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VOLUME 2—NUMBER 136
ROOSEVELT AND
NATION’S LEADERS
AT BYRNS RITES
PRESIDENT IS GRIEVED AS
HE SEES FRIEND LAID
TO REST
NASHVILLT, Tenn., June 5 (TP)—
The people of Nashville lined the
streets in silence toc'ay as ths body
of Speaker Joe Byrns was brought
home.
Thousands stood outside the war
memorial buikling during the fu
neral services. President Roosevelt
•nd other distinguished mourners
gathered to pay their last tribute to
“Uncle Joe."
In the line of march to the black
draped Memorial buildin?, President
Roosevelt rode without looking to left
or right. There was a scattering of
applause for the chief executive. He
Ignored it. He was visibly grieved.
The procession was led by a mili
tary bank, followed by soldiers. Next
came the president, whose car was
followed by the pallbearers headed
by Nashville's mayor, H. E. Howse.
Behind the pallbearers, was the
hearse, followed by the family of Mr.
Byrns. Next came ths official funeral
party of the house and senate, con
sisting of 60 congressmen and 14
senators.
The services were conducted by the
Rev. James Montgomery, chaplain of
the house of representatives where
Speaker Byrns rose to a high posi
tion of responsibility and respect.
ILLEGAL ARMY
RETAINS ARMS
AUSTRIAN HOME* GUARD
TO REMAIN BEARERS
OF RIFLES
VIENNA, June 6 (TP)—The Illegal
home guard army of Prince Von Star
hemburg braved the wrath of the
government today by announcing its
intention to remain under arms.
The army was dissolved by decree
of Chancellor Scuschnlgg when he
ousted Starhemberg as Vice-Chan
cellor and stripped him of other pow
ers. The official journal of the home
guard forces printed a manifesto, say
ing:
"The home guards are, and will
remain bearers of arms. Not a single
rifle, not a single cartridge will pass
out of their possession until the
Austria of their ideal becomes a real
ity.”
The Journal continues with a de
fens of the home guard leader Star
hemberg. The paper said the Prince
had been unjustly treated and malig
ned In view of his heroic sacrifices
for the Fatherland.
HOEY LEADS IN
NORTH CAROLINA
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
GIVES ATTORNEY TWO
TO ONE LEAD
RALEIGH, N. C., June 6 (TP)—
First scattered returns tonight from
North Carolina’s Democratic primary
gave the prominent attorney and for
mer legislator, Clyde Hoey of Shelby,
a two-to-one lead in the governorship
race over his nearest opponent.
The vote from 61 out of the state’s
1.840 precincts gave Hoey 4,152 votes.
His nearest competitor, the school
teacher, Ralph McDonald, had 2,095
votes-
A. H. Graham, an attorney from
Hillsboro, is running third with 1,582
votes and John Mcßae, of Charlotte,
has polled only 73.
B P
LABOR BLAMED
FOR BOMBING
POLICE BLAME TROUBLE
TO EMPLOYE STRIKE
OF COMPANY
PORTSMOUTH, June 6 (TP)—Po
lice blamed labor violence for the
bombing of three homes in Ports
mouth this afternoon.
The trouble started when 5,000 em
ployes of the Wheeling Steel Corpora
tion went on strike several days ago.
They demand recognlnation of their
union and better working conditions.
Two bombs exploded at the homes
of workers who failed to support the
•trike. Another damaged a house next
door to the home of the plant’s su
perintendent.
WASHINGTON FLASHES |
SENATE RECESSES
WASHINGTON, June 6 (TP)—A
boat of minor matters engaged the
attention of a tired Senate this after
noon—all of them unopposed bills.
The Senators hurried through them
in quick order so that members could
get out to Cleveland for the Republi
can National Convention.
Both Houses are now out of ses
•ion for the whole of next week. In
a last minute rush last night the
Senators passed the new $829,000,000
Compromise Tax Bill.
