Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 218, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1931 — Page 14

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RED CROSS IS RUSHING FEED FOR LIVESTOCK State Plan for Arkansas Relief Drawn Up; Many ; Animals Starving. *1 MERRILL E. COMPTON, Pres Staff Correspondent FORREST CITY. Ark., Jan. 20. I The Red Cross campaign to provide stock feed to destitute farmers of Arkansas was opened today. The plan, drawn up at a meeting of the Bt. Francis county Red Cross committee here Monday night, will become state-wide, Carl E. Myers, field agent of the Red Cross, said. Distribution in this county wiJl be handled similarly to the food distribution plan, the freight being sent to food depots in rural sections of the county where delivery will be made to the farmers. This eliminates long and arduous trips upon the farmers’ part to town. Need of the stock feed was emphasized when reports showed that 7,000 cows and mules were starving. A majority of these would die if not given feed within the next two weeks investigators said, and many hundred more would be at the point of starvation at the end of that time because of the shortage of pasturage and stock feed. Red Cross officials Monday night announced 19,500 persons had been issued food requisitions. This is about one-third of the county’s population A majority of these are Negroes. Many farmers have begun to butcher their stock, believing that stock feed would not arrive in time to do them any good. At one farm near Earle, investigators found fiften head of mules had riled out of a herd of thirty. Similar conditions were found elsewhere. NEW OFFICERS NAMED FOR PETTIS COMPANY Robert B. Gable New President arid Executive Head of Store. Reorganization of the Pettis Dry Goods Company and election of Robert B. Gable of Altoona, Pa., as president and executive head of the company, has been announced. Other officers elected are: George P. Gable, vice-president; C. F. Stewart, secretary-, and T. Carl Smith, treasurer. Robert Gable is president of the Wililam F. Gable Company of Altoona and is identified with several other merchandising interests. Directors of the local company, elected, are: Robert and George Gable, James A. Swan of New- York, Ftobert Elder of Dayton, 0.. Edward C. Calloway ot Altoona, and George S. Pomeroy, president of Pomeroy’s, Inc. ROOST SHOP SCHEDULE Large Orders Force Company to Operate at Capacity. Contracts for more than SBOO,OOO will force the Ertel Machine Company to boost shop schedules to capacity, J. E. Ertel, head of the company, has announced. The largest order is from the McQuay Morris Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, for valve stem guides for autos, trucks, tractors and airplanes, extending over a period of five years, and involves more than $500,000. Another contract from the John C. Hoof Company, Chicago, for the same length of time, calls for $300,00 in merchandise. BLAST FLOODS STREETS Bomb Set Off in Sewer at Havana Breaks Water Mains. By United Press HAVANA, Jan. 20.—A bomb exploded Monday night in a sewer a block away frorp the water main that supplies the city of Havana. The force of the impact tyroke many windows in the nearby houses besides breaking some water tubes, flooding the streets. The explosion was heard all over the city.

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Annual meetings of various bodies affiliated with the council of cl\urcb. boards of education are drawing educational leaders from all parts of the United States to Indianapolis this week. Holding important posts in the conferences are Dr. E. E. Rail, president of North Central college, Naperville, Illinois and secretary of the board of education of the Evangelical church. Dr. Rail Is president of the council of church boards of education. Dr. Robert L. Kelly, executive secretary of the council as well as of the Association of American colleges is well known in Indiana, having been active in the state in educational work for twenty-eight years before assuming his present position. For eleven years he w-as at the head of secondary schools in the state, and for seventeen years served as president of Earlham college at Richmond. Dr. Kelly has been a lecturer on college administration and teaching at Teachers college, Columbia university, since i 1925, and at New York university ! since 1917. He is author of many books on college administration and I liberal and theological education. Cloverdale Banker Dies By Times special CLOVERDALE, Ind., Jan. 20. Daniel V. Moffett, president of the i Cloverdale National bank and former Putnam county auditor is dead after a short illness.

Peaceful Duce By United Press PARIS, Jan. 20.—Sincerity with which Premier Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator, desires peace “may be imagined by the fact I have five children,” the fascist leader told Ernest Gaubert, proprietor of Journal De L’lndre. Gaubert’s newspaper published afi interview today in which Mussolini was quoted as saying: “They are mad in France if they Imagine I wish war. No sane man wishes to bring trembling and castastrophe to his own fireside.”

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PUBLICITY CUTS PROFIT PAID BY ILLINOIS MIDAS Gives Investors Only 10 -Per Cent 'Cut-In' at His Weekly Payoff Monday. By United Press BELVEDERE, 111., Jan. 20.—National advertising, even though it was free, hasn’t helped the mysterious business of Albert W. Benham, it was indicated today after his first “payoff” since he gained countrywide prominence because he paid from 25 to 50 per cent interest on money invested with him. Benham, who said the only difference between him and banks was that he gave his depositors a “cutin” on his profits, has reduced his rate of interest to a flat 10 per cent, his investors learned Monday when they called for their money. The financier’s little office, located in a garage, was surrounded by husky guards, who had orders to admit no newspaper men, when the weekly payoff began. During the last two years, since Benham left his job as a factory shipping clerk and became wealthy in his mysterious business, he always paid off on Monday night. He has decided to discontinue this practice and paid off his notes during the day instead. It was understood this change was made because Benham feared that since it had become known that he paid off large sums in cash each Monday an attempt would be made to rob him if he continued the payoffs at night. He closed the office at 5 p. m. Monday. Benham has refused to reveal in detail the nature of the business transacted by his Blackhawk Finance Company, which is incorporated at SIOO,OOO to “buy or sell anything, anytime, anywhere.” Reports among investigators today that Benham had discontinued paying 1C per cent to any one who would bring him anew customer, Benham refused to comment. Apartment Awnings Burn A lighted cigaret that ignited awnings on an apartment at 3060 North Meridian street Monday night caused damage estimated at S2OO. Ransack Hoosier Athletic Club Burglars who ransacked desks in the Hoosier Athletic Club, Pratt and Meridian streets, early today stole candy and tobacco, John W. Sehrenbach, assistant manager, told police.

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DIVERS AGAIN WILL TRY FOR LOST MILLIONS Explosion of Salvage Tug Will Not Halt Attempts to Lift Gold Cargo. By United Press BREST, France, Jan. 20.—The $5,000,000 in gold ingots which lie under the ocean near here in the wreck of the British liner Egypt may not be lost after all, as was feared after the recent explosion of the salvage tug Artiglio. The Rostro, sister ship of the Atiglio, is being equipped to resume the salvage attempt. For two years the Rostro and Artiglio, both belonging to an Italian company, searched amidst the war-time wrecks off the coast to find the Egypt, sunk in seventy fathoms of water. When the Artiglio blew up early last month and twelve of her crewlost their lives, the principal plans showing the position of the Egypt and giving minute details of the best manner to reach the treasure were lost. • However, the seven men saved from the explosion have been able to reconstruct anew plan from

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