Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 278, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1936 — Page 1

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PURDUE MADE AAA DIRECTOR BY NEW BILL Land Grant Colleges Are Designated by Measure, Davis Explains. EFFECTIVE NEXT YEAR State Laws Could Revise Proposed Setup, View of Administrator. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Purdue University and the affiliated agricultural experiment station will have charge of AAA activities in Indiana under the permanent plan provided by the new agricultural bill. Provisions of the measure, as explained by Administrator Chester C. Davis of AAA. give to the land grant colleges and the agricultural experiment stations in the states the complete administration of the farm program to oe financed by Federal funds. It does not provide for establishment of "48 little AAAs,” he said. Skinner to Be In Charge Should the plan be carried out and the present personnel continue at Purdue University, Dean J. H. Skinner would become (he state AAA administrator. Mr. Davis explained, however, that some legislation may be needed in the states to make the program practical. Thus it might be possible that the Indiana administration would be turned over to the state secretary of agriculture, functioning through Purdue. In any event, if the bill becomes law. the state setups do not become effective before next year. The same bill provides for immediate continuance of'the AAA program under the soil erosion control bill. This is made an emergency proposition, as compared with the permanent plan for the states basis setup. Constitutional, Davis Kays Divorced from the processing tax of AAA and revamped under the soil erosion provision, Mr. Davis declared ihat he considers the emergency program constitutional. However, the state plan is incorporated so that there ran be no constitutional doubts regarding the future, he explained. Under the state plan, the crop committees will be replaced by a single farm management group for each county, Mr. Davis said. They will then work out plans for the best land use for each individual farm and the entire program will be planned on the relation of crops to the national food supply. This will permit the “one contract per farm" program which long lias been advocated by Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallr.ee and toward which AAA was progressing when it was killed by the Supreme Court. SENATE COMMITTEE APPROVES SOIL PLAN Wallace, Davis Insist It Is Constitutional. By 1 Hili and Pi cut WASHINGTON. Jan. 29.—The revised Administration farm bill for soil conservation and production control was favorably reported by the Senate Agricultural Committee today despite some expressions of doubt as to its constitutionality. The vote was 14 to 2. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace and Farm Administrator Chester A. Davis insisted that the measure was legal, while Solicitor General Stanley A. Reed "indicated" that he believed it constitutional. The measure, known as the Bank-head-Jones Bill, would replace the invalidated AAA. DRIVE ON ADDIS ABABA BY ITALY IS RUMORED Gra/iani's Armies Push Deeper Into Southern Ethiopia. By United Prrzz WITH THE ITALIAN SOUTHERN ARMIES IN ETHIOPIA. Jan. 29.—The armies of Gen. Rodolfo Graziani, Italian commander on the Somaliland front, pushed deeper into Ethiopia today, giving rise to reports that a drive on Addis Ababa, the capital, might be started. Gen. Graziani's flying columns pushed in the direction of Allata. strategic town only 175 miles south of Addis Ababa, which can be leached from there through a passable lake region. One Italian motoiized unit was reported already to have reached the zone of Adola en route to Allata. THREE PUPILS. DRIVER KILLED IN BUS CRASH. Machine Skids on Icy Pavement. Overturns in Ditch. By I nilrit Prezz COLGATE. Okla.. Jan. 29.—Three school children and the driver were killed near Tupelo today when a school bus skidded on icy pavement and crashed in a ditch. TRACTION CAR DISABLED Auto Crashes Into It Broadside at 18th-st and Sherman-dr. A Richmond-Indianapolis traction ear was disabled today at the underpins* at 18th-st and Shermandr‘ when an auto driven by Alfred F. Miller. Toledo. 0., crashed into it broadside. Nobody was hurt. Another traction car completed the Richmond trip.

The Indianapolis Times FORECAST: Cloudy with light snow tonijrht and lowest temperature about 10 above zero; tomorrow partly cloudy and somewhat colder.

