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a a a a a a a a a a WEATHER Partly cloudy, south portion possibly in extreme tonight; warmer portion Saturday. VOL. XLI NO. in extreme south scattered Saturday BULLETIN showers portion and The 275. Delivered NINE INDIANA INSTITUTIONS FILE REQUESTS WITH BUDGET COMMISSION TOTALING $2,388,537 ALL OFFICIALS Represent Construction Proposed Needed To Make Buildings Modern and Safe INDIANAPOLIS, Aug.

17-(P)- Nine state institutions today filed with the budget commission requests for appropriations for new construction work during the next two years that would involve total expenditures of $2,388,537. Officials of the various institutions represented that the conmake the buildings and in struction proposed is, needed to some cases to insure safety. The requests included the following: Fort Wayne state school and Muscatatuck colony; amount requested buildings proposed for the state school; new school. building and assembly hall, 000; remodeling of administration building, remodeling of old school into dormitory, new residence for overseer, remodeling old farm house into dormitory, new cattle barn, new chicken house, $1,500. Buildings proposed for Muscata-1 tuck colony, hospital two colony buildings, residence for assistant superintendent, employes' quarters and dining hall, $30,000.

'Evansville State Hospital: Amount requested construction proposed, new boilers and water softener new sewage system to connect with Evansville system or with new sewage disposal plant, new wells, forty by forty feet extension to kitchen, eight inch water line, vermin proof warehouse of at least 10,000 square feet capacity, $20,000. The hos- (Continued On Back Page) RALLY OF YOUNG PEOPLE TONIGHT Will Feature Nazarene Program--Naming Dfficers Today (BULLETIN) The following four men were elected as trustees to the Olivet College, Olivet, which is operated by the Church of the Nazarene, at the election of officers being held this afternoon in connection with the ninth annual convention of the Indianapolis District of Then Church Rev. of Earl the Albea, Nazarene: Indianapolis; the Rev. L. 0.

Green, Evansville, the Rev. Jesse Towns, Indianapolis, and Grover VanDyne, Maxwell, Indiana, assistant state superintendent of public instruction. As The Times goes to press this afternoon, the convention delegates were voting for members of the advisory council. Having late Thursday elected Rev. Jesse Towns, of Indianapolis, district superintendent, the ninth annual convention of the Indianapolis District of the Church of the Nazarene today balloted on other officers, including a treasurer, secretary, advisory board members and trustees of the Olivet College at Olivet, Ill.

Committee reports were also a feature of today's sessions. Rev. Towns has been serving as district superintendent since the post was vacated several months ago. Tonight a young people's rally will be featured with Rev. Clive Williams, of Olivet, field resentative of the Olivet College, in charge of the program.

The 01- ivet trio will be featured on this program, together with the McKinley Sisters, Jack Bierce and numerous church duets and trios. Speakers on the program will be Rev. Williams, Rev. Mark F. Smith, district superintendent of the Naz.

arene Young People's Society Miss Mary Frances Emerson, Olivet College student. Rev. D. A. Weida will direct the singing.

Saturday at 11 a. m. the ordination service of the convention will be held. convention will be brought to a close on Sunday. WILL ROGERS says: TOKIO, Japan, Aug.

16-Well, Japan won't have her world supremacy in business long. I saw a lot of golf courses being put in. That's the beginning of a nation's commercial decline. When we traded spade for a putter, that's the we started in the red. What you guys doing with silver over there' You got these folks about nuts and I expect you got yourself the same way.

thie Rope goes STATE LIBRARY Bedford by Carrier 10c a Week HITLER SPEAKS FROM HAMBURG TELLS NATION FOREIGN HOSTILITY PROMPTED HIM TO SEIZE PRESIDENCY TALK BROADCAST Address Today First and Only Speech He Will Make Before Sunday Plebiscite HAMBURG, Germany, Aug. 17 -(P)-Chancellor Adolf Hitler told the German nation today that foreign hostility toward the Reich prompted him to seize quickly the presidential powers of the late Paul Von Hindenburg. Hitler said he appropriated the authority, of President instantly, that his purpose in stepping into the place left vacant by Von Hindenburg was to forestall a national calamity. The address here, heard by the entire nation, was Hitler's first and only speech before the plebiscite Sunday in which the German people will be asked to approve his joining the offices of. Chancellor and president.

