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WASHINGTON, March I*—l rant answer the verbal bps'a of either Father Coughlin or Huey Long in 500 words. Yet I must some day answer so much of their statements as are not true. I think the country is not very much interested in what I think of these men personally or what they think of me Indeed on the subject of

what Father Coughlin thinks of me. I am very much confused myself. Two da its ago he took 45 minutes on the air to say some very unpleasant things but on Oct. 1 I received from him a telegram which said: * My Dear General I joyed with you and wept with

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you dunng your discourse this afternoon You have served your country and its citizens more courageously than we dare express at the present moment. That man who attempts to do a public service as wholeheartedly and as honestly as you have done is a fool if he hopes to escape the vinegar of calumny and the thorns of grief. God bless you.” He was for A! Smith and tried as hard o sell him to you as he did any tenet of his present faith—until Al disagreed with him—then Al. to him. became a curse. He was loyal to the priests of his faith until Cardinal O'Connell displeased him and then, in a diatribe, he ripped the shirt off the cardinal. He made four speeches directly attacking the President and when I went after him for it, he came scuttling back into the Roosevelt fold. At least my speech • Pied Pipers” produced that effect —and may I say to you that this was the only effect it was intended to produce? After a winter of political bundling with Huey, he has now left the Louisiana demagog out on a limb. How can anybody trust a man who discloses himself daily as so unworthy of trust even though he appeals to trust as a priest of a great church in the vestments of a holy calling? mam A Xeir Ftible? He A*kx I THINK the public finally sickens of such mud-slinging, and I promise them but little more of it, but I must and shall make clear the tactics of this turncoat. Huey compared me with David Crocket who, he says, shot a possum and did not know that it was only a louse in hia own eyebrow. I can assure Huey that I didn't think I was shooting a possum. In the small minority of my adverse mail is an unsigned postal card whose author I would like to know because I love that kind of guy. It says: "If you were in a room with 200 skunks they would •11 run out—and wouldn't your face be red.” It is red with the 200 Father Coughlin, after likening himself to George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln, and even bringing in the Savior of Mankind, savs that I am the servant of a master —a prince of Israel —named Mannseh. who he said sawed the prophet Isaiah in two. He is talking about Bemie Baruch, whose name he gives as Manasseh Baruch. The latter's name is no more Manasseh than Coughlins Is Doodlesack and he knows it. The name is Mannes —that of a well-known South Carolina family —friends of the Baruch's. I haven't even been able to find the episode of the rip-sawing of Isaiah in my Bible. Maybe Father Coughiin is writing anew one. I think we have the right to demand accuracy as well as truth from any one who rises in the robes of the church to advise this tortured people in a crisis He says I called the great pool of distressed people in this country cry-babies and rats. What I truly said was that thev had been abused and were Justified in any resentment. All this is on the public record. I said, as I have said for 10 years past, iong before he began to say anything—that we *sum run out these great injustices or sacrifice our government. My only quarrel with either him or Huey Long is that their remedy for helping us is worse than the trouble we are in. ■ Copyright. 1935 hr UnVod Feature Svndiea*; lac All right* reset-red. lUorodutnon in whole or m part forbidden I URGES” ARMS - CONTROL V. of F. W. Chief Calls Munition* Industry "Racket.” By United Press WASHINGTON. March 14 —Denouncing the munitions industry as a • racket that would put to shame those of organized gangdom.” Commander James E. Van Zandt of the Veterans of Foreign Wars today urged Federal control of arms manufacture. He also recommended taxes in wartime to "equalize the pay of all civilians and soldiers.” Times Index Page Bridge 11 Broun 13 Comics 23 Crossword Puzzle 23 Curious World 23 Editorial 14 Financial 16 Junior Aviation 9 Napoleons Letters 13 Pegler 13 Radio 6 Sports 18-19 State Hews 5 Theaters 30-21 Woman s Paces * 10-il

