Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 91, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1929 — Page 2

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TWO KILLED, 15 HURT, IS CITY’S TRAFFIC TOLL Thomas Knox and Joseph Kukman Fatally Injured in Accidents. Two men were killed and fifteen persons Injured in auto accidents in and near Indianapolis over the week-end, according to police and hospital records today. Police were seeking three hit-and-run drivers and two men were under arrest. Deputy sheriffs and state police today sought the hit-and-run driver who killed Joseph Kukman, 58, of 756 Ketcham street, and injured his son, Joseph Jr.., west of Plainfield Sunday. According to witnesses, the driver of the death car did not stop after the accident. Funeral services will be held for Mr. Kukman at 9 a. m. Wednesday at the Holy Trinity church followed by burial in Holy Cross cemetery. In addition to the son, Mrs. Kukman is survived by the widow, Mrs. Mary Kukman and a daughter, Miss Mary Kukman. Thomas Knox Dies Thomas Knox, 65, of 152 North Blackford street, died late Sunday night at the city hospital as a result of injuries he received earlier in the day when he was struck by an auto driven by Willie Jackson, Negro. 809 Blake street. Police were told Jackson was not to blame for the accident. Police continued their search for the motorist who struck two autos Sunday night and fled from a posse of motorists and police. Hits Two Machines The hit-and-run driver rammed into the auto of August Strecker of Detroit, Mich., parked in a filling station in the 3300 block West Washington street. As the driver fled his car sideswiped another auto driven by Rudolph Sokoloski, 1028 Goodlet avenue. The driver abandoned his car and was chased over railroad tracks and across vacant lots before he eluded his pursuers. A conditional sales contract in the car was made out to Peter Clements, 119 East Palmer street. He said he had turned the car over to a finance company and representatives of the company said it had been obtained by an employe who is out of the city. Nelson Kelso, 3253 North Arsenal avenue, and his wife. Mrs. Letha Kelso, were injured today when their auto was struck by another driven by Ollie Hodge, at Howard and Harding streets. The Kelso auto overturned. Car Hits Phone Pole William Coburn, Lafayette Heights, and Miss Georgia Wright, Mars Hill, were recovering today from serious injuries received Saturday night when Colburn’s car overturned after striking a telephone pole. Colburn and Miss Wright were badly cut and bruised. Two motorcyclists were injured when a cycle overturned, after swerving to avoid striking an auto Sunday night, The injured are: John Davenport, 18, of 433 South Pine street and Ronald Reeves, 16, of 217 North Walcott street. An alleged drunken driver who gave his name as Chester C. Harland, barber, address unknown, was held here today to face charges of failing to stop after an accident near Kentland, Ind. C. B. Fraley of East Chicago captured the driver. Fraley said he saw Harland’s car strike another driven by three girls. Auto Hits Fire Truck Three men whose auto struck another car and fire truck at Adler street and Madison avenue early today were sought by police. Guy Johnson. 269 North Pershing avenue, was under arrest following an auto crash late Saturday at Belmont and West Washington streets. He was slated on five charges, including failure to stop after an accident. No one was injured. Other persons injured, included: Louise Sheefer, of Terre Haute, injured near Plainfield, when her auto ovrtumed; Coen Lysle, 232 Dorman street, and Othel Winninger, 17. also of the Dorman street address: Mrs. Betty Harris, 42, of 2912 Shriver avenue: Mrs. Anna Kennedy, 55, of 1509 Brookside avenue and Gus Schulthause, 50, of 1201 Wright street.

HOUSE IS BOMBARDED Thomas Gordon Says Auto Occupants Threw Rocks. Police today investigated a complaint of Thomas Gordon, 1222 Lee street, that two rocks were hurled through windows and a third made a hole in weather boarding of his house early today as a gray sedan sped by. Gordon was unable to explain the rock hurling. GARY LAWYER^ACCUSED Disbarment .Asked in Allegation That SSOO of $1,500 Collected Was Kept. Bu Time # Special GARY. Ind.. Aug. 26—Toeill H. Grabowski. veteran Gary lawyer, faces a suit asking his disbarment from practice for two years. The suit was filed by Antoni Abtiszkiewcz. a former client. It is alleged that after the attorney had collected a note for $1,500 turned over to him for that purpose, he kept S9OO. Charged With Stabbing Negro Alleged to have stabbed Leon Reeder. Negro. 412 Rankin street, in a drunken fight on Cora street Sunday, Hubert Johnson. 1341 Fayette street, today was charged with drawing a deadly weapon. Reeder faces assault and battery charges. Officials to Meet RUSHVILLE. Ind.. Aug. 26 Sixth district school attendance officer* will hold a meeting here Wednesday with Blanche Merry, state attendance officer. Counties to be represented include Rush, Payette, Wayne, Union, Franklin and Decatur.

