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¶ In Montana, Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler who helped wreck the President's Court Plan last winter, unlike Wyoming's Anti-Court Plan Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney (TIME, Oct. 4), did not race to board the Presidential special. Instead, from California, he telegraphed his regret that he could not be on hand to welcome the President to his State. At Fort Peck, largest earth dam in the world as Grand Coulee is the largest concrete—the President amiably gave credit to Senator James E. Murray and Representative James F. O'Connor and Jerry J. O'Connell for helping to develop Montana's water-resources, but Senator Wheeler was not mentioned.
¶ As the Presidential train rolled into Minnesota a five-foot fiery KKK cross blazed near the railroad tracks.
¶ In St. Paul Mr. Roosevelt aimed a punch at the pre-Black Supreme Court because it "knocked out" AAA and NRA. Said he: "You, the people of Minnesota . . . are not wild-eyed radicals. You believe in a constitutional democracy as I do."