Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 118, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1929 — Page 11

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riGHT LOOMS TO FORCE CITY PRIMARY VOTE Political Factions Engage in Feverish Activity to Pick Tickets. COFFIN FACES BATTLE Boss Reported Seeking to Line Up Candidate for Mayor. Legal action that would force r lection commissions to hold a >rimary election this fall was contemplated today by attorneys and < andidates for the Republican nomination for mayor. Thomas Daily, attorney, who filed for mayor last spring on the emergency Republican ticket, stated to,day he believed it will be necessary 10 hold a primary within sixty 'days. Meanwhile, Clyde Karrer. Demorntic attorney, was preparing a mandamus suit to be filed in county courts should the Republican faction of George V. Coffin, city and district chairman, select a handpicked ticket w hich did not bear the name "of a certain councilman.’’ Rumors Everywhere These activities and rumors that Coffin will resign after naming a high-class business man as candidate;’ that Coffin is striving to weld i i,e broken segments of the city or;anization: and that Mayor L. Ert flack would fight to hold his post, regardless of his statements to the ontrary, were the highlights in Indianapolis’ political whirlpool today Karrer would not comment further on his comtemplated court action. Taylor Groninger. election board -ttorney, informed commissioners a primary esn not be held and commissioners said they will follow this opinion until legal action is liaken. | Daily based his primary contenition on the supreme court's ruling [that, the city manager law is unconstitution. but the court did not pass on the last section providing for a primary within sixty days should the law be decla-ed invalid and holding of an election sixty days after that. Slack Won't Act Daily said this “saving clause" could be considered "in effect.’’ On being advised of the reports that he may "hold over” after expiration of his term in January, 'lack vigorously declared he would have no part in contesting the elec-, lion of a mayor in the coming election. “I'm trying to fade out and expect to spend the remaining time run- > ning the mayor's office." Slack said. Coffin continued his efforts to find a man to oppose Elmer F. Gay, manager of the Pettis Dry Goods Company, who opened campaign offices today as mayoralty candidate. County Clerk George O. Hutsell is behind him and will endeavor to beat Coffin on the convention floor. The Republican leader indicated he may call the city committee together a week from Saturday and the Democratic committee will name 3 ticket next week. Howe Is Groomed ? Thomas C. Howe, one-time candidate for mayor, and Frank Shellhouse. head of the Shellhouse Warehouse Company, are being urged by organization leaders to run for the mayor's post. Shellhouse would not discuss the r matter. If Coffin finds a business man to run. it will mean that Sheriff lOeorge L. Winkler, who entered his • name for the place on the spring ncket. probably will throw his support to the selected man. It was said, however, if Winkler ''"cides to run. he will have support of the Marion County Good Government League and followers of The old Charles W. Jewett political group. STONE SEEKS DIVORCE Reao Brummrl of Films Charges Mate With Cruelty. ■?./ r nitrd Pres* LOS ANGELES. Sept. 26 Lewis R, Stone. Beau Brummel of the films, has filed suit for divorce against Florence Pryor Stone, known on the stage as Florence Oakley, it became known today. Stone charged extreme cruelty and fits of anger Iv hich interfered with his work. The action was filed July 13. but in the name of Shepherd Stone, which the actor used when the couple was married in 1920. [MAN IS BEATEN. ROBBED C. E. Davis Claims Five Companions on Ride and Spree Got $lB. C. E. Davis. 28. of 440 Massachuretts avenue, was found near Eagle creek today. He had been slugged robbed. Police took him to city Hospital. 9 Davis said he hired a taxicab and. rwith five other men. weoj riding r Wedensday night. He says they drank, and that, when the taxicab * reached West Sixteenth street, west of the Speedway, his companions beat him and robbed him of $lB and a watch. Following the holdup. Davis said, he was taken to the banks of Eagle creek, beaten again, and thrown out of the taxi. Veteran Teacher Buried I'm Tim ra Sprcinl UPLAND. Ind.. Sept. 26.—Funeral crvlces were held here Wednesday . for Miss Emma M Sudwarth. 65. | a school teacher thirty-six years, who died after a long illness.

