Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 292, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1933 — Page 3

'APRIL 17, 1933

INDIAN FRIEND IS NAMED TO HEAD BUREAU John Collier Selection Is First Change in Interior Office Shakeup. BY MAX STERN Times Special Writer WASHINGTON. April 17—The selection of John Collier of California as the new commissioner of Indian affairs makes not only a change in administration of the much-criticised bureau, but is said to be the first signal of a general shake-up in the big interior department. Mr. Collier's incumbency of the Indian affairs bureau will be unique in that he comes as an advocate for the government's 200,000 Indian wards. As executive secretary of the Indian Defense Association, he has battled for the Indians for thirteen years. While paying a high tribute to the retiring commissioner, Charles J. Rhoads, for "uprightness of character, ability and single-hearted desire to serve,” Interior Secretary Ickes declared also that Collier "is ; the best-equipped man ever to have occupied that office.'’ The Collier appointment, in line with that of solicitor Nathan Margold, is to be followed by others of | equal importance in the interior de- j part men t Mentioned prominently as Ickes’ j assistant is Theodore Walters of Boise City, ex-attorney-general of Idaho, He is a friend of Senator Borah, As assistant secretary three names are said to be under consideration—those of Oscar Chapman of Colo- j rado, Harry Mitchell of Montana i and Charles Eliot of Washington. Dr. Elwood Mead of California may remain as head of the reclamation bureau. A number of prominent western senators of both parties have urged his retention in view of his faithful service to western irrigation through forty years. Mentioned as successor for the post, of commissioner of education is Dr. J. P. Zimmerman, president of the University of New Mexico. LEGION AERIAL ROUNDUP OF MEMBERSHIP SET Seven Planes Will Pe I'srri in Indiana Division of National Drive. Seven planes will be used in In- : diana April 29 and 30 as a part of j a national aerial roundup of American Legion membership cards and dues which will be tabulated in time for presentation at r meeting of the Legion's national executive committee in the headquarters here on May 1. Legion organizations of all states arc preparing to have cards and ! dues at central points to be picked j up by planes in the roundup. A dinner will be one of the features of the two-day campaign. Orville Wright of Dayton, 0., i first man to fly a plane, has tentatively accepted an invitation to be j the honored guest.

SHOTGUN STOLEN FROM POLICE CAR: 2 HELD Taken While Officers Are Probins Roomins House Fight. Larry Meyers, 28, of 1315 East Washington street, is in city prison today, charged with vagrancy, petit larceny and resisting an officer, after he is alleged to have stolen a sawed-ofT shotgun from a police car. The theft is alleged to have occurred when patrolmen Richard Rivers and Thomas McCormick were making an investigation of a reported fight at a rooming house at 2117 North Talbot street. Caught with Meyer was Larry Carver, 25. who is alleged to have had the fight with Nellie Bitroff, the rooming house operator. Rivers and McCormick found the shotgun hidden in an alley near Twentyfirst and Talbot streets. JOURNALISTS TO DINE Sigma Delta Chi in Hold Annual Founders’ Day Banquet. Local newspaper men. alumni, and undergraduate members of Sigma Delta Chi. national journalistic fraternity. will hold the annual Founders day dinner of the organization at 6 tonight in the Washington Meredith Nicholson. Indiana author and former local newspaper man. and Talcott Powell, editor of The Times, will speak. E. J. Cadou. president of the local alumni chap- i ter, will preside. Representatives from college chapters in the state will attend. Reservations have been received from chapters at Butler. Indiana. De Pauw and Purdue universities. The fraternity was founded at De Pauw university and later became international in scope. POLICEMAN IS INJURED Legs Slashed in Making Arrest; Thirteen Stitches Are Taken. Radio Patrolman George Liese | was cut on the legs Sunday night when he and patrolman Everett Steele arrested three Ft. Harrison 1 soldiers. v ! Thirteen stitches were taken n Liese's log after he knocked down James Day. 27. who is charged with drawing a deadly weapon, assault and battery with intent to kill, \agrancy, drunkenness aand resisting an officer. Alexander Aubert, 37. and Leonard Watkins, 24. Day* companions, are charged with vagrancy. Liese and Steele stopped the three soldiers at Thirty-fourth street and Euclid avenue to question vh?m. and Day is alleged to have struck at Liese. After he knocked Day down. Liese said, the soldier drew a knife while on the ground and slashed him. Legion Opens Membership Drive Twelfth district of the American Legion will start an intensive membership drive today, ending with the state aerial drive. April 30. Otto Ray, district commander, announced. Masona to Hold Practice Ancient Landmarks lodge No. 319. Free and Accepted Masons, will hold a craft practice at 7:30 tonight in the Masonic temple, North and 1111- j nois streets. The social room will j be open. *

Jewish Boycott Is Costly to Business, Frankfort Discovers

When Nazi troops rounded up Jewish residents of Chemnitz, and forced them to clean streets and whitewash wails before jeering crowds, one of their number, Gernard Kuhnt, rebelled. This photo, brought secretly out of Germany to Czecho-Slovakia, and just arrived in America, shows Kuhnt being paraded through the town in a garbage wagon under Nazi escort.

