Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1937 — Page 1

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F.D.R. SHAPES FIGHT T0 HOLD

EW DEAL LINE

President Refuses to Yield Except on Minor Issues In Tax Laws.

CONGRESS ROW LIKELY

Roosevelt Support Sought in Mass Voters; Labor Truce Awaited.

WASHINGTON, Nov, R (U. P.).—Negotiators for the Committee for Industrial Organization resumed joint conferences with the American Federation of Labor today determined to press for a showdown on the question of authority of the A. F. of L. peace committee,

(Editorial, Pegler and Gen, Johnson, Page 10)

By THOMAS L. STOKES

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.— President Roosevelt is determined to ride out the current storm aroused against his policies by business, industry and finance without any substantial change in basic New Deal objectives. He has tacitly consented to modifications in the undistributedprofits and capital-gains taxes, now the center of fire, but he will not yield in the fundamental principle of either tax. The President probably will not enter this situation publicly, but will let Congress handle it with private assistance and direction from his Treasury experts. Bevond these concessions, which will be directed largely to the relief

of small busifess and industry, Mr. |

Roosevelt is not inclined to go. He intends to push for enactment of a Wage-Hour Bill and a Farm Bill. Nor is there any indication he will abandon his plans for creation of “seven TVA's,” or yield to the demands for modification the Utility Holding Company Act,

Deaf to Wall Street

Agitation for amendment of

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FORECAST: Clearing this afternoon followed hy fair and considerably colder tonight; tomorrow fair and slightly colder.

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CLASH CLAIMED

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IN MANCHUKUO

Nanking Hears of Border Flareup: Report Revolt

| Plains States, J. H. Armington, U.S. |

meteorologist, predicted today. “We should have clearing weather by late this afternoon,” he said, “and it also should get coldar, It is expected to be clear and colder tonight and tomorrow.” He said he expected temperatures to be in the neighborpared to a 6 a. m. reading today of 57.

BOARD TO VIEW SITE FOR HOME

‘Fire Watch Put on House Proposed for Juvenile Delinquents.

| County Commissioners this afterold former W. New York St. now being con-

| sidered as a possible County Juven- |

ile Detention Home site. Juvenile Court Judge John Geckler said he would confer with Com- | missioners later today. | ed the building Saturday. He said |if Commissioners accept the building he will make provisions to place | dependent children now housed in the present Juvenile Home in the | county-operated Children's Guardijans Home in Irvington. This will leave only delinquent children in the building, he ex- ( plained.

| Fire Watch Set At the same time, a 24-hour fire

watch was established at the con-

demned present home, 225 E. Michi- |

gan St., on orders of Fire Chief Fred C. Kennedy. He placed a detail of firemen at the home after a request by Judge Geckler, a The present home was termed | “inadequate and unsafe” in a spe- | cial, report by State Fire Marshal | Clem Smith last week. While Commissioners prepared to

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hood of 35 to 40 degrees, as com- |

noon were to inspect the 80-year- | Governor's mansion on |

Wagner Labor Act also seems to|offer a counter proposal on the lease niake no dent here, Street find any sympathy for relax- [local club women planned to take

ation of restrictions on stock-market | the Detention Home issue before the |

trading. | Indiana University Institute on his “no surrender” attitude as| Crime at Bloomington tomorrow. to basic objectives is e: J es is expected to be | Resolution Drafted

publicly affirmed by Mr. Roosevelt | Mrs. Edward H. Niles, Seventh

in his message to the opening of the special Congress session a week | District Federation of hence. | Clubs delinquency chairman, said The President faces a real strug- | she would present a resolution at gle with Congress. But he intends, the Institute condemning conditions to fight. | which led to the Fire Marshal's reIn seeking to complete his New | port. Deal program—by some labeled the | Investigators from the Fire MarSecond New Deal, by Gen. Hugh | shal's office gave qualified approval Johnson the Third New Deal—Mr. | Saturday to the W. New York St. Roosevelt's strategy will be to con- | building. However, they declared solidate his mass voter strength. | considerable repairs must be made Concerned Over Labor | before the building would meet the | fire code requirements as a temporOne of his major concerns at this | ary home site. time, therefore, is a reunion of war-| — ring C. I. O.-A. F. of L. labor forces | to present a united labor front. | While rank-and-file labor seems a!- | most unanimously for him, the split

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Nor does Wall | of the W. New York St. building, |