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TATTOOED BEAUTY!

Permanent Rouge Cuts H. C. L.

BY ARCH STEINEL “Jk TOW it's just this a-away. Pal, if it wasn’t for the beauty spots we i. N put on ladies' necks, the dimples on the knees and the permanent rouge on their lips—at say a dollar or two a throw—we couldn't keep the overhead down.’’ In this fashion “Professor” Charles Hamilton—like Kentucky “colonels,” all tattooers are “professors”—discoursed on the feminine frailty for adornment, in his hut-like room on the second floor of 24 South Illinois street. “No sir-ee. Pal. tattooing ain’t confined to the workingman by a long shot. Why. say. right here in Inidanapolis, I've done coats of arms for real swells that would redlight’ you on the street. Course the kids in towns are pretty good customers. But we got to watch out for 'em,” and the “professor" shook his baldhead sagely. At this juncture a callow urchin ducked into the portiered entrance. He was winded, but he managed to exclaim, “I got Mas permission.

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granting their “Johnnys” the right to be pricked by the little electric brush dipped in its myrad color schemes. n n tt a a a “'T'HE war helped the tattooers." he continued, "and after the big 1 muss was over, well, business was still good, for we had to undo a lot that we done. "That reminds me, pal,” and his mood became reminiscent, "of the guy that gave me the rush-act late one night. I w-as a-sittin’ here, doing nothing, when in he comes. ‘I got to have a tattoo fixed on my leg. It's got to be done now. I'm getting married tomorrow.’ O guns him over, sees he’s a hard working stiff, so I says let me see the tattoo.” "When I looks at the tattoo. I knew' right away that had to be taken care of. He had the name of every girl he ever knew on that leg.” Hamilton said the organization of the "Brothers-Under-The Skin” comes from man's love of body decoration. He asserted that it is the

one link between civilized man and the days our caveman ancestors went batting mastodons in the head with tree-limbs. “Women want roses and butterflies, kids want crossed "ims and anchors, sentimental ..ncs like the names of their girls and hearts tattooed on them, and the King of England's got a four-colored Chinese dragon on his arm," he said. “It's some dragon. Why even the steam

even comes out of its jaws—it's that good." "But,” he hesitated, “it ain't nothing like that dragon I put on— What, you going already. Pal? Well, drop around again W'hen I ain't so busy. Pal, maybe you'd like to have the Lord’s Supper put on your back—only SSO, Pal!”

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Judge Redkey ‘Secs Red’ Bu Time* Special MUNCIE. Ind.. Sept. 26.Thrcc Central High school boys craved a night ride in their "collegiate automobile,” but they had no tail-light and feared the wrath of Muncie's police. They attempted to steal a red lantern placed on a construction job, but a night watchman caught them. The boys were arrested, charged with petit larcency. They appeared w'ith their fathers in city court and for a bitter rebuke by Judge Harry Redkey.

ENGINEERS TO DINE New Carburetor Invention Will Be Described. All illustrated paper on "Dow'nDraft Carburetors'," a recent motor car improvement, will be presented before the Indiana section of the Society of Automotive Engineering Thursday night. Oct. 10, at the Severin by E. H. Shepard, of the Holley Carburetor Company engineering department. It will be the first of the society's fall meetings, and automotive men throughout the state have been invited to the dinner-smoker. The fall's program will be outlined. and reports from various committees received, according to Bert Dingley. vice-president of the Stutz Motor Car Company of America. Inc., section chairman. HOME BREW BLOWS UP Police Sergeant Is Embarrassed In City Hall Elevator. An explosion of a batch of home brew is always unpleasant—particularly at city hall. A portly member of Sergeant Eisenhut's booze squad was taking two bottles to the city chemist to be tested for evidence. As the elevator started to the third floor two corks were heard to “pop" consecutively. Occupants of the elevator sniffed and looked around to find the officer struggling with two churning bottles of brew. Despite his effort to save "the evidence.” the beer was spent when he arrived at the laboratory. Bull’s Victim Buried TELL CITY. Ind.. Sept. 26. - Funeral services were held Wednesday for August Birchler, 50. Perry county farmer, gored to death by a bull.

