PKl'ji^biiXiVAMIA i?* r-J, — - ~t(rc-Js , I (f^ !{j 3 $_ In point oi vot©s PennsyivLtniii is the number two state of the Onion. In the present condition of national affairs, Pennsylvania is certainly Political Barometer Number One. That’s why all eyes were on the Pennsylvania primary yesterday and on the count of the votes today. And that ringing sound echoing through the land is a Republican chorus of jubilation. from benator Charles lib McNary, Republican leader of the benate. It reads: ’’The primary is evidence of a national trend which is sweeping the whole countryy £££*- a clear augury of what will nappen in Novenber.n dedicated to Postmaster /\ General Jim Farley, who took a 1 st minute hand in the primary — and got his hands singed and scorched a bit. hit.-, the Democrats in a savage factional fightJ .oarle and Jones seeking Senate and Governorship on one side and Wilson and Kennedy seeking trie same offices on the ooner, tne Post-^aoter General stepped in with a compromise idea*. oackea one man One echo of the chorus is a telegram I have here PTWKSYLVAi'ila --- of e&cn facuion making it Earle and Kennedy as the Farley choice. And this necessarily stood as a New Deal choice, Jim being the political wizard of the Administration and Democratic National Chairman. Of* the two c no ices he made, one was victoriously nominated. Governor Earle for the Senate. Earle repudiated tne Farley support, because he wouldn’t let down ‘ , - -LJL, his team-mate Alvin Jones for Governor — Jim having picked Thomas Kennedy of the opposing faction for Governor. And Kennedy lost, was beaten by Jones, who hasn’t been prominent politically, virtually an unknown. Jim’a candidate Kennedy didn’t even carry his own home county, Luzerne. So no wonder the Republican National Chairman John Hamilton today hailed a Farley failure. I have a telegram in which he puts it this way: "Pennsylvania Democrats," he wires, "lined up overwhelmingly against the attempted dictation of their National Chairman. The New Deal was routed on all fronts." The Republicans tonight are mulline cheerfully ov„r -o- the fact that the primary leaves the Pennsylvania Democrats in as bad a factional fight as ever. In th*c peculiar Farley manoeuvre^of backing Farle of one Jcx faction and Kennedy of the other, tne idea was — harmony. Jim figured that if the Democrats would nominate one half of each hostile ticket, it would be a compromise arrangement under wnieh both factions could consolidate, hut the Democratic voters didn’t do that, didn't ratify tha DieKet finesse, bo tne Farley device for settling the feud was Jtszx beaten — the feud left blazing as fiercely as ever. part of tne suggestions I made 'which were issued with only one thought in mind, party harmony in the Fail Kxzzti campaign, the Pennsylvania Democrats were absolutely within their rights.M The severest defeat of all yesterday was sustained by John Lewis tne C.I.O. -- they took the worst licking. Lewis and his powerful unions ..ere a dominant influence in tne philisophic resignation to Today Postmaster Jim had only a statement of .c resignation to^ . ^ Said he: "In aisr baid he: "In disregarding Democratic split, fiercely fighting iarle and uones and PF.M M 6 1 L V h i j 1A -4- vigorously backing Wilson -rid Kennedy . .Kaanaiy Candidate Kennedy, indeed, is a aaweisSwl Lewis lieutenant —- sometimes called the mastermind of the C.I.O. Both of the Lewis candidates were beaten, with emphasis on the Kennedy defeat. It!s also a blow to Lena tor Guffey, who backed Lewis of the C.I.O. in the complicated Democratic free-for-all in Pennsylvania. One the assumption tonight is that Pennsy lvania f iasco may persuade John Lewis that C.I.O. intervention in political campaigns doesn't pay, and that he and his unions may decide to stand on the sidelines ■ — as the A.F. of L. does, M. Tonight the G.O.P. is cheerfully contemplating the total number of Democratic and Republican votes xgjstxnst cast ■ total number of uemocr-tic ana Republican vi about a million one hundred and eighty-four thousand Democratic voters cast their ballots in the primary^ while the count on ^hundred the Republican side was about a' million •n^^^.thousan^fene'hundred mv'^^^f^ox>s:,nd more A A ^ /I Republican votes than Democratic. All of which arouses a radiant G.O.P. hope that in the Fall election votfti there will be more Renublican votes than Deniocratic. PEftmSYLVANIA -b- On the Republican side Senator James J. Davis was overwhelmingly re-nominated for the Senate.