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creator of Townsend old-age PEN
sion plan.
Why the ''big four" towers so high
above all other candidates may be
partially explained by the fact that
the campaigns of these men already
are we'll under way. Through tours
speeches and publicity the general
public has become acquainted with
their personalities and their stand
on public questions.
But it cannot be pointed out too
strongly that there is a very large
undecided vote in every claSSiflca-
ton, amounting to as much as 80
per cent among the women of the
South who did not vote in 1882.
Some typical interviews culled from
the reports of our investigators throw
light on this situation.
An insurance salesman in Indian
apolis said, IT have no choice as yet;
they haven't a good candidate"
Haven't any one strong enough, T"
said a lineman for Massachusetts,
telephone company"
None of them. They have no def
mite plans" said a Chicago watch
parts manufacturer.
will vote for whoever is chosen,
said an East Orange, N. j., housewife.
ITS too early to make a selection,
but I'm open to conviction" said a
Boston clerk.
Which would make II seem that
the hats are in the ring and the good
fights just beginning.
(Copyright. 1850
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home sector, the Far West, where 1913
per cent of the Republicans support
him. Here. however. the number of
undecided votes bulkS leaSt-17.7-
and Borah, Landon and Knox have
made the deepest inroads on his 1882
strength, taking away more than half
Of his support in the last presidential
election. Borah is strong second to
Hoover through the Far West. Here
Landon and Knox run neck and neck,
with the Kansas governor leading the
Chicagoan by IL per cent.
In the Middle West, Landon leads
with 20.4 per cent of the total while
Hoover runs close second with 1910
per cent. Here the number of unde-
.cided votes among Republicans is
kgreater than in any other section of
the country. Almost so per cent OF
the woman voters have not yet made
up their minds to support any candi-
date while the total among the wav-
erers of both sexes Is 35.5 per cent. 1t
is necessary to put big question mark
over the map in this part of the coun-
try.
In the East, the undecided" again
dominate the scene. although shade
less strongly than in the Middle West.
Hoover is almost as strong in the
East as in the far West. Landon Is q
little stronger and Knox slightly
weaker. But the picture changes
completely IN the number Of these who
Evening star., 1936-01-05

It is, of course, too early to say
that this poll shows that the race
lies among four men. Public senti-
ment, like a railroad time table, is
subject to change without notice, and
public opinion, unless it is sufficiently
unanimous, is not always an ire
sistible force in the popularity imagined
smoke filled" back room of the con-
vention hall. But the big Four" are
so far ahead of all present competitors
that there Is a strong probability in
their favor.
Poll of Republicans.
The answer to the second question
in our poll-"Whom did you vote for
in 932?"-enabled rs to approximate
just how much weight the individual
expression of preference for candi-
date should carry. Since the Republic
cans are the ones who must decide on
the man to lead them in the fight they
are preparing for, 1t is obvious that
the preference of the mer and women
who voted for Hoover in l932-the ma
jority Of whom may safely be regarded
as registered party members-is Of
more immediate significance than the
preference of q Democrat who will
have only q minor and indirect voice
In the G. o. p. convention.
It is probable that the coming cleo
ton will slash heavily across party
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up between two wings to the colonnade
across the top, the great stone altar
has been reconstructed as it really
appeared.
It bears around its sides, further
more, frieze which, when it was
reconstructed, upset all the scholars
ideas of the later development of
Greek art. For here was something
as vivid and passionate, almost as
violent, as baroque.
1t is war between gods and
giants whose story the frieze tells.
The gods" were, of course, the
people of Pergamon itself. The
giants" were their enemies, the
Galatians, forefathers of the Gauls,
whom Pergamon defeated in a great
war in the second century, A. D. So
early an invention was propaganda.
One sculptor was so impressed by a
figure in the frieze that when he
himself did a heroic group later, he
copied that same figure from the
back OF the temple. You can see it
in the central figure Of the LAGOON
group in Rome.
Evening star., 1936-01-05
Kansas Yields Wing
Of Great Dragon Fly

