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Evening star., 1934-03-07
Electricity in Apples.

Apples contain electricity, accord
Ing to an European scientist.
Evening star., 1934-03-07

TITLE SAW-WHET, smallest OF
the Owls who live in the East,
had been driven down from
= farther north by hunger until
Evening star., 1934-03-07
Dress May Be Constantly Crisp and Fresh
BY BARBARA BELL.

. VERY one wants at least one
l. dress of the extremely sensible
type. with no nonsense what
. soever about it. Such a one Is
Evening star., 1934-03-07

(Copyright. 1934)
Evening star., 1934-02-20
ANOTHER FACTOR
K|DNAPER SOUGHT
Gunman Testifies He Led
Touhy Gang to Locate
Victim.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. February 20.-An al
legged accomplice in the SIC, 900 John
Factor kidnapping was sought today as
a result of a dramatic inside" story
Of the abduction told by q Tennessee
gunman. who turned big-city gang
ster.
Joseph Silvers, part owner Of the
Dells road house in Morton Grove,
ILL.,, near which Factor was snatched
last July l, was the man hunted on
an accusation by Isaac Costner, young
Tennessee gangster, that it was Sill
vers who helped members OF the
Roger Touhy gang locate Factor the
morning he was kidnapped.
Prosecutors said Silvers might be
charged with being an accessory to
the abduction. He Is somewhere IN
Florida, States attorneys police said
they were informed.
Costner, recently arrested in Balti- +,
more with Basil Hugh Banghart, told
his story as a witness yesterday for
the State at the second trial of Roger |
Touhy, Albert Kator and Gus Schae-
fer, thereby violating the traditional
gangland law by talking in court Of
justice.
Identifies Gang.
But Costner talked for hours, and
when he had finished he had not only
identified Touhy, Kator and Schaefer
as members of the gang that kidnapped
Factor, but frankly confessed that he
had been with them, accepting later
from Banghart the comparatively
nominal sum of $4,000 as his share
in the snatch. He named Charles
Qce Wagon Connors and Andy Nc
Fadden as other members of the gang.
THE Touhys." he testified, had
several places where they met-one
in Park Ridge. one in Glenview and
other places. I was in bed in one OF
the places. About II pm. one of the
boys-maybe it was Gus Schaefer,
maybe it was Roger Touhy, came out
and woke me and Banghart up
@. Did he say anything?
A. Yes, that they were going to
grab Factor
After that the witness said he went
to a little beer garden" near the
Dells, from which there appeared a
man of stocky build who was ad-
dressed as "Silvers."
@. Did you hear what this man
said? i
A. Yes. He said that Factor was at
the Dells and that he might stay an
hour or more He talked some more,
but I didn't near what he said.
Gives Details of Abduction.
Thereafter the Tennessee hill-billy
related details Of the abduction, of
how Factor was held prisoner and of
his subsequent release in La Grange.
after the ransom money had been
paid Cross examination by the de-
PENDANTS attorney, william Scott
Stewart. failed to shake his story,
although he admitted he expected to
get some consideration from the pros
ecution for turning States witness.
He also contradicted one statement
made In Factors testimony at the
first trial of the Touhy men, which
ended in jury's disagreement. Factor
said that Costner. while guarding
him, had been so moved by the bru-
tality Of the kidnapers that he whis-
pered in Factors ear:
IT feel like taking you and putting
you in a car and taking you home
right now"
"I didn't saw that" the witness said
Evening star., 1934-02-20
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Evening star., 1934-02-20
Tot Born Before Great-Uncle.

Wleil a woman, ner 0augller anu
her granddaughter all gave birth to
husky babies in Kruszyna, Poland, in
the same night recently, complications
Of relationship were threatened. The
first child born was that Of Mrs. M.
WiSiewska, the granddaughter, aged
IT. The birth of this child's uncle
followed, and his great-uncle arrived
still later.
Evening star., 1934-02-20
Deaths Reported.

Ella g: Blaisdeii. IS. 1853 Euclid St.
Minnie s. Willis. 20. 416 7th st. ne.
Annie Nc. Davis; 6s; 1901 Clifton st.
Walter Manuel. so, Gallinger Hospital.
Pauline Saylor, so. Masonic and Eastern
Charles T. Lyddane, So. Gallinser Hospital.
Charles H. Bailey. 54. 1881 Kenilworth
Charles L. Beckett. 40. 335 x st. ne.
Margaret Kerrigan. 90 5s03 4th st.
Jean NJ; .Dorr, 4. sibley Hospital
William H Anderson. SO, rs M st.
Matte Jefferson, 35, 1928 9TH st.
Horace Holmes, 16. Gallinger Hospital.
Births Reported.
Evening star., 1934-02-20

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Births Reported.

