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HITLER PRESSES

WORLD-WIDE

NAZI CAMPAIGN TO ORGANIZE

‘LITTLE HOMELANDS' ABROAD

Der Fuehrer Seeks

to Bind 25,000,000

Germans Living Elsewhere to Reich Cultural and Economic Ties.

(Third of a Series) By WEBB MILLER

(Copyright. 1938,

by United Press)

"BERLIN, Feb. 23.—Adolf Hitler is pressing y ahead with a world-wide propaganda campaign to build “little homelands” among the 25,000,000 Germans or persons of German descent living in North America, South America, Africa

and Asia.

He seeks to bind them to Germany by elie) and eco-

nomie ties. ~The Fuehrer’s eyes may be on Austria and Czechoslo-

‘vakia for the moment, but |

Nazi officialdom never for a

moment forgets the “long view” and never abates its efforts to create sympathy on other continents for the Swastika. A special Foreign Office department began this work and now, with Fuehrer Hitler's announcement of a “protectorate” over Germans living in other European nations, the cam- . paign has been intensified. It seeks to control the lives and thoughts of Germans abroad by: Telling them what storekeepers they can patronize. Forbidding them to retain Jewish lawyers or physicians. Compelling German citizens . to

report any change in their address or personal status. Appointing regional leaders, under direct supervision of Berlin, to inculcate Nazi principles in Germans living abroad.

Establishing Clubs

Establishing clubs at which Ger- _ mans meet. Providing those clubs with films, newspapers and books that reflect Nazi ideology. Encouraging the club members to give the Nazi salute and observe Nazi holidays. : . Discouraging . Germans from marrying Jews or even mingling with Jews. Any German citizen—there are about two million of them in the 25 million persons of German descent living abroad—who fails to keep in close touch with the local consul is subject to loss of citizenship. It is expected here that this campaign will become wider and more intense now that Herr Hitler definitely is embarked on his middle European adventure. It is definite that a list of eligible lawyers and doctors has been sent to Germans living in New {York and .the presumption is that similar instructions went to ‘other large centers of population. Reprisals Hinted

One new phase of this campaign, according to semiofficial circles here, will -be a stiffening of the Nazi attitude toward foreign newspaper correspondents. There may even be reprisals against correspondents—expulsion from Germany would be the most likely one—in cases where foreign newspapers publish unfounded reports. Such reports were sent out during the recent Army “purge,” most of the dispatches being based on reports originating outside of Germany. In the five years of Nazi rule 20 correspondents of the foreign press have been expelled. Several others have left under pressure. The most recent instance of Nazi displeasure toward the foreign press occurred at the time of the correspondents’ ball to which some government officials had accepted invitations. None appeared. There appears to be a widespread misunderstanding abroad about censorship in Germany. There is no . censorship in the sense that the

ATHENAEUM USE DENIED TO BUNDS

Building Will Be Barred to ‘Propaganda’ Group, Kothe Declares.

Use of the Indianapolis Athenaeum as a meeting place has been denied representatives. of the Ger-man-American Bunds, Herman W. Kothe, Athenaeum president, said today. Mr. Kothe said use of the Athenaeum will be denied any “organization whose purpose is to spread propaganda.” “It is not a policy of the Athenaeum to permit the holding of any public meetings there,” he added He said representatives of the Bung approached the club manager for permission to hold a meeting March 14. The organization distributed cards stating that a meeting of the Bund would be held at the Athenaeum, Mr. Kothe said. The cards, he said, declared that Wilhelm Kunze, national publicity director, would be principal speaker. Homer L. Chaillaux, American Legion Americanism director, said he was informed the Bund planned to hold an organization meeting here March 14. He said the American Legion is opposed to the Bund

| organizatoin as “un-American.”

Bund units have been reported organized at Ft. Wayne, South Bend and Gary.

DOWNWARD CURVE IN STATE AID CONTINUES

The downward trend of State public assistance grants which began in May, 1936, continued in 1937, Thurman A. Gottschalk, State Welfare Administrator, annouriced to-

y. Peak of the State’s dependency quota was reached late in 1935 and the first quarter of 1936, Mr. Gottschalk said. The early 1936 increase was the result of the fac that WPA aid, which started in August, 1935, did not reach its peak until early 1936. The monthly average load last year was 63.547 persons less than in 1936, he said. In Devember, 1937, 81,000 fewer persons were receiving publie assistance than in the same month of 1935.

