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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-19

Plot to extort $5OOOj as payment
Tor preventing the 100000 kid
mapping ofLouis. Hager III, shown
here with his mother, daughter Of
the late August Busch, st. Louis
brewer, is charged to three Fill
plinos, under arrest in st. Louis.
The Filipinos. police say, offered
to reveal Identities of the kidnap
,plotters I'M return for the money.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-19
Chimes May Be kidnapping Clew

Chimes of this church-St. Boni-
face Roman Catholic church IN
Menominee, Neb.-may lead in
vestigators to the hideout where
kidnapers held Edward G.. Brem-
err, st. Paul banker, and where he
h card morning and evening bells
said to resemble in sound those
of St Boniface church. This
church was one Of scores visited
within 300 miles of st. Paul, fol-
lowing this clew.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-19
HIccoUGH sPoILs SHOT

HANFORD, Cal. (UP)-Chas.
Harrison, boOtblack, and a con-
slant sufferer from hiccoughs,
tried to commit suicide by shoot
ing himself behind the ear with
a revolver. ; a tast-nainute hic-
cough spoiled BIS sss and doctors
say he win recover rs - :'it22 =. !. +.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-19
SMYRNA PLANS LOTTERY

SMYRNA. tuPy.-owing to a
drop in taxes paid to the munich
pality of Smyrna; the authorities
have decided to replenish the city
treasury by municipal lottery.
Building sites honsss and gardens
will be among the pfizes in the
lottery. lRsaesssIs'.s<
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28

same racial stock. In one area the people are
fairly well of. in normal times, the average
family income there ranges from $500 year
10 $500 a year. IN the other area the people
are poor. with average family incomes running
between $500 and sl.4OO a year.
The more prosperous area last year had
one delinquent boy to every go inhabitants
20 deiinquents. altogether, for the $4,000
odd people in the area.
The poorer area had one delinquent boy
70 every 1873 inhabitants-a total Of l54 delin-
quents for the $4,000 residents.
Furthermore. for the city as a whole. fam
lies which receive help from charitable agen-
cies. or families whose incomes are just big
enough TO provide the bare necessities Of life,
contribute more than 70 per cent Of all the
citys delinquents.
These figures speak for themselves.
Poverty means crime. Sums mean gang
sters. No attack on the crime problem can
lead to permanent solution. unless it includes
some program for meeting the difficulty right
at the source-in the dreary streets where our
"underpriwleged' citizens live.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28

"CONGRESs shall make 10 law abridg-
~ ing the freedom Of speech g.. or the
right Of the people pcaceablv 20 assemble
Constitution Of the United States.
Were waiting for the owner Of the lot 70
give a written permit. and anyway, these
other fellows VIII BE- going back 10 work at 1
O'Clock so we'll hold HIM until thenr-Captain
Ed Helm Of the Indianapolis police.
Yesterday the local police kidnapped Tom
Smith. an American citizen. and forcib!y de-
tanned him without placing any charge against
him. Mr Smith had been conducting meet
ing % discuss the labor problems OF Kingan
& Co he had obtained the permission Of a
lot owner to collect his audience on private
property
Captain Helm. acting entirely upon his
own initiative. decided TO break up the meet
ing The Kingau management had made no
complaint knew nothing Of the incident until
10 was an over. Even If the packing COM
pany had asked for police action the authori-
tics could not have intcrfcred under the law.
II is Obvious that the captain merely made
mp his mind TO do little bootlicking in an
effort 70 curry favor with an important cor
pOration-
The sooner that the indianapolis police
learn that the Constitution was written to
protect the rights Of ALL citizens the better it
VIII be for this community. That great basic
document Of American philosophy does NOT
say.
Congress shall make no law abridging the
freedom OF speech except when labor troubles
are under discussion or the right Of the people
peaccably 20 assemble unless they assemble to
attack industry"
We are not criticising Kingan's labor poll
cies. We understand that the packing plant
has recognized the American Federation of
Labor and is living up to Section "A Of the
NRA. But We believe that all industry should
do what II can to discourage police IawIess-
ness.
a Democratic administration is responsible
FOR the city,S government Presumably il is
in sympathy with the New Deal It is high
time that Mayor Sullivan and Chief Morrissey
acted to curb their subordinates to prevent
such disgusting displays as that OF Captain
Helm yesterday
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
HITLER'S RETREAT

