Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 308, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 May 1931 — Page 1

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TEACHER DIES ON TRESTLE, TRYING TO SAVE CHILDREN

Hu United Press (~' , ENESEO, 111., May s.—School children upon whose memories was .X stamped forever the picture of their teacher and two playmates bring trapped on a trestle and ground to death by a passenger train were called today to tell a coroner’s jury what they had seen. The teacher, Miss Helen Scott, was celebrating her 26th birthday Monday, when she failed in an heroic attempt to throw three children from the trestle as the shrieking train bore down upon them. / She succeeded in saving one child, Edith Peterson, 8, but there was not time to reach two others, who stood as if hypnotized, waiting, horrified, in the path of the train. Other children were under the trestle and along the tracks. A few they ,u ad been ha PPy- out with their teacher on an expedition that was the forerunner of a picnic they had planned in bonor of Mlss ‘ cott s birthday and of the approaching summer vacation.

CHARGE FRAUD IN AFFIDAVITS ON BUS BILL Legislature Was Tricked on Measure: Claim Before Judge. Affidavits setting forth that leaders of the Indiana legislature virtually were tricked into signing House Bill 6, regulating bus and truck lines, were being studied today by Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin. With the affidavits, included in a reply filed by plaintiffs in the suit to enjoin the secretary of state from publishing the act, on file, date for the civil court trial on the bus bill is expected to be set soon. Simultaneously, the Marion county grand jury was to continue its probe into conspiracy charges in connection with passing of the bill. Two witnesses were heard by the grand jury today. They were Pleas Greenlee, house of representatives engrossing clerk, and Chester K. Watson, Democratic representative from Allen county. No other testimony will be taken, probably until Wednesday. Among those said to have been called is Calvin Mclntosh, recently ousted member of the public service commission. In the affidavits, Edgar D. Bush, Lieutenant-Governor, and Walter Myers, Speaker of the ‘House, both are quoted as saying they signed the bill amid the confusion of the last night of the legislature, in the mistaken belief that it contained all terms and amendments in the form passed by the senate. The civil suit charges the bill was changed through fraud to strike out a passage giving cities power to continue control over bus and truck lines within their limits.

BANK HEAD AND WIFE ARE HACKED TO DEATH Bodies Are Found Near Home; Were Slain in House. £?;/ United Press WATER VALLEY, Miss., May 5. W. V. Wagner, president of the Bank of Water Valley, and his wife, were found murdered near their home here today, their bodies hacked with an ax. Wagner’s body was Buried in a shallow grave about seventy-five yards from their home and his wife's body in a like grave 200 yards away. Officers discovered the bodies after following a trail of blood from the house. GEORGE BAKER AT REST Dean of American Bankers Is Buried With Simple Rites. By United Press TUXEDO PARK. May s.—Funeral services for George F. Baker, dean of American bankers, were conducted this afternoon simply and unostentatiously. The brief, impressive services at < Baker's country home were attended by more than 500 of the nation's leaders in banking, industrial and public life. AMBUSH, SLAY OFFICER Seven Other Deputies Wounded Seriously by Kentucky Strikers. By United Press HARLAN, Ky„ May s.—Deputies partroling a strike-torn mine section near here were ambushed today. Deputy M. Daniels was killed, another believed fatally wounded, and at least six others severely wounded. The deputies were riding along an outlying road when shots rang out from behind a crosstie barricade where thirty men were reported intrenched.

Take a Garden For unemployed men whose families ipust depend on charity for food this summer, The Times offers opportunity for them to support themselves by growing their own food on garden plots offered by generous citizens. Today there are several lots still to be taken in the six-acre •act at Sherman drive and Southeastern avenue. Who will take them? They should be planted early. Besides those plots of ground there are many others in all parts of the city. Write The Times Garden Editor today, ask him for one of the lots, and tell him how far you can go from your home to make the garden.

