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VOLUME 2—NUMBER 144
BREAK IS EXPECTED
ON TAX BILL JAM
‘SOMETIME’ TODAY
RETURN OF ROOSEVELT
SPURS OPTIMISM; DEAD
LOCK STILL HOLDS
, WASHINGTON, June 16 (TP).—
The optimistic report that the tax
bill deadlock is due to crack today
was circulated In Washington this
morning.
Just what gave rise to these rosy
predictions was difficult to deter
mine. However, It is generally felt
that President Roosevelt’s return to
Washington had something to do
with the new surge of hope that the
tax bill tangle will be settled before
nightfall.
Still In Deadlock
The bill is now in committee, with
neither the senate or house confer
ees .thus far, having budged an inch.
The house tax bill calls for high cor
porate surplus taxes. The senate
measure ignores this method of .reve
nue. There the tax matter stands.
The conferees will meet today in
another effort to reach an agree
ment and pave the way for adjourn
ment on or before Saturday. This
possibility, however, was regarded as
still doubtful in view of the fact that
several Republican senators have
warned the conferees that they will
stage filibusters if the high corporate
surplus tax idea is inserted In the
senate bill. Unless the house yields
on that question, the bill either faces
a deadlock or runs the risk of start
ing a filibuster that would delay ad
journment for days.
Last Minute Rush
The annual last minute rush has
things flying in the House of Repre
sentatives today.
The house la clearing its calendar
of everything which can be cleat id.
preparatory to a final report on the
deadlocked tax bill. The house wants
to clean its slate so that, when the
tax tangle finally is straightened out,
the congressmen can say “goodbye”
tp Washington, hop the next train
knd head for some place else.
. Another night session is scheduled
for house tonight. In last evening’s
meeting, the lower chamber disposed
of a flood of bills—mostly unimpor
tant sectional bills which were bound
to attract no debate and which went
rattling through with a voice vote.
The 11,425,000,000 relief appropria
tion bill is due to be settled in con
ference today and appears likely to
be accepted immediately by the
house. The chain store bill, the
Wagner housing bill, the New Guf
fey coal bill and the anti-lobby bill
are others which are still hanging
fire, either in conference or in the
senate.
terroTcult has
DAY IN COURT
BLACK LEGION PROBE
SWINGS UNDER WAY
BEFORE JURY
DETROIT, Mich., June 16 (TP).—
The probe of Black Legion activities
wil Ibe resumed today when 11 Black
Legionaires accused of plotting the
death of a Highland Park publisher
will be marched into court.
Several suspects testified that Pub
lisher Arthur King-ley was *'nf&rked
for death** because he opposes the
election of a Black Legionaira. Ray
Markland as mayor of Highland
Park. Markland is one of the defen
dants facing examination.
The Legion triggerman, Dayton
Dean, who confessed to the slaying
og WPA wkorker Charles Poole, was
the chief witness. Dean said he and
other members of the societ ytried
several times to carry out the assas
sination orders.
Bald Dean—“We had 25 to 30
meetings to talk it over. I tried sev
eral times to get Kingsley. Each
time something happened.'
At Pontiac, four members of the
hooded night riders are held in $lO,
000 bond each. They are accused of
burning the farm of William Moilen
hauer several weeks ago.
PAN INTO FIRE!
WIFE OF VETERAN RE
CEIVES FULL BENE
FIT OF BONUS
MALDEN, Mass., June 16 (TP). —
The prodigal son returned but there
was no fatted calf awaiting him.
Instead, he ran into the hands of
the law.
George Roulston of Malden is a
World war vereran. He left home
leather unexpectedly last January
leaving behind a wife and chil-
Iren.
Mrs. Roulston rightly guessed that
Beorge would come back to get his
bonus so she asked the air of the
police. Consequently, when George
arrived home he was handed a war
rant for non-support. And then all
tat down to await the postman’s
ring.
Then all, except te postman Re
journed to the police station and
Rouston signed over his bonus check
to his wife before e was locked up.
A few hours later he became still fur
ther penitent and agreed to sign
over his bonds to his wife. Where
upon Mrs. Roulston returned to the
jail and balled him out.
