Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1940 — Page 2

SATURDAY,

.Big Town Stuff

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Elwood" s Biggest Day Begins---'No No Parking’ .

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Early morning in Elwood, sidewalks crowded with strollers. The streets were cleared of automobiles at 10 o'clock last night and all parked cars impounded by the police “for the duration” Only cars allowed in downtown Elwood were authorized press cars and service vehicles,

HOOSIER FANDANGO YOURE IT, 54 [eye 6 ppnERS)

Wa a for a or Ese TELL WILLKIE Clevelanders Sleep on as Train y 1% PWS Wikies Says ion Pulls in, so Cheer Dies A-Borning.

All States and "am Districts Are

“Get your Willkie souvenirs!” barks Jack Berman, Brooklyn, N. Y,, hawker at the Pennsylvania Station, # ‘

DR. TOWNSEND INBID TOG. 0. P,

Claims McNary Backing,

By JOE COLLIER

It’s All Planned

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SIX SONS IN UNIFORM

» Heard Part Over Phone; Capital's abd Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, po aad © who remain here, as well as Democrats and ordinary citizens, For Lh Nobody here knew tly wi b ly finn ody here knew exactly what was to be in it up to | In fact their not knowing TRAFFIC POURS sort of standing joke on ribber, ator Pat Harrison (R. Ore) he would inquire in a sol- | . , } | Jam City: Fill Roads little something about what your, As minority leader in the Senate, ELWOOD, Ind, Aug. 17.—Elwood ners. He would bow and say somemyself.” drove toward this city of 10000. By Mr. McNary became a bit ex- | for every man, woman and child o as one of the “advisers” on the distance of Callaway Park. distance phone conversation with city. And they all are closely shepon the day Mr. Willkke spent in where they are turned over to the! Senator John G. Townsend Jr. (R. ened. fided that he had not been consulted You drive a certain way on cerMass.) fase), Republican National Chair- in a certain premrranged spot. (R. Ind), who nominated Willkie al has have had excerpts from the speech nobody knows. Estimates of ‘he man show and a 100 per cent Will- 100,000 people. _paign will be conducted is indicat- acres of fields adjoining Callaway | an organizations regarding what is space for 40,000 cars, a figure arbiizations which deal directly with No one knows, either, how many | the nominee. blocked off for that purpose. Will teurs” under the regular G. O. P 63 Special Trains why this is smart politics as fol- there finally will be 63 special trains iv 1.000, 000 votes cast for GOVErnor will hear an estimated 63,000 perare already sold on the Republican they will shepherd the passengers third term for President Roosevelt thev just shuddered. anv national election.” allowed through Elwood since 6 set 3 good example. He is by far safely gone. Republicans ever nominated and he Tg on the suto traffic. | Plaine Sight Trouble Areas low dodger delivered to all Con- looking for traffic snarls. When they | tained the following item: {radio and special trouble-shooters | Landis of Indiana, rimored to be believe that an even bigger job presidency, had an interesting pouring in for hours on end will Rep. Landis is the Seventh Dis- result. - . of humor. It's going to take a few Halleck Aids ICC Bill Boi ing the conference report on the Thats the way things now shape | a House conferee and member of the Much traffic can be handled until | Rep. Halleck took the Floor and er much. point was putting inland waterways The dean of the Hoosier Reon modern governmental practice: | Times Special about some of the extensions of gov- 10 single-seaters, swarmed over the) as it is evident in respect to trans- | tification ceremonies. regulation, then it is only fair to say tinued to arrive throughout the | regulation.” e |who usually has just a part-time to handle the incoming flights. Marine Corps Reserve had his road, serves as the landing field for He left today for two weeks training passenger service from the field! VvanNuys' secretary. i” Ew (the country. A number of metroMAYLANDS, Australia, Aug. 17 (U. P.).—The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. H.! The Indiana State Police plane, lieutenants in the Australian EX- the airport, and six planes kept | home defense and one a college ca- Manager Heron estimated that

