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The Indianapolis Times

VOLUME 51—NUMBER 56

QUALITY TO BE AIM AT BUTLER,

I. U. Philosophy Department |

Butier Choice

Head Named to Succeed |&

Dr. James Putnam.

RETURNS TO ALMA MATER

New President Holds Many Degrees, Is Author of Several Texthooks.

Robinson | of Butler |

Sommer president

Dr. Daniel will become University to succeed his former teacher, Dr. James W. Putnam. His selection was announced by the Board of Directors. Dr. Robinson will resigh as head of the India.aa University philosophy department, a position he has held for 10 years. No announcement was made as to when Dr. Robinson will take office, but Dr. Putnam some time ago told the Board he wished to retire “when a successor is found.” Dr. Robinson said that his aim for Butler University is “a normal growth, with emphasis on quality rather than enroliment numbers.’ He recently told Indianapolis alumni of Butler that the school has a “double destiny” as the leading higher educational institution of the Christian Church and of the City of Indianapolis

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Robinson was born in Madison County near North Salem, Oct. 19, 1888. He was graduated from North Salem High School and entered Butler to study for the ministry. : He was active in oratory and debating, was a member of the Bul ler debating squads, and was pres= ident of the senior class in 1910. When he was graduated from Butler he enrolled in the graduate school of Yale University and was| awarded his M. A. degree in 1911 there, Studied Berlin

He received the B. D. degree, magna cum laude, and was awarded the Dwight traveling fellowship for travel abroad the following year. Dr. Robinson studied in Berlin on

the fellowship and later spent three improvements and extensions will be | [necessary

years in the graduate school where his Ph. D. in 191% In ceived from Marietta

Harvard University he received 1937 he College

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honorary degree of Litt. D. in recog- |

nition of the importance of his philosophical writings,

He began teaching at the Univer-|

sity of Wisconsin in 1920 and for two vears was assistant professor in the department of philosophy. He then became professor of philosophy and chairman of the department of philosophy and psychology at Miami University, Oxford, O. In 1929 he became head of the Indiana University philosophy department, and he also taught summer sessions at the University of Texas and Peabody College for Teachers. |

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He has w en many articles and textbooks on philosophy, and has translated many philosophical articles. He served as editor of the; Mahlon Powell Lectures on Philoso- | phy at Indiana University, Three) of these series have been pub-| lished by the Yale University Press In 1916 he was named winner of the Bowdoin Essay prize at Har- | vard and in 1935 his “Political! Ethics” was select as one of the best 100 books published in the United States during the year Dr. Robinson mairied Oma Glasburn, Barversville 1912 Both are members of pioneer Indiana families. The Indiana ancestry of both dates back more than 12 years, Mrs. Robinson holds an A. B gree from Indiana University an M. A. degree from Ratcliff College. She also studied in Germany and in Paris. She formerly taught English in Indiana and Massachusetts schools "hey have Robinson, 19

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two daughters, Joan who recently returned from musical studies in the National Conservatory at Paris, and (Continued on Page Three)

MERIT BOARD GIVEN NEW 4-YEAR TERM

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Mayor Sullivan today reappointed the Merit Board to a second fourvear term. Members are Dr. Murray De Armond, Dr Pfaff and W. Rowland Allen, The appointment was effective as of April 8 since the original appointment was April 8, 1935. Mayor Sullivan said the reappointment was made on recommendation of the Police and Fire Chiefs

STOCK LEADERS DIP ONE TO TWO POINTS

NEW YORK, May 18 (U. P.).— Stocks continued to slide in early afternoon dealings today, thin mar- | Kets in leading issues bringing sharp declines on moderate offer-| ings. Prices were 1 to more than 2 Points under the previous close,

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NEW EVIDENCE CLAIMED

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PRIVATE WATE!

SURVEY STUDIED

Junior C. of C. Warns Against “Guessing Game’ On Utility's Value.

By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM A study to determine if $22,825,000 is a fair price for the Indianapolis Water Co. was to be started today at a meeting a committee of seven City officials. The meeting follows a a larger group vesterday

session of at which

it was announced that executors of | estate would give!

the C. H. Geist “favorable consideration’ offer of this sun The committee was expected to discuss, at its meeting today, the advisability of an independent survey of the property to learn its value. Tt also was expected to decide on the form of public meetings promised by the Mayor.

