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BAKER STARTS
SCHOOL TO AID
PROBATIONERS
Restoring Law-Breakers to
Good Citizenship Goal,
Says Judge.
SYSTEM FIRST IN U. S.
Announcement Is Made on
Eve of Probation
Parley Here.
Launching of a program described
as an attempt to restore criminals
on probation to a life of good citi
zenship was announced today by
Criminal Court Judge Frank F.
Baker.
The announcement was timed
with the meeting here tomorrow of
the Central States Probation and
Parole Conference in the Claypool.
Once or twice each week, Judge
Baker explained, probationers of
Criminal Court are to attend a
“good citizenship school.” The sys
tem, said to be the first of its type
in the United States, is to be tried
for a year. Results are to be dis
closed at the National Probation
and Parole Conference next year,
Judge Baker said.
Church Attendance Required
“We are going to obtain speak
ers who can speak the language of
the probationers to address them on
citizenship topics. We hope to
persuade the probationers to obey
the law and to spread the doctrine
of good citizenship among their as
sociates and neighbors,” Judge
Baker said.
“Although the system violates the
theory that probationers should not
be brough together, we believe that
they associate with each other out
side of court anyway. Under this
system, they will meet in an at
mosphere of good citizenship.”
He said that required church at
tendance also would be a part of
the rehabilitation program and that
anew probation officer would be
assigned to the work of arranging
the schools.
Kern to Greet Delegates
The third annual central states
conference opening tomorrow is to
include four days of addresses and
discussions by public officials, state
probation and parole authorities
and criminologists.
Representatives from 40 states in
cluding six Governors are expected
to attend the sessions which are be
ing h'eld for the purpose of creating
co-operation between states in pro
bation. institutional care and parole
supervision.
Mayor Kern is to open the ses
sions at 10 tomorrow morning. Gov.
McNutt is to address the delegates
tomorrow night. Philip Lutz Jr.,
attorney general, is to preside at
the night meeting.
NEW BELGiAN PARTY
EMERGES IN ELECTION
“Rexists” Win 21 Seats in roll for
Chamber of Deputies.
By Vnitnt Press
BRUSSELS, May 25.—A new
political party, pledged to “purifv”
Parliament and send to political ob
livion most of the country’s present
leaders, emerged today to plague the
government.
It is the - Rexist” Party of 30-year
old Leon Degrelle. It obtained 21
seats in yesterday's election for the
Chamber of Deputies. Degrelle
served notice at once that he in
tended to fight for another election
in hope of winning a majority in tire
Chamber.
Rexists. Communists and Flemish
Nationalists were the winners in the
election so far as net gains go.
Losers were the Catholic, Liberal
and Socialist Parties, which consti
tute the government coalition.
Election results, subject to correc
tion, were announced officially as
follows: Socialists, 70: Catholics, 6o-
Liberal. 23; Rexists, 21: Flemish Na
tionalists, 16; Communists, 9.
FOTD REPORTS PROFIT
GAIN OF $3,565,617
Figure Is for 1935 as Compared
With 1934.
By United Press
BOSTON, May 25.—The Ford
Motor Cos. today reported for 1935
a total increase of $3,565,617 in its
profit and loss account and reserves,
as compared with 1934.
The surplus as of Dec. 31, 1935,
was reported as $582,977,651. com
pared with $580276.391 at the end
of 1934, and $576,517,080 at the end
of 1933.
Reserves increased during 1935 bv
$10,096.98 to $10,962,346, a gain of
$864,358.
DIES ON TRAIN HERE
Norfolk (Va.) Society Matron Is
Victim of Heart Disease.
Mrs. Stella Hirschler, socially
prominent in Norfolk. Va., and San
Francisco, died of heart disease on
a New York Central train as it
came into Indianapolis today.
She was en route from Norfolk
to San Francisco. Mrs. Hirschler,
74, had been ill six years.
CONGRESSMAN IS DEAD
Jersey Representative Had Served in
House 16 Years.
By failed Press
WASHINGTON, May 25.—Rep.
Randolph Perkins <R., N. J.), a
member of Congress since 1920, died
in Georgetown Hospital today.
He had been ill two weeks.
The Indianapolis Times
VOLUME 48—NUMBER 64
‘Cooked’ Alive
By United Press
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.,
May 25.—The operator and in
ventor of a heat-treatment
machine was held by authori
ties today pending a study of
the death of Mrs. William J.
