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Show ' 1 t FARMERS UNION LEADER URGES CROPS STRIKE , ' Secretary Houston Blamec For Working For Price . Decline Organization See . Early Triumph. (By Associated Oct. , WASHINGTON, PrM.) II, Follow of tho notional board Nfarmoonferene orrantxatloni today Chaa. Of president of tho National Fanners unions laauad a call for latrlka of farm era throughout the Barrett, " 9 " "" aatabllshment of that corporation for the purpose of 'apaaclng the farmer. ld The war finance corporation." Mr. Meyer, "Is practically Intact and has In the treasury nearly all of the ll,000.m.60 given It to snd for the promotion of export trade We need the corporation as a ate blllaing Influence In this Um of die ordered marketing conditions The business la going down hill countrywithout brakes, and the war finance corporation would provide a steady Ing Influence." Hoe stoa Attacked. Mr. Meyer attacked Secretary of the Treasury Houston for hie refusal to revive the corporation, declaring that ha had been guilty "of gross tnaccu-reel- s and misrepresentations. The secretary," said Mr. Mayer, ' 'state that the corporation haa no money of Its own. Tho corporation's capital stock of tl00.t00.00o la lntaot and the secretary la without authority to cancel it. In addition money could easily b raised oa short time eeouri ties to aealet In export trade. Mr. Meyer challenged Secretary Houston's statement that Great Britain today hold three billion dollar In the form of investments In this coun try. Official figures published by th British Mr. government. Meyer claimed, ahowed tbla figure to be gross exaggeration. TIIE DESEKET NEWS FINDS COCCHI ' KILLED GIRL Coe-chf- eub-tllu- s () 1920 ASKS WILSON TO END AGONY IDmKi(M3Tj (By tjnlveraal Service.) Benjamin WASHINGTON, OeL j, Salmon, a eoneclantloua objector, term of Imprisonserving a flve-yament oo the technical charge of deeer. tlon. and whs, for tbo paat lit day baa bean oa a hunger Mrik today wrote to Treat. Wilson from 8C Elisabeth's hospital demanding that he be "murdered outright Instead of being torture of longer subjected to th forcible feeding. Salon went on hunger strike Immediately after th sentence of five year was Imposed at Fort Douglas. He was removed to K. Elisabeth's hospital last July. Counsel was reoently engaged for Salmon by th Civil Liberties Union of New Tork, a writ of habeas corpus was obtained calling on the hospital authorittea and th war department to show cause aa to why Salmon should oot bo released. Tbe court held that Salmon Is sans and upheld tha sentence. In hie letter to th president Salmon aays; On July II, while still eonflned la Fort Douglas prison, I went a a liberty or death hunger strlko Per II days I was allowed te wtarv. Then the authorities began te forcibly food me. Forcible feeding haa been continued ever since, although on numerous occasion I have been allowed to go without food. "Today la the one hundred and seventh day of my hunger strike. 1 still refuse to eat and I will continue to refuse to eat. Since you will not release me, will you be kind enough to murder me outright? Forcible feeding doe not solve th problem: It la murder on th Installment plan, th Utti bit of liquid food la merely torture, each day find me a little weeker. ' "Tou know tht my only crime Is to kill. Th ettempt to brand me aa a lunatlo has been foiled and I have been railroaded to St. Elisabeth's beoaus I went on hunger etrlke. Although I have been declared aane after two months observation by a competent board of physicians, I am still held In an tnaan asylum and con fined In a building set aside for insane criminals. I. 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Amerioan farmers will lift the I know that the Jprloe of wheat world cannot go much longer without cotton. southern Within a few gnonths we will hare them begging fB 'universal Service) be for cotton and wheat MILAN, Italy, Oct. If. Alfred Coc-ch- l, Hinted. Hostility charged with tha murder of Ruth The farmers of the country have been driven to this drettio rfetep to Cruger, whose body was found buried nave themselves. The Federal Reserve In th cellar under hts shop several board would do nothing. The banks months after he fled to Italy, was would do nothing. The present price f cotton and wheat la ao far under today oonvlcted of murder. H was he cost of production that it would sentenced to IT years, four month bankrupt most southern farmer and and three days by tbe court In Bologmerchants for ua to sell now. Thosa na this afternoon. who have loaned money on cotton was arrested In Italy Cocchl, production can and must allow the after the body of Ruth Cruger bad farmer time extension." been found buried In the cellar of During the debate which preoeded bicyol shop In Harlem, N. T the call. Secretary Houston of the his a pair cf skate to carried She Treasury, was unsparingly condemned to have them sharpened shop by the farm representatives for what and was never seen alive afterward. they termed ' his hostile attitude toTha body was discovered after a ward the farmer. John Skelton Wll- - search of six months by forces directof the currency, comptroller ed by Mrs. Grace Humlaton. law hie on New attack for search and after !lama praised excessive yer. During the long any knowledge banks for charging strongly disclaiming of Interest. regarding the mleeing girl, Coochl Harding Appeals For 1 A standing committee was appoint- went to Italy, where the government ed to prepare recommendation to upheld his claim that he could not be Support to Gooding Congress. Among these recommendations will be that the Federal Re-er- v extradited. In counAll evidence gathered this (By Associated Press.) board be granted authority to before and after finding the body laeelfy loans; that it be permitted try Idaho, Oct. II. Senator BOI8E, In was sent to the authorities Italy o iasue and sell short time securi-ie- s and pointing to th the Italian government an- Warren G.of Harding, based on warehouse receipts and nounced a "supporting majority In that he would be tried there. necessity ;suea and Eell short time securities Besides hie conviction on tbe mur- each branch of Congreaa," today ap used on farm Inventories oa a eleder charge cable dlnpaltches today pealed to the "forward-lookin- g for a farms mortgages. said that Cocchl was also found guilty ctor. of Idaho to give their vote to Asked to Aid. Congress of attempted criminal assault, falsi- Frank R. Gooding, for the senate and I for ConCongress will also be petitioned to fying passports and false enrollment th Republican candidate . ' gress. hveatlgate high interest rates now for military service. 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