Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1936 — Page 3
Republican State Nominee to Meet Landon’s ~ Running-Mate at Crawfordsville; Rival to Speak Here Today.
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measures, men, women _ and children marchers and aiitomobiles bearing state, Fifth District and county candidates.
Predicts G. O. P. Victory
As Kosciusko County Chairman Morrison Rockhill observed the parade and the throng which--heard Mr. Springer’s address, he predicted that both national and state Republican tickets will carry the county which four years ago went Democratic by 312 votes. The county committee had made extensive preparations for the parade reminiscent of political battles of 1896. They imported two. live elephants from a Peru circus headquarters. To make seats for the crowd in the Armory it was necessary to borrow grandstand seats from the same circus.
Among the spectators was I. W..
Sharp, a G. A. R. veteran of the First Ohio Cavalry, who boasted that he had never yet voted for a Republican President or a Republican candidate for Governor of Indiana since he returned here after the war. Speaking with Mr. Springer was Congressman Charles Halleck, seeking re-election from this Second District. He made a bid for reelection on his record.
Liquor Monopoly
Charging monopoly in the state liquor business, Mr. Springer asserted that “we received from the Administration a type of liquor law conceived in the back room of Ward Heeler Headquarters.”
“The scheme of liquor importers and ports of entry,” he declared, “is a brazen scheme to reward political parasites for vote control. Instead of the millions of dollars derived from the Mhusiness going into the pockets of these political pets it should go into the public treasury . to relieve the overburdened taxpayers of Indiana.” ~The G. O. P. nominee reiterated his pledge to a government of economy and repeal of the gross income tax law, Prior to his appearance in the Warsaw farm area, Mr. Springer was greeted at a three-hour reception in Wabash, an Indiana Republican stronghold, which four years ago gave President Roosevelt a margin of but one vote and Gov. McNutt an edge of 267. In that Fifth District County Chairman H. D. Hartnand predicted his election by a 2500 majority. While he made that prediction, Mrs. Nella Morse, vice chairman of
the Democratic Parts indie ab. « sence of Chairman lo Meredith,
said that her party was optimistic over possibility of carrying both the state and national tickets. Among those who greeted Judge Springer at Wabash was W. Kelch, a retired railroader who said “1 voted for Garfield and you could count the Republicans I have voted for since with your eye—and I wouldn' t give it.”
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wrote that all four of the votes in his family would be for the Demiocrats.” It was a responsive audience that packed the high school gymnasium and rose cheering as the nominee entered the hall. They chuckled ‘at his humorous stories of farm life
and applauded when he asked if he | §%
might take off his coat and lecture i: his shirt sleeves. Gov. McNutt carried the county by a 1776 majority in 1932, and party ieaders predicted a plurality for Mr. Townsend of 2000. Most of the farmers in the county live on small farms, with the average about 60 acres. Democratic leaders said that a number of usually Republican farmers, who had listed themselves as independent voters on the polls, indicated they would vote for . Mr. Townsend and President Roosevelt.
Discusses Controversial Issue
As a farmer himself, Mr. Townsend discussed the controversial issue of “killing the pigs” under the
Agricultural Adjustment Act. “The first year of the depression when the bottom dropped out of farm prices, the farmer who got less for his pork than the year before gecided to raise more pigs,” the nominee stated. “The next year he got less for the additional number of pigs than he received for the original number. It costs.-a farmer 6 cents a pound to raise a pig and he sold it for 3 cents a pound. “He wasn’t really selling the pig. He was reaching down in his pocket and paying 3 cents a pound ior some one to cart the pig away. By raising more pigs every year we could have driven the price of pork down to 1 cent a pound.
