Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 133, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1932 — Page 3

OCT. 13, 1932

CUBAN HUNGER BLAME IS LAIU TO UNCLE SAM People Die of Starvation in island Developed by Sugar Barons. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Stripp.-Hewrd Fnrelrtt Editor - WASHINGTON. Oct. 13— People sre said actually to be dying of starvation in certain areas of Cuba, which ordinarily is a land of milk and honey. To make matters worse from Washington's point of view. Uncle Sam Is held largely to blame. It was he who induced thus paradise of the Caribbean to make herself a one-crop country because of this country's and the world's demand for sugar. The island of sugar now is an island of hunger, disease and death, according to information from the Cuban capital. Not only are many of the inhabitants of some of the more severely stricken areas dead or dying of hunger, but. it is reliably reported. disease is taking the lives of many more. Dr. Angel Alayo, medical officer of the health department, reports more than 1,000 new cases of malaria in seventeen newly infected districts, all traceable to Cuba’s tragic economic plight. Stagnant water, deplorable sanitary conditions in small towns and poverty of the inhabitants are cited as the principal causes of the epidemic.

Residents Are Desperate Scarcity of government funds has resulted in a slump in sanitation activities, it is said, all over the republic, one of the garden spots of the world. According to the Heraldo de Cuba, a government organ, seven workers of the Almeida sugar central, once the pride of the island, have died of starvation, “while families of the more humble members of the colony are in a state of abject desperation.” "The claim is made that the mill has not paid the laborers who made the 1932 crop,” says the Havana Amcrican-News, “in spite of the fact that all sugars ground have been sold or taken by the bankers. The mill . . . has been takerr over by creditors and reorganized. Yet, despite the best efforts of the provincial and federal officials, the wagees due for a year have not been paid.” Feed Children on Grass "The story is too pathetic to tell or to write,” the newspaper continues. “To the right and left the poverty-stricken families can be seen, stretching out their hands. They have no bread or other food. Not a mattress on which to sleep. They lack everything in the world. “Mothers feed their young loved ones grass and other things that can be found in the woods. They live like wild animals, in mud and filth. “Authorities having jurisdiction over the district have tried in vain to locate the owners of the mill so that these poor men who have earned 20 or 25 cents a day by working eighteen hours a day, can get their money, and leave the ‘dungeon’ where sooner or later they will die. It is feared the epidemic of malaria will reach the starvers.” Sugar Industry Demoralized Though this picture admittedly is of one of the worst centers of suffering, it is said that from end to end of the island the workers are in a deplorable state. Some of the sugar centrals are trying to keep their workers alive by a sort of dole system, but so demoralized is the sugar situation that even this makeshift rests upon shaky foundations. Approximately 75 per cent of the Cuban sugar industry is Americanowned or controlled. It dominates Cuban exports and even imports. It has grown to such enormous proportions that it has dwarfed all other industries. It dominates the psfeiand’s government, the island's economics and the very lives of the island's people. When sugar is down, Cuba is down. Against this background is a political situation charged with dynamite. The republic is seething. Machado, upon whom, rightly or wrongly, all the island's ills are blamed, maintains himself in power only by the aid of a big and wellpaid army—well-paid because, without it. revolution would break out over night. Centuries ago the Chinese were cooling their rooms in hot weather by means of braziers filled with ice.

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Workmen erecting a trackless trolley pole at Indiana avenue and W'est. street.

TOPPLES UNDER TRAINVWHEELS Jobless Man Slips, Loses Life: Was Seeking Work. Herbert N. Burrell, 30. of Salem, Ind., was killed instantly Wednesday night at Emerson avenue and the Pennsylvania railroad tracks, when run over by a freight train as he started a “bumming” trip to seeK work. Relatives of the man are sought today as the body was being held at city morgue. Burrell, until a few months ago, was employed at a restaurant on Kentucky avenue. He had been unable to find work, and Wednesday told friends that he was going to find work “somewhre, or bust.” Railroad employes told police that Burrell boarded a Pennsylvania freight bound for St. Louis, Mo. He began to run toward the rear of the train over tops of the cars. Slipping, he fell between two of the cars, beneath the wheels. He was unmarried, according to Thomas Lawrence, 730 North Illinois street, poolroom operator, who identified the body. PUBLISHER’S WIFE DEAD Billy Sunday’s Daughter, Mrs. Mark Haines, Passes in Michigan. By 1 nited Press STURGIS. Mich., Oct, 13.—Funeral services for Mrs. Helen Haines, daughter of William (Billy) Sunday, evaneglist will he beld here at 2 Friday. Interment will be in Oaklawn cemetery here. Mrs. Haines, the wife of Mark Haines, publisher of the Sturgis Journal, died suddenly at her home Wednesday.

City Owns Utilities, So Two Towns Are Tax Free By Times Ryrcinl HUNTINtIBURG. Ind., Oct. 13.—A municipally-owned water and power plant today has made this town taxless for 1933. Members of the Du Bois county tax adjustment board learned from town officials Monday that the town already has $23,000 in cash in a local bank, and that they expect a probable $40,000 profit forthcoming from operation of the utility. “If that's the case there is no reason for a town tax levy next year,” the adjustment board ruled. By United Press PATOKA, Ind.. Oct. 13—The town of Patoka. with a population of 1.000. will have no local tax levy for 1933. The town operates its own water plant, from which sufficient profit is derived to conduct city government. Officials said they had “plenty of money on hand,” and did not desire to burden citizens with additional levies.

