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DIVERS TO USE SPECIAL TUBE ON SEA FLOOR Will Explore Wreck of Famed Liner Lusitania Off Irish Coast. Down a steel-incased stairway inside a 200-foot tube, deep-sea divers expect to descend soon to the wreck of the historic Lusitania, sunk in 240 feet of water off the Irish coast, in 1915, by a German submarine. Prom the end of this, ocean stair, the divers propose to step onto the decks of the ill-fated liner and, with the aid of powerful submarine searchlights, will search every foot of the vessel, salvaging all articles. The salvaging expedition is under the direction of Simon Lake, inventor of the tube, which was tested recently ir the English channel. By employing this tube, Mr. Lake asserts the venture has been made as simple as “going down in an elevator.” Several Can Watch A specially constructed trawler and a launch will be used as bases of operations, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. The tube is five feet in diameter, but the observation room at its end, eight feet wide and twelve feet long, has a number of windows and will accommodate several persons at one time. This tube is to be placed on the upper deck of the Lusitania, which, it has been found, is standing almost upright on the ocean floor, the tops of its stacks being only 175 feet beneath the surface. Those entering the tube will walk down the stairs under normal atmospheric pressure until they enter the divers’ operating chamber, outside of which will be motor-operated winches and two doors providing exists for the divers. Equalize Pressure Before these doors can be opened, a pressure of air mifst be admitted into the chamber equal to the water pressure outside, about eighty-five pounds per square inch at that depth, and it is impossible to open the doors until pressure is equalized. The doors move downward, and no water can enter since the air flows outward from the compartment. With the aid of powerful searchlights, which likewise withstand a pressure of eighty-five pounds or more, the divers will explore the vessel, spectators watching them from the observation room. One of the main advantages of the tube will be that divers can start to work fresh because, in deepsea work, much of their time under water is spent descending and ascending. One of the first tasks, when the ship is reached, will be the taking of a complete photographic record of the wreck, from both the inside and outside of the vessel, employing the powerful lights to provide ilumination. An electrical camera is to be used for this work, and if pictures are obtained, they will be the only ones ever taken at so great a depth under water.

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JOHN C. RUCKELSHAUS HEADS COLUMBIA CLUB Attorney Succeeds Norman A. Perry, President for Last Five Years. John C. Ruckelshaus, attorney, today succeeded Norman A. Perry as president of the Columbia Club, following tne annual election by

directors Friday. Perry has been president for the last five years. Ruckelshaus has served as president, for six terms, but not consecutively. Other officers named were Fred C. Gardner, vicepresident; Frank A. Butler, treasurer, and E. P. Akin, secretary. Gardner was named president of the Columbia Club

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Realty Company; Ruckelshaus, vicepresident; Butler, treasurer, and Akin, secretary. Ruckelshaus named Butler, Perry and Curtis A. Rottger members of the house committee.

CUBA WELCOMES AUTO Permits Use of Foreign Cars for Year Without Duty. By United Press HAVANA, Feb. 13.—Motorists belonging to American automobile clubs are to be granted still further facilities for visiting in Cuba, it became known here when President Machado signed a decree making it possible to use such foreignowned cars for a year without paying duty. The decree was sponsored by officials of the Automobile Club de Cuba and is the first step in the projected “exchange of courtesies” between American automobile clubs land Cuba. Accused Man Held Insane By Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Feb. 13.—A charge of receiving stolen property will be dismissed as a resulting of a finding of insanity against Dr. Samuel T. Henderson, 58, who was arrested with Miss Matilda Kohne, 32. She is charged with stealing various articles from two homes where he was employed as a domestic.

