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Evening star., 1936-05-05
?. v. A. NEARS END
Of SPENDING ROPE
Ickes Reported to Have
Lost Battle to
Hopkins.
BY CARLISLE BARGERON.

In what has become known as the
battle of the spenders, Secretary 1ckes
has apparently definitely lost out ard
the quiet effacement of his P. w. A.
is in sight 1t is learned that P. w. A.
has given up any hope of getting any
of the 81 100000 pending relief
fund or of having an additional
s70O. 900 900 for p w. A. tackled onto
it. A reduction II. the personnel of
Mr.. Ickes' organization is planned
as soon as his larger projects are out
of the way.
As to how far the personnel reduc-
ton will go this year depends, to
a large extent, upon Mr.. Roosevelt's
decision regarding the P. w. AS
revolving fund, now amounting to
about s700 100000 year. But it
appears that if it is to carry on
its activities from this fund there
will have to be a lowering of interest
rates. The P. w. A. makes money
available to cities at four per cent,
but private agencies are said to have
come into the market with money
available to solvent municipalities at
less than this.
Representative Better of New York,
who has been leading the fight to
earmark some of the relief funds
for P. w. A, does not intend to give
up his fight. but there seems to be
an agreement that he will not be
successful. There is some hope in
p. w. A. quarters that after the cleo
ton Is over it may be refueled in
the way of finances. particularly be-
cause of Mr.. Roosevelt's desire to aid
municipalities in establishing publicly
owned power plarts. That Mr.. 1ckes
in lending money to the local units for
this purpose has been pursuing .
definite policy on the part of Mr..
Roosevelt became definitely known
several days ago wher attorneys for
the power companies made known
that they had in their possession
copies Of a memorandum from the
President to Mr.. Ickes on the subject.
Employment Primary Object.
In testimony before courts the
public works administrator had denied
this and insisted that the primary
object of P. W. A. was to give
employment. When he found the
power attorneys had possession Of
the policy memorandum he announced
that an investigation would be con-
Quoted to discover the leak in his
organization.
The question of how many mer
p. w. A. has given direct employment
to is controversial. When the New
Deal started off this was the big
spending agency. Ickes had the ad-
ministration of the first $4,000, 600, 900
appropriated. Out of this, however,
he had to pay the salaries of the
N. R. A. personnel and the original
Federal Alcohol Control Agency. and
sundry other little emergency activ-
ities of the New Deal.
Sponsors of the N R. A. promised a
unemployment of 100000 within
three months, but it became known
after N. r. A. had been going several
months that Hugh johnson, at least,
had counted upon P. w. A. to do the
re-employing. He was amazed when
1t occurred to him to check up one
day and find out how many men P. w.
A. had actually given work. He is
considered as having let the cat out
of the bag on the earlier philosophy
of the New Deal when he exclaimed
that Ickes had fallen down. Had
p. w. A. been successful in getting
men at work, it would have been a big
Evening star., 1936-05-05
"No Smoking" Rule
Surprises Officials
In Voting Precincts
Ban Strictly Enforced in
Baltimore Schools
and Libraries.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 5.-Some 400
primary election officials lighted up
cigars, cigarettes or pipes yesterday,
settled down to work and ran into a
mo smoking" rule that took them COM
pletely by surprise.
Young women enforced the rule.
gently but firmly. The young women
were school teachers or librarians and
the surprised election officials were
those at the polling places in IS school
houses and nine branch libraries.
Previously. only few school houses
had been used for polling places. so
most of the officials assigned to them
yesterday we're not aware Of the no
smoking" rule.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
MEET A OZARK HORSE"
Man Who Will Run for President
or SHE Lives in Cabin,

or Sue Lives in Cabin.
DAVIS, Okla, May @.-Hugh
Esn Randolph, who has given notice
that II he can't run for President
he'll sue, is almost q stranger in his
own bailiwick.
In his Arbuckle Mountain cabin,
so inaccessible not even q wagon can
reach it, he spends week days read
ing newspapers and comes to town
Saturdays to trade and make stump
speeches.
The Oklahoma Election Board, re-
jecting Randolph's application to have
his name on the presidential ballot,
informed him 1t carries the names OF
electors, not candidates. He notified
Nebraska and Washington State au-
thorities he would sue for damages
II his name we're not placed on their
ballots.
No political party Is backing his
campaign.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-22
EDITOR NAMED SHERIFF