Nazis seek to control the means of transmitting news. Any correspondent can telephone“to London, Paris or anywhere else whenever he cares to do so, and can transmit over the telephone any information or misinformation without interference from the authorities. Hundreds of press calls go through daily from Berlin to London and Paris. = There is, however, close’ restrietion on sources of information ‘in cases involving matters the Government wishes to keep secret.

An exhibit of electric brooders interests these Indiana farm women attending the eighth annual conference of the Indiana Farm Bureau Social and Educational Deparment here today. They are Gett

Farm Bill Is Not Dictatorial, Schenck Tells Parley Here

Hassil E. Schenck, Indiana Farm Bureau president, fold 1500 farm women here today that “we have won a major victory in Washington with passage of the new AAA legislation.” He declared the farm bill was not “regimentation or dictatorship.” “You can’t believe the propaganda that’s going around about that

EIGHT-HOUR PRISON GUARD SHIFT URGED

Gottschalk Also Recommends ‘Gun Detector.’

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far more effective if exposure to a gun detector were included. »

Detects All Metals

It was explained that this instrument would be attached to a door or gate and would detect any metal through. Mr. Gottschalk said he believed it was impossible to prevent prisoners from sawing their way out of cells in the future because of the number of inmates who work in shops using these tools. “Measures should be taken therefore,” he said, “to guarantee that prisoners cannot get over the wall after escaping from their cells.” Declaring that inmates who are partners in crime should not be assigned to the same cells, the report also recommended that the hourly inspection of night guards be made in a sufficiently irregular manner as to prevent prisoners from knowing exactly when they would be under observation. The five gmen in the last escape were said have charted exactly the movements of the guards. Three of the five prisoners were captured and disclosed part of this. system to State police. Wall to Be Extended Immediately after the break it was decided: . 1. That the attic between cell house “D” and the roof of the north dormitory should be torn out completely and the wall between these two buildings built entirely to the roof. : 2. That the bars of all cells should be tested daily by striking them with a hammer or some other metal object. 3. That cell blocks in the institution should be graded on the basis

of the degree of security they offer.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record

County Deaths ~ (To Date)

1938 ...... 1937

City Deaths

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(Feb. 22)

Accidents ... 10

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social and educa-

Indiana Farm Bureau, soclsl and edie ot CR Ry ay

tional conference, Cla Shdisus Power: Users. state convention,

Pow oper 1 Lingoin." al fincheon, Hotel Washington, noon.

uncheo! ashington, noon. elation, Jone dit ¢ Credit Group, meeting, Columbia Club, 4: Soo p.

Kiwanis Club, ‘luncheon, Columbia Club, nog: Credit Group, funcheon, Hotel

tle Dts An inx “Men's Discussion Club, dinner, TAG A SE

Hotel og jet American Legion, funchSigma Alpi Board Ol Frntion. hincheon, Board of MEETINGS TOMORROW

Sma Sohdeone, Buiost Hotel Hp al’ day. Ty Sashinsag, moon,

‘Hotel Wash-

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tuncheon, | ch:

acima Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade,

nO rican Business Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, Acacia, SE IOTeOn, Board of Trade, noon. Caravan Club, luncheon, Murat Temple,

17 noon. oe | Indiana Motor Traffic Association, lunch- | nom

eon, Hotel Antlers, noon. Construction League of Indianapolis, Juncheon, Architects and Builders 3uild-

meeting, 110 Street, 8 p.

fadianapoti Camera Clu,

BIRTHS

Boys Charles, Thelma Smith,” at Coleman. Richard, Dolores Musgrove, at Colsinan. Elmer, Bertha Dickey, at St. Fran Randall, Violet Shircliff, at City Clarence, Ina Scott. at ity. Ray, Isabell Brown, at Methodist. Louis, Elvie Stroud, at Methodist. John, Doris Denny. = 565 W. Morris. Cleo, Fannie Blackburn, at 816 N. West. , Clatence, Josephine Hedge, at 1620 pan Clarence, Lucille Christ, at Jo18 Naber, Frank, Aud rey Wilson, at 346 N Felbert, Beatrice Yarbro, 2043 20 Walter, Florence Walters. at 2105 Co-

lumbi « Girls

Thomas, Thelma Strange, at Coleman. Thomas, Ann

i William, a St. Vincent's. asaarton, Katherine Denton, at St. Vine

Carin, Louise Heislop, at St. Vincent's. Sa3¥Tence, Earline Brewer, at St. Vin-

“Edvard, Margaret Hayes, Frederick, Clarena Everts, at 2143 N. Wallace. Juanita Eastman. at 547 N.

