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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-19
POLICE SERGEANT HURT

Police Sergt. Walter Barmfuhrer
was injured about the legs today
when an auto in which he was
riding was struck by cut of coal
cars at Northwestern Ave, and
Twentieth St.
Barmfuhrer said he was on his
way to meet some officers to nas Ike a
raid when Earl Bolden, 321 w.
Twenty-First ST., offered him ride
in his auto. Bolden was slated.
Barmfuhrer was taken to the city
hospital
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-19
WITHDRAW BANK GUARDS
Mayor Orders Uniformed Police
Taken Out on Monday.

Mayor Shank today announced he
had ordered withdrawal Of the uni
formed police guards, who have been
stationed in twenty-six banks of the
city since last week.
1.-The situation has cleared up since
the wave Of bank robberies and I
believe special protection no longer
is necessary" Mayor Shank de-
clared.
Uniformed guards will be taken
away Monday, according to Mayor
Shank. However, police will be in
structed to- maintain contact with
the situation, he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-19

piled that they would take part.
They are Maine, Newhampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Pennsylvania, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Georgia,
louisiana, Ohio, West Virginia,
Nebraswka, Kansas. Texas, New
Mexico, Utah and Oregon the other
twenty-five States have not replied.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-19
All VIII Be Affected

Now this will affect you whether
you drive an automobilye or not.
For, even if you don't, you at least
or ship goods that are transported
in motor trucks; or you have in your
home electric wiring, insulated by
rubber; or you wear rubber heels;
or you use some sort of rubber APP
planes, day in and day out.
So when the price Of rubber goes
up more than 100 per cent you are
going to know it,
Late in 1924 crude rubber was sell
ing at II cents a pound.
In January of this year 1t be-
gan to rise. The first week in June
1t was quoted at 70 cents, and still
further advances are possible.
;8 Due to Change
! The British monopoly is due to a
complete change in the rubber pro-
ducing world during the last TWEEN
~ years.
Twenty years ago the bulk Of the
worlds rubber came from the
jungles of the Amazon. There were
no plantations there. Wild trees
were tapped and the product shipped
FROM infrequent collection stations
But certain British capitalists had
started rubber plantations in the
East Indies-in Java, parts of Su
rnatra and Malaga.
Il AS the demand for rubber in
creased the wild trees were unable
to meet It. Plantations expanded
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-19
ISTaIKE AGAINST BRITISH
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
LONDON, June 19.-Peltin dis
patches to the Evening News today
reported that a strike against the
British will be inaugurated in all
China on June 25. The same source
said that soviet workers had sent
an additional 10000 for the Chinese.
strike fund.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-19
SEVEN STATES
join INDIANA
Others Refuse to Participate
in Defense Test Day.
Times star. Correspondent

WASHINGTON, June 19.-Seven
other states have joined with In
diana. in refusing to cooperate with
the Defense Day test, on July 4.
according to a summary prepared
by the war department. The States
that will not take part owing either
to lack of time or because of lack
of sympathy with movement are
Connecticut, indiana, Maryland,
Missouri. North Dakota, Tennessee.
Virginia and Wisconsin.
Eighteen States have definitely re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-19
Promised Relief


In January. 1923, a delegation of
British rubber growers, headed by
Sir Eric Miller, came to America
and, to protests of American con-
sumers, promised that in event of a
shortage the Stevenson act would
be relaxed so as to permit larger
exports and avoid unreasonably high
prices.
But this spring, when the Rubber
Association of America cabled and
asked that this be done, the Brit
ish retorted that no emergency ex-
listed and they were satisfied to let
things ride as they were.
Repeated appeals from America
failed to change this attitude.
So, for the present, there is little
the American consumers can do but
pay the price.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-19

and presently the bulk of the supply
came from them.
Now in 1920 and 1921. the supply
far exceeded the demand. Rubber
was a drug on the market. So the
British rubber men formed an as
ISOLATION and gel Parliament to pass
law known as the Stevenson act.
Under this act rubber exports are
limited to a certain percentage of
the yield Of 1921 production. Tho
market price for each quarter year
determines the percentage that can
be exported in the next quarter.
Right now the growers are ex-
porting 55 per cent of their 1921
yield.
The United States Department of
Commerce has just made an extern
sive survey Of the situation. It's
report says this:
HAD the British colonies pro-
duced and exported to their ca
pacity in 1924 it is estimated that
100000 more tons would have
reached the market during this
wear"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-19
WOMAN WILL RECOVER