"Otherwise naturally wouid have chosen another way--first an appeal to the people and then a carrying out of the people's decision," Hitler said. "In this case the result would have been no different from what it will be now," he said. But the attitude toward Germany abroad did not permit such calm procedure, the Chancellor explained. our aged field marshal and reichspresident, after a blessed lifetime, closed his eyes there were not a few people outside the reich who saw in his death the beginning of serious internal fights in Gar many. "Elements which we shall never be able to recognize at once trembled, so to speak, with anticipatory fears.

But, as is So often case, the wish was father to the I thought. "This game has been frustrated in the interests of the German people and the reich." Admitting authority for simple assumption of the reichspresidency was already his through the enabling law passed by the reichstag giving the chancellor full power, Hitler. declared the final decision rests with the people. Hitler made no secret of the economic difficulties of the third reich. He referred to "the economic decay which in a few weeks (Continued On Back Page) JAPS CONSIDER RUSS WARNING DEFINITE DECISION NOT YET REACHED, FOREIGN OFFICE SPOKESMAN SAYS ARRESTS DENIED Declares Japan Is Preparing For No Forcible Action Against Soviet Government By GLENN BABB (Associated Press Foreign Staff) TOKYO, Aug.

17-(AP)-The Japanese government is "considering the possibility of sending a "general warning" to Moscow as the next step in their gravely strained relationship, a foreign office spokesman said today. This procedure has not yet been decided upon, he added. The spokesman said the possible warning would recount many frontier incidents, including alleged soviet plots and provocations. Settlement of past cases would be urged with assurances requested against repetitions. "But such a warning will not necessarily carry threats," the official asserted.

This spokesman denied the arrest of 17 Russian officials and employes of the Chinese eastern railway in Manchukuo this week or other troubles there connected with the deadlock in Japanese negotiations for purchase of the railway from the soviet. The arrests, in which the Russians were charged with revolutionary plotting against Manchukuo, "are purely Manchukuo's affair and Manchukuo is an independent state," said the official. "Concerning the Chinese eastern railway negotiations we consider them still in progress and not broken off." Referring to Moscow dispatches charging that Japan is preparing for forcible seizure of the C. E. the spokesman asserted: "This is entirely an absurd canard.

I can guarantee that Japan is preparing for no forcible action against the soviet." News that a warning to Moscow is being considered came after Japanese newspapers published threats of military action against Russia because of the situation in Manchukuo. Troublesome issues between Tokyo and Moscow have been frequent since Japan took over Manchuria three years ago and created the "independent state" of Manchukuo. (Continued On Back Page) HOUSE Baily Times IND. First LEADING, LAWRENCE In News and NEWSPAPER ivertining COUNTY'S BEDFORD. INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUG.

17, 1934. Associated Press Leased Wire PRICE 3 CENTS DEATH CLAIMS MRS. MARY RAE Former Prominent Bedford Milliner Died At 2:30 This Afternoon At Dunn Hospital Mrs. Mary Rae, 1316 Thirteenth street, who entered the Dunn Hospital last evening, for treatment ailments she has been suffering for a long time, died there at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. Funeral details have not been completed.

The body was removed to the Day Carter mortuary for burial. Rae, preparation. a native and lifelong resident of Bedford, was for many years one of the city's most prominent and successful milliners. Failing health made it necessary for her to leave her store several months ago and she has since been confined at her home except for her recent stay at the hospital and a previous sojourn there for a few days several months ago. She was a devout member of St.

Vincent de Paul's Catholic Church. TO ELECT OFFICER'S The Lawrence County Fish, Game and Forestry Protective sociation will meet this evening at the Greystone annual election of officers" as the feature of the session. All members are urged to attend. G. O.

P. GATHER LAKE WAWASEE WILL DISCUSS POLITICAL SITUATION AT MID-SUMMER OUTING STORMY PETRELS Holding Spotlight On Speaking Program At Current Editorial Association Meet I By CLAUDE H. WOLFF (Associated Press Staff Writer) LAKE WAWASEE, Aug. 17-(P)-Indiana Republicans met here today to talk over the political situation, hear from their leaders and to take a fling at golf, boating, fishing, swimming, airplane riding and other outdoor: sports. The occasion was the annual mid-summer outing of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association.

No business meetings were scheduled for the editors, the officers of the organization deferring such activity until the winter session. Frederick Landis of Logansport, Republican nominee for congress from the second district, will be the principal speaker at a dinner tonight. He will fire some of the opening shots of the fall campaign, which will not officially begin until next month. United States Senator Arthur R. Robinson, who seeks reelection, will be the speaker at a dinner tomorrow night.