wa rests, ae Berry, at 1317 W. 23d. d, Made Ostermeier, Be 316

dns Wilson, at 2045’ Columbia. Gilbert, Helen Holland, at 509 S. War-

DEATHS Anite Becker, 72, at Methodist, ade-

ries D. Hogate, 60, at 5470 University, coronary occlusion. Jones, 178, at City, bronchopneumonia. Harry coronary occlusion me. Z. Lioyd, 68, at 535 Hudson, Charles H. Doty, 77, at 2737 N. Illinois, ronic ne Seply ritis. Irvin DeHaven, 60, at 48 Ww. 33d, Sarcinon

sufficiency. Sioward C. Creede, a at 1367 N. Keal-

aw Marley, 68, at City, mitral in- Cl

at 2525 8.

Stausberry, 38, at 222 N. Minkner,

Ella Byrne, cerebral thrombosis William i ng 56, a3 3423 Yandes, acute cardiac decompensatio teloy Elden Nelson, 1, at Methodist, enritis Bart McDaniel, 58, at Veterans, carci-

Bar bara Ellen Wyatt, 88, at 858 W. 28th, cardiac renal disease illlam Thomas West, 74, at City, lobar pneumonia. Sarah C. Stratton, 84, at 3844 E. Washington, broncho-pneumonia. Irvington Melvin Botcheiden, 79, at 814 Jelferson, Mimonay edema. Martha Breese, 62, at Long, bronchqpneumonia.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

»United States Weather Bureau ____

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Light snow and slightly’ colder tonight with lowest temperature about 26; tomorrow mostly cloudy. Sunrise ......6:27 | Sunset

TEMPERATURE —Feb. 23, 1937—

eevee .5:30

Precipitation 24 hrs. endin| pal br Pr oeipiia ation 7am,

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana-Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorro light snow; central and north portions tonight; slightly colder Tonighe. inois—Generally fair extreme south a Sloudy gniral and north Re and tomorrow h li ht Sow north Bight: slightly bi Lower oar Be tight and tomorrow Probably Ccasional Jight Snow; no decided change ip tom Kentucky—Fair an olter night: tomorrow fair. Ohio — Partly cloudy in south and light snow in north section tonight and tomorrow; slightly colder in north portion tonight.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7:A. M. Station. . Weather. Amarillo, Tex. sceees. 9 Bismark, N. D. Boston

Chicago veess Cincinnati... land,

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occlu e fie Matherly. 7 78, at 1115 E. 10th, car- | Jacksonvill

cino y monar, 4 Albert do i 62, at 1204 Villa, coronary occlusion David Phillippl, 35, at. Long, rheumatic Albert J. Goddard, 71, at 1004 Hervey, chronic ocarditis Catt hs

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® bill,” he declared.

He said efforts would be made to get Farm Bureau aims written into

the platforms of Democratic and

Republican Parties when they hold state conventions here soon. The chief aim, he later stated, is to remove tax burden from property, especially that part of tax yield going for welfare costs.

Auditoriam Filled .

The audience filled the Claypool Hotel auditorium for the merning session of the eighth annual conference of the Social and Educational Department of the Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc. In the afteronon session, devoted to discussion of the “American Farm Bureau Spirit,” - Mrs. Raymond Sayre was to speak on “Community Program Building.” She is Midwest Regional Director of the Associated

Women of the American Farm Bur- |

eau Federation. The program tonight at 7:15 o'clock will feature the finals of the Young People’s Public Speaking Contest. = Mrs. Lillie D. Scott, chairman of the Farm Bureau's Social and Educational Department and general cha n of the conference, urged farm women to “use big business: methods” for solving their farm problems. “I think that it is high time,” she said, “that we recognize the relation’ agriculture bears to industry and business. Can you imagine any industry operating in such a haphazard manner as we are doing?” Advocates Planned Program She emphasized the need for “a planned program under organized supervision” anc denied that it would be “dictatorship.” Dr. John W. Holland, radio pastor, in an address, said three forces are ‘community. builders,” church, school and home, and that these are disintegrating “under the stress of modern ideas.”

