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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-02-11
Arkansas J0bIess Men in
Back to the Land Movement

BACK 10 TnG l.
IN A FEW WORDS
not the crook in modern business that
we fear, but the honest man who
doesn't know what he is doing.
of state: War is no longer the private
affair of belligerent nations.
w. r. Inge, dean of st. Paul's: If
clock, the clock must have been wound
at date which we could name if we
knew it.
l. Maurice Wormsler, New York at
tOrney: There are two hundred cor
pOrate giants today which control be-
tween thirty-five and forty-five per
cent of the entire business wealth of
the country and earn forty
per cent of the nations net income.
F. Joyce, exploring captain: On my
last antarctic expedition l did not
have my clothes off for three years.
Mahatma Gandhi: l believe in
equality for everyone except reporters
and photographers.
d. B. Robinson, railroad labor lead
er: Labor can not be called upon
through wage cut to pay a dole to
idle capital.
Hiram Johnson, U. S. senator from
California: Manchuria is strewn with
scraps of paper.
Hanson E. Ely, major-general, U. S.
A., retired: You seldom see wars on
the horizon. You get embroiled over
night.
James w. Gerard, former ambassa-
dor to Germany: 1t is high time that
American bankers started helping
their own country and stopped lending
money to Germany.
Herbert Hoover, president: That our
people should live in their own homes
| is a sentiment deep in the heart of
our race and of American life.
Clarence B. Kelland, author: In
business we play the flute three years
and pay the piper one year.
Nancy Aston, member of parliament:
| | never let my husband know what
money l have. l like to have little
that nobody knows about.
Harold Bell Wright, author: There
are some things which are beneath
the artists notice.
Robert Emmons Rogers: The col
lege girl is inclined to be sloppy
the more educated she is, the sloppier
she usually is.
r. W. Sockman, preacher: There
is probably more hypocrisy in night
club than in prayer meeting.
Cyranus Dole, member of congress:
l never mail a letter in which l have
expressed anger until the next day,
and then destroy it.
William Bragg, scientist: If 1,5OO,-
900 people talk twelve months, the
energy of the sound would be equal
to that required to boil water for a
cup of tea.
Nicholas Murray Butler: The war
ended in 1918 on the field of battle,
but in the field of ideas we have not
outgrown the conditions that brought
the war about.
J. F. Darling, director of a British
bank: In the reconciliation of silver,
we have readily available dynamic
The Washington times., 1932-05-28
KILL
BANK BANDIT

MORRIS, OKLA, May %
UN.S0.-Posscs today were trail
ing two members of a bandit trio
whose robbery of the First State
Bank here resulted in a gun fight
in which a young woman bank
employe was wounded and one
robber was Lied.
Miss Clara Ages, assistant
cashier, was alone when the rob-
bers entered. She sounded a
burglar alarm and the gunmen
seized her as hostage as they left
the bank with $500.
H; jtily armed citizens met the
robbers as they emerged and a
gun battle resulted, in which one
of the bandits was shot through
the head and killed and Miss
Ages was shot in the jaw.
The bandits fled in an automo-
bile. abandoning it later near
Coalton, Okla.
The Washington times., 1932-05-28
SHIP COLLISION
PROBED by j. S.
Times staff Photo
BERNICE

BOSTON, May % G.N.S) AS
the passenger steamer City of
Chattanooga docked today with
the 90 survivors of the steamship
Gregian, the Federal Board Of
Steamship Inspection launched
an investigation into the rarnnning
and sinking of the freighter in
the fog off Block Island yesterday
at a cost of four dead and IL in
jured.
Coast Guard vessels hovered
about the graveyard of the Gre
clan in search for two unrecovered
bodies.
A dense fog was blamed for the
crash.
A dramatic story of how Capt.
C.. G.. Borur11 kept full steam
ahead so that the prov of the
City of Chattanooga was forced
intothe hole of the Grecian,
stopping the flow of water to a
large extent and keeping that
craft afloat was told by survivors.
The Washington times., 1932-05-28
TWIN DRY PLANK
|DEADER|DED

