Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1936 — Page 3

MAY 11, 1936.

BROWN'S ‘OHIO GANG'SEEKING NEW FOOTHOLD And Therein Lies Germ of Budding Revolt Against Gov. Landon. (Cartoon, Editorial on Page 10) By Scnpps-Howaril Scicspaper Alliance CLEVELAND, May 11.—A remnant of the "Ohio Gang,” which for a decade or more played so prominent a part in national affairs, is fighting for its life and for a voice in selection of a Republican candidate for President at the coming convention here. The test comes in tomorrow’s primary. The remnant is largely embodied in Walter F. Brown, who started as a bass in Toledo and edged his way upward to take a leading role in the nomination of Herbert Hoover in 1928 and to become Postmaster General in the Hoover cabinet. Mr. Brown is backing Robert A. Taft, son of the ex-President, in the Presidential primary as a "favorite son” to meet the challenge offered by Senator Borah of Idaho, who is staking much in his battle for a share of the state’s 52 delegates at the June convention. Rallies “Old Guard” Mr. Brown has rallied about him what is left of the “Old Guard” which helped put Warren G. Harding in the White House, which continued to exert power in the Calvin Coolidge regime, and which gave the Herbert Hoover bandwagon a healthy push through the Ohio primary in 1928. The Ohio politician, a strategist of the old school who works in mysterious ways, is interested first in being re-elected as national committeeman, and therefore wants control of the convention delegation to assure this post. This achieved, he is reported to nurse hopes of becoming a Warwick at the convention. Interested in Hoover He is said to be interested in nominating Herbert Hoover or anybody Mr. Hoover wants, and those who want to know what the exPresident is up to at the national convention would do well to keep hot on the trail of Mr. Brown as he slips about from hotel room to hotel room. Working closely with the National Committeeman is Ed Schorr, state chairman, who likewise wants to maintain his power against the threats of those behind the Borah candidacy, who would unseat the Old Guard and institute a more liberal Republican leadership in the state. Popularly, the Robert A. Taft slate of delegates, backed by the Brown-Schorr combination, is supposed to be a cloak Lor Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas, but this is not the whole truth. :?or Mr. Brown has sandwiched in delegate candidates friendly to Frank Knox and Mr. Hoover. Bold “Off” and “On” When Senator Borah entered the Ohio primary Mr. Brown sought to inveigle Gov. Landon openly into the state. The Governor refused. Then the National Committeeman adopted the “favorite son” strategy which he opposed so strenuously in 1928 when he was directing the Hoover campaign in Ohio. In Toledo, Mr. Brown’s home city, the Taft delegates passed a resolution declaring for Gov. Landon when, as, and if they have discharged their obligations to their first and second choices for President. Mr. Brown dispatched this resolution to Maurice Maschke, former national committeeman, at Cleveland, suggesting that the six delegate candidates in the three Cleveland districts do the same. They complied. But later, when the full slate of 52 delegates met at Columbus, Mr. Brown and Mr. Schorr blocked a move to swing the group for Landon. Thus Mr. Brown is both “off” and “on.” He has maneuvered himself into a position where he can throw the delegation behind Gov. Landon if the bandwagon starts bowling through the convention—or, if the Landon movement is checked, then he can trade and deal, and he is a past master at that. Never Commits Himself To understand the potentialities of Mr. Brown you must follow the trail beyond Ohio to what is known as the Eastern Triumvirate National Committeemen Charles D. Hilles, New York; J. Henry Roraback, Connecticut, and Daniel E. Pomeroy. New Jersey, with whom Mr Brown has operated effectively in the past and with whom he is still allied. Mr. Hilles, like Mr. Brown, works mysteriously. He and his eastern associates will control quite a block of delegates, to which may be added numerous southern delegates whom the New Yorker is likely to have at his beck and call. Mr. Hilles is supposed to be friendly to Gov. Landon. but he never commits himself. He waits for the breaks. Thus there reposes in Mr. Brown the germ of a revolt against the Landon candidacy which, of course, may lie dormant. And all of this depends on the Ohioan's election as a delegate, himself. He is regarded as the weakest candidate on the “favorite son” slate. Os course if he is defeated, then his manipulations are all in vain.

