Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 84, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1934 — Page 1

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BANK EMPLOYE LOSES SBB3 IN KOKOMO RAID

Messenger Robbed by Two Bandits in Daylight Stickup. PAIR SEEN ON WAY HERE Thugs Grab Cash From Worker on Way From Postoffice. H */ I misr4 Prr** KOKOMO lud., Auk. 17.—Two bandits held up a Union Trust and Savings Company messenger here this morning and escaped with s#B3 in currency. Frank Andrews, the messenger, was carrying the money from the post office to the bank when the two men drew alongside him. One of the two bandits jumped out and ordered the messenger to hand over the package of money at the point of a revolver. Andrews called police who conducted a search of the downtown section City police later reported the auto was seen speeding toward Indianapolis on U. S. Road 31. YOUTH SHOT BECAUSE HE COULDN'T DANCE Ift-Year-Old IP>v Wounded by Pals While Playing Game. I nil' 4 l‘r> •# SPRINGFIELD. 111.. Aug. 17 —A 10-year-old boy was in St. John's hospital today wounded in both feet, because he couldn’t dance the game of •Tenderfoot” fast enough. The wounded youth was Victor Jacunski of Auburn. He was playing with two companions, one of whom had a 22-caliber rifle. Pointing the gun at Victor's feet, the boys ordered him to dance. But he didn't dance fast enough His companion fired, the bullet going through Victors left foot and lodging in his right. $14,000,000 CAR LINE BRINGS $115,000 BID Receiver A*k* Court Sanction Offer for Indiana Utility. /**# I /b'* SOUTH BEND. Ind.. Aug. 17. Prrmisison for final disposal of property of the Northern Indiana Railways. Inc., once a sl4 000.000 corporation, for $115,000 was asked of St. Joseph circuit court today by R R. Smith, receiver. Ten bids on equipment of the utility were received by Mr. Smith late vpsterday. The highest bid. slls 000. submitted by the Hyman Michaels Company. Chicago, will be accepted, he indicated. CITY TRIO ORDERED ON BATTLE FLEET DUTY Naval Reservists Leave Today for Atlantic Maneuvers. Lieutenant F F. Knachel. commander of the Eighteenth division. U. S naval reserve, and Chief PMty Officers Paul Lowry. M. M. and James R Butters. C. B. M. were to leave today for Newport. R. 1.. where they will report for battle fleet duty on the U. S. S. MacLiesh. The officers have been chosen as senior instructors on the fifteen-day cruise of the Atlantic fleet. The selections were made from middle western divisions on the basis of excellence of record and rating.

CHURCH TO SPONSOR COMMUNITY CARNIVAL Contests to Feature Fair Next Week on West Side. A community fair will be held next Friday and Saturday at Tibbs avenue and West Tenth street, under the auspices of the Fairfax Sunday school. Features of the two-day program include boys' push mobile races, girls' bicycle races, exhibition drills, soft ball games and musical entertainment. Prizes, donated by community merchants, will be awarded to winners of the various contests. H. G. Schenk is chairman of the arrangements committee. FUGITIVE “CONVICT SLAIN Body Riddled by Posse Bullets in Running Fight. t nitii I'rc* CARBON HILL Ala . Aug. 17 Sam Holley. Negro convict fugitive, who killed one man and injured two in his flight from the law. was slain by a posse near here today. Holley's body was riddled with bullets from a score of posse guns as he reached for his pitsol in an effort to make a final stand for his freedom. The Negro fled from a road camp near Winfield last Tuesday. Times Index Page Bridge 13 Broun . 15 Classified 22. 23 Comics 25 Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious World 25 Editorial 16 Financial 24 Food Pages 18. 19 Hickman—Theaters 17 Pegler 15 Radio 10 Serial Story 25 Sporta 20, 21 Stata News 6 Vital Statistics 24 Womens Pages... 12, 13

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VOLUME 46—NUMBER 84

STAGES -SAFETY SHOW - WITH RATTLER

An amazing picture, believed the only one of its kind ever taken, is this one, snapped as the rattlesnake. its mouth open and fangs showing, poised to strike with the speed of light at the hand of Curator Willis Woolems of the San Antonio (Tex.i reptile garden. Staging the demonstration as a warning that the great majority of rattlesnake bites will result fatally unless given proper treatment. Woolems cured himself with approved medical aids.

