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pASSAGE by congress of the Hawiey-Smoot tariff bill threatens the country. If this occurs, your veto becomes the sole hope of relief from a measure which our foremost industrialists and economists declare strikes at the very heart of our industry and our prosperity. In the opinion of this newspaper, as clear an expression as ever uttered on the relations of mass production and foreign trade to American prosperity was spoken by you during your campaign for the presidency. Your own utterances, we believe, constitute a complete indictment against this tariff bill. Therefore, we herewith take the liberty of quoting from your Newark, N. J. address

33 CARS ARE REGARDED AS CERTAIN STARTERS FRIDAY IN ANNUAL SPEEDWAY CLASSIC 24 Now Qualified With Nine More Estimated Capable; De Paolo Escapes Death in Rail Crossing- Accident. * * BY NORMAN E. ISAACS A hurried checkup of cars at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway today and calculations as to their capabilities indicated that only thirty-three cars may start in the eighteenth annual running of America s historic gasoline derby here Friday, the 500-mile chase for gold and glory. With twenty-four machines already qualified, trials were to continue this afternoon and Wednesday, with only nine more cars unofficially estimated as being capable of turning in the required eighty-flve-mile-an-hour speed for four laps. _ , , , . ~ , Three more speed creations passed the speed tests late Monday afternoon, Bill Cummings, star Indianapolis dirt tracker, heading the list by wheeling one of Peter De Paolo’s two Duesenbergs around the mammoth brick and concrete platter at an average speed of 106.173 miles an hour.

De Paolo drove the high-powered Duesie tc the track late in the day, nearly meeting death or serious injury at the Big Four railroad crossing, at the limits of the giant Speedway plant. De Paolo, hurrying to get the car on the bricks before dusk, discovered a swift Chicago passenger train bearing down on him at top speed. Tiie famous race driver, winner of the 1925 race here, slammed on his brakes and the car slid into a ditch as the train rushed past. Machine Unharmed The machine was unharmed and Pete drove it out of the ditch and onto the track where Cummings took the wheel. The 23-year-old Indianapolis boy, making his first start on the bricks, swept around the track twice for warm-up laps, signified his intention of taking his trial and whirled out on his officiallytimed laps. The local lad provided some thrills for the boys in the press pagoda as he whizzed out of the north turn on his first three laps. The turn, coated with oil and grease, afforded dangerous traction and the speeding race car skidded each time Cummings “barrelled” in the stretch. On his fourth lap, Cummings took the turn low and lost some split seconds. His total speed, however, had he qualified on Saturday, would have been sufficient to have placed him on the pole of the second row. In Eighth Row The 106-mile-and-hour gait settled Bill in the number one position of the eighth row, with Melvin Kenealy, in a Maav Special, holding the second position in the eighth row, and Jimmy Gleason on the outside in his Waverly Oil Special. Kenealy qualified his four-cylin-der motor chariot at a speed of 103.327 miles an hour and Gleason averaged 93.709 m les a hour. William Denver in a Nardi Special endeavored to qualify Monday, but quit on his third lap. His motor died on him and he was expected to make another trial today. His speed was ninety-one miles an hour for the two laps he had c::npleted. Julius Slade, in a Slade Special, failed on his second trial to complete the four laps, and has only one more chance to qualify. Slade averaged eighty-eight miles an hour for three laps, when someth mg went “haywire” on his last lap and he coasted into the pits, his motor dead. With Speedway officials announcing that 169 of the 200 laps had been subscribed for in the lap prize fund, railbirds and pit experts today began figuring on a thrilling duel of speed for each of the SIOO lav prizes in the race. The prize committee today continued its efforts to fill the 200 laps by Thursday. Arnold Wins ‘Pole’ Billy Arnold, Louie Meyer and Shorty Cantlon will wage the early struggle for lap prizes, with Arnold favored to zoom off into the lead as soon as the pacemaking lap is continued. Arnold qualified Harry Hartz’ Miller Front-Drive Saturday at a

DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHEETS—SINCERE GESTURE OF SIMPLE SOUL’

BY HARRY FERGUSON United Press Stiff Oorrespondent XJEW YORK, May 27.—Raymond XN Duncan, high priest of the simple life, went down to the sea in sheets today to gather salt water as a gesture of sympathy toward Mahatma Gandhi and his civil disobedience campaign in India. He was followed by flfteeen allies who swung 10-cent stjre buckets and by a curious crowd that identified Duncan as, among other things, “that fellow who Just arrived from India,” “Isadora Duncan,** a vaudeville performer.” and “Chief Long Lance, who’s doing a

