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RUM RUNNER TELLS LINDY AIDE OF BABY ON CRUISER
STICKS ID TALE
IN MIDNIGHT
CONFERENCE
Declares Life in Danger and
Dickers for Immunity
Before Talking
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shivering in the depths of a huge
coat which couldn’t keep out the
• numbing chillness of a Sourland
Mountain wind.
Fogarty and the rum runner
talked for 15 minutes alone in
the comparative warmth of the
car. The story Fogarty heard
was substantially the same one
the rum runner previously told to
the International News Service.
(This was printed exclusively yes
terday in The Washington Times.)
Retells Experience
He had set off early at 4 a. m.
Wednesday, March 2. That after
noon he was about 30 miles off
Scotland Light, trying to contact
a schooner. He told Fogarty of
meeting with a high-riding
schooner apparently without cargo
and of a surly supercargo, who
ordered him away from the ship
In no uncertain terms. This man
was later identified by him as
one of three suspects for whom
the police of New Jersey. New
York City and Detroit are look
ing.
Less than an hour later, he
sighted a cabin cruiser with a
member of the crew waving a coat
in an apparent signal of distress.
Investigation proved that the
cruiser’s compass had gone bad
and the informer was asked if he
would sell his compass for SIOO
He refused, but offered to fix
the compass belonging to the
white and green cruiser. It was
at this point that he heard a
baby’s cry, and then with a snarl
of anger, the man who had waved
the coat ordered him to shove
away. There were three men in
the crew and the rum .runner
unhesitatingly identified Harry
Fleischer as one of them.
Fogarty Non-Commital
All this he told to Fogarty as
the two sat in the back seat of
the car. Fogarty heard his story
in silence. He climbed out of the
car, said good night, and walked
Into the Lindbergh home. He
would tell his story to the Colonel
For a long while, it was said,
Schwarzkopf has believed that
the child was being held on a
boat of some kind. Perhaps 110,-
000,000 people are consciously or
subconsciously looking for the
child, and only on the sea would
the kidnapers be safe from detec
tion.
For a long time, too, the
authorities have been anxious to
question Harry Fleischer and
Abie Wagner, and police of every
city in the United States have
been looking for them.
The rum runner is the first to
forge a definite link in the chain
which some day may bring
Fleischer and Wagner into the
police net. He swears that one
of the men or. the cabin cruiser
was Fleischer and he positively
identified another as a man police
have been looking for.
Adamant on Story
The rum runner, obviously re
lieved that his story had been
told to some one in authority,
once more fell prey to the fears
of one who has interfered with
the underworld. He said:
“I don’t know whether Fog
arty believed me ,r not. I’m
on the level with this, though.
I have nothing to gain by tell
ing it. If those mobsters ever
know who 1 am, they’ll out the
finger on me, all right. I don’t
know Fleischer. Never saw him
until that day, but I know that
was Fleischer I saw on that
cabin cruiser. That baby is
still on that boat or has been
transferred to a schooner. ’
Colonel Schwarzkopf refused to
comment on the story but it is
known that he immediately got
in touch with the Coast Guard,
and today they will scout the
Atlantic Highlands, Chesapeake
Bay, and every other possible
place of refuge that may be act
ing as a harbor for the kidnapers
and their precious cargo.
Coast Guard to Board
All Strange Yachts
NORFOLK. Va„ March 26 (I.
N.S.). —Orders were issued today
to the Sixteenth U. S. Coast
Guard bfcts operating around
Norfolk ro board every strange
yacht that appears in Chesapeake
waters.
The orders were issued by
Comdr. W. A. Benham and fol
lowed reports that the missing
Lindbergh baby is secreted on a
boat somewhere in the Chesa
peake Bay region. Commander
Benham said:
“If a strange or off-season
yacht appears in these waters,
it will be boarded for inspec
tion under present conditions.
Boarding a vessel could not be
interpreted as a direct lead,
but because of the season, any
yacht appearing in these parts
will be automatically suspect,”
Commander Benham explained
that at this season most yachts
y Britain rrirr-rd.
and pleasure boats are in Florida
waters and do not begin to make
Norfolk until late April or early
May. He added:
“The Coast Guard could not
arrest those aboard a suspected
vessel—even by force, if neces
sary—long enough for a report
to be made. The word ‘suspi
cious’ can be defined as apply
ing to any vessel that does not
advertise obviously the work it
is engaged in under its license.”
