Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1940 — Page 4

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By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24.— Federal agents today confronted Wilhelm Jakob Muhlenbroich, kidnaper of 3-year-old Marc de Tristan Jr, with William Mattson of Tacoma, Wash, who, four years ago, saw his younger brother carried away-to be killed by a kidnaper. G-Men brought Mattson, now 20, here by airplane from his college fraternity house at Seattle. He viewed Muhlenbroich at the FBI office here and on leaving:there at midnight, declined to say whether he had identified the hawk-nosed German alien as his brother’s kidhaper, “I'll have to wait until the FBI approves my commenting,” he said. From Muhlenbroich’s acquaintances here, who had known him as an ‘‘honest” barber, fluent in" four foreigny languages and a Nazi sympathizer, Federal agents found several similarities between the Tristan baby. kidnaper and their conception of the Mattson kidnaper, - for whom they have searched relentlessly for four years, questioning some 25,000 suspects.

Speaks Four Languages

The “swarthy, hooked-nosed” man who carried away 10-year-old Charles Mattson from his home on Christmas week, 1936, had left a note demanding $28,000, which he never tried to collect, and had signed it “Egoist, Egoist.” The note demanding $100.000 for the return of the De Tristan baby, seized at Hillsborough last Fridag, had demanded $100,000 and was signed “Unconventional Eccentric.” A barber by trade, he had worked | in several San Francisco shops during the last 13 years and was reported to have spent about a year in the Tacoma region about the time of the Mattson kidnaping. It also was learned that Muhlenbroich, who, Federal officers said had confessed the De Tristan crime, has a brother in the German Army; he lost a knuckle as a German soldier in the first World War, is a dead shot with a rifle, a pronounced anti-Semite and holds Adolf Hitler and the Nazi government in the highest esteem. : Martin Smallback, 48; Amerigo Bei. 51, and Nathan Freeman, all-of whom had employed Muhlenbroich in their barber shops, agreed on descriptions of him.

Governess Was Confidante

It was learned that he had, as a confidante, a |German governness employed by a wealthy family in the peninsula in the area around Hillsborough. The possibility that he had an accomplice was not overlooked. Normally, state authorities would have custody of Muhlenbroich, since the De Tristan crime apparently involved no Federal law, but J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, was quoted in New York that several -aspects of the case had been unearthed which might extend Federal juris- | diction to it. | HUNTING GOOD POPULAR BLUFF, Mo., Sept. 24 (U. P).—Tom Phelps and his four hounds have killed 40 bob-cats in the past 13 months. It is believed ‘to be a record in this section of Missouri. | :

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‘If We Don’t Stop the Murderer, He Will Kill Us’ —Rev. Kernan. All aletisl aid to England short

of war, and even war if necessary, were advocated today by the Rev.

William C. Kernan, Newark, N. J.,

Episcopalian official. The Rev. Mr. Kernan, chairman of the refugee committee of the Newark diocese and former pastor of the Bayonne, N. J. Trinity Episcopal Church, is to speak tonight in Shortridge High School urider the auspices of the Indiana Committee for National Defense. In an interview today he urged the United States to drop its “psuedo-neutrality” and adopt a non-belligerent status. In that way, he said, the nation will he able to cope with fifth column activities. “How else,” he asked “are we to deal with the German consuls who are using the cloak of diplomatic immunity to spread foreign propaganda?” The United States, he said, can not afford to let any dictator ‘gain one more inch of ground,” and there is no alternative but to give all possible aid to Great Britain. “If it becomes necessary for us to declare war, then I can see no alternative but to support such an “The governments of ‘Japan, Germany and Italy ate immoral and un-Christian. We have no moral right to stand and watch a man murder another in the street than we do to stand and watch the totalitarian governments murder their neighbors. “To bring it down to the most selfish view, if we don't stop the murderer, he eventually will kill us.” The Shortridge meeting is open to the public.

