Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1932 — Page 1

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GOAL SET HIGH BY FORD FOR NEW CAR SALE ,1,800,000 Autos His Aim for Year; Vast Change in 8-Cylinder Model. BLOW AT DEPRESSION Public Will Buy, Magnate Declares; Thousands to Get Work. Raymond Clapper, Washington manager of the United Press, has visited Henry Ford at the latter’s vast Dearhorn's works, and presents herewith news of Ford’s new cars and Ford's philosophy on the depression. The article Is presented as an interesting news light on one of the nation’s biggest Industries and industrialists. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Prrss Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1932. bv United Press) DETROIT, Feb. 27.—Henry Ford, pioneer in mass production of automobiles, is staking millions on his belief that people are ready to buy real values. Holding this theory, in this, the third year of the depression, Ford is ready with his new venture, an right-cylinder car, the pride of his career, and the marketing of anew four-cylinder engine. Within a few days shipping of final parts will start. The new models should’be'on’disptay shortly thereafter. Ford revealed to me today that 83,560 advance orders with deposits were on file up to Feb. 24, and that three out of four of these were for the new eight. Goal Is 1,800,000 Cars His new four-cylinder engine is housed in the same kind of body as the eight. With his venture into anew field Ford is dealing depression a body blow in the Dearborn auto area, and Is spreading orders that reach beyond that zone into the territory of the supply dealers. His goal this year is 1,800,000 cars. If he reaches it his wages alone with amount to $198,000,000. He has 70,000 men at work now. There is i- more unemployment in Dearborn. "Tobably 100,000 will be working by June. Millions will be spent with the 5,200 firms that supply parts and accessories. Ford was as eager as a small boy with anew electric train when he showed the United Press correspondent his shining new challenges to the depression. We walked through the laboratory at Dearborn and slipped in behind a screened-off corne. Appearance Vastly Changed “They’re apt to get mad at me for coming in here,” Ford said, grinning as though he were getting into his mother’s cookie jar. ""J one who rode the old Model rr over many bumpy miles, the six :,.cw "ars in view seemed to be the ' ,j'er to a motorist’s dream. The old familiar sign was the trademark. The body is streamlined, with slanting windshield, and Vshaped radiator with rounded crown in body color. The bodies are longer, wider, and lower. The cars have free-whe; ’ing. The ignition key has been switched to the steering post, and the gasoline tank to the rear. Wheels are larger, with heavier tires and bigger hub caps. These cars are so different in appearance that Ford has been driving them over country roads undetected by disguising them slightly with old truck radiators and concealing the trade-marks. “They will get up to eighty miles and are built to run sixty-five and seventy mil'” which is fast enough for any c ' Ford sa.d. “The gas consump ,nos the eight is approximately the same as that for the four. We get this economy of operation in the eight by reducing all forms of friction to a minimum. Financing to Be Same Ford was asked whether because of the depression he would devise some new method of longer time payments. “We plan no new method of financing,” he replied. “I don’t see that the standard installment plan which we use needs to be modified because of the business situation. If you produce a real value, people will buy. That’s what they are waiting for. “We expect to start shipping final parts in four or five days. The new models should be available for display very soon after that. We already have 50.000 bodies made up. Our immediate objective will be 6,000 cars a day.” Ford intends to stay on the fiveday week. “Our car would have been out six weeks ago if it had not been for Sunday work,” he said. "Some of our men became overzealous and worked on Sunday. The result was that we spent most of the following week correcting their mistakes. New Tools Necessary “Sunday work never pays. Finally we stopped it. I never. believed in It. Well, since then we have been coming along fine, and we’re practically ready to start.” Production of the old model stopped just before the first of the year. Thousands of dollars' worth of new tools have to be made and shipped to dealers so they can service the new models. Ford may have to help finance some weakers dealers. He always has insisted on cash on delivery and in the main will continue to do so, on the theory that If he has a good value that will sell, c iers can get financing to swing the business.

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VOLUME 43-NUMBER 251

N’Gi Sleeps Oxygen Tank Has Good Affect on Gorilla, Feared Dying.

