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This Is Your Column— You Say It Rise and Shine! We’ll Now Listen to Some More Brothers.

JUIUor Timet — WHO is the greatest discoverer in the world—Lief Erickson, th' great American claimant; 7i rfirm Kariscfan, that of Maine; C 4(1 )va, the Yucatan; Balboa, the I-rifle? None of these equals President Hoover and Senator Watson. A great obstruction to American business blocked procedure. All discoverers, all doctors, all theologians were called in to diagnose the case, and the. honor goes to President Hoover. *He discovered that all the assets in America are frozen. Jim Watson prescribed a higher tariff that would thaw this out in h than sixty days and produce prosperity, but the magic wand failed. Another pan of soap bubbles, in the form of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, also failed. Other applications are applied, including the home bank bill, of which both Jim and the President claim to be the daddy. All applirations high tariff, reconstruction, home loan bank and other prognosis- - are failures. We still are frozen. A. L. HUFF. tt it a junior Time* — IN answer to the column on the front page of the News Sept. 28, entitled ' Democrats are asked about la:; increases,” Judge Chamberlin could afford to cut his salary 25 per cent for the last six months of his term to get votes this fall. I don't blame Democratic judges for wanting the same salaries the Republicans have received for years. Maybe the Republicans don’t remember when they were in power anrl if you were in with the gang they would make a good job for you. SAMUEL J. LANG JR. tt a tt Junior ’lime* — r T"'HE Citizens Gas Company -!• should be compelled either to surrender its charter or pay the city an annual rental charge of $300,000 for use of streets and alleys. There then would be no cause for worry as to school teachers’ salaries. There is a budget item of $6,000 for salaries of the so-called utility district, this being merely a political set-up to insure that Citizens gas dividends are paid on stock spread where it will do the most good for the company, Any dividends no% being paid should go into the city treasury as rental, for the gas company has no legal right to operate. WILLIAM E. NELSON. tt tt o TUI il or Timm — IN the Times. September 25, I noticed a fellow referred to all ex-service men as "gold brickers.” The appellation is right, but not in the sense he meant it. They were "bricks” which the whole German army can attest, and we all know they were of purest gold. I notice that he. as in 1917 and 1918, still is reluctant to sign his name. Perhaps he thinks there might be another war and it is not best to make one's name too conspicuous. He says he served his country as a civilian. No doubt, and at $lO a day, picking up boards in some shipyard. As for old "funny name” Powell, he will write just as convincing an article for the other side if the Scripps-Howard papers wilKpay him. M. A. PRATT. It tt a JUlilor Time *— REGARDING Senator Watson’s speech at Peru, putting grease where the squeak is. that is good policy. Would be better to grease before the squeak began. Senator Watson did not say what or who was squeaking. Could it be Senator Watson. Mr. Shover or Indiana and her loved one? Senator Watson has wakened up in the eleventh hour applying grease that was promised four years ago. But it has the wrong brand and directions. Labor is the source and foundation of all wealth, and we had labor when we had no banks, railroads or factories. Grease and take care of the foundation and the top or rich will take care of itself. Let grease come from the Constitution of the United States, not second hand through the moneyed power. It makes bad matters worse. S. H. COLBERT tt M tt JUii'or Time* — Ci AN you beat it? If it isn't J Coo-Hoo. it s Roo-Hoo, until wc all have taken the boo-hoo. If. somehow, we could be saved from the 00. perhaps w r e dbe spared the boo-hoo. * Nevertheless, it’s a remarkable fact that the oo has occupied a place in the President's name of every administration beginning with Woodrow in 1921. until now, twenty years in a stretch, to say nothing of Roosevelt. 1900-1908. President Harding’s administration w’as not permitted to finish without the oo at the helm. What can it all mean? Doomed, perhaps. At least for another four years, and with Coolige and McAdoo in reserve we can exclaim. "Oh, Oh!" from now on. That forever should settle the question why A1 Smith was not elected. SWEDE PETERSON. (Other Tetters on Editorial Pa*e) BANK CALL IS ISSUED National and State Institutions Ordered to Make Reports. Bo T niterl Pro i* WASHINGTON, Oct. s—The romp!roller of the currency today railed on all national banks to report their condition as of the close of business on Sept. 30. 1932. Luther F. Symons. Indiana banking commissioner, today issued a call for state banks to report their condition as of the close of business Sept. 30, 1932.

