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

By Ernie Pyle

ABOARD TRANSCONTINENTAL BUS In Ohio). - 2 : they were workmen onthe Way to oe

29 —We left Broadway at 11 in the morning, and. new building job. But it turned out they were “Drive-| seat companion was one of them, and|

pulled into Pittsburgh at midnight: It was rain- a-Ways.” “There wasn’t a soul down at the pus station in he steuck “a conversation. York te cry or kiss me goodby. . So I bowed to A “drive-a-way” is a man who delivers new cars or

the driver, shook hands with the trucks to some far point. ‘These men had each de-{ livered two International trucks in Jersey City that|

Red Cap, waved to some travelers leaving for Boston, and sat morning. Eleven of them had driven from the facdown in the. Wrong seat... . .° : Throughout: most of the U. S., me, had driven his from Ft. Wayne, Ind. bus seats are not reserved, But in New York and Boston no fairly good workingman jobs. They get from 3 to 34 passenger is allowed to board a cents a mile, plus $2 for hotels, $1 for taxi, and their . bus unless he has a seat reserva- bus fare home. They make from $22 to $25 for detion. My seat was No. 16, right livering a truck from Indiana to New York, and they _in the middle of the bus, on the . average | a little more ‘than a trip a week. : . right side, next’ ‘to. the window. 2 8 =

A young man went through the The N erve of Some People!

bus renting pillows for 15 cents. I rented one. In those tool boxes were their governors to hold

We piled out of the:50th St. Terminal three the truck’s speed down, and their oil lamps and utes ate. There were 11 of us, five men and six g,cqq for setting along ‘the road in case, of a breakI oe ne going at least as far as Pills- : qoum - And in the long burlap sacks were their towaur I was the only transcontinental j,p foi the second truck. The whole outfit weighs

150° pounds. : The bis peopl * bus side,” Jie A me check my us 2 The drivers’ were loud and talkative and good-

would be right on the same bus with me. If I natured.” They kept razzing each other about bald

t ed them through the baggage room, they might 1eads and the women and what not. .But the firs on a later bus, and not be there when I wanted (hig I knew, practically all of them had dropped off

Eleven minutes after starting, we pulled into, the Pureh. i St. Bus Terminal, and took on 13 more people. =~ We had a rest stop of 10 minutes at Easton, and driver announced that we would pick up some we ate dinner in the railroad depot at Harrisburg

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® passengers at Newark, and then there would at the odd hour of 4:15. Darkness came and the road ’

Yo stops until we reached Easton, Pa., at 1: 45, was crooked. : ‘ : was an express bus. We had a comtort stop at Duticansville, Pa, 2 » around: 9 at night. A Sunder storm was coming up or : 9 over the mountains.. The night was hot. People : D rive-a-Ways were beginning to get restless and uncomfortable. Greyhound drivers announce various spots We all rushed in to the lunch counter and bought ice

‘along the way, just as a sight-seeing bus driver does, cream. All but ohe man. ‘only not in detail. - Some drivers merely announce He had something the matter with his foot. His ‘state lines, and the terminals where we make comfort foot “eetched,” as he said. “You've got athletic foot,” : Others announce every little town you pass one of the “Drive-a<Ways” told him. I found out , and give interesting facts about it. - about it when I went into the men’s rest room. dozen men piled on at Newark. They made us a. ~ For here was this guy, with his sock and shoe off, ill load—37 passengers and. the driver. “Each of the standing on one leg, washing his “eetchy” foot in one ¥- passengers had a tool box, and something heavy of the only two lavatories in the place! If you find

ped in a burlap sack. One of them sat down nothing else on a transcontinental bus trip, you find |

a superb quality ‘of brass.

‘By Anton Scherrer

HE MESSAGE of hope this wok 1 is the example pagne; donated by a friend of “theirs who wanted to ed Me and Mes. ur C- Grayeill, Who, un. Sots wo 2 oe Mist.” I can explain of all newspaper headlines, have gone right, .\"s, "When the hull was completed, Mr. Graybill and built a 21-foot-long cabin cruiser—all With tried it out and discovered it would run in a couple of own’ hands, mind you. It’s the biggest thing in inches of water.’Somebody who saw the phenomenal the Indianapolis Navy. performance guessed “she would run in a mist. ? And Mr. Graybill is ah insurance rightaway, Mrs. Graybill remembered that her automan; his wife, a teacher in the mobile is painted a color known to the trade as Fairview Kindergarten. They've “Cloud Mist.” That settled it. ‘been interested in navigation all ~~ : Pa their married life. For all I know, - maybe they did their courting: in. a canoe. Up until 18 months ago the: n Graybills got -along with a 14-foot-long motor boat. The best.

