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

DEC. 1, 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 S<rin-H>rd Forcicn Editor It was April, 1917. The Canadians had just stormejl Vimy Ridge. Nervously I made my way to the crest and slithered on through the trenches to the north shoulder. I peeped over. Below me lay Lens. It was my first glimpse of on? 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. Later I was to enter that town. But not until well into 1918. For the invaders, though surrounded on three sides, held on to the bitter end. And what I saw was not pretty. 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 France, 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. Such is the French thesis. That is behind what is now happening in the Saar. That is what makes it today’s worst danger spot in all Europe. It was because of what happened at Lens, 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 j 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. Wilson’s Thumbs Down Young Andre Tardieu. former foreign editor of Le Temps, captain in the army, and commissioner to the United States, now' was aid to the “Tiger.” He advanced a plan. He recalled that Louis XIV had founded the city of Saarlouis; that that city was even named for the French monarch: and that Napoleon Bonaparte had raised the French flag above Saarbrucken. where it fluttered until 1815. The Saar was almost on all fours with AlsaceLorraine. it was practically French territory. Grimly President Wilson listened to the foxy Tardieu. When the Frenchman had finished, the American put thumbs down on the project. "I am willing to rectify, as far as possible, the wrongs done France in 1870," he said icily. “And also since 1914. But not for 1815. I have no right to hand over to her people who do not want to go to her, or to give them a special gvernment. even if it is better for them, if they do not want it.” 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 T.ad 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 S a. m. on April 10 the job was done. Before noon it was submitted to the big four. They made on* 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. There are five articles and an annex in three chapters to the charter now governing the new cockpit | of Europe. 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.” Article 47 is a clarifying one and Artice 48 fixes the Saar's boundaries. These are determined largely by the location of the mines themselves and the habitations of the workers. In the next article 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. Tricky Play Nailed Promptly Article 50 makes the annex a legal part of the treaty. The annex contains about four thousand words. It purports to assure ‘the rights and welfare of the population" and guarantee to France complete freedom in working the mines. The one major change referred to above had to do with a provision introduced by Tardieu. 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—Juggling with dynamite. 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.

Wide Interest Is Shown In Movie Memory Quiz Season Passes Reward in Times-Indiana Contest — New Questions Published.

Are you playing the new game of “Biographical Quiz?” The replies reaching the contest editor of The Times indicate that nearly everyone is trying to win a pass, good for two until the end of the year, to the Indiana theater. Plenty of people are busy hunting up data on Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler, the subjects of the quiz. Today the fourth test is printed. The person sending in the neatest set of correct answers to today’s five questions will be awarded

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

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This winsome little farm girl—a dancer when not farming—is missing from her Mercer, Pa., home and may be lost in a great city, so Pennsylvania police are searching diligently for her. She is Yvonne Brunner, •who was bridesmaid for Kaletta Mulvihill, when that much-headlined youngster married a Pittsburgh truck driver.

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 Beuticians, and Hillary Bailey, well-known photographer, 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" 'ihart 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 V'est Thirty-third street; and Delores Rousey, 137 Kansas street Chicago Bandits Get 5300 Bp United Press CHICAGO, Dec. I.—Three young bandits armed with & sub-machine gun, held up sixty-five guests and employes of Ireland’s restaurant just north of the loop, taking S9OO from the cash register and an undetermined amount from the pockets of diners.

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

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

WAGES ABSURB 72 GENTS OF RELIEF DOLLAR ' I 28 Cents Is Direct Dole and Administration Costs Here.. (Continued From Page One) food orders plus surplus foods doled out at the township 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 famiMes 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 worjt 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;

