Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 131, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1932 — Page 14

PAGE 14

INTERVENTION IN JAPAN HELD ONLY WAY OUT League’s Alternative Is to Wreck Peace Machine of World. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS '‘rrlpo*-Hard Forritn Fditnr WASHINGTON. Or*. 11—Diplomats here arp convinced that Japan now has hacked the United States and the League of Nations into a corner, from which they can not escape without, resorting to sanctions <a legal term for various forms of intervention to enforce the law*. The alternative seen is to admit defeat and take the consequences, namely the wrecking of the world peace machinery and the collapse of the arms conference together with all that this would mean. Short of a revolutionary change of policy in Japan, that country is seen as having burned her bridges behind her. Her official pronouncements, since the Lytton commission, in effect, called on her to restore Manchuria to China, have been categorical. She is in Manchuria to stay, treaties or no treaties. Thus, after more than a year of moral pressure to get her to live up to her pledges under the covenant of the league, the nine-power treaty ar.d the Kellogg pact, Japan even is more defiant than gver. Make Good, or Be Still Said Dr. Raymond Leslie Buell, of the Foreign Policy Association: "After a certain point, the world must make good its moral protests, or s.op protesting. "The league and the United States must, decide whether to adopt an attitude of complete nonintervention, or to bring this dispute to a head by the imposition of sanctions." This more than painful truth fully is realized at Washington. Though the administration fears to talk because of the presidential elections ahead, it does not conceal its anxiety over the approaching crisis. Within ninety days Washington in all likelihood, will have to make one of the gravest decisions in decades, namely, whether or not it will join in an effort to curb rampant Japan. The league is pledged to sanctirns against a member turned outlaw. At, the same time it is admitted that unless the United States cooperates with the league, or at least agrees not to interfere, the covenant, hardly can be enforced. Sanction of Different Deg ees Japan is believed convinced that the world will not dare resort to sanctions against a lViajor power. If she decides, therefore, to defy the league, the league will either have to make good or shut up shop. Any attempt to penalize Japan, it, fully is realized here, would be perilous. Nationalism in Nippon is now at fever pitch Sanctions are cf different degrees, ranging from the severance of economic, financial and diplomatic relations to blockade and the use of armed force. The fact that Japan is said to disbelieve the w'orld will dare go that far with her, and her reported determination to ignore anything short of drastic measures, add to the danger. State Secretary Stimscn’s pronouncement, that consultation between the great powers signatory to the peace pacts is a moral obligation Is taken by diplomatists here to mean that the United States will be represented at Geneva, mi Nov. 14. when Japan faces trial for her invasion of China.

POVERTY PLEA WINS LIBERTY FOR YOUTH 30- Day Sentence on Intoxication Conviction Is Suspended. Poverty won a suspended sentence Monday for a youth who was charged with being intoxicated when the car in which he was riding collided with a police car. . Cecil Grubbs, 20. of 1115 Charles street, was fined $lO and costs and given a suspended thirty-day jail sentence after Lieutenant Dan Cummins testified that an auto driven by Gale Stevens, 18, of'42 Kansas avenue, struck a squad car of Cummins near the 900 block. South Missouri street. Grubbs was riding in the car at the time of the accident. Stevens, charged with drunkenness and operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, was granted a continuance until Oct. 14 by Municipal Judge William H. SheafTer. Grubbs was charged with drunkenness and blind tiger. The blind tiger charge was dismissed. Witnesses testified that Grubbs and other members of his family were in financial straits. The police car was damaged slightly, GIBBONS, PATMAN TO ADDRESS VETERANS Muncie Mass Meeting Expected to Draw 10,000 Ex-saldiers, Floyd Gibbons, famous war correspondent and radio announcer, and Representative Wright Patman <Dcm., Tex.>, will speak Saturday night at Muncie at a mass meeting expected to draw 10.000 World war veterans. The meeting will be a “protest action against the action taken by President Hoover against the Bonus Expiditionary Force.” All American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars drum corps are urged to attend. Walter Q. Gresham Post. V. F. W , has chartered busses and will attend the meeting en masse. George Reese. 1119 Prospect street, has charge of transportation. URGES TAX “SLASHING Ludlow Says Consolidation of U. S. Bureaus Is Needed. “Where the Taxpayers Money Goes" was the subject of the talk made Monday night **y Representative Louis Ludlow before the Tankerton Club at the Washington. Consolidating and eliminating bureaucratic activities and maximum paring of expense could cut a bill lea dollars from the nation's tax bill, d'-’ar-d Ludlow, who is a member cf the house appropriations committee.

