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The Washington times., 1934-08-28
ATTACK CLUE
PROVESHOAX

wAYNESBORO, Va, Aug. %,
What was first believed to be an
important clue to the identity OF
the man who brutally beat and
criminally attacked Miss Pauline
Parry today turned out to DC
a hoax, police declared.
A note was turned over to
police last night stating that
under the north end of the
second bridge on the Lyndhurst
Road, south of Waynesboro, the
clue would be found.
A posse rushed there and made
q careful search, but found 10th
ing, and detectives investigating
declared the note to be a hoax.
Miss Parry, who was paralyzed
by the beating, was reported as
improved in the hospital today.
The Washington times., 1934-08-28
Trolley, Bus Strike
Called in Spokane

SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. % GIN.
SO.-Plans for a walkout of street
car and bus operators of the Spo.
kane United Railways today re.
manned unchanged following a
mass meeting last night of union
operators.
F.. T. Post, president of the rail,
ways, declared service would be
continued and that special police
men would protect every street
car and bus if violence is threat.
ened.
The Washington times., 1934-08-28

Senator Logan,
CD, of Ken
lucky, tod a y
said the entire
relief organiza-
ton should be
ouSted.
Sen. Log a n
contemplates no
fresh appeal to
Harry L. Hop
k ms, Federal
Relief Admin
istrator, to al
ter conditions.
He said:
"He is a
nice man hut.
The Washington times., 1934-08-28

his first all
color feature,
ou ng Jock
Whitney reveal
ed to friends
before he board
ed a plane for
New York.
The million
aire Socialite,
who is bring
ing the Whit
ney fortune in.
to motion pic
lures, declared
that the urg-
ency of the re-
laaSn date WAS
The Washington times., 1934-08-28
JOCK WHITNEY

responsible for the postponement
of the Dumas story in favor of a
screen version of William Make
The Washington times., 1934-08-28
sen. LOGAN HITS RELIEF

dent down there"
Mr.. Hopkins declined to COM
ment on reports that Thornton
wilcox, Relief Administrator,
would be removed.
The Washington times., 1934-08-28

he don't believe what you say;
something ought to be done. The
situation is injuring the Presi-
The Washington times., 1934-08-28
By International News Servt

Declaring that the whole Fed
eral Relief situation in Kentucky
"is a disgrace to civilization, "
The Washington times., 1934-08-28

KAY FRANCIS
RUMOR that Miss Francis
would wed Maurice Chevalier
was spiked by the French stars
brother
The Washington times., 1934-08-28
Copyright, 1894. by International
News Service)

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Aug. %
G.N.SO.-"Becky Sharp" and not
The Three Musketeers, will be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
Mother of 4
Is Slain in
Police Error
u. S. Agents Open Fire as
Innocent Woman Sleeps
at Home.
By United Press

ST. LOUIS. July 14.-Lear B.
Reed, crack department of justice
investigator, in charge of the st.
Louis bureau, was arrested by
metropolitan police here today in
connection with the Staying of the
mother of four children during a
fruitleSs raid last night.
He was ordered held under $4,000
bond to answer any charge which
may be filed against him. Reed
was taken in custody shortly after
noon and held under bond for the
coroner's investigation into the
death of Mrs. bessie MaSterson.
Police Chief James Mccarthy,
who ordered Reeds arrest, dis
claimed any responsibility for his
department. The raid was led by
Reed and the agent fired the fatal
shots, Mccarthy said.
Reed. who forbid members OF
his staff from revealing details of
the raid. refused to talk to news
paper men.
MIS-. MdSleTnOOH WdS DIAM, PO-
lice said, as she lay asleep in the
front room of their recently rented
home last night.
Reed and other officers, believ-
ing they had trapped suspects in a
recent murder, surrounded the
house. Reed shouted, Come on
cut. John; we've got you"
Reed then opened fire, shooting
through the door.
The officers. rushed the house
and found Mrs. MasterSon critically
wounded. She died ten minutes
later
Officers searched the house but
failed to find either guns, am
munition or exploded cartridges.
The womsn's husband was taken
to Jail for questioning, and attempts
we're made to suppress the story
MaSterson today bitterly critised the
agents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
kidnapping and it-Run
Theories Are Advanced
by SearCherS.
BIZ Tnite6 Press


