Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 68, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1930 — Page 3

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RUSSIA'S BOOM ROUSES U S. TRADE FEARS

SEEK TO BAN SOVIET'S CHIEF EXPORTITEMS Intense Economic Drive Is Having delated Flareback. ' URGE TARIFF WEAPON Business Associations Say Much of American Markets Captured. Foliewinr i* the first of itrcril disnatche* dealing with the Russian trade rsntrosersT. * BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD United Presa Staff Correspondent (CoovriKht. 1930, by United Press) WASHINGTON, July 29.—When Russia, in 1928, launched her famous five-year economic program, a vast concerted powerful effort to pull the country out of economic mire, she set powerful forces in motion which are just now beginning to have serious repercussions here. Never before except in wartime has the world witnessed such an intense economic drive by a nation. By a combination of self-denial and zeal approaching the fanatical, and a virtual industrial draft of reluctant sections of the population, Russia is fighting for an economic position with a determination which has begun to caffisc concern in some sections of American industry. While many American business men regard the attempted economic rebirth of Russia as anew trade opportunity, others see in it anew trade menace. These latter are beginning to be heard from in emphatic terms. Trade Shows Big Jump Business associations have seized on a ready means of combating Russian competition sections of the stew tariff act prohibiting imports of goods made under conditions which obtain, to some extent, in Russia. . • This embyro trade war, officials agree, is oound to have an effect on the rapidly-growing commerce between the United States and the Soviet. This trade jumped from virtually nothing in immediate post-war years to $107,260,919. Lumber, pulp # wood, manganese and coal are the principal Soviet commodities which American producers are trying to shut out. All arc important Soviet products. All are sent out from Russia with the hope of building up big foreign credits for an undercapitalized state. Economists say all of these must be sold by the Soviet in large quantities if her ambitious plan of expansion is to be realized. Convict Labor Charged Producers of coal pulp wood and ; lumber charge these products are produced in Russia by convict labor. Section 307 of the tariff bill bars such goods. Manganese companies, on the other hand,* allege Soviet Russia is "dumping” this important commodity. indispensable for steel-mak-ing. in the United States at less than cost.

This position is supported by a statement in the current "reports” of the commerce department. "Russia apparently has succeeded.” it said, “in capturing the greater part of the United States mafket for manganese ore. On the other side of the trade picture—and likewise menaced by developments of the last few weeks —are American exports to the Soviet. These hulk far larger than the incoming products. Cotton King of Exports Cotton is king of them all. In 1929 the southern states supplied 289.161 bales pounds worth $29,492,530 to Soviet Russia. Some of this went by way of Great Britain, but much was sent direct. This enormous cotton trade took a sharp upward leap after Great Britain broke off diplomatic relations with the Soviet in 1927. Agricultural implements follow close behind cotton in importance. In 1921 Russian purchases from the United States were worth only $311.046. Last year the figure grew to $20,121,429. These implements, particularly, trade experts say, are vital to the success of the Russian agrarian program. Ban Wood Pulp Cargoes Ku t'nitrit Prrtt PORTLAND. Me.. July 29.—Four pulp wood-laden freighters en route from Soviet Russia to Maine ports will not be permitted to land their cargoes, F. M. Hume, United States collector of customs, said today. One of the ships is due to dock at Bangor today and the other three are expected in Portland late this week. The cargoes are consigned to the International Paper Company's mills in northern Maine. Your Corn Comes Oil in 3 Minutes Without the Slightest Pain There's anew, marvelous easy way to end a com or callous—you ! can do it in only 3 minutes. Just get a 50-cent bottle of ShurOff of any good druggist: wet jour corn with it. Immediately all pain and soreness stop. Then after two minutes you can remove the com or callous—root and all. Doesn’t hurt a bit; positively won’t make your foot sore. Instead Shur-OfT takes out the soreness and pain and you can walk, work and play In comfort. Get rid of that com or callous today. Get a bottle of Shur-OfT now.—Advertisement.

