Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 63, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1933 — Page 3

JULY 24, 1933

BIG NATIONS IN CONTEST FOR SOVIET TRADE More Than 500 Millions in Orders Stake: Credit Facilities Hurdle. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Rrrippt Howard forrlrn Editor WASHINGTON. July 24 More than s.‘>oo 000.000 worth of Russian orders were the stake today for which the big producing rountrles of the world chiefly the United States. Great Britain and France—were playing. Cndit facilities are expected to be the deciding factor. The lions share of the trade will go to the nation granting the most liberal terms. Lack of diplomatic recognition is seen as handicapping the United States. Every other major power, including Americas principal rivals. France and Britain, long ago established normal relations with the Soviet Union Europe Is After Trade American firms have b**-n obliged to finance their own sales to Russia the best way they could The normal channels being closed they have been forced to discount their Russian acceptances on a sort of bootleg market at from 20 to 40 per cent, despite the fact that Soviet Russia never yet has defaulted on a penny of its commercial obligations. Manwhile. European governments have not only recognized Russia, but financed the trade of their nationals to the tune of millions, much of the money with which to do it having been borrowed in the United States Russia now is in the market for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of commodities, principally commodities which the United States is best equipped to supply. She wants about. SIOO 000.000 worth of cotton, sugar and non-ferrous metals immediately. Want American Cotton The Soviets have approached this country for 1.000.000 bales of cotton At present prices this means more than $50,000,000 in the pockets of American planters. Rut Russia must have credit. Just having embarked on her second •‘five year plan." she would like about six years in which to pay Recently the R f C. financed the sale of $4 000.000 worth of cotton to Russia Similar terms, only with somewhat longer credit, are said to be the only thing now holding up the much bigger deal Discussions, however. are under wav. Former Senator Smith W Brookhart. special adviser to the agriculture adjustment administration, is in touch with Amforg. official Russian trading agency in this country. More than half a billion dollars' worth of Russian trade is open to America, he declared, providing satisfactory terms can be reached. Long-Term Credits Necessary Unless we are willing to grant long-term credits as the others do. he said, we can not compete with our foreign rivals. All realize that those who get in on Hie ground floor likely will profit later on in proportion. The state department has organized a board to undertake "the exploratory study of the possibilities of our negotiating various trade agreements" with foreign countries. Manifestly, this board can do little, so far as Russia is concerned, unless and until there is recognition.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to Eduard Haldv. MM College avenue. Chevrolet coupe, from 2 West Twenty-| eighth street Willard Willoughby 91T Chadwick stree- Chrysler coupe. 41-359. from in front of 917 Chadwick sTeet H roltl King Zionsville. Ford coach. 48-59 R from Capitol avenue and Ohio strre' Charles T Akin 3380 North Meridian strei t Ford sedan 102-371. from Thtrtvfourtl: and Illinois streets Leo Wilson. 1137 South Sheffield avenue. Ford tudor. 703-033 from garage in rear of 1137 South Sheffield avenue Zelpha Henson. Pendleton Chevrolet sedan. 807-178 from Indiana avenue and New York s’ree' Clyde M Wells 3109 North Meridian street. Hupmobtle sedan. 35-741 from in front of 5*7 West Twenty-fifth street Harvev F Keller. R R 2 Franklin. Chevrole" sedan 252-069 from Senate avenue and Washington stree:

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S’nlen automobiles recovered bv police beiotiw to Dort'iv R*-ecrs. 2029 Ashland avenue. Ford sedan, found a' Twontv-fourth street and Saritstcr avenue. stripped of wheels and ::res Ora Hal! 1*57 Norh Talbot street Oakland coach found •. New York and Penn- ! avlvama streets William Carson. 2914 Carson avenue Essex roadster found <m Kesstone avenue south of Walker steerMargaret Etchorn 5154 College avenue Chevrolet coupe found in allev near Bellefon'aine and Twentv-ffth streets Robert Stempfel 3359 Broadwav Ford coupe found at 3000 College avenue str.pped of front whr-ls and tires W R Brown 204 North Wilcox street Ford coupe found on West Marvland street near K.t-.gar. ,V Cos BURGLAR SUSPECT HELD Police Charge Negro With Attempting to Enter Home by Window. Charged with attempting to break into a house at 1924 Roosevelt avenue. James Lewis. Negro, of 2501 Cornell avenue, is held by police today on a vagrancy count. Nelson Mankin. occupant of the Roosevelt avenue house, told police his wife was awakened bv a noise at the kitchen window He obtained a shotgun and said he found Lewis at the window. He held him until arrival of police. HUNT MISSING PERSONS Police Asked to Search for Woman. 58. and Orleans Frm Youth. Police have been asked to seek two missing persons, one a woman of 58. and the other an Orleans • Ind 1 farm youth. Mrs. Polly Grady. 58. has been reported missing by her daughter. Mrs Olive Gulden, 1024 Harrison street, Aud in locating Earl Eugene Westerfleld of Orleans has been asked by his parents. He disappeared July 12 while on a visit to his uncle, who lives three and a half miles from his parents' home.

