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A—4 *» TRADE AND PEACE . HEAD BAKER AINS Strategy Includes Compro- " mises to Place His Ideals on Practical Basis. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, February 13—The broad angles of world prosperity and peace would engage the attention of the electorate should Newton D. Baker, for- mer Secretary of War, become the Dem- ocratic presidential candidate. His record and speeches indicate the principal issues he might stress and the attitude he might take toward them. His typical strategy is to have a second line of trenches, the first line repre- senting his furthermcoct ideals. But back of that will be found a more prac- « tical series of cbjectives which he may gain by compromise. H Baker vowed in 1920 that he never| would make a speech without in-luding | & plea for the League of Nations, the | World Court and international peace. Recently his attitude was modified by his now famous expression ¢hile still supporting the League in he believed the country was not y ready for it. Approves Moratorium. He has urged passage of the Capper | resolution in the Senate, under terms of which, he explains, a nation at war “would be excluded from access to our resources.” Leong before a breakdown in Europe seemed imminent, Baker urged cancel- lation of war debts to show Amcrica's interest “not in dollars, but in recon- structed international crder.” That was in 1926. He has reiterated | his position on that question again and again. He praised Presicent Hoover's debt moratorium. On a number of occasions he has sug- gested a horizontal reduction of tarifls, ther than a general congressional re- vision entailing exhaustive hearings and log-rolling tactics. LEven the tariffi has its international mspect to him. Addressing the Insti- tute of Politics last July, he proposed an international conference at which recommendations could be made for a general international lowering of tariff walls. i As & member of the Wickersham Com- mission, Baker made a personal state- ment illustrative of his habit of always having an alternative cbjective in case he fails to achieve the first. “In my opinion the eighteenth amend- ment should be repealed and the whdle question of policy and enforcement with regard to intoxicating liquors remitted to the States,” he said. Champions Rail Mergers. But he signed the general commission report because, he said, if immediate repeal be thougirt unattainable, sub- mission of the amendment suggested in that report would test sentiment. If the amendment were adopted. he said, it would remove an “inflexible police reg- ulation from the Constitution” and give Congress power to “adapt Federal legis- lation on the subject from time to time to the realities of the situation as they may develop.” The Federal Farm Board, he has sald, gambled on having a bad crop year and good foreign market and was dis- sppointed on all points. He is known to favor unemployment Insurance by the Government only in the event no way can be found to com- pel industry to meet its own problems, and even then he prefers leaving the duty to the States. Once the law director under Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, where it was his chief duty to fight “big busi- ness,” Baker has said more than once that he sees no great danger in bank and industrial mergers, but that on the contrary he finds the possibilities of ben efit gr Mergers of railroads have been cham- pioned by him for years. He is a rail- road director. He has said that he regards the in- come tax the fairest of all taxes and that increases should be made in the higher brackets. SMOOT TO ADDRESS RAIL GATHERING Transportation Club Banquet Wed- nesday Night to Be Attended by 250. With more than 250 guests expected, the twenty-sixth annual banquet of the ‘Washington Transportation Club will be held at 7 o'clock Wednesday night at | the Raleigh Hotel. Senator Reed Smoot. Republican, of Utah, will head the list of speakers, which includes also Philip P. Campbell, former Representative from Kansas; F. | S._McGinnis of New York, vice presi-| dent of the Southern Pacific system: S. | R. Bowen, vice president and counsel of the Washington Railway & Electris Co, @ past president of the club, and Di George C. Havenner, executive vice chairman cf the District of Columbia Bicentennial Commission. D. E. Replogle, vice president of the Jenkins Television Corporation, give a television demonstration, and the, Keystone Quartet of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad will sing. Charles H. Bates, counsel for the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific lines, is president of the club, whose Mmembership is drawn from transporta- tion agencies and the traffic representa- tives of various local industries. e LOUISIANA DEMOCRATS VOTE AGAINST PLEDGES State to Send Uninstructed Dele- gates to Party Convention, Cen- tral Committee Decides. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, February 13—The Democratic State Central Committee decided today to send an uninstructed delegation from Louisiana to the Demo- cratic National Convention. The delegation will cast the usual 20 votgs. The committee elected eight delégates at large and eight alternates. Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley of New Orleans was elected chairman of the committee. The committee also elected Senator Huey P. Long as national committee- man of Louisiana for a four-year term and named Mrs. Emile Bienvenu of New Orleans. chairman of the woman's division of the Louisiana Democratic Association, as national committee- ‘woman. TEXANS BACK GARNER Gov. Sterling and Other Leaders Shy From Roosevelt. DALLAS, Tex., February 13 (#).