Inauguration of Service Early in November Is Expected. Inauguration of trackless trolley service early in November is anticipated by officials of Indianapolis Railways as work is being pushed on erection of about fourteen miles of overhead line and poles. Present overhead system is being rebuilt completely along two routes over which the trolleys will operate The change necessitates placing oi 450 steel poles. Present wood poles and steel will be removed. The new yrpe poles, many of which already have been installed in the downtown section, are bolted into a concrete foundation instead of being inserted in earth. The poles are placed about 100 feet apart and will be painted dark green. With these poles, the new trolleys will be able to swing approximately fifteen feet on either side of the overhead line, permitting flexible operation of busses in traffic. Passengers will board busses downtown at regular street car loading* platforms, but will be admitted at the curb in outlying sections. Automobiles parking along the routes will not be disturbed, and traffic will be permitted to pass trolleys on cither right or left side. Current for the busses will be supplied from overhead lines by swivel trolley poles fitted with shoes on the upper part. Wires will be greased to permit frictionless operation of the shoe. Use Old Recipes on 50th Birthday BOSTON, Oct. 13.—Thompson's Spa, popular stool-and-counter eating place located on Newspaper row, observed its fiftieth anniversary recently by serving several dishes still prepared according to original recipes.

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DR. P. V. ALLEN ELECTED HEAD OF OSTEOPATHS Three Indianapolis Members Given High Honors by Association. Three Indianapolis osteopaths were honored with high offices in the Indiana Osteopathic Association's election on the final day of the annual meeting in the Lincoln. Dr. Paul V. Allen. Indianapolis, was named president of the body. Dr. Albert Dannin. vice-president, and Dr. Kate Williams, treasurer, ; both of Indianapolis, were named. Dr. Williams is serving a second

term as treasurer. Trustees chosen were Dr. William Montague, Evansville, and Dr. W. D. Hall of Kendal- . ville. The president and immediate past president, Dr. L. A. Rausch, South 6end. also are trustees. Other trustees, whose terms have not expired, are Drs. J. C. Guimyer, Elkhart: L. P. Ramsdell, La

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Porte; D. M. Ferj guson, Terre Haute, and G. F. Miller of Anderson. * Dr. Walter 5. Grow, Indianapolis, was re-elected delegate to the convention of the American Osteopathic Association to be held in Milwaukee, Wis., next July. Dr. E. J. Summers, South Bend, was named alternate. One of the principal speakers at the afternoon’s session was Dr. Wesley C. Warner, Fort Wayne, formerly of the faculty of the American School cf Osteopathy at Kirksville, Mo. A resolution protesting the barring of osteopaths from practice in Indiana hospitals was to be approved by the convention at the afternoon session.

AUMITS GUILT IN ARSON CASE 5-Year-old Fire Solved by Brothers’ Confessions. A 5-year-old arson case in which one brother attempted to shield another by accepting blame for the crime, was believed solved today by the alleged confession of Earl Brooks, 24, of 220 South Gray street. Brooks, detectives said, told them he was promised SSO for setting fire to the home of his brother, William Brooks, 543 South East street, but William refused to pay off because firemen extinguished the blaze before much damage was done. Arrested in connection with the burning of his auto about a month ago. William Brooks thought the officers knew of the burning of the house in 1927 and confessed the arson to save his younger brother. Police and fire officials, however, investigated further and {ound William Brooks was out of town on the day of the fire, but that Earl was left at home. Earl admitted, police say, that his broiler offered him money to start the fire, presumably to collect insurance. RUDDELL IS ELECTED Named President of Rotary; Succeeds Edgerton. Almus G. Ruddell, Central Rubber and Supply Company president, will succeed Ralph H. Edgerton as

Rotary Club president, directors announced today, following a meeting Wednesday. Other officers for the coming .year are: Irwin R. Brown, first vie e-president; Harry W. Hobbs, second vice-presi-dent; James Duane Dungan, reelected secretary; Gwynn F. Patterson, re-elected

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geant-at-arms. Ruddell is the first director ever to become president.

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CONVICT CARL LOSEY OF NEGLECTING CHILD Former State Cop Ordered to Pay for Support of Son, 13. Experience as a former state policeman which, police say. he boasted would “keep him out of court, failed Carl Losey, Indianapolis attorney, today, when he objected to supporting his son Carl Jr., 13. Losey was found guilty of child neglect, reprimanded by Juvenile Judge John F. Geckler and was ordered to pay $8 weekly for the child’s support. Police officers testified Losey bragged they never could bring him into court.” This happened when his wife Pearl. 721 Olin avenue, filed an affidavit charging neglect.

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TRIP TO WEST COAST WILL BE CUT 150 MILES I _____ Railway Project Is Step Nearer Realization in Colorado. By r nited Press CLEVELAND, Oct. 13. —The dream of railroad builders seeking a shorter route to the Pacific coast is a step nearer realization after final organization of the Denver and Salt Lake Western Railroad Company with authority to proceed w ith construction of the Dotsero cutoff. Directors of the new compaay announced construction would start before Nov. 15. The project involves a forty-one-mile cut through the mountains from Dotsero, Col., to Oresod, Col., and will reduce the distance from the midwest to the coast by 150 miles. The company officially was established here today at a meeting of the board of directors of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad which owns the stock in the new company. When finally completed, the Dotsero project will make the Denver and Rio Grande western a vital link in the shortest route for transcontinental travel. The project was proposed years ago. but has met numerous delays largely due to lack of funds. It was authorized by the interstate commerce commissio, and. in August of this year, a loan of $4,000,000,000

was authorized by the Reconstruction finance Corporation for its construction. Hawaii’s sugar crop this year is expected to pass the one million ton mark, for the first time in Hawaiian history.

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Baptists Will E'ect T"dajr j By Vnilnt Press j EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 13. Election of officers of the Indiana Baptist convention will close the ninety-ninth annual meeting of the organization here today.