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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
Hull Refuses Apology

By CHttFG PfeSS
WASHINGTON, July 14.-Offi-
Gals here we're more interested
today in the possibility of further
German protest over General Hugh
S. Johnson's salty remarks about
the NaN purge of blood than in
Hitlers dramatic reichstag appear
ance.
However, they were losing very
little sleep over either matter.
Official comment on Hitler's de-
Tense of the executions was en-
tirely lacking. The feeling of some
was that Hitler's speech had added
very little to the general knowl-
edge of the purge" although prob
ably strengthening the chancellor's
position in Germany.
Cordell Hull, secretary of state,
pointed out in response to protest
by Charge d'AffaireS Rudolf Lett
ner that Johnson's statement was
made as private citizen rather
than in an official capacity.
Hull regretted Johnsons view had
been miSconstrued as official, but
made no effort to apologize for the
blunt spoken NRA chief.
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shows that one-fifth Of the land
in the two counties already has
been forfeited to mortgage hold
ers; that % per cent of the re-
mainder either is in the process
of foreclosure or up for tax sales,
and that only per cent actually
is clear of all debt membranes.
He wants the government to set
up civil service committees in each
county to scale down the debts
to the present value of the dollar
in terms of farm commodity prices.
He believes that President Roose-
welt has the power to do this I'M
der the last farm debt bill passed
by congress.
Another thing he wants is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
MORTGAGES Colegans and Settle Labeled Farm Menaces

Mr.. Catherwood commended, and
then continued:
Then there is the county
agent, who is just so much more
overhead for the farming indus
try. We can get along without
him, also.
las to the Indiana Farm Bu-
reau, the trouble is that Bill Set
tie president William H. Settle
likes to hobnob with big-wigs in
Washington too much. If Secre-
tary Wallace told him the moon
was made of green cheese, he
would take the idea back and try
to sell it to the HooSier farmers.
Why. that fellow even used to
tell us President Hoover was try
ing to help us.
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prompt payment of at least
something" on the corn-hog con-
tracts which were signed by Hoo
sier farmers. Representative Viz
ginia Jenckes Dem) Of his dis
trict is aiding him in bringing
this about, he said.
r 4
EARMER CATHERWOOD looks
Il like a "city slicker" with nice
white summer clothes and he
stops at a first rate hotel. He is
large man, slow spoken and also
out spoken.
You see, the lawyers and bank
ers we're getting 3 per cent for
loaning us fool farmers money
back in the prosperous years" He
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14

declared. Nov the life inSur-
ance companies, that put them up
to it, do not want to take their
loss along with everyone else in
this depression.
In my opinion, they are no bet
ter than the rest of us and must
share in our common trouble"
But there are other things he
feels that have hurt the Hoosier
farmers.
One of them, he asserts, is send
ing the farm boys to agricultural
schools.
u
THE old folks morgaged the
Il farm to send the boy to Pur-
due and all he learned was how
to spend 81 to make 81 farming"
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Earlier, to a smaller group of re-
porters and representative citizens
Mr.. Farley promised that he would
do Everything possible" to bring
about the construction of the much
desired addition to the postoff1ce
and federal building.
He had assured Democratic lead
ers that Indiana's failure to get on
the Roosevelt bandwagon at Chi
cago had been forgotten; denied
that r. Earl Peters, former state
chairman and unsuccessful candi-
date for the senate nomination. was
seeking a federal job, and refused
to discuss General Hugh S. john
sons anti-Nazi blast of the day
before.
These statements and his fighting
speech came officially from the
chairman of the Democratic ma
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
HONEYMOON TRIP ENDS,
ASTORS EVADE PRESS

Newlyweds Closely Guarded as
Train Stops in Chicago.
BE- United Press
CHICAGO. July 14.-Less than
two weeks after they left Newport.
R. L. on a honeymoon tour which
was to have carried them through
an idyllic summer. John Jacob Astor
III and the former Ellen Tuck
French we're homeward bound to-
dav.
The highly publcized couple
passed through Chicago last night
in tightly curtained, closely guard
ed private car. The newlyweds did
not emerge for so much as a breath
OF air in the thirty minutes they
we're in the yards.
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Violence Threatened