The talk of both major parties
adopting identical prohi bition
planks in their 1882 platforms
in order to remove prohibition
from partisan politics
more amusement than real inter-
est in the capital today.
This novel proposal sprang from
informal discussions among a
group of Senators, mostly dry, who
deplore the injection of prohibi-
ton into the approaching cam
paign.
No one believes the proposition
has a chance of getting any fur
ther than the talking stage, al.
though a precedent for such action
does exist. Eighty years ago, in
1852, the Whigs and the Demo
orats tried it on the slavery
isSue-but the Civil War broke
out eight years later.
Leading vets of both parties
pooh-poohed the suggestion, un-
less the plankS called for outright
repeal, or at least reSubmission.
of the Eighteenth Amendment.
The Washington times., 1932-05-28
Fess May Have
To Bring Note
From Home
CLIFFORD

Senator Simeon D. Fess tR)
of Ohio, who serves as his
party's whip in the Senate in
addition to being Republican
National Committee chairman,
was tardy today for the second
time this week.
In convening the Senate at
10 a. M, Vice President Curtis
caused much amusement by
recognizing" the Senator from
Ohio" only to find to his en-
barrassment that FesS had not
yet entered the chamber. Be
fore Curtis could recover from
his astonishment, Senator Colds
borough (RO of Maryland, sug-
gested the absence of a quorum.
Fess came in two minutes
later and his colleagues gave
him a broad laugh. A few
days ago FeSs was late and the
Vice President sent out a page
to find him before the Senate
could be convened. Newspaper
articles about his tardiness
aroused FeSS' ire.
The Washington times., 1932-05-28
Ill HEAL Til
Of VICTIM
CITED BY
H|SK|N
Distraught for Weeks, Planned
Trip to Europe; Plunge
Seen by Chauffeur

CHICAGO, May % Q.N.s).
Edward F. Swift, chairman Of
the board Of Swift & Co.,
plunged six floors to his death
today from a window Of the
apartment in which he lived.
His body, clad in pajamas,
landed in an alleyway in the
rear of the building. He was
GA years old.
Swift's body crashed almost at
the feet of Harry Rice, the family
chauffeur, who was in one Of
the Swift cars at the carriage
entrance to the building waiting
to take his employer downtown,
Wife COlIapsess
Mrs. Hortense Newcomer Swift
his wife, was in the apartment
when the plunge occurred. She
was notified by Rice and col
lapSed.
Charles H. Swift, brother, is
sued the following statement:
Edward F. Swift has been in
poor health for several weeks
and on advice of his physician
had arranged to leave next
Tuesday for a trip to Europe.
His affairs are in excellent
shape"
T. Philip Swift, a son, was at
his desk in the Continental
Illinois Bank and Trust Com
pany, of which he is vice presi-
dent, when informed Of his
fathers death. Edward F. Swift
was a director of this bank.
Window Open, Shade Awry
Swift's body struck a projecting
ledge of the building as it hurtled
downward. It crashed on the con-
crete driveway and was badly cut
and broken. A coroner'S physician
said death probably was instan-
taneous.
Police found the living room
window in the Swift apartment
open with the shade awry as
though it had been hastily thrust
upward.
Swift arose about $50 a. M, as
was his custom, and was served
breakfast by a maid. He wore
lounging robe over his pajamas.
After breakfast he entered the
living room and was last seen
thumbing over some papers.
Distraught for Weeks
The maid who served break.
fast told police he did not appear
unduly nervous, although members
of the family said he had been
distraught for several weeks be-
cause of his illness.
Swift was a member Of
family which has been identified
with the development of Chicago
almost since its establishment.
He was son of Gustavus Frank.
lin Swift, founder of the packing
firm. He had six brothers and
two sisters.
Louis F. Swift, chairman of the
board of Swift & Co.; Charles
Henry Swift, vice president: Har-
old Higgins Swift, president Of
the board of the University of
Chicago; George Swift, Of Bos-
ton; Mrs. Francis Nelson, of
Chicago; and Mrs. Joshua Ma.
guire, New York city, are broth
erS and sisters.
The Washington times., 1932-05-28
PROPONENTS
! OUT To Win
REQU|RED6
Showdown Due Monday,
Friends Believe, as They
Bid for New Support
(Other Tax News on Page y


