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Five Minor Tickets
Seeking Votes in
Presidential Race
Prohibitionist’s, Socialists,
Communists, Greenbacks
Oppose Main Parties
■t the Associated Press.
, JDespitc their small vote in past
elections, five 1040 minority parties
already have nominated presidential
tickets to attract scattered groups
who might be discontented with both
the Republican and Democratic can
didates.
If a "third party" were formed
by dissenters in the major parties,
as some have threatened, the voters
In November would have eight presi
dential nominees to choose from.
None but the two major party nom
inees are conceded much chance.
The so-called “third party” of 1936
Was headed by Representative Wil
liam Lemke of Fargo, N. Dak. Run
ning on a “Union" ticket with sup
port of the Townsend pensioners,
Mrs. Lemke polled 882.000 votes out
Of a total of 45,000.000.
Five Minority Tickets.
Here are the five minority party
tickets named to contest with the
major party nominees next Novem
ber:
Socialist, for President—Norman
Thomas, 55, of New York, former
Presbyterian minister and three
time candidate for President; polled
1$7.000 votes in 1936: running on a
platform calling for political and
economic isolation from the Euro
pean war and socialization of indus
try. For Vice President. Maynard
C. Krueger. 34. economics professor
•t the University of Chicago.
Socialist Labor, for President—!
John W. Aiken of Chelsea, Mass., i
who polled 12.000 votes four years \
ago: platform urges end of capital- !
ism and formation of Socialist in- j
dustrial unions. For Vice President,!
Aaron M. Orange of New York.
Prohibition, for President—Roger
W. Babson. 64-year-old Massachu
setts statistician, a former Repub
lican. running on platform espous
ing end of liquor and narcotics traf
fic, commercial gambling, debasing j
motion pictures and political graft: !
party polled 37,000 in 1936. For Vice j
Prseident, Edgar V. Moorman,'
Quincy (111.) manufacturer, a former
Democrat.
Communist, for President—Earl R.
Browder, New York, 4B-year-old for
mer Kansas bookkeeper, sentenced to
prison in World War for obstructing
draft, now free in ball pending ap
peal of four-year sentence for pass
port fraud; favors creation of “third
party.” Polled 80,000 in 1936. For
Vice President, James W. Ford, col
ored, of Albama.
National Greenback, for President
—Mrs. Anna Milburn, Seattle widow.
She has been urging money and
banking reforms for several years,
but decided to withdraw from the
presidential race this time as she
considered the time not ripe. John
Zahnd of Indianapolis, party chair
man for 18 years, replaced Mrs. Mil
burn on the ticket. His running
mate will be James E. Yates of Phoe
nix, Ariz. '
TDangerous Voyage
■ by Patricia Morgan—
The story thus far: When the South
America-bound cruise ship Georgia en
eouners a violent tropical storm
the steering mechanism is damaged
and. following shifting of the cargo,
tire breaks out and tiie passengers
arg forced to take to the boats.
Phyllis O'Brien is on board as the re
sult of a sudden impulse when she
learned that Dick Wieland. with whom
she is in love, was taking the trip with
Ada Burwick. New York socialite, and
her mother. To make Dick jealous
she hires, through an escort bureau, a
young man named Algernon Beetroot to
go along and pretend to fall in love
■with her. She faints when the fire ,
alarm sounds and Algae carries her to
a boat. Then he helps Ada and her j
mother to escape and returns to get
Dick who «.has . been severely iujuretf.
The ship if sinking when Algae carries
Dick tp the. small officer * launch and
singie-hande.il* tries, to *el n into the j
water.
CHAPTER IX.
One of Algae’s last recollections of
his escape from the ill-fated
Georgia was looking up at the
bridge from where he stood on the
deck of the speedboat and seeing
outlined against the moonlit sky
and the wild red flare from the
burning ship, the captain. The
man looked like some unearthly sen
tinel. standing there silent and rigid.,
his hands at his sides, his head
lifted as if in prayer.
Algae remembered shouting at
him—he didn't know what he said
—but the captain paid no attention,
probably didn’t hear. His back was
to Algae and he was at attention, I
waiting quietly for the summons j
that he alone would hear. He was
going to the bottom with his ship,
according to the tradition of the
sea.
Then the giant hulk of the Geor
gia began to shudder and Algae
frantically worked at the motor of
the speedboat. He had the davits
swung out over the side and he
had lowered the stern as far as
he could, so that the small craft
would slip into the water as nearly
as possible on an even keel. lie
got the engine started and put it
into gear. The hum of the propel
ler was reassuring and he could
feel by turning the wheel that the
steering apparatus was in good or
der. He pulled Dick inside the
small cabin and laid him on the
floor.