FORD, NEARING 70, IS BRISK AND FIT

Years Rest Lightly on Shoulders of Motor Magnate

H*nrv Ford * firms on men money. toco- fry. the r.e* deal and the future a* he near* his seventieth birthday are graphically preferred to Times readers in a series of three stories by Willis Thornton ST A Service writer. repot-- .■ g hi* interview :th the Detroit motor gem The first of the series appears below BY WILLIS THORNTON M 4 Service Writer DETROIT. July 24—Henry Ford will be 70 year3 old on July 30. But today, with that annivesary less than a w**ek away, Henry Ford reveals an agility of body, an elasticity of mind, and an eagerness to face the future lacking in many men v; io have not even approached their allotted three score and ten. I came upon H**nry Ford rather unexpectedly on the the steps of the Martha-Mary chapel in the curious "antique" village of Greenfield, which Ford has set down in the meadows a half mile from his office and three or four miles across level gankn-plots from the great plant that sprawls along the River Rouge. I made myself known. “Let’s sit down," said Ford. He tosses his stiff straw hat lightly on the grass before him and sits down on the low stoop before the chape]. He is utterly at ease in a gray mixture jacket with a Norfolk belt in the back He wears no vest. He stretches spidery legs out before him. His shoes are a light dancing *xford rnde for lum by the cobblpr who works in the transplanted old-time shoemaker shop and tollgate nouse at Greenfield. Ford turns humorous eyes at a question. "No, no, I don't expect to retire. There still are some things I can do that need to be done. "I have no romantic notions of ‘dying in harness.' but I expect to go on working because it is the thing I do best, and because I take it for granted that every man must work—that's his natural destiny.” 808 HIS face is deeply lined and well tanned, the humorous eyes deep set and dancing His hair, iron-gray, curls up slightly at the back. Abundance of nervous energy is revealed in every movement, every quick turn and penetrating glance. He springs to his feet energetically as a car drives up. Hello, Bill," he greets a young man cordially. "I kind of wanted to hear you boys sing this morning. Come right along in." he adds to the interviewer. We climb a narrow set of steps in the little chapel. Ford, as light on his feet as a boy. leads the way. We sit in a straight pew in a tiny balcony at the rear of the church. Ford slumps back in the pew, rests a slim ankle across one knee, and fiddles with a small nail file. At the front of the chapel, seven serious-faced youths of 17 and 18. guides who show visitors through the Greenfield village, cluster about a small organ console. "Sing Home on the Rangs'—in waltz time," calls down Ford. The young voices are borne upward on the organ's accompaniment to the cowboy air of the Texas plains—- " Home, home on the range. Where the deer and thi* antelope pity; Where seldom is heard a discouraging word. And the Skies are not cloudy all day." a a a ACROSS the well-gardened meadows < all of Dearborn is a huge vegetable garden, both welfare beneficiaries and Ford workers.being urged to cultivate them* the great River Rouge plant is hissing and clanking, and anew Ford is being driven off the assembly line every minute. But inside the simple whitepainted chapel with its soundproof triple-glass windows, none of these things exist, nor does the serious discussion we had begun about a world in the remaking or a seventieth birthday fast approaching. llow often at night when the heavens are bright With the lights from tb? glittering stars. Have I stood here amaied. and asked as I gared If ':heir glory exceeds that of our." Song followed song. Sometimes Ford suggested them. Sometimes the boys rnn informant’ from one into another. "I’ll Take You Home Again. Kathleen." "Whispering Hope,” “Galilee" (this was one of Thomas Edison's favorite songs. Ford explains!. “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere.’ "land of the true. where we live; anew. Beautiful Isle of Somewhere." "That doesn't worry me." observes Ford, turning with a quizzical smile. "I believe in reincarnation." The organ leads the voices into another song. a a a “PEE that boy down there sing--13 mg. with his head bark?” asks Ford. "I heard him in a little church one time singtng. and I said to myself. That's a nice-look-ing boy—l'd like to have him come and work for me.’ So I had him looked up. and I found he had already been working for me for eight years. ’ He chuckles. Youth is Henry Ford's hobby as he turns 70 himself. Greenfi-ld Village, despite its ancient and historic buildings re-erected on the 200-acre site, is no antiquarian museum It is the nucleus of the Edison institute, which Ford expects some day will give technical training to youth, teaching at once the simplicity of life of an earlier day. the intricacies of modern technology, and th crude, but fundamental, inventions that lie beneath its modern development. Ford speaks with evident pleasure of a concert the night before, given by 7 and 8-year-old pupils