Hoosiers in Washington— Speech Wholly Willkie, S, Though Halleck and Martin Ears to Radio. By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Aug. 17.—When Wendell L. Willkie] makes his acceptance speech this afternoon, Republicans | lide] will have both ears glued to the radio. V4 g eo RRL w For the speech will be all-Willkie and nation-wide! | : : al i EY NL : id, ® the time the G. O. P. Presidential candidate took off for Indi-| bese ana from Colorado Springs. | 1? anything about it became a | Capitol Hill. - INTO. 0 ELWOO0D Whenever that expert old- me Miss) would meet Willkie’s ir. mate, Senator Charles 1. menary 40,000 Cars Ex Expected to emn Mississippl drawl: “Say, Charley, can’t you tell us a Bumper to Bumper. man Willkie is a-goin to say Sat-| urday?” | Times Special Senator McNary has a well-earned ghsorbed autos. like a blotter absorbs reputation for Chesterfieldian man- ink today. thing like this: | Over every road, from every point “Sorry, but I really don't know of the compass, auto after auto] After the gag got to be a daily ‘ ; performance, even the well-poised time of the notification ceremonies, there are expecied to be four Bio asperated. Although Mr. Willkie listed him Elwood, ail parked within Shige speech, Senator McNary told col-! Bumper to bumper, they already leagues that he had but one long- fill the highways leading into the the nominee in Colorado Springs. herded by State Police from 20 miles He met him briefly for the first time out of the city, to the city limits, Washington en route to Colorado augmented Elwood police departfrom New York City. | ment. The supervision then is tightDel), chairman of the Senate Re-| publican Campaign Committee, conat all. tain streets. You enter the parking | Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R.' area at a certain place. You park! man and Willkie campaign man- . ager, and Rep. Charles A. Halleck! Today—right now—a problem that | for weeks been blueprinted | Philadelphia and is presiding at El- came to life. How big it will get and | wood this afternoon, are reported to how satisfactorily it will be solved, read to them over the phone. ‘crowd which will have assembled | So, win or lose, this will be a one- here before the sun sets vary by! kie performance. The reception committee, headed That this also is the way the cam- by MNomer Capehart, leased 250] ed by complaints already received Park and marked them off in lanes | here from various regular Republic- in which cars park two abreast— | termed the “amateurs.” The latter trarily taken. There may not be that are the independent Willkie organ- many and there may be more, Oren Root Jr. and Russell Daven- busses were Elwood-bound today. ! port, non-political lieutenants of They are parked in side streets. | Mr. Willkie is reported to have there be room enough? Nobody rejected a plan to blanket the “ama- ynows yet. setup. o : A Willkie booster here explains, 1he Committee does know that lows: parked on main lines and sidings “Mr. Willkie is sure to get the before ceremony time. These trains’ Ifred M. Landon in 1936, so why gons. play around with these people Who When you asked railroad men how Party? What he needs to win are back onto their proper trains after Democrats who will not swallow a the ceremony, they didn’t answer— and the so-called independent vote No through passenger trains and which it the determining factor n no freight trains at all have heen If it ix the “independent vote” P. mM. yesterday. None will go Mr. Willkie is after, he thus far has through until the special trains are A To police, the railway and airplane the most independent candidate the problem was nothing. They were has some of them here singing the ,,meqd with little blue prints of rules | blues. |and regulations ang streets uses. Landis for Perkins? | The Townsend Plan Flash, a vel-| Overhead a plane was droning, in| it sharp-eyed State Police officers] gressmen from Townsend Plan find one, they communicate with headquarters here, this week con- ground headquarters by two-way | “Mash: Landis of Indiana stirs are sent to the spot to straighten] meeting; Congressman Gerald things out. Naturally, the police, considered for Secretary of Labor in awaits them after the ceremony.| the event Willkie captures the Then all the cars that have been | suggestion that provoked consider- want to get out, all at once. More | able comment. and more complicated snarls will | {rict, Republican Congressman from Police urged all drivers to take | ~ Linton. | their time and to keep their sense hours and there will be tiresome Much credit for the House accept- delays. Transportation Rill, hy a vote of 256 UP. Any minute it may change, and | to 74. SPO: ‘peing given Rep. Halleck, Nobody will know how efficiently thi® Interstate and Foreign Commerce Sometime tomorrow. Committee. And by that time it won't delivered the most able address of the afternoon. The controversial under Interstate Commerce Com- PLANES SWARM ON mission control. publican delegation in the House AIRPORT AT HOBBS began with the following comment | «J have not been overly enthusi-! HOBBS, Ind.. Aug. 17.—Airplanes | astic in my sessions in the Congress ranging from huge transport liners | ernmental regulation, but I believe '60-acre airport here like bees today, | 1 can say that when it is evident,| bringing visitors to the Elwood Ho portation, that the country is com-| Planes started “popping” out of thitted to a policy of governmental the sky soon after sunup and con-| that competing systems of transpor- morning. tation should also be brought under’ Airport Manager Robert Heron, {job at the field, was ready for the Stern Transferred rush, however, and had 15 helpers aptain Ben Stern of the U. S. ” Cap The airport, five and one-half encampment orders changed from miles west of Elwood on the Tipton Quantico, Va. to Lakehurst, N. J. : Jane the entire community in the area. on both land and sea. As a civilian, Fastern Air Lines maintained Captain Stern is Senator Frederick connecting with regularly sched-| . [uled air lines for points throughout! politan newspapers stationed their] planes at the field. | H. Hopton of the Anglican Rectory which directed traffic from the air] have six sons in uniform. Two are hy two-way radio, was quartered at peditionary Force, one in the air busy during the morning taking] force, twa in militia training for passengers over Elwood. cet. A seventh son, the youngest. more than 200 planes would use the | is a boy scout. | field*during the day.