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Besides Miss Scott, those killed were Beulah Peterson, 7, and June Mason, 8. Lester Peterson, 11, brother of Beulah and Edith, was one of the witnesses. He was under the trestle, calling frantically for the trapped ones to jump, when the tragedy occurred. MISS SCOTT and the children had planned a weiner roast. They left in the afternoon to gather willow sticks along the railroad tracks to use in roasting weiners. The three children were on the trestle when the train appeared. Miss Scott rushed to rescue them. She threw Edith Peterson to safety as the train roared toward them, its whistle shrieking constantly as the engineer set every brake. Edith suffered minor injuries The teacher could not reach the other two in time and died with them. Lester Peterson was taken to the J. M. Young hospital, at Annawan, where he told today how he tried to save his sister Edith, and failed, only to have the teacher succeed. “The trestle is 100 feet long and we were in the middle of it oyer Spring creek when we heard the locomotive whistle,” the boy said. “We turned and could see the train coming down the track, it was so close there wasn’t time to run to the far end of the trestle. The children began crying. it it tt MY sister Edith was standing beside me. She didn’t know what to do. I grabbed her and tried to push her to the edge of the trestle, so I could throw her over the edge. She he’d back, crying. “I had no more time and I jumped down into the creek bed, just twenty feet below, just as the train reached the trestle. I called up to the others to jump after me, but the train was making so much noise they didn’t hear.” “Right after I fell and rolled a few feet, I saw another body come down from above. It was my sister Edith. She had been pushed over the edge by Miss Scott.” The sister was injured more seriously than her brother, but after a night of anxiety, hospital attendants said today that she would recover.

“TT was terrible,” Edith whispered A in the hospital today. “I guess we could have escaped, but I was so frightened, I couldn’t move. Miss Scott, Beulah, and June were just glued to the tracks.” Alvira Peterson, the 13-year-old sister of Beulah and Edith, and the oldest child in the party, 4 said the hiking party had ample warning before the train sped onto the trestle. “We screamed as loudly as we could,” she related, with a shudder. “Teacher turned around saw the train. She stood still for an instant. Some of the boys ran alongside the trestle and begged those above to jump. “They didn’t seem to pay any attention. They were awfully white and were too scared to even try to help themselves. Then I covered my face. I didn’t see the train strike them. I just heard other children scream.” MISS SCOTT* red-haired and pretty, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Scott of Atkinson, where the two children who were killed, also lived. The teacher was a graduate of the Western State Teachers’ college at Macomb, 111., and had been teaching for several years in the Grand View school. A change in the schedule of the Rock Island railroad’s Rocky Mountain Limited, which was the train that struck the teacher and her pupils, may not have been known to the teacher.

CARPENTERS BALK AT WAGE SLASHES

Unanimous rejection of the 20 per cent pay cut proposed by Associated Construction Employers was voted by the district council of the carpenter’s union Monday night. Its representatives today announced a demand for the existing wage scale and a five-day week. Heretofore, carpenters have been working forty-four and one-half hours a week at $1.22 an hour. Now they demand the same wage scale, but ask their working time be reduced to forty hours, as are

BRYAN UNTIEDT IS BACK HOME; EMBARRASSED BY TEACHER’S KISSES

BY CLYDE G. BYERS United Press Staff Correspondent TOWNER, Colo., May s.—Bryan . Untiedt, 13-year-old hero of the Pleasant Hill school bus disaster, arrived in Towner today, as happy as a boy could be at the end of as great an adventure as a boy could have. Bryan climbed down the steps of his railroad car with his eyes as big as saucers as he looked out on the handful of residents of Towner who met the train. Back from a visit with President Hoover, Bryan was looking

JOBLESS WILL FIGHT TO EAT, LESLIE TOLD Leader of Hunger Marchers Demands State Help for Unemployed. EVICTION IS RESISTED Two Men Are Arrested When They Attempt to / Replace Furniture. Carrying out threats made to Governor Harry G. Leslie Monday afternoon, unemployed men, headed by Communists, today attempted to replace furniture of a Negro tenant, evicted on court order, from his residence, 440 Blake street. Two Communists, Joseph Bertiaux, 35, and Ash Martin, 33, both of 933 South Senate avenue, residence of Theodore Luesse, Communist, were arrested on vagrancy charges by deputy sheriffs. They were held under SI,OOO bonds each. Arrest of the men took place after Deputy Sheriff Charles Lynch had served the eviction order and directed removal of the household goods. Bertiaux and Martin addressed a crowd of Negroes near the residence, making threats that they would return the furniture to the house. Two Are Arrested Lynch called a sheriff's emergency and Deputies Tom Scanlon and Louis Mikesell placed the men under arrest. Monday afternoon Donald Burke of Gary, Communist organizer, told Leslie that if the demands of the unemployed were not met by the state they would take matters into their own hands. The program, as presented by Burke, declares that: “Unless our demands are met, we propose to move families of the unemployed back into houses from which they have been evicted. “We shall seek food from the authorities first and if refused then we will demand food from grocers and other stores. If refused by them we shall take the food. The unemployed will not starve.” Police Move Marchers Governor Leslie thanked Burke and the other three members of the committee which called, and dismissed them. They had asked that he call a special session of the legislature to deal with unemployment problems according to the Communist formula.

