Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 175, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 December 1934 Edition 02 — Page 3

DEC. I, 1934_

FRANCE GIVEN SAAR REGION AS PAYMENT FOR WRECKAGE OF VALUABLE MINING TOWNS Destruction Heaped on Tri-Color by Germany’s Big Business Leads to Ceding of Rich Area for 15 Years. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Beripp*-Hoard Foreicn Editor It was April, 1917. The Canadians had just stormed Vi my Ridge. Nervously I made my way to the crest and slithered on through the trenches to the north shoulder. 1 peeped over. Eelow me lay Lens. It was my first glimpse of one of France’s chief mining towns. It was a shambles. What had been towering structures above the coal pits now were

twisted steel skeletons, bent over in grotesque forms and angles. Smoke all but hid the ruins of what had been the dwellings of 35.000 people. The debris of what had been great iron, steel and engineering works swam and reeled in the maelstrom of blood and burning guncotton below. A Sordid Partnership War at best is an unlovely mess, but never did it seem more sordid. War to make the world safe for democracy, bad as it was, was one thing. Here it was plain that Mars and Big Business had become partners in a big way. Germans at war are no better and no worse that other civilized peoples. And in Lens, and throughout Northern Prance, where they were the masters for four years—from 1914 to 1918—German Big Business saw its chance and took it. Systematically, according to what was described as a written plan prepared by the Kaiser's captains of industry, the Kaiser’s war captains flooded mines, smashed machinery and razed great industrial plants of all kinds. No French Competition When peace was declared there would be no French competition for many years. Not only would France be unable to compete in foreign markets, but even much of what she consumed at home would have to be brought in from the outside. German industry would fall heir to this trade. It was because of what happened at Lons, and in the region thereabouts, that France, at the Paris peace conference, demanded that the Saar be turned over to her. President Poincare.. Marshal Foch and many other Frenchmen wanted more than the Saar. They wanted the Rhineland. But more than economic reasons lay behind this demand. They wanted security against the legions which twice, within forty-five years, had invaded their soil. Foch insisted that the Rhine be made France's eastern frontier. ‘ Demanded Saar Outright “Tiger” Clemenceau. France’s premier and chief spokesman at the peace conference, did not go quite that far. He found himself battling ferociously against two sides at once. Some of his own people demanded too much while some of the others, as he saw it, did not want to give him enough. Clemenceau demanded the Saar outright, in return for similar French regions destroyed by the Germans. Pounding the table about which sat the Big Four—himself. President Wilson, Lloyd George and Signor Orlando —he denied any intention of annexing the Rhineland. But the Saar, by rights, belonged to France. One day he pulled a gorgeous bluff. He said 150.000 Frenchmen of voting age in the Saar had petitioned President Poincare for annexation to France. Even Lloyd George smiled. For though he and the other knew very little about the Saar, they were aware that there were probably not one-tenth that many French people there all told—men, women and children. Crisis and Compromise For two or three days the atmosphere of Paris was hectic. I remember hearing the startling rumor at the Hotel Crillon, American headquarters, the the President had ordered the George Washington to Brest to take him home. The peace conference was about to blow up! As suddenly as the crisis had arisen, it blew over. A compromise had been found. At 5 in the afternoon of April 9, 1919. Tardieu. for France, Headlam Morley, for Britain, and Professor Charles H. Haskins, for America, met in a room and started drafting what was to become the constitution and charter for the strange new state. At 3 a. m. on April 10 the, job was done. Before noon it was submitted to the big four. They made one major change—this at British and American insistence. Otherwise it went into the treaty of Versailles pretty much as it stood, as Section 4 of Part 3. * The Saar Mines Ceded In compliance with Clemenceau’s fierce demand of “mines for mines,” Article 45 (the first article under Section 4) in part reads: “As compensation for the destruction of the coal mines in the north of France . . . Germany cedes to France in full and absolute possession. with exclusive rights of exploitation, unencumbered and free of all debts and charges of any kind, the coal mines situated in the Saar basin.” In Article 49 Germany renounces, in favor of the League of Nations “in the capacity of trustee,” the territory of the Saar for fifteen years. Then the people will decide for themselves under which flag they wish to live. The one major change referred to above had to do with a provision introduced by Taxdieu. It stipulated that Germany was to be given six months in which to buy back the mines. If she failed to do so, the territory was to revert to France, even if the inhabitants had voted for Germany. This little play, however, was promptly nailed. The Paris peace delegates muffed many a ball, but this one was caught before the player got half-way to first base. Next—Joggling with dynamite.

