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pi7E| No Sign He's Doing Better Than Willkie on His Trip
By THOMAS L. STOKES Scripps-Howard Stal Writer 5 :
COLUMBUS, O., April 10—Governor John W. Bricker has beco!
"He’s away a good deal of the time in his quest of the Republican
that took him first to Indianapolis, then to Chicago and the west coast -for speeches at Spokane, Tacoma, Seattle, Salem, Portland,
paigning actively for weeks now, and public enthusiasm has failed to show itself. : Taft Considered If the opportunity offered itself where there might be a chance to stop Governor Dewey, the candidate selected to try the job rather would be Senator Taft, runner-up to Mr. Willkie in the 1940 convention, than Governor Bricker, it is believed. He is much better grounded in national and international affairs than is Governor Bricker and enjoys more confidence for this reason. Governor Bricker is put forward as a Midwest candidate and his appeal would be expected to lie there, to start. But in a tour which covered Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Nebraska, this writer failed to discover, either among the politicians, or among the rank and file, any noticeable enthusiasm for him. “Fall Heir to What?”
In Ohio, his homs state, he is well regarded as a governor, but most people here find it hard to consider him as a possible president in these times. There's been some talk of him getting the Willkie strength, whatever that is. But this so-called Willkie strength” can not be translated into more than a handful of delegates. The Willkie influence is something else, something that exists—if it exists to any great degree—outside the realm of ‘ practical politicians and convention delegates. It is difficult to see how Governor Bricker would fall heir to any of whatever it is, considering the divergent views of the two men on almost every subject.
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thusiasm. He has been cam- [Mercury said today.
[LABOR STUDIES
| Support for Him, But
CHUNGKING, April 10 (U. P)—| York state C. I. O, and the two Japan will move her capital from speeches now are being scanned for Tokyo to Hsinking, in the puppet indication of his attitude toward
!state of Manchuria, when the allied organized labor. .
George Russell Services Today
FUNERAL SERVICES for George W. Russell, 60 N. Ritter yn ave, were. to be held at 3 p. m. today in Shirley Brothers’ Irving Hill chapel with burial in Memorial Park. Mr. Russell, who was 87, died Friday at his home. He was president of the Russell Realty
DEWEY'S TALKS
A. F. of L. Indicates Some.
C. I. 0. Is for 4th Term.
By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, April 10.—Some weeks ago Midwest labor leaders in- iz dicated to me that Wendell Willkie G. W. Russell : £ ie Corp. in Irv had the best chance among‘ Re ington and a member of the Dowpublican presidential possibilities of| ney Avenue Christian church. cracking the labor vote which has Pallbearers will be Earle B, gone predominantly to President| Besley, Fred W. Schulmuyer, WilRoosevelt in three elections, liam H. Frosch, Hiram Seward, But now that Mr. Willkie is out, Noah M, Sunmons and. James Washington leaders of the Ameri- . ii can Federation of Labor say Thomas E. Dewey is capable of winning con- WILLIAM SWEENEY siderable suport from this part of the electorate. The same opinion was not found
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for a fourth term. A nationally known power in the | church. A FP. of L, who declined to be
ganization's policy of not becoming|in Hines, Ill. actively embroiled in party politics,
“I'll not try to kid you—most of | Miss Mary Ellen Sweeney. our people are likely to support Roosevelt again. But Dewey willl ppapy spiHER have strong support among our membership.”
Opposes “Anti-Labor” Bills
| This leader said Governor Dewey ‘had won many labor friends through
He was 86.
opposition to certain “anti-labor” Years, he was justice of the peace
and at 9 a. m. at St. Philip Neri
He is survived by his brother, says. Clifford D. Sweeney, and a sister, before Willkie resumes discussion] of political issues. His plans are dacy that no single issue could be R a i on C alen dar
Henry H. Spiher, 3537 W. Michigan st. died yesterday in his home.| so toxe to measure them and their the hardest blows struck in that mg in Book 4 good indefinitely for
A resident of Indianapolis ' 25 day as he seees them.