PRINCE OF WALES DOESN'T GET MARRIED, SIMPLY BECAUSE HE’S NOT IN LOVE

/?y l m'/frf Prrus LONDON. Sept. 26—Marriage is too sacred to be made a matter of convenience, contends the prince of Wales. This view is attributed to him in a biography published today under the title. “His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales.” The biography was written by W. and L. Townsend. As proof of its authenticity, the authors declare the manuscript was read by

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Here’s the note you asked fer. Do you know how I got her to 'gree to let me have a tattoo put on my arm?” The “Professor” nodded a smile, “sure, you got her to let you have that wreath dee-sign with the words ‘ln Memory of Mother’ put on.” "Uh-huh.” assented the boy. The youth, dismissed with an appointment date, the “Professor" displayed a box of pencilscrawled notes from parents

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Greenfield Man Likely Choice for Office of Governor. pji Times Speci<i! TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Sept. 26. Members of Indiana Kiwanis clubs holding their annual convention hei'e. today were to elect officers and choose the 1930 convention city. John J. Early of Greenfield is a strong contender for the governorship. Paul V. McNutt, national commander of the American Legion, in addressing the convention Thursday declared there should be no reduction in America’s navy which would result in making it smaller than that of Great Britain. Floyd A. Allen, assistant to the president of General Motors Corporation. stressed a friendly relationship between employer and employe. "Corporations have caught the spirit of change.” Allen declared. "Where once they seemed inclined to favor the lowest wage scale possible, now they have executed a right-about-face and believe in the policy of high wages, recognizing the truth of what seems an inconsistency. that high waecs and low costs go hand in hand.” A plan redistricting the state, creating eight instead of six districts, was adopted. The now plan shows the following districts: First —Lake. Porter. La Porto. St. Josodli. Elkhart. Kosciusko. Marshall. Starko, Jasper. Nekton and Benton. Second—Lagranee. Steuben. Dekalb Noble. Whitley. Allen. Adams. Wells. Huntington. Wabash. Miami. Fulton. Pulaski, White and Cass. Third—Warren Fountain. Montgomery. Tippecanoe. Carroll. Clinton. Boone. Howard. Tipton and Hamilton. Fourth—Grant. Madison. Delaware. Blackford. Jay and Randolph. Fifth- Parke. Putnam. Marion. Hendrieks Vigo, Morgan. Johnson. Bartholomew Brown. Monroe. Owen. Greene, clay. Sullivan and Vermillion. Sixth—Henry. Wayne. Union. Favette. Hancock. Shelby. Rush Decatur. Franklin. Dearborn. Ripley. Ohio. Seventh—Knox. Da'iess. Martin. Dubois. Gibson. Posey. Vanderburg. Warrick and Perry. Eighth—Lawrence. Jackson. Orange. Washington. Crawford. Harrison. Floyd. Scott, Clark. Jefferson. Jennings and Switzerland. WAGGONER SEEKING BAIL SIOO,OOO Needed (o Secure Release of Banker in Swindle Case. Bui nitrd Pi r. NEW YORK. Sept. 26—C. D. Waggoner, western banker, who gave Wall Street a few lessons in high finance, cast about today to obtain SIOO,OOO bail so might be freed, pending trial on mail fraud charge. He is accused of swindling nAv York banks of $500,000 to finance his own bank.

