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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01

The city gladly said farewell to-
day to one of the hottest Junes it
has experienced, with the prospect
of slightly cooler weather arriving
for tonight and Sunday.
Weekend visitors to the south
ern section of the state are likely
to encounter the same heat wave
that has stif1ed indianapolis for
days, according to j. H. Arlington,
United States weather observer.
The central ano northern por-
lions of the state are the more like
ly to get the benefit of lower tenn
perature, according to Arlington.
The forecast for the weekend is:
Slightly cloudy; local showers to-
night and Sunday; somewhat lower
temperatures"
Friday saw the June 30 heat rec
ord equaled when the mercury
touched 81 twice. A somewhat
freakish thunderstorm brought A.
degree drop in an hour, but the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01
HOURLY TEMPERATURES

ton being frustrated by the cease
less pickering of war-debt Eu-
rope, the administration will warn
Europe that if she refuses to listen
to reason, and her everlasting feuds
lead to war, she can stew in her
own juice.
g. Economically speaking, the
United States will try to make what
is right and what is fair the stand
ard of its foreign relations, but it
will insist that others hold TO the
same standard in all their dealings
touching the well-being of the
American people.
This last applies to the coming
war debt negotiations here, If and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01
Heads of 2
Closed Banks
Are Cleared
Grand Jury Report Finds No
Acts of Criminal
Nature

officers Of two defunct local
banks under investigation were
absolved of any acts Of criminal
nature in the final report of the
Marion county grand jury filed to-
day
For several weeks the grand jury
has been probing affairs of the
State Savings and Trust Company
and the Washington Bank and
Trust Company, following sensa-
tional charges made in circuit court
hearings.
The State Savings investigation
was ordered by Prosecutor Herbert
E. Wilson, following receipt of let
tiers sent by Circuit Judge Earl r
Cox to Wilson and Criminal Judge
Frank P Baker.
In his communications. Cox
charged that documentary evidence
showed that false statements had
been given by bank officers, which
If presented in their true light, would
have closed the institution two years
before its receivership.
When Informed of the grand jury
report, Cox made no comment. ex-
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01

collection task and making speeches
to business men advising them to
be sure and pass the tax on to the
consumer.
He has pointed out that even j.
P. Morgan would have to pay the
tax if he lived in Indiana, since
there are no legal loopholes. New
erthelesS, many taxpayers plan fl
ing protests with their returns in
case the law finally should be de-
clared unconstitutional.
Leroy Sanders, legal counsel for
the tax division, reported today
that protests are useless and un-
necessary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01
JAKE FACTOR is
KIDNAP VICTIM
More Than 100000 Ran.
som Believed to Be Asked
by AbductorS.
BVT ujfed Press

f'N N'ff1 fffHS
CHICAGO, July 1.-Certainty
grew today that the kdnapers of
John (Jake the BARBER Factor
known variously on two continents
as. a multi-millionaire stock broker
and super-sWindler, have contacted
his attorney and demanded a ran
som of 100000.
While police fastened on the
Touhy gang, most vigorous gunner
racketeerS of the post-Capone era,
as the most likely perpetrators of
tOday'S pre-daWn abduction at the
Dells, suburban Monte Carlo Gale
Gilbert, attorney, began an audit
Of Factors valuable securities.
Estimates of the ransom asked
ranged from 100000, the amount
demanded when the former west
side BARRIERS son Jerome was alb
Quoted some two months ago, to
100000
Ironically, Factor was seized on
his first pleasure excursion in many
weeks and on the first occasion he
had left the protection of the down
town business section.
A notorious lover of gambling and
fine food. the suave, dspper stock
promoter took chance and went
to the DellS with his wife and
Jerome and another family.
Since his son was freed by kid
naperS that police believe had moth
ing to do with today's abduction,
Factor had been unusually wary
His laughing I'm not worried about
kidnapers' proved a false note. He
was Snatched from an automobile
by nearly dozen armed men, while
Mrs. Factor, Jerome and A. l.. Ep-
stein, attorney, and those with him
looked on.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01

when held under White House au-
spices, as well as to what takes place
at London.
Recent world trends, in Europe
and Asia. are said to have con-
verted the administration to the
belief that America best can help
the world as we'll as herself, by. be-
ing practically facing the situa-
ton as it is, instead of as we would
like it 70 be.
The American policy of refrain
ing to build anywhere near up to
the naval treaty quota, for example,
is cited as total failure as an in
ternational gesture.
Instead Of influencing other pow
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01

