Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1939 — Page 1
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VOLUME 51 NUMBER 119
FRIDAY, JULY =, 1939.
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“Food Prices Here 18 Per Cent Less Than Year Ago
REAL SURVEY REVEALS DROP
Additional “Stash | in Weekly
- Grocery Bill Forecast by: U. S. Experts. ‘By DAVID MARSHALL Mrs. Indianapolis Housewife today is paying approximately 18 per cent less for food than she did a year ago, a survey of local reiail foods prices disclosed today. ; A ‘market ‘basket containing two dozen eggs, two loaves of bread, three quarts of milk, a pound of butter,” a six-pound veal roast, ‘10 pounds of potatoes, a dozen oranges, | « a watermslon, a pound of beans, a
caulifiower, a pound of coffee, & pounds of sugar: and 24 pounds of
. flour today would cost $451. A year |
ago it would have sold for $5.35. Furthermore, Mrs. ‘Housewife can
look forward to an additional drop |
in the weekly grocery 'bill' by the} summer of 1940 if governmental crop experts’ predictions:come true and the Government does not neg prices. The: * experts say. that..the United States wheat and corn Crops this year will top’ last year’s heavy harvests. Carryovers Cited
With large carryovers from the 1938 crop added to another bumper harvest, only governmental pricepegging can keep prices from tumbling further, local brokers say. | It is largely because of the huge wheat . and corn crops of last fall!” that retail “food prices" today dre nearing a five-year low, they explain. Heavy harvests in fruits and vegetables in 1938 also have knocked down prices. > Meat prices are almost Wholly de-’ pendent on the .value of grain. After a large harvest when the farmer is unable to sell his crop, most of it " goes to feed his stock. A year agp farmers were receiving 35 cents for corn and $9 for hogs.
It. was far more profitable to feed.
.the cheap corn to the hogs and then sell ‘the hogs than to.sell the corm. Today. all- pork products are 19 per cent cheaper than a year ago because of.a 20 per cent .ise in the hog population. Now again the largest corn varryover on “record is expectéd for Oct. 1, brokers here say.
‘Wheat Price Down -
- Low wheat prices also effect current market values of beef and veal. Another, bumper = wheat - crop throughout the world is expected in the fall: Wheat at Liverpool, England, last week sold at the lowest .] figure since the year 1582. The Cav (Continued on Page Three) a
CITY HEADS TO STUDY BUDGET NEXT WEEK
City Departifient heads will be called into conference next week by City “Controller James E. Deery to study 1940 budget estimates. While officials would not disclose whether estimates are ranging higher this year than last, it was under- . stood that the Park and Streets Departments would - ask increases. Officials : have indicated they will seek to prevent the Civil City tax rate from exceeding the. $1.30 levy in- effect this year.
TIMES FEATURES * ON INSIDE PAGES.
Movies Mrs. Ferguson 14 Obituaries oe
; Books . 14 Clapper 13 “Comics -....- 23 Crossword “an 22 Editorials .....
Financial
essen
Questions ... 13 Radio 15 Mrs, Roosevelt 13 Scherrer Serial Story.. 23 3 | Society Sports 18, 19, 20 State Deaths. 9
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_ In Indpls. ‘Jane Jordan: . Johnson .-
_stantly being tracked into their
| Allison on 24-Hour Basis,
Makes 2 ’ Motors a Week
| New Factory Units Under ilar Construslion as More Government Orders .Are Anticipated.
By SAM TYNDALL
The Allison Engineering Co. has stepped up operations in its ex- | and now is producing two finished |
perimental plant to ai24-hour basis
war-plane motors a week. Otto T. Kreusser, general manager, said today. At the same time work is being speeded to complete the $6,000,000 factory additions to the experimental unit at Speedway City, which, Mr: Kreusser said, would begin operation “about ‘Sept. 1.”
