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FARM BUREAU DIFFERS WITH 6. 0. P. GROUP

Disagrees With Proposal to Repeal AAA; Supports Crop Control.

NEEDLER FAVORS TAX

Organization Leader Claims Gross Levy Benefits Agriculturists.

The policy of the Indiana Farm Bureau on crop curtailment plans is in direct conflict with the proposals adopted by the Republican Farmers of Indiana, Inc, L. Needler, Bureau tax, legislative and organization department director, said today. The executive council of the G.

O. P. farm group, meeting at the |

Claypool Hotel yesterday adopted a program to be presented to the Republican State Convention June 28. The program included opposition to crop control. “We in the Bureau are for some limit to production to cut down the present peaks and valleys of prices,” Mr. Needler said. Our program isn't one of scarcity. It Is a program to meet the requirements of the market. In attempting to limit farm production hy statute, the Government is only doing what private manufacturing industries have done for years When the demand is light, the production should be light, and when demand is heavy, production should be heavy,

Curtailment Urged

“If the Republican farmer: would |

read the report of the Federal Farm Bureau under the Hoover Administration they would find statements that efforts to aid farmers were doomed to failure without curtailment of crop production.” The Republican organization’s council asked also for repeal of the State Milk Control Act and repeal or amendment of the Federal Agricultural Adjustment Act. The Farm Bureau aided in securing passage of the milk law, but has no fixed policy on it at present, Mr. Needler said. “Granted that amendments to the new Federal act may be needed, we certainly do not want to see it repealed,” Mr. Needler said. He praised this law's “ever granary” system, for storage of surplus in good years to keep up supply in bad seasons.

Want Protection

Advocation of protection of the American farmer against competition from foreigh countries also was listed in the Republican group's program Mr. Needler conceded that there probably could be more strict tariff regulations, but said that farmers so far had not been hurt much under the reciprocal trade agreements.” He added that this country

tural imports except in periods when prices of American products are unusually high. “We would like to see farmers get

on a normal price basis, and stay

on that basis as long as we can,” he said. “It is not particularly healthy to have prices too high. buying begins to drop off then.” The Republican group's

income tax law to exclude from its provisions all natural food products aiid urged that methods be found

ta stimulate nonagricultura! indus- |

and “eliminate harrassing by Government.”

Tax Held Beneficial

tries

taken

Needler said the Bureaut has no fixed stand on either of these points, although he said that in his opinion the gross income tax

law has been of benefit to farmers. |

Deletion from the tax duplicates of all lands used for public highways, suggested by the G. O, P. organization's council, already is provided for in existing statutes, Mr. Needler said. The council also demanded “abolition of the multiplicity of State bureaus and commissions created by statute, which duplicate the performance of local administrative officials.” William J. Heim, Republican Farmers president, said that the group feels that there are enough undeveloped farm markets throughout the world to dispose of the farmers’ products without subsidies by the Government. Mr. Needler declared that such a policy hits a stone wall in some foreign countries which now are developing self sufficiency programs. The Indiana Farm Bureau has no alliance with either major party, Mr. Needler pointed out, and presents the same general platform suggestions to the conventions of both parties.

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‘Wally to Mark 42d Birthday Aboard Yacht

PARIS, June 18 (U. P.)—The Duchess of Windsor will celebrate her 42d birthday with the Duke tomorrow aboard the yacht Frixos, loaned to them by Nicky Zographos,

the so-called “biggest gambler in |

the world,” at Monte Carlo.

The couple will spend the week{end aboard the yacht and then go back to the Chateau la Croe at Antibes. They moved into the chateau last night and the first event on their social calendar there will be the celebration of the Duke's | 44th birthday next Thursday.

| Members of the Duke's entourage |

{ said that reports he might visit

the United States next spring were |

t premature.

SONOFF.D.R. BEAMS DURING

President Attentive in Front Pew at 12-Minute Ceremony.

ANNE'S EYES ARE MISTY

| Minister Who Joined Parents Of Bride and Groom Officiates.

RUTH SIGNS AS

DODGER COACH

King of Swat May Become Brooklyn Manager, Friends Believe.

