Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 34, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1935 — Page 15

APRIL 19, 1935

OPTIMISM STILL HOLDS SWAT IN STRICKEN WEST Farmers Insist It’s Bound to Rain in Dust Area Yet. BY FRANK M’NAL’GHTON 1 nitrrt Prm Corrupondent LIBERAL, Kan, April 18 —For a week I encountered nothin? but misery and despair, saw nothing but desolation and ruin. I came to Southwestern Kansas expecting repetit'on of scenes In the “corner” sections of Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, where I traveled In some of the worst "dust blizzards" of the year. I hadn’t known of Tom Hopkins. “Hell. 11l buy land here any time, farm it and make good in the long run,” he said. “This Is Good Country” "This is good country if we can just get rain. That’s all we need, and we re sure to get a rain or two in the next year. “Then we’ll clean up. Wheat prices will be ’way up. “Sure, conditions are bad now. But it has rained before and will rain again. There’s no use getting scared. Some are leaving but not me; 111 buy land in the Liberal area any time. Just today I looked at a section I’m going to buy.” Mr. Hopkins owns a section of wheat land here and 10,000 acres in eastern Colorado. He’s a "tractor farmer." works on a large scale and does much of his own work. Not So Bad OfT Mr. Hopkins’ fields did not reflect his bright optimism. They were barren, coated a brownish black with drifted and still blowing dust. He granted he wouldn’t make a crop this year. But this part of the Arkansas River valley is not as bad ofT as the region around Springfield, Colo., and Boise Citv, Okla. Around Syracuse and Garden City, Kan., there has been a little rain—not enough, but some. The soil. too. Is blacker and contains more vegetable matter to hold it together. It is possible that the valley alfalfa crop may “make" this season, if the showers continue. During the Journey from Lamar, Colo., through the valley section of Southwest Kansas I saw several patches of green stuff. “Change Bound to Come” E. 8. Rule of Wichita, Kas., president of an oil company, was looking over the old X-Y ranch at Lamar. The 30,000 acres looked like •Y much desert. But, like Mr. Hopkins he was ready for a war to the finish with the elements. "Os course, things are bad now,”

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he said. "But a change is bound to come.” * At Garden City. L. M. Sloan. Finney County agent, blamed "suitcase farmers" for the destruction of the Finney County wheat crop, which he said would be a complete failure. “The ’suitcase farmers’ come here only in good years, plow up all the ground and make a big crop.” he said. "Then in the dought years the land dries out and is at the mercy of the wind. That's why we have dust storms." The drought which left the Arkansas River a dry bed with practically no flow except by seeaoge cut off irrigation and threw hundreds of workers on sugar beet farms out of employment. There isn't f. vegetable garden in the valley. At thbt, only about one-fourth of Finney County's 12.000 inhabitants are on elief, according to Mrs. Estelle Groebe. relief director. Some 75 families have moved away since the dust started blowing. Rains next month would enable

farmers to raise sorghums for livestock feeding. Bankers and business men, now sustained only by Federal relief money circulating in this area, are gambling on the chance that the rains will come. FT. WAYNE MILK UNION VOTES WALKOUT MAY 1 150 Decide to Strike Unless Pay Hike Is Granted. By X nitrd Press FT. WAYNE, Ind., April 19.—A miik truck drivers’ strike loomed here today following a meeting of the Truck Drivers Union last night. Approximately 150 drivers voted at the meeting to walk out May 1 unless some solution to the milk war. which began last December, is brought about and higher wages assured before that time. The vote came after more than five months of alleged cutitng of milk truck drivers’ wages.

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SECURITY BILL SPEEDS TOWARD GOAL IN HOUSE Jobless Insurance Section Approved as Enemies Give Up Fight. By l nited Press WASHINGTON. April 19.—The House drove toward final passage of the Roosevelt economic security bill this afternoon, approving without a direct vote the vital unemployment insurance section, calling for state systems, financed by pay roll taxes. A fight, to amend the section, which requires states to establish adequate minimum benefits, was abandoned after a ruling holding out of order the Lord amendment for a minimum of $7 a week to all jobless. The House then turned to the maternal and child health provisions of the bill. Liberals apparently felt in the face of Administration “steam roller” tactics that their fight was lost. They were beaten down on 26 amendments yesterday, the Lundeea unemployment insurance plan and the Townsend old-age plan going down to one-sided defeats. A last stand was planned on the social insurance tax features of the bill. The unemployment insurance section was the third approved, six sections of the bill remaining. Many of the titles were expected to be approved rapidly.

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CITY DOCTOR TO TAKE SOUTH AMERICA POST Surgeon to Remain Until Dec. 1 in Peru Hospital. Dr. Emmett B. Lamb,. 738 Orangest, will sail for South America, May 6, to take a temporary position as chief surgeon of the Lobitos Petroleum Cos. Hospital, at Talara, Peru. He will have charge of field work done by the hospital and will return to Indianapolis Dec. 1 to resume private practice. Dr. Lamb, who has offices at 902 Hume-Mansur Building, was resident surgeon in St. Luke’s Hospital, Chicago, for a year, and spent two years at Indianapolis City Hospital as interne and resident physician. Compete for Music Laurels Miss Frances Wilson, cello pupil at St. Mary’s Academy, and her accompanist, Miss Florence Casserly, will go to Bloomington Monday to compete in the finals of the state music contest conducted by the Indiana University Music School.

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WALLACE HURLS DEFI AT LOBBYING GROUP Challenges Farm Industry Parley to Reveal Backers. By United Press WASHINGTON. April 19—Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, challenged the "Agricultural Indus* tries Conference," which he described in a radio address last night as "a powerful lobby group," to reveal whom they actually represented. Mr. Wallace defended the AAA processing tax and asserted the lobby group \~as engaged in a “fight td the last ditch against measures they think might serve the interests of the farmers and consumers 4 ’ The group, he said, was organized by processors opposing proposed amendments to the AAA.