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BOY, 6, RUNS INTO AUTO, IS HURT FATALLY Motherless Victim Struck While Heeding Call of Grandmother. YOUNG SISTER PUZZLED Fails to Understand Why Brother Doesn’t Come Out to Play. Motherless. 6-year-oid Rov Stapleton Jr. heard his grandmother call him home to bed last

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night. He turned from his play and started a dash across the street to his home, 1213 West

Thirty-first street, not waiting to look for traffic. PYom behind a parked car he ran in the path of an automobile driven bv Dorman O. Bailey, 32, of 1132 West Thirty-first street. He was knocked down and injured fatally, dving early today in city hospital. His skull had been fractured and his left leg broken. Surviving are the child's father, Roy Stapleton; the grandfather and grandmother, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Davis, and 5-year-old sister, Jacqueline. The little sister today could not understand why Roy was not there to play with her, and with George Du Rane Holder. 10, of 1212 We ' Thirty-first street, their inseparable chum. It was George with whom Roy was playing last night when his grandmother called him. Roy's was the sixty-fourth traffic death in Marion county this year. Three otner cnuaren were hurt in traffic accidents yesterday. They were Burl Goin, 5, of 214 Detroit street; James Allen, 7, of 2309 Reformers avenue, and James Proctor, 9, Negro. 1519 North Capitol avenue. FAIR AND COOLER IS JULY 4 PREDICTION Rain Not to Disturb Antics of Young America. Fair weather will greet Indianapolis residents tomorrow when they lay aside their routine occupations for the annual Independence day celebration. Weather bureau reports indicate Young America will not have its fireworks dampened by rain. The forecast is for partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, and slightly cooler tomorrow. However, the weather bureau attaches hinted that the clouds will be scattered only, and the forecast of “slightly cooler" probably will mean only a few degrees cooler than today. CORONER NEAR FINISH OF CITY SLAYING QUIZ Brer Tavern Shooting Self-Defense, Arbuckle Indicates. Coroner William E. Arbuckle today prepared to conclude his investigation into the fatal shooting of Harry Clark. 46. of 443 South Lyndhurst drive, early Sunday in Charles Hale s beer tavern. 5320 West Washington street. Dr. Arbuckle indicated that he considered the shooting justifiable in self-defense, but said he would not be prepared to return a formal verdict for two or three days. Mr Clark was shot by Oscar Hale, 20, son of the tavern proprietor. ROOSEVELT'S CRUISER OFF DAYTONA BEACH President Ahead of Time on Vacation Trip to Haiti. B'l I —l'd /Vr* ABOARD U. S. S. GILMER. July 3 President Roosevelt, thoroughly emoving his relaxation, was ahead of schedule today when the U. S. S. Houston arrived off Daytona Beach, en route to Cape Haitien. The weather was perfect, the sea smooth, and all the susceptible personnel aboard the destroyers appeared to have recovered from early seasickness Times Index Page. Bridge Classified TO Comics IT Crossword Puzzle 9 Curious World IT Editorial * Financial 12 Hickman—Theaters 2 Hobby 0 Let s Go Fishing 2 Lippmann 5 Pegler 5 Radio 2 Serial Story 11 Sports 8. 9 State News 2 Vital Statistics. 20 Womans Pages 6. 7

SAFE AND SANE The holiday tomorrow is. as usual, packed with possibilities. Majority of these possibilities are for pleasure and comfort, but manv will point to injury and tragedy. The Times urges you to make the most of the dav—enjoy yourself to the limit. But do it safely, so that neither you nor your neighbor will pay the penalty of carelessness. An editorial on the subject appears today on Page 4.

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CHIEF DEMOTES DAN CUMMINGS Police Lieutenant Is Made Patrolman: Other Changes Are Ordered. Demotion of Lieutenant Daniel F. Cummings and Sergeant Wayne M. Bear to patrolmen, and promotion of Sergeant Noel A. Jones to a lieutenantcy, were announced today following a meeting of the safety board. Patrolmen Richard Rivers and Thomas McCormick were promoted to sergeantcies. The only reason given by Chief Mike Morrissey in recommending demotion of Cummings and Bear was “for the good of the service.” From other sources it was learned | that the reason may have been failure to cam - out certain orders. Chief Morrissey declined to amplify his "for the good of the servi ice - ’ statement, and also declined to 1 confirm reports that alleged politj ical activity and failure to close two gambling "joints" were bases for the demotions. The safety board also announced approval of rearranging police districts from fifty-nine to forty-seven. BANK GALLS ISSUED BY U. S. AND STATE Statements as of June 30 Asked in Orders. B’l I ni'ed Press WASHINGTON, July 3.—The j comptroller of the currency issued a i call for national bank statements as i of June 30 today. A call for the condition of state banks as of June 30 was issued today by the state banking department.