MUssOLINI is being cheered as the inter
national hero in the Austrian crisis He
deserves credit Tor acting quickly to warn Ger
many that Austrian independence is inviolate.
Italvs selfish interest in retaining buffer
Austria between herself and encroaching Ger
many happened in this instance to jibe with
the larger interest of world peace.
But we are inclined TO think that Hitler
should share the peace laurels with Mussolini.
Sometimes retreat requires more courage
than an advance. And Hitler certainly has
been running backward very fast during the
last two days
Whether Hitler had any direct connection
with the Austrian Nazi rising perhaps may
never be known. but his indirect responsibility
was clear. When Hitler's minister in Vienna
tried 10 help the DollfuSs assassins escape
safely into Germany. the danger Of allied in
terention in defense Of Austria and against
Germany became immediate.
Faced by The united powers OF Europe and
hostile world opinion. a quick Hitler retreat
was IN order. Although that seems obvious
from a distance it could not have been easy
FOR Hitler. Because he was letting down NOT
only his Austrian followers. but also the Ger
man Nazs. To retreat Hitler had to breast
the Nazi fanauciSm which he himself had
evoked. This Will not increase his popularity
IN his own party.
Even so. Hitler is not vet in the clear in the
Austria crisis. Several hasty gestures Of pro-
fessed neutrality by the Berlin government
have helped TO preserve European peace during
the last forty-eight hours. but that neutrality
VIII not be taken seriously for long If Hitler
persists in allowing his armed Austrian Nazis
10 use Germany as a military base for Austrian
invasiorS
Hitlers retreat Is not finished
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
WHY BLAME BOOTLEGGERS?

I IQUOR tax receipts are Disappointing to
l. government revenue officials. who lay the
blame on bootleggers.
new rum row is forming of the North
Atlantic coast. and there is talk Of charging
the coast guard.
In dry" Florida, some local police keep
liquor smugglers warned of whereabouts of
federal agents.
These bits of news tell the trend in Amer
lea since prohibition repeal. 1t is not encour-
aging.
The American people hoped the end of
prohibition would mean the end Of bootleg
ging. They could not foresee that Short
sighted government would continue tariff
and levy a tax that would add to the profit
incentive of bootlegging. The bootlegger pays
no license fee and he saves the tax of 50 on
every gallon of liquor he sells That is a mar
gin large enough to discourage most any
bootlegger from becoming a law-abiding citi-
zen.
And there is an additional IS tariff saved
on every gallon brought in from outside the
country. Hence the continuance Of rum row.
And hence the talk Of a bigger coast guard.
The government involved would try to expand
itself instead of reducing smuggling by the
simple process Of reducing the profits in
smuggling. Half Of the smugglers profits
could be eliminated with one stroke of Presi-
dent Roosevelts pen. under the reciprocity
tariff law.
AS for the alleged lawless Florida police,
it is obvious that they are either sharing in
the profits of the illicit dealers or that they
typify the official insncerty of those dry"
states that want to be left lmmolested in the
enjoyment of the fruits of prohibition
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28

s. Houston at an expense of half a
million dollars to the taxpayers. On
previous fishing trips he has been
the guest aboard the Aston yacht,
thus saving any expense To the gov
eminent.
The First Lady is sightseeing
over the land on her way to visit
her daughter, Anna Roosevelt Dali,
who with Sistie and Buzzie, is es-
tablishing a residence at Reno for
the purpose of emulating her
brother, Elliott, by getting a d.
vorce
The Presidents mother, Mrs.
James Roosevelt, is enjoying teas
and parties in England, some at
Buckingham Palace, with the king
and queen of Britain.
Two Of the Roosevelt boys dropped
into Washington a few days ago
and found the White House closed.
The princelings of Americas royal
family did not know Of the pres
ence in the capital of each other
until they met in a fashionable
hotel.
Many Hoosiers sweltering at home
no doubt would like to follow the
example of the first family in the
matter of vacations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
MORE MEN IN THE AIR

