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Carol Is Not Just Bad Boy, Says Ex-Wife Mate of Morganatic Rites Seeks Aid in Education of Young Son.

PARIS, June 10.—Madame Zizi Lambrino, whose morganatic marriage to King Carol II of Rumania, was annulled ten years ago,

declared today her intention of returning to Rumania in July in th. hope that Carol will educate their son Mircah. “I am returning to Rumania in an effort to get right fu 1 help in raising the king's legiti mate son,” Madame Lambrino,

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who lives in a Paris suburb said. “I have no desire to see Princess Helene (Carol's former wife). I never have seen her since she took my husband. Mme. Lambrino sought to avoid any mention of Princess Kelene, but with a sigh: "I am airaid she doesn't really love him.” "Nor have I any desire to see Carol, whom I have not sTStn for five years, but I want my son to see Rumania and I want him raised with a great love for Rumania,” she continued. Mircah, 10, greatly resembles Crown Prince Michael, son of Carol and Princess Helene. Mircah now is recovering from an attack of whoopingcough. ana Madame lambrino, whose efforts to force Carol to aid in educating their son were defeated in the French courts in 1928, married Carol at Odessa in 1918. Mircah was born in January, 1920. The royal family forced Carol to annul the marriage. Mme. Lambrino, a demure brunet type, was gowned elegantly when she received the United Press correspondent in the long green salon of her villa at Neuilly-Sur-Seine, a Paris suburb. "This is sure to be a good thing in his life and an excellent thing for Rumania.” she said. "He will r.de wisely, because he has observed other rulers and learned lessons f-om them.” nun MME. LAMBRINO was anxious to clear up any impression j that Carol is capable only of follies. 1 She explained his many venture- j some acts as due simply to the fact that he was “at loose ends, out of his countiy. and torn by conflicting emotions of duty.’’ “As for that red-headed woman,” Mme. Lambrino said hesitatingly, referring to Mme. Magda Lupescu, whom Carol deserted for his throne, "as for that red-headed woman, I sincerely hope for his sake, that Jhat's all over now-.” Coronation Delayed Ru United Press BUCHAREST, Rumania. June 10. —The coronation of Carol II as king of Rumania will be delayed probably a year, it was made known today as the newly-proclaimed monarch speeded efforts to complete establishment of anew? government. There are various obstacles in the wav of his formal ascension to the throne, some of which he started immediately to remove. A statement by Madame Magda Lupescue, for whom Carol deserted the throne five years ago. was published in the Bucharest press today, declaring she had "sacrificed” herself in the interests of the nation. A reconciliation with his former wife. Princess Helene, appeared much mere difficult than had been anticipated. Also the iiberal party opposition to his return has not entirely vanished, although the king acted immediately to complete the rout of his political foes. He also strengthened the royal family's unity and position by giving his brother. Prince Nicholas, the highest rank as inspector of the nation's armed forces and by a gesture to win back Princess Helen. MIX’ DAUGHTER ELOPES Hollywood Girl Flees to Ariiona to Wed Douglas Gilmore. B'l United Pres* HOLLYWOOD. June 10.— Whether to turn the doormat "welcome” down, was an agitating question at the home of Mrs. Olive Stokes Mix. divorced wife of Tom Mix. whose daughter Jane. 17. eloped to Yuma, Ariz.. Monday with Douglas Gilmore, actor. SIOUX CITY CENSUS UP Population Gain of 7.804 Reported for Ten-year Period. Bn United Press SIOUX CITY, la., June 10.—The population of Sioux City is 79,031, a gain of 7.804 over 1920, J. P. Schoup, census supervisor, announced today. Organize Wheat Market Bn Times Special COLUMBUS. Ind.. June 10.— State officers of the Indiana Farm bureau will be working in Bartholomew county within a week setting up a farmer's wheat marketing organization to conform with plans of the federal farm board's plan of marketing grain. The announcement was mads by Clarence Thompson. president of the Bartholomew countv bureau.

