Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 270, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1932 — Page 2

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CITY FIRMS ARE SHOWN PRIORITY ON STREET BIDS - 1 - - Nine Companies Split Contract for 2,000 Barrels of Cement. Policy of favoring local companies bidding on city contracts was fol- I lowed by the works board today in ; awarding contracts for materials to j be used this summer in street re- ! pairs. When nine companies each bid $1.66 a barrel for 2,000 barrels of cement, the board divided the con- j tract among eight local companies, an Ohio firm failing to share in the i contract. The board rejected low bid of the I Great Lakes Foundry Sand Company, Detroit, $1.41 a ton, for 3,000 j tons of sand for the asphalt plant, accepting the $1.46 bid of Frank M. Dell Company, Indianapolis, because the Dell company bid on Indiana sand and the Detroit company’s bid called for Michigan sand. Contract for 500 tons of refined ' asphalt was divided between the ! Texas company, which bid $16.59 a ton, and the Standard Oil Com- ; pany (Indiana), which bid $16.95. I The same was true of a contract for 150,000 gallons of road oil, which was divided between the same two companies, the Texas Oil Company j being five-tenths of a mill lower with a bid of $.035 a gallon. Other contracts awarded were: One thousand tons stone dust, Frank M. Dell Company, $6 a ton; four carloads of crushed limestone, nclt company, sl.Bl a ton; 300 drums emulsified asphalt, Hayes Construction Company, $0.1068 a gallon; 80,000 paving brick, Indianapolis Coal Company, $22.91 a thousand; twelve carloads of concrete gravel, 2,000 tons of river sand and eight carloads of concrete sand, divided between Glenn Trucking Company and the Brown-Hufstetter Company. HOARDING BY BANKERS ATTACKED BY CURTIS Vice-President Is Speaker at Rally in Crown Point. By United Brett CROWN POINT, Ind., March 21. ; -—Bankers who withdraw money | from industry and keep it in vaults were taken to task by Vice-Presi-dent Charles Curtis in an address Saturday night at the largest political rally this city has seen in years. If the money is released and turned into profitable channels, Curtis said, the United States will j be the first to recover from the depression. Curtis pictured President Hoover's position as “the most difficult any peace-time President ever has had.” He praised the chief executive for “working harder, trying harder and striving more to better conditions,” than any other President. Curtis pointed to improved credits and banking reports and foresaw a steady return of prosperity. PEACH CROP DAMAGED Cold Weather Takes Most of Buds in Indiana Orchards. By United Brest LAFAYFTTE, Ind., March 21. Much greater damage than at first believed was suffered by the southern Indiana peach crop during the cold wave of last week, Professor C. E. Burkholder, assistant chief horticulturist at Purdue .university, said today. Burkholder estimated that not more than 10 per cent of peach buds south of Vincennes and Bedford survived the cold weather and high winds. Some growers report- ; eci total losses, Burkholder said. North of Bedford, Burkholder said, enough buds remain to pro- | duce approximately half a normal crop. HOLY WEEK IS OPENED First of Daily Noon Services Is ; Hold in English’s Theater. Holy Week observance was opened by Protestant churches of the city in English’s at noon today under auspices of the Church Federation of Indianapolis. The Rev. Warren W. Wiant, North Methodist Episcopal church pastor, spoke on “The Need of Courage.” Services will be conducted from 12:05 to 12:15 each afternoon except Good Friday, when a three-hour service will be held. 50,000 INSPECT HOME Realtors ‘Exposition Exhibit Proves Popular With Public. Visitors at the 1932 model home, 5240 Cornelius avenue, forerunner to the 1932 realtors' home complete exposition April 2 to 10, passed the 50,000 mark Sunday, when more than 6,000 persons passed through Its doors. The home was built under direction of the Indianapolis Home Builders’ Association. ORATORS TOJVIEET HERE Butler Will Be Host to College Speakers in Contest April 8. Butler university will be host to "Speakers in the central divisional meet at the annual interstate oratorical contest April 8, it has bern announced by Professor W. Norwood Brigance of Wabash college, director of the contest for tins division. Competing in the contest at Butler will be state winners from Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri. —. Appointed Legion Service Officer Harry Hall of Marion has been appointed service officer of the Indiana department of the American Legion, it has been announced by the department executive commit-; tee. Hall succeeds John R. Ecker, resigned.

