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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
TOADST00LS KILL 3:
FOUR CRITICALLY ILL
Michigan City Family Mistakes
Fungi for Mushrooms.

bF Hiffl FTfss
MICHIGAN CITY. Ind. Sept. T.
MiS.akinC toadStOolS for mush-
rooms, three persons were dead
today and four Others we're in
critical condition from tire poison
Gus food
The dead axe Mrs. Martha Pru-
saczyt- -. her daughter. Francis. 6.
and another daughter. Josephine.
IL.
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Roosevelt Board Orders
Rivals to Confer
on Truce.
100000 WORKERS IDLE
National Guard Active in
Many States; Renewed
Violence Feared.
Copyright, 1884. by United Press

WASHINGTON, Sept. T.
Textile strike leaders called
for federal troop mobilization
today to prevent further in
dustrial war as President
Roosevelt'S mediation board
rushed its peace drive, order
ing all parties to the bloody
dispute to conferences.
National guardsmen in the south,
where ten lives we're lost in the
labor warfare, are being used in be-
half of mill owners, charged strike
leader Francis j. German in decid-
ing to demand federal military in
terVention.
Mr.. German said he would appeal
to President Roosevelt today for
federal troops to protect embattled
strikers.
We've got to do something" he
said. We're going to get in touch
with the President some time to-
day"
Mr.. Germans dramatic decision
came simultaneously with a move by
the mediation board, after its first
conference here, to confer with
leaders in every phase of the textile
situation.
Wage Loss Is S2,5O0,0OO
Throughout the east at the time,
the strike was growing in dmen-
slonS.
More than 100000 workers were
idle.
Thousands of troops and armed
deputies were protecting mills from
Alabama to Maine.
Flying squadrons of pickets were
threatening to precipitate armed
clashes with the mill guards.
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts,
reported new outbreaks of violence
The strike was developing f1nanc-
ing problems in its fifth day
Strike leaders said the walkout SO
far has cost the union treasury "a
great deal" Estimates were that
workers have lost $2,50O000 in
wages since the walkout began.
Mediation Board Organizes
Mr.. German clarified his state
ment of yesterday in which he said
other national unions were con-
sidering joining the strike. He said
he meant only those unions con-
nected with the textile industry and
that he wished to correct any I'M
preston that a general strike was
possible.
Two of three members of the
Presidents mediation board, Gov
ernor John G. Winant Of New
Hampshire and Raymond G. Inger-
soil of Brooklyn arrived and i'm
mediately conferred with national
labor relations board and labor de-
partment officials After formally
organizing, a statement was issued
calling for early conferences with
dispute parties.
The board conferred with Labor
Secretary Frances Perkins for an
hour. Chairman Winant then SAID
he hoped to see-today-as many of
the parties to the strike as posi-
BILE
Miss Perkins told newspaper men
she had every confidence that this
board is going to be able to find a
way out"
Mediators Are Grim
Governor Winant and Mr.. Inger-
soil were grim. Governor Winant
appeared slightly nervous, in view
of the rush and hustle accompany
ing his race to the capital by air.
plane.
Mr.. Ingersoll an elderly man.
heavy set, with a gray moustache,
walked with nervous steps.
He gave the appearance of a sue
cessful business man. He wore a
brown suit, and soft brown fedora.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
Sluggings Reduce Prison
Iron Man, Once Giant,
to Shambling Weakling
Every Bone in His Body Broken by Terror
Reign of Khan Guards, He Relates; Con-
ditions Now Are Much Improved.
BUT THERE'S MUCH TO BE DONE
Big Russian Is Perfect Example of What
Trained Keepers Can Accomplish; He
Handles Like Child.

enforcement systems
albreaks
enforcement The indianapolis Times is presenting
TOdayS the thrd
a conditions at the state prison in Michigan CITY,
selection of central department OF cor
to chosen civil basis appoint
of assistants service
politically controlled
the state police a civil service basis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
STATE FAIR IS
MONEY-MAKER
FOR EVERY ONE
HooSierdom'S Greatest Ex-
hibitiOn Takes Final Cur
tain Call in Rain.
CIRCUIT RACES ARE OFF
Exposition Shows Return to
Normally. Declare All
Exhibitors.