West Siders F ind Pay Dirt
&ROUP of West Side residents: asked the Works Board. members today, {D> you gentlemen’ like to eat dirt?” Board- members replied they - did .not. + “We ‘have eaten dirt all summer and we're tired of it,” the residents said, ,in’ demanding that the Board grant. a -petition to , pave W. 23d St. from Sugar Grove Ave. to Harding St. They ‘asserted the-street’ had not béen oiled. all summer, that rain flooded it and that mud was con-
"homes. The Board granted the petition.
URGE PRIVATE GIFTS
FOR BAND CONCERTS;
City Park Officials Report Demand for Programs.
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City park officials today urged private contributions to help finance park band concerts as hundreds: of requests for more free programs were received at City Hall. Only two free concerts are scheduled ‘at ‘Garfield Park because of a reduction in the Park Board’s 1939 budget. Another was made possible by a private donation. Park officials ‘have indicated that they will ask funds to finance a full series of 10 next year. “Thousands upon thousands ' of Indianapolis citizens enjoy good music,” one™ person wrote, “We would «rat, er have the band concerts, than {the water company.” , Another pester “Five members of our family atterided the, ceneert at Garfield Park recently, and all were delighted with | the music.” [We hope we shall have
{the pleasure of hearing at least six
more concerts this summer.” Some who _signed themselves “Music. Loyers” and “Music Enthusiasts’”- said that they thought it was unfortunate that more concerts have not been arranged: this year.
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
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Times Special WASHINGTON, July 28.—Paul V. McNutt will address the Young Democrats at their Pittsburgh convention Aug. 11; he. informed Charles H. Shreve, executive secretary, today. As the new head of the Federal Security Agency, Mr. McNutt said he: felt that his address should be “non-political,” and he will discuss “the liberalism of youth” and then tell how: the ‘agencies over which he presides function.’ , Mr. McNutt had accepted the invitation to address the convention before he took his new job. For a time he considered canceling the engagement on the ‘grounds that it might be criticized as an open bid oP Presidential ‘nomination in 4 Since President Roosevelt is unable to attend the former Indiana] | Governor decided to go and it is un-
| derstood that this- has White House
approval.
request said: |’
The new factory units are being built to place the General Motors’
division on a full-time quantity pro[duction basis to fill Sandy War Department orders for 800 cooled, 1200 horsepower engines designed for Army pursuit and interceptor. fightihg craft. - Mr. Kreusser also said the division anticipates additional orders for motors from the War Department
* {within the next few weeks.
Extra Parts Are Made
He said that the first order for 800 motors opened the way to establishing the division as a production factory in addition to an experimental plant. The first order was placed about three months ago. Included in the contract for the original order was a “proviso” under which the division “could expect additional orders,” Mr. Kreusser said. it. was. on: the additional #grder proviSo that the huge expansion program, trebling the size of present facilities, was undertaken. In addition to producing about eight finished motors a month with present facilities the experimental plant is turning out “hundreds of extra parts” for the motors to be built in the future, Mr. Kreusser said. Eighty Per Cent Finished
The production of extra parts now will save steps when the new factories go into operation in September, he said. The new factory buildings, south of the exprimental plant, are ap-
proximately 80 per cent completed, | he said. The 12-cylinder engine was .de-
signed to fit: fighting ships of the Bell Aircraft and Curtiss companies.
Certain design details were worked
out jointly by engineers of the three companies, Thé War Department order calls for an expenditure of approximately $15,000,00 for 80) Power plants. $
LITTLE EAGLE CREEK BRIDGE BONDS SOLD
‘The County Commissioners today
sold $5400 worth of bonds :te Kenneth. 8S. Johnson, Indianapolis broker, to obtain funds for con- | struction of a concrete bridge over
TH Eagle Creek at 10th St.
