Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1935 — Page 3

DEC. 24, 1935

WRITER PROBING LIGGETT KILLING IS GIVEN GUARD Reporter for The Times Finds He Stirred Ire of Underworld. BY FORREST DAVIS Tlmr* Special Writer MINNEAPOLIS. Dec. 24.—The Minneapolis underworld is "bitter” over the Liggett investigation. Outsiders seeking the truth about the editor's murder are not made welcome. My experience here has not been comfortable. For the first time in my life I have had a bodyguard. It was not my idea. Furthermore I removed hastily from a Minneapolis hotel, going lo more law-abiding St. Paul on the advice of a. former G-man. who forced me to pack and depart, leaving a false forwarding address, after receipt of a telephone call. The caller tipped me off that certain influential persons intensely resented my dispatches. Specialize in Beatings "They won't give you what they gave Liggett and Guilford.” the former G-man said, "but they may beat you up. This is a bitter town. You may find yourself on the curb waiting for a taxicab; a couple of musclemen will appear from nowhere, slug you and beat it before you know what is happening. They specialize in those tricks around here.” Earlier, Mrs. Edith F. Liggett, the editor’s widow, urged me to leave Minneapolis for the safer precincts of St. Paul. An official of the Law and Order League suggested seriously that I have a bodyguard. The situation seemed fantastic yet these advisers knew the underworld. Just I,ike a Movie My departure from the hotel was like a sequence from a detective film. The former agent and I agreed on a forwarding address in Indianapolis. When the bell boy came for the luggage, my friend began to talk for his benefit, about Indianapolis. He begged me to carry his regards to a supposed mutual acquaintance, lamenting the acquaintance's recent domestic difficulty. He continued talking of Indianapolis until we reached the taxicab. The one time G-man, now a lawyer, was in charge of the expedition. He directed the driver to the Union Station. There, a redcap took the luggage into the waiting room and was dismissed. We sat in the tourist section for five minutes until our redcap had vanished into the train shed, then we picked up the bags and departed through another entrance. We took a cab for St. Paul. Warned Not to Leave Hotel I was warned not to leave my hotel except on business. Once I ignored the warning. Dispensing with the body-guard, I went to dinner Sunday night at a restaurant a block from the hotel. It is a wellknown. respectable eating house. I was accompanied by a resident of St. Paul. We had no sooner taken our places at a table before a man at the bar beckoned to my companion. "Who is that with you?” he asked. My companion identified me. "I thought so,” said the man at the bar. “He's here on the Liggett case. Tip him off to be careful where he goes.’’ The man at the bar was "in the know'.” During prohibition. he had connections with the liquor-running syndicate operated by Leon Gleckman. Underworld Is “Bitter” T set these circumstances down with no comment except that the underworld is "bitter” and persons who should understand the situation believe it unsafe for a newspaper man investigating the murder of an editor to be at large alone. In more than 20 years as a newspaper man, I never before encountered threats to my personal safety in line of duty. The Liggett case aptly is described today in an editorial in the St. Paul Pioneer Press as a "clear challenge from the underworld.” The challenge to newspaper men who seek to expose and describe the underworld seemingly is continuing.

It’s Your Last Chance! Clothe a Child Before It’s Too Late; 861 Already Cared for By Donors.

Individual donors clothed Office cash 81792.99 Mile-of-Dimes 82559.00 Single donors, men and women hurrying through their Christmas shopp.ng. a dime bank, the contribution of carrier boys, added to a group of organizations requesting four children each sent Clothe-a-Child of The Indianapolis Times, today toward the 1000 mark in children clothed for the Yuletide. Mile-of-Dimes, sidewalk Santa, is not totaled in the 861 children clothed up to this morning. The famous dime line will be banked tonight after the downtown stores close. New donors, coupled with a full list of other cash donations, follows: Lincoln Loan Corp.. four children. Sheriff Otto Far's office, four children. Capitol Club, four children. Indiana Bell Telephone Cos., General Accounting Dept., four children. Lincoln office. Employe* and Friend*. Indiana Bell Telephone Cos., two children. Mclntrre Adjustment Cos., cared for two children and took two more. National Malleable A Casting Cos., cared for *3 children and took one more. Central Transfer and Storage Cos. and Employes, girl. Indiana Refining Cos.. Employes of District Office, boy. Mr. H. E. C.. boy. Indian.. Bell Telephone Cos. Santa*, two boys. Emp rye* of Kiesle Trucking Cos., boy. I'. Rubber Products Cos.. Dept. It, first shift, cared for one girl and took another. H. O. Wilson, hoy. Tenant* of Delta Apts., boy. Robert C. Eo*. boy. Hillerest Country Club Bowling Lear-<*. riitctutt Alleys, boy.