O’Leary, 43, who was alleged
to have been fatally “cooked”
in the device.
. Justice of the Peace Hugh
M. Leste*, who issued a war
rant for arrest of P. E. Dettra
following Mrs. O'Leary s death
yesterday, said Dettra ad
mitted he was not licensed to
operate the machine.
Mrs. O’Leary, a resident of
Chevy Chase, Md., suffered for
18 years from arthritis. She
had taken three previous
treatments in the box-like ma
chine, which was designed to
create an artificial body fever
to combat the illness.
The woman’s body had
burns a quarter of an inch in
depth, according to officials.
MOTORCYCLIST
DIESINCRASH
Nine Hoosiers Lose Lives in
Traffic Accidents of
Week-End.
The Marion County 1936 traffic
death toll, increased by one fatality,
stood at 55 today, and the United
Press reported that week-end high
way accidents claimed the lives of
at least eight other Indiana resi
dents.
Funeral services for Preston E.
Lowe, 30, of 1808 College-av, latest
local victim, are to be held at 2:30
tomorrow afternoon at the home.
Burial is to be in Washington Park.
Mr. Lowe was injured fatally
when he was thrown from a skid
ding motorcycle at 32nd-st and
Northwestern-av early yesterday. He
was riding on the rear seat of the
motorcycle operated by Russell
Strong, 21, also of the College-av
address. Strong suffered body
bruises.
Operated Cleaning Shop
A resident of Indianapolis 18
years, Mr. Lowe was owner of the
Superior Rug and Furniture Clean
ers, 1804 College-av.
Survivors are the widow, Mrs!
Louise Lowe; his mother and step
father, Mr. and Mrs. Rey Frederic;
a daughter, Raellen Jjowe, and two
sons, Preston C. and Doe Lowe, all
of Indianapolis.
James W. McHugh, Shelburn un
dertaker, was injured fatally when
he was struck by an auto. His fu
neral was the first to be held in his
new mortuary,
G. W. Palmer, 57, Negro, Muncie,
was injured fatally when he stepped
into the path of a bus at Muncie.
An unidentified girl about 19 was
killed early today when she was
struck by an auto on U. S. Road 52.
The car was driven*by J. W. Lawrie,
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EMPLOYERS FILE
INSURANCE DATA
Reports of More Than 5000
Are Listed.
More than 5000 employers have
filed first contribution reports re
quired under the new Indiana un
employment compensation law.
Clarence A. Jackson, Indiana un
employment compensation director,
announced today.
Contributions tabulated from the
first 750 reports averaged more than
SIOO for each employer, indicating
that for the first month more than
$500,000 will go into funds from
which eligible unemployed persons
may draw benefits after April 1,
1938. Mr. Jackson said.
Reports were due this month from
all Indiana employers who had eight
or more employes during a period
totaling 20 weeks in either 1935 or
1936.
1934 BANKRUPTCY ACT
IS DECLARED INVALID
Act Applying to Municipalities and
Districts Is Thrown Out.
By United Press
WASHINGTON. May 25.—The
Supreme Court by a 5-to-4 decision
today condemned the municipal
bankruptcy act of 1934 designed to
permit incorporated municipalies,
drainage, irrigation and water im
provement districts to reorganize
their bonded indebtedness.
The court's decision was handed
down in a case involving the reor
ganization of Cameron County,
Texas, water improvement district
No. 1. While the case involved only
the application of the act to this one
district, the terms of the court's de
cision were such that it left no
duubt it applied to the act as a
whole.
FILENE SCORES C. OF C.
“Potent Center of Reaction,” Famed
Liberal Merchant Says.
By United Press
BOSTON, May 25 —Describing the
United States Chamber of Com
merce as a "potent center of re
action.” Edward A. Filene. 74. has
resigned from that organization, of
which he was a founder.
Mr. Filene, entliusiastic New Deal
er and internationally known Bos
ton business liberal, stated that the
chamber had become the tool of
"special interests” and refused to
work out an intelligent solution to
business problems.
FORECAST: Possibly showers early tonight; followed by fair and somewhat warmer tomorrow.
ACCUSE 25 IN
BLACK LEGION
MURDER PLOT
13 ‘John Doe’ Warrants
Are Included in Group
Issued Today.
HINT INDIANA CHAPTER
Investigation of Terror Body
Extended Into Every
Michigan City.