BIZ HttCd Press
SOUTH BEND. Ind, July IA
Heavy police details guarded all
South Bend. diaries today to pre-
vent disorders expected when the
plants begin unlimited cash and
carry" sales in defiance of striking
wagon drivers
Leaders of the union which halt
ed milk deliveries to 10000 people
in South Bend and Mishawaka yes
terday asserted that pickets will pre-
vent-forcibly if necesSary-Sale of
more than two quarts to any in
dividual.
Hope of an early settlement of
the strike was blasted last night by
another refusal of the South Bend
milk council to consider union rec
ognitien.
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General Strike Feared


MINNEAPOLIS, July 14.-Federal
mediators and city officials made
new but hopeless attempts today to
avert a strike of six thousand truck
drivers at midnight Monday and a
possible general strike later.
Union officials, planning tie-up
of transportation which they said
would make riotouS May strike
look like an ice cream social" were
worried but undeterred by threats
of martial law.
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tional committee and patronage
dispenser extraordinary for the
Roosevelt administration.
For a few minutes of his short
stay here, however, James A. Far
ley, the ardent Catholic, became a
private citizen and journeyed to the
home of Bishop Joseph Elmer Ritter
to pay his respects to the bishop.
The crowd which heard him speak
at the Claypool filled the large Riley
room to capacity and overlooked on
to the mezzanine and into other
dining rooms. A system of ampli-
f1ers carried the speech to those
outside the Riley room.
Omer S. Jackson, state chairman,
presided. Governor Paul V. McNutt
welcomed Mr.. Farley. Senator
Frederick Van Mugs introduced
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BABY BOY KIDNAPPED, POLICE BELIEVE
Exodus Is
Started in
Bay Region
Governor Prepares to Call
Out Troops to Rule
Whole District.

By United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, July
Ia. - Alarmed by threats of
famine and possible violence,
residents and visitors today
started an exodus from the
beleaguered San Francisco
strike area resembling flight
from a besieged city in war
time.
Governor Frank Merriam pre-
pared to declare martial law over
the densely populated bay region as
labor leaders planned to meet to
call a general strike-outgrowth of
the bloody and costly coast-wide
marine workers walkout.
Half the city's union labor men,
bership was on strike. Thousands
walked out in Oakland, across the
bay.
National guardSmen. already pa
trolling San FranciSco's water front,
prepared to extend their lines over
a 100-mile radius to break block
ade of pickets and assure delivery
of foodstuffs to San Francisco, Oak
land and other bay region cities.
Issues Curt Ultimatum
Governor Merriam issued curt
ultimatum. He said no women or
child should go hungry nor face
privation. He warned that unless
strikers ceased picketing highways
100 miles from San Francisco and
stopping trucks bearing foodstuffs,
he was prepared to break the block
ade by force.
Over San Francisco, a city block
AIDED by land and sea, hung the
calm of a besieged city awaiting the
zero hour Of attack.
Panic-Stricken citizens stayed in
their homes. Streets were deserted
of taxicabs and trucks-their drivers
struck in the onrush of the general
strike movement.
Thousands of private automobiles
N6IG oldll6Q lOL 1dCh VI SdSOllllS.
Street and cable cars we're the only
mode of transportation still avail
able. Railway union men, how
ever, were prepared to walk out
when the central strike strategy
committee said the word today.
Highways Are Crowded
Persons who still had gasoline in
the tanks of their automobiles fled
the city. Highways we're crowded
with private automobiles, outward
bound. Railroad ticket agencies
were swamped with demands for
immediate reServa tons.
Food was scarce. Fresh fruits
and vegetables disappeared from
grocery stores. San FranciSco's
great wholesale produce district was
closed. Striking teamsters picketed
the highways and no produce could
get through. Oaklands produce
market also was closed.
Violence still was sporadic and
not generally organized. Men were
fired upon. Trucks were halted,
overturned, and set ablaze with
phosphorus bombs.
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NAzI LEADER SLAIN
BY VIENNA GUNNER
Murder Held RepriSaI for
Reign of Terror.

r
VIENNA. July 14.-Cornelius Zim-
mer. 81, Nazi leader, was shot dead
today by three unknown men who
forced a way into his apartment
with revolvers, apparently deter
mined to take direct action to end
NaZi terrorism.
A few hours before, Mrs. Hermine
GraUbner. seamstreSs. died at Salz-
zurg of injuries received in a Nazi
bombing.
Chancellor DollfuSS continued his
work of reorganizing his cabinet by
appointing Ulrich Zig secretary of
agriculture and forestry.
thinner is believed the first Nazi
attacked in repriSal for terrorism
that has worried the government
and endangered citizens for months.
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HITLER BARES
FULL TALE OF
BLOOD PURGE
Speech to Nation Is Called
Final Accounting of
Executions.
By United Press

