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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
ITALIANS HOP
FOR LABRADOR
Fourth Stage of Flight to
Chicago World Fair
Is Started.
Blu Tnited Press

By Hfted Press
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, July H.
General Italo Balbo today led his
fleet of twenty-four Italian royal
force seaplanes on a flight to Cart
wright, Labrador, fourth stage OF
their flight to the Chicago expo
sition.
Balbo's plane, leading the squad
ron, left the water at a. m. Il
a. m. Indianapolis time, and was
followed by the others in groups of
three for the 1,500-mile flight across
the sub-Arctic Atlantic to the little
Labrador port.
The planes had been held by bad
weather over the Greenland area
since their arrival from London
derry, Ireland. The Reykjavik- Cart
wright stage is the longest and most
dangerous of the seven stages from
Orbetello, Italy, to Chicago.
Succeeding stages are Shediac, N
B.. 800 miles; Montreal, $40, and Chi
cago, 1000.
Because of the continued calm
which prevented a start Tuesday
many of the Balbo squadron had to
be towed long distances, and it was
hours and "a minutes before the
last plane was in the air.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
HOWARD NAMED
PRISON CHIEF
Reformatory Head Shifted
to Penal Farm; viii
Replace Craig.

Ralph Howard, superintendent of
the Indiana reformatory at Pen
dleton, will resume his former po-
sition Monday as superintendent Of
the state farm at Putnamville, it
was announced today by Governor
Paul V. McNutt.
Announcing the change as The
Times published the first of a series
of articles exposing conditions at
the farm, the Governor said that
the institution has been going
down for some time
Howard will take the place of
Clifford Craig, farm superintendent,
who is unable to perform his du-
ties, due to illness.
A. F. Miles was displaced at Pen
dleton to give Howard a position
when the latter was relieved at the
farm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
STATE GETS MILLION
IN POOR AID FUNDS
Marion County to Receive
Share of Finances.

Indiana today was granted $685.
$50 in federal poor relief funds.
Announcement of the grant was
received by Governor Paul V. Nc
Mutt from Harry l.. Hopkins, fed
eral poor relief administrator. Total
granted five states and Puerto Rico
was S2191,06
Indiana previously had 1887 ,565
and another grant is expected. &C.
cording to William H. Book, state
poor relief director.
The present sum will be used to
reimburse federal aid poor relief
counties for one-third of their eX-
penditures for January. February
and March. Book explained. Fur
Their payments will pay June bills
and the money on the third grant
must extend to Oct. l, he said.
Marion county'S share of the pres
ent grant was placed at S137 ,26009,
but the executive committee of the
Governors relief commission will
pro-rate the appropriations, Book
said.
Thirty counties now are asking
for shares.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
RAHKE FREED
BY SHEAFFER
Alleged Lottery King Is
Set at Liberty on
TeChniCaIity.

Emil Rahke, Alas North Meridian
street, whom police label the lottery
king of indianapolis, today emerged
victorious from his latest tilt with
the law when lottery and pool sell
ing charges against him were dis
missed in municipal court four.
Judge William H. Sheaffer upheld
motion of Harvey Grabill. Rahke s
attorney, to quash the affidavit and
suppress the evidence, on the ground
that knowledge of alleged lottery
operations on which the raid was
made was not reduced to writing,
filed with the affidavit and incor-
porated in the search warrant.
Sergeant Ed Kruse, who led the
police raiding squad on Rahke S
Silent Salesman Company. IA East
North street, the only witness and
Grabill was successful in excluding
his evidence.
Grabill then succeeded in obtain
ing a court order from Sheatfer for
return of evidence seized by KruSe
and his squad. This included sew
eral thousand lottery tickets, report
sheets, slot machines and punch
boards. Grabil contended they had
been confiscated illegally.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12