LAUNDRY OFFICIAL’S MOTHER DIES AT 86

Mrs. Sarah Ellen LaFollette, mother of Charles O. VanHorn, Model Laundry Co. treasurer, died today at her home, 2025 N. New Jersey St. She was 86. Mrs. LaFollette, who had lived in Indianapolis 44 years, was a member of Englewood Christian Church. Funeral services are to be at 1 p. m. Friday at Shirley Brothers Funeral Home. Burial is to be at New Ross. Mr. VanHorn is the only survivor.

BOB BURNS

Say S; Feb. 23.—No

matter how hard a person gets,

youll find that they have a soft

side to their nature if you can just reach it. I know a woman out here in Hollywood who has a reputation for havin’ the “stoniest” heart in town. The other day she went to a lawyer and told him she was gonna sue her husband for a divorce and for $25,000.00 a year The lawyer says “How much money does - your husband make a year?” She says “He makes $25,000.00 a year—you see I'm not as: heartless as people think I am—I wouldn't

65 | think of suin’ him for more than

he’s makin’.” (Copyright, 1938)

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to right) : Mrs. Mamie Dorsett and Mrs. Stella Smith, hoth of Clayton, and Mrs. Hoyt Spencer, Danville. Mrs. Smith is Hendricks County Farm Bureau social and educational puter,

NEW ATLANTIC NAVY IS TALKED

Maverick Charges Officials Suppressed Warship * Test Reports.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (U. P)). —Rear Admiral William G. Du Bose told the House Naval Affairs Committee today that it would cost the United . States $3,200,000,000 and take 10 years to build a separate fleet for the Atlantic ocean. He made his estimate at the request of Reps. Ralph O. Brew-

ster (R. Me.) and Melvin J. Maas

(R. Minn.). They asked him to provide cost data because Chairman Carl Vinson (D. Ga.) proposes to

.write into the pending bill a state-

ment of policy calling for a fleet large enough to protect both coasts at the same time. President Roosevelt recently told a press conference the nation needs a fleet capable of defending both coasts. Rep. Vinson said privately, howe ever, that “no consideration is being given either by the Administration, the Navy or the Commit$e? for construction of an Atlantic eet. Meanwhile the Administration was charged today with suppressing reports of tests showing surface warship vulnerability to airplane attack in an effort to protect the new. battleship construction program against adverse criticism. Rep. Maury Maverick, D. Tex., a New Dealer who bolted President Roosevelt on national defense spending, made the charges. They were denied in general terms by high ranking officers at the War and Navy Departments. Rep. Maverick, a House Military Affairs Committee member said he had been told he could examine the test reports if he would keep the information confidential,

the . Government, the President's personal

‘direction, intensified the secrecy

surrounding maneuvers. Some 150 units of the U. S. fleet prepared to sail into the Pacific for annual maneuvers beginning March 15 without the customary corps of newspaper reporters and newsreel cameramen aboard. They were ruled off the fleet this year by the President’s personal orders. This order coincided with the Navy’s decision to extend the maneuvers, officially known as “Fleet Problem 19,” far into the Southwest Pacific to “play” war for the first time in the vicinity of Japanese ndated territory. Congressmen who have been demanding a clarification of President Roosevelt's foreign policy studied yesterday's radio address of Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes

Army and Navy

| today for a possible indication of

the Administration’s recent European events. Secretary Ickes emphatically stated at the opening of an address to the British people last night that he was speaking as a private citizen. But capital obesrvers attached much significance to the New Dealer’s plea for a stronger stand among democratic ‘nations, Great Britain and the United States, against fascism and communism and “especially against insidious fascism.”

S. PARKER GILBERT DIES ' NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (U. P).— S. Parker Gilbert, financier and former agent-general for reparations, died in Doctors Hospital today from cardic-nephritis—a combined kidney and heart condition.

reaction to

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SECRET FRENCH DEFENSE GROUP HOLDS SESSION

British Labor Demands New Election Over Deal . With Duce.

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of former Socialists, virtually political outlaws for years.

British Labor

Demands Election

LONDON, Feb. 23 (U. P.).—British Labor united today and threw

the full force of its most powerful | bodies behind a demand for an im- |’

mediate general election on the issue of British collaboration with Italy and Germany. While Prime Minister Neville Chambperlain was assuring the

| House of Commons that Britain is

reoperiing’ negotiations with Fascist

| Italy purely in the interests of gen-

eral European peace and not under force of threats or ‘coercion, the heads of the three most powerful Labor bodies met at Transport House in London and issued a manifesto.