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may affect New Dealers in Congressional elections next year, and thus serve to cut down his strength in Congress, President Roosevelt today called Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Government economists White House for economic effects of the stock market decline and business recession. Those with whom Mr. Roos=velt will confer WPA economics adviser, Isadore Lubin, Labor Department economist, and Lauchlin Currie of the Federal Reserve Board. Earlier today Edward F. McGrady, former assistant Secretary of Labor, discussed with President Rooseveit “the general labor situation.” His visit with shortly before the resumption of the

to the

peace conference of the American | Federation of Labor and the Com- |

mittee for Industrial Organization, Mr. McGrady said he might John L. Lewis, C. I. O. head, but emphasized he was taking no part in the labor parley. Secretary of today also gave President Roosevelt what he termed a “running report

on business conditions” during a!

White House conference. Through the Wage-Hour Bill Mr. Roosevelt is seeking still further to consolidate labor, and by the Farm Bill to keep the farm support revealed by last year’s election. Through modification of the un-distributed-profits tax to relieve small business and industry, the President will seek to stem an apparent rising resentment among this still large and effective political group.

Stock Averages At 2-Year Low

NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (U. P.).—Re- |

newed pressure came into the stock market today and, despite mild support, prices dropped fractions to more than a point, with the DowJones industrial average at a new low for two years.

Heavy early selling centered in

steel, automobile and metal shares, |

but after U. S. Steel had reached a new low for the year at 31 some

support developed. U. S. Steel ral- | a fractional |

lied to above 53 for gain then slumped to 52% for % loss.

Hopkins and a group of |

a discussion of |

were Leon Henderson, |

the President was held |

see |

Commerce Roper |

| Local Firms Answer Action On Interest in Escrow.

Dismissal of a Federal Court suit seeking payment to Indianapolis Gas Co. bondholders of $590,000 in

in petitions filed today by two defendants. In its reply to the suit of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., the New England Life In- | surance Co. and the Savings Bank | of Baltimore, the Indianapolis Gas Co. denied it is negotiating with the City of Indianapolis to deprive bondholders of any legal rights. The company stated it had de- | faulted on interest payments, but | denied violation of an agreement

| zens Gas and Coke Utility which { provided for payment of interest on the money while held in escrow. | The company further denied any | attempts to devaluate the bonds | which total $6,881,000, and recognized as valid the leasing of its [ mains in 1913 to its successor, the | Citizens Gas Co.

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OF GAS BONDS SUIT

interest held in escrow, was asked |

made March 2, 1936, with the Citi-

FEAR RUSSO-ITALO CRISIS

Break With II Duce Held Possible as Envoy Calls at Rome.

between Russian and Japanese troops on Manchukuoan border.

ALLACE SAYS NORMAL GRANARY C BALANCE WHEEL

— | NANKING—New clashes reported |

Revolt of Chinese and Koreans in |

Mukden also rumored.

ROME — Reports circulated Soviet | Ambassador's call on Foreign Of- | fice may be connected with dipio- |

matic break. | holiday to return to Rome. L German-Japanese-Italian communism pact contains secret military clauses given impetus when German warships join Italian fleet in maneuvers, SHANGHAI—Japanese predict that

Shanghai will be isolated from Chinese by tomorrow.

SAN FRANCISCO—Alaskan fishermen and Pacific maritime unions join in plans for reprisal boycott against Japanese.

NANKING, Nov. 8 (U. P.)—New |

: | clashes between Russian and JapHe inspect- |

anese troops have occurred near the last Manchukuoan frontier 180 miles north of Vladivostok, according an unconfirmed report received here. The report also said that martial | law had been declared in Mukden |

when Chinese and Koreans made al simultaneous attack upon Japanese forces and that residents were moving valuable to places of greater safety. Soviet circles in Nanking said that a tense situation has prevailed in the region for some time but expressed the belief that no serious trouble would occur this winter since the Japanese are unable to | withstand the severe cold in the | Amur region. Meanwhile | here understood China fierce street | progress in the suburbs around Taiyuan, capital of Shansi, where [10.000 defenders refused to capitulate to Japanese demand for im-

military headquarters that in "north | fighting was in

| mediate surrender.

