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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-13
BY WALTER ORLOFF
Written for NEA Service

MY arrest as a political enemy
4V1 Of Adolf Hitler was on the
9th Of last June. I was taken to
the police Jail and put into solitary
confinement for four days.
Then I was transferred to the
prison adjoining the court in Greifs-
valid, and again placed in solitary
! confinement.
Both political and non political
prisoners occupied this place. Most
of them were taken out each morn
ing and allowed to walk around in
circle in the courtyard for half
an hour.
Talking was strictly prohibited
The windows of the cells were high
up in the walls so that one could
not look out.
After few days I succeeded in
sending letter to the American
consulate in Berlin.
Prison authorities required all let
tiers from prisoners to be unsealed
so they could read them. When
my answer came from the consul.
it also had been opened before I
received it,
One day the guard told me to get,
ready to see the prison physician,
and then took me downstairs.
Two men were there. One
recognized as having been in the
police station at the time of my
arrest. He had a whip with him.
The other, a beefy fellow, wore a
deaths head insignia in the lapel
of his coat. The man with the whip
said:
you are going to be stood up
against a well, but we don't want
to make it so easy for you. Be-
fore that happens there is some in
formation we are going to get from
you"
THEY began asking me ques-
l. lions about things of which I
knew nothing. The larger man took
blackjack from his pocket and let
it bangle significantly.
The other man lost his patience
after one Of my answers and cracked
me across the face with his whip.
You're lying" he said.
The big fellow went to work with
the blackjack. For some time they
alternately beat me and asked ques-
tons. After awhile i was taken
back to my cell.
Later in the day was taken be-
fore Kriminalkommissar Voss for
further questioning. The same two
men were sitting in the room with
him, and he threatened to have
them punish me again.
This time, however, they tried
different methods. The man with the
whip offered me a sandwich. said:
NO, thanks, am not hungry" And
didn't eat for three days after
that.
One day I was taken downstairs
to room and found that Raymond
Geist, American consul in Berlin,
had come to GreifSwald to assist me.
We were not alone; a man con-
nected with the court sat in the
room as we talked. The latter did
not understand English very we'll, so
1 switched to German as I told the
American official how I had been
treated.
DOLITICAL prisoners in Ger
l. many suffer from the uncer-
tainty of their fate. No one knows
how long he must remain a prison.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-13
Many Political Foes of
Hitler MaItreated,
He Declares.

story few would dare or be able to
tell a story Of conditions inside
secrecy-shrouded German prisons under
Mari rule is related in the following
article by Walter Orion, young Jewish
medical student of Brooklyn, y. Y. who
was arrested and imprisoned in Ger
many last summer. This is the second
of two articles which Mr.. Orion pre-
pared for The Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-13
Beaten With Blackjack and Whip in
Nazi Prison, Says Young American

Alexanderplatz. In the next few
days I learned that many political
prisoners were beaten. Among the
prisoners I saw several Jews and
even some Nazis in uniform.
The next day the consul came to
see me and was then handed over
by the prison authorities to de-
tective to be taken to Hamburg.
I slept over night in Hamburg
in the Jail. The next morning four
men took me by auto to Cuxhaven
where they put me on steamer
bound for New York-and freedom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-13

They we're Floyd NJ. Young. Vim
cennes; Ralph E. Gates. Columbia
City. and William o. Nelson. An
derSon.
William Sayre. Bloomington. is
mentioned as likely successor to
Mr.. Davis. Others are Clifford
Payne, Newcastle; Tillman J. Bough,
Linton; Henry Dougherty, Gary,
and Herman A. Wenige, Jefferson
vile.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-13
OLLIE A. DAVIS
RESIGNS STATE
LEGION OFFICE
Quits Adjutant Post After
Serving Three Years;
Effective Sunday.