BRUNET WINS BEAUTY PRIZE City Girl to Receive Tryout With Zeigfeld Follies Next Week. The old adage that gentlemen prefer blondes was disproven locally last night when Miss Violet Watson, 20, of 110 West North street, a decided brunet, walked off with first prize of $75 in the finals of the Stretch-A-Way beauty contest held by the Indiana Roof ballroom to determine the most perfectly proportioned girl in' Indiana. Miss Watson was chosen by the judges, Randolph LaSalle Coats, a prominent artist; Mrs. Hargaret Haislup of the Indiana Association of Beauticians, and Hillary Bailey, well-known pnotographer, as being the pick of the sixteen finalists who competed at the ballroom last night. Miss Watson’s measurements, concurring exactly with the “perfect figure” chart which the Stretch-A-Way company has drawn up, are as follows: Height, five feet, five inches; weight, one hundred twenty-two pounds; bust, thirty-five inches; waist, twenty-seven inches, and hips, thirty-seven inches. Miss Watson will be given an audition with the Ziegfeld Follies, which opens at English’s Thursday. The ten finalists whose pictures will be sent to the casting director of Warner Brothers Hollywood studios to determine screen possibilities are as follows: Miss Watson: Jewel Thompson, 3050 West Michigan street; Mary Hancock, Southport; Mary Katherine Amato, 215 South Davidson street; Inez Kirk, 134 East St. Joseph street; Mary Kirschener, 544 North Pershing street; Mary Lou Roesch, 3420 North Wallace street; Bernice Leach, 1628 Standard avenue; Dorothy Cornforth, 1026 West Thirty-third street; and Delores Rousey, 137 Kansas street.

Masonic Temple Group Observes Silver Jubilee Grand Lodge Officers Among Those Taking Part; Film Depicts Washington in Capitol Ceremony. Officers of eleven constituent bodies and the Grand Lodge of Indiana, F. & A. M„ were guests of the Indianapolis Masonic Temple Association last night at a silver jubilee anniversary banquet and celebration at the Indianapolis Masonic temple. The occasion marked the twenty-fifth year of the union of the Grand Lodge and Indianapolis bodies in the present temple.

Following a banquet for Masons only, the last twenty-five years of the temple organization's history were reviewed briefly by Masters and officers of the bodies represented. Tribute was paid Frank E. Gavin for more than sixty years service as a Mason and grand lodge officer. Growth of the temple from 1904, when the idea for the present building originated, was traced by Othniel Hitch, president of the Temple Association. Eph Levin presided as toastmaster. Clarence L. Farrington was general chairman of arrangements. The second half of the celebration was open to the families and friends of Masons present and included a series of talks hy grand lodge officers, music by the Franklin Masonic Home band and a movie depicting the laying of the comer stone of the Capitol building by George Washington, a Master Mason, in Washington in 1793. Historical accuracy was displayed in the picture, showing the Washing-

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a pass, goal for two to all outstanding Indiana hits. Here are today’s questions: 1. What picture is the above scene from? 2. Was Dick Powell ever a theater master of ceremonies in Indianapolis? 3. Was Ruby Keeler ever “giori-

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With an inheritance of $20,000, received from a man who befriended him when he was an orphan, Emmett Byard is looking for a "true woman,” with whom he can spend the rest of his life. He plans to retire from the city, where he has not had steady employment for the last two or three years, to a farm some where in Indiana.