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MILLION THEFT IS BLAMED ON STOCKSCRASH Cincinnati Securities Firm Head Faces Indictment for Embezzlement. CAUSES BANK TO CLOSE Market Operations Result in Downfall of Young Company Manager. ft}' United Press Cincinnati. June 10.— a crura j ‘ into the world of finance by W. Shafer, 36-year-old, $75-a----week district sales manager of Henry L. Doherty & Cos., resulted today in the closing of a tank here and revelations that he may have embezzled more than $1,000,030. While depositors milled about the darkened doors of the Cosmopolitan Bank and Trust Company, through which Shafer handled his alleged manipulation, Shafer was arraigned charged with specific embezzlement l of $10,162.50 and released on bond pending action by the county grand jury. Bond was posted by his compara- ' tively wealthy father, O. J. Shafer, i president of the Shafer Pattern | Works, who revealed his son had j been "bucking” the stock market | for some time. Young Shafer refused to discuss his arrest. Native of Cincinnati Shafer is a native Cincinnatian. He was educated in the public schools here and is unmarried. He entered the employ of the Doherty company, which deals in Cities Service Company stock, eight years ago and became so proficient he was advanced to the post of district sales manager, whose duties include the collection ard disbursement of thousands of dollars. His first action today was to employ an attorney. The bank, meantime, was taken over by the state and corps of auditors w.er° rushed in by the Doherty company to check Shafer’s accounts, which were described as "hopelessly entangled.” No Disorder at Bank Depositors gathered in groups before the bank and its suburban branches, but there was no disorder, officials assuring them their losses, if any, will be borne by the stockholders. County Prosecutor Nelson Schwab said preliminary investigation indicated the accused man had stolen money and negotiable securities and worked an alleged check game that involved both good and bad checks. He said he was unable to determine, as yet, how lar back Shafer’s alleged defalcations extended but expressed the belief they could be traced to the collapse of the stock market last fall. Both the bank and the Doherty company are protected by indemnity bends but whether the bonds will be sufficient to cover the alleged speculations could not be determined. DOCTOR JENTENCED Pleads Guilty in Shotgun Death of Youth. LOGANSPORT. Ind., June 10.—A sentence of one to ten years in prison was imposed upon Dr. Doshua J. Schrock, 74-year-old Greentown physician, when he pleaded guilty in circuit court today before Judge John B. Smith, on a charge of involuntary manslaughter growing out of the fatal shooting of Darwin Curless, 11. The shooting occurred at Greentown last October. Dr. Schrock became annoyed by a group of boys w r ho were throwing stones up the stairway leading to his office, and fired dewn the stairway with a shotgun. Young Curless, who was said not to have been involved in the stone throwing episode, had just stopped in the stairway, and was struck fix the abdomen He iied /two days later from gunshot wounds. Postmaster Drops Dead By United Uress VALPARAISO. Ind., June 10. Addison F. Worstal, postmaster here, dropped dead on the street Monday of heart disease. He had been prominent in Indiana Republican circles for many years.

FIRE SWEEPS TWO HOMES; TOTAL LOSS IS $20,000

Trapped in the upper floor of, their home when fire was discovered at 3 this morning, five members of the family of Mrs. Ida Braxton. 4717 West Washington street, leaped from windows to escape. The fire, spreading to the residence of Mrs. Lillian Longshore, at 4715 West Washington street, dest’- —and both homes with t-tal damage of $20,000, partly covered by in-s-mce. The blaze started in the lower floor of the Braxton home and Mrs. Braxton was awakened by the heat and smoke. Running into the room occupied by her daughters, Juanita, 13. and Alberta, 18, she awakened the two girls and then awakened her son, James Braxton, 29. and a guest, Isaac Ball, 26, who came here from Kentucky Monday for a visit with the family.

Rooster Crows as Democrats Gather

Indianapolis was awakened by the Democratic Rooster today which greeted delegates at the state convention from his perch at Cadle tabernacle. Among oldtimers caught exchanging greetings at the convention were Judge Thomas Sullivan, father of Mayor Sullivan, and George A. Werber, Indianapolis (upper left inset). Mr. and Mrs. Werbcr recalled

