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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 259

BACKERS PUSH LUDLOW PLAN T0 SHOWDOWN

Overrule Author in Seeking

Action on Resolution in House Monday.

HOLD SECRET CAUCUS

Nominated

Foreign Interests Abetting |

Proposal, Says Speaker Bankhead.

(Other stories, Pages 16 and 21)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (U. P.).—Supnorters of the Ludlow War Referendum Resolution decided at a secret caucus today to proceed with plans to bring it to the House

floor Monday. The caucus overruled the wishes of the author of the proposed constitutional amendment, Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.), who sought to delay consideration at least a month so that feeling arising against the referendum from the Panay incident might subside. The caucus decision was made known shortly after Speaker William Bankhead (D. Ala.) had expressed the opinion that foreign interests were “aiding and abetting” the principle of the proposed amendment. The Speaker said President Roosevelt and the State Department joined him in the belief that the proposal would not make war any less likely. O'Connor Leads Attack

The Administration attack on the proposal was carried forward in a House speech by Rules Chairman John O'Connor (D. N. Y.), who said the possible consequences of the amendment are “beyond conception.” The caucus, attended by 60 signers of the petition which brings the plan to the House floor for a votd whether to consider it, also proposed drastic amendments to meet objections that the Monroe Doctrine would be invalidated as Ludlows resolution now stands. Rep. Ludlow appointed a sevenmember steering committee to draft the proposed changes. They would: 1. Permit Congress to declare war without a majority vote of the electorate if any place on the North and South American continents is invaded instead of only in the event of invasion of the United States or its territories. 2, Allow swift military action without a referendum if a military expedition were formed any place in the world to attack the United States or if American vessels were attacked at sea. The committee comprises Representatives Knute Hill (D. Wash), Samuel B. Pettingill (D. Ind),

Hamilton Fish (R. N. Y.), Herma\ |

P. Koppleman (D. Conn.), Caroline O'Day (D. N. Y.), Gerald J. Boileau (Prog. Wis.) and Harold Knutson (R. Minn). Administration leaders in the House sought the early vote, confident a majority would vote against debating the plan, thus virtually killing it. Cannot Defer Action

“Many supporters of the resolution have expressed the willingness to defer consideration for a month or two in order that it may be disassociated from events abroad,” Rep. Ludlow said. “The parliamentary situation, however, is that it is not within the power of friends of the resolu(Turn to Page Three)

MERCURY CONTINUES DOWNWARD SWING

TEMPERATURES

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It was about 30 degrees colder today than yesterday's high, and still going down. Cloudy and snowy weather will change to clear and colder weather tonight, the Weather Bureau forecast, with lowest temperatures between 10 and 15 degrees. Yesterday between 3:30 and 4:30 p. m. the temperature dropped from 46 to 36.

PETERSON IS SELECTED

J. Dwight Peterson. Indianapolis businessman, today was appointed to the Indiana University Board of Trustees by the State Board of Education. He will complete the unexpired term of George A. Ball, Muncie capitalist, resigned. The term ends July 1, 1939.

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Joseph P. Kennedy

ENVOYS SHIFTED “BY ROOSEVELT

Kennedy Chosen for London, Davies for Belgium and Wilson for Berlin.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (U. P).— President Roosevelt today nominated Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman of the Maritime Commission, to be

announced Joseph E. Davies, present ambassador to Soviet Russia, will be made ambassador to Belgium. The nominations carried out a long anticipated revision in this country’s major diplomatic posts. At the same time Hugh R. Wilson, Assistant Secretary of State, was nominated ambassador to Germany and Norman Armour, at present

as ambassador to Chile. Most of the diplomatic shifts have been anticipated for some time. Mr. Kennedy, one of the New Deal's principal exponents, has been considered in line for the London post ever since it became apparent that the late Robert W. Bingham was likely to relinquish his post.

Davies Wanted Transfer

Mr. Wilson's choice for the Berlin

when the State Department asked

| the Nazi foreign office for approval

of his appointment. Mr. Davies, according to gossip in State Department and diplomatic circles here, has been seeking transfer for months. Mr. Kennedy, 48 vears old, is regarded as the wealthiest man in the Roosevelt Administration. If his nomination is approved, he will take to his London assignment a vast experience in negotiation, gained both in government service and in private business. The President also nominated Charles B. McLaughlin of Nebraska to be Assistant Secretary of Labor, succeeding Edward F. McGrady, | resigned.