APPENDIX OPERATION TOPS ‘PRIZE’ LIST IN FROLIC OF DOCTORS

By United Press CHICAGO. Dec. I.—The idea at the midwinter frolic of the med-ical-dental round table will be to lose in all contests. Prizes will include an appendicitis operation, the attorney’s fee for a divorce case, a tooth extraction and three due bills for other dental work. DISCUSS BOND ISSUE FOR DETENTION HOME New Juvenile Institution Is Likely. The long expressed demand for anew Marion county juvenile detention home, to take the place of the present home, considered inadequate and antiquated by many, may be met within the next year. This possibility appeared today after a conference yesterday between Commissioner-elect John S. Mann, representing the county, and Philip R. Zoercher, state tax board chairman, at which the feasibility of issuing bonds to finance construction of the home was discussed. Mr. Zoercher said he believed the bond issue could be approved as an emergency under the terms of the $1.50 property tax limitation law. He made it plain, however, that the state tax commissioners would have to have full details as to construction costs before such approval could be granted.

tons leaving Mt. Vernon, their arrival in Washington and ceremonies surrounding laying of the corner stone. Lodges and Masonic bodies represented by their offices were: Centre Lodge No. 23, F. & A. M.; Marion Lodge No. 35, F. & A. M.; Capitol City Lodge No. 312, F. & A. M.; Ancient Landmarks Lodge No. 319. F. & A. M.; Mystic Tie Lodge No. 398; F. & A. M.; Pentalpha Lodge No. 564. F. & A. M.; Logan Lodge No. 576, F. & A. M.; Monument Lodge No. 557, F. & A. M.; Indianapolis Chapter No. 5, Royal Arch Masons; Keystone Chapter No. 6, Royal Arch Masons, and Raper Commandery No. 1, Knights Templar. GuiM to Hold Sewing Session Centred Avenue Methodist Episcopal White Cross Guild will hold an all-day sewing meeting in Methodist hospital i nurses’ residence Monday. The meeting will open at 10.

fled” by Ziegfeld? 4. Miss Keeler and Mr. Powell are under contract to what producing company? 5. In what picture did Dick sing: “I Have Only Eyes For You?” The last set of questions will appear in The Times Monday.

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WA6ES ABSORB T 2 CENTS OF REUEFIDOLLAR 28 Cents Is Direct Dole and Administration Costs Here. (Continued From Page One) food orders plus surplus foods doled out at the tov/nship trustee office. Fuel averaging $1 a week would be given. The same family, under work relief, would receive a minimum of $8.25 in weekly salary. Work hours would be lengthened to provide ton of fuel if social workers budgeting the family found that the family needed the extra wage. The maximum earning capacity of the work relief family of four persons is S4B a month. Discrimination Charged A family head who earns more than S4B or receives a job in private industry at a higher wage automatically Is dropped from the relief rolls if investigators believe the family head can sustain his wife and children. Jealousy and bickering between the families on direct and work relief has resulted in much misunderstanding of the aims of social wokers in Marion county and the state. * The difference of between $3 and $4 in the benefits received by one family on direct relief in a week and the family of the same size on work relief has resulted in numerous complaints of discrimination. Family size, need, ability to handle money, effort to re-enter private industry, and health, determines the families placed on work relief and given a wage to budget into food, shelter and clothing. $25,000,000 Is Spent The mounting cost of relief in the state in the last seventeen months, with its $25,000,000 spent, reached October with 425,000 persons, more persons than live in Indianapolis, dependent on state and federal funds for their livelihood. In Marion county alone, 67,964 persons, or one out of every family of five, are on relief lists. A mathematical digest of the expenditures of the month in the state and county follow; Marion Cos. Indiana Direct relief ...$136,568.08 $ 951,669.89 Work relief .... 433.287.23 1,955,742.51 Administration . 25,889.60 202,191.39 The monthly average relief a case in the county was $26.26, compared with $29.61 in the state. Relief Roll Increases Twenty-seven thousand more families are receiving relief in the state today than in October, 1933. Marion county has 7,000 more families reduced to indigency in a year. In September, the relief a case was but $26.16 in Marion county, but October brought higher fual bills and increased relief to raise that figure to $29.61. State relief jumped $3.31 a family, from $22..95 to $26.26, in October. Work relief expenditures form the bulk of the increased cost of state as well as county relief. Huge Gain Shown in Year In September, 1933, the federal government had not jingled its money bags in Indiana for work relief. The month shows but $132,606 spent for work relief. But in September, 1934, the wage relief bill to the unemployed on work projects was $1,567,000, or a sharp increase of $1,435,000 in one year’s time. Marion county, in the same comparative months and years, hopped from $18,799 to $385,000 for wage relief. State-wide relief dropped in December, 1933, beginning with the hiring of men by the civil works administration. Men left the relief rolls by the score, and the state expenditures dwindled to $696,000. Completion of the CWA program raised the relief ladder and costs climbed toward anew high in 1934, with expenditures reaching $2,000,000 in May. The summer months brought a drop in expenditures, but work relief increased and relief rolls grew until October saw 425,000 persons in the state being cared for on $3,000,000 in relief money provided by federal and state aid. Next—Administration of Relief. C. M. B. RANKS SIXTH IN NATIONAL CONTEST Men Builders Increase Membership 135 Py*r Cqnt The Christian Men Builders class of the Third Christian church, 625 East Seventeenth street, is in sixth place in a national contest among Christian churches to determine the class with the most members and highest percentage of increase in membership during the year. Arthur Owens, contest chairman, also announced that Merle Sidener, class leader, will present awards tomorrow morning to Frank Hardy and Elmer A. Wilson, who have completed perfect attendance records for the year. The class has increased its attendance 135 per cent in the last year. ‘Y’ ENGAGES OXNAM FOR TALK TOMORROW De Pauw Head and Quartet to Feature Program at Keith’s. Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, De Pauw university president, will speak on “Adventure” at the Y. M. C. A. meeting in Keith’s theater at 3 tomorrow, which is one of a series open to the public. The program will include music by the De Pauw mixed quartet, composed of Walter Vassar, Edna Bowles, Anna Cotton Tate and Edgar Isherwood, all members of the faculty, and a twenty-minute concert by the Crispus Attucks high school orchestra. SOUND EXPERT TO TALK Johns-Manville Official Will Speak Thursday. Harold R. Berlin, expert on sound and its control, will discuss that subject at 8 Thursday night in the Lincoln Tavertine room under the auspices of the Indianapolis Construction League. Mr. Berlin is an Jnhnß.Manvillo Corporation <vtllrti.l

