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HITLER PARTY ADVANCES TO HRST PLACE Fascists’ Gains in Election Topples Socialists From Power Pinnacle. NAZIS DOUBLE VOTE Communists and Catholics Hold Balance of Power, Returns Show. BY FREDERICK KUH United Pres* Staff Corre*r>ondent BERLIN, Aug. I.—Fascism became the dominant party in the Reichstag today, but returns from Sunday’s election showed Adolph Hitler’s ultra-Nationalist bloc had failed to crush German democracy at the polls. The gains of the Fascists tumbled the Socialist party from its pinnacle in the reich for the first time since the founding of the republic, but the moderate factions gained enough ground to prevent the “right wing”—favoring dictatorship and kaiserism—from a majority in the new Reichstag. Communists and the Catholic party held the balance of power, after 37,000,000 voters doubled Hitler’s Nazi representation. Parallels U. S. Situation The party alignment is such that the situation almost parallels that in the American congress -where a shift of a few votes either way could have decided many a major political issue. The vote Sunday meant that exChancellor Heinrich Bruening’s Catholic party, while not large in rmmßers, would be influential in the reiehstag because of the close division; and it meant that a way had been cleared for Chancellor Franz von Papen’s cabinet to rule, despite the hostile reiehstag, and perhaps extend its powers by dictatorial measures. The government stated today it expected to remain in office indefinitely. The Nazis doubled their vote compared with the last reiehstag election of September, 1930, but did not increase the poll given Hitler in the run-ofl presidential campaign last April 10. It was indicated that Hitler’s sensational rise was climaxed with the absorption of smaller parties. Open Defiance Possible In the absence of a coalition to form a working majority, the situation foreshadowed was one in which the cabinet openly might defy an adverse reiehstag vote without resigning. Such a status would become possible if the Catholics and Nazis failed to agree on a coalition platfarm, which politicians considered likely. This would mean that a majority government could not be formed, for the Communists would not co-operate with anybody unless they made a complete reversal of former policies. 1 Trend Anti-Capitalistic An outstanding feature of the new Reichstag is its distinctly anticapitalistic tinge. Three quarters of the new deputies belong to “socialist” parties. The anti-capitalistic tendency might influence the Catholics to abandon their opposition to the anti-Communistic Von Pap. n regime. Despite a representation double that in the last Reichstag, Hitler can not control parliament either alone, or with the co-operation of Dr. Alfred Hugenberg's Nationalists. The Nazis won 230 seats. The combined strength of the right wing, including the Fascists, Nationalists. People’s party, Economic party, and one seat won by the Agrarians, was 277. The left wing also fell short of Reichstag control. The once powerful Socialists, Dr. Bruening’s Catholics, the Constiutionalsts, and Christian Socialists won 341 seats. The Communists gained tw’elve seats for a total of eighty-nine, and were in a position to overthrow any government which might be formed. Bitter foes of Fascism, they can keep Hitler from powder. They can not be counted on to support the Left in decisive votes. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 70 10 a. m,.... 65 7 a. m 70 11 a. m 65 Ba. m 71 12 (noon 5 ).. 64 9 a. m 66 1 p. m 64

