Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 120, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1934 — Page 3

SEPT. 28, 1931.

WALLACE AIDS ! STUDY REVERSE j IN DAIRY CASE AAA to Take Appeal in Greenwood Firm Ruling, Is Belief. Ofßoal* of the agricultural adjustment administration today were considering the ndrilWTttf of appealing Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell's decision yesterday dismissing their actum against the Greenwood Dairy Farms, Inc. The AAA. through Henry A. Wallace. secretary of agriculture, sought a court order enjoining the Greenwood dairy from engaging In the distribution of milk, because if they wfre not so restrained, the complaint stated, “it inevitably would mean a collapse of the Indianapolis milk market and a complete ending of the administration's milk program in Indianapolis.” H istory of the trouble between AAA and the dairy, which began several months ago when the Greenwood firm refused to comply with the rules of the local milk marketing area, was included in Judge Baltzell’s ten-page decision. Constitutionality Not Affected The dairy based its defense on the grounds that it carried on its business wholly in Indiana and therefore did not come under the jurisdiction of a federal agency. This 6tand was upheld by Judge Baltzell, who pointed out that no evidence presented proved that any milk handled by the dairy moved in interstate commerce. Therefore, the decision stated, the secretary of agriculture has no authority to, “require the defendant to comply with the terms and conditions of the license in question.” Agricultural authorities pointed out that the decision failed to mention the much-mooted question of the constitutionality of the AAA program, and. further, that it is one of very few decisions lost by the federal farm organization in its effort to enforce its program. Appeal Is Held Likely Therefore, they say, appeal to a higher court is more than likely, where reversal of Judge Baltzell's decision is possible on grounds of public welfare. Ronald Admire, manager of the Greenwood dairy, stated that if his firm had complied with the licensing agreement it would have cost from S3OO to SSOO a month. "This amount.” he said, “would have to be paid either by the ptcducer who can not produce milk for less, or the consumer, who already is paying too much.” Hearing on the case was held in federal court July 19. On Aug. 2 Secretary Wallace issued an order revoking the dairy's license to operate. GOVERN MENTJOBS OPEN Civil Service Opportunities Are Announced by Secretary. Civil service openings announced today by Secretary Frank J. Boatman include stereotyper, electro-typer-flnisher, electrotyper molder and Natsor sorting machine operator. Information concerning these emaxinations is available at Secretary Boatman's office .Room 421, Federal building. OFFICIAL OPERATED ON Deputy Coroner Wilson Reported Resting Comfortably. Deputy Coroner E. R. Wilson today was reported resting comfortably at Methodist hospital after an abdominal operation there yesterday. Dr. Wilson's home is at 1503 North Pennsylvania street.

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B<! Ttmr Sprrial Decatur, ind., sept. 28. There is anew spirit of pride in Decatur. On a seventynine acre tract just outside the city, the government is preparing to create a paradise. This paradise, which will become a haven for forty-eight families, is a part of one of the New Deal’s experiments, the federal homestead project. In the offices of the department of the interior experts are planning carefully an experiment, which they hope in the end will provide economic security against bleak depression, most powerful enemy of present-day civilization. Decatur was chosen as one of the key points for the sixty national projects because it provides an ideal community. The town supports approximately seventyfive industries, and is in the midst of a great agricultural area. Throughout the depression years Decatur stood comparatively firm, while other towns suffered staggering losses. Close to the Ohio border, Decatur is in upstate Adams county. It stands midway between Ft. Wayne and Portland. The homestead project was planned by the government to aid four groups, all of which had been stunned in morale by the lean years. These groups, which the government believe to be so vital in a well-balanced society, are stranded industrial groups, decentralized industrial groups, industrial groups at edges of cities and stranded agricultural groups. a a a THE Decatur experiment fits the categories of the decentralized industrial workers and industries at the edge of cities. The town has a population of more than 5.000. Federal laborers are preparing the ground for a sweeping parkway, upon which construction of the homes will begin in about three weeks. A total of $145,000 will be poured into Decatur by the government upon completion of the project, anticipated near the first of the year. The homesteaders will be given their choices of seven types of five-room homes. They are, according to the government listing: A. story and a half with a flat porch: A-5, story and a half, pitched porch: A-6. story and a half, side porch; A-7, story and a half, no porch; B. story and a half, underslung porch; C, twostory Colonial type, and D. twostory Colonial type slightly different in const action from C. The homesteads probably will cost from $2,400 to $2,700 each. A basement will be dug under the house with dimensions 14 by 20 feet. The basement will have stone or concrete blocks in the wall and concrete floor. A hot air

