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CHAPTER ONE
'jpHE offices in the Equity
building are spacious and
attractive. They have the at
mosphere of successful busi
ness. The corner offices over
looking Tenth street are
equipped with mahogany fur-j
niture, easy chairs and con
venient ash trays.
A great glass-topped desk stands j
almost in the center of the deep
rug. In spite of this atmosphere,
on a Friday afternoon at ten min- |
utes past 1, the air in Suite 216 was
surcharged with something almost
explosive.
‘ Mr. Ball from Blind River, eh?"
Asper Delo’s face was purple with
anger. “Mr. Ball, you are a dirty
Irish snoop!" The owner and op
erator of the Delo Timber Com
pany sprang to his feet and moved
ponderously around his desk.
The target of his wrath, a lean
young man with a freckled nose and
wide, firm mouth, looked the big
boss over with amused gray eyes. He
shoved his stetson back as though
10 allow a lock of unruly, dark hair,
a Utile more freedom.
It was plain that he was a man
more accustomed to the saddle than
to the soft carpets of Suite 216.
“I never new a squarehead who
could keep his temper,” Stan Ball
drawled, with mock gravity.
Asper Delo smacked the glass top
of his desk with a huge fist and ex
ploded wrathfully. “You came here
to insult me!” His words choked
him.
“I came here to tell you the
truth, and I am to get it out of my
system.” Stan Ball grinned, show
ing a set of even, white teeth. With
an easy swing of the booted leg, he
seated himself upon the wide win
dow ledge overlooking Tenth street.
Asper Delos bony jaws worked
until his blue eyes bulged, but no
words came.
“You have committed several mur
ders, and you are a prime thief.”
Stan Ball made the statement eas
ily. As he spoke, his eyes wan
dered down into the crowded street.
He gazed thoughtfully at the top
of the hurrying cars while the tim
ber king spluttered and strove to
gain control of his voice.
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A SHINY limousine pullled up at
the curb below. Stan's firm
mouth twisted into a sneer as he
watched a liveried driver step out
of the car and walk across the
street with two very attentive com
panions.
Old Asper Delo. two-fisted lum-,,
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her man, had gone swanky with a |
town car and a unuormed driver.
The young man's thoughts were
Interrupted rudely. “You'll eat
those words!” Asper Delo’s nose was
thrust almost into Stan Ball’s face.
The lanky cowboy slid from the
window ledge and his high-heeled
boots clicked on the polished floor
beside the rug. With a short laugh,
he roused himself and faced Asper
Delo. The amused light left his
eyes and they glinted as he shoved
ihe timber king away with a lean
*rm.
“Maybe you never shot a man in
the back yourself, but your straw
boss up at Three Rivers has hired
it done. Not once, but three times!”
Stan Balls jaw thrust out aggres
sively. “You own that outfit and
you're responsible.'\
He leaned toward Asper Delo and
his eyes were hard.
“I'm going up there to get a re
port of your workings, an honest
report—get that?" Stan pushed his
hat back a little farther. “I came up
here to tell you so. so that you
could call your man. Swergin. and
have him hire a breed to shoot me
in the back.”
Asper Delo was past words, but
he was not past action. In the days
when he had run his own crews he
had ruled with his fists. Now his
Viking blood boiled within him.
With a rasping roar, he swung a
fist at Stan Ball’s chin.
That irritating young man side
stepped with lightning smoothness.
Without seeming effort, he slid in
nearer and in a second Asper Delo
was neatly tied with his own big
arms holding themselves. Stan
Ball shoved him back against the
desk and his wicked grin returned.
“You will fight, won't you? But
you haven't the sand to do your
own killing." There was a taunt
ing edge to the words.
Breathing heavily, Asper Delo
collected himself. He was not licked
by any means, but he realized that
he was no match for the lean
youngster who faced him. He shook
his fist impotently and retreated
around his desk.
“You’ll never set foot on the
Three Rivers cuttings, you lying
whelp! We have mat tract in
spected and the timber checked by
a government man and we don’t
allow fools meddling with our busi
ness.” Asper gripped the top of his
desk and his words jerked from be
tween his teeth.
Yes? Inspected and reported?
