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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09
BLUE EAGLES HAVE
BEEN BUSTED HERE

By the Main Street Observer.
I live in Edinburg, an apathetic
country town, located midway be-
tween Franklin and Columbus.
Our town had grass in Main
street long before Hoover made his
famous die-hard utterance. We
have no bank, no sewage system,
exorbitant light rates and really no
civic-minded people with enough
push" to get us out Of the rut.
We stood by last summer while
Morgan worked employees as high
as eighteen hours day, and some
times day and night in direct vio-
lation of the spirit and the letter
OF the NRA, and we did nothing.
Now We have kicked the blue
eagle clear out of town. Our busi-
ness is mostly concentrated on
Main cross street in about one and
one-half blocks. If you really de-
sired TO support Mr.. Roosevelt and
his recovery program, you would
boycott tWenty-eight stores as you
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09
SUPPORT OF PRESIDENT
URGED BY READER

BY H. Hurd.
What is the Constitution? This
question is answered in the pre-
amble; eve, the people of the
United States, in order to form a
more perfect union, establish JUS
tice, insure domestic tranquility,
provide for common defense, pro-
mote the general welfare and Sc
cure the blessings of liberty to our
selves and our posterity, do ordain
and establish this Constitution for
the United States of America"
Then the Constitution was estab-
lished for the purpose of securing
justice, liberty and freedom for the
people. Then they provided a legis-
lative branch to legislate from time
to time as the peoples needs re-
quired. Then they established an
executive branch to execute the will
Of the people, as expressed through
their legislators.
Then they had an arrangement
for the people to have revolution
every four years and overthrow
both the legislative and executive
branches of their government and
to establish another set Of legisla-
tors and executives to function.
Now, what did these fellows know
about airplanes and airplane con-
tracts in 1887? 1t seems to me any
man with a little horse sense would
understand they meant that new
problems would arise which would
have to be solved. That is why we
overthrow our government in Wall
Street and moved - to Washington
year ago. Our President seems
to know the difference between the
interests Of the majority and the
minority.
We all love Lindbergf. He well
can handle the controls Of an air.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09
SLUM CLEARANCE

ONE of the ways in which we are going to
~ try to prime the industrial pump an
parently, is through large-scale housing pro-
gram.
Before it begins, it's worth while to have
look at the dollars and-cents value which
such program might have.
Federal housing authorities have Just fin
ished survey in the city of Cleveland, study
ing one particular "blighted area" to see how
the present costs Of the slums which this area
bears would compare with the cost of replacing
them. Its figures are Illuminating
This area houses 2.5 per cent of the city's
population. Over ten-year period it has had
81 per cent of the citys murders, 21a per cent
Of its houses of ill-fame, per cent of its
juvenile delinquents, and 10 per cent of its
cases of ilegitimacy.
Twelve per cent of the city'S cases of tu-
berculosis occurred in this area, and per
cent Of its relief families live there.
In 1882 taxes totaling $225,OOO were COL
lected from this area. In that same year
the city, the county and the board of educa-
ton spent $1,357OOO in the area. On top of
that, charitable and social service agencies sup
ported by the Community Fund spent $615,OO0
there in that one year.
Figures like these speak for themselves,
and it is impossible to misunderstood them.
Clearly, the existence of this slum is ire
mendous drain-speaking solely in terms of
finances-on the city as a whole. Tt does not
even come close to paying for its cost.
Every year of its existence it literally takes
dollars from the pockets of citizens in more
prosperous parts of the city.
What would be the cheaper-to let this
slum area go on as it has in the past or to
spend the money that would transform it into
an asset instead of a liability?
This case, of course, is only a sample.
Every American city of every size has COM
parable situations Every American city is
paying, and paying through the nose, for the
luxury of its slums.
A large-scale housing program would not
only help stimulate the capital goods indus
tries; it would prove the best kind OF invest
ment that the American people could make.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09

passed by, because there are only
five concerns with blue eagles IN
their windows. Incidentally, three
of the five are chain stores.
The blue eagle is reputed to be
proud, well-posied bird, even
rather militant at times in his eff
forts to help this country recover
from the depression. Down here he
isn't even seen in the postoffice, al
though I have been told by early
risers, who have seen him peering
around corners rather cautiously
that he is droopy looking bird
that walks with an INDECENT SLOUGH
Possibly, if General Johnson were
to come to town some day the post
office would order new supply OF
blue eagles in advance because-we
have kicked the blue eagle clear out
of town.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09
PRICE FIXING UNDER
NRA BRINGS QUERY
By Herbert C. EIgart.

