Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 140, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1933 — Page 1

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DILLINGER GANG HOLDS UP PERU POLICE STATION All Firearms at Headquarters Are Stolen in Raid; Men Identified as Escaped Convicts. TWO MACHINE GUNS IN LOOT One Tear Gas Gun, Th/ee Rifles, Two Shotguns, Four Revolvers and Seven Bullet-Proof Vests Taken. By I nit> and Prat* ' PE HU, Ind., Oct. 21.—Three members of a bandit gang which raided the Peru police arsenal last night were indentified today as Merritt Longbrake, John Dillinger and Charles Makley. all notorious criminals and escaped prisoners. The police station was held Tip about midnight. Patrolmen Eldon Chittum and Eddie Roberts and Ambrose Clark, a merchant policeman, were in the building. They were herded into the chief's office and kept under guard while the gunmen loaded all the firearms in the station into an automobile parked outside.

The loot included two machine guns and ten extra magazines of cartridges, one tear gas gun and three gas cartridges, three rifles, two sawed off shotguns, seven bullet proof vests, four revolvers and three police badges. One of the bandits was unable to find the arsenal immediately and threatened to kill one of the patrolmen. I haven't plugged any one for a week,'’ the desperado said, “and I would just as soon puncture one cf you cops as not." After finding the guns, the bandit made three trips to the car outside. As soon as the weapons were transferred the robbers striped the policemen of their badges, guns and holsters and locked them in the basement. Deputy Sheriff Robert Tillett drove up across the street just as the bandits were leaving. He was unaware of the raid, but was suspicious. He followed the ear through the city on roads 31 and 24. but gave up the chase about six miles west of Peru. Tillett obtained only the first (hr"e numbers of the license on the car State and local police believe the gunmen are the same ones who raided the Auburn police station a week ago tonight and took guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition. Methods of procedure were almosl identical, it was said. BANDIT KIDNAPS GAS ATTENDANT: GETS $lO Draws Revolver: Forres Man to Take Auto Ride. A bandit who kidnaped Frank Lengpl. 333. of 1510 North Warman aevnue, from a fillling station, where he is attendant, obtained $lO last night. Driving into the station at Tibbs avenue and Sixteenth street, the man obtained a quart of oil for his car. and drawing a revolver, compelled Lengel to accompany him. Lengel was released at Thirtieth street, and t.ie Georgetown road. BUSINESS MEN'S GYM CLASS HELD WEEKLY Fred W. Dickens Begins Course in Specialized Exercise. Specialized exercise for business men will constitute a program starting Tuesday at the Y. M. C. A.. in charge of Fred W. Dickens, physical education director. “The business man of today.” Mr. Dickens said, “spends hours seated at his desk stooped over his mail or his last report, cramping his lungs and stooping his shoulders so that in the end his fixed attitude is one of the man looking for pennies on the sidewalk. The program will be given at 11 each Tuesday and Thursday morning.

POSITIONS ARE OPEN Civil Service Board Announces Fed>ral Examinations. Examinations for applicants to fill nine positions in the government service are announced by Frank J. Boatman, secretary of the civil service board of examiners, with offices in the federal building. Positions to be filled are for nurses, teachers. stenographers, typists and fingerprint classifier. INJURED IN CAR CRASH Cab Driver Held in Hospital on Drunkenness Charge. Injured seriously in an automobile accident last night. Levi Newsome, 835 Westbrook avenue, is held today in the detention ward of city hospital on a drunkenness charge. Cab driven by Newsome struck a safety ions guard at Michigan and Alabama streets. Driver Held After Crash Charge of drunken driving was filed last night acainst Basil Robinson, 38 of 948 Udell street, a'.e. his automobile struck the parked car of John Cantwell, 2105 Boulevard place.

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FARMERS IN 27 STATES STRIKE •Economic Warfare’ Begun to Force U. S. Aid, Boost Prices. By I nited Pres* CHTCAGO, Oct. 21.—Farmers of the middlewest, desperate because of failure of farm produce prices to respond to the national recovery , program, struck today in an effort to force federal relief. Farm organizations claiming a membership of 2,000.000 farmers in | twenty-seven states called on their members to halt movement of livestock and food to market, and to boycott merchants until farm prices reach cast of production. The declaration of "economic warfare" was issued by Milo Reno, militant president of the National Farmers' Holiday Association, es- j fective at noon today and to continue until farmers receive a “fair price" for their products. Opinion as to the support whirh the movement will receive from the great majority of farmers not affiliated with the association differed. Leaders of other organizations withheld comment. While declaring the strike effective at noon, leaders did not expect it to become well organized and general until Monday.