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HARRIED VETERANS ARE DOWN TO ONLY ONE DAY’S RATIONS

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Expect General Butler at Johnstown Camp to Urge ‘Go Home’ BY JOSEPH S. WASNEY United Press Staff Correspondent JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Aug. I.—Food enough for only one day—and that on half rations—was revealed this afternoon by an inventory of the bonus expeditionary forces’ commissary. Leaders professed not to know where the rations would come from, after exhaustion of the meager supply for the 5,000 or more men, women and children campers. Mayor Eddie McCloskey, one-time prize fighter and pants presser, has been paying for or ordering on credit the supplies so far received. Some Leave for Homes Meantime, there was strong urging for the “bonusers” to leave Johnstown and go home or to the 209-acre Maryland camp, donated to Commander Walter Waters by a wealthy woman. A start toward building up the Maryland refuge was made, when 150 men of the Colorado regiment were sent secretly southward as a “shock troop” to clear the land, and make way for the bonus army which last week, before bayonets, sabers and fire, was cleared out of Washington, D. C. A squad of perhaps 100 left camp for their homes further westward, and the move to have the whole army go home received impetus from General Smedley Butler, retired marine chief, who said he favored the plan. Butler was to come to the camp today to urge the men to ‘ return to their homes ” Reports that the Red Cross may aid the women and children in the colony were received with cheers. Waters Is Acclaimed Women and children have been given every consideration by camp commanders. They get their food first and they have been allocated tha better tents in which to make their homes. Waters flew here from Washington Sunday and was acclaimed. ‘You have proved to the world that you are men in every respect,” Waters said. “Now I have secured for you a 209-acre place just nineteen miles from Washington, and in two or three weeks we'll move in. Until then you must stay in Johnstown.” The B. E. F. commander told the men he had purchased the land in his own name for sl, from a “kindhearted Maryland women.” On the property log cabins will be built for married men and barracks for single men. “This will be a safe refuge for the destitute driven from Washington at the point of bayonets and tear gas, at the order of that great humanitarian, Herbert Hoover,” Waters continued. Weather Prophet Fifty Y'ears By United Press BOSTON. Aug. I.—Dr. E. A. Loveland, weather forecaster at Boston, recently celebrated his fiftieth anniversary as a government weather man.

MEN, NEVER IN BONUS ARMY. ARE HERDED ACROSS U. S. WITH FUGITIVES

Bemoaning fate that has torn them from their homes anl families, seventy-four bonus ’’march” fugitives from Washington. only twenty-seven of them World war veterans, today were rushed to the Illinois state line, shortly after their arrival in Indianapolis. Herded into two cattle trucks and soaked to the skin by a steady rain, the unshaven and broken marchers and their companions jammed police headquarters while they awaited removal. They were transported from Indianapolis to Terre Haute in army trucks. The marchers were brought here in trucks supplied by Greenfield (Ind.) persons. M. E. Wiggin, Greenfield police chief, accompanied the men here. From the ranks of the crowd came the stories of men who were herded with the bona fide march-

INDIANA LEGION FAVORSBONUS Resolutions Group Demand Immediate Payment. By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Aug. 1. —Without a dissenting vote, the resolutions committee of the state convention of the American Legion went on record here today demanding immediate payment of the bonus. Approval of immediate payment was given by the state committee in session this morning. The committee will meet again tonight, before presenting its report to the open convention Tuesday. In addition to demanding immediate payment, the committee also is expected to recommend to the convention that the interest rate on the adjusted compensation to veterans be reduced. Under present arrangements the interest amounts to the other 50 per cent of the compensation certificates. Members of the state legion will demand the state highway commission set a minimum wage on all Indiana contracts, they announced. V. M. Armstrong, Indianapolis attorney, appeared this afternoon to have mustard sufficient support to be victorious in the election as state commander Tuesday. Five other candidates remained in the race. They are William O. Nelson. Anderson; Bruce L. Peters, Cambridge City; Barney D. McCarthy, Gary; L. V. Hauk, Morristown, and R. Exton Porter, Whiting.

U. S. OWNERSHIP OF BANK SYSTEM URGED BY HARVEY

Government ownership of the banking system and production facilities of the country in order to correct ills in the distribution of money in the United States was advocated today by William (Coin) Harvey, presidential candidate of the Liberty party in an address at the party’s state convention in Columbia park. “If congress were to pass laws legalizing murder and other crimes, the courts immediately would declare such laws null and void,” Harvey stated. “And yet, we now have laws creating wholesale crimes, suicides, insanity and degeneracy of human character, forecasting the perishing of civilization w r ith untold suffering to hundreds of millions of people. “The two old political parties are responsible for this infamous lending system, and neither of them in their platforms ha* uttered a single word that the'- j aware of the cause of preset conditions,” Harvey charged. He reviewed the history of the Liberty party and pointed out the

ers when the latter were ousted from Washington Friday night. Harris Scragein, 37. 'who has lived in Washington four years, told a story of being picked up on the street. “I was just walking along the street after doing my day’s work,” he said. “A policeman nabbed me and took me along with a big bunch to a square. Saturday morning they marched us to a place eight miles from Washington and put us on t'rucks. We went into Maryland and have been, on the road ever since. My family and job are in Washington.” nun OTHERS, jobless, who had been sleeping in parks and hunt-, ing work, told the same stories. $ Another mam who said hi§ name was Conway said he had been a