HARTSDALE, N. Y, July A.
Mystery deepened today around the
disappearance of Robert Conner, 2
With federal and local authorities
pressing for clews to the fate Of the
child who vanished while at play
near his home Thursday, various
theories were advanced but without
definite Substantiation.
l. kidnapping. Entrance of fed
eral men into the case strengthened
belief the boy was abducted. A reg
iStered letter was received at The
Conner home. 1t was indicated that
the letter fit in with kidnapping
theories. However, federal men
would not comment and some
sources said the letter contained a
pay check.
2. Hit and run. The possibility
that the child was killed by an auto
mobile was advanced when hand
kerchiefS, apparently blood stained
were found near the road back OF
the Conner house. 1t is a lonely
road where new drivers often have
practiced.
3. Abduction by woman. officials
were working on one theory that
the child was seized by demented
person, either a peddler seen in the
neighborhood or childlesS woman
who was attracted to the little boy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
Violence Threatened

By DHlted 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
ignition.
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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.
TN support of his contention, he
l. has a map ready for presen-
tation to the treasury heads which
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
Hull Refuses Apology

b. Hfttn fftss
WASHINGTON. July 14-Offi-
cialS here we're more interested
today in the possibility of furthex
German protest over General Hugh
s. JohnSon'S salty remarks about
the Nazi purge of blood" than in
Hitler's dramatic reichstag appear
ance.
However, they were losing very
little sleep over either matter.
Official comment on HitlerS de-
tense OF the executions was en-
tirely lacking. The feeling Of some
was that Hitler'S speech had added
very little 10 the general knowl-
edge of the purge although prob
ably strengthening the chancellor'S
position II Germany.
Cordell Hull. secretary OF state.
pointed out in response TO a protest
bv Charge d'AfTaireS Rudolf Lett
ner that JOhnSOn'S statement was
made as a private citizen rather
than in an official capacity.
Hull regretted JohnSon'S view had
been miSconstrued as official but
made no effort 10 apologize for the
blunt spoken NRA chief.
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Half the city's union labor
membership was on strike.
Thousands walked out in Oak
land, across the bay.
National guardsmen, already pa
trolling San Francisco's water front,
prepared to extend their lines over
a 1OO-mile radius to break a block
ade of pickets and assure delivery
of foodstuffs to San Francisco, Oak
land and other bay region cities.
Issues Curt UItimatum
Governor Merriam issued a curt
ultimatum. He said no women or
child should 60 hungry nor lace
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 dCCaCk.
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
were stalled for lack of gasoline.
Street and cable cars were 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 fed
the city. Highways were crowded
with private automobiles, outward
bound. Railroad ticket agencies
were swamped with demands for
immediate reservations.
Food was scarce. Fresh fruits
and vegetables disappeared from
grocery stores. san Franciscos
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 we're halted,
overturned, and set ablaze with
phosphorus bombs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
AC|D-POLLUTED
STREAM DARED
BY SWIMMERS
BatherS Brave Disease and
Death in Sugar Creek
at Charlottesville.
WATER IS DANGER SPOT
SuIphuriC Solution Poured
Into Brook by Wire
Mill Nearby.
BY ARCH STEINEL
Times staff Writer