The Indiana state fair took its
final curtain call today.
In drilling rain, as auctioneers
cried the sale Of prize cattle Of All
club BOYS and girls, the most pros
porous state fair since the balmy
DAYS Of 1929 celebrated Indianapolis
and Manufacturer day.
And it was truly a day for ac-
counting BY manufacturers and eX-
hibitorS as they hailed the fair as
showing a return 10 normally by
checking off the number of sweep
ers, farm tractors and sewing ma
chimes sold.
The Ford Motor company alone
sold twenty-five passenger cars and
ten commercial bodies during fair
week 1t was reported.
Fair Is Money Maker.
In turn accountants of the fair
board forecast that after payment
OF SOS .05O44 IN premiums and purses
that the fair would make money.
Attendance figures for last year
we're cracked by 10000 up to today
with this years fair having an at
tendance OF 209684 10 18O,687 at
the same time last year The rec
ord fair attendance of all time was
254578 in 1929
Today's crowd must top 1902 TO
beat 1885. Yesterday was the first
day that the fair went slightly be-
low 1898 when 1880 persons paid
admission, compared TO 36,088 last
year.
Prize cattle. hogs and sheep went
under the hammer in the Coliseum
at noon as All club boys and girls
sold their pets to city hotels. pack
ers and business houses. Good con-
ditiOn Of the beef was believed to
auger we'll for the highest of prices
in several years.
Circuit Races Off
The Grand Circuit races were de-
clared off when the track became a
quagmire.
A horse-pulling contest was an
other fair feature today.
Iorene Margaret RistOw. r. r. 2,
indianapolis. was awarded a 500
scholarship at Purdue university at
the close Of the girls school. The
scholarship was given by SchloSser
Brothers Creamery Company. Nine
other scholarships to other schools
were awarded.
Temperly Floral Service. Indian
spolis. took first honorS for floral
arrangements in the Horticulture
show.
Ohio Man Is Victor
Tippecanoe county captured the
distinction of the highest number
OF All club premiums.
E. E. CUTLERY. Maysville. o.. was
blue-ribbOned for having the cham
pion ram in the Shropshire class.
S. S. Smith. Lima. o.. won the
grand championship for a spotted
Poland China boar, while Lord
Smalley Il DOverSberger. Atlanta.
Ind. took the grand champion boar
in the Hampshire hog class.
c. NJ. Sargent. Merkel, Tex. was
declared owner of the champion
bull in the Hereford cattle class.
A horse show tonight and Avery
Diamond Revue" III front of the
grand stand. viii close the 1894 fair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
Italy and France Reach
War Pact, Binding Hitler
in an Air-Tght' Trap
Agreement Includes Clause Providing for Naval Parity in
Mediterranean, Long Stumbling Block Between
Paris and Rome
copyright. 1884. BY United Press
ROME. Sept

ROME Sept Italy and agreement
which
the Berlin government of Adolf Hitler makes
learned today.
The agreement which must have the signatures of the Little Entente
2umania Czechoovakia
vdes both for military political
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
So, 900, 900 Stun Project
Ready for Court Action
Public Works Attorney to Arrive Here Tomorrow to Open
Condemnation Proceedings.

The New Deals 100000 indianapolis sum clearance de-
will
definitely with the arrival here Of Harry Hwtg Public
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
Quake Destroys African Town
By United Press

By United Press
ALGIERS. Africa. Sept. IA Sc
we're earthquake destroyed the town
of Carnot today. Five thousand per
sons we're homeless and many were
feared dead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
British King MterUened
for English Arms Firm
Monarch Tried to Get Business for VCkers, Senate
ProberS Told by American Gunmaker
Bu United Press

WASHINGTON. Sept Testimony o. land in
Polish government in 1882 behalf of
ent company presented today to the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

Marion county this year.
The car was driven by William
Mayer, 81 of 4814 East Washington
street, who was not arrested. Mr.
Feldman died in city hospital shortly
after the accident.
Claude Zimmerman, 40, LaFarge-
vile, N. Y, died yesterday in city
hospital as the result of injuries
suffered Sunday when he was
struck by an automobile at Wash
ington and Robton streets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

injured fatally by an
automobile.
Mr.. Feldman is the
eighty-fourth person to
die of injuries received
in traffic accidents in
Evening star., 1934-08-05