Rumors that the missing child
might be held aboard a boat in
Chesapeake waters first spread
when the Rev. Dodson Peacock,
dean of Grace Episcopal Church,
here; John H. Curtis, shipbuilder,
and Rear Admiral Guy Burrage,
U. S. N„ retired, went to Hope
well, N. J., this week to consult
Colonel Lindbergh.
It was reported that Dr. Pea
cock had been approached by
representatives of the kidnapers
with a view to his acting as an
intermediary in the baby’s return.
MACK O WED
ON MULE
BOSTON, March 26 (1.N.5.).
Under questioning by police at
Charles Street Jail today, Harry
W. Mack, who claims the “Purple
Gang” of Detroit has the Lind
bergh baby hidden in the Far
West, admitted his story had been
given to Department of Justice
agents in Canada some time ago
and nothing ever came of it.
Mack, who claimed he was a
school friend in Glasgow, Scot
land, of Miss Betty Gow, the
nurse at the Lindbergh home,
said he had revealed in detail the
information, which, he said, was
given him by a prisoner named
Fontaine, and a cellmate.
After a checkup of various an
gles of his story, as previously told
at Windsor (Ontario) prison,
police said they were skeptical.
New Jersey State police were re
ported on their way here to
question Mack. Deputy super
intendent of Police James A. Mc-
Devitt had communicated with
Col. Norman Schwarzkorf, head
of the New Jersey police.
Brought from Windsor, Ont., on
a default warrant, after Secretary
of State Stimson and Department
of Justice agents had facilitated
his extradition. Mack gave the
same address in Hartford, Conn.,
credited to Henry <Red) Johnson,
friend of Miss Betty Gow. the
Lindbergh baby’s nurse.
HARTFORD,' Conn., March 26
(I.N.S.).—The story of Harry W.
Mack, held in Boston, that he can
I solve the Lindbergh baby kidnap
. ing, is “only another one of his
; pipe dreams,” Mrs. Suzie B. Mc-
Kay, his wife, told International
News Service here today. She
said:
“He never knew anybody
whose name has been men
tioned in connection with the
kidnaping. I think he is trying
to get himself deported to es
cape from his other troubles."’
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DETROIT GANG
KING 'SEEN'
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va„
March 26.—A man, apparently
much agitated and perhaps also
slightly drunk, who answered the
published description of Harry
Fleischer, Detroit gang leader,
sought in the Lindbergh kidnap
ing case, was in Charlottesville
last night.
G. W. Sabin, night roundhouse
foreman of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad, noticed a man wait
ing on the passenger station plat
form at 8:30 last night. The man
seemed much excited, asked Sabin
about west-bound trains to De
troit. and was still there when
Sabin came around again at mid
night.
The man was about 26 years
old, wore a gray hat turned up
at the edges, was about five and
one-half feet tall, and bore a
startling resemblance to the photo
of the leader of Detroit’s purple
gang, which was published yes
terday by The Washington Times,
Sabin declared.
KIDNAPING MR
TRAILED HERE
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Thirteenth St. N. E.. and Ber
nard Lucas, of 231 Twelfth St.
N. E.
They were positive in their
identification of the man, but
said the car they had seen bore
Virginia license plates. They said
they had seen the car near Thir
teenth Street and Maryland Ave
nue Northeast as late as 3 o’clock
this mbrning. The model and
description of the car corre
sponded, however. It is possible
tags were shifted.
Several persons told police they
had seen Fleischer in Washing
ton, among them four boys who
encountered him at a rooming
house at 1363 Maryland Ave. N. E.,
all of whom made positive iden
tification of the gangster’s pic
ture at Police Headquarters.
“Purple Gang” Chief
He is prominent in the affairs
of the “Purple Gang” in Detroit.
Washington police have sent out
a general lookout for him through
the radio and teletype systems.
According to the story told by
the four boys at the Maryland
Avenue address, Fleischer came
there looking for a room but
couldn’t be accommodated be
cause the place was filled.
They said he looked “pretty
tough” and that he had a band
age across his head.
