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FLOGEING UPHELD FOR AGITATORS Action in Arkansas Cotton Area Said to Have Brought Results. By the Assoctated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 24—The Earle, Ark., Enterprise said yesterday a strap “applied where it would do the most good” has rid the East Arkansas cotton area of outside “agitators.” “There is no strike at Earle,” the newspaper said. It was near there that Miss Willie Sue Blagden, 29, of Memphis, and the Rev. Claude C. Wil- liams, 41, of Little Rock, said they were flogged. ‘The paper asserted that labor is plentiful at 75 cents a day and that tenants and planters will harvest their crops and make money “if they are unmolested by those who should be at home attending to their own busi- ness.” Demand $1.50 a Day. H. L. Mitchell, secretary of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, first issued a call for a strike among cotton croppers in East Arkansas, demand- ing $1.50 a day. He later asserted sharecroppers, who work on a share- the-crop basls, joined the strike. The “sting” of the “backband,” the Enterprise said, “has produced results where all other remedies less drastic have failed.” “The greatest hue and cry arices from the fact that a white woman was forced to endure a light whiping.” it said, continuing that while “it is hard to condone the action,” there is “no doubt but what the woman was com- pletely out of her place.” Miss Blagden and Williams said they were whipped when they attempted to verify reports that Frank Weems, 40, colored sharecropper, had “died” of a “beating.” Sheriff Howard Curlin promised to produce Weems alive “to show up this hoax.” “Assisting in conducting a Negro | funeral is no job for a white woman in the South,” said the paper, “spe- cially a ‘mock’ funeral over a Negro, as Mark Twain would say, ‘whose death was greatly exaggerated.”” Norman Thomas. Socialist candidate for President, declared in New York that the paper’s picture of the situa- tion “glorifies flogging,” and reveals a “dreadful picture of worse than Fas- | cist tyranny.” DISCUSSED WITH ROBINSON PHILADELPHIA, June 24 (#).—H. L. Mitchell, executive secretary of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, | said yesterday that “men and wom- en have been beaten” in the disturbances of the Arkansas cotton flelds, “but the spirit of the workers 1s unbroken.” Accompanied by Gardner Jackson | and John P. Davis, chairman and executive member, respectively, of the National Committee on Rural Social Planning, Mitchell conferred with Senator Robinson, Democrat, of Ar- kansas on the Arkansas labor situa- tion. “Senator Robinson has agreed,” Jackson said, “to confer with the Arkansas Department of Labor, look- ing toward a complete and full in- vestigation of the facts in collabora- tion with the Federal Department of Labor.” The group also discussed with Rob- inson a plank for the Democratic platform, pledging “the protection of the rights of workers, both industrial and agricultural, to organize bargain collectively.” T. with green fountain left_in taxi. Return Reward. BLUE SERGE ( pen and office Office 444 Hau<¢ Simte Blds. BRACELET. link gold and chain, u unh lerge | blue Chinese stone, Reward. after 6 COLLIE, male, red and Wwhite, with dark shadings; timid: 2 years old; fine appear- | Slipped collar. i a.m. Sunday. Re- . SN0l Georgia ave., Silver Spring Md. Shepherd col T ju clipped. 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INC. ve. labor | and | in vicinity . SANCTIONS LIFTING ved | BY RICHARD B. FOWLER. tion is as old as the knowledge of human nature. The Gov- ernor of Kansas called in the strongest men of the State and saw to it that they got credit where credit was due. The methods are suggested in the story of the financial legislation; but it is the cumulative effect of the entire program that is most important. to speed up road building. It looked like cutting in half a $5,000,000-a-year source of revenue. The program ap- peared to be contradictory. By typically Landon methods the loss was made up by stopping the leaks. As he predicted, halving the fee didn’t mean halving the income. People in the sparsely settled sections bought license tags for the first time, with the result the income the first year was $700,000 above the estimate. Closing the leak on tax-free gasoline, presumably used for tractors and farm machinery, was an item worth several hundred thousand dollars. It was done after one of Landon’s statisti- cians discovered that all the farm ma- chinery in Kansas running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, couldn't burn all the exempted gasoline. A port of entry law, pioneer legisla- tion, brought in the necessary addi- tional revenue. Sixty-five offices, or ports, were