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FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1936

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VICTORY ON FIRST BALLOT PREDICTED

FOR GOV. LANDON

Floor Manager Makes Claim After Jubilant Caucus of Kansans.

‘INEVITABLE,’ HE SAYS

Report of Pennsylvania Switch to Executive Is Denied.

By United Press

CLEVELAND, June Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas will win the Republican presidential nomination on the first ballot, Rep. Joseph Martin, Massachusetts, Landon floor manager, predicted today. “If people keep on thinking the way they do now, it seems

inevitable,” he said.

The prediction was made after Kansas shock troops of the Goviernor had elected a slate of brigade lcommanders for the convention. : Hamilton on Committee The first caucus of Kansas delegates lasted less than an hour and touched only casually on problems of the 1936 G. O.P. platform. Delegates arrived wearing gaudy celluloid and felt “Landon” sunflowers and eager to begin whooping their official campaign song, “Oh, Susannah.” They elected: John D. M. Hamilton, committeeman. ~ Henry J. Allen, delegation. William Allen White, platform committee. Mrs. Ralph Harris, Ottaw#, national committeewoman. Lester McCoy, member credentials committee, Simultaneously National Committeeman David A. Reed of Pennsylvania denied reports from Harrisburg that the keystone delegation had “stampeded to Landon.”

Knox Claims Strength

He reiterated his belief that Pennsylvania's first ballot would scatter votes among Mr. Landon, Senator William E. Borah, Frank Knox and possibly others. Former Senator George H. Moses, co-manager of the Knox campaign, predicted a movement among Southern delegates to exercise maximum influence in the convention which begins here Tuesday. He said he understood there would be -a caucus of “solid South” delegates some time during the week-end. Knox headquarters announced there were “half enough votes to nominate” already solidly pledged to the Chicago publisher on the first ballots

LOWDEN INDICATES HE'S NOT CANDIDATE

- Declines to Discuss Proposal for BiPartisan Move. By United Press CHICAGO, June 5.—Former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, twice disappointed in his Republican presidential aspirations, indicated today that party leaders must come to him with any plan to enter him’ as a candidate in 1936-—that he would ‘not go to them. He refused lo discuss a proposal by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, that he be nominated for the presidency on a bi-partisan ticket with conservative Democrats. “I am nou interested,” he said when informed of Butler's statement. Back of his apparent apathy, friends said, were two bitter disappointments. These were his failure to obtain the presidential nominations in 1920 and 1928.

BORAH CHARGES G. 0. P. FUNDS ‘MISUSED’ IN OHIO

Presidential Aspirant Arouses In-

ner-Party Speculation, By United Press WASHINGTON, June 5.—Senator william E. Borah's charge that Republican national committee - funds were “misused” against him in Ohio caused speculation today as to his role at the Cleveland national convention next week, Borah in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has frequently been at odds with those whom he terms “the Old}: Guard” party leaders and “reactionaries.” He has demanded the

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George Ball in" Cleveland to Arrange Reception of Hoosiers.

CAUCUS MONDAY NIGHT

Convention Officers to Be Named; Contest for Committeewoman.

George ‘A. Ball, Muncie, Republican national committeeman, was in Cleveland today preparing for the arrival of the Hoosier delegation to the national convention. The Indiana delegates are expected

there Sunday night. The first meeting of the delegation

is to be held at 7:30 p. m. Monday _

in the headquarters of the Indiana Republicans in the Cleveland Hotel. The delegation is to name 8 national committeeman and national

committee woman at the meeting as well as members of convention committees.

Ball Re-election Forecast

Mr. Ball is slated for re-election as committeeman, but the post of committee woman is to be contested between Mrs. Eleanor Barker Snodgrass, Nashville, and Mrs. Grace Banta Reynolds, Cambridge City. Mrs. Snodgrass was named national committee woman by the state committee to fill the unexpired term of the late Miss Dorothy Cun-

ningham, Martinsville. The term expires Monday night. The Indiana ‘delegation also will elect one member on the following committees of the convention: Credentials, platform, permanent organization, rules and order of business. :

Expect 500 Hoosiers It is to name a chairman and sec-

| retary of. the delegation and one

member of a committee to notify the presidential nominee and one to notify the’ vice presidential nominee. Indana is to have ‘eight delegates in the. convention instructed for Gov. ‘Alf Landon, of Kansas, with four others known to be friendly, to the Kansas. The instructed délegates are the four at large and those from the Second and Eighth Districts. Mr. Ball expects 500 Hoosiers to attend the national convention. They will be quartered in Cleveland hotels, apartments and a lake steamer, :

HIGH OFFICIALS PAY TRIBUTE TO BYRNS

President and Aids Attend Services in House.