ROOSEVELT ON AIR TOMORROW AT 9 ?. M, President to Give Short Talk to Nation. By I liftfii Pres* WASHINGTON. Oct. 21.-Presi-dent Roosevelt will deliver an address to the nation tomorrow night at 9 (Indianapolis time), the White House announced today. He will speak for ten or fifteen minutes on subjects of current interest and importance, the announcement said. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: South wind. 32 miles an hour: gusty; temperature. 69; barometric pressure. 30.09 at sea level: general conditions, clear: ceiling, unlimited; visibility. 15 miles.

LATONIA RACE TRACK. Ky.. Oct. 21—Colonel Matt Winn's big show opens this afternoon at the old Milldale course for nineteen days, and it sure ought to be some meet. Every race for the opening day is filled to overflowing and the best thing I can find on the card is Billy Jones in the second heat. J

He will have a tough egg in Walter D.. bui according to recent works, it should be done with ease. The big race of the day. The Breeders futurity, looks like a toss up between Discovery and Hadagal. and personally I like the latter by a nose. Leros looks like a winner in the fifth and Foxianna is my baby i nthe seventh. The nightcap looks to be for Catherine Fox. They are at it again at Lh.’”-el. Head Play and Brokers Tip. It started at the Kentucky Dprby and no one knows where it will finish. Give the pot to Head Play today and big stake race to Bradley s Bazaar who led a fine mile race this week on s heavy track. Curacao in the third will like the going and Banderlog stands out in the nightcap Today's Selections At La f on in — Firs*. ~ ‘ *”•*. P*rcxY’"d G; xi Coin c.an. Second—Billy Jones, Waiter D, Volta Maid.

The Indianapolis Times Probably showers tonight, followed by generally fair Sunday; considerably cooler.

By l nited pres* WASHINGTON. Oct. 21—The administration's overtures to Soviet Russia were well received on Capitol Hill today. Senator Couzens (Rep.. Mich.) said—l certainly am in favor of discussion of resumption of diplomatic relations. I wouldn't want to say at this time that I favored recognition, but if after discussion the President thinks an equitable basis has been reached, I hope he will recognize the Soviet Union. Senator Alva B. Adams (Dem., Coio.) It's the proper thing to do. Smith W. Brookhart, foreign trade expert of the agriculture adjustment administration, former senator, and long-time advocate of recognition—l am delighted. I have no doubt that the visit will result in full recognition. Senator Hugo L. Black <Dem„ Ala.)—l am very glad indeed that it has been done and I hope it will lead to early recognition. Senator Robert Reynolds (Dem. N. C.), who just returned from a visit to Soviet Russia—That is splendid. It is what I have been urging all along. n n n Shall the United States at last recognize the Russian Soviet government that has withstood America's diplomatic disdain for fourteen years? “Yes." sqys United States Senator Frederick Van Nuys, Indiana's Democratic member of the upper national legislative body. “No,’' protests Senator Arthur R. Robinson, Republican, and member of the senate foreign affairs committee. Senator an Nuys said he would vote for such recognition at the first opportunity, citing the commercial advantages of such a move, and referring to early American history as a precedent for government of a people through its own choice. “It would be putting a gun in the hands of the enemy,” declared Senator Robinson, pointing out that Communist ideals demand abolition of capitalistic governments, and that establishment of a Soviet embassy in America would provide Communism with a focal point for dissemination of poisonous p-opaganda and counter-government plots.

AMERICAN MEDIC IS GIVEN NOBEL PRIZE Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan Wins High Honor. By I nited Pres* STOCKHOLM. Oct. 21. Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan of Pasadena. Cal., was awarded the 1933 Nobel prize for achievements in the field of medicine. Announcement of the award was made tonight, preliminary to Sweden's celebration, tomorrow, of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Alfred Nobel. Dr. Morgan is internationally known as a zoologist. CONTINUES CASE OF WOMAN DEATH DRIVER Judge Sheaffer Grants Delay at Request of Victim’s Father. Case of Mrs. Pearl Farris, 37, of 6767 West Washington street, whose automobile struck and killed Bon Irvin Brooks. 10. of 842 Woodrow avenue, was continued yesterday by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer. until Oct. 27. Continuance was at request of the boy's father. Charles Brooks. Mrs. Farris is charged with reckless driv ing.