| them, | lights and canes directed them to

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| Indianapolis

| joy in his voice.

By HARRY MORRISON Times Staff Writer

ELWOQD, Ind., Aug. 17—The time was midnight. Homer Capehart |

| was at Callaway Park, perched on top of his white official auto, seeing | that every last detail was working out the way he'd planned it.

Over each horizon could be seen the flashing lights of never-ending streams of cars. From four points of the compass autos were coming | slowly inth the fields that had been alfalfa and corn stubble a few | days ago. = — : “Sure, I'm tired,” said Mr, Csapehart, “but boy, isn't this fandango going over!” It was. As the cars advanced down the rows of white stakes waiting for Elwood boys with flash-

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drought has worked against him. We just aren’t getting any prices , for our produce. But we want a | change, anyway.” = » = | EVEN THE boy flashing the cars | in had something to say. | “You say you're from Chicago and you're from Indianapolis and | vou're from Sheridan. Listen,” he “you're all from Elwood

pre-assigned places. There was | 50.000 automobiles of them were from IndiMany were from Illinois. were from Ohio. There were a smattering of Easterners, mostly from Pennsylvania and New York. ® A NEW BLUE coupe swung into place Irom Montana “Welcome to Elwood and Indisomeone in the car next to them shouted. The Montana Glasgow. His Olson and he him. They started a today from home. “Well, now, I'm sure glad I » explainéd Mr. Olson. “This man who came And he's

Most ana Fewer

| said, wow.” “I'm for Wilkie,” he exclaimed. “He's going to put a factory in here when he's elected.” u » 5 “AND 1F it rains,” another boy said, “I'm going to put a tractor | in here.” But it didn't rain and the cars kept coming. By 6 o'clock this morning there were close to 5000 automobiles. All kinds were there from jalopies to big limousines covered with mosquito netting | People were sleeping on cots, on the ground, in the cars and in the rear compartments, & »

Early in the evening an announcement went out that all the rooms were taken in Elwood and people started backtracking in their cars to Noblesville, Alexandria, Tipton and other surrounding towns. As a matter of fact about 1500 persons were lodged in Elwood and there was room for 300 more.

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man was from name was Ben had his wife with week ago

man Willkie's a up from the bottom. going to win! Mr. Olson had taken a poll all the way across the country. According to his talks with garagemen. WPA workers, hotel keepers and tradesmen, Willkie was ahead in the states he'd covered. He was ahead 65 to 35 in South Dakota and 3 to 1 in the Black Hills country. He had a harder time in Jowa and Mr. Olson figured he would lead 55 to 45. “He'll give the Kelly-Nash ma-brush-up in Chi-

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FARMHOUSES along the roads | were still lighted at hours when | most of the farmers had usually been in bed for hours. n » ” THE CROWD in downtown El- | wood was not in any sense a cosmopolitan bunch. That was to come later. In town last night | were farmfolk. And local townspeople were tak-|-ing full advantages of the "ig | crowd. Homes that perhaps had never known such a situation were advertising plate lunches. Well-kept back, front and side yards held | parked automobiles at anywhere | from two bits to a dollar for 24 hours.

he'll in Indiana,” said

Olson.

how win Mr.

