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|. POOL CHARGE

LACKS MERIT, PROBERS FIND

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10-Cent Fees Are Properly Accounted For, Grand Jury Reports.

ORPHAN HOME HIT AGAIN

Conditions Unchanged, Claim; 20 More Indictments Returned. |

| Charges made before the City Council that only two cents of each 10-cent swimming pool fee went to the City Treasury “are without any merit whatsoever,” the Marion County Grand Jury said today in its final report in Criminal Court. | “This investigation further established the fact that the entire 10cent swimming fee is turned over to the Park Board general fund and that all monies are properiy collected and accounted for by emplovees and officials,” the jury's report said. The report was handed up to Criminal Court Judge Frank Baker, The charges were made before the City Council by Edward Kealing, Republican councilman, who was one of the withesses before the Grand Jury. The jury conditions Orphans’ Home “We have been informed that prior Grand Juries repeatedly have called attention to the objectionable conditions ip this institution. Ow investigation revealed. however, that the same conditions still prevail and apparently nothing has been done to remedy the many complaints herero- | fore made. This institution is in dire | need of immediate improvement and the Grand Jury urgently recommends that there be no further delay in providing essential changes.” the report said Dow Vorhies. County Commissioners president, said steps have been taken to improve conditions at the home

Businessman Accused

criticized Colored

also severely at the County

"We have asked for about $10,000 in next vear's budget for the home and expect to remedy conditions as | soon as possible,” Mr. Vorhies said. Conditions at the home have] been the center of controversy for months. An investigation by County Commissioners disclosed recently that facilities were inadequate. The Commissioners turned down a request of a citizens committee to turn control of the Home over to the County Welfare Department. In addition to the report, the jury returned 20 more indictments. One indictment named a businessman who formerly was an official of a local shipping corporation. The indictment accused him of embezzling $11.000 from the company last September. He is said to be a fugitive In another indiciment he is accused of issuing a fraudulent check tor £5000. Motorists Indicted

Other indictments included one against Robert White, charging him with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the auto traffic | death of Llovd Woodruff on Road 37 last January 1. White was charged with being drunk at the time of the accident Another true bill named Otha D Bowman, charged with driving while drunk on Tibbs Ave. several months ago. She has had a previous conviction on the charge and under a new law a second charge makes it a felony, carrying a penaltvy of 1 to 5 years in prison The Grand Jury commended conditions at Julietta, Marion County Insane Hospital, the County Jail the Police Station, the new Juvenile Detention Home and the Infirmary.

SEEKS CHANGE OF EXECUTION SCENE

DETROIT, July 1 (U. P).—Governor Murphy revealed today he had asked President Roosevelt to remove the execution of Tony Chebatoris, murderer doomed under Federal law, from the State of Michigan. Chebatoris is scheduled to be hanged July 8 at the Federal detention farm at Milan, Mich, for the death of an innocent bystander during an attempted bank robbery at Midland, Mich. last September Mr. Murphy said because Michigan as a State does not provide | for capital punishment, he was op- | posed to the execution within the State's borders.

NAMED EXCISE PGLICEMAN William James Schrader, Lafavette, has been appointed the State Excise Police force, Hugh Barnhart, State Excise Director, announced today.

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FINAL HOME

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Same Month Year Ago. Seven persons were killed and 189 | injured in 432 traffic accidents dur- | ing June, Lieut: Lawrence McCarty, | Police Accident Prevention Bureau |

head, announced today.