Well. Mr. Delo, we are getting our
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50-50 BURGLAR TRAP
Alarm Scheme Works, But Crook
Makes Good His Escape.
A burglar trap set by Gale Hen
drickson at his home, 1731 Arrow
avenue, worked to a certain extent
Tuesday night.
Hendrickson, who set the trap
after his home was entered last
week, placed a hammer and some
string so that tampering with the
door would cause the hammer to
fall.
The hammer fell when an attempt
was made to enter, but the thief
•scaped.
The Indianapolis Times
Generally fair* tonight and Thursday; somewhat warmer Thursday.
VOLUME 44—NUMBER 108
DRY LEADERS
ARE AHEAD IN
VOTE RETURNS
Senator ‘5-and-10’ Jones
of Washington, However,
Having Hard Fight.
HUEY HAS WAY AGAIN
Cole Blease Fails to Make
Grade for Comeback;
Moses Is Victor.
Bv United Pres*
Dry leaders involved in nine state
primary contests where issues
ranged from prohibition to Huey
(Kingflsh) Long held early leads
in returns today, although Senator
Wesley L. Jones (Wash.), Republic
an author of the drastic “five-and
ten” prohibition law, was threatened
with defeat.
Early returns had given Jones’
opponent for the senatorial nomin
ation a slight lead, but later reports
left Adam Beeler, jovial repealist
and former state supreme court jus
tice, trailing.
The wet Democratic candidate for
that office in Washington, Hamer
T. Bone, held a substantial lead,
however, over Stephen F. Chadwick,
Seattle. The Democrats were reg
istering double the Republican vote.
Another state in which prohibi
tion was an issue was New Hamp
shire where Governor John G.
Winant, who usually won a heavy
dry and woman vote, led his Re
publican repealist oppnent, State
Senator George I. Haselton, almost
7 to 1 in the race for the guberna
torial nomination.
Huey Long Is Issue
United States Senator George H.
Moses was assured of the Repub
lican nomination there, and in the
Second congressional district where
wets and drys battled over the con
gressional nomination, the dry was
out in front. Former Governor
Charles W. Tobey led Harold K.
Davison, avowed wet.
Huey Long was the issue in Lousi
ana. The Louisiana Democratic
boss put Congressman John H.
Overton in the senatorial nomina
tion race in an effort to oust an old
political enemy, United States Sen
ator Edwin Broussard, and appar
ently had succeeded by almost 2 to 1.
Broussard had been in the senate
twelve years. Long’s ticket favored
repeal and limitation of private
wealth.
Prohibition figured in at least one
Vermont contest, the Republican
nomination for the state’s only seat
in the national house of representa
tives.
Congressman Ernest W. Gibson,
Brattleboro. resubmissionist and in
cumbent for nine years, was leading
Loren R. Pierce, repealist, almost
2 to 1.
Cole Blease Comeback Fails
Cole Blease, for many years a na
tional figure among Democratic
congressmen, apparently failed in a
comeback attempt in South Carolina
where he opposed Ellison D. Smith,
incumbent, for the nomination for
the senate.
The primary results summarized
fo\low:
ARIZONA—Dr. B. B. Moeur lead
ing Governor W. P. Hunt for the
Democratic gubernatorial nomina
tion, but other returns expected to
cut down his lead. Jack Kinney
leading W. W. Midgley, Republican
rival. 2 to 1. Senator Carl Hayden
and Congressman Lewis W. Douglas,
Democratic incumbents, apparently
renominated.
COLORADO —Karl C. Schuyler,
attorney for Henry C. Blackmer in
the oil scandals, leading Nate C.
Warren for Republican senatorial
nomination. John T. Barnett, oil
millionaire, leading Alva B. Adams
for Democratic nomination. James
D. Parrott (Rep.) and Lieutenant-
Governor E. C. Johnson (Dem.) led
in the gubernatorial race.
Burcker Holds Big Lead
LOUISIANA—Huey Long's ticket,
pledged to repeal and limitation of
private wealth, apparently winning
by a huge vote. Nomination of
John H. Overton for United States
senate means retirement after
twelve years of Senator Edwin S.
Broussard.
MICHIGAN—Governor Wilbur M.