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
THE HANDFUL

CONTROL of the New York Stock Exchange
~ by handful of men whose activities are
yelled in secrecy is revealed by Investigations
of the senate banking committee, announces
a Washington news dispatch.
The announcement may be news per Sc
but the control isn't. Ever since Roosevelt
set out to uncover the secrets of big business
procedure, it has been as plain as daylight
that a handful Of men has been in control
OF pretty much everything.
A handful of men has run at least two
recent federal administrations and degraded
the great party Of Lincoln to condition in
which it does not know where to lay its head
A handful has about ruined the mighty rail-
road industry handful has so manipulated
crooked and even honest investment and
banking that our financial world emits stencil
thick and strong enough to put out the fires
of VeSuvius. A handful has so imposed the
powers of monopoly that the millions of inde-
pendentS in almost every sort of business are
threatened with the status of poems. or
paupers.
All this isn't news; it is old stuff known
and felt by every intelligent man in business
or on a pay roll. Verify a handful of men
has been IN control Of the New York Stock
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
BENEFITS OF LIQUOR

THE world sometimes seems to have turned
pretty completely topsy-turvy, these days.
Some of the little by-products Of repeal are
illustrations.
Remember the old days Of the anti-saloon
campaigns, when the liquor trade was held
up as the great foe of the public school?
Well, it has been disclosed that the Michigan
liquor control commission just has turned
100000 over to the state to help pay the
salaries Of school teachers.
This money comes from the commissioner
profits on sales Of the states liquor stores.
Under the law, all but small fraction Of the
profits must go to the school emergency fund;
and the liquor commission points out that it
still has around 81 ,oOo,0 900 to distribute.
If we have reached a point where John
Barleycorn is supporting the schools, the
world indeed is upside down.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
THE LONGER LIFE

DR. G. w. Grille noted Cleveland sur
~ geon, tells Los Angeles audience that,
with proper attention to health, there is no
reason why man should not extend his &C.
tive career to the age of 80 or beyond.
Frequent physical examinations, he says,
would reveal failing capacities Of vital organs
and would make it possible for remedial steps
to be taken.
All of which, of course, is highly encour-
aging; but it is just one more instance in
which our scientific knowledge seems to have
outrun our social sense.
What is the use of enabling man to keep
working to the age of 30, if industry and
business decide that the man more than so
is too old for a job?
Unless we revise the idiotic notion that a
mans usefulness ends with middle age, there
is small use in extending his active life span.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
TUESDAY. MARCH 20. 1914.
CREDIT OR DEATH

A FTER months Of effort trying to get the
u banks TO give the small business man
break, the administration finally has recon-
n1ended to congress the creation of twelve re-
gional credit banks for that purpose
Many theoretc arguments could be made
against this proposal. The conservative may
deplore the fact that the government is get
ting deeper into business. The radical may
complain that such halfway measures merely
leave the government holding the bag with
shaky loans.
But. as has been the case with so much
of the Roosevelt legislation, what might have
been or what might be in some future case
does not pull US out Of the emergency today.
A quick relief job is called for.
The small business man is unable in many
cases to get credit to hold up his end of the
recovery program. The President estimates
that S7O000O0OO of working capital is needed
to keep a third of million men in present
jobs and to give new employment to another
third Of a million men and women.
Credit for this purpose is just as essential
as that already provided by the government to
the banks and through the banks to railroads
and big business. The government has very
little choice 1t can not stand by while small
business dies for lack of credit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
SPEEDIER JUSTICE

TOR many years Americans have cried out,
with Hamlet against the laws delay
The speed in which the law is moving
against kidnapers is encouraging. So is the
latest assault by Acknowledgement Cummings
upon two big obstacles to quick justice, the
crooked lawyer and complicated criminal
court procedure. Mr.. Cummings has named
an advisory board Of three prominent attor-
neys to help him clean up the legal profession
and simplify court rules.
Here and there bar associations are clean
ing out the crooks. men who actually are in
league with the criminal elements of neither
and upper worlds. Many of these unworthies
have been disbarred some have been prose-
cuted and sent to Jail IS accomplicps in crime
Attorney General Cummings proposes to aid
other communities in a spring bousecleaning.
Important also IS Mr. Cummings plan to
allow the United States supreme court to lay
down rules Of procedure in federal criminal
trials. just as it now does in equity cases. In
England where justice commands more re-
spect. all trial procedure is governed by a rules
committee of judges and lawyers, instead of
by statute as in America. Mr.. Cummings re-
quest Is supported by President Roosevelt and
should be carefully weighed by congress
The attorney-generalS suggestions avoid
the usual pitfalls Of law-and-order reformers.
These zealotS generally would defeat the ends
of Justice by demanding more savage punish
mentS. In seeking 20 make justice swift and
certain. rather than harsh and. therefore, I'M
certain, Mr.. Cummings will have The support
of leaders in social and legal science.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20