Among the bills passed and eent to
the House today was a bll Ito curtail
large benefit payments under the
new Soli Conservation Act. It fol
lowed recommendations made by
President Roosevelt and Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace. Payment* be
tween |2,000 and SIO,OOO would be
2>Qunnniilw?Jilnilii(!>imcs
Lee Goes Back to Mother
fcb'UwS
I ■ ■ I
Little Lee Schram, aged 5, is shown with her mother, Mrs. Gertrude;
i7 j ran ?’ * n Chicago court, after she had been awarded temporary cus-;
( tody of the child. Mrs. Schram told the court that she had seen the
little girl for only ten minutes in many weeks.
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LEWIS IN NEW ATTACK ON GREEN
MINE CHIEFTAIN ADVISES LABOR HEAD TO RETURN
TO “UNION THAT SUCKLED HIM”
WASHINGTON, June . 6 (TP) .
Sharp criticism of President William
Green of the American Federation of
Labor was contained in a letter sent
him today by militant John Lewis,
the mine cheftain.
Lewis was replying to Green's
statement yesterday that the A. F.
of L. washed its hands of efforts to
organize the steel industry since
Lewis’ committee for industrial or
ganization has taken it over. Green
said tht A. F. of L. support was not
behind the proposed organization
and called it "frankly experimental.”
Lewis’ committee for industrial or
ganization would organize all work
ers in mass production industries
into one huge union. The A. F. of
L. te in favor of small, individual
craft unions.
Said Lewis—"lt is inconceivable
WORTHLESS NOTES
ONLY BANK LOOT
BANDITS MAKE GET-AWAY'
’ WITH MUTILATED
MONEY
LITTLE ITRRY, N. J., June 6
(TP)—Police in four states were
warned today to be on the watch for
anyone trying to pass mutilated bank
notes. The warning went out after
an all-night search by more than 200
police and deputies failed to bring
about the capture of five bandits
who held up the Little Ferry National
Bank and escaped with nearly $20,000.
The bandits used hand grenades to
threaten bank employes and cus
tomers when they rushed into the
bank.
The warning on mutilated bills was
broadcast when it was learned that
a large part of the loot was currency
kept for return to the mint. The
serial numbers of about $7,500 in
new $5 bills was on record and fur
nished to police throuhgout New Jer
sey, New York, Pennsylvania and
Delaware.
PLEBISCITE SOUGH.
BY PREMIER MUSSOLINI
AMSTERDAM, June 6 (TP)—A
Holland newspaper said tonight that
Premier Mussolini is ready to ask the
Italian people to give him a vote of
confidence on his course in foreign
affairs.
The journal s - correspondent at
Rome said he learned on the highest
authority that Mussolini would ask
for a plebiscite. The paper said that,
in case the League of Nations decides
to continue its economic pelanties,
Mussolini will let the people decide
whether Italy should fight to defend
the annexation of Ethiopia in the
face of the opposition of the league.
IRISH SENATOR DIES
KINGSTOWN, Irish Free State,
June 6 (TP) —The Irish Senator, E.
J. Duggan, collapsed and died at a
meeting in Kingstown today. Duggan
was one of the signers of the Anglo-
Irish Treaty.
cut down 25 per cent and those above
SIO,OOO would be halved.
Meantime conferees of House and
Senate reached agreement on the
anti-price discriminating legislation
over which there have been frequent
wrangles. The conferees agreed to
the Senate bill which is a compromise
of the Robinson Bill and the Borah-
Van Nuys amendment.
HASTINGS QUITS POST
WASHINGTON, June fl (TP).—
The Delaware Senator, Daniel Hast
ings, resigned today as chairman of
the Republican Senatorial campaign
committee.
In his resignation. Senator Hast
ings said he thought the coinmlttee
chairman ought to be a man whose
senatorial term doesn’t expire this
year.
, that you intend doing what your
statement implies—that is, to sit
with the women.., under an awr.trg
on the hilltop while the steel work
ers in the valley struggle in the dust
and the agony of industrial warfare
" You- are the custodian of your
own honor,” Lews continued “never
tiie.ess, your own union has declared
Itself for a definite policy, it calls
upon its loyal sons for support of
that policy.”
