Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1940, Page 8

4Clear-Cut Contests Slated in Vote in 12 Midwest States . Roouv'elt and Garner in Two, With Dewey and Vandenberg Also in Two B the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 9.—The Mid- west provides a proving ground for presidential. candidacies in - the weeks ahead. . [ iHigh lighted in & survey of the 12-State area today were four clear- cut contests. Two of them pit President Roosevelt against Vice President Garner. The other two involve Thomas E. Dewey and Sen- ator Vandenberg of Michigan. On the Democratic side, most of the chieftains or State organiza=- tions in at least half of the Central Btates favor the President, although he hag maintained ssilence on his plans. But Mr. Garner has forced & poll of the party rank-and-file in two early but significant tests. The first of these is in Wisconsin. Two slates of Roosevelt delegates, formed by rival Democratic groups, are entered in competition with one made up of Garner supporters in the April 2 primary. Dewey and Vandenberg delegations ¢ompete at the same time. At stake are 24 votes in each party’s national con- vention. The result is binding. Round 2 in Illinols. Round 2 in the Roosevelt-Garner bout will feature the Illinois pref- erence primary one week Ilater. Mayor Kelly and National Com- mitteeman P. A. Nash of Chicago and Gov. Horner, organization captains, have united behind the President. The Garner forces made the third term the issue. Mr, Dewey is unopposed in the Republican column. Mr. Dewey and Senator Vanden- berg will meet at the political bar- ricades again in Nebraska's pref- erence primary on the same day. President Roosevelt has no opposi- tion there, The outcome will be purely ad- visory to Illinois’ 58 delegates and to Nebraska's 14, although rank and file sentiment will be definitely shown. Nebraska leaders have lined up delegates pledged to the Presi- dent. Ohio’s bloc of 52 votes in the Re- publican National Convention will be the property of Senator Taft. If he withdrew or were eliminated, they would be transferred to Gov. Bricker. Indications are that the Democratic delegation will be pledged nominally to National Com- mitteeman Charles Sawyer as & favorite son but will be shifted to Mr. Roosevelt if he is a candidate. The primary there will be May 14. Michigan Field Surveyed. Senator Vandenberg's associates are surveying the Michigan field for him. The State conventions there choose 38 delegates apiece and may act on presidential indorsements. Republicans assemble May 16. Dem- ocrats have not set & date. Observers figure Indiana’s 28 Dem- ocratic convention votes will be cast for Federal Security Adminis- trator McNutt, if Mr. Roosevelt is out of the running, and that the Republican delegation probably will g0 to Philadelphia uninstructed. Both parties will select 24 delegates in district caucuses on the eves of the State conclaves and four others in the State conventions. The dates have not been set. Iowa's Democratic chiefs, with few exceptions, favor Mr. Roosevelt, although there has been talk of giving the State’s 22 votes to Secre- tary of Agriculture Wallace or Sena- tor Herring on the first ballot as a complimentary gesture. A Dewey organization is functioning. Men- tioned occasionally is House Mi- nority Leader Martin. Both dele- gations will be selected at State conventions. Republican pilots in Kansas ap- parently prefer an unfettered dele- gation. Alf M. Landon, friendly to Mr. Martin but voicing no prefer- ence, is scheduled for the chair- man’s post Democrats seem likely to instruct their delegation for Becretary of War Woodring, former Kansas Governor. It was believed a ‘Woodring unit would be turned over to Mr. Roosevelt if the President de- cided to seek renomination. Repub- lican delegates will be named in dis- trict conventions late this month and in a State gathering April 4. Democrats will pick theirs at a con- vention June 10. Both have 18. Senthment for Short. Missouri Republican stategists evince a strong sentiment to pledge delegates only to support the vice presidential aspirations of Repre- sentative Dewey Short. They will be chosen April 26 in a State conven- tion. Democrats convene April 15 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 10, BEFORE THE KITES WENT WITH THE WIND—Some of the boys who started out for a test flight of their kites in the March winds which played havoc with them. Left to right are friendly to him. Gov. Stark favors them unpledged but “sympathetic” to Roosevelt policies. Each party has 30. Each party has a single slate of eight delegates and eight alternates in South Dakota's May 7 primary. They are uninstructed nominally. But the Democratic list includes friends of