VOLUME 47—NUMBER 278

OH! A HEAT WAVE! SO WEATHErt MAN RELAXES

J. H. Armington. senior meteorologist in the United States Weather Bureau station here, in the Consolidated Building, today pushed back the phone, picked up a novel, and turned on the electric far,. The longest cold wave of record in Indianapolis, which began a week ago and contained 88 hours of subzero weather as against 80 hours of zero and higher, is ended. During it, the weather bureau's two phones had approximately 3000 incoming calls daily. Today they were almost silent. However, there will be somewhat colder weather tomorrow, and light snow flurries tonight and tomorrow. It may get to 20 above today, and that, people on phones are telling the bureau, is a heat wave, Mr. Armington has his fan ready.

Killer of Loeb Refuses to Testify at Inquest James Day, Semi-Hysterical, Taken Back to Cell After Outbreak: Secret Rites Arranged for Victim. By I nited Press JOILET. 111, Jan. 29—James Day. 23-year-old convict who slashed Richard Loeb to death in Stateville Prison yesterday with a razor, refused to testify today at a coroner's inquest into the murder.

CITY VETERANS RUSH FOR BONUS BLANKS Legion, V. of F. W. Offices Are Swamped. Reminiscent of World War days, men lined up today at 136 N. Deia-wara-st, and 627 K. of P. Building—but not to enlist in the Army or Navy. They were there to be fingerprinted and to fill out bonus applications. From the time that the first application blanks were received by the Twelfth District American Legion at 136 N. Delaware-st and the Veterans of Foreign Wars on the first floor of the K. of P. Building, hundreds of veterans clamored to be among the first to apply. Begirnied WPA workers lined up with (Turn to Page Three) 1200 TIRE WORKERS REFUSE TO DO JOBS Firestone Plant Production Is Halted. By United Prezz AKRON. 0., Jan. 29.—Friction between union and non-union employes halted production today at plant No. 1 of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Cos. Twelve hundred tire builders sat beside their machines refusing to work and. according to union leaders. stopped production throughout the truck tire department. Later, the auto tire building division shut down in sympathy. The spark which set off the “sit down.” was a fist fight between a union employe and a non-union worker. Union leaders charged that the union man was suspended while the non-union employe was allowed to continue at work. DOG ROUSES FAMILY: 3 FLEE FIRE IN HOME Basement Blaze Reaches First Floor, Causing SIOOO Loss. A small dog awakened Mr. and Mrs. Karl F. Huebner and their son Harry early today after a fire in the basement of their home at 2103 Webb-st had eaten its w’ay to the first floor. Firemen were able to get the blaze under control after it had done damage of approximately SIOOO. Smoke damage, due to a defective oil heating stove, spoiled much of the stock at Estridge’s Market, 1901 E. 46tn-st, early today. No estimate of the loss has been made. CONGRESS SPEEDED UP Adjournment bv May 15 Forecast by speaker Byrns. By l nited Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 29.—Congress should be able to adjourn by May 15. Speaker Joseph W. Byrns said today after checking over the general legislative slate of appropriation bills. Andrew .1. Weiss Dead Andrew J. Weiss, 52. of 912 Ox-ford-st, died today at his home. He was a plumber and had been ill about three months.

