Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1932 — Page 9

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‘CONTACT MEN' KCE EXPOSE IN CONGRESS Mysterious Figures Carried on Pay Roll; Never Work in Washington. FIX FENCES AT HOME Representatives Take Care of Relatives as Clerks and Secretaries. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER • (Ceovrlaht. 1932. by United Press) I'nlted Press Staff Cerreseendent WASHINGTON, May 19.—1f the house adopts the pending Warren resolution to open its secret pay roll records, an unidentified assortment of mysterious figures known as “contact men” will be disclosed nestling among more than a thousand persons in the list, in among the wives, children, "in-laws," the aged and infirm. These men, carried on the house pay roll as clerks, stay in the congressman’s home district. Their duties vary. Some are law partners of members and the government pay of perhaps 9200 or so a month —the congressman can fix It at any amount up to *3,900 a year—may be used to take care of the congressman's share of general office expenses. Often it will pay the office rent and a stenographer. Some Are Relatives Some of these contact men are relatives, who may or may not do anything. One son of a prominent member manages his father’s business interests. Another is a newspaper correspondent. One is a mysterious woman who could not be located, though an extensive search of the district was made. She apparently was unknown in the member’s home town. But she still gets her pay roll check from the clerk of the house, or at least there is a name on the pay roll. • One senator has a bank president on the pay roll as his "contact man.” Another, who happens to be a bank president, until recently had on his sister-in-law’, who is assistant cashier of his bank. She never has been to Washington. Representative Henry T. Rainey, house majority leader, says these ••contact men” are kept to mend congressmmen’s political fences at government expense. An equally prominent member defends the practice, saying that in his own case his son handles much of his congressional business.

Has Many Duties Representative John C. Schafer (Rep., Wis.) has a district which includes the southern part of the city of Milwaukee, plus several suburbs. The congressman uses his house there as a permanent office. His field secretary or contact man, paid out of the representatives’ private pocket, is available for veterans who want help with disability claims or other veteran bureau business. He also must keep watch on all birth certificates. A letter is sent to every pair of proud parents in the district, officially welcoming the new citizen into the community. And what new lather's sales resistance would not crumble under the melting warmth of a letter from his congressman, arriving in a fine white envelope with a large blue franking signature printed in the comer? This contact man also has other duties. The free seed graft finally was abolished by congress after the cartoonists and editorial writers of the nation made it a standing American joke. Free Pamphlet Here But the propaganda age has produced the successor of the free seed —the free pamphlet. They are turned out by the thousands, at. the irovemmen printing office. Congressmen send them to constituents. They not only comply with requests lor pamphlets, but stir up demand. Little ever is said about the most Important use of the contact men in soliciting campaign contributions. He is useful in learning the •Mowdown” on anybody that the congressman might need to know about. He hears the first nimble of threatened opposition and sends warning to the congressman. NICHOLSON APPEALS FOR GOVERNING COSTS CUT Author Asserts Mounting Tax Rate Is Strangling Business. Drastic cuts must be made in government cost* or the nation can not recover from the most serious situation in American history, Meredith Nicholson, author, said in a letter today to the Marion County Association for Tax Reduction. •’Unless the mounting tax rate is checked, from the small unit to the largest of the federal government, we shall find ourselves strangled to death by the tax gatherer,” Nicholson warned. ‘‘The Immediate economic and social situation presents grave problems which must be solved before business again can move prosperously along safe channels.” held on theft count Negro Charged With Removal of Conditional Sales Property. Charles H. Brookings. Negro, 4907 East Tenth street, is under arrest on charge of removing conditional sales property after he is alleged to have taken a radio which was owned by the Ideal Furniture Company. 997 West Washington street. Brookins will be tried before Municipal Judge William H fiheafler, June lk •

