Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 198, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1931 — Page 3

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FAVORITE SONS SENTIMENT BAR TO ROOSEVELT Poll Shows 402 Delegates Pledged to ‘Home Pet’ Candidates. BY PALL R. MALLON United Press Bt!T Correspondent (Copyright. 1931. bv United Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—A gradual and generally unsuspected growth of favorite son sentiment has lodged a major obstacle in the Democratic presidential path of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. Fourteen states have in prospect the selection of 402 delegates pledged for favorite sons, it was disclosed today in a poll of political expert opinion conducted by the United Press. The poll totals show: Roosevelt, 402. Favorite sons, 402. Doubtful, 296. Necessary for nomination, 734. The figures are based upon pres-ent-day prospects for selection of convention delegates. Confidential opinions of various state representatives now in Washington were relied upon in the main. Congressmeif contributed most of the private information upon which the allocations were made. Not Conclusive Evidence While the survey is not conclusive evidence of how state delegations will be assigned in June, it does represent possibly the best available judgment at this time. Among the striking conclusions disclosed were: Roosevelt has the northwest and part of the south well lined up, but only three states now in prospect east of the Mississippi river and north of the Mason-Dixon line (New York, Connecticut and Michigan.) In favorite son states and some doubtful states, he has gained secondary strength which will increase his total materially after the first skirmishing ballots are cast in the conventions. For instance Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and North Carolina are listed in the favorite son category, but they contain latent Roosevelt prospects. In the doubtful column, Roosevelt is agreed to have a good chance to get Colorado, lowa, Kansas, Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Indiana. With all this incipient strength, Roosevelt could climb well above a simple majority, but two-thirds is required for nomination. His ability to get two-thirds still is left problematical by the poll. Alfalfa Bill Strong Favorite sons arc conceded prospects which give them thirty-five votes more than enough to stop Roosevelt. However, this is a numerical fact which does not take into consideration the psychological advantage which would accrue to Roosevelt, if his maximum delegate strength is realized, in doubtful states or the additional fact that he has secondary strength among the favorite sons. The secondary strength of Governor Alfalfa Bill Murray outside his home state, Oklahoma, was surprising. In Kansas, lowa and Colorado, a substantial measure of farm support for him was found. The table of figures likewise fails to reveal the strong undercurrent which has been stirred up in many localities for Newton D. Baker of Ohio. In Indiana, Kansas, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and some other southern states his name was mentioned widely. The feeling was expressed that if he should become a candidate after the early balloting, he could expect a greater swing of unpledged strength than is evident for any other candidate now.

HURT WHILE RUSHING YOUTH TO HOSPITAL Two Injured in Auto Crash on Way From Hunting: Accident. Two youths were recovering today from injuries received in an automobile crash at Fortieth street and Washington boulevard Saturday as they were rushing a wounded companion to a hospital. The injured youths are Joseph Kenney, 17, 1859 North Pennsylvania street, and Edward Sweeney, 16, of 1512 North Meridian street. A companion, Joseph Hoffman, 16, of 2017 North \ Pennsylvania street, was shot in the right leg with a small caliber rifle while hunting with Kenney, Sweeney and John O'Connor, 1423 North Pennsylvania street. Returning to the city from the north section of the county, the car, driven by Sweeney, swerved off the road and overturned. Hoffman and O’Connor were not injured. Kenney and Sweeney incurred extensive cuts and bruises. STATE JOINS SEARCH Criminal Identification Bureau Aids Jamestown Officers. Aid of the state bureau of criminal investigation in tracing thieves who Sunday night robbed the postoffice at Jampstown. Ind., in Boone county, today was asked by town officials. E. L. Osborne, bureau chief, assigned Claude Dozier, bureau investigator, to aid postal inspectors in photographing finger prints of the robbers. TO oJt|i CHICAGO PI gi AND 1 iH RETURN TICKETS ON SALS EVERY FRIDAY >ND SATURDAY Good returning until Monday Night Good on all trains, in coaches only Proportionately low week-end tares to intermediate points TRAVEL BY TRAIN—FASTER SAFER-AND NOW CHEAPER Ask Agent tor further information

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By United Press SHANGHAI, Dec. 28. Ransom was demanded today for the release of Harriet Halverstadt, American woman missionary, by a bandit chieftain who has held her captive near Foochow since Saturday. Missionary officials began negotiation for Miss Halverstadt’s freedom, but it appeared she would be kept in the bandit’s mountain lair for some time. She was captured by peasants disguised as sailors while traveling by boat from Futing to Foochow and later fell into the bandit's hands. Miss Halverstadt is from Wellington, Kan. EX-CHOIR BOYS TO MEET St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Club Will Have Banquet. Ex-Choir Boys’ Club of St. Paul’s Episcopal church will held its annual banquet and party Wednesday night in the church. Members of the club, organized several years ago by Charles W. Daugherty, may make reservations with Hereward Fuller. Officers are Laurence Pauli, president; Harold Pennicke, vice-presi-dent, and Stanley Turner, secretarytreasurer.