Said Lewis in conclusion—"lt is
known to you that shipmates on the
executive council (of the A. F. of L.)
are even now planning to slit your
politcal throat. Why not forego such
company and return home to the
union that suckled you, rather than
court obloquy by dwelling among its
adversaries and lending them your
strength?”
REVAMPED BANK
SENSATIONAL AIM
0F SOCIALISTS
AGE-OLD INSTITUTION OB
JECT OF CHANGE BY
BLUM
PARIS, June 6 (TP) —The new So
cialist government threw a sensation
into French financial circles today
with a proposal to change the organ
ization of the Great Bank of France.
The bank has long exerted tremendous
power over French finances. It is the
controlling financial institution of the
whole nation.
As the first step, Premier Blum ap
pointed an iron-willed financial ex
port, Emil Labeyri?, as the new gov
ernor of the bank. Labeyrie has
served as the counselor of the court
of accounts in the bank. The 53-year
old banker, is an acknowledged grand
master of administrative banking but
has yet to come to grips with interna
tional finance. He. is credited wtih
the introduction of income taxes into
France. His appointment led to the
belief in Paris that the Blum gov
ernment would seek to abolish the al
most hereditary control over the bank
by its board of regents. Such a move
would constitute, a profound change
in French financial control.
Gold continued to pour out of
France today. More than $6 000,000
were marked for shipment to New
York. This engagement brings the to
tal gold exports from France up to
some $240,000,000 since the left wing
front seized power at the general elec
tions.
THREE REPORTED DEAD
IN CANADIAN FLOODS
VANCOUVER, B. C., June 6 (TP)—
Canadian floods are reported to have
taken three lives tonight before the
waters of swollen rivers began reced
ing.
Two unidentified men were seen
clinging desperately to the wreckage
of a house as it floated down the wild
Skeena River. Witnesses lost sight of
the men and fear they were lost in
the freshet. The other victim was
named Frank Moore, a paroled pat
ient from the Essondale Mental Hos
pital. Moore was pac’dling around in
a rowboat on the swollen Fraser River
when he disappeared.
TWENTY INJURED IN
MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION
TAMPA, lowa, June 6 (TP) —The
number of injured, in tlz mysterious
explosion that wrecked four buildings
in Tama today is placed at 20 to
night. Early reports said that ten
people had been injured. The blast oc
curred in a dry cleaning plant. Four
buildings were completely demolished
by the explosion, and several others
were badly damaged. Fire which fol
iowad the blast threatened for a
time to destroy the en/e business dis
trict of Tampa.
SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 1936
VICE PRESIDENCY
HAS NO APPEAL
FOR VANDENBERG
MICHIGAN SOLON WILL
NOT ACCEPT SECOND
PLACE HE SAYS
WASHINGTON, June 6 (TP)—
Michigan’s Senator Vancenburg an
nounced with tones of finality today
that he definitely would not accept
the Republican nomination for the
vice presidency.
The man who has been mentioned
as a prominent dark hone candidate
for the presidential nomination made
his statement in response to reports
from the convention center at Cleve
land that he might be drafted for
the vice president’s post. The Michi
gan senator has been extensively
mentioned for the presidential nomi
nation in case Kansas' Governor Lan
don should fail to be nominated.
Said Vand-nburg: ”1 have been
complimented by generous suggestions
that I may be available for the Re
publican vice presidential nomination,
such improbabilty, I thnk I owe it
Without presuming to anticipate any
to my friends to state in advance with
finality that I would find it impos
sible to accept such an assignment.
I am sure I can be of greater serv
ice in active labors on the senate
floor than on its silent rostrum.”
The rostrum remark referred to the
duty of the vice president to preside
ever the senate.
SACASA RESIGNS
THE PRESIDENCY
OF NICARAGUA
REBELS’ DEMANDS ARE
MET BY FORMER
PRESIDENT
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, June 6
(TP) —President Sacasa of Nicaragua
yielded to the demands of rebels to
day and resigned the Presidency.
