Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1936 — Page 2
HES RULE Si COUGHLIN ator Rush Holt Charges Power Firm Pay. C (Continued from Page One) At the moment, but conceded +Alf M. Landon a “good chance” overtake him before November, though “it is a little too early,” to je candidate strength jaccuely, he said. n two convention days, the Na-
Union 1s expected to: Dido Rep. Lemke for Presi-
2. “Elect Father Coughlin N. U. 8. I. president. 3. Adopt a constitution and permanently organize the N. U, 8, J. an active membership of 1,800,000 and 6,000,000 sympathizers divided in a ratio of four-to-one non-Catholics and Catholics. “Rep. Lemke and Father Coughlin ir plunge immediately into their Shmpuign. It is emphasized that 8. J. is to indorse merely . Lemke and his running mate, As C. O’Brien of Boston. ‘The priesi has proscribed indorsement of any ‘political party, including Mr. 's, on the ground that all of em ultimately become infested swith political leeches and corrup-
Changes Evident
t Two fundamental changes .in Father Coughlin’s approach to politics were evident as the N. U. 8. J. ered, He-has pulled away from ‘his former close association with Dr. Francis E. Townsend, the pension Blanner, and the Rev. Gerald L. ith, share-our-wealth disciple of the late Huey P. Long. + And Father Coughlin has relaxed ditions under which congression‘al candidates may enjoy N. U. 8S. J. Andorsement. He expécts to have 205 or more candidates, Republican and Democratic, in the field for the ‘House by election day, and believes 185 of those who subscribe to N.-U. 8. J. principles” will ‘be elected. He says 152 members of the House now are counted 8s N. U. S. J. support-
is N.U. s. J weekly said recently that any member who refused to support Rep. Lemke would be expelled. Questioned here, Father Coughlin ‘said indorsed Democrats and Re- ~ publicans could support Mr. Roose- - welt and Gov. Landon, respectively, 80 long as they also pledged themves to N. U. 8. J. principles. He said he doubted if any action would be taken to expel members who refused to back Rep. Lemke. * “1 have modified my stand a little,” he explained. too insistent on what a good Re- _ publican or a good Democrat could do.” “Was that because the candidates . balked?” he was asked. “No.. The modification “or maturing is because I have listened to
Their attitude was that perhaps I was too severe.”
Avoids Extremes
He said he was not trying either to elect Rep. Lemke or defeat Mr. Roosevelt, but sought to “prevent our country from going to the extreme left or the extreme right.” - As sure for the Lemke column . next November, Father Coughlin listed:
~ Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Ohio, North Dakota, South Dakota, - Wisconsin, Minnesota, Louisiana and Oklahoma. He said Rep. Lemke * probably would run on the Pro- ~ gressive ticket in Wisconsin regard- ~ less of the La Follette brothers, who . lead the party there. ~ In Minnesota, the priest is con-
port of Gov. Floyd B. Olson, the Governor. Mr. Lemke's strength in Oklahoma is attributed by the priest to support by the Farmers’ Union. He said that organization and some
industrial unionization, would back N. U. S. J. candidates. - Michigan is a possible Lemke state, according to N. U. S. J. calculaindicate that the nion Party: candidate steadily is g ground at the expense of . /Roosevelt and Gov. . Landen.
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monopoly on the Democratic Party. But this picture is slightly smeared up by the fact that the Department of Justice finally has heen prodded into announcing an investigation of charges that peonage exists in Arkansas, where the Democratic party always has controlled everything. .
pelling a man to work out ‘a debt. It ‘is prohibited -by: ' Federal statute. Evidence as to ‘whether: peonage exists in Arkansas “is so conflicting, the Department of Justice says, that it has decided to place the matter in the hands of a Federal grand jury. There is no question but that sharecroppers, not only in Arkansas but in many other southern states, have ‘been ground down to conditions little better than slavery. Whether the Federal 'antizpeonage’ statutes have been violated:is large=: ly a matter of technical construcs tion of the statute, which dot not itseff define peond gies: te
This affair serves to direct attention to the fact that below. the
‘Mason and Dixon Line the spirit
of the New Deal has. penetrated only in spots. It has established a firm sphere of influence in the TVA region. But the condition of agricultural tenants has not improved. In fact, Dr. Calvin Hoover made an investigation for AAA a vear or so ago which disclosed that southern land owners were gypping tenants out of their just share of AAA benefit payments or were in other instances turning them out to escape having to share these payments, picking up day labor at starvation wages to work the crops.
Norman Thomas and a few agi-
these conditions for more than a year but only now has the administration decided to find out if it is true what they say about Dixie, Actually, the New Deal has pretty much obscured ‘the: fact that the Democratic party is still half Bour-
bond. From Vice President Garner
| Streets of the World, where pagodas and chalets of old countries form unusual contrast for the background of Cleveland's modern. skyline, was one of the scenes awaiting President Roosevelt on his visit Joday to the Great Lakes .Exposition. Only a few
Black Spots on Labor Record of New Deal Cited by: Clapper
Justice Department to Probe Charges of Peonage in - Arkansas, Democratic-Controlled State.