With the coming of the new year, forty-eight families will move into the Decatur (Ind.) subsistence homestead project located on the edge of the city. The artist has drawn a conception of this model community (upper) as it will appear upon completion. Some fortunate family will occupy a home similar to the one shown (lower right) shortly after the first of the year. The homesteader is given an oppor-

furnace will be installed and room provided for a coal bin and fruit cellar. a a THE kitchen will be 9 by 12 feet and will contain a combination laundry tray and sink, suitable built-in cupboards, broom closets, sufficient space for stove with gas connections, refrigerator space and two or three windows. The living room will be approximately 12 by 15 feet. The 6 by 7 feet bathroom will be on the first floor and will be equipped with wash bowl, bath tub and lavatory, hot and cold water furnished by a gas hot water heater in the basement, and medicine cabinet. There will be three bedrooms, one on the first floor and two upstairs, or the opposite, with builtin wardrobe space. The houses will be roofed with cedar shingles or alternates. Hardwood floors will be used throughout the houses. Each homestead will have its plot of ground, not exceeding two acres. On this ground the homesteader win be expected to raise food for his own consumption. In the center of the row of homesteads will be a park with baseball diamonds and tennis courts. a a a THE forty-eight homesteaders represent a typical crosssection of American life. The homestead roster will include a doctor, fireman, laborer, tool grinder, clerk, salesman, postoffice clerk, moulder, machinist, theater projectionist, clothier, truck driver, barber, electrician, plumber, dry cleaner, printer, mill wright and traffic manager. Significant in the care used in selecting homesteaders with backgrounds that fit them for their new undertaking is the fact that twenty-one homesteaders were raised on farms and all but two have had experience in home gardening. The selected persons are employed in the city’s industries, trades and professions and have annual incomes averaging approximately $1,200, or an amount fully sufficient to meet the longterm payments on their new homes. The larger benefits of the es-

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tunity to select his house from seven types. Each type has five rooms and is equipped with every modern convenience. Four types are one and one-half stories and two are two-story structures. Laborers of the federal emergency relief administration have begun work (lower left) on clearing the ground for the subsistence homestead project. Actual construction of the forty-eight homes is expected to commence in about three weeks.

tablishment of a homestead project at Decatur are felt in the city already. The assignment to manufacture anew. motor was given to its Decatur plant by a large electrical manufacturing corporation, it is reported, largely because the establishment of the subsistence homestead project presaged for Decatur a class of workers well above the average, both economically and socially. Numerous inquires have come to Decatur from manufacturers and business men who have been attracted to the city as a factory or office site.

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'T'HE theory of the local project is to reduce the cost of living for the homesteader in normal times and to provide him with a means of existence in times of depression. The idea is neither new nor radical, but is an effort to provide the country with a stable, contented group of middle class citizens. Social writers for ages have foreseen the development of what the government now terms the subsistence homestead project. An organization, Decatur Home-

MRS. ERIE DIES 1 AT HOME; RITES SET FORMONDAY Pioneer City Kindergarten Teacher Succumbs at Age of 74. Funeral services for Mrs. Jessie Shreve Erie, 74, who died yesterday at her home, 837 Middle drive. Woodruff Place, will be held at the residence at 2 Monday. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Mrs. Erie was the first assistant of Miss Eliza Blaker. pioneer trainer of kindergarten teachers in Indianapolis. She taught in Indianapolis kindergartens many years. She was a member of the First Evangelical church, where she was active in Sunday school and church work. • Surviving her are two children, Mrs. Edward B. Soltau, with whom she made her home, and Roy Shreve Wright, and a sister, Mrs. Sarah C. Martin. John Huddleston Dead Burial services for John W. Huddleston, 69, of 1504 South Harding street, who died yesterday in city hospital, will be held at 10:45 Sunday morning in the Second Friends church. Burial will be in Plainfield cemetery. Mr. Huddleston was known throughout Indiana as a singing evangelist. He was a supporter of prohibition, and was active in the fight against the use of tobacco. At one time he was a member of the Indianapolis police department. Mr. Huddleston was assigned as a Y. M. C. A. worker in the aviation section at Great Lakes naval training station during the World War. He was popular among sailors there and was active iti caring for flu victims during the epidemic. Surviving him are a son, L. C. Huddleston, Decatur, 111., and a brother, the Rev. Alva Huddleston, Indianapolis. Owens Rites Tomorrow The remains of Mrs. Alice Owens. 77, of 110 Euclid avenue, who died yesterday in the home of her daughter, Mrs. U. S. Clutton, 4015 East Washington street, will remain

steads Inc., has been formed to supervise the project. It includes James Elberson, Decatur Chamber of Commerce president; Mrs. H. B. Heller, Decatur Woman’s Club president; Attorney Fred L. Litterer; Carl C. Pumphrey, jeweler; E. W. Lankenau, General Electric Company local plant superintendent; James G. Cowan, Decatuf Casting Company superintendent, and E. L. Middleton, midwest homestead director. The homesteaders themselves are jubilant that they have been selected and have constructed their future lives already in dreams. The extremely practical side of the experiment appeals to the men and the neat, well ordered home life appeals to the women.

