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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-13
City's Public Works Plans
Provide Jobs for 5000

Sketch of flood wall plan on Page 81
Three federal aid public improve
ment projects for Indianapolis
would provide work for 5000 men
at a minimum wage of IS cents an
hour over a period of two years
according to conclusions announced
today, after conferences of federal
state, and city engineers, who ap-
proved plans.
The projects are:
Construction Of a flood prevention
wall along the east bank of White
river from West Washington street
north to junction of the river with
the creek, and continuing east
along the south bank of the creek
to point just beyond Indiana
avenue.
improvement Of Sixteenth street
from Northwestern avenue to Hard
ing street.
Widening of West street from the
Bluff road north to Northwestern
avenue and from that point to the
Michigan road north of the city.
Plans for the work have been for
warded TO Washington as the first
step in a request for federal money.
Details Of the river and creek
food prevention wall project in
clude an estimate that it. alone
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WORLD PUBLIC WORK
PROGRAM SMASHED
Employment Move Branded
Experiment in Farley.
BIZ I nftcd Press

BIZ nited Press
LONDON, July 13.-Great Britain
today smashed the United States
dream of an internationally CO.
ordinated public works program to
raise employment
In declaration to the economic
commission of the world economic
conference, Walter Runciman. presi-
dent of the Board of Trade. in
formed the delegates that England
could not and would not join in
further experiments of this nature.
The proposal, following some
lines of President Roosevelts price
raising campaign, was shattered late
today-and may not be heard of
again until after sterilization has
been accomplished-whe the COM
mission approved suggestion to
postpone consideration of this phase
Of an international program.
A resolution backed by H. Collin
OF Holland, not to establish the
subcommittee on public works I'M
til the monetary commission is in
a position to join lis in that work, -
effectively ended the controversy
when it was passed by the commits
sion.
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The next day they drove me to
another place. 1t was about an
hour and a half's drive away. 1
think this was a farmhouse. I
could hear roosters crow. That
was the way 1 could tell when a
new day began. I heard COWS low
ing in the distance.
The place must have been near
a railroad line, because 1 heard
the whistles of passing locomo-
tives and the hum of high-speed
interMban trains.
4 T first, they gave me my meals
1 n fairly regularly, but I couldn't
eat the food. 1t was terrible 1
was nauseated and for the last
five days l hardly could swallow a
bite.
The cot where I was supposed
to sleep was filled with vermin.
There was no chance to sleep. My
only rest came when I sank back
into the sleep of exhaustion.
1 thought I would go crazy dur
ing the long wait for freedom
The gang took turns at question
ing me. They wanted to know
all about my business.
If 1 didn't answer questions
to their satisfaction, they showed
machine guns into my ribs and
said they would let loose if 1
didn't tell everything. Nothing I
said satisfied them. They called
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Drills? Yep, but No Pay
Indiana Militia Will Pound Parade Grounds,
Sign Wage Slips-That's All.

Leach, chief of the federal militia
bureau.
Leach is on an inspection tour
of guard units and landed at the
National Guard airport in one of
the new Douglass O-38D army
planes.
Originally the federal govern
ment sought to cut pay drills to
twelve, but the adjutant- generals
association finally secured APPROX
al for a program of thirty-six
They then went on record as ia
vorlng the regular forty-eight
drills, as in the past
The free drills will have TO be
The free drills Will have to be
ones. Straub explained. The whole
procedure will weed out the gold
bricks and show who really is in
terested in the guard, he con-
tended.
There is waiting list for both
officers and enlisted men, he de-
clared.
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PEPPER COOLED
OFF BY POLICE
That BeIIigerent Gentleman
Challenges Three Squads
of Cops: Gets Rides.

Il can whip any one of you guys,
announced Robert Pepper, As, who
lives in the rear of 1918 South SEN
ate avenue, when three police
squads closed in on that address to-
day on a burglar report.
They found Pepper had been re-
tanned by the wife of couple sun
dered by domestic difficulties, who
was beating her mate to removal of
the furniture. Pepper was just help
ing.
AS hot tempered as his name i'm
plies, Pepper chose" Lieutenant
Dan Scanlon as his first antagonist
police said. Scanlon is about twice
as hefty as Pepper and merely
laughed.
Then Pepper, police said, offered
to battle Sergeant Martin Fahey
who also boasts a substantial ton
mage. Fahey joined in the laughter
No blows were struck, but Pepper
was popped forcibly into a chair
while the officers questioned him
He greeted each question, police
said, with stream of vituperation
which cast doubts on their ancestry,
their general intelligence, and their
courage.
In fact, they assert, he covered
practically every available point
that might occur to master in the
art of BillingSgate.
Investigating in Peppers lodging
at the rear of the Senate avenue
address, they found three loaded
pistols, police said. They booked
Pepper for resisting an officer, I'M
lawful possession of firearms, and
profanity.
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Factor Pays Ransom