Tuesday in a special election.
National guardsmen stationed
about trains of beer in railroad
yards we're withdrawn after the
Governors official proclamation.
The state voted almost 2 to l to
legalize beer. at the election Tuesday
Previously it had been regarded as
second only to Kansas in devotion
to the dry cause.
The most optimistic vets believed
the beer victory signalized a wet
victory on the repeal issue before
the end of the year.
Majority Almost 100000
Oklahoma is the thirty-hfth state
to legalize beer.
Returns from 2,8O5 of the states
1913 precincts showed 208, 1886 votes
for beer and 120,964 against. Re-
turns were complete for sixteen
counties and partial for the other
sixty-one.
We're going to collect the tax"
CAAC |OfCAAlOl ocald JIlob d1ICl UllC
vote was announced. He sent troops
to guard the railroad yards until
he gave the word to withdraw.
Two thousand persons stood in
line at the tax commission office
today obtaining beer selling licenses
at 500 each.
Legislature Is Spurred
B. D. Melton, Mangum, whose
county-Greer-voted dry, received
license No. l. Licenses were issued
at the rate of one each five minutes.
Speedy delivery trucks rushed to the
tracks where stood 100 freight cars
loaded with beer.
Tuesdays vote Spurred the legis-
lature in special session to work fast
to set up machinery for a vote on
repeal of the eighteenth amend
ment. A bill is pending to permit
vote possibly in December. It's
passage before adjournment due
this weekend is regarded as GER
tainty.
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SPEED PLANS
FOR 35-HOUR
WEEK ORDER
Action Certain Despite Gain
in Submission of Codes
by Industry.
BOOST BUYING POWER
Delay in Putting Of New
Regulations in Force
Held Recovery Peril.
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times Snecial Writer.

WASHINGTON, July 12.-Plans
for boosting purchasing power at
once with a general 35-hour week
and $l4 minimum wage for industry
pushed forward today, in spite of
increased activity in submission of
industrial codes.
Although two code hearings I'M
der the recovery law are set for
next week and others may follow,
immediate action on wages and
hours is considered important to
care for the lapse of time before
even these first codes can become
effective.
Two weeks elapsed between the
start of hearings on the cotton tex
tile code and its approval by the
President.
Steel and lumber codes, set for
hearing next week, could not be-
come effective before the first of
August, even if they moved with the
rapidity of the textile code, which
is improbable.
Fear Peril to Industry
A time for hearing on a coal code
has not yet been set although Ad-
ministrator Hugh Johnson has in
Dictated it will be held soon.
The oil code is not due until next
week.
The wearing apparel code, near
ing completion in New York proba-
bly, will be delayed a week or SO.
Three or four weeks on present
price schedules during which manu-
facturers, wholesalers and retailers
might lay in stock sufficient to
cause a lag in industry later, would
make Just twice as serious the prob
lem facing the administration at
the present time.
In the three weeks since the re-
covery act became law, business has
doomed in anticipation OF price in
creaSes to an extent which the adj
ministration considers dangerous,
since it is unaccompanied by in
creased purchasing power on the
part of ultimate consumers.
Applies to White Collar Man
An appeal to the country for
voluntary observance of The tenn
porary 35-hour week-$14 minimum
wage schedule was one CT the first
matters to come before the Presi-
dents new temporary council" or
super cabinet at its initial meeting
Tuesday.
Plans worked out for the 35-hour
week at the recovery administration
include the use of certificates of
compliance which business firms
would be permitted to display when
they had complied with the tenn
porary schedule.
Nationwide appeals to the public
would urge that only firms display
ing such certificates be patronized.
AS formulated at Mondays joint
meeting of the recovery administra-
ton advisory bodies, the temporary
schedule would apply alike to
manufacturers. merchandising, min
ing and other operations, and to
white collar workers as we'll as
others. 1t may be modified to fix
different schedules for three or four
rough classifications of industry,
Administrator Johnson indicated
Tuesday
In the lumber code, the recovery
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that he was supposed to be dead
He returned to Indianapolis July
4, but did not go home because,
he said today, of domestic trouble.
Instead, Adams went to the
home of Mrs. Mitchell and learned
from her that he was buried"
Adams Immediately informed po-
lice and his insurance company
Of the error, he said today.
Police attention further was OIL
rected to the case by a request
from niece of Adams in Los
Angeles for investigation.
Adams said today his wife's
Identification Of the drowning vic
tim may have been impelled by
suicide threat he made in March
when they quarreled.
n r
NTRITING a note in which he
w threatened to drown him
self, Adams left home with that
intention, he said. but changed
his mind and reported to police,
who had been called in by the
wife.
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ferS a complex trail for the coro-
ner and Detectives Fay Davis and
Stewart Coleman to follow.
On June % early in the mron-
ing, police were called to the canal
near West street by Negro who
had seen a body lodged against
rubbish gates.
DOLCE recovered the body,
Il that of large man, and sent
it to the Finn funeral establish
ment at 1889 North Meridian
street.
Two days later, Mrs. Rachel
Adams of the jackson street adj
dress identified the body as that
of her husband who was missing.
Mrs. Mitchell and John Walden,
225 Hendricks place, a brother
ln-iaw Of Adams, both say they
denied the body was that of
Adams, who is smaller man.
However. the body was buried
on Mrs. Adams identification.
MEANWHILE, Adams actually
N1 was in Chicago and unaware
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
Try to Kill Surgeon in Auto-Train Wreck
When He Refuses Mutilating
Operation on Chiropractor
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE IS CLAIMED
One Man Shot and Wounded, Another
Dragged Are Found on County
Road Police Study Case.
BY TOM GROUSE
United Press STAFF Correspondent