The boys are Howard Wolfrey,
son of the lodging house keeper;
Bernard Ockerhauser, 327 Thir
teenth St. N. E.; Alexander
Mackie, 1204 C St. N. E., and
Everett Lucas, 231 Twelfth St.
N. E.
The boys gave good descriptions
of the two men in the party, but
said they did not get a good look
i at the woman and the child. i
NEW WET FIGHT
SET IN HORSE
Defeated in efforts to legalize
beer via the tax bill route, House
wets planned to seek action by
the Ways and Means Committee
on the Hull-O’Connor beer bill.
Representative Cullen <D.). of
New York, head of the Tammany
delegation in the House, declared
today he would seek a favorable
report from the committee, of
which he is a member. He said;
“I anticipate being voted
down and on April 7 will pre
sent a petition to the House
discharging the committee and
get a vote in the House. There
should be no trouble in getting
the necessary 145 signatures re- |
quired under the new House
rules.”
April 7 affords the first oppor
tunity to circulate the discharge
petition, as 30 days must elapse
from the time a bill is referred
to a committee.
Cullen said he was gratified by
the wet strength on the teller
vote on his amendment yesterday.
2 RUM RUNNERS
HELD IN CHASE
Captured after a four-mile
chase at a mile-a-minute through
the northeast section last night,
two colored men today were held
for the Grand Jury under bond
totaling SIO,OOO each, following a
hearing before Police Court Judge
Isaac R. Hitt, on charges of
operating a smoke screen and
transporting liquor.
Policeman R. Schleichert and
Prohibition Agent K. O. Speiss
said they started to chase two
automobiles at Sheriff Road and
the District line. They followed
them by a circuitous route to
Benning Road near Bladensburg
Road Northeast, where one of
the cars crashed into a machine
driven by Albert Herbert, of Seat
.Pleasant, Md.
During the chase, the police
said, one of the cars belched
forth clouds of dense smoke. In
that car, police say, was found
245 gallons of liquor. The driver
escaped, but Andrew Stanfield,
24. of 1902 Ninth St. N. W.. a
passenger, was arrested, as was
Frederick Grice, 30, of 2105 Seven
teenth St. N. W., driver of the
other car.
Police said the car driven by
Grice was a decoy to detract at
tention from the other machine.
Alligood Finds Car
Stolen Early in 1931
Alexandria police today were
notified by Detect, ve Frank Alli
good of the Washington auto
squad that he has recovered the
automobile of George Hammer.
713 Nineteenth St. N. W„ which
was stolen in Alexandria. Janu
ary 30. 1931. The car was
found in an abandoned garage.:
TAe National Daily
BORAH REFUSES
TO SUMMON
LOESCH
Asst. U. S. Attorney in Chicago
Told to Get Redress in
Courts, Not in Senate
Tlie demand of Assistant
United Stages Attorney Wil
liam Parrillo, of Chicago, that
the Senate Judiciary Commit
tee investigate “extravagant
charges’’ by Frank J. Loesch,
president of the Chicago Crime
Commission, was refused to
day by Senator Borah (R.) of
Idaho, chairman of a subcom
mittee inquiring into the quali
fications of Federal Judge
James IL Wilkerson.
Borah made public a telegram
from Parrillo charging Loesch was
making a “vicious attask on my
personal integrity” and demand
ing a Senate inquiry. Borah re
plied that the Senate’s only in
terest was to “pass upon the
fitness of Judge Wilkerson.” He
referred Parrillo to the local
J courts in Chicago.
U. S. Attorney Subpoenaed
On Loesch Charges
CHICAGO. March 26 (1.N.5.).
The abortive plan by which Al
“Scarface” Capone had hoped to
win a moderate sentence for in
come tax evasion leaped back into
the limelight today as United
States District Attorney George
E. Q. Johnson prepared to depart
for Washington to testify before
a Senate committee.
Johnson last night received a
summons to appear before a sub
committee of the Senate Judiciary
I Committee, which is considering
j the nomination of Federal Judge
I James H. Wilkerson to the ap
i pellate bench.
Loesch Letter Reason
The district attorney’s testi-
I mony, it was believed, is sought
by the Senate committee in con
l nection with a letter written to
Senator Borah, chairman, by
Frank J. Loesch, president of the
Chicago crime commission.