Burcker (Rep.) held huge lead over
opponents for the gubernatorial :
nomination.
MISSISSIPPI —Congressman Bob
Hall trailing W. M. Collmer for the
Democratic congressional nomina
tion in Sixth district runoff. In
cumbent highway commissioners
leading opponents.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Governor
John G. Winant (Rep.) leading for
Republican gubernatorial nomina
tion. Charles W. Tobey (Rep.)
leading in congressional race. Sen
ator Moses assured of his renom
ination. George H. Duncan (Dem.)
and Henri T. Ledoux running even
for gubernatorial nomination. Jere
miah Doyle and John J. Landers
also in close race for Democratic
congressional nomination. Fred H.
Brown seemed assured of Demo- J
cratic senatorial nomination. Con- 1
gressman William N. Rodgers j
(Dem.) apparently renominated by
large majority.
Renominate Vermont Governor
SOUTH CAROLINA Senior
Ellison Smith apparently renomi
nated by large majority over former
Senator Cole Blease. Blease had
promised a “house cleaning of tax
WASHINGTON Wesley Jones
(Rep.) apparently renominated al
though facing close vote. Homer T.
Bone leading in Democratic sena
torial contest. Democratic candi
dates polling twice the vote regis
tered for Republicans.
VERMONT Governor Stanley
C. Wilson apparently re
nominated along with Congressman
Ernest W. Gibson. No major Demo
cratic contents.
INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 14, 1932
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'FLYING FAMILY'
SAFE AT PORT
Blizzard Forced Ship Down,
Hutchinson Reveals.
By 1 nitrd Press
ANGMAGSSALIK, Greenland,
Sept. 14.—The “flying Hutchinsons”
were safe on land today, and glad of
it.
The eight persons aboard the am
phibian “City of Richmond” were
brought here at 3:30 p. m. Tuesday,
by the trawler Lord Talbot, which
rescued them from Ikersuak Fjord
after their plane was forced down
and wrecked at sea.
Hutchinson revealed that he en
countered a blizzard while flying
from Julianehaab to Angmagssalik
Sunday, and that his plane wcw
wrecked when he came down on the
sea. The Lord Talbot was the first
vessel to answer Hutchinson’s SOS
signals, and eventually found the
“flying family.”
Greenland residents familiar with
the dangerous moods of northern
waters marveled that the Hutchin
son party, which included Mrs.
Hutchinson and her two young
daughters, escaped injury.
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on Page Nine, the rules for its
Scrambled Letter contest, in
which $125 in prizes will be
given.
One scrambled letter will be
printed each day for twenty
six days, starting Thursday.
You put them together and
when you have the entire twen
ty-six, send them to The Times
Scrambled Letter Editor.
Turn to Page Nine for details
and rules. Then watch for the
letter “A” Thursday.
CORN IS UNCHANGED
Crop Conditions at Stand
still, Reports Declare,
By l nited. Press
LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 14.
Corn crop conditions in Indiana
remained virtually unchanged
throughout September, it was re
ported today by the Purdue uni
versity agricultural experiment sta
tion and the U. S. department of
agriculture.
“Improvement was shown in three
southern districts and along the
Wabash valley as far up as the
middle of the state,” the report
read.
In the northeastern quarter there
was a sharp deterioration from
drought. The improvement and de
terioration offset each other when
the acreage involved is taken into
account.”
CONVICT GETS DRUNK;
STARTS ONE-MAN RIOT
Steals Prunes, Apricots and Makes
Brew Right in Cell.
JOLIET, 111., Sept. 14.—Warden
D. Whipp of Joliet penitentiary is
beginning to wish convict William
(Dutch) Emmerling would take the
pledge.
Emmerling today is in solitary
confinement for the second time in
three months, after attempting to
start a riot after becoming intoxi
cated in his cell.
As before, the convict fashioned
his brew out of prunes, apricots and
potatoes stolen from the prison
kitchen and fermented with yeast.
CENTRAL ENROLLS 239
Total List to Reich 400, Officials at
South Side College Say.
With a total of 239 students en
rolled Tuesday, the first day of
school, it is expected that total en
rollment at Indiana Central will
reach 400 this semester.
