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PENNSYLVANIA

| Changes Much In the Quak In

PHIL is only ne peace or

tober, 1929, it was, benign of ap-

pearance with his

cherubic face, his pink cheeks, the head of white

hair that made;

him look like Santa Claus. He was not so benign when he spoke. It was then,

with placid con-|

descension, approaching arro1 gance, w he had raised sevthousand dollars

protect high tariffs, that he stated bluntly that |it was the right of vested interests thus to maintain themselves, that Pennsylvania had big in government, and remarked that “the backward states,” as he|called them, ought to “talk darn small.” i stilt a Power at 82

Joe Grundy and his crowd came back. Today, at 82, brisk and alert, he is a power behind the scenes in Pennsylvania [Republican politics. Teamed up with ‘him is another Joe, Joseph Ni Pew, of the oil and ship-building | Pew dynasty, holds pretty much the same philos-

_ ophy, and backs it with plenty of

cash. He holds a mortgage on the Republican patty in this state, and a big interest in the party nationally by virtue of the -lavish donations of the Pew family. Their interest is to retain Republican control which they won back four years aga. They are pushing

trend noted elsewhere is surging through this state and not only will elect the state ticket but also should |; sweep in additional Republican with conservative

estimates of five to seven gains in|;

ashington, more if the apparent trend ‘widens. Repub-

~ licans now have 16 house seats.

+ and Senator Joe

Democrats 17, \with one vacancy. The ‘state lost lone seat by reappointment and will have 33 members in the house with a sure Republican majority in the delegation. Democrats captured this state in 1934 from the momentum supplied by President Roosevelt, who fell a little short of carrying it in 1932. They swept out the Grundy element. This gave the Democrats a magnificent opportunity.

Rural G. 0. P. Strong

The Democra governor this year is F. Clair Ross, state autiitor general, a mite of a man physically | who | is from the western part of the state but will be unable to arof e enough support there $0 offset a Republican majority in Philadelphia, which it is estimated will from 25,000 40,000, and Republican strength in the difaftected m regions. Behind him is a party split by factional trouble, symbolized in the bitter feud between David Lawrence, Democratic state chairman, Guffey. Mr. Lawrence supported | Mr. Ross in the primary, and was triumphant over the senator who | sponsored another candidate. However,

Senator Guffey was by the appointment as campaign manager of Ramsey S. ‘* Black, third assistant postmaster general, which, | incidentally,’ has provoked some |criticism because postmaster8 are barred from participation in politics under the Hatch act. Mr. Black, however, being & policy-mae g official, does not come Wun) the letter of the ban. Win Pinch ot Support

The report cir ulates’ here that Senator Guffey will not over-exert himself for Mr. Ross and the state ticket. For, sho d Mr. Ross win, then Dave. Lawrence would be in position to contrgl the state delegation to the 1944 Democratic national convention. ' However, the senator eame to | Philadelphia recently and spoke in behalf of the ticket, at the same time injecting the anti-isolationism issue against Republican houge members in Washington. The Democratic shown some signs of rejuvenation in recent days, which. it is said, w due to word from President Roosevelt for the lead ere to get busy and try to |save Demociene house members in| The Democrats also a that the recent order of Attorney General Biddle removing Italian-Americans from the list of enemy aliens will help with the te Italian population here, though some observers do not think it will bring them lback into the Democratic fold, at least in numbers |sufficient to do much good. ‘Democrats are plying i Sivon: tie tant support of org labor, very active and effective political : this state, Foe !

the Political Leaders; Internal Feuds

Still Weaken Democrats.

By THOMAS L. STQKES Times Special Wrifer

DELPHIA, Oct. 24.—To find politics-as-usual, it essary to visit this state, any year, rain or shine, ar. It is a familiar atmosphere, if somewhat disg and proves that American democracy can stand a lot. re the names are the same, year in and year out.

