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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-08
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
CITY FIRMS TO
TALK GAS PLAN
WITH SULLIVAN
Piping Company'S Offer to
Be Discussed at Monday
Farley.

Conference of Mayor Reginald n
Sullivan's natural gas committee to
hear representatives of more than
twenty local industrial firms desir-
ing to use natural gas will be held at
1870 Monday in the mayors office,
City Attorney James E. Deery an
nounced today.
Industrial firms which have con-
'tracted to purchase natural gas from
the Kentucky Natural Gas Company,
seeking permission to lay pipe lines
in the city to the various industrial
plants, have formed the Manufac-
turers Natural Gas Association.
Executive committee of the asso-
citation will present the industries
view on the proposition at the meet
ing.
The Kentucky company, in addi-
ton to asking permission to serve
industries under contract, has sug-
gested it would be willing to sell
natural gas at wholesale rate to the
Citizens Gas Company in event the
citys right to acquire the Citizens
company under the 1905 charter is
sustained by the United States su-
prene court.
The mayors committee has set
May Is as the date for receiving
formal bids for furnishing wholesale
gas to the Citizens company.
The only natural gas proposition
other than that of the Kentucky
company, submitted to the commit
tee is that Of the Marion County
Gas Corporation, which originally
proposed to take over and operate
the Citizens company for the city
paying the city an annual rental fee
in addition to share of the profits
The latter company proposed to
mix natural gas with artificial gas
increasing heat units, and to reduce
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-08
GRAND STAND BIDS DUE
State Fair Board to Open New Set
of Offers Monday.

New bids for the state fair
ground grand stand seats will be
opened at the statehouse Monday
at 10 a. m, it was announced to-
day by Secretary A. j. Barker OF
the state fair board. Former bids
were rejected as too high and be-
cause only one submitted seats made
in Indiana, Barker said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-08
WORLD C. OF C.
FINDS BUSINESS
HORIZON BRIGHT
Delegates Of 26 Nations
Feel Depression Bottom
Is Reached.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SINIMS,
scrinns-HoHard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, May s.-That the
bottom Of the slump has been
reached and that better times are
not far off, is indicated in the re-
ports from twenty-six nations rep
resented at the meeting of the In
ternational Chamber Of Commerce
here.
While none Of these nations re-
ports a resumption of anything like
normal times withinits borders, and
some frankly warn against jumping
at conclusions, practically all are in
agreement that at least three gen.
eral factors make for reasonable
optimism.
New Production Necessary
First, most Of the twentv-six
countries report, conditions lead to
the belief that the depression is
at, or very close to, rock bottom,
and that the tendency should soon
be in the direction of recovery, per-
haps not very marked at first, but
steady.
Second, that stocks Of manufac-
tured goods everywhere are extreme
ly low. New production will shortly
be necessary, therefore, and conse-
quently the employment of more
labor.
Third, the psychological factor
that important imponderable which
seems to make bad times worse
than they actually are, or good
times better-seems to be on the
mend as evidenced by an increase
in the number of inquiries or ten
tative orders reported from pretty
nearly every corner of the world.
Plight Still Grave
Among the nations polled on the
subject we're Great Britain, France,
Germany Italy, Spain, Belgium,
Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Rou-
mania, Yugo-Slovia, Czecho-Slo-
vakia, Poland, Denmark, Holland,
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Greece,
Esthonia, India, Chile, Canada and
the United States.
The spokesman for none of these
countries showed any inclination to
answer the query with the old bro
mide that prosperity is just around
the corner" On the contrary, the
tendency was to insist that the
plight of the world still is grave.
albeit with certain definitely en-
couraging signs showing.
In the opinion Of an unmistakable
majority of these business moguls
IN conference here, the United
States and Russia likely will de-
eide the immediate future of world
events.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-08
Bedford Woman Dies
BIZ Times Special


