The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 July 1932 — Page 4
THE DAILY BANNER, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, JULY 18,1932.
Congress Picketed By bonus Marchers
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likely to be intr«ls^f btfly four per cent, due to adverse weather. Farm wages are about 10 per cent lower than reported in April and about 30 per cent lower than a year ago. Monthly wages with board average $19.50; without board $28.25. Day wages with board $1.00; without board $1.30. The demand for farm labor was 68 per cent of normal, an increase of 1 point over last month. The supply of labor was 134 per cent of normal, in increase of 2 points in the month. The ratio of supply to demand is 213, the same as last month, compared with 158 last year.
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Accomplishments Of Last Congress
TEN MAJOR PROJECTS SET OUT THAT MERE COMPLETED DURING RECENT LONG SESSION
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In a forlorn attempt to prevent the adjournment of Congress until the demands for payment of the bonus have been met by the government, this picket of tired and hungry war veterans is shown patroline about
the National Capitol buildings. Soon after this pic ture was made the marines were called out to disperse the marchers, but the troops were almost immediate!) withdrawn and the nicket continued
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CORN CROP REPORTED TO BE GOOD; OTHERS ARE DOWN Except for corn, the condition of all Indiana farm crops was below the ten year average on July 1, but the com crop was eight points above
averaue, a cording to the monthly report of M. M. Justin, agricultural stall tician of the U. S. department of agriculture and Purdue university agricultural experiment station. The high condition of corn is uni-
form over tlie state, no district being l more than two points from the state average. Color is good and fields generally clean. While appearance ! at this time is not an infallible indr | cation, previous years with a similar condition suggest a yield per acre of : 37 bushels, or the same as last year. I The acieage is two percent less than a year ago, Justin reports. Condition of winter wheat is eight points below average, having declined four points in June. The average June decline is only one point. Indi-
cations on July I were for a yield of 1 six per vent above that of 1931 but 15.5 bushels p* r acre Probable yields I proiluction is placed at eight per cent! ranged from e g it or nine bushels per i iess than a year ago. due to dry ( acre in Duboi ounties and counties | weather in May. The average yield - south to 22 oi 2.3 bushels in Howard is placed at only 27 bushels this year, and Grant ounties with others | Barley, another small grain crop, is
around each group near the -ame fig ure.s. Hessiai fly, rust and diouth caused injury in outhern and western districts. Stocks of wheat remaining on h md July 1 were 12 per cent of last vear’s crop, against a
usual figure of 4 per cent.
The acreagi of oats in the state is
up .30 per cent in acreage but only six per cent above the yield of a year ago, with an average of 20 bushels per acre this season. Rye is in much the same shape as wheat with a yield of 11.5 bushels per acre forecast. Although (he acreage of potatoes is up 10 per cent, the production is
Ml IKON PEOPLE
WASHINGTON, July 18, (UP)— Major accomplishments of the 72nd congress in the long session that began last December and ended Satur-
day night were:
1. Passed the $1,118,500,000 tax bill imposing drastic “nuisance” taxes and higher income taxes in an effort to balance the national budget. 2. Passed the $2,122,000,000, unemployment relief bill, designed to create work for the jobless and aiding states carrying the relief burden. 3. Ratified the Hoover moratorium on foreign war debts. 4. Established the reconstruction finance corporation to bolster rail-
roads and banks.
5. Broadened discount privileges |
of the federal reserve banks and of
the intermediate credit banks. 6. < at f< 1< ral expenditures by ap-!
proximately $750,000,000 by reducing departmental appropriations and
passed the $150,000,000 omnibus econ- amendment to ‘he cor.stit i omy bill. when ratified by 30 state?
7. Passed the home loan bank bill
setting up a system of federal aid
banks to help small home owners. 8. Approved the Glass plan for
currency “reflation” under which na- 10. Passed the N’orri > . tional banks could issue $995,000,000 tion bill limiting the pow currency backed by federal bonds. . eral judgeg and outlawing "t( 9. Passed the Norris “lame duck”) dog” agreements in industn
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The Smile of a King-To-Be
A smile ta the same in any language or in any stratum of society J delightful expression of this little prince speaks volumes. He is Bauduoin, only son of Prince Leopold, heir to the throne of abown with his sister, Princess Josephine Charlotte The boy. no ,1 years old, is is direct line of succession to the Belgian throne. ‘ B1S ' ras made by special permission of the children's parents in the gr ^ 1 • >•— Pbltcivj du Sfuyvenberg. Brussels. -