He nominated George A. Cook of |

Illinois to be a member of the Na« tional Mediation Board for the term expiring Feb. 1, 1939.

‘CHOIR GIRL HELD IN

JERSEY CITY, N. J. Jan. 17 (U. P.).—Dorothy Shaefer, 18-vear-old choir singer who stabbed her father ot death with a butcher knife last night when he threatened to beat her, was ordered held without bail for the grand jury today. Miss Shaefer, a slim, chestnuthaired girl, grabbed a carving knife from a kitchen table and plunged it into her father as ner 9-year-old sister, Evelyn, looked on, according to police.

STEM FASCISM, DODD

ambassador to Great Britain, and |

minister to Canada, was nominated |

post was revealed some time ago |

SLAYING OF FATHER

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Indianapolis Time

FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow; somewhat colder tonight with lowest temperature 10 to 15.

200 AIRPLANES COMB SEA FOR LOST BOMBER

Navy's Newest Type Airboat Missing Over Pacific With Crew of Seven.

(CRAFT’S RADIO IS SILENT

'Dreadnaughts and Cruisers |

Halt Maneuvers to Take Up Search.

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. 7 (U. P.). —The disappearance at sea of a | huge bombing plane with a crew of | seven men today caused an exciting turn in the Naval maneuvers that | have proceeded off the coast in secrecy for almost three weeks. “7-P-4,” the newest and most powerful type of a fighting airboat. | was lost somewhere about 200 miles | off the coast. Every resource of the Navy was thrown into the search, which was | interrupted early today by the loss {of a young cadet who fell from a plane into the sea. Navy dispatches said the cadet who fell overboard was Scott P. Hawkins, Jefferson, Mo.

Carriers Join Search

Although the plane carried one of the most efficient radio transmitters, no message came from its men. A fleet of naval and Coast Guard | craft, including planes, converged about the area where “7-P-4” was last reported at 3 p. m. Wednesday. The Navy made 150 ships and 200 planes available to the search toaay. The aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga were ordered here from San Pedro at full speed, to pick {up 50 planes at North Island Sta-

(tion and steam out to sea where [they will serve as bases of operations. Eighteen huge dreadnaughts stopped gunnery practice off San Clements Island and set out to crisscross the route where the lost plane | was on patrol. Cruisers followed the dreadnaughts and destroyers were called from their tactical maneuvers to rush ahead of the larger craft.

Plane Forced Down

In Marsh Near Newark

NEWARK. N. J, Jan. 7 (U. P) — An American Airlines flagship sleeper plane, carrying five passengers, made a forced landing in a marsh early today aftr missing the landing field at Newark Airport. None of the passengers nor crew of three was injured. Only the ship's undercarriage was damaged, airline officials said.

FRANCO INTIMATES LONG TERUEL SIEGE

Report Communists Cause Losses.

TERUEL—Gen. Franco reported giving up hope of taking city with present forces and preparing for long fight. PEIPING—Japanese admit severe losses to Communists in defending Shansi railroad. Three American missionaries missing. SHANGHAI—Two British police reported beaten by Japanese. ROME—Italy to build two new battleships, 12 new scout ships, and several submarines,

Japs

HENDAYE, French-Spanish Frontier, Jan. 7 (U. P.).—Guarded reports from Rebel Spain indicated today that the Rebels had abandoned hope bf taking Teruel with present forces and had begun preparations for a long-scale fight in hope that a decisive victory would smash the

FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1938

$3,217,200 FOR INDIANA FLOOD CURB FAVORED

Army Engineers Recommend Congress Approval for Nine State Projects.

LEVEES, BRIDGES URGED

ER an

Enters Race

Sum Proposed for Next Year’s Expenditure Includes $943,000 for City.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (U. P.) — Samuel D. Jackson U. S. Army engineers recommended in a report to Congress today the expenditure of $3,217,200 for flood control projects in the Wabash River basin in Indiana during the next fiscal year, and suggested nine

= EJ = a projects for approval. These were: y West fork of the White River, | Muncie, $958,000.