town 10 miles east of Taiyuan,

‘Rossville Woman Is Reported Safe

PEIPING, China, Nov. 8 (U. P).— | The fall of Taiyuan, capital of | Shansi province, is imminent, a Japanese spokesman asserted today, He said that the Japanese Kayashima unit captured the city's east gate at 9:30 a. m. and that one corner of the city had been occupied. Latest reports from the Shansi capital indicated that its possession would reach a climax today. It is the final Japanese objective in Shansi province. Japanese newspapermen brought letters from Pingting,

and Mrs. F. H. Crumpacker of McPherson, Kas.; Mary Gauntz and | Velma Ober of the Brethern Mission, Elgin, Il1.; Mrs. Myrtle Pollock of | McPherson, Kas.; Jessie Payne of | Vermillion, 8S. D.; Corda Wertz of Spencer, O., and Minerva Metzger of | Rossville, Ind., all American missionaries, were safe.

‘Soviet Break With Duce Held Possible

ROME, Nov. 8 (U. P).—Premier Mussolini hurried back to Rome by airplane today, cutting short a visit to Forli after Foreign Count Galeazzo Ciano

had tele-

phoned him presumably in connec- |

tion with Italy's adherence to the | German-Japanese alliance against | communism. [ Well-informed sources said Count | Ciano telephoned to his father-in-[law after Boris E. Stein, Soviet Am- { bassador, had talked with him at | the Foreign Office. In London the visit of Ambas|sador Stein to Foreign Mijnister |Ciano was regarded as extremely [unusual because today is a holiday lin all Soviet Embassies. Rumors of a possible diplomatic break, which were current a few months ago when Moscow sent a | strong note to Rome alleging Italian { (Turn to Page Three)

e Decides to Study Paris Housing,

| death

A battle was in | progress also near Yutsu. important |

the struggle for |

! Shansi province, proving that Mr. | 3 : | Street or is a Communist or a re-

Minister |

Il Duce cuts short |

ONDON—Suspicion aroused that | anti- |

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Leaders at the corn belt farm conference here today were, left to right: souri: Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace: Governor Townsend: Governor N. C. and Clyde Wickard, Carroll County, North Central AAA Division chairman,

HOOVER STRIKES | State Traffic Kills 12;

AT PROPAGANDA

Asks Defense of Free Press And Speech in Address At College.

WATERVILLE, Me. Nov P.). Former President Herbert Hoover called upon defenders of freedom of speech and press today to intensify the fight against “the special breed of cultivated untruth we call propaganda.” Mr. Hoover spoke at Colby College on the 100th anniversary of the of Elijah Parish Lovejoy, a Colby graduate who became an abolitionist editor and minister anc was killed by a mob which attacked his newspaper plant at Alton, Til “In the past 15 years” Hoover said, “increasing has descended upon free expression and free criticism in the world. That

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light has been put out in more than |

| half the so-called civilized earth.” Dictators, he said, climbed to power “on the ladder of free speech | and free press” and then immediately “suppressed all free speech” except their own. In this country, he said, the publishers are the free press’ “first line of defense.” “They deserve the gratitude of the country for the zeal with which they have driven back every attempt at legal restrictions,” Mr. Hoover said. “but there is a problem of free speech and free press in America wider than sporadic attempts to | control it.” Propaganda “has been applied to politics. If you don’t like an argument on currency or the budget or labor relations or what not, you put

| out slimy and, if possible, anonymous today |

propaganda reflecting upon your opponent’s grandmother or the fact that his cousin is employed in Wall

| actionary.”

START OBSERVANCE * OF EDUCATION WEEK

City Schools Open Series of Demonstrations.

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(Parent-Teacher Activities, Page 5)

Indianapolis schools were to ob- | serve American Education Week, | demonstrations and plays depicting | the importance of education in na- | tional life, according to the program | announced today by School Super- | intendent DeWitt S. Morgan. Addresses by School Board mem- | bers, open house for the public, talks by school officials and enter- | tainment by school music groups are | scheduled throughout the city. Spe- | cial programs have been planned for Armistice Day. The demonstrations are being planned to show parents the work being done in the classrooms, the program stated. Problems {acing | students are to be discussed in ' forums to be held in various schools

Then Seek Rest, Spokesmen Indicat

| housin

then—within a week or two, per- | haps—to seek rest in Austria or on | the French Riviera. Spokesmen for the Duke denied reports that he had decided (1) to 20 to the United States in February; (2) to go to Denmark; (3) to go to Russia; (4) to go back to Britain. The spokesmen said he had

decided nothing, as regards travel-|

ing, It was understood that his brother, King George VI, called him by telephone yesterday and that the Duke was unable to tell even him,

plans were because he had made none.

