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FINAL HOME

VOLUME 51—-NUMBER 239

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BRITISH BOMB REICH PLANES AT SEA BASES

Attacks Follow North Sea Battle Between Aircraft And Nazi Fleet.

BULLETIN LONDON, Dec. 15

(U. P)—

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1939

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

PRICE THREE CENTS

| British Naval and Air Force cir- | | cles reported today that they be- | lieved the menace of German

mine-laying airplanes has been broken by Roval Air Force “security patrols” which again last night and this morning bombed

| German seaplanes moored in their northwest Germany bases,

LONDON, Dec. 15 (U. P.).—Royal

Air Force planes last night and to- § day bombed German seaplanes at

their base moorings vesterday's battle R. A. F. craft and Nazi Naval vessels

{and pursuit planes, the Air Ministry | announced.

ALR A t met Hollywood's Scarlett

celebration. Margaret whe wore Scarlett O'Hara's gown

Scarlet

at the premiere ball last night because her measurements were closest

to those of Vivien Leigh, right, wh =

‘Gone With Wind’ Bows in

World Prem

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tere Tonight

‘It Was Almost Too Big for

Georgia's Tumultuous Reception.

By HENRY

Me to Take,” Gable Says of

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M'LEMORE

United Press Staff Correspondent

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 15—

Atlanta opened its arms and

doubled its fists for tonight's premiere of “Gone With the Wind.”

For three hours and 47

minutes,

the Hollywood version of

Margaret Mitchell's saga of the war between the States will be un- | reeled before a hyp-critical audience of 20th Century Confederates. | Refore midnight, the town may be burming for the second time,

if Clark Gable's Rhett Butler isn't 100 per cent Charlestonian, and Vivien Leigh's Scarlett O'Hara isn't 24-karat middle-Georgia. Of the 2100 persons who will sit in| Loew's Grand Theater for the first! showing, 80 per cent will be] descendants of Johnny Rebs, whose | muskets smoked for the Stars and] Bars back in 62. A smaller percentage will be rheumy-eyved. stumbly-stepping soldiers, who aren't fighting now because they gave all, they had some 70 years ago. One misplaced “you all” and the Rebel vell will sound again. One| faulty “sho-nuf” and Selznick Pictures, Inc, may be gone—if not with the wind, certainly with the box-office below the Mason and Dixon line,

STATE C. OF C. TO SCAN TAXES

Howard Friend Heads Newly Established Department Of Research.

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A research department to make a detailed study of state taxation

The Ministry said that the latest

attacks took place over the bases

of Borkum, Nordernev and Syit in

following § between other §

Helgoland Bight in connection with | \

| the British “security patrol” against

German mine-laying seaplanes, “Enemy seaplanes, observed at their moorings,” the Ministry reported, “were attacked with bombs.”

Nazi Ships Leave Base

The air battle between the British wh

lanes and German warships and warplanes revealed for the first time that a German Naval squadron was deployed in the North Sea. It participated actively in the air battle firing anti-aircraft guns at the R. A. F. planes. The German warships, the British said, ceased fire when German planes engaged the R. A. F. planes but they resumed fire every time the German fliers turned off to allow another wave of German fighters to attack, which occurred six times. The British planes returned to their base only half an hour over-| due after having obtained informa- | tion regarding fortified islands off the northwest coast of Germany.! British Fly Five Hours During the fight, the British said, visibility varied from 300 yards to as much as six miles. The sudden appearance of low-flying British planes surprised the German antiaircraft defenses, and several bat-| teries fired belatedly and without causing damage, it was said. The R. A. F. planes were out five hours. The British air ministry said four

'Messerschmidt fighters and three |

British planes were shot down. “All our other formations returned without loss,” the Air Ministry said. Berlin Version Differs (In Berlin, the German High Command said that 10 British

'planes had been shot down. Earlier, 4p,

the official German news agency DNB said that a squadron of 12 of Britain's latest-type planes had en-

This critical attitude of Atlanta and social security legislation was gaged a German squadron of Mes-

fr not a figment of the reporter's mind. Even Clark Gable has felt it. despite the almost unbelievable welcome he was given here. In the midst of the Junior League Ball last night, at which 6000 persons came to their feet when Gable was introduced, he told me “Gone With the Wind” had gotten too big for him “Darn it.” he said, “I never conceived of this. When I rode through Atlanta's streets today it wasn't like an opening at Grauman's Chinese at Hollywood.