The votes of a half dozen
Senators were sought by Ad-
ministration leaders today to
insure Senate adoption of a
moderate manufacturers sales
tax as a substitute for num-
erous exciSes in the new bill
lion-dollar revenue bill.
Advocates of the sales tax were
hopeful of victory because OF
widespread opposition to specific
excises carried in the bill.
Their cause also was strength
ened by the fact that the bills
anticipated revenue on items
thus far approved totals but
$940 O00, 600. The House bill would
provide $1,031, ,000,0 900. The SOL.
8 900, 900 deficit" must be made
up in some manner il the budget
is to be balanced.
Showdown Due Monday
The sales tax battle probably
will come Monday, since today'S
abbreviated session was to be de-
voted to row over postal rates.
A drive to restore the House
rates on stock transfers was
started today by Senator Dill CD
Of washington. He declared:
'eThe New York Market is a
gambling institution in which
the insiders use marked cards
and loaded dice"
The House fixed the stock
transfer tax at 4 cents on each
500 or fraction thereof, with the
proviso that the levy should not
be less than one-fourth Of l per
cent of the selling price. The
Senate Finance Committee re-
tanned the 4 per cent rate but
struck out the one-fourth Of l per
cent minimum.
The Senate must also pass
upon proposed estate and gift
taxes and the levy on oil trans
ported by pipe lines
Senator Reed (RD of Pennsyl-
VhklId, OAlC VI G11C OoACo OoA 4OcSSACA D.
insisted it would be adopted. He
declared time and again that a
majority of the Senate favors
the tax" but other Administration
leaders discounted Reeds claims
Votes Feared Lacking
An independent poll indicated
the advocates were shy about a
half dozen votes of victory, but
there was possibility they might
gather a majority before the vote
Is reached Monday.
The issue will be fought out on
the proposal of Senator Walsh
CD of Massachusetts, to levy a
general tax of ia per cent on all
manufactured products, with food,
clothing, medicines. farm prod
ucts, farm implements, and a few
other essentials exempted.
It would bring in $685., ,000, 900,
permitting elimination of numer.
Gus excises, reduction of the new
postal rates, and reduction of the
check tax.
The check tax was fixed at 2
cents, applying to all checks.
The Washington times., 1932-05-28
AMELIA To Join
NATE At PORT

BROoKLANDS, England, May
28 Q.NS0 Mrs. Amelia Ear
hart Putnam was given an
enthusiastic reception when she
arrived here this afternoon to
attend a civilian air meet.
She arrived aboard plane
piloted by Gordon Selfridge, jr.,
son of the American department
store magnate. Mrs. Putnam was
received by officials of the meet
and escorted to the control tower
to witness the stunt flying.
Mrs. Putnam, who has de-
veloped a severe sore throat,
announced in a husky voice that
she plans to retire early tonight
and rest up over the weekend.
She has accepted an invitation
from Charles r. Fairey, British
airplane designer, to go to Cher
bourg aboard his yacht Thursday
to meet her husband, George
Palmer Putnam, New York pub
Usher, now en- route to Europe.
The Washington times., 1932-05-28
JURY |ND|CTS
CURTIS FOR
BABY HOAX
Findings Sealed by Court
Until His Arraignment
Next Tuesday

