Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 June 1940 — Page 11
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DNESDAY, JUNE S 5, 1940
Hoosier Vegubond
(Ernie Pyle is on vacation and at the request of his ; ai we are reprinting some of his favorite oot
‘MESA VERDE PARK, Colo., June ”% 1929.—The new mummy and 1 arrived at. Mesa Verde the same . day. Fortunately I had a White House press card - in my pocket, so the scientists had little trouble dis- - Hosuishing between us. - : be here when: the new. mummy came. For it is, ‘they say, the finest mummy ever found In American. It is in a perfect state of preservation after these hundreds of years. : The mummy was found by Carnegie scientists last fall, in a cave over near Durango, some 40 miles east of here. The Carnegie people studied it all winter, and now have - given it to Mesa Verde Museum. ~~ The mummy arrived by- express, in a big wooden box marked Don Watson, the park’s ranger-
“This Side Up. » naturalist, invited me to the uncrating or unveiling
‘or whatever you call it. “We're going to excavate :a mummy this afternoon,” he laughed...
4 na vi Not Like Egyptian Mummies The box was down. in the museum's basement. Don pried off the top boards, and then started taking out .wadded-up newspapers by the score. About half way
_down we came to the mummy. “Well, there's Susie,” Watson said. After that we
- -all called her “Susie,” or sometimes “Susie Q." Don
lifted “Susie’ out of the box and placed her lon the - carpenter's workbench. ' | The mummies found in America are not ike the famous Egyptian mummies. The Egyptians knew the sciencé of mummification. They prepared the bodies
by ‘a certain process, and then wrapped and re-
wrapped them, around and around. * ** ‘ But our Indians did nothing like that. All they did was just drag the dear departed to the back of the cave and leaye her there amidst the trash. This thin, there did the rest. The bodie simply dried up, like old watermelon rinds. Their only covering was a blanket, nite 0 turkey isatners woven into a fiber network. Usually some
Ot Town
ON JAN. 9, 1827, four days after esis Ralston’s death, the Indiana Journal said: “Mr. Ralston was a native of Scotland, but emigrated early in life to America. He lived many years e, Ky. afterward near Salem, | in this State, and for the last five years in this place. His earliest and latest occupation in the United - States was surveying, in which he was long employed by the ~ Government at Washington and his removal to this place was occasioned by his appointment to make an original survey of it. . .. “Mr. Ralston was successful in his profession, honest in his dealings, gentlemanly in his de~
> portment a liberal and hospitable citizen and a sin-
cere and ardent friend. He had experienced much both of the pleasures and pains incident to human life. The respect and esteem of the generous and good were always awarded to him ‘and he found gonstant satisfaction in conferring favors not oniy is own species but even on the humblest of the rd e creation; he would not willingly ‘set foot upon a worm. But his unsuspecting nature made him liable to imposition; his ‘sanguine expectations were often “disappoiiited.“His -independent spirit sometimes provoked opposition, and his extreme sensibility was frequently put Though he stood alone among us in respect to family, his loss will be long lamented.” ” » ” .
Suspected of Being a Spy If you're anything like myself, a reading of the Journal's sober obituary leaves you wondering. It’s maddening, for instance, not to’know what the editor meant by “the pleasures and pains incident” to Mr. Ralston’s life. "And certainly, there must be something of a story wrapped up inthe cryptic phrase, “his
Washington
WASHINGTON, June 5—We may now be in the early phases of a third American revolution. The purpose of this revolution would be to-knit the whole hemisphere into a tightly integrated Greater America, Call it-an evolution if you prefer, but the change must take place with such speed that it will seem more like a revolution. This _ Greater Hemisphere America, standing solidly. as one entity in fact although not in governmental form, must be achieved to meet the growing possibility that the present war will leave us confronted with a Japanese Asia across the Pacific and a Hitler Europa across the Atlantic. America must be America, not a conglomeration of nations going theif own separate ways, tolerating Nazi and Japanesé penetration, developing little Quislings of their, own, and eventually succumbing to foreign domination. In this Greater America, the United States will provide the dominant military force and the dominant economic and political leadership—for in these times all three go together, indivisibly.
