The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • Page 1

Sunday 7VT IT A TAT A TTh IT i TELEPHONE Riley 7311. GREATEST MORNING AND SUNDAY CIRCULATION IN INDIANA. PARTLY CLOUDY. VOL. 32.

NO. 26. SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 1, 1934. Entered as Serond-CUa Ma'ter at Post Ofc. lodunapalu, lad.

Issued Daily and Sunday. TEX CENTS. THE Star. EIGHT PARTS mm, SCENE OF FATAL SOUTH BEND HOLDUP. DILLINGER ELUDES POUCE AFTER FATAL SOUTH BEND HOLDUP STRIKES SUDDENLY AT THREE OPPOSITION GROUPS; LEADERS OF STORM TROOPS EXECUTED REVOLT CHIEFS DIE.

German Leaders Report Desperado Himself Believed Wounded in Gun Today The Merchants Katlonal Bank at South Bend, where a band of rieNperadoes led by John Dillinger scooped up $28,430 yesterday and fled in a wild gun battle, killing a policeman and wounding four persons. ft GEN. KUKT VON SCHLEICHER. Don't Swim Here! Daneerous Holes Listed by Police and Red Cross. SIGNS TO WARN SVIMMERS AT WILL JUMP GUN 1 FALL RACE Von Schleicher, Former Chancellor, Capt Ernst Roehm, Chief of Brown Shirts, and Catholic Ac tion Head Die First Two Charged With Plotting With Foreign Power.

MANY ARE SLAIN BY LoriS P. LOCH NEE. (Copyright. 134. by th Associated Pkm.) BERLIN, June 30.

Chancellor Adolf Hitler, ruthless and uncompromising, smsshed a revolt in the third Reich today with swift retali ation that took the live of high oppositionists to his rule. Over all Germany tonight, however with troops snd machine gunners, rifle-carrying police and guards on patrol there was suspense, fear, apprehension over a civil war, or, at least, a revolution within the ranks of. the National Socialist (Nazi) party. For the present, Hitler held undisputed power. In a day of summary punishment for those who challenged hia authoritythe denouement of th crisis of recent weeks, haatened by th disclosure ef immoral orgies Indulged in by leaders of his own Nazi storm troops the chsncellor ''liquidated" leaders of a threefold opposition: The reactionary monarchists, the "Catholic Action' group and the Left -Wing storm troops who plotted his endv 'Foreign Power" Plot Charged.

Two of the dead were charged with plotting with a "foreign power" to end the Hitler regime. They were: Kurt von Schleicher, former chancellor who wanted to restore th monarchy. He waa killed. with Frau von Schleicher when they resisted srrest at their country home near Babelsberg, outside Berlin. Capt.

Ernst Roehm, th commander of the atorm troops, for years Hitler's clos friend. He wss arrested, deposed, accused of immoral practicea that brought shame to the Nazi movement. He committed suicide. There was no further statement on the "foreign power." Want "Conspiring" Power Named. Representations came to the German Foreign Office from at least one embassy asking that the "conspiring" power be named so that other embassies in Berlin might no longer be under suspicion.

In the crushing of the revolt, seven storm troop lesders were shot to death in Munich. An untold number of other brown-shirted storm troopers were killed resisting arrest or committed suicide. Heinrich Klausmer, leader of "Catholic Action" group, was shot to death. Killed Resistlnr A.Yet. Count Wolf Heinrich Helldorf, Nazi police official in Potsdam, ally of Roehm and other storm troopers who plotted to seize control, was killed, ostensibly while resisting arrest.

With Hitler at the helm, unchallenged as his chief aid as a result Rebels Aimed to Kidnap Dictator Reign of Terror Planned Uncover Bomb Throwers' Hideouts Von Papea Is Seized, Soon Released. NATION IN TURMOIL at last moment to stir up mutiny the ranks. The mutiny came just before th storm troopers wer to leav for month's furlough, during July. On previous occasions, Hitler has. shown the utmost reluctance to de pose a friend from power.

But was presumed that the orgies participated in by Roehm, which Hitler learned of on hi trip to Bavaria, forced him to act. Hitler himself stripped the epaulets from the uniforms of Roehm and other storm troop leaders. Determine to Cleanse Party. This detail seemed to stand out ia bold relief: Hitler and 'Goerlng, mindful ef rumblings that hav rolled up in recent weeks, determined to cleans lh'Nazi party leadership of possible excuse for calling tht'' Reichtwehr mor definitely into th political picture. The death of Von Schleicher added to the tens situation.

