Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 67, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1934 — Page 1

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FIVE CONVICTS ESCAPE STATE PRISON

2,500 Dead and Wounded in Austrian Revolt

2 MEN SLAIN, TROOPS TAKE OVER KOHLER 21 Others Are Wounded by Deputy Sheriffs in ‘Model Town/ WATER SUPPLY PERILED Military Action Follows Night of Rioting in •Industrial Utopia.’ Bn I ntfrd I'rr t KOHLER, Wis.. July 28—Two troops of national guardsmen arrived here today from Milwaukee after a night of noting in which two men were killed and twenty-one others shot by deputy sheriffs. Military action followed a night of bloody riots climaxed by firing of about a dozen shots at the automobile of a newspaper photographer. Fir-t fatalities of the three-weeks-old strike were Lee Wakefield. 25. and Henry Englemann. 27. of Sheboygan Wakefield died a few minutes after the battle of a chest wound. Engelmann died this morning with a rifle bullet in his abdomen. Twenty-one others, taken to two hospitals in Sheboygan. were wounded less seriously. Hundreds of (versons, including women and children, suffered violently from tear gas. The bloody climax to three weeks of peaceful picketing was portended yesterday when a hundred deputies smashed the striker"’ lines to escort a car load of coal into the Kohler factory. Deputies Open C harge The workmen were reinforced by other employes and former employes of the plant from Sheboygan. twelve miles distant. Soon after 8 p m. a striker threw a brick through a plant window, near the spot where Kohler and Sheriff Ernst Zehms observed the .scene from an administration building window. Others seized the idea Stones, bricks, railroad spikes and sticks filled the air. Glass crashed on all sides of the factory. At the height of the disturbance, with men. women and children screaming and shouting imprecations at a few workers inside the plant, the deputies charged. Gas grenades burst around the mob. Stench bombs made breathing a torture. Night sticks cracked on bare heads Friend was indistinguishable from foe as almost 2 poo men swayed in a roaring mass. No one knew who fired the first rifle shot. It was followed by the boom of a shotgun. Then a fusillade rang out. Women fled shrieking, dragging children with them, but their men fought in the very muzzles of the guns. Noise of the battle was heard more than a mile distant. Water Supply Menaced All through th* crowd men fell. Many were trampled severely before they dragged themselves to safety. For more than an hour the strikers held their lines before tear gas drove them to the city limits. There thev re-formed, throwing rocks at police and deputy sheriffs and booing cont muously. The Tillage water supply and electric power, both emanating from the Kohler plant, were threatened with discontinuance. Kohler issued a statement charging that the rioters w>-re It'd by "outside agitators.” Her.rw Ohl Jr., president of the Wisconsin Federation of Labor, countered with a declaration that •outside men” nad been hired to defeat the purpose of an American Federation of Labor Union. GUARDIANS’ PARLEY SET District Conference to Be Held in Nashville Aug. 1. Plana for a district board of children’s guardians conference to be held at Nashville. Ind.. Aug 1. have been announced by L. H Millikan of the state board of public welfare. Counties to be represented at the meeting include Jackson. Lawrence. Monroe. Orange and Brown. Times Index Page Berg Cartoon 6 Bridge 4 Broun 7 Busmen* News 2 Church Services 2 Clarified 14 Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious World 15 Editorial 6 Financial 11 Hickman—Theaters 7 Pegler 7 Radio 13 Serial Story 15 Sport* 12-13 State News 2 Vital Statistics 11 Woman's Pages 4-5

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VOLUME 46—NUMBER 67

Dollfuss Buried With Imperial Splendor as Troops Crush Nazis Vienna Hushed in Reverence During Funeral of Little Chancellor: Sporadic Fighting Continues; Cabinet Members Vow Vengeance. BY STEWART BROWN l ml.ll Pren* Staff Corr*mondmt fCoovrUrht. 1934. bv United Presai VIENNA, July 28.—While government forces were busy crushing the Austrian Nazi rebellion, Chancellor Englebert Dollfuss, victim of political hatred and assassination, was accorded royal funeral today. In a setting as magnificent as that of Austria’s last emperor, the strong men of the little chancellor’s dominant party gathered to eulogize the lost leader and to demonstrate their control over an inflammable civil crisis. Meanwhile, fighting lietween troops and Nazis continued in the provinces.