Savannah Daily Times
Bares Murder Trust
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Judge George B. Haas of Ludlow,
Mass., found, on investigating a
supposed auto accident, that the vic
tim had been poisoned. His findings
are said to have revealed an insur
ance-murder ring which authorities
believe is responsible for fifty deaths
in the last sixteen years.
(Central Press)
BATTLE DEVELOPS
ON CAPITOL HILL
OVER FLOOR HEAD
O’CONNOR OF NEW YORK,
RAYBURN OF TEXAS,
STAGE FIGHT
WASHINGTON, June 16 (TP).—A
battle between Democratic congress
men, O’Connor of Nevf York and
Rayburn of Texas, over the position
of majority floor leader ,is develop
ing on Canitol Hil. .1 today.
The position was left open when
Representative Bankhetad of Ala
bama moved up from floor leader to
speaker on the death of the late Rep
resentative Byrns. The new floor [
leader won’t be elected until next
January, but battle lines alrea<| ■
have been drawn. In the meantime,
O’Connor, as chairman of the all
powerful rules commitee, is acting
as floor leader.
When the election comes around,
however, Raybum as been assured
the support of southern and western
congressional delegations. He is the
quiet, hard-working chairman of the
house interstate commerce commit
tee who has sponsored more New
Deal measures than any oter com
mittee chairman.
In January, 1935, Rayburn was a
candidate for the speakership against
the late Representative Byrns. He
withdrew from the race, however,
when Byrn’s election became appar
ent. ..
O'Connor, on the oter hand, has
the support of the powerful Tam
many delegation, in congress. In
addition, tradition is behind him. In
the past, the chairman of the rules
committee has generally become ma
jority leader.
Harrison Returns
WASHINGTON, June 16 (TP).—
Senator Pat Harrison returned to his
seat in the senate today after a brief
Illness.
The Mississippi senator was strick
en ill during the senate finance com
mittee’s consideration of the tax bill.
Harrison is chairman of the commit
tee. However, he is takin no active
part in the present tax conference
since he was not named as a con
free.
HILL-BILLY BROTHERS
CONFESS TO MURDER
CHICAGO, June 16 (TP)-r-State’s
attorneys sad they are going to ask
murder indictments against two Ar
kansas hill-billies who have confessed
the murder of WPA Worker Frank
Engberg.
The accused men are 18-year-old
Max Johnson and his 2 4-year-old
Brother Russel. They cooly re enacted
the murder after their confession. The
brothers also admitted some 30 per
cent robberies.
The Johnsons were arrested by a
policeman who rang the door bell
of thfeir apartment by mistake. The
officer became suspicious because Rus
sel had a bandage around his head
when he was wounded in a gun-battle
with police.
LABOR BOARD, HIT BY COURT RULING,
DRAFTING PLANS FOR APPELATE FIGHT
NEW ORLEANS, June 16 (TP)
The National Labor Relations Board,
stung by its latest court defeat, al
ready is drafting plans to take its
Wagner Labor Act to the United
States Supreme Court.
The N. R. L. B lost out before a
Federal Circuit Court tt New Orleans
when the court denied the boards
right to regulate relations between
employes and emploers in industry.
The case concerns the Jones and
McLaughlin Steel Corporation, of
Alqulppa, Pennsylvania. The N. R.
L. B. tried to force the Jones and.
McLaughlin outfit to rehlre several
PHONE 6183
REVOCATION OF
TRADE BARRIERS
MAY CAUSE UPSET
END ITALIAN SANCTIONS
TO PROBABLY CAUSE
EDEN RESIGNATION
LONDON, June 16 (TP)—The Brit
ish empire believes that the death
knell of anti-Italian sanctions will be
sounded on Thursday.
That is the date set for a house
of commons debate during which, ac
cording to Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden's promise, a definite statement
on the British government's sanctions
attitude will be made.
Little doubt but what the Baldwin
cabinet will come out in favor of an
end to the sanctions was seen foday.
Neville Chamberlain. Premier Bald
win’s chancellor of the exchequer, al
reay has publicly stated that to main
tain sanctions against Italy would be
diplomatic madness. The fact that
Chamberlain’s statement drew no re
buff from Baldwin indicated clearly
that the chancellor’s view were made
with Baldwin’s approval.