Immediately after his resignation
Sacasa took a train for the seaport of
Corinto. It is understood that an
American gunboat is waiting to carry
the fugitive ex-president to the United
States. Sacasa is a graduate of an
American medical school.
It will be Sacasa’s second flight
from his native land. He was vice
president when civil disturbances
forced his flight in 1925. He returned
in a short time as the central figure
of a revolution which eventually put
General Jose Moncada ipto the pres
idency.
Moncacas term was dis
turbed continually by the revolt of
general Augusto Sandino. Sacasa was
selected to succeed Moncada at an
election supervised by U. S. Marines
in 1932. His term was to be from
1933 to 1937. Sacasa had been be
seiged in the Presidential palace since
the present revolt started early this
week. x
BRIDGE DEDICATED
NORTH BEND, Ore., June 6 (TP)
Governor Charles Martin came down
from Salem today for the impressive
dedication of the great Coos Bay
bridge. The span is the sixth largest
of its kind in the world-
The Coos Bay bridge is the third
of five federal project spans to be
opened on the Oregon coast high
way. .
DR. TOWNSEND DOESN’T THINK MUCH
OF ROOSEVELT, LANDON OR KNOX
CHICAGO, June 6 (TP)—The lead
er of the Townsend Old Age Pension
Plan, Dr. Francis B. Townsend,
doesn’t think much of President
Roosevelt, Governor Landon or Col
onel Frank Knox. He said so in Chi
cago today.
Said the California physician: “Lan
don, Roosevelt and itnox all repre
sent the same thing. I wouldn’t toss
a single copper among them.”
The doctor said there are some can-
HIGH SPOTS IN PAST CONVENTIONS
—BALTIMORE, IN 1852
This te the first of a series of
articles on important political
conventions of the past
By DAVID VORMELKER
Central Press Staff Writer
NOWHERE ELSE is theje a politi
cal activity of the magnitude occa
sioned by the election of a president
in the United States.
Equalling, if not surpassing, the
actual election in excitement, are the
national party conventions that pre
cede the exerise of the body politic’s
voting power.
Some have been historic.
For example, let us go back to June,
1852.
A New Era
A new scientific era was beginning,
Darwin's theory of evolution had
been published a year previously and
the United States was growing into
what was destined to be a world
power.
Is it any wonder that aside from
the natural excitement occasioned by
a party struggle that people were in
terested in the party selections which
would narrow down the choice of a
future leader of the country to two
men?
It was hot in Baltimore on June 5,
Continued on Page Twelve
FRENCH STRIKES
AT FEVER HEAT
IN NEAR CRISIS
PREMIER BLUM WORKS FE
VERISHLY TO STOP
SENTIMENT
PARIS, June 6 (TP)—The French
strike menace grew tonight in the
very face of the New Deal promised
by Premier Blum.
Almost a million men are involved
in nation wide “sit-down” strikes.
Two rioting mobs in Paris broke the
record for perfect order in the strikes.
The mob attacked the offices of two
afternoon newspapers. Laborers burned
editions and tried to wreck the plants
which are owned bj’ a Frenchman
of wealth. Many trades which have
been untouched by the unrest went
on strike today. These include print
ers, upholsterers, bill posters, spin
ners, and white collar workers. In
Versailles, undertakers and gravedig
gers went on strike. Police were com
pelled to perform several burials.
Strikers in northern France are es
timated at 200.000- In the coal mine
district of Doui about 20,000 miners
threw down their picks. The miners
in the Great Nord Pas de Calais coal
district have voted to walk out of
the pits on Monday.
In Lille, bargemen went on strike
to get higher pay. The empress train
rolled down to Marseilles tonight with
out sleeping cars or diners. The por
ters, waiters and cooks left their
posts.
Government officials are working
feverishly to halt the strilVs in fear
that they may lead t 6 open revolt.