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Unified Defense Urged
If the Allies yo hold Hitler to a stalemate,
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"then we probably would go in to deliver the knockout blow. But the Allies lose in the near future, then our force will be distributed throughout the Western Hem re, and so allied with local military force in the Latin-American countries as; to give [this hemisphere the strongest possible unified defense
against military or political invasion. An Inter-. ia Resources and Defense Com‘mittee should’ ‘be set up at once as a kind of central
/ planning brain [for this gigantic task.
My Day
WASHINGTON, Tuesday. —At luncheon yesterday a group of péople met here in the White House to discuss plans for expanding the Army and Navy Young Men's Christian Association. The personnel of the Army, Nayy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard is being expanded, the boys come _ from all over the United States “and the Y. M. C. A. has offered them a friendly atmosphere and an opportunity for recreation in their leisure hours. It should greatly expand its work to meet the. present needs. Money will’ be required in large quantities and, in addition, we must have the interest of communities” where young men are coming in to train or where they are sent on duty. I cannot believe that: people will not meet it seems anly fair to our young people
this need, for who volunta hope I may find some ways of helping the people who ‘are planning. (this campaign. Several people came to see ‘me in the afternoon. , In the evening, Miss Thompson and I went to dine with: Mrs. Prances Parkinson Keyes in a new home which she bought in Alexandria, Va. She showed us pictures of the house as:it was in ] Pebie, and I
It was quite an event to .
: boyish bob that was the style in. those days.
y enter the service of their country, I.
By Ernie Pyle
pottery and a jar of shelled corn were set beside the body. It is by these trappings that the scientists usually place the age of a mummy. But they are a little baffled by Susie. There is conflicting evidence. For one thing, they've found stuff of the “basket-maker” era in the cave with her. That would place her approximately between the year one and 70 A. B. Yet, if Susie were a basket maker, she would be tiny. The Basket Makers were seldom over five feet tall. But Susie is tall. Must be 5 feet 4 or 0. Park Superintendent Nusbaum gave me a thrill when he said, “We wouldn't be surprised to find evidence taking her back to B. C.” THat wofild make Susie 2000 years old. And here was E, T. Pyle holding her in his arms! °° Susie is so well preserved that there is only one break of the skin on her whole body. That is on her
- back—a place about half as big as a saucer. She is brown, and her skin igs like rawhide. _ $d s ” n
She Was No Beauty
Her legs are drawn up against her stomach, for that was the burial custom at the time. Her toes and fingers are as natural as though she had just died a
“little while dgo.
Her hair is brownish- black, and cufsin the sort of She was a buxom lass with an enormous chest. She was about! 20 when she died. And now we come to Susie's face. It’s a.good thing the Indians didn’t have clocks in those days. for Susie’s face would have stopped them all. I believe she would even have stopped a sun-dial. Apparently she died a horrible death. Her entire expression is one of intense agony. ' There are no marks to indicate violence. So we can only assume that Susie died from a green apple | stomach- ache. Or maybe just from being so ugly. . Susie weighs 16 pounds. In her hey-day, she probably tipped the beam -at 140. her up to his office and placed her on top of his desk. Then he stood and looked at her. “Here I've been waiting for this: moment for months,” he said. “And now that we've got her she’s so hideous I hate to put her on exhibition.” This morning I was up ‘early. I prowled over to the museum and peeked in the window, and Susie was still lying there on top of the desk, as nonchalantly as a paper weight. She hadn't got any better looking
during the night, either.
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By Anton Scherrer
unsuspecting nature made him liable -to imposition.” Moreover, it wouldn’t hurt to know what is meant by the sentence, “his extreme sensibility was frequently put to the severest trials.” I believe I know what the Journal was driving at. The fact of the matter is that for the first year or so of his stay in Indianapolis, Mr. Ralston was suspected of being a spy. It’s the gospel truth. The rumor had spread that before coming here, he had had something to do with Aaron Burr. What's more, that he had been implicated in Burr's, expedition to invade Mexico, with the purpose of establishing an empire there which should embrace some of the southwestern States of the Union. To be sure, 14 years had elapsed since Burr had been tried for treason and acquitted, but, even so, there were still plenty of people around here who saw red every time the name of Aaron Burr was mentioned. » ” »
But He Lived It Down
It wasn’t only Burr's attempt to split the Union. The pioneers of Indianapolis: also remembered him as the man who had succeeded in having as many votes for President of the United States as Thomas Jefferson, and they knew .durn well that only a
‘scoundrel with. the looseness of principles of Aaron
Burr could turn such a trick. It is pretty ‘well established teday thet Mr. Ralston had no part in either conspiracy. What complicated the situation at the time, however, was the fact that Aaron Burr had employed Alexander Ralston to survey some property on-the Washita River, in Arkansas, known as the “Bastrop Lands” which
Burr had purchased. This coupled with the fact that |
anybody who had ever known or talked with Burr was looked upon as a consiprator, il Mr. Baigon in a mighty tight place. He got out of it all right and lived long enough to win the esteem of everybody in‘ Indianapolis. It left its scars, however. The Journal's veiled obituary makes us aware of the scars.