( Photo, Page Seven)

NEW YORK, June 18 (U. P).— Babe Ruth, former home run king of baseball, today accepted a posi-

tion as coach for the Brooklyn

Dodgers. Terms of the contract were not announced but Ruth said he was to £15,000 for the balance of the season. Ruth, since his release by tls Boston Bees after he had left the New York Yankees, had waited long for a chance to return to major leage baseball. Last night the deal which many ally make Dodgers. Ruth's contract was for the rest of the season. Burleigh Grimes, Brooklyn manager, also has a contract which expires this year. Larry MacPhail, executive manager of the Dodgers, made the following announcement: “Babe Ruth will join the Dodgers.

receive

him

Burleigh Grimes and Leo Durocher (captain of the Dodgers), Ruth accepted a position of coach on the club. Ruth will appear on the coaching lines at Ebbets Field in tomorrow’s double-header against the Chicago Cubs” “Naturally I'm plenty pleased,” | Ruth said just before teeing off in a golf match. “It's going to be swell to get back into the game.” Asked how long the deal had been pending, Ruth said, “less than one day.” “Why, it was just last night,” he said. “Larry MacPhail phoned me, asked me about it, and I said ‘yes’ {Continued on Page Seven)

INFANT SMOTHERED BY BLANKET HERE

Efforts to Revive 4-Month-Old Child Fail.

Four-months-old Joseph Michael Ragains Jr, of Windfall, accidentally was smothered today while his parents were visiting at the home of relatives in University Heights. The parents had come here Thursday to visit Mr. Ragains’ Robert A. Ragains, 1225 Mills Ave, | Mrs. Ragains told police she bathed and fed the infant this morning and | then placed him on a blanket on a | bed for a nap. Returning a short time later, the

mother said, she found the baby un- |

conscious face down on the blanket. She called her husband, a Windfall public school teacher, who applied artificial respiration until arrival of a Police emergency squad and the Fire Department Rescue Squad. All

attempts to revive the infant failed.

was closed | believed will eventu- | manager of the

At a conference last night ¢%= | tended by Ruth, Larry MacPhail, |

brother, |

Photo, Page Three; Mrs. Roosevelt's Page Nine: Editorial and Gen. Johnson's column, Page 10.

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NAHANT, Mass. June 18 (U. P)). —With the President and First Lady in a front pew, the last bachelor among the White House Roosevelts was married today.

It was

John Aspinwall Roosevelt,

WEDDING RITE

| |

a beaming 22-year-old | 6-foot |

Harvard graduate, and a misty-eyed | but smiling Anne Lindsay Clark, 21,

Boston socialite, who marched out of century-old Nahant Union Church. The youthful bridegroom spoke so clearly that nearly all the 300 guests could hear him pledge his marriage vows, but his blond bride spoke so softly that at times even the Presidential party couid not hear her. Outside the church nearly 1000 persons pressed police lines hoping

for a glimpse of the notables who |

attended. A popping of police motorcycles provided a staccato obli-

gato for the solemn ceremony with-

in the church. President Leaves Yacht The President, First Lady, grand-

other members of the Presidential party arrived under police escort from Salem where Mr. Roosevelt de-

barked from his yacht, the Potomac. Only two minutes before the scheduled hour for wedding—12 noon—Mrs. Clark, the bride's widowed mother, took a seat in the left front pew. At 10:08 (Indianapolis Time) the

| strains of the “Lohengrin” wedding | march

swelled from the handpumped organ in the loft. The |church was only two-thirds full. | First came the ushers, then the | bridesmaids and finally the bride, | her eyes downcast. While Dr. Endicott Peabody, Groton School headmaster, and the | Rt. Rev. Henry Khox Sherrill, Epis- | copal bishop of Massachusetts, conducted the ceremony, the President

hunched forwar s ard against the rail of | ence, said that some of the initials

| his pew, but later sat back and relaxed. John Roosevelt fondly watched his ide as he repeated the vows. The single ring ceremony used and the ring itself was a plain gold band. Dr. Peabody married the elder oosevelts and the bride's parents as well.

| br

800 at Reception

After the ceremony John did not Kiss the bride. Instead, they turned and walked down the aisle to the vestibule, The pride winked at the

SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1938

Senator Royal S. Copeland

FEENEY ADDS | 148 IN PREGINGT

Lead Now 953 With 137 Ballots Reported Lost.

SERVICES FOR SEN, COPELAND vx rn rose Tuesoay WIDEN b Wife wt son secon. DJ) ARR

His Body to Family Home | For Last Rites. |

An |

'F. D. R. SENDS REGRETS

Overwork Held Death Cause; Colleagues Laud Foe | Of New Deal.

WASHINGTON, June 18 (U. P)). —The body of Senator Royal S. Copeland, 69-year-old physician- | statesman who died last night, was | started by train today to the family home at Suffern, N. Y., where the | funeral services will be held Tues- | ay. Senator Copeland, senior Senator | from New York and only physician | in the Senate, died suddenly last | night in his hotel apartment. Ironically, he died from overwork and | collapse of his circulatory system— | against which he repeatedly had

| warned other members of Congress

| but personally disregarded.