FORCED SALE To settle the estate of Bartholomew D Brooks under order of Court more than 50 pieces of Real Estate if not sold at private sale by August 7. 1933. will be offered at public sale for cash at Trust department of Fletcher Trust Company. Public sale starts 10 A. M., Monday. August 7, 1933. Inquire for further information of Fletcher Trust Company, Executor N. W. Cor. Pennsylvania and Market Streets

Henry Ford ... a character study, sketched from a photograph by George Searbo.

at the school which he maintains at Greenfield for children in and around Dearborn. It is the same school building to which he himself went as a lad, a one-room brick affair removed from its original site nearby and rebuilt at Greenfield. 808 THE children get the same old-fashioned training that Ford once got there, but in addition they get all the instruction in singing, play-acting and the "trimmings" that go with modern pedagogy. They learn by doing and seeing, rather than by reading. From his home, secluded in a huge tract of almost wild growth along the Rouge. Ford drives every morning early to the engineering laboratory which houses his office Above the laboratory door are his own words cut in thes tone: MANKIND PASSES FROM THE OLD TO THE NSW ON A HUMAN BRIDGE FORMED BY THOSE WHO LABOR IN THE THREE PRINCIPAL ARTS—AGRICULTURE. MANUFACTURING, AND TRANSPORTATION. All three of them today bear the deep mark of Henry Ford. Often, before going to his office, Ford drops in at Greenfield, some times as early as 6 in the morning. and wanders among the buildings, talking to his "boys" who work there or to old Francis Jehl, former assistant to Edison. Jehl now is in charge of the Edison exhibits, which faithfully immortalize Ford's closest friend and only hero. 808 WE toured the little village together. Ford pointing out with boyish and infectious enthusiasm the various relics, what they mean, and how he acquired them. Two and three steps at a time he bounded up the staircase of the Lincoln courthouse, and unpainted frame building brought from Logan county. 111. It was in this building that Lincoln often pleaded cases as a lawyer. "Hoover lit thkt fire four years ago,” Ford gestures with pride at the great fireplace. "Weve kept it burning ever since.” We emerge again to the village green. Plans for that 70th birth-

TWO DIE__AFTER FALLS Mother of Physician One of Victims Claimed by Accident. Two aged Indianapolis women are aead today, victims of falls. Mrs. Frances Ewing Root. 86. died Sunday at her home. 1659 Central ! avenue, of pneumonia, resulting from a hip fracture, suffered in a fall July 7. Mrs. Root was the mother of Dr. Charles Root. Mrs. Ida Calvin. 72. of 621 North j Spring street, died at city hospital Sunday of injuries suffered in a fall June 15. i GROCERS TO ASSEMBLE Industrial Code to Be Discussed at Session Tonight at Club. The Indianapolis Retail Grocers' Association will meet at 8 tonight at the Hoosier Athletic Club to discuss ' the new ' blanket'' industrial code. The grocers hope to reach some decision regarding passible action by the Indianapolis association. All retail grocers, both independent and chain, are invited. lc A DAY INSURANCE GROWS IN POPULARITY New Low Cost Policy Now Pays I'p to SIOO Monthly Kansas City. Mo.—Officials of the Postal Life A: Casualty Insurance Cos.. 3436 Congress Bldg., Kansas City. Mo , have just announced that : 103.921 of Postals new low accident policies were issued during 1932. This outstanding record, set up dur- • ing such a year as 1932. is a splendid tribute to the policy's remarkable value. The new Postal policy pays up to SIOO a month for 24 months for dis- j ability and up to SIOOO for death. | Costs less than to a tiny—s.3.so a year. ! I Anyone between 10 and 70 years old f eligible no examination required. Send no money. Just send name. age. address. and name and relationship of ] beneficiary. The company will send this policy for to days' 'REE inspcc- ; tion. This is a time limited <ffi-r. so write the company at once—Advertisement.

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day? Ford shrugs and grins. "Oh, I don’t know. I haven't any plan. Id just as soon go for a walk with one of these kids in the country. Haven't planned a thing." There is a strange, puckish element in Henry Ford as he sits later in an office in the engineering laboratory for more formal interview. He scrunches down in a chair tipped against the wall, braces a foot against the edge of ’be desk, and shoots quick, penetrating glances. 808 SPHERE is no sign of 70 years. A Sixty, you might guess, never 70. No sign in this slight, ingratiating man that he revolutionized modern industry—no sign that to-

