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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-12
False Impression Given

raise impression 0IVon
OUR relations with the Soviet
" have been plagued and spoiled
by false Interpretation of Soviet
problems and Soviet aims. We have
taken Communism in Russia to
mean the same thing as Commun-
ism in America, and have appraised
the Soviet by what we know about
few Soapbox orators
Russia really is developing state
capitalism. Outside of the fact
that they are run by public instead
Of private officials, her banks,
manufactures, railroads, wholesale
houses and retail stores are con-
Quoted much like our own.
Her transactions are carried out
on money basis and with elabor-
ate bookkeeping systems. While
private or personal profit plays a
smaller part than among us, each
business and department must more
than pay its way.
The wage system so has been re-
vised and arranged as to offer re-
ward for merit, experience and
ability.
Scientific management is taking
the place of proletarian blah-blah
Russia Is slowly but surely evolv-
ing real business set-up.
Curiously enough, she is copying
American methods more closely
than those of any other nation.
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Inc real trouble with government seems to b,
that we have too few ideals and too many deals
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wasting his time in Washington for mere $4,000.
The Cincinnati ball club was organized in 1858
an expert tells And just one look at the National
League standings will convince ANYBODY that it acts
its age.
New York surgeon succeeded in grating a small
bone taken from the back of the head of patient.
If he only could that process for our politi
clans!
Ihe real purpose of vacations is to give workers
change physician says. The way it usually works
out though the vacationis gets back without change
of any kind.
An employer says that labor won't be satisfied
long with the flve-day week. What the workers will
eventually ask for is the fve-day weekend.
From the action of the bulls in the market these
days 1t looks as if the isn't the only animal with
minimum of nine lives
farmer-economist says the wheat pit is the
greatest gambling place in the world And all these
years we thought the greatest gamble was the ballot
Florida fruit growers just have learned that sand
is good preservative for grapefruit Well they must
be long way behind the spinach growers.
The r. F. G. seems likely to change that old cam
palgn slogan OF Two Cars in Every Garage to Two
Mortgages on Every Home
another thing the depression has changed: More
passengers killed now in freight than in passenger
train wrecks.
The real trouble with government seems IN he
that we have too few ideals and too MANY deals
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
Liquor Spilled Down Cops
Sleeve Dried Up but 1t
Didn't Matter.

Magicians can get away with
pulling cards and other objects
from their sleeves, but when a po-
liceman pours liquor from the sleeve
of his coat it spells trouble, Jake
Christoff, 712 North Ketcham
street, learned Monday when
criminal court jury convicted him
of liquor possession and operating
a nuisance
He was fined 5000 and sentenced
to 100 days at the penal farm. Mo-
ton for a new trial was filed and
Christoff was released on $1,000
bond.
Christoff's restaurant at 901 North
Illinois street was raided in Novem-
Der by Sergeant Wayne Bear and
squad, including patrolman Ed
Moore. It was alleged that, as the
officers entered, Christoff seized a
glass containing liquor and, in the
struggle with Moore, its contents
spilled in his coat sleeve. He drained
the sleeve, obtaining about a thin
bleful of what was alleged to be
liquor.
Tried before S. G. Bodner, munich
pal Judge pro tem Christoff was
convicted and a fine 500 larger
than assessed by the criminal court
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
Staying is MYSTERY
Five Held for Questioning
in NEGRO Woman's Death.

Five Negroes we're arrested on
vagrancy counts in connection with
the Staying early today of Mrs.
Anna M. Watts, AZ, Negro, of 1910
North Senate avenue.
The woman's body was found in
an alley in the rear of $50 Superior
street, home of the five persons, two
men and three women, who are I'M
der arrest.
Police we're without clews of the
manner of death, and investigation
was launched by DR.. A. J, King,
deputy coroner.
The woman's husband, Isaac
Watts, told Sergeant Harry Schley
and members Of a police emergency
squad that his wife left home late
Monday afternoon to mail letter
Mrs. Gertrude johnson Of $50 SUI
perior street, said she gave Mrs.
Watts a chunk of meat later in the
evening. Police said the meat was
found on a table at the home of the
five persons held as suspects.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
Rheumatic Cripples
New Medicine Guaranteed to Free
Your Muscles and Joints in Less
Than a Week or Money Back.