While this committee was presenting its demands, the state and city police herded. the hunger marchers off the statehouse steps and back to Military park, whence they came. The attendance, although advertised as state-wide, was about one-fourth of that at previous statehouse meetings staged by the Inidanapolis group alone. Burke, who said he was an organizer for the Communist party, was accompanied by Miss Alice Phillips, Gary, who acted as secretary of the committee. Three in Jail The other two committee members were Mrs. Lulu Griffin, Negro, 1659 Yandes street, and a World war veteran, D. S. Finney, Terre Haute. Warned by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron to go to work or go to jail, three leaders of the demonstration were liberated on charges of disorderly conduct, carrying banners in city streets, and vagrancy. Rabraca of Gary and Napoleon Johnson of Terre Haute were charged with carrying banners and vagrancy. The banner, reading ‘‘To Hell With Charity, We Demand Real Relief,” was produced in court. Judge Cameron discharged them after a brief patriotic lecture. Theodore Luesse, Communist leader, was given a suspended fine and sentence. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 57 10 a. m...,. 70 7 a. m 59 11 a. m 72 8 a. m 64 12 (noon).. 72 9a. m 69 Ip. m 75

the other crafts, M. N. McCord, district secretary and chairman of the conference committee, reported. Action of the carpenters in rejecting the proposed slash makes it unanimous with all building crafts, the Marion County Building Trades Council reported. Members of the association “locked out” the union men who did ont agree to the rfduction when they came to work Friday, labor leaders contend, and so halted projects amounting to millions of dollars.

for someone, it was apparent. When he didn’t see whoever it was he was looking for, he seemed a little abashed. By the time a few photographers had focused their cameras, the smile had gone from his face. a a a NONE of his family was at the train to greet him, nor were any of his playmates from the Pleasant Hill school. There were just nine children from Towner who stopped at the railroad station en route to their own school and half a dozen grownups in the welcoming party.

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MOTHER SLAIN WITH SCISSORS Girl, 17, Held for Murder; Sister Is Accuser. By United Press OTTAWA, Ontario, May 5.—A 17-year-old girl was held today on charges of slaying her mother with a pair of shears and a knife in their East Rockland h° m e. twenty-three miles from here, after her sister informed authorities she suspected the girl. Lucia Goulet was arrested at the home where her mother’s body was found with the throat slashed and sixteen wounds in head, face and breast. A blood-stained pair of shears and a knife were found by police in a boiler of water. They also found a dress with crimson stains, which they compelled the girl to don. Police said the dress fitted Lucia perfectly.' A sister became suspicious of Lucia’s actions. After an investigation, she notified authorities, who arrested the girl after she had attended her mother’s funeral with her father and five brothers and sisters.

MERCURY TO SLIDE Showers Come With Cool Weather, Is Forecast. The infant May was due to take a healthy spanking tonight, according to the United States weather bureau here, which today hung up a foreboding forecast of considerably cooler and damper climatic conditions. Temperatures that began at 57 degrees at 6 this morning and rose rapidly thereafter probably will sink to near 45 degrees at the corresponding hour Wednesday, while showers are expected to accompany the mercury’s slide. High temperature Wednesday probably will not be above 60 degrees, according to J. H. Armington, meterologist at the weather bureau. MANSION IN FLAMES Mrs. Scott’s Crow’s Nest Residence Burns. Residence of Mrs. William Scott in Crow’s Nest was razed by fire Monday night, the loss expected to aggregate several thousands of dollars. # Mrs. Scott, now living at the Marott, recently resided in the home, known as the ‘‘old Higgins homestead,” one of the beauty spots of Crow’s Nest. Water had to be pumped from White river and firemen were unable to quench the blaze, saving furniture in only two rooms of the large house. William McDougal, 5157 Sunset lane, caretaker, was unable to determine how the fire originated. CLARA BOW COLLAPSES Star in Serious Condition at Sanitarium After Breakdown. By United Press HOLLYWOOD. Cal., May 5. Clara Bow, film star, has been placed in a sanitarium after a nervous collapse at her studio and her condition is regarded as serious, Paramount-Fublix and her physicians announced today.