Remains Of the worlds largest in
sect, a dragon fly 21a feet long. have
been found in the limestone beds near
Elmo, Kans., by DR.. Frank M. Car.
penter Of the Harvard University Mu-
scum of Comparative Zoology. Only
part of the wing has been found, but
this is enough to permit the size to
be calculated, as the dragon fly of the
Permian age, about l50,000,00o years
ago, when this one existed, was of
the same construction, though not of
size, as the small dragon fly of today,
with its long, slender body and long.
narrow wings with spread equal to
the length Of its body. These dragon
flies were the most powerful insects
that ever lived. Birds and mammals
had not yet evolved. The earth was
then inhabited by fish, amphibia, rep
tiles, invertebrates and insects. Vast
swamps covered the area that is now
Kansas when this dragon ny was
alive.
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Soviet Soon to Finish
Palace of Technology

MOSCOW.-Moscow soon will CONF
plete its new Palace of Technology.
Largest of its kind in the world. the
institution will be located on the
banks of the Moscow River opposite
the Central Park of Culture and Rest
and will occupy 289 acres.
AS designed. the grounds and build.
ings will accommodate 10000 pef=
sons at one time. The buildings will
be arranged to permit a continuous
flow of visitors throughout the whole
area. There are 81 divisions devoted
to nine main branches of technology,
including industry, mining and treat
ment Of minerals, the cultivation and
processing of agricultural raw mate
rials, communication, construction, etc.
The library alone accommodates 2l2
million volumes. The buildings houS-
ing the new museum will require the
services Of 1000 persons.
(CopyriEht. 1889
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Engineer, Trained in Greek Art, Found
First Fragments of Pergamon Altar

BERLIN.-The Turkish government
hired a German civil engineer, Carl
Human, to build a road between the
Dardanelles and Smyrna
All German civil engineers have to
know at least little about Greek art
and history, so he knew he might have
found something very important when
some of his Turkish road gang brought
him stone fragments of an ancient
frieze.
So Human shipped some of the
fragments to Alexander Come, di-
rector Of the Berlin Museum. Come
satisfied himself the fragments must
be parts of the ancient altar of Per-
canon. Turkey gave permission for
German archeologists to excavate for
the rest of the altar-and, recon-
structed, it now stands in its own
museum in Berlin.
It was a long time, though, until
the altar finally was suitably housed
in the Pergamon Museum. It was
in 1873 that Carl Human found the
first fragments and justified the
schooling in Greek art and history he
had had by sending the fragments to
Come. And it was only few years
ago that the museum was completed.
It took five years for Come to in
terest the proper authorities, raise the
necessary funds and begin the excava-
tions. It took six years more to COM
plete the digging. Then it took almost
30 years to reconstruct the altar.
And finally it took 80 years after that
before the present museum was built.
But the result is perhaps unique.
Here Is museum which was built
TO house o specific discovery.
Here, too, is no collection OF frag-
menx having meaning only for pro-
fessors of archaeology, but the very
altar itself-or at least reconstruc-
ton of 1t so skillful as to create an
almost perfect illusion.
One enters the great room with
its enormous skylight and pale-blue
walls. He feels that he is standing
on that open hillside In Asia Minor
facing in very truth what st. John
called "The Altar of Satan" More
than 40 feet wide and so feet high.
with the great. broad stairs leading
Evening star., 1936-01-05