By United Press
DETROIT, May 25.—Murder war
rants charging 25 members of the
hooded ad robed Black Legion with
the death of Charles A. Poole, 32,
were issued today, as authorities ex
tended their investigation of the
band’s terroristic activities through
every populous center of the state.
Thirteen of the warrants were is
sued against men already under ar
rest for the murder of Poole on the
night of May 12, and 12 were “John
Doe” warrants.
Each warrant charged conspiracy
to kidnap the 32-year-old WPA
worker who “knew' too much about
the Black Legion,” and each
charged with his wilful murder as
he stood before the hooded group
in a deserted West Side park.
13 Present, Is Charge
Wayne County Prosecutor Dun
can C. McCrea, whose investigators
are inquiring into every phase of
the band’s subversive activities, said
that “we have sufficient evidence to
support the contention that the 13
men were present when the con
spiracy to murder Poole was en
tered into.”
“The others either were present
at the meeting or on the way to
the meeting at which Poole was
killed,” he added. “The fact that
some of the members were pre
vented from arriving at the road
side where Poole was shot down
because of an open drawbridge,
does not qualify the murder charge
in the slightest.”
The suspects will be arraigned be
fore Judge Raiph W. Liddy this
afternoon. They include Harvey
Davis, “colonel” of the society and
alleged leader in the death plot;
Dayton Dean, Urban Lipps, Ervin
D. Lee, George C. Johnson, Paul R.
Edwards, Edgar Baldwin, Lowell
Rushing, Hershell Gill, John B.
Mitchell, Thomas R. Craig and Jack
Bennerman. James R. Lorrr.nce,
held as a suspect, was released over
the week-end.
As each hour brought telephone
reports by “victims” of the band’s
terrorism, police continued their
city-wide search for those named
as leaders. In every instance, the
search was fruitless. Homes of
those named and their known
haunts disclosed they “had not been
here for several days.”
State Leader Sought
Most eagerly sought was Arthur
F Lupp of Suburban Highland
Fark, named as “brigadier general
for the state of Michigan.” Lupp, a
milk inspector for the city of De
troit, was said to be out of the city.
The attorney general’s office, in
announcing that the grand jury in
quiry was being considered strongly,
indicated a belief that “only the
surface of this thing has been
scratched.”
Other authorities were working on
the same theory. From McCrea’s
chief investigator, Harry Colburn,
came the advice that the Black Le
gion extended not only through this
state, but probably in most of the
others. -
Indiana Force Hinted
He named V. F. Effinger of Lima,
0., as the district commander for
the states of Michigan, Ohio and
Indiana, and said that William
Shepherd, known to intimates as
“Shotgun” Shepherd, was the na
tional commander. He is believed to
live sorr.dwhere along the Ohio-
West Virginia border. Sto.-ies of the
Black Legion’s activities have come
from these states and from Pennsyl
vania, Colburn said.
Michigan state police continued
their investigation of reports that
50 men had been marked for death
by the Black Legion which is anti-
Catholic, anti-Negro, anti-Jew, and
which professes to guard the morals
of non-members.
Having found paraphernalia of
the legion in the home of a state
prison guard, authorities hinted
that many state, municipal and
county employes, as well as some
officials, were members. In Pontiac,
George J. Eckhardt, former police
chief, charged that one-third of the
force belongs to the legion. He
named a prominent police official as
a member.
Here’s Chance to Become Movie Star!
Times, Loew’s to Produce Local Film
Since many Indianapolis actors
and actresses can not go to Holly
wood, Hollywood is coming to In
dianapolis.
Within the next two wpeks a
complete talking picture is to be
produced here by one of filmland's
outstanding directors, featuring a
cast of local people between the
ages of 16 and 22, to be selected
from the various schools, dramatic
societies, factories and stores of the
city.
The Indianapolis Times has ar
ranged with Loew’s, Inc., controllers
of Metro-Goldwvn-Mayer studios, to
import the director and a full staff
of movie technicians, together with
MONDAY, MAY 25, 1936
Speedway Timer Too Busy to Watch Race
| •- *■ S' ; ‘
12 READY FOR
SPEED TRIALS
Lou Moore, Fred Frame and
Deacon Litz Are Among
Likely Candidates.
