Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1930 — Page 11

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GRUNDY TARIFF TRIUMPH WILL RUIN U S. TRADE Threats of Reprisal Hang Over Senators’ Heads on Eve of Vote. EXPORTS ARE HIT HARD Friday, June 13, 1930, May Become Black Date on American Calendar. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS &rrlpp-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, June 12.—Tomorrow, Friday, June 13, may go down in history as a sinister date in the foreign relations of the United States, a turning point in this country's commercial, industrial and economic expansion. Gravely apprehensive, all the great trading nations of the world will focus their attention on Capitol Hill as the senate casts its epochmaking vote on the Hawley-Smoot tariff, against which more thar thirty foreign powers have protested strongly as destructive to international commerce. Already America’s foreign trade, said by President Hoover to be vital to the nation’s prosperity, has slumped 21 per cent this year, ascribed chiefly to foreign reprisals against our tariff policy. Friday’s vote, therefore, is awaited anxiously by our best customers abroad, because it is largely upon the result of that vote that they will fix their own commercial relations with us. Warnings Are Sounded From the four points of the compass have come warnings that retaliatory tariffs or other barriers will be imposed against American products by the affected nations. Department of commerce figures shows that up to April 1 foreigners had bought approximately $400,000,000 less from us than during the corresponding period of last year, and data just made public reveals that the slump continues. During April another $100,000,000 decline was recorded. Meantime, key industries, employing millions of American workers, have been hit hard. Automobile sales abroad have slowed alarmingly, output has dropped 31 per cent, steel orders at home and abroad have dwindled, and car loadings fallen off some 13 per cent below last year’s figures for this time. If the tariff bill passes, economists assert, this unfavorable trend will be accentuated. Foreign nations, which thus far have contented themselves with warnings, or merely tne beginning of reprisals, will set to work seriously preparing for their counter-strikes. Britain Will Retaliate Britain, who buys about .16 per cent of all her imports from the United States, amounting to more than $800,000,000 a year, is at the tariff crossroads, according to former Premier Lloyd George. Free trade or protection is again a burning issue, and observers declare that passage of the prohibitive Hawley-Smoot rates will add to the impetus to lay heavy duties on foreign products ,and set up imperial preference between Britain and her dominions. America’s trade with England inevitably would suffer. Canada, 68 per cent of whose foreign purchases are from this side of the border, and who last year ousted the mother country from first place among our customers, already has countered w r ith a higher tariff policy, which policy will be extended, she frankly announces, if our tariff wall is raised. France, likewise, has boosted her "duties on American products and the American ambassador at Paris, Walter Edge, has had notice served on him that passage of the HawieySrfloot measure not only will mean further reprisals of that nature, but that a coalition of European nations will spring up to combat American trade abroad. Offers Voice Protest Spain. Italy, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Holland. Norway, Sweden. Rumania, Portugal. Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Japan and a dozen other countries have not ceased to protest for the past year or more. . In : iirope, Latin America, and elsewhere, tentative plans have been made to curtail trade with the United States if the tariff becomes law. Friday's vote, therefore, is expected to check or to crystalize the various movements imperiling the Industrial and commercial expansion of this country. YOUNGER GENERATION FOUND MORE MORAL Given Scientific Indorsement of Drake University Psychologist. Bu I nited Press DES MOINES, la., June 12. The younger generation was given scientific indorsement today by Dr. E. G. Lockhart, noted psychologist of Drake university. Preliminary results of a prison survey being conducted by Dr. Lockhart indicate morals of America’s sons and daughters are higher than those of the older generation, the professor said. Only 10 per cent of the last 400 young men committed to the reformatory at Anamosa. la., were convicted of statutory crimes. Dr. Lockhart discovered, whereas approximately 20 per cent of the older men committeed to the state penitentiary at Ft. Madison, la., were guilty of such crimes. Driver’s Money, Cab Taken Two taxi gunmen Wednesday night held up Emory Ford, 28, of 500 North Illinois street, Lincoln cab driver, at Tenth street and White river, robbed bin. of $4 and took his cab.

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Carl Jensen reunited with his sister, Mrs. Carrie Carlson, after fortysix years.