created by the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce today at its annual meeting at the Columbia Club. The organization, which completed its merger with the Inter-Organ-ization Council of Indiana and elected officers, named Howard Friend, former secretary of the Council, research director to take charge of the study.

serschmidts in the vicinity of the North Sea islands of Wangeroog and Spiekeroog and that eight British planes were shot down and one German plane was forced to land in the water.) | The battle over Helgoland Bight started when the British planes, heavy bombers carrving crews of

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four and five men, sighted a Nazi Spee would be announced this aft- |

battleship, a cruiser, several destroyers and a submarine.

The U-boat opened anti-aircraft in the harbor indicated the Graf ¢

Miss Virginia Pla on her birthday.

S$ . + « got a Christmas-time job

| Christmas Fortune Here Is Both Cheery and Dreary

One Gets Job on Birthday; Another Falls and Breaks Arm.

Luck runs hot and luck runs cold at Christmas time, and here's the proof. We'll take good luck first. Miss Virginia Plass, 1959 Broadway, asked the Indiana State Employment Service some time ago to try to find her a job during the holiday season. She thought she would like to be a cashier. § The Service officials advised her t to attend a course at headquarters - E for cashiers. Merchants, they said, : § had complained that there was a J shortage of cashiers who knew how ga to operate new registers. i Miss Plass took the course which was taught by a Service employee and mastered the new registers. She obtained an interview with an em- £ ployer who took her application for a job. = Several hours later she was summoned to work, That was yesterday. Yesterday also was her birthday. She is 19. A bit of bad luck, on the other hand, overtook 4-year-old Ralph Edward McCammon, . RE He was hoping that Santa Claus would bring him a cowboy suit for E Christmas and had said so to his family a good many times. There was a Santa Claus program on the radio at his home, 610 Lexington Ave. He said that if he danced for Santa, Santa surely could not deny him the cowboy suit. He fell and ° broke his arm. ‘ ‘ With his arm in the sling, he still Ralph Edward McCammon . . . he fell hopes for a cowboy suit. Maybe two. for Santa.

Times Photos. in a dance

HINT SEA DASH

BY NAZI RAIDER In Karelian Offensive

Germans Rush Spee Repairs; 36 Killed in Battle Are Buried.

BULLETIN MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 15 (U. P.).—It was reported today without confirmation from Nazi sources that Germany is assembling warships, possibly submarines, naval forces waiting Montevideo harbor for departure

of the German pocket battleship

Admiral Graf Spee.

MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay, Dec. 15 (U. P.).—Preparations for repairs on the damaged German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee were started today, apparently for a dash to sea through a cordon of British cruisers. German sailors hauled steel plates ard the pocket battleship and

sources close to the German Lega-!

tion indicated they were to be used to patch the holes in the Spee made by eight and six-inch shells from British cruisers in a running battle day before yesterday. same sources indicated that a dash to freedom would follow.

36 Buried in One Grave It was reported reliably that a

Uruguavan Government decision regarding the status of the Graf

ernoon after a Cabinet meeting. Activity around the German ship

Lothair Teetor, president of the fire and then dived. Within a hali- Spee would choose a battle at sea

like anything I ever experienced in plected president. He succeeds John tion and the battle was on.

my life. It was almost too big for (Continued on Page Three)

OCCASIONAL RAINS PREDICTED TONIGHT

LOCAL TEMPERATURES cM ... 30 20a. ..\ 36 A... 31 Nam... 30 «MM oo. 33 12 (moon) .. 38 3% i p.m... 38

There will be occasional rain dur-

ing higher temperatures tonight, dent of Servel, Inc, Evansville, the Weather Bureau said today. first vice president; F. C. Kroeger, | The outlook for tomorrow is mild Manager of the Delco-Remy divi-| weather under partly cloudy skies, Sion of the General Motors Corp. |

but no rain.

TWO KILLED AT RAIL CROSSING IN MARION

MARION, Ind. Dec. 15 (U. Pos Bert Larue, 57, and Bert Clevenger, ' 51, employees of the Grant County Highway Department, were Killed instantly today when their truck was hit by a northbound Big Four Railroad passenger train at a crossing here,

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etor. CLAIMED BY BRITISH! william Myers Sr, Terre Haute, as

was elected for a lwo-year term. unexamined” he asked.