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Five men, including a Lebanon postal clerk, were arrested by the U. S. Marshal yesterday and will be arraigned in Federal Court Monday. Those arrested are: Guy Voss Burnett, 30, charged with filing false financial statements in connection with the operation of the Bloomington Office Supply Co. Wayne L. Click, 24, of Lebanon, postal clerk, charged with embezzlement of Federal funds. He is alleged to have taken $278.98. Eldon Covington, 21, Bloomington High School basketball star, charged with interstate trans-

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By HARRY MORRISON “I just can’t understand it . .., I just can’t understand it.” Charles Huxley. whose family probably has. had more hard luck in the past few years than any other in Indianapolis, folded his brawny arms and stared out across the back porch of his home at 332 S. Rural St. He saw the burned foundation of

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his former home. He saw the car that had fallen on his son yesterday morning, smashing the youth's hand. He was thinking of his wife, injured seriously when she tried to help free their son yesterday . . the good job he once had as a City policeman .. . his son and granddaughter who almost burned . to death earlier - this year in a fire which was fatal to the granddaughter's aunt . . . the deaths of his father and mother and aunt. . .. “I just don't understand it,” he repeated. ? Started in 1929

“We've always been God-fearing people. We went to church. We've tried to save our money. We've shared with those who didn't have. We've never done anything wrong. “It all started in 1929,” he mused. “We'd been doing fine until then. Now I guess you'd call us the Hard Luck Huxleys. ; “I got diabetes. I was in the hospital. We didn’t have any income but odd jobs the boys could do. My father had diabetes too and had to have some operations. He finally died. My mother died here, and so did my aunt Mary Cox, who had come to stay with mother. Aunt Mary hadn't even been sick.

“My wife had five operations. I} don’t know where we got the money. We thought then the bad luck would slack up a little, but this spring things really started to happen . . . just as if nothing bad had happened before,

Dropped Weight on Foot

“Last spring was when the fires came. My son, Brodie, was a good worker—a lot of might in a small package. Last year a 600-pound weight dropped on his foot. That was the first of his own bad luck. “His fire was March the 12th. His daughter, Betty Ann, was sick with the croup. A coal-oil stove exploded and she was almost burned to geath. Her aunt, who had come to stay with hre, died in the fire and Brodie was burned so badly he can't do anything but odd jobs anymore. “The family all thought that would be the end. Then our house burned down. We'd bought six lots here on Rural St.—paid for them by the week. I was raising chickens, they were ready for the market. “I went down to buy feed and when I came back the house was gone. So was our furniture. Burned up. We lost 635 roosters worth 55 cents a head. ‘All I had was the

Mother Hurt Seriously

“We figured, sure, that would he the end. It was—almost. Then yesterday morning Warren, who's 18, was fixing this tire. The jack came loose and the hrake drum came down on his hand. It hroke all the bones in his hand and wrist. ~ “His mother rushed off the porch and I ran up from the back. We hauled at the car and we couldn't lift it. A neighbor jumped over his fence and helped us and we finally got Warren loose. Thén my wife keeled over.” Mrs. Huxley is at Long Hospital with serious internal injuries, the extent of which have not been determined. But Mr. Huxley still is not complaining. He just doesn't understand it.

MAN KILLED, WIFE HURT IN COLLISION

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. Sept. 24 (U, P.).—J. D. Whitaker, 27, of Noblesville, Ind., formerly of Louisville, Ky., was killed last night three miles north of here when his car crashed head on into a transport truck on U. S. Highway 31. His wife, Martha, 27, was injured: seriously. The couple had just moved to Noblesville.

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SEATTLE, Sept. 2; (U. P.).—A partial text of Wendell Willkie’s speech in Seattle last night follows: In 1932 Candidate Roosevelt said that our No: 1 problem was jobs.

He was right that time, In 1936, when Mr. Roosevelt was again a candidate, our No. 1 problem was still jobs. And now, in 1940, Mr. Roosevelt is still a candidate—and our. No. 1 domestic problem is still jobs. The only difference is that today, Candidate Roosevelt is no longer talking about that subject. Some time back, the New Dealers gave up ‘talking about jobs and just talked about unemployment. According to no less an authority than

work. That proposition I totally reject. But I am not going to talk about unemployment tonight. I came here to talk about the cure for unemployment. I came here to talk about jobs. Now, there are two ways for peoOne way is for them to work for themselves. Most farmers, many retail store operators, service station keepers and other small businessmen have that kind of job. The other way to get work is to find an employer who will hire you, .