By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. N’Gi lay flat on his back early this morning at the national zoological park, sleeping. Now and again he turned his head from side to side, but did not awaken. Attendants at 8 a. m. said the constant administration of oxygen seemed to be having a good effect. They were hopeful that the morning examination by doctors would show N’GI to be definitely on the road to recovery. The oxygen chamber, brought from New York twenty-four hours ago, appeared to be helping N’Gi. Late Friday he ate a banana, the first nourishment he had taken in days except for an occasional slice of orange. Previous adrenalin and strychnine treatments had had no effect. The physicians now are of the opinion N’gi has acute influenza, instead of pneumonia, as previously supposed. For several days the normally happy little anthropoid has lain listless on his pallet of straw, plucking at his plaid blanket and refusing food and drink. Friday he turned down a drink of whisky, wiping his lips with a wisp of straw when the proffered glass wet them. If N’gi, now 6 years old, survives his severe illness, it will be a great day for the applied anthropologists. The average life span of gorillas brought to the western hemisphere is 7 years. About hat age they have all succumbed to the climate. It also v.’Ul be a big day in the lives of thousands of the black baby’s friends—school children who for days have whispered mournfully outside his cage, watching him wsate away from a robust 110 pounds to a miserable 80 pounds.

13 ARE KILLED BY AVALANCHE Flood and Landslide Peril Grows in Washington. By United Press SEATTLE, Feb. 27.—Heavy downpours and swollen rivers caused Washington’s worst flood in years today, bringing anew menace to stricken farmlands, where avalanches already have claimed thirteen lives. Heavy .mountains of snow, melted by warm rains into raging torrents, left a wake of death and destruction. Rivers still rose, and predictions were for at least another day of rain. Citizens prepared hurriedly to meet the new flood crisis. The worst catastrophe occurred at Mt. Washington, where seven were killed, and four homes destroyed, when tons of mud and rocks tumbled down mountain slopes into Boxley Creek canyon. The victims and their houses were carried a mile down the canyon and left covered by debris. The known dead were Mrs. William Blades and her two children, Mrs. Gus Balder, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Moore and Mrs. Elwood Claggett. More than a score of homes were abandoned in the Idaho towns of Churchill and Burke. Snowlides are occurring with increasing frequency and a major catastrophe was feared unless all residents evacuate. Many small bridges were carried away east of Spokane, and streets were flooded. The towns of Pullman , and Colfax were endangered by the muddy Palouse river, swollen to torrential size. In the Air West wind, 18 miles an hour; temperature, 47; barometric pressure, 29.74 at sea level; ceiling, unlimited, scattered clouds; visibility, 10 miles; field, soft. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 50 8 a. m 50 7 a. m 50 9 a m 49

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HANDFUL OF BUFFALO BILL'S COMRADES MEET TO RETELL SAGA OF OLD WEST |

By United Press ✓*"' HICAGO, Feb. 27.—A bit of yarning by a handful of comrades of Buffalo Bill today commemorated the death of an era in America’s history, of which the daring Indian scout still is the sharpest symbol. They gathered to retell the saga of the west as it was intertwined with the life of the man whose nickname brings a vivid picture to thousands who never heard of Colonel William F. Cody. Tlm occasion was the eighty-

BLAST TRAPS THIRTY, MILE DOWNJN MINE Twenty of Fifty Men on Duty Make Their Escape After Explosion. RESCUE CREWS RUSHED Air Extremely Bad in Shafts, Says Inspector; Fear Death Menace. By United Press BLUEFIELD, W. Va„ Feb. 27. A low, reverberating explosion let go deep in the Boissevain mine about twenty-five miles from here today, and thirty of the fifty men on duty were believed trapped somewhere in the smoke-choked workings. The mine is the largest pit of the Pocahontas Fuel Company. It is twenty-five miles from Bluefield, across the Virginia border. Officials said the mine was nongaseous. They feared the explosion was caused by ignition of powder. Rescue crews were in the shaft within an hour, led by Thomas Stockdale of Bramwell, a West Virginia district mine inspector. Stockdale said the air was extremely bad in the shafts. The explosion, he said, apparently occurred about two miles back in the shaft. Trained mine rescuers were rushed to the Boissevain from Jenkins Jones, W. Va., and Pocahontas, Va. The fifty-nan night crew was on duty when the explosion occurred shortly before the coming of the day shift of 400 miners. Twenty of the workers escaped. They were about a mile and a half down a shaft. They could give no explanation of what had happened, but were driven to the surface by bad air after the explosion. Stockdale said the shafts did not appear to have been wrecked, but progress to the lower levels was slow because of smoke and air that choked the rescuers. They were supplied gas masks as soon as these could be obtained.