The interest rate will be 114 per cent. The contract will be awarded | soon and construction started within two weeks. ;
‘Absolutely’
liquid-| effents os
OF HATCH'S BILL
Indorses = Its Aims. but Questions Its ~ Constitutionality. WASHINGTON, July 28- (U. P.). — President Roosevelt said today
that he is absolutely in favor of the objectives of the Hatch Bill to curb
politics. by Federal employees but ‘that the measure is receiving care-
ful .study 10 determine its Sedine
he ‘Bill's objectives, his . ess Oo se. dis= cussion ‘of -it was critical and he said that its language was. §0 vaglie as to raise Constitutional questions. If -he studies the bill during his week-end cruise, it will be in company of Commerce Secretary Harry
L. Hopkins, Frank' C. Walker, a|
long-time personal and political associate, and White House aids. . Next ‘Thursday Deadline Mr. Roosevelt said that the bill still is under study. It arrived at the White House this week for signa-. ture or-veto by Aug. 3. In reply to a direct question as to whether he favored the bill's objec-
tives, the President answered in a single word: Absolutely.
The bill’s’ author,” Senator Carl!
A. ‘Hatch (D. N. M.), who discussed it with President Rdosevelt and Attorney General Frank Murphy yesterday, said today “there is a definite and eertain’ answer to every
question” the President raised. He |
said ‘the language of the bill was that ~ of the. long-familiar Qivil Service Act. Mr. Roosevelt indicated that there are many phases of the measure under- the most. serious consideration. He cautioned reporters nct to speculate one way or another or to draw from his statements any direct inference as to. what he Yidmatsly will do. Calls Language Vague
The language in the ‘bill, Mr. Roosevelt declared, is Very .vague as to what Government: employees could do or-could not ‘do should it become a law. For instance, he asked, who would enforce the law and how would its provisions aply to Government employees other than Federal workers. For .example, Mr. Roosevelt said if you are a voter and also a Federal employee, can you attend a political meeting? Supposing, he said, your best friend is running for political
‘office. Can you sit on the platform at one of his political meetings?
Mr. Roosevelt was asked whether he had heard reports that some persons believed the bill would strengthen’ state political machines while working. toward dissolution of the big ‘ Federal organizations.: Mr. Roosevelt replied that the bill has not been considered from the political angle at all.
For Ha teh Bil
Limes Special
NEW YORK, July 28 —“Major credit” for the passage of the Hatch Bill goes to the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, says Raymond Moley in the current issue of the magazine Newsweek, of which he is editor. “The Hatch Bill's passage by the House was another vcte of no confidence,” writes Mr. Moley. “It was the defiant answer to the President’s reluctance to admit that politics had tainted WPA to any degree, and to his Dooh-poohing of earnest, legislative efforts to ‘Toot. it out. “It is interesting <at. the very moment when the President was engaged in his favorite pastime of denouncing the press, the ScrippsHoward people were aehieving the finest piece of journalistic enterprise
Scripps-Howard Credi ted
WILL HEAR M’NUTT
Bill Passage
in many a day. To them goes the major credit for the triumph of the Hatch Bill.” In the letters-to-the-Editor section of the same issue appears this query from a Newsweek reader in Green Cove Springs, Fla.: “How is it that Newsweek seemed to be carrying on a lone editorial crusade for’ the Hatch Bill . . .? None of the newspapers we see “carried a line about it until the House finally passed it. ..°, Can it be that the so-called ‘tree press” was awed by the President's amazing opposition | io this ‘splendid mave?”
‘To this’ was appended the fol- g
lowing editorial comment: “Newsweek was not alone. The. entire Seripps-Howard chain ‘campaigned vigorously for the Hatch Bill all summer and is widely credi with fon roused public sentiment for
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ny nw OF CITY PARKS I SE HES
Population, ‘Survey ~ Discloses.
NEW PLAYLOTS STUDIED
om
To Provide Facilities in Crowded. Zones.