The Indianapolis Times Fair and somewhat cooler tonight, with heavy frost; Thursday fair with rising temperature.

VOLUME 44—NUMBER 126

SIO,OOO SUIT CHARGES LOAN FIRM ABUSE Widow Declares Terror Tactics Used in Effort to Collect Debt. THREATENED, SHE SAYS Health Ruined and Business Lost, Woman Asserts in Complaint. Charging terroristic tactics to agents of the Personal Finance Company, 34 South Pennsylvania street, in which she says they subjected her to a "back room” inquisition, "threatening and abusing her until she fainted,” Mrs. Lottie McQuade, 1726 Ashland avenue, filed suit today in superior court three for SIO,OOO damages from the loan company* The suit was filed bv her attorney, O. J. Boulden, 305 Holliday building. It charges that her health has been ruined and her business lost. After 9 on the night of June 16, according to the complaint, two men drove to Mrs. McQuade’s home in an automobile "and told her they had come to take her dow-ntow-n.” Guilty Only of Poverty "She knew r that she was guilty of no crime, except the crime of being poor and unable to meet her obligations,” the complaint alleges. "Then, in their offices on South Pennsylvania street,” the complaint states, “she w r as seated in front of two men, who began to abuse her and call her a liar after any statement.” “Threatened and accused until she fainted,” according to the complaint, Mrs. McQuade, upon her return home, took to her bed with nervous exhaustion where she remained for three weeks under constant care of a doctor.” The illness "finally resulted in heart trouble tvhich may end her life at any time,” the suit alleges. Gets S3OO Loan A loan of S3OO was secured from the finance company, the complaint declares, when Mrs. McQuade was forced to obtain money with which to keep up payments on a .small laundry operated at 1644 Cortiell avenue. According to the complaint, she purchased the laundry on a conditional sales contract, following alleged information that the income from the business would more than meet payments and afford her funds to support two boys of school age and another son and a daughter, both out of employment. She and her family "raked together the cash for the dowr\ payment,” but later business decreased as she began to fall behind in her payments and was threatened with ejectment and loss of all she had paid.” the complaint alleges. The S3OO loan w r as made with ‘‘all her household goods” and laundry equipment mortgaged as security, the complaint, states, and the money used to meet purchase payments and current expenses. Goes in Arrears ‘‘With the enormous interest rate paid to the defendant, payments on the laundry and because of falling off of business, she became in arrears in both, and the laundry was seized by the seller,” the complaint charges. After loss of the laundry and with all the family out of employment, Mrs. McQuade, “to make the payment on the loan, robbed her children's bank and borrowed SI.BO from a sister-in-law to make the $lO payment,” the complaint declares. When another payment was demanded in two weeks, "she gave the collector $lO and he took her receipt book, promising to return it after checking it,” but the book has not been returned to her, although she has made frequent demands for the return of it and (Turn to Page 25)

ROOSEVELT, AL ‘SHAKE;’ PARTY AIDS WILD WITH JOY

By United Pres* ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. s.—Alfred E. Smith, grinning, ‘fighting and happy, shook hands with Franklin D. Roosevelt Tuesday night, urged his election as President and dramatically ended a personal feud that also may reunite party factions in New England and elsewhere before Nov. 8. It was a moment of high drama for delegates to the state Democratic convention. The two men had been battling for two days in behalf of a mutual friend, Colonel Herman H. Lehman, the Lieutenant-Governor they wish to make Governor. John F. Curry, bass of Tammany Hall, wanted to give the place to John Boyd Thacher. but failed as Lehman, was nominated.

