Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 261, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1936 — Page 3

JAN. 9, 1936.

TOWNSEND FORMALLY ENTERS CONTEST EOR GOVERNORSHIP; TEXANS LAUD M’NUTT SPEECH

Makes Announcement to Marion Democrats at Jackson Fete. BY JAMES DOSS Tim*** Staff Writer MARION, Ind., Jan. 9. Headquarters are to be opened in Indianapolis Monday for Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend, who last night entered the race for the Democratic nomination for Governor at the Jackson Day dinner here. Approximately 700 from Mr. Townsend’s home town and district turned out last night to pay tribute to the Lieutenant Governor and hear him make an address which indicated he will base his campaign on the achievements of the state administration. Therr was little reference to politics in Mr. Townsend’s address. It chiefly was devoted to a summation of the state’s and nation's progress under the McNutt and Roosevelt Administrations and included, of course, a tribute to Andrew Jackson for whom the day is named. Mr. Townsend's announcement for Governor was at the conclusion of his speech. He said: Dirk Holler His Manager “If it be the will of the democracy of Indiana to make me their nominee for Governor next summer I wish to say in all earnestness lhat I shall do all in my power to further the principles of popular government so ably enunciated and put into execution by President Roosevelt and Gov. McNutt, and to carry out the expressed will of the people.” Bursts of applause marked Mr. Townsend’s appearances at the dinner and at City Hall, where he delivered his address. He was accompanied to the speaker’s stand by his mother. Mrs. Lvdia Townsend, and his wife. Mr. Townsend was introduced by Robert K. Custer, president of the Grant County Democratic Club. Coincident with Mr. Townsend's randidacy announcement was a statement from his secretary, Dick Heller, Decatur, that he will resign immediately, affective Jan. 15, end will be in charge of the Townsend campaign headquarters to be op n ned Monday at Indianapolis on the Claypool mezzanine floor. Prominent at the meeting here was Alex Pursley, Hartford City, Fifth District chairman, a lifelong friend of the Lieutenant Governor. A number of county chairmen and vice chairmen of the district also attended. Other Democratic leaders who attended included Senators Edward Hays, Marion; E. Curtis White, Indianapolis; John Bright Webb. Indianapolis. and Chester K. Watson, Fort Wayne, a prospective candidate for nomination to Congress from the Fourth District. Labor was represented by Alex Gordon and Martin Miller, Indianapolis, both of whom are prominent in railway brotherhoods and State Federation of Labor circles.

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Executive F’raises F. D. R.’s Regime to New Dealers in Austin. 7 iwc* Fpcrial AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 9. “Logic languishes when the smell of boom is in the air. Those zealous in their hatred of President Roosevelt forget their declarations of no ‘return to prosperity’ when the profits roll in.” With this comment and an analogy of the life of Andrew Jackson and his presidential acts with those of President Roosevelt, the NewDeal was defended by Gov, McNutt of Indiana, at a Jackson Day dinner here last night. “The apprehensions of business, of course, always exceed the probabilities,” said the Governor as he pointed to the Wagner labor act as a “bogeyman” that business said would set off a wave of strikes. “Yet,” he continued, “nothing has happened. Labor has not taken advantage of the passage of the act in the way that business feared. Strikes have diminished.” Opposition to the social security legislation and banking bills disappeared with the restoration of confidence and approval of the Administration’s actions, the Governor declared. Holds People’s Faith, He Says “In 1833 President Jackson, by a bold move, closed the Bank of the United States. . . He rescued an empire from the fangs of merciless, revengeful, moneyed power. “In 1933 President Roosevelt closed every bank in the United States under the same economic conditions and saved the financial fabric of the nation from ruin and collapse,” he said. Gov. McNutt likened President Roosevelt to Andrew Jackson in his ability to gain the “faith of the people of the nation.” Reciting the “revelry of the Harding regime,” the “inaction of the Coolidge administration” and "vacillation of the Hoover experiment,” he told how the Democratic party has always stepped into the breach to rescue the nation from financial and political doldrums. Claims Morale Improved “It is a far greater thing to prevent such business and national catasrophies in the future and such is the purpose of the Administration’s social security program,” Gov. McNutt said. “We have become again an organized nation full of vitality, strong in vigor, and it was the triumphant achievement of one of the truly great men of the century, Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” said the Governor as the audience of Texans cheered his words. “Any person can discern a striking recovery in the morale of the people. They want to stop hearing, talking, and thinking the depres-