By UHlted Press
BERLIN, July 14..-Chancello,
Adolf Hitler today appeared to have
won a revitaliZed support for hi
Nazi party following his address be-
fore the reichstag yesterday il
which he defended his blood purge
of the storm troops.
His speech was what Hermann
Goering, his chief cabinet aid, called
the final accounting of his handling
of the plot of Storm Troop leaders
to organize the government and
failing his personal approval. to as.
SaSSinate him.
OF the seventy-seven men wht
died as traitors, Hitler said:
Il was the supreme court o
Germany. I ordered them shot. ]
am ready before history to accept
responsibility for those twenty-foul
hours of the bitterest decisions OF
my life"
Appeal Is Indirect
His appeal to the nation, and ii
was speech to the nation in the
broadest sense in that loud speak
ers blared it out in the remotest
village of the country, was only
indirect.
AS he told the story, it was new
in its entirety not only to Germans
who have heard it in fragments
but to the outside world which
heard it in disconnected form be-
cause only a few Nazi leaders knew
it all.
More than three months before
bloody June 80, Hitler said, he saw
there was something wrong in the
storm troop organization-it was
getting too big; it was not follow
ing but trying to lead.
In April and May, he said, he OBJ
tanned documentary proof of DISC
bedience and disloyalty among the
leaders, plot to make the storm
troops a Super-body.
In May, he said, he realized final
ly the real seriousness of the Situa-
tion-hono sexuals raised to leader
ship, veterans of the lean days held
in contempt, and most important a
plot TO make Ernst Roehm the real
head of the nation, with Hitler as
figure head chancellor.
Deaths Number "
Hitler said he pleaded with
Roehm to reform the storm troop
ers; that Roehm promised repeat
edly to do so, and failed. Then he
learned, he said. that Roehm, be-
ieving Hitler's consent to his plot
was unobtainable, appointed storm
troop leader Uhl to murder him.
On June %, he said, he learned
that the revolt was OF be staged
the next day; that he was to be
put under protective arrest" and
then, if necessary, murdered.
The rest of the story is known.
He filled it in by giving the first
official summary of deaths:
Thirteen storm troop leaders and
civilians killed in resisting arrest;
three suicides; three SIS picked
bodyguards shot for miStreating
prisoners; five Nazi civilians exc
cuted as plotters; nineteen high
storm troop officers, thirty-one
minor leaders and privates and
three SIS men shot as plotters.
Total, seventy-seven.
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so that he also could give him the
low down first hand.
The Ambia agriculturist came
here in his role of president of the
Farmers Union, which has a
membership of 5000 dirt farmers
in Benton and Warren counties,
he explained.
Under the present setup, it
won't be long before all of the
land belongs to either the United
States government or the big life
insurance companies" Mr.. Cath
erwood declared.
n
TN support of his contention, he
Il has map ready for presen-
tation to the treasury heads which
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
BY DANIEL KIDNEY
Times Staff Writer

