Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1936 — Page 6

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Lehman's Decision Is Seen . “as Part of Fight to Win N..Y:, Pennsylvania.

BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Wriler : WASHINGTON, July 2-—-Gov. HAS] H. Lehman's decision to ‘carry the New Deal banner again in New York is one of a series of ‘events and circumstances by which ‘the Democratic command is strengthening its eastern defense. Most bitter will be the fight over the 83 electoral votes represented In New York and Pennsylvania. Their zeal was exemplified in the

Lehman to run again. At the Philadelphia conyention this pressure was whipped up lo national proportions, and finally, culminated in the successful personal plea from President Roosevelt. ~ Other developments which may have a favorable effect on Democratic prospects in New York and Pennsylvania:

Farley Retirement Hinted

1. The coming retirement of James A. Farley as postmaster general, which will remove him from “the direct line of fire. | 2. The steel industry!s open dec-

. Jaration of war on John L. Lewis’ "attempt to organize the industry's

workers, which should drive steel labor almost to a man into the Roosevelt camp and add to ‘ready large Roosevelt vote in - sylvania and’ New York— garment workers, and so on. crats have a hunch they Cc Pennsylvania. ~ 3. Leadership in New York and Pennsylvania by two Governors of force and character—Mr. Lehman, 8 banker who has become converted to a stanch liberalism by his experience as Lieutenant Governor and Governor, and George H. Earle .of Pennsylvania, wealthy ex-Re-publiéan who has become a sincere champion of. the masses. Inflyence to Be Great The ‘influence of these men is certain to count heavily in the two states. : Already they have fairly outlined the issues in their states by the speeches they made at Philadelphia, perhaps the two outstanding state-

"ments of the whole convention. The

speeches elevated each beyond his state into a national figure. Republican strength in New York and Pennsylvania always lies in the party’s appeal—no matter who the candidate may be—to the éntrenched financial and industrial interests which have their nerve centers and pocketbooks there, and to the middle classes Which absorb ‘the bigger crumbs. Democ¢rats—and this was true even in| 1932—always have adopted a straddling attiutde, seeking to win the masses and at the same time to hold [that traditional Democratic ‘bloc in| big business and finance

"Gov. Lehman ; | time wooing his kind. He puts his| whole emphasis on the comm man and the underdog, ‘and raifes social security for the ‘worker and the aged as the real is- | “sue in this campaign, to be achieved ‘by a Federal constitutional amend‘ment, if necessary. ~ He dramatized this issue at Phila“delphia. He told how Repubticans ‘had banded together to defeat his

c social security bill at Albany, and

“said the real leader of the national Republican Party, though professing that they would achieve social security legislation through the states, “will be the first to oppose the adoption of unemployment insurance by any single state unless all the other states inf the same in“dustrial competitive class have the Same status.” It ean only be done, he argued, on a national basis in the framework already erected by the President. As Gov. Lehman is doing in New

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New Hangar, Runways ad Radio Tower May Be Built.

A WPA appropriation of $248,534 is sought for an extensive improvement program at Municipal Airport, Nish Dienhart, superintendent, an~ nounced today. The program calls for construction of a 15-plane hangar, extension of runways and a blind landing lane, and construction of a twoway radio control tower. A new east-west runway was completed recently with a WPA $150,000 appropriation; It is to be opened next week. The new application was filed yesterday. with, county WPA, offices and approval by Wayne Coy, state WPA administrator, national WPA offices and the Bureau of Aeronautics is wanted. Besides this program, the Army proposed that its services be transferred from Schoen Field, Fort Harrison, to Municipal Airport,

| York, so Gov. Earle in Pennsyl- | vania will key the campaign to the common man with no straddling. It will, in effect, be a class fight led by two men who. know well the class with whom they do battle. Mr. Roosevelt's insistence “that Gov. Lehman run again was interpreted as meaning that Democrats are less sure of New York than they profess. His retirement would have meant a controversy over the nomination which might have split the party sufficiently to endanger its chances in New York. This the President wanted to avoid. Gov. Lehman piled up the biggest majority in history, and he is so closely identified with the New Deal that there is reason to believe that a vote for Lehman will in most cases mean a

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Okicers Are to Take Over Duties in Fall,

J. R. Ruddick today was the new commander of the Bell Telephone Post 134 of the American Legion. He succeeded J. R. Ferree. . Other officers elected by mail ballot, who are to be installed at the first meeting in the fall, were E. E. Hale, first vice commander; J. C. Belleau, second vice commander; J. O. Emond, adjutant; E. R. Moore, finance officer; C. G. Shriver, chaplain; G. W. Dittemore, sergeant-at-arms, and Veddér Gard, re-elected historian. Delegates to the state and district conventions are F. A. Montrose, Mr. Ruddick and F. L. Stanley. Alternate delegates are Mr. Ferree, V. C. Gullion and E. K. Ross.

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‘arate hangar for service planes.

Test Blind Flying Municipal Airport now is being used as a testing ground for blind flying. A two-way radio tower, Mr. Dienhart explained, would enable a ground station at the airport to control efficiently air traffic. Extra traffic by Army service planes could be handled without difficulty with a radio control tower, he said.

UNION TO CONSIDER LEWIS AFFILIATION

Typographical Head Ignores A. F. of L. Summons.

Industrial union problems are to be considered by the International

Typographical Union when it meets Sept. 12, it was declared today by Charles P. Howard, union president. Affiliation with a group headed by John L. Lewis, president of the United: Mine Workers of America,

for pressing the cause of industrial

unionism is to be sought, according to Mr. Howard.

