Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 148, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1934 — Page 3
OCT. 31, 1931.
15,000 HEAR SEN. WAGNER FLAY G. 0. P,
New Yorker Urges Election of Minton: Parade Features Rally. (Continued From Pate One) America more than four billions of dollars In sale of surplus products abroad and thus threw 5.000.000 American workmen and farmers out of employment. “How can Arthur Robinson have the face to come back to Indiana and parade what he says is his love for the laoonng man when he contributed specifically to throwing 6,000.000 men out of work? Branded Fair Weather Friend “I have watched Senator Robinson's career as a senator and I can say to you that he is no friend of union labor when the going is hard —when the laboring man is the underdog. He wants to be the laboring man's fair weather friend." Cheers greeted Mr. Tobin's declaration that “the President wants you to retire Senator Robinson and send Sherman Minton to the senate." Mr. Powell spoke briefly, but glowingly of Senator Wagner's manifold attainments. “Some men achieve national and international fame when they go to the United States senate,” Mr. Powell said. “Such a man is Senator Wagner. Others become merely logrolling nonentities.” The crowd laughed when Mr. Powell added, “I need not tell you to whom I am referring by that, but the people of Indiana will remedy it next Tuesday." New Deal Paramount Issue “The paramount issue in this election is the New Deal, whose banner is being carried oy President Roosevelt," Senator Wagner declared. “For all those who appreciate the services being rendered the American people, there is but one choice.” | . i continued, “and that is, through the election of Sherman Minton and the entire Democratic ticket, to support the peerless leader and inspired party that brought the New Deal into American life. “What did our people lack between 1929 and 1933 which made them ; powerless to prevent the ever-wid-ening spread of misery and social disintegreation. Then, as today, the wealth and manpower of our nation were here. Then, as today, the essential courage and faith of our common people never were quenched. One thing alone was lacking— vision, daring and intelligence had fled from the Republican leadership which then was entrusted with the management of our national government. Democracy Grows in Strength “For so long had they served the powerful alone, that they were oblivious of the grim econ mic forces that were crushing the life and extinguishing the hope of the average man. When the cries o f anguish and poverty, rsing from tßfiiions or American homes, finally penetrated to the inner corriders of Republican Washington, the reception was cold, timid and evasive. During four long years of inaction, men's hopes trembled, their very lives hung in the balance. “But during these perilous times, the spirit of Democracy was grow-
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ing in strength. Even during the glittering nineteen twenties, when so many people had been dazzled by the flare of false prosperity, we of the Democratic faith had peered beneath the surface. “Our moral sense had been shocked by unlimited want in a land of unlimited plenty. We had seen, in what was called the best of times, 3.000.000 men idle despite their eagerness to work. We observed the old and the sick uncared for. We noted children's lives twisted and torn by poverty and exploitation. Ten per cent of the people were receiving more than 90 per cent of the national income, while half of America was forced to live in the cold cellars of everlasting poverty. “When the greatest of present day Democrats entered the White House in 1933, he led a party that was prepared to serve because it had grappled honestly with the problems of American life. Expenditures Are Justified “The record of the last twenty months is an incredible tribute to the genius of Roosevelt and to the abiding strength of Democracy." Senator Wagner recited the accomplishments of the national administration. He challenged the Republican. assertion that the New Deal is crippling business and declared that its policy is to strike off the shackles of exploitation and deception. "No longer can the path to business success be traveled by trimming the consumer and starving the wage earner,” he asserted. The senator spoke of the measures adopted to relieve human distress and declared that every dollar spent can be justified as a cold business proposition. True Liberty Sought “The one thing that America can not afford is to neglect its people,” he said. “No nation ever has failed to profit by protecting its citizens and by inspiring them with respect and love for their government. The renewed faith in the United States that is visible today is the surest demonstration of the validity of the New' Deal. “As in the past, my friends, those who are having their privileged toes stepped on are masking their displeasure behind a pretended love of liberty. “Ah yes, they would defend the liberty of the unemployed to go hungry, the right of the child to labor in a factory when it ought to be in school, the liberty of the
evictor to throw a family’s furniture on the sidewalk, the license of monopoly to nail down the shutters of the independent man. “The freedom to starve, the liberty to be a slave, the license to exploit—such privileges have no place in any American bill of rights. They have been barred forever frbm the American system by the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt. “What is the true liberty which we seek? Its background is the Constitution and the faith of our fathers. Its objective is freedom to develop the economic and spiritual resources of America for all. Its methods are those of Democracy and the New' Deal. “Through the candidacy- of Sherman Minton, the voters of Indiana have the opportunity to strengthen the New Deal by sending to Washington an able and devoted representative, whose pulse beats .in unison with she common people, and who will uphold the hand of President Roosevelt. Praises Governor McNutt “Already, the state administration of Governor McNutt is doing its part nobly. Let not this great state be divided in the councils of the senate of the United States. When you place Sherman Minton by the side of Frederick Van Nuys, whose progressive principals and splendid talents already have proved an ornament to the senate, you will speak with a united voice to the rest of the nation. “One hundred and thirty million people of America will know that you have enlisted wholeheartedly in the cause of a better life for them all,” he concluded. The senator was given tumultuous acclaim and the huge crowd filed out of the tabernacle. It had been a great rally and everv one was pleased, with the possible exception of Republican leaders who saw their own big rally of three weeks ago eclipsed, and of a somewhat befuddled celebrant who hung about the entrance to the tabernacle. He wondered somew'hat mournfully “where all those campaign cigars w'ere that he’d heard about." Ben-Hur to Hold Dance Members of Arrius court, Ben-Hur Life Association, will give a Hallow.een costume dance tonight in the Modern Woodmen’s hall, 322 East New York street. Prizes will be awarded winning costumes, according to Sidney Book, entertainment committee chairman.