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1932

$200,000 GEMS ARE GUARDED AS FIRERAGES Two Killed as Explosion Rocks Fashionable N. Y. Uptown Hotel. 13 INJURED BY FUMES $50,000 in Jewels Blown Into Street by Blast in Basement. By United Press - NEW YORK. Aug. I.—Fire broke out in the fashionable Ritz Towner apartment hotel on Park avenue today. At least tw ? o firemen were killed in an explosion and thirteen others overcome by fumes and injured. By noon twenty pieces of fire fighting equipment had arrived at the scene after racing through the congested uptown section of Manhattan. Reports were current that an undetermined number of men were trapped in the sub-basement where the fire began. The bodies of the two dead firemen were removed from the basement. They were Lieutenant James Harnett and fireman Thomas Finn. Patrolman Otto Behrens was one of those reported near death of injuries. Guard Fortune in Gems The Kirkpatrick jewelry store, on the ground floor of the building, was damaged by the explosion, and about $50,000 worth of jewels were blown into the street. Police stood guard inside ,the store with drawn revolvers, to prevent any attempt at robbery. More than $200,000 worth of gems were being guarded. Police emergency squads and groups of rescue workers from the Consolidated Gas Company, all wearing gas masks and carrying respirators, fought their way through the smoke to rescue any one trapped below. Explosion Spreads Blaze The streets were roped off and traffic diverted. Great clouds of smoke poured from the obelisk, which surmounts the thUrty-five-story structure, giving rise to unfounded rumors that the entire building was on fire. The explosion in a paint shop two floors below the street level was believed to have spread the blaze. Fire apparently started in the shop. The explosion did not occur until after the arrival of firemen. The hotel staff was mobilized for guard duty on the various floors of the building, since the apartments contain many thousands of dollars worth of personal property. Both the elevator and lighting systems in the hotel were put out of commission by the explosion and the scenes inside were ghost like. Policemen and guests of the hotel moved through the paneled lobby and corridors with flashlights. The lobby showed no evidence of damage and it was apparent that the conflagration was confined to the lower basement.

manner in which its platform and policies were derived in the belief they would correct conditions. “With the government owning public utilities, operated under civil service rules, it will establish a money redemption system that will be continuously putting money back in circulation, instead of permitting it to be cornered, monopolized and made destructive to a stable monetary system.” Harvey said in support of the party’s plan of public ownership. Leon J. Granger, state chairman, presided at the session, which was delayed more than an hour by rain. Several hundred were present. Platform of the National party was adopted unanimously by the delegates after the platform committee, headed by Leroy Swartz, Ft. Wayne, recommended its acceptance. J. O. Cotton was named chairman of the resolutions committee. ,C. S. Wikoff, senatorial candidate, and Ward B. Hiner, candidate for Governor, were introduced to the convention and made brief speeches.

resident of Washington eighteen years. 1 “I was standing on the edge of a park/’ he said. “They told me to come along and here I am with no chance of getting back to my home for months.” Then H. H. Moore, an unemployed book salesman, added, ‘T was in the same park. I am. shipped out with the rest. Among the disheveled group were others who said their homes were in the east, south and extreme west, who wondered how to get back to their families. John Stewart, 48, Washington, said he was “walking down the street when they got me.” * n n 'T'WO young Negroes scoffed when asked what service they had joined in the war.