No matter how crippled and help
less you are with rheumatism; no mat
ter how great your suffering; you can
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No long. discouraging wait while you
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SO many once helpless rheumatic
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freed from rheumatic agony by Ru-Ma
that FCWcS1 Dependable Drug Stores
and other local druggists invite you to
try Ru-Ma under an ironclad guaran-
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by tearing off bits of his flesh
with pliers.
When he was unable to stand
this any longer, he consented to
telephone and arrange for the
payment Of $4,000, after which he
was released.
T.
Guy OWENS, an influential
- underworld figure, had to
pay the kidnapers heavily. He
was captured by gang that came
down from Chicago, and before he
was turned loose he not only had
to turn over a good deal of money,
but also had to agree to let the
Chicagoans share in the profits
Of some of his enterprises.
Those are samples of the things
that have happened in Kansas
City.
In st. Louis there have been
fourteen spectacular kidnapings
lately. Those kidnapped included
a capitalist, an extremely wealthy
physician, a 13-year-old boy who
IS heir to millions, four rich mer-
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chants and seven wealthy gam
blers.
Ransons totaling $563,O0O we're
demanded in these fourteen cases.
How much, if any, of this actually
was paid is not known.
MOST spectacular of these
1Vl cases was that of DR.. Isaac
Kelley, who was enticed from his
home late at night by a fake
phone call and who was held
prisoner for eight days, while
$150,00O was demanded as ran
som. DR.. Kelley finally was
released to newspaper reporter.
The physician and members of
his family stoutly deny that any
money was paid.
The boy who was kidnapped
was young Adolphus Busch Ortiz
vein, grandson of August A.
Busch, of the Anheuser-Busch
brewing concern. He was alb
Quoted by a Negro who seems to
have been playing a lone hand.
A newspaper reporter also
brought about his release, and the
Negro was caught and sentenced
to ten wears in prison.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
URGES CAUTION
ON APPRAISALS
Wedeking Says LevieS Must
Be Cut With Assessments.
BIZ Times SpeciaL