RACE TRACK S elections Bt O BEVIILA

Third—Ridge Morbedo. Miss Actuary. Fourth—Magnifico. Jessie Dear. Ipass. Fifth—Leros. Fanfern. Princess Camelia. Sixth—Hadagal. Discovery. Mata Han. Seventh Foxiana. Ridgeview, Merrily On. Eighth—Catherine Fox. Eil Weir. Kuvera. At Laurel — First—White Cloud. Her Olga. Dark Devil. Second—Chiefs Troubadour. Constance Ann. Crossroad. Third —Curacuo Character. Springsteel. Fourth—Bazaar. Slap Dash, Greyglade. F,fih—Head Play. Brokers Tip. Golden Way. S x;h-’loo“k c—®itry. Bub McF? land. Fai.y Seventh Banderlog, Ageis, Renaissaince. *4

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Senator William E. Borah, “A stroke of genius.”

Cops Hold 3 Suspects in Brutal Attack on Aged Druggist During Holdup

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1933

Senator Robert R. Reynolds, “That is splendid.”

One Robber Stabbed With Ice Pick: Escape Without Loot. Three youths suspected as the gunmen who broutally beat a 74-year-old druggist in aunsuccessful holdupo attempt, and later stuck up another drug store, obtaining S7O. of which S4O was government postal funds, were arrested early today. Victim of the attack was J. H. Trees, operator of a pharmacy at Leota and Bates streets, in a serious condition at city hospital as result of being beaten unconscious with a revolver when he resisted the holdup, striking one of the bandits in the face with an icepick. The robbers fled without any loot. Obtain U. R. Fund* A short time later, two bandits fitting the same description, held up the Clark drug store, 2401 East Tenth street, forcing Lawrence Massey, R. R. 11. Box 458. clerk, to open the safe. They took S4O in funds of the postal substation at the store and S3O of the store’s money. A third man sat in a car outside. Acting on a tip, detectives Clifford Beeker and Alfred Schultz, lieutenant Dan Cummins and sergeants Michael Griffin and Harry Schley, arrested three men on vagrancy charges, under high bond early today. Skeleton Keys Found Those held were George Britt. 18, of 1152 English avenue; Jesse Hurt! 16. of 308 South Noble street, and Oscar Coffman. 16. of 1128 Spann avenue. Hurt and Coffman, who were found at Coffman’s mome.. went out a back window on to a rear porch when officers arrived. Hurt had a stab wound under the right eye, officers said. Police said they confiscated eleven skeleton keys and a holsters at the Coffman home, and a knife, keys and two blackjacks at Britt's home. They were to appear in municipal court three later today.

SECOND-HAND SHOP PROPRIETOR IS HELD Police Recover Articles Reported Stolen in Raid on Store. On a tip from the owner of a house that had been robbed, police late yesterday raided a second-hand shop at 2046 Coumbia avenue and arrested Charles Hayden. 34. Negro, proprietor, on charges of receiving stolen property and operating a sec-ond-hand store without a license. Wallace Woolfolk. 2230 North Capitol avenue, told police he owned a house at 2064 Columbia avenue, from which a kitchen sink, clothing, and a dresser were removed. All were found, police say. in Hayden's shop. Several other articles there will be investigated by police who believe they also may be stolen property. Thieves Get Purse. $lO2 A purse with $lO2. a $lO watch, and a pencil and compact was stolen from her stand at city market early today, Mrs. Goldie Hannah, 417 North State street, told police.