NTASHINGTON. July lin
W diana agriculture is suffer-
ing from life insurance mortgages,
Purdue farmers" county agents,
William (BilD Settle and the
chinch bug. according to Robert
Catherwood. Ambia Indl, farm
err who has come to Washington
10 see what can be done about
the matter.
Farmer Catherwood plans on
setting his finding before Agricul-
tural Secretary Henry A. Wallace
and the treasury department, he
said. He lamented the fact that
President Roosevelt isn't IN town
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NOTE RECEIVED,
FEDERAL men
MAKE KNOWN
U. S. Agents in Complete
Charge of New York
Disappearance Case.
FATHER NOT WEALTHY
Letter Causes Complete
Change in Tactics
of Officials.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
HARTSDALE, N. Y, July
14.-Parents of 21-months-o%
Robert Conner have received
a mysterious registered letter
that virtually established the
baby was kidnapped, it was es-
tablbished today.
Federal agents we're in such COM
plete charge at the Conner home.
where the curly haired blond baby
clad in pink rompers disappeared
Thursday night, that they received
and examined all mail before the
parents.
Charles Conner, the father, a
moderately paid civil engineer em-
ployed by the state who has no
money to pay ransom, obviously
placed the case completely in the
hands of the agents, depending on
them to get his baby back alive.
Tactics Are Changed
The registered letter was deliv-
cred yesteday, Frank x. Fay, agent
in charge, admitted. He refused to
divulge its contents and when asked
if it was a ransom letter, replied:
Il wouldn't say that it was, and l
wouldn't say that it wasn't" -
The letter caused a complete
change in the tactics of agents. Be-
fore it arrived they directed a wids
search of the woods surrounding the
Conner home, believing the child
might have wandered off. The
search suddenly was called off as
though authorities we're convinced
he was in the hands of kidnapers.
Discovery of two mems handker-
chiefs, one apparently bloodstained,
near the Conner home, led investi-
gators to speculate on the possibility
that Robert had been struck by an
automobile. The driver might have
taken the child in the car and dis
posed Of the body at some point
uloOdIlI lLOIil Illt SCtlIt VI bIle dC~
cident, it was pointed out.
Handkerchief Is Found
A short distance behind the Con-
nor home is a paved but little used
roadway, tree -Shaded, known locally
as lovers lane"
The roadway is a favorite "prac-
tice road for person learning to
drive automobiles. There is little
traffic on it. At the roadside this
morning, searcher found a mans
handkerchief in the corner of which
was embroidered, with cotton
thread, the letter Cd" There was
stains on the handkerchief which
appeared to be bloodstains, and it
was turned over to the police for
investigation
In wooded patch about 500
yards off the isolated roadway was
found another handkerchief,
rumpled but clean. 1t had evidently
been there not more than two days.
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Lurking in those waters is
Sulphuric acid. The freshet
the boy gulped in diving is
laden with colon bacilli, hui
man wastes.
II ranges from the 1000 B coli
shown by an Indianapolis Times
laboratory test. following A rain, "a
as high as 100000 r. scoh per loo
cubic centimeters on days when the
creek is AT low ebb and sewers OF
Charlottesville pour their quota OF
city sewage and industrial waste.
Swimming in any water with more
than 100 B. coli per 100 cubic GEN.
timeters is labeled as dangerous or
at least unsatisfactory by the
state board of health.
No signs warn the boy of the
danger. No signs tell him to SWIM
above the dam and above all sewer
outlets. He can not go for a dis
lance OF six miles downstream with
out being affected by pollution from
Charlottesville, city of culture and
often-times called the Athens OF
HoOSierland.
Proud of Historical Spots
But in Charlottesville proper,
tourists will find numerous signs
directing one to the towns hiStor-
icsI spots. The home of General
Lew wallace, author of Ben Hur'
and the historical residence Oh
Colonel Henry S. Lane have their
ouide POSTS to direct the city S
youth to hours of mulling over yell
lowed documents or eyelng Shlhy
swords which were carried IN Jhe
wars.
Preservation of historical monu-
meuts of Montgomery county ano
Charlottesville leads the life OF the
ritv ONLY a few days ago the CITY
council Of Charlottesville placed an
ordinance on reading TO eNpeno
s24 600 from the eXchequer OF Its
having municipal light plant 10
purchase the Lane home from the
historical society Of the county as a
permanent memorial
The city council IN the fall OF
1913 ordered Charles H. Hurd. In
dianapolis, consulting engineer, TO
make a preliminary survey OF the
pollution of the towns play spot
sugar creek. The survey definitely
told OF the need of a sewage dis
posal plant. It warned of the sui
phuric acid poured into the stream
from a wire mill. and Of the injury
To fish life as we'll as the danger TO
bathers and livestock.
Survey Ends Action
Survey and filing Of the report
ended all action upon the part OF
the city council. No federal grant
was sought. although the profits OF
the light plant would care for the
retirement of the government loan
Action ended despite the fac
that If a 100000 plant had beer
built the government would have
given the city an outright grant o.
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g ARMENIANS GUILTY
IN CHURCH Staying
Two Face Death Penalty for Murder
of Archbishop.

Two Face Death Penalty for Murder
of Archbishop.
By United Press
NEW YORK, July 14.-Nine Ar
menian defendants charged with
participating in the murder of Arch
bishop Leon Tourian, as he marched
down the aisle of the Armenian
Holy Cross church Christmas Eve.
wer convicted today after a trial
that lasted more than a month.
Two of the defendants were
found guilty Of first degree murder.
which carries a mandatory death
penalty. They were Matios Ley
legian, charged with the actual
stabbing, and Nishan Sarkisian. The
seven others were found guilty of
first degree manslaughter. The
murder was plotted, it was charged.
By members of a secret Armenian
society opposed to the present Ar
menian Soviet republican govern
ment
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MOTHER is SLAIN IN
ERROR BY AGENTS
Dies as Federal Men Cut
Loose With Bullets.