An amazing picture, believed the —bubwihi'p.i 1 •' JH'l.i nlv one of its kind ever taken, is fL -- his one snapped as the rattlenake its mouth open and fangs "kwr™i honing, poised to strike with he speed of light at the hand of urator Willis Woolems of the •an Antonio lev.i reptile garden. • tagmg the demonstration as a Wlm' turning that the great majority f rattlesnake bites will result f atallv unless given proper treat- ;; nent, Woolems cured himself |||i|P|j|||lll# "W&, >ith approved medical aids.

A warning to “credulous persons,” who may scorn services of a physician after a rattlesnake bite, relying on faith alone for a cure, was given in heroic fashion by Willis Woolems, San Antonio (Tex.) reptile garden curator, who. as pictured here, allowed a rattlesnake to bite him, then showed a horrified crowd the approved medical treatment for extracting the poison. Mast cases will result fatally, Woolems declared, unless prompt treatment is given.

Nazis' Economic Situation Rapidly Growing Worse Hitler Prepares for Appeal to Nation as Germany- Poises on Verge of Monetary Collapse. (Copyrieht 1934. bv United Press) 1 BERLIN, Aug. 17.—Adolf Hitler, ready to appeal to the nation to confirm him as its absolute dictator, faced today a fight against an economic situation which has become des-

perate. Hitler will address the country by radio from Hamburg at 8:30 tonight (.1:30 p. m. Indianapolis*. He will ask that the electorate in a referendum vote him the combined powers of president and chancellor —a dictatorship more absolute than any in modern civilization. As he finished writing his speech at his retreat today and called to his aid all the powers of the oratory that has raised him to the heights. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, his acting minister of economics, prepared the opening moves in a grim fight to save the nation from economic and financial collapse. Hitler, it was indicated, will fight on the lines of strict economy and preservation of the monetary standard, trusting to a war-time spirit of frugality and fortitude in the country to back him. He will speak for about forty minutes, it was indicated—a speech sufficiently long to fill perhaps something more than a dozen newspaper columns. Fights Against Inflation His aim is to bring his countrymen. despite the diminishing enthusiasm for the Nazi cause, despite the disheartening foretaste of a hungry winter, to the polls in sufficient number to confirm him by more than the 40.000.000-odd votes cast- in the last referendum lo approve his decision to withdraw Germany from the League of Nations and the disarmament conference. Less than that total would have tremendous repercussions. Schacht. in an interview today, indicated the real seriousness of the situation. “We face difficulties,” he said, “that make necessary the mobilization spirit of sacrifice. The currency and raw material problems will decide our future. Hitler insists on the utmost energy in find- , ing domestic substituttes for foreign raw materials. He has definitely rejected all plans for inflation or currency depreciation.” Holland Is Autogoimtic The economic crisis has forced the ; government to declare a world moratorium on its foreign debts. Holland today prepared to seize German credits to satisfy claims of Its nations. Its move was motivated rather by a determination to obtain money due its exporters than to; satisfy bondholders. The Hitler government was frankly worried, for the enmity of the financially powerful Dutch neighbor would seriously affect the currency situation, j Crop failure but added to an economic crisis precipitated by a trade boycott because of Nazi anti-Semit-ism. The drop in exports made it impossible to transfer money abroad to satisfy debt holders or buy raw materials. Curtailment of raw material purchases reached a stage today where women in all stages of life were appealed to dress simpler in order to conserve textile materials. Pleated skirts and gowns were wasteful, they ! were told, as were trains on evening gowns. Straight, simple frocks. | made with artificial silk and other substitute materials were urged. A brief government order gave evidence of the food situation. Distilleries were forbidden to use potatoes until Sept. 1. Minimum prices were decreed and it was ordered that every large sale of potatoes must be by written contract to be submitted to the government. STATE STRIKES ENDED Terre Haute and Wabash Workers Return to Jobs. Settlement of the Terre Haute Malleable Iron Company and the I Wabash Fiber Box Company strikes i was reported today by G. T. Watson, i regional labor board secretary, on! his return here from Terre Haute. I