VETERANS GIVEN
ADVICE ON BONUS
MORGENTHAU QUOTES
FEW DO’S AND DONT’S
IN ADDRESS
WASHINGTON, June 6 (TP)
Here is a word to war veterans to
night from Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau.
The Secretary issued regulations
governing the issuance of the adjust
ed service bonds—more commonly
called “baby bonds”—and explained
exactly hoW to cash them. There are
just two methods, Morgenthau said.
They sire:
First, by presenting the bonds to
any United States post office, and—
Second, by sending the bone’s to
the Treasurer at Washington. D. C.
In either case the veteran must
make positive Identification and fill
out the request for payment in the
presence of proper witnesses.
The bonds are in SSO denomina
tions. They will bear 3 per cent in
terest and mature June 15, 1945. Mor
gentliau called attention to the fact
that the treasury bill will pay $63.50
for each bond if they are kept until
maturity.
Meanwhile, postal' officials were
preparing for the gigantic mailing
task which begins June 15th. The
Treasury Department is working over
time this week end and huge trucks
loaded with envelopes full of bonds
and checks are plying between the
treasury and the postoffice.
dictates who might be entitled to sup
port. but declined to name them. He
confirmed Dr. Gerald L. K. Smith’s
statement that Townsendites and
members of the late Huey Long's
“Share the Wealth” party have com
bined in their fight for what he terms
“social security.”
Said he: “Altogether there are
more than fifteen millions of us.
We’ll make ourselves felt in the elec
tions.”
WK
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FRANKLIN PIERCE
'T3ut He Was Rude to Mama!”
———————— ————————— ————
Blonde Donna Overfield (left) celebrated her first wedding anniversary
by getting a divorce in a Chicago court from Edward Overfield. Her
; reason was because Edward was rude to her mother, Mrs. Bebe Rydzinski
i (right) who doesn’t look a day older than Donna. Donna and Edward
l_ were childhood sweethearts. (Central Press)
CLAIM REDS BEHIND STRIKE
REMINGTON-RAND REPRINTS ARTICLE IN COMMUNIST
PAPER TO PROVE CHARGES AGAINST WORKERS.
NEW YORK, June 6 (TP)—Rem
ington-Rand reprinted an article from
the Communist newspaper, The Daily
Wbrker, today—to support its charges
that the tri-state strike is a product
of Communist agitation.
President James H. Rand ordered
the item reprinud in paid advertise
ments in two newspapers at Tono
wanca, N. Y., one paper at Middle
town, Conn., and three at Syracuse.
DETECTIVES GRILL
ALLEGED MEMBERS
OF BLACK LEGION
“TERRORIST” GROUP BE
GINS TO WILT UNDER
‘HOT’ QUESTIONING ,
DETROIT, June 6 (TP)—Detectives
are grilling members of the Black
Legion tonight in an endeavor to
clear up all mysterious crimes of viol
ence committed in Michigan.
Two of the legionnaires were identi
fied today as members of the band
that tortured Robert Penland, a steel
worker, because he wavered in his
support of the hooded gang. One of
the men held is a former councilman
of Ecorse, Michigan. Another admit
ted he helped bomb the home of the
mayor of Ecorse last August.
Legionnaires charged with the mur
der of Charles Poole, which lead to
.the widespread investigation of .the
gang, will go. back into court Monday
for further examination.
Meanwhile authorities in Pontiac,
Mich., are preparing a full grand jury
probe into legion activities in their
city.
“LION OF JUDAH”
AT RECEPTION
ETHIOPIAN CHIEF CAUSES
EMBARRASSMENT IN
DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES
LONDON, June 6 (TP)—The Eth
iopian legation was decked out in its
finest trimmings today while British
statesmen and foreign diplomats came
in for Emperor Haile Selassie’s re
ception. The Italian Ambassador to
London, Dino Grandi, managed to
be miles away. Britain’s war-time
Prime Minister, Lloyd George, was
one of the guests who paid his res
pects to the self-exiled monarch.
Selassie's reception caused consid
erable embarrassment in diplomatic
circles because of the uncertainty as
to his present position.
