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TARIFF DRIVES U. S. INDUSTRY INTOJUROPE creed to Locate Abroad by Retaliatory War on American Goods. OREIGNERS GET JOBS Wages Are Spent in Own Lands, While Many Are Idle Here. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Srrlnos-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON. May 12.—An ever-increasing number of American industrial units are being driven out of the United States to locate in ioreign lands through the backlash of our high tariff. Official sources here estimate that upward of 2,000 independent or branch American factories now are in full blast in foreign countries because of artificial restrictions against goods made in the United States. No Unpatriotic Action Resenting the fact that the Amer- i ican tariff wall prevents the sale of their goods in this country, foreign governments are acting to stop the sale of American goods in their countries. American manufacturers, therefore, must choose between the total loss of their foreign trade and the establishment of branch factories in the affected regions. Such manufacturers are guilty of j no unpatriotic action in taking such , a step. They simply are making j the best of a situation forced upon them. It is estimated approximately 500,- j 000 people now are employed by American concerns abroad, which jobs—were it possible to export American-made goods direct from this country, might be held by , American workers instead of foreign. Spend Wages Abroad As things are now going, economists fear, America soon will become he world s banker while other naions will become the world's prolucer. America will furnish the icney and other countries will fur'sh the workers, while American j ■ bor trudges the streets looking for' bs. That such a condition could I ->t long endure without involving is entire nation, capital as well as ber, in disaster, is agreed. These 2.C00 American factories hich have been driven to locate j 11 foreign soil use foreien material. ; e production of which requires a j rrge number of other hands, .and * nploy foreign workers whose wages Arp spent, of course, in their own Olds. HOOVER IS STIRRED President Intends Western Trip Merely as Vacation. fin 1 Prcax WASHINGTON. May 12.—President Hoover is perturbed over reports his western trip this summer is in the nature of a political swing, it was made known at the White House today. Since Mr. Hoover's announcement he would visit the great, national narks during August, various interpretations of the trip have been made. Mr. Hoover made it understood that no set speeches were planned for his summer itinerary and that he wished to use the opportunity for rest after a strenuous year in Washington. _____ 2 BANDITS ROB BUS Masked Pair Obtains Loot Valued at $2,000. r ‘ 'EAST*CHICAGO, May 12.—Passengers on an interstate motor bus were robbed of jewelry and cash to the estimated amount of $2,000 by two masked men today. The bandits forced the driver to stop in a secluded spot between here and Indiana Harbor, lined up the numerous passengers and after taking their valuables, ran to an auto they had hidden in a side road, and escaped. TWO FLIERS DIE ON MOTHER'S DAY TRIP Third Hart Badly as Plane Falls in Sight of Parents. Bu lulled Press SANTA ROSA. Cal., May 12. Two youths were dead today, and another critically injured because one of them wanted to fly home for Mother's day. The plane, piloted by Fay Berry 25. went Into a nosedive and crashed on the Joseph Smith raftch. Berry and his brother Arnold, 23. were killed and Robert Smith. 18. for whom the flight was made, was injured critically. Young Smith had written his mother than he would fly from Modesto to see her in a plane piloted by his friend Fay Berry. Arnold decided to go along at the last moment As the plane circled over the Smith ranch the two parents came to the doorway. They saw the plane plunge to the ground.

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India Revolt Group Is on Verge of Declaring War of Bloodshed on British Predict New Leader of Gandhi’s Followers Will Be Extremist Who Favors ‘Battle on All Fronts;’ American Reporter Fli*es Seven Days to Reach Scene.

BY WEBB MILLER L'nited Press Staff Correspondent (World Copyright. 1930. by United Press) KARACHI, India, May 12.—A decision as to whether the India independence campaign launched by the Mahatma Gandhi will continue to emphasize nonviolent, passive resistance or turn toward a more extreme policy leading to bloodshed probably will be. made this week. The decision will be made by the national congress working committee, scheduled to meet to map a course for future action, in the light of the mahatma s arrest and the imprisonment of his successor, Abbas Tyabji.

