Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 97, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1932 — Page 3

SEPT. 1, 1932.

BORAH WILLING TO SWAP DEBTS FOR PROSPERITY Favors Cancellation of War Loans If It Will Help U. S. Business. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scrippi-Howird Foreign Editor If the people of the United States are merely to be left holding the bag lor Europe—and are not to receive any benefit whatever in return for reducing or canceling the war debts—then there is no sense in doing anything about the debts at all. Let Europe repudiate. t * Such, in effect, is the attitude of a growing number of Americans, among them Senator William E. Borah (Rep., Idaho). On the other hand, speaking for himself and this group, he frankly states: "If I could use the debts to effect a settlement of those war problems, which would open the markets of the world to the American farmer and the American factory—in other words, if I could purchase the prospertiy of the American people by reducing or canceling these ddebts—l would not hesitate to make the purchase.” Millions Depend on Factories Connection between the man in the street and the coming debt revision is very close, whether he is out of a job and looking for one, ftr has a job and wants to keep it. There are 210,000 manufacturing establishments in this country, according to the latest official count. They employ 10,200,000 people, whose pay envelopes aggregate $15,000,000,000 a year. Including their families, at least 30,000,000 citizens are directly dependent upon whether these industrial wheels keep turning. k Similarly more than 30,000,000 people are living on farms, absolutely at the mercy of world prices for commodities. Normally the factory output is valued at $70,000,000,000. The farm output is valued at $16,000,00,000. In good times, therefore, the gross value of the products of farm and factory foots up to $86,000,000 a year. Output Value Falls Far At present, however, the story is vastly different. Production values have fallen approximately twothirds. That is to say, the total value of the farm and factory output today is hardly more than $30,000,000,000. Thus these two groups of Americans alone—the backbone of the nation —are absorbing a gross revenue cut of about $50,000,000,000 a year. And as the x - est of the people—storekeepers, clerks, builders, bankers, realtors, railroaders, etc.—are almost 100 per cent dependent upon agricultural and industrial prosperity, the entire population is involved deeply. If you happen to be out of a job, that is why. If you have had a pay cut, that is why. If you are afraid of losing your job, that is why. If your business has slumped almost to the vanishing point, that is why. Millions Are Jobless From eight to ten million people in this country are jobless. More than ten million farmers face ruin. Approximately 25,000,000 Americans wAjll need help this winter. And mostly because of this. Obviously .any change in the world situation which would improve conditions permanently, even ever so slightly, literally would be worth billions to the people of the United States. Each 10 per cent improvement in basic conditions would put a million unemployed back to work. It would add five or six billion dollars to the purchasing power of the masses.

Demand would increase. Business would get better. Jobs would be more secure. Commodity, security and property values would be enhanced by tens of millions. Europe owes the United States on war debts approximately $250,000,000 a year, on an average. Soon she w’ill demand revision or cancellation. Much depends upon how the IJnited States meets that demand. From Bad to Worse One way to meet it is to insist on payment in full, regardless. That would almost certainly bring repudiation. We would get absolutely nothing. The world situation would simply go from bad to worse. Another way is to use the debts as a lever to bring about a worldwide settlement of the tax-devour-ing, fear-breeding disarmament deadlock, stop the armaments race and facilitate a European understanding on the other major wartime problems which are blocking the return of prosperity. Europe is not going to pay the war debts as they now stand. To escape the onus of repudiation, however, she would make many valuable concessions. Thus an intelligent, carefully weighted, realist handling of the situation could be made to bring tfhe American people ample quid pro quo for whatever sacrifices they may be called upon to make. Any other course would net them zero. Next “War Debts Payments Versus Armament Upkeep.’’ Japanese Drama Tryouts Called Tryouts for parts in the cast of a Japanese drama to be presented by the Women's Department Club ■urill be held next week under direction of Katherine Kavanaugh of the Municipal Gardens drama club.

