Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 229, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1932 — Page 2

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JAPAN CLOSING ‘OPEN DOOR' TO CHINA MARKET Conquest Threatens U. S. With Huge Loss in Foreign Trade. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Srripp*-Hoirrd Forritrn Editor WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Japan’s Tar eastern conquest, If allowed to stand, spells the beginning of the pnd of the "open door" —after the Monroe Doctrine, the chief foreign policy of the United States. Certain penny-wise, pound-fool-ish American interests to the contrary notwithstanding, a Japanizrd Orient would mean the loss of what is potentially their greatest foreign market. Japan’s far-flung, all-embracing policy of subsidies eventually would give her virtually complete control over the fast-growing Chinese trade throughout such an area as would come under her domination. If China could duplicate the feat of Japan in world progress, in fifty years her imports would amount to $50,000,000,000 annually, or more than three times the present total export trade of the United States, Germany, France and Italy combined. China Vast Market If, in her reconstruction, she could go one-fifth as fast as Japan —and that is well within the bounds of the possible—her foreign purchases would amount to $10,000,000,000 a year, or equal to the combined exports of Britain and the United States at the peak of their prosperity. Japan’s system of business bounties can be—and, in spots, already is—as deadly to foreign competition as the system of the much-feared Soviet Russia. By rebates, subsidies and other forms of direct and indirect government aid, Japanese merchants can undersell competitors in almost any field. Certainly they can do so In regions politically or economically dominated by Tokio. Since the "awakening” of the island empire seventy years ago, it has followed a sweeping plan of national industrialization and trade expansion, less spectacular perhaps, than that of Communist Russia, but no less carefully worked out. Japan Subsidies Cut Costs Railways, ship-building, .shipping, i steel, agriculture, labor, construction, foreign trade, domestic com- . nierce, industry generally—practically every important Japanese j enterprise at home and abroad— ; receives, or has received government support. A government subsidized industry ! turns out a product. It is shipped to port on a government-owned I railway; loaded on board a government subsidized ship built at a government subsidized shipyard of | steel from a government subsidized mill. Then—if its destination is Manchuria or some other Japanese zone —it is unloaded at government docks, shipped on government railways and so on until it reaches the hands of the consumer. In proportion to the extent that Japan expands, therefore, w'hether in Manchuria, Mongolia or China proper, the ‘open door" gradually but effectively will be closed. The leavings—what she can not very well take care of herself—will fall to the United States and the rest of the world. China Big U. S. Customer. The potentalities of the Chinese market were indicated in a trade review just issued by the department of commerce. Despite famine, fire, flood, war and pestilence, China’s imports of American raw cotton during 1931 were the greatest in history. China’s per capita imports now amount to something like $1.85 a year. Mexico’s per capita imports ' amount to $11.25 a year. Even on a low Mexican basis, China would buy $6,000,000,000 worth of the world’s goods every year, or more , by fax than the biggest, and richest ! nation in the world now purchases. About 20 per cent of her imports are furnished by this country. Our share, therefore, would amount to some $1,200,000 annually or nearly double what we now arc selling to our best customer.

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Japanese Hurrahs Resound as Air Bombs Slaughter Chinese

Thr world stood aehast onlv a few days since to learn that, as in the days of the World war, bombs had been dronned by airplanes on an open, defenseless city. This time it was JaDanese airplanes which swept above Chapel, the Chinese section of Shanghai. and hurled destruction and death on the Chinese masses, crowded into the overpopulated area. The story of this raid, with the subsequent fire and battlinz on the. ground, has been told onlv piecemeal. Todav the United Press presents the story of an eve witness. Waiter Brown, a Shanghai resident and special United Press correspondent. wljo saw the bombing of the section from a place atop the Japanese club. BY WALTER BROWN United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1932. by United Press! SHANGHAI, Feb. 2.—1 watched last Friday the aerial bombardment, without warning, of an open and defenseless city, and saw how Japanese spectators on. the same roof with me capered in joy, shouting banzai (hurrah), and embracing one another as explosions spread fire and death in Chinese territory.

