Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 287, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1932 Edition 02 — Page 5

APRIL 9, 1932

NEW ORDEAL. ON VAST SCALE, FACES RUSSIA Ruthless Battle Against Great Odds in Second 5-Year Plan. The following article is the sixth In a series describing the Soviets’ program for anew Five-Year Plan and telling of the successes and failures of the first plan. BY EUGENE LYONS I’niled Press Stall Correspondent MOSCOW, April 9.—No one who has not experienced it personally can be made to understand the colossal concentration of purpose and energy that is being brought by Russia to its five-year plan. The only analogy is war. France I and Germany at the sharpest stage of the World war witnessed a concentration of all national economic, mental and cultural resources like the one now under way here. But with them the fighting was restricted largely to the war areas. F'ar behind the lines life was profoundly disturbed, yet some of its peace-time features remained. The old class lines, the old economic relations, other aspects of existence continued as before. Here literally nothing is unaffected. The war zone covers every inch of the gigantic country and includes every department of human existence. Struggle Terrible One It is a ruthless and terrible strug- ' lc against natural obstacles, against Urge layers of the population, against mental attitudes. The “general staff" which conducts it has practically limitless power and its orders are based sole- )•' upon the desire for victory at *ny price. In balancing up the costs, money [ the least of the items. The punhment meted out to millions of the class enemy” must be added. So •lust increasing centralization of political power in an ever smaller and more dictatorial group. The country not only has harpessed its physical strength for the achievement of the plan. It has harnessed its intellect, its moral -ense, its esthetic sense, everything that conceivably could be turned into motor power for the immediate tasks of the revolution. Hope Is Fading The hope that this strain, both j physical and intellectual, would be i relaxed with the end of the FiveYear Plan is fading. In the outline of the second Five- ; Year Plan notice has been served j that there can be no let-up. The j dictatorship not only will not be softened, but will be increased. The faintest deviation from the authorized ways of thinking will be punished summarily. The Communist leaders feel that j the stake involved is too large to j permit the slightest risk. Purpose of the first half decade was to lay | the foundation for socialist con- j struction. That of the second half decade is j even more important from their viewpoint. It is the actual introduction of Socialism. Offically that objective has been stated by the recent party conclave thus: The conference holds that the chief political task of the second Five-Year Plan is to do away completely with the capitalist elements and with classes in general; to destroy fully the causes giving rise to class distinctions and exploitation; to abolish the survivals of capitalism in economy and in the consciousness of the people; to transform the whole working population of the country into conscious and active builders of a classless socialist society. Charts Not Significant Figures of coal and steel and machines to be produced in the second plan are not nearly as significant as this declaration of political purposes. It amounts to a new T declaration of war against many stratas of the population. One of the more striking contradictions of the present time is that the government itself, under the lash of conditions, is encour- j aging some of the “survivals of capitalism in the consciousness of the people.” I refer to piece-work, personal re- J sponsibility for work performed and i other seemingly capitalist ideas which are being vigorously propagated since Stalin called for an end to “leveling of w'ages" and irresponsibility. These things are explained as entirely compatible with socialism—in its early stage. Sooner or later these “survivals” will have to be forcibly eradicated in line with the party's political tasks for the second five-year plan. Shock Brigades Help Collectivist - attitudes are being fortified at the same time, of course. The “shock brigades” in factories and on farms, “socialist competition” among different enterprises. the whole trend of the education of the new generation strengthen the collectivist mentality. For the time being there is doubtless some confusion in the minds of “shock brigadiers.” Possibly many of them can not themselves decide whether they joined the brigades out of enthusiasm, or for the sake of the extra food and other privileges available to the joiners. By the end of the second plan ruch confusion must be “liquidated.” (To Be Continued) FOUR HELD FOR JURY Three Men, Woman Facing Liquor Charge Following Raid. Charged with liquor law violations, three men and a woman today are held under bond for federal grand jury investigation, following hearings before Fae W. Patrick, United States commissioner, Friday. Mrs. Eva Million, 128 West Twelfth street, was released on liquor possession charges when she provided SI,OOO bond. Dudley Barlow and Dewey Clark. Negroes, and Walter Mobley, 1152 South Sherman drive, arrested in a house near Van Buren street and Sherman drive, where police said they found a still, were held under bonds of SI,OOO for Mobley and Clark and SSOO for Barlow,

Virginia Willys Opens Divorce Plea at Paris

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Virgina Willys and Luis Merceline de Aguirre Bn United Press

PARIS, April 9.—Attorneys representing Virginia Willys of Toledo, daughter of the United States ambassador to Poland, made their first pleas in the Seine divorce court today for her divorce from Luis Mercelino de Aguirre of Buenos Aires. Miss Willys was married in London, May 25, 1929. Her husband is a well-known sportsman. The romance began aboard ship when Miss Willys was en route to London to be presented at court. She was married soon after her presentation.