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CLEVELAND, Oct. 2¢ (U. P.).— If you don’t think the war is producing all kinds of new and difficult problems, just listen to Herbert A. Fisher of Detroit. Fisher told a war conference of the Building Owners and Managers association yesterday that since the government took over part of his building he must solve the problem of “necking parties” in the elevators. “The number of occupants in the buildings was increased tremendously and the majority of the federal workers are girls,” he said. “A few of them got fresh with our elevator boys and one boy was so flustered we had to transfer him to another part of the building. ”»

RICKENBACKER HUNTED AT SEA

Ace Believed En Route to - Australia With Bomb-

ing Crew. (Continued from Page One)

aviator adviser to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson had been aboard

a bombing plane of unspecified size but believed to have been a fourmotored one, which disappeared while en route from Hawaii to “an island in the south Pacific. He was on a special inspection trip in behalf of Lieut. Gen. H. H. Arnold, commanding general of the army air forces. (Washington reported that -it was believed there Rickenbacker was en

The number of men with Rickenbacker was not known, but was believed to be nine to 11.

. Near Earhart Dissappearance

Late Wednesday afternoon, the plane reported that it had gasoline for one more hour of flight. Then nothing moxe was heard and because of that it was feared it had been forced to make a crash landing at sea. The plane’s radio could have been ‘made to function if it had made even a rough landing on an island. The plane disappeared in approximately the same region where Amelia Earhart Putnam disappeared in 1937, during the course of an around the’ world flight, never to be heard of again.

Recently in Britain

While there are thousands of atolls and islands in the deep South

for 1500 miles southwest of Hawaii. Rickenbacker only recently returned from Great Britain, where he was on a mission similar to the one on which he was engaged when he disappeared. Rickenbacker’s presence here had

only to a few high military and civilian authorities, His friends here refused to believe he had perished, saying’ he had a happy faculty for pulling out of difficulties.

2000 DEMOCRATS EXPECTED AT RALLY

More than 2000 Democrats were expected to attend a rally sponsored by the Democratic Veterans’ club at the South Side Turners’ hall tonight. } Speakers will include Judge Dewey E. Myers, Democratic mayoralty candidate, and Harry McClain, Democratic candidate for county

seller in the transaction. .

Kenneth Adair recently purchased this southern colonial dwelling from Robert Burrell. It is located at 4450: Washington blvi. and Bruce last week by James H. Hornstein to Dr. Charles F. Harad, Ddyton, O.

Savage of Atkinson & Co. realtors, represented both the buyer and The exte

This

California type home, located at 5523 Central ave., was sold

reflects the spanish architectural influence. E. C. Barth of the Jack C. Carr, realtors, sold the property.

‘B. R. Vest Jr., Allison Employee Among Victims ~ In Coast Tragedy.

(Continued from Page One)

York, was coming in for a routine landing at the airport here. It was scen to go into a flat spin at approximately 2000 feet and whirl down over the north ridge of

the San Jacinto mountains. It struck the edge of the ridge, bounded into the air, crashed again to the ground and exploded with a roar audible over a wide area.

Plane Burns Fiercely

It burned fiercely for hours but the wreckage had cooled sufficiently early today to permit removal of the bodies. The air lines, on the authority of Charles A. Rheinstrom, issued this statement: “American Airlines flight 28, eastbound Los Angeles to New York was in collision with an army bomber and crashed one-half mile west of Palm Springs at 5:15 p. m. (7:15 p. m., Indianapolis time), Friday, Oct. 23. All nine passengers and crew of three were killed. The trip left at 4:30 p. m. and was at normal cruising altitude cn course; clear weather and daylight when accident occurred.”

“Nobody Had a Chance”

Two eyewitnesses said the plane spun “three or four miles” before it crashed to earth. They said they had not seen a plane collide with the transport. _ Fred Klug, Palm Springs, resident, said he believed he saw part of the plane’s tail fall off. Miss Marjorie Pohl said she, too, saw the surfaces fall after the plane began its rapid descent. / “The plane was flying at about

.13000 feet when I noticed it,” Klug

said. - “It started into a circling dive and crashed and burned. The explosion was very loud, even a mile away where I was. “The plane was consumed by the fire. Nobody had a chance.” Questioned about reports of a mid-air collision, Klug said he saw no other plane in the air. “The plane shook and quivvered,” Miss Pohl said, “and then the tail appeared to fall off and the ship started to spin. tv “I didn’t see any other plane.” Soldiers from nearby posts and tourists at this fashionable resort rushed to the ridge when the plane crashed, hoping to rescue the occupants, but the flames barred them. Several soldiers tried to get through the flames without success. A military detail guarded the smoldering ruins all night.