One Is Killed as Bomb Wrecks Chicago Building

Two Girls Asleep in Room Across Street Injured by Flying Glass. United I’regg CHICAGO, Sept. I.—A powerful bomb wrecked a $25,000 brick building on the southwest side today, killed a passerby, and injured two girls, who were asleep in a room across the street. Police were unable to determine Whether the bomb was thrown from a nearby "L" platform, self off inside the building or tossed from an automobile into a store entrance. So complete was the destruction that it was impossible, they said, to

BONANZA CANAL STRIKE

Mussels Provide Fine Button Material

A pile of the canal mussels ready to become buttons. Inset: A big mussel man grappling in the canal

A BONANZA as rich in quantity output as the Comstock lode, if not in value, has been struck on the canal near Broad Ripple. The strike has resulted in more than one hundred men sinking to their necks in the canal to garner the valuable treasure at the rate of $lO a ton. The proverbial waterway mine has turned out approximately twenty tons of mussels within the last fifteen days. It was discovered by a shellbuyer for a button factory at Muscatine, la. He noticed the quantity of shells on the canal’s bank. Four crews of mussel-hunters answered his call from the banks of White river and other points in Indiana and Ohio.

80 of Rum Defendants Enter Pleas of Guilty

Three Admit Complicity in Legion Convention Charges. Os 121 persons arraigned td day before Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell on grand jury indictments, eighty entered pleas of guilty and forty-one pleaded not guilty. Most of the defendants are accused of liquor law violations. Guilty pleas were entered by three defendants in a conspiracy case resulting from alleged traffic in liquor during this year’s state convention of the American Legion in Kokomo. They are Rockford D. Robbins and Herman Albrecht, legion members, and James Farduto of Beech Grove. In the same case Roy King, a state policeman, and Ernest Davis pleaded not guilty, and their trial was set for Nov. 15. It is probable sentencing of the other three will be deferred until after the trials. King is Democratic candidate for Howard county sheriff. It is charged that Albrecht and Robbins arranged with Davis, a hotel owner, to set up a bar during the conventio; that King aided in supplying fifty gallons of whisky and Fardute delivered liquor and beer. With exception of one defendant, Roscoe H. Pierson, said to be serving a prison term, defendants in the Terre Haute liquor conspiracy case with which a slaying is said to be linked, pleaded guilty and will be sentenced in Terre Haute on Sept. 12. Guilty pleas are entered by Frank Kamm, Vermilion county surveyor; Albert Nolte, Oris Black, Fred Strammer, Clarence Hawhee, Roy Zick, Forrest Haas and Eugenio Berto. Otto Erickson, Terre Haute garage owner, was found shot to death on a lonely road where he had been called to deliver some gasoline. A theory has been advanced that his death resulted from a belief that he gave information upon which several stills were seized.

ACCUSED OniURDER Mrs. Nellie Kumer to Be Tried for Farm Killing. By Timm Special LIBERTY, Ind.. Sept. I.—lndictment charging Mrs. Nellie Kumer, Union county farm domestic, with murder of Mrs. Eleanor Gunsaulie, her employer, was returned by the grand jury here Wednesday, it was learned today. Mrs. Gunsaulie was shot and killed and her body buried in a shallow grave at the climax of a three-day quarrel between the two women over a dish of sliced tomatoes, according to a confession of the accused woman. Guy Gunsaulie, the victim's husband. is free under bond after being questioned in connection with the crime.

determine how an explosion had been set off. An unidentified man who was walking past at the time of the blast was killed instantly. All his clothes were ripped to shreds, then caught fire from flames which shot from the debris. The body was burned beyond recognition. Rose Patroni, 15. and her sister, Lillian, 17, who were sleeping in their home across the street, were injured by flying glass. All windows in the vicinity were rocked from their casings. The building, at Polk and Paulina streets, housed a drug store and a barber shop. Police said one room had been used by John (Red) Bolton. gangster, as a speakeasy. Bolton formerly had a cabaret on the second floor, but it had been closed.

