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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
The St. Lawrence Dispute

Whatever Secretary of State Henry Stimsons mo-
tive may be in refusing to recognize the predominant
right of New York state to develop power the st.
Lawrence river his action stresses the very different
power views held by the two leading candidates for
the presidency.
Under Governor Roosevelt's leadership, the state
of New York has provided for public development of
vast amount OF hydro-eectrcity on the St. Lawrence
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06

some peoples are better and more
precious than others. And race and
religious discrimination consti-
tutes fertile field for the belief in
that variability of mankind which
makes for dissension.
Every now and then some city
throws out history because it is in
sufficiently patriotic. I would re-
verse the process. I would prefer il
by far that nothing should be sci
before the scholar in his formative
years except accounts wholly dis.
passionate.
Copyright. 1881. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
* TO-DAY So
<TT ISTHE HP
{ WORLD WAR \.
ANNIVERSARY
~ ofAGE.
ABANDON TAGLIAMENTO
November

0N Nov. 6, 1917, the Tagliamento
~ river was abandoned along a
15O-mile front by the Italians before
the onslaught of the Austro-Ger-
man forces.
The retirement was glorif1ed by a
score of heroic flights as the troops
of the Italian rear guard brought
the enemy again and again to a
standstill and secured safety for the
main armies as they established
new lines on the Piave.
A thrilling phase of the retreat
was the part played by the Italian
armored motor cars. each Of which
had three quick-hrers in its turrets.
These cars we're assigned to hold
the bridges from the Tagliamento
to the Piave river until the cavalry
rear guards had passed across, and
then to burn the bridges behind
them.
All the rear guards made their
way over the bridges and all the
bridges were burned. Eighteen Of
the forty cars were SO seriously
crippled in the fighting that it was
necessary to abandon them after
the bridges were burned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
It's a Great Thing

DUT cheer up. 1t isn't half as
ID bad as it would be if the boot
leggers went on strike, or a tempest
swept the rum fleet away, or raisins
and brown sugar were not to be had
in a pinch.
A great victory for prohibition, no
doubt. though somewhat dimmed by
the New Jersey election.
We are all glad that Mrs. Willie
brandt's organization is back in the
orthodox Republican fold, that the
federal farm board can loan it
money with embarrassment from
now on, and that administration
drys will be spared the necessity Of
hemming and having so much when
asked to explain it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
NJ. E. Tracy
SAYS:

Grape Concentrate is out,
and Administration Drys
VIII be Spared the Neces-
sity of Hemming. and
HaUing so Much.
NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-No more
IN can the thirsty, but law-abid-
ing, citizen buy wine brick, drop
it in a bucket of water, and wait
for nature to do the rest. No more
can he order a keg put in the eel
lar, with full assurance that it will
produce port, Tokay or sparkling
Burgundy in a couple of months,
without anybody violating the Vol
stead act at any time.
The clock has struck the hour, the
Mabel Walker Willebrandt scheme
for subsidized iniquity comes to an
abrupt and unexpected end, the
grape concentrate is out.
To what shall we attribute the
calamity but depression, poor bust
ness and lack of profit?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

XXTERE it not for the fact that
w the human body contains
mechanisms for resisting infec-
ton, bacteria would soon dominate
the earth.
Various types of antiseptic solu-
ton have been developed by scien-
tiflc medicine to aid the body tissues
in resisting infection.
The skin formerly was con-
sidered merely an envelope for
the human body, a sort of cover
to hold in the tissues or the Or
gans. Now it is realized that the
skin has its own blood supply and
that it must be considered an es-
sentia1 living tissue.
In order to find out to what ex-
tent the skin could destroy bac-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06

Do the United States minis buy
gold bullion from individuals? How
much do they pay for it?
The mintS and assay Offices buy
gold in lots of the value of 500 or
more. The price is fixed by law at
S20.671S3 per fine ounce for pure
gold.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
SCIENCE
-BY DAVID I)lETZ-

D La i u III T. L.
Nea0 Supply Of Radium Found
in Far North May Break
Monopoly and Prove Boon
to Cancer Victims.
DITCHBLENDE, the mineral from
i which uranium and radium is
extracted, has been found in the re-
mote regions of Canada. The dis
covery may break Belgium's world
monopoly of radium and bring down
the cost of that precious metal. as
we'll as increase the worlds supply.
The next two decades may see the
most interesting developments in
the far north, particularly northern
Canada. The dream of a great
Arctic empire, advanced by Stefans-
son, the explorer, and others, may
yet come true.
Wherever valuable ores are dis
covered, railroads will some dav
penetrate. And perhaps the air
plane and the airship will serve
where the railroad does not 20.
The airplane already has been
pressed into service to move the
pitchblende ores in northern Canada.
The present radium situation is
discussed in Industrial and En-
cheering Chemistry, official journal
of the American Chemical Society.
Of which Dr. Harrison E. Howe is
editor
The Belgian company obtained its
pitchblende from extremely rich
mines in South Africa.
These. because of their high yield
CT radium-b bearing ore. have made
it impossible to date for other To-
calitieS to compete successfully.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this Daper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
Who Is to Blame?

