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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-06-16

course would be horse of different
color. AS you have probably noticed,
they are planning on raising the
capitalization of the Refinance Cor
poration from two billion to three bill
lion. 1t must be good for some one,
it is a cinch it did not help unem-
plOyment, commodity, commodity val
ues, or general business.
AS said before you will soon be
hearing a lot of noise about master
strokes, financial geniuses greater
than Hamilton, bigger and better than
Washington and Lincoln and the sky
will be the limit Anyone, who dis
agrees will Immediately be termed
red and an undesirable citizen, ar
rOgance will rule, the radio, press and
platform will emit ballyhoo from
morning till night, people will be
swept off their feet, a full dinner
pail with two chickens in each pot
will rule, two cars for every family,
a job for everyone, who cares to work,
such phrases will be spread good and
plenty. While millions of people are
destitute, children are undernOur-
ished, our better minds will be talk
ing about advanced child welfare and
hygiene, about better homes, niger
heaven, fools paradise, etc. But he,
who votes to continue this farce can
hardly blame any one, when next
winter, he hunts among the garbage
cans for a few odds and ends that
more fortunate and discriminating
parties have thrown away
S. ]. SIMONSEN.
Chitina, Alaska, May 26, 1882.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-06-16
HOUSE CLEANING NEEDED
Editor AskOv American:

Editor AskOv Americana:
Soon the political orators will be
among us once more, and you will
hear such terms as super-man, finan-
cial genius, greatest since Lincoln.
master minds, best minds and similar
terms. 1t is sometimes good to get
second thought along these lines in
order not to become too gullible and
swallow all this stuff we are about
to hear.
1t is only few weeks since Krue-
ger, the great match king, was
played up as the greatest financial
genius of modern times if not all
times, but after the spot light was
taken off him, he faded into a mere
CRATER, a crook and scoundrel whose
financial genius amounted to moth
with too much confidence and imagin-
alton, leaving thousands of people
destitute in misery and want. Some
of the Investigations carried on re-
Gently in our own country shows our
much talked of financial geniuses in
about the same light; our super-men OF
yesterday have been sadly Debated in
greatness and ability, verging on be-
coming mere grafters and scuddlers.
1t seems to me that if knowledge
does anything to ones character 1t
usually makes one less sure of him
self and his judgment, probably
drawback to knowledge, but an ad
m irah la ono Tho moro a man knows
the less sure he usually becomes of
his own judgment and the less sure
he becomes that he is right, the best
he can hope for is to make a con-
scientiOuS guess and trust that he is
right. However, you will notice that
during the past eleven years our bet
ter minds have been dead sure they
are cock sure that no one except
those whom they have educated knows
anything, the lesson of history they
brush lightly aside, in their supreme
vanity, they think the world would
cease to exist unless it was for their
steadying influence and superior in
telligence. People are told that they
must have confidence and believe them
blindly, and to follow their advice like
children and to be led around like
sheep. Where they will lead us l hate
to think about
In my opinion the first sign of i'm
provement will be when people be-
come thoroughly disguised and lose
confidence in those who have been
! fooling them. A good house cleaning
is absolutely necessary next Novem-
Der, it is incOnceivable that things
can go four years more like it has.
Last spring we all heard that the
Refinance Corporation would put bust
ness back on its legs, that railway
business would pick up. Since then
some large railway stocks have de-
clined two hundred per cent in value,
most of our large industrials' stock
| have declined from one hundred to two
! hundred per cent in value the past
three months. Now, it looked to me
| like all this refinancing was just a
scheme to let some of the big fellows
get out from under bunch Of worth
less securities, unloading them on the
government and when the crash which
| is bound to come, comes, the govern
ment will be holding the sack: they
even managed to unload some Mo. Pac.
securities above the marketable value
and in few months they won't be
worth anything. l don't see them
taking over any farm mortgages,
which sadly need refinancing. That OF
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-06-16
OPINIONS OF OTHERS

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OF public interest are welcome.
whether or not the writer's Opin-
ions conform with those of tho
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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-06-16

After eating fresh onions, beware of
saying marvellous or 'expOstulate."
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-06-16