CAN’T WE TALK IT OVER?’ REFRAIN, TO TUNE OF BULLETS, SAVES WOMAN’S LIFE

THE words of a popular song prevented the wife of a patrolman from facing a murder charge today. For, to the tune of bullets. ‘'Can't tWe Talk It Over.’’ stalled the revolvered hand of Mrs. Donald S. Milburn, 24. living in a downtown hotel, long enough to enable Mrs. Rose Campbell! 222 North Liberty street, to escape an altercation and the role of the bullseye for the gun. Mrs. Milburn is free on bond todaj- on a charge of shooting with

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 5, 1932

‘ABOLISH POVERTY, CRIME WILL DIE.’ DARROW DECLARES American Prison Association, Meeting Here, Is Told by Famed Lawyer That ‘Good People’ Are Real Roots of Americas Evils. “Abolish poverty and penal problems will be solved:” This was the prescription offered by the American Prison Association convention at the Claypool today by Clarence Darrow, famed criminal lawyer, lecturer, author and philosopher. He stressed the point, throughout a two-hour address, that anything short of preventing people from becoming poor is no ultimate solution for penal and other social problems. In opening his talk Darrow declared that the prisoner in America is the real "forgotten man.” He praised the association for being one group of "good people” who devote time to them.

MARTIN INSULL ARREST ASKED Flees From Small Canadian Town to Toronto. By I oiled ]’rr*s TORONTO, Ontario, Oct. s.—Martin Insuil, under indictment in Cook county in connection with the collapse of the Insuall utilities, came to Toronto today from Orillia, Ontario, where he has been living, but refused to disclose the purpose of his visit or his ultimate destination. It was rumored Insuil was confident his British citizenship would enable him to balk extradition proceedings. Arrest Is Demanded By United Press CHICAGO, Oct. s.—lnstructions to Toronto police to arrest and detain Martin J. Insuil were telegraphed today by state’s attorney John A. Swanson as one of his aids raced to the municipal airport to fly there with copies of the indictment returned against the former utilities executive. Receivers for the Middle West utilities company, major unit of the Insuil chain, said today they will ask the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for a $21,000,000 loan. The loan will be sought, Receivers Edward N. Hurley and Charles A. McCulloch said, to liquidate $36,300,000 in loans from five New York banks. The grand jury charged Martin and Samuel Insuil with larceny by bailee, larceny and embezzlement. The charges involve only $500,000 —a sum which would have been pin money to the Insulls when they were undisputed business titians of the midwest. The penalty, if they are founa guilty, is from one to ten years in Joliet penitentiary. State’s Attorney Swanson accused the brothers of causing this shortage through frenzied attempts to regain their fortunes on the stock market. Two of the indictments named Martin and Samuel. The other named Martin alone. S P RINGE MOB FOR EVERY MAN’ More Dollars in Circulation Pictured as G. O. P. Success Result. Bit Time* Special BRAZIL, Oct. 5.—"A jobffor every man and more dollars n circulation will result from Republican success at the polls in November,” promised Raymond S. Springer, G. O. P. Governor nominee, at a rally here Monday night. Springer did not explain how this would come about or what were his plans to fulfill the pledge. He also pleaded for better law enforcement and urged that steps be taken to reduce taxation and pledged himself to support President Hoover in his constructive planning for the return of prosperity. Middletown Man Is Killed MIDDLETOWN, Ind., Oct. s.—lnjuries received in an automobile accident five miles southeast of Anderson were fatal to Oren Barnett, 21, Middletown. Coroner S. J. Stottlemyer is investigating.

The Governor was seated on the platform, just returned from a campaign tour in the west. Smith came to the platform to make the speech placing Lehman in nomination. “The happy warrior,” happy once more, grinned, stepped across the platform, extended his hand to the Governor, shook it vigorously and spoke so all in the front seats could hear: "How are you, you old potato,” a characteristic, affectionate greeting the 1928 candidate saves for old friehds. The crowd roared. The cheering, stamping, and whistling continued for ten minutes. The two men stood still. “Al. this Is from the heart.” Roosevelt offered. "Frank, that goes for me, too.”

infent to kill. She is the wife of Patrolman Donald S. Milburn. Mrs. Campbell, successful in dodging Mrs. Milburn’s marksmanship, does not want to prosecute. The near-tragedy occurred Tuesday night while Mrs. Campbell was eating in a restaurant at Miami and Liberty streets. A taxicab driver entered the restaurant and told Mrs. Campbell she was wanted outside. Outside the restaurant, Mrs. Campbell was confronted by Mrs.