The address will mark the official opening of campaign. He is expected to stress the national issues on which the voters will pass judgment in the ber election. State Chairman Don B. Irwin, Harry C. Fenton, secretary of state committee, and other party leaders were early arrivals.

Harry W. Thompson of Versailles, president of the editorial association, (said 'he expected practically all members of the state ticket and congressional nominees, at the gathering by nightfall. It is a coincidence that two of the stormy petrels the lican party in Indiana -Senator Robinson and former Representative -hold the spotlight at the current gathering of the editorial association. Senator Robinson has sought unsuccessfully several times to gain command of the state committee. (Continued On Back Page) DAUGHTER SLAYS RANCHER FATHER Confession Which Advances Fear As Motive Proves Surprise To Investigators SAN JOSE, Aug.

17-(AP) -Mrs. Bernice Beauchamp Pickrell, 19, was held under a murder charge today after she had suddenly admitted at a coroner's inquest that she shot and killed her rancher father because she "was afraid of him." The father, Robert Beauchamp, 65, was found shot to death at his Gilroy ranch Tuesday and until the daughter's surprise admission yesterday, officers had expressed the belief he committed suicide. PAY PHONE STOLEN Smashing a pane of glass in a window at the George L. Rariden filling station, located at Sixteenth and streets Thursday early this morning, a "robber reached through and stole the pay telephone in the station. Later the telephone, broken open, was found in an alley between and streets, which links Seventeenth and Eighteenth stReets.

The amount of cash in the telephone could not be determined. MILLIONAIRE BREWER RELEASED John S. Labatt, wealth Canadian, brewer, was back at his home in London, Ontario today after being held captive 65 hours by kidnapers who are Said to have liberated him on outskirts of Toronto shortly before dawn today without collecting the $150,000 ransom which they demanded for his liberation. An authority commented that the kidnapers developed "cold feet" as Canadian police displayed the tenacity for which they are noted in an effort to make an example of the first "snatch" gangsters in Canada's history. WILSON PARK DEDICATION Planned For Monday Evening In Honor Of New Community House Visitors at Wilson Park are greatly interested in the new Com munity House, located in the north part of the tract, on high ground where it is easily noticed.

It is constructed of native field stone that was carefully selected, a certain quality and color being desired. After several days search in different parts of the county, the stone was found near Peerless. The building is of the mountain lodge type, with solid walls, hand-riven clapboard roof. has a large assembly room, thirty by seventy feet, concrete floor, a large fireplace at one end and a seating capacity of around 500 people. It will be especially suitable for those gatherings that can not be easily provided for in other buildings.

The room is equipped with semirustic chairs, bridge tables and several small benches for children. There are two ante-rooms, ten by ten feet, ore of them to be used as a kitchen, has running water, electric range, sink and table. The construction was under the Civil Works program, all the labor cost being paid from Federal aid funds and the material and equipment was provided by the city, except the electric range, which was donated by the Public Service company. That the building has hecome an accomplished fact has been due to the time and hard effort of Will Ingalls. He made the original sketches from which the draftsmen made the final plan.

He gave personal attention to the selection of the material and vised its putting in place. The LOCAL FRIENDS OF C. C. FORD Attend Rites Of Former Jackson County Man At Brownstown This Afternoon Mr. and Mrs.

Albert Dunihue, James F. Stephenson and Mrs. R. B. Dye went to town this afternoon to attend funeral services for C.

F. Ford, 90-odd years old, a native of, Jackson county, who died at o'clock Thursday morning at St. Louis, where he had made his home for a number of years. The remains were brought back to Brownstown at 2:50 o'clock this afternoon over the B. O.

railI road and services and burial followed immediately, interment being made in the Brownstown cemetery beside the body of his wife, who preceded him the grave several years ago. Mr. Ford for a number of years spent his annual vacation at Trinity Springs when that resort was a haven for hundreds of vacationists during the summer months and timed his visits there to conform with those made annually by the Dunihue and Stephenson famlilies. As result of these annual outings together a fast friendship developed which has continued through the years. Mr.

Ford was a former railroad employe. result is a building of pleasing proportion and design and practically depreciation proof. On next Monday evening the public generally is invited to inspect the building and to witness and have a part in the formal dedication. The details of the program will be announced tomorrow. BEDFORD CONCERT BAND COURT HOUSE PLAZA FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1934 8 O'Ciock P.

M. FRANK L. REED, Director 1. Semper Fidelis March. Sousa 2.

Overture, Sky Laurens 3. Diane From Wm. Fox's 7th Vocal Solo -Miss Lucille Blessing 4. Russian Lullaby Berlin 5. American Patrol Meacham INTERMISSION 6.