set up on highways enter- ing the State. All trucks were re- quired to stop. The law made it pos- sible to collect a ton-mile tax assessed on some 35,000 trucks that pound the Kansas highways and it stopped a large part of the bootlegging of gaso- line in and out of the State. The in- come from the ton-mile tax jumped about $350,000 a year and income from | the gasoline tax was increased $1,000,~ 000 a year. : * ok K X From Hill City, out in the flat, tree- less regions of Western Kansas, there came in distress a dust-blown farmer named Minor Young. He must see the Governor—it was about his trees. Young had a beautiful half-mile row | of cottonwoods. Some 30 years ago | he had set them out. Now, Kansas Highway 21 was to be widened 40 feet and run straight as a gunshot across the State to scoop out his trees. The Governor called in his secre- | tary and said, “Willard, you are ac- quainted out there. Those people seem to value their trees.” | “They think more of them than anything except their kids,” said Wil- lard Mayberry. To insure effective highway build- ing, Gov. Landon had established a | policy—hands off the engineers. He wanted roads that went somewhere. But what of Minor Young's trees? | The Governor got the Highway Com- | mission on the telephone. What about Highway 21? Couldn’t it be managed without cutting down the cotton- woods? The engineers said, “No, there is no way to miss the trees without putting a kink in the road on a flat plain.” “Well,” said the Governor to Young, “I'll not let them cut your cotton- woods.” When Minor Young went away beaming, Mayberry said, “Did you know that man is one of the strongest Democrats in his part of the coun- try?” “I forgot to ask him,” said Landon. There is a kink in Kansas Highway 21 today, woods. s A itatc of war nl“ms has been HE story of the two methods that | | produced the Kansas legisla- Gov. Landon promised to cut in half | the already low license fees on motor | cars, to put the highway department | into a souna financial condition and | and for half a mile along | the road is a row of beautiful cotton- | THE EVENING the open smce zarly youlh STAR, Gov. Landon is a natural horseman, accustomed to riding in taken for granted in Kansas, the peo- ple on one side and the utilities and rajlroads on the other. Out of the years of expensive conflict, charges have flamed and died, charges of util- the utilities for political capital. Rate hearings meant truckloads of evidence to prove opposite sets of facts, appeals, errors and expense. Redu tions usually were achieved only with overwhelming evidence. Gov. Landon appointed as chairman of the Corporations Commisison even- tempered, soft-spoken Homer Hoch. The sword was to be exchanged for table silver, the council table to re- place the battlefield. Kansas entered a period of new utility legislation with teeth in it and a general reduction in rates. The story is in figures of savings | based on the normal past consump- | tion in each case where a reduction was made. It affected most of the 350 utilities in the State and adds up to an annual saving to the people of Kansas of about $1,778,500. A bill assessing the utilities for the cost of a State department to control them aroused resistance that did not break down until the second session of the Legislature. Naturally the | utilities opposed a law that provides the State with engineers and lawyers who can keep up with the facts, a per- manent weapon. * x x x When, back in 1911, Kansas passed a blue sky law, it was the pioneer in a type of legislation since adopted by 46 States. But the type of service it performed varied from administration to administration, with the average being poor. When Landon took office there were good reasons to think millions of dol- | lars annually were being filched from | Kansas investors. As Homer Hoch said, a technical expert was needed, | somebody who could “read all that fine print on the elegant paper.” Out of the faculty of the University of Kansas they pulled Leslie Tupy, who was a lawyer as well as an accountant and student of corporation flnancing. They gave Tupy a chance to read all the “fine print” and have a look at some of the assets behind enticing securities. It developed that only about 60 of some 400 securities could be granted new permits. About 200 brokers and agents left the State. Sev- eral bucket shops were closed, one of | them had taken $150,000 from a widow. Men claiming control of large " blocks of votes ran screaming to the ity abuses and of politicians bating | Governor. But the decisions stood. Not one case was carried to the courts, * ok k% That Alf Landon would get along well with Kansas Labor was indicated | even before his election. He had lived with laboring men under the | Oklahoma and Kansas