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VOLUME 47 —NUMBER 3

1913 GAS LEASE FAVORABLE TO STOCKHOLDERS Indianapolis Gas Company Owners Guaranteed Dividends by Terms. RIVAL UNITS MERGED Citizens Cos. Agrees to Pay Interest on Common Shares, Bonds. This it Ikt second of > series of articles on the ramifications of the nation-wide (as situation with emphasis on the man; development! as the; appl; to Indianapolis. BY VINCENT LYONS , Times Financial Editor In the first few years of its existence. the Citizens Gas Cos. was competing with the Indianapolis Gas Cos., of which large blocks of stock were in the hands of Commodore Benedict, popular figure of that day. and the Standard Oil Cos. There was. however, a slight difference in the operations of the competitors, as Citizens produced its gas as a by-product of coke, whereas Indianapolis Gas received its salable product from retort ovens and water gas plants. Evidently concluding that there was no necessity for two companies to supply gas to the same community. the Indianapolis Gas Cos. decided to quit the field in 1913. Volney T. Malott then headed a local .syndicate which acquired the entire 40,000 shares of common stock at 90 to 95 per cent of its face value of SSO par. This same company In 1902 had issued a portion of an authorized $7.-, 500.000 issue of first mortgage 5 per cent bonds, due in 1952. By the end of 1913, the amount of such bonds outstanding was $4,833,000. These obligations are a first lien on the entire property of the Indianapolis Gas Cos., which, of course, includes the mains. Take Over Entire Plant With control of Indianapolis Gas Cos. vested in the hands of local citizens. Mr. Malott's syndicate in September of that year leased the entire plant and property of their company to the Citizens Gas Cos. for a term of 99 years. While the lease was wholesome in itself in that it | tended to merge the properties of j the two companies and end duplication of services, the contract was a very complicated document. Under its terms the Citizens Gas Cos. agreed to pay to the Indianapolis Gas Cos. a yearly rental sufficient to pay 6 per cent interest on the $2,000,000 common stock, 5 per cent interest on the outstanding bonds, taxes, expenses, royalties and charges and to maintain and operate the leased property. The Citizens Gas Cos. also agreed to keep the property in repair and to make all needed betterments and improvements, for which the Indianapolis Gas Cos. was to issue its bonds and deliver them to the Citizens Gas Cos. New Deal for Owners Thus lease created anew deal for the owners of the common stock. Whereas under the old regime they were entitled to dividends when earned, the lease guaranteed the payment of these dividends for the full 99 years of the contract at the attractive rate of 6 per cent annually. Asa result the common shares within the space of a few months were transformed from an ordinary speculation to membership m the much more select fraternity of guaranteed-dividend securities. A further indication of how well the owners of the Indianapolis Gas Cos. common stock fared under the lease is seen by an analysis of one of the provisions of this document. Originally the contract was made on ihe basis of a rate of 55 cents each 1000 cubic feet for gas. A clause, however, provided that when the maximum gas price is between 46 and 50 cents the total annual dividends on the common shares shall be stepped up from $120,000 to $130,000. A further lift in the dividends to $135,000 is proiTnrn to Page Fivel

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Fight With Johnson Has Just Begun, Father Coughlin Reveals, Sacrificing Adventure Near to His Heart to Carry on Campaign for ‘Economic Liberty *

BY FORREST DAVIS Timri Special Writer ROYAL OAK. Mich., March 13 As Wall Street's inveterate Savonarola views it, he and Gen. Hugh Johnson have just finished the first inning of what he hopes will be a full nine-inning game. The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin. Whose accusatory phrases stream out of this prairie hamlet week by week, had last bats in the extraordinary controversy on Monday night. Grimly, he awaits the next instalment of Johnsonian invective. Father Ooughlin, holed up here in his immediate little world—his office in the bold. 150-foot masonry of the towered Shrine of the Little Flower, the gaunt, unfinished basilica adjoining the frame mission chapel where he started, the cottage ptnonact and the scattered work*

Richard R. Harrison, Beloved ‘De Lawd’ of ‘Green Pastures,’ Dead; Won Plaudits of All U. S.