ROOSEVELT WILL BEGIN PARLEY WITH SOVIET EMISSARY WITHIN 2 WEEKS, UNITED STATES LEARNS

Moscow Is Jubilant as Newspaper Headlines Scream Story. LETTERS ARE REVEALED Soviet Departs From Policy in Momentous Case on Recognition. By I nited Pres* MOSCOW, Oct. 21.—Russia displayed unconcealed jubilation today at the prospect of recognition by the United States, and regarded the exchange of letters between President Roosevelt and President Kalinin as the most important event in its recent history. Officials were openly enthusiastic, in contrast to their usual reserve. Popular sentiment was apparent everywhere. In streets, street cars, and in shops—wherever the ordinary people gathered, the prospect of recognition was the only topic for talk. The news dominated the front page of newspapers and evoked comment throughout the country. Officials said that, Maxim Litvinoff, brilliant oreign minister, would leave within a very few days for Washington to conduct the negotiations. Russia Makes Concession Russia, by agreeing to negotiate outstanding problems with the United States before formal recognition, has made a concession that marks anew stage in its foreign policy, it was emphasized. Heretofore, fearing rebuffs that would dim its prestige, the Russian government has insisted that formal recognition by world powers precede negotiations on claims, trade, propaganda activities and other problems. President Mikhail Kalinin’s letter answering President Roosevelt’s offer of negotiations made it plain that Russia in the United States’ case, departed entirely from the policy of prior recognition. Confident of Recognition From Russia's viewpoint the concession is one of great moment, an indication of its desire in the present critical stage of world politics to consolidate relations with the last great power to hold aloof. Mr. Litvinoff is expected to en- | list the aid in his Washington conversations of Boris Skvirsky, head of the semi-official soviet informa - 1 tion bureau at Washington, and Peter Bogdahoff. head of the Amtorg Trading Corporation, official Russian trade agency in New York. Though soviet officials share the view expressed in the exchange of letters between Presidents Roose- ; velt and Kalinin, there was confidence here that negotiations would lead to recognition. May Bring Hitler About Speculation already has begun to the possible ambassador. Valerian Mejaux, assistant commissar of heavy industries, and Gregory Sokolnikoff, assistant commissar of foreign affairs in charge of far eastern affairs, were mentioned most prominently. Even Mr. Litvinoff himself has been mentioned. Aside from the vital importance of the negotiations in the far eastern crisis between Russia and Japan, the effect of President Roosevelt's letter on Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany was expected here to be considerable. United States recognition was calculated to temper the Nazi regime’s activities, and greatly strengthen Russia's European position. CONVICT WALKS AWAY Youthful Trusty Deserts State Reformatory During Night. Harry Broglin. 19. trusty at the Indiana state reformatory’, who has relatives said by police to reside in the 500 block of North Keystone avenue, walked away from the institution last night. He entered the reformatory April 27. 1931. to serve a three to tenyear term for burglary.

3,oooFund Workers Launch Annual Drive to Relieve Suffering of City’s Needy

That their unemployed brethren might not starve, employers and workers in Indianapolis today were asked to give $824,462 to the Community Fund as 3.000 volunteer workers began their annual canvass of the city. Six hundred leaders of the drive workers received final instructions at a Community Fund dinner last night in the Claypool. The drive was launched formally there. First report of the canvassing crews will be made Monday, when total collections over the week-end will be announced. Sixty-five per cent of the funds raised in the drive will be distributed among relief agencies to be spent for ford f"el, medical and institutional care.