THE shell, pronounced the best find in some years, resulted in the shell-buyer and his four outfits obtaining permission from the Indianapolis Water Company to “grapple” in the company’s pond. But this permission, said to have been obtained by officials of the company from Ralph Spencer, canal foreman, resulted in unemployed men of the city complaining to The Times that they were not permitted to “grapple” for the mussels unless they sold them to the outfits that work under the discoverer's permit. “No one else is permitted to hunt the shells unless he sells at the rate of $lO a ton to the shellbuyer, who found the mussel mine,” one unemployed worker said. The “grapplers,” those men who

WIKOFF FUNERAL TODAY Liberty Party Senate Candidate to Be Buried in Kansas. Funeral services for Dr. C. S. Wikoff, 42, Liberty party candidate for United States senator, who was injured fatally Saturday when he was struck by an automobile, were held at noo:' today in t_.e J. C. Wilson funeral home, 1230 Prospect street. The Rev. Virgil P. Brock, executive secretary of the Christian Church Union, officiated. " The body will be sent to McPherson, Kan., for burial. Enrollment Hour Is Set Pupils entering Cathedral high school will register starting at 8 Tuesday. Regular schedule of classes will begin Wednesday morning. Enrollment of upper classmen was completed last spring.

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sink neck deep with a bucket to corral the shells, receive their tonnage pay from crews of “cookers,” who work for the shell buyers. The “cookers,” w r ho bake the shells open, receive $25 a ton for the shell. n n n THE entire output, it is said, is sold to a button factory in Muscatine, la. The factory has been shut down, it is declared, because of a shortage of high-class shell and, with the canal “find” a certainty, expects to garner a goodly supply of button material from Indianapolis. Each "grappler” must have a $2 state license to wrestle all day neck deep in water with the buckets of mussels. Nonresidents must pay sls for a license. Attempts of unemployed men of the city to “muscle in” on the mussel hunt has met rebuff from members of the crews under the shell buyers. “We couldn’t have the whole town out here hunting mussels, so we had to give someone a permit,” declared Clemons Blank, superintendent of the water company’s canal property. The “cooking” crews are encamped with the “grapplers” north of Broad Ripple along White river. n sr * “T’VE followed this for five JL years,” declared one “cookei-,” and there’s good money in it if the price of shell was right. We’re getting $25 a ton where it formerly was S6O to SBO a ton.” The proceeds from the shell from both White river and the canal is buying one tenter his rail fare back to health. “The doctor told me I’d have to go west. So I’m making these ash trays out of the discarded and poorer shells,” he said as he pointed to a pile of shells wired into trays. “Got an order from the 10-cent store for some yesterday,” he asserted as he squatted on his haunches in the muddy slough near White river’s bank and wired shells together.

COINCIDENCE IN MISTAKE KILLING IS JjEVEALED Filling Station Man Swam Near His Victim Before Shooting. A coincidence which preceded the fatal shooting of Joseph O. Lee, 20, of 1932 Gross avenue, former Washington high school pupil, was revealed by police today as preparations were being made for the youth’s funeral. According to several members of the ill-fated picnic party of which Lee was a member, Wilbur Tomlinson, 24, of 4251 West Michigan street, filling station attendant, charged with the alleged murder, swam within a few 7 feet of his victim at the picnic scene on Eagle creek a few hours before the shooting. Tomlinson apparently had returned to work at the filling station on Crawfordsville road where Lee and members of his party stopped en route home to fix a broken battery connection. Believing, he said, that Lee stole

Tomorrow, Friday (?“)

“MOP UP”

of Odds and Ends at Given-Away Prices!

Cash ** Carry NO ALTERATIONS NO EXCHANGES NO REFUNDS ALL SALES FINAL

Brought together on the first floor (rear), piled on tables so that you can get at it! 2 to 4 times your money's worth—and then some. While it lasts.

The excitement begins at 8:30 Friday Morning . You must come over .