CHORTLY after the disorderly
~ September primary Gov.
Sholtz removed Sheriff Spencer
for failure to do his duty and ap-
pointed in his place Jerome R.
Mcleod, a newspaper man who
had been managing editor of The
Times.
A native of Florida in his mid
die 30s, with years of experience
as political writer, McLeod's Sc
lection turned out to be a par
ticularly happy one.
When Poulnot returned to
Tampa about a. m. on Sunday
after being logged, he called
Sheriff Mcleod at his home and
told him what had happened. The
sheriff went into action. He sent
deputies to the scene of the fog
ging and obtained some valuable
pieces of evidence which are ex-
pected to figure in the trials to
come. He went quietly but dog
gedly about the business of run
ming down the fioggerS.
Mayor Chancey was in Georgia
attending his fathers funeral.
Police Chief Ellsworth said he
knew nothing about orders for the
raid. Sergt. Brown declared it
had been made on a telephone tip
that Communists were meeting,
and that he acted on his own re-
SponSibility.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-22
REWARD PUT UP

NN Dec. 2 the American Civil
" Liberties Union offered $1,000
reward for information leading to
the arrest and conviction of the
floggers. The next day, on his
return TO the city, the Mayor or
dered Chief Ellsworth to conduct
an investigation. Two days later
Ellsworth announced that he had
investigated and that the police
were clear of blame.
On Dec. 10 the city board of
representatives offered a reward of
$500.
william Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor,
threatened to remove the A. F..
of L. national convention, sched-
uled to meet in Tampa next fall.
Clergymen held a mass meeting
at the Municipal Auditorium. Nor
man Thomas, leader of the Social
list Party, telegraphed protests and
issued statements blaming the Ku-
Klux Khan.
In the meantime Sheriff Nc
Leod, working with State Attor-
ney j. Rex Farrior, a Sholtz APP
pointee and therefore opposed to
the Whitaker machine, and his
assistant, R. M. Huntly, began to
bring the tangled ends together.
On Dec. 16 the Hillsborough
County grand jury, was called into
special session and the same day
Mayor Chancey suspended Sergt.
Brown and the other policemen
who conducted the raid. The next
day Mayor Chancey took charge
of the police department himself
and gave Ellsworth leave Of
absence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-22
BATTLED FOR CONTROL

TN the late tWenties the Whitak-
Il ers became ambitious to Gre
ate a political organization of
their own. They set out to cap
ture the city administration and,
with the avowed purpose of OBJ
tanning honest elections, Senator
Pat Whitaker had the Legislature
pass a law in 1881 constituting a
Tampa City Election Board which
would control all election ma
chinery in the mayoralty cam
paign later that year.
1t was the first and only board
of the kind in the state.
The Whitaker candidate for
mayor was Pat Whitakers broth
er-in-law, Robert E. Lee Chan
cey, who had served several terms
with reasonable satisfaction to
the public as county solicitor.
Chancey was opposed by an
older faction which had long
dominated both city and county
affairs. There was an outcry
from this faction against the new
City Election Board on the
ground that it was a self-perpet-
uating body whose members had
been named specifically in the
act Whitaker had passed and that
they were a law unto themselves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-22
SINGING CHARGE MADE