Sir Geofrev Thomas, secretary to the prince of Wales, before it was submitted to the publishers. In the chapter referring to the prince s attitude toward marriage, the book says Waes regards the sanctity of marriage so seriously that he will not trust himself to a marriage of convenience. "Retaining the best so-called old-fashioned beliefs in creed and modernity, the prince of Wales is a firm disciple." says the book, "of the belief there is no use marry-

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PEACOX sane; IS TESTIMONY OF ALIENISTS Mental Experts Called by State to Combat Plea of Wife Slayer. CASE DRAWING TO END Jury May Ponder Fate of Confessed Killer by Nightfall. By United Press WHITE PLAINS, N. Y„ Sept. 26. —As the trial of Earle Francis Peacox, charged with murdt.ing his wife, drew to a close today the state summoned two alienists as rebuttal witnesses to combat the defense that the suave young radio salesman was insane when he beat and choked Mrs. Dorothy Peacox to death in their Mt. Vernon apartment last April. The defense presented Wednesday the testimony of two mental experts who declared Peacox was a “psychopathic personality” on whom the knowledge of Dorothy's infidelities and her sneers at their apartment had such a cumulative effect that he could not control himself during those minutes when his fingers dug into her throat and “she went limp.” Although his life probably depends on that defense. Peacox himself said he did not think he ever had been insane. Sane, Says Alienist The first state witness today was Dr. Means S. Gregory, attached to Bellevue hospital, New' York. “Was the defendant of sound mind at the time of the killing, in your opinion?” the state asked. “Yes,” the doctor replied. “Did the defendant know' his acts were wrong, in your opinion?” “Yes.” Soon to Jury Justice Arthur S. Tompkins suggested Dr. Gregory supplement the district attorney’s hypothetical question with observations made by the doctor in the courtroom. Dr. Gregory answered: “I have observed the defendant was alert, that he w r as bright, and that he followed the drift of the questions, showed very good control on the stand, and he has the characteristics of an average young man.” The case may reach the twelve middle-aged jurors by nightfall oiearly Friday foi-enoon. as Justice Tompkins has notified attorneys for both sides to be ready to “sum up, at least, today.” ACCOUNTANT WILL HEAD Y. M. C. A. NIGHT CLASS E. R. Wurgler of Holcomb & Hoke to Be Instructor. E. R. Wurgler, attorney and certified public accountant, has been named instructor of accounting classes at the Y. M. C. A. night schools.

Wurgler now is connected with the Holcomb & Hoke Manufacturing Company, and has served as accountant and an official of several other Indianapolis concerns. He has had three years’ experience in accountancy. Joel T. Taylor tonight W'ill open a course in

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salesmanship in the "Y" night schools. STARTS TERM AT FARM Robert Glass Also Loses License for Driving While Drunk. Barred from driving a car for one year. Robert Glass, 67. of 736 North Emerson avenue, was taken to the Indiana state farm today io serve the sixty-day sentence imposed on him by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter Wednesday night on a drunken driving charge. Glass was fined $25. The car which Glass was driving on Sept. 14 struck Everett Lucas. 28. of 2015 Singleton street, at New York and Dearborn streets. Glass is alleged to have run from the scene of the accident. JOAN LOWELL ON STAGE Author of ‘Cradle of the Deep' Plays ‘Star of Bengal.’ 811 I uiti and I'ri r NEW YORK. Sept. 26.—Joan Lowell. author of the "Cradle of the Deep." has turned actress. Her latest venture is "Star of Bengal.” named after the ship Joan's father once sailed. The theme was reminiscent of the “Cradle of the Deep.”

ing without love. Because he has not yet experienced that emotion in its true intensity. Wales doesn't get married. That is all there is to it.” nan 'T'HE book reveals the livid per- *■ scnality of the prince and there arc pages which recall how. ir. India, he walked through a hospital ward of “untouchables’’ and kissed on the brow a shockingly mutilated war victim. There

Women Pilots in Ford Air Tour

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More than forty airplanes of all descriptions will participate in the fifth national air tour, Oct. 5 to 24, to compete for the Edsel B. Ford reliability trophy and other prizes. The planes w'ill stop at thirty-two cities in tw'enty states and w'ill cover some 4,850 miles in the two w-eeks. Map show's the route of the tour from Detroit and return. Among the participants W'ill be Frances Harrell, at right, of Houston, Tex., w'ho will fly a Moth biplane; Mrs. Keith Miller, in circle, noted Australian flier, who will pilot a Fairchild cabin biplane, and Dale "Red” Jackson, at left, who with Forest O'Brine, set a record endurance mark at St. Louis. Jackson will fly a Curtiss-Robertson plane. The Ford trophy is also show'n.