d ECONIMENDATION by the Baker COM
~ mittee, that the United States proceed to
build and maintain an army air force sec
ond to none" and that 1t begin at once by
acquiring 1000 new fighting planes. points
us in the direction OF a state OF military pre-
paredneSs such as We had not previously
thought necessary.
II still is a little early to tell just how big
a role the air force Will play in any future
var. Nevertheless. it does seem certain that
nation protected by a navy as large as ours,
and by an army air force as powerful as
the one called for by this committee. ought
TO be as secure from attack or invasion as
any nation can be.
And there IS an odd thing about this aerial
defense; it can be built up and maintained
without bringing with it the evils Of mill
tarSm" such as would inevitably accompany
a corresponding growth in the land army
We can have the worlds premier air fleet
without actually increasing the number of
men under arms very substantially. If the
army were being increased In proportion.
the country would be over-run with men in
uniform. Just Ike pre-war Germany.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
MINNESOTA'S MARTIAL LAW

INCREASING use Of military forces in civil
disputes is one of the alarming signs of the
times
Martial law is a powerful weapon-and
dangerous one 1t is dangerous not ony be-
cause it places bayonets and loaded rifles in
the hands of young state troopers, but also be-
cause 1t suspends civil liberties and adjourns
the orderly processes of social control upon
which the people must continue to rely if
democratic government is to survive
Too frequently in recent weeks, state troops
have been used to Cypress workers under the
guiSe OF protecting property.
Governor OlSons resort to military rule in
Minneapolis is the only recent demonstration
that troops can be used to protect human
rights. as well as property rights His inter-
ventiOn to stop the reckless use of firearms by
police and the high-handed tactics of en-
ployers who refused to arbitrate is in sharp
contrast with what happened in San Fran
cisco a few days ago when state troops calmly
looked on while maraudng bands of vigilantes
backed by police beat up and destroyed the
property of alleged radicals"
But even in the hands of Governor Olson.
martial law is a dangerous weapon. That is
shown by the press censorship. Quite aside
from constitutional guarantees and from the
natural desire Of publishers TO remain I'M
fettered the military dictator has committed
a serious tactical blunder
His order backed by threat of punishment
by military court. forbidding publication of
notices. bills. documents or newspapers de-
flaming the state of Minnesota or any men,
bers Of the Minnesota national guard in the
field" is a repression which automatically de-
strOys the confidence of the people in the news
they are permitted to read. And so long as
the public has no faith in the reliability OF the
press. there can be no such thing as an en-
lghtened public opinion, upon which the
Governor must depend in his effort to protect
both economic justice and public order
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
CAN'T SEE BENEFIT IN
PROHIBITION REPEAL
Rv Still IIlnsinned

Bv stu lnuSIOned
The public was bamboozled into
expecting that prohibition repeal
would bring undreamed of pros
perity, putting all the idle city work
ers to work. finding a glorious mar
ket for farm SURPRISES, raising farm
product prices and annihilating the
bootleg business.
Speakeasies were to be no more.
The federal budget was to be bal
anced by liquor revenue. the eX-
pense of liquor violation trials
would stay in the treasury, and
everybody would again be safe on
the highways.
No more hip pocket TASKS or high
school boy and girl drinkers; the
liquor dispensers would be 'regulat-
ed" and moonshine would be only
for lovers lane.
1t just takes a subservient press
and plenty of boloney to keep US
smiling. We are drinking our way
to prosperity, while bOotleggers sell
two thirds of the liquor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
FILLING STATION
WORKER COMPLAINS
BY A Reader