1875-Model ‘Jazz Band’

Proving that dulcimers exist outside of cross-word puzzles, J. H. Hendrick of 433 North Illinois street produced this one, thereby throwing himself open to jazz band offers. The handmade instrument is more than fifty years old and has been in Hendrick’s possession thirty-five years. He thrums its strings with a turkey quill.

SIX TAKEN IN LIQUOR RAIDS Moonshine Plant Is Found Above Confectionery. Squads of police and deputy sheriffs applied blotters to one alleged liquor manufacturing source and several distribution points over the week-end. Six persons were arrested on blind tiger charges and three others were sought today. In the upper floor of a lunch and confectionery shop at 1001 North Capitol avenue a police squad under Lieutenant Ralph Dean Sunday dismantled two stills, one of seventyfive gallons capacity which was in operation, and a fifty-gallon set which was idle. Fifty gallons of double distilled whisky, a quantity of mash, and additional distillery equipment also were confiscated. V. Dimigrdff and Simson Bojinoff, operators of the confectionery, were absent. Five hundred quarts of beer, a pint of -whisky, and tw r o slot machines, said to pay quarters, were taken by deputies and Floyd Ellers was charged with operating a blind tiger when his home Box 165, Rural Route 12, was raided Saturday night. Others arrested were Raymond Marshall, Ravenswood; Joseph Gibbs, 43, Negro, 2322 Aqueduct street: Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Eckert, 2417 Bond street; Mrs. Mary Boldt, 35, of 1105 South State avenue; and Fred Perkins, 32, of 221 South Summit street.

THREE GIRLS MISSING Parents of Two Believe They Left Together. Three young girls today were missing from their homes, according to reports to police. Miss Freda Farmer, 14, of 1242 Bridge street, left her home Saturday and failed to return, her mother, Mrs. Ada Breedlove, reported. Miss Beretta Walley. 15, of 522 North Noble street, and Miss Lucille Roland, 14, of 349 North Liberty street, disappeared from home Sunday. Parents believe they left together. MEAT PACKING DECREE IS CALLED ARCHAIC Speaker Denounces Limitation on Four Leaders. Bit United Press WILLI AMSTOWN, Mass., Aug. 26. —Frederic S. Snyder, chairman of the Institute of American Meat Packers, told the institute of panties today the “consent decree,” restricting the business of four leading American meat packers, is archaic and should be removed. Snyder, who also is president of Batchelder & Snyder Cos. of Boston, said the packers agreed to the consent decree at the end of the war to avoid legislative restrictions which were urged by the federal trade commission. The reports of the commission, which recommended government control of branch houses and distributing centers of the meat packers, were characterized by Snyder as "patiently prejudiced.” Under the terms of the consent decree, he said, meat packers are forbidden to handle milk, fruit, vegetables or groceries and also are forbidden to own stock in or to become proprietors or partners in retail stores, or to have interests in stockyards.

Pay in Advance Romance may be dead but not dead broke. Mrs. Edith Stephenson. 1027 North Oakland avenue, believed this true today after her hus-band-to-be. Lon Appelgate. alias Martin, 425 South Hamilton avenue, disappeared with her savings of $360. She told police it was “love at first sight” with her when she met Appelgate. Lon wasn't in any hurry to get married. Finally, Mrs. Stephenson told her “love" she had $360. Appelgate agreed to wedlock. He borrowed the money and disappeared.