By Raymond Clapper
That is the outline of the picture, stripped of the eyewash language of diplomacy. Nobody in the
Western Hemisphere has time now to waste'on the pleasant small talk of diplomacy which conceals the realities. It is to our interest and to the interest of all Latin-American peoples to understand the ‘real situation as quickly as possible. In the first American revolution, the 13 colonies obtained their independence and set up a joint government. In the second revolutiornt, which is what
Carl Sandburg calls the Civil War, it was determined |
that the Federal union was indissoluble. As John Fiske has said, the significant fact of our history was that the continent of North America became dominated by a single powerful and pacific Federal natign instead of being parceled out among 40 or 50 small communities wasting their strength and lowering their moral tone by perpetual warfare like the states of ancient Greece or modern Europe.
All for One, One for All
Now destily requires thatthe same solid unity, a positive, dynamic unity, be established throughout the hemisphere in fact, not in form. Just the Civil War determined that no one state or group of states could break away and go on their own, now the third American revolution will establish that no Western Hemisphere nation or bloc of nations can jeopardize the security of all by refusing to play in the tgam. No hemisphere nation can endanger the others by irresponsible conduct. No Mexican revolution can be ignored. No nation can use its sovereign--ty to allow potertial enemies to obtain air-power footholds in this hemisphere within striking distance of the Panama Canal. This is a different kind of world now and the Monroe Doctrine, which has protected Latin America all of these years, requires something from those nations besides the sneering indifference which they have often manilested.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
ny say that the changes she has wrought in it and the garden are remarkable, When I returned, I found that Franklin Jr. and two friends had just arrived’ from Charlottesville. They spent the night at the White House. Two other house guests had never seen the Lincoln Memorial at night and the reflection of the Washington Monument in the reflecting pool, so we took a short drive to see this really beautiful sight. This morning I actually had time. to try my new horse and I liked him very much. His gaits are perfect and I have a feeling that Charley and I are going to be good- friends. They told me he had never before had sugar but I doubt if that is true, because with very. little urging he ate two lumps of sugar and seemed to enjoy it greatly, I have always taught my horses to ‘shake hands” with me when we come in at the end of a ride. For that they get one lump of sugar and then I hold the second one out and they
- follow me a little way and nuzzle me with their soft
lips before they are rewarded with this second lump. I think Charley is very intelligent because he seems to understand at once. Perhaps he has had some training from the grooms in preparation, but in any case he will soon be perfect in these habits. I have just been to my broadcast and in a few _minutés we shall have lunch. This afternoon I am
‘attending & reception for the Daughters of the Con-|
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POLICE PRESS | TRAFFIC DRIVE; % ARRESTED
Secret District. After E. Side Campaign. A flying squadron of 25 motorcycle
noon for a - concentrated drive against violators in an unannounced] part of the city. The squadron invaded the East Side at 6:15 a. m. and in two and a half hours arrested 38 work-beund motorists on speeding charges. There were so many motorcycle
jone time that citizens called Headquarters to ask: “What's wrong?”
8 Hurt in Accident
Capt. Leo Troutman said these drives are a part of the continuous effort of the police to keep down traffic violations as a step to greater traffic.safety. Last night eight persons were injured in a two-car crash at Orchard Ave. and 34th St. The -.‘injured were Mrs. Sylvia Everhart, 23, of 1475 Roosevelt Ave., broken leg; Mrs. Juanita Davis, broken . collar bone; Miss Betty Redwine, 17, broken arm; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Redwine and Morris Redwine, who were bruised. All live at "1822 Ingram St. and all were in one car.