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HOOVER CREDIT MOVE BRANDED ‘SHOTJN ARM’ Senator Wheeler Calls It ‘Delaying Depression/ Urges Bi-Metallism. BY LYLE C. WILSON United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—President Hoover's new credit and ciir- ■ rency expansion program, with a potentiality of vast increase in both those vital mediums of trade, was described today by Senator Wheeler j (Dem., Mont.) as “a shot in arm for local inflation.” This is the most outspoken criticism of the expansion plan offered to date. Few have spoken against the proposal which seems destined for speedy congressional approval in amended form. “What President Hoover is seeking to do,” Wheeler told the United Press, “is to pull us out of the depression by our bootstraps. In my judgment, his moratorium on debts, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and this latest project are only deferring the time of .a worse depression than that we are in today.” Wheeler advocates a bi-metallic money standard in which the value of silver would be stabilized in relation to gold. Need Commodity Rise "What we need today,” he said, “is to raise the prices of commodities on world market. No one country can raise the price of basic commodities above world prices. Because of a shortage and maldistribution of gold it is impossible to raise those prices. “I advocate a bimetallic system because 60 per cent of the population of the world uses silver as the single or partial yardstick of value. So long as we remain on the gold standard and practically all the rest of the world is off it, they can not trade with us, but they can trade wth each other.” Wheeler’s views will not prevail in congress. House leaders may take up the Steagall bill for currency and credit expansion Monday and pass it. The senate banking and currency committee voted a favorable report in an hour, and the senate is expected to act next week. Little Enthusiasm for It Although congress is hastening to enact the bill, there appears to be little real etnhusiasm for it. Senator Glass (Dem., Va.), whose name is attached to the bill as author and who will report it to the senate, says emphatically that the legislation is not necessary at this time. A member of the senate finance committee told the United Press that he doubted if one committeeman unreservedly is in favor of the measure. Somewhat similar conditions exist in the house. Senators are reluctant to comment on this state of affairs, but they will explain privately that congress is “afraid” to vote against any of Mr. Hoover’s relief projects because of uncertainty as to w’hat the actual effect of the bills may be.

Barber’s Peril Plying His Trade in Jail Didn’t Appeal to This One.

8 y United Press Kansas city, mo., Feb. 13. If Arthur King, Kansas City barber, were not quite so fastidious regarding the customers who go under his shears, the municipal farm today might have a firstclass tonsorial artist in attendance to assure comfort for the prisoners there. King appeared in court at the behest of two motorcycle patrolmen, who said they had captured him after he had driven his motor car forty-eight miles an hour on a downtown street. Judge Thomas Holland looked the prisoner over, then asked his occupation. “I'm a barber, judge,” was the reply. “Fine,” said Judge Holland, recalling that he had heard that a barber was badly needed at the municipal farm. “You can do five days at the municipal farm, making the*boys out there feel better and look better. A gleam of professional interest came to King’s eyes, and he made no protest. Then policemen took him to the holdover to await transportation to the farm. He looked around at the men who would be his “customers.” Then he called the guards. “I’m appealing my case,” he told them. “After seeing these birds—well, I never thought it mattered to me whose hair I cut—but I’m appealing my case.” He obtained bond and was set free pending a hearing in a higher court. Father of Seven Kills Self By United Press LOGANSPORT, Jnd., Feb. 13.—11 l health was believed to have prompted the suicide by poisoning of Henry H. Hayden, 57, father of seven children.

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DITHMER KEEPS BUSINESS POST All Other Bureau Heads Are Re-Elected. All officers of the Better Business Bureau were re-elected at the annual meeting Friday at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Henry L. Dithmer, president of the Polar Ice and Fuel Company, will serve as president of the bureau during 1932. Other officers to

serve for the year are Emerson W. Chaille, realtor, vicepresident, and William C. Grauel of the Merchants bank, treasurer. . Re-election of T. M. Overley as managing director of the bureau has been announced. Dithmer, Grauel and Rob-

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ert O. Bonner of L. S. Ayres & Cos. were re-elected directors, who will serve with the newly elected director, Harry Israel of D. Sommers & Cos., John Burke of Sear, Roebuck & Cos. and Edward Rusch, vicepresident and general manager of the Hoog Drug Company. These six men will serve with fifteen others on the board of directors. Formation of committee of business men to aid in solving problems of misrepresentation was urged by Overley in his reports on the activities of the bureau. School to Be Enlarged UNIONVILLE, Ind., Feb. 13.—A SIO,OOO addition to the Unionville high school, to be completed in time for use when the term opens next fall, is announced by W. V. Payne, Monroe county school superintendent. The addition will practically double the size of the school.

1 GIGOLOS INVADE LONDON Flock in from Continent, Riviera, Because of the Depression. By United Press LONDON, Feb. 13.—London Is being invaded by gigolos, who have raised their peculiar trade almost to the status of a profession. They are flocking in from the continent and the Riviera, in search of dancing jobs. The reason is the financial situation. Rich clients are scarce. No

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