approximately the same percentages.
Just in the past year a sensational
drop has occurred. Great Britain lost
965, ,827 tons; Italy, 22l,41l tons;
France, 213,166 tons; Germany, 210,-
2s4 tons, and Japan, 185, ,452 tons.
Us2 The United States? Well, it's
just this way, folks. You remember
back In World War days when Jack
Dempsey and few other fellows were
building ships of steel, iron. concrete,
wood, cardboard and old razor blades,
our tonnage took a sudden jump? In
fact, when 1924 rolled around we had
spent somewhere over $4,000 ,000, 900
and owned 12.477,oo0 tons of ships,
most of them new and some Of them
Seaworthy.
And that, despite the fact that a
large percentage of our ships were
parked in various internment camps
in the Hudson, James, Patuxent and
other rivers (where some hundreds of
them still are), was roughly three
quarters of the tonnage of Britain,
traditional mistress of the seas"
Subsidy Cry Rises.
j. BY 1924. too, we had the United
States Shipping Board, with It's loans
to private operators, under the mer-
chant marine act, of $146 1892 900
($121 ,022 500 of which remains un-
paid and which holds an additional
$22 500, 900 of mortgage notes on ves-
sells which it sold to private operators
at a tithe of their value, and the
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(alias ocean mail contracts) we al
ready have.
One immediate result is that men,
bers Of the British Parliament, asked
to contribute f2,000,000 so British
tramp steamers can continue to tramp,
are prophesying. perhaps with good
cause, a war of subsidies, with gold
and silver for bullets and ships for
munitions dumps.
Startling Figures.
And with at least six nations trying
to keep up with Mr.. Jones or go him
one better with even greater induce
ments to their nationals to build big
iron canoe and sail the seas, it
shouldn't be long now until every pas
senger can have private liner all his
own.
Primary cause for the alarm of our
overseas neighborS comes In the pub
lication last week of the 101st edition
of Lloyd's Shipping Register, reveal
ing the various holdings of the nations
of the worlds tonnage. In last week S
Sunday Star a brilliant writer men,
toned that there were three kinds of
lies, ordinary lies, damned lies and
statistics. But Lloyds has reputa-
ton for facts, and the figures, really,
are somewhat startling.
They show, for instance, that while
the world tonnage increased 2,844, 900
tons between July /, 1924, and July /,
1884, British shipping decreased l.
$4,000 tons, with other hitherto
prominent maritime nations faring in
Evening star., 1934-08-05
BY MARK SULLIVAN.

~ NE of the pregnant aspects Of
the experience through which
America is being conducted
~ can be stated thus: The type
of organization of society to-
ward which the new deal points can
not come about except by getting rid
of the independence of the courtS-by
making the courts a mere arm of the
Government. with the function of
carrying out the will of the Govern
ment.
Because most Americans take the
independence of the courts for
granted, like other familiar American
institutions. they do not grasp what
independence of the judiciary"
means, nor understand the difference
between the status of the courts in
American and English law and their
status in other countries. Stated
very roughly and only partially, the
independence of American courts lies
in the fact that in the eyes Of the
court the individual citizen weighs
just as much as the Government. In
any American court trial with a citi-
zen on one side and the Government
on the other the court is perfectly
free to treat the two parties as having
equal weight.
How independent of the Govern
ment the American courts are free to
be is illustrated by recent case in
Baltimore A branch of the Govern
nent, N. r. A, undertook to deprive a
clothing manufacturer of the right to
use a symbol, the Blue Eagle, In its
labels. The merit of this controversy
does not matter. The point is, it was
a lawsuit with the Government on one
side and on the other side a group
OF citizens.
ScoIds u. S. Lawyer.
In this set-up it did not cost the
court. Federal District Judge William
C. Coleman, a seconds thought to
decide in favor of the citizens. Not
only that, Judge Coleman gave stern
scolding to the Governments lawyers.
He charged them with evasion and
pettifogging, and declared that "the
Government authorities will not get
from the court any encouragement in
the sort of tactics which have been
prevalent here today"
This could not possibly happen in
Italy, Or Germany, or Russia. 1t
could not happen in those countries
even in normal times, before Germany
became Nazi, Italy Fascist, or Russia
Communist. 1t could hardly happen
in any country except where the Eng
lish conception of law exists. That it
could always happen in America has
always been a matter OF pride with
US and of esteem for the system OF
law that has come to US from Eng
land. II We wish to save the inde-
pendence Of the courts We must now
be alert.
N. r. A and the rest of the new
deal can only survive by one OF two
ways. One would be TO make the
courts subservient to the Government,
Evening star., 1934-08-05
German Colony Tests
Theory of Communism