Peonage is thé practice of com- |
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BY RAYMOND CLAPPER Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Probably if you asked the average person about it, he would say off-hand that the Democrats are for the working man and the Republicans against him. effective job of drawing a sharp picture of this campaign as a class strugThey have linéd up the oppressors of labor behind the Republican ticket and they modestly admit that the friends of the ‘workers hold a
Roosevelt _speakers have done an
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down, there are southern Democrats in key positions in Congress who have' little private sympathy with the New Deal and go along because Roosevelt forces them to... Numbers of them, like Cotton Ed Smith, Glass. and, Byrd, haven't much more .in common with Roosevelt | than.Hopver has. Southern Democratic office-holders can be as rough on striking textile mill workers as any Republican tool of yankee employers. :
~All Not Sweet in North "Even ingthe North it is not. all | sweétness and light that shows on: the Democratic Party’s face. The New ‘Deal depends on the Hague | maghine in New Jersey, and if
‘Hague was a New Dealer before he found if expedient fo do business: fwith Roosevelt, then Jouett Shouse} : is a géeond Tugwell
Is It True Aboiit Dixie? T
tators have been shrieking about!
e Pendergast
Jcrats depend on And
machine to cement Missouri.
crew either. In Wisconsin the Democratic organization has long been shunned by the La Follettes as a reactionary twin of the regular Republican ‘crowd. In Louisiana Huey Long’s machine is for the New Deal now. So, under the bright glare of the New Deal's idealism,
hidden in the dark shadows. Undoubtedly the peonage investigation in Arkansas will be thorough. Atty. Gen. Cummings is sending in a Special prosecutor, George P. Jones, born in Minnesota of Welsh descent, with years of legal experience in Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana. Mr. Jones is housed in an exceedingly large physique and there is something about him that says he is not easily intimidated. That is a big help to anybody who fools around about sharecroppers in Arkansas as the Mem-
were beaten up when they tried it
well know,.
The Doane
the Democratic machine of Pick-Ax | i Kelly in Chicago is no Boy Scout | :
some numerous material props are i
phis lady and the preached who|
‘blocks separate Cleveland's downtown district from the lakefront exposition, where the President was! scheduled to make ‘an extemporaneous- address. at: luncheon on his brief visit to. Cleveland. This photo was made by Margaret Bourke-White.
MUTT SCHEDULED FOR MAINE TALKS
Governor's Sche Schedule Tour Announced.
for
Revision of Gov. McNutt’s Eastern speaking tour to include two speeches in Maine next Wednesday was announced today. He is to speak at a Kiwanis Club luncheon at Lewiston .and that
night . is to address a state-wide!
Democratic rally at Portland. The Governor was originally
scheduled. to speak at- Hagerstown,
Md., but. the .sponsors of the Maine meetings had made their arrange-
ments previously and declined to!
release him. The Governor was to leave today by plane for Cleveland where he will be a luncheon guest of President Roosevelt. who is making a tour of drought-hit states. The Governor expects to-travel part of the way on" the train ‘with the President. ‘He ‘plans to be in New York Monday,
RAT BITES BABY ON HAND Evelyn Glaser, 3-months-old daughter of Mrs. Mary Glaser, was bitten three times on the right hand by a rat yesterday as she was playing on the floor. of her mother’s home, 572 Highland-pl.
she entered suit. “1 Talked Too Much”,
Mr. Anderson read this statement | © and paled. His hands trembled; ‘his’ stormed ‘nto Judge | Knight's chamber, announcing |
voice shook. He -
Joudly that he was going to
‘what he could do about if. He came
out later, meekly. Today he said: “I guess T talked too. much, Ive got nothing more to. say.” ‘Miss Astor had had the last word ‘and today she issued this statement:
“I merely acted: as any other con-|
scientious mother who. loves her daughter above all else in the world would have acted. I iought for Marilyn. I feel that I have won. And this feeling makes everything. worth while.” Dr. Thorpe was not as pleased; He said he felt he had received a “raw deal.” “I'm not satisfied, ” he said. “But I feel it is the best I can get, snd I do not expect to reopen the case.”
Provisions of Order
Provisions of Judge” Knight's: or=der follows: 1.*The lavender diary in which Miss Astor wrote of life and love and : included many: ‘“big- names,” was given to the court by Dr. Thorpe and: will be impounded, available only on court order. 2." Marilyn will be in her mother’s custody beginning. Sept. 1 each year and ending May 31. 3. Dr. Thorpe will have: custody curing the period from June through August. . Judge Knight declared the case had not ended for George Kaufman, with whom Miss Astor confessed a love affair. Kaufman ignored a subpena and Judge Knight ordered his arrest. The order still will. stand whenever Kaufman returns to California, the
Judge said.
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Injured in Crash on Way to Hospital, Goes Through With Operation. (Continued from Page One) 1 N. C.,, driver of the other car; his mother, Mrs. Elsa Rosenberg, 38, | 4nd his brother Donald Rosenberg, 17, escaped injury. Rosenberg told Deputy” Sheriffs Davis and Bookout that Mr. Miles failed to stop at the intersection of Road 52. i Six others were injured in trate accidents .in Indianapolis and vicinity last night. Charles Woods, 43, of 510 E. Ohiost, suffered. minor injuries when the car in which he was riding crashed into the rear of a truck and trailer in the 6700 block on W. Washing-ton-st. Alva Jones, 51, of R. R. 5, driver, told officers he was talking to Woods and did not see the truck until he struck it. Prank Bennett, 59, of 717 E. Ohio= st, received head lacerations when he stepped from- behind a parked" automobile at Alabama and Wa=- | bash-sts. into the side of a trackiess trolley car. " Elmer Dailey, 32, of 946 Elm-st, and Paul Camon, 28, of 234 S. Sen+: ate-av were bruised andscut by fly« ing glass when the automobile in which they were riding struck a
‘Nowering: pillars of Smoke indlonte the scope of this forest, Are’on
safe distance. ;
HONG KONG, Aug. 14—Chiang Kai-Shek, generalissimo of ‘the | days, Chinese sources reported toChinese armies, has threatened to
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trucked parked in the 700 block on Prospect-st. - Dalley was arrested by police on charges of driving while intox'cated and Camon on a drunke enness charge.
sittack “rebellious ‘Cantonese forces
DEMANDS ‘SURRENDER unless they surrender within three
day.
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