Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 200, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1931 — Page 2

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DEMOCRATS ARE NAMED TO ALL COUNTY OFFICES Take Over Courthouse; Only Two G. 0. P. Aids .Are Left. With announcement today of twenty-four changes in county personnel, way was cleared for Democratic assumption of control of the courthouse on Jan. 1. Democrats will hold all offices bu two. The exceptions are continuation of the term of George Snider, county commissioner, and Harry O. Chamberlin, circuit court Judge. New executives who will take office Jan. 1 are: Charles Grossart, county auditor, succeeding Harry Dunn; Thomas Ellis, county commissioner, succeeding John Shearer, and Timothy P. Sexton, county treasurer, succeeding Clyde Robinson. With Ellis’ accession, several hundred jobs will become Democratic patronage. Executive appointments for institutions were announced several weeks ago. Name Physicians Appointments today by county commissioners were: Superintendent of the Colored Orphans Home—Mrs. Susie Milligan, Negro, 1710 South Keystone avenue, succeeding Mrs. Emma Duvall, salary $1,200. Physician at the Julietta Asylum for the Insane—Dr. Charles R. Reese of Cumberland, succeeding Dr. Harold R. Cox, and physician at the county poor farm, Dr. Asa O. Ruse of Clermont, succeeding Dr. R. R. Coble. Salaries are SI,OOO. Assistant Custodian of the Courthouse—Emanuel Green, Negro, 324 West Twenty-first street, salary $1,140. Engineer at Poor Farm—Edward W. Messmer, 1362 South Sheffield avenue, salary SI,OBO. Others to Be Made County Garage Superintendent— Clarence Melster, 2129 South East street salary; is $1,500. Mechanic at County Yards—David Taylor of Maywood; hourly wage 54 cents. Foreman at Yards —Everett McCurdy, Traders Ponit; salary $1,650. Ten janitors and five elevator operators at the courthouse also were appointed. They are Negroes. Salary of each is S9O a month. The commissioners expect to make appointments to subordinate positions in the highway department, yards and garag later in the week. Democratic organization heads were consulted In the appointments, Ellis and Dow' Vorhies, incumbent Democratic commisisoner said. Indications are that Vorhies will he elected chairman of the commissioners Friday, when Ellis takes office. The out-going commissioner, Shearer said, today plans to renew’ connections as representative of the Smith Africultural Chemical Company. SHOOTS FARMER WHO OPPOSED HIS ROMANCE Suitor of Wounded Man's Sister Is ; Caught by Posse. By United Pres* CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis., Dec. 30. A posse of 100 men today trapped Charles Uselman, 35, St. Louis, who is alleged to have wounded a Chippewa county farmer because refused permission to call on the latter’s sister. The farmer, Vemer Johnson, was shot in the face and body at his home Tuesday night. He had opposed Uselman’s attentions to his sister, Mrs. Eunice Bennett, 35. The farmer's neighbors formed | into a posse, but lost Uselman’s j trail. They searched all night. At dawn, Uselman was surrounded in a farmhouse ten miles east of here. He surrendered. URGES DISMISSAL WAGE Economist Would Have V. S. Give Employers Tax Credit. [t’i Scripps-Hotcard Newspaper Alliance WASHNGTON, Dec. 30.—The federal government should encourage payment of dismissal wages in the same manner suggested for encouragement of unemployment insurance. Sumner H. Sliehter, professor of business economics at Harvard university, proposed at the meeting here of the American Association for Labor Legislation. This is by means of tax exemptions. Sliehter would have the states pass compulsory dismissal wage laws, and would have the federal government then credit to corporations on their annual tax part of the sums paid to dismissed men. SANK DIVIDEND READY Washington * Mortgage Holders to Get 10 Per Cent Payment. Checks representing a 10 per cent dividend on "Series R” real estate mortgage certificates of the Washington Bank and Trust Company will be mailed soon, it was announced today by Brandt C. Downey, receiver. The distribution, amounting to about SIO,OOO. represents funds from notes set aside as underlying security to holders of the mortgage certificates. Depositors and general creditors will not share in the dividend. POISON DEATH CHARGEO West Virginia Is Held After Daughter’s Body Is Exhumed. By United Pres* WAYNE. W. Va., Dec. 30. Smith Webb. 59, was held here today on a charge cf poisoning his daughter, an expectant mother, and burying her in a rude coffin near his cabin in the Paddle creek district of Wayne county. The body of the woman. Maude Webb, 26, was exhumed by county officers. Pathologists at Huntington reported finding poison in the viscera. Webb had constructed a rude coffin following his daughter's death on Dec. 13. „ Mate Webb. 18, a son, was held as a material witness.

