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FORECAST: Fair and continued cold tonight with lowest temperature 15 to 20; tomorrow slightly warmer by afternoon,

VOLUME 49—-NUMBER 219

CITY BLOCKING | itirer SAFETY PLAN, KREML HINTS

System Useless Without Right Equipment, He | Contends.

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THREE KILLED IN STATE

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lce Slows Drivers’ Speeds And Prevents High Death Toll.

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| SETTLE AKRON TROUBLE

Municipal Court judges, City and County prosecutors and police of-

Wade Killefer,

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1937

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AUTO WORKERS END STRIKE AT FISHER PLANT

500 Agree to Return After Union Leader Makes Personal Appeal.

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| 3000 Go Back to Jobs at Goodyear Units After Vote Meeting.

PONTIAC, Mich, Nov, 22 (U, P,. —Five hundred sit-down strikers in the closed plant of the Fisher Body Corp. terminated their six-day strike today after Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers’ Union, had pleaded with them for more than an hour to return to work, A personal appeal by the youthful union head climaxed 24 hours of concentrated effort by high union officials to break the strike. Mr. Martin went to the closed plant this morning after previous threats and promises had brought no response | from the sit-down strikers, As Mr. Martin left the plant, following a conference with strike leaders that lasted an hour and 20 minutes, he was followed by the first

ficials. Chief Morrissey, who invited Lieut, Kreml to aid in the work here, included funds for the pro posed bureau in his 1938 budget re quest, but they were knocked out bv the City Council, This request included money for nine new cars and equipment, including cameras, and an increase in personnel, | Meanwhile, icy streets and high- | ways which made motorists drive | carefully held down Indiana's week- | end highway death toll. Only three persons were killed despite numerous minor accidents, In Indianapolis, two persons were injured in three accidents. Only six motorists were arrested on speeding

charges, as compared with 28 the | ager of the Indianapolis Baseball previous week-end. Of 51 arrested

Club, Wade Killefer resigned thday over the week-end, 42 were fined | b 0 ul . $216 by Municipal Judge Charles |'© become general manager and Karabell today. Three speeders paid | pilot of the new Hollywood Club of $42. One woman died of injuries | the Pacific Coast League, received early in the week, boosting | The announcement was made hy the County's 1037 toll to 131, the | President Norman A. Perry of the City's to 87, (Indians, who sald a new Tribe As a part of Governor Townsend's | manager has been named from campaign to reduce the State's | “outside the club ranks.” heavy highway death toll, Curtis | “I have selected Mr. Killefer's Keegan, National Safety Council | successor," President Perry added, expert, conferred with State Safety | “but I want a little more time for Director Donald Stiver on a model | conferences before clearing the plan for reporting accidents, Other | decks for the new administration, Council experts also are aiding m “I regret more than 1 can say the co-ordinated program. | that Wade Killefer will not be with Members of 60 civic organizations | the Indians next season. I cone met today to form the Civic Safety | sider him one of the most capable League of Indianapolis, an organi managers in baseball and were it zation designed to act as a clearing | not for the fact his new connection house for traffic safety suggestions. | gives him the opportunity to be at

BECOMES PILOT * OF COAST TEAM

Tribe Chief Takes New Job To Be Near Home; Perry Silent on Successor.

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By EDDIE ASH After serving five years as man-

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| Mr. Martin said.

of the strikers, Rush for Gates | “It's all over, boys,” he told newspapermen waiting at the gates, | He started to tell reporters that the plant would be evacuated immediately, but his words were lost in the rush of the self-imprisoned strikers for the gates, “We hope that this will mean the men can return to work tomorrow,” “Cieneral Motors Corp. will be notified immediately.” Almost at the moment that the strikers, some of them bearded anc unkempt, moved out of the closed plant, Mr, Martin revealed his in tention to attempt immediate negotiations over the grievances which precipitated the strike—the alleged layoff of almost 100 Fisher workers, and later the announced determination of the corporation to punish the four known “perpetrators” of the sit-down, A full day of vigorous attempts to “break” the strike, which included conferences between Mr, Martin and 21 of his 24-member general execus tive board, had failed when the bespectacled union leader was summoned to the plant this morning by telephone, General Motors officials, who had remained silent during the union's struggles with its rank and file niembership in Pontiac, received the strike settlement news without comment, They indicated that a statement might be issued later,