The committee has the power to select anew leader of the swaraj. or home rule movement, although Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, poetess and aid of Gandhi, became temporary leader when Abbas Tyabji was seized. Choice of V. J. Patel, who first was elected president of the legislative assembly, and then resigned as a protest against the British regime is likely. If Patel should be selected it appeared certain the swaraj movement would tend toward violence. Patel’s recent declarations have been stronger than any statements made by Gandhi, who never has approved violence. *T want to fight the government on all fronts,” Patel said in his latest independence speech. ‘‘We should not let the government remain at peace anywhere. I want peace neither for myself nor for the enemy. This time we must get freedom.” The growing movement for Indian independence is chief among several factors that have brought India to a stage where today it resembles a vast cauldron, with several premonitory eddies bubbling up at points where the heat is greatest. Demonstrations have occurred at scattered points in a country which has more than a half million towns and villages, and a population exceeding 32 000.000 people.

Tension Is Great

The principal source of the heat beneath the cauldron is the friction of agitation by the national congress, composed of the followers of Mahatma Gandhi. This congress has been working for forty-five years toward the goal of self-government in some form for j India. Slowly the movement has 5 been gaining strength and influence.! Additional heat is provided by India’s unfavorable economic posi- j tion which has come about largely i as a result of the World war trade , situation, combined with bitter i hatreds between religious communities which have been responsible j for many of the recent outbreaks. I The religious tension is so great that rioting is likely at any time. | For instance, trouble may be caused if a Mohammedan inter- J seres with one of the sacred bulls of the Hindus which wander casu- : ally through the streets. The reforms of 1919 gave India a start toward self-government. In the last ten years, however, only a j small section of extremists has demanded complete independence. The agitation of Indian leaders has centered during the decade on obtaining a fuller share in the government of their country with a view to the attainment of dominion status similar to the positions in the British Empire of Canada and Australia. At present, the principal hope here of lowering the cauldron's temperature is the forthcoming publication of the report of the Simon commission which for two years studied ways and means for granting a larger share in the government of India to the people.

Boycott Real Threat

Much depends upon the terms and recommendations of the Simon report, well-informed persons here feel. If it is sufficiently liberal, they say, it quickly will halt the present agitation, except among extremists. The most powerful weapon in the hands of the congress is the boycott on cotton goods. They are utilizing this to the utmost and not without effect. It works silently and unseen, but is effective. India's millions wear more cotton cloth than any nation in the world and a large proportion of it is bought in England. In view of the unemployment In England and the general trade slump, this boycott unquestionably is the most subtle weapon possible. Indian's imports of cotton annually

Bryan s Death Is Laid to Too Mach Water

NEW YORK. May 12.—William Jennings Bryan, great dry crusader, hastened his death with water. Carter Harrison, five

times mayor of Chicago, said on his return from Europe today, aboard the Reliance. Harrison, a friend of Bryan, said Bryan at banquets would dring a gallon of water and some times two. The former mayor announced he would enter the Illinois senator fight on the side of J. Hamilton Lewis. Democratic candidate against Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick. He said the battle in Illinois will hinge on prohibition with the northern part of the state Republican and wet, and the southern part Democratic and dry. “I have confidence that anti-prohibition sentiment has grown so powerful in the last few years that the candidate who is most successfully wet will be elected,’’ he said.

NEW YORK, May 12.—One of the swiftest reportoral journeys to the scene of an important story in newspaper history has been made by Webb Miller, Eupropean news manager of the United Press. When the seething discontent in India, with its 320,000,000 population, began to reach serious proportions ten days ago. Miller, from his post in London, was ordered to India. On less than rorty-eight hours notice, he was instructed to go by airplane to Karachi, the nearest Indian airport to Europe, and to tour India, recording impartially his impressions of what is going on in that great peninsula from the viewpoint of an American newspaper reporter.

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India, with its 325,000,000 population—nearly three times that of the United States—is in one of the greatest ferments of

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self-expression ever recorded in history. This great mass of people is struggling, mystically and passively, to free itself from Great Britain and become independent Webb Miller, Europeanjpews manager of

the United Press, has been sent to record for American readers an impartial, American news reporter's viewpoint of the great happenings in India. Miller flew from London to Karachi in seven days. In the ensuing weeks he will travel the country far and wide, recording what he sees and hears.

are more than $200,000,000, constituting more than 28 per cent of the total imports. For this reason, Gandhi, now in jail, has been insistent in his propaganda against foreign cotton goods. Gandhi insists his followers wear rough homespuns and that they weave at least one hour a day on their handlooms, in this manner producing their own cloth and keeping more money in Indian. Men in Karachi who are authorities on the cotton situation told me the boycott so far has affected business from 15 to 20 per cent and that it is increasing in effectiveness.