SIX PLANES MISSING Fate of 17 Passengers in Doubt; Blame Storms. Hii United Press Six airplanes, with more than seventeen passengers aboard, were lost in bad weather along the eastern and western slopes of the United States today as rescue planes and ground searchers sought them. Storms whipping the Florida coast and blizzards which raked the far west were believed responsible for forced landings. The United Air Lines offices in Chicago reported shortly before neon today that an air mail plane flown by Jack Sharpneck had been sighted down near Rio Vista, Cal. It had crashed and burned, according to the report, which was received by radio. In Florida a Bimini cabin monoplane with five passengers aboard is lost on the short flight from Bimini to Miami. A Century Pacific air liner, carrying eight persons, has been lost in the mountainous district between Baker field and Los Angeles since Friday. Lieutenant William a Cocke Jr., world glider flight record holder, and Lieutenant Edward D. Hoffman have been unsighted since tljey left Glendale, Cal., for San Francisco. Ranchters near Soda Springs, Cal., seek a plane reported forced down on the summit of the Sierra Nevadas. State troopers were searching southwestern Michigan for F. H. Rust, air mail pilot missing since Monday night. RED CHARGES DROPPED Three Freed for Distributing Mine Union Propaganda. Three persons charged with distributing handbills of the National Miners’ Union, radical organization, at the meeting here of United Mine Workers of America, were discharged today by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer. They are Eugene Stanton, 932 H South’ Meridian street; Roy Davis, 245 South Arsenal avenue, and Sarah Rockman, 61 East McCarty street.

Map Shows Scene of Action in China War

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It was a terrible sight, this dropping of bombs on a crowded territory. Down below, death and mangling were the fate of many Chinese, caught without a chance. There were 100 or more of us on the roof of the Japanese Club, a stone’s throw from the Hongkew police station, as the Japanese planes swung aloft with their bomb loads. To the Japanese sharing this vantage point, the whole spectacle seemed to be an outing. The awesomeness and grewsomeness of the event did not appear to touch them. They seemed only to enjoy the horror, and I could not help but think of the imbecilic Nero who fiddled while old Rome burned. u FOR my own part, the sight was appalling, and their cheering and clapping only added to my sense of shock. An uncounted number of Chinese were killed or maimed by

Light at Last Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell knows the mechanics of court procedure and law thoroughly, but actual mechanical implements confuse him. Sitting in a suit today in federal court, hearing the claims of the Gear Grinding Machine Company of Detroit, that the Warner Gear Company of Muncie, is guilty of patent infringement, Judge Baltzell scanned one mechanical implement after another as they were introduced as exhibits. Finally, an attorney produced a monkey wrench. The . judge’s face became wreathed in smiles. “Gentlemen,” he said smiling, “that is the first exhibit in this case I’ve recognized. A good old monkey wrench.”

MORGAN WARNS OF EPIDEMIC OF GRIP Resembles Severe Cold, but Is More Dangerous, He says. Warning against a respiratory disease epidemic which is sweeping through the city was issued today by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer. The disease, of the influenza type, is practically the same as the oldfashioned grip, Dr. Morgan said. Several thousand school children and adults are suffering with it now, he estimated. ‘‘Symptoms of the disease resemble a cold, with fever, but it is L'uite different from the ordinary cold,'’ he said. “It weakens the resistance and makes the sufferer more susceptible to pneumonia.” Dr. Morgan advised rest in bed and early treatment by a physician. RACKETEER IS FINED Negro Youth Admits Tampering With Cars, Then Fixing Them. Alleged to have tampered with automobiles parked near the statehouse to collect a “fee” for placing them in running order, Robert Young, Negro, 17, of 914 Sheffield avenue, was fined $5 and costs today by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer. The fine was suspended. Young testified that he tampered with the motors of two automobiles and received a dollar from the drivers aftec offering assistance.

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the bombardment and the ground fighting. Women and children suffered. Once, during all this havoc, I noted that the Chinese police cheered a group of planes high above the international settlement—under the pathetic illusion that the planes were Chinese, down from Nanking to beat off the invaders. Today, Chapel had anew baptism of fire, minus aerial bombs, piling up the ruin which was done in the first Japanese action. The Friday action left much waste territory, heaps of smoking brick and stone and wood, thousands of peaceful Chinese driven out to the cold shelter of adjacent territory, many in hospitals and others left to fill unmarked graves. an u CHAPEI is a vivid monument to the effectiveness of modern war—with its disregard of the old rules of international law

SET MIRK Clear Station, Rig Hose in Less Than 19 Seconds. Anew world’s speed record was set by Fire Pumper company No. 10, Illinois and Merrill streets, in a test conducted by Fire .Insurance Underwriters inspectors. The crew, commanded by Captain Charles Gregeory, slid to the first floor, started the truck and cleared the station in 3’/ 2 seconds, after a gong was sounded. The company started 250 feet from a fire hydrant, laid hose and had water at the nozzle in fifteen seconds, a total of eighteen and one-half seconds for the combined test. Earlier this week pumper company No. 11 made the combined test in twenty seconds, one second faster than the previous world’s record.