FARM SENATORS ASSAIL WATSON TARIFF DEFENSE Deny in Debate That Rates Are Made More Favorable to Agriculture, By United Press CHICAGO, June 10.—President Hoover's restrictive tariff admonitions have been followed by congress. Republican Floor Leader Wat.-, son asserted in the senate today, opening a defense of the pending Smcot-Hawley tariff measure. The Indiana senator argued the bill is a limited revision of existing laws for the benefit only of agriculture and those industries suffering depression from foreign competition. Os the. more than 3,200 items made subject .to' duty in the tariff law, Watson declared, 2,171 or 66 per cent are unchanged, while 887 or 27 per cent are increased and 235 or 7 per cent decreased. Object to Watson Defense Senator Blaine (Rep., Wis.) objected to Watson’s picture of agriculture benefits. He asserted the dairy industry had suffered severely from the revision made in the latest form of the bill. Objection to Watson’s conclusions also was made by Senator Howell (Rep., Neb.,) who said the 20 per cent duty on shoes alone wiped out any benefit farmers would get from the measure. "My conclusions show a major part of the increases are for argiculture,” replied Watson. "It is difficult to see how senators from agricultural states can decline to support this bill. Two "Doublfuls” in Line Two doubtful Republican senators swung into line for the Smoot-Haw-ley tariff bill today, putting the measure’s fate directly up to Senators Reed and Grundy, Pennsylvania Republicans, who have declined to announce how they will vote. Senators Caper (Rep., Kan.,) and Cutting (Rep., N. M.,) are the two who definitely have made up their minds to support the legislation. This leaves the administration leaders a margin of one vote with Reed, Grundy and Senator Kipg (Dem., Utah) still listed as undecided. Reed said he may not make up his mind until just before the vote is taken Thursday or Friday. Grundy is away and has intimated through his friends here he may be absent without a pair. Church' Group to Meet By Times Rnrrini FT. WAYNE, Ind., June 10.— Churches of eleven counties will be represented at a meeting of the Ft. Wayne Presbytery of the Presbyterian church at Kosciusko lodge, Winona Lake, next Tuesday.

Her daughters leaped in their night clothing from the second floor window of their bedroom and the son, attempting to slide down a drain pipe, fell when the pipe broke loose. Ball leaped from a window. The son, after getting a ladder provide escape for his mother on the porch roof, attempted to save furnishings of the home, and managed to drag a radio from the blazing home. His hands and arms were burned in the attempt. The flames spread to the residence of Mrs. Longshore, a bungalow next door, but Mrs. Lcngshort, Robert Moorehead and Mrs. Elsie Mocrehead, residents, had been awakened by screams of the girls next door, and had dressed. Much furniture from their home was salvaged. Fire Company 18 was helpless in battling the flames because of lack of water.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1930

GIRL WHO ‘DATED’ OWNER OF TORCH CAR IS MISSING

‘lngagi ’ Faked

'Gorilla’ Picture No Longer to Be Shown; Taken ‘Too Seriously.’ ,

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, June 10.—Members of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributers Association no longer will show “Ingagi,” the so-called gorilla picture which has been drawing record crowds throughout the country, it was announced today. Behind , the decision lurks ' charges -th&t the , widely talked oi film was produced mostly here with characters from the Los An- x geles 'Negro quarter taking the parts of savage African tribesmen. ‘We have decided not to show it,” Will H. Hays, president of the association, announced. He refused further comment. Nat H. Spitzer, president of Congo Pictures, Ltd., which produced the film, told the United Press that fully 85 per cent of the film was faked. “We took what we considered the ordinary license allowed any motion picture company in turning out an entertaining picture," he said. He declared that portions of the film were shot by Sir Hubert Winsted and that other parts were made by the McKenzie expedition and by R. T. Burge, former Los Angeles police commissioner, who visited Africa in 1926. nan AMONG revelations which followed the Hays announcement was the one that Jackie, a trained show lion, was the principal in the stirring scene where a wild lion supposedly attacked one of the cameramen. Charles Gemoro, professional ape man, was said to have played the gorilla character throughout the film. The Radio - Keith - Orpheum chain of theaters has canceled its contracts for first run showings of “Ingagi” in those houses where it has not been shown yet. The announcement was accompanied by a brief statement that public was taking the film "too seriously.”