The New Deal and the Joneses

The New Del Is takinr on new aspect to the Joneses aa thee discuss it amonr themselves and with their neighbors and other friends, because tnev talk it over in everyday language. This article, e’erenth of the series, takes them a li'.Ue farther alonr the path of knowledce. BY WILLIS THORNTON Chapter Eleven “/"'•OME right on up, folks.” \J shouted Henry Robinson as the Jones car drove in the farm driveway under the maples. “Find chairs right here in the settin’ room. Ellen’ll have dinner ready in a few minutes!” Mrs. Jones was soon drawn to the kitchen and its alluring odors and the men folks were clustered together. “Got your government loan on the farm yet?” asked Pa Jones jovially o* his cousin Henry. "No, not yet,” smiled back Henry. “I haven’t had to mortgage the place at all yet. That’s one thing you fellows forget when you think about the farm question—you forget that more than half the farms of the country are owned free and clear, without any mortgage on them at all. “It’s like this matter of unemployment in the city. You’re always hearing about how many are unemployed, but you don’t often hear anybody mention that there are at least 30,000,000 people working in industry. “All these farm credit banks have been ioo complicated for me to follow,” admitted Pa 'Jones. “Os course I know that in general they’re aimed at saving farms for the owners, but it’s complicated.” a tt tt NO less than complicated is the farm credit situation, though it is somewhat less so since all these agencies have been made branches of one single agency—the Farm Credit Administration. In charge of this was formerly Henry Morgenthau, now secretary of the treasury. The present head is William I. Myers. The general objects are two. First America believes that its farms should be owned by independent farmers. The rise of tenantry hes been alarming in the last few years, and any move was welcomed to save farms for their owners r.::d operators, keeping the American

SAUNDERS SLAYING TRIAL IS DELAYED Jury to Be Selected at Lebanon Thursday. Postponement of the first degree murder trial of Mrs. Naomi Saunders, 36, which was to have started Monday at Lebanon, was announced today by Deputy Prosecutor John J. Kelly. Inability of Merle N. A. Walker, of defense counsel, to be present Monday, caused the postponement, Mr. Kelly said. Mrs. Saunders is charged with plotting the murder of her husband, the Rev. Gaylord V. Saunders, here last Feb. 2. The state claims she gave Theodore (Ted) Mathers, 19, a $lO bank note with which to employ an assassin. Mathers will be placed on trial after Mrs. Saunders’ case is disposed of. According to the present plans, a jury will be selected next Thursday and Friday. Adjournment then will be taken until Monday, Dec. 10, when taking of testimony will commence.