INSULL CALLS FOR SPOTLIGHT

Dictates Entry Into Chicago to Become Power King

A *hv. thin !mi Jut com* of ** Sm Insull l*ft the east for the booming city of Chicago in IMI. Take me. he commanded the banker* and lawyer* of the newly formed Chicago Edison Company, who were seeking a competent manager. Thv did. And how since that time Mr Instill bv tremendous work developed into the ruler of a *4 000.000 000 power kingdom Forres* Davi* explain* In the following article An Insatiable toiler, clever In dealing with politicians, a man with an aimost hoiv regard for the newest In m'char.ical equipment this. In part, is the Sam Insuli that Dr Davit etches And he revea l ' too. the pnva’e side of this man whose Empire" is now under federal and s*ate scrutiny- how eighteen rear:, aft'r he arrived In Chicago he derided tha' he should hate * fem11'- and w* married to the beautiful Gladys Wallis BY FORREST DAVIS Time* Staff Writer (Copyright 1932. bv the New York WorldTelegram Corporation' SAM INSULL came out to the states in 1881— thin, 21, burnsided, acuteiy anxious to please his new master, Edison. Twelve years afterward—ruddy, a trifle stout —he shouldered selfconfidcntly into Chicago as plasterers were applying the last trowels of stucco on the old w r orld palaces of the Columbian exposition. The man who would be king of super power entered the fabulously lake shore metropolis with a chip on his shoulder —a challenging splinter which would not be dislodged until the harrowing sprmgtime of 1932. No longer serving any master but himself, Insull had invited himself to Chicago. No, he had dictated his entry. The way the one-time fiveshilling London clerk had managed it was this: The Chicago Edison Company, one of the earliest units formed to exploit the electric light, needed a competent manager. A succession of men, untrained in new technology, had failed. In their need, the bankers and lawyers who had promoted the utility sent a committee to New York to see "Edison.” The inventor referred the Chicagoans to Insull. who, presumably, as second vice-president of the newly organized General Electric Corporation, knew all the available utility managers in the land. There weren't many at that time. B B B TAKE me." commanded Insull. "I can do the job better than any other man in the country.” As the smilingly forceful young man, dressed fashionably, sure of himself, regarding the committee with a candid eye, nominated no other candidate, the committeemen took him. In later years the Chicagoans who brought Insull to Chicago recalled the encounter with amusement. Robert Todd Lincoln, the eminent lawyer, for one. No ifs or ands about Insull; “take me," he ordered, and they did. They remembered, too, that he smiled winningly. Throughout his rise and power, Insull knew wiien to smile and when to indulge in heavy scorn—the arbitrary, cold rebukes that brought him the sobriquet "Insult” Insull —and when to go off the deep end in one of the gullying rages wherein his high, nasal voice could be heard, figuratively, for blocks around the Loop. Insull was a daring fox in 1893. all right. Superimposed on the blunt selfassertiveness of the nineteenth century English commercial man, the “bluff" associated with Americans at that period had converted the well-disciplined shorthand clerk into a dominating character. A domineering manner was the idea of rising business magnates then. Autocratic, choleric fellows blustered to the top and ruled; soft-spoken, reasonable men failed.

DOCTOR KILLS SELF Young City Man Started Practice Last July. Funeral services for Dr. Jean R. La Vanchy, 25, formerly of Indianapolis, who committed suicide Sunnight in his ofTice in Carthage, Ind., will be held at 2 Wednesday afternoon at the George McCarty undertaking establishment in Fort- ' ville. Burial will be at Fortville. La Vanchy’s body was found a short time after a visit by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. La Vanchy, living on East Ninety-sixth street. Poison was the cause of death. No motive was assigned to the act. A graduate of the Indiana univerI syit school of medicine and of Technical high school, Dr. La Vanchy served interneship at the city hospital, and opened his office in Carthage in July. Survivors, in addition to the parj ents, are a brother. Robert P. La i Vanchy, and threp sisters. Miss Iva La Vanchy of "the Ninety-sixth | street address; Mrs. C. O. Ross of Greenwood, and Mrs. Effie Davison of Tucson, Ariz. CHICAGO ORDERED TO ANSWER U. S. COURT Water Battle Hearing Set for Nov. 11 by Supreme Justices. Bit 1 illicit Press WASHINGTON. Oct. 11—The Chicago sanitary district was ordered by the supreme court Monday to show why a federal officer should not be appointed to carry cut the court's decree providing for tjae gradual cessation of withdrawals of water from the Great Lake# The court ordered a return bv Nov. 7 in printed briefs. Arguments were set for Nov. 14. The show cause order was issued at the request of the attorneys-gen-eral of Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Skin-Itch Torture Ends; Millions Praise Zemo Surprising and gratifying, is the way soothing, cooling Zemo relieves the torture of itching Rash and Eczema in about five seconds. Used by millions. Zemo is so wonderful because of its rare ingredients not used in cheaper remedies. Apply Zemo to Pimples, Ringworm and Eczema—for quick relief and clear skin. Zemo is worth the price because you get relief. All druggists'. 35c, 60c, sl. Extra Strength Zemo. double re:ults, sl.2s.—Advertisement.