Trunks dangling from skinny
hips, boy trods sure-footed to the
edge of the creek border.
A group of boys, diSrobing on the
bank of Sugar creek, near CraW-
louisville, shout, Jaw, go jump in
the creek"
The boy dives, blubbers and
SpoutS water between his teeth. The
rock becomes a Springboard as
splash follows splash into the cool
waters.
Lurking in those waters is sui
phuric acid. The freshet the boy
gulped in diving is laden with colon
bacilli, human wastes.
1t ranges from the 1000 B. coli
shown by an Indianapolis Times
laboratory test, following rain, to
as high as 100000 B. coli per 100
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 CEN
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-
ical spots. The home of General
Lew Wallace, author of Ben Hur, "
and the historical residence of
Colonel Henry S. Lane have their
guide posts to direct the city'S
youth to hours of mulling over yell
lowed documents or cycling shiny
swords which were carried in the
wars.
Preservation of historical monu-
ments of Montgomery county and
Charlottesville leads the life Of the
city. Only few days ago the city
council of Charlottesville placed an
ordinance on reading to eXpend
$4,000 from the eXchequer of its
paying municipal light plant to
purchase the Lane home from the
historical society of the county as a
permanent memorial.
The city council in the fall of
1888 ordered an indianapolis con-
sulting engineer to make a pre-
liminary survey of the pollution
of the towns play spot, Sugar
creek. The survey definitely tolc
of the need of sewage dis
poSal plant. 1t warned of the sui
phuric acid poured into the stream
from a wire mill, and Of the injury
to fish life as well 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
tn light plant would care for the
retirement of the government loan
Action ended despite the faci
that if a 100000 plant had been
built the government would have
given the city an outright grant OF
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shows that one-f1fth 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 want5 Is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
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 a 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.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14

prompt payment of "at least
something" on the corn-hog con-
tracts which were signed by Hoo
sier farmers. Representative Vir-
GINA Jenckes Dem), of his dis
trict is aiding him in bringing
this about, he said.
=
FARMER CATHERWOOD looks
Il like a city slicker" with nice
white summer clothes and he
stops at a first rate hotel. He is
a large man, slow spoken and also
outSpoken.
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
GIRL SLAIN IN
HUNT FOR PET
Seeking Runaway Rabbit,
Child, 8, Is Murdered
by Neighbor.
By United Press


SAN FRANCISCO, July IA
Searching for her white bunny"
which had hoped away, little
Elaine Watson, 8, went into a dark
basement and met death.
Her bunny" was in neighbours
stew pot today and police were
puzzled over what they should do
to the neighbor, Albert Ruske, %
year-old unemployed electrician and
father of three children.
RuSke confessed, police said, he
killed the rabbit because there was
no food in the house. When the lit
tie girl came to look for it, he
killed her. tOo-beat her on the
head with a whisky bottle-and
ravaged her, police said.
They believe RuSke is insane He
was arrested last year for moleSt-
ing small girls. Police were con-
fronted either with charging him
with murder or subjecting him to
sanity tests.
He denied he attacked the child,
but autopsy showed otherwise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
SOVIET TO ASK
LEAGUE SEAT
Move to Be Taken Within
Two Weeks, Geneva
Officials Reveal.

By United Press
GENEVA, July 14-Soviet Russia
will ask officially for admission to
the League of Nations within two
weeks, league officials reported
today.
1t was said the Soviet virtually
we're certain of election to the
league in September, with support
of France and Britain.
Entrance of the Communist state
into official membership in the
league long has been considered a
vital factor in peace and disarma-
ment negotiations in Europe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
MORTGAGES C0llegians 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"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
.HAWTHORNE'S SON,
S8, DIES IN WEST
Author Son of Famed Writer
Noted in Own Right.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July ID.
Julian Hawthorne, 88-year-old
author and son of Nathaniel Haw-
thorne, famous American writer of
the nineteenth century, died at his
home here today.
Mr.. Hawthorne was an only son,
A widow and seven children and
five grandchildren survive.
Mr.. Hawthorne was a prolific
writer of historical biography. His
personal "reminiscences of great men
of history have been hailed by critics
as literary achievements.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
NAzI LEADER SLAIN
BY VIENNA GUNNER
Murder Held RepriSaI for
Reign of Terror.
Bn United Press


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.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
HOURLY TEMPERATURES

declared. Now the life insur-
ance companies, that put them up
to it, do not want to take their
loss along with every one 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.
"THE old folks mortgaged the
l. farm to send the boy to Pur-
due and all he learned was how
to spend 81 to make 81 farming
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
BY DANIEL KIDNEY
Times stan Writer
WASHINGTON. July 14.-In-

