Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1940 — Page 28

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“DEWEY WRECKE

Churning Up 6. 0.P. Politics as It Hasn’t Been Done Since

2 Days of T. R., Hoosier

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Reported Gaining Favor

With Public, Not Yet With ‘Big Boys.’

By LUDWELE DENNY

fl . Times Special Writer

| WASHINGTON, May 31—Watch Willkie! He

; wrecking Thomas Dewey.

And he is churning up Repub

lican politics as it has not been stirred since the time of T. R. | Any man who can start with his handicaps, and in one short month go ds fast and as far as Wendell Willkie, has

a high political potential. | Many national political ob-

servers during the last fortit have noted two sharp trends. One is the slow decline of the . leader, Mr. Dewey. The other is - the [spurt from nowhere of Mr, Willkie. Today the “Gallup Poll cons this. The two| week comparisons are: Mr.| Dewey today 56 per cent against 62 per cent; Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, 16 com=- ™ pared with 14;

i | be to ruin Mg, Dewey, leave Senator

Jatt the leatler on the evé of the convention, and make Mr, Willkie the chief late ballot threat if the delegates deadlock. But, as of today, Mr. Willkie has not. won over the big boys who will control the Philadetphia convention and name the nominee. Several of them are for [Senator Taft. But those who hold the balance of power, including Pew of Pennsylvania, are

. | still shopping around.

The reasons G. O. P: politicians are afraid of Mr. Willkie are known to everybody. On afl’ orthodox counts he is a suicide candidate: He is a Democrat running as a Republican. He i is not only a Wall Streeter but with the Morgan name. He is not only a big business, man

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The Gallup Poll—

Strength in East Greater Than in States West Of Indiana.

I> DR. GEORGE GALLUP

i Tirector, erican Institute of Pic © Opinion

S | shar) rise in the popularity of Wen-

didafe, and a small decline in the popularity of Thomas E. Dewey have taken place in -the last two week: of May. A survey conducted amoriz Republican voters by the American Institute of Public Opinfon # nds that Mr. Willkie’s popularity his doubled since the last checkup Nay 17, while the Dewey percent: ge has declined six points. Sene. or Robert A. Taft of Ohio has gained slightly. Despite these changes, Dewey continues far in the lead as the Presiilential choice of the Republican ank and file. When a crosssection of G. O. P. voters throughout the country were asked “Whom would you like to see elected President?” the spontaneous choices of those expresing an opinion were:

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Willkie’s Popularity With G. O. P. Voters

HOW DO GARNER AND FARLEY FIT

INTO 3D TERM?

Once Staunch Backers Hold

Silence While Waiting F. D. R. Decision.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

" WASHINGTON, May 31 (U. P.).

dell Willkie as a Presidential can-|

March April

May May Today

The trend is shown above.

Wendell Willkie, head of Commonwealth and Southern Corp., has increased in popularity as a Presidential candidate, Gallup polls find.

—President Roosevelt's approximately 630 delegate votes in the Democratic National Convention

,| aroused . speculation today about

what will happen to the political

firm of Rooseyelt, Garner, Farley & Co, if he decides to take a third term. There is no talk here now of “stopping : Roosevelt” or: even of preventing his renomination if he wants to run again. Only 548 convention votes are needed - to

Nearly one-third (32 per cent) of those polled said they had not made up their minds about any candidate yet. . Wendell Willkie’s rise to fourth position in the Institute's surveys has come in the short space of about two months. In March a survey found him polling less than 1 per cent. By early May the Willkie figure rose to 3 per cent, by May 17 to 5 per cent and today it climbs to 10 per cent. Willkie backers have circulated petitions in every state,

England and. the Middle Atlantic states as in the sections west of Ohio and Indiana. »

Interviewers who conducted the poll for the Institute report that the Willkie followers are for him mainly because of his business achievements. Their most typical remarks are “I'm for Willkie because he's a good businessman.” . “Willkie could. co-ordinate resources in time of emergency.”

“He understands the needs | of business.”

nominate.