OFFICIALS IN PROBE Robinson and Emmelman Called in Vote Fraud Quiz. Appearance before the Marion county grand jury this morning of Clyde E. Robinson, county treasurer and chairman of the Republican county central committee, and of Wayne Emmelman, secretary of the committee, early today led to belief the jury practically had completed its probe of alleged primary election frauds. Robinson carried a large number of records, believed to be election records, when he entered the grand jury room where Earl R. Cox is acting as special prosecutor in investigation of the primary election conduct. Emmelman was in the room twenty minutes. The two were the only witnesses called for this morning. More than sixty witnesses have been questioned by the grand jury. College Enrollment Boosted By Times Special DANVILLE, Ind., June 10.—An increase of 47 per cent in enrollment for the mid-spring semester of Central Normal college, is announced by Waldo Wood, college president. Five hundred seventy-two students are enrolled.

today how they started the first "Sullivan for Mayor” boom by suggesting the name of Thomas Sullivan at a convention forty years ago. John D. Megee, Rushville (center inset), was one of ttie oldest delegates present. He has attended every state convention, except one, since 1872. Marion county colors were held high by Miss Fay Terrill, viceDemocratic chairman of Marion county, who was present to sec that the women had a voice.

Detectives Seek Waitress in Hope of Learning Valuable Clew. Miss Gene Carson, 25, waitress in a South Illinois street restaurant, who had a date with Harold Herbert Schroeder, 35-year-old Mobile, Ala., business man, two nights before his car wzy found blazing on May 31, with a man’s charred body on the High School road, has been missing since Sunday. Detectives, seeking to question her as to details of her night ride with Schroeder to Danville and return, in which they passed within a .quarter of a . mile -of . the torch murder scene, found .she has failed to' return to her work, at the restaurant, although she did not quit the position. She also has failed to return to her room, the address of which detectives refuse to divulge. Detectives believe some details of her conversation witli Schroeder may give them the needed clew to his rooming place while he was in Indianapolis before the torch murder. Blanket Is Examined While the search was under way for the girl, a blanket microscopic examination was made of the blanket which Schroeder carried in his car and which was thrown, with the raincoat he wore, over the fence in the rear cf a South Senate avenue automobile shop after Schroeder’s car Was found. The examination revealed black hairs such as Schroeder had and also revealed red hairs, similar to those found on the charred body of the torch murder victim. Believing Schroeder had roomed near the South Illinois street restaurant, where he ate, and where he made a date with the waitress, police checked rooming houses and hotels in the vicinity without avail. Comparison of hotel registers with signatures of Schroeder was in vain. Report of Dr. R. N. Harger, toxicologist of the Indiana university hospital, on analysis of a scrap of cloth found on the burned body of the man was awaited today. The tests will determine, it is hoped, whether the material is the same as that of Schroeder’s coat, found near the blazing car when it was discovered on the High School road the morning after the Speedway races. Tests Regarded Important The tests also may determine what chemical was used to'insure complete destruction of the body. Ordinary fire would not char a human body to such an extent that bones would be burned away, authorities point out. With several detectives clinging to belief the body is that of Schroeder and that he was the victim of a robbery and murder, the tests are regarded as important. Coroner C. H. Keever, Sheriff George Winkler and others contend Schroeder is alive and that the burning of the body in his car is a phase of an insurance fraud plot to permit collection of his more than $30,000 insurance by his wife while he carried out a previously-ex-pressed desire to “disappear.” DETROIT GAIN HEAVY 57 Per Cent Increase Gives City 1,564,397 Total. By United Press DETROIT, June 10.—The population of Detroit, as shown in the first preliminary total com day was announced as 1/64,397^ This represents an increase of 570,719 or 57 per cent in the last ten years.