Plan Trip on Ohio s The Graybill’'s cabin ‘cruiser is 21 feet long and feet’ wide. It’s equipped with a 10-horse power marine motor, and draws only three inches of water, which is why ‘it’s going to. get to Noblesville (and it could do Was to take them back). Except for the cabin, the boat looks like a rom Broad Ripple to 75th St. It & scow. The cabin is 10 by 6 feet, plenty big enough enough. They wanted .to see more of the rid. If for four bunks. To let in light and air, the cabin has 0 possible, they wanted a boat designed to th three windows on each side. They're the cutest ge them all the way to Noblesville and back. Their things you ever saw and drop into a groove, the way he ost. Ki hme atly way > Sieoning: On streetcar windows are supposed to, but never do. The aL. at ught. y. way to g Ch 8 Graybill windows work. I saw. them work. . Mr. Grayhill designed and built the boat; his wife dia all the painting. She says her overalls are so stiff, because of paint stains, that they’ll stand up of their : own accord, The: boat’s color scheme on the out Ab that time Mr. and Mrs; Graybill were living : side is orange, brown and: white. On the inside it’s on Guilford Ave. The garage wasn't big enough to red, white and blue. Mrs. Graybill says now, if ever, ~ build a cruiser and so they -went around until they is the time to show what you think of your country. ~~ found something to suit them. They found a 30-foot- The walls and ceilings of the cabin are blue; the win- # long garage in the rear of 6222 Haverford Ave., with- dows and bunks are red. The rest of the cabin is ¢in a stone’s throw of White River, which made it white. * mighty handy when it came time to-launch the boat. white muslin curtains for the windows. If the sum- :¢ The house that went with the big garage was mighty mer is long enough, she’s going to ornament them too, but they didn’t care so much about the with red anchors. ¢ fas Jong as the garage was big enough to build © - As for Mr. Graybill, he sieried the boat with “wood collected from tomato ‘vats. It's cypress. The Er cabin is made of waterproof plywood. The whole Sone and goodness knows how many nights), the thing weighs a ton. He's got a trailer to haul the cruiser was launched this week. Mrs. Graybill boat. Eventually the Graybills hope to haul the chi ed it with a bottle of real-for-sure cham- flagship of the Indianapolis Navy to the Ohio River.

nf, * : 4 = : > i ashington By Raymond Clapper : WASHINGTON, June 29.—In view of the nomina- played no pikilic desire to retire, he could scarcely ‘tion ‘of Wendell Willkie by the Republicans, #t will do so now when a formidable opponent confronts be difficult for President Roosevelt to avoid stand- him. President Roosevelt is not a man to take a

“for a third term. The situation ~ practically runout powder uhder those circumstances.

Fortunately in Willkie the Republicans have a Is him to run. has Bupseven SO ok mann candidate who has some appreciation of the gravity

of the world situation and ‘a, sense of responsibility OS uniNE mb a about it. He will not use it’ irresponsibly as a poleave the Democratic Party in litical football unless I totally misunderstand him. utter confusion Willkie knows that. in delicate international affairs Had Mr. Roosevelt announced much must be left to the Judgment of the President. some months ago an intention to In the field of strictly domestic affairs, a hardretire at the end of this term his fought campaign is likely. The opposition is likely position now would be easy. But to be all the stronger because it will be an intelligent | ; he failed to do ‘so. Instead, apposition,- lot one dependent on phony catchwords.

Demogeatle. leaders have gath- : a. 2 .8 ered the idea that he would run, : r° No successor has been devel- N ational Leader Needed oped.” If Mr. Roosevelt should At the moment, Willkie personifies a widespread SE refuse to run now, it would leave desire for strong leadership behind which the country ‘every state leader in the party out on a limb. The cgn unite.” Roosevelt so completely alienated the busiYesult would be chaos throughout the Democratic ness groups of the country that he finds it impossible, z even under the pressure of this emergency, to estab- = But there is a more impelling circumstance which: -Jish the fundamental national unity that is so neces“it almost inconceivable that Mr. Roosevelt sary. That is why so much hope has been turned puld quit now. He has been challenged by Re- toward Willkie. ublican candidate Willkie, who says he wants to But Willkie will never make the grade standing 2 on the champ. There is more than wisecrack merely as the candidate of business. The time rethat remark. quires a truly national leader who is accepted and . trusted by all groups. The country wants a national President—not a business President, not a labor President. ‘ For the first time the Republicans have a candi- It is too late for Mr. Roosevelt to bring the busite who gives every indication that he will prove ness world into the orbit of his leadership., The suc-‘hard-hitting opponent. Herbert Hoover and Gov- cess of Republican Candidate Willkie is likely to Y Yadon were pushovers. Willkie will be no depend upon the degree to which he becomes the hov! voice of the American people—not only the bankers, ‘Here To the first time Roosevelt has an opponent the large business men, but the little business men, ean be classed in his own bracket. Inasmuch the farmers, the small salaried woYkers, the wage-.-Mr. Roosevelt has uring all of these months dis- earners, the 2 Solessional men—the Americans.