A MOTHER bombshell was eX-
N ploded when the two judges
of the local Circuit Court, Judges
Parks and Sander, delivered a
singing charge to the Grand
Jury. Denouncing the flogging
case, they said:
ct does not require this court
to inform you that it has been
and is common talk of not few
of our law-reSpecting and law
abiding citizens that both county
and city elections for several years
have generally been crooked and
little attention paid to the law
regulating such elections.
I'm some instances, so it is said,
election officials of VIGOROUSLY
unsavory reputation were ap-
pointed to responsible places of
trust IN the conduct of elections,
by those having the power of ap-
pointment; that election officials
have been corrupted by bribery;
that the issue in one campaign
was none other than that of who
would get control of the gambling
concessions or privileges within
the city and county, which are
said to be highly valuable, be-
cause of graft collected from those
conducting the gambling houses;
that officials themselves have
participated in the graft extorted
from these establishments; that
the take by only one set of Of
ficials amounted to $4,000 per
week.
Worst of all, it has been said
that the people of this city and
this county do not want fair,
honest and legal elections; that
our law enforcement officers, upon
whom falls the responsibility for
the lawful conduct of elections,
do not want honest elections, and
that they will not enforce the
laws relating to elections and
gambling and incident forms of
vice accompanying such violations
of law; that they have connived
at fragrant violations of such laws,
and corrurtly employed the pow
ers of their offices to continue
themselves in office"
Next: Arrests and Suicide.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-22
WHITAKERS RUN CITY

A FTER a bitter campaign and
L n election in which there were
many charges of fraudulent reg
istrations, ballot-box stuffing and
repeating, Chancey was declared
nominated at the primary by this
election board. which did the
counting.
Florida's one-party primary sys-
tenn prevented effective opposition
in the general election and Chan
cey took Office as Mayor.
Since then the Whitakers have
been credited with complete con-
troll of the city government. The
older faction continued to run the
county government.
During Mayor Chancey's first
four-year term gambling contin-
ued along traditional lines, with
little interference from either city
or county government.
When Senator Whitaker had to
stand for denomination in 1884 he
was supported by the city admin
istration under his brother-in-
law, Mayor Chancey, and opposed
by the county political machine,
which backed Henry Tillman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-22
Art in indianapolis
BY ANTON SCHERRER

HE collection of early American silver, loaned by
Yale University and now on display at the
Heron, recalls the extraordinary behavior of John
Hull On the occasion of his daughters marriage.
John Hull was the first Boston smith of whom we
have any record native of England, he was made
master of the Massachusetts mint-a hazardous Job.
at the time, because of England's rather definite
notion to whose business it was to coin money.
Hull went ahead, however, and produced the famous
Pine Tree shilngs.
It Hulls daughter, Hannah who was placed
in the mint scale that her weight in these shillings
might be given her dowry. 1t is fairly certain,
now, that Father Hull talked into the scheme
by his own family. Be that as it may all Boston
agog with curiosity because Hannah's bulk and
beam were the talk of the town.
When the result was announced it was learned
that Hannah's dowry exactly 500 pounds, or the
equivalent of only 125 pounds of flesh.
Father HullS chicanery went even further. Among
other things he took his own time to hand the
dowry AS matter of fact he paid it after the we'd
ring-and in installments.
Il ME Yale collection to be sure, has no example
of Huls work, but it has the next best thing
salt by Paul Revere Jr. whose work represents
second and more developed phase.
Paul Revere Jr. came by his talent honestly
enough. His father one-time apprentice of famed
John Coney, made his mark smith before Paul
was born. Son Paul was only 10 when his father
Paul began running everything else in Boston, too.
Quite apart from his activities patriotic smith,
he became engrayer and publisher of political car
toons, many of which he designed himself He was
manufacturer of gun powder and of church BELLS
he made frames for the Copley portraits and he ran
hardware store in which. among other things, he
sold false teeth.
He continued fooling with false teeth until he got
them perfected to the point of advertising in the
Boston Gazette. In ITO, readers learned that Paul
Reveres false teeth would be not only an ornament
but real help in speaking and in eating as well.
II ARLY American silver, made before 1920 can
IL hold its own with the fine examples of Eng
lish plate 1t betrays English influence of course
but 1t has merits all its own. Our pieces are as a
whole far simpler. They more ingenious in de-
sign, more definitely concerned with shape and less
with ornament. They show plainly that they were
made for rather than for display and they have
result, beauty that stays within the scope of
its resources.
Curiously enough, Early American silver and
Early American architecture, in intent and content
had the same goal and achieved it in very much the
same way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-22
ALL TAMPA SHOCKED

