Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 125, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1930 — Page 17

OCT. 3, 1930

AMTORG CHIEFS DENY DABBLING IN PROPAGANDA Promoting Better Business Relations Sole Aim, They Assert. Tbr Soviet '% business organization in Siew York .the Amtorg Trading Corporation. recently has been much in (be news. Some Rourees hate portrated It at a propaganda organization: others as a purely business organization. The Ynited Press assigned a correspondent to talk with the officials of this organization. B HARRY FERGUSON In 'cd Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—Officials of the Amtorg Trading Corporation, who often have been pictured as super-spies of the Soviet, depicted themselves today as a group oi alert, business men who have adopted many American traditions in their business projects in this country. They occupy sunny offices on three entire floors of a mid-town •skyscraper, and while there are busts of lienin here and there, a diligent search failed to disclose sliding panels, trap doors or any other of the traditional mechanisms of melodrama. “Os course we know," they said, "that there have been attempts to picture us as villains and spies, but we feel Americans are coming to a better understanding of what Amtorg is trying to do in the United States.’’ Ignore Propaganda Then they proceeded to explain that they were so occupied in promoting business relations between the United States and Russia that t hey did not even have time to consider such vital political issues as whether this government should recognize the Soviet. They are the pioneers of a new* governmental experiment. They say they have emigrated to the United States just as employes of the Hudson’s Bay Company penetrated the wilderness of the North American continent, in search of business for their employers. Specifically, the Amtorg Trading Corporation is charged with the task of letting contracts in this country for work in Russia and for helping Russia sell its goods here. It acts as a commission house.

Technicians Exchanged “It is our job to let contracts to such firms as the Ford Motor Company, the Seiberling Rubber Company, the Timken-Detroit Axle Company, and some fifty-nine others for work in Russia,” one official explained. •‘That means these firms send technicians to the Soviet states and we in turn bring experts over here to confer on big construction projects. We feel this interchange of expert labor is beneficial to both countries.” Amtorg on this basis only has a few articles for sale, and that is why its officials claim to be amused at such things as former Police Commissioner Grover Whalen’s attempt to prove they had in custody a sheaf of Soviet documents which were purported to be instrumental i nthe spread of Soviet propaganda. The documents subsequently were proven to be forgeries. He courteously led the way to the elevator, and a naive reporter who had expected to see samovars, fur boots and Volga boatmen, left with the impression that he had been talking to a group of American business men who were on the verge of a big deal. RITES SET SATURDAY FOR JOHN H. HILKENE Legion Leader Dies After Long Illness; to Be Cremated. Private funeral services will be held at 11 a. m. Saturday at Flanner & Buchanan mortuary for John H. Hilkene, 55, prominent in American Legion circle, who died Thursday at his home, 5155 Kenwood avenue, after being ill a year and a half. Cremation will follow. Bom in St. Louis, Hilkene, veteran of the Spanish American and World wars, came to Indianapolis in 1924. For several years prior he edited a legion magazine in the Panama Canal Zone. He served for a time as president of the Butler-Fairview Civic Association. The widow. Mrs. Ruth Miller Hiltene, survives him.

CAR ACCESSORY FIRM STARTS WORK OCT. 13 Ra-Screen Corporation t Have Quarters on East Georgia. The Ra-Screen Corporation, an automobile accessory manufacturing company, will begin operations Oct. 13 at 130 East Georgia street. The company will employ fifty persons. Incorporation papers were filed Thursday in the office of the secretary of state. Officers of the firm are: John H. Roberts Jr., president: Fred L. Virtue Jr., vice-president, and Paul .C, Martin, secretary-treasurer. DEATH OF GIRL. 3. IS LAID TO GRAPE JAM Three Brothers and Sister Also Stricken, but Are Recovering. Jfv I 'nitrd Press CHICAGO. Oct. 2.—Grape jam was blamed today for the death of 3-year-old Florence Gaynor. Three brothers and a sister—twins 2 and 4 years each—ate some of the jam and were poisoned too, but are recovering. The five children ate bread and jam before going to bed. their mother said, and all were stricken. The variety of the poison was not determined. PLANT’S OUTPUT GAINS Ohio Valley Region Shows More Production, Traffic Men Told. Increases in output of many plants in the Ohio Valley region were reported at the twenty-sixth session of the Ohio Valley Shippers’ board Thursday in the Sevcrin Three hundred traffic men attended the meeting. The next session of the board will be held in fcoulsville. Dec. 1&.