When told what the proceedings w'ere. Day declined to answer questions. Then he screamed suddenly: “I’ve been miserable ever . since I've been here.” He was led to his cell, semi-hysterical. c. From other witnesses events following the fatal assault on Loeb were traced. Capt. James Humphrey, prison guard who was called to the scene by convicts who were carrying away Loeb’s body, testified that he saw Day emerge from the shower bathroom. Taken to Hospital “He handed me a blood-stained razor.” Humphrey said, “ and then fell forward on his face as if in a. deep faint. I ordered him taken to the prison hospital, where I talked to him later. “Day said that Loeb had gotten him his job in the prison correspondence school which Loeb was conducting. In the shower bath in the correspondence school rooms Day told me that Loeb tried to attack him and that in the ensuing struggle he slashed Loeb with a razor.” Humphrey was not questioned concerning who carried the razor into the shower room or who stole it from the prison barber shop. Warden Joseph Ragan of the prison testified briefly, but flared up when he was asked by Edward G. Powers, investigator for the state’s attorney's office, why he did not notify county authorities when the attack occurred in the prison. Powers revealed that, county officials first learned of the incident by reading of it in newspapers. “We were trying to save a man’s life." Ragan replied heatedly. Dr. John A. Larsen, a resident prison physician, testified that Day was not insane, but emotionally unstable. He testified that in his opinion Day showed no evidence of being abnormal. Wounds Are Described Dr. Joseph Duffy and Dr. Frank Chmelik described Loeb's 56 wounds to the jury. In Chicago, meanwhile. Loeb's body lay in a mortuary under police guard as throngs milled about, Private funeral services were to be held late today. Disgraced anew by its abnormally minded scion, the Loeb family remained in the strictest seclusion. A sweeping investigation of circumstances surrounding the killing of the “thrill slayer” and the general management of Statesville Penitentiary w>as promised by authorities. Among the first to be questioned was Nathan Leopold, companion of Loeb in the Franks murder. He assumed a surly attitude last night and refused to give investigators any information about events that preceded the slashing.

Jails Himself Timez Special NOBLESVILLE. Ind, Jan. 29. —Thomas Stephens, 32. arrested on a vagrancy charge, asked Circuit Judge C. M. Gentry to send him to the state farm until spring. He said he had no money, no work and that the township had refused to continue his weekly allowance. “Well, if that's your desire perhaps it might be well as send you away for a year,” the judge assented. “No. no. don’t do that, please.” interposed the defendant. "I would like to get out when the birds start coming back. ’ The judge fined his SSO and costs, which, he evidently figured, would keep Stephens on the state farm until April 1,

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1936

WOMEN VOTERS OPEN DRIVE ON SPOILSSYSTEM City and Indiana Members of Voters League Join U. S. Move. GIVEN WIDE SUPPORT Radio Talks by Roper, Two Others to Launch Campaign Tonight. Husbands are to don aprons tonight and break down at last to help with the dishes. Sweethearts may find their “dates” beside the radio set. For Indianapolis and Indiana women will turn radio dials at 9:30 p. m. to 10 tonight to hear the opening verbal cannonade of the League of Women Voters against the “spoils” system in the two major political parties of the nation. Today and tonight, with its radio broadcast over the NBC network, begins an opinion-making program of the Indiana League of Women Voters as well as other leagues to convince politicians that the merit system instead of the “spoils” system should rule in filling all governmental offices Federal, state, county and city. Listening Parties Formed Listening-parties have been formed in Indianapolis and the state to hear Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald of Michigan and Mayor Fiorella La Guardia, New York City, begin in a series of radio addresses the drive on political “spoils.” Indiana cities where listeningparties are to be held include Peru, Muncie, Elkhart, Fort Wayne, Evansville, Bloomington. Hagerstown, Lafayette, Richmond. Kokomo. Michigan City, Gary, Hammond and Rensselaer. Three local parties are to be held at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. William Allen Moore, 1 E. 36th-st. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Merrell, 60 W. 65t.h-st, and Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Gifford, 2714 N. Pennsylvania-st. Guests at the Moore home are to include: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Minor, Mr. and Mrs. Walkpr Winslow, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Griffith; Mr. and Mrs. Ward Dean, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Richey. At the Merrell residence: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Greenough, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Eveleigh, Mr. and Mrs. James L. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Myron R. Green, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McGaughey, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Hickman, Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell V. Bailey. At the Gifford home: Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Camp. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Peterson, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Loomis, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Huddlestun, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D. Leete Jr. “Efficiency in Public Service,” is to be topic of Secretary Roper’s address as the radio program is opened in Washington by Miss Marguerite M. Wells, National League of Women Voters president. Michigan Chief to Speak Gov. Fitzgerald, the first Republican state executive of Michigan, will discuss civil service in state government while Mayor La Guardia is to speak to voters of both sexes on municipal personnel problems. The New York mayor, a fuslonist, is an exponent of elimination of the “spoils” system. Tonight's radio parties clarions the massing of speakers to attend club luncheons to tell Indiana women, under the auspices of the state league, of the need for eradication of politics from governmental jobs. The Indiana League and the Indianapolis League of Women voters is to climax “Public Personnel Month” on Feb. 12 with a mass meeting at the Kirshbaum Community Center. The Indianapolis league is headed by Mrs, Robert Sinclair. The national league hopes that one-half million signatures will have been signed before the November elections to cards petitioning the political parties of the nation to abolish the “spoils” system. The cards, which are being sent to voters of both sexes in Indiana, (Turn to Page Three) MERIDIAN-SI PAVING BOARD City Railway to Share Cost of Improvement. The Works Board today approved removal of street railway tracks and resurfacing of S. Meridian-st, between Washington and Marylandsts. at an estimated cost of $11,861. Ernest Frick, board secretary, said Indianapolis Railways, Inc., would share costs on the present basis of 10 per cent for reconstruction and 5 per cent for resurfacing. unless anew agreement is reached before the work starts. The rails are property of the company, he said. Claude E. Shover. street commissioner. and H. B. Steeg, city engineer. told the board of plans for a new bridge over Pleasant Run at Shelbv-st. If approved the department would dismantle the Pleasant Run bridge at Minnesota-st and use the materials to widen and straighten the Pleasant Run bridge at Pros-pect-st. The plan was taken under advisement. In the reorganization of the board. Hubert S. Riley' was re-elected president. Robert K. Eby was renamed vice president and Maurice Tennant remains as sanitary district representative oji the boart# A