in response to a question, what his |

| There was no belief among those | of the Duke's entourage that he | would return to Britain, particularly |

because hostility to the Duchess has |

been increased if anything among those who opposed his marriage to her,

American Opinion on

‘Cancellation Varies

| NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (U. P).— American reaction to the Duke of

| Windsor's cancellation of plans for | Spirces close to the Duke said (an Industria tour of the United | Le

PARIS, Nov. 8 (U. P.).—The Duke , that he had decided two things— | States this month varied today from | of Windsor has decided to study | first, to postpone his American visit | g conditions right here in| indefinitely; second, that when and Paris, it was understood today, and | if he did make it, to do so without

expression of the belief that “it's just as well” to criticism of Ameri-

can manners. |an official sponsor such as Charles |

| BE. Bedaux.

Most commentators agreed that the Duke's selection of Charles E. Bedaux American engineer who in-

(vented an industrial speed-up sys- |

tem, as his guide and adviser was unfortunate. Almost all of them looked upon the Duke as a pathetic fisure who can be neither a king | nor a private citizen. The New York Post and the Philadelphia Record both said the Duke “paid the American people a compliment” by cancelling his visit. The Los Angeles Times felt that the postponement called “attention to the boorishness of the A. F. of L.” and that the Duke was “entitled to a courteous tion.”

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1937

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Plan Night

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11 Per Cent Over Last Year's.

Twelve more deaths today were added to Indiana's mounting 1937 traffic toll, which State Safety Director Donald Stiver announced al-

ready was 11 per cent ahead of the

same period in 1936. During the first nine months of 1937, 982 persons were killed in Indiana traffic, Mr. Stiver said .iive counties and 112 municipalities maintained perfect safety records | from Jah. 1 to Sept. 31. The coun=

ties were Warrick, Fountain, HarriMr. | | darkness |

son. Switzerland and Brown. There were 396 fatalities inside | oity limits during the period, as | compared with 586 in rural areas. | Car Strikes Bus

Jesse Jackson, 30, of Chicago, was | killed instantly and 28 passengers of a New York-Chicago pound Grevhound bus were injured, none seriously, when an automobile | driven by Ray Parrott, Chesterton,

| Ind., crashed into the rear of the |

bus near Hammond today. Myr. Parrott was injured critically and is not expected to live. A hitch hiker killed when struck by an automobile south of Sullivan was tentatively identified today as Edward Campbell, 60, of Vincennes. Three persons were killed when the automobile in which they were riding plunged off Indiana Highway 2 near Goshen and crashed into a tree. The dead were Miss Jaunita Jackson, 20, of Kimmel, Ind} Arthur Adair, 22, of Ligioner, and Miss

| virginia Bowling, 21, also of Kim=|

| mel. Charles Herman, 28, Ligioner, driver of the car, escaped injury and | was held in the Goshen jail pending an inquest : George Weller, 43, farm hand livs | ing near Richmond, was burhed to death when a can of kerosene in his automobile exploded as he lost control of the machine and crashed

into a diteh.

Bernard Gailey, 21, of Evansville, |

| other | automobile collision near Harvey,

starting today with a series of class | Floyd Ewing, 28, Terre Haute, was |

| fatally injured when his motoreycle {Turn to Page Three)

ATTACK ON BLACK AGAIN REBUFFED

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Florida Securities Dealers’ | Challenge Denied.

| WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (U. P).— The Supreme Court today rebuffed another challenge to the right of

Justice Hugo L. Black to sit on the |

high bench as the new Justice re=- | vealed he is now participating fully in his Supreme Court duties. | The Court denied a petition by 'a group of Florida securities deal|ers for reconsideration of their mo- | tion seeking to bring an appeal | against constitutionality of the Se- | eurities and Exchange Commission. | The Florida group charged that | Mr. Black was not legally a member | of the Court, | Justice Black today read his first | Court opinion and joined with | three liberal colleagues in dissent- | ing to another, His opinion pre- | sented the unanimous verdict up- | holding the Federal Trade Com- | mission's right to issue cease and | desist orders His dissent was presented in an income tax case involving bonuses paid by the Universal Oil Products Co. of New York. Others dissenting were Justices Cardozo, Stone

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Belt Representatives

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Secretary of Agriculture, Speaking to Corn

Here, Reveals ComControl Proposal.