The manifesto reaffirmed uncompromising opposition to any agreernent with Germany and Italy on the basis indicated by Mr. Chamberlain, and challenged the Government to submit the issues to an immediate general election. The Government's policy, the manifesto declared, “has alienated the people of the United States, who have repeatedly shown sympathy with peace-loving nations, and their hatred of Fascist aggression.” The manifesto was issued on behalf ¢f the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, the Labor

Party and the Parliamentary Labor |.

Party. SH ' Refuses New Debate

Mr. Chamberlain, who won a vote of confidence in his foreign policy last night by 330 to 168, refused to be drawn into another debate on the resignation of Capt. Anthony Eden as Foreign Secretary. Mr. Chamberlain made no reference to instruction to be given Lord Perth, British Ambassador to Italy, who is on his way home. At its regular weekly meeting today, the first after the crisis, the Cabinet discussed the nature of instructions to be given Lord Perth. It was reported that Mr. Chamberlain gave his impression of the national reaction to his determination to negotiate with Italy, and outlined his own views on the course which the negotiations should take. Lord Perth is due tomorrow. He wil: confer with Mr. Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax, temporary Foreign Minister, for several days and return to Rome next week.

America Mentioned

The general British view was that the Eden crisis was over. Liberal and

Labor: eleménts insisted that it was of &

not. “In the forma} sense the Eden crisis is ended,” said the News Chronicle, Liberal Party organ. “But do not make the mistake of imagining that the affair is finished. It is just beginning. The dictators gre jubilant while all friends of democracy are cast down. . . . The great American democracy, even the Dominions, will finally wash their hands of Europe. . . . No country is stronger than its reputation in the world.” The Daily Herald, Labor Party organ, expressed the same thought as regards the United States: “It means the inevitable weakening of the ties between Great Britain and her sister democracy France, the ending of all hopes of American participation in a real policy of world appeasement. Since the United States recognizes the Chamberlain policy for a system of powerpolitics, it is, angrily and rightly, suspicious of it.”

Rebels Again Bomb

Valencia and Sagunto

BARCELONA, Feb. 23 (U. P.)— The port of Valencia and the town and port of Sagunto were bombed by Rebel hydroplanes today. No casualties were reported. The same ports were bombed by warships yesterday. Loyalists said the Rebel fleet was retreating toward Majorca today after two of its cruisers had been seriously damaged in the biggest battle of the Spanish civil war between aircraft and warships. A Government communique said that the Almirante Cervera and another cruiser, believed to be either the Canarias or the Balearies, were struck by bombs from Loyalist planes off Sagunto, north of Valen-

‘Rebels Deny Damage Rebels officially denied the ships were hit. The Almirante Cervera was hit by a bomb when she attacked Sagunto as the fleet moved northward following an assault on Valencia, the Government communique said. The bomb hit the vessel’s main stack, and a tremendous cloud of smoke was emitted, indicating that

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After flying Philippine Commissioner Paul V. McNutt from San Francisco to Denver, Lieut. Col. Davenport Johnson, above, . was transferred to Chanute Field, Ill. Friends of Lieut. Col. Johnson charged he was “disciplined” as an indirect rebuke to Mr. McNutt, but War Department officials insisted it was a routine transfer.

NEW BILL ASKS NRA PAY LEVEL

One of Revised Measures Is Reported Based on Minimum 40-Cent Hour.

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20 cents an hour in Southern lumber mills, however. Deviations of up to 10 per cent from the “standard wage” would be permitted in “exceptional circum-

stances.”

An “escalator clause” in this bill would restrict compulsory increases in the minimum wage to 10 per cent a year, and the first such increase could be ordered only after a mini-

4mum-wage standard had been in

effect one year. Thus it would take three years to raise wages from 30 cents an hour to 40 cents. The Administrative machinery is the same in both bills. A $10,000-a-year administrator, within the Labor Department, would be appointed by the President and confirmed by

| the Senate.