ENGELS, U. S. S. R.-"How would
the Bolshevik system of government
work If applied to Western people?"
ApologiSts for the Soviet regime
and good many other lay the blame
for bolsheviSm's various failures upon
the Russians themselves and contend
that the same system might run far
more smoothly If given a chance with
a less backward and primative nation.
Others, more Skeptical, maintain that
such an iron-fiSted regime as that
now prevailing here could never be
imposed upon modern and progress
Sive people and that even though it
we're imposed and maintained it could
not improve their situation.
While the question will never be
satisfactorily answered unless a system
Of collective ownership and rule by a
dictatorship of the proletarist" is
established in Western country, there
is possibly something to be learned by
the experience by the experience of
the Volga Germans, a half million in
number. who live in the Autonomous
Socialist Soviet Republic of the Ger
mans Of the Volga.
(CopyriSht Ia34D
Evening star., 1934-08-05

interest rates on which range as low
as one-eighth of / per cent.
About that same time we first be-
gan to hear of distress flags being
hoisted by shipping operators. 1t
wasn't long before propagandists were
talking of subsidies" word said to
have descended from the Pewatkee
Indian noun, "g-m-m-p-f," and which
meant getting something for moth
ing"
Came a series Of hearings. Here,
there and everywhere. Bombasts of
publicity, pro, con and anon. Con-
ferences. Shipping owners weeping
tears adulterated with rochelle salts
and glooming of bankruptcy just
around the corner. Experts barking
back to war days, when bottoms
couldn't be had at any price, and de-
crying upon the utter necessity of a
merchant marine as q naval auxiliary
for the next war that the last war
was said to have prevented but prob
ably won't. More hearings; more
conferences; more uproar and hustle,
and this and that.
Upshot was that in 1926, the records
show, our first subsidy came along,
First, unless You want to call some
Of the ship-sale prices Of U. s. s. u.
a subsidy in themselves.
Anyhow Congress decreed that
American mails carried upon Ameri-
can ships should be paid for at q
higher rate than American mails car
ried upon foreign ships. The ratio,
1Continued on Fourth PaQe1
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MODERN MACHINES BUILD u. S. COURTS MAY BECOME
TRADE BOOM OF JAPANESE SLAVES OF THE NEW DEAL
Alertness Advocated as Necessity to
Preserve Their Freedom i'm
Fight With N. r. A.

so that the courts would sustain the
DEGREES of N. r. A. merely because
N. r. A. is branch of the Govern
ment.
The other possible way for N. r. A.
to survive would be to have it become
a kind of state within the state, q
kind of fraternity making and enforc-
ing its rules without regard to the
courts or to the Government.
Churches in America have some such
status as this, making and enforcing
their canon laws without regard to
the ordinary laws passed by Congress.
N. R. A. is developing in this direc-
ton just now. The tendency is shown
by the Hartman Mills case. For the
limited purpose of the present article,
the Hartman Mills case can be stated
thus: In the N. R. A. statute passed
by Congress is labor clause requiring
that employees shall have the right
to organize and bargain collectively" !"
This is all the law that is involved In
the Hartman Mills case. If the Har-
riman Mills did not violate that law,
they violated no law.
riman Mills had violated this law.
Complaint was made TO N. r. A. Ad-
ministrator Gen. Hugh johnson. Gen.
Johnson asked the chief law officer of
the United States, Attorney General
Cummings, to prosecute the Hartman
Mills for crime. Attorney General
Cummings replied that the evidence
did not show a violation of the law.
Gen. johnson thereupon collected
more evidence and turned 1t over TO
the Attorney General. The Attorney
General again said there was no viola
ton of the law, no crime.
Here, then. was the chief law officer
of the Government saying that so far
as the evidence showed the Hartman
Mills had violated no law. If they had
violated no law, they should obviously
be free to pursue their business in
peace. Nevertheless, Gen. Johnson
proceeded to do what he calls pass
ing sentence of economic death" He
took the Blue Eagle away from them.
Strangled to Death.
Taking away the Blue Eagle was
economic death for the following rea-
son: President Roosevelt has decreed
by executive order that all concerns,
all States, cities, Government con-
tractors or private industries which
have borrowed or otherwise received
money from the Government shall buy
their supplies only from concerns hav-
ing the Blue Eagle BY this order the
possible business that may be done by
a firm not having the Blue Eagle is
so limited that the firm cannot carry
on. Fully half the business now being
done in America is carried on partly
or wholly, directly or indirectly, with
Federal Government money. All such
business is forbidden to buy from or
patronize any concern that does not
have the Blue Eagle. For example, the
moment Gen. Johnson took the Blue
Eagle away from Hartman Mills they.
Continued on Third Page.)
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Japan Makes Big Gains
In Trade in Six Months