From Clover to Jail By Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., Aug. 26. —Warren Snedeker and S’. A. Armstrong, Connersville, in jail here, may pay dearly for their fresh air bedrooms in which they were found by Sheriff Elmer Cannon, Henry county. Called to a farm southwest of here, the sheriff found the two asleep in an automobile parked in the center of a clover field. They had driven through the fence, made themselves comfortable and retired. The men are charged with violation of the liquor laws, and intoxication.

BURGLARS GET LOOTAT HOME Yeggs Fail to Open Safe at Bottling Works. A platinum ring and clothing valued at $750 were stolen Sunday night from the home of Paul Moffett, 4285 North Meridian street. While she purchased a railway ticket in Union station Sunday her brief case and suitcase containing clothing and papers valued at more than SIOO were taken from the lobby, Mrs. Marie Singer, Appleton, Wis,.. reported. Attempts of yeggs to open a safe in the Monument Bottling Company, 912 North Davidson street, Sunday night, were futile. After ransacking the offices they escaped with $2 in pennies, according to Rudolph Domont, 2344 North Pennsylvania street, manager. EXTRADITION IS WAIVED Alleged New York Gunman to Accompany Policeman to Gotham. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 26.—Charles Green, alleged New York gunman, indicted for murder of two gangsters in the Hotsy Totsy case last July, waived extradition here today. He agreed to accompany Policeman Tom Horan to New York shortly before court opened this morning. Mother of Official Dies Bn Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Aug. 26. Mrs. Mary Leeman, 86, wife of Alfred Leeman, is dead at her home in the northeastern part of Hamilton county of a stroke of paralysis. Among the five children she leaves is William Leeman. a member of the board of commissioners of Hamilton county.

CHILDREN’S PARADE FEATURE AT FAIR

Thirty Prizes to Be Given for Circus and Pet Procession. Jesse P. McClure, city recreation director today approved plans for i the children's circus and pet parade to be held Tuesday, Sept. 3 as a feature of the 1929 state fair, i The circus is sponsored by the j Boy Scouts of America as the closing number of Boy Scout day at | the fair. The fair board has posted SIOO in prize money to be awarded jin vaiious classifications—probably i at least thirty prizes. All children in the city are eligible to compete in the parade, which ; starts at 7 o'clock Tuesday evening lin the coliseum. There will be three divisions in the line of march—those who bring pets, those in costumes and those who take part in the tumbling competition. For the pet parade, children may ; bring ponies, burros, dogs, cats, rabbits. guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, i geese, or any other kind of pet. I They may be ridden, driven, carried. I led or hauled on miniature floats or in cages. Ingenuity will count, j Prizes in the costume division will • be given for the most original and comical costumes. In the acrobatic

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SCORE KILLED IN MUNITIONS DUMPBLAST Series of Explosions Level Fifty Homes and Terrify City of Nanking. Bu United Press NANKING, Aug. 26.—A series of tremendous explosions in a munitiions dump on the outskirts of the city today caused the deaths of a score of persons and did damage estimated at several millions of dollars. Fifty houses situated near the dump were leveled by the blasts and the entire populace of Nanking was terrified, necessitating establishof martial law. Authorities were unable to learn the exact cause of the explosions, which occurred near the western gate of the city and lasted for more than two hours. It was feared that possibly many other persons had been killed by the blasts and their bodies buried in the debris. Armed guards patrolled the streets of the city and a double cordon of guards was thrown around the area damaged by the explosions.

CITY SWIMMING MEEHS HELD Ellenberger Adds to Long List of Victories. Ellenberger pool's long list of swimming laurels was increased today by honors taken in winning the city-wide swimming meet at Rhodius park pool Sunday. Norman Hammer, life guard, was in charge. Ellenberger captured 45 points for first place, and Rhodius swimmers piled up 29 points to take second. Rose Mulroney won the girls’ juvenile twenty-yard race and Alfred Bennett the boys’. Other races and winners were: Junior girls’ forty-yard free style, Mary Alice Shively; junior boys’ forty-yard free style, Cecil Merkel; senior forty-yard free style for girls, Marjorie Fowler; senior boys’ fortyyard free styie, Ned Tilman; junior girls’ forty-yard breast stroke, Saxon Chewalter; junior boys’ for-ty-yard back stroke, Mac Mclntyre, Rhodius; senior girls’ forty-yard breast stroke, Mary Fowler; senior boys’ forty-yard back stroke, Ned Tilman; senior diving, Charles Jones, McClure beach.