Fair tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy, probably with occasional showers.

h.c,l: again PLAGUES U, S. Roosevelt Orders Close Check to Stop All Profiteering. (Copyright. 1934. by United Pressi WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—High cost of living, the old war-time problem, cam back today to plague both citizens and government in the midst of the great recovery drive. Statistics showed that the drought and its companions, high cost of living and profiteering, was apt to engage as much attention if not more than recovery in the coming months. A report of the bureau of labor statistics revealing that food prices had jumped 11 per cent over last year and 15.5 per cent above 1932. turning back the clock to 1917 again. The rise was reported in the face of a companion survey by the bureau of home economics, showing that the actual deficiency in food supplies was minor and confined to : a few products. The price increases brought home |to federal officials the need for guarding closely against profiteering. Meats, butter, cheese and cereal products have gone up most. Yet, the home economics survey showed that meat supplies, except for pork, would be above normal for some time. Butter and cheese are about 90 per cent normal. Grain supplies are all normal or above normal. In the face of this situation, President Roasevelt has ordered every agency of the government with powers to act against profiteering to exert every effort to prevent victimizing of the public. City Prices Stabilized Indianapolis is a model city so far as food prices are concerned. Although casts have risen throughout the country, on July 31 Indianapolis residents were able to buy food at exactly the same average price they paid July 15. 1933. This was revealed today in statistics published by the department of labor. Conditions similar to Indianapolis existed only in Denver, Cflo.. in the fifty-one major cities covered. Food prices here dropped 1 per cent from July 17 to July 31 this year, while they rose .5 per cent in the United States. Food prices today in the United States as an average are 5 4 per cent higher than last year.

Dave Mitchell Sweeps Into Lead in Race for That Brown Derby; Herschell Tebay Holds Second Place

THE STANDINGS Dave Mitchell 245 Hershell Tebay 180 Frank W. Quinn 165 Walter Pritchard 160 Sid Easley 110 Judge Frank Baker 10;^ Mayor Sullivan 105 Dr. Paul Kernel 05 Ralph Spaan 00 Clarence I. Baker 85 DRIVING like he did on the Pittsburgh golf course. Dave Mitchell, national municipal golf champion, rode at the head of the standings in the Brown Derby race today. In the first ten leaders of the 1934 standings were the darkest of dark horses.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, AUGUST IT, 1934