Two Others Bruised
Horace B. Brown, 33, of 5652 Central Ave., and Miss Joan Johns, who were in the other car, were bruised. Mrs. Everhart, Mrs. Davis and Miss Redwine all were in Methodist Hospital today. The Redwine party, being driven by Frank Larkin, 3050 E. 10th St, was on its way back from the Butler University Field House where they. had attended the graduation of Miss Redwine from Technical High School.
Logansport Child Is Killed by Auto
LOGANSPORT, Ind., June 5 (U. P.).—Shirley Ann Rowe, 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Rowe, was killed last night when she was struck by a car driven by Robert McDonald. Witnesses said the child ran from-behind a parked car directly into the path of the mag chine.
Auto Injuries Fatal To South Bend Man
SOUTH BEND, Ind., Juhe 5 (U. P.) —Samuel Figg, 57, of near South Bend, died yesterday from injuries
Sunday.
OFFICES LEASED HERE TO HOUSE STATE AAA
The Indiana office of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration will be moved from Lafayette to Indianapolis this week-end. L. M. Vogler, chairman ofthe Indiana Agriclltural Conservation Committee, announced today that negotiations have been completed through Klein & Kuhn for the lease of approximate y 16,000 square feet of floor space in the Big Four Buii¢ing, 105 S. Mer dian St: The Industrial Commission of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce has been working for more than two months with AAA officials in Lafayette and Washington, seeking to bring the Indiana office to Indianapolis. Mr. Vogler said the move would bring approximately 120 persons here and will involve the shipping of almost 120 tons of equipment, records and suppiies. The leased space includes about 14,000 square feet on the second and third, floors and 2000 feet of basement storage space.
U. S. JURY IS CALLED FOR JUNE 20 SESSION
U. S. Attorney Val Nolan announced today that the Federal Grand Jury has been summoned for a one-day session on June 20. He said that Assistant U. S. Attorney Paul Pfister’ would be in tharge of the abbreviated session. Mr. Pfister said that no cases would be presented except those of individuals in custody or free on bond, now tétaling between 20 and 25.
EDWARD W. BOWEN, DELPHI BANKER, DIES
Times Special DELPHI, Ind. June 3 Penemsl services for Edward » « W. Bowen, banker and Republican leader, will be held here tomorrow. Mr. Bowen was 75 and was connected with the Union Bank & Trust Co. He had been Republican chairman of the old Ninth District, a delegate to Republican = national conventions several times and a member of the Columbia Club at Indianapolis for 40 years.
The Sheriff's office today prepared warning signs to be posted at all county swimming holes where no guards will’ be stationed. Deputy Sheriff John. Dora, in charge of accident prevention for the Sheriff's office, said the signs would be! placed at all creeks, clay-|H: holes and gravel pits where “young-
sters would be tempted to go swimming.”
on Fall Creek at Millersville, on Eagle Creek near 10th St. and on White River below Riverside Dam. “Tom Sullivan, chief deputy, said the Sheriff's office hopes to keep|m the Coupty free of drownings this year.. One person drowned last year, he said. ako ly
Flying Squad Heads for
traffic officers headed out this after-
| policemen on E. Washington St. at|
received in an automobile accident|
He said guards are to be siationed)
Center members visited the building yesterday.
An open house will se held at the new South Side Community House in old School 61 in about a week. The school is being remodeled slightly for use as a community center. South Side Community They included, Teft to right: Val Schneider of the central committee; Mrs, William O'Conner, general secretary of all committees; Frank Otte, treasurer .of the central committee; Mrs. Jack Greig, chairman in charge of Parent-Teacher Association activi-
Times Photo.
LEGION OFFICIAL ASKS AID FORFBI
Townsley Urges All State Members to Back Drive On Fifth Column.