BANK FORECLOSES
ON NRA’S FOES
SCHECHTER BROTHERS GO
BANKRUPT IN FINAL
ACTION
BROOKLYN, N. Y., June 6 (TP)—
The bank has foreclosed on the home
of the Schechter brothers whose
court suit killed the NRA. The broth
ers are taking the foreclosure in
stride. They’re just paying rent on
the house, instead of interest on the
mortgage.
“Not so bad,” said Aaron Schechter,
“We’re not on relief.” Aaron admit
ted their fortunes have hit the tobog
gan since they helped the Supreme
Court kill the NRA a year ego. The
Schechter chicken farm —center of
the argument—has fallen on un-t
happy days. Aaron said they are
managing to squeeze by, even though
they’ve nothing but unpaid bills and
an old letter from the American Lib
erty League.
The article offers left wing support
to the strikers at the Remington-Rand
plants, and announces that Commu
nist literature is being distributed at
Tonowanda. Rand sent a telegram to
the ministerial association of Tono
wanda today, complaining that the
entire strike is being operated by out
side leaders. Rand said his company
operated at a million dollar loss
through depressions years and yet
paid $4,000,000 in salaries, rather
than discharge employes.
Rem-Rand employes at Marietta, 0.,
have gone back to work. Rand an
nounced that the Tonowanda plants
will reopen Monday. Machinery from
the Syracuse shops has been shipped
to Canadian plants—to fill delayed
orders. The company said no plans
have been mads for the immediate re
opening of the rest of the five strike
ridden factories.
SITUATION ACUTE
IN DROUGHT AREA
DEPARTMENT OF COM
MERCE CONDUCTS SOUTH
WIDE SURVEY
WASHINGTON, June 6 (TP)The
Department of Commerce declared to
night that acute drought conditions
in wide areas are assuming what was
described as “menacing proportions.”
Despite this, and the unusually cool
weather in many parts of the coun
try, the Department’s weekly survey
of 35 largs cities showed that build
ing operations and new employment
continued the gains of recent years.
A drop in retail trade was attribut
ed to the weather and the holiday in
fluence. For the most part, however,
the report -said trading remained well
ahead of last year. A gain of 76 per
cent in value of building permits is
sued last month over May of 1935
was estimated on the basis of reports
from 100 cities.
Although agricultural conditions
were becoming desperate in the south
east, Denver reported the western dust
bowl is enjoying the most moisture
in eight years.
PICKETS LEAVE
AS COPS ARRIVE
“WE WANT WORK” SLO
GANS FAIL TO PRE
VENT ARRESTS
BROOKLYN, N. Y., June 6 (TP)
—Police rushed around to the Emer
gency Relief Bureau today and hust
led two dozen men and five women
into the patrol wagons. The E. R. B.
had complained that the group was
picketing the bureau and disturbing
the peace. The picketers carried
placards that read: “We want work”.
They refused to go away, even when
policemen on the beat told them to.
All 30 of them were charged with dis
orderly conduct.
KEKCHOO!
ANN HARBOR, Mich., June 6
(TP) —A University of Michigan
scientist, Dr. Buenaventura Jim
inez, says only smart people have
hay fever.
The doctor didn't contend that
it was smart to get hay fever if
it could be avoided, but he said
that he has just finished ex
haustive intelligence tests on hay
fever victims which show that hay
fever sufferers are a lot smarter
than ordinary folks.
Dr. Jiminez was asked why hay
fever sufferers and great intellig
ence were related. Said he: “You
tell me. Your guess is as good ?*• '
mine.”
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CLEVELAND, June 6 (TP).—The
cohorts of Gov. Alfred Landon came
back at Senator Borah and Col.
Frank Knox tonight with a stinging
rebuke.
Campaign managers of the Idaho
senator and the Chcago publisher
were told that their behavior, in these
last few days before the convention,
is hurting Knox and Borah more
than it hurts Gov. Landon. The
Knox and Borah managers have been
sharply attacking the silent Kansan
on charges that he is little more than
a New Dealer in disguise, and that
he’s afraid to tell where he stands on
big issues of the day.