selflshness, greed and stupidity have in some
instances given both employers and employees
reason to distrust the labor organizer
Such things do more to tetard the cause Of
labor than all the hard-boiled employers in
the country. Unless they can be eliminated.
the current drive to give labor new freedom
can not. in the long :Jn, do labor any good.
They are evils that can be corrected by
nobody but the leaders and the rank and file
Of organized labor.
It often is said that public office is public
trust The same thing applies to the job Of
representing organized working men.
The man who has such position not only
speaks for the legitimate aspirations of his
fellow workers; he also occupies an exceed
ingly important position in the industrial set
up of the country as whole and this position
evidently is going to be more important in the
future than in the past
The intelligent and honorable labor leader
land there are many such-can do a great
work in the years Just ahead of us.
But the labor movement no longer can
afford to carry the lacketeer, the self-seeker,
the chiseler, the man Who plays both ends
against the middle Tor the sake of his own
bank account.
It's up to labor 20 clean house If the unions
are to get new rights, they must recognize the
responsibilities that go with them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20

Innocent people have suffered
death again and again as a result
Of manufactured evidence and per-
jured testimony as subsequent dis
closures often have shown, yet, ac-
cording to our criminal laws, a jury
must find according to the evidence
given in the case.
Society and the public acquiesce
because they have to and only one
opportunity to protest a legal MUIR
der is granted when the jury is i'm
paneled and prospective juror is
asked edo you believe in the death
penalty?"
The state of Indiana through its
legislature should revise its criminal
code to exclude any judicial author
ity for imposing the death penalty,
substituting therefor, life imprison-
ment and making it mandatory in
cases Of murder in the first degree,
kidnapping Or bank or highway rob-
berry with or without weapons.
The third degree as practiced by
detectives and police should be pro-
hibited and punishable by a years
imprisonment.
Intimidation, or brutality have no
place legally or morally in the
criminal practices in this or any
other state and the eXtortion Of evil
dcnce through torture or in
quisitorial methods is absolutely I'M
constitutional.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
LABOR MUST CLEAN HOUSE

GONE sort of showdown in the field OF labor
~ relations seems inst ahead. The national
recovery administration prepares to tackle the
company union issue congress debates the
Wagner labor board bill, and industrialists
flock to Washington 70 protest both measures
And the whole business puts upon organ
lied labor the heaviest responsibility it has
had in years.
Organized labor. unless all signs fail, is
about to be given more power than it ever has
had before. Its magma charta is in the max
ing these days. What is it going to 90 with it?
It Is not exactly a secret that there are la
Dor organizations whose officials are more
interested IN lining their own pockets than in
advancing the cause u the men they are sup
posed to represent; that there are cases in
which labor unions nave been turned into I'M
scrupulous rackets BY designing men: that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
WORSE THAN JAIL

MOT even his tens of thousands of victims
will rejoice in the picture of aged Sam
uel insult setting out from Greece in his
yacht" the greasy little freighter Maotis, to
evade American extradition. The Cook county
jail that awaits him III his own country would
seem a happier refuge than escape in such
an unheroic odyssey. He has lost those things
which most men hold dear-honor, dignity
and the right of citizenship in a country he
can call his own.
The Greeks sentenced him to endure what
their ancients reserved for traitors-banish-
ment.
He may choose any one of thirty lands in
which he will be safe from extradition None
Will offer him happiness
Back in 1908, H G. Wells in Tono-Bungay
wrote story greatly resembling Insults. 1t
was that of George Pondeyero and his uncle
who got rich quick by promoting quack pat
ent medicine and who finally escaped the law
by flying the English channel in an airship
Like these charlatans, insult built a great
property out of human hope" Like them, he
may not enjoy his wealth
The insult story is not particularly signif-
cant as that Of one who ruined men and wom-
en- to pay the price in disgrace as a hunted
being. There are plenty Of smaller insults
still uncaught, plenty of would-be insults
eagerly waiting for return of the good old
days in which he prospered. More significant
are plans now being carried out in Washing
ton to make it harder for the insults, Kreu-
gers and the rest to play their mighty shell
games under the name of American business.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
QUESTIONS LISTED FOR
BIRTH CONTROL ADVOCATES