KIDNAPED BREWER IS RELEASED BY GANGSTERS; NO RANSOM PAID

8-CENT SLASH IN SCHOOL TAX LEVY ADOPTED

91-Cent Rate Is Ordered Despite Increase in Budget. In adopting a budget requiring a levy of 91 cents on each SIOO of taxable property, the school board yesterday succeeded in reducing the school city levy for 1935 by at least 8 cents. The new budget provides for expenditures totaling $5,853,943, which is an increase of $98,359 over the budget for 1934. This increase partly is overcome by the school board allowing only 4 per cent for tax delinquencies, as compared with 7 per cent anticipated in the 1534 budget. Further reduction in the tax levy is brought about by an increase in anticipated returns from state excise taxes, derived from the sale of beer and liquors. $68,145 for Judgment One of the largest items that brought about an increase in the budget is a $68,145 part payment on a judgment returned against the city for school No. 1, acquired from Center township. Due to the rising costs of fuel and supplies, from $12,000 to $14,000 more will be required for next year’s operating expenses, A. B. Good, business director, said. More than $12,000 has been appropriated to provide salaries for ten additional teachers at Technical and Crispus Attucks high schools. Some of the teachers are returning from leaves of absence, it was understood. Final Action Due Soon The budget provides $4,400,000 for operation; $980,000 for the sinking fund and bond retirements, and $405,000 for the library system and contributions to the Children’s Aid Society, the Art Association and the Children’s museum. Included in the operation costs is $2,557,270 for instruction and supervision in the elementary and high schools. After the deduction of certain revenues and receipts to the school city, the total amount to be raised by taxation will* be $4,415,712 under terms of the budget. Final action on the adoption of the budget will be taken Aug. 28, following a public hearing.

ALLEGED BOGUS COIN MAKER IS ARRESTED Counterfeit Suspect Just Released From Jail. Less than two months after he had finished a ninety-day jail sentence. Leland E. Pelton. alleged specialist in the manufacture of spurious coins, was back in the Marion county jail today on similar charges. Crawfordsville police picked up Pelton at the Montgomery county fair, where they said they found several bogus quarters and 50-cent pieces on him. Charles E. Mazey, local secret service operative, identified him as a veteran counterfeiter and returned him here under a $2,500 bond, where he awaits action of the federal grand jury in September. SECOND DEMAND FOR RANSOM IS RECEIVED Evangelist’s Wife Gets Telegram Asking $25,000. By United Picas GOLDSBORO. N. C., Aug. 17. Sheriff Paul Garrison today said Mrs. R. H. Askew had received a telegram containing a second demand for $25,000 ransom for the return of her evangelist husband. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 70 10 a. m 81 7 a. m 72 11 a. m 81 8 a. m 79 12 <noon).. 85 9 a. m 82 1 p. m 86

Take the runner-up, Herschell Tebay, deputy city controller, who never has worn a brown derby in his life, or Frank W. Quinn of Kingar & Cos., as just two of the dark horses in the rr.ee. They're running second and third. Fourth place goes to Walter Pritchard. Republican mayoralty candidate, who has as many friends as teeth at a dentists' convention. Fifth and sixth places are separated by a whisper with Sid Easley holding the edge over Criminal Judge Frank Baker and Mayor Sullivan. Dr. Paul Kernel of the Hoosier Optical Company, and the fellow who put the Hoosier Athletic Club

S-Caramba! Wealthy Fiance Rejected for Truck Driver; Heiress Happy.'

By United Press PITTSBURGH. Aug. 17. A wealthy Spanish suitor hastened toward his expected marriage in Pittsburgh today, as a truck driver honeymooned with his would-have-been bride. Colletta Mulvihill, 22, daughter of a Pittsburgh oil company executive, was married before sunrise yesterday to Thomas Green, 21, north side truck driver who wooed the heiress in a whirlwind three week’s courtship. Coletta left Manila. P. 1., three months ago to prepare for her marriage to Sidrian Parades here. Green met Colletta at a party three weeks ago. Friendship ripened, and a Methodist minister was routed from bed in Wellsburg, W. Va., at 4 a. m. yesterday to perform the ceremony. She used Parades’ wedding ring to marry Green. Colletta’s mother, accompanied by her Spanish ex-fiance, were due in San Francisco today for the wedding which never will take place. The bride, in obtaining the marriage license, used her ex-fiance’s name, signing “Justine Parades.” Green said today it didn't matter. “I don’t care what name she used, or why she used it,” Green said. “What I'm worrying about is what her father will say.”