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TODD ROMANCE IS NEW ANGLE Latest Development Given to Probers by Pretty Ida Lupino. (Continued From Page One) to find out exactly what was said and identify the unexpected guest. Investigators theorized that the “gentleman from San Francisco” might be; 1. The man Thelma told Sig Grauman, theater operator, she intended meeting at 2 a. m. at her beach case. 2. The man she informed Shaeffer, her case manager, she expected to meet early Sunday. 3. The man w r ith whom W. F. Persson, cigar store owner, said he saw’ her at 9 a. m. Sunday. 4. The man she intended bringing as a surprise guest to Mrs. Ford's cocktail party. ‘Marvelous Romance’ 5. The man Mrs. Roland West said she saw driving with Thelma at 11 a. m. on Hollywood-blvd. Miss Lupino. daughter of Stanley Lupino, host at the Trocadero Case party, said she and Miss Todd were chatting during the party when Thelma asked her, "How is your love life?” "Oh, I haven’t any just now'. I'm too busy at the studio,” Miss Lupino replied. "I’m having a marvelous romance with a gentleman from San Francisco,” Miss Todd informed her. "You know what gentlemen those San Franciscans are. He is just too grand for words.” West Still to Testify Miss Todd then added something about her "gentleman from San Francisco” being a very prominent business man in that city. Another witness who had not testified to the grand jury was Roland West, close friend and business associate of the actress. During the first day's session Margaret Lindsay, youthful screen actress, informed the jurors she had

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been escorted to the Trocedero, although not to the Lupino party, by Miss Todd s ex-husband, Pasquele De Cicco. Her escort, she said, as far as she knew, did not speak to his former w'ife. Persson, owner of a cigar store, said he believed the woman who came to his store early Sunday accompanied by a “heavy-set man” was Miss Todd. She looked "dazed.” Persson said, and asked him to dial a telephone number for her. Threatened, Two Claim By United Press LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24.—Police said today that Alex Hounie, head waiter at the Case Trocadero, where Thelma Todd attended her last party, reported he received another anonymous threat last night. Hounie twice had previously reported receipt of threatening warnings to “keep your mouth shut” regarding the Todd case. One came by postcard. The other was delivered by two men in an automobile, who forced his car to the curb. His latest warning came by telephone, Hounie said. Jerry Cummings, Hollywood Christmas tree dealer, said he rereived similar warnings after reporting to police that Miss Todd and a “dark, handsome" stranger ordered a tree from him one week ago Sunday.

OFFICIAL WEATHER ....i . United States Weather Bureau Sunrise 7:05 j Sunset 4:25 TEMPERATURE —Dec. 24. 1934 7 a. m 21 1 p. m 26 —Today—6a. m 19 19 a. m 18 Ta m 29 11 a. m 18 Sa. m 18 12 (Noon) 19 9 a. m 18 1 p. m 19 BAROMETER 7 a. m 39.29 1 p. m ... 39.33 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m... .08 Total precipitation since Jan. 1 37.43 Deficiency since Jan. 1 1.80 OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station. Weather. Bar. Temp. Amarillo. Tex. Clear 30.28 28 Bismarck. N. D Snow 30.28 6 Boston Clear 29.84 IS Chicago Snow 30 28 24 Cincinnati Snow 30.24 26 Denver Clear 30.24 22 Dodge City. Kas Clear 30.32 24 Helena. Mont. „ Snow 30 40 14 Jacksonville, Fla Clear 30.24 38 Kansas City. Mo Cloudv 30 44 14 Little Rock. Ark Clear 30.42 28 Los Angeles Clear 30.14 50 Miami, Fla Clear 30.18 46 Minneapolis Clear 30 38 —6 Mobile. Ala Clear 30.30 38 New Orleans ...Clear 30.32 44 New York Clear 39.96 22 Okla. City. Okla Clear 30.42 28 Omaha. Neb Cloudy 30.52 8 Pittsburgh Snow 30.14 16 Portland. Ore. Clpudv 30.10 38 San Antonio. Tex PtCldy 30.22 46 San Francisco Clear 30 14 46 St. Louis Clear 30.42 14 Tampa. Fla. Clear 30.22 42 Washington. D. C Cloudy 30.06 24