Harry Mac Quinn, Indianapolis,
was the first to qualify this after
noon for the Memorial Day 500-
mile race at the Speedway. He
w T as driving the Sampson Radio
Special and averaged 114.118
miles an hour for the 25 miles.
Jimmie, Chappell, Indianapolis,
rode with him.
Threatened with the possibility
of rain, nearly 12 drivers were ex
pected to attempt their qualifying
runs when Indianapolis Motor
runs early when the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway opened this after
noon.
Lou Moore and Fred Frame, 1932
winner, driving their Burd Piston
Ring Specials, made test runs this
morning and were reported ready
for trials.
With the race set for Saturday,
only 25 have qualified for the 33-car
starting field. The trial runs were
rained out yesterday.
Other drivers who were expected
to attempt their runs this afternoon,
weather permitting, were Deacon
Litz, in his own car; Dave Evans
and Russ Snow’berger, driving Joe
Thorne entries; Ray Pixley, Fink
Auto Special; Mauri Rose, Four-
Wheel Drive Special; Harry Me*
Quinn, Sampson Radio Special, and
Roy Painter, American Twist Drill
Special.
REDUCTION IN GOLF
FEES IS ANNOUNCED
South Grove Course Charge
Is to Be 35 Cents.
A reduction in greens fees at
South Grove municipal golf course
from 50 cents to 35 cents for 18
holes was announced today by A.
C. Sallee, superintendent of parks.
The Monday and Friday “bargain
day” rate of 25 cents for 18 holes
still is in effect, Mr. Sallee said.
RAIN TONIGHT, WARMER
TOMORROW, IS FORECAST
Crops Aided by .32 of An Inch of
Showers, Report.
Predicting showers for tonight,
the Weather Bureau today said a
northeast wind then should clear
up unsettled atmospheric conditions
and make tomorrow fair and some
what warmer.
The .32 of an inch of rain which
fell here over the week-end has had
a beneficial effect on crops in this
section, the bureau said.
PRIMARY TEACHER DEAD
Mary James Clark Had Taught at
School for Deaf.
Mary James Clark, 29. for 10
years primary teacher at the Indi
ana School for the Deaf, died today
at the home of her father, R. C.
Clark, Lancaster, Ky.
a unit of lighting and sound equip
ment, exactly as used by the largest
Hollywood studios.
The Times, in sponsoring this
project, hopes to promote commu
nity spirit along dramatic lines, and
to develop further interest in ama
teur theatrical groups. . When com
pleted the picture will be shown at
Loew’s Theater. A “Hollywood” pre
miere, including all the trimmings
that accompany such “openings” at
the Graumann's Chinese Theater in
Los Angeles, will be staged at the
opening.
A special M-G-M writer has been
assigned to write the script for “It
Happened in Indianapolis.” and the
entire production is to be carried
out in a professional manner. It is
Odis Porter at his machine,
Chester Ricker, scoring director,
looking on.
Odis A. Porter Sometimes
Has to Buy Paper to
Learn Winner.
BY TOM OCHILTREE
Odis A. Porter, who serves as the
eyes and brain of the most perfect
timing machine in the world, has
checked every car in all the Memo
rial Day races, but he often has to
wait and buy a newspaper to find
out who won.
Busy as he is, this man, who
thinks' of time in hundredths of
seconds, always remains as calm as
an ancient philosopher or an agra
rian poet on race day. Puffing on
his pipe, and with his glasses pulled
down to the end of his nose, he
seems almost like Father Time him
self as he sits in his booth on the
second floor of the Speedway press
pagoda.
Porter has clocked almost every
kind of speed contest devised. He
always is present when Sir Malcolm
Campbell, English driving star,
makes his roaring rfdes against time.
Fool-Proof Timing
International yacht and motor
boat races find him seated at the
finish line with his pipe and timing
machine. To question his figures
would be like questioning the integ
rity of the Bank of England.
For a quarter of a century he has
worked to perfect a machine that is
fool proof and can’t be fixed.
A ship’s chronometer is the gov
ernor for the rest of the equip
ment. Asa car passes across the
starting wire, stretched across the
track, it breaks a circuit and causes
the machine to record the time in
hours, minutes, seconds and hun
dredths on a tape.
It’s Done Quickly
When the automobile has com
pleted a lap and hits the wire again,
another recording is made. The
first figure is subtracted from the
second, giving the total time in
minutes, seconds and hundredths
for the lap. This is computed
quickly on special calculating ma
chines, and the speed in miles an
hour is read off into the thou
sandths.