* Really it is the good people that worry me, not the so-called bad ones,” Darrow declared. “Nobody is so cruel as a good person. They are so self-righteous. "Our social problems come, not from bad persons, but from the smug, the respectable and the rich. They are the ones who ar dangerous.” Darrow charged that it is the socalled "good people,” who are to blame for retrogression in penal affairs by getting legislators to make laws calling for long minimum sentences. ‘‘Losing Ground for Years” "We have been losing ground in humane penal affairs during the last twenty-five years,’ he asserted. "n the last ten yeears sentences have been doubled for crimes against property. This is brought about by the good people functioning through an ignorant and prejudiced legislature and urged on by an unintelligent and ferocious press. *"A wave of hatred is rampant. Jurors are terrified and judges are runnning for re-election. But the tide may change because we can even get too much vengeance.” Darrow argued that no person is to blame for his wife's acts, since persons are endowed with free will no more than "any other animal.” They are purely products of heredity and environment, and the way to improvement lies through these factors, he said. Lauds Starving "Thief” Crime increase is traceable directly to the depression Darrow pointed out and declared he had little use for a man who would let his family starve rather than steal. "Men in want will help themselves and they would not be worth raising if they didn't,” Darrow declared. Darrow cited Tfis view that a house-breaker is better than a stockjobber, although the latter may be withi nthe law. "A man who takes his life in his hands going into a strange house at night is earning his money much more than a millionaire who rigs the stock market,” he asserted. "Persons don’t break into strange houses if they have anything at home.” Officers will be elected at a business meeting at 3:45 this afternoon. It is expected that Dr. Walter N. Thayer Jr., commissioner of correction for New York state, will be elected president, succeeding Oscar Lee, warden of the Wisconsin state prison. Prison Labor Discussed At the morning session, Judge Arthur D. Wood, chairman of the United States board of paroles, presided. Prison labor from the warden's viewpoint was discussed at the Tuesday night session by Frank D. Whipp. warden of state penitentiary at Joliet, 111. Whipp stressed that jobless outside of prisons should be considered first, and that his remarks "are not to be taken as a criticism of organized labor or manufacturers.” The monotony of prison life makes it essential, however, that inmates have wholesome tasks to occupy their minds, he said. CHARLIE CHAPLIN ILL, STUDIO HEADS REVEAL Ailment Resembles Ptomaine Poisoning,* Hollywood Executives Say. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Oct. s.—Charlie Chaplin, the comedian, was revealed today to be suffering from an illness, the symptoms of which resembled ptomaine poisoning. Executives of his studio said his condition was improving, but that he had been ill three days. For the most part, they said, his sickness was brought on by a nervous disorder. NAMED TO STATE POST Green County Clerk Reappointed to Board of Soldiers’ Home. Elmer Sherwood, Bloomfield, Greene county clerk, was reappointed to the board of trustees of the soldiers and sailors’ home at Bloomfield today by Governor Harry G. Leslie. Sherwood is a Republican. His term will expire Oct. 1, 1936. Bank Director Is Named * Edgar H. Evans, president of the Acme-Evans Company, today was elected as a member of the. board of directors of the Indiana National bfink, succeeding Frank .Stalnaker, who died several weeks ago.

Milburn and the statement, ‘l'm going to shoot you.” nun “/>AN'T we talk it over,” stalled V_>Mrs. Campbell. “I said I was going to shoot you,” angrily shouted Mrs. Milburn. f Mrs. Campbell retreated to the vocal refrain, ‘‘Let’s talk it over. Can't w* talk it over.” The patrolman's wife followed, gun in hand. Mrs. Campbell reached her own doorstep.