Federal Judge Wilkerson denounced the shocking
array of perjury with which the court confronted
in the defense of Al Capone. He declared that the
testimony of witness after witness perjury on
the face it, But he failed to direct his shafts at
the defense lawyers.
Even more easily have the prosecutors of Mooney
and Billings escaped censure, although the perjured
testimony they presented in convcting the San Fran
cisco labor leaders was even more shocking"
In fact, Charles M. Fckert former San Francisco
district attorney who led the Mooney Billings prose-
cutions not only has been given state job in Cali
fornia but just has been invited by President Hoover
to White House dinner as a member of the Hoover
managed Stanford football team of 1894.
AS mere laymen, we wonder why the wretched ly-
ing witnesses are denounced while the lawyers who
present their testimony are honored.
Were not Capone's legal defenders and Moneys
prosecutors privy to perjury" If these lawyers are
guilty of conspiring against justice, what is the
American bar going to do about it?
And now it transpires American Indians have been
getting the dole for hundred years Wait till they
find that out.
But in this depression if there's less of everything
else there's at least bumper crop of pictures of foot
ball players making funny faces.
Confession stories getting big play. Ind-
eating that your past is dark enough there comes
day when "now it can be sold"
But any college boy will admit that heavy date
is no fun if she sits your lap.
Prohibition workers say the people who yelling
for repeal are sounding note. Probably picked
No longer, says an ad is the drug store place of
magic and mystery Righto Turn off that radio
Jasper, this lady wants some aspirins.
financial leader says this doing without money
is great lesson. Verify, lesson less.
But headline says it's better to borrow now and
pay later" BY all Gas the bandit would say)
Dance music declares music maker, is becoming
too tame. But cover charges are still driving EN-
wild.
If things are going to keep on being tough until
Thanksgiving, many turkey will be saying "Axe me
another"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
Conscientious Directors

ONE radical had a very simple
" remedy. 1t was his suggestion
that whenever war loomed up on
the horizon everybody connected
with Wall Street should be imme-
diately clapped in jail. That, he
felt. would dull the trumpet blast
and the beating Of the drums.
There might be something in that.
But if the decision were mine, I
should prefer to restrain the men
who write the history books for our
schools. Only in that case it would
be necessary to take paper and pen
ell away from the historians to the
adolescent long before the time OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
Not Proving Too Much

A ND let me disgress here to take
N up another point which con-
stitutes a weakness in pacl1lSt
propaganda. Any case is injured If
its partisan undertakes to prove too
much. I have heard it said that
the great war was founded wholly
on a tissue of lies and that if
each inhabitant of every warning
country had known the whole truth
there would have been no conflict.
The whole truth is, of course, a
large order.
And even in the light of current
disclosures, there remain thousands
who are perfectly satisfied that
their participation was admirable,
and the number who would fight it
out all over again is not inconsider-
able.
1t seems to me a great mistake to
argue that there never is a cause
for any war. Many wars are mott
waited abundantly even in the actual
facts. And 1 mean motivated for
both sides.
A Frenchman and German
might each have felt that he had
something tangible to battle for in
1914. To say that all wars-and
particularly the most recent-was
without shred of reasonable foun-
dation is to set the stage for future
tragedy.
1t is not enough, I think, to point
out inadequacies in causation. Pres
emily there might come some new
situation in which the true or the
apparent reasons are far more per-
Suasive. Then you might get the
reaction-"This isn't like other
wars. This is a good war;"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06

ITO be selfish is to sacrifice the
l. nobler for the meaner ends,
and to be sordidly content.-Hugh
r. Haweis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
Daily Thought

WhOsOever shall seek to save his
life shall lose is; and whatsoever
shall lose his life shall preserve it.
Luke 1888.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06

And now it transpires American Indians have been
getting the dole for hundred years. Wait till they
find that out
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06

Who presides over the United
States senate when the Vice Presi-
dent dies or succeeds to the presi-
dency?
The president pro tempore of the
senate becomes the permanent pre-
siding officer. He is a senator Sc
lected to the Office by the senate.
How does the area of the United
States compare with that of the
Dominion of Canada and the con-
tinent of Europe?
The area of continental United
States is 3,O26, 789 square miles; Do
minion of Canada, 1854, 723 square
miles, and the European CONT
nent approximately 3,75O,OOO square
miles.
How much tonnage and how many
ships were lost by shipwreck in
1929?
Three hundred and twenty ships
and 515,056 tons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06