ST. PAUL, July 12.-Polce Chief Thomas E. Dahill
declared today that three dnapes attempted the murder
of Dr. Edward Engbeg prominent physician and surgeon
staged ACKNOWLEDGMENT wreck after he refused to per-
form mutiating operation a chropractor the gang
sought to punish.
Chief Dahll said he had learned that DR.. Engberg
mracuousy escaped death after the chOpracor Dr. W. H.
edbrg, had been shot and wounded during struggle DR..
Hedburg formerly pugilist, fighting under the
of Walle Dempsey.
They physician and chropractor found unconscious
q country highway
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12

Through the green of the hill
trees of Putnam county. trees
busted by rock and shale silt from
a quarry, come the echo and the
re-echo of the swing of the cane,
the smack of the fist, the clank of
the chain, the curse of the keeper.
in Indiana's own chained gang at
the state penal farm at Putnamville.
1t is a brutality inherited, through
the administra ton of former Gov.
Harry G. Leslie, and ameliorated
during the present Democratic re-
gime of Governor Paul V. McNutt
as inmates assert that conditions
have improved in the last few
months.
Only Petty Criminals
The indianapolis Times reveals
these echoes today of brutality that
sits brooding with club, handouts,
and leg manacles over the approx
mately 1000 inmates of the state
farm, in affidavit after affidavit
from former inmates.
The 1000 inmates are not MUIR
derers, not thieving bank presidents.
not machine gunners, not car
thieves.
They are men sentenced for
vagrancy-depression's crime one
that covers a multitude of petty
sins. They are the pavement DRINKS,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12

DR.. Hedburg told in a hos
pital today off fighting off
three would-be abductors who
tried to anesthetize him.
He was found with bullet wound
in his head, in a ditch along the
highway
DR.. Engberg, socially prominent
and secretary of the Minnesota
state board of medical examiners,
was slumped in a stupor in the
front seat of DR.. Hedburgs automo-
bile a few hundred feet down the
road.
Physician Found Dragged
The physician had been drugged
and the automobile had been
wrecked in a collision with a Nor
thern Pacific passenger train.
A rusty pistol, its handle tapped,
was between DR.. Engbergs feet. In
his pockets were a black domino
mask and DR.. Hedburg's wallet.
How the paths of the two men,
believed strangers TO each other,
happened to cross and a series of
mysterious telephone calls, sum-
monses to treat patients at nom
existent addresses and other events
which their wives said had made
both men morose, were studied by
police.
DR.. Hedburg's story. told to Police
Chief Thomas E. Dahill while guards
kept every one away from the hos
pital room, started with a telephone
call asking him to visit patient at
100 Ford road Tuesday night.
Lured by Fake Call
The chiropractor said he found
no such address. While he was look
ing for a house bearing that num-
Der, three men jumped fro man au-
tomobile and hurried to his ma
chine, he said.
They overpowered me- contin-
ued the chiropractor. over my face
they tied towel, soaked. l believe,
in ether, and tied my hands to-
gether.
Il foughC back the effects of the
ether, worked my hands loose and
again battled the men. During the
struggle l was shot
That's all I remember, except
hazy recollection of being picked
up from the ditch
Bullets in Doctors Pockets
When picked up from the road
side the chiropractor was bloody
and bruised from what obviously
had been hand-to-hand struggle.
His forehead had been grad by a
bullet. A leather strap dangled
from one wrist.
Blood was issuing from DR.. En-
gerberg's mouth when he was
found in the automobile. He had
not recovered consciousness at the
hospital
In addition to the pistol and
mask, police later found a score of
bullets in Dr. Engbergs pockets.
The bullets apparently fit the pis-
tol. which had been fired twice
There were bullet holes in one side
and one door of the car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
BY ARCH STEINEL
Times staff Writer