Six other persons were killed i) Marion County outside the city lim-

its Accidents and injuries decreased from May this year and June, 19837, while fatalities equalled the preceding month but were iive less than in June, 1937. Fatalities from Jan. 1 to June] 30 here totaled 37, a drop of 12] from the same period last year. Injured were 976, as compared with | 1280 for the six-month period in 1937. Accidents also declined, with 2261 as compared with 2341. Pedestrians were the chief vietims of the June slaughter. Three were Killed when struck by autos, one was killed by a train and another by a streetcar. Another victim was killed in an auto-train collision and another in a noncolliding auto. Most injuries resulted from auto collisions, Three Injured

Meanwhile, three persons injured, one seriously, in 11 overnight accidents as police made 36 arrests, six of them on speeding charges and three for alleged drunken driving. Twenty-eight motorists, charged with traffic law violations, were fined a total of $158 by Judge Pro Tem Silas Lipman in Municipal Court todav. Judge Lipman suspended an additional 8217 in fines Nine speeders paid an average of $9.55 each. Charged with drunken driving, George Mann, 1533 Edgewood Ave. was bound to the Marion County Grand Jury after records showed he previously had been convicted for the same offense. In addition, Mann was fined $11 for failure to have a driver's license, and fined $20 and sentenced to serve 30 days in jail on a drunkenness conviction. Yesterday, Roberts C. Hill. State Auto License Department hearing judge, established a record when he revoked or suspended 17 licenses of | the 18 drivers brought before him. Mrs. Hilda Riggin, 44, 325 Dorman St. was recovering from a frac-| tured right leg and a right shoulder | injury, after she was struck by an auto driven by Lawrence C. Tooley, | 32, R. R. 1 Box 327, in the 2200 block ! E. 62d St. John Perkins, 456 Arnolda Ave. was reported in good condition at St. Vincent's Hospital, where he was | recovering from injuries in the] He was in- | Jjured yesterday in a collision at Raymond St. and Emerson Ave,

LOCAL PLANT GETS

were

Allison Co. to Start $1,000,000 Job at Once.

The Allison builders for perimental

Engineering many aircraft

Co, of exmachinery for the Army, will begin construction immediately of 40 powerful 1000horse power motors, to cost $987.-

31, for the Governments new ‘flving fortresses.” Contracts for the order were among others signed by the War Department in Washington todav calling for construction of $14.433.196 worth of fighting airplanes. largest such order in the peace-time history of the nation. Bert L. Cruzan, production manager of the local plant, a General Motors aircraft unit, said the 40 motors will be ready for delivery around the end of the vear. Construction of the motors will necessitate no expansion in employment or plant facilities, Mr. Cruzan said. At the same time, Mr. Cruzan refused to deny or confirm rumors that his plant is carrying on secret | experimental work for the War Department on the world’s largest air- | plane motor, a 2000 horsepower unit. '

vears

| the holidays.”

* ®

ade for Caution In Observing 4th

Here;

Traffic Dead 5 Less Than Police Open Campaign on |

Fireworks Violators; Rain Threatens.

TEMPERATURES 2 1 a.m. 11am... 68 12 (Noon) 67 i pm....

66 67 87 68

State and loca! officials today joined in a plea for a new declaration of independence—independence from the careless fireworks shooting and the reckless driving that eaci year cause a Fourth of July massacre more staggering than the war for Independence that is celebrated.

Thousands of Indianapolis residents planned to leave town for the

| cooling countryside this lengthened

week-end; others will hold private family fireworks displays, or will attend one of the many public affairs scheduled. A drizzling rain which began falling at 7 a. m. today probably will mar at least part of the Fourth of July week-end, J. H. Armington, Weather Bureau chief, said.

Most Accidents in July

He said the precipitation may continue through Sunday. The Bureau predicted thundershowers night with not much change temperature, But, officials urged, whatever you do to celebrate the forefathers’ victory for life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, do it carefully so that you will not substitute wanton death, destruction and pain. Mayor Boetcher declared: “While I hope everyone enjoys the

holiday week-end, I cannot urge too | exercise the | utmost caution, both in driving and |

strongly that citizens in handling fireworks

serving strict safety

Only by obrules can we

hope to cut down Fourth of July

accidents.” Pointing out that 19 Hoosier lives were offered in sacrifice to the altar of speed and recklessness last vear, Don F. Stiver, State Safety Director, sald: “Sane, sober driving, patronage of

public rather than private fireworks !

celebrations, and use of guarded, inspected swimming places is the citizen's surest guarantee of enjoying life beyond the brief pleasure of

Mr. Stiver displayed figures showing that more accidents occur in

the the

the year. Tragedy comes in United States during July at

persons per hour, he said.

