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FOOD SUPPLY IS SPREAD THINLY IN SOYIET UNION Population of Moscow \z on Rations According to Categories. Thl* I* the third of > wrlo. rirxllnr *lth the hale farts of life under the Soviets and the rhances in the Russian srene In reeent months. BY EUGENE LYONS United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW. Aug. 12.—Under the surface of grandiose social undertakings, flamboyant political slogans and ceaseless class struggle, the elementary personal needs and ambitions of the individual Russian run deep and persistent. He seeks food, clothes, shelter, safety and a modicum of amusement. These primary needs are felt here perhaps more profoundly than anywhere else. The prolonged hardships with food supplies, the overcrowded housing conditions in the cities, the chronic shortage of wcarig apparel, have made these things the central objects of thought, conversation and dreams. Plan Made Promise* The original draft of the flvejear plan made specific promises of more to eat. With the Russian passion for statistics it foretold exactly how many more pounds of foodstuffs the average Soviet citizen would consume by the end of the halfdecade. This aspect of the plan scarcely is mentioned in the later versions. It somehow has been lost insofar as official memory is concerned. The authors evidently underestimated the price that must be paid for their scheme. Since the plan was inaugurated the system of rationed food has become so much a part of everyday routine that the purchase of foodstuffs without official coupons and without restrictions as to quantity seems to the ordinary Russian inconceivable. Rations Are Meager The rations vary in different parts of the Union, but nowhere are they more than enough to support life. Every Russian belongs to a “category.” There are four or five of these categories, the first and most favored of which is restricted to manual workers. These receive twice as much bread and other products as the second category, where office and brain workers are' placed. The Kremlin maneuvers its stock's of food and other consumption goods as a general maneuvers an army. Supplies arc shifted quickly to reinforce weakening sectors of industry, to stimulate construction work in some crucial undertaking. The actual rations for a member of the most favored category in Moscow at present include approximately the following: Two pounds of bread dally, one-half pound of butter monthly, about one-half pound of meat a day when there is any, from ten to twenty eggs a month in the summer time, fifty grams of tea monthly, five pounds of sugar monthly.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen be ßobert°F. Ootner. 3743 North Illinois street. Ford roadster. 763-691. from 152 East court street. , , Mont Needier. Marlon. Ind.. Studebaker sedan. 343-740. from Marion. Ind. Russell Pursell. 143 South Elder avenue. Chevrolet coupe. 75-118. from Kentucky avenue and South street. L _ , Lawrence Hill. 312 Smith street. Ford touring. 736-324. from Walnut and West street. Ford sedan. 77-761. from In front of 1627 Hovt avenue. Munroe Freeland. 2730 Cheser avenue. Chrvsler coupe. 753-248. from Sixteenth street and Capitol avenue. Joe Roe. 5836 West Washington street. Chrvsler roadster, from trucking company vard at 1449 East Nineteenth street.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police H<> Sldnev o Ellis. 1923 Adams street Chevrolet coach, stripped of battery and motor head, found at North street near White R Carl Bradlev. 994 North Delaware street. Buick coupe, found in front of 2830 North Capitol avenue. _ James F Drake. 122 Cornell avenue. Buirk touring found in front of 523 West Michigan street. B Enos Dennv. Danville. Ind.. R. R. A, Nash coupe, found at Thirteenth and BellefonB Ford* tr sport roadster. 1308-149 Illinois, found at Capitol avenue and South street. WATSON HOWE IS DEAD Cowpuncher, Actor and Columnist Passes in Long Island. By United Press VALLEY STREAM, L. 1., Aug. 12. —Watson Howe, 74, former cowpuncher, actor and newspaper columnist, died at his home here late Tuesday. Howe was born in Colorado and rode the ranges of that state until he became associated with William P. (Buffalo Bill) Cody in the show business. When he was 25, Howe began a tour of the country in road shows and operettas. He began his career as a newspaper columnist when 60. Prison Rum Traffic Charged By United Press PHOENIX, Ariz., Aug. 12. Charges that bootleggers had been smuggling liquor into the Arizona state prison and trading it to convicts for hay grown on the prison farm, were made by Walter Norris, special investigator, in a report to Judge Joseph S. Jenckes.

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Remember that “contract marriage” of two years ago, when William Kenneth Moyer and Ethel Oen signed an agreement that they would be free to divorce each other unless a male child were bom to them? Well, here’s the Moyer family today, well and happy at their Souderton, Pa., home, with Billy Jr—born a year ago—enjoying a sun-bath. Moyer is earning his livelihood by digging ditches in daytime and writing at night.

CITY WILL PUSH WIDENING JOBS Property Will Be Bought to Aid Two Projects. The city plan commission passed three resolutions Tuesday to facilitate the widening of New York street to Irvington and elimination of a jog at Michigan street and Highland avenue. Two of the resolutions passed concerned the New York street widening. They call for acquisition of property between State and Arsenal avenue, and between Highland avenue and the Big Four railroad. Property to be bought under the first resolution will cost approximately $60,000. Cost of carrying out the second resolution is estimated at $20,000, part of which will go to the city park department for property in Highland park. The thrid resolution calles for acquisition of eight houses near Highland avenue and Michigan street to straighten the jog at that point. The city will build anew street, cutting diagonally from the corner of Michigan street and Highland avenue to Dorman street. Estimated cost is $36,670.10. Money for the improvements will be provided from the city thoroughfare fund. The board of public works will carry out the improvements. HELIUM RECORDS FALL All Marks for Production Are Broken at Amarillo. Scripts - Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Scott Turner, director of the United States bureau of mines, announced today that all records for helium* production just have been broken at the government’s Amarillo plant. During the last year the Amarillo plant has broken every world record for helium production, both as to quantity and low cost,” Turner said. “With only one unit operating the plant produced helium during the fiscal year just ended in excess of 11,000,000 cubic feet at an average cost of less than $lO a thousand cubic feet.” HOLD NEGRO FOR JURY Police Say They Found Alcohol in His Automobile. James Carter, alias Earl Carter, Negro, 2447 Park avenue, was arraigned Tuesday before Federal Commissioner Howard S. Young on charges of transporting five gallons of alcohol in his automobile, and bound over to the federal grand jury under $2,000 bond. He was arrested Monday night by the police liquor squad.