Os the enrollment Tuesday, nine
ty-six were freshmen, school au
thorities said.
A romance of the “Big Tops”
will culminate in the marriage
of Vera • Bruce (above) and Al
fredo Codona, (right), veteran cir
cus trapeze artists known to
thousands here and in Europe.
Codona was the husband of Lil
lian Leitzell, aerialist queen, who
fell to her death during a per
formance in Copenhagen eighteen
months ago.
At the time, Codona was only a
short distance away, appearing
with his brother and Miss Bruce
in a Berlin circus. Codona later
took his wife’s ashes back to Los
Angeles for interment.
The wedding will take place
Sunday in San Antonio, Tex.,
during the convention of the Cir
cus Fans Association.
FIGHT FLARES
IN FARM STRIKE
Violence Breaks Out; Five
Picketers Arrested.
By United Press
SIOUX CITY, la., Sept. 14.—Vio
lence broke out anew today in the
farm strike.
A cattle truck driver, who suc
ceeded in running his cargo through
picket lines on highway No. 75,
south of Sioux City, was followed
into the city then attacked. He
was beaten and his truck damaged.
Police placed five suspects under
arrest.
The violence followed by only a
few hours a mass meeting at which
a vote was taken on the question of
continuing picketing.
Appioximately 4,000 attended the
mass meeting, but only those who
had participated in previous picket
ing activities were permitted to vote.
The ballot gave: For picketing,
436; against picketing, 249.
Picketing which has been in prog*
ress on lowa highways since the
Governors’ conference last week,
was spreading gradually today into
South Dakota and the Nebraska
area west of Sioux City.
CYCLE COP PERFECTS
CRACK TUMBLING ‘ACT’
Runs Into Side of Car, Does Triple
Somersault Over Automobile.
If James Stack, Gary, ever loses
his job as a state policeman, he
probably can get a place with Sells-
Floto or Hagenbeck* Wallace circus.
Tuesday night, according to a re
port at state police headquarters
here, Mrs. Agnes Bartley, Gary,
failed to stop at Fifth avenue, Gary,
which is a preferential street.
Stack struck the side of her car
with his motorcycle and did a triple
somersault over the automobile.
He incurred only several scratches
and lost one of his shoes.
John J. Rasbo 111 Bom
DAYTON, 0., Sept. 14.—A six
pound son, born yesterday to Mrs.
John J. Raskob Jr., will be named
John J. Raskob 111, the parents an
nounced today.
AD INCREASE SEEN
15 Leading National Firms
to Put on Pressure.
By United Press
NEW YORK. Sept. 14.—Fifteen
out of forty leading national ad
vertisers polled by the magazine
Advertising and Selling reported
they “are prepared to increase their
advertising this fall,” the magazine
announced today.
“Os the remaining twenty-five, a
considerable majority reported that
their plans still were undecided.
Tageant Held at La Porte
By United Press
LA PORTE. Ind.. Sept. 14.—A pa
geant in which more than 300 per
sons participated, depicting the
city's history, climaxed today’s cele
bration of the 100th anniversary of
the founding of the city of La Porte.
U. S. PLANE IS
NEAR EUROPE
ON ROME HOP
S. S. France Sights Speed
ing Craft 450 Miles From
English Coast.
THREE ON BOARD SHIP
Edna Newcomer Plans to
Leap From Cabin at
Florence, Italy.
By l nited Press
ABOARD S. S. FRANCE, Sept.
14.—The S. S. France passed a
monoplane headed east at 11:50
a. m (eastern standard time) to
day. It was aluminum colored.
Everything seemed normal with the
plane.
The France’s position at the
time was 49.36 north, 17.38 west.
The American Nurse is not
aluminum colored, but is painted
white. It is likely that at a dis
tance its color would be mistaken
for aluminum, officials at Floyd
field, New York, said.
If the plane sighted was the
American Nurse, it was north of
its Intended course. The position
given is about 450 miles west of
Land’s End, the southeastern ex
tremity of England.
Europe Awaits Plane
By United Press
LONDON, Sept. 14.—The mono
plane American Nurse, carrying an
American nurse, a doctor and a
pilot on a non-stop flight from
New York to Rome, was eagerly
awaited over the coast of Spain and
Portugal today.