$1.50 TAX TO BE ENFORCED, MAYOR TOLD Three Members of County Board Insist Budgets * Must Be Slashed. COMPROMISE POSSIBLE Sullivan Warns ’Absolute Collapse of Government’ May Result. Enforcement of the new $1.50 tax limit law in Marion comity appeared highly probable today as the county tax adjustment board ! ended its scrutiny of deparment I budgets. Although the board tentatively has fixed a county tax rate of 41.25 cents, three members definitely are 1 advocating adoption of the tax j limit law, thus balking four remaining members from raising the rate above $1.50. A 5-to-2 vote is required to set aside provisions of the new law. Possibility of a compromise loomed, however, at the close of the session, when Leo K. Fesler, one of the three members advocating enforcement of the new law, stated that the minority would accede to a higher rate if other members would agree to keep the 1933 rate to an irreducible minimum. He is supported in his stand by Albert Uhl and Nicholas Noyes, other members of the body. Sullivan Defends Rate Four remaining members of the board opposing invoking of the tax limit law are Charles Grossart, county auditor, and county councilmen Charles Roesener, John Newhouse and Walter Boetcher. Close of the board’s deliberations came after Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan appeared to defend the city’s budget and to argue against drastic parking of public expenditures to avoid what he terms collapse of government.” Sullivan declared that the city's new budget actually represents a savings of $700,000 to taxpayers as compared to last year’s budget. The budget, on which next year’s taxes will be levied, actually represents substantial tax decrease, effect of which has been nullified however, he declared, because of tax delinquencies and reduced assessment rolls. Stresses Poor Relief Sullivan declared city budget makers had scrutinized every item with the aim of eliminating waste and extravagance, and pointed to numerous departments of the govj ernment as necessitating fixed funds. These he qualified as "inescapable expenses. ’ He cited poor relief as one of the largest factors in budget making. The city, he declared, has reduced pay rolls and salaries more than prescribed by the special session of the legislature. Absolute essentials in conduct oi city government next year require a rate of $1.12, leaving an 18-cent levy with which to finance such branches as the park board, planning commission, airports and city market. Sullivan struck at utilities, asserting city officials had attempted to obtain from the Indianapolis Water Company and the Indianapolis Power and Light Company a cut- of $250,000 for next year. This saving finally was. reduced to only $133,000, he pointed out. Hospital Levy Cut Fesler told Sullivan that as far as he, an individual member of the adjustment board, is concerned, the I $1.50 tax rate will be enforced in : Marion county. Fesler declared he | is supported by Uhl and Noyes. Protests of the three members, Fesler declared, will prevent raising 1 of the 1932 rate above $1.50. Caucuses were expected to be held by the board to arrive at a decision. Only one reduction, a 1 slash of the 2%-cent tuberculosis hospital levy, was voted by the board. i This, cut only affects the county | hospital at Sunnyside, where salaries of employes receiving more i than $2,000 were reduced 25 per ; cent. Salary of the superintendent was reduced 40 per cent. Clear Legal Questions i Several- legal questions were 1 cleared for the board by two attorneys, Charles Remster and Robert T. McCord, called into the session. They advised the board had auI thority to refund $895,539.98 of poor 1 relief bonds next year, suggesting that only 50 per cent be refunded. They warned the board to avoid refunding other bonds, due to the j clouded tax situation imposed by the $1.50 limit law. t Authority of the board to say where various cuts shall be made in budgets was questioned by Remster. He gave an opinion the board can cut the total levy of any tax unit, make suggestions where outs can be made, but leave it to .he units to apportion the reducI Jons.

‘‘Let's talk it over,” Mrs. Campbell pleaded, as she backed up to the doorknob and turned it. "No!” retorted Mrs. Milburn. “Come on in and we’ll talk it over,” invited Mrs. Campbell as she opened the door. "The invitation for a tete-tete hardly was given before Mrs, Campbell leaped inside the door, and slammed it shut in the face of her irate visitor. Two bullets crashed into the door as she swung it shut.

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GREAT LOVE FATAL

Lieutenant Dies Before Actress

i Move HIM TO OdAWATiC SUIC/PC. .

Mile. Alice Cocea . . . whose brilliant blond beauty spelled a grim fate for Lieutenant Victor Point, her distinguished—and jealous—suitor.