More than 80. ver cent of the City's park and playground acreage is readily accessible to only half “the population, a . survey showed today. :
recreation acreage lies within a ‘two-mile radius of Monument Circle within which 45 per cent of the City’s population dwells, according to the survey. The study was made after plans for a park expansion program next year were- disclosed. Park officials contemplate adding 100 acres of parkland’ and 15 playgrounds to the recreation system. . Clustered in heavily built-up sections, the 45 per cent of the population living within the two-mile radius must travel from one-half to three miles 40 reach a large park or playground.
‘Parks Far From City’s Center
To the other 55 per cent, who dwell in less densely populated areas, 80 per cent of the total park and playground acreage is: readily available. - Nine of the City's largest parks, with a combined acreage of 1705— more than half the total for the whole system—are from two and a half to seven miles from the center, of the City. 2 They are Riverside, largest City park with 996.85 acres; Douglas, 71,03; Christian, 60.60; Ellenberger, 42,58; .Garfield, 128.62; Holliday, 79.83; Washington. 12867; Liitle Eagle Creek, 183.66, and Woollens Gardens which lies outside the City. Within the two-mile radius, there are Willard Park. 14.71 acres; part of Brookside Park; Highland Park Square; Camp Sullivan and about 11° ‘Playgrounds. The ‘total acreage. is 427.23. When the 1940 census is. compiled, it. may show. a smaller percentage of the population residing within the two-mile: radius of the Circle than in 1930. Population Shift Noted City officials and Chamber of Commerce = statisticians estimate that in the. past eight and a half years, the ropulation of the twomile radius has remained, static, while the population has 'ingreased in the north, northeast and gast. Other population | increas S been. noted" in Speedway ‘and in southwest Indianapolis, according to the Indianapolis Council of Social Agencies. In its July report, the Council expressed the hope that Park oficials would pay particular attention to population density and parkland distribution in picking sites for ad‘(Continned on Page Three)
TRAIN JUMPS RAILS HIGH IN PASS, 15 HURT
190 Santa Fe Passengers Jolted- Near Grand Canyon.
GRAND CANYON, Ariz, July 28 (U. P.).—Grand Canyon National Park authorities reported today that “atleast 15 persons” were injured when a twin-engined Santa Fe
passenger train, rounding a turn in \a 7000-foot mountain pass, lurched from the rails and overturned with 190 persons aboard. None was’ believed in serious condition. The wreck was six miles south of the Grand Canyon. The. 12-car train was traveling about 25 miles an hour. W. P. Robillard, engineer. ‘of the second’ locomotive, said his engine | began to “jump up and down” as it began a sweeping, left-hand turn. ‘A moment later, he said both of the engines jumped the track—orie to the right and one to the-left. A combination baggage and chair car carrying-30 persons overturned. One Pullman was thrown completely off the rails. Two others were derailed partially. > Busses took .the uninjured passengers to Williams, Ariz., to board a mainline train for Los Angeles.
FOUR U. S. EXPERTS DIE IN PLANE CRASH
LONDON, July 28 (U. P.).—Four American technicians were killed today in testing an American Lockheed airplane in Cheshire. The plane was being tested for the British Royal Air Force. . The plane crashed and burned.
MAN AND WIFE SLAIN’ ASKING AUTO ROUTE
HARLAN, Ky. July 28 . Py— David B. Sullins, 39, of Knoxville, Tenn., and his wife were shot fo death early today at Evarts, Ky., near here, when they stopped to ask driving directions. Mr. Sullins was a wealthy Knoxville man. The assaailant fled in the darkness.
Social Council Urges Board |
Only 20 per cent of the City’s
have,
Foo Cool, Hot, Stormy—-
It’s a Vicious
: All Can Be Explained by a Pause for Reflection— | holley of Heat From Hot Pavements).
Weather Cycle
By JOE COLLIER = ¢
‘ORE freakish thunderstorms, resulting from an almost fantastic combination 6f- meteorological ¢ircumstances, are due here this
afternoon or tonight, the Weather
Bureau said.