SLEEPY DRIVER UNDERARREST Accident Brings Alleged Confession of Theft. Frank Macey, 32, of 722 Fletcher avenue, today made the mistake of going to sleep at the wheel of his auto and is held in the city hospital detention ward while his companion, Everett Simpson, 18, of 578 Janes street, sits in the county jail. Deputy Sheriff Frank Young answered a call a man was injured in an auto wreck on the Brookville road, three miles east of the city. He found Macey badly cut. He looked more closely at him and recalled Macey had been quizzed by detectives several times in years gone by in connection with alleged auto thefts. Young found a basket of brass fittings in the rear of the wrecked car. Young said the men admitted stealing the material from a traction storage house at Morristown Sunday night. Macey told Young he fell asleep while driving and his car struck a telephone pole. CHECKS ARE PLENTIFUL Robert Ray, 37. 120 North New Jersey street, gave checks in payment for an automobile, radio, room rent, and other bills. Ray was lodged in city prison today charged with issuing fraudulent checks. They total more than $l,lOO.

Entry Blank CHILDREN’S CIRCUS AND PARADE INDIANA STATE FAIR 7 p. m., Tuesday, Sept. 3 Name Address List below kind of pet you will enter, or if you expect to do tumbling act or appear in clown costume Mail at once to Circus Office, Indiana State Fairground, Indianapolis, Ind.

division, the tumblers should wear clown suits. The entry list closes at 5 o’clock Friday afternoon. An entry blank will be found in today’s issue of The Times. Upon receipt of entry, the circus committee will mail a free ticket to the entrant. All those participating in the parade are expected to report at the east end of the coliseum not later than 6:30 o’clock Tuesday evening, Sept. 3.

Firearms Coach

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Major Edwin C. Ball of the Indianapolis police department, coach of the Indiana National Guard rifle and pistol team, who left today for Camp Perry, 0., for the annual national small arms firing school and meet, Aug. 25 to Sept. 15. Major Ball is an Indianapolis motor policeman. The Hoosier civilian team, which also will participate in the meet, is composed of Lamont O’Harra, Newcastle; Bernard Elmore, Newcastle; Frank E. Watson, Tipton; James W. Hurt, 3225 Sutherland avenue; Paul L. Daubenspeck, Milroy; Ralph W. Noland, Ft. Wayne; Marcellus Flory, Logansport; Charles W. Thompson, Clayton; Walter B. Lyon, Terre Haute, and Jacob L. Bales, Albany. John F. Holmes, Lafayette and Othel E. Crockett, Logansport, are alternates.

PAVING PLANNED ON 1 [PROJECTS Highway Body Will Receive Bids Sept. 17. Bids on eleven paving projects, totaling approximately 100 miles, will be received by the state highway department Sept. 17, it was announced today by Director John J. Brown. The projects include: Pour miles on 46 in Washington county, extending the • pavement from Canton to Salem. Thirteen miles in Daviess and Washington counties and twelve miles, from Seymour to North Vernon, in .Jackson and Jennings counties on 50. Two miles from Peru to Leppolds Crossing in Miami county on 24. Five and six-tenths miles in Elkhart county, between Wakarusa and Jimtown, on 19. Eighteen miles in Noble county, between Ligonier and Kendall ville, on 6. Nine miles in Laporte county, between La Crosse and Wanatah, on 43. Eighteen miles in Greene county, between DUgger and Bloomfield, on 54Eleven miles in Allen county, from Ft. Wayne to the De Kalb county line, on 27. Six miles in Adams county, from Decatur to the Ohio state line, on 16, and the closing of short gaps at the junction of 31 and 46 near Columbus. One mile of grading on 46, northwest of Bloomington in ’Monroe county, is also to be contracted for at this letteing, Brown announced. The work is on re-location.

