Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 282, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1932 — Page 14

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GREAT BRITAIN. FRANCE LAUNCH ‘RELIEF' MOVE Seek Solution of Europe’s Grave Financial Plight; Talk Ai ms Slash. BY JOSEPH L. BAIRD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. April 4.—As State Secretary Henry L. Stimson prepared to leave for Geneva, France and Great Britain were beginning today a tremendous program of European economic and financial relief which may have a strong and favorable bearing on disarmament. Conversations between Premier Andre Tardieu and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald in London were the first of a series of informal talks designed to clear the way for the Lausanne debt conference in June. The talks also are concerned with the proposed effort to bring central Europe out of the economic morass in which the Versailles treaty left it. Both subjects are of vital interest to the United States. At Lausanne. France, Great Britain and Italy formally are to decide what relief they can give Germany under its half-billion dollar annual reparations bill. But their decision probably will be made, if at all, in quiet talks well in advance of the conference. Statesmen of all four nations meet at London, Wednesday. Influence on Reparations The United States is interested in these talks, for whatever measure of reliof it grants the three allied nations from war debts doubtless will be influenced by their decision on reparations. The proposed Danubian union interests the American government for two entirely separate reasons. F’irst, some statesmen believe that it may remove a big obstacle to disarmament—France’s fear of an “anschluss” or political union between Germany and Austria. France has not forgotten Berlin’s prewar ambition of creating a German “Mittcleuropa,” a Teutonic zone cutting through Europe from the Baltic to Asia. In this zone Austria would be one of the largest blocks. Fear of an Austro-German union still disturbs the French general staff. May Become Dream If Austria was brought into an economic bloc with Hungary. Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Rumania, both its economic and political interests might be turned away from Germany and toward its small central European neighbors. Thus, observers contend, “the anschluss” would become a forgotten dream. But there are other reasons, more pressing, that statesmen advance to support the Danubian union. The five states to form it all were carved, in part, from the territory of the old Austro-Hungarian empire. New political frontiers erected by the treaty of Versailles set up tariff barriers between old merchants and customers. Seaports were cut off by national barriers from the rivers that carried their commerce. Even houses were separated from barns. Trade slackened. Finance languished. Now Great Britain and France are talking of inviting the five countries to establish a customs union to break down the trade barriers among them. Details of the plan are not available here, but it is supposed the project will call either for drastic reduction of customs duties or for their abolition.

Ponder Common Policy I'<y ( nitt and I'rcss LONDON, April 4.—European co-operation on reparations, war debts and disarmament problem discussions were considered today during conferences on Danubian customs agreements in which Prune Minister Ramsay MacDonald and Premier Andre Tardieu participated. This was the trend of well-in-formed opinion today after the first meeting between French and British statesmen. It was understood that members of the British cabinet and experts of both nations today would discuss a common policy to be followed at the debts and reparations conference at Lausanne in June, and to further discuss the fourpower conference of Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany here Wednesday on the Danubian customs union. MacDonald issued a statement apparently aimed to dispel fears of any European power that France and Britain were working too closely together on the French proposal for removing tariff barriers among the Danubian countries. “The policy we are carrying out is a policy of co-operation with everybody aiming at peace, and willing to put all their weight behind the efforts,” the prime minister's statement said. He denied any justification for “suspicion” in connection with the Anglo-French conversations. COMMITTEE IS NAMED TO RECEIVE HURLEYS War Secretary. Wife Due Saturday for Editorial Meeting. Samuel E. Boys of Plymouth, president of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association, has an--1 our.ced appointment of members oi the reception committee to welc me Patrick J. Hurley, secretary of war, and Mrs. Hurley on their arrival in Indianapolis Saturday for the association's annual banquet. Hurley will speak at the editors’ annual fete at the Claypool Saturday night. The banquet will close the two-day winter meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Hurley will arrive \ v plane at noon from Washington. The general reception committee is headed by Governor Harry G. Leslie and Mrs. Leslie. Other committee members: Senator and Mrs. James E. Watson. Mr. unci Mrs. Ivan C. Morgan, Austin; Dr. p;id Mrs.J. E. P. Holland. Bloomington; George A. Ball. Muncle. Republican national committeeman and Mrs. Ball; Miss Dorothy Cunningham. national comriiitee woman; General and Mrs. George jj Jamerson. Ft. Benjamin Harrison, and Adjutant-General and Mrs. Paul E. Tombaugh.