! By Hited Press
CHICAGO. July 13.-John Jake
the Barber Factor, internationally
notorious f1nancier. today told the
United Press he paid $4,000 in SO
and $50 bills for lbs release from the
hands Of kidnapers who held him
captiev twelve days.
The money, he said, was trans
ferred at the city limits of Chicago
in broad daylight with friends of
tn eEnglish stock promotion con-
tasting the kidnapers
1t was learned, however, that the
$4,000 constituted only the first
payment on the ransom demands
and that more must be paid later.
Emaciated and famished after
twelve days in the hands of the kid
napers, Factor returned to his luxu-
rious hotel here today to tell his
story of torture, mistreatment and
threatened death
Barely able. to humble the details
Of his captivity, Factor was carried
into his hotel, and immediately
placed in bed Physicians admin
istered sedatives and pronounced
him in serious condition.
The dapper brokers' face was
black with a matted growth of
beard. His features were haggard
and weary. His eyes were bloodshot.
and he constantly shielded them
from the light, explaining he had
been blindfolded ever since his abb
duction July / from a northwest side
roadhouse.
His steady nerves, cool even when
he traded millions of dollars in
LaSalle street brokerage dealings.
were shattered and jumpy.
Life Is Threatened
He repeatedly was threatened
with death by machine guns, one
at his breatst and another at his
back, he said, and on other occa-
sions the kidnapers threatened to
cut off his ears with scissors which
| they shipped close to his head.
Factor was released late Wednes-
day night in downtown La Grange,
a suburb fifteen miles west of Chi
cago. When asked if any money
was paid for his freedom, Factor
muttered no ransom
From a reliable source. however.
the United Press understood that a
ransom Of 100000 was paid. The
original demand had been s15O.0OO.
but after first negotiations collapsed
the amount was increased.
During his captivity, Factor said.
he was held at what he believed
was a farmhouse, about an hour
and a half from La Grange.
Pushed From Car Into Street
Shortly after 9 o'clock Wednesday
night he was removed from the
house and placed in car. At
busy intersection in La Grange he
was pushed from the automobile,
still blindfolded The kidnapers
gave him directions TO the La
Grange police station two blocks
distant, and sped away.
Factor tore the bandage from his
eyes, and staggered to the sidewalk.
Scarcely able to walk, he attracted
the attention Of two policemen.
They took him to headquarters and
notified his family.
He declined food. and asked for a
drink Of whisky but police we're I'M
able to furnish il.
When he arrived in Chicago. he
was met by his wife. once regarded
as one Of the best-dressed women
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BY JOHN JAKE THE BARBER FACTOR
CAS- told to the United Press


13N1y kidnapping endless nightmare
~ which
time this gang seized just after left
house until freed Wednesday night subjected
threats of death mulation. thought
get out alive
The machine breast and back they
The food they wasn't fit for dogs.
For twelve they did
like blind 1 all
had their
The kidnapers thrust whipped
oandage We for half
was seized Then they dumped
concrete basement of
with hand couldn't
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HITLER IS JEWISH,
NEWSPAPER CHARGES
Austrian Publication Begins
Series of Articles.