Resignation of Ollie A. Davis as
state adjutant of the American Le-
gion was announced today. 1t is
effective Sunday, when the Indi-
ana department executive commit
tee will ratify successor to be ap-
pointed by the new state COM
mander, v. M. Armstrong.
Mr.. Davis has served for three
years, having succeeded Pleas E.
Greenlee, now secretary to Cover
nor Paul V. McNutt. He was adju-
tant under three state commanders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-13
TAX DIRECTORS
TO ASK TEETH
FOR $3.50 LAW
Protest Session to Back
Demand for Assembly
to Amend Acts.

p general demand for special
legislative session to amend 1888 tax
legislation probably will be made in
the statewide mass meeting Of tax
PAYERS at 100 tomorrow in the
Claypool, it was indicated today.
Leaders in the tax reduction
movement. sponsoring the meet
ing. voiced a belief today that the
emergency clause of the $3.50 law
should be eliminated.
It was pointed out that a spe-
cial session of the legislature prob
ably will be necessary to set up
Iduor control system when the re-
peal of the eighteenth amendment
finally is ratified.
Cite Liquor Revenue
The large amount of excise rev.
enue resulting from liquor control
will accomplish a notable reduction
in the tax money to be raised by
property assessment, it was pre-
dicted.
The emergencies under which
many county tax adjustment boards
have increased property levies be-
yond the 81 so limit thus will be
eliminated, forcing the property as
sessment maximum to be observed.
A resolution advocating a special
session and abolition of the emer-
gency clause is expected to be intro
duced by a committee named at the
leaders conference.
Committee Announced
Members Of the committee named
yesterday are Linton A. Cox, In
dianapolis; Claude Cline, Hunting
ton; William Yarling, Shelbyville;
Edward Eikenberry, Wabash; David
Rhoades. Peru; ElWood Morris, Mt.
Comfort, and Joseph Day, Anderson.
Another outgrowth which may
develop from tomorrow meeting is
a united movement of taxpayers
pledged to pay only an assessment
of $3.50 regardless Of levies re-
quired by budget needs.
Gavin L. Payne, local leader of
the tax reduction movement, de-
clared today that petitions are being
circulated in Washington county to
obtain signatures Of taxpayers to
pledges not to pay more than $3.50.
Murray to Speak
Similar movements are afoot in
Marion and a number of other
counties. In indianapolis, the real
estate board has been circulating
pledge cards for several months.
Announcement also made to-
day that Frank Murray of South
Bend has been added to the list
of speakers at the meeting tomor-
row. Mr.. Murray has been active
in the tax reduction movement in
the northwestern part of the state.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-13

Screech owls of the very same
species, and of the very same age,
often are so different in color that
their identity is sometimes confus-
ing; they also can change to diff
ferent color phase without losing
their feathers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-13
WARDEN CHARGES $25
FOR RACC00N DINNER
There Is No Depression in Cost of
Meat to One Miner.

BIZ United Press
PROVIDENT. O.. Oct. 13.-Frank
Gendry. miner, has become con-
WINGED that the NRA has sent prices
up.
Gendry paid SIS for the meat for
one meal.
The meat was a racoon, cooking
on Gendry's stove when a game
warden visited the home and found
the hide stretched on the wall.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-04-07
Cow Breaks Fat Record

Trixy Ormsby Beets, senior
four-year-old registered Holstein.
bred and owned by r. Z. Eddy,
Poultney, Vt, is the new national
leader for yearly butterfat produc-
tion on twice-a-day milking for her
age class, according to the Holstein-
Friesian Association of America. She
Is credited with yield OF S19.9
pounds of fat and 24,324.6 pounds Of
milk. This is equal to the yield Of
As average dairy cows and her
average daily milk yield was 81
quarts. With this record "Trixy"
displaces Korndyke Netherland Star
De Kol, whose production was
1912 pounds of fat and 1892
pounds of milk. The sire of "Trixy"
is Ormsby Sensation forty-fifth,
who has 16 daughters admitted to
Advanced Registry, two of which
have topped 500 pounds of fat in
Glass c. Trixy Hengerveld Beets
is her mother.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-04-07
White Men Visited Canada 600 Years Ago

tiers missing from Greenland. said
to have gone TO that land about
1854.
The authentic. documental his
tory of the white man in Manitoba.
Doctor Stewart continued. dates
back to 1912, whca Manitoba was
discovered as a by-product of the
search for the Northwest passage.
Thomas Button, leading On eXpedi
ton of two ships. having landed
near the mouth of the Nelson river
during that year.
The subsequent history of Mani
tOba after that was divided into
five periods of activity by Doctor
Stewart
These he classified as the period
of discovery. the period of trade
M ,noroly. ushered in by the char
tering of Prince Rupert's Company
of Gentleman Adventures. the pc
riod of fur trade rivalry. the most
romantic period of the five. the CO.
lOnial period, opened by the arrival
of the Selkirk settlers. end the Pc
ri0d of provincial life.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-04-07