That Wouldn't Have Helped
“But that wouldn't have helped the farmers or the 13,000,000 hungry people without jobs. The sensible thing to do was to curtail production, increase farm buying power and thus provide jobs for the men in the cities. “President Roosevelt called in farm leaders and asked them what they wanted to do. They said they wanted to put farm on a busi-ness-like basis. The résult was the AAA The nominee said he hadn't intended to refer to the conditions of 1932 in this campaign until he read that recently former President Hoover stated: “No one starved when I was President.” “I just sat back and wondered if any one I knew starved and they hadn’t. But I remembered the long lines of hungry men and women standing for hours in a biting wind for a bowl of soup. I remembered
H. | seeing elderly women taking garbage
out of cans in Indianapolis. I remembered the desperation of the farmers. “There was a shanty town called Hooverville in the shadow of a big
IN INDIANAPOLIS
MARION - COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE
TRAFFIC ARRESTS October 20
iy red light Cees . Running preferential street... Reckless driving Drunken. driving . ' Others except parking TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
Accidents Injured
MEETINGS TODAY Riwanis Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,
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noo! . _ Lions Club, luncheon, Hotel Washington,
“i Alumni Association, luncheon, Hotel Severin, noon. American Legion Twelfth District, luncheon, "Board Sot Trade, noon. Junior Chamber of Commerce, luncheon, Lincoln Hotel. noon. Mutual Insurance Association, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon. Cost Accountants, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. Home 3 pBulidars, dinner, Hotel Washingn, 6:3 Io Hotel
riment Owners, luncheon,
Anarimen noon.
MEETINGS TOMORROW
Advertising Club ot Indianapolis, Junch- , Columbia Club, n or Engineering Society, athlon: Board of ade, Sigma Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon.
Ameriesn Business Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,
Carns “ci, luncheon, Scottish Rite a edran Acacia, ey Hotel Harrison, noon. a Niinl Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, oon. Real Estate Beard, lunch Hotel Washington, noon. th a Nu, Tunghgan, Hotel Washington,
MARRIAGE LICENSES (Incorrect addresses frequently are given te the Marriage License Bureau
EM , 21, of 608 W. St. Clair-
Sahoter, 19 | Evelyn Jones, 18, of I W A of R. R. 10, Indianit Gen ilisey, 26,
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DIVORCES GRANTED (These lists are from official records at the County Courthouse. The Times is mot responsible for any errors of
“names or addresses.)
Winifred Marie McClelland from William P. McClelland. Pete Nuttall from Fern Nuttall, ohn W. Williams from Leora Williams. Madge Foreman from Walter Foreman, Lucille Smith from Fulton Smith. Doris A. Shaffer from Franklin Shaffer.
DIVORCES FILED Ma =~ Clay vs. Kenneth Clay. artimeus Sloss vs. Grace Sloss, Qertruds Graves vs. Earl Gra P. Guedelhoefer Hd “Bernard Guedeinoef er Blanch L. Dishon vs. Louis Dishon. Hilda Miller vs. Kenneth Miller. Beatrice Moss vs. Francis Moss. James Jordan vs. June Jordan. Goldie Davis vs. Albert Davis.
BIRTHS
Yiliam, Marie Pi at 4602 E. 21st. Arthur, Harriette Kramer, at Methodist. Lytle, Ruth Freehafer, at Methodist. dard, Helen Cor trecht, at Methodist. Hugh, Jean Braughton, at 26 Kansas.
ys john, Elvalee Boyce, at
Francis, ryan, at 1 Joseph, r ARRAS DS Coffin, at
Robert, Marjorie williams, at John, Edna Vandeveer, at
DEATHS Horley E. Spraks, 34, at Veterans’, ap-
"Bors Kelly, 60. 60, at City, .arteriosclerosis. , 64, at 5014 Lowell, car-
a Johnson, 43, at Methodist, chronic
endlt jacystith lie Juanita Branam, 43, at Methodist, mitral insufficiency. Bird Luther Orange, 80, at 1147 Fletcher, lobar Bneumonia Perry W. Cheek, 48, at 1730 8. Talbot, Ss.
at 6250 . Central,
rosis, mett E. Weiser. 75, at 5928 Beechwood, arteriosclerosis
cinoma
OFFICIAL WEATHER
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DEMOCRATS IE SURE OF VICTORY
State Issues.
BY JERRY SHERIDAN Confident of victory, Marion County Democratic leaders swung into -the stretch drive with renewed vigor. With harmony at a new high, the campaign for county offices virtually has been waged by the Democrats on state and national issues. No concentrated efforts have been made by the Democratic organization to raise issues over candidates
| for offices here. County Chairman
Walter C. Boetcher and ward chairmen are basing their drive for independent xs on the Roosevelt platform. Marion County candidates attend ward meetings, are introduced, and
: | fade into the background while state
This is an interior view ‘of the barber shop at 2522 W. 10th-st,
wrecked early today by an explosion.