Mrs. Mabel Everitt of 702 Harmon
st. is recovering at the city hospital
today from poison self-administered
police say. Domestic troubles were
given as the motive
Evening star., 1925-10-09

once. All items thus bought in con-
solidated definite quantities for de-
livery in Washington are consigned
to the general supply committee,
where they receive prompt and ade-
quate inspection and are then deliv-
cred to the services which need them.
Confirming purchase orders and
vouchers are prepared by the partici-
pattng services, which forward them
to the general supply committee, this
agency then sending the vouchers to
contractors. Contractors. thereafter,
look to the departments and establish
ments individually for payment.
Savings Effected.
Representative Wood, in support Of
his pet measure. has co-operated with
the general sppply committee in a
careful survey which showed that
savings of from ) to 36Ia per cent
have been effected through definite
quantity purchasing on wide variety
of articles. as follows: Linseed oil, 5
per cent; mucilage. 71a per cent: tur-
pentine. 81 per cent; cheesecloth, 9E
per cent; hose, 1914 per cent; tissue
paper, 13 per cent: rubber bands, 1411
per cent: waste baskets, 16 per cent.
impression paper, 21i2 per cent; L nited
States flags, 22A per cent; paste, "a
per cent; erasers. 2612 per cent; pneu-
matte tires, 36A per cent: pneumatic
tubes. 36h per cent.
The total saving in one year by
buying tires and tubes in definite
quantities amounted to $S0.500. The
total saving on rubber bands in one
year was more than $500 by buying
in definite bulk quantity.
From these experiences il is prac-
tical certainty that the Government
by buying in definite quaint where.
ever practicable would profit in better
ment Of prices bid and in far more
adequate quality inspection of deliv-
cries.
But there remains serious handi-
cap to complete success of cooperative
definite quantity purchasing even in
the case of those articles upon which
the largest saving appears. This
handicap exists because of the lack
of d common fund from which pay
ment can promptly be made after re
ceipt and inspection Of the goods thu:
bought through the interdepartmenta
agency, the general supply committee
The necessity, in the absence of this
Continued on Fifth Page)
Evening star., 1925-10-09
MRS. ALICE P. READ
DIES AT THE AGE OF II
Was Widow of Capt. George Beale
Read and Government Clerk
"A Years.

Mrs. Alice r. Read. ~ years old.
widow of Capt. George Beale Read
and Il clerk in the Interior Department
for Al years, died at Columbia Hos
pital Wednesday after lingering i'll
ness. Mrs. Read was native of Vir-
Ginia, but had lived in Washington
since she was a small child. She was
member of Cathedral Chapter No.
IA. o. l.. s., and the Epiphany Episco-
pal Church.
Her husband, the late Capt Read
died in February. 1922, about a month
before the couple were to have cele-
brated their fiftieth wedding anniver-
sary. AIRS. Read is survived by a
daughter. Miss Alice II. Read, and
son, George 3. Read.
Funeral services will be held at the
residence, 1919 r street, tomorrow
afternoon at . o'clock Rev. John II.
A. Bomberger. assistant rector of the
Church of the Epiphany, will officiate
1nterment will be in Arlington Gene
terry.
Mrs. Read was the daughter of the
late Maj. II. T. Dixon of Upperville,
Va
Evening star., 1925-10-09
Delay Caused Distrust.

Ho"eFer. this satisfaction was short
lived. Germany's absurd answer to
this first Lusitania note. in which she
practically ignored the points insisted
on by President Wilson. and defended
her action on the ground that the tor
pedoed vessel was a warship. herself
armed with guns and carrying muni
tons and troops to Great Britain: her
re1uSai to accept the Presidents de.
mands; the kaiser's policy of evasion
and delay. and the Presidents fail
ure to follow his imperious words
with acts produced that doubt in
rage mind and afterward that com
plete divergence of views and svm.
pathy that now became the prevail
ing tone in the Ambassadors COM
munications.
Mr.. LansinE's succession to the
state Department after Mr.. Brvan's
RESIGNATION did little to improve
Evening star., 1925-10-09
CONTEMPT OF EUROPE FACED i. S.
lFLUSITANIA SINKING WAS IGNORED
First Letter of Wilson
Resulted in Praise
for Stand.
Satisfaction Was Short
Lived After Reply by
Germany.

