The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
PERRY mozart
LOOMS IN RACE
FOR GOVERNOR
Public Service Chairman
Seen as Possibility
in Deadlock.
BY JAMES DOSS

Add to the already lengthy list
of possible compromises in the race
for Democratic nominee for Gov
ernor the name of Perry Mozart,
Public Service Commission chair
man.
Mr.. Mozart, as far as can be
| learned, is not doing any under
cover campaigning, but his friends
are advancing his name as like
~ possibility if a deadlock should
develop in the June convention. His
friends point out that the commits
sion's record for rate reductions I'M
der his regime gives him prestige.
Too, he probably would be &C
ceptable to the VanNuyS faction on
the score of being one of the party'S
"old timers" on whose behalf Sem
ator VanNuys has taken up the
cudgel against the state admins
tration. At least, that is the way
his friends see it.
Lieut.. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend,
almost a sure candidate for Cover
nor, has to give an imitation these
days of walking on eggs. The Lieu
tenant Governors reputed political
strength largely is drawn from the
farm group and Mr.. Townsend is
chairman of the State Milk Control
Board.
The pending board decision on
whether farmers are entitled to
price increase of from $1.85 TO 1920
a hundredWeight may have some
bearing on Mr.. ToWnsend's political
fortunes.
And speaking of Governor can
didacies, Pleas Greenlee, patronage
secretary to Gov. McNutt and called
other names by persons for whom
Mr.. Greenlee can't find jobs, has a
new title.
He has been dubbed the Cover
nors prime minister" by the Fort
Wayne News-Sentinel, powerful
northern Indiana Republican news
paper. The News antinels edi-
torial writer devoted more than
half column to a satirical indorse-
ment of Mr.. Greenlee for Governor.
Mr.. Greenlee'S continued absences
from his office on hunting trips have
revived reports that he either will
resign shortly or take formal leave
| Of Oh oI1o oI
1t is being said that Mr.. Greenlee
has been asked to do one or the
other, if he intends to continue his
campaigning.
Meanwhile, supporters of E. Kirk
Mckinney, Indiana manager of the
Home Owners Loan, Corp, are
pressing his campaign which he is
expected to enter into vigorously
after his resignation Jan. /.
His lieutenantS are hopeful Of an
alliance with R. Earl Peters, Fed
eral Housing Administration direc-
tor, and Clarence Manion, National
Emergency Council director for In
diana. Both are scheduled to speak
at the farewell dinner to be given
Mr. Mckinney by the Hole Dec. %.
A consolidation of political
strength represented by the major
Federal agencies in Indiana would
make it exceedingly tough for the
candidate backed by the state adj
ministration.
Friends Of Gov. McNutt are an
gered by published intimations that
the Governor crashed" President
Roosevelt's automobile when the
President came to South Bend
earlier this week to receive the hon.
orary degree of doctor of laws.
The statement was made by one
newspaper that only President
Roosevelt, the Rev. John F. O'Hara,
president of Notre Dame; a secret
service man and the automobile
driver, Rex Fisher, former state po-
liceman, were to be in the Presi-
dents car. 1t was said Gov. McNutt
stepped in the car, pulled down a
collapsible seat and sat directly in
front of Father O'Hara.
The President smiled" the story
said, explaining that Gov. McNutt
was scheduled to ride in another car
with Gov. Henry Horner, Illinois,
and Marvin Mcintyre, the Presi-
dents secretary.
Gov. McNutt, officially named
civic host for the event by Notre
Dame, said he had intended to ride
in the third or fourth car in the
procession, to which he apparent
ly had been assigned by some local
committee on arrangements.
However, he was stopped on his
way to it by Col. Edward Startling,
head Of the White House Secret
Service detachment, and told he
was expected to ride with the Pres
ident. Colonel Startling is the court
of last resort where arrangements
affecting the Presidents person are
concerned.
Hence, the unjustifiable intima-
ton that the Governor crashed ;
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