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One of the put it this

The masse, way: “We came here to show Roosevelt we're not satisfied with the farm program. In one way nis

of 54 people, represent five districts and the one extra is National Chairman Joe Martin, who [will act as spokesman,

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Represented at Notification.

limes Special

ELWOOD, Ind, Aug. 17.-

ceremonies” but no-

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Times Staff Writer

ELWOOD, Ind. Aug. 17.—Notes from the railroad station: THe first special train was due at 7:05 a, m.—a Pullman from

Cleveland. . . . Between + It chugged into sight, stopped—on the edge of town.

500 and 1000 were on hand to welcome the crowd cleared its throat and the train . Those on the train weren't up yet.

it.

The arrival board at the station looked something like this— AT

FROM Cleveland Pittsburgh Philadelphia South Bend Piqua, O. Indianapolis } After that the caller had to start erasing to schedule nine trains from Chicago, one from Grand Rapids, etc.

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The railroad police had set up “No Parking” signs around the station. A woman drove up and stopped. “You'll have to said an officer. “Well, I'll have you know I'm =a native of this town,” barked the woman, “That's very interesting and most unusual” replied the officer politely, “but there can't be any special privileges.” nn »

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move along,”

There were “hawkers” all over the place—naturally. But something you seldom see is one trying to sell his wares to another “hawker.” The lady with the Willkie forget-me-nots finally decided the man with the Willkie pencils was a poor prospect, un ” n As some Indianapolis police had privately predicted, a Chicagoan was the first to come within the toils of the law at Callaway Park . Lieut. Carl Ashley of the Indianapolis force saw a dice game in progress as he was strolling about the park shortly after daybreak. He looked on and the diceshooter, either through nervousness or pure clumsiness dropped three dice instead of two. He had “foxing” his cohorts thréugh the age-old method of using a loaded cube every once in a while, Lieut. Ashley immediately escorted the man to the Elwood jail where he signed in as a resiCharges were to be filed against him later in the

President Roosevelt picked up a couple of votes at the Park early today, Two elderly women: were grieved no end when ushers, enforcing

Back in Indiana: Quiet Street Where He Came Courtin'-

Where Dinner's at Noon---But Willkie Can't Stay Long

abed in a town that didn’t sleep | members things long ago says.

By THOMAS IL. STOKES

Times Special Writer

RUSHVILLE, Ind. Aug.

1 newspaper back seat.: “But it is the that's ever happened Rushville.” Her escort, the driver, his head in agreement. Later on, in that mad procession

thing us in

17— | biggest

to front seat with the driver squirmed about nervously, offering fruitless advice as women will, but still the car in front failed to respond to repeated honks. | It was a wild scene. Excited, | jubilant folks milled about the | Municipal Airport. Wendell Willkie had come back | home. He had stood up in his car and waved his straw hat. Flash- | lights lit up the bulky figure. Now his car was heading away slowly, | picking its way among the dazed little human atoms. One young | man ran, breathlessly, to a group of friends nearby. He had shaken the hand. “Shake the hand that shook the hand.” he said, trying to pass his triumph off nonchalantly. But he couldn't thus drown“lightly the

nodded

cavalcade like a snake dance after a big football game though with more room, through the streets of Indianapolis, down the main road afterward where brakes screamed into the night and cars caréened out of line, through suburban settlements and central Indiana towns and past filling where Hoosiers were gathered. Later on, a car pulled alongside and a man shouted: “Hurrah for Roosevelt—" Our young woman from Indiana | | switched about to scorn him, and | challenged.” “Do you want to fight?” us | She was mad. This was | joking matter. | “Roosevelt—on a | this.”

front of no

We were abdut

Still the car in would not move. to get left. Then, miraculously, the car in | : front, did begin to move and “Here, wait a minute,” man at the wheel

others in front of that, but, in- . stead of following behind the pro- | And finally, we came closely tocession, the cars went about in an | ward Rushville, and the moon was aimless circle. The young woman | rising high, and the corn marched spoke. | past along the road, and there was “This is a fine time of night to A that vague mistiness, seen and yet be playing ring around the rosie,” § unseen, hovering over she drawled. Her voice had a tryside, and something so Hoosier, nasal flatness. and because Hoosier so natively | Yes, we were hack in Indiana. American, overpowered you, took | “We've been here since 2:30 this | your breath for a moment, and [we didn't talk much in the car,

afternoon—ves, we're from Rushville this might not mean much | but watched it unfold like a beney | diction.