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HYDE PARK, Friday.—We had a most interesting: e yesterday morning on the roof-of the Educa-

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They are going to have an essay contest in a short time on “Why I Am Unemployed.” It will be internce Building, at 197 E. Broadway, New 8] Lia Even gine we reached the at Was esting to see what reasons they give. Perhaps it will ious of the vivid stream of life that always pulses enlighten some of the rest of .us who search for hidden: In that particular building. economic. reasons and wonder what has happened to - - - Crowds were standing out on: those jobs which every youngster could look forward the sidewalk and some big busses ‘to 30 or 40 years ago. were loading groups of young We drove up the East Side Parkway and I could] “people on their way to camp. One not help thinking what a change there is today in summer camp houses mothers that waterfront. Space for many people to sit and and daughters, the other takes cool off on a hot summer evening and for games of boys. Two weeks of country life every kind, with high nets to protect the onlookers there make a vast difference to from the balls. This is better social planning than these East Side youngsters. ~ we used to have, and both the Mayor and Robert Several hundred young peo- Moses deserve our ble were sitting on the roof ready . to go off in search of jobs. Job : time to welcome my niece and-nephew, Eleanor and hunting in pairs is a new tech- Henry Roosevelt, and a - nique. It is easier to do when are spending a few days with me. They had a swim, " ering stores and factories in the neighbor- but it hasnt tempted me as yet, because the weather : with the idea of soliciting jobs for the whole stays so cool, so we older ones went for a walk bef , for you are talking for all and not yourself dinner. Then I caught up on the mail. ¢ After dinner, we listened to the news and the balCc ation is proving suocehstul. They are get- loting at the Republican convention as it came over jobs, though not as many as they would like. the radio. There is something a little unreal to me’ fill to meet together and talk it ‘over, to give each about all this’ political activity when the world seems Br_ pointers 3s os to meet. the employer ‘and - toppling into chaos. ‘Political memories seem to me s0{" morale,

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tory at Springfield,» O. The twelfth, who sat beside]

- These “drive-a-ways” have hard, monotonous but .

to sleep. Some of them slept all the way to Pitts-|

This summer Mrs. Graybill is going to make |

By Elviiior Roosevelt| -

I was back in the country about 4 o'clock in ample} friend of theirs. They|

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H. E. Curtis, Elwood barber, kept constant watch as bulletins ar-

rived and finally told the world of the nomination of “Wen” Willkie, -

who as a

d sat for the shears of Mr. Curtis. A Democrat, Mr.

Curtis “expects to vote Republican this time.”

M’NUTT DISCUSSED AS F.D.R. RUNNING MATE

Times Special WASHINGTON, June 29.—There was considerable speculation here

‘today regarding the possibility of

Paul V. McNutt being nominated for Vice President on a third term ticket because his former Indiana 'Uni-

versity classmate is heading the|

ticket for the G. O. P. ‘Many observers seemed to think that Mr. McNutt’s chances for second place have been improved by the constant references to Indiana in the building up of Wendell L. Willkie as a Republican favorite son.

WILLKIE VAGUE, THOMAS CLAIMS

Hoosier Playing ‘Fast and Loose With Country,’ Socialist Says.