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State, county and city officials and | home with his family, T would make heads of several large business | syery effort possible to retain him | firms, doing extensive trucking, as our manager, | were represented at the meeting. | “I am sure that he will make a Sikvial qereat leader in the Pacific Coast Service Without Charge | League and wish him all the luck In a letter to The Times, Lieut. | in the world.” Kreml said:

“I had hoped that we might have some definite information as| Mr, Killefer also expressed deep to when we might undertake the |regret over leaving the Indians and work proposed for Indianapolis.| emphasized that conditions here Untortunately, there is not such, were entirely satisfactory and pleasdevelopment and the situation, | ant, therefore, is this: | “As a matter of fact,” he said, “I

Regrets to Leave

“As vou know, our services to the | hesitated a long time after receiving y the Hollywood offer before I worked up enough courage to inform Mr, Perry of my new opportunity, “Even then it was difficult to sever relations with the Indianapolis club.

city would be without charge. How- | ever, some considerable equipment | is necessary before an accident pre- | vention bureau can be installed properly. Though I appeared at one meeting with the City officials, and our Capt. Ashworth appeared | twice, the moneys necessary for this equipment, apparently are not forthcoming. “Chief Morrissey has been most | anxious for us to do this work and has, I am sure, made every effort | to make it possible for us to pro- | ceed. The situation up to date, | then, is that we have been invited | to do this work in Indianapolis and | have accepted pending evidence of the willingness of the City to supply the necessary equipment, “Until this latter condition is met,

we feel it would be useless to en- | when he succeeded Emmet McCann, Committee for Industrial Organizathere- | Under the departing chief the Tribe | tion withdrew their proposed boy-

deavor to proceed. We are. fore, waiting such further action as the City authorities may see fit to take.” Lions Call Meeting

Walter L. Shirley, Lions International district governor, called the meeting of civic organizations in the Hotel Washington this afternoon, He said committees are to be appointed to nominate officers, draft resolutions, study traffic ordinances. manage finances and develop an educational program. “We are attempting to form a representative organization where cach group will have a voice in the safety program,” Mr. Shirley said. “Public organizations and civic groups have been doing fine work in promoting safety, but too often (Turn to Page Three)

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Bob Burns .... 3| Merry-Go-R'd 10 Books ... 9 { Movies Broun 10 | Mrs. Ferguson 9 Comics 14 | Mrs, Roosevelt 9 Crossword ... 13 | Music a Curious World 15 | Obituaries . ., Editorials 10 | Pegler Fashions 5 | Pyle Fi gacial Questions Pisaoein Radio Flynn | Scherrer Food «++. B| Serial Story.. Forum ........10 | Short Story... Grin, Bear It. .14 | Society ..... “ In Indpls . 3 Sports .. Jane Jordan.. 9 State Deaths. . Johnson ,.....10 | Wiggam .....

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| Several conferences were held and

8 consented to withdrawal .15 | record after a full and complete

finally a& mutual agreement was reached. I shall turn over plans for new Indianapolis player deals to the new manager and help him in every wa to pick up where I left off, “The setun at Hollywood was too flattering to turn down. I live at Hermosa Beach, oly 15 minutes | drive to Gilmore Stadium, the ball park, and as Hollywood is a part of Los Angeles, home of the Coast League Angels, this will permit me | to be at home with my family much | of the time.” Killefer took over the Indians’ reins at the close of the 1932 season

| finished third in 1933, fifth in '34, | second in '35, fourth in '36 and sixth last season. The new Hollywood Club Is the | former Missions of San Francisco,

Herbert Fleishhacker.

