The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 June 1932 — Page 1
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gam ETH YEAR RESTORATION _ OF CONFIDENCE HASTINGS PLEA
THE DAILY BAJNJNER _ . “IT WAVES FOR ALL”
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(;reencastle, Indiana, Wednesday, june 8, 1032.
no. 202
INSILL MAY RKTI RN TO N VriVE LAND
i:an niEnufacturpr v , ),. n . P h„iit' upw factories in varum ,rt vf Eui ! ''►Pe to keep from p mi,* th- high I j wag»' that Amaiiiaii .i. re marking that “this rh, 0 f persons I ami a ureat many int n • , a l bankers who have distiibutei in t n ,■ an
| try bonds issue!! by f. . rn govern nEl \ \V ARE SENATOR GIVES I men ta favor the thr pen KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT STATE Iof American door b , - alof, REPUBLICAN CONVENTION j th ‘‘ Protection tar.tr ' ! Referring again to (. ■, nm RooseCHARGES UNDUE UR.TICISM ' ,n ' U,.’’' ' ' '■
Hastings said: “The Ici.ii) 0 f the
\ssails R'C Business for Blaming 1 Democratir patty, in mil out Congress With I’resent Economic | of congi . me m iuntr> Crisis Over Nation Irelitve that the mo i depetKi upon them for relief. In most incl ' v - A I’OLIS, June 8 (UP)- stances, this the
jjMt I• ini' I O. Hastings of Dela demagogue of • neit dication
UTILITY M ACNAlE SEVERS ALL CONNEt TIONS WITH V ARIOUS
OR(. YMZA 1 IONS
personal fortune is gone
loss.
It was this determination, they said, that led to creation of the vast holding corporation which' were wrecked by collapse 0 f the securities mai ket. These corporations into which Ii sull [rounded million after million were organized to retain control of the opeiating units in the hands
which built them to success.
Y'et the hT ling concerns plunged into collofsal re eivership and brought Insull's debacle while the
utilities themselve.. have weathered j CLOSE FRIEND the storms.
FIELD WINS NOMINATION FOR SENATE
low \ MEM H INT DEFEA1 BROOKHART IN REPUBLI-
CAN PRIMARY
Wins Nomination
OK OPPONENT
Samuel Insull Expected to Return to Bankers had hut idmirati n for the EiiKland Which He Left as steely courage wit . whi h Insull met
8 Youth thp f a |i 0 f pja mighty pyramid. One of Insull’s remarks as he rose
CHICAGO. June 8, (UP) —The ab- after his resignation had been accept
Insull from hi- e l by the directors of one of the com-
pare tori., v pleaded for restoration of no1 , ' x . :0 1 " ' 111 ' aide $:{,000,000,0<,<1 utilities empire today panics his tireless energies had confidence in public officials, congress, to accomplish what tn< . o loudly became complete. brought to prosperity was: and the people themselves, in his key- Proclaim." | The silvei haired 73-year-old father ‘'Gentlemen," said Insull with a note address opening the Republican I In closing his u - Hi-ting- „f the modern public utility system tight-lipped -mile, ‘T am leaving you
state convention.
Hastings chided large business intcre ts for their “unwarranted” crit icism of congress in placing the blame for th” economic crisis. Hastings was introduced by Ivan ('. Morgan, state chairman, who is |ier manent chairman of the convention. "There is great distress in the lard," Hastings said. “The people have lust confidence in public official.-. The worst of it is, they have lost confidence in themselves. "Representatives of finance and in dostry hive not taken advantage of the co lideti 'e people have had in them. They cannot now escape their own mistakes and responsibilities by
In closing his ad
proclaimed the neco: ity : n( lining t 0( | a y severed the last links which now, after , r >0 yeats of work, a man
lluus ■ hound him to the enormous organiza- without a job.’
tion which he in a large part created.