Hitler, Rather Than Roehm, Appears Headed for Monarchy

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Seripps-Howard Eoreira Editor Washington, July 3— Adoif Hitler, rather than Captain Ernst Roehm. Brown shirt chief of staff whom he ordered shot, appeared to be headed toward a monarchy. In Berlin, Wednesday. April 18, I attended a foreign office party in the Wilhelmstrasse. Captain Roehm was there and he made a little talk. He was introduced by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. who later was to stand at Hitlers side when Hitler ordered Roehm before the firing squad. A few feet from me and directly in front of Captain Roehm sat Prince August Wilhelm, son of the former kaiser and now reported under arrest. Present also were members of the diplomatic corps. In phrases filled with praise,

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Significantly, to this query, the reply of most of the Nazi enthusiasts is; "The purging of the party must go on until the last traitor is shot.” Nazi leaders, still considering the extent to which their punishment of rebels shall go, began today to count up the dead. Authorities were compiling a casualty list, promised for publication after cabinet approval, and sought final —or semi-final—reports from | the provinces. Deaths announced by the government or verified from authentic | sources included: General Kurt von Schleicher and his wife, "shot in resisting arrest.” Ernst Roehm, storm troop chief of staff, executed Sunday evening. Heinrich Klausener, Catholic action leader, shot in mysterious circumstances. Seven intimate coleaders of Roehm. executed Schneidhuber,, Heines, Ernst, Kavn, Schmid. Heidebrek and Sprete. Gregor Strasser, former Nazi lead- ' er, "suicide.” Hubert von Bose. Vice-Chancello-von Papen's secretary, “shot while | resisting search of the chancellery.”

In 1923. Adolf Hitler was an obscure Austrian house painter (1) just beginning to become prominent as an oratorical exhorter of a modest "Brown Shirt’ movement. His Brown Shirt membership began to grow as he continued feverish organization efforts with Josef Goebbels. an aid (2). The movement spread, gained force, and ten years later Hitler was replying to cheering tens of thousands from his Berlin hotel window (3). Scarcely more than ten years from his modest beginnings, this man was chancellor, and is shown <4) paying respects to venerable President Von Hindenburg (right) attended by Herman Goerring, another aid, now the premier of Prussia. Late last year came an ill omen when Hitler, laying the cornerstone for a new' Munich building, broke the hammer (5) with W'hich he was completing the ceremony. But early this year new' heights were reached when 2,000,000 Germans pledged allegiance to Hitler's regime in a gigantic ceremony at Berlin's Tempelhof airport (6). Only a few weeks, ago, Hitler made a hurried flight to Venice for secret conferences with Benito Mussolini, Italian Fascist leader (7) and there, it is believed, he received some pointed advice from the Italian dictator Today (8), victor over an insurgent faction. Adolf Hitler sits on the hot lid of a country that seethes with dissension and uncertainty. u a a nan ‘Every Traitor Must Be Killed, ’ Nazis Declare By United Press BERLIN, July 3.—Extraordinary tension in the streets of Berlin today was the only outward sign of the crisis through which the nation is passing and which has raised in every mind the question: "What will be Hitler's next move?”

Goebbels described Roehm as one of Hitler's most trusted lieutenants, and told how, since the fight in the Hofbrauhaus at Munich in 1921, where Roehm and forty-six Nazi 'police” held the field against 800 Marxists. Roehm had been one of the chosen few. nun Tj OEHM got up from his table and took his stand by a window. He was of massive build and ugly as a bulldog. "The Sturmabetelung (storm troops*,” he began, "are the champions of the will and idea of the National-Socialist revolution. “After November, 1918, the*governing parts of the Social Democrats ruled the streets. It controlled (he entire political life of Germany. It prevented with brutal force every enlightenment of the people, I '