MINERS URGE HIGH COURT CURB; BORAH IS DEFINITELY IN RACE; SMITH INSISTS ROOSEVELT REPLY

30-HOUR WEEK IS DEMANDED AT CONVENTION Guffey's Pledge of Aid to Workers Brings Wild Demonstration. By United Prezz WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. Seventeen hundred coal miners shook the dignified walls of the D. A. R. Constitution Hall today in so great an ovation for Senator Joseph Guffey (D., Pa.) that it halted all convention proceedings. The ovation came after the man who fathered the “Little NRA” for the coal industry told the United Mine Workers convention that he would go on fighting for humanitarian conditions in the nation's mines no matter what the Supreme Court decides about constitutionality of the Guffey Act. Guffey pledged that if the high court declared the present act unconstitutional he would go forward with whatever program the mine leaders determined upon. Cheer after cheer echoed through the hall when Mr. Guffey finished. Convention business was suspended earlier, the miners approved a basic list of demands including a. 30-nour work week for industry and curbing the powers of the Supreme Court. Supreme Court Scored The demands were in a review of officers reports which was approved unanimously by the 1716 delegates. The basic demands: Continuance and defense of the Guffey Coal bill. Continuance and defense of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Enactment of the 30-hour workweek bill. Restriction of the powers of Supreme Court in declaring acts of Congress unconstitutional. Support of unemployment and old-age pensions legislation. Adequate low-cost housing program. Free Speech Demanded Protesting low-cost housing program. Protection of constitutional rights of free speech and a free press. Concerning the Supreme Court, the report approved by the convention said: “The powerful position which the Supreme Court judges occupy in matters affecting the. welfare of the people, and this august tribunal's recent decisions upon questions affecting the power of Congress to enact legislation to alleviate distress, emphasizes the need of legislation which will enhance the opportunity of the people to secure legislation of a beneficial nature without fear of constitutional inhibitions on the part of the Federal courts.” BALTZaL PONDERS FARM BILLJTTACK Insurance Company Assails Frazier-Lemke Act. Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell today took under advisement a suit of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Cos. that attacks the constitutionality of the amended FrazierLemke act providing a three-year moratorium on farm debts. Specifically the company is suing to foreclose mortgages on the farms of William H. Peterson. Boore County, and Walter B. Millikan, Montgomery County. Judge Baltzell gave attorneys for the farmers 10 days to file an answer. The company charges the act deprives a secured creditor of the full benefit of security, and that it deprives the company of property without due process of law. AUTO SHARES RESUME MARKET LEADERSHIP Chrysler Spurts to General List Points Higher. By United Prezz NEW YORK. Jan. 29.—Automobile shares resumed leadership on the Stock Exchange early tnis afternoon. Chrysler spurted 2% points to 89 while General Motors was bid up a point to 58. Lower priced issues also were in demand. Douglas came back swiftly from an early decline in the aviation group. Standard of New Jersey led a rise in the oils. Steels firmed and the general list pointed higher. Kerosene Blast Kills Girl By United Prezz WARSAW, ind.. Jan. 29.—Louise Bennett. 14. Pierceton. died in McDonald Hospital here today from bums suffered yesterday when a can of kerosene with which she was attempting to start a fire exploded.

