Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 200, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1932 — Page 2

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SETTLEMENT OF RUSSIAN DEBT IS HELD LIKELY Issue May Be Decided as General Revision Plan Is Reached. BY WILLIAM PHILIP NIMMB Seriees-Heward Fortltn UlUr - WASHINGTON. Dec. 30.—American claims aganiat Soviet Russia loialing approximately 1800,000.000 now stand an excellent chance of being settled along with the inevitable general revision of Europe’s $11,000,000,000 war debts to the United States. " indications are increasing that the incoming Roosevelt administra- _ tion will reverse the Hoover policy of complete aloofness from contact with Russia, and that conversations between Washington and Moscow will be initiated shortly after March 4. Conditions both inside and outside Russia have changed radically since American policy was formed a decade ago, both Democratic and Republican leaders here now hold, . and the time is ripe for a re-exam- ' ination of the whole setup. Settlement Held Likely Even some of President Hoover s official household privately admit ' there is now little differences be- . tween the attitude of France and some of the other debtor nations of Europe, and that of Russia. _ in fact, Russia’s position in some respects is held to be the more tenable. While she has disclaimed respon- , aibility for czarist and Kerensky debts because the money was used, at least in part, to oppress the Rus- . sian masses or to finance the allied • war against the existing regime, she repeatedly has offered to sit down .it > table with the United States • and Europe, and effect a Settlement on a reciprocal basis. Roosevelt's “Mind Open” President-Elect Franklin D. Roose--velt has “an open mind” on Russia. Many of his party leaders already are on record in favor of a resumption of normal relations. This is taken to indicate that a settlement with Russia is likely on -fundamentally the same practical basis as with Britain, France and the other debtor nations of Europe. - Europe’s attitude on war debts, furthermore, is seen as paving the way for Russia to make a sweeping settlement, not only with the United States but of her entire foreign obligations. Britain, France and the rest • hardly could refuse to pay the . money the United States let them .have in the darkest hour of their national peril, and, at the same time, demand that Soviet Russia .make good the debts of the czar and Kerensky. Valid Counter Claims The Lausanne settlement with Germany likewise has a bearing on the issue. There, the allies agreed tn settle the original $32,000,000,000 reparations claims against Germany - for $114,000,000, or less t han 3 cents ' on the dollar. ' As Russia’s total, pre-revolution, foreign debt amounts to approximately $8,000,000,000, mostly owed to Britain and France, settlement in full on a Lausanne basis would require less than $200,000,000. And against such sum, Russia apparently has valid counter claims against the allies on account of “intervention following the 1917 revolution. Sum Is Near $800,000,000 As 1o the American claims, President Calvin Coolidge stated that all the United States asks is recognition of the Kerensky loans, amount- ; ~ing to some $190,000,000, plus the miscellaneous claims of individual Americans amounting to $430,000,“000 gross. •- This latter admittedly is high, de- • liberately so fixed‘for bargaining purposes if and when a mixed -claims commission finally meets to adjust the amounts. With interest, the total now is -roughly $800,000,000, less the considerable amount of claims already ..settled privately between Russia and the American interests involved.

MACON COMMANDER TO START DUTY JAN. 2 Vincennes Man, Alger H. Dresel, to Be Dirigible Skipper. B v S EA. Strckti AKRON. 0.. Dec. 30—Com--mander Alger H. Dresel, appointed commanding officer of the U. S. S. Macon, will report for duty here about Jan. 2. Commander Dresel will watch the fitting out of the huge craft, and will take charge of It when it is finished. He has been in command of the U. S. S. Akron for several months, and has been putting it through rigorous tests. It is thought that these flights will reveal Improvements in structure which will be -'made in the Macon. The naval officer was born in Vincennes. Ind., and was appointed to the United States naval academy in 1907. He had been attached to the naval air station at Lakehurst since 1925. NEW CARS ARE READY Hudson and Essex Models Will Be Shown in New York. New Hudson and Essex models, with a price range of from $425 to 41.500 will be ready for display Jan. 7. dealers attending a meeting on Thursday at Losey Motors, Inc., were told. • • Dealers were guests of the distributing company to heard W. R. Tracy, Detroit sales manager of the Hudson factory. Tracy asserted the company will show a surprise car “that is an outstanding example of automotive development” at the New York preview. The Detroit factory already is humming with activity in production of the new models, he said, and 4.200 workers have been recalled and $12,000,000 worth of materials purchased. Copper Ytile Cards Sent By United Prci* - PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 3<L-Christ-mas cards of copper were sent out this year by residents of Arizona, a Copper producing state. The cards carried the name of the sender printed in ink.