Fear Clash in Defiance i of Pickets 100 Miners Ignore Strikers, Go to Work; Sheriff Calls for Aid. By United Press TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Aug. I. Pickets began converging upon the Dixie Bee coal mine from all directions today soon after 100 nonunion workmen, defying warnings, went to work in the shaft. By 9:30 a. m. several hundred men had taken up their positions about the mine, but none had ventured on mine property,' which is protected by a federal injunction. Indications were that the pickets might be planning to lay siege to the property, preventing all access and egress, in much the same manner that twenty-seven men were imprisoned for forty hours at the Hoosier mine in Sullivan county two weeks ago. Sheriff Joe Dreher telegraphed Governor Harry G. Leslie that he would be unable to maintain order at the mine with his present force, nor would he be able to keep the highways open. He appealed for state aid with the declaration that he would not be “responsible for the result.” .‘Not Troops Plea’ Governor Harry G. Leslie does not consider the telegram sent by Sheriff Joseph Dreher of Terre Haute a formal request for troops in the Vigo county mine area, he said today. The Governor said that the communication was not clear and that he could not consider is as a demand for state militia. PLEDGES DRY HCTIOH Shull to Report Out Bill for Wright Repeal. Assurance that the Weiss bill to repeal the Wright bone dry law will be reported out Tuesday by the senate public morals committee was given today by Senator Lonzo L. Shull, dry Republican, committee chairman. Shull gave the assurance following a- charge Saturday by Senator James J. Nejdl, Whiting, wet Republican, that the chairman was holding back the bill. Shull gave his promise to report the bill to Nejdl and Senator Earl Rowley, Republican, La Porte. The chairman also announced that the resolution of Senator Chester Perkins, Democrat, South Bend, memorializing congress to repeal the eighteenth amendment, also will be reported out Tuesday. BUDGET JXJS READY County Council Prepares to Slash All Requests. Adopting a policy of cutting county government expenses to the minimum, county councilmen this week will start a series of meetings to study budget requests of thirtytwo county officials. First budget requests expected to feel the council’s paring knife will be those of twenty-two officials asking appropriation increases totaling $140,000 for 1933. All budgets must be slashed in wholesale manner, councilmen predict, or the county's tax rate will be boosted considerably. The cuts must offset a 20 per cent horizontal reduction in assessments of Center township real estate on which a large share of the county taxes are collected. County Treasurer Timothy P. Sexton warned the county board of review today that the tax rate would be increased 50 cents if this horizontal assessment slash, ordered by John C. McCloskey, center township assessor, is allowed. This slash totals $82,000,00. GARBO REMAINS HIDDEN Refuses to Emerge From Stateroom of Ship at Halifax. By United Press HALIFAX, N. S., Aug. 1. Greta Garbo, seclusive- star of the screen, continued to hide from newspaper reporters when the Swedish-Amer-ican liner Gripsholm, on which she is returning to Sweden for a vacation, docked at Halifax at 1 a. m. today. Miss Garbo was guarded carefully from intruders by members of the crew and did not leave her stateroom while the ship was in port. Captain Lunymark of the Gripsholm said that she was sleeping and that she did not care to see any one. £

“War?,” they asked. “We weren't in any w r ar. We just got pushed into this and don’t know where we are going.” After tw ; enty-one years’ service in various branches of the army in the World war, Cuba and the Philippinues, Robert M. Knipple, said he was one of the original bonus army from Los Angeles. “With all my service I never went through such hell as I did in Washington from May 30 until that night of tenor Friday,” he said. “All we’ve had to eat is rice and beef.” Knipple carries six army discharges, a hip of silver from, shrapnel wounds in the Argonne and -government doctors’ state-

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Bombing of Garages Threatened Unless 0 Blackmail Is Paid

SENATORS TARGETS IN EXTORTION PLOT BARED BY KILLINGS Black Book Is Missing; Found in Room With Bodies of Notorious Criminal, Slain Blond and Bogus Bills. By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 1. —A little black book, said to contain the names of prominent men, including two United States senators, has disappeared mysteriously from a room in which the bodies of a nationally known criminal and a platinum blond companion were found shot to death. The significance of the book was obvious, authorities said, and indicated the man and woman—Robert Conroy, man of many aliases, and Rosemary Sanborn—had engaged in a campaign of blackmail against men of high position. Federal and city authorities joined in searching for the missing record.