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COUNCIL SETUP TO STAY SAME Present Officers Likely to Be Re-Eiected. Present officers of the city council probably will be re-elected for 1932, at election Monday noon, statements made today by several councilmen indicate. Customary confusion usually apparent at this time of year on who shall preside over the council, is absent this year. Although it will be contrary to precedent, Ernest C. Ropkey, head of the Indianapolis Engraving Company, is expected to be retained for a third term as council president. One year has been the average length of the presiding officer's term. Leo F. Welch, vice-president of the council, also probably will be re-elected at the meeting Monday, reports indicate. Welch was mentioned as a possible next president, but declared today "I am not a candidate,, and I don’t see any reason for a change." Ropkey declared he was not aspiring to re-election to the president's chair, but “will serve, if reelected.” Other councilmen who said they “do not anticipate any change in the council’s officers,”were Fred C. Gardner, James A. Houck, Maurice E. Tennant and George A. Henry. FACES DEATH CHARGE Detectives Say Hit-and-Run Motorist Confesses. Manslaughter charges were to be filed teday against Stanley Ule, 21, of 719 North Warman avenue, following an alleged confession that he was the hit-and-run driver who fatally injured a pedestrian on Dec. 19. The accident occurred at New York and Geisendorff streets, w’hen John Batkin, 63, of 323 Douglass street, was hurled thirty-five feet by a speeding automobile. The driver, witnesses said, stopped and then fled. Batkin died an hour later at city hospital. Ule, according to detectives Louis Fossatti and Patrick Roache, who arrested him at his home, admitted fleeing from the accident because he “was afraid.” Ule is married and has a child, 2. Police said he has been arrested previously on a blind tiger charge and is under probation in Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer’s court. BREAD. NOT BOOZE, IS ISSUE, SAYS DANIELS Former Secretary of Navy Gives O. K. to Roosevelt and Baker. By United Pres* NEW YORK. Dec. 30.—Bread, not booze, will be the issue in the 1932 presidential campaign, Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy in the Wilson administration, believes. A Wilsonian Democrat is needed to lead the people out of the economic wilderness, Daniels said in calling for a “liberal and progressive candidate.” Franklin D. Roosevelt and Newton D. Baker both were approved by Daniels. "The people,” he said, “will unite behind a leader who can point the way to better times, who will get rid of the Hawley-Smoot tariff act and will unseat the privileged w’ho have been in the saddle since 1920.” SEIZE HOLIDAY LIQUOR Coast Guard Boat Grabs $250,000 Worth Off New Jersey. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—The barge Maurice R. Shaw laden with holiday liquor valued at $250,000 was captured today off Barnegat, N. J., by the coast guard patrol boat Reliance. The barge was being towed by the ! tug Lizzie Shaw when the cutter j overtook it and both boats were I taken over. The registered owner of both the barge and the tug is Larnie B. | Shaw, Bullitt building, Philadelphia.

Foul Ball By l itited Press CHICAGO. Dec. 30.—A baseball batted into a neighbor's yard by a small boy today had grown into a $30,000 damage suit. The suit was brought by Cosker Quilla for injuries he charged he incurred when James Wahler fired a fountain pen tear gas gun at him as he sought to recover his son’s baseball from Wahler's yard. *