URGES HALT IN FARM COMPETITION

Townsend and Two Other Governors Attending Sessions to Map Legislative Program;

Soil Measure H

(Text of Wallace

Secretary of Agriculture noon heard officials and dirt fa

eld Inadequate.

Address, Page 12)

Henry A. Wallace this after rmers of 13 Midwestern states

. | discuss the ever-normal granary plan which he earlier dee | seribed here as “an economic balance wheel” that will assure prosperity for Corn Belt farmers,

Times Photo er Governor Llovd Stark, MisKraschel of lowa

Safety Dri ve

Stiver Says Indiana Toll Up Pedestrian Killed in City;

County Toll Now At 129.

Motorevele officers will be as=

signed to patrol Indianapolis streets after midnight in an effort to curtail speeding during early morning hours, Lieut. Lawrence McCarty of the Accident Prevention Bureau announced this afternoon. As this latest safety move was launched, Marion County's 1937 traffic toll rose to 129 for one less than last vear's fatality record on | Nov. 8, with the death of a f3-year- | old pedestrian. Homeward-bound motorists have been taking advantage of the abe sence of motoereyele officers on duty after midnight, to increase speed above legal limits, Lieut, McCarty said. Meanwhile, two indictments ac= cusing Mrs, Florence Simmons Davis of manslaughter, drunken driving and failure to stop after an accident were returned by the Marion County Grand Jury today.

Arraignment Set

She is to be arraigned on the in

dietments in Criminal Court tomors= |

row. Her bond was set at $10,000 on the manslaughter charge. The indictments were based upon an accident June 3 in which 3-year-olds Barbara Marlene Condit was killed and five other members of the Con« dit family injured at Noble St. and Virginia Ave. Mrs. Davis was alleged to have driven her car through a safety zone where the | Condit family was waiting on a street car, Mrs. Davis also was to be given a hearing today before Roberts C. Hill, hearing judge of the State | Motor Vehicle Bureau, regarding rev= ocation of her driver's license, She | also is to face Municipal Court Judge Charles Karabell Wednesday on another drunken driving charge, filed after her second arrest Thurs= | day night.

Fifty Pay 8418

Fifty drivers paid $418 in fines on traffic violation charges in Municipal Court today before Judge Charles Karabell, Fines of $145 were suspended. Fifteen motorists convicted of failing to stop at preferential streets paid $114; 11 speeders paid | 8114 and eight convicted of violatling traffic signals paid $65, William Malcolm, 33, of 219 8S, Summit St, was sentenced to serve 90 davs on the State Penal Farm land fined $77 upon conviction o drunken driving, reckless driving, drunkenness and failure to have a driver's license, | John Grossman, 2600 N. Delaware | 8t.. died in City Hospital yesterday shortly after he was struck by an auto at 25th and Meridian Sts. James Ellison, 18, of 2043 N. Pennsvlvania St., driver of the car, told police Mr. Grossman was in the | middle of Meridian St. when the | accident occurred. Both the driver land James Jenkins, 17, of 117 W. [23d St., who was riding in the car, told officers they did not see the | pedestrian until the car struck him. Driver Not Held | Mr. Ellison stopped the car im- | mediately after the accident, police said witnesses told them, He was not held. | Mr. Grossman was a lifelong resi- { (Turn to Page Three)

NEW YORK BALLOT TAMPERING CHARGED

| NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (U. P)—At-

taches of the Bronx District Attor- | | ney's offce reported today that pro-'

| portional representation ballots for

| city councilmen had been tampered |

| with and that evidence to this effect | would be presented to a Grand Jury tomorrow, | “Vigorous prosecution” of all in- | volved was promised as Mayor La | Guardia announced he would invoke his police powers today unless she count of ballots was placed on a more efficient basis. He charged deliberate delay angl sabotage.

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RAISE ESTIMATE | ON COTTON CROP

- — | ‘Experts Predict All-Time

Record of 18,243,000 | Bales This Year.