The small city hall, wherein the chancellor’s body lay in state was banked with flowers. Wreaths sent from every nation in Europe, and masses of bright-colored flowers contributed by his friends filled every corner of the old structure. At 2:30 p m., when the first ceremonial began, every business activity in Vienna ceased, and every wheel stopped turning. Railroad trains were halted lor two minutes. Windows along the route of the funeral procession were closed tightly. Resistance to the government still was reported in outlying provinces. notably Carinthia, but each .succeeding reoprt from commanders of regular troops and heimwehr soldiery told of the decreasing effectiveness of the rebels, of their dissolution, arrest, and in many instances, death. The crackle of rifle fire, and the staccato of machine guns, resounded with decreasing volume in the provinces. and the trench mortars and field guns were stilled. Children Call for Daddy The government asserted the revolt was in its death throes at a cost of perhaps 2.500 dead and wounded. It was impossible correctly to estimate the deaths, but it seemed 300 might prove the greatest possible number with 200 to 250 the more likely figure. Dollfuss’ widow was here dazed with grief. At Riccione Italy, were their children, Eva. 5. and Rudolf, 3, as guests of Mrs. Benito Mussolini, demanding impatiently to know when "daddy” would arrive. Dollfuss was to have gone to Riccione today for a family visit with Mussolini and his wife. One memorial to the little chancellor was assured, however transitory events in Austria's years' long crisis may make it. His fellowcabinet ministers, at a midnight meeting, one by one swore solemnly to a pledge to carry out his policies unchanged. As Prince Ernst Ruediger von Starhemberg. his temporary successor. put it in a speech to the nation after the meeting: "Dollfuss is dead, but his work will live, and it is embodied in one world. Austria.” The government was organizing

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for merciless vengeance on those Nazis who were captured. A special military court was set up to try them. Von Starhemberg put himself today at the head of a ministerial committee on special security measures whose aim was to crush in death or despair not only the Nazis but Socialists and Communists. Tne government maintained unusual reserve regarding Chancellor Adolf Hitler's appointment of Baron Franz Von Papen as special minister to Austria. Hitler meant the appointment as a peace gesture, apparently a sincere one. But so suspicious was the government that, when the German foreign office inquired w'hether Von Papen w'oud be persona grata, it replied that there w r ould be no decision until the cabinet met next week. Official circles said that before accepting Von Papen, the government must be assured Hitler would not again encourage the Austrian Nazis, and that it woud ask for what approximate length of time Von Papen would remain. Night Battle Wages The fighting between the Nazis and the government forces centered principally in Carinthia, the southernmost province across whose border 40,000 Italian troops were bivouacked. There was firing all night in the Lavant valley, with government forces driving Nazis before them. Brilliant government successes at Feldkirchen. chief center of revolt in Carinthia. and at Leoben. seemed to have broken Nazi resistance Unofficial sources said the big powers were putting pressure on Austria not to agree to Von Papen’s appointment unless it got guarantees from Germany of non-inter-ference Pope Works on White Book Bn I nitril Prrrtn VATICAN CITY, July 28.—Pope Pius, horrified at the murder of Engelbert Dollfuss and blaming Nazis for it. is considering issuing a white book on German “atrocities.” it was learned today. At the Vatican, the Austrian Nazi revolt, the refusal of Dollfuss’ assassins to permit him the consolation of the Roman Catholic church's last rites, was regarded as bringing to a climax a situation which long had been viewed with horror.