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Idaho Senator Calls on ‘Masses’ to Bolt From Old Guard. AWAIT KANSAN’S SPEECH Wide Interest Displayed in Speech Made by Progressive. By United Pres* The tumult of a presidential election year began in earnest today. Gov. Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, who announced yesterday that he is a Democratic candidate for President, led a “grass roots” convention of Southern Democrats in Macon to a formal break with the New Deal. Senator William E. Borah (R., Idaho) shied his hat in the Republican presidential ring in New York last night. He announced a platform advocating “economic justice,” constitutionalism, and strict neutrality. Nine thousand Midwestern Republicans rallied in Topeka for the annual Kansas Day banquet tonight, expecting Gov. Alf M. Landon to declare himself a presidential candidate. Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas, answered Alfred E. Smith’s attack on the New Deal Senator Robinson said Gov. Smith had turned renegade and turncoat and repudiated his own policies of eight years ago. BY LYLE C. WII.SON United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan. 29. Traditional party lines are sagging - and breaking today as political debate storms the nation in prelude to the presidential nominating conventions. Two presidential candidates bow'ed to the flash bulbs within the past 24 hours. Red-gallused Gov. Eugene Talmadge of Georgia announced he would run against President Roosevelt on some kind of a Democratic ticket. Senator William E. Borah, who brought his liberal Republican program to the conservative East in a speech here last night, shied his hat into the ring. Mr. Talmadge announced from Atlanta that he would like to have Borah or former Gov. Joseph B. Ely of Massachusetts—one of the ablest of the Democrats on his ticket. That caused observers to take a second inquiring look at the Talmadge candidacy and to recall the famous incident of 1924 when Calvin Coolidge had a similar idea. Coolidge sent word to Borah that he would “like to have him on the ticket,” meaning as vice presidential kite tail to Mr. Coolidge. “Which end of the ticket, Mr. President?” was the question Borah sent back to the White House. The incident ended right there. Robinson Raps Smith But Southern and border states dissidents from the New Deal gathered today in Macon, Ga., to hear Talmadge’s plea for a bolt. A threat of bolt seemed also inherent in Borah's Brooklyn speech last night when he denounced the Old Guard. He pleaded with voters “disenfranchised” by the political bosses to bolt regular leadership and pick their own candidates in 1936. From Washington, Senator Joseph T. Robinson for the national Administration replied to the No. 1 bolter of 1936. He called Alfred E. Smith a “deserter” and cited the record of Smith’s own speeches in support of the argument that the brown derby would have fitted the New Deal only a few years ago. He said Smith already had taken his self-prescribed walk out of the Democratic Party. Landon May Conciliate The prairie states and a growing national clan of Landon-for-Presi-dent boosters are looking today toward Topeka. Gov. Alf M. Landon will speak tonight at a Kansas Day rally, which promises to be the formal springboard for his Republican presidential candidacy. The Landon boom is growing. Where Borah h?T directly challenged the old line Republican organization, Landon is expected to conciliate. He alone of the big political figures cast on the national screen in the last few days is in a position to soothe wounds instead of salt them. Smith reached deep into the Democratic Party in his Liberty League (Turn to Page Three) ALLEN LIES IN STATE; NOE IS NEW GOVERNOR Huey Long Executive to Be Buried in Home Town Tomorrow. By United Prezz BATON ROUGE. La., Jan. 29. Louisiana paid homage today to Gov. O. K. Allen, whose body lay in state in the rotunda of the Capitol. His body will be taken to his home town, Winnfield, in north Louisiana. tonight for burial. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon in a litttle Baptist Church where Allen once taught Sunday school. Meantime, James A. Noe. wealthy oil operator, was sworn in as the forty-seventh Governor. His first official act was to declare a 30-day period of mourning and to promise a continuation of Allen's—and Long’s—policies.