ers to follow our example, it ap-
pears, Uncle Sans pleas for ton
mage reduction were attributed to
avarice. He was too stingy to build
up to quota.
In contrast with this picture. it is
recalled that in 1921, when the
United States suggested reduction
and limitation of battleships, the
other nations hurriedly complied.
The United States then had, built
and building, the greatest fleet OF
dreadnaughts ever conceived by
man.
A few weeks ago the President let
drop the hint that unless the rest of
the powers did something about
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01
ATLANTIC FLIER IS
INJURED IN CRASH
AT CITY AIRPORT
Russell Boardman Suffers Skull Fracture
and Probable Broken Neck and Lung
Puncture in Race Accident.
YOUNG THAW ALSO IN CRACKUP
Third Aviator Trying for Bendix $4,000
Purse Is Forced Down in Wheat
Field Near New Bethel

Russell Boardman, transatlantic Hier was injured
critically at municipal airport here today when his Gee Bee
Sportster racing plane crashed he taking off, after
refueing here in the Bendix Transcontnental air
The famous pilot who with John Polando, flew nonstop
Istanbu, Turkey in 1880, rushed to city hospital
where his condition was regarded grave He sustained
skull fracture and probably broken neck and lung
puncure Both wrists and his shoulder bone broken
His chances for recovery said to be slight.
Boardman landed here at IA m and twelve minutes
later after taking 200 gallons of gasoline roared down
the southwest
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01

wired ahead to st. Louis to be
ready 10 fuel his plane again.
James Wedeu of Patterson, La,
flying one of his own Wedell-
Williams speed planes, is believed to
have passed south of indianapolis
early today.
Thaw RuShes Repairs
The remaining entrant, Amelia
Earhart Putnam in her red Lock
heed Vega monoplane, was not
sighted here, but she is believed to
have flown south of Indianapolis
too high to be recognized.
Boardman, with Polando. set
world record for a nonstop distance
flight when they flew July % to 80,
1881. to Turkey, covering a distance
of SOIL miles in 40 hours 20 min
uteS.
His brother, Earl Boardman, was
notified of the accident by long
distance telephone and Immediate
ly left Albuquerque, N. M, by plane
for Indianapolis He was flying his
own plane. He had planned tc
meet his brother here, and had
been in frequent telephone COM
munication with the airport, seek
ing details of his brothers progress
in the race.
First Injury at Airport
This was the first accident at
municipal airport in which any one
was injured since the airport was
opened two and one-half years ago.
Boardman'S racing plane was con-
structed solely for speed, with the
safety factor practically ignored
The present east-West transcon-
tinental air record of II hours 80
minutes, was set by Turner Nov. ID,
1882, averaging 1919 miles an hour
against strong headWinds.
The WeSt-east record was set Aug.
%, 1882, by James G. Haizlip, 10
hours and 10 minutes. Turner, on
the same Gay, made the west-east
flight in 10 hours So minutes. The
east-west air crossing is slower than
the west-east flight because Of the
prevailing headwinds.
Seeking 10 fly from New York to
Los Angeles in twelve hours or less,
the six speed pilots, competitors in
the BendiX air race. took off from
Floyd Bennett field New York, early
this morning for the west coast.
Ruth Nichols Fails to Start
Ruth Nichols was unable to start
today because her plane was not
ready. She expects to leave New
York Sunday morning.
While Amelia Earhart was flying
into the dawn above Manhattan the
five other starters we're on the line
warming their motors.
In rapid succession Turner Gel
bach, Thaw Wedell and Boardman
took off in the order named.
The pilots all headed for South
Bend, where they we're tagged as
they passed over the airport. Board
man and Turner announced that
they would land at Indianapolis,
Wichita, Kan, and Albuquerque, N.
M. to refuel
Miss Earhart announced only one
refueing stop-Wichita She Will
decide there, she said, If a second
one is needed. Other pilots planned
to choose their refueling spots en-
route depending on the gasoline con-
sumption.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SINMS
Scripps- Howard Foreign Editor