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INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JULY 28,1934

SYSTEM HELD TO BLAME FOR WORLDSTRIFE International Anarchy Sent War Clouds Scudding 20 Years Ago. PEACE IS MENACED Stage Today Is Set for Another Clash of Great Powers. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, July 28.—The World war began twenty years ago today. Were Kaiser William II and Germany responsible for it? Is another one likely? At the Paris peace conference the allies branded the kaiser as the world’s Public Enemy No. 1 and wanted him hanged. The Treaty of Versailles ‘ publicly arraigned William II of Hohenzollern, formerly German emperor, for a supreme offense against international morality and the sanctity of treaties,” provided for a special tribunal to try him and proposed to ask Holland to turn him over. It formally accused Germany and compelled her to admit her guilt. All this was merely part and parcel of a world gone mad. Germany and the kaiser were no more and no less responsible for the World war than were other European powers and rulers. Survival of the Fittest Austria precipitated the war by her high-handed treatment of Serbia. Germany could have prevented it by acting as a check on her ally. But the peace of Europe had long since become a house of cards ready to topple at the first puff. If the pistol shot at Sarajevo had not provided it, something else w'ould have. The World war was caused by the system. It was caused by international anarchy. Anarchy, says Webster, “is the utter negation of order.” For centuries prior to 1914. the only law most nations observed w ! as the law of the jungle. What they wanted, they took—if they could. Might was right. The fittest survived and the devil took the hindmost. If the sun never set on British soil, it was because Britain had the might to make it so. France built up a world empire second only to Britain's because she had the power. Russia expanded from the Baltic to the Pacific for the same reason. All Fight Each Other Before them there had been Greece. Rome, Spain, Portugal and the rest. The strong took from the weak. Whenever and wherever they could, they even hijacked each other. The only difference between Germany and Japan and the others was that they came on the scene a little late. There has hardly been a decade in recorded history that did not see a war or two in the old world. Practically every country in Europe and Asia has fought every other country in that area. England has fought France, Russia, Spain. Holland, China, Tibet and the rest, including us. The only difference between the World war and past wars is that it was bigger and the lineup was different. It was caused by the same old anarchy in international relations. Nations lived like wolves, sometimes hunting singly, sometimes in packs, snarling and fighting over their "finds” by twos and in all sorts of combinations. A New Balance of Power Brifain and Germany at one time actually planned to divide between themselves the colonies of Portugal, Britain's ally. Not so very long before the World war Britain and France came within an ace of war over Egypt, the Sudan and Siam. Russia and Britain were constantly at daggers drawn for years and Britain and Germany almost clashed over the Berlin-to-Bagdad railway. And so on, without end. Out of the maelstrom there grew up anew balance of power in Europe. Britain. France and Russia faced Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. Britain at one time came near joining Germany. But when the (Turn to Page Three)

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Stratosphere Trio 14,000 Feet in Sky; Set Goal at 15 Miles

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The U. S. army’s ace aerial photographer, Captain Albert W. Stevens. and its crack balloonist. Major Killiam Kepner, accompanied by Captain Orvil Anderson, relief pilot-observer, took off today in an attempt to rise fifteen miles in their giant stratosphere balloon. Their balloon holds 3.000.000 cubic feet of gas, and stands 295 feet high at ground level. At the right, above, is a comparison of the balloon with the Statue of Liberty. Below are Stevens at left. Kepner at right. To the left is a graphic sketch of the heights already attained by man and the goal of the daring trio.

Giant Balloon Takes Off From Rapid City in Most Ambitious Altitude Attempt Ever Attempted: Kepner in Charge of Flight. Bu United Pre MOONLIGHT VALLEY, S. D., July 28.—Three dauntless army balloonists soared aloft today in quest of an altitude record of fifteen miles or more higher into the sky than man ever has reached. Major William E. Kepner, pilot; Captain Orvil Anderson, his aid, and Captain Albert Stevens, scientific, observer,