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FIVE MILLIONS POOL’S PROFIT IN ONE WEEK Senate Probe Bares Huge Sums Netted in Radio Stock Operations. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 19 —Operations of a radio pool which In a single week gained profits of nearly 1 $5,000,000 for its participants, were described today as the senate banking and currency committee resumed public hearings on its stock market investigation. Men well known in the world ol finance and politics—Percy Rockei feller. Walter P. Chrysler, John J. | Raskob. the Fisher brothers and others—were listed as having profited handsomely during the quick turnover of stocks that were increasing in value by leaps and | bounds. William A. Gray, committee counsel, told of the results of his in- ! vestigation, occasionally asking cor- ; roboration from Thomas E. Bragg, one of the pool managers. Bragg was the first witness as the hearings were resumed. Operated In 1929 The pool operated in March, 1929, and the profit was accumulated during seven days of operation during which the pool was said to have traded in 1,493,400 shares of stock. Gray said first that the pool participants put up $9,667,500 through W. E. Hutton <fc Cos., and split a profit of $3,217,500. As he progressed in his statement he changed this figure and said that aggregate of $12,683,000 was put up, with profits aggregating $4,924,078. The firms that participated in the pool were M. J. Meehan & Cos., E. F. Hutton Cos., and Block, Mahoney & Cos., three of the leading stock exchange members. Chrysler, the motor magnate, Raskob, Democratic national chairman and former head of General Motors, and the Fisher brothers of Detroit, appeared to have been among the chief beneficiaries of the pool’s operations.

Raskob Got Big Slice Percy A. Rockefeller, nephew of John D. Rockefeller Sr., proved to ; be only a minor participant in the ] pool, although he was the first to tell the committee of its operation. His profits were only $29,171.08 for the seven days of activity. A similar profit was shown by! James A, Stillman, whose marital difficulties have brought him as much publicity as his poet with the National City bank. Stillman and Rockefeller only put up small sums holding 5,000 shares each, to make a profl; of $29,171 each. Chrysler profited $145,000, while Raskob was among the largest beneficiaries of the pool's operations. He received $291,710 for his participation. Others who received amounts as large as Raskob included Nicholas T. Brady and Mrs. M. J. Meehan, wife of one of the Meehan partners. Tumulty Got SIO,OOO Others participating were H. B. Swope, Thomas J. Reagan, Branford H. Ellsworth, C. J. Mara, J. J. Riordan, Mrs. D. Sarnoff, wife of the head of the radio corporation, and Charles M. Schwab made $48,000. Gray said the figures had been taken from the books of the brokers themselves and were “exactly accurate.” Gray read a list of names of persons who received comparatively small sums from the pool operation apparently without having put up any money. The aggregate of these payments was $92,000. Gray said J. P. Tumulty got SIO,OOO. “Who was he?” Gray asked. "I don’t know,” Bragg said. “Wasn’t he a presidential secretary?” Gray continued. Joseph P. Tumulty was President Wilsons secretary. Another beneficiary was Eddie Dowling, musical comedy star, who got $19,000. STATE DENTISTS PLAN FOR DIAMOND JUBILEE Affair to Be Held at Next Year's Meeting, Group Decides. Next year’s annual meeting of the Indiana State Dental Association will be the occasion for a diamond jubilee program, it was dedd- j ed Wednesday at the final session of the seventy-fourth meeting in the Claypool. Officers chosen by trustees of the association are: Dr. C. L. Bvert. Indianapolis, secretary. for ninth consecutive term; Dr. William Bode. Vincennes, treasurer: Dr. H. T. Berkev. Ft. Wayne. raaDoomted master of exhibits; Dr. H. J. Looscsmp. Aurora, supervisor of clinics; Dr. R. N. Douglas. BUtharw re-anaotnted editor of the association's bulletin, and Dr. Kdward I. MltonelL Indianapolis, reappointed executive committeeman.