BY Hiram Lackey
The millions of men and women
who practice some form of birth
control and whose vanity has con-
WINGED them that they know all
there is to learn on the subject
are asked to consider a few point
ed questions:
Where were you before the first
meeting of your father and
mother? Before your conception,
were you longing to live this life?
How do you know? Are you an
immortal being? Can an immortal
being have a beginning? Can a
stick have one end without also
having another end?" What is the
purpose of the life Of a human be-
ing? Under what conditions and
how can that purpose be best
achieved?
In the eternal plan of things, is
the life of a moron as essential as
that of a genium? What is the
purpose of intelligence If 1T be not
for solving such problems? In de-
signing and causing the human body
to function, was Mother Nature in
any sense vulgar? In the lives of
women today, how many tragedies
could be prevented by their having
the common scientific knowledge of
physicians? Why is it a fact that
the more man learns on this sub
ject, the less aggressive becomes his
cocksureneSs?
Why is there so much disagree
ment among answers, all of which
are supposed to come from the
same crystal clear divine source?
From where do the muddy waters
come, and why? If we sincerely
investigate all available knowledge
on the birth control subject, and
apply the results in the interest of
truth, is the responsibility for our
failure, if there be any, of our own
making?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
Politics and Families

name and funny face will be
printed on it.
In the history of Indiana we
never have had a shortage of
candidates, for that is one crop
that has never failed us. Candi-
dates will grow on any kind of
soil, but some crops in the past
were Of poor quality, and it is up
to the voters in regard to the
quality, for we will not be lacking
in quantity.
The average citizen has ceased
to worry for he has it figured out
as long as he has the stetehouSe,
courthouse, and city hall left for
a new administration to do bust
ness in, he is lucky. Most political
offices are family affairs, and TAX
ing care of poor relations is some
job, believe me.
I don't blame any official for
keeping his mother-in-law busy
and gainfully employed, but other
family members should be taboo.
BY careful observation you can
find officials who are up for re-
nomination who have made family
affairs of their office Help
eliminate them by your vote in the
primary. BY doing that you also
will be helping preserve some other
family tree, and giving others a
crack at the political plums.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20

after all the expense of bringing her
back, a Judge turned her loose with
the remark, There isn't enough
evidence against her to hold her for
trial"
This same Mrs. Kinder now is
Dragging of her exploits, acknowl-
edging she did travel all over the
country with the gang as one of
their accomplices, and telling what
fine boys they are.
She also is Dragging about the
swell clothes and valuable dia-
mondS and jewelry she owns and
now is trying to get from the Tue
son authorities. Although she
started without a penny, does she
really possess this fortune? If so,
did she pay her income tax? Al
Capone now is doing time for in
come tax evasion.
There now are thousands of
young romantic girls who would
baIk at nothing to get the fine
clothes and jeWelry and notoriety
that Mrs. Kinder is having if some
gangSter would come along and Of
fer her the chance.
May I see your editorial soon?
thank you,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20

BY W. E. Lemon
Job seekers again will have to
endure the pains and suffering OF
suspense previous TO the May pri-
mary.
The idea with most of those
birds sitting on fence is to pick
a winner, and our numerous candi-
dates will represent all walks of
life, from the underworld to the
progressive and honest element Of
our city.
Of course, each candidate has
his or her following, and these
birds will be buzzing around the
polls like pigeons in University
park.
The average, intelligent voter
should not become confused at
this human circus, but should vote
for a man who would be a credit
to his party, a candidate who is
honest and efficient.
AS usual we will not be forced
to draft candidates as we do
soldiers in time of war, but our
quota will be filled by volunteers,
who could tell you how to fight a
war in a swivel chair, and these
swivel chair artists are great war
riorS.
The printing business will be
good previous to the primary, each
little card with the candidates
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
STATE ATTACKED FOR
DEATH PENALTY
By H. S. osgood

By H. S. osgood
The writer desires to enter his
protest against capital punishment
or legal murder in favor of which
there can be no moral support.
The spectacle of any form of hui
man execution is sordid, a vicious
form of vengeance barking back to
the age of tyranny, when ignorance
and tyranny controlled the govern
ing powers of state. No court of
justice has moral right to con-
denim any human being to death in
any form. The creator alone, who is
the author of existence and the
giver Of laws governing mans con-
duct toward his fellow-man, has
the right to call man or a woman
out of earthly existence or to i'm
pose future punishment or grant re-
wards for conduct deserving either
award
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
DISPOSAL OF KINDER
CASE IS CRITICISED
By E. Fl. RAIDER. DanvilIe

By E. Fl. RAIDER. Danville
After reading your front-page ed
itorial, Sheriff Holley Must Co."
and also your Hands Of State Po-
lice" I can not but admire your
sense Of justice and the plain truths
as you state them. And if not
asking too much, would like to
read an editorial by you on Mary
Kinder Must Go to Jail" and also
would like to hear your opinion Of
the judge who turned her loose.
Just after the break at the state
prison the indianapolis police ar
rested a man who was a supposed
sweetheart Of Mrs. Kinder, who
confessed she had hidden the es-
capped men at his home and had left
indianapolis with them. Until their
capture, she was called "the brains
of the gang" by all the daily papers,
and was arrested with them Yet