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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-13
ITALY GIVES GRANDI ROPE.
Minister May Talk Easily ON Debt
and Preparations Here.

ROME. November 10 (4').-War debts
and reparations. formerly hooked to-
Rether by statesmen only in whisper,
are subjects on which Foreign Minister
Grandi can talk easily with President
Hoover.
Italy, as represented by Premier
Mussolini, thinks the wars ledger &C
counts should be closed. The Duce
recently expressed 1t as writing flnis"
to the tragic bookkeeping" of post
war years.
Cancellation of accounts would cost
italy about $4,000. 900 q year, but she
is willing to sacrifice it because she
thinks the impetus to prosperity would
more than balance the loss.
Nine years ago in London Mussolint
advocated dropping the war accounts.
He has insisted on his share of repara-
lions when others took them, but he
has lightened the burden of Austria,
Hungary and Bulgaria. He even had
Grandi get Italys percentage increased
from 10 per cent to IL per cent at The
Hague Conference.
Grandi's visit to Berlin gave him an
opportunity to see how low is morale
there. Business is suffering here, too.
This Winter there may be, roughly.
100000 unemployed italy is wealth.
ering the storm, but she would very
much like to put into q quiet port and
get to work.
Being more or less neutral. finan-
cially. Grand, therefore, may feel free
to tell Mr. Hoover that what he has
seen and what he knows about Eu-
ropes ills convince him and Mussolini
that war debts aren't worth while If
they impede world recovery.
Grsndi is certain to preface this.
however with Mussolini's feeling that
Italy fully recognizes the United States
right to payment. and Italy doesn't pro-
pose to initiate any movement for can
collation.. but simply offers her observa-
tons because she feels world recovery
is at stake
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-13
F AR EAST NATIONS
ARMS RATED 1861.
Iapan's Strength Placed
Twice That of Soviet; China
Weakest of Three.

The United States Government Is
keeping closely in touch with reports OF
movements OF all armed forces in the
East. The tenseness of the Manchurian
situation has led to a measurement here
Of the fighting strength of Japan. China
and the Soviet. Army and Navy sources
have completed all available information
Of thCG-, forces which might be thrown
into war resulting from the crisis.
One unofficial opinion places the COM
parative strengths of Japan. the Soviet
and China al ratio of 1851. respcc-
lively. There Is a concert Of opinion in
all informed quarters. however that the
Soviet would go to every possible end to
avert its involvement.
This opinion is based on the thin
til. cad of the Transsiberian Railway
Russia's only means OF communication
between the east and the west. One
official who has followed developments
in the situation ventured the personal
opinion that an attempt to move an
army over the railway would so disrupt
Soviet economics as to halt any partici-
patton by Russia.
Japan's Active Force Smallest.
Japans superior balance was at
tributed to several reasons. Principal
among these is force actually superior
in training and equipment. Another is
greater popular morale in Japan
which would reflect in the army. n
numbers of combatants Japan stands
last on the list Of the three. with 2.130.-
600. These are made up by an active
army of 100000 and reserves of ] ,900,-
900.
The Soviet's potential army would
consist OF more than 5000. 900 men, OF
these about $500 are active. while the
remainer are reserves. They are well
of territory with single railway Sepa-
rates them from the scene of activities.
The Soviets only force in the Manchu-
rian vicinity is that of the special Far
Eastern army of two army corps aggre-
eating about as 900 men. One corps is
at Manchuli and the other near Vladi-
vostok
The best available estimates place
China's active army at about 2500. COO
men. It's fighting effectiveness has been
a matter OF conjecture in every capital
since the World War.
In attempting to balance their
strength milit9ry experts have always
weighed the elements of internal dis
sension. poor training and Anticipated
equipment against numbers.
Chinese Navy Negligible.
Japan possesses the third most power
full naval force in the world. 1t is ex-
ceeded only by those of Great Britain
and the United States. The compare
tive naval strength shows in summary:
Jap Sow. China.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-13
British Flag in Rum Row.