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (U, P.).= [The Department of Agriculture today forecast an all-time record pro= | duction of 18,243,000 bales of cot= ton. an increase of 670,000 bales over | the forecast a month ago. | The prediction came one week be [tore start of the special session of | Congress convened to consider | methods of controlling crop surpluses. The forecast of last month, | {ar surpassed by today's prediction, | was a major factor in President, | Roosevelt's decision to ca

| cial session, | | Yield per acre of 258.8 pounds of | mand for the

lint cotton also established an all-

time record. The Department's crop |

reporting board said the record crop

would be gathered

acres, compared with 45,900,000 acres | [harvested when the previous record

| was established in 1926. | The unexpectedly [ further complicated Admin | efforts to bolster cotton prices and assure orderlv marketing la $280,000000 loan and | program.

istration |

a pound already had cut the ‘paper

| value” of the cotton crop by ap-

| gust, | be a

Government efforts have 9-cents-a-pound loan and a 3-cents-a-pound subsidy program,

GUARD ROPE ON BED SMOTHERS INFANT

| ‘Theodore Coll Family Twin| Is Found Dead.

Child Burned When

Coffee Pot Spills

| Three-year-old Daleene Kinney was reported in a serious condition | in City Hospital today with burns | received yesterday when she pulled | a pot of hot coffee off the stove in | her home, 1538 W. New York St. She received second degree burns | of the face and hands.

NEW ‘GRETNA GREEN’

ISSUES 125 LICENSES

VALPARAISO, Nov. 8 (U., P).— | Indiana's “Gretna Green” shifted |

to Valparaiso over the week-end, | 125° marriage licenses were |

| when | issued at the Porter County Clerk's | | office here. Clers Lewis Keller announced that no attempt will be made to emulate Crown Point, which last week was enjoined from issuing licenses to couples outside Lake County. d My: Sore announced no licenses | woul issued to intoxicated persons, applicants under legal age or residents of another Indiana county. Forty-five couples were refused licenses during the week-end because they failed to meet the requirements, said,

large increase | through | subsidy |

A decline of more than 5 cents |

| proximately 40 per cent since Au- | | said,

en made to bolster prices through |

| the invalidated act,

Coming one week before Congress is to convene in spe=

cial session to enact a per

manent farm program, Mr, Wallace's detailed explanation of the Administration's aims and desires on farm legislation was considered significant, He revealed one new phase of the proposed program--compulsory mars= keting control during storage periods to force nonco-operating farmers to keep a designated portion of their crop under seal. The Cabinet officer spoke at noon before an estimated 4500 persons in Tomlinson Hall and over a nationwide radio hookup. Following his address, the meeting became an spen forum and from question and answers, Secretary Wallace and his advisers said they hoped to get the Corn Belt reaction to the plan and to other possible proposals to Cone

Qress.,

Wickard Presides

Claude Wickard, North Central Division AAA chairman and former Indiana State Senator, was in charge of the discussion.

Secretary Wallace described the

Il the spe-| corn problem as “four-sided.” One

side, he said, is the\ deceased deproduct, which he | termed “the nation's most valuable | crop.” The second, he said, was the po=

from 33.936.000 | tential increase of 10 bushels to

| the Corn Belt. Yield through scientific growing: third, the depletion of soil fertility resulting from keepe ing too much land in corn; fourth, the “extreme variability in the sup=ply and price of corn and of the livestock and livestock products | produced by the use of corn as | feed.” He spoke sharply of the Supreme | Court's invalidation of the Agricul= tural Adjustment Act. “You doubtless remember,” he “that day in January, 1936, when you were told by the Supreme Court that everything you had been doing for the last two and one-half years hadn't been thought of by the Founding Fathers who wrote the Constitution. “You remember, too, how the Su= syreme Court handed 200 million dol lars of your processing tax money over to the processors, and Congress had to find the money to pay you what you had coming.”

Loses Self Financing

The Soil Conservation Act, he said, was a hurried replacement of but since the processing taxes were gone, the farm program had lost its old self financing character. “As meritorious as the conservas= tion program is, it does not fully meet the needs of the Corn Belt farmers, nor does it fully guard consumers,” he said. He added that revival of expart markets would dispose of only a fraction of bumper crop surpluses,

| and that there seemed to be scant

hope for the immediate use of corn for new industrial uses. “It seems to me that anyone who (Turn to Page Three)

‘BOARD POSTPONES

MADISON AVE. WORK

The Works Board today postponed until next April the proposed improvement of Madison Ave, from Ray St. to the Pennsylvania Railroad, after a delegation of property owners protested. The proposed project, to cost $77.« 475, was to include removal of street car tracks, resurfacing and widening the street five feet on each side. Property owners declared the street doesn't need widening. The Board also adopted a reso lution to improve Congress Ave, from Boulevard Pl. to California St., at a cost of $18,149,

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