The plane apparently was mak
ing steady progress, and, if it holds
to its southern course, should be in
the vicinity of Cape Finisterre,
northern Spain, early tonight (east
ern time.)
When last reported to the United
Press by the steamer Ashburton at
12:30 a. m. (eastern standard time)
the plane was 450 miles northwest
of the Azores, or about 1„600 miles
from Cape Finistere.
At an estimated speed of at least
100 miles an hour, the plane should
make land before nightfall in New
York. As the fuel load decreased
the plane’s speed would increase, it
was pointed out.
The monoplane is a flying scien
tific laboratory in which a physician
and a nurse planned to study the
reaction of pilots and passengers in
ocean flights. There also is a mas
cot aboard, a pet woodchuck named
"Tailwind,” which will act as a
carbon monoxide “detector” if nox
ious fumes come from the motor.
Aboard the plane are William Ul
brich, veteran pilot; Dr. Leon M.
Pisculli, New York physician: Miss
Edna Newcomer, nurse, of Wil
liamsport, Pa., who also will act as
relief pilot.
Miss Newcomer planned to make
a parachute jump over Florence,
Italy, in honor of Florence Night
ingale.
MRS. ROSS IN STATE
Former Wyoming Governor
to Open Tour Tonight.
By United Press
NEW ALBANY, Ind., Sept. 14.
Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, vice-chair
man of the Democratic national
committee and former Governor of
Wyoming, will open her Indiana
speaking tour here tonight.
Mrs. Ross will be accompanied by
Mrs. Samuel Ralston, widow of the
late senator, and Paul V. McNutt,
Democratic Governor nominee. She
will be the first woman speaker of
the national organization to speak
in Indiana.
Mrs. Ross is scheduled for two
speeches Thursday. She will speak
at Matthew Grove, near Clinton, in
the afternoon. In the evening, she
will be principal speaker at a Terre
Haute meeting honoring Mrs. Vir
ginia Jenckes, candidate for con
gress from the Sixth district.
CRASH HURTS CHILDREN
Auto Driven by Father Is Struck by
Another Machine.
Martha Elliott, 10, and Robert
Elliott, 2, children of Mr. and Mrs.
George Elliott, 1236 West Thirty
fifth street, were cut and bruised on
Tuesday night when the automobile
driven by their father was struck at
Twenty-eighth street and Indian
apolis avenue by a car driven by
Charles H. Ward, Negro, 2309 In
dianapolis avenue.
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PRISONER SLAIN;
DOCTOR REPORTS
Illinois Jail Death Caused
by Beating, Is Claim.
By United Press
CHICAGO, Sept. 14.—A beating
probably caused the death of Mar
tin Virant, whose body was found
suspended from his cel in the Taze
well county jail at Pekin, Dr. Wil
liam D. McNally reported today.
Dr. McNally will present his find
ings at the inquest to be held in
Pekin Thursday.
Deputy Sheriff C. O. Skinner of
Pekin is being held under $20,000
bond on a murder charge in con
nection with the death. Virant had
been held as a witness in a murder
case and had charged from the
stand that Skinner had kicked him
while he was in jail.
Examination of Virant’s vital or
gans, as made by Dr. McNally,
showed no strychnine or opiates, he
said, thus eliminating the theory
that Virant died after administra
tion of “knockout drops.”
COUPLE IS ROBBED OF
S6O BY AUTO BANDITS
City Girl Is Loser or $lO rurse, Es
cort Gives Up SSO.
Loot of S6O was obtained Tuesday
night from a couple motoring near
Edgewood, according to a report to
police by Byron Edwards of Rush
ville, who said he and Miss Marian
Allison, Seventeenth street and Lin
wood avenue, were the robbery vic
tims.
Edwards said the bandits took his
watch and pocketbook. valued at
SSO, and Miss Allison's purse, valued
at $lO.
Two men, both armed, who were
riding in an old sedan, committed
the robbery. After obtaining the
loot, they disconnected wiring of
Edwards’ car and forced him and
Miss Allison into a field before flee
ing, he said.
BABE RUTH TO JOIN
YANKEES NEXT WEEK
Swat King Sure to Be Ready for
World Series, McCarthy Declares.