BIZ nited Press
VIENNE, Austria, July ia SEN
sation was caused today by publica-
ton in the newspaper Oasterreich-
ische Abendblatt of charges that
Adolf Hitler, Nazi chancellor of
Germany and sworn foe of Jews,
is a Je whimself.
The charges, which long have
been the subject of open gossip,
were made public for the first time
in the first installment CT a series
of articles purporting to substan-
tate them.
The paper claims to have sworn
documents proving that Hitler is a
member of a Jewish family of that
name which has lived in his region
for generations.
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me liar and all the foul names
they could think of.
Several times they brought in
a pair Of scissors and shipped
them close to my head.
WE'LL cut your ears off, if
you don't tell the truth" they said.
1 think they would have, too, if
they had felt like it.
NHEN they first seized me
w they asked for 100000 ran
som. I said I didn't have that
much. They didn't ask me any
more about the ransom. Several
days ago they said they had cut
the ransom to $4,000 and asked
me to put friend on the spot
for the money. 1 refused and
they cursed me.
Most of the time 1 was kept
in. this filthy bed. They had me
handcuffed and wouldn't let me
shave or clean up at all.
There must have been a dozen
or twenty men in the gang. The
tape over one eye slipped a little
bit and occasionally 1 could get a
glimpse of the room. The men
drank quite lot They amused
themselves by sitting around the
room and making threats of what
they would do to me if the ran
some wasn't paid.
Il
THE last day I was confined
Il the men appeared more
cheerful. They joked and laughed
and I gathered that they we're
about to release me. Finally night
came and they put me in a car
and drove about an hour and
half
Then they let me out of the
car. One told me how to get to
the police station and they drove
off leaving me standing on the
street corner, still blindfolded. I
ripped off the bandage and dis
covered l was in La Grange.
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FORCES Modified
TO CRUSH KIDNAP GANGS:
FACTOR PAYS $4,000, FREE
Unprecedented Attack to Be
Launched Soon on
GangdOm.
TWO VICTIMS STILL HELD
0'ConneII Clan and Friends.
of Illinois Banker Try
to Contact CaptorS.
BVF uifcd Press

By nifcd Press
The federal government
modified its gigantic police
powers for a war on kidnap-
ing today, as racketeers dis
played their contempt by re-
leasing one of their victims
on a main street and telling
him how to reach the nearest
police station.
Melvin Purvis, official of the
bureau of investigation Of the de-
partment of justice, said the gov
eminent would soon launch an I'M
precedented attack against gang
dom.
John Jake the Barber) Factor
was freed on the main street of La
Grange, III. He had been tortured
and starved by his capCors who had
held him since July l. The United
Press understood on reliable author
lty that ransom of $780, 900 was
paid.
In Albany, N. Y. the powerful
bosses of the O'ConneU Democratic
machine shooed away police and
depended upon underworld contacts
to free the heir of their clan, John
j. O'Connell Jr, "a A ransom of
between $4,000 and $4,000 was
ready for payment.
In Alton, Ill. the family of Au-
gust Luer, 77-year-old millionaire
banker, feared he might die while
IN the hands of his abductors. Many
believed contact had been estab-
llshed with the kidnapers and ram
som was about to be paid. Luer is
in delicate health.
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Italian Fleet Hops On
By United Press

By United Press
CARTWRIGHT, Labrador, July
13.-The great Italian air armada of
twenty-four seaplanes led by Gen
eral Italo Balbo continued it's epo-
chal fight toward Chicago today,
with nearly 1000 miles Of its 6,1O0-
mile flight from Italy behind it.
Pausing only overnight after
Wednesdays 1,500-mile jump from
Reykavik to Cartwright, the planes
were adjusted, the crews refreshed
by sleep and the journey to Shediac,
N. B., the next stop, started at 9:20
a m
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"All we do l. sign the pay roll,
All We do is sign the paw roll,
All We do is sign the paw roll,
And never get a doEgone cent"

This old army song became lit
orally true today under orders is
sued TO all Indiana national
guard units by Adjutant- General
Elmer F. Straub.
The order sets out that guards
men must drill forty-eight times
during the fiscal year, although
the federal government will pay
for but thirty-siX drills.
Pay rolls will be signed for the
twelve free drills, but unless the
U. S. A. changes present plans
the Hoosier soldiery will not get
a doggone cent"
Announcement of the drill
schedule was made by Straub to-
day following a visit here Wednes-
day OF Major General George E.
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CHEERS GREET
L|NDYS PLANE
AT ST. JOHNS
Newfoundland Crowd Meets
Flying Pair as They
Come Down.
LABRADOR NEXT GOAL
Bad Weather Keeps Pair
Grounded; Pleased by
Reception.
BY JOHN T. MEANEY

