Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 304, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1930 — Page 13

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U. S. TO FACE UNITED EUROPE IN TARIFF WAR Battle Lines Already Laid; May Herald Reign of Unemployment. FOREIGN TRADE HURT Publicity Campaigns Begun Against Purchase of American Goods. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scrlpps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, May I.—Singly and in coalition, the nations of Europe have declared a war of selfdefense against the United States tariff. If carried to its logical conclusion the battle may fill American streets with unemployed. President Hoover, when secretary of commerce, called our foreign trade our prosperity balance. What the home market could not absorb the foreign market took off our hands and kept our workers busy. Last year America’s foreign trade otaled $10,000,000,000. It was a record year. Approximately $5,000,000,000 worth of American products were sold abroad. But. European leaders now are warning, the next few days will tell a different story. Europe, crushed by the war, is getting on her feet again. Not only will Europe make more of the things she had been buying from us for home consumption, but she will cut the ground from under Uncle Sam’s foreign trade as well, Duties are Boosted One by one the nations of Europe are increasing the duty on American products. They are conducting publicity campaigns against buying American goods. They are subsidizing, or otherwise encouraging, the development of their own industry. They are forcing American industrialists to build branch factories in Europe and to use foreign materials and labor instead of American materials and labor. They are bringing over American technicians to teach them mass production and efficiency methods. And, last but equally significant, they are rigging up international trusts, better to compete with American big business. An economic United States of Europe is not an impossibility in the near future. The tendency, therefore, according to European observers, is for American production costs to increase and for European production costs to decrease. Logically, they add, America soon must have to depend solely on her own domestic market, always a dangerous situation for an industrial nation, beca.ise a slump under such conditions means unemployment, and unemployment means more slump, foreign markets are a vital outlet. Evidence of War I just have returned from a swing round Europe. Everywhere I went I saw unmistakable evidence of the coming commercial and industrial war against the United States. In England I saw full page American automobile ads in the newspapers, but in the same papers I saw other full page ads calling on the people not to buy any but Brttish-made goods. Unable to keep American automobiles out by levying a 33 per cenfc duty on them, British automotive ' associations have rigged up all kinds ; of trade rules calculated to shut American manufacturers out of the market. In France I witnessed a parade of lace workers protesting against the new high American duty levied against their product. It would be stupid not to expect the French government to take cognizance of demonstrations of this kind when framing their own schedules against America. European Industry now is being Americanized rapidly. Mass production at low cost is the watchword and American money is pouring into almost every country in Europe with which to push forward this process of "rationalization.” CHARITY FUND CRISIS TALKED BY TRUSTEES Township Officials May Vote Cash to Finance Relief Work. Nine township trustees, meeting this afternoon at the office of the county commissioners in the courthouse. were to discuss the crisis in financial affairs of the Community fund. Partial relief for the fund from township trustee appropriations for welfare and relief work may be voted. An organized campaign to interest more than 100 organizations of the city in contributing to an emergency fund to tide over the fiscal year for the Community fund was planned bv officials of the fund, meeting this morning. Each organization will be asked to do its proportionate share. The Associated Employers of Indianapolis is taking leadership in organizing the campaign. JUNK DEALERS HELD Two Charged With Purchase of Alleged Stolen Copper. Two junk dealers were arrested today, charged with receiving stolen goods. Abe Sa perstine, 1102 East Thirteenth street, and Louis Byron, 1116 East Sixteenth street, are alleged to have purchased stolen cop- . per from Harold Fancher, 1206 Wright street Brunet Chosen Queen Tim't Serna I WABASH, Ind, May I.—Mary Ruth Suavely, blue eyed brunet, has been chosen May queen of Wabash high school kt...

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Cheers Sick Children

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"Cheerio!” exclaims Mrs. Robert A. Adams, 1512 North Meridian street, in the above photo and that’s just what she, the Junior League, the Red Cross motor corps and city nurses were doing today for sick children of the city. In Mrs. Adams arms is a portion of the flowers donated and distributed on May day to youthful patients in hospitals and sanitariums of the city and county. Mrs. Adams was chairman of the May day flower committee during child health week.