Edward’s Sui

LONDON, Nov, 22 (U, P.).—The! Duke of Windsor's libel suit against the author and publishers of the book, “Coronation Commentary,” | | has been settled out of court, the

Lord Chief Justice of the Kings | Bench Court announced today. The Lord Chief Justice denounced the author, Geoffrey Dennis, for writing a “foul, cruel libel” which “appeared almost to invite a thor- | oughly efficacious horsewhip.” | He indicated that there might be criminal action against Dennis. | The Duke, through his solicitor, | A. G. Allen, had filed the suit against Williatn Heinemann, Ltd. nublishers, and Dennis, on April 27, ile was annoyed with Dennis’ statement that accused him of “muddling, fuddling and meddling” while on the throne. The publishing house had sent a letter of apology to the Duke, then |at St. Wolfgang, Austria, the day before. Today

| the Lord Chief Justice : of the

Gesture in Portland

Akron Workers Back On Jobs Today

AKRON, O. Nov, 22 (U, P) ~The first of 12,000 workers peaceably returned to work in two huge plants of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. today after members of the United Rubber Workers voted in mass meeting to accept a tentative settlement effected by the National Labor Relations Board ending a sit-down strike which began at midnight Thursday, The regular 6 a. m, shift, numbering 3000, entered the plants without incident, Goodyear officials said, Union officials announced that they would file charges today with the Labor Board against Governor Davey, who had mobilized 2000 National Guardsmen to give protection to all Goodyear workers who wished to return to work despite the strike,

0.1.90. Makes Peace

PORTLAND. Ore, Nov, 22 (U.P). —Rival unions today mace their | first peaceful gesture in the eity's prolonged labor war that has erippled several industries, left 10,000 workers idle and impoverished and caused the City Council to invoke emergency police measures to stop violence, Millworkers

affiliated with the

cott on 400.000 feet of lumber produced by an American Federation of Labor union, Strife between C. 1. O. and A. F. of L. workers in the lumber industry precipitated the trouble 100 days ago.

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Is Settled Out of Court

apology by the defendants who assumed damages and court costs. |

Sir William Jowitt, representing of Canada, 24 above—8 above nor- | | the Duke at

today's proceedings, announced that the defendants! would pay a substantial sum in damages and costs which the Duke would divide among various charities in which, as the Prince of Wales and King, he had been interested. “Publication of the libel may be regarded as a crime,” said the Lord Chief Justice, “because it was calculated tc cause a breach of peace.” He spoke in a low, scornful voi:e which was almost inaudible in a courtroom nearly three-quarters full although there were ony 15 spectators in the large public gallery. The jury included three women, The foreman was the well-known motion picture actor and musical | comedy star, Claud Hulbert, | Opening the case for the Duke, Sir | William refuted the libels contained in the book. “The rumor repeated therein that |

the lady, now the plaintiff's wife, and the 10th consecutive week in| {which a decline has been recorded. Foreigners who had remained in >

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licenses and truck weight will start Dee. 10 in the State House and State, Frank Finney, Motor Vehicle Commissioner,

the estimated 1,035,000 auto tags will be issued in the first two months of sales,

have been

laws in 14 meetings held throughont the State. and branches to be established here for two months will be held Nov, 30, Mr, Finney said.

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Fire Follows Blast at Ice Cream Plant

An explosion and fire at the Ballard Ice Cream Co. 315 Ogden St 4 today caused damage estimated at “several thousand dollars” Lawrence Martin (right) was in the paint room alone when the blast nccurred, but raved himself from serious injury by smothering the fire that was burning his trouser legs,

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we of 1938 THREE HURT I Opens Dec. 10 BALLARD BLAZE

Workman Rescued After He Sale of auto license plates, drivers’ ; tax tags Leads Others Into Fight | On Flames.

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155 branches throughout the

Three persons were burned, {wo slightly, in an explosion and fire |

announced today. He estimated that 80 per cent of

paint room of the Ballard Ice

Cream Co, 315 Ogden St, Robert Poehler, 19, of 2134 Linden St, an electrician, was taken to Methodist Hospital, where his condition was described as "not critical.” Lawrence Martin, 22, of 552 8S. Vine St, who was alone in the paint room when the explosion occurred, ran from the room with his trousers legs afire and smothered the fire out with a blanket he found in another room. He was burned slightly, He said he believed that a fluid used to reduce the consistency of paint exploded, William Wheeler, 63, of R. R. 12, Box 68, carpenter, who was in an= other room on the second floor when the explosion occurred, said he | seized a fire extinguisher and ran | into the paint room. He said that | when he sprayed the fire it “seeined to lift into the air and come down on me.” His hair was singed, Workmen said (hat Mr, Poehler 16 10 a.m, .... 26 | was in the building when the fire I am ....28 | broke out and that he ran out of it 16 12 (Noon) .. 28 | to get other workmen to help him 21 1pm fight the blaze. They said he led the | iii Musi: ial , | workmen back into. the building, | A warm sun and clear sky today | and started into the burning room. | drove some of the snappiness from = Others retreated before the heat Indianapolis weather, but had not | of the blaze, they said, but he

Branch managers and employees instructed in the new irivers’ license and truck weight tax

A meeting of managers

employees of 17 temporary

MERCURY REMAINS BELOW FREEZING

Rise Due Here Tomorrow, | Bureau Predicts.

