Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 304, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1932 — Page 4

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RARE SIGHT TO | BE VISIBLE IN SKIES MAY 3 * Jupiter Without Moons to: Be Spectacle for Star Gazers. Bm StMuct Srrr4e PHILADELPHIA. April 29 —One of the rarest of astronomical spectacles—that of the planet Jupiter without any moons—will be visible to star-gazers equipped with small telescopes on the evening of Tues-' day. May 3. Jupiter, largest of .the earth's family of planets that revolve around the sun. is provided with nine satellites, or moons, of which four easily are visible through even a small telescope. These, in the or- j der of distance from Jupiter, are 10, Europa. Ganymede and Callisto. As they travel in their orbits around Jupiter, these bodies often disappear from view, in one of three ways. A moon may disappear behind the planet; it may come in front of the planet, where its similarity of color makes it invisible, or if may enter the shadow of Jupiter. It disappears then because the moons are seen only by reflected light., and trh' , n this illumination is cut off, the satellite can not be seen. Next Time m 1939 Any of the four large moons may J so vanish, and every day one or! more do so. It often happens that two are gone simultaneously, and occasionally three disappear at once, leaving only a single satellite visible. Very seldom do all four vanish together, leaving a moonless Jupiter j on view-, but this is what will happen next Tuesday. The last time this happened, when JupitfT could be seen from the United States, was on May 10. 1914. After next Tuesday it will . not be seen again from this part of the world until July 16. 1939. If you look at Jupiter at 6 p. m.. central standard time, or. the evening of May 3, you will see two moons to the east of the planet and one to the west. From east to west j they are Callisto. 10. and Europa. Ganymede already has disappeared, having hidden behind the planet j at 4:12. Then, at 6:45. Europa follows it Into hiding. Two moons remain, both to the east. At 7:51.4. Callisto ; moves into the shadow of Jupiter, leaving only Io still visible. This | only continues for about half a minute 1 , for at, 7:52 Ganymede emerges from behind the planet, and once again there are two visible, to the east. * One Moon Seen But at 8:04 Io vanishes, as it crosses the planet’s face. Again only one moon is to be seen. Ganymeade to the east. At 9:24.7 Ganymede has moved over far enough to enter the planet's shadow, and then no moons at all are visible. This state of affairs continues I until 10.20. when 10, having crossed the disc of Jupiter, reappears. At 12:07.5 a. m., Europa emerges from | the shadow, which it entered be- i fore it passed from behind the ; planet. By thus time Jupiter has j set for people in the eastern United States, but it still is visible In the west,. At 12:43.3. Callisto reappears from the shadow in which it was eclipsed. Now three satellites are visible. Europa and Callisto to the cast. Io to the west. Finally, at 1:01.7. Ganymede emerges from the shadow, and joins his brothers to the east. Once again, all four moons are shining. HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS TO VISIT INDIANA U. Special Program* Is Arranged For May 7 Guests. Bn 7'itPif* Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., April 29. J Indiana high school pupils will be entertained Saturday. May 7. in a special state high school day program at Indiana university, according to plans announced here today. President William Lowe Bryan of the university has sent an invitation to Tiigh school pupils through their principals and indications are that the attendance, from many parts of the state, will reach 1.000. A special program is being arranged, to include university 1 sightseeing through the observatory, ' library, medical school, scientific laboratories, and other points of Interest. Thp university band will play and deans and student leaders will welcome the visitors at a reception in the new Union building. High school headquarters will be In the new building. All high school pupils will be guests of the athletic department at the Ohio State— Indiana Big Ten baseball game In the afternoon. Deny Royal Dutch Crists F '■ I Kited Prrmi AMSTERDAM. April 29 —Rumors I that Sir Henri Deterding had resigned or intended to resign as head of the Royal Dutch Oil Interests were denied today by directors of the company here. Reports Thursday that Sir Henri might resign sent Royal Dutch shares tumbling on the tourse.

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How the price of cotton har fallen, despite the $500,000,000 federal farm board's activity since its formation in 1929. is shown in the above chart, prepared from data compiled by the United States department of commence and covering cotton prices from 1910 to the present. Four purposes of comparison, a price of 12.4 cents a pound is rated Rt 100 per cent.