90 Per Cent Illiterate

England’s problem in India is comparable to that which United States face in the Philippines, with this important difference—it is multiplied a hundred-fold by the welter of races, languages and religions which divide and subdivide India into what many feel is an almost hopelessly disunited nation. It is almost impossible to conceive of the problem, for example, that the language differences present. There are 147 separate and distinct languages in India. And the dial from the southern tip to the broad top of the cone are innumerable. The percentage of ill teracy Is estimated at more than 90 per cent. Paradoxically, there are only sixty thousand British troops in this vast land. PORTO RICOIUFFERS Roosevelt Makes Plea for Hurricane Relief. 7>w T'nifed Press WASHINGTON, May 12.—Porto Rico still is suffering from the effects of the 1928 hurricane and relief is vital. Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of the island territory, said today after a call at the White House. “The desired $3,000,000 for hurricane relief is absolutely vital,” he said. '

SEA PACT DEFENDED BY STIMSON IN SENATE QUIZ

Pu United Press WASHINGTON, May 12.—Congress centered its attention upon the London naval treaty today, with Secretary of State Stimson appear-

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Miller took an Imperial Airways Express plane on Saturday, May 3, and for seven days flew steadily, with the accustomed essential halts, over land and sea to his goal. He arrived in Karachi late on Friday, May 9, and after the various inoculations and serums necessary for a white visitor unaccustomed to the perils of Indian climate and conditions, set about his task of reporting. Sea and land planes were used in the journey, which took Miller 5,200 miles across thirteen countries and numerous bodies of water. The route lay across the English channel, central Europe, Greece, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq (Mesopotamia), Persia and Baluchistan. The trip included a flight of 500 miles across the Mediterranean with an enforced night halt on the Island of Crete, where plane’s crew and passengers slept aboard a small boat in the Bay of Mirabella.

Follow Plough Furrows

Miller and Barry Lawther, deputy inspector of police in Peshawar, who hastily was recalled from leave because of the dangerous situation on the northwest frontier, were the , only passengers. I After leaving Egypt, the plane | crossed the great desert of the Sinai j peninsula and over the Mosopotamian desert, where the pilot followed a plough furrow which the royal air force had ploughed across 600 miles of desert from the Dead sea almost to Bagdad, for guidance of aviators. Over the desert, the plane detoured to search for the missing aviator, Singh, who later turned up after a night on the desert. In the Persian gulf region sevi eral halts were made in the hottest S parts of the world. The temperature was 117.7 at Basra when the plane landed and 150 in the sun. Owing to the outbreak of tribal warfare in Arabia, which the planes usually cross on the India route, the pilot deviated and flew out to sea.

Blinded by Salt Lake

Because of the delay at Crete and the terrific heat at mid-day, the plane carrying * Miller frequently took off at 1:30 in the morning for ; the day’s flight. By mid-day, its occupants were ! almost undressed in the terrific ; heat, removing their shirts and even their shoes. In Persia, the plane crossed a solid lake of salt twenty-five miles in diameter. It was so blindingly white in the burning sun that the passengers could not look at it, even through dark glasses Miller is a reporter of w ? ide American and international experience. He was with Pershing in Mexico and France, and also with the Brit- | ish army in France; he covered the | black and tan rioting in Ireland and was with the Spanish army in the I Riff campaign. Since the war, he has had the widest experience with Europeans, particularly French and British affairs. State Parks Attendance Grows CONNERSVILLE, Ind., May 12. —Attendance at state parks thus far this month has been the largest of any May since the state conservation department was organized, in 1919, Director Richard Lieber of the department told members of the Rotary Club here today.

ing before the senate foreign relations committee to defend the limitation pact as “a fair, honorable agreement.” Stimson said the treaty brought naval parity between the United States and Great Britain, and paved the way sos further limitation. The secretary, chief of the American delegation at London, will appear before the committee again on Tuesday, after which Secretary of Navy Adams, Ambassador Morrow and naval experts will give their views. Stimson gave the American delegation unqualified credit for preventing collapse of the conference effort dumig the middle stages w’hen French and Italian antipathies threatened to react on G’ eat Britain in a manner which would prevent the latter joining a naval agreement, even with the United States. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 61 10 a. m 69 7a. m 63 11 a. m 69 Ba. m 68 12 (noon).. 70 9a. m 69 1 i>. m 70

