Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 122, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1931 — Page 3

SEPT. 30, 1931.

LAVAL VISIT TO BERLIN HELPS WORLDACCORD German Statesman Sees Beginning of Era of Understanding. BY FREDERICK KUH, Untttd Prm Staff Correspondent iCoDVriKht. 1931. bv United Press! BERLIN, Sept. 30. Franco-Ger-man co-operation resulting from the visit here of Premier Pierre Laval and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand is expected to open the way for participation of other nations in international political and economic accord, Foreign Minister Dr. Julius Curtius told the United Press in an exclusive interview. Unification of shipping rates is envisaged. Dr. Curtius’ statement was the first official German declaration regarding the significance of the visit of the French statesmen here and the earlier conversations when Dr. Curtius and Chancellor Heinrich Bruening visited Paris. He explained the purpose of the Franco-German conversations and outlined what Germany hoped the results would be. Hope for Treasury Relief Both nations hope that the establishment of a permanent Fran-co-German economic committee will bring “relaxation of political tension and economic alleviation,” Dr. Curtius said. Questioned regarding the report that France and Germany had agreed to enlist the aid of the United States and Great Britain in their efforts to improve shipping by unifying rates, Dr. Curtius replied: “Both governments are aware that In the pursuit of their aims they may not employ measures detrimental to other countries and that some tasks to which they would like to devote themselves can be fulfilled not alone by Franco-German cooperation, but only within the framework of larger international understanding. Sees New Era “One of such problems, for instance, is shipping.” Dr. Curtius added that the activity of the Franco-German committee would exert economic influence upon the United States “only as far as it may be hoped that this wiy contribute to overcoming the world economic crisis. “We hope that the public and the business world of the United States will judge these new links between both countries as a favorable sign and the beginning of an era of friendly co-operation and will draw favorable political and economic conclusions.”

MISS PULPIT; GET ‘PEN’ Two Ministerial Students Get 5Ycar Terms for Banditry. By United Pres * TEHAUACANA, Tex.. Sept. 30. Two students who turned bandits so they could continue their studies to become ministers were under sentence today to spend five years each in prison. The youths, Pete Prce Hearn and Fan Briggs, confessed and were sentenced for holding up a taxi driver and robbing him of $2. Hearn is the son of a Methodist minister. Briggs was co-captain of the Tehauacana Methodist College football team. Both were studying to be ministers when their money ran short and they turned to banditry. FAVORS TRAFFIC LIGHTS Tolice Chief Urges Installation on Washington Street, Downtown. Proposal that automatic traffic signals be placed at all intersections on Washington street between East and West streets today was being considered by safety board members. Police Chief Morrissey suggested that the change from signals operated by police officers could be made early next year when funds for the signals will be available under the 1932 budget. The change, Morrissey said, would result in eliminating necessity for one of the two traffic officers at each corner. GAS UNIT HEARING SET Users’ Protest Against Measuring Method to be Aired Before Board. Hearing on the use of the therm unit for measurement of commercial gas will be held before the public service commission Oct. 22, Howell Ellis, commissioner, announced today. The commission has made a survey of the use of the gas measurement which is supported by the utilities but has brought protest from users. Under the system, it is said, artificial gas companies can switch to natural gas without loss of money to the utilities. Pendleton Tax Appealed Bn Time Special PENDLETON, Ind., Sept. 30. Eleven taxpayers of Pendleton signed a petition appealing from the tax rate established by the town board to the state board of tax commissioners. The disputed rate is 62 cents, 55 cents for general purposes and 7 cents for the town library.

LAUD BOTTLING CO. AT PLANT OPENING

Coca-Cola Officials Are Congratulated; Structure Cost $500,000. Officials of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company today were being congratulated on their new $500,000 bottling plant at 860 Massachusetts avenue following formal cpening of the plant Tuesday night. The handsome new two-story terracotta structure was visited by thousands of Indianapolis residents and seventy managers of Coca-Cola bottling companies in the east, routh and middle west. Indianapolis Rotarians were entertained by James S. Yuncker, '- company president, at a luncjieon

WORLD’S LARGEST HOTEL IS OPENED

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Dominating the more swanky reaches of upper Park avenue ... the new Waldorf is 625 feet tall ... a poem in white stone, capped by two aluminum-plated, beacon-lit towers.