comprised the crew for the epoch-making flight. They shot upw'ard at 6:45 a. m. (Indianapolis time) in the United States army-National Georgaphic Society stratosphere balloon, “Th,e Explorer,” largest free ballon ever made. At 9 a. m. they reported an altitude of 14.000 feet. Jparlier the balloon had reported an altitude of 16.000 feet. Officials said the drop was no cause for alarm as it had been planned for the balloon to “level off’’ at about that altitude to test the equipment before continuine the ascent. Over Cheyenne River Captain Stevens said shortly before 9 a. m.: “We had a hell of a lift right then.” Regular communication had not been established, but the radio transmitter in the balloon was turned on and the crew was making side remarks into it from time to time. But they were too busy to send any detailed reports. At 8:11 a. m. the balloon reported its position as over the Cheyenne river, thirty-two miles north northeast of Rapid City, S. D. With their enormous gas bag, having a capacity of 3.000.000 cubic feet, inflated with only 200.000 cubic feet of hydrogen gas, the men w-ere lifted over the rim of this peaceful. sheltered Black Hills valley at a speed of more than 500 feet a minute. Expect Food for Science The huge balloon, appearing as a great exclamation mark with its metal gondola the dot beneath, cleared by hundreds of feet the rock-bound walls of the bowl, on which it had been feared it might come to grief due to sudden gusts of wind. Before the balloonists, as they cleared the bowl, stretched anew frontier of science—the stratosphere, fifteen miles up. where the blue of the sky we know gives way to purplish black as the density of the atmosphere thins to a point at which a human being, if exposed to it. would explode like a bursting paper sack. From the stratosphere, Kepner. i Anderson and Stevens expected to

brink back, not alone anew altitude record, but a great store of information for science to consider. Carry Emergency Rations -Only emergency food rations were carried. The men did not expect to eat during the twelve-hour flight, but feared they might be forced to land in some isolated spot. Four gallons of drinking water were taken. The balloonists planned to take approximately four hours for the ascent to the maximum altitude of the flight. They expected to level off at 40.000 feet for taking of observations, and again at 60.000 feet. Leaving the 60.000-foot level, they expected to ascend from 15,000 to 20,000 feet higher, probably reaching a maximum level of about 75,000 feet, or fifteen miles. There they were to remain for about two hours, occupying the time by taking samples of the atmosphere, making aerial photographs which were expected to show clearly the curvature of the earth, and in other scientific observations. The descent, it was estimated, would require four to five hours. COOL WEATHER HERE FOR 36-HOUR STAY Blankets Needed Tonight, Is Expert's Forecast. Cool weather will be a welcome guest in this city for the next thir-ty-six hours. J. H. Armington. government meteorologist, said today that residents would need light blankets for sleeping through Sunday with a prediction of “not much change in temperature.” The thermometer dropped into the 60s during the early hours this morning with the 9 a. m. temperature at 75. The mercury was not expected to exceed 85 degrees today. Hourriy Temperatures 6 a. m 68 8 a. m 73 7 a. m 69 9 a. m..... 75

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LONG-TERMERS ESCAPE FROM PEN HOSPITAL Three Patients and Two Trusties Make Getaway During- Night; One of Men From Marion County. NO CLEWS LEFT BY QUINTET Noises on Roof at Hour of Disappearance Branded False Alarm by Night Captain. BV L niter! reran MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., July 28.—Five long-term convicts escaped early today from the hospital dormitory of tha Indiana state prison They had at least a two-hour start when guards discovered the break at 3 a. m. The men, three patients and two trusties in the hospital, left no clew to the method of their escape. A painter’s scaffold beside anew addition to the hospital section and reports that noises were heard on the roof of a dormitory at about the hour of the escape were the only indications of the route the prisoners took: The missing men are: John Burnett, serving ten years for burglary in Vermillion county; Louis Crail, fifteen years for burglary in Lake