Al Feeney gained an additional | 148 votes over Charlev Lutz, certified as the Democratic Sheriff nom- | inee, today when the recount board | checked the votes cast in Precinct T of Ward 10. Recheck of three other precincts in the same ward, the Eighth, Ninth and 10th, gave Mr. Feeney a net gain for the day of 189. The board recessed at noon until Monday. The error in Precinct

7 was at- |

tributed by board members to incor- |

rect addition on the talley sheets. Mr. Feeney's new gain followed revelation that 137 ballots were missing from Precinct 6, Ward 10. The commissioners recounting the

| vote in the Democratic race for

mother Sara Delano Roosevelt, and | Mayor 1eported at the same time

that 142 city ballots sent to the

| precinct also were missing.

start of the | F. Haven |

was |

. The Election Board originally gave Mr. Feeney, who asked the recount for Sheriff, 68 votes against 189 for Mr. Lutz in Precinct 6 The recotint, however, gave Mr. Feeney 66 votes and his opponent 185. The board overruled Mr. Feeney's protest of 124 ballots which had been cast for Mr. Lutz. He claimed that the markings indicated that they all had been marked by the same person and that on each of them the entire Democratic organization slate was voted for.

Count Votes for Lutz

He claimed also that the initials of the Republican clerk on the back of them did not compare with the initials on the back of the others. The board, after a closed confer-

might be different, but that it was a matter for the court to determine and counted the votes for Mr. Lutz. The recount board gave Mr, Feeney 132 and Mr. Lutz 95 in Precinct 7. The canvassing board had g'ven Mr. Feeney 74 and Mr. Lutz 185. At the conclusion of the recount in 121 precincts, which includes 10, in Ward 10, Mr. Feeney had gained a total or 1087 votes to give him a lead of 953 over his opponent in the recount as far as it has gone. The recount gave Mr. Feeney 8182 |

ushers, standing to her right, as she | 882inst a canvassing board total of |

left the chancel. The whole ceremony took only 12 | minutes. | Immediately afterward, the bridal [party and guests motored to the Nahant Club for the wedding break-

| adjourned

fast for the families and a recep- |

| tion for 800 persons. Though an augmented police

7976. The recount for Mr. Lutz was | 7229 against a canvasisng board | total of 8110. The board recounting the vote in| the Democratic Mayoralty contest | until Monday after checking 118 precincts.

At that point, the recheck showed

'a loss of 395 votes for Reginald H.

force of over 200 had prepared to | | handle a crowd of 200,000 or more |

in this mile-square peninsula town, police estimated early this afternoon [that not more than 5000 outsiders { had come here.

at 4:30 p. m. on a short wedding trip. Later in the month, however, they will go to Europe for months. They will return in August and John will go to work as a member of a Boston They will live in Brookline.

The couple is scheduled to depart |

Sullivan, certified as the winner. His canvassing board total was 15,549 against a recount of 15087 The canvassing board total for Sheriff Ray, contesting the election, | was 7384 against a recount of 7317.

PWA OFFICE HINTED

FT. WAYNE, June 18 (U. P)

two | Rep. James I. Farley (D. Ind.) said

today the PWA may establish a Ft, | Wayne branch because of numer-

advertising firm. | ous applications for Fourth District

projects.

SEARCHES CANTON RUINS FOR GHILD . . . RESGUERS FIND FRIGHTENED GIRL . .

Ih the sudden, peace-like sitence, after Japans deadly bombers had flown away, a bandage-swathed Chinese of Ca | debris left from his bomb-shattered house, heard a

nton, pawing over the

eeble ery rising

from somewhere beneath (he wreckage, He knew the volee—It was

Wiggam 0.010 his daughters . 4

| i | | | | | |

filed soon

day Clarence BE. Benadum, attorney.

Mrs. Copeland and their son.

Royal S. Jr, who were at the Sen- |

ator's bedside when companied the body. Vice President John Nance Garner and Speaker of the House William B. Bankhead, later todav were to announce personnel of Congressional committees to attend the funeral services.

he died, ac-

Opponent of New Deal

A life-long Democrat, but a

bitter opponent of President Roose-

velt and New Deal policies, he was popular among Congress and official Federal and New cials, led by Mr. Roosevelt and Governor Lehman of New York. expressed regret at the death of Senator Copeland. Prominent mem-

aii members

Washington.

