Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 66, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1934 — Page 1

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NEW NAZI UPRISING IS FRUSTRATED

SOLDIERS TIGHTEN MILITARY GRIP ON MINNEAPOLIS AREA Modified Press Censorship Forbidding Criticism of State and Troops Included in Rules Governing Citizens. 4,000 GUARDSMEN PATROL STREETS Court-Martial and Punishment Without Benefit of Appeal Face Violators; Mediation Efforts Continue. By ( tntr4 Press MINNEAPOLIS, July 27.—The rule of a military dictatorship tightened over Minneapolis today, restricting the freedom of the press, business, and movement of citizens. A modified press censorship was enforced by AdjutantGeneral F.llard A. Walsh, veteran officer of the Minnesota national guard and military ruler of .700,000 Minneapolis citizens, under orders of Governor R. Olson.

Nearly 4,000 national guardsmen, lielmeted and bayonet led for instant enforcement of a drastic set of “military orders for citizens carried out orders with military thoroughness. Trurk loads of guardsmen. Runs gleaming in thf sun. rumbled ih rough ihe streets; squad cars bearing military officers careened through the strangely quiet business section. Officers, orderlies and messengers streamed in and out of base headquarters. a few blocks from the scene of rioting in which fifty-one persons were shot and slugged by police a week ago. There was a wartime grimness on their boyish faces. General Walsh and his headquarters staff issued orders with the rapidity of a sputtering machine gun. Back of those orders was the stern warning that “we mean what we say.” Court martial and military punishment fare violators of the lengthy set of orders. Pres Censorship Order Newspapers published under a modified censorship that included press associations’ transmission of news. General Walsh did not. however. place censors in news offices, saying the "orders speak for themselves.” Subsection 2 of Section 12 of the "military orders to citizens, affecting the press said: "It shall be unlawful . . to print, post or distribute by any means, publish or transmit within the said prescribed area 'Minneapolis. Hennepin county and portions or St. Pauli notices, bills, documents or newspapers defaming the state of Minnesota or any members of the Minnesota national guard in the field.” Trial for violators would be before a military court, from which there is no appeal. Cleanup squads of militia roared away from base headquarters in the loop with orders to disperse pickets reported to be stopping trucks. Frequently the pickets had disappeared when the guardsmen arrived. There was no show of resistance. Mediation Efforts Continue Meanwhile federal mediators continued efforts to end the eleven-day-old strike of the general truck drivers and helpers union claiming a membership of 7.000 workers in Minneapolis. Father Francis J Haas, one of the mediators, appealed again for employers’ reconsideration of their refusal yesterday to accept a peace plan proposed bv the conciliators and barked bv an ultimatum from Governor Olson. The plan was sponsored by. or at least had the approval of. the national labor relations board and the department of labor in Washington. Governor Olson declared martial law at the expiration of his twenty-four-hour ultimatum, demanding unqualified acceptance.

WIDOW TO BE INDICTED IN KILLING. JUDGE SAYS Court Refuses to Reduce Bail for Mrs. Pearson Mrs. Ethel Pearson, widow of Alfred C. (Dan> Pearson, murdered Beech Grove farmer, will be indicted by the grand jury in the immediate future. Municipal Judge Dewey Myers indicated today in continuing her vagrancy case until Wednesday. Mrs. Pearson, in a purported confession. has admued clandestine intimate relations with William Williams. missing farm hand. who. she said, murdered her husband. Judge Myers refused to reduce the $5 000 bond because he said he had information that the grand jury would indict Mrs. Pearson before Aug. 1. Hoarly Temperatures 5 a m 73 10 a. m 81 6a. in..... 74 11 a. m 82 T ft. m 78 12 tnoon'.. 83 8 a. m..... 76 1 p. m 83 • a. m..... 80

The Indianapolis Times Unsettled tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy; not much change in temperature.