PLAINFTELD, Ind, May S.-Fu-
neral services we're held here
today for Mrs. Madge Chambers,
81, wife of Morris Chambers, Bed
ford, and daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Heringlake of Plainfeld. She
died Wednesday in an indianapolis
hospital after an illness of week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-08
ASK BORDER GOODS BAN
Seattle Merchants Claim Millions
Lost by Importing"
By United Press

DV UIBtEtW
SEATTLE, May 8.-Retail dealers
of Washington are trying to have
regulations enforced at the Canad-
ian border, to prevent weekend
parties from bringing articles into
this country.
Each person is permitted to bring
merchandise valued up to 500 back
Washington dealers claim that mil
lions are spent annually that should
go to home industries"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-08
GIFTS STILL COMING IN
Depression Has Little Effect on
Presbyterian Board Funds.
BIZ United Press

bV United Press
PHILADELPHIA, May 8.-Con-
trlbutions to the Presbyterian
board of Christian education fell off
only 3 1-3 per cent during the fiscal
year, according to DR. Harold Nc
Afee Robinson, administrative sec
rotary of the board.
The year ended with deficit of
$87,675.33 on March 81, he an
nounced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-08
CUT THROUGH FOREST
New Highway to Be Opened In
South Jersey wilderness.
By United Press

By United Press
CAMDEN, N. j., May 8. - The
wilderness of South jersey, I'M
changed since the Indians pitched
their wigwams in the pine woods,
soon will be broken when the pro-
posed New Jersey state highway to
the seashore is opened.
The new road will cut through the
pine woods to complete a shorter
route to the ocean from Phila-
delphia.
Evening star., 1931-12-15
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa, December IS.
BY magnifying piston rings micro
scopically until they would be big
enough to encircle house, Pennsyl-
varfia State College engineers have dis
covered where some of the lost power
of automobiles escapes.
At this high magnification, the entire
ring can not be looked at all at once
No screen is large enough. The eX-
amina tion is made bit by bit until the
whole ring has been covered and seen
as it would appear with diameter of
about 100 feet.
One result is like looking over the
edge Of chasm There are canyons
in scme places where the rings are sup
posed to fit tightly against the walls
OF the piston chamber Every ring
tested is in standard daily use, and
without exception each ring has formed
an ellipse instead of a true circle.
Elliptical form increases the friction of
the rings.
These results of preliminary tests
were made public today. They were
conducted by Prof. H. A. Everett, head
Of the Department of Mechanical En-
gineering.
Compression leaks, Prof Everett said,
are not even necessarily always on the
outside of the rings. The leaks may
pass between rings and the pistons
Apparatus is under construction 70
supplement the magnification and de-
termine the nature of both inside and
outside leaks. y
The Penn State investigation Is ex
pected to lead to more accurate infor-
nation about the proper proportions of
piston rings in relation to the size Of
the cylinders.
So many inefficiencies already have
Evening star., 1931-12-15
URUGUAY TO BUY
RUSSIA GAS SUPPLY
10000, ,000- Ton Negotiation
After Failure of Similar Deal
to Create Monopoly.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, December
15.-Uruguay is understood to be nego-
tiating with Soviet Russia for the pur-
chase of 100000 tons of gasoline,
under legislative authority, to create a
national gasoline monopoly.
Similar negotiations collapsed re-
Gently because 1uyamtorg, Soviet trad
ing agency, which has been operating
in Montevideo since it was expelled
from Argentina last July, demanded in
creased credits for the purchase of Uru-
euayan goods as part of the transac-
tion.
Discussions have been renewed, it was
learned yesterday,
1uyamtorg which had governmental
bank credit of approximately $4,000, 900
in Argentina, is understood to be seek
ing similar credit from Uruguay to
enable it to purchase Uruguayan goods
for cash
The Uruguayan Parliament authorized
the granting Of credit to Iuyamtorg ap-
proximating 81 600 900, but simultane-
ouSly required that Russia underbid
companies of the United States and
England on gasoline.
Iuyamtorg insisted that the credit be
separate from the gasoline transaction,
whereupon Uruguay invited RuSsiaS oil
rivals to bid on 100000 tons. needed
to launch Uruguay in the oil business.
The rival interests withdrew, apparently
considering the Russian terms could not
be met, whereupon Uruguay renewed its
negotiations with 1uyamtorg.
Evening star., 1931-12-15
RUSSIAN VETERAN
HONORS WAR DEAD
Gen. Alexander J. Elshin Places
Wreath on D. G. Memorial
in Potomac Park.