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OFFER $40,0Q0 FOR CAPTURE OF MURDERER Assassin of Chicago Reporter Known, Say Police; Papers Spur Hunt. (Picture on pace one, section two.) Bit United Press CHICAGO, June 10.—Pat Roche, state’s attorney’s investigator, and Lieutenant William Cusack of the Chicago police department announced today that they knew the murderer of Albert Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter, who was assassinated Monday while en route to Washington Park race track. Roche and Cusack refused to reveal the name of the slayer. Roche said the killer was an exconvict, with several prison terms in hi£ record. Cusack said detective squads were searching all haunts where the murderer had been known to stay. The announcement quickened the unparalleled hunt that was on for the assassin who shot Lingle down in the crowded Randolph street subway, fled through the crowd and escaped. Every agency of law enforcement centered its efforts on finding the assassin. Lid Is Clamped Tight The lid was clamped tight on the hoodlum world today by the gangsters themselves. Speakeasies were closed and curtains were drawn over gambling resorts in fear of police raids that follow major murders. Many gangsters were reported to have left town fearful that a false move would bring a shower of police bullets. Rewards for information leading to the conviction of the slayer or slayers of the reporter, who worked eighteen years for the Tribune covering the underworld, totaled $40,000. Os this amount the Tribune offered $25,000, the Chicago Post $5,000, and the Chicago Press Club SIO,OOO. Lingle was known to have been acquainted intimately with “Scarface Al” Capone, gang chieftain, and was one of the few men Capone trusted. The degree to which Capone had confidence in Lingle was illustrated when “Scarface Al” refused when he was being held in jail during the investigation of the murder of William McSwiggen, assistant state’s attorney, to allow any one but Lingle to bring him food, for fear he would be poisoned. The friendship between the reporter and Capone, who at one time gave Lingle a diamond studded belt buckle, was known to have lessened after the gangster was released from the Pennsylvania state penitentiary some months ago. Was Promised Interview At that time Lingle had been promised an exclusive interview with Capone and was left empty-handed at the prison gates when the gang chief was taken secretly from the penitentiary. • Lingle, who was 38 years old, married and the father of two children, was widely known among Chicago newspapermen as Jake. Born and reared on the west side, where gangsters’ haunts are numerous, he became a reporter for the Tribune after several years of paying professional baseball. His knowledge of gangland characters and activities, and his close friendship with William J. Russell, police commissioner, and nearly all members of the force, made * him particularly valuable to his paper. He acquired sufficient wealth to permit his retirement, but continued with the Tribune because “he loved his work,” it was said today in the Tribune. The paper attributed his financial independance to his friendship with Arthur Cutton, wealthy grain trader, whose investment advice was freely given Lingle,

LESLIE MANSION FUND HIKE BRANDED AS UNWARRANTED’ BY DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM Free Hand in Disposition of Emergency Money Also Assailed in Surprise Plank Offered to 1,544 Delegates. BREADLINES, BANK FAILURES CITED Treanor of Bloomington, Roll of Kokomo Are First Candidates Nominated by Convention at Tabernacle.

(Text of the Democratic platform will be found on Page 2.) Branding of the “illegal and unwarranted action of the last legislature” in increasing the Governor’s mansion maintenance fund from $2,400 to SIO,OOO, “at a time when thousands of industrial workers are unemployed and farmers are threatened by bankruptcy,” was a surprise plank in the Democratic platfrom when it was read to the 1,544 delegates in Cadle tabernacle today. This plank was followed by another condemning the placing of a $200,000 emergency fund in the hands of the Governor without check or control. No intimation that such planks were being considered was made by members of the advisory committee. Despite efforts of various leaders of the liberal element in the party to have the platform declare for either a referendum on the wet and dry question or modification of the prohibition law, no action was taken by the committee. Demand Registration Law The Democratic platform as drafted, however, accedes to the major portion of demands made. It provides a specific remedy for the tax situation through an income tax, although leaving the field open for other remedial measures. The platform demands a registration law, declares for old age pensions, condemns the tariff, recommends flood relief, accedes to the demands of liberals in condemning the yellow dog contract, urges limitaton by statute of the-.use of. the injunction and declares restritCions on child labor shall not be weakened. Recommending that inmates jt penal institutions not be kept in idleness, the Democrats declare products of known labor should not be thrown upon the market to compete with free labor made goods. Condemn State Police The Republicans are condemned for slow farm relief, tariff failure and for not averting the "financial panic.” They also are charged with permitting the special interests to plunder the people. Use of the state police by the secretary of state to build up a political machine is condemned and he is charged with causing the neglect of the proper duties of those departments under his jurisdiction. Abolition of the fee system of payment for county officers is recommended. The public service commission should protect the public from unjust rates and be composed of members who will carry out their duties "without bias, undue pressure and political influence,” the platform declared. Control of municipally-owned utilities should be held by municipalities so far “as the nature of the business will admit,” the platform said.