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All you need in materials in The Indianapolis Times drawing lessons is a * soft pencil and some paper like typewriter paper, and then a big smooth board like a drawing board or your mother’s bread board, or a large, smooth book. You will need an eraser. The best kind is a kneaaed eraser. With it you will not make such a mess on the floor. Cut out these lessons each day. paste them in a book, and you will have a drawing book to keep and show your friends. Do you have some friends who are interested in drawing? Be sure and tell them about these lessons. They will be running in THE TIMES for several weeks. Now read these rules carefully: 1. GRADE SCHOOL PUPILS ONLY are eligible for prizes In this contest. Any grade school pupil, boy or girl (except children of Times employes) may enter. 2. Your drawings must be made

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“Farmers generally pay their debts if they have a dog’s chance to. Farm mortgages wer| held the best risks in the country. They will be again.”

farmer an independent landowner and not a peasant or tenant, as in so many countries. Second, the farm mortgages were largely held by insurance companies. When farm incomes fell during the crash and farmers became delinquent on their high-interest mortgages, the values of the farms fell, too. That meant that even if the insurance companies were able to foreclose, they would be heavy losers, and holders of life insurance policies throughout the country Would be heavy losers, too. But, even at that, farmers were not going tc give up without a fight

STOWAWAY, 8, TIRED OF BERMUDA, WANTS SCHOOLING IN U. S.

By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. I.—Carroll Livingston Wainwright Jr., who is only 8 but proud of the distinguished colonial blood in his veins, abandoned the British school system last Wednesday, when he discovered that Thanksgiving day was just another Thursday in Bermuda. Yesterday, the youngster, whose abrupt decision to stowaway from Bermuda led to a kidnap scare, arrived aboard the liner Queen of Bermuda, the pet of the ship, and leaped into the arms of his waiting grandmother, Mrs. Carl P. Wolff. “Hello Gran’ Maw. Are you mad at me,” he said ecstatically. “I had a swell time. I wanted to go to school with American kids like myself.” “I’m not a bit mad,” replied the silvery-haired dowager. “I admire your spunk.” “He’s not a stowaway you know,” added Captain Jeffery Davis, beaming at the reunion. His grandmother wirelessed she would pay his passage. It was jolly having him aboard.”

free hand, without the aid of instruments. 3. They may be made with pencil, crayon, or pen and ink. 4. Drawings must be submitted clipped together in complete sets of six, one for every day beginning with Saturday of each week and ending with Friday of the following week. 5. Drawings must be at least 7 inches in depth on standard size B%xll inches) white paper. 6. BE SURE to write ycur name, address, school and grade ON EACH DRAWING. 1. Your set cf drawings for the second week (beginning Saturday, Dec. 1, and ending Friday, Dec. 7) must be in The Times office not later than noon, Tuesday, Dec. 11. You may deliver them in person or mail them to the Drawing Contest Editor, The Indianapolis Times. 8. In case of ties, neatness will be a deciding factor. Prizes will be mailed to winners.

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the homes and farms they had worked in many cases for generations. Rioting to stop foreclosure sales became a daily occurrence. u tt THEREFORE, again the government stepped in with its credit. It would refinance the farm mortgages. That is, it would give to the insurance companies bonds (at a lower rate than the mortgages, it is true, but guaranteed by thq government and tax-free). Then it would itself take over the mortgages, grant more liberal terms and longer time to pay. Thus it is expected that hundreds of thousands of farmers will be saved from eviction, and if they get easier terms and better prices for their produce, will be able to pay off eventually. And the insurance companies (and their policy-holders) will also be saved. That is the general line of financial farm relief. “But, look here,” protested Pa Jones. “Isn’t this going to do the same sort of thing the RFC is doing? That is, pub the farmers in hock to the government, the same as it has the banks? Isn”t it going to find itself in the farming business in a great big way, too?” Henry Robinson smiled and gazed out over a field of wheat stubble. “_Qf course it might,” he admitted. “But farmers generally pay their debts if they have a dog’s chance to. “Farm mortgages have always been thought of as the best risk in the country. They will be again.” a tt tt “|7 VERYBODY is reasonably well H/ satisfied, and the farmer has a real New Deal,” said Henry Robinson. “But doesn’t the government have to foreclose on some of these deals, just like a private loan company, when they fall through?” Pa Jones asked. “Yes, sometimes,” admitted Robinson. “The Federal Farm Loan banks have taken over some 22,000 farms, but mostly they were abandoned; they have a pretty liberal policy on actually evicting occupants. “Lately, some of the Federal Land banks have begun to tighten up on collections, especially in sections where they know the farmers have had a better year than last.” “You know,” said Pa Jones thoughtfully, “I begin to think Uncle Sam is going to be either the shrewdest money lender or the biggest sucker in all history.” (Copyright, 1934, NEA Service. Inc.) Next Subsistence Homesteads— Pa Jones knows city life, and something of country life. But he learns of the extensive plans to combine the two.