Fall Creek section on west fork of White River, Indianapolis, $743,- | 000. Senator to Return. Launch! Gill Township unit, Wabash River,

: : $ $350,000. His Campaign Against Brevoort levee unit. $236,000. State House Choice.

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Levee unit No. 8, west fork of White River, $334.000. Warfleigh section, w : $200,000. Times Special Lyford levee unit, Wabash River, WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—A state- | $184 200. ment that he will return soon t0| West Fork of White River, AnderIndiana to begin his renomination | son. $127.000. campaign through “an organization | yevee unit No. 10, White River, in every county in the State,” was $39,000. Senator VanNuys’ answer today t0| pyunds in addition to those availSamuel D. Jackson's announcement able from the 1937 appropriation as a candidate for the senior Sen-|could be expended, the engineers ator’s seat. : said, to complete plans and specifi- __ Senator VanNuys indicated that | cations for White River projects alif the Democratic State organiza- ready being drawn, with approxition nominates the Ft. Wayne at- mately $46,000 needed to complete torney in convention, he then will | the work. run independently. rr The improvements recommended “Mr. Jackson or any other citizen | oongist of levees, channel clearing, has a right to aspire to the high goal | , i406 reconstruction, sewers and of Senatorship. Aside from that I protection for adjacent private have no comment to make regarding property. his candidacy,” he said. Ultimate completion of the flood I renew what I said last fall, |. ntr5] project for the Wabash River however, that I shall be a candidate and its tributaries contemplates the

for the Senate in 1938.” it f $18.505.100 Senator Minton today had no expenditure of 3 bhi

Soment in. iste regarding the FELTUS SAYS MNUTT ACKSoOn canqiaacy. Goes Into High ‘NOT ELIMINATED’ The Townsend-McNutt organiza- | Pe

ion’s drive t ire U. S. Sena % ee in Pere, life hg I. U. Trustee Hints Nolan Was Misquoted.

Indianapolis,

Organization's Drive

high today with the formal announcement of the candidacy of Samuel D. Jackson. Tomorrow night Mr. Jackson, Ft.| ,. Special Wayne lawyer and chairman of the . a 1936 Democratic state convention, LO To nin, Ye—paul will open his speaking campaign at | yo4qy saiq Paul V. McNutt, former a Jackson Day meeting at Ham-| governor and at present High Commond, _| missioner of the Philippines, “had Dick Heller, Governor Town: |, .i heen eliminated” as a possible send's secretary, indicating definite successor to Dr. William Lowe Bryan choice of Mr. Jackson as the organ- as Indiana University president. ization's candidate, said he and | aM; peltus, who accompanied Val other State House leaders would at- | Nolan and Ora Wildermuth to New tend the Hammond meeting. York to interview candidates, indiMr. Jackson's candidacy was an- | cated that Mr. Nolan probably was ncunced through organization misquoted by the eastern press. sources here last night. It followed “We eliminated a few from the the Governor's repeated declarations | jist in the New York interview.” Mr. that the party's Senatorial nomi- | pejtus said, “but we did not discuss nee must be a 100 per cent sup- | Mr, McNutt at that time. We will porter of President Roosevelt. report on the interviews at the regSenator VanNuys, who drew | ular meeting of the Board on Governor Townsend's open opposi-! jan. 15.” tion after he fought the President's EN Es

(Turn to Page Three) DRAFT TAX RELIEF FOR CORPORATIONS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 UP : : House tax experts began today to (Copvright, 1938 by United Press) draft formal ADO tithe for a WASHINGTON. Jan. 7.—The [new Federal revenue law designed to Roosevelt Administration will at- lighten the tax burden of most of tempt to nominate and elect Assist- [the nation’s 200,000 corporations. ant Attorney General Robert H.| The House Ways and Means Tax Jackson as the next New York Gov- |Subcommittee completed two months ernor, it was reliably reported to- |of revision study without changiag day. the rates on individual incomes, big It was understood that Post- [or little. master General James A. Farley| The final action of the subcomand Senator Wagner of New York |mittee was to devise a separate tax

JACKSON HINTED AS NEW YORK CANDIDATE

URGES DEMOCRACIES Boi sides re

Envoy Sees War Certain if Dictatorships Expand.