700,000 MAY GOJJNSTRIKE fextile Workers Expected to Answer Call of Union. By United Press NEW ORK, Aug. 17.—Leaders of the United Textile Workers of America said today that they hope to pull 700,000 workers away from their jobs when the call for a walkout is sounded, some time before Sept. 1. Resolutions providing for the walkout of union members in the silk and rayon and woolen and worsted branches of the industry lay on the chairman’s desk today as the thirty-first annual convention began its fifth session. It was believed they would be accorded the same favorable reception given the resolution calling for a nation-wide strike in the cotton textile branch yesterday. Officials indicated passage of the pending resolution would bring strike call strength well above the 600.000 mark.

5,000 Affected Here Carrying out of the textile workers strike threat would affect approximately 5.000 Indianapolis workers and indirectly hit nearly every home in the city if the strike should be prolonged. Business leaders, manufacturers and union officials forecast this today to The Times, following reports that the United Textile Workers of America voted to call a strike of 500.000 union employes before Sept. 1. The union has onel ocai in Indianapolis, Local 2069, with personnel formed by the 600 workers of the Indianapolis Bleaching Company, 900 West Wabash street. Officials of the bleaching company said they believed their employes were well satisfied and did not expect a walkout. “When the southern textile strike occurred the union here did not go out on a strike,” asserted one official of the company. He said that all of the cotton cloth manufactured here was used by the Bemis Bag Company, parent organization, and that it was not necessary for the local plant to depend on other markets for goods as they processed their own cotton into cloth. Charles Drake, business agent of the textile local of Indianapolis, said when informed of the national strike order, “We will co-operate with the national office.”

in the limelight, eased into seventh place. Ralph Spaan. Republican candidate for criminal judge, and Clarence I. Baker, furniture man, are neck and neck for the other positions. But the race is young and Jo-Jo, the dog-faced judge, hears that some candidates are playing dead “doggie” until the ballots are dated on Monday. Hoarders may find themselves out-hoarded or out-voted, warns Jo-Jo. Tomorrow's ballot is the last undated signature form and the last ballot to count FIVE votes. Saturday’s ballots and all previous votes must be in The Times' office

EDITORS READY FOR ATTACKS ON NEW DEAL

Landis to Steal Fire of Robinson Tonight in Opening Talk. BY JAMES DOSS Times Staff Writer LAKE WAWASEE, Aug. 17.—An “advance guard attack” on the New Deal is scheduled to be made here tonight when Frederick Landis, congressional nominee from the Second district, starts things going lor members of the Indiana Repubican Editoria Association. Mr. Landis, one of the most fiery orators in the Repubican ranks, is the speaker for the first of the two banquets arranged for the anuual mid-summer outing of the Republican editors. The Republican siege gun assault on the New Deal will come tomorrow night when Senator Arthur R. Robinson, Republican incumbent and candidate for re-election, delivers the keynote address of his campaign at the banquet concluding the editors’ two-day outing at SpinkWawasee hotel. The senator is. scheduled to rip into the New Deal in typical Robinson fashion, taking up in detail what he terms the “madcap follies of the Roosevelt administration.” Mr. Landis, whom the more progressive leaders of the Republican party petition to oppose Senator Robinson for the senatorial nomination, was expected to take some of the fire out of the Robinson broadside by dwelling on the same subject. Editors were slow in arriving here although the hotel is completely filled and it became necessary today to ‘farm out” guest swho arrived without making advance reservations. Today was devoted chiefly to swimming, golf and p olitics, with all three getting about an equal play. There is a strong undercurrent of anti-Robinson sentiment among many editors and party leaders. The feeling, summarized, is: “Well, we're stuck with him so we’ll have to do the best we can.” It is significant, many Republicans will admit, that the feeling that Mr. Landis instead of Senator Robinson would have been a better candidate is strong among the moneyed Republicans who annually are called on to dip deep and fill the rather empty Republican campaign chest.