‘Cost Worth Gain’

Meanwhile, J. Russell Townsend Jr., Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce president, reminded Mayor Sullivan of the Junior Chamber’s request May 2 that the City

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employ independent engineers and |

certified public accountants to make a survey of the water company’s value At that time, the Junior C. of C suggested that the engineers help determine the “present fair depreciated value of the physical assets,

adequacy of the present and an es-|

timate of the future of the water supply, the present condition of the property for the purpose of ascertaining what, if any,

requirements

in the near future, and whether or not the present rate structure compares favorably cities of similar size and character.”

$900,000 Savings Hinted

In a letter to the Mayor, Mr. Townsend wrote: “The newspapers carried the re-

{port of a so-called ‘indicated price.’ puted advertising of them was not

We do not know, and we believe no one can claim to know, whether this price is too high. We feel that the suggestions before stated are now more pertinent than before. The cost involved will be worth the knowledge gained. Under no circumstances should the City engage (Continued on Page Three)

SWEDISH FLIER ON SOLO FLIGHT HOME

Hops From Newfoundland in 90-H. P. Plane.

ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, May 16 (U. P.).—Charles Backman, a 25-year-old adventurous Swedish flier, flew out over the North Atlantic toward Sweden today in the smallest plane ever to attempt a flight to Europe Backman took off a. m. (Indianapolis Botwood Airport Sweden. Carrying enough fuel for 45 hours in the air, the Swedish flier hoped to reach Sweden in speed slightly above 100 hour. Total distance of his flight at that speed would be approximately 3000 miles Backman flew to Botwood from Bangor, Me., yesterday. He is piloting a 90-horsepower Lambert monoplane, equipped for blind flving

BORDEAUX. France, Mav 16 (U. P.).—The big French seaplane Lieut. de Vaisseau de Paris took off at 12:48 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) today for Lisbon, on its way to New York via the Azores The ship carried a crew of eight,

alone 3:40 Time) from for Lakzand,

under Henry Guillaumet, and one

passenger as it left Biscarosse Airport.

WARMER TONIGHT. BUREAU PROMISES

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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Warmer weather tonight and increasing cloudiness tomorrow were predicted for Indianapolis by the Weather Bureau today. The lowest temperature today was 44 and the highest yesterday was 70. wv

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TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1939

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HOLDS UP TAX AUCTION SALES

Set Aside Order of Judge Cox.

Many Parcels Not Properly Advertised, They Say; Hearing June 6.

By SAM TYNDALL The scheduled auction sale of | hundreds of parcels of tax delin[quent property was blocked tem- | porarily today through an un ex- | pected legal move by County of- | ficials. Officials previously had announced they would abide by a Circuit Court order to sell the par- | cels for as little as $3 each to a| group of real estate dealers, County attorneys yesterday filed a motion in Circuit Court to set] aside the sale order of Judge Earl | R. Cox on the grounds that new | evidence had been uncovered.

Arguments Set for June 6 also asks)

The motion, which |

{Judge Cox to set aside a previons 3 a Mi Workers wicket denial for a new trial, will be argued | A United Mine OE

June 6. The court order to sell the tional Guardsmen. tax-encumbered property is supers —— -

sedéd by the new action, and Claude J. Horn, real = APPROVE BRIDG

Defendants are Barl B. Teckmeyer dealers, who originally sought to | buy the property at auction. are wit is | '

County officials said they opposed to the sale because “it i against the best interests of the public.” They declared in their | motion that the property involved is not qualified for auction because many of the parcels have not been | advertised properly. The law provides that all property which has been advertised and offored for two successive years at the regular annual public sale for de|linquent taxes and has not been [sold in amount equal or above the amount of back taxes, is subject to auction to the highest bidder regardless of taxes due. There are hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of land in this category, |

Dequirements Altered, Plea

Split Cost of Little Eagle Creek Span.

(Photo, Page Three) City and County officials today

{the proposed new W. Michigan St bridge over Little Eagle Creek { The agreement, which ended a | prolonged dispute over the propor{tionate shart of the cost to be ails (borne by the two governmental The dealers, 1m the original com- units, was reached at a meeting plaints, set out that the parcels they the bridge site attended by sought at auction had been adver- than 100 members of West Side civic tised, brought no buyers and now Organizations.