— Gov. R. 8 Sterling predicted today in an interview with the Dallas Times- Herald that Texas would give unquali- fed support to Speaker John N. Gar- ner for the Democratic presidential ne tion. A letter made public while the Gov- ernor was here disclosed that Lynch Davidson of Houston, former lieutenant governor, had written to Archie C. Price of Waco, secretary of the Roosevelt-for- President State headquarters, declining to serve on a State-wide stecring com- | ature. |owned street car system with banl will | et G OMEDIAN “KIDS" SEATTLE THE SUNDAY - STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C, FEBRUARY 14, 1932-PART ONE. JONES S FORUN'S | [Forumn spesker [WARY DEMOCRATS | AND MAY BE ELECTED MAYOR Old-Time P oliticians Nonplussed as Cam-~ paign, Started for a Burlesque, Develops Serious pr0portions. By the Assoclated Press. SEATTLE, February 13—A mayoral- ity campaign instituted as a burlesque —just & one-man show with Vic Mey- ers, orchestra leader, writing and speaking the lines—has grown in size like a rolling snowball, It has nonplussed old-time politicians. The election prophets are confused and issues have been so scrambled by the comedy Meyers has miixed into the nine- man battle that what started as a joke is freely conceded mow to offer the possibility of a victary for “the person- ality candidate.” “New York has her Jimmy Walker, California her Sunny Jim Rolph, Ok- lahoma her A'falfa Bill Murray! Seat- tle needs a p:rsonality candidate.” This was the criginal shibboleth of the candidate-comedian, but the re- spcnse was #0 surprising that Meyers for a minute stepped out of his hole | and issued a statement that if he should be elected he would devote him- self to the fireworks of the city's high- est office and let a committee of re- sponsible business men really run the Jjob. The momentum of his campaign in- creased, and Meyers stepped back into character and began to write wise- cracks in the guise of campaign liter- In the background of the most color- ful eity election the Northwestern me- tropolis has had in years is a financial tangle which threatens the municipally ruptey, and which brought a strike vol{e of car employes, unable to cash salary warrants. Never before, however, has Seattle been called on to vote for a mayor with so many frankly funny planks in his platform. Meyers employs no ghost writer to turn out his publicity. Here are some samples from his typewriter: ‘A woman said to me yesterday: *Tell me, Mr. Meyers, how do you stand on the garbage collection ques- tion?" “My reply was: “*To the windward, madam, to the windward.'” He then continued: “Might we not, by giving garbage collectors a silver star and a gold-spangled uniform and titles ranging from sergeant up, make 2 seat on & garbage truck as attrac- tive as & position in the police depart- ment? “Then there could be letters, per- haps. from the capta'n of the route: ‘Dear Madam: The man on No. 7 truck reports that you've apparently been having trouble with ycur choco- late cakes. He says he's found one every day since the 10th. The city chemist, to whom we sent one of your fallen cakes, says that it needs a little more baking powder and not quite such a hot oven. Trusting you will have better luck in the future, etc. Cordially, Antonio Scorvorak, Captain.’ O “ ‘Dear Sir: It will pain you to learn that our crew on No. 10 truck finds your wife to be very wasteful. She threw away fully a pound of good roast beef last Tuesday because it had dried out a little. Sha should learn how to curry beef on the third day of a roast. She cuts the eyes off all her potatoes, too. Faithfully, ete'.” Seattle apparently likes the kidding it is receiving. The election is February 23. WET VICTORY SEEN | BY .M. VALCLAN Head of Locomotive Works Declares Democrat Can Beat Dry Republican, Special Dispatch to The Star. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., February 13 (N.AN.A).—"If the Republican pomi- | nee runs on a dry platform and the | Democrats nominate a good wet candi- | date, the people will elect a Demo-| crat President,” says Samuel M. Vau- | clain, president of the board of directors of Baldwin Locomotive Works and na- | tionally known supporter of the Re- publican party. Mr, Vauclain was treasurer of the Davis-Brown Campaign Committee in the 1930 Republican campaign in Penn- sylvania. at ticket was headed by James J. Davis for United States Sen- | ator and Francis 8hunk Brown, ., for | Governor. . “The sooner le face facts regard- ing failure of nationalgprohibition the sooner the country as & whole will be better off,” continued Mr. Vauclain. Can't Blame Hoover. Turning his attention to President Hoover, he said: “The present condi- tion of the United States carnot be blamed on Mr. Hoover. He has done remarkably well in view of the world- wide depression. “The falling off of business in the United States can be measured some- what by the general condition of thei transportation system. Before the de- pression the country used 1,000,000 freight cars. Today exactly half that number are in use.” Returning to the subject of presiden- tial candidate, Mr. Vauclain said: “Until now I had always believed pro- hibition was the best thing for the peo- ple as a whole, but ‘rom the reports we read it has proved only a millstone around the neck of the working people. It has failed in every way, and, there- fore, I believe the next President must be a wet. Praises