Marlon Cos. Indiana Direct relief ... $1,568.08 $ 951,669.89 Work relief .... 433,287.23 1 '55,142.0l idministration . 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 1984, with expenditures reaching $2,000,OCO 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. OLM POISED FOR HOP Australian Awaits Weather Report Before Pacific Trip By United Press OAKLAND. Cal., Dec. I.—Charles T. P. Ulm, Australian flier, awaited reports on Pacific weather conditions before deciding whether to leave today directly from Oakland for Australia via the Hawaiian Islands. Should there be storms between the California coast and Honolulu, Ulm indicated he will fly first to Vancouver, B. C., and their await favorable conditions for the transoceanic trail-blazing flight.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Mrs. Estelle Burpee. 3025 North Meridian streen. Plymouth coupe. 112-OW). from Alabama and Nineteenth street. Charles Amos. 1649 North Alabama street. Chrysler sedan. 9-317. from 3500 West Sixteenth street. Vernon Rowe. 1819 Roosevelt avenue. Plymouth roadster. 45-253. from Nolan and Commerce avenues. Richard Norris. 1422 Lee street. Ford coupe. 21-204. from 1232 Shepard street. Joseph W. Cull. 777 North Emerson avenue. Chrysler sedan 117-491. from parking lot at 117 West Maryland street. Francis Klein. R. R. 1. Box 118. Plymouth coupe. 76-176. from 2900 block Massachusetts avenue.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Gertrude M Condon. 510 North Riley avenue, Chrvsler coach, found at Fletcher avenue and St. Paul street. Vernon Rowe. 1819 Roosevelt avenue. Plvmouth roadster, found at Tenth street near Woodruff Place. Oliver Galamore. 527 Virginia avenue. Chevrolet coach found In front of 1337 North Capitol avenue. Joe Rollins. 86 South Sixth street. Be-ch Grove. Chevrolet coach found in front of 229 East Maryland street. Charles Gillv. 812 South Senate avenue. Chevrolet coupe, fdund at Tenth street and Central avenue. Paul Wisehart. Box 238. Danville, m., CHdsmobile sedan, found in front of 206 South Oriental street. Fred J. Minneman. 601 South Pennsylvania street. Whippet coach, found at Bloomington Ind. Mastodon Tooth Found By United Preta ASHEVILLE, O, Dec. I.—The tooth of a mastodon, measuring seven and one-half inches in length, was found recently b? William Wean, a farmer.

The New Deal and the Joneses

Thf New Deal f* taking an anew aspect to the Janeses aa they disease it among themselves and with their neighbors and other friend*, because they talk it oeer in everyday language. Thia artirle, eleventh of the series, take; them a little farther along the path of knowledge. BY WILLIS THORNTON Chapter Eleven right on up. folks,” V>i 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 of 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 al-’ ways hearing about how many are unemployed, but you don’t often hear anybody mention tjiat there are at least 30,000,000 people working in industry. “All these faj-m credit banks have been too complicated for me to follow,’’ admitted Pa Jones. “Os

course I know that in general they’re aimed at saving for the owners, but it’s complicated.” s tt tt tt NO less than complicated is the farm credit situation, though it 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 has been alarming in the last few years, and any move was welcomed to save farms for their owners end operators, keeping the American

CHURCHES JOIN IN ‘HYMN^SING’ North Side Congregations to Co-operate in Service Tomorrow. North side churches will co-oper-ate in a “Hymn Sing” at 7:45 tomorrow night at the North Methodist Episcopal church, Thirtyeighth and Meridian streets. The “sing” was suggested by Bishop Wilbur P. Thirkield, chairman of the committee on worship of the Federal Council of Churches of America. The churches which will participate in the group singing will be the Fifty-first Street Methodist, Northwood Christian, North Methodist, Broadway Evangelical, Meridian Heights Presbyterian, Carrollton Avenue Reformed, and the Fairview Presbyterian., Choir directors who are co-operat-ing are Mrs. Blanche Harvey Quirk, Northwood Christian; Miss Isabelle Mosaman, Fifty-first Street Methodist; Mrs. Frank E. Edenharter, Fairview Presbyterian; George Potts,

Today’s Drawing Lesson

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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. New 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 were held the best risks in the country. They wiU 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 to give up without a fight

