Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1933 — Page 5

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U. $. SOON TO OPEN BIDS FOR BUILDING 32 WARSHIPS; $238,000,000 TO BE SPENT American Fleet Is Third in Size, Lagging Far Behind Japan; Britain Still Is Holding Top Rank. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS SrrioP-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON. July 11.—As a first step to remedy the present weakness of the American navy, bids will be opened two w r eeks hence for the construction of thirty-two warships to cost approximately $238,000,000. To set an example in disarmament for the rest of the world, the United States has held back its building program— while others forged ahead until today, it authoritatively is stated, Uncle Sam ranks third after Great Britain and Japan. | '

Under the terms of the treaties of Washington and London the United States is entitled to maintain a navy equal to Britain’s. The Washington treaty gave Japan three tons to Britain's and America's five. Later the London treaty improved Japan's position to 7 to 10. Japan Keeps Up With Quota By maintaining a steady annual building program—as she was entitled to do under treaty—Britain has kept pretty well up to her total allotment of 1,201,000 tons. Japan has kept absolutely up to the 763,000 allowed her. But so far behind has the United States dropped—by voluntarily refraining from building new tonnage, j through obsolescence, budgetary inability to keep up with repairs, modernization and personnel re- j quiremonts, that America today ac- ! tually has in commission a fleet inferior to that of Japan. Even after the thirty-two vessels above mentioned have been completed we still will have 204,000 tons to build to catch up with our treaty allotment, while Japan will only have to build 10,313 tons. Armament Race Threatens Japan already has given warning j that when the existing agreements expire in 1936 she intends to demand equality with Great Britain and the United States. She is out after a ratio of 5-5-5 ! instead of the present 10-10-7, and j unless she gets it, she has intimated, i she will withdraw from the naval j conference as she did from the League of Nations, and regain a free ! hand to build as she pleases. Thus a dangerous armament race threatens. The new 32-ship program will be spread over the next three years. During 1934, it is propased, $46,000,-' 000 will be available, with $105,000,000 during 1935 and the rest during 1936. Recovery Act to Pay Bill There will be two aircraft carriers of 15,000 tons each; four light cruisers (6-inch guns) of 10,000 tons; twenty destroyers totaling 31,400 tons; four submarines totaling 5,600 tons, and two gunboats of 2,000 tons each. The money will be provided out of the national industrial recovery act fund for public works. Definite plans for distribution of ■ the construction have not been made. Navy department policy is to construct about 50 per cent of all naval vessels at navy yards, and the other 50 per cent in private shipyards. 17 Now Under Construction Four main home bases are planned in the new program. Two will be located on the Atlantic and two on the Pacific coast. San Francisco bay and the Bremerton navy yard likely will b? the Pacific bases and probably Norfolk and Narragansett bay the Atlantic ones. The thirty-two vessels do not include the seventeen now under construction. These ships will require approximately 290 new airplanes, money for which, it is announced, will be forthcoming from the same source. One heavy cruiser (eight-inch guns)—authorized in 1929 under the terms of the London treaty, but which can not be laid down .until Jan. 1. 1934—wi1l be bid for with the other thirty-two ships. CRIMINAL COURT PETIT JURORS TAKE POSTS County Panel Is Completed After Selection of Seven. Petit jury to serve in criminal court for the remainder of the year was completed Monday with the selection of seven additional talesman. Clyde C. Karrer, judge pro tern., presided in the absence of Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker, who had selected the first five jurors. Members of the complete jury are; Fred Harting, R. R. 12. Box 305; John Hanna. 294 North New Jersey street; Albert Fuhrman. 2165 North Harding street; Charles E. Bates, 1229 Martin street; Roy C. Gault, j 634 West Thirtieth street: Roy Sahm, 3934 Guilford avenue; John C. Link, 1519 Lawrence street; John L. Heshelman, 4050 Otterbein avenue; Charles Gritt, 2724 Graceland avenue; Harry C. Geldemeier. 1261 West Thirty-third street; Hatha Gilmore, 255 North Tacoma avenue, and L. E. Brarham. 1109 Hanna avenue.

SHIP OF ITALIAN AIR FLEET HEAD DAMAGED Minor Accident Occurs in Attempted Take-Off to Labrador. B;i t tiited Press REYKJAVIK, Iceland. July 11.— The steering gear of General Italo Balbo’s seaplane, leader of the fleet of twenty-four Italian flying boats en route to the Chicago exposition, was reported slightly damaged today when the planes tried vainly to rise from a glass-like sea and make for Cartwright, Labrador. Balbo planned another try but conditions at 11 a. m. made him j decide to wait at least until Wednesday to make the 1,500-mile ! jump to Cartwright.

