Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1937 — Page 4
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CLAIMS 34,300 FARM FAMILIES TOBUY PLACES
RA Director for Five Central States Predicts New Purchases.
Eventual farm ownership for 34.000 families In Indiana, Ohio, I1llinoIS, Missouri and Towa was predicted today by R. C. Smith, Resettlement Administration director of the five-state region. He pointed out that many of the families, who are borrowers under RA rehabilitation work, have managed to regain a foothold through rehabilitation loans. “Three years ago few of families would have been able have farmed their own land if had had a chance to buy it)” said “Many were youngsters just starting out and forced, for lack of capital, to work as farm laborers. Othors were once-established farm families who had lost their during the depression or because of crop failures. But they all had a common need—credit for operating
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Most Loans Repaid Rapidly He rapidly are repaying their RA loans
said most of the borrowers and at the same time accumulating livestock and equipment In addition.” he said. “they have had assistance in setting up and carving out sound farm and home management plans.” The RA, he added. is offering to a limited number of rehabilitated families the opportunity to purchase land through resettlement projects. Buvers are to take over the land under 40-vear mortgages bearing
3 per cent interest. Predicts More Purchases Mr,
recentiy
Smith said he expected the enacted Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act to make possible further opportunities for land purchases by families in the lower inbrackets. The act provides Tor $£85.000.000 in appropriations during the next three years to finance buving of long-term mort-
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COLORADO FARMERS SELL GRASSHOPPERS
Fish Bait Firms Pay $400 A Ton for Dead Ones.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug. 6.—Colorado farmers, for 40 days
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are reaping a profit from the invasion, Buyers from Michigan and ¢ ern states are paying $400 a ton dead grasshoppers. They say that Colorad ariety has a better than low alti-
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the flavor for fisl tude ‘hoppers Ranchmen and farmers are rating two-horse collecting devices scrape up swaths of dead and dump them In piles. The grasshoppers are canned
and shipped to anglers
Scientists Stumped by Painted Insect
5 ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Aug 6.-—-A grassh painted in lavendar and pink had entomologists stumped toqayY. E. P. Elder reported finding the insect on a sidewalk and he said he believed it have been painted up by entomological workers at It. Collins, Colo, who are studying the migratory habits of the insects. But how the ‘hopper could make the §50-mile jump from Ft. Collins to St. Joseph was more than anybody could figure out,
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Williamw and Theodore Medias, operators of a clothing store and pawn shop at 508 Indiana Ave. today had filed suit in Superior Court 2 for an injunction to prevent closing of the clothing store at 7 p. m. Plaintiffs say they have complied with a City ordinance by closing the pawn shop at 7 p. m.,, but must keep the clothing store open later to accommodate shoppers who work during the day. They claim police have warned them to close the clothing store also at that hour. Police Chief Morrissey, Mayor Kern, Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer and Atty. Gen. Omer Stokes Jackson are named defendants.
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2 PIOK CEMETERIES FOR SUICIDE SITES
Beech Grove Resident Dies At Wife's Grave.
Milbron L. Huckelberry, 323 N. 17th St. Beech Grove, drove his car into a Muncie cemetery, stood on the grave of his wife and child and shot himself to death vesterday, Muncie authorities reported. He was 59. His wife died in Anderson 10 years ago after a hit-and-run auto accident. His daughter Edith died in 1900 when & year old. A son. Lawrence, and several brothers and sisters survive, [imes Special a ROCKVILLE, Aug. 6-—Harmon Irland, Parke County clerk, placed a wreath on his wife's grave vesterday, sat down on the running board of his car, slashed his throat and died, police officers said.
SUSPECT INDICTED IN EARHART EXTORTION
N { " fed Presse NEW YORK. Aug. 6 —Wilber Rothar, 42, a Bronx janitor, was under indictment today charged with attempting to extort $2000 from George Palmer Putnam with a fantastic story of rescuing Mr. Putnam's wife, Amelia Earhart, Magistrate August Dreyer held the suspect in $20.000 bail for hearing Monday. The Grand Jury indicted him almost simultaneously. Rothar is said to have used an old scarf of Miss Earhart's in an effort to convince Putnam the missing filer had been rescued in the | Pacific and was being held for ran- | som,
FATHER, 2 CHILDREN DROWN Bu United Press BELLEVILLE, Mich. Aug. 6—A father and two children were drowned in the Huron River today when their rowboat capsized. An{other child was saved. The victims were Samuel R. Firebaugh, 45, railroad fireman and father of seven children; Marian, 14. and Samuel Jr. 10, {
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‘Article Denies Duke Gave Her Jewels of Queen Alexandra.
By United Press LONDON, Aug. 6.-—-A campaign [to stifie old “slanders” against the | Duke and Duchess of Windsor, pos | | sibly a prelude to a move to induce [them to return to England, was re‘newed in the Evening Star vester- | day. The Star's article was the sec-
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writer, at the Chateau de Cande in France. Id said the Duchess was possessed only of jewelry of cone servative taste, without extraordineary value-~"my few stones,” as the then Mrs. Wallis Warfield described them. ‘Few Nice Pieces’
“It is true,” she was quoted as saying, “that I have a few nice pieces, but not anything to compare with the quality and quantity which rich women possess.”
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