BUS FATAL Driver of Auto Killed in Collison Injuring Thirteen. Bu United Press VINCENNES, Ind., Aug. 26.—One man was killed instantly, another hurt perhaps fatally, and thirteen other persons injured slightly near here today when a St. Louis to Vincennes bus collided with an automobile. Leo Henderson, 27, Vincennes, driver of the automobile was killed and Landis Martin, 15, a companion, taken to a hospital near death. Louis Englewood, 30, Olney, 111., driver of the bus was slightly injured. Seven occupants of the bus were injured seriously enough to be taken to a hospital. The others were given first aid on the scene. The automobile was demolished.

BOOZE FUMES DEADLY Two Moonshiners Killed by Gas From Mash. Bu United Press GARFIELD. N. J., Aug. 26. Samuel Sherman, 50. and Hyman Schwartz, 42, were killed in a garage here bv fumes generated by a still in which they were attempting to make whisky. When the doors of the garage were opened, the gas made several persons in the neighborhood ill. The mash will be analyzed in an attempt to learn what chemical caused the gas to form. Father of Nine Killed P.u Time* & Derial GARY. Ind.. Aug. 26. Stanley Kopach, 43. father of nine children, was killed when struck by the automobile of a hit-and-run driver. He was holding the hand of a son, Edward, 9, when struck, but the boy was unhurt. The widow is the mother of twins born less than a week ago. Injured Man Asks $15,000 P. u Timex Sin-rial HAMMOND, Ind., Aug. 26.—Suit for $15,500 damages has been filed against the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad by George W. Meyer, a truck driver, injured when a machine he was driving was struck by a locomotive. He alleges the railroad was negligent in that no warning of the engine’s approach was given. Former Officer Dies Bn Times Special WINSLOW. Ind.. Aug. 26.—Robert Biggs, 56, former town marshal here, is dead of injuries suffered when struck by an automobile driven by Harscourt Scales, 24.

SLASH AUTOS’ TOLL BY HALF, EXPERTURGES 50 Per Cent of Accidents Are Avoidable, ‘Safety Isle’ Father Declares. BY HENRY T. RUSSELL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON. Aug. 26.—Fifty per cent of traffic accidents are avoidable, in the opinion of Barron Collier, famed traffic control expert and advertising man, guardian angel of the New York pedestrian for whom he originated the idea of painting “isles of safety” in the middle of congested streets. •‘Handling traffic,” he declared, “largely is a question of psychology. This must be taken into consideration if the problem is to be tackled successfully. Use of Psychology “For instance,“ he added, “you don’t think for one moment there is any particular desire on the part of the average motorist to knock down the average pedestrian, do you? “Nor is there any anxiety on the part of the average pedestrian to be run over by the average motorist.” “It was that very willingness on the part of motorists and pedestrians to avoid accidents which induced me to try the isles of safety idea. It is only human psychology.” Mayor Walker, Collier said, never answered the letter in which he described his proposals to relieve congestion in New York by barring heavy traffic from the streets in the daytime, allowing them to use the roads only at night. Heavy Traffic at Night He had proposed that from Seven-ty-second street down, First and Twelfth avenues be reserved for four lines of heavy commercial traffic to be separated by four white lines painted in the street. The two center lines, he said, were to be for “express” traffic only. The two other lines were for “local” traffic, “just like on the subway.” “Besides,” he concluded, “the scheme would enable the New York police practically to annihilate banditry. With traffic running all night, it hardly is likely that thugs would have much of a chance, is it?” he asked; Collier, plans to return to New York after a visit to Paris and Bad-en-Baden.

CITY BUYS 63 CARS YEAR Total of SBO,OOO Spent for Motor Equipment. Sixty-three automobiles and trucks have been purchased by the city in 1929 at a cost of SBO,OOO, according to records in the office of Purchasing Agent Joel A. Baker. Street Commissioner Charles A. Grossart’s department headed the list with twenty-two new pieces of motor equipment. Total cost of the equipment to motorize the street cleaning department and other trucks was $35,035. Other departments: Engineering department, seven machines, $6,564; municipal airport caterpillar tractor and five-passenger sedan, $3,875; Gamewell division, two cars, $1,632: fire department, six machines, $7,600; police department, fourteen cars at $8,599; park, six cars and trucks, $10,203; health, two cars, $1,102; hospital, one ambulance chassis, $2,695; city plan, one sedan, $1,410.