Luckies Pleasc^Tfcp MNow my fiance and I both smoke Luckies It wasn’t always so. In the begin- pride myself on my sense of daintining I tried his brand, and I got ness—for, my cigarette does touch him to try mine. Well, he liked my lips and is a personal, intimate mine...but not for the same reason thing with me. Naturally "Toasdng” that / say "Luckies Please”. He said means to me even more than it does to Luckies taste fine and they’re ever a man, for purity is something that a so mild. But I’m a woman and I fastidious woman appreciates highly. | LL TT - j •• '■'S'- i ■ • • • / ' ■

• day he faces without a quiver a new revolution in industry. Only when he speaks do you see that his mental agility probably will keep him riding the crest of any changes that come. Is this the end of individualism? Has the ultimate in automobiles been reached? Do young men still have a chance? Will industry ever be able to reabsorb its workers? Is the future dark and uncertain? His answers come freely and without hesitation. Henry Ford at I 70 is not afraid of the future. NEXT: Henry Ford tells, in an exclusive interview for The Time* what the chaotic world of today means to him at 70 and what he sees for the future.

STATE TROOPS TO BE ORDERED INTOTRAINING Entrainment of All Units to Be Provided by Call Today. Entrainment orders for all commands of the Indiana national guard for the encampment at Ft. Knox, Ky„ Aug e to 10. were issued today by Adjutant-General Elmer F. Straub. Movement of advance details and stock cars will begin Aug. 3 and 5. with the main body of troops scheduled to move Aug. 6. Headquarters battery. One hundred thirty-ninth F. A., will be the first here to move with its stock on Aug. 4. the car to be spotted at the fairground and routed over the Monon and Pennsylvania railroads. Advance details will precede them the day before from Gary. Ft. Wayne. Frankfort, Munci* 1 and Indianapolis. Units assigned from here will include fifteen officers and 194 enlisted men in ten coaches Special train No. 1, consisting of fourteen cars with twenty-seven Indianapolis officers and 445 enlisted men will join the main troop movement on Aug. 6. * Cars are to be spotted in the Alabama street produce yards by noon. Aug. 5. Local guard units included will be headquarters company and detachments of the Thirty-eighth division; signal company: headquarters company. One Hundred Fifty-second infantry, headquarters bafterv. One Hundred Thirty-ninth field artillery, headquarters company, first battalion. One Hundred Fifty-first infantry and companies D. H and M. The thirty-eighth division aviation unit will also entrain with the other units, except the corps of fliers making the trip by air. the squadron to be in command of Captain Oliver Stout. A total of 371 officers and 4.570 enlisted men are enrolled in the Indiana guard. The units are in the thirty-eighth division, commanded by Major General Robert H. Tyndall of Indianapolis.

APPEARS iN COMEDY

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Jeanette Rader One-act comedy. “Saved by a Point.' will be presented bv the Klaiber Dramatic players Werines- ! day night at 8 on the program | of the Tliree-Day-in-One players ■ Chautauqua at Plainfield, sponsored by the Plainfield Christian church of which the Rev. G J. Daniel is pastor. Cast for the play includes Russell Joyce. Aileen Klaiber. Lois NofTke. Thelma Joyce and Lorraine Walls. Readings will be given by 5-year-old Jeanette Rader. Boy on Pony Killed by Car Bit I nil<il I'rp** WTNAMAC. Inri.. July 24.—Blair Galbreath, 12. son of Mr. and Mrs. Merl Galbreath, was killed when an automobile struck the ponv he was riding along state Road 2D Sunday. The car was driven by Robert Lybrook, Indianapolis.

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STATE CHIEFS OF DEMOCRATIC PRESS TO MEET Informal Dress Is Decreed for Annual Session at Lake Wawasee. Informal dress has been decreed for all sessionslndiana Democratic Ec/Jto~*i Association's annua! summer meeting at the Spink-Wawasee hot*" and -ountry club at Lake Wawasee. Aug " and 8. This set out in the final program made public today by President Wray F Fleming Registration will commence at 9 a m Monday, and the afternoon program the first day is left, free for such sports at swimming, boating, speedboating, tennis, golf, yatching and horseback riding Golf Tourney on Program A general business session is scheduled for 4 p m with the president's dinner in the evening. Dancing on the porch overlooking the lake will continue until midnight A blind bogey golf tournament for men is on the Tuesday program at 9 a. m. and a bridge parly for women at 10:30 a m , with a buffet luncheon at noon. What has been termed a political banquet ' is on the final evening's program, following an afternoon of open discussion of politics in "free-for-all" style. President Fleming will welcome guests at the banquet and Mrs. A P. Flynn. Logansport, vice state chairman of the Democratic state committee. will speak on Mv Contacts with the Newspapers." Van Nuvs to Speak Governor Paul V. McNutt is scheduled to address the gathering on "What Strong Democratic Newspapers Mean to the Party and the State." State official*, members of congress and distinguished guests will be introduced.