“This machine can never be off
more than one-quarter of one-hun
dredth part of a second,” Porter
said. “It is comparatively simple to
operate when drivers are qualifying.
On race day, however, it is neces
sary to mark on the time tape the
number of each car opposite the
reading.
“The machine can’t see. Some
times it is humanly ynpossible to
get all these car numbers down, but
a double check system used here
enables us to fill in the blank places.
I am so busy putting the car num
bers on the tape, that I never have
time to even wonder how the race
is going.”
135 In Timing Crew
Chester S. Ricker, scoring and
timing director, is in charge of a
crew of 135 men whose duty it is
to keep the public, press and driv
ers informed on the progress of
the race, and to compile a complete
race record.
Assisting Porter are G. H.
(Snappy) Ford, a gentleman who
wears loud caps and does upside
down writing to amuse his friends,
and J. R. Trout.
Porter has seen the racing heroes
of three generations on the In
dianapolis track, and every race
day he says a little prayer that no
one will be in an accident.
a comedy-drama calling for mere
than 100 scenes, 15 leading roles and
more than 100 extra players, all to
be selected from Indianapolis ac
tors.
As the play is a colleeg drama the
leading boy and girl roles will be
outstanding and it is hoped that
the completed cast will contain
many prominent local persons.
Casting for “It Happened in In
dianapolis” will start immediately,
and tomorrow's Times will carry full
details of what young players must
do to obtain a part in the all-In
dianapolis movie. Watch The Times
tomorrow for information about
your own moving pitcure.
Who knows, you may be headed
for a Hollywood film contract?
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SOCIALISTS MAP
DROADJRODRAM
Eight-Plank Platform Is
Offered National Par
ley Delegates.
By United Press
CLEVELAND, May 25.—The
name of Norman M. Thomas was
placed before the Socialist con
vention today as a candidate for
the party’s presidential nomina
tion. Mr. Thomas was Socialist
standard bearer in 1928 and 1932.
By United Press
CLEVELAND, May 25.—The So
cialist convention resolutions com
mittee today drafted a broad plat
form calling for public ownership of
key industries and wide congres
sional control of agriculture'and in
dustry.
The committee then prepared to
place its recomendations before the
convention, where approval was ex
pected to be a mere formality.
Eight main planks were written
into the document by the commit
tee. They provided:
1. Public ownership of key indus
tries. f
2. Adoption of the farmers’ and
workers’ rights amendment to the
United States Constitution, which
gives Congress broad control over
agriculture and industry.
Ask Age, Health Programs
3. A slum clearance program, old
age and health pensions and other
social legislation programs.
4. Thirty-hour week, minimum
wage, abolition of the injunction
in labor disputes, prohibition of
company unions, company spying
and private guards, prohibition of
use of police or troops in labor dis
putes.
5. Government aid for farm fi
nancing, shifting of taxes on farm
property to taxes on incomes, in
heritance and excess profits.
6. Increase in income and in
heritance taxes on high levels, re
organization of the entire tax sys
tem ©n the ability to pay and a
constitutional amendment permit
ting taxation of government securi
ties.
Favor Arms Curtailment
7. Abolition of all laws interfer
ing with the right of free speech,
free press and free assembly, re
peal of the espionage laws, enforce
ment of constitutional guaranties
of equality of Negroes and enforce
ment of drastic anti-lynching laws.
8. Curtailment of armaments,
elimination of compulsory military
training in schools, noninterference
in Latin America, abandonment of
imperialistic adventures, relinquish
ment of extra-territorial privileges
in China, continuation of friendly
relations with Soviet Russia, devel
opment of world peace societies.
Dr. Harry W. Laidler, chairman of
the resolutions committee, pre
sented the committee's recommen
dations to the convention shortly
before the noon recess. He was in
terrupted several times by vigor
ous applause.
MERGER OFSTATE
SOCIALISTS HINTED
Indiana Slate Is Named by In
corporated Unit Here.
Uniting of two factions in the In
diana Socialist Party was con
sidered today by the Socialist Party
of Indiana, Inc., and another
group headed by Powers Hapgood.
The Hapgood faction is to hold a
convention in the Dearborn Hotel
on Saturday and Sunday and at
that time, it was reported, a
coalition plan may be outlined.