HELS1NGFORS (A0.-A British trawl-
er has joined Finland's rum row. say
local press reports. The international
rum-running feet is reported to be
carving 500 0l gallons
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-13

Nearly 5000. 900 worth of silk cloth
was produced in Greece in the last year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-13

Marseille, France, may be made q
rec port.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20

at forty-four miles an hour on New
York street and today Rockford
suspended the youths drivers
license ninety days and assessed a
suspended $40 fine and costs.
Although the motorcycle of Roy
johnson, Negro, 1850 Northwestern
avenue, operates for a drug store on
deliveries, has a governor that pre-
vents the vehicle from speeding" he
was fined $40 and costs by Rockford
for travelling fifty miles an hour.
That governor must keep it from
going under forty" Rockford said.
ThirUy-day sentence for operating
an auto while drunk, although
charge of drunkenness was dis
missed, was meted out to Charles
Freeman, 40. r. r. j, Box 2, by
Rockford
Freeman was arrested at Capitol
avenue and North street after he
was said to have failed to stop at
the preferential street. Fine and
costs on the operating charge were
suspended as we're fines for failure
to stop at the street and failure to
have a drivers license.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
PART
IN CITY'S EARLY
DAYS RECALLED
Famed Inventor Was ASSo-
Clated With Charles C.
Perry in Business.

Death of Thomas A. Edison today
recalled the part the famous in
ventor played in the early business
life Of Indianapolis.
Mr.. Edison, back in the early Dos,
was associated with Charles G. Per-
ry, pioneer in the electric light and
power field in this section of the
country, in formation Of two COM
panies manufacturing electrical
equipment.
Mr.. Perry, who at the time of
his death about six years ago, was
president Of the present Indianapo-
lis Power and Light Company, was
the father of Norman A. Perry, In
dianapolis Baseball Club president.
Became Warm Friends
The elder Mr.. Perry and Mr.. Edi-
son became acquainted while both
we're Western Union telegraph
operators. A warm friendship de-
veloped and after Mr.. Edison had
invented the electric lamp in 1879,
together with certain other cleo
trical needs, the two formed the
Jenny Electric Company, here, and
the Thompson-Huston Company, in
the east.
After Mr.. Edison had assisted in
organizing the General Electric
Company, in the eighties, the two
companies we're absorbed by the
General Electric Company.
Edison's fame began with the de-
velopment of the direct current Edi-
son three-wire system, which prac-
tically is unknown today" Norman
A. Perry commented today.
First Lighted Theater Here
Even few master electricians to-
day ever heard of this system, and
yet 1t was this which made possible.
through development by Steinmetz,
the present electric wiring system.
II remember hearing my father
tell of selling this three-wire cleo
trical system to the father of Fred
G. Dickson, then one of the own
ers of the old Park theater, at
Washington street and Capitol ave-
nue..
Thus this theater became the first
electrically lighted theater west of
the Alleghenies."
The elder Mr.. Perry formed the
first electric light company in this
section of the country, known as
the indianapolis Power and Light
Company, later as the Indianapolis
Light and Heat Company, one of
the predecessors of the present In
dianapolis Power and Light Com
panY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
MAN PLUNCES
ELEVEN FLOORS
TO HIS DEATH
Salesman Goes to Death
Before Office Worker Can
Prevent Fall.

Dropping from a window ledge on
the fifteenth floor of the Merchants
Bank building, H. NJ. Mannheimer,
81, of st. Louis, Mo, plunged eleven
floors to his death late Monday aft
ernoon.
Mannheimer, a jewelry salesman,
was seen clinging to the window
ledge by persons in the building,
but before aid reached him he had
dropped. His death was pronounced
suicide.
Miss Gertrude Link 1852 Pleasant
street, an employe on the fifteenth
floor of the building. told police she
saw the man astride the ledge. and
that she called to Irving Fauvre,
1901 East Thirty eighth street. But
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
PAGE 5

new trade areas, Simon Lake said
today.
He was enthusiastic over the re-
suits Of Sir Hubert wilkins expedi-
ton and not the least discouraged
at its failure to travel under ice to
the north pole.
Il don't care If they never 60 to
the pole" he exclaimed. That's in
cidental-more spectacular of course
something to catch the public's
eye. But the main thing is that
Arctic navigation by submarine
has been successful.
And if they could accomplish
what they did with an old boat
hastily rebuilt, think what they
could do with a submarine con-
structed specifically for that pur-
pose"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20

