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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-11
FREE VERY SICK
MAN IS PLEA TO
BANKER CAPTORS
Wealthy, Aged Illinois Victim Will Not Live
Long if Kept From Medical Care,
Is Warning Of Son.
WIFE, Is, INJURED BY ABDUCTORS
Young Woman and Two Men Invade Home
While Couple Are Listening to Radio and
Take Prisoner After Short Fight

THREE PROMINENT, wealthy held for today
SENATOR ROYAL COPELAND other officials
blamed the bduon prohibition
DEATH WAS THREATENED John J. OConnel 24-year-
nephew political Bosses
is paid
AUGUST LUER, n, president of Alton 1n)
Quoted home Monday
kidnapers
JOHN JAKE THE BARBER) FACTOR has
than a week with no authentic captors.
ALTON, ILL.,, July 11.-An appeal to the kdnapers of
August Luer IT, wealthy banker and meat packer either
return him make known their ransom demands, was
made today by Carl Luer, his
MY father has been suffering from angina pecors for
long time He is very sick fear he will not sur
vive long if kept from medical attention., said appeal
broadcast through the press by the SON.
Luers physician and 75-yearold wife, confirmed the
sons statement that Luer is i'll and might survive heart
attack.
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stomach as she bent over him. She
died four hours later.
Lutz told police that Talent
struck him.
Then I go crazy" he said. Il
go back in house and get gun. I
Shoot-shoot everybody 1 can"
Lutz had been arrested previously
on charges of shooting at children
in the neighborhood.
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Man, Criticised for Undressing Without
DraWing Blinds, Stays Three Neiqhb0rs

struck Talent in the chest. He
fired several shots at Mrs. Talent
as she fed into the house, but
missed.
WEIGH and his wife started to run
down the street and Lutz followed,
firing as he ran.
WEIGH fell mortally wounded and
his wife was shot twice in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-11
100000 TAX WRITS OUT

Blanks Are Issued to Indiana
Residents from 500 Places.
Nearly 100000 gross receipts tax
returns have been distributed from
500 places throughout the state, it
was announced today by Collector
Clarence jackson.
There were $40. 900 individual re-
turn blanks distributed: 24.250 for
partnerships and 34,645 others.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-11
GERMANS MUST KEEP
ORDER, HITLER EDICT
Nazi Revolution Is Over,
Decree of Chief.
BIZ UnitedRress

BERLIN, July 11-Chancellor
Adolf Hitler advised all state gov
errors and governments today that
the Nazi revolution" was over and
that unauthorized interference with
business or industry was strictly
forbidden
Hitler told the authorities that
henceforth they would be held re-
sponsible for maintenance of or
der and quiet in their realms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-11
RAILWAY LINES
IN CITY SHOW
BUSINESS GAIN
Freight Shipment Increases
Range From 20 to as
Per Cent.
MORE MEN AT WORK
Hours of Labor Also Are on
Upgrade; Fair BoomS
PASSENGER Trade.