By United Press WASHINGTON, June 5—In the hall of the House of Representatives, official Washington, headed by President Roosevelt, paid formal tribute today to the late Speaker Joseph W. Byrns. The body lay in state in the well of the chamber. The rostrum from which Mr. Byrns presided over the House for two years until his death Thursday was banked in flowers. In the chamber. sat President Roosevelt, House members, Senators, members of the Cabinet, the Supreme Court, and diplomatic representatives of foreign nations. House members stood silently as the casket was borne in. The House was rapped to order a few minutes before noon by Speaker Bankhead and Chaplain James S. Montgomery offered prayer. Speaker Bankhead paid the first tribute to his -He spoke of the “tolerence, patience and sympathy” which had brought to Mr. Byrns the “ungrudging regard of all men who came within the radius of his generous influen

These National Youth Administration workers, James Raisor and Miss Allene Stamm, are checking automobiles parked illegally on downtown streets.

The survey, which is to close

sponsored by the ‘Indianapolis Chamber iof Com-

merce, the project.

next month, is announced.

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State Official Warns School

Heals - Requirements Must; Be: ‘Raised.

County * school superintendents were warned today that unless: requirements for elementary teachers are raised. above present standards, Indiana will become :a ‘dumping ground for incompetent teachers from other states. C. L. Murray of license ‘division, State Department of Education, told members of the County Superin-

tendents Association that his records’

will show an iricrease’ in, out-of - state applications .for' teachers’ licenses and he feels that’ Indiana standards must be raised. “If you have not already incorporated such a suggestion in your resolutions, I think it should be done,” Mr. Murray- said. He spoke to the assaciation meeting here, 10day in the Lincoln. “Life licenses are another questionable thing,” he told the school superintendents, “The modern educational philosophy points to a renewal of licenses based on keeping up with trends in educational . developments. Never before has there been such a ‘back to college’ movement as now, and I feel that! County Superintendents should require this additional training among_ teachers. Virgil Mullins of the "State: Department of Education spoke to'the

meeting today on reading and new: ‘| By United P¥ess *

books in study. The superintendents session: us to close today with an address by Dr. W. P. Dearing, Oakland City College president. Officers of the association are Arthur Hines, president; E: J. Evrard, ‘vice president; Maize Eliott,

urer.

secretary, and J. Fred Hull: treas-

BY JAMES THRASHER Dr. Clarence Loomis’ of the. Arthur- Jordan Conservatory of Music

tion of long standing—the composition of ap opera centering about the songs of‘ Stephen Foster, | The opportunity jcame through a commission? by J. K. Lilly, America’s foremost collector of Fosteriana.

The grant from the “laird of Foster :Hall” is to allow the composer opportunity for a year’s research,

and local color. Dr. Loomis, head of the department of composition and theory at the school, hase been given. ‘a ‘leave of absence, and will go «next month to. his summer

No librettist’ has been selected ‘as yet, the composer. said, but he: has in‘mind a Chicago; playwright and scenarist with, whom: he : discussed a possible collaboration on such. a work seven ‘years ago.. + Mr. Lilly has made ‘no restrictions as to subject matter, but Dr. Loomis at present has two works in mind: One a shorter composition with a rather frank.statement of the familiar melodies, the other in the more traditional “grand opera’ style, embodying a subtle treatment of Foster's songs.

HULL AWARDED. DEGREE

LL.D, Conferred “upon Secretary + of State By Lafayette College. EASTON, Pa. June 5.—An’ honorary degree of doctor : of laws’ was

conferred "today on Secretary of

State Cordell Hull at the one-hun-

ever, because of the death of Speak-

er Joseph W. Byrns,

today prepared to realize an.ambi- |"

travel and collection of ‘ material

| Hoare,

og) -first ‘commencement exercises | ‘of Lafayétte College. Hull was un-| able to attend the ceremonies, how-

Approximately 100 youths are employed on Tabulated results are to be used as sources of in-

formation for the police department, but workers are not empowered to arrest violators, Chief Morrissey

May Collection $3074, Gain

‘of $2124 Over Same ~ Month in 1935.

_“Fix-proof” : stickers “cost - traffic violators $2124 more in May this year than the olds ones did in May, 1935, it was revealed today in a report. to the ‘Safety Board -by City Clerk Daniel J. O'Neill.

Fines paid ‘last month totaled $3074, compared with: $950 paid in

‘May 8 year ago, the clerk's records

showed. The report for last month showed that 1490 first offenders paid $2 fines, 24 sécond offenders

‘paid $3 fines and two third offenders

paid $5 fines.

month the “fix-proof” stickers were used and that month $2635 in fines

were: paid. Last year, traffic fines in

April totaled $1042. March, the last montH the oldtype stickers were used, brought in $286 in. fines, $576 less than during the same month the year before. The police drive seeks to reduce the city’s traffic death toll .and to eliminate hazardous driving practices.