MAN DIES IN DIVE FROM MONUMENT

(Continued from Page 1) lieved to bear Indiana 1931 license 254-472. At Morristown, Marshal Charles Tillison said Sammons had sold out his interest in the Sun there six months ago and gone to St. Louis. Sammons was accompanied by his wife, an invalid, and has not been heard of since at Morristown. Tillison said Sammons was a resident of Morristown nearly four years until he sold his interest in the newspaper to a Michigan resident. Tillison said Sammons was hard pressed financially when he left Morristown. When police arrived at the monument, they were followed by scores of curious. When word of the suicide ran through the crowd, it swelled to thousands. Traffic was jammed for blocks each way to the monument. ‘ Special police squads were dispatched to the scene. The man rode to the top of the elevator shaft with Clayton Honess, 657 East Thirteenth street, monument guard, and then walked the thirty-two steps to the top. He climbed to the center opening of the balcony balustrade and

against fighting only those capable of defending themselves. To get back to the main thread of my story! On Friday morning, the Japanese marines came ashore, manifestly expecting a clear path through Chapei. But they reckoned without their “hosts,” the Chinese. Forty of the occupiers were clipped off by Chinese soldiers and snipers and from that moment the unfortified city was doomed. No advance warning was given of Japan’s intention to bomb the city. The first sign that the people had was when a Japanese bomber dropped a Very light over the Jukong road district. This lighted up the whole territory thereabouts, and gave the aviator a clear view of his target. He let off a small “fixer.” Then I could hear two high explosive bombs. Down below I could see houses and shops tumbling down, with folks inside caught off

MRS. SARAH BERGER DIES IN CALIFORNIA

Formerly Owned Several Dry Cleaning Plants in This City. Mrs. Sarah Berger, 64, resident of this city until two years ago and former owner of several dry cleaning establishments, died Monday at the home of a daughter in Los Angeles, according to word received here today. A native of Hungary, Mrs. Berger came to this country when a child and made her home in Indianapolis forty years. Survivors are two sons, Henry and Jack. Berger, and a daughter, Mrs, Morris Klein, all of Indianapolis, and another daughter, Mrs. Samuel Nathan of Los Angeles.

leaped. Shoe marks were discovered on the top of the balcony coping. His watch, fell from his pocket and struck the base of the monument. The impact of the body against the statues chipped eight pieces of limestone from the arm of the largest, Honess said the man told him: “You can see the whole city from here, they tell me.” Honess said he answered in the affirmative and the elevator passenger added, “But it’s rather a cloudy day.” D. E. Boswell, 2240 Broadway, said he met the victim in the ticket office, where he paid 25 cents to take the elevator. “It’s 10 cents to walk and 25 cents to ride,” Boswell told him. The man laughed and commented, “Well, nobody walks, do they?” The man, who was dressed poorly, appeared to be about 50. The only other tragedy recorded at the Monument occurred about ten years ago, when a baby, the ! child of out-of-town parents, crawled through one of the windows on the east side of the structure and fell to death about seventy feet ; below, Charles A. Garrard, superin--1 tendent, said.

guard. There still are bodies buried in those ruins. The Japanese watchers were joyful. Then their compatriot circled again and dropped aonther light. Just as before, he followed with a couple of more big bombs. n x a ALL morning a lot of wounded and dying were taken into St. Luke’s hospital. There were men, women, and children* and some babies. They had no bombs or machine guns. The single bomber got aid later in the morning. At daylight six planes were over Chapei, each with a load of bombs. Every time they circled, they passed over the supposedly neutral settlement. They swarmed over the’ new works of the Commercial Press, China’s largest educational publishing institution, and let off incendiary bombs. The plant soon was all afire. From the roof of the club, I also

Funeral arrangements are being made today for Harry J. Hodges, 54, resident of Indianapolis for twentytwo years, who died Monday at his home, 3902 School street, after an illness of three months. Mr. Hodges, former superintendent of the garage of the Polar Ice and Fuel Company, was brought from England to the United States by his parents when he was 2 years olds. Services for George W. Alert, 66, a resident of Indianapolis nearly all his life, will be held at 2 Wednesday in West Michigan street church with the Rev. W. G. Morgan officiating. Mr. Alert died Saturday at his home, 957 King avenue. Mr. Alert was a member of Wichita tribe, Improved Order of Red Men. He was custodian of the West Michigan street church. Frank A. Walker, 78, prominent civic leader in Broad Ripple prior to annexation of the town by Indianapolis, was buried in Crown Hill cemetery following services in Broad Ripple M. E. church this afternoon. Mr. Walker, a retired Pike township farmer, was, at one time, head of the Broad Ripple town board. He was a member of the Broad Ripple M. E. church. Vandals Slash Auto Cushions Vandals who entered the garage at the home of Dr. B. K. Westfall, 3950 Guilford avenue, Monday night, cutting cushions of an automobile into ribbons, were sought today by detectives.