WILLKIE. PLANS [Burch Evansville, in Race
TOTAG RVALS || For State
‘auditorship nomination was on today with the formal announcement of his candidacy by A. V. Burch, Evansville city controller. Frank Millis, former assistant state civilian defense director, ane By LYLE C. WILSON nounced his candidacy for the United Press Staff Correspondent | auditorship nomination early last NEW YORK, April 10.—Wendell| Week: 'L. Willkie was reported today by his| Mr. Burch comes from the eighth |closest associates to believe that it| district and Mr. Millis, Cambells|is best for him to take no part mn burg, from the ninth. ‘the selection of a Republican presi- Head of Plow Works ‘dential nominee either before nr | during the party’s national conven-| Mr. Burch is president of the | Blount Plow Works and formerly
| tion in Chicago next June. served as a member of the state
i; But he is determined to measure | carefully the men, their records and highway commission for six years.
the platform which emerge from that gathering. He ‘probably will, { however, prior to the convention, speak clearly on the type of plat-|
‘Expected to Appraise Men And Planks Adopted at G.0.P. Convention.
of 17 went to work in the W. C.| Kelly axe factory at Alexandria,
On the first week-end after his
Mr. Sweeney, who was 57, died more freely than prior to last week’s| married one of his regular com-| quoted directly because of his Or-|yesterday in the Veterans’ hospital Wisconsin primary which swamped muters, Miss Violet Hadley. Moores-| publican politics.
his 1044 presidential aspirations. | Ville, a publishing company stenogSome weeks probably will pass rapher.
Auditor's P
A. V. Burch After n:ariage, he opened up a
He was born on a farm in Craw-| general mercantile store at Mooresford county, Illinois, and at the age ville. He quit that soon, however,
to become a train dispatcher for the Ben Hur Traction line out of Craw= He then became: con-
i Ind. | fordsville SERVICES ARE SET form he believes should. be adopted. He then worked on the Big Four nected with a life insurance com-
Services for William B. Sweeney, spectacular withdrawal from the railroad, holding jobs successively pany and was sent south. He quit among C. I. O. leaders, that organi-| city fireman and world war I vet- Republican presidential contest, Mr.| 5 section hand, switchman, brake-| the insurance company to become zation being apparently as de-|eran will be conducted at 8:30 a. m. Willkie’s associates describe him as|Inan and conductor. He quit the sales manager for the Blount Plow temined as ever to go down the line| wednesday at the Kirby mortuary | feeling that he has recaptured nis| Big Four to become a conductor vn works He was electe president 10 independence. Henceforth, he is 3D interurban ine running from years after becoming connected with expected to speak his mind even | Indianapolis to Martinsville and the company.
| He long has been active in Re-
| He has three sons und five grandchildren.
understood to be to do a great deal cited as the central factor. But of listening—especially to the men the Madison, Wis. speech of Senmost prominently mentioned for the ator Joseph H. Ball (R. Minn.) is | Republican nomination—and to un- counted by Willkie adherents among
records against the issues of the campaign. Ball was Stassen’s manager and chief campaigner. He is {reported to have told a Madison
Powerful Opposition ! audience that his man was com-
bills that were introduced in the on the West side several years and| (yi. has told his friends that mitted to the post-war territorial
due to the governor's influence that |v... of the Church of God. these bills were allowed to die in Survivors are his wife, Nettie
; /mote the candidacy of any man.
last session of the New York legis-|was engaged in the real estate and | he does not intend to participate integrity of Germany—that there {lature. He declared it was largely |;ncurance business. He was a mem-|in any “stop” movements directed should be no post-war political dis-|
{against any candidate nor to pro- memberment of that country. The effect of that statement is
the legislature's eopmfiiens. 2 wit 1? brother, Edward, and a sister,|But repeatedly in conversationsisaid to have been very substantial The A. F. of L. leader sa Wil™rs. Laura McClelland, both of with his friends, Willkie has said|throughout both Wisconsin and
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inot be possible to hang an anti- Pennslyvania. {labor tag on Mr. Dewey merely be-
Services will be at 2 p. m. to-
he intends to “say what I think.”| Nebraska, where there is a concenHis friends were hopeful, but tration of Americans of German ex-
{cause of his prosechtions of 1abOr'|y,,voy in the Tabernacle Baptist| Willkie had few illusions during the traction,
| the same thought apparently was in {the mind of Thomas A. Murray, j president of the New York state Federation of Labor, when he introduced the governor at the convention of | August.
{racketeers in New York City, and | pron with burial at Floral Fark. latter weeks of his pre-convention
MRS. MARIAH FARMER
Wednesday. in the
last year's convention of the New Memorial Park cemetery.
