Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 112, Decatur, Adams County, 9 May 1934 — Page 6

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SAMUEL INSULL ARRAIGNED IN FEDERAL COURT Eormer Industrial Czar Says He Cannot Furnish $200,000 Bond NEAR COLLAPSE AT CHICAGO ARRIVAL Clifcaco, May X ■ (UR) Samuel Instill, a tottering old man who seemed but a ghost of the iron-fisted industrial czar Chicago rcmemltered. said lotlav that he could not furnish the *200.000 bond demanded for bis liberty and would go to jail. The 74-year old prisoner, who arrived hack in the city of his triumphs atql tribulations earlier! today from a two-year flight from , the law, announced that be was; r< ady to go to jail after federal Judge John P. Barnes had ap- i j roved government prosecutors’; demand for bond of $260,000. His statement, given to newspaper men by his son, Samuel, Jr., carried a veiled warning that if anything happened to him because of his imprisonment the government would be held responsible. ‘'l will make no specific retliiests for anv favors," he said. "The federal authorities are responsible for my treatment and condition while I am held in custody." It was a grim commentary on the fallen fortunes of a man who once believed himself so powerful that neither men nor fates could •rush him. Instill, whose personal fortune was reckoned at a hundred million dollars three years ago. said despairingly that he "didn’t know where in the world he could raise $200,000. District Attorney Dwight H. Green, in a lengthy statement tiefore the court in support of his demand for $200,000 bond, said that a heavy amount of bail was necessary to insure the detention of the prisoner pending trial. He reviewed Insull's two year exile, which sent him in hounded flight from the law to France, Greece, and thence to Turkey. “For 18 months the government has sought to extradite Instill and return him to the United States for trial,” he said. “This has cost the government a great amount of money and every precaution should be taken by this court to insure his safe keeping. "No exception should be tnk°n in this case because of the former standing and reputation of the fugitive. He should be treated the same as any other prisoner would tie treated under similar circumstances.” Insull, who three years ago reckoned the minutes of his crowded days as worth thousands of dollars and who kept great men outside, his portals cooling their heels, waited in the courtroom more than an hour while Judge Barnes disposed of a bankruptcy matter in another courtroom. The aged prist ner, almost carried in the courtroom on the arms of his son and his attorney and breathing heavily, refused to let

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; himself be placed In a wheel chair , because of the worry the news i would cause Mrs. Insull. who Is In ! Athens. Eager spectators, crowding the 1 halls were held back by special 1 police. ! Already in the courtroom when j he arrived were the government’s ! prosecutors. District Attorney Green and Forirest K. Harness. • special assistant attorney sent here from Washington to assist in , the case. In contrast with the well- ; groomed appearance of Green, | Harness, and his own attorney. Insull looked disheveled after his troubled, broken rest in the U. S. marshal's office where' he was taken immediately after his arrival In Chicago from the east this morning. GIVES CONSENT TO NE$ PROGRAM President Gives Assent To Program For Expanded Silver Use Washingt Washington. May 8 i i UP) —Definite White House assent I to a three point program for expanded use of silver was reported today at the capital aster's conference with President Roosevelt and members of the .senate silver bloc. The points on which the president wsa said to have given consent were: 1 Nationalization of silver. 2. Reestablishment of silver as a basic money. 3. Silver purchase by the treasury until 25 per cent of the metallic reserve is in the form of silver. The silver senators were told to prepare legislation which would i accomplish the three fold program which was expected to emerge as a national policy. The White House conference wa-s attended by Senator William H. King. Demo , Utah, chairman of the silver bloc steering committee. Senator Pat M-X'arran. Democrat, Nevada, Senator Elmer Thomas. Democrat. Oklahoma, and others who have been interested in silver legislation. Mr. Roosevelt was informed that majority sentiment among the silverites was in favor of mandatorysilver legislation. The president intimated he preferred discretionarylegislation but was said to have modified his views later and to be wiling to accept legislation with a mixture of mandatory and permissive authority. Three Blue Eagles Ordered Removed Indianapolis. May 8— (U.R) — Removal of NRA Blue Eagle insignias from cleaning and dyeing ! establishments in Bloomington and Michigan City was announced today by Fred Hoke, state NRA compliance director. The companies ordered to relinquish their Blue Eagles are the Quality Cleaners and The Campus Cleaners. Bloomington, and the Sunshine Laundry and Cleaning company. Michigan City. Investigation disclosed that all three were violating provisions of the cleaners and dyers cotie. A total of 15 Indiana concerns have been ordered to give up memberhip in the NRA.