CONN JURY WILL GET CASE TODAY Final Arguments Made by Opposing Counsel During Morning. State and defense attorneys this morning were finding final arguments to the jury in the embezzlement trial of Melville S. Cohn, vicepresident and director of the defunct Meyer-Kiser bank. Following reading of instructions by Special Judge Alex G. Gavins, the jury will deliberate the case this afternoon. In an impassioned plea yesterday that the jury not send Mr. Cohn to prison “because he offered a helping hand” to a failing realty company, Frank C. Daily, defense attorney, termed the state’s case “an anomaly in criminal prosecution.” “This case lacks every element of embezzlement,” Mr. Dailey declared. "It is decidedly the mast technical criminal case in my forty years experience as a lawyer.” “The United States government is spending billions to help enfeebled corporations over trying periods. Should a man be sent to prison because he offered a helping hand?” Mr. Cohn, Sol Meyer, former president of the bank; Julian J. Kiser and Ferdinand S. Meyer were indicted after sending checks in lieu of dividends to a holder of the Frailich Realty Company stock, which the bank had sold. The Frailich company, a Gary concern, was shown by the evidence to have been insolvent at the time the bank issued the checks in lieu of dividends. Floyd Mattice, chief deputy prosecutor, spent much time defining to the jury just what constitutes embezzlement and then attacked the defense for attempting to show that $37.50 alleged to have been embezzled was a loan. “If it was a loan, why didn’t It show on the books as a loan?” Mr. Mattice demanded.

3 PERSONS HURT IN CRASH OF TROLLEYS Victims Suffer Minor Cuts in Street Car Collision. Three persons suffered minor cuts and bruises last night when an Alabama street car crashed into the rear of another street car at Massachusetts avenue and Delaware street. Harry Hudson. 55. of 2249 Kenwood avenue, motorman, suffered cuts and bruises. Leonard Radsdale. fered hand injuries and Mrs. Minnie Allen. 44. of 2428 Arlington avenue, slight neck injuries. The injured refused medical attention. VICIOUS DOGS ADD TWO MORE VICTIMS TO LIST Girl, 4, and Negro, 42, Are Treated for Bites. Two persons were bitten by dogs yesterday. Agnes Jardma. 4 of Apt. 2. 408 South New Jersey street, was bitten on the cheek. Lonnie Bailey, 42. Negro, of 417 West Michigan street, was bitten on the left leg Both dogs were impounded by police.

EXTRAPRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marlon County. S Cent*

county; Morris O’Flaherty, twenty years for robbery in Marion county; William Jay, twenty years for robbery in Allen county, and Kenneth Rogers, ten years for robbery in Vanderberg county. At 3 a. m., N. E. Burns, guard in a dormitory, notified Night Captain W. C. Griswold of noises coming from the roof. Griswold investigated and declared it a false alarm. Two hours later, Officer W. F. Netzel, in charge of the hospital, reported five men missing. Chief Deputy Warden Lorenz C Schmuhl started an investigation and discovered the break. Burns reported at 2:30 a. m. a prisoner turned on the water in the bathroom. It was thought the break got under way at that time. Prison officials though the prisoners used a skeleton key in a basement door of the hospital to get into the prison yard.

MINNESOTA TROOPS BREAK UP PICKETING Truckloads Hauled Off to Detention Camps. B'J United Prr, MINNEAPOLIS. July 28.—Tha militia struck forcibly for the first time today enforcing a drastic military dictatorship imposed upon Minneapolis by Governor Floyd B. Olson to halt rioting or striking truck drivers. Acting on orders of AdjutantGeneral Ellard A. Walsh, “dictator” of 565 square miles in the military zone, the national guard began enforcement of Governor Olson’s ban on picketing. The pickets were hauled into the guards' detention camp by the truckload. POLICE LAUNCH HUNT FOR 2 MISSING GIRLS Disappeared Early Yesterday, Fathers Report. Search was being made today by police for uth May King. 13, of 225 Beauty avenue, and Eulalie May Wright, 15, of 236 Minerva street, who last were seen early Friday when two youths let them out of a car on New York street near Whita river. Ruth May King is described as being four tall; weight, ninety-six pounds; blue eyes, fair complexion. She was wearing a rainbow-striped dress, white shoes and ankle stockings. The Wright girl was described as four feet eight inches tall; weight, 100 pounds, and wearing s. green and white sport dress with white shoes and anklets. Foul play is feared bv fathers of the girls. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Northeast wind. 11 miles an hour; barometric pressure. 29 99 at sea level; temperature, 77; general conditions, high scattered clouds, hazy: ceiling unlimited; visibility, seven miles.