BY ARCH STEINEL MEN who go down to the sea in ships don’t always come back, but this is a tale of cne who came back foity-six years later to be reunited with his sister in Indianapolis today. And the reunion was held on the city’s street of happiness, Easy street, at the home of the sister, Mrs. Carrie Carlson, 1833 Easy street. ana a a a t The sailor is Carl Jensen, 4424 Walnut street. Oakland, Cal. Jensen's no longer an able seaman; but in Denmark in 1884 he longed to sail the clipper ships that weighed anchor near his Danish home.

INDIANA 6, A. R. ; CHIEFNAMED Newcastle Chosen for IS3I Encampment. Bu Timm Special WABASH, Ind., June 12.—Isaac B. Austin of Noblesville was elected state commander of the Indiana department, G. A. R., today at the closing session of the fifty-first annual encampment. Newcastle was chosen as the convention city for 1931, in a heated contest. Two ballots were taken after Thirteenth district delegates demanded a recount. On the final ballot, Newcastle was awarded the convention by seven votes over Anderson and thirteen over Marion. Mrs. Kate Taylor of Bedford was elected president of the Woman’s Relief Corps. Ladies of the G. A. R. selected Mrs. Edith Sheridan, Marion, commander Wednesday, and today elected Mrs. Ella Gray, Terre Haute, senior vice-commander; Mrs. Amy Case. Wabash, junior vice-com-mander; Mrs. Nora Etnire, Logansport. treasurer; Mrs. Nellie Hale, Marion, secretary; Mrs. Erma Akers, Delphi, chaplain; Mrs. Gertrude Fox, Ft. Wayne, inspector, and Mrs. Delle Hornbrook, Princeton, patriotic instructor. CHURCH RALLY SLATED Reports of Officers to Be Heard at Dinner Meeting. Reports cf officers of the Indianapolis Christian Church Union will be heard at the annual dinner meeting at 6; 15 p. m. Friday at West Park Christian church. Rally of all Christian churches in the county will follow the business meeting, and Merle Sidener, chairman of the committee on the pension fund of the Disciples of Christ, will speak.

LIKES ’EM BRUNET 'Coco 1 Admits Hes No Gentleman

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Miss Ethel Knerr and Coco

MEN prefer blondes maybe, but it takes a brunet to make a macaw do a claw dance on his wooden perch. And if you don’t believe it, just visit Coco, a 10-year-old hyacinth macaw, at his home, 147 North Pennsylvania street, and ask him why he had the above photo taken with Miss Ethel Knerr, secretary of the “Miss Victory” campaign headquarters of Veterans of Foreign East OMo street. Howdy, Coco,” calls Coco from his one-hundred-word vocabulary as he looked in a mirror .and saw himself perched on Miss Knerr's hand.

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Now in Denmark womanhood and manhood come early. The first confirmation in church for the 14-year-olds of Denmark sends boys and girls out into the world to make their own living. Carl kissed his parents, his sister Carrie goodby in 1884 and never was seen again until today. a a a IN New York he shipped on the windjammer, the J. P. Thomas, and went around the Horn, “It took us 167 days and then I settled down in Oakland and married,” Jensen explained at the Carlson home. In the meantime his sister, Carrie, left the Danish homeplace for America as did another sister, Mrs. Bergetti Jurgenson. She located in Indianapolis eventually while Mrs. Jurgenson became a pioneer resident of Northfield, 'Minn. Ten years ago the sisters heard their brother was in this country and alive. “I heard they were here, too, but 2,000 miles is a long way when you’re busy working,” Jensen said. Obtaining a vacation from the coal company which employs him, he came to Indianapolis and met for the first time the sister whom he remembered but as a litle girl. “We wouldn’t have known each other if we’d passed on the street, it’s been so long ago,” declared Jensen as he patted his sister’s shoulder. “She’s 64 and I’m 66, and we’ve raised a lot of children since those days in Denmark.” a it it BUT the man who came back from the sea has one more heart to make happy, and that is his older sister, Mrs. Jurgenson. “She’s 89 and I haven’t seen her for fifty-eight years. They tell me she don’t remember me as her brother, but maybe when she sees me, maybe then she will remember,” he assures visitors as he explains that he’ll visit Northfield, Minn., before returning to his home. Jensen is accompanied by his wife. Gets School Post Bu Times Special MT. VERNON, Ind., June 12.—Alfred S. Gronemeier, Chamber of Commerce president, today assumed his post., as the Republican member of the school board here.