LONDON, Dec. 15 (U. P.) —Great Britain possesses a new bullet-proof automobile tire, it was announced yesterday. Tests included driving a heavily loaded motor lorry for 24, hours after shots had been fired at the tire.

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E. Frederick, Kokomo, who held the post 17 years.

Studies Business Problems

| | The Chamber, which will operate on a $60.000 budget next year, will concentrate on problems affecting general business in the state. Mr, Frederick was named to the new post of chairman of the board of directors and was made a life member of the board. Officers elected, besides Mr. Teetor, were Louis Ruthenburg, presi-

at Anderson, second vice president; R. H. Allen of R. R. Donnelley &

Son Co., Crawfordsville, third vice Communicate directly with Soviet of geath watch, slowly steamed a the Englewood, N. J.. home of Mrs,

president, and Louis J. Borinstein

The first German plane fell in flames 15 minutes after the battle started and was followed by three others, it was announced.

FINN OFFICIAL URGES REDS TO NEGOTIATE

Broadcasts in Russian Trying to Reach Molotov.

HELSINKI, Dec. 15 (U. 2~| Using the radio in an attempt to}

Premier-Foreign Commissar Via-

It wasn’t perfect Circle Co.. Hagerstown, was hour German planes were in posi- rather than face internment and

dismantlement in this neutral port. Indications were that the Graf Spee must leave by tonight or be interned. While the Nazi seamen loaded re-

‘pair materials the shattered bodies Violet Sharpe, a maid, identified er- ering wars—a Russian shell bursts

of the 36 German Navy men killed in the battle off Montevideo were taken to the shelter of a common grave in the North Cemetery, Through the long night, aboard the ship in which they were killed in battle with the British cruisers Exeter, Ajax and Achilles, an honor guard had stood watch by the 36 pine coffins in which they lav. draped with the Swastika flag of the Nazi Reich.

Exeter Steams South Off Montevideo, on another sort

squadron of British cruisers, relent-

of Borinstein & Co. Indianapolis, cheslav M. Molotov in the absence jess ay wolves stalking a crippled

treasurer. Directors Are Elected

tions, Finnish Foreign Minister W.

(of Finnish-Russian diplomatic rela- rey. steaming back ana forth, five

of them, it was reported, awaiting

|A. Tanner tonight said in a speech a possible break for the open sea

Directors elected for three-year prepared for delivery that Finland py the German ship.

terms were C. D. Alexander, Brode- | hurst Elsev and T. B. Griffith, all of Indianapolis; J. W. Crise, Ft.|

is able to make new proposals for

a solution of the conflict. {

Speaking in the Russian language steamed slowly for the Argentine : Wayne; Charles B. Inlow, Evans- and asking Molotov for an answer Naval base of Puerto Belgramo with Brickert, ; ville; Arthur F. Hall, Ft. Wayne; by radio, the Foreign Minister not an estimated 100 wounded and its here at that time.

Across the broad estuary of the River Plate the battered Exeter

D. H. Mitchell, Hammond; William only said that peace negotiations are own complement of dead. ¢ a Welsh, Peru; H. W. Bockhoff, Rich- possible but he put a series of ques-| The crack 10,000-ton eight-inch rosue’s gallery picture that the maid

nd, Walter Golden. Columbus: | tions to the Soviet Foreign Commis- | gun cruiser Cumberland and other | identified. . : ‘units were reported to have rein- casually and could not give his last “Why should blood be shed so long forced the Ajax and the Achilles name.

mo! B. T. Smith, Shelbyville, and Mr.!

Those elected for one year were]

Rumely, LaPorte; J. L. Davis, Sey-| mour, and H. S. Vance, South Bend. James F. Carroll of Indianapolis was named to the two-year directorship vacated by the retirement of Mr. Frederick from an active post| with the State Chamber.

HEAVYWEIGHT HOGS DROP 5 TO 20 CENTS

Ry UNITED PRESS Prices for hogs weighing more than 220 pounds were 20 cents lower | at Indianapolis today. Weights be- | tween 180 ana 220 pounds dropped 5 to 20 cents and lighter weights held steady. New York stocks were firmer but trading was quiet. Bonds were ir-

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there are other possibilities still

in their death vigil. Reports came from Capetown,

to combat the British | outside |

The |

FINLAND MEETS DEBT PAYMENT

Hands Check to Morgenthau While Other Nations Offer Regrets.