Hen Sense Bu United Press WABASH, Ind., May I.—A hen’s love of home has resulted in charges of petit larceny being filed against Clarence Flynn, Lewis Schaaf and George King. Each is free under S3OO bond. Neighbors said they saw the three drive into the farm of Joe Fry, near Wabash, and come away w'ith the hen. A neighbor pursued them, but the chicken was gone when he overtook the men. Later the hen appeared on the George Carver farm. It was taken near the Fry home and released. Immediately it went to the barnyard drinking trough and its accustomed feeding place, entirely familiar with the surroundings.

Women Wets Outline Drive for Members

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An intensive drive for membership will be staged in Indianapolis in the near future by the Women’s Organization for Prohibition Reform, according to Mrs. Meredith Nicholson Jr., 4515 North Delaware street, who attended the recent Cleveland gathering to draft a platform for the organization. Representative women from cities in the middle-west were called to Cleveland for the conference to hear reports of the nation-wide work ana familiarize themselves is the principal plank in the organition. Repeal of the prohibition law is the principle plank in the organization’s platform. Mrs. H. V. D. Moore of Nfew York and Indianapolis, organizer for the association, will direct the membership campajgn here on her return from the east within a few weeks, Mrs. Nicholson said. Mrs. Nicholson. Mrs. Elias Atkins and Mrs. John Fishback were selected by Mrs. Moore to represe<i Indianapolis at the t)hio conference. The organization already Is a>tive in twenty-seven states and has a membership of 100.000 women, according to Mrs. Nicholson. No membership fee is charged.

WOMAN REFORMS ‘MOST DANGEROUS CRIMINAL,’ IN PRISON, BY DESERTING HIM

OSSINING, N. Y.. May I. If Margaret Ryan still were waiting for Reynolds Forsbrey. ofcials at Sing Sing prison probably wouldn’t have dared to make him a trusty. For Margaret Ryan has been the inspiration for Forsbrey’s amazing series of prison escapes, which in turn caused him to be widely known as “the nation’s most dangerous criminal.” But many years have passed since any word has come through the gray walls of Sing Sing from the woman who Forsbrey loved with a devotion which defied ordinary prison bars, or even solitary aells. Margaret Ryan may be jfiead. or perhaps only her love for him has cooled. The result, however, is the same. Reynolds Forsbrey so longer cares about es-

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PROBE WARNING IN BOOZECASES U. S. Investigates Rum Ring Tips by Fake Officer. Federal officials today were investigating reports received here that a man, posing as a United States deputy marshal, had been warning persons in Terte Haute against possible indictment by the grand jury. The jury is concentrating on the probe into operation of alleged Vigo and Vermillion county rum rings, with reported headquarters in Terre Haute and Clinton. Alf O. Meloy, marshal, denied that any member of his staff was in the vicinity of Terre Haute within the last few days and ordered the investigation after hearing the reports. It was believed here that an impostor probably was circulating statements purporting to come from officials of the southern Indiana federal district. The jury today continued its probe, hearing evidence from more of the 110 witnesses originally subpenaed from Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. Although a report is expected to be made to Judge Robert C. Baltzell by the jury Saturday, it was intimated that the jurors may continue in session next week to complete the probe.

Foresight Bu United Press HAMMOND, Ind., May I. Trouble xvas foreseen by Norman Kristoff, barber shop proprietor, when he changed his shop to a nonunion basis. Remembering experiences of other barbers when they turned to the open shop, Kristoff obtained full coverage by insurance for fire, riot and bombing. His mind at rest, Kristoff retired. He was awakened in the middle of the night by fire companies going to his shop, where flames caused $5,000 damage.