Eden’s position, is none too en
viable, in view of the apparent end
of British support to the sanctions
drive. The youngforeignsecretarybat •
rive. The young foreign secretary bat
tled for the sanctions throughout the
league’s attempt to halt Italy's cam
paign against Ethiopia. Now that
John Bull appears ready to call it
quits, Eden may be called on to turn
in his resignation.
BARROWS LEADING
IN MAINE POLL
HAS 16,000 MAJORITY OVER
TOWNSEND CANDIDATE
BLIN PAGE
PORTLAND, Me., June 16 (TP)
Secretary of State Lewis Barrows is
far in the lead today over the Town
send candidate, Blin Page, today in
Maines Republican Gubernatorial
primaries. Barrows leads by more
than 16.00 C votes. In Chicago Dr.
Francis Townsend hastily denied that
he had given his personal endorse
ment to the losing candidate.
The congressional Republican fight
[ put a Townsend-Coughlin candidate
well out in front or a field of nine.
The candidate, endorsed by both the
pension plannlr and the radio priest,
is James Oliver.
Candidates ran unopposed in .the
Maine Democratic primary. They
were Gov. Louis J. Brann, for the U.
S. Senate: Harold Dubord for Gov
ernor, and Ernest McLean for a con
gressional seat.
G. 0. P. LEADERS
GIVE FIGHT PLANS
CONFEREES IN LENGTHY
PRE-RACE DISCUS
SION
TOPEKA, Kan., June 16 (TP)—
The Republican presidential nominee,
Alf Landon is taking things over to
day with a determined group of sup
porters .
Landon s campaign manager, John
Hamilton, was first to arrive. Later
Vice Presidential Nominee Frank
Knox joined them with a delegation
of midwest Republicans for a series
of conferences.
Hamilton announced that Landon
will probably open his stump cam
paign with a speech at his birthplace
in Middlesex, Pa., then swing west
ward. The Kansas governor is expect
ed to make his appearance in New
York and possibly in New England
just before the November election.
Hamilton plans to meet with the
Republican finance committee in New
York tomorrow. On June 22 he is
scheduled to speak over a nation-wide
radio hookup from New York.
Knox was met at the railroad sta
tion today by a band, brassily toot
ing the campaign tune of "Oh Susan
nah."
SWEDISH PARTY HEAD
TO FORM NEW CABINET
STOCKHOLM, June 16 (TP).—
The Swedish farm party leader, Axel
Pehrsson, is conferring with his lieu
tenants today, preparatory to the se
lection of a new cabinet.
King Gustav, the Fifth, called on
Pehrsson to form the new <V binet
when Premier Per Albin Hansson
and his cabinet resigned after serv
ing for four yeaii*
The Hanssen cabinet tumbled when
the Swedish parliament rejected the
premier’s proposal to boost old age
pensions to conform with risir\ liv
ing costs.
workers, allegedly dismissed bectuse
of union activities. The steel com
pany took the case to federal court,
lost its first hearing in a Pennsyl
vania court and then took the case
to the circuit court at New Orleans
to even the score with a victory.
The circuit court based its decision
on the supreme court’s anti-Duffy Bill
ruling which held that labor disputes
between employers tnd employes in
manufacturing plans should be hand
led by the states. The government
according to that ruling, should take
part only is disputes concerning
inter-state commerce businesses.
SAVANNAH, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1936
JIMMY WALKER, WIFE
GOING TO ENGLAND
NEW YORK, June 16 (TP)
Ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker and Mrs.
Walker will sail for England to
morrow night aboard the French
liner Normandie. It will be the
first overseas trip for the Walkers
since the former mayor’s tri
umphant return to Manhattan
about a year ago. Walker said he
is going over to adjust some in
surance matters which have grown
out of the fire that destroyed his
cottage at Dorking, England.
The W’alkers will leave their in
fant daughter, Mary Ann, behind
\hem. She is only four and a half
months old, and doctors advised
against taking her abroad—just .
now<
TALL, THIN KILLER
SOUGHT IN MURDER
OF N. J. INVENTOR
SIZE OF SHOE WORN BY
SLAYER SEEN CLUE IN
MOORE DEATH
EAST ORANGE, N. J., June 16
(TP) —Search for the murderer of
Daniel McFarlan Moore is centered
today in a hunt for a tall, thin man
who wears a size 11-E shoe.