After ‘the storms, there will be a cool spell but tomorrow it will warm up again, J. .-H. Armington, meteorologist,
type of storm * capricious: as
water and left These are
morning. roof tops: of the downtown area, back into the air. 2 ” HR
added. © He said the behavior of this particular
is unpredictable and often is as yesterday’s, which drenched the
downtown section with’ about 6,800,000 pounds of
most of the residential section dry. called mass storms, he said, and
occur when the ‘atmosphere, moisture laden from the Gulf of Mexico, lies in a huge mass that is “very close to being of the same consistency. Mr. Arrhington took yesterday’s freak storm -as a text and explained the fundamental reasons | for its occurence. A lazy mass of air hung over the City in the As the sun heated the pavements and
the pavements reflected ’ the heat
sl #2 8
HIS caused the downtown air to get hotter than the air over the
shaded residential ‘sections. As it got hotter, it tended to expand
and thus become lighter.
This process kept up until something hap-
pened that set off a shaft of this super-heated air and it rose swiftly through: the upper, cooler and heavier air. =
‘Mr. that this shaft could have been
Armington said it’ is not inconceivable
started by an
ambulance rushing down a street or a man wav-
ing his hat. thunderstorm is in: the making. - The shaft rises until it reaches
point that becomes the bottom of the clcud. More
Once the shaft has started, the
a condensation
and more of this air rushes upward, vaporizes and
. adds to the cloud.
Meanwhile, cooler air from the
residential sec-
tions rushes in to take the place of €he ascending
air. As the cloud condenses, the
drops of water
are shuifled around, gathering weight and: being divided, until the mass gets too heavy and the rain
descends in torrents.
And that, Mr. ‘Armington said, is the private
life of the thunderstorms that have gotten Indianapolis weather conscious in.the last three or four days.
New Fears Grip Belgrade, Where War ar Began i in 1914 ..
Jugoslavia, Key to Balkans, Finds Only Hope for Peace in : Rivalry Between’ Hitler and ‘Mussolini.
By. WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, July 28.—Here at the eonflustics’ of the Danube. nd Sava Rivers, where the Balkans begin, the first. shells of
the Wor
War fell 25 years ago tomorrow.
Today the bastions of the ancient Turkish fortress Kale-Migdan
enclose a terraced park overlooking the historic rivers.
Here the first
soldiers fell in the Armageddon of 1914, and here in Soustent ‘reminder
i die veRy stone bench“where the, aiser a rter cen contemplating The newly TY a ago: quest stretched out below. But young lovers do not stroll in the gardens, planning their future, nor does the older generation: sit
down here to dream of the past.| «-
Young and old alike are now filled
with misgivings: lest ibioegy history |:
repeat.