Sena tor Borah Hails Move by President as ‘Stroke of Courage and Genius*

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scrlppu-Howard Foreijm Editor WASHINGTON. Oct. 21—Staged against the background of a world in an unprecedented state of flux, political and economic, the coming White House conference between President Roosevelt and Russian Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov may profoundly alter the whole desperate international trend. If recognition follows—and no one here, from the President down, expects discussions to end otherwise —it not only will pave the way for mutually profitable commercial ties between two of the greatest nations on earth, but very definitely tend to bolster world peace. Said Senator William E. Borah (Rep., Idaho) in a message from his home in Boise to Scripps-Howard newspapers. “It would be in accord with the President’s initiative and courage, more than once disclosed in great emergencies, if he should at this time, while the world is tense with fear and doubt, to bring together two great nations so long estranged. “To restore amity between 120.000.000 people on one hand and 160,0000,000 on the other is a thing of supreme moment in the cause of peace at any time. But at this time it would be nothing less than a stroke of genius. The cause of peace has been loaded down for fifteen years with speeches, resolutions and sentimental inaction. It would be great to have especially at this particular time at least one realistic move toward a friendlier and more tolerant world Thus the Idahoan, who for years fought almost single-handed in the United States senate for better relations with Russia, put into words the feelings of leaders here who have watched, with anxiety, the trend of recent world events. ana THE war party in Japan has laid specific plans for expansion in Asia. World chancelleries already are saying that war between Russia and Nippon is “inevitable” because of Japanese aggression in Manchuria and their alleged designs against Vladivostok and the maritime province of Siberia. The mere fact that the Soviet Union and the United States have resumed normal relations may prevent an explosion in the Orient. President Roosevelt and Mr. Litvinov will make no effort to settle all the problems separating the two countries for the last sixteen years. On the contrary, they will explore fundamentals to see if they are near enough to make a solution possible. If so, ambassadors will be exchanged and the details will be completed by them in the usual way. This was the method followed in bringing about rapprochement between the United States and Mexico in 1923. At least a billion dollars worth of orders are expected to come to this country from Russia in the next few years. A deal for 500,000 bales of cotton already Is under way, but that, trade officials report, is hardly a drop in the bucket compared with what is likely to materialize. Russia's second five-year plan, just getting under way, calls for 7,000 new locomotives, 18.000 miles of additional railways, 2,000 electric freight engines, 50.000 passenger coaches, 260,000 freight cars, and more than 5.000.000 tons of steel rails. nan THIS is merely a part of the transportation program. Vast increases in farm and factory equipment are scheduled. During the first five-year plan. Russia spent $644,000,000 on water transportation alone; the second calls for triple that figure. Airlines in Soviet Russia are to be expanded from 31,000 miles to 180,000, and vast fleets of planes must be acquired. Russia already has a population of 165.000,000. She has the biggest birth rate of any nation on earth. If the United States can get in on the ground floor now, American business men who have recently returned from Russia claim, it can get the cream of the business for the next fifty years. Russians, they agree, prefer American goods and American methods. Sentiment in Washington has been growing in favor of recognition for years. During the Hoover administration, and while the Republicans were in control of the senate, a majority of the foreign relations committee. headed by Senator Borah, so expressed themselves.

GERMANY OFFICIALLY OFFERS RESIGNATION Consul. Solemnly Attired. Notifies League. By United Pres* GENEVA, Oct. 21— German Consul Krauel today delievered Germany's notification of her withdrawal from the League of Nations to the league secretariat. Krauel was dressed in solemn black coat and derby hat when he arrived at the secretariat at 9:50. He conferred with Ernst Trendelenburg, undersecretary-general, until the arrival of Joseph Avenole, French secretary-general, at 10:30. Then he delivered the notice. COMMISSION DENIES CLEMENCY REQUESTS Reiu*es to Grant Five Petitions for Farm Parole*. Five petitions for parole from the Indiana state farm were denied by the state clemency commission yesterday. Prisoners seeking paroles were Earl Way. sentenced to serve ninety days for stealing watermelons. Aug. 9; James Bruce, sentenced Aug. 14 to serve five months for petit larceny in Jefferson county; Isaac Willett, sentenced to one year from Hancock county for petit larceny; John Engel. Vanderburg county, one year for robbery. March 1. and Jesse Pemberton, Aug. 30 from Lawrence county for ninety days, petit larceny.

There is as great a need as ever before for the relief provided by the Community Fund, Fred Hoke, chairman of.the Governor's emergency relief committee, told the drive leaders last night. "The government is giving no funds to institutions for institutional or medical care. It is giving nothing to those movements designed to relieve the mental depair of men and women who are willing to work or the bread but for whom there is no employment.” Last April in Jh state, he said, 107.061 families on lists received $1,222,726 relief, and while the roll had lessened in September to 73,100 families, with $8,053,000 expenditures, Mr. Hoke saijl this figure

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D. C. Current Steve to Be Free in Two Years. Says Seer.

THE fates that weave the incantations of fortune tellers smiled today on D. C. Stephenson, former prince of the Ku-Klux Klan in Indiana, one-time archduke in the Hoosier political empire, and now a life-termer at Michigan City state prison for the murder of an Indianapolis girl. In the presence of a widelypatronized Negro seer sat Mrs. Marshall L. Oberholtzer, 5802 University avenue, mother of Madge Oberholtzer, of whose murder Stephenson was convicted, and a niece of Mrs. Oberholtzer. They visited the popular psychic unannounced, said Mrs. Oberholtzer. She did not know their names, or of their connection with the famous case, Mrs. Oberholtzer and her niece maintaine. “You are interested in a man named Stephenson,” the Negro mystic informed them. “He is in prison. He will be out in two years.” ACES TAKE ON ROSE By United Pree EVANSVILLE, Ind. Oct. 21. Evansville college sought its second football victory of the season and Rose Poly was after its first when the two teams met on the gridiron here today. Evansville was favored.