The Georgia was staying up a
long toime, longer by far than Algae
had expected it would. But he had
time to run a line, from a coil he
found in the cabin, to the hooks at
either end of the speedboat’s hull
and into he cabin, As soon as she
touched water he'd have to pull the
lines, free the boat from the davit
ropes, and trust to her speed and
his own skill to get them away
from the drag as the big ship went
down.
Dick Calls for Water.
He didn't remember just what
happened, but it all must have
gone almost exactly as he had
planned. The next thing he knew
Dick was pulling at his pants-leg
and saying in a voice that could
scarcely be heard above the roar of
the speedboat’s engine, "Water—
drink o’ water.’’
Algae looked up and found him
j*elf hunched over the steering
'wheel and looking out over a moon
lit sea that rushed at him at furious
speed and flew into sparkling,
greenish spray at either side of the
speedboat bow. He cut the throttle
and slipped the engine out of gear
and looked around. There was noth
' lrig to be seen anywhere but water,
gleaming and quiet in the moon
light. He reached down and put his
"hands under Dick's arms and lifted
him onto the seat. It was wide ■
enough so that Dick could lie
stretched out, bridging with his back
the narrow passage infront of back
cabin door.
Stepping out onto the afterdeck
Algae found under one of he seats
several flve-gallon jugs of water.
Thferer were tin cups, too, and he
filled one of them and brought it
to Dick. He poured the water be
tween his lips in small quantities
and after a moment Dick opened
his eyes and grinned feebly. “Where
thf hell are we?’’ he asked.
"You got me, kid," Algae replied.
"But we aren’t dead yet, and that's
•omething.”
Diek coughed, and he winced with
*
“Where’s Ada?” he said as soon
as it was down.
"She's all right. She got away.
So did her mother."
“That’s good—yeah, ’at’s swell—
didn’t think we'd make it
Witli that his eyes closed and he
fell again into a deep sleep.
Algae went out again and
searched through the various com
partments. under the seats and in
little cabinets in the paneling. He
found canned food in a, carton la
beled “Rations: 8 men—5 days.”
He found gasoline and oil. tools,
spare engine parts, lifebelts, rain
coats, navy blankets and most im
portant at the moment—first-aid
materials.
He took bandages and medi
cated grease for Dick’s burns
and a splint for hia broken arm and j
for the next half hour busied him- j
self doing what he could for the
boy's injuries. He found a light i
in the cabin and was able to do !
a fairly neat Job on the burns. When
he tried to set the arm Dick awoke !
with a cry of pain, but there was
nothing for him to do but bear
with Algae for a minute and he
did, gritting his teeth and letting
the tears of pain run out of his
eyes like water. Then it was over
and the splint was on and Dick
dozed off again, this time with
beads of sweat standing out on his
forehead. Algae wiped them off
and laid a blanket over him and
then he turned to the instruments
on the little panel under the wind
shield.
One of the instruments was a
compass, and it indicated they were
facing almost due north at the mo-1
ment, but that didn’t mean much '
because they’d been just drifting for
over half an hour. The probability, i
Algae figured, was that they had I
gone almost due east from the
Georgia because he had turned hard
t0 the right and gunned it the in- ;
stant he’d unhooked the davit ropes
He didn’t remember looking back i
to see the ship go down, but he was
pretty sure they’d cut around back !
and across her wake. And if she'd j
held her original course throughout
the storm, that would have headed
them east.
Finds Plenty of Food.
Anyway, he slipped the motor in
gear, swung around to the west and
set the throttle at full speed ahead.
For an hour he drove with his eye
on the compass, ocasionally slowing
down and stepping out to the rear
deck where he could stand up and
look across the water for signs of a
ship or of the lifeboats from the
Georgia. Another hour passed; still
he saw nothing but open sea.
Dick began to stir and Algae went
back to the food compartment and
opened the carton of canned goods.
One can was labeled “boiled beef,”
and he opened that one with the
opener that was soldered to a tin
band around the top. He tried some
of it himself and found it pretty
good. He went back to the cabin and
helped Dick into a sitting position,
and they ate the cold meat together.
The next can he dug out had a choc
olate sirup in it with directions for
mixing with water and heating. He
didn’t know what he’d heat it with
until he found some “canned heat,"
a kind of jelly that produced a low,
blue flame when a match was
touched to it. After two cups of hot
chocolate apiece they felt a great
deal better.
For the first time Dick looked
around at their craft. “Where the
devil did we get this bus?” he asked
incredulously. “I hadn’t noticed
before, but this isn't any ordinary
lifeboat; it’s practically a yacht.”
“It was the captain’s, I guess.”