ToKIo.-In spite Of newly imposed
trade barriers and quota systems,
Japan's trade during the flrst six
months Of this year shows an in
crease Of 1873 per cent OF imports and
2o.e per cent increase of exports over
the corresponding period of 1898.
The excess imports over exports
show q decrease of yen 81 ,545 900 or
16.9 per cent over the 1888 figures,
which Is considered good record,
since the first six month of each year
is generally known as the excess-im-
ports season.
The four principal export goods re-
main the same: silk, cotton cloth, silk
cloth and rayon. All OF these except
raw silk show substantial increase,
but there Is also a notable increase
in the expectation of miscellaneous
goods.
tCopyriEht. 1saA)
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Low Pay Seen as but One Factor-De-
probation of Yen Is Held to Be
Losing Its Affect.

and currency disturbances, they have
been unable to modernize themselves
if they would. So in a number of
trades the japanese have gained. if
only for the time being, considerable
technical advantage.
To take the cotton industry again
as an example, the introduction of
automatic machinery, worked by in
expensive girl labor, has greatly
lowered the costs of production. An
inquiry recently made by a committee
Of Lancashire manufacturers found
that in Japan the quantity of cotton
cloth produced her operative had
doubled between 1926 and 1882.
AS to the quality of japanese goods,
there are differences. of course, in
grades. But the quality is frequently
in no way inferior to similar Euro
pean products. In any case, it proves
to be good enough for the consumers
in many countries of the world. for
there are hundreds of millions of
people who have been forced. owing
to the depression in their own
countries. to use articles of lower
quality than formerly.
Highly Organized.
Not less important is the high or
ganization of many japanese indus
tries. The control of great trades is
in a small number Of hands. Cotton,
again, is a conspicuous instance; the
whole industry is united under the
Japanese Cotton Federation. Half a
dozen firms command the situation;
they unite to buy the raw material on
favorable terms; their cooperation
has enabled them to improve the
methods of production; they send
highly skilled salesmen representing
the whole trade to open up new
markets and to develop old ones. The
competition Of the loosely organized
cotton industries of Lancashire and
of some of the continental countries
is. like an effort by an ill-trained
militia, with regimental officers in
command. to fight against a we'll
drilled, mechanical professional army
directed by a highly skilled general
staff. In Russia there is a compa-
rable organization, but there the ad-
vantages of combined action are
neutrahzed by the fact that industry
is under political management and
the stimulus Of private enterprise is
absent.
In this competition, already so off
hcult, the European countries delib-
erately handicap themselves further
by artificially raising the cost of pro-
duction of their goods. Japan already
has a certain economic advantage in
the fact that the staple foodstuff of
her population is rice. which IN any
case is cheaper than wheat. But
many countries here. under the in
fiuence Of rampant economic ma
tionalism, bribe their agriculturists to
produce wheat instead of other food
stuffs. This is done by forcing up
the price Of wheat through enormous
Continued on Third Page.)
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day comes new, and yet old,
problem to engroSs and per-
~ haps harass the brain trusts
Of the world powers; a prob
lem ever recurrent in the lives Of
tribe and nation since the days when
you and I were maritime-the one a
tadpole, the other a fish.
The question: What to do about
our ever -perplexing merchant marines.
the bruited second lines Of defense"
for the navies; an international indus
try which apparently long ago outgrew
its one-time profit-making proclivities
and Of late would have one believe it's
In a bread line all its own.
That bread line. otherwise known
as subsidies" is the only hope, the
only salvation, for international ship
ping, private operators say. Others,
with appropriate exclamatories, aver
the opposite.
But. because Of q series of unusual
developments in the past month or
SO, the peoples and politicians of at
least six nations are talking about 1t
ana wondering what to do next.
The uproar in Europe, as repre-
sented by Great Britain, Italy, France,
Norway, Germany, and in the Orient,
Japan, seems to be about subsidies
yet to come. The diSsension and fire.
quently expressed disgust heard in
raspberry patch conferences in this
country apparently is about subsidies