Among the latter were only two known to Bryan, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Heaney. Mrs. Heaney, who was Bryan’s teacher at the Pleasant Hill school last year, seized him from W. H. Davenport, government agent, who escorted him home, and kissed him. The others looked on without saying a word, and Bryan was embarrassed. He had been at the White House, conducted himself nobly in the presence of the great, and never had seemed at a loss, but for a 13-year-old boy to be kissed publicly by his teacher was

ILEANA WILL WED HAPSBURG DUKE IN JUNE Rumanian Princess Again Engaged; Mate-to-Be Is Movie Employe. LONG IN PUBLIC EYE Daughter of Queen Marie Has Received Much Romantic Publicity. By United Press BUCHAREST, May s.—Princess Ileana, 22-year-old daughter of Dowager Queen Marie, will be married in June to Archduke Anton von Hapsburg, employe of a yienna motion picture company. The engagement of the princess, whose romances since the time of her visit to the United States with her mother have been publicized widely, was announced officially Monday night. Princess Ileana is an attractive, dark-haired girl who has traveled frequently with her mother in recent years, one journey to Egypt last year being made in an effort to end the princess’ romance with Count Alexander von Hochberg, son of the prince of Pless. Met in Barcelona The princess impetuously had announced her engagement to the count, only to have the government cancel what she had described as a true love match. Archduke Anton, who is 30, first met the princess at Barcelona, where he lived until recently. They became acquainted in 1930, during the visit of the princess to Spain, and their friendship culminated in the engagement while the princess was visiting the Hohenzollern palace at Freiburg, in Breisgau, Bavaria. Princess Ileana, whose friendship j with a West Point cadet during her visit to the United States first brought her romantic publicity, has been, at various times, reported engaged to most of the eligible princes of Europe, including the prince of Wales, King Boris of Bui- I garia and others. Scion of Hapsburgs

Archduke Anton is the seventh child of the Archduke Leopold-Sal-vator of Hapsburg. Anton’s brother, Leopold-Salva-tor, said today that the archduke probably will live in Rumania after his marriage. It was pointed out that the European custom of causing the woman to provide a dowry has been applied to royal marriages as well as those of commoners since the war. Employed in Movies By United Press VIENNA. May s.—Archduke Anton, engaged to Princess Ueana of Rumania, recently has been employed by a motion picture firm. He has been driving a motorcycle, transporting films between Vienna and the studios. It was recalled that, several years ago, the archduke and his brother, Franz Joseph, were almost penniless in Barcelona. They worked as electricians tc earn enough money to buy an airplane, which was wrecked in France. FIST FIGHT FLARES IN FRENCH CHAMBER Socialist and Communist Battle Over Spanish Friendship Motion. By United Press PARIS, May s.—Fist fighting broke out on the floor of the chamber of deputies today when the deputies reconvened after the Easter recess for a session expected to prove critical for the Laval ministry. Salomon Grumbach, Socialist, introduced a motion of friendship for the new Spanish republic, and was supported by Premier Pierre Laval. Marcel Cachin, Communist, opened a bitter attack on the Madrid republicans as “unrepublican,” whereupon a fist fight, started between the Communist, Andre Marty, and a Socialist, M. Ambrosini.

STATE ‘FLAG MAN’S’ TREASURES STOLEN

Flags which the late Captain Wallace Foster loved were stolen Monday night by burglars who ransacked the flag-bedecked residence from which he was buried in 1919. The house had been left intact after books and other flags which he had willed to School 32, named the Wallace Foster school, had been removed. His son, William E. Foster, reported the theft to police. In addition to the flags, all of which were valuable, 200 books, linens, silverware, and parts of the plumbing

a little more than he could be expected to endure. ana TN his embarrassment, Bryan had to do something, and he did just what any boy his age and in his position would have done. He diverted attention from himself to something else. “Here, let me show you this new gun I got,” he exclaimed, and with attention momentarily directed to the rifle given him by Allan Hoover, Bryan dug into the cartridge case and brought forth a half-dozen cartridges.

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U, S. FINANCIERS LASHED BY CHICAGO BANKER FOR LONG DEPRESSION WAVE

‘CHARMED LIFE’ OF BRITISH AIRMAN IS ENDED BY WRECK

Lieutenant-Commander Glen Kidston and his son Archie.

