Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1931 — Page 9
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Around the World in a Column
By United Preee NEW YORK, June 9.—The story told to Los Angeles police by ; a county Jail prisoner, Matthew Guldera, 22, that he shot and killed Arnold Rothsteln in November, 1928, for not paying a debt was doubted by authorities here today. Inspector John J. Sullivan and others who ! tried to solve the gambler’s murder said they never had heard of Gui-' dera. * * n Air Mark Not Official By United Preee WASHINGTON, June 9.—The airplane refueling endurance mark of 647 hours 28 minutes established 1 last year near St. Louis by Dale Jackson and Forest O’Brien never hss been recognized officially by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, the United Press was informed today. Officials of the National Aeronautic Association said the record still is 553 hours and 41 minutes, made by the Hunter brothers of Missouri. nun Teachers Fight Cut By United Prtee CHICAGO, June 9. —Serveral orCHICAGO, June 9.—Several orers laid plans today for an open fight against a proposal to save the city about $1,500,000 a year by reducing school operating expenses and eliminating automatic increases In pay. a a a Cuban Jobless Riot By United Preen HANVANA, June 9.—Recurrence of rioting among unemployed in Santiago spread uneasiness through eastern Cuba again today. Hundreds of unemployed rushed through the streets Monday night, and they sought to hold a great mass meeting and later to parade through the main thoroughfares of Santiago. Soldiers, seeking to maintain order since the outbreak last Saturday, charged and dispersed the mob. a a a Critics Are Hit By United Preen ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 9. Some 6,000,000 users of electricity do not pay enough for their service, and the expense of serving them is borne by other customers, W. Alton Jones, president of the National Electric Light Association, today told the association's convention here. Jones referred to those who charge the light and power companies with oppressing the people as “uninformed critics.’’ a a a Mine Police to Go By United Preen HARRISBURG. Pa., June 9. Governor Pinchot announced today that he plans to issue an executive order immediately, canceling the commission of all “coal and iron police” in Pennsylvania, effective July 1. Under existing laws, coal and iron companies may have property guards after that date, and state police will prevent disorders around mining or industrial plants. a a a H inges on Germany By United Preen PITTSBURGH, June 3.—Welfare of Germany and her ability to emerge from her financial and economic difficulties forms the real problem involved in war debts, Alanson B. Houghton, former ambassador to Germany and Great Britain, said today in the commencement address at Carnegie Institute of Technology. a. a a No New Illness By United Preen PHILADELPHIA, June 9.—Some : of the things that afflict the modern ! also plagued the stone age man, according to Dr. Frank B. Young, Gehring, Neb., paleontologist, who gave exhibits to the American Medical Association convention today to show that pyorrhea, halitohis, arthritis and cancer were known in the stone age. His exhibits tended to chow that there are no new diseases, only new names for old ills. a a a Delay Murder Trial NEW YORK, June 9. —Charges that “sinister motives” prompted the defense to delay th§ trial of Harry Stein and Sam Greenburg for the killing of Vivian Gordon, adventurer, were made today by District Attorney McLaughlin of the Bronx. He opposed pleas of the defense for a further delay, but the court agreed to another postponement until Thursday. a a a Fights Newspaper Sale By United Press NEWPORT. R. 1., June 9.—Mrs. Edward B. McLean, divorced wife of the publisher of the Washington Post, announced today that she would seek to prevent the sale of that newspaper to David Lawrence, to “protect the interests of her sons. John R., 16, and Edward B. Jr., 13, now in school and both interested in newspaper work. a a a Censorship Clamped By United Preee WASHINGTON, June 9.—Secretary of Treasury Mellon has imposed a censorship on the public health service as an outgrowth of a recent radio broadcast, in which it was suggested that less meat be eaten in the summer. The advice brought wholesale protests from livestock associations and meat packers. a a a $250,000 Loss in Fire By United Preee SEATTLE, June 9.—Fire swept through the south end waterfront today, doing $250,000 damage to half a . dozen Industrial plants. The flames were stopped Just before reaching a huge gasoline storage plant, i The fire started in the grain warehouse of Jahn & Cos., probably from a dust explosion.
