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THE BRUNSWICK* NEWS
VOLUME XXXI. NO. 304.
10 AID SUERS
Floyd B. Olson Places Himself
on Record as Supporting
Farmers' Strike Which is
Spreading Rapidly
SAYS HE’S WILLING
ro AID THE CAUSE
Declaration of Martial Law is
Promised to Make Movement
Successful as Other States
Fall in Line.
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By The Associated Press
The “holiday farm strike” was re
ported spreading in the midwest Mon¬
day as the governor of Minnesota an¬
nounced himself willing even to de¬
clare martial law to aid the cause.
At' Sioux City, la., center of the
strike movement, where farmers have
succeeded in raising the price paid
for their milk to $1.80 a hundred
pounds, two freight trains hauling
milk produce were stopped, one of
them for an hour. About 250 farmers
halted the trains.
So widespread had the Iowa move¬
ment become that Omaha, the na¬
tion’s second livestock market was
threatened with a blockade. Leaders
of the campaign in Iowa announced
picket lines would be drawn across
highways on the Nebraska-Iowa line
to prevent consignments of cattle,
hogs, and sheep from reaching the
Omaha markets.
Floyd B. Olson of Minnesota, the
nation’s only Farmer-Labor party
governor, said: “I would be willing
to join with the governors of other
agricultural states in any plan, how¬
ever arbitrary, which would tend to
raise the prices of farm commodities.”
At Lewiston, la., one of the richest
wheat districts in the Pacific north¬
west, about 400 farmers joined in an
agreement to stop selling their grain
until the price went above the present
level of 37 cents a bushel for No. 1.
From Lemars, la., came reports of
another new strike. Farmers picket¬
ed dairies and threw sticks at a truck
hauling milk. Deputy sheriffs final¬
ly were called upon to escort the
trucks. Encouraged by results of the
daily “holiday” at Sioux City, the Le
mars farmers want $2.17 a 100 pounds
for their product.
Numerous other farm strikes, vary¬
ing in the degree of their success,
were reported from the Dakotas, Min¬
nesota and Illinois.
SERIES OF TREATIES
12 DESIGNATED TO PROMOTE
ECONOMIC WELFARE OF BRIT¬
AIN GIVEN TO WORLD
Ottawa, Aug. 22. (ZP)—A series of
I trade treaties designed to promote'
the economic welfare of the British
empire and to demonstrate the unity
of its dominions was revealed in part
to the world today as the delegates to
the imperial conference scattered to
the four winds.
The United Kingdom signed seven
agreements. These were with Can¬
ada, Australia, New Zealand, South
Africa, India, Newfoundland and
southern Rhodesia.
Canada also had agreements with
South Africa and southern Rhodesia,
while south Africa struck a bargain
with New Zealand.
Many of the trade channels between
the United States and various British
dominions and the United Kingdom
will be affected by the treaties, which
all carry certain correlated prefer¬
ences.
Just how far the British preference
will cut into American or world trade
cannot be determined by the various
summaries. Further, actual practice
must determine the final slice the em¬
pire has cut for herself out of world
trade.
But any products the United States
has heretofore furnished to the Brit¬
ish empire units in large quantities
aie prominently mentioned for empire
preference. These include wheat,
dairy products, automobiles, copper,
fruits, meats of various kinds, corn,
typewriters, radios ami cotton manu¬
For instance, the United Kingdom
undertook to impose a duty of two
shillings per quarter on foreign wheat
in her treaty with Canada. A quarter
is eight heaped bushels or 504 pounds.
Other products now' on the British
free list were put under a tariff bar¬
rier so that Canada’s products could
enjoy free entry.
These included butter, apples and
pears, dried fruits, eggs, condensed
milk and copper. The duties varied,
Raw apples and pears drew 4 shill
ings, 6 pence duty per hundredweight,
In return Canada granted new or
increased margins of preference for
United Kingdom products to the tune
of 220 items, with many more British
products placed on the tree list.
Film Star’s Find’
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Wynn Wayne, young "blues” sing¬
er of Los Angeles, is a discovery of
Blanche Sweet’s. She is appearing
in a stage show with the movie star.
Georgia Farmers Receiving More
Than Three Cents Pound
More This Year Than They
Were Last.
Atlanta, Aug. 22. (ZP)—Georgia
farmers received $228,834.91 for
2,254,058 pounds of bright leaf tobacco
told at auction during the first two
days of the 1932 season, the state bu¬
reau of markets reported today.