MIESSE TO DEMAND TAX LEVY SLASHES Insists No Allowance Be Made for Delinquency. Demand that allowances for tax delinquency be eliminated from the civil city, school city and county budgets was made today by Harry Miesse, Indiana Taxpayers’ Association secretary. Mr. Miesse, in a statement, declared that any tax delinquency next year will be made up by payment of taxes which became delinquent this year and last year. The school city levy, tentatively set at 91 cents last night, a reduction of 8 cents, could be cut another 5 cents by this means, and the civil city levy could be reduced 8 cents, he asserted. He announced that his association will appeal all budgets to the Marion county tax adjustment board and passibly later to the state tax board in order to force a substantial budget and levy reduction. BANKERS’ OUTING SET Country Group Plans Two-Day Stag at Lake Manitou. Annual fall outing of the Marion County Bankers Association will be held at the Colonial hotel, Lake Manitou, Rochester, Sept. 8 and 9, Timothy Sexton, chairman, announced today.- Swimming, boating and fishing will be features of the two-day outing.

by Monday afternoon at 4 After that time, undated votes will De thrown into Jo-Jo's straw hat and burned. Beginning Monday the ballots count just ONE vote and they'll be dated to prevent miserliness. Each dated ballot must be in The Times’ office within thirty-six hours of their date. For instance, Monday's votes are due in the tentacles of the judges by Wednesday at 9 a. m. or carry a postal date before 9 a. m. Who will win the Brown Derby? Who is the city’s most distinguished citizen? Who will speak at the Indiana state fair on the night of Sept. 6? You tell us—with votes! Today’s ballot on Page 2.

Entered Second-Cits* Matter at Postoffice. Indianapolis. Ind.

John S. La Batt Is Sot Free After Three Days in Hands of Abductors; Tape Kept on Eyes Whole Time. GREATLY FATIGUED, FAMILY SAYS Statement Is Issued by Ontario’s AttorneyGeneral Giving* Some of Details of Crime. By United Pres* LONDON, Ont., Aug;. 17.—John S. La Batt, wealthy brewer and victim in Canada's first major kidnap case, returned to his family today after release from the hideout of his abductors who apparently feared a huge Dominion hunt was closing in on them because of a woman's tip. Mr. La Batt was a captive for almost three days. An official of the La Batt brewery predicted capture of the abductors within forty-eight hours.

UNIFY WELFARE, M'NUTT URGED New State Department to Weld Activities Is Recommended. Co-ordination of public welfare work through anew state department and a network of county units was recommended today to Governor Paul V. McNutt, in a supplemental report of a committee of public welfare experts. The new board would weld separate state activities in public welfare and would have a board of nine members to serve without compensation. Traveling expenses, however, would be paid. Administration of the proposed department would be in the hands of a state public welfare director. Functions of the board as far as prisoners in state penal institutions, and other state wards in asylums and homes are concerned wouid be: Classification, training and education, business management, accounts and statistics; social adjustment and rehabilitation; industrial actiivties, probation, pardon and parole, physical and mental education. relief and local co-operation. The report says that for the time being, separate boards for institutions should be continued, with the understanding they should be appointed by the state board of public welfare, suject tt> approval of the Governor. Public welfare directors in each county are urged with an advisory board of citizens to aid in selection of that director. The state board would select the members of the county boards subject to veto by the Governor. The state director is described in the report as similar to a president of a large corporation with liaison duties, approving and appointing boards, making policies, and directing the entire operation of the department and county units.