But in this depression if there's less of everything
else there's at least bumper crop of pictures of foot
ball players making funny faces.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
No Reasons Good Enough

NO reasons O00Q En0ugn
THE pacif1st ought to go deeper
i and argue that even when the
reasons for fighting seem peculiarly
provocative, war itself never is a
good remedy. There should be no
differentiation between excellent
wars, pretty good wars, and abom-
Unable wars. All should be out
lawed. War itself constitutes a
crime.
But it is palpable that this thing
does not spring out of thin air, even
though some of the factors may be
obscure and remote. We should
begin at once to attack elements
which have in them the SAVIOR Of
war. And many such exist. even
during those periods in which we
term peaceful"
A tariff, for instance, is obviously
a warlike gesture immigration bar
riers support the contention that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06

Confession stories getting big play Indi
eating that if your past is dark enough there comes
day when NOV it can be sold"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06

But any college boy will admit that a heavy date
is no fun if she sits on your lap.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
DRIVER IS KILLED
AS TRUCK HITS BUS
Claude II. Safer Of Leesburg Dies
in Head-on Collision on
Lee Highway.
By : stan correspondent Of r.. staY.

% = 1teA NUEIcspQuQsuL Oh 118 &tAf.
CHERRYDALE, Va, March ls.--
Claude H. Safer, AZ years old, of Lees-
burg, Va, was killed instantly last night
when his small truck crashed nead-on
into bus on the the Lee Highway near
Maplewood Station. William Jeffries Of
Leeway, passenger on the bus, was
slightly injured.
The automobile operated by Safer
was proceeding toward Washington at
the time Of the crash and the driver
Of the bus, Ralph Geldart. observing
that the machine was coming toward
him at what he termed a high rate OF
speed, ran from the road in an effort
to avoid the collision, he told County
Policemen William H. Thompson, Nor
man Carson and Jack Conway, who in
vestigated the accident.
Police were told that Saffer's machine
turned completely around when it
struck the bus. The driver was picked
up and placed In an automobile oper-
ated by Re Roy Heinbuck of East Falls
Church and rushed to Georgetown
University Hospital, Washington, where
he was pronounced dead. Jeffries also
received treatment at the hospital for
slight cuts and went home.
1t was learned later that Safer was
employed by the Leesburg firm of g. G.
Safer & Bros. and recently had been
making his home at Aide, Va. He had
been to LeeSburg and was on his way
to Washington when the accident oc-
Cured. q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
VETERANS
GET S13,9)O,7)3.97
Washington Regional Office
20 Days Behind Work in
Acting on Loans.

The Veterans Bureau has mailed out
$4,000 checks for total Of $I3,S0o,-
5o3.s7 since the granting Of so per cent
loans on adjusted service certificates
was begun two weeks ago today.
Although the lineup outside the
doors of the bureau faded away few
days after the loans began to be made
applications by mail still are being re-
ceived in such large numbers, it wa
said today, that both the day and night
forces of the bureau are being taxed tc
the limit.
ONCE rs Days Behind.
The washington regional ONCE has
received 50 many applications, it was
explained by the regional manager, Mai
z. T. Hitch, that the once is virtually
% days behind. In other words. an
application filed today would not have
a check go back on it for % days.
With both day and night forces work
ing at top speed, Maj. Hitch assured
veterans that everything possible was
being done to expedite loans, but that
veterans should not expect their checks
until many days after filing applica-
tons.
Speed Is Increased.
The total amount loaned up until last
Friday was only SIS, 4,030.86 from the
two Offices, so it Is plain that the ma
chinery at the Veterans Bureau is in
creasing its speed of production, as well
as the amount of money going out.
The number Of applications arriving
daily now amounts to about $4,000 al
the central office and 1000 at the
regional Office. The checks going Out
are on the increase, but do not equal
the growing number Of applications
Yesterday, for instance, the central Of
flee mailed out 3,947 checks in the sum
Of 81 AIS, 582.15, and the regional ONCE
mailed out 94s checksworth 1882, 1852
Exceeds All Expectations.
Meanwhile, Frank T. Hines, admins
traitor of veterans affairs, reported to
President Hoover today that the Vet
erans' Bureau had exceeded all expec-
tations in issuing checks for loans.
Within the first week closing March Z
the bureau had received csc, 1893 appli-
cations and had mailed 105,76 checks
totaling 40,358,811.
1t is expected, the administrator told
the President, that the output viii in
crease at least so per cent this week and
shortly reach peak of at least 100000
per week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
GAS ACCOUNTING
SYSTEM CHANGED
Revenues and Expenses in
Appliance Division to
Be Separated.