Newton Baker. “The annual cost to the Government of enforcing prohibition, and the loss in revenue, are estimated at $2,000,000,000. This is enough to start a new Govern- ment bank every year. After all, I have always belleved that when you can't cut through a mountain you can go_around it. “The vast majority of people, I be- lieve, realize that prohibition should be abolished. If this is accomplished re- spect for all law will return. Bootleg- | gers would disappear and the people would again be happy. “No one man, however, can pull us out of our present conditions. The | people themselves will have to find the way by working together and forgetting their troubles.” After a brief pause, Mr. Vauclain said: “Newton D. Baker is a fine, up- standing man, in whom the people no doubt would have confidence. Besides ing & true, clean American type he is a great lawyer. _ Although he is a Dem- ocrat, I belleve he would command the respect of a large number of Republi- cans and get their votes. He would make a good President, too.” (Copyright. 1932, by the North Newspaper Alliance. Inc. RAIL LOANS SEEN GREATEST “HOPE” Col. Church, Carnegie Institute Head, Condemns $5,000,000,000 Debt Increase. ) American By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, February 13—Loans to railroads by the newly created Na- tional Relief Corporation is the greatest hope of business in the opinion of Col. Samuel Harden Church, president of Carnegie Institute. He condemned last night increasing public debt through the propased $5,000,- 000,000 appropriation for “unneeded public works.” “The statement of Gen. W. W. At- terbury, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, that his company stands ready to borrow as much as $5.000000 a month from the tion,” Col. Church said, “furnishes the one ray of hope that comes to our country from all the Washington plans for national relief from this depression. “If the railroads feel justified in ne- gotiating loans from the Government for necessary extensions of their profl; erties, the immediate result would the re-employment of a large number of suspended railroad workers and also a quick resumption of work on a large sca'e in all our great industries, which would be called upon to supply materials for these railroad plans. If we can start the railroads, we shall end this business paralysis and put all of our | people back to work.” WILL DECIDE PAY FIGHT MONTREAL, Quebec, February 13 (®). —The Board of Conciliation in the Canadian Pacific Rallroad clerks’ wage dispute will announce its decision te Monday afternoon, it was reported mittee for Roosevelt’s candidacy and declaring his preference for Garner. e R The Philippine Legislature has sdopted new regulations regarding g & e 1a today. < The union men filed their submission before the board yesterday, charging in a memorandum of some 30 pages * |fied Foster tol MURRAY WORKERS OPEN-WIDE DRIVES North Carolina Primary Filing by Brother a Feature of Busy Day. By the Assoclated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, February 13.— Vote-getting offensives for Gov. William H. (Alfalfa Bil) Murray for President were opened on several fronts tocay, but still there was no definite word from the Oklahoma executive on the subject. The most important development came in North Dakota, where Murray's name was filed for 'the Democratic nomination in the State's preference primary, to be held March 15, In Iows a Murray drive was launched at a conference between George A. Stephens of Oklahoma City and Demo- cratic leaders at De Moines., A mass meeting was planned for Tuesday. Meanwhile announcement came from Murray-for-President headquatters here that Murray's name would be filed soon in the Georgia, South Daisota and Ore- gon preference primaries. Notice of the Murray candls was filed in North Dakota by the Oklahoma Governor's brother, George T. Murray of Berthold, a farmer Petitions accept- ed by the secretary of state provided for placing Murray’s name on the bal- lot and for entry of a slate of 10 can- didates for delegates . pledged to sup- port him at the natiomal couyention. “Well, I guess Georgs knows what he is talking about.” was all the Guovernor had to say of his brother’s action. Murray announced recently he would ! fill speaking engagements in North Dakota and Indiana. His Ingiana schedule calls for speeches at Indian- apolis and Monticello February 23 and at Marion and Gary the following day. His North Dakota dates have not been announced. GEORGIA FILING EXPECTED Gov. Murray Primary Prospect Follow- ing Roosevelt Action. ATLANTA, February 13 (#).—Demo- cratic leaders in Georgla were interested in news dispatches from Oklahoma City today, telling of the intention to enter the name of Gov. W. H. (Alfalfa Bill) | Murray in the Georgis presidential pre- ferential primary to be held March 23. Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York has already entered as a candi- date and has filed his entrance and | paid the $1,000 fee. Democratic leaders had no comment to make on the announcement of the | Oklahoma Murray-for-President head- quarters that it would enter the name of the Oklahoma Governor. TWO MEETINGS HONOR MEMORY OF EDISON Widow of Great Inventor Makes Short Address st Luncheon of Pioneers. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 13.