W. W. Howes, First As- sistant Postmaster General and a supporter of James A. Farley. The Republican roster has at least four favorable to Hanford MacNiger. Minnesota politiclans opine that both delegations, numbering 22 each, will go uninstructed. Eighteen will be selected at district meetings May 14 and four others-at the Republican State Convention May 23. The Democrats have not set a date. The two parties will choose eight delegates apiece at North Dakota conventions, probably early in May. ‘There are no positive signs of cur- rent sentiment. Ice Carnival Tickets Go On Sale Tomorrow Tickets go on sale tomorrow for the ice carnival to be presented March 23, 24 and 25 by the Wash- ington Figure Skating Club at Riv- erside Stadium for the benefit of the Washington Society for the Blind. They may be pdrchased at the Washington, Willard and Shore- ham hotels, the Keystone Automo- bile Club or at Riverside Stadium, Sald to be similar to the Ice Fol- lies recently shown here, the car- nival will include more than 200 per- formers, among them Hazel Prank- lin, the young English figure skater. Local professionals and amateurs will also participate in the show. One-third of the receipts will go to the Washington Society for the Blind. Mrs~Franklin D. Roosevelt is honorary chairman of the Car- nival Committee. Conservation Is Topic Of ‘Co-operative Forum’ A “Co-operative Forum,” at which W. C. Henderson, associate chief of the Biological Survey, and members will discuss conservation of natural resources, is scheduled for 8 pm. Wednesday at the workshop of the Co-operative Committee, 1110 F street N.W. Attendance at the forum is to be by invitation only and seats are re- served, Charles T. Estes, chairman, announced yesterday. That Smooth, Velvety Lawn You -Dream About, Becomes a Reality When Y ou Sow #|boy's hands and taking the kite a4 A boisterous, frigid March wind romped devastatingly yesterday with a score of boy-made kites a group of youngsters, members of the Boys' Kite Club of the Georgetown Chil- dren’s House, tried to fly on the Georgetown University campus. ‘The casualty list—to the kites— was pretty high, but the boys who saw them vanish or disintegrate vowed to build others as good or better. And everybody had a good time. | One lad, who stood empty-handed and disconsolate, with chattering teeth, was asked what had hap- pened to his kite. “I don’t know,” he said. went with the wind.” The event was scheduled as “trial flights” for the Boys' Kite Club, and it was just that. i The boys, under the expert in- struction of Miss Pherne Miller, teacher of arts and crafts at the Children’s House, had exercised their ingenuity on their favorite prey of the wind. There were flam- boyant and subdued designs—eagles, shields of the United States, flags, symbols of flight. One boy had made a butterfly, tail and all, and another a realistic green turtle. But they were all the same to the wind. Some simply disappeared.. Others ‘were tossed out in the youhg gsle and found broken. Still others were caught in trees. A few escaped. The 'playful wind would pause deceptively and one of the kiters would ease his flyer out. Then the March vixen would turn on the power, jerking the cord out of the “It has no one knew where. The shattered remnants of some were deposited ironically at the feet of their young masters, Miss Miller was there to help her charges fly their creations. Wind was needed for the occasion, she pointed out, but, after all, any- thing could be overdone. The Children’s House is & com- munity project, sponsored by the Garden Club of Georgetown and its more than 200 little members, girls and boys, put in some of their Walter Swartz, Bobby Campbell, 1940—PART ONE. McNutt Says Jobless - Pay for Ball Players 1Is Up to States , Charles Henn, Horace Hurdle, Lewis Westlein, Paul Westlein, Joe Maggi, Robert Harding, Ran Harding, Timothy Norvell and Bobby Reese.—Star Staff Photo. pra Boisterous March Wind Ruins Boys’ Kite Club Tests Youngsters, Undismayed, Will Build Anew To Replace Wrecked Creations spare time making all manner of things and having a swell time do- ing it. London __(Continued From First Page) 1918 pleaded successfully for Ger- man military help against the Rus- sian Reds, will trail Von Ribbentrop from Berlin to Rome. His part in all this peace-seeking is shadowy. * It is known that Russia refused Finland an armistice until her peace terms are accepted, but no one would confirm reports that she had re- duced those terms to demands for only a part of the Karelian Isthmus and a secondary naval base at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland. Previously she also claimed Viipuri and the Pinnish “Gibraltar” at Hanko. . Moscow offered no explanation of conferences