He resigned as an officer and di-
rector of 5fi corporations. The act followed cb el hi- resignation as co I receiver of the massive Middle West! Utilities Co., his collapsed holding l 'corporation, and as chairman of the;
board of three Insull operating con- BAINHKIDGE
ceins and their subsidiaries. His pel see al fortune gone, heavily
j indebted by his losing fight to save .. — — his vast domain, Insull will retire in | The appeal of Charles Vernon Witt, the near future, probably to England, Rainbridge young man .alleged slayer
President Hoover in tiv \\ i it and of Indiana returnin'.' .lames Wat-on to the senate c.a nb-rs. IWN MORGAN PRESIDES AT CONVENTION
Gluts, \crnon Will A|i|teal Received
Y 0 l! N G M A N
SCHEDULED TO DIE IN ( HAIR
\i GUST I
Henry Field Faltered Senatorial Race Stating “Nation Needs More
Business Men In Congress"
DES MOINES, June 8. (UP) A new and bizarre character took his place in the f ireground of American | politics today with the victory of Henry Field over Senator Smith W Brookhart for the Republican nomii.a-
, tion of U. S. senator.
When F'ield deci fed to compete ; against hU old friend, Br lokhart, for the nominati n lie announced he i thought it was time “we had more 1 busine-s men in our government in-1
stead of so many lawyers.”
i And F'ield, hi. associate- testify, ’ unquestionably is " bu-mess man.
GARNER TO ACCEPT BILL COMPROMISE
CONCEDES HIS RELIEF MEASURE HAS NO < H VN< E OF BECOMING LAW BILL FOR< El) THROl (.H HOUSE Burden of W orking Out < nmpromUe On Unemployment Program Bests With Senate
RKPl RLM V N s OF I Mil \\A < ON \ 1 M ro NOMIN Ml I' \ R I Y
( AN DID \ I Ks
He has built a half-million dollar 1 arv p | et . t j 1)n
seed house and radio -lation from the profits of a 60 cent order of poppy see l when he was a b y, and no small measure of thi achievemc t i- due to his intense interc-t in flowers and
Henry Fk Id, merchant if doah. Iowa, winner over
Smith W Brookhart in Iowa’s ptim-
INDI ANA I’OLIS, June s (Ui’l
trying to make themselves and other- The Repuhli in
state i onvention
the land lie left as a youthful pro „f Ufayette A. Ja kson. Indianapolis lan1s tllP p ,, op | 1 , whn work with
tege of Thomas A. Edison to start his . chain sU re president, has bet n re meteoric rise. ceived by the Indiana supreme court. Most ironic of all, the man whose Jr was announced Tuesday.
them—the farmers.
“Henry,” as he is familiarly known, understands the like and dislikes of
FIVE WOMEN 1NJIRED IN VI TO CR ASH
believe that the fault lies with con- opened today with Ivan < Morgan, | persopaI forturp of $100,000,000 will! court at Lebanon, is in the Indiana gri r with any pther governmental AuMin, state cb " man and ennan ] eavp ’Hicago a pi n inner of the com- tn'e pri.-on at Michigan City await-
panies which depression whisked from ling electrocution in the electric chair
wizardry with billions brought him a I Witt, who was convicted in circuit thfl pppp | p tn vvhom he appeal- in hi- TAKEN If) COUNT Y HOSPITAL
his grasp. August 1 Louis Hamilton, his alIt is not expe-ted the aging finan-1 legod companion in the slaying, i-
ciet will be forced to undergo the hit- j awaiting trial.
miliation i f bankruptcy, though led-1 The appeal was taken try atl rneys gets show him indebted to the extent! Ira M Holme- an I Elza 0. Rogers, of $10,000,00(1. Ii -tead, hankers and who represented VY'itt at his trial.
freque't talks over radio station KFNF\ the “fiiendlv fanners' sta-
tion."
A typical KENT program finds an old fiddlers' trio sawing out the "Sail
age v I am asking that the criti- ent chairmm of the conventic: , pre cism of ' oi gress he constructive and siding. The opening -<■ ion was held not destructive so that the people in Tomlinson hall United State. Sen may maintain confidence in this im- ator Daniel O. Ha trig- oi Delaware portant branch of government. was the principal pecker. "During th" prosperous years the Disappointment wa evident when bu-irers leaders of the nation have it was announced that neit id Sen itor
permitted without complaint the var James E. Wat ill nor Seni'or Arthui lTP( |ito l s have arranged that each of
i'n minority groups to oompol con- R R ting unit . REA( II YY VGF'. tGREEMEN’I gre-s to write legislation involving the convention. Senat r Watson, up Comm/(wealth Edison Co., I’uhlii T ERRE HAUTE. Ind., June 8 (I P) huge annual appropriations. No word for re-nomination, wa chc.luled for H ervhP (’ 0 , t „f Northern Illinois and —Haivey Cartwright, secretary of of protest sine from congress. The a speech on the m ruing program. People’s Ga , Light, & Coke Co., will tho Indiana Coal Operators as. ciatruth is the business leaders paid lit YYill Hays, formerly ot Sullivan, pr „ v j ( ) P jti.cOu a year for the man tion, announced today that a tentatle or no atteiriion to what congress Ind., and former national and state whese genius is responsible for their five wage agreement had been reach was dorrg until it happened to affect G. O. P. chairman, now president ot s m. CPgs . »»<[ with the scale committee of DisVV parfi irthf industry in which they the motion pn-tnrv i.adu Vy, was 1> j„ U n j, a an ,.-t ite at Reading, tint II, United Mine Workers of
were engaged. attend a confereme with party lead- p-| lK , on the Thames and it is prob- America.