BY Reader
I wish to bring to light, as a serv-
ice station operator for a large pc
troleum company, the unfair stand
the various companies have taken
on gasoline shortages.
To explain to those unfamiliar
with the term shortage, gasoline be-
ing very volatile, responds readily to
heat and cold.
Hot gasoline taken from above
ground storage tanks and hauled TO
service stations and placed in cool,
below ground storage, contracts or
shrinks, causing a loss to the oper-
ator who pays not the company
cost on the product but list price
plus the state tax.
Is it fair, We ask. to continue
with such practice when according
to state records all petroleum COM
panies are allowed per cent by
the state for evaporation.
When the state acknowledges and
gives this allowance to the petrol
cum companies, We. as service men,
feel that it is very unfair that a
portion of this allowance is not
passed on to US.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28

BY the ScribbIer.
I have wondered often that in
an age when there are literally
thousands of intellectual, we'll
bred citizens of marked ability
and apparently reasonable judg-
ment in assessing values, they
should at the same time accept
with such ravenous gullibility the
utterances of a certain daily syn
dictate column.
Watson in his meanings of a
Liberal Education" warns that
this distorted sense of values"
is the greatest shortcoming of our
civilization.
Arthur Brisbane, author of the
column in question, receives some
$4,000 a year through his pot
boiling methods. With this COM
Portable revenue assured, the
author of the column is quite con-
tent to spend $50 worth of mental
energy on a scent issue and vice
versa.
I have long proceeded along the
theory that every written or at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
Mr.. BwSbane'S Parachute Jumper Scare

tered word should exhibit some
degree of penetration and weigh
with consideration both the pro
and con.
Too often I believe that the
penetration of Mr.. Brisbane is
overshadoWed if not totally OBJ
scured. Ultra modernism unres-
strained is not seldom the distort-
ing factor
The colunnist has observed re-
Gently that Russia is training
some million parachute jumpers
this year.
Mr.. Brisbane does not exactly
prescribe that we emulate the
action of the Communist repuD-
lie but has seen fit to comment
that Russia is doing things" and
infers that we are not above the
danger of being caught behind the
times.
True, Russia is doing things;
still my conservatism induces me
to believe that nation of para
chute jumpers will gain but little
aScendancy over those who re-
main on terra firma.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
EXPANSION OR CHAOS
DECLARED INEVITABLE
BY a Radical.

BY a Radical.
The Presidents query as to
whether We are better off than
year ago is construed to mean that
we are on the ~right track to find
employment for the 100000 per-
sons still unemployed. If that is
true, how much will government
spending have to be multiplied be-
fore those now idle can become
contributors to the wealth of the
nation, instead of forced parasites
on existing wealth?
If capitalism could restore nor
NAL balance without using public
credit for pump printing, it had
plenty Of time to demonstrate it.
1t IS extremely doubtful whether
capitalism can ever be revived.
even with the crutches of federal
credit, props to business, and re
lief doles' to victims of our anti
quated system Of distribution and
production.
II our hopes are based on false
premises, the resulting disaster viii
bring the temporarily fortunate and
the unfortunate down together in
common chaos.
The life Of capitalism is predi-
Gated on continuous expansion. N
which the profits Of capitalism are
invested in new enterprise.
II expansion fails to absorb profits.
these profits strange consumer pur-
CHASING power, and so spell death
to the capitahstic system.
New developments have not taken
place in five years, and are not in
sight at present.
Why keep kidding ourselves about
restoring prosperity through codes
and doles? The handwriting is on
the wall unless capitalism develops
immediate new avenues for invest
ment Of profits taken from con-
Sumers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
CONSIDER THE CATSE

y INNING down the big-time crooks and
= putting them behind the bars or under
the sod IS an important Job and We seem TO
be doing well at it Of late
An equally important Job which. so far
We have hardly SO much as thought about
is finding ont how the big-time crooks get
that way
What happens, along the line between
babyhood and adulthood. TO turn man into
an enemy Of society? Why does one man
grow up INTO useful citizen and another into
a gangSter2 Is there any way IN which We
can develop more Of the first kind and fewer
Of the second2
When YOU set 10 wondering along these
lines. its often useful 10 have a look AT iuve-
nile court records.
These viii show YOU some rather surprising
things
They show. Tor one thing. that the great
cause Of crime is-poyerty
Not the poverty that makes man steal
10 get bread for his family but the poverty
that condemns child TO BE- brought I'D in
congested sium. With the street for his play
ground ana his whole environment a subtle
but powerful force 10 teach him that organ-
ted society is his enemy.
Look a. these figures from the juvenile
court OF representative city such as Cleve-
land.
There are two comparable congested areas
In that city. each inhabited by people OF the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
l 1Ohotty dasapprove Of 1Ohat yOM sag and will
defend to the death your right to sag it-Votaire.