I. WASHINGTON, July IA shift
in American foreign policy start
ling in direction and import, and
worldwide in significance, is now in
full swing under President Rouse
velts leadership.
l. Confronted by the almost GER
tain failure Of the Geneva arms
conference, the United States plans
to abandon its attitude of watchful
waiting, and proceed to strengthen
its own national defenses.
2. Its every effort in the direc-
ton of consultation and co-opera-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01
Beer Facts

What is the truth about
beer?
Has the return of legal brew
produced expected revenues,
diminished bootlegging, crime
and racketeering, and brought
better business?
The NEA service has con-
Quoted an impartial nation
wide survey for The Times, in
an attempt to find answers
to these questions.
The results are offered in
four stories, dealing with vari-
GUS sections of the country,
which should be of especial
interest in view of the repeal
elections now being held.
The first story appears today
on Page 10.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01
CloudburSt at RushviIIe

81 I Nifen Press
RUSHVILLE, Ind, July /. - A
cloudburst accompanied by cyclonic
winds climaXed two weeks of hot,
dry weather in Rushville and vicin-
ity late Friday, destroying crops and
causing property damage estimated
at more than S75,O00
During the four-hour storm,
houses and business buildings were
unroofed, streets we're flooded, tele-
phone communication was disrupt
ed and electric lines were blown
down. No one was injured.
Buildings unroofed included the
Rushville Furniture Factory; two
story business and apartment build
ing downtown American Legion
hall, and several smaller structures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01
STUDEBAKER CO.
HEAD ENDS LIFE
Albert Russell ErSkine Puts
Bullet Into Heart at
South Bend.

BIZ Tnited Press
SOUTH BEND Ind, July AL
bert Russell Erskine 62-year- old
automobile magnate, shot himself
to death today.
Erskine ended his life with pis-
toll, shooting himself in the heart.
He was president of the Studebaker
Corporation.
Erskine apparently had shot him
self sometime between and 10 this
morning. The body was found by
his son, Albert Russell Erskine Jr.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01
DEPARTS VIA WINDOW
Woman Leaves Party Quickest
Way; Leg Cut.

When Miss Louise Bason. Negro,
20, Of 38i2 West Tenth street, wants
to leave a party she does not stand
on ceremony.
A party at which she was a guest
Friday night got too rough, she
told police, so she kicked her way
through window. At city hospital
she was treated for severe lacera-
ton Of the left leg.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01
NEW BANK TO
OPEN WITHIN
NEXT z WEEKS
American National Will Re-
lease S10,OOO,OOO to
Old DepoSitorS.
SUBSCRIBE STOCK ISSUE
Half of Restricted Funds to
Be Available for Use
at Once.

Within the next two weeks, open
ing Of the new American National
bank will release approximately
S100O0,000 to depositors in the
Fletcher American National bank, it
was announced today.
Restricted since the national holi-
day, the deposits will be available
under reorganization plans which
eliminated Friday with the sub
ScriptiOn Of the final blocks of a
81 100000 stock issue.
Work is being started today on
checking stock subscriptions and de-
positors' consents to the reorgan-
ization program, which releases so
per cent of deposits Immediately
and holds the remainder pending
liquidation of the Fletcher American
assets.
Open in To-Day Period
Payment in full for stock sub
scriptionS is necessary before the
government, through the reconstruc-
ton finance corporation, matches
the issue with purchase of 81, 300 900
worth of preferred stock and author
ICES a 81 100000 loan, secured by
bank assets.
raced With mass of organization
details, officials declared today that
every effort would be made to open
the new bank within ten-day
period
Election of new officers and a new
board Of directors is one of the i'm
portant details to be consummated,
appointment of Frank G. Bopp as
conservator of Fletcher American
assets, announced officially Friday.
is an important step already taken,
officials said.
Half of Deposits Available
Regarded as statewide in impor-
lance, sale of the entire common
stock issue without an extension of
time was hailed by reorganization
officials as indicative of improved
business conditions and increasing
confidence,
Opening of the new bank will af
feet 288 state banks in eighty-five
counties of the state, all of which
had deposits with the Fletcher
American.
Half of their deposits will be
available with the reopening, and
are expected to aid materially in
relieving strained financial positions
of money of the smaller inStitu-
tions.
Bop in Custody of Assets
Prediction was made that a num-
Der Of the state banks will be able
to attain a Glass A rating with the
released deposits. During the re-
organization period, the Fletcher
American will continue it's operation
on the restricted basis which has
applied since the bank holiday
Liquidation of $11,740.OOO in
frozen assets" on a basis of SO per
cent, will permit payment of all
obligations in full Fletcher Ameri-
can officials said today.
The assets will be in custody of
Bopp, as conservator, and Lucius
French and Roy c. Shaneberger.
trustees, who will conduct the liqui-
dation and repay the government
loan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01

