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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
COIN EVIDENCE
GOES TO JURY
Defense Counsel Compares
Banker to RothChiIdS
in Closing.

A jury this afternoon began de-
liberating the fate of Melville S.
Cohn, vice president of the defunct
Meyer-Kiser bank, and the first of
four officials of the bank to be tried
on embezzlement charges in Grim
inal court.
The trial has lasted two weeks.
Floyd Mattice, chief deputy prose-
cutor, in a one-half hours stirring
plea for conviction closed the argu-
ments shortly after noon today.
Special Judge Alex G. Cavins gave
his instructions. The jury was sent
to lunch. Deliberations began i'm
mediately after the lunch hour.
Defense attorneys closed their
arguments before noon.
Anthony Adverse" novel, and
the motion picture, 'Rothschild, J"
we're brought to the aid of the &C
cused banker by James w. Noel, de-
Tense attorney.
Mr.. Noel paralleled the aid which
the German bankers, the House of
Rothschild, gave to allied nations
against Napoleon with the aid
which the Meyer-KiSer bank gave
to save the credit of alleged failing
realty companies.
The movie and novel tell of the
RothSchilds of Germany bolStering
the credit of European nations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
State Police Not Notified

Ihree and hall hours passed
after five convictS escaped from
the Indiana state prison at Michi-
gan City last night before state po-
lice barracks at fremont and state
police headquarters in Indianapolis
were informed Of the getaway.
The police learned then only be-
cause Al Feeney, public safety di-
rector attending police chiefs
convention in Michigan City, over
heard a clerk tell of the escape as
he was checking out of a Michigan
City hotel.
Mr. Feeney called the state po-
lice barracks at fremont and was
Informed that they had not heard
Of the escape. He instructed Of
hcers at the barracks to call the
prison.
Mr.. Feeney drove to the barracks,
thirty miles away, and arriving there
at 6.35 a. m. found that no word
had been received in answer to the
barracks call. A second call was
put in and the prison informed state
police and Mr.. Feeney, officially, Of
the break.
State police and Mr.. Feeney then
broadcast the information TO other
police barracks as well as the In
dianapolis headquarters.
Indianapolis police did not hear
of the break until informed by The
Times this morning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
International Anarchy Sent
War Clouds SCudding
20 Years AGO.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, July 28.-The
World war began twenty years ago
today. Were Kaiser William II and
Germany responsible for it? Is an
other one likely?
At the Paris peace conference the
allies branded the kaiser as the
worlds Public Enemy No. l and
wanted him hanged.
The Treaty of Versailles publicly
arraigned William II of Hohenzol-
lern, formerly German emperor, for
a supreme offense against interna-
tional morality and the sanctity of
treaties" provided for a special
tribunal to try him and proposed
to ask Holland to turn him over.
1t formally accused Germany and
compelled her to admit her guilt.
All this was merely part and par
eel of world gone mad. Germany
and the kaiser we're no more and
no less responsible for the World
war than were other European pow
ers and rulers
Austria precipitated the war by her
1llS1l-tldI1OCO bIcdblllCIlJ VI OSI Uld.
Germany could have prevented it by
acting as a check on her ally. But
the peace of Europe had long since
become a house of cards ready to
topple at the first puff If the pistol
shot at Sarajevo had not provided
it, something else would have.
The World war was caused by the
system. 1t was caused by interna-
tional anarchy. Anarchy, says
Webster, lis the utter negation of
order" For centuries prior to 1914.
the only law most nations observed
was the law of the jungle. What
they wanted, they took-if they
could. Might was right. The fittest
survived and the devil took the
hindmoSt.
If the sun never set on British
soil, it was because Britain had the
might to make it so. France built
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
COOL WEATHER HERE
FOR 36-HOUR STAY
Blankets Needed Tonight, Is
Experts Forecast.