FLEMINGTON, N. j., May
% Q.N.SO.)-An indictment
against John H. Curtis, self
branded hoax in the Baby
Lindbergh kidnapping, va s
handed up today by the Hun
terdon county grand jury.
The charges it contains were
not made public and the in
dictment will be arraigned in
quarter seasons court for
pleading.
Curtis probably will go on trial
June 13, according to Prosecutor
Anthony M. Hauck, jr. He has
said that Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh will be called as witness
to reveal the story Of his friitless
search of the sea for Curtis
i5sasaa s1iss aasg
while It was genera lIy believed
an indictment was returned
against curtis one report said
the mythical negotiator was ready
to plead non vult contaadere to-
the charges Of obstructing justice
by giving false information to
authorities hunting the abductors.
This plea. in which be does not.
admit guilt, subjects him to a
judgment of conviction, but does
not bar him from denying the
truth of the charges in any col
lateral proceeding.
Fears Indy Testimony
Curtis, who is in Flemington
Jail, may have decided on this
plan after hearing that Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh was ready
to take the stand against him
and tell of the many vain trips
to sea they took in the futile
search for the kidnaperS. They
were aboard a boat when news
came the infant had been found
dead.
Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck
said if an indictment were found,
Curtis probably would be put on
trial by the middle of June. un-
less he pleaded non vult.
The Washington times., 1932-05-28
WALKER WILL
HIT BACKAT
SEABURY
Prosecutor Expected to Permit
N. Y. Civic Group to Ask
Removal of Mayor
picture on Page p

NEW YORK, May % (I.N.S.).
Further evidence in his attempt
to link Mayor Walker with the
ST, 100000 bank and brokerage
accounts of the fugitive Russell
T. Sherwood, erstwhile ac-
countant, was being shaped by
Samuel Seabury today.
At the same time, it was re"
ported the mayor was planning a
verbal onslaught designed to "trip
wide open" Seabury and the Hof-
stadter committees probe Of the
Walker regime.
With the hearing recessed until
Tuesday, and destined to continue
for at least three more days, it be-
came apparent that the sensa-,
ts1raal investigation may wind up
Ia formal charges being filed with
Governor Roosevelt demanding
the mayors custer from office.
May Go To Civic Group
However. persons close to Sea-
bury appeared doubtful If he, him.
sell. would take a hand in such
action. They intimated that the
evidence adduced at the hearing
might be turned over to some
civic group for use In demanding
Walkers removal.
While avowedly expecting that
Eeabury was laying the ground
work for custer proceedings
against him, Walker evinced little
concern. He declared he would
demand a public hearing before
the Governor.
He pointed out that this would
enable him to produce his own
witnesses and evidence and would
give him a better opportunity to
lay his side of the case than
was allowed him during the two
days of his bitter battle with
Seabury.
Monies Are Traced
With several of his aides, Sea-
bury was at his summer home
for the holiday weekend, pre-
pairing to follow up on Tuesday
the testimony given by James T.
Ellis, who was the final witness
at yesterdays session.
Ellis, a Seabury accountant,
told of having traced funds from
Mayor Walkers accounts to those
of Sherwood and out again.
Through his findings, the Hof-
Stadter counsel sought to break
down Walkers testimony that
Sherwood had never peen his fl
nancial agent and that he knew
nothing of the $946, 900 the small
salaried accountant was found to
have deposited during the period
Walker had been mayor.
Block Made "Gift"
Ellis testified he found in Sher-
woods accounts with the Han
over Central Bank check with
drawalS amounting to $15,500
made payable to Mrs. Burke, and
also $6,034 for repairs to the
yacht Mary w., used by the
mayors wife. Mrs. Burke is
Mayor Walkers widowed sister,
Mrs. Nan Walker Burke.
Paul Block, newspaper pub
Usher, testified the $246 900 stock
profit which he made for his
friend, Mayor walker, really
amounted to giving the latter
something for nothing" It was
out of pure friendship he did
this, the publisher declared.
The Washington times., 1932-05-28
Z PARTIES FACE
DRY CHICAGO