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PUBLIC OWNERSHIP LESSON IS TAUGHT 'Only Hope of Tax-Burdened People Lies in Them Operating- Their Own Utilities/ According to Expert. Many privately-owned utility compani es have suffered severely from the depression. Carl D. Thompson, secretary of the Public Ownership League of America. says that municipally owned utilities have not suffered. Following is the first of two articles giving Thompson’s reasons for thinking this contrast may provide the “silver lining” to the clouds overhanging the business world. BY HAROLD E. RAINVILLE United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, April 4.—Carl D. Thompson, secretary of the Public Ownership League of America, believes there is a “silver lining” inside the depression clouds that overhang the business world. Thompson believes the depresison has provided the country a valuable lesson by proving that “the only hope of tax-burdened people lies in public ownership of utilities, gas, electric, transportation and power.” “Municipally-owned utilities throughout the country not only are weathering the depression,” he said “but actually, in many cases, are carrying the additional burdens of unemployment and heavy taxes created

or made necessary by unsettled cone Thompson’s organization is composed of about 2,000 members, including many cities. It keeps an accurate check on conditions of all public-owned utilities. Not Hurt by Depression “There are,” said the secretary, “7,000 municipally-owned waterworks in this country and 2,000 power plants. They have not suffered from the depression.” In sixty-five towns, Thompson said, taxes have been eliminated because of revenue from municipally owned utilities. Among these are Ponca City, Okla., population 16,136, and Chanute, Kan., population 9,829. Jacksonville, Fla., and Idaho Falls, Idaho, have reduced taxes in the same way. The Los Angeles municipally owned water company made a net profit of $4,334,000 in 1931 and plans to set aside $1,000,000 a year from this source for unemployment relief and tax reductions. Washington. Ind.. population 10,000, paid off all its debts with revenue from a power plant. Several months ago it bought $20,000 worth of stock in a shirt factory that was about to close. It made another loan to a toy factory. Both remained open because of this help. Individuals profit as much, correspondingly, as do towns and cities, from municipal ownership, Thompson said. Savings for Public From the citizens’ standpoint, the first advantage is not in the total profits, but in the saving for himself, said the secretary. One reason, he said, why muni-cipally-owned utilities can provide cheaper rates than those privatelyowned. is they are operated at cost, with no intention of making a profit. Also, cities can borrow money for less than private organizations. Thompson contrasted the 2-cent-per-kilowatt-hour rate for electricity in Ontario, where the plant is publicly owned, to the 7-cent rate in Chicago. In Seattle, he said, private companies charged 20 cents until the city buiit its own plant. Then, he said, the private rate dropped to 10 cents, and then to 5. The top rate at Cleveland is 3 cents for the public plant and 5 cents for the private, he said. SENATORS CALLED TO CONFERENCE ON TAXES Beckett Asks Group to Bring Five Ideas for New Laws. Another call for another committee to attend another conference to talk about drafting tax laws and a special legislative session has been sent out. This time the call comes from State Senator Joe Rand Beckett and is for the “senate co-operative committee” to meet at :he Washington hotel Saturday afternoon. Beckett was named chairman of the committee when it was created at a recent meeting of senators, which was intended to be “secret.” In the invitation, he asks that each committeeman bring about “five ideas for new laws on taxation.” Members are Senators Lee J. Hartzell, Ft. Wayne; C. Oliver Holmes, Gary; Walter S. Chambers, Newcastle; Jesse M. Ballard, Marion, and Frank S. Southworth, Plymouth.

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days, according to Webb Sparks, contest director. A few of the letters from which the first day prize winning suggestions will be selected are seen above, being opened for the judges by Mrs. Virginia Sparks (left) and Miss Bonnie Adams. Today’s winning suggestion will be announced Tuesday. Judges are Meredith Nicholson, N. H. Gilman and the Rev. A. H. Kenna.

WINS PHONE AWARD Fred Meek Recognized for First Aid Skill. Cited for his skill and alertness in applying first-aid to three men injured in an automobile crash, Fred J. Meek, 46 Myron street, cable splicer for the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, has been awarded the Vail medal, given annually as a memorial to Theodore N. Vail, late president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Meek’s action is credited with saving lives of three men hurt in a crash April 9, 1931, west of Indianapolis, The injured men were Charles L. Baker, CMrles Sylvis and Charles Heinz. THIEVES LOOT AUTOS: CLOTHING IS STOLEN Parked Cars Yield Overcoats, Radio Device and Tire, Thefts from four automobiles and a truck were reported to police over the week-end. Three overcoats with a total value of $87.50 were stolen from the car of George Kramer, 614 North Emerson avenue, while it was parked Sunday at the state fairground. Losers of the coats were Kramer; William Lawler, 2327 North New Jersey street, and Arthur Kennington, 320 Harlan street. A device for testing radio tubes, valued at S3O, was stolen from a truck of Rich <fc Cos., 1524 North Illinois street, while the machine was parked at that address. A tire valued at $25 was stolen from the automobile of Clark Murphy, 1040 Fairfield avenue, which was parked at Fairfield and Birch avenues. Women’s clothing with a value of sl2 was removed from the automobile of Arthur Hall, Marion, Ind., at Ohio and Meridian streets. After breaking glass in a rear window, a thief took a purse containing $10.25 from the car ot George Hamrock, Elkville, 111., at 1403 College avenue. On Aug. 31 of this year the first total eclipse of the sun seen anywhere in the United States since 1925 will occur. The sun will be obscured completely for nearly two minutes along a path crossing Quebec and New England.