‘Hate’ Campaign Looms, Farley Says; Committee to Pick Convention City

Choice for Party Said to Lie Between Chicago and Philadelphia. (Continued From Page One) Island. 2; South Carolina, 2; South Dakota, 2; Tennessee, 2; Vermont, 2; Virginia, 2; Wisconsin. 2. The total delegate vote in the 1936 convention under the apportionment proposed by the 1932 convention and ratified today will be 1100. Says Slush Fund Will Be Used “The campaign of 1936 will be a campaign of defamation on the side of our adversaries, a simple effort to break down the faith of the people in a President under whose leadership the Democratic Administration has lifted our nation out of the depths of despair to the broadway of hope and set it on the high road to renewed prosperity,” Mr. Farley said. “I have not the slightest doubt oi its outcome but I ft el it my duty to warn you that you will have to combat misrepresentations, outright lies, and every form of foul whisperings you can imagine. Moreover, you must realize that the assault on the Roosevelt Administration will be financed with the largest slush fund on record, contributed for the most part by those who have neither public conscience nor private scruple. “Our adversaries are trying to represent the party conflict as a battle between the business interests of the country and a mythical group bent on substituting a socialistic, communistic system for the economic processes that have made this nation the greatest, wealthiest commonwealth in the world. It is a ridiculous perversion of the facts. A great proportion of our commercial and industrial leaders are with the President as sincerely as they were when they rallied to his support in 1932. Business Failures Less “How many bank failures have there been since the President took charge and rebuilt the whole banking structure? In the three years preceding this Administration there were numerable business collapses. In the three-year period of the Roosevelt regime there were not half so many. “The only difference is that we have had at the head of our government a President wise enough to see what had to be done and courageous enbugh to do it. It is* that sion. They are buying what they need to the limit of their ability. They are investing their savings in the industry of the country. “While half of the newspaper?. the partisan ones, denounce Washington’s ‘destruction of business’ the other half announce more profits, more spending, better times,” he added. “—And this has all been brought about with the Democratic party producing the greatest peace-time President of the history of the nation, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.” Texas political leaders congratulated the Governor following his address and local papers commented on

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program, and that alone, that saved America. “Our adversaries characteristically are using every agency at their command to give the impression of division in the Democratic ranks, A little while ago they were gravely announcing that a third party move was impending. Whenever some irresponsible adventurer thinks he sees an opportunity to launch a political racket. . . . our Republican friends announce the advent of a Democratic revolt. Political changes do not come about that way. Claims Borah Has No Chance “Nobody knows who will be the Republican nominee, least of all the Republicans. They dare not nominate Herbert Hoover, the most eminent proponent of the do-nothing policy that brought on the great economic calamity. . . . They can not nominate Senator Borah because that veteran of years of political battling must be poison to the crowd whose league is championing the crusade against all that is being done to keep the country safe from depredations of its sponsors. “Inevitably they will be driven to some colorless individual, unknown until paid propaganda builds up a fabulous picture and presents it to the people as someone worthy to direct the destinies of the United States.” . Mr. Farley contended the only “honest issue” is whether President Roosevelt has “done well or ill by his country.” Points to Balance Sheet “The balance sheets of industry, commerce and agriculture tell the story,” he said. “The market quotations on commodities and securities can not be faked or distorted. These figures will tell you that the national wealth has increased 22 billions of dollars over their market values on the day our President took office.” Mr. Farley said President Roosevelt has kept all promises he made when he was nominated, including the pledges to stabilize the currency, repeal the Eighteenth Amendment and allow no one to starve. “The Republican National Committee and its acknowledged, or unacknowledged, allies are bent only on the destruction of the Democratic party and Democratic principles,” he said. “If anybody believed them, it would appear that the Roosevelt Administration was accomplishing nothing, that its public works were limited to raking leaves or mowing grass or weeds from streets of cities and performing other trivialities of little worth and no permanent advantage.” the possibility that he might become the party oracle in carrying to the people the platform of the party during the ensuing political campaign. Anderson Hears Kern Timex Special ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 9. —Mayo? John W. Kern of Indianapolis was the speaker here last night at Anderson’s Jackson dinner, held under auspices of the Jefferson Club, Approximately 500 Madison County Democrats attended. H. F. Neff was toastmaster.