~ CWlttU HFESS
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20. - Miss
Juanita Burns, "a, Los Angeles,
made known today her plans to
try next April to become the first
woman to fly an airplane across
the Pacific from TOXIC to Seattle.
Joseph Martin, who sponsored the
record breaking endurance flight of
Bobbie Trout and Edna Mae Cooper,
will furnish the money for Miss
Burns flight Her plane, not yet
selected, will be called Miss Olym-
pad"
She plans to follow the same route
flown by Clyde Pangborn and Hugh
Herndon. If she succeeds, there
will be prizes totaling $4,000 await
ing her.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
AMERICA IS DECLARED
DEPRESSION IGNORANT
Too Unfamiliar With Them to Face
Hard Times, Says Magnate.
BIZ Unitcd Press

BU JnttCd Press
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 20-Amer-
ica's depression is due to the fact
that the United States is unfamiliar
with disaster and has had so many
years of prosperity, Andre Citroen,
president of the Citroen Motor
Works, told the United Press today.
Now, in France, we are used to
revolutions, the depreciation of our
currency, foreign menaces from
across the Rhine and frequent
changes of political leaders.
"As a result of that, we have
learned, sadly and painfully, that
it never is wise to spend too much
when things seem the most pros
porous. So now when many ma
tions complain of bad times, we of
France who always have saved
while the balance of the world spent,
find ourselves in a better position
than other nations"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20

Mannheimer released his hold be-
fore Fauvre reached the window.
The body dropped to the inside
court Of the building.
An envelope, with a request that
Mrs. Mannheimer be notified, was
found in Manufacturers coat pocket.
Mrs. Mannheimer, who had been
accompanying her husband on bust
ness trips until recently, said he had
been suffering from a mental all
ment induced by an illness twelve
years ago.
Survivors, besides the widow, are
two sisters. Mrs. Louis Goldman.
Nashville, Tenn. and Miss Jennie
Mannheimer, st. Louis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20

For that coy suite or home-turn
to the want ads now and make your
selection of the best available va
cancies.-Adv.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
HANS HOME
AID is PINCHED
FOR SPEEDING
SLOW Down, or There'II Be
More Business Warns
yudqe.

Business of an employe of the
indianapolis Orphans home is no
alibi for speeding forty-two miles
an hour on East New York street,
a court ruled today.
Mrs. Frances Morgan, 4107 East
Washington street, was arrested at
Hamilton avenue Monday after
noon, but told Paul Rockford, spe-
cial municipal judge, today she was
on business for the orphans home :"
IF you don't slow down, therell
be no more orphans and more bust
ness" Rockford warned.
He suspended SIS fine and costs.
Ralph Kelly, II, of % North
Dearborn street, drives his uncle's
car because the latter has qualms
about driving through traffic.
Monday afternoon he was clicked
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
ZEMO RELIEVES ITCHING
BURNING ECZEMA

Soothing, cooling zEMO brings
prompt relief to itching, burning
skin; even IN severe cases relief
comes as soon as ZEN1O touches the
tortured skin. Eczema, Ringworm,
Rashes, Pimples, Dandruff and 9TH
or annoying skin or scalp troubles
generally yield to this soothing,
Gntiseptic lotion. ZENTO is safe and
dependable. All druggists. 35c, COO,
$1.00. Extra Strength zENIO best
for chronic cases-$1 Advertise
inent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
ESCORT OF GIRL HELD
IN AUTO RIDE DEATH
Victim Partly Fell and Jumped from
Machine, Prisoner Asserts.

Victim Partly Fell and Jumped from
Machine, Prisoner Asserts.
By United Press
MARTINSVILLE, Ind, Oct. 90
Serious charges are expected to be
filed against Dennis Dorset, "a, who
lives near here, as the result of the
death of Miss Hazen Brandon, Is.
Miss Brandon, suffering cuts and
bruises, was returned to her home
by Dorsett a few hours after they
had started out on an automobile
ride. The girl is said to have told
her parents that they were in an
accident.
When the girl lapsed into a coma
from which she failed to recover,
however, Dorset told her parents
that she was injured in a fall from
his auto. She partly fell and partly
leaped from the moving machine,
Dorset said.
Dorsett surrendered to police and
was released on $4,000 bond.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
SENATOR TO GIVE TALK
Robinson win Speak on "The
Orient at Church Dinner.