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LIQUOR SEEN AS SOLUTION OF WAR DEBT Acceptance of Wine From France Viewed as One Safe Way to Pay. NO BLOW AT LABOR Benefit Seen to Debtor and Creditor in Plan for U. S. Control. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scrippa-Howard Foreirn Editor WASHINGTON, May 19.—Adoption of the Swedish or some similar form of federal liquor control, as advocated by Senator David A. Reed (Rep., Pa.), official figures reveal, would: 1. Make it possib.e for the United States to collect in full the $22,000,000,000 war debts owed by the allies, and, at the same time . . . 2. Wipe out, so far as the allies are concerned, at least 50 per cent of the colossal sums they owe the United States, without costing American taxpayers a penny. As matters now stand, it is pretty generally conceded, the war debts never will be paid in full, and either cancellation or default is becoming increasingly likely. Would Crush Racketeers The above apparently contradictory conclusion is explained in this way: If the United States would agree to accept payment in kind, instead of cash, the allies might be able to pay—especially if the amounts are reduced materially. But the United States will not accept payments in kind. To do so, it is argued, would flood the American market with European goods and play havoc with American industry and labor. There are, however, certain European commodities which would not compete in any way whatsoever with American industry and labor, namely wines and spirits. Today the American underworld of thugs, bribers, racketeers and killers have a monopoly on this trade. If the American government should take over control of this business, as Sweden, Canada and other nations have done, it not only would crush the underworld by removing its chief source of revenue, but would add, according to estimates, more than $1,000,000,000 a year to its sadly depleted revenue. Debt Could Be Covered In 1913, the last normal pre-pro-hibition year, there were manufactured in the United States 115,000,000 tax gallons of whisky, brandy, rum, and gin alone. An additional $20,000,000 worth of wines and spirits were imported. At $2 a quart, these 115,000,000 gallons would net the United States $920,000,000. This, plus the $40,000,000 retail value of imported stuff, would total $960,00 worth of wines and spirits annually. But the allies owe the United States, on the average, only about $370,000,000 a year. Thus, by agreeing to accept from them, on account, about one third of our normal yearly requirements of wines and spirits, their war debt payments amply would be taken care of. It is contended that the allies are not in position to pay in full. Cancellation in toto or in part, it is said, already is in sight. By agreeing to credit the allies, however, with the retail price in this country of their wines and spirits—less handling charges—it would be tantamount to at least a 50 per cent reduction, without affecting American taxpayers. France, to cite an example, might be credited with $2 for a bottle of cognac, the sale price in the United States. She actually would be out less than sl, the price paid, wholesale, to the French producer.

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BIBLE GAVE PURITY TO KORAN

Best in Moslem Religion Derived From Testaments

Thl* Is th laat of four stories on Mohammed. whose death 1.360 rears aeo will be mourned bv Moslems throughout the world on June 6. Previous stories have described his life: todav’s story tells of the Koran, or Mohammedan bible. and somethin* of his doctrine.. BY MILTON BROXNER European Manaser NF.A Servieo (Copyright, 1932. NEA Service. Inc.) MOHAMMED, founder in the seventh century of a faith which today has 230,000,000 believers, went the way of all flesh in the year 632, but his religion continued on through the Koran. It is the Moslem bible, which owes most of what is pure and noble in it to the Old and New Testaments. And these parts appear in strange contrast to some of Mohammed’s other teachings, including his picture of heaven as a place offering attractions consisting of wine and women. Among all religious books, the Koran is one of the strangest, because originally it was not written at all. Mohammed neither could read nor write. But after each of his "visions,” he recited anew chapter of what was later to be the Korap. He did not claim authorship. He said he simply repeated what had come to him i*rom heaven. To this day it is the height of impiety among Moslems to say: “As the prophet said in the Koran.” The Moslem says: “As God the Exalted said in the Koran.” When Mohammed died and his father-in-law, Abu Bakr, succeeded to the leadership of the Moslems, he saw at once that unless steps were taken to preserve the chapters which had been spoken by Mohammed, they might be lost forever. Some had been written down by his assistants on date leaves, pieces of stone, shoulder-blades of sheep. Some were only preserved in the vivid memories of his close associates. Now at Abu Bakr’s behest all were copied down and arranged. Thus was made the first authentic Koran. M M M THE Arabs were now a “People of the Book.” as were the Jews and the Christians. Mohammed stressed that the “messages” he received came to him in Arabic. Hence the language was holy. So for centuries, where the Moslem faith went, there went the Arabic language. It is not too much to say that if there had been no Jewish and Christian faiths and no Old and New Testaments, there probably would have been no Mohammed the prophet, no Moslem religion, and no Koran. All that is purest, best and noblest in the Koran seems to have been derived directly or in-

CURTIS, IN JAIL FOR LINDY FAKE, ASSAILS MINISTER’S PART IN HUNT

(Continued From Page 1) considered unimportant after it was learned that both the dean and Admiral Guy H. Burrage, another Curtis associate, had Journeyed to Hopewell in the same automobile. Burrage and Dean Dobson-Pea-cock at Norfolk discussed these questions: If Curtis faked his whole story to sell to newspapers, as he claimed, why did he “negotiate” secretly two weeks, then grow angry when news of his negotiations leaked out? Os what value would his story have been, if he did not produce the baby? If he found himself caught in a web of lies, why didn’t he withdraw when Jafsie paid $50,000 to alleged kidnapers on the ground that Jafsie spoiled his “negotiations?”