STONE CUTTERS SUE ON WAGES Court Fight Is Started to Restore Pay Scale. By United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 9. Stone cutters and carvers of Monroe and Lawrence counties Friday carried to Monroe circuit court their battle to regain the wage scale set forth in an agreement with operators Jan. 29, 1931. The suit was filed against the Bedford Stone Club. It alleged that operators violated terms of the agreement by slashing the wage scale 20 per cent last Nov. 17. By terms of the agreement, cutters had received $1.25 an hour. Carvers received cents an hour. When the reduction went into effect, the suit contended, workmen agreed to continue work on the reduced scale rather than strike. Today’s action demands that the original sc ile be restored and that losses workmen have suffered as a result of the reduction be paid them. Between 800 and 1,000 stonemen are affected by the suit. Defendants in the case are the Bedford Cut Stone Company, the Bloomington Limestone Company, Empire Stone Company, Bloomington; J. P. Fait Company, Bedford: Carl Furst Company, Bedford; B. B. Hoadley quarries, Bloomington; Indiana Limestone Company of Bedford and Bloomington; Independent Limestone Company, Bloomington; Matthew Brothers Company, Ellettsville; Monon Stone Company, Bloomington; Shawnee Stbne Company, Bloomington, and the ReedPowers Cut Stone Company, Bedford. GAMING LOSS TRAGIC Wife of American Author Attempts Suicide. By United Press NICE, France, April 9.—Ellie Mae Bjorkman, wife of the SweedishAmerican author and journalist, Edwin Bjorkman of Asheville, N. C., attempted suicide today by slitting arteries in her wrists and drinking a hair dyeing preparation. A note addresed to police said; “If, after today, I have nothing left, then I won’t live longer. It's all I can hope for.” Police said the woman had lost heavily at baccarat recently, and had made a last attempt to recoup her losses before trying to end her life.

G. 0. P. RALLY CALLED James M. Knapp to Be Speaker at Bedford, April 23. By United Press BEDFORD, Ind., April 9.—Ninth district Republicans will hear James M. Knapp, Hagerstown, candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor, at a party rally here, April 23. Announcement of the rally was made by Noble Mallott, Lawrence county chairman. Leaders from all sections of southern Indiana are expected to be present, the chairman said. CHINA PROBERS GREETED Peiping Streets Decorated as League Commission Visits City. | By United Press PEIPING, April 9.—The League of Nations commission, headed by Lord Lytton of England, to report to the league on the Manchurian conflict arrived here today en route to Mukden. Peiping’s streets were decorated and strung with banners demanding impartiality.