Police were told a dynamite
bomb had been hurled through a window.
Schortemeier Forecasts
G.O.P. Victory in County
Discontented Democrats Plus Normal Republican Majority
Given as Basis of Prediction by Party Chairman.
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and national figures canny the speakers’ burden.
McKinney Breach Healed
Alleged differences between E. Kirk McKinney and city officials apparently has been ironed out. Both Mr. and Mrs. McKinney have been active during the campaign, speaking at ward rallies and dinners. Mr. McKinney broke with the city when delegates were released to M. Clifford Townsend, winning candidate for Governor, at the state Democratic convention. While leaders refuse to make public the results of their poll, taken during the last month, they privately predict a “substantial majority” on election day. More than 171,000 have indicatéd they will vote the Democratic ticket Nov. 3, while approximately 80,000 have ‘polled Republican, Democratic supporters | said. The doubtful, or independent voter is the target for most election strategy. Seasoned political observers count
Wiih the election less than two weeks away, a Republican victory in| Marion and Lake Counties as Keys
Marion County was forecast today by Frederick E. Schortemeier, G. O.
county chairman.
Mr. Schortemeier’s prediction was made as reports came into county headquarters of the “favorable” attendance at 10 G. O. P. Meetings held
in various sections of the city.
Mr. Schertemeier also said that the number of meetings and rallies in the county would be increased steadily for the duration of the cam-
paign, with at least 15 meetings a night for the windup. Republicans have been holding from six to 10 meetings every night since Oct. 15, he said.
Schortemeier Satisfied
“I personally have visited every ward in the county, and after making a survey of conditions, including a study of the poll books, I am satisfied with the situation at the present time.” Mr. Schortemeier declined to estimate by what majority he believed the Republicans would carry the county. “I prefer not to prognosticate in figures,” he said. “I am more of a believer in constant work to get out
packing plant in Indianapolis. I doubt if any of :the residents of Hooverville tasted meat then. But they're eating today. Some are in the CCC and WPA, but most of them are working in private industry. ” Mr. Townsend said that although many politicians advised him against talking about taxes that “I am insisting. the people know the cost of government.” Of the departments under his management, he said, the Public Service Commission saved the utility users $20,000,000, health department expenses were cut $90,000 and the state fair made money for the first time in years. “During the three and one-half years of this administration, the total cost of’ state government has been reduced $107,000,000. over the preceding period,” Mr. Townsend said. Explains Gross Tax
Explaining the gross income tax, the nominee urged the members of the audience to take out their tax receipts for 1932 and 1936 and make a comparison on the reduction of property taxes. He pledged himself to return. $600 a teaching- unit to the local communities next year and to relieve property taxes further. “Maybe the $10,000,000 balance in the state treasury now is too much, but we didn’t know at the time what the cost of social security would be,” Mr. Townsend said. “I'll reduce the balance and still keep a workable balance by sending
.| back an additional $100 to the $500
being paid ‘teachers now.” After the meeting, the farmers, many of them wearing the buttons of the Roosevelt Agriculture Committee, waited to shake hands with Mr. Townsend and tell ‘him that property taxes were reduced about two-thirds on the farms in the county under three years ago. Today Mr. Townsend is scheduled to speak in Indianapolis be-
ginning with an address at the Ki-
wanis Club luncheon.
Mrs. Rohde to Speak From Hospital :
WASHINGTON, Ind, Oct. 21.— Carrying on her political campaign from a hospital bed, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde is to broadcast from: her room in the Daviess County Hospital tomorrow night, Handicaped for the with a broken leg Mrs. resume her campaign she leaves the hospital fi
month,
the vote and let the final figures speak for themselves. “I realize there is much to do dur-
know that our thousands of workers throughout the county are exceedingly active. When they complete their work I am sure that Marion County will be in the Republican column when the votes are counted.” "That local Republicans are counting on a large “discontented Democratic” vote was borne out by Mr. Schortemeier’s comments.