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CITY STREETS ‘CLEANED’ BY • TOW-IN RULE Parked Cars Rare Sight in Business Area, Says Traffic Head. GARAGE GAINS LACKING Police Find Few to ‘Haul In’ as Campaign Runs Into Its Second Day. With thirty-five automobiles impounded Monday for improper parking, police today renewed their campaign to enforce obedience of motorists to the new traffic ordinance. As three police tow-ln trucks started out at 7:30 a. m. today in charge of a squad of traffic policemen, parked automobile in the downtown traffic area were a rare sight, only a scattered few being observed. Only eight cars were towed in by noon today for improper parking. Captain Lewis Johnson said. “The officers with the tow-in cars reported they had to cover the entire downtown area to find that many cars violating the ordinance,” Johnson said. “Street after street was found empty of parked cars, except for trucks halted momentarily to make deliveries, and a few' out-of-state automobiles. Warning Stickers Effective “Fewer out-of-state cars were noticed this morning, warning stickers given Monday proving effective.” .No protests against enforcing of j the ordinance were made at the! safety board meeting today, and j board members said they had received no complaints previously from persons whose cars had been impounded. What has become of the hundreds of automobiles which formerly filled practically all available downtown parking spaces long before 9 a. m. today was left a mystery^ The larger downtown parking garages either disclaimed any increase at all in business, or declared only a few more cars were parked in their buildings Monday. Downtown parking lots also were divided, some reporting no increase and others admitting a slight increase in patronage, although all appeared to be well-filled. Indianapolis Street Railway officials said that while exact figures on Monday’s passenger receipts were not yet available, from observance and reports of employes, increase in passengers was scarcely noticeable. Increase in number of cars parked north and south of the restricted area was reported by Captain Johnson. Sixteen Pay Sticker Fines Os the thirty-five cars impounded Monday, six were for parking on the east side of Meridian street between Vermont and Sixteenth street during the evening traffic rush hours, 4:30 to 6 p. m., Johnson said. Only three care w r ere impounded for parking on Monument circle, or its approaches, banned at all times for parking. The remainder of the cars towed in either were parked double in alleys, in safety zones, in front of fire plugs, or otherwise in violation of the ordinance. None pf the cars were craned in Monday, all being towed. Sixteen motorists who arrived on the scene before the tow car left with their automobiles were permitted to drive their cars away Monday, but were given traffic stickers, requiring payment of a $2 fine. PURSUE JACKSON TIP Police Press Roundup of Public Enemies. Still searching underworld rendezvous for a dozen public enemies they were commanded to bring in for questioning, detectives continued today to follow their investigation of the Lafayette A. Jackson murder. son murder. Rewards totaling $3,100 still are outstanding for information leading to apprehension and conviction of two gunmen who shot Mr. Jackson down in a holdup attempt at the headquarters Standard grocery, 419 East Washington street, May 27, almost two weeks ago. Besides the twelve most notorious i suspected criminals they are ordered to bring In on sight, detectives also are searching for two men whom an underworld tip named as the slayers. Both gunmen were believed to have been wounded in a gun battle with Mr. Jackson and police after the robbery attempt.
CHARGES MATE LIT BLAZE ON TABLE
“When a mail carrier has a day off he takes a Tjalk.” And when one fireman has a day off he builds fires on the dining room table. At least that's the story Mrs. Maude Owens, wife of Marvin D. Owens, city fireman, related to Juvenile Judge John Geckler today when she testified in support of her charge that Marvin is neglecting their children, Lois, 10, ar.d John. 8. According to her testimony. Owens had made a habit of getting drunk every other day. Under the -rules of the fire department the firemen work twenty-four hours and are off the next twenty-four. £ But, as days have gone on, Owedl has added a variety of accomplish-
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Youngest and Smallest in Marble Meet
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Robert .Warren De Mars
When the final marble championship tournament of Indianapolis is played next Monday, June 15, at Willard, park at 10 a. m. between winners and runners-up at eleven sectional centers, Bobby De Mars, 8, of 607 East Sixty-second street, will be the smallest and youngest competitor in the play. Bobby was runner-up at the Sixty-first street and Broadway sectional meet. The city-wide marble championship sponsored by The Times, in addition to determning a city champ, will determine the boy who is to represent Indianapolis in the national tournament at Ocean City, N. J., the week of June 20. He will enjoy a mammoth sight-seeing tour, with all expenses paid, a chaperon and a swell trip. That’s why all the sectional winners are practicing up their shooting thumbs this w'eek.