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ELEANOR SANDUSKY BEST BOOP-DOOPER

Two Tie for Second Place and Helen Kane Provides Addition Prize. Meet he Indianapolis understudy to the li-ss who made “Boop-boop-a-doop” a college cjieer. In the Indiana theater stage Monday night Miss Eleanor Sandusky, 945 Congress avenue, sang ‘‘Ain’t Cha?” so tantalizingly that the folks out front gave her the title of the Hoosier Helen Kane. Miss Kane, featured in the stage production at the Indiana this week, presented Eleanor with the $25 first prize in The Times-Indiana Helen Kane contest. Charlie Davis, master of ceremonies, who refereed the finals of the contest, was willing to surrender his judgeship when forced to make a decision on second place. Equal applause boosted Bobbie Robinson and Mary Jane Kersey for that honor. Miss Kane saved the day, declaring both of them second place winners, and providing a $lO prize for one of the girls while the other received The Times award of that amount. Jeanne Gamso, who also chose ‘‘Ain’t ’Cha?” for her song and dance, was thivd, and Louise Carter, singing "I Owe You,” was fourth.

Big Biddy Seven-Foot Hen, Laying Wooden Eggs, Will Be Displayed.

Bu United Press * "E Y 7ASHINGTON, July 27. W American poultry will be represented at the forthcoming London poultry congress by a seven-foot hen which speaks English, French or Spanish, and lays wooden eggs. This remarkable fowl is being constructed by the agriculture department of wood, wall board, a few feathers and much machinery. Specifications are as follows: ‘‘Full vision gullet; extra large crop, fitted with window; copperlined stomach; flexible rubber intestines; variable speed control on gizzard (a grinding machine); a two-valve pumping heart.” The hen is designed as an exhibit in nutrition. The matter of woooden egg-lay-ing may be increased or slowed as the hen is given suitable or unsuitable feed. The problem of speech, by which the hen explains its ideas on nutrition, was solved by including a phonograph in its anatomy.

Mystery Man, His Mind Blank, Drains Poor Fund Bu Vnitcd Press ASHLAND, Wis., July 29.—Joe, a ‘mystery man” found in a snow ‘ bank with a fractured leg and skull here last year, has proved expensive for hospital and county authorities. The fractures have healed but Joe’s mind remains a blank, so far as physicians can learn. He speaks only two words of English, “Joe." and "cigaret.” Maintenance of the stranger by the county has made heavy inroads on its poor relief fund. The hospital has been forced to hire an extra stenographer to answer letters concerning him. Discolorations on his forehead and scars on his legs lead physicians to believe that he had been a coal miner in Pennsylvania, where they say these pigmentations are peculiar to the industry.

PARK TO HOLD LANTERN FETE Annual Brookside Event Is Set for Thursday. Twinkling rays from 10,000 lanterns will light Spades park Thursday night for the fifteenth annual Feast oT Lanterns sponsored by the Brookside Civic League. Plans for the fete were announced today by William Demmary, 2338 Coyner avenue, league president. At a country store, fifty prizes will be awarded and merchandise offered for sale. Streets will be reserved for dancing. Music will be furnished by the Brookside Night Hawks. Stands will be supervised by Mrs. Arthur E. Bender, cake; Robert McKibben, sandwiches: Miss Flora Bauer, ice cream; Mrs. Joseph Pfeiffer and Mrs. Frances Fiscus. pop; Miss Lucille Lowe, candy: Mrs. Eva Lake, candy and popcorn; Mrs. E. P. Meffick, candy; Mrs. William Ule, Bud Lowe and Frank Erath. Prizes will be awarded for best decoration of the three bridges in the park and for the best decorated houses in the community. HURT IN TRUCK CRASH Driver Pinned Under Car in Collision. Glen Shaw, 21, of 373 Edmondson avenue, was taken to Methodist hospital with serious lacerations of the face and head and internal injuries. after his truck overturned and pinneg him to the ground in a collision with another truck at Park avenye and Thirty-fourth street early today. The driver of the other truck, George Frank. 30, of 3845 Carrollton avenue, and several bystanders extricated Shaw from beneath the wreckage. Store Bandits Get $1,122 Vnite* Prrtt INDIANA HARBOR, Ind., July 29. —Two Negro bandits who escaped with $1,122. in the holdup of a grocery here are the object of an extensive police search today. / First Twins at Hospital Rm Time* Special MUNCIE, aid., July 29.—Jack and James, twins, one of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Riggin, are the first twins bom in the new $1,000,000 Ball Memorial hospital here.* ‘ A