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SHOWERS BRING COOL WEATHER More Rain Predicted as Mercury Continues to Drop. With dark clouds forecasting the possibility of further rains and a decided drop in temperature, comparatively cool weather was back today after a week's heat wave in which 100-degree temperatures became rommonplace. At 12:30 today the temperature was 83 degrees. 11 degrees lower than the mercury at the same time yesterday. The low pressure field which held Indianapolis in the grip of terrific heat had moved eastward. Last night the city slept comfortably for the first time in a week. The forecast for tonight and tomorrow is for unsettled conditions. George Manz. 60. of 3909 Station street, died today of heat exhaustion in city hospital as the result of prostration Tuesday. Rain fell sporadically late yesterday afternoon and last night, shoving the temperature down steadilv from 97.8 degrees at 2:15 p. m. to 81 at 8 p. m. A high wind and thunder and lightning accompanied the rain causing slight damage. Homes at 1474 and 1466 North Drexel avenue suffered SSO damage each from lightning. High tension wires were blown down at Sixtieth street and College avenue and trees blocked traffic at Fortieth street and Guilford avenue Approximately .09 inch of rainfall had fell yesterday afternoon, last night and early Fliday. Two heat fatalities were reported yesterday. The* were Mrs. Mary Stevens. 71. of 729’- Massachusetts avenue, and Miss Olga Buettner. St. Louis (Mo.> stenographer. Charley Sisloff. 73. of 350 1 East Washington street, former secretary to Martin Hyland, ex-police chief, was reported critically ill in city hospital today from heat exhaustion. Escaped Prisoner Captured A V I nit> it Pres* MICHIGAN CITY. Ind., July 27. Fscaping from Sheriff Frank C. Hattery. Noblesville. while en route to the state prison. Joe Earlvwine. 33. was captured a few minutes later today by Thomas Dean. Michigan City policeman.

8 Children Are Killed by Connecticut Freight Train

Youngsters. Returning From Swim. Crushed as They Stop to Play Cards on Track: Whole City Mourns. By Chi fed Press SHELTON. Conn.. July 27.—The tragic details of how eight children were crushed to death by a freight locomotive were pieced together byauthorities today while this entire factory city mourned the dead.

Bodies of the victims, most mutilated beyond recognition, were identified last night after a laborious process of elimination in which hundreds of hysterical mothers joined. Many fainted when the complete death list finally was announced. The victims were: George Rumble. 15: Ruth. 12. and Charles Bierwith, 14; John. 12. and Joseph Gentile. 14; Stephen Ratkewich. 7; Joseph Dzwonzik, 14. and Carl Hoffman. 15. Although there were no witnesses, authorities succeeded in reconstructing the tragedy. The children, all of whom had been swimming in the Housatonic nver. Stopped on their way home to supper to play cards on a railroad embankment directly opposite the finish line of the Yale regatta course. They were sitting on the westbound track.

NEW PLOT TO SEIZE CHANCELLORY BALKED BY AUSTRIAN FORCES

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Key point of the Nazi uprising in Austria, in which Chancellor Englebert Dollfuss was slain, was the chancellory in Vienna, shown in this picture telephotoed from Vienna to London and then radioed to New York. It was at the chancellory where the government today frustrated another desperate attack plot by the Nazis. Near the entrance of the chancellory in this picture is an armored car, manned by police prepared to storm the structure during the period it was held by the Nazis.

Case Before New Board Involves Real Silk Issue

Precedent Expected in Ruling Affecting Firm That Wants to Deal With Two Unions. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer. WASHINGTON. July 27—Whether the “majority rule” decision of the old NRA labor board, which keeps the company union in control at the Real Silk Hosiery mills, will be followed by the new national labor relations board will be decided shortly, Lloyd Garrison, board secretary,

‘TWO PER CENT CLUB' ABSOLVED BV U. S. Probe Reveals Nothing Wrong, Says CCC Head. Ba linn * Bper in l WASHINGTON, July 27.— Charges that the famous Two Per Cent Club of the Indiana Democratic machine was “soliciting” “contributions” from federal-paid employes of the civilian conservation corps have resulted in a thorough investigation and in clearing of club officials, it was learned today. Admission of the investigation and announcement of its result were made by James J. McEntee. assistant to Robert Fechner. CCC director. “Reports that political contributions were being sought in the Indiana camps came to us two months ago,” Mr. McEntee said. “We had them thoroughly investigated and found that they were unfounded.”

FRENCH CONQUEROR OF MOROCCO DEAD Marshal Hubert Lyautey Dies at Chateau. NANCY. France. July 27.—Marshal Hubert Lyautey, 79-year-old French war hero, died today at his chateau. Members of the aged soldier’s family were at the bedside when he succumbed to pulmonary congestion complicated by a liver complaint. At his own request, Lyautey will be buried in Morocco, the land he conquered for the French. Scorning the Invalides of Napoleon, where France buries her heroes, the marshal erected his own tomb some years back along the shores of the Atlantic, near the Moslem capital of Rabat.