Democrats Discontented
“Thousands of Democrats who are displeased with the New Deal and who believe in local government rather than centralization of power are going to vote with us this year,” he asserted. 5 1 “Every Republican is going to vote the G. O. P. ticket. This is normally a Republican county and their votes, augmented by many Democratic votes, will give ‘us a substantial majority.” HE also claimed most of the “doubtful” and “silent” votes. Mr. Schortemeier was optimistic about a return of Marion County Negroes to Republican ranks. This optimism was not held by other G. O. P. workers, however. Several felt the majority of the Negro vote would be Democratic. One Republican worker said that if the G. O. P. got 40 per cent of the Negro vote in Marion County, Republicans should be well satisfied. One Negro Republican leader said 85 per cent of the members of his race in this state would vote Republican, but that not more than 50 per cent could be counted on in Marion County.
EX-CONVICT’S TRIAL EXPECTED ON NOV. 16
By United Press ELKO, Nev., Oct. 21.—District Attorney Douglas Castle said today that a Western Pacific Railway employe had seen a man fitting the description of Luther Jones, 32-year-old ex-convict, marching four men to a shack near here where their bullet-riddled bodies were found 24 hours later. Jones entered an insanity plea of not guilty when arraigned yesterday on murder charges. District Judge James Dysart was expected to set the trial in a few days for the week of Nov. 16.
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ganization is sending some of its strongest speakers into Republican strongholds in an effort to sway doubtful votes.
Greenlee May Get Job
Pre-election rumors currently indicate that Pleas Greenlee, former
‘| patronage secretary to Gov. McNutt,
is to receive a position with the State Highway Commission. Included in stories rife around headquarters is one that Mayor Kern is to receive a Washington appointment, long rumored. . It is to be in the Federal Tax department as legal adviser, according to the latest rumors. Contingent on Mayor Kern’s appointment in Washington is the rumor that Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, WPA director, would be the administration choice for Mayor, while E. Kirk McKinney, erstwhile Kern antagonist, would take over the city -finances as controller. This would leave only one vacancy in the administration front—the Superior Court bench vacated by the death of Judge William A. Pickens. Some Democrats feel that L. + Brt Slack, former Mayor, has the inside track for the position. Others who have been pushed for the judgeship include Chalmer Schlosser, Russell J. Ryan and Joe Wood, Indianapolis attorneys. Most observers feel that only the Greenlee appointment might be made before election.
WAR SCRIBE 10 OPEN LOCAL FORUM SERIES
European icago Daily
Edgar Ansel Mowrer, correspondent of The News, recently returned from Spain, is to open the 1936-37 series of the Indianapolis Open Forum at Kirshbaum Center, Meridis at 8:15 p. m. Sunday. His talk, giving eye-witness impressions of the war and the tangled European situation, is to be titled, “Spain’s Revelation and the World’s Peace.” Mr. Mowrer served as Paris correspondent for the News and was sent to Spain at the outbreak of re-
bellion. He was one of the first |
American newspaper men to report news of the war.
NAPHTHA EXPLODES; ONE BURNED BADLY
Leo Baker, 40, of 905 N. Capitolav, was burned severely on the face and arms today in an explosion and
fire at the Century Carpet Cleaning |
Co., 2005 Massachusetts-av. A can of naphtha, used for clean-
ripe tomatoes, Mr. Browder sought
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announced he would leave for New York at noon. Balked twice in his efforts to speak here, arrested once as a vagrant and pelted last night with
an injunction restraining city and county officials from detaining him. Mr. Browder was not in the courtroom when the decision was announced. + At his hotel, he said he planned legal action as result of the tomato incident last night but said its form would depend on his attorneys. “Who led the mob which prevented me from getting into the studio to make my address last night—that is the question,” he said, “and we think we can establish that.”