SCORE QUESTIONED IN SLAYING OF WIDOW Fingerprints, Tufts of Hair Clews in Chicago Murder. By United Prcst CHICAGO, May 11.—Police waited the arrival of Mrs. Blanche Bloom from Attleboro, Mass., before scheduling an inquest today into the vicious slaying of her .widowed sister, Mrs. Lillian Guild, in the Y. W. C. A. hotel. While the battered body of the 62-year-old antique dealer lay in the county morgue, officers undertook a neighborhood roundup of suspicious characters. They based their hopes for solution on: The stories of two dozen prisoners, the photograph of a still unidentified man. fingerprints on a flatiron found in Mrs. Guild's room, a few tufts of hair pried from the dead woman's fingers, the bloodstained brickbat used to crush her skull, and a crude, long-bladed knife.

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The honored guest of the U. S. Navy, the record-making dirigible HLndenburg dwarfs its room mate, the little blimp at right, in the great hangar at Lake hurst N. J. that is ordinariir used to house the retired Zeppelin Los Angeles. To get an idea of the size of the world’s largest “bird,” compare it with the spectators lined up in the foreground.

TAX GROUP TO HEAR NEW DEAL LEADERS Committee Summons Chief to Senate Hearing. By United Press WASHINGTON. May 11.—The Senate Finance Committee got down to the job of revising the $803,000,000 tax bill today and summoned high New Deal officials to confer on persistent demands for modification or abandonment of the proposed levy on undivided corporation earnings. After a two-hour executive session, in which the committee discussed with tax experts the effects of the President’s proposal to force corporations to pay out income in taxable dividends, Chairman Pat Harrison (D., Miss.) announced that the committee had summoned: Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.; Herman Oliphant, general counsel for the Treasury; Secretary of Agriculture Henry a. Wallace, and RFC Chairman Jesse H. Jones. Harrison also announced the Treasury experts had completed their work of combining four complex tables in the House bill into one table and that it would be submitted to the committee.

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OFFICIAL WEATHER States Weather Bureau___ Sunrise ...... 4:33 | Sunset 6:49 TEMPBRATURB —May 11, 1935 7 a. m 57 1 p. m 70 —Today—--6 a. m 66 10 a. m 77 7 a. m 68 11 a. m 81 Ba. ro 70 12 (Noon) 81 9 a. m 73 1 p. m 81 BAROMETER 7a.m. .. L 30.09 Ip. m 30.07 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m. .00 Total precipitation since Jan. 1 11.12 Deficiency since Jan. 1 3.50 WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station. Weather. Bar. Temp. Amarillo. Tex PtCldy 30.06 52 Bismarck, N. D Clear 30.00 54 Boston ....Clear 30.14 52 Chicago Cloudy 30.06 66 Cincinnati PtCldy 30.10 68 Denver Clear 30.16 40 Dodge City. Kas Cloudy 30.04 52 Helena. Mont Cloudy 29.94 54 Jacksonville, Fla Clear 30.08 76 Kansas City, Mo Clear 30.02 60 Little Rock, Ark Rain 30.04 66 Los Angeles Clear 29.9? 58 Miami, Fla Clear 30.02 74 Minneapolis Cloudv 30.02 52 Mobile. Ala PtCldy 30.06 66 New Orleans ....Clear 30.04 74 New York Cloudy 30.20 52 Okla. City. Okla Rain 30.00 58 Omaha. Neb Cloudy 30.02 56 Pittsburgh PtCloy 30.06 68 Portland. Ore. .......Clear 30.00 56 San Antonio, Tex. ...PtCldy 29.98 60 San Francisco Cloudy 29.96 54 St. Louis PtCldy 30.06 66 Tampa. Fla Clear 30.02 72 Washington, D. C. ...Cloudy 30.18- 58 New Governor to Take Oath By United Press BATON ROUGE, La., May 11— Richard W. Leche, former appellate judge in New Orleans, will be sworn in as forty-eighth Governor of Louisiana tomorrow. One hundred thousand are expected at the inaugural.