A freight train came roaring down the east-bound track. As it neared them, a west-bound freight flashed around a curve fifty feet away. The sound of the east-bound train which the children saw. drowned the noise of the one bearing down upon them. Fireman John Ray on the eastbound train saw the children's danger. As he roared past he shouted a warning and hurled a bucket of water to attract their attention. One of the boys thought he was playing and threw a stone at Ihe engine cab. The westbound freight was upon the children before they could scramble down the embankment. Six were killed instantly and the other two died in a few minutes. Both trains were splattered with blood and service was held up an hour while bodies were extricated from the cars.

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stated today. The test case, now before the board, is that of the Houde Engineering Corporation, Buffalo. N. Y., which wants to deal both with a company union and an American Federation of Labor affiliate. While the old labor board insisted on recognition of that union which polled the majority vote, to the exclusion of all others. President Roosevelt recognized the multiple union rule in settling the strike in the automobile industry. Which way the new board will rule, Mr. Garrison refused to indicate. He admitted, however, that the expected decision will set a precedent. While upholding the majority rule in the Real Silk case meant recognition of the company union, instead of the Full Fashioned Hosiery workers. it gave recognition to the regular national unions in nearly all other cases. The majority rule stanchly was backed by Senator Robert F. Wagner (Dem.. N. Y.), chairman of the old board, and by such labor leaders and old board members as William F. Green. A. F. of L. president. and John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers president. GEORGE M. BINGER TO TAKE MILWAUKEE POST William H. Block Company Publicity Head Going to Wisconsin. George M. Binger has resigned as publicity director for the William H. Block Company store to take a similar position with the Boston store in Milwaukee, it was announced today. Mr. Binger. who has been with the Block store ten years, will assume his new position Aug. 3. His successor has not yet been announced. Presidency of the Indianapolis Table Tennis Association, which he was instrumental in forming, was resigned recently by Mr. Binger. Times Index Bridge 12 Broun ,*!.* 15 Comics Li 25 Crossword Puzzle LL.*! *8 Editorial L 15 Financial ,’L 20 Lippmann ,L. 15 Radio ,*L 14 Sports Lisi 19 Classified 23. 24 Curious World 25 Food Section .21, 22. 23 Hickman—Theaters i 23 Let’s Go Fishing 19 Pegler L 15 Serial Story 25 Stat£ News 10 Woman's Pages 12, 13

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COPS RAID MEETING ON PRIVATE LOT; PINCH 1 Discharged Kingan Employe Held in Makeshift Jail. A discharged Kingan & Cos. employe. a union laborer, was held in a makeshift jail at 607 West Washingon street at noon today by police in an attempt to break up a meeting protesting his discharge, alleged to have come because he was a union leader. The man, Tom Smith, 401 Birch avenue, was ordered held by Captain Ed Helm, in charge of a police squad, until 1 p. m., when packing hours employes returned to work. The meeting was being held on a private lot at the corner of California and Pearl strets.

40 BURNED FIGHTING < SIERRA FOREST BLAZE Fresh Recruits Rushed to Replace Wearied Fire Fighters. By United Press PASADENA. Cal., July 27.—Fresh recruits were ruhed into the Sierra Madre mountains today to replace a wearied army of fire fighters, battling a mile-long brush fire that was racing steadily toward populated Mt. Lowe. Approximately two-score fire fighters were burned, several seriously. Homes were evacuated in< the upper Arroyo Seco. Pasadena's valuable watershed, but authorities hoped to save the residences. More than 1.000 acres were denuded. 12 DIE IN CRASH OF HUGE SWISS PLANE Craft Takes Fire After Fall of Three Thousand Feet. By Un itrd Press BERLIN. July 27—Twelve persons were killed today when a Swiss-Curtiss-Condor plane crashed from atieight of 3.000 feet and burst into flames near Tuttlingen. south of Wuerttemberg. The dead comprised seven German and two Swiss passengers, pilot, wireless operator and stewardess. The plane was en route from Stuttgart to Zurich.

LONGSHOREMEN ACCEPT HIRING HALL PROPOSAL Question Settled to Workers' Satisfaction, Says Board. By I iiitril Press SAN FRANCISCO, July 27. President Roosevelt's national longshoremen's board announced today that the question of hiring halls—bitterest angle to the Pacific coast longshoremen strike—had been settled in a manner satisfactory to the workers. FIGHT FLARES IN KOHLER 75 Deputy Marshals Storm Picket Lines at Plant, By Vnitetl Press KOHLER, Wis., July 27.—Nearly seventy-five deputy marshals of this "model'’ industrial village stormed picket lines around the Kohler plumbing plant today and fought a pitched battle with striking workers. One picket was injured in the melee.

