Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 144, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1934 — Page 8

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SINCLAIR HOPE FOR ELECTION IS WEAKENING Democrat Standpats Swing Support to G. 0. P. Merriam. B'l • ri ;>;-// ’rnrd Srwpjitprr A Hanrt LOS ANGELES. Ot 26—Ex-Bo-cialist Up’on Sinclair has kidnaped California Democratic party machinery, but not its leaders. He and his "Epic” camp followers control three-fourths of the Democratic state central commute" Its chairman is his right bower, Culbert L. O.son. hefty and handsome cx-Utah lawyer-legislator who is due to be elected state senator from this county. But practically every important leader of the old party organization is deserting the Sinclair colors for those of conservative Frank F. Merriam. National leaders from President Rooifvelt down are laying hands off the California “mess.” Hiram Johnson, who holds both Democratic and Republican nominations for senator, has been silent in his tent for weeks, and just now is starting for New M°xico to stump for his iriend. Senator Bronson Cutting. Senator McAdoo speaks grudgingly for Sinclair, but he left California soon pfter the convention for Mexico and Washington and is returning in a leisurely way through Arizona to speak for his friend, Senator Henry Ashurst. Opposition Leaders Named The federal guard of office holders are walking softly or giving lip service to nominee Sinclair. George Creel, also in the east for two weeks, is returning soon with every promise of deserting the Sinclair wagon. Actively against Sinclair are: Colonel Wiliiam Neblett. McAdoo law partner and liberal; Ham Cot- j ton, wealthy Woodrow Wilson man. | who heads a big Merriam club called “American Democracy in California.’” and who calls the Epic plan “Grimm’s fairy tale”; William Jennings Bryan Jr., who leads a Mer- j nam organization called “Loyal Legion of Democrats”; Jerome Politzer. Creel manager in the north, and many others. Outside of Creel and McAdoo not one important Democratic leader is active for the party nominee. Who, then, are this Robin Hood's mende men? If Olson is at his light, then Sheridan Downey is at j the left. OLson was a progressive Democrat in Utah for years, a friend of Secretary of War Dorn,” until he joined the westward trek to southern California. Downey was a more or less obscure but clever Sacramento lawyer until he was nominated Lieutenant-Gov-ernor. In San Francisco supervisor James B. MrSheehev and Presidentj Ed Vandeluer of the state federation of labor hold the fort. Pastor Aids Epic Cause In Berkeley, J. Stitt Wilson, Socialist ex-minister, lends his eloquence to Sinclair’s cause. Near Oakland works a young enthusiast ! named Carl Rodehamel, running a successful barter group. He is slated as Sinclair’s expert on barter. co-operatives. Attorney John Beardsley of the American Civil Liberties Union is a close advisor. The Sinclairites claim to have a “brain trust” at work on details in | southern California colleges. The insiders are a motley group of real estate men. engineers, college prolcssors, labor leaders, idealists, political opportunities and a large! scattering of young people. California, -that two years ago was a great Roosevelt Democratic state, today is a political no man's land. It belongs neither to the Re-

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publicans nor the Democrats. Why? Behind the chaos that is California lie these two factors: 1. The peculiar ineptitude of both of the old parties’ leaders. The G. O. P. folly of intrusting the state to the late Ja-nes Rolph misrulers and naming a man like Merriam to follow through is matched only by that of Senator McAdoo in failing to whip his party into line behind an able, trustworthy, New Deal party leader as candidate for Governor. 2. The discontent and desperation of the poor and jobless who all too easily were piped to the doctrines of Sinclair. Today, in spite of a huge Sinclair mass meeting of more than 10.000 in San Francisco last night, sentiment seemed to continue swinging toward Merriam. The refusal of President Roosevelt to take sides and the belief that the indorsement of Sinclair by Postmas-ter-General Farley was due to an effice slipup lend color to the belief that the Sinclair hopes for administration support have ended in final rebuff. Merriam Leads Poll By United Press , NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—Indications that Frank F. Merriam, Re-