TALMADGE IS INDORSED AT DIXIEPARLEY Landon of Kansas Expected to Announce His Candidacy Tonight. By United Prezz MACON. Ga.. Jan. 29. Grass Roots Democrats today indorsed Gov. Eugene Talmadge of Georgia for President of the United States. By United Prezz MACON, Ga., Jan. 29. Gov. Eugene Talmadge of Georgia blasted the New Deal today and called on 2000 discontented Democrats at his “Grass itoots” convention to help him “drive Communists and Socialists out of office in Washington.” Appealing to voters in the East. South. North and West to join him in war on the New Deal. Talmadge stampeded the convention and advanced his own candidacy for President of the United States. Referring to himself, thp Georgia Governor shouted: “Rewrite the Democratic platform of 1932. Nominate a man on this platform whose word is so good that the best test, of it is to have the New Dealers call him a liar.” “Pour it on, Gene.” yelled men in the audience. “Take off your coat and pour it on ’em.” The Governor wore a double(Tura to Page Three) KANSAS FINANCE IS BURNING QUESTION Both Sides Have Truth, Stokes Discovers. Here are the result* of a careful investigation of Kansas slate finances and economy by a Scripps-Howard staff writer. Wide discussion of Landon for the Republican nomination, most of it either pro or con, makes this impartial presentation of the facts af Landon’s record of more than passing importance. BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer TOPEKA, Kas., Jan. 29.—Kansas finances are being examined microscopically, its records are being pawed over. All this curiosity about the affairs of a relatively small sister among the states financially is because a Presidential boom has been started for Governor Alf M. Landon on the basis largely of his budget-balancing proclivities. His Republican sponsors are lauding his record to the skies like a ninth wonder of the world, while Democrats are busy discounting the claims. It is a burning issue now and, if the Landon strength continues to grow, it will burn even more hotly. Because of the conflicting claims, this writer has made a rather thorough investigation, during the course of which he has consulted the critics of the governor, Gov(Turn to Page Five) M'NUJTS IN CAPITAL; VISIT WHITE HOUSE Governor to Attend Round of Conferences. Timez Special WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Gov. McNutt, who with Mrs. McNutt was an overnight guest at the White House after attending the dinner there for justices of the Supreme Court, today bega.i his usual series of departmental conferences here. He also arranged a luncheon at the Mayflower Hotel to which he invited Harry L. Woodring. Assistant Secretary of War, and Mrs. Woodring and Senator and Mrs. Sherman Minton. Wayne Coy, Indiana WPA director, came here with the Governor's party and will remain several days for conferences with Harry L. Hopkins. national WPA director, he said. The McNutts were met at the station by a presidential car and driven to the White House, They expect to return to Indiana tonight. Times Index Amusements 4 Comics 17 Editorial 12 Financial 13 Pegler 11 Radio 6 Serial Story 9 Sports 14. 15 State Deaths 18 Want Ads 15, 16 Woman s Pages 8, 9