HEAVY FROST IS DUEJN CITY Sharp Drop in Mercury Forecast for tonight. Another sharp temperature drop, followed by heavy frost tonight and clearing weather Thursday, was forecast for today by J. H. Armington, United States meteorologist. High pressure area extending over the west and northwest plains and traveling eastward, has resulted in heavy frosts there, Armington said. Indianapolis will feel its force tonight, he predicted. The mercury is scheduled to rise Thursday. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 44 10 a. m 45 7a. m 45 11 a. m 46 Ba. m 45 12 (noon).. 48 9 a. m 45 1 p. m 49

Bright Spots

By United Press American Metal Market reports rise of one point in steelmaking operations to 17 per cent of capacity. St. Louis San Francisco railroad reports September revenue freight loadings increased 7,430 cars over August. Lehigh Portland Cement Cos., recalls 140 workers at its Birmingham, (Ala.) plant. Bradstreet’s reports business failures in the week ended Sept. 29 were only 464, against 517 in preceding w'eek. California Packing Corporation posts advances of from 10 to 20 cents a case on new fruit pack. Wabash railway reports freight loadings in week ended Oct. 1 were 12,337 cars, against 12,170 cars in preceding week. Propper-McCallum Hosiery Cos. reports its September shipments increased 84 per cent over August.

Mind or Money?

If you lost both, which would you rather get back first? Major Amos Hoople. renowned host of "Our Boarding House,” is in 'just this predicament. He lost his memory by a bump on the hedfcl, and now he has no idea where he hid his S9OO. There'll be lots of fun watching the Major look for the money. If you don’t want to miss it, follow this comic daily hereafter

IN THE TIMES

MRS. MILBURN, out-talked and outwitted, ran to thfe side of the house and emptied the revolver in a window of the home. She missed. Police were called and Mrs. Campbell told them th,e name of her assailant. Mrs. Milburn was found in her hotel room, unrepentant and, according to police officers, charging Mrs. Campbell with being the base of the so-called ‘eternal triangle.” Records of the board of safety

BY MINOTT SAUNDERS NEA Service Writer PARIS, Oct. s.—The gay and brilliant Mile. Alice Cocea, blond beauty of the French stage and screen, has been transformed into a tragic, haunted figure of the Paris playspots by the spectacular suicide t>f her 30-year-old sweetheart, Lieutenant Victor Point, adventurous explorer and naval officer. Two little packets of love letters are all that remain of a romance which might have led to marriage when she had won an annulment from her present mate. One packet is a rueful reminder of light flirtations which brought impassioned notes from other suitors. These, found by the over-jealous lieutenant, when he rifled the desk of her apartment, led to the melodramatic finale. The second packet contains the lost notes penned by Point, telling of his great love. it tt THE colorful setting for the suicide was the Bay of Aga v , off the Riviera. Point drove his roadster to a point on the beach where he could see the small yacht Blue Crest anchored off shore and containing a merry party. He could distinguish, in black beach pajamas, the blond and beautiful figure of Mile. Cocea, frolicking on deck. He jumped into a boat and rowed out. The sight of Point struck terror in the heart of the pretty actress. As he boarded the yacht he carried a revolver in his hand. "You are liars, all of you,” he shouted. He yelled violent reproaches, and addecn "Anyhow, it doesn't make any difference now; in a minute I shall be a dead man.” tt n tt WITH threw the revolver into the boat and then jumped in himself. He rowed a few strokes, stood up and fired two shots into his head. His strong, athletic body swayed and thep he fell into the water, dead. On the shore, Mile. Cocea threw’ herself across the form of her lover and sobbed hysterically: "Come back to me, you foolish boy; I love you.” She then collapsed. Investigation of the drama revealed they had known each other for four years and that Point, at least, had been passionately in love. He washed to marry the actress if she could win annulment in Rome of her marriage to Comte Stanislas de La Rochefoucauld. it it tt LIEUTENANT POINT was nephew and foster-son of Philippe Berthelot, permanent secretary of the French ministry of foreign affairs. He already had a successful career and rendered conspicuous service as naval attache at the Quai d'Orsay. “Victor w’as a wonderful boy and no one doubted the great future he had before him,” explained Mile. Cocea. "I liked him very much and we were to have been married, but the formalities of the annulment of my marriage would have taken at least a year. “Unfortunately he was susceptible to jealousy to an exasperating degree, and the fact that I had many admirers made him worse.” Richmond Man Is Ga c Chief FRENCH LICK, Ind., Oct. 5. R. S. Bruner, Richmond, was named president of the Indiana Gas Association in convention here today. He succeeds F. X. Mettenet, Indianapolis.

show that patrolman Miium was tried on a charge of absence without leave from his post. He was suspended from duty and later reinstated. Marital differences were charged as the cause for his suspension, but later repudiated by Mrs. Milbum at her husband's trial. Milburn said he knew Mrs. Campbell. She is a former resident of Seymour, his home town. He denied any companionship with her and declared his wife “unfairly jealous.”