Dr. Horace Ellis, Father of Commissioner, Is Dead

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Two Weeks’ Illness Fatal to Hoosier; Taken at Chicago. Dr. Horace Ellis, 71, an outstanding educator and father of Howell Ellis, member of the public service commission, died today at his home in Chicago, following a two weeks’ illness. Dr. Ellis formerly was state superintendent of public instruction under James P. Goodrich, former Governor. Active in state governmental affairs until 1919, when he retired. Dr. Ellis then became associated with the Chicago headquarters of the Republican national committee, serving as director for several years.

Roosevelt May Be Most Powerful of Presidents

Greatest Authority of All Peace-Time Executives Is Party Aim. BY RUTH FINNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Franklin D. Roosevelt will exercise powers greater than those given any peacetime President if plans of his Democratic leaders in congress are successful. In addition to blanket power to reorganize government departments and independent agehdies, proposals have been made for giving the new President greater authority over government expenditures, a power jealously guarded by congress in the past. If congress specifies that certain governmental services shall be rendered and appropriates money to do it, the executive branch has no right at present to refuse to spend the money, though delays and difficulties arc often interposed, such as those surrounding public works funds provided by congress last July. If President-Elect Roosevelt is given blanket authority to reorganize departments he will have a power long coveted by President Hoover, but denied him by congress. The unfriendly reception given Mr. Hoover’s tentative reorganization plan even by members of his own party, has brought Democratic leaders to the conclusion that the executive must be given sweeping powers if consolidation and elimination of departments actually is to take place. Mr. Roosevelt will have a large

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Influenza is going its deadly rounds. Take every possible precaution to avoid coming down with the flu. These simple rules are based on sound medical opinion: Get lots of sleep and eat; wisely: it is the run-down man or woman who usually succumbs first to germs. Keep thr system alkaline; an acid condition invites colds and other weakening disorders. Keep the bowels open so poisons will not accumulate and lower your resistance.

Dr. Horace Ellis

Dr. Ellis was born July 9, 1861, on a farm in Morgan county, where he was reared. For many years he was engaged in school work and served as superintendent of schools at North Vernon, West Lafayette and Franklin. In addition he was president of the Vincennes (Ind.) university and the Idaho State Normal school for several years. He was elected to the Indiana school superiptendency in 1916. serving there until 1919. Survivors, in addition to the son Howell, are the widow and a second son, Dr. Max M. Ellis, professor in the University of Missouri, at Columbia. Arrangements for the funeral, to be held here, have not been made.

party majority in each house of congress, an aid to accomplishment not enjoyed by any President since Warren G. Harding. Mr. Roosevelt will have the additional advantage of co-operation from Democratic Governors in a great majority of states, enabling him, if he chooses to do so, to exert wide influence over local taxation, relief and other problems. CRACK Yeggs Use Heavy Hammer to Smash Combination at Supply Firm. Money and checks for a total of ”$259 were stolen Thursday night from a safe in the office of the Home Lumber and Supply Company, 916 East Michigan street. Paul Bow'man, 1809 Bellefontaine street, is manager of the company. Entering the office through a side windows the yeggs used, a heavy hammer to smash the combination and punches were used to cut out the lock. The burglary was discovered this morning by an employe, Henry Frye, 512 North East street, apartment four. $5.60 IN EGGS STOLEN Parked Auto Is Looted: Clothing Also Taken by Thieves. Thieves took eggs and clothing from two parked automobiles and a truck Thursday, according to reports to police. The eggs, contained in a case and valued at $5.60, were stolen from a truck belonging to Stanley C. Thompson, New' Ross, Ind. Automobile owners who lost clothing were Miss Hester O’Maley, Detroit, a guest at 3055 North Illinois street, and Robert Winkler, 246 Buckingham drive.

Get plenty of fresh air and breathe through your nose. Avoid any close contact with others; remember, flu is highly contagious. Don’t dose yourself with a lot of medicine. You can alkalinizc your system against colds with a little Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia. If you should catch cold, take some Bayer Aspirin; if your throat feels at all sore, crush the tablets in water and gargle. But if you detect any sign of flu, or even suspect it, get to bed at once .and call your physician.