A T the general election the City
N Election Board reported Mayor
Chancey received 1878 votes and
Stephens 919. But Shoemaker was
not daunted. He said the public
had not been fully aroused, and
he continued to write about his
plan" several days a week in the
Tribune. His last letter was pub
lished on Nov. 81, three days be-
fore he was fatally logged.
Tampa was shocked by that
episode as it never had been
shocked before. There are black
incidents in the more or less re-
mote past when f1oggings were
common in various parts of Flori-
da. But those were mostly of the
old-style holier- than-thou punish
ments administered to moral de-
linquents.
In the first few days after the
flogging it was freely whispered
around where political handymen
congregated that these three
floggings were only the beginning
of a series that would put the
fear of God" into political and
social agitators and deter them
from attempting to interfere with
machine politics in next June's
primary when important state
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-22

Registration took place in early
August. The city election board
announced that some $4,000 citi-
zens were entitled to vote. A
howl of protest arose from the
Mckay camp, and Tampa's two
newspapers pointed out the alb
surdity of the figures, declaring
that it indicated purpose to steal
the election.
The registration of voters in
the 1881 mayoralty campaign was
only $4,000. An increase of $4,000
in our years was out of all rea-
son.
Civic bodies became aroused.
The Presidents Round Table, con-
sisting of the heads of various
civic organizations, proposed a
slate of five men, not prominently
identified with factional politics,
for election to the city election
board. (Senator Tillman had put
through the 1885 Legislature law
requiring board members to sub
NIT themselves to a vote of the
people, instead of perpetuating
themselves by their own author
ity as under the original Whitaker
Act),
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-22

3 will you pledge your support to bill enact
ing the Townsend Plan, leaving the detail of such
legislation to the national organization of the
Townsend Plan, which evolved the plan and pre-
sented it to the American people?"
g. IF already candidate will you sign state
men agreeing to withdraw your candidacy in the in
terest of unity and success at the polls if some
other than yourself is Endorsed for the position yot
seekP"
a. IF your answer is Yes will you, in that event.
support the candidate Endorsed by the organizations?
S. ION a separate sheet, set forth in few words
(not less than 200 nor more than 5000 why you are
in favor of the Townsend Plan, and what method
YOU intend to to convince others to support the
Townsend Plan at the polls"
Then follows dotted line for the victims sigma
ture
And then-note this-is blank space for witness
of the signature by notary public.
The Townsend people are taking no chances The
candidate must not only take this pledge, but swear
to it.
If any one knows of more brazen attempt to
kdnap national legislators in advance and hold them
signed sealed and delivered he would be doing
public service to come forward and expose it.
MIR. CLEMENTS, co-founder of the Townsend or
wi ganzation CDR. Townsend formerly was en-
poyed as real estate salesman by Clements), says,
in preparing for the coming Congressional nveStlga-
ton that the most important thing about the Town
send Plan is the per cent transactions tax He
is willing. he says to take the proceeds OF that and
pro-rate it among those so whether it amounts
to 5000 or not He believes 1t will raise enough
But that is the moneyraising proposal he stands
Dr. Townsend in an introduction to Sheridan
Downey's book why Believe IN the Townsend
Plan" Just published, says:
At am not, many CT my critics to be-
ieye rrevocably welded to the transactions tax as
the only method OF raising money to finance the
Townsend Plan.
"All that concerns me. and it is fundamental on
which I shall give way, is that a revolving
fund be created sufficient to pay 5000 to all Amer
lean citizens over 60 who qualify Social divi-
dends E.dst be started and maintained at 5000 a
month-not one cent less. And our opponents might
just as well, first as last, get accustomed &c this
amount"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-22
TENSION MARKS PRIMARY