Pilot Widely Known

C. Baker of Phoenix, one of the passengers, was a blind man. He was accompanying Commissioner Henderson from Los Angeles to Phoenix. The body of Miss Estelle Regan, Dallas, the stewardess, was thrown clear of the wreckage and consequently was not burned. The pilot was Capt. Charles F. Pedley of Dallas, a veteran of the commercial air lines and a widely known airman. His co-pilot was first officer L. F. Reppert of Ft. Worth; Tex.

B. R. Vest, killed in’ an airplane accident in California, left here Oct. 9 after completing a five-month Allison service course. He came here from Birmingham, Ala., where: his wife and parents

treasurer.”

reside.

army air corps, to deliver talks to air corps combat units. He said in one of the last of these talks that the United States needed at least 300,000 pilots to win the war which, he predicted, would last five years. On Oct. 15 he returned from an inspection trip to Etirope and reported to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson that he believed the war

until German industrial production is paralyzed. by allied bombing. The greatest American ace of the first world war, Capt. Rickenbacker shot down 25 German planes while leading the squadron with the famed “hat-in-the-ring” insignia.

~ Chauffeured Pershing

By 1916 he had won $80,000 as an automobile racer, but he had never flown an airplane. His first job at the front was’ chauffeur to Gen. John J. Pershing. One day in France he came upon. gn old twinsix Packard stalled on a shell-torn French 3s

Bot the

d near Toul. He quickly}

Rickenbacker to Come Out Of it, Friends Here Believe

(Continued from Page One)

was the late Gen. william Mitchel, chief of the army air service, who got “Rick” a place in the air corps. Because of his value as a mechanic, he ‘was refused permission to learn flying until he feigned illness for two weeks. Then he admitted there was nothing wrong with him and pointed out that the man ‘who had replaced him was as good a mechanic as he. That won him the chance for flight training and Gen. Mitchell said later that he had learned to fly in three weeks. Prefers ‘Captain’ Since the war Rickenbacker has been known familiarly ,as “Eddie.” Before that, in the race track pits, he was “Rick.” Although he is a colonel in the army air reserve forces, he has preferred his world title, “captain.” Capt. Rickenbacker is 52, his hair is streaked with gray and there are a few lines in his face. But he has the vitality and resourcefulness .which made him an air hero. That’s what his friends in In-

motor going. In the. car!

dianapolis are banking on.

12 DIE IN LINER, BOMBER CRASH]

| WASHINGTON

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

(Continued from Page One)

of either a working arrangement between British and Indians or something approaching a united nations disaster. 2 2 ”

McNutt Out on a Limb

MANPOWER is Washington's biggest home-front problem. MecNutt’s sparring testimony reflects White House indecision. McNutt is out on a limb in talking about draft-labor legislation; president won't accept that if there is any way to avoid it. There's a lot yet that hasn’t been done in employing men past 45 and women in all age groups. Expect Roosevelt to act soon. It may be another instance of McNutt left at the post. 8 8 ” 8 ” »

Synthetic-rubber program is falling behind schedule. Troubles: 1. Priorities for machinery. 2. Conflict over proportionate emphasis to be given high-octane gasoline and butadiene hasn’t been resolved. This may result eventually in greater share of butadiene production being allotted to alcohol process. Contrary to popular impression, oil companies are more interested in producing high-octane than in hogging butadiene fields. ” » ” tJ » ”

First important step toward standardized goods for civilian use may be in shoes—narrowing styles down to three or four each for men and women, aiming at lower ‘production costs and lower prices, the retail top to be not more than 8 or 10 dollars for shoes of finest grade. Food products also will be standardized. 2 8 8 2 8 8

Leon Henderson is being crowded into a back seat. He was graded down a notch.when Justice Byrnes was appointed economic director; lost another round when Donald Nelson checked the meat problem to Agriculture Secretary Wickard. 2 8 8

Trust Laws to the Moth Balls?