Moore, one-time association of
Thomas Edison and himself the in
ventor of the principle which led to
the neon light ,was shot to death out
side his East Orange home early yes
terday. The accepted theory today
is that his murderer was an eccentric
inventor who had the distorted idea
that Moore had infringed on his
patents and robbed him of millions.
Police broadcast the lockout warn
ing for the tall, thin man after ex
perts examined the plaster cast cf
the gun man’s footprint, found in the
mud beside Moores body. Authorities
also are looking for a handsome,
heavy-set man who called on Moore
Sunday night, and acted strangely
when the slain inventor s daughter
refused to rouse her father from his
bed.
The daughter, the pretty Beatrice
Moore, told police that the caller was
about 34 years old, strikingly htnd
some, weighing 180 pounds, and wear
ing glasses. She said her father,
when told of the visitor, vaguely iden
tified the caller as a man with whom
he had conferred regarding an inven
tion about three years ago.
In recognition of Moore’s close
friendship with Thomas Edison and
the part the slain man played in
Edison's early days, the management
of the Hotel Edison of New York
has offered a SI,OOO reward for in
formation leading to the arrest and
capture of the mysterious gunman
who shot down Moore yesterday
morning.
UNUSUALDEFENSE
GIVEN BY WOMAN
TELLS JURY “AMERICA
DON’T CONVICT HUS
BAND KILLING WIVES”
CHICAGO, June 16 (TP)—A wom
an who is accused of shooting her
husband to death cited the precedent
of the Betty Martin murder case in
her own defense today.
Betty Martin was recently acquit
ted of murder charges after she ad
mitted shooting her husband to
death in a Chicago tavern. Mrs.
Martin was freed on grounds of tern
porary insanity.
Today, 48-year-old Mildred Bolton
is held on suspicion of shooting her
husband under similar circumstances
Mrs. Bolton claimed her husband
shot himself three times by accident
while she struggled with him over a
gun.
Mrs. Bolton said— They don't
convict women for > shooting their
husbands in this country. The jury
said Betty Martin was right. I’m
right too.”
planFcrash
KILLS SEVEN
BERGEN, Norway, June 16 (TP) —
Seven persons were killed today when
a Norwegian airliner crashed into a
fog-hidden mountain.
The plane was flying at an altitude
of 1,500 feet when it smashed head
on into Lihesten mountain. All the
occupants of the airliner were killed.
Two of the bodies rolled 600 feet down
the step side of the peak.
TEMPORARY INJUNCTION
GRANTED AGAINST PWA
WASHINGTON, June 16 (TP)
The Kansas Power Company won a
temporary restraining torder today
against the PWA in District of Col
umbia Supreme Court. Justice Oscar
Luhring granted the request of the
Great Bend, Kans., company. He
signed an order which restrains the
PWA for ten days from allocc’ n't
$150,000 to Hoisington, Kans. 'llia
city wanted the money to build a
power plant and distribution system.
The Kansas Power Company argued
that its investment would b‘ jeopard
ized by competition of the municipal
ly-owned electric generating plant.
BAYONETS GLEAM
AS WAR FOMENTS
IN SOUTH CHINA
WAR DRUMS BEAT OMIN
OUSLY AS TROOPS AR
RIVE BY TRAINLOADS
SHANGHAI, June 16 (TP)—The
rising sun caught the gleam of thou
sands of bayonets along the human
province border of China today.
Nanking troops, rushed into south
western China by the trainload, have
occupied stragetic positions along the
Hunan border. Now* they are await
ing any further advance by the pow
erful forces put into the Held by the
rebelliols Canton government in a
threat of civil war.
Except for occasional brief clashes
between small units of both armies,
the situation appeared at a deadlock
today. The Cantonese, who last week
began an invasion into Nanking ter
ritory ostensibly in a move to oust
Japanese authorities from north
China, are busy bringing up reinforce
ments. supplies and heavy guns. The
Nanking commanders, meanwhile are
consolidating their positions, apparent
ly in the belief that the attack will
come at any minute.