CHICAGO, May % 0.NSO.
Prohibition agents today had
fired the opening gun in a cam
paign to make Chicago dry for
the National political CONVENTIONS
next month. In raids last night
80 downtown speakeasies were
closed and SO persons arrested.
Officials said the raids will con.
tinue through the conventions.
Two downtown cafes were
raided, one of which was the
wabash Grill. reputed rendezvous
for Capone gangSters.
Although all sections of the
city were hit by the raids, none
was made in the vicinity of the
Chicago stadium, where the con-
vention will be held in June.
The Washington times., 1932-05-28
Girl Lends Helping
Hand: Wrecks Auto

PITTSBURGH. May % GIN.
S0.-'Ware the helpful motorist.
Betty Joyce, 20. told distressed
driver she could drive his car out
of ditch. She did-but the car
kept right on going. 1t went
over. a 25-foot embankment and
wrapped itself so closely around
a house that police said the
wreckage will have to be removed
with an acetylene TORCH.
The Washington times., 1932-05-28
Rich Hunter Found
LifeLess in Water

DETROIT, May % Q.N.S0
An. autopsy probably will be per-
formed today on the body of DR..
Alban H. Chesterfield, Al, wealthy
Detroit dentist and big game hunt
er, found dead in the shallow
waters of the Au Sable River near
his fishing camp.
The coroner expressed the be-
lief that DR.. Chesterfield died Of
a heart attack.
The Washington times., 1932-05-28
Roosevelt to Visit
SchnueLinq's Camp

HYDE PARK, N. Y, May %
UN.S0.-Governor Franklin D.
Roosevelt will leave for Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, today to address
the combined Horticultural So
ciety and Yard and Garden Club
of America show.
He C@0ected to spend the week
end here, leaving Monday to
visit Max Schmeling, worlds
heavyweight boxing champion, at
the latter's training camp at
Greenkill, N. Y.
The Washington times., 1932-05-28
Col. Lindbergh Gets
NeW Pilot License

NEW YORK, May %. QN.S).
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh today
held a license for another years
flying. He flew from his New
Jersey home to Mitchell field
yesterday for an examination for
a transport license. Major John
Moulton, examining officer said
Lindbergh was "fit in every par
ticular."
The Washington times., 1932-05-28
American Film Ban
Protested in Paris

PARIS, May % QN.S0.-An
indirect tribute to American mo-
tion pictures was paid today by
1000 exhibitors, who presented
a resolution to the Government
protesting a proposal advanced
by domestic producers which
would establish a drastic quota
on American films.
The Washington times., 1932-05-28
BrOuUne Waits Wind
For Flight to Tokyo

SEATTLE, Wash, May %.
GNSO Nathan C. Browne, New
York and Texas aviator, will hop
off today on a projected nonstop
flight to Tokyo, he said, if south
wind blows to aid him to get his
heavily loaded monoplane into the
air.
The Washington times., 1932-05-28
8 SEEK HOOVER
A|DFOR DAD
IRENE

Efforts '7ere made today by the
three children of Charles r. Fea,
gan, of Detroit, to see President
Hoover to ask him to pardon their
father.
Bernice, 10; Irene, IL, and
Clifford, 10, arrived here on a De
troit bus yesterday afternoon and
are being cared for by officials of
the bus line.
They planned to go to the White
House to seek an audience with
the President.
Feagan is in the Detroit county
Jail charged with driving an auto
mobile unlawfully from St.
Joseph, Mo-, to Detroit. He is be-
ing held by the Federal authorities.
Bernice said her father is not
guilty of stealing the car. She
said a man in st. Joseph asked
her father to take the car to De.
trolt to sell it for him.
The Washington times., 1932-05-28
CONDITION OF TREASURY

treasury balance as of May
26. $415,579, ,800.82; expenditures,
$i5'858,375.66; Customs receipts,
SIS, 700, ,433. .33,
The Washington times., 1932-05-28
Paddock Picks EN-
AT WASHINGTON PARK