Increase in railroad business out
of Indianapolis of from 20 to is per
cent was reported today by the pas
senger and freight Offices of various
lines.
The largest gain in freight bust
ness was noted by the Baltimore
e. Ohio, which showed an estimated
increase of As per cent in freight
also a 20 per cent gain in passenger
business.
Figures were based on the bust
ness of June, 1882, as compared
with that of June of this year. M
V. HyneS, superintendent, reported
the same trend in the first part of
July. He estimated that July's bust
ness will show gain over that of
June of this year
HyneS credits the increase in pas
senger business to the Century of
Progress exposition in Chicago. A
like increase in passenger business,
due to the fair, is noted by ]. P.
Ridgely, superintendent of the Penn
Sylvania railroad.
More Men at Work
Extra cars and entire extra sec
tons have been run by the Pennsyl-
vania to take care of the increase
in passenger business between In
dianapolis and Chicago.
In the freight division of the
Pennsylvania an increase of IS per
cent for June, 1888 over June, 1882
is noted, according to Ridgely. A
slight decrease in the shipping of
coal has been made up in the move
ment of higher class freight, he said
Increase in working hours and
hiring of additional men have re-
suited from the increase in both
passenger and freight business,
says.
The Chesapeake & Ohio railroad
has had an increase for June, as
compared to last year, of Al per
cent. All general commodities show
an increase, according to Frank z.
Sims, general agent.
Freight Business Gains
Freight increases amounting to 20
per cent are noted at the Offices of
the Big -Four railroad, out of Indi-
annapolis.
Passenger service to the west has
shown decrease, according to the
Offices of the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific railroad, due, it is be-
lieved, to the increase in travel to
Chicago for the fair. No service is
available on this railroad from In
dianapolis to Chicago.
Freight shows an increase
amounting to IL per cent, covering
all general commodities, with the ex-
ception of automobiles and stone.
Canned goods, glass, iron and steel,
and other freight commodities show
a steady increase In spite of the
slight decrease in travel to the west,
the passenger business compares IA
vorably with that Of last year.
A substantial increase in freight,
and slight increase in passenger
business. has been noted by the
offices of the Erie railroad.
Other Lines Benefited
The l.. & N. railroad reports IS
per cent increase in freight traffic
over last year, according to figures
made available at the commercial
agents office today. Automobiles
are moving slowly to the south, but
a general increase in other COM
modities has been noted. May
showed a greater per cent of in
crease than June.
S. L. Wehrung, division freight
agent of the Chicago, Indianapolis
g. Louisville railroad, reports an in
crease has been noted in passenger
service.
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BARRELS ARE STYLISH

Lads Clothes Stolen While He
Swims; He Got Home Some Way.
Police failed to report today how
Gilbert Heck, IL. of 262 South Sum-
nit street, got home afte. his blue
overalls and white shirt were stolen
from a free locker while he was
swimming Monday in the Willard
park pool.
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u. S. WARNS KENTUCKY
POOR AID ENDS AUG. IS
Federal Relief Administrator Urges
Special Legislative Session.
BIZ nitcd Press

bV NfItu FTtSS
WASHINGTON, July 11.-Federal
Relief Administrator Harry L. Hop
kins today warned Governor Ruby
Laffoon Of Kentucky that the gov
eminent would not finance relief in
that state beyond Aug. Is.
Hopkins urged the executive to
summon an immediate special legis-
lature session to provide funds to
care for the destitute.
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FARM SLAYER IN PRISON

One of Fourteen Mortgage Death
Suspects Starts Life Term.
By United Press
MICHIGAN CITY Ind, July II.
Otis Turner, one of fourteen men
involved in the farm mortgage fore
closure Sayings of Andy and Oral
Reedy, Hymera, started serving a
life sentence in state prison today.
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DEPOSITORS SEE HOPE
"Morgenthau Plan" for Liquidations
Extended to Illinois.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, July 11.-Release
of funds for depoSitors in closed
banks in Illinois rural districts was
promised today following announce
ment of the farm credit administra-
ton that the "Morgenthau plan of
lquidating frozen farm mortgages
had been extended to that state.
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Both young Luer and police
said today no word had been
received from the abductors
of the banker. The son said
he was anxious to make i'm
mediate contact with the kid
napers and urged them to get
in touch with him at once.
Woman Aids Kidnapers
Mrs. Luer was confined to a hos
pital today suffering from head
wounds inflicted by the kidnapers
when she sought to aid her hus-
band. She sustained a deep scalp
wound and a possible fractured skull
Two men and a young woman
dragged Luer from his home Mon
day night despite efforts of his wife
to fight them off.
Police said Luer, who is president
the Alton Bank and Trust Com
pany. and owner of the Luer Meat
Packing Company, received a threat
ening letter demanding $4,000
about fifteen months ago, but none
recently.
Phone Wires Are Cut
A witness to the abduction fur
niShed police with their only cleW
He described the kidnapers auto
mobile as a black Pontiac sedan
bearing 1888 Illinois license plates,
the first numbers of which were 288.
He failed to obtain the last three
numbers.
Luer and his wife were listening
to their radio shortly after p. m.
when a man and a young woman,
both we'll dressed, rang the doorbell.
Mrs. Luer answered and the wom-
an inquired if Henry Busse, a neigh
she might use the telephone, and
was invited inside.
The young woman Immediately
went to the telephone and cut the
wires. Her companion seized the
banker by the shoulders and dragged
him out of his chair.
Comes to Husbands Aid
Mrs Luer screamed and came to
her husbands aid A second man
then appeared and grabbed the aged
woman. He flung her across the
room with such force that a cash
was cut in her head when she
struck the mantelpiece.
With blood flowing from the
wound she again attacked the men
and was knocked down. She fol-
lowed as the men dragged Luer by
his arms across the lawn to an au-
tomobile PARKED in the driveway.
Crying Carl, they've stolen
papa!' she ran across the street to
the home of their son, Carl Luer
Fails in Pursuit by Auto
Young Luer ran from the house in
time to see the automobile back
from the driveway and speed down
the street.
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KidnaperS Contacted