Cool weather will be a welcome
guest in this city for the next thir-
ty-Six hours.
j. H. Arlington, government
meteoroloeist, said today that resi-
dents would need light blankets for
sleeping through Sunday with a
prediction of not much change in
temperature.
The thermometer dropped into
the SOS during the early hours this
morning with the a. m. tempera-
ture at IS. The mercury was not
expected to exceed IS degrees today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28

Two troops of unmounted cavalry
from Milwaukee took charge of the
village. More than 1000 booing
strike pickets at the Kohler bath
room fixture plant were ordered out
of the community.
Barricades on highways, with
soldiers poking menacing rifle
muzzles over the psrapets, kept
them at bay.
Military control was ordered by
Governor Albert G. Schmedeman
after Sheriff Ernst Zehms tele-
phoned that he was unable to re-
store order and feared civilians
might be killed.
The first man to die as a result
of the two-weeks-old strike was
Lee Wakefield. 25, who died within
an hour after being shot in a riot
at the gates of the Kohler plant.
Henry Engelmann, 81, died a few
hours later with rife bullet
wound in his abdomen. A third
man, Alex Weinert, was in critical
condition today.
Picketing of the Kohler Manufac-
turing Company plant later was
resumed by striking workmen I'M
der an agreement with national
guard officers and federal labor
conciliator. Soldiers. however, were
encamped between the pickets and
the factory.
The bloody climax to three weeks
of peaceful picketing was portended
Yesterday when a hundred deputies
smashed the strikers lines to eS-
cort a car load of coal into the
Kohler factory.
The workmen were reinforced by
other employees and former en-
ployeS of the plant from Sheboygan,
twelve miles distant.
Soon after 8 p. m. a striker threw
a brick through plant window
near the spot where Kohler and
Sheriff Ernst Zehms observed the
scene from an administration build
ing window. Others seized the idea
Stones. bricks. railroad spikes and
sticks filled the air. Glass crashed
on all sides of the factory.
AT the height of the disturbance,
with men, women and children
screaming and shouting impreca-
tons at a few workers inside the
plant, the deputies charged.
Gas grenades burst around the
mob. Stencil bombs made breath
ing a torture. Night sticks cracked
on bare heads. Friend was indis-
tinguishable from foe as almost
1000 men swayed in a roaring mass.
No one knew who fired the first
rife shot. 1t was followed by the
boom of a shotgun. Then fusillade
rang out.
Women fled shrieking, dragging
children with them, but their men
fought in the very muzzles of the
guns. Noise Of the battle was heard
more than a mile distant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28

War Clouds gathering for months Europe,
today were centered Vienna.
Twenty years ago today, in the same building
where Chancellor Engelbert DollfuSs was assassin
ated this week by Austrian Nazis there was framed
Austria Hungarys declaration of war on Serbia
exactly one month after Archduke Franz Ferdinand
met his untimely death in the streets of Serajevo
This was the first declaration of made by any
of the powers. Others, following swiftly, plunged
Europe within week into general conaagration
that destined to become world conflict.
Germany declared Russia Aug. 1; on
France two days later Aug. 3. When, the following
day, she violated Belgium's neutrality by marching
troops across her border, England declared war on
Germany. The conflict
Today another series of events are being eyed
with apprehension by the world.
Repercussions of the decision taken in the Vienna
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
YOUTH BADLY HURT
BY SPEEDING AUTO
Arrest of Woman Driver Is
Ordered.

A 19-year-old youth was struck
and injured probably fatally, by a
speeding car in the 1000 block of
West Washington street, this after
noon. Three occupants of the car
were injured less seriously and the
driver was ordered arrested on
charges of failing to stop after the
accident.
The injured boy is Walter Geisen-
dorf, 1000 West Washington. The
driver of the car was Miss Margaret
Polsgrove, 81, of 1928 Southeastern
avenue. whose arrest was ordered
by Deputy Sheriff Pat Kinney. Miss
Polsgrove was cut and bruised.
Her uncle, Sanford Polsgrove, 40,
of 354 Edmonson avenue. was hurled
into the windshield, knocked TN
conscious and cut badly. Also in
jured was Mrs. Mary Dix, %, of 511
West Morris street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
.IRATE RESIDENT
DEFIES EVICTION
Householder Armed With
Shotgun, Report
NeighborS.