AH evidence indicated that Conroy, sought since 1928 for the murder of a policeman in a Toledo mail truck robbery, first shot his blond companion through the head, and then ended his own life. The bodies were found in a shabby suite of rooms where they had. been turning out bogus $5 bills. Counterfeit notes amounting to S9OO were in the rooms, together with a press ad other equipment. Senators Not Named Supplementing the black book, which disappeared after both police and federal agents had examined it, were a number of photographs carefully filed in a trunk, picturing the blond in intimate poses with various men. In each case, it appeared obvious that the photographs were taken without knowledge of the platinum blond’s various male companions. And in each case the pictures, were taken against exotic backgrounds elaborately furnished rooms, and suites with soft draperies and expensive furniture. Police did not name the senators. Conroy, known by a string of aliases, was identified by his fingerprints as the bandit involved in the Toledo mail robbery in which Patrolman George Zientara was killed by machine-gun fire as he attempted to stop the bandits. Wanted for Train Holdup They had held up an American Railway express truck and abducted the four guards. Conroy, also wanted in a Southern Pacific train holdup in Los Angeles, was believed to have been a former member of the Fred Burke gang. His criminal record included alleged participation in a Jefferson (Wis.) bank robbery in which six men escaped with $325,000. Alan Straight, chief of the secret service men for the New York area, characterized the counterfeit bills found as excellent imitations. GENERAL MA SLAIN, JAPANESE DECLARE Chinese Leader Killed Near Harbin in Battle, Reports Say. By United Press MUDKEN, Aug. I.—General Ma Chan-Shan, ex-bandit, Chinese national hero, alleged traitor and guerilla leader by turns, was reported “dead” here today, killed in a last ditch stand with the remnants of his once-powerful army of 20,000 men. Reports of the slippery general’s death were “officially confirmed” by Japanese sources. According to the reports, Ma's body was found at the bottom of a heap of Chinese soldiers, torn by machine gun fire, after a battle northwest of Harbin. Two hundred of his personal guards were said to have been slain with their leader.

PENNY BASEBALL POOL SUSPECT FACES COURT

Roy Partlow, alleged owner and operator of penny baseball pool tickets, exposed in The Times Saturday as the latest of gambling rackets taking toll in the city, this afternoon will answer police charges of poolselling and keeping a gaming room. Partlow, operator of a poolroom at 29 West Ohio street, was arrested following a police raid Saturday, several hours after The Times called ittention to the appearance of the

ments that he has sixteen permanent disabilities. * * WILLIAM MARRS, Wood River, 111., one of the bona fide marchers, said newspaper reports that only one veteran was killed in the Washington riot, were “entirely wrong.” “Two men, one woman and three babies, under three months, died after the trouble in Washington,” he charged. The Indianapolis street railway had provided a bus, but it was not large enough. The state of Illinois now will face the problem of moving them on. Many of the marchers are hungry. They attempted to get food in Greenfield. Here they were given food from the city soup kitchen.

$1.50 TAX BILL UP FOR ACTION Loan Shark and Home Rule Measures Also Slated. Opponents of the $1.50 tax limitation measure massed their forces today as the bill was scheduled for final action in the house of representatives. When both houses reconvene at 2, following week-end adjournment, several other controversial measures will be handed down by speakers. Among these is the senate loan shark bill, reducing the annual interest rate of loans from 42 to 18 per cent. The upper house is scheduled to vote on final passage of the measure. House Speaker Walter Myers said he will hand down for second reading the Hoffman “home rule” bill, repealing mandatory tax levies and placing power to fix salaries with local county, city and town councils. The uniform fee and salary bill, which cuts salaries of all public employes from 5 to 20 per c§nt, will be handed down for final reading. The tax limit measure, passed by the senate, but probably due for defeat in the house, is one of the measures which Governor Harry G. Leslie frowns upon and which he will veto, he told legislators in his second message a week ago. Republican minority of the house has indicated it will disregard the Governor’s warning and vote for passage of the bill. Another important measure to receive house consideration today is the railroad bill, which would require farmers and merchants operating trucks to become public utilities, pay special taxes and operate under jurisdiction of the public service commission. It will be handed down for second reading. TOPPLES OVER CUFF Stilesville Youth Is Seriously Injured in Twenty-Foot Fall. By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Aug. I. Claude Hampton, son of Glenn Hampton, operator of a garage at Stilesville', is in hospital here in serious condition after a fall from a cliff at Turkey Run state park Sunday. Young Hampton, attending a class picnic, fell twenty feet from a cliff, breaking both arms.