Wendell L. Willkie, like President Roosevelt, is playing “fast and loose with this country” in his statements on international affairs, Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, said in an interview last night. Tall, gray-haired Mr. Thiomss, who this year. was drafted by his party to run for the fourth time, said -he was “not impressed by Willkie’s defense ideas.” “He really stands side by ‘side with Roosevelt,” he stated. “And Roosevelt’s Charlottesville speech was almost like a declaration of war. The whereabouts of our fleet still is Roosevelt's secret; gold buying is subsidizing the Allies, and we've already done everything we can short of war to help them. “What I'm going to ask Willkie is where. he stands on more aid. ‘We've already given Hitler’ more opportunity to declare war on us than many countries he has invaded.” Mr. Willkie, the Socialist said, lacks a belief in the necessity of | PC social planning and lacks candor on major issues. “He's still talking vaguely about “let's get together, ”' Mr. Thomas said. “He lacks the realization that

the utility instead of the utility owning the people. Willkie’s still pretty much a champion of the downtrodden stockholder.”

told him he ‘was a champion of civil liberties but “I don’t want to know if Willkie loves the lady, I want ro know what is he going to do for er. ”»

to keep. up hope—and hope is. SHEL -Votes and. attitudes A yesterday are forgotten |

WILLKIE DEBATE |B ‘STILL HOT HERE™

6. 0. P. Leaders lubilant; Democrats: Dubious He’ll Win State.

Speculative comment on the G. O.

P, nomination of Wendell L. willkie| .

of Elwood for president continued

a time comes when the people own|

Mr. Thomas said Mr. Willkie: has

“which are related to Mrs. Willkie shared in similar excitement.

_ balloting for the nomination. _ patient had no radio and she said that she Woesn’t believe ‘the patient knew/ how out ‘the result.

Be news fo her. : fathers were

unabated in Marion Gourity ‘political circles today, Both Republicans and Democrats agreed . the. Hoosier’s nomination

would have ‘a decided influence in the Indiana State election, but both disagreed on the extent of it. Republicans who were for Willkie

before his nomination jubilantly

predicted he would carry on bath State and National tickets. Admitting the candidate might give the Republicans “a shot in the arm,” Democrats stood firm in the conviction that Willkie’s influence in the State election would not be decisive.

Boost McNutt At City Hall, some Democrafs asserted the nomination of Paul V. McNutt as a running-mate for President Roosevelt would neutralize any influence that Mr. Willkie might exert on independent voters.

Mr. Willkie standing alone as a|

favorite son, however, would ‘“complicate’” the situation, especially for Marion County, the Democrats said. Republican Board members at City Hall were confident of a Willkie victory and they told their Democratic colleagues so. Maurice Tennant and Charles O. Britton of the Works Board said Willkie has “brought new life to the Republican Party and new strength.”

Ponder Old Timers’ Views

At the Courthouse, Democratic office holders- admitted that “Willkie is a good man,” but they wondered how are “old line Republicans going to take it?” One Democrat predicted Willkie’s popularity would fade. The Democrats will cut him to pieces,” the spokesman predicted. A Republican attorney at the Courthouse contained himself until he met a fellow Republican. Then he exploded: “t's wonderful, that’s what it is.”

A BUST FOR WILLKIE

NEW YORK, June 29 (U. P.).— William- Guggenheim, philanthropist who makes a habit of sending busts of Benjamin Franklin to persons he] believes to be deserving, today sent one to Wendell L. Willkie, Republican Presidential nominee.

By today, Miss Clara Willkie had caught up on. the sleep she lost in her excitement over the nomination of her cousin as Republican candidate for Rresident. ve Two other Indianapolis familieg

Miss Willkie, who lives at 2258 N. Meridian St., is a nurse at St. Vincent’s Hospital, and she was on duty Thursday night during the

she wae" to fing

‘mately half ‘an 0 p.m Willkie ‘nomination, a friend [Phoned his.

m, Aprons after

Miss Willies and ir ' Willkie’s| lison >. brothers, She came wood, the

Elwood when the news came of the

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from which he once was expelled. district.

Mr. Willkie. They are City ClerkTreasurer C. D. Sizelove, Miss Ethel Kohlmorgan, Mrs. Harry Gregg and Roscoe Procter. ; Dr. G. V. Newcome, chairman of the Elwood Willkie-For-President Club, is in charge of arrangements. old-timers recalling incidents in the Presidential nominee’s life as a schoolboy here said that he and several companions were summoned before the principal after the steps of the school were defaced. After long questioning he admitted the

prank. “But I did not paint those steps,” Mr. Willkie argued, “Painting is the act of covering.a urface with paint. I used shoe polish.’ His explusion was revoked when he removed the marks by rubbing the stones with a brick. The trees around the school house were planted by Herman “Willkie, the nominee’s father, who was an attorney here for many yeéars. Among residents who have stepped forward with stories about “Wen” are-the man who hired him to drive a baker truck, a woman who says she was the only one to whom Mr. Willkie ever conceded an argument, and the man who employed him to sort over-ripe potatoes. The Superintendent of Schools dug up the 1910 records to show that Central’s most famous pupil was a slow starter and fast finisher in the classroom. ‘While his freshman card was heavily sprinkled with “p” for barely passing, his senior card was solidly “BE” for excellent. His old schoolteacher, Mary Cox, Sout teaching Elwood youths after 50 years, missed her share of pub-] licity by taking a ‘vacation trip ta

vention. . : At least three: stories have come to light about Mr. Willkie’s meeting with his future: wife, ‘Edith Wilk of Rushville.