match his own ultra-marine feathers touched off with yellow circles around his eyes and gills and he has that hair near him in Miss Knerr. He is one of three specimens of his type in the parrot family in captivity in the United States. *> “One is in the Bronx park. New York, and the other on Catalina Island,” replies R. B. Ward, his owner, to questions. "He comes from central South America and is valued at $500,” Ward says. “Coco” never has learned to swear. His daily meels consist of a quart of seven different kinds of seeds and a “banana a day to keeD the doctor away ”

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G.O.P. FUNDS BOOSTED BY GANyHARGE Ex-Booze Operator Asserts , Refusal to Attend 'Liquor Session.’ MURDER FACTS BARED Rum Crew Sought to Rent Police Chief’s Farm, He Testifies. 4 3* By Times Special TERRE HAUTE, In£„ June 12. Delving into operations of the alleged Wabash valley liquer ring, government attorneys in federal court today showed that money for Republican campaigns was solicited from rum runners and many of the alleged conspirators on trial here. First revelation along this line came Wednesday afternoon when Charles Figg testified he contributed to campaign funds on orders of John Jensen, former Vigo county Republican chairman. His testimony was followed by that of Mrs. Frank Meherry, whose, former husband operated a liquor joint, in which she stated she had given Jensen campaign money. Orders to Buy Richard Arkwright, former bootlegger, testified he received orders to buy liquor from the purported Joe Traum gang but had refused and did not accept an invitation to attend the “bootleggers’ convention.” One of the most damaging, points in the government’s case was entered when James G. Browning, prohibition prober, told of arresting George Aiducks of Terre Haute and obtaining a confession from him on booze operations in Vigo and Vermillion counties two weeks before Aiducks was murdered. Aiducks was slain near the Terre Haute police station by men in an auto who riddled his body with machine gun bullets. Tri-State Operations Police Chief Fred Armstrong, former Vigo county sheriff, said members of the gang offered him rental of $3,000 annually fer a farm on which they wanted to operate a still. ,He said they told him they were ’’getting along alright with Ray Concannon.” then sheriff, by “paying Ray SSOO a month.” Other witnesses Wednesday and today related the operations of the liquor gang in Indiana. Kentucky and Illinois. They told how the “big plants” were moved miles when reports of possible raids were received.

BOARD AWARDS CITY CONTRACTS Sewer Bids Divided Into Three Divisions. Contracts totaling $254,363 for sewer construction were awarded by the board of sanitary commissioners today. By dividing bids into three divisions the board saved SB,OOO on the Broad Ripple main interceptor sewer. The first and second divisions were awarded the Krenn-Dato Construction Company of Chicago and the Swords, McDougal and Lancaster Company of Peoria, 111., for $90,300 and $134,263, respectively. The Dehner Construction Company of Ft. Wayne was lowest bidder, at $14,240, in the third division, which was not awarded. Contract for extension of the Pleasant Run interceptor sewer was given the Krenn & Dato Company at $29,800. Joseph A. Daniels, board attorney, announced sewer expenditures would total $450,000, which is $140,000 less than the contemplated bond issue. The contracts specified use of local labor in the work. INJURED IN CRASH Motorcycle Rider Suffers Fractured Skull. Thrown from his motorcycle in a collision with an auto in the 3300 North Meridian street early today, Frank Smith, 18, of 942 West Fortysecond street, suffered a fractured skull and broken ribs, and is in a critical condition at the city hos-' pital. Police said Smith sped into a car being driven by Don R. Knight, 30, of 3330 North Meridian street, as the latter drove into the street from a driveway at his home. Knight, an instructor at Shortridge high school, was not held.

KINGIN’WAS KINGIN’ IN GOOD OLD TIMES I ain’t mentioned this feller Carol claimin’ he’s king of Rumania, and I’ll tell you why. I’ve been waitin’ to see if he jest had a couple of clean shirts with him or if he was havin’ his trunk sent up from the depot and expected to stay. Well, sir, now that he’s settled down in the castle, all I’ve got to say is the kingin’ business ain’t like it was when I was a boy. You take King Carol. He jest walked in and kissed his wife’s hand and dusted off the throne with his handkerchief and sat down and crossed his knees and said; “Goody, goody, I’m king.” But you take a old-fashioned king. When he grabbed a throne there was some real excitement. He would git his ax sharpened up and start choppin’ off folks’ heads. Sometimes it would be way past midnight before his arms would git tired and he would quit. Then he would say to a slave: “Git to work and clean up this mess, because I have got to start rulin’ around here tomorrow. And hurry up with it, because when you finish, I am going to poison vS ™ ******** Cos) kingln w us klngm.