IT was a preposterous age and Insull fitted into it a- a finger in a glove. The trust idea only recently had been formulated. Bigness. materialism, showy splendor excited Americans as never before. Rockefeller loomed over the business scene. Carnegie and other iron masters were becoming steel kings; Chicago had its share of money kinjs also, the packers, whose lethal establishments scented the town; McCormick, the reaper king. The Chicago world's fair, which enslaved the imagination of the Midlands and. indeed, the whole land as has no similar demonstration of power, grandly justi-

1x was a preposterous age ana Insull fitted into it a finger in j a The re- T been formulated Biz- “ ness, materialism, showy splendor Wallis excited Americans as never beRockefeller loomed over the pictures business scene. Carnegie ar.d made during A o 1 her ire>n masters were becoming the time steel kings; Chicago had its share voung < v\ cf money kin :s also, the packers whose >amuei The Chicago world's fair, which courting enslaved the imagination of h „ r Midlands and. mded. the whole <■ A;; land as has no similar demonstration of power, grandly justi- 'IIRmIRRhBhI C.... •vi | smelly mess of'greed and cor- ' TjH i ruption. slme of t.ip boot\. Gold, a man- stand and deliver politicians. P’-rhsp of men and the bright fa HBkb ■ c jSsKEm To understand the arrogant whole scene colored Insull. He Opo,ator had done well for himself in the : IlllA JiKMfci ihShEF sn bub New World. At 33 he had saved |

fied the idea of getting there in a big way. And into this roaring, powerdrunk Chicago stepped Sam Insull, self-invited, wearing no man's collar and ready to fight with bare knuckles tp get his share of the booty: Gold, a mansion on Lake Shore drive, the praise of men and the bright favors of the womenfolk. There can be no doubt that the whole scene colored Insull. He had done well for himself in the New World. At 33 he had saved something; he was a big man in the infant electrical industry; he philanthropically was sending his brother Martin, who was to share his rise and fall, to Cornell university to learn about engineering. But this was different. Chicago was Insull's meat. From the days of his apprentice clerkship in the moldy London real estate office until his miserable flight last June, Insull never failed to put work first. a o it TIE had come to Chicago as A A manager of the Edison Company. struggling and moribund, one of a ha’lf dozen fly-by-night companies organized to fight for the business of lighting the town. And how they fought. He became at once more than the manager. He was boss over the plant., the workmen, and also the board of directors. Even then there never were two bosses where Insull was one. Three years later he scornfully would walk out on the board of directors, the owners and take charge of a rival company, the Commonwealth, where he won a free hand from the start. And ten years or so after that

FALL VICTIM RESCUED Police and Firemen Tear Out Basement Wall to Save Woman. Police and firemen were forced to tear out a section of basement wall late Monday to rescue Mrs. Kathryn Hamilton, 60, of 705 Greer street, weighing more than 200 pounds, when she fell through a cellar way and injured her hip and leg. An anesthetic was administered in the basement and Mrs. Hamilton lifted high in the air and shoved through the emergency opening. She was treated at the city hospital.

FIDELITY TRUST COMPANY FIRE INSURANCE AXU ALL OTHER KINDS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF LIFE I NSC RANGE. RI. 7471 148 E. Market St.

JYThe Cost of GLASSES Is Very Small! Thp rr>st of glasses is a very small sum to pay f r the assurance of good eye- HR A** * Jf sight. It doesn't pay to takeohanres. \ *'• Lot us examine your eyes and fit them / with cor root glasses. I A l*r. West Optometrist in Choree. J One-Piece BIFOCAL Lenses j —ground in ono • pi-oe (not r-ment- \ j iTL f KRYPTOK 1 __ ort Knu CLEAR VISION LENSES GLASSES Mo unt p<! Sp-ciallj - I'rieed— . in solid C tfS As Low As— t FA sold or G Modern rimloss orF Rimless tigon rlasses. PreFrames as srribed for either ~ as— distance or reading. Smart, comfortable, for reading or distance. In Aa fashionable “ZYLO'’ FRAME. Complete yAivU ... V '■ r ' h • *•• *" c,rrl * A

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Gladys Wallis in two picture* made during the time young Samuel Insull was courting her.