between United States Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt, Soviet Premier Vyachesloff Molo- toff and the Swedish Minister to Russia, but in Washington Secre- tary Hull said Mr. Steinhardt had made a factual summation to the State Department of the Russian- H!m‘i:l; situatic and had had nothing to say mediation. * The Pinns mum:es. exerting alf their energies in resisting Soviet armies which have won a foothold on the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland west of Viipuri, were glumly silent about peace prospects. Those in Britain who favor mili- | tary intervention in Finland find the war office their biggest barrier. The military chieftians feel they can- not be expected to divert troops from battle positions in France or from training camps in England for a Finnish “adventure,” “especially when we are faced by 300 German divisions,” as one well-informed per- son put it. There is, however, great popular clamor in England for such inter- vention. Even in circles close to the foreign office, it is frequently pointed out that French action in regard to Finland has far out- stripped British diplomacy. Moreover, it is believed in Lon- don that the French attitude to- ward Sweden and Norway borders on definite antagonism. These coun- tries, fearful of their own direct in- volvement in war, have shied away from sending real armies to help Finland. French leadership in dispatching an expeditionary force to the north, i perhaps by sea to the Finnish coast, might mollify British military op- position to full-dress intervention. Assured that France would furnish most of the troops, conveyed and convoyed by British transports and | destroyers, military men here prob- | ably would look on the “adventure” in a more favorable light. x ALL TH ! L rnxz!gl : B ATTENTION: Knew ror COLLEGE GRADUATE! ppine¥s. The Colle | e Iatest | | B B 1 LA Recent incidents Received Undue Attention, He Writes Tobey The question of whether baseoall players are entitled to unemploy- ment compensation during the off- season is a matter for the States to decide, Paul V, McNutt, Federal security administrator, wrote ' yes- terday in a letter to Senatur Tobey, Republican, of New Hampshire. He observed that the matter “has per- haps received attention dispropor- tionate to its importance.” The McNutt letter pointed out that an unemployment compensa- tion system, like other types of social insurance, is adjusted to the average need and no individual needs or means test is im . As for Mr. McNutt's own t of view on the matter, he said: “Some players drawing large sal- arles, especially those in the major leagues, may have unconscionably claimed benefits for periods in which they are not normally employed: But, as reported by the press, play- ers employed by clubs in the lower classifications at times have a sal« ary limit which is less than that of the average factory worker.” Michigan Decision Cited. The letter called Senator Tobey’s attention to & decision in Michigan which allowed the compensation for & minor league player after it was brought out that he received only $100 a month in wages for playing baseball—“barely a living wage,” the Michigan unemployment com- pensation board declared, “for those months during which he is actually playing ball and performing some service for the baseball compeny.” “The problem of baseball players,” Mr. McNutt said, “save those gen- uinely paid with respect to the en- tire year, does not differ essentially from the problem of workers en- gaged in other seasonal employ- i Ast.. 8 8. 40th St. E. C. DAVENPORT, Resident Mgr. SPECIAL IS WEEK IFOCALS, tok wi 1o see far Res. val A ‘o A'E' mfi:&fi; A mard B. Hillyard, 0.D, D.0. S | 903 F St. N.W. oo, Cleveland third baseman, and’a number of members of the St. Louis Browns, including Joe Gilenn, catcher, and John Beradino, in- fielder. Pupils to Hear Concert ‘The National S8ymphony Orches- tra will give a concert March 19 at 2:30 p.m. for the pupils of the Arm- strong High School, under the aus- pices of the Pine Arts Council of the colored schools. Gonuin: Oyt Gannett Sees Third Term Endangering Freedom B the Associated Press. MIAMI, Pla, March crushed; our children wiil live under & different government than the one that has made this Nation the greatest in the world.” Mr. Gannett, Rochester (N. Y.J) publisher and a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, arrived at his M'‘ami Beach winter home by plane from a cross-country tour. “I charge that the New Deal has been a complete failure,” he said. He added: “Today there isn't a successful businessman within & mile of the ‘White House.” South Africa plans to establish an aviation trade school. 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