Steps designed to save gas consumers
Of the District approximately sl25, 900
a year were taken by the Public Utilities
Commission today in an order directing
the gas companies TO abandon April l
the practice Of including revenues and
expenses in connection with the gas APP
pliance business in the operating rev.
enue accounts. 80
The order stipulates that all revenues
received from and the expense con-
nected with the buying and selling of
gas appliances be kept separate from
any operating revenues or expense ac-
count pertaining to the revenues from
service.
Not to Be Counted.
The order also declares that such
revenues shall not be taken into con-
sideration in arriving at any rate for
gas service.
Prior to the issuance Of the order
the commission sent tentative draft
to the companies for their comment.
George A. G. Wood president Of the
Washington Gas Light Co., replied that
while the company had no objection
to the segregation of its revenues and
expenses accruing through merchan-
dising and jobbing operations, 1t felt
that the proposed order would be ''un-
reasonable and unfair"
B. Mex. Bachman, chief accountant
of the commission, had previously told
the commission that the removal from
the company's operating revenue ac-
count of the revenues derived from the
sale of appliances would withdraw ap-
proximately $l25,000 a year, now
charged to operating expenses.
Saving 10 Consumers.
This amount would, in effect, he said.
he q saving to consumers, as it would
no longer be taken into consideration
in the determination Of gas rates.
While there has been concerted
movement throughout the country to
segregate the accounts Of the appliance
business Of public utilities, Mr.. Bach
man reported that only one State COM
mission -WisconSin-had actually issued
an order similar to the one promulgated
by the District commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13

James c. Stone, who has just been
appointed by President Hoover to sue
coed Alexander Legge as chairman OF
the Federal Farm Board, will make his
first public utterance as head of that
vitality important body tomorrow night
when he addresses the National Radio
Forum arranged by The Washington
Star and broadcast over the coast-to-
coast network of the Columbia Broad
casting System.
Chairman Stones selection as the
new head of the Federal Farm Board
places upon his shoulders the response
bility for the ultimate success of the
program laid down by Congress in the
agricultural marketing bill. He Is
thoroughly familiar with the problems
to be met, inaSmuch as he has been q
member of the board since its creation
in 1929. He was vice chairman through
out that time. Like President Hoover,
Mr.. Stone looks upon the problem as n
whole not so much of . farm problem
as it is national problem and that it
must be solved in the interest of every
line of effort within the Nation.
Because of the great problem before
this board, what Mr.. Stone will have to
say on the occasion of this radio ad-
dress will be looked forward 10 with
great interest. His address will start
at $50 o'clock and viii be heard In
Washington over WMAL.
Mr.. Stone is q native of Kentucky,
having been born in Richmond, located
in that part of the State famous for its
blue grass and burly tobacco, SO years
ago. 1t was as representative of the
tobacco growers that he was appointed
to the board. He has devoted the great
er part of his life to the culture and
marketing of burly tobacco and has for
q number of years been q leading fig-
ure in organizing cooperative market
ing among the burly growers. He was
one Of the organizers In 1921 of the
Burly Tobacco Growers Association,
which included growers in Kentucky,
Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, West Vir-
ginia and Missouri He was made pres
ident and general manager of this or
ganiZation and within q period of five
years the organization had @ member
ship Of 10000 and was doing an an
nual business of more than $50 ,000, 900.
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been staying with his brothers for about
Two months. He explained the differ
ence in names by saying they had
changed their names In order to gain
admittance to this country.
Was Arrested Before.
Young, according to police, was ar
rested June IL, 1929. for investigation
in connection with the murder of Lee
King, a narcotic informer, who was
mysteriously shot to death at Eleventh
and L streets. At the time he gave his
name as Chin Moy Din, but police said
his aliases included Chin o. Yen ard
Chin Moy Ten. Following an investi-
cation he was released
Young previously had been arrested
on october Is, 1924, in connection with
tong outbreak on Pennsylvania ave-
nue. in which several Chinese were
killed, police said.
Expressing the opinion Young is
mentally unbalanced, Inspector William
S. Shelby. chief of detectives, said he
would ask District Attorney Leo Rover
to set heavy bond for Young's release.
Probe Tong War Theory.
Police at first expressed doubt that
the attack on Lee and Sing had any
connection with tong war Of any kind
Later, however. when they. learned
Young had participated in a tong war,
they began an investigation.
George Wen, leader of the On Leong
tong, is assisting In the probe. Young
is said to be a member Of the Hip
Sing ton. Lee and Sing belong the On
Leong, 1t Is said.
A loaded revolver was found in the
laundry, but 1t had not been fired.