ALBANY, N. Y. July l1-Kid-
napers holding John J. OConnell
Jr., "A. nephew of the bosses of the
powerful O'Connell Democratic ma
chine, were believed early today to
have re-estabhshed contact with the
haraSSed OConnell family.
Jack Murphy, an O'Conneu po-
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HURLS SELF TO DEATH
Cripple, Awaiting Trial, Plunges
Out Fourth Story Window.

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO. July 11.-Spectators in
the courtroom of Chief Justice John
Prystalski of the criminal court
were Mortified today to see William
Henry, %, cripple awaiting ar
raignment on stolen auto charge,
suddenly drag himself from his
wheel chair, and plunge out fourth
story window to his death.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-22
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

velopment Of power and soil resources dove
tail into a single policy.
We are at the very beginning OF the power
age" Mr.. Llienthal said In my Judgment
We have not begun TO tap the possibilities Of
the use Of power as a means Of increasing the
incomes Of our people and Of tightening the
burdens which fall so heavily upon many Of
them.
This presupposes. however. that power can
be sold for lower rates than thus far has been
the case. Only in this way is II feasible that
power may be used in an infinite variety OF
ways and with greatest freedom. We reason
ably may anticipate that the Presidents plan
for the Tennessee valley greatly may hasten
the day when low cost power Will be humane
and Aoerating force. bringing with it every
manner Of economic and social benefit TO our
people"
Indication that the Tennessee Valley Au-
thorty has begun TO move toward its power
detectives was given in the announcement bv
Chairman Morgan that two experts had been
assigned to study the projected transmission
line to connect Muscle Shoals ard Cove Greek
plans.
In Washington and in the valley the de-
mand for construction Of this line is becoming
more widespread. Senator George w. Norris.
author Of the act. believes it should begin i'm
mediately
Chairman Mo-san's official recognition Of
these demands will hearten the valley. Con-
struction Of this transmission line not onlv
would mean that government-ge generated power
would be carried over goverment-built wires
70 Cove Greek to be used in construction of
tnat dam, but also that cities and towns along
It's route would get the cheap power they have
right to demand.
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his own source Of supply Just the same The
arrival Of the shorter work week gives him
ample time to cultivate his garden and look
after his place.
He does not need 70 spend as much on MS
day-to-day expenses as he did formerly. His
money goes farther. He is more secure in
every way.
That at any rate is the theory; and it
looks as Il the SIS 900 900 that viii go into this
experiment wsl be money well spent.
To be sure, it may not work out as ex-
pected.
Il is quite possible, for example. that it will
narrow the market painfully for the regular
farmer. II may lead the worker into debt and
give him more worries than he already has
There are half dozen ways in which it may
prove impractical.
But the experiment is very much worth
making. It may be that a big part Of the So
luton to the modern workers problem is to
be found in some such thing as this, and it is
tremendously encouraging TO know that Uncle
Sam is going to spend money to find out
about It.
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"FIND TIE DRY STATE"