—A feeling of sadness pervaded two meetings Thursday as old friends and associates of the late Thomas A. Edison met to celebrate the elghty-fifth anniversary of his birth. At a luncheon of the Edison Pioneers at the Hotel Astor a bronze bust of the inventor was presented to the associa- tion by its president, W. S. Barstow, in the presence of Mrs. Edison and two of his_sons, Charles and Thomas A., jr. “I remember,” sald Mrs. Edison in a brief speech, “Mr. Edison's saying ‘It is wonderful to be loved and even more beautiful to be told you are loved.' appreciate your presence deepl; as a manifestation of your love for him.” In the library of his laboratories at West Orange more than 400 employes of the Edison industries assembled to honor his memory. REPUBLICAN FUND TRIAL RESUMED AT GREENSBORO Defense Seeks to Break Down Tes- timony of 836 Witnesses Against Foster. By the Associated Press. GREENSBORO, N. C., F.bruary 13— The defense marshaled its forces here today in an effort to break down testi- mony of 36 Government witnesses that W. H. Foster, secretary of the Repub- lican State Executive Committee, soli- cited political funds from officeholders in Federal buildings. Trial of the case resumed with only 26 counts remaining of the original 57 in the bill of indictment, 9 having been dismissed at the start and 22 more being included in an order of the judge for a verdict” of acquittal after the Gov- ernment completed presentation of di- rect evidence. Most of the witnesses were postmast- ers or former postmasters. Some testi- them how much the party expected out of their salaries, some told of being asked to sign pledge cards and others of receiving notices that the request for a reduction pay was unjustified. in | through the malils were due. that such pledges 2 < GUEST TOMORROW “How We Americans Treat Our Presidents,” Subject of Senator’s Address. “How We Americans Treat Our Pres- idents” is the subject of an address Sen- ator Wesley L. Jones of Washington will deliver in the National Radio Fo- rum Monday, Pebruary 15, at 10 pm,, E. 8. T. The National Radio Forum is arranged by The Washington Star, and broadcast over the network of the Na- tional Broadcasting Co. Senator Jones is chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Com mittee. He first came to the Senate in March, 1909, slmost 23 years ago, and only two Senators have a longer period of service—Smoot of Utah and Borah of Idaho. The Washington Senator has made a study of the attitude of the Amer- ican ple to their Chlef Executives, from Washington to Hoover, and of the criticism which has been heaped upon them, particularly in times of stress. An interesting and convincing speak er, Senator Jones is fully alive to the problems which confront the American pecple and their President today. INQUIRY ASSURED BEFORE ANY ACTION ON PAY CUT BILLS (Continued From First Ps which the committee yesterday post- poned to await the subcommittee inquiry, provides that on and after its passage, the compensation or salary of all Federal employes or officials, or retired officials, receiving $5,000 a year or more, would be cut as follows: From $5,000 up to, but not including $7,000, a 6 per cent reduction; from $7,000 up to $10,000, & 10 per cent reduction, and all salaries of $10,000 or more, a 20 per cent reduction. Provisions in the Constitution pre- vent Congress from reducing the sal- aries of Federal judges or the President during their terms of office. The pend- ing bill would apply to all others with- in the salary limits listed. It is re- garded. therefore, as applying to mem- bers of Congress. During a discussion in the Senate two weeks ago as to which committee the bill should be re- ferred to, it was also pointed out that it would affect the Army and Navy. At that time Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Military Affairs Com- mittee, said if that was the case, he thought it should be considered by the aporopriate military committees before being finally acted on. The separate bill applying only to Congress, the Vice President, Speaker and members of the cabinet, which the Civil Service Committee voted to Te- port adversely, was introduced by Sen- ator Borah early in January, before he had prepared the other general reduc- tion measure. When the two bills on which the committee acted adversely are reported to the Senate, they will go on the cal- endar along with all other pending measures, but without the support of a favorable committee recommendation. Agricultural Bill Provisions. Another phase of the Government salary situstion will come into limelight in the Senate before the end of this week. when the Appropriations Committee makes its report on the agri- cultural appropriation bill, which came from the House with provisions in it i to prohibit any salary promotions and to prevent the filling of vacancies as they occur, except in cases which the President finds are essential. The Sen- ate subcommittee has completed hear- ings on this bill and probably will be ready to lay it before the Appropriations Committee for decision by the middle of the week. Whether the Senate group will approve or change these House limitations on promotions and new appointments will be known within a few days. Since this is the first of the regular annual supply bills, the final decision on this measure is ex- pected to become a precedent in the drafting of all the other departmental anrmprhllon bills. The agricultural bill is in charge of Senator McNary, Republican of Oregon. The Civil Service Committee also had before it yesterday a separate bill to reduce the salaries of members of the Farm Board, which it referred to Sena- tor George, Democrat of Georgia, for consideration of amendments. At the conclusion of the Civil Serv- lce meeting yesterday Senator Dale, in restating his personal view, sald: “I am against cutting any salary one dime.” Senator Dale regards present conditions as temporary, and does not believe the Government should inaugu- rate a salary reduction program. N —— MAN FROZEN TO DEATH IN CANADIAN BLIZZARD Two-Day Storm Ends With Snow in Huge Drifts and Roads Blocked. By the Assoclated Press. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, February 18. —Winds that held the West in a biis- zardy grip for nearly two days tapered off today, leaving snow drifted in huge piles and’ highways blocked. One man was frozen to death during the storm. The body of Peter Regitnig, Silber Plains farmer, was found near Morris, Manitoba. His team of horses had stood beside his frozen body for hours. Regitnig's hired man, who became separated from him during the storm, reached home safely Temperatures were still far below zero in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, reaching & bottom level of 34 below at Battleford, Saskatchewan. It was 32 below at Edmonton, 26 below at Bwift Current, Saskatchewan, and Medicine Hat, Alberta; 25 below at Saskatoon, 23 below at Moosejaw and 12 below at 1| Winnipeg. . INDICTED FOR MURDER Former Prohibition Officer Charged ‘With Slaying of Man. MONTGOMERY, Ala, February 13 (®)—F. A. McCartner, former prohibi- tion officer, was indicted by the Mont- gomery County grand jury today on & charge of first-degree murder for the slaying last November 30 of A. Fer- rell Day, alias J. L. Harvey, in a room- ing house. McCartney claimed self-defense after he was attacked when he and Thelma Jackson, alias Wilson, returned from visits to several alleged liquor estab- lishments. The woman, in & statement to Cor- oner John J. Diffiy, said McCartney shot Day as he sought to escape through a W, ———— TEXANS LAUD HOOVER |G. 0. P. Committee Promises Sup- port at Chicago Convention. DALLAS, Tex., February 13 (A — The Texas Republican State Executive Committee adopted resolutions today indorsing the administration of Presi- dent Hoover and assuring him of gn from the Texas delegation to the publican National Convention. The to hold State convention May 24 at Min ‘Wells, where 49 Texas delegates to national convention will be the SENATOR JONES. HIL ASKS UNTY N PARTY AN Senator Sees Disaster Unless Free-for-All Convention Is Averted. mind all Democrats that the Demoeratic party as & whole is bigger than any of its parts and urge that every Democrat act accordingly. Plea for Harmony. “In 1932 it is no longer a question of individual preference for candidates, or individual ambitions, or group consider- ations, or any other minor or single idea. The big, Lnesc&glble party prob- lem is whether at Chicago in June Demacrats shall assemble in a deter- mined spirit of harmony. unity and vic- tory or of dissension, division and de- feat. “It is manifest that an overwhelming majority of the Democrstic party in every part of the Nation are favorable to the former ccurse, and only reasons both exceptional and extraordinary can Jjustify for the chalienging of this sound attitude of the majority. Such a plea for harmony might well come from the present chairman of the Democralic National Committee, John J. Raskob. But notwithstanding re- peated claims by Mr. Raskcb and by Jouett Shouse, the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee, that they and the headquarters organization are neutral in this race for the presidential nomi- nation, the charge has been made and continues to be made that they are op- to the nomination of Gov. Prank- in D. Roosevelt. Many of the Roose- velt supporters are convinced that Mr. Raskob is hostile to the proposal to nominate the Governor of New York at the Chicago convention. Some of them even go so far as to say that Alfred E Smith, who made Mr. Raskcb national chairman, is now acting at the behest of Mr. Raskob in announcing himself s receptive candidate for the presi- the | dential nomination. Shouse Statement Resented. A statement recently issued by Mr. BShouse urging that unpledged dele, tions be sent by the States to the Democratic National Convention was in- terpreted by Roosevelt followers as an attack on the Roosevelt movement and has been hotly resented. Gov. Roose- velt himself, in a statement in New York last night, has taken cognizance of the Shouse plea for unpledged dele- gates, declared himself absolutely op- posed to the suggestion and that it is un-Democratic. Gov. Roosevelt, in his opposition to the unpledged delegate proposal also may have had in mind reports that John F. Curry, Tammany lcader, would control & bloc of 51 of New York's 91 delegates to the national convention, which he might take to the convention uncommitted to Roosevelt. This would put a severe crimp in the Roosevelt candidacy. Just what Mr. Curry pro- poses to do with these delegates, some of them from up-State, but ccntrolled by men who play ball with Tammany, has not been revealed. Possibly Mr. Curry believes that such a bloc of delegates in New York State may be helpful when Gov. Roosevelt comes to deal with the scandals about Tammany leaders which have been unearthed by Judge Samuel Seabury and the Legis- lative Committee investigating the gov- ernment of New York City. Harrison Also Issues Warning. Senator Hull was not the only Demx crat who yesterday urged party har mony. Senator Pat Harrison of Mi sissippl called attention to the disas trous days of 1924 when personal polit- ical ambitions of candidates and their supporters tore the party to pieces. th Senator Harrison end Senator Hull come from a section of the coun- try which has