HOARE BACK IN CABINET AS ADMIRALTY CHIEF

Storm Center in Ethiopian War Episode Succeeds Monsell. ' By United Press J LONDON, June 5.—Sir Samuel former foreign = secretary, was j2Dpointed First Lord of the ‘Admiralty tod ay, Succeeding Lord | th ‘Monsell of Evesham, who resigned

Hoare-Laval plan “for, settlement of the Ethiopian. War, which led to his resignation.

.. April of ‘this year! was the first home on Drummond Island, :Mich., |; P LY

‘| to begin _preliminary work.

RULED | LEGAL

Allotments . Constitutional, District of Columbia Jurist Holds.

VICTORY FOR NEW DEAL

Power Firms Lose Test, Plan Appeal to Highest . Tribunal.

By United Press WASHINGTON, June 5—The District Supreme Court ruled today that New Deal allotments to finance municipal power projects under the work relief program are constitutional. The one-judge decision was made personally by Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat. It came after a monthlong trial of four utility companies attacking the re-employment .activity as outside the law. The decision was an out-and-out defeat for power interests seeking to stop Public Works Administrator Harold L. Ickes from using Federal funds to finance publicly owned electricity plants, transmission and distribution systems with loans and grants. Utility attorneys said they woud appeal to the District Court of Appeals. From: that tribunal regardless of its ruling, the case will go to the United States Supreme Court next fall for final settlement on constitutionality of the $200,000,000 program.

Delegated Power Upheld

Chief Justice Wheat made three rulings: 1. That the companies had a right to test constitutionality of the program. 2. That Congress had a constitutional right to delegate powers to President Roosevelt, and then to Mr. Ickes to finance municipal power projects. : 3. That Mr. Ickes acted legally in carrying out mandates of Congress in its authorizing legislation.

(Although . the district Circut

i Dour; sof Appeals had ruled that a

eset] ment project. in New au itutional under rk-relie pro“decided - ~mu-

grants or loans to ‘municipalities to out: pul ¢, works projects,

pi Meg ‘It “has: not been: argued that the ’ reliét "unemployment. is an ux itutional use of funds as to the United States.

TWO MEN (LLED IN MISHAPS NE NEAR CITY

Traction Car Car Accident and Auto Crash Fatal.

The Marion - County death toll went to 65 today with the death of Melvin J. Bruce, 66, of Vincennes, partially blind Spanish-Ameriean War veteran, in the City Hospital. Mr. Bruce was injured when a car driven by his son, Melvin R.

Bruce, 17, overturned near West :

Newton yesterday. ! Mr. Bruce, father of 16 children, was on his way to visit a son, Fred Bruce, 617 Coffey-st, when the accident occurred. He is survived by his sons, Clarence, John, Jesse, Melvin, Walter and Richard, of Vincennes and Fred Bruce, Indianapolis, and daughters, Virginia, Violet, Ruth, all of Vincennes: Mrs. Myrtle Means and Mrs. Goldie Jones of Indianapolis. Private C. A. Slinker, Company B, Eleventh Infantry, Fort Benjamin Harrison, was killed last night when be was struck by a traction car near

Spring Valley Station. . W. T. White of Bluffton, operating the traction car, said the headlight was out and that he had hung a white lantern on ‘the front of the car. He said he did not see the soldier, but heard the impact and ‘returned from the station to find thei body.

Old-Time

Firemen ‘Burned Up’

Citizens—Here's Why

BY JERRY SHERIDAN Seventeenth century fire fighters would take your fire under advisement, but they might not put it out. oui : Two companies would dash up

all a-jitter and look the place over.

Unless it had the right fire mark

pany, théy ‘would : work their’ fin-. fire ‘company paid by the insurance

gers to the very bone, but you ‘could

people would fight only when the

homes withishade trees. That matle things better all around, but none

Promises Shorter

FRANCE FACING DICTATORSHIP

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Premier Broadcasts Plea for Unity as Additional Strikes Are Called.

PLEDGES AID TO LABOR

Hours; Police, Storm Guards Held Ready.

BY RALPH HEINZEN United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, June 5.—The Soecialistic government of Premier Leon Blum, confronted with;an alarming general strike movement on the first day of its regime, also witnessed a steady growth in the flight of gold from France today. The Premier promised that he would keep parliament in session until measures for a 40-hour working week, paid vacations and collective labor contracts were enacted. Blum made his promise in a radio speech just after he took office as head of the country’s first Socialist government. News that ‘254 new strikes had been declared in the last 24 hours greeted him as he appealed to the country for unity. Ready for any development, Blum called his cabinet into session and made sure that police and storm guards were ready for action— against the striking men who put him and his Left Wing government in power, if necessary.