‘PICKUP’ COSTS ‘BIG OIL MAN’ Texan Starts on Auto Ride, Ends Up $65 Poorer. Meet Robert Hacker, 25, a “big oil man from Texas” and as nonchalant as a drowsy crocodile. He started his party Monday night, he said, with S4OO in travelers’ checks and S2O in cash. But when police caught up with him in the 400 block North New Jersey street he had only $350 in checks and $5 in money. He had, too, a scompanions Burnie Brazzell, alias John Weller of Dayton, 0., whom police say has a criminal record, and Keith Cole of 1050 Olive avenue^ Both*are charged with vagrancy, while Hacker, according to police, was drunk. They were in a taxi. Hacker me£ his friends on the northeast side. He picked them up in a cab. When shown that his fortune had diminished $65, Hacker dismissed the loss with a smile. “Sure, I know they robbed me, but what do I care? I’m an oil expert from Texas, and I've been robbed before.”
V. F. W. MAY START BATTLE ON ‘REDS’
WEIGHTS INSPECTORS TO OPEN CONFERENCE State Officials to Be Speakers at Convention Wednesday. Prominent officials of the Indiana Association of Inspectors of Weights and Measures will be speakers at the twentieth annual conference, opening Wednesday at the Lincoln. John J. Brown, director of the Indiana state highway commission, will be the first speaker. Others will be Ralph Smith of the United States bureau of standards; C. A. Howe, secretary of the State Retail Coal Merchants, and Dr. William F. King, secretary of the state board of health. A demonstration of various types of pumps will be given Thursday on a trip to the Shell Oil Company. Friday will be taken up with reports and election of officers. INSURANCE MAN DEAD James W. Barnett Succumbs After Illness of Three Days. James W. Barnett. 63, special adjuster for the Continental Fire Insurance Company, died early Sunday at his home, 1109 North Tuxedo street, aiter a three-day illness. Funeral services will be held today at 2:30 in Westminster Presbyterian church. Burial will be in New Palestine cemetery.
ments to his cff-day sprees, Mrs. Owens charged. “First he started running around with wcmen,” she told Geckler. “I saw him myself riding around in a car with a girl named Lillian. Then he refused to give me any money, and not so long ago he started something new. x “He built a fire on the dining room table and told me he was burning incense to make the house smell good." Mrs. Owens told Geckler that Owens is “a nice fellow when he's sober and I'could live with him if he'd stop drinking." Owens told Geckler: “I can’t live wth Maude any more, I guess. I think I'll get a divorce.” ... _ Geckler toe*.; the case under advisemeriP
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1931
MINE STRIKE FIGHT FLARES AT PRINCETON Nonunion Workers Pulled From Cars and Beaten by Pickets. NONE HURT SERIOUSLY Efforts to Operate Closed Shaft Will Be Made Again Wednesday. By United Press PRINCETON, Ind., June 9. Fighting between union and nonunion miners broke out again today in the coal fields near here. Seventeen workers, going to w ? ork in the Liberty mine, near Francisco, were attacked by pickets, pulled from their automobiles and trucks and beaten severely. None w r ere injured. seriously by the attacking men, believed to number approximately fifty. A warning was given the men that they should not attempt to operate the Liberty mine, but workers and officials said another attempt would be made Wednesday. The mine was to have beeen started today on a co-operative basis. Two years ago the main tipple of the mine w r as burned in a fight between union and nonunion men. Since then only enough work has been done to keep the boilers and machinery running, but today miners had expected to begin operations on a full production basis. The victims said they did not recognize the assailants, and believed they had been brought here from union organizations other than Gibson county. Deputies and officials placed a guard around the mine soon after the battle. It was expected they could assist in the attempt to start operation Wednesday. The