PLOT TO SEIZE VIENNA CHANCELLORY IS BALKED; 165 DEAD IN FIGHTING

HITLER SENDS VON PAPEN TO VIENNA POST German Chancellor Striving to Shoulder Off Blame for Uprising. BY FREDERICK C. OECHSNER United Press Staff Correspondent (Convneht 1934. bv United Press) BERLIN, July 27.—Chancellor Adolf Hitler, soberly aware of the hostile gaze of suspicious nations surrounding Germany, took extraordinary measures to placate Europe and rewin the friendship of Austria. Hitler named Baron Franz Von Papen, vice-chancellor, special minister to Austria for the duration of the political crisis, in a letter which eulogized him and condemned the Austrian Nazi revolt. Theo Habicht, the loudspeaking German leader of Austrian Nazi legionnaires whom Germany has given shelter, was dismissed ignominiously. Alfred Frauenfeld, commandant of the legionnaires, was forbidden to mak£ a radio speech he had planned and announced publicly. These events followed the summary recall of Kurt Rieth, German minister to Austria. They were a plain token of Hitler’s alarm. A communique announcing Habicht’s dismissal was as enlightening. The dismissal was decided upon, it was said, “even though investigation has shown that no German was directly or indirectly concerned with developments in Austria.” It continued: “However, because of certain news dispatches issued by Habicht. he is dismissal from office.” But the German government knows that abroad the Vienna revolt is linked with the Nazi party at Berlin. A wireless speech last night by Colonel Walter Adam, the Austrian propaganda minister at Vienna, was heard in Germany, and he bitterly and directly charged the German government with supporting the Nazi revolt. While Hitler sought to remove the suspicion with which his government is viewed, newspapers made a significant about-face. WAR IS FORECATfBY SOVIET NEWSPAPER Austrian Fascists Armed by Germany, Says Izvestia. By United Press MOSCOW, July 27.—The “Balkanization” of Austria and the likelihood of anew war was forecast by the newspaper Izvestia today as a result of the Vienna uprising. While not charging Germany with engineering the attempted .oup directly, Izvestia said the Austrian Fascists were armed by Germany and that German radio stations advised them to struggle for power.

Italian Army Moves Into Position Like Clockwork Newly Motorized Forces Execute Swiftest Maneuvers in History of Nation. (Coovrieht. 1934. bv United Press > UDINE. Italy. July 27.—The newly motorized Italian army moved with swift precision into position along the Austrian frontier today— Premier Benito Mussolini's warning that Austria must be kept inde-

pendent. It was the swiftest movement of troops into fighting position in Italian history. The first mechanized division of 8.000 men in tanks and armored cars advanced with motorized light and heavy artillery of types and shapes hitherto not seen in combat anywhere. Trucks and tractors with four, six or eight wheels; miniature tanks operated by one soldier; removable, bulky armored structures on replaceable chassis moved like hugh beetles along the border roads from Montecroce and Tarvis. While the motorized divisions occupied the main road between Udine and Tarvis, other units, including the picturesque Bersaglieri, flowing clusters of feathers in the helmets, were proceeding by motorcycle along the roads toward Montecroce.

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Government Slowly Drives Ahead in Campaign to Exterminate Hitlerites From Austrian Life. MAJOR EMIL FEY REPORTED SHOT Capital Prepares for Dollfuss Funeral; Cardinal Innitzer to Conduct Rites for Martyred Chancellor. By United Press VIENNA, July 27.—'The Austrian government today smashed another bold attack by Nazi plotters, who had planned to seize the chancellory and hold the cabinet prisoners. Simultaneously, heavy fighting with large loss of life was reported from the provinces. Scores of arrests were made by police spies, who reported the plotters were infiltrating into the central section of Vienna, disguised in Heimwehr uniforms, and had planned to start their desperate putsch this afternoon or evening.

ITALY FROWNS ON DIPLOMACY Mussolini to Act With Army, If at All, Says Spokesman. By United Press ROME, July 27.—Premier Benito Mussolini believes any diplomatic action in the Austrian situation would be futile and if he acts at all it will be with his army, it was said authoritatively today. Furthermore, it was said, Mussolini will not participate in any diplomatic action France and England may decide upon. II Duce, the informant explained, clearly demonstrated his attitude by sending 40,000 men to the Austrian frontier, ready to cross over if necessary to preserve Austrian independence.