By Herbert C. EIgart.
Is price fixing under MIRA to en-
able the larger manufacturer to
make even larger profits?
Submitting a hypothetical casei
The small manufacturer. A, operat-
ing under a code, produces tooth
paste in competition with B, large
man facturer. Both sell their prod
uct a cents a tube, making a fair
profit. The consumer pays Is cents
for the product.
Now B introduces new labor-sav-
ing machinery which enables him,
still under code regulations, to dou-
BILE his output, thereby doubling
profits, since the consumer con-
tinues to pay a retail price of IS
cents. Does not such an arrange
ment permit the large combines to
make tremendous profits at the ex-
pense of the consumer?
If the code in this case were de-
signed to protect all concerned, why
not say to the manufacturers: "a
fair profit on this type of product is
so per cent, determined by a federal
board, and no one in this industry
will be permitted to make more than
this fair profit" Under such a code
Of regulations, when the improved
machinery was introduced, B, know
ing that his profit was fixed, would
be forced to divide the excess with
labor (shorter hours and higher
pay) and the consumer.
Under such a code, A, of course,
would be forced to become progress
sive to meet the lowered price
charged to the consumer. Under the
new twelve point program Of Gen.
eraI johnson can find nothing
that gives the consumer more than
the lip service he seems to always
receive.
My questions are sincere and If
some one will answer them it will
help a number of us ex-service men
to change their present attitude in
believing that the NRA is nothing
more than a paradise for the mighty
manufacturer at the expense of both
consumer and laborer, since labor can
not expect employers to be generous
when they have that minimum wage
at which to shoot. ALI we seem to
be able to find is, shall not sell for
less"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09

By C. S. G.
Wouldn't it be just dandy if
Colonel Frank Knox could make
that speech he delivered at the
Columbia Club the other night to
the thousands of basket men in
indianapolis and Indiana or to
the coal miners in southwestern
Indiana or to the miners across
the river in Ohio or in Harlan
county, Kentucky?
Wouldn't those half starved
birds fairly wallow in that speech,
especially that part where he said
the nation had turned toward
strange remedies?
In other words, wouldn't the
basket men, the ragged, the job
less, the destitute lick their chops
as the Chicago colonel monkeyed
with the political buzz saw? Or
would they?
Wonder who the colonel thought
he was kidding? Nobody but the
twenty-two-steer crowd at the
dinner, mostly office seekers, and
politicians who are out of Office
wanting in.
The colonel Chere's a laugM
talked about Indiana and what a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09
POLITICAL SUCCESS
SECRETS LISTED

BY Charles r. Carson,
Let us consider the proper way
to be elected to public Office.
First get the personal and finan-
ciaI support of some wealthy person
who has an ak to grind. Then pick
out the party most likely to win at
the next election and buy yourself
a place on the ticket of the strong
est faction in it.
If you are not a good speaker or
do not take a good picture the
safest course is to retire from the
public eye until the election is over.
If you find that your face looks
good on every telephone pole take
an active part in the campaign.
Be sure that your speeches con-
tain nothing about yourself or your
plans. Speak only about the bad
points of your opponent. If he
hasn't any bad points hint at some
you think he might have if elected.
Make any promises that you think
will get votes. Above all be zone
of the boys" even if it means kiss
ing all the voters babies.
Then after you have been elected
you can take an extended vacation
and let the faction you bought into
run the job as it wants to.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09
Waiting
BY HARRIET SCOTT OLNICH