TEMPERATURES

ACTION

Deliberations to Start Control Wheat, Cor

EXPECT HOUSE DRAFT WEDNESDAY

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come and checks against erop ably to the Senate today hy th

SENATE'S FA BILL REPORTED;

Johnson and Merry-Go-Round, Page

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Tomorrow on Plan to n, Cotton, Rice and

Tobacco; Penalties Set Up.

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Congress Leaders Promise Roosevelt to Push His Special Session Aims; Limit on Agriculture Financing Ignored.

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (U. P.).~~The Administration's far-reaching Farm Bill, providing for stabilization of farm ine

scarcities, wags reported favors e Agriculture Committee,

The report, unanimously agreed upon hy the Committee

‘after a week-end session, will permit the Senate to begin deliberations tomorrow, Majority Leader Barkley (D, Ky.) ‘said that he hoped to obtain final action on the bill by the

of undetermined origin today in the |.

SUPREME COURT

week-end, He estimated that the

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AGAIN BACKS BLACK

‘NLRB Wins Right to Review

Of Order.

WASHINGTON, Nov, 22 (U, P) The Supreme Court rejected today the latest challenge to eligibility of Associate Justice Hugo 1. Black, The new petition had asked that all questions relating to Black's right to sit on the high bench be settled “once and for all.” The challenge was contained in a petition filed by Robert Gray ‘T'ay=lor, Media, Pa. and Elizabeth L. Seymour, Salamanca, N., Y. Among questions asked in their petition

| was that of whether Black had per-

Jured himself In taking his jurist's oath because of the allegedly {r= revocable character of the oath he took in becoming a member of the Ku-Klux Klan and whether he had been confirmed by the Senate under palse pretenses because he failed to reveal his one-time membership in

raised temperatures above freezing this afternoon, The temperature descended to 15 | at 7 a. m, today, which was about 20 degrees below normal for Nov, 22 | but nowhere near the record low |

which was established Nov, 22, 1880 loss would be “several thousand dol- | comply with certain NLRB orders,

at 5 below zero,

The year's low mark was set early |

vesterday at 13. The Bureau promised continued cold tonight and slightly warmer weather tomorrow afternoon. The present “cool spell” Is not a cold wave, technically or otherwise, the Bureau said. However, ice and snow still cling to many side streets and to some highways, and Indianapolis and State Police renewed warnings to motorists to drive with care where payments are slippery,

South Colder Than

Canadian Border Area

CHICAGO, Nov. 22 (U, P).-—It was colder on the Florida-Georgia boundary today than it was within 40 miles of the Canadian line,

Blaming “a great mass of polar continental air which moved southeast from Alaska and the Mackenzie River basin” for the South's unusually low temperatures, Chicago Forecaster J, R. Lloyd announced these paradoxical low temperatures: Thomasville, Ga., within 10 miles of Florida, 22 above—27 below normal: Williston, N. D,, 40 miles south

mal. It was below freezing at Pensacola, Fla, and Mobile, Ala, and just freezing at Tampa,

U.S. STEEL LEADS

STOCK PRICE PLUNGE

NEW YORK, Nov, 22 (U. P.).— United States Steel led the stock market into new low ground in more than two years today. Big steel dropped to 50. off 3:% points. As the session went into aft. ernoon trading the list was down 1 to 5 points, Go'd mining issues alone resisted the decline,