A wreath was placed on the District
World War Memorial in Potomac Park
Sunday by Gen. Alexander j. Ekhin
of Seattle, representing the Russian
Veterans Society of the World War.
About 200 persons attended the exer-
cises.
"All our fellow champions and fellow
participants in the World War of all
the allied nations" Gen. Elshin said,
Evening star., 1931-12-15

"have had an opportunity to honor the
memory of the hero Americans who
have fallen on the field of glory for the
common cause In the great war. And
only the Russian invalids and veterans
of this war have been unable to bring
their brotherly feelings to this glorious
memorial because they were forced to
seek refuge in various foreign lands.
Evening star., 1931-12-15

Now at last they have found peace
snd shelter under the mighty American
nag. They consider it their foremost
and sacred duty to pay tribute of re-
spect. to the warriors of this great
american Nation who have fallen for
the common cause"
Gen. Alexis M. Uzefavich, commander
OF the Washington post, said the monu-
Evening star., 1931-12-15

ment would be consolation to thou
sands of Russian veterans now in this
country
Evening star., 1931-12-15
PISTON RINGS ENLARGED TO 100
FEET BY MICROSCOPE FOR STUDY
Source of Lost Power in Cars Found by Researchers Of
Pennsylvania State College Engineers

shown up In the rings that Prof. Everett
plans an investigation of the possibilities
of ringless pistons. The leakage from
the compression space passing down the
side walls of cylinder with ringless
piston would enter one expansion cham
Der after another until reduced to at
mospheric pressure. At this pressure
the compression no longer would possess
sufficient push to be leak.
Evening star., 1931-12-15
AUTHORITY ON BLOOD DIES
Clyde G. Guthrie, 81, Ill Since July
Expires at Cincinanti.

Expires at Cincinanti.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, December IS
@.-Recognized as a national author
ity in the study of blood, Clyde G..
Guthrie, 81. died here Sunday He
had been i'll since last July.
DR.. Guthrie was the former director
of medicine at Lawrenceville, N. j.,
Academy.
The body will be taken to Indiana,
Pa, his birth place, for burial.
Evening star., 1931-12-15

Participation in factory management
by workers Is being studied in Spain.
Evening star., 1931-12-15

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Evening star., 1931-12-15

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-15
DOG BITES POLICEMAN
MAKING RAID FOR RUM
Canine Waterman Causes Hasty
Retreat From Fence to Front
Door of House.

A dog bite last night was indirectly
responsible for the arrest of 16 men and
women : illegal possession of liquor
and disorderly conduct.
Repulsed by a dog which bit him
in the leg as he went over the back
fence at 1870 Cedar court to stage a
raid last night, Policeman r. A. Will
liams retreated back over the fence
then went through the front entrance
of the houae and arrested three men
and woman, all colored, against whom
he filed charges of illegal possession OF
liquor, upon the reported seizure OF
half gallon.
The prisoners were booked as Ray
mond Morten, % years old, and his
wife, Elizabeth, "a, of 2216 Eleventh
street, and Clifton Spruce, %, and
Charles White, 81, of 410 Franklin
street.
7 After this raid, Williams, who is a
member of Inspector Beans vice squad,
received treatment at Freedman's Hos
pital. He then raided 1902 Seaton place,
where he arrested IL colored men,
charging 4 with illegal possession OF
10 quarts of liquor and 8 with disorderly
conduct.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-15