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TAKE G. 0. P. OR RUIN U. $., SAYS HOOVER Democrat Win Would End Recovery Hope, Des Moines Speech Warns. UPHOLDS TARIFF ACT President Strikes Back at Campaign Personalities at Ft. Wayne. Bp United Presg CHICAGO, Oct. 5. Wheat prices dropped 2 cents on the Chicago Board of Trade today on weaknesses in the New York stock market and traders’ opinions that President Hoover’s farm speech in Des Moines holds little hope for the immediate future of the grain trade. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER Enited Press Staff Correspondent HOOVER SFECIAL. EN ROUTE TO WASHINGTON. Oct. s.—President Herbert Hoover struck back today at critics, who have indulged in personalities when he spoke to a crowd of several thousand persons banked around the rear platform of his special train at Ft. Wayne, Ind. "I had believed in sportsmanship,” the President said, "but I have received widespread reports of personalities being spread in this area recently. "When it is said that I sat in the White House without trying to help you with every ounce of my energy, then I say such statements are deliberate, intolerable falsehoods." Optimism Is Higher Mr. Hooker's optimism grew as his campaign swing continued in a reception more enthusiastic than had been anticipated, and climaxed by the ovation accorded him when he spoke Tuesday night in Des Moines, la. Two more stops for rear platform speeches were scheduled—at Van Wert and Bucyrus, O. The President’s address Tuesday night took up three broad subjects —the battle waged by the administration in defense of the gold standard and against debilitating influences of the world economic crisis, a slashing attack on policies of the Democratic party, and a plan for continued rehabilitation of the nation with special emphasis on agriculture. The Democratic party, he said, must be judged by a record of "reckless disregard for the safety of the nation.” All hope of recovery will end if the Democratic program of the bonus and "rubber dollars” prevails, the President charged. Outlines Aid Program In the state where farmers’ disaffection is critical and a parade of protests preceded the President’s appearance, the executive outlined his program of aid for agriculture. He would apply war debt payments toward expansion of foreign markets for agriculture. He would widen the protective tariff for farm products where necessary, provide easier farm credit to relieve pressure of mortgage foreclosures, and repeal the price stabilization features of the farm marketing act. These stabilization activities, he said, were opposed to his tnecry of government. In connection with his program for bettering the condition of the farmer, the President said the department of agriculture was studying the problem of diversion of unprofitable farm lands to other uses. Tells of Gold Standard Fight He pointed out work on the inland waterways system had been rushed and a treaty covering the development of the Great LakesSt. Lawrence seaway signed. He promised to further speed these programs. For the first time Mr. Hoover revealed in his Des Moines speech that at one crucial moment of the depression, Andrew Mellon warned him that unless an immediate remedy were found the United States "could hold on to the gold standard but two weeks longer.” With quiet drama, Mr. Hoover told the story of the fight to hold the United States to the gold standard while monetary system of nation after nation crumbled under the strain. G. O. P. Kept Cool, He Says 'ln the midst of this hurricane,” Mr. Hoover said, “tfie Republican administration kept a cool head and rejected every counsel of weakness and cowardice. “Many of these battles have had to be fought in silence without the cheers of the limelight or the encouragement of public support because the very disclosure of the forces opposed to us would have undetermined the courage of the weak and induced panic. "Hideous misrepresentation and unjustified complaint had to be accepted in silence. ' "No statement of mine could portray the full measure of perils which threatened us,” the President said. Says 17. S. Faced Chaos "Before the end, foreign countries drained us of nearly a billion dollars of gold and a vast amount of other exchange. Then we also had to meet an attack upon our flank by some of our own people to the amount of $1,500,000,000. This brought its own train of failures and bankruptcies. ‘ Even worse, many of our less patriotic citizens started to export their money to foreign countries for (Turn to Page Nineteen) Loan to Munster Approved • A temporary loan of $2,857.28 for the city of Munster, Lake county, was sanctioned by the state tax board.