E. E. COOK TO BE LAID AT REST Burial of Scripps-Howard Editor in Columbus. By United Press COLUMBUS, 0., May s—Funeral services for Ermond E. Cook, editor-in-chief of the Ohio group of Scripps-Howard newspapers, who died Sunday after a long illness, will be held at the Cook home in Bexley this afternoon, with burial in Greenlawn cemetery. The Rev. Thomas Taylor Crawford, pastor of the North Broadway, Methodist church, will pronounce' the funeral oration. The Rev. F. Howard Gallahan, pastor of the First Broad Street Methodist church, will read the Scriptures and lead in prayer. Officials of the organization, with whom Cook was associated for many years, will be honorary pallbearers. They include George B. Parker, editorial director, and William G. Chandler, general business manager, both of Newi York; Fred S. Ferguson, president of the Newspaper Enterprise Association, and editors of the Ohio Scripps-Howard newspapers—Louis B. Seltzer, Cleveland Press; Frank W. Rostock, Cincinnati Post; Harold G. Place, Toledo News-Bee; L. E. Judd, Akron Times-Press; Felix F. Bruner, Youngstown Telegram, and Edward A. Evans, Columbus Citizen. Active pallbearers will be members of the staff of the Citizen, of which Cook was editor until Jan. 1. BALL PARK UP Zoning Appeals Board Will Hold Hearing Today. Zoning appeals board this afternoon will hold a public hearing on proposal of Norman A. Perry to build a $350,000 stadium for the Indianapolis American Association baseball team. The proposed steel and concrete stadium would be located near Sixteenth street and Riverside drive, south of South Grove golf course, in a section zoned for residences.

were taken by the burglars, police were told. For several years after the death of his father, William Foster resided at the residence. Throughout his life, Captain Foster collected flags and always at flag-raising occasions distributed small flags to school children and spectators. He was known as “Indiana’s flag man.” Provisions in his will provide that the personal effects of the old house be divided between School 32 and the Tabernacle Presbyterian church after the death of his son.

He fitted the cartridges into the magazine of the rifle. “Now watch this,” he said. He emptied the rifle at' a nearby telephone pole and ran across the railroad tracks to the pole. After he examined it, he whirled around exictedly, and shouted: “I hit it every shot.” a a a T TIS eyes shone and he had *■ diverted attention from his clothes, which were new, and his hands, which seemed in the way to him at first. Now perfectly at east he addressed himself to-Davepport:

Glen Kidston, Millionaire Daredevil, Is Reported Dead in Africa. By United Press LONDON, May 5.—A spokesman for the British Aircraft Constructors’ Society said today that a Capetown message gave positive identification by police of the body of Commander Glen Kidston, British millionaire airman, killed in an airplane crash in Natal. By United Press CAPETOWN, South Africa, May s.—Lieutenant Commander Glen Kidston, millionaire British aviator with the “charmed life,” is believed to have been killed in a crash in the mountains of Natal, advices received here today said. A w r recked plane was found sixteen miles from Van Reenen, in the hills between Natal and the Orange Free State. Kidston’s visiting card was found on one of the bodies, the report said. The message said two airmen were in the plane and both were killed. Kidston left Johannesburg this morning in a Puss Moth plane to fly to Natal. A gale was blowing when he took off. He completed a spectacular flight from England to South Africa last month in six days. Had Charmed Life Kidston has had many narrow escapes from death and was regarded in England as having a charmed life. He was in his early thirties and his flirtation with death began when he was a 15-year-old cadet during the war. His ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, but he was among those saved. Not long afterward the ship to which he was transferred also was torpedoed. He was aboard the Orion when she was shelled heavily at Jutland. His most miraculous escape was from a German air liner at Caterham, England in November, 1929. Six people trapped in the plane were burned" to death. Kidston, the only survivor, suffered only burns on j his hands and face. Kidston also had several narrow escapes aboard submarines during the war. Racing Boat Wrecked In May, 1927, he was piloting a racing motorboat off Lee-on-Solent. With him were his wife and Prince and Princess George of Neroviski. When the boat reached a speed of fifty miles an hour, it broke in two. Kidston and his passengers were rescued after half an hour in the water. In November, 1928, Kidston chartered the airplane from which Alfred Loewenstein, the Belgian financier, vanished on a channel crossing. Kidston flew to Kenya, Africa, and was forced down in the Tombe channel, White Nile. He escaped unhurt. Last August, Kidston competed in the Royal Automobile Club tourist trophy race at Belfast, one of the fastest and most dangerous motor road races in the world. He estimated that he had attained ninety miles an hour when the crash came. Quake Jars Birmingham By United Press BIRMINGHAM. Ala., May 5. A slight earthquake shock, strong enough to jar houses in this section, occurred at 6:17 a. m. today. Police reported that window panes i were broken in several residences.