Thirty delegates attended a
meeting of the Socialist Party of
Indiana, Inc., yesterday in the Hol
liday Building.
William Getzel, South Bend, was
nominated as the faction's guber
natorial candidate.
Miss Emma Henry, state commit
tee secretary, said a petition would
be filed with the State Board of
Election Commissioners to recognize
its slate of candidates in preference
to one presented by the Hapgood
faction.
The Hapgood organization, which
has the official sanction of the So
cialist Party of America, has sent
six delegates to the Cleveland na
tional convention.
‘MIRACLE’ IS ONLY
THREAT TO LANDON;
ECCLES STIRS TALK
Democrats Have Decided to
Woo Big Business,
Observers Say.
RECALLS MORGAN VISIT
Irwin-Gates Clash Chief
Concern of Republicans
During Week.
While Republican Party ranks had
a week of “tiffs” over the state chair
manship the Democratic Party, ac
cording to political observers, made
a bid for support of Indiana bankers
and business men.
Most important development in
the reported Democratic tyid for
“big business” support was believed
to have been the “off-the-record*
address of Marriner S. Eccles, Fed
eral Reserve Board chairman, before
the convention here of the Indiana
Bankers’ Association.
Mr. Eccles, although a Republican,
was introduced by Gov. McNutt.
Previously the Governor had con
ferred with W. Forbes Morgan.
Democratic National Committee
secretary. The visit of Mr. Morgan,
likewise, was in the nature of pre
paring the ground for an appeal to
business men to support the Roose
velt Administration in the November
election, observers said.
Mr. Eccles’ address was termed by
those close to the state administra
tion as being splendid “word-of
mouth” campaigning on behalf of
the Democratic Party.
It was said his speech gave rise
to hopes in Democratic breasts that
their collectors might not knock in
vain on business doors for aid in
the fall election after all.
With only 10 days before the
G. O. P. state convention efforts
were made by Republican leaders
to insure harmony and quiet the
efforts of a faction led by Ralph
Gates, Columbia City, to place Mr.
Gates in the state chairmanship.
G. O. P. Compromise Hinted
Don B. Irwin, state chairman, al
though refusing to recognize the
Eighth District election of a vice
chairman and chairman, has agreed
to call a state committee meeting
on June 4, the day after the con
vention here.
Doubt was expressed in some Re
publican circles whether the state
committee would oust Mr. Irwin. A
compromise in the interests of party
harmony is likely, observers said.
The Republican gubernatorial race
presents Raymond S. Springer, Con
nersville, in the lead as far as dele
gate claims go, but probably witii
an insufficient number to swing tne
nomination on the first convention
ballot. Major opponents of Mr
Springer are: Elza O. Rogers, Leb
anon attorney; Glen R. Hillis, Ko
komo manufacturer, and Herbert H.
Evans, Newcastle, state Representa
tive.
As the week-end closed Pleas
Greenlee, Democratic gubernatorial
candidate, returned from Washing
ton with assurance that Senator
Sherman Minton would place his
name in nomination at the state
convention on June 16
Greenlee Issues Denial
Mr. Greenlee denied that he
agreed to a combination with Mc-
Kinney forces to stop Mr. Town
send’s election on the first ballot.
He did say, howffver, he admitted,
that the strength of his 687 dele
gates and McKinney’s delegate
pledges—which he said is 474—is
sufficient to prevent Mr. Townsend
from winning on the first ballot.
Greenlee adherents put Townsend
strength at 684 delegates.
Mr. Greenlee claimed delegates
are bolting the so-called Townsend
“bandwagon” and predicted that the
Lieutenant Governor would not be
nominated on the first ballot or
even the second.
Other Indiana political groups had
a busy week. The National Union
for Social Justice, under its new
state supervisor, O. P. Craig,
launched a strong campaign to elect
congressmen favorable to Father
Coughlin's plan. Townsend pension
leaders w r ere reported ready to
launch a reorganization of their
forces in the state.
TRADING ON MARKET
IS QUIET, PRICES FIRM
Steel Shares Lead Early Advance
With Gains Above Point.
By United Press
NEW YORK, May 25.—Extremely
quiet trading continued to prevail
on the stock market toda> with
prices firm.
Steel shares led an early advance
with gains ranging to more than
a point but they later eased from
their highs. Motor shares were dull.
Railroad and utility issues were
quiet.