would not diminish during the coming winter. Walter C. Marmon, general campaign chairman, introduced Mr. Hoke. Other speakers were Arthur V. Brown, Community Fund president, and Hugh McK Landon, vicepresident of the Fletcher Trust Company, who paid tribute to Russel C Rotter, president of the individual gifts fellowship, who died several days before the drive started, and David Liggett, manager of the fund. Mr. Marmon introduced the individual chairmen. "We have gathered the best organization in the fourteen years since the fund came into being,” Mr. Liggett told the workers. "The city owes you a debt of gratitude.”

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Opinion in Capital Solidly Behind President in Crucial Conference. SOURCE OF VAST TRADE Litvinoff to Talk Over Russia’s Debts When He Arrives. (Copvrieht. 1933 bv United Prosst WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. Formidable obstacles in the path of American recognition of Soviet Russia \vill confront President Roosevelt and Maxim Litvinov, Russian foreign minister .when they meet in the White House to bring the two nations together after sixteen years of diplomatic estrangement. Political experts generally expected the obstacles to be overcome and recognition to result from their series of talks. The 57-year-old, astute Russian diplomat, who once proposed total world disarmament and who also has strengthened his country's position by negotiating a series of nonaggression pacts with potential European enemies, is expected here w ithin two weeks. The goal is the exchange of ambassadors between Washington and Moscow and the stimulation T>f profitable trade between two of the world’s most populous and richest nations. Obstacle* Are Listed The obstacles they must overcome are: 1. Financial claims. Russia’s obligations to the United States are of three kinds: (1) The defaulted $187,000,000 loan made rom the United States treasury to the Kerensky regime. <2) Some $90,000,000 of miscellaneous notes given American bankers by the czarist government. (3) Individiual claims of American citizens for property confiscated by Russia, totaling about $300,000,000. 2. Communist propaganda in the United States. The Soviet Union, it is understood, is prepared to negotiate an agreement with the United States that both powers undertake not to interfere in the other's domestic affairs. 3. Trade relations. It is quite possible that during Mr. Litvinoff's visit, the United States and Russia may negotiate a commercial treaty. May Sober Japanese Vastly important repercussions throughout the world were foreseen from the probable resumption of diplomatic relations. One was a sobering influence on Japanese expansion in the far east. With the same bold approach that has characterized his tackling of domestic problems* Mr. Roosevelt wrote a note to President Kalinin of Russia, suggesting that the Soviet Union and the United States explore the path toward recognition. He did not promise recognition. But he suggested the talks would “indicate a sincere desire to reach a satisfactory solution of the problems involved.” Precautions Are Taken The text of the Roosevelt-Kalinin correspondence was made public last night at the White House. Mr. Roosevelt, meeting more than two hundred correspondent In his large, oval-shaped office, read the letters slowly, then commented upon them informally. He made it plain that the exchange of letters did not in itself constitute recognition, but was merely an approach. So tremendous was the news Mr. Roosevelt Imparted that unprecedented precautions were taken to prevent any correspondent from having an advantage. Doors of the presidential office were closed until the President had read the messages commented upon them, and answered other questions. Offers Tremendous Market Mr. Roosevelt's momentous announcement meant that two of the most powerful nations, the United States with 120,000,000 people and the soviet union with 160,000,000, were preparing to forget their predilections for political-social systems in a common effort to promote peace and prosperity. Trade experts declare Russia offers a tremendous market lor American goods. In 1931, despite the depression, Russia purchased products of American farms and factories worth $111,000,000. But by 1938, this trade had shrunk to $12,000,000, one-tenth the previous amount. Soviet sources said this shrinkage was due to the fact Russian purchasers could not obtain satisfactory credits here because American bankers and business men, in times of depression, were reluctant to offer credit to a country which the United States did not recognize.

Overcoat Is Stolen While F A. Schmedel, 4144 North Capitol avenue, was attending a Community Fund meeting last night at the Claypool. hi* SSO overcoat was stolen from a cloak room ,