AS he neared the end Of
the concrete runway, a hOrrl-
fled shout arose from the field
attendants and several hun
dred spectators.
After leaving the ground and
reaching an altitude estimated at
less than twenty-five feet, the
tricky little racing plane turned up
side down, sideways and landed on
its top, pinning Boardman in the
enclosed cockpit, and sliding several
hundred feet in a cloud of dust
Field attendants rushed to the
accident scene in cars and lifted
the tail of the plane, which did
not catch fire, despite its hot ex-
haust pipe and heavy gasoline load,
and Boardman, unconscious, fell out
of the inverted cockpit.
Plane Badly Damaged
He was given first aid on the field
by physician, while awaiting ar
rival of city hospital ambulance.
His plane, which has been de-
scribed as "all engine having an
horse power motor, short, stocky
fuselage and clipped wings, was
damaged badly.
Edward M. Johnson, airport as
sistant superintendent, said appar-
emily the plane stalled, not having
enough speed when the wheels left
the ground, and because of the ire
mendous torque created by the
powerful motor, executed a snap
roll, Tipping over on its back and
falling.
Racing planes of this type, with
heavy motors and small wing sur
face, frequently are difficult to con-
troll at relatively low speeds.
officials of the airport weather
bureau said that just as Boardman
was taking off, the 14-mile-an-hour
wind veered from west by south
west to west by northwest, possibly
a factor in the accident.
Indiana Jinx to Race
Indiana proved a jinX to the race,
three of the six entrants who left
Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y, for Los
Angeles and a $4,000 purse, be-
ing forced out of the race here.
A short time before Boardman's
accident, Russell ThaW, flying an
other Gee Bee sportster, was forced
out of the race at municipal air
port when his plane tipped while
/ landing to refuel, damaging wing.
/ Thaw is a son Of Harry K. Thaw,
defendant in a celebrated murder
case several years ago. He was I'M
injured. When his team mate,
Boardman, was injured, Thaw gave
up efforts to repair his plane, and
rushed to Boardman's side at city
hospital.
Lee Gehlbach of Patterson, La.
telephoned to the local airport from
New Bethel, Ind, that his plane
had been forced down in a wheat
field miles out of the town, and
the propeller and one wing were
damaged.
Turner Arrives First
Gehlbach, flying at an altitude of
1000 feet, was forced down when he
tried to switch from an empty to a
full gasoline tank. He is awaiting
word from the owner of the plane
as to whether it shall continue in
/ the race.
Roscoe Turner, present holder Of
the east to west cross country speed
title, was the first race f1ier to ar
rive in indianapolis today. Flying a
golden Gilmore special, he put his
ship down at the Municipal airport
at sos and took off at GIG.
/ He told officials here that he had
almost run out of gas near Co
lumbus, O., but managed to make
the field there. At Indianapolis ne
took on Isl gallons Of gas and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01
CLUB MEETING Is SET
Breakfast Group to Hold Session at
Rescue Mission.

The Breakfast Club meeting in
the Wheeler City Rescue Mission
will be sponsored Sunday by E. A.
Schwartz of Buffalo, N. Y. Schwartz
is a former resident of indianapolis
Members of the mission staff will
conduct the services.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01
BATHER DROWNED IN
RIVER; MANY LOOK ON
Unidentified Man Goes Down Here
Without Giving Outcry.

VIV"U"V OIVIHS OUVOIy'
An unidentified man wearing an
orange colored bathing suit was
drowned today in White river, near
Henry street, while many bathers
watched.
Harry Passwater, 81, of ITO West
Henry street, told police that he
saw the man sink in the middle of
the stream without an cutlery. Police
are dragging the river for the body.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01
Some Relief From Heat
Is Forecast for SundGU

mercury bounded upward again to
81 at $50 p. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01
LAKE RACE IS FEATURE
Camp Gridley Cutter Crew to
Oppose North JudSon Sea Scouts.