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICH
Today I have no tears for anything.
No little sorrows move me to despair.
No little heartaches stir my suffer-
ings.
No torments pierce the armour
that I wear.
I am not stirred by love or beauty's
ache;
I have no heart for any lovely
thing.
Ny heart is frozen as the w4nses
ground
That waits with stoic ealn the
breath Of spring.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09

plane but We think President Roose-
welt can and is handling the govern
ment just as well as Lindebrgh
handles an airplane. And, for my
part, I want Mr.. Roosevelt to con-
tinue at the controls for four more
years after this present term.
BY that time he will be able to
guide us across the ocean of our
difficulties and land us safely on
the other side of special interests
and monoplies, where we can be
free people as our Constitution in
tended.
So, let US stand by Our President
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09
THEY'LL BE LUCKY
IF THEY LIVE

By Law-Biding Citizen.
Roger Touhy and his two COM
panions of Chicago dlixed up in
the kidnapping of Jake Factor looked
healthy when the jury brought N
a verdict Of ninety-nine years for
each. Figuring it up, they will be
free men on Feb. %, 2O33.
How many good citizens alive to-
day will be on>earth when the kid
napers are turned out of Joliet to
walk the streets Of Chicago when we
are dead and forgotten. Those
three seem to be lucky
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09
I sohoHy disapprove of What yom sag and aOiu
defend to the death yoW right to sag it-YOEtaire.

law against any one receiving stolen
goods, yet the law protected him.
Matt Leach is just trying to get
lot of publicity SO he can run for
office. We imagine he will be dis
appointed when he does.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09
WORSE THAN WAR

THE people of England are beginning to
\ grow alarmed about automobile traffic
fatalities. Last year autos killed 1902 people
and injured 216,329 more in the United King
dom: and some one has discovered that this
Is . casualty list definitely greater than that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09

Richard Joshua Reynolds. tobacco heir,
takes over s25,oOOo0O trust estate on his
twenty-eighth birthday. What we can't un-
derstand is how he kept from starving until
now
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09

Evanston, IL, cradle of the W. c. T. O.,
voted to against the sale of liquor. so the
good old bootleg days Of prohibition viii soon
be back.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09

The government, some one has discovered,
has been spending much less than President
Roosevelt thought it would. But now that
the politicians know about it. look out!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09
The Message Center

(Times readers are inUited to cypress
their Uiet0s in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have chance.
Limit them to ESQ cords or IesS.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09

Senator Fess says he never has asked
any one to vote for him, and never will. And
never has he asked any one so loudly as be-
fore election.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09
| Daily Thought

And the Lord said unto Moses,
whosoever hath sinned against me,
him will I blot out Of my book
Exodus, 1928.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09

4 MAN can not practice sin and
"a be a good citizen. Burke says
very truly: Whatever disunites
man from God disunItes man from
man."-Chapin
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
POLICE LAUNCH HUNT
FOR z MISSING GIRLS
Disappeared Early YeSter-
day, Fathers Report.

Search was being made today BY
police for nth May King, Is, of 225
Beauty avenue, and Eulalie May
Wright, Is, Of 236 Minerva street.
who last were seen early Friday
when two youths let them out Of a
car on New York street near White
river
Ruth May King is described as
being four tall; weight, ninety-six
pounds; blue eyes, fair complexion.
She was wearing rainbow-striped
dress, white shoes and ankle stock
ings.
The Wright girl was described as
four feet eight inches tall; weight,
100 pounds, and wearing 8 green
and white sport dress with white
shoes and anklets. Foul play Is
feared by fathers of the girls.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28

for merciless vengeance on those
Nazis who were captured. A spe-
cial military court was set up to
try them. Won Starhemberg put
himself today at the head of a min
isterial committee on special secur-
ity measures whose aim was to
crush in death or despair not only
the Nazis but Socialists and Com
munistS.
The government maintained I'M
usual reserve regarding Chancellor
Adolf Hitler's appointment of Baron
Franz Won Papen as special min
lister to Austria.
Hitler meant the appointment as
a peace gesture, apparently sin
cere one. But so suspicious was the
government that, when the German
foreign Office inquired whether Won
Papen would be persona grata, it
replied that there would be no de-
cision until the cabinet met next
week.
Official circles said that before
accepting Won Papen, the govern
ment must be assured Hitler would
not again encourage the Austrian
NaziS, and that it would ask for
what approximate length of time
Won Papen would remain.
Night Battle Wages
The fighting between the Nazis
and the government forces centered
principally in Csrinthia, the south
ernmost province across whose bor-
der 10000 Italian troops were bivou-
acked. There was firing all night in
the Lavant valley, with government
forces driving Nazis before them.
Brilliant government successes at
Feldkirchen, chief center of revolt in
Carinthia, and at Leoben, seemed
to have broken Nazi resistance
Unofficial sources said the big
powers were putting pressure on
Austria not to agree to Won Papen's
appointment unless it got guaran-
tees from Germany Of non-inter-
ference
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28