Hamilton Aroused
Tonight, for the first time, there
charges got a rise out of red-haired
John Hamilton, manager of the Lan
don campaign. Hamilton said:
“We have ignored the sniping tac
tics and oftentimes foolish statements
from rival camps whch seemed more
concerned with fighting Republicans
than defeating Mr. Roosevelt. The
men and women who have arrived in
Cleveland appreciate this common
sense policy. It has made us votes,
and the more such tactics are con
tinued, the more it will increase the
number of Landon delegates.” •
He said Landon’s nomination is
certain. Then Manager Hamilton
coolly predicted that his man is like
wise “certain to sweep Roosevelt and
the New Deal out of Washington.”
Ant-Landon Republican leaders are
searching desperately today for bar
riers to hurl into the path of the
Landon bandwagon.
Forces behind, the G. O. P. presi
dential nomination campaign of Gov
ernor Alf Landon of Kansas are fill
ing the Cleveland air with predictions
of a first ballot victory for their
candidate. The anti-Landon forces,
battling with their backs to the wall,
have combined in what appears a
last frantic effort to block the first
ballot victory in the hopes that an
initial defeat would sidetrack the
Landon boom.
Called “Pussyfooter”
Thousands of pamphlets, calling on
convention delegates to vote against
a “pussyfooter"—meaning Landon—
litter the streets of Cleveland. Cam- ~
paign managers for Senator William
E. Borah and Col. Frank Knox are
joining forces in their convention eve
attack on the Kansas governor..'•en
tering their onslaught in the charges
that Landon is really a Republican
New-Dealer and not qualified to car
ry the G. O. P. banner in November.
The knti’s base these charges chief
ly on the statement that Landon fa
vored President Roosevelt’s work re
lief program up to the time he found
himself" considered ’of presdential
timber. Landon’s campaign man
ager, John D. M. Hamilton, had a
ready comeback for the accusation.
"When the New Deal first took of
fice,” Hamilton said, “All Republi
can party leaders supported Roose
velt’s programs in an unselfish drive
for recovery. When partisan politics
entered the recovery picture, it was
necessary, of course, for the Repub
licans to draw away from New Deal
support.”
Hamilton, usually cautions in mak
ing convention vote predictions,
claims more than 400 ‘ballots for Lan
don on the first convention poll. A
total of 502 votes are necessary for
nomination, the count having been
jumped from 501 when the Republi
can national committee voted to seat
the two-man delegation from the
Philippine Islands.
Despite Hamilton’s predictions,
those fighting for Colonel Knox re
fuse to abandon their stand "that
close to 300 Knox ballots will be cait
on the first ballot. Borah campaign
leaders declined to estimate their
first ballot strength but were quick
to deny rumors that several north
western delegation leaders had offer
er first-ballot support to Landon’s
campaign directors. The rumored of
fer, according to reports, was declin
ed by Hamilton in the fear that a
pre-convention bolt might enrage
Borah to the point of staging a dras»
tic convention maneuver which would
hurt the Landon drivtfK Hamilton ii
understood to have told the BoraU
deserters to hold off their move until
the second ballot.
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AID IN PACTS
BRITISH (SECRETARY WILL
ING TO SIGN NON-AGRES
SION AGREEMENTS
LONDON, June 6 (TP)—Great
Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Anthony
Eden, said tonight that his govern
ment is more than willing to sign
European peace pacts against all
wars.
Eden said Great Britain was ready
now to sign non-aggression and mut
ual assistance treaties with the west
ern powers in Europe, including Ger
many. Such a treaty would be more
than welcome, Eden said, if it limited
military forces in the air, as well as
on land.
Eden warned Europe, however, that
it should maintain the League of Na
tions as a bulwark of peace. He ad
vised that league members should be
willing to reform the league covenant
to make it effective. Despite pro
posals for new peace treaties, Eden
believes the league can be the strong
est fortress for European peace.