EMPLOYER FIRST NEED

Now, there are two kinds of employer systems in the world, and only two. Under one system, almost all of the people work for private employers. That is the system we have in democratic countries. Under the other system, almost all of the people work for one employer, namely, the state. That is the case in Russia, and, in effect, in Germany and the other dictator countries. Under a dictatorship there need never be any unemployment. The state tells you what you must do, where you must do it, and how you must do it. . . We in America have made our decision with regard to that issue. We want to work for and with private employers, and not for the state. We believe in the freedom of employers to find new ways of creating jobs, and we believe in the freedom of the workers to take whatever jobs they want—whatever jobs provide them with the most worthwhile life and the most hopeful opportunities. : That is the system I stand for, and if you elect me President, that is the system you will get.

SUPPORTS LABOR ACT

I stand for every one of the social gains that labor has made. I stand for the National Labor Relations Act and the right for collective bargaining. I stand. for minimum hours and maximum wages, and for legisaltion to enforce them. I stand for social security benefits and helieve that they should be extended to other groups who do not yet enjoy them. I believe that we should be insured against unemployment, and that our old age should be protected by adequate pensions. These are maximum guarantees. @ They are minimum standards below which security dare not fall. No American can contemplate the future with an easy mind or an easy conscience unless he can see in that future a society willing and able to provide dts workers with at least that -nmreh protection. Now if the New Deal wants to claim credit for those minimum safeguards, I say let it have just as much as it deserves. I don't care how much credit the New Deal claims, because I know, and the record shows, that the New Deal has let labor down. As indispensable as it may be, the Wages and Hours Act does not make jobs;“and the right to collective bargaining, fundamental as it is, does not do any good to the man who has no job to bargain about.

BILL MUST BE PAID

An administration that wants to do something for labor must go much further than minimum guarantees. Such an Administration, while protecting labor’s rights, must make jobs, and jobs . .. There are three chief reasons why American workers should fear the continuation of unemployment. First, there are 9,600.000 persons

out of work today, which means

Officers and directors of the Corn Belt Liberty League are opposed, without qualification, to a third term for President Roosevelt, league headquarters in the Claypool Hotel announced today.

At the .same time, R. Lowell McDaniel, national vice president in charge of Indiana, was instructed by Tilden J. Burg, national president, to renew the organization's fight, started in 1938, against the regimentation of agriculture. Two years ago the league opposed Democratic congressional candidates in the state. Mr. McDaniel said the national organization’s anti-third term stand meets with the unanimous sapproval of Hoosier “dirt farmers” who took part in the, 1638 movement. These farmers, he said, “feel even more certain now, after watching one New Deal farm program failure after another, that the policy. of scarcity and pig butchery is not the way to solve the farm problem and never has been,” “National issues, are much the same as they were in 1938, as far as farmers are concerned,” Mr. McDaniel said, “except that the

Corn Belt Liberty League Opposes F.D.R. Third Term

tell us what to sow .and when to reap are now also telling us that the Great White Father is indispensable and thus should be given what no other man ever even dared to ask—a third term in the Presidency of the United States.” Mr. McDaniel, who owns and operates a 160-acre farm in Hancock County, said that ‘for any man to attempt deliberately to set himself up as an indispensable and use the misery of other peoples’ wars as an excuse is beyond the comprehension of the sound-think-ing American farmer.” “By the very nature of his (Mr. Roosevelt's) program,” Mr. MecDaniel said, “he tenderly pulled into the fold some of the elements of the highly commendable labor movement, all the radicals and parlor pinks and a group that. would rather live off a grocery basket than to work for a living. “But he still had to reckon with the most powerful voice in Amer. ica—agriculture, the plain dirt farmer. That appeared and still looms as Mr. Roosevelt's only obstacle to a third, fourth, fifth, or who knows, a sixth term.”