b : OPOS structure, are qualified for auction block. la Pp $7000 rl

expected $10,000, is

cause of new acts of the Legisla-| to be constructed with WPA labor. ture concerning tax moratorjums| County Commissioners had told and tax sales, descriptions of prop-| City officia erty have changed and as a conse- Pay more : has not been cost because they said, only oneladvertised properly as “up for’ fourth of the present bridge is outauction. side City limits. City officials had

| Purther, the motion declared, a Wanted to divide the cost evenly

| complete analysis of all tax records| After the inspection trip,

|quense the property

[to be made to determine the qual-| located half inside and half outside ification of the property. | the City. | The lack of facts concerning the | history of the parcels and the dis-

| known at the time of the first hear-

HOLT AND BROOD FILE ling, the motion said. | Tt also declared that some of the|

|parcels, the exact number of which| lis not known, have been “advertised

{out oy offered for sale. Charge Evidence Insufficient Cox Opposed, but Ordered Sale bua In Kokomo Convictions.

| Many hundreds of parcels are involved. the motion added, “and it (would require time of many clerks land expenditure of large sums of! money to make and provide ana- | City attorney, today filed motions | [lyzed lists of the delinquent prop- | for new trials in Federal Court. | jerty with respect to the times they The petitions said their convictions | ‘had been previously advertised.” on WPA fraud charges were not | | The auction sale issue avose last supported by sufficient evidence, Nov. 14 as County officials refused| Four others were convicted. They to sell the disputed parcels when | Were George H. Morrow, former (offered the minimum $3 each as a | Kokomo City Engineer; George Mix | bid. | former Kokomo assistant City En- | The real estate dealers then filed | gineer; Mel Good, former Kokomo suit to mandate the sale. Officials City Clerk: and Lincoln Record declared they “would go to jail first” former WPA official before holding the auction. | Two were found not guilty by Judge Cox declared the “law was the jury. and three were declared

Olin Holt, former Kokomo mayor, and Carl J. Broos, former Kokomo

clear” and ordered the sale. How - not guilty in a directed verdict by |

ever, he added that “he was opposed | Judge J. Leroy Adair, sitting for to the efficacy of such a sale.” {Judge Robert C. Baltzell.

Former Juke Joint’ Waitress Heiress to 5 Million; Palmer, Dead

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She’s Widow of Playboy

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joint” waitress today heiress | © § ell 9 to a $5,000,000 estate E 3 Legal authorities said that luma Iouise Abatiello Palmer, as the legal widow of Potter D'Orsay Palmer, the playboy scion of the wealthy Chicago pioneer family, would receive a large portion of his estate. Early last December, Mr. Palmer stopped his car at one of those roadside places where customers are served sandwiches and soft drinks in their cars by waitresses called “curb hoppers.” Florida calls the places "juke joints.” Miss Abatiello served him. On Dec. 6 they were married. Yesterday evening Mr. Palmer, 34, died of injuries suffered in a brawl at a barbecue last Thursday. At his bedside was his prettv young wife, his fourth, and his parents, the Honore Palmers, who have a magnificent estate nearby. Last December they refused to re- | ceive their son's new wife, | Palmer himself had a relatively small estate, but stood to be heir | to one-third of the $15,000,000 estate of his grandmother, Mrs, Potter Palmer, His status as heir to that legacy was disputed toda by attorneys, Be also aren &.

as to exactly what the

young widow held in the impend-

status

It was reported that Palmer

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City and County Agree to

i | so-called | variety—everybody wants to have his picture taken—and the average

| citizen fails to take it seriously. | | A | operators

lagreed to split evenly the cost of |g. for

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The new motion argued that be- to replace an old iron bridge and is |

Ils they would refuse to| than one-fourth of the

it was| lon the disputed parcels would have decided that the new bridge will be |

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(right) and a miner (swinging

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bucket) opened mine at Totz, a few miles from Harlan, Ky, swing at each other hefore being separated by Na-

E Tenth of Workers Back

Fntered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,

at Postoffice,

Blows in Harlan Mine War

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Keep Watch

By FRED W. PERKINS

Times Special Writer

May 16 Harlan County

HARLAN, Ky “bloody”

It is a war under remote control strong group of Harlan coal objects to the "union shop” contract that John I the United Mine Workers York last week from the general conference of operators in the Appalachian region, and they are acting as a front for operators of the five other Southern districts that dissented Several thousand members of the U. M. W. are shouting ‘do or die” for their leader, Mr. Lewis, wher-

lever he mav be, New York, Wash-

ington or clsewhere, Tenth of Miners at Work Tn the midst of the shouting, coal operators today increased their operations under National Guard protection and reported half the county's 42 mines and about one-tenth of its miners at work. Operations were resumed on a nonuion basis, Conditions remained peaceful under the firm control of some 800 state militiamen who patrolled the area under orders from Governor A. B. Chandler to prevent mass picketing by union miners who refused to return to work unless the companies sign ‘union shop” contracts. A new detachment of Guardsmen was ordered to the Harlan Central