Couer D'Alene March. Sweet 7. In a Moonlit Garden, Intermezzo. King 8. I'm Just a Vagabond Lover.

Vallee 9. Lassus Trombone Fillmore 10. March, Gloria Losey Star Spangled Banner -Key Please bring programs as the only announcements will be by numbers. LABATT FREED BY KIDNAPERS WEALTHY CANADIAN BREW. ER RELEASED ON OUTSKIRTS OF TORONTO NO RANSOM PAID Canadian Police Laboring Diligently To Trace Down His Abductors For Prosecution (BULLETIN) DETROIT, Aug.

17-(AP)-The Detroit News says that John Labatt, of London, cousin of John S. Labatt, kidnaped brewer, told friends in Windsor today that $150,000 ransom was paid the abductors; that the identity of the kidnapers was known and that was on his way to Sarnia, where he expected arrests to be made this afternoon. The News says friends of John Labatt reported the conversation to Windsor police. At police headquarters however, the statement was denied. (BULLETIN) TORONTO, Aug.

17-(P)-Despite information from an authoritative source that no ransom was paid to effect the return by kidnapers of John S. Labatt, London brewer, information was made publie in Hamilton today that "less than $50000 ransom was paid for the release of John Labott." TORONTO, Aug. 17-(P)-John S. Labatt, wealthy brewer, returned to his home in London, today after 65 hours in the hands of 1 kidnapers. The $150,000 ransom the kidnapers demanded was not paid for the the abductors Canadian released police, including victim the their famous Royal Mounted, moved ahead with British tenacity to get their men.

"Cold feet," commented an authority, who disclosed that officials were determined to make an example of these first "snatch" gangsters in Canada's history. Labatt was unharmed but in a highly nervous state which sent him to bed. Police surrounded his home where he was reunited' with his and children and visitors were not admitted, but a friend said he had not been physically injured. The brewer suffers from a heart ailment. His family had suffered anguish in his absence for they feared the strain of his experience would kill him.

His brother, Hugh. who drew (Continued On Back Page) SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT MADE BY SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF NATIONALLY KNOWN PENAL EXPERTS NEW SUGGESTION Recommends Against Establishment of Central Sentencing And Parole Court INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. national. 17-(P) -A special committee of ly by known Governor penal Paul experts V. McNutt appointed to study penal procedure in Indiana returned a supplemental report tothe day state not establish a central in which it recommended that sentencing and parole court unless it is prepared to "do an unusual job." The committee's first report offered five major suggestions for the improvement of Indiana's penology and welfare systems one of which was the establishment a central sentencing and parole board.

The other four recommendations were the establishment of a consolidated department of public welfare, coordination of county units of public welfare with, the state department of public welfare, establishment a state safety or highway parole police activities system, that probation and beyond state lines. The supplemental report detailed the plan for a central sentencing and parole court separate from the judicial courts over the state and suggested if the state is not prepared to do "an unusual job at an unusual time with an outstanding social and legal mechanism, that such a program be not undertaken at this time. The committee expressed the fear that such an advance theory of penology might not work at the present time because social welfare funds are being reduced "unreasonably." "We fear," the committee added, "that after a temporary spurt, Indiana, like most states, would settle to a cheap and mediocre administration of a system requiring intelligence and ability. The report said "it has been the well considered judgment," that the function of determining innocence or guilt of offenders should he separated from the functions of determining the treatment training and work of offenders and then deciding when they should he alflowed to go outside prison walls. BANDIT KOKOMO HOLDUP Escape In Automobile After Robbing Bank, Messenger Of $883 In Cash Today KOKOMO, Aug.

17-(AP)Two robbers took $883 from Dallas Andrews, bank messenger, and escaped a shortly before noon here today. Andrews said he was approached by one of the bandits as he walked out of the post office with the money en route to the Union Bank and Trust Company. Enforcing his demands with a revolver, the bandit, grabled the small bag containing. the money and joined his companion in a maroon colored sedan which had beer. parked near the bank.

Witnesses said the robbers drove north out of Kokomo. With plete descriptions of the men, provided by Andrews, Kokomo police, Howard county sheriffs' officers and authorities from surrounding counties began a search for the two men. Andrews said de did not the opportunity license to plates see on the robbers' car. The bandit who approached him, Andrews said, was short and Dockily built, wore a black mustache, and was without hat. He wore light trousers and appeared to be about 35 years of age.