Somerville mine, which has been operating under normal production for several days, was closed today. United Mine Workers’ officials said it would net be reopened until a settlement had been reached. It also was operated on a co-opera-tive basis. Morton Is Informed Gaylord S. Morton, secretary to Governor Harry G. Leslie, said that he received a call from Gibson county at 3 a. m. today regarding the mine war there. He was informed that a delegation would be on hand to place the matter before the Governor, but told them that all the Governor could do was to take the matter up with,, the Gibson county sheriff. Morton himself called the sheriff and was told that, while there were a few fists fights, the matter was not serious. Governor Leslie Is at Lafayette attending the Purdue university commencement. “National guard troops never are sent into a county unless the sheriff and officials call for them,” Morton explained. “This explanation given the Gibson county people may have stopped the delegation from coming here today.”
Aid of Boy Scouts in Drive to Be Discussed at State Encampment. Battle with the "red menace” by an army of Hoosier Boy Scouts, led by the Indiana Veterans of Foreign Wars, is proposed. One of the resolutions which will be presented at the tenth annual state encampment at Connersville Thursday provides that it be mandator}’ for every post in the state to sponsor a Boy Scout troop. This, the resolution says, is "effectively to combat organization efforts of Communists.” Other outstanding resolutions to go before the convention were announced today by Arthur G. Gresham, national legislative deputy of the department of Indiana. They propose: Pay balance of cash in full cn all adjusted compensation certificates as soon as congress convenes. Support the widows’ and dependents' pension bill which the V. F. W. will sponsor before congress. Refuse to become aligned with any political party. Create a speakers bureau in the Americanization department. Support military training in schools, colleges and universities. Support the government in a preparedness Support the government in citizens military training camps. Creation of a state hospital relief committee. NAB MAN IN PLOT TO RANSACK BANK VAULT “Proposition Made to Cashier Leads to Arrest for Mail Fraud. A “proposition’ ’alleged to have been made Lee Philpott, cashier of the Covington (Ind.) National bank, by mail Friday by Charles Hutchinson of the Puritan hotel, has been turned down flatly by Philpott. Monday afternoon Hutchinson was arrested by federal authorities and bound over to the federal grand jury on a charge of using the mails to defraud. According to authorities, the ’proposition” was that the writer of the letter, with Philpott's aid, should ransack the vaults of the bank. After that, it is alleged Philpott was asked to permit being bound and gagged and the&lreport the “robbery.” **
Quarantine 'Frees 9 Nineteen in Butler Fraternity of Exams
“Imprisoned" students stealing a breath of fresh air o n the front porch of the Phi Delta Theta house. (Inset) The sign that protects them from professors and examinations.
END CONTRACT OF CLARA BOW Film Star Says She’s Glad Shoe’s Released. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, June 9 The long association of Clara Bow, redhaired “it” girl of the films,* and the Paramount-Publix Corporation has ended,, A formal statement was issued Monday night by B. P. Schulberg, general manager of west coast production for Paramount-Publix, in which he said Miss Bow had been released from her contract at her own request. Miss Bow, a Brooklyn girl who rose to a position on the screen where she typified the American flapper, had been forced by illness to remain away from the studio for several weeks. Court appearances and an attack on her by a tabloid newspaper were said to have undermined her health. In a statement issued through the studio, Miss Bow expressed gratification that the contract had been terminated and said that she now can face the task of regaining her health with a free mind.