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'DEAD SPOT'r SEAISFOUND Devoid of All Life Because of Air Absence. Bu Vnitcd Press WASHINGTON, July 29. A “dead spot” in the tropical waters of the southern Pacific, which almost is entirely without oxygen and thus is devoid of fish and other sea .ife, has been located by scientists plumbing the ocean in that area. This strange phenomenon was discovered by the ill-fated ship, Carnegie, the non-magnetic vessel which was destroyed by fire in western Samoa last November. It was described in a radio address Monday night by O. W. Torreson, executive officer of the scientific vessel. The dead spot is over a hundred mile wide, extending a great distance east and west, and begins about three hundred feet below the ocean surface, Torreson ‘explained. It extends downward for 1,000 feet, he said. “All living things need oxygen, including tne fishes and animals which live in the ocean,” he sid. “We can imagine then that this region without oxygen may prove to be an effective barrier to the wanderings of those creatures which livo in the lower water levels.”

Woman Dies of Injuries Bu Vnitcd Press HARTFORD CITY, Ind., July 29. —lnjuries suffered in an automobile collision near Eaton were fatal today to Mrs. Charles Tidbell, 55, Hartford City. She suffered a fractured skull. Her husband received severe cuts about the head. Ora Turney, 32, Dunkirk, driver of the other car, suffered a broken arm and collar bone. W. F. Coats, 32, Gary, riding with Turney, received cuts. EMPLOYES TO PICNIC 1,200 Expected to Attend Pennsy Frolic. Twelve hundred Pennsylvania railroad employes and members of their families will participate in an all-day outing and picnic at Lake Makinkuckee, Culver, Ind., Wednesday. Special trains will leave Union station at 6:15 and Ba. m. The day’s program will include a baseball game, races v band concert and a visit at Culver Miltary academy. When Superintendent J. T. Ridgely, Indianapolis, presents gold buttons to employes who have had fifty years’ service, Ira Pierce, yardman at Union station, will receive one. Fred Rusie, veteran passenger conductor, and president of the Indianapolis division Veteran Employes’ Association, is in charge of arrangements. Kokomo Negress, 102, Dies Bu Timrit Svecial KOKOMO. Ind., July 29.—Mrs. Sarah Artis, 102, Negro, oldest resident of Kokomo, is dead. She boasted she spent her entire life in Indiana. She was born Dec. 4, 1827, at Rockville, Parke county. She was mother of ten children, five now living. Anderson Doctor Dies Bu Times Special ANDHRSON, Ind., July 29.—Albert J. Bjpcton, veteran Anderson physician, is dead, a victim of paralyse

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SHERIFF SLAYS BANDIT PAIR AT DOOROF BANK Third ‘Jesse James’ Is Near Death From Wounds; Loot Returned. Bu Vnitcd Presa GLENCROSS, S. D., July 29.—A trio of modem Jesse Jameses encountered a straight shooting South Dakota sheriff Monday, after they had robbed a bank. Two were killed and the third was wounded critically. The sheriff thereupon took from their pockets the money they had stolen, returned it to the Glencross State bank and went about his business of catching automobile speeders and other similar law breakers. The bandits entered the bank, forced cashier P. J. Shriver and his wife, the only occupants, to raise their hands, and scooped up SI,BOO in cash from the cag.e Then they swaggered out, only to be met by the devastating run fire of Sheriff Henry Johnson. Two fell dead with bullets through, their hearts, the other staggered and collapsed, wounded so critically that he probably will die. One of the dead men was identified as George Anderson of Timberlake, S. D. The other body was not recognized. The wounded bandit said he was George Feinton, also of Timberlake.