NEW YORK, Jan. 7 (U. P.).—The world faces the greatest crisis over democracy since Napoleon, and only the united action by the demucratic powers can stem the rising tide of | facism, William E. Dodd, retiring | Ambassador to Germany, said today on his return here. He said he doubted such a union | would occur. “At this point,” he said, “it could | be done through joint economic action. But the democracies will not agree upon such a course and the Fascist method of government ex- | pands constantly. When the democracies get around to action, it (Turn to Page Three)

LEWIS HINTS LABOR MAY SHIFT POLICIES

TUCSON, Ariz, Jan. 7 (U. P).— John L. Lewis, Committee for Industrial Organization chairman, said today that “perhaps it is time something else is tried” to replace present business and Government management systems. In his first public statement since he came here for a rest a week ago, Mr. Lewis, declaring “democracy is on trial today in this country,” said: “I cannot say what may happen, but I do know that some people have found they could live happily and successfully in a communal form in which the whole and not just a few

! . have informed state Democratic on corporations created to reduce Both sides reported heavy fight- | leaders that they will not accept the |the personal income taxes of their ng. But the Loyalists expressed | nomination and that they will seek |owners. The tax would affect only (Turn to Page Three) to swing support to Mr. Jackson. irom 500 to 1000 corporations.

INSIDE THE C.1.O. #e sot

Millions of words have been written about the C. 1. O. The day-to-day activities of John L. Lewis and his right-hand men have been chronicled in vast detail. The great steel strike, the automobile sitdowns, the peace overtures in Washington—these and other phases of the C. I. O. movement have made headlines and :ountless columns of type. But—

Sometimes you "can't see the woods for the trees.” The C. I. O. has made so much news that it's hard for many of us to see this tar-sprawling organization in proper perspecJ Its very magnitude, the swiftness of its expansion, tend to obscure the picture. ence—

_ The Indianapolis Times and other Scripps-Howard newspapers asked Benjamin Stolberg, a historian of the labor movement who has been an intimate observer of the forces and personalities in American unionism for two decades, to write a series of articles about

the C. |. O.

Mr. Stolberg's articles will start in The Indianapolis Times on Monday. They are not only tull of factual meat but are written in the brilliant, incisive style with which readers of Mr. Stolberg's books and magazine articles are familiar. And some of his judgments about the policies and personalities of the C. I. O. are likely to be the subject of hot controversy emong labor partisans.

In short, we think the Stolberg series is an important contribution to the literature of {American labor, and we think our readers will find it not only informative but exciting reading.

STARTING MONDAY IN

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

were given consideration.”

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind,

GREEN URGES ACTION ON RECESSION IMMEDIATELY;

FORD PRED

Synthetic Products! Seen Ending Crop Surplus.

SOY BEANS USED

Industrialist Shows New Tractor for First Time.

(Copyright, 1938, by United Press)

DEARBORN, Jan. 7. — Henry Ford believes America is entering the most prosperous era of its history. The prosperity he sees will be one in which industry and agriculture are linked to ban-

ish depression.

This new day, the nation's No. 1 individualist told the United Press today, “is at hand.” Its keystone will be the use of agricultural by-products in the manufacture of industrial goods. Its spark plug, he believes, will be a new tractor which soon will go into mass production at the Ford River Rouge plant. The tractor will be so cheap that every tiller of the soil may buy it.

Farm Products Held Key

HOME

PRICE THREE CENTS

ICTS NEW ERA

Sears, Roebuck Head Asks New Tax Policy.

OPPOSES ICKES

New Dealer Blames ‘Sticky’ Prices for Slump.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (Us P.). —~President William Green of the American Fede eration of Labor today dee manded action—‘“prompt, ime mediate and effective”—by

mittee after Robert E. Wood, Searse Roebuck Co. chairman, criticized ate

The time is virtually here, Mr.