He said he will not appear before |

the American Federation of Labor in Washington July 10 to explain his attitude toward setting up a dual labor organization. Mr. Howard was one of 10 A. PF. of L. union heads summoned to appear before the A. F. of L. to explain adherence to the Committee on Industrial Organization. He pointed out his work with the committee was of individual nature and did not commit his union.

Shotgun Wounds Fatal By United Press

HUNTINGBURG, Ind, July 2—

Injuries suffered yesterday when

his shotgun was discharged accidentally were fatal to Robert Hellers, living five miles south of here.

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County Solicitor Says He Knows Leader of Terror Band.

By United Press WILMINGTON, N.C, July 2— Evidence that a fanatical backcountry preacher leads the hooded Columbus County night riders and plans to extemd the organization along Ku-Klux Klan lines led Solicitor John J. Burney to take personal charge of an investigation of 11 floggings today. Burney said he had proof that the vigilante captain was a Clarendon (N. C) minister and that he had induced women of his congregation to serve as executioners in the band’s nocturnal, torturings of persons they judged immoral. A grand jury that adjourned this week found that the vigilantes had flogged: five men, five women and a mentally defective girl of 14.

Death Pledge Defeated

Like the Black Legionnaires of Michigan and Ohio, Burney said, the Carolina night riders pledged themselves to kill any comrade who betrayed their secrets and to stop at no violence in pursuance of their ends. The grand jury learned that the band had whipped, and in some cases otherwise tortured, Mrs. Bertha Fowler, 35, and her 14-year-old daughter, who is mentally incompetent; Lihue Fowler, a paralyzed, 65-year-old farmer, unrelated to Mrs. Bertha Fowler; Fowler’s three daughters, and John Crib, a young farmer. Mrs. Fowler is a tenant farmer. She and her daughter live in a tworoom cabin. The night riders pulled them from the cabin on the night of June 4, took them in motor cars to an isolated field. With the body of the band ranged in a circle around them, two sheeted and hooded raiders stripped both mother and daughter to the waist. A man flogged them with a harness strap. Then the women clipped Mrs. Fowler's hair close to the scalp and branded a cross on her head.

BANDIT HOLDS UP BANK

Muncie Institution Loses $481 to Man During Noon Rush, Times Special MUNCIE, Ind. July 2—A .lone bandit took $481 from the First Rural and Loan Co. and escaped yesterday when the noon crowds filled downtown streets. Miss Blanche Mullen, assistant secretary, was the only person in the bank.

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of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.’s address on the “Fiscal State of the Nation” apcertain to become the Democratic text for campaign argument against charges of waste and extravagance. Long strides have been taken in the past two years toward bringing ordinary Federal expenditures within the Federal income, Morgenthau

‘said. In the 1936 fiscal year ended

June 30 Federal ‘income was above estimates and: expenditures below, he said. Supporting his contention of improved fiscal conditions, Morgenthau said the national income is increasing; Federal expenditures are on the decline and business is showing steady improvement. . Immediately applauding Morgenthau's statements, Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D., Wyo.) said “two more good years like this one reported by Morgenthau, combined with the repayment of government loans, will reduce our public debt to where it was when the Roosevelt Administration began.” : “More than 50 per cent of the increased public debt has gone out in the form of investments which will be repaid by such loaning agencies as the HOLC, RFC, RHA and FCA,” O'Mahoney said. Explaining the - increased public debt, to a total of about $33,750,000,000, Morgenthau listed as ‘“extraordinary” expenditures during the 1936 fiscal year: 1. For recovery and relief, $3,300,000,000. -2. Borrowings to pay bonus, $1,700,000,000. 3. To reimburse the Treasury for processing tax losses, $444,000,000.

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Congress, High Court, Relief

Morgenthau Defends Record Spending of New Deal in ‘Talk on ‘Fiscal State of Nation:

WASHINGTON, July 2—The New Deal defended its record expenditures today and attributed the increased Federal deficit largely to Congress, the Supreme Court and unemployment relief. Secretary

over President Roosevelt's veto. The Supreme Court held the AAA and processing taxes for its support unconstitutional. He then recounted some of the unforeseen circumstances which resulted in total e itures of $8,500,000,000 excluding debt retirement; revenues totaling $4,116, 000,000; an operating deficit of $4,400,000,000 and new borrowings by the government totaling more than On the. credit side of the ledger, Morgenthau said the Administration had led the way in reducing interest rates on government obligations and commercial loans. The interest rate reduction on the public debt will mean an annual saving to the government of more than $260,000,000, he said. Business corporations will save more than $30,000,000 annually from interest rate reductions achieved through refinancing and refunding of indebtedness, he estimated.

REPORT ALGERIA CLASH

Governor General Leaves for Paris; Calls Situation “Critical.” By United Press ALGIERS, Algeria, July 2.—New clashes between Arabs and Jews and rival demonstrations by leftiest and rightist elements created a serious crisis in Algeria today. Gov. Gen. M. Le Beau took off by

seaplane for Marseilles en route to Paris to consult Premier Leon Blum and Minister of Interior Roger Salengro concerning what he termed “q critical racial and politica] situation.”

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Constant sinking of part of the street makes completion of a 56the st WPA construction project diffi cult, Herbert Bloemker, county sures veyor, said today. The new road is to extend on 56th-st from wing av to Keystone-av. Built through a former the road sank below water level, & was refilled “ three times, he Recently it became covered with water for about 300 feet. Another attempt is to be made to build the road level above that of the water, Mr. Bloemker - explained.

Each time the road fell, different methods were used to build it | If the fourth attempt fails, wood pilings are to be driven along the road right-of-way to hold: the weight, the surveyor said. 3 Built along an old wagon’ road which disappeared in 1916, the highway crosses a peat bog.

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