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11,400,000 Are Jobless in U. S., Says Labor Head

Winter of Unthinkable Suffering Is Faced, Says . Green. By United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. I.—There were 11,400,000 persons out of work in the United States, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, said today. He added that while this was the greatest of number of jobless since the depression started, the month of August, according to reports of his affiliated organizations, showed a definite check in layoffs.

a tire from a rack as the party drove away, Tomlinson fired four shots, one of them piercing Lee’s skull. Tomlinson said he was not aware that his shots took effect. Lee’s companion did not discover the fact for several minutes. Tomlinson, it is related, asked permission of members of the picnic party to swim in the stream at the spot where the party was I bathing. Following conference today with Prosecutor Herbert Wilson, Deput v

Mop Up Sale of Odd Lots of Men's Clothes 22 Men’s Wool fA 7C 3-Piece Suits Single and double-breasted, were up to $25; while they last 9 Men’s Fancy Linen Suits $E OQ Were up to $25; while they last 26 Men’s Trench Coats at SE.OO Belt models, single or double-breasted

Mop Up Sale of Men’s Furnishings

WHITE SHIRTS-Mostiy neckband styles, sizes 14, 14% and 16%; while 44 last OUC SILK SHIRTS — Shantungs, collar attached, sizes 13%, 14 and Qc 14 1 2, were 95c; while 35 last. OOC PATTERNED SHIRTS— Large and small sizes; up to $2.50 values; while 30 last jUv NECKWEAR —l6O Neckties, up to Values 2 fr 25C $1.50 and $2.00 Values 4IOC SWEATERS —Heavy Shaker knits, coat style, maroon color; were $7.50 to $12.50; while 10 last BATHING TRUNKS AND SHIRTS Were 95c; while 17 last, OC/x each GJ G MEN’S “SHORTS’— Rayon shorts, with elastic waistband; were 50c; while 130 . c a last, each 19c O OUC UNION SUITS — Athletic style, of rayon, sizes 36 to 38, while 30 last OUC UNION SUITS— Winter weights, knits, ankle length, sizes 34 and 36, were $3.00 and $3.50; 4 while 19 last, at |

Previously, Green said. 250,000 persons were being thrown into idleness each month. Green was pessimistic about conditions this winter. “With unemployment already double that of last year,” he said, “we face a winter of unthinkable suffering. Between now and next January nearly 2,000,000 persons must count on losing their jobs in industry and agriculture—if layoffs are no more than normal. This will mean well over 13,000,000 out of work next winter. “Jobs must be created by the million if we are to avoid an unparalleled catastrophe.”

Coroner E. R. Wilson announced that no further charges will be preferred against Tomlinson. Funeral service for Lee will be held at 2 Saturday afternoon at the home. Burial will be in Brooklyn, Ind. Names R. F. C. Farm Chief By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. I.—The appointment of Ford Hovey of Omaha, Neb., as chief of the agricultural department of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, was announced by the corporation today.

ROOSEVELT TO MAKE SEVERAL TALKSINSTATE Numerous Out-of-Indiana Orators to Be Sent Here by Democrats. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic nominee for President, will make several addresses in Indiana the latter part of this month, according to tentative plans announced today by R. Earl Peters, state chairman. Previously announced itineraries of the presidential nominee did not include Indiana visits, but because of its importance as pivotal state, Peters has prevailed upon the managers to route Roosevelt through here. Out-of-state orators who will appear here are Governor Albert C. Ritchie. Maryland; Governor Joseph B. Ely, Massachusetts; Mayor James M. Murley, Boston, Mass.; former Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross, Wyoming. and Claude Bowers, New York editorial writer and political historian, who is a native Hoosier.

UNION SUITS— Winter weight knit, sizes 34 and 36, were rA* $1.45 and $1.95, while 20 last. UNION SUITS— Athletic style, broadcloth and madras, size f" 34 only; while 60 last faJv MEN’S HATS— Fine mi*18 Were up to $lO, at 'P" 13 Were up A4 to $3.50. at I STRAW HATS, while 20 last 4,0 C MEN’S CAPS — Were $1; OC* while 13 last MEN S HOSE —I 26 Pairs odds and ends silks, lisle, etc. r A Mostly small sizes.. . Q PrS. Pair, lCc. MEN’S HDKFS. —Silk handkerchiefs; up to SI.OO values, A rr - while 101 last GOLF HOSE —Men’s fine imported golf hose originally sold up CAa to $5; while 70 pairs last www All These Goods On Sale On FIRST FLOOR, REAR.

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