Finns Smash Russians

Savage Eight-Day Fight Ends Soviet Threat to Flank Mannerheim Defense Line.

By WEBB MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE FINNISH ARMY, KARELIAN ISTHMUS, Dec. 15 | (U, P).—The Finnish Army in the Karelian Isthmus has smashed a Russian steam roller offensive in eight days of savage fighting without | the loss of a foqt of ground. :

WASHINGTON, Dec, 15 (U. P). {—Finland, despite its war for survival with Soviet Russia, today paid

It has broken up a movement designed to flank the Mannerheim he regular semi-annual-installment | defense line at the east side of the Peninsula. of $234,693 on its debt to the United

| ~ Today, calm and confident, in the States. (mood for a fight to the death for! As usual, Finland was the only Pardon US$ for freedom, the Finns awaited Russia's one of 17 nations indebted to the next move, ; | United States to meet its obligation . + On a front only a few miles long, in full and on time, Men tioning I { the Russians tried to force their| A real check for the Finnish payway across a 200-yard wide river. I ment, drawn on the National City WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (U. | have been watching them through Bank of New York, was presented to P.).—It's kind of tough to | & periscope from the Finnish front Secretary of Treasury Henry Morbring this up less than two line trenches, and they still are on genthau Jr, by tall, handsome weeks before Christmas, but fourth quarter installment payments on income taxes are due today. Although there are no esti-

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roneously as the “Ernie” with whom and instead of making a shell hole she had a date on the night of the Rares in. ° fame 59 T0700 dont |Lindbergh baby’s kidnaping, Was ang shoots out a shower of Russian ishot and Killed early today In his ,,.,na0anda leaflets reading: “Finapartment here. land started the war.” “We are James Johnston, 43, of Bedford not fighting the Finnish people.” Village, was arrested in New York «we are trying to liberate you Finns several hours later on charges of fon the capitalists.” “Your Governhomicide. Mrs. Mary Brennan, who ment instigated the war and the witnessed her husband's slaying, | patience of the Red Army is at an said the two men, both house paint- eg» “you are hungry and we ers, had quarreled over $100 John-|) ave bread.” : ston claimed was due him for work. | Miss Sharpe was a serving maid in Branches Snapped Off The shells that click send up

Dwight Morrow, Mrs. Charles A. reat brittle clods of frozen earth, Lindbergh's mother, at the time of qjjther through the ice-incrusted the kidnaping. She committed Sui= | teas snapping off branches - and cide a month after the child's body sometimes entire trees.

was found, after having identified | The Finns laugh and say the Rus- |

(Brennan's picture as that of the... ore wasting their ammunition. |

Mrs. David O. Cunningham, mis“Ernie” with whom she had a date t th w ) jg sionary in India from 1905 to 1918, on the night of March 1, 1932, |. What they ant to know Is

their own side of the river. Hjalmar Procope, Finnish Minister, office, Both sides have lost heavily. The | The payment lots onang owing i i this * country $8,142,890. mates as to the amount the Russians le, estimated to have lost | Mr. Morgenthe"t said he accepted upwards of 2000 dead and an un- the payment with gratitude expected that payments would | known number wounded. Finnish noted that Finland, “during dark approximate $300,000,000. portion, have none the less been failed to honor its obligations.” " , h | “As you know,” Mr. Morgenthau |heavy. Afler 1 watched from. the continued, “the President has direct- | front line, I came back to the re- ed me to hold this payment in a serve positions to watch hundreds |, chance account until he can recomKIDNAPING IS SLAIN of Riana Woudeed being evacuated |, nd to Congress that this- money to base hospitals. | the Fin- | On the Karelian front today, | °° used for the benefit of the ; : : : | “You will be pleased to know, Ernie’ Wrongfully Named Bignleinen Russian uliieny shels Mr. Minister, ‘hat scores of con- . an ti ow Tes ais t ex 4 a | tributions have been 1eceived from By Maid Who Killed Self. [re pon | ® Inpoien RN ° Ne | sersons wishing to help Finland re- | Red Army across the Taipela River. "i. gept to the United. States. | Three out of four of the Russian x ‘shell lode. the other i dud {Since I have no authority to reWHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Dec. 15 nn xD 6 Yen Tr » " . | ceive these contributions, I have ar(U. P.) .—Ernest Brennan, 36, whom | I TE a Yme Bo] hey "ranged with the consent of the tek > [had Seen in hearly 35 years of COV=| donors for them to be turned over [to you.” {blue pin-striped suit, blue tie and {pearl stick pin, replied: | “May I extend through you, Mr. (Continued on Page Five) MRS. CUNNINGHAM, MISSIONARY, DEAD ‘ y : ‘Recently Was Children’s Aid