Raymond B. Townsley, State Commander of the American Legion, today urged alk Legion members and officials to co-operate with the Federat Bureau of Investigation in combating “fifth column” activities in Indiana. In letters: sent to all post commanders and executive committees, Mr. Townsley asked members to act as a “clearing house to report ‘fifth column’ activities to the FBI. “This does not mean that we shall become self-appointed detectives or snoopers, but it means that we ‘must keep alert and report to Departmen Headquarters anything that should be ‘investigated, 7. he: said. 7 Mr. Townsley urged that members keep alert against organization of any secret group ‘‘as these are apt to become rackets and violate the very tents of true Americanism.” He outlined ' the Legion's objectives: 1. Continue our education of the public for the urgent need of an adequate national defense, “2. Insist on; the passage of legislation in Congress, requiring finger-printing of all persons .in his country who are not citizens. 33. Support legislation to acquire and fortify the islands near the approach to the Panama Canal.” Mr. Townsley said that “we should not permit war hysteria to ruin our good judgment or that of the people of Indiana, nor permit loose conversation to disturb our national unity and -result in the persecution of innocent people.”
Now He'd Like To Identify $6
WHEN FRED L. ALEXANDER, -56, Lafayette, Ind., went strolling in downtown Indianapolis last evening, he had $6 but no identification cards with him. Today he has jdentification
cards but no $6. As he was looking in a stor window, a man who said he was a detective stopped beside Mr. Alexander and asked what he was doing, demanding to see identification cards. Mr. Alexander, in: Joking - for he cards, exposed the $6 in his billfold and the “detective” took charge of the money. He said he would keep it while Mr. Alexander went, to his hotel room for the
cards. When Mr. Alexander returned the “detective” had disappeared.
SEEK G. M. LABOR PEACE DETROIT, June 5 (U. P)—Two ranking conciliators of the Department of Labor arrived here today to. open negotiations designed to prevent a threatened shutdown of General Motors units which may play 4 vital part in President
ties, .and Paul -C. Wetter, president of the Indianapolis Federation of Community : Civic Clubs,
Yoi May Not Believe It, But War Does Not Bring Rain
Excessive April and May rains this year have revitalized the popular belief, about as old as gun powder itself, that continuous ex-
plosions upset the meteorological balance and cause abnormal precipi= tation. You can get any number of people to tell you that there was a great deal more ‘than normal rain during the four years of the first World War. You can get any number of persons to tell you, that, therefore, the second World War is causing the current excessive rains. . And you can get precisely the same number to tell you to go jump in the lake if you say there wasn’t any excessive precipitation during the first World war. But the records show there wasn't.
lvolume, neatly penned in a =Spencerian Hand, are the records in a Federal Building bookcase. ° They show there was a deficiency in rainfall in Indianapolis in the years 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1918. In 1915 we were 57 of an inch shy of normal; in 1916 we were 7.19 inches short; in 1917 we were 6.59 inches off and in 1918, 1.71 inches. If that doesn’t convert the believers into non-believers—which it is ‘almost certain not to do—there are records of sunshine, Of the 51 months of the duration of the first World War, only 21 had a‘ lower than normal amount of sunshine and the remainder had a higher than normal amount. The figures won’t mean anything to the dyed-in-the-wool believers, however, who, like as not, will look from reading them : and find it raining again outdoors.
In fact; in a nicely leather-bound
Y.M.Will Hold H.S. Graduation
WILLIAM H. REMY, Indianapolis attorney and a member of the Educational Committee of the ‘Indianapolis Young Men's Christian Association, will be the speaker for the 13th annual commencement exercises of the Y. M. C. A. Night High School Friday night at the Central Y. M. C. A. * building.” Graduates, alumni and friends
will attend a dinner in the Y. M.
C. A. auditorium preceding the formal commencement exercises. Miss Elizabeth Bodell, president of the senior class, will give the class response. Diplomas will be presented by Parker P. Jordan, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A.
MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Dr. G. I. Hoover. retiring general secretary of the Indiana Christian Missionary Society, will be. the principal speaker at the annual
meeting of the Delegate Council of the Christian Church Union of In-
‘|dianapolis at the Seventh. Christian
Church Friday at 6:30 p. m. Dr. S. Grundy Fisher, president of the Indianapolis Christian Min-
|isters Association, will speak on the
National Christian Mission which is to convene hére Nov. 10-17. SiX representatives on thé Church Union board will be elected and 10 representatives of local churches each will speak on thé value of the Church Union as a service agency of the Christian Churches of Marion County. . The Rev. Victor Griffin, pastor of
|the Seventh Christian Church, ‘will
welcome ‘the delegates.