How the Market Opened

By United Fress NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—Price movements were narrow and irregular at the opening of the Stock Exchange today, and trading continued dull. The market lacked feature s it has in the past two sessions. No visible response was made to the prospect of the President’s signing the Glass-Steagall bill today as that item had been discounted several days ago, according to market observers. Without pressure, slight demand brought small gains in a long list of issues. American Telephone rose a point to 12716, while fractional advances were made in America* Can, Consolidated Gas, A. M. Byers, Bethlehem Steel, Eastman Kodak, Canadian Pacific, Allied Chemical, Standard of New Jersey, and Dupont. United States Steel, Westinghouse Electric, Radio Corporation, Public Service, and Columbia Gas were at the previous closing levels. New York Central eased fractionally to 2915. The road reported January net operating income at sl,207,144, against $1,868,045 in January, 1931. Atchison was depressed 2 points to 79, but other railroad issues were moving in a fractional area. Auburn Auto which opened at 89% off y B , declined to 88%. General Motors eased off a small amount. During the early trading movements were narrow. Steel common firmed up slightly, while Auburn continued to decline. American Can opened at 66%, up Vs, and later sold at 67%. American Telephone lost half its initial gain.

HOG PRICES MOVE UP 10 CENTS AT YARDS Cattle Trade Slow; Sheep Quotably Steady for Fed Westerns. Hogs advanced 10 cents this morning at the city yards as buyers and sellers evened up theii holdings over the week-end. The bulk, 130 to 325 pounds, sold for $3.85 to $4.35, early top holding at $4.35. Receipts were estimated at 2,000; holdovers were 59. Usual Saturday trade in cattle kept action at a low ebb. Receipts were 100. Vealers held unchanged at $7.50 down. Calf receipts numbered 100. Not enough lambs were on hand this morning to make a market. Fed westerns were quotably steady at $6.50 or better. Receipts were 100.

seventh birthday anniversary of Cody’s birth. And the scene bore ■witness to the passing of Buffalo Bill’s wild west. It was a banquet hall high in the minarettopped Medinah Athletic Club on brilliant Michigan boulevard. Colonel Cody died fifteen years ago. Only memories of his comrades and the menu of buffalo meat, buffalo grass salad, bannock, corn bread and baked yams linked the scenes of the vanished frontier with the swift-chfinging present.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1932

Tons of Shells Rip Huge Gaps in Chinese Lines; Japan Rushes More Troops to Shanghai Zone

Russia Is Prepared for War

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“We will fight to the end in the cause of peace,” declared an order issued by War Minister Voroshilov of Soviet Russia. He warned Soviet military forces to be prepared to defend far eastern territory against seizure plots by white Russians. Upper Photo —Soviet Russia’s war strength was impressively on display when this remarkable picture was taken, showing massed thousands of the

WIFE'S HONESTY TRAPSHUSBAND Induces Mate to Return Stolen Tires; Caught. Garnett Harvey, 24, of Acton, father of three children, is a fugitive from justice today because his wife opposes stealing. Shortly after midnight Friday, Harvey returned to his Acton home with three automobile tires. Fearing her husband had stolen them, Mrs. Harvey questioned him and learned he took them from an automobile owned by Fred Roth of 1744 Roosevelt avenue, according to her story to detectives. Mrs. Harvey pleaded with her husband t 6 return the tires. “I will, if you’ll go with me,” Mrs. Harvey said her husband answered. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey and Owen Harvey of 623 East Maryland street, brother of the fugitive and alleged accomplice, drove to the Roosevelt avenue address. While Mrs. Harvey sat in a truck in an alley, her husband and the brother carried the three tires back to the garage. As they were leaving, Roth, investigating the noise in the garage, ran from the rear of his home and pursued them. Harvey and his brother escaped, but Roth found Mrs. Harvey seated in the truck. He held her until arrival of police, who released her after hearing the story. COLIC? CALL THE COPS By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 27. Norman Richardson called police headquarters. The operator heard a scream and scenting a murder, dispatched four squad cars. “My baby Norman Jr. has the colic,” Richardson told the squads. “What shall I do about it?”

PRESENT were “Pizen” Bill Hooker, 77, Colonel Cody’s friend and two-gun fighter of the old west, General Charles King, member of the famous Fifth cavalry when Cody fought the Cheyenne chief, Yellow Hand, and John L. Brown, 89, who went around the world with Buffalo Bill’s wild west circus. They were guests of the Adventurers’ Club, business and professional men, in whose hearts the spark that sent young Cody into the plains country burns through La Salle street's routine. Jit

red army during maneuvers before the famous tomb of Lenin in Red square, Moscow. Only fourteen years old, the “workers and peasants’ army,” comprising more than 500,000 regulars, is credited with being the largest standing military force in the world. Lower Photo —Foimidable engines of destruction, these modern tanks are pictured during recent war maneuvers of the Soviet red army in Moscow.