By United Press
CHICAGO, Sept. 14.—Babe Ruth
may rejoin the New York Yankees
in time to play against the Athletics
at Philadelphia next Wednesday,
Joe McCarthy, Yankees’ manager,
said today after receiving a tele
gram from Ruth.
The Babe says he is feeling fine
and surely will be ready for the j
world series, McCarthy said.
DIES AT CARO GAME
!
City Man Is Victim of Heart Disease
While Playing Euchre.
Frank C. Schabet, 2540 Broadway,
died suddenly while playing euchre
Tuesday night at the home of Earl
P. Ensley, 1326 North Lasalle street.
He was a victim of heart disease,
according to Dr. E. R. Wilson,
deputy coroner.
BOY FUERS BURIED
All Cloverdale Turns Out
for Funeral of Lads.
By United Press
CLOVERDALE. Ind., Sept. 14.-
The entire village of Cloverdale
joined today in funeral services for
twe schoolboy fliers who were killed
when their plane crashed on a farm
near here Sunday.
William Judson Lindley, youngest
pilot of Indiana, was at the controls
when the craft fell. He was ac
companied by Dureane Gremer.
Both were 16.
Joint funeral services were held
for the youths.
Hourly Temperatures
6a. qi.,... 64 10 a. m 77
7a. m..... 66 11 a. m 79
Ba. m 70 12 (noon).. 81
9 a. m 74 1 p. m 81
Miss Collette Haley (upper), 22-
year-old school teacher of Strea
tor, 111., is being hunted through
the midwest as the victim of an
alleged kidnaping.
A brother of Miss Haley has ob
tained a warrant charging that
Father William Courtney (lower)
of Alexis, 111., abducted the
teacher. The priest also is the
object of a police search.
At her rural school, eight miles
from Streator. Miss Haley was
conducting her classes when she
was called outside. Seh failed to
reappear in the schoolroom.
MINERS START
NEW INVASION
‘Shock Troops’ Again Will
Picket Illinois Pits.
By United Press
GILLESPIE, 111., Sept. 14.—A new
invasion of southern Illinois by
“shock troops” for picketing mines
operating under the reduced union
wage contract was announced today
by the Progressive Miners of Amer
ica, recently formed by rebellious
members of the United Mine Work
ers.
The new union’s plans also pro
vided for invasion of other mining
areas where operators have resumed
work under the reduced scale of
$5 a day, which has the United
Mine Workers’ approval. The new
union demands $6.10.
The invaders will be small groups
of picked men, who will work as in
dividuals or will camp on the bor
ders of counties where authorities
attempt to block their entrance.
Invasion of north Illinois coal
fields already has started, it was
said. Several groups of the “shock”
forces left Tuesday for the Wil
mington area.
GET FOLO
Beat Nonunion Men
By United Press
KNOXVILLE, Ind., Sept. 14.—Sev
eral nonunion coal miners were re
ported to have been beaten severe
ly today when they tried to run a
gantlet of hundreds of pickets sur
rounding the Knoxville Mining
Company's co-operative mine east
of here.
Sheriff’s deputies and state high
way police were ordered to the trou
ble zone.
FREED FROM JAIL, CUE
CHAMP GETS ‘ORDERS’
Judge Rules Spivey Must Pay $3 a
Week for Child’s Support.
Louis Spivey, former Indiana bil
liard champion, who was released
Tuesday after serving a five-day
jail term for contempt of court, was
ordered by Superior Judge William
A. Pickens today to pay $3 a week
for the support of his daughter
Betty Lou, 7.
The contempt term was imposed
because Spivey failed to obey a
court order for support money.
Delivers Memorial Sermon
By United Press
VINCENNES, Ind., Sept. 14.
Rev. H. C. Clippenger, Greenwood,
Ind., celebrating the fiftieth anni
versary of his admission to the In
diana conference of the
Episcopal church, deliver* me
morial seiraon today as 01s*,
session of the conference c
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KANSANS HEAR
ROOSEVELT ON
FARM RELIEF
Throng of 20,000 on His
toric Topeka Capitol
Grounds for Speech.