Tlii* i Ih* *rnH f Ihrff utorim nn h* Federal Farm Roard. Incle s*m' sV*n,<tfWl.nPO nrganliation which *u d* - aimed to halt falling farm price*, ft* expenditure of IiM.IHHI.IIM In trrlnf to pea wheat and cotton prlreA *oon la to Investigated by a aenate committee. BY RODNEY DITCHER NFA Service Write* (Coovrisht. 1933 NEA Service. Inc.) WASHINGTON. April 29. The federal farm board, if you judge it by what has happened to the farmer in the nearly three years since it was appointed to effect his relief, has been a frightful failure. Otherwise, it would not be in for such intense scrutiny from congress as it will receive during ♦he investigation bv the senate agricultural committee. Battered bv a 50 per cent decline in farm prices since 1929. by huge surpluses in the big crops, by continued depression with its effect of lower consumption. by rural bank failures and drought and other adversities for which the farm board - hardly can be blamed, the American farmer today is far worse off than before he ever heard of the agricultural marketing act. which was hailed as the means of his salvation. Farm income fell from about, sl2 000.000.000 in 1929 to about $7,000,000,000 in 1931. Farm prices stand at about two-thirds the pre-war level. a a a MEANWHILE, the farm board has drawn $500,000,000 of Uncle Sam's money to improve marketing conditions, stimulate and aid co-operatives and. when the big breaks in wheat and cotton came, to plunge into the market thorugh the Grain Stabilization Corporation and Cotton Stabilization Corporation in an effort to hold up the price. The general results are wellknown. The board bought 330,000.000 bushels of wheat and. when it made its figures public last fall, still held 190.000.000 bushels. It paid an average of 82 cents a bushel. Wheat lately has been selling below 60 cents. On the first of last November the board estimated a "paper loss" of $102,000,000. Congress has since voted 40,000.000 bushels of the wheat for unemployed relief and a few million bushels have been sold. m m a CARRYING and operating charges have mounted on the

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wheat, and the same goes for cotton. The board bought 1.310,000 bales of cotton at 16.3 cents a pound and cotton has been down around 6 cents. The cotton is being held, by agreement, until 1933. The situation became so desperate that at, one time the board suggested that all cotton farmers plow under a third of their crop. The "paper loss" on cotton was estimated last November at $75.000 000. The "paper losses.” vhich the board declines to consider actual losses until the tabilization operation is completed, may increase or decrease with the fluctuation of prices. The board also lent money on cotton up to 90 per cent of the prevailing market price, and has been faced with a lass of $40.000.000 in loans not now secured because of the great price drop. a a a 'T'HE taxpayer, of course, is bound to get it in the neck and stabilization efforts have been discredited. As President Hoover said, any such attempt at farm relief as the agricultural marketing act would be experimental. The experimental attempt to buck the law of supply and demand during a period of huge world-wide agricultural overproduction and underconsumption, ended disastrously. A tremendous amount of eritirism has followed revelation that two officials of co-operatives sponsored by the board have been receiving salaries of $75,000 and $50,000 a year respectively, with salaries of other officers in proportion. The board created —or helped create —such national co-opera-tives as national sales agencies for groups of co-operatives associations dealing in specific commodities. Those best known are the Farmers' National Grain Corporation and the American Cotton Co-Operative Association. man THROUGH control Pxcrcised along with the granting of loans, the co-operatives have come to be regarded as farm board subsidiaries. Although the stabilization corporations represented purely a farm board venture, they were placed in charge of the two co-operatives. E. F. Creekmore. vice-presi-dent and general manager of the

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A. C. C. A., receives $75,000 a year. He will also receive plenty of attention from the investigating seantors. He admitted, when examined by the agriculture committee last November, that the average cotton farmer's income was about S3OO a year. Creekmore was formerly a cotton merchant at Ft. Smith, Ark. His associates say he used to make as much as $75,000 a year in the cotton business. Farm Board members have insisted that the salary was not exorbitant. because it was essential to obtain the services of a master hand for such a vitally important position. a a a THE cotton co-operative's pay roll runs about $1,000,000 a year. H. G. Safford. vice-presi-dent and sales manager, makes $35,000 a year. George S. Milnor, general manager of the grain co-operative, receives $50,000 a year. He used to be associated with a milling* company in Alton, 111. The grain corporation has 947 employes. J. M. Chilton, vicepresident and general manager, gets $32,500 a year and W. I. Beam, treasurer. $30,000. “With a business of that magnitude. a salary of that kind Is not out of line with Industrial operations," says James C. Stone, chairman of the farm board, with reference to Milnor. One criticism of the farm board is based on the fact that under Chairman Alexander Legge, it first offered the managership of the co-operative and the Grain Stabilization Corporation to James K. Murray, president of the Chicago Board of Trade. NEXT: What friends of the farm board say it has done for the farmer in preventing prices from going still lower. FIVE IN ORATORY FINALS Four Young Men. One Woman to Compete at Kirshbaum. Finals of an oratorical contest will be held Sunday night at Kirshbaum Center .when five young men and a young woman will compete. They are Ebner Blatt, Julian Sector, Lester Engle: Charles Feiblernan, Sylvia and Melvin Lichten*berg. Sponsors of the contest are the Beth-El Men's Club and the Jewish Community Center Association.