81 1tmeS SpectnG
NEW HARMONY, Ind, March 8.
Warning against reductions in
land assessments for taxation pur-
poses, without slashing govern
mental expenditures, was sounded
by Albert j. Wedeking, chairman of
the state highway commission, in all
address at the annual banquet Of
the Chamber of Commerce.
Wedeking pointed out the gasoline
tax as the most equitable form of
levy and that utilities are receiving
undue favors under the present set
up.
"One of the factors that make the
gasoline tax so popular is that every
person pays in proportion to the
amount he uses the roads, and when
he pays, he has q feeling every other
person using gasoline also is pay
ing" he said.
Contrast this situation where the
gas taxpayer is satisfied that he
receives proper returns in roads
built for his convenience and the
furtherance of his business, to The
farmer who pays taxes on farm
which did not produce enough last
year to pay expenses.
Then compare his situation with
prosperous utility which, under
the law, is guaranteed a certain re-
turn on his investment, but which is
not taxed on the basis of fair value.
Solution of the problems can be
expedited by making each tax dollar
collected do more work than it now
does.
"Reappraisal of land and real
estate on a lower assessed valuation
will result only for increasing the
tax rate if local government expen-
ditures are not held to a minimum
consistent with needful operation. .
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Alex Berg, rich st. Louis fur
merchant, was kidnapped while he
was driving his car along one of
the most heavily-traveled streets
of the city.
He was held captive for five
days, while his captors, after de-
manding $65, 900 in ransom money,
scaled their price to a fiat $4,000.
He eventually was released, and
his relatives insist no money was
paid.
60 menacing has the kidnapping
~ racket grown that the st.
Louis Chember of Commerce not
long ago conducted a survey of it,
and wound up by recommen ing
strict federal laws to cover the
crime. The published findings Of
their Investigators begin with the
following sentences:
kidnapping is the feature crime
of today. Big business in the I'M
derworld has turned from bank
robbery, train robbery, hijacking
and the spectacular crimes of
the past to kidnapping.
kidnapping offers high returns
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with little risk-escape and i'm
munity from prosecution ere usu-
ally a matter of merely crossing
q state boundary"
The survey covered a total of
295 kidnapping cases in cities all
over the United States.
In these cases, thirteen of the
victims were murdered In forty
six cases the victims we're trans
ported across state lines. In sew
enty cases the kidnapers were
caught. The report asserts:
kidnapping cases ordinarily in
volve a gang of eight to twelve
men. Frequently the actual alb
duction is perpetrated by crimi-
nails brought from other cities,
to render their Identification diff
ficult.
"The victim then is transported
to another state to delay and
hamper the process of detection
and capture, which permits the
kidnapers to hold their victim
safely and negotiate for ransom"
THE END.
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Mrs. Nell Quinlan DonnelIy,
shown above, head of a prosper
Gus Kansas City garment manu-
featuring concern, was realcased
by kidnapers without payment
after they had at first demanded
$4,000.
go-between, and to get from
Katz's relatives, for the kidnapers,
the sum of 100000.
Rose got in touch with Isaac
Katz, the victims brother, who
gave him the money. Rose went
to designated spot and paid it
over; an hour later Michael Katz,
unframed, was released in Kan
sas City park, with a warming that
he would be killed if he ever
helped prosecute his abductors.
n n
ISAAC KATE had had the fore
4 thought to have the ransom
bills marked, and little later some
of the money was traced to Jack
MICRO and Google Eyed" Leonard
of the notorious Egan's Rats gang
of st. Louis. They were arrested.
Michael Katz, however, at first
refused even to go to the police
station to try to identify them.
When he was finally persuaded to
do so he said that he couldn't be
sure" they were members of the
gang, and they were freed.
1t was considered an open secret
that fear of repriSal kept KATE
from testifying.
More recent was the kidnapping
of Mrs. Nell Quinlan Donnelly,
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the kidnapers if she were not re-
turned unframed.
That night she was released on
a country road near the city.
Three men and woman were
arrested in this case. One man
was tried and the jury disagreed:
the others await trial.
Harry Rothman operated a pro-
fitable booze-running line in and
about Kansas City. Kidnapers
took him and tried to force him
to pay tribute.
He refused. One day his bullet
riddled- body was found in the
woods in Kansas City suburb.
The police said they believed
his death was meant chiefly as q
warning to other underworld fig
ures that the kidnapping ring
meant business.
Freddie Strauss, former gam
bier, made a fortune by specula-
ton in Oklahoma oil lands. He
was seized as he walked down
Kansas City street and taken to
a house on the edge of town
where the gangsters Tortured him
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
BAND TO HONOR S0USA
Marines Will Escort Late Leader
to His Grave Thursday.

bV JHIttU FTtoS
WASHINGTON, March 8-The
famous band he once conducted
will escort John Philip Sousa on
his last march.
The United States marine band,
the Presidents own, arranged today
to follow the body Ct the famous
musician at his funeral Thursday
A naval firing squad, a company
of sailors and one of marines viii
be detailed for the procession.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
CITES SELF HELP NEED
Psychologist Asserts Most of Human
Troubles Lie Within.

"Eighty-seven per cent Of the
people who come to me for help,
asserted David Seabury, psychologist
and writer, in lecture at Caleb
Mills hall Monday night, believe
their troubles are caused by some
thing outside of themselves. 1t is
their wives, husbands, mothers-in-
law, children, business, neighbors,
and a hundred other things, but
never themselves.
Their problem is not one of en-
vironment, but of the relation of
the individual to the environment
His first problem is to correct the
condition in himself"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
WHEAT GIFT APPROVED

By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 8.-Forty
million bushels of wheat lay in
warehouses today awaiting tech
nical arrangements to be ground
into flour for the unemployed.
President Hoover late Monday
signed a bill to turn over that
amount of government-owned wheat
to the Red Cross for distribution.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
DEATH CLAIMS
MRS. STEIN ST.,
CITY RESIDENT
Funeral Rites to Be Held
Wednesday at 2 for
Pioneer Woman.