E>IRST Indiana. Iowa. West Virginia Ala
bama and Arkansas Now Tennessee.
Every so-called dry state voting to date on
repeal has gone wet. The country begins 70
wonder whether there is any dry state left in
the nation
Perhaps the repeal organizations are ac-
curate in their forecast thar all the forty or
forty-one states voting in 1888 will ratify the
repeal amendment.
Today the score IS % to 0. Oregon following
Tennessee with a repeal victory Friday.
And what are the drys going 20 do about
ito few have admitted defeat and turned
THEN efforts to more productive fields But
most OF them continue their old obstruc-
zionist tactics. seeking through political eva
sions and legal technicalities to prevent &C
ton by states on the amendment and thus
delay the inevitable
If they succeed in poStponing final rati-
fication beyond ChristmaS-which now seems
most improbabe-thcy will perpetuate the
increasing chaos of nonenforcement and will
burden the country for another year with
the s22O000OOO Of special taxes which would
be lifted BY repeal
If the drys want 10 advance the cause of
temperance as W. believe they do. there Is
plenty Of work ahead without wasting time
in futile and costly anti-repeal crusades,
In the first place they can cooperate in
drafting and enactment Of adequate and in
telligent state regulatory legislation for the
LIQUOR traffic Second. they can concentrate
on much needed educational campaign for
temperance which means moderation.
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THERE appears TO be some doubt whether
any money was paid for the release of
77-year-old August Luer, Alton ND banker.
also whether the kidnapers really were after
him or his brother or son. But what Mr..
Luer SAYS were the parting words of his cap
tors when they let him 90 are significant:
Wed never have touched YOU. pop. if we'd
known YOU were so weak and sick"
Not that We try to find any milk Of human
kindness in the remark. But it goes to show
that some kdnapegs are genuinely terrified Of
having their victims die on their hands let
alone intending to murder them
Though there have been tragic exceptions.
there is also much evidence to support the
theory that few kidnapers would be such fools
as To risk their necks with murder when
finally convinced there was no money to be
gained
The motive for most kidnapping is merely
sordid. When it comes to facing dire risk.
most kidnapers are doubtless as cowardly as
the crlnging gangsters who turn UP in other
forms Of racketeering.
AS risks increase and more ransoms are
refused the devilish trade will diminish. Con-
certed police work relentless prosecution
swift punishment Will do more than ANYTHING
else to persuade the public that ransoms
should not and need not be paid
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THE SYSTEM Is WRONG

THEORETICALLY. We have four units Of
government in this counry-the munich
pality. county. state and nation Actually
we have much large number-school dis
tricts. water districts. drainage districts. navi-
cation districts. Incorporated villages. port
authorities. and SO on ad ninitum
A recent survey of Dallas. Tex. showed
that the people Of one section were taxed by
no less than sixty-seven agencies.
Such a system is clumsy expensive. and
Inefficient. It stands for duplication of effort
and evasion of the spirit of constitutional re-
straints. It leaves the average citizen HELPLESS
draining mis- pocketbook and bewildering his
mind
He finds it difficult to enumerate the vari-
Gus subdivisions OF government, much less
understand how they work.
We excuse all this on the ground that life
has become complicated. but many of the
complications are artificial and arbitrary. IN
stead Of trying TO simplify and coordinate our
system of government. We have subdivided it.
split it up and buried it beneath a mountain
Of laws and regulations, many of which con-
flict with one another.
Much Of the authority exercised by cities
better could be handed over to the states. and
much of that exercised by the states better
could be handed over TO the federal govern
ment
Why should every town have different
system of traffic rules and what profit is there
in a hundred different building codes for COM
munities OF practically the same size in the
same state?
When YOU get down to brass tacks. liberty
is vastly more dependent on system than on
the privilege Of individuals and communities
to do as they darneG please.
Depression has awakened lis to the pres
ence Of industrial anarchy and We are at
tempting to bring system out of chaos through
simplifed rules and uniform methods. The
same idea proftably could be applied to
politics.
Public service in this country is a hundred
years behind the times. This is due largely
to the lack of intelligent management. to the
continuance Of practices that became obsolete
in the Civil war. to the failure of government
TO keep pace with ordinary everyday life.
II YOU want information about city. the
last place YOU go is the police department If
YOU want to know the value Of real estate. the
last place YOU go is the assessors office.
Chain stores have found it possible to
operate on a cash basis but most branches
OF our government are six months or a year
behind.
On the average. it takes about two years TO
get rid Of lawsuit In one case a murderer
was executed ten years after his arrest, though
he remained in custody all the time
State rights and local rights have been
abused, until they serve no purpose SO dis
tinctly as to obstruct the efficient functioning
OF Justice.
You can trace most OF the crime. financial
troubles OF municipalities, social disorder and
unrest to the confusion which handicaps
government services. the conflict Of authority.
and the buckpaSsing made possible because
Of l.
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Potent Girl
BY CHRISTIE RUDOLPH