bers of the medical profession and | the many friends he had acquired |

throughout the country as a result of his syndicated newspaper columns on health mourned. As Senator from New York he had held many important committee assignments; and during the last few weeks of the last session of Jongress had served on eight conference committees seeking to reconcile differences between Senate and House versions of legislation. Much of his effort had been de-

voted to obtaining passage of the |

Copeland-Lea pure food and drug law which he had advocated for five years. At the time of his death he was planning to begin a special committee investigation into subversive and un-American activities in the merchant marine. Dr. Copeland was the second member of the 75th Congress to die shortly after adjournment. Rep Allard H. Gasque (D. S. C.) died (Continued on Page Three)

Indian Chief Wants Land; [ls Hoosiers ‘Squatters

MUNCIE, June 18 (U. P.).—Chief Larry Godfrey of the Miami Indian tribe conferred with his lawyers today and announced that suit will be in Federal Court at Ft 100 farmers from 2500 acres land in Blackford County near Pennville The Indians claim the land theirs under terms of a treaty with the U. 8. Government almost 100 vears ago and that the farmers now tilling the land are “squatters.” Chief Godfrey and four of his warriors came here from Peru toto obtain legal advice from He

to oust of

Wayne

| and T. C. Peterson of the law firm

of Purslev and Peterson, Hartford City, have accepted the case and are preparing the complaint. The suit will be based on the

of |

York State offi- |

Entered as Second-Class Matter Ind.

at Postoffice, Indianapolis,

ERMAN

Windows Broken and Stores Marked by Storm Troops.

PANIC INCREASES

Vietims Flee Homes as Terrorism Spreads

BULLETIN BERLIN, June 18 (U. P.).— The German minister to Praha protested to the Czechoslovak Government today against violation of the German frontier by a Czech military plane. It was understood the protest was sharply worded.

June 18 (U. P.).—The “purge” of Jews from Germany's economic as well as cultural life went on relentlessly today and it was learned from Nazi quarters that the drive was prepared carefully and methodically, partially by Storm Troops. There was no indication of any | fet-up in the anti-Jewish campaign. Tired. frightened Jews returned furtively home after another night of terror in which their homes were entered, many

BERLIN,

the “curse of non-Aryanization.” Details of the organizations of the drive repealed that Storm Troop sections were under instructions to draw up lists of Jews and especially of Jewish shops in their districts.

Campaign Prepared

Subleaders were instructed two days in advance when action was | planned in their districts. Thus the plans for the drive in the Hohenschoenhausen district, sched[uted for this morning, were com- { pleted on Thursday. Bands of Nazis roved the city, | smashing the windows of Jewish- { owned shops and painting warnings

were arrested and | scores of Jewish shops daubed with

PRICE THREE CENTS

RAIDS ON JEWS |

” THE FOREIGN SITUATION BERLIN—Nazis renew “Aryanization” drive on Jews,

WASHINGTON—U. 8S. frowns on anti-Semitic policy; Senate Committee to study foreign policy changes.

SHANGHAI—Floods expected to leave 50 million homeless.

TOKYO—Soviet attack on Manchukuoans reported.

HENDAYE—Loyalists reported forced back toward Valencia.

50 MILLION IN CHINA PERILED

Little Hope Seen of Curbing River Raging Against Jap Invaders.

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SHANGHAI, June 18 (U. P).— The great Yellow River, for centuries the Scourge of China, was running wild today, and threatened to make 50 miliion persons homeless within 30 days. There seemed little prospect of | halting the floods which have | spread to sections of five provinces | and made a lake of thousands of [square miles of war-torn territory. Japanese military authorities said they were unable to check the | river's rampage. Relief Is Crippled The International Famine Relief | Commission gave a gloomy predic- | tion for the future, declaring itself |at a loss to do anything because | of the lack of funds and inability | to operate in war zones behind the Japanese lines. “Fifty million persons will be homeless within a month unless the floods are controlled,” said J. BE. Baker, director of the commission. The floods, threatening to halt the entire Chinese-Japanesé War, were the worst in China since 1855, when the Yellow River stormed a new course eastward to the sea, Today there was a possibility it might take another course. Casualties were inestimable

REACH WITH U.S; ESTED IN BERLIN

Senate Committee to

Debate Change in Foreign Policy.

HULL NOTE ISSUE

Purge Held Violation Of Humanitarian Principles.

| WASHINGTON, June 18 (U. P.), | —Administration officials studied | reports of new arrests of Jews in Germany today with indications the breach between the two Govern | ments is steadily widening. While maintaining silence in ace cord with this Government's policy of strict noninterference in the ine ternal affairs of other countries, officials let it be known that they feel the present “purge” of Jews violates all humanitarian principles, and must add to the friction bes tween the peoples of Germany and the United States. Chairman Key Pittman (D. Nev), of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, predicted today the next Congress would make a broad re-examination of the United States’ foreign policy.