During the 160-odd years that have elapsed since the Revolutionary War, Americans have evolved means of celebrating it that are far

more dangerous to laymen than were

(Continued on Page Nine)

WHEAT ESTIMATES REPORTED LOWER

CHICAGO, July 1 (U. P.).—Private crop experts today forecast a U. S. wheat crop of 979 million bushels, almost 100 million less than their estimate one month ago

The estimates ranged from 1.003, - |

000,000 bushels predicted by Nat C. Murray to the Miller-Shields fore-

cast of 929,000,000 issued yesterday. |

The June Government estimate

placed the probable yield at 1,046, - | | leased on a bond of $10,000 today

000.000 bushels. The winter wheat estimate was reduced to 716,000,000 bushels as compared with 810,000,000 forecast last month, The expected spring wheat harvest was placed by the experts at 263,000,000 bushels, onlv a slight reduction from the previous figure.

MINE CAVE-IN KILLS ONE AND TRAPS SIX

PRACO, Ala. Julv 1 (U. P.).—One man was Killed and six others were trapped alive in a cavein today at

the Praco coal mine of the Alabama |

By-Products Co. One of the entombed miners was rescued later.

The cavein occurred 500 feet be- |

low the surface of the earth.

Rescue crews dug feverishly to

i reach the entombed men and re-

ported they could hear their voices faintly through a barrier of rock and debris.

Civil War Veterans Hear

Woodring at Gettysburg

(Editorial, Page 14)

GETTYSBURG, Pa. July 1 (U. P.) —In the peaceful surroundings | of rolling farm country, Secretary of War Woodring today welcomed 000 surviving veterans of the Civil War on the once shell-torn and

| bloody battlefieid of Gettysburg.

His address marked the formal opening of the 75th anniversary of the most bitterly fought battle of a war that pitted brother against | brother, and threatened to divide permanently the states of the Union. He bridged the 73 vears since the North and the South blundered into battle here by citing the even greater struggle of later vears to reconciliate the country and forget “the greatest fratricidal war that ever rocked the American continent.” Speaking of those who struggle to | build a united country, Mr. Woodring told the aged and feeble sur-| vivors of those blue and gray uni- | formed armies that “we of a later | generation are greatly heartened hy the inspiration of their achieve-

| ories.

Even to the scant

bloodstained battlefield, the events of 1863 now are only faint mem-

side by side today, listened to both Union and Confederate leaders of their own age and a much younger man—the Secretary of War—speak

a common pledge of fellowship for |

both the North and the South. “To tear-dimmed eves comes the vision of other days scenes,” Mr. Woodring said. “Todav the foes of long ago symbolize with a warm handclasp the reunion—material and spiritual—of the North and the South. “As we join in paving homage to our veterans—Iliving and dead— let us recall that all of us have a solemn obligation to our country

. we must guard with unfaltering |

fidelity the citadel of our freedom. We must defend and preserve our free institutions against

vert. We must cheerfully assume

| the obligations of true citizenship.” | England C. I. O. secretary.

| | | |

2000 veterans, | encamped on the slopes of a once |

Old men, most of them wear- | ing their blue or gray uniforms, sat |

and other |

FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1938

0.K BY BOARD PUSHES PLANS FOR ELEVATION

'Steeg Ordered to Ask PWA | Aid on South Side

VANNUYS GAINS IN SENATE RACE: ~ ACCEPTABLE TO WHALE, FARLEY

Track Project.

NEXT WEEK

‘Railroads Do Not Commit Selves on Sharing Of Cost.