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DEATH OF STUDENT IS BELIEVED SUICIDE Indianapolis Friend Reveals Girl’s Despondency. By United Press CLAYTON, Mo., May 11.—An inquest will be held late today into the death of 18-year-old Tilma Lenore White, music school student, who was found shot to death Saturday in the city park. Coroner L. B. Tiernon, who at first expressed the belief that the girl may have been murdered, said he was convinced the girl shot herself. He learned that she destroyed her diary and several letters from a young man in Denver, terming them “a lot of silly trash.” Albert H. Blackman told police yesterday he was seated in the park about 25 feet from the girl when he heard a shot and saw her slump to the ground. Miss White was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh White, Tulia, Tex. Miss Louise Ewell, Indianapolis, student at the school and close friend of the dead girl, told reporters Miss' White had been despondent for several weeks. Miss Louise Ewell, friend of Miss Tilma Lenore White, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Ewell, 5948 Dewey-av,

INDIANA LEADS IN AAA PLAN, AID DECLARES Tops Ten Central States in Number of Work-Sheets Filled Out. I’imes Special WASHINGTON, May 11—Indiana is leading the ten North Central states in the number of work sheets made out for farmers to participate in the new AAA soil conservation program. The work sheet is a form on which each community committee places data on each farm in the county. Farmers wishing to participate in the new program rign the sheet for checking in the fall. Benefits are paid if the program, as outlined on the work sheet, is carried out. A field report to Claude R. Wickard, assistant regional director, shows that 212,000 work sheets have been filled out in Indiana, which is 85 per cent of the expected total. Mr. Wickard is a former Indiana State Senator. For Indiana the report to Mr. Wickard reads: “Estimate 250,000 work sheets will be filled out. Approximately 85 per cent have been completed, and about 50 per cent have been entered on listing sheets. Six or eight counties have completed both steps. Expect listing sheets to be coming in bulk to the State Office by May 15.”

1500 Sign Up Here Horace E. Abbott, Marion County agricultural agent, today said that 1500 farmers in the county have taken out work sheets for the new AAA soil conservation program this year, as against a previous high of 800 under the old AAA program. He explained that the new plan was far more popular than the old plan because it allowed the farmer to use his own discretion and did not bind him to any program. Mr. Abbott estimated that Marion County farmers will gst about $150,000 in cash from the Federal government this year for withdrawing up to 15 per cent of last year’s acreage from production of soil depleting crops. WARREN CENTRAL TO CONDUCT OPEN HOUSE Wr-'k of Annual Festivities Will Start at 7:30 Tonight. Warren Central High School is staging its twelfth annual open house this week, starting today. Initial festivities were to open tonight at 7:30 with others scheduled for Wednesday and Friday. The girls are to give a physical education exhibition tonight under the direction of Miss Lucille Cline, to mark the first of the Warren Day’s program.

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ARMY THREATS ARE DEFIED BY GREEK STRIKERS Call Mass Meeting Despite Possibility of Attack by Soldiers. (Couvrlcht. 1936. by United Press) ATHENS, May 11. Striking workers of Salonica called a mass meeting in the streets of that city today in defiance of an army threat to attack them with soldiers, tanks, airplanes and warships. The strikers tried unsuccessfully to occupy police stations. A state of siege obtained in the area and troops and warships were on the way to reinforce the garrison. Ten persons were wounded in a fight between workers and police at Piraeus, the part of Athens, as disorders spread to the capital district. All workers In the Salonica area were out. Workers at Larissa, in Thessaly, decided to walk out in sympathy. Disorders at Salonica began Friday among tobacco workers, striking for higher wages. Saturday night a general strike was called. According to an official announcement, eight were killed in Saturday's fighting. SPELLING IS CORRECTED David E. Saveli Is Defeated for Democratic Nomination. In the results of the Marion County primary elections published Saturday, The Times misspelled the name of a candidate for state representative on the Democratic ticket. His name correctly is David E. Saveli, 1141 S. Illinois-st. Mr. Saveli was defeated. Sneak Thief Takes S4O Police searched today for a Negro sneak thief who crept up behind Mrs. Ethel Greenberg, while she was using a telephone in her home, 4157 Broadway, Saturday and snatched S4O which she holding in her hand. The intruder entered through an unlocked front door.