CUT IN SCHOOL LEVY DEMANDED C, of C. Offers Tax Figures Calling for Slash, Demanding reduction of more than 35 cents in the school city tax levy for 1930, Chamber of Commerce l-epresentatives today appeared before the state tax board. William H. Book, chamber civic affairs director, presented to the board a statement recommending slashes amounting to $2,244,120, which W'ould pennit reduction of the proposed levy of $1.34 to $.988. The proposed $1.34 levy is an increase of 32 cents over the 1929 levy. “The . budget appropriation of $7,296,605 represents an inci-ease of $1,680,744 over the 1929 budget, an increase of 23 per cent,” Book told the board. In addition, the school board is preparing to raise $696,000, not budgeted, for a working balance, he said. Elimination of the working balance entirely, because of abnormal increases proposed along other lines, w r as urged. Book suggested the working balance be raised by accumulation of fund balances over a period of years. Elimination of the proposed new' building program from the budget was urged by Book, who said the $1,215,000 school bond issue pending before the tax board should constitute the only building program for 1930. The tax levy of 98.8 cents proposed by the chamber is based on an estimated balance of $85,000 in all school funds at the close of the year, Book explained. School officials, however, estimate a deficit of $50,000 W'hich, if correct, he said, would requii-e a $1,009 levy. MELLON IN TAX DENIAL Treasury Not Prepared to Urge Slash, Says Secretary. By l nitrd Prep* WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—Secretary Mellon repudiated reports today that the treasury had forecast a tax reduction at the December session of congress. Mellon said the first knowledge he had regarding the matter w-as from new’spaper reports which indicated that the treasury w r as prepared to suggest a tax reduction. The treasury, he explained, will not be in a position for at least another month to estimate accurately what the government’s financial position will be next year. TELEPHONE AUSTRALIA Cily A. T. and T. Officials rut in 15,000-Mile Test Call. Indianapolis today can talk to Austi-alia by telephone. This announcement was made following test calls made Wednesday by officials of American Telephone and Telegraph Company for the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. The voices of the speakei*s were cai-ried 15.000 miles by the short wave radio system interconnecting the wire systems of United States and Australia. Wife Slaying Charged CROWN POINT. Ind., Sept, 26 A manslaughter indictment was returned today by the Lake county grand jury against John Kopach. Hobart, as a result of death of his wife Bertha, alleged due to a beating administered by him while he was intoxicated.

also is a passage telling how he put a coal miner's wife instantly at her ease by asking for a cup ot tea. “It is perfectly true Wales is i-'-h strung.” says the book. 1 j shyness, however, with which he is credited, is something of a myth. Granted, he occasionally passes his hand to his tie to straighten an imaginary twist, granted lie occasionally looks a trifle bewildered or confused;