APPLIES

The Works Board today approved | { preliminary plans for South Side | | track elevation and ordered City En- | gineer Henry B. Steeg to apply next | | week for a PWA grant to help | finance the project. | Mr, Steeg said he will go to Chicago PWA regional office the first of | the week and make application for 45 per cent of the estimated $3,085,000 total cost. Of the remaining 55 per cent, the Pennsylvania Railroad and the

Entered as Second-Class Indianapolis,

at Postoffice,

Matter Ind.

PRICE THREE CENTS

IF TOWNSEND GRANTS APPROVAL

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Indianapolis Union Railway would | |} | pay 50 per cent, the City 34 per cent |

and Marion County, 16 per cent. Plans Drawn

to-!

Plans approved today call for the elevation of the Indianapolis Union Railway over Madison Ave and East and Singleton Sts, and of the Pennsylvania Railroad over Madison Ave, East, Minnesota and Ray- | mond Sts, and Pleasant Run Blvd. Mr. Steeg said plans had been drawn after conferences with the railroad engineers. He emphasized, | however, that ‘the railroads have not committed themselves.” Railroad officials have indicated |

their willingness to help finance the | §

| project but have said they have no 8

money for it. Meanwhile, irate property owners | indicated today they would appeal | the assessments levied against them | by the Works Board for the paving of 11th St. between Colorado |

St. and Emerson Ave. | 25 Owners Appear

was paved several months ago at a contract price of $5.21 per lineal foot. Since it was | an original improvement, property | owners were forced to pay all of the | $30,168.09 cost. | About 25 property owners aps peared today to protest their assess-

The street

}

{ July than in any other month of | ments when the Board met to con-

firm them. The protestants charged they had been told by “either Louis

| rate of 14 lives and 1425 disabled | C. Brandt, Board president, or City

Engineer Henry B. Steeg” that the engineer's estimate on the job was $4.84 per lineal foot. No contract may be awarded at a | price above the engineer's estimate. Works Board records show that the! engineer's estimate was $591 per | | lineal foot. |

COUNT IN COURT ON GUN THREAT CHARGE

Barbara's Life Periled, Is Attorney's Plea.

LONDON, July 1 (U. os Second Court Haugwitz-Reventlow was re | and ordered to returnsto Bow Street | Police Court next Tuesday in connection with a charge that he threatened to shoot his wife, the former Barbara Hutton, 40 million dollar 5-and-10-cent store heiress. The handsome Danish Count was required to promise that he would not attempt to communicate with the Countess after Sir Patrick Hastings, her chief counsel, had made a dramatic reference to a “firearm” | in connection with the following charge: “That he (the Count) used threats toward the complainant (Countess Barbara) whereby she apprehends | that she goes in danger of her lid | or of some bodily harm that he will do or cause to be done to her.” | Count Haugwitz-Reventlow was | | permitted to put up half the bond | himself but the other half had to { be furnished by another surety. Count to Deny Charge |

that the! he had |

It was made plain | Count would deny that

| made any threats. It was apparent that the mysterious dispute between the Count and Countess was a final one and it was expected that proceedings would be started formally and at once in Danish courts for a separation, which would lead to a divorce. It was learned that the Countess already had put their 2-year-old son Lance under the protection of the | British courts and the Crown hy | | having him made a ward in chan-| | cery. This means that until he is 21, the Chancery Court may direct | | his upbringing and his education. |

HAPGOGD CONTEMPT CHARGE DISMISSED

AUGUSTA, Me. July 1 (U. P).— The Law Court—Maine’s Supreme Court—held yesterday that organ-| izers for C. I. O.s United Shoe Workers of America were guilty of | criminal conspiracy but innocent of | contempt of court in the 94-day | Lewiston-Auburn shoe strike last | year. Chief Justice Charles J. Dunn overruled exceptions in the conspiracy cases, while Justice Sidney | | St. Felix 'Thaxter dismissed the con- | | tempt cases for lack of evidence.

| cles. Harry L. Hopkins,

in here

VanNuys waits leaders

Senator Hoosier Democratic

his

t if the State convention can unite on him.

vacation retreat while unite factions for his

Michigan attempt, to

nomination by the July 12 state convention.