Senator Arthur R. Robinson will
speak on The Orient" at the first
church night dinner of the Fairview
Presbyterian church, Forty-sixth
street and Kenwood avenue. Thurs
day night. John T. Boesinger will
be in charge.
Music for the dinner will be fur
nished by the Shortridge high school
band.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20

AciditN Kills Energy

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20

Hollywood bets IFS stovfest bonkroII
that little Sidney Fox will be star
sPoneIed sensation in UniversoI's
Strictly DishonorabIe." Sidney's
young she's extremely coressing TO
the eye her talent is one Of the
finest TO burst forth in yeorsI
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
Block Coal Sold

BIZ United Press
BRAZIL, Ind, Oct. 20.-Numer-
Gus trucks from Illinois and Mis-
souri, and Southern Indiana cities,
which have taken livestock to In
dianapolis markets, are loaded on
return trip with Brazil block coal,
sold at low prices at the mines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
WABASH Gets $4,000

DU UWtttU fTt03
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Ind, Oct.
20.-A gift of $4,000 from the Car
negie corporation to Wabash college
here is announced by DR.. I. B. Hop
kins, Wabash president. The money,
to be used for library purposes, will
be received at the rate of $4,000 an
nually for five years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
CARGO CARRYING
SUBS PREDICTED
PractiCability Proved by
Nautilus, Says Inventor.
BY BOYD LEWIS
United Press Staf Correspondent


MILFORD, Conn, Oct. 20. - Al
though it failed to reach the north
pole, the submarine Nautilus ex-
petition proved the practicability
of using cargo carrying submarines
to open up shorter trade routes and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-06-12

The State Fire Marshal Depart
ment of Louisiana is making an
earnest effort to Danish fire waste
in that state.
Intensive work along educational
lines is done in the schools with the
objective of instilling ideas of knowl-
edge and carefulness in the men and
women of tomorrow.
Addresses are made and motion
pictures of actual fires are shown
that demonstrate the disastrous re-
suits of carelesness.
Inspections are constantly made,
and in New Orleans alone, 1924
major hazards were removed during
1880.
Every state should conduct some
such work as this. It should, as
well, be done with an attempt to
secure the public cooperation that is
so necessary to real fire prevention.
Once the public realizes that hazards
can be cheaply and readily removed
and that fire is a matter for indiyid-
ual responsibility, our terrible half
billion dollar annual loss will begin
to recede.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-06-12

and the fact that the land has proven
valuable for crop growing the axe
and saw have left but a small amount
of forested land.
Close on the heels of these four
counties are Queen Anne's, Mont
gomery, and Howard. each with 20
percent of the farmland in woods,
and Talbot, Baltimore and Cecil with
% percent. Anne Arundel, Caroline
and Prince Georges have about the
average for the State with q, 20 and
so percent respectively.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-06-12

That Cooperation pays" is evil
denced by the fact that the Dairy
mems League Cooperative Associa-
ton of New York State handled a
bigger percentage of its supply and
surplus products for its farmer
members during the past April than
for any April since 1928. While the
dairy outlook May first was not
bright, nevertheless dairy and poul-
try farmers are in better economic
position than other farm industries.
On April Is dairy products were q
points below prices of year ago,
fruits and vegetables g., Gotten AZ,
meal animals 40 and grain SO points.
It looks as if scientific cooperation
did pay in the diary industry.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-06-12

During 1880 the American Bible
Society distributed Bibles, Tesla
ments and portions totalling 12,0S5,
1873, the largest distribution in any
year in the society's history. Ac-
cording to the 115th annual report
Just published, the society since its
organization in 1916 has distributed
228, ga, DAB volumes ST Scriptures.
The year 1880 was the sixth year in
succession in which the distribution
surpassed that of the preceding year.
The society's work Of translation,
publication, and distribution occur
aed In 285 languages.
The ten agencies which the society
maintains in the United States expert
enced in 1890 the largest circulation
in their history, distributing over
four million volumes in 1876 different
languages. Ten years ago. in 1921,
the total circulation of these same
agencies was 9l3, 400 volumes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-06-12