The administrator would act :in conjunction with an “industry board” in each industry. This board would be made up of equal numbers Dyer: ant employee representatives plus a maximum of three “public” members, pne of whom would be chairman, “Labor standard orders” issued by the administrator would “define the industry and the territorial limits in which the order shall operate.” A major criticism of the bills is

1 that neither of them forbids reduction of weekly wages in cases where:

the work-week is shortened. Another criticism is directed against a provision permitting the standard to be lowered if it “impaired profitable operation.” It is pointed out that nearly every industry, particularly the low-wage ones; ‘contains many plants with obsolete, nonprofitable machinery and methods. These might force substandard wages generally, it is argued under this provision.

missile had damaged the interior of the ship and possibly the engines. The missile that hit the second ship also appeared to have penetrated to the interior, it was said. The British. steamer Shetland today wirelessed her owners that she bad been shelled and her forecastle damaged this afternoon off Valencia. No. casualties occurred.

Goering Arrives

For Polish Visit

WARSAW, Feb, 23 (U. P.) —Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering, German aviation minister and right-hand man of Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, arrived today for a five-day hunting visit by invitation of Presi

dent Inacy Moscicki. Some political sources expressed belief today that the visit might lead to discussion of a common German-Polish program regarding their minorities in Czechoslovakia.

NOT CANDIDATE FOR ANY OFFICE, MNUTT STATES

Giving Entire Time and

Energy to Philippine Affairs, He Declares.

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turn here from Hyde Park tonight and he expects to see him tomorrow, Mr. McNutt said.

Asked if he would see Senator VanNuys while here he Seed he expected \to do so. But he refused to comment on Indiana politics and the repoxted ouster of the Senior Senator from the Democratic ore ganization. “My short visit to Indiana was one of friendship and not politics,” Mr. McNutt said. The former Governor said he felt in fine fettle for shaking night at the reception, which will be the largest ever held here. Senator and Mrs. Minton will be with him in the receiving line. Mr, VanNuys and. other Congressional wives will have charge of the tables at which a buffet lunch is to be served. Newspapers here have been both bitter and facetious about Mr, McNutt’s visit and the huge recepe tion plans. The Herald had a copy

dent Garner and Cabinet members would not attend. . That he can become president of Indiana University: at any time was indicated by Herman Wells, acting I. U. president, who was his first caller this morning. Asked about the ban on politics if he accepted, Mr. McNutt said: “I certainly shall never do anye thing to mater.” Admitting that he is cast in the role of the Jim Farley of the McNutt boom, Mr. McHale said today? “I don’t think we would want to get into the race in 1940, if Presie dent Roosevelt runs again.” A Herald editorial advised the high commissioner that he should

if he wished to enter the national campaign.

Report F. D. R. Interested

In VanNuys Drive

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Arrival here today of High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt coincided with ree ports that the White House has bee come interested in Senator Vane Nuys’ mail campaign. , The Senator was entirely ignored by- the Indiana Democratic leaders who arrived here yesterday, giving point to Governor Townsend’s asser= tion that most party members feel that he has completely deserted to become an iridependent candidate. But it was learned that one of the top-ranking White House contacts in the Senate visited Mr. VanNuys’

office to inquire how the replies were

coming in frém the 100,000 letters the Senator sent to Indiana voters asking for support for re-election. Postmaster General Farley, vacae tioning in Florida, also is said to have become interested, giving support to the report he told friends he would prefer Senator VanNuys’ ree election to “having another McNutt Senator.”

Senator Minton says he will ask Mr. Farley if he said that. - The VanNuys’ office denies that all “old-time Democrats” have deserted and claims Signed pledge cards to prove this poin Ben Stern, Mr. tg secree tary, declared that some of the cards are coming from frightened political jobholders, who are too frightened to sign their names. About 10 to 15 per cent of the estimated 10,000 to 15,000 pledge cards returned are from jokers who sign

Each-card returned costs the Sene ator 3 cents postage.

Coy Takes Blame For Arranging Plane

Times Special : « WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. —Wayne Coy, assistant to Paul V. McNutt, took full responsibility today for are ranging the Army bomber - flight from San Francisco to Denver. En route, War Department orders were received by radio saying that the request for such a flight had been turned down, Mr. Coy said, The. next day the pilot, Lieut. Col. Davenport Johnson, was relieved of

and transferred to the ground school at Chanute Field, Ill. Pointing out that since the High Commissioner’s -office is under the War Department, Mr. Coy said he contacted Maj. Gen. George Sie monds, Ninth Corps Area commane

der, regarding the Denver trip.

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