47-Story Waldorf-Astoria to Be Dedicated Before 12,000. By United Prenn NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—Ghosts of the Peacock alley of 1893-1929, the promenade of Presidents and royalty, hovered today over the new Wal-dorf-Astoria hotel. The "world’s biggest hotel” was opened formally today for review by 12,000 invited guests in elaborate ceremonies. The milkman on the exclusive Park avenue delivery route will make his first formal call Thursday morning, then Warren Ross, the first paid-in-advance patron of the hotel—patron, not guest, mind you—may move into his $6-a-day room. With that the forty-seven-story monument to tradition, to its famous guests, its famous dinners, its famous Oscar of the Waldorf, will be launched on its career, prepared with everything—save a well stocked cellar—for the comfort of its "patrons.” 2,200 Rooms in Structure Prepared it is! Platoons of bellboys, busboys, maids, waiters, and attendants were put through their paces Tuesday. Carpet cutters have completed their tasks; painters and carpenters have torn down their scaffolds. The rolling rumble of the bass stops in the huge pipe organ in the grand ball room during tests were

BABY, 2, SEARCHING FOR TOYS, DROWNS

Topples Into Open Cistern While Exploring With Small Brother. Crawling with his brother through a vacant house next door to their home, 2-year-old Ryburn Renfro, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Renfro, 411 East Walnut street, toppled into an open cistern and was drowned late Tuesday. The elder brother, Raymond Jr., 5, went to the house exploring for toys he thought might have been left behind by the last tenants, the father said. The baby crawled with him, and when the search was ended, both children returned to a rambling rear porch, where the cistern top was uncovered. The child crept to the edge, looked down, and then lost his balance and plunged into the water. Raymond fled, screaming for help. Mrs. Alta Rabb, roomer at the Renfro home, answered his screams and discovered the child in the cistern. < She called police, who recovered the body, and attempted artificial resuiration. After an hour’s work was futile, Coroner Fred W. Viehling pronounced the baby dead and the . body was sent to city morgue. | The parents were not at home * when the child drowned. He is i survived by them, his brother and ! his grandparents. Veteran at Court Opening LA PORTE. Ind., Sept. 30.—When I Laporte Superior court was convened here for the fall term. Attorney Warren C. Ransburg, attended (his 177th term opening.

Tuesday in the company’s garage opposite the plant. After* the luncheon, Rotarians and Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, who attended, were taken for a tour of inspection of the building which, according to Harrison Jones, Atlanta, Ga., Coca-Cola Company executive vice-president, is the most elaborate bottling plant in the United States. Rotarians nominated two tickets for club directors at the luncheon. “Spokes” nominees are Henry Holt, Herbert S. King, Edgar Hart, Intin R. Brown, J. Harry Green, Isaac R. Holycross, and Henry L. Stenger. “Hubs'’ candidates are Robert Berner. Stuart Dean, Chic Jackson, Curtis H. Rottger, Harry E. Rasmusseja. Birney D. Spradlins and,

followed by a silence indicating that room was ready. Every dining room in the 2,200room establishment is reserved for the opening. Garry Henry, chief steward, and Alexander Gastaud, chief chef, are ready for them. For the fruit cocktail alone 10,000 apples, oranges, pears and pineapples have been stored in the fruit cellars. There’ll be 200 gallons of soup, 100 pounds of cavier, 1,200 lobsters, and tons of meat and vegetables for the 6,000 diners. Nothing Left Undone Oscar lschirky, Oscar of the Waldorf, is host. He says nothing has been left undone to contribute to the comfort—or amazement—of his “patrons.” In the black and gold marble main lobby is the world’s largest hand-tuffted one-piece rug, 70x50 feet. Any bell boy will tell you it includes 12,600,000 hand tied knots. And thirty weavers worked ten months to make that rug! Huge zippers hold down the carpets in sections in the dining room, so they may be rolled back in a hurry for dancing where and when. Radio and television for every room, of course. Air cooled rooms. Dry ice and portable heaters go with room service. Mural paintings—tall bronze urns —bronzed elevators—rubber tiled floors—fireplaces—indirect lighting —mirrors in peacock alley—lounges —men’s grill in the Scandinavian manner—more mirrors—innumerable rooms of dancing and dining—and a slot in every bathroom for that old safety razor blade.