STUDENT HELD AS SHOOTING SUSPECT

Former Purdue Youth Faces Accusation of Wounding City Motorist. Indianapolis police today said they had no information on the reported arrest of William H. Blackburn, 20, former Purdue university student at Oak Park, HI., on a charge of firing three bullets into the head of J. Russell Gardner, 50, of 3726 North Meridian street, the night of Jan. 28. Gardner also was beaten severely. The bullets remain in his head, and city hospital physicians say they can not be removed and will be a constant menace to Gardner’s life. Press dispatches from Oak Park today stated that Blackburn has been identified by Edward L. Gardner, brother of the victim, and Fred Bechtold, a telephone lineman, who witnessed the attack. Detective Jesse McCarthy of Indianapolis went to Oak Park Thursday. Officials of that city arrested Blackburn the following day, according to reports. En route by motor from Lafayette to Indianapolis, Gardner, former state highway commission employe, said he picked up a hitchhiker who told him he was a Purdue student. At Seventy-first street, near Keystone avenue, Gardner said the youth shot and beat him and left him in a woods The youth fled in Gardner’s automobile. Blackburn, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ross M. Blackburn, returned to their home in Oak Park this week from Hollywood, Fla. The father, Chicago branch manager for a railway supply company, asserts he will fight extradition of his son. “I’m not going to let the Indianapolis police get hold of my boy

With cowboy shouts that belied the brilliant lights, gleaming dishes and silver, the Adventurers greeted “Pizen” Bill’s stories of the youth who left his Scott county (Iowa) home to become a pony express rider at 15 in the year before the Civil war. The banquet fare of buffalo roast was supplied by the government from the few survivors of the great herds that blackened the plains when Colonel Cody won his nickname.

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and give him the ‘third degree.’ I’ll get a lawyer right away,” the elder Blackburn is quoted. The father asserts the son, hitchhiking to Hollywood, Fla., was sixty miles south of Indianapolis at the time Gardner was attacked. PICTURE OF INFANT ON NEW ‘BABY’ BONDS? NO! Inquiry Gives Treasury Experts First Good Laugh in Months. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—“ Baby bonds” have nothing to do with babies. Treasury officials made this clear today in response to a query from an lowa bank, which asked: “Will the special treasury certificates known as ‘baby’ bonds, issued to assist tbe national anti-hoarding campaign, bear the picture of a baby on t. n? If so, will the baby be a boy o rl?” This app. ’ Ty serious letter was passed from 'e to office in the treasury and _ ovided the first hearty laugh the bedeviled financial experts have had in many months.

“TT was 1867,” Hooker recalled, ‘‘as Colonel Cody often told me. He had been a scout during the Civil war, and now the era of railroads had started. “He won the contract with the Kansas-Pacific to provide twelve buffaloes a day to the crew of 1,200 men who were pushing the rails west over the virgin prairie. Buffaloes were commoner than jackrabbits then, and Bill was a deadshot. “His record was 113 in one day, and in seventeen months ht * slain 4.280 improbably m,.

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HEAVY TOLL OF LIFE AND PROPERTY TAKEN IN NEW ONSLAUGHT BY INVADERS Counter Offensive Against Mikado’s Forces in Manchuria Rumored; Protest Against Landing of Nipponese Soldiers in Foreign Quarter Wins Point. BY HERBERT R. EKINS United Press Staff Corresnondent (CoDvriKht. 1932. bv United Pressi SHANGHAI, Feb. 27.—Japanese airmen and artilleryrained tons of explosives on three points along an eighteenmile front this afternoon, literally to blast an opening through the Chinese line, for waves of green-clad infantry that went over the top immediately. The aerial forces attacked Lion Forest forts at Paoshan City, the extreme northern end of the battle line, a short distance north of the Woosung forts.

LUDENDORFF AID ASKEDBUHINA German World War Chief May Head Armies. By United Press LONDON, Feb. 27. —General Eric Ludendorff, head of the imperial German army in the World war, has been invited to assume supreme command of the national Chinese army and reorganize it on a scientific basis, the Tokio correspondent of the Daiy Express said today. The correspondent reported that Japanese officials were gravely concerned with the menace of isolation and realized that the situation had become very serious, due to the following developments: Spread of the anti-Japanese boycott in the United States and the report that Mrs. Hoover had chosen a cotton dress instead of silk to wear at a White House reception. The increasingly difficult financial position at home and the necessity to appropriate more funds to carry on the Shanghai campaign. The reported technical direction of Chinese armies by German military experts and the invitation to Ludendorff to assume supreme command.