The average price paid for the to¬
bacco during the first two days was
$10.15 per hundred pounds as compar¬
ed with an average o.f $7.33 per hun¬
dred pounds for the first two days of
the 1931 season when 6,756,181
pounds were told for a total price of
$495,431.44.
Where 21 markets with 52 ware
houses operated in the state last
year, only 16 markets with 37 ware¬
houses were open this season.
The Nashville market received the
highest average price for sales for
the first two days—$12.03 per hun¬
dred pounds. Other high prices were
$11.66 at Moultrie, $11.09 at Tifton
and $11.05 at Adel.
Two warehouses, one at Blackshear
and one at Nashville, had failed to
report their sales for the first two
days.
Total sales in 1931 were 60,881,696
pounds which brought an average
price for the entire season of $6.41
per hundred pounds. The tobacco
growers last year received a total of
$3,901,841.56 for their crop for the
entire year.
SHARP EXPLOSION
ON WALL STREET
STARTLES PEOPLE
New York, Aug. 22. (ZP)—A
sharp detonation which rever¬
berated through the narrow, can¬
yon-like walls of Wall street,
created widespread excitement in
front of the J. P. Morgan & Co.
building. down
An armored car, loaded
with more than a ton of gold
which was being moved from the
present sub-treasury building just
opposite Morgan’s to a new gov
ment vault in the neighborhood
had just pulled o.ut of the his¬
toric treasury building when the
explosion occurred.
Several thousands of ho#r passers
by who at luncheon were
thronging the busy Wall street
sector were startled; some started
to run.
At the same spot about 13 years
ago the famous Wall street bomb
explosion occurred. The one to¬
day was nothing more serious
than the rear tire on the armored
truck blowing out.
AVIATRIX FACES
DEPORTATION BY
FEDERAL COURTS
Miami, Fla., Aug. 22. (fP )—Hearing
on a deportation warrant issued
against Mrs. Jessie M. Keith-Miller,
Australian aviatrix and principal fig¬
ure in the recent trial of Captain W.
N. Lancaster for the murder of Had
en Clarke, was held this morning be¬
fore James J. Forrester, labor de
partment agent.
Forrester, sent here from Washing¬
ton to take testimony, said a ruling
would be announced by the Washing¬
ton bureau after his return there.
Lancaster today moved into, the
aoartment of Walter H. Lunder, a
World War ve.teran now in the Lake
City Florida veterans hospital, and
which had been offered the British
flj er by Lunder.
Since the trial Lancaster has been
living at the home of his attorney,
James Carson.
BRUNSWICK, GA., MONDAY. AUG. 22, 1932.
E. W. Stitt Fails to Report at
Spartanburg, S. C., Wit>
Other Entrants in Sensational
Races
AUGUSTA ENTRANT WAS
WINNER YESTERDAY
Two Fleets of Racing Airplanes,
One From Atlantic and One
From Pacific, Entered in
Great Classic.
Spartanburg, S. C., Aug. 22. (ZP)—E.
W. Stitt, of Washington, D. C., was
here shortly after noon after
other participants in the handicap
derby to the national air races at
had landed here for a lunch¬
stop en route from Winston
Salem, N. C., to Atlanta. No word
been received from Stitt.
S. C. Huffman, of Cincinnati, led
the fliers into Spartanburg.
Entrants Leave
Winston-Salem, N. C., Aug. 22. (A 3 )
in the 'handicap derby to
national air races in Cleveland
taking off on the second leg of
their journey at 10:05 a. m. today,
by J. F. Touhy, of Olean, N. V.
The 27 entrants were taking off
in the same order in which they left
yesterday. They are to
a noon stop at Columbia, S. C.,
spend tonight in Atlanta.
The second plane to leave was that
Fred Dorset, of Augusta, Ga., w in¬
of yesterday's first leg from Wash¬
ington here.
Due to the handicaps, figured prior
to the derby's start to make each
day’s first finisher the winner, it
takes about an hour and ten minutes
for the entire aerial calvacade to get
in the air at the start of each day’s
flight.
Start Second Lap
Cleveland, Aug. 22. (ZP)—-Two fleets
of racing airplanes, one from the At¬
lantic, the other from the Pacific, near¬
ly a hundred in all, today entered the
second lap of the Cord Cup trans¬
continental air derby.