(tan, 5309 N.

the and looks

According to one version, ‘he ‘met’

. er. ywhen she was Elwood’s fown here.

Araininigin 1024 and since she completed’ her - course, she has been on private duty there. She has visited her famous cousin several times. and he ‘has. visited ‘her here several

times, she said. ‘Both Donald L. Smith, - 3419 N. Pennsylvania St., and Miller HamilIllinois - St., were-home. from the convention city today. Mr. Smith is an uncle of Mrs. Willkie; Mr. Hamilton’s wife isthe sister of Mrs. Willkie. Mrs. ton: heard the convention proceedings from Rushville, where both she land : Mrs. Willkie were born and here. Me Mr. Willkie now has a farm. The: only person at the Hamilton home yesterday was James Hamil- , Mr, and Mrs. Hamilton’s son i fhe of the Willkies. He is 21

his first vote for Mr. Willkie in vember. Ne Wilken Ne Division of Gen-

leader in the

burring: department. and Philip:

Mexico during the Republican con-|

{and was forced

lison Engineering eral Motors here; he is a groupibors and

LOE HOOSER RULETOYOUTH

01d-Timers Like Watson and | Goodrich Opposed to

Willkie Nominatioh.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

PHILADELPHIA, June 29. —As the last of the Hoosier Republicans left this conven tion city today to boost the Presidential candidacy of the first native Hoosier ever noms inated, the younger men and women predicted. a new era for the party in Indiana and the nation. : Some of them saw in the selece tion oft Wendell L. Willkie the end of G. O, P. domination in Indiana by the two Jims—former U. 8S. Senator James E. Watson and

former Governor James P. Goode

rich. Both were opposed to Mr. Will kie. Out of the defeat of the t Jims. is expected to come the rise to power of such dynamic youngsters as Rep. Charles A. Halleck, the Willkie manager; Secretary of State James "Tuck and other

1 | younger: men.

Pinochle. partners of “the next President” Firemen David Richards (at the wheel) and Everett Phillips joined the celebration at

Presidential nomination of Wendell

Eivood fo H anor Willkie af ~ School Which Expelled Him

Geletration Tuesday to Follow Torchlight Parade; Five es to Be on Platform. ELWOOD, Ind. line 29. —Elwood’s belebration honoring Wendell L. Willkie will be: held Tuesday night at the old Central High School The program will follow a torchlight parade through the business On the platform will be five persons who attended high school with

librarian and he visited the library to study a dictionary. Story No. 2 was that ‘they met when both were attendants at a friend’s wedding. The most romantic version was that he spied Miss Wilk while haranguihg a crowd from a park bench. He promptly forgot the speech, the story asserted; and romance blossomed.

FDA-WLLKE MEETING ‘IN AIR

WASHINGTON, June 29 (U..P.). —The time and the place of that foreign affairs discussion which President Roosevelt said he would be glad to hold with Wendell Will‘kie, the Republican Presidential nominee, was still very much in the

air today. Politioal circles agreed that if and when such-a conference is held it will be a momentous occasion. As the matter now stands, Mr Roosevelt has said he would like to talk over foreign affairs with Mr. Willkie, if the latter would like to do so. Mr. Willkie said in Philadelphia that he would be glad to “Franklin D, "Roosevelt any time.” There: were Suggestions that mutual friends of the two might arrange a future meeting, but there was nothing definite on that score.

SOARING MEET STARTS

ELMIRA, N. Y., June 29 (U. P.). —The eleventh * annual national soaring meet gets; under way today | as 70 American and foreign glider pilots ‘assemble’ at’ ‘Barns "Hill, near

|Cousin Clara Catches Up on Sleep Afferthe Shouting? - Sa Nephew Here Anxious fo Cast His First V ote for Uncle

kie, son-of the Preside ntial Pontes are within eight mo ‘of the same age. They were together a great deal at the home’ of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. ‘Wilk, in Rushville ‘until they. were 15 or 16, na then Philip chose Princeton : University and : James chose BD University . and aviation. James made two Visits last summer to the Willkie home at 1010 Fifth Ave., New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Wilk have both died Wiikin the last year and a half.