Mrs. Theodore Stein Sr., 10, of
432 East Fall Creek boulevard, life
long city resident, died Monday at
her home after weeks illness.
Funeral services will be held in
the Flanner 81 Buchanan NOR
tuary, 25 West Fall Greek boulevard,
at 2 Wednesday, with burial in
Crown Hill.
Survivors are a daughter, Miss
Pauline Stein; a son, Theodore Stein
Jr.; granddaughter, Mary Helen
Stein; two sisters, Mrs. Lena Mum
menhoff and Mrs. oscar D. Bohlen,
and two brothers, William F. Kuhn
Of Indianapolis and Charles j.
Kuhn Of San Francisco, Cal.
Funeral services for Walter Carl
ton Young, Sc, we're to be held at
] this afternoon at his home. IS
South Bradley street. Mr.. Young
died Monday.
Mr.. Young was born in Illinois,
and came to Indianapolis when a
boy. The widow, Mrs. Lillian May
Young, survives him. Burial will
be in Kansas City, Mo.
Traction Employe Dies
David H. Griffin, So, a resident Of
indianapolis all his life, and for
thirty-two years a motorman for
the Indianapolis Street Railway
Company, died Monday at his home,
1888 Dawson street.
Funeral services will be held at 2
Thursday in the J. c. Wilson fu-
neral home, 1880 Prospect street.
Burial will be in Crown Hill ceme-
terry.
Funeral services were to be held
at 2 this afternoon for Mrs. Eliza
keith Meyers, 81, who died Saturday
at her home, 946 West Thirtieth
street. The Rev. Aubrey H. Moore,
pastor Of the Seventh Christian
church, will officiate. She had been
i'll two years.
Mrs. Meyers was born on a farm
northwest of the city. She had
lived in Marion county all her life.
Burial will be in Crown Hill ceme-
terry.
Former Merchant Succumbs
John S. Wilson, GA, of 2419 Cen
trail avenue, died Monday at st.
Vincent's hospital.
Born in Clarksburg, he entered
the furniture business in Green's
burg when he was 81, and came to
Indianapolis five years ago. He
was a member of the Odd Fellows
lodge. Funeral and burial will be
held Wednesday in Greensburg.
ApopleXy caused the death Mon
day of Mrs. Ida Harding, 81, at her
home. 2511 East Washington street.
Mrs. Harding had lived in Indian
apolis twenty years. She was born
in Trimble county, Kentucky.
Funeral services will be held at
2 Wednesday in the East Park M.
f. church, Of which she was a
member. Burial will be in Memorial
Park.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
VAN NUYS ON THE STUMP
Senatorial Candidate VIII Speak
Hero Thursday Night.

Two speeches will be made this
week in Marion county by Frede-
rick Van Mugs, candidate for the
Democratic nomination for United
States senator.
He will speak in Castleton
Wednesday night and at the River
side Democratic Club, at the Olym-
pic clubroons, East Riverside drive
and Pruitt street, Thursday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
LARRABEE WILL
FACE WET IN
PRIMARY RACE
Frank BornS Will Contest
Congress denomination;
Others File.

Fight on prohibition will be
taken into the Democratic con-
gressional primary in the new
Eleventh district it was indicated
today with filing for national rep
resentative by Frank Borns. former
state representative from Marion
county.
Borns will battle the incumbent,
Representative William H. LARA
bee, who was elected to congress
from the old Sixth district, but
who. under the 1881 gerryn1ander,
must make the campaign from the
new Eleventh, which includes Mad
ison, Hancock and the east part of
Marion county.
Voices Wet Plank
In making his announcement,
BornS who was a member of the
1925-1927 legislatures. declared he
had no remedy that will cure all ills,
but that in his opinion modification
fthe Volstead act will rescue gov
ernmental expenditures and go
long way to the return of pros
perity.
Larrabee already has filed for re-
nomination. Other congressional
aspirants who registered their in
tnetionS with Frank Mayr Jr., sec
rotary of state, are: Vernon D.
Boren of Hammond, seeking the
Democratic nomination from the
First district, and Carl Thompson
of Richmond. seeking the Repub-
lican nomination from the new
Tenth.
Garfield to File
Word was received from Wash
ington today that Harry c. Can
field of Batesville, congressman
from the old Fourth district, soon
will file for the Democratic nom
ination from the new Ninth. Can
field is serving his fifth term.
State Senator James j. Neidl OF
Whiting, veteran of many sessions.
and leader of the fight in the upper
house for the passage of the old
age pension bill during the 1881
session, was one of a number filing
for the state senator nomination.
Eighty-siX candidates, eighty
three of which we're seeking pre-
cinct committeeman posts, filed at
the courthouse here Monday.
Those filing for major Offices
were:
James E. Flaherty, 213 St. Joseph street.
I Democrat ebCriHs
1888 Central avenue, former superintendent
of the Marion county hospital for the in
sane. Republican. county commissioner
/ Second district and George o. Lehman.
4903 Winthrop avenue, Democrat, state
representative.
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nies in Hotel Room