All Lines of Trade Hurt by Ban: Nazi Bands and Troops Throng City. Here is the first of a series of stories that take Times readers behind the confusing political scenes in the Reich and give an impartial, accurate account of th stringent Hitlerist rule as it affects the German-in-the-street. These articles will record the result of Milton Bronner's observations during a ten-dav tour of Germany. BY MILTON BROWER NEA Service Writer LONDON, April 17.—Jew. Anew German unity. Jew. Anew place in the sun. Jew. bands, parades, and flying Swastika banners. Rumors. Censored newspapers. More rumors. Jew. The usual German courtesy to a foreign traveler. A growing, though unspoken uneasiness, as to the economic effects of the war on Jews, for though the actual boycott lasted but one day, a steady, relentless drive continues in Germany which, if successful, will render some 600.000 people without a country. Such is the Germany of Adolf Htler, as observed on a swing through four principal cities. Business Is Blocked “JEW.” It appeared in large black letters on a yellow' placard. It was pasted on the window of a tiny vegetable shop on an abscure street in Frankfort, where I arrived on April 1, boycott day. It might almost have been a cruel April Fool joke. But it wasn't, for in that shop a Jewish widow with four children was trying to eke ~ut

Kidnapers Members of Rum Mob , Lawyer Thinks Abductors Seasoned Racketeers, Is Belief of Arthur Jones: Tells of Experience. Arthur J. Jones, prominent attorney and former Buckncll and Butler college football player, rehearsed his expeii.ncj of • c .. and.: -y three armed thugs to detectives at ccfice headquarters today. He was robbed of $lO6 and an automobile v. rich was found Saturday noon. Still so nervous that he neither can sleen nor attend his law practice. Jones told The Times he is convinced his kidnapers were members of an organized rum-running mob.

140,000 AT EASIER CHURCH RITES HERE Attendance Increase Over Last Lear. Is Report. Church attendance in Indianapolis Sunday showed a decided increase over last year's Easter services, according to estimates today by Dr. Ernest N. Evans, executive secretary of the Church Federation. The attendance in Sunday schools reached 25.000. while approximately 140.000 people were present at various church services throughout the city, he said. Attendance at Disciples of Christ churches totaled about 45.000, Evans said. In the thirty-two Baptist churches in the city there was an j estimate of 28.000. and Roman | Catholic churches of the city had an attendance of more than thirty j thousand persons. Exact fiures on \ church attendance will not be pos- j sible for several days, accojding to officials. DOCTORS HOLD FATHER Suicide Believed Attempted After Talk With Estranged Wife. Clarence Wrightsman. 31. Greenwood. is held today in city hospital on a vagrancy charge while an effort is being made to determine if he is suffering from effects of poison swallowed with suicidal intent. Deputy sheriffs arrested Wrightsman. father of four children, who is; estranged from his wife, at the 1 home of his father-in-law, Bennett Wise, in Sunshine Gardens. Wrightsman is said to have been in a hysterical condition, and to have told his wife; “The next time you see me will be the last time.” TAX LAW TO BE TOPIC Meeting Will Be Held Tonight by City's Attorneys. Law Society of Indianapolis in the Indiana Law School has invited Marion county attorneys and persons interested in the new Indiana intangibles tax act to attend a meeting in the Indiana law school tonight. Edward Barce. assistant attorney-general, who has made a detailed study of the tax law, will speak. A round table discussion will fol- j low. it was announced by James Jay, president of the school. i

a living. And just now business was very bad indeed. Two hefty Nazi Brown Shirts saw to that. Armed with revolvers they guarded the door and warned away all would-be customers. Other guards stood at ease along the curb. This was the first glimpse of the Hitler action which in one stroke turned back the clock more than a hundred years to the tim~ when the Jews of Frankfort were compelled to live in the Ghetto, were locked up every night and were forced to wear yellow gaberdines, indicative of their race. Walls Broken by Napoleon The Ghetto walls were toppled by Napoleon and the Jews began to live outside, contributing greatly to the town's importance as a banking and business center The Rothschilds, as well as many families whose descendants played a big part in American banking and business, originally came from Frankfort. I wandered about the town. I saw no one arrested, or attacked. No windows were bioken. Iron discipline prevailed. The Nazi leaders had passed down the word to remember that if windows were broken and property damaged, it would be the German insurance companies, not the Jew’s, who would have to pay. So the Jewish merchants showed confidence that the Hitlerites could control their followers when they desired. Shows Jewish Power Though the shops were closed, the show window's were left full of expensive goods which would have been excellent plunder for looters.