Japanese are stationed in the sea
ports of the trouble zone. Nipponese
authorities have warned both siies
thatif anti-Japanese agitation con
tinues, it will be taken as an un
friendly act and would bring imme
diate military action.
THREE-WAY FIGHT
THREATENS SPLIT
INDIANA GUBERNATORIAL
BATTLE DIVIDES DEMO
CRATS HOSTILE CAMPS
INDIANAPOLIS, June 16 (TP).—
A three-cornered battle for the
Democratic gubernatorial nomination
comes up in the Indiana state con
vention today.
Governor Paul McNutt and two U.
S. Senators are leaders of three hos
tile camps that threatened to cause
a wide-open split in the party. Mc-
Nutt favors his lieutenant-governor,
Clifford Townsend, to receive the
nomination on the first roll call.
Senator Van Nuys is backing Kirke
McKenney. Senator Sherman Minton
is supporting former publisher Pleas
Greenlea. «.
> An all-night caucus accomplished
little to patch up political differ
ences.
GIRLISE NIG M A
TO INVESTIGATORS
WOULD-BE SUICIDE BAF
FLES ALL ATTEMPTS
AT QUESTIONING
DENHOLM, Pa„ June 16 (TP).—
The mystery of Mary Glerhar is deep
er than ever today.
Several days ago, the pretty 19-
year-old girl was found asleep in a
thickset near Denholm, clad only in
red pajamas. She admitted had
dropped off a passing train, b:V> re
fused to explain where she had come
from or where she was going. A note
left on the train indicated that she
contemplated suicide.
The girl was taken in by the Den
holm farm family of Scott Dolin.
For a time, she appeared happy with
her new home, but soon she grew
morose, according to Dolin.
Today, Miss- Gelmar is suffering
from a head wound, apparently self
inflicted. She was found in hz
room at the Dolin farmhouse, a gi n
by her side and the bed on which
she lay strewn with roses. Still, she
refuses to give police any informa
tion about herself.
"Nobody cares,” she repeats monot
onously, "so why should I tell?”
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LOAN TROUBLES
RAISING OF FUNDS MAJOR
PROBLEM CONFRONT
ING BLUM
PARIS, June 16 (TP) —The French
minister of finance, Vincent Auriol
has the enormous task on his hands
today of raising funds to pay for the
new deal program of Premier Blum,
French bankers reported that Auriol
is preparing to float a loan of more
than $97,000,000 to pay for the gov
ernment’s public works program and
labor projects-
Premier Blum has said that it was
Impossible to say just how the monej'
could be raised to finance his pro
gram. Bankers believe that the fi
nance minister will try to tide over
the government expenses for the time
being with a loan.
GIRL GETS BONUS
NEWTON, Mass.. June 16 (TP)
One of the very first veterans to re
ceive a bonus in the city of Newton
was Elizabeth Tracy Quick, and she
doesn’t believe in the bonus, either.
She served as a chief yeoman in the
navy during the war. "Even though
I am a recipient, and glad to get it,”
she sa'd, "I feel one serves one's coun
try for love of country and not with
the thought of reward.”
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MRS. LANDON TAKES A STROLL
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Mrs. Alfred M. Landon, wife of the Republican nominee
for President, is shown above in this new picture strolling in the
sun with two of her three children, Nancy Jo, 4, left, and John
Cobb Landon, 2. The picture was taken at the Landon residence
in Topeka. —Central Press.
HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!
WAVE OF BUYING SWEEPS NATION AS VETERANS COL
LECT AND START PUTTING BONUS MONEY
INTO CIRCULATION.
WASHINGTON, June 16 (TP)—
Thousands of bonus bonds blossomed
into green currency today and many
war veteran* made-bee-lines to spend
it.
The formalities of receiving, cert
ifying and exchanging the bonds for
cash took up most of Monday and
Monday night. Today, the tide of
checks is beginning to flow through
the mails. Nearly 10,000 of them
were rushed around New York City
by pneumatic tubes to the waiting
vets. It is still too early to tell what
most of the veterans are doing with
their money, but second-hand car
BELGIAN LABOR
CREATES CRISIS
UNION CHIEFS POWER
LESS TO. STOP INDUS
TRIAL MENACE r
BRUSSELS, June 16 (TEj—The
Belgian strike movement swelled to
alarming proportions today as work
ers in plant after plant threw down
their tools.