WASHINGTON, July 14.-In-
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 Qnd1. farm
er, who has come to Washington
to 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
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14

sured Democratic leaders that In
diana's failure to get on the Roose-
welt bandwagon at Chicago had
been forgotten; denied that r. Earl
Peters, former state chairman and
unsuccessful candidate for the sem
ate nomination, was seeking a fed
eral job, and refused to discuss
General Hugh S. JohnSon's anti
Nazi blast of the day before.
These statements and his fighting
speech came officially from the
chairman of the Democratic ma
tional committee and patronage
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
CITY MILK RISE
OPPOSED BY AAA
TWo-Cent Increase Would
Be Excessive, Capital
Officials Say.
By Times Special

By Times Special
WASHINGTON, July IA. - The
agricultural adjustment admins
tration will not permit 1ndianapo-
lis milk distributors to raise their
prices 2 cents quart, it an
nounced today.
Such a rise had been foreseen in
Indianapolis after the indianapolis
Dairymen's Cooperative, Inc,
asked that the pay to the farmer
be boosted Is cents a hundred
pounds.
No action has been taken yet by
the AAA on the Co-Operatives
proposal, but, even should it be
approved, it could not justify an in
crease of more than one-half to
three-quarters of a cent a quart
AAA officials said.
Changes in milk classiflcatlonS
under the Indianapolis area agree
ment are pending before the board,
but it is not known whether such
changes would eliminate the neceS-
sity for approval or disapproval OF
the co-operativeS request.
The board also has before 1t from
the Indianapolis area the case Of
the Greenwood Dairy Farms, Inc,
for alleged violations of AAA rules.
The Greenwood organization has
denied that the AAA has jurisdlc-
ton over it and has attacked AAA
representatives in Indianapolis as
politically appointed "bunglers."
Indianapolis women's clubs will
be asked to join in a campaign
against any increase in Che price
of milk, according to plans formu-
latd yesterday by the Cheer Broad
casters, women's organization
which buys milk for undernourished
children threatened with tubercu-
loSis.
Mrs. Otis Carmichael, club presi-
dent, appointed Mrs. Cecil Vestal
and Mrs. NJ. E. Robbins to cum
m 'nicate the plans to other 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 to provide.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
RaiIroader Loses Life

By JihtfH FTess
PORTLAND, Ore, July Thames
E. Bateson, Union Pacific brakeman.
died in st. Vincent's hospital here
late last night of injuries received
Wednesday when strikers and po-
lice clashed at a railway terminal.
His death marked the first fatality
to occur here in connection with
the Pacific coast marine strike.
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LII Arthur,
ASSailed by
Jim Farley
Retirement Well Earned by
Senator, Democratic
Rally Told.

Cheered to the echo by more
than 2,1OO enthusiastic Democrats,
Postmaster General James A. Far
ley last night told party leaders
here that they must win next fall
to vindicate President RooSevelt's
administration, and tore into Sena-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
u. S. AGAIN INSISTS
GERMANS PAY DEBT
Dodd Instructed to Ask for
Equality.
Hifcd Press

n ~ HfffN - 50
WASHINGTON, July 14.-The
state department disclosed today
that it has instructed Ambassador
William E. Dodd in Berlin to make
persistent efforts to obtain equal
ity of treatment for United States
creditors of the German govern
ment under the debt moratorium
of July l.
BERLIN, July 14.-The Ger
man government declared today
that it had no intention of dis
eliminating against the United
States in the transfer of services
on foreign loanS-an issue which
had aroused vigorous protests in
America since the recent German
debt moratorium.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
BOY HURT BY SHELL
CITY Youngster Pounds Cartridge
Causing Explosion.

A discarded shotgun shell caused
serious injuries today to John Tot
ton Jr., 6, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John lotion, 1924 Lambert street.
The child pounded the she'll until
it exploded within his home. His
right arm was broken, and he was
injured on the chest and arms. He
was treated at city hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
Gary Harbor Work Approved

By United Press
WASHINGTON, July 14.-Public
Works Administrator Harold l.
Ickes today allotted 100000 to con-
tinue improvements in Indiana Har-
Dor. near Gary, Ind, and S150,00C
for the Cleveland 90 harbor.