George F. Freeman, Sc, who reg
istered Monday at a downtown
hotel, died in his room early today
of heart disease. A shipment from
an express Office at Louisville, adj
dressed to him, arrived shortly after
he registered. He carried member
ship cards in the K. of P. lodge and
local No. % of the iron workers
union.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-08
ORDERS BANK PROBE
Gibson Judge Takes Cognizance OF
Owensv;IIe Case.
BIZ Times Special


PRINCETON, Ind, March g.
Probe of the closing of the Owens
vile State bank Dec. 20. was or
dered today by Judge Claude A.
Smith of the Gibson circuit court.
Smith Informed members of the
local grand jury that deposits were
accepted by the institution when, he
said some one must have known
the bank was h0pelessly insolyent."
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1870 DAYS AND FINE,
JOLT FOR LOGGER

jury and with the same number of
days, was fixed as the penalty.
Christoff appealed.
No liquor was offered in evidence
in criminal court and it was said it
had dried up"
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NIoW Mrs. ponnelly was pror

NTOW Mrs. Donnelly was promi-
IN nent in a political faction
which was powerful in the Italian
section of the city.
And after little while, Kansas
City underworld leaders-who pro-
tested Indignantly to the police
that some rank outsiders pulled
his Joliet it be known that the
underworld itself would go after
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John Soy, reputedly wealthy
st. Louis gambler, fell into the
hands of kidnapers and never
has said what it cost him to
escape. Berg's family insist
that nothing was paid for his
release.
founder and head of a prosperous
garment manufacturing company
This case has one or two unusual
and instructive angles.
Mrs. Donnelly was kidnapped as
she drove home from her office
one night, and was locked up in
cabin fifteen miles out of Kan
sas City for forty-two hours while
a note was sent to her husband
and her lawyers demanding SIS
900 and announcing that she
would be killed if payment we're
not made.
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BY BRUCE CATION
NEA Service Writer

NOWHERE has the menace of
L ' the well-organized racket of
kidnapping been more evident in the
last year than in Missouri's two
leading cities, st. Louis and Kan
sas City.
Kansas City, perhaps, has fur
nished the more spectacular cases
of the two-and st. Louis gen.
orally is believed to have fur
nished the more dangerous kid
napers.
The loose but effective organiza-
ton by which little groups of des-
.peradoes in widely separated cities
have transformed kidnapping into
a racket of national ramifcations
seems to have one of its most
effective centers in st. Louis. A
good many Of the crimes that
have stirred Kansas City during
the last few months are believed
to have been the work Of st.
Louis hoodlums.
Kansas City police estimate that
kidnapers have collected fully half
a million dollars in that city with
in recent years.
AS has been the case elsewhere,
the bulk of these cases are cases
in which underworld characters
have been the victims.
Almost everywhere, the racke-
teers have started their operations
cautiously, victimizing men who
they knew would never complain
to the police-gamblers, vice syn
dictate chiefs, booze dealers, and
so on.
d ECENTLY, in Kansas City, as
~ in Detroit and Chicago, they
have broadened their activities to
include law-abidnig citizens, peo-
pie Of wealth and prominence.
One Of the most startling cases
in Kansas City was the kidnap-
ing Of Michael Katz, head of the
city's largest drug firm.
Katz was driving alone to his
office one morning when a large
car overlook him and forced his
roadster to the curb. -Four men
jumped out and hustled him into
their machine.
There they sealed his eyes with
adhesive tape, hurried him far
into the country and imprisoned
him in lonely house, while one
Of the gang telephoned to Louis
Rose, a well-known man about
town." ordering him to act as
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