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Fulfills Oath to Jail Bandits

Bu United Press WHEATON, 111., July 29.—The last of the Cutten bandits has surrendered, and the oath that Arthur W. Cutten, wealthy grain broker, swore eight years ago, has been satisfied. Cutten s home, a show place of Downers Grove, was invaded by nine bandits in 1922, $20,000 in jewelry was stolen, and Cutten was locked in a vault. Aid came to Cutten before he suffocated, but because the invaders had left him in the vault to die, the wheat speculator pledged his entire fortune if necessary to bring them to justice. Two by two, and one by one, Cutten’s agents turned up eight of the bandits. Some went to jail, some turned state’s witnesses and some

evaded punisrment. One man, Caspar Rosenberg, was near to capture many times. Three months ago his brother Simon was caught and pleaded guiltV. Cutten was unrelenting and the search went on. It was estimated that he spent a small fortune. Since Rosenberg’s arrest, Cutten agents have handed the brother, keeping him always on the move. Distracted, his nerves jumpy, Caspar Rosenberg walked into State’s Attorney Chauncey W. Reed's office Friday, identified himself and surrendered. “I’ve been hunted long enough,” he said. “I am innocent and prepared to prove it. I can’t go on any longer, always hiding. Cutten wins.” Rosenberg’s bond was fixed at $13,000 after he had pleaded not guilty to the yellowed indictment against him. His trial was set for Sept. 8.

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ROOSEVELT_ JEERED Angry Filipinos Hurl Books Into Manila Bay. Bu United Press MANILA, P. 1., July 29.—Feeling against Nicholas Roosevelt, recently appointed vice-governor of the Philippines, became intense today after crowds of angry Filipinos had gathered at the shore of Manila bay and hurled copies of Roosevelt’s books into the sea. The Filipinos claimed the WTitings cast an unfair reflection on their character and nationality. Announcement of Roosevelt’s appointment aroused resentment throughout the islands and it was feared his arrival at Manila would create a serious situation.

! GAS TAX LEAKS STILL POSSIBLE, BOBBITTADMITS System Under Which State •Lost Thousands Being Kept in Use. State Auditor Archie N. Bobbitt today admitted that the same system under which the state lost thousands of dollars in gasoline taxes through bootlegging, still prevails in the gasoline tax collection department of his office. He further admitted that no large oil company’s report ever has been audited by his department; that the oil companies involved in the bootleg gas scandal never "had had their books audited, and that the few companies which were audited by Bruce E. Cooper, never have been rechecked. This is in spite of the fact that Cooper, who resigned because of the bootleg gasoline scandal, is expected to be indicted because of his conduct while in office, according to Attorney General James M. Ogden. Way Bills Check “About our only check on the collection is through the company’s record of tank car shipments and the way bills of the railroad company,” Bobbitt explained. He admitted that no effort whatever is being made to check on gasoline shipped by truck, but the department “depends on the honesty of the dealer making the report.” At one time a plan was announced whereby Indiana and Illinois were to co-operate in halting the interstate truck shipment of bootleg gasoline. “But we never have heard anything further from Illinois,” Bobbitt said, “and I guess they do not intend to co-operate with us.” Bobbitt has three field auditors in the department now. The chief, who succeeded Cooper, is Rossen Funk, friend and political worker A Bobbitt’s, from English, Ind., the auditor’s home town. Funk’s training to head this field force was received as a lieutenant of state police for the last seven years. Kidwell on Job Another recent addition to the field force is Earl Kidwell, Gary, one time on the city police force there. His appointment was dictated by J. Glenn Harris, veteran member of the house of representatives from Gary, Bobbitt gave him a letter for credentials and told him to go to work in Lake county, although he didn't explain much about what this “work” is to be, according to Kidwell himself. The only one in the field with any j experience is Herman Dolen, Bargersville, who has been with the department several months. Prominent oil men, who are honest and pay the tax, contend that “it is the easiest thing in the world to beat” and that nothing short of a certified public accountant could check the books and find the missing payments. ‘“What is to be done about it?” Bobbitt was asked by The Times. He replied, in substance, his department is going to limp along as at present, letting the truck bootleg- j gers go.

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