skies. He had | eaten with them, played pitch with them, and never thought of laborers as a class any more than he thought of bankers as a class. He favored ratification of the Child Labor Amend- ment to the Federal Constitution. Be- fore the special session of the Legis- lature in 1933 he said, “Labor-saving | machinery unquestionably has gone a | long way toward reducing the hours of labor needed to supply economic goods. This situation calls attention to shorter working hours and to chil- dren working in industry.” Later, when the national spotlight turned on him, he amplified his stand, favoring old-age pensions and child labor laws as an important part of a program to eliminate unemployment among able-bodied men. Landon appointed as Labor Com- missioner George E. Blakely, who had been twelve years president of the | Kansas Federation of Labor. Lan | don’s administration had a quiet time | in labor relations. In the only im- portant disturbance, a mine strike in | southeastern Kansas, he received a call from the affected counties for | protection by the state militia. But | he sent his labor commissioner to the | scene and acted on his advice. * X x % At the University of Kansas Gov. Landon is known as the friend of the faculty, a believer in academic free- dom. Not that he has been forced to protect the teachers against any or- ganized attack: but he has opposed ! | several demands for investigations of communism or socialism. He simply | refused to subject the faculty to | heckling. The pay of all teachers, college fac- ulty members, high school and ele- mentary teachers temporarily was fected by the Landon pay-as-you-go | program; but their reductions were no greater than those of other state and local employes. In many instances the cuts have now been restored. Landon was a leader in the fight against a proposed constitutional amendment that would have limited the school funds throughout the State for many years. Instead he put the restrictions in a flexible law that en- | ables the school districts to restore ‘sallnes as rapidly as they can af- x ford i | (Copyright, 1936, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) COMMONS BACKS to Urge Suspen_sion to League of Nations. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, June 24—Great Britain today led the procession of nations agreed to drop sanctions against Italy. With 14 votes more than expected, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin’s gov- ernment has received official approval from the House of Commons to rec- ommend suspension of the war penal- ties to the League of Nations. The vote last night, after extended debate, gave the government a 384-to- 170 victory, sending a Labor motion of censure to defeat. Cabinet members | had predicted a 200-vote majority in their favor. Baldwin Admits League Set-Back. Criticized for his turn-about policy of first demanding sanctions for Ital- ian aggression against Ethiopia and then recommending their cancellation, Prime Minister Baldwin wound up the government’s case personally. He acknowledged the League “has received a bad set-back,” but quickly added: “Failure in the first attempt to apply collective security in no wise means the death of the League. We must see how far we can make col- lective security a reality.” The attitude of the United States Congress on the sanctions question was discussed by the British leader in reply to a question from one of the members. No Direct Approach Made. Asked if the United States was re- quested to participate in the financial and economic penalties against the Fascist nation, Baldwin replied, no “direct approach” was made either oy by the League or any of its members. Non N éfiw',ok m.\lm- z MCNEILL y. June c] “qus TRANS. CO., Decatur 1866, North 1s one of the largest CHAMBERS undertakers in the world. Complete funerals as low as $75 up. Bix chapels. twelve pariors, seventeen cars. hearses. twenty-five undertakers and assistants. Ambylances now only $3, 1400 Clumbla 0432 517 11th 6700. Hdw's YOUR ROOF? Better . make sure before heavy rains Every facility here for depend- T 933 V St N.W. Call KOONS COMPANY VSt ] Tt makes no difference the size of _ yor order _for REPRINTSConsult. uis_first. Books_ _reports. _statements. etc. Reproduced promptly at Ieasonable cost. esti- COLUMBIA" PLANOGRAPH CO. 50 L St. N.E. Metropolif A DEAL FUNERAL T Erovides same service as one costing S50 Don't waste "ln:unm:- money.” ears’ experie: W‘Alalvfl. | ) ‘The League was well aware, he as- serted, the “worst possible means” of obtaining co-operation from Congress would have been to ask for it. SUYDAM TO SPEAK Henry Suydam, special assistant to the Attorney General, will be the prin- cipal speaker at the annual dinner of the Corrections Committee of the Council of Social