Barricaded in his home at 1873
West Mclean place today, Martin
McClay, 90, threatened any one who
attempted his eviction from that
home.
McClay was reported by neighbors
to be armed with a shotgun. He
spent the major portion of the
morning mailing doors and win
doWs shut.
I'm pretty we'll heeled," McClay
told a reporter for The indianapolis
Times.
He said a constable, whose name
he believed to be Taylor, had threat
ened to evict him for payment
of rent. Rent on the house is Sc
month. McClay says he receives
1925 weekly for employment on a
public works project
He claims that the wages are only
sufficient to buy groceries for his
two children, his wife and self.
He asserted that an effort was
to be made to take his furniture in
lieu OF rent.
McClay says he rents the home
through the Union Trust Company.
He says John George is the owner.
Mrs. McClay, on the outside Of
the home, told The Times that her
husband was a bacteriologist and
college graduate.
Signs placard the house. They
read:
Stay Out Constable!" Income
1925" Eviction 10 a. m. Furni-
ture Will Be Taken Out. You Are
NeXt-Organize."
Of1cials of the Governors unem-
ployment relief commission report
that McClay has given them
trouble in the past"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
Pope Works on White Book
By Hifed Press

81 Ntlfo Eftes
VATICAN CITY, July 2S.-Pope
Plus. Mortified az the murder Of
FngeIbert DollfuSS and blaming
Nazis for il. Is considering issuing
a white book on German "atroci-
ties" il was learned today.
AT the Vatican. the Austrian Nan
revolt. the refusal of DollfuSs' as
saSsins TO permit him the conSo-
lation Of the Roman Catholic
-hurchs last rites. was regarded as
bringing 10 a climax a situation
which long had been viewed with
horror.
II was understood that all hope
OF an early treaty between Ger
many and the Vatican was ended
II was learned that the Vatican
secretariat is busy preparing docu-
ments intended 10 disclose atroci-
ties against German Catholics.
which would be the major theme
OF the white book.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28

All denied completely in the hold
up, but Sheriff Henderson said he
found circus tickets in their pos
session, and drew admission from
all but Johnson that they were for
mer employees of the show.
The train robbed was the first
section of two specials used by the
circus, and was made up of equip
ment cars and a few sleepers. 1t
had left Kalamazoo, Mich, last
night.
Loot in the robbery was believed
small, Sheriff Henderson said.
The holdup occurred one-half
mile south Of the Michigan line.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28

Mr.. Kunkel blamed Girls
void for not investigating a
report of noises atop a dormi-
tory, which he believed were
caused by the escaping con-
victs, and the two guards for
not having discovered escape
of their prisoners for more
than two hours.
The men, three patients and two
TRUSTEES in the hospital, left no clew
to the method Of their escape. A
painters scaffold beside a new addi-
ton to the hospital section and
reports that noises were heard on
the roof of a dOrmitory at about
the hour of the escape were the
only indications Of the route the
prisoners took:
The missing men are:
John Burnett, serving ten years
for burglary in Vermillion county:
Louis Grail, fifteen years for bur-
glary in Lake county; Morris
O'Flaherty, twenty years for rob-
berry 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. G. Griswold of noises coming
from the roof
Two hours later, Officer w. F.
Netzel, in charge of the hospital,
reported five men missing. Chief
Deputy Warden Lorenz c. Schmuhl
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 thought the pris-
oners used a skeleton key in a base
ment door of the hospital to get
into the prison yard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28

foreign office twenty years ago still being heard
The death of DollfuSs is the latest
The declaration of pictured above was sent
from Vienna on July %, 1914, and was received at
NiSh, whence the Serbian government had moved
it's headquarters from Belgrade. The telegram is in
French Translated, it reads as follows
THE Royal Serbian government not having an
swered in a satisfactory manner the note of July
%, 1914, presented by the Austro- Hungarian min
lister at Belgrade, the Imperial and Royal govern
ment are themselves compelled to see to the safe
guarding of their rights and interests and, with
this object to have recourse to force of arms. Aus
ria- Hungary consequently considers herself hence
forward in a state of with Serbia.
The Austro-H Hungarian minister for foreign al
fairs,
COUNT BERCHTOLD."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28