This letter, voicing grave
charges of underworld attempts
to influence the Federal judiciary
and other officials, today had re
sulted in a $250,000 slander suit
against Loesch and announce
ment that the veteran crime com
mission head will be summoned
before a Federal grand jury to
I elucidate his accusations.
The praecipe to the slander
| suit was filed yesterday by As
sistant District Attorney William
i Parrillo.
ZEP RETORNING
TO GERMANY
PERNAMBUCO, Brazil March
26 (I.N.S.).—The Graf Zeppelin
was freed from her mooring mast
I at 1 a. m. today and headed east-
I ward for a flight across the At
| lantic and up the African coast
to her home hangar at Fried
i richshafen, Germany.
RIO DE JANEIRO. March 26
j (1.N.5.). —The Graf Zeppelin
I passed over the Island of Fernando
at 5:40 a. m. local time (3:40 a.
in. eastern standard time) today.
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Neb., who is believed to have
been kidnaped while waiting
for a bus to take her from Cen
; tral City to Aurora. Her
, parents received a note demand
ing SI,OOO ransom. Photo by
International News Photo
I Service.
LAUREL MORRISON
SATURDAY—MARCH 26—1932
Husband Rules
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PATSY RUTH MILLER
COMMENTING on the report
that Ann Harding, screen
actress, will get a divorce from
her actor husband, in order to
further his career. Patsy Ruth
Miller, former screen star, de
clared that the husband should
dominate the home. The screen
star, the wife of Tay Garnett,
of New York, succesfully com
bined a career and matrimony.
UNION TO CHINA
SEENBYPD-YI
By 3DWARD HUNTER
(Copyright. 1932. by International
News Service.)
CHANGCHUN. March 26 (1.N.5.)
Prediction that the new inde
pendent state of Manchuria may
some day be amalgamated with
China proper was made today by
Henry Pu-Yi, new ruler of the
domain.
It was the first interview Pu-Yi
had granted to any correspondent
since his inauguration as Emperor-
President—a title which he re
vealed is distasteful to him.
Pu-Yi, the last of the Manchu
emperors of China, who was de
posed with creation of the Chinese
republic and lived in retirement
until Japan jerked him out of
obscurity to rule Manchuria, said:
“We have no intention for
the present of restoring an
empire. We just want to help
the people. Therefore, we are
leaving the future to be decided
by the will of the neople.
“Manchuria has become a
separate country, but it is not
impossible that Manchuria and
Uhina may come together at
some future time to be one na
tion again.”
GANGSTER GUNS
KILLWOMAN
NEW YORK, March 26 (1.N.5.).
Gangsters in a speed sedan raked
a Harlem street with machine
gun bullets today.
Mrs. Lulu Miller, a colored
woman on her way to work, was
accidentally shot in the back by
the assassins and died soon
afterwards.
Frank Burch, 28, coming out
of an all-night resort and ap
parently the object of the attack,
was wounded in the head.
The bullets, however, missed
John Dempsey, 30, who stood
on the sidewalk and apparently
was one of the targets of the
executioners.
Crowds on the street were
thrown into a frenzy of fear.
At least 30 bullets were fired
by the gunmen.
BRYANT FINED
FOR ASSAULT
After he had withdrawn a mo
tion for a new trial. Herbert O.
Bryant, local contractor, today
was ordered by Police Court Judge
Isaac R. Hitt to pay a fine of
$l5O or serve 90 days in jail for
an assault on Mary Costello. 18-
year-old stenographer, of 4009
Marlboro Pl. N. W.
As a further condition. Judge
Hitt stipulated that Bryant should
pay the girl four weeks’ salary,
and he suspended execution of
sentence for 10 days to give him
an opportunity to meet this con
dition.
Bryant was convicted some
time ago of assaulting Miss Cos
tello after she had refused to kiss
him when she called at his office
to apply for a job.
199 Koreans Slain
In Guerilla Raid
TOKYO, March 26 (1.N.5.).
More than 100 Koreans were
killed in a guerilla raid upon
Lispuchen, railway terminus vil
lage on the eastern branch of the
Chinese Eastery railway, accord
ing to press dispatches received
here today. (
JAPAN RENEWS
HER THREAT TO
OUITLEAGUE
War Minister Says Manchuria
Is Nippon’s Affair Only;
Truce Talk Still Snagged
TOKYO, March 26 (1.N.5.).