BOY DROWNS IN RIVER
CONNERSVILLE, Ind. June 5 (U. P).—Calvin Poe, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Poe, drowned yesterday in the, Whitewater ‘River near here. He was the
Roosevelt’s national’ derense, /program. ‘
Boy
Mother Clark, Wife of President’s- ~ Youngest Son.
BOSTON, June 5 wu. P.).—Anne
Clark Roosevelt, 23, wife of the President’s youngest son, John, gave birth to a seven-pound. nine-ounce son today at Richardson House: of
the Boston Lying-in’ Hospital: ; The child was delivered: by Dr.
tended Mrs. and died June 2, 1939.
Clark of Boston and Nahant.
{and Mrs. Roosevelt, ~~ ° “The. President's, daughter, Mrs. John: Boettiger,
Anna Eleanor Dall, 13; Curtis Dall, 9, and John Roosevelt Boettiger, 14 months. James Roose kg u a children, ~~ Sara v8, Kate, 3. Elliott has ie
|liam Donner Roosevelt,
Is + Former Anne I
Charles G: Shedd, who also atJohn Roosevelt when: her first son was born prematurely.
The baby will be named Haven ak Anne's father, the late F.°
e former Anna Roosevelt Dall, has three children—
5 Wil-
hi, 0
second to drown in Fayette County in three days. !
Born fo John Roosevelts,
10th Grandchild for F. D. R.
The ‘newest Roosevelt baby is the Ji 16th grandchild of the President
Anne Clark Roose Roosevelt ‘names _ son’ ‘Haven or her late father. 3, anda dnughter, Ruth Chandler, 2 lin D. “Roosev .- has on
T0 HEAR DR. HOOVER,
{by President George E. Browne ' [turned to Chicago last April to com-
| monbtone and delegates sat ‘quietly ® until he had finished. He said Bioff
friendly” columnsit and anti-labor
"| P.). —Engineer James PF. McFarland, {of Salamanea, N. Y., was killed in a
he| today.
NATIONAL UNITY WEEK INDORSED
Sullivan and wd. Tobin Join in Movement for ‘Moral Re-armament.’
Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and Daniel Tobin, president of the Teamsters Union, have indorsed the Moral Re-Armament Week for National Unity being celebrated Jn San Francisco. Both have signed a call for cooperation sent out by Mayor Angelo Rossi of San Francisco,, Two Anderson, Ind., residents, Miss Mil-
are in San Francisco participating in the second anniversary of the movement's founding. Moral Re-Armament was introduced in the United States more than a year ago at a meeting ‘in
City. This” was followed by meetings in Constitution Hall, Washington, and in the Hollywood Bowl in California. The movement was indorsed by national leaders including’ Herbert Hoover,” Gen. John J. Pershing, Navy Secretary Charles ‘Edison and War Secretary Harry Woodring. The aims of Moral Re-Armament, as outlined by the national leaders, are “to-bring to individual citizens a new moral fiber and a sense of civic responsibility, to foster a strong, healthy, united nation—fear-free, hate free, greed-free and, whatever happens in Europe, to make Moral Re-Armament the backdrop of a rew world order—nhew mei, new nations, a new world.”
STAGE UNION CHEERS BIOFF AT LOUISVILLE
LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 5 (U. P.). —William Bioff, West Coast leader of the Theatrical and Stage Employees’ ‘Union, was indorsed today by representatives of his organization ‘as.a “great friend” of labor who had been crucified by news-
youthful indiscretion. Delegates to. the 35th biennial convention of the A. F. of L. International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees’ Union stood and cheered an hour and a half speech
which defended Bioff, who was re-
plete a six. months’ sentence for pandering imposed 18 years ago. Extradition procéedings against Bioff were begun after Columnist Westbrook Pegler exposed the un-
the I. A. T. S. E. was “gangster controlled” and led by an undemocratic administration. Mr. Browne read the speech ina
had . been the victim of an “un-
interests who “wanted this leader out of circulation.”
ENGINEER 1s KILLED. JOHNSONBURG; Pa.,-June 5 (U. derailment of his ‘engine and seven cars of a Be 30g seven senger train. two a east of ot
BY CONTNGENT ROLE, IS CLAM
dred Sims and Miss Goldie Sims)p.