Mother Enjoys Swimming Lesson Along With Tots

‘Duck Float’ Is Difficult, but She Shows Youngsters She Is Capable. Mr. and Mrs. Average Reader joined The Times-Broad Ripple pool free swimming course Monday. They came ostensibly to enter their two children, but when that had been done, they inquired hesitantly if they might not take the lessons, too. “Come on in; the water’s fine,” Earl Montgomery, swimming instructor at the pool, told them. So Mr. and Mrs. Average Reader lined up on the edge of the Broad Ripple pool, the second largest of its kind in the United States, and took their first lesson. Now Mrs. Reader always had believed there was little that she couldn't do as well as the next person. Her raspberry pies are the pride of her heart. She’s really a wizard at making clothes for Junior and Sister. There's no dust lurking in corners of the home, and she can play a mean hand of bridge. Finds “Float” Difficult But somehow or other this ‘“duck float” that Montgomery has his pupils try in the first lesson was a difficult thing. ‘‘Grasp your knees with youi hands and lean over,” Montgomery told her. “You'll think you’re going over on your head, but you'll come back.” She tried it, but each time, just as her doubled-up body started to tilt forward, Mrs. Reader lost her nerve. Up into the air came her arms and she sputtered in a frightened voice, ‘“I can't!” Then she happened to glance over to see how Junior and Sister were coming along. The “duck float” was all over for them. Under direction of two of the fourteen instructors at the pool, the two youngsters were being introduced to the kick. Arms outstretched in front of them, they were kicking valiantly through the pool, their eyes squinted up and their faces submerged. So She Learns It Determination to learn is one of Mrs. Reader's strong points. Early in her housekeeping days she had struggled bravely with the mysteries of that raspberry pie crust. She hadn’t been satisfied till she learned just how to put tailored pockets in Junior’s little suits, and it hadn’t taken her long to learn not to trump Mr. Reader’s ace. She watched her youngsters a minute, then squared her chin. “I'm going to learn this blamed duck float right now," she told Mr. Reader, and she did. For the first time, the broadcasting system at the pool was used Monday night, in giving instructions to about sixty adults entered in the night class. Montgomery believes the Broad Ripple pool is the only one in the country using this system for teaching swimming.

Learn to Swim This clipping entitles holder to a free swimming lesson in The Indianapolis Times-Broad Ripple Learn to Swim class. Learn to swim week is July 10 to 15. This does not inelude admission to the pool. The price will be 25 cents for adults and 10 cents to children.

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The fourteen instructors lined up in front of the class, and carried out the directions which Montgomery spoke into the huge microphone. The class was held in front of the grand stand, from which a large audience listened to the instructions as they were broadcast, and watched the class carry them out. Classes will be held at 8:30 a. m.. 3:30 and 7:30 p. m. each day of this week. Coupons published in The Times entitle readers to free instructions in water safety, the crawl stroke, and diving. Only the admission fee to the pool is required, aside from the coupons. At the end of the week’s course, tests will be given, and swimmers passing these will be given certificates authorized by the Red Cross. DISRUPTING THE JOB Cycling Girls Try to Keep the Poor Unemployed That Way. By United Press TOPEKA, Kan., July 11.—The unemployed here seem destined to stay unemployed! Recently a group of the city’s jobless were put to work on street projects. A bevy of girl bicycle riders, wearing short skirts, rode past the workers almost continuously, until the construction boss was forced to demand that the girls do their pedaling elsewhere.

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Clasping her 15-month-old son, Mrs. Bertha Callahan, above, of Pittsburgh, Pa., repeatedly cried “I won’t believe it unless he tells me so himself,” as she prepared to defend her husband against charges that he beat to death a former bride. Pittsburgh police held the husband, “Bob” Callahan, left, on charges of murder pending against him at Long Beach, Cal., under the name of Lee Daniel Murphy. The Callahans were married two years ago and have been drifting about the country ever since. Police say Callahan had not divorced his first wife when he married the second, who was found dead at Long Beach, a bride of 27 days.

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FAMILY PLEADS WITH KIDNAPERS FOR AGED MAN * Father Very 111, in Peril of * Death If Detained, Son Says. (Continued From Page One)

litical henchman, disappeared from the home of the youth's parents early today. Reports said he had departed on a secret mission in connection with the kidnaping. Edward J. and Daniel P. O'Connell, the boy's uncles, hastily con- 1 verted theii political machine into an organization seeking to free the strapping, 200-pound boy held for $250,000 ransom under threats of death. AH leaders of the O’Connell machine, which controls Albany county politics, has vast influence in New York state, and has made its influence felt nationally, were empowered to receive messages from; the abductors in behalf of the; family. In addition eleven intermedaries, 1 described as “well known in sporting circles,” were formally named by the family at the kidnapers’ request. The greatest secrecy was maintained. Members of the O'Connell family would not even admit the kidnaping. Police had not been notified, but, nevertheless, they hastily organized a wide search for the abductors. Threaten to Kill Captive In a ransom note and in three telephone messages the kidnapers threatened to kill their captive if either police or the newspapers were told. Relatives feared, too, that young O’Connell might attempt to escape, and be killed in the attempt. He is exceptionally strong physically, a trained athlete, a national guard lieutenant, and, according to his associates, very courageous. O’Connell was kidnaped Thursday night but not until Monday night was it generally known. A mysteriously coded message that appeared in an Albany newspaper Sunday morning naming the intermediaries served to verify persistent rumors. Newspapers agreed, however, to withhold the story temporarily. Monday night, when it seemed ransom negotiations had failed, the story was published. $250,000 Ransom Demanded Close friends of the family insisted that the ransom demand of $250,000 was impossible to meet. Even if the O’Connells mortgaged all their property, they would have to borrow enough to keep them in debt the rest of their lives if they were to raise that sum, friends said. O’Connell was taken from his automobile about forty minutes after midnight Friday morning. His mother, returning home after a visit to the home of a friend, found the car standing in front of the house with the door open. Some of his belongings were on the running board.

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