“But when prosperity disappears era today, and ti take part in discus a ble he will go there although friends 'Cartwright refuse/I to reveal thand the pall of economic depression sions on the platform, which will be sa jd h P might take a prolonged rest term- of the agreement, reached af■ettles over the land and affects ser considered tonight by the resolution- j n p ar is. ter long deliberation- carried on in iously every person in it, then these j committee- Friends of the man wlv-e name ter mittently since 1931 contracts ex
name eople who have been content George A. Ball, Mun ic, national was-ynonnrnnu-with mnazfing succel- pi red la t March 31.
to let representatives fight their own committeeman, in I Mi - Dorothy a re determined to |ian as far as pos- Cartwright said that the agreement battle- and reach their own conclu Cunningham, Mai tin-ville, national B jb|e the bitter ■ -s of his defeat was subject to approval of both the sions, uddenly turn upon them with committee w man, along with Hays w j,ii t « one about, they a-strl, miners’ and operators’ organization-. a bitterness that has not been excel!- and Governor Harry G. Le-lie, were through hi> determination that not a It was reported unofficially that the
ed in the political history of our na to attend committee meetings in ad- dollar of hi. would be -p ired in an | scale agreed upon was $4. The former day; e.dor • xtiem. ou'hwe.-t Po-
tion A little constructive criticism in visory capacities. effort to pruteit Insull investors from i scale was $(i.l0.
tinn - f prosperity would be a very mtmmmmrm m ■ . »—»■ • "■ ,M *
mu greater service to the nation than drastic and i nfair criticism in
times of depression.”
Hastings told the convention that the Derr rats in the coming campaign will undertake to make the penpl. belieue that the Republican administration is wholly res-pon-ible for the c untry’s present condition. "It .vill be neces-ary for us to convin e the majority of the people of
thi (ountry that the depression and , iut , tan ,| im . distress is not due to goverr.mental linjvpr ,- ity f r , .
MU I MW IM, \( ( I DENT SOI III OF CITY
Fr e women were
iously, when
injured, two sertiro of their
or-’ H inpipe," with "Henry" waiting automo |,ji,. |,| P v out. south of Ham to romo on the air with a t ilk ihout p[ rk Station on the Manhattan road, seels or crops. He un b i lands both sh()rf | y a f( Pr q „. k Tuesday after-
thoroughly. noon.
Field was a pin < er in radio .espe Mr> p [,. Willitts, Lafayette, was cially in utilizing it as a commercial th( , mos , SPrl ,, | y m j ln .,[. suffering medium for “keeping in touch with a ,||.|, K . a ted left elbow, beside - bruisour people.” "Henry's’’ people come e< an j || Pr mother, Mrs Evr
by the hundre I < f thousands annual |y to visit the auditorium in which is
house I the radio station.
This i- furUifif .evnljoi e of Field's business acumen. He solicits hi-
WASHINGTON, June ri. (UP)-i Speaker Garner was reported ready today to accept a eomproniisp with the administration on his .<3,311(1,000,000 unemployment relief pi grim which was forced through the hou-e yesterday by a 34-vote margi Although the Democrat' teamroller won a majority f Jlti to 182 ! for the Garner hill a 1 I -motht red President Hoovet's own relief program, the speaker conceded In men sure has no chatve nf becoming law. The administration i; unalterably opj posed to its propose I billion i liar 1 bond issue for public works. The burden of working out a eom- | promise rests with the senate A« a first step, Dom ' ratie leader Robin Ison will ask that the Wagner bill authlu'izing the u ^ mi tion cor p ration to loan $300,00'),00() M the states for relief, he taken up immediately after pa -age of the pending
economy measure.