M'NUTT PARLEY WITH SENATORS IN CAPITAL SET Candidate for Governor to Be Topic; J. D. Adams !s Mentioned. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Tiroes Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Jan. 9 Gov. Paul V. McNutt is expected here Saturdaly for political conferences with the two United States Senators. Thomas Taggart, Democratic national committeeman from Indiana, and Omer Jackson, state chairman, out of which a compromise candidate for the governorship may be decided upon. The Governor will come to Washington from Austin, Tex., where he was a Jackson Day dinner speaker last night. Meanwhile, he was represented at the National Committee Jackson Day dinner at the Mayflower last night by Wayne Coy. Indiana WPA director, who. although a later arrival, was given a preferred Seat. Attend Cocktail Party At Mr. Taggart’s table were Senators Frederick VanNuys and Sherman Minton and their wives and Mrs. Samuel Ralston, a VanNuys house guest for the last week. R. Earl Peters. Indiana FHA director, attended and State Chairman Jackson, who was a guest of Charles Pettijohn, former Indianapolis lawyer. now with the Will H. Hays organization. Mr. Pettijohn gave a cocktail party for the Hoosiers at the Willard before the dinner. William p. O’Neill, one-time Indiana Lieutenant Governor, also was on hand for the President's speech. Another prominent Democrat in the city is Slate Senator Jacob Wiess, who sailed on both Senators, but said he is here merely on law business. Chambers Backs Adams Earlier in the week, State Senator Walter (Scotty) Chambers, longtime Democratic editor from Newcastle, was here, purportedly paving the way for the McNutt compromise meeting. He; is said to have suggested Chairman James Adams of the State Highway Commission for the governorship, although he is a close relative of Clarence Jackson, state income tax collector, who also has been suggested as a gubernatorial compromise. With Senator Minton's office “going along” with the candidacy of Pleas Greenlee, who was fired by the Governor, it is reported here that McNutt may try to “make a deal” -with Senator VanNuys. The McNutt candidate of the moment is reported to be Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend. May Ask VanNuys to Go Along The strategy would be to ask VanNuys to go along with the Governor in making any selection in gratitude for firing Pleas, which was merely carrying out the French Lick agreement. But the VanNuys* candidate is

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Kirk McKinney and the Governor might be asked to back him. Another story is that upon retiring from office, Gov. McNutt may join the law firm of Frank McHale and that the latter’s opposition to Pleas had more to do with the ouster than the French Lick agreement. If such is the case, the VanNuys gratitude might be nil. Discounting all politics, Gov. McNutt can explain his advent here to the fact that a meeting of the WPA advisory council, of which ha is a member, is to be held. CINCINNATI HAS MAYOR Russell Wilson Resumes Post After City Council Deadlock Breaks. Bp United Press CINCINNATI. Jan. 9.—Russell Wilson today resumed his duties as Cincinnati Mayor. He vacated the office temporarily on Jan. 1. A deadlock among nine city councilmen which had left the city without a Mayor for several days was broken yesterday.

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FOUR IN DEATH CELLS New r York I’ouths to Die Tonight Unless Governor Intervenes. Bp United Press OSSINING. N. Y.. Jan. 9.—Four youths who were convicted- off e murder of a New York policenar were removed today to pre-execufion cells, preparatory to their electricutions tonight. Unless Gov. Herbert H. Lehman intervenes, the quartet will die about 11 p. m.

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PROBE OPENED INTO COLLISION OF BUS,TRUCK Four Killed and Seven Hurt in Wreck Near Huntington. Bp s nited Press HUNTINGTON, Ind.. Jan. 9.—A five-way investigation was launched today into a bus-truck crash near here last night in which four passengers were killed and seven others injured. The dead: Henry Muelhauser. Chicago. Lora Aline Bryant. 23-month-old daughter or Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Bryant, Monroe. Mich. William J. Harvey. New York City. Mrs. Elizabeth Henderson. 60, Welland. Ont. None of those injured was believed seriously hurt Three were released from the hospital after emergency treatment and examination. Investigations were started by state police. Sheriff Orville E. Johnson of Huntington County. Prosecutor Burr Glenn and insurance companies who held policies on the two carriers. The bus. en route from Fort Wayne to Indianapolis, collided with the truck at a bridge seven miles south of here on State Road 9 in a dense fog and drizzling rain. Byron Hall. Fort Wayne, driver of the bus. and Charles Mills, Freemont. operator of the truck, were questioned by authorities but were released.

OFFICIAL WEATHER _l’nited States Weather Bureau_

Sunrise *:(l* Sunset 1:38 TEMPERATURE 6 a. m S5 in a. m 37 * a. m 35 11 a. m 37 3 a. m 35 12 (Xnnn) 37 !> a. m 315 I p. m 36 BAROMETER 7 a. m 211.87 1 p. m 29.83 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a m. . 21 Total precipitatioo since Jan. 1 58 Deficiency since Jan 1 .49 OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station. Weather. Bar Temp. Amarillo. Tex Clear 30.14 32 Bismarck. N. D Clear 29.30 —4 Chicago Cloudv 29.76 34 Cincinnati Rain 29.38 38 Denver PtCldv 30.00 24 Helena. Mont Cloudv 29.82 18 Jacksonville, Fla Cloudy 30.06 56 Ktnsas City. Mo Clear 29.96 18 Little Rock. Ark Cloudy 30 04 38 Los Angeles Cloudv 30.14 50 Miami, Fla Cloudv 30.12 74 Minneaoolis Snow 29.70 24 New Orleans Cloudv 30.06 56 New York Cloudy 30.22 38 Omaha. Neb Clear 29 94 10 Pittsburgh Rain 29 74 38 San Antonio. Tex Clear 30.10 54 San Francisco Rain 29.84 56 St. Louis PtCldy 29 88 38 Tamoa. Fla. PtCldv 30.08 63 Washington. D. C. . Rain 30.04 38