Robert Tedd Lincoln, one of the men instrumental in bringing Samuel Insull to Chicago. he would gobble the Edison, as he gobbled so ifiany hundreds of independent utilities during his ascendancy. It was tough sledding for an electric light company those days. Unperfected equipment broke down, insulation vanished from power lines, causing short circuits; storms interrupted service. It took constant watchfulness to see that the juice went forward through wires to the yellow filaments in offices and households. Those were interior troubles. Vexatious as they were, the external difficulties were worse. n n WITH six or more companies fighting for survival, with the intrenched gas companies hostile, the commercial battles were epochal. And over and above tffese, sinister, costly and requiring all a man's wits, were the political chicaneries and collisions. . Bribery, thuggery, double-cross-ing. conferences with boodling aldermen in saloon back rooms.

BYRD TO BE ON AIR Admiral's Speech Here Will Be Broadcast. Speech of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd Wednesday afternoon at the Claypool will be broadcast over station WFBM from 1:20 to 2:15, it is announced by Kenneth L. Ogle, temporary chairman of the Indiana division of the National Economy League. Byrd will discuss details of a permanent state organization. There are mountains on the moon more than 20,000 feet high.

Raising funds to kill off damaging ordinances, "fixing" inspectors and their bosses. Contributing to all sorts of political rings in both parties in order to have friends in court. A utility company that didn’t "play the game" withsthe politi-' dans couldn't last in the boling, smelly mess of greed and corruption. Insull during this period of his obscurity became distinguished for three characteristics. One, capacity for work; secondly, his lavish insistence upon the latest, equipment and the utmost in service, third, an unscrupulous skill in extracting what he wanted from the stand and deliver politicians. To understand the arrogant Power King of the 1920's it is necessary to recall the busy, brusque, wily utility operator of the 1890’s. B B B LITTLE has been recorded of Insull's detailed record during that period. He worked hard to indulge in civic activities which would have carried down his fame. He was fighting his way to the top, catch as catch can, no holds barred. And in 1899 Insull. W'ho himself never took an unguarded step, announced that he had reached a sufficient place in the world to found a family. In that year he married Miss Margaret A. Bird. A beautiful girl enjoying a successful stage career as Gladys Wallis, she retired the following year, only'to reappear years later, when it suited Insull’s whim to lease a Chicago theater to display her talent. Miss Wallis had played ingenue roles with Otis Skinner, William H. Crane and other stars. She captivated Insull while playing in the Schiller theater company in Chicago. Insull. now 40. still a relative newcomer in Chicago, was about to enter anew phase in his domination of his scene. The steady concentration of utility power into Insull's hands will be related in the next article.

Never before so much comfort and beauty for so little! 3-Room OUTFIT A year ago this outfit would have cost you $550. Tomorrow yovL can buy it for less than one-half that price 1 The Living' ' The Dining The Bed- The 'np Oi K .... rh inpt: , .Vplppp Br-akfs.t Snir, wiih ,| r ,,,, X / W Room Room room ICfrrken r, ?. 1 L“ ron * ol * uni ’ metat i A A walnut. 4-post bed; a jfik (ISS) 8 Conip>*® in ev-rv detail. fjp XK -. A \ n , |t v r •] Hollywood ’ ? n;T * .! ■ft H HHHB jgggf gj|| j|| (jP i nr 2 ve'm,f lUt g mT'hn.i ov.-rlty map In, ?9-ro\f ynnhc* a Kir-rh- ’IL W KL (H fB IH ft ■ or \e.oar, a (JC - a man 00-lb matt:*'* a Are V /JB§® vWI JW ■ sional Chair Y.-' -z* n - * 56-PO -loolmix Hrt B ■ Lanr a Tah> Lamp a o T ,j w „.,| rug a .Vo '"<■- r li 1 Junior Larr.r). bench 111 i Pus a wa’.r.v Orca-pr.?: ' *l.ll ■■II *J IWSIHHXj a Walnut End Tah.e. and ' nilrr r al 1 ' pil’owcases. and a pair o! P mW.g Vw a Magazine Basket. 1 and G napkins. > pillows. mil jlf 4 „ , ‘ f . , _ . „ 1 231-237 W. Washington St. |T Any Room Outfit Sold Separately at Above Prices: Directly Opposite sutehotae