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This is a revised version of his death, first announced as suicide. Alexander Glaser, Munich lawyer, and Karl Zehntner, Munich hotelman, executed. Nineteen storm troop leaders executed at Lichterfelde Cadet school here. Names have not been announced. The storm troop leader, Ernst, mentioned among Roehm's friends, was shot there also. Eight other unnamed storm troop leaders shot elsewhere. The shooting of three more prominent persons was reported today in reliable sources. They included Gustav von Kahr, Catholic leader in Munich; Colonel Von Bredow, former right-hand man of the late General Schleicher, one of the revolt leaders, and Edgar Jung, who wrote Vice-Chan-cellor Franz Von Papen's disputed Marburg speech, attacking radical Nazis. Jung and Kahr were executed. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 76 10 a. m 91 7 a. m 78 11 a. m 95 8 a. m 85 12 (noon).. 95 9 a. m 89 1 p. m 96

"If Adolf Hitler did not wish to give up all idea of presenting his ideas to the people, therefore, he had to meet force with force. For this purpose he founded a small troop of followers to protect his meetings in the early days of the movement.” It was after the Hofbrauhaus fight, Roehm reminded pridefully, that Hitler himself "rewarded” the little band that had defended him with the title "Sturmabteilung.” the now famous S. A. (pronounced Ess Ah> and of which Roehm, who helped create and built it up, was made chief of staff. "At the moment an S. A. puts on the brown shirt.” he explained proudly, "he submits himself, unreservedly to its laws, which are: First, obedience to the death of Adolf Hitler. Second, body and soul, life and possessions, all for Germany!” The true reason for the S. A.,

HUNT SUSPECT IN CITY SLAYING Kentuckian Is Implicated by Former Roommate in Chinese Death. Suspicion in the shooting yesterday of Tom Lee, 72, Chinese laundryman murdered by a customer in an argument over a shirt, today fell on a Kentuckian who previously had quarreled violently with another Chinese laundryman. Police were told of the man, whose first name is Matthew, by Aaron Pollard, 114 North Noble street, with whom the suspect had roomed. The only identification of the murderer yesterday was the name Matthews on a laundry ticket. Mr. Pollard told police that the suspect had threatened some time ago to “get” a laundryman named Sam Mays, w'hose place of business was said to be on Michigan street, after an argument similar to yesterday’s. He described the suspect as a heavy drinker. The murderer, who kidnaped two Indianapolis motorists in his flight, apparently made good his escape in the direction of Frankfort and Lafayette. Lee was accused by Matthews of returning only two shirts when three were due, according to witnesses. Lee's inability to speak English fluently also figured in the argument. Finally, Matthews demanded the third shirt, or 75 cents, only to meet with flat refusal. He fired. The two men who were forced to drive Matthews were H. K. Jones, 5914 Lowell avenue, who took the fugitive to the intersection of Michigan road and Kessler boulevard, and Howard F. Foltz, 3510 Washington boulevard, whose car was stolen by Matthews after Foltz had been forced to drive him to Lebanon. State police and authorities of Frankfort and Lebanon joined vainly in the hunt for Matthews.

said Roehm, was to protect Hitler’s ideas from Marxism on the one hand, and reaction on the other. But whiie they did not deceive themselves that Marxism is dead in Germany, he believed it was no longer a serious menace. tt n a PAUSING, Roehm lifted his eyes and looked in the direction of the Hohenzollern’s table. "Frequently,” he said, “the ideas reaction and monarchy are considered equivalent, although at bottom they have nothing to do with each other. But when reaction writes the word monarchy on its shield it is doing no service to the monarchical idea.” Prince August Wilhelm gazed at the tablecloth. "If the German people wished to give itself again an overlord.” Roehm pursued, “it would do it