OFFICERS ARE ELECTED Milwaukee Man Is President of Air Service Mechanics. Officers elected at the closing session of the Second Regiment Air Service Mechanics reunion at the Severin Saturday were: Jerry Mason, Milwaukee, Wis., president; Lieutenant R. C. Gardner, Indianapolis, vice-president; Major T. J. Leary, Chicago, secretary-treasurer; the Rev. Robert J. Bustard, Philadelphia, Pa., chaplain, and Dr. Forest K. Paul, Indianapolis, sergeant at arms. New members of the executive committee are: E. E. Glockner, Portsmough, O.; Colonel Roy F. Farrarrd, Delafield, Wis.; J. A. Ashby, Evansville, and R. M. Avery. Lackawanna, N. Y. ‘PHONEY’ BILLS SEIZED Havana Police Find $1,400 in Hotel Room. Bit United Press HAVANA, Aug. 26.—Havana police were searching for an American today in connection with the discovery of $1,400 in counterfeit United States $5 and S2O bills in a hotel room on Saturday. David Rebbi, a Russian clerk in the hotel, who was arrested, was released after a satisfactory explanation in which he proved the room in which the counterfeit bills were found had been occupied by an American. Hotel to Cost 5100,000 Bn Times Special CHESTERFIELD, Ind., Aug. 26. A 100-room hotel to cost SIOO,OOO will be built on the camp grounds here of the Indiana Spiritualist Association, its executive board announces.

' Poached Eggs A “big butter and egg bandit” is at large in Indianapolis today. Police received a report a Sugar Creek Creamery Company truck, loaded with butter, eggs and milk was stolen from the rear of the Claypool this morning while company employes were in the hotel to obtain an order. It is said the truck was loaded with approximately 1,000 pounds of butter.

Queen Is 111

Queen Victoria of Sweden (above) is reported seriously ill at her ancestral home in Mainau, Germany. Physicians say her condition is very weak. She is 67.

24 ARE INJURED IN BUSCRASH Motor Coach Leaves Road, Hits Three Poles. By United Press PITTSBURGH, Aug. 26.—Twentyfour persons were injured today when a Cleveland-to-Pitt.sburgh motor bus on the Greyhound lines left the highway at Emsworth Borough and crashed into three telephone poles. Fourteen of the injured persons were taken to hospitals and ten others were treated by physicians at the scene of the crash. The driver of the bus, A. B. Schwek, attributed the accident to a locked steering gear. As the bus entered the Pittsburgh suburb almost at the end of its night trip from Cleveland, it suddenly swerved to the side of the road. The driver struggled to prevent the bus from getting beyond his control, but in a second it struck a telephone pole, careened into another pole and crashed its side into a third pole.

PASTOR JAY RESIGN Missionary Society Office to Require Full Time. Formal notification of his election to the presidency of the United Christian Missionary Society of the Disciples of Christ will be made to the Rev. W. A. Shullenberger Sept: 1 after his return from a vacation at Spirit Lake, la. A committee appointed at the international conference of the church at Seattle, Wash., where the Rev. Mr. Shulenberger was elected, will notify him. The Rev. Mr. Shullenberger will be forced to resign his pastorate of the Central Christian church if he accepts his new position. PIONEER CITY WOMAN IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Mrs, Hattie W. Wilcox Dies After Brief Illness. Following a brief illness Mrs. Hattie M. Wilcox, lifelong Indianapolis resident, died in her home at 1728 Ruckle street, Sunday. Mrs. Wilcox was a member of the Tabernacle Baptist church and the Indiana Historical Society. Indianapolis relatives who survive are Mrs. Rebecca Cobb, a sister, and three nieces, Miss Hattie Cobb, Mrs. S. D. Blount and Miss Helen Blinn. CHAUTAUQUA I fo~ ~OPEN Five-Day Program Begins Tonight at Baptist Center. A five-day Chautauqua will open tonight at the Baptist Christian center. 162 North Blackford street. Readings, lectures and musierr numbers will comprise each evening’s program. The Chautauqua will close Friday night. The Baptist Christian center i? supervised by the Indianapolis Federated Baptist churches. Willa B. Walker is director of the center and the Rev. John Crist,ea is the pastor.