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(Continued From Page 1) in the next six months. They •would be as efficient as the Japanese. 6. The Soviets and China would have the advantage in fighting morale. 7. That vital element, “time,” is working in favor of Russia. Trotskl stroked his chin and smiled as he talked of the possibility of arousing the Chinese nation with its 450,000,000 population on “the grand scale.” “The objective of such a war (between Russia and Japan) would be greater infinitely than the questions of the Chinese Eastern railway and Manchuria together.” he said. “Certain French newspapers hasten to predict that ‘Bolshevism would perish in the steppes of Siberia.”” “The steppes and forests of Siberia are vast enough for many things to succumb there, but is it so certain that it would be Bolshevism that would perish?” u * * I MET Trotski at his place of exile on Prlnkipo island where he has spent most of his time since he was driven from Russia because of his opposition to Josef V. Stalin. The day was cold and stormy and, instead of going to Trotski’s home as first arranged, I met him at the docks as he was en route to Istanbul. He said he was “paying a periodical visit” to his doctor, but the fact that he had been granted admittance to Czechoslovakia, where he hopes to receive better medical treatment, may have had some bearing on his visit to Istanbul. He came swinging down to the docks, a short, sturdy figure in dark-grey overcoat and dark-grey striped suit, with a cream-colored muffler twisted loosely around his neck. He carried a light-hued malacca cane and was the picture of good health. We went on board the ferry—a primitive and dirty boat that has only the virtue of riding the sea well—and to the cabins which were once for the veiled Turkish harems. We sat opposite each other in a tiny cabin, so small that there hardly was room for two of us to sit facing each other. Trotski hao been accompanied by his Austrian male secretary, and also several other “secretaries,” who were selected by the secret police. They remained outside. n u tt THE man who stood with Lenin in the terrible days when the Soviet republics were being born, the man who spent the greatest days of his life on a train that whirled him across Russia’s battle fronts during the Civil war, was smiling and friendly as we talked. His hair still is black and thick, his mustache a little grizzled. He spoke in English, expressing himself with remarkable precision. “The military action of Japan in China,” Trotski said, “is developing according to the system of a spiral; its range is increasing from month to month. “This system presents political and diplomatic advantages: It draws into the war, little by little, first her own people and then the enemy, placing the rest of the world before a succession of accomplished facts. “It proves that the military clique is at present obliged to overcome not only external but also internal obstacles. “From a purely military point of view such action is in itself a disadvantage. Evidently the Japanese leaders consider that, in view of the military weakness of China and in view of the insoluble contradictions in the enemy camp, they can allow themselves at first a certain loss of time by making their advance along a spiral. tt “TTOWEVER, after the first XI phase must evidently come —with or without interruption—the second, that is, the phase of real war. What is Japan’s political objective? “The leading newspapers of Paris, which carefully transcribe in French the views and suggestions of the Japanese general staff, have been urging all the time that there was no question of a war, but only of police measures. “This explanation is a necessary part and parcel of the spiral-ad-vance system, and will fall to the ground of itself as soon as the military action has reached its full development, and when the attacking forces are brought into correspondence with the objectives aimed at. “The aim of Japan is—to colonize China. A grandiose aim indeed, but it must be said at once that it is not within Japan’s powers. She has come into the field too late. “At the moment when Britain is preparing herself to lose India, Japan will not succeed in transforming China into anew India. “Is it not possible that the Tokio oligarchy also has another objective, namely to aim a blow at the U. S. S. R.? To consider such a plan as altogether excluded would be too hasty. But it can not be a first-line plan. “Only after having seized Manchuria and consolidated her position there, would Japan be able to make her objective that of striking a blow northwestwards. “But as the Soviet government does not, and can not, want war, Japan on her side probably will not decide to undertake directly aggressive action against the U. S. S. R. before having guaranteed and confirmed her position in China and Manchuria. * * u “' I ’'HERE also is another imX portant consideration which tends to the same conclusion. The Japanese oligarchy (whether rightly is another question), considers it possible to conduct the war against China by partial bites. This must also appear more acceptable to the Japanese finance minister, whom the whole affair touches closely. “War against the U. S. S. R. would have demanded at once quite other proportions. Without strong allies who could largely finance the war, it is doubtful if Japan will decide to cross the frontiers of Manchuria. How far Tokio pan count today or tomorrow qn military loans in billions, can be better judged at Paris,