United Press staff CORRESPONDENT
BIG POND, Newfoundland, July
13.-Colonel and Mrs. Charles A.
Lindbergh, on route charting air
cruise over the North Atlantic,
rested here today, preparatory to
taking off for Labrador. They
landed here late Wednesday from
Halifax, N. S.
Bad weather prevented the Lind
berghs from resuming the flight to-
day. A southeast wind near gale
force, with fog and rain prevailed
along the southern section of New
.foundland. Lindbergh plans to start
for Cartwright, Labrador, as soon
as the weather clears.
The filters, following the route
Lindbergh took on his initial non
stop solo trans Atlantic flight to
Paris, brought their big barrel
bodied low winged plane down on
the still surface of this lake Wednes-
day to the cheers of hundreds
gathered for a glimpse of the fly
ing colonel"
Lands for Directions
Lindbergh missed the location OF
Big Pond, ten miles south of St.
Johns, and alighted first at Quidi-
vidi, near here. He obtained di-
rections and took off again i'm
mediately.
The plane had been sighted fly
ing over the city shortly after 4
p. m. 1t cruised around for half an
hour before coming down for
directions.
Crowds gathered in the streets TO
gaze at the Lindbergh plane, flying
low and in circles over the city.
He came down at Quidividi air
field, one mile out of st. Johns, at
430 p. M, and twenty minutes later
took off again for the brief hop to
Big Pond. He landed at Big Pond
at sos.
Police Hold Back Crowd
More than 1000 persons had mo-
tored out from ST. Johns and near
by villages to see the famous couple
land. Lindbergh wheeled the low
winged Lockheed plane over the
lake and brought its nose into the
wind. making an easy descent on its
smooth surface.
Cheer after cheer went up as the
plane touched water. The couple
could be seen seated in the open
cockpit, waving to the crowd. AS
the plane came to a halt, motor
boats put out to bring the Lind
berghs ashore for the night.
Police had a difficult time of it
holding back the crowd as the Lind
berghs came ashore. The t1iers were
welcomed with tumultuolIs shouts
of:
w lcome to Newfoundland,
Lindy!"
"A thousand welcomes, Mrs. Lind
bergh."
Indy Thanks Throng
The flying couple acknowledged
the greetings with waves and smiles
as they moved from the landing to
mOtorcar and were driven to st.
Johns.
Lindbergh, standing on the run
ming board of the motor car, thanked
the crowd for its welcome.
Thank you for the great welcome
accorded myself and Mrs. Lind
bergh," he said. I'VE had hoped for
a quiet landing away out here from
the city, but we are not resentful,
rather, We are pleasantly surprised"
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ton with the habitual criminal law.
Early in 1880, Governor Fred w.
Green committed Palms sentence
to seven and one-half to fifteen
years, and Debo recommended this
week that the minimum term be
reduced to five years and nine
months, making him eligible for i'm
mediate parole.
He is one of nearly 1900 inmates
of Michigan institutions released or
paroled since the advent Of the
Democratic administration under
Governor COmstock.
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FlREMEN GIVEN FREE
BEER IN BREWERY BLAZE
$4,000 is Estimated Loss at Cook
Plant in Evansville.

Bp HNfd PTess
EVANSVILLE Ind, July ID. = A
IRE in the supply room of the Cook
Brewery here was extinguished to-
day after causing an estimated loss
of $4,000
The loss will be much higher,
officials said, if water destroys So
600 pounds Of hops stored in the
supply room. One 350-barre batch
of 80 beer was ruined.
The blaze was believed TO have
started from spontaneous combus-
ton in the cereal room.
Firemen who battled the smoke
and flames for several hours were
given free beer to quench their
thIrSts. ~
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Michigan's Chief Executive
Releases Victim of
Stringent Law.
BIZ I nited Press

By LHited Press
LANSING, Mich, July 13.-Fred
Palm, notorious as Michigan's life
for a pint" victim. was freed today
by executive order of Governor Will
liam A. COmStOck.
Parole Commissioner w Alfred
Debo had recommended Palms re-
lease to Governor ComstOCk.
Palm was sentenced in 1927 from
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Jnghdm county 10
serve life as a
fourth offender
under the habit
ual criminal law.
The fact that his
fourth ofense
was possession of
a pint Of gin
aroused II d e.
spread comment
on the severity
of the law.
Later, the state
legislature amend
ed the law and
held that liquor
law violators we're
not to be pun
iShed IN cOnnec-
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THIEVES GIVE BARBER
SHOP CLOSE SHAVE
Burglars Loot Place of RazOrS,
Lotions Valued at S13O.

They didn't even leave me a
safety razor"
With this remark, j. T. Buehler.
6201 Broadway, ruefully surveyed
his barber shop at 1912 College
avenue today which was entered by
burglars Wednesday night.
Six razors, a $40 curling machine,
four razor strops and a large guam
tity of lotions, creams and tonic all
valued at $3.50 comprised the loot
of the thieves who entered the shop
by breaking a rear window
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CHARGED WITH THEFT
OF GRAVEYARD GATES
Indiana Resident Denies Stealing
Fence Section Found at Home.