Directs Appeal to Employers Even as he talked, Paris department store workers joined the strike. They locked the doors, keeping girl clerks inside and pushed customers out. Roger Salengro, new minister of interior and hence the national police authority, after a conference with Albert Sarraut, retiring premier .and interior minister, said: “Blum is master of the situation.” “Then Salengro went into conference with a committee of the Gens: eral Confederation of headed

zation meeting. a Geneva. : Blum, in his radio speech, appealed for calm during the strikes: He warned against acceptance of rumors and urged employers to consider fairly: the ‘demands strikers made on them. ' “The government would deplore intransigeance ‘from employers,” he said, “at a moment when the cabinet: enters on to its functions. I hope employers ‘will ‘show the greatest possible consideration for the efforts of the workers.” :

OMINOUS RUMORS HEARD IN EUROPE

Hungary Reported Ready to Denounce Treaty.

By United Press 2 PARIS, June 5.—Reports reached the new government today that events might be impending in central Europe which would shake the continent as it has not been shaken since Adolf Hitler's occupation of the Rhineland.

From sources .abroad, the gov-|

ernment was advised that there might be three simultaneous moves. 1. That Hungary would denounce the military clauses of the Trianon Treaty, restricting the size of her armed forcks. Germany and Austria a'ready have denounced the restrictive clauses of the Versailles and St. Germain treaties. * 2. That Otto von Hapsburg would return to the throne of Austria, a move which the Little Entente nations -— Yugoslavia, ‘Rumania and Czechoslovakia — ha ve announced would mean their mobilization. 3. That Benito Mussolini would announce the restoration of the Hapsburgs to be under ‘his protection, and that if the Little Etente sought to oppose the denunciation

of the Trianon Treaty or the restor-

ation of the monarch, ‘he would mobilize his army slong the frontier of Yugoslavia and Austria.

STOCK TURNOVER LIGHT

Uncertainties = Abroad, Confusion __ Over Tax Bill Apparent. By United Press

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NAZIS WATCHING BLUM

New Leader Seems Uncertain of Course; Gold Exodus Continues.

‘BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editer

WASHINGTON, June 5.— France today was confronted by a situation alarmingly akin to that which paved the way for Mussolini's rch on Rome.

The seizure of hundreds of factories by strikers, alleged to have been inspired + by Communists, the threat of a general strike, and a. government which appears: uncertain which way to turn are viewed with increasing concern. ‘ Gold is flowing out of the cone try in a swelling stream, and devaluation of the franc generally is regarded as inevitable,

Nazi Germany Watching All Europe and the rest of the” world today are wondering whether Premier Leon Blum, head of the first Socialist government in the history of the third republic, will be able to keep his head above the ter= rific cross-currents which he must now ‘battle. On top of the political, economie and social turmoil at home, France is surrounded by international come plications which imperil her nae ‘tional security., Nazi kK Germany is watching with eager expectancy. Her plans, involving peace or war, hang: upon what now takes Pisce

, | across the’ Rhine.:

Should Premier Bhim: fan. France ! would almost certainly plunge inte a period: of dangerous Nevertheless, should tHay 1s m Likely t0 83 wing

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years: ago, than z furtiser = the left, after the example of Russia in 1917'and, more. recently, Spain. oe Elections Reflected Unrest. Russia and Spain both had Ps 3 handful of rich and autocratic rulets at the top, with the multitude at the . bottom in a state of virtual serfdom. Neither had any middle class fo speak-of; France, on the other. hand, is almost all middle class, with few very rich and no large landholders and only a'very few - 2 Most French have’ something—a lite tle land, a’ bond or two, some stake - in the system. There is unquestionably widespread dissatisfaction, but comparatively few favor really X= treme solutions. While the May 3 elections, re= flecting this unrest, turned the gove ernment over to the Popular Front, or Left Coalition, it would be a mis= take to believe France is about te “go Communist.” True, Communists : and Dissidents rose from 21 seats in the Chamber of Deputies to 32, and the Socialists of Leon Blum from 97 to 146, becoming the biggest party in the country. But the left’s gains were mostly at the expense of the middle-of-the= road Radical Socialist of Edouard Herriot and not from the ght, The right groups lost only 33 sea & Labor Unrest May Spread

Today, as Premier Blum takes over the power, he can “count on the Communists only if he pursues a radically Leftist course. This he has indicated he does not propose to do. He may soon find himself at ott therefore, not only with his 82 Coma munists supporters but. with the Left Wing of his own party. And as he will not be . cone servative to win the support of the 136 deputies of the Right, his hold on the premiership seems tenuous in the extreme. Should Blum fail them, the difillusionment among the Left groups would be bitter indeed. They expected much of their turn at helm. In their disappointment ja-

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