VAN NUTS FLAYS HAYS IN SPEECH AT GREENFIELD •Discredited Methods of Former Regimes Used,’ Says Candidate. I*!/ lime* Uprrittl GREENFIELD. Ind., Oct. 11 “When Will H. Hays was sent back to Indiana to endeavor to secure my defeat I feel complimented." declared Frederick Van Nuvs of Indianapolis, Democratic candidate for the United States senate, in an address here today. •‘lt makes the issue more clear It means that the discredited political methods and forces behind former administrations, of which he is a part, fear my presence in the senate. It shall be my duty to tell the voters of the progress of this pilgrim.” he said. "Mr. Hays assured -oters of Indiana that his coming was prompted by such a compelling sense of duty as a citizen of Indiana that he could not resist the urge. May I be permitted to question the sincerity of that statement? "I wish I could present before the mothers of Indiana the last picture I saw. It was advertised as a masterpiece. Its chief appeal lay in a nude bathing scene, which brought expressions of humiliation even from the adults m the audience. "Mr. Hays is the czar of the movies. With a word he could prevent such degrading spectacles from being shown. The people may w'ell ask whether he really is trying to save the people of Indiana, or merely trying to save the job given him

s£f.so nnl Eyes Examined Without Obligation Upward Established 30 Years • dr. lewis & 2 — OFFICES — 2 harold MILTON JAFFE

Only because of our fHHff many y ears in the [Bjp j|GBE| funeral business are we p||| -JBppjll prepared today to jrive you a complete service, B| "' ' JjpJgf when necessary, at low 11111 wMUm moderate cost. Funeral Home 25th and Gale Sts. j||| New Funeral Home 2050 E. Michigan St. HB ; CHerry 6020 $ y OU All Know This JVe Welcome Comparison Undertaker in Price and Service harry w. moore

Re-Elected

e fIP ,J|f. 4S| a A I I AH

Frank D. Hatfield

Re-election of Frank D. Hatfield as president of the Hoosier Motor Club was announced today following special meeting of directors Monday night. Hatfield has served in the office for nearly two years. Other officers elected are Robert H. Losev, first vice-president; Walter L. Brant, second vicepresident; Walter Pritchard, treasurer, and Todd Stoops, secre-tary-manager. because of his political prestige. "The people of Indiana were told that the same intense interest of Hays as a citizen impelled him to resign from the Harding cabinet, where he sat with Herbert Hoover, to uplift the movies. “True, there was a little matter of $150,000 a year involved. Will he uplift Indiana politics as he has the movies?

OCT. 11, 1932

SEEK TO SEAT i BANDITRY JURY Woman Awaits Trial on Bank Robbery Charge. r By f nitrd Trc HARTFORD CITY. Ind.. Oef 11, —A jury was expected to be selected in Blackford circuit court today for the trial of Mrs. Irene Gentry, accused of conspiracy in the first robbery of the Hartford City citizens State bank July 8. 1931. Mrs. Gentry, who lives near Muneie, is accused of plotting the robbery with the bandits and ing them in her home. Her husband is serving a s f ate farm sentence on another charee. Ira Barton, former Blaekford county sheriff, who confessed conspiracy in several bank robberies, was brought here from the Indiana state prison and was awaiting to, be called as a Mate witness against Mrs. Gentry. GROUP FIGHTS WATSON Labor League Is Formed to Battle Against His Re-Election. A nonpartisan organization known as the An*i-Watson Labor League, to oppose re-election of Senator James E. Watson, has headquarters in the Holliday building, it was announced today. Members of the league, from all parties, are opposed to Watson because of his anti-labor record.

ART SAYS: a Oct. 12th is 1 Disco v e r y day. To many who imagine \ that the na- % tion is call- - 7 in? ’ Nov - Bth k will also he iRk D* s c o v e r y ART ROSE B b n Fox hunting is a great sport. , Three hundred hounds and riders after a soared fox must have all the thrill of tracking down a man-eating denizen of the jungle. u n The Greeks may have a word for it, hut American investors probably have a still better word fdr Insull’s financial ramifications. bub Don’t forget that the Rose Tire Cos. is fully prepared to serve your cold weather motoring nefds with a complete line of Vesta and USL Batteries, the finest Battery Service Department in the State, Arvin lkotWater Fan-Driven Heaters, Fall and Winter grades of motor oil and grease, floor mats, anti- ' freeze for radiators, top dressing, etc. Also those famous extra safe, extra long mileage Miller Geared - to - the - Road Tires. Buy your tires, battery and heater on our liberal payment plan offering you the easiest terms in town. Two stations to serve you. BUM The Chief Tire Changer ROSE TIRE CO., Ine. 930 N. Meridian St. 305 S. Meridian St. MILLER TIRE DISTRIBUTORS