Ford told the United Press, when al- | Edsel Ford, Ford Motor Co. presi-

‘Restrictions’ Impelled | J; kon Sale of Railroad,

He Testifies.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (U. P.).— | large corporations be allowed a 20

Congress to meet the current

business recession. Mr. Green presented his demand to the Senate Unemployment Come

tacks on business by Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes and Ase sistant Attorney-General Robert H, Gen. Wood said his come - pany was reducing prices an avere age of 12 per cent in a drive to gain business and had entered the markets to build up inventories. Gen. Wood proposed that the

per cent exemption from the une

most an entire automobile—body |dent, today told the Senate rail in- | distributed profits taxes.

fenders, doors and paneling—may be constructed out of wheat chaff, soy beans, corn husks, or other farm byproducts. “This new alliance of agriculture and industry,” Mr. Ford predicted, “will be the salvation of both. It will produce the greatest period of prosperity the country ever has known. “And I'll put this thing over if it's the life of me,” he added, smiling. Ford led the way through immaculate laboratories. On the glazed floor he drove the new tractor, never before seen by an outsider. He seemed as pleased as a small boy with a fire engine. To him it was far more than a tractor. It was a door to a new life. Through this mechanical simplicity he saw the means of putting agriculture on a paying basis. He saw streams of ill-housed city dwellers going back to the farm to live in abundance and to produce materials for industry. Surplus Held Nonexistent

“We will offer our new tractor at a price which any one can afford,” he said. “With it he can do all sorts of work. Production is what we need on a farm and it can only be done with tractors.” But what of overproduction on the farm? To Henry Ford there is no such thing as a surplus. Its pressure, he believes, will force us to discover new uses for crops. “Our laboratories are at work now,” he said, “on plans to use chemurgic products in more and more parts of the car. Only a few more experiments are necessary until we will have perfected this product until it will withstand a shock as well as steel.” He called for a thin, convex sheet of a glossy substance made by a chemurgic process. It had been manufactured from soy beans. He placed it on the floor and jumped on it. The piece was undamaged. “If that was steel,” he said, “it would have caved in.

Claims Solution

“Once production of this material begins on a large scale—and we are working on that very thing now— the demand for farm products will increase tremendously. The farmer, instead of producing only the things we eat, will be producing materials for industry. “It is the solution of the nation’s troubles. Get agriculture and industry working hand in hand, and that will mean the farmer and workingman are partners, interdependent 0 neach other.” Mr. Ford's new tractor follows none of the accepted patterns. It looks like nothing on land or sea. It has one large cleated wheel. Directly in front of it is the driver's seat and a smaller wheel which serves for steering. To the left and behind the large wheel is another small one. Between them is the engine, a Ford V-8. Mr. Ford was asked how much the tractor would cost.

Wants Price Low

“How much do you think we should charge?” he countered. “How much do you think the average farmer can afford?” He was asked if it would sell as cheaply as the Fordson tractors of the early ’20s. : “It will,” he sald, “and less if possible. Our first tractor sold for more than $800 and we brought that down to $375. We would like to sell this one cheaper if we can, “I don’t care if we can't make a cent of profit. The main thing is to get something started.”

INFANT IS SCALDED

Marion Purvis, T-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Purvis, 521 W. Abbot St. was treated at City Hospital today for burns received when he pulled a kettle of hot water

|quiry that the Fords sold the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad in power had held up during the reim- | cession, decreasing only 1.3 per cent posed by the Interstate Commerce [in December, 1937, compared to DeCommission. Mr, Ford was summoned before headed by Senator |cember. Wheeler (D. Mont.) in connection with investigation of tne sale of the Ford-owned railroad to the Penn- Mr. road Corp., a holding company. Mr. Ford said that he favored use of lightweight equipment generally | work through maximum hour regue by railroads but that the ICC required that heavy equipment be employed, making it transfer light Detroit equipment to other roads. He told the Committee that experimentation on the D. T. & 1. convinced him that light equipment | phasis. was “more efficient” and would be of great value to railroads generally. housing and slum clearance program ta Te-| hy additional appropriation of funds garding Pennsylvania negotiations! and suspension of requirements for for purchase of the road, including |jocal contributions. a ‘“‘gentleman’s agreement” proposal that the Pennsylvania would get| construction by private enterprise most of the Ford business if rates through remission of local taxes. were equal. Mr. Ford said he didn’t recall de- Social Security program; to provide tails of the talks. At the last moment, Henry Ford | ployment-compensation: Senator | unemployment and ola-age cover Wheeler brought out, and refused | age; to provide larger old-age bene« to “give any written or verbal prom- | fits; to lengthen the period in which ise in regard to the routing of traf-| unemployment benefits are paid. fic.”

country must resort without hesita« TAX EQUALIZATION tion to legislative means of checking the recession and re-establish the

the

1929 because of

Senator Wheeler read data

“kicked over

Calls for More Spending to| mr. End Recession.