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Cars Yet to Go Cars yet to pass their Speedway qualification trials follow: Driver Car •Wilbur Shaw Empire State Spl. •Babe Stapp Duesenbcre •Deacon lit)! Duesenbers •Bill Gardner Unnamed Zeke Meyer Unnamed •Dave Evans Jones-Maley Spl. *B. Borzacchlni Maserati 16 J. C. Slade Slade Spl. •E. Cucinotta Maserati 8 Rick Decker Decker Spl. James Klemos Unnamed •Joe Huff Gauss Front Dr. G. D. McKenzie Unnamed Marion Trexler Trexier Spl. -Sam Greco Scranton Spl. Roland May J-M Special Fred Fansin Fansin Jr. Spl. •Harry Butcher Butcher Bros. Spl. tUnnamed Duesenbcre H'nnamed Hoosier Pete Spl. William Denver Nardi Spl. •Reearded as almost certain to auallfv. tNot likely to take trials.

113-mile-an-hour pace, winning the coveted “pole” position from Meyer, who averaged 111 miles miles an hour. Cantlon’s 109-mile-an-hour speed put him third in the front row. Hartz’ machine apparently has the most speed on the track, with Meyer’s sixteen-cylindered Sampson not very far behind. If both cars hold up, Memorial day fans should witness a dazzling battle of speed for the SIOO prizes awarded the leader of each lap. The race Decoration day will provide an added amount of interest in that the size of the cars entered and qualified vary from four-cylindered creations to sixteencylindered jobs. The two largest cars at the track are Borzacchini’s Maserati Sixteen, an Italian creation, and Louie Meyer’s Sampson Special, a sixteen-cyl-indered machine built in Indianapolis for the race. While Borzacchini’s car is of the “V” type, Meyer’s is a true twin, the two eightcylindered motors being placed vertically, each being a separate power plant in itself with its own cooling system and carburetiori. There are front-drive eights, reardrive eights, a “V” type eight, two front-drive fours, and numerous rear-drive fours. DENTIST IS TARRED Abductors Warn Against Attentions to Woman. Bu United Pres* HAMMOND. La., May 27.—Dr. S. L. Newsum, 30, young dentist, was tarred and feathered today by four unidentified men. Newsum’s abductors were said to have warned him against his friendship with a Hammond married woman. CAFE EMPLOYE SCALDED Opening doors of a steam cooker, said to have been over-filled, Herman Pieper, 21, R. R. 4, Box 556, employe in the Guaranty cafeteria, Meridian street at Monument Circle, was scalded early today by outrushing steam. He was taken to Methodist hospital.

white robes and allowing the wind cavort in and out of his uncut hair, characterized his march to the sea as “a sincere gesture of a simple soul.” He led the way out of his Fiftieth street wagram (in English, studio) this forenoon, marshaled his slender forces and designated his physician, Dr. Elmer Lee, as second in command. Down Fifth avenue they went, escorted by two policemen, and ran squarely into a red traffic light. A conference of war followed after which Mahatma Ray announced he had adopted a policy

of Sept. 17, 1928, and your Boston speech of Oct. 15, the same year: “A continued surplus,” you said, “of unemployed workers means decreasing wages, increasing hours, and fear for the future. To protect labor, to maintain its prosperity, to abolish poverty, we must so organize our economic system as to provide Jobs for all who have the will to work. “Behind every job is a vast, intricate and delicately adjusted system of interlocked industries dependent upon skilled leadership and upon finding a market for their products at home or in foreign lands. The forces of credit, communications, transportation, power, foreign relations

10 DEAD IN COLISEUM FIRE

Lives Lost as Walls Collapse P>u United Frees OKLAHOMA CITY, May 27.—Flames that started near a sawdust-covered arena crackled through the stockyards coliseum today and took at least ten lives. Most of the persons who lost their lives were caught in a shower of embers and burning brands as the walls of the huge structure weakened by the inroads of the flames, collapsed. The building was destroyed, with a loss of probably more than $300,000. The building was built in 1920. Cause of the blaze, which started suddenly and swept the entire building within the period of an hour, was still undetermined. It was in this building that Alfred E. Smith two years ago sounded his famous keynote of religious tolerance. Most of the deaths and Injuries resulted when crowds pressed forward to see the spectacle and were caught by the falling walls. Firemen fought to check the flames in the auditorium and keep them from spreading to nearby packing huoses and at the sanu* time were hard put to keep the crowds back. Several persons fighting to salvage parts from automobiles in the annex were trapped by the collapse of a wall. The auditorium is in the center of the packing house district, known as Packingtown. The flames leaping from the Coliseum threatening to spread and endanger the surrounding plants. GIRL PILOT IS KILLED Young Flier Crashes Into Field During Solo Flight. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May 27.—Margaret Ferguson, 17, one of the youngest girl pilots in the United States, was killed today in a plane crash near here. She took off on a solo flight from a Colorado Springs airport and crashed in a field four miles northeast of the city.