Their spectacular 2,369-mile con¬
test will end at the Cleveland airport
Saturday as one of the main events
of the national air races.
Forty-eight men and eight women
fliers in the Pacific group started their
first lap yesterday at Los Angeles
and all landed safely within a few
hours at Yuma, Ariz., where they
spent the night.
The Atlantic group took off from
Washington, D. C., and ended their
first lap at Winsotn-Salem, N. C., but
with one of their 28 entries, Cecil
Coffrin, of Brooklyn, N. Y., forced out
en route by engine trouble. He was
reported down at Fredericksburg,
Va.
Figuring ratings on a point-and
handicap basis, the judges announced
Art Carahan, of Blominogton, 111., as
winner of the Los Angeles-Yuma lap.
Flying a Monocoach with a speed of
110.4 miles an hour, he landed in one
hour and 55 minutes for a perfect
score of 270 points.
The Atlantic group was led by Fred
Dorset, of Augusta, Ga., who finish¬
ed the first lap in two hours and 36
minutes, fqr a 270-point score. He
was flying a dark biplane, one of the
slowest in his group, but was the first
to land.
Melville Robinson, of Mt. Clemens,
Mic'h., was second with 162 points.
Seven others followed in rapid order,
separated only by seconds. They
were S. C. Huffman, Cincinnati;
Helen McCloskey, Pttsburgh; Harold
Newman, Moline, 111.; C. L. Clabaugh,
Glenview. 111.; Chapney Lennox, New
Haven, Conn.; Arthur J. Davis, of
Lansing, Mich.; and It. A. Moore,
of Dayton, O.
On today's lap, the eastern group
will make a noon stop at Spartanburg,
S. C., and will spend the night at At¬
lanta. The western group will make
a noon stop at Tucson, Ariz., and will
have their over-night stop at El Paso,
Texas.
FIVE YOUTHS END
ATLANTIC TRIP
IN SMALL CRAFT
Gibraltar, Aug. 22. I/P )—Five young
landlubbers, all under-graduates of
Princeton University, have conquer¬
ed the Atlantic in a two-master in 49
days despite storm and calm.
The adventure began in New York
July 2, and will end, for the time be¬
ing at least, in Marseilles, when the
craft reaches there.
The venturesome team lost five
sails in a heavy blow and spent 14
days in various spots of dead calm.
They are: William Drewrey, New
York; William L. Crow, New York;
Standish Backus, Detroit; Ashley
Hardy, Boston; and Robert Keidle,
Baltimore.
The vessel sailed yesterday for
Malaga, Spain. It will follow the
coast to Marseilles, where the craft
will either be sold or stored until next
summer for the return journey.
Banks, Building and Loan Or¬
ganizations, Railroads and
Other Agencies Share iii $46,
000,000
CLERK OF NATIONAL
HOUSE FILES FIGURES
Several Georgia Financial Insti¬
tutions Receive Loans From
Emergency Fund Set Up By
Congress.
Georgia Loans
The statement of loans authoriz¬
ed during the ten-day period under
section live of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation at a rate of
5/l percenl included:
Georgia:
Lakeland, Farmers & Merchants
Bank, $3,0(H).
Madison, First National Hank,
$25,000.
Milan, Bank of Milan, $5,000.
Mitten, First National Bank,
$3,000.
• Pembroke, Pembroke National
Bank, $10,000.
Quitman, People’s First National
Bank, $20,000.
Reynolds, First National Bank,
$4,500.
Washington, Aug. 22. (ZP)—During
the ten-day period from July 21 to
July 31, the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation loaned $46,711,056 to
banks, building and loan association,
railroads and other securities.
The first report of the corporation,
made public today by South Trimple,
clerk of the house of representatives,
was accompanied by a letter signed
by Chairman Atlee Pomerene showing
that 437 loans totalling $45,057,556
had been made during the ten-day
period and increases in loans authoriz¬
ed prior to July 21 had totaled $1,653,-
500
The letter said of the total amount
loaned, $32,990,180 was authorized to
banks and trust companies, including
$284,900 to aid in the reorganization
of closed banks; $104,309 to agricul¬
tural credit corporations; $3,088,650 to
building and loan associations; $2,-
247,500 to insurance companies; $90,
000 to a joint stock land hank; $580,-
716 to livestock credit corporations;
$747,000 to mortgage loan companies,
and $6,862,700 to railroads
Trimple, in making public the re¬
port, following his decision last Thurs
that he had no other choice under the
law, took exception to a statement by
Representative Treadway, of Massa¬
chusetts, a conferee on the relief hill,
that his decision to make public the
reports was to gain favor with Speak¬
er John N. Garner.