The position of all three men is bit unrealisti¢/ in the judgment of

some persons here who have been observing politics for a good many years. ter General James A. Farley teamed up when the former was Governor of New York.

Mr. Roosevelt and Postmas-

Vice President John N. Garner

joined the firm midway in the 1932

ocratic Naticnal Convention

when he released his California and Texas delegates,

permitting them

and Willkie himself recently com-

to shift their votes and give Mr.

Schools Hold Up Orders for Maps

NEW YORK, May 31 (U. P.).— City schools are holding up their orders for new maps for class-. room work because of the rapidly changing boundary lines in Europe, officials said today. History books are ‘being ordered as usual. By means of radios in class= rooms, students are kept abreast of war developments, and discussions are freely indulged in. |

2 ICE" CREAM CARTS " REPORTED STOLEN

Theft of two vending wagons were reported to police today.

employees of the ‘Drexler Ice Cream Co. 314 N. New Jersey St. told police their carts were taken, both containing ‘a/small amount of money and merchandise. The wagons each were valued at $65.

Vernie Reed and John Reed, both |;

FEAR WODEHOUSES - TRAPPED LONDON, May 31 (U. P.).—The Daily Mail said today that P. G.

Wodehouse, British humorisy, and |

his wife had been unable to leave

Le Touquet, France, and might be |

trapped by the German invasion. |

The paper said the plight of Mr, |

Wodehouse might be desperate.

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Mr. Denny “yr Senator Arthur but a utility. magnate. pleted a trip to the Middle West| “I'd rather see a businessman in Roosevelt the boost he needed for

Vandenberg of Michigan dropped to 12 from 13, and Mr. Willkie rose to 10 from 5. Thus while Mr. Dewey declined almost 10 per cent of his former total, and Taft gained 14 per cent over his own, Mr. Willkie increased his figure 100 per cent.

The Willkie gain over a threeweek period was more than 300 per cent.

Significantly, about one-third of; the persons polled are still undecided. So, in addition to robbing Mr. Dewey and others, Mr. Willkie as the newest entry has the best - chance of winning that one-third who are already cold on all of the other candidates. A continuation of the trend of the last two weeks through the next two or three weeks would force a consideration from the Republican

politicians which Mr. Willkie is not

yet recejving. _ The net of that probably would” . W

He is without experience in public office and government.

He is weaker in the doubtful Mid- }

West than in the safer East.

He is even more anti-isolationist|

than President Roosevelt (publicly). Therefore in any normal situa-}| tion Mr. Willkie be a joke. Sa term candidacy. But little that is normal is left. The impossible is

‘happening with disconcerting regu-

larity. If the Republican politicians| ~~ pick Mr. Willkie it will be precisely because of his handicaps—an “impossible” candidate for the “impossible” job of beating Mr. Roosevelt. Defensively, Mr. - Willkie would be their weakest man, terribly vulnerable. But on the of fensive he would be a blitzkgieg bomber such as Franklin D. Ro velt has never met. Wendell Willkie is tough.

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GLAMANS SHOW AMAZING DARING

Plzce Faith on Follow-Up Units as Substitute For Artillery.

By MAJ. AL WRILLIAMS Scripps-Howard Aviation Editor

The man with the rifle and bayonet is the last to appear in a mod-

where he delivered several public

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Since Presidential candidates are nominated by conventions, and not by popular acclaim, the survey results do not mean that Mr. Willkie, or Mr. Dewey, or any of the other leaders will + necessarily be the choice of the G. O. P. convention in Philadelphia next month. Mr. Willkie’s popular strength is largely confined to the eastern states at the present time. Twice as many voters are for him in New

Wide Awake Now, Boy Heads Home

The next time 13-year-old Robert Elliott takes a nap in his dad's car, he's going to tie himself in. Robert and his father, Roscoe Elliott, came here yesterday from their home in Monmouth, Il., to see the 500-mile race. Driving home along Road 34, Mr. Elliott became tired just west of Speedway City and parked to sleep a little,

the White House now that we have to put industry to work for national defense.” Other Republicans ‘who received prominent mention in tdday’s survey include Alfred Landon, Charles A. Lindbergh, Representative Joseph Martin, Senator H. Styles Bridges, Senator Charles McNary, Congressman Bruce Barton, Senator Henr C. Lodge, Governor James Bricker of Ohio, Justice Owen Roberts, Glenn Frank, Publisher Frank Knox and Senator Gerald P. Nye.