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DIGEST LIQUOR POLL CHECKED BY NEWSPAPERS # Percentage of Wet Views Follow Same Trend in Local, National Counts. Several newspaper check-up polls on prohibition 'show a close conformity in returns to those of the Literary Digest poll, according to a comparison of the balloting tabulations. In a poll of lowa by the Des Moines Register, one of the oldest papers in the state, 74,357 votes were ] returned of which 31,009, or 41.70 per cent favored “maintaining the present prohibition law,” and 43,348. or 58.30 per cent voted against the amendment. The latest figures in the Literary Digest poll give a total of 66,965 ; votes from lowa. Using the slightly different questions of “continuing,” instead of i “maintaining,” 24,141 lowans, or 36 05 per cent voted dry in the Digest poll and 42,824, or 63.95 per cent, voted for repeal of the eighteenth amendment. The Des Moines Register deduces 1 from their poll of lowa that the farms and the cities vote wet, while | the small towns vote dry. Housc-to-House Canvass In South Bend and Mishawaka, Indiana, thirty-five representatives of the South Bend News Times are ! making a house-to-house canvass i of both cities. One vote of yes or no on the prohibition question is permitted from each home. The ballots are placed in a locked box which is opened in I the presence of a committee of citizens. In this South Bend News Times poll 8,383 votes have been tabulated so far of which 2,082, or 24.83 per j cent are for continuance of the prohibition amendment and 6,301 or ; 75.17 per cent favor repeal. Incomplete returns of The Literary Digest poll of South Bend show ! a total tabulation of 4,345 votes of which 076, or 22.46 per cent, are dry and 3,369, or 77.54 per cent are ' wet. In Mishawaka, Ind., adjacent to j South Bend, the News Times poll gives returns of 1,950 ballots to date of which 533, or 28.35 per cent, vote | for Prohibition and 1,397, or 71.65 per cent, are for repeal. Use Same Question ; Incomplete returns from the same ! community in the Literary Digest j poll show a total of 916 ballots received of which 221, or 24.12 per cent, are dry and 695 votes, or 75.88 per cent, are wet. Using the same questions as are on the Literary Digest ballot, the ; Richmond News Leader is conducting a straw referendum in which only qualified voters of Richmond, Va., may participate and they must sign their names to the ballot. The News Leader poll shows early | returns of 1,611 votes of which 108, j or 6.70 per cent, are dry and 1,503, | or 93.30 per cent, are wet. Literary Digest returns for Rich- ; mond, Va., nearly complete,* show a total of 7,950 votes from the city of which 1,472, or 18.51 per cent, are dry and 6,478, or 81.49 per cent, are wet. How the polls compare is shown in the following tabulation: Continuance Repeal State of lowa Des Moines Register.... 31.009 43.348 41.70% 58.30% Literary Digest 24.141 42.824 36.05% 63.95% I South Bend. Ind. j South Bend News Times 2.082 6.301 24.83% 75.17% ! Literary Digest 976 3,369 22.46% 77.54% I Mishawaka. Ind. South Bend News Times 553 1,397 28.35% 71.65% Literary Digest 221 695 24.12% 75.88% j Richmond. Va. ; Richmond News Leader 108 1,503 1 6.70% 93.30% Literary Digest 1.472 6.478 18.51% 81.49% Hurley Favors Inland Waterway : By United Press WASHINGTON, April 4.—Secretary of War Hurley today submitted to congress a favorable report on the proposed inland waterway from Charleston, S. C., to Winyah Bay. The report was made by MajorGeneral Lytle Brown, chief of army engineers.

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MINE PROBERS CITY VISITORS Arkansans, on Way to Coal Fields, Will Speak Here. En route to Harlan, Ky., to extend relief to striking coal miners, a delegation of five from Commonwealth college, Mena, Ark., arrived in Indianapolis today. Members of the delegation will speak at noon Tuesday before employes of the Columbia Conserve Company, and at 8 p. m. at a meeting in the Workmen Circle Educational center, 1218 South Meridian street. Heading the delegation is Lucien Koch, 24, director of the college. He is accompanied by Harold Coy, faculty member, and Leo Gruliow, Sam Sandberg and Isaac Greenburg, students. The relief trip is sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union. Commonwealth college requires that every faculty member and student earn maintenance by part-time work. The institution is described as non-sectarian and non-factional, sponsoring no religious, political or economic dogma. FIRE DESTROYS WHEAT By United Press DENVER, Colo., April 4.—Th federal farm board’sl arge supply of wheat stood decreased by 250,000 bushels today, as the result of a spectacular fire which wrecked a grain elevator here. The storage elevator for the grain was leased by the National Grain Corporation from Longmont Farmers’ Milling and Elevator Company.

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she continued, was Rosie Ellis, whom the rector introduced as his secretary. Miss Ellis always stayed late, the landlady continued, and sometimes she did not see her leave at all. Once. Mrs. Osborne said, the rector and Rosie came in together and he changed to evening dress, presumably while the girl looked on.