REACTION OF STATE VOTERS TESTED TODAY Reaction of Indiana Voters To “New Deal” Will Be Decided Today RECORD NUMBER OF BALLOTS EXPECTED Indianapolis. May 8 <U.R> —Reaction of Indiana citizens to the I "new deal” was tested today as j voters east their ballots in the spring primary. By comparing the total vote with that of the 1932 general election. Democratic leaders hope to refute Republican claims that their power is on the wane. I The primary is being held to, ■ nominate Republican and Demo cratic candidates , for congress. (State legislature and county, city and township offices. Delegates to the state party conventions next month also were being named. While inter party Issues will notl become important factors until at-1 ter the primary, the campaign was I enlivened by Republican charges; that the stale administration of' ■Gov. Paul V. McNutt is responsible I for the escapades of John Dillinger.: notorious Indiana outlaw, and the I escape of 10 members of his gang i from the state prison last Septem-1 her. The Dillinger case will have a i (direct hearing on the political atn-! bitions of Robert G. Estill. Lake, I county prosecutor, who is seeking-re-nomination. It was from the Lake county jail i that Dillinger escaped with a wood-; en pistol after having been captur-f ed in Tucson. Ariz. Estill is being opposed on the Democratic ticket by State Senator j Fred Egan. Gary, who has made J the Dillinger escape one of his fore-! most issues. Estill was criticized severely by! federal department of Justice agents j for posing in a picture with his' arm around Dillinger. Lillian Holley, Lake county’s] woman sheriff who had boasted j that Dillinger could not escape her jail, is not a candidate for nomi- j nation. One ot 11 Democrats seek-1 ing the sheriff's post, however, is her nephew. Carroll Holley, chief deputy. Dillinger's parole by Gov. Pau) j V. McNutt a year ago and the pris j on break of his 10 henchmen are . expected to b’ the principal issues l of Republicans in the campaign j preceding the general election next fall. Aside from the Lake county con-i test, statewide interest will center on the congressional race. All 12 Democratic incumbents i and five former Indiana represent-1 atives in the lower house are among' 67 candidates seeking the nomination. . With few exceptions, the Hoos- ■ ier delegation has stood steadfast-1 !y behind the Roosevelt adminis- { tration. Their renomination will ' indicate that Indiana Democrats approve the president's policy. The one possible exception is | Glenn Griswold. Peru, represent-| ative from the Fifth district. He has voted against several of 1 the administration's major meas- 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY. MAY 8. 1934.

The Return of Samuel Insull MMN IMB WMMMMM WMI, __ □I UH Bi 1 ” A * U 4 fSU I- MW LI.V2 i-SSi ■» SSSwm « Samuel Insull Sr. as he was helped down the ladder of the S S. Exilona to the United States customs cutter Hudson in lower NewYork Bay. A prisoner of the federal government, the one-time head i of a $2,000,000,000 utility empire was raced back to Chicago for trial.