NAZIS, EXECUTING MORE ‘REBELS,’ OPEN DRIVE TO OUST FRANZ VON PAPEN

raws MED NAZI revolt: LONDON HEARS Anti-Hitler Conspirators Dealt With Paris, Is Report. BY FREDERICK KUH United I’ress Start Correspondent (Copyright. 1934. bv United Press! LONDON, July 3.—Charges by the Hitler government that the late General Kurt von Schleicher and his fellow conspirators were dealing with an unnamed foreign power received substantiation today from the diplomatic representative of an important European power. “On the basis of sensational information now available,” he told the United Press, "the Schleicher conspiracy designed to overthrow Hitler had wide ramifications, and indications point to connections in France.” (Von Schleicher and his wife were slain in Berlin on Saturday while resisting arrest.) The official German version of the plot failed to name the nation alleged to have been involved, although the entire account was regarded as a thinly veiled reference to France. The report was ridiculed abroad, and the French government, after demanding that Hitler name the power, issued a; categorical denial of any association with the alleged cospirators. Journalist "Go-Between” The diplomat, who claims to have inside knowledge of the affair, however, goes so far as to claim that a "well-known German journalist in Paris acted as the go-between with Von Schleicher and the French authorities.” He believes that the revelation of this evidence induced the aged President Palu von Hindenburg, as a matter of patriotism and pride, to dispatch his telegrams to Hitler and General Herrmann Goering, condoning the wholesale executions in Germany and sanctioning the ruthless suppression of the "conspiracy.” As further evidence of French pre-knowledge of the conspirators’ plans, he pointed to the report that Foreign Minister Louis Barthou told the foreign minister of another European power in Geneva recently that France was unwilling to grant the Hitler government the arms concessions it demanded at the present stage of affairs, because the days of the Hitler regime were numbered. Named Von Schleicher The diplomat also charged “on reliable information” that Mr. Barthou had mentioned Von Schleicher, in confidence, as the ringleader of the group that would oust Hitler. He recalled, as well, that during the days of his own chancellorship, Von Schleicher conducted certain secret negotiations with the French general staff, and that he rapidly was approaching an understanding when he was forced to yield his chancellorship to Adolf Hitler. France Denies Plot By United Press PARIS, July 3.—The French government continued to insist today that "neither directly nor indirectly” did it have any connection with Kurt von Schleicher or with any other members of the anti-Hitler conspiracy. The government takes the attitude that Hitler's charges were laid for the purpose of inspiring mass support for his program of exterminating his enemies, and to furnish an excuse for the events of the last week-end. FAMED FILM ACTRESS HAS BURNING FEVER Marie Dressier Continues Fight Against Almost Certain Death. By United Press SANTA BARBARA, Cal., July 3. Despite a burning fever, Marie Dressier today continued her fight against almost certain death. Hundreds of letters and telegrams continued to pour in upon the 65-year-old actress, who is suffering from a complication of diseases.

against, rather than on behalf of, the reactionaries. Anyhow I believe this: The German imperial crown lies on the battlefield and I doubt whether the German people wishes to fight for it there.” The prince's face became a tragic mask. A friend nudged him jibingly. He stirred, turned and smiled wanly, Roehm, I am convinced, was a Hitler fanatic, a Hitlerite who faced the firing squad still believing all the wild things Hitler used to bellow from the stump. An immoral monster, if you will, but loyal to his old buddy. u u n PERHAPS it is Hitler who is changing and who finds his old intimates embarrassing. Unquestionably. he has veered greatly to the right.

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Hitler Will Fly to Von Hindenburg’s Home to Get President’s Consent to Accept Resignation of Vice-Chancellor. DENY DEATH TOLL IS PAST FIFTY] Scattering of Brown Shirt Army Is One of Problems Facing Chieftains; Citizenry Confused, Fearful. BY FREDERICK OECHSNER United Press Start Correspondent (Copyright. 1934. bv United Press! BERLIN, July 3.—The crisis in the Nazi party reached a climax tonight in a forceful drive to remove Vice-Chancellor Franz von Tapen, confidant of President Paul von Hindenburg and spokesman for the conservative elements in the government. Von Papen, it was learned, submitted his resignation for the second time in the last eventful week. Hitler prepared to go to Neubeck, Hindenburg’s retreat in East Prussia, to get the President’s permission to accept the vice-cnancellors resignation. The cabinet held a three-hour session today and decided on Von Papen’s political fate. It will meet again tomorrow. In view of the necessity for his presence, it was assumed that Hitler would fly to Neudeck and back.