her sewing machine, and some jew
elry to give him money. Finally she
made efforts to Tegain the money
and succeeded in collecting less
than 500. She turned the matter
over to an agent and Vivian gave
her check for $500 She was then
arrested
Clarence George Simmons, her
husband, testified that his income
is $50 weekly. He did not know of
his wife's infidelity until the case
came up. He had forgiven her for
that and the loss of the money.
The jury voted Mrs. Simmons not
guilty. She was then discharged and
the court added: go back and be-
have properly TO your husband and
remember he has behaved well to
you In my view this is wickedly
concOcted Story. and | shall retain
the papers to consider whether 1
shall send them to the public prose-
cutOr with view to his consider
ing prosecution FOR perjury
against Vivian"
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-04-07
Lands in u. S.. Now Man Without Country

come citizen of the land down
under" While he was away Latvia
became a republic, and he an expa-
triate.
In 1881 he conceived the idea of
his lone Journey across southern
seas TO the United States and be-
gan TO prepare for II by studying
navigation in the Sydney library.
He made his own sextant and
bought three cheap watches for his
chronometers. He bought his boat
"a l9-foot clinker-built skiff with a
large bowsprit and a sloop rig
and equipped IL with a canvas can,
opy which could be drawn part way
over the open cockpit as protection
against rough weather.
He started out In December. 1881,
cruised through the southern is.
lands touching at Suva. Samoa
and many other points and navI.
eating and handling his little craft
single handed. AT one stage OF his
long trip the center board of his
ship rotted away. REBEL repaired
that, and later In mid-ocean success
fully repaired one of his watches
His library-learned navigation was
eminently successful.
When he reached Honolulu he oh
tanned a 60-day distressed seaman's
permit he got under way again
and headed for the California coast.
II took him 66 days to reach Los
Angeles and as soon as he set foot
ashore he was detained at the i'm
migration station because his 60
day permit had expired. The dis
tressed seaman" had spent all of
his 60 days at sea. To add to his
distress, his boat which he had
steered without damage across
thousands of miles OF deep water
was wrecked inside the Los Angeles
breakwater by the violent storm
which recently lashed the western
seaboard.
William Slayens McNutt, the au.
thor, came TO Rebels rescue and
bailed him out and the man withost
a country Is now temporarily living
In Los Angeles. completing plans to
write about his long trip. and in
cidentally planning another cruise.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-04-07
Tropical Insecticide Is
Found in American Weed

The devils shoestring, common
weed In the eastern half of the
United States, contains rotenOne,
valuable insecticide formerly found
only in tropical plants, a United
States Department Of Agriculture
chemist has found.
The discovery is significant for
farmers, both as potential growers
of the plant ami as users of the In
secticide to insecticide manufac-
turers; and to importers who carry
on the international trade in rote-
none and other insecticides.
DIR. w. w. Skinner, assistant chief
of the chemical and chronological
research unit of the bureau OF chem
istry and soils, first called attention
to the probable insecticidal value of
devils shoestring following his OBJ
servation that bees and other in
sects fed on nearby plants but
avoided the blooms OF this toxic
weed. Doctor Skinner later insti-
gated the research which led 10 the
recent discovery of this weeds ro-
tenone content by DR.. L. p. Clark
OF the bureaus insecticide division.
Although the insecticidal value OF
DEVILS shoestring was demonstrated
about two years ago by Prof. V. A.
Little Of the Texas Agricultural col
lege, who found 1t effective against
various species OF insects, its value
as source of rotenone was not
known until proved by the depart
ment's research.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-04-07
Broadway Nears End of
Old Glory and Glamour

currently form the thoroughfare's
chief Theatrical" attractiOns-have
been compelled to reduce prices
generally to offset the depression
and the competition of free medi
cine shows.
They Still Love II.
There is tradition that Charles
Frohman. walking up Broadway
from his office In the Empire one
day. noticed sign proclaiming n
new bake shop or some establish
ment equally unpretentious. and
was moved to let out snort of in.
dignation that could be heard a
block away. What would the pro
ducer. proud of his Broadway. think
of the street today, old timers who
knew him often wonder.
And yet there are those who still
love the old one-time COW trail for
all its shabbiness and lack of spirit.
Those convinced that Broadway
is doomed are already casting about
for possible successor to the city's
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-04-07
Engraved Stone Indicates the
Presence of Norsemen.