PAID ADVERTISEMENT and
published by the Bucker- for Con ress
Farmers Club. ID. Edwin Anderson.
Secretary. Crookston. Minn.. for which
Sl.35 will be paid.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-06-16

If guest doesn't know when to
leave, he doesn't know anything.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-06-16

The rays of the sun take eight and
one-half minutes to reach the earth.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-06-16

There's something good, even noble,
about anyone who does his job well.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-06-16

Some rules seem to consist only Of
exceptions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Seripps- Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-Such
grave peril is seen in the Gargan-
tuan international army" feature
OF the new French disarmament
plan that it was regarded here as
doomed in advance if France in
sists, as she indicates she will, that
the several parts of the plan con-
stltute one indivisible whole"
1.-THE mere concept of an inter-
national major force is a frightful
nightmare" said Salmon Oliver
Levinson of New York and Chicago,
regarded abroad as largely respon-
sible for the Kellogg pact to outlaw
war.
ut would be confusion worse con-
founded" he declared. "It would
be resisted by any nation or set of
nations against whom it is directed
as international tyranny and brutal
injustice"
1t was this doctrine of the use
of force to prevent war or punish an
aggressor, Levinson observed, that
caused the greatest schism in the
peace ranks of this country. 1t
was this that kept the United States
out of the League of Nations.
Possession by the league of an
armed force, equipped as no other
force would be equipped, as now
proposed by the French. would, it
is said, create what inevitably would
become a superstate under the
guidance from time to time of God
knows-what combination of ma
TONS"
Part II, Section B, of the French
plan, provides that each of the
contracting powers permanently will
place at the disposal of the League
of Nations a small number of spe-
cialized units consisting of troops
serving relatively long term, and
provided with the powerful ma
terials prohibited for the national
armies"
Section A states that a nation
shall have the right Of league as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17
MORRIS DROPS
FIGHT ON BIDS
Safety Board Member Says
Matter Is Adjusted.
Betty 10 Loehr

Donald S. Morris, safety board
member, who charged irregular pro-
cedure and "collusion" in connection
with purchase of quantity of
copper wire by the city purchasing
department Tuesday, today stated
that the matter had been explained
satisfactorily" and that his objec-
ton to the bids was Withdrawn"
Morris statement followed a con-
ference with Albert Losche, city
purchasing agent, who explained the
manner in which the bids had been
received. Losche was absent from
the city Tuesday, but conducted an
investigation of the charges imme-
diately on his return wednesday.
A clerical error in failing to
mark the bids as tentative quota
tons received by telephone caused
Morris to believe the prices had
been submitted in an irregular man
ner, Morris said.
Il failed to understand thorough
ly the explanation submitted to the
board by William Gibson, and, on
the face of the matter, I believed
the handling of the bids irregular, I"
Morris stated.
"LoSche showed me records and
earlier prices which have changed
my opinion. shall add my ap-
proval to the prices at next board
meeting"
Gibson, an assistant in the pur-
chasing department, appeared before
the board in LoSche'S absence when
Morris objected to the bids.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17
Garner Looks Ahead to
Dress Suit and Subbers

Alliance
WASHINGTON, 17-Vce-Presdent-E Elect John Nance
breads the Inauguration next March because he will have
top hat" Incidentally both articles
presumably the Speaker
the ordered his speakhp" reEct
antiy. s.
The order included:
blue with stripe.
q full dress suit
g. A morning coat
4 A silk topper.
Mrs her husband secretary. social
tor and diet watcher he sent him daily milk for his
at the Capitol, insisted that he dress up
Jack old dress suit is too small and frayed around the
edges" she pointed out year
Despite Gamers squms and protests she mad him buy
morning coat we'll.
Jack has mind saroral niceties evening
dress only the formal
test All those punctous changes of clothing
worth loved, Garner despSes
Il object to the cutaway" he growled.
But he ordered it. The thing
cancel the order if he lost the speakership
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17
HUNT STATE KILLER
Nationwide Search Opened
for Sheriff'S Slayer.