Every Jugoslav’s ears are listening for the first shots of ‘another Armageddon. Jugoslavia’s position is. particularly : precarious. Little Serbia was doubled in size and became the nation she is today as a result of the World War, but an-
other such conflict: might well dis-
member or even destroy her utterly as an independent power. ~~. Cut Off From Aid The sympathies of the Jugoslavs are wholly with the Anglo-French bloc. Officially, however, the Government is desperately: striving to keep friendly with both sides. hoping that if the worst comes she can remain neutral. > Jugoslavia is almost surrounded by the axis powers and countries dominated by them. Across the
y Adriatic, and southward in Albania,
is Italy. On the north are Gerany and’ Hungary. On ‘the east is Bulgaria. England and France are > long way off. . If the axis suddenapplied pressure to the nutcracki hetween whose jaws Jugoslavia now lies, whal--she asks—could she do? True, Jigoslavis is a member of the Little Entente. But the Little Entente collapsed when Adolf Hitler swallowed Czechoslovakia. Rumania, the other member; is on the spot herself. Rumania on the Spot It is also true that Jugpslavia is a member of the Balkan Entente. along with Rumania, Turkey and Greece. But while she pluckily refuses to heed axis hints that she should withdraw from the group, she is in no position to defy them to the extent of taking steps to imPlamen the Entente as its other bers would like her to do. For after all, Belgrade asks realistically, what would happen if, while the eves of the world were focused ; (Continued on Page Three)
LOCAL TEMPERATURES ‘6 a. m 75 11 a.m... Tam... 71 12 (ndon), 8a. m... 81 1pm... 9a.m... 85 2pm... 10 a. m....- 87 :
86 | 88 88 89
Ding Dong Bell, Bobbie in Well
ROADALBIN, N. Y., July 28 (U. P.).—When his mother said “Ding: dong bell," pussy’s in ‘the well,” 3-year-old Bobbie Brown assumed she was making a statement of fact. ‘He went out to the well, leaned over to look. lost his balance and fell in, striking against several jagged rocks before hitting the water eight feet below. Rising to the’ -surface, Bobbie clutched at-an iron pipe and shouted for “Mommie.” An uncle extricated him. “I'll never go to that place again,” ‘Bobby. said, angrily. “There's no pussy in the well.”
1 DEAD, 14 HURT AS BUS HITS CULVERT
ALTOONA, Pa., July 28 (U. P.).— An Oakmont, Pa., steelworker was killed -and 14 persons injured, several seriously, when a Pittsburghbound Greyhound bus skidded on a rain-swept turn beneath a railroad culvert and smashed into a concrete abutment. ‘Ray Orlando Kelly, 59, of Oak‘mont, Pa., died of a fractured skull and internal injuries. : Injured. seriously enough to be hospitalized were Pauline Woodward, ‘36, Dublin, Ind., schoolteacher, fractured shoulder and internal injuries, and Howard Woodward, 30, her brother; shock and bruises.
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GRANTS PASS, Ore., July 28 (U. about 30 miles north of here on the
Pacific Highway today. injuring at least four persons.
SHE NOSE NOW THAT IT WASN'T HER CAT
YORK, Pa., July 28 (U. P.).—MTrs.
| |Cora McNeil vowed today that never
again would she hunt her pet cat outdoors after dark. She chased the “cat” ‘after dark and caught it by
{'| the tail.
It was a skunk.
That Rustle
| a
Is Mamma uma With Bustle
SAN FRANGISGO, July 28 (U, Pp). —Don’t look now, but isn’t that mamma wearing grandma’s bustle? ~ It is for a fact, but the bustle, 20th
: ‘| Century type, is as streamlined as a|
train, though not quite so large. Perhaps it is the Hollywood influence of scores of costume pictures; perhaps it is the science of air-con-ditioning catching up with feminine style. At any rate, the bustle is back. The thousands who came fo San Francisco today for a glimpse. of the San Francisco Exposition’ found
themselves casting Bulging + eyes at
concealed mouse traps bird cages on the back of ea evening gowns and they wonderad what it all meant,
and Tussle,
Buyers who .came from all over the country to select fall offerings also noted that the smart wardrobes included:
the elongated basque; Buttons, almost as many Wubions as London’s costers wear; _ Pla front and back, for day-| tim ind’ Sweeping flares for evening; Tucks and ‘shirring for blouses | and girdles. .Even the hats were influenced by, the bustles. They showed a: drop of ribbons or feathers to ma
P.).—A Greyhound bus overturned:
The daguerreotype silhouette with
30k :
GARNER SBLOC.