President Asked to Protect Browder
The Workers Alliance, an organization of WPA and unemployed workers, today announced through its secretary, Merrill Jackson, that intervention of President Roosevelt to protect the ‘rights of free speech and assemblage in Terre Haute” was sought in a telegram to President Roosevelt. Mr. Jackson said legal action may be taken against Terre Haute city officials and leaders of a socalled “Law and Order League” following alleged rioting last night when Earl Browder, Communist presidential nominee, attempted to give a radio broadcast. Hartford Larison, organizer for the Workers Alliance, was slugged during a street fight, according to Mr. Jackson. Mr. Browder was scheduled to arrive in Indianapolis at 1:40°'p. m. today en route to his: :home in New
Have Parade Float, Tyndall Says.
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issue or illustrate some New Deal “fallacy. ” The tentative parade line, Gen. Tyndall announced, will be. from 16th-st and Northwestern-av, down Northwestern-av to Indiana-av. .It will proceed up Indiana-av to Cap-itol-av, to Market-st, around Morument Circle, where Gov. Landon. is to review the parade, and out Meridian-st to the State Fairground. 3 James E. Watson,: former United States Senator, was named head of a committee to honor out-state visitors. Others on the committee are Mrs. Gi B. Reynolds, Cambridge City, Republican national committeewoman from Indiana; Benjamin F. Lawrence, Indianapolis Star general manager; Warren C. Fairbanks, Indianapolis News publisher; Mrs. George A. Ball, Muncie, wife of the national Republican
Albert J. Beveridge ‘Sr., widow of the former United States Senator, and Maj. Grant. A. Comstock, Chicago, regional head of LandonKnox clubs. There are to be no reserved seats at the Fairground, it was announced. There is to be an extensive public address system extending to buildings other than the grand stand. and the Coliseum, which will take care of the overflow crowd. Special trains are to be run from nearly every section of the state, the G. O. -P. headquarters announced.
Attacks New Deal at Los Angeles
By United Press ABOARD LANDON TRAIN, EN ROUTE PHOENIX, Ariz, Oct. 21.— Gov. Alfred M. Landon turned the spearhead of his presidential campaign back toward the East today on a transcontinental journey to be climaxed by fresh attack on the New Deal in Oklahoma, Indiana and the Atlantic Seaboard states. Ending his bid for Pacific Coast votes, the Republican nominee left Los Angeles this morning en route via Colton, Cal, Indio, Cal. and Yuma, Ariz., to Phoenix for an important speech tonight in his final appeal to the Southwest. Phoenix was the only officially scheduled talk of the day. The Kansas Governor, who assailed the Roosevelt administration’s “abuse of power” before a large audience at Los Angeles Coliseum last night, will speak in Oklahoma City Friday and then
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New Deal Contradictory, Landon Says
By United Press LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21. — Alfred M.. Landon, replying to attack by Secretary of Interior Hs old L. Ickes as an enemy of business for seeking Federal Kansas utility rate wars, # charged the Administration contradictory policies. / ¥Up to date,” he said, “the ministration’s spokesmen have attacking me on the ground I a puppet of big business. Now
Socialist and the enemy of big ness. This is typical of the con sion and contradictory policies have characterized this Admin tion from the beginning.”
major address before his final in vasion of Pennsylvania, New Yor and West Virginia. « A small crowd was at the tion to see him off. This was tributed to a switch in plans, wh originally called for the Govern to leave at midnight,
Makes Two Thrusts
The aggressive pitch of the I don campaign continued as Kansas Governor completed his bid for California's 22 electoral votes | two thrusts at his political foes: 1. He warned the American | . to end what he termed.the Admin istration’s threat to destroy Amer: ica’s traditional liberties befor “the jailor” efiters our homes with out “warrant” and it‘is too late protest. He charged the New with use of public funds and’ ernmental power to influence gress, stifle public criticism, coe businessmen, sway voters @ countenance congressional in gations into te affairs for litical pur 3 2. He charged, in reply to s ments of Secretary of Interior Hare old L. Ickes, that the Administ: . tion “now attacks me one ground that I am a socialist. is typical of the confusion and coms tradictory policies that have ch acterized this Administration; is like the losing team throwing ball around wildly attempting score.” The Governor's reply. in reference to his communicatic with Ickes in regard to Federal ai in lowering Kansas gas and phone rates, which he defended V orously as using “public own as a gun behind the door in ad ment of proper and fair uti
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