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By Times Special CROWN POINT, Ind., Oct. 31. —Loudest in expressing indignation today at the way Edward Barce, assistant attorney-general, was conducting his investigation into John Dillinger’s notorious “wooden gun” escape from the Lake county jail were Criminal Judge William Murray and Prosecutor Robert G. Estill. Prosecutor Estill is known around the world because of the picture shown here (above) for which he posed with his arm around Dillinger's shoulder in a rare bit of camaraderie. Sheriff Lillian Holley is shown with Dillinger and Mr. Estill. Judge Murray (lower) drew severe criticism from his own grand jury for alleged blocking’ of Dillinger’s transfer from Crown Point to the state prison, Michigan City. Today, Mr. Estill, w'ho was defeated in his campaign for renomination, and Judge Murray talked of “kidnaping” in Mr. Barce’s detention of eight witnesses and mentioned possible grand jury action against the assistant attorney-general. (Other details of the Barce investigation are on page one.) •
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3 MILLIONAIRES WAGING BITTER POLITICAL WAR
Wealthy G. 0. P. Pair Fight Democrat for Oklahoma Governorship. By Unite<% Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 31. Three oil millionaires are battling furiously in Oklahoma’s political arena where a governor is being chosen to succeed militant William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray. Two of the millionaires are opposing candidates. The third could have been a candidate had he chosen. The chief issue is administration of federal relief. One candidate talks about a state new deal. The other asks the voters to “turn the rascals out.” Aligned on the Republican side are former United States Senator W. B. Pine and Lew R. Wentz, the latter the state’s richest Republican and, some authorities say, its richest citizen. On the other is Representative Ernest W. Marland, who built up the vast Marland oil interests in the two decades after 1910—then saw them slip away from him into the hands of eastern investment bankers. S. P. Green, truck farmer candidate of the Socialists, belabors Mr. Marland, Mr. Pine and Mr. Wentz alike as “dictated by the money interests,” and asserts Socialism and his “End Poverty in Oklahoma” scheme are the state’s only salvation. Mr. Marland. who entered politics after he lost his oil concern, still estimates his wealth at around $5,000,000. He was elected to congress as the first Democrat from the state’s only Republican district, in 1932, on a campaign of anti-“big money" interests. Mr. Marland’s talking point is his proposed Oklahoma New Deal. It would include subsistence homesteads for downtrodden coal miners, unemployed oil workers and others; old-age pensions, power and flood control projects and other public works schemes patterned on the national New Deal. Oklahoma still is strongly proRoosevelt and always has had a Democratic majority of voters. Republicans have refrained from attacking the New Deal—both state and national—so. Representative Marland’s talks have drawn no answer. The relief issue is the onlv one to draw fireworks, though each candidate’s adherents are attacking the other candidate’s personal business records. Democrats claim Mr. Marland must be elected if federal relief funds continue to come. Republicans charge the Democrats with using the relief administration setup for political purposes and deny that relief will be cut off if Mr. Pine wins. . Mr. Pine attacks the Democratic party’s record of state administration since Oklahoma was admitted to the union in 1907, crying “turn the rascals out, end racketeering in state government, get the relief funds to the people, clean up the state government by changing par-
Kern by Seven Grand, Says Romping Psychic Six-Year-Old ‘Second Sight Prodigy’ Also Predicts Minton’s Election, Kidnaper’s Capture.