The elder Mr. Hamilton’ is an employee of the Central Advertising Agency in the Board of Trade Buildling. “Mr. Smith is a local attorney business. to leave the convention Thursday I -“ore the nomination of Mr. ‘Willkie. Willkie’s mother is Mr. Simi si

hi: Sat here ait the radio Th y, listening . to. the con-

vention, her home filled

forward eagerly to casting | ter. No-| Mrs.

‘with ne Jeigh-

The happiest ‘Hoosier leaving the convention, with the exception, of course, of Mr. Willkie, : was Rep, Halleck.

Became Willkie Manfer ; He came here to be the Indiana -

(| representative on the. resolutions

committee and soon found himself in the role of Willkie manager. After the Hoosier delegates reported a bad reaction to his speech nominating the utility magnate, he was somewhat downcast. But later he and Mrs. Halleck

joined the Willkie family in cele=

bration of their triumph. ‘In casting their entire 28° votes for Senator Charles T. McNary of Oregon for Vice President, the Ine diana delegates pointed out. that ing will give additional strength to e ticket in the farm states. ¢ delegates were extremely pleased at the dramatic appearance of Mr. Willkie at the final session of the convention. He was accoms panied by his wife, Edith Wilk Wille kie, the one-time librarian of Ele wood. “Introduced by Martin

As Mr. Willkie stood. ‘in the spote light to be introduced, he scratched his ear and shifted from one foot to another, Rep. Joseph . Martin. (R. Mass.) introduced the nominee and then Mr. Willkie, as the crowd cheered, annotinced he was launching a “crusade for national unity.” - He tossed his head and the cone fetti which filtered down from the ceiling fell from his ‘hair ‘as he shouted for asfighting spirit in the campaign. ° “I always had urged the Indiana delegation to give all their 26 votes to Mr. Willkie just as soon as first ballot commitments were over,” Rep.

y Halleck said later discussing the

Ikie triumph. ‘Old Arguments Will Vanish’ “The state did well in the voting, but I am sorry: they didn’t lead the field. All those old arguments against Willkie will vanish like fog now and the ticket will sweep the state and nation.” Raymond E. Willis, G. O. P. fiom nee for -the U, S. Senate, said today the party is certain to “Win With Willkie” in Indiana. “He suits me fine as a first-class Hoosier candidate,” Mr. Willis said. “There are two reasons why we will be the winner in Indiana and throughout the United States.

State Support Solid

“First, he is the one man who can speed up this very necessary defense program and second, he can oust the New Deal and establish & business administration. . “Certainly what we need today is more business in government.” Arch N. Bobbitt, . Indiana Repube lican state chairman; Glen Hillis,

|G. O. P. nominee for Governor, and

all the delegates and alternates were cheering for Mr. Willkie today. However, they did not cast the 28 Indiana votes for the Elwood ian until after he went over on the sixth ballot and the seventh roll call was made unanimous. Most of the Hoosier old-timers, such as former Senator Watson and former Governor Goodrich, were not anticipating a Willkie victory. It was the newcomers in politics, such as Jerome Beeler of Evans= ville, who were hopefully for him. The convention developed a news style technique which was dramatized by the Halleck speech which irked many: delegates but brought rousing cheers from the packed gale

|leries and, according to all reports,

sounded well over the radio. : To Will G. Irwin, Columbus capi« talist: and recently retired Repube lican National Committeeman from the state, goes the credit for being the pioneer Willkie man in Indiana. He was ably supported in his Tefforts: by Mrs. Grace Reynolds, Cambridge City, who operated from Republican National Committee Headquarters in Washington which also was pro-Willkia. Homer E. Capehart, Washington, will represent the state G. O. P. on the ‘committee on _on notification.

ELWOOD, Ind, . June 20. —Miss Mary Cox, one of Wendell Willkie’s high school teachers, is an instruce tor in Elwood High" School. She’'taught him history, a subject he liked. She says he didn’t’ like algebra, but that he was a bright boy who finished his high school. course - three years ahead of the average pupil. -

EVANSVILLE, In Ind, June 29. Evansville believes it has a special Mrs. (interest in Wendell Willkie because ie is ilie head atts gas and sleotrie..

and friends and: her constantly Vo ewe are