Peace Lady. FervoT. Foohardy.
Continued Page 2, Col. -
Evening star., 1932-10-24
OLD MAN POTOMAC WAS WILD
AND ROUGH IN YOUNGER DAYS
Started Career of Rampages by Eating
Through Great Plains Of Which Fort
T. j, Reno Is Now Just Remnant.

these eons Of digging and rock cutting
and now is leading an exemplary life,
but he left behind for the geologist
considerable evidence of his escapades
in youth and middle age Along the
K street channel, for example. bould-
ers are found in excavations that un-
doubtedly were brought there by the
river But. says Mr.. Darton, they are
little too heavy to have been brought
down BY the swiftness of the current
alone. There presence indicates that
the Potomac went on rampages higher
up in its channel and tore up trees
with these rocks held in their roots.
From time to time rocks would get
loose from the tree roots.
Before the Potomac arrived on the
scene-perhapS at about the time the
first pre-humans were being evolved
somewhere in the Old World-there are
great gaps in the history of the Dis
trict; The basement rock upon
which the present city stands Is very
ancient granite, ante-dating ar living
things and perhaps part of the orig
inal crust Of the cooling globe. This
crops out on the, surface neaT Rock
Creek and westward into Maryland.
Southwark and eastward it Is hufied
deeper and deeper under more recent
deposits until, in the vicinity of the
Navy Yard, it is approximately 400 feet
below the surface In Southern Mary
land 1t is buried still deeper.
That rock goes back to more than
half a billion years ago. The next
geologically preserved chapter in local
history is represented by the so-called
Potomac wedge, consisting of clays.
sands and gravels dating from the
Cretaceous geological era. This came
a great many million years after the
laying down of the basal granite. dur
ing the period when the monster rep
tiles were dying and the earliest NAM
mails were making their appearance
For a long time some of this Potomac
wedge was exposed by excavation on
Sixteenth street just above Florida
avenue. More millions of years elapse
before the appearance Of the Potomac
terraces.
South of the avenue the surface
ground consists largely Of thick mud
deposits left by the river.
Evening star., 1932-10-24
EPISCOPAL Church
TO UNVE|[ TABLET
Will Commemorate Proposal
at ChestertoWn to Change
Denominations Name.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHESTERTOWN, Nd, October "a
Clergymen, vestry and communicates
of Episcopal churches throughout
Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and
Delaware are being invited by the Mems
Club of Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal
Church here to witness the unveiling OF
a bronze tablet. the gift Of the club to
the local church. 1t will commemorate
the meeting on November 8, 1880, OF q
group of clergymen Of the Church Of
England in the church ediflce at the
instance of Rev. William Smith, first
president Of Washington College and
later first provost Of the University Of
changing the name Of the American
Protestant Episcopal Church Of Amer
lea.
Some time later a convention of all
the communicates of the Church Of
England in America was held in Phila-
delphia and the name officially changed
as suggested at the Chestertown con-
vocation. Since the American colonies
were still at war with the mother coun-
try clergymen attending the local meet
ing ran the risk OF being unfrocked If
the colonies had been subdued, as
looked probable at that time, and
prominent and well-to-do laymen tax
ing part in the conference ran the risk
Of having their property confiscated by
the crown. Thus the Chestertown con-
ference, which advocated the breaking
away from the English King as head
of the church and the eradication of
some Of the more formal methods of
worship as practiced by the English
church. takes on, in the light of his
tory. the nature Of an heroic occasion
The ceremony mere will take place at
7:30 pm. November and among the
prominent ecclesiastics invited are
Bishop Perry Of New York, presiding
bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Church; Bishop Helfenstine of Mary
land, Bishop Freeman Of Washington,
Bishop Davenport Of Easton and Bishop
Cook Of Delaware. A special invitation
is going out to members and vestry of
the churches that took part in the orig
tnal conference here, including nearly
all the Eastern Shore churches and a
few in Western Maryland. Wilbur Ross
Hubbard Is president Of the Mems Club.