Fence Section Found at Home.
BIZ hjted Press
KENDALLVILLE. Ind, July 49,
A charge of stealing the iron gates
of Broadway cemetery near here has
been placed against Clarence Hick-
man.
The ornamental gates disappeared
shortly after a new fence had been
built around the graveyard. They
were found at Hickman's home.
Hickman was bound over to the
Noble county circuit court when he
pleaded not guilty to the theft
charge before a justice of the peace
at Albion. He declared he found
tn gates lying on the road.
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BY ARCH STEINEI.

ing, from job to job.
Greek is new on the job.
It's his nickname. He's from
Indiana Harbor. Greek"
bumps into a man. The man
falls beneath a pile of two
by-fours.
The saws whir on. The guard APP
proaches the prone inmate.
you - and stream of oaths
abuse the fallen man.
The quart kicks the man on the
shins, curses him for his awkward
ness.
Booted by Guard
He is booted and the Indiana
state penal farm makes good its
greeting card to another prisoner
sent for reformation on a petty
ofense charge.
For when William f. Lemon of
2l3 West New York street swore to
an affidavit to the truth of the
above incident, he had served a
state farm sentence of 81 and costs
and sixty DAYS on a sentence given
on April "a by Municipal Judge
William II. Sheaffer on an assault
and battery charge.
And on his entrance to the farm
being dressed in" he received the
same verbal welcome that is eX-
tended to all prisoners.
1t is: I'VE didn't send for you
and we didn't know you were COM
ing We're willing to meet you half
way. You furnish the seat of the
pants and we'll furnish the boot"
Placed in Fish Room
Lemon and the farm met half
way,
Brought to Putnamville on the
truck, called the "dog-wagon" by
inmates, he was placed in the fish
room
The fish room is where farm
prisoners. new ones called fresh
fish are lined up to await dress
ing in"
No smoking or chewing is per-
mitted in the fish room
The new prisoner sits on long
bench. He is not permitted to talk.
If he arrives shortly before dinner,
he is fed a meal of boiled pota-
toes, corn bread, and mayhaps soup
or SUM a weak vegetable stew
prisoners are limited to twelve
minutes eating time and if they
have not finished the meal then
they must leave hungry" says one
former inmates sworn statement to
The Times.
Given His Uniform
After the meal Fresh Fish"
Lemon was taken to the dressing
room and a pair of overalls denim
Jacket pair of brogues. a cap and
suit of underwear issued to him.
Clothes are changed once a week
regardless of the filthy condition
that may develop because of the
brand of work" declares one excerpt
from a Times affidavit.
Zero weather or summer heat. the
same clothing serves the inmates,
the affidavit of one man asserts.
After dressing in. Lemon was
taken to the hospital for physical
examination.
He as well as the other fresh
fish are deloused by a Negro hos
pital porter, who sprays them. ac-
Cording to sworn statements. with a
gun Of disinfectant.
Skin is Irritated
1t contains kerosene and other
connections that burn and are irri-
tatlng TO mans bare skin" asserts
one affidavit.
In a few minutes" continues the
affidavit. every man in the line of
new men is complaining of blistered
skin
One fellow complained of the
drastic treatment and was given
rough shove by the head nurse, -.
who then ordered the porter to give
the complainer an extra shot from
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Wrestler Killed in Crash

81 HfIfN Prcss
EUTAW, Ala, July 13. - George
Kontsonaros, Greek wrestler of Los
Angeles. was killed instantly today
and John Paul Jones, another
wrestler of Houston, Tex, was in
jured when their roadster plunged
off a gravel highway and overturned
ten miles from here.
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WALES WALKS THROUGH
MUD TO DEDICATE PIER
Princes New Plane Forced Down in
Field: Gets Lift in Car.
United Press

BIZ United Press
SWANAGE, England, July 13.-
The prince of Wales was forced
down in his new plane by heavy
rain and mist today while flying to
Weymouth to open new pier and
harbor works.
The pilot descended in a wheat
field without damage to the plane.
A passing motorist hailed them
and the prince walked through
muddy fields to accept a lift in the
car. He arrived at Weymouth with
his hair tousled and his shoes COW
cred with mud.