Agencies tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Wesley Hall, Seventeenth and K streets. His topic will be “Pub- lic Opinion and Crime.” Ray L. Huff, chairman, will pre- side and arrangements are in the hands of J. A, Nolan, committee sec- retary. The committee deals with agencies engaged in the prevention of crime and in the rehabilitation of lp.el'mm who have fallen afoul of the W, » Baldwin Receives Approval | Employes (Continued From First Page.) implication that Republican adminis- trations have made non-political ones! The truth is that we all have been victims of the system. Political ap- pointments are bad politics.” Green Asks High Wages. Green told the committee: “We urge that your platform declare in favor of the maintenance of high, decent wage standards for employes of the Federal Government and that civilian Government employes be equitably and satisfactorily classified under civil service regulations. “The devotion of labor to civil serv- ice and the application of civil service regulations to Government employes inspires us to earnestly recommend its continuation and progressive extension to all departments of the Government.” The decision of the Platform Com- mittee will be awaited with keen in- terest in view of the fact that the Re- publicans adopted a strong civil service plank at Cleveland, to which the presi- dential candidate, Gov. Landon, added even greater force in a telegram. The decision of the Democrats also will have added significance in view of the large number of appointments made without regard to civil service during the last three years. Steward said: “The merit system is essential to good government, and it is indispensable to democratic gov- ernment. Long and costly experience has proved that there is no substitute for the merit system in Federal per- sonnel administration. Civil service is the only assurance to the taxpayer of full value for every dollar expended. “The National Federation of Fed- eral Employes urges specifically that this convention adopt a platform plank which will pledge the party to the support of legislation designed to ex- tend the civil service to all Federal positions which are not directly of a policy-making nature.” Steward was accompanied by John J. Barrett of the United National As- sociation of Post Office Clerks. Russia (Continued From First Page.) which were demilitarized under the Lausanne treaty of 1923. Sharp critic- ism was directed at the proposal and especially the limitations Turkey seeks to place on passage of vessels, both fighting and merchant, through the Dardannelles to the Black Sea. No Limit on Seviet Tonnage. ‘The Turkish suggestion would limit the Eastward tonnage to 14,000 tons for any one power and 28,000 tons for simultaneous passage of all powers. 1t would not, however, place a limit on the Russian tonnage westward through the Straits. Conferees heard reports of the possi- bility Russia is building = modern, powerful fighting fleet at the Black S2a port of Odessa. Q BODY OF SWIMMER FOUND IN RIVER Corpse of Ralph Glassman Located Near Colonial Canoe Club. The body of Ralph Glassman, 25, Veterans’ Administration employe, who drowned Sunday while swimming with a party of friends, was found today in the Potomac River near the Colonial Canoe Club. J. W. Crampton, manager of a boat house on the Georgetown shore, said he saw the body bobbing in the water on the Virginia side. He rowed over, he said, and secured the body to the shore with a rope. Crampton said the body was about 300 yards downstream from where Glassman sank. Unable to Swim. Glassman, who came here recently from New York City, is reported to have dived from a row boat near Three Sisters Islands, cried, “I can’t swim” and disappeared. His room- mate, Leo Reuben, 1719 Q street, dived for him, but the water is more than 60 feet deep at that point and his efforts were futile. Reuben Identified the Body. Others in the swimming party were Anna B. Rosenblum, 917 Eighteenth street, and Ruth Markowitz, 1739 I street, who witnessed the drowning. ‘They said Glassman had told them he had not been swimming since childhood. He had planned to return to New York Sunday for the wedding of a relative, but decided at the last minute not to make the trip, police were told. Certificate of Suicide. Meanwhile, Coroner Thomas D. Griffith of Prince Georges County, Md., issued a certificate of suicide in the death of Raymond E. Olive, 26, of 809 Sixth street southwest, who jumped overboard from the excursion steamer Potomac Saturday night. Olive’s body was found a few yards off the Maryland shore yester- day, near Mount Vernon. It was taken fo the Morgue, where a brother, William Olive of Emmerton, Md., identified it. Olive jumped from the boat after leaving his coat, shoes and tie on the deck. The articles were identified Mon- day by Mrs. Raymond Olive, the widow. Shirley Seen Bad Influence. HONOLULU (#).