Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1933 — Page 22

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M’NUTT’S STAR CONTINUES RISE ; ELECTED GOVERNOR

Country Sits Up and Takes Notice of Ability as Legion Chief. CHARMS WITH ORATORY Rules With Iron Hand When He Takes Charge of State’s Affairs. Thl* U the fifth of a aerie* of stories on the life and aetlvitives of Governor Paul V. McNutt. BY ARCH STEINEL Times Staff Writer r |~'HE parade rolled on. I Grand Army men, beant men, fingered walking sticks under shade trees and watched their sons, born In France in 1917, beat at congressional doors for legislation, make Governors, mayors, senators and legislators, as they had done. At the head of it, running to make trains, changing from dinner clothes to scholarly suits, th* n back to top hats, deep in American Legion lobbies in Washington, or at classrooms and home. Legion Commander Paul V. McNutt flung out his reel of endeavor. He hopped from state to state, ringing the welkin of “more members’’ for the legion. He caught a staunch friend here, warmed up a politician there, “clicked” with an address and bagged feminine admiration with his good looks—an admiration unrequited. His ability to organize and sell the ideals of the legion fired departmental commanders and buck privates in much the same way that he built Strut and Fret, I. U. dramatic club, is his college days. “Luck” again shouted those who disliked him. ' Capable aids,” proffered another. a a a BUT the records of the legion show that he hiked its national membership rolls 36.000. Dues rolled into the treasury. The A.merican Legion monthly for 19281929 made a net profit of $71,000. A lame duck congress of the year 1928-1929 wounded him in a legislative way and prevented many acts he sponsored for relief of the disabled veterans. But $9,000,000 in improvements for veterans’ hospitals was put through as balance for these reverses. McNutt became a man without a home. Sleeping cars and steamship berths were his rest camps from the hand-shaking of legionnaires, congressmen and trowel-wielding at dedications of buildings, decorating of big-wigs and foreign diplomats, and hours upon hours before the microphone. His oratory contrasts with his personality. Sentiment window dresses it. Home and country, God, disabled war heroes bulwarked by analytical summaries of situations, and outlining of deeds done by the legion under his commandership are included. He was “the United States” at the Fidac congress in Parks. Salutes were fired in his behalf. Flags dipped for him. He knelt for his nation before the Unknown Soldiers of France and Italy. tt tt tt Tiyl’RS M'NUTT walked with him IVI through poilu guards of honor on his visit to France. She stood

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Upper Left—Legion Commander McNutt meeting the man he’s likened to as Governor, Mussolini, while globe-trotting for the legion in Europe. McNutt is the extreme right and Mussolini in the center of the photo. Upper Right—Head bowed in prayer, McNutt officiates at a memorial service at the tomb of America’s Unknown Soldier.

near him at Foch’s tomb, near the Bonaparte crypt, as respects were paid to France’s hero of the Front Line. She watched him dedicate the American Legion building of Paris —crib of the corps of the clive-drab —during a French rain while military attaches reached six feet high with umbrellas to keep the drops from his whitened head. She clipped, religiously, the yards upon yards of press notices and photos in • the Continental papers, as well as at home. “You never can, tell that you are in them,” she says at the Governor’s mansion, as she displays European photographs, wrinkled with years, that show her and the Governor unrecognizable for want of ink and presswork. The McNutts went to Italy. Mussolini had the strut of Europe’s stage. Newspapers flagged II Duce’s footsteps, foods, fads and fopperies. a a a Governor m'nutt, likened to him now by those who see in him a dictator leading the Khaki Shirts, wanted to visit the man to whom nations gave lip service. Audience was granted. Interpreters smoothed the way. Fealty and brotherhood of two nations was exchanged. “And what did you think of the man that they say you are like? Is there a likeness?” Governor McNutt was asked in his statehouse office. The Governor, right hand always stroking his chin, spoke through that hand cupped over mouth with quick finesse: “He’s a very interesting man. It was one of the high lights on my trip to Europe—that, and the visit to Foch's tomb.” The McNutts returned to America and anew happiness—Louise, their daughter, walked again after five years abed. The Bloomington home of the law dean and national commander blossomed with tea parties of children in which Louise could serve the cakes and “Will you have cream or lemon in your tea?” instead of passively watching the birthdays go by her bed. Bed boredom had fattened her