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Unable to read or write, Mohammed dictated the Koran, or Moslem bible, containing the sacred scriptures of his faith which he claimed were revealed to him from heaven by the Angel Gabriel. This sketch, drawn from an old print, shows Mohammed reciting his “revelations” to two assistants who are recording them in Arabic.

directly from the Bible. Not that Mohammed seems to have known the Bible itself. But, in his wanderings with caravans, he had heard and remembered stories from the Old Testament, from the Rabbinic legends, scraps from the New Testament distorted into aposcryphal legends. Over and over again, he cited Abraham, Noah, Moses and Jesus as prophets. At the same time, he asserted he was the last and final prophet. u m m MOHAMMED proclaimed his belief in the one God. The pagans mocked him. They stuck to their idols. Whereupon came his bitter response: “O y>j unbeliever*! And ye do not worship that which I worship; I shall never worship that which ye worship, Neither wIU ye worship that which I worship. To you be your religion; to me my religion!” Later, when he became bolder,

Then, Curtis’ own bitter arraignment of Dean Dobson-Peacock, contradictory in some of its charges, and obviously intended to cause illfeeling between Rear-Admiral Burrage and the talkative minister, was issued by Schwartzkopf. It read In part: “Between 40:30 and 11 a. m. on the morning of March 10, I went to my office and in the presence of Mr. Brownley, I called Dean Peacock and told him I had a very important matter that I would like to talk to him personally about. “On his arrival, I told him this fantastic tale, that I had concocted about meeting a contact man who claimed he knew the kidnapers of the Lindbergh baby. He decided the best thing to do would be to get in touch with them over the telephone.

he told them the story of how Noah warned the people of God’s wrath, and how they mocked him; of how Moses told Pharaoh of God’s anger, and how the king turned a deaf ear. So, he intimated, It was high time they listened to him, Mohammed, when he warned them to turn from graven images. n u m WITH increasing power and increasing numbers of followers, he expanded his doctrines, There were in his sayings echoes from the Bible—succoring the poor, giving alms, scorning riches. Then, with consummate ability, he sought to frighten the unbelievers by “visions” of a terrific hell which awaited them on the day of judgment. He also drew his picture of the heaven that awaited his followers. Here he was both an Arab and a politician. He had forbidden the drinking

“We asked for Colonel Lindbergh, Mrs. Morrow, or her secretary; were told that we could not see Mrs. Morrow as she was indisposed, and the secretary was not there. The party falking to me who told me his name was Rosner said he was private secretary to Colonel Lindbergh, and would accept the message. “I then talked to Mr. Rosner (after the dean talked), and told him practically the same thing as Mr. Dean Peacock gave him. “After that conversation, I told the dean that it looked as if we could not get in touch with him, and the only thing I saw was to i drop it then and there. Admiral Is Called In “The matter lay in abeyance from Thursday until the following Tuesday night, when Dean Peacock called me over the telephone, and told me that he had written a letter to Mrs. Morrow. "He read the letter to me, which was in effect that he had tried to get them over the telephone, could not and, consequently, was writing them; he explained who he was. “At that time, I called the dean's attention to the fact that Admiral Burrage knew the Lindberghs, and why not get in touch with him. He stated he would not do this unless we did not hear from this letter. “He did not want me to take it up with Burrage because, he said, 'you know what sort of an old fogey he is.’ “We received no reply to the letter, and I was inclined to let the entire matter drop, until March 19, when, at the suggestion of Dean Peacock, we went to the house of Admiral Burrage, “Upon the suggestion of Dean Peacock, Admiral Burrage called the Lindbergh home. The party on the other end of the line took Dean Peacock’s telephone number and Admiral Burrage’s number. “Much Against My Will” “From that time on, I carried on my operations and transactions in connection with the Lindbergh case much against my will, having expressed a desire to drop it on March 15, entirely, and because of my knowledge that the whole thing was untrue, but carried on because I had been continuously urged and encouraged by Dean Peacock, who was enjoying the publicity that he was getting out of the newspaper story. “This also applied to his entire family. Night after night, in his urgent manner, to keep himself in the public press, he called my home inquiring as to whether or not there was anything new, and pressing me for information which would be of news value in the hopes of getting more publicity. “Any news that I gave Peacock, even in confidence, he gave to the newspapers and to the neighbors and, on two or three occasions, confidential information that I had given him concerning this case returned to me through my wile or daughter. ‘Many of the stories concerning our actions in tl|!s case that appeared .in the ' newspapers were