SURRENDER OF WHEAT MARKET CAUSES RAVAGES OF RECENT 1 DROUGHT TO RECEIVE NEW EMPHASIS U. S. EXPORTS Will Total Zero Next Year Department Of Agriculture Officials Acknowledge By CHARLES P. NUTTER WASHINGTON, Aug. 17-(P)- Ravages of the drought received new emphasis today when it became apparent that the United States will surrender all its wheat markets abroad in 1935.

Department of agriculture officials acknowledged that the exports of' America, which held. a commanding position since 1890, total zero next year. They were quick to add that the United States expects to reclaim its share of world marts when the situation returns to normal. Crop curtailment, put into effect before the drought "cracked down" helped reduce the American farm supply, but officials say the drought would have hit the farmer much harder if it were not for the benefit, payments resulting from the AAA. Other drought aspects: 1.

One sixth of all cattle in the country and one out of every ten sheep will go into little tin cans to be passed out bv the government the needy next winter. 2. Secretary Wallace's suggestion of an "ever normal granary" seemed likely to emerge as one result of the farm rehabilitation drive. It would seek to equalize the supply over years of scarcity, and which abundance. almost reached cloudburst proportions in some parts of the midwest yesterday will benefit some later crops and renew some pastures, officials said.

But on much of the land where the scourge of aridity hit hardest plants are burned beyond redemption. 4. The effects of the disaster will reverbrate into next spring. Just now farmers are selling to the government only cattle which face immediate starvation. As winter wears on, officials said, feed supplies will dwindle rapidly and the government will have to go on buying for months." 5.

Secretary Wallace geared his drought machine to the expectation that the chief problem is feed. ing animals, not people. The only inconvenience human beings face, he indicated, will be a shift in diet from scarce food to abundant ones. Some meats are expected to be relatively scarce. HOLTMAN FREED ON $3,000 BOND Former Supervisor Of Federal Housing Survey To Be Arraigned September 10 FORT WAYNE, Aug.

17-- (P)-Albert J. Holtman, formerly a supervisor of a federal housing survey here, was at liberty under $3,000 bond today following his arrest late Thursday on charges of forgery and obtaining money under false pretense. He will be arraigned in the Allen circuit court September 10. The charges against Holtman were filed after an investigation is alleged to have revealed discrepancies in the payrolls of the project Holtman was supervising. He was dismissed as supervisor following the investigation.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Porter and family, of Avoca, have returned home from Chicago, where they attended the Century of Progress Exposition. STRIKE COTTON TEXTILE GROUP ORDERED BY SEPTEMBER 1 AT CONVENTION SESSION THURSDAY WILLIAM GREEN Says Many Strikes Could Have Been Avoided Had Employers Favored NRA Provisions (By The Associated Press) A nation-wide strike of cotton textile workers there are 500,000 in the United States is to be called within two weeks. Orders fixing the walkout by Sept.

1 were given by the convention of the United Textile Workers of America to its executive council yesterday. The union claims membership of 300,000. Objectives are better enforcement of NRA minimum wage provisions, adjustment of the "stretchout," and elimination of ation against union members. Charging discrimination, 2,000 textile workers struck in Columbus, Ga. Other thousands are out in Alabama.

A bus driver was hurt early today in what Chicago police listed as the first violence of the union bus drivers' strike. Ballbearings were hurled into his bus, striking him. No word was forthcoming about federal efforts to settle the aluminum industry strike, centering at Pittsburgh, but from the same city came defiance of the national steel labor board. John H. Meek, counsel for the West Virginia Railway Company said the firm would resist vith "every legal means" the board's order for an employe election.

William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, commented in Atlantic City that many strikes could have been avoided had employers "entered into the spirit" of collective bargaining provisions of the NRA. The labor relations board ed an employe election among neapolis' truck drivers, hoping de4 termination of representation would help settlement of their strike. Sharp words flew between Walter J. Kohler, former governor of Wisconsin, and union leaders after the latter had rejected as a stings insult" Kohler's plans to end the strike in the, plumbing factory which bears name. Kohler hinted of a court fight.

A federal mediator went to St. Louis in an effort to settle a wage controversy and prevent a strike of: 2,500 employes the Mobile and Ohio railroad. Even in Manila, P. strike troubles made heavy police precautions necessary. The walkout of cigar makers was spreading.

In the Pacific northwest, how4 ever, conditions improved. Crafts unions in Great Falls, accepted terms for settlement of their strike and unions in Butte and Anaconda were to vote on them today. Four thousand striking salmon fishermen and cannery workers went back to work along the Columbia river after a wage compro4 mise. Anna Root, 16 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

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