county; Morris O'Flaherty.
twenty years for robbery in
Marion county; William Jay,
twenty years for robbery in
Allen county, and Kenneth
Rogers, ten years for robbery
in Vanderberg county.
At 3 a. M, N. E. Burns, guard in
a dormitory, notified Night Captain
w. c. Griswold of noises coming
from the roof. Griswold investi-
gated and declared it a false alarm.
Two hours later, officer w. F.
Netzel, in charge of the hospital,
reported five men missing. Chief
Deputy Warden Lorenz G Schmuh1
started an investigation and discoV-
cred the break.
Burns reported at 2:30 a. m. a
prisoner turned on the water in the
bathroom. 1t was thought the
break got under way at that time.
Prison officials though the pris-
oners used a skeleton key in base
ment door of the hospital to get
into the prison yard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28

brink back, not alone new alti-
tude record, but great store of in
formation for science to consider.
Carry Emergency Rations
Only emergency food rations were
carried. The men did not expect
to eat during the twelve-hour flight,
but feared they might be forced to
land in some isolated spot. -Four
gallons of drinking water were
taken.
The balloonists planned to take
pproximately four hours for the
ascent to the maximum altitude of
the fight. They expected to level
off at 10000 feet for taking of OBJ
servations, and again at $4,000 feet.
Leaving the 60,00O-foot level, they
expected to ascend from 5000 to
10000 feet higher. probably reach
ing a maximum level of about 5000
feet, or fifteen miles.
There they were to remain for
about two hours, occupying the time
by taking samples of the atmos-
phere, making aerial photographs
which were expected to show clearly
the curvature of the earth, and in
other scientific observations.
The descent, it was estimated,
would require four to five hours.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
COIN JURY WILL
Get CASE TODAY
Final Arguments Made by
Opposing Counsel Dur
ing Morning.

State and defense attorneys this
morning we're finding final argu-
ments to the jury in the embezzle-
ment trial of Melville S. Cohn, vice
president and director of the de-
funct Meyer-KiSer bank.
Following reading of instructions
by Special Judge Alex G. Cavins,
the jury will deliberate the case
this afternoon.
In an imprisoned plea yesterday
that the jury not send Mr.. Cohn to
prison because he offered a help
ing hand" to failing realty COM
pany, Frank G. Daily, defense at
torney, termed the states case IAN
anomaly in criminal prosecution.
This case lacks every element OF
embezzlement," Mr.. Daley declared.
1T is decidedly the most technical
criminal case in my forty years eX-
perience as a lawyer"
The United States government is
spending billions to help enfeebled
corporations over trying periods.
Should a man be sent to prison be-
cause he offered a helping hand?"
Mr. Cohn, Sol Meyer, former
president of the bank; Julian j.
Kiser and Ferdinand S. Meyer were
indicted after sending checks in
lieu of dividends to holder of the
Frailich Realty Company stock,
which the bank had sold. The Frai-
Itch company, a Gary concern, was
shown by the evidence to have been
insolvent at the time the bank is
sued the checks in lieu of dividends.
Floyd Mattice, chief deputy prose-
cutor, spent much time defining to
the jury just what constitutes en-
bezzlement and then attacked the
defense for attempting to show that
$3.50 alleged to have been en-
bezZled was a loan.
IF it was loan, why didn't 1t
show on the books as a loan?" Mr..
Mattice demanded.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
L0NG-TERMERS
ESCAPE FROM
PEN HOSPITAL
Three Patients and Two TRUSTEES Make
Getaway During Night; One of Men
From Marion County.
NO CLEWS LEFT BY QUINTET
Noises on Roof at Hour of Disappearance
Branded False Alarm by
Night Captain