It is believi t Waj ei '"II rould be pa- ed with littb delay It Is understood to la- >;ptable to President Hoover, uv it i t "night that Garner woul I gi • it I u
at le ist $300,0 0,000
re;t relief woul 1 he made (variable
before congress adjourns.
If time remained, the enate < uld reek to work out a further compromise between Garner, W igner and a Iministration plai s for ere-iting emplo.ment by stimulating on-(ruction. Each of the-e plans provides in ciease- of $1,(100,000,(IDO or more in
radio listeners for suggests and “re que-1 i umber ' When he has any time foi diver, ion ot'a r than the plea.-tire he gets out of his work he
| turns to horseback ri iing.
HIE VY KA I HER
Generally fair tonight and Thurs-
bru'ise.-'abcHrt the body^ and'two^ fm'- capitalization of the re, onstruc-
,tw»n corporation to finarte ‘self
tured nhs , u
. Iliquidatmg con-tMict ym projects by
Other who ufferod cuts and ,, . , ... : .. w ._
bruises were Jane I- ry. Crawford ville, and Mrs. Helen Cory and Katheiine Stevens, hath of
Market-
All wer n reniovi <1 to the county hospital in the McCurry ambulance but the latter three were able to leave
Tuesday evening-
It was said the women were en- I route to Terre Haute where Mrs. i Willitt . an evargeli-t, was to conduct
YY.
(he lire blew out th driver lost con-|P ubl '« ,n P 10 ^ ts nllp
trol. the car going into the east
public bodies m f orp"r.'Uinn The Garner and Wagner hils also call for New public works haul is-ue- of $1,900,!000,000 and $500,01)0 000, icspeetively. President Hoover opposes the I bond issues on the gr uni that they would unbalance ‘he federal budget. He also holds that tho proposed pub lie works construction would be
wasteful and unri 1 1 es-ary.
Passage of the Garner bill by the
Raymond Srars Is ()lvni|Hr I randidatr GREEN! YS1LE BOY MAKI "II STANDING RECORD '>
BUTEKR FRESHMAN
“—but You Hate Water and I Can’t Stand High Places”
Raymond
i of Greenca-tle. ilier of the Butler man track team this
action or lack of it, or due to any ac I ,, par wj |j n itional intercol ti n on the part of the Republican ad- j, , j:)tp fl; , k i f-iturJay in in ef
ministration," he said. "We must f lize that we have our ha ks to the
" 1 and a tea! tight on our hands.” Hastings predicted that Governor I’ welt would he the standard bear- " "f the Democratic party. “My own ju ii ment is that the *o-called ‘for X"'ti'n man’ will be the chief issue
legiate ft" k 1
fort t> qurli'y I r U'e Olympic try
. ; T ily
Last week S-ars ran a special 880yard exhibition again-t Marquette freshmen in 1!" '"markable time of
1 minute 57 -e onds.
y>ais ecu hi- early trai ing as - memhei ■ t -■ Greenrastle high
of Governor Roosevelt and the Dem- p | ^ , k t m Mo.-t of his spar ocintie pjtty,” he said. “This has ^ nl(1 c hildhool was devoted to beeii true of the Democratic party in lunn j n( - rnier farm home,
* ' pa-t and there is everything to
we st
of Greene istle.
in mate that it will be true in 1932.'
He derided former Governor Alfred | [ \S|(lN DIES f Smith for his recent expression pi;\\ I ' '0, June 8. (UP) that o f of the things which ought to S p |„ , V| nhart Fnn ton, vi low he don" t.a etnl the depression was to Maim <• n ral Frederick I Funcancel foreign debts “b> reducing ^ J| )p • [ t'l, general,” ' : i<d in .i them in proportion to the amount of h „ S pjt,| e !' t nigh' aft- a heart 8" I • that the debtor country pur- ;), p W a b rn in Oli o 55 year .
chane l from this country.” alr( , “To uggeft that such debt lie for gecu wlten cur country is in distress, she •» » i a - k 0 f knowledge of the temper of the American people to w 'aid the nations across the Atlantic,"
he said. ' „ _ i. President Hoover’s reconstruction Mis- ^ 1 ' 11 ' 1.' H arriet finance corporation .was lauded ag a the guest o' am s)
to loan Jo-lin.
20 Years Arc
IN GREENCASTLE
Ptactical ard sensible way
money to the various states to meet
(he emergency.