' ures, including the national recoviery act and abolishment of the : gold standard. His opponent is Carl L. Houston. Marion newspaper publisher who, has pledged to support Mr. Roose- I . velt "to the limit." The only other two incumbents ' whose renomination is uncertain] . are Mrs. Virginia Jenckes, Terre I Haute, representative from the | Sixth district, and Arthur Green-, wood. Washington, veteran from : I the Seventh district. Mrs. Jenckes has a formidable | i opponent in Charles Whitlock, Vigo i county prosecutor, while Green-I wood is said to have lost support lof the state party machine. The five former congressmen attempting a comeback are David • Hogg, Fort Wayne; Fred S. Pur-1 nell. Attica, both of whom were defeated by Democrats in 1932; Albert R. Hall. Marion, and Andrew IJ. Hickey. Laporte, who lost to Democrats in 1930, and Harry C. : Canfield. Batesville. Canfield was (eliminated by a fellow Democrat., Eugene B. Crowe. Bedford, as result of re-districting in 1932. Today’s election was the first i held since passage of the voters ■ law by the 19,33 legislature.. Registrations are reported to have far exceeded the total 1932 vote, (indicating a record number of bal-| ' lots will be cast before the polls 'close at 6 p. m. CST. OBSERVE WEEK OF PROBATION ! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ! , economy of this method of treat- j ment. as well as to a profound consideration of the social values to i be considered in the rehabilitation lof the offender. President Roosevelt, in his rel cently published book. “Looking ' Forward." writes the following (about probation: “Every scrap of (authentic information from those i who have been waging war against I I crime and criminals, night and day, : reveals that there is but one way to reduce crime. That is through j | a policy of prevention. “If the criminal's past history | gives good reason to believe that [he is not of the naturally criminal itype, that he is capable of real reform and of becoming a useful citi'zen, there is no doubt that probation, viewed from the selfish standi point of protection to society alone, > is the most efficient method that Iwe have. And yet it is the least ,understood, the least developed., (the least appreciated of all our es- ! 1 forts to rid society of the criminal . By its intelligent extension. ,crime can be decreased, the over-! crowded conditions In our penal in- j stitutions greatly ameliorated, and the necessity for buiding more and more prisons, for needlessly and ineffectively spending hugh prison j budgets, reduced ... I hope that in ;all states we shall be continually: decreasing the number of our pris-! on guards and wardens and increasing the number of our parole and probation officers.” o CONFESSION IS BRANDED FAKE BY OFFICIALS 'CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) pect was an American who otherwise was not identified. Authorities would not reveal where he was held and later released. A Mexican who was held in the Nogales, Sonorx, jail, also was released. Information leading to the Amer-

ican's arrest was supplied by Mrs. Eva Coleman, negro operator of a Fort Huachuea case. The negro told officers the man entered her case with a small girl who refusled to eat. She later repudiated her t story and was given a suspended 'sentence for misleading investigat--1 ors. Another slender hope still rei mained that Al Aguirre, a friend of Bernabe Robles would find some i trace of the girl on his current I trip into Sonora.. '» ■ o NEWSPAPER MAN IS DEMOCRATIC RACE NOMINEE I (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) , primary. The first precint to report was Second ward "B”. which was nip and tuck between 'hree of the candidates. Vance carried it by one vote over Holthouse. The vote was Vance. 73: Holthouse. 72; Carroll, 69. Holthonse took the load when the second p.ecint, third ward, “B” reported. Holthouse carried four of the precincts, losing one by only vote. q HARRY MILLER HOME BURNED I (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) » ♦♦♦♦■• ***«--• ♦ • suddenly burst into flames. Only three pieces of furniture were re ■ moved from the house, the fire ; burned so rapidly. The blaze continued for an hour and a half. There was no insurance on the household 1 goods, it was stated today. JOHN DILLINGER IS SEEN AG AIN Ace Outlaw Is Reported Sighted At Whiting, Indiana Chicago May B—(UP)—A8 —(UP)—A general alarm went opt to all police squad cans to.lay to watch for two auto- | mobiles northbound on the outskirts of Chicago, believed carrying John Dillinger and his gang. Whiting and East Chicago, Ind((liana, police w’ho took up the chase reported they had indentified one of the occupants as Dillinger. They I pursused the car along Stony Island avenue In the southern part of ! Chbago as reenforcements were i mobilized from among Chicago po- ] liceiln the bustle of traffic, the two suspected cars were lost. Policemen Don Moynilfan and George Kai mlnky of Whiting were on duty before the Whiting public school when the two cars sped around a ! corner and swept past at a high 1 rate of speed. Moynihan said he i recognized the Hoosier desperado ( as one of those in the cars. Shortly after the alarm reports I reached police of a holdup in HamI mond, Indiana, nearby, where four bandits held up John Mattingley in a grocery store and escaped with ' $25 after wounding the grocer in ■ the leg. It was uncertain whether the hold ■; up had been executed 'by the same gang that Moynihan and Kaminsky i pursued. L I o New Yerfc Sue I-ed The New York Sun was the first newspaper te be sold on the street* - In this country.