The balloon had climbed
$4,000 feet in fifty minutes
after hanging for hours at q
height of between $4,000 and
1900 feet.
In a somewhat garbled radio re-
port received here direct from the
balloon at 1905 p. M, the chief
pilot, Major E. Kepner, said he was
"leveling off at 10000 feet" 1t was
presumed the crew wanted time to
check instruments again and make
ready for the perilous part of the
ascent that still was ahead of them
The goal is fifteen miles or 1850
feet. The official record set by
Commander T. w. G.. Settle of the
navy in November, 1888, is eleven
miles. Three Russian balloonists
later reached a reported height of
1857 miles, but we're killed in the
descent.
No Storms in Prospect
The radio station at Rapid City
S. D., scene of the stratosphere
takeoff this morning was heard ad-
vising the balloon that no storms
were in prospect over Kansas. This
apparently indicated the balloonists
believed their course would take
them across Nebraska in a south
easterly direction and into Kansas.
At 1925, the balloon reported
again, giving its position as twenty
miles south of Ainsworth, Neb. The
temperature outside was SO degrees
below bero, centigrade.
The ship lowered at about the
14,000-foot altitude for two hours
causing observers some concern, al
though it was pointed out further
ascent may have been delayed while
instruments were put in order.
At that time the craft was 12C
miles southeast of the starting
point near Rushville, Neb., setting
a course more to the south than
originally anticipated.
Balloon Is Very Sluggish
THE balloon is very sluggish
Captain Albert w. Stevens radioed
at that time.
At the takeoff from Rapid City
S. D., at GAS "a M, the balloon was
inflated to only fraction of its
capacity to permit room for eXpan-
sion of the hydrogen in the low
pressure of the upper attitudes.
"All the instruments and cameras
are working automatically all the
time and are performing satisfac-
torily SO far" Stevens said.
The balloonists we're so busy
checking the instruments that they
had time for only one short regular
broadcast.
'Doggone it, we have been so busy
trying to get this place in order and
there is a lot of work to do, Kepner
explained.
Carry Emergency RatiOns
Only emergency food rations were
carried. The men did not expect
to eat during the twelve-hour fight
but feared they might be forced to
land in some isolated spot. -Four
gallons of drinking water were
taken.
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
speed Of more than 500 feet a
minute.
The huge balloon, appearing as a
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.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
100000 on Border

y III" 7 T|fF
VIENNA. July 2S.-From reliable
Italian quarters II was learned to-
day Italy now has 10000 men
maSsed along the Austrian frontier,
awaiting a Qualification Of the tense
situation
From the same sources came a
vigorous denial Of rumOrS that any
Italian troops had crossed the Dor
der. II was explained that the
rumorS mayha We been caused by
the influx Of Germsn-Speaking Ital-
ians. who foCked across the from
tier 10 volunteer IN the Austrian
army.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28


Anthony La Russo, 26, Newark,
N. j., circus employee, was shot
through the head and William
Smith, Chicago, another employee,
was cut, in a desperate attempt to
break up the robbery.
La Russo died Immediately.
Smiths wounds were dressed and
he continued on with the circus to
Fl. Wayne, where a show is sched-
uled today.
The Negroes arrested were taken
from a freight train near the scene
of the robbery by posse led by
Sheriff George Henderson and state
police from the Ligonier barracks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
Two Leslie Appointees Both Republicans,
Are Blamed by Warden for Break at
Michigan City During Night.
ONE OTHER AID is SUSPENDED
Night Captain Accused of Failing to
Investigate Noises Atop Roof Of
Hospital at Institution.


MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, July 28,-Warden Louis E.
Kunke of the state penenary took drastic action today
against three prison officers whom he held responsible for
escape this morning Of five convicts
He discharged W. C. Grswod night captain of guards,
and W. F. Netze guard in the prison hospital Henry
Parker, another guard, suspended for ten days
Grswod and Netzel Republicans, appointed during
the administration of former Governor Harry G. Leslie.
Parker appointed by Governor Paul V. McNutt
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
COUNTY JAIL FUGITIVE
is RETURNED TO CELL
Prisoner Who Fled Three Years Ago
Is Recaptured.

CLYDE Matthews. SO, Louisville, is
back in the Marion county jail
today as a regular boarder after a
lengthy and unauthorized vacation
which followed his Imprisonment
Jan. IS. 1881, after conviction on a
vehicle theft charge.
Matthews escaped from the jail
Feb. Is. 1881. He mingled with the
throng of visitors in the jail that
dav and walked out. Matthews was
arrested July 10 in Louisville. De-
tective John Giles brought him back
10 this CITY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
MINNESOTA TROOPS
BREAK UP PICKETING
TruCkIoads Hauled Off to
Detention Camps.
~ United Press