President Hoover told the dele
gates from IS countries attending the
sessions of the international Chamber
of Commerce at Washington this
month that one of the major factors
contributing to the present world
wide economic depression was the
excessive expenditures for arma-
ments and armies. He pointed out
that the world now spends for war
purposes nearly five billion dollars
yearly, which is about 70 per cent
greater than during the period i'm
mediately preceding the Great War
I'VE stand today with nearly s.
100000 men actively under arms and
100000 more in reserves" said
the President. 'These vast forces,
greatly exceeding those of the pre-
war period, are yet to be demobil-
ICED, even though IL years have
passed since the Armistice was
signed, because of fear and of in
ability OF nations to cooperate in
mutual reductions. Yet we were all
signatories to the Kellogg BRAND
Pact, by which we have renowned
war as an instrument of national
policy and agreed to settle all
controversies by pacific means. !"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-06-12
MARYLAND TIMBER

The amount of land in woods on
Maryland farms varies all the way
from IA percent in Carroll, Freder-
lex and Kent to 81 percent in Allie
gany, with an average of 27.7 per-
cent for the entire State, according
to the 1880 census, it is stated by
Richard Kilbourne, Specialist in
Forestry for the University of Mary
land Extension Service.
Large acreages of timber do not
seem to be confined to any particular
county or section of the State,
Charles and st. Mary's Counties, in
the southern part of the State, having
4S percent of their farm land in
forests, while Garrett, one of the
most northwestern counties, has 46
percent in trees. Jumping to the
Eastern Shore we find that Worces-
ter has 40 percent of its farmland in
trees, Somerset and Wicomico, each
So percent, and Dorchester 81 per-
cent.
On the other hand, Mr.. Kilbourne
points out, in certain of the counties,
famous for their rich, high yielding
soil, much of the farmland is found
to be quite depleted of trees. The
four counties in the State with the
least amount of farmland in woods
are Kent, Frederick and Carroll,
with only IA percent each, and
Washington with Is percent. All of
these counties were known for their
heavily wooded areas in colonia
times but owing to early colonization
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-06-12

Three main causes are advancing
the secondary road movement: the
need for relieving congestion on
main highways, the efforts being
made in all states to reduce taxes and
keep down governmental expense,
and, of perhaps greatest importance,
the necessity of giving farmers year.
round contacts with markets and the
outside world.
It is no wonder the good roads
movement is making great progress
even in time when money is
tight" The public is tearing that
tax money invested in good roads is
one of the few forms of public ex-
penditures for which the people get
more in return than they pay out.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-06-12
REFERENDUM ON SIX
STATE BILLS

Steps have been taken to hold ref
erendums at the next Congressional
election, in 1882, on six enactments
of the recent Legislature.
Proper petitions were filed with
the Secretary IF State before June 1,
the deadline, and provided for refer
endums on three Washington county
local questions, a 100000 road
bond issue in Cecil county, the two
year tax exemption of the Washing
ton, Baltimore and Annapolis Rail-
way, affecting Anne Arundel, Prince
Georges and Baltimore counties,
and measure regulating taxicabs.
The three Washington county
measures to be voted on are the
Sunday Baseball Bill, a measure reg
ulating relations between the Mayor
and the County Commissioners, and
one providing for the payment OF
taxes in semi-annual installments.
The State law provides that refer
endum may be held on any local
enactment of the Legislature if called
for by ten per cent. of the voters
who voted for Governor at the last
previous election. On statewide
measures 10000 names are required
on the petitions asking the referen-
dum,, of which 5000 must be from
Baltimore city.
Filing of the petitions kept the
affected laws from going into effect
until after the referendum. Where
the petitions were incomplete, an
extension of time to June 80 is grant
ed by State law, it was said at the
office Of the Secretary Of State.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-06-12

About $1,000 Maryland veterans
have received an average of $500
apiece on their bonus certificates in
the last three months, according to
Arthur L. MCGEE, adiutant for the
American Legion Department OF
Maryland.
Most of them, he said, have spent
their money in payment of debts or
purchase of necessities for them
selves and their dependents.
OF the $1,000 Maryland veterans
who have been paid, MCGEE said
about 10000 are Baltimoreans.