British American relations. From the
beginning of the war. indeed, Mr.
Lansing, as counselor of the depart
ment, had formulated and directed
American policy in the blockade
Now that he had become Secretary of
State, Mr.. Lansing insisted, more en-
ergetically than ever, that this block
ade was illegal, and 1t is perhaps not
strange that the feeling became broad
cast that, If the American Govern
ment was not anti-BritiSh it was at
least not especially sympathetic to the
cause of the allies. AS the Summer
wore on the fear in Washington that
the German submarine campaign
would result In a crisis between the
United States and Germany became
more apparent. Any step that would
fullie German sensibilities was care
lu!ly avoided. Word came to Page
or at least Page so interpreted an In
direct meSsage-that it might he well
Tor him to come to the United States
Tor a face-to-face discussion. He in
tinated a Willingness, even an eager
ness to do SO. President Wilson. how.
ever, abruptly vetoed the plan. He
thinks" telegraphed Mr.. Lansing,
that it would be very unwise for
you to come at this time, since il
would create an impression that some
thlng unusually critical and Of a most
confidential nature had arisen, which
could not be handled by correspond.
ence.''
Copyright. 1928. by Doubleday. Page Co
Evening star., 1925-10-09

son in this note. will not expect the
Government of the United States to
omit any word or any act necessary
to the performance of it's sacred duty
of maintaining the rights of the
United States and its citizens and of
safeguarding their free exercise and
enjoyment" Such was the conclud.
ing sentence of the first Lusitauia
note. and It was accepted as def
nitely committing the United States
to vigorous action. In itself it sutfi-
ciently accounts for the tone of
Pages next message.
Evening star., 1925-10-09

general schedule and the purchasing
agents of the departments or other
units Of Government do the rest; that
its. they order the supplies as needed,
take deliveries, make necessary in
spections and pay the bills.
More Capitalization Sought.
Iii a sense this is centralized pur-
chasing, so far as common supplies
are concerned; but each department
makes its own purchases in lots
large or small as may suit Its needs
and us frequently as it chooses.
In the judgment Of the joint COM
m1ttee on reorganization better prices
would obtain under an arrangement
whereby the supply requirements of
all departments and establishments
,, in the District of Columbia would be
actually consolidated and handled by
a single purchasing organizations 1t
accordingly recommended to Congress
! the creation Of a bureau of purchase
and supply, with authority to buy
and issue the supplies commonly
needed by the various units of Uncle
Sans workshop. Since such a bu-
! reau would serve all the departments
and establishments alike 1t was rec
| commended that it be made an inde-
pendent establishment directly un-
der the control and supervision of the
| President.
1t has been argued by the reor-
| Sanlzation committee that with such
an agency at work it would be pos
| sible for the Government to substi.
tute where desirable short term con-
| tracts for definite quantities for the
present system of annual contracts
lor lnQehnlte quantities. This would
| enable the Government to take ad-
vantage OF seasonal fluctuations in
commodity prices. For example,
| when the Bureau of Supplies Of the
| treasury was organized about three
years ago a very large saving was
| MADE by buying broms in the Fall
When the new crop of broom corn
was being harvested. instead of in
| The Spring, when the broom corn crop
was at low ebb. They got the iden-
! ucal quality of broom made by the
same concern, but for something like
% dozen instead of Sl2.
| Urge Single Agency.
! The proposed consolidation would
| also enable contractors to deal with a
! single agency and in large lots, not
! merely in the delivery of goods, but
III such related matters as inspection,
payment and accounting, all Of which
| should result in material savings To
, the Government
While Congress has not vet passed
| upon these recommendations for con-
soildation of purchases. an attempt to
get all advantages possible for the
Government through cooperation in
purchases has been made through the
general supply committee.
Thus, insteaS of each department
| purchasing separately throughout a
| hscal year under, contracts entered
into by the general supply committee
Tor the use Of all executive offices in
| Washington, the departments and es-
| 'abilshments are now sending to the
general 2upply committee each quar-
ter specific statements of quantities
| required of many of the more impor-
| tant supplies. These quantities are
consolidated into invitations for bids
Tor immediate award and delivery.
! The general supply committee makes
| awards on these supplies, prepares
\ contracts for execution, and instructs
| the contractors TO make deliveries at
Evening star., 1925-10-09
AUTO TAG MAILING
BY D. c. UNLIKELY
EIdridge Plan to Avoid Rush
at License Bureau Is Be-
Iieved Impractical.