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, July 28.-Fve ong-term con-
vcs escaped early today from the hospital dormory of the
Indiana state prison They had at least wOhour start
when guards discovered the break at a. m.
The men, three patients and two TRUSTEES IN the hospital
left no to the method of their escape painter scaf-
fold beside new addition to the hospital section and reports
that noises were heard the roof of dotoy at about
the hour of the escape the only indications of the route
the prisoners took:
The missing
John Burnett serving ten years for burglary in Ver~
million county, Louis Grail fifteen for burglary IN Lake
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28

comprised the crew for the
epoch-making flight.
They shot upward at 645 a. m.
indianapolis time) in the United
States army-National Geographic
Society stratosphere balloon, The
Explorer" largest free ballon ever
made.
AT a. m they reported an alti-
tude of $4,000 feet. Earlier the bal
loon had reported an altitude Of
10000 feet. officials said the drop
was no cause for alarm as it had
been planned for the balloon to
level off" at about that altitude to
test the equipment before continu-
inc the ascent.
Over Cheyenne River
Captain Stevens said shortly be-
fore a. M:
I'VE had hell of a lift right
then"
Regular communication had not
been established. but the radio
transmitter in the balloon was
turned on and the crew was max
ing side remarks into it from time
to time. But they we're too busy
to send any detailed reports.
At 811 a. m. the balloon reported
its position as over the Cheyenne
river, thirty-two miles north north
east of Rapid City, S. D.
With their enormous gas bag,
having a capacity of 100000 cubic
feet, inflated with only 100000 cubic
feet of hydrogen gas, the men were
lifted over the rim of this peace
full, sheltered Black Hills valley at
a speed of more than 500 feet
minute.
Expect Food for Science
The huge balloon, appearing as
great exclamation mark with its
metal gondola the dot beneath,
cleared by hundreds Of feet the
rock bound walls of the bowl, on
which it had been feared it might
come to grief due to sudden gusts
of wind.
Before the balloonists, as they
cleared the bowl, stretched a new
frontier of science-the stratosphere.
fifteen miles up, where the blue Of
the sky we know gives way to pur-
plish black as the density of the at
mosphere thins to a point at which
human being, if exposed to it,
would explode like a bursting paper
sack.
From the shakespeare, Kepner,
Anderson and Stevens expected TO
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28

The small city hall, wherein
the chancellOr's body lay in
state was banked with flow
ers. Wreaths sent from every
nation in Europe, and masses
of bright-cOlOred flowers con-
tributed by his friends filled
every corner of the old struc-
ture.
AT 2.3O D. m, when the first cere-
mOnial began. every business ac-
tivity in Vienna ceased, and every
wheel stopped turning. Railroad
trains were halted for two minutes.
Windows along the route of the fu-
neral procession were closed tightly.
Resistance to the government
still was reported in outlying prov
inceS. notably Carinthia, but each
succeeding reoprt from commanders
OF regular troops and heimwehr
soldiery told of the decreasing eff
fectiveness of the rebels, of their
dissolution. arrest, and in many in
stances. death.
The crackle of rifle fire, and the
StaccatO of machine guns, reSounded
with decreasing volume in the prov
inces. and the trench mortars and
field guns we're stilled.
Children Call for Daddy
The government asserted the re-
volt was in its death throes at a
cost of perhaps $500 dead and
wounded. 1t was impossible cor
rectly to estimate the deaths. but 1t
seemed 300 might prove the greatest
possible number with 200 to $50
the more likely figure.
DollfuSs' widow was here dazed
with grief. At Riccione Italy, were
their children, Eva. 5. and Ru-
dolf. 3. as guests of Mrs. Benlto
MuSsolini. demanding impatiently to
know when daddy would arrive.
DollfuSs was to have gone to Ric-
clone today for family visit with
MuSSo.ini and his wife.
one memorial TO the little chan
ceIlor was assured. however transit
tory events in AuStria's years long
crisis may make it. His fellow
cabinet ministers, at midnight
meeting. one by one Swore solemnly
to a pledge to carry out his poll
cieS unchanged.
As Prince Ernst Ruediger Won
Starhemberg. his temporary success
Sor. put it in a speech to the ma
ton after the meeting:
"DollfuSs is dead. but his work
will live. and it is embodied in one
world. Austria
The government was organizing