to you And then, after a Tew hours

night like

said the

{ She turned about to the three

correspondents in the |

| men saunter

—and it was a completely delirious |

stations |

the coun- |,

much, it was another day in Rushville, and we were in the middle of Indiana, High noon brings the sun down upon the pavements and coatless coatless along Main St.. where are the stores and lunch rooms, now smothered in flags and ‘bunting — and Wendell Willkie smiles benevolently upon you. But a short stroll takes you away, into cool aisles of tall trees which’ touch each other across the street and spread their shade graciously over the comfortable, four-square houses where friendliness lives in pleasant circumstances and the women who are

| sitting on the porch in the middle | of the day gossip quietly without

too much of acid in their desultory monotones. And, in time, vou walk by a neat, ivy-covered church and then, later, you walk by a frame church, in which all forms of architecture are combined crudely to the glory of the same God who dwells in the other, and there in big letters on corners of

this church, there is a sign which |

reads “Big characters begin little children. School and bring your family.” And, on the other corner, a bulky man is standing, and he talks to people who come up to shake hands with him. It is all very casual. His manner is easy. He wears a sports coat, sober and conservative in color. Presently, he turns away leisurely, and says: “I've got to go to dinner.” “Dinner in the middle of the day,” an'outlander, who also re-

in | Come to Sunday |

| Fried chicken, { and

The man grins, his eves twinkle,

he knows what tradition requires

of the man who would seek high office. . Now he is in Indiana—a long wav from fine offices in a big city. Once, long aga, he knew It all. Dinner in the middle of the day. mashed potatoes chicken gravy, cherry pie. That was the menu. ’ And pleasant talk about little things. And an occasional reprimand to the little boy who licks his finger noisily and wants to know why it couldn't have been ice cream instegd. of cherry pie. And, long ago, there was ®& youlg man who came a-courting along this street—to the simple frame house just a few steps away. He came over from Elwood 70 miles away. He recalls still the day when he was delayed and, in the hurry to change from one interurban car to another, he left his box of candy on the rack. Suddenly, after he was seated in the other car, he remembered, and dashed back and recovered it. But the second car, meanwhile, had pulled away with his coat and

| hat.

He is back in Indiana, where these little things are the real

| things in life.

But not for long. Today, at Elwood. before thousands and thousands of Indiana folks, he is accepting the nomination of the Republican Party as candidate for President of the United States, and then in a few days he will be off again.

| Washington, | No. 2 citizen | hadn't been to bed all night) was | on the curb.

| read: | tor | St.

the rule that no one was to be allowed in the seating area before a certain time, ordered them to leave, ® “I am thoroughly disgusted with this whole thing,” one lady declared. “I wish I had stayed home.” They walked off muttering something about “the Democrats wouldn't do anything like this.” » » n

The most popular place at Callaway Park at 8 a. m, was the main ladies’ rest room where some 75 to 100 women stood in line,

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The first musical activity was by the girls’ band from Buffalo at 7:30 a. m. Homer

of Buffalo, and

the

Capehart Ind., for

day (who

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Chant of a good hawker but a poor poet— “Get a Willkie hadge, “Get a Willkie hat, , “Don’t he a 'fraidy cat.”

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Automobile signe“Wake Up! Wake Up! “Whither shall we wander with= out Willkie.” ”

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As the sun came oul, one side-

walk salesman tore the sleeves out’

of his shirt. ” ” ”n One of the concessions in front of the Elwood City Hall had a sign tacked onto a tree there. It “Willkie Road,” changing the name of Main n 5 un Two men who attracted lots of attention were the tall sparse gentleman dressed as Lincoln and the man who had WENDELL WILLKIE spelled out

| over the back of his blue suit in

Willkie butlons. " ~ Two Roosevelt up on visitor's cars. They were received in silence. Then there was the sign that said: OSEVELT FOR EX-PRESIDENT. = = Amidst all the hullabaloo at Elwood, a load of hogs was being driven calmly into Indianapolis for the day's market. It's a pretty sure bet the owner was thinking the same thing half the visitors at Elwood were thinking: “I wonder how much these hogs would bring next vear at this time—if Willkie's elected.” oi n ”