FEDERAL JURY CLEARSMELLON Grand Jury Returns “No Bill” On Income Tax Evasion Charge Pittsburgh. May B.—(U.R)-A Fed-| eral grand jury today Ignored the government's charges that Andrew i W Mellon failed to pay sufficient 1931 income taxes, and returned a| “no bill" after hearing the govern-1 nient's story. The grand jury reported to Judge j Robert M. Gibson at IV a. m. today j that it found no basis for the government's charges that Mellon failed to pay all his Income taxes In 1931. The exoneration came after a speedy Inquiry yesterday. Iteginning immediately after the May grand I jury convened, it heard Income j tax experts and Mellon's aides, and then adjourned until today because j all the federal judges had gone j home. Helion himself, in one of his rare public statements, declared last week that the charges were unfounded, and that as a matter of fact, he overpaid his taxes He said he would appeal to the federal i board of tax appeals, but must • await the grand jury's action be- 1 fore doing so. Mellon attributed the order of Attorney General Homer S. Cummings. directing the grand jury re ' view of the tax returns, to politics. ; He said a prominent Democrat ■ more than a year ago warned him that an attempt was being made < "to discredit me in connection with either my administration of the treasury or my tax affairs.” Mellon was secretary of the treasury under three Republican presidents. The government never published I the amount of taxes which is claim- ’ ed Mellon still owed for 1931. but Mellon's statement last week said he was informed by the treasury ! department that $1,319,060.90 taxes an<l $659,540.45 penalties were claimed. That claim was made, however, he said, after Attorney General Cummings ordered the grand jury review.. The former treasury secretary said he had overpaid his taxes for 1931, besides having contributed $3,800,000 to tax exempt charities that year. PRIZE AWARDS ■ ARE ANNOUNCED Pulitzer Prize Awards For 1933 Are Announced Today New York. May 8 — (U.R) —The ' Pulitzer prizes for 1933, beset by : argument between juries assist- j ing in selections and the Columbia University advisory board which makes final choices, were announced today. The award for the best novel was given Caroline Miller, author ot “Lamb in His Bosom.” The j drama award went to Sidney j Kingsley for "Men in White.” Hints that controversy had aris- j en over the drama and novel I awards were given last week when it was learned that the advisory board had reversed recommendations of the juries. Announcement revealed a third dis- i pute. The jury assisting in selection I

