Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1937 — Page 15

FRIDAY, SEPT. 17, 1037

PARTY CHIEFS | RECALL KLAN SPLIT OF 1924

| F. D. R. Took Leading Role In Bitter Battle atMadison Square.

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Black incident is not his first ‘contact with the Klan issue. At the Madison Square Garden convention he was in the trying role of chairman of the resolutions committee in which the Klan issue first was fought out before it was taken. to the floor for another mad, tumultuous evening. The writer was there, too. Never to be forgotten was the all-night vigil outside the paperthin walls of the room in the old Madison Square Garden Hotel, where the resolutions committee fought the Klan battle. Passions were high. Tempers snapped with angry words. At one point William Jenni Bryan led the hard-boiled politicians in prayer. Nor to be forgotten were the subsequent tempestuouts scenes on the floor, Speakers on both sides were interrupted by angry shouts -and catealls from floors and galleries, as the debate proceeded into the night.

F. D. R. Firmly Anti-Klan

The argument was whether the convention should adopt a platform plank favored by a majority of the resolutions committee declaring for freedom of religion, speech and press or a minority plank which to this added a denunciation of the Ku Klux Klan by name. At one point a delegate from Georgia, where the Klan originated, Mayor Andrew Ervin of Athens, was hoisted to the shoulders of a hilarious crowd and carried about the hall after he had denounced the Klan, while a New York band, trying to be helpful, played “Marching Through Georgia.” The sidestepping majority plank was adopted by one vote. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had stirred the convention with his nominationg speech for Al Smith, cast his half-vote for the minority plank denouncing the Klan. And, at the end, he it was who got up and made the motion that the stormy convention adjourn to send the delegates back to their hotels for the night. The Klan issue - dominated that convention, as such an issue in politics always becomes dominating. That’s the fear of Democrats now. dead as the Klan has been for so long. In vain at that 1924 convention Mr. Bryan sought to minimize it and to point to economic issues— to the fact, as he said, that a million farmers had lost their homes in the previous year, to the rising danger of monopoly as he saw it then, and as has been recognized generally since, The hand of reform—for reform was promised by the Democratic party was stayed for several years.

The Irony of Politics

Political careers were blasted and wrecked on the Klan issue, not only nationally but in states. It hung over to defeat Smith in 1928 and to send him into a disgruntled political retirement. It is ironical that it should rise to plague Franklin Roosevelt, for, always a champion of civil and religious liberty, he chailenged the Klan in his championship of Smith, in the face of danger to his own political future. : : William G. McAdoo, now Senator from California, was the candidate of the Klan. forces at the 1924 convention. It is one of those political ironies that Mr. McAdoo now anhounces that he would have voted against confirmation of his Senate colleague, Hugo Black, had he known that he had been a member of the order.

MOTOR FIRM SILENT ON FARLEY REPORTS

BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 17 (U. P.). —Officials of the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Co. refused today to confirm or deny reports, that Postmaster General James A. Farley had accepted a position as president of the firm and board of directors chairman. . A spokesman pointed out thai when reorganization plans: for the company were completed recently an official announcement said “A man of national prominece will be invited to head the company.” . One report said Mr. Farley probbably would announce his resignation from the cabinet after the November elections and would . begin his new duties at that time.

FAMED PILOTS HEAD FOR DETROIT RACES

DETROIT, Sept. 17 (U. P.).— Nationally known racing pilots ar-

rived today. for the national air |-

show and races to be held tomorrow and Sunday at the Wayne County airport. At least 75,000 persons are expected to attend. Roscoe Turner veteran speed pilot whose error at "a pylon in the Cleveland races cost him the Thompson trophy, was expected to arrive today. Others expected to be at the field this afternon include Jacqueline Cochrane, nationally known woman speed flier, and Maj. Alexander De Seversky, airplane designer.

~ FROM WPA ROLLS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (U. P.). —Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins today announced that WPA employment for the week ending Sept. 4 declined to 1,468,899, a drop of 13,808 from the preceding week. The WPA figures showed slight jncreases in employment in New vork City, 18 states .and Hawaii. Decreases were shown in other cities. :

‘VATICAN BANS GERMAN BOOK VATICAN CITY, Sept. 17 (U. PJ). —The Holy Office placed on the forpidden index today the German book by Burchard Assmus, entitled “Kloster Leben.” It was understood the book deals with the recent trials, of

riests in Germany on charges of

Servants Battle

William Lowe (left), fromer butler, and Olivia Olsen (right), maid to the late Mrs. Julie Marshall Foster for 29 years, find that the purported will of their mistress leaving them her entire $2,000,000 estate included a bequest of trouble. They are seen at court in Goshen, N. Y,, as lawyers clashed over the estate to determine which of two wills is

valid.