STOKES REPLIES

NATIONAL AFFAIRS STOKES STANDS by own findings in WPA survey. MONOPOLY PROBE plans today. SENATORS WARN of Relief polities. Story Page 9. BARKLEY WINS support of Bingham papers.

group lays

(Editorial, Page 14)

Writer Doubts Objectivity Of Hopkins Probe

Editor's Note—Mr. Stokes, whose recent dispatches on Kentucky polities-in-relief were attacked yesterday by: Harry L. Hopkins, herewith replies.

By THOMAS L. STOKES

Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, July 1.—As a re- | porter seeking facts I went to Ken- |

tucky a few weeks ago.

On the basis of my investigation, | which took me into all parts of the |

state—some 1400 miles by automobile—1 wrote a series of articles in which I concluded that the WPA there was deep in politics on behalf of Senator Barkley, and that the state governmental organization was deep in politics on behalf of Governor Chandler, his opponent. I called it “a grand political racket in whieh the taxpayer is the victim.” Following publication of my artiWPA ad-

of WPA

ministrator sent a corps

investigators from Washington into!

the state to investigate the WPA, On the basis of their reports he has

issued a 15-page statement taking | Out of 22 |

issue with my findings. counts, he finds the WPA guilty on two. He challenges others. It is perhaps natural that our reports should disagree. The motives were different. I was sent to Kentucky as a reporter. (Continued on Page Nine)

I had no other instructions |

Kin Still Keep 70 WPA DENIAL Columbo Death

From Mother

| HOLLYWOOD, July 1 (U. P).— | Nearly four years after the shooting of Russ Columbo, movie actor and band leader, members of the family are still perpetrating a merciful fraud upon his mother. Mrs. Julia Columbo, 74 and nearly blind, | still thinks he is alive and in Europe. They take turns writing [ her a weekly letter purportedly from

| Russ.

accidentally 1934, while Civil

Columbo was to death on Sept. 2, exhibiting an old-fashioned War cap and ball pistol to his friends. His mother was in the hospital and could not be told. The | relatives still think the shock

would kill her, so the {fraud goes on. |

Every week a letter arrives and is read to Mrs. Columbo. The letters tell her that Russ has be- | come famous in Europe and is too

busy to come home.

Everv month she receives a check |

She thinks Russ sends is from an in-

for $398. it, but the money surance policy.

HAGUE ISSUE URGED FOR SUPREME COURT

NEWARK, N. J. July 1 (U. P) .— The Supreme Court may give the final decision on the Jersey City free speech issue, it developed today after the C. I. O. and the American Civil Liberties Union, as plaintiffs, and Jersey City officials,

as defendants, had made their final |

pleas. Before Federal Judge William Clark counsel for both sides summed up the weeks of testimony during which Mayor Frank Hague and other officials sought to disprove charges that constitutinoal rights of free speech and assemblage had been denied to the plaintiffs in Jersey City. Judge Clark urged that the losing side carry an appeal to the Supreme ' Court,

Supreme Court Delays Ruling on Election Probe

Supreme Court Judge Curtis W. Roll announced this afternoon that no action would be taken today on Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer’s petition for a writ of prohibition against Criminal Court Judge Frank P. Baker. Mr. Spencer is seeking to prevent Judge Baker from proceeding further in his announced plan of conducting a special investigation into alleged primary election fraud. Judge Roll explained he was the only member of the Supreme Court present today. The entire court is not to return to the State House until July 7. He said he planned to study the

| petition thoroughly, but preferred to

wait and confer with his colleagues before any final action was taken. The State Tax Board is to conduct a hearing tomorrow on a $15,000 ap-

ya check of County finances dis-

| closed no surpluses from which the |

| fund could be spent.