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Bad Breaks By United Press CHAUMONT, France, Aug. 12.—Auguste Parmentier, 91. didn’t mind dying, but hated to leave his heirs anything. So he burned up his house, set fire to eight 100-franc notes, and ran spryly to the banks of the Meuse and jumped in. Somebody saw his dash for death and he was fished out and saved,

NAB 3 IN RUM RAIDS Piano, Day Bed Yield Liquor Caches, Police Report. Striking at three alleged liquor joints Tuesday afternoon, police squads arrested three and said they confiscated a quantity of intoxicants. Twenty-five gallons of whisky and a jug of white mule were found at 957 Cedar street, officers said. Mike McGuire, 40, of 1754 Howard street, is said to have claimed ownership of the liquor. He was charged with operating a blind tiger. Aftre a long search a old upright piano* finally was discovered as the cache for liquor at Virginia avenue. Police said three gallons of whisky were found in the piano. They arrested Mayme Schrouf on blind tiger counts. Police “shook down” a day bed at 364 West Twelfth street and said they confiscated three gallons of alcohol, william Burton, a roomer, who claimed the liquor, was arrested. SLEUTHS AFTER AUTHOR Hoover Wants to Know Who Wrote “Washington Merry-Go-Round.” By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—The Washington Daily News in a story by its political and social commentator, George Abell, said today that the secret service on orders from President Hoover is investigating the authorship of “Washington Merry-Go-Round,” a recent anonymous book in which virtually the entire administration was castigated. The News said further that members of the Republican nations! committee will follow up the secret service inquiry by seeking a congressional investigation next winter. Prominent members of the committee were said to believe the book was inspired by Democratic agencies. Suicide Attempt Fails By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. 12. Despondent since she was deserted by her husband recently, Mrs. Earl Frye, 40, made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide by taking poison at her home here. She will recover.

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‘UNKNOWN’ PENS SIO,OOO PRIZE NOVELFORI93I Easterner Meets Success After 14 Years of Grim Battling. By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—“ Brothers in the West,” a novel by Robert Raynolds, 28, of Georgetown, Conn., who spent fourteen years trying to convince publishers he could write, has been named the Harper SIO,OOO prize novel for 1931. Raynolds collected the prize money and explained how his life has been just one rejection slip after another. Raynolds said he has turned out thousands of words —short stories, poetry, novels and even essays. A sketch and a few poems were published in the literary magazine of Princeton university and a few reviews were taken by a New York newspaper. Raynolds was born at Santa Fe, N. M., in the room of the Governor's palace where Lew Wallace worked on the manuscript of Ben Hur. His father was the late James Wallace Raynolds, acting Governor of New Mexico under President MpKinley. When he was 7, his family moved to Omaha and lived there until 1923, when he entered Princeton, studied two years and then went

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Tables Turned By United Press TRENTON. N. J.. Aug. 12. Robert L. Saunders, superintendent of schools at Irvington, devised an arithmetic test 116 teaching applicants failed to pass, but the test has been invalidated because Saunders himself stumbled over a matter of simple additionSaunders set 75 per cent as a passing mark. Each problem was to count ten if entirely corerct or zero if all or partly wrong. Charles H. Elliott, state education commissioner, examining the tests at the request of the teachers, found that not even Saunders could add any number of 10’s and zeros to total 75. So he invalidated the examination. back to Denver to work in the coal mines for a year. He entered Lafayette college and following graduation in 1925 went to Mexico and worked in the silver mines. A year ago he was employed as editor of an oil company’s house organ. He resigned and bought a cottage in Connecticut to write. He married Miss Marguerite Gerdau of New York in 1925. They have two children, Robert, 3, and Ann, 2. Elevator Burns; Damage $30,000 SALEM, Ind., Aug. 12.—Damage of $30,000 was estimated after the Cauble Milling Company's mill and elevator burned to the ground here Tuesday. More than 4,000 bushels of wheat were destroyed.

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DEBT HOLIDAY PROTOCOL GIVEN Technical Measures Ready for Formal Approval of Powers. By United Press LONDON. Aug. 12. Technical measures necessary for the operation of President Hoover's one-year war debt holiday were, ready today for formal approval of powers involved. The measures, drawn up by the committee of experts in session here, were approved by the ambassadors at a ceremony in the Locarno room of the foreign office late Tuesday The ambassadors and financial experts affixed their signatures to the formal protocol, which is to be effective as of July 1, as soon as ratifications of the governments are deposited at Paris. Under these measures, Germany is to repay the 1931 war reparations annuities within a ten-year period. Repayment furthermore was made an “absolute obligation. The German delegates, however, made it clear that they could not guarantee the ability of the Reich to pay in the future. The protocol co-ordinated the Hoover plan and the Young plan for reparations payments by pro-

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PREPARE SCHOOL LOAN Board Adopts Resolution to Borrow $150,000 for Special Fund. Replenishment of the school city special fund by a $150,000 temporary loan until the final installment of taxes is received is provided for in a resolution adopted by the school commissioners at their meeting Tuesday night. The board also voted to make minor repairs at eight elementary schools and four high schools.