taken kindly to the nomination of Gov. Roosevelt for President. Homer Cummings cf Con- necticut, who is here in the interest of the Roosevelt candidacy, conferred with these Senators before they made their please for harmony in Democratic ranks. The Roosevelt leader in New York, James A. Farley, Democratic State chairman, was in Washington m::rd:y. 00, to aid in the Roosevelt The Republicans, who have had plenty of dissension within their own camp in the last couple of years, are chuckling over the present plight of their Democratic opponents. Further- more, they are becoming more and more hopeful that they are to have & comparatively calm "national con- vention and that they will have no trouble whatever renominating Presi- dent Hoover. The only real fight in the offing for the Republicans to date is over & proposed anti-pronibition plank for which New Jersey and other wet Republicans propose to nght. ‘esterday was the last day for filing in tmraldwml preferential prim: in N Dakota. It was known a weel 2go that President Hoover’s name would not be entered in that primary, al- though Hoover delegates would be vot- ed for in the primary election. Senator Hiram Johnson of Caltfornia, as had mew m'l’:?x '&me in the pri- orth Dakot 100. Despite the fact that Hiram Jonnson or some other ive Republican might undertake to u?pme President Hoover's renomination, it does not appear that any of them will make the attempt. Hoover Favor Grows. State committee after State commit- tee is coming out for the renomination of Mr. Hoover. The Kentucky State Committee, for example, meeting in Louisville on Lincoln’s birthday, in- dorsed the administration of President Hoover and declared for his renomina- tion. Carl P. Dunifon, chairman of the blican State Committee of New yester- S e renomina- tion and re-election of President Hoo- ver."” ‘The New Jersey Republican lead- ers have decided that, notwithstanding their demand for & wet in the party platform, they will favor the re- nomination of President Hoover. the Repul ¢ | of Smit the - eral | Ing consent to the use of his name. | paign behal 1s81 The EYE CAMPAIGNERS Activities in Various States Lead Aspirants to Hope for Deadlock. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 13.—Behind a screen of cautiously-worded statements,.| half & dozen Democrats with their eyes on the presidential nomination are en- gaging in some of the most wary po- litical strategy that has preceded & na- tional convention. ‘With 'mly one exception, all appear to be marking time, as much as pos- sible. Several, it is indicated, are bas- ing their entire hope of being seclected to lead their party in November on the possibility of a convention deadlock. This is given as an explanation their caution. But behind all this public silence and apparent lack of activity, spirited ca: paigns are underway on behalf of all eight of the possible candidates, some with thwprov:l and others-under the active lership of the aspirants. Party chieftains have been holding frequent political conferences, but when they emerge from behind the closed doors they merely smile and explain it was “purely a friendly cal Smith’s Office Buzzes. Alfred E. Emith, who polled 15,000,- 000 votes in 1928 but carried only eight Btates, has said he is “not a candidate, yet his skyscraper office, filled with the | mementos of other election contests, has all the appearances of a campaign headquarters. Friends and old political associates come to talk over “the prospects.” Mail- bags full of rmlul letters arrive daily. A constant flow of telegrams comes and goes. Democracy's “Happy Warrior” reads all these communications himself. His eyes sparkle with his love of campaign- ing as he goes over them. Many get answered. ‘Here's & good one from Scranton,” he said the other day, as he fingered a sheaf of telegrams. The next minute he was declaring: “I am going to work and tend to business. Still, the communications and the visitors come, and important political questions pop up for decision. For example, there is the moot prob- lem of what Smith is to do about the| Massachusetts situation—a problem his friends say is giving him great con- cern. The Bay State governor, Joseph B. Ely, is making a whirlwind campaign to obtain pre-convention support for his friend Smith in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The Massachusetts presidential pri- | mary is April 26. In order for aspiring convention delegates to run pledged to any candidate, that candidate’s consent must be obtained. The last day for fillng is March 22. Question to Be Faced. Smith is faced with the prospect of turning his back on the Massachusclls and sticking to his announce- ment he is “not a candidate,” or giv- of An intensive Nation-wide campaign for delegates pledged to Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt is getting under way now, with Homer S. Cummings of Connecti- cut in charge. It was only three weeks ago today the Governor threw his hat into the ring with an announcement he had ac- cepted the invitation of North Dakota Democrats to enter that State's pri- mary. Months before that, however, James A. Farley, who managea Roosevelt's last gubernatorial campagn, had be- come field marshel for the Governor and was directing an unofficial Roose- velt-for-President movement. For months Farley's office, in a sky- scraper a mile from wnere Smith sits, {fkewise has had all the appearances of & campaign headquarters, with “Big Jim” writing, telephoning and tele- graphing Democratic kingpins around the country, and with Roosevelt-for- President