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Partial Text of Willkie’s Address in Seattle ;

Harry Hopkins, a large number of our people will always be out of

Mr. Willkie

that there are 9,600,000 persons looking for your .job. Secondly, ours is an expanding population. More than half a million new workers come to maturity each year. More than a half million young people are turned out of schools to look for new jobs that do not exist. If these young people have no place to go, they will be out looking for your job too, and the next year, there will be another half a million of them. But thirdly—thjs is the most dangerous fact about unemployment— it is absolutely impossible for a government to go on supporting a growing number of unemployed. Somebody has to pay the biil. And don’t kid yourselves—that bill is being paid by those of you who have jobs. The average income per individual in the United States last year was only $540; the average tax paid per individual was $110. One fifth of our national income goes for taxes. And the biggast single item on the tax bill, aside from defense, is relief tor the unemployed. Of course, the New Deal has found an easy method of paying for that big relief bill. Your taxes don’t anywhere near cover it, so the New Deal borrows the money. In seven-and-a-half years it has borrowed about twenty-two billion dollars. And you all know that this can’t go on indefinitely. If we go on living beyond our income, there is bound to be a collapse—a collapse that will drag down, not only the precious rights of labor and all the social gains that. you have made, but also your jobs, your opportunities and your hopes for the future. The one and only remedy for this increasing Government debt, the one and only safeguard for your rights and your opportunities, is jobs and jobs and jobs.

‘BUSINESS MAKES JOBS’

Now what makes a job that is a! forthright question and it deserves a forthright answer. Business makes jobs—little business, big business, corporations, partnerships, and small companies. Under our systems, if we are going to have jobs we must have employers, It is not enough that the present employers should hire more men—although that is very important. There must be new employers

/ Under the New Deal the employer who puts up money to make a profit has been in the dog house. Government officials have encouraged the belief that he is a kind of conspirator against society, and exploiter of the workers. Profits have come to be regarded, not as the legitimate reward of enterprise, but as a kind of a tax laid upon society by privileged men. Now if you really believe all that bunk, then you

‘ought to change our system so that

we can all go to work for the State. Because, so long as we keep our system’ of private enterprise, the em-

ployer will not put up $4000 for your

job unless he can make a profit on it. ; I am not interested in profits as such. I am not interested in employers as such. But I am inter-

" |ested in both employers and profits

as a means of making jobs for those who are now employed. And as a means of making better jobs for those who are already employed, I am pledged to get those jobs, and I intend to keep my pledge. Now there is a second thing we must understand about that $4000. THe man who invests it must be given a clear chance by the Government to make his factory work. But the New Deal has not done that. The New Deal has been hostile to employers. It

has attacked them for almost everything they do, or fail to do. . . . Also, as I have pointed out on many occasions, the New Deal tax structure is unscientific ‘and. inefficient. But we must be careful not to levy taxes that will discourage employers from starting new businesses, from hiring more workers. And worst of all, the New Deal has constantly changed its laws, its taxes, and its regulations. You understand that in order fo do business successfully, a man must be able to predict the future with some reasonable certainty. It is the duty of Government to stabilize our economic system as much as possible. When the system is kept in turmoil as it has been under the New Deal, a husinessman cannot predae‘t the future and, therefore, he won't risk his money in new enterprises to make new jobs. . . . So here's my point: IT am 100 per cent determined to keep th minimum safeguards that labor has won. I'd even be in favor of raising them whenever we can afford to do so. But I say those minimum safeguards are not enough. They cannot really protect you. They cannot protect you from the threat

_ TUESDAY, SEPT. 24. 1840

of unemployment. They cannot protect you from the great loa: of debt and taxes that you are | carrying. And they cannot prot. : you from the collapse of cur s: stem, which will inevitably come if we continue as we are today. The only thing that can really protect

you, the only thing that can basic-

ally safeguard your rights and opportunities, is new employment— more jobs — more Work — more growth—more expansion. . . .

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—new employers every day. If we are to give our workers a chance, there ought to be 200,000 new enter- | prises founded every year. Now what has happened under the! New Deal? Between 1900 and 1929, the number of business enterprises per thousand of population increased about 17 per cent. We were growing and there were plenty of jobs. Today, we have even fewer business enterprises per thousand of population than we had in 1929. Measured by the standard of our previous growth we are short about 700,000 enterprises-—that is, we are short about 700,000 employers. Nowadays, it is about as hard to start a new business as it is to rob a bank—and the risks of going. to jail are about ag great in both cases.

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Factories are really tools for the workers to use. Tools that enormously increase their earning power. But you will find your factory expensive to build. Taking an average across the country you will find that you have to invest about $4000 for every man you employ. In other words, it takes about $4000 of investment to make one job. Now| there are two things about that $4000 that you must understand. In the first place, neither you nor anybody else. will put up that $4000 unless there is some chance to making a profit on it. That profit is what you earn from the factory that the workers are using.

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