| The blame for any delay in the | investigation of election ballots was |

laid directly to Judge Baker today | by Prosecutor Spencer. | The Prosecutor said Judge Baker, | several weeks ago, advised Deputy | Prosecutor Henry O. Goett to have the Grand Jury delay any investigation at that time. When the present Grand Jury appeared in Court today, Judge Baker asked them if they had been asked to hear anv evidence on election irregularities. The jurors replied they had not. Yesterday Judge Baker said Mr. Spencer had made no effort to probe the election. | “If the people don’t want a special investigation it is all right with me,” | Judge Baker commented after the

| propriation for the inquiry, asked |jury had been dismissed. “But I

shot |

‘All Right With Me,’

After Senator G.O.P. In

By DANIEL Senator VanNuys’

drive for i | gained momentum rapidly today with the road apparently

Says Schricker, State

Administration Favorite; McNutt Aids Discuss Situation at Parley.

LOCAL CANDIDATES ARE FAVORABLE

Governor Hints Softening of His Attitude

Rejects Talk of dorsement.

M. KIDNEY

Democratic nomination

cleared of most obstacles except the wavering Governor

. | Townsend. | Today's developments inc

luded :

1. The McHale-McNutt group withdrew opposition to Senator VanNuys subject to Townsend approval,

2. Senator Minton

brought

word that the Roosevelt

Administration will not fight Senator VanNuys because

of his anti-Administration cot

HEARINGS SET "ON PLATFORM

Democratic Advisory Group Holds Parley Here, Fixes Dates.

Public hearings on proposals for planks to be submitted to the Democratic State convention will be | started by the resolutions advisory | committee at 9:30 a. m. next Friday, | the committee decided today. The group, named by State Chairman Omer Stokes Jackson to prepare a resolutions draft for the convention resolutions committee to be named at district caucuses July 11, selected as its chairman Anderson Ketchum, 10th District chairman and State Tax Board secretary. James L. Beattey, Decatur, State Committee secretary, was named secretary. The committee will hold all sessions in Parlor B at the Claypool Hotel. Invited to appear before the group the first day, July 8, are State Department heads and Senator Minton. The next two days will be | devoted to various groups such as the Indiana Farm Bureau Inc. taxpayers’ and voters’ organizations.

Merit System Urged

The committee will remain in session until the convention resolutions committee is named. Members of the advisory group informally dis- | cussed various planks which may be | submitted, but took no formal ac- | tion. Among the proposed planks al-

ready before the committee for con- | | sideration are two submitted by the |

| Indiana League of Women Voters. They are similar to the League's | proposals adopted in the Republican platform this week. One urges revision of Indiana's marriage laws. The other asks immediate adoption of the merit system in all State institutions, partic-

ularly penal institutions and State | other |

hospitals, with extension to departments as soon as possible. Proposals of the Indiana Farm | Bureau, Inc., include:

surplus; revise law to apply, as much as possible, {on miles traveled; amend the pres- | ent budget law to provide a longer | budget officials. ] Back Tax Limitation

and consideration by local

| tation law virtually as it is now, [except for such modifications as might strengthen it; retain the Gross Income Tax law without substantial modification; continue distribution of the present State teachers’ aid of $700 per teaching

tax rates, which at present vary | from nothing to as high as $3.12 per | $100 valuation. Meanwhile, it was announced that | Senator Minton would open his headquarters near the State committee rooms at the Claypool, Tuesday, with his secretary, James C. | Penman, Brazil, in charge. | Mr. Jackson announced appoint- | ment of Sheriff E. F. Diekman, | Evansville, as convention sergeant- | at-arms and Michael Scoolard, Terre Haute, as chief doorkeeper. Members of the advisory commit- | tee are Frederick F. Eichhorn, Gary; | Rabert Arthur, Logansport; Walter McInerny, South Bend; John H. Heller, Decatur; Robert R. Batton, Marion; Tom O'Mara, Terre Haute; | Judge John W. Baumunk, Brazil; | Floyd J. Hemmer, Huntingburg; Perry McCart, Paoli; Mr. Ketchum; | Harry R. Baldwin, Anderson Mayor, |and E. Curtis White, Indianapolis.

