved in Lexington Crash May Lose Licenses. By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—The Steamboat Inspection Service today ordered the captains of the steamer Lexington and the Freighter Jane Christenson to show cause March 21 why their licenses should not be revoked for alleged negligence in the collision which sank the Lexington with a loss of seven lives, Jan. 2.

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scour the country and regiment al lof our young,” he declared. “Communism is back of this j whole thing,” Rep. Evans shouted, “it was written by four Communists women who never had any children. How any mother or expectant mother can support a measure of this sort which will chain the youth of this land is beyond me. “If this is passed, the New England farm boy can’t pick blueberries on the hill, the city boy can’t sell papers and even the college youth would be prohibited from working his way through school,” the minority floor leader charged. Sturm Leads Fight for Bill Rep. Paul B. Sturm <D„ Dana), chairman of the House Labor Committee, led advocates of approving the amendment in an impassioned speech in which he denounced out-of-state industry for using low-paid child labor in competition with Indiana adults. Action of the Representatives came following the filing yesterday in the House of a motion by Rep. Fred G. Thompson, Democratic floor leader, to reconsider previous action making the resolution a special order at 11:15 tomorrow. Immediate passage of the ratification bill was decided upon yesterday as Representatives began receiving an avalanche of telegrams, letters and circulars urging a favorable vote to make Indiana the 2f3rd state to approve the amendment. Legion, Times Active in Fight The galleries were jammed with representatives of the American I Legion and women’s groups which 1 have steadfastly upheld the ratifii cation. They carefully took down the names of those legislators who voted in opposition to the bill. The galleries burst into wild applause when Rep. Clyde-Jordan (R.‘, South Bend), who, with five others, bolted his party, explained that he favored ratification on behalf of the “50,000 children who are killed or maimed yearly in hazardous occupations.” The American Legion and The Indianapolis Times Monday informed supporters of the amendment that the fate of the bill was in doubt as a result of a Democratic caucus decision not to bind party members. Voters favoring the abolishment of child labor were urged to write or telegraph their Representatives at once. Rep. Evans said when the amendment was first written it would nave prohibited children from working at hazardous labor. “Now the word ‘child’ has been stricken out and the word ‘laocr* has been substituted for 'hazardous employment,’ ” he declared. The Newcastle Representative (Turn to Page Three)

A REAL CONTEST The pastime of spotting various makes of automobiles as they stream past on the streets or highway has been turned into a lucrative game by Indianapolis auto dealers who are ■offering $175 in prizes in a Scrambled Auto Contest in The Times. Additional details of the contest wi.l be found on Page 2. The contest will continue through and including Friday. Feb. 15. A hint to wise contestants—keep an eye open for pictures of 1935 models in all advertisements and dealer literature.