'negro battles GUARDS;DELAYS HIS EXECUTION Tear Gas Subdues Doomed Slayer in Frantic Fight to Escape Chair. By flatted Pres* EDDYVILLE. Ky„ April 29—The final minutes before death in the electric chair which engender in most prisoners a religious calm, brought only fury from Walter Holmes, 31-year-old Chicago Negro who fought off his executioners for an hour and a half. Holmes died in the electric chair at state prison here at 2:12 a. m Tear gas fumes still lurked in his cell as he wa, led forth subdued, smiling and smoking a cigarpt. There had been a terrific struggle. The Negro was to have died with A. B. i Pegleg Cooksey. Negro, who killed Police Chief John H. Ashby at Madisonville and Charles Rogers. 23. Chicago, convicted with Holmes of slaying Thomas Tillery. Hardin county farmer, during a robbery and criminal attack foray through three states. Cooksey and Rogers died shortly after midnight. When guards went back for Holmes, he was runing hot water into a cup and sent them back with a cry by hurling the scalding fluid at them. They closed in again. The Negro wrenched a pipe from the plumbing in his cell and beset them. The guards retreated for a consultation. The Negro's curses rang out In the corridors. Tear gas was obtained. The Negro relented when its stinging fumes almost blinded him. The prisoner some hours before had stabbed Guard Claude Ramey with a crude weapon made from a water bucket handle. Ramey's wo\iad was not serious. PLANT MAY~ EXPAND Inland Steel Company Considers Move to Duplicate Factory. By fatted Pi <■* HAMMOND. Ind.. April 29. Plans of the Inland Steel Company to duplicate its present plant at Indiana Harbor were disclosed at a hearing conducted by Colonel W. G. Caples, United States district engineer. Urging that their petition to fill in a large area off the shore of Lake Michigan be granted, representatives of the company said the land on which they proposed to build would "render available a site for duplication of our present mills."

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Paul Duncan Butler university's representative in. the final competition in the national intercollegiate oratorical contest to be held in Chicago Saturday will be Paul Duncan, a senior. Five other speakers will compete for the national title. Duncan, according to Professor Claude Sifritt. hepd of the Butler speech department, is one of the best orators ever developed ar Butler. He won the state contest in 1930. and has placed in various other state and local contests. STAPP 10 RACE HERE Auto Driver's Injuries Are Not Serious. Injury to Babe Stapp. race driver, who crashed at Ascot track. Los Angeles, Wednesday night will not prevent him from competing in the annual 500-mile race here May 30. a wire from Art Pillsbury. American Automobile Association representative, to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, stated today. Pillsbury indicated that early reports of the accident were exaggerated. "Stapp was badly shaken up and has an arm broken, but otherwise he is coming through fine," Pillsbury said. "I have accepted his entry in your race. He will drive a Gilmore Special, owned by Art Sparks. Stapp will be there and expects to drive. His entry will be sent you by air mail tonight." Entries for the Decoration day race close at midnight Monday. May 2. and applications postmarked before midnight. are accepted.

'THOUSANDS JAM | JAILS OF INDIA 40,000 Arrested in Effort to Crush Civil Revolt. By f Hifftf Prfi t LONDON. April 29 —lndia's Jails and prison camps are filled with thousands of Natrona lists, men and women, as the result of Mahatma Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign and the efforts of the Indian government to crush the movement

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by a series of the most repressive measures in the history of the Na- . t ion alt.it movement. More than 40,000 pr-ons w '* arrested and convicted in the government drive during the first j three months of 1932. and several thousand more have been detailed during April. Leaders of the Indian national congress claim that despite the imprisonment of scores of the most prominent figures, the government has failed to strangle the movement, but only driven it underground. Government spokesmen hfsitate to claim victory. Hundreds of persons are injured daily in clashes with police, according to information reaching London.