remony in Mr, Morgenthau's Both Sides Lose Heavily at @: ceremony 8 Treasury will collect, it was and casualties, astonishingly low in pro- days as well as fair, has never |three-inch, six-inch and sometimes | MSD people. | Procope, who wore a form-fitting | Secretary, Finland's deep felt gratFor Disciples.

| J i died today at her home, 357 Downey Brennan. also known as Ernest whether the Rusisans are preparing y

operated a taxicab firm He had had a | minor police record and it was a She had met “Ernie” After hours of questioning, | Brennan furnished a complete alibi land proved that he never had

“Are you prepared to resume our South Africa, that the British battle known Miss Sharpe. Ernest Miller, Nichols H. Noyes and George S. negotiations and thus give practical cruiser Renown, one of a handful lof Closter, N. J, later identified Olive, both of Indianapolis; A. J. proof that your principals are more of warships in the world capable of himself as the man with whom she

than mere window dressing”

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had had the date.

A Sparkle Now Lights Eye of a Boy Who Was Ashamed to Go to School

No one in social service work had without letting either father or son'!'about it.

heard of this family before, but the letter to The Indianapolis Times]

needed clothes. It was signed by his mother.

found the mother ill, the boy in hand-me-downs from his father. He

| said he would not be seen downtown |

or any place else if he could help it, in those ill-fitting clothes.

know.

The family never before had

[Clothe-A-Child said a boy of 14 asked for aid.

“No,” she said, “I'm sorry I wrote

you know.” The boy stood to one side and watched solemnly, The shopper pointed out to the mother that the trip was being

regular and curb stocks advanced! The mother was crying softly, and made specially for her boy because

moderately, London securities were

And he suggested that | with new and warm clothes her boy could resume school. She said, “all right.” The boy left the house and re-

|the letter. He can't go. What if turned in a few moments with a A shopper called at the home and his father finds out? And he will, sweatshirt.

He explained he had {borrowed it from his scoutmaster (up the street. Well, he was outfitted with clothes that looked well and were warm, He | was delighted. His shoes, however, needed only some new half soles

the father was out hunting work. of the peculiar circumstances. He and the shoemaker in the depart-

She said she had written the letter, |

pointed out that no one need know

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for a new offensive, For the first one, my visit to the front has left no doubt, has definitely failed. It was =a strange, grim fight, fought in a part of the world where (Continued on Page Five)

JOHN J. KELLEY, 71,

DEAD AT HOME HERE

John J. Kelley, one of the original drivers of mule cars here and father of John M. Kelley, deputy prosecutor, died today at his home, 2542 N. Capitol Ave. He was Tl. Mr, Kelley was born in Whitestown, Ind.,, but had lived here 52 years. He was a motorman for the Indianapolis Railways for many years until retiring some years ago. He is survived by his wife, Delia; two sons, John M. and Edward M,, also of Indianapolis; three daughters, Mrs. Harold E. Cosgrove and Mrs. James Matheny, both of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Hale Dant of Peoria, Ill, and two sisters, Mrs. Sadie Young and Mrs. Ellen Wrinzenread, both of Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held at 8:30 a. m. Monday at the: Kirby Funeral Home and at 9 a. m. at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral of which Mr. Kelley was a member,

Burial will be at Holy Cross Ceme-

Ave. She was 60.

Working in India as a repre-|

|sentative of the Disciples of Christ, | Mrs. Cunningham taught in the boys’ high school at Harda, India,

| Mrs. Cunningham, who was born lin Ohio, aided her husband when he was pastor of a church at Findley, O. In recent years she had been |director of Indiana children’s work | for the Disciples of Christ. | Survivors include two daughters, | Miss Hazel May Cunningham and Mrs. W. H. Perkeiser; a brother, (J. L. Runsi, and two sisters, Mrs, |W. B. Bish and Mrs. O. K. High,

cipal.