~ UHited Press
MINNEAPOLIS. July 28.-The
militia struck forcibly for the first
time today enforcing drastic
military dictatorship imposed upon
Minneapolis by Governor Floyd B.
Olson to halt rioting or striking
truck drivers.
Acting on orders Of Adjutant-
General Ellard A. Walsh, dictator
of sos square miles in the military
zone, the national guard began en-
forcement of Governor Olson's ban
on picketing. The pickets were
hauled into the guards detention
camp by the truckload.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
Sentenced for HoIdun

MOTIFS O'Flaherty, who gave his
age as % and his address as CO.
lumbus, O., was sentenced to twenty
years in the state prison April 9,
1882, after he had pleaded guilty 10
robbing Emil Cunningham, then Of
444 West Forty-fourth street, Of
1897, receipts Of the Fountain
Square theater.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
JUDGE AGAIN JAlLS
DEFIANT REPORTERS
Pair Refuses Information on Effigy
Hanging.
BwUniftd Press

DANVILLE. KY. July ga
fourth Jail sentence of six hours
had been served today by Jack
Durham and Wesley Carly, 23-year-
old Danville newspaper reporters,
when they again refused TO reveal
the source of their information con-
corning the hanging in efhgy of
Representative J. Sterling Towles.
This case has narrowed to dis
pute between the authority of the
court and the newspapers" Judge
Jay W. Harlan commented. It was
the fifth time the reporters have
been before the court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
FORD VACATIONS IN
MICHIGAN WILDERNESS
Manufacturer to Observe list
Birthday Monday.

81 CHtted Press
MARQUETTE, Mich. July %. -
Henry Ford was vacationing in the
fastneSs of the Huron Mountain
Club near Big Bay, Mich, today.
Mr.. Ford, his wife. a doctor and
two unidentified house guests dis
embarked from the S. S. Henry
Ford II, 600-foot ore carrier, on a
private ore dock. They drove i'm
mediately to the camp forty-ive
miles distant. In the heart of this
the auto manufacturer
with celebrate his seventy-flrst
birthday Monday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
POLICE CHIEFS ELECT
NObIesville Man Named Head; Nor
rissey HOnored.
BIZ United Press
AEK@T"~A%

BIZ JNIfed Press
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, July 26
Charles G. Oeble, Noblesville, be-
came president of the Indiana ASso-
citation of Chiefs of Police today.
Mike MorriSSey, indianapolis, was
named third president.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
WHEAT PRICES UP ON
HEAT WAVE FORECAST
All Quotations Soar Over 81 Per
Bushel Mark.
BIZ United Press

CHICAGO, July 28-Wheat prices
Jumped 3 cents on the Chicago
Board of Trade today after receipt
of a weather bureau forecast Of a
new heat wave next week in the
grain belt. May futures reached
s1051s a bushel and all other quo
tations were over 81.
Corn followed wheat with price
rise of "a to 27s cents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
DE PAUW DONOR DIES
Mrs. Anna Gilmore, ~, Dead at
GreencaStle.
By United Press

GREENCASTLE, Ind, July o.
Mrs. Anna Gilmore, y, De Paw
university benefactor and resident
of Greencastle for more than fifty
years, died yesterday. She and her
husband established the Gilmore
scholarship fund of $4,000 at De
Paw.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
8 MILES IN
SKY after SLOW START:;SET
GOAL OF FLIGHT At IS MILES
Army Shakespeare FIers Shoot Up to High Attitudes at
1905, They Report by Radio; Give Height
at 10000 Feet.
By United Press

WASHINGTON, July 28-The Army Air Corps-Nation-
Geographic Society sratosphere balloon shot upward to
high attitudes this afternoon after slow start It's height at
1905 p Indianapolis time) 10000 feet, nearly
eight miles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
Bandits Rob Circus Train;
One Slain Resisting Theft
Second EmpIoye Wounded by Hodup Men as Gang SEXES
VaIuabIes; Eight Suspects Nabbed
Rn Enffed Presa

2SSwarming Ringing
Bailey bandits killed
holdup Of here today
employees
rptv iai
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
2 Die in KOhLer Riots;
Martial LGU Is Declared
Troops Keep Order in Model Village Following Strike Dis
orders: BayonetS Keep PiCketS at Bay.

2S-Marta ordered today Kohler,
striking
killed others shot last night by deputy shfs