Times Index
Jane Jordan .. 6
Merry-Go-R’d. 9
Movies 4
Mrs. Ferguson 20
Mrs. Roosevelt 6
Obituaries 16
Pyle 10
Questions .... 10
Radio 5
Scherrer 10
Science, Dietz 10
Serial Story... 16
Short Story... 15
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Coalition by Rivals, Which
Seems Unlikely, Held
Sole Obstacle.
HOOVER ENMITY DENIED
Borah and Knox Combine
Against Kansan Also
Deemed Remote.
“Smoking Out the Candi
dates,’’ the first of a series
of articles on possible Re
publican nominees, starts
today on Page One, Section
Two.
BY LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May 25.
Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kan
sas is so close to the Repub
lican presidential nomination
today that many observers
believe only a political miracle
can stop him.
The miracle most discussed would
be a well-managed coalition of oth**r
G. O. P. candidates in an effective
stop-Landon movement. There
would be a touch of the miraculous
about such a coalition, because of
the difference separating most other
Republican factions.
Trailing Gov. Landon in the race
toward Cleveland, where the Re
publican national convention will
meet June 9, are Frank Knox of Illi
nois, Senator William E. Borah of
Idaho, Senator Arthur H. Vanden
berg of Michigan and Senator Lester
J. Dickinson of lowa.
Steiw r er Also a Possibility
There are darker horses than
some of those. Senator Frederick
Steiwer of Oregon has been named
keynote speaker for the G. O. P. and
thereby becomes a presidential possi
bility. Former President Herbert
Hoover still is the nominal leader of
the Republican Party and must be
counted among the potential nomi
nees although last week he an
nounced in Chicago that he was not
a candidate.
If the miracle came to pass, bring
ing Mr. Knox, Mr. Borah, former
President Hoover and the other
potential nominees together in an
anti-Landon movement supported
by such Eastern leaders as Charles
D. Hilles of New York and J. Henry
Roraback of Connecticut, the Kan
sas Governor would be in real polit
ical trouble.
Mr. Hoover insisted in his an
nouncement of last week that he was
not opposing any candidate for the
nomination.
Coalition Seems Unlikely
Some politicians who had dis
cussed G. O. P. plans with the
former President had previously
felt that he would do what he
could to prevent the Governor’s
nomination. That assumption evi
dently was mistaken.
Mr. Hoover will not exercise great
influence at Cleveland for or
against any one. His principal con
tribution to the 1936 campaign was
in his series of eight addresses on
the New Deal in which he sought
to state the issues against Presi
dent Roosevelt.
If Mr. Hoover is left out of it,
the stop-Landon movement would
need the co-operation of Mr.
Knox, Mr. Borah and the men who
control the big, uninstructed dele
gations from the East. Such co
operation is unlikely.
Knox, Borah Far Apart
Mr. Knox has a background of
Theodore Roosevelt progressivism
but there has been no indication
he would satisfy Mr. Borah as a
1936 candidate. Similarly, there
has been no hint from the Knox
camp that Mr. Borah would fit into
their plans in any way. About the
only tie between these two rivals
is that neither will get anywhere
unless something is done about
Gov. Landon.
In several statements during the
latter weeks of his campaign for
the nomination, Mr. Borah has ap
peared to challenge Mr. Landon in
directly on the ground that he rep
resented certain “interests” to
whose objectives the Senator is op
posed. Mr. Knox has not personally
attacked Gov. Landon. But from
former Senator George H. Moses, a
close associate of Mr. Knox, there
came on April 29 an intimation that
the methods by which Gov. Landon
was picking up delegates was at
least unethical.
Without naming Mr. Landon, Mr.
Moses deprecated Gov. Landon’*
delegate strength on the grounds
that is was “built up by ballyhoo
and propaganda, and developed by
methods which certainly will un
dergo investigation by the Senate
Committee already set up for the
purpose of scrutinizing election
practices.”
Other Candidates Weak
But beyond a certain similarity
of attitude toward the progress of
the Kansas Governor there is no
indication of like-mindedness be
tween Mr. Knox and Mr. Borah.
Other candidates could be
brought into a stop-Landon move
ment with less difficulty, none of
them having much to offer nor
much to lose. But the prospect
of a Knox-Borah coalition is re
mote. The stop-landon movement
in any serious form, therefore, will
depend on such men as Mr. Hilles
and Mr. Roraback.