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BANDITS STEAL CARS, RANSACK SEVERALHOMES Gunmen Force Filling Station Attendant to Open Safe. Christmas holiday spirit evidently failed to impress city crooks, who plied their trade busily over the week-end. A Negro bandit, who jumped on the running board of a car driven by Robert Robb, 16, of 1416 Edgemont street, Sunday night at Northwestern avenue and Twenty-ninth street, ordered Robb to drive outside the city, where, threatenecL with a gun, he was forced to leave the car, in which the bandit fled. Police Hold Suspect Miss Beulah Abbett, Sheboygan, Wis., told police she was robbed of her car Sunday night while she and Henry Hint sat in it in front of 602 South Pennsylvania street, awaiting return of friends. Three men, carrying guns, forced her and Hint to leave the car, and drove away, she reported. McKinley Jor.es, 38, of 1414 East Twenty-fourth street, was held by police today in connection with holdup Sunday of Leon Hollis, 23, of 2229 North Temple avenue, and Charles Kitrel, 23, Negro, 1238 Barrow avenue, at Twenty-fourth street and Martindale avenue. Hollis was robbed of s4l and a watch valued at SSO, told police. Four young bandits who early Sunday made a filling station attendant at Twenty-fourth and Meridian streets open a safe from which they obtained SSO, were sought by police today. Two Escape Walter Reser, 34, of 106 West Walnut street, the attendant, said the men ordered gasoline, after which two of them followed him into the station and drew guns. Two Negro bandits escaped after robbing Lee Evert, 32, of the Commercial hotel of $7 Saturday night. The Negroes entered the cab on Indiana avenue and asked to be driven

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to the baseball park, where they robbed Evert. John Vinson, 66, Negro, 1326 West Twenty-sixth street, was robbed of a watch valued at S6O Sunday by a Negro bandit while walking on Burdsal parkway near the canal. Other robberies reported to police included: Apartment of Mrs. D. E. Gleason, 3015 North Pennsylvania street, entered Saturday night and S4O stolen; W. T. Summit home at 627 Warren avenue, robbed of S4O desk, $5 smoker, S4O rug, $3 mirror, $25 vacuum cleaner and sl6 table; residence of Bert Tuttle, 348 Villa avenue, ransacked, and SBS fur choker and $4 picture stolen. Plan Andean Geographic Tour By United Press LONDON, Dec. 29.—A British expedition headed by Professor J. W. Gregory will proceed to Peru in January to obtain information on the history of the Andes and the former extension of South America into the Pacific ocean.

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MILLER WORKING ON FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE MAGHINE If Car Is Successful on Speedway It May Be Commercial Job. BY NORMAN E. ISAACS When you do your automobile shopping in 1935, you may ride home in anew four-wheel-drive machine, a vehicle with a combination front and rear-wheel drive and a hydraulic clutch. It will ride you like the fabled magic carpet, and its streamlining effects will be beyond your fondest dreams. That, in effect, is the forecast of Harry Miller, one of the world’s greatest automotive creators and experts, and who promises to produce the first of his four-wheel-drive machines at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway next May. Back in 1925, Miller rolled out the first front-wheel-drive machine, a snug, little one-seated racer that hugged the ground, and which captured the fancy and Imagination of every race-goer. Four years later, the folks stood and gaped as the first front-wheel drive passenger autos cruised through the streets of Indianapolis. The front-wheeler had made good on the race tracks of the nation. Making good on the race tracks proved it would make good on streets and highways. So now, Miller is toiling over his four-wheel drive creation, the latest development in auto racing. If it makes good, and Miller has every confidence it will, it will be incorporated into a passenger auto and by 1935, if all goes well, you will be able to drive one yourself. It is rumored in automotive circles that builders of gasoline engines for trucks are beginning to study possible revamping of their motors to put them on level ground for the

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President Hoover has appointed Robert E. Olds, above, of St. Paul, Minn., as the American member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. Olds will succeed the late Roland W. Boyden of Boston.

trucking-motor battle looming with the Diesel. The oil-burners big boast is steadiness and economy and the gas-burner men are beginning to look on the economy argument quite seriously. The 1932 five-century race at the Speedway is likely to give you a years’-ahead picture of your future motor car. Manufacturers of stock cars alreday are beginning to take more interest in the big race, and some startling new designs are likely to be rolled out for tests. That makes competition much keener. It speeds up the improvements and brings your dream of motor car perfection that much closer to realization. Harrodsburg Man Dies HARRODSBURG, Ind., Dec. 28. Isaac H. Barrett, 86, is dead at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John C. Cuddy, after a long illness.

TEXAS SEEKING PENALTIES OF OIL COMPANIES Former Bootblack-Newsboy Will Represent State in Courts. By United Press AUSTIN, Tex., Dec. 28.—James V. Allred, former bootblack and newsboy, and now Texas’ 32-year-old attorney-general, will oppose some of the nation's ablest corporation lawyers here Jan. 5, when fifteen oil companies and associations are summoned to answer charges of violating anti-trust laws. Allred will demand fines totaling $17,850,000 from oil companies charged with conspiracy to fix prices and throttle small competitors, and otherwise violate Texas trade laws. When Allred still was in short pants, his father summoned his five sons before him. He confided a hope that one would become a lawyer. Since that day each of the five has served either as county or district attorney. Allred’s first act as attorney-gen-eral of Texas was to WTite a letter to his parents, thanking them for the opportunities they had afforded him. His attack on large oil companies is set forth in a 132-page petition. The document in itself is a romantic story of how certain foreign oil corporations, after being driven out of the state, returned to do business through subsidiaries. For their defense, the oil companies are expected to secure the foremost legal talent available. They will represent assets worth hundreds of millions. Much of this capital has been invested in thousands of miles of pipe lines, countless oil wells, storage tanks, refineries, office buildings, fleets of tank cars and lengthy chains of filling stations.

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FIGHT HURTS CRITICAL' Noah Morris Suffers Severed Artery, Beaten Unconscious. Suffering from loss of blood resulting from severing of an artery in the wrist during a fight Saturday, Noah Morris, 27. of 225 North Noble street, today was in critical condition at city hospital. Police said Morris fought with four men in the rear of 1443 Bridge street, and was taken home after being beaten unconscious. Two men who said they saw the fight, but did not participate, were held by jjolice for investigation. Civil Service Posts Open Civil service vacancies announced by Henry M. Trimpe, local secretary, include: Teacher in Indian service, automotive engineer in war department and junior medical officer.

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