Uncertainty existed at the District
Building today as to whether ii would
be feasible to permit motorists to
have their 1926 automobile tags
mailed to them this year. The Com
mtssionerS met, but took no action
on the matter.
Traffic Director Eldridge announced
Wednesday that he was considering
The possibility of inaugurating such
u plan To avoid bringing the thou
sands of the motorists to the District
Building during December.
Commissioner Cuno II. Rudolph,
who superviseS the license office,
stated yesterday, however. that he
dld not believe it would be practica-
Die TO adopt the mailing system. He
said he feared it would lead to CON
fusion and that the necessity for in
surfing every tag sent through the
mails would be difficult.
Mr.. Rudolph added that if many of
me tags should be lost or not deliv-
cred to the rightful owner it would
result in much trouble. both for the
motorists and the District authorities
wade ii. Coombs. superintendent of
ncenses, is understood also to be of
The opinion that it would not be prac-
ticable to mail the tags.
Engineer Commissioner Bell has in
dlcated that he approved of the idea.
The license office already has pre-
pared application blanks for $4,000
motorists who obtained tags this year
using the same information as to
name, address and description of car
given when the 1925 tags were OBJ
tained
It is planned to have the police take
these blanks to the houses listed to
make sure If the applicants still live
at the same numbers. If they do, the
blank VIII be left at the motorists S
home to be retained by him until the
tags are placed on sale in December
If the motorist has moved or has dis
posed of his car, the new application
blank will be returned to the District
Building by the policeman with a no.
tation to that effect
The proposal advanced by Director
Eldridge was that when the policemen
are making the check on application
blanks from door to door they could
leave Il printed notice advising the
motorist that he could have his tags
mailed to him by forwa riding the blank
TO the District Building with a check
or money order to over the 81 charge
Tor the tag and l5 cents for mailing
and insuring the tag.
Evening star., 1925-10-09
Praised by Press.
TO THE PRESIDENT.
London, May 16, 1915.
2104 May LIZ 10 n m

TELEGRAM TO THE PRESIDENT.
London, May 16, 1915.
2104. May 16. 10 pm.
Commendation of the note to Ger
many and qualification are universally
expressed privately and in the press
The Times says: "It is a note that,
both in substance and expression. re.
calls the best traditions Of American
diplomacy. The stand taken by Presi-
dent Wilson is something more than
declaration of national policy. Moth
ing less than the conscience of hui
manity makes itself audible in his
measured and incisive sentences"
The Times editorial ends in these
words: THE moral interests of the
United States and the Allies are hence.
forward indissolubly linked"
The Westminster Gazette says: 1--WE
count this note as from all human and
moral points OF view the greatest
event of this war;
Among the men whose private ex-
pressionS OF praise have come to me
are most members of the government,
as well as Lansdowne. Balfour and
Bonar Law of the opposition.
'iiiiih Ihe pfdctlcdliF unanimous
expectation here is that the German
government will give an evasive an
swer and decline to abbreviate the use
OF submarines against merchant ships.
The representatives of other neutral
governments here privately express
pleasure and gratitude. The Amer.
leans in London about whose impa-
tlence l teleGraphed feel ashamed of
their hasty fears.
May I be allowed to express NV
peiSoIaI CONGRATULATIONS on the note?
AMERICAN AMBASSADOR,
London
Evening star., 1925-10-09
Failure to Take Quick
Action Was Feared
By Page.
British Thought America
Fell Short Morally
In Delaying.

Editors Note: This Is the sixth install
ment of heretofore unpublished letters of
Ambassador Walter Hines Page to President
Wilson. They will continue daily.
Evening star., 1925-10-09
Service for Victims.
TELEGRAM TO THE PRESIDENT.
London, Nav 12 1915

TELEGRAM TO THE PRESIDENT.
London, May 10. 1915.
2091. May IL. 5 pm.
Confidential. To the Secretary and
the President:
A memorial service for the LuSi.
tania victims, including American
victims, is being arranged in ST.
Pauls l have insisted there shall be
no sermon or discourse.
The feeling among Americans in
London, residents and visitors, in
creases. More than one group has
prepared resolutions critical of what
they regard as our Governments de-
lay. I am encouraging Hoover and
others in the efforts they are making
to prevent a mass meeting Of Amer
leans, which ! hope will be successful.
AMERICAN AMBASSADOR.
London.
Evening star., 1925-10-09
SMALL FIRE TRAPS
HOLD U. S. STORES.
CAUSING HUGE LOSS
Continued from First Page

