Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1931, Page 26

. PROBE 1S SOUEHT OF LARGEPROFTS Belvidere, Ill., Man Paying 20 to 50 Per Cent on Sav- ings of His Neighbors. B the Assoclated Pres BELVIDERE, Ill, Janudry 16.—Albert ‘W. Benham is a financial prophet hon- | ored in his own home town, reputedly paying interest rates of 20 to 50 per cent on the life savings of neighbors who knew him as an obscure shipping clerk during most of his 45 years. Every Monday they gather in Ben- | ’s office, located in a small garage on the main street of this community of 8000, to give him their wages and savings, receive his short-time judgment notes as security, or collect their inter- est at double or triple sual rates. Benham's business, W he describes as “bargains,” began two years ago among fellow workers in a factory here and have extended to Rockford, EIgin. Joliet, Kankakee, Chicago and other nearby cities. The first complaint, he said, was not from one of his custom- ers, but from local bankers, who said his high financing had caused with- | KING CORN OUSTS WHEAT | After 82 years o. wheat supremacy on the Chicago Board of Trade, corn was transferred to the main pit, ousting wheat. after the change was made. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1931 Picture shows the trading floor —A. P. Photo: gr;awa)s of $310,000 from Belvidere nks. State’s attorney of Winnebago Coun Blackhawk Finance Ce y in nearby | liver more that is the customer’s good Omar H. Wright, president of the Sec- ond National Bank here, former presi- dent of the Illinois Bankers’ Associa- tion and director of State financ :‘l(red an investigation of Benham's af- airs. State’s Attorney A. J. Strom of Boone County interviewed Benham and then said the grand y would look into his affairs January e added that the would bring the recently organized by Benham X Rockford, before the county grand jury | luck. there yesterday. “I'm being investigated,” Benham, a | bald, robust man with a_healthy man- but I don't mind. Other investigators became customers. | over $900,000 are to be started in the More money com¢ Majestic 92 | 1931 ARTON This is the fa- mous prosperity model. It uses 8 tubes and has the famous® Colotura Dynamic Speaker. The cabinet is of the Jacobean Pe- riod, and is of matched burl walnut. Our Price Now MARVOTONE MIDGET For Alternating Current A little beauty. Will fit in any- where. At the ridiculously 1o w price of— 340 Complete with Matched Tubes 8-Tube Silver Marshall Four Screen Grid —Dynamic Speaker A real distance getter and the Tone Quality is unsur- passed. 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The competition of the war systems of nations, Mrs. Catt declared today, is the one cause of war and the demobili- zation of the war institution is its one d Cure of War conference, in 1925 Mrs. Catt_said, “257 causes of actufil wars were listed, a condition wellnigh overwhelming. Subsequent conferences brought unex- pected but more optimistic facts. No sensible person now believes that mod- ern wars have causes; every one knows that instead they have excuses. “Women who have been sitting in these past five conferences have learned three things and learned them well. First, the 257 causes of war have been reduced to 1, the competition of the war systems of nations. That caused the World War and will cause the next var, if there is one. Second, all possible of war have likewise been reduced to one—the of the war institution, not by ruthless destruction, but, bit by bit, as fast and as far as & may be on a well constructed successfully operating peace institution. 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