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of wine. He had forbidden that any man should have more than four wives. But he proceeded to draw a picture of the kind of heaven that would be ideal in the eyes of the Arabs. For these men, living so much of their lives crossing burning sands from oasis to oasis, he pictured a heaven abounding in verdure and purling springs: a heaven where they would have all the wine they wanted and never would be intoxicated—and women. m m m A T first, when he still hoped to convert the Jewish and Christian tribes In Arabia, there were no slings and arrows sent their way. But later he attacked them both, because they would not recognize him and his faith. Many were put to the sword. There is another side to this prophet, which is shocking to men of other faiths. He was not above using his "visions” for his own ends. When he wanted to wink at assassination of enemies, he had a “vision” condoning it. When he wanted to marry another wife and there was whispered criticism, he quickly had a "vision” permitting it. Later, when he came into power in Medina and Mecca, he made himself lawmaker as well as prophet. In his new chapters of the Koran he gave the rules as to the kind of food to eat, the way property should be distributed among heirs, the manner in which wives could be divorced. In fact, all the law in Moslem countries for centuries was based upon the precepts in the Koran. He was shrewd enough to know that he could exact of these wild Arab tribes no profound theology. The credo of his faith was very simple. All a man had to do was to repeat: “There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is the prophet of Allah.” There also were four other pillars of the faith: To pray five times a day with the face turned toward Mecca, to give alms, to fast from sunrise to sunset in the month of Ramadan, and to make at least one pilgrimage to Mecca. As for the prayers, he was capable of enunciating very beautiful ones, by sharp contrast to his passages of sensualism or his violent tirades against those who would not believe in his mission: “He Is my Lord. There is no God but He. In Him do I put my trust. To Him I must return.” Such is the story of the camel driver who thirteen centuries ago founded a religion that today numbers among its adherents nearly one-eighth of the human race. (THE END)

manufactured by Peacock, and were untrue; and he had a knowledge of their untruthfulness at the time he released them for publication. “As, for instance, he predicted the return of the baby within a specified time, and knew at the time that his story was untrue and created by him without any ‘information and facts’ that he received from me to substantiate it. “The manner in which he pressed me for news, and because of the news he was manufacturing for his own publicity and his desire for it, I became annoyed and went to Admiral Burrage about it, and it was agreed at that time that In the future Admiral Burrage would handle the publicity and that nothing but real ‘facts’ as delivered by me would be released for publication. “Even in view of this agreement, the dean was responsible for stories that were unfounded and untrue. “The stories that now are made much of are stories that appeared in the public press, and he was quoted for. In addition to the stories which he related to the press, stating that he had been held up by gangsters on the eighth floor of a hotel in the city of New York on his visit to that city to meet me. “I made mention to Admiral Burrage upon my return to Norfolk that, in my opinion, it was another bid for publicity on the part of Dean Peacock, which was his general attitude throughout the case, continuously craving publicity. “Either I said or the dean said that if this case breaks from another angle we can only say we were working on a dew, and the dean said, that’s right. We never can get criticised on anything we did.’ “I know from my experience with the dean that the only interest that he had throughout this entire matter was one of satisfying his desires for publicity and the more that he got the better he liked it.” Arraignment Is Dramatic The arraignment of Curtis, the I society man, business man of the Virginia city which hoped for fame from his exploits, was dramatic even though conducted with no fanfare on the Lindbergh estate. Colonel Schwarzkopf and a group of detectives and federal agents who directed the questioning which brought the Curtis confession, were present. So was Colonel Lindbergh, although the latter did not participate in the hearing. The complaint was sworn to by Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck of Hunterdon county. It said the Lindbergh baby had been murdered in East Amwell township March 1, | and that Curtis on May 13, “being within the state of New Jersey for the purpose of hindering the apprehension of the person or persons guilty of the said charge, did knowingly give false and untrue reports of the persons guilty of the commission of the crime aforesaid." If convicted, Curtis is subject to a prison term of three years and a SI,OOO fine, as the crime is a misdemeanor in New Jersey. The case will not go to a grand Jury for some tiro*, - .