Wedding of Royal Pair Is Rumored By l nited Preps VENICE, Sept. 26.—Reports that arrangements had been completed for the marriage of Princess Marie Jose of Belgium and Crown Prince Humbert of Italy were given further w'eight today by the discovery that Princess Marie Jose has been a visitor here since Monday. Her presence was detected casually today w'hen she visited the Murano Glass Works in the company of Count Guiseppe Volpi. It could not be learned w'hether she had met members of the Italian l-oyal family. Dispatches Wednesday said King Albex-t of Belgium had returned to Brussels after a trip to Italy, w T hei-e it was understood details of the marriage had been an-anged. TAKES LOTTERY CASE UNDER ADVISEMENT Judge Indicates Leniency for Canadians Scheme Agent. Municipal Judge Cifton R. Cameron believes the United States has enough international troubles without Indianapolis police interfering w'ith an agent of the Canadian lottery which won a small fortune for Arthur Court, The judge today took under advisement the case of Melvin French, operator of a poolroom at 1397 Kentucky avenue, charged with operating lottery and gaming. French was arrested Sept. 13 when officers said they saw Canadian lottery tickets in French's pocket. According to police. French is said to have admitted being an agent of the Canadian lottery. “It seems to me W'e have enough trouble with foi-eign countries without the police ari'esting this man. I’ll rule on this case Saturday,” Judge Camei’on said. PETTY RETRIAL OCT. 8 Deputy to Face Drunken Driving Charge Second Time. Elmer E. Petty, deputy sheriff, 117 South Elder avenue, will go on trial a second time before a criminal court jury Oct, 8, on charges of drunkenness and operating an auto while drunk, in connection with an auto ci'ash June 6 at Sixteenth street and Riverside boulevard. A jury last week was discharged after deliberating fourteen hours on Petty's fate. Maximum penalty for the offense is a SSOO fine and six months in the Indiana state farm The sheriff’s car Petty drove ci’ashed into another driven by John Stack, 1346 Roache street, damaging both. Municipal Judge Thomas E. Garvin will sit as special judge at the second trial. SELECT HOLDUP JURY Charles Thomas Northern to Give Alibi in Robbery Trial. Selection of a ci'iminal court jury to try Charles Thomas Northern. 27, Indianapolis, on charges of auto banditry and robbery growing out oi a filling station holdup May 4. was under way today before Judge James A. Collins. Northern pleaded not guilty and will present an alibi defense that he was not in Indianapolis when the holdup occurred.. Earl Thayer, attendant at a filling station at South Emerson avenue and the Brookville road, a victim in the robbery, has identified Northern.

these signs are not confined to shy people." a a a 'T'HE book declares Wales is a hard worker. It says he begins his daily talks at 10 a. m., and finds relaxation in gramophones and detective stories. He dislikes card games. His business ability is illustrated in the skill with which he organized his ranch in Canada and his Cornish estates.

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KIRBY DAVIS TD SERVE JiJEARS Muncie ‘Bad Man’ Pleads Guilty to Car Theft, Kirby Davis, Muncie "bad man,” is in Marion county jail today awaiting a trip to Leavenworth penitentiary, where he will serve five years. Davis was given the five-year sentence in federal court late Wednesday, after pleading guilty to charges of interstate transportation of a stolen car. His sentence saved him from being served with a state warrant by Sheriff Dorsey Folck of Steuben county for the $106,000 Angola bank robbery. The robbery was committed May 8, 1928. Bonds of $60,000 were recovered. President Alex G. Cavins of the First National bank at Angola was kidnaped from his home and taken to the bank and required to open the vaults. Cavins accompanied the sheriff here Wednesday and they talked to Davis at the jail. Folck also is alleged to have been implicated in the Columbia City bank robbery last April, in which a woman was killed and the sheriff of Whitley county shot. He is wanted at Toronto in connection with a $120,000 train robbery. Davis is said to have been chief of a Muncie "hot car” ring, two other members of which already are serving federal sentences. GAS BOARD TO MEET Trustees Will Elect Two to Fill Vacancies. Board of trustees of the Citizens Gas Company will meet in about ten days to consider election of successors to the late Robert Lieber and Lucius B. Swift. Absence of Edward Kahn, trustee, from the city is delaying the meeting. On his return. Thomas L. Sullivan, president of trustees, will call a meeting. Gus Schnull is the other member. Constitution and by-laws of the company provide the board elect members to fill vacancies. The trustees are holding the utility as a charitable trust for the city and have announced intentions to turn the property over to the city as soon as peixding litigation is adjudicated. Both Lieber and Swift were active in the movement for city ownership. No names have been mentioned as their successors. SHORT HOURS CALLED RELIEF FOR MINERS Only Rescue for 2*0.000 Now Idle. Asserts Editor. Rescue of the soft coal industry from its present chaotic depression will come only with the application of six-hour-day and the five-day week, Ellis Searles, editor of the United Mine Workers’ Journal, told the Indianapolis Engineering Society, in an address at the Board of Trade today. He said the main hope for the partial employment of the 200,000 men now idle in the coal industry would be possible only with shorter working days and weeks. Searles suggested that new fields of labor might aid in solving the miners' unemployment problem.