Miss Mdair Childress, debutante
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John w.
Childress Of 1900 Twentieth street, and
her fiance, Francis Lee Tompkins
of 300l Garrison street, were injured
last night when coupe in which they
were riding collided with the parked
machine of Stephen Poradzewski Of
the Polish legation in the 5000 block
of Ellicott street.
Mr.. Tcmpkins took Miss Childress to
his home, where DR.. Earl Clark of the
Medical Science Building treated her
for cuts on the neck and head and a
minor foot injury. Three stitches were
taken in her neck. Mr.. Tompkins was
treated for a cut over the left eye.
Philip Porter of 2712 wisconsin ave-
nue., who also was in the coupe,
escaped injury.
Although the condition of Miss Chill
dress is not regarded as serious, she
was unable to leave the TompkinS
home. Her mother was called there
after the accident.
Miss Childress, Mr. Tompkins and
Mr.. Porter were en- route to the Chevy
Chase Club at the time of the acci-
dent. Mr.. Tompkins, who was driving,
was blinded by the headlights of an
approaching car, it was said, and drove
into the machine of Mr.. PoradzewSki,
which was double parked in front of
S2l5 Ellicott street. After hitting this
car, Mr.. Tompkins, police said, lost
control of his machine and collided
with the automobile of DR.. Robert Y.
Sullivan of 1901 I street, which was
parked on the opposite side of the
street.
The engagement of Miss Childress
and Mr. TompkinS was recently an
nounced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-15
QUIZ MILLIONAIRE
AFTER DRUG RAID
Chicago Police Later Free
Canadian and HeireSS to
HorIiCk Fortune.
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, February 1.-THE Herald
and Examiner says that agents of the
United States and Canada, co-operat-
ing to track down an international
narcotic smuggling organization, raided
two gold coast hotels and seized for
questioning today millionaire Cana
dian and a woman who is heiress to
millions.
AT one hotel. the paper says, the
agents invaded the suite of w. Perkins
Bull, K. c., of Toronto and London
owner Of large estates over the British
Empire. At the same time, it said other
Government men entered the Lake
Shore Drive apartment Of Mrs. Mabellt
Horlick Sidley, daughter of William H.
Horlick (Racine, Wis.,. multimillion-
ARE manufacturer of matted milk.
Papers Are Seized.
In both cases, private documents and
correspondence we're seized and i'm
pounded by the agents, who carried
out the raids almost to the minute late
last night.
The agents also visited the residence
Of j. j. Harrison, head Of the private
detective agency which bears his name.
With Mrs. Sidley and Bull, Harrison and
his wife were taken to the Offices of the
United States district attorney.
For six hours, Bull, Mrs. Sidley and
the HarriSons we're questioned by as
sistantS to George E. @. Johnson, dis
trict attorney. 1t was not until dawn
that the quartet was released.
Raid Is Criticized.
Attorney John E. Kehoe, described
by the Herald and Examiner as the
lawyer whom Bull consulted after his
release, said he believed the Govern
ment had assumed a harsh attitude"
The Harrisons refused to discuss their
experience.
The paper quoted Kehoe as saying
Some sort of malicious enmity is
behind this. There is absolutely no
basis for the seizure of Mr. Bull nor of
his papers. The Federal authorities
gained nothing by the raid. Mr. Bull
assures me that they discovered not a
single particle of discriminating evil
dence against him. Nor were they able
to confront him with any suspicious
circumstances"
Mrs. Sidley is suing her husband, Dr.
John Streeter Sidley of Racine, for
divorce. She has appointed Bull her
attorney. Sidley, meanwhile, has filed
damage suit against Bull, asking
$250,000 and charging shadowing by
Bulls operatives and Harrison.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-15
CHIEF, 13, SEXES BEER;
JUDGE, 16, PROSECUTES
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KEWANEE, Ill, February 14-The
Boy Scouts ruled Kewanee for just one
hour today, and in that hour the 49,
year-old chief of police raided a store,
seized a case of beer and hailed the
proprietor into court. There the To-
year-old city attorney prosecuted the
storekeeper, who pleaded guilty and
paid 500 fine and costs.
The boy government was a part of
the observation of national Scout an
niversary week. Richard Brosius, as
chief of police, obtained John Doe
warrant and, with John Daniels, Is, as
city attorney, conducted the raid on
Clarence Sadler's store.
Young Brosius said his first hour as
chief of police would not be his last.
I'm 10 or IL years I'll be sitting in
the chiefs chair regularly" he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-15
WAR ON BREAD PRICE
Renewed IN CHICAGO
Seven Picketing Bakery Arrested
After Battling Police-500
in Demonstration.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 14.-Residents
of the Humboldt Park district resumed
their war" for Scent bread tonight
and seven of them who picketed a
bakery were arrested as they battled
police.
The disturbance began when some
500 professors marched from a meeting
in a nearby hall to one of the bakeries
now selling 10-cent bread and began
another open demonstration.
Police were sent to the scene and or
dered the crowd to disperSe. The seven
leaders fought back and others jeered
and booed the officers,
The dispute between residents of the
Humboldt Park district and bakery
owners has been going on for weeks. A
court injunction was issued to halt
picketing and this brought about the
first violence last Sunday when a mob
of 500 fought police. Five persons were
arrested at that time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-15
Third Group Stands by and
Refuses Rescue When
Help Is Offered.
CUTTER GOES TO AID
DISABLED STEAMER
Latter Craft, at Sea, Reports En-
CINE Trouble-Fishing Smack
Is Abandoned.
BY the Associated Press.