DRY REFERENDUM URGED BY WESTERN SENATOR

B■/ United Press WASHINGTON, May 27.—Declaring he will vote for repeal or modification of eighteenth amendment if the people of his state ask for it, Senator Jones (Rep., Wash.) asserted in a statement today that the Washington state Republican convention, which voted wet, represents but a small fraction of the state. Jones, author of the “five and ten” dry law and one of the leading drys m the senate, suggested a state referendum to “give people the chance to express themselves on a provision

NEW YORKERS WALK ON $23,000; FAIL TO SEE IT

Bu United Press NEW YORK, May 27—Residents and office workers in the vicinity of the Commodore hotel learned to their surprise that they had been over and near $23,000 that was scattered out in the street in SI,OOO and SSOO bills. Police have recovered the money. One man, whose name was not

lights and would wait until the signals flashed green. At Twenty-sixth street the pilgrims already were getting weary. m a a “AN hour and ten minutes still xIl to go, Mr. Duncan,” said Mme. Marie Bernard, a loyal follower, sitting down on a fireplug and resting her bucket on the sidewalk. “That’s not long," said Mahatma Ray, grabbing his robes as the wind blew hard. “A mere jaunt.” “Mr. Duncan’s a great walker,” whispered Seoond-in-Command Lee. “He walked all over Albania and eats nothing but vegetables,’*

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1930

DEMAND JAIL INMATES GET MEDICAL AID City Police Surgeons Only Used in Examination of Job Seekers. Demands that city-paid police surgeons be called upon for duties other than mere examination of candidates for appointment to the police department were taking shape today as result of the jail death of F. E. Sparks, 37, auto salesman, of 310 East St. Clair street. Sparks, thrown into a cell at city lockup on a charge of driving while intoxicated, remained there unconscious last Saturday for eleven hours before it was learned he was injured. He died at city hospital Sunday night of cerebral hemorrhage. Police rules and regulations provide that police surgeons shall be called upon to attend all prisoners at the city lockup who need medical attention. In recent years, however, police surgeons have drawn their salaries solely for their services in examining prospective police and fire department candidates and in examining policemen or firemen who report off duty for illness and ask pension payments or sick benefits. Dr. Frank Dowd and Dr. Frederick Crum, police surgeons, were not notified of Sparks’ condition, police admit. Officers say no recent precedent exists for calling them to attend prisoners. Under present plans, the prisoners are sent to city hospital when it is learned they are ill. Until four years ago, several city hospital internes were given living quarters at the city police headquarters building in exchange for their services ip examing prisoners. At present no rooms are available as headquarters, Police Chief Jerry E. Kinney says. Need for a physician to attend prisoners at the lockup and to examine them was manifested again today when Ernest Smith, alias Ernest Ray, 62, was found suffering (Turn to Page One Second Section.)

looking to legalizing the sale of liquor. Jones’ statement, issued as a result of the action of the Republican convention came as a surprise in view of his former unyielding stand on prohibition. Jones also issued a statement concerning the indictment of Roy C. Lyle, Washington prohibition administrator; William M. Whitney, his legal adviser, and others. Declaring he would “clothe these boys with the presumption of innocence which the law throws around them,” Jones said he believes “most sincerely in their innocence.”

revealed, picked up a SI,OOO bill and another bill of the same denomination was found on a roof. Although police refused to discuss the matter, it was reported that a package of bills was thrown from a window of the Commodore when a woman and four men were arrested with $300,000 in allegedly stolen jewelry.

its march toward the Battery. At Tenth street they halted for a drink of water and Mrs. E. W. Meyers and Mrs. Frank I. Kusnick, who were out doing their morning shopping blocked the way. “That,” said Mrs. Meyers, pointing to Mahatma Ray, “is Grandee, that Indian.” “1 thought,” murmured Mrs. Kusnick, “that the government kept Indians on reservations.” Reaching the Battery, Mahatma Ray assured the police there that he really was Raymond Duncan, Isadora's brother, and that he wanted to borrow fifteen pails of water from .New York harbor. He took

and what not, must all be kept in tune if steady employment is to be assured. a a a a a a “ A FAILURE in any part imposes a penalty upon labor through unemployment. Break this chain or relationship at any point and the whole machine is thrown out of order .... cease exporting automobiles to South America or Europe, and automobile workers are thrown out of employment in Michigan. “The suffering does not stop there. It only begins. The steel mills slacken in Pennsylvania and Indiana. The mines employ fewer workers at Lake Superior. And every

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Bu United Press WICHITA, Kan., May 27.—Lieutenant Colonel Roscoe Turner, attempting anew east-west continental speed record from New York to Los Angeles, arrived here to refuel at 12:44 p. m. today. He had flown from Roosevelt 1., In nine hou:\ and forty-

52 KILLED, SCORES HURT IN INDIA RIOT

Scotch Highlanders, Native Police Pour Volley Into Dock Strikers in Streets of Rangoon.

