Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1935, Page 7

* the POLITICAL TIDES SWEEP FARM BELT Both Old Line and Third " Party Forces Are Active in Area. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 15.— Political drums filled the Midwest with their din today—a full year before the na- tional conventions. Quickened by the tom toms of the G. O. P. grass rooters and the non- American Liberty League, plans for new Democratic, Repub- lican and third-party rallies were in Alfred E. Smith, John J. Raskob, Representative James W. Wadsworth, Republican, of New York and other Liberty Leaguers mapped steps here Priday for extending the organiza- tion to every State and for nailing a pledge for constitutional government into the platforms of both major par- ties. Levelling & blast at “high officials | of the Federal Government,” they | promised a fight .against amendments to the Constitution to curtail States rights and limit the powers of the Supreme Court. They demanded sound currency, a balanced budget and the abolition of bureaucracy. Grass Rooters Busy. Their pronouncement dovetalled with salient portions of the “declara- tion of principles” indorsed at Spring- field, Il by the grass roots’ confer- ence of Republicans from 10 corn belt States. Delegates to that conclave declared it had generated the mo- mentum necessary to carry the G. O. P. through a “perfect '36.” Illinoisans considered conducting similar dem- onstrations in every county of the BState. Democrats deprecated the ac- complishments of their opponents at Abraham Lincoln’s shrine and pre- pared to mass their forces at the second national convention of Young Democratic Clubs August 23 and 24 at Milwaukee. They hoped President Roosevelt would top the list of speakers. Two sets of liberal ledders plan- ned to invade Chicago—center of the region transformed itno the Nation's political powder magazine—on July 5 and 6. They were divided into two camps, but had a common purpose— a third party. They were angling for the support of the same elements— y farm and labor groups and independ- ent and progressive political organiza- tions. But there was no indication thty would consolidate their meetings. Liberals Are Divided. Congressmen Marcantonio, Repub- lican, of New York; Scott, Democrat, of California; Lundeen, Farmer-Labor, of Minnesota, and Amlie and Schneid- er, Wisconsin, Progressives, head one wing seeking to determine the feasi- bility of forming a new party. How- ard Y. Williams, national organizer of the Farmer-Labor party, has called the other parley. Father Charles E. Coughlin, who termed a third party “inevitable,” hopes to address adherents of his Na- tional Union for Social Justice this F'ITdm at Chicago’s mammoth Soldier eld. Waleys (Continued From Pirst Page.) not be given to the Weyerhaeuser case immediately. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said all evidence collected by his agents will be submitted to the Federal grand Jury with a view to indictment of all persons having any part in the Ta- com crime. The Government intends to prosecute not only principals, but | all who have lent aid or shelter t0| .. or Republican position an this Mahan or the Waleys. ¢ " Included in the Government evi- | oMol TUhiien into the party's dence are signed statments by Waley, 24-year-old professional burglar, and his blond 20-year-old wife. Margaret, containing what Hoover describes as “full confessions of their participa- | ¢, would provide a means of check- tion” in the sensational Tacoma ab- duction. They named Mahan, 32-year-old ' bank robber, as “master mind” of the kidnaping. Mahan is being widely hunted throughout the West. $106,000 an Exhibit. Among Government exhibits to be | used in the prosecution is approxi- | mately $106,000 of the $200,000 ran- | some paid for the release of the Weyerhaeuser boy after his -eight- day confinement in a Spokane hide- | out. Mahan is believed to have the remainder with him, or to have hid- den it for later use. Of the recov- ered money, $90,700 was dug from a canyon a few miles south of Salt Lake City, Utah, following the capture there of the Waleys. Between $15,000 . and $16000 was found in Mahan's automobile after he abandoned it hur- | riedly in Butte, Mont., as police ap- | proached. | In his statement to Hoover’s agents | ‘Waley accused Mahan of short-chang- | ing him $5,000. Each of the men was | to divide the $200,000 evenly, Waley | asserted, but on counting his share, | after parting company with Mshan during the flight from Tacoma, Waley found he had only $95,000. Waley,! Hoover said, claims he burned $4,000 in a stove when “things were getting too hot” and that he spent $300 at stores and filling stations. The jury will be shown official photographs of the hideout bungalow in Spokane in which the boy was > chained by his captors, with close- .ups of the cupboard where the child was locked. May Plead Guilty, There are indications, it is said, the Waleys may save the Government expense of a trial by throwing them- selves on the mercy of the court with pleas of guilty. ‘The Government has had remark- | Republicans (Continued From