AVIATION CHIEF URGES END OF BAN ONRUSSIA Resumption of Trade With Soviets Would Give Jobs to Thousands. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS ScriDDS-Howard Foreirn Editor NEW YORK, April 9.—The time for hysterical thinking an& acting about Soviet Russia is past, President Thomas A. Morgan of the Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation and of the Sperry Gyroscope Company declared today. “When millions of American workers are compelled to live by charity alone,” he said with emphasis, “and upward of 100,000 jobs could be created producing commodities for export to Russia, prejudice should be put aside and facts looked in the face. “I am an American, I was born in Granville county, North Carolina. I have served in the armed forces of my country. I have spent about twenty years in development of my country’s trade abroad. I have known Russia for nineteen years—both before and since the revolution. “And yet I say we have nothing to lose and everything to gain by establishment of normal relations •with that country. Would Face Facts “With all the sincerity that is in me as an American citizen, I want to say that no company with which I have been associated would have accepted one dollar of Russian business if there had been one scintilla of evidence that it was in any way harmful to the interests of our own country. “I doubt if there is any other country in the world about which we, as a people, have acquired so much misinformation and so many misleading ideas. I do not advocate any of those ideas, but as one born and raised in this country, I do advocate a common 7 sense facing of the facts. “Czarist Russia bought about $24,000,000 worth of our products annually. Soviet Russian imports from us rose to a peak of nearly $150,000,000 one year. Then something happened. Last year our sales to the Soviets fell off about 60 per cent while Germany’s sales went up 62 per cent and England’s 11 per cent. Sales on Toboggan “Now our sales have dropped ; something like 95 per cent, while | Germany’s are up 112 per cent. “The answer is simple. The bulk I of Soviet imports from this country |is .composed of machinery. When machinery is sold, the custom is for buyers to be extended credit to tide ! them over until the machinery beI gins to produce—to bring in returns. “European countries have adjusted themselves to meet this situation. We haven't. By a system not entirely unlike our Reconstruction Finance Corporation, they have mace it possible for their concerns to extend liberal credit, whereas Americans, for lack of facilities of any kind, are having to demand what amounts to cash. Uses American Money “And the irony of it is that Europe is financing her Russian trade with American money. And while the financial pages of daily newspapers will tell you what is happening to these European securities, Soviet Russia has not defaulted on a single dollar’s worth of commercial orders. “We therefore are witnessing the spectacle of American businessmen refusing to sell goods to a customer who always has paid for what he bought, while financing his almost bankrupt competitor’s business with that same customer. It makes one marvel.” CATTLE MEN TO MEET Annual Session of State Feeders’ Association Slated April 22. Bn Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 9. How wheat and cats can replace corn in a ration for fattening 2-year-old steers, or how wheat alone may replace part of the corn, and how soybeans may be used instead of cottonseed meal as a protein supplement are some of the problems which will be explained at the annual meeting of the Indiana Cattle Feeders’ Association at Purdue university Friday, April 22. Announcement of the meeting was made today by Professor Frank G. King, secretary of the association and chief of the animal husbandry department of the university. ASSAIL DANUBE ‘FIASCO’ French Blame Germans For the Failure of 4-Pow;r Parley. ! By United Press PARIS, April 9.—Germany was blamed today by government officials and the French press for causing the failure of the fourpower conference called at London to insure the economic salvation of the Danubian states. Berlin was accused of hoping to revive the economic anschluss with Austria and create a middleEuropean bloc.

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New Whip

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The new Republican whip of the house of representatives is Representative Carl G. Bachmann of West Virginia, shown above. Bachmann his been selected to succeed the late Representative Vestal of Indiana, who died recently.

BIDS ARE ASKED' ON 28 BRIDGES $300,000 Involved in Jobs in 13 Counties. Bids on twenty-eight bridges- in thirteen counties, involving an expenditure of approximately $300,000, will be received by the state highway commission April 26. it was announced today by John J. Brown, highway director. Four other groups of bridge bids already have been received fbr the 1932 construction season. Bridges included in the April letting are: Road 35. two bridges near Beanblossom, Brown, county. * Road 25. 128-foot structure a mile northeast of Rockfleld, and a bridge one-half mile nor’u of Delphi. Carroll county. Road 44. bridge at 3.8 miles west of Connersville over Williams creek. This structure will be three spans of 110 feet total length and replaces an old covered bridge built many years ago. Road 150, two bridges, one at 1.7 miles southeast of Greenville, and another at approximately nine miles west of New Albany. The latter will be a 150-foot structure over Indiana creek. Road 32. two bridges in Hamilton county, at 4.1 miles east of Noblesville and at one mile west of Lapel. Road 67. five bridges in Knox county, at one mile northwest of Bicknell, at 1.6 miles northeast of Bicknell: at 1.1 miles south of Westphalia: at 1.5 miles southwest of Sandborn. and at one-half mile southwest of Sandborn. Road 15. bridge at the south, corporation line of Warsaw, in Kosciusko county. U. S. Road 6. five bridges in La Porte county, at 4.8 miles west of Kingsbury: at .8 mile east of Kingsbury; .6 miles east of Kingsbury: at 1.4 miles east of Tracv; and at approximately two miles southeast of Union Center. The latter is a 96-foot structure over the Kankakee river. U. S. Road 6. a bridge in Marshall county at approximately 1.2 miles southeast of Walkerton. Road 14. three bridges in Pulaski county, at 4.7 miles west of Winamac; at 3.4 miles west of Winamac. and at 1.9 miles west of Winamac. Road 46. two bridges in Ripley county, one at 2.4 miles west of Penntown, the other at 1.2 miles west of Penntown, CIRCUSES TO LEAVE Big Shows to Quit Peru Quarters Next Week. By United Press PERU, Ind., April 9.—Long lines of brightly colored wagons, newly decorated, shiny cars, troupes of clowns and trapeze artists, and a multitude of trained animals will start from here on the annual summer circus tour next week. Leaving winter quarters, they will go to all parts of the country, making one-day stands in scores of cities. Late next fall, when the 1932 season is completed, they will return again to their winter grounds. The Sells-Floto company is scheduled to leave Monday for Chicago. The Hagenbeck-Wallace circus is scheduled to open its season in Louisville, probably in the early part of May. Prior to the opening, Clyde Beatty, famed lion tamer, is appearing at Madison Square Garden in New York with his lion troupe. The day before the circuses depart, the annual rodeo show, combining talent of all companies, will be held. The John Robinson circus will remain in winter quarters throughout the summer. FIGHT OFFICE CLOSING World Trade Club Against Federal Unit Abandonment. Steps to fight proposed abandonment of the local office of the United States department of commerce were under way today, following a meeting of the World Trade Club Friday. The club went on record as opposed to the proposed action. The local office is one of eighteen which the government is aonsidering closing to reduce expenses. WOMAN ‘TORCH SUICIDE’ Charred Body Is Found in Blazing Bathtub of Kerosene. By United Press CHICAGO, April 9.—Police who entered the apartment of Mrs. Adele Jackman, 72, found the charred body of the aged woman in a biasing bathtub filled with kerosene. “Suicide,” the police said.