From grim snatches of conversation between the gangsters while they drove for more than 300 miles with their guns leveled on him constantly. Jones said he gathered that his abductors were seasoned racketeers and had selected him as a victim because he was driving an expensive make of car. “I had just gotten into my car at Sixteenth and Pennsylvania streets, Friday night.” said Jones, "when three men suddenly jufnped on the running board. It was raining hard and I could not see their features. ‘“Get into tht s-at end be damn quick about it!’ one of them said. ’1 obeyed. I’ve often thought if I ever were robbed Id put up a fight. But there was something so menacing and business-like about those three that I just did as they told me. “They took this soft hat and pulled it down over my eyes. I only could see the floor of the car and, occasionally, by feigning sleep or I leaning over a bit, I could catch a | glimpse of the bandits. They all switched to caps when they started driving. Jones related how the robbers once had remarked that they were “passing through Mooresville." He also recognized hills approaching Bloomington. South of Bloomington. Jones said cne of the bandits shouted: “That's one of our fleet. He's got a big lead." Further another car followed close behind Jones' automobile, he said. The bandits, said Jones, thought they were being pursued. The driver, who had had a 45-caliber automatic, wanted to fire at the car behind. but his companions restrained I him. “Finally.” said Jones, “we got to a large brick building. It either was a church or a school. I was led to the basement where they stripped me. I had a SIOO in a secret pocket inside my trousers. They found that and $6 in my pocket. They were disgusted because I was carrying a dollar watch. \ “On the long drive back, the trio was just as silent. No one said a word until the car finally stopped here. Then all three warned me that I would be bumped off' if I told the police. The car was found later, but it wasn't at East and McCarthy streets where they said it would be left.” Pythian Lodge to Entertain Capitol City lodge No. 97. Knights of Pythias, will entertain members and their friends Tuesday night in the lodge rooms. 612 East Thirteenth street. Fred Martin, chairman of the entertainment committee, is in charge of arrangements.

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The one day boycott revealed in | Frankfort, at least, the immense | role Jewish business plays in that I town. The leading shopping streets , were dead. The Jewish owners chose to close their stores rather than be humili- | ated by the offensive yellow placards which the Nazi guards were ready to place upon any establishment seeking to do business, j It w'as a great day for the Nazi i guards. The streets were filled with ! the troopers, pistols on hip, swaggering through the streets. Others dashed about on motorcycles, on bicycles and in motor lorries. Nazi Band Plays On Goethe Platz, in the heart of the town, a Nazi band played Nazi airs. As the day wore on. the streets became crowded with curious sightseers, out to see what would happen to the Jewish ‘•hops. Few Jews, how'ever, w ? ere to be seen. The following morning the Sabbatical quiet was broken oy the booming of a Nazi band, which headed a parade of 500 Nazi troopers w’ho goose-stepped through the town. The Swastika flag flew everywhere. With the boycott day over, the next step was the appearance of pacards announcing certain shops as racially pure German. Meanwhile, among the saddest people in Frankfort, w'ere the hotel keepers. Their lobbies were deserted and their rooms empty. There were no Jewish and few foreign travelers. Business already was in a bad w'ay and the W'ar on Jew's has not helped. Next: Mr. Bronner tells of his visit to Leipzig, one of the greatest fur markets of the world.