Algae replied, “but where he went
it wouldn't be much use. I hated to
see it go to waste.
Dick's Mind Clears.
Dick's mind was getting clearer
now and he looked from one win
dow to the other, scanning the sea..
With the moonlight he could see
probably a quarter of a mile. “Where
are the other boats?” he said after
a moment.
“I don’t know—haven’t seen a one
of them since we cleared away from
the Georgia."
They rod* far another half hour
67 Navy Officers Taking
Course at Georgetown
Sixty-seven Naval Reserve offi
cers are attending a special school
at Georgetown University to fit
themselves for duty with the Supply
Corps.
The nine-week course began July
8 and Georgetown officials volun
teered the use of dormitories, class
rooms and mess halls.
Classes are held five hours daily
and students must be back in their
rooms at 7:30 o'clock each evening
for a three-hour study period. At
conclusion of the course, successful
students will be assigned to the
fleet for active duty.
The purpose of the course is to
supply junior officers for technical
duties with the fleet relating to the
financial, supply, subsistence and
accounting tasks.
Students from nearby areas in
clude Ensign R. H. Kuppers, Wash
ington: Ensign G. E. Schindler,
Greenbelt, Md.; Ensign J. Kelle,
Washington: Ensign O. W. Stafford,
Washington: Ensign R. W. Riese
oerg, Washington: Ensign W. G.
Montague, Washington, and En
sign William . J. Leizear of Silver
spring, Md.
Blind to Hear Concert
The Civic Grand Opera Associa
tion will have blind residents of
Washington as its guests at a con
cert at the Water Gate Friday.
Tickets and an escort for each blind
person may be secured at the Na
tional Library for the Blind, 1126
Twenty-first street N.W.
. 1 —
in silence and then Dick said that
the sky was brightening a bit to the
rear. Another 15 minutes and there
was a definite orange glow along?
the eastern* horizon.
Suddenly there was a sharp
whacking sound under the boat and
Algae snapped the throttle shut.
The prow bounced down from the
sudden change of speed and a spray
washed over the windshield. Algae
looked around and saw a piece of
driftwood jumping about on the
water behind them.
“That might mean something,”
[—■—-*r— .- — -T- -■ -—■■■ ■ ■ ■
he said. Then he noticed that the
spray on the windshield wgs oily.
“It does mean something,’’ he ex
claimed. “That must be oil from
the Georgia.”
“She was on fire, though,” Dick
said. “If it was oil from her It
would have burned.”
Algae thought about that for a
moment then said. "I'm hot so sure.
The flames would havd been smoth
ered when she went down and oil
could float up to the'surface later.
"Let’s take a look around, anyv.ay.”
He put the boat in gear again and
they started to' make a big, circle.
Thfei suddenly he swung sharply
around and pulled up again along
side the piece of driftwood. He
stepped out on the rear deck and
leaned over until he could pick it
up. It wras, a white-painted piece
of hardwood planking and its
jagged ends were freshly broken.
He looked thoughtfully toward the
cabin for a moment, then took the
stick inside and handed it to Dick.
“Looks like part of a-lifeboat to
me,” he said.
Dick nodded and Algae knew
what he was thinking.
• “Listen, Dicfc,” Algae said, sit
ting down In the driver's seat again.
“Take my wrist watch—here—and
keep track of our time. I'll keep her
on a straight line east for 15 min
utes at steady speed, then IS min
utes south. We’ll make a big square
and see what we find. We ought to
wind up right back here again,
and if nothing turns up we'll make
a square heading north from here
and then east.”
Dick took the watch and they
started off. Algae set the throttle
at 20 knots and left it there for 15
minutes. They had seen nothing
when he turned the nose south
and started on the second arm of
the square. They had cruised for
about ft minutes on that line when
the engine coughed a couple of
times and died. The gas gauge,
which Algae had completely forgot
ten, read zero. He went back to
where the fuel was stored, got a
five-gallon can and dumped it into
the tank under the rear deck. While
he was about it he opened the hatch
over the engine and put in some
■oil. He was closing the hatch again
when Dick yelled: ‘‘A ship. I see
smoke!”
Algae dropped the hatch and
straightened up. Far off to the
south he saw a dark haze that'
stemmed from a thin black line on
the horizon. “Thank God," he mut- .
tered. He fastened the hatch down ■
tight and got back into the cabin :
and in a moment they were on .
their way. He pushed the throttle-!
up to full speed and in dead silence,;
except for the slapping of lhe water *1
against the hull and the deep, full ■
roar of their motor, they raced to-;
ward the thin black line.
(Copyright. 1940, Chicago Daily News. Inc.)
Tomorrow: A tragic meeting
awaits Algae on the distant ship.
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