ANTI-TRUST laws are almost ready for mothbalis. ‘ Three war measures wipe out competition, make monopoly control moot question: 1. Fooling of plans, parts, men among firms making airplanes. It started on West coast, has spread through converted automobile industry. 2. Orders to stop cross-hauling, enforce zoning of markets. It limits field in which firms may sell. 3. Plans for concentration of production. WPB studies plans to let one or two firms in each consumer-goods industry make the entire output; close up the rest if they can’t be converted, use their machinery for replacement parts or scrap. Not ready for mothballs: Control of patent monopolies. War may have opposite effect in:this respect; may cause general, if temporary, pooling- of patents. ® 2 2 ® 8 » Inventory control (much talk, but no action at WPB) may come too late in many lines, observers feel. Indications are that Christmas buying rush, already under way, will empty both retail and wholesale shelves on most non-essential consumer goods. an ” 8 # 8 ”

Add Shortages: You'll probably have no Christmas tree unless you can cut your own or buy one grown nearby. Most of the supply normally comes from Canada and northern New England, but transportation and tree-cutters aren’t available. 8 n # . 8 t 4 f J

That army we're getting together—7,500,000 men by Jan. 1, 1944— will contain only about 100 divisions of infantry compared with Japan’s 90, Germany’s 300. A division consists of 15,000 men but to support one of ours (in= cluding some extras as replacements) it takes another 18,000—engineers, medical outfits, anti-aircraft batteries. That makes 33,000 we must ship abroad, plus equipment. Germany uses 28,000 men. The 5000-man difference is mostly in extras. Germany strips to bare essentials. .

Senate Drys Suspicioils

SENATE DRYS TRY to trace origin of thousands of telegrams opposing the Lee no-drinks-for-soldiers amendment; suspect the liquor “trust” gave bar rations a drink on the house in return for telegrams, Most serious angle: Lobbying-as-usual clogged telegraph wires already loaded by'war business, slowed down communication to ‘and from Washington by hours. 8 8 °n 2 8 = Millions will starve in Europe this winter, say those in a position to know. Worst sufferers will be old folks and babies in the invaded countries, especially in Poland, Russia, Greece, Jugoslavia, Norway, France and the low countries, roughly in that order. But others— Finland, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania—will not escape. ‘China is already seeing starvation. succession in large areas; and there’s no route for sending food in. Even vital war materials are down to smallest trickle. 2 ® 2. : » t J 2 OPA is investigating a new tire-selling dodge, designed to beat price ceilings. It works like this: You buy the tires, but you also buy the jalopy to which they're attached. You remove the tires, sell the jalopy back next day to the dealer, at a prearranged price. ® = = # 8 = . OWI Director Davis’ ax is about to fall on more war-useless government publications. His inter-agency publications committee is combining the prints, will submit a new list for Susbusicn or curtailment by Nov. 1.

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2 ” ” . , ® ” ® . SOME CITIES PLAN to set up local food-rationing systems if OPA doesn’t act. Cleveland has a committee studying it; others are interested. OPA—its fingers burned often by premature announcements of shortages and impending rationing—refuses to talk. Meanwhile look for coffee rationing “unexpectedly soon.” quotes).

GIDEONS TO HEAR HIGHEST OFFICER

The Ingiana Gideon organization is holding its state convention at the Washington hotel. A. E, Lewis of Eau Claire, Wis., international president, was to be the principal speaker. At a banquet at 6:30 p. m. today, more than 50 ministers will be special guests. Chaplain Gerald H. Sutton of Ft. Harrison will speak on “Gideon Testaments in the Service.” The organization has placed more than two million Bibles throughout the country and is supplying the New Testament and Psalms to everyone in the armed services. W. H. Schmelzel of Indianapolis, state president, is presiding.

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The sale of 16 houses and two lots and one trade was reported this week by the North Ride realtors. The houses were 641 E. 34th st. ‘and 1421 N. Mount st. by Wendell Hicks for E. Kirk McKinney Co.; 5709 Broadway terrace, 4330 Guilford ave. and 3704 N. Denny st. by F. M. Knight Realty Co.; 728 Nottingham dr. by John Lookabill and Atkinson & Co.; 617 Spring st., 4709 N. Capitol ave. and 432 Virginia ave. by Ford Woods Co.; 530 E. 81st st. and 1608 Park ave. by Fred Hill for Gregory & Appel; 333 Beverly dr. by William A. Hackmeyer for the Security Trust Co.; 3240 N. Capitol ave. by Thomas Carson, 509 Sutherland ave. and 32 W, 52d st. by Joseph Argus and 5341 Graceland ave.

Peckham and Mr. Argus. The trade was between 4492 Washington blvd. and 5265 Washington blvd. and the lots were on that street.

ACCUSE WAR WARKERS. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (U. P.). —War workers are chief violators of the 35-mile-an-hour speed limit, according to the office of defense transportation report. Police officials told ODT Director Joseph B. Eastman that some war workers possibly are under the impression that the limit does not apply to them.

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