Madison Square Garden, New York!
paper columnists because of al
served sentence and charged :that|
Hoosier Shen Available for The Presidency, Cabinet Or. Governorship.
“By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, June 5.—Paul V,
_|McNutt’s contingency candidacy has
increased, rather than diminished,
* |since his Memorial Day. statement
urging President Roosevelt to ace
‘| cept a third term.
Today that contingency includes not only the Presidency (it Roose« velt doesn’t run) but the Vice Presi« dency, Cabinet. posts and possibly another try at the governorship in Indiana. The latter role is one which Sen-
very much for him to assume. In commenting on the report that the
place, Senator Minton said: “That would be Sepator Byrnes is the most capakie leader in either party in the upper House. Paul McNitt should return fo the
Democrats then really would have something to vote for in both the state and nation.”
He Would Help Minton This view is not entirely unselfish.
and if he is renominated, will ap= tional ticket{ To add McNutt would
that ticket, the junior Senator admits. Meanwhile, McNutt organization men are reported taking an interest
Prosecutor David M. Lewis of Marjon County. Should this dark horse develop enough strength to deadlock the convention by preventing the nomination of either R. Earl Peters or Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker, the announced. candidates, but not enough to get the nomination hime self, the upshot might be a success ful “draft McNutt’ move, it is pre= dicted here.
Failed to Fight VanNuys
Senator Minton vainly sought to have Mr. McNuit return from his post as High Commissioner of the Philippines in 1938 and take the Senatorial nomination away from Senator Frederick VanNuys. But the McNutt organization renomi||nated Senatér VanNuys, after he had scathingly denounced its leadership, because they had no strong candidate to replace. him. A’ similar situation faces the Mc Nutt leadership in regard to R, Earl Peters, long-time political foe= man of. the McNutt organization, and that gives rise to the report that McNutt may run again. He denies he is a candidate, but that does not preclude his being drafted by a well organized convention, it has been pointed out. The Vice Presidency on a third term ticket would be the apple of his eye and his campaign manager, Frank M. McHale, is said to have ‘discussed the matter. secretly with him: here on Monday.
"%,_ Coolidge Coup Recalled
“Of course no one ever runs for the Vice Presidency,” Mr. McHale said for ‘the record. But the McNutt - for still is* fun it might xercise the same strength that the Coolidge organization did when President Harding was nominated by the G. O. P. in 1920. The Boeis Penrose smoke-filled room crowd had decided to rut the late Senator Lenroof of Wisconsin on the ticket with Harding, but the Boston boys forced the Coolidge substitution, it is recalled. McNutt men* might be strong enough to catch on in a similar
velt doesn’t indicate he wants Sene ator Byrnes or somebody else before the convention gets under way. - «> The President's acceptance of Secretary of ‘Navy Edison’s resignae tion for June 24 opens up the other contingency fox Mr. McNutt who, now is Federal Security Adminis iralop without actual | abinet rank,
NYLON PRIORITY FOR
PARACHUTES HINTED
NEW YORK, June 5 (U. P).— Unconfirmed reports that the Nae tional Defense :Commission plans to divert the entire production of Nylon, the new Du Pont Fibre, for the manufacture of parachutes were circulated in the hosiery market here today. ‘ Hosiery men stated that the plan, seemed practical, however, because Nylon has a stronger fibre than silk angd- is not dependent on forei supply sources. While the Treasury
under the strategic war materials act for the production of parachutes,
quate for the expanded national defense program.
STAVE ELKS. ELECT | LOGANSPORT MAN
ANDERSON, Ind, June § (U, P.).—Seventeen bands competed today in a contest sponsored by the Indiana State Association of Elks holding their 40th annual conven= tion here. ¥ Glenn Miller of ‘Logansport was
year, succeeding Claude E. Thompson of Prankiort, Other officers are: Joseph Kyle, Gary, ft vice president; Ed Lowenthal, Evansville, second vice Resident; Harry McLain, = Shelb {third vice president; Carl. THlett, Muncie, fourth vice’. president; E. L. Shideler, Terre Haute, secretary, and Tobey Yoder, Goshen, treasurer. Mr. Shideler and Mr, Yoder
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