Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1935 — Page 4

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STATE RESERVE OFFICERS WILL CONVENE MAY 4 Twelfth Annual Event to Be Held in South Bend for Two Days. The 12th annual ■-tafe convention of the Indiana department. R*-v?rve Officers’ A-vsociation. will b<* held in South Bend May 4 and 5, it was announced today. The reserve soldiers will take part fn golf matches and rifle and pistol competitions. A tour of the Notre Dame campus has been planned, and a military bail will be held in the Oliver Hotel. The 113th Engineers of the Indiana National Guard will hold a battalion parade and formal retreat on the first afternoon of the session The speech department of Notre Dame will give "The Making of the Constitution.” a dramatic presentation. Among the speakers are Gov. Psul V McNutt. Brig. Gen. C D Herron, executive for Reserve Affairs of the War Department; Brig. Gen. William K. Naylor, commander of the Indiana and Ohio Military Areas; Col T. L. Sherburne, chief of staff of the Indiana Military Area, and Colonel George A. Bvers. Fifth Corps Area president of the Reserve Officers' Association. PROPOSE PLAYIOT IN MRS. DANIELS’ MEMORY League of Women Voters Takes Special Action at Meeting. The League of Women Voters directors' board took special action yesterday to establish a Katherine Holliday Daniels playground as a tribute to Mrs. Daniels, who died Sunday. The league will meet soon with Mayor John W. Kern and the Park Board to discuss the city’s recreational needs with the purpose of finding a suitable site for the memorial park.

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ARSON PROBER NAMED Gordon Sherer Is Appointed to Take Dienhart Post. Gordon Sheroj-, Indianapolis attorney, was appointed chief investigator of the arson division of the state fire marshal’s office yesterday by A1 G. Feeney, state safety director. He will take the place of Ignatious tNish) Dienhart, who recently was named assistant superintendent of the Municipal Airport.

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND —By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen —

WASHINGTON, April 17.—-President Roosevelt made a personal telephone call to Senator Gerald Nye, chairman of the Munitions Investigating Committee, the other morning at 9:45. And thereby hangs a most extraordinary tale. At 10 a. m., Donald Richberg. NRA head, was scheduled to take the witness stand before the munitions committee to testify regarding the Colt Firearms Cos., makers of machine guns and automatic pistols.

Richberg had written several letters to the committee indicating great reluctance to testify. Reason for this reluctance was the fact that a sfcrike has been in progress in the Colt plant for some weeks, and the National Labor Relations Board had held in favor of the workers, decreed that the Colt company was wrong. In accord with this, the NRA board snatched the Blue Eagle. When a company loses the Blue Eagle, every department of the government automatically is notified in order that it may cease to do business with that firm. a a a. BUT in the case of the Colt company, government departments were NOT notified. The War Department, which had placed various orders with the company, received no notice that Colt was violating NRA codes. In fact the munitions committee unearthed a letter signed by Secretary Dern stating that until the War Department was notified, he would continue to do business. Unofficially, Secretary Dern knew that the Blue Eagle had been snatched. Officially, he did not know. The Colt company gets a large amount of its profits from the government. Government orders probably mean the difference between its profit and loss. The government pressure, therefore, probably could have settled the strike. Yet for the first time in its history, notification of the Blue Eagle's removal was not sent out. Obviously Donald Richberg had to do some tough explaining. So 15 minutes before Richberg was to take the stand. Roosevelt telephoned Senator Nye. He asked Nye not to summon Richberg. Obviously it would have been embarrassing for the ’’Assistant President.” Senator Nye is not an ardent supporter of the President. He is

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also a bitter critic of the NRA. Finally, he would like to run for the Vice Presidency on the Republican ticket. Nevertheless, he played ball with the President. He postponed Richberg’s appearance before the Senate Committee. (Copyright. 1935, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Chicago Hoodlum Is Slain CHICAGO. April 17. —John Donahue, 176, minor hoodlum with a long police record, was shot to death last night by a man who fired on him with a shotgun from an automobile in front of his home.

Cl VI K I X s . With CAPT. Ah WILLIAMS I ill 1 Chief of Air Service I I— 111 x Scripps-Howard Junior Aviator

A YOUNG Junior Aviator has asked me to describe the catapult ships used by the Germans as floating airplane bases in the South Atlantic. So. here’s the dope. The Germans have placed anew ship, called the Swabenland. in the South Atlantic. This ship is considerably larger than the Westfalen, and lots faster, too. It's powered bytwo Diesel engines, 1800 horsepower each. You know such a ship is nothing more than a mother ship for the long distance German seaplanes. The open sea is generally rough, and the flier who navigates his way to the mother ship faces a difficult problem in landing. The Germans work it this way: The flier must land into the wind, so the Swabenland is headed into the wind and trails out behind it a huge mat, woven from ropes. Dragging this mat along the surface smooths off the top of the waves; leaving a slick spot for the airman to land upon. The boat then slows down, permitting the big mat to sink below the surface. The sea-

NEW ENGLAND'S COTTON MILLS FIGHTHJR LIFE Pioneer Industry Struggling to Regain Its Feet: Many Close Doors. By T'nifrft Prr*i BOSTON, April 17.—New England's pioneer cotton textile industry, livelihood of hundreds of thousands during the last 122 years, is fighting for its life. Many manufacturers contend that unless drastic relief measures are adopted quickly it will be crushed by the combined burden of the processing tax. Japanese competition, over-production and the NorthSouth wage differentials. Their fears do not appear to be groundless. A survey today showed that: Fifteen large New England mills have closed since Jan. 1, with approximately 12.000 operatives affected. Several of these plants never expect to reopen. Nearly 30 additional mills have closed within the last two years, throwing about 15,000 more operatives out of work. Few of these plan to reopen.

Countless Mills Curtailed. Countless other mills have curtailed, either by suspending operations in certain departments or by reducing working hours. Almost daily the looms of additional mills are silenced. The industry thrived for many years after Francis Cabot Loweil started the first loom at Waltham in 1813. Eventually ft became the ranking industry of this territory, and it is still New England’s greatest single industry, but a definite decline now appears to be in progress. This decline may have had its real beginning in the days following the World War when mills began moving to the South, where labor was cheaper, where longer working hours were legal, and where they were nearer the source of supply. Further Hurt By Japan Last September the national textile strike diverted to southern mills business which normally would have come here. Meanwhile, the rise of industrial Japan brought an influx of lowpriced importations that undersold domestic manufacturers. Textile New England suffered further /hen Nipponese products began to displace Ameroican-made goods in foreign markets. But neither Japanese competition nor the wage differential is causing the cotton men as much anxiety as is the processing tax.

plane taxies up close to the stern and is lifted onto the deck, by a gigantic crane. When the plane is ready to take off it is hoisted up on to a cradle, formed to fit the hull of the aircraft. The cradle is mounted on wheels, which run along a track. There is a long cylinder which extends the full length of the rails, and in this cylinder is a piston connected tc the cradle. When the flier is ready to take off, a charge of slow burning gun cotton drives the piston forward and thus carries the cradle and the seaplane to the end of the track. As the cradle stops abruptly, the seaplane is tossed off into the air. The Swabenland catapult will launch any aircraft which weighs up to 14 tons . . . and at a speed of 93 miles an hour. QUESTION —Do all planes have wheels beneath the tail? Not all. Most of the lighter, open planes still use tail skids. The majority of military and transport planes are'equipped with tail wheels.

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