ELECTRICITY EXPERT IS SLATED FOR TALK Charles M. Ripley of G. E. to Address Group Here May 8. The relative value of man or a machine as hod-carrier on a fiftystory building and how to measure ninety billion kilowatt hours of elec-

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tricity will be among subjects discussed by Charles M. Ripley of Schenectady, N. Y., General Electric Company engineer, before the Electric League of Indianapolis at the Morris street plant of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company at 8 Thursday night, May 8. His subject will

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be “Electricity, Past, Present and Future.” He is a Purdue university graduate and native of Indiana. His address will deal with the true meaning of an “electrified” America.

caping from prison. There is nothing “outside" for him. a a a TIT ARDEN L. E. LAWES will * ’ not discuss the record of Forsbey, except for the brief statement that since being transferred to Sing Sing in 1921, he has been a model prisoner. Long ago the slender, timid-looking little man confessed to one brutal murder and was charged with a second killing. From the first, he boasted that no prison was strong enough to hold him. And despite every official precaution during the succeeding years, Forsbrey made good three of half a dozen desperate efforts to escape. Nearly a decade of good behavior now has been rewarded by

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1930

IRE LOSSES REVEALED IN CLOSED BANK Foreigner at Portland Said by Receiver to Be Out $11,500 in Bonds. WAR VETERAN MULCTED Books Show Balance of Only $3.11 Against Account of $5,800. BiU Times Special PORTLAND, Ind., May I.—Shortages in funds of the closed Jay County Savings and Trust Company, as a result of defalcations of its former cashier, Clyde Bechdolt, continue to increase, according to Jesse L. Peters, receiver. Bechdolt, now serving a two to fourteen-year state prison term for embezzlement, told a foreigner who was a depositor in the bank, that all cash in his account on March 1 would be subject to taxation, and suggested bonds be bought. The depositor spent $11,500 for bonds. They are missing. Peters announces. A mentally incompetent World war veteran, now an inmate of a sanitarium at Marion, is another victim, the receiver states. The veteran had $3,800 in bonds and $2,000 cash in the bank’s possession, but now the books show a balance of only $3.11. The Jay county grand jury will convene next week to make an investigation of the bank’s affairs.

Radio Hero COLUMBUS, 0., May. 1— Convict X 46812, radio hero of the Columbus penitentiary fire, it was revealed today, is Otto V. Gardner, a Negro, graduate of the Moody Bible Institute and secretary of the Protestant church in the penitentiary. Gardner is a lifer, sentenced twelve years ago for first degree murder. He is 35 years old. William S. Paley, president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, sent him a check for SSOO as a reward for his description of the fire, which he broadcast from the penitentiary Monday night and which was heard over the Columbia System’s nationwide coast-to-coast network.

Junior League Pet Parade to Draw Entries

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Walter Louis Milliken, son of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Milliken, and Rika, the first entrant in the Junior League pet parade May 24. Plans for the pet parade to be staged in connection with the Junior League rodeo and horse show May 20-25 at state fairground coliseum were announced today by Edward Vaughn Richardson, director. The pet parade will be held on Saturday afternoon, May 24, and is open to all children in Indianapolis and Marion county. Prizes will be offered in three classes, the youngsters being divided according to age. Children from 2 to 16 are eligible. Each entrant will receive two tickets to the horse show and a week’s pass to Bair’s theaters. Judges for the contest include Meredith Nicholson, author; Stewart Dean, Herman G. Wolff, Kiwanis Club president; Paul Q. Richey, Chamber of Commerce president; Clark S. Wheeler, Rotary Club president; Mrs. Clarence Stanley and Mrs. Douglas Jillson. BABY DEATH RATE LOW Cut From 140 to 50 Per Thousand Since 1909, Says Morgan. The infant mortality rate in Indianapolis has decreased from 140 to 50 per 1,000 since 1909, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health board secretary, said today. “The 1929 rate is the lowest in the city’s history,” Dr. Morgan said.

his appointment as a trusty. For the first time since he had his first brush with the law, at the age of 15, he is the recipient of confidence. Forsbrey has been reformed, not by a woman's patience or understanding, but by a woman's desertion. It is a story of the strange and unaccountable loyalty that sometimes springs from the most barren soil, except that in this case it flourished in the muck of a New York City slum. Forsbrey, they say, came from a good family, which he never saw after the day he went to the juvenile house of correction as a forger. 000 NEXT he did short stretches in Elmira prison, and in Sing Sing. IHe began to use dope. In

100, AND GOING STRONG!