HOME SHOW IS NEARING CLOSE Large Crowds Are Expected Tonight and Sunday. Largest crowds of the home complete exposition were expected to throng into the manufacturers’ building at the state fairground tonight and Sunday, closing sessions of the show which opened April 2. Heavy attendance was reported at the show Friday night, many of those present also visiting the 1932 model home, 5240 Cornelius avenue, which is to be given away at the exposition tonight. The model home was shown publicly for the last time Friday night. It is estimated more than 50,000 persons have inspected it. Among tisitors at the show Friday night were Mayor H. Karl Volland, heading a delegation from Columbus. J. Frank Cantwell, home show director, and a delegation which visited the Chicago garden and flower show, returned Friday night.

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BOYS GIVEN PRIZES IN HOUSE CONTEST

Awards Are Presented for Miniature Homes in Times Contest. Formal presentation of prizes won by high school youths in The Times miniature model house contest, held in connection with the realtors’ home complete exposition, was made Friday afternoon at the fairground. Wilbur Metz, 16, Technical high school sophomore, winner of the grand prize, a trip to Washington, D. C., with all necessary- expenses paid by The Times, expects to take the trip in June, shortly following the close of school. Winners of cash prizes in the model house contest included: Second, Eugenee Jones, Central high school, Muncie, $25; third, John King, Manual, S2O; fourth. John Nay, Manual, sls; fifth, John C. Bernloehr, Technical, $10; sixth, Edward Mock, Washington, $5. Winners of seventh to twelfth place prizes of $3 each were: Fred Maar, Manual; Winford Fox, Man-

ual; William Fischer, 632 Sanders street; James Petem, Washington; Raymond Hartson, Manual, and Marion Bugher, Washington. Cash prizes were provided by the Indianapolis Real Estate Board. In addition, three separate prizes for the best landscaped lots were awarded Friday. Winners were: First, Bernloehr, $6; second, Paul H. Krauss 111, Shortridge, $4, and Maar, $2. These prizes were posted by C. M. Hobbs & Son Company and Bertermann Brothers’ Company. Prize winning houses will be retained by the real estate board for display purposes. Houses not winning prizes will be returned to their builders Monday at the Manufacturers’ building, state fairground. Necker Chooses Fine to Marraige CHICAGO, April 9.—Charles B. Keck, 19, arrested on a charge of “necking” with a girl in his automobile was given a choice of paying ass fine or marrying the girl, bv Magistrate John Ehardt. Keck paid the fine.

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LIQUOR SEARCH LAWJSUPHELD ‘Probable Cause’ Approved for Warrants. Indiana supreme court Friday upheld the constitutionality of the 1925 statute providing for issuance of search warrants in liquor cases. The opinion, written by Justice Clarence R. Martin, reverses a decision of Judge John W. Spencer Jr, of Vanderburg circuit court, which held the 1925 law unconstitutional. Martin’s opinion permits issuance of warrants on “probable cause,’’ despite the Wallace case decision of 1927, in which the high court held that “information and belief” is not sufficient for the issuance of a search warrant in liquor cases. Judge Julius Travis dissented from the Martin opinion and Judge David A. Myers was absent. Every child born in the United States—unless his parents are representing foreign governments—is a natural-born citizen.