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SAILOR-LAWYER 1 DECIDES LEGAL CAREER IS BEST But There’s Always Danger That Lure of Sea Will Be Too Strong. (Continued From Page One) able-bodied seaman, a rank which he holds today. Back from the tropics, Dowling again scorned his law books. In 1928 he shipped from New Orleans to San Francisco on a coastwise steamer. In Frisco he lived at the Y. M. C. A., but his playground remained the waterfront, where he soon fell in with what he believed to be a boon companion and hale fellow, well met. The sailor invited Dowling and a companion to visit his ship. They

did. They were wined and dined j aboard. Pretty girl companions j joined them in the frolicking. Helped to Fire Cannon “When I awoke we were just passing through the Golden Gate en route to sea,” Dowling relates. For the next six months he did his able-bodied seamanship on a 100-foot whaling boat, helping to fire a Svend Foyn cannon at the i leviathans of the deep. Name of the whale boat was the I Traveller. It was part of a fleet i working with the mother ship Lansing. ‘During our six months at sea ws harpooned 110 whales,” Dowling declared. “We would tow them back to the mother ship, where the butchering took place. Took 85-Ton Whale “Our biggest capture was an eighty-five-ton whale. We brought in blue whales, finbacks and humpbacks. “On one occasion, one of the big ■whales dragged us hither and yon about the ocean for eighteen hours after we hit him with the harpoon. “Sometimes we would remain away from the mother ship as long as five days. Then we would return with a whole flock of whales.” Back in Frisco, Dowling had enough of whaling, but not enough of the sea. He shipped for Africa and was gone eight months, sailing up the Congo and Niger rivers. Then came a trip to Alaska aid it was 1930 before he was back in Gary in his law office.

HISEY IS ELECTED BY CARAVAN CLUB Named President at Final Meeting of Year. Edwin R. Hisey w'a.s elected president of the Caravan Club at the final meeting of the year in the Murat temple Thursday. Other officers are John G. Geiger, vice-president; Homer L. Cook, reelected secretary; John W. Stokes, treasurer, and Guy Rutherford, sergeant-at-arms. Hartman Rites Set for Saturday Funeral services for Wayne Hartman, 18, who was injured fatally Thursday when his auto was hit by a Nickel Plate freight train at the Fall Creek parkway crossing, will be held at 2 Saturday in the home of his parents in Fishers. The body will be taken to Highland for burial.

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Tanker Crew Is Rescued From Blaze in Sea Blast

35 Men Are Forced to Abandon Ship *'hen Oil Explodes. Bp Tnilfrt Pee** WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—The u S. Delaware Sun has rescued the crew of the tanker Doris Kellogg, which caught fire off the Florida coaat Thursday, coast guard headquarters here said today. The coast guard said the tanker, en route from Port Arthur, Tex., to Philadelphia, had sent out a call for assistance from a point in the Atlantic of Fernandina, Fla., and the Delaware Sun had responded. The coast guard boat Yamacraw was standing by the abandoned vessel at dawn today, and reported the ship ablaze from midship aft. The five-masted schooner Edna Hoyt, in distress off Cape Hatteras, was taken in tow Thursday night by the coast guard cutter Mendota. Coast guard headquarters said the

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Mendota was proceeding to Norfolk. Va., with her tow. The Edna Hoyt’s crew of eleven remained aboard the disabled vessel. The Delaware Sun proceeded to Marous Hook, Pa., with the entire crew of thirty-five men rescued from the Doris Kellogg. Two tanks of oil exploded aboard the Doris Kellogg, starting a fire which swept from amidships to stern. The crew, forced to abandon the tanker, was picked up by the Delaware Sun. about thirty-five miles off Cape Hatteras, southeast of the Frying Pan Shoals lighthouse. Both ships had left Port Arthur. Tex., about the same time, and were due at Marons Hook Saturday. They had traveled in sight cf each other throughout the trip and the Delaware Sun witnessed the explosion and fire aboard the other vessel. For cold nights anew electric blanket has been produced.

COLLEGE GIRL IS SHOT IN ROW AT DANCE HALL Condition Critical; Alleged Assailant Wounded in Fray. Bp r titled Perm RUSHVILLE. Ind.. Dec. 30 —Two persons were reported in a serious condition in hospitals today as the Rush county grand jury began investigation into a shooting at a Milroy dance hall. Mary Ellen Cooper. 19, Hanover college student spending the holidays with her parents at Clarksburg. was in a Greensburg hospital suffering bullet wounds said to have been inflicted by Roscoe Beagle, 26. Newpoint. Beagle, receiving treatment at the hospital here, said he was shot by Woodrow Richey, Milroy. Richey

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was held without charg* tn the county jail pending the investigation. The shooting occurred, police were told, Thursday night, when Miss Cooper refused the attention! of Beagle, a former acquaintance! at the dance. First reports indicated Beagls had shot himself after firing at Misi Cooper. Hospital attaches here fused to say what chances BeaglW has for recovery, but indicated he was slightly improved. Miss Cooper was reported in a serious condition.

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