The standing of Hoover, Landon,
Borah and Knox in all classifications
Is in striking contrast to the very poor
showing of all the other candidates.
Favorite sons are appearing in all Sec.
tions of the country and more un-
doubtedly will rise as the convention
nears, but of this numerous group
only Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg OF
Michigan got any measurable support.
Favorite sons and all other candi-
dates drew a total over the country
of 3.3 per cent. Senator Vandenburg
got almost one-third of this total,
while the remainder was scattered
among such random choices as Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh, Secretary OF
State Cordell Hull, a lifelong Demo-
crat; Senator George w. Norris and
DR.. r. z. Townsend Of California,
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Our investigators discovered that
Roosevelt voters were willing to ex-
press a preference for a Republican
nominee for a variety of reasons.
But the single overwhelming fact
about their expression of opinion is
that more than half the 1882 Demo-
Gratis of the country are not sufficiently
interested in any of the G. o. P.
leaders to express a preference for
them. With them it Is still an open
question.
In a sectional breakdown of the
Democratic preferences, Borah leads
by a wide margin in the East and
South, is a poor second in the Middle
West where Landon is the overwhelm-
ing choice among those who have a
preference, and comes out on top by
slim margin in the Far West with
Hoover a close second.
Non-V0ters in 1882.
Among those who did not vote In
1e32-and this group includes that
important body of the country which
has reached its majoiaty since the last
presidential eIection-the percentage
of undecided votes is the highest for
any classification. The table of their
preference for Republican candidate
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have not yet decided to award their
allegiance to any candidate. The
East has almost twice as many Of these
as the Far West and it may be sur
missed that a good part of this can be
accounted for by the great loss of
Borah strength. In the Far West. the
Senator has 2l5 per cent of the total
rock-ribbed Republican support while
in the East he is shown to have only
8.5 per cent.
Last Elections Democrats.
In this campaign, more perhaps
than in any other in our history, the
Republicans cannot afford to disregard
the opinion of that vast army of those
who voted for Roosevelt in 1882. Un-
less the Republicans select man who
can cut down the 1882 Roosevelt vote
they, of course, will again be defeated.
Therefore the tabulation of the choice
of these voters carries real Signifi-
canoe.
In this classification of 1882 Roose-
velt voters, Borah leads by a wide
margin. The total percentages in all
sections of the country are:
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BY DIR. DANIEL STARCH,

Director of Americas Leading Research
OrganlZation.
SSV yHOM do you think the
M Republicans should
Wv nominate for President
in 1852"
Whom did you vote for in 1892"
These are the auctions our investi-
gators have taken to the country. to
housewives, business men and me-
chanicS, sales girls, stenographers and
factory workers, bookkeepers and
farmers The answer came back plain
to read.
The majority Of the people are not
yet lined up behind any single lead
ing figure.
But among those who have made
up their minds a plurality favors for
mer President Herbert Hoover for
standard bearer in the approaching
battle against the New Deal. The
man who was overwhelmingly defeated
in 1882 and who went into almost i'm
penetrable retirement for two years,
now leads all other Republican pos
ILL POPuldI lawn Ny "a AioA ~"
margin through the Nation and by a
considerably greater margin among
members of his own party.
Close behind him, and showing
strength in the order named, are:
Gov. Alfred M. Landon of Kansas,
Senator william E. Borah of Idaho
and Col. Frank Knox, Chicago news
paper publisher. Knox is a shade
stronger than Borah among the
Hoover voters in 1882 in the East and
Middle West, but the Senator from
Idaho long national figure. polls a
great many more votes among the peo-
as a whole, and especially among the
1882 Hoover voters in the Far West.
Poll Of the Nation.
Combining all three classiflcations
of people polled. Republican voters in
1892, Democratic voters in 1892 and
non voters in 1882, the following ia
BILE shows the percentage of the vote
received by each candidate through
the Nation:
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HARRISON SCOUTS FEAR
OF PROLONGED SESSION
Politics and Unexpected Oratorical
Flights Seen as Possible Barriers
to Quick Adjournment.