To the C. I. O. he said: Brightwood Methodist church.
Dewey's C. 1. O. Speech
Survivors besides Mrs. Sparks are Ernest T. Weir of Pennsylvania and five other daughters, Mrs. Lawrence the New York state and Illinois “It is true that we still have labor Rosenbaum of Campbellsburg, Mrs. party organizations. orgarizations that are run along |Benjamin Matthews of Spencer, undemocratic lines. We still have Mrs. James Pinkerton of Riverside, delegates’ pledged to Governor
Willkie's political associates campaign. His associates explained evidently do not know what his {that Willkie had recognized for|tactics will be after nomination of
Services for Mrs. Mariah M. months that powerful forces in the Republican and Democratic presiFarmer, former resident of Bright - | Republican organization hoped to dential tickets. He has said that that organization last wood, will be held at 2:30 p. m,| repudiate his candidacy. jhe country needs changed leaderBrightwood| Local organizations generally were Governor Dewey al» addressed | Methodist church with burial in| uneasy over Willkie's stand on post-
| ship. But the language of his statement |war international affairs. But the Withdrawing from the presidential
Mrs. Farmer, who was 86, died Willkie camp feels that this doubt contest suggested, also, that to obyesterday in the home of a daugh- was stimulated to outright opposi-|tain his support the Republican ter, Mrs. Leslie Sparks of near New tion by the organized effort of a nominee would have to have a clear Bethel. She was a member of the group of powerful party leaders in-
record and a forthright position, Willkie is not backing away from the implications of that statement. On the contrary, he is telling his associates that it is a time for
; backed | Critical decisions. They say this opposition ed Copyright, 1944, by The Indianapolis Times
| cluding Joseph N. Pew Jr. and
instances of the misuse of union funds, of careless and slipshod accounting, or no accounting at all, to the members of their hardearned dues. “We still encounter instances of
Cal, Mrs. Mary Green and Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey of New York and Edith Davison, both of Indianapolis; | delegates pledged to Cmdr. Harold three sons, Robert Farmer of Fort- |E. Stassen, former governor of Minville, Charles Farmer and Glover nesota, particularly in those WisW. Farmer, both of Indianapolis; 30 consin districts in which no Dewey grandchildren; 44 great-grandchil- | delegates were entered.
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Beech Grove chapter No. 465, O. E. 8., will meet tomorrow night inspection every six in the Masonic temple in Beech!every 5000 . miles, Grove. Mrs, Georgia Greenfield is | first. Inspection certificates still N.
"N° 25 GROUP DOES BRICKER HAVE A CHANCE? rl 10.— : defeat, Dr be ight afting of Younger Men huey” May Create a 90k's PM, : almost a stranger in this capital city. a Day Lull i WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. P.).| presidential nomination. He's just dashed off on a two-week tour paign ip 4. —Manpower officials said today the james A. | Dew order suspending the drafUing| gop prancisco and Los Angeles. r, contin- of over-25-year-old men in essen-| yn, pig handsome fellow is als & good ual Jobs would give such registrants yoriing nard, He is doing on the the forces > um respite of a national circuit what Wendell the battle ys from milijary service, Willkie tried to do in Wisconsin. They emphasized, however, that ection. . . . Thus far—and. it is getting late— .. the effect of the order would vary ment over tly f area to another there is little indication that the favor re '| Governor Bricker is doing any inte: depending entirely on the number any est the. of registrants between 18-25 avail-| Detter. and dirty able for reclassification in each The Bricker campaign has all h current board. Local boards which have| the exuberance of a campaign . only a few deferred youths may re- conducted by amateurs, which it ' start the process of inducting men] 18 largely. b in the over-25-age bracket within a Viewpoint Questioned ssues and, Week, 1 was said . This is manifest not only in r-cut. He Lt. Col. James Coatsworth, a dep- I ods 'b " . enough to uty selebtive service director, said| their methods, but in their curnick. the order suspending induction of| rent reaction—or professed reacn politicos the older men was expécted to| tion—tnat the w wv rmick can prompt many registrants in the Wendell Willkie has helped the . over-25 group to transfer to essen-| cause of Governor Bricker. Pracmen and tial activities and thereby ease the| tical political considerations would, gainst him strain created by the rigid new in-| it seems, point in the opposite will insure duction policies for the younger| direction. jeas which registrants. Governor Bricker was never | v Willkie Selective service made it clear more than a dark-horse chance, ’ that the need of the army and navy| judging from the analysis of 1, the only for men 18 through 25 is so great expert politicians. His only chance on do wo that the number who will continue | seemed to be in a deadlocked to be deferred will be held to the| .onvention. re question absolute minimum. The only chance for a deadhey looked locked convention was a contest , statement COMMISSIONS IN between Mr. Willkie and Gover- \ G. O. P. : nor Dewey af New York. -But NAVY RESERVE OPEN Wisconsin Applications for commissions tn] & . up in a the naval reserve will be accepted Dewey Holds Lead ird district today through Thursday by Lt. (J.