BY TIPTON BLISH Times Stall Writer A POSITIVE prediction that Superior Judge John W. Kern would win the mayoralty election by a plurality of “seven grand" was made today by Jackie Merkle. 6. described by a doting father and an even more doting manager as “one of the most amazing psychic prodigies on record." Jackie, a curly haired lad who seemed pretty husky for his re-
ported 6 years, is in Indianapolis for a few days calling on theatrical friends of his father, a member of “The Flying Merkles," a vaudeville team well known here. His father said that he began training Jackie to follow in his acrobatic footsteps when the boy first displayed his powers of “second sight” two years ago by announcing that his father's watch, which had been stolen, could be located in a New Orleans pawnshop. Investigation, Mr. Merkle said, proved this true and Jackie has been playing the vaudeville circuits ever since. The Merkles called at The Indianapolis Times office after practically no persuasion and announced that Jackie would be glad to answer any weighty questions the staff might care to ask. A curious reporter wrote several questions on a piece of paper. The questions were inspected by the father who then directed Jackie to “answer the gentleman's questions.” Jackie, at this moment, was much more interested in racing up and down the office corridors than in “answering the gentleman’s question," which was, “Who will win the mayoralty election, Kern or Pritchard?" a a a JACKIE concentrated, finally came out with something which sounded like “Turn.” “What?" said his father. “Kern.” “By how many votes?” was the next unseen question. “Seven hundred, I mean seven ties—it will never be done otherwise.” Mr. Wentz could have been the Republican candidate but he chose not to accept the nomination. He and Representative Marland, both residents of Ponca City, are personal enemies and have not spoken for fifteen years. No one knows why. He is out speaking against Representative Marland, citing Mr. Marland's business record. Governor Murray, who once used guardsmen to keep Mr. Wentz out of the state highway commission offices after ousting him as chairman, is to all practical purposes lined up with him now against Mr. Marland. Though the governor nominally is sticking with the Democratic party, he leased out his personal newspaper to his cousin, Cicero Murray, and the sheet is now ripping into Representative Marland. Representative Marland led a field of fourteen Democrats in the primaries and was so far ahead of Murray’s man, Tom Anglin, that Mr. Anglin decided not to try to win in a run-off. Murray did not want him to quit.
Jackie Merkle
grand,” was the rather faltering reply. “Are you sure?” “Positive, perfectly positive.” The next question had to do with the coming senatorial election. Jackie was equally sure of this one. “Min will win,” Jackie said. “That is, I mean Minton.” a a a ANOTHER written question was shown to the proud parent w r ho told the boy an answer. “Rob—, Rob—, Robinson,” he replied. “What is his business, do you mean the Senator?” the unsatisfied father inquired. “No. I mean the kidnaper; the one who stole Mrs. Stoll. He will be apprehended in New York and incarcerated.” With this important matterdisposed of every one appeared to be satisfied, especially Jackie, who just had discovered a staff photographer approaching. “I’ll bet he tries to get a flashlight bulb from him,” manager Harold Rose volunteered. “Jackie likes to put the flash globes in the lights in our hotel rooms. You ought to hear him laugh when we jump as the things explode. He’s a great kid, always full of tricks like that."
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SINCLAIR BEGINS FINAL DRIVE IN GOVERNOR RACE
•Epic' Candidate Refuses to Quit Despite Lack of New Deal Support. By Serippf-Hnienrd Xrwspnpcr Alliance SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 31. i spite of rumored administration efforts to persuade him to withdraw, Upton Sinclair has started his I “EPIC" campaign machine uphill toward Utopia on its last week's trek. He was a tired and harassed little chauffeur, and he was driving entirely on his own power. Mussing was the support he expected from the administration at Washington. George Creel. California Democratic leader and administration ; confident, had charged the man at I the wheel with reckless driving and ; had dismounted from the car. John Lewis, collector of internal reve- ' nue. had indicated similar desertion by declaring for "any candidate who ! supports the Democratic platform.” Harold Ickes, militantly liberal secretary of the interior, had come here to dedicate this city’s new water system and left without a word about California politics. In the minds of informed Californians. the Sinclair EPIC plan and the Roosevelt New Deal not only are separate vehicles but are running in different directions. . Neutrality Necessary It was no accident that brought about this rather sudden clarification of issues. It was the final realization by the White House last week that in spite of his pro-Roose-velt protestations, candidate Sinclair had become a political liability to the Democratic party and ; marplot to its program of economic reform. If he should win, administration leaders are fearful he would continue his "lurch to the left” to their embarrassment and dismay. If he j should lose without their having ! disavowed his program, they fear it would be taken as a New Deal setiback. In either case, whether through failure of his program, which seems inevitable, or failure of his candidacy, the administration would be blamed unless it made its neutrality apparent. Indiscreet Remarks Blamed Sinclair himself is blamed by ] some of his followers for having j forced the administration’s hand. | They point to a woman’s meeting here last week, during which th< j candidate pulled out his watch and prophesied that within four hours President Roosevelt would say something in his radio speech that would “elect me Governor of California.” The incident set the wires buzzing. Newsmen in Washington were quick to ask the President what he intended to say to make Sinclair Governor. The President said he would say nothing. It was one of many recent indiscreet remarks that hrve kept Sinclair in hot water. The great bulk of Sinclairites, including EPIC’s campaign staff, refuse to admit that the administration has left them to their own devices.