signs, banners and emblems deigratlnge rhh desk and the walls. ng ore an open campaign for Roosevelt delegates began to take form political leaders began streaming to Al- bany. Farley himself has spent much of his time ciose to the Governor's desk. John F. Curry, Tammany leader, and his ally, John H. McCooey, Democracy’s chief in Brooklyn, have left Albany after being Roosevell's guests at the executive mansion for” 24 hours. Visit Called Social One. They described their call as a purely social one, while the Governor said they had discussed various appoint- ments. But it was learned they also had been in conference with Farley and with Democratic leaders in Albany, Troy, the Bronx and Queens, and had discussed & plan whereby the delegates they con- trol would vote in a bloc at the con- vention. Then they went to Lake Placid avowedly to see the Olympic games, but it was recalled that Mayor James J. Walker, an important figure in New York politics, also was_ there. The status of the other six booms is this: Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Mary- land has declared himself a candidate, but has been addressing meetings in only certain sections of a few States. Gov. William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Mur- ray of has announced a stumping tour to win followers in the West and a petition has been filed for him in North Dakota. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Tllinois has been put into the fleld by the filing of & primary petition in that State. Former Gov. Harry P. Byrd of Vir- ginia has not committed himself, but cam| headquarters have launched after he had stated the League was not & campaign ue. John N. Qarper, Speaker of the House, likewise is silent, but his friends are out seeking support for him. o LARSEN GIVES ADDRESS Washington Monument Rites Stress Law Enforcement. Representative Larsen of Georgia, yes urdlf addressed members of the Na. tional Women's Democratic Law En the base of the Wi ceremon: ment. Mr. Larsen read extracts from ington’s farewell address and declared Srierty saciety and. so0d Citisenship, and th:mgmrymfihefluh' of W. Nicholson, chairman of the league ssid the organization was emp! the ohibition amendment as coming with- the advice Washington gave. B 3 of U Kendrick of Wyoming, King oehorh' Costigan George - i and Nedly orwfievmu. All are rom the South and the West. Chatrman Boston -pledged delegates to the Dem- ocratic National Conventioff from Mas- sachusetts had been ved by him. He said he had never such @ slate with any one, ' Co-Eds in Prague Want Kissers to Remove Their Hats PRAGUE (N. A. N. A)—The been invited to draw up what they regard as the charac- teristics of “a fect man.” One of these attributes, they are agreed, is that “he must not kiss w! his hat on.” e’s young men inquire what they are to do with iheir hats when they reguire both arms for a thoroughgoing emb-ace, the ladies persist in their st lation. (Copyright. 1932, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) ELECTION CHARGES ut ipu- STRELEVELAND Fiery Oratory and Fraud Claims Heard—City to Vote Tuesday. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, February 13.—Cleve- land voters will pick their way through & maze of campaign oratory and charges of fraud next Tuesday to de- cide whom they want for their first mayor since 1925. They will choose between Daniel E. Morgan, former city manpager and choice of the Republican organization, and Ray T. Miller, aggressive county prosecutor backed by the Democrats. ‘The election will conclude one of the hottest mayoralty campaigns ever held here. Both party organizations have functioned in a manner not seen for more than a decade, and shouts of il- legal registrations, political favoritism and intimidation have kept the cam- paign in a furor. Played With Rockne. Miller, who heard his first public acclaim when he and Knute Rockne were playing end for Notre Dame, has made “Maschkeism” his chief issue. Election of Morgan, he contended, would continue dictatorship of munici- pal affairs by Maurice Maschke. Re- publican county chieftain and national | committeeman. Morgan. an experienced holder of public office as city councilman, State legislator and city manager, has staked his hope of returning to the executive hair in City Hall on promises of un- employment relief. He has advocated a special session of the State Legislature 1o permit emergency measures by cities needing greater relief funds. Claims Police “Shackled.” The police department has been “shackled” by the Republican ad- ministration, Miller declared. Morgan retorted that crime breeds in the city's blighted sections and that “shacks,” not “police shackles,” is the issue. Representatives of Secretary of State Clarence J. Brown checked registration in varous wards where charges of fraud have been made. The election was made necessary last November when the city manager plan, which had functioned since 1925, was voted out. Morgan, who was city manager the last 21 months the plan was in effect, and Miller were the sur- vivors of & five-cornered primary elec- tion last month. EARLY HITLER RISE SEEN BY VON EPP German Fascist at Geneva to Facil- itate National Socialists Tak- ing Charge. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, Switzerland, Pebruary 13.