By MAX STERN Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—A dou- | of workers laid off between Septem ble-barreled program of increased

public employment and equalized taxes was called for today by Sen-

He said that rural purchasing

cember, 1936. Urban buying, he said, was down 5 per cent in Dee

Green Lists Program

Green asked the following legislative action: 1. Shortening of the hours of

lation in industrial employment. 2. Maintenance of existing wage

impossible 10 | standards. Ironton

3. Continuation of the publie works program on an extended scale and establishment of public works administration on a permanent

4. Extension of the public low-rent

5. Further stimulation of home

6. Revision and broadening of the

for a nation-wide system of unemto extend

7. Resumption of the work relief program on an extended scale,

Asks Quick Action “The time has come when the

recovery on a sounder and firmer basis,” Mr. Green said. Green contended that the largest, single factor in abrupt reces« sion was the “increasingly specula« tive character of the gains in busi= ness activity in the first half of 10317.” Mr. Green said that the number

ber and December this year totaled 1,770,000 compared to 1,850,000 in 1929. Lists Recession Causes

off the stove in the kitchen of his hom 3

ator La Follette (Prog. Wis.) as the answer to the recession. “Young Bob,” who looks upon the recession as “a crisis within a crisis,” is preparing to demand a resumption of socially enriching public works and an amendment to the new tax bill to help meet the cost. He holds that the recession was brought on chiefly by curtailment of Federal spending. While he thinks spending should be resumed now on a larger scale in order to maintain mass buying power. He says more revenue must be raised in order to avoid the danger of inflation. He will urge his well-known program of

Major facts contributing to busie

ness recession, according to Gen, Wood, were:

1. The Government's gold steriliza«

tion program, which he termed “dee flationary.” 2. Cessation of Government spend«

ng at a time when business was

unable to “prime the pump” with private capital.

3. Acquisition of large inventories

in the spring during threat of labor strikes and inability to move goods,

New Dealer Blames

plugging income-tax leaks, broaden- | Prices for Slump

ing the base and straightening the surtax curve, “Talk of balancing the budget on a falling national income is folly,” he said today. “We must balance the larger budget—the nation's economic budget.

Times Special

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—“Sticky”

prices, particularly in the steel and automobile industries, have become

he leading issue in the debate on

ways and means of reversing the

The budget that Senator La Fol- | Pusiness slump.

lette wants balanced looks like this: Assets: America’s huge store of J

Steel raised its prices last spring, ust before the recession became

natural wealth and “the finest sys- | general, and automobile prices were tem for production and distribution | increased in October, just as indus= the world has ever seen,” sound and | {IV in general was beginning heavy unimpaired public credit and tax- |layoffs.

able resources “that haven't yet been tapped.”

Robert H. Jackson, Assistant Ate

torney General, and the Adminise

Liabilities: The unemployed, the |tration’s antitrust spokesman, made ultrapoor, the social casuals of agri- | part of the issue in his radio speech

culture and industry.

TRACTOR TAXABLE AS

last night bespeaking the support of small and competitive business and blaming the steel material

and building«~

industries for having

HAULER, SAYS OPINION “priced us out of a housing proe

The hundreds of Indiana farmers

gram.”

He blamed so-called administered,

who use their high-wheeled tractors non-competitive prices of big busi«

to pull farm produce to market | ness—more

“

must pay weight tax on both the

informally known as sticky” prices because they > not

tractors and the trailers, Attorney- | fluctuate with farm and other prices

General Omer Stokes Jackson said | —for

e maladjustment, He de=

today in an opinion written for |manded a business policy of low Frank Finney, Motor Vehicles Bur- | prices, high wages, and increased

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production,

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