NEW YORK, Nov. 22 (U, P).— Steel mills are ‘scheduled to operate al 31 per cent of capacity this week, the lowest level since Dec. 3, 1934,

pushed on and a door slammed, entrapping him in the burning part of the building, He realized he was trapped, and went to the third floor, | LAbor Relations Board petition tor opened a window, and was taken | review of the Ninth Circuit Court of out by firemen, they said. | Appeals decision refusing to compel | Company officials said property | Pacific Greyhound Lines, Inc. to |

the hooded order, The Court granted a National

lars,”

| Pire starting from a defective flue [today caused $300 damage to the [meat market owned by Carl John- | son, at 628 S, West St, PETERSBURG, Nov. 22 (U, P).- | Mrs, Shrilda Gray, 78, was burned [to death in her home last night | when her dress caught fire as she | stood close to an open grate. Her screams aroused her husband, Lafe Gray, sleeping in an adjoining room and he attempted to smother her burning dress with a blanket, Mrs, Gray, however, died a short time later from her injuries,

ELLWOOD, Nov, 22 (U, P)) Mrs, Jonathan Minerty, 69, was burned to death yesterday when her night gown caught fire while she put coal in a heating stove in her home. The husband and eight children survive,

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GARNER IS 69 TODAY WASHINGTON, Nov, 22 (U. P). Vice President John Nance Garner celebrated his 69th birthday today.

Foreigners

BULLETIN BRUSSELS, Nov, 22 (U, P.). «Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese delegate to the Nine-Power Conference, urged the powers today to cease reaffirming “pious principles” and take concrete action to help China in the conflict with Japan. He reserved the right to propose amendments to put teeth into the report and warned the conference that “failure to act was sure to he considered in certain quarters as a new defeat of the forces of peace.” Dr. Koo restated China's demand that the powers apply economic sanctions against Japan,

SHANGHAI, Nov, 22 (U, P..

- | in the interim,

The Justices refused to pass on validity of a gold clause in a lease | for Kansas City land rented by the | Emery Bird Thayer Dry Goods Co. | | The Court then recessed for two weeks, The next Court session will | | be Dee. 4, Decisions will be written

JURY PROBES DEATH

BRUNSWICK, Ga., Nov, | P) ~A coroner's jury will decide, | probably today, the circumstances leading up to the mysterious and violent death of Howard Earl Coffin, nationally known industrialist and intimate friend of two Presidents, Mr. Coffin was found shot to death in his apartment in one of the several hundred winter homes of northern millionaires on Sea Island ir Brunswick Bay yesterday morning. A single shot from his hunting rifle had penetrated his

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OF INDUSTRIALIST

| Barkley (D. Ky.) saw the President | in the White House this morning |

ADVISERS FOR 6.0. P. CHOSEN

12 Districts Represented On Board Selected By Bobbitt.

Arch N, Bobbitt, Republican State Chairman, today announced the personnel of the party's new executive committee which will act with him in directing Republican strategy in | the 1938 campaign, The committee includes members from each of the state's 12 Congres- | sfonal districts, four members se- | lected at large and four ex-officio members, Mr. Bobbitt also announced that the committee will have its first meeting here Dec. 3 and hat the Indiana Republican Editorial Association would be invited to participate through its interrelations committee, John Ruckelshaus, young Indianapolis lawyer, is committee chair(Turn to Page Three)

ROOSEVELT TO TAKE

FLORIDA VACATION

‘Rest in Sunshine Advised by White House Physician.

WASHINGTON, Nov, 22 (U, P)) President Roosevelt, acting on advice of his physicians, today postponed his visit to Warm Springs, Ga., and scheduled a brief trip to

' Florida to aid his recuperation from

a tooth infection and slight stomacl. upset, The new schedule calls for Mr, Roosevelt to remain in Washington until late this week or early next week, Then he is expected to leave for four or five days fishing and relaxation in the Florida sunshine, He

his way back to Washington instead of visiting there Thanksgiving Day ac he first planned. Senate Majority Leader Alben W.

and reported he “looked very much better” although he said a slight swelling in his jaw still was noticeable,

SCHOOL BUS BOARD MEETS The State School Bus Committee met today to consider minor revisions of the specifications for school buses to be enforced as of March 1. 1938. Lieut. Gov. Henry f Schricker is chairman and State Public Instruction Director Floyd I.

brain, The rifle was beside him,

China Asks Sanctions Against Japan as Prepare to Evacuate Nanking WL BE IMPROVED

SHANGHAI-—U, S. Ambassador to lead envoys’ evacuation of Nanking; last defense of city reported cracking.

BRUSSELS—China makes final ap conference,

hear details.