U. 8. Policy Study Planned

Intensifying world antagonisms and international developments since enactment of the Neutrality Act in January, 1937, he said, neces sitate a “careful study and ree evaluation of the United States’ poe sition in world affairs.” “Every member of our commite tee has left here with the unders standing he will conduct a personal study of the world situation dure ing the recess, and be ready to give our policy a sweeping re-examina« | tion early in the next session,” the | Senator said. Friction with Germany has heen | growing for many months and is | considered now by some authorities to have reached serious proportions, | The latest official contribution te

on them that they must not be pat- | Some Japanese authorities said the | that friction from here was a sharp

ronized. The anti-Jewish wave spread to from outlying districts indicated | several arrested. estimated jailed. In many sections of Berlin Jews formed “protective groups,” the members of which telephoned each other several times a day in order to keep informed on who are arrested. Jewish business men tele(Continued on Page Three)

In Berlin alone it was more than 2000 were

Treaty of St. Mary's and subsequent treaties which gave the Indians title to four sections of land near Pennville, The treaties stipulated that the tribe could not sell, mortgage or dispose of the land in any manner without the approval of the President of the United States, Mr. Benadum said. The great-grandfather of Chief Godfrey abandoned the land almost 100 years ago and the tribe moved to Peru. In 1850, a tax collector listed the acreage for sale becatise of delinquent taxes and it subsequently was sold to white men. Chief Godfrey maintained that the tax collector had no right to sell the land because Indians are exempt from

the Blackford County soil have oeccupied it for almost a century.

all corners of the Reich. Reports |

thousand Jews had been |

| deaths were “running into the thotisands.” Chinese military authorities said | Japanese planes deliberately bombed | the river's dikes. The Japanese countered with charges that the Chinese them- | selves were blasting the dikes to (halt Japanese armies marching on Hankow, the provisional capital 300 | miles south. Some Japanese reports claimed that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek planned to flood Hankow, if necessary, following a civil evacuation, to halt the invaders. These reports were without confirmation. Chinese authorities reported Yellow River flood had beyond Chotuchiakou, 90 miles south of Chungmou and directly east of

the

y | Yenchang, cutting off the northern |

(Continued on Page Three)

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U. S. JUDGE VOIDS FLAG SALUTE ORDER

PHILADELPHIA, June 18 (U. P)). —Federal Judge Albert B. Maris to-

| day ruled as unconstitutional a | regulation of the Minersville, Pa. | public school hoard that pupils must caltiite the American Flag despite religious belief The ruling by Judge Maris. who

| recently was elevated to the U. S|

taxes. Families of | Walter Gobitis, a business man, are | jokes to permit many of the farmers now tilling | members of Jehovah's Witnesses, a |

| [isians sect whose members believe the salute is a form of idolatry.

The father hurriedly called a group of coolies and soldiers to help him save his child. Finally they found her terror-stricken and

inned under bricks, morlar and boards. Working frantically, then pulled more of the debris away

& rescie, &

ehild, . ¢

The men hurried to Anish

OTHERS WERE LESS FORTUNA

Freed, at last, the chil the crush of hi ing=for one of OF

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passed |

note from Secretary of State Hull to the German Foreign Office ins | forming Berlin this Government would not countenance attempts by | Germany to repudiate responsibility | for the debts of Austria which Gere | many absorbed in April, | Mr. Hull said the American Govs | ernment considers Germany hound “both under international law and | under equity” to assume responsi« bility for the former Austrian Gove | ernment’s debts. | Previously, on April 6, Secretary Hull formally had notified Germany the United States expected her 10 assume full responsibility for all Austrian obligations.

| Reich Fails to Reply | Contributing to the tone of sharps ness in Mr, Hull's note was the fact that Germany also has failed to reply to representations made by the State Department several weeks aco | concerning a decree ordering all Jews, whether living in Germany of | abroad; and whether of German of | foreign nationality, to register al! | property held in Germany valtied at | more than 5000 marks. The decreas | stipulated that such Jewish-owned | property might be “utilized” by the | German Government for the ‘good of the State.”

| La Guardia Raps Hitler

—— Nazis ‘Get Even’ With U. S. for Aid to Austria

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, June 18.—Behind Germany's repudiation of Austria's debts is a small-boyish desire on the part of the Nazis to get even with the United States and the allied powers for keeping Austria alive and independent as a nation 50 long. But for loans made her following the World War, Austria would have been wiped out long ago as a res sult of national bankruptey and mass starvation. Her first two years after the war were tragic. Her people were in want, many of them actually starving. ‘ During that period she received (Continued on Page Three)

incidents and the long-growing the two countries

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