T ie se-ator then discussed the tariff quertion, claiming that "the Republican party has since its very he ginning stood forth as the protector
Rm Hen':' Ostrum retur ed home trdsv from a trip to California C Fenw i -k Rend has gene to Rising Sun, to coniuct an evangel,sti' ser
vice.
Mi s Mary Tucker is «rnding a
Cra- vfordsville visiting
°f American industry, the American fi*w- day-
""'kirg man and tha Amarfewi f-T- Do" i’n • mer „ R # rhrrle- McGaughey was here from Hastings reproved the large Amar- ; Koaehdale m: legal business.
ditch aid turning over seveial times.
Prolir \llrj:e<l I lu ll ol Ilojrs
tactics. The Do ni'Crati mii'ritv first pushed through a spec id rule for considerati u of the bill, limiting debate t<> three hmn . a d [ii'i cluding the pos.sihlility of Republic in amendments. This was adopted with the aid of Republican "progies-ives." The Democrats Mien proceeded in
I record time to pass t heir hill, one of LAKE '!<(. VUG HEY' OF NEAR the most contr vei ial of the pie-ant
BAINHKIDGE ' VI,I S OFFI- ! session.
( FRS ri’ESDAY Twenty ne Republican- voted for ; the Garner bill. To Democrats de-
, .-erte I their inr". 1 idev-hip t , vote Alleged theft of three hogs from j(
the farm of Lafe M-’Gaughey, on road ^ 3*1, we-t of Bainbridae, was invest!-;
i eriff PHDFOGRAPHI 1 , |t hi i d • 11• 11"ty Elward Eitel- FIRST ('ONY'FN ITON HI KE
jorg".
T P offire's w re calleI by Mr. Grrema tl" and ' ur oun me uaMcGaugl • v after he missed the three tural beauty will he t to a joint animal and raw -igns which indi- excursion of |>> tori iI | hotog'aphers eat, d the hog miv it have been taken on June 11 and 1 ' M" ' of the through f " es m I 1 I d en a truck. Indiansprlis ( imet i < hih. the Ft. Cmtimiing the investigation Wei- Dearborn ( ai " r i r luh 1 Chicago, ne. 'ey -heriff IG m and Mr M' the Cincinnati (Ti' ei ■ ' lu' . n i the
Gaughey went t" they view, 1 hog stoekyar Is i" a ' of the animals.
'lianapolts w’ere the Indianapolis
to find tra e
YtF YN - JURY FEE)'TED YVAMUNGTON. June 8. (UP)—
A jury rf 11 men and one young wo m ui w i , elected 'V to tiy (,as ton B. Means, f. n • u drpuitment of justice investigatoi, n charges of ob-
Dcgue re Club of Indiaiu, ' ill meet in tire studio f J. O Cummaclt for the first inter- l ib o ' ntion of pic t-rial ; imtog ,|M‘ i . e er hcl I in the Unite 1 States. Some ten or t vel-e aitiat whose work i- reeogni t !>;, Who’s Who have indicated t 1 i int r ntr n to be
present.
The group v ill he i dressel by several speakers if iiatiuiial ioi uta
( LO( K I
tricing $100,000 fi n Mrs. Evalyn tion and spe d > U time the x-e,i’ er Walsh Mtle.v on repf'^ntati n that will permit makuc: pi tun f ru -ti he eouH > ffect the ic'nin of the kid beauty. I h« e-n "iitioi cm . brought naped Lindbergh baby. to Greencastle through the efforts of
Hillary G. Baile ■, , f/"iner re ident
- f \ST of Greencastle, who ■ pictures of
| scenes in Putn. i.i count luv > b'-en
,, ry ity clock In hurg in salons of cit ,1! over the
! suse I con | world,
daring the past;
. x minutes
V. F. YV. ELECT delegates of clocks in the The Veterans of F’oreign Wars h°ld
The D^Pouw East “d ge ■ t '
ideralrie cmfu u i two weeks be ’US,
t lit.
I ■ i iblj *s n ,
homes as we.ll as other time pieces 1 a splendid meeting la<t night at the have le en in ivo I up to k |i step with Cit. Library. I), I, gate- to the State t!» eloc k, hut the re "Is -h„w that ercampment elected w, i it is about six minute- shell of stall- Walter Wamsley. Marshal Snider, dard time. 1 Claude Best ami John A. Friend.