Nanking made hasty preparations to evacuate the capital today on the

and that Japanese air raids were impending. U. 8. Ambassador Nelson T. Johnson already was aboard the gunboat Luzon, which will steam up

Hankow, leading the general evacuation of foreign embassies. For more than an hour today six Japanese planes power bombed and machine-gunned troops

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MeMurray is secretary.

peal for aid from powers at peace

LONDON—Lord Halifax due back from Berlin with ‘report to Prime Minister Chamberiain on outcome of peace talks with Hitler; Cabinet to gojlar highway improvement pros

[ moving southeast from the city toward the Wusih-Kiangyin defense

| king defenses, had fallen, This | would remove the last big obstacle [in the way of the capture of | Nanking.

The Japanese bombing squadron | the Yangtze River tomorrow for [drew no reply from the Chinese [surfacing program in 10 counties

\ forces. The city was strangely quiet because all antiaircraft has been removed to Hankow. Remaining (Tu

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will stop off at Warm Springs on |

farm program will cost a little less

“than the $500,000,000 in soil conservation funds and ape proximately $125,000,000 from customs receipts, al- | ready available, Cost Is Placed at 700 Million

Other estimates, including of the Agricultural have placed the cost $700,000,000, Senate and House leaders also re= ported to President Roosevelt today that they would hasten his legis= lative program “as much as pos. sible” in the special session of Congress, The leaders included Vice Presi|dent Garner, Senate Majority (Leader Barkley (D. Ky), House Speaker Willlam B. Bankhead (D, | Ala.) and House Majority Leader [8am Rayburn (D, Tex.), | House Majority Leader Rayburn said after a conference with Chairman Marvin Jones (D, Tex.) of the House Agriculture Committee that the House should be able to begin debate on {ts new farm bill Wednes« day or Friday, Mr. Rayburn told of conferring with Mr, Jones and added: “He thinks he might get the bill in tonight, certainly tomorrow.”

No, 1 Objective

The Program-No. 1 objective of President Roosevelt's legislative program for the special session—will provide for control of wheat, field corn, cotton, tobacco and rice, and will provide for a three-year period beginning in 1938, Its major pro | visions include: Wheat and Corn — Voluntary acreage control contracts with mars keting quotas made mandatory by a lwo=thirds vote of production of the | commodities, Parity payments to | stabilize farm income and surplus ioans, The penalty for marketing In excess of quotas is 50 per cent of the parity price, Cotton-—Referendum to determine participants in a program calling for acreage control, A two-thirds vote of farmers in the commodity make the a reage control cempulsory. Parit, payments and a penalty of 75 per cent of the price obtained for cotton grown on acreage in excess of quota, Tobacco-~Marketing quotas with benefits provided through soil conservation payments for diversion of land to soil buildihg crops. Penalty | of 50 per lent of market price for exceeding marketing quota, Rice—Quotas allotted on the basis | of domestic consumption, Benefit | payments of 25-100 of a cent per | pound on rough rice produced aur ing 1937 and 5-10 of a cent per pound for rough rice produced after that date,

those Department, As high as

Made Blanket Order

Financing ~~ Committee made a “blanket” authorization for finances. The Secretary of Agriculture will de« termine the cost, estimated at ap= proximately $700,000,000, and his recommendation subsequently will be considered by the Budget Bureau end Congress. The Commitiee wrote the “blanket” authorization into the bill despite warnings from President Roosevelt that funds required in addition to the $500,000,000 available under the

“Isoll conservation program must be

obtained from new sources,

8 MILES OF ROAD 13

Approximately eight miles of State Road 13, from northeast of | Indianapolis to three miles beyond | Allisonville, is to be included in a | State Highway Commission million-

gram, Bids are to be opened Dee, | 14, Earl Crawford, Commission | chairman, announced today. | Co-operating with the U.S. Bureau {of Roads, the Commission will use

strength of reports that Chinese |line. Unconfirmed reports said that various methods in compiling data defenses to the south were cracking | Wusih, pivotal point of the Nan-|,n reinforced concrete pavement,

{ he said. The stretch of Marion and { Hamilton County road to be im=- | proved is classified as “worn paves ment.” This $1.314,148.16 paving and re-

[will be the second letting to be | held in December. Bids are to be opened Dec. 7 on grade separations

dived, | residents were apprehensive, be-|and bridges with an estimated cost

of $540,000,