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of the winner for the best history' work of the year did not agree. The prize was given Herbert Agar, an attache of the American embassy in London, for ' The People's Choice.’ Two members of the jury had voted for "Over Here.” by Mark Sullivan, and the third favored no award. Members of the drama jury had voted for "Mary of Scotland” by Maxwell Anderson. The prize for the best repertorial work went to Royce Brier,’ of the San Francisco Chronicle. Brier telephoned his office a running story ot the San Jose lynchings. Frederick T. Birchall, of the New York Times, was named for the most distinguished newspaper service. The prize was for his stories from Europe on foreign news developments. The Medford. Oregon. Mail Tribune won the award for outstanding public service. Under the editorship of Robert W. Ruhl, the Mail Tribune stepped into a bitter political fight and peacefully settled a menacing issue. Tyler Dennett, of Princeton University, received the award for the best American work in bio graphy. He is the author of a work on John Hay. Robert Hillyer's "Collected Verse” won the award in poetry. Hillyer is of Harvard University. E. P. Chase, editor of the Atlantic. lowa, News Telegraph, won the prize for the outstanding editorial. It was titled “Where is Our Money” and urged thrift as the only solution of the depression. He blamed unwise spending for the 1929 crash. Edmund Duffy, of the Baltimore Sun, won the award for the best cartoon of the year. It was captioned “California Points With Pride —!" The history award carries a cash prize of $2,000. Prize winning in drama, repertorial work, novel, biography and verse received SI,OOO. The Medford Mail Tribune received a SSOO gold medal and prizes of SSOO went to the winners in newspaper correspondence, editorial writing, and for the best cartoon. A scholarship of $1,500 was given Frank P. Price, carillonnenr at the Rockefeller Memorial, as most deserving of European instruction. and to Cathal O'Toole, I zing Island city, for having artistic talent worthy of training abroad. DLALLAS BROWN IS LEADER IN SHERIFF RACE (CONTINUED FROM PAUE ONE J comeDavid Hogg was leading for the democratic nomination for congress from the fourth district, with Waiter E. Helmke. second. Without Opposition Democrats who were unopposed for nominations were: James 1. Farley for congress: Edmund A. Bosse, prosecuting attorney; Rbert Zwick. croner. Each candidate is seeking a second term. To Hold Banquet Thursday Night A mothers and daughters' banquet will be held at the First United Brethren church Thursday evening at 6:30 o'clock. o Brotherhood Will Serve Supper May 19 The Christian brotherhood will serve supper in the First Christian church Saturday evening, May 19, from sto 7 p. m. Price will be 25 cents per plate. The public is invited.

LEAGUE NEm mondayJ Countv Conserve,r KUe In R e(fU ] ar jJM l v Th " count, sB ;,. a ’ A ' I-ci,.,, Ml •| nisht win, j;,, n„., nbt K ' ;l l>|l ' ' h, ‘ Md ■ for rM-<t„. reanne |„ fur fjsh 1 ' Vill -'‘ P.,r.t.w ■ ■ •!- ■jtlon* and r.‘. l n.. s t w | • ' hau- ins I, til ,ij nE • ■ cense when fish| re The leaeup will hoU lllfc lf ' I picnic .Inly 1 \ ' appointed t,> | place for the party. whifjdH i attend.-d ,Im, , I|f .JM ' j their families. The leinrm \ i uiard appointed deputy ens the t'llowinz I Harv.-v, \\ p a ., W . I les Baxter m, I . | These no n ad t|> • the public, and . sportsm. n of the loMt y uB ; I porting fame and f| # || t i tlons. fl Milton Wv-.nie, y l(r ,|| gave th,- |>: n ipa| : told of a< tivitu - ot the I partment in pnttinz • | new laws and the , hjnJfl : | game laws a ,-ording ■ tates of the sportsmen cfl i ■ door men. ■ The speaker fl II there are 16 district . i tives. appointed by the ’ represents ■ uhn in appointed by the in.i.vidufl I ; servation elnbs. The lufl i ' ing of district repnulß , was held at Turkey Ruffl .' park April 26. | [ j Mr. Wysong urged all i encourage the hoys and ihha ; study outdoor life. Heuddtß • Fdeer that have been reieagl i! southern Indiana, i-lliag 4M . feeding grounds and the ttj phy of the land in the ad counties. He also explain! ■ : the different clubs in the M , are ridding the streams h!|b ■ of predatory fish. I The next meeting ot the Ma .county league will be held ■ ! first Monday in June. ti o ] State Employes Go Home To Vi I J II ilndianapolls. ?nd„ May «-in| ■ With instructions to suppontai ■ and state Democratic -.'gaiias I slates, state house employs g given a holiday to vote in thtl , mary election today. i Gov. Paul V. McNutt and 14 , elective officers voted in Indiizj : | lis where they are required »1 tablish legal residence duringo! terms of office. Lesser officiate returned to* ; I homes to vote. Bob Rumschlag Buys Partner'? Inten — Bob Rumschlng today I ed that he has purchased Cad 1 ■ Gattshall’s interest in Cw» C I fcctionery, located at -e" • Second street. Mr. Rn®-' who has been in the store W past year, will be the sol* I prietor. In the future, the ness will be known as Bobs t fectionery. j