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SHOUSE FLAILS BIG JIM FARLEY FOR SSO DINNER Terms It Illegal Drive for Campaign Funds; Greenlee Is in Race. By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 24.—Postmaster General James A. Farley was called upon today to “explain” alleged solicitation of Federal employes for Democratic campaign fund contributions. Jouett Shouse, president of the American Liberty League, made the demand in an address in which he said the Democratic National Committee, of which Mr. Farley is chairman, had "solicited” Federal officials, some of them Republican. The solicitation, Mr. Shouse said, were in the forgi of “invitations” to the Democratic Jackson Day dinner here Jan. 3. He said an explanatory note enclosed with the invitations states that $5 of the SSO for each ticket would go to the Democratic national campaign fund. The Federal statutes, Mr. Shouse said, forbid any Federal employe, “directly or indirectly” to solicit, receive or be concerned with any subscription of a political nature from any other Federal employe. Mr. Farley, he said, made the announcement of the dinner. He asked Mr. Farley whether he was aware of the use of the mails to solicit political contributions from Federal employes, and that if he were, to answer “what about the law?” Pleas Greenlee, patronage secretary to Gov. McNutt, will seek the Democratic nomination for Governor, if he is the choice of the state organization. Mr. Greenlee’s position was made plain today following lengthy conferences yesterday in which he participated with Gov. McNutt. Senator Sherman Minton and Val Nolan, United States district attorney. Mr. Nolan's presence at the parley w'as somewhat mysterious. It was not made known whether he participated as a representative of Senator Frederick VanNuys, to whom he owes his appointment, or as a possible candidate whom one faction of the state administration may get behind. McNutt Is Silent Earlier yesterday, Gov. McNutt and Senator Minton conferred with State Chairman Omer Stokes Jackson. The latter did not take part in the conference, which included Mr. Greenlee, however. Mr. Greenlee said he would not resign his position, as he has been reported contemplating, but will continue to elect state convention delegates favorable to the state administration. If delegates favorable to the administration think he should be elected, he will seek the nomination, Mr. Greenlee said. If he is not the organization choice, he will work for the person who is chosen. Gov. McNutt refused to comment on the conference. CONFESSION CLAIMED BY BANDIT SUSPECTS Quartet Admits Series of Holdups, Indiana Police Say. By United- Press ROCHESTER. Ind., Dec. 24. Several Northern Indiana robberies were admited by four young bandit suspects held by Fulton County authorities, police said today. The men, James R. Cavens, 26, Logansport; Homer R. Knight, 29. Logansport; Mik Benson, 26, East Chicago; and Lewis Reinhardt, East Chicago, are said to have admitted participation in the $2500 pay roll robbery at the Muelhausen Spring Cos.. Logansport; two filling station holdups here and robbery of a Kroger store at Logansport. The men will be questioned in connection with the slaying of patrolman Frank M. (Pete) Levy, of Anderson. RAILROAD COP IS FREED Acquitted of Murder in Shooting of Youth Who Hopped Freight. By United Press BROWNSTOWN. Ind., Dec. 24. Sergt. C. N. Cosby, Cincinnati, 0., Pennsylvania Railroad policeman, was acquitted last night of a charge of slaying Tom Paul Jones, Harlan. Ky. The youth was shot near Seymour last May 29 by Sergt. Cosby 'as he and two young companions were riding a freight train to Indianapolis to attend the Memorial Day Speedway race.