IS ANGERED BY LEWIS | BLAST
same: Obsaivers servers Feel Texe«
an’s Chances for 1940 Lead Are Improved.
|VICE PRESIDENT CHEERED
New ‘Dealers Remain’ ‘silent After Murphy Retreats On His Guffaws. - (Other National al Ata, Page 1)
“WASHINGTON, Ju July 28 (U.P.) = The question of ‘whether Vice Presi
| dent John N. Garner is an evil old
man who plays poker, drinks whisky and baits labor became a part of the 1940 pre-convention campaign totay amid a nfs of ‘angry discussion. A considerable section of Cone gress is incensed by those charges made by C. I. O. President. John L. Lewis. But Mr. Lewis hit not only at Mr, Garner but at the entire conservae tive wing of the Democratic Party. He practically challenged them to
‘| put their man—any of their men-—
in the White House next year. New Dealers Silent
President Roosevelt offered no comment on the Lewis attack today. He said that the same gentleman
some references to him which produced no comment and he had none on this latest statement. New Dealers were slow to come ment on the extraordinary situation created by Mr. Lewis’ remarks. After Mr. Lewis finished, Chairman Mary T. Norton (D. N. J.) of the House r Committee told him: hank you, Mr. Lewis, for your Jory fine contribution to this meete ng. But she made the ‘same remark after the testimony of each witness, Murphy Changes Mind One comment was made by a ranking New Dealer—Attorney Gene eral. Frank: Murphy... When: the Lewis statement was read to him, he guffawed and said: eloquent to-comment on.” Hardly had his. comment been carried out over the news wires, however, when Mr. Murphy's press attaches issued a ‘formal: statement declaring that the Attorney General | oy mis tnderstood the Lewis quotation and
American.” It was remarked here that Lewis! attack emphasized the fact that Mr; Garner has become ‘the symbol of conservative Democratic rebellion against the other wing of the po=
President Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936.
the House Labor Committee reflect« ed in some degree an! inffectual
ed the 1932 Democratic National Convention at which Publisher: Wil«
tain the Presidential nomination for yGarner. 5
All Comment Touches 1940- .
The Texan never took public noe tice of the whispered reports of his personal habits. He refused comment yesterday. But a natiemal magazine which might have been suspected of supporting his presi= dential candidacy in 1932 ‘appeared one day with a. life story’ which abtuptly stated that he did not drink. The incident excited some comment here. Today's judgment of the effect of Mr. Lewis’ blast: on Mr. Garner's
1940 Democratic Presidential nomination varied from the cautiously ex= pressed belief that it would make no difference to emphatic assurances that it would deliver the nomination and the election to Mr. Garner. Senator Morris Sheppard (D, Tex.), who indorsed a petition supporting Mr. Garner’s Presidential candidacy, took another tack and an extremely important one. Senator Sheppard was the outstanding dry statesman of the Prohibition era,
{He was the father of the ..18th
Amendment and, annually, on the anniversary of its effective date he rises in the Senate chamber and speaks in praise of Prohibition and its objectives. |
Sheppard Defends Garner If Mr. Garner drank whisky, played poker or was evil, the voice of one highly respected in circles where such practices are decried would stoutly defend him against those charges.
“I do not kiow what thie Vics (Continued on Page Three)
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ROOSEVELT DOESN'T _CHOOSE TO CHOOSE
WASHINGTON, July 28 (U. P)), —President, Roosevelt is’ not ready yet to say when he will announce his intentions on a third term. _ Asked at his press conference toe day if he was 8 leady to say when the country ht expect a states ment of his d term intentions,
“No. ” STOCKS SLIGHTLY LOWER
Stocks were slightly lower in an ire regular range despite cheering busie ness news and encouraging second quarter corporate earnings reports. Intermittent attempts to rally the list diseloseq a lack of buying. ins ‘teres :
$400 TN TIN CANS STOLEN
The theft of more than $4000 hones he had Suen in tin it ; . 28th
the extra fullness at the lower on reported to police
of the coat.
(Mr. Lewis) had i wh made
“That's - too .
that he- considered after “a great
litical machine which helped elect Mr. Lewis’ public remarks before - whispering campaign which preced- -
liam Ranoldph Hearst sought to obs
anti-third term eandidacy for tha
Mr. Roosevelt grinned and saids :
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