Officials estimated that 220,000
workers had joined the strike
throughout the country. The situation
was most serious at Liege whees metal
and transport employes quit their
jobs to try to force their demands
for higher wages. Nearly all coal
mines were forced to shut down. The
government has stationed soldiers at
the mines to prevent the strikers from
holding the pita. -
Premier Van Zeeland has set up a
special cabinet committee to deal
with the strike movement. The com
mittee’s appeals to labor leaders to
halt the strike have proved fruitless.
Union chiefs say the strike move
ment is getting out of their control.
BYRNS ESTATE TO WIDOW
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 16 (TP)
The entire estate left by Speaker Jo
seph Byrns will go to his widow*.
The congressional leaders will was
read today. It did not disclose the
value of the estate—but everything
was left to Mrs. Byrns uncondition
ally.
IL DUCE LEADS MOVEMENT TO RESTORE
HAPSBURG LINE TO AUSTRIAN THRONE
VIENNA, June 16 (TP).—Reports i
to Viena today said that Premier
Mussolini has thrown his support be
hind the movement to get the Haps
burgs back on the throne of Austria.
There was no official c |ifirmation of
the report in Vienna.
Towever, well-informed diolomats
in Viena declared that Musso*nl had
decided that the restoration of the
monarchy is the best way of block
ing German control of Austria and
Hungary. They said that the Italian
dictator had informed Chancellor
, Schuschnigg of Austria that the
j Hapsburg restoration is the only w*ay
to ease the tension between Vienna
TRANSRADIO PRESS
dealers expect the biggest harvest. All
merchants, manufacturers and indus
trial leaders expect a thumping boom
in business. Hundreds of veterans
will be scratched from Massachusetts
relief rolls today. The state law pre
vents a bonuseer from getting relief.
In some Massachusetts cities he can
stay on the rolls if he banks his
bonds or uses them to pay off legiti
mate bills.- . '
In almost every city the haberdash
ers prepared for a big day. Many
and many a veteran has worn his
clothes threadbare, and the bonus is
a godsend to provide new ones.
GRIM REAPER
• CHEATS VETERAN
WASHINGTON, June 16. (TP).—
Payment of the bonus brought happi
ness to several million veterans
throughout the country—bpt fate
cheated one veteran. Guy flines, out
of his share of joy today.
Hines was a night guard in a gov-1
ernment building. Before going to
work yesterday alternoon, he started
a letter to his wife and tw’o children
in Council Bluffs, lowa. In the let
ter, Hines said that the bonus would
mean the end of his sejaration from
his family.
Hines didn't get a chance to finish i
the letter. He had to go on duty.
Sometime early this morning, he fell
down an elevator shaft while making
his rounds, and was killed instantly.
Officials found the unfinished letter
in his room. He never received his
bonus bonds.
MRS. ROOSEVELT MAKES
COAL MINE INSPECTION
WEST FRANKFORT, 111., June 16
(TP) Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt
stopped off in West Frankfort today
for a brief visit on her trip from
Grayville, 111., to Indianapolis. The
first lady said srhe intended to visit
a coal mine in the vicinity this after
noon. Mrs. Roosevelt’s trip to Indian
apolis will be liesurely. She plans to
make frequent stops as she cuts diag
onally across Illinois, and will reach
the home of Indiana's Governor Paul
McNutt late in the day.
and Berlin wile keeping Austria inde
pendent.
On the other and the Little En
tente of Yugoslavia, Rumania and
Czechoslovakia has said that the re
storation of the Austrian monarchy
w’ould be considered a warlike act.
At the end of the World war these
three countries were created largely
out of the pre-war Austria-Hungarian
empire. A leading monarchist in
Austria said that if the pretender
Archduke Otto ascended the throne,
te first step would be to assure the
Little Entente that no attempt fould
be made to recover her lost territo
ries. Then, he said the Hapsburgs
would try to restore friendly rela
tions with Germany.
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BITTER BATTLES
STAGED AS FIVE
STATES BALLOT
POLITICAL FUTURES DE
PENDS ON OUTCOME
OF PRIMARY VOTES
NEW YORK, June 16 (TP)—Party
primaries and conventions climbed
into the political new! of five states
in the middle west, old south and
northeast today.