NOTE.-The outlook for the new
session OF Congress is discussed
here by the senior Senator from
Mississippi, ,Dho is chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee and one
OF the Democratic leaders of the
Upper House.
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This table combines three sections
of the country, East, Middle West and
Far West. The South has been
omitted because the number Of con-
elusive estimates.
The most significant figure in the
table is the great number o. undecided
votes. Almost one-third of the Re-
publicans of the country have not yet
made up their minds that any candi-
date thus far mentioned can claim
their support.
Hoover's greatest strength among
members Of his own party Is In his
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lines and that many lifelong Demo-
Gratis will desert the New Deal and vote
Republican. if a candidate who ex-
presses their views is selected. This
consideration is expected to play
part in the Republican convention
June 9, but it is the Republicans who
will vote in the coming State primaries
in which delegates will be chosen for
the national convention. 1t is their
voice that must be regarded as speak
ing loudest in this poll.
Those who voted for Hoover in 1882
lined up as follows in voicing their
.I..s.o -f a Darairh1innra nam iraa.
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What America Is Thinking

Republican Nomination. According Poll
of Everywhere
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BY PAT HARRISON,

United States Senator from Mississippi.
THIS will be short session of
Congress. Nobody wants a
long one. not even the critics
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-27
Gilbert LyteH, 6,
Film STAR Held
AS Runaway

NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-Once he
was Clark Gable, and another
time he was James Cagney, and
another time he was Dick Powell,
and yesterday he was John Gil
bert.
But police of Newark suspected
he really wasn't a movie star, for
he seemed to be only about six
years old. And Hollywood stars
are seldom found wandering, lost
and bewildered, about the streets.
So they sent John Gilbert" to
the Parental Home instead Of to
movie studio. A few hours later
his mother, Mrs. Amelia Lytell, of
Newark, arrived to take him
home.
His first name is Gilbert, she
said, and it was his fifth runa-
way in two years. The first time
he left home because he got tired
Of being under quarantine with
whooping cough.
Mrs. Lytell took him home to
his eight brothers and sisters.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-27
$1,000 TRICKED
FROM WOMAN

A 65-year-old colored woman
yesterday was swindled out Of her
life savings-$3, OO0-by two other
colored women using the old en-.
velope trick.
Mary B. Wise, Of Brentwood,
Md, told police two colored
women approached her on
Seventh Street Northwest, and
showed her an envelope full of
money. They told her, she said,
that they had just found it and,
fearing police would take it away
from them, would divide it with
her if she could show she knew
how to take care of money. She
drew her savings out of a build.
ing and loan company.
Returning, she was told to put
her money in the envelope SO that
the division could be made. When
she complied, the women fled
with her $4,000.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-27
u. ). LINES SHIP
T0WED ASHORE

LIVERPOOL, England, Oct. 81
G.N.SO The crippled transatlan-
tic freight and passenger liner
American Shipper, which was torn
from her mooringS at Dublin by
heavy seas today, was successfully
taken into tow by tugs and re-
turned to KingStown. few miles
south of Dublin, the United States
Lines. operators of the vessel, an
nounced here.
The tugs had begun towing the
ship across the Irish Sea to bring
her to Liverpool, but were COM
PEELED to turn back. They man.
aged to get her safely anchored at
the KingStown roadStead.
The ship was caught in a ter
rifle storm that killed one man in
Scotland and smashed 20 Royal
Air Force planes valued at $780,
600 at the airport near Paisley.
After losing her rudder, the
American Shipper fought her way
by makeshift steering devices into
Dublin early today, but as the
force of the gale mounted, she be,
gan to slip her moorings and had
to put out into deeper water.
Wild weather hit the entire
coaStline of the British Isles, i'm
perilling scores of vessels, and sew
eral smaller craft sent out S o S
calls.
The American Shipper, a 7,43O-
ton vessel, was bound from Bel
fast for New York with 5000
cases of Scotch whiskey when she
lost her propeller. She carries a
crew of 10.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-27
7 Men Crack Skulls
In Restaurant FiQhi