” signs showed

An unidentified lad, not more than 10 years old, solved the sidewalk traffic problem in Elwood which grew to important proportions as the day wore on. He had a little siren whistle which he blew and immediately the crowds would part, assvming an official courier of some kind wanted to get through, People were very good-natured about it, n

This has been a mournful, day for Road 13 chickens, and possibly for others in Elwood. They ran into the road and a good many of them were killed.

n ” ” .

One man from northern Wisconsin stood on the curb in the sun and wiped his brow. He looked pained. “Brother,” he said, emotion in his voice,

er I got to Indiana the hotter it got. the heat at me tilL I thought I would smother. Where I come from we sleep under blankets.” » ” »

Shortly before noon the telephone company ruled that all long-distance calls out of Elwood had to be made with charges reversed. The phone coin boxes were so full there was no more room for cash calls, 4

{ Francis H. pension plan, Chicago with a bitter condemnation of the New Wendell movement,

nominee offers any support to the Townsend Plan he will seek an interview with him before he

L. nominee, said:

half 5001)

a suggestion |

Elwoond's |

himself for [faver a Chinaman in preference Mr.

ture the imagination of public,” eight us. change. with business sense, and Mr. velt spoon in his mouth certainly doesn’t have it,

revolution election, for' the Republican party comparable in magnitude to the Democratio landslide of 1936.”

Abraham [JO

CITY POLICE POSTED

the path of |

today both seen and heard.

at the most of the travel to Elwood. direct of motorists,

dangerous have a visitors and local residents

cluding two lieutenants, three detectives, and four where crowds there.

with real | “it's hot. I | drove in last night and the near- |

Those pavements just threw

P) here against the He ‘died of a fractured skull in the | St (time after the accident.

Hopes for Willkie Indorsement.

: . Times Special

ELWOOD, 17 head of here today

Ind, Aug Townsend, flew

Dr. ne from Deal Willkie

and a hope that

will support his He declared that if the G., O. P,

in his acceptance speech

leaves here, Claiming the support of McNary, the Vice Pres for his plan, Dr

Charles dential Townsend

e have out the other

“On the Republican side, w the team. I hope to find that we will have

half.”

Doesn't Want Roosevelt Dr,

refused to dec

Willkie,

Townsend Mr,

are but said “I LO Roosevelt.” ‘We want someone who can capthe voting he said.’ “The New Dea] in vears has done nothing for I think we ought to make a We've got to have a man ROOSE = with a golden

who was born

A Predicts G. 0. P. that a will

Landslide

will of the clean

there result be a

be a fall

sweep

“lI predict as

What if neither major party supe

ports the Townsend movement?

“It's simple. We've already got a

third party in the Townsend moye= ment christened, will not follow our {ute the wealth on an equitable basis (we will take steps to become a

itself, We haven't been but if the major parties plan to distrib

mae I political party.”

ON ELWOOD ROUTES

motorcycle oft'cers make themselves

Indianapolis’ chose to Twenty-five of them were stationed important tions past which cars must Rhese will help answer quest

intersec city traffic and ons near to hoth

Twelve others took up posts preferential streets “slowing effect” on total of 75 police officers 1= Inspector Jesse McMurtry, five sergeants and boarded two his automobiles for - Elwood will help handle the

they

'If at First You Don't Succeed—'

Republican from twice

FRANK MKAY national comniitteemal Michigan, started to Elwood this morning The first time he 16th and Meridian Sts chauffeur ran a red light another car A policeman and the chauffeur was arrested, Mr. McKay and chauffeur were brought into Municipal Court where the committeeman said he would pay all damages, The chauffeur was fined $1 and the judgment was suspends McKay started for Ele

as Iar as where his

and hit

got saw the accident

the

COSLS, ed and Mi wood again

KILLED IN NEW ALBANY,

NEW ALBANY, Ind, Aug. 17 (OU, John Missi, 58, was Killed near vesterday when he ‘walked

side of a moving truck

Rdward's hospital here a short