10 funds with which to make MIR
chaSes. 1t solicits bids from the man.
uiacturerS or wholesalers and ia I'm.
apie TO enter into contracts for any
.','1htd Quantities. The contractors
ire tod what quantities of each com.
modlty may be ordered throughout
the year IN small amounts. The con-
tractor. therefore. has to make his
price high enough TO cover transpor.
tatlon costs on small quantities, pos
slbie and probable fluctuation in mar
ket prices and considerable DELAY In
receiving payment from the Govern.
ment.
1t is believed by all those who have
made a careful study Of the Govern
nent purchasing system that an
agency such as the general supply
committee could perform a real sery-
ice TO the Government If It had ade-
quate warehouse facilities, such as
the Public Buildings Commission is
urging.
Occupies Two Firetraps.
This committee now occupies the
TWO firetrap structures. Temporary
building ID and Temporary Building
r. 1t has I02,199 square feet of gross
space and occupies 1888 SQUARE feet
- 'i'S0 N'>N'ooiNe VI IIdlt"dySi.
IL uses for storage purposes 7O36I
square feet and for its clerical force
lI,o32 square feet. In addition to
this it uses for the purpose of storing
scrap metal and other. material which
does not particularly require protec-
ton from the weather the irlclpsed
area north of Building ID, approx
matey $4,000 square feet
The general supply committee after
the war had millions of dollars worth
or surplus property stored in fiimSy,
tumhiing down barracks in Potomac
Park. When 1t moved the residue Of
its supplies to the present location
Evening star., 1925-10-09
Note Gave Satisfaction.

President Wilson's first Lusitania
note gave Page great satisfaction. In
1t the President severely arraigned
Germany and virtually demanded that
she abandon unrestricted submarine
warfare. disavow the Lusitania sink.
ing and pay an indemnity. The al
ternative-such was the interpreta-
ton generally given this note in the
United States and in Europe-was s
war with this country. THE imperial
German government" said Mr.. Viii
Evening star., 1925-10-09
MacVeagh Calls on President.

Charles MacNeagh, newly appointed
A Ambassador to Japan, called on Presf-
dent Coolidge today to pay his re.
spects. He plans TO sail from San
Francisco for Toxic on November :
Evening star., 1925-10-09
EDITED BY BURTON J. HENDRIcK.

The next day Page again became
urgent.
TELEGRAM TO THE PRESIDENT.
London, May II, 1915.
o0S0. May II. l pm.
Confidential To the Secretary and
the President:
Continuing my report Of British
feeling and opinion. Every day with
out news of definite action by the
American Government about the
Gulflight and the Lusitania deepens
the British suspicion into convic-
ton that our Government will con-
tent itself with mere argumentative
protests. The respectful and sympa-
thetic silence of the first few days
excitement is now giving way to open
criticism of American failure to real
ize the situation and of American un-
Willingness to act. There is a good
deal of contempt In British feeling.
This contempt is not based upon Brit
ish wish for military help, but on the
feeling that America falls short NOR
ally to condemn German methods and
has fallen victim to German propa-
ganda and does not properly rate Ger
man danger to all free institutions.
Fear grows of a moral failure on the
part of the United States
The most conservative action hoped
for by the best friends of America
here is that diplomatic relations be
severed with Germany pending salts
factory settlement and that Congress
be convened so that the voice of the
Nation may be heard.
Respect at Stake.
The aristocratic element of English
life, which enjoys social and govern
mental privileges and is what we
should call reactionary. consciously or
unconsciously hopes for American in
activity to justify their distrust of
democratic institutions. Their feel
ing is that Great Britain will emerge
from the war far more powerful than
ever, and they are content that the
United States should be of as slight in
fiuence in the world as possible. The
few expressions that the United States
will remain neutral and will refrain
from breaking off diplomatic relations
with Germany come from this ele-
ment of English society and unoffl-
cially from governing circles.
Official life here is studiously silent
to me. The few persons who have
called to express coincidence or who
have written letters Of sympathy
about the Lusitania are all. think.
more or less close personal friends,
who feel free to speak for personal
eaSons.
The impression is clear that delay
in definite action in some really ef
fective form or failure to act definitely
will shut the United States out of Brit
ish, and l should guess of all Euro
pean, respect for a generation.
AMERICAN AMBASSADOR,
London.