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STORES CURB BUYERS WHO •RETURNGOODS Taboo ’Puttin’ on Ritz,’ Then Sending It Back After Party. BIG LOSS IS CITED Numerous Merchandise ' Items Are Banned on ‘Approval’ List. “Putting on the Ritz’’ at expense of Indianapolis stores, members of the Merchants’ association will be taboo after Thursday. Milady, expecting visitors, orders articles from a store, uses them for the length of the “party” and then returns the articles, will find the door to free furnishings closed in Jier face under rules of the association which go into effect May 15. Some customers have been in' the practice of fitting up a guest bedroom with a beautiful new outfit, or “purchasing” imported dinner sets to entertain guests, or ordering a gown of the latest mode for a function and then returning the goods to the store for credit or exchange. Tremendous losses have been entailed annually in Indianapolis from the practice, merchants declare. In the future returns will be scrutinized carefully and permitted only where the customer has been proved right or where the store has proven to be at fault. In many instances merchandise reurns have been soiled, rumpled or otherwise abused, making them unsalable, merchants declare. Under rules adopted by the Merchants Association, effective Thursday, the following articles will not be accepted for return under any circumstances: Bedding and mattresses, combs, hair brushes, tooth brushes, hair goods, ornaments and veils, rubber goods sundries, articles of wearing apparel which touch the body cr wearing apparel which has been altered or made to order; hats that have been made to order or worn, shoes and all articles of clothing capable of carrying disease. Accounts "Undesirable” Dr. Herman Morgan, secretary of the Indianapolis board of health, has approved the rule, declaring such articles carry and spread disease. Each store co-operating in the association movement will inaugurate a comprehensive accounting by their proper departments as to how much merchandise is returned and customers returning merchandise. Accounts showing large percentages of returns will be regarded as undesirable. The association will compile information on this line and will provide each merchant with names of those accounts termed “undesirable.”

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VAUGHN DE LEATH of the slow, dragging, crooning voice —you’ve heard her scores of times over the radio. Continuing its articles on radio celebrities which have proved so popular, The Times will present the first article about Vaughn de Leath Tuesday. Go to school with Professor Babe Ruth. The second of the series of baseball lessons by the Babe will appear in Tuesday’s Pink editions and Wednesday’s Noon edition. Read ’em and try ’em cut on the sandlot. They may start you on the road to stardom. The Times is printing the pictures of nearly 3,000 grade school graduates. School No. 60 appears today on Page 8. Watch for your child’s picture, as a group is being printed every day. f You don’t need the money, but you may as well get it. Turn to Page 3, name the Paramount stars shown in the picture contest, and win a cash prize. Modern* styles are cutting that terrifying cost of graduation. Turn to the woman’s page and read up on the budgets—only S2O, $33.40, and $62.40 for outfits that any sweet girl graduate will be glad to wear. A marvelous invention by Major Hoople. He’ll startle the world of science with it in Tuesday’s Times. He springs it in that greatest of comics, “Our Boarding Hoyse.” JURY INDICTS 33 Small Theft Included in Charges Voted. Thirty-three persons were indicted in twenty-six true bills reported today by the Marion county grand jury. Ben Jennings, held in jail under SI,OOO bond, was indicted for second degree burglary and petit larceny for alleged theft of 33 cents from a Standard grocery. Eleven persons are charged with burglary, eleven with vehicle taking, two with transporting liquor, two with assault and battery with intent to ki*l and one with forgery.

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IN DAD’S FOOTSTEPS Denny Proves Real Duesenberg