THE primary was marked by
Il high tension at the polls and
smuggling in some of the hot" pre-
cincts, where crews of repeaters,
were reported in evidence. This
time the county commission
counted the returns.
When it was announced that
Tillman had won, the Whitaker
faction declared the election had
been stolen. But Senator Whit
aker gulped the, bitter medicine
and bided his time.
Mayor Chancey announced last
spring that he would stand for re-
election. The county political or
ganization backed D. B. Mckay,
newspaper publisher, who had
been Mayor for several terms and
resigned in 1881 to devote himself
to business interests.
The campaign began in late
July, with many charges and
countercharges. The primary,
under the control once more of the
Whitaker created city election
board, was to be held Sept. 8.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-22
WROTE LETTER TO FORUM

JOSEPH A. SHOEMAKER had
u arrived in Tampa from Ver-
mont some six months before the
city primary of last Sept. 3. He
had been a Socialist Party work.
er in Vermont.
A week or SO after the primary
he began appearing in the local
newspaper offices, explaining that
he was executive secretary of a
new political party called the
Modern Democrats.
He talked lot of vague and I'M
orthodox theories about govern
ment but expressed admiration for
President Roosevelt. His central
idea was that the millennium could
be brought about overnight if
Congress would pass an income
tax law levying 100 per cent on
all incomes above $4,000 a year.
One day Shoemaker announced
! that the Modern Democrats would
run an independent candidate in
the November general election
against Mayor CLANCY. The can
didate selected was Miller A. Ste
phens. Few persons in Tampa
had ever heard of Mr.. Stephens,
although he was a native of the
city.
The modern Democrats held a
few curbstone meetings at which
speeches were made by Shoemaker,
Eugene F. Poulnot and Sam D.
Rogers-the three future fogging
Misunderstanding municipal con-
ditions under the Chancey regime.
Shoemaker wrote a series of let
tiers to the public forum column
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-22
MILITIA CALLED OUT

TEELING rose to fever heights.
Il w. G. Spencer, then sheriff,
called on Gov. Schultz for the mi
litia to help maintain order at the
polls, declaring that the Chancey
administration, through the Elec-
ton Board, was hiring hundreds of
special policemen under the pre-
tense of guarding the polls.
Sheriff Spencer revealed that he
himself had engaged 600 special
deputies ito maintain order" but
said these were not enough.
Gov. Sioltz sent the Adjutant
General of the Florida National
Guard to investigate. AS result
the 116th Field Artillery was
called out for guard duty on cleo
ton day.
The primary was a farce. In
front of each of the % polling
places were crowds of armed hus-
kies and plug-uglies.
Beside the regular city police
force of 105 members, there we're
1924 special policemen sworn in by
Police Chief Ellsworth, now I'M
der indictment; Sheriff Spencer
had his 600 deputies, while some
300 soldiers patrolled the streets
in trucks, fastening from polling
place to polling place wherever
disorders were reported.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-22
washington Merry-Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN

WAsH1NGToN' Feb. 22.-sup-
w porters of Gov. ALT Landon
are claiming that Ogden Mills,
Secretary of the Treasury under
Hoover, has parted with his one
time chief aid climbed on the
KanSan's bandwagon. When
Hoover began his political come
back last year, the inside word
in Republican circles was that he
had the moral and financial back
ing of Mills. Lowest political
temperature of the current blus-
terry winter was reached at
Springfield, ILL.,, on Lincoln's birth
day when Secretary Ickes and
Gov. Gene Talmadge met for the
first time. Outside of an icy
"how-do-you-do" the two men
said nothing to each other. {.
Sullivan and Cromwell, leading
New York law firm which received
a $4,000 fee to oppose the hold
ing company act, is counsel in the
important Sugar Institute case
now pending in the Supreme
Court. A number of leading in
dustries seek an Interpretation
from the court legalizing the
antitrust statutes. Senator
Lester j. Dickinson, Iowa's presi-
dental aspirant, was the butt of
much good-natured cloakroom
railery following the IVA deci-
sion. Dickinson is a strong foe of
IVA, and the day before the
courts decision he declared: IF
there had to be a choice between
the Senate and the Supreme
Court I would rather see the
Senate abolished" Next day the
court upheld the IVA.
q
Increased Need
VXTASHINGTON headquarters
w of the Conference of Mayors
has notified Federal relief au-
thorities that as result of the