^The dominant interest was in ohe contest between Arthur % James, straight-out Republican and Gifford Pinchot, radical Republican charged with dew Deal leanings. Pinchot was snowed under. James nominated for the Governorship, beat him by more than two to one. How does the G.O.P. interpret that? As a rebuke to the New Deal. The Republican party in Pennsylvania stands v/lth a solid conservative front. Such are the nation-wide interpretations being placed on the political weather forecast as registered byPennsylvania barometer The special Congressional Committee to investigate the T*VhA* is getting ready for its hig snow.. It nas heen decided that one of the first things &o be dond will be to call Arthur Morgan, the discharged Chairman of the Directors of the Authority, and the two directors against whom he made such spectacular accusations. Arthur Morgan has been trying to obtain access to the files and records of the T.V.A. to substantiate his charges. Chairman uilienthal has denied him the right. Dr. Morgan retorts all this is obviously unfair. So the Committee is going to consider a resolution which will compel the existing T.V.A. directors to allow Dr. Morgan and his representatives to go through those flies. TRUST The Roosevelt government is continuing its anti-trust prosecutions. The announcement was made today at the Department of Justice. Attorney General Cummings declares that he to reopen the trial against the Ford Motor Company, Chrysler, General Motors, and their three finance companies. This time the case will be brought at South Bend, Indiana. The last case, was brought in Milwaukee,where the jury was discharged by gwrf* a federal district judge. The judge found that the government lawyers had acted improperly in negotiating with counsel for the motor car companies for a consent decree while the grand jury was hearing the evidence. ^This time, said Mr. Cummings, there will be no compromise even if the defendants promise to stop the violations of which they are accused.^ HAGUE FOIiliOW 'PftOfr* Another interesting announcement Vi'as made from IfcV Cummings^ office today. G-men have been in Jersey City for a couple of "weeks^ investigating the^dictatorship of Mayor Hague. J. Edgar Hooverfs men from the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been probing Hague1s domain ever since Mayor Hague*s cops forcibly threw Norman Thomas out of Jersey City. The G-men are trying to find out whether they have a cas^fei=#«it5ey'~::::^ty that the statute of Eighteen Seventy has been violated, the statute which forbids conspiracy to deprive people of their constitutional rights. ^The Attorney General said this was not done at the orders of the President or Postmaster General Farley or anybody. Jt was done by the Department of Justice on its own hook as part of its similar tried at London, Kentucky# tn-the In other words, they are investigating charges routine duty GANGS When the once notorious public enemy mobs were &t l&rge^ the Dillingers, Karpises end Barkers^ there was much scandalous talk about police corruption. It was often said in many places that cops, including^high rank^&sgSg&f*., were in the pay of the mobsters. One of those stories comes to a head today. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested^weve^st^ men in Hot Springs, Arkansas, AndrThree of them *r« officials of the Hot Springs Police»#wpa3gtaBMB^. One of them is the former chief of police, ^another is the former chief of detectives, the^^^^^i* a former « A A lieutenant in the Bureau of Identification. ¥hey-are arrested on charges of having hidden and helped members of thart deadly mob that included Alvin Karpis, and was headed by the sanguinary old woman known as f,Maw Barker. Karpis of course is now on the rock at Alcatraz Twelve years ago, there was a historic scene at the Ford airport in Dearborn, Michigan, it was the take-off of the first flight of airmail under private contract, from Detroit to Cleveland. On that day in Nineteen Twenty-Six, Henry Ford tossed a pouch of mail into the plane named MAIDEN DEARBORN, the first. T!B&XXMXX£lKaxkMMMgmXa±±3BXXM£ Today, that scene was reenacted. Standing in the same spot Henry Ford again tossed a pouch of mail aboard an airplane and the pilot took off. That was only part of the ceremony. After that, Mr. Ford was formally presented with the first airmail plane that flew between Chicago and the west coast* It was given to him to put in his Edison Museum. It should be noted that the flight in NineteenTwenty-Six was not zfe the first airmail flight. That was made in Nineteen Eighteen. But in Nineteen Twenty-Six it was the first flight under private contract NEGROES Here s a curious tale from New Jersey. Everybody mtrrt S remember that famous movie of the silent days, D. W. Griffith’s >fThe Birth of a Nation.n ^ie of the most successful and profitable pictures of all time. I’ve heard that its gross box office receipts were around five million dollars. At ary rate, it was enormously popular. The manager of a picture theatre in East