STOCKS AT YEAR'S HIGH NEW YORK, July 1 (U. P.).—The

| Among the defendants in the con- | by Judge Baker and approved re- | think I should be allowed to proceed. | stock market today recovered all of

| formerly of Indianapolis,

15698A

by the State Tax Board, I will ask (Continued, on Page Nine)

new high ground for the year in moderately active trading,

3 £

Take the Social Welfare load off | | the property tax, either by special | tax or use of the State Treasury | the truck tire tax

period between advertising of the |

Retention of the present tax limi- |

irt vote, as originally planned,

3. Lieut. Gov. Henry Schricker, the Townsend Sene atorial candidate, in a state ment to The Times said: “It (is all right with me if they patch it up with VanNuys.” 4. Democratic County candidates and potential State candidates, ine cluding a strong Marion County group, increased their VanNuys pressure on the State House faction. These developments followed Gove | ernor Townsend's statement late yes= terday that the July 12 State cone | vention would be “open” and ade | mitting that there was some sentie ment for Senator VanNuys. This was [the first time he had opened the | door even a crack for VanNuys since {he virtually read the senior Senator out of the party nine months ago.

Meet With Elder

{ Frank McHale, Democratic na= | tional committeeman, returned to | the city today, having been absent | since the first of the week, and pre=~ ; dicted that a final decision regard- | ing the VanNuys’ selection will like- | ly be made within the next 24 or 48 hours. The matter is in the hands | Governor Townsend, he declared. A meeting of the Democratic | state organization's hoard of | strategy was called today at the | Chamber of Commerce offices of | Bowman Elder, a McNutt leader. | Those present included Mr. Mec~ { Hale, Virgil M. Simmons, State | Conservation Director and liason | man between the State House and the McNuit high command, and Senator Minton. It is considered likely that they also communicated with Governor Townsend.

Brings Roosevelt Views

Senator Minton came up from New Albany yesterday. A 100 per cent New Dealer, he and his sene ior colleague often have heen at | loggerheads on national Adminise | tration matters. | Senator Minton brought to the unity conference the viewpoint of | the National Administration ree garding Senator VanNuys’' renome ination. “So far as both President Roose velt and Jim Farley ure concerned, the Indiana Democrats are pere fectly capable of making their own selection,” Senator Minton said. Factors favoring the new Vane Nuys drive are understood to be: 1. The conviction of many Demo= cratic county candidates and potential state candidates that they need Mr. VanNuys to head their | ticket to win. 2. The desire of the McNutt-Mc- | Hale organization to unify Hoosier Democracy as an essential basis for the McNutt-for-President drive of | 1940, 3. The lukewarm attitude of | Lieut. Gov. Schricker, who would | prefer to run for Governor two | years hence than make the Sena~ | torial race this year; and his willing« | ness to support Mr. VanNuys if | Governor Townsend can be recone ciled to such a course.

unit practically as it is, and equal- | izing of the township poor relief |

Republicans Seen Gaining

4. The action of the Republican | state convention this week in uniting | on Raymond Willis, who is expected | to weld the old Watson and anti« Watson factions in a strong Repub lican campaign this fall, 5. The primary results in Iowa and elsewhere, indicating the danger of Administration attempts to punish popular Senatorial candidates for their refusal to give the President a blank check in New Deal legislation. 6. Indications that the business depression increases Republican chances and therefore necessitates a unification of Democratic factions if the latter are to hold power. 7. Senator VanNuys' reassertion last week that he was a Democrat and would not accept a Republican nomination even if it were offered him. Senator VanNuys, vacationing at Walloon Lake, Mich., declined to comment when informed by The Times of the changing situation. Asked if he might terminate his vacation sooner than he had planned and return to Indianapolis (Continued on Page Three) ¥