EVANS, EX-KLAN HEAD, INDICTED

Former Georgia Official Also Charged Under U. S. Anti-Trust Act.

ROME, Ga., May 31 (U. P.).—Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans, former impe-| rial wizard of the Ku-Klux Klan,

111. Mr. then amused and finally patience, practically forbade press conference duestions whether he would be a third term candidate. associates have been permitted to organize a tion movement which now seems certain to succeed unless he takes himself out of the race.

nomination.

Support Came When Needed Without Mr. Farley’s intensive

pre-convention activities and Mr. Garner's release of delegates at a crucial moment during the convention there probably never . would have been any New Deal. partnership fell apart after the amazingly successful 1936 campaign.

But the

Rumored in Washington is the

possible reorganization of the firm of Roosevelt, Garner, Farley ‘and Co., worse—or gets no better—and the President decides to run. of today the public must depend on the record.

if the war situation becomes

‘Here is-what it shows: Roosevelt, first annoyed, losing to inquire But his close official

formidable renomina-

Garner Criticizes in Private 2. Vice President Garner has said

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Robert curled up in the

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and John W. Greer Jr., former state|he is a candidate for the Demohighway purchasing . agent, were icratic Presidential nomination. But

: - : : frequently in private and under under Federal Grand Jury indict- circumstances which inevitably lead ment today on charges of mail

to publicity, Mr. Garner has blasted fraud and conspiracy to violate the|at the New Deal for its fiscal and Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

labor policies. 3. Mr. Farley assumed, also, that The Grany Jury also returned in- nr. Roosevelt would not be & candictments late yesterday charging didate for renomination and in the American Bitumuls Co. the Shell Oil: Co. and the Emulsified

public never has abandoned that position. But in his public 'stateAsphalt Refining Co. with violation of the Sherman Act.

ments Mr. Farley has been guided The . indictment inst Evans

by the conviction that whoever is pom is ed for President by the : me ! emocrats must have, Mr. - and Greer charged that as result velt’s active support to gin of operations by the defendants chance whatever of election. “the State of Georgia during 1937 and 1938 purchased 4,422,166 gallons of emulsified asphalt from companies owned or represented by Evans and paid $456,427.41, alleged to be $90,000 in excess of the price which would have been. paid on competi-|

back seat. At 2 a. m. Robert. woke up— walking in the street. He wandered around not knowing how he got there or where he was. At 7 a. m, police found him at 16th St. and King Ave. v Meanwhile, his father had awakened, found Robert gone and had driven to the home of his brother, L. F. Elliott, 1428 E. Raymond St. State police who were called, contacted City police, Robert and his father started out again for home today, this time non-stop. |

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ern invasion. Warfare has changed his status just that much. Instead of ‘eading the attack, the foot soldie usually doesn’t show up until me chinfry has cleared the way and the heayy shooting is all over. While “the war to date has confirmed airpower as the predominant weapon of this century, the daring with which the Germans have depended upon their air arm is little short of amazing, .“hey are placing their faith on follow-up air force units, spreading fanwise to protect the flanks of every advance, as a substitute for (th old rolling artillery barrage. Successive waves of dive bombers move forward in a narrow lane, smashing and destroying everything

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" Burglars broke into the Frederick C. Bonnet Jewelry Store, 162 N. Iilinois St. last night, worked the combination on the safe and-stole between $600 and - $800 worth of jewelry, police reported today. Detectives said entry Had been effected by prying open outer and inner iron-barred dog#s. Burglars also entered a restaurant cperated by O. G. Myers at 2708 N. Meridian St., last night, rifled cigaret and chewing gum machines, knocked the combination from the safe and took an undetermined emount of money, police said.

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