Nation-w wide search was insti-
tuted today for Herbert Burris
wanted for the Staying of RAY
Compton, Rush county sheriff, by E
L. Osborne, chief of the state Grim
lnal bureau, when he learned that
BurrlS had been convicted of two
other murders.
The sheriff was shot down Oct
Is when he arrived at a farm, on
which Burris was a tenant, with a
warrant to search for liquor.
Osborne was informed today by
Thomas P. Hollowell, warden of the
Iowa State prison at Ft. Madison
that Burris escaped from the in
stitution, Feb. o. 1927, having been
sentenced Dec. Is, 1923, to a life
term for murder in the first-degree
According to Hollowell, Burris
who has used the aliases of James
walker and James Webster. was
given a. ten-year term in Missouri
Tor Second-degree murder and a FIVE
year term in Iowa for larceny.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17
PAY TRIBUTE TO
MICHAEL RYAN
Memorial Services Are Held
by Bar Association.

A resolution in tribute to Michael
A. Ryan, Y, prominent Indianapolis
attorney, who died Tuesday, was
adopted today by the Indianapolis
Bar Association at memorial serv-
ices in superior court one.
Mature bestowed her gifts boun-
teously upon Mr.. Ryan, endowing
him with strong and brilliant
mind, together with a spirit of
vivacity which was impaired to all
with whom he came in contact, "
the resolution read.
Martin M. Hugg and John G.
RuckelShaus, attorneys, gave me-
mortal addresses.
The association also resolved. that
in his death "the bar has lost a law
yer of rank and superior quality, the
city and state a patriotic citizen
and we a delightful and worthy
friend"
The funeral was to be held at 2
this afternoon at the home, 2266
North Meridian street. DR.. Lewis
Brown, st. Paul'S Episcopal church
rector, was to conduct the service.
Burial was to be in Crown Hill
cemetery.
In tribute to Mr. Ryan, criminal
court, where he took part in many
trials, was closed today by Judge
Frank P. Baker.
Pallbearers were to be Arthur E.
Bradshaw, Frederick Van Mugs. M.
2. Foley, Charles RemSter, John C.
RuckelshauS, Fred c. Gardner.
Martin M. Hugg and Bernard
Korbly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17
PROBE RACKET CHARGES

Three Men Complain; Defrauded BY
Suit Salesman, Is Claim.
Three men who believe they are
suit racket victims made complaint
to police Wednesday night.
Everett Burns and his son Robert
both of 1924 East New York street,
and Forest Warner, 200 North Rural
street, each paid $3.50 on Nov. 7
for suits to have been delivered
Monday, but none has arrived.
The money was paid to a man
who solicited orders in a grocery
at 1903 East Washington street,
where Robert Burns Is employed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17
PlCKETS BEAT ILLINOIS
MINERS; TROOPS ASKED
1,2OO Strikers Clash With EMPLOYEES
at Shaft; Many Hurt.
By United Press

NAe~TSA WIFI GuAplOyeS
at Shaft; Many Hurt.
By United Press
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Nov. IT,
National guard protection to avert
loss of life" was asked today for
the Peabody Coal Company's Cora
mine at Andrew, after the second
clash in two days between employees
and striking miners and use of tear
gas to disperse the attackers.
Acting Sheriff William Beynon of
Sangamon county went in person to
Adjutant General Carlos Blacks
Office in the statehouse. He was ac-
companied by Walter L. Moody
chief of the state highway police.
The situation is beyond my con-
troll Beynon informed International
guard head. Troops are needed i'm
mediately to prevent loss of life
Decision to appeal for troops was
reached by union leaders, mine Of
flcials, Beynon and Moody at a
conference today shortly after a
number of miners had been taken
from their automobiles and were
severely beaten by an army of 1000
picketS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17
ENDS LIFE IN MOOSE
DespOndent, City Man Kills
Himself at Home.