HOOSIER BANKER DEAD Former Newspaper Man Passes at Columbia City. By United Prr* COLUMBIA CITY, Ind . Sept. 28 —Wallace W. Williamson, newspaper editor here for thirty-five years and more recently president cf the Columbia State bank, is dead of heart disease. One son. Perry Williamson, Indianapolis, and a sister survive.

at the home until tonight, where it may be viewed by friends. Funeral services will be held in the Culbertson Avenue Baptist church. New Albany, at 2 tomorrow, and burial will be in Fairview cemetery, New Albany. Mrs. Owens had lived in Indian- ! apolis ten years. She was a member of Tuxedo Park Baptist church.! Surviving her are three daughters. Mrs. Clutton, Miss Ollie B. Owens. Indianapolis, and Mrs. Lusada Hamlin, Washington, and a son, H. Burton Owens, New Albany. Services for Miss Day Funeral services for Miss Margaret E. Day, 72. who died Wednesday at the home of a niece, Mrs. Elbert DeLong, Seventy-first street and Zionsville road, were to be held at 2 this afternoon at the Lutheran church. New Augusta, with burial in Crown Hill. Miss Day had lived near New Augusta sixty years. Surviving her are the niece and two sisters. Mrs. Minnie Rodibaugh and Mrs. Grant Pollard, Tualatin, Ore. Sisloff Funeral Set The funeral of Charles Sisloff. 74, who died yesterday in the Hier hotel, will be held at 10 tomorrow in the Ragsdale and Price funeral home. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Mr. Sisloff had lived in Indianapolis since he was 8. Surviving him are the widow. Mrs. Maud Sisioff; a daughter. Mrs. Elizabeth McCoy, Los Angeles, and a brother, Jesse S. Sisloff, Indianapolis. Mrs. Brown to Be Buried Last rites for Mrs. Mary F. Brown, 80. who died yesterday in her home, 1226 King avenue, will be held at 10 tomorrow in the Conkle funeral home, with the Rev. George G. Kimsey, Memorial Baptist church pastor, in charge. Burial will be in Floral Park cemetery. Surviving her are the widower, John W. Brown, i ”and two daughters. Pautzke Rites Today Funeral services for William Pautzke, 71, who died Tuesday at his home, 723 East Ohio street, were to be held at 2 this afternoon in the Grinsteiner funeral chapel. Burial was to be in Floral Park cemetery. No immediate relatives survive. Harry Shaffer Succumbs Harry Shaffer, 48, of 611 North Delaware street, died yesterday in a gasoline filling station at Delaware and Walnut streets, shortly after he became ill and asked Albert Daniels, 309 East Ohio street, to call a physician. Mr. Daniels was on his way to get medical aid for Mr. Shaffer when Shaffer fell dead in the driveway of the filling station. He is survived by the widow.

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E. L. COTHRELL DIES SUDDENLY AT CITY HOME Prominent Realtor and ExNewspaper Man Passes at 74. E L. Cothrell. 74. of 125 East Fall Creek boulevard, prominent local realtor and former newspaper man, died unepectedly today in his home. He had been in the real estate business here thirty-five years, was a former presi-

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dent of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board and headed the E. L. Cothrell Realty Company. Born in Ft. Wayne, Mr. Cothrell had been associated with the Goodrich Paper Company. Evansville, the Indianapolis Sun and the

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Kansas City Star. He was one of the founders of the latter newspaper. He is survived by the widow, Mrs. E. L. Cothrell. and three daughters, Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks. Indianapolis; Mrs. Roy Coles. Washington, D. C.. and Mrs. Charles Meyer, Indianapolis. Asa realtor Mr. Cothrell laid out the addition along Fall Creek boulevard as well as other city developments. Funeral services have not been completed.

MORE NATIONAL PARTY CANDIDATES APPROVED Eleven Names to Be Chosen From 143 Legislature Aspirants. Additional National party candidates have been approved by the Marion county board. Included are Bert Decker, 1305 Bellefontaine street, auditor; Mary Hare, Berwin street, recorder; Clarence S. Arnold. Route 5, sheriff; Fred Binninger, 1203 Bradbury street, assessor. Eleven candidate for state representative from a list of 143 recommended will be approved this week. County campaign managers are Mabel Gettinger and Arthur Crane, Center township; F. X. Walter, Pike and Wayne townships; S. M. Duffey, Washington and Lawrence townships; Ben H. Long, Warren township, and Clarence Arnold and Marie Mischko, Decatur and Wayne townships. SPAIN FACED BY CRISIS Bloodshed Feared If Present Regime Is Voted Down Monday. MADRID. Sept. 28.—A political crisis of grave moment seemed certain today as parliament prepared to meet Monday. The fall of the government of Premier Ricardo Samper was predicted freely, and if it falls, a test of strength between right wing and Socialist elements might mean bloodshed.