FIRE FORCE OPENS CLEANUP CAMPAIGN Parade Is Staged: Inspectors Go to Work. The city fire department today inaugurated its own modernization campaign a week in advance of the chamber of commerce’s similar project, by staging a parade from headquarters to Monument Circle, where thirty inspectors from the fire prevention bureau were dispatched to various sections of the city. Under direction of Bernard Lynch, fire prevention bureau head, and Fred V. Kinney, acting fire chief, the inspectors will make recommendations on all fire hazards and dilapidated buildings. They will direct some be torn down and others repaired and put into condition for occupany. Piles of rubbish and debris will Oe ordered removed and the city street department, under direction of Commissioner Wilbur Winship, will co-operate by prompt collection of rubbish placed in containers at the rear of the property. PERSECUTION IS DENIED Illegal Acts Against Jewish anil Communist Subjects Held False. Denial that Jewish people and Communists are being persecuted in Germany is contained in a letter make public today by Charles G N. Geider. supreme secretary of the United Ancient Order of Druids. The letter, dated at Harburg. Germany, is signed by Hugo Wiese and Ernest Meyer, officials of the imperial lodge of Druids in Germany. “The German Druids assure their brother Druids in all the world that no illegal acts of any kind will be suffered by the new German government to be committed against Jewish or any other German subjects.” the letter asserts.

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RAILWAY CZAR PLAN PROVING HARD PROBLEM Roosevelt Advisers Facing Dilemma on How to Carry Out Program. • B 1 MARSHALL M'NEIL Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 17.—President Roosevelt's railroad advisors are in a dilemma on how to carry out the administration's plan for appointment of a co-ordinator to eliminate waste among the carriers. They have been told the coordinator's orders should be reviewable by the interstate commerce commission, or else neither the railroads, labor nor shippers will have any recourse to a public tribunal. But this would lengthen procedure. and some think lose for the plan all its pow r er to help railroads in their present financial distress. Actual Czar Sought They also have been told the coordinator should be an actual “czar,” w'hose orders must be carried out immediately without review anywhere, but this may be unconstitutional. Those drafting the plans w'ere to confer again today, and unless they are able to settle their difficulties sooner than expected, the presentation of the Roosevelt bill to congress will be delayed. There is said to have been a tentative agreement for further R. F. C. loans to railroads to be conditioned upon financial reorganizations of the borrowers, where | necessary. But difficulty is being experienced here, too, in drafting language which actually will result in what President Roosevelt said he sought: j Reduction of "topheavy” financial structures. Labor Has Its Say There is question, also, on; whether the proposed co-ordinator can be empowered to make the carriers undertake large rehabilitation programs. This is sought by organized railw'ay labor, which insists that “economies” will throw men out of work, that this is utter waste and not economy, and that to offset this more jobs must be made by railroads improving their plants. Finally, there seems to be some disagreement about how far the proposed bill shall go in setting aside the anti-trust laws while the national railroad plant is being coordinated.

LEADERS SPUR JOB AID DRIVE Thousands Expected to Get Wopk in Modernization Campaign Here. With the city-wide modernization campaign scheduled to begin Saturday, property owners today are planning repairing of homes, factories and other buildings. Leaders expect the drive, from April 22 to May 5. to provide several thousand jobs, stimulate business and increase pay rolls. The project will be discussed by Governor Paul V. McNutt over station WFBM at 6:15 Wednesday night. Louis J. Borinstein, campaign chairman, will speak over WFBM at 6:15 p. m. Tuesday night. Lieutenant-Colonel Albert H. Whitcomb, Thirty-eighth division adjutant, has been named grand marshal of the parade which will open the campaign at noon Saturday. He will be assisted by Capt. YAiliam R. Kester, according to Wallace O. Lee, parade chairman. Four district meetings for volunteer campaign workers are scheduled this week. District C, headed by Elbert Glass and Earl Lowe, will meet at 7:45 Tuesday night at the Brookside community house. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan will be one of the speakers. Workers of District I, led by Russell Etter and L. G. Ferguson, will meet at the Columbia Club at 7:30 Tuesday night. Two meetings will be held at the Columbia Club Wednesday night for Districts A and J. Otis Logan and Fred C. Tucker lead District A, and Ted C. Brown. J. Perry Meek and J. Frank Holmes are colonels of District J. 8 SCOUTS TO EUROPE Youths Will Go With F. O. Belzer to Budapest Jamboree in August. Eight local Boy Scouts will be selected soon to accompany F. O. Belzer, Scout executive, to the International Scout jamboree, to be held in Budapest, Hungary. Aug. 2 to 15. Tentative plans are that Belzer and the local Scouts will embark for Liverpool, England, from Montreal, Canada. July 7. The party will visit historic places in England, Holland. Germany and France.

Nazis Torture Prisoners , Charge of Czech Author Captives Slugged. Tongues Twisted Out of Place by Guards, Noted Writer, Given Liberty, Says.