“Well, let’s get going,” he declared, and the Heaneys took him and Davenport in their automobile and started the twelve-mile trip to the Untiedt ranch home. Fellow passengers of Davenport, including a jovial priest, shouted to him, “Get some rest now, Davenport.” And the government agent, a figurative presidential wing, blushed as he admited he was pretty well worn out by the strain of keeping up with lively Bryan since he took him away from Towner secretly ten days ago, headed far Washington. .

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Leaders Are Denounced for Failure to Warn Public of Market Crash. ASSAILED AS COWARDS Business Policies Dictated by Stupidity and Greed, . Asserts Traylor. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 5 A scathing indictment of American financial leaders by one of their own number for their policy leading up to the depression, and suggestions for revision of inter-allied war debts by two outstanding European figures, turned the International Chamber of Commerce convention today into the field of controversy. Melvin A. Traylor, Chicago banker and international financial expert, denounced financial leaders for failing to warn the public when they knew the stock market crash was coming, and for permitting the boom period to go unchecked when they knew’ where it was headed. "We have not failed because of ignorance of economic theories, but because of our utter disregard and defiance of all economic iaws,” he declared, accusing financial leaders of a lack of courage to face the facts. Greed Is Blamed “Ambition, stupidity and greed have dictated policies, and trouble has been the result,” he declared. Taylor also included government officials in his indictment, saying that both they and financial leaders knew as early as 1927 that unchecked expansion and speculation could lead only to disaster,” yet the record of American financial leadership and of responsible government officials was regrettably one of too much silence. “Few warnings were issued, and few attempts made to attract public attention to the danger that threatened,” he said. “As far as the record discloses, not one had the courage to fight in the open against the tendencies he knew were wrong and to demand a right-about face. Knowledge is one thing, but courage of leadership is another.

“It is tragedy when in a world of plenty there should be so much poverty, and when, in a nation which boasts of its riches, five million or more people willing to work, should be unable to find employment. “It is a challenge to the world, and especially to American business and political leadership, which can not be ignored and must not be shirked.” Traylor urged three forms In stock market practice—abolition of the so-called “daily settlement” and substitution of periodic settlement, for better regulation of the flow and rate of credit; abolition of floor trading, which he said has about it most of the characteristics of crap shooting, and prohibition of trading on any other than a cash basis in amounts less than SIO,OOO. Farmers “Lied About 4 * Touching the agricultural problem, the Chicago banker said the American farmer “has been lied to and lied about” more than any one else, and deplored various forms of relief legislation which he said havp been detrimental to the farmers 4 welfare." The farmer, he said, has a just right to complain when he sees five or six million unemployed behind the supposed protection of tariff: barriers and sees foreign trade barriers raised against him. ‘No one, not even the farmer himself, would advocate the abolition of reasonable protection for industry,” Traylor said, “but a virtue ceased to be a virtue when its operations destroy economic opportunity and social equality. 4 * The war debt question was brought up by two leading foreign delegates, both of whom suggested that revision all around might lead the way back to economic recovery. Would Cancel War Debts These speakers were Alberto Pirelli, Italian industralist, who presented a synopsis of report* gathered by experts on all phases of United States and European financial and commercial relations, and Sir Alan G. Anderson, director of the Bank of England. “Would it perhaps be better to cancel international debts of political origin?” Anderson asked. “Great Britain, as the largest war creditor, cancelled a great surplus of debts owing to her, and the debtor nations would vote for extension of this policy, but the creditor finds it hard to accept as impartial the advice of the debtor to forgive him what he owes.’* GOODYEAR TO HIRE 800 \ Akron (O.) Rubber Company WTU Increase Daily Production. AKRON, 0., May s.—Addition of 800 workers to the pay roll of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company to take care of increased orders was announced today by Preside* t Paul Litchfield. The men, all former employes, will be rehired to increase production from 56,500 to 60,000 tires a day. Litchfield .said.

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