Lindbergh Praised and Blamed for Fleeing to England With His Son; U. S. Public Opinion Sharply Divided

Britain Is ‘Astonished’ by Sudden Move; Reform Called For. (Continued From Page One) a month ago that he had paid a secret visit to Hauptmann's cell. Later he was quoted as doubtinj Hauptmann's guilt. He repudiated this statement later, but it did not diminish the sensation of his sudden interest in the fate of the taciturn German carpenter. The threatening letters the Lindberghs have received daily since 1932 increased suddenly in volume and early Sunday the Lindberghs sailed. Line Confirms Departure The United States Lines, operators of the American Importer, confirmed the presence of the Lindberghs on their ship today and explained the circumstances of their departure. Basil Harris, a vice president, said Col. Lindbergh booked passage for three last week, pledging the line to silence and paying the regular rate —s2Bo plus sl3 tax. Because the Lindberghs desired privacy, passengers booked previously were transferred to other boats. Saturday night the Lindberghs went by taxi from the Englewood (N. J.) home of Mrs. Lindbergh’s mother. Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow’, to the ship’s pier on the Manhattan side of the Hudson. Capt. John W. Anderson did not know the identity of his passengers until they went aboard. Mr. Harris announced that the Lindberghs had taken their own Christmas tree aboard, to provide a normal child's Chistmas for Jon. Santa to Visit Jon “They also took three big Santa Clgjis stockings which they will hang up at the ship's fireplace,” he said. The American Importer will be swinging into the great circle course off Newfoundland (the same course Lindbergh followed in his solo flight across the Atlantic) tonight when Jon’s eyes feast on the tree loaded with presents, and on a Santa played by a member of the ship’s crew. The ship reaches Queenstown, Ireland, Dec. 30, and Liverpool Dec. 31. It was believed the Lindberghs would disembark there, spend the night in a hotel,' and on Jan. 1 go to the home of friends, possibly to the home of Mrs. Lindbergh’s broth-er-in-law, Aubrey N. Morgan at Cardiff, Wales. Later they will establish a home in a section of England not yet selected. Jersey Papers Rap Hoffman Two leading New Jersey newspapers attacked Gov. Hoffman today for his alleged intended part in their departure. The New’ark Evening News said: “For the part that Gov. Hoffman played in forcing the Lindberghs to seek English sanctuary, we bow our heads

in humiliation. Words can not describe adequately the mischief this man has wrought by his appalling meddling. That the Lindberghs no longer feel safe in their own home is only part of the' very real damage done by this heedless Governor of this sovereign state. Col. Lindbergh will have genuine understanding in his feeling that he can stand against the crooks and cranks, he can not cope with The dangerous situation created by Hoffman’s premature interference.” The Trenton State Gazette said: “It is easy to believe that Gov. Hoffman's strange interest in the welfare of Hauptmann was the determining factor that influenced their decision. What reason would they have for confidence in security when the chief executive of this state manifests such extraordinary concern in the welfare of a felon convicted of the most heinous of crimes?” Political Angle Resented The attacks coincided with statements from friends of the Lindbergh and Morrow families that one of the chief considerations in their decision to expatriate theoiselves was reports that the Hauptmann case was about to be brought into politics. Friend 6 also reported that Col. Lindbergh was upset by reports that Gov. Hoffman was preparing to reorganize the state police department so as to replace Col. Schw’arzkopf with Maj. Mark O. Kimberling, state prison warden. British Are Amazed By United Press LONDON. Dec. 24.—Britons commented with mild astonishment today on the approaching arrival of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh and their son Jon. The astonishment concerned rather the sort of country from which a national hero would have to emigrate in search of security than that Great Britain was chosen. The choice seems natural to British people. “It sheds a piercing light on the anti-crime machinery of the United States, which has not only failed hitherto to exact the penalty for the kidnaping and murder of their first son but has also proved unable to check an inundation of threats against their second son, Jon,” commented the Daily Mail. “The shock which millions ol Americans received upon leading the news of the Lindberghs’ departure is comparable only to that which would occur in Great Britain should the Prince of Wales announce he was no longer secure in his own country,” said the Daily Herald. “If decent Americans deplore the flight of Col. Lindbergh as a reflection on their own country,” said the News Chronicle, “they should use their influence to uproot some of the causes which led to It. There can be no reason why Americans should submit indefinitely to conditions in