Mother Jones Levels Her Guns at Foes of Labor

Bu United Press WASHINGTON, May I.—Representatives of organized labor from all sections of the country assembled at a little Maryland farmhouse today to pay tribute to Mother Jones on her 100th birthday. They especially the women workers—received in turn a ringing message rrom the aged labor woman leader to awaken and make use of the power of labor. “If the women of the United States only would wake up and realize what they have in their hands, they could make this the greatest country in the world, - ’ the heroine of countless labor battles said in a short speech for the sound pictures. “Instead, however, the capitalists have made them believe this wouldn’t be Maybe it wouldn’t, but, hell, who wants to be a lady, anyhow. Women are what we want and they have a great mission to fulfill.” Mother Jones, who has been a militant labor leader for more than eighty years, then told how 100 women, wives of striking miners, proved too much for a federal judge in West Virginia during mine disorders there. The judge, she said, had threatened these women with prison because of their activities against strike breakers. Mother Jones closed her talk with another attack upon prohition, which she declared “is the worst affliction the countvy has.” She had left her bed for the first time in months to receive scores of guests, and spoke sitting in a chair in front of the Walter E. Burgess home. She had a huge birthday cake with 100 candles. Governor Ritchie of Maryland was unable to attend the party today, but may come this evening. Telegrams of congratulations were received from him, Secretary of Labor Davis, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor and many other notables. tt tt tt THE Rockefellers remain Mother Jones' pet hate. Not only as living symbols of the capitalist class she opposes, but because of the terrible Ludlow massacre in the Colorado mines in 1914. She was out there. She remembers how the machine guns of the troops sprayed the little ten colony of the striking miners and killed men, women and children. Twelve men and twenty-one women and children were killed, as she recalls. How does it feel to be a hundred years old? “Feels fine!” exclaims Mother Jones. “Sometimes I hope to be able to get up and go out and then other times I get discouraged. “I wish I could live tc be another hundred, just to see the changes. In another hundred years all the industries will be controlled by the people.” DENIES PARTY POST Kepner Will Not Serve as Inspector, He Says. Denial that he will act as Republican inspector in the Twelfth precinct of Wayne township during the primary Tuesday was made today by Fred Kepner, school board member. Kepner was queried after his name appeared as inspector of the election board records, certified by the board today. He said another man had been named to take his place. Presence of Kepner’s name on the list came as a surprise when it was known that board member? have strick regulation barring employes from participating in political affairs. Kepner did not attend the last board meeting Tuesday. A week before, Kepner cast the one vote opposing the board’s move in “freezing out” heating and ventilating devices manufactured by C. C. Shipp.

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Left to Right—Bobby Baur. Rita Quirk, BiUy McShay and Margaret Hager. Health is stressed the year round at Sacred Heart school, where pupils joined in observance of Child Health week. The six children of the first grade, pictured here, participated in May day health programs at the school.

the spring of 1912 he met a pretty little stenographer. Margaret Ryan knew nothing of the crimnal world and agreed to marry the dapper, devoted Forsbrey. On the wedding day he found himself in jail, charged with the murder of two men. With no money for marriage Forsbrey had killed" a jeweler named Morris Schwartzkopf for a ring and a minister’s fee. He seriously had wounded a cigar store clerk and was named in the killing of a haberdasher. Margaret Ryan, unbelieving, loyal, smuggled saws to him as he languished in the Tombs. The saws were discovered, Forsbrey was placed in solitary confinement and the girl was arrested. A few weeks later, however, tor wriggled through Jy venlii&t .

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Staff Artist Joe King has pictured here some of the colorful incidents in the life of “Mother Jones,” veteran of many labor wars from coast to coast in the past fifty years. The photo shows the venerable centenarian on the eve of her 100th birthday.