Men beaten with clubs, bruised with backjacks
some with legs chained srdng in hafsteps stumbling
rocks falling exhausted and perspraonsOaked COTS with
rveted chains clanking in their troubled Sleep
Men handcufed to cell doors for hours waiting for
morse of bread and cup of water to be doed out for
meals Sick forced to the grind of the quarry and
laughed at cursed when they protested their sickness
The cry of a guard "You dirty -- you're stalng"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
DEMPSEY TO MARRY
STAGE STAR IN EAST
Hannah Williams Will Be
Bride, Ex-Fighter Says.

By nited Press
FIT. WORTH, Tex, July 12-Jack
Dempsey, former heavyweight
champion, today confirmed his en-
gagement to Hannah Williams, New
York musical comedy star.
Dempsey said, however, they
probably would not be married for
eight or nine months.
He plans to return to New York,
he said, for a vacation at the end
of the present nation wide tour with
Max Baer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
LINDYS TAKE OFF ON
FLIGHT TO LABRADOR
Flying Couple Start Second
Leg of Journey.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
HALIFAX, N. S., July 12.--Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife,
continuing their charting tour Of
air routes via Greenland and Ice
land. left here at 11:17 a. m. today
with st. Johns, Newfoundland, or
Cartwright, Labrador, their prob
able destination.
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cemetery.
With discovery
of Adams alive
at the home of
a sister, Mrs. F.
c. Mitchell, R.
R. 10. Box 405,
DR.. William E.
Arbuckle, coun-
ty coroner, and
d e [ e C iv e S
opened an !nves-
tigation of the
3 urial of a
drowning victim
under Adams
name and sub
sequent filing of
an inSura nee
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
Welded FOR So YEARS
Old Buffalo Hunter, Civil War Vet
eran, Celebrates.
BIZ United Press

By nIfed Pfess
COATS, Kan, July 12.-Mr. and
Mrs. A. M. Smith celebrated their
fifty ninth wedding anniversary
here. Smith, Civil war veteran
and buffalo hunter, hunted on the
plains of the present site of Coats
before the town was laid out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
Oklahoma Legdlizes 81
Beer by Vote of 2 to 1
Alfalfa Bill Murray Grants 0neTime Bone Dry State
Permission to Drink Brew immediately
BY GEORGE B. ROSCOE
United Press staff COrrespondent

OKLAHOMA CITY, July Ex-Governor w. H. alfalfa
Bi) Murray today granted Okahomans official permission
to drink Immediately the 80 beer which the state egazed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
BUTTERMAKERS CLASH

Settlement of Business Code Will
Be Completed in Washington.
By United)Press
CHICAGO, July IL. - Butter
makers, at swords points over a ma
tional business code, will fight out
their differences in Washington at
a public hearing with the govern
ment as referee.
That decision was reached after
representatives of leading butter
manufacturing concerns clashed
with spokesman for several thou
creameries owned by dairy farmers
in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin
at meeting here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
Jasper School to Be Moved

BIZ United Press
JASPER, Ind, July 12.-Jasper
academy, Catholic institution, es-
tablished here in 1890, will be trans
ferred to Aurora, ILL.,, where it will
be merged with Fox Valley high
school and renamed Marion, it was
learned today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
BABY BITTEN BY RAT
Girl, 2, Taken to City Hospital for
Treatment of Injury,

Dolores Galloway, q year old
daughter Of Mrs. Lillian Galloway.
1863 Hiatt street, was taken to city
hospital today by the police first aid
squad for treatment of a rat bite on
one of her great toes. The rodent
bit the child while she was in bed
this morning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
HANDCUFFS ARE STOLEN
Motorcycle Cop Is on Lookout for
an Odd Thief.