Arson Bales, As, killed himself
today by hanging in the basement
of his home at SGT North Tacoma
avenue, his second attempt to end
his life in a month. Previously he
inhaled gas, but was revived.
Ill health and financial reverses
are blamed for the act. An in
vesAgation was made by DR.. E. r
Wilson, deputy coroner.
The body was found by a daugh-
ter, Margaret, II.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17
French Plan of World
Army Is Branded Peril

Sistance when a territory under
the authority of one of the sigma
tory powers is attacked or invaded
by foreign forces" Aggression,
therefore, is thus defined.
The United States, apparently, is
not subject to the above arrange
ment. Only European nations pre-
sumably alone would be called on
to contribute to the international,
Super-equipped army of the league.
Presumably also the United States,
not being a member of the league,
nor a contributor to the interna-
tional army, would not be entitled
to store any Of the stocks of pro-
hibited weapons of war such as
member powers would have in their
possession.
The United States, however, would
be expected to agree to a consulta-
tive pact.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17

quent grounds for divorce, but that
covers a multitude of sins"
He has learned, however, that ii
doesn't pay to bring suit for libel
and SANDER. The largest verdict he
remembers in a slan0er case is $500
Another jury trial lasted four days
and the plaintiff was awarded one
cent damages.
Hedrick is an expert at catch
ing" testimony, regardless of the
speed with which attorneys draw il
from witnesses. He is a law school
graduate.
He contemplateS starting pri-
vate court reporting agency when
he leaves the courthouse, along with
Circuit Judge Harry o. Chamber
lin, at the end of the year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17
E4OOVERVILLE GETS A BREAK
Whistling Winds Car7yHugeD Drifts ( 7cuyF1om To7cn
and Curtis

TTOOVERVEILE and Curtis
IL vile, twin towns inhabited
by the city's evicted, got a break,
even though it is only a wind
break.
When snow deluged the city
Tuesday night, the shanty-town
encamped on the west bank Of
White river, between Washington
street and Oliver avenue, natur-
ally would have been presupposed
to be buried in drifts.
The shanties had been built
into the rivers bank for wind
break and luckily the gusts that
whipped the snow into drifts were
a boon to Hooverville, taking their
white burden to level places in
stead of burying the tin-roofed
shacks on the hillside.
Hooverville took the storm
philoSophically with:
ut might have been worse"
Residents quickly dug walks
and cleared away banked spots
around their homes.
n
IT WOULDN'T trade my house
Il for all the palaces in town."
declared one bachelor resident, as
he secured the surrounding ter
rain for firewood.
If some homes were splendid
obServatories for counting stars
at night, their owners joked off
the insufficient weather boarding
with:
ut could be worse and we'll get
by"
Need for an extra bed was the
problem in one home. The par
entS were sleeping on the floor
with an 11-month- babe.
warmed by their own body heat.
while three other children slept
in a bed.
But the father got a job as a
carpenter and hoped to rectify
this household necessity on his
first days work.
II Il
EOOD was the least of their
Il troubles if they'd but go for
it. The. township trustees and
Community Fund agencies were
caring for their food, fuel and
clothing. :
Stove-pipes broken by the
weight of drifting snow, coupled
with leaky roofs, formed the ma
jor problems.
Social agencies of the city were
busy today repairing the storms
damage to houses ant' souls in
Hooverville and Curtisville.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17
MOVES TO BANK POST
Named Glass B Director of Federal
Reserve Institution.

Selection of Nicholas H. Noyes, In
dianapolis, as a class B director of
the Federal Reserve bank, Chicago,
was announced here Wednesday by
Eugene M. Stevens, chairman.
Noyes, secretary treasurer and
director of Eli Lilly g. Co., was
supported by the Fletcher Trust
Company, Fletcher American Ma
tional bank, and Merchants National
bank. He succeeds the late Robert
Feustel, FIT. Wayne.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17
ODD FELLOWS
HONOR HANDLEY
Former Richmond Mayor Is
New Grand Master.

L. A. Handley, former Richmond
mayor, was elevated to the office
OF grand master at Grand Lodge
0. o. F. sessions ending today
In the Odd Fellows building. The
conference, which opened Wednes-
day was preceded by the Grand
Encampment of the lodge Tuesday.
The lodge Wednesday approved
an economy plan which will effect
an annual saving of $4,000, through
reduction of salaries of all officers
and reduction of district deputies
from ninety to twenty-seven.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17

Stenographic books he has used.
Atmosphere Of the courtroom is
about the same day after day for
him. Divorce suits are the most
common cases, just as they were
years ago.
Hedrick made these observations
a bit wistfully, as he sat in his pri-
vate office today, for his days as a
court reporter are nearing the end.
The recent political landslide deter
mined that he must leave his post
Jan. l.
He has reported $500 divorce
cases, but has not found any chief
cause for divorce.
"Of course" he says. "cruel and
inhuman treatment is the most fire.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17
SAVED FROM GAS DEATH

