The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-01
RADIO FEUD Is
NEAR ITS END,
ORATORS HINT
Johnson CoUghIin- LOng De-
bate Is Closed Chapter,
Many Believe.

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NEW YORK. April The air
waves carried for the last time over
the weekend the denunciatory
voices Of Gen Hugh S johnson and
the Rev Charles Z Coughlin pound
ing i~nvective az one another. many
believed today.
Gen Johnson in his reply 20
COughlins reply % his original at
tack. limited he had had his say
and intended saying no more.
Father CouEhlin In his weekly radio
speech yesterday referred 10 Gen
johnson only briefly. but IN such a
way as % indicate he. TOO, was tn
ing Of the controversy
OF course. there remained the pos
sibilitv that some circumstance not
foreseen by either would bring their
bludreons out again. Neither made
a direct statement Of his intention
70 end the dispute.
soon after Father COughlin I'm
ished. Senator Huey P. Long, third
party in the m~icrophOne feud, was
telling the country again about his
share our wealth program. de-
nouncing President Roosevelt and
his Administration. but referring
neither 20 Johnson o the priest
Called American Hitler
Father Coughlin devoted almost
all Of his Sunday afternoon talk
% an attack Of the United States
Chamber OF Commerce. which ne
said had sired the "illegitimate
waits" NRA and AAA. and fOisted
them on the farmer and labOrer-
He referred TO Johnson directly
only once. The waits he said,
had been "Wet-nursed by Johnson
and his pals
But in several places he replied
20 Johuson's bitter attack in Chi
caro Saturday night inferentially.
johnson said Father COughlln want
ed to become the American Hitler.
The priest replied that he was not
important and promised TO step
b Of the picture" when his Ma
tionaI Union for Social Justice be
comes imperviOus 10 assaults OF
wickedness from high places
Dime-Taker. SAYS Johnson
Johnson had accused him of tax
ing the dimes and nickels Of the
poor by promising impossible bene-
FITS to finance his union. He replied
that he did not take the blood
money" of Wall Street.
The priest said he had evidence
that NRA and AAA were conceived
by the United States Chamber OF
Commerce in 1881 and foisted on
the Roosevelt Administration when
it came into Office. Big business
he said. Holier than thou business.
Mr.. Henry L. Hartman president
Of the chamber) %conspired to keep
President Roosevelt from fulfilling
his campaign promises.
Father COughlin said his Union
for Social Justice had grown so
rapidly that now its membership
was larger than all labor Organiza-
tions combined. larger than all vet
Grams organizations combined. and
larger than the combined Circula-
ton Of one of the nations largest
newspaper chains"
BareS Organization Plan
"SOme day" ne continued. its
membership may surpass the unem-
plOyed labor Of the country
He announced an organization
plan for the union that Will sub
divide IL into state groups. These
groups Will be organized first IN u
Of the largest states which control
so per cent Of the representation in
the House Of Representatives" Be
ginning next month. he said. the
union would hold national meetings
BY radio. He did not name the u
states.
His assault on big business was
replete with denunciatiOn. Some
100000 unemployed are Stagger-
ing in the breadlineS holding out a
tin cup TO the prostitute Of relief,
he claimed. Labor Is "Outwitted
and outmaneuvered" by big busi-
ness with astute legal talent and the
prostituted press he said.