Minnesota and Maine are making
the final tabulations on votes cast
in yesterday’s primaries. Mississippi
Is holding its primary today. In Vir
ginia and Indiana the Democrats are
holding state conventions. Transradio
Press despatches from the five states
give the following picture:
Olson Sure Victor
Minnesota piled up barrels full of
votes for Gov. Floyd Olson, in his race
for a senatorial seat. The dream of
the farmer-labor governor appeared
assured, as he clinched is nomination
and watched the farmer-labor candi
date for governor, Elmer E nron, roll
up a four-to-one lead. Other Olson
candidates also are in front. Demo
cratic regulars led their insurgent
rivals. The widow of the late blind
Senator Thomas Schall was trailing
for behind for the G. O. P. Senatorial
nomination. Congressman Theodore
Christianson is leading her by a large
majority.
Page Trailing
In Maine, the Townsend candidate
Blin Page, was taking a severe beat
ing from his Republican rival, Lewi*
Barrows, in the race for the G. O. P.
Governor’s nomination. James Oliver,
backed by Dr. Townsend and* Father
Charles Coughlin, led nine candidates
in the G. O. P. nomination* to the
U. S. Senate.
Mississippi’s primaries resolved
themselves into a bang-up fight be
tween Senator Pat Harrison and Gov.
Mike Connor for Harrison’s Demo
cratic seat in the Senate.
In Virginia, Democrats are going
through the motions of selecting their
delegates to Philadelphia—wher they
will cast their ballots in the National
Convention for Franklin Roosevelt.
Indiana Democrats are assembled
for their convention with a heated
party fight expected. There is a
three cornered fighb to select a can
didate for Governor. The backers of
different candidate* are Governor Mc-
Nutt and Indiana’s two United States
Senators Frederick Van Nuys and
Sherman Minton.
‘
PARKER IS NAMED
AS COMPTROLLER
FORMER CONGRESSMAN
GETS CARREKER’S JOB;
LATTER HAS DOYLE’S
(Special to The Daily Times)
ATLANTA, June 16.—Homer C.
Parker, former adjutant general con
gressman from the First Congression
al district was today selected by Gov
ernor Eugene Talmadge to fill the
occupancy of comptroller general for
the state of Georgia, left vacant by
the transferral of G. B. Carreker who
assumed the post made empty by the
death of Paul Donal, revenue com
missions r.
Ant cipated in many political cir
cles, the appointment of the genial
ex-solon was seen as a prospect for
a forthcoming election battle with
the ousted William B. Harrison, who
was forcibly removed from his office
by (be governor.
Parker, who was defeated in the
last congressional race for the first
district by Hugh Peterson, has been
resuming his law practice in his home
' town, Statesboro, and his appoint
ment has been received with a great
deal of interest in South Georgia po
litical circles.
Carrier had served as comptroller
since William B. Harrison was ousted
by Governor Talmadge in a row over
state finances. Appointment of Par
ker led to the belief in political cir
cles here that he will be the Tal
madge candidate to run for comp
troller in the next election against
Harrison who has already announced
he will “seek vindication by t>he vot
ers” Doyle who was fatally injured,
in an automobile accident, had been
a member of the revenue commission
since 1931.
TO TAKE WALK
SENATOR COPELAND OF
NEW YORK WON’T AT
TEND CONVENTION
PHILADELPHIA, June 16 (TP)—
When the Democratic national con
vention comes to order in Philadel
phia next week. Senator Royal S.
Copeland of New York won’t be
there. ,
The Democratic senator, a conven
tion delegate from the 17th New York
Congressional district, has announced
that he is joining Al Smith In "tak
ing a walk" from the convention. In
stead, he announced, he wdll attend
a Cleveland medical convention to be
held at the same time.
Dr. Copeland argued that the Dem
ocratic platform due to be adopted
at Philadelphia would violate all the
pr.nciples of Jefferson and Jackson,
the party’s heroes. The New York sen
ator also accused the New Deal of
breaking faith w’ith those who sup
ported its 1932 platform.
“With that in mind,” Copeland
said, "there is no choice bub for me
to stay away from the convention, **