BYRD IS ’REAL' HERO _ / i Member of Polar Party Is League Speaker. Fear that “the older generation of explorers will not leave much for us younger fellows to do,” was expressed Monday night by Raymond Mercola, youngest member of the Byrd expedition to the Anarctic. He spoke before the Indianapolis chapter of the fzaak Walton League at the Athenaeum. “A nonstop flight across the Pacific is about all there is left,” said Mercola, who was only 16 when he signed up with the expedition, after working his way to Dunedin, expedition headquarters. But Mercola declared that he Intended to lead an exploring party of his own some day—“back to the south pole, northern Siberia or to the Amazon. “Admiral Richard Byrd is my idea of a real hero,” he said.
RIPLEY IS BOOSTED IN WHALE CONTEST
6,000-Pound ‘Baby’ Is Like Believe It or Not, Suggests Child. “Call the baby whale ‘Rippy’,” writes a little girl on New Jersey street, “because its size sounds like a ‘Believe It or Not’ story.” Another youngster wants the baby named “Lindy,” because Lindbergh, like the whales, conquered the sea.” Yuonnette Williams thinks a suitable name would be “Plunger,” because whales are widely known for their deep plunges into the sea, and another girl would like to have the baby whale named “Hefty,” because it makes one think of something big and heavy. Nina Thpmas, 3560 Kissell avenue, suggests “Leviathan,” because it means something big out of the ocean (see Job 41:1). The mama whale’s name is “Colussus,” but the 6,000-pound offspring never has had a name. So get busy and send in your suggestion to the Whale Editor of The Times, together with a stamped and self-addressed envelope and receive a free ticket to the whale exhibit now open on Virginia avenue, near the Pennsylvania railroad elevation. Don’t forget the reason for the name suggested. Captain Jonathan Prince, addressed the Gyro Club today at the Spink-Arms and showed the members some interesting trophies, such as the ear and eye of a whale, and the pilot fish. Wednesday the captain will tell the Kiwanis Club hew they sight whales in the modern days with the seaplanes and the new method of harpooning. Captain Prince and a number of his mates always are at the exhibit to answer questions regarding whales and their habits.
Eyes of “co-eds” and “eds” of Butler university yearn this week toward a stone building at 725 West Hampton drive as they cram for “exams.” For in that building, home of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, are nineteen youths legally playing “hookey” from the toughest week of the school year, “exam week.” Examinations began Monday, but Sunday the city health board descended on the fraternity house and placed a “warning” placard on it, when one youth, Joe Sullivan of Carthage, 111., was taken to the city hospital, believed to be suffering from spinal meningitis. “Tiddley-winks,” decorating themselves with convict numbers, and bridge games that last long and late are the occupations of the enforced vacationers. Majority of the youths underwent cultures at the city hospital this morning and physicians reported none of them were carriers. The remainder were to be examined before 1:30, and if these show no carriers, health board officials said the ban will be lifted on the fraternity house this afternoon. ASKS $15,000 DAMAGES Ruth Seymour Charges Permanent Injuries in Car Crash. A suit asking $15,000 damages for injuries that she alleges have crippled her permanently was filed Monday in superior court four by Ruth Seymour against Ralph and Paul Elrod, 649 South Alabama street. The plaintiff charges she was struck by an automobile of the defendant's at Washington mid Gray streets, Nov. 10, 1930. Both legs were fractured, she alleges.
99 AT CATHEDRAL TO BE GRADUATED
Largest Class in History of School to Get Final Honors Tonight. A class of ninety-reven seniors, largest in history of Cathedral high school, will receive final honors and diplomas tonight. Bishop Joseph Chartrand will preside, assisted by Brother William, principal of the school. James E. Deery, Indianapolis attorney, -will deliver the
U. S. SEEN ALWAYS DRY Luis Bacardi, of Rum Fame, Thinks Prohibition Is Permanent. By United Press NEW YORK, June 9.—Luis J. Bacardi, one of the four brothers who made the drink by that name popular throughout the world, believes the United States always will have prohibition and “had just as well make up its mind to bear it.” Although he thinks prohibition is unpopular here, Bacardi believes one o. the pardoxes of the American people is to dislike something, but nevertheles keep it. As for depression, he says he hasn’t found any in his business. “We’re turning out 25,0U0 gallons daily,” he said.