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strengthened her, vanquished disease. tt a a McNUTT plunged in the deanship of I. U. between legion trips. “He built up its standing, increased its membership, raised it in an academic way, and saved the school by his election as governor, preventing budget makers from trimming its finances,” appraises Professor B. C. Gavit, of the law school. McNutt's legion days ended. He shifted from the politics of lobbying for the veterans to making state Democratic contacts. His mobile orator’s mouth tooling out phrases, moving audiences, caught the party’s eye. The state campaign needed a firebrand. McNutt accepted the torch. Law school lectures alternated with political i allies. Harry G. Leslie, successful candidate for governor, burned under the oratorical flames lighted by McNutt's nightly jaunts about the state, addressing ward heelers, urging farmers to ride the donkey to victory and to defeat Leslie. Leslie flung barbs with as much regularity against McNutt as he did against his opponent, Frank C. Dailey, Indianapolis attorney and safety board member. “He's paid for being dean of the law school and he’s out spellbinding for the Democrats,” sang Leslie up and down state. \ a a a LESLIE, a Purdue university graduate, carried the rivalry of the football field with I. U. to the political gridiron and smeared McNutt at every line rush. The governship rolled in upon him with the Hoover landslide. Purdue was termed “in the saddle.” Indiana university w r as “on the outside looking in.” Dr. Edward C. Elliott, Purdue president, was spokesman for the state board of education. Dr. Wiliam Lowe Bryan, of Indiana university, occupied a seat on the board under Leslie. Today, under McNutt, the law has been changed, requiring but one college president on the board—and that president is Dr. Bryan. Indiana university rides high. The Indiana dean was drawn into

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Lower Left—McNutt, with General J. E. Henri Gouraud, military Governor of Paris, at the temporary tomb of General Foch. near the crypt of Napoleon Bonaparte. Lower Right—Legion Commander McNutt and Mrs. McNutt aboard the Leviathan, en route to Europe.

the junto that jerked out the Democratic ballots on election day. Legionnaires of bis state and national commandership days drifted into the ballot councils, boomed his name. a a a TOM TAGGART came into the McNutt life as he did in that of McNutt’s father, back in the redlight parade days when the elder jurist had political ambitions —but it was a younger Tom Taggart, the Prince of French Lick. 2 ST. CAR MEN ROBBED Negro Gunmen Get $34 and Tokens in Holdups Here Two street car operators were robbed Thursday night by Negro gunmen. Charles Rieger, 806 Highland Place, operator, told police the car was boarded at Twenty-fourth street and Martindale avenue by a Negro who took $9 and tokens. Earlier Thursday night, Dudley Jennings, 489 South Luett street, West Tenth street car operator, reported to police he was robbed of $25 and tokens at St. Clair street and Pershing avenue by a Negro gunman. THEFT SUSPECT IS HELD Man Accused of Attempt to Pilfer Electric Current. Floyd Collins, 244 McKim street, is held today on a police vagrancy charge, suspected of an attempt to steal electric current from the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. Two employes of the company told police they found Collins after he had climbed a pole carrying wires of the company. He is said to have been preparing to run a line into his home.

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R. Earl Peters, state Democratic chairman, won his job by a single vote in 1930. Frank Mayr Jr., present secretary of state, and his northern Indiana adherents tried to take Peters for a ride in the chairmanship race of 1932. In the meantime, McNutt and his legionnaires, law school friends, acquaintances from hundreds of banquets and political rallies which his oratory had swayed, threw out the cry “McNutt for Governor.” “He’ll get the women's votes on his good looks,” ivas the comment of old-line politicians, who never had gotten over the thought that the polling place and the barbershop were two sanctums for “men only.” Peters was beset sorely by the Mayr forces. He hooked on the McNutt bandwagon—or was it that McNutt did the hooking? They tell it both ways. a a a MAYR lost his battle to defeat Peters. A party split neared over the ruckus. The South Bend man was charged with seeking to

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commander, were offered and used by the party of Jefferson. The convention was a romp McNutt headed the ticket. Mayr was permitted to tag behind in the secretary of state role. And the man who had been called the Hoosier schoolmaster, was graduated from his first political kindergarten and awaited the diploma —the ballots of Indiana citizenry. Last McNutt, Governor and Husband.