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American Public Opinion Is Divided; Foreign Press Attacks U. S. public life which are capable of forcing one of their most eminent fellow citizens, perfectely innocent himself of any crime, to fly the country in mere self defense." There was no real news here regarding the Lindberghs. Members the family of Aubrey N. Morgan, husband of Mrs. Lindbergh's late sister, said they had no knowledge of the Lindberghs' plans. Scotland Yard and officials of the United States Line declined comment. Those at the Glasgow home of Betty Gow. nurse to Charles Lindbergh Jr. until he was murdered, would not respond to inquiries. Deplored by Press The self-expatriation of Col. Lindbergh, his wife and child, caused almost unanimous regret in the editorial reaction of newspapers todav. Many saw a “humiliating” indictment of law enforcement. Representative comment follows: New York Herald-Tribune—Na-tions have exiled their heroes before; they have broken them in misunderstanding or persecuted them with meanness. But when has a nation made life unbearable to one of its distinguished men through a sheer inability to protect him from its criminals and lunatics and the vast vulgarity of its sensationalists, publicity seekers, petty politicians and yellow newspapers? Kansas City Star—lt is nothing short of a national disgrace that Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh virtually should be driven from America and forced to seek residence and refuge in a foreign country because of kidnaping threats against their living child and because of harassment in connection with attempts to save the man convicted of kidnaping and murdering another child. Boston Herald—The approaching execution of Hautpmann, and, worst of all, the brazenly publicized doubts of New Jersey’s unseeing, unperceiving Governor regarding the condemned man’s guilt, threatened another outburst of mass hysteria It seemed wiser to the persecuted Lindberghs to retreat rather than to withstand anew bombardment from sensation seekers, self-ap-pointed defenders, psychopathic assailants, and an erratic Governor. Riviera Home Hinted By United Press NICE. Dec. 24—C01. Charles A Lindbergh, who is en route to Europe with his wife and son to escape molestation in the United States, may etsablish a home on the French Riviera, it was reported today.

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BANKERS MOVE TO TAKE OVER PRIVATELOANS Government Legislation Is Halted, Association Head Reveals. By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 24 —Encouraged by assurances there is to be no more banking legislation soon, the American Bankers Association today announced plans for a na-tion-wide campaign to replace government financing with private lending Robert V. Fleming. A. B. A. president. said he had received assurances from "persons in high quarters” that there would be no further banking legislation for “quite a while.” He declined to reveal the source, but said it was “authoritative." “I haven't been given assurances that I can speak of,” Mr. Fleming said, "but persons in high quarters have informed me we need not bother about further banking legislation in the near future.” Plans for a nation-wide campaign to loosen bank credits and start a flow of private financing will be made at a series of four regional conferences early next year. Mr. Fleming revealed. The American Bankers Association. Mr. Fleming said, currently is undertaking a comprehensive survey of all government lending activities. The purpose of the survey, he said, is to enable the association to attempt to supplant each of the individual government lending activities with similar services performed by private bankers. Sees Gain in Bank Loans Mr. Fleming said he believed a sufficient increase in bank loans could be achieved to supplant, to a great degree, current lending activities of the Federal government. The association has at times been bitterly critical of New Deal banking legislation, but was understood to have reached some sort of an “understanding” which will permit closer co-operation with the Administration in the future. The first of four regional conferences is to be held Jan. 23 and 24 in Philadelphia for Eastern states. Southern states bankers are to convene in Atlanta or Memphis in February. and Middle Western bankers are to gather either in Chicago or St. Louis in March. Far Western bankers are to meet in Portland, Ore., in May. AGED CITY CITIZEN DIES Edgar E. Jones, Resident Here 25 Y’ears, Pases at Home. Edgar E. Jones, resident of Indianapolis for 25 years, died today at his home. 1332 Parker-av. He was SO. Survivors are the widow. Mrs. Emma Jones, and a son. Earl E. Jones. Indianapolis locksmith. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made.