Orange, New Jersey, thought it would be a good idea to show that picture again. So he sent for the print and duly exhibited it. He was promptly arrested and arraigned in court on the complaint of two negroes. Since "The Birth of a Nation" was first made, a new law was passed in the State of New Jersey. This law forbids the portrayal of anything that tends to incite racial hatred. So it was on that charge that the negroes had that theatre manager in East Orange arraigned. They declared that the film, which-*hxx as you know, was founded on the reconstruction of the south. incites hatred against the negro race. PLANE Nine more victims for the mountains of southern California, the graveyard of so many once proud airplanes I The missing Lockheed found in a canyon txmxmiixM twenty miles south of Saugus, California. It seems to me that every time there’s a fatality in that part of the country we hear the name "Saugus." The region in which the plane was found is qsfipfew dose to Mt.McGill, the highest peak in the range between California and the Mohave Desert. The wreck wa^^^i^fy a ranger, fie reported that it was demolished and burned. everybody aboard had:rhe^ k±rll®d^==inol»*ding a—three-year—^14—boy-and—a -baby—girt* two-end -a—hetlrf-- months-eidv As soon as the ranger telephonednews, ait atrplane left the Union Airport piloted by Paul Mantz, one of the famous test pilots of the country, who used to be technical advisor to the hapless Amelia Ear hart. He flew over the spot but was unable to get within two miles of the plane because of poor visibility. The i *ancbxin :~£ a ofe-* What happened? That of course nobody knows exactly. PLANE But the reports from thirt region indicate that the airplane letty^ Las Vegas, Nevada, in what is known as marginal weather. Visibility- poor. storm clouds the sky. So far as A can be ascertained, the Lockheed must have crashed an hour after it took off. Apparently struct a high hog** back. The force of crash caused it to burst into flames. Then it bounced, and 4 smashed five hundred yards further away. All this is indicated by the wreckage, ;i ii 1 i I ii : III! II I 1 BASEBALL There was almost a young riot at the Polo Grounds this afternoon. The New York Giants were giving a party for the Chicago Cubs, Everything was more or less peaceful until the Cubs* sixth inning^«=i»-=£jasrt Babe Herman hdtesw±£fc±y^and got to first base# Then Augie Galan came to bat and bunted. Harry Canning, who was catching for the Giants, sprang for the ball. ** 4 . Augie Galan^sprini irst and ran* into ixfcg=Hmcgy Canning. Whereupon the 'umpire called GHan out for interferes*, ^ That aroused a storm of protest from the Cubs. To make it worse. Catcher Harry Canning throw to first base, showing that the interference couldn’t have been very serious. To make the whe#w- situation^ridlculous, Chiozza, the first baseman, dropped the ball. Meanwhile, Babe Herman had reached second. But because of Augie Galan’s interference with the catcher, the umpires made Herman return to first, b&s« That tore everything wide open. Manager Charlie Grimm of the Cubs howled in complaint. A storm of towels, chest protectors, ^hin guards, littered the ground in frori of the Cubs’ BASEBALL - 2 dugout as the protesting playerCharlie Grimm announced that the game was being played under protest. All of which became^ridiculous when, «t thi --rT-p—tmr~d?y> the Cubs beat the Giants anyway, four to two! There s much to-do over the mouth of capricious Martha Raye. Maybe the story smells a little of the fine Italian hand of the press agent. Even so, here it is. The editors of the magazine LOOK have announced that they are going to publish a picture entitled? "Million Dollar Ballyhoo." It will show the face of Madame Raye, and next to it will be a photograph of an ape. The idea will be to compare the ladyf s mouth with that of the animal. She went to her lawyers, who rushed to the courts and applied for an injunction. The California judge turned them dcwn, saying he had no jurisdiction over a firm publishing a magazine in Iowa, So the lawyers are going to file an kmwm M wk M amended complaint today in an effort to stop it. In Des Moines, the managing editor said the picture will be published whether Miss Raye likes it or not, Awd—he--added, ■'^a-sorry-Miss-Raye-do.s not liko tfae pluluie but we' re-geing-fc*. «^j-4-t-_anyw.y,« And he said further: "Movie stars are spoiled. They've got to learn that msact* newspapers and magazines can't be expected to print only the glamour stories•" Miss Raye complains that the photograph is going to publish was taken two years ago. Since then, she claims, she has,in her own words,"gained much in physical charms, comeliness and^Xhgance^of^her—One might add also, the ingenuity of her press agent.