FRATERNITY ELECTS 11 BUTLER STUDENTS Honorary Scholar ?c Group Picks Six Women and Five Men. Admission of eleven new members to the Butler university chapter, Phi Kappa Phi, national honorary scholastic fraternity, is announced. An average grade of A-minus is a requisite for membership. Eight elected are graduate students and three are undergraduates. They are: Mrs. George H. Lacev, Miss Eila Tucker. Charles M. Share. C. Emmett Trueblood. Miss Pearl Bartley. Miss Hole Bedford, Alonzo Goldsberrv and Oliver Hlnshaw. Lafavette. all graduate students: Mrs. Beulah MeColgln. Miss Mary McGee and Oswand Parsons. Kokomo, undergraduates. DRY CZAR TO CITY Woodcock to Pay Visit on Western Tour. Prohibition Director Amos W. W oodcock will visit Indianapolis on a western trip which begins Oct. 13, it was learned today in dispatches from Washington, D. C. He also probably will stop at South Bend. GAS INCREASE IS ASKED Rushvillc Fuel Company Petitions Public Service Boost. Central Fuel Company of Rushville today petitioned, the public service commission for increase in the 50-cent gas rate in that city. Eddie St. Pierre of Wolcott petitioned permission to operate a bus line between Michigan City and Reynolds.

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CHICAGO ‘BROKE’ AGAIN; PAY OFF POLICEJIREMEN No More Funds for City Until Court Rules on Big Bond Issue. Ru Vnitt4 PrrJtß CHICAGO, Oct. 3.—Chicago was "broke" again today. When police and firemen received their pay checks Thursday the city's corporate funds for pay rolls were exhausted. No more money will be available until the state supreme court rules on the validity of a $12,000,000 emergency bond issue passed recently by the legislature. If the ruling is adverse, there will be no money for 15,000 city workers until January. Chicago's bankruptcy reached a near crisis last winter when all public servants went for months without pay. Many were in actual want until a citizens’ committee raised a temporary loan. The situation was precipitated by a general rezoning of taxable property which held up tax collections for more than two years. Long Separation Ends Bi> Tin”* Stircial MARION, Ind., Oct. 3.—After forty years separation. Mrs. Thomas E. Wade, Marion, and her brother, Alva Singer, Ronan. Mont., were reunited here. They were separated when they were 6 years old at Veedersburg, Ind. Receiving trace of her brother a few months ago through a newspaper article, Mrs. Wade wrote to him.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TINES

PRATT STREET WORK CONTRACT AWARDED Indiana Asphalt Paving Firm's $10,989 Bid Is Winner. Contract for widening and resurfacing Pratt street, from Illinois street to Pennsylvania street, was let this week by the works board to the Indiana Asphalt Paving Company on a bid of $10,989.87. Other contracts let: First alley east of Aivord street from Sixteenth to Twentieth streets. Abel Brothers, *7.506.02; Summit street, from Ohio to New York streets, $1,874 15, and Fifty-eighth street from Pennslyvania street to Central avenue. $1,841.84. The board adopted a resolution for improvement of the first alley north of Twenty-third street from College to Cornell avenues.

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HOMES ARE ROBBED Wearing Apparel, Silverware Most of Loot. Wearing apparel and silverware composed most of the loot housebreakers obtained Thursday night, according to reports today to police. Mrs. William W. Carlin. 1207 College avenue, informed police an entire set of silverware was taken from her home. Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. Gompf. 4430 Guilford avenue, told police they discovered the house ransacked and clothing valued at $75 stolen when they returned home late Thursday. Other robberies reported: William Oliver, Negro, 2509 Yandes street.

clothing. S6O: Herman Pride, Negro, rear of 5127 Central avertue, SB9; Irene Taylor, Negro. 713 West Fifteenth street, clothing, 555; Estel Roberts, R. R. 13. Box 18-M, clothing and radio, value not given.

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