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publican candidate for governor of California, holds a two and onehalf to one lead over his Democratic opponent, Upton Sinclair, were reported by the Literary Digest today on the basis of the first general tabulations in its statewide “straw” poll. Os the 67,208 votes tabulated, acting Governor Merriam received 42,141, or 62.70 per cent. Sinclair, campaigning on his EPIC (End Poverty In California) platform received 17,284 votes, or 25.72 per cent. Raymond L. Haight, progressivecommonwealth candidate, had 7,471 ballots, or 11.12 per cent of the first returns. Sam Darcy, Commurtist, and Milen C. Dempster, Socialist, received less than one-half of one per cent of the total returns. CITY SUES TOWNSHIP S9OO Judgment Sought from Wayne for Medical Aid. A S9OO judgment is sought by the city of Indianapolis in an action filed against Wayne township in superior court four. The city claims the township owes $879 for medical and hospital aid for indigent residents.

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OFFICERS ARE ELECTED BY STATE OIL DEALERS Louis J Scheidt, Columbus, Is Elected President. Louis J. Scheidt, Columbus, today ! took over the duties of president of Indiana Independent Petroleum Association following his election yesterday at the first annual association convention here. Indianapolis officers named are Philip T. Williams, vice-president; Charles E. Foreman, treasurer, and Max L. Wickersham, executive secretary.

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TAX PROBLEMS CHIEF WORRIES OF LEGISLATORS Increasing Relief Budgets, Lowering Rates Looms As Real Task. B'J United Press CHICAGO. Oct. 26.—Legislators of forty-three states are going to find themselves in January’ between the horns of the most vicious sort of dilemma. In every one of the states where the lawmakers meet in that month there are clamors for: 1. Increased relief budgets. 2. Decreased taxes. Legislative leaders of the affected states said unanirr.uusly in a poll conducted by the American Legislators’ Association that no problem of greater import will come before their bodies. Home rule and county reorganization will receive attention in several states, prohibition laws will be revised extensively and regulations of business are being advocated by the dozen, but relief and taxation are the rock on which parties may split. Lieutenant governors and speakers polled said that shrinkage of local community funds still is throwing an increasing relief burden on state treasuries. The men who must find the money are turning principally to sales taxes, income taxes and diversion of gasoline taxes. The association's magazine, State Government, estimated that the 1935 relief load

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will be the heaviest of the depression. A complicating factor in the effort to obtain increased revenue in many states is a demand for equalization of the tax burden by decreasing the proportion borne by real property owners. Ohio and West Virginia, among other states, already have passed property tax limitation amendments and are facing the consequent prooiem of compensating for the loss in revenue by taxing other sources. Chief among the business regulations proposed will be state laws to limit w-orking hours, control of milk prices and new regulations for oil companies and utilities. Reforms in legal and judicial procedure of establishment of state police systems will be sought in twelve states.

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LABOR BOARD WILL DECIDE UNION CASE Reinstatement Sought for Box Firm Employe. Bu T imrs B peri of WASHINGTON. Oct. 26—Whether Pearl Lawhorn was discharged from his position as foreman at the Wabash Fibre Box Company plant. Terre Haute, for union activities, is to be decided in the near future by the national labor relations board. The case was heard yesterday by board members. The Indianapolis regional labor

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board ordered Mr. Lawhom’s rein* statement some time ago. President Walter C. Ely, representing the company, told the board that Mr Lawhorn s efforts to organize a local unit of the International Bookbinders' Union in the plant had nothing to do with his discharge. “It was purely a matter of personnel,” he said. He also asserted that the union had been recognized in the plant. Mr. Lawhorn was represented by J. B. Prewitt. International union secretary-treasurer, who based his support of Mr. Lawhorn on findings of the Indianapolis board. A strike at the plant has been postponed until the final decision is made, the board members were told.