“Such a charge is ridiculous.'”
Trimble said. “The law gives mo
no discretion in the matter. Speak¬
er Garner has never attempted to in¬
fluence me. in the discharge of my
duties.
“Ten minutes before the hour I
had set to announce my decision on
August 18, I received a telephone call
from a high official in the administra¬
tion asking What my decision would
he,” Trimble said.
“I advised him of the conclusion I
had reached after reviewing the legis¬
lative history of the law. He stated
tha my decision was contrary to the
wishes of the president, and was not
authorized by law.
“I told him T would announce my
decision that day hut the report was
not to be opened to inspection until
August 22, being one month after the
passage of the act. He said that was
a fair way to handle the matter as it
wouid give any interested person who
did not agree with my construction
of the law an opportunity to, peti¬
tion the court for a restraining order.”
ELEANOR IN MOVIES
Hollywood, Calif., Aug. 22. (TP)—
Warner Brothers-First National studio
said last night Eleanor Holm, of New
record in the 110-meter backstroke
York, holder of the women’s world
swim, had signed a 7-year picture con¬
tract with it. The studio said it would
not endeavor to “cash in” op Miss
( Holm’s swimming prowess by casting
her in a mermaid role, but. would try
to place her in a conventional part,
believing that her beauty and general
hearing would justify such action.
RITES ARE HELD
Atlanta, Aug. 22. UP )—Funeral ser¬
vices were held here today for Annie
Kate Beard, 15 year old Atlanta girl
(killed in an automobile accident near
.Jackson shortly before midnight Sat
( urday. Butts county officials report-
1 ed a man identified as J. I.. Buffing
i ! ton was being held by them in eonnec
tion with the firl’s death.
ON CHANNEL SWIM
Cap Gris Nez, France, Aug. 22. UP)
-Fritz Fisher, a German, who xtart
led this morning to swim the channel
I to England, was 14 miles out at six
| o’clock this afternoon (12 noon east
j ern standard time). Fisher entered
the water at 10:50 a. m., and at 1:30
j p. rn., he was six miles out.
Indicted On Lottery Charges J
Senator James J. Davis (right), of Pennsylvania, Conrad H . Mann
(left), of Kansas City, national executiveolthe Fraternal Order of Eagles,
and five other persons were named in federal indictments charging them
with participating in lotteries promoted by fraternal organizations to raise
charity funds.
Japanese Launch
Great Offensive
On Chinese Front
Shanghai, Aug. 22. (ZP)—Sensation¬
al Chinese dispatches from Peiping
and other north China points today
said the Japanese forces in Manchu¬
ria had launched a strong military
thrust into Jehol, the province that
borders on China proper.
The dispatches said fighting was
going on along a “broad portion” of
the' Jehol eastern border, witli the
Chinese falling hack before Japanese
artillery, airplanes, and machine
guns.
Japanese bombing planes were re¬
ported as spreading terror among the
helpless border populace, which was
streaming into the open country seek¬
ing safety.
Foreign dispatches from north Chi¬
na were more conservative and told
of sporadic fighting along the Jehol
eastern border. The reports did not
clearly state whether the Japanese
were launching a campaign to occu¬
py Jehol or whether they were mere¬
ly trying to free Gonshiro Ishimoto, a
kidnapped former Japanese army of¬
ficer.
(Tokyo dispatches today quoted
Japanese correspondents at Chin
chow, Manchuria, as saying a Japa¬
nese correspondent near Peipiao, Je¬
hol, had dashed with several hundred
Chinese regulars and driven them oft'.
The Jeholites were accused of trying
to destroy a railway bridge near Cia
oyang temple station.)
YOUTH LOSES LIFE
IN WATERS OF GULF
Panama City, Fla., Aug. 22. UP )—
Neil Bullock, 24, son of F. Bullock, a
retired Panama City banker, fell
overboard from a launch in the Gulf
nf Mexico shortly before midnight
and his body had not been recovered
today. graduated
Young Bullock, who was
from the University of Alabama last
week, and a party of friends were re¬
turning from a cruise in the gulf.