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The top photo is a scene at Indianapolis Speedway several years ago, showing the late Jimmy Murphy, left, holding the youngster, Denny Duesenberg, at the wheel of his racing car with the lad’s father looking on. Lower insets are Denny, left, and Peter De Paolo, famous auto racing nephew of that Speedway veteran, Ralph De Palma. bob an tt WHEN chips fall off the Duesenberg block, it means speed in automobile i*cing. Denny Duespnberg, 16-year-old son of Fred Duesenberg, famous builder of racing cars, is serving his apprenticeship as mechanic on the cars Peter De Paolo, two-time American champion, is preparing for the international 500-mile race for SIOO,OOO here May 30. “I hired him because he is the smartest kid I’ve ever seen around motors,” declares De Faolo, who served as mechanic to his uncle, Ralph De Palma, before he won the 1925 500-mile race at Indianapolis, estaolishing a record of 101.13 miles an hour for the distance, which still stands. “I have a terrible time keeping that boy in school around race time,” moans Denny’s father. “Only the other day the nurse in the school he attends called me and explained that Denny had something in his eye and would have to be sent to a doctor. Denny left school and in half an hour was at De Paolo’s garage. I think it was a piece of De Paolo’s car he had in his eye.” B B B B B B yNTIMATES rush forward with the information that young Duesen--1 berg is an honor student in the high school which he attends. Nothing is less than B on his report card and always there is a generous sprinkling of A plus. But his English and foreign language teachers are forever complaining about him." criticises his father, who secretly is elated over the fact that his son is naturally proficient in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, engineering and shop. “I didn't want him to be an engineer,” explains the miracle maker of motors, “but his mind seems made up. He is old for his years. T . want him to ao what he wants. After he is graduated from high school I will send him to Purdue university for two years and then to Boston Tech for two more.” Fred Duesenberg did not go to college. “I don’t £ver want to be a race driver,” confides young Denny, despite the fact that he has been a mascot for Duesenberg racing teams since he was in swaddling clothes. “I had rides with Jimmy Murphy in his cars almost before I could walk, and since then I have ridden with many of the other stars. But I enjoy the mechanical side of racing much more than I do driving. I'd rather tinker with a motor than be the speedway champion. But some day I will try to build the car that will carry some driver to a championship. That really is my ambition.” BUB B B B FOUR years ago, young Duesenberg surprised his father by blasting the sides off his dime bank and purchasing a second-hand motorcycle. Weeks later, after much secret hammering, grinding and sawing in the garage behind his palatial home here. Denny drove out the big garage doors and parked his conception of a boys’ automobile before the doors of his heme for his father's inspection. “The darned thing ran, too,” laughs his dad in recollecting the inst ance. When Christmas comes to the Duesenberg home. Santa Claus scampers c.own the chimney with welding outfits, tools, drawing boards and instruments instead of Useless foibles. With the proceeds of his first two weeks' pay as mechanic for De Paolo's 500-mile race cars, young Duesenberg added his allowance and purchased an electric grinder for the De Paolo garage. “That’s the final proof he is a born mechanical crack brain,” said his father when he was apprised of Denny's act. “He’ll be spending every dollar he gets his hands on to purchase some new tools or to try out some new idea, instead of having some pleasure with his earnings.” “But if he does build something that is different—and works —he will be happier than most people ever are,” he reflected;

REBUKES TO FOUR BISHOPS DISCUSSED

Bu Viiifcd Press DALLAS, Tex., May 12.—What action. if any will be taken by the Episcopacy committee of the Methodist general conference, south, with regard to charges against Bishop James Cannon Jr. and three others in connection with their prohibition activities during the last presidential campaign, was discussed unofficially in convention quarters here today. The committee planned to go into executive session late today to consider the charges filed by the Rev. Rembert Smith of Washington, Ga. In addition to the prohibition

FRENCH PLANE STARTS ON FLIGHT ACROSS ATLANTIC

Bv T'nifed Press „ ST. LOUIS, Senegal, May 12. The French aviator Jean Mermoz departed today on a trans-Atlantic flight to Brazil, inaugurating an air mail route to South America. He was flying an Aero-postal seaplane and carried air mail for South American ports. His destination was Natal, on the northwestern point of the continent. Mermoz was accompanied by a navigator, D’Abry, and a radio operator, Gimie. He carried 308 pounds of mail and had enough fuel to last thirty hours, although he expected to reach Natal in twenty hours. The over-water route Mermoz was scheduled to fololw is about 1,600 miles to Natal. Two Mexicans Killed SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, May 12. Less than twelve hours after Colonel Pablo Sidar, popular young Mexican aviator, had taken off from Cerro Loco, Mexico, in an attempt to add new laurels to his already brilliant record by a non-stop flight to Buenos Aires, his mangled body was

charges, Cannon Is accused of maintaining a marginal stock account with a New York brokerage concern. Bu I nit erf Prrs*n „ ~ WASHINGTON, May 12.—Full responsibility for handling the unaccounted for finances of the antiSmith campaign in Virginia was assumed today by Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in a telegram to Chairman Caraway of the senate lobby committee. In the telegram, the bishop said he never made an accounting of the funds publicly, “as none was required by law.”