— Gen. Franz Ritter von Epp, a leader in the German Fascist movement, is S0 confident of Adolf Hitler's early rise to power that he has come to Geneva so the National Bocialists could take charge of the German delegation to the World Disarmament Conference with- out delay. Gen. Von Epp, a Bavarian hero of the World War, 52id he was here as unofficial observer only and denied was acting on Hitler's express orders. “As I feel absolutely convinced that the present (German) government's -days are numbered,” he said, “I con- sidered it a matter of duty both to our movement and Fatherland to study the Disarmament Conr:‘r‘ence. to cbse‘r)\l e leading figures as they pass over world stage, to make psychological ob- servations on the leaders of peoples. “While this is in the first place mere- 1y a personal matter with me, yet nat- urally I do not propose to confine the knowledge obtained to m-eelf, but I in- tend to place all the experience gained at the service of the Nazi movement.” ROOSEVELT {HITS PARTY PLEDGE BAN Shouse Plan Will Enable Leaders to Dictate, He Contends. BY BYRON PRICE. (Copyright. 1932, by the Associated Press.) ALBANY, N. Y., February 13.—Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose presideni- tial aspirations now stand at the center’ of a furiously developing Democratic controversy, said today that the rank and file of the party, and not a process of “trade and barter” by a handful of, | leaders, should determine who is to be | the nominee. Discutsing directly the hotly disputed question whether instructed or unin- structed delegates should be sen: to the convention, the Goivernor declared the propcsal to avoid prior pledges to candidates would “nullirty and destroy” a fundamental principle of the party. He did not directly mention his own candidacy, now facing in many States the challenge of an position which argues it would be unwise to foreclose the nomination in edvance. He replied by name to only one of those who have presented such a view—Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Democratic Nat\nal Executive Committec. Farley Still at Heim. “I am sure Mr Shouse could jave . sald the Gov- plan wlé:h if cnise the great | opesis carried out would | body of Cemoc tic vo: Tcuching Lricfly on one feature of the campaign in his behall, Mr. Roose- velt made it clear that while he has appointed no campaign manager, he has not changed the arrangement by | which James A. Farley alone acts as a laison and clearing house for the Roosevelt movement everywhere. | All of these statements were made during a talk with the Associated Press correspondent in the study of the his- toric executive mansion, hcme of a long line of New York Governors. He sat leaning back in an easy chair, bchind an almost miniature mahogany desk. a copy of Jefferson's Monticello. He spoke quietly and without any show of bitterness. When he was asked directly for his | views on the no-pledge proposal, most conspicuously espoused recently by Chairman Shouse, he looked steadily out of the window for a moment, and drummed lightly with his finger-tips cn the table. Then he said: Appreciates Sheuse's Work. “While every good Democrat is ap- preciative of the fine publicity work | which my friend Jouett Shouse has conducted in Washingtcn at Democratic | headquarters during the past three years, his suggestion that all delégations |80 to the National Convention unin- | structed is. unfortunat: contrary to the principles of the party and the in- tent of the laws and party rules of almost every State. “More than a generation ago there existed widespread disapproval of the kind of national convention which b>- came merely a trading post for & hand- | ful of powerful leaders and where the nomination itself had nothing to do | with the popular choice of the rank and file of the party itseif. “As & result and in keeping with the historic tradit! of the par.y. primary |laws and party rules were enacted in | practically every State for the purpose | of permitting the party voters t | selves to express a choice for candi- dates. “Mr. Shouse’s suggestion would nullify and destroy this fundamental principle | The rank and file of the party should | be heard. “I am sure that Mr. Shouse on sec- jond thought wil recognize the unsovnd- | ness of and party damage in his sug- | gestion. Sees Best Intentions. “I am sure Mr. Shouse could have had no_ulterior motive for proposing a plan which if cerried out would dis- | franchise the great body of Democratic | voters throughout the 48 States and would enable a handful of individuals to hand-pick a candidate for the great of- fice of President by a process of trade and barter.” For the most part, the Governor punctuated his words only with short pauses, accompanied each time by & questioning glance at the listener. Later, |as he talked of other things, he fol- |lowed a statement now and then with such a glance, accompanied by a sharply !inflected one-word inquiry, “Right?” | He did not discuss issues, but he did | answer questions as to the physical or- | ganization of his campaign, which ac- |knowledges no national headquarters and no “chairman.” |, The Governor made it perfectly clear | that there is not. even a ‘“campaign | manager”; that his friends are taking an active lead in expressing what they say is a definite and clear popular sen- iment for him in the several States.” Farley in Washington. He made it clear likewise that the lonly person who fs acting as national | liaison officer for the whole movement is Farley, who also is the chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee. Farley is keeping in constant and ac- tive touch with the Governor's friends |in every part of the country and with | the results of their conferences. | | | Looking After Your Financial Health! 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