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11 ARE NABBED BY DRY AGENTS New Albany, Martinsville Regions Are Raided. Federal prohibition squads from Indianapolis pounced on the New Albany and Martinsville regions Tuesday, and today reported that in eleven raids at New Albany eight persons were convicted and fined, and that three persons are held, in jail at Martinsville. Those found guilty at New Albany by Mayor C. B. McClinn were John Bishop, Robert M. Fisher, Ed McCartin, Clara Stoner, Lawrence Kennedy, William C. Dowdle, William Daggs and Fred Lowes. Daggs and Lowes were given sixty days on the state farm in addition to fines of SIOO and costs, which were levied on the others who pleaded guilty. George Hines, Negro; Charles Bodine, Negro, and Goldie Linton, all pleaded not guilty. The federal men reported that those held at Martinsville on booze charges are Vernon Kemp, ;Morganton; Edward Snyder, Morgantown, and James O. Richardson, Martinsville. Bailey Bennett, in charge of the federal bureau here, declared that in New Albany raids more than 180 quarts of whisky were seized and more than ninety quarts of beer. AIR FARES SLASHED FOR CITY PASSENGERS Drastic Cuts Effective Jan. 1 on T. & W. A. Lines. Drastic cut in air passenger fares, effective Jan. 1, was announced today by Richard W. Robbins, president of Transcontinental & Western Air, coast-to-coast air line operating through Indianapolis. The United Air lines announced a. similar slash recently. Reductions range from 10 to 26 per cent. Robbins recently announced plans for speeding up air mail delivery from coast-to-coast, and for providing doubled mail accommodations on T. & W. A. planes. The thirty-six-hour all-daylight flying trip from New York to Los Angeles or San Francisco will be $l6O under the new schedule, S4O less than before. From Indianapolis to Los Angeles or San Francisco, the new fare will be $126. Formerly the rate was sl6l to San Francisco and slsl to Los Angeles. GET TAX REPRIEVE Slate Will Impose No Penalties on Chain Stores Until March. Due to late beginning collection of the 193'.’ and 1931 chain store taxes, Lewis O. Johnson, chief of the collection division of the state tax board, announced today no penalties will be invoked until February. Under the law, the taxes would be delinquent after Jan. 1. Johnson said 1932 taxes, collectable in January, will not be declared delinquent until after March 1. SUPPORTS ROOSEVELT Senator-Dill Urges Washington to Back New Yorker. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Democrats were urged today by their senator from Washington to nominate Governor Roosevelt of New York in order to meet the threat of a third party in the presidential election next year. "No other Democrat appeals to the disappointed millions of independent voters in the United States as does Roosevelt,” said Senator Clarence C. Dill in a statement commenting on the report that independent Republicans were seeking a candidate* to oppose President Hoover.

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in 1929 was only $5,150,000,00, he said. The labor representative sharply complained of industry's dividend and wage cutting policies, explaining that “only 1,927 firms have reduced or omitted dividends through October of this year, whiie in manufacturing industries alone 2,600 firms have reduced wages.” He cited the Bibb Manufacturing Company, which, he said, was a $25,000,000 textile corporation, operating mills in central and western Georgia with headquarters at Macon. McGrady said the company in seventeen years had paid its stockholders 148 per cent in cash dividends and 370 per cent in stock dividends and that quarterly dividends have been maintained throughout the depression. Slash Pay for Dividends He added that in 1930 the company declared its regular 6 per cent dividend and drew $5,000,000 from its surplus to retire all 6 per cent preferred stock distributed as a stock dividend in 1925. "In the last year,” McGrady said, “this company has slashed the wages of its workers from one to three times, cutting their original wage payments in half or more. “If these employers of labor are not going to pay their workers decent wages,” McGrady said, “then we insist that a large share of their profits should be taken away from them by taxation.” McGrady said American workmen were despairing and that one might wonder “about the future safety of our institutions.” Grave Emergency Cited McGrady said the American Federation of Labor never before had indorsed proposals for federal relief appropriations and was doing so at this time only because of the emergency situation. “We not only are facing a national emergency,” McGrady said, “but one such as we never have faced before, and we need federal aid.” Wilbur Newstatter, associated with Western Reserve university welfare work in Cleveland, was the next witness. “We are in the midst of a calamity,” Newstatter said. "I have been against federal aid, but federal relief is being deliberately falsified in being called a dole. My idea of a dole is that it is a sort of automatic handout regardless of need. Points to Suicides Dr. Sidney E. Goldstein, chairman of the executive committee of the joint committee on unemployment, estimated that 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 persons are jobless “whole or part time.” “The meaning of unemployment is not found in figures and statistics,” he said, “it is found in the lowered standards of living, the weakened resistance, of men and women, increasing sickness and insanity, and in the number of suicides all over the United States. “The hospitals and asylums and penal institutions are overcrowded as they never have been before. The social consequences of the present crisis make us realize that unemployment is not only an economic phenomena, but a human catastrophe. “The number of suicides In the United States nearly has doubled in the last two years,” he said, “because men and women are not able to bear the breakdown of our national life.” KAISER BARRED FROM RETURN TO FATHERLAND Dutch Refuse Wilhelm Permission to Visit 111 Sister, Sophie. By United Press THE HAGUE, Dec. 30.—Former Kaiser Wilhelm has been refused permission to return to Germany for a visit. Informal inquiries in his behalf regarding his departure from Holland to visit his sister, ex-Queen Sophie of Greece, now ill at Frankfort, Germany, received a polite refusal from the Dutch government. The former kaiser has lived at Doom since his exile from Germany. His movements are controlled by the Dutch government. Ex-Queen Sophie is in a critical condition suffering from chronic eye disease. Various members of her family have been summoned to her bedside. Rowbottom to Go East By Times Special EVANSVILLE. Ind., Dec. 30. Harry E. Rowbottom, former Republican representative in congress, will leave early in February for Turkey or China in the employ of an oil firm. He will leave for the east immediately on expiration of his parole from the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., to which he was sentenced for accepting bribes in connection with postmaster appointments.