Motorcycle Policeman Harry
Smith is looking for the thief who
stole pair of initiated handouts
from box attached to his motor
cycle Tuesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12

the car driver who was intoxicated
at a New Years party, the fellow
who stole coal that his family might
keep warm, the small-town bad boy.
All are petty offenders.
They we're sent to the state farm
for correctional treatment of minds,
habits, ways of doing.
Punishments Is Excessive
But The Times probe will show
that many state farm inmates re-
ceived punishment for escapes,
Sinking work, disobedierce, and
smoking cigarets. with almost as
much force of fist, Gaming. and star
walton as in the notorious prison
camps Of Georgia.
It will show that the small of
fenders-men and boys committed
for petty bootlegging, vagrancy,
drunkenness, coal-stealing - lived
and worked out their sentences I'M
der the threat of more dire punish
ment than is meted out to the muir
derer who misbehaves at the state
prison in Michigan City.
From affidavit after affidavit from
former inmates seeps the tale of
the vagrant highway bum, whose
sole offense to Hoosier society was
that he didn't catch the first train
out Of town, being handcuffed to
bars because he wouldn't work.
Illness ScOffed At
The probe will show that one in
mate, with a chronic illness that
might result in death, lived on bread
and water, was beaten, and then
laughed at by doctors or cursed by
guards when he pleaded his ailment
as excuse for nonwork.
1t will show that a complete med
ical examination establishing the
inmates illness was not made.
But The Times viii show that the
man had been suffering from dis
ease that might have resulted fatal
ly in placing the man at hard labor.
The former inmates, in succeeding
installments Of the story of Indiana's
chained men. will charge that food
supplies we're handled irregularly
by keepers and that the penal farm
fare was cut and watered to make
il feed the 1000 prisoners.
Malpractice Is Charged
The inmates charge that a minor
operation was performed by a farm
attache Who had no license to prac-
tice medicine. And that the patient
bled with such severity that 1t was
necessary to call in the regular farm
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NOTED ATHLETE TO WE'D

Engagement of Frank WykOff, For
mer Sprint Champ, Announced.
BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, July Il. - The
engagement of Frank Wykoff, for
mer world champion Splinter, and
Miss Ethel Mae Richardson, %, was
announced today They will be
married Aug. % at Glendale, the
prospective brides home.
The two have been sweethearts
since high school days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12

TINE report of my death ap-
n pears to have been some
what exaggerated. Hall R. Adams,
2435 West jackson street, said to-
day, although Adams is supposed
TO be in grave in Floral Park
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WE'D IN QUIET RITES

Deaf Pair Is Married by Minister
Also Without Hearing.
BIZ United Press
DENVER, Colo, July 12.-Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph j. Hadden were mar
ried strictly 'on the quiet
Both Mr.. Haden and his wife,
formerly Ruth Klump, are deaf.
So was the minister who married
them, the Rev. Homer Grace.
Most of the wedding party, be-
ing possessed of their voices and
hearing, were unable to tell when
the bride and groom said, Il do
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Treatment of petty offenders at
Indiana's penal farm is a throwback
to the Dark Ages. Read The State
Farm" editorial page.
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approximately $500 in insurance
is involved.
The coroner and detectives still
have the problem Of solving the
identity of the body in Floral
Park cemetery.
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HOWARD TO HEAD
PRISON; BRUTALITY
REIGN IS EXPOSED
Inmates Slugged by Guards for Petty
Offenses Handcuffed to Bars, Starved
Into Sullen Submission.
MEN FORCED TO TOLL WHEN ILL
Prisoners Sleep With Chains Riveted on
Legs; Cane and Blackjack Batter Down
Captives Who Lag at Work

This the a conditions
penal farm at Putnamve revealed thorough investigation
by The Times
This attack individuals indictment
which mstreament
which place the
system fit only for medieval times its calculated cruelty
No of guards guilty of brutality toward the
published though they have been named adav given The
Times.
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Vacation Calls
For Money

You never know till you try,
and with vacation time here one
has many needs for extra funds.
And here is where Times Want
Ads come TO the rescue. Mrs.
Grace Riggle, 518 Eastern Ave,
placed an ad in The Times:
BABY CARRiAGE-Reed; 2-tone green;
Al. Cheap.
The ad ran one day and she
received several calls and sold the
carriage. Extra money can be
secured through the medium of
Times Want Ads, RI. 5551, TWA
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ad tax
ers will serve you.
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Ransom Deal Is Made

y HIIfN ITfSS
ALBANY, N. Y. July Pre-
lease of John J. O'Connell Jr., kid
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