Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 February 1940 — Page 7

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To Discussion of Vice - Presidency for Hoosier.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer : * WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.—Roosevelt and McNutt: . That is the Democratic ticket for 1940 being talked here today as the result of the former Indiana Governor’s grand tour of Oklahoma and other Southwestern states.

- Paul V. McNutt is scheduled to

return to his post of Federal Se- * curity Administrator today, but it is

considered unlikely that he will comment on any move made to make him candidate for Vice President on a third term ticket. When it was discussed with him

.some weeks ago he asserted that he

had not given the matter a thought but was out to head the ticket if President Roosevelt doesn’t run.

Likes McNutt’s Chances

According to Cklahoma Congressmen who attended the Young Democrats meeting at Oklahoma City where Mr. McNutt made the principal address on Washington's Birthday, :the- Hoosier candidate made a great hit. Rep. Wesley Disney, leading conservative Democrat in the Oklahoma delegation in the House, told Rep. Eugene B. Crowe (D. Ind.) that if a Presidential primary was

. held in the state and Roosevelt

wasn’t in it Mr. McNutt would be first choice. Rep. Jed Johnson (D. Okla.), long

8 McNutt booster, indorsed ‘this idea

and expressed the view that the state will support Mr. McNutt if there is no third term. But fhe Oklahoma Democratic rank and file still put President Roosevelt above everyone else, he said. “The perfect ticket so far as we

are concerned would be Roosevelt

for President and McNutt for Vice President,” Rep. Johnson declared.

Rayburn Is Mentioned

“I also think that this would be the best possible ticket for the country at the present time.” Reports are current here that President Roosevelt will not stand for the renomination of Vice President Garner on a third term ticket. Some of the Texans already are talking up Rep. Sam Rayburn (D. Tex.), majority floor leader, for the second place. Speaker of the House Bankhead also is being mentioned. Mr. McNutt likely would take it, but the choice of a running mate will be entirely in the Presidents hands if he is renominated for a third term, it is conceded.

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Creek Makes Its Bed, Runs in It

City Engineer M. G. Johnson has asked the Works Board to vacate portions of two streets and an alley on the grounds that “Fall Creek has taken them over.” They are: Fourteenth St. from 150 feet east of Hiawatha St. to “the meanderings of Fall Creek.” Minerva St. from 14th St. to a point 128 feet north, which is “somewhere in Fall Creek.” The first alley east of Hiawatha St. from 14th St. to a point 128 feet north, which also is in Fall Creek. Mr. Johnson explained that they were laid out 50 years ago and that since then Fall Creek has changed its bed.

EXPECT F. D. R. PLEA FOR CANAL DEFENSE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 (U. P.) — President Roosevelt was expected today to propose an immediate program for strengthening Atlantic and Pacific defenses, including new air bases to protect the Panama Canal, when he returns from his southern cruise this week-end. Athoritative sources believed Mr. Roosevelt would summon his national defense chiefs and representatives of the State Department for a conference to discuss defense problems in the Caribbean and Pacific areas. Some of the possibilities for strengthening defenses, and which probably will be discussed, include: 1. Acquisition of French, British or Dutch possessions in the Lesser Antilles or off the north coast of South America for air bases. 2. Rights for air bases in South American countries along the Caribbean on the theory that protection of the Canal is as important for Latin American countries as for the United States. 3. Possibilities of a new naval base in Costa Rica to complement existing bases at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, House Administration leaders sought to restore to the $203,472,567 War Department civil functions bill a budget-proposed fund to start work on a third set of locks for the Panama Canal.

William Austin (left), director of census, confers with Senator Charles Tobey, author of a resolution opposing income questions in

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Tobey Temporarily Halts Campaign on ‘Prying’ Income Questions.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 (U. PJ. —Senator Charles W. Tobey (R., N. H.) pleaded with a Senate Commerce Subcommittee today for more time to present witnesses opposed to 1940 census income questions, especially a group from Olean, N. Y., where “the Democratic womnen are even madder than the Republican women.” Subcommittee Chairman Wallace White (R., Me.) agreed fo allow anyone who turned up today to testify. Ralph Hetzel, C. I. O. unemploy=ment division director, said the information was “absolutely essential” for study of - unemployment problems. Dr. Willard L. Thorp, economic advisor to Secretary of Commerce

{Harry L. Hopkins, declared that the

proposed inquiries were perfectly legal and emphasized their importance in future economic planning.

Senator Tobey temporarily rested his case late yesterday and-today heard census officials defend their 1940 census questions against charges that they are “malicious snooping.” Census: Director W. L. Austin was to testify before the Senate Commerce subcommittee considering Senator Tobey’s resolution. Mr. Austin has defended the questions, contending that business representatives requested them, but is concerned lest his 120,000 enumerators run into trouble as a result of Senator Tobey’s campaign when they begin their door-to-door calls April 2. : Senator Tobey concluded his testimony before the subcommittee late yesterday with the appeal: “The Senate can render no higher service than by striking down this attempt to pry into the private lives of our citizens.”

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Poll of Political Writers Lists F. D. R. Best Qualified: Hull, Vandenberg Next.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.—Political calculations indicated today that the House of Representatives would . be restored to Republican control next November if returns from two Ohio by-elections accurately foretell the shift in voting sentiment since 1938.