Meridian Heights Presbyterian, Miss Mary Margaret Hischman, Broadway Evangelical; Mrs. Rosalee Spong, Carrollton Avenue Reformed, and William F. Kugel, North Methodist church. SCIENTECHS TO ELECT City Club to Name New Officers on Dec. 17. Election of officers of the Indianapolis Scientech Club will be held Dec. 17. Any members’ group may place a ticket in the field providing it is placed in the secretary’s hands before Wednesday. The official nominating committee has offered this ticket: J. G. Siegesmund, president; Howard Stradling, vice-president; Herbert A. Minturn, secretary, and Arthur M. Hood, treasurer. NAZIS FREE AMERICAN California Girl Held Since Sept. 10 to Be Deported. By United Press BERLIN, Dec. I.—The government informed the American consulate today that it would release Miss Isabel Lillian Steele of Hollywood, Cal., held in prison since Sept. 10 on indefinite charges. A court will be asked to order her deportation, the government said.

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 BV2XII inches) white paper. 6. BE SURE to write your name, address, school and grade ON EACH DRAWING. 1. Your set of 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.

the homes and farms they had worked in many cases for generations. Rioting to stop foreclosure sales became a daily occurrence. o tt a 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 the 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, put 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. “Os 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.” tt it u “T7VERYBODY 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 w'here they know the farmers l|ave 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 thfc two.

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CHAVEZ' STAND EMBARRASSING TO ROOSEVELT Senate Candidate, Beaten by Progressive Cutting, May Ask Probe. By Scripps-Hotcard Xeirspaper Allifinct WASHINGTON. Dec. I.—The threat of Representative Dennis Chavez <Dem.. N. M.), to demand a senatorial investigation of his contest with Senator Bronson Cutting is embarrassing the Roosevelt administration. Mr. Chai’ez, to whom the latest count gives some 1.400 votes fewer than to Senator Cutting, is here to lay the groundwork for an inquiry by Senator James Byrnes' committee on election expenditures in case the New Mexico canvassing board next Monday grants Mr. Cutting a certificate. Representative Chavez makes no direct charge of fraud, but hints at “appalling” expenditures by the Cutting Republican-Progressive organization. Behind the Chavez threat lies the possibility of a serious break in the : Roosevelt Progressive-Democratic ; front. Few’ senators are more popular with the Progressive senate bloc | than the young New Mexican. Senator George Norris (Rep., Neb.), already has criticised the ad- ! ministration's failure to support Senator Cutting for re-election. | Senator William E. Borah <Rep„ Idaho), has threatened that if the seating of Senator Cutting is contested he will insist on investigation of relief expenditures in New Mexico and of the Democratic national committee’s activities there. During his campaign, Mr. Cutting received wires of indorsement from senate liberals of both parties, including Democratic Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada, Homer Bone of Washington. Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, Edward P. Costigan of Colorado and Republican Senators Borah, Hiram Johnson of California and Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota. In letters to Senator Cutting and Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, Senator J. Hamilton Lewis chairman of the Democratic senatorial campaign committee, denied sending Democratic .speakers into either New Mexico or Minnesota in opposition to these senators. Senator Walter George of Georgia, who heads the privileges and elections committees, said he hoped there would be no contest since he greatly admired Mr. Cutting. MULE, 31, RECOGNIZED BY FIRST OWNER’S SON Brand *ss’ Brings Identification of Beast. By United Press BURNS, Ore., Dec. I.—A mule sold by Jim Mahon, one-time famous Harney county mule breeder, in 1903 w’as recently recognized by the rancher’s son, Ira Mahon, now of San Francisco, while driving along a California road, he informed friends here. He recognized the mule, sold thirty-one years ago, by the familUr brand “55.” For fifteen years, he said, his father sold about 300 mules . a year in Stockton, and he w r as willing to wager many other “plenty tough” mules still were living and working. 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 h night-long session. If both bodies approve the agreement it is expected mills will reopen, probably next week. Boy Struck by Discus By United Press CLEVELAND. Dec. 1. —Lloyd Cassidy, 12, stepped into the path of a spinning discus on a school playground during a gymnasium session. His skull was fractured.