Winnipeg. The mythologyof Mani
TOBIAS white mans history goes
back 571 years. Or. D. A. Stewart,
president of the Manitoba Historical
society. announced in Winnipeg.
There is ii good deal of reason to
believe that whit men Travelled
along the Red river 571 years ago."
Mr.. Stewart said.
His belief is based o. the fact
that in 1899 stone vas found
along the upper waters of the Red
river on which were described in
Runic characters the hardships and
adventures of a party of Goths and
Norsemen who had left their ship
and journeyed from Hudson bay and
up the Red river into North Dakota
and Minnesota as they are now
known.
The surmise was, said Doctor
Stewart, that these were members
of an expedition known to have left
Norway in 1859, in search of set
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-04-07

erstwhile parade street" Some
think that Radio City. now growing
up along Fifth avenue few blocks
below Central park. may in time
get to be the city's new Gay White
Way"
There has been considerable talk
of late of the Metropolitan opera,
now in dire financial distress. NOV
ing to the magic Rockefeller devel-
Opment and trying for new start,
although the operas "Old guard"
has conniption fit every time the
suggestion is offered.
If opera should move overland
the development was originally
planned with a view to making OPP
era its heart and center-it is be-
lieved the best in theaters might
follow.
Others think Fifth avenue, which
so far has stood adamant against
encroachment by the theaters might
eventually capitulate and sacrifice
some of its dignity to the towns
crying need for a new amusement
center. Stranger things have hap
pened.
Wherever it is to be, though, the
town must have new land of make
believe. 1t is written-so say those
In the know.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-04-07
Farm Income Of 5000
for Buckeye Farmers
Record -KeepersSayDairy-
ing Brought Most Cash.

From Ohio State University Agricultural
College Extension Service.-WNU Service.
About 1900 Ohio farmers who
keep records of their businesses
made an average farm income of
$603 in 1881. according to rural
economists for the agricultural ex-
tension service
These farmers, the economists
say, lived in about 70 Ohio counties
and cooperate with the college of
agriculture in keeping their ac-
counts and in having them sum-
married. at. a series of 124 meetings
held throughout the state especially
for that purpose.
The average size of the farms was
143 acres. The sources of cash in
come were distributed as follows !:
dairy products, Sis; hogs, $40 !;
poultry, 1855; sheep, $93; cattle,
steers, SIT; crops, S41S, and all
other sources were responsible for
S213. The total cash receipts
amounted to $2,314 for the average
farmer keeping accounts.
The sources of cash expenses
were feed, $2S4; taxes, $21S; labor,
$152; fertilizer, SS3; and all other
items, $557.
Information gained from the farm
account records, according to the
economists, are presented in various
ways to groups of farmers, county
agricultural agents, and groups of
vocational agricultural teachers. In
this way the data are used in help
ing hundreds of individual farmers
who do not keep records of their
businesses.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-04-07

OF Presidents OF the United States
taken while fishing. II is hard to
remember any Chief Executive,
since the early days of photog.
raphy, who has not had his picture
taken with a fishing rod and one
or more fish.
A New York family had a good
and thrifty cook. Finally she mar
ried, but still kept her Job. Her
husband bought a small car with
her savings and started across
country as salesman. For a time
she heard fcou him, but the letters
finally ceased. After about year,
she got divorce. Now she Is saw
ing up again.
q. 1893. Bell syndicate.-wNU Service
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-04-07
Gyps and Fakers Move In
on Great White Way.