| Governor: Dewey seems now to g.) Charles R. Lohmeyer at 120 W.| pe out in front beyond any posr the fine North st. sibility of a deadlock, verdict of Physically qualified men under 50| This is not to deny that there who have engineering degrees with| are still, among the G. O. P. ry, he has h . technical or professional experience leaders, some who are not quite : may be considered for special billets.| sure of young Governor Dewey, iis country A college degree is required for men| some would like to have a nomunder 30 and a minimum of two| inee perhaps a little more tracome front. years accredited work may be con-| table, a little less of an unknown sibilities as sidered for those over 30 for general| quality. lican party assignments. But Governor Dewey has President.” m— stepped so far out in front, not only in Wisconsin, that these peoHUFF T0 ADDRESS ple are hesitant to start anything. REPUBLICAN CLUB ris: of ai. natural, want a vote-getter. Charles Huff, candidate for 11th If they still were determined to district congressman, will speak be-| try to stop Governor Dewey, they fore the South Side Republican! would have to find someone to *. Club, Inc, 1230 8. Meridian st, at! do it. 8 p. m. tomorrow. Governor Bricker has not coni110. —Con- Carl Schwenser, president, will] vinced them he is that man. He putting all preside and introduce the speaker.| doesnt seem to have the necesons, which Perry township residents are in-| sary spark to set off public enthe Easter vited. hile looking what's the | what kind 2 % ould make. n. 1 there . §37.000 men 18 and 37 . . s a sizable : po" oe BEGINNING 9 ;} that the " , osed in the jervices and : reserve on convenient A Very Special ir physical ery pecia ons for the . hard to see reasons for Purchase. or 2,565,400, luding only num intelli : account for Co. as having ned, 361,200, r 38,200, or
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fair picketing and raiding by one children. union of the membership of a rival union. But on the other hand, only a fool inmanagement would wish to destroy the sense of security and usefulness which comes to workingmen when they are ably represented by honest labor leadership which believes in the American enterprise system.” In his A. P. of L. speech, which has veen highly commended by A. F. of L. leaders, the governor said “we know that winning the war is greater than the issue involved in any strike, yet it is too easy to let little issues become big issues which roll up and multiply into strikes. . . “Under the pressure of war we have all willingly submitted to re-| straints by the national government which are foreign to our most vital principles. . . . A multiplicity of federal regulations have been promulgated governing hours, wages and conditions of employment, In large measure these regulations supersede the functions of collective bargaining. They have superseded private management, too, and in some cases they have even taken the plants away from the owners| when they were admittedly without | fault.
Abridgement Inescapable
“In time of war such an abridgement of the rights of everyone is probabl¥: inescapable, but it is a condition which can only be justifled by the sacrifices of war. We are fighting to make sure that such totalitarian conditions cannot exist in time of peace. “Whether we recognize it or not, the peacetime effect of government control over the terms and conditions of labor would inevitably be to regulate out of existence the whole purpose of labor unions. “So that we shall truly regain and keep the vital freedoms for which we fight today,” the governor continued, “I invite you to join with all your vigor in the struggle to restore them at the end of the war. We can be neither free nor strong in a peacetime regimented economy. ‘We can be both free and strong if we recover for labor and enterprise the dignity and unfettered strength which only free men can enjoy.” ; Another paragraph in the A. PF. of L. speech may have been a pre- nN view of what Mr. Dewey is likely to say, if he becomes the Republican nominee, and Mr. Roosevelt is. his opponent, on the subject of “changing hosses' in midstream.” He declared: 3 “At the height of the war effort the people of our state changed administrations. They brought a different party into power and a complete new set of state officers, and with that change there was not one second’s interruption of the public service or of the production of goods, services and food for War. -
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