The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-08
Four Bakers File Demands
for S6,OOO,OO in I'M
pounded LevieS.
HEARING TO BE JAN. is
Petitions Seen by Some as
Paving Way for Suits
by Farmers.

the 100000 in impounded
processing taxes, held in es-
crow by Will H. Smith, inter-
nal revenue collector for In
diana, belongs 70 professors or
consumers opened today in
Federal Court with the filing
of intervening petitions by
four bakeries.
The bakers allege that processing
taxes paid by four milling COM
panies, and impounded pending de-
cision on the constitutionality of the
AAA, recently invalidated, were
passed on to them and that any re-
fund of impounded t"Xes should
result in their receiving a proper
>tionate share.
The petitions were seen by some
attorneys as opening the way. if The
Federal Court permits, to consumer
and farmer organizations interven-
ing in similar suits seeking rein-
bursement for higher prices paid
while the AAA taxes were collected.
Group to Study Problem
Paul C. Wetter, president of the
Indianapolis Federation of Com
munity Clubs, Inc, admitted today
that consumers committee of his
organization would consider the adj
visibility of court intervention.
1t is pointed out by attorneys who
practice in Federal Court that the
housewife might not have stand
ing in, court in case of consumer in
tefvention because it could not be
proven that an individual consumer
suffered a loss of $4,000 or more
Damages of $4,000 or more are neces-
sary before an individual may file a
claim action in Federal Court.
"Of course said one attorney
''the consumer who had the process
sing tax eventually passed on to him
or her might be able to present at
least his viewpoint to the Federal
| judiciary before the intervening pc
tition was denied"
Farmers Chances Good
While city and state consumer or
ganizatios mulled over the advis-
ability of legal action the farmers
of Indiana were conceded to have a
good chance to obtain the remaining
payments due on Corn-hog con-
tracts.
Lewis Taylor, Indiana Farm
Bureau president, said today that
his organization had conferred with
attorneys and believed that it
would not be necessary tor farmers
10 join consumers or the middlemen
in suits to collect their contract
money through obtaining slices of
the impounded 100000.
president Roosevelt expressed
faith that the Federal government
would make the corn-hog payments
still due. He feels as we do that
the contracts are government OBJ
legation entered into by the govern
ment with the farmer" Mr.. Taylor
said
The four bakeries filing the inter-
vening petition are the We>: Bak-
ing Co. of Indianapolis, which
names of Acme-Evans Co.: the
Bloomington Baking Co., naming
the Lawrenceburg Roller Mills Co.;
the Hi-Class Baking Co. of Evans
vile, naming the Sunnyside Milling
Co., and John B. johnson, Sheridan
baker, who names the Noblesville
Milling Co.
Hearing Date Is Fixed
Federal judge Robert C. Baltzell
set Jan. 16 for hearing
Ten professors had filed petitions
in Federal Court seeking restora-
ton of the impounded tax money
estimated at $6,000,000 by collector
Smith.
Their attorneys say that the court
under the unconstitutionality edict
of the Supreme Court. will be
forced to release the impounded
taxes to millers, packers, tobacco
professors and bakers who paid the
taxes under protest.
Kingan & Co., local packers, is
one of the largest firms seeking a
tax refund. The company paid
about 100000 month under AAA.
Other firms filing petitions for
refunds are Dryfus Packing and
Processing Co., Acme Evans Co., the
Lawrenceburg Roller Mills Co., the
House of Crane, the Lyon & Green
leaf Co., Inc, the Evans Milling Co.,
Martinsville Milling Co., Nappanee
Milling Co.. Paoli Milling Co. and
Sims Milling Co., Frankfort.
s3O,200,0O Paid in State
Since the inception of the AAA
the 10000 farmers of the 100000
| in the state have received $50, zoe, 900
through the AAA contracts.
Corn-hog and wheat contracts,
totalling an estimated $4,000, are
still owing Marion County farmers,
according to Horace E. Abbott,
county agricultural agent. Accurate
estimates of the contract money
due state farmers could not be OBJ
tanned from Farm Bureau leaders
| Purdue extension officials said
today that state agriculturists had
been paid SIG, 100000 on corn-hog
contracts, $4,000 on wheat, s2l8,-
900 in tobacco bounties, and $51 900
in sugar beet money.
Indiana farm incomes rose from
| $l37, 900 900 in 1892 to an estimated
$3.50. 0O0. 900 in 1885,