Members of the party said the launch
was proceeding slowly under sail, the
engine having been shut off.
Bullock, they said, was lying on
deck talking with others of the par¬
ty when suddenly In; moved as if to
turn over, appeared to lose his bal¬
ance and went overboard.
FLYING FAMILY
READY TO LEAVE
ON OCEAN TRIP
New York, Aug. 22. (ZP)—An¬
nouncement was made today that
the Flying Hutchinson*—father,
mother and two little girls—would
take off from Floyd Bennett Field
tomorrow morning on the first
leg of their proposed flight, to
Europe by the northern route.
The takeoff was set for 9:30 a.
m., eastern standard time, with
St. John, N. ., as the first sched¬
uled stop. Besides the BuUhin
sons the crew consists of a me¬
chanic, a navigator, a radio man
and a motion picture operator.
There is a possibility that Thor
Solborg and Carl Peterson may
get away from Floyd Bennett, for
Oslo, Norway, and that William
Ulbrich and Edna Newcomer may
start from the same field for
Florence, Italy.
MAIL ROOM ROBBED
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 22. (ZP)—Two
bandits walked into the circulation de¬
partment, of the Atlanta Journal yes¬
terday, held up employes and escap¬
ed through a mail chute with approx¬
imately $1,500 in cash. Police said
(the automobile pair joined outside two companions the building in and an
j four together. The
that the fled
i bery occurred as the cashier of the
(with newspaper was checking the receipts
newsboys and route operators.
Mollison Waits
On Good Weather
For Ocean Trip
New York, Aug. 22. (ZP)—Sandy
haired James A. Mollison, the only
human ever to fly from Europe to
New York, cocked an anxious eye at
the sky over Manhattan’s towers to¬
day and hoped the weather man would
let him start his hop home to Eng¬
land in two or three days.
“I’ve just been married, you know,”
he explained with a grin.
When he finished his precedent
shattering jaunt from Europe at 3:33
1 ). m. (eastern standard time) yester¬
day, Mollison, who is the husband of
Amy Johnson, England’s most famous
woman flier said:
“Amy and 1 have made a pact to
make no more extremely long or haz¬
ardous trips, once this flight is con¬
cluded.”
Mollison was in the air 36 hours
and one minute between port Mar
nock, Ireland, and New York, which
showed in his face when he brought
his tiny plane “Heart’s content” down
before 2,000 cheering fans yesterday
at Roosevelt field.
He had made the leg from St. John,
N. B., in five hours, 12 minutes.
In two or three days, given good
weather, he will take off, he said for
Harbor Grace, where lie will refuel
and head for Crowdon, England.
“You can’t miss it on the eastern
trip,” he said nonchalantly. “The
weather and winds are more favor¬
able all the way.”
ICE PICKS. BULLETS
RESULT IN 5 DEATHS
WEEK-END WAVE OF MURDER
IN NEW JERSEY BUI' SHOOT¬
ING OF GIRL PUZZLES POLICE
Newark, N. J., Aug. 22. (ZP) A
week-end wave of murder by ice picks
and bullets left five men dead in New
Jersey today but police found the un¬
accountable shooting of a 25-year-old
girl, daughter of u prominent family,
to be the most mysterious case of all.
Miss Evelyn Higgins, whose father
is Maj. William Higgins of the staff
of Gov. A. Harry Moore, was serious¬
ly wounded early yesterday as she
crossed a vacant lot in Jersey City
after an auto ride. No weapon was
found, Miss Higgins was in too ser¬
ious a condition to be questioned and
there was no indication as to wheth¬
er it was an attempted murder or a
strange accident.
Andrew Fadrizio, 26, and Vincent
Boccio, whom the police call Brooklyn
racketeers, were victims of an unus¬
ual execution instrument the ice
pick. Their slayers stabbed them
countless times, wrapped them in bur¬
lap bags and left them in a backyard
at Harrison.
Police who suspect the existence of
a far-felling murder syndicate point¬
ed out that it was in similar fashion
that John Bazzano, of Pittsburgh, met
his death in New York recently. His
end came not long after the three
Volpe brothers, gangsters, had been
I mowed down in Bazzano’s Pittsburgh
: cafe.
Police suspected that the two found
| dead yesterday may have been ab¬
ducted on their way to a party which
(detectives last week said in was New to York have iri been celebra- giv
| ! en tion of the passing of the Pittsburgh
I man.
|of Another killing yesterday was that
William Maloney, owner of an al¬
leged speakeasy in Union City, who
was found shot near North Bergen.