Film in Colors By United Press BINGHAMTON, N. Y„ Dec. 30.—Perfection of anew film which will make photography in natural colors possible for the first time was announced today at the Agfa Ansco laboratories. The film requires no,filters. favorable conditions, snapshots may be made in color without use of a tripod. The film requires three times the normal exposure necessary for an ordinary black and white negative. The new color process is actually not a single film, but three distinct sensitized surfaces, superimposed in what is known as tripack arrangement and wound on a spool in the same manner as an ordinary film. Each of the three surfaces is sensitive to one primary color only. They make as many prints as are desired.

FLOOD MENAGE IS BATTLED ON 11-Mill FRONT Convict Gangs Toil Beside Citizen Army to Avert Levee Break. By United Press GLENDORA, Miss., Dec. 30. Convicts were rushed from one village to another, in this sector today in an attempt to bridle the raging Tallahatchie river, as its flood waters lapped at levees along an eleven-mile front. Citizens worked beside felons in piling sandbags against weakened levees as the river showed a steady rise. Forty families were reported marooned on little islands in a 25,000-acre flood area after the Cassidy Bayou levee broke near here. Weakening of other embankments increased their peril. A constant patrol is maintained along the river front, watching for weak spots in the levee. As soon as one appears, an alarm is given and convict gangs are rushed to the scene. If the Tallahatchie continues to rise throughout the day, a general crumbling of the levee is expected. Rivermen saw a ray of hope in clear skies, the sun having shone for four consecutive days. They agreed that further rains would j place the entire countryside in great ! danger. New .Storm Perils Coast By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30.—A new storm approached the Pacific coast from the north today, as snow j and rain continued to deluge choked j mountain passes and swollen rivers, j While the entire northwest was j recovering from the furious gales \ over the week-end, storm warnings I were posted on the northern California coast and at rhe entrance to Puget sound, in Washington. Light downpours already have fallen. More snow was reported in mountain sections, where heavy i packs have blocked train and automobile traffic for days. The flood ; situation in the lowlands 'was less acute, but rivers continued to rise, fllooding valleys, farms, and ruin- . ing crops. DELAY AGENT’S TRIAL Witnesses Fail to Appear in Shooting Case. Additional continuance was granted Patrick Currie, two-gun federal j dry agent, today in municipal court j when trial of charges of drunken- : ness and disorderly conduct was j postponed until this afternoon. Currie, alleged to have shot up the Happy Hour barbecue on the Rockville road, Oct. 15, has obtained a series of continuances. This morning, none of the witnesses was in court and attaches said the case had been set for later in the day. Prohibition authorities, it is reported, have probed the case, but have not taken any action against Currie. The agent was arrested after he fired a revolver several times at the barbecue, following an altercation over a gasoline purchase. Continuance dates in the case have been Oct. 15 and 30, Nov. 20 and Dec. 2, 11 and 30. 3 ESCAPE DROWNING Swim to Bridge After Boat Capsizes in River. Two boys and a man escaped drowning in White river Tuesday afternoon when they swam to the j base of the Kentucky avenue bridge, j after their home-made boat capsized j when it struck an old piling in the stream. They are: John Miller,. 30, and i Roy Johnson, 17, both of 438 Chad- ; wick street, and Raymond Hilton, 13, of 432 Chadwick street. Suffering from exposure, they were treated at city hospital and then taken home. They were rescued from the bridge support by firemen, who lowered ropes. They told police they had completed construction of the boat Tuesday and were testing it when the upset occurred near the scene of a similar accident last week in which four boys likewise were rescued by firemen. WINS TRIP TO FLORIDA City Man Scores in Best Letter Contest of Cigar Firm. A free trip to Florida has been awarded R. M. Pruitt, 1642 Broadway; one of ten grand prize winners in the King Edward cigar contest, sponsored by John H. Swisher & Son, Inc., manufacturers, and Elamilton-Harris & Cos. The trip, which will be started Jan. 11, was offered to writers of the ten best letters submitted in the contest. Each of the ten grand prize winners will be entitled to invite one guest to accompany him on the trip. RADIUM CAUSES DEATH Poisoning Contracted Five Years Ago Fatal to Clock Dial Painter. By United Press WATERBURY. Conn., bee. 30. Mrs. Edith Lapiano, 25, radium poisoning victim, has reached the end of a five-year wait for death. She died at Waterbury hospital from poisoning contracted when she was employed by the Waterbury Clock Company. She was one of many girls who tipped brushes, used to paint radium clock dials, with their lips and died as a result. The radium numerals now are applied by metal dies. Mrs. Lapiano was married and mother of a child. PLAN WATCH SERVICES Speakers at Wheeler Mission to Change Hourly. Different speakers hourly will feature the program of the annual New Year’s eve service of the Wheeler City Rescue Mission Thursday night from 8 to 12. Special music has been arranged, with the woman’s trio taking a Prominent part.