A cutter race between crews of
Camp Gridley and the North Judson
Sea Scouts Will be held on Bass
Lake as a feature of July 4 cele-
bration.
Boxing bouts and fireworks viii
also be on the program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-01
Death Notices

Starting today, The Times
offers a NEW, improved serv-
ice for the publication Of
Death Notices in the want ad
columns.
Death Notices can he phoned
in as late as 8 A. NJ. and will
appear in the very FIRST
EDITION at 1890 A. NJ.
Notices will continue to be &C
cepted under the former ar
rangement as late as I2:15
P. NJ. and will appear on the
same day in the Home edition
on sale at 2 P. NJ.
Suburban readers and out-of-
town subscribers will be able
to read the news of these
notices on the same day that
the notice is phoned in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-20
Mob 7 axes Negro
From Jail; Tortures,
Hangs, Burns Him
Sheriff Says mo Need
For Investigation; |
Was There Myself"

PRINCESS ANNE, Md, Oct.
19.-While fifty heavily-arm-
ed State troopers and deputy
sheriffs looked on, a mob Of
1000 screaming and cursing
men women and children stormed
the local Jail last night and carried
out, unmolested, one Of the most
fiendish lynchings in the long history
of capitalist violence and suppression
against the Negro people and the
American working class.
George Arnwood, 4O-year old Negro
worker, arrested a few days ago on
suspicion" of attacking" an S1-yesr
old white woman, was slowly dragged
through the main streets Of the town,
tied behind an automobile which
headed the lynch procession, and
lynched in front of the home Of Judge
Robert F. Duer who, earlier in the
day had denied there was any need
for calling out troops to protect the
Negro victim.
While Armwood desperately pro-
tested his innocence, a rope was
placed around his neck. The other
end was swung over the limb of
tree in front of the dwelling of Judge
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-20
ScOttSbOro Trial
Is Set For Nov. II
By Ku Klux Judge

DECATUR, Ala, Oct. 19.-The new
lynch trials of the Scottsboro boys
were Officially set for Nov. 81, to-day,
by Judge w. w. Callahan, Ku Klux
Khan member, who was selected by
Attorney General Thomas Knight,
Jr., to take charge of the trials"
The announcement follows on the
heels of the suspicious death by pois-
oning of E. L. Lewis, Negro Scots
boro defense witness. The Southern
Office of the International Labor De-
Tense announced yesterday that it
had definitely established that Lewis
was visited by strangers in his home
the day before he died Of poisoning.
In view of the fact that Lewis was
several times threatened by the Ku
Klux Khan, and that his home was
burned down shortly after he gave
his testimony at the Decatur trial,
the visit Of the strangers is con-
sidered highly significant by the
LID. On former occasions, white
men had visited Lewis for the pur-
pose of threatening him
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-20
WORKERS AROUSED OVER BRUTAL MARYLAND LYNCHIN(
ri AXE = IN G I'M
q nm 8 w G r.

TIRE TORTURE unpeakabe cruelty vager
small Maryland Baltimore
night.
than hours he he he
grabbed the Armwcod
being amped ashed with knives beaten and tortured
welganized mob OF WenoWn leading citizens They beat him
stripped him. him, him
o him a leaping hideous blaze.
The nching Of Arwood the result of accidental frenzy
troopers
lynhing this Negro worker whose innocence
the capitalist act
official machinery the
blood
Rich Roosevelt high councils
Democratic Party prominent candidate for the presidential nomination
slightest from the
danger!
fouly split Negro
States Attorney John Robins and the local Judge Robert
that
would be in the Jail ready for the lynch seizure
their hands is the blood of the murdered Negro worker
did fire
defense of Awood 1t speaks volumes that by workers
picket lines the machine
hesitate
1ynching Arnwood expression of
Southern ruling class drive
the Negro beginning strain at the chains their
slavery.
WHITE oppression Negro
against poison ruling
mastersnc poonthy think that minds
forgetting the
ploiters who Cypress and rob the Negro people!
hdeos lynch the Negro people must be destroyed
destroys rattlesnakeI
1ynchers
for the blood that stains their
in
unity, the officials Richie
officials to bring the lynchers justice
The ruling exploe blind divide
fellow workers by hatred, by lynch poison
this with proetarian unity against
the lnhersl They hope to crush both by dividing United struggle
against nchng against Negro oppression must
must organize together to make lynchings impossible
Immediate the penalty
il for this that must act at once!