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Rybum Renfro in the arms of his father, Raymond Renfro. Standing in front is Raymond Jr.

WHY FAT FOLKS STAY FAT “The trouble with me, and I guess this applies to 99% of the men and women who are putting on weight, I didn’t have the energy or “pep” to keep it off. Lost all interest in any healthy activity and just lazed around accumulating the old pounds. Start taking Kruschen Salts — that’s the common-sense way to reduce. This is what they do—they clean out the impurities in your blood by keeping the bowels, kidneys and liver in splendid working order—a vigor and tireless energy you’d most forgotten had existed returns. Asa result instead of planting yourself in an easy chair every free moment and letting flab in fat accumulate you feel an urge for attivity that keeps you moving around do.ng the things you've always wanted to do and needed to do to keep you in good condition—you’ve gt that “Kruschen feeling." Be careful of tb<* foods you eat—then watch the pounds slide off! Take one half teaspoon of Kruschen Salts in a glass of hot or cold water tomorrow morning and every morning—and if they don’t change yo*r whole idea about reducing, go back and get the small price you paid for them. Get an 8o cent bottle of Kruschen Salts—lasts 4 weeks—at Hook's Dependable Drug Stores or any progressive druggist anywhere ia the rnuld.—AU vertieemeau

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2 DIE, 20 HURT AS GUNS QUELL RIOT IN CANADA Mounted Police Turn Tide of Battle Against Striking Miners. By United Press ESTEVAN, Sask., Sept. 30.—Royal Canadian mounted police today patrolled debris strewn Estevan streets where two striking miners were killed and more than twenty persons seriously injured in a fierce pitched battle. Twelve of the injured were officers. One was a girl. The battle, precipitated when strikers disregarded Mayor Bannatyne’s orders not to parade, was the most serious labor outbreak in all Canada since the Winnipeg strike of 1919. Mine operators, against whom the miners struck two weeks ago for higher wages and better living conditions, insisted the whole trouble was caused by Communists. Ignore Parade Ban The miners assembled late Tuesday outside the city, organized into parade formation, and, with women and children shrieking encouragement, started the march which the mayor had ordered them not to make. A squad of local police met the parade at the city limits. Orders to disband were given. The miners marched on. Fighting began. Stones were hurled. Clubs were wielded. Heads were bruised, arms broken. Slowly the officers, far outnumbered, were driven through the city and to the town hall, where they stood against a wall and fought back furiously. Mounted Police Turn Tide One after another the officers went down under a rain of stones, bricks and clubs. The strikers almost had won when sixteen mounted police arrived and plunged into the battle. lighting their way to the sides of the local police, the mounted men first resorted only to fists and clubs. Several were hurt. They again ordered the rioters to stop. The order was disregarded. A new shower of stones and bricks followed. The crowd started anew assault. The police fired into the mob. Five men fell. Two of them died. Within five minutes the streets were cleared of rioters. Attempts to reopen the battle later failed. TAX DECISION DEFERRED Hoover Awaits Treasury Figures Before Making Recommendations. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—President Hoover’s decision whether congress shall be asked to increase taxes will not be made until congress meets in December. Mr. Hoover feels that accurate estimates on receipts and expenditures for next year will not be available from the treasury department until December. There was no intimation today what Mr. Hoover’s decision would be.