BLACKSMITH BEGINS LAST CENTURY LAP

TALLENTIRE FUNERAL RITES TO BE FRIDAY Services for City Resident to Be Held at Home of Son. Funeral services for Lewis E. Tallentire, Indianapolis resident and former railway mail service official, who died Wednesday in Cincinnati, 0., will be held at the home of his son, Thomas L. Tallentire, in Cincinnati Friday. Survivors besides the widow and a son are, another son, Willard E. Tallentire, supervisor of instrumental music in the public schools; two brothers, James and William G. Tallentire, and a sister, Miss Anna Tallentire, and an adopted son, Howard B. Faust. WALSH IS - DANCE HEAD Directs Committee for En-Av-Ant Event Saturday Night. Committee in charge of arrange-

ments for the En-Av-Ant Club annual spring dance in the Knights of Columbus auditorium Saturday night is headed by Ed Walsh. Walsh is being assisted by Kenny Schilling, Bob Monohan, Jim Custard and Johnny Gansmen. Russ Holler's band will furnish music.

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scaled the prison wall and esC£tp6d. They found him. after three weeks." in a dingy apartment with Margaret. This time he was sent to Dannemora prison. From iron cell cots he fashioned two scaling ladders and in the workshop he made a gasoline bomb which, he believed, would create sufficient confusion to allow his escape. # # AGAIN his plans were discovered, and he went to an isolation cell. Within a few months he pried loose the bars, and almost got away to the mountains where Margaret Ryan was awaiting him. Transferred to Auburn prison in 1917, he knocked a guard senseless, donned his uniform and

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Kntered as Secord-Class Matter at FostoCtice, Indianapolis

John Hawkins, Middieboro, Returns to Work After 99th Birthday. pu Times Special MIDDLEBORO. Ind., May I. John Hawkins of Middieboro, believed the nation’s oldest blacksmith still at work in America, is now on the last lap of his century of years. At his ninety-ninth birthday anniversary this week he was the guest of Mrs. Omar Hunt, near Centerville. A portion of the birthday dinner was an immense cake, the gift of friends. For many years Hawkins has had the best of health. Recently, however, he was threatened with pneumonia, but recovered and on the day of the celebration of his ninety-ninth year, he said he never had felt better in his life. Clothes Help Appearance When the old smithy appeared at the Hunt home he was attired in anew suit of clothes and anew overcoat, cut in the latest collegiate style. He helps his youthful appearance with well chosen up-to-date wearing apparel. Next day he was back at his shop wearing his working clothes and ready for business. “I’ve got a lot of work to do at the shop this spring and I must get busy and plant my garden,” he said. The aged man received many birthday cards from friends. He has lived long enough to be counted in censuses ten times. When the census enumerator appeared this spring, Hawkins was ready and willing to answer all questions and he was not at all annoyed because Uncle Sam wanted to know so much about his private business. Never Misses Voting Hawkins is strongly in favor of voting and having his say by way of the ballot at election times. “Am I going to vote?” said he, in answer to a question. “You can bet I will vote, and I will be the first one there if possible. I’ve got to be mighty sick if I can’t find time to go to the polls and exercise my right as an American citizen.” “I can’t understand why so many men and women won’t vote,” he continued. “In my long number of years, I have made it a point to vote and I don’t believe that any citizen who refuses to go to the polls and cast his vote is a good citizen.”

strolled to liberty that lasted only •twelve hours. Back in “solitary,” the “grapevine” brought him w’ord that she had attempted suicide in a fit of despondency. In March, 1918, he sawed through two sets of bars and fled again. Two days later they caught him. “If you’d let me hear from Margaret,” he said, “I wouldn’t be trying to lamm.” But Margaret doesn’t write now, and it has been many years since any one has seen the broken, penniless vagrant that she became. Forsbrey himself is 45 and his prison breaks have piled up an appalling number of years against his record./ H’s no longer the “nation’s most dangerous criminal,"’ but a thin-haired, stooped, harmless old trusty.