The returns coincided with publication of a News Week poll of Washington political writers which named President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Senator H. Vandenberg (R. Mich.), in that order, as the three men best qualified to be President. Mr. Roosevelt ran away from the field in first choices and point score in this poll. But choices were widely scattered. He had only 16 first choices as against 36 distributed among 14 other persons.

Garner Is No, 13

Vice President John N. Garner was 13th and New York District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey was 16th. Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio was No. 28. The poll considered only qualifications for office and not the relative chance of nomination or election. . While candidates pondered these returns, Republicans were jubilant and some Democrats were uneasy over the Congressional district voting in Ohio. The Ohio figures, for what they may be worth, show that the Republicans increased their proportion of the vote by 7 per cent in Tuesday’s 22d and 17th Congressional districts. They won both seats of which one had been Democratic since 1930, when the G. O. P. suffered its first post-World War reverse in national politics.

Martin Is Hopeful

The G. O. P. lost Ohio’s 17th in 1938 by a margin of less than 3 per cent of the total vote cast. There were 42 other Republican Congressional candidates in 1938 who polled more than 47 per cent of the total vote cast, but failed to obtain a pluralty, and 22 others who polled between 45 and 47 per cent of the total vote. “You can realize,” said House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. of-those figures, “that there are 65 districts to be carried with an increase of only 5 per cent in the Republican vote. “On top of this, an increase of 10 per cent in the Republican Congressional vote would give us an additional 29 seats—over and above the 65 which are within the 5 per cent group. An increase of 10 per cent in the Republican Congressional vote would give us 94 additional seats in the House.” The Republicans need 49 more for a majority. G. O. P. Race Wide Open

Republican race for Presidential nomination still is wide open and the Democratic contest is confused by uncertainty over President Roosevelt's plans. Here are the first 10 in the News Week poll on qualifications for the Presidency, with their first, second, third place scores and total point rating (3 points for. first place, 2 points for second, 1 point for third):

Total First Second Third Points Roosevelt . 16

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DEMANDS WHETSEL BE DISBARRED HERE

The Indianapolis Bar Association in letters to county judges today demanded that Walter A. Whetsel, attorney, be disbarred from practice in Marion County. . Whetsel pleaded guilty last week in Criminal Court to charges of obtaining money under false pretenses and was sentenced to serve one to seven years af the Indiana State Prison. Samuel Dowden, Bar Association president, said he sent letters to county judges asking them to take “appropriate action” to prevent Whetsel “from engaging in the practice of law in your court.”

REMC CONTRACTS GO TO NEW ALBANY FIRM

Four REMC contracts have been awarded to Hardin and Scott, contractors, New Albany, Ind, for building power systems in the State. The projects are located in Cars roll, Decatur, Hancock and Steuben Counties. They consist of a total of 165 miles of wire to cost a total of $121,299.

STUDENT WINS HONOR Times Special CINCINNATI, O., Feb 29. — Arthur R. Broecker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C, Broecker, 246 S. Emerson Ave, Indianapolis, a freshman, won a place on the dean’s list of honor students at the University of Cincinnati for his high first semester grades.

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On the general political front, the.

In State Race

Emsley W. Johnson Jr. ... wants seat in Legislature.

Emsley W. Johnson Jr. today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for State Representative from Marion County. Mr. Johnson is 26 years old and has been practicing law as a member of the firm of Johnson, Zechiel & Johnson for three years. He is married and lives at 502 Highland Drive. He was graduated from Shortridge High School, Butler University and the Indiana University law school. He is a member of the Tabernacle* Presbyterian Church, Mystic Tie Lodge, Scottish Rite, Delta Tau Delta, the Indianapolis Board of Trade and is president of the Indianapolis ¥Y Men’s Club. : He also is a member of the American Bar Association, the Indianapolis Bar Association and the Young Lawyers Association of Indianapolis.

DIVORCES SHOW RISE LONDON, Feb. 29 (U.P.).—Three were 4000 more divorce petitions before the courts in 1938—the year of

NUTT VSITS

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Stops En Route to Capital For Brief Conference With Campaign Aids.

Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt stopped at his Presidential campaign headquarters here a few minutes late yesterday while en route from St. Louis back

ing tour. Only a few friends were aware that he was in the city and after a brief conference with campaign workers he left by train for Washington. Mr. McNutt completed a speaking four through Missouri and neighboring states.

‘Name One Plank,’ Bays Demands of G. 0. P.

State Democratic Chairman Fred F. Bays today challenged Republican office seekers “to name one single plank of a program upon

ple in the fall election.” “There is not a Republican leader who has offered the people of structive idea so far in this campaign,” he said. “Theirs has been a concert of criticism, offering nothing in the place of the great program which has benefited men and women in every walk of life, “The Republican National Chairman, John D. Hamilton, speaking at Gary the other night had the effirontery to assert that the Republican Party has been the real friend of labor. “As a matter of record, the Republican Party has been the exploiter of labor and has opposed every progressive law for the bene-

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GIRL, PLAYING WITH DOLL, SWALLOWS PIN

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Lee, 9, home from school yesterday because of a cold. They made Rose Lee stay in bed,

but gave her a doll to play with. Rose Lee started dressing the doll and a small brass safety pin, which was open, dropped into her mouth. She swallowed it before her mother, who was watching, could do anything. Rose lee was ‘rushed to. Riley

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