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Chai’es Rennard. Eil!y Fulton, Joe Keller, John Fanla, Richard McCarty and Raymond Williams.

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Arlene Gibson, Tfceln.e, Reeves. Eetty Glczier, Marian Niles. J*anita Viri and Mnrv E’-elvn Habennann.

Robert Stark, Walter Justus, Robert Rugh, John Firth, James Bacon and Harold Burk.

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Constance Koenig, Helene Jordan, Martha Jeanette Rose, Rita Johnson, Betty Schissel and Ruth Warrincr.

Edward King, Luther Symons, Otto Benz, Jac k Hendricks, Robert Hutsell and Billy Wcrlein.

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Robert Brown, Richard Matthews, Henry J ustus, Beverly Brown and Dancel Tarkington.

Louise Lawrence, Helen Lewis, Margaret Mae Unversaw, Ellen Marie Comstock and Mary Louise Torrence.

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Albert Strange, Dorothy Schroeder, Eleanor Windhorst, Helen Dooley, Jim Applewhite and Harold Manuval.

SHOW GREAT GAINS Three Cities More Than Double Population. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, June 12.—Three of the smaller cities filing prelilninary population returns today with the census bureau, showed gains in excess of 100 per cent. Lynbrook, N. Y., moved into the 10,000 class with a 173 per cent gain, reporting a population of 11,971, as compared with 4,371 a decade ago. Two Illinois towns, Brookfield and Maywood, more than doubled in size. Brookfield, with a population of 10,015, made a 6,426 gain, while Maywood increased 13,603 to a count of 25.675. Cincinnati, the only large city filing preliminary figures today, reported a population of 449,331, an increase of 48,084 over 1920. UNDERWRITERS TO MEET Annual Session of Association to Be Held on Friday. Annual meeting of the Indianapolis Life Underwriters Association will be held Friday noon at the Spink-Arms, featured by a circus with clowns, jazz bands and ballyhoing. Joel T. Traylor, association president, will preside. Herbert Luckey is chairman of the program committee.

HIS LIFE OPEN BOOK

57 Years Is Recorded by Diaries

BY NORMAN E. ISAACS. ON his forty-acre Boone county farm, four and one-half miles north of Lebanon, Ind., David Dunlap Cohee, 77, keeps a daily “date” with his diary-—as he has done every day since 1873, fifty-seven years ago. David Cohee shows visitors to his farm his fifty-seven diaries, every single one intact and concise. One can scan the pages to read the story of Cohee’s youthful days in Boone county, his courting days, his marriage, the purchase of his farm, and later the poignant story, day by day, of his wife’s illness and finally her death. Back in the days of Cohee’s youth, one reads of a clear, cold day in January when young David went a-courtin’ his bride-to-be and the terse little notation in his diary of “we sat and talked for a while —quite a while.” In 1876, one reads of his marriage and the purchase of his farm. There are stories of a young farmer struggling along. “Helped Jane’s Pa butcher today and got a hog that weighed 115,” one page reads. “Weather cool, rained at sundown.” st u u THROUGH the years of bringing six children into the world, one reads the joy at the arrival of the first grandchild and the greater joy at the arrival of Cohee’s first great grandchild. Then in 1928, his wife’s illness and finally her death. The saddest lines in fifty-seven years of notes “Buried Jane today. The sadddst day of my life. My best friend gone.” A heart-rending story told in just a few words, the companion of fiftytwo years gone, children married and an empty farmhouse. A gentle smile flickers across David Cohee’s creased and windbeaten face. He’s carried on. There’s a season for his smile. One of his sons, also a farmer, pulls up in his car. Out pour 1 the Cohees. The smile on David Cohee’s face widens. It’s worth carrying on for. COHEE was born on Oct. 1, 1853, in Clinton county, four miles north of Frankfigt—lheJjcdlowiM

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The photo shows David D. Cohee, 77, standing in front of his farm home north of Lebanon, Ind. Cohee’s diaries, kept daily since 1873, are shown in their cabinet, which is perched on the chair given him on his seventy-fifth birthday by the Pettis Dry Goods Company of Indianapolis.