—Officials blame Shirley Temple for a wave of hitch- hiking among Hawaii's schoolchildren. The diminutive film star, they say, was shown “thumbing” & ride in a recent picture and her fictional success led WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY The Story of Alf M. Landon Chapter X—Methods That Worked. LANDONS READY T0GOTO RANCH Children Excited as Time Nears for Departure for Colorado. By the Associated Press. ‘TOPEKA, Kans. June 24 —Mrs. Alf M. Landon’s biggest job today was answering the questions of a small girl and smaller boy as the family of the Republican presidential nominee com- pleted packing for a vacation trip to a mountain ranch near Estes Park, Colo. Nancy Jo, who will be 4 the last of July, and John (Jack) Cobb Landon, 215, are a lot more interested in “we're going on a train, a real train” than in the fact their daddy, Gov. Landon of Kansas, has been selected to head the Republican party. After all, that is probably a bit vague to them, for Mrs. Landon said she has tried to keep the youngsters out of the commotion as much as possible. The night of the nomination they were sent away from the Governor's man- to the home of their grandmother, Mrs. S. E. Cobb. First Trip for Children. But this business of getting ready for a trip—that couldn't be kept quiet, not with all the last-minute bustle of packing watched by two pairs of eager young eyes. It was to be their first journey out of the State and their first trip on a train. Partially in preparation for this train journey to Colorado Mrs. Landon said she took the two small children down to the station to see their half-sister, Peggy Anne, 19, leave by train for the recent Republican Convention. At that time, Mrs. Landon related, the youngsters boarded the train with Jack particularly interested in the en- gine, Leave Tonight. Gov. Landon, Mrs. Landon, Peggy Anne, the two children and their governess, Mrs. Lucy McCue, and Mrs. Landon’s mother, Mrs. Cobb, leave to- night on a Union Pacific train for Den- ver. Aboard will be two carloads of newspaper reporters, photographers and members of the campaign staff. The Governor’s father, John M. Lan- don, may go later. The Landons have leased the Mc- Graw ranch in Cow Creek Valley near | Estes Park. There Mrs. Landon ex- pects to stay with the children—except for a trip back here for the nomination notification ceremonies July 23—until September. The Governor plans to return here | July 6, but before then he intends to get in some fly fishing. CONE NOMINATED IN FLORIDA RACE Democrats Select Banker Governorship in Run- Off. B8y the Assoctated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla, June 24—A 61-year-old Lake City banker, farmer and lawyer, Fred P. Cone, won the Democratic nomination for Governor of Florida in yesterday's run-off primary. Nearly complete unofficial returns gave Cone more than 45,000 votes over Judge Raleigh Petteway of Tampa, high man in the June 2 primary feld of 14 gubernatorial candidates. Cone ran second, almost 5,000 votes behind Petteway to enter the run-off. ‘The unofficial vote from 1,191 of the State’s 1,322 precincts tabulated for 111,087. Youthful Joe Hendricks of Deland, who carried the Townsend Clubs’ in- dorsement, apparently was a winner in the new fifth district congressional nomination contest. Representative R. A. Green appar- ently was the victor over W. J. Sears in the second district. Sears, now Florida's Representative at large, was forced into the race for nomination from the second district after the Legislature redistricted the State and abolished his job. Green indorsed the Townsend plan. National issues played little or no part in the races. All the candidates indorsed the Roosevelt administration and the controversial cross-Florida canal project did not figure in the campaign. MERCHANT PROVES MATCH FOR BANDIT 115-Pound Storekeeper Battles Large Intruder and Protects Cash Register. Gordon D. Farrar, 27, 115-pound proprietor of a hardware store at Third street and Rhode Island avenue north- east, proved more than a match last night for a large white man who at- tempted to rob the cash register. The would-be bandit entered the store and asked for a can of paint. ‘When Farrar turned to a shelf to get it, he was struck down from behind with a chisel. The intruder started for the cash register. Farrar recovered sufficiently to pick up a floor waxer and hurl it. The object struck a set of glass shelves and the man was hit on the leg in the ensuing crash. Farrar and the intruder then fought it out with their fists all the way to the front door. The man escaped after an unidentified pedestrian chased him for three