Harlan not been vigorous enough in carry-

ling out orders and had allowed “too | C1

much” picketing at the mine Troops to Second County

General Carter aleo arranged to dispatch National Guardsmen into a second Kentucky county. Guard units will be sent. into Bell County, which adjoins Harlan to protect operations at the Kentucky Cardinal Coal Corp. and Southern Mining Co. mines at Insull. Both firms said they wished operations. Their mines lie in both Harlan and Bell Counties. Sheriff Martin Green

of Bell

County protested General Carter's

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Mr. and Mrs. Potter D'Orsay Palmer.

and his bride signed an agreement last February turning over his right to all property coming to him under his grandmother's will

to resume | | tion.

fered by law,

The “labor war” now being pumped up in| equal to 85 per ce

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BANK BANDITS TAKE $15,000

Trio Threatens 19 Customers and Employees in Pittsburgh Raid.

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PITTSBURGH, May 16 (U. P) = | Working quickly and methodically, three bandits today held up the | Carrick Bank here and escaped with loot expected to total $15,000. | There were 19 persons in the bank when the bandit trio entered, with {the command: “Reach for the ceiling.” The customers and employees {were herded into the rear of the room as the robbers fled.

CUT ALLOWED IN AUTO INSURANCE

‘State Decides Slash May Be

Up to 20 Per Cent.

Automobile insurance companies

State Insurance Commission ded today. Under the new schedule, effective

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(for one year beginning Saturday, [the companies may offer discounts of 5 to 20 per cent, according to | Commissioner George A. Newbauer,

The Commission's ruling also

(abolished the 15 per cen. rebate fo {ear owners who have had no rcei

dents during the previous year, Officials said statistics failed to show any noticeable reduction in accidents while the plan was in operas

The new reduction order does not affect the special ratings for firms owning a fleet of cars already cove

After Brawl

to the First National Bank of Chicago and two trustees. This agreement provided, it was understood, that he, his wife or their heirs would benefit only

from income of the properties The family’s attorney in Chicago said that young Palmer would not have shared in the $5,000000 legacy unless his father had died first and specifically willed it to him The Palmers and the young widow left the hospital together after Palmer died but it could not be learned if death had changed the parents’ attitude toward her. That they were less cold toward her was ovident, however. Last month she sued her husband for separate maintenance and his

parents for $300,000, alleging alienation of affections but both suits were dropped when a reconciliation was brought about. Meanwhile a coroner's jury was impanelled at Sarasota to investigate the death of Palmer following the brawl, Kenneth Nosworthy, a butcher's boy, told authorities he had struck Palmer once with his fist after Palmer had attacked him with a beer bottle, apparently without provocation. A

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ONTAX AFTER TNEC BEGINS MOST VITAL MONEY STUD

Seek to Find Reason for | “idle Men, Machines And Funds.’

By RAYMOND CLAPPER Times Special Writer | WASHINGTON, May 16. -=Among | New Dealers, the hearings begun today by the Temporary National Reonomic Committee are rated as the most important of the decade | ¥rom the lips of some of the biggest business executives in the country, the joint Committee will hear opinions as to why the capitalist system isn't working more satisfactorily In these discussions an effort will (pe made to diagnose the partial [ paralysis of capitalism, indicated in the vast stores of reserve capital now lying idle-=savings not usefully emploved-and the reasons for that idleness Targe Reserves Studied

At the conclusion of the investigation of life insurance re= serves, Senator O'Mahoney (D [Wyo.), TNEC chairman, pointed out that the total assets of the com- | panies on Dec. 31 were $27,650,000 nt of the total assets of all national banks. He pointed out that insurance companies were taking more and | more of the new issues of securities [while small businassmen brought pressure on Congress to foster cap:ital financing through Government money implied no criticism of insurance executives to investigate the way these huge funds and others are fed pack into the economic system, oi are not fed back These funds are which our system runs and Committee wishes to know more about how that [uel supply oper lates, and its accessibility, For the moment the interest is in obtaining information, hoth as to the facts and as to what businessmen and other witnesses think might be done to increase the vitality of our sys= tem