$15,000 LOVE THEFT SUITJSFILED HERE Alienation of Affections Is Charged. Suit for $15,000, charging alienation of affections, w’as filed today in superior court one by Mrs. Bertha Pierle, 408 South Pine street, wife of a druggist at that address, against Winifred Ansback. 837 Lord street. A divorce suit also w'as filed by Mrs. Pierle in circuit court against her husband. Herbert F. Pierle. Charges of cruelty and habitual drunkenness are contained in the divorce suit. WOMAN’S TRIAL BARES THIRD-DEGREE ORDEAL Corpse Present During Quiz, Deputy Indicates. By United Press j COOPERSTOWN. N. Y., Aug. 17. —Fighting to invalidate a statement made by Mrs. Eva Coo in connection with the slaying of Harry Wright, the defense at her trial today drew from Under-Sheriff Owen Brady admission that he had heard photographs were taken of an alleged third-degree examination of the defendant. It was asserted that the corpse of Wright figured in the examination. NEW YORKER TO HEAD UNION ARMY VETERANS Hoosier Named Surgeon-General at G. A. R. Encampment. By United Pres* ROCHESTER. N. Y.. Aug. 17Colonel Alfred E. Stacy of the Elbridge <N. Y. department of the Grand Army of Republic, was unanimously elected national commander at the closing session of the sixty-eighth encampment today. Hardin I. Merrill of Wichita. Kan., was elected junior vioe-commander. E. H. Cowan of Crawfordsville, Ind., was elected surgeon-general and J. King Gibson of Dayton, was reelected chaplam-in-chief.

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

A spokesman for the La Batt family and police said the kidnapers—believed to be a New York City or Detroit i gang—appeared to have been frightened and that no ransom was paid. A friend of Mr. La Batt in Sarnia, Ont.. previously reported payment of at least part of the $150,000 demanded. Mr. La Batt appeared first at Toronto, near where he had been released in the opinion of police, and was brought to the home of his brother, Hugh, here. He was placed under a doctors care and ordered not to talk for forty-eight hours. “His condition is not critical but he is grgatly fatigued,'’ J. C. Elliott, his lawyer, said. Police officials, directing a determined search for the kidnapers in western Ontario and along the Michigan border, fretted at the delay in getting information from Mr. La Batt. They were said to be angered by reported promises which the family made to the abductors — possibly a pledge to tell nothing for twenty-four or forty-eight hours to give the gang a chance to escape. Woman Gives Information The police indicated a belief that information given them by a woman who said she saw the automobiles of Mr. La Batt and of the kidnapers u hen the brewer was seized on Tuesday had frightened the gangsters. It was believed that the search by police on the basis of the woman’s information led the kidnapers to abandon hope of collecting the ransom and to release the brewer. Whether the release was on a pledge of somt sort extracted from the anxious La Batt family was not known. In Toronto Attorney-General Arthur Roebuck disclosed some details of the abduction. Long Statement Issued The attorney-general issued a lengthy statement, making public “some but not all” of the details of the kidnaping as related by the abducted man. The La Batt statement said: ‘ After I was picked up by the two men, they put adhesive tape over my eyes and then covered the tape with a pair of glasses to cover the bandage. “We drove for about twelve hours. I do not believe that we passed over any water and I think we stayed in the province all the time.” Mr. La Batt s story was interrupted abruptly there and did not mention anything regarding his captivity, It was not known whether the attorney-general was withholding the information to aid police in their search for the kidnapers, or whether Mr. La Batt had failed to give the official details of his confinement. Drove for Five Hours Mr. La Batt's statement resumed with the night before he was given his freedom. “Yesterday evening we drove again for about five hours,” Mr. La Batt’s story continued. “Then we parked somewhere, apparently waiting darkness. After that we drove some more and then they pushed me from the car with instructions not to take the bandage from my eyes for several minutes. “I then took a taxi and went to the Royal York hotel.” Many incidents of the kidnaping still remained a mystery, but Mr. Roebuck would not disclose whether he or Mr. La Batt was keeping them secret. Mr. La Batt did say, however, that he had the adhesive tape over his eyes right up to the hour of his release.

AT THE RINGSIDE Sit at the ringside in one of the biggest political battles of the century. You can do this by just turning to the feature page in todays Times and reading Westbrook Pegler's description of gun-bristlmg New Orleans and the warfare between the Huey Longs and the Waimsleys. Westbrook Pegler has covered every great fight from the World war to the Baer-Carnera engagement. He'll call the blows in his own inimitable way. foul or fair. Watch for his uncensored dispatches in The Times daily.