remember, the radio started about
that time on its great progress in
building powerful stations and burn
ing up the air.
Station WLW has completed the
most powerful station in the world
and it is said that if a bird should
fly within six or seven feet of this
tower, it would burn.
Without doubt these stations over
the country are taking the moisture
out of the air.
In your paper several days ago
there was an article about an cleo
trical invention that would destroy
million men.
I think it would be a good thing
to close all broadcasting stations
in the United States for period
of sixty to ninety days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
GOVERNMENT
KEEPS MOVING
Br Mrs. Nora z. wills.

By Mrs Nora (. Wills.
We in Indiana have been treated
to a new style administration. We
haye so far progressed from OK cart
DAYS until we are used to a tourist
government with our governor fly
ing, yachting or motoring to the
four corners Of the nation on the
slightest provocatiOn.
However, the Washington admin
istration has broken all records
with the cabinet and new dealers on
vacations or travelling at Uncle
Sans expense.
The President heads the list with
an excursion to Hawaii on the q. S.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
DIDN'T LIKE EDITORIAL
ABOUT DILLINGER
By c. W.

By c. W.
The person who wrote the edi-
torial entitled Sleep. Little Man"
must be jealous because his con-
science wouldn't let him do the
things Dillinger did. At least. the
editorial leads one to believe that.
This person calls Dillinger cheap
He isn't half as cheap as a crooked
banker or a crooked politician be-
cause he did give the bankers a
chance to fight. and they never gave
the people a chance.
Dillinger never had the nerve to
go straight. but he did have the
nerve to fight for the things he
missed in the years he was locked
in prison
Why not show mercy to Dillinger?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
JUSTICE AND CASE
OF DILLINGER

BY Mrs. ]. F. Brengle.
Since the general public has
evinced so much interest in the Dill
linger case, I can not let it pass
without expressing my opinion on
some of the high lights.
Now that he is dead and the pub
lies idea of justice surfeited. per-
haps it is we'll to ask ourselves, was
justice really done?
Some of the morbid curiosity
seekers who dipped handkerchiefS in
the slain mans blood, others with
out consent of his family holding an
autopsy and mutilating his body,
and still others who stampeded his
relatives home to get a glimpse Of
him, do not seem to be in keeping
with a civilized country or necessary
to melting out justice.
If we are so anxious to see justice
done. let us see it done in all walks
OF Ass. VS. are peoallisr people.
We over-dramatize the depredationS
of a Dillinger while we wink at the
nefarious practices of so-called bust
ness men, who probably do just as
much harm, but who through legal
counsel and technicalities of law,
manage to escape punishment.
There is nothing commendable in
Dillinger's career. He was a bank
bandit and possibly a murderer. He
held up banks at the point Of gun,
but he didn't stand behind a WIN
dow and bIandly smile while taking
your money like some of our bank
ers did when they knew their banks
were insolvent, and through asinine
court rulings and decisions, escape
without punishment.
Strip Dillinger of all the glamour
and drama, and we have left about
the same kind of a man our re-
spected bankers and insults are.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
OPPOSES GAS PLANT
BUYING BY CITY

By Gas Consumer.
There ought to be a rush to get
the city to buy the gas plant, be-
cause, if the city don't take The
lemon off the hands Of the owners,
the stockholders will have to suck
that lemon themselves.
With electricity available for
cooking at 212 cents a kilowatt, the
line Of gas customers will dWindle
rapidly.
In some cities in the country the
gas plants have been dismantled.
Hurry, you politicians, and dump
this sweet morsel into the tax
payers lap.
Electricity can be made for less
than p cent a kilowatt. So why
bother with gas?