ESCAPES HOSPITAL Prisoner, Freedom Near, ‘ln Bad’ Again for Theft. Jack Gray, 42, Kansas City, Mo., is sought today on a grand larceny charge following his flight Friday night from city hospital with clothing and a watch belonging to a hospital attache. Although technically a prisoner, Gray had gained a point when a grand jury failed three days ago to indict him on a charge of entering a house to commit a felony. But, as serious a charge resulted from theft of the clothing, consisting of a coat trousers and cap belonging to Theodore Gunts. Gray was arrested Christmas day and placed in the Marion county jail. He became ill with tuberculosis and was removed to the hospital, where he was under guard by Patrolman William Schreibner. Only an appearance in court, as a formality, stood between Gray and liberty when he left the hospital.

Cage Drawings The big drive is on! Schedule drawings for the sixty-four sectional, sixteen regional, and state finals of the twenty-first annual Indiana high school basketball title marathon are announced on the sports pages of today’s Times. It is the opening shot in the annual net derby, which opens next Friday and Saturday. The local sectional and regional drawings are included. Turn to the sport pages and figure ’em out.

than there are in the whole country now.” m n a GENERAL KING, whose appointment to West Point was signed by President Lincoln, pictured Cody’s fight with Chief Yellow Hand. The plains tribes had risen in a mighty war against the white man’s constant advance. Cody with the Fifth cavalry was engaged against the enraged Sioux. He met Yellow Hand in personal combat and after an heroic struggle took the scalp of his Indian opponent.

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It is past these forts that Japanese reinforcements are expected to be transported to reinforce the stymied Japanese forces in the lines. Japan’s Eleventh division will arrive within a few days to reinforce troops already here for a smashing offensive against Chinese lines, but will not land at international settlement, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese minister, said today, following protests by allied consuls. Center on Artillery Attack Japanese guns aided the airmen in pouring shrapnel and bombs on the Chinese defenders of Tazang, in the center oi the line. And the artillery practically “went it alone” in bombarding the Chinese at Chapei, the end of the battle front nearest international settlement. Two Japanese units cleaning out Chinese snipers at Kiangwan village established contact at opposite sides of the northern end of the village at 7 p. m. (5 a. m. Indianapolis time). They began burning shacks and houses and preparing for a final assault on Tazang. Late today Chiang Kai-Shek sent men from his Eighty-eighth division into the lines at Chapei to relieve the units of the Nineteenth route army which had defended the area against Japanese attacks for a month. The Japanese claimed movements behind the Chinese lines indicated withdrawal from Chapei. Investigation showed that men from the Nineteenth route army were going back of the lines for rest while Chiang’s soldiers moved in. Fresh Troops in Line The fresh Chinese troops immediately exchanged rifle and machine gun fire with the Japanese. The positions at Tazang remained unchanged, with the opposing fronts only about 250 yards apart. With Japanese on the offensive here in deadly fighting already taking a toll of 3,000 admitted Chinese casualties this week, and 1,000 estimated Japanese casualties, there were reports that the Chinese planned an offensive in Manchuria. These reports arose from a movement of Chinese leaders from Nanking to Loyang, new capital of the central government. Conferences were planned with Marshal Chang Hseuh-Liang and other militarists. Reports said the Manchurian campaign would start March 1, when the boy emperor, Henry Pu-Yi is inaugurated chief executive. Air Bombing Terrific Japanese airmen who bombed the Chinese airdrome at Hangchow Friday took to the air early today, aided by clear visibility and renewed their terrific bombardment. The racks of the war birds were loaded to capacity with 250-pound bombs. The chief retaliation they had to fear was ineffective machine gun and rifle fire. Today’s Japanese offensive followed a night of artillery bombardment of the Chinese position at Tazang, which was halted for only a few hours before dawn. With planes in action and artillery apparently more effective than usual, the green-clad Japanese soldiers crouched in their lines, ready to push the Chinese back to their second defenses. The morning bombardment of Chapei started numerous fires. The Japanese were shelling the ruins of the once prosperous Chinese settlement from the Hongkew Park rifle range, inside the international area. Heavy Damage Caused The relentless hail of high explosives on the Lion Hill forts caused immense property damage in the area. At noon, after four hours of the continuous aerial attack, Chinese forces appeared demoralized and in danger of losing their positions. The terrific battering by artillery and planes continued in midafternoon on the Tazang-Kiangwan sector. T. V. Soong, ranking member of the Chinese government at Shanghai, issued a statement denying that he had requested Bert Hall, American aviator, to return to China as commander of the Chinese air forces.

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