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Scientists Reach ‘Island in Sky,’ Isolated for 20 Thousand Y ears

‘Unmistakable Evidences’ of Deer and Other - Animals Are Reported Found.

years they have been discussing the possibilities of Shiva Temple. Several months ago Anthony, McKee and Tillotson determined to settle the accumulated conjectures of many scientists by climbing the walls and exploring the island, regardless of the danger. 2 8 8

E is believed with reasonable assurance of accuracy, that the Colorado River first started cutting the land away from the island at the end of the glacial age approximately 35,000 years ago. [Whatever animal life got to the island or was on the island, was | isolated from its exact counterpoints in the surrounding country. For hundreds of years, while the canyon got deeper and deeper, animals were free to go back and forth from the island to the mainland; then as the depth gradually increased, with increasing difficulty, At last the time arrived when the walls were so high and so sheer that it was no longer possible, and whatever animals

“had established themselves on the

island, were permanently isolated. This | occurred, ‘at a minimum, scientists estimate, 20,000 years ago. { This means, if the basic premise of scientific conjecture is proven to be correct—that the island has been completely isolated — that

" species of animals have developed

on Ithe island = absolutely independently of the species on the

mainland. It means that the island might contain species of all animals entirely unique, but with a common ancestry with the rabbit, the fox, and the wild cat of the mainland.

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HARLES DARWIN, originator of the. theory of evolution, found extraordinary species con isolated oceanic islands which obviously shared a common ancestry with well-known species, but had developed special characteristics by having existed in isolation for thousands of years. Darwin argued that evolution represented a survival of the fittest—that in each generation, the individual best adapted to live in his circumstances would survive to produce offspring which would inherit and even improve his particular adaptability, which, in time, would change the structure and the habits of the entire specie. This he called natural adaptation and it is now generally accepted. The scientists expected to find Indian ruins or some sign that Indians have visited the island during the centuries they roamed the country. The tribes that inhabited the Colorado River sec= tion were extraordinary climbers, and it was not believed that they would have found the walls impossible to climb. But it was believed impossible that they carried any animals up the sides of the column.

State Policeman

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which I thought would be of value to Department of Justice agents, I have turned it over to them,” he said. : “Whatever information I had I always shared with my superior, Donald Stiver, State Safety Direc-

tor. | I had no notice at all of my.

dismissal. It came to me as a total

surprise.”

In| its finding, the Board declared the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Sept. 1 broke off all relations with the Indiana State Police Department because of Mr. Leach wh was /dismissed Sept. 4. Mr. Leach in cross examining Myron Gurnea, the Federal agent in charge of the Al Brady gang hunt, brought out that Department of Justice agents had divulged information to the State Police on

the Brady gang since his dismissal,

but had not done so before. Working Together

Mr. Gurnea sald no request had been made to him for this information before. Sept. 4, and he added that now a State policeman -vas working with Federal agents on this case. In attacking the Federal Bureau's policies, Mr. Leach said that at the height of the Dillinger manhunt either a State trooper or a G-Man might have been killed through mistaken identity in a gun battle between each other if he had not required an investigation first. Mr. Leach said he received a tip that three carloads of heavily armed men had driven into Mooresville, Members of the State Police emergency squad prepared to rush out there and engage in a gun battle. e said he sent two officers to investigate first with instructions that ry were to call back if it was the notorious outlaw. . They reported that the automobile contained GMen.

G-Men Unidentified

“The Federal Bureau of Investigation never informed me that they were sending men out there. There was mo way our men could identify them. They should for the sake of |safety have taken some Indiana police officers with them or notified my department of what they were doing,” he said. Other officers to testify against Mr. Leach were Hearold Reinecke, chief of [the Indianapolis office, FBI, and J. |S. Johnson and Kenneth Logan, FBI agents. Mr. Leach told the Board his officers had met witnesses who: said they had been instructed by Federal men to give no information to the State Police Department. Thigr was denied by the Federal m §

Joins G-Men In Hunt for Al Brady Gang

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‘to approve his discharge, and obtain

denial has put me in an embarrassing position. I could bring State policemen up here to substantiate my case. I am going to be a good sport. For the good of the department I am not going to call any more witnesses. You can be sure, however, it was reported to me by State policemen that they had talked to witnesses who refused to divulge information on orders of Federal men.” Mr. Leach was dismissed by State Safety Director Stiver, who first had conferred with members of the State Police Board and Governor Townsend. : Undgr provisions of a 1935 act, he was granted a public hearing before this same Board. There is no appeal from this Board's ruling. In its statement regarding the ousting the Board said in part: “What may have caused the friction between the two forces; whether it was the result of a clash between conflicting and forceful personalities, was beside the point. There was Iriction: All the evidence at the hearing before the Board on the charges preferred against Mr. Leach amply substantiated that fact. Friction Is Cited

“With convincing frankness, Mr. Leach himself made no .secret of his * criticism of the policies and tactics of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a criticism that culminated in a public denunciation of the director of that Bureau made after Mr. Leach was requested to resign, but before his discharge and while still captain of the State Police. “Confronted by this condition, the choice up to the Board was to continue Matt Leach on the force, and thereby insure a total lack of cooperation with the Federal force; or

the co-operation which appears. indispensable for effective action in these days when state lines are no barriers “to criminals.

“The mandate of the Indiana statute under which the Department of State Police was created, is that there shall be co-operation between the State and Federal forces. This co-operation. could be accomplished only hy approving the discharge of Mr. Leach, the evidence justified the discharge, and the Board accordingly approved it.”

VOTE PROBE. RECESSED

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 17 (U. : P.),—The Federal grand jury in-

vestigating Kansas City vote frauds here found so much evidence of

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