year his father, Andrew Cohee, who died at the age of 90, moved into Boone county and David Cohee has lived there ever since. He has six children, sixteen grandchildren and seven great-grandchil-dren and the annual reunion of the family is an affair that draws every one of the Cohees, every year. Cohee can trace the records of his family back to 1788, twelve years after the Declaration of Independence, when Benjamin Cohee was bom in the state of Delaware on Sept. 10, 1788. On Cohee’s seventy-fifth birthday. he yyas presented with a large chair by the Pettis Dry Goods Company of Indianapolis, because Cohee was born on the same day that the Pettis store was founded. Cohee is proud of his chair, proud i of his diaries. I In fact, a million dollars couldn’t I buy that chair, those diaries—he admits that with a smiH

EX-COUNCILMEN TO BATTLE FOR HOSPITAL UNIT Abandonments Plan for Million-Dollar Ward ( Building Assailed. NEED CALLED PRESSING Decision to Ask Bond Issue t(r Finish ‘Blind’ Floor Is Criticised. Probability that several former city council members will protest temporary abandonment of * the seven-story ward building plans for city hospital was indicated today, as result of the problem created by closing of the Flower Mission hospital for tuberculosis patients. Some of the councilmen in the administration of former Mayor L. Ert Slack were aroused over the decision of the health board to ask a $65,000 bond issue to finish and equip the “blind” floor in the outpatient building, with abandonment of the $1,044,000 ward structure because of the city's present financial condition. Recently the Slack administration council met at a dinner and informally expressed the belief that the conditions which called for the building program “had not changed” since they retired from office. Protest Is Considered It appeared likely that some of the councilmen will appear before the present council to protest the $65,000 bond Issue which City Controller- William H. Elder agreed to recommend. John F. White, former council health chairman, said some of the former city fathers expressed disappointment with the announcement that the Sullivan administration dropped the hospital ward program because the city’s bonding margin is only $2,800,000. White declared the unfinished floor of the out-patient building was not designed for use as a ward, as contemplated under the present program of the city to provide 110 extra beds. “Building of the ward unit was such an outstanding need that I feel the city would be justified entirely in the expenditure, although the bonding margin is low,” White said. Woollen Inspects Building Evans Woollen Jr., new health board member; Mrs. David Ross, Flower Mission Society president, and Eugene Foster, Indianapolis Foundation secretary, visited the hospital today to familiarize Woollen with the hospital program and the need for providing facilities for advanced tubercular patients. Woollen conferred with Herman P. Lieber, vice-president of the Community Fund and active as a councilman in the last administration, to determine the attitude of the fund toward the Flower Mission’s proposal to build a tuberculosis unit with $60,000 which the society has had on deposit for several years. Lieber declared the Community Fund was not lacking in sympathy for the Flower Mission plan, but felt that it is the duty of the city, rather than by private enterprise, to care for the tubercular cases. Cites Building Program Lieber cited the fact that the program as laid out by Dr. Christopher W. Parnell, Rochester, N. Y. t consultant for the city In the building program, provided for additional facilities and a ward for the tubercular patients, replacing the Flowej* Mission. It was planned to dedicate the ward to the Flower Mission in honor of its service in tubercular work for a quarter century. “‘We have conferred with them on several occasions and set out the idea, of the fund directors,” Lieber said. Mayor Sullivan had promised to notify us on the decision as to whether the city would proceed with the main ward building, but we have not heard anything officially.” Fund officials conferred with city administration leaders som® time ago, City Controller Elder and others contending that the present bonded debt of the city would not permit going ahead with the hospital program. 'HAMMER MURDERESS’ IN PLEA FOR PAROLE Clara Phillips, However, Must Serve at Least Three More Years. Bu United Press SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal., June 12.—A petition for parole by Clara Phillips, Los Angeles “hammer murderess,” appeared today on the June calendar of the state board of prison directors. Clara will gain nothing by the as she must serve at least ten years of her life sentence before the board can consider her case. She was sentenced in 1923 for the slaying of Alberta Meadows. For the past five years, she has worked in the laundry of the women’s quarters. TWO ARE GANG VICTIMS Gotham Hoodlums Undisturbed by Drive on Underworld. Bu United Pres* NEW YORK, June 12— Apparently indifferent to the police drive ;on racketeers, dope peddlers and criminal* of all sorts, which already has brought seventy men into the hands of police, gangsters early to- | day lulled two more men In differ - j ent parts of the city. : Ernest Parquette and Joseph Fa- ‘ brizzzia were the latest victims, i Parquette was dead when police found him and Fabrizzia died in a 1 h'ypltal. A