SCHOOL BUILT FOR $390,000 TO BEOPENED Burris Plant on Campus of Ball College, Muncie, Ready May 9. DEAN TO BE SPEAKER Dr. L. A. Pechstein, University of Cincinnati, on j Dedication Program, ij rtu Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., May I.—Plans are complete for dedication of the new $390,000 Burris school at Ball State Teachers college Friday. May 9. The program, which will continue through the day, will begin at 8:30 a. m. and end with the dedicatory services in Assembly hall in the evening. College presidents, heads of departments of education, county superintendents, city superintendents and supervisors have been invited to attend. Dean L. A. Pechstein of the college of education. University of Cincinnati, will be the principal speaker at the evening service. His subject will be “The Function of a Teachers College Laboratary SchooJ and the Responsibility of a Teachers College Faculty.” Roy p. Wisehart, state superintendent of public instruction, will preside. Presentation of the school to th® state will be made by A. J. Glaser, contractor. Sanford M. Keltner, Anderson, president of the Indiana State Teachers college board, will present the new building to the faculty The address of acceptance will be made by President L. A. Pittenger. Music will be provided by the Madrigal Club, with .Miss Pauline Kirk directing. School Purpose Stated In the forenoon, guests will visit the school from 8 to 10:30. Dr. A. Johnson, principal, will be in charge. “The Place of the Burris School in the Muncie Public School System” will be the general theme of the forenoon program, which opens at 10:30 in the Burris auditorium, with Dr. Fitch presiding. Music will be given by the school pupils, under direction of Miss Naomi Klauer. Five talks, based on the general theme, will be made at the morning session. Frank C. Ball will discuss the subject from the points of view of a Muncie citizen and of a member of the board of trustees of the college. W. F. White, president of the Muncie board of trustees, will represent it. John V. Maier, principal of the Longfellow school; Mrs. Erma Christy, supervisor of home economics, and Mrs. Louise Hamilton, teacher, will represent their groups. Group Sessions Planned Sectional meetings will be held in the afternoon, beginning at 2. Discussion in the kindergartenprimary grades section will be led by Miss Mamie Spangler, elementary supervisor, Logansport. Miss Frances Mason, South Bend, and Mrs. Jessie T. Worden, Ball college, will speak. Miss Mattie Fry, supervisor of instruction, Anderson, and president of the Indiana State Teachers Association, will preside at the intermediate grades section. Miss Freda Lancaster, Ft. Wayne, and Frederick Pistor, of the Burris faculty, will speak. In the junior high school section, L. J. Fisher, Logansport, will lead a discussion. Miss Bernice Eugels, Gary, and Dr. P. D. Edwards, Ball college, will give short talks. Virgil Stinebaugh, director of the division of school inspection, state department of public instruction, Indianapolis, will speak at the general session at 3. "Contribution of Teachers College Laboratory School to the Teachers of Indiana,” will be his subject. Frank E. Allen, superintendent of the Muncie public schools, will nreside. A reception to the guest* by the ParentTeacher Association of the Burris school will close the afternoon program. • ENDMURCH SESSION Disciples of Christ Close Two-Day Session. Emphasizing the importance in the Disciples of Christ pension fund of prayer and spiritual vision, the brotherhood’s pension commission closed its two-day conference today. Dr. J. H. Goldner, Cleveland, 0., and E. V. Stivers, Eugene, Ore., led the devotional services. A continuation committee was elected today to carry on the commission’s work until its next meeting in Washington. D. C., Oct. 18 and 17. Representatives of all states and several provinces of Canada are included on this ad interim committee. Approximately 100,000 ministers and laymen of the brotherhood will participate in an intensive drive for the fund from Nov. 9 to 16, this year. DANCE FOR UOcTHbURS Ten Persons Remain in Marathon at Los Angeles Pavilion. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, May I.—Ten exhausted young men and women staggered over a Hawthorne pavilion today in a “super-marathon’* dancing, walking and skating endurance contest which started March 4. For more than 1,300 hours they have been struggling to win a SI,OOO prize. The contestants must move around for forty-five minutes out of every hour. They are permitted to sleep for eleven minutes, j Then they are awakened, usually J with ice water. fj