j London or New York than at 1 Prinkipo. “Every attempt to accuse the Soviet government of aggressive aims in the far east falls to the ground, owing to its inherent in- ' consistency. “War would be a very rude blow to the economic plan, with which the whole future of Russia firmly is bound up. A factory, of which only 99 per cent Is finished, is not a factory, and in the U. S. S. R. there are hundreds and thousands of factories still building. “War would transform them for a long time into dead capital. All this is too evident to need emphasis. “If we admit that a military conflict in the far east is, nevertheless inevitable—and such is the conviction of'many Japanese statesmen and not of the Japanese only—even in that case the Soviet government has no reason to force the issue. “Japan has entered China in pursuance of a grandiose enterprise, which will have incalculable consequences. She may have, and will have partial military and diplomatic successes, but they will be transitory, whereas the difficulties will be permanent and will go on increasing. tt tt tt “TN Korea, Japan has her IreX land. In China, she is trying to create her India. “Only entirely stupid generals of the feudal type could contemplate the national movement in China with disdain. A huge nation of 450,000,000, awakened to self-consciousness, can not be kept under by airplanes. “Japan is going to stick up to the knees in the fat soil of Manchuria—if not up to the waist! “And since in Japan itself the economic development has come into absolute contradiction with the feudal structure of soviety, one may envisage an internal crisis as quite inevitable. First the Seiukai will give place to the Minseito party, which later will move to the left. Then the Revolutionary party will lift up its head .... “France lost not a little in financing Czarism. She is mistaken if she thinks that this has assured her against losses in financing the Mikado. "It is quite clear—in the far east the Soviet government has no rea - son to be in a hurry or to lose its nerve. "So war between the U. S. S. R. and Japan could only have developed if the conflict had been knowingly and deliberately provoked by Japan, with the consent of stronger allies. The objective of such a war clearly would be infinitely greater than the questions of the Chinese Eastern Railroad and Manchuria together. * tt a “'TVHE idea of a war between the X Soviets and Japan, as well as the parallel idea of a war between Japan and the United States, immediately raises the problem of distances:—a landocean and a water-ocean as possible arenas of military operations. “At the very first moment the strategic problem disappears entirely in the problem of distances. “On this point many people hasten to come to conclusions unpleasant for the U. S. S. R. The scarcity of population in the Asiatic* districts of the U. S. S. R.; the economic backwardness, the shortage of railway communications —all these are regarded as so many factors militating against the Soviets. “This is true up to a certain point, but only up to a certain point. "Even limiting the problem to the field of military technique, one can not but see that the same vast distances become equally the ally of the Soviets. "Admitting the possibility of some Japanese military successes in an advance westward, it is easy to foresee that the difficulties would increase as the square of the distances covered by the Japanese troops. “The successes would be swallowed up. And Japan would have to leave behind her Ireland and her India. “However, the problem can not be put so narrowly. The war would be waged not merely by military means. The U. S. S. R. would not be alone. China is alive. She desires to fight for her existence and is capable of doing so. Any one who should ignore this factor will break his head against it. n a tt transport millions of solX diers by the Siberian railway and to provide them with all that is necessary for the conduct of war is no ordinary problem. "However, in view of the industrial possibilities of the U. S. S. R., now enormously increased, the means of railway transport could, in case of need, largely be augmented. Naturally, this would demand time. But a war of great distances would inevitably be a war of long duration. “One might perhaps elaborate a five-year war plan and re-shape the industrial five-year plan according to its exigencies. Evidently all this would deliver a terrible blow r to the economy and the culture of those participating in the war. "But I base myself on the hypothesis that no other issue exists—once war is inevitable, it must be conducted seriously, utilizing every force and every means. "The participation of the U. S. S. R. in the war would open before the Chinese people new perspectives, and arouse in it a national movement on the grand scale. To any one who understands the logic of circumstances and the psychology of popular masses, this admits of no doubt. "In China there is no lack of human material. Millions of Chinese have learned to handle a rifle. They do not lack the wiH to fight, but only a regular military education, an organization, a system, and an instructed command. tt M M “ / T'HE red army could here give X them very effective aid. The better elements of the army of Chiang Kai-Shek were formed, as is well-known, under the direction of Soviet instructors. The experiment of the military school at Whampoo—iL, founded on other political basis • (here I am not entering into that question)—might