“cut price” tickets and the possi-* bility of children becoming a source of revenue to the pool operator. Search by police during the raid failed to disclose evidence of pool tickets, but a patrolman, dressed in plain clothes, remained in the place and arrested Partlow when he is said to have taken a book containing the tickets from his pocket after the raiding party left. Seventeen books of tickets were found in Partlow’s possession, police said. Shrinking sales of 5-cent, 10-cent and higher priced tickets are said by ticket agents to have resulted in the appearance of penny tickets and others selling for 2 cents. Although Partlow was the only person arrested in connection with the sale of the penny tickets, Chief Mike Morrissey indicated they are being sold in other city poolrooms. Morrissey also was quoted as saying that none of the tickets had been purchased by children. In discounting the possibility of the penny tickets becoming a grave menace to children as the wave of slot machine gambling current among juveniles some months ago, Morrissey pointed out that children are not permitted in poolrooms. Sale of pool tickets, which also is illegal, has been found on several occasions in the past in drug stores, on the street, and other locations accessible to children and minors, police records show.

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County. 3 Cent*

SSOO to SI,OOO Demanded by Gangsters From Each Downtown Operator. FAMILIES ARE MENACED Dynamite, Acid and Stench Bombs Promised If Extortion Fails. Threatening terrorism, demands of payments ranging from SSOO to SI,OOO have been made on operators of Indianapolis downtown parking garages by a group of Chicago racketeers, The Times learned today. Injuries to members of the families of the garage operators, use of dynamite, bullets, stench bombs, and acid are threatened in extortion letters, sent within the last two or three weeks. Police and federal authorities have thrown every available man into the investigation, in an attempt to trap the racketeers, while the recipients of the blackmail letters deny that any money has been paid. However, it is known that police have laid a net on the north side of the city foV more than forty-eight hours, but the gangsters have not appeared. Families Are Threatened The Circle Motor Inn was the victim of the largest demand of SI,OOO, The Times learned. In one instance families of. garage operators were threatened with injury or death. The properties of the garages also would be wrecked by explosives, it was threatened. In each instance, the notes, print- • 3 in ink, carried the final warning that “there is no escape.” Although admitting receipt of the letters, garage officials were reticent to give details of the threats. Another letter read, in part: “It will do you no good to tip off the police, because your assessment has been set at this $ Bombing Is Promised “It will do you no good because we are fixed to get your business. We will use acid, stench bombs and other things to prevent people from parking in your garage.” Then followed the assertion that the threats were for the “protection’’ of the recipients of the letters. The letter further stated the “protection” was against the “damned skunks” operating the open-air garages, “which have all the business.” One note asked that most of the money be in gold, and detailed distribution of the remainder in silver. The money, in one case, was ordered placed on the north side near “high tension wires.” Federal authorities, it was learned, were informed of the threats about three w r eeks ago. So far, postal authorities do not know whether they can act, chiefly because the new federal law providing penalty for extortion by mail only recently was enacted. Trotcky Reveals Threat Operator of a roadhouse northeast of the city denied to The Times he had received an extortion letter similar to those received by the garage operators, but said he had “heard about the garage threats.” Sam Trotcky, operator of a neardowntown garage and service sta> lion, revealed he had “been threatened with a spray of machine gun fire” recently. Garage operators who were not threatened were inclined to lay the situation on others who were losing business. They could not account for use of Chicago gangsters in making the threats. Garage operators, who received the letters, admitted they feared the threats. TWO INJURED IN CRASH Mother and Daughter Hurt When Car Collides With Truck. Cuts and bruises were incurred today by a mother and daughter, when the automobile driven by Mrs. Zella Steffey, 51, of 2110 West McCarty street, with her daughter Hazel, 12, as a passenger, collided with a truck in the 1100 block, Kentucky avenue. The crash occurred after Mrs. Steffey lost control of the car when it skidded in the street car tracks. Clay Morris, 41, Wilkerson, Ind., was the driver of the truck.

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