taken from the sea off Puerto Limon, Costa Rica. Colonel Sidar’s plane, Morelos, crashed into the sea scarcely fifteen yards off shore, from a high altitude during a torrential tropical rain late Sunday. The body of Lieutenant Carlos Rivarosa, his co-pilot and sole companion on the flight, was not removed from the wreckage immediately. The wreckage was found in five feet of water. BRUCE BARTON SPEAKER Bruce Barton, author and lecturer, will address the Tuesday luncheon of the Mercator Club at the Columbia Club. His topic will be “A Man Nobody Knows.” KILLED BY TOY PLANE NEW YORK. May 12.—John Forners, 18, a miner from Ohio, was killed Sunday night when he tumbled from the seat of a chair plane device at a street carnival.

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SALE OF MALT BOOSTED HERE BY BREW RULE City Residents Rush to Lay in Supply, Following Court Decision. CASE LOT BUYING GAINS Dealer’s Protective Group Reported in Process * of Formation. Hcav> r buying of malt by the case and steps toward organization of a dealers’ protective association wera the results in Indianapolis today of the Danovitz supreme court decision, variously construed as effecting tho sale of malt, hops and appurtenances of the home brewer. While manufacturers and proprietors of several grocery chains asserted the Danovitz decision any subsequent raid on a Chicago malt and bottle emporium had occasioned no unusual demand for malt here, the managers of several establish* ments, specializing in malt, crocks, bottles and the like, reported malt sales in case lots mounted to as high as seven times normal the p?.sb week-end. Confer on Ruling One dealer reported effort is a foot to organize a protective association of retailers and distributors of malt in Indianapolis. This dealer said representatives of retailers and distributors have conferred with United Sttaes District Attorney George R. Jeffrey and John W. Wilkey, deputy prohibition administrator of Indiana, for interpretations of the decision is it may affect them here. Wlikey today reiterated he has received no orders relative to enforcement procedure under the recent supreme court decision. Chain grocery proprietors said they were not taking malt off their shelves and do not intend to, holding that it is a staple and legitimate food product. Neither are they asking malt purchasers for pledges that the malt will not be used in the manufacture of home brew, as a United Press dispatch reported a Washington, D. C., merchant as doing today. Manufacturer Not Frightened An Indianapolis malt manufacturer reported no spurt in demand occasioned by the order and said he felt certain the government will not interefer with the manufacturer or sale of the product. The proprietor of one largo grocery chain insisted display could not be regarded as evidence of the purchasers' intent to manufacture of illicit beverages. “They made and sold crocks for a hundred years—how are they going to know they aren’t used for pickles,” said this manager. “Cappers' are used for harmless soft drinks; malt and yeast for baking; bottles for catsup. I don’t see how they can stop their sale now." Washington dispatches said the treasury announcement of a drive against stories selling materials ior liquor making, under the decision, was temered with announcement that no action will be attempted against home brewers themselves. The court’s ruling -n sale of bottles, barrels, liquor flavoring rid unfermented grape juice, as well as malt and hops, makes the various articles subject to seizure when obviously designed to be used by buyers in making illegal liquor. PLAN ‘FLYING FORT' Guns, Planes to Be Carried by Proposed Dirigible. Pm I nitrd Press BELLEVILLE, 111., May 12.—A “flying fort,” carrying a 37-millime-ter gun, two airplanes, ten machine guns and from 5,000 to 15,000 pounds of bombs will be constructed at Scott field here, if congress approves a bill for construction of a new metal dirigible, according to announcement here. Colonel John A. Paegelow, commandant of the field, has outlined plans for construction of the dirigble. The projected craft will be 547.2 feet long. Eight engines of 4.800horse power would give the dirigible a maximum speed of 100 miles an hour with a cruising range of 4,400 miles. HOLDS PAPERS FAKE La Guardia Scoffs at ‘Red’ Document Discovery. H H T V itr/9 pren* WASHINGTON. May 12.—Representative La Guardia <Rep..N. Y.) today branded as “forgeries” documents” held by Police Commissioner Grover Whalen of New York City purporting to show the presence of an organized Communist band in this country directed by Moscow. In a house speech La Guardia said the New York police department had accepted a “gold brick.” He exhibited two examples of letter heads Identical with those on which orders from the Third Internationale in Moscow were said to have been written. and explained that the letterheads were printed in New York. They were submitted to him by a New York newspaper which made an investigation of its own.

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