COHN CASE DELAYED IN REACHING JURY Lawyers Clash on Judge's Instructions. Arguments over the instructions Special Judge Alexander Cavins should give to the jury today halted the embezzlement trial of Melville Cohn, vice-president of the defunct Meyer-Kiser bank, and will prevent the jury getting the case before tomorrow morning. Closing remarks were to begin this afternoon. Each side is allowed three hours of pleadings. The jury was in its rooms throughout the morning as attorneys for state and defense argued on the phrasing of instructions to be given by Judge Cavins at the conclusion of their final arguments. It was ordered to return at 2 p. m. Mr. Cohn is charged with appropriating money belonging to the bank to pay a $37.50 dividend for the Frailich Realty Company, Gary, to one of its stockholders. The Frailich company was a subsidiary of the bank.

Piedmontese lancers, w-ith w-ar helmet^, galloped along the highways to strategic points, and were stationed at intervals along the Montecroce road. Mussolini's sudden command was obeyed like clockwork. The only preparation for movement necessary was the loading of provisions, rations and ammunition on the army lorries. Every unit called into action and assigned to the Austrian border patrol was ready for service immediately. The divisions, in fact, had conducted summer maneuvers in the border territory, and were familiar with their posts. Within sixty minutes of the time their first orders came from Rome by telephone, some of the detachments were on their way to the designated destinations.

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Discovery of the plot brought heavy military reinforcements to the chancellory, and the muzzles of machine ! guns were trained on the I streets from the chancellory windows. Every person approaching the government buildings was stopped and searched, and the utmost precautions were taken by the guards. While the government was frustrating the new Nazi plot in the capital, its armed forces were engaged in ruthless suppression of Nazi insurgents in the provinces. Desperate fighting spread over a wide area of southern Austria. About 165 to 185 were estimated to have been killed and 250 wounded. Fighting Centered in Styria The extermination of the Nazis appeared to be proceeding with methodical thoroughness, although they fought a stubborn guerilla warfare. As soon as driven from one point they started trouble in another. Fighting centered in Styria and Carinttia, near Italy. Nazis also were reported to have seized Lueg Pass, on the Bavarian (German) border of Salzburg province, which extends irregularly from Bavaria to Italy. Police at Hallein, near the pass, denied that the Nazis had captured it, however. Heavy Italian forces are pressed on the frontier. The important city of Feldkirche*i in Carinthia was occupied by Nazis and severe fighting ensued. Feldkirchen police told tjpe United Press by telephone tonight that the Nazis had been driven out after eight had been killed and thirty wounded. The Nazis evacuated the town in six trucks, police said. Rumors Fly Around City Vienna, was wild with rumors during the day. Police denied reports that arrested Nazis already were being hanged, that the railway to Linz had been cut or that any members of the cabinet had been arrested or wounded, fit had been rumored that Major Emil Fey had been shot.) Half an hour after the report was circulated, however, the maid at the Fey home said Fey had just had lunch and proceeded to a cabinet meeting. Shooting broke out this afternoon in Meidling street, in the Twelfth ward, and Schoenbrunn street, in the Fifth ward of Vienna. Situation Not Civil War Thirty of the 144 Nazis who seized the chancellory and murdered Dollfuss were removed last night to the police prison and it was indicated they would be first to go. They include active and reserve army officers. The situation cou.d not be called one ol civil war. It was guerilla fighting, with small bands ol Nazis causing all the trouble they could in what seemed hopeless opposition. Dollfuss’ body lay in state in the great town hall, the Rathaus. lie will be buried at 2:30 p. m. tomcirow with the highest honors the nation ana the Roman Catholic church can give. His body will be blessed at the town hall. President Wilhelm Miklas, Prince von Starhemberg, Mayor Max Schmitz and others will deliver eulogies of the little chancellor who emerged unscathed from the World war in which he fought heroically, only to die by degrees on a sofa of his chancellory. Upper Austria Quiet Escorted by highest government officials and by soldiers, heimwehr men and special police, the body will be taken to St. Stephen’s cathedral. There—partly in token of Pope Pius’ horror at the manner of Dollfuss’ death—Cardinal Innitzer, archbishop of Austria, will conduct services. There were troop movements today toward the East Tyrol area where Nazis were reported to be holding buildings in several villages. The Heimwehr forces said, however, that the situation was under tTurn to Page Three),