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Robinson Speech Attempt to Becloud Issue, Says Former Governor. BRANDED AS TURNCOAT High Democrats Laud Arkansan After His Bitter Attack. By f nited Prezz NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—Alfred E. Smith today challenged President Roosevelt to try to answer the indictment of the New Deal which he delivered last Saturday before the American Liberty League. In a statement commenting on the reply made in behalf of the New Deal last night by Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, the former New York Governor, who has threatened to “take a walk" out of the Democratic convention if it renominates Mr. Roosevelt, asserted that “there is only one man who should try to answer me.” Smith again refrained from mentioning Mr. Roosevelt by name, but it was clear that he was challenging the President. Senator Robinson contended last night that New Deal measures which Smith condemned as socialistic had bepn championed by the ex-Governor in years past. Robinson ran for Vice President on the Democratic ticket headed by Smith in 1928. “Poor Joe—l'm sorry for him; they put him on a tough spot,” Smith said. “He did the best he knew how. but it was no answer, “I was an unhappy warrior to hear him read off a speech over which he stumbled so that I felt sure it was canned and did not come from the heart of the Joe Robinson that I have known “Its purpose was to becloud the issue and. while I won't reply to him, I want the issue kept clear.” Robinson Is Cheered By United Prezz WASHINGTON. Jan. 29. The New Deal drive to clear President Roosevelt's re-election path will include a continued contrasting of Alfred E. Smiths political philosophy of 1928 and of the present, it was disclosed today. Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Smith’s running mate in the 1928 presidential campaign, revealed the Democratic strategy in a caustic radio speech declaring the New Deal “was the platform” of the New Yorker in 1928. Other Democratic leaders applauded. Speaker Joseph W. Byrns <D., Tenn.) said Robinson's speech was “magnificent . . . and a complete answar to A1 Smith.” Rep. Patrick Boland (D.. Pa.), majority whip, said it was “well-found-ed in fact . . . and should be refreshing to Gov. Smith's memory.” Senator Bennett Champ Clark (D, Mo.) thought it “an admirable speech.” Republicans Reserve Comment Republicans reserved comment, Rep. Bertrand H. Snell KR„ n. Y.), House minority leader, said “I don’t want to comment. This is a Democratic row and they can have it.” Answering Smith's American Liberty League attack on the Administration as sliding toward “Red Russia,” Robinson drew ironic words “from the record” in an effort to show a. striking change in the former New York Governor's ideas. On the.se words, he set up a picture of Smith as of 1936 and then sought to belabor him with blows of the “Happy Warrior” of 1928. On the graying brow of the 1936 Smith, the Senator tilted a high hat in sharp contrast to memories of a famous brown derby. Qiy>tes From Former Speeches Into Smith’s mouth, he put words uttered six years ago when the then presidential candidate “was regarded by the stock ticker patriots as a potential enemy of his country.” On the shoulders of the 1936 Smith, Robinson sought to drape a “turn coat” and spoke of those who “change allegiance in the face of the enemy.” He credited Smith with suddenly acquiring a “short memory'” and set out to prove by Smith's own words that he had championed every principle made into law under Mr. Roosevelt. He pictured him as "hitting below the belt” and looking under the bed for Communists instead of fighting for the principles on which he sought the presidency in 1928. He saw Smith's footsteps turned away from the little stores and fish markets on New York's East Side to "the gilded towers” of Park-av. “The policies of the Liberty League have become the platform of the unhappy warrior.' ” Robinson took as his text. Genesis xxvii. 22. "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” Along the line of that biblical quotation, the Senate majority leader set out to tear down the impression made byb Smith’s speech by recalling past speeches of the New Yorker, by comparing his long service “in behalf of the common man” to his appearance before “a billion-dollar audience Saturday night.