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For the first time in sixteen years a Democratic auditor took charge of the financial affairs of Marion county as Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin, a. Republican, administered the oath of office of Charles new Democratic county auditor.

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Gloom Doomed By United Press CLEVELAND, Dec. 30. A symphony of noise will be Cleveland's psychology plot Saturday to chase away old man gloom and restore optimism to the minds of the citizenry. Ten minutes before noon, church bells, factory whistles and automobile horns will set up the din in a ten-minute clamor against the depression. Radio stations will broadcast the tumult, together with brief “pep” talks. “Stop kicking—start ringing the bell” is the slogan adopted for the occasion by the Cleveland civic board. “We expect the celebration to be at once a dirge for the depression and a party for the new year,” Fred H. Caley, chairman said. “If every Clevelander could keep actuated by that sentiment, the atmosphere would be more optimistic and people who have money would spend more.”

FAIL INJURY FATAL Mrs. Mary E. Morse, Pioneer City Resident, Dies. A fall at her home, 1120 North New Jersey street, Sunday, proved fatal Tuesday morning at the Methodist hospital to Mrs. Mary E. Morse, 84, member of a pioneer Indianapolis family. Mrs. Morse’s hip was broken. Mrs. Morse, a lifelong resident of Indianapolis, was born in the “mile square,” May 10, 1847, daughter of Henry S. and Sarah Pope. She was the widow of Thomas J. Morse, Civil war veteran, who died eighteen years ago. She had been a member of the First Presbyterian church since 1865 and belonged to the George H. Thomas corps, Woman’s Relief Corps. Funeral services will be held on Thursday afternoon in the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary, with burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Carrie Clifford, with whom she lived, and Mrs. Ella Bowen, and a son, Robert P. Morse of Tuscola, 111. PARK POLICEMAN IS CLAIMED BY DEATH David Horton Well Known to Douglas, Christian Visitors. A well-known figure to visitors at Douglas ' and Christian parks was David Horton, 70, who died Tuesday at his home, 32 North Chester avenue. after a brief illness. Less than three months ago. his wife, Mrs. Celia Girhart Horton, died. Mr. Horton had been a park policeman eight years, following his retirement after twenty-nine years’ service as a traveling salesman for the International Harvester Company. Funeral services and burial will be in Portland where he spent most of his life, at 2 Thursday. Mr. Horton had lived in Indianapolis fifteen years. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Thelma A. Shea, with whom he lived; two sisters of Richmond, and a brother of Dayton, O.

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The office has been occupied by Republicans since 1915, when William Patton. Democratic auditor, turned the county’s purse string over to a Republican. Grossart succeeds Harry Dunn, auditor for two years, and will take up the duties of his new office Jan. 1.