First Page.) Predident as often as they can, in an | effort to smoke him out. | The Springfield conference, while it | did not in so many words declare for | the old McNary-Haugen “equalization fee” as a method of meeting the farm question, gave the impression that the Republicans would welcome such a plan as a substitute for the A. A. A. and its plow-under program and processag tax. It is not by any means beyond the realm of possibility, it is said, that when the campaign gets under way next year, the Re- publicans will be shouting for the equalization fee plan, making it an issue in the farm States as against {the A. A. A Midwest Republicans still in Con- gress fought hard for the adoptica of the equalization fee plan of aiding the farmers in the Coolidge and Hoover administrations. They still believe the plan is by far the best which has yet been devised to help the farmer. They look on it as an automatic control of production but one which leaves to the farmers themselves to determine how much they shall produce. Under the McNary-Haugen plan the propor- tion of the wheat crop which is sold and consumed domestically must pay a fee which will compensate the farmers for that portion of the crop | which is sold abroad at lower than the domestic prices. “Dumping” Contemplated. The plan contemplates a “dumping” of wheat, or cotton or other farm | products in foreign nations at prices perhaps considerably below the prices for such commodities in the United States. It is not expected that wheat will be dumped, it is said, in countries which produce that grain. But the dumping of the wheat may be made in countries which are “neutral,” countries which import wheat. It may be that it will be a necessary com- plement to this plan to enter upon unilateral trade agreements with foreign nations to carry it through successfully. In other words, treaties | may be made with individual nations | to take so much American wheat, or | cotton, _for concessions made in- dividually with each nation to take| some of their products. It would be a strange shift from the question of farm aid to find the equal- national platform. The Republicans who favor this plan say it would get | away from governmental “regimenta- | tion” of the farmers, and at the same ing unwise production. The farmer would make his own odds in this gamble. ' The Republicans insist it is unthinkable that the country shall continue indefinitely on the plow under system of the A. A. A, with Government checks to the farmers for land not used for specific crops and processing taxes on the crops when they are placed in the hands of the prodessors. May Accept Some Laws. The Republicans may accept some of the New Deal legislation and not campaign against it, just as they ac- cepted the Federal Reserve act and the Federal Trade Ccmmission act written during the Wilson administra- tion. For example, the laws for bank deposit insurance, the law creating a commission to deal with securities and the stock exchange the projected economic security law, which will pro- vide for old-age pensions and unem- ployment insurance, and several others enacted during the Roosevelt adminis- tration are likely to be tacitly accepted by the ‘Republicans in the coming campaign. However, G. O. P. leaders believe that plenty of issues will be at hand when the time comes, issues made by the Democrats themselves. These leaders are still puzzling their heads over -the selection of nominees for President and Vice President. The grass roots convention in Springfield was not intended to develop candi- dates, nor did it so, outwardly at least. A little less than a year in advance of the national convention, 1 it looks as though the convention would meet with a lot of “favorite son” candidates on hand, and per- haps with a considerable number of uninstructed State delegations. 1In such a convention almost anything might, happen. .A speech that took the convention off its feet, might be the tuming point, just as in the Democratic national convention which _size bed has reeded posts, the burea U. J. 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Retirement Bill Indorsed. ‘The department also indorsed the 30-year optional retirement bill for Federal employes and demanded that the Veterans' Administration discon- tinue the practice of rerating pension- ers after they have been given a per- manent rating. The 135 delegates elected Géorge V. McAlear of Miles Camp, commander of the department. Other officers named are: James B. Freeland, Urell Camp, senlor vice commander; Victor L. Woolridge, Dewey Camp, junior vice commander; Louis E. Felton, Pet- tit Camp, inspector; James A, Burns, gewey Camp, judge advocate; Dr. A. in fine quality and superbly designed JUNE 16, 1935—PART ONE.. Rev. William N. La Roche, Dewey Camp, chaplain, and James E. Wil- son, Harden Camp, marshal. ‘Willlam M. Barnes, William E. Rink, ‘William O. Ohm and Charles D, Long ominated delegates to repre- 1ain. — LAUNDRIES ROBBED IN WEST BALTIMORE Colored Gunman Is Believed to Have Held Up Clerks at Two Establishments. By the Assoclated Press. 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