Police think he was taken for a ride
because he failed to settle his beer
bills.
'Icatus, John
a ■’(’•ud's, e l? e 3, ht-jacking of Irenton raid was on shot a in arm an
‘‘ “.
m ' ar Ringoes.
An unidentified shot . the
I man, in
head, was found at Monmouth Beach.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
APPEAL 10 HALT
WALKER TRIAL IS
Arguments Upon Which Mayor
Hopes to Have Charges
Quashed are Presented Before
Justice Staley
SEEK TO SILENCE
ROOSEVELT IN CASE
Executive Scored Before Jurist
Who Declares They are En¬
deavoring <0 Prevenf “Phys¬
ical Conflict."
Supreme Court, Albany, N. Y., Aug.
22 (ZP) Arguments upon which Mayor
James .1. Walker relies to, obtain
court intervention and half his ouster
hearing before Governor Roosevelt
were laid before Supreme Court Just¬
ice Ellis J. Staley today.
Staley adjourned his session until
Wednesday when John J. Curtin,
Walker’s counsel, will submit briefs
of his arguments.
In closing his contention that Roose¬
velt bad denied the New York mayor
his rig'hts, Curtin said: “When you
come to think that the governor feels
he is above the law and there is no
appeal, you will see that we can only
gn to the courts for an order to avoid
physical conflict that might oljhelr
wise ensue ”
Mayor Walker was not at the court
session.
Upon the youthful shoulders of
Henry Epstein, deputy attorney gen¬
eral, fell the task of combatting the
Walker move for a court decision that
would silence the governor Epstein
is a son-in-law id’ Max Stour, one of
Tammany Hall’s chief legal advisers
“I understand,” Justice Staley said
as Epstein began his argument, “that
your special appearance here is an
expression of the unwillingness of the
governor to submit to the jurisdiction
of (lie court.”
“I won.t say that,” the deputy at¬
torney-general replied, “but we will
not submit to judicial determination
an executive proceeding now in pro¬
gress, under a writ of prohibition.”
“Suppose I should come to the con¬
clusion,” Staley observed, “that the
governor is not acting* within his
jurisdiction hut that a writ of pro¬
hibition would not apply. Wliat would
have you to say abou unsworn, ex¬
plode testimony taken before the gov¬
ernor as a basis for removal ”
“The question is whether the gover¬
nor is conducting this hearing in a
legal and reasonable manner,” re¬
sponded Epstein. “The hearing is
bused on sworn testimony received in
public.”
“Without the production of the wit¬
nesses,” Justice Staley added,
Epstein said he touched upon that
angle “because your honor asks me
to not because it is germane to the
question of the writ.”
The court hearing adjourned after
Justice Stalev instructed Curtin to
submit a brief, summing up his argu
rrienls, on next Wednesday. Epstein
moved to strike out the section of
Curtin’s writ calling for a discon¬
tinuance of the Roosevelt hearing
until a court decision can be had.
Curtin has said he had no intention
of invoking that section of the order
granted by the Kingston supreme
court justice last week.
Staley advised Epstein to refer his
icoucst to the Kingston court.
Curtin intends to ask Mr. Roosevelt
to postpone the hearing today and tit
morrow until after he submits his
briefs to the supreme court.
Voters Are Urged
To Write Smith’s
Name On Ballots
New York, Aug. 22. (ZP)—The
Times said today that cards urging
voters to write in the name of Alfred
E. Smith on the presidential ballot in
November have been circulated in
three or four middle-western states.
Cards received here, the paper said,
were traced to the Smith Club of Ne¬
braska, an organization formed be¬
fore the Democratic national conven¬
tion.
Reports from Nebraska said that
no Smith Club had been active recent¬
ly, though before the convention there
was a “Smith or Hoover club,” the
members of which pledged themselves
to vote for Hoover in the event that
Smith was not nominated by the
Democrats.
In Minnesota a move to place presi¬
dential electors for Smith on the bal¬
lot recently was announced by John B.
Groner, Minneapolis Democrat. Gfon
er said it was launched by a group
which felt that it would not support
Roosevelt.
It was pointed out here by Demo¬
cratic leaders that the writnig in of
Smith’s name on the ballot would
merely render the vote ineffective
since the vote is not directly for the
president, but for an electoral college,