By United Press RANGOON, Burma, May 27. Widespread rioting in which police fought dock strikers in the streets of Rangoon had resulted in a total of fifty-two dead and hundreds injured at noon today. Fighting started Monday and continued at intervals as police reserves were summoned in a vain effort to cope with the rioters. A check of casualties revealed a total of 746 injured, many of them seriously. The Cameron Highlanders, a Punjab regiment and mounted and military police and civil police occupied the city. The military was compelled to fire twice on the rioters, killing about a dozen persons. The attacking strikers massacred fifteen Indian coolie women. One of the women was held aloft over the heads of the surging mob. She bled to death from severed arteries. Many persons were injured by gun fire, but the frenzy of the outbreak had become so violent and so large in scale that troops and police were unable to restore order immediately. British Fire on Mobs BY WEBB MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 1930. by United Press) BOMBAY, India, May 27—Police clashed repeatedly with Moslem rioters today in outbreaks of violence in the central Bhendi bazar here and at the Sandhurst road barracks. Guns were fired into the mobs on several occasions and the rioters attacked police with showers of stones. Casualties in the fighting since Monday night were placed at six dead and forty-five wounded by gun fire, in a statement by Red Cross volunteers of the Indian congress at noon. The total casualties in the independence fighting throughout India in the last two days was raised to

them, turning to salute the crowd that had gathered. a a a “YTTALL STREET trembles at v ▼ the name of Gandhi,” said Mahatma Ray. “We send him our love and loyalty.” Then there arose the question of walking all the way back to Fiftieth street, where Mahatma Bay boiled the water on an electric plate to get salt. “No,” said Mahatma Bay. “I’m not a bit tired. I can walk all the way.” Whereupon he hailed a taxicab, loaded it full of harbor water and

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one minutes in a Lockheed cabin monoplane. His pet lion cub, Gilmore, accompanied him. The present east-west speed record is held by Captain Frank M. Hawks, who on June 27, piloted his Lockheed-Vega monoplane from Roosevelt field to Los Angeles in 18 hours 10 minutes 32 seconds without a stop.

at least sixty-three dead and hundreds injured. The dead included fifty-two at Rangoon, six at Dacca, where a reign of terror existed over the week-end, three in Bombay and one British officer in the Preshawar district. A partial hartal (cessation of work) was called in Bombay, with Hindus and independence volunteers joining in. Today’s rioting in Bhendi bazaar, in the central part of Bombay, was a renewal of serious attacks by Mohammedans on British native police which began Monday night. Four platoons of East Lancashire troops, called early today, were reinforced during the forenoon and were concentrated in three police stations in the district and patroling in motor trucks. DOGS ObT NEGRO HUNT B REIDSviLLE, N. C., May 27. A large posse, with bloodhounds searched Caswell county today for trace of a young Negro, charged with attacking Miss Annie Thomas, 19-year-old white girl.