Four Youths Draw Fines and Revocation of Driving Licenses, Four youths, including two high school pupils and a college student, had their holidays spoiled in municipal court today when they faced charges of violating traffic laws. Charles Wade, 1230 South Senate avenue, took it on the chin from Wilbur Royse, special judge, in no uncertain terms. Wade had been fined $lO and costs, with the costs suspended, for traveling forty-five miles an hour. Royse directed him to wait in the courtroom. Wade spent his time “making faces” and irritating head gestures at matrons and officers in the rear of the court. Witnessing the pantomime, Royse again summoned Wade before the bench. Revokes Costs’ Suspension “You can’t get away with your act in here, young man,” Royse said. “The cost suspension is revoked and that will add something to your fine, believe me.” Asserting the speedometer on his car did not register 45, as charged by police, Harold Engleman, 18, of 245 Blue Ridge road, high school pupil, was shorn of his driving privileges for ninety days by Royse, Police said they thought the speedometer might have been out of Engleman’s view, because he had three other persons in the driver's seat. A fine of $25 and costs was suspended. Charged with reckless driving and speeding, William White, 18, of 5134 East Michigan street, another high school pupil, protested to Royse he “wasn’t on the left side of the street all the time.” Would Have Hit Something “I don’t see how you could have all the time,” Royse said. “You might have hit something or someone.” White was assessed $1 and costs for reckless driving, a $25 speeding fine was suspended and his driver's license revoked for ninety days. Maurice Kaplan, 19. oi 1661 Martindale avenue, Purdue university student, admitted driving forty miles an hour. His driver’s license was revoked for thirty days and a $lO fine suspended. DISCIPLES OF CHRIST OPPOSE WET BALLOT Join Thirty-Two Dry Organizations Fighting Referendum. Asserting the only fair vote on prohibition can be made by congressional districts, executive committee of the board of temperance and social welfare of the Disciples of Christ Tuesday opposed a national referendum on the eighteenth amendment. The committee, in session at the Chamber of Commerce, heard the report of the Rev. James A. Crain, general secretary of the temperance board, which stressed “unalterable opposition to any proposal to modify, repeal, or resubmit the eighteenth amendment.” Crain said the national prohibition board, with which thirty-two other dry organizations are affiliated, regards the referendum move as “wet plans.” The national board now is making plans to enter the presidential campaign. The Rev. E. L. Day of Martinsville, presided.

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HANDS OFF OUR' DEBTS, JOHNSON' WARNSJUROPE American People 100 to 1 Against Cancellation, Says Senator. By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 30.—Senator Hiram Johnson (Rep., Cal.) issued here today a warning to Europe and the White House that Amcricaa debts must not be tampered with. Commenting on a United Press dispatch from abroad indicating that Britain and France are getting together to seek debt concessions, the senator said: “The American people are 100 to 1 against debt reduction or cancellation.” “I have not the slightest objection to Europe getting together oil European debts," said Johnson. “Let Europe settle her intergovernment debts just as she sees fit. But I do not wish Europe to settle our debts. Johnson said he felt there "is some justification for the conclusion Europe apparently reached about the attitude of the United States.” Cites Moratorium He cited the granting of the moratorium by President Hoover, its approval by congress and the President’s statement that the war debt commission should be re-cre-ated to study debts once more, as a basis for Europe's belief that debts can be reduced or canceled. "Europe knows what was agreed to between Laval end our President,” he said, referring to the visit of the French premier to Washington. "Os course, wc do not.” “Europe could not understand men voting for a moratorium by telegraph and then holding their hands and saying ‘Never again - ” that they were opposed to reduction or cancellation. Don’t Know Sentiment •'The trouble was those in high places did not understand the American people. They afe 100 to 1 against debt reduction or cancellation and the gentlemen who were for a moratorium are just learning that fact. “However unpalatable it may be. Europe must learn the same thing.” Chairman Collier of the house ways and means committee, commenting on reports of a concentrated British drive to force revision or repudiation of the war debts, said that he was unalterably opposed to any revision or cancellation. “As for foreign attacks on congress for its debt attitude,” Collier said: “We are used to that sort of thing, and a few broadsides from foreign papers won't disturb us to any extent.” PLAN DISCIPLES' PARLEY From 6,ODD to 10,000 Expected at Session Here in October. Plans for a national evangelistic conference in Indianapolis of the Disciples of Christ Brotherhood, sponsored by the National Evangelistic Association of the brotherhood, are being made. The executive committee of the association met Tuesday in the Severin to begin preparations for the conference here Oct. 9 to 11, 1932. From 6,000 to 10,000 persons are expected to attend the conference, said C. W. Cauble of Indianapolis, corresponding secretary of the association. The conference will precede the international convention oi Disciples of Christ brotherhood opening Oct. 11, 1932.

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