(Continued From Page One) is an old man and had been ill before his arrest. He was standing quietly in a corner. "As Lewetzow saw him standing with his head down, he walked up to him and shouted: “‘l’ll teach you to stand at attention before me!’ "Two police officers then seized Herr Russbilt. handcuffed him and hurried him from the room. Kept in Handcuffs “He was placed in a dark room by himself and kept there in handcuffs for the remainder of the day, until he was taken to prison. "In Spandau I was not treated badly, but I heard some terrible stories from other prisoners about the torture they had endured before being brought to the Berlin police headquarters. “Most of them were taken from their beds at night and dragged to the Nazi barracks, where they were assaulted repeatedly, according to their stories, and their wounds seemed to prove these stories true.” “Where,” asks Kisch. "is Lili Eisner, the daughter of Kurt Eisner, the veteran of the revolution? She was arrested, and no one seems to have seen her since. "Thaelmann. the Communist leader, and many of the others have been discovered unhurt in various prisons,, but what have they done to Lili Eisner?” Notables Are Arrested Kisch was released after a fortnight in prison, whether by represensations of the Czecho-Slovakian government or powerful friends in Berlin, he has not been able to learn. He says among those arrested at the same time were some of the best-known lawyers in Berlin, most of them Jews. Included among these | were Dr. Apfel, Dr. Barwasch and! Dr. Litten, three of the leading! members of the German bar. All have been released subse-j quently, according to reports from Berlin. Another is Heinz Pol, a reporter 1

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; of the Vossische Zeitung. one of j the principal newspapers in Geri many. According to Pol, the police came for him at his apartment on the third floor of a Berlin apartment house. As he left the door of his apartment with the police. Pol says he saw a double line ol men on the stairs. They were in Nazi uniform, and each man carried a short club, or rubber truncheon. Pol says this double line of Nazis extended to the street floor on the ground. He was compelled, according to his story, to run the gantlet between these armed men. who jabbed and punched at him on every step, until he fell bleeding and exhausted at the street door. There, he says, a conveyance waited to take him to prison, where he lay for nine days with injuries to his head, back and arms. He was not tried and no charge was preferred against him. Kisch and the few others who have been willing to talk say that in most cases prisoners were not brought out for any kind of trial, but held in prison without being charged with any definite offense. ° BAPTISTS WILL ELECT Marion County Representatives to Hold Meeting Tonight. Representatives of Marion county Batist churches will hold the! annual election of officers at 7:30, tonight in the Woodruff Place Baptist church, East Michigan and Walcott streets. The election will include all positions on the executive commit- j tee. Present officers are: Eugene ; C. Foster, president; Charles O. Lawler, vice-president; Warren M. Bruner, secretary, and Thomas C. ' Osborne, treasurer. The Rev. Clive McGuire, who is closing his fourth year as executive | secretary, will report on activities j of the last year, and outline plans j for a program of evangelism, enlist-1 ment and training for the churches ! for the year.

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MAYOR BATTLE BLOCKS PAY OF CITY EMPLOYES 300 at Anderson Must Award BaldwinTruce to Get Money. | By Ttmr Special ANDERSON. Ind.. April 17Three hundred employes of the city ! of Anderson are without pay today j because of the battle between Mayor ! Harry R. Baldwin and Jesse H Mel* | lett, who seeks to regain the mayoralty. Taking a stand against being involved in the loeal political wrangle, Walter Jones, Madison county treasurer. Saturday afternoon refused to countersign $15,000 worth of pay checks. It was the semi-monthly payment for the city employes. Several days ago. when Mellett I first sought to be reinstated as i mayor, an agreement was supposed i to have been made between Baldwin and Mellett forces for meeting the pay roll Saturday but not on May 1. This agreement fell through, apparently, before Mellett filed the quo warranto suit in circuit court here charging Baldwin obtained the office through fraud. Lost and Found ads cost but 3 cents a word. Call Ri. 5551. Grandma Walks Upstairs Without Suffering Pain Quick Acting Nurito Enables Her to Enjoy Life Again For surprisingly quick relief from the cruel pain of rheumatism, neuralgia, lumbago, neuritis and other torturing aches and pains, simply take two or three doses of Nurito. This amazingly fast relief, a doctor s prescription, can now be had at drug stores everywhere. Nurito contains no opiates, no narcotics or no heart deterrent and is absolutely harmless. If you want to feel again the joy of living, banish needless pain that prevents sound sleep get Nurito at once. If the very first three doses of Nurito do not stop the most intense pain, even of many years’ standing—your money will be refunded. Ask your druggist for Nurito on this positive money back guarantee. NURITO for NEURITIS Pain At all druggists and HAAG Drug Stores. Advertisement.