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One Question Asked

In opening the investigation today, Peter R. Nehemkis Jr. special Securities and Exchange Commis sion counsel, who has been prepa ing the evidence for a vear and a (half, said there would be a single [question at the basis of the inquiry | “Why is it that we continuad to (have in this country idle men, idle machines and idle money?” As the first witness today, Prof Alvin H. Hansen of Harvard University submitted a four-point program designed to start the flow of “idle money” and prevent “chronic unemployment.” | Prof. Hansen said he could find [“no simple solution” to the problem of how to “get an adequate volume of investment expansion.” As part of a proposed "attack from many angles” he proposed that the Government:

Stettinus Called

1. Stimulate private expansion of productive equipment and new construction. | 2. Create a 1ailroad equipment [eompany, financed on a se.f liqui= doting basis by Government funds (Continued on Page Three)

BEE LINE' HIGHWAY 70 AIRPORT PUSHED

‘Superroad to Follow Trac- | tion Car Route Proposed.

A straight-line paved superhigh{way from the downtown business | section of the City to the Muni- | eipal Airport over the present Terre Haute traction ear line of the Indiana Railroad, was proposed by |City officials today, | Tentative plans for a new road |to bring airline passengers to and [from the air depot in less than 10 minutes, followed the anuovuncement that the railroad is seeking [abandonment of the car line, I. J. Dienhart, airport superintendent, said Bowman Elder,

[ised the Works Board the right-of-(way on the line if the Public Serv fee Commission grants a petition (now pending before it for discons |tinuance of the Terre Haute serve jee. A hearing on the petition is [to be held Monday at Greencastle | The traction line runs from the | Terminal station to Kentucky Ave to Oliver Ave, on Oliver Ave for a short distance and then in a "bee line” to the north edge of the air= port The line right-of-way is crossed by only three roads beyond Oliver Ave. They are Lyndhurst Drive, | Holt Road and W. Morris St. Mayor Sullivan after a conference | with Works Board officials termed

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REVISION SQUEEZE

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Expiring Levies

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18 Per Cent Rate on Corporations Is

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By THOMAS L. STOKES

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, May 16. The months-old melee over corporation tax revision suds denly broke up today and Sene ator Harrison (D. Miss.), pers champion of tax changes, discovered to have taken ball from President Roosevelt.

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business, and revision

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profit tax which business has raised such a clamor It all happened at a two-hour White House conference attended by Treasury officials and Congress | sfonal tax leaders | The President still evinced little desire at the conference to tamper with taxes at this session, particu larly to see the end of the undise tributed=-profits tax, but he found that he was outmaneuvered by circumstances beyond his control=and it was Senator Harrison who made this clear,

Gives Near Ultimatum

Senator O'Mahoney said it |

The first circumstance is that levies producing some $1,700,000,000 in revenue==nuisance taxes and core poration taxes—expire this year and must be replaced The second is that Senator Hare rison very pointedly told the Presie dent that if the House does not res vise corporation taxes, then when the legislation to continue the expires Ng taxes reaches the Senate thea Finance Committee, which Mr. Hare rison heads, will take matters into its own hands and write in amends ments revising the corporation tax structure | He reminded the Finance boiled group Treasury Secretary Morgenthau and Undersecretary John W. Hanes, who sat in the conference, have been working quietly for weeks to indice the President to sponsor a res vision of business taxes While learning at the conference that the President's attitude has changed little, they did see that Congress sional leaders are now ready to take the initiative For Rep. Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C)), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, where tax bills must originate, indicated as he Jeft the conference that he is prepared to consider a tax bill and probably will begin work with his committee as soon as pending amendments to the Social Security Act are disposed of in committe and on the floor. This probably will be 10 days or two weeks. He was accompanied to the White House by Rep. Jere Cooper (D. Tenn.), a leads ing Committee member,

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Capital Tax Retained

“We'll have some kind of tax bill,” Rep. Doughton said “I always thought the undistributed-profits [tax was a sound tax but business never did like it, If removal of this tax and revision of others will help business, then I'll support such changes. I'm willing to stay here all summer if necessary to get out a tax bill.” His previous reluctance to revise faxes seems to have broken down under Senator Harrison's challenge, As a basis for a program, 1 Senator suggested the following Repeal of the remnant of the une distributed-profits tax, which ape plies a surtax of up to 24 per cent on top of the 16’; per cent corporas tion income tax (the rate depending on the amount of dividends distribe (Continued on Page Four)

STATE WHEAT YIELD PUT AT 25,624,000

limes Npee LAFAYETTE, May 16 Justin, Purdue University tural statistician, today predicted a 1839 Indiana yield of 25624.000 bushels of wheat, at the rate of 16.3 bushels an acre,

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