He held 4 wide popularity in th pra-Nast Germany and waa a close friend of tht crown prince. But the armed fores placed stra tegically about th capital wer felt, apparently, to be sufficiently strong to cop with any emergency. Von Pspen Soon Released. On of th first tsken into custody by th Goerlng police was Frani von Pspen, the non-Nasi Vic chan-cellor. He was soon released, how.

ever, and it was announced was held as a protective measure. It was von Papen who added to the intensity of th crisis last week with his public address criticizing the Nazi muzzling of th press snd wsrning Hitler of sn impending revolt in tht ranks of th storm troops. Details of the Roehm plot against Hitler were disclosed with th arrest of th storm troopers. The movements of the conspirators Wee Daily reported to Goering. Th brown shirt anti-Hitlerites planned, before disbanding for the July fur lingh, virtually to kidnap Hitler, force him to sign a document turn, ing streets over to storm troops for three dsys.

Bomb Throwers' Hideouts Plated. In Tiergarten Strasse, th street oa which sre located th Americas, Japanese and Turkish embassies, bomb throwers' hideouts had been placed. So far as could be learned, tht plotters had no political program. Theirs wss a sheer lust for power, stated observers who have watched the recent events. To Viktor Lutze Hitler gav th task of commanding th atom troop and of purging and cleansing' Hi units of undesirable elements.

Soon after this appointment, before he boarded the airplane at Munich for the return to Berlin, tht chancellor issued a set of commandments on morals for the guidanct of all storm troopers. His new Nazi credo: Cleanllnesi, CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN. 1 oh 7 Understand Germany's Crisis more clearly after reading what Frank H. Simonds says in today's Star Part 5, Page 8. Hitler moved swiftly yesterday to throttle his foes.

Germany is at the crossroads. Where will it end in real resolution, or a restoration of the monarchy? Slruonds writes with supreme timeliness on tht grave peril confronting the Third Reich, Turn now to Us article in the) Feature Section Page 5, Part 5 Sixty-Day Campaign An nouncement Fiction-rDrive to Get Under Way in Short Time. BY MAURICE EARLY. During the next, two months diana political machinery will In-be geared up for the most Intensive congressional campaign in twenty years. The announcement of the head quarters that the campaigns will be limited to sixty days is really fiction.

It merely means that the headquarters trappings will not be set in motion until then. About Sept. 1 the headquarters wilt install their speakers' bureaus and begin to issue pamphlets and other literature. Farley to Set Off Campaign. The Democratic campaign actually will start July 13 when James A.

Farley, postmaster general and Democratic national chairman, will explain the new deal doctrines at a dinner at the Claypool Hotel. Omer Stokes Jackson, Democratic state chairman, expects the Farley meeting to have the crowd appearance of a state convention. County chairmen and vice chairmen throughout the state have been assigned tickets to insure delegations from all the ninety-two countiea. This love feast, designed originally to sell the Roosevelt administration's policies, is being converted by the Indiana Democratic leadera into a huge testimonial to Farley. Hope to Break Down Barrier.

It is designed to break down the barrier that has existed between the Roosevelt patronage chief and the state administration. Farley has been slow to forget that the Indiana delegation to the Chicago convention followed the strategy policy of Governor Paul V. McNutt and aided in the attempt to stop Roosevelt. Three weeks after the Farley meet- CONTINUED ON PAGE THBEE. Battle at Bank in Which Policeman Was Killed and 4 Others Shot- Bloodstained Cfir Aban doned Near Goodland, Gang Gets in Another.

MOB TAKES $23,439 (Other Pictures a Page (Speca fo Th Indianapolix SOUTH BEND, June Oillinger came out of hiding today, returned to his native Indiana with a band of ruthless gunmen, stormed the Merchants National bank here and fled with $28,439 in a wild gun battle, leaving a slain policeman and three, wounded men behind. The nation's No. 1 bad man himself was beleved to have been wounded by a detective as the gang of four or five desperadoes escaped. With Oillinger were believed to have been John Hamilton and 'George (Baby Face) Nelson. An hour and a half later the tan sedan in which th gunmen roared out of South Bend was abandoned on a country road near Goodland.