HIGHWAY BOARD TO LOOK OVER ROUTES
John J. Brown, director of the state highway department, left today for southern Indiana, where he will join with state highway commissioners in a two-day road inspection tour. The commission will assemble under Chairman Albert J. Wedeking at Jasper, where they will be joined by Brown and state highway engineers. Formal meeting of the commission Is scheduled for the Robert Graham farm near Washington. Thomas H. McDonald, chief of the federal bureau of public roads, is a guest of Graham and will attend. Black-top bids for widening and resurfacing the National road from Cumberland to Greenfield will be discussed. Third of*a series of exclusive
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G. A, R. TO GARRY ON Ml. END Report Reveals More Than 200 Deaths in 1931. NEWCASTLE, Ind., June 9.—A defiant statement, promising that the spirit that carried Union troops to victory in the Civil war likewise will uphold the Grand Army of the Republic until the last member passes, was made by James E. Jewell, national commander of the veterans, here for the fifty-second annual Indiana encampment. “We will carry on until we have all passed,” General Jewell said firmly when rumors reached him that plans to disband the G. A. R. were being made. The veterans began the second day of their three-day meeting here today. A report to the convention revealed that since Jan. 1, more than 209 members have died, leaving approximately 400 in the state. A tea in honor of Lieutenant T. B. Wilkinson, only surviving commissioned officer in Henry county, was the peak of today’s program. A reception for national officers was to follow. Organizations affiliated with the G. A. R. Were to hold their first business session today. War Veteran Dead By United Press WESTFIELD. .Ind., June 9.—Alfred Fodrea, 87, veteran of the Civil war, died here while his comrades were attending the fifty-sec-ond annual encampment of the G. A. R. in Newcastle. Fodrea had been ill many months.
commencement address, and Leo F. Lauber, president of the class, will give the valedictory. The Rev. W. Henry McLean of Bloomington stressed the* importance of ideals to the graduating class of Emmerich Manual Training high school Monday night in Cadle tabernacle. Students were warned against ideals too imaginary or lofty. Ideals might be of a height out of proportion to their base and thus crash of their own weight, he said. Pal C. Stetson, superintendent of Indianapolis schools, presented the diplomas. The school band, orchestra and girls’ glee club participated in the program. E. H. Kemper McCcmb, principal, presided. Seventy-two graduates cf Broad Ripple nigh school were told Monday night by Dr. Herbert L. Willetts of the University of Chicago that education is not intended as a preparation for vocational success or to teach a boy or girl how to make a living. “Education,” he said, “rather than cramming a mass of knowledge into the young student, today is for the purpose of enabling the young person to find his proper place in life.’’ Dr. Thcmas W. Grafton delivered the invocation and diplomas were given by Milo H. Stuart, assistant superintendent of schools. Suicide Buried Today By United Press ROCKVILLE, Ind., June 9. Funeral services were held today i for Harry Waddell, 41, who commiti ted suicide by shooting at his farm ! five miles north of Rockville. RelaI fives were unable to ascribe a mot tive.
black-top projects was announced today. Bids will be received on the following materials: Rock asphalt, bituminous corfcrete and asphaltic! macadam. The projects are: United States highway No. 27, from Portland, south to Bryant, in Jay county, 5.7 miles. State road No. 56 from Jasper west for a distance of 8.2 miles, in Dubois county, 8.2 miles. State road No. 56 from the PikeDubols county line 9.3 miles into Pike county. . United States highway No. 31J east to the junction of United States highway No. o({, 2.4 miles in Jackson county. United States highway No. 27, from a point five wiles north of Berne, north 2.3 mfftes.