blocks without success. Farrar, who lives at the Rhode Is- land Gardens, Second street and Rhode Island avenue northeast, was treated at home for a gash on the head and a severed blood vessel. Six stitches were taken in the wound by a physician. Farrar was alone when the attempted robbery occurred. CENTS A MILE TO NEW YORK hundreds of youngsters here to try the today gave: Cone, 156515; Petteway, | E 24, 1936. Renominated:” REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM LEMK. SECURITY PACTS WAPPED BY BLUM: Premier Seeks to Bind| France to Allies for Self- Protection. BACKGROUND— Fear that his nation had been left at the post in Europe's big- power race for alliances prompted Premier Blum last week to shake up France’s diplomatic machine and the men who made it. The head of the French Socialist party received his mandate in re- cent Deputies election, when swing to Left was hailed as demand for action to stimulate employment, keep credit conditions stable and improve foreign relations, By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 24—Fear of interna- tional isolation haunted France today as she slowly emerged from internal strife. ‘The Socialist government, encour- aged by a 382 to 198 parliamentary vote of confidence, struck out vigorously to strengthen its position among Euro- pean nations. Premier Leon Blum carried forward | a double drive to bind France more | firmly to her present allies through | regional security pacts which would, in their turn, fortify the League of Na- tions collective peace agreement. A few fresh strikes and renewed| clashes between Leftists and National- ists complicated the domestic situa- ' tior,, but Roger Salengro, minister of the interior, assured the cabinet firm measures would bring an end to the in- ternal struggles. Two Proposals Advanced. Openly fearful France may be left out if Great Britain, Germany and ! Italy settle their differences, Blum ad- | vanced two proposals to bolster Euro- pean relations. ‘The first would permit any group of | League powers to fight an aggressor whether grouped according to “a zhen geographical situation or from a com- munity of interests.” Under the second, members df the League would be allowed the privilege | of instituting “preventive measures” if threatened by an aggressor. ‘These suggestions, together with the regional pacts, Blum believes, would | bring to France an equality among the great powers which he fears is now on the decline. Balks at British Plan, ‘The dapper Socialist leader already has balked at a British proposal to establish three regional zones—similar to the French regional agreements i some respects, but unfavorable to| France because they would permit Germany a free hand in Central Europe, seat of the Franco-Little Entente alliances. Instead Blum would substitute three pacts in which she would participate in a trio of alliances—one in Western | Europe, one in the Danubian Basin | and one in the Mediterranean. ‘The British suggestions set up agreements between Great Britain, France, Belgium and Holland in Western Europe. ‘The other pacts| would take in the French allies— Russia and the Little Entente (Yugo- slavia, Czechoslovakia and Rumania) —and France would have no chance to g0 to their aid or they to hers. Acceptance of this proposal, the Prench declared, would reduce France to a state of dependency in Europe. Blum and his foreign minister, Yvon Delbos, are expected to advance their proposals at the sessions of the League Council at Geneva Friday and at the assembly meeting next week. Mounted gendarmes dispersed s battling crowd in the Place de la Comedie at Bordeaux and broke up new fights between Nationalists and Leftists at Grenoble and Lyon. The mayor of Brest, after the city had been without gas for five days, asked the government to let the navy take over the gas works, after 500 residents, most of them housewives, demonstrated in front of the com- pany’s office. —_— TWO PRIESTS JAILED VACHA, Germany, June 24 (#).— Two Catholic priests were sentenced to prison and fined yesterday on charges of smuggling currency from the country. Father Josef Beier received a term of 21 months and a fine of 40,000 marks (about $16,000). Father Hilarius Frank, who fled abroad, was sentenced in absentia to 33 months, a fine of 61,000 marks and loss of citizenship for five years. The | ference with the candidate, the pen- DAKOTA PRIMARY RENAMES LEMKE Union Party Candidate for President Unopposed inG.0.P. BACKGROUND— Declaring that liberals of Na- tion have been forced into “no man’s land” by reactionaries of two wmajor political parties, Representa- tive Lemke, non-partisan, of North Dakota, last week launched new Union party with himself as presi- dential candidate. Few days later Father Coughlin indorsed announced