NORFOLK, Va, February 14.-Los-
ing their way in a stiff southwest gale
which brought heavy rains, three ships
were driven ashore before daybreak
this morning and another became dis
abled when her engines broke down
Coast Guard headquarters also was ad-
vised that fishing smack had been
abandoned by its crew near Cape
Henry. The crew was reported taken
off by two other fishing craft.
Two of the ships, the Nelson Line
steamer Fort Armstrong and the fish
ing trawler Salvatore, were cast upon
the beach, the former on the North
Carolina coast between Point Lookout
and Corebank and the latter at Dam
Neck, few miles below Virginia Beach.
The Mallory Line steamer Mallemak,
loaded with nitrate from Hopewell,
went ashore of Rock Landing Shoals
in the James River.
Cutter to Rescue.
The Oriental Navigation Co.'S steam
of Cape Fear and the Coast Guard
Cutter Modoc was ordered from Will
mington, N. c., to assist her. Her
trouble was due to q breakdown in
her engine room.
The Salvatore struck the beach only
about 100 yards of shore and her crew
Of ii were rescued by crew of the
Dam Neck Shore Coast Guard Station.
The Coast Guardsmen reached the
stranded ship in surf boats and had
little difficulty in taking off the crew.
Steamer Crew Stays Aboard.
The Salvatore, according 70 last re-
ports, probably can be saved. The YES
sci is Of 10 net tons and is owned by
Joseph PonZo of Boston She was
built at that place in 1925.
The Fort Armstrong left Norfolk yes
terday for San Francisco in ballast
She has 80 men in her crew and oper-
ateS regularly between West Coast ports
and Norfolk and Baltimore. She struck
the beach nose first and is only l0O
yards of shore. Coast Guardsmen from
the Point Lookout and Conebank sta
tons reached the side Of the stranded
craft this afternoon, but her crew de-
clined TO leave at that time. The vessel
was in no immediate danger. The Coast
Guard cutter Carrabasset was dispatched
from Norfolk to assist the steamer and
the wrecking tug Relief was sent out
OF New York on the same mission.
Smack Is Abandoned.
Coast Guard headquarters tonight re-
ceived radio from the cutter MaScoutin
stating that she was standing by the
abandoned fishing smack Beauty St
Joseph six miles east of Cape Henry
The crew Of the smack had been taken
of by the Smack Joseph and Mary
and another fishing boat, the message
stated, but did not say how many men
we're aboard. Marine records here show
the Beauty st. Joseph to be a motor
vessel 1872 feet in length and carrying
a crew OF IL. She is listed as owned by
Frank w. Wilson OF Is Fulton Mar
ket, New York.
The Mallemak is in no immediate
danger, striking the shore in compare
lively shallow water and within a few
yards of the shore on either side of the
James River.