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have no doubt that in from twelve to eighteen months it would be possible to mobilize, equip, arm, train and put into the fighting line the first million combatants, who would yield in nothing to the J(yjanese from the point of view of fighting morale. “The second million would not even take six months. I am speaking of China. And apart from China, there remain the U. S. S. R.; the red army and its colossal reserves—no, really, the leading French newspapers (the most reactionary in the worlds are too hasty in burying the Soviets in the steppes of Siberia: blind hatred is usually a bad counsellor, and particularly so whett It is a question of historical prediction. * M M “T>UT (you ask) if the prospects X) are so favorable, why is the Soviet government doing its utmost to avoid war? I already have have answered this question: “In the far east the factor of time is working against imperialist Japan, who has passed her culminating point and is now moving toward her decline. “Apart from that—and this is not the least important matter — the world does not consist of the far east only. “The key to the world situation Is at the present moment, not at Mukden, but at Berlin. The advent of Hitler (the Fascist leader), to power, would present for the U. S. S. R. a danger infinitely more direct than the ideas of the military oligarchy at Tokio. “However ” Trotski broke off “ We decided from the first to limit our talk to the far east, so permit me to put a full stop here.” We got off the ferryboat at Galata bridge, and the former red army leader hurried away—to see his doctor. FEAR FOR CRASH VICTIM Leonard B. Shirk in Serious Condition Following Collision. Leonard B. Shick, 41, of 3706 Drexel avenue, injured in an automobile accident Sunday, today is in serious condition at the St. John's hospital at Anderson. Shick incurred spinal injuries and his wife was bruised and cut when an automobile driven by Shick collided with another in Anderson. He is connected with the advertising department of the William H. Charge Attack on Tow-in Cop Charged with striking Detective Roy Peats as he protested against the police practice of towing-in illegally parked cars, William Rippy, 38, of 1651 West Riverside drive, today faces trial on charges of resisting an officer and vagrancy.

MARCH 21,1932

REVIVALS CORB TOWN'S CRIME Churches Better Than Cops, Illinois Mayor Concludes. By United Brett BENTON, 111., March 21.—This coal mining town of 9,000 population, sought to account today for the 50 per cent decrease in arrests, since the police force was abolished ' two months ago. and decided on church bells as the cause. “There is no doubt of it,” said Mayor Joseph Scarborugh. "Revivals have been respoislbl for the era of law and order here. They have resulted in 500 persons being converted to Christianity since this year. Many converts have been young people, the type that once made up our rowdy element.” The mayor said there have been but six convictions on city ordinance violations in two months. | compared with “sometimes half a dozen arrests every night or so last year.” The five man police force cast | the city $675 a month last year. The j financial situation forced the city to I abolish police, and leave law enforcement to the county and two ' watchmen. j —— One Gent a Day Brings SIOO a Month Nearly One-Half Million Dollars Already Paid in Cash Benefits. One cent a day ($3.65 a year), invested in a National Protective pol- ; icy, will now buy more insurance benefits than can be secured from any other Company for any amount up to $lO per year. This is possible because the money saved by the National Protective plan of operation is passed on to its members. Thousands of persons have been i made happy by receiving cash benefits when cash was mast needed from their National Protective polj icies, which pay benefits up to SIOO each month and SI,OOO to $1,500 at death. The National Protective is the ! largest and oldest company of its kind in the world. It has paid nearly one-half million dollars in cash to its policyholders. The benefits for auto accidents of SIOO a month (instead of the I usual SSO a month) is said by many j to be alone worth the entire cast ; of $3.65 a year. Yet this is but one of the many features of this unj usual policy. Send \n Money For 10 days' free inspection of pol--1 icy, simply .send name. age. address, | beneficiary's name and relationship to National Protective Insurance Association, 1037 Searritt Kldg.. Kansas City, Mo. No medical examination or other red tape. After reading policy, which will be mailed to you, either return it or send $3.65. which pays you up for a whole year—36s days. Send today while offer is still open.—Advertisement.