Gen. Sadao Araki. Japanese
minister of war, declared to
day that Japan would resign
from the League of Nations
and deny its authority in
Manchuria if the league com
mission investigating the Sino-
Japanese dispute continued
to “evince ignorance” of Far
Eastern affairs and made any
efforts to interfere in the Far
East.
The war minister, however, rec
ommended that Japan wait until
the commission’s report is drafted,
although he said his country was
determined to carry out its own
policy in Manchuria despite out
side intervention.
Araki said the present Man
churian program was to be the
final need for force in that state
and that the disputes concerning
it would be settled this time for
all time.
Shanghai Peace Parley
Remains in Snarl
By DIXON HOSTE
SHANGHAI, March 26 (I.N.S).
The question of withdrawal of
Japanese troops continued to hold
up Sino-Japanese peace negotia
tions today, despite the fact that
the Japanese made concessions
from demands which yesterday
nearly broke down the present
parleys.
The Japanese agreed to a spe
cial subcommittee session this
afternoon to withdraw their tioops
to form a new line from Woosung
through Kiangwan to Chapei, or.
roughly, along the Shanghai-Woo
sung railway.
Chinese Adamant
The Chinese remained adamant,
however, stating that such a pro
posal did not comply witn the
Japanese promise to withdraw
within the lines of the Interna
tional Settlement, and therefore
no agreement was reached.
Both the general conference
and the subcommittee adjourned
until Monday. The subcommittee
was formed yesterday to settle
the withdrawal problem.
Steiwer Bill Seeks
Aid for Legion Meet
A bill by Senator Frederick
Steiwer 'R 1 Oregon, himself a
World War veteran, authorizing
the Secretary of War to lend
blankets, sheets, pillow cases,
pillows, cots and mattresses to
the Oregon Legion Convention
Commission for use during the
annual convention of the Amer
ican Legion at Portland next
September, today was on the way
to Senate approval.
The Military Affairs Committee
decided yesterday to report favor
ably the Steiwer bill for the com
fort of the veterans when they
meet in the “City of Roses” on
the Pacific Coast.
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Celebrities Disagree
With Ann Harding
NEW YORK. March 26.—
Neither husband nor wife loses
individuality by being married
to a famous person, several
celebrities, who are married to
equally celebrated life partners,
insisted today.
They vigorously denied that
marriage interferes with careers,
the reason given by Ann Hard
! ing and Harry Bannister for
| their pending separation.
Florenz Ziegfeld, noted pro
| ducer. whose new show. “Hot-
Cha,” is one
of the reig
ing h i t s of
j Br oadw ay,
1 called such a
I reason for
J ending ma r
j riage “incred
i ible.” For
i many years
he has been
marri e d to
j Billie Burke,
\ famous act
i ress. He said:
i “The fact
that we
are both
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personaltities in our own right
has never interfered with our
marriage.”
i George Palmer Putnam, pub
lisher. who is married to the
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AMELIA EARHART
Mary Pickford, one of the great
figures of the motion picture
world, and
the wife of
Douglas Fair
ban ks, be
lieves that
such situa
tions can only
be judged by
the persons
| con cern ed.
She said:
“You can’t
make a gen
eral rule. It’s
entirely a n
indivi d u a 1
matter. O f
course, all the
l" Ai
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MARY PICKFORD
world knows how long I’ve been
happily married to Douglas
Fairbanks, without either be
coming subordinated, or the
career of either suffering.”
Revolutionary Move
To Be Asked of Labor
BLACKPOOL. England. March
26 (1.N.5.). —The adoption of a
revolutionary policy was to be
asked at the conference of the
Independent Labor Party opening
here today. Leaders were to seek
abandonment of the reformist
policy in order to obtain freedom
of action In their relationship
with the official labor party.
ZIEGFELD
aviatrix, Ame
lia Earh art.
has the same
point of view.
He said:
“I can’t
under stand
such a cause
for ending a
marriage. Our
marriage, i t
seems to me,
has helped
each of us in
our individual
career s,
rather than
interfered.”