By United Press
ST. LOUIS. Mo, July 14.-De-
partment Of justice agents who sur
rounded a house and shouted come
on out, John, we've got you" shot to
death the innocent mother of two
small children when they opened
fire last hight, it became known to-
day.
The woman, Mrs. bessie Master
son, was shot to death as she slept
on the floor of the home she occu-
pied with her husband and two
small children.
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At Detrolt-
One Best-Watch Tower.
l. Miss Wise, Nah Grant, Ed
die Jr.s
2. Scythe, My Turn, Flo M.
3. Heros Lady, Scrambled Eggs,
Hidden Dust.
4. Crackle, Up, Shoot.
5. Our Justice, Even Up, Royal
Blunder.
6. Sabula, Black Target, Silent
Shot.
7. Watch Tower. CULVER, Tarnish.
8. Twill, Sun Worship, Off Duty.
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WOMEN'S AID SOUGHT
TO BALK MILK RISE
Opposition of Clubs Requested by
Cheer BrOadcaSters.

Indianapolis Women's Clubs viii
be asked 10 join IN a campaign
against any increase in the price
OF milk. according to plans fOrmu-
latd yesterday by the Cheer Broad
casters. a women'S organization
which buys milk for unGernouriShed
children threatened with tubercu-
lOSiS.
Mrs. Otis Carmichael. club preSi-
dent, appointed Mrs Cecil VeStal
and Mrs. NJ. E. Robbins 10 cum
municste the plans to othey wom-
ems clubs. Mrs. VeStal said that
any increase in the milk price would
reduce the number of children for
whom the organization would be
able 10 provide.
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At Empire
One Best-Back Fence.
1. Cheshire, Anacreon, Black Tas-
sci.
2. Curlette, Chain, Impromptu.
3. Black Fence, Lady Sable, HI
liSe.
4. Tick on, Black Buddy, Halcyon.
5. Testing, General A., Polycletus.
6. Dunfern, Step Brother, Fox
land Hall.
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SWIMMERS BRAVE
DISEASE, DEATH IN
ACID-LADEN CREEK
Sulphuric Solution From Wire Mill, Sewage
Make Sugar Creek Danger Spot
Near Charlottesville
BY ARCH STEINEL
Times stan Writer

Trunks dangling from skinny hips boy trods sure
footed to the edge of the creek boulder.
group of boys, dsrobng the bank of Sugar creek
Charlottesville, shout, "Aw go jump in the creek.
The boy dives blubbers and spOuts water between his
teeth. rock becomes sprngboard splash follows
smash into he waters
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VICE-PRESIDENCY AT
NOTRE DAME FILLED

Head of Catholic Institution in
Texas Gets Post.
By United Press
SOUTH BEND, Ind, July IA
The Rev. j. Hugh ODonnell, c. S.
c., president of st. Edwards uni
versity Of Austin, Tex, will be the
newt vice-president of Notre Dame
university.
Father O'Donnell's appointment
was announced last night in the
annual issuance of obedienceS to
members Of the Congregation Of
the Holy Cross.
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5. Speedmore, Roustabout, Col
lateral.
6. Old Depot, Abode Post, Allen
fern.
7. The Heather, Cold Spill, Par
ties.
8. Below Cost, Outbound, Shasta
Star.
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Farley Slams LiTArthur'
at Huge Democratic Rally
Hooser Senator Has Well Earned Retirement, Party Chief
Says; Promises Aid for Postoffice Annex.

Ched to the echo by enthusiastic Democrats
James A. Farley last night
R.
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At Rockingham Park
One BeSt-SpeedmOre

Un6 btSU-SpttuHAUIo
/. Little Cynic, Khelaboo, Color
bearer.
2. Ayston, Informal, Wise Count.
3. Paper Profits, Luck In, Nero
vech.
4. Sobieha, Chinese Empress, Star
Porter,
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%DEA RACE TRACK
W& e. Selections
MONIES SELECTIONS FOR TO-DAY

Copyright. United Press
Days Best-Speedmore.
Best Longshot-Quick.
Best Parlay-Old Depot and Chewsie.
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frocks and jacket styles. They retain
their clear, luxable colors through an
entire season of wear. Wide assort-
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