Candidates at Convention

For Judge Supreme Court, First District—Herdis F. Clements, Mt. Vernon; Walter E. Treanor, Bloomington. For Judge Supreme Court, Fourth District—Curtis W. Roll, Kokomo; Wilson D. Lett, Marion. For Judge Appellate Court, First District (Two to Be Nominated)— Fremont Miller, Franklin; Harvey Harmon, Princeton; Posey T. Kime, Evansville; William H. Bridwell, Sullivan. For Judge Appellate Court, Second District (Two to Be Nominated) — Alphonse C. Wood, Angola; V. E. Livengood, Covington; Elmore Barce, Fowler; Harvey J. Curtis, Gary. For Statet Superintendent of Public Instruction—George C. Cole, Lawrenceburg; William V. Payne, Bloomington; Robert B. Hougham, Franklin. For Secretary of State—Arthur J. Hamrick, Clayton; Virgil Simmons, Bluffton; Charles H. Garrison, Boonville; Dr. O. A. Noland, Spencer; Frank Mayr Jr., South Bend; W. C. Coryell, Marion. For Treasurer of State—Jap Jones, Martinsville; William Storen, Scottsburg. For Auditor of State—Or. George W. Sweigert, East Chicago; Floyd E. Williamson, Indianapolis. For Clerk of Supreme and Appellate Courts—Joel A. Baker, Indianapolis; Fred Pickett, Richmond. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 56 10 a. m 66 7a. m 61 11 a. m 69 Ba. m 64 12 (noon).. 69 9a. m..... 65 Ip. m 72 •a

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Walter E. Treanor, Bloomington, was the first candidate nominated by Indiana Democrats at their state convention today in Cadle tabernacle, defeating Herdis F. Clements, Mt. Vernon, in the race for the nomination for judge of the supreme court from the First judicial district. \ The vote was: Treanor* 1,013*4; Clements, 530*/ 2 . Clements’ motion that his opponent receive the unanimous ballot was applauded. Treanor will be opposed in the fall by Thomas C. Coulter, Vincennes, nominated at the Republican convention last week. Curtis W. Roll of Kokomo, was nominated as supreme court judge, Fourth district, over Wilson D. Lett of Marion. The vote was Roll, 966 and Lett, 578. Roll will oppose Willard B Gemmill, Marion, Republican nominee, in the November election. Following the Treanor and Roll nominations, and adoption of the platform as submitted by the resolutions committee, the 1,544 delegates proceeded with the nomination of the ticket for November election. Scathing denunciation of the records of the Republican party in state and nation brought delegates and their guests up out of their seats early in the convention. Follows Lengthy Talk Platform adoption followed a lengthy address by Chester Montgomery, former South Bend mayor, permanent chairman of the convention. William P. O’Neill, Mishawaka, fo.'mer Lieutenant-Governor, read a resolution in tribute to the late Thomas D. Taggart, leader of t,he party in Indiana. John R. McFaddin, Rockville, and Judge John Spencer, Evansville, read the platform. Approached as the resolutions were before the convention, Adolph Fritz, secretary of the Indiana State Federation of Labor, declared his personal opinion is the Democratic platform is the best from the labor standpoint, ever adopted in the state. Fresh fuel was added to the flames by Montgomery. While orators shouted from the platform, representatives of the twenty-seven candidates seeking the eleven nominations to be filled today were working busily on the floor. Herman Weinke Out Six of these candidates are seeking the nomination for secretary of state, the seventh entrant, Herman Weinke, South Bend, ■ a candidate two years ago, withdrawing late Monday in favor of Frank Mayr Jr., also of South Bend. Devoting the first portion of his address to the national situation, McNutt pleaded for the support of three basic principles: “That government is best which, consistently with the orderly processes of society, governs least. That government is best which, other things being equal, is nearest those governed; and that, government Is best which excludes privilege and assures equality of opportunity.’ Cites List of “Sins” McNutt read the list of sins of the past three national administrations and added: “We did not know when we sent Mr. Hoover to feed the starving Belgians that we were training him to oversee the breadlines and soup houses in America. The delegates rose to their feet and cheered McNutt for more than two minutes as he flung this charge at the Republican national administration. “Four million unemployed, 5,000 bank failures, an average of 25,000 commercial failure a year, thousands of abandoned farms, wild speculation in stocks, declining export total;, decreased production and a rapidly mounting crime wave are the net results of our years of ‘normalcy’ since 1920.” Reciting the history of the tariff, McNutt said: "The Republicans after the miserable failure of the Honorable James Eli Watson as majority leader, invited the archbishop of the plunderbund, Joe Grundy, to complete the fellowship of the inner circles and made him head nursemaid of the tariff bill. After he performed his task they charged him $300,000 for a useless rain check. McNutt declared the dominant issue of the campaign is tax relief, and charged that the 1929 legislature shirked its responsibility and temporized by authorizing a tax survey (Tors to Page 2)