The ear had been riddled by fifteen bullets and th side was covered with blood. The robber killer trans ferred to a sport coupe which fol lowed, and apparently had eluded pursuit tonight The leader of the gang was identified as Dillinger by Detective Harry Henderson who shot at him, and by W. Coert, vice president of th bank, and others who cowed by the robbers, Customers Forced Back. The mob descended on South Bend shortly before noon and crowded about fifty customers to the rear of the counting room of the bank be fore they scooped up the loot. Th dead.

PATROLMAN HOW ABO WAG-NEB, shot fatally as he rushed to ward the bank during the holdup. The wounded: P. O. STAHLET, manager of the Birdaell Manufacturing Company; shot In leg, not serious. DELOS M.

COEN, cashier of the bank; shot in leg, not serious. SAMUEL TOTH, shot in head, not serious. JACOB SOLOMON, shot in abdomen, condition critical. I As he entered the bank, Dillinger opened fire with the machine gun, spattering the bank ceiling with a' score of bullets, and yelled: "This is a holdup." AU Cash la Sight Taken. Directly behind the bandits came D.

M. Coen, cashier. As Dillinger fired and yelled, many of the bsnk employes and customers dropped to th floor. Others locked themselves in a rear washroom. While Dillinger menaced the customers with th machine gun, two other bandits ran behind the cages and finding employes lying on the floor there, ordered them to get up and go to the rear of the bank.

Then they scooped CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN. WEATHER FORECAST Jim Crow says: Evidently Bex Tugwell has not heard about the Hoosier -erstie strategy of denying, and ex plaining nothing. Forecast for -n-'S diana for Sunday and Monday: Partly cloudy with moderate tem peratures, possibly local showers in south and extreme east portions Sunday; Monday generally fair. Forecast for Indianapolis and vicin ity tor Sunday and Monday: Partly cloudy with moderate temperatures, possibly local showers Sunday; Monday generally fair. Catted Mate Wtatber Bart special ls-, part far The iMUaaasottt star.

ALMANAC OF THB DAT. sua rises Sua acts Ms WEATHER CONDITIONS YESTERDAY. Relative Humidity. 7 1. a.

7 pet Noon fit pet p. m. 74 pet Precipitation. Amount durtni twenty-four hours ending at 7 p. .11 Total amount nnct Jan.

1, 1(34 11.14 Accumulated departure from normal since Jan. 1 (deficiency) l.Sfl -Tim. Dry 74 Wet ft Minimum. SI 14 Wet 73 Ts.ni. Wet 72 Minimum.

71 For tht lame Date Ltit Ts. I Maximum p. Mittanua. 77 A Brave Old Woman. Rugged Roosevelt.

Non Nobis, but the U.S.A. Some One Too Bully. By Arthur Brisbane yt THIS li written, Mtrli Dreaaler ia taid by her doctor te be dying, of "recurring cancer." She whoae courage could not he conquered by the years ii conquered by "the disess of old age," as modern doctor call it. Nature haa many ingenious ways of letting rid of us, to maks room for the new crop of men and women, and cancer is 'one of the moat efficient, It attack! tiaauet that no longer have the energy to reiat, like soldiers attacking a retreating army. Marie Dreeeler aeta a good example to all, eapecially to discouraged men.

After years of succeaa on the stage, aha found heraelf "old and no longer wanted," aa ah aaid to thia writer. added that ahe thought would 6 to Hollywood "and try to make a living. There muit be little parti that I could pick up there. The Id-timers know me and one of them might giv me a chance." h. nt in Hollywood and con- uered Hollywood and the moving -picture world; She aaked for "anything you can offer," and became one of th greatest moving picture sura of all time.

Her almple delight ia her aucceaa waa beautiful. It was not that ahe could earn in her old age. fou' t'raM the aUry t0 the Preaident of the United States that pleased her, or the fact that her vafii as an artist tu reater than that of th most beautiful actresses not one third her age. Her Joy waa born of the fact that age had not conquered her. that ahe waa not to be "dependent." and her talk was constantly of those that had given her "opportunity In spita -of thia plain old fac of mine." It was no "plaft old face," but a beautiful old fac.

in which ahon intelligence, the only. true beauty. Marie Dressier mad million happy, and set a noble example of unconquerable courage and hard work. Senator McAdoo, praiiing President Roosevelt, aaya "rugged individualism dying." that wer tru. it would be a sad thing for th country, because some necessary things white rsbbits can not do.