platform of new party. Lemke has been best known in Congress for authorship of inval- idated Frazier-Lemke farm mora- torium bill and of unpassed farm refinancing bill. Stectal Dispatch to The Star | FARGO, N. Dak, June 24—Rep-| resentative William Lemke, the | Union party’s candidate for Presi- | dent, was renominated today while the electorate decided congressional, State and county contests in North Dakota's primary elections. | Lemke, who seeks to retamn his seat in the House despite his en- trance into the national field, and Representative Usher Burdick, man- ager of Lemke's presidential cam- paign, were automatically renomi- | nated by the State Republicans, since neither was opposed on the ballot. Vote for Lemke Watched. Although without opposition, ob- servers professed interest in the vote Lemke would compile as an indi- | cation of home State indorsement of his new efforts. | Chief attention centered on the struggle between Gov. Walter Wel- ford and former Gov. William Lan- | ger for the Republican gubernatorial | nomination. They waged a bitter | fight, for to the victor goes control of the party's dominant unit, the Nonpartisan League. Gov. Welford's final appeals vwre made by proxy, since he was in Wash- ington arranging ald for farmers in the drought-scourged districts of the | State. TOWNSEND HOLDS KEY. Course to Determine Extent of lnlon Party Success. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Playing his hand with extreme caution, Dr. Francis E. Townsend of old-age pension fame is holding the key to whatever sucess is in store for | the new Union party. The doctor, in explanation, domi- | nates one of the two most important | organized political groups in the country, neither of them having any ties with the established major or minor political parties. The second, | the National Union for Social Justice, | under leadership of Father Coughlin, | already has committed itself to the | candidacy of Representative Lemke, | North Dakota non-partisan, who is | presidential choice of the new party. Dr. Townsend, however, has re-| frained from any precipitate action. | Yesterday, after an hour's con- | sion messiah stated flatly he would make no commitment for his fol- lowers. Instead, he explained in a | | manner best calculated to meet ap- proval of his adherents, he will place the issue before them at the July 15 convention of Townsendites in | Cleveland. Lemke Leaves Capital. Lemke left Washington this morn- ing with his two sons, planning to get ! back to Fargo, N. Dak., early next week. On his way he will stop in Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago. start- ! for establishment of a national head- quarters of the Union party. In De- | troit, he may visit Father Coughlin, laimed no knowledge as to whether an appointment had been arranged. Before the presidential candidate left the Capital, he conferred briefly | with William H. McKeighan, five times | Mayor of Flint, Mich., and a Republi- | can candidate for Governor of that State. McKeighan, who has supported | the Townsend organization in Michi- gan, is expected to follow the doctor | in whatever course is decided Wwith regard to the Lemke candidacy. He afternoon and return to Michigan to- morrow. Lemke is not planning to return to ‘Washington this Summer, his office said, but he will be back through the East in July and intends to be in Cleveland for the Townsend sessions. Lemke Direct Appeal. At that time, Lemke himself will be given an opportunity to make an appeal directly to the Townsend dele- gates. In the meantime, however, the doctor will have ample opportunity to survey the chances of third party success and pull some strings to influence the convention along what- ever lines he thinks best. In any event, he was emphatic yesterday in making it known that no merger of the Townsend organiza- tion with any other group is contem- plated and that even if his support finally is extended to Lemke it will be only in the form of co-operation toward a single objective. ' Adding some weight also to the doc- tor's strategic position in the Union party’s future is the part being played by Gerald K. Smtih, one-time share- the-wealth gpostle of the late Senator Huey Long. Yesterday, for instance, Smith sat in on the conference and announced & similar suspension of bestowing his blessing upon the new party's candi- date and platform. Announcing mod- estly that “5,000,000 persons have in- trusted themselves to my political ing the machinery in the latter place| | but the Congressman’s office here| was to see Townsend in Baltimore this | judgment,” Smith said he would make no decision on how he would advise his “people” until after the Townsend- ites had made their choice. 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