Kindly Negro Performed in Favorite Role for Five Years. By I nited Press NEW YORK, March 14. Richard B. Harrison, the kindly Negro who won national fame through his interpretation of “De Lawd” in the play “The Green Pastures,” died today. A week ago Saturday, the 70-y ea r- old white-haired Negro was stricken just before the curtain went up on a matinee performance. His role was assumed by an understudy. Mr. Harrison was taken to Fifth Avenue Hospital. He had played the part of the benevolent Deity for five years—l6s6 consecutive times—before he was stricken. At the hospital he told friends he was “plumb tuckered out.” Success came to Mr. Harrison with a dramatic suddenness that washed away 60 years of life as a newsboy, bellboy, waiter, Pullman porter and Shakespearean reader. Kept Critics Delighted He came to Broadway at the age of 65. and five years later was acclaimed one of the greatest actors of the country. His portrayal of “De Lawd” in "The Green Pastures,” was so sincere that hard-boiled critics raved over each performance. Friends said his deep sense of religion gave tne venerable Negro actor his balance in the play—a balance that kept the role from becoming a burlesque or travesty. “De Lawd” of Richard Berry Harrison was a man of dignity, albeit a man who loved humanity, and who led his flock through the Negro conception of religion. Smart sophisticates of Broadway and Park Avenue—veteran first nighters—gasped at the performance of the all-Negro troupe when “The Green Pictures” started its lengthy run on Feb. 26, 1930. Made Slow Entrance Few of them, however, expected the dramatic performance of “De Lawd,” and when the final curtain went down, the audience applauded until the actor appeared time an?* again before the curtain. “Gangway,” intoned a blackskinned Gabriel festooned with gilt wings, “Gangway fo’ De Lawd God Jehovah.” From the wings strode “De Lawd” —dressed in prince albert coat, white string tie and white hair hanging around broad shoulders. It was a slow, dramatic entrance, for Mr. Harrison could not conceive of “De Lawd” being in a hurry. Each gesture he imparted to the character was imbued with a sense of reverence. He had hesitated long before accepting the part in the fear it was sacrilegious. Mr. Harrison brought to the stage the background and heritage of his race. The son of Runaway slaves who had fled to Canada, he knew the suffering and the heartbreak of his race. Got Start as Singer “De Lawd” was born in London. Ont.. and the death of his father when Richard was 10 sent him out in search of work. A paper boy in London, he drifted to the nearest city—Detroit—where he was successively bell boy, porter and waiter in that city’s hotels. The few' minutes a day he could find for his own uses he turned to study, particularly music. Asa Pullman porter in later years, he sang as he went about his duties. An official who marveled at his rich voice arranged training for the Negro, and for more than 40 years, Mr. Harrison engaged in concert and lecture work. “World Needs This Play” “Green Pastures" toured the country for tw’o years, w'as greeted everywhere with acclaim, and returned to New York on Feb. 26. 1935—the fifth anniversary or its premier. After 1556 consecutive performances, “De Lawd” had to quit. He summonded Charles Winter Wood, his understudy, to his dressing room. "Hold me up. Charles, hold me up. I’ll be back in a few days. The w'orld needs this play.” he said. “I’ll do my best,” Wood promised. Mr. Harrison’s widow is in a Detroit hospital.

men’s houses that make up his parish—prepares, with the joy of battle in his veins, to meet Gen. Johnson’s war of extermination in the vast outside world he nas linked to his pulpit. He is a fighter. No one knows that better than faint-hearted friends who. from time to time, seek to modify his prcoh-ic wrath. Self-confident, cocksure, armed invincibly with what he conceives to be the true solution of the economic dilemma. Father Coughlin brooks no temporizing counsel. He offers no quarter to the cavalryman with the “underslung vocabulary. ’’ At the moment, as it seems from this partial vantage point, the odds are with the priest against the soldier. Gen. Johnson beats the drums for a popular rising against Father Coughlins ecqpoauo gospel. But

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Good Night, Father a m # * * Fellow Members of ‘Green Pastures’ Cast Revered ‘De Lawd’ Off Stage.

BY DONALD POND Times Staff Writer RICHARD B. HARRISON, “de lawd Gawd Almighty,” was a remarkable man—a credit to his race, which he loved greatly, and to the stage, which he came to love greatly, ’though he had suspected it at first. This writer was the first newspaper man to interview Mr. Harrison