“When Americans,” declares the book, “saw Wales was a keen business man and shrewd employer, their abstract admiration became linked with concrete respect. They recognized he was one of the most efficient commercial ambassadors in the world.” On the question of whether Waes ever will ascend the throne, the book points out that Wales has spent more time and thought on the science of royalty than any other person.

LOVE FOR U.S. IN EUROPE IS EMPTY MYTH ‘ Allies Look Upon America as Money Grabber "nd Their Oppressor. NAVY PACT IS VITAL Agreement With Britain to Go Far Toward Years of Peace. This f* the second of * series of six stories bj- Milton Rronner. European manager for NEA Service and The Times, presenting the background of the approaching Hoover-MacDonald naval arm* parlcj. By MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Writer LONDON. Sept. 26.—1f America and England this fall succeed in reaching a friendly understanding. they will, perhaps, have gone a long way toward establishing another century of peace between the two great English-speaking nations. But to get down to this question of our relations with the world and particularly with the European world, it is well to get down to the bed-rock of realities; to discard all romanticism and all sentimentalism. The average American, remembering how we fed Belgium during the war. how we held out a helping i hand to all stricken European naj tions after the war, how we brought ; them food and clothing and rnediIcines. is apt to delude himself into the belief that many of these nations must love us. It is pure tosh. No Nation Loves Another No nation ever loves another nation. The allies of today are often the enemies of tomorrow. The thing that looms biggest in the minds of Europeans is the eternal question of the international debts. All the allies owe us money and most of them have agreed formally j to pay at least a part of it. stretchI ing over a great period of years, i The Europeans never for a minute forget this matter of the debts their nations owe us. And the Germans are no exceptions. They are not paying us much directly, but they are paying us indirectly and they never are allowed to forget it. They are made to believe that had we not been so exigent in demanding that the allies shall pay us, they, in their turn, would have been more lenient with Germany. But that is only half the story. Some of the very figures that make Americans feel proud of our prosperity give Europeans a huge pain, j Sec U. S. as Simon Legrcc They arc not getting any joy out of the knowledge that over three billion dollars has been invested by Americans in European industries. They see in this only another way of making them pay tribute to rich America. Add their high taxes and our low taxes, our prosperity for all classes and their struggle to exist, and it | is easy to understand their frame of j mind. | Os all the Europeans, the British jfeel closest to us. They best underj stand our way of doing things. De- | spite the constant undercurrent of ; grumbling about the hard bargain jwe made with them in the matter |of their war debt to us, despite a (certain inferiority complex they feel i when they look at their army of j unemployed and their crippled inI dustries and their high taxation, the British have met every friendly | gesture from the United States with | a counter gesture of amity. Brought on Many Wars This, despite the fact that we demand naval parity; that wc are crowding them out of markets; that we are shai'ing with them the financial hegemony of the world; and that we are building up as a mercantile mai'ine power. And that is an entirely new atti- : tude in Britain’s history. Sooner jor later in past times, whenever a, | country challenged England's supremacy on the seas or in commerce, England ultimately went to j wax and brought down the threati ening rival. It was the secret, of England's | contest with Spain centuries ago. It was the story of England's fight, with Holland. It was the epic of her years-long struggle until Napoleon was sent to St. Helena. It was the impelling 'reason why England threw' her might into the balance against the cx-kaiser of Germany. Good for Business President Hoover and Premier MacDonald can. say to their respective nations that the peaceful understanding they are trying to bring about is not only good international policy, but very good business as well. From the cold standpoint of dollars, England and her great dominions are our best customers. Last year the balance of trade in our favor was $1,037,689,000. In other words, nearly four-fifths of our foreign profits came from our trade with the British empire. Another century of peace between the United States and the British empire means another century of good business for the United States. Next: What an Anglo-American understanding would mean. Woman Slayer Freed Pjl Times Sprrinl MT. VERNON. Ind., Sept. After only brief deliberation, a Posey circuit court jury - acquitted Beatrice Markey. 23. Negro, charged with slaying her lover, Leroy Walls, Negro World war veteran. The trial lasted only one day. She pleaded self defense as the reason for stabbing Walls.