New York.-Broadway. they say.
is finlshed-thrOugh
Once the fairest, brightest street
in all the world of happy make.be
lieve. the thoroughfare is fast los
ing its individuality in a riot of
cheap movie palaces" fake auction
sales, physical culture parlors.
hot dog and Orangeade stands. and
a hundred and one variations of the
thlmble rigger's art run out of Coney
island as too blatantly cheap for
further sufferance.
Sidewalk takers abound on every
block. AT times the interest of the
moron groups they attract is such
as to block the passageway and
force pedestrians to the roadway.
Barkers lie In wait In front of fly
Oy night fire" and bankruptcy"
sacrifice" sale joints ready to pull
In the unwary. Little shops. flaunt-
ing show window displays of the
latest In lady's undies. nestle in be-
tween. A shooting gallery adds its
clatter TO the motley din.
Appeals to the Morons.
Around the corner on FOrty-sec-
ond street a flea circus is sand
wiched in between a dime dance
palace" and a high pressure shoe
repair shop.
Cheap. tawdry. vulgar. rundown
at the heels, with no self-respect
and mo idea of what self-respect
means"-that's the Broadway of to-
day to untold thousands who loved
the Broadway Of yesterday.
The degeneration of the famous
thoroughfare. or rather that mid
town stretch of 1t popularity asso-
ciated with bright lights and broken
hearts. has become the subject of
much lameniatiOn by the dead
guard" of the towns citiZenry here
of late.
Outside the Metropolitan opera
house, the Empire theater and one
hotel there's hardly resort Of the
old Broadway left between Madison
square and Fifty-third street-where
the ugly al" straddles across the
sidewalks and seems to cut off fur
ther progress to the north. The best
theaters of the so-called white
Light" district now skulk along the
side streets as If ashamed of the
street their predecessors made ia
nous. They were driven off by high
rents. of course, but the effect is
the same.
Many of those now remaining are
boarded up-for want of patronage
Others house nOndescript movies.
On the whole street there is not to
be found a single restaurant which
old-timers would class with Rec
tors, Churchill's, Shanley's, the Hof-
brau, or Browns Chop house.
The larger cinema palaces-which
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-04-07
Must Make Good or Face
Penalty in Britain.

London. on.-Blackmai actions In
Great Britain are always brought
under a cloak of anonymity. If a
conviction Is obtained the plaintiff S
name is never known. But If an
unsavory action fails the position
is reversed. the glare Of publicity
turns in the opposite direction and
the erstwhile accuser finds himself;
liable to prosecution for perjury.
Such a reversal took place in the
Old Bailey Criminal court when
Mrs. Lillian Simmons. thirty-two.
was charged with threatening to
expose her adultery with mir. ""
and to force a divorce action upon
his wife unless he paid her 81 900
The plaintiff remained In the court
records as "Mr. "" until the jury
acquitted Mrs. Simmons. Then Sir
Ernest Wild. the trial Judge. ex-
posed him and threatened to send
the records of the case to the pub
lie prosecutor. He Is Evelyn Charles
Vivian, an author.
Judge and jury found that the
money demanded WAS debt, and
that Vivian under the protection of
the practice in blackmail cases, had
brought the action TO prevent being
sued for the money.
Mrs. Simmons defense was extend
ed testimony dealing with her life
as friend and mistress of the plain
tiff. She testified that she met him
nine years ago. He showed her q
book he had written. A friendship
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-04-07
Peru Makes Cuzco
Archaeology Center

Lima. Peru.-CuZco, scene of
the rise and fall of the ancient
Inca empire. is declared the
archaeological capital of South
America in a bill passed by con-
gress. The measure authorizes
the transfer of the National mu-
scum from Lima TO Cuzco and
invites other South American
countries TO concur in accepting
the mountain city as their archie
illogical capital. A chair of
American archaeology is created
at the University of Cuzco by
the bill.
The ancient Inca city contains
the famous Temple of the Sun
and many other relics of the Inca
race which flourished before the
Spaniards conquered Peru.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-04-07
Lone Sailor Is Held Up by
immigration Officers.

Los Angeles.-Another man with
ward for an S.S0O-mile cruise in
l9fOot boat has been a short stay
behind the bars Of the immigration
station in Los Angeles-has turned
up on the west coast.
Fred REBEL. literally citizen Of
no land. sailed into Los Angeles
harbor recently In his tiny craft
after more than year on blue wa
ter. en- route here from Australia.
Corn In Windan. Latvia. when
that land was part of the czar's
Russia, REBEL went TO Australia
twenty years ago. but did not be
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-04-07
Agricultural Slants
Sweet clover is a good soil builder.

Sweet clover is good SOIL DulIder.
About a million farms in the
United States now have electricity.
Almost a ton and half of honey
was produced by colonies owned by
the nine members of the Schuylkill
county (Pennsylvania) All bee club.
The net cash income of all Ohio
farmers was S45.O00,000 in 1882,
which represents a decrease of 20
per cent since the period of 1924 to
1923.
Twenty-seven thousand New York
state farm boys and girls are en-
rolled in 4-H clubs. More than $50
men and women are voluntary local
leaders.
Alfalfa produces just as much for
age as red clover. Alfalfa also in
creases the yields of crops that fol-
low and has long roots that enable
it to live through long dry spells.
Massachusetts All clubs will have
a building of their own on the cam
pus of the state college If plans are
carried out. Club boys and girls
will do a good share of the work in
building and equipping the building,
which is scheduled for completion
before summer