Have a Wiener A la Furnace

RESIDENTS IN THE vicinity of Warren Township Grade School 5 celebrated the installation of a new furnace in the school with a wiener roast last night, using the furnace as the roaster, Township Trustee Henry M. Thomas donated: the wieners. * Pupils . reluctantly returned. to classes today after a two-day vacation while the heater was being

of which her late husband was prin- |

dnside Indpls

FARLEY DENIES

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MNUTT RATES NEXT T0 FOR

Roosevelt Refuses to ‘Fall . For’ Question Regarding Ickes’ Slap at Hoosier.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

| WASHINGTON, Dec.

15. — Jim

i Farley completely discounts claims } of Frank McHale that Paul V. Mc=

Nutt ranks next to President Roose= velt as the Democratic Presidential choice in 11 eastern states, it wag learned today. : The Postmaster General disclosed his size-up of the McNutt campaign In an interview with a newspaper friend, but declined to permit any direct quotations, Mr. Roosevelt, at a press confer= ence in Hyde Park, N. Y., continued to parry leading questions on his third term intentions arid Mr. Mc|Nutt’s status as his possible choice (as a successor,

Refuses to Be Drawn Out The President said he was “too old

: to fall” for such a question as to

whether he agreed with Interior

: | Secretary Harold L. Ickes’ remark

[that Mr. McNutt was unsatisfactory as a liberal candidate,

At the same time, he made it (clear that no amount of questioning jor controversy would draw him out jon the 1940 campaign until he was ready. He told reporters that by getting comment on this man and that man, they eventually would have the whole story by a process of elimina tion, | In his interview, Mr. Farley said that he sticks to his orig|inal position: that, as chairman of (the Democratic National Committee, | he does not know of a single leading {Democrat with any delegate control in his state who has declared hime |self for the McNutt candidacy either on or off the record.

Arch Foe of McNutt

As an arch-foe of the political aspirations of the Federal Security Administrator, Mr. Farley also is (reported to have made it plain that | President Roosevelt is not for the | former Indiana Governor, Some support was given this cone [tention today when a New Deal in|sider told of a recent private chat |with Mr. Roosevelt in which the President is said to have definitely |declared against a third term but | indicated he wanted a hand in name ing his successor, According to this source, Presie (dent Roosevelt indicated that Vice | President Garner, Mr. Farley and (Mr. McNutt are not on his pre= ferred list, Mr. Farley thinks himself highly eligible, however. | At a recent New York luncheon, {he is said to have eliminated all the other prospective candidates by [finding fault with their availability in ore way or another,

F. D. Rs Stand Unknown

| That no one knows the exact re=[lationship between Mr. McNutt and the President is indicated by the fact that twice he has appointed Indiana's favorite son to high places in his Administration without cone sulting any one but himself. Since the McNutt campaign large=ly is predicated upon obtaining active support from the President |both in the convention and elec~ tion, many friends of the candidate are predicting that this may happen again and Jim Farley, Jack | Garner, Corcoran and Cohen nor |anyone else may be consulted. |

(Gossips Are Hinting ‘McNutt Is Out

By BRUCE CATTON

Times Special Wriler

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Thers may have been more than met the eve behind Secretary Ickes’ recent assertion that he wasn't taking any stock in the talk about Paul V. McNutt's being the New Deal's pet candidate for the Presidency. | Until Mr. Ickes made this remark, (there had been some rather strong |indications the inner circle was looking on Mr. McNutt with a good deal of favor. | The Hoosier made several very New Dealish speeches in November and seemed a particularly welcome [guest at the White House; and the | assertions of some of his backers that he was getting the blessing of the inner circle at least went | undenied. Then Mr. Ickes spilled the beans, saying bluntly that the “liberal and | progressive elements” in the ade ministration weren't for Mr, Mc | Nutt. One explanation for all of this | —offered here for what it may be | worth—is that Mr.” McNutt served as an excellent counter-irritant | while the White House was having |its troubles with Postmaster General | Farley. Now, it is said, Mr. Farley (and Mr. Roosevelt have come to a | harmonious understanding; hence |it is no longer necessary to present | Mr. McNutt as F. D. R.s heir ape | parent.

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