PLEDGES TARIFF SHIFTS
Benefit Equivalent to Those
Given Industries Urged
for Agriculture.
BY FREDERICK STORM
United Press Staff Correspondent
STATE CAPITOL. TOPEKA, Kan.
Sept. 14.—A crowd of 20.000 thronged
the grounds of the historic state
capitol here today to hear Governor
Franklin D. Roosevelt. Democratic
presidential nominee, offer to the
farmers of the nations his proposed
remedies for their economic ills.
A blazing hot sun beat down on
most of the audience who streamed
into the park after lining the main
street of the city to welcome the
nominee and Speaker John N.
Garner of Texas, his running mate.
Roosevelt, in his speech, offered
the agricultural mid-west a relief
plan to give farmers a tariff bene
fit equivalent to the benefits given
industry.
The Governor, making the first
of four major speeches on his trans
continental tour, emphasized im
portant points in the plan provid
ing for self-financing and preven
tion of retaliation by foreign coun
tries.
He also advocated more equitable
distribution of taxes, the need for
refinancing farm mortages and ex
tension of credit to holders of farm
mortgages on certain combinations.
Bares 6-Point Program
The Governor summed up his plan
in six proposals that provide:
1. A tariff benefit over world
prices which is equivalent to the
benefits given by the tariff to in
dustrial prbducts.
2. The plan must finance itself.
3. It must not make use of any
mechanism which would cause Eu
ropean customers to retaliate on the
ground of dumping.
4. It must make use of existing
agencies, and, so far as possible, be
decentralized in its administration,
thus placing responsibility for oper
ation upon the locality rather than
upon Washington.
5. It must operate as nearly as
possible on a co-operative basis and
its effect must be to enhance and
strengthen the co-operative move
ment.
The plan must not be coercive.
It, must be voluntary, and the indi
vidual producer should at all times
have the opportunity of nonpartici
pation if he desires.
Urges Tax Cut Leadership
Roosevelt declared that before
putting the plan into effect “I
would reorganize the United States
department of agriculture looking
toward the administrative machin
ery needed to build a program of
national planning.”
The Governor asserted that
permanent relief for agriculture
can come through national leader
ship in the reduction and more
equitable distribution of taxes.
The nominee said there were too
many taxing districts, too many lo
cal units of government, too many
unnecessary offices and functions.
The Governor cited the necessity
of refinancing farm mortgages if
the agrarians of the nation are to
enjoy prosperity.
“Specifically,” he asserted, “I am
prepared to insist that federal credit
be extended to banks, insurance, or
loan companies, or other corpora
tions or individuals which hold farm
mortgages among their assets—but
that these credits be made on the
condition that every reasonable as
sistance be given to the mortgagors
where the loans are sound, with the
purpose of preventing foreclosure.”
Confer With Gamer
Means of bringing about, through
government effort, a substantial re
duction in the difference between
the prices of the things the farm
er sells and the things he buys, was
declared by the Governor to be an
immediate enecessity.
“One way of attacking this dis
parity,” he said, “is by restoring in
ternational trade through tariftf
readjustments in support of a clear,
comprehensive plan for solving, at
least in part, some of the farmers’
difficulties.”
“It is a matter of common knowl
edge that the President, then the
secretary of commerce, was not
without influence in the determina
tion of this result,” Roosevelt said.
Speaker Gamer brought to Gov
ernor Roosevelt, Democratic presi
dential nominee, assurances that
the west would go for their ticket
in November. He boarded Roose
velt’s special train at Kansas City.
They discussed campaign plans,
particularly as regards the territory
Garner is to invade between now
and election.
Harry Woodring, Democratic Gov
ernor of Kansas, also met Roose
velt.
MAYOR GOING~TO GARY
Sullivan to Attend 3-Day Session of
State Municipal League.
Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, ac
companied by his secretary, Walter
Watson, will leave late this after
noon for Gary, to attend tjhe three
day meeting of the Municipal League
of Indiana, which opens there to
day.
Suicide Foe Kills Self
BERLIN, Sept. 14.—Dr. Heinrich
Dehmel, 42, founder of the Institute
for Advice to Would-be Suicides,
killed himself by swallowing poison
Tuesday.