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could see how the fliers spotted the North station and made a spectacular drive on that. It seems that several units of the Chinese Ninteenth route army had been defending the station from the Japanese who regarded it as a strategic point in their occupation maneuver. The Chinese had put up a lot better fight than many had expected, and this surprised, and angered the Japanese. I can’t tell you of the tragedy of the swarms of families which fled in panic. They grabbed up what they could, mattresses, a handful of clothes, sometimes a bird cage, and with their loads on their backs or on wheel-bar-rows s<jt out in a daze to find a' shelter where bombs and fire would not follow them. Many of them went into the international settlement, dumbly pleading for a corner to set down their humble belongings and shield themselves from the invader.

NEW PUNT BOII6HT Manufacturing at Once Is Planned by Atlas Firm. Purchase pf a plant at Thirtyfourth street and Northwestern avenue, formerly occupied by AirMore Products, Inc., by the Atlas Manufacturing Corporation, was announced today by Hiram M. Browne, president. With equipping of the plant, manufacture of anew folding baby cart, adaptable for use in crowded places, will begin. The cart is the invention of William C. McLaren, inventor of child’s necessities. Other products to be manufactured are anew type of automobile supercharger, a patented tire mounting, a protective tread wheel for factory trucks, and a window lock offering protection against prowlers. AUTO HITS SCHOOLBOY Motorist Held on Reckless Driving Charge After Accident. Cecil McCracken, 26, of 627 Russel street, was arrested today for reckless driving, after the automobile he was driving struck and injured Edward Armstrong, 7, 1207 South Dryer street. The accident occurred at Washington and Morris streets, where McCracken swerved to avoid a truck. The Armstrong boy, a pupil at the Ben Davis grade school, was walking at the side of the road. He sustained severe body bruises and was treated by a nearby physician.

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MOVE TO BAN TRUCKS FROM E. NEW YORK Safety Board Will Present Ordinance to Council: Police Cars Bought. East New York street, now being widened and straightened, will be limited to passenger cars and busses if city council approves an ordinance ordered drawn up today by the safety board. The decision was made on recommendation of Police Chief Michael Morrissey, who urged that trucks be barred from the street as an aid to traffic and to protect the asphalt pavement. The plan had been suggested also by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and E. Kirk McKinney, works board president. Decision to purchase four Indian-apolis-made cruising cars for the police department also was reached by the safety board. Bid of the Marmon company for one Marmon 8 sedan at $1,480 net, and bid of the Stutz Motor Car Company of $4,380 net for three Stutz sedans were accepted. On Morrissey’s suggestion four cruising cars were purchased instead of three cruisers and one large police emergency car. It was decided to accept an offer of the Stutz company to rebuild the old Stutz emergency car for S3OO, which is S9OO below the original estimate for repairs on the car, wrecked several weeks ago. Morrissey announced that he proposed to purchase a gasoline engine and generator to supply current at the police radio station, in an effort to reduce the city’s power and light bills. Proposal for boarding and training ten police horses, which the board vainly has tried to sell for several months, was submitted by P. O. Bonham of the Algonquin Riding Club, Thirtieth street and Kessler boulevard. Bonham offered to board the horses for $lO a month each, training them and getting them in shape for sale. The city would provide a hostler. The board indicated it might accept the offer.

He Never Heard of Railroads George Washington, born 200 years ago this month, encouraged the development of interior transportation and himself organized and headed a company for the improvement of the Potomac River. Upon his death in 1799 the United States was the beneficiary of nearly two centuries of highway and waterway transportation. Yet commerce was meager and difficult, the population was a bare 5,000,000, and that was along the seacoast. Thirty years after Washington’s death the first railroad in America was built. In the ensuing century our population has grown to 125,000,000. and our vast domain has become an organized and efficient economic unit. When we give thanks, as we should, for the progress made since Washington’s day, let us not forget the vital part played therein by our railroads. Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited. Pratidant. lllinoit Central Syttem Chicago, February 1, 1932. • It is no mere coincidence that the United States and the railroads fr together. \ ILLINOIS CENTRAL SYSTEM DEPENDABLE FOR 81 YEARS