SENATORS TO GET ANOTHER VOTE ON BEER Bingham $6-a-Barrel Tax Proposal to Come Up After Tariff Debate. TYPINGS PLAN DEFEATED Twenty-Four Vote for Amendment, Gain of Nine Wets in Roll Call. BY LEO R. SACK Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 19. The i senate will have another chance, and possibly two or three, to legal- : ize beer for revenue raising purposes. When the oil, coal and copper tariffs, now before the senate are disposed of, Senator Hiram Bingham (Rep., Conn.) will bring up his amendment, which eliminates several of the so-called nuisance taxes and substitutes a $6 a barrel tax on 4 per cent beer. Bingham estimates his amendment will raise a minimum of $375,000,000 annually, aside from providing diversified employment throughout the country for more than 50,000 men, and increasing markets for grain, coal and other commodities. Should Bingham’s amendment j fail, the senate then may be called upon to vote for a straight out 2.75 : per cent or 4 per cent beer amend- : ment, without any legislative enj tangling alliances such as charI acterized Senator Millard Tydings’ amendment, which was defeated 61 to 24, Wednesday. Tydings Will Try Again Senator Tydings (Dem., Md.) said today he would offer his beer tax bond issue plan again, as an amendment to the hunger relief bill. At least three senators who voted against Tydings Wednesday have indicated they will vote for a straightaway bill to legalize beer. They are James E. Watson, Indiana; David A. Reed, Pennsylvania, and George H. Moses, New Hampshire, , all Republican leaders. Reed voted for Binghams 4 per i cent amendment to the original I Tydings plan. He annuonced that had the amended Tydings proposal carried, he would then have moved to strike out the $1,500,000,000 public works program, in order to let 4 per cent beer stand alone. “I am for beer and against the public works proposal,” Reed explained. This, also, was why Moses voted first for the Bingham amendment, and later against the Tydings plan. Watson informed newspaper men he will vote for a straight-out beer amendment. Twenty-four Vote for Amendment Twenty-four senators voted for the Tydings amendment as follows: Republicans (IS) Barbour, Binrham, Blaine, Cutting, Davis, Glenn. Kean. La Follette, Metcalf, Oddle, Shortridge and Walcott. Democrats (I*)—Broussard, Bulosr, CoolIdre, Copeland. Hawes, Lewis, Lone, Pittman. Tydings. Warner, Walsh (Mass.) and Wheeler. Had Bulkley (Dem. f Ohio) been present he would have voted for beer. Other absent senators Wednesday included Schall and Shipstead of Minnesota, who had “general” pairs with Democratic senators. Had they been present it is believed they would have voted for beer, because they are now regarded as opponents of the present prohibition laws. Senator Arthur Robinson of Indiana voted against the amendment. The roll call showed a gain of nine wet votes over the last previous senate prohibition roll call on Jan. 21, when only fifteen senators voted for the Bingham resolution inviting referenda in the several states. Await Chicago Action Then only Barbour, Bingham, Blaine, Bulkley, Coolidge, Copeland, Glenn, Kean, La Follette, Lewis. Oddie, Tydings, Wagner, Walsh (Mass.) and Walcott upheld Bingham. The Impression prevails In the senate that many senators are awaiting prohibition action at the forthcoming Chicago conventions before switching from their present bone-dry moorings. This group includes some of the sixteen who are candidates for re-election this year as follows: Barkley. Kentucky; Brookhart, Iowa; Caraway, Arkansas; Fletcher, Florida; George, Georgia; Hayden, Arizona; Jones Washington; McGill, Kansas; Morrison, North Carolina; Norbeck, South Dakota; Nye, North Dakota: Bmlth, South Carolina; Smoot, Utah; Stefwer. Oregon; Thomas, Idaho, and Watson, Indiana. Pittsburgher la M. E. Head By United Press COLUMBUB, 0., May 19.—Dr. Calvin Broomfield, Pittsburgh, will continue as president of the Methodist Protestant church, now holding Its quadrennial meeting of the general conference here, for another four-year term, as the result of the election held Wednesday.

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