DR.. John Leech, 11O7 Nerth But
Ter avenue, is recovering today from
the effects Of being overcome
Wednesday by carbon monoxide
fumes from the engine of his auto
mobile. He started the engine while
the car was in garage at the rear
Of his home, and was found uncon-
sciouS by his wife.
Physicians and firemen, using an
inhalator, worked nearly two hours
in restoring DR.. Leech to conscious
ness,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17
Hears Is Years of Woe
in Court; Still Optimist

"Things don't change much. Peo-
pie dispute one day and forget the
next and, for most of us, our bright
days far exceed the dark ones"
This optimistic philosophy is that
of William M. Hedrick of 615 East
Fifty-third street, who, as official
reporter of circuit court for eight
cen years, has heard many tales of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17
MOtOrist is Held Here

Charles L. Johnson, %, st. Louis,
believed to be wanted in Orlando,
Fla. in connection with death o. a
child in an automobile accident,
was arrested Wednesday night by
police, who have communicated
with Orlando authorities to check
his identity,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17
RELIEF rEAD IN EAST
George gill Give indianapolis
Views at Research Farley.

George E. Gill, director of the city
unemployment bureau and emer-
gency work committee, was III New
York today to discuss Indianapolis
relief problems before the Personnel
Research Federation at its annual
cc--Iefence in the Hotel Astor.
indianapolis is believed the first
city to recognize unemployment as
one of the outstanding problems of
community life, and to try to at
tack 1t in an organized scientific
way" Gill stated before leaving for
the conference.
His subject will be Serving
Worker. Employer and Community
in Good Times and Bad"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17

He has writ
ten one hun
Dire d million
words of testi-
m ony, tn e
equivalent of
1900 ordinary
novels, sine e
he began Serv-
ice Nov. IA,
1914.
Monday, h e
celebrated h is
eighteenth year
on the same
job by recall
ing the kinds
of e Vi Id e n C e
that fill the 9O5
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17

Indianapolis Paint and Color
Company, $40 North Capitol avenue,
is furnishing approximately $4,000
gallons of paint for 10000 chairs
made by the Standard Manufacture
ing Company. Cambridge City. for
the Chicago worlds fair. .
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17
REPAIR BREWING PLANT
$4,000 to Be Spent on Logansport
Factory, Says Owner.

By United Press
LOGANSPORT, Ind, Nov. IT,
The Columbus Brewing Company
plant here, abandoned fourteen
years ago when Indiana passed its
liquor prohibition law, was under
going repairs today in anticipation
Of the return of beer
The owners, George L. Schmidt
Company. Chicago. announced $40,-
600 would be spent in the recondi-
tioning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17
ORDER GAS STATIONS
OFF RIGHT OF WAY
State Highway Commission Issues
Edict to All Violators.

Gasoline pumps, filling stations
and hot dog stands that have
usurped the right-of-way on state
roads were ordered removed forth
with today by the state highway
commission.
The following resolution regarding
their removal was adopted;
ut is and shall be the rule of this
commission that all such gasoline pumps,
flling stations. buildings and other COM
mercial establishments shall be ordered
moved of the right-of-way, and that on
narrow, but heavily travelled roads such
gasoline pumps. filling stations and COM
mercial houses, shall be set sufficiently
far back from the edge of the right-of-way
so as not to require or induce the patrons
OF such institutions to park their cars
upon such right-of-way, such establish
ments being hereby declared as public
nuisances and shall be ordered closed or
removed from their present location"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-17
STUDENTS WIFE WRITES
TRAGIC VERSE AND DIES
Power to Smile Beneath My Fate"
Is Plea in Poem.

By United Press
CHICAGO, Nov. 17.-Mrs. Ruby
Jane Short wrote the following
poem to her medical student hus-
band:
hope God may give me power
To smile beneath my fate
Through every sOrrOw-Iaden hour
Until the end 1 wait.
That night she swallowed poison.
Wednesday She died in a hospital.
Police sought Short for an explana-
ton.