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Last Strain By United Press NEW YORK. Sept. 30. Harry Braun, 22-year-old violinist protege of Otto Kahn and Lieutenant-Governor Herbert Lehman, wall have to make his Carnegie hall debut next January without his $25,00 Guarnerius. Tuesday evening as Braun was crossing the street the 240-year-old instrument, the gift of August Heckscher, Philanthropist, slipped from his grip. A heavy truck rolled by. The treasured instrument and its case were crushed to matchwood. Braun was a Russian immigrant who learned to play on a *lO fiddle when a boy.

CALLS DRY LAW ECONOMIC BOON Prohibition Worker Talks to Christ Church Session. Econimic success of prohibition was claimed Tuesday night by James A. Crain, secretary of the board of temperance and social welfare of the Disciples of Christ church, at a county meeting of Disciples of Christ churches at the University Park Christian church. Crain quoted figures tending to show that savings deposits had increased under prohibition from $9,000,000,000 to $28,000,000,000, and that building and loan associations had increased from 7,500 to more than twelve thousand. “The fight on the prohibition amendment was instigated and is being financed by the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, which last year spent SBOO,OOO in an attempt to defeat prohibition,” Crain declared.

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AUTU CRASHES AND SKIDS 100 FEET ON SIDE Driver, Two Hitch-Hikers Escape With Minor Cuts, Bruises. A motorist and two hitch-hikers j narrowly escaped death early today when the car’ in which they were | riding smashed into a bridge on I State road 31 and skidded 100 feet on its side. Fred Hofert, 45, Washington ho.tel, told deputy sheriffs he was blinded by the lights of another car as he approached a washout bridge at Seventy-third street. The car struck the bridge and was hurled on its side on the pavement. Riding with Hofert were Walter Hill and Theodore Emmons, both 16, of South Bend. All three were unhurt except for cuts and bruises. Armored Truck Crashes When the armored truck of the Fletcher Truck Company overturned after a collision Tuesday afternoon, Fred Shockley, 26, of 214 South Arsenal avenue, driver, was injured. The accident occurred at Emerson avenue and Washington street when the bank truck collided with another truck driven by Herbert Closser of Anderson. Police sought a drunken autoist who fled Tuesday after his car injured L. B. Grisbaum, 29, of 3025 North Meridian street. Hurt in Back The accident occurred at White river and Oliver avenue when the drunken motorist crashed into the rear of the auto in which Grisbaum

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Listening to experts comment on lock picking in San Quentin, Cal., prison, Harold Marks, who is serving a five-year to life sentence, invented a lock which can’t be picked. Marks is shown above with the lock for which SIOO,OOO has been placed in escrow in his name by an eastern firm, pending patent rights. was riding. Grisbaum sustained back injuries. Others hurt in aendents: Floyd Baker, 10, of 302 East Michigan street, leg cuts; Miss Clara Hill, 23, of 443 North Beville avenue, and her sister, Miss Margaret Hill, 30, of the same address, bruises, and Pexley Ranney, 24. of Chicago, bruises and shock.

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JOBLESS ARE TRAMPLED BY MOUNTED CUPS Riots at British Houses of Parliament Quelled After Street Fight. BY HERBERT MOORE United Pres* Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sept. 30. Police clashed today with mobs in renewed unemployment riots during which many were injured. Demonstrators were trampled by mounted police, who charged crowds outside the British museum. The unemployed, including many women, reassembled after having been ejected from the vicinity of Bow street police station. The demonstrators gathered earjy and sought to force their way lm<* the Bow street police station Where eleven men and one woman were held after an unemployd demonstration before the houses of parliament Tuesday night. They fought police patrols, who blocked their way along the narrow, dingy, thoroughfare in the heart of London's west end. A clash occurred at Oxford street, but the crowd there moved on after a brief altercaton. They reassembled in Hyde pak. Police again charged, dispersing the meeting. The clashes followed lively engagements during the night, when crowds of unemployed, shouting anti-government slogans and in ugly mood, defied orders not to demonstrate within a mile radius of the houses of parliament. One policeman was hurt. The crowd jeered, but the demonstrators gradually receded before the police, and were driven away from Whitehall and the cenotaph. Twelve were arrested.