‘BLIND’ TARIFF HAS ‘CRIPPLED’ RUBBER FIRMS Thousands of Workers in U. S. Thrown Out of Jobs by Reprisals. IT’S HELPED CANADA Akron Clear-Cut Picture of How Vicious Bill Really Is. This Is the second of a series on tho effects of the Hawley-Smooth tariff, which is driving; industries and jobs from the United States to Canada. By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scrinns-Howard Foreirn Editor TORONTO, June 9.—Tens of thousands of American workers are jobless today because the present tariff policy of the United States has failed utterly to protect what is perhaps our largest industry—foreign trade itself. Before coming here I visited Akron, 0., the rubber capital of the world. There I saw how vicious the policy can be. By conservative estimate, I was told, Akron today has £, total unemployment of approximately 12,000 while between 4,000 and 7,000 jobless have left the city in the last year and a half. Except for painstaking readjustments on the part of Akron employers, by which some 8,000 have been absorbed back into industry by “staggering” and split-week systems and seasonal improvement, the situation would be far worse. Caused by Reprisals All this because tariff reprisals have forced America’s leading industries to establish branch factories abroad or else lose the bulk of their increasingly profitable foreign trade. “It is not at all difficult," one Akron observer told me, “to trace our unemployment to the forced migration of part of our industry. “Canada alone has some 30.000 jobs for rubber-workers that wouldn’t be there but for the tide of American industry sweeping northw r ard across the border. “In 1929, Canada manufactured for export 3,21,000 automobile tires. In the production departments alone on the customary basis of five tires per day per man, for three J working days, this export busine". accounts for more than 2,000 of Akron's jobless workers. That Means 22,000 Jobs “In addition, Canada exported $8,500,000 worth of rubber footwear. On the customary 1929 ratio of one to two, the labor cost of these items W'as $4,250,000, or 2,100 names on the pay roll at boom figures in Akron. “Canada’s total rubber production was $91,410,000 worth of finished goods. The raw materials costs and fixed charges amounted to some $47,000,000. The remainder —labor and distribution costs—is translatable almost entirely in terms of somebody’s work. “At $2,000 a year, that means 22,000 jobs. “Virtually all of this $91,000,000 production came from plants owned in the United States but operated in Canada to get past tariff barriers and to overcome prejudices inspired by the blind economic chauvinism of congress. Ever? One in Export Trade “Eight companies in Canada now are manufacturing tires for export. Only two are British or Canadian owned. Their export business is negligible. “The others all are transplanted from the United States, and of these ail but one are from Akron and every one of them in the export trade. “That’s the story of just one in'dustry and just one frontier. It is, therefore, a vary incomplete picture of the situation as a whole. “Goodyear Is in Wolverhampton, England; Sydney, Australia, and Buenos Aires; Argentina. Goodrich is in France. Firestone is in Argentina and England. Seiberling is in England and, by manufacturing agreement, in Germany and Russia. “United States Rubber—not an Akron concern—is in England, France and other European countries by special arrangements with foreign companies. It Is “Heart-Breaking" “And the tariff, complicated by prejudice against American goods largely arising from it, has sent all this good rubber business away from home. •The heart-breaking part of it all is it didn’t go of its own free will. Mass production is always at its best when concentrated in one place. But it has to migrate else give up foreign trade.” Such is the story of just one extort —rubber. 1 have before me, however, a compilation of more | than 1,100 other concerns with i branch plants over here, while in Washington I heard it authoritaj tively estimated that a total of more than 2,000 are operating abroad. Which means just so many fewer jobs for Americans. Wednesday: American Dollars building aluminum capital of world in Canada. SEEK~TO*DEPORT ‘EMIR’ Self-Styled Prince May Beat U. S., However, on Detroit Birth. Bit United Prtg NEW YORK, June 9.—The selfstyled “Emir Kuristan,” whom the department of labor has sought to deport, may be permitted to remain in the United States on the claim that he was born in Detroit. The emir, or “prince,” claiming to be a descendant of Mahcmet and Haround A1 Aaschid, had been deported before and for eleven years has figured in news dispatches from Berlin, Nice, Vienna, Belgrade and other places telling of arrests. He is said to have been charred in England and Germany with -fraud.