If rugged individualism had died earlier, there would be no tunnela under the North river. McAdoo cut them there and it waa a rugged job. And If there were no rugged individualism left, there would be no President Roosevelt. Any man able to make Congress eat out of his hand, and Jump through new era hoops, is rugged. Rudyard Kipling, not as young as he was, but persistently Britiah and patriotic, writes a new poem which say "Non nobis Pomlne," meaning "Not unto us, 0 Lord," ahould th praise be given, Thia new "recessional" poem was written for a magnificent pageant celebrating England marvelous, recovery from the big war and depression and dragging in the defeat of the srmada.

Kipling might have written, but did not write, "Non nobis Domine give the praise to our gooselik friend. Uncle Sam, for without him sending us billions of dollars, and quietly accepting our default, we should not be so well off." This great nation as, mild as a sick white mouse concerning the gi gantic defaulted debts of France and England, ia roaring like a first class Hon at Germany's default It must be a great comfort to find aome on to whom you dar speak plainly, rtturigyndlct, Ine.) THE STAR TODAY CoiuuU of 8 Parte Part 1 General News and Automobiles. Part 2 Want Ads, Garden and Building. Part 3 Society, Travel and Amusements. Part 4 Sports, Radio and Financial Part 5 Editorial, Art, Books and Features.

Part 6 Magazine. Part 7 Alco-Gravure. Part fr-Comics. DAMGERSPOTS Red Cross Will Post Cards at Unguarded Places jn Hope of Reducing 'Drownings. In the hope of reducing the appalling total of deaths by drowning in Indianapolis and vicinity, the local chapter of the American Red Cross will placard unguarded swimming placea with danger aigni, officials of the chapter made known yesterday.

To date, seven persons have met death by drowning in Marion county thia season, Esch summer approxi mately a score is drowned, most of them because they were swimming in unsupervised spots. Posting of ths warning signs is a psrt of th Red Cross campaign for safety in summer sports. Morriseey lauds Program. Michael F. Morrissey, chief of po lice, wss requested to sdvise the Red Cross as to whether thia activ ity might prove effective.

Chief Morrissey promptly expressed a de sire for. Red Cross co-operation in assisting the police in problem of saving lives in unguarded swim ming placea -and issued a general order to the police department directing officers to assist in the prep aration of a list of dangerous swim ming places. "This task of endeavoring to keep swimmers out of the dangerous and uaguarded streams is an old police problem," Chief Morrissey said. "Of course, our principal worry in re apect to thia problem has always been the small boy, who, tempted by ths water, has taken a chance in some dangerous stream, when' it hss been impossible to guard effectively sgainst this dsnger. Members of the police department feel keenly every loss of life that occurs, but we do not have the men available to guard effectively the streams and gravel pits in and near the city, because it would require the constant services of an unuusually large force day and night to provide parents with complete protection from loss of life of the small boys who take undue chances.

Warns of Unguarded Spots. "We have, endeavored to provide the Red Cross' wityi a list of the CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN. 2Vi Cents A WORD or 15 cents line each day, is the regular cost of a seven-time Want Ad in The Star, which includes one insertion in the big Sunday Star. The following a liat of un guarded swimming places that have been designated as dangerous by the Indianapolis police department and at which the Indianapolis Red Cross proposes to post warning signs; Monon bridge and White river. White river north of Municipal Garden.

White river dam at Emmerichs-ville bridge. White river and Fall creek. White river at Beauty avenue, Kingan bridge and White river. West Henry street and White river. Oliver avenue and White river, Kentucky avenue and White river.

West Kay street and Whit river. Morris street and White river. Old bed of river, end of South West street snd Minnesota street. Gravel pit, Raymond street west of White river. Gravel pit south of Raymond street east of Eagle creek.

Eagle creek and Vandalia bridge. Eagle creek and Minnesota street. Eagle creek and Morris street. Eagle creek and Pennsylvania railroad tracks. Eagle creek north of West Washington street.

Fall creek and Monon bridge. Gimber avenue and Bean creek. Fall creek and aqueduct. STORES TO CLOSE AT Five O'Clock Rule Will Be Observed Again Beginning Thursday. ine Merchants Association announced yesterday that the 5 o'clock closing season for the first five days in the week will begin Thursday, July 5, continuing to and including Friday, Aug.

31. The 5 o'clock clos Ing does not apply to Saturday. A number of the downtown stores for years have closed at 1 o'clock on Saturday during July and August. I The 5 o'clock closing rule of the retail stores has been in force nearly thirty years, having originated with the stores of the. Merchants Stores Join Movement.