SAVINGS • GENERAL BANKING ' TRUSTS Enroll in the^> CHRISTMAS 4 CLUB'* A CHECK for $25 to $250 will be mailed ‘to you December 1,1935. Easy payments of 50c, sl, $2, $3 or $5 will put Christ- 1 mas on a cash basis and perhaps leave a surplus for your permanent Savings Account. Enroll today at the nearest Fletcher Trust bank. MAIN OFFICE Northwest Cor. Pennsylvania and Market BRANCHES 6235 Bellefontaine St. 500 East Washington St. 3001 North Illinois St. 2506 East Washington St. 1541 North Illinois St. 5501 East Washington St. 1533 Roosevelt Ave. 474 West Washington St. 1125 South Meridian St. 2600 West Michigan St., 2122 East Tenth St. 1233 Oliver Ave. jfletrher trust dompami

$7,000.001),000 MAY BE RELIEF COSTFORI93S Hopkins, lekes to Present Programs to President at Warm Springs. By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 1. The federal government's new relief program took shape rapidly today with intimations that costs of caring for the nation’s needy may top the $7.000.000.000-mark next year. Definite plans were expected from the week-end conferences at Warm Springs between President Roosevelt, Harry L. Hopkins, relief adj ministrator; Henry Morgenthau j Jr., secretary of treasury, and James A. Moffett, housing administrator. Harold L. Ickes, secretary of the interior, was busy figuring out how ; much money he will need for his | new public works program Mr. j Ickes will meet with Mr. Roosevelt at the little White House down ! south next Monday. Mr. Hopkins has spent $1,445.000.000 for relief and $100,000,000 for civil work projects since May 22, last year. Mr. Ickes put out $3,700,000,000. Between them, expenditures totaled $5,545,000,000. That sum may be exceeded in 1935. The relief problem ahead is. in words of William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, “the most serious the nation has ever faced,” a situation pointing to increased relief costs. Mr. Green estimated 10.671.000 persons out of work in industries in October compared to 10,122,000 the same month a year ago, an increase of about 550,000. Indications are that $5,000,000,000 will be proposed for anew PWA program and that relief will add around $2,000,000 more. After Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Ickes have presented their plans to President Roosevelt, the chief executive will make out the relief budget he will present congress in January. ‘EXHIBITION HOUSE’ TO BE COMPLETED TODAY Structure to Be Ready for Inspection Soon After Dec. 15. “Exhibition house,” which is being modernized by the Construction League in behalf of the Chamber of Commerce repair and modernization program, will be ready for inspection soon after Dec. 15, it was announced today. The work on the house, which is being repaired on the south lawn of the Federal building, was to be completed today. Furnishings are to be selected by Mrs. J. R. Farrell, home-making center director, and R. G. Burns, interior decorator, both of the Ban-ner-Whitehill store. SILK PEACE IS NEAR Mills to Reopen Next Week Is Agreement Is Approved. By United Press PATERSON, N. J., Dec. I.—Peace in the silk industry was believed assured today when representatives of manufacturers and workers agreed on anew labor contract after a night-long session. If both bodies approve the agreement it is expected mills will reopen, probably next week. THEFTS ARE REPORTED Watches and Wearing Apparel Among Loot, Police Advised. Hi. A. McKnight, 120 South Harris street, told police today that a thief stole two watches valued at SBB from his home. Hallie Brooks, 21 West Twenty-eighth street, reported burglars stole wearing apparel valued at $25 from her home. H. R. Bourne, 139 South Emerson avenue, said an overcoat valued at $35 was taken from his parked car.

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