Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 294, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1928 — Page 3
APRIL 5, 1928
NORRIS AND LA FOLLETTE TO STIR G. O. P. CONVENTION
PLATFORM TO RAP PARTY FOR OIL SCANDALS New Water Power Laws to Be Advocated and Third Term Hit. MAY SWING NOMINATION Republican Leaders Think Nebraskan’s Bloc Will Be Important. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Tress Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April s.—The La Follette independent platform, with new embellishments on oil scandals, water power and third terms will be put before the Republican national convention at Kansas City. The platform will be backed by the strength of probably thirty-four or more delegates instructed for Senator George W. Norrris of Nebraska as a Republican presidential candidate. This development has been made certain by results of the Wisconsin primary Tuesday, according to spokesmen for the La Follette group here. Reports from Wisconsin intimate Norris will have perhaps 15 put the 26 delegates of that State. Next Tuesday Norris is to go before the Republican voters of his own State and is expected to receive the complete delegation of 19. Republican leaders „regard the prospective Norris bloc of at least 34 delegates as of major importance in another connection, because at any tense moment it might be thrown to another farm candidate and against an anti-McNary-Hau-gen bill candidate to bring about a nomination. The Norris-La Follette group is opposed to the nomination of Secretary of Commerce Hoover because its leaders believe he is opposed to farm relief measures. The La Follette platform, to be presented as a, minority report from the convention resolutions committee, is expected to criticise silence in the Administration in connection with the Teapot Dome developments; advocate Government development of water power resources; decry third presidential terms, and r-ivocate restrictions on election expenditures. Progressives Weaker BY WILLARD R. SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent Wis., April s.—ProJ* 'ublican control of Wisconsin u' S''in. weakened definitely, tabulation of Tuesday’s primary election showed here today. Progressives seemed assured of two out of four de!egates-at-large to the Republican national convention, but election of a third Progressive delegates seemed doubtful. Tabulations early today in the Republican preferential vote gave Senator George W. Norris, the only candidate entered on the ballot, an ever increasing lead over Hoover, Lowden and Dawes. The Nebraska Senator maintained a 9 to 1 majority. In the Democratic preferential vote, Senator James A. Rccd c° Missouri, lone candidate, gained steadily over Governor A1 Smith and Senator Thomas J. Walsh ol Montana, whose names had been written in. Two thousand of the 2,746 precincts in the State gave Reed 36,630 votes and Smith 9.541. In the contest for delegates-at-large, Senators Robert M .La Follette and John B. Blaine, Progressives, were leading by margins which assured their election. The La Follette-Blaine faction, pledged to Senator Norris, gained thirteen out of the twenty-two district delegates, a majority far less than that of four years ago, when regular Republicans elected only one of the twenty-six delegates to the national convention. Although the Democratic preferential vote gave Senator Reed a large majority, the one-sided victory of the Democratic slate of delegates. pledged to Governor Smith, assured the latter of the State’s twenty-six votes at the national convention. URGES STAND ONKLAN Myers Deplores Any Policy of Silence by Democratic Candidates. 75// Timm Special CANNELTON. Ind„ April 5. Democrats would have won in the 1926 senatorial race if they had used “the club Tom Adams placed in the party’s hand.’’ declared Walter Myers, candidate for the Dcrnocratci nomination for United States Senator, in an address here Wednesday night. Myers deplored a “policy of silence’’ on the part of Democratic candidates, saying “the domination of the Klan is an issue.”
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ASK CARE IN VOTING Coffin and Adams Plead for Discrimination. Pleas for careful consideration of candidates were before Indiana voters today, coming at one time from the bitterest of political enemies, George V. Coffin, Republican County and city chairman, and Thomas H. Adams, Vincennes publisher, and candiate for the Republican nomination for Governor. Coffin, in a statement, called for greater interest in the filing of candidacies for nominations for the Legislature, pointing out that Saturday is the last day for filing. “Many subjects of great importance will come before the next Legislature” Coffin said, “among them, the city manager law. If Indianapolis is to have city management, the law should be just as strong and as comprehensive as possible. Adams said that if nominated and elected he would “pitilessly expose” any efforts of “systems” at “blackmail legislation.” ENDS LENTEN SERVICES “Sin can be overcome,” declared Bishop Joseph M. Francis in his final noonday Lenten sermon Thursday at Christ Church. “This is the supreme message of the Gospel. The call that copies to us today is the same that came to men at the first. God is holy. He calls us to become like Him. It is a great challenge.”
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TEASED AND ARRESTED Man, 63, Is Accused of Striking 5-Year-Old Girl. Being teased by a group of small children provoked Henry Mulsen, 63, of 722 Ketcham St., and he struck one of them, Virginia Thomas, 5. of 727 Arnolda Ave., in the face with a board, according to police reports Wednesday night. Mulsen was arrested on an assault and battery charge. BAR NIGHT SPECTATORS Because of the danger of fire at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway after dark, spectators at the $25,000 twenty-four-hour match race between a Stutz Blackhawk and a Hispano-Suiza, April 16, will not be permitted to watch the race at night, T. E. Myers, Speedway manager, announced today. The race will start at 1 p. m.. April 16.