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AUG. 26, 1929

BRITISH LIKELY TO REJECT NEW WAR DEBT PLAN Four-Power Offer Regarded as Unsatisfactory on 60 Per Cent Basis. BY FREDERICK KUH United Preis Staff Correspondent THE HAGUE, Aug. 26.—While British Chancellor Philip Snowden studied today the most recent offer of France, Italy, Belgium and Japan, supposedly gran.ing 60 per cent of Britain's demands for increased reparations annuities, the British delegation gave intimations the four-power offer was likely to be refused. The adjournment of the conference tomorrow without result was considered a serious possibility. Betting odds among the conference spectators favor the rejection of the offer by Snowden, which inevitably will mean anew crisis. Percentage Is Offered Rumors persist the new offer, besides referring to the tentative settlement of the deliveries in kind dispute and suggesting a settlement of the British claim for an increased share of unconditional annuities, proposes between 55 and 60 per cent of the 48,000.000 marks flat increase in British cash reparations. After conferring with representatives of the other three powers which submitted the offer to Snowden, M. Adatchi of Japan visited Snowden and opened the first discussion of the new proposal. News reaching the German delegation after the offer was delivered to Snowden caused Gustave Stresemann, German foreign minister, to make pessimistic utterances as to the prospects for an agreement. The Germans were convinced Snowden would reject the offe.r. If the statement emanating from a semi-official French source is true that the new proposal offers Britain only between 28'100,000 and 29,000,000 of the marks demanded, Snowden’s refusal of the offer is considered certain. Tire contents of the four-power offer were expected to be revealed later today. Predict Failure British sources intimated if the four powers proffer fulfillment of only 55 to 60 per cent of the British 48,000,000-mark demand, and if this is the four powers’ last word, the conference must fail. The rumors aver the 55 to 60 per cent of the 48,000,000-nrark annuities comprises 220,000,000 marks of the 300,000,000 accruing from the excess of the Dawes plan over the Young plan payments for the last five months. France, Belgium, Italy and Japan have agreed to abandon their claim to any of these 300,000,000 marks if Germany does likewise. Moreover this part of the offer is reported to include 100,000,000 marks the British receive above the Spa percentages under the Young plan the first year. Finally it is understood Italy has made a concession by assuming a large guaranty of the 150,000,000 mark • Czechoslovakian liberation debt, which would be payable to England.

‘HENRY FORD LIVES IN DREAM.’ SAYS BUTLER “Prohibition Friend of Liquor Traffic,’’ Claim of College Head. Bn United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—Henry Ford, who recently said he would quit making automobiles if prohibition were repealed, “lives in a land of dreams” on the liquor issue, according to Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university. “If Henry Ford really wishes to diminish the evil effects of what he rather familiarly calls “booze,” Butler said, “he ought to exert himself to get the eighteenth amendment repealed and to substitute for it a sound, an American, a moral and a Christian method of dealing with what is a vitally important social problem. “Ford appears to live in a land of dreams and does not seem to have grasped the fact that prohibition is the most powerful friend the liquor traffic has ever had” SUM FIGURE NOW UNFASHIONABLE Women and Girls Can Now Bo Healthy as Well as Stylish That excessive and unnatural slimness that ruined the health of thousands of women and young girls is no longer fashionable. Paris couturiers are developing clothes for the rounded figure. Musical comedy producers are searching for healthy, normal figures for the stage. All the world is getting health-wise where the human figure is concerned. This means that women and girls will be encouraged to eat enough varied foods at regular meals to supply the requirements of health. It means that tuberculosis, anemia and other dangerous results of undernourishment may be more easily averted. And to the eyes of discerning men and beauty experts, it means that women will be more natural and more beautiful. Eat cereals, milk, fruits, vegetables and meats daily. Do not gorge or overeat, but eat variety. Remember that flavor, is the one important factor in causing people to eat varieties of foods, and that sugar is nature’s supreme condiment for developing the flavors of nearly every healthful food. The necessity of a dash of sugar for making cereals, fruits and milk desserts delicious is well known. Women cooking experts recently discovered that a dash of sugar in vegetables while they are cooking revolutionizes their freshness ana natural vegetable flavors. Most foods are more delicious and nourishing with sugar. Tha Saga? Institute. —Advertisement.