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farmer in the United States suffers liom the diminished purchasing power and enforced stringency in thousands of homes. “More than two million families in the United States earn their living today producing goods for export, and another million families earn their living in the manufacture of raw materials which we import in exchange for our exports “Today the whole nation has more profound reason for solicitude in the promotion of our foreign trade than ever before. Asa result of our invention genius and the pressure of high wages, we have led the world in substituting machines for hand labor. “This, together with able leadership and skilled workers, enables us to produce goods much in excess of our needs. a a a a a a “'ITIT'E have increased our production approximately 30 ** per cent during the last eight years and our population has increased only about 10 per cent. “Much of this increase of production has been absorbed in higher standards of living, but the surplus grows with this unceasing improvement. To insure continuous employment and maintain our wages, we must find a profitable market for the surplus. We attain stability ... by the number of different customers we supply. . . . Consequently our industries will gain in stability the wider we spread our trade with foreign countries. This additional security reflects itself in the home of every worker and every farmer in our country. “The expansion of export trade has a vital importance in still another direction. The goods we export contribute to the purchase from foreign countries of the goods and raw materials which we can not ourselves produce. We might survive as a nation, though, on lower standards and wages, if we had to suppress the 9 per cent or 10 per cent of our total production which now is sold abroad. But our whole standard of living would be paralyzed and much of the joy of living destroyed if we were denied sufficient imports ..... “Foreign trade thrives only in peace. But more than that, it thrives only with maintaned good will and mutual interest with other nations.” . That was the picture you drew in 1928. What of 1930? The Hawiey-Smoot tariff has not even been passed. So far we have not suffered from its substance. Yet its mere shadow, cast before the coming event, has sufficed to smite American export trade and American prosperity with a withering blight. Factories that were humming in 1928 are idle today. Hundreds of thousands of men employed at high wages then are out of work now. Forces that were leading toward a millennium in the fall of 1928 have faltered. And the very leaders of that benign Industrial evolution are crying for relief. Why? Because foreign trade—that great governor, that great balance wheel to which you referred has stripped its gears, a a a ana GREAT BRITAIN, France, Switzerland, the Argentine—more than thirty of the nations of tfte world—are rising against us with actions in reprisal against the proposed tariff. The “maintained good will,” the “mutual interest with other nations” of which you spoke a year and seven months ago are fading fast. It therefore is with dark concern and wonder as to its possible prophetic character that we read a passage wherein you said: “The whole structure of our advancing civilization would crumble and the great mass of mankind would travel backwards if the foreign trade of the world were to cease.” We are appreciative of the fact that in those same speeches you discussed and defended the principle of the protective tariff—that you specifically contended the right kind of a protective tariff to be not inconsistent with the expansion of foreign trade. With that position and that principle we haye no quarrel. But we are convinced that the kind of tariff now before us is not in accord with the principle you then expounded. As proof, we point to what is going on today in the chancellories <f the world and to the declaration of such domestic leaders of economic thought as the 1,000 who recently addressed to Washington their eames* protest—to Henry Ford, to Alfred Sloan, to all of those practical exponents of the mass production which you yourself so eloquently eulogized as America’s greatest contribution to a better and a finer world. Mr. President, in order that the vision which you pictured in 1928the vision of poverty abolished —ultimately may come true, kill by you# veto the Hawiey-Smoot monstrosity when it comes to you from congress. a a a a a a SUCH words as those of yours, such vision as Herbert Hoover, the candidate, displayed, were what elected you. The election threw you into the maelstrom of practical politics, and out of that maelstrom the tariff bill soon will emerge. It is of politics, for politicians, and by politicians. It is not of the people, by the people, or for the people. No one knows better than you that it was the people, not the politicians, who forced your nomination against the wishes of the party fat-fryers. Your duty runs not to those political agents of incompetent industries that can not survive except by a special government tax on the consuming public. It runs to the whole public, directly to the public that nominated you, to the public that responded with its votes in 1928 to the views of Herbert Hoover, the economist and the statesman, not Herbert Hoover, the politician. No President ever faced a greater opportunity or a greater responsibility. The veto power of the President was not provided for by accident. It exists primarily for just such situations as the present one. It exists to enable the President, who is the chief executive of all tne people, to safeguard them from legislation conceived in the interest of stupid or selfish politicians bent upon advancing their own interest at the expense of the general good. Mr. President, your theories in 1928 were sound. They are sound now. The words you spoke then call for action today. Prepare to veto the tariff bill and save American prosperity. _____

TARIFF BILL MADE FOR FARMER, ASSERTS SMOOT

By Untied Pre WASHINGTON, May 27.—The Hawley-Smoot tariff bill “was written primarily for agriculture and increases the protective rates for agriculture four times as much as the protective rates for industry as a whole, Chairman Smoot, of the senate finance committee, told the senate today in opening final debate on the bill. Duties under the new tariff schedules will amount to $630,456,280 as compared with $522,649,383 under the present law, Smoot said. The senate tariff leader presented an elaborate defense of the measure which bears his name but which has been nicknamed the "Grundy bilL”

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serting most of the increases are for the benefit of agriculture. GOOD TURN—ROMANCE Debutante Keeps Polo Player rrons Jail; to Wed Him. Bu United Prets LOS ANGELES, May 27.— R00t-nee ot-nee bom when a debutante paid a visiting Argentina polo player’s fine and saved him from going to Jail in Modesto, Cal., will result in the marriage of Miss Jeanne Hughson and Juar Reynal, Buenos Aires. Announcement of the couple's engagement was made by William L. Hughaon, millionaire San Francisco automobile dealer, who said his daughter was visiting in Buemw Aires. * f