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30 CANDIDATES NOW FOR REPRESENTATIVE John Benedict and William Helm Enter G. O. P. Race. The list of Republican candidates for nomination for State Representative climbed to thirty today with addition of the name of John L. Benedict and William J. Heim. Eleven will be nominated. Benedict, attorney, was a member of the House in 1919 and 1921. He was author of the bill which changed Marion County officials from a fee to a salary basis. In announcing his candidacy, Benedict said he favored the city manager form of government and will seek to strengthen the city manager statute. The candidate is a graduate of De Pauw University and the University of Michigan law school. He is a member of Central Avenue M. E. Church. Heim is district manager for the Puritan Paint Company. , He said if nominated and elected he would be guided by the “counsel of competent advisors.” Heim is a Spanish-American War veteran and was in the mail service nineteen years. He is a member of the Masonic order. Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias. Indiana Farm Bureau Federation and United Brethren Church. Steel Works Manager Dies r. I nit-il Prm* HAMMOND, Ind, April 5. Robert W. Freeland. 37. works manager of the Hubbard Steel Foundry at East Chicago, died today of pneumonia.
D. A. R. LEADER DEFENDS USE OF BLACKLIST President Declares Barring of Objectionable Speakers State Affair. Scripps-Howard Alliance' WASHINGTON, April s.—Action of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Massachusetts in blacklisting as speakers ccitain persons whose views are considered objectionable by the organization is expected to have echoes here when the Continental Congress gathers two weeks hence. Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau, president general of the D. A. R., came at once to the defense of the Massachusetts society, following publication in Boston of a list of names by Mrs. Helen Tufts Bailie of persons she said were barred as speakers. Mrs. Brosseau explained that the Massachusetts incident was purely a State matter, and that, the D. A. R. leaders there have a right to advise their chapters about speakers. Mrs. Bailie’s attack on the blacklist was construed by Mrs. Brosseau as an indirect attack on the stand of the D. A. R. in support of the naval bill. She added that it was known to her that Mrs. Bailie privately and publicly had objected to the position of the D. A. R., although its attitude has been determined by the Congress. “I draw no conclusions.” she said, “but it is an interesting fact that the recent agitation has followed closely upon the enunciation of our proper and justified stand in support of adequate national defense and the Navy bill,” said Mrs. Brosseau. Persons mentioned by Mrs. Bailio as being barred as speakers in her State included Dean Roscoc Pound of the Harvard law school, President Mary E. Woolley of Mount Holyoke College, Prof. Felix Frankfurter of Harvard, Federal Judge George W. Anderson of Boston, W. E. Dubois, colored novelist; Clarence Darrow, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. Norman Hapgood, Dr. David Starr Jordan, William Allen White, Frank P. Walsh, the Rev. E. Tallmadge Root, executive secretary of the Massachusetts Federation of Churches. Mrs. Bailie said various persons associated with the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A, the National Catholic Welfare Council, the National Child Labor Committee and other groups were likewise blacklisted. California. Illinois and other States have similar black lists, she asserted. Survive Caesarian Operation FRANKFORT, April s.—For the second time within a year, a Caesarian operation has been successfully performed at the Clinton County hospital here. Through the skill o' local surgeous, Mr. and Mrs. William Bybee became the parents of a son pronounced physically sound. The mother is reported resting well.
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WILL WOOD TO LEAD CAMPAIGN FOR MEMORIAL Reduction to Million Tor Vincennes Project to Be Fought. By Timm Special WASHINGTON. April s—Representative Will R. Wood of Lafayette, dean of the Indiana House delegation, will lead a fight on the House floor to restore the $1,750,000 voted by the Senate for a memorial to George Rogers Clark at Vincennes and disapproved by the House library committee yesterday, he said today. Wood, Representative Greenwood, and D. Frank Culbertson, member of the Indiana memorial commission, which has been fighting for the full amount, were disappointed when the committee cut the memorial fund to $1,000,000. The committee also provided for a Federal commission to build the memorial in cooperation with the State of Indiana, Knox County and Vincennes. Three members are to be appointed by the President, four by the speaker, and four by the Vice President. Chairman Luce said the committee’s action was in line with President Coolidge’s recommendation jn his last annual message that the memorial should be built by the Federal government under its own management. The Senate bill had provided that the Indiana commission should build it. As Luce expressed It, the committee cut off the trimmings of the original plan. The items disapproved were for a memorial pageant, $250,000; for sculpture and mural paintings, $425,000; for an architect’s fee of $42,500: and for a river wall bordering the memorial grounds, $150,000. Luce said the committee felt all these were subjects for local or outside contribution. The Federal commission is expressly empowered to accept gifts from any source. The original $900,000 for the body of the memorial building was left, untouched and SIOO,OOO was allowed for the Federal contribution to its decoration. Luce added that the bill would go to the consent calendar of the House, where one objection may prevent consideration.