The cabinet appeared convinced that it held the whiphand in Germany and that the revolt was over. This ’ was expressed in a decree by Hitler announcing that further violations of the government’s decree suppressing the revolt would be dealt with in the ordinary courts. The new decree said: “Measures for suppression of the Roehm revolt were concluded on July 1. He who on his own initiative is guilty of any act of violence in the course of this action, regardless of his intentions, will henceforth be handed over to normal justice for prosecution.” (Signed) ADOLF HITLER.” More Are Executed The term "course of this action” refers to the violent measures adopted by the government to suppress the revolt. With the estimated death toll of the revolt standing at probably fifty, several new executions were revealed today. They included Gustav von Kahr, Catholic leader in Muniich, who was one of the leaders in suppressing Hitler’s “beer hall putsch’’ there in 1923 —the first outbreak of the Nazi revolution. It was Kahr who gave the order to fire on the beer hall plotters. Another to die was Edgar Jung, an assistant of Von Papen's, who wrote his Marburg speech attacking the radical Nazi elements, starting the present crisis. The third was Colonel Von Bredow, former right hand man of the late General Kurt von Schleicher, one of the revolt leaders who also was executed. Communique Is Issued A communique issued after today’s cabinet meeting announced the passage of the law legalizing the emergency measures undertaken for suppression of the “treacherous 2,” on the grounds that the meas--22,” on the grounds that the measures were essential for protection of the state. The communique added: "At today’s session of the cabinet, Chancellor Hitler gave an extensive resume of the origin of the traitorous attacks and their suppression. He emphasized that lightning-like action was necessary to avert the danger of destruction of thousands of lives.” The aftermath of the bloody Nazi housecleaning continued. There still were occasional executions and sporadic incidents of dramatic nature as new suspects were seized. At 6:30 a. m. today Dr. Ernst Falckner, United Press correspondent at Munich, was awakened by two Bavarian political police officers. They searched his apartment without explanation and forced him to accompany them. He later was released. There was a stream of Nazi storm troop leaders, suspected of disloyalty or suspicious of victimization, toward the frontiers. But more important to the immediate future of this nation of 65,000,000 politically conscious people

Today Germany is almost a military dictatorship with Hitler for a facade. The reichswehr, middle-class Germany's shield, is behind him and protecting him from his own brown shirts which Roehm commanded. If it is true that Roehm was on the point of marching on Berlin, as claimed, it was hardly in order to set up a monarchy. More probably it was because he had become convinced that Hitler himself was swinging toward the right, perhaps toward the monarchy, and thus was betraying the cause. Had Roehm succeeded, Germany likely would have swung toward the left—not toward Communism, but toward Socialism, which Roehm preferred rather than the monarchy.

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loomed the goal toward which Hitler and his aids would point their third reich. The following were some of the problems which the cabinet must decide: 1. The length to which the cleansing of the Nazi household should go —a reign of terror or an amnesty reorganization of the cabinet and the storm troop organization. 2. The political futures of Von Papen, and Herman Goering, minister of aviation. 3. The future approach to th Jewish problem. 4. The policy to be adopted toward the Catholics and the nonNazi Evangelical churchmen. 5. Action to deal with an economic and financial situation so serious that had it not been for the Nazt party crisis, the world’s attention would been drawn to it. Citizenry Is Fearful To Germans, ill informed, somewhat fearful, and completely confused, these were problems of the moment* None knew when a relative or a friend might come under the attention of the political police or the SS, the crack black uniformed picked men of the storm troops, 100.000 in number. The newspapers, under close repressive control, gave no picture of the sanguinary end of the first period of the third reich and the dawn of the second one. Nazi propaganda busied itself with explaining the week-end revolt and minimizing it. The keynote of the explanation was shown clearly at a monster demonstration last night at Essen, in the heart of the industrial district. Swear Loyalty to Hitler Several hundred thousand persons, formed in six big squares, including storm troopers on their one month enforced vacation, the SS men, Nazi political organizations and townspeople, met to swear allegiance to Hitler. Each speaker tried to make it clear that there had been no mutiny of storm troops—that there had been a few "criminals” in th ranks who were removed. It seemed likely that even if the cabinet did issue the promised list of “removals,” the total would not be final. Goering seemed emerging as a mysterious superpower. It was known that Hitler hesitated io proceed against those recreant comrades who precipitated the revolt. Goering displayed no hesitation. He acted with stern and merciless determination to cleanse the Nazis. Yet he is of the moderate element politically, and the second phase of the Nazi movement, it was indicated, might be of less radical nature. France Is Alarmed By United Preen PARIS, July 3—Events in Germany caused the French high command and the chamber of deputies army commission to make a thorough study today of the disposition of France’s protective troops along the German border. Deputy Taittinger, speaking before the commission, declared that the incidents of the last week show that France must take all precautions against a possible sudden mobilization across the border. POLICE GET HOLDUP TIP South Bend Bank Guarded Against Repetition of Robbery. By United Preen SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 3.—Special guards were thrown aroun4 South Bend banks today after polio# were tipped that a bank would bf held up here or in this vicinity.

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