Each year other stores have joined the movement until now the 5 o'clock closing for the first five days in the week is practically complete in the downtown district. It eliminates a half -hour at the end of a hot, tiresome day and is appreciated not only by the thousands of employes in the downtown district, but by Uie shopping public. Cards announcing the 5 o'clock closing movement for the first five days in the week during July and August have, been distributed in the retail district. Additional cards may be had in the office of the Merchants Association, 801 Illinois building. Cards for members of the East Washington Street and West Washington Street Associations will be delivered by the offices of those asso ciations.

Spanish Cabinet Faces Leftist Croup Prttture MADRID, June 30. Rumors of a fresh government crisis owing to. pressure from Leftist groups insist ing on resignation of the Cabinet over that Catalnni-n aitimtinn flooded ths corridors of Concress todav iust before adjournment until Thursday, I mgnt wing elements sconea at tne possibility of a government upset. 0S CAPT. ERNST ROEHM.

of the day's developments, was Premier Hermann Wilhelm Goering'of Prussia. The' "iron fist" of the Nazis car ried out Hitler's orders. He sent his police into the streets, keeping the busy traffic from, congesting with crowds. He mobilized the reich-swehr, the regular army. He called In storm troopers from Munich and other headquarters.

He dispatched Hitler's own guard, the black-shirted schutz staffel, to take command at Nazi headquarters. He had the "liquidation" well under way by the time Hitler arrived by airplane from Munich where, since early hours of the day, he had directed the counter movement to quell the mutiny. With Hitler in the plane -were Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goeb-bels and Heimrich Himmler, chief of the Bavarian police. Hitler was greeted on the streets of Berlin with newspapers giving long accounts to "Der Fuehrer's (the leader's) thorough action in removing Roehm," Frequently, during the tense day, there was heard conjecture that Hitler's sction was designed to shuffle off "the wild men" of the Nazi movement. Decided to Stir Vp Mutiny.

Apparently, it was said in reliable scources, Roehm and storm troop leaders realized the possibility of a coup of some sort and decided Fund Needy Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Springer 8.00 E.

F. 100 Teddy and Don Bradshaw 1.00 May K. Cariln 5.00 Cash 1.00 Mother and Daughter IMi Dorothy and Jeanne 1.011 Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.

Bate man 2.00 Cora E. Fletcher 10.00 Mary Eleanor anh Marjorie 30 Twelfth District Council, American Legion Auxiliary 10.00 Main Office Employes Kingan Co. 17.S7 10.00 Mrs. E. Klnghan Mr.

and Mrs. G. A. B. Anonymous Apt.

MM Msrott Hotel Dlnty Moore's Entertainers Total 100 1.00 3.00 i.39 $11.01 Previous report $1,033.11 Grans total i jW-J-v Popsickles Frozen at Home Arouse Boys' Sympathy for Ice Gifts Make Ice Available to 1,600 Families. (Pictures on Page To The Star-Salvation Army Penny Ice "Our mamma makes popsickles for us in her electric refrigerator, and we are so sorry for the children who can not have any ice and we want you to use this money for them, "We think if everybody who has an electric refrigerator would give you a dollar there would be almost enough to give ice to every poor child." Remember Where Some Forget. Teddy and Don Bradshaw, whoever they may be, sent this letter to th Penny Ice Fund yesterday. In the manner peculiar to children, they seemed' to have sensed what their elders often overlook they have more than some other people they know. Teddy and Don sent a dollar.

They obtained the dollar, no doubt, from their father and mother. But they 1 know that the electric refrigerator -lwaya is out there in the kitchen, i CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO. Nonpariel Bride Club 10 Natlanl Carloadlng Corp. Em ployes S.S0 Cash 1.00 Barbara and Carlyn S.W A Friend of Children 3.00 Indiana 8tate Highway Cen tral Office 18.00 Indiana State Highway Central Garage 10.00 A Friend 5.00 Ladies' Auxiliary of the United Hebrew Congregation 10 No. Name G.

L. F. 5.00 1.0 l.N 100 A Friend Mrs. Laura M. Barrere C.

S. M. and E. M. G.

F. L. G. S. Walnwright S.00 3.M 10.00 s.

l.tt E. E. M. Frank and A. L.

Rabh it M. H. M. Jr Minnie L. Strickland A Well Wisher 10.lt.