Two men were injured during a
fight in lunchroom at 1401 Elev-
enth st. N. w. early today.
George Morse, 81, of 1900 N st.
N. W., was taken to Emergency
Hospital suffering a possible frac-
ture of the skull. Frank Miller,
30, of 120812 N st. N. w., was also
taken to the hospital suffering
head injuries, but was allowed to
return home after treatment.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-27
PLAN TO BUILD
MILK PLANT

Representatives of the Capitals
leading restaurants and hotels
have decided to build and operate
their own pasteurization plant if
the price of milk goes up, as is ex-
pected.
The decision was reached last
night at a meeting in Schools Cafe,
after a report by Ralph Scott.
Earlier in the day, A. L. Thomp-
son, president of Thompson's
Dairy, told officials of . the Agri-
culture Adjustment Administration
that if the requested Accent per
gallon increase was granted milk
producers, the consumers ultimate
ly will pay more than 1-cent per
quart increase.
He urged modification of the
producers demands.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-27
IL" F AND 6 STREETS

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-27
CITIZENS FAVOR
BAN0N PUPILS
NOT OF D..
BY A. J. DRISCOLL
Citizens Associations Editor

ClClZenS ASSOCIATIONS E0lLOf
Closing of District schools to all
nonresidents until the public
school appropriation is increased
by the Federal Government was
advocated in a resolution passed
last night by the Midcity Citizens
Association, meeting in Thomson
School.
A daily stream Of automobiles
brings large numbers Of children
from Virginia to the Thomson
School, already overcrowded by
local pupils, it was explained.
Action on an appeal from the
City Fire Fighters Association,
asking support of the inaugura-
ton Of three-platoon system in
the District Fire Department, was
deferred until the Federal Gov.
eminent makes known its contri-
button to the 1888 District sup
ply bill.
The association, on motion of
George A. Warren, deplored the
resignation of William A. Roberts,
peoples counsel, and favored the
continuance of the office with an
Increased appropriation.
Imposition OF added taxation on
automobiles, or any diversion Of
the gasoline tax for other than
highway purposes, was opposed.
Vigorous protest was registered
against using Thomson School as
a pay. headquarters for PWA
workers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-27
ILLINOIS BAN
RED BALLOT
International News Service

Illinois Communists yesterday
lost an appeal to the Supreme
Court to force Governor Henry
Homer and other officials of the
State to put names of Communist
candidates on the November cleo
ton ballot.
Without explanation the court
denied the petition Of Elmer John
son, a voter, for review Of the &C
ton Of the Federal District Court
in Southern Illinois in dismissing
his suit and also a plea for an in
junction.
johnson, who said he wished to
vote for Earl Browder, Communist
party presidential candidate,
charged that State officials arbi-
trarily refused to order names OF
Communist presidential electors
placed on the ballot.
The lower Federal Court dis
missed the suit on technical
grounds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-27
.ICKES KIN WINS
D. E. BRIDE

Patrick Ickes, q, cousin of Sec
rotary of the Interior Harold L.
Ickes, and Miss Betty Campbell,
pretty 19-year-old daughter of Col.
Bruce R. Campbell, Of 1916 Emer-
son st. N. w., are to be married
in February.
Plans for the nuptials leaked
out over the weekend and Mrs.
Campbell, mother Of the bride-to-
be, declared:
There's no use denying the
story, but the announcement of
this now is a little premature"
Young Ickes returned here from
Rhode Island several months ago.
The bride-to-be is employed with
her father in work for the Wash
ington Herald Animal Rescue
League.
VOTE AMERICAN
$4,000 to Lose Votes
NEW YORK, Oct. 81 GN.S).
Because of fraud or other causes
such as change of address, more
than $4,000 persons who have reg
istered for the November 3 cleo
ton will be prevented from voting
police officials estimated today.
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Storm in North Sea

BREMEN, Oct. 81 GN.SD.-A
terrific storm ragged in the North
Sea today, rendering several YES
sells helpless and causing extensive
damage.
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