BY CHRISTIE RUDOLPH
I sigall wriggle my body from this
pearled shell
And gaze upon the sea, and tide
the waves
I'll splurge the shore 70 vague re-
mote caves.
And glide into the darkness Of q
silent dell
I shall grope the bitter refuge, and
wet debris
Of perturbed storms Of nights long
past,
And rushing streams crude and vast
That madly race by. that I alone
may see.
Oh shall tear the thrader from
the sky
And place its constant rumble near
my ear,
Then I could walk with God, and
never fear
Nor tremor at the storm, or be
afraid TO die.
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SATURDAY July a. 1889
JOBS AND LIVING WAGES

JOBo AND LIZ I.NG w AUS
ONE after another the industrial codes are
~ brought to Washington and slipped into
place and as the framework Of new So
ciety thus is beng erected. piece by piece. we
who stand on the sldel.nes only can pray
that the thing Is going to work smoothly
when it Is finished.
Back OF az The negotiations arguments.
and maneuyeungs which are producing these
codes there looms one great fact
Our economic system can survive in
recognizable form only if the whole popu-
lation OF the country is kept pretty steadily
at work al living wage
i is recognition Of this fact that has led
an essentially conservative community TO en-
bark on an experiment which would have
seemed to most people. that height Of radical
folly as recently as a year ago
And ID is only By keeping this fact con-
stantly before our eyes that we shall be able
to make go Of the program now being at
tempted
All our fine talk about economics. CO.
operation price levels and ali the rest comes
down to that in the end. People must have
Jobs, and the Jobs must pay them enough so
that they can buy the things that they pro
duce. Unless we find some way accomplishing
that, our eventual collapse seems certain.
Viewed in this light the administrations
program is clearly the very essence of con-
servation. Nothing less than what now is
being tried could have been attempted The
old system must be modified at least as
greatly as the new deal" modifies it. if it is
to survive at all.
A good many years ago Abraham Lincoln
warned that the nation could not continue
to exist half slave and half free Both the
compromises and the die-hards tried to find
way Of getting around that unpleasant
truth, and the disaster Of the Civil war was
the result
Today we are facing the fact that the ma
ton can not continue to exist half prosper
Gus and half destitute There is one way out
and only one: To provide Jobs at decent
wages. to keep purchasing power level with
production.
If we let ourselves get frightened by the
experiment We are making or if We let ris-
ing prices fool us into the belief that times
are going to correct themselves without our
help We shall be riding for fall Just as
cataciysmic as the one the nation took in
1861.
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1t Seems
to Me
: BY HAYWOOD BRoUN-

NEW YORK. July o2.-There's
~ no fool like a Republican. In
Alabama the state chairman sent a
last-minute message TO his not TOO
numerous cohorts. urging them 70
vote against repeal
President Roosevelt Is f0g it, De
said That is all We need To know
II II Is a Democratic measure. u00d
Republicans should oppose &c.
This same philosophy should serve
70 mark the last days Of the G o.
P. If II is carried 10 its logical con-
cluSion Surely the organization
which has ruled so long in America
hardly can come back 10 life again
by pursuing a policy OF pure mega
zion
I am not disposed 70 mourn the
passing Of the Republican party. II
had its inevitable time and place in
the economic history Of America but
at the moment it possesses no slogan
around which 10 rally its forces in
1896.
The only numerous elements in
revolt against the administration are
the dryS and the diSgruntled vet
Grams ANY Republican leader who
attempts 10 capitalize on the cuts
made in allowances will have 10 eat
great many words and traditions
established by previous party lead
ers.