HARRISON PROUD OF HIS DEEP RELIGION Off Stage He Was Brother to His Friends. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN “When death comes to me, I hope I will be playing the role of De Lawd.’ ” That was the wish expressed by Richard B. Harrison when he was first here with “The Green Pastures" at English’s. At that time, Mr. Harrison was not elevated to stardom as he wa.s when he played English’s early in the present season. This aged Negro actor found time to advise other members of the cast on the right way to live. They brought their problems to him and he talked to them off the stage as their “parson and brother.” He was proud of the fact that he had lived a deeply religious life before he started to play the role which made him famous. He had a keen sense of humor and he loved "hoss racin'—that is to look at them.” He was always interested in speed and I took him to the Speedway to see the famous oval on his last visit here. For nearly an hour, he sat in one of empty grandstands and pictured to himself what might happen atone of the great races. Mr. Harrison was stricken as he was getting ready to play his part again on Broadway. He went to the hospital waiting to become strong enough to resume his role. 37 CHILDREN INJURED IN SCHOOL BUS CRASH Two Critically Hurt When Machine Is Telescoped. By United Press JACKSON, Tenn., March 14. Thirty-seven school children were injured, two critically, when their school bus was telescoped by a truck loaded with livestock and the entangled vehicles tumbled down a 20-foot embankment near here today.

Father Coughlin already sits astride a popular rising—the National Union for Social Justice, a voluntary, unassessed group of devotees extending from coast to coast. No one apart from an office manager or an auditor in the priest’s mail room knows how many Americans have signed membership cards in the National Union. Estimates, coming from Father Coughlin himself, have put the total at 6.000,000 But no one doubts that they are a power. The deluge of 40.000 telegrams that poured into a wavering Senate on the World Court issue testifies to a cohesive weapon that few public men would care to face. Here, then, sits Father Coughlin, intrenched behind his following, his gift for metaphor and his consecration. For with Father Coughlin, the job of expending the country's money system, to iocjude the dis-

after his sensational triumph on that first night of “Green Pastures” in the cold February of 1930, and, to him, Mr. Harrison was a man always to be remembered. Gentle of voice and demeanor, very much the educated gentleman, he commanded the scene. Still amazed, after the curtain had gone down on the second night performance, by the success that had been his, “de Lawd Gawd Almighty” told the story of his life with the utmost simplicity. n n n THAT story has been told hundreds of times since—his Canadian birth, his work as an elocutionist and as an educator, his suspicion that he should not go on the Broadway stage. But, the telling of it in cold words can never convey the great, quiet dignity of the man and the mellow sound that was his talking. One thing stands out above others in the memory of that night when “de Lawd,” tired even then, leaned back against a pile of scenery and talked. It is this scene: Out from their dressing rooms came a group of four or five of his fellow Negro actors. One was a child. The others were adults. As they passed Mr. Harrison, they paused for a second. A man lifted his hat. "Good night. Father.” they said, as though they we-e addressing a priest. "Good night, my children,” he replied. Mr. Harrison must have seen the slightly startled look on this writer’s face. He smiled, very gently. “Don't you understand?” he asked. It was impossible not to understand. RINTELEN IS GIVEN LIFE Former Austrian Minister Sentenced in Dollfuss Killing. By United Press VIENNA, March 14.—Anton Rintelen, white-haired former minister to Rome, was sentenced by a summary military court today to life imprisonment for his part in the Nazi revolt of last July 25. when Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was assassinated.

possessed and the lowly, is something more than a formula. It is a crusade. His charitable emotions, his career as a public man, the circumstances that lifted him from the obscurity of a missionary pastor to world-wide consequence, his hatred of highly placed arrogance—all these depend on his steadfastness in the "money fight.” For that fight he has sacrificed an adventure near to his heart—an adventure in aesthetics. The Shrine of the Little Flower basilica lies neglected. I saw it today in a snowstorm which made the windowless wall, the altarless, unpaved sanctuary, the . whole skeletal desolation of the unfinished building seem desolate. I visited the growing church in the late fall of 1933. Then we were shown about by an architect. Masons, steel workers ud carpenter* busily

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11. S. TO TIKE COM. OK# SMOIMS Dual System Doomed, Is Report; All to Be Under Federal Charters. (Copyright, 1D35, by United Press) WASHINGTON. March 14.—Elimination of the present dual system of state and Federal chartered banks by bringing all banks under a Federal charter is an ultimate objective of the Administration’s banking progran% the United Press learned today. The first step in this program is contained in the new banking act of 1935 which offers strong inducement for all banks to join the Federal Reserve system. Only 6437 of the country's 15,600 banks are members of the Reserve system. When all banks are brought into the Reserve system some years hence, the United Press was told, government officials will give serious consideration to bringing all banks under a Federal charter. The entire program may take 10 years or longer but it is believed the ultimate objective is that a single class of American banks be established. Both governmental and banking leaders have repeatedly attacked the present dual system of banking now operating under Federal and 48 state laws as contributing to the recent banking difficulties. National banks under a Federal charter have been forced to compete with state chartered banks in 48 states, which in some cases have established extremely liberal laws and caused undue “competition” with National banks. Under the government’s banking objective, all banks would be members of the Federal Reserve System, which would control in a large part their credit and other policies. Chartering of the banks would be done by the comptroller of currency. If this were accomplished there would be only one class of banks in the United States, all members of the Federal Reserve System and the national banking system and all subject to one Federal law. Supervision of banks would be taken out of the hands of state authorities at savings of millions of dollars to the states. All banks would be subject to one law and a unified and uniform system of banking established. Opponents of the plan claim it would take powers away from the states and vest them in the hands of Washington officials. KROGER INCREASES REWARD TO $2500 Workers Add to Fund for Driver’s Death Clew. The Kroger Grocery and Baking Cos., whose truck driver John Penny was killed by stoning a week ago tonight, today increased the reward ior information leading to arrest and conviction of the murderers from SIOOO to $2500. Os the SISOO increase, the company gave SIOOO and the Kroger Employes Mutual Benefit Association provided SSOO. The company offered the first SIOOO the morning after the crime occurred. Penny died early Sunday of a fractured skull. The murderers threw a stone into the cab of his moving truck one mile west of Belleville. More than 150 Kroger officials and employes attended services yesterday at the home, 26 E. llth-st. Senate Again Routs Huey By United Press WASHINGTON, March 14.—Senator Huey P. Long <D., La.) today failed in an effort to write into the work-relief bill a provision that $100,000,000 might be used to provide college educations for needy youths. The vote was 58 to 27.

crossed the rough cement floor of the large nave. I was taken into the organ loft, the sacristy to be, the parsonage adjoining. A remarkable church was going up here on the bare prairie. Father Coughlin was enormously proud of the enterprise. The Eishop of Detroit thought of making it a procathedral. Today no workmen could be found within the shrine's wide grounds. Work has been stopped on the million dollar shrine. Father Coughlin had his choice; the shrine or the campaign for what he believes to be social reform. He temporarily abandoned the shrine. The frame chapel would do, he thought, for the moment. So the diminished flow of quarters and half dollars, fives and tens— fof thft i

Worst Conditions in Last 50 Years, Is Report of Federal Engineers Stationed in Missouri and Arkansas. TOIL TO BOLSTER SOGGY LEVEES Situation Far Worse Than ir, 1927 and in 1931, Is Word From Sector; Steady Exodus Is Under Way. By United Press Thousands of townspeople and farmers, residents along tributaries of the Mississippi River, today were fleeing for their lives from rising waters that threaten the worst flood conditions in 50 years. Government engineers and National Guardsmen, stationed along the Black and St. Francis Rivers in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, sounded a warning today.

JUDGE BAKER'S KIN KERN'S PICK Brother Recommended for Park Board Post; Sallee to Be Renamed. Mayor John W. Kern will recommend tonight to the Park Board the appointment of Clyde Baker, brother of Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker, as his attorney. Attorney Baker is 46, lives at 806 E. Raymond-st, is married and has five children. He is a graduate of Manual Training High School, and the Indiana University Law School. His only previous public office was that of deputy prosecutor in I Municipal Court in 1913-14. He was unsuccessful as Democratic candidate for Marion County Auditor in 1914. He will succeed H. Nathan Swaim. The annual salary is $2565. A. C. Sallee, 5719 Broadway Terrace, will be recommended for reappointment as superintendent of parks. Long-time Democrat, he once was secretary to the late Tom Taggart, Indiana Democratic boss, and was twice chairman of the Democratic state committee. The annual salary is $4,454. Albert was appointed' assistant commissioner and chief clerk of the street department at sl7lO annually, to succeed William Schoenrogg, who had held the position for nearly 10 years. Le Grande Marvin. 3342 N. New Jersey-st, supplanted John Cissell in the city engineering office at a yearly salary of $1536. Howard Lanhan, 4916 Young-st, was named to succeed Dow B. McLeay, as senior field aid in the engineering department at a yearly salary of $1295. " John 'Bull Moose) Walker, 3128 Graceland-av. was appointed subforeman in the city asphalt plant at a yearly salary of $lBlB yearly. MYSTERY PUNE HOPS FOR HAWAII TONIGHT Robot Pilot to Get Test on Blind Flight. TCopyright. 1935. by United Press) OAKLAND, Cal., March 14.—At midnight tonight a mystery airplane, guided by a robot pilot and anew directional compass, will leave the Oakland airport for Honolulu with United States Army fliers as passengers, the United Press learned today. The 2100-mile over-water trip from the mainland to the Hawaiian Islands will be tne supreme test of new blind flying equipment which may revolutionize long distance flying and make commercial air routes over large bodies of water more practicable.

small people who support his crusade have been progressively impoverished—has been diverted from church-building to the cause of "economic liberty—returning America to the Americans.” , And, as part of the answer to Gen. Johnson's attack, Father Coughlin preparres to lengthen his broadcasting season. On last Sunday, he laid the problem before his usual audience. Shall we, he asked, end the season on Easter or, in the light of the Johnson challenge, continue it through the summer? The response, as so far noted in the crowded mail room under the tower, overwhelmingly favors protracting the season. The Coughlin followers, in every state, wish him to continue along this line whether or not it takes all SUBUBCZV

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The flood situation in this area was described as far worse than the disasters of 1927 and 1931. Water from the hills near the Arkansas state line have turned brooklets into raging streams. And although flood stage has been reached in Butler and Dunklin counties in Missouri; government engineers today predicted that St. Francis River within 48 hours would break over its 65 miles of levee with a two-foot wall of flood waters. Hundreds of families were moving out of the lowlands in the wake of | yesterday’s exodus. Refugees from Dunklin County, lowest elevation in Missouri, were being accommodated in Red Cross tents, railroad box cars and public buildings at Kennett. R. I. Jones, chairman of relief work at Kennett, said the St. Fran- ! cis River this morning was two feet higher than the 1927 flood crest. Thousands of workmen were repairing the soggy 25-year-old levees in hopes of bulwarking them against the disastrous rise the river is expected to make before Saturday. Four companies of National Guardsmen patrolled the area, aiding families in moving from tile the thousands of acres almost certain to be flooded by several feet of water. Wabash Is Stationary The swollen waters of White and Wabash Rivers, in the southwestern section of the state, are either falling or stationary, reports to the United States Weather Bureau here showed today. J. H. Armington, Federal MeteorI ologist, said that, within 24 hours, : the rivers would again fall below the flood stage. The Wabash at Mt. Carmel, 111., near the Indiana state line, stood at 16.2 feet today, slightly above the flood stage. White River is falling and the Wabash River is stationary at Vincennes with 12.4 feet. The lowlands in the southwestern section undoubtedly will be flooded some by the overflow of the Wabash, Mr. Armington said. Although rain is forecast for tomorrow, it will fall in the north part of the state. The local forecast is for fair tonight followed by increasing cloudiness tomorrow. The I temperatures are expected to rise with the mercury recording not lower than 38 tonight. Town Is Isolated (Copyright, 1335. by United Press) SUCCESS, Ark., March 14.—This little tovn of 250 persons was trapped by water at least 8 feet deep | on all sides today as flood menaces increased on Mississippi tributary rivers in southeastern Missouri and eastern Arkansas. “Many persons had to break through the roofs of their homes to escape the rapidly rising flood waters and call attention to rescuers,” Mayor F. W. Cochrane told the United Press today. The town, situated on the east i side of Current and Little Black Rivers was isolated except by boat, raft or telephone. Rivers, comparatively small, were broadened six or eight miles, with practically all the rich farming lands in the township covered by water, the mayor described. “Farm lands, including thousands of acres of wheat, are covered with water at least 4 feet deep.” s7oo,oboToOO SOUGHT IN WALLACE’S BUDGET Bulk of Appropriations Assigned to AAA Requirements. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 14.—The Department of Agriculture and the AAA will spend $700,000.000 during the fiscal year beginning July 1, it was indicated today as the department’s appropriation bill was reported to the House. The bill itself carried $122,113,878 for regular activities of the department. In addition, the appropriations committee estimated $578,452,596 would be spent from automatic appropriations which it was not necessary